jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>> In one case, among other information they accessed and copied, an individual subscribed to the calendars of a wide range of employees outside of their work group. The individual set up notifications so that they received emails detailing the work and whereabouts of those employees, including personal matters such as 1:1s, medical appointments and family activities — all without those employees’ knowledge or consent. When the affected Googlers discovered this, many reported that they felt scared or unsafe, and requested to work from another location. Screenshots of some of their calendars, including their names and details, subsequently made their way outside the company.
From my perspective (mid 20's), 'stanning' is a pretty ubiquitous word/idea. Many people use it pretty casually and those who don't are likely familiar with what it means in general (even without the context of the Eminem song). Those in touch with culture would be even more likely to recognize it.
I don’t mind collecting useful information, it’s the having to create accounts on some hard-to-navigate project-owned bug tracking thing that kills it for me.
I like your idea! Can't implement it at this point in time -- but it sounds like a good idea!
if it's an entirely computational experiment, which is not uncommon, then 'replicate the experiments' is correct.
Typical etiquette would involve being more detailed. I am curious -- what is true, if the above is a lie?
Thanks for the reminder. It's just that I set out to do something; yet do nothing. If I'd consciously set out to relax for the weekend, I wouldn't feel bad.
Griever: Get in touch with me -- I'd love to collaborate on that project, or at least provide feedback on it.
At 23 I was less than one year married and working at a textbook publisher for $8 per hour. It was an ok job, I guess. It got me into CS, so I'll be forever grateful.

But I was going nowhere. It took me a while to find what I really cared about.

Let me give you a hint. Anyone who cares about money as an end in itself has not really thought the thing out.

Now at almost 30, I have satisfying, challenging work. My wife doesn't have to work because we live on my salary. My son is six and happy. I'm paying off the grad school debt and the mortgage that happened in between. And I have some inkling about what I'll do next.

Figure out some purpose in life. It's an investment that will pay off way better than VBA macros.
Actually, there has been a study done, and a fairly statistically robust one at that. There appears to be no cause for concern if you do the math.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1430003
> If you want a conventionally successful career study law or medicine - professions which take protecting their wages and bargaining power seriously.

Because all we need to be successful is a little more protectionism, right?
Wikipedia matches my memory that the uptick rule was established in the '30s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptick_rule
4 hours a day, 4 days a week. Then I get drunk. 8 hours a day, 3 days a week.
Gay marriage (or "marriage for everyone") is a recent, substantial change to a law that is familiar to many French people. I thought it was a great example despite its somewhat controversial nature.
I need to keep in practice with my French, so I've translated the README below. Let me know if I got anything wrong.

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The French Civil Code, in Git

Introduction

Here is a little hack, the result of an afternoon of code: the Civil Code in Git.

If one considers the law as a set of texts modified by the various assemblies of the state, one can consider them as a set of text files created collaboratively.

The members of government, and the various assemblies, work in collaboration on these files, which, once voted for, are written into the Code (here the Civil Code).

But there is another category of people who, for fifty years now, have worked on text files collaboratively, and excel at it: developers. They have created extremely effective collaboration and tracking tools for working on source code. The most popular to date is Git.

Git not only allows you to view the source at a time T (snapshot) but above all to easily visualize the changes in the source (commits). In the analogy to the Civil Code, this permits the tracking of the changes made by a law.

Combine all of this with the Open Source philosophy, and the second part of the analogy is made: the modification of source code in an open and public fashion.

Finally, the Civil Code is a part of the source code of France. And source code belongs in source control. Period.

Example

Here is for example the commit which authorizes marriage for all: https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/commit/b805ecf05...

This is more readable than, for example (cf http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/ta/ta0120.asp):

"At article 165 of the same code, the word: 'before' is replaced by the words: 'during a republican ceremony by'."

Technical Note

Git dates are based on the Unix epoch (01/01/1970), changes before these dates are all dated 01/01/1970, with incremental seconds; the commit message gives the correct date.

LICENSE

All files are licensed under Creative Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
The strongest selling point for PIC is always the quality of the I/O hardware and the attention to the low-volume market. The CPU core is just something that you need to deal with.
ATMEL is always great presenting fabulous MCU than sometimes takes forever to reach the low-volume markets.

Lead time is always an important parameter to consider when choosing a new MCU for a low-volume project :-)

I used to start new projects looking on digikey website more than anything.
Umm the world is running out of helium and there's no good way to make more. Not sure how this will be viable.
In a way, it's often the case: law are often modifications of the underlying reference code (here 'Code civil') and are a set of proposition to change the wording or to add/remove a sentence from the reference code.
Yet that Guantanamo ex-prisioner has his book for sale everywhere except in the US... Care to guess why it isn't for sale in the US?
They also have the advantage of a relatively small area to cover with a hugely dense population.

The ticket prices are low as well so almost everyone actually uses the MTR. Pretty prime conditions for a profitable public transportation system.
On the other hand, your government's policies have stifled Palestinians in both regions, in food, shelter, security, and basic medical care.

It's kind of hard to produce anything when your house is demolished by bulldozers and your town's farm is burned.

This sort of thing is how a viable Palestinian state is going to come about, if ever.
Yeah, I realize that I'm commenting more on the complaint in the article where they say that getting 25 cents a hour isn't enough but when you don't have to pay for shelter or food 25 cents an hour is likely as good as or perhaps better than minimum wage.
You could say the same for the comments right here.

It's not often you see comment sections with that dynamic. One is prompted to respond with something that will essentially relegate them to the bottom of the page.

You may choose to support a two-point comment using an upvote, perhaps only to see it voted back down a minute later. Controversy in plain sight?
I wonder, why are they doing this? I mean, the reason tech companies go to Israel is because there's an enormous concentration of talent there. Why would they go to Palestine? I don't think there's any talent there. Is this a humanitarian thing?

I'd be happy to hear first-hand experiences from people who worked with Palestinian developers or with software produced by Palestinian developers.
I wrote a blog post awhile back that was really controversial. It was about code ownership. People were split down the middle on hating code ownership or loving it. I think some people even took it to mean actual owning of the code.

I was coming from kind of a dictator view where I accept patches rather than blindingly letting people commit changes to projects i'm responsible for.
Pro-tip: scroll down to the bottom for opinions that are actually controversial.
Some people made me realise lately that this is actually controversial: If your function is over half screen long and it's not gui initialisation, you're doing it wrong.

Also: One line code comments in front of a block of code should actually be converted into function calls that execute the described functionality. (comment is made redundant)
Comments like this stop threads from devolving into flame wars. Thanks.
Reminds me of Big Sister [1], a brothel where customers could use the women's services for free, subsidized by paying Internet viewers, DVD sales & such.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Sister_(brothel)
> I'm German-French. I honestly believe I've never met anyone in my life in my age group (that I've talked to enough to say this) who would be willing to go fight a neighboring country.

Just to give you one example: if a Trump type would gain the upper hand in any one of the larger European countries all of which have a strong representation of what I'd loosely term neo-nationalists the stage would be set for an 'us vs them' degrading of international relations. The UK is a prime candidate for this. If such an aggressor were to aim to go for retribution based on perceived sleights (for instance: the economy tanking because of 'them') then you just might have to defend yourself from that.

Which would not cause you to have to fight in a neighboring country, it might cause you to fight in your own.

Alternatives for this: the Baltics, Poland, Hungary, Moldavia and Romania are all sitting on Putin's doorstep and splitting Europe could be the precursor to Russia crossing its borders. Especially the Baltic situation is very much analogue to the Ukraine one with Kaliningrad in the role of Eastern Ukraine and the ethnic Russian population in Latvia and Lithuania potentially mobilized in the same way they were in Ukraine.

Europe/NATO then has the choice to fall apart or come to the aid of their members; which more or less would set the stage for WWIII.

None of this is fun to contemplate but I think these risks are real.
Experiment with your own web sites? Create two of them with and without GA, possibly with different content because Google seems to be able to detect duplication, then try to promote both (this is the difficult part of course) and compare.
That's exactly what I'd tell myself if I had done it for the money.
The gist is that the agency is going to demand a fee for bringing you in. A lot of times it’s a percentage of your offer. Thus, you get a smaller offer to offset or reduce the cost.
That’s the absolute worst. I’m paying for YouTube Premium and I hate that I get pop-ups for YouTube TV and YouTube Kids and whatnot. Peace and quiet was one of the things I paid good money for.
I have a poster I made that I can put up on imgur or something by Friday, if that's not too late.
I think the best frame of reference is to look at colonisation by British in comparison to other countries. The difference is that the British tended to leave behind a system of governance wbased on English common law, which stretches back a millennia. That also leads to functioning institutions.

So while some see colonisation as exploitation - certainly by the standards of today it is unthinkable - in other cases you can see the bequeathed laws and institutions have made up for that over time, leaving those countries able to stand on their own feet. The peaceful transitions are by design with the promotion of the rule of law and creation of Houses of Parliament and courts and separated church, government and armed forces.

Interestingly the school of thought I have read says that the commonwealth independent model has everything to do with American independence - better to have a stake in something than lose everything.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/code-management-and-deploym...

Amazon has already begun making Apollo, Brazil, and Pipelines technology part of their AWS portfolio. If there is "Amazon Caliber" then this is probably the bar. It sounds like Distelli is a similar product, so its good to get some validation on the idea.
... in the apple store
somehow this ends up on every thread about SO.

I sometimes feel as if there could be a thread titled 'SO pivots into airplanes' and the top comment would be about whether flight attendants would call some questions off topic.
Weekly moves. GME, VW, and the one I'm talking about are all comparable in that sense.
No, it's not a supply problem, it's a government subsidy distorting the market problem.

Get rid of government subsidies for education and let people choose what education they get, where and when. You'll quickly find plenty of willing, able and capable teachers.

While we're at it, get rid of minimum wage laws so that people who don't want to pay to learn, can do apprenticeship programs and instead get rewarded for their efforts.
I had a crack at this here:

https://github.com/mkdoc/mkcli

One of these days i would like to rewrite it in Go or Rust.

I even got around to generating bash/zsh completion scripts from the generated program descriptor.
What do you mean? There was ample poverty before the advent of Capitalism.
At around that time, I would see multi-hour delays on compiles of COBOL code on a busy mainframe. Not because the compiles really took a long time, but because the development region could not keep up with the submission rate of compile jobs from developers.

That aside, work got done. You spent a little more time checking your code for errors instead of letting the compiler do it.
Be careful, you'll be called wrong thinker and censored and deplatformed.

There's an old movie called They Live, starring wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper.

It's supposed to be satire on consumer culture, but looking at it now can be thought as time shifted documentary.
Brave is excellent. It’s the only browser I know of that — with no configuration— makes the web not suck.

Also, it’s a little ironic that the web sucks mostly due to excessive/ unnecessary JavaScript, so Brendon Eich is responsible for both the disease and the cure. (I say this as someone who actually enjoys writing JavaScript, I should add.)
To be fair to her: he was gracious to the writer but at the expense of proposing it was really his editors who wanted him to write the story. I.e. he removes some responsibility from the writer. I think it is probably too charitable and the author knew what he was writing and knew his editors would sign off. The editors probably didn't think very hard about it, knowing it looks like the other stuff they publish.
except the one with selfsigned certs doesn't really make a difference, and even for the last one as far as i know they still decrypt and recrypt stuff with their own key to be able to do caching etc.

Meaning, it's still not end to end, which is what you would expect when you hear SSL. Where are they upfront about that?
I gather that serious historians consider the mystical writings of Paul as primary, followed much later by realization of the need to invent a figure of Jesus to have been heard to dictate doctrine; and then to invent apostles to have witnessed it; and finally invent a timeline of dictation events.

Gospels would then have been variant versions of this timeline, preached at different jurisdictions, that then had to all be retained as each had already developed a regional constituency, with no one of them finally able to dominate.
I wouldn't expect an Uber driver to know the final destinations to my home in the suburbs, but at least the general direction. Most of my Uber journeys are stationary for a couple of minutes while the driver works out the best way to go, rather than just heading off in the general direction and turning on the sat nav at a red light.

There is also knowledge that I'd expect a professional driver to have. I recall a journey I took once where the sat nav told the driver to go through a tunnel which I knew was closed. I told him to take the bridge instead to save a big waste of time.

My point is though, you do sacrifice quality for cost. I don't agree with this article that says they are cheaper and better.
> I don't know how to make you to understand this if you don't by now.

I feel the same frustration as you :)

> This is precisely because the "I have to feed my family" refrain is dishonest and–as I said before–an unworthy tactic.

One last time I will try to explain my point. I agree, This argument might be dishonest, and should be eliminated...

but... That doesn't change the reality on the ground that many people, when feeling like they are about to lose something important will view it as a You vs. Them Scenario.
What font is the line 'users like me' set in?
"I have this incredibly strong urge to help people."

Me too. When I hear a problem, I instinctively offer a solution, or at least try to work through the problems to a solution. Apparently, it's a male trait - "Ug! Man solve problem."

Then I was offered advice along the lines of "Don't offer advice until you're asked for it." Oh, meta. When someone's telling you of his problem: he's not necessarily asking for a solution, he's not necessarily looking for tips, he maybe doesn't even want to change... he just wants to rant and whinge a bit - and if you offer a solution, it's usually unwelcome and you're frustrating his venting.
Of course, if he's ranting, whinging and venting the SAME problem after a few years... well!

Thanks for posting this - I'd recently forgotten that line of advice and had reverted to being Mr Instant Problem Solver!

Maybe this openness is a trait of HN readers - knowledge accumulators, problem solvers, generous time givers, open-sourcers - that doesn't apply to the wider population!
Location: Seattle, WA

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About: Full stack web dev here with a bias towards the backend. On my own time I prefer to use python for web work and C#/Unity for game dev, but I'm a big proponent of using the right tools for the job. I'm good at turning domain knowledge into software and getting up to speed on preexisting code bases. Ideally looking for a role doing something socially conscious and interesting!!!
Perhaps someone can answer this for me. I've seen several comments here saying WhatsApp doesn't store conversations. The other day someone sent me a picture on WhatsApp. Before looking at the message I was going through my photo gallery and noticed a random picture I didn't take so I deleted it. When I went to look at the message it was just a blurred out photo of the picture I had deleted and when I clicked it it said the media didn't exist on my SD card. Now, if I log into the web version that picture is fully visible. This suggests to me that they keep at least the pictures on their server. So is it only the text portion they don't keep?
It's awesome to read about use cases in countries I know little about. Viber, Telegram for direct marketing? Wow. How do people decide to join? How do you do ad's?

Just like in Argentina in '11 I was amazed that all SME had Facebooks, and were just skipping the website-part I was used to.

Funny how local circumstances (might your Whatsapp problem just be an upload-to-US problem?) create different business environments. It reminds me that country-specific network and adoption effect exist and matter.
I disagree with most of the things in this blog post.
The web UI works and quite well that too.
Whatsapp has been known to build things that work and that too fast.

I don't care if it works only on chrome and doesn't work on the iPhone. They'll most probably fix it soon.

I can think of one good reason why not having official APIs has been in whatsapp's favour. Almost no spam.
I agree and I find that a far more civilized legal approach to cars, but I don't ever count on that happening in America.
I host an archive of old Bugle episodes, if you want to relive the late 00s: http://gamesplusone.com/thebugle/
Is it possible to contact Lenovo through some other channel? Support forums, email, chat? Maybe they are not run by the same people.

With a bit of luck they also feel that phone support is a stupid outsourced division and will immediately realize what has happened.
Slightly OT, if you like John Oliver, you may enjoy The Bugle, a podcast which features Oliver and his friend Andy Zaltzmann discussing world news, often focusing on America and the UK.
I'd be tempted to ignore it.

But if you want to talk to them you'll need to talk to their finance department, the details /should/ be on the invoice. If not, wait until the red reminders - they will have contact details for the accounts dept on them

Customer support which is likely outsourced, as many companies outsource their call centre and warranty fulfilment will have exactly zero tools to cancel invoices.
Fellow game developer, hi!

After becoming annoyed with how hampered I was with acquiring 3D art assets, I too am trying to get into 3D modelling with 3DS Max.

I think I've got the hang of it, found out about edge loops yesterday, and I've created a small 'office room' for my game!
It's more than likely the function will return an object of type blah

type interface blah {
behavior()
}
I don't know if it's the same as you, but whenever I consider doing some "activity", I immediately fast-forward through it in my mind and think, "OK, so it'll be fun for, like, an hour. Then what?" More than anything, deep down, I feel like I crave the unknown and the unfamiliar; but as I grow older and learn more about the world, the things in my proximity that still have this property have all but disappeared.

For this reason, I've found what I desire in my life — as a fellow "spectator" — is to drastically change my surroundings instead of focusing on specific (and ultimately inconsequential) things to do. Not, "I want to ride a jet ski", but "I want to live on an island", or "I want to take a ship across the ocean". Right now, I've been traveling around Europe for most of a year, and even though I've still been largely living the shut-in life, I appreciate having seen so many new cities, tasted so many new foods, bumbled my way through so many new languages, and gained so much life experience.

The only problem is that you can't really develop a circle of friends when you're moving from place to place every few weeks. I've been thinking that maybe if I could find a nice, tech-minded "shut-in" community in a warm location, I could live like that for a few years. Do some gardening. Raise some chickens. Maybe visit the closest city every few weeks, if I feel like it. I think that would be a pretty good life.

But I guess that's the hardest part: finding that little locus of the unknown in the first place.
If you have a job, your serving someone to.
I believe the issue involved hype about one type pads being used being a 'game changer'. This is not the case as you can use the qr code along with existing crypto primitives to do the same thing much more securely. E.g. qr code could have a public key and a nonce, send your public key and the nonce (signed by your key) and now both of you have enough information about the other to do diffie-hellmen (create ephemeral keys).

In other words they are hyping and trying to sell people something that is at best equally secure to current things and more likely less secure.
I would think the DMCA 'reverse engineering for compatibility' exception would prevent that.
Exactly. How many people cared about the plight of people in solitary confinement and suicide watch last week?

There are people in prison having a far worse time than Manning. Come to think of it, if I were in prison I'd much rather be in solitary confinement like Manning than in with the general prison population (where my options would presumably be either to join the Aryan Brotherhood or get beaten up every day).
You have no idea if your idea matters until you share it.

- Michael Lopp (@rands)

http://startupquote.com/post/2374460846