jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]
https://eshoo.house.gov/sites/eshoo.house.gov/files/Eshoo-McNerney-TV-Misinfo%20Letters-2.22.21.pdf
Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/03/25/microsoft-makes-source-code-for-ms-dos-and-word-for-windows-available-to-public.aspx
Building video chat into my personal website using WebRTC, WebSockets, and Go
https://mattbutterfield.com/blog/2021-05-02-adding-video-chat
Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code (2019)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/calc-exe-is-now-open-source-theres-surprising-depth-in-its-ancient-code/
What kids around the world eat for breakfast
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/08/magazine/eaters-all-over.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region
Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-push-to-build-a-self-driving-car-sparks-dissent-among-its-engineers-1503593742
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms
https://breakermag.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-absolutely-right-about-racist-algorithms/
What We Found When X-Raying Some MLB Baseballs
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/juiced-baseballs/
Losing 100 pounds in 276 days
https://posts.alexgr.in/losing-100-pounds-in-276-days/
Wait, Google Sent Me
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wait-google-sent-me/igloabeeeiagmdkhellmibpnlnjdmdbb
Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/08/tesla-buys-1-5b-in-bitcoin-may-accept-the-cryptocurrency-as-payment-in-the-future/
Kara Is Self-Aware
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/03/kara-quantic-dream/
Nancy Pearl’s Rule of 50 for dropping a bad book
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/nancy-pearls-rule-of-50-for-dropping-a-bad-book/article565170/
Notifying administrators about unhashed password storage
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/notifying-administrators-about-unhashed-password-storage
Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer
https://beta.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2179192/chinese-battery-expert-hongjin-tan-charged-stealing
Online activists are silencing us, scientists say
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/science-socialmedia/
A Decade of Remote Work
https://blog.viktorpetersson.com/2019/05/18/a-decade-of-remote.html
Having a launched product is hard
http://martin.kleppmann.com/2010/12/21/i-didnt-really-enjoy-y-combinator.html
HTTP/1.1 just got a major update
http://evertpot.com/http-11-updated/
All The Cheat Sheets An Up To Date Web Designer Needs: CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery
http://designresourcebox.com/all-the-cheat-sheets-an-up-to-date-web-designer-needs-css3-html5-and-jquery/
Netflix disables use of the Chrome developer console
http://pastebin.com/Lx5gjXsA
Knolling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knolling
Wealthy use debt to buy future cash flow everyone else uses debt to buy stuff (2020)
https://themdpreneur.com/purchase-future-cash-stop-buying-more-stuff/
What Happened to Perl 7?
http://blogs.perl.org/users/perl_steering_council/2022/05/what-happened-to-perl-7.html
Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-pixel/googles-latest-iphone-rival-off-to-a-rocky-start-idUSKBN1CS2P6
FreeBSD: the next 10 years
http://www.slideshare.net/iXsystems/jordan-hubbard-free-bsd-the-next-10-years
A Billionaire Mathematician’s Life of Ferocious Curiosity
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/science/a-billionaire-mathematicians-life-of-ferocious-curiosity.html?referrer=
Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress
https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate
Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/science/myron-ebell-trump-epa.html
What it’s like inside your plane’s hidden ‘crew rest’
https://thepointsguy.co.uk/news/secret-crew-rest/
Google disables compression for OpenSSL in Chrome - SSL exploit coming?
https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10825183
Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts
https://pixelambacht.nl/2016/font-awesome-fixed/
Google CTF 2019
https://capturetheflag.withgoogle.com
Stoned drivers are safer than drunk ones, new federal data show
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/09/stoned-drivers-are-a-lot-safer-than-drunk-ones-new-federal-data-show/
Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems [pdf]
http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/2020/CMU-CS-20-101.pdf
Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-visa-exclusive/exclusive-visa-moves-to-allow-payment-settlements-using-cryptocurrency-idUSKBN2BL0X9
An enzyme that digests plastic could boost recycling
https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21740669-auf-wiedersehen-pet-enzyme-digests-plastic-could-boost-recycling
The economics of vending machines
https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-vending-machines/
The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/south-korea-tops-global-innovation-ranking-again-as-u-s-falls
100 years ago, people paid money to see a fat man in a circus sideshow.
http://modeledbehavior.com/2010/04/15/americas-obesity-epidemic-bringing-sideshow-freaks-into-the-discussion/
Dogs’ Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them
https://www.theatlantic.com/article/591868/
U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than income
https://www.realestatewitch.com/house-price-to-income-ratio-2021/
Classical data structures that can outperform learned indexes (2018)
https://dawn.cs.stanford.edu//2018/01/11/index-baselines/
Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes
https://mondaynote.com/verizon-no-we-cant-become-dumb-pipes-ddab2b41a2d8
PocketBeagle – A $25 open-source USB-key-fob computer
http://beagleboard.org/pocket
Mozilla working on in-page popup blocker for Firefox
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/12/mozilla-working-page-popup-blocker-firefox/
The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/22/prince-death-wikipedia/
Expensify sent images with personal data to Mechanical Turkers
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/expensify-acknowledges-potential-privacy-problem-by-calling-it-a-feature/
How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-space-and-time-could-be-a-quantum-error-correcting-code-20190103/
Crystal Language
http://crystal-lang.org/
Amazon will monitor workers' keystrokes to 'combat data theft'
https://www.inputmag.com/tech/amazon-will-monitor-workers-keystrokes-to-combat-data-theft-privacy-spying-surveillance
Mitsubishi: We've been cheating on fuel tests for 25 years
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/26/news/companies/mitsubishi-cheating-fuel-tests-25-years/index.html
Joe Armstrong: Why OO Sucks
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/why_oo_sucks
Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole
https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/
SamyGO: Open-Source Firmware for Samsung TVs (2011)
https://www.samygo.tv/
Sea Ice Extent Sinks to Record Lows at Both Poles
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/sea-ice-extent-sinks-to-record-lows-at-both-poles
What if I were 1% charged? (2013)
https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/what-if-i-were-1-charged/
Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown
http://classeur.io/
Mozilla and NSF offer $2M prize to decentralize the web
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/21/2-million-prize-decentralize-web-apply-today/
Scribd and Quora considered harmful
http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/quora-scribd-considered-harmful.html
News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier
http://m.guardiannews.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli#top
The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
https://jameshfisher.com/2018/04/07/the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gmail-user
People still email me pictures when they should email links.
> I’m not going to do the thing where I try to name everyone
> I’ve enjoyed working with, or even everyone who has helped
> me out over the years.

As someone who've worked with Keith for a few months, I am going ahead and say that he's definitely someone enjoyed working with. Opinionated, yes. Very smart? Also yes.
In the first section "What Is A Secure And Supported Version?":

"We'll also count [as secure] those [known insecure versions] that are maintained by Linux distributions in supported releases"

They consider (for example) any 5.4.4 install secure, even though it's a known insecure version. They're admittedly over-counting the secure installs by assuming any 5.4.4 version is the version maintained by Debian with security fixes back-ported.

"So 21.71% is an upper bound on the number of secure installs."
Are they only in three zones, or three regions? Three zones would not have helped them in this particular scenario and they would have still been at risk.

And if they do mean three regions - can that cost of spanning various regions be quantified for different companies. The money spent vs money earned for Netflix may be very different compared to Quora and Reddit. At the same time, the data synchronization needs in between regions may also vastly differ for different type of companies and infrastructures thus leading to varying amount of cost to maintain a site on multiple regions.
He did also do an AMA on reddit.

Edit: I see you added the link. This article, for everyone else's info, was done Mar 23, 07 d:D
More broadly, dealing with HTML5, how do you protect your source code/ intellectual property? Seems like it is all there in the javascript. I know flash can be cracked but it does seem like there is a defense layer.
That hurts. But you're right, we've had a lot of issues.

I think the reason this is news is because it is a massive Amazon failure.
Are there any examples of a kidnapping actually being profitable?

It's very easy for kidnapping to be profitable.

All you need is a state with a pathetic justice system.

Start with a police force terrible at finding the real perpetrators of crime. This is very common in the world. It is often found in poor states, which don't have much money for any public spending including police and fire. Often the states are autocratic or formerly-autocratic, autocratic states don't really care who's actually guilty. Very often a state is both (ex-)autocratic and poor.

The next step you need is a bad judiciary and a pathetic set of laws. For example, even violent kidnapping which involved mailing fingers to the victim's family, could only earn the convicted two years in jail. I am not making this up, two years at the most, by law.

Then lastly, have incredibly messed up laws which actually make no claim on the ransom money even if you were found guilty. Thus you can do two years in jail, and they enjoy the ransom you extorted. Often the victim's families are not particularly wealthy, or if wealthy not really capable of exacting violent street style vengeance. So you can relax and enjoy your cash.

This is how kidnapping can become a real sector of the economy, look into Columbia in the 80s, and lots of other places.
"Broken" may mean something other than "totally, completely broken". Maybe there's some odd bugs that cause an occasional misreporting, and they're trying to hammer these out. Maybe you can only log in sometimes. I don't know, but I think that broken could mean something besides "we can't look at any data at all".
Please note that we are discussing in the context of a machine-learning _library_. I didn't repeat that in every sentence, but it's worth remembering.

Yep, I'm aware.

If you have a startup that uses software that requires machine learning libraries, chances are your business model doesn't just involve living off consulting fees and professional services.

You do realize that you can sell GPL'd software, right? Just because you are GPL, doesn't restrict you to just consulting fees and services.

FWIW, the software I'm working on for my startup, does (or will) involve a healthy dose of machine learning libraries, and I wouldn't necessarily rule out using a GPL'd library. Right now I'm sticking to mostly Apache Licensed stuff, but - then again - I'm also releasing my stuff under the APLv2.
He's optimistic but still calls it vaporware. That's more optimism than I can muster. Anyway, I've been using Vim more and more and it's working out pretty well. In fact, as seems to be the nature with Vim, the more I use it the better it works out.
- you need a landing screen w/ an explanation
- dropping me right into an article 'pocketful of dough' makes no sense
Indeed. Hopefully this kind of struggles will eventually result in accessible, legitimate recourses. However, those hardly ever come into existence out of thin air.

Given that one party overpowers another, the former will attempt to grab more and more power. With an international entity such as corporations this is even more true, as even governments are having increasing trouble controlling them.

Diplomacy-based recourses are usually a result of a balance between the power of groups. For example, in the industrial revolution the workers unionized to have more marketing power against their employers. It has some interesting parallels (but also wild differences) with this.
The name comes from Smalltalk. I imagine that the idea is that you're "injecting" an operator between items in the list: 1 2 3 4 becomes 1 + 2 + 3 + 4.
Monopoly or not, I would have not been able to be nearly as lazy in high school math (circa 2000-2003) if not for the ability to program all the formulae into my TI-82. At the time the chance to trade study hours for video games, soccer and guitar was precious to me beyond measure.
>>First of all, your words are saying outsource, not mine

Maybe you have a different definition of outsource, then. For me, outsourcing is not necessarily sending work to a cheaper worker.

>>If you hire talented folks and understand how to divide labor properly
Sure, but I don't think this is about division of labour. It's about communication, the small talk, all the things you have to hold in your head and cannot communicate because there's too many of it, and it's changing constantly.

I've worked in startups where it was thought possible to bring together a random group of people and get work done, and it failed miserably. I've also worked in startups where we did not do it, and went ahead to be successful. These are subjective experiences, but after almost two decades in software, I can humbly say I can see the patterns.

>>Saying that you should hire the minimum amount of people to do the entire workload without taxing the finite biological constraints of the human body

You should hire if you can, but it may not always work out if the person is remote and the role demands a lot of face to face interaction.
A question for Emacs user: Do you use the GUI version or the terminal version? I found the terminal version next to unworkable because I couldn't find any terminal that didn't capture some keystrokes that were meant for Emacs.
> multiple independent nuclear powers in the world which are capable of striking the US mainland.

We sell Patriot anti missile systems.

Do you think we have nothing to counter ICBM hidden somewhere?

Also, any country striking the US mainland would be quickly removed from the map - several times if necessary.

The statement stands: near-infinite capacity to act, a near-immunity to blowback, and a near-zero concern for consequences
The Qt Company went over my head and tried to deceive my boss (as I perceive it).

We don't even use Qt. I was just evaluating it. A year before they "reached out."

I still see that as a strike against Qt, even though I understand that the existence of a technically free fork is effectively guaranteed.
As usual with Bryson he turns to hyperbole to make a point. The USGS maps are pretty good
You're literally just wrong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2I4E_UINRo
The first one isn't Mac like --- the menu bar doesn't go on the top of the window. I don't necessarily think that's great, but that's the way it should be on a Mac.
Also available from http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/history/explor...

Can higly recommend. It seems like there was a completely different view as to what were "acceptable risks" back in those days.
Yes, the wheels of production are starting to turn. Right now, there's a virus test shortage, a toilet paper shortage, a mask shortage, and a hand sanitizer shortage. Production of all those small items has already gone way up, and most of those shortages should be solved in a week or two.

Bigger items like ventilators, ICU suites, and hospitals take longer.

As for levels of government, that's very real. People outside the US often don't realize it, but the states have more power than the Federal government in many areas. I'm in San Mateo County, California, and we're in lockdown because the County Medical Officer and the county supervisors decided it was necessary. They didn't have to ask permission from any higher authority to do that. Action by the state governor came later. Action by the Federal government came even later, and was mostly advisory.

California has wildfires, earthquakes, and floods routinely. So the state's Office of Emergency Services is large and well-funded, and their emergency operations center is usually dealing with something. Most large cities have emergency operations centers.

It won't be enough at first. But this is going to be a months long problem, if not a year or two. The support facilities will catch up.
I have absolutely no problem with communities, cities deciding how they allow basic usage of property that affects others. (The typical complaint is that short-term rentals cause a lot of disturbance, new people every week, parties every week, and so on.)

But directly prohibiting short-term rentals just because they take up units is the same short sighted "solution" as prohibiting high-density mixed-use development.

Cities that are growing/booming/trending are attracting people all over the world nowadays. For work, for leisure, for simply living there. I'm not saying just start building high-rises like there's no tomorrow. (Actually I think simple quotas with lottery systems would work best.) Control the influx, not just one symptom.

> land who could be built on, is already built.

Could you describe such an actual example? I can't really think of any place on Earth where we can't easily increase population density by building up.
A tiny, miniscule group of braindead idiots does something awful, once.

The majority of people suffer everyday from thereon because they might potentially be bad guys by bringing more than 100ml of toothpaste.

Mission accomplished.
The 60% drop is not part of a wider national trend only because national birth rates started dropping when the government first implemented birth control policies in the 1960s: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CBRT.IN?view=cha... Xinjiang is slightly lagging behind, but it's very much the same policies in play.

In the New York Times article I linked above, it is mentioned that "From 1980 to 2014, according to official statistics, 324 million Chinese women were fitted with IUDs. And 107 million underwent tubal ligations or, as is commonly said, got their “tubes tied.”" Most of those cannot have been Uyghur women, since those figures vastly exceed the total Uyghur population.

So other parts of China simply suffered their sterilization campaigns much earlier. Birth rates in Xinjiang only dropped slightly from 17.57 per thousand in 2000 to 15.88 in 2017, but then to 10.69 in 2018 and further to 8.14 in 2019: https://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?cn=E0103&zb=A0302&re... , which is a fast drop; but in Beijing, the maximum birth rate over the past 20 years was 9.32 in 2016, and their 2019 birth rate was still below Xinjiang's at 8.12: https://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?cn=E0103&zb=A0302&re...
Importantly, there is a difference between comprehension and production. Just because you can mostly understand a language, doesn't mean that it isn't a language in its own right. Yiddish, as an example, has many syntactic differences from German, in addition to its differing vocabulary.

Scots is absolutely a different language from English, despite it being intelligible. I can't produce that speech, even with an accent. It has different rules and formations that My English just doesn't have.
I would assume the reason for this is to provide thought out and consistent decisions for high profile cases.
> Is the Python type system improving or is it the type annotation system that's improving?

Both. (The type annotation system is deeply tied to the type system, since the latter is what is statically verified, but there are improvements both in what can be checked—the type system—and how that is expressed/annotated.)
Shameless plug: I built a tool that's designed to automatically crack simple ciphers, encodings, hashes (soon™), esolangs and more :)
https://github.com/ciphey/ciphey
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I remember a very similar program for Windows from the early 2000s. I think it was Czech? There was also a Japanese one which would "inflate" a 2D drawing into a 3D mesh. Ahh, I miss those days.

By the way, OP, when I read the title I expected this would be like one of those spinning pottery tables that let you mold the 3D mesh directly, would that be feasible?
Sounds reasonable ...