jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're apologizing for a project that has repeatedly damaged user trust with excuses.

These are "valid" reasons for keeping the source code private for a year? By whose book? Yours? Certainly not by mine. I wouldn't let any other business abscond from its promise to keep open source open source in spirit and practice, why would I let Signal?

This is some underhanded, sneaky maneuvering I'm more used to seeing from the Amazons and the Facebooks of the world. These are not the actions of an ethically Good organization. And as has already been demonstrated by Moxie in his lust to power, he's more than capable of deviance. On Wire vs Signal:
"He claimed that we had copied his work and demanded that we either recreate it without looking at his code, or take a license from him and add his copyright header to our code. We explained that we have not copied his work. His behavior was concerning and went beyond a reasonable business exchange — he claimed to have recorded a phone call with me without my knowledge or consent, and he threatened to go public with information about alleged vulnerabilities in Wire’s implementation that he refused to identify." [1]

These are not the machinations of the crypto-idealist, scrappy underdog for justice we are painted by such publications as the New Yorker. This is some straight up cartoon villain twirling their moustache plotting.

So now I'm being sold on a business vision that was just so hot the public's eyes couldn't bear it? We're talking about a pre-mined cryptocurrency that its inventors are laughing themselves to the bank with.

At least Pavel Durov of Telegram is honest with his users. At least we have Element doing their work in the open for all to see with the Matrix protocol. There are better, more ethical, less shady organizations out there who we can and ought to be putting our trust in, not this freakshow of a morally-compromised shamble.

[1] https://medium.com/@wireapp/axolotl-and-proteus-788519b186a7
What the author describes was never a good idea anyway imho. We will just have to learn to point a subdomain to third party servers.
It is very flat, but it's also quite wet and VERY windy. The Netherlands would not be the best place to cycle if it weren't for the infrastructure that they chose to build.
Awww...screw all that logical stuff.

It just looks cool.
I read the last chapter in 3 mins.
He basically get a shell code from metasploit, import that code into python by using ctypes and lastly build shell script into exe. In addition to this, he also develops a http upload mechanism to upload this some antivirus check service. But in the cover, the author says last chapter will be for building a malware that evades antivirus programs etc.. I mean it is misleading at all..
Why make the rules complicated? So you can make more money from the lawless idiots! Of course!

Same reason for Red Light Cameras and Speed Cameras. Safety? Maybe as a side effect... but we need those monies to make up for budget shortfalls!!!

Throw in Business Hours, school zones, happy hour, etc...

Also... the US is stupidly enshrined in making everything against the law - and punishable with fines (or more)... For being the Land of the Free, we sure do love our laws...
I don't know why you'd ascribe it to incompetence. Why is it incompetent to disallow parking, e.g. during rush hour but not during other hours? Or to disallow parking during street sweeping hours? Or to accommodate truck loading/unloading hours for adjacent retail, or bus loading/unloading hours for nearby schools? Parking rules are just time-domain multiplexing of conflicting uses of parking lanes.

Some of the complaints here are classic "lazy programmer" reaction to unavoidable complexity--make the solution easier by solving a different problem. Sometime's that's the right approach, but someone isn't incompetent for choosing a more complex solution that solves a problem more precisely.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048265 and marked it off-topic.
Would this system block websites at the IP level or at the DNS level?

Doing it at the DNS level would mean you could roll your own DNS or use a non-US DNS provider.

Doing it at the IP level would mean the ISP reverse-lookups IP addresses back into domain names and checking against a list of banned addresses. This one could only be bypassed through proxies.
Thanks for the comment. For the record, I am very aware of iee 754, And I am aware that some numbers that have infinite repetition in decimal can have an exact representation. I actually thought about pointing that out. However I decided that it didn't add much to the post. It was written for more of a general audience and diving into those details, while would make the post more technically correct, would not actually add any value for the average reader.
Probably a cultural difference led to starting the statement with No rather than Yes.
I remember reading about vegetarians mitigating this very concern years ago when Burger King put out its first veggie burger.

In 2002, the company already had a response for this situation. "'The Burger King VeggieBurger is not positioned to be a vegetarian or vegan burger. It was designed to be a meatless alternative.' These were the words VIP heard when we called Burger King headquarters in Miami, Florida."

2005: "The VIP tasters sampled the original BK Veggie Burger that was warmed slightly in the microwave to avoid contamination by the animal products cooked on the grill."

2002: "Vegetarians who order the BK VEGGIE should specify that they want it cooked away from the Whoppers. To make certain, they should request it be microwaved."

Source: https://www.vegparadise.com/news15.html
I agree—a demand to retrofit everything isn’t feasible. But the demand isn’t “buy the new equipment”; the demand is “Buy the new equipment OR change your marketing to accurately reflect your equipment situation”.
Seriously? On Android it's just settings->about phone
It's because everyone is doing it, and they don't want to be left behind. "If the user doesn't download our app, he or she will probably get our competitor's app, and then we're foobared! Holy crap, we better push that app!"
I mean by that definition sure, but you can kind of take that to any extreme right? Ultimately it's always in a context of a shortage at some price point.

If you imagine there is only one employable tech worker, it'd be strange to claim that there is no shortage because you can hire away the one worker for a 20million dollar salary (or whatever the highest salary is to outbid all of the others).
I appreciate your assistance but I can check spelling; a simple "Did you know that it's Lynx" would have sufficed. Good to know there's two text-based browsers. I didn't, but I and everyone else I know will go on not using either.
The advertising in this page is strange. At first I thought it was part of the article.
Better by what measure? If you accept succinctness is power, Arc is the most powerful language there is. Python's goal seems to contradict wanting to be powerful. http://paulgraham.com/power.html

And if what you are writing is web apps, you don't know how useful Arc is unless you used it.

Any language looks extremely powerful when you first start to program because programming itself does. You don't have a baseline of comparison at that point. So it's easy to be tricked into using a less powerful language when you are inexperienced.

What's surprising in this thread is inexperience in programming didn't sway jack into picking a less powerful language. It even caused him to feel guilty about this advantage: "secondarily (very minor)". That's impressive already. He's already ahead of those who don't hack in Arc and stay mislead they shouldn't.
Hi Aaron, I hadn't seen that library (RESideMenu) before. I'm excited to see how they went about implementing this. I'm sure you'd still agree this floating style isn't nearly as popular as the vast majority of sliding drawers - that is why I called it unique.
It's not even true that a single building has only one address, must exist in one town or even in one country. There's a house that has one address in Baarle Hertog (Belgium) and another address in Baarle Nassau (Netherlands), with different house numbers too.
Bernstein v. United States[1] maybe?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
If we wanted to play the trivia game I could ask what access modified was removed from Java? :-)
I doubt that was the intent at the time. Sure they'd be looking for ways to monetize, but could the co-founder in 2012 have predicted what FB as an entity would become ~10 years later?
Fair points. I started the post by stating that I (personally) wanted to use NixOS in the future, but admittedly didn't maintain that tone throughout the piece.

I definitely have humble requirements in terms of deployment size, so (for me) any orchestration tool is likely to be way more effort than it's worth. I compared NixOS (not a deployment tool) to those other (small-scale deployment and/or configuration management tools) because that's what I and plenty of developers I know have used, and I think the comparison helps illustrate the issues that NixOS can solve. Hopefully those who _do_ have experience and need for larger orchestration software can tell from reading whether the problems NixOS solves are relevant to them.
I've gotten the impression over the years that Grails is written in Java and only bundles Groovy for user scripting, but I haven't checked up recently. I certainly looked through the Gradle codebase when its version 2.0 came out and there was hardly a line of Groovy code in there, only Java. It, too, only uses Groovy for user scripting. If I'm right about the Grails codebase, static-typed Groovy isn't actually used to build any systems of note. Perhaps Cedric Champeau, who wrote the static-typed Groovy codebase, will use it to build the Groovy for Android he's presently working on. It'll be interesting to see whether he uses it or uses Java because it'll show whether he has enough faith in what he built to actually use it to build something with it. Until static-typed Groovy is used to build something, Groovy will remain a dynamically-typed scripting language for testing, Gradle builds, webpages, etc.
Maybe we should suggest that to the waiters. Or maybe they could accept pull requests after we've figured it out in our home kitchens..
It's not attacking his character, but rather his bias. And the funding that supports his opinion is entirely relevant; He is paid to craft arguments in opposition to Network Neutrality.
At risk of sounding like a total jerk, I'm incredibly disappointed in this blog post and in her being appointed to this position. This post reads way to personal for my tastes. A quick read of her past accomplishments shows a history of government bureaucratic jobs, but I'd like to actually see what she accomplished there.

Unfortunately, this all stinks of a "quick, let's find a social media expert (i.e. Twitter user) and appoint them to the job!" Said "social media expert" then goes and blogs/tweets like a dork and alienates all the people they are supposed to be getting involved - similar to what Scott Monty did for Ford last year. If I was working IT at NASA, I'd hang my head and cry.

/rant
You are over-generalizing, and more to the point - you are clearly neither a Forrst or Dribbble user. The difference in the quality of the content is very noticeable. To put it into a more sensible coordinate system, Dribble is a moderated mailing list, and Forrst is an unmoderated one. Or, better analogy perhaps would be hackers vs. script kiddies - do you know of many hangouts of former that tolerate (leave alone embrace) latter? Me neither.
I'm pretty confident this is false. It's been repeated a lot in articles (including the usually solid Bruce Schneier), but in an admittedly brief search, I can find no evidence to back it up.

Iowa is one of the largest pork producing states, and I can't find any mention of the deaths by pigs in the years I paged through: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/face/Summaries/index.html

New Mexico, a mostly rural state with a significant number of animal caused fatalities, does not seem to attribute any deaths to pigs out of the 63 deaths (including 2 by sheep) reported here: http://www.nmwild.org/wp-content/uploads/animalrelated.pdf

I can't find recent data from the CDC, but this report has fairly complete coverage from 1991-2001. Snakes are at 5 per year for the US, spiders 6, bees and wasps at 50, but pigs are not mentioned specifically anywhere in the report:
http://www.scark.org/docs/Animal%20Related%20Fatalities.pdf

My best guess is that this number was either intended as sample copy and left in a final report, falsely conflates "other specified animal" with pigs, is a worldwide rather than US/Canada specific number, or attempts to included deaths from "swine flu" as death due to a pig. Please don't repeat this trope unless you have better evidence that it is indeed true.
Use semicolons, always. Then you don't need to learn all the rules and caveats and ambiguity.
It's great to remember how lucky we are.

However, don’t let this distract from our shortcomings (as a society). And be especially careful when things are moving in the wrong direction.

When things get worse, do not settle for less. That's not gratitude; it's submission.
I had no idea about Rockstar. I've heard for years about EA's shenanigans and thought they were the worst.

Why do people allow themselves to be treated that way?
Transcription here, including the culture secretary basically saying 'now that you've said this, the internet will freak out'.

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2010-11-23c.235.0
I'm working on a post for that. Our friends and family are mostly in the North East, so we needed to think long and hard about the pros and cons of either scene.

BTW, looks like you are in San Diego. Why did you choose that area (besides the fact that the weather is 62 in SD vs. 34 in NYC)?
step 0: be really talented
In, ahem, "fairness" to Germany, they operate some of the dirtiest lignite coal power plants in all of Europe. [0] Despite their self-promotion as a leader in green energy transition with the Energiewende, they seem unwilling to shut down these very carbon-intensive operations. Even replacing these plants with hard/anthracite coal or natural gas would be a major improvement, but alas.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garzweiler_surface_mine
Seems like if you really wanted to compare you would have both trucks tow the same loads and then report back on things like range etc. for each different load.
I will always wary

Muphry's Law, a truly remarkable thing! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law
And to me the interesting question here is, if we both buy cheap 10$ tokens, and agree to buy these from each other at 1000$ and "lose our keys" will we be able to collect insurance on the lost asset? Will we be able to deduct the loss in taxes? Or if we donate the "artworks" to each others charities will we be able to deduct them in taxes?
I didnt know what to expect. It was a lot lower than the claimed 250 terabit/second. The fastest I have ever gotten bits out of dedicated hardware is only about 500 b/s. Now. I didn't try very hard, but I didn't think anything in the gigabit range was possible on a single chip.
The article does not say the drawings are in caves, and as far as I know, rock art in South America tends to be out in the open.
The M1 MBP can't drive more than external screen, that's something to think about.
The bit that usually went "whoosh" over my students' heads was what happened to the Regency characters following the end of the play. You kind of have to put it together from clues dropped throughout:

- On the evening of her sixteenth birthday Septimus and Thomasina dance

- They kiss

- She invites him to her room, to de-flower (ugh, awful word) her

(This is where the play ends)

- Thomasina leaves a candle burning, waiting for him to go to her

- He doesn't

- The candle catches the house on fire

- She burns to death

So, poor Septimus is left in an awful mental / moral position, where by doing the "right" thing, and not taking (awful word again) his pupil's virginity, he's accidentally caused her death. He goes (possibly) mad, and spends _the rest of his life_ living in the fake hermitage, running the iterations of Thomasina's algorithm by hand.

It's so beautifully tragic, and Stoppard leaves it there as a trail of breadcrumbs for his readers / audience to suss out on their own. I love it.

When I got out of the education game the Online Everything push was just beginning. I'm kind of glad I missed it, to be frank. As techy as I am, as a teacher I really grooved on the immediate, in-person nature of a classroom environment. I never put any of my classes online, and (though not taking anything away from those who have found success doing it) have no desire to teach like that.
I definitely agree that institutions have an interest in surveilling or tampering with the network. It's just that the backstory of its invention isn't something I see as being practical information.

I'm inclined to nitpick your argument about cryptocurrencies being a threat to sovereign nations. Isn't everything that isn't censorable and is resilient to attack a threat to everything else? Your argument could be used to advocate authoritarianism.
That is pretty insightful. Do you have an email ?
It seems like these excess returns are a special case of the general principle that taking on more risk yields higher average rewards at the cost of more volatility. (Compare stocks vs. bonds, for example [0].)

Quoting from the third link above:

> So it has high excess returns and has worked basically everywhere it has been tested, what’s not to like? As the authors go on to say, this incredible performance is also accompanied by periodic, soul-crushing declines:

> "In 1932, the winners-minus-losers (WML) strategy [momentum] delivered a -91.59% return in just two months. In 2009, momentum experienced a crash of -73.42% in three months. Even the large returns of momentum do not compensate an investor with reasonable risk aversion for these sudden crashes that take decades to recover from."

> This is why momentum investing can be so deadly. When things are going right, they can go very right, but when they go wrong, it can get ugly fast.

[0] See https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/equityriskpremium.asp or the corresponding Wikipedia article.
Each transactions has a fee value set by the sender, that goes to the miner. Miners select the top N transactions by fee, so miners will still have an incentive.
Google's withdrawal from China in 2010 stands out as perhaps the most eminently courageous move a technology mega-corp has made against a powerful nation state. The tragedy is that the world didn't care - signaling perhaps to all future decisions makers that, well, the we don't really care.

Not only did we not appreciate the significance of what happened or reward the deed, we have adopted in these peak social media years a style of criticism that blackens every shade of gray. No leadership will ever make Google's mistake again.
I just upvoted this comment as well. So apparently Card can make idiotic comments about the media and the left which are stupid beyond belief but we cant. Im a fan of science fiction and card is on my list of books to read. I knew nothing of the person but after reading that article which was absolutely devoid of any substance and sounded like it was written by someone completely out of their mind id say i will be avoiding his books like the plague.
Sounds like you've thought this through. Congrats to your fiancee for landing a great gig. You are a true partner for making this move.

Since no one else has said it, find out which alums from your university are in Philly and set up informational interviews with ones in fields/jobs you find interesting. Everyone loves to talk about what they do/how they got to where they are. Key: follow up with a hand-written thank-you note. This is far more memorable than an email! (and do this for everyone who takes time to talk to you)

I would also set up an informational interview with these Philly folks to get a better idea of the local scene: http://www.dreamitventures.com/
I totally get that you want a job-job, but they will "get" your background and may even put you in touch with one of their companies and/or introduce you to others in the Philly tech community.

I'd also check out http://asktheheadhunter.com/ for advice on how to treat your job search the way a recruiter operates in matching companies and talent (essentially, you research the heck out of a place where you'd want to work and then show them how they need you). The "Ask the Headhunter" book is a bit repetitive but may be worth picking up as well.

Best of luck! And don't be too hard on yourself. The process will most likely have its setbacks.
Shouting about "111 Gigapixel new world record" makes it sound like it's a technological break-through. In reality it's the equivalent of "the world's largest candy bar" or "the world's largest taco."
Think of Posterous Groups more like an email list on steroids than a web based groups product. You can invite people by adding their email address to the group, and they dont have to sign up for anything to use the service.

The service is fully functional as an email list, but better since it handles rich media well.
While I think HN should have this too, I think you're setting that cost pretty low. I've often wished there was a way to post (non-YC, non-startup) jobs to HN. It would be at least as good as if not more effective than what you get from a professional recruiter. I'm pretty certain a rate of $1500 would be reasonable. Especially given the huge savings in time that I don't have to spend filtering the total bozo applicants.
No, no, no. ISPs to 3rd party developers: "We want a cut. Probably a very big cut." Very, very different. Different problem, different solutions.
Okay. That makes more sense. I also assume your other examples were also grossly simplified as well, and that all the opposite sides were, in fact, in the wrong.

Which, I think is contrary to the point of the original article. The original article makes the assumption that you are, in fact,merely getting bullied, and that the lawyer approaching you is threatening you.

Your stories would have more weight if you were bullying people who had done no wrong at the request of your client.
The strategy that is overlooked is addition by subtraction.

See C++ and most long term software products. I think a difference with software is that when properly designed additive features can lay dormant if unneeded. Not many need Mx-butterfly in emacs, but if you do, it’s there.
Making sRGB 1000 nits is extremely bad colorimetry. sRGB is supposed to go with 80 nits in its original definition, and being an order of magnitude off indicates something very wrong with your system's concept of what "standard dynamic range" entails.
>“There are no magic tricks here,” says Leshem. “If unvaccinated people travel without full quarantine and testing, we will increase the risk of reintroducing the disease to Israel.”

Why? I thought they just mentioned there is herd immunity. Why would the disease be reintroduced if most of the population is immune?
You mean the energy from the core of the sun took 100k years to reach the surface and be emitted as photons.
While they sound fantastic neither part or them combined would qualify as small in any measure.
How many times does this have to be debunked?

“Why Bitcoin is Not a Ponzi Scheme: Point by Point”— https://www.swanbitcoin.com/why-bitcoin-is-not-a-ponzi-schem...
People die of the seasonal flu all the time too. We don't shut life down over it. Covid is much much worse than the seasonal flu for many people. For others, it's less dangerous. That said, people still get hit with it.

You can't get to 0
Add teeny tiny text to it too. On a basic website i can at least pinch. With scroll jacking it’s all broken.