jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Do police and Paul McCartney have a special relationship? He owns the copyright to one of the songs the police played.

(For those who remember that Michael Jackson bought the Beatles catalog a few years ago and are wondering how McCartney has the rights, Jackson later sold it to Sony. When the songs became old enough, McCartney attempted to use the recapture provision of the Copyright Act of 1976 [1], 17 USC 203 [2]. Sony fought this, but in mid-2017 they settled and the rights went back to McCartney).

[1] https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/recapturing-copyrights-a-...

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/203
Trudeau gave an uncommonly genuine apology about it. If he had dug in his heels and cried about "cancel culture" I imagine public sentiment would've been a lot different.
alias h=ls
alias hh='ls -l'

Job done.

I strongly disagree that Dvorak is "far from the ultimate layout". Compared to Qwerty, the differences between most of these ergonomic layouts is minor, so there's no reason to discourage someone from using Dvorak.

My immediate minor criticism of Colemak-DH is typing "the", or specifically "he".

It's a "backwards roll" of the fingers: typing ASDF on Qwerty is easier than typing FDSA, but "HE" on Colemak-DH is a common digraph in the wrong direction.

(On Dvorak, "THE" is equivalent to typing "KJD" on Qwerty, i.e. the "TH"/"KJ" is in the correct direction.)
Its becoming like the same grasp js has on the web...which is sad to see.
I think the biggest mistake here is the drivetrain depending on a device which is known to fail (eMMC) even without the logging problem (why not using a separate device for the logging?) it would eventually fail, other manufacturers have similar problems, (Mazda, Ford, Mercedes) but you just lose the audio system.
You never implied it's all or nothing and I never implied it's going right or left. You made both conclusions all by yourself.
I think it intentionally doesn’t have a complete/done “main game”, minetest_game is just a base for mods — including complete games (like mineclone) — to be built on.
Hey, can you elaborate or contact me via jasek.t@gmail.com? I am pondering about this issue as well and I would love to speak with you.
In theory anyone can, but only large projects tend to get picked up.
Aren't decimals better suited for financial applications? That's what I've used in the past in Java land (BigDecimal).

Or are bignums and decimals the same thing? (not sure).
I actually think a lot less people would be shut-ins if they had kids.

All those 'menial chores' are actually become interesting because you're 'not just doing the grocery shopping anymore'. You're taking you kids shopping so they can explore the supermarket with them. They'll ask questions about what you buy and why you buy it. Of course they'll nag you to buy something for them as well.

Kids will nag you to go out to the park, to the museum or whatever other local attraction there is and along the way you'll get social interaction which helps balance things out.
Kevin's side of the story has been told by him, by Littman in 'The Fugitive Game' and by Eric Corley. Any reasonably broad-minded person who wants to see the law deal evenhandedly with the accused can find places in these accounts to sympathize with Kevin.

'Takedown' is AFAICT the extent of what TS wants to say about the matter. We can presume he comes off in it the way he wanted to come off.

Though I do wonder about the tone of the book, and if John Markoff had more than a little influence on how the story was told, and what details were kept in or left out, and how the persons at the focus of the true-crime narrative being presented were portrayed.

I felt while reading Takedown that maybe, for some reason, there were details being elided that readers interested in a careful piece of investigative journalism might appreciate-especially if they had a deeper understanding of the technology than the mass NYT audience. Maybe someday someone will take that up.
Hmm, I feel like I would trust this project more if the first email I saw didn’t immediately come from a non-slowsocial.us domain.
So long friend...
Key word: "employee". Where someone else tells you what to do and controls your destiny. You can wrap it up in whatever words are prettiest, but employees serve the founders' visions for the product, financial rewards, etc. (which is of course perfectly fine, given the risk founders take)

That doesn't mean the only choice is to become a founder, not everyone is there yet. Looking at the article though, you see the bias that defines so much of the literature: despite the fact that we're creating software that reaches the world, the only place to get a job is the west coast of the US, right?

Wrong. There are tons of places doing 7 and 8 figures in industries driven by software. Small businesses. Be prepared to rethink how your career works. If you want to just hack and live in your little hacking world with your fellow hackers drinking hacker beer and listening to hacker music, then you're just an employee. If you're willing to stretch, and embrace what makes business happen, and apply your technical skills to those problems, and tie your success to the success of the business, there are some tremendous opportunities to be had. There are plenty of non-VC'ed businesses owned by people making real money who are more than happy to reward those who help them make more.
"We are also working on an Android implementation which we will release later"
Also I believe this will help a lot: http://rbkit.codemancers.com/
As a showcase for the MP3 approach, for C64 music there's this [1] that has more than 50000 tracks recorded from actual SID chips (because the emulators are still not perfect, apparently...). That includes a lot of pointless stuff, though (they've played back every track available, which includes game over jingles and sound effects in many cases).

[1 http://www.6581-8580.com/
Hotel managers aren't plumbers either, yet they seem to handle running water in their rooms without much of a issue. The problem isn't that they are hotel managers per se, the problem is that hotel managers tend to be older and so unable/ unwilling/unaware to adapt to new technology. I'd bet dollars to donuts that the quality of wifi has a strong correlation to hotel manager age for hotels that aren't part of chains.

Chain hotels, on the other hand, can fix this problem through the normal franchise methods: Determine best practices for the entire chain, and then provide standard instructions and help for each franchise.
They both claim to be high performance web frameworks and both have the name (ph|f)alcon. Is this on purpose?
I was under the impression Node.js could already be used to run back end code? Could someone explain to me (who is new to the industry) the difference between what this does and what Node.js already did?
Why would anyone be a "hater" toward natural scroll? The decision of which way a trackpad should scroll while swiping would otherwise be completely arbitrary. It's like being a hater of driving on the left vs. right side of the road (except in this case, I'm guessing it takes longer than five minutes to get used to).
North Korea is a nuclear power (they tested their first nuke some number of years ago now...) and the last few CIA Directors under the Obama administration have included North Korea on a list enumerating 'rising powers'.

Instability in North Korea potentially benefits the United States as its instability agitates its neighbor China and because China would be responsible for millions of very sick and extremely brainwashed immigrants were it to collapse.

Finally, Korea was split as a post war agreement (and punishment to Japan) after World War II and the goal was to quickly thereafter have the cooperation of the US, UK, the Soviet Union and China reunite. (Interestingly, part of Japan was also promised to the Soviet Union, but that never came to pass as the West reneged). Rising tensions during the Cold War prevented the cooperation necessary to achieve this reunification and the provisional governments became entrenched as legitimate statehoods. IE to the major powers Korea (especially North Korea) has no legitimate claim to existence - it is a provisional government that got away from its imperialist keepers.
Ah -d:release made the results almost identical. Thanks!
That's exactly it. There is no law being broken. The best way to capitalize off of this is to use the weakness of the competitor as a means to market yourself as a superior product. You can even use testimonials from the former customers who switched to you to further boost your own product. It doesn't sound like this competitor would be too hard to beat on merit rather than underhanded tactics.

You could also get your sales team to call your competitor's current customers and ask "How safe is your data with "X"? Are you looking for a super-secure alternative? Buy my product." Or something...
I have an old desktop running Plex, so I can stream my personal movie and TV library to any of the Roku devices in my house.
> It isn't the owner user base if it comes from an unsupported third party build.

Maybe this is strictly true, but it isn't how the maintainer/packager model has historically worked: packagers do point users to the upstream for troubleshooting, and the upstream points prospective users to the packagers for installation. It's a marriage of convenience (and philosophy), but it doesn't imply the arbitrary patches and/or changes to the project itself are somehow supported by their upstreams.
You sigh too quickly. The CDs said "Sony BMG." The merger with BMG was in March of 2004 and the rootkit was in 2005. The reason you associate it with Sony corporate and not Bertelsmann (of Bertelsmann Music Group) is because reporters are lazy and shorten the name of the company to just Sony. Maybe Germans were boycotting magazines because that was the part of the name familiar to them. I don't recall that.

Its fair for you to say you're not interested. However, if you're going to try to boycott a company to punish them for their behavior, being aware of exactly who is responsible is a good place to start.

Bertelsmann was just as aggressive with music protection. They had to issue replacement CDs that had anti-rip software to annoyed customers in 2001 for instance. The executive in charge at the time of the fiasco came over to Sony BMG from Bertelsmann.

I worked closely with some of the people involved in it at Sony BMG. One lesson I took away from it all was that even though it was a 50-50 merger, Sony had way more name recognition and therefore more on the line. As you said, they benefit from the goodwill disproportionately and they also took the brunt of the PR damage.
We're working on an external API and will be releasing it soon. I actually think Freshbooks has an API as well. Not sure what you mean by providing one password for their site. Can you give me a little more detail?

Also we plan on charging. Stay tuned. :)
>The screening standards are so strict that a college degree in mechanical engineering wasn't enough for Google software engineer Ihab Awad.

>He attended a local high school's wood shop class for a semester before earning Broome's clearance. Awad also won Broome's approval to use the welding equipment.

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I'm sorry - but the certificated elitism at Google is just out of hand, having to take a freaking HS woodshop class before using the shop, as opposed to simply having someone show one how to use equipment -- these stories, and the hiring process, they all just become tiresome.

It's as if they take the meritocracy on acid... they get a warped sense of reality that only their academic affiliations serve as the measure of a person.

Google is a great company, I know plenty of great people who work there -- I also know a good number of people that turned down working there or quit after some time.

Not all can live the college social measurement lifestyle forever...

(Yes I am jaded about my personal experience with them - but statements like the above are annoying coming from any company)
Yeah, it's arguably a matter of preference, but my experience (working on a team that used some Lua alongside other languages) is that Lua's preference for closed ranges and 1-based indices led to lots of off-by-one errors that probably would not have occurred in, say, Javascript or C.
It's not that clear cut though. I've been thinking about this question since I was about 9 and the conclusion I came to as I stepped off that circle is that the distinction is meaningless because they are dual to one another and hence not separable. But if I had to choose I would say everything is a discovery of how to put or see a series of things in a certain way.

Consider the light bulb. It could be described that someone discovered that if you run so much current through this material you get light. And we can ask the same questions about math. Is the matrix a discovery or an invention? What about zero or logarithms or Aleph Null or electricity? The invention part is the series of steps that take you to the discovery, if these steps arrive at a construct then this construct is the invention. Invention is the centering of discovery to the human condition but everything is already there so to speak. Things like zero or a matrix or complex numbers or quaternions or taylor polynomials or the combustion engine are inventions or tools to allow us to see, do and think about certain things.

I am not for software patents because they are used in the opposite way than they were intended. Patents were an incentive to get people to share but now they are used as a tool to stop people from sharing and creating. People associate inventions with physical things and material costs but really every reproducible invention implicitly contains an algorithm and that is what the patent is on. The thing with software is that there are no material costs and so the constructs can be built and arrived at with pure thought like in maths (which makes sense since algorithms are about math in a constructive universe). Here the algorithm and the result are one and the same where as in the old world the algorithm yielded the result.

This means that a lot of its constructs can be arrived at with trivial costs and then hoarded and used as ammunition by better captilized entities. Counterproductive. In areas where costs are non trivial and barriers are high then patents make sense as a motive to share and incentivize. But information moves so well now that the old time scales no longer make sense. And in particular, because like maths nearly all software are constructs of thought progress is made very rapidly via composition of pure concepts and so the time scale must be zero or the opposite effect - one of anti progress - is had when patents are applied.
There seems to be a lot of mythology around the ascetic entrepreneur. My experience is that many founders begin startups from a place of financial strength. They either made money as employees of other startups before starting their own (after the startup was funded, greatly reducing risk), made money in industry before starting their own company, had a large inheritance, etc.

Does anyone have any concrete data on the finances of entrepreneurs when they start their first company, especially successful entrepreneurs? This study is the closest data I could find. http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/FactSheet/EduTechEntr1...
It states that most entrepreneurs are older (median age 39) and have college degrees, often from good schools, and often advanced degrees. This suggests that they may have quite a bit of reserve cash to maintain much of their lifestyle, and/or a working spouse that helps do the same.
Fences and guns, probably.
That's a nice looking site. Thanks for sharing it.
Was it specifically the Heroku-connection that made YC attractive to you (i.e. their expertise in this marketplace) ?
I tried signing up and the signup page just reloaded with red lines around it.
When you're flying, your constantly planning what you're about to do before it happens. So like, when I get to this point on the map, I'm going to turn that direction. WHen I get to this point on the map, I'm going to take this altitude. When I get to that position relative to the runway, I need to make a 90 degree turn. When I get to this airspeed and this position I'm going to apply flaps.

And so on. Everything when you're flying is checklists.

Letting the plane get ahead of you means that things are happening before you're ready for them. This problem is made much worse in fast planes (like the bonanza) because things happen much more quickly.
The last recruiter I went through was an interesting fellow. Youngish, and fond of striking out on his own.

The recruitment firm was a dreary affair. They had a postage stamp of posh office space in the throbbing center of Boston. The postage stamp was divided in half and on one side were Java recruitments; on the other .NET recruitments. Both sides were full of people chattering and monitor screens mounted up high. It was like a miniature Wall Street floor.

This guy coached me on interviewing and even lent me a tie to wear during the first phases of the interview process. He was experimenting with placing people in robotics companies, and he got me the most challenging and exciting job I've had so far. I still work there.

But yeah, for the most part I don't trust recruiters. I knew this one was different from the rest, and I'll be surprised to find his like again.
Not sure, but it does feel like a wiki-style Website is better suited for maintaining the list.
The $2500 one is, if I'm not mistaken, a limited signed special edition (they only printed a couple of hundred copies). The $200 one is the regular edition.

(Disclaimer: I own one of the regular ones, and didn't pay $200 for it. But it's a large form factor hardback printed on high quality glossy paper -- full of breathtaking colour images -- so even if they reprint it, don't expect to see copies on sale for less than $50.)
...or 1099s being liable for more taxes.
Both TPD2 and Weblocks rewrite your code using a continuation-passing style transformer, which makes web apps written in them harder to debug than they need to be. It also makes testing your apps or doing any kind of automated HTTP client scripting much harder than it needs to be. There's no upside to managing app state with continuations if you are able to use AJAX.
I was just looking at a similar article, I totally didn't know that, but I find it very interesting none-the-less.
If you need NYC/London/LA/Moscow/Mexico City/etc -style megacity sense of scale and/or civilized drinking hours to stay sane then you'll never be happy in SF. But if you can deal with its boutique dimensions (and the cold), then the problem may simply be that you're hanging out in the wrong neighborhoods.

The "real" SF resides pretty much in the Tenderloin - Nob Bill - Chinatown - City Lights triangle these days, I find. There are also pockets of civilization out in the "lost" neighborhoods: Cafe Du Mond; the Rite Spot; Amnesia on Valencia; and (yes) the Utah Bar, as well as a few others too cool to name here.

But the main thing is that wherever you go, there you, umm, are. Ultimately you have to decide to be happy with your surroundings -- or decide to change them.

I think in SF/Oakland/Alameda it's pretty easy to concentrate on the positives. The South Bay and the Peninsula are pretty much lost causes, though.
2nded on the rose and crown.
Because land surveying, educationally speaking, is a subset of civil engineering. The amount of field work is part of it as well. You can't learn how to conduct a property survey or boundary delineation without lots of field work. The other reason is that civil engineering is extremely regulated (another problem).
Hm, must've missed that. I doubt too many decided to take it as cash anyway.

Still, the argument that the leak put every one at the company in danger seems ridiculous to me.
Please don't do this here. Critique is welcome, but curiosity withers under repetition and internet rage is uninteresting.
I punted on part 2 of #20 as well, but came back to it the next day with a reasonable idea. Some of the tedious parts are easier to do by hand, like picking the corner of the map to start with on #20, or solving the uniqueness on #21.

I'm still looking forward to reviewing how Norvig did most of the problems.
Is this where we spitball hypotheticals even if no inclination to execute them has ever been shown?

“Trust me, they are interested in murdering you and extracting your vital fluids for profit. It may not be their strategy today because it could reduce revenue, but who knows what tomorrow will bring”
When you use words such as seditious and mob, I want to remind you that words have power and that those words don’t unify but rather tend to divide and amplify hatred on both sides.

There were many instances where protests got out of hand this summer and courthouses and police stations were destroyed; entire city blocks were taken over and those responsible enacted and enforced their own laws. The actions weren’t referred to as sedition and most media outlets avoided words like mob, treason, etc.

Of course, don’t take my statement to mean I condone ANY case of violence, rioting, property damage, etc. (And in all cases those responsible and those inciting violence should be held accountable) but being consistent and avoiding charged language when depicting civil unrest would go a long way to heal the country rather than to divide it.
Well, you can't undelete data you didn't collect. So I think there's this natural tendency toward omnivorous data collection in every tech company.

Then we rationalize it by telling ourselves that we use it ethically. It's almost always true . . . except when it's not. If 99% of the time the data is used ethically, it's easy to write off that 1% even when the 1% is all that matters.
This is a different subreddit than /r/theDonald, which was banned earlier.
Exactly! We already were 90% certain that it worked for the UK mutation.
In practice, those big firms are more tiptoeing around right wing then around left wing.

Also in practice, there is way bigger outcry over right wing reedits being banned then left wing reddits. Each time reddit banns a bunch of subs, there is discussion about right wings ones - including on HN. Nobody cares about left wing subs being banned, that discussion never appears.

For the record, I am fine with both left and right reddits being banned right now. But I have yet to see free speech advocates to fret about toxic leftist and feminist places being closed.
One difference, of course, is that despite there being a significant number of ‘trusted’ sources claiming extensive election fraud - there has been near zero evidence presented by these same sources to defend the claims. That alone should be a red flag that the claims are mere assertions rather than statements of fact.
Are you suggesting the US nationalize Reddit?
Did it occur to you that some people could be in situations where they simply cannot quit a job no matter how miserable it makes them?
Hang on: dang is an HN mod. I'm not. I'm just someone who comments too often.
These metrics such as featured in Mythical Man Month are usually based on the SLOC count at the end of the project, divided by the time, not how much code was committed each day. Your churn might be 100+ LOC per day, but hopefully that isn't all permanent additions to the codebase -- bug count seems to be proportional to LOC.
So whom should the nurses sue to recover their theoretical damages in that case?

If I decide to groom my dog myself, can I expect a lawsuit down the road for my non-consumption of professional dog grooming services if any dog groomer is a member of any minority class? After all, you can't be sure that I'm just a cheapskate who likes washing my dog; I might be racist/classist/sexist.

In case it's not clear, I view the decision to consume in a free market to be a free choice and not subject to judicial review.