jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In particular as it was only 23% effective this year:
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-news/flu-vaccine-not-working-we...
The men are sexualized too. Just not in the hyper masculine sense.
It's actually more significant than that.

At some point in the past 10 or 15 years, Minnesota (I think) passed a law barring police in that state from doing so.

The police didn't stop... they just filed it under the federal civil forfeiture program, took their 80% cut and it continued.

So stopping the federal program will let states fix this, when until now it was futile to try.
They do lead to humorous Court Case names:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity_of_Books_v._Kansas
Welp, time to register an account on jabber.org

I don't really understand why they took the XMPP API to such lengths (it even displayed OTR messages as [encrypted message], that's not really the kind of thing that comes to mind instantly when I think about an XMPP API) to finally deprecate it. Pidgin will probably see a sudden surge of bug reports.
Indeed, the only thing that could make it better is if issues were integrated into git somehow. Maybe just another branch similar to wiki/gh-pages?
> Netflix is one of the first ContentProviders to be pumping so much traffic that they will imbalance the peering traffic ratios of any almost any Tier 1 they buy transit/CDN from

That's only relevant if the transit/CDN is actually peering with another Tier 1 provider to deliver the Netflix traffic (cases 1/2). What's been in the news has been cases 3/4 where there's a single transit provider in the picture and there's no reason for the ISP not to accept the content with no compensation for the asymmetry as it has a client paying him for that service.

> except for probably Google, which ended up doing what Netflix is doing now: paid peering.

Do you mean Google is also paying ISPs for access to users like Netflix has had to? Because if you mean Google is having to do paid peering with transit providers because their traffic is asymmetric that would just be normal payment for transit, as if Level3/Cogent/etc where providing transit to them.
> That capitalism is being used at all to describe our current system, is a misnomer.

Well then I'm confused, since I was just going by what you seemed to refer to. And I assumed that you were talking about a contemporary (now, + recent history) capitalistic system. What kind of capitalism were you talking about? Something that existed before but doesn't anymore?
> First and third world do not mean "rich" and "poor".

They do now, in this post-1991 world.

> They refer to political alignment with the United States (first), USSR (second), or unaligned (third world).

So China was Third World in 1990? That's not going to be very defensible, except in terms of the definition you just gave, which lost all relevance in 1991.

My point is, the meanings of the words have changed, and trying to use them in their original sense now is just perverse. The original sense was predicated on a political reality which is now gone.
The article gives too much credit to Russia / Putin and totally disregards the political inclination of the participating Americans itself. (Isn't there some quote about not attributing something to malice when plain stupidity is a simpler explanation?)
I have just migrated one non-IT group chat from FB. Everybody is happy so far. Actually all of them dispise Facebook and were more than happy to move to something else. Setup was easy.
This is all I get: https://ibb.co/N62J5cK
"Skip" is the only thing I can really do here.

> When you see this message a notification will show up on all of your other Element devices asking you to verify that new session

I have two element devices, both PCs at different locations. And both using the web version of Element. Am I supposed to verify the other device while logged in at both PCs at different locations?

EDIT:
And this is the "help us improve element" message that always pops up, no matter how many times I decline: https://ibb.co/WKkDHDd
You’d be accused of creating a platform for nazis and pedophiles unless you remove that content. And rightly so. Allowing everything isn’t a shield from that accusation, nor should it be. Good faith moderation is.

Since there are platforms without that content, the effect of starting a new platform allowing it is that you get a disproportionate amount of the most extreme content. You become the gab or parler or t_d.win.

Next, if your content has an extremely high ratio of content that must be moderated to be allowed in a “parent service” (App Store, cloud provider, credit card company) then your moderation burden is higher than your competition. Your ad revenue is also likely smaller. So basically, it’s simply very difficult economically to create such a platform.
I hope that long term there is some sort of a government oversight that manages actions like these...
Great initiative. FYI: I help devs find indy (and regular) books on ruby @ http://planetruby.github.io/books

PS: The website source and data is public domain / open. Fork away for other languages / topics more than welcome :-).
That's a bad line to draw. "We're helpless to do anything until someone dies" isn't likely to draw a lot of sympathy.
From FAQ: Q: Can I backup my messages? A: No. :(

The killer feature set of a messaging system that will allow it to crush WhatsApp, Signal, Session, etc:

* Fully open source ( app, nodes, everything )

* End-to-end encryption ( obviously )

* Rotating keys for deniability. Basically just create time valid subkeys and periodically post the private key to the subkeys. Probably once a day would be sufficient.

* Full message export/import including tweaking and faking messages. It isn't really deniable if you can't show you could easily fake some past messages.

* Fully capable Linux client, so that we aren't forced to use an untrusted and possibly backdoored phone to use it.

* Extra secure time bucketed send/receive if you want to avoid timing attacks on location.

* Hash section bucketed messages along with the bucket by time. For example, if your public key is 4BC56..., you can request all messages sent to 4BC* and get them all, so it isn't then obvious who exactly you are.

* Subkey unique per communication partner. This way gaining someones subkey for a time period doesn't let you potentially capture other packets you know are encrypted and decrypt them too...

* URL based identity. Post your public key to URL; tada that URL can then be used as your identity. Have a bunch of different secure countries host free identity upload sites.

* Group chat which just makes it so you communicate every message to every other partner in the group chat and vice versa. Any other way wouldn't be secure.

* Message size padding to private size based packet matching.

* Automatic sending of periodic messages to bogus destinations. This way it is not immediately apparent if you are sending something out or not. Preferably this would include adding random people and engaging in nonsense chat sessions with them for random amounts of time. Only the client on the other end would know if it is a bogus message or not.

* Message nodes completely wipe all data hourly ( for regular messages ) or daily ( for the daily grouped messages )

* Message nodes all ban any client attempting to download more than a certain threshhold of data. Publish the banned clients publicly. Expose the watchers.

* No registration. Basically anyone should be able to send/receive through whichever node they wish that has available bandwidth. You send an encrypted chunk with a destination ID. Others can download chunks tagged with some hash part of the destination.

* Central "saturation tracking node" that receives saturation from all registered nodes in the system and just publishes a file on a URL for whoever wants it to figure out which node they will use to communicate that isn't over-saturated.

* Can post a set of nodes you listen on to your URL with public key periodically so clients know how to start communication with you. Once established; switch to unsaturated nodes...

The following features are somewhat irrelevant:

* Onion routing. Just connect to the service through any number of other onion routing systems. No need to put all our eggs in one basket. Use a private VPN + Tor to connect to the system. Done.
But it is good "profit taking": selling good x86 products that can't be made with Intel fabrication processes (which apparently offer a choice between too old, not working or not ready) instead of selling nothing (at least, not in satisfactory quantities).
Right but if you're vaccinated, you'd hope the immune system could attack HIV before it could take hold.
The death penalty is a longstanding tradition at both Disneyland (in California) and Disney World (Florida), so how is this title so shocking?
Due to the completely ridiculous nature of downvoting on this site these days, I've deleted my posts.

I'm done commenting here as long as this site remains this unfriendly to differing opinions.

And that's after years of participation and over 15,000 karma points. Something has changed, and it's not at all for the better.
Was it a bit stifling, even with air-con/ventilation, not being able to open windows for fresh air? I don't think I could get used to that!
My startup, BrowserUp has something that does this. We're looking for early-beta users and feedback. I'd love to chat when you have a chance. On gmail, I'm ebeland.
I used Datalog a good deal in grad school (CS). It was frustrating at first, but once I figured it out, I liked it a lot.

If you've never tried a declarative programming language, you should give Datalog a try.
I agree, and I would go slightly farther. One of the lessons the mortgage bubble taught us is how much executives benefit from plausible deniability. For corporate crime, I think the standard of "knew or should have known" should apply. If CEOs are going to hoover up a lot of the profits when things go right, they should hold at least as much responsibility when things go wrong on their watch.
Depends on how fast you want it to generate results, but yes, it can run on a desktop provided there's enough RAM.
There is a difference between what the US does vs. what someone like Qasem Soleimani did.
Would this work for Java?
You can change things if you have power and demonstrate that it'll work. Otherwise, leave.
Numerous pre-historic era archaeological sites (eg. remote places in Tibet). Ruins yet to be unearthed (eg. Sumatra). Major ancient world sites (Nalanda, Silk Road oases) The initial locations of famous chemical syntheses. Specialist factories. CERN. Remote islands. Undersea trenches.
My findings largely reflect this, but I have to admit that I stopped after about 10 projects. Now I will no longer do a KS, regardless of the product, or the founder, or the price. I'll just wait, pay full price later if it's worth it, and save myself the frustration and multiple "regrettable delay" notes.
I'm a fan of plain text protocols but I think the web has gotten to the point were the adversaries are so intrusive and powerful that it all needs to be encrypted, including the headers.

For example, HTTP2 will stop ISP header injection such as this: http://www.propublica.org/article/somebodys-already-using-ve...
Don't like to read articles much? Take a look at clickbank.com.

They seem to be doing alright with a "stupid idea".
Petrovic,

Your experience isn't that far-fetched. While your observation about risk taking and entrepreneurial spirit may be true in the US, the culture of risk avoidance exists in the US too. Unlike what we see on TV, there is a whole other side to America that people outside America do not see. (I say this as an immigrant myself).

However, I do agree that having 16 managers preview a site pre-launch and having to resort to "getting-back" on the answer to yes/no question appears lethargic. It appears that the organization's legal folks had not been engaged at the right juncture to comment on the content.
> A good place to start isn't by solving someone else's problem, its solving your own.

This is exactly what I've done for my HN November Launch App (http://www.minklinks.com/). I repeatedly send links to my wife from various computers and became cognizant of how awkward it was. We're both avid Instapaper users so a bookmarklet seemed like an obvious way to share links without leaving a page. The beta should kick in next week, but I'm still accepting signups.
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The only downside there is the 2-year requirement between grant date and sale of stock, but that is unlikely if the company is still granting ISOs rather than RSUs. The second clause of that sentence is standard long term capital gains, which applies to NSOs as well; there's no restriction on either grant type on when you are allowed to sell the stock units once you exercise the option.
I won't deny that selfishness and abuse can work. That doesn't mean it's a good thing, or that I'll encourage it in any way.

If you're doing things right then there won't be any anxiety when asking your question in public, because you'll have done all you can on your own and be in a position to ask intelligently. If you're abusing other people's time because you can't be arsed to put in effort on your own, you should feel anxious about it.
Early exercise still seems like a better option than waiting if there is a positive exit event since you get to pay capital gains rates, rather than income tax rates if you hold it for more than a year.

It certainly depends on how much risk you're willing to take on though.
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Back in the day, those types of cards were available, though a little uncommon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe_Card

https://www.applerepairmanuals.com/the_manuals_are_in_here/P...
If you are killing off all the Neanderthal men you are not "absorbing" them.

If Neanderthals also could do the opposite, I guess it'd be called 'absorbing', since it's more fair.

But this also would need humans accepting 50/50 children in the tribe.

When you spell it out, it doesn't make sense. This is why I'd want to know how you do this.

Adding Neanderthal women to your slaves and killing the men, and keeping them there multi-generational until they become blended makes more sense to me for instance. But that's wiping them out, not absorbing them.
> based on who can waste the most energy

not unrelated is the disk storage the block chain will eventually require, now ZFS and storage density arms races make sense
Carbon taxes are how Tesla Inc makes money.
All allowed under the Federal Reserve Act to operate in credit and financial markets. But no individual/retail operations.

The Fed does not have the infrastructure or authority to help the Little Guy/Gal.

You may wish to examine some of the biases that the American Action Forum has:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Action_Network

Again: if you want the Joe/Jane Doe helped, that's Congress. The Fed is about Wall Street and not about Main Street, and that's by design.
That new network has existed for years, the lightning network.
> A few thousand software developers can and did obviate maybe million+ secretaries, travel agents, book sellers, retail middlemen, map makers, camera manufacturers, advertisers etc.

Your point isn't necessarily wrong, but it's worth pointing out how that came to be. Said software developers did not appear out of thin air, they were raised and educated by society and have inherited technology unprecedented in scale and influence. And this is only a development of the last 80 years or so. This probably calls for a reframing of how we think about individual economic value, at least in a distributive sense.
What they're referring to here is that medieval European aristocrats were typically military aristocrats, with the power to personally command troops and fight wars in addition to administering their lands. Random farmers who got levied into an army wouldn't have gained high social status from it.
You were trying to make the point that "It makes absolutely no difference in my life" -- do you want to continue elaborating?
We have long-term plans for integrating some kind of rewriting system. Justin Pombrio is doing really interesting work in this direction (e.g., http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pk-res...). We are rethinking what it means to be “hygienic”, so it'll be a while, probably. But it's a thing we're taking very seriously.
"Our goal is a zero-compromise combination of hackability and usability"

I can see a huge compromise in hackability - its core is closed source.
No, you aren't. I prefer nearest-neighbor too, I think it preserves the "spirit" of the game. Generally speaking, I prefer it for any kind of "pixel art".

That said, those algorithms are impressive, and I can see why someone could prefer them over a simple nn.
> On the topic of men in prison, the US does indeed have a rape culture. I thought it was clear from context that I'm using the term the way western feminists do, but I guess I should have been explicit.

I am afraid it wasn't clear. I do not have all the same cultural references and opinions you do. I saw the phrase "the US does not have a rape culture" and I thought, that sounded a little finger pointy. That's all, I suppose that drives an urge in me to point the finger back. Glass houses and all that. I can agree with some of what you say, especially when you said you meant "modern", not "western" as I think we have different definitions for the latter.

Perhaps my opinion is driven from a colonial history of my country and your country has less of that. Anyway, I have a feeling if we went further down this rabbit hole we would end up seeing eye to eye on many things, I'll draw this one up to a simple cultural misunderstanding, not of you in India, but of you and I. So with that, I won't take up any more of your time.
I am building something similar [0] (think Jupyter for the web, without the Observable black box, supporting clientside Python), also to scratch my own itch. I think you need to solve a problem directly, instead of being "a new tool that I now have to learn".

In my case I am trying to get Javascript/visualization/web developers to embrace the literate programming paradigm. The tough part here is that those familiar with something like Jupyter don't often know web APIs very well to really build a simple "app" in 100 lines, and those who do have probably never used a "notebook" at all and wouldn't even consider it.

How I am currently adressing this issue is by embracing content authoring first. The base of my tool are now WYSIWYG blocks, with the "super powers" being use-as-you-learn. Think gitbook but it's actually notebooks: that's not too scary. In your case it may mean some pre-built drag and drop no-code visualizations.

Importantly: don't give up now. My project has gotten some attention, but not nearly as much as I think it deserves. Follow the advice of others: see who really has a need for your product and let them help guide your next steps.

Finally, check out ellx [1] too as it's quite similar in its target audience.

[0]: https://starboard.gg
[1]: https://ellx.io/
Maybe not a single reference device, but there are fairly standard devices that are advertised, ship with, and offer support for Linux. The HP Z8 claims "Ubuntu. Certified and pre-installed." I've always run RHEL or CentOS on them and the company I worked for paid Red Hat for kernel customizations...so I figured there was comparable support. Yes, these are workstations, but HP says the same thing about their zbook. I've just never used those.

System76 manufactures computers exclusively for Linux. Dell XPS laptops are also pretty popular with Linux users. Thinkpads were historically, as well.

I would think you could get financial support for a few base models and enough widespread support for at least half a dozen hardware configurations.

https://www8.hp.com/us/en/workstations/z8.html
ASCII has a limited number of characters, so they designed it so some do double-duty. The grave could be a grace accent if you backspaced over a letter, or it could be an opening quote mark. The apostrophe was the reverse: it could be the acute accent. The fonts were drawn so these characters were angled enough to be accents, but also looked like quote marks. The apostrophe wasn't a vertical prime sign. Angle brackets and greater/lesser-than also double-up.
Its probably 4.4 of the Android Market TOS..as far as a violation.

Or someone else has a copyright claim against you. In that case I think they will send you a copy of the DCMA if that has occurred.
Exactly. I have a WDTV Live Plus that allows me to stream netflix and other services. Also watch any HD movie or tv show downloaded from the internet or a local drive/NAS. There are many such affordable devices out there offering that ability.
That's not true either, there aren't many 140-char URLs anyway.
So, how about Expansion?
an alternative to twitter or facebook would have a comparable audience volume.

there are plenty of alternatives functionally -- but no alternatives realistically.
As a leftist, I am torn as the President did just incite a coup attempt, but this is a decisive demonstration that mega-corporations can just discipline the speech of the president (really the enemies of the DNC currently, though that will change to Rs in future elections). I think they will exploit these powers to a far greater extent going forward. There is nothing to celebrate here.

Trump's base of support is insane, but somewhat independent of control by Washington (versus the Democratic party electorate which loyally votes for the chosen leader). The establishment is finally asserting its power to lay down the law. Unfortunately, the country is spinning out of control for reasons they can't or won't manage so this will only be a band-aid though it's gonna hurt for us.