jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The announcement stated that Google Fiber will be limited to the Salt Lake City-proper boundaries. There are only a couple hundred thousand people living in SLC itself though, and only a hundred thousand in Provo. The area between Salt Lake and Provo has close to 1.5 million people and is very close to being just one big contiguous sprawl. I can't imagine them not expanding into those areas unless the city councils make it too difficult.
Hope app store can be faster
Why do they want to do all this? I don't get it. It's so plainly wrong, what's their MO behind the scenes? Surely it's not just all a thinly-veiled pulling up of the draw bridge between 'us' and 'them'? I mean, what do the politicians talk about between themselves when they decide to do this shit.
That's fine, but I think it's a bit far fetched to say that the people who work on WebKit/Blink developer tools don't use the developer tools.
Oh don't worry. You got your wish. It's not on the front page any more. Or the second. But it's not deaded either. Interesting.
> In each case, you also have to consider the possibility that each government is acting in the best interest not of the governed, but of the individual or group doing the governin

That's absolutely true, which is why we have courts, representative legislatures, and elections. Methods of mitigating the corruption of the governing class are built into the system. It doesn't work quickly or perfectly, but it's better than autocracy.
Fwiw I disagree that the "data availability" concern is real. My take is that anyone with an interest in having some data will go ahead and store that data. If data integrity needs to be preserved under consensus then publish a hash to a blockchain. Possibly we're actually agreeing on this in your use of "essential"?
You can buy unlimited gift cards directly from the merchant for face value, so that sets the price ceiling. Gift cards are strictly worse than cash, and individuals with gift cards who want to sell them value them less than face value, otherwise they’d keep/spend them. The only legitimate cases I can think of are if you are spending an eBay gift card to buy one you value more, or if you somehow get extra cash back or etc to justify buying from eBay over the gift card issuer.
In a way, I see utility in companies like Facebook openly exploiting whats possible with current technologies, web APIs, and mobile platforms so that privacy laws have a target of what to address and so that the general public can get a grasp of what's going on. It's better than it happening in the dark, behind the scences.

Before Facebook, if you tried to explain to a layman that your social data can be used to manipulate entire elections, people probably would have looked at you with strange and furrowed brows. Now, it's a question of the best way to address the issue.
If a CEO is so high up the food chain that nothing they do matters, then why should they have the high pay? I don't understand the notion that they're responsible for all of the good things their employees do but none of the bad ones. Especially when, as here, it's the bad ones that are so profitable.
This looks really great. I like that everything is defined in plaintext, but is there a way to link in other files? It might help clear up some clutter for large payloads. Environment variables might be good for using secrets more securely as well.

I'm actually working on a similar project (also in Rust) but targeting interactive use and differing environments. It's a tool I created for myself because I was tired of hand crafting curl commands and forgetting which env variables are set to what.

It is still very young but I'll link it anyway: https://github.com/mcastorina/repost
Does US ban European apps? Does Republican Party / Democratic party inject a director into every big tech company? Then why should Europe ban US apps?
When I think of "studio", I think of a movie studio. Each product would be the equivalent of a film.

The studio brings together the necessary talent and sets them loose on a well-defined project (with a deadline, a scope, and a budget).

The best studios, under this model, know that the most important thing for their success is finding the right top talent. (In films, that would be your writer, director, and starring cast. In tech, the typical hacker+designer+marketer trio of project leads would probably be the closest equivalent.)

When viewed in this light, I think the studio approach makes an awful lot of sense. It's similar to VCs and incubators, yet different in a crucial way.

A studio looks primarily for talent, and trusts that when they have the right people, the right ideas and execution will follow.

The VC model, as best as I can tell as a distant observer, is focused first on identifying the winning ideas, and then securing the right team as a secondary item.

Both approaches care about both the idea and the talent. It's an order of priority thing. Are you banking on your ability to spot winning ideas or winning talent? Studios spot talent and then evaluate ideas. VCs spot ideas and then evaluate the talent.
The Atari Lynx was even worse, if I remember...
I didn't know about that link; thank you!
How do spammers successfully abuse shorteners?
Straining to describe something for which there isn't a good word. We have socialism, capitalism, etc. but no good term for this.
Examples b and c on test #6 is something you should NEVER do in Python. Using "is" checking for integers is a huge no-no, and will only work for smaller integers (I think between -5 and 256) that are cached by the interpreter. "is" does identity checking, not equality checking.

>>> a = 500
>>> b = 500
>>> a is b
False
>>> a == b
True
>>> a = 2
>>> b = 2
>>> a is b
True
>>> a == b
True
>Clojure: "Scheme on the JVM"

That would be Kawa (http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/).
The Great Firewall recently blocked time period targeted queries from both the google.com and google.com.hk sites. So from China I can search for, say, "pets", but if I want to restrict it the search to last month only, it blocks out.

Baidu doesn't seem to offer the time period targeting facility. I guess it's a case of if you can't implement it yourself, remove it from the competitor's service.
Check out cocoaobjects.com; I think they'll satisfy your need.
Do you also accept closed source projects? I just released one (It's on HN right now)
That lot is only worth 2.9 million if someone where willing to pay $2.9 million. I bet the value of that lot just dropped dramatically after this situation. Who would buy that lot knowing that you really can't employ it for it's highest and best use? No one wants to pay $2.9 million for a lot just to build some nail salons, a barber and a dollar store.
I can understand the reason for it being there, but I also tend to fall towards following the Law of Demeter. I tend to find that most (not all) of the use cases of this are a symptom of overly intimate knowledge between objects that really shouldn't know about one another.
To me, the title invokes an image of Steve and Rupert working late into the night on their iPad app... Eating cold pizza and crashing on the couch at 6am...
Does anyone have a reference for the EFF claim that factual data collections can only be copyrighted "if the selection and arrangement are sufficiently creative"? I always thought the method of acquiring these facts was also important. Isn't that the point of inserting trap streets[1] and other fake entries[2] into your data, a practice that many tech companies including Google[3] still do?

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
[3] - http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-...
The article mentions one context where this kind of proper reasoning is highly important: doctors assessing the value of treatments for their patients, the usefulness of screening tests and the likely menaing of test results.
is there a more interesting use-case than status updates?
The poster may have had the Verizon model; it never got 4.3. They just abandoned it at 4.2.
Disco has gone beyond MR with pipelines, too. This allows for more generalized workflows. Great stuff.
Besides what stygiansonic said:

The article does not claim that UK bonds have been paying 2.5~4% since 1720. That range refers to the current nominal rate for those bonds. Those bonds have been restructured/refinanced several times along the years. That is, the UK "soft-defaulted" a few times.

Sovereign bonds aren't risk-free, especially not in the very long term.
For what it's worth, the chances that you will remain "you" for more than a short time are next to nil. You're different from your teenage self, who was different from your child self. Those people are dead, locked in the memories of a living person only slightly.

When you get old, there's a good chance brain disease will slowly erase your personality until nothing is left.

As you wander around the world, your blood pumps and exchanges ions, changing the physical substrate of your brain at every instant. Your sense of self is an illusion.

I think trying to hang onto who you are is like trying to hang onto a dream you're waking up from, but with the advantage that you can try to guide your future self into being a better person than you were.

I can clearly state that me 2015 is a distinctly different person than me mid-2013, some ways better some ways worse. My physical substrate has certainly changed. The fact that change is usually gradual and smooth hides the truth within a story we tell ourselves, mostly because our memories provide a sense of continuity.

That said, it's up to each person to weigh the risks of using a psychedelic drug. Would it help guide you into who you want to be in the future?
Mozilla is taking a very myopic, "high-road" approach that is similar to, and less justifiable, the whole h.264 debacle: Everyone loses, but someone gets to hold their head up high.

It'd be nice if you'd, you know, qualify this or something.
At some point you open your eyes, accept that everything we've been told about democracy and representative republics and freedom is bullshit. Then you either decide to fight a futile fight, or try to enjoy this life that's way too short.

The system is too big to fix. It's run by a small number of wealthy people, and any notion of freedom is an illusion.
I don't feel like I should have to narrow down date ranges, though I end up doing so every time a search returns forum posts. The algorithm ought to know that something posted six weeks ago is much more likely to be relevant than something posted six years ago, but older posts seem to instead have more weight in the unfiltered results rather than less.
What would you like it to show? There's no way to ensure that the code is doing whatever the message would actually be showing.
Believe me, eventually skipping breakfast and lunch will make you feel energized, you just have to give it time. My mind is much sharper in the morning/afternoon now.
More information on the author, the designer of Pascal, Niklaus Wirth.

http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/niklaus-...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth
Alright, I'll be the idiot that asks for those that are quiet: could someone do a step by step guide as to how everything was done? Even reading the comments didn't get me any farther than changing the user agent (and having the form show up).
Interesting times. You can see the new IT bubble grow larger every day. And, just like back then, all kinds of strange 'new' investment schemes form.
Well then stop buying toothpaste by volume.
Wave didn't wash outside a few early adopters like Novel, SAP, and, er, the US Navy, and it looks like Google's still having trouble conveying exactly what Wave is and what it does.

Just wondering what the plans of these early adopters are. You can't make money off something if nobody uses it. Isn't this why Google scrubbed the project in the first place?

Don't get me wrong. I think that Wave is/was an interesting project and I tried really hard to use it, I really did. But somehow email/IM/whatever was always faster and more practical, in the sense that people responded to my requests. When using Wave I always had to remember people: "It's in Wave", "Haven't you checked Wave?"...

I, and the other people I worked with, just couldn't get Wave into our workflow and someday we just forgot about it completely.

It would be really interesting how the Navy uses Wave and for what. A kind of best-practice report on how to use Wave productively would be very interesting and motivating (at least for me). Tell me how to use it and I'm ready to give it another shot.
Yes, but the implications are very interesting I think. There'll be demand for new solutions eventually. Both on Search-side and on the micro-blogging front. What will those solutions be?
this class was hands down the best taught class I took at MIT in a tough competition. still–the notes don't have to be submitted every 2 months :-)
.. or chuck just a few more into the mix, and realise that parody is a satirical device :)
A sweater, hockey pants, hockey puck and a HEXbug (http://www.hexbug.com/original). We give each member of our immediate family a gift, so that's why there's so many :)
> the visual effects are quite pronounced

This is what I remember about 2CB. It looked like the Matrix effect to me but in translucent rainbow colors.
You just proved the parent's point.
The article mentioned they were not thought to have conducted the hack itself.
And for the robber, crime is a lot more common than he seems to think it is. Metal theft, for example, is extremely frequent: it is rare that an industrial facility would have so little theft that such a proposed heuristic would be reasonable.

If crime were that low, then the guard's position doesn't exist anyway.

So then we're just left with an empty thought exercise with no relation to reality, as an argument for how we should think about reality.
I was worried 16GB wouldn't be enough considering my Windows machine would crash with docker+chrome+IDEA due to out of memory errors; my m1 mac with 16GB has all that plus countless other apps and runs very well.
If you read alternative news you've known this for over a year now.
A day to myself. :)
This is a problem that even DupeDetector couldn't have caught. Hm.
> Does Reddit not have any lawyers?

Reddit's lawyers are probably the reason why it's framed as Reddit hosting "a community" whose users can have moderation ability instead of framing them as "Reddit moderators", RE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Community_Leader_Program#D...
Tesla tries so hard to be KITT from knight rider but if KITTs turbo boost botton would have been buried in a touch screen menu he would have crashed before Michael would have been able to press it.

Tactile buttons are important and give you the ability to operate them blind. This is not yet possible with touch screens.
Edits I'm with you totally. It doesn't feel right or valid. why worry about a coffee? ( I don't!). But that feeling could be worth challenging...

If there's 2 of you and you eat out 5 times a week for the length of time you would own a car... then it might be equivalent? There's that old paradoxical saying about how the rich are rich because they don't buy anything.
I would humbly suggest that perhaps your memory isn't quite accurate.

https://www.bankrate.com/banking/cds/historical-cd-interest-...

https://barbarafriedbergpersonalfinance.com/savings-account-...

Also, due to inflation, if you want to compare with today's dollars you need to multiply the amounts by approximately 4.
I think the main difference is in the quality of the experience. Their mobile app is a joy to use, and the integration with the actual banking side of things is reliable and instantaneous.

Instead of a separate budgeting app and banking app, you can tweak your budgets from the same place that you deposit checks and transfer money to other banks.
Well one might say that is true about the people who are insisting that driving slowly to enjoy the scenery is the better way to enjoy a scenic highway than driving spiritedly and enjoying the drive.

I think it's pretty easy for anyone who isn't highly biased to see that both approaches are enjoyable.
An interesting aside: plenty of people (myself included) have been saying things like "the people at Twitter can't figure out how to monetize".

This is true but it assumes that there is some easy monetization, they just haven't discovered it. Yet - I haven't heard anyone else come up with a reasonable plan to do so, and it's not like twitter doesn't have thousands of people who are intelligent, experienced at this, and want desperately for them to succeed.

Sure it might look like they are flailing, but lets not keep implying that it's because they don't know what they are doing, don't have the right people in charge, aren't savvy enough to figure it out, etc.
I did a prototype of my personal news site in HTML/CSS (no JS for maximum compatibility) with every intention of eventually automating the generation and making a dynamic submission system. I still haven’t bothered because it’s always been less time consuming to just to edit it by hand, and it affords me the occasional customized post/entry whenever I need to post something special.

Literally only using either Notepad++/FileZilla on desktop or an iOS FTP text editor combined with iOS Shortcuts if on mobile to generate and apply new posts.

For Notepad++ I saved macros for different post formats, the macro pulls the URL from my clipboard and wraps it in the HTML according to which shortcut key.

The iOS workflow does the same thing and lives as a cluster of app icons that trigger custom iOS Shortcuts in a folder on my Home screen, I just tap it, it pops-up an iOS input modal asking for the post title, then automatically wraps the HTML around both the text I input as well as the URL I already copied onto my clipboard, then takes the entire HTML chunk and overwrites my clipboard with it so I can paste into the index.html via the iOS FTP text editor.

In both cases it’s simple and fast, on iOS the FTP editor is always editing the live file, on desktop I just download the latest using FileZilla prior to doing any edit/upload. When on desktop I also (when not in a hurry) commit the latest version to a git repo.

(For larger and less commonly used updates, like formatted sections or special link highlights, I just have a templates.html file that I copy from as needed.)
Yeah, I got some other feedback that the font declarations from the base stylesheet I pulled in was a bit much. I'll fix it, thanks for letting me know!

EDIT: The font list is now down to 'sans-serif', so the issue should be fixed!
The major takeaway for me is that with a strongly held culture, everyone in the company is playing the game by the same rules, making it clear how to succeed, how to fail, and as such, how to conduct business. It's also clear whether or not you would enjoy working there -- there's no finding the right team or department with its own culture if everyone has the same culture there.

Of course, he doesn't explore whether or not the benefits of this are worth the disadvantages, and there's plenty of room for argument either way, especially with large organizations.
100% Scrum Masters!

If you are actually a good developer and you get a pure Scrum Master role then it's almost impossible to not get endlessly promoted and praised and possibly paid better than a developer role itself whilst actually still doing fuck all work. Imagine, you do a standup, ask in the end if anyone has any blockers, some developer or QA will say something stupid about the CI/CD pipeline or merging a PR and you'll schedule a meeting with the people who need to follow this up and you could actually throw in some suggestions which only a great developer would normally do and the team will look at you as if you're some bloody hero for DeNiro and praise you as "the best Scrum Master they ever had who actually helps the team and lives up to their role". LOL. Then you know you can go to sleep for the rest of the day and nobody will even notice.

The only other thing I can come up with which could be easier than Scrum Master is to apply for a manual QA role. I don't think I have to say more, but essentially, you will look like you've worked around the clock when really you just click a button at the beginning of the day and then go to sleep again.
Sure, it’s the L in GPL that gives everyone the right to use GPL code in their product under certain conditions as spelled out in the license.

Nothing in the license precludes the sale of such a combined work though, as in your devil’s advocate query.

I’m not even sure where the confusion or disagreement is in this sub-thread to be honest. The license is short and fairly clear; there’s ample additional “what does this mean for inclusion of GPL code in commercial products?” FAQs and a fairly large body of commercial products openly marketed which include GPL code in them.

[0] - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLCommercially
We'll just grant them independence, then it's not our problem anymore. They're always bitching about not being a sovereign state anyway.

On a more serious note, why would we need a bigger navy? Is Russia going to invade because Greenland won't let some corporations mine? Or is it the corporations themselves that will? Also; NATO, baby...
I agree a lot with the post, but using a WYSIWYG editor isn't really writing HTML is it? You can write HTML in your text editor, get piecemeal automation as you go such as sharing a common site menu or other boilerplate via text variable substitution, generate a table-of-content as page nav menu, validate your HTML, use markdown, support user comments, all the way up to using templated lists and forms for databases if you wanted to using pure SGML.
There's no need to implement a payment mechanism via cryptocurrency. Signal can just create a "pro" version and sell that.
For someone not at all familiar with tuning audio profiles, do you know of any recommended starting point for tuning out background noise for calls using PulseEffects?
Most of the certificates I use are self-signed. For the others, I get them through Gandi (a 1-year certificate is included with each domain registration) and my webhost, SoftLayer (they resell RapidSSL certificates for $20 a year).

http://www.gandi.net

http://www.softlayer.com
I read Brave New World expecting a dystopic society, but failed to understand why the world that is described is dystopic.

I'll quote a passage from the Wikipedia article on it that expresses just one frightening aspect of the society described in the book.

Natural reproduction has been done away with and children are created, 'decanted' and raised in Hatcheries and Conditioning Centres, where they are divided into five castes (which are further split into 'Plus' and 'Minus' members) and designed to fulfill predetermined positions within the social and economic strata of the World State. Fetuses chosen to become members of the highest caste, 'Alpha', are allowed to develop naturally while maturing to term in "decanting bottles", while fetuses chosen to become members of the lower castes ('Beta', 'Gamma', 'Delta', 'Epsilon') are subjected to in situ chemical interference to cause arrested development in intelligence or physical growth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
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You know, if you ever wanted to keep something really hidden, naming it /dev/urandom (or some variant thereof) would be a good way to go.
This is the natural progression of a culture that values the new toy over maintenance. It shows in the lack of support and inability to find any human support at all. If your entire success is the next thing or the big swing, there is really no incentive to maintain anything unless its absolutely necessary.

I love the fact that its so easy in computer work, compared to other professions that have to deal with actual physical things, to build whole new things. On the other hand, I hate the attitude it brings to maintenance and customer service. We are the profession of throw-away cities.