jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> After Amazon told them that they had violated its external communications policy by speaking publicly about the business, their group organized 400 employees to also speak out, purposely violating the policy to make a point.

I get that Amazon and big tech hate posts are a daily thing on HN these days, but this seems simple enough to me.

They broke Amazons policies and organized other employees to also break policy. If I was a business owner, I would have done the same thing.

The most vocal crowd on the Amazon topic here on HN despise the company outright. I’m onboard with taxing big companies, etc, but it’s sad this stuff takes up the front page. The quality of discussion is the same as /r/politics or /r/worldnews.
Their systems are fault tolerant... I found more information on their storage architecture here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...

[edited to sound less snarky]
> The question is, is it lawful?

Apparently yes.

> It's appropriate for the court to express disgust when the law leads to blatantly bad outcomes.

Then they should find different jobs. The law working 'bad' happens quite frequently and I have yet to see such a blatant preference for one side over the other in official court documents.

It degrades the court.

The homehowner is not 'stealing the home', the homeowner has found a legal loophole in a situation that could have turned against them quite easily and the court had to confirm that the loophole is indeed legal. Liking or disliking doesn't enter into it. The bank probably had ample opportunity to avoid this happening but in the end trusted too much in the judge siding with them because of the fundamental unreasonableness of the request, forgetting that it was the legality that mattered.

If it there is any doubt about this being legal then you can be sure the case will be appealed.

Contractual law is usually dealt with quite strictly when the tables are turned, for once it is the homeowner that ends up with an advantage, it's a foregone conclusion that future contracts will be re-written to rule this possibility out so the damage is limited and that the bank(s) will be much more careful about letting things get even close to the statute of limitations.

I wonder how many homeowners are in a position to continue to exploit this given the fact that the banks are now warned.
The air spin attack was definitely just a Mario jump sound with the pitch adjusted.

It seems to be a 1:1 copy of Mario 64/Galaxy mechanics but without any of the aesthetic charm. Inspiration's good and all, but straight up copying isn't. That's just insanely off-putting to me.
I understand the natural segregation in sports, as men are more physically fit in general, but could you explain the trading bias? I'm not saying you're wrong about it, I just want to understand your PoV more. Thanks
In case you're thinking, "Wow, I bet in the real world this would be a misery to impose on a team - I'm sure no one would really want to do this!", well, I worked briefly with a team where they imposed this. It was part of the reason why I say "briefly".
I was at first upset that he seemed to focus heavily on fundamental particle physics. I was delighted however, that he did mention other discoveries we'd like to see happen in other subfields of physics, like the hope for the realization of the quantum computer.

One thing that is rather hot now and likely will become a richer field over the next decade or so (and will likely leave it's imprint in future technology and life in 100 years) is the merging of physics with biology. Mainly, the use of physics and quantitative methods in biology is the next area of innovation for this century, in my opinion. That might fall more under "Biology in 100 years," however.
Christ you weren't kidding about it being expensive. Amazons Cloud HSM is $5k upfront and $1.8/h thereafter, which is completely infeasible for the agencies I've worked at. A shame, I'd love to do the right thing there :(
I like the idea.

It's slow to load in 3rd world connections (ie. Silicon Valley), so change the design to use static images with future expires and use text/css for the fortune text.
same for me, chrome v41.0.x on win64
> most Christians

[citation needed]

Given that the most mainstream support for evolution in Christianity involves the magical hand of the Lord pushing every last selection, I don't know that I'd say they believe in it "just fine," more that they believe in a really bastardized version of it so they stop looking silly.
Almost. If your password is 44 letter 'A's long and the only supported character is 'A' then it's not. That's an extreme example, but there is a trade-off between length and complexity. As long as you bear that in mind you're fine.
I have definitely become more of a morning person since becoming a dad, but not because the kid wakes me up. My wife handles the baby in the morning. I just find myself waking up early so I can spend some time with the baby before I have to work.
So given today's market value of about $310 billion, if Apple continues to increase in value by 59% each year, in 2014, we'll have the first trillion dollar company.

Looks like the logic used in the financial crisis is alive and kicking.
Best advice you can get in this post: read "The Promise of Sleep" by William C. Dement. It will change you understanding of how sleep works and, hopefully, will also change your life.
You may want to use the up arrow to jump. Using X for jumping and C for shooting is a bit confusing.
> Second: a long, un-detected brute force? Bull.

About 6 years ago this happened to us. A slow but persistent SSH brute force was targeting one of our servers. After we spotted it (it was an SSH brute force and because it was slow we didn't detect it over the noise of general SSH scans on port 22) we switched to public key auth only on the server and installed fail2ban.
And I would have to say that keeping things you purchased and paid off before having lowered means is not living above your current means. "Living above your means", to me, is making purchases and going into debt to maintain a standard of living that you can't afford. Buying that car would have been above their means, of course, but keeping it is not when it's completely paid off and in good working order. As many others have pointed out, the trade-in value of any ten year old vehicle with high mileage will not net you enough to justify the hassle or the risk of getting a car with hidden problems.
I think (macro) econ is a lousy tool for measuring happiness. Micro might be. Now, some parts of the various econs - like the theory of revealed preferences* - may well be useful in measuring or talking about happiness but taken as a while, it is IMO incumbent on economists to be humble about this.

*which teaches us that what people say and what they do are two very different things.
I've been using a "FilteredConnect" mixin that I wrote that's solved the "CurrentThing" store problem nicely.
You could also learn Powershell. It is very different but similarly powerful in my opinion. (Learning new things doesn't hurt anyway.)
That's interesting, because every Canadian airport that I've been to (and admittedly I've been mainly to the larger ones) has had an electronic mat that you stand on that lights up a sign with an arrow to the left or right, telling you whether you should go to the standard metal detectors or the millimeter wave scanners (or a patdown if you so choose). The idea presumably being that when a machine is choosing, it leaves no room for profiling. I've never seen those in any American airport I've been to.
So what do you do if you don't have $3,000 to pay for what can be a life-threatening operation (a hernia)? The Cato Institute answer, let the person die, is economically nonsensical. The economic value of that person's lost labor is almost certainly worth way more than $3,000.
> and clearly it doesn't get false positives often given the response they showed

How is this a reasonable assumption? When the probability of it legitimately going off is so low, most times it actually goes off are probably just false positives.

> being Hindi

"Hindi" is a language, and "Hindu" is the religion.
> The government already has people whose job it is to ensure that material is classified appropriately.

And, clearly, Bradley Manning believed that the public's definition of "appropriately" might differ significantly from the government's.
It's possible that they trained them against existing Internet comments, which is a fatal flaw :)
>> Of taking the picture?

Zersetzung?
Given that most of Apple's products were implementations of ideas from Engelbart's lab and Xerox PARC, and that those ideas still have a lot of running room, I'm not too worried for Apple.
This blog post will cover - "How to use images in Salesforce Flow?"
I will be implementing two use cases where in the first use case, it will be just displaying the image, wherein the second use case, it will be displaying the image along with logged-in user name in the same line.
http://bit.ly/3pXAHip
I don't feel like I have a say in it anyway, what I use is dictated by the people I have to talk to.

I'm not a willing participant in WhatsApp, it's what my boss and coworkers use.
> The United States was some sort of imperialist throughout much of its history (even at the time when that imperialism was confined to the American continent) and yet solidly democratic throughout that period.

True. But doesn't stop imperialists from being autocratic in the areas they colonize because no rule of law exists once a regime is toppled and a vacuum created in those regions. It is literally free for all. For a period of time, that occupied area belongs to the imperialist power (unless the power is magnanimous enough to let go of the occupied area and allow the people to determine their fate). But during that period, would the laws of the imperialist power extend to occupied territories? I don't think so. I haven't heard of any such instance in history.

> By contrast, there are countless instances of autocrats that don't invade other countries, e.g. Lukashenka.

True as well. But it comes down to not having WMD and threatening the World (case in point: North Korea or even China). So these are autocrats but with their sphere of influence only restricted to their own territory because of lack of military capabilities. Do you seriously think that Lukashenko won't flex his muscle over other neighbouring European countries if he had military capabilities the likes of which US has?
I was thinking "no way it can draw a pile of glasses, the lighting alone is difficult and it's so obscure" and then it just drew a pile of eyeglasses. I...
There was no "hundreds of thousands of votes suddenly going for Biden", you made that up. There is a count of votes, and that count of votes led into one direction as they counted more votes. And sometimes that count climbs higher at specific moment in time based on a county that had not reported that starts reporting, etc. But it doesn't matter, it's only if you look at it at a specific moment. If you wait for all the votes to be counted at the end, you have a final tally there is no sudden change of votes in one direction or another. What you're saying is pure fabrication.
The GP is way off base suggesting both the dismissal and suicide of the entire police force responsible.

There is a massive difference between police keeping people out of a public building and police actively attacking even quasi-peaceful protesters like we've seen a lot of times during the BLM protests. I, for one, don't have a real problem with police launching tear gas at BLM protesters trying to enter the Portland courthouse. I do have a problem with police shooting rubber bullets and throwing tear gas at protesters on the streets chanting.
I’m sure you’ve reviewed the evidence and have come to your own conclusions, which is reasonable. I assume you trust what Trump says as he’s the biggest supporter of the election fraud allegations, but tell me if I’m wrong. My problem is I don’t trust at all what Trump says, from my perspective he doesn’t understand you can’t inject bleach, refuses to disapprove of the Proud Boys, etc. So when he says there’s election fraud, I don’t believe him.

Maybe you’re in a position where you do believe him. His rhetoric is such that if you believe him, he tries to get you to believe only him, sowing distrust in news organisations and election officials.

I think another problem is it’s very hard to disprove a negative. For example, prove that there isn’t a spy satellite orbiting earth. You can always say “well what about that other satellite, what about this area of space?”. It’s unknowable, and therefore comes down to who you trust. If you look up Trump’s factual inaccuracies so far, unless you already have, then you’ll have a clearer picture on which to base your trust.
Purely anecdotally, I know a bunch of people who took their COVID check, and since they were working and unaffected, and just bought crypto. The timing of this spike doesn’t correspond to the checks well, but my intuition says they are sort of related. People with jobs that are anti-fragile to covid seem much more likely to understand Bitcoin.
- Work should be value based (productivity or ROI or something) rather than paid by salary or by the house
- All people should be able to work from home if they want to

Some of this is "company culture" but technology can help it along a lot more than it currently is. There is a lot of software out there that addresses this issue, but it's just not solved because it's NOT THAT WAY at 99.99999% of companies. Great technology should be able to make this seamless.

This is not a spec for a software product because I don't know what spec would solve the problem. That's what makes it valuable.
If you haven't figured it out by now, here it is: antitrust law is an inherently arbitrary and unjust thing designed to cut down any company that is successful. This should make you angry - how might you feel if your company (the one you built painstakingly, by strict adherence to the trader principle: value for value, without force or fraud) is attacked this way a decade from now?
My first job as a programmer came as a suggestion from a friend who convinced me to apply and interview for a startup where he was working (Cayen Systems, http://www.cayen.net). At the time, they were doing MS Access applications. (They've since grown much - I was employee number 4 or 5, now they've got 20 or 30, and they deal much more extensively with Web Apps than with Access).

I left after a few years to start my own startup, even though that original idea never materialized, and I contracted for 4 years (including to my former employer) before starting a different startup (and the one I currently work on).

And while I only had one official job as a programmer employee, it was awesome working there, and a great experience. Best boss I could have hoped to have had. He wasn't a programmer, and he trusted his programmers to make technical decisions.

tl;dr: Friend worked there.
Paradigm-shifting app for iPhone: Ocarina by Smule. Didn't break any rules and is easily the most innovative mobile application ever developed.
True. The entire article provides a context that somewhat weakens that statement though--as I read it anyway. I was left with the impression that he thought it was more of an oversimplification than a fabrication. Though it's tough to argue against a quote that spells things out as explicitly as you have!
Amazon Cloudfront doesn't, but there are workarounds like this:
http://blog.kenweiner.com/2009/08/serving-gzipped-javascript...
Well the twitter folks did meet with some YC companies

http://twitter.com/ycombinator/status/15872989072

http://twitter.com/kineticac/status/15878495455
The slide that shows a performance comparison between Nginx, Node, Thin and Tornado says those were tested on Linux. Then he points to the Mac and complements "actually this laptop". So, do people consider MacOS equivalent to Linux for testing purposes?
You may be right. Most anthropologists see technological/memetic evolution as largely supplanting genetic evolution after the sedentary shift (so that we, say, invent glasses rather than getting better eyes), but I often wonder myself how much we've changed in the last 10,000 years or so.

And I agree that the city is (speaking emotively and not scientifically here) especially brutal. And yet strangely inescapable. I've adopted Emerson's strategy of living in the countryside in the orbit of a great city, and descending on it from time to time.
Pete Docter is one of the nicest guys alive. I am in no way surprised that he took the time to write back a handwritten note.
Base 12 is better than base 10, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's worth the cost of using it in our programs (I realize that people do use other bases in some contexts, but that's actually an example of coding to the computer's standards).
There's a durability test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1riMzZ6CjUI. Seems like a solid device.
Most offers for FAANG companies include salary and stock compensation, that vests over 4 years.

So if you were granted 400k in stock over 4 years, you'd get 100k per year in stock (which you can keep or sell, but it's real compensation).

After those 4 years, the company will either give you another stock grant over another 4 years, or they will decide to show you the door - and not offer you anything.

That's what seems to have occurred here.
I'm not going to support something just because it is YC funded and I have no interest at all in joining any master race. I gotta hope you are trolling.
As horrible as that sounds it doesn’t bother me.

When I was very young I remember a story of a high school student who horribly tortured a cat and drove around with its mangled but still living body. The high school baseball coach kicked that student off the team even though the student wasn’t arrested. This wasn’t considered cancel culture then and it didn’t bother me then either.
Presumption of innocence exists in the legal system for a reason, mainly that it is necessary for a judgement to be rendered fairly.

Twitch is not the legal system, but it is passing judgement and renders punishment that can be harsher than the justice system in some cases (losing your main income compared to a small fine). Therefore, it needs presumption of innocence as much as the justice system. I rest my case.
The full quote from Destiny—a liberal anti-racist, mind you—is:

The rioting needs to fucking stop. If that means white redneck militia dudes mowing down dipshit protesters that think they can torch buildings at 10 PM, at this point they have my fucking blessing. Holy shit, this shit needs to stop. It needed to stop a long time ago.

To the rest of us, he is expressing exacerbation that law enforcement is allowing chaos from one particular political faction.

If you do believe in good faith that Destiny is actually "suggesting that we unilaterally kill innocent people", then do you believe that bluechecks on Twitter who freely speak in similar terms about White people are actually advocating for the slaughter/genocide of Whites?
You typically get stock on a 4 year vesting cycle. After the 4 years a few things can happen: you get another 4 year stock vesting cycle, you get no stock, you get something else.
If doing that, why not go full-mode and store JWT in cookie with http-only flag?
That's the problem. Those who most want to do that job are the ones who will abuse it the most.
It wouldn't surprise me a bit. Find some hams and head back there with a spectrum analyzer. (Or get yourself a $25 rtlsdr dongle...)

There've also been cases of hotels sending deauth packets to other people's wifi hotspots, to force them to buy the hotel's wifi. Multiply that times a hundred vendors trying to run verifone terminals and stuff in a merch room, and it's a huge money grab.
Accountability and blame are two vastly different concepts. As an executive I’m accountable when my team messes up. Blame doesn’t even come into it.
I ran the benchmark on my system

It's a 6 years old system, fastest times are in the 25ns range

- 2-wise+ is 5% slower than 2-wise

- 3-wise is 46% slower than 2-wise

- 3-wise is 39% slower than 2-wise+

on the M1

- 2-wise+ is 40% slower than 2-wise

- 3-wise is 46% slower than 2-wise

- 3-wise is 4% slower than 2-wise+
> App developers are exploring surreptitious new forms of user tracking

Honestly, just fuck off. I'm sick of trying to learn what new ways you develop to track us, and then finding a way to turn it off.

I hope every user on the planet installs uBlock Origin, or even a basic DNS blocker like PiHole.

https://ublockorigin.com
Hi! Thanks for the question. We put these logs there because we had users in these companies with our previous version of extension! We'll make it more clear when we update the landing page again :)
I'm only 15 years in but have thought about this a lot. I agree with you that there is nothing new under the sun; that we just cycle back through old ideas; fashions come and go and come back.

However, the environment changes so often old ideas go from being "possible" to "they just work" or "possible but really slow" to "instant".

These environmental changes can make orders of magnitude differences, and cause old ideas to suddenly feel very different in practice.

When I think of programming languages for example, of the languages you mention, a lot of their design (like matched brackets in XML), were decisions that made a lot of sense when we had monochrome editors, but now with extremely fast and advanced IDEs, we can take old PL ideas from the 50's and design languages with IDEs in mind that are a lot less cryptic and concise.
I think having more than one for redundancy would be a good idea.
Collapsible comments have looked liked garbage on every site on which I've seen them used. I think having flat, always-open comments on our threads is actually a much better way of doing things.
Just because the tools are available through a GUI doesn't mean that the kids will use them the same way. I learned about as much about the above topics in a week of doing server admin stuff as I did in years of running Ubuntu with GNOME.

>I didn't (know) Emacs and Vim does not have GUI version.

Despite have GUI versions, the likelihood that most kids would use them is roughly 0. If you give kids a GUI, they'll learn how to use Microsoft Office/OpenOffice and maybe notepad/gedit. If you give them a command line, they'll probably learn nano -> emacs/vim and then use LaTeX when they need to make something they'd typically use an office suite for.
I've read that their digital stores run near break even before. In 2010 CFO Oppenheimer stated that it was near break even.

In 2011 it was estimated near 300 million. Now in 2013 it is alleged to be making over a billion:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1470121-apple-app-store-now-...

Still small potatoes profit-wise, but if the share of actual revenue is that significant, than this is definitely a nice little trend for Apple. To be clear, I think the iTunes and the App store are more of an advantage/differentiator over Samsung in terms of potential (especially in the context of Apple's willingness to make bold steps in new directions). I think I came off as a little too glowing when I described Apple's digital offerings above.
Well, that makes the most sense to me. But, I've always thought this is how the universe worked. Infinitesimal forces acting on a given outcome make precision prediction impossible. I still don't get how quantum mechanics is "spooky". Maybe without a math degree I never will.
Recruiters lying?

In other news, water is wet so long as bears shit in the woods.
Absolutely. Whether it's ARM-based or RISC-V, nothing will stop high-end SoC vendors from developing closed hardware blocks or firmware, especially if they have customers from the DRM space (CA vendors).
This is great! I wish they supported SMTP for sending emails (even if heavily limited / throttled) as well.