jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Building on this - what happened to Mibbit? Axod used to post on HN regularly with really impressive load and growth stats https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=axod. It seems that after Freenode blocked it, progress rather stalled. To me, with some UI polish mibbit could very well have solved many of the IRC UI issues
While oracle is certainly to blame for a great deal of things in life, your comment would benefit from some explanation / background regarding this specific issue, otherwise it's value is debatable.
I believe asn0 was suggesting this as a seed / input to /dev/random, not an output.

The lossy compression (and apparent algorithmic errors) make this a fairly poor choice of random noise input.
Thanks for providing more context and I can understand your perspective as a privacy-minded individual.

I think for most people, privacy is secondary to convenience and we basically sell data about ourselves in exchange for free use of these services that have become an essential part of our life.

I also think it's extremely hard to piece-meal control what permissions are allowed and requires substantially more work from app developers to consider all the possible conditional cases and have well thought out experiences when some/all pieces of data are missing. In many cases, it's just a matter of what is practical and doable in light of constrained resources. Not giving them a pass, but offering a possible reason instead of assuming malicious intent.
> I'm a bit confused between there's a hugely popular place between...

Godot is a Unity clone. Unity has copied a lot of things, including Flash (and therefore Shockwave), where this "attach scripts to stuff" architecture actually came from.
Sure, Alex should update his criticism, but it's still valid to look back at why it took this long; First Doses First has been out for a while - it's been 2 months since, for example, Tony Blair publicly advocated for it.

I think the gains we would get from even a single day earlier application of First Doses First probably outweighs the pain caused to the FDA by Alex criticizing them.

https://www.businessinsider.com/blair-one-covid-19-vaccine-s...
Me: They're racist.

click

Me: Im a psychic
I felt the same after sampling a bit of Krishnamurthy. I’ve seen people go all gung-ho about him with cultish levels of reverence but found nothing original. Eloquent prose yes but nothing remarkable at all. After everything you said, it was surprising to see you casually drop Krishnamurthy’s name next to someone as original as Nietzsche.
Most small SaaS companies, the sort I have worked for, have literally zero controls for this sort of thing. I would expect more of a 100+ billion dollar company like Shopify, but frankly I am not surprised.
The Internet was designed to be dystopian before it was even technically implemented.
I see this as a key problem of our times. Social convention used to have a stronger impact on behavior. Now it isn't enough for behavior to be disdained, it must be flagrantly illegal.
Parents and children too! Also, couples. And football players--the refs can't be trusted. And my boss. We should probably just videotape everything, come to think of it.
There is no concept of maintenance in consume movies (the closest is netflix monthly fee) microsoft has years to sort out its problems, it is also highly liquid.

if a movie distie has a run of bad movies, it will become insolvent, which means that they'll not have enough cash to progress the movies in its pipeline. (For example MGM went tits up and delayed james bond by years)
The researchers ‘taught' a model how small volumes of 2x2x2 mm from the brain scans - known as voxels - respond to individual pixels.

There's got to be millions of neurons per 8mm3 of brain matter. I'd be interested to see what the images looked like before the prior knowledge was introduced.
The passwords are stored in an easily obtainable format.

So, why not change THAT and store them encrypted with a master key?

If you are leaving your laptop around untrusted people, you're going to have problems.

True. But why make it even easier for someone unauthorized to retrieve your passwords?

Why is it only the browser developers who come up with that arguement? I've never read such a statement from any other team. And why aren't other software systems do it that way if it is so insecure and "falce-security" so encrypt user passwords in a local db? Couldn't even an OS use that argument and say "hey, you got physical access to the system, here are all the passwords in plain text, have fun!".
Concurrent generally means "occurring or able to occurr at the exact same time." So you do have parallel and asynchronous IO, but not concurrent. There's lots of debate over the terms, but I think that's the agreed "exact definition."

Of course, does this really make a difference for network IO? Almost always the answer is no. The difference will be on the order of microseconds, maybe milliseconds.
From a few months with an Olympus E-PL3 (last generation, I know) and a pair of lenses - yes, but not yet.

For the bulk of what I do, the Olympus has real advantages over my Nikon D7000. It's much easier to carry round and so gets photos by simple virtue of presence. The ability to shoot waist-level on the screen is a major win, as is the ability to actually see sensor response live. No more guessing dynamic range and chimping, it's automatic.

It's not there yet though, and neither are other mirrorless I've handled -
* Many fewer direct controls. Simple things like changing ISO or switching AF off are just fiddly.
* I've tried shooting moving subjects - it's just not as good as an SLR, you can't pick up and hold a subject anywhere near as quickly and easily.
* System scale. None have a flashgun as good as my Nikon SB800 that I've found. My ultrawide SLR lens is double the price. Only Fuji (well, so far) seems to have really got quality fast glass in any quantity. Nine have significant third-party support currently.

We're at a cross-over. In a few years the scene will look very different and mirrorless will be the way of the future, but none of them are ready to take over from SLRs properly yet, I'd suggest.
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Something I've learned over the years:

"A little discipline now will save a lot of discipline later."

This goes for anyone in any walk of life and in any profession.
In that Angular 1.x has been iterative changes and 2.0 is a completely new architecture and code base, it's not a rumor. The angular team has been saying that since the original announcement.
All this crime and misery, stemming from a simple enough plan to give people affordable housing...
Freebie: this is broken... https://www.dropbox.com/s/wwlcyy559xpcxl7/Screenshot%202015-...
I think that the optics of “location based pay” are going to kill the concept in name but not in reality.

Nike doesn’t offer “location based pay” in its factories. It doesn’t tell people in Bangladesh that they will be paid 20x as much in San Francisco, because they won’t be.

Companies will open engineering offices in say Texas or Florida and say “the job is software engineering. It pays $80k a year, not $280k. Take it or leave it” and eventually through attrition or “incredibly difficult decisions” end up closing down the San Francisco offices.
That's probably the tip of the iceberg of corruption and stupidity.
"Jumping into a non-familiar codebase and being useful" is literally what someone is considering paying you for.

Years ago, I got tired of some owners of a company I worked for hiring bench techs (small business IT support and such) who'd clearly never opened a computer before (I don't know why, but as the closest person I couldn't focus on any of the work I was supposed to do when constantly being interrupted by bench techs), so I "broke" a scrap computer as an interview problem, rather extensively. RAM wasn't seated, a PCI card wasn't fully seated, I think the power switch was halfway pulled off (enough that it didn't work but was visibly wrong), and I did some terrible things to the partition tables as well. The goal, which it succeeded quite well at from my point of view, was to see where a possible bench tech's skills ended, then help them through. If you'd worked on computers a bunch, and one wasn't powering on, "reseating stuff" was a useful enough response, which would either clear the corrosion on some pins or ensure everything was actually planted in place, which would render this machine booting (after you pushed the power button connector back in), and let me observe what you did with some weird boot errors. There were Windows and Linux environment boot DVDs laying around, so, pick what you know.

The result of this was that our next bench tech hire had the skills to do stuff himself, and generally left me alone to do the stuff I was trying to get done.
It always amazes me that people seem to think this is a _new_ trend.
Crypto doesn't seem to be poised to solve any of the issues faced in these non-Western countries.
My first impression of GAE (admittedly, many months ago) was that it was very painful to deal with loading or otherwise manipulating data in BigTable. Do you have any shortcuts or advice here? Has it improved?

Annoying Example: I realized that I needed to delete a lot of records from the table. I created a URL that I could ping periodically to delete a bunch, then get killed because it was taking too long, repeat.
Its easy to say that I don't or won't worry about karma, but the truth is that karma systems are tied to body's endorphin system. You get a good feeling when you see that your karma or karma average has risen.

Naturally the reverse is also true and you can't help but not want either number to fall. In my case at least these feelings are involuntary, despite the fact that I know these are pretty much worthless numbers. (Except for the fact that karma average does effect the weight of your votes.)
There's a substantial difference between downvotes on comments and downvotes on stories. Upvoting or downvoting a story is a vote for whether you agree or disagree that the linked story contributes to "hacker news". Upvoting or downvoting a comment should be a vote for whether or not the comment constributes substance to the conversation.

I'd be in favor of reversing what can be down-voted: allow submissions to be downvoted, but only allow comments to be upvoted. Then the comment 'vote' more easily becomes "is this good?" (or at least removes the "is this something you disagree with?") and we can maintain a 'flag' on comments for the trolls/spam.
Fred's talking about startups that take venture funding, who frequently do grow to this level.
You're the one that said waterfall was DOA. I want exhaustive proof that waterfall died and has never been alive, hence no product has ever used it.

Once you prove your assertion, then I will present my evidence.
Some valid points, but you're stilling getting this from me: http://imgur.com/F2QBM.jpg
Wow, just wow.

I never studied in college in the US, and I'm horrified that this is the standard. In Israel, we had the previous tests in the library, and the student union created a (for-sale) curated versions, all above board and perfectly condoned. The assumption was that memorizing the entire test-bank, containing hundreds of questions, was harder than actually understanding the material -- but that if you thought that was your best way to pass the test, go ahead and do that.

In fact, some professors explicitly encouraged memorizing proofs for all important theorems by promising that the test will contain at least one or two of them. Of course, usually they followed this by explaining that you're free to come up with your own proof, or memorize key points and manage to interpolate. I would recite proofs in the shower, to myself, every morning.

It would only be cheating if you got the actual test being used ahead of time (or, of course, consulted a confederate or disallowed materials during the test). It would not be cheating, and in fact, tolerated explicitly, to harass the professor by asking questions from test banks that you failed to solve, and getting valuable information that way ("it's not going to be on the exam, don't worry about it").

The professors assumed that anyone who puts that much energy into studying for the test deserved the grades they got.

tl;dr: In Israel, only stealing the tests or breaking rules during test periods was frowned upon: anything else was viewed as "studying really hard."
Ads tailored to me is fine. It's what -else- they might do with that data, like sell it, that bothers me.

I'm -rather- watch ads that are targeted to me than ones that aren't... And of course, I'd rather not watch them at all, given that choice.
Yes. Vocational training and apprenticeships are probably undervalued.
I've lost faith in banks. Part of why I'm even here is because I love the internet and how it gives "power to the people"

Me, I want to see modernized banks (inspired by P2P-lending like Prosper and LendingClub) that give people more control and risk/reward. Ideally, a better cut of the profits. In my opinion much of this subprime lending crap could've been avoided if it's people putting their own money at risk vs bankers putting it at risk for us.

Maybe I'm dreaming.
I think I might be the only person on HN who actually luv- luv- luvs iTunes, and I say this as someone who once wrote his own MP3 player interface out of extreme music-player-fussiness. The "kruft" ship sailed the minute I downloaded Firefox.
You probably could use a distributed group of brainstormers/researchers. But having a process that's too public has other risks: desirable names falling to trademark/domain-squatters; valuable also-ran names being reused by others; marketing/product themes leaking to competitors.
Unfortunately good negative scanners for 35mm and 120 are hard to get now. A modern flatbed of good quality will probably give decent results though.
Nice. Does it allow cycles?
How does it compare with zstandard these days?
Finally, that "leaked" call between Trump and the GA sectary of state everyone went ape shit over, did you know that was literally illegal. It was a Settlement Call, lawyers on both side were present (and named) and all of that was privileged. The GA Sec of State should be in jail right now. He won't be.

Calls between attorneys negotiating a settlement aren't privileged. The "confidentiality" of settlement negotiations isn't confidentiality in the normal sense; rather, it simply establishes that you can't take material from settlement discussions and introduce it as evidence in a subsequent civil trial: it frees the parties to discuss things without having to worry about answering for every word they say in a subsequent trial.

If you've ever been involved in a civil conflict, you've noticed: every single piece of paper exchanged is marked "confidential settlement communication". You can publish all of it if you want.

You don't have to take my word for it (though: I've been in civil disputes, noticed this, and asked about it); legal experts on Twitter were dunking on pundits for thinking these conversations were confidential in the normal sense.
The AOT improvements would be really helpfull on mobile.
I think basic problem is 'smart tv'. I got cheap android HDTV, it handles everything including flash videos and streaming from FTP server...
Which is a quality of a fundamentally broken organizational system that measures power in (and therefore optimizes for) number of people controlled, as well as the government-directed economy that underwrites it.
mtgox.com was just a domain name the original owner had lying around after _possibly_ using it to host a card exchange at some point in time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mt.Gox#Possible_citogenes...
> First this is just inherently wrong. You’ve been able to call and schedule a cab, even in the burbs, since before the internet was a thing.

And maybe the driver would show up on time, or maybe they'd see a street hail en route to picking you up and decide to make you wait an extra 40 minutes. Uber drivers cancel, too, of course, but "automatically fall back to a different driver after a cancellation" is a meaningfully different experience.
As a long time Unity dev, now: Wait for a feature to exist for two major revisions. It might still be deprecated in a future revision, or removed entirely; but with two revisions they'll generally have smoothed out all the rough parts.
Probably because outside collaborative text editing, it's called more generally, like CRQS or event sourcing
I totally understand your point and anticipated there will be pushback like this.

However, from what I've observed, there seems to be a significant lack of actually helpful support and resources for people who fall into these two categories:

1) People who think their problems aren't serious enough to seek therapy

2) People who have seen therapy but haven't gotten much success from it

I'm sorry if my big intro wasn't clear enough and gave the wrong impression. I haven't figured out my elevator pitch yet and that's exactly why I'm here testing things out.
Since the article hid it way down at the end: He was allergic to a certain chemical that is commonly found in lots of scents and cleaners and things, specifically a chemical found in the air freshener at his office.

Asked work to change it, they did, no more reaction.

Edit: the chemical was "Methylisothiazolinone"
It's the 'frozen without explanation' aspect I don't like. I didn't realise that this was a legitimate ToS violation, but agreed, they should have at least warned them first.

I suspect that evil people ruin it for everyone, money is just too tempting for people with 'flexible morality'.

EDIT: But still, these providers should do better, regardless.
The :) was meant to indicate a bit of sarcasm ;)
You may check this presentation from PDC10 for Windows Azure Storage http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/PDC/PDC10/CS11
Nice. I've been thinking about moving some domains out of there all week, since I got a creepy phone call from one of their reps telling me one was expiring next month. Thanks, as if I didn't already get the four million emails and the twelve trees you chopped down reminding me of this.
You've touched on an important issue: some books (or texts, in general) are much related to the current state of art, and won't be very useful in 10 years. Contrast SICP -- pretty much transcendental, every other hacker recognizes those four letters -- with jQuery reference. jQueries of this world come and go.

Now the question is, what is the value added of having a hardcopy of SICP, and what is of having a hardcopy -- or e-copy -- of jQuery?

Another issue is bit rot of e-books. With no common long-lived e-book format (perhaps beyond HTML and PDF), you can't readily expect an e-book to be handy with technology in 10 years. It's a fast changing market, as of now.

So, in the end, what is a realistic price for a short-lived e-book?
If we're going to stand on principle, we have to admit vi was always a better concept than emacs, and must doubt the intelligence or motives of anyone who would divert attention from vi. emacs is just a big fork that wasted a lot of effort that could have gone into displacing Word! Who knows where we would be without these splitters?

Think about it. Do we _know_ that RMS is _not_ a Bill Gates plant, inserted to dilute the momentum generated by Bill Joy? Hmmm? Improbable, yes, but not impossible.

I just don't see how we can trust anything RMS has to say on anything.
Not just that, but there seems to be no sixth edition available from anywhere at all, with the possible exception of a torrent that I didn't bother to look closer at.

Why are we talking about this issue at all?
Those are all great ideas, thanks. I'm already considering an 'inuit.css in the wild' type section, as soon as enough people start using it in production.

I definitely need to scale the site up somewhat as it currently doesn't do such a great job on the selling front.

This took off far more quickly than I expected. I only launched five days ago...

Cheers for the feedback :)

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Does it mean that if you do the free upgrade, once the year is over you'll have to pay to continue using it? Or does it mean instead that the upgrade will be free for the first year, and if you want to upgrade after that it'll cost you?
They don't as much share info as live off the same ecosystem in your phone. Regular users, who don't actively block their FB apps from accessing their phones in depth, will store Whatsapp contacts on their phones, which in turn are read by the FB and/or Messenger app. Since neither knows the context, it just assumes its a new contact and show you info accordingly.
I love this article. That is all.
The current war is quite a good film about this
> but it feels like there are more important things to be working on right now.

Institutions abusing the system is not important?
presumably because HN doesn't like nonsense articles that make astounding claims with no proof, or even the tiniest sliver of supporting evidence.
>In one post, he aligned himself with Charles Murray, who proposed a link between race and I.Q. in “The Bell Curve.” In another, he pointed out that Mr. Murray believes Black people “are genetically less intelligent than white people.”

This paragraph alone could be a textbox example from "Hit pieces for Dummies".

The piece is a hit piece through and through. That they weren't able to dig up any real dirt and instead resorted to name calling - both in the classical sense, and also in the sense of actually mentioning names like Thiel and Murray and Curtis Yarvin, etc to insinuate actual or intellectual closeness between those people and Scott - is what makes it a hit piece in the first place.
The basic issue is: the Times article isn't really very good (possibly repurposed to focus on Slate Star Codex after all the controversy pre-publication?) and relies largely on sort of gesturing vaguely at small snippets of his writing around controversial topics.

This makes it pretty simple for Scott to parry the specific allegations or implications in his response here. But I feel like anybody who takes an honest look at his writing would have to admit:

He believes in IQ and intelligence heritability, specifically with at least a significant genetic component.

He doesn't like feminists (not all but a much broader swath than his response implies). Maybe you could say he's moderated on this over the years.

His response heavily implies that these things are not true. It strikes me as "technically true" in roughly the same way he's criticizing the Times piece for being.
I'd like to see a reference for the claim that very often, the subject in a news story will be granted anonymity (besides victims of sex crimes)

The Virgil stuff is a moot point. There are several differences (difficulty of finding the name, consistent usage rather than anonymizing), but I don't see how it would change anything if they slipped up by letting him use a pseudonym.

Unless you really do have evidence that they very often allow subjects anonymity?
So now it's the locking mechanism that's gotta be made plausibly deniable. The beauty of it being done in software via (say) an HID interrupt is that the software itself is protected by the act of locking the computer.