jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The problem with a "screw the government intervention" mindset is that wheelchair bound people make up a significant minority, so I won't say no one, but a vanishingly small number of businesses would care if they moved to a non-ADA compliant building. To be a bit flip, playhouses and theaters with their generally elderly patrons, and wheelchair stores are the only ones I can think of. So yes, this is a place that government intervention is necessary. Specifically, if you look at many old buildings built pre-ADA (1990) you'll find a disturbing lack of accessibility.

It's worth discussing whether the government should ban dogs from businesses that serve food. And it's worth discussing whether the regulations which essentially prevent businesses from validating a service animals papers (so to speak) should be relaxed. However, it seems that it's really a lack of understanding of the law when it comes to the difference between a trained service animal and a companion animal, not horrible government intervention.
You use the resistors for safety to determine how much current is needed to kill the device. I'd use a potentiometer, and turn down the resistance until bad things happened. Or, more likely, I'd insulate the hooks on my case or sever the connection between them, and not risk damaging the Kindle.
One of many reasons i switched from a Euro ISO layout to a QWERTY ANSI layout a while ago. It took me about 3 weeks to get comfortable with QWERTY ANSI, plus another 2 months to fully get back to my regular typing speed. 100% worth it tho if you need a bunch of special characters as you regularly do with most programming languages.

Some tips:

- switch out ALL you keyboards, at home, at work, on all devices
- use EurKey* for reaching special keys in your language (french, german, whatever...)

* https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu
I understand and neglected this case, thank you!
My theory is that most programmers are really bad at it. The 10x guys are the few who actually know what they are doing.
I signed up for the beta because I always like trying out new stuff. But I'm lost on how this would be better than just opening github.com in my browser.

I guess the main value-add I could see would be notifications when people open issues, send PRs, or fork repos of mine. Does this app display them?
Probably, the best answer to the "programming is easy" mindset I've read is this article[1] about whether software engineering is actually engineering. Turns out we are engineers, and we're not even that special as far as engineering goes.

And it's funny, because the article has nothing to do with whether programming is hard or not. Not idea what Wayne thinks of the matter.

[1]: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/crossover-project/we-are-no...
It's probably cheaper to just buy off a couple non-aligned parliament members and get the deal passed. Or wait til the next election.
> our production capacity

Who do you mean by "our"?

I believe the Greenlanders' point is that it's their minerals and their local environment that may be wrecked, so they wish to either prevent this or set terms on which it is done.

There are other sources of rare earths - they can even be found in the tailings of other mines.
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imxmAsNj4bc
Stories like this is what will get to management and have them force everyone back in to the office.
You misunderstand the point of the GPL. It's not there to protect the author of the code. It's there to protect the user of the code, i.e. the one you're selling the product to.

In your scenario, the user won't have access to the code they'd need to modify the product you sold them. That is the harm the GPL is designed to protect against.
> While I'm generally happy with cryptocurrency for reasons of practicality, privacy, and broader governance,

You must have other reasons because cryptocurrencies fail flat out on every one of these aspects.
That's not quite true. Having tensor cores available makes ML algorithms like this more efficient which means lower GPU utilization and lower power draw.

Ultimately even a 9xx is going to have plenty of headroom for an algorithm like this, so it doesn't make sense to lock it off - but there is a difference. I understand the decision to lock it off for a combination of market segmentation (convince people to upgrade) + ensuring the people who use it get the best experience (0 degradation in framerate, near-0 increase in power draw)
Agreed!

Microsoft is a great example of a company which had...

a) many cultural shifts over time

b) still is a company with many different sub team cultures

...and regardless of where they were on the spectrum they have always managed to sell Windows, Office and SQL Server very well.
Isn't that a JDK issue?
Chat history isn't immediately at odds with PFS. As I see it PFS first and foremost is for protecting messages in transit. This is to prevent dragnet-style surveillance.

Chat history means giving up some measure of at-rest security, but it has no impact on the in transit part. Personally I also think some compromise of at-rest is a reasonable trade-off for a lot of consumer contexts because physical capture of your device already is basically game over.
If you think the coming CIA/DHS war on domestic terror is just for Trump's base, keep in mind the longtime targets of those agencies.

For the CIA, it's leftists and for DHS, it's people of color.

People on both sides will be labeled "domestic terrorists" when convenient.
The same could be said for the previous riots.
From my side, you are wrong. The stances you think I have are probably inaccurate too. Your side seems to always lock us into a prison of two ideas without letting us speak for ourselves.

The extreme assumptions and generalizations don't help. There are many of us that don't agree with you but don't exactly line up with Republicans or even Trump supporters at times.

Many Trump supporters are Libertarians that do not agree full with Republican ideals completely, but it's the closest home.
The Republican position on this has always been idiotic. Revoking 230 would make platforms directly liable for what is written on them, making them crack down more on their posts.
Exactly. Meanwhile, the militias in Michigan who view Terry Nichols as a martyr, continue weekend training in the national forests of Michigan.
You know this post is authentically Hungarian because of the pessimism.
Not when they’re just electron apps like what sadly most of these productivity apps end up being.
How do you know it's not ths Chinese or North Koreans looking for bitcoins? It is documented they do transact in bitcoin on the hacking market a lot.
DN42, anyone? It's a large private network built on top of VPNs. In addition to connecting hackerspaces, you can have your own AS, be LIR, creating entities in the RIPE database, and experiment with BGP.

> Since dn42 is very similar to the Internet, it can be used as a hands-on testing ground for new ideas, or simply to learn real networking stuff that you probably can't do on the Internet (BGP multihoming, transit). The biggest advantage when compared to the Internet: if you break something in the network, you won't have any big network operator yelling angrily at you.

https://wiki.dn42.us/Home
That top level comment is such a typical somewhat smart central European youngster (now maybe in their 30s, like me) that was heavily brainwashed the whole childhood how UE is soooo much superior and civilized, and the their own culture and people are so inferior because of backwards religion and backwards conservatism. For them, the unelected officials ruling UE is a pinacle of democracy, while lawfully elected politicians at home are dictators, and so on.

I was raised in the same environment in Poland, was a subject of the same UE-love brainwashing most of my youth, and have/had plenty of friends with the same view.
I don't have a good phrase for people that willfully chose to believe something deranged. But believing that plainclothes security is going to let a mob get their hands on a congressman, that's it.
My understanding of why the stock market is supposed to be good for society is that it encourages investors to invest in companies that need more capital. It has the nice side effect of allowing people to buy high value assets that are likely to increase in value over time, letting people save for their retirements, while simultaneously providing capital to companies that may need it. I fail to understand how a computer that holds on to stocks for < 20 minutes forwards either of those goals. Maybe someone can explain why this is a good thing to me, but this really seems like a perversion of what free markets are supposed to be good for. And again, maybe someone can explain why this would be a bad idea, but I'd really like to see a system where if you buy a stock you are not allowed to sell it for a fixed period of time that would be measured in months, and not seconds.
Funny :) - I was just checking http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ... and bumped into: "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"

Oops "semi-noob illusion" ;-). I did not imply a complaint... was just wondering about its growth!
I agree, there's a lot of racism and sexism in small southern towns. Unfortunately, we can't do much about that until all of the older generation living there die off and younger people are born without being taught their ignorant ways.

What I disagree with is the idea that we can cancel this racism and sexism out by giving them advantages in the big cities. Life should be based on merit, not genetics.
Debt is a drag on everything else you can do, it's absolutely not worth it unless you are getting something really helpful in exchange.
A few observations on this:

1. There is no way a mere "clerical error" caused the company to send cease-and-desist letters of this type.

2. Trademark law is unambiguous on the point that prior use of a mark in commerce always trumps (within the geographical area of such use) subsequent registration of that mark by one whose actual use was later in time. In other words, the prior use of "footlong" by the hot dog vendor for 40 years leaves that vendor with clearly superior rights to the use of that mark vis-a-vis Subway. The vendor's priority would be limited to the geographical area in which such use occurred and would not extend beyond that - this is why Amazon, for example, had to settle up with a local bookstore in Minneapolis named "Amazon" for having infringed its (i.e., the local bookstore's) superior trademark rights to use that name and mark in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

3. A putative trademark that likely is "purely descriptive" (such as "footlong") is not an enforceable mark and is not registrable on the primary register unless and until it acquires what is known as "secondary meaning" (such a mark acquires secondary meaning when the public primarily associates that mark with a particular producer notwithstanding its descriptive character).

4. Subway might have a shot at showing that its "footlong" mark has acquired secondary meaning given that it has spent mega-marketing dollars on it over a sustained period. The media fiasco resulting from this flap is not going to help its cause, however, as all guns will now be trained on it by anyone who has a vested interest in the issue.

5. By backing off on the hot dog issue, Subway is tacitly admitting that it has no hope whatever of showing that people will ever associate the mark "footlong" primarily with Subway when it comes to hot dogs. This part of what they are doing is smart. By limiting its claim to sandwiches only, Subway at least has some chance of getting its mark.

6. By the way, there is no problem with Subway (in theory) sending out C&D letters before its mark is registered. Just as the hot dog vendor did from its 40 years of use, so too Subway immediately acquires common-law rights to its mark based on its actual use in commerce. Assuming that the mark has already acquired the required secondary meaning from the actual use to date, it is an enforceable mark upon which Subway might choose to sue.

7. The broader point here, as noted by others, is that a company should not blindly follow formalistic advice from its attorneys without first considering how its actions will be perceived. By that measure, this was a pretty bonehead move on Subway's part.
Here here, I can do with out both the pro-Apple and a the con-Apple stories all together. Unless it's a leak. Unfortunately right now it's just a slow release of what was announced in WWDC or a slow release of counter-marketing by a lot of people who have competitive products.
Not it doesn't. The Hart & Risley study the article is addressing looked at the possible influence of genes, and found that the maximum influence they could have over verbal ability was maybe 20-30%. (I don't have the book in front of me, so I don't know the exact amount, but it was relatively small.)
I might be wrong,, but it seems like trust and encryption are fundamentally linked.

For example, in the case of self-signed certificates, the browser knows it is encrypting a message to the holder of the self-signed certificate, but there's no information on who that is. The certificate sent could be changed, and there's no way to know something is wrong.

Put another way, plain text is readable by anyone. Text properly encrypted to a known recipient is readable only by that recipient. But text encrypted to an unknown recipient is readable by only one entity, but that entity could be anyone, so it's equivalent to plain text.
You can already do this with serverside Blazor.
That capitalisation had me wondering why McDonalds has a team working at Intel.
Thanks a lot for the link! So this is like a remake of the Alpha Smart but with e-ink screen. Apart from the price it's nice but unfortunately I need one Windows program running on such a device (a specialized Word processor with features no other word processors have).
From Wikipedia: Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) is an open standard that strengthens and simplifies two-factor authentication (2FA) using specialized Universal Serial Bus (USB) or near-field communication (NFC) devices based on similar security technology found in smart cards.

Using Yubikey to mean U2F is like people saying "Google this term", "the image is Photoshopped", "Hoover the floor", "grab me a Kleenex", or even "take the escalator". It possible "Yubikey" could become a generic trademark, but if possible people should be wary of using brand names in this way before it 'sticks'.
What makes you think Kubernetes "secrets" are appropriate for storing secret information? They're not secure (not without adding a bunch of other nonsense on top of them).
Well, I had meant to characterize the shirt as having been specifically made for the software users who wished to violate the license agreement. But never the less the court didn't actually hold this - the lower court did. This document says that no copyright infringement happened.
median JD: 160K
(http://www.law.stanford.edu/school/facts/#graduates)

MBA is also way up there.

not sure about medicine...

keep in mind that elite MBA, JD, and even MD programs have very high completion rates, much higher than PhDs, and that MD and JD degrees can take less than half the time. MD degrees take as long as PhDs when you factor in the residency, but the job prospects and earnings are probably much higher.

From a purely financial point of view, it just doesn't make sense for someone who already has US citizenship to do a PhD. For non-citizens, though, it can be an excellent way to get into the country (though even then, an MS is usually enough to get that first work visa).
Well, I got bored in the middle, so there.
This is incorrect. The 5% fee is actually charged in addition to Amazon's fees. (see https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq#WhatFeesDoesKickChar). This doesn't make much of a difference in profitability (20k vs 50k still isn't a whole lot), but it's something. Enough, at least, to keep bootstrapping.

And that's the main point of it - not to make a whole bunch of money, but to offer a really great service. As evidence, the Kickstarter guys have been going for a few years now, and it wasn't until very recently that they started taking any money out. They're really passionate about helping artists, filmmakers, and creatives find the funding that they need.
> If another party markets green shirts to users of this progam, they would under this case be liable for contributory infringement.

No. This is not accurate. It's not even close. The "shirt maker" would have to be making shirts specifically to violate the agreement of the customer.

Blizzard isn't going after software that could potentially infringe. Rather, it's going after software that was specifically designed to infringe. Indeed, to make the software, the developer would have to infringe.

Whether this is fair or not is up for debate. But don't mischaracterize it as something it's not.
Ah, it seems I needed to keep reading... It appears this court makes a distinction in whether the license term violated by the user was included to prevent copyright infringement. Because violating the 3rd party software covenant did not directly enable infringement, the user may not be considered to have violated blizzard's copyright simply by copying it into RAM.
Exactly. Code is for expressing how things are done.* Comments are for expressing why.

* Or if you're not into the whole imperative languages bit, what things are done.
Why is it so difficult to read that font?
I happen to really like coreboot.org logo (not in the list)
There are plenty of places on the web to spout memes and references to popular games/movies/whatever, I don't see why we have to bring this over here. It's the very definition of "noise". I also fail to see how the parent's quote has anything to do with TFA, besides being from the Portal game. It offers no insight whatsoever.
git has a logo? Ditto for most of the other projects. I have recognized the Gimp horned-dog-or-whatsit (and that only because it's on the splash screen); for the others I use, it's approximately the first time I have noticed it.

(Cue wild speculation whether that signifies a need for a better logo, or whether each and every piece of infrastructure needs to have its own corporate identity manual)
a product designer :)
"We might not be around in 6 months!"

What kind of premium were you prepared to pay for this risk to the owner? If your answer is <10%, or even <50% depending on the actual amounts we're talking here, do you find it irrational that you had trouble finding an office?
A good mix of the well-known and less-known. I felt that half of them were "Mind blowing", and the rest ranged from "Apparent if you have ever thought about it" to "Obvious if you have ever thought about how advertising works", but informative overall.

A number of them I viscerally don't want to believe, but I know the science is there (e.g. multitasking).
To expand on z92's answer: In my case, I have a huge web application including a ton of framework code that's powering a frontend. In the backend, there are scripts processing many millions of rows each day.

These scripts depend on the framework being available (for example to do certain tasks in the context of a specific user, or just for configuration settings).

It's infinitely more useful to be able to actually rely on that framework in these scripts than having to recreate all the environment (or the needed parts of it) every time - especially as the framework might change and the scripts should continue to work.

This makes these scripts prime candidates to be written in the same language as the web frontend and the framework, which, unfortunately, means PHP.

By being able to easily spawn a few subprocesses from these scripts, I can make them a lot faster while still being able to rely on the standard application environment to be there for them.
Just had coffee with Brendan (the author) this past week.

I've been making the rounds talking about what our plans are for Hackers & Founders the past few months. I've had dozens of meetings talking with VC's, angels and connectors in Silicon Valley in the past few months.

Two hours with Brendan gave me more to think about than several dozen investor meetings combined. He's sharp, insightful, and he has a phenomenal grasp of the big picture in Silicon Valley. He's going to do very, very well in this town.
Neato! :-)

I had a go at this a while ago using pcntl_fork() and shared memory messages queues to do erlang style message passing.

My implementation is kind of half assed, but it works reasonably well.
http://github.com/dhotson/Phork
Yeah, here in New Zealand tight caps are the norm (I'm on 60Gb, and I pay through the nose for it). Open WiFi is rare; no-one's quite that altruistic.
See also Sharper Image.
Yes. As with any big project, the first revision is often unorganized spaghetti full of architectural problems. But with diligent iteration and refactoring, over time the project starts to take shape and becomes elegant. In this case, the project (the web) is huge, long term, and has a ridiculous amount of use cases and competing interests, so it's an amazing and wonderful thing that we've even settled on a lingua franca at all! Over time javascript will evolve, and a more elegant and robust replacement will eventually emerge to run universal sandboxed apps.
> I still have not seen proof of a SINGLE woman who plays grand strategy games.

We exist. We generally are not motivated to provide proof that we exist, especially because many requests for proof are expected in the form of "SEND NUDES". That was not implied in your comment, but your experience likely consists of this exchange and mine reflects a universe of incredulity and harassment.

If you gain insight from reading this, great. But that's not why I'm replying. Somewhere reading this thread is a girl in high school or a woman in college who's into grand strategy, or programming, or something else that's "uniquely intellectual". She's heard messages all her life that girls and women aren't the kinds of people who do this stuff. I know this because I've been that girl - going back decades to where I would read "I'm pretty sure there are no 12 year old girls using Linux", at age 12, from my dual boot Fedora/Debian machine.

Sis, you matter, even if you're just starting to get into this. If we only look at gaming, I've had thousands of hours across Factorio, Paradox games, Zachtronics games, and study sims (not to mention - gasp - mass market tactics games), but you can't get to hour #1000 without hour #1. Whether you choose to keep a low profile in nerd spaces or you choose to be a Girl Gamer (TM) lightning rod, I'm glad you're here, and I hope you pay more attention to comments like mine than the one above mine.
> Reporting by Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin, additional reporting by Munsif Vengattil; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Anil D’Silva

It's kind of incredible that at least 5 people at Reuters worked on this story, yet nobody stopped to think that this would be a confusing headline.

Or, if you want to be cynical, maybe they knew it would be confusing, but also that it would get more clicks...
This is a great example of the "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy, caught in the wild!

It may very well be the case, that his leaving is related to his colleagues being fired, but there's no evidence of it in the article. So Reuters should not be strongly implying — to the extent that no reader would likely draw any other conclusion — that it is. I mean, it probably is, let's be honest, but I kind of expect better from Reuters.
Note taking? Maybe they will pivot to a to-do list. I could lend some code I found...
Most people commenting on human nature have no formal education in it. A good place to start is Steven Pinker's, "The Blank Slate, The Modern Denial of Human Nature." Claiming everyone should find something easy is a blank slate statement.