jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Just to be clear, the only thing that Udall and Wyden are actually sworn to is this oath:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."
Just assume the worst. That's as close as you can possibly get to knowing everything right now for sure.

I just hope that Snowden thought to take a copy of Clapper's (any anyone else responsible's) internet browsing history, or at least is creative enough to forge some terrible blackmail material and leak it, just to do to them what they're doing to us.
"It's possible that Yahoo and Google are providing server metrics via javascript tagging to comScore."

Your suggestion is essentially that Yahoo and Google are providing non-public data from which revenue growth/etc can almost be calculated, to outside companies?
I found it to be a very helpful post. I learned something that I can apply to my own site.

If such a post gets a few sign ups for planescape along the way, I don't see the harm. But advertising was far from the focus of the post. The author doesn't even say what planescape does.

The article wouldn't have hit the front page if it wasn't useful. How many companies are using retargeting + drip email effectively?
If you seriously don't want to, just create two Google accounts...I'm using multiple sign-in across many of their web properties with my personal account and my corporate Google Apps account.
Or being 18 years old ;)
One of those things is not like the other.

Go to yahoo.com, open devtools/firebug, scour the network tab for "b.scorecardresearch.com", that's comscore. These numbers are as accurate as can be.
Right now the expense means that it require government spending and coordination, which you can regulate, but this stuff is going to be so cheap in a couple of decades that it won't matter. Anyone will be able to dump a bunch of sensors around a city that take this data and phone home, and it only takes one of those people to make it publicly accessible. What then?
How to monetize this? In general, how to monetize being funny/entertaining (on the web)?
this reminds me of ross anderson's eternity service from ~1997:

The Internet was designed to provide a communications channel that is as
resistant to denial of service attacks as human ingenuity can make it. In this note,
we propose the construction of a storage medium with similar properties. The
basic idea is to use redundancy and scattering techniques to replicate data
across a large set of machines (such as the Internet), and add anonymity
mechanisms to drive up the cost of selective service denial attacks. The
detailed design of this service is an interesting scientific problem, and is not
merely academic: the service may be vital in safeguarding individual rights
against new threats posed by the spread of electronic publishing.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/eternity/eternity.html

an implementation of which can be found here (also from similar time):

http://www.cypherspace.org/eternity/
And yet it's still not fixed.
I know the author is writing about the CS department, but a UT Austin grad (in communications I believe) , Brooke Moreland, just received $1 Million in funding for her startup Fashism.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/social-shopping-sit...
I do not think the problem is them talking. I think the problem is them giving money indirectly through campaign contributions.

One statistic the article states is that some organisation spent about 700,000 dollars in lobbying and 2.5 millions in campaign contributions. I only wonder which was more effective.
So c-style arrays and strings (and the C string functions) are discussed in chapter 4, exceptions and templates are chapter 12 "advanced topics", and in the discussion of arrays you're encouraged to write your own array class if you need bounds checking.

I don't see mention of std::vector (which has .at() for bounds-checked access) or std::string , maybe I just missed it not reading very thoroughly.

I don't think I like this book, it seems to encourage some rather bad practices...
> Me wondering how much of it shall we see.

Have you heard of RPA? It's a low-code/no-code way to automate mouse and keyboard actions on top of desktop and web applications.
Bitcoin can actually be quite resilient to that. Also the USD failing, doesn't necessarily mean a global world war. The US can go the way of the Soviet Union or the British Empire.
I don't disagree with the building complements and addons forever - no one is arguing that. I would say that the difference between building an application for one company vs building for a platform has some pretty distinct differences.

I think in this instance if you are building for large swaths of a population (ie. merchants) and the brand reputation (Shopify) is at risk of a bad actor (i.e. in Facebooks case cambridge analytics) it is in the interests of the brand (ie Shopify) to manage risk from bad actors.

This may be a cash grab, I don't know the true details only the comments from the aggrieved developer. Though reading the aggrieved comments they seem to have been playing by their own rules and got caught.

If the argument you are trying to make is upstream of that in that the layout of the internet is no longer favor of individual developers - thats a bigger debate that I don't think we can address here. It's a market structure argument in its essence.
I appreciate your response! I am also using the same Iroshizuku bottle in both the Pilot and Lamy pens.

I'm curious about the Pilot cartridges - why do you need to replace the "little plastic biscuit"? Does it serve a purpose other than preventing spills or evaporation in unused cartridges?
Zero bugs sounds like the zero covid fantasy that some authoritarians are pushing for.

Zero code is pretty much the only way you can guarantee zero bugs.
I am currently working on exactly this! I have always been dreaming of a low-cost, zero-effort web analytics.

So far I have made an open source library/service, I've been using it for my blog and a few other sites for over two months. It is available at https://github.com/nullitics/nullitics. You can see the example dashboard (fed with real data) at https://nullitics.com/dashboard/zserge.com. I'm now collecting all sorts of feedback from the early adoperts.

For the cloud version I decided to go with 1€/month, and I have often been criticised for choosing such a low price. However, I believe that I would rather be at a lower profit, but help bloggers, hackers and other who want such a tool.
> sub-million dollar homes were quickly getting more expensive, and multi-million dollar mansions were relatively static

It's because the price of the average house is due to the cost of urban/suburban land - which is scarce and therefore tracks affordability (i.e. rises steeply with median incomes, population growth and especially falling mortgage rates).

Meanwhile the price of multi-million dream homes are (a) often dominated by building costs which rise slower than incomes (b) don't rise due to falling mortgage rates as the NFL player/movie star/exiting startup founder pays in cash rather than over a 30yr mortgage term.

> and I've found that usually if something doesn't make sense to me - it is because it is misrepresented

That is a statement full of hubris. You might find that if something doesn't make sense, you might just not be in possession of all the relevant information. (In this case, the trajectory of mortgage rates and their effect on affordability of homes, demographics and population growth in a metro area, income growth and wealth distribution.)
Varies massively by police agency.

Some use it as a profit center. Some are fishing. Some would rather be doing anything else.
> falsely claiming something has strong privacy when it is limited

Taler provides strong privacy for buyers, not for merchants. It's important to note that Taler is not a peer-to-peer system for transferring money (there are claims for interest in implementing such a system in the future, but it does not exist), so the receiver is always a merchant

Personally I don't mind that businesses are surveilled when I purchase at them, because businesses are not people and do not have the right to avoid surveillance. I would be very concerned if such surveillance could extend to me, but as discussed Taler provides buyers privacy and blindly signed tokens cannot be traced to me.
They are not forbidden from determining that a given order is lawful or not.

However they are trained that the presumption is that a given order is lawful unless it's clearly contrary to the Constitution, law, regulation or policy.

As we phrase it in the Navy, no sailor has ever been court-martialed for following a legitimate order, but the same cannot be said regarding mutiny.

In short if you want to challenge an order go right ahead, but realize that your ass is going to be put on the line and even the Supreme Court will be biased on the military's side regarding it, if previous experience is any judge.
Despite the diversity of NYC as a whole, my anecdotal experiences suggest that people can still harbor those sorts of unconscious thoughts while living their entire lives in a "diverse" city. I say "diverse" because there are lots of enclaves in NYC, sometimes with stark divides across streets. (See the Dot Map [1]). Outside of gentrifying/gentrified areas like Long Island City or Prospect Heights, or white flight areas like Morris Park, neighborhoods look rather homogeneous. (Exercise for the reader: see if you can find out where the Landmark/Historic Districts are in Brooklyn.)

[1] http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/
BBC Worldwide is a propaganda service, much like RT, PRESS TV, Deutsche Welle, or Voice of America.

None of these are created for a home audience, they are to advance the interests of their host nations globally.
From what I recall from Dr. John Campbell’s excellent daily videos, the UK strategy was not to give only one dose, but to simply delay the second dose a few weeks so that more people could get their first injection from the initial supply(presumably supply will increase over time). That sounds much lower risk. I think the single dose proposal was a US thing.
Interesting choice to ignore autocomplete=off. I am not sure how I feel about that.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromiu...
Then there’s compressed air under water storage. There have been trials but roundtrip efficiency isn’t great IIRC.
I've recently started working on a similar mission: https://giverrang.com
It appears you live in the UK, where a majority of people live in cities and towns where public transportation is a viable way for most people to travel most places in their local area.

This is not the case in most of the US. In some places it's because public transportation is not prioritized for funding, but in many it's a matter of low population density making it less practical.
AZ is in a similar position...we just don't change ours
I waste a lot of time to make vim transparent. So I collect all the `vimrc` settings and put it in a single place. Just paste this at the last of your `.vimrc` and make your awesome vim transparent.
It is symbolic, but I have particularly little sympathy for their stunt.

It wasn't a protest of a bill, or a protest for a particular legislative action. It was a protest against the election of the President itself - against all evidence, all facts, and all testimony from just about every official except the President, who egged this on.

I didn't want to see heads rolling, but I was shocked at how delicately they were handled - cops even let them through barricades.

Contrast this with left-wing protesters and their treatment by cops, and you see a much different picture, of people walking or sitting down getting pepper sprayed, or 70-something men getting shoved to the ground in a public square by a team of armored officers.

There are a number of reasons to be angry at this stunt, and a number of conclusions to draw from it. First thing is first, if we had any kind of collective conscience, Trump would be impeached today.
Another issue that needs to be solved is 'bad actor'. Basically someone gaming the system and overloading it with spam. There is no real nice neat way to fix that. Instead it is a mishmash of blacklists/whitelists/blocklists and sorta intelligent alg filtering. Getting that all filled and working is not trivial either. Oh its 'doable' but kind of a pain for even someone with decent experience at it.
Looks like Pence actually gave the order to deploy the Guard, not Trump. Trump was reticent.
I am using Signal 50% on the phone and 50% on the desktop and they complement each other well, I don't run into problems. The histories are in sync and the only thing I found annoying so far is the start-up time for the desktop version.
>85% of police officers voted for Tump in 2016.

That's likely a national statistic. Remember, these are police in DC, a very liberal area.
About as many as were trying to violently break into an in-session senate floor accompanied by an angry, armed mob intent on overthrowing the government.
Encrypted messages are searchable, it's just slower and has to happen on the client rather than the server.
100 years from now cars will still make a vestigial sound that is simply taken for granted and not really considered until some wise-ass at a party starts in "Funny story..."
I had the opposite issue. Bought WD Black for my first PC build. It died within ~3 weeks. Bought another to replace it. Again dead within a month. Have about 8 Seagate drives now and have not had an issue at all. Will avoid WD at all costs now.
I think it's hard to say whether nobody used it because there were no killer apps, or whether there are were no killer apps because no one wanted to use it.
> It's sad that we live in a society where those who step out of line to say what they mean are told they're assholes who deserve their failures.

It's sad that you can't step out of line on HN and call people assholes without having someone telling you you should respect those a-holes JUST because they are successful.
Actually there are carriers in Brazil that allow free connection to WhatsApp server even if you have a limited connection plan...

People say that it is free SMS because of some reasons such as the fact that WhatsApp transfer your whole list of contacts to their server and thus populates the application contact list to the point that it is as convenient to use as SMS. Emails require email addresses. WhatsApp contacts are matched by phone number which are already on your phone address book anyway.

Its about perception. People here tend to place SMS, WhatsApp, LINE, Telegram all in the same collection because they are used to exchange small instant messages. Email is usually used for longer text that doesn't require immediate action.
That's still derided by enthusiasts when it's taken to extremes, for instance a loud exhaust on an economy car fools no-one and will draw negative attention from most people. But below trying-too-hard territory, it is an authentic-feeling unleashing of your vehicle's inner beast, which is something the sound effects system will never be.
"Federal safety officials expect to finalize rules later this year requiring all hybrid and electric cars to play fake engine sounds to alert passersby, a change that experts estimate could prevent thousands of pedestrian and cyclist injuries."

My guess is that the main force behind this law is Big Oil using their lobbyists to slow the adoption of electric vehicles. If they were really concerned about pedestrians being hit by cars it would be illegal to wear headphones while walking.

Instead of adding noise, which we already have too much of (I can hear cars on roads a mile away from my house) how about they require cars to send out a signal that an inexpensive device can pick up and thus locate the car. That way any pedestrian can actually see where all the cars are around them. I bet that kind of proactive action would have much better results then depending on people's inadvertent attention to background noise.
Yeah, this is my assessment as well. It's quite demoralizing for several people I know working in sciences at DFO. When you have a PhD in a science and can't use it as it's intended because money matters more than the thing you study, it gets difficult to deal with on a day to day basis. It's not a trivial thing to get to that point in a career, but you, your knowledge, and your potential are completely kneecapped when it comes to most jobs competing with the well-being o the environment.

The leadership I do know of from second-hand information is hyper-focused on organization performance - they couldn't be further from the sciences, and they actively work to suppress science at times.

In fact, there's very compelling evidence of a significant factor in reduced salmon population, but that research was initially muzzled by the Harper administration, and since then, the findings were revealed but the research more or less put on hold. Some action was taken based on the research (shutting down salmon aquaculture near spawning rivers), but it's decades late and a decade later than the research came out.

Then we have the evidence that hatcheries put incredibly small amounts of harvestable biomass into the ocean while deteriorating salmon genetics. Salmon are evolved to thrive in their specific spawning territories at a critical, vunerable point in their life cycle; by muddying those genes, you can make it so they lose what gave them the ability to thrive at all. Meanwhile, hatcheries are so established and commonly believed to be so effective and it's exceedingly unlikely to see them go anywhere any time soon. We celebrate the addition of a hatchery but we may have been undermining salmon this entire time.

I could go on. It's a very sad situation and very close to my family and heart. Tomorrow I'm going to go free diving and soak it all in. I like to appreciate the beauty while it's still here and remind myself how important it all is.
“intrinsic value” isn't a thing. The notional grounding of value of a stock is the current value of the future dividends plus the value that will be returned based on assets at dissolution.

> I still don't see how the CPI is factoring this in, do you?

Because value = acceptable opportunity cost = foregone utility

And CPI measures (in closest approximation of any measure) changes in the prices of goods that provide direct rather than instrumental utility. Presuming monetary expansion affects prices but not, in first order effects, production possibilities and relative worth of non-money goods, a consumer price deflator is the most sensible kind of value deflator (one might still contest details of the construction of the CPI, of course.)
just watched this yesterday. Dave Grohl listening to him explain the board was priceless! "Rupert Neve is a fucking genius!"
The piece was bad. After all the time they had to work on it, it was a lazy hack job that normally wouldn't make the cut at the NYT. It is a sign of the days we live in when a Mean Girls style burn book page makes it into what used to be the paper of record.
It seems your response doesn't really engage with any part of that comment. What is the meaning of "co-opt East Asian populations"? You claim Murray is a white supremacist because he thinks whites have higher IQs than blacks, but when dealing with the point that Murray thinks Asians have higher IQs than whites, you dismiss it with this language about "co-opting"?
Do you know of one that does it better in terms of flexibility, data management, programmability, etc.?
> This is extremely misleading: Copyleft is about making sure everyone has the same rights.

In theory... except in this case, the point is ensuring that people who don't share his political leanings can't use the product in a way he doesn't like (to generate an AST). It's not even about modifying gcc in this context, he doesn't want people to "misuse" it. It's entirely about telling people what they can and can't do with their software. Where is the freedom in that?

> And here you prove you have no serious argument, by devolving to insults.

I'm calling him a nutcase because he's being paranoid by crippling his own software to prevent a thing that people can already easily do with a competitor (clang). It's not like people are like "oh no gcc can't emit an AST I guess I'll give up and forget the entire venture" they just go "well I guess I'll go use clang instead"
I'm well aware of the term as it's used in the United States. I was asking why you think the list of legally protected classes should not include pets.

> Why shouldn't pets be a protected class? Because pets are not people, for one, and protected class refers to a class of people.

Well, what we're talking about is pet ownership by humans as the protected class. I don't think anyone was thinking of forcing employers to not discriminate again non-human animals.

> Most people don't think you have the "right" to bring your misbehaving dog everywhere you go.

Perhaps, but I suspect most people who bring their misbehaving dogs everywhere do think they have the right. If your argument is that anything which the majority of the population believe should be a protected, should indeed be a legally protected class, that's a reasonable proposition, but I think you'd find the list of legally protected classes would be a lot different than it is today.
Also, improvements in the Java language are eroding it's raison d'être.
I thought the loss of the back button during sleep was infuriating.