jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I rarely ever use a GUI. Certainly not for any recreatonal web use. Unless I'm using a GUI, I do not load the graphics layer. I stay in textmode. No X11, Wayland or whatever is compiled in. Ideally I have a designated computer on the local network that has a graphics layer, a full corporate GUI OS. When I need graphics to view stuff I can send it over the local network to the GUI computer. Otherwise I keep recreational use on text-only computers, away from the whiz-bang corporateOS-controlled computer.
Do we know how much control owners of media companies have over the media they produce, in practice?
In general, I think you are right. In this case, the person involved admitted in an interview with "The Street" 6/12/2020 that it was to keep the supply for healthcare workers.

> "Well, the reason for that is that we were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply. And we wanted to make sure that the people namely, the health care workers, who were brave enough to put themselves in a harm way, to take care of people who you know were infected with the coronavirus and the danger of them getting infected."
I used Bromite for a while and went back to Firefox with Ublock. From my experience, the privacy enhancement breaks enough websites to negatively counter balance the compatibility benefit of being Chrome based. Of course, you might view things differently if you actually value said enhancements.
That reminds me of a story. In 2009 I flew into Sydney with a team of 20 people and 40 duffle bags, and the regional airline to Melbourne refused to check half the luggage despite us having a pre-arranged letter from them stating otherwise. So, a team member and I rented a car, bought a SIM card and several Red Bulls, and drove to Melbourne to join the rest of the team the next morning. With the international flight, that was a very long day!
If you get drawn into a debate about whether the earth is flat, you're the sucker and are being made fun of by the person "debating" you. And retorting that "the science is settled" would be a ridiculous response.

In serious debate, "the science is settled" is the intellectual equivalent of "because I said so". But I don't believe it comes up often in serious debate, it's more likely to happen when two parties that don't really understand science are having an ideological debate that they pretend had to do with science as a rhetorical device to gain legitimacy.
But it has to be previously defined in case law or something that is considered defacto through an egregious violation, right?

On a side note, do you know of any case law that shows that leaving a charge stand when you know it is false (no detention/custody) is a violation of Constitutional rights? I have a situation that this would be useful for.
The whole saga is just utterly insane.

Its the same people who shipped the "people counting" raspberry pi system with the bruno mars mp3s in them.

First they try and report the security consultants to the police, then they claim that they are too expensive to work with.

Then even more bizarrely they launch a halfarsed sock puppet campaign using the CEO's wife's account.

Then they start publishing reviews on their own staff, including private health info.

Just utterly bat shit insane
The tropics were heavily forested and it wasn’t really until you got to temperate regions that arable land that was relatively clear appeared.
I don't think this expensive solution is the answer. All airliners already have ADS-B transmitters...the problem is that over the ocean there are no ground receivers to pick up the signals. Aireon is launching a set of satellites that will pick up ADS-B signals from all aircraft, and will offer the service completely free of charge to any airline in the event they lose contact with a plane.
check out stackoverflow threads on this mate...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/477748/what-are-the-best-... like this one there are lots here http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=c%23+book
It is still not black and white, even if there is a contributing virus. What if, for example, the virus increases the chance to become obese by 0.25%? Or 0.025%? How serious should the counter actions be in this case, how much should be spent on searching for cure, compared, for example, with educating people on aspects of proper nutrition and physical exercise?
Work for them :)
Hopelessly naive, yes.

What you're more likely to find is a situation where the less evil governments of the world (Canada, Britain, the US) have to live in glass cages while the more evil governments of the world (China, Russia, North Korea) can continue in secrecy. This I can only see being bad for the citizens of Canada, Britain and the US. All cynicism aside, changing the balance of power in the world away from the US Government and towards the Chinese Government is unlikely to be a positive move for the citizens of the US.
For non-Americans; today is Thanksgiving day in the U.S.

http://xkcd.com/825/
Has anybody launched this in a VM under Xen and/or EC2 to see if AWS is vulnerable? If this can mangle the Dom0 over a paravirt DomU, this would be awfully interesting.

/me off to test...

update: Would be nastier if it forked cpux2 times or something at startup. My test server is running fine for 15 minutes with it active. A bit slow, but still responsive and accepting new SSH connections. Server is Centos 5.5 with 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5

Proc net unix seems stable as below, maybe slowly growing now.

[root@xenpig net]# cat /proc/net/unix | wc -l

153406

I have kill -9 that process several times though, and it ain't dying, so that is an issue.
If the question is rhetoric my answer is redundant be default.
If I could give an honest answer I would say definitely not.
First of all I do not have an iPad, and maybe most importantly having a marginally better experience in viewing photography(first level of specialization) blogs(2nd level)on an iPad(3rd) would not be something to look forward. Being a bit negative could serve as a guide of what people do not care about.
This argument would hold more weight if US foreign policy actually had something to do with bringing freedom to subjects of oppressive regimes, but as it stands, the US government's actions are largely cynical, self-serving, supportive of some of the most oppressive regimes on the planet, and harmful to many millions of people around the world. They don't deserve sympathy.
Man. I should be getting old. I distinctly remember using Git for the first time. I remember learning that branches are first class entities in Git; learnt other cool stuff from it. For example git grep, it was so cool to see it that fast.
They LDS Church is pretty advanced technically, and like any large tech organization they have many hosting sites, mirrors, and data centers. That is like saying Tim Cook would help get Google Fiber in Cupertino because lots of people around the world download apps. Sure, but not really.
> [Garbage collection] is a necessary prerequisite for robust and reliable extensible software systems that will become more and more important in the future.

In retrospect, that seems somewhat naïve.

And that syntax... avoiding that horrible verbosity is one of the reasons that I preferred C to Pascal. It just feels really clumsy.

Most of the "deficiencies" in C++ have been corrected in time, and it took over the world. This shouldn't be a terrible surprise - the practical people get stuff done while the academics argue that their design is superior. Since language use for actually getting stuff done determines "winning" in the language wars, the pragmatic languages keep winning. They steal where the academics actually had better ideas, and they ignore the rest. And so the academics get left in the dust over and over...
That’s not the type of scenario that people have in mind when they’re talking about the systemic failure of qualified immunity — in a functional court system, such a case would shake out naturally (either a non-punishable offense or involuntary manslaughter, depending on context, as after all, an innocent person was killed), while still allowing crimes such as manufacturing evidence or reckless negligence or murder to
go punished.

As it is, a citizen cannot normally charge a cop with a crime, so all legal recourse against the police must go through a civil court in practice, where the doctrine of qualified immunity acts as a shield
Gateway, not router. I personally do very few and simple things on the gateway. Way less than what an average default-configured router running OpenWRT does.
>Just imagine if the border closure between the US and Canada actually applied to truck drivers the same way it applies to regular travel

We did briefly have that with the border between the UK and the EU. It soon got resolved.
> That may violate the TOS of the original connection but probably wouldn’t come up.

How? If that were true, WiFi range extenders would violate TOS as well.
I posted this because it genuinely scared me, in a way technology hadn't scared me yet.

They specifically say 'with Orchid, couples today have a new ability to stack the odds in their children’s favor'. But how? By sequencing DNA of prospective partners to find the perfect one?

This can create a future where people screen each other's DNA, and look for only the top-of-the-line genetic specimens. I guess it was going to happen anyway, but this scares me a lot, and at first glance I would support regulations opposing the sequencing of DNA for the purpose of improving your children.

We could be altering the natural selection process that, with its randomness and variation, led to our own evolution.
Do you think sovereign risk is something that businesses should account for?

Would you hold that same opinion for other things as well? Say you own your house, and suddenly the local government mandates that you give it to them with no compensation. Would you say "that's just a risk of owning a house"?

Let's be reasonable here, having a clear, consistent and enforced legal system is a key requirement to make long term investments in anything. If you want to have a stable country and strong economy you must have such a legal system
That is true. I am not disparaging our (most of europe’s) social security model, which I would never give up for a US-like one; but at higher levels of compensation that is usually not a factor, unless you have a terminal illness that will gut your finances.

(I am european with a MSc and have never paid for education, do not have a car, and am very happy with most of the social security programs. I only tried to see things from another point of view)
Cannabis use should be legal everywhere. Driving intoxicated must of course be illegal.
That's why our correspondent needs to install the Principia mod!

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/68502-WIP-Princi...
How does it make money? Just curious.
Every tipping thread on HN becomes an example of why the rest of the world hates the SV/startup community. You have people who likely make more in one day than the wait person will make all week arguing over whether 15% or 20% to tip. An extra $5-10 is likely pocket change for someone on HN, but could make someone in the service industry's day.

20% is the default tip for good service. 30% and above is a high tip. If you have bad service, ask to speak to a manager. I'm embarrassed by the lack of empathy shown in this thread.
Making it slower isn't just a theoretical problem but I routinely saw that working with fast network hardware (1G, later 10G) on hosts which were either loaded with user tasks (computational lab) and have still seen it in recent years using hosts which are running AIX/Solaris/etc. where it's apparently routine for vendors to ship OpenSSH without any compiler optimizations enabled.
I can't imagine running a tor client on a production server and question its safety on my desktop (When I use it, I run up a disposable VM that gets wiped). So run software that connects you to the most hostile network out there and hope to god everything is secure on the client side of things?

This is the problem with trying to fight the NSA or some other over-inflated bogeyman. If you focus on weird edge cases you lose sight of practical security. I'd be more worried about opening myself to tor than some theorized attack on ssh ciphers.

Unfortunately, it seems network security has become fairly political, and if you don't make jabs at the NSA, while of course ignoring other state actors, then you won't be put on HN and reddit, which always welcomes politicized information at the cost of accuracy. I hope this hysteria is temporary and cooler heads will prevail and the Alex Jones listening crowd will stop holding the microphone.
> RC4 is almost 30 years old now, and despite it being “broken” practical attacks still require enormous amounts of ciphertext and would probably not affect security in a meaningful way if you deployed it in a messaging app.

Sure, but please use ChaCha20-Poly1305 if you can. Two libraries (nacl and libsodium) implement it for you; libsodium is a portable implementation of nacl with bindings for most popular programming languages.
That's not foolproof either. There's always a compromise to make: if you have more automation to prevent pilot from being suicidal or making mistakes, you also have more automation that prevents a pilot - or anyone - taking over when the computer control goes wrong.

Let's accept it: we may make things gradually better, but there is no silver bullet that would solve all these problems.
So are you arguing that obesity in children is happening because we are living longer?
Thanks, I didn't know this. There's some fascinating speculation from two days ago about what happened in this thread:

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/558654-airbus-a320-crashe...
The whole article is criticizing a decision he made, which caught me off guard as well.
One thing I was wondering was whether or not, for instance, Google would be prohibited from returning a direct IP address link to (say) the Pirate Bay in response to a search for "pirate bay".

The text in the bill says:

`(i) a service provider, as that term is defined in section 512(k)(1) of title 17, United States Code, or other operator of a domain name system server shall take reasonable steps that will prevent a domain name from resolving to that domain name's Internet protocol address;

...and the definition of "service provider" as referenced is:

(1) Service provider. — (A) As used in subsection (a), the term “service provider” means an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user's choosing, without modification to the content of the material as sent or received.

(B) As used in this section, other than subsection (a), the term “service provider” means a provider of online services or network access, or the operator of facilities therefor, and includes an entity described in subparagraph (A).

It looks like Google would probably fall under (B) there, so if they received a court order, they couldn't specifically do DNS routing; it's probably questionable whether returning a link as the first result to the IP address that the domain name would resolve to if it wasn't blocked counts as resolving a domain name, I'd imagine the government would make an argument that it does.

But there's still a gaping loophole here: the bill says that a service provider must "prevent a domain name from resolving to that domain name's Internet protocol address", so fine, maybe Google couldn't return a link to 194.71.107.15 in response to "thepiratebay.org", but there's absolutely nothing in the bill that says they couldn't return a link to 194.71.107.15 in response to "Pirate Bay", "piratebay", "thepiratebay", etc. There's also nothing in the bill that prohibits them from responding to a "thepiratebay.org" query with a message telling the user that the link they were looking for was filtered out, and suggesting that they strip the suffix off of the search term to get around the domain name resolution restriction.

I realize this doesn't solve the problems of broken links on the net or anything like that, but it's an indication of the fact that this bill, horrible as it is, will likely just be routed around like many other problems on the Internet, with a lot of effort wasted in order to do so.
Me too. The implementation would work a lot better if it didn't change the url each time.

Could javascript return false fix that?
sorry but this is total BS.
I know projects that have been instant hits with 100 hours of work (some cheapo iphone apps for example).
Then again if want to make a decent social game or a technology related product, 1000 hours will get you nowhere.
Spread over a years timeframe, which it usually takes to get a decent product to market from start to finish, thats about 3 hours a day.. Even if you leave out weekends and stuff, its still nothing.
This comparison is meaningless.

The risk of cancer is caused by DNA errors. Your cells are constantly checking and repairing your DNA for mutations and damage. They can usually repair or detect a low error rate, like the kind you get from living at high altitude, in a house with a minor radon source, or flying on a plane. What they can't deal with as well is a sudden burst of many errors. Backscatter X-ray scanners deliver their entire dose to a tissue region in a few microseconds. That's the kind of exposure we're talking about, and it has an entirely different biological impact.
To fully address that question you'd probably want to review the meta coverage of the topic. I'm not offering a comprehensive listing but these are two links you might consider:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/never-mind-the-valley/

http://www.fastcompany.com/1699323/why-you-should-start-a-co...

The key take away (for me) isn't that one city can make or break a company but there are certain considerations to make.

Caveat A: if your company success is predicated on being inside of a known echo chamber or circulatory system of talent -- by all means consider SF/NY/etc...

Caveat B: if you need to be aligned a specific niche that has no ties to an "NFL city" -- get away as fast as you can to where that niche can best be served with the basics quality of life that will draw the talent and team you desire.

SAS software is the largest privately held software company on the planet. Yet... they started not in SF/NY... but... North Carolina?

rip needle across the record

http://sas.com

RightNow is a public software company that was not started in SF/NY... but... Montana?

rip needle across the record

http://rightnow.com

There are more. Seriously. Think about it and do the searches. Download Crunchbase and plot it...

http://trends.techcrunch.com/

Don't take my text for it... Just pick up your head and look around to see a world that doesn't -exclusively- fit in zip codes starting with 941xxx and 112xxx.
Who gives a fuck if your email is beautiful?

The goal is to make money, not to be pretty.
This is the first site I've used wikidot for, so thats good to hear. Thanks. So far its meeting my expectations anyway, so I'm pretty happy with it.

It even supports LaTeX-style math

Yeah, it does, I saw it mentioned in the markup docs. Its pretty nice.
Even better would be if Google started supplying links to the IP address directly. Most of the populace uses Google to browse the internet anyway. Remember the chaos that resulted from when that news article reached the first result for a facebook search query?
I am a well-compensated developer at a Fortune 500 company, who has to be meticulous about limiting his unpaid overtime, and I felt condescended to by this post. Who is this guy!?
When I started out in 1999 my business partner and I took $1,200 and turned it into $1M (revenue) in 12 months...100% online sales. We started out buying 3 beat up laptops, fixing them and selling them. Within 6 months we were buying containers (semi-truck loads) of off-lease laptops and shipping up to 150 a day. 60-70% profit margins. We grew for a couple of years and then we ran into our first wall.

By 2003, our product commoditized and margins started shrinking fast. All of a sudden the used laptop business turned into the used VCR business. New laptops were cheap and our margins went from 60-70% to 5-10%. Our world was changing and we needed to pivot fast. We had to lay off our entire staff, sell our office building (yea, we bought our own office building) and start over...but not from scratch.

During the good times, we would always throw new ideas around. If we agreed that an idea was solid, we would build it out and let it sit on the back burner. When the time came, we were able to jump into a new project that was already setup and ready to go. We just needed to start executing.

Fast forward to today. Our website (services, subscriptions, advertising) currently does about $400k annually (up from $250k last year) with a substantial profit margin, zero debt and miles of growth in front of it. It has been WAY harder this time around, but we are building something much more substantial.

While my business partner and I whole-heartily believe we are about to enter a hockey stick phase of growth, we do have a couple of ideas built out and simmering on the back burner...just in case.

tl;dr I have been bootstrapping and making my living online since 1999.
Didn't something similar happen with Wattvision when they launched? It was a bug in GAE authentication-the site didn't even intend to do that.
Parcels seems to be a knock-off of the iOS Delivery Status app, which I use a lot: http://junecloud.com/software/iphone/delivery-status-touch.h...

I've noticed this about the Market - there are a lot of blatant clones of better-executed iOS apps.
In response to Gruber's criteria, a much more objective comparison from end-user perspective would be to compare android only apps to iOS only apps, without further restrictions (eg., Who the vendor is or whether app is invalid for comparison, because one platform policy wont allow it.)

As a user/buyer, I am only interested in what I can or cannot do with a product, while comparing it with a competing product. Everything else is just details
Thank christ for that! Techcrunch loads in 50% of the time now.
> Why not?

Because so many of them are centered around meta tasks (input, controls, notifications). Appealing to nerds, sure, but the power of the App Store is how it provides compelling app experiences for everyone.