jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They should beef up security. And keep it open. And not so obvious.

The simple fact of the matter is that a violent riot stormed the capitol building and nearly overwhelmed local forces. Congress asked for extra help and it wasn't provided. Governors asked if they could send in the guard to help and the man whom stoked the riot gave no permission.

It's a fucking miracle that January 6th wasn't one of the worst days in the history of the US.
> Monetizing personal information, however, seems pretty reasonable to expect based on past history.

Which history would that be when it comes to Apple?
Matrix definitely would fit more into the world of Linux: independence, decentralization & Community
>>>"Think about this: from the perspective of a recently unemployed programmer, why do I want to join your project instead of signing on with one of the dozens of startups currently hiring or just starting something on my own?"

Because a project like this would allow a developer to join a team and starting coding. They would not have to go through a recruiter/employer to get the gig. If you are willing to code, then you get to write code. Recruiters/employers and salary are the biggest barriers to working on a commercial software project.
BB is also the phone to have in Venezuela, which I just visited a few weeks ago. All because of BBM.
nah I need all my extensions
BBM = Mobile - Mobile Messaging

GTalk/MSN etc = Mobile - Desktop Messaging

The use cases are completely different.
Why not just pick and choose what you need from C++? For all the hate that C++ gets, one nice thing is it doesn't force anything down your throat. Between simple not using features, and compile time options (disabling exceptions for example), you NEVER have to pay for a feature that you don't want or need.

He could have literally written C-style code except used C++ just to create a few generic data stores instead of using all of this preprocessor magic which I guarantee is more fragile/harder to debug than basic C++ templates.
Utilities (power/water/internet) would be funded like any other real estate development.

The cities revenues come from real estate taxes. I do think that most cities spend their money in a wildly inefficient manner, and if they were run as for-profit businesses they could provide all the essential services and turn a profit.

But the major upside for the investors in the city corporation would be if the city owns far more land than the initial development. If you buy ten square miles of undeveloped land for $10k an acre, then a city of 25k grows up in one square mile of it, that remaining nine square miles is far, far more valuable than the original purchase price.
Workflowy reminds me of google tasks. Simple tasks easily indented.
How come is the UI so responsive (much more than what I'm used to with remote X sessions)? Is it because both the app and the HTTP server run on the same machine?
Check with your HR or Finance and get a clearance from them. Most companies have a blanket clause regarding product/IP created outside of normal work hours. But if it does not compete with the company's product/service or does no harm to them they might allow you to do so.
I imagine that the kind of traveller looking at this map wouldn't care so much about the direct A-to-B-ness of flights, given that they don't even care that much about where they're going in the first place. They just want to go somewhere interesting, for cheap.

Therefore, rather than only considering the single lowest-cost edge on the graph (that is, an A-to-B flight to an interesting place), you could consider lowest-cost paths, using a pathfinding algorithm (secondarily weighted by the popularity of intermediate cities/vertices as temporary destinations.) Thus, instead of going to city X, it would recommend going to Y, staying a month and taking in the local culture, and then finishing the trip to X with a short, local flight in the off-season (or any other method of travel—it could integrate with Google Maps to see if it would be cheaper to drive between each pair of intermediate nodes than fly.)
Well, yes. It's not just comforting, it's also practical.

Nobody ever gets to be head of state because that position is already taken by the royal family, who in turn are expected to behave and not mix in with politics.

Works well where I'm living.
There may be confounding variables when comparing nations' IP protection laws.

I don't think that, in a world without IP protection, people would only create things for joy, reputation, standard adoption, or altruism. Companies would still want software, and would be willing to pay people to develop it.

Lack of IP protection isn't the same thing as the Free Software Movement. In a world with IP protection, you could still sell proprietary software without disclosing source code. There would still be an incentive for competing companies to constantly improve their software to outdo each other.

I don't understand your Rowling analogy. What I'm saying is that Rowling's copyright of one of her books is equivalent to ownership of, for example, the natural number equal to the ASCII encoding of the text of the book.
My money is on statistical fluke, how many times was this experiment even run? If they're credible they should collect the average over a number of experiments (the higher the better).
Reddit's open source, as is Slash (the code behind Slashdot).
I would guess this is not a handedness issue, so much as a cultural issue - most websites I view are designed by people who live in a culture whose predominant script runs left-to-right, top-to-bottom, and so the websites tend to put the most important thing (the logo) at the top-left; secondary broad-scope things across the top, and so on down the page.

Here's the front page of Al Jazeera's site (the first right-to-left language website I could think of):

http://www.aljazeera.net/

Notice that the logo is at the top right, what I assume are the main navigation categories stretch leftward, and sidebar-esque things run down the length of the left-hand edge of the page.

There may be a subtle link between handedness and website layout, in that it's easier for right-handed people to write left-to-right (you don't have to worry about your hand on the paper smudging the fresh ink), but I'd say writing direction is more useful.

I'd be interested to know if cultures with a predominantly vertical writing direction have their idiomatic website layouts, but the only two I can think of (China and Japan) have been so thoroughly exposed to Western text-layout (especially in technological contexts) that I suspect they use the same idioms as Western sites. Indeed, http://www.baidu.com/ has an almost identical layout to Google.
What you propose is inconsistent and vague. An MP3 file of a copyrighted work is literally a natural number. That's the way it's represented on disc, in memory, etc. If surrounding that number with predecessors and successors somehow makes the number not an infringement, then why don't we create a p2p network that does just that?
They are a completely different site. Not intended for the main domain audience.

See upcoming.yahoo.com for an example of a site where developers are indeed part of the main site audience.
It’s incredibly masculine looking and that coupled with the power seems like a no brainer for a lot of people around me (I also live in a rural area)
America is rounding up kids and putting them in reeducation concentration camps based on which apps they have installed on their phones or for any other arbitrary reason for that matter? Do you really believe that?
FWIW I am using nmcli and it work good enough for me.
> As someone with lots of anti-anti-botting knowledge

Any recommendations for books/other information sources? Currently doing some backend work for a company that mainly does scraping and a lot of this seems to be based on the tribal knowledge of the resident old wise one.
> If you are demotivated, why do you think you will do better studying on your own? Will you be able to create and maintain the motivation? What is it that motivates you?

I've often wondered about this. Right now, I am studying for my exams. And its mostly the stuff that I am not much interested in. I love studying math but I suck at physics and chemistry which keeps bringing me down. I think that when I'll be studying on my own, I'd be focusing on the stuff that I like and is actually important for me. I've recently started doing MIT's introductory CS course on python and I'm really liking it so far. I also enjoy working on the problems after the lessons. So yeah, I think I may be able to do better when I'm learning things that feel intriguing to me.

> try to get to the root cause of your lack of motivation

this sounds really important but I don't know how to figure that.

> you should go to one of the colleges, meet their minimum attendance requirements, study on your own...

You're right. This is probably the best course of action for me. It's just that I feel if I had to go to a rubbish college, I should've already done that but even on my second chance I'm not able to improve the situation. I really regret that I wasted so much time. I think that if I study on my own I could get probably quicken things but maybe I'm just trying to escape my problems.

And thanks a lot for your response. I really appreciate it!
Work started in 1998, with construction taking six years and costing €501 million.

Given that large US construction projects always seem to come out costing multiple billions of dollars, this seems quite cheap. The Eastern span of the Bay Bridge ran about $8 billion and Boston's Big Dig also multiple billions.
thanks for sharing. interestingly, the New Yorker article cites a 1980 research paper and the author states:

>Physical barriers have been closely linked to psychological privacy, and a sense of privacy boosts job performance.

I wonder if this is still true in today's internet connected workplace?
Tesla is shifting nothing. Tesla is consuming all batteries that are available and, after starting operations in China they gained access to CATL who heavily invested in iron phosphate.

Thanks to high efficacy of Tesla drive train, base models can have decent range, around 250miles EPA, with iron phosphate battery packs.

However, iron phosphate battery volumetric density, at this time, does not allow for cars with what I would consider minimum for a single car family, in locations with real winters: 330miles EPA.
I know Eastern Europe under communism produced some great animation, but were the animators well paid?
This tracking needs to be reduced, I applaud Apple for helping progress this.

Next order of business is removing the Apple's marketplace monopolisation; the App Store should not be the only marketplace available.
Ok well this doesn’t work on Mac, so much for not needing to cross-compile on every architecture. It’s because of the OSX Gatekeeper but if majority of people need to self-sign or otherwise compile this binary I’m not sure if it is that portable be it if it’s only a Mac thing. This dumps the zip content directly on the wire skipping an extra kernel write. There have been attempts before to run the same binary on multiple architectures by inserting magic headers without having to recompile. There are shell/batch versions of the same thing [0]. The issue is such projects usually never get much traction since every programmer is wedded to their choice of OS and typically relies on APIs specific to each system. There are also “fat binaries” which accomplish the same thing if one truly wanted a cross platform single executable. There isn’t a huge need for them currently and not just because they’re “fat” (something this approach seems to tackle primarily) so I expect for the same reasons there won’t be many needs for this approach either.

I see a lot of people making the comparison between this and the OG Linux tools. I absolutely don’t think this qualifies as one, most old Linux tools are irreplaceable or at least were when they first came out and there were no alternatives. Serving a bundled zip file on a web server across many different platforms is not something people are dying to do. You can run a web server like nginx or Apache to index your files or if you really hate those why not a single line command which is supported on almost any platform:

python -m http.server 8080

[0] https://github.com/llamasoft/polyshell
So I am going to go out on a limb and take the Wufoo guys at their word.

I used Survey Monkey a bit on some grad projects, but wasn't too impressed by what I saw. I mean, it was ok...but wasn't Wufoo-esque.

I love Wufoo and the founders have tremendous credibility in my eyes. It is clear that they are VERY passionate and extremely intelligent. The thought and effort they put into everything they do - from Particle Tree to Treehouse to Wufoo - is awe-inspiring.

Given that they have not raised a ton of money, I can only assume that they decided to do this deal on their own initiative and not based on pressure from both PG & PB (both of their angels).

So it would seem that they know what they are doing.

I hope that this works out for the best. Although I am just a free user of their product, I have a lot of respect for the team and have learnt a lot from them.

I truly wish them all the best - even if it means they needed to sell.
> Why would they get more money when the price dips?

Because they paid tax on a gain that wasn’t real.

> just don't make others pay for it. Prop13 has created a distorted housing market that hurts many more people than it helps

People who don’t pay property taxes aren’t paying anything at all.

As soon as you buy property, you are benefiting from prop 13 yourself.
I think your use of the word "outdated" is incorrect.

They are more like "LTS" versions, which maintain a stable user interface while keeping up with security patches and continuously adding improvements and polish.
If you're interested in the history of the Titan missile program and US nuclear program in general I recommend "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety".
Ok so that tells you how f* we are.
Some people want a laptop that can make waffles, wash and iron clothes, vacuum the carpet, paint walls, repair blacktop and work as a vibrator.

My needs are simple. I want a small, rock-solid, terminal that is dedicated to HIGHLY secure and federally guaranteed transactions on a publicly funded military grade network for: Banking, Bill Payment, Tax payments, Voting.

I do not want it to take photos, listen to me, show advertisments, play games, stream media, maps, start coffee machines, do email and chat, play audio/video files, draw graphics or change themes.

And any "browser" that can do these additional functions should be banned from connecting to the high security network under penalty of death.

Very simple.
When saying kodokushi, why not just say "old people that die alone"?
The linked site is essentially blog spam:

https://abc14news.com/about-us/

The Sun (which is still not great, but better than this) article linked to has a lot more detail:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11221578/french-snatch-lorries...

The critical detail is that the supplies were released a bit later.
So how long should it take to be able to create a reliable, sensitive and specific test , and then produce millions of such tests, for a virus which didn't exist in humans until 3-4 months ago?
ohhh really bad move blaming the person instead of the process, CEO.
Growing up as the typical nerd, I used to think that trust was something that needed to be eliminated, that other people weren't worthy of trust and that we all ought to be using TOR, bitcoin, I2P. All our chats be over XMPP with OTR messaging. But growing up, and getting beyond the world of early adulthood I've come to realise that most people can be trusted most of the time. Who doesn't instinctively look away when someone is typing in a password, most bosses aren't trying to scam you out of your pay check. In fact most people instinctively help others - even giving them a little push along.

As amazing, magical and occasionally necessary things like TOR, bitcoin and I2P are what truly is wonderful is that basic trust, that small but significant ∆, much more than clever algorithms and data structures is what makes our lives work.
Git submodules are designed for your use case, but I don't know how well they handle it.
I use the Tata Nova DNS server and Github is still blocked here.
Would be nice to publish the spec in HTML form instead of pdf, for ease of readability.
I thought US companies had to agree to Privacy Shield if they wanted to be considered GDPR-regulated.

https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome

Why any US company would voluntarily agree to this is beyond me, unless one of its EU customers insisted on it.
> I think not diving into the spotlight says something good about a person.

It seems likely (or at least plausible) that Satoshi is a bitcoin billionaire.

Imagine having a thumb drive or computer in your possession with more value than all of the gold at Fort Knox.

I'd want to be anonymous too.
That's not the case for me - sometimes, I get awesome ideas that I simply forget and never remember. Writing them down is great.

Though I rarely browse through that list of ideas - a couple times a week, maybe, or when I need new ideas for content :-)
This is how I finally learned to get comfortable with HJKL in Vim. It's a great game.
Yep! It focuses more on dynamic type-checks than on static typing though, so I put it in the category of "untyped functional" - more like clojure and erlang than haskell or ml.
Really dumb article. Photovoltaics are breaking through as we speak. 1/3 of new electricity generation capacity in the US was solar in 2014. Building integrated PV is not doing anything, and I suspect it never will, because why??
April fool?!
Is there a serious expectation that personal jet packs are going to be worn by anyone but particular military personnel and particular field technicians repairing infrastructure?
One AR, one social network.
I'm puzzled by your responses and would like to engage further but can't until later.

My interest in the dialog is not to prove you wrong, but to try to see if some consensus can be found. It feels like a fool's errand but nothing ventured, nothing gained.
They're ineffective precisely because they're overworked.
I wonder why they didn’t simply opt to use ClojureScript with React Native. That seems like a much more pragmatic move than creating and supporting your own compiler to Dart just so you can use Flutter.
> There is a massive contingent of people that HATE autistic people and feel like it's something to be "fixed". A lot of them frame that hate as helping.

I suspect this has something to do with the fact that many of these have grown up in environments where you are good at technical stuff or you are less than those who are (i.e. the US). They know that many autists will straight smoke their ass in all things STEM and they deeply resent being dealt a losing hand to those "weirdos". Others are just straight up sadists/abusers. The more I hear stories like this, the more I believe the courts practically seek out these sick fucks to be "caregivers" and such. Something is pathologically wrong with this entire area of society.
Reminds me of all the hoorah over Shakespeare- summed up by Wodehouse that “Shakespeare wasn’t written by Shakespeare but someone else with the same name.”
Wikipedia itself was in practice a Wikipedia without this requirement for years, and it gained all of the traction before the deletionistas won their war and rewrote history. I know this because I was working in Microsoft’s Education Products Group during that time (aka Encarta) and Wikipedia completely ended us. What Wikipedia had not gained was serious credibility - i.e. professors were forbidding their students to cite it. How hard do you think we tried to use that to our PR advantage to save our product and the whole org? It didn’t make any difference.
Why exactly do we want to reward already rich people at the expense of poorer people? Somehow, people convinced themselves that giving money to those who don't need it is efficient.
Pretty bold statement to claim most pediatric oncologists are sociopaths. You took a big shit on some of the admirable people in our society
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Tangentially related: when you stop yourself from creating a product because, after hours of research, you find "something out there already that does it". But, if that existing site/product is so obscure that it took you hours of research to find it, then they've failed.

It may be obvious to you, because you're doing market research, but it may be totally obscure to an actual consumer looking for the solution.
Nuclear weapons (and all other sufficiently powerful weapons) really do suck.

Since it would be very hard, though, for nations to keep enough around for mutually assured destruction without anyone noticing (or so I think) I would think that disarmament is not an entirely crazy idea. I would even assume that an agreement by the US, Russia and China would be sufficient. (I’m not sure to what extent Pakistan and India can threaten the rest of the World and I really don’t think Israel and North Korea matter. I’m also pretty sure that France and the UK would follow the US because they would look pretty stupid if they wouldn’t.)
Just a 2cts idea: would be great if you could historify automatically all the URLs I tweet or retweet. Later on could do the same with Facebook, also with HN and all the links I have upvoted. So that on my Historio.us I can search the slide of the Internet that matters to me.
i'm curious to see whether this will happen, i've heard before the points you mention about Zuckerberg studying Chinese and all that, but as you say I don't see how FB can compete without spending at least 50% of their resources on China, considering the fact they already have massively entrenched incumbents (QQ/Tencent, renren, etc). i've also heard (from people more knowledgeable about these things than i) that Chinese gov is big on internet protectionism and co's like Baidu are heavily incentivized to oust the competition. anyway, this is just one tech-aware Beijing-based expat's opinion, FB getting a bigger market share in China would certainly make my life easier...
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