jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think, when you have the kind of money that Notch now does, your time becomes by far your most precious asset. Saving the hassle of interior decoration probably makes it well worth it for him.

Tangentially, it is probably a lot of pressure to be that rich. Must be easy to feel that you are not making the most of it, when at any given moment you could be doing whatever ridiculously expensive thing you can imagine, rather than sitting in a dentist's chair or being stuck in traffic somewhere.
Curious about what are your pain points with Nomad? We are using it and it's pretty good. Biggest pain with it is the lack of versioned documentation IMHO. But other than that it can do wonderful job in scheduling workloads.
In the US it was mostly Nextel phones that had the push-to-talk feature, which allowed walkie talkie-like communication. (one to many, no cost, etc.)

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextel_Communications

"Nextel's iDEN network offered a then unique push-to-talk "walkie-talkie" feature in addition to direct-dialed voice calls."
Variety has an in depth look into Roger Ailes,

Film Review: ‘Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes’

https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/divide-and-conquer-the...
> for instance, no direct incitement to violence

It's worth pointing out that Trump's videos yesterday -- praising the people who had just attacked and sacked the Capitol Building during a joint session of congress and conspicuously refusing to demand they leave -- were probably legally an incitement to violence regardless. Certainly normal prosecutors could get convictions on that sort of thing[1] in normal courts. The only reason it seems gray is because the speaker is the President.

[1] Remember that in context they were at the capitol because Trump himself, in person, had directed they march there just an hour before. I mean, really, that's pretty open-and-shut as far as mens rea.
Do you really think Trump protesters wanted to overthrow an election result by breaking into a building? Have you seen the videos of Capitol Police removing barriers and leading them into the buildings, or some of them taking selfies with the protestors?

Either the Capitol Police are fucking terrible incompetent or they wanted this to happen.

BLM rioters burned down a police station in Minneapolis/St Paul. They took over 6 square blocks in Seattle and their "community police" shot up a Jeep killing a 14 year old boy and removed all the evidence (https://battlepenguin.video/videos/watch/9f81cd38-3ee9-4f26-...).

These people walked into a public building and everyone is upset because they walked around the sacred halls of the rich and powerful; the house of the people. It was peasants in the castle and we can't have that.

Was it wrong? absolutely. That's why the vast majority of people stayed outside.

Oh and a woman was shot by that incompetent Capitol Security force. It's okay though because her life didn't matter since she's white. I'm pretty sure it was her fault because victim blaming is alright if the victim is a privileged air force veteran and isn't an oppressed minority.
I think if you look at any of the cities over the past year, there's example after example of spineless mayors, etc. unwilling to protect their citizens and society generally from chaos and petty thieves.

People powerless while they watch everything they worked for literally go up in flames at the hands of criminals. There's no justification for that, and it's a far cry from "justice."

Disrupting law and order - by definition - turns you into a criminal.

I'm not defending any side of the political spectrum, so it's interesting to see how people interpret this argument.

Manifesting for social change never justifies the type of chaos we saw last year, and if you think otherwise, don't complain about what happened to Congress.
Even in places like Chicago where there is a residency requirement, most officers tend to live in "cop and firemen" neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city. This has some predictable consequences: https://blockclubchicago.org/2018/12/20/police-heavy-wards-g...
It is: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/01/responding-to-the-violence...
I think you can use those options as advice to your friends. The advice would be to "not switch" or "use nothing". Both of those are valid advice and "none" is the advice I'm giving friends and relatives from now on.
American companies used to have this attitude. I have always wondered what changed.
Doesn't the xfinitiwifi inject ads MITM-style? I recall seeing some weird html overlays with xfinity ads on random web pages last time I browsed over one of these SSIDs.
> US has spent years and billions of dollars building up their economy

China is the one "funding" the US actually.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_St...:

> $6.1 trillion or approximately 47% of the debt held by the public was owned by foreign investors, the largest of which were the People's Republic of China and Japan at about $1.3 trillion and $1.2 trillion respectively.
An interesting talk about Docker and Mesos by a former coworker, he also contributed to 0.22:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZXtXLvTXAE
Question, way can't `code.jquery.com` help here? or has the attack moved passed this MIM attack?
I will kill or at least pause the thread after it advanced the tail pointer but before it updated the length field in the header. In other wait-free algorithms all the other threads will usually help failed threads to complete their work.
" If all I need to do to make a painting is press the "run" button, there's not much intention there."

If all I need to do to kill another person is press the "run" button, there's not much intention there.

Sure, that'd be severe exaggeration in most cases, but we're talking about art, and that art has happened (See the works of yoko ono (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYJ3dPwa2tI), wafaa bilal (http://wafaabilal.com/html/shootAnIraqi.html), etc.) Are you both psychic AND time traveling in order to be able to tell what someone was thinking when they hit that button? I realize this puts me in the place of defending art /I/ personally don't like, but that "valid art" term is just the worst.

There are also types of art that are all about hitting the button. For instance, field recording. Wonderful article on it at http://www.factmag.com/2014/11/18/a-beginners-guide-to-field..., but the quote from Yan Jun I reference the most is:

--

“There is no such thing as documenting a reality,” he tells me, “There is no divide between documenting and creating. The point is I don’t build dreams neither by field recording nor by playing my electronics instruments or computer. To choose equipments, choose position and push record button are acts of composing. Tiny meaningless noises can be a beautiful composition. To summarise I can use this equation – I push the record button = someone making a musique concréte piece = Bach.”

--

Seriously. I'm happy you read a book about art, and that's not sarcastic. Most people won't ever put that much time into thinking about art, and it's cool you did. Just be careful about how much credit you give anything that ever uses the term "Valid Art".
I don't see any benchmarks, did I miss them? I suspect this doesn't double bandwidth, the packets all end up over the same neighborhood network.

The only way it would increase bandwidth is if it evades artificial throttles. Having two connections to the same (neighborhood) pipe seems useless.
Here's a video without an annoying commentator, so that you can actually hear the engine:
https://youtu.be/IptBVdys-mo?t=1m2s

And yes, the engine sound is amazing! It sounds so much more futuristic than Formula 1.
Declining the app's pre-permissions dialog means they can request it again. Accepting the app's dialog, then denying it at the OS level means that, at least with the library they link to in the post, the pre-permissions dialog won't pop up again.
How about going on Couchsurfing and putting yourself up as a host? If you don't have the energy to go out into the world, you can get the world to come to you, all through the internet.
The computer doesn't care which code you consider to be in the scope of your concern, and which you take for granted.

If you examine why you're concerned about some code more, you will probably come to the realization that you're less confident in it because it is less old and mature, has fewer users, and has had fewer developer eyes on it and such.

I.e. whether explicitly or not, you're focusing your understanding where it will be needed and that coincides with where there is more risk if you don't understand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant
Yes, but if they didn't have to justify to Apple (because it's not Apple's app store) a reason they needed a specific permission, Facebook would just demand all permissions.
Biden Won’t Penalize Saudi Crown Prince Over Khashoggi’s Killing https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/us/politics/biden-mbs-kha...
Protonmail had the option early on
Uber doesn't work without decent internet access though. Maybe you can make he argument for $$/Mb, but there's no point in uber creating the app so that you can get to the pay screen without internet when you need the internet to use uber.
I certainly hope you have more modules than teams in your organisation.
The same filters were used in the second trial. If they perform worse over time, that seems like an unfair comparison.
>It destroys savings of people, they work for nothing.

That's not true. Interest rates are usually slightly above inflation. Back when inflation was high you could get decent interest rates on your bank account to compensate. Nowadays with super low inflation the Fed is getting desperate and consumer banks are handing out money to anyone. I got two unwanted credit offers from two banks this week. Three years ago none of them would want to even talk with me, back when I really needed the money.

>Now I am able to offer every expensive cancer treatment to my girlfriend (TIL therapy) if her cancer doesn’t respond to her treatment (she’s in stage 4 :( )

If Bitcoin merely stays ahead of inflation then you would expect a return of 3% per year. What you are seeing is more of a bubble fueled by the belief that the central bank will pump money into the markets forever. However, I'm glad that the bubble money is getting put to good use. Bitcoin is probably a more effective wealth equalizer than the Fed will ever be.
.epubs too!
Actually, what scared me most was things like changing file formats and protocols to make their competitors' software incompatible and using their massive wealth to drive competitors out of business.

.NET, IE6, and Win32 aren't the most wonderful technologies in the world, but they're certainly not the reason for the "Dark Ages".

And re: patio12's point: Microsoft presided over a huge, fast, and successful technological expansion... it's just that it would've been bigger, faster, and more successful if they hadn't had such a "break their kneecaps" style of business strategy.
TextExpander uses it for their SDK. Snippets you add in the TextExpander app is available to other apps which integrate with their SDK.
I come from a compiler background. When I hear "alphabet" I don't think a-z - I think of an arbitrary set of distinct symbols that can be arranged into a string.
Relevant because the theory talks about an increase in phone lines. To talk about increase you will need to see the progression over time. The soviet union fell apart late 80s early 90s. What's up with the attitude?
Sometimes many of the individual tasks in a project could be considered not fun but the goal and the journey as a whole is. The same concept I guess with why people in WoW would spend hours doing things they wouldn't consider fun at all in order to achieve a goal which will be a fun payoff.
This or similar phones from MS, won't change anything. People will still go for android with a similar price range and more screen size. We got two such phones for our office to use on travel sometime back, but they just lie there with no takers. People still use their regular phones with the power backup on the go.
Putting emotions aside, decent news ranking algorithm should:
- put high weight on the original content
- put higher weight on the local reporting
- put higher weight on popular news sources (e.g. high quotation index, high page rank etc.)
- put lower weight on second- and third-hand reporting

Under such conditions, it's extremely hard (if not impossible) to ignore propaganda, which _by design_ generates lots of original and local content, unless you execercise some political judgement, such as punishing news sources for being funded by hostile governments - which is what Google News is trying to avoid, according to them.

It seems to me that Google News is just reflecting (sad) reality where more money/resources can generate more coverage. Any ideas how technology could change that?
Also, most academic and research scientists manage a team of students and post-docs who do the actual lab work/analysis/writing. The article's description of a "software scientist" might be more accurately named "software research assistant".
I use strict pop up blocker on firefox which works great. There's a toggle button in case a site doesn't work properly.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/strict-pop-up...
I've never understood why the Billings method is OK with the Church but other forms of contraception aren't. Either way you are purposely having sex for the pleasure and attempting as best you can to not get pregnant.

Oh it is "natural", right, because the Catholic Church requires only "natural" remedies for things?

I use quotes since I don't even agree that Billings Method is any more natural than a condom or the pill.

It simply takes more freedom away from the woman to choose when and how she has sex.
There's no absolute scale, so you can't make comparisons between the graphs. The only conclusions you can make from the PHP scale is 1) that (according to the author) PHP developers think they are a lot more productive than they actually are and 2) experience doesn't increase productivity substantially in PHP.
I really hope this blog is only talking about Tor the community and not Tor the technology. I'm pretty sure it's impossible to ban people who are harassing others without storing some identity information, which completely defeats the purpose of Tor.
This was a christmas holiday project. Wanted to look at Go from a web development perspective but it actually ended up being more about web page scraping.
I am aware that amazon already allows you to see the total but again, this was more an exercise in web development than providing a new feature.
There certainly is some pressure, but be careful not to overestimate it. Most programmers are not in Silicon Valley and feel no pressure to be even though they would make much more money. And this isn't even about "great" programmers versus competent programmers.

I'm one of them. If you can excuse my lack of humility, I am a great programmer. I've been described by management and teammembers regularly as a rock star. I could easily make 10x the salary were I to move to SV.

I have zero desire to and I've never felt like I was missing anything. Out of my graduating class, only one guy moved to California - in fact, he's the only guy I know of at all who moved to California. I know at least a dozen "great" programmers who live here quite happily.

Of course the extra money is an incentive and there obviously has been and is an influx of programmers to Silicon Valley and the surrounding area. But the wage impact (in terms of setting floors) of the migration is pretty minimal relative to other effects. That's why there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of programmers worldwide, including very close to the full 5% of "great" programmers from those areas, that are working for what you and I would consider garbage wages.
Texas Instruments? This seems like a case of "you'd be surprised".
the idea of equating software to life itself is quite limited ...

life is frequency based, software can only ever approximate life by representing it numerically, binarily (??)

take sound, real sound is something that has a frequency spectrum, with harmonics ... fourier analysis allows us to take a snapshot of the wave, which approximates the wave, yet never represents it's full frequency spectrum - because it's impossible to do that ...

to boil life itself down to something which can be represented numerically (or even verbally for that matter) kinda misses the point ... The essence of life will always be absent from such an approximation ...
I wrote a simple script to generate cron tab specs for "every X minute", and while I enjoyed using gcd and lcm in a real application; something wasn't right. 7 is a very canonical and crazy case because it takes 7 days to cycle. but even then, it doesn't work with months except for February for non leap years.
FYI, already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2011750
You ask "want to help for free?" but give no way to help.
Well I'm assuming someone has probably already pitched something like this to them but as it's a budget service they do not want to add any more to their cost structure. I'm ball-parking that tech company would probably sell this to them for about $80k for the development plus a couple thousand a year in maintenance. Maybe they could add $1 to their ticket price as a premium service and if it was widely popular they could just add it into price structure (with some margin).

(side note - is this a common business concept or term, for adding premium services and then just adding that into the price later with the services included?)

Could a savvy hacker whip something like this up fairly easy? Possibly, but they would need to find this person first.
Being able to see delays via a mobile app might be enough to get me to try BoltBus and Megabus again.

In my experience, BoltBus and Megabus have extremely poor customer service. I've had multiple bad experiences with them and as a result I refuse to use their services any more.

Last month I waited an hour and a half in 40 degree weather for the Megabus from NYC to Philadelphia. Throughout that time, none of the staff on site had any idea of what was going on, or if they did no one told us what the problem was and when we could expect the next bus to arrive. We heard later that both buses scheduled during that time had broken down.
I use 1Password. It has versions for Mac, Windows and iPhone, with extensions for all the browsers I use. For the rest they offer an HTML version of your keychain that works almost like the native app, so it is very convenient.

The only thing that is missing is a sync service (they used to have one but they chickened out). The keychain file can be shared on DropBox or something, so that kind of solves that problem, but it is not ideal :)

I haven't tried many alternatives, but so far I am happy with this solution :)
Would anyone buy "Custom Debian repositories as a way to organize your deployment"? How about "Django deployment best practices"? Or "Leap from PHP to Django"?
That coloring idea sounds like a nice interface. It also shouldn't be too much trouble to implement with a bit of JS, so that the colors are chosen automatically.
I don't buy this. Rich people already have better schools and will do better anyway. The divide is growing not because of schooling but because of the centralization of wealth.
https://www.bellyofthebeastfilm.com

Watch the movie...or maybe just take a look at the website.
What’s even more asinine is that the big credit burros already provided identity as a service — I guess they don’t want to pay for that.
A rational skepticism is necessary for science to work at all. But radical skepticism is so impoverishing a philosophy that no one, except possibly a few nuts, believes it any longer. And there are several gradations in between.
Considering the crooks that run Skype, Google got real lucky on that one. Just ask eBay.
This is a huge stretch.

It's the type of thing that's been done before.

So all a hacker has to do is [1] break into Sony's update servers, [2] create a signed hacked boot loader that automatically [3] starts a MiTM attack on home users?

Yup. Sony appears to be saying that 1 has happened with malicious intent. I believe 2 has been done by console hackers with not-necessarily-evil intent, at least as a proof-of-concept. 3 exists as portable C code.

Alternatively, the bad guys might just want to use their PS3s as the world's largest DDoS platform.

*Wouldn't it be easier to break into Google servers and install a malicious Chrome update?

I doubt it, Google's security is usually pretty good. Even still, that's something that would probably be easier to uninstall.

I wrote a blog post about this with more info at http://extendedsubset.com/?p=47
As a 1 dan in igo aka baduk aka wei-qi, I can attest it is an excellent skill to make asian friends and just friends in general. Chess offers you access to the western world...which is a declining commodity. Also, go is a more computationally interesting problem at the moment. The strongest computer is far weaker than even top amateur players....let alone professional players who are even far stronger.
This is interesting from another perspective. Some pundits have argued that Amazon is, in the long run, Apple's biggest potential competitor in the iPad space because it owns the whole foodchain. But it doesn't have a retail presence.

Not only does B&N have a retail presence (and a great customer experience) but it owns a big part of the foodchain too. If Amazon loses its sales tax edge or B&N can end-run its sales tax disadvantage...
Her book on networking is the most frank and direct and easy to understand book I've ever read. She cuts straight to the chase, including saying stuff like, (paraphrased) "and after a few rounds of committee meetings, you get a complete incomprehensible mess, but these are the root issues they are talking about and the mess derives from two different views on committees on how to view networks..."
> So, playing devil's advocate for the moment --- and taking the above facts into account --- what, precisely, would you do in their position?

That depends on the law. Is it legal in the US to store someone else's strongly encrypted data on one's server? Assuming it is, then they should encrypt by default and then if law enforcement forces them to give up data, give what they have.
Should be interesting longterm to see how this coupon craze plays out. My mom figured out Groupon, but has no clue what a smartphone is so Google may be a little ahead of the curve for part of the demographic they are after.
Yes -- I bought a juicer and stared out making it myself, but this quickly became a PITA so instead I went to Whole Foods and stocked up on Bolthouse Farms "The Vedge," which is like V8 only organic (and pretty good).

After about day 3, when all the sugar burns out of your system, you aren't really hungry anymore. Psychologically you may feel the urge to eat because you're used to doing it so often, but you don't really experience the "hunger pangs" like when you miss lunch. This is because "hunger," as most of us experience it, has more to do with your brain craving sugar than it is you being truly hungry.
Our test environments aren't available.
Computer search technology makes it so the amount of information available doesn't matter, as you can trim down the results from millions to tens. So that's not an issue anymore.