jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
actually it was Apple that forced its decision on us.
I just think they should have made a different decision.
It's like commenting on sport- I don't actually have the vast power to affect people's lives like Apple does.
> They say "no shirt no service". You show up with a shirt and get service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent
David Hodge and co are legends. Congrats.
>Has GMO ever been confirmed to have harmed anybody?

There are sereval of studies that show that those examined can be harmful -- but it's a whole field, one cannot speak for all of them as harmful, can only examine them one by one. The general practice is harmful to me, because profit motives and patents are involved.

I don't think just because they found out how to genetically modify plants that they also can understand the long term effects of their creations (to other plants, insects, animal life, the consumer, etc). Nor do I believe that they have the scientific rigor and patience to study those with the timeframes needed. It's more: "fuck it, let's sell these things".

Plus it's a huge industry, with trillions to be made, that dwarfs smoke -- not many research labs get the funds to examine it critically. It's like pre-eighties, when tons of smoke studies were sponsored by tobacco companies, and found "little or no evidence" of it causing cancer.
If these servers used IP block lists and sent cease and desist letters to an organization on the list that they believed bypassed the restrictions and accessed the server anyway (how would they prove that?), and it turns out there is no evidence of contributing to copyright infringement, then would the server owners have a claim under the CFAA?

The interpretation of the CFAA in this Order only applies to the facts of the 3Taps case, but assuming this case actually went to trial and in its decision the Court parroted what it has said already regarding the validity of CL's CFAA claims, then it one could at least argue that _any_ computer owner should be entitled to enjoy the protections of the CFAA against unauthorized access to that computer, in order to protect all information that through such access can be obtained.

I hope others besides you and I will give this idea some more thought.
There's a comment on that blog post that says "what is meant by 'the server'?" That's probably the best possible question here. What's the point of building another messaging system and key distribution method if they can show up with a secret subpoena and do whatever they want with your servers?
A name that clearly shows the abbreviation came first
So if you were the CEO of "Appointment Reminder", your first plan of action after getting a request for information from a hospital would be to plan your takeover of the healthcare industry?
I remember having to nurse the batch jobs in the morning when I was working in app support. I had trained my spouse to look out for the yellow "failed" line and let me know when I was away from the laptop getting freshened up; failures weren't super common but they did happen and such incidents basically took the best part of the day towards investigation/clean-up/root-cause-analysis summary and such activities. That experience helped me swear off any kind of support role and instilled a lot of empathy towards support staff.
> Is it unreasonable to want, or even expect, an incognito window to disable all forms of tracking?

Yes, because the product explicitly says it does not do that.

Your activity might still be visible to:

- Websites you visit

- Your employer or school

- Your internet service provider
There's experiments on this in a different post!

https://dynomight.net/2020/12/15/some-real-data-on-a-DIY-box...
When it came out it was don't save cookies so I can't be tracked.

Now that it is known google can track you outside of stored cookies it should probably be relabelled to no persistant cookies mode and leave the idea of incognito. Using that word makes it seem like you are using tor.
My understanding is that, by default, Apple devices have an IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) that apps can use to correlate usage to a specific device. That identifier is going to be the same regardless of app, so it can easily be shared between data aggregators. You've been able to turn this off for ages deep in your apple settings - but of course most people don't bother with that (70% is the number I found). This update brings that feature front-and-center by making it a popup. I suppose that it also makes it app-specific instead of the previous system wide setting? Not sure on that one. At least that is my understanding, if someone knows better please inform me.
What about the Y10k bugs?
I unsubscribed from most of the infosec stuff on Reddit since it has low engagement, low quality posts in most subs. It seems the community thrives outside of reddit in smaller, more niche circles. Majority of my contacts/education comes from natural networking by just doing my job.
I use E-prime as much as I can. Sometimes I fail, but whenever I find myself using the word "to be", I try to dig deeper and ask myself what I really want to say.

For example, that last sentence started life as "I'm not perfect at it". The sentence above gives more information about what that means.

Sentences that describe what something does, rather than what something is, convey more to the reader. It corrects some of the same failings as the passive voice, which also obscures who does what. E-prime puts more emphasis on verbs and de-emphasizes adjectives.

The nature of English makes perfect E-prime impossible or awkward, so you should take it as more of a guideline than a rule. Certain tenses mandate to-be verbs, for example. We don't always have a verbal equivalent to some adjectives. The passive voice sometimes conveys nuance in exactly the right way, and the same goes for non-E-prime English.

But the guideline makes you aware of ways to be more concrete and specific in your writing, and the practice may even help clarify your thoughts for yourself.
>many countries took the opportunity to run large-scale social experiments under the guise of Covid Restrictions

Regardless of how you define tyranny, how can you be so blithely supportive of rule-by-decree in supposed democracies? Especially for the purpose of running "social experiments?"

Covid Restrictions gained the grudging mandate of the masses, and in many places only by a hair, due to legitimate public-health concerns. Even in that context the subversion of legislative processes should be concerning. Running "experiments" on a non-consenting populace is at least the definition of dictatorship or oligarchy, if the word tyranny doesn't work for you.
I've tried out an iPad pro two years back. I returned it after testing for three weeks (great return policy in that particular chain).

It's magnificent hardware, but the software side was such a gigantic letdown if you're any kind of IT person. I really tried for three weeks to get used to it, but nope. It's too locked down for my use.

Things that immediately popped to mind:

* non-existant multi-tasking.

* no support for more than one user (really? wtf?)

* lack of any form of file management

* policy of the AppStore that you cannot test apps (I know this changed meanwhile)

* Certificate management is a pain unless you use Safari

* Lack of choice of apps (I really don't like apple mail)

* "The Apple way whether you like it or not".

I went with a Samsung S6 (upgraded to S7+), and I'm really happy. I can't say I'm missing anything - I've got dedicated apps for the things I want them for. The lifecycle of Android is improving - it's not to the same level yet as Apple, but we're getting there. Big pro (for me) is that you can also install 3rd party ROMs, which can extend the longevity.
I don't understand how "In Michigan and Minnesota, more people found Mr Bush's ads negative than they did Mr Kerry's." is an example of this. To me, that unambiguously parses like this:

peopleInMichiganAndMinnesota.filter(foundMrBushsAdsNegative).length() > peopleInMichiganAndMinnesota.filter(foundMrKerrysAdsNegative).length()
The pandemic also told us that people won't even do something as mildly inconvenient as wearing a mask. Forget about major life changes.
Lockdowns were heavily resisted even with millions dying right now. It will be hard to lock people down in what they can do, politically, because of something that will kill people in the future. People that might not be “me” from the point of view of each individual.
I barely notice them. Let's face it, there are considerably worse ad implementations out there - auto play video, taking over the screen...
IMO Paypal could be described as social payment
Modern diesels are quite different, though. They've got particle matter filters so not much smoke coming out.
Most people who need to read this never will.
It's too long.

I think it would be better to have them remember the first four of the the 5 w's: who, what, where, when.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws

Then perhaps only after that, ask why. Perhaps 5 times:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
Speculation is rampant and a people I know are leveraged on multiple properties, lying to banks to get loans.

The risk of a crisis is very real; even if the risk of default is low, the risk of the marketing seizing up because no one wants to buy at a price sellers are willing to sell at is incredibly real.

Rents in Beijing are pretty cheap now, getting cheaper actually, while housing prices remain rediculously high. Heck, my apartment complex is prime but only about 60% occupied (the other units bought but being held for speculation alone). Something has got to give.
You can grab published Google Sheets in JSON using, https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/{{doc_id}}/od6/pu...

example, https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/1btWWclsRW6-wrIdC...
I've only attended two talks today - could you explain what you mean?
If you can't support why you think something is a mistake, why do you think it is a mistake?
It has. 4 out of 4 network operators in Germany closed (some of) the gapping holes already.

One brave network engineer even came forward to complete that list (2/4 -> 4/4) after the talk of Karsten Nohl.
What's your point of comparison regarding to android devices ? I had an iPhone 3G that I updated all the way up. And I also had a LG L7 bought new under android 4. I found the iPhone 3G more reactive and usable in every single aspect.
Nice job Matt. Psyched to see what comes of this. Best of luck.
Doctors don't just diagnose and move on. Maybe you've heard of surgeons?
On Youtube you can watch the videos in HTML5 and 1.25/1.5/2.0x speed.
Maybe not when its that fresh. By the time its top of HN and /. then there are gonna be a LOT of high bandwidth peers.
You had to give money before you were able to receive money... Sorry, that seems like a classic pyramid scheme. Good that you stopped doing that.
I'd just like to add I made a similar blogpost, 20337 available alliterative .com domain names http://rawsyntax.com/post/4839370351/20337-available-alliter...
Not sure about the jab at Microsoft, C# is just an implementation of an ECMA standard (http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm...) and as if Java isn't unduly influenced by The Red Menace these days.

Perl is spot on though :)
It's also a bit more satisfying to capture (or literally, "eat") opponents using the checkers-like pieces, rather than the stand-up pieces in western Chess, IMO.
I like your example, and it's a good one for the specific case. I imagine a more formal proof would involve a reduction of any "non-leaky" abstraction to being capable of solving the halting problem, which is already proven impossible.
Thanks. Are you saying you'd like to be able to load up a list of names? Not sure where the filtering fits in.
I was all set to defend the "jiggle randomly" school of development with something along the lines of "sounds like someone who has never had an external deadline to worry about" but then I got really sad, and didn't.
At the same time, "Programming Language Analysis Tool With Little To No Front-End or Real-Time Interaction" is not terribly representative of the average web application.

(what exactly is a "Javascript application" anyway? This seems like an attempt to pretend that JS is the only thing required to create a web application...)
http://netmite.com/android/mydroid/frameworks/base/location/...

It appears that unlike Apple, this isn't unlimited:

// Cache sizes
private static final int MAX_CELL_RECORDS = 50;
private static final int MAX_WIFI_RECORDS = 200;

Edit: Seems like another very important difference is that the Android cache only keeps track of your last timestamp at a given tower. Even if this cache was unlimited it couldn't be used to plot someones position over time.
I think you're right, that would be the best way of presenting this argument to management. To do so, however, the company would need to calculate its Total Cost of Downtime (which probably isn't very complex for many companies) which is its own subject entirely IMO.
"You will need root access to the device to read this directory."

It's not even in the same realm.
Yes. And this trend is reversing. Have a look here: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/machine%20learning.do

Salaries have gone up by 16%
What I'm curious about is how to reliably transit service across Regions. ELBs live in a particular Region, so they don't help. You could certainly register multiple ELBs to the same CNAME and do a limited round robin that way.

But, even if you manually pulled the record for a downed region, you can't rely on downstream DNS to respect your TTLs.

I suppose you'd at least be able to say something like "some of our users" as opposed to "we're completely down." That seems like cold comfort, though.
My GF,is a mathematician. She is beautiful, intelligent, fun, and an incredible artist. We have been together for 10 years. Why havent we married? Between us we have 3 exes and 5 grown children. We have each other and dont need theocratic or societal benediction.
That is the most interesting bit of space knowledge I've ever read. It certainly seems like the potential in Venus is much greater than on Mars. I wonder why the space industry is so fixated on Mars?
Someone mentioned HN in a reddit comment about a week ago. Its over.
Ironically true to a point. In the time between Google and Google Books, a citation pulled from a book or an old newspaper always lost the argument to a citation from Bob's Biased Blog. If information was not on the Internet, it was automatically suspect. That is not how I would choose to judge facts, but I always lost that argument too.

Also, as college students found the Internet faster to research than finding and reading physical books, much information entombed in books was not being considered by the younger generation.
Of course machines aka robots have to do the mining. But I believe you need humans in place to plan and control effectively.

I think the real dispute is about the goals of space exploration. A lot of scientist only want to collect data. That is very important but space exploration is about something else, too. Its about expanding the human territory. You don't have to like the idea. But me and many others do and even think it is a necessary long term.
Well Google is a US Company, and this story is about US Employees so the Laws of the US apply here.
This is outdated. Top non quant funds still pay their programmers 400 - 700k. Places like bridgewater, pimco, etc.
I finally found the time to read the SEP article and all in all I feel the Wikipedia article is a good summary.

Quoting SEP:

"""

Thus, what unifies Nietzsche's seemingly disparate critical remarks — about altruism, happiness, pity, equality, Kantian respect for persons, utilitarianism, etc. — is that he thinks a culture in which such norms prevail as morality will be a culture which eliminates the conditions for the realization of human excellence — the latter requiring, on Nietzsche's view, concern with the self, suffering, a certain stoic indifference, a sense of hierarchy and difference, and the like.

"""

That goes a lot further than just being descriptive, there's a clear value judgement in there.
Smooth-scrolling back through a command that unexpectedly dumped 500 lines of output, using Alacritty and a big scrolling trackball with acceleration, is pretty glorious.
Same applies almost anywhere I guess. I didn't get to every US state on that trip or every national park or every hike in each park. In one day at Disney World's main area, we knocked off a fair few rides - from opening, until late at night with shattered kids. If I'm choosing between seeing the highlights of a whole new place, or getting to a few extra things that I didn't prioritise and missed at Disney, I'll usually take the former. The queueing to thrills ratios tips the scales too even with Fast Pass and Rider Share.

A few weeks after blowing $1k on a day at Disney World, we visited the Amazeum in Bentonville, Arkansas, to the tune of about $40 and my 7yo preferred that. Amazeum and Crystal Bridges as a day out was excellent, for anyone ever in the area.
Unrelated: I just saw Fantastic Fungi[1], a Louie Schwartzberg film, which discusses Psilocybin in depth. It is one of the most visually entertaining movies I've ever seen. Highly recommend!

[1] https://fantasticfungi.com/
I would also add:

1. 60 hours per week at $15/hr for 52.1429 weeks per year is $47k/year.

2. In this magical world where you can get 60 hours per week on the clock, you'd also be entitled to time and a half for 20 hours per week, which would actually be $55k/year. You're underselling it here!

3. And if you're talking about two+ 30 hour / week minimum wage jobs:

3a. Chances are you're now in the world where you also don't get employer healthcare. Hooray!

3b. Good luck getting all of your jobs to schedule in such a way that you actually get all 60 hours per week, without getting fired from your second job because of scheduling conflicts with your first.
I always thought astroturfing was answering your own question, or asking questions that directly referenced the product or service you were affiliated with.
I was aware of that when I wrote my comment. Also the 2.4GHz has a lower inherent range due to higher frequency and water absorption.

I just don't foresee a huge interest in amateur stations being a problem that couldn't be sorted out informally. So Timmy decides to stomp on the broadcast of Tommy a few doors down - they'll figure it out. It certainly can't be worse than the current situation where Tommy isn't broadcasting at all.

Perhaps I'm discounting the effects of "100W SWR-tolerant FM Transmitter" on eBay for $60 direct from China. But shrug with the current state of radio consolidation, why not cross that bridge when we come to it?

FWIW I would say there is clearly more than enough broadcast spectrum to go around at the current prices, given how much dead space there is.
Cool list I made a pull request .
Congrats to my friends Tony and Alex there
Public utilities (and any other kind of government sanctioned/protected monopoly) are a terrible idea. Any other kind of monopoly has pressure to stay ahead, but government backed monopolies don't sort themselves out. The person who compromised the electric system are those who made utilities public.
And that right there is half the problem. Of course, with the low salaries for teachers, all the best talent would rather work hard at something that pays well, so both the degree and the salaries would have to be changed in concert.
I'm in the UK - I'm more than happy that some of my taxes go to giving everyone a pretty decent level of healthcare, does that make me a socialist?
We're missing any level of critical reasoning amongst the readers of the articles.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/24/early_apple_sound_de.ht...
If anyone's considering picking up newLISP, be advised they made some widely criticized design decisions (such as omitting lexical scope, closures, pass by reference, and GC) intended to speed up the interpreter. Last I heard, they don't plan on having a compiler.

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=2911
I doubt that's true, at least in the UK. Terms and conditions cannot trump your personal rights. We have these terms laid out in the Data Protection Act and I doubt you can sign this away be agreeing to a website policy that contradicts them.
> Wozniak also thinks that the lawsuit from Apple Records was wrong because Apple Computers was not a musical device.

Isn't that the origin of the "sosume" ("so sue me") sound? I thought I remembered that it came about because they were sort of turning around and adding musical ability to something that didn't have it before.

But now we've come full circle, with them offering Beatles songs on iTunes (Apple Records was the label for the Beatles).
You're criticizing a strawman. Nowhere in this article you'll find a claim that "everyone has this problem".

It just states pretty obvious facts about the combined effects of new streams of information (mail/rss feeds/twitter/facebook) and new means of accessing those streams (laptops, smartphones) which leads to a growing addiction to frequent checking those streams.

This is not a novel or controversial point. There've been many articles about this effect in the past and there will be many more in the future.

I can observe this addiction in myself, when I pull out my iPhone to check my Twitter during lunch with my coworkers. I can observe this addiction in my coworkers when I glance and their monitors when I pass by and see the browser opened on Facebook or Twitter. I can see that in people on the street, who walk looking at their iPhones or Droids. I can see that in people in cafes, drinking their lattes with a laptop lid open and browser set on YouTube. I can see that in people like myself, checking Hacker News several times a day.

There is a problem, it is widespread and there is no easy solution. That's all that article is saying.
What were the changes in IPv6, beyond just expanding the address space?
I have amended the section, please check it out.

There is certain technical heritage here.

Originally method calls compiled down to a single IC that did load and call within a IC stub. Type feedback from these ICs was interpreted in the same way as from property load ICs. On the other hand function calls cb(...) compiled down to a call through CallFunctionStub which did not record any feedback whatsoever. At some point CallFunctionStub learned to record a bit of type feedback (monomorphic / megamorphic) and we started using it in Crankshaft for speculative inlining.

Only recently method calls were decomposed into Load IC and a separate Call IC (an evolved CallFunctionStub) which invokes loaded function. For property invocation o.m(...) feedback comes from the Load IC now, and Call IC feedback is ignored. For variable invocation cb(...) feedback comes from the Call IC - which is still only able to distinguish only monomorphic and megamorphic state.