jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I think we would be better off reevaluating business models rather than suffering the effects of trying to preserve out-dated ones.

What sort of business model do you think would be effective?
Oh...perhaps I should also say that I think we should all put links to quora questions in the wiki where appropriate.
Esther Dyson is a technologist and VC who participated in the Personal Democracy Forum's symposium on Wikileaks this past weekend. Video archive of the panel is available: http://www.livestream.com/pdfleaks
yes, for very small values of perma
But, specific to Gawker's case -- where the databases and source code are compromised, this would not work, correct? There'd have to be some salt that does not exist in the database, config files, or source code. I guess one could, as a (weak) added level of security, pass-in values when a server is spun-up (or apache, etc) that are part of the launching of apps, but not store in files of any kind.
No plankton means no oxygen planet-wise (forests provide zero or negative oxygen yield) as far as I know.
How have you been building websites professionally without running into performance limitations of default kernel settings? Do you use a hosting service or something for your jobs?
I agree with Nir, HMOs are carrying a huge amount of the load here (after the government supplying all those vaccines). You have 4 HMOs total -- one of them (Clalit) being huge -- so there's not much fragmentation; a very fast crew of health workers which allows us to reach that level of vaccinations/day; and an existing well-tested infrastructure for flu vaccines, which are in high demand each year.

I don't think the military was involved yet, and religion was in fact working against vaccination efforts as a few anti-vax rabbis drove sectors of the Haredi population off.

EDIT: Saw another comment about a person in uniform doing the immunization so I might've been wrong about the army's involvement. But either way most comments referring to military involvement mean i.e. wartime levels of involvement, military handing out gas masks door-to-door etc. We're not at the level that the army is a sizable force, from what I can tell. (Except immunizing their own soldiers of course)
Oh for sure, and the purpose of those links is not to imply that it's too often. Reposts are fine on HN if a story hasn't had a big discussion after a year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). I just list them because people often like to look at the past threads. That's what "For the curious" means :)
We can talk about a Jobs diaster without even leaving the field of mice. The puck mouse was an absolute usability nightmare. It had a circular shape and would always end up twisting slightly so you could never consistently move the direction you expected.
I'd like to see an Internet rfc for how social media companies could share content (RSS may be sufficient) and then have the Feds refuse to have accounts on sites that do not "tear down their walls" and allow for easy, 1st order, content sharing
The point is that waves are inherent in the description, whether it's complex numbers or amplitude + phase.
Why are you putting your content online if you don't care if people can read it?

I think it's great when people really like my writing, and I felt sad when I had a crappy slow blog that couldn't handle HN traffic and a bunch of people were unable to read my content.

I don't make any money off my blog or anything, but it kind of defeats the purpose of having it if 90% of prospective readers are shut out. (And, indeed, probably 90% of traffic occurs in the intervals when I front-page HN or a popular subreddit.)
very nice machine learning releted post amazing share information thanks by @KenoFischer
Maybe because the small apps have a very targeted audience that enjoys dark mode. If you ask 10 random people on the street only 1 will probably know what “dark mode” is or would think about actively switching to it.
> but for that something to be most likely good/positive, you also need therapy

I hear ideas like this (and "In other words, you would need to use the drugs in combination with therapy to obtain good results") repeated all the time, but I'm curious where they come from.

If one spends any time whatsoever in enthusiast communities, the overwhelming sentiment is that these compounds are incredibly helpful even when used alone. This is not to say that individual results wouldn't be even better with therapy, or that there aren't some people who have negative experiences, but these being true also in no ways logically implies that significant benefits cannot be realized by independent usage.

The precise answer to these and other questions, at this current point in time, is: we don't know, with extremely high certainty. But this doesn't mean we don't know anything. Reality is independent of man's understanding (peer reviewed studies) of it - a tree falling in the forest does not require the presence of a scientist.

While it's always a good idea to exercise caution, I suspect advice like "do not use these substances except under professional guidance" is likely more harmful than helpful. It will be years if not decades before formal treatments are available, for many people that may be too late, not to mention the exorbitant price tags these treatments come at. I am more of the mind that people educate themselves on the topic, proceed with caution, work with those who have experience, and proceed slowly and with caution, starting with low dosages and working your way up over time. There is very little trustworthy evidence that I know of indicating there is any kind of substantial risk, and even then that has to be weighed against not just the benefits, but also the risk of doing nothing.
Good luck with your project, it sounds interesting.

FYI, your domain is blocked by Cisco Umbrella (OpenDNS) as "This site is blocked due to a security threat that was discovered by the Cisco Umbrella security researchers." Not sure why, you might want to contact them.
Another perspective: Hong Kongs fate was sealed in 1984 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration with with the Sino British Joint Declaration, something I think of as a time bomb.

The West and China need to acknowledge this problem and find a way forward that does not involve conflict or war.
_most_ developers live where their companies are and _most_ software companies are in big cities and _most_ big cities in 1st world countries are somewhere on the continuum of expensive to freaking expensive unless you want to live in the slums, and most developers get paid well enough to not live in the slums.

put that all together and you have a high cost of living for _most_ developers. "trivial amounts of money" don't go very far in the city.

Yes, you can move to the country but speaking as someone who works remotely, it is NOT easy to get a good remote job with a company that gets remote and there is a ton of competition for each position. So, it's not easy for most of us to just move somewhere cheap and "do a lot with apparently trivial amounts of money" Sure, it's possible. It's just not probable, or likely.
"still"? Do you mean you've had that lack of understanding before, not thought of any possible explanation, and then continued to not understand but be interested enough to post about it online? Surely even the briefest attempt to imagine a reason would come up with "they might use the computer to cheat" or "it's too expensive" or "they'll play games". Since they seem obvious, if you excluded such a possible reason, maybe you could mention that in your post so people don't unhelpfully tell you.
As someone who has used an ad blocker for over 10 years, I have a strong opinion about the ad industry.

Die out, go away, and let us get back to the point where the motivation to publish something on the 'net stems from the desire to share knowledge. To hell with the cacophonous status quo of doing the bare minimum to trick people into giving you their attention in order to fill their head with garbage for a fraction of a penny. And if hosting honest content using central servers costs too much to be sustainable, then let that dead-end approach leave us and make room for decentralized software to deliver information.
I really enjoyed her talk but I found some parts of it slightly contradictory, although I think it's mostly due to a difference in opinion as to what what is or isn't easier to reason about.

A point she made earlier in the talk is the piece that I have become more and more in agreement with over time. Paraphrasing: 'bad abstractions are worse than code duplication'. I would go farther and say that in the modern coding world, premature optimization isn't the root of all evil, premature abstraction is.

The part that I find contradictory is that breaking larger classes into tons of little classes is, to me, a form of abstraction and carries implicit complexicty. She does hit on this point a bit, but it's easier to dodge the issue with simple examples than it is in the wild. Certainly there is a 'cutoff' where a class is too big, but I find that trying to make every method 1 line long and every class completely contained creates huge nested layers of abstractions that are often difficult to follow and hard to reason about for anyone other than the author or someone who has been working on the codebase for a long time.
> These vaccines were invented a year ago

A single scientist at Pfizer created 10 vaccine candidates in a day. Most worked, but some were less 'tolerated' than others. It's ok to do that in a lab setting, with health care standing by. There are limited resources for trials, you can't easily scale to millions.
Does it allow refining the result on iterations? Meaning after getting version one, apply more words to refine the image to a closer description? Because if it does then this can become a very good tool in getting a reliable picture from a witness when asking to describe the suspect. Combine this with existing China's massive surveillance face recognition and you can locate the suspect (or the political dissident) as fast as you get your witness in front of a laptop running this software.

It's a tool, and like any other existing tool it will be used for both bad and good.
The cost of going to a judge for an arrest warrant and then arresting you would cost an least an order of magnitude more than that!
>I don't think it's Python's fault.

Actually it is:

https://xkcd.com/1987/

That said, you would be up and running if you used conda.

And this is not the usual "just try distro X" Linux advocate BS when somebody has an issue with distro Y.

Conda does makes thing more user friendly by focusing on whole environments. Actually that's why it was built for.

Note that this applies for this situation. For other uses cases, e.g. deploying something to production, having used conda would have made your life more difficult.
Low government spending as a percentage of GDP is strongly correlated with higher rates of economic growth [1], which is a strong indication of a well-functioning society.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170821004405/http://ime.bg/upl...
> Does anyone know if pro/business accounts with Google GSuite have better privacy than free accounts?

Officially, I'm sure they claim that G-Suite data is not used for any advertising purposes. However, just like I wouldn't trust an alcoholic with guarding a warehouse full of booze, I wouldn't trust this promise especially considering they intentionally violate the GDPR with a misleading, obnoxious and non-compliant consent form for EU visitors.

Furthermore, even if we assume G-Suite data itself is not used, what about general data collected by Google services? For example, a lot of their properties have Google Analytics included - does being logged in a G-Suite account automatically opt you out? What about YouTube (when logging into a G-Suite account you briefly get a redirect to accounts.youtube.com presumably to set a session cookie)? Etc. Given that Google is an advertising company, I can see it being easy for them to collect data they shouldn't, even because of an oversight (such as forgetting a "if account.is_g_suite" check, or legacy code predating G-Suite) as opposed to any malicious intent.

Not using Google means you don't have to interact with Google at all unless you explicitly want to and aren't exposed to any of the aforementioned risks.
They're presumably concerned about FastMail being in/from Australia.

The thing is, if you're concerned about a state agency, you have bigger issues. If all you're after is "I don't want to give Google my money", FastMail is pretty good - and to boot they're one of the few with a still working push notification certificate for Mac Mail.app users, I believe.

Email is a lost cause. Just choose the one that sucks the least, and don't do important things on it.
What is the difference between golem and heise. I like both but are they equally popular?
Most users of parlor are not technical people and don't understand anything about it. The reason why parlor got popular is because it was easy for disinformation to be spread and people want to believe in it.

For example when that at&t network center was bombed there was a fake image going around that it "wasn't the van that exploded". I had someone try to "prove to me" it was true by linking me to parlor and it's users creating conspiracies on top of conspiracies. The users there will accept disinformation and made up conspiracies if it benefits their team.

That's sadly the reality of it. People that don't understand tech should not be on the internet. They don't understand the concept of people can and will lie freeley behind a camera or keyboard.

A classical example of "my ignorance is just as good as your education because I don't know any better."
This should be the way. This eliminate the issue of information leak/having to hide information, since its public anyway. Of course it has it's own downside. So instead of focusing effort on hiding the information, we should instead fix the issue that arise from information being public.
I wouldn't bet your paycheck on that guess. Many did. Almost all of them lost.
What do you anticipate will happen if we make cyanobacteria "immune to their natural predator", leading to their unchecked proliferation...?
Hm, you're right. The simplest example I could think of right now is the upstream having renamed/deleted something that the dev branch depends on, but didn't directly touch. That would definitely cause a "broken" history during the rebased commits, and is technically unavoidable.
Cook mentioned this as a point in his interview w Swisher last week.

Knowing this evidence was in discovery, I wonder what Apple’s refutations will include.

I had thought Cook’s argument was that having one App Store, overseen by Apple, offered security of the platform as a whole.

Not that the present App Store security was water tight.
Out of the blue, about six weeks ago, a bunch of people on Signal started asking me to prove I wasn’t a bot. I thought it was funny, so I went along with them. I even took a picture of myself, standing in the local 7-11. I sort of thought it was the next “in” joke… tell all your friends they had to pass a Turing test on the spot. I tried it on a few people one Sunday morning and they got really offended. Oh well.

I put all that in the back of my mind. Ditto for the Signal hack that briefly locked up my phone, by rendering the fingerprint touch sensor unusable.

Then I was having a conversation with somebody else from the same group. I left off and walked away, only to come back and notice there were new words on the screen. Had I simply forgotten what I was typing? That seemed the most logical explanation.

But what if your phone was capable of a MITM attack? Of sending messages that appeared to be from you, but were in fact auto-generated, or from a third party. Seems incredibly unlikely, but devastating if deployed correctly.

Anyway, there are lots of other encrypted messaging platforms out there.
> trick yourself to have understood it, only realizing that mistake later.

Exactly. My point is that technical text is never read linearly (like a video). Reading is an active process, where you scan the whole page repeatedly for all the displayed formulas, then for apparitions on these formulas inside the text, then peek at the figure, then read some words in a paragraph while looking from time to time at the figure in case it is referenced by the text. After a few minutes you have grasped everything. At least this is how I read. Looking at a video is so passive and linear that you get bored after a few seconds.
> Paid ad campaign is something I am a bit afraid of, having done none of it...

It's quite approachable, and Google and Twitter make it very easy to set a small budget that your impressions will be limited to (i.e. the promos will run until you get a certain amount of views/interactions that you can define). Definitely recommend giving it a try.
If your code is written in a certain way that's a model, not a mental model.
Is that sarcasm? The alternative to tipping is not servers at Olive Garden getting paid $20/hr in straight wages. If people want to advocate for servers and bartenders, they should make sure that what they are pushing for will actually make food service workers better off. Serving isn't a great job, but it's far better than many other service sector jobs, and there are people who raise families waiting on tables.

It's incredibly frustrating to hear well-meaning but misinformed progressives argue for policies that would make the lives of people I worked with and respect much harder.
Yeah, but it requires a lot of self-discipline. Many people lack that power.
+1 for wanting to use it for figuring out food sensitivities.
I would suggest going with the what. An internship is a great opportunity to discover things about the problem you are working on and about yourself. Given that youre likely starting out your career, make sure its headed in a direction which you find exciting.
Haha, I hate T5 the most :/ Taking a train within the terminal, the longest security lines within Heathrow... no thanks. It sure looks purdy, but it's really hell to deal with. I don't even think it has mains sockets like the T3/T4 do.
I found out via here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434333
Good point. Fortunately, I had pretty good engineers in my recent teams, but, remembering my older projects, I totally agree with you that it's good when language makes it hard to write bad code for less competent engineers.
Isn't CarWoo effectively doing this now on a small scale?
Actually, that _is_ pruned. I'm only getting the notices I want / need for various reasons, not the spam, and do periodically dump senders who aren't interesting any more. Yet I still end up with eMail as overwhelmingly a commercial medium.
Two seconds spent worrying about this issue is one second too many. Pick one. The hundreds of millions of prospects currently not reading your website do not care what you call yourself. That is a critical problem to your business. Your pronouns, not so much -- vanishingly few people will notice even after you've got an audience (after all, nobody reads on the Internet).

Besides, first person singular and first person plural should both be losing to second person singular on your website anyhow. (This is the single best tip for improving your copywriting that I'm aware of.)

P.S. You cite me as an example. Without looking: do I use "I" or "we"?
If you want to read about more people who feel this way, it's usually called "Imposter syndrome" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imposter_syndrome).

I feel this way from time to time, I assume it comes from being self-taught and not always knowing what my peers know. Meditating helps, as does having a supportive SO.
On the video over lay I actually meant overlaying dynamic text onto video which was wan more of a pain than I ever imagined it could be.

As for your other points I don't disagree there are other options from the various browsers (Mozilla being the most aggressive) but they aren't part of the standard and will be browser specific. The beauty of Silverlight is that the plugin works in every browser in the same way.
In Java at least, the massive Hibernate ORM is only about twice as slow as raw SQL. Which is still orders of magnitude faster than Django. The lack of performance is far deeper than ORM usage.
I think you're reading a different argument. Thomas's argument is circular dreck. It basically says:

1. An important fair use test is market effects.
2. Amazon and others used to give Oracle huge gobs of money because they feared that APIs might be copyrightable and not covered by fair use.
3. After Google called Oracle on this, Amazon and others also started believing it was likely fair use and stopped paying Oracle tens of billions per year.
4. Therefore, Google copying the API was a major adverse market effect.
5. Therefore, copying wasn't fair use.

That's a shit argument. Watch me do a similar analysis in a more obvious way.

1. An important fair use test is market effects.
2. People used to pay gobs of money to watch the movie Transformers 2.
3. In a widely watched review of the film, I showed a 4 second clip of the movie where someone said "I am standing directly beneath the robot's testicles."
4. After this, nobody wanted to pay any money at all to watch Transformers 2.
5. Therefore, there was a major adverse market effect from my copying.
6. Therefore, copying wasn't fair use.
So after all that verbiage, he concludes:

Some math was designed to be useful.

Science is by definition those practical problems to which math can be applied.

He still doesn't know.

Very disappointing.
In addition to this good advice, make sure you give some indication of what makes your project interesting _to the programmer_. Only another good programmer can tell you what this is.

If it's not an interesting project, getting a good programmer to jump on it will be hard.
And yet, people who don't trust the census and refuse to answer unnecessary questions are considered nutters, even with relatively recent historical evidence that the government can't be trusted.
I may be the exception or not but we spent a fairly large chunk of time talking about it in middle school.

That would be within the last 6-8 years if you are curious.
I said "most of what they do" rather than "all of what they do" because some of it coincidentally helps others. The ratio of parasitic behavior to useful is unfortunately growing, and hasn't stopped just because it caused an economic meltdown.