jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm French and live in Shanghai since 201708.

There was no lockdown.

Everyone wears a mask in public places, this is mandatory. Before entering many/most buildings (private or public) your body temperature is measured. In most private compounds non-resident people cannot enter without a solid reason. Schools are closed. A gym I know was closed for weeks and restarted at the beginning of March in restricted mode (no group class, simultaneous private courses are under quota, masks are mandatory at all times...), and restrictions are progressively lifted (reduced group classes will soon restart...).
You could make edible Donut Blimps!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TepADUdDEVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oZUEzRFlT0
Thanks for this summary. The firewall has been a lot stricter recently and it's been a real pain in the ass, even for legitimate things. I can only speculate they are using deep learning type tools now to do their blocking
Which doesn't address why HN is teetering on practicing medicine without a license with some of these comments.
I embrace it. Sometimes laziness/procrastination for me is a sign of something deeper going on that I want to avoid, or a sign that the things I'm supposed to be doing aren't actually all that important.
> tech losing its status as investment of last resort

What do you mean by this? Investment in tech companies by retail/institutional investors, or investment by companies in their own proprietary tech?
Proportional representation can also help, where those on top of the party list can be assured of a job, and those father down can have other careers.
That is exactly what I've been thinking about using for a personal blog lately, and now that you mentioned I got my thoughts validated and might just start building it now.
Sure, favored groups will get more benefits. But that’s different from free speech. Free speech doesn’t guarantee equality.
I hate it when people say a job is a job. 10 hours a day is dedicated to my job. I'm awake for 16 hours and 10 of those I spend at work. This is where my friends are. This is where I meet new people. This is where I spend my time. But the reality is... Well yes, a job is a job, and the quicker you can accept it, the better you will feel.

Once, this realization came to me when I worked at a fortune 10. I loved the job and was fascinated by the cool tech we used everyday. One day I came to work only to find out I was fired. My manager was just as surprised to hear it. Obviously it was a mistake, but my team watched as security guards came to escort me out of the building like a criminal.

It didn't matter that they figured out it was a mistake. My coworkers became distant when I came back. When the story blew up, my employer denied I was ever employed there. An ex-coworker later told me that my position and projects have been completely scrubbed out of existence.

A job is a job, if you can focus on your own gains please do. Then spend a little bit of time on this fun Ask HN[1]. We can't all get a job that loves us back, so in the meanwhile find something you love outside the job.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26721951
Facebook is probably also not planning to pay out hefty fines for GDPR violations, but alas...
what is the right kind of male?
I very much agree that unmarked voting systems like HN's do a really poor job of keeping comments "high quality." Everyone has a different definition of quality.

I understand that there are UX challenges to adding different kinds of votes, but I totally agree that the UI affordances we have right now make conversation harder instead of easier.

I wonder if separating "quality" (vote + or -) from "reports" ("excessively rude", "inappropriate", "off-topic") would be useful. I do think that people can be excessively rude and useful at the same time. Edit: So, this would change from "-3 points" -> "-3 points [rude: 3, off-topic: 5]".
> We aren't talking protected class here

We do. All the people should be protected. That was the point of the French Revolution, no special rights to anyone, everyone is equal under the law.
Even if a country decided about doing something about it, would they risk Facebook blocking that country altogether? Facebook has so much money, pretty much any fine will be just a slap on the wrist. What else they can do without causing public to go mad?
Capture Mark and make him do time?
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour."

https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/blake/to_see_world.ht...
This is the original comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26263369

There were others that gave different reasons, but none that made any sense of the "OMG six pages of instructions! Horrible!"
Recently discussed here (yesterday): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26249254
30-40 yrs back in south india, there used to be newspapers and weekly magazines talking about politics without saying who they were talking about like the name wouldnt be mentioned but there would be a little clue, they won't even mention is it a local issue or state or nation or world. The readers who were buying these magazines on weekly basis knows who they were refering to. Things were pretty much cryptic. We are reading everything in tech. A simple daily changing ceasars crypt would confuse people. I think that's gonna happen soon.
Thank you!

Indeed, there's a lot of opportunity cost in building and maintaining the tools. If you're interested in investing, you probably want to spend your time on investing rather than migrating databases all of the time etc.

We're quite interested in learning more around your suggestion. If you're comfortable, feel free to ping us at hello [at] enombic [dot] com. Would also be happy to chat more about data sources and our roadmap.
OT: nitpick: monocultures are completely invulnerable to some kinds of diseases. ;)
Besides, refrigerated eggs keep for months.
And you instantly recognize a bad egg from the pugnant smell - if you have doubts the egg is fine and edible.
This applies to pretty much every pkg manager ever created.

That's why it's important to have end-to-end package signing with a reasonable UI, so people can choose to selectively trust the sources they need and get alerted before new dependencies get pulled in.

Sadly I don't know of any pkg manager that implements this correctly.
They will be removed in the next update for sure.
You are apparently not a long-time subscriber. The Economist can be a hoot - not in the front-page articles, but there are many well written, funny stories (and they often use innuendo)
a different usecase / protocol selection

ZNC uses the same port for HTTPS (webadmin) and ssl for irc.

Sure, those can be different ports, but if you don't need to run them on different ports, why waste the extra port?
> ...because I have much less control over the transaction

made me immediately think "just don't use Facebook?".
There are different levels of classification that carry different restrictions. Also, govt infosec being what it is, there are likely plenty of lapses.
@dang: I think this could be merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25688418
starting a fire at a Target is not quite the same thing as raiding the US Capitol filled with congress, staffers, and confidential documents (in an effort to overturn a national election).
It sounds like it makes more sense with sufficient battery technologies then (which don't yet exist).

Thanks for the information.
I think ultimately a lot of the traditional drive to celebrate the changing of the seasons boils down to the change of diet (either improved, or worsened) and the rituals that come after or have to be done before that time.

Spring is here. Any day we can stop eating porridge!
It’s not working. This is just a link to renewed discussion on a closed issue.
1st time that laptop reaches out to the internet should be the last time, if security is worth it's own salt.
Maybe the article was not clear enough, but what is correct is that you cannot eat only proteins to cover all your energy needs.

Significantly more than 50% (e.g. 2/3) of the calories you eat must come from either fat or carbs, it does not matter which, as long as it is not protein (it does not matter for preventing protein-caused problems; depending on what kinds of fat or carbs you eat, they might cause other problems).

A mixture like pemmican, which is 1/2 dried meat + 1/2 fat, has probably around 2/3 of its calories from fat, so it is perfectly OK as the only food for extended durations.

While the animals hunted by them did not have much fat in their meat, ancient humans usually took care to not waste the fatty bone marrow and brain, which were a major source of fat for them. Nevertheless, those animals still contained much more proteins than fat, so it is very likely that the humans could not eat all the meat, so they probably ate the best parts, leaving the rest to scavengers.
There’s continuous discussion about how WhatsApp sold off its ideals but i think that in the reality that we live in that citizens are not informed about the services they consume the law should protect them as much as possible. A good data law is feasible in many of the continents WhatsApp operates in and with it companies won’t abuse user data because they would simply could not
Summary and table of contents at http://www.ams.org/bookstore-getitem/item=MCL-5
Interesting. Mr. Stallman should check with the local laws of any given municipality regarding taxis - in some, not only can you not hail a cab on the street, but you must also provide extensive contact information in order to summon one via phone.

To wit, Birmingham, AL has precisely these restrictions & regulations.
DailyDot claimed to have an interview with them a few days ago [0], interesting quote:

> “We’ve just got a bunch of people with really particular skill sets, and we’ve been working to get access to some of the core routing equipment of the Internet,” Cleary explained, excitement in his voice. “We’ve got some devices that are connected to the undersea cables that facilitate the Internet connects between the United States and Europe.

Obviously a big if, but if this is accurate they're abusing some of the core infrastructure which would be way beyond a simple botnet.

[0] http://www.dailydot.com/technology/lizard-squad-hackers/
I think it's fair to say that the quote does not reflect general Julia feeling.

> Julia is from and for researchers.

I think the actual criteria is being ["a greedy, unreasonable, demanding programmer"](http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/) i.e. everyone.
If it's 95F outside and you're dressed for it, when you walk into a 70 degree room, it's gonna be cold.
> unless/until every person gets an adequate basic income so people don't need to be employed.

This. There's far more to his argument than merely "lets prevent people from losing jobs."
What happens if the digital meter/dispatch thing in the taxi runs non-free software, and there's no free replacement?

Wouldn't it be an ethical imperative for all taxi drivers to quit their jobs rather than use non-free software?
Codementor. It's pretty small, but the community and policies are way healthier than, say, on Upwork, where developer are treated badly.
This comment just makes no sense in a discussion about syntax. You want to do something completely different, that’s fine, but it’s not an answer to “why this syntax”.
Don't equate big state with left. It's really two independent things, and not how most leftists think, in my experience.
While everyone is staying at home and distancing, fewer people are being tested, resulting in fewer cases.
tab completion?
I've seen this as a security issue several times, where older enterprise tools have embedded URL session keys (horrible, I know) or other private data, and act as the referrer to public sites. This either exposes more of these tools' data and functions to traffic sniffers, or malicious site operators.

There is no legitimate purpose to the referrer within applications that isn't replaceable via internal claims based tokens, or external sites' parameterised (thus, opt in) source tracking.
Have you actually tried writing CoffeeScript? I can't tell from your post, but if you haven't, you should really give it a go first and see how you progress. It might not be as big an issue as you think.
I don't think you're representing the situation fairly, because profiting 60% to 75% is definitely not a loss -- it's not taking a "big hit" -- and the problem there has nothing to do with LVTs, anyways.

If your property doubles in value in and you sell it and pay 25% to 40% of the increase:

the gross profit is: 200 - 100 = 100
the tax is: 25% to 40% of 100 which is 25 to 40
the profit post tax is: 100 minus 25 to 40 or, in other words, 75 to 60
You could tune an antenna to trip a detector detector (side note: which would be some great civil disobedience!), but I don’t think you can get to the detector detector detector without an interaction with law enforcement. Layer eight problem.
letting ordinary people invest in what they please does generate alot of harm for individuals who are indeed too stupid to spend their money wisely. But it also oppresses that class who didn't happen into a $1M.

I'm a college educated, 26 year old programmer. I don't have a million in assets yet and it effects my ability to trade on margin and invest in private or OTC offerings, run an arbitrage bot and a million other things. Using a million dollars in assets as your rationale for whether someone is smart enough to do those things is classist.
https://josephmate.github.io/2022-04-14-max-connections/
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do I smell bingo cards?!
A dumb question - isn't the GDP a per-year figure whereas the debt a total figure? ... so doesn't it simply mean that if all GDP goes to paying off the debt, it will necessarily take more than 1 year. That pay off period is increasing and about to cross the 1 year threshold, but I'm not getting the "debt cycle" concept .. in other words what is the difference between 1year-delta and 1year+delta?
> If you joined for free, what would be the purpose unless you were going to actually get an education/pay for class?

For the connections. That was my original point.

> most students have no idea what they want when they start college

They should speak to a guidance counsellor, then. No one invests in a business not "knowing what they want"; why should investing in an education be any different?
Considering that Twilio is purely a platform company (even more so than Amazon Web Services, since they primarily have an online store to run), this seems very unlikely if not entirely impossible.
This doesn't work if you're on the west coast, working on east coast time. Financial markets open roughly around 9 EST, which means I have to be awake by 5 PST and at work by 6. The sun won't rise for another hour. People have different schedules, so it does help to have an artificial mechanism to make it work.
all for the big buck...
A contrasting perspective from Douglas Adams: "Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds."
Agree. I find there is much more value in small-group tutorials than in lectures. Finding those on the Internet is much harder.

In particular, my experience is that lectures are more about information transfer and less about problem solving and application.
(Tilapia SV at 129f for 2 hours, then 10 minutes in a smoker? Beautiful. Like bacon fish. Kids ate it up.)
If you go to Ubuntu's web site, they will offer several distinct ISOs, each optimized for different usecases; and yet I'm not charged all of my personal information there either.

Ditto the Ubuntu images on Docker Hub.
They are not so unmeritocratic as all that. Soft skills are a key part of merit.
Beware of confusing standing on the shoulders of giants and the one pulling the trigger. Might as well blame Isaac Newton for the bomb while you're at it.
Wanna AMA about the founding of reddit? Go for it.
Suspicion of what? Suspicion of actually taking them on their word when they advertise it as "unlimited"?
it's about time the three countries closest to Japan - Korea, China, and Russia, all of whom have great power and relation(trade and diplomatic) with Japan, to respond. I mean, they've already done but it's time to make the pressure more concrete... economic sanction, albeit partial?

This is a globe-wide matter.
Probably depends on what you're doing with the data?
Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Please don't do this here.
As someone who is in the mining (ore not data) industry, the changes I have seen in Myanmar in the past 2-3 years is remarkable.

I have been over with a variety of mining exploration companies, and with each trip there are major advances in overall 'economic' freedom.

The effect of 'western' mining companies is already funneling through (much stricter environmental and safety controls).

Look forward to watching it grow.
The DailyJS tutorials are a great starting point for this: http://dailyjs.com/2010/11/01/node-tutorial/

That being said, I agree with most of the issues you raise. Lack of backwards compatibility, rapid changes in APIs and the need to build from source make building webapps in Node more complicated than it needs to be.

We're trying to address this at Akshell (http://www.akshell.com) by making it as easy as possible to get started, providing consistent documentation & core libraries and favoring synchronous I/O.

It would be great if you had time to check it out and give us some feedback: http://www.akshell.com/docs/0.3/intro/
I agree with this. In retrospect, I'm so glad I failed because of the time it saved me. The only thing worse than a failed startup is a funded failed startup, because the latter takes up 4+ years of your life, which is why it's interesting reading about Drew's exp with the SAT prep idea. Failure is totally worth it so long as you learned from those golden mistakes and are improving yourself to give yourself an edge the next time around.

I think the worst startup founders are the ones who go from one idea to the next without really thinking about what went wrong or what they need to do differently in order to improve their chances of winning. They think mere repetition is going to make them lucky.

Conversely, I think the best startup founders are the ones who are persevering and determined enough to not stop taking chances, but they're also continually investing more time in training and improving themselves to get an edge. Failure for them is a great learning experience. Max Levchin had four failed ventures before PayPal.
Inspired by these reports, I started learning android this January and successfully released two apps (Picpuzz and SmartCat), both small puzzle games. While I totally enjoyed working with android SDK and coding these apps, they failed to attract the users . Here is a quick list of reasons why I think my two apps failed (in the context of games)

- There are not many levels in the game

- Hard to finish the puzzle / user gets bored before finishing the puzzle

- UI is not great. You'll need a decent UI when developing games

- No regular updates. Important way to increase downloads is to push regular updates. With an update, app appears in the "Just in" section of the android market and gains visibility

And not to mention with such less downloads, the ad revenue is pretty bad ($1.52 so far). Even though the total number of impressions that are being served on both the apps together is between 1k-2k per day, there are only 1-3 clicks per week. My best guess is that this has something to do with the way I place ads in my apps. Almost all the free apps (games) that I'd seen till date place ads over the game distracting users. I hate that. So, during game play, I'm diving the screen into two parts, one that displays the game and other displays ad impressions. This won't draw the attention of players and I think is the main reason for the low CTR
I'm not sure what your experience is with public school teachers, but I suspect that very few of them do that. None of the teachers that I know, including the one I'm married to, do what you're suggesting. Inasmuch as any teacher categorizes the students, it's to provide skills-appropriate challenges and assistance.

In my experience, most peoples' experience with public school teachers is formed around their own educational experiences, which is essentially no experience at all. Being the parent of a student in public school isn't necessarily a useful experience, either, as the teacher may be trying to tell you that little Johnny isn't as bright as you think he is, but you're still insisting that he's the smartest kid in the class.

My wife has had students that simply don't want to learn. They're smart kids, but they spend all their energy coming up with excuses for why they're not doing their schoolwork. My wife has had students that want to learn but are so angry at the world because of what's going on in their home life (abusive parents or siblings or just living in the projects). My wife has had a fourth grader who understood 'quarant' (French for 40) in terms of 'quarantine' and made connections that way.

Public school teachers, by and large, love to teach and love to see kids learn. Yes, there's some really bad teachers out there, but there are also really bad designers and really bad software developers. For the most part, though, we (as designers and software developers) don't have to work in thoroughly dysfunctional workplaces.
I'm curious, what information online is so important that you need immediate updates?

I can think of a few case like stock prices etc. But your social info?

What are you following that closely? Also how do you get any real word done if you are constantly drinking from the dirty water fire hose that is social media?
It is the most direct form of democracy -- literally rule by the people.

Voting for representation is indirect democracy.
I read a ton of articles that routinely use a persons first name, why suddenly should proper formality be artificially upheld in context of a culture that uses patronyms? They use first names as names, and in the context of an article they can use a first name without it getting confusing.
All true. But, perhaps, not precisely the "10 commandments" I'd choose based my own RSI experience.

Tangential: notice how all RSI-related resources online are low quality and, in particular, look terrible? I've long wanted to start an attractive site with an attached Amazon astore. (If there are any similarly minded folks here, please get in touch.)
Caching is nice, but HTTP has a built-in method: conditional GETs. I wrote up a blog post on how to do this with App Engine but it should work generally in Python using urllib2.

http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2010/12/01/conditional-gets-...
Imagine I have a JSONfiable protocol and I have a generic function to traverse a structure that uses the protocol to make a JSON document. It would be nice if the caller had a way to change the format.
As I said a few days ago, here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2454468

I think Metafilter handled it equally poorly. The moderators were okay with the first several comments that immediately attacked Adams with ad hominem and were mostly unhelpful valueless contributions other than setting a tone.

That they were okay with.

What they didn't like was Adams coming into that hostile environment as anything other than the name Scott Adams himself.

I'm not sure why they would allow such bashfests to take place and then get upset that Adams is abusing their community.
I just see some colored blocks that change color on click.