jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're replying to points I never made nor implied.

The claim I was addressing:

> Point to a single court case in the US regarding this election year where evidence was presented in court and judged.

The cases I listed are cases where 1) evidence was (arguably) presented in court, in the form of affidavits/expert opinions/reports/testimony attached to the complaint, and 2) judged to be insufficient for one reason or another.

The fact that other lawsuits were dismissed solely on procedural or jurisdictional grounds is irrelevant for the purposes of addressing that specific claim.

Law v. Whitmer, in particular, does not appear to have been dismissed on procedural grounds, and is sufficient on its own to prove both the claim I originally addressed and the other part of GGP's comment incorrect:

> CONCLUSION

> The Contestants failed to meet their burden to provide credible and relevant evidence to substantiate any of the grounds set forth in NRS 293.410 to contest the November 3, 2020 General Election

"Cherry-picking" is also meaningless here, as I made no extrapolation about post-election lawsuits in general based on those 3 cases.

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> Oh, and by the way, if a judge dismisses a case on procedural, jurisdictional or standing and then goes on to provide an opinion of the claims/evidence presented in a complaint -- it doesn't mean that the adjudication was based upon the merits of the case.

Well, sure, but it also doesn't mean that the ruling was not based on upon the merits of the case either. A case can be dismissed for multiple reasons, after all; for example, King v. Whitmer was dismissed partially on standing grounds and because the judge found that the plaintiffs were not likely to succeed on the merits (not strictly a final ruling on the merits, but based upon the merits nonetheless).

In addition, the line between "procedural dismissal" and "ruling upon the merits" can get a bit hazy if the dismissal relies upon evaluation of evidence provided by the complainant. For example, Rule 9(b) requires federal fraud claims to be pled with particularity. If the provided evidence fails to satisfy Rule 9(b), then the case can be dismissed. Does this count as a procedural dismissal (not meeting the requirements of a rule), or a ruling based upon the merits of the case (insufficient evidence)?

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And also note that I said:

> Kind of depends on what precisely you mean by "presented in court and judged"

The commenter I replied to didn't give a precise definition of "presented in court and judged", so I worked off what I hope is a reasonable interpretation of the phrase.
Was I scared by people sitting on the Capitol steps [sic]?

No I was not.
Brian Acton selling to FB is in a way a tragic story.

I understand why he did it, at some point it becomes irresponsible not to take the money given the opportunity cost (and he did give $50M to signal). Steven Levy has a funny bit about it in his excellent book Facebook: The Inside Story. When someone offers you 19 billion to violate your principles, you have to wonder what you can do with that money and maybe you can do more good than you could with whatsapp.

Plus housing in Palo Alto is expensive: https://www.dirt.com/moguls/tech/brian-acton-house-palo-alto...

I wrote an overly long feudal allegory about this based on pillars of the earth (I know, but it was fun to write): https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/07/14/the-serfs-of-facebook...

His last tweet still stands: https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/976231995846963201?s=2...

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“Do no knights strike out on their own?”

Philip was quiet for a moment. He pointed across a vast vista to a large castle in the distance adjacent to that of their own Earl Zuckerberg’s. “That is the castle of Sir Brian Acton of the former Earldom of WhatsApp. Sir Acton was an idealistic farmer who rejected the ways of our earl. He promised the serfs he would take no part of their data harvest they produced from the land he provided them, and instead the serfs even paid him a small cash fee for his protection. He had no knights to watch and report on his people and no heralds spreading pronouncements.”

“What happened?”

“He was too successful. Earl Zuckerberg saw many of his serfs begin to leave his lands to work the lands of Sir Acton (at the time he was known as Farmer Acton). This was a risk to the power of Zuckerberg’s earldom, since an earl without serfs to tend to the data fields has no harvest to interest others. In the end he offered Sir Acton a knightship and such enormous wealth that he could not refuse. It’s said he now lives in that vast castle alone, is rarely seen, and rarely speaks. The serfs that were in agreement with him now belong to Earl Zuckerberg as they had before, their deal was broken, and once again they tend to our earl’s data harvest.”

“Are there no others?”

“Sir Acton was just the most noble, and his fall the most tragic. Others like Sir Chris Coyne of the former Earldom of Keybase promised their serfs protection and then cruelly sold them to the Earldom of Zoom, which is closely tied to the Eastern Kingdom, a hostile land ruled by a tyrant king where the earls are weak and only serve to do the king’s bidding. There the serfs are forced to grow only what the king has allowed and serfs that refuse are dealt with swiftly and harshly. While in our kingdom farmers can choose to try to strike out on their own (though most choose not to), in the Earldoms of Zoom or TikTok, nothing can happen without the blessing of their king.”
I don't have a problem with contrarian views, but to use this site as intended, people need to be primarily oriented to intellectual curiosity, not hot political agendas. Those two sets are basically disjoint, so when an account is doing the latter, it stands out quite badly.

Of course, even within the latter category there's still a big difference between vandalizing the thread with flamebait vs. staying substantive and respectful.
Impeachment is a political finding, not a legal finding. It’s Congress that decides what qualifies as high crimes and misdemeanors.

What was Trump guilty of? You say not quite the legal definition of incitement. Well how about asking to find just enough votes in Georgia and threatening consequences for not doing so?

Did Trump tweet that the protestors should leave? Eventually. Surely the call with McCarthy suggests not only a significant delay in doing so, but also his state of mind regarding the riot.

As for whether he incited the riot to begin with — the most senior member of the Senate GOP disagrees with you: Trump incited the riots but should be acquitted for procedural reasons (you can’t impeach a former President).
I agree with you that the amount of equity given to employees should increase. When previously equity was taken up by early rounds of funding needed for startup costs that is no longer necessary. The early costs now are people and they should be rewarded with ample equity.

But people still very much do get rich off of options. GreenDot, OpenTable, Qlik Technologies, Facebook and more companies will make employees very wealthy via options.

It's not employees at those companies I worry about though.

More companies are exiting after a few years for 50-100M and their employees get a few hundred thousand while founders walk with tens of million.

Perhaps it's not so bad as being a founder is extremely difficult but its seems disproportionate when early employees join within the first few months.
Like the previous user requested, I would also like to know more about Bangalore.
http://www.holdenvillage.org/

I'm presently the IT Coordinator, which is an odd mix of Windows Systems Administration, Network Administration, and Website maintenance. (Sooner or later maybe some web development.)
I was actually wondering how he would get the access records for the school's PCs? It would seem that it would be a big bluff as most Sys Admins would give such records to a prof.
My company (gazaro.com) got accepted to the AWS Startup Challenge last year, and although we did have a small amount of funding (non-VC), we were essentially running a bootstrapped company at the time. We didn't win the "challenge". We were probably at a disadvantage from the start because we were against VC funded companies, but I think we did a very good job and I was generally happy with how the event went. Our only gripe with the event was the lack of media.

I'm unsure if Amazon changed their qualification threshold, but we certainly didn't have and VC funding when we participated in the contest last year.
Do you seriously believe the whole "the leak is very serious, but at the same time trivial"-story? It's a classic defense mechanism or tactic, depending on who you ask, in crisis management. I don't know any good English sources for this off the top of my head, but I it's called "trivialization", "minimization" or "disavowal". You can also google "crisis communication", "crisis management" or "image restoration" and you'll probably find something interesting like http://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/dodjcc/groups/98A1/Benoit.htm
Seconded. (Dropbox is obviously an awesome place to work, but I still prefer my current situation at the moment.)
The world does not owe you a 'best effort' ribbon.
May or may not work for you, but there is an option now to select the "Latest SDK". I expect it to be annoying if I ever check out an old revision which fails to compile with the latest SDK, but for now, it is fine for developing shipping products.
I am not sure I agree so much with the presentation, but the mocking of the "Stanford alumnus experienced exec" is worth it for the smile.
>> (businessinsider.com)

is a clickbait site
Hey I'm mainly a lurker on hacker news and haven't posted yet, but I just wanted to let you know that Crash Bandicoot is what got me into video games and probably technology in general when I was a kid. If it wasn't for that game there is no way I would have taught myself how to make video games or eventually become a programmer myself. Thank you guys so much for making such an awesome, influential game!
Very odd placement, but the code examples are posted under "screenshots".
I just added a list. Hopefully it will get you going!
While i agree that reports are high quality and slack should've handled it better, I don't see any security risks in both reports. They would close it as N/A one way or another. Just rude response though.
No love for the Samsung Captivate? That was probably my favorite iteration of the Galaxy S series: http://cdn.theunlockr.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/samsung...
Every agrees Donald Trump just led an insurrection, including the Senate Majority leader, a Republican. Why is Trump not in custody?
$250/hr is equivalent to half a million dollar per year. Most PMs at FAANG do not make that much.

If that’s the bottom 75% of the market, what does the top 10% look like?
That is only true in stop and identify states. Being in the building is not itself a crime. Unless there is enough evidence to actually arrest an individual they can just sit there and not say a damn thing until the police are required to release.
This is the huge advantage of Schwab over other options I've explored, especially if you are a US citizen but work abroad as a digital nomad. I like CapitalOne, too, but they could not FedEx a replacement card to me when my card got eaten because of what they claimed was a security issue. Schwab could! Also, Schwab's customer service is top notch.
Here's the video of right before the girl got shot [0], you can see a dozen riot police behind doing absolutely nothing as the mob smashes the windows and doors. I'm not claiming they were helping, but they also were nowhere as brutal and aggressive than the riot police we saw in the summer.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PAVTZIM5ks
A substantial difference is that healthcare tends to be incredibly regressive in the US. People with good jobs that have good pay tend to get pretty good company insurance. People in jobs that don't pay very well tend to have bad insurance, if they have it at all. Bad insurance typically means you pay a lot of out of pocket costs, meaning lower earning people often pay more out of pocket for the same medical treatment. It's more poignant in reverse though; high earners should expect to pay less than low earners for the same medical care. If it didn't work that way, why would any of us pay for more expensive health insurance?

If you have bad insurance, your options are usually to do the walkin option and pay whatever your insurance won't. That's probably more than you can afford unless you're sick enough to get a doctor to order it (which often means you've missed a critical window in treatment options). Or you can try one of the clinics, and wait for forever trying to get it looked at. Or you can do what many Americans do and ignore it, hoping that it goes away on its own.

We do have better options than other countries, but whether those doors are open often depends on your income level. Socialized healthcare does equalize that, even if it means dragging down the standard of care for the wealthy in exchange for bringing up the average.
By using the US intellectual property system, corporations can also patent and own DNA.
Oh, you're talking about promising stuff that's not delivered? Maybe not so different from the likes of Gates and Jobs.

Of course, sometimes they did manage to deliver some of the things the promised also, like Musk.
IIRC there is a budget in the hundreds of millions meant specifically to protect that building.
I'm leaving next month.
I had more fun with this than I should have
The video may be a bit off but doesn't change who Musk [1] is. Arrogantly dictating his way around like a child will eventually result in push back. Maybe not in the US or China but the Germans don't play the same game. [2]

[1] https://elonmusk.today/

[2] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/elon-musk-tesla-gruenheide...
Good job! But you can make it more lightweight by using my library:
https://github.com/fossteams/teams-api

Or the (wip) TUI:
https://github.com/fossteams/teams-cli/
True there is a certain bit of mis-attribution but I think others are lumping them together as well right now. It's easy for me to sit back and say it now, but I think CNI could have done more to obscure/shift away from the underlying complexity.

To lean off my armchair a bit and offer some parallel work -- I was pretty impressed with the design goals/interface of Ouroboros[0][1].

There just needs to be more projects (nomad is one of them) that are adopting CNI and simpler than k8s.

[0]: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/ipc/

[1]: https://ouroboros.rocks/
Browser gamming was killed in the name of a political agenda, meanwhile even Unity, as mentioned is not up to Flash development environment.

HTML5 was the future, yet there is no way to guarantee if the customer is having either 2D or 3D acceleration working, thus the experience is random and casual users are definitly not going to dive into force flags for their browser.

In 2011, we already had Unreal running on the browser thanks Crossbridge

https://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13F3mKjsHoc

And the 3D API was relatively good,

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actions...

And then there is the apparently safe WebAssembly, reason to kill Flash,

"Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly"

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentat...

"WASM JIT pages are RWX for performance reasons making them easy to exploit"

https://twitter.com/spoofyroot/status/1379911787282243584

More will come now that security researchers are starting to look into it.
Don’t equate ARM with Apple silicon. If the M1 was an x86 cpu it’d blow Intel out of the water exactly the same way it did now.
The M1 has greater instruction-level parallelism. That is what allows the M1 to run at a lower clock that Intel, but still run faster.
Because learning from unexplained examples is useless.
Carol Bartz should step down as CEO, she doesn't have the balls to run a company like yahoo. She was appointed to bring yahoo down and is doing a great job at that.
I had a good experience with RootBSD in 2014.
I like it, in a qualified fashion. For apps at the scale I operate at, which don't really benefit from the scale-to-the-moon aspect, the main selling point is the ease of deployment. You have to balance this with there being many, many headaches if you decide to use gems/libraries which interact poorly with Heroku's view of the world. I had to do an awful lot of R&D to get a client's project working, and that was for a wee little website which mostly turned strings into other strings.

Personally, at my combination of developer and sysadmin ability, I find using VPSes is a better use of my time. For client work where I want to hand over a product which doesn't require my ongoing involvement? Heroku all the way.
This really boils down to “I disagree with the retail traders.”

There is no “true” value, despite what all the “experts” might think. The price is what the market thinks it is. If you think that price is too high, just don’t buy.
Answer: it doesn't.

The problem is browsers have two layers of decoration: the WM layer (which tiling window managers tend to remove), and the internal layer - the tab bar, address bar, option buttons, borders, etc.

As far as I know, there isn't a way to remove all that without going full screen.
Author here. Thanks for reading.
That reference comes directly from the INTERCAL-90 compiler. it has hilarious error messages. One of my favs is that it is an error to not say PLEASE enough and also an error to say PLEASE to often:

E079 PROGRAMMER IS INSUFFICIENTLY POLITE

The balance between various statement identifiers is important. If less than approximately one fifth of the statement identifiers used are the polite versions containing PLEASE, that causes this error at compile time.

E099 PROGRAMMER IS OVERLY POLITE

Of course, the same problem can happen in the other direction; this error is caused at compile time if more than about one third of the statement identifiers are the polite form.

Some more fun details:

- The compiler is called `ick`

- The compiler has a `-mystery` flag which is documented as

"This option is occasionally capable of doing something but is deliberately undocumented. Normally changing it will have no effect, but changing it is not recommended."

- Numbers have to be entered in English. 12345 would be written as `ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE` unless you put it in roman numeral mode where the characters ‘I’, ‘V’, ‘X’, ‘L’, ‘C’, ‘D’, and ‘M’ mean 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 and 1000.

- The debugger is called `yuk`
Yeah I do this locally with yt-dl

youtube-dl -F URL

-F will list all the available format codes

Then choose the highest quality audio only option

youtube-dl -f FORMATCODE --add-metadata URL

You might want to demux it (ffmpeg) if the format is webm/Opus but well that's up to you and depending where and how do you want to listen the downloaded music
Ha, are you me? I really pushed for us to follow the "change-as-little-as-possible and ship to prod quickly" route. Prod is where things get hard, and it's better to find out what's hard sooner rather than later.

We are running a handful of stateful services in K8s (things like MongoDB for which GCP doesn't have a compelling and affordable managed offering). It's definitely more complex than transitioning a stateless service, but so far our experiences with StatefulSets and PersistentVolumes have been good. And this allows us to sunset Puppet/OS management completely. I should note that we _are_ being extremely careful about backups. We also run each stateful service in a dedicated node pool for isolation. Who knows, maybe a year from now we'll be shaking our heads and saying "that was a TERRIBLE idea" but for now, so far so good.

We're running on GKE, so lots of things that would be hard in on-prem environments (ingress, networking, storage) are easy.
The value of my house has barely changed in the four years since I bought it. Grocery costs haven’t gone up noticeably either. Or gas. Or car payments. I live an hour outside DC, but there’s not a tech or finance job for miles.
I think the author's statement was too strident, but I think I understood immediately what he meant.

I was born in Oklahoma (what some might consider flyover country headquarters), and raised from an early age to use guns. One idea my family and I repeatedly discussed was that gun ownership was an essential safeguard against government overreach, an essential part of keeping power in the hands of the people. Without it, we said, government might voluntarily restrain itself, but there would be little to actually prevent it from doing whatever it wanted.

Putting aside whether that is actually true or not, the parallels with the open source movement are really obvious to me.
Perhaps it's because the people who bs their resumes are also the ones who are willing to negotiate for more? After all, both activities involve trying to sell yourself.
comments fhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25031486rom last month,
XPS 11 is end of lifed and discontinued from what I understand.
> It must be an April fools joke

Maybe considering their history of product announcements (Amazon Echo), they're being cautious about it this time. If it gets mocked, they'll just say "Oh it was an April Fool's joke"
As a person who took several MOOCs and completed none of them, I can honestly say that you're right on the money.

I think the only real problem that the other comments allude to is the social aspect of college life. People think this because College is the de-facto solution socialization with similarly aged peers.

I believe that many organizations will pop up with the death of the university to solve these problems. Think about it, all you want is a place to talk to others, and get info on jobs or other opportunities.

In previous ages, a lot of this was not done at university but at coffee shops or similar institutions. Just because you don't have college doesn't mean that you can't make connections. Heck, I believe if the college fad dies down, with the amazing social networks that we have now, it will be super easy to create meet up groups, and hey, it could even open up the potential for specifically themed coffee shops. For example, there is a coffee shop in my area that caters specifically to programmers, there's a podium if anyone wants to present a talk, there are private tables further away from the podium, there's free internet, the tables can be flipped, to give you glass surface that you can write on with a marker ( the list goes on ).

I feel that MOOCs will push towards students searching for mentors, who they really respect and hence can more effectively learn more. Furthermore, it will lower average student debt as well as make many aspects of selective college life publicly available. This will not however happen over night, but I see MOOCs as the harbingers of radical change in education that has been stagnated by the entrenchment of the ivory tower into the very heart of what education means today.
nearForm[1] sell node.js consulting and software to enterprises like Condé Nast, Universal, Intel and Qualcomm. They organize NodeConf Europe[2]. They're bootstrapped with 100% year on year growth so far and projecting 200% growth this year (according to the article).

One of the interesting things here is that they're Irish, but instead of setting up in Dublin (home to the EU headquarters of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Airbnb, Intercom, etc) they've decided to set themselves up in a small town in Waterford, a county with a population of 114,000.

[1] http://www.nearform.com/
[2] http://nodeconfeu.com/
Convenient, but I think this should be made a standard and configurable so that consumers can easily switch vendors.