jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
First, my bad! I mixed up 13 and 14 -- I meant the 13th amendment.

So first, the 3/5 compromise:

When the constitution was being drafted, there was a disagreement between the free and slave states (actually, I'm not sure if there were any free states, or if at the time the North was just not reliant on slave labor and essentially winding it down).

The north wanted slaves to not count towards your state's population for the purposes of apportioning house representatives. Since slaves could not vote, they argued, they shouldn't count towards your representation in the federal government.

The south, on the other hand, wanted slaves to count towards the state's population for apportioning house representatives. Since slaves still required the same resources to survive as non-slaves, they argued, they should be counted.

This ultimately led to the "3/5 compromise": slaves counted as 3/5 of a person for the purposes of apportioning house representatives.

Now, fast forward to the federal abolishment of slavery, the 13th amendment. It explicitly says "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." So it is very squarely placing prisoners in the same historical context as slaves, and they were thought of and reasoned about as such.

So in the end, it seems straightforward to me that the state of slavery and prisons in America deliberately reduces the representation of black people. This is by design. While it does effectively increase the representation of women, there's far less of an argument to be made that it's an intentional feature of the system.

NOTE: In checking these sources, I discovered that the 14th amendment (actually the 14th this time) says that voters who have become ineligible to vote shouldn't be counted towards your representation. Maybe it was superceded by a later amendment?

SECOND NOTE: Here's an NPR article mentioning the prisons-count-as-population-for-representation concept: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/12/31/761932806...
> what regulates the amount of available spots in professional football?

You're only allowed 11 people on the pitch per side. Believe me, if it were possible to replace Ronaldo with a thousand less-skilled players paid a fraction of his wages, somebody would have tried it.

You could even suggest hiring them for fractions of a match on an internet employment brokerage platform. Footballr.
I don't understand your core point: why is it inherently wrong to attempt to augment the brain? It seems like a purely instinctual response.

Is it God's will for paralyzed people to remain unable to interact with the world, and live the rest of their lives in misery? If we have a way to do a lot of good for a lot of people, isn't it inherently immoral to not develop the technology further?
Go read up about HIBP and Troy Hunt. It doesn't log requests, it tries to make it as difficult as possible for nefarious users to get any data from it. All the emails it checks are already included in public breaches which are available in the wild.

You seem to be throwing shade at a service and person you haven't researched and all behind a new account. Very brave of you.
Cut ffmpeg video without losing quality by keeping the same codecs, very fast:

Example: Start at 52 seconds, take 10 minutes after that:

ffmpeg -ss 52 -i input.mp4 -c copy -t 00:10:00.0 output.mp4
Exactly what I was wondering. It's a lengthy explanation explaining how they provide a commodity service: i.e. running vanilla docker containers from vanilla docker registries) doing all sorts of clever and seemingly complicated things. But in the end what you buy is the ability to run a docker container that you publish to a docker registry that you develop and test using docker.

I'm sure there is some advantage to all that cleverness but its not at all clear what that is (cost?). So, I disagree it the article is that well written. There's a lot of what and how but not a whole lot of why that matters to their customers. It kind of fails to communicate that part. It could be as simple as "you pay less for more because we did X and this is how we did it and why that matters to you".

Writing is hard.
Do TUIs count as GUIs? Midnight Commander (mc) is a TUI file manager with mouse support.

edit I see others beat me to it in mentioning mc. I'll leave this here anyway.
GIMP should do the same thing. I do honestly think it's reduced its adoption.
Doesn’t seem to be a actual data leak , but a collection of scraped LinkedIn user data.
Interesting to see if the data includes profiles that aren’t publicly viewable.
Haven't heard about them, but its more like Heroku - not pure VMs but instead IaaS where you deploy apps using CLI and they manage/scale machines for you.
Many monkeys use their tail as an extra arm, so, should not be a problem.
I don’t think UK/ISO and US are close? Especially backquote between LShift and Z feels awkward if you’re used to ANSI.
Here is a link for those interested :) http://getcharmed.com/
Fatalism isn't much of an argument. Meanwhile: what's the distinction you're making to keep Medicare and Medicaid out of the discussion?
All of those are substantive arguments. I was objecting to the use of the term "peanuts", which is derisive and dismissive -- as though this salary is not even worthy of consideration.

Only 6.5% of US workers make 100K or more, according to this: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%24100K+income

It's either just colourful language, or indicates that the writer is out of touch with reality.
An interesting note about Kick-Ass is that it's pretty widely known* that director Matthew Vaughn is planning to release an extended cut which has over 18 minutes of deleted material. I loved the movie and would definitely purchase an extended cut, but it doesn't make sense to purchase both. So until then, I don't feel too bad about renting it once and then watching a pirated copy.

It seems to me that the people who are likely to know about the upcoming extended cut are both (1) fans of the film and (2) likely to know how to get a movie via torrents. I'm betting that in the case of Kick-Ass, there is a large source of revenue that is currently untapped pending the release of the extended cut. This could certainly be a contributing factor in the abnormally ratio of downloaded copies vs. revenue.

* at least within a more technical demographic. See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Kick-Ass_%28f...

In an interview Matthew Vaughn said, "There is about 18 minutes of [deleted] footage, which is really good stuff. If the film is a hit, I'll do an extended cut."
As nailer pointed out in a comment on the earlier thread [1], from RIM's perspective the iPhone probably just didn't have usable lifespan away from a power outlet.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2043835
I tried Google but didn't find anything: Is (3) just a rule of thumb, i.e. "more than 500 is unmanageable without going public" or is there a law in the USA which forces companies to go public if they have more than 500 holders? And - why would there be such a law (if it exists)?
There are so many legal difficulties with DDoS, you can almost guarantee that neither a bank nor a government agency is likely to do it, regardless of paranoid delusions. As for the government, they generally have more effective means so long as their target's servers aren't located in the ass-end of nowhere.
The effect of increased prices is twofold - the obvious decrease in consumption (and thus demand, exerting a downward pressure on price) and also an increase in the incentive to innovate - to find alternatives, and to make better use of the valuable resource.

The "cornucopian" belief is that the effect of innovation is greater than the effect of finite resources.

That is, because we innovate, real prices decrease (with prices best measured in amount of human labor to obtain a benefit). Sometimes the price of a specific commodity increases (e.g., hours of labor to receive one liter of oil), but the cost of the benefit decreases (e.g., hours of labor to travel 100 miles).

I'd be very interested to see counterexamples, where the human cost of a benefit increases.

kb
He is credit to team.
If you haven't seen it, it's worth watching the video of where he explains how he spotted something was amiss via statistical analysis: http://vimeo.com/16637201

That's all in the first 4 minutes BTW; the rest of it is about the arrangements for re-administration of the test, chastisement of the cheating students, explanation of school ethics policy and so on. I found this equally interesting but for social rather than technical reasons.
I am definitely interested in a supplementary meeting but do not want to replace the normal Friday night
> This would hopefully solve the problem of women getting hundreds of messages a day, and men getting neither any incoming messages nor any replies to their outgoing messages.

The former might be solved, but I highly doubt the latter would be.
I seem to, indeed :-)

In what context? A laissez-faire economy without patents and copyright? You'd have to also eliminate law enforcement when it comes to licenses to render GPL useless, but I don't see how is this relevant to the discussion about the intrinsic economical value of digital data that can be copied at an almost zero cost.
Another copy-protection classic was Spyro: Year of the Dragon: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131439/keeping_the_pir...

This used a multi-layered copy protection scheme. The first layers would show a dialog and quit. Later layers got progressively more vicious:

1. They'd remove 1 out of 10 gems needed to complete a certain level.

2. They'd randomly corrupt data.

3. They'd change the UI language at runtime.

Read the post-mortem I linked above; it's really fun. The basic idea was to require crackers to play the entire game very carefully, looking for subtle side effects that broke game play.

Ultimately, the protection was a success: It took almost 2 months to crack the game, resulting in a full Christmas season's worth of sales IIRC.
I've been waiting for this for a while.Thank You!
You're welcome =]
> Of course, such a return is actually very hard to maintain over a 300 century timespan.

You mean 3 century timespan, or 300 years. (Although it would be spectacularly difficult over a 300 century timespan.)
Sleeping well? Were you waking up refreshed in the morning?
Was the GMAC that became Ally involved in mortgages? I thought it wasn't.
Pretty much. I'd say that corporations are a lot like those bitcoin mixers that mix up many money streams to diffuse liability. Corporate managers are driven by greed and fear: greed is the active force that makes the company profitable and the fear of being found out keeps everyone in check.
I don't know if it's a purity test. We've all failed. We've all had bad behaviour patterns. None of those things are disqualifications. In some cases it's overcoming these things that make someone worth listening to.

But if the person failed to do so perhaps something about their world view needed to change? Perhaps listening to them could lead you down the same path?
I'd be happy if anybody would like to respond to the points that I made, if that's what you mean?
Currently, the richest 10% are responsible for half of all CO2 emissions [1], and you only need $93k be in the richest 10% [2], quite modest by HN standards. Historically, the only way countries have been able to lift themselves out of poverty is by burning fossil fuels for energy. While alternative energy is rapidly advancing, Nigeria isn't going to wait decades to build a solar plant when they can build several coal power plants right now.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/worlds-r...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/07/how-much-money-you-need-to-b...
AFAIK the shooter was Secret Service agent.
Martin made some of those in the 1960s.[1]

[1] https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5PQAAOSw53dc2vtp/s-l1600.jpg
Exactly. If you're going to complain about "meritocracy", just wait until you find out where "capitalism" originates!
Yes. In one word: BANKSY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIz7mEJOeA
We're a Python/Django shop with a few ASP.NET/C# projects every now and again. We use Django CMS for many of our clients, but we've used Umbraco for a few. It was aweful, the interface is fine for editing content, but building and templating a whole site through a web based client is painful.

Trying to build extensions was daunting, especially with the free version, it seems like they have a Commercial version with a few more developer bells and whistles.

Version control was also a pain, because everything is stored in the database, including templates and styling, so you can't really version control that with an outside VCS (we use Git). And what you CAN put under version control is half binary files anyway, hello conflictville, population you and a bunch of binary conflicts every time you sync.

Overall, I'm in love with Django CMS, and .NET is an old lover whom I don't really want to talk to any more, but she's still in my phone so I know who's calling when she drunk dials me.
I also couldn't see Ferrari entering the tractor manufacturing business

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ferrari+tractor
Denying Google voice often gets glazed over. It angered both Google and many consumers who wanted the product. Additionally, it showed that Apple was not just keeping bad software off of their platform. Banning it demonstrated that Apple was also willing to axe content due to pressure from AT&T.
nice thoughts. Now, I have no idea what I'm talking about, but i imagine the brain of a red-blind person wouldn't have a fully developed pathway to "see" red. I'd guess that after being exposed to a new stimulus, the pathway would slowly develop, but I don't think the patient would immediately see a new color.

Does anyone know what happens to a deaf-from-birth person gets a cochlear implant late in life?
Nothing I've said could be interpreted as a "right for profit". All I've said is that if you want things you like to exist in the future, it is rational to make an effort to make them profitable.

The credit card comparison is absurd because people who pay off their invoices in full probably don't get much value out of the card. If they had to pay interest, they'd just stop using it. Plus, credit card companies make plenty of money from the merchants I buy things from. Again, I'm not saying there's a right to profit. I'm just saying that you should evaluate the value you get from goods and services, and take action proportional to that value in order to increase the chances of those things existing in the future.
"They’re single-serving friends" excellent point. I love Fight Club so this hits home.
yeah you'll probably get paid better as a developer for hedge fund or bank than for an internet firm. But make sure you know what kind of developer position you'll be signing up for. Front Office is where you want to be, as you'll work closely with the "business" and it's generally a lot more exciting - plus you'll get to learn a lot about the markets. Typically this could involve building automated or algorithmic trading platforms (e.g HFT). Back Office could involve a lot of drudgerly and generally thankless toil - e.g accounting or settlements systems.

P.S Fuck what Wilmott.com users say. Needless to say, there are a lot of wankers and over-sized egos on trading desks.
I agree wholeheartedly. I come here for information, and noise like this stuff dilutes HN's value just as surely as any non-hacker content like political articles, "8 Beautiful Pictures of Slugs", or "VB 101".

PG: any chance we could have a temporary (or permanent) ban on John Gruber posts?
They didn't invent the omni wheel, been around for a while.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_wheel

I'm sure Honda tuned it up a bit though.

Also, there have been some wheelchairs made with omni-directional wheels, although I'm not sure if they are only a prototypes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecanum_wheel
For anyone else wanting to do this on Ubuntu and getting an error about missing gdata.service, you will need to get the following packages:

googlecl_0.9.11-1_all.deb
python-gdata_2.0.7-1_i386.deb

Install with:
sudo dpkg -i googlecl_0.9.11-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i python-gdata_2.0.7-1_i386.deb

And then also the python package gdata-2.0.13
install using
sudo python setup.py install
I'm not sure where that number came from actually - but it sure sounds nice eh?
Go to http://www.gymcalls.com/discount-sign-up.html for discounted subscription, password: 'gymcallsnow'
Good news everyone: embedding TrueType/OpenType fonts works in iOS 4.2 Mobile Safari too!
thanks, just tried. did not help:(
So, I think I was looking at this from the wrong angle.
http://blog.threddie.com/welcome-back-freemium-no-hard-feeli...
I haven't experienced anything like that, but you should try disabling the labs, and test, then enable them one by one until you find the culprit.

Also make sure to make a bug report.
A big part of engineering is about making the right trade-offs at any given point. His straw-man engineer shows nothing but his misunderstanding of engineering.
I think this reflects the number of a)Those who haven't traveled recently and b)Those who haven't traveled in the last few months...

Ideally the poll would ask if those answering have ever been scanned; then at least show me the segmented results.
That was certainly the storry earlier this year, when stockfish won. Now I wonder what kinds of improvements Komodo has made to get here. Stockfish is certainly improving all the time through the fish test project. (and you can contribute too!)
My Facebook feed is filled with people rooting for soccer teams. When you pick the winner of a game, does this post to your Facebook wall with the flag/logo of the team? That would probably be pretty viral right now.

The "find friends on Facebook" page isn't working.
Other countries often hand over ceremonial duties to a titular head of state with no real powers - sort of a national nanny.

Actually, it's the other way around, we've taken everything but the ceremonial duties from our monarchs.

Also, the countries with non-elected heads of state usually frown upon political statements from them.
Just a quick note, in case you're not familiar-

When someone entitles something "A Modest Proposal", they're usually referencing Swift, and are attempting to point out the absurdity of the current situation, rather than suggest a serious solution.

Read as a <Sarcasm> tag.

See Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Nano has 0 fees and 1< second transactions. What is your argument against that?
[author] Hard to say. If Google leadership had heard of this vulnerability, right as they were launching Google+, there would at least have been a serious conversation about it. They spent $Bs to build Google+, changed their whole company structure to support it, and were losing hundreds of people to FB every month. I doubt bending one little rule about removing a deprecated technology would have bothered them too much.
This is like saying "your employer does not pay you. They charge clients then give you 20%."
helpful info.. specially for readers from India
I was lucky enough to catch a ride on one of these trains in 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeJjcAm_JfU
There are ads on the page. Almost didn't notice because of Adblock.
Why is there no pricing information on your website?
By running ads, apparently.
Seems like very bad and inconsistent banning. Gosh...
> “Before, they were into turf...now they’re more interested in making money.”

So they switched from a zero-sum game to a positive-sum game?
Not all theory fragments supported by Z3 are decidable: Z3 includes an incomplete decision procedure for non-linear real arithmetic [1].

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/13898524
Lenovo ThinkPad L520 - does everything I need it to do (which, significantly, doesn't include iOS / OSX development). Linux Mint 17.1 (still trying to switch to FreeBSD but progress is slow), i7 CPU, 8GiB RAM, 128GiB SSD.
Does this mean the levels are randomly selected, or are they randomly-generated?
Why should only rich people get to invest in companies? Anyone can go to Vegas and blow their entire life savings, but buying shares in Dropbox or Oculus at launch is just too reckless?
I don't want the PCI board. I want a Knights Mill workstation motherboard.

Those aren't easy to come by ;-)
As of Java 8, the JDK also has support for ISO duration formats, via java.time.Period and java.time.Duration.
I love Firefox, it's still a great browser, but it's really sad to have "management made us add this trash feature so Mozilla can keep the lights on" updates every couple of months.
The supply chain disruption last year made me think of the beer distribution game [0], and the Bullwhip [1] effect it exposes.

I am very far removed from the semi-conductor industry and the supply chain they feed. But given that lots of manufacturers slowed production because of COVID concerns and expectation of lower sales due to the expected recession only to find that demand was stable or even up as people adopted to remote working/learning, are we seeing now the peak of the Bullwhip effect?

In other words, as manufacturers now try to catch up, how possible is it that manufacturers panic and over-order only to find that people got what they wanted and are not going to buy as much as expected this year? If that is the case, increased demand is not sustained growth.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect
You had to use the qualifier "essentially" and avoid mentioning the actual title of the article, to make your point though...

>but in my opinion, it’s trash garbage writing.

Whatever. It's an article that makes a simple observation: that in this day and age, there are ways to make a viable living with small-scale patronage, facilitated by the internet, direct payments, and so on.

It's not about being it easy to make it without putting the work.
You should learn to protect yourself by keeping it offline.

"Strong passwords and encryption" is hopeless because you have a key logger running on your machine - a reasonable, simple default assumption that can and should be taught instead of encryption that only works in theory (and said theory is much too complicated for most people to have time to wrap their mind around anyway.)
HTTP isn't only about NAT. Lots of protocols have a clear notion of client and server, and don't require dialback.

HTTP is successful partly because it's simple and "stateless", in the sense that all protocol state is held by the client in cookies. Keeping all state in cookies+database provides some useful properties, in particular around scaling, being unfazed by IP address changes (e.g. wifi to wired), reboots of both clients and servers, version changes, hibernation/wake-from-sleep, and a variety of other things that otherwise break connection oriented protocols.

Of course sometimes people screw that up in other ways, hence the popularity of "clear your cookies" as a troubleshooting tip. But overall it works pretty well. Look at the prevalence of hacks on top of SSH to create persistent sessions, to see what has to be done when you don't have that model. SSH only survives as a protocol because remote administration doesn't need to be a particularly great user experience and it doesn't need to scale, so legacy and inertia wins out. Otherwise we'd probably see a request/response protocol take over there too.

X11 was always a PITA not only due to NAT but also due to institutional firewalls, e.g. universities often have enough IPs to give everyone a public IP but firewall traffic anyway to stop exploitation of vulnerable devices. So the whole "remote client connects to local server" model was not only confusing but also a poor fit for the real world internet in which centralised, professionally run servers are invariably more secure than scattered non-professionally run edge devices.