jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well thats the problem, the suits were dismissed out of hand. Very little evidence presented. Despite something like 1000 people swore affidavits of violations.
They should have taken the cases and heard the evidence.
Foremost, I blame the supreme court, it chickened out from hearing the Texas Lawsuit, which was about the state Governors changing the election rules on unilaterally.

If you look at the spikes in vote counts on some of these graphs, its more than enough to warrant a hearing .

Now the people have lost faith in the courts.
Ok, yeah, my mistake for just repeating a stupid comment then. Thanks for correcting it.
Calling into sed when you use ssh increases your attack surface to include sed's attack surface. And likely more.
I'd argue that facebook is as big a threat as gmail, especially when you see how younger generations use it to communicate.
Also, keep in mind that facebook tracks and collects your moves all over the internet (hint: look for the little 'like' button on every newspaper/forum/random website and take a look at your cookies from time to time) even if you don't have an account with them. De-anonymization and identification with so-called metadata (cookies, ip addresses, phone numbers, etc) is extremely easy to perform these days.

You can't trust users to make sane choices when it comes to privacy in the exact same way that you can't expect drivers to decide if a car is safe to drive or not. Joe Sixpack isn't going to use browser privacy extensions, clear their cookies, use tor, etc.

Some entity (probably a government/administration of some kind, but I can see NGOs doing that too) needs to be tasked with enforcing privacy laws in the same way that (at least in most of Europe) you are required to have your car inspected for safety and maintenance every few years.

EDIT: Across the EU, the Commission for the Protection of Privacy [1] would be that entity. There are additional government instances in various member states, like CNIL [2] in France.

[1] http://www.privacycommission.be/en/european-union
[2] http://www.cnil.fr/ - http://www.cnil.fr/english/
The F-22 (not the F-35) was the aircraft that was having pilot consciousness issues, and it has not been proven that the issue was actually oxygen being cut off from the pilot. Some have also posited that the problems were actually due to the high Gs at low pressure (as the F-22 is the most manueverable aircraft ever made at high altitude), which is also possible.
A smaller market means less competition so potentially higher prices and profit.
What if having children is a (good) biologically programmed "selfish" act? Meant to ensure that the parents are one day taken care of by their children when they themselves grow older. And programs like social security and retirement income remove the psychological need to have children?

500 years ago: "If I don't have children who will take care of me?". Today: "If I don't have children, public funding will take care of me." If this has any bit of truth to it, the reduced risk that such social programs create have a consequence on population levels. Not bad, not good. Just something to analyze.
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Someone needs to make a physical Thunderbolt port lock, like there are for Ethernet, USB, etc...
This is dumb. Stop asking us for money and just put some small ads up in the corner. No one will care. Thanks.
ed gave rise to sed and vi. ed -> em -> ex (VIsual mode). vim is Vi iMproved.

x->y suggests lambda to many people in our community.

Edit: I meant to provide some additional information to other readers, not to disagree in any way.
i didn't propose any explanations why i got downvoted, just observed the pattern.

it sounds like you're saying that any time i mention gender, people see it as a strawman, and so downvote it. why do you think that is?
a spam detector that's biased against women certainly could account for this behavior.

why don't you see that as sexist?
http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews/cell-phones/apple-iphon...

iPod touch and iPad users account for a little under half of all iOS devices. Still a huge portion of the market to miss.
It's too bad we can't flag posts a second (and third) time as stupid "geek" kitsch. ("Tough luck, xkcd!")
In my ideal world, someone would fund an endowment that would keep Wikipedia running into perpetuity. No ads, no risk of running out of money if the users don't donate.
Text based browsers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks
Sounds like a great place for someone bootstrapping a business ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8716248 )

I couldn't handle the lack of mountains or the winters, speaking just for myself.

> What baffles me is that more tech companies haven't set up shop in these areas.

Sounds like a good problem for an entrepreneur to come along and solve :-)
ardit33 did not write the glassdoor review.
Instead of just inserting a record, it now has to do something else, too (update the index).

Try taking a look at http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/improve_mysql... , which suggests some things you can try. This might be a question better suited for StackOverflow, by the way.
Bruce! Please get a new portrait photo!
I think Mozilla's refusal to allow use of OS installed codecs is worse, though. I can see the justification for not providing support for the H264 codec in-browser but not allowing OS codecs seems like taking ideology over technology too far.
I come from a country built on carbs: Italy. I think I hate at least a plate of pasta a per for 30 years and guess what, I'm not overweight. America, do you want to see you problem? Don't look further than your car. The one you drive to go grocery shopping 1 mile from home. Just walk, I'm actually thinking to not renew my car lease when it will expire in 2 months, and we'll keep only one car for the family. Do you both need to commute to work? Fine, get to car, but use them if you need to go further than 1-2 miles. Otherwise walk. You'd be amaze to find out how many things there are in a two miles radius.
That's definitely what I got out of reading bill bryson's brief history of nearly everything. The people involved in most of our scientific discoveries are incredibly fascinating
or even large companies are thinking "hey, now is a good time to buy what we're interested in!". The cause doesn't have to be YC related :p
20% annual turnover rate seems pretty low to me for a company more than 10 years old. Anyone know of statistics for comparable companies?
I think it's a double-edged sword.

I've both written and read code in non-functional languages where the "easy" way of doing it is thrown aside for the "cool functional" way of doing it. Leading to code which was more fun to write, looks cooler, but is also hard to read and written in a different idiom to the actual programming language. Bad.

I'm 100% guilty of this, although I try to stay vigilant. The other day I refactored out a gnarly bit of a Python API, but caught myself feeling sad because it meant deleting a bunch of clever lambda functions I was using to work around it in the first place. Bad!

That said, the other side of the double-edged sword is great - things that lead to giant tangled messes of procedural code can be turned into very nice functional-style constructs. Also, I love having list comprehensions in Python.
No one's cared about desktop Linux before, what makes you think they'll start now?
Probably that was in comparison to past models. Compared to other brands, they are still pretty nice.
>An eye for an eye would leave two people blind

Well under your reading wouldn't it just leave them each without one eye. They may be blind but in most cases they will still have one other functioning eye. /pedantry

"Who paid retribution for the second blinding? The second paid for the first, I demand a third eye" ... ergo the aphorism.
Most people over estimate the minimum number of people needed to make a site look busy. Its around 20-30 [1]. Can you get about 20 zealous people to participate on your website everyday?

[1] I've moderated private invite only forums with 20 members that generated 12-15 threads everyday! And yes - these threads were busy. 20 people were easily spending a total of more than 10 hours on the forum everyday.

Action Summary:

- Find 20 people who like your concept and invite them to participate before you launch. Make them your beta testers and ask them for their input. Give them non-monetary rewards (tshirts etc is a good idea). Let these folks populate your site and make it look busy.

- Then on launch day, have a strategy in place that does generate 500-1000 visitors per day. Thats probably about $50-100 in ad expense per day if you don't have a viral aspect to your social website and your users don't drive traffic.
already submitted
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018656

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/17/facebook_messages_te...
One time? How do you handle iOS updates?
Oh thanks, I get it now.
Why does this article contain the word "interwebs"?
What ist with vim and Emacs? Did you try them? I loaded files bigger than 1 GB with them - but this was on Windows.
I know you were asking about design, but the first thing I usually do with a new project (usually commit #2) is to make sure the deployment process works.

Then I usually setup a CI service that runs the specs on each commit, and deploys to a staging/demo server automatically if they pass.

The reason I do this first is that deployment becomes more difficult the further into the project you get. It's easier to work through deployment issues incrementally rather than just before launch, or when you want to demo the app to someone outside.
You'd have to rewrite the dialog - but if you did that, you're in the clear, as far as I can see. (Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.)
Definitely. When I'm learning some new discipline, the first thing is usually reading definitions of the most common terms, then some basic introduction and only after that going deeper to the direction I originally needed. It doesn't always work with highly specific knowledge (you can't expect to be an expert just after reading few books), but generally I find it the best way to learn.
How do they reconcile it with the Ordnung's prohibition on the use of mains electricity? Almost all modern diagnostic, surgical and other medical equipment requires it.
In 99% of use-cases with ML models like this, the output of the model won’t be the direct output of the system it’s used in. Instead, the output of the model will be fed through as an input to a correlational model/heuristic.

I.e. Amazon doesn’t care what emotion you’re feeling. But it does potentially care whether you seem to be “in a buying mood” — e.g. it might be able to save a lot of money by constraining its ad placements to only be shown to such people. It isn’t going to try to figure out what mood “a buying mood” is — it’s just going to train another model to look at the mood-model output, together with people’s shopping histories, and then learn “people tend to buy things more often when the mood model has this output.”

So it’s not like Amazon will ever assert that you’re in a particular mood. They’ll just assert that you look like someone who’s ready to buy things, with your mood being one input to that judgement. Their perception of your mood doesn’t have to be 100% accurate for that to be helpful; any more than a salesman’s read of your mood does.
Social security disability is incredibly difficult to live on. Depending on the individual's work history it can pay as little as $700/month. The average beenfit is $1263 but it's only that high because most people claiming it became disabled but had (or their spouse had) a productive work History before that. People with lifelong disabilities will be well below that.

You can supplement with part-time work but that only gets you so far. As soon as you start making money on disability, you lose 1 dollar for every two. And the most you can make is $1260/month. At that point you lose Medicaid and any progress you've made is lost because insurance is way more than you are making.

You effectively top out at $1263 + $1260/2 = $1893/month. Rent is going to claim 1/3 to 1/2 that.
The kid is 2, so they don't really know.
I feel like if you did enterprise Java development for a large company you could get lost in the machine pretty easily. Just keep your head down and meet your deliverables and you should be safe.
Definitely. In one of my previous companies, we'd sometimes do sprint retros in a nearby pub, drinks on the company tab.
Fair enough, that's a principle you can have for yourself and depending on your role and responsibilities that may suit you. But at least be aware that others may have a different principle and set of responsibilities.

I can't upvote this sentiment enough. C++ has been used by millions of programmers working in numerous fields over a period of decades. Any attempt to generalise from a single person's own experience of using C++ to that entire community is surely unwise. I note (for no particular reason, honest) that this applies even if you are a long-standing member of the standards committee.
I can't remember the last time I could use paper cash. Beyond your daily groceries, everything is usually exclusively paid for digitally.

Surveillance on daily spends is not valuable. What's valuable is things connected to your identity, specifically associations with other individuals and companies.
One of the ways high energy neutrons interact is by scattering protons elastically. Their masses are essentially the same so the neutron can transfer its momentum very efficiently. These scattered protons (perhaps from plastic in the packaging etc) are then the charged particles that flip bits. These protons are generally lower energy than cosmic ray protons, which means they deposit MORE energy per distance traveled, so they can be worse than cosmics directly.
By all means, try to change things from within, but keep it within. The moment you start leaking internal stuff, betraying the trust of your employer and your peers, you turn it into an us-vs-them situation, and I don't find it surprising that you end up suffering us-vs-them consequences.

At the same time, if your moral objections are strong enough, you should quit immediately. E.g. if your company says good news, everyone! We're opening concentration camps tomorrow!, I suppose the only reasonable action is to quit in disgust (as I said before, it's not like Google engineers are otherwise unemployable). If you stick around you're implicitly saying that your moral objections aren't that strong (at least not as strong as your desire to get a fat juicy paycheck), and sure, try to change from within, but keep it private and keep it civil, without biting the hand that is feeding you.
That's only true if the global order continues. The only reason why you can set up shop across the street from a US factory and import some goods from halfway across the world and sell it for cheaper is because the United States Navy made the risk of shipping those goods negligible. That wasn't the norm for most written history and is a function of the post WW2 order. If the US elects a pacifist president who cuts the DoD budget in half, or even if the current POTUS continues on his isolationist path then this will no longer be the case.
If you aren't part of the company you can't subvert it internally because you aren't internal. Your logic seems rather flawed. Unless you are expecting them to work for the company for free while trying to subvert it.
Exactly. I don't understand why Americans, for example, eat pigs every day and think nothing of it but are horrified by the idea of eating a dog. What's the difference?
Gotcha - 'rearing their ugly heads'... I should slow down and think the thread through every now and then lol
The US has said it will go as far as a military invasion of the Hague if they try to enforce war crimes against the US.
You're absolutely right. The numbers are flabbergasting to me. It's like pumping digital oil or something.
> You don’t even need a study. Let’s look at the following thought experiment.

I don’t mean to sound flippant, but I’m more inclined to take seriously things like results of studies rather than things like thought experiments. In this post in a roundabout way you’re making the case that things like homelessness (for example) need to exist in the real world because otherwise society breaks down in a simulation you’ve run in your head.

Personally the way my thought experiment goes it’s possible that the workforce stays the same or even expands due to things like childcare being less strenuous or the inclusion of people that previously couldn’t participate due to lack of access to housing/transportation.

That’s just a thought experiment in my head though. I’d love to see a study.
This is absolutely what this is about. Regaining control of the app store as a discovery of apps. Everyone should realise this is apple's actual goal here, not the privacy rhetoric. So in a way Zuck is right.

Facebook through extremely good targeting has turned into the no 1 app discovery tool. This is a fact. This is not to Apple's advantage. They need the app store control for the future of the iphone.

This is simply a way to regain the control. It's the only goal.
Building anything on the web and expecting it to last more than 5 years is foolish in my opinion.

But why should it be? The goal of building web sites and apps isn't to use the latest shiny new technologies.

You can build excellent web sites that serve valuable business and/or social functions, using nothing but technologies that have been around for 10 or even 20 years.

And if we're talking about app-style development, why should someone who invests significant time and resources to build, say, an intranet app to automate some function in their business not expect that app to still work five years from now?

This is why standards and stability are important, and it's why "living standards" are a pile of [expletive deleted], and it's why it's a bad thing that some browsers currently have very rapid release cycles with an obvious emphasis on adding new shiny things at the expense of maintaining support for older technologies, and it's why you shouldn't build anything you might need to maintain for more than a year or two with the JS framework du jour.

A lot of front-end devs today make building simple user interfaces to access databases seem awfully complicated. Every time I read articles like this one I become more convinced that most of that complexity is of their own making. They talk down to old school developers who put most of the logic on the back end, or who build interactions using jQuery, but sites written 5 years ago using those technologies still work and can still be maintained just fine. I wouldn't bet on that being true for anything built with a framework like Angular or React today.
I was going to by one out of excitement, but then I realised it is only available this spring. I might not buy it anymore, since the hype I had at this exact moment will be gone...
Isn't this fundamentally just using GitHub as a torrent tracker?

I can't imagine that GitHub would be entirely happy about this, and it still leaves a third party (GitHub), functioning as registrar of torrents, vulnerable to attack, just as any public torrent tracker is.
Corollary to the rule-of-thumb: if you replaced meaningless numbers with a meaningless analogy, it also does not belong in the sentence.

Generalization of the rule-of-thumb: write sentences that have meaning.
About the plane wing applications... Wouldn't these micropatterns also have some kind of impact on aerodynamics? Not saying it's even a negative thing, but more research seems to be needed.
Just to put some practical meat on it... salaries.

Iirc, unions typically insist on a strict payscale/structure combining legible factors like seniority, position, etc. Would they want this.
> We also strive, in our weak moments, to generate some sort of meaningful “good” for humanity (whom we would like to see at least survive until the day that we, ourselves, rise from those same dark depths to act as the harbinger of mankind’s final doom).

Chtulhu Ventures seems to be far more invested in the the good of mankind than the average SF VC.
Maybe he was refering to Panurge's sheeps .. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panurge)
Yes? It's mentioned in most "rise of Nazis" documentary of which there are 1000s and everyone has seen a few. I'd consider most educated people to know it. More than SD, less than SS.

It's fair to say that union busting was a specific part of the brown-shirt agenda but beyond that it's probably not a very useful historical analogy. There was a much more direct link between worker organisations and nascent revolutionary socialism. IMHO Nazi antipathy to unions was more about political competition than preventing increased worker's rights.

It would be more analagous if it was a republican allied political group working to disrupt unions because they were organising to support democrats.
This is more about the middle class professionals who where Eisenhower republicans or on nation torys (in UK terms) finally waking up and realising that their part has been taken over by entryists.

The reaction against the trinational working class who Trump and Boris have used, could be brutal as they are the ones who will be hurt, I bet like the foolish CP fellow travellers aka useful idiot.
Hell, yes! And both of them think the grass is so much greener on the other side, and both of them are kind of right.

(It's greener because they use more manure over there, which means that here there's manure all over...)
This is not immediately clear from your comment, yet worth point out:

That is not necessarily a bad thing.

People change, society changes, is it so surprising the dating scene would change with the advent of the internet? This is but a small step in the direction of Huxley's Brave New World, for example.

Perhaps that's what you meant, perhaps I was too eager to find negativity in an objective post. My apologies.
I'm a bachelor and you are out of your mind.
agree -- the asymmetry offered by drones is ripe for exploitation. already happening: http://www.cnet.com/news/drone-crashes-trying-to-deliver-dru... and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2670560/Drug-deliver.... more importantly, i'm guessing malicious actors may be testing out defenses in these articles: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/08/jet-drone-near-miss... (and the like). why put someone on the plane to take it down when you can just throw up a drone to fly into the turbine on approach?
Neither of us are making judgements about an actual named person here. We are talking about an example that was given. This stance of 'I refuse to believe the worst in someone based on anecdote' is disingenuous.

That example included a detailed description of the ways the person achieved advancement, which fit the characterization I gave.

You are just choosing to ignore that.
The specs on this thing are less than impressive and could easily have been developed on earth. (See my response to the other comment). Its a clean box with negative pressure.