jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Those were fun days. We even had a couple races: fresh install, who can get infected the fastest.
Do... do you realize that a subreddit isn’t a website? That it’s hosted and operated by Reddit?
Isn't it a "page" or "document", and not a "website"?
i honestly dont get the point of the website....could you add an explanation?
The first paragraph describes a common structure of the articles in The Economist, which goes a long way towards explaining why it is so satisfying to read.
You think... that I don't know the United States is composed of states? If that's what you're getting out of this, I don't think I can advance the conversation any further.
I sure hope Zoom goes away; they way they've repeatedly lied about behavior and security just ASTONISHES me, especially since they've experienced zero backlash.

They've got CIOs utterly snowed, which is honestly a huge indictment of CIOs, including and especially those in "government" roles.
It's also gotta be super read heavy so traditional caching methods would work well
We initially bought a cheaper Schwinn IC4, subscribed to the Peloton app ($12.99/month), and used our 7 year-old iPad to get nearly the same experience (minus the Leaderboard functionality and probably other things). Eventually we wondered why we were even spending $12.99/month on it, as my partner only had a few instructors that she liked, and neither of us could understand, or get behind, the "Peloton culture". We ultimately canceled and now just ride the bike without a class.
I would love to contribute night mode to HN. It's my least favorite thing about reading the fantastic discussions here. Anyone have ideas on how I can go about doing that?
"or worse, by blockchain technology" -> I really would appreciate if you could elaborate on this. Blockchain technology has its pros and cons, depending on the underlying consensus algorithm, but it could certainly be put to good use in the context of a political aware project promoting decentralization and freedom ?
Hum... The article puts no effort on determining how much work went into that comment's assessment and how useful it was to people looking into invest some effort on migrating and learning how to use it.
We've been pushing the limits of things which we care a lot about and invest a lot of time and money into. Is portrait painting one of those things? My impression is that it took a bit of a dip when the camera was invented, and the number of people doing it seriously today is fairly low. There are plenty of digital artists making images of human beings, but how many of them are traditional portraits? Probably not too many. So, it would not surprise me if the field had not increased as much as, say, chess or semi-conductor production.
ADHD is recognized as a disability that employers are required to make accommodations for under the ADA (in the US). If you disclose your ADHD diagnosis to your employer, they are required to take reasonable measures to enable you to do your job. I have not gone through this process myself however, so I cannot vouch for how it would go for anyone else and YMMV. Here's a resource to explore this option further:

https://chadd.org/adhd-weekly/asking-for-workplace-accommoda...
“Yeah, but sometimes you just gotta say, ‘what the heck!’” (Except without the h and e, replace with f and u.)

?? You call yourselves Schiit Audio but you can't bring yourself to write "fuck"??
That's using the abrasive silica in the toothpaste (aka "sand") as a very mild polishing agent.
Maybe, maybe not. Keep in mind that as a biological actor, garlic and other allicin-containing substances have the ability to adapt generationally to meet changes in bacteria. That's an advantage that is not innate to our own antibiotics.

Also, that allicin kills MRSA is not news by any measure. Here's an article from 2008:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/article127...
Smooth as silk on Windows 8 + Firefox 25 at 2560x1600 full-screen. Amazing.
Interestingly I just found redacted font from product hunt which seems to have similar vision.
https://github.com/christiannaths/Redacted-Font

Either way, good job, will use either one in some projects!
Thanks :)
.. Do the customers know you're recording calls?
I'm curious as to how you guys manage to crash the OS by using too much RAM. As an engineer, I semi-frequently use up all the RAM+swap on my desktop (running Arch Linux) by various CFD programs, blender etc. When that happens, I go get a cup of coffee, and when I come back the system is OK, except for the offending program which has segfaulted/crashed.
Have you bothered to read the "Version 15.0" column at all?
Thanks for the response. I basically want to run a Linux desktop (XMonad... How'd I live before it?) but also have Windows available for VS/Office, an occasional game, and some hobbyist pro audio stuff. With the security of everything as a guest OS. If Windows had any sort of real containerization it'd be a lot less of an issue.

Unlikely, but if MS ever got serious about making the client great, I'm sure they'd leave Workstation behind right quick. But it's still pretty much a server oriented with a few bones tossed to client use.
> I can assure you that in threads and forums other than this one that plenty of people have claimed Bitcoin is destined to replace traditional currencies worldwide

At the risk of pissing off numerous Bitcoin fanboys, I think Ripple has a greater chance of world domination than Bitcoin, despite their different purposes/design. Any currency that isn't linked to a power base, IMHO, has little chance for world domination. Then again, what do I know... IANAE (economist :).
These are weasel words. Miguel de Icaza's post explains the issue:

> My problem is that for as long as I have tried to figure out, Dropbox made some bold claims about how your files were encrypted and how nobody had access to them, with statements like:…

> - Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files, and when troubleshooting an account they only have access to file metadata (filenames, file sizes, etc., not the file contents)…

> But this announcement that they are able to decrypt the files on behalf of the government contradicts their prior public statements.

Dropbox are avoiding answering this. If they derived the encryption key from your password, as JWZ explained http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/04/dropbox-doesnt-actually-encr... and as occurred to any halfway decent hacker, they wouldn't need to have the ability for their employees to decrypt your files — an ability which they are still claiming to not have.

And this is just insulting:

> We understand that many of you have been confused by this situation — and some folks even felt like we misled them

The problem isn't that we were confused or what we felt or that we were unintentionally "misled". The problem is that, apparently, you lied to us in order to defraud your customers.
And the newer E911 requirements which kick in next year call for 100m accuracy.
Actually the official line is that Easter Monday got moved to Tuesday.
A couple of years ago you had expressed interest in making a port to App Engine, any interest in doing that still? Want any help? ;)
What does this have to do with Japan?
I have, often. Why would you think I hadn't? You must not have looked at my comment history.

Here's an example from the first page of my comment history. Me responding to pg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2342860
Not sure about that. The Web Platform installer has introduced a lot of pain to what used to be fairly simple proceedings. It probably my least favorite application to use.

I set up an Windows 2008 R2 instance on EC2 the other day that did not have IIS7 installed. Even launching the WPI on that instance was painful. IE8 is the default browser, and the default settings in IE wouldn't let you launch the application, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out where the security restrictions were.

So then I went and download Chrome which didn't have the security restrictions, and then I was able to download the WPI and run it.

From within the WPI, I selected IIS7 and .NET 4.0. Ninety minutes later + a reboot or two later IIS7 was installed.
Mask is a poor choice of words.

It like saying you are banning me from taking a nissan sentra to your business. If I come back in a toyota corolla I've broken your law.

What you really meant to say is that I am banned, not the car. Since you don't know who I am, you can't ban me...only the car.

This law is stupid.
>Regulatory capture is THE problem.

This is difficult for me to understand. Are you suggesting that if nuclear power were completely unregulated, Tepco's behavior would've been more virtuous (as I read it, totally virtuous)?

Or is the claim that regulation made the problem somewhat worse, and this margin (between how bad the problem would've been without regulation and how bad it was with regulation) is the only part that would even be humanly possible to rectify?

Because if I owned the plant and I didn't have any regulators to deal with, I would think it in my interest to behave even worse: to lie more, to hide more, to be even less concerned about doing a thorough job of preventing the public's exposure to regulation.
This is really hard to take seriously, because it's operating under the assumption that 'freemium' is some sort of digital innovation. Businesses have been trying to get people in the door and then convert them to paying customers for a long time: whether its a bookstore holding a reading, test drives at auto agencies, etc., the idea of offering a value proposition to inbound consumers in order to reduce the friction of making a purchase is not particularly novel.
Which thought experiment?
Good points!

"Parts:whole"?

That's where "local complexity : global simplicity" tradeoffs come into play; well-defined boundaries (coherent interfaces) are key to striking the right balance.

"Now:future"?

Yeah, YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It") and STTCPW (Simplest thing that could possibly work) are good rules of thumb.

Finally, as for "not my problem"?

IMHO (and IME, 21yrs in the industry), that's a dangerously myopic stance. Those who make the effort to expand their perspective beyond the scope of their immediate tasks and responsibilities are those whose skills, powers, value and influence show commensurate growth. By all means, be a good team player and do your (current) job to the best of your abilities, which includes efficiency and ergonomics and awareness of available shortcuts. But if you do this for too longbe aware of the compounding effects, not only on the larger system's technical debt, but also the limits this may be placing on your career.
I'm cancelling mine because of this as well. Your bank should know enough to keep locks on it's doors...
Not really sure what to say about this sad event except that folk medicine is utter bollocks and those who peddle it are charlatans and frauds.
Why the downvotes? Many US pages are increasingly annoying to read from the EU, this is genuinely helpful.
But the value of preserving your existing address exactly, including .org on the end, mostly only exists in browsers, where humans find things initially.

Actually, I bet by now it doesn't even matter that much even there any more. Consider how the search in google already forms an effective alternative dns for many actual humans attempting to manually go somewhere.

If you have a .org domain, you can change all the non-browser uses of the domain pretty easily. The tools in the background of things don't care what the names are. You can change them and it's really not that much of a disruption.

Once someone finds your site, via their browser, you can populate that site with whatever kinds of urls and directions and references you want. Just like no one really cares how ugly and long all the urls to actual things other than the front page are. Your site can include say, the directions to access your API, and those directions don't have to say foo.org in them. Even existing api users that break if you have to change your name, can react to that change easily enough.

Email is probably the biggest problem. We will all simply have to never pin too much dependency on any single email address. But we already have to do that, so no loss.

If you had set up your own domain so you weren't at the mercy of google killing your gmail account and killing your ability to prove ownership of everything else in your life, well you would just need to have more than one email registered with everything like paypal etc. So me@mydomain.org can break and you don't die from it.

You just better realize your domain is going to break and unregister those emails everywhere before it goes into someone else's hands. Because when someone else owns a domain, then they can receive all emails sent to any name at that domain, including "reset password" mails.

It's not the most fun passtime, but it's not necessarily the end of the world either.

It really is human interactive web browser usage where the exact name matters most. So if cloudflare and google simply sent browsers to the right place and ignored the traditional root authority for .org, or any other name lookup, that would pretty much be good enough.

Google could do it already without even violating dns just through search results.
You're absolutely right of course.

But even now I have to adapt on screen shares when my coworkers are using dark themes before sunset. Can't imagine what that would be like with different code formatting. So the next next step is to display their desktop with my theme.

IOW collaboration tools still have a long way to go.
They can always take a competitive stance later, once small businesses have gotten rid of all their PoS hardware. This makes that initial adoption much easier.
Most of Microsoft Word was written by one programmer, the late Willoughby Whigginton, formerly of Microsoft.

"Will", as his friends knew him, despaired and committed suicide after the 8,234th time an unwitting stranger greeted him yet again with the expression "Word®, Dude!".
Not true. If you cut down the number of preforked processes and use spamd spamassassin works just fine in a VPS with limited memory.

Also, SA leverages blacklist services (and other techniques, it's very configurable) and is easier to integrate into your mail server.
> "Taking a call" is an example, an placeholder for X.

Then it's a stupid example, because it's not a placeholder. It's a very specific action and one important for a phone. Important enough that it's always been possible to take a call while doing something else on an iphone.
> If you were paying attention, exclusive features for own products is Apple tactics, not Googles.

Yet Navigation is s a piece of software by google for google's platform.

> Actually, there were people asking why Google bothers with Maps and Voice for iPhone (i.e. why it is helping iPhone at expense of Android).

You seem unaware that Maps for iPhone is written entirely by Apple using Google's public APIs. As for voice, it's obviously because getting more people to use Voice plays to Google's advantage.

> If you know the answer why, you already know why Google doesn't play platform favorites.

because their platform (services) stand on top of other platforms.
It is difficult to find the case study reference, I believe it was in a business textbook I read some 15 years ago.

The human factors surrounding the disaster are rarely considered, as articles tend to focus on either the environmental pollution, or the large loss of human lives.

The best I can find for a web-available resource is this:

http://www.umass.edu/sts/pdfs/Bhopal_AChrono.pdf
I can't name the architect for the office building I'm sitting in. Or the designer of my (distinctly average) car.

Having said that, I know that Tim Berners Lee created the Web, Jon Resig built jQuery and James Dyson designed my vacuum cleaner.

I don't think creating something "you use all day" should qualify you for being famous. Doing something new and very innovative sometimes does though.
Well ain't that great pr...

I believe that BP's pr department consists of old pr people past their prime - people who're still living in a world where there's only a couple of information sources (TV, Newspapers) and they're putting those strategies into use in the modern world...

And the end result?

Endless blog posts about how BP has done an awful job of clearing that mess up
For some reason, this very strongly reminded me of this scene from Entourage where Johnny Drama has to audition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIHC57rdYMM

"Still I have to sing for my supper."

It's like Zed Shaw is really angry and yelling at the hiring manager "Do you know who I am?!"
Area 51 was the place where v2 where tested. The UFO bs was just a convenient conspiracy theory to hide the fact USA was relying on more than morally unclear methods to get the former IIIrd reich scientists to do their job.

It consisted notably in either stealing precious brains from the germany that was in need, and -more troubling- preventing some persons to face the consequence of their action in front of a tribunal (war crime).

For the record condor and gladio operations also are more than morally questionable and also rely on explicit infringement in what a state is authorized to do on foreign ground: killing people arbitrarily without a trial.

I don't think that creating in relation with stuff like the infamous P12 loge (in which il cavaliere was, and some of well known mafioso) a program of "pseudo communist terrorisms" that were in fact the opposite and resulted in civilian killed by terrorist actions is not kind of consistent with the USA claim of war on terrorism.

USA is looking more and more like the former soviet union. NSA invasive techniques to spy on citizens are now as efficient as the former KGB used to be (that became the FSB and whose latest well known head was V. Poutine)
how i feel about atom.io...
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg876/scaled.php?tn=0&server=876&...
No exit node operator has ever been taken to court over something like this. The police eventually realize their mistake, realize the Tor node is of no help to their investigation, and move on.

As more law enforcement become literate in technology and become aware of what Tor is, this will happen less than the vanishingly improbable rate that it happens now, until it never happens at all.
Clearly, the biggest sorrow of the socialist is not that the people are starving, but that the rich aren't starving alongside them.
What is the actual current issue
> This drug has severe side effects

To clarify, hydroxychloroquine has far fewer side effects than chloroquine.
Bear in mind that as a non American, invoking a right to bear arms actively turns me off whatever you're trying to sell me. Too much damage has been done to my home country by violent groups who took up arms against the state and each other.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Scannable yet, by Evernote. I use it regularly: it's a simple and pleasant marvel of technology. Free, no account, point your camera at a doc and it somehow recognizes it, snaps a pic and makes it look just like a document scan, no shadow no nothing. Share as PDF or image. Miles ahead of Apple's "import scan from iPhone" feature, even though it predates it.

I don't have an Evernote account but I'd definitely pay a few bucks for this app if they pulled up a paywall.
I'm always looking for new people to follow, could you write up the accounts you find most useful/novel/interesting?
I'm sure yours is a great comment, but too many acronyms for an average reader to be able to follow.
Physicians are repair technicians. Would you want your auto mechanic going against what the manufacturer recommends for regular maintenance?
Challenge + Winner: http://phdchallenge.org/awards
You have to include an update mechanism in the core of distributed software?
> but they idea that there is a single "thing" called process and some places have it and some don't is just dangerously misleading.

Is that what I said? No.

I got into computers because I dislike people: leave me alone and let me work.
It's a sign they are willing to chill speech they deem to be untrue. They have become the arbiters of truth on their platform.
Cool! I thought you could build something even more engaging with this https://dasha.ai/en-us/developers.
its hilarious that chinese state media are on twitter using this to prove how their harshly authoritarian measures are justified
Yeah I was surprised it became so fast once I started using small networks. I actually toyed with the idea of slowing down the transition to results artificially to provide better UX lol
Men get slapped or hit with bottles or glasses when they come on too strong as well. I think this is bad behavior and it's because of the person. You think it matters if a girl breaks something glass on your face that she's weaker? You're still going to have glass pieces embedded in your face.

This is not a gender issue. It's an issue of not assaulting another person.
I know China uses a lot of Linux... how the hell do they get by with SSH?! If you are an administrator wouldn't SSH immediately flag you as using a VPN?
I think she describes it pretty well in the blog post, she uses the existing ContentID system which effectively DMCA's the video user internally and then gives them the option of adding Google advertising or taking it down.

From the user's perspective, the change would be "Go here ... and request a sync license to this music content." rather than a checkbox to just turn on Google advertising. If they didn't want to do that then they would need to take down the video.

She is already sending auto-takedowns, Google simply wants to double dip on the value, both getting advertising revenue from her work when fans use it in their videos and using it to attract more customers to their music service by giving her songs away for free when it pleases them.
I wonder how much karma is needed for such change
Another, simpler explanation for a slowdown in innovation is that the innovators have harvested all of the low-hanging fruit.
In the first segment, the slope for Python is not equal to one.
Actually no, you can put code in the public domain, thereby explicitly waiving your copyright. I believe, for example, that all code written by the US government is in the public domain.
C'mon, the guys been a bit of a dick but this is going a little too far I think. Let's reign back on the Internet Mob Justice.
IP geolocation might not have high accuracy to match person https://www.ip2location.com/data-accuracy
I have a CM Storm with Blues, and it really is awesome (as awesome as getting a new keyboard can be!) You should buy one for the ~60-70 USD if you're interested, worst-case you have a new keyboard (probably one that is known to be reliable), best case you're a whole lot happier typing!
People roll out either depending on the situation. It is hand waving, not reasoning. IOW, you can explain anything away by taking one of the two sides of this argument. "You think you are good? Ha, no, dunning. Oh, you are not sure you are good? Ha, wrong, you must be great" type stuff. While these effects exist in large populations, you can't really use them to reason about any specific instance.
> You could use variable length indexing method to minimise that third point though, much like UTF8 for text - the vast majority of references need not require close to the 40 bits.

It's the other way around. If you used variable length indexes, most of your symbols will be much larger than 40 bits.

Take as an example a set of 256 byte long symbols. If you shorten one of them to a "1" bit, you just used half of the symbols you could represent with that byte, and almost half of them will need to grow at least one bit.
MMA isn't a style per se - the intention is to allow martial artists from any style to compete within rules designed to allow reasonable safety.

Currently the Muay Thai / BJJ combo is the most common and generally successful, but some winning MMA fighters have incorporated elements of styles as diverse as Tae Kwon Do, Western boxing, and even Capoeira.