jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> "She laughed and said that no, I did not understand what it was to have secret police following you about... "

It is too expensive and inefficient to follow everyone personally. You can instead shoot a satellite in the space that each second takes high-definition infrared photos of Earth and can pinpoint/track/identify each person by their uniquely located veins/blood packets on their shoulders. See? Khazakhstan v. 2.0.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/09/13/secret-us-spy-sate...
I am not a lawyer, but this is how I understand it: Hypothetically if they had issued a FISA warrant to the landlord, then the landlord could have let them search the apartment and additionally would not be legally allowed to inform his tenet that a warrant had been issued [1], must less that his apartment had been searched.

1. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1861 see part (d) "Nondisclosure"
Could you by any chance explain what is meant by "Does the software have auditing capabilities?"

What exactly are "auditing capabilities"? Is it business-speak for log files?
Jason and I decided to throw one together real quick just so everyone can meet up one last time before the year of the rabbit is upon us. Were not going to get as much food as last time and we're going to call it 'informal'. There will be plenty of drinks and snacks to keep us all going though.

Can't wait to see everyone again and hear how you're all doing.
This bit stuck out for me: "For that reason, executives said, a lot of Microsoft superstars did everything they could to avoid working alongside other top-notch developers, out of fear that they would be hurt in the rankings. And the reviews had real-world consequences: those at the top received bonuses and promotions; those at the bottom usually received no cash or were shown the door."

Individualized bonus/compensation decisions have no place in environments where the work is heavily or totally team-oriented. It forces people into a mode where they focus on getting the most individual credit instead of making the product as successful as possible. That general incentive exists in any team-setting, of course, but when you grade everyone on a curve like that and tie compensation/job retention to it, you really force everyone into playing that game.

By way of contrast, look at how investment banks do bonuses. If you're in IBD, your bonus is usually based on the success of your deal teams. If you're in S&T, your bonus is usually based on the success of your desk. Even further in that direction is how many law firms handle compensation: everyone is paid in strict lock-step. The end-result of these models is that nobody has an incentive, at least a purely monetary incentive, to jockey for credit. The way to make more money is to have the project be successful, and that means doing your best to cooperate with your teammates.

Sometimes you're forced to pay individualized bonuses. It might be the only way of attracting the superstar that would otherwise be able to make a lot more money elsewhere. But Microsoft has very high hiring standards and is rolling in cash. It should not have this problem.
Support for higher-order functions is obviously a minimal requirement of a "functional programming language". But functional programming extends far, far beyond that.

It also embodies a philosophy emphasizing the purity of such functions. It encourages the use of recursion for iteration. It encourages the use of robust type systems. It encourages the use of pattern matching. It discourages the use of many imperative approaches.

Although they may offer some form of higher-order functions these days, I don't consider languages like JavaScript, C#, C++, Ruby or PHP to be "functional programming languages". They're imperative languages that just happen to have added the most basic of functionality expected from functional programming languages. They don't truly encourage, and only partially enable, the writing of software using a functional approach.
Yeah I'm going to have to categorically disagree with that. You can totally police misinformation in a fair means by requiring that it presents credible evidence of weight commensurate with the impact of what it argues, and explain to those who are policed in a transparent manner why and how they can appeal it.

There is no one on earth who can form a credible argument that 5G spreads SARS because it's fucking lunacy. The evidence for ivermectin improving severe covid outcomes also clearly showed it was only noticeable in regions where untreated parasitic worm infections are common, so yeah, getting rid of multiple other infections led to better outcomes. Various counter-arguments against anthropogenic global warming (even the honest ones) have been thoroughly invalidated for decades.

It's like raising the required work to send spam or spray malware at random internet hosts. It doesn't fix everything, but it evens the playing field between trolls and agents of discord vs people having real discussions. We know this works because high-value discussion forums like the heavily moderated science subreddits do it and there is no mass hysteria -- and reddit should probably be compensating those mods, but that's another issue.

If your commercial platform does not put in the bare minimum content moderation to keep dangerous horseshit out of the common discourse where gullible and naïve people with no ability to serious discern credible statements from well-practiced lies, there should be penalties scaled to the revenue of the business.

Just because Facebook or whomever clearly didn't give a damn and phoned in some half-assed keyword flagging system doesn't mean it's impossible. It means Facebook doesn't care and needs to get fined until they do. If you can't link some credible evidence because of stupid limits on Twitter, maybe Twitter is just a terrible discussion platform.
yeah but this is true for profanity filters as well, and yet useful profanity filters still exist. Is it 100% accurate? No. But it's probably still useful.
You’re right. You can use a torch or sawzall on trucks if necessary.

Now’a the time for a major heist or terror activity there.
Draw the diagonals.
You're right, thanks! Edited to add Nova (which I think is a fantastic product, and is worth far more than the $199 it costs).
You can't judge whether someone was "great" in a particular field if they didn't actually practice in that field. Bargue drawings are very technically demanding, but they're exercises. They don't even count as works of art in themselves.

Just as we can't really say he was a great realist, we can't say he was a mediocre one. He didn't make realist art. We can say that he mastered the skills, so if he'd worked as a realist, he'd probably have been pretty great, if only because once he found a preferable mode of expression, he was actually great.
It's not absolute at all, it depends entirely on the consent of your neighbors.

That's true both in a world of laws and in a world of power.
Should judges be working with enforcement? Aren't there meant to be checks and balances?
I'm not sure what the laws are in the rest of the country / world, but at least in California you cannot simply take the full lane as a cyclist at any time. There are specific situations where you can -- such as to avoid a hazard in the bike lane or when turning at an intersection -- but you can't ride in the middle of the lane always.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
You can do whatever you want with your own home. But when you start criminalizing the victimless act of building a bigger house, that is where a line is crossed.
What's stupid is not realizing that both are forms of free speech. You can "oppose" it, but trying to prevent it is an attack on the freedom of speech. Either you support free speech, and the right of the "angry mob" to be angry, or you don't support free speech.

But the fact that you can't distinguish between the expression of an angry idea and a death threat disqualifies you from this conversation, though. Obviously that's different, and you know that isn't what anyone reasonable is suggesting.
I love the idea and product.
I would have bought one.... BUT then I saw the price...

350 EUR????
WTF ????

Excluding VAT and shipping ??

Who the fuck would want to fork 500 EUR for a damn keyboard ?

What size is the market at that price ?
This is ridiculous.

Is there any cheaper alternative to this ?

No fucking way that I spend that much cash for an unproven keyboard
You mean besides the fact that we've been doing it since the dawn of the species?
Objectively, the group settles into a particular speed.

It's based on both safety and perceived safety, and it's not perfect, but it works out pretty well.

If the road is designed properly it's the top few percentile that you need to restrain, not the masses.

If you make a super wide straight shot of asphalt down a residential neighborhood, and people go too fast, that's the road designer's fault.
I once asked Mark Pesche: What about time? What about scripting? "We'll add those later." But you need both from the start. "VR" is not a 3D still life painting.

One of the most common annoying question lots of people asked Mark at the time was "How does VRML relate to XML?" to which the annoying answer was "it doesn't".

All that relentless XML badgering from XML drones eventually drove Mark to the point of publishing a vitriolic anti-XML diatribe in high dudgeon, based on the premise that Microsoft was going in whole hog on XML, therefore XML was Evil, because Microsoft is Evil, so you shouldn't use XML, because Microsoft ruined XML, and you should use VRML, because VRML doesn't use XML, which is the great thing about VRML.

Might as well combine the anti-Microsoft fervor with the anti-XML backlash of the times to promote VRML.

XML certainly is evil, but not because of Microsoft supporting it!

This annoying misconception about VRML using XML may be why they eventually retronymed VRML from "Virtual Reality Markup Language" to "Virtual Reality Modeling Language" at one point. (YAML went through the same "oops" realization).

He also wrote another epic diatribe dramatically comparing himself and the VRML inner cabal to the true elder gods of old mythology, who after creating the universe and starting it going, were finally going to step aside and let the new kingdom of mankind and their lesser imaginary gods take over their own fate and bla bla bla...

I haven't been able to dig up any archives of whatever mailing list I read that stuff on, but if anybody has some of the old school vrml mailing list archives sitting around, I'd love to have a link or a copy -- it was terrific entertainment!
I would absolutely love an option that meant "archive and make available forever from this point backwards" to protect against domain expirations and re-registration (possibly by domain squatters or content farms).
Some further background on what happened. I don't see how this can be interpreted as anything other than corruption, plain and simple.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_s...

"Former ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade personally registered the domain name currently used by Ethos Capital in May and it was registered as a limited company in the US state of Delaware on May 14. That date is significant because it is one day after ICANN indicated it was planning to approve the lifting of price caps through its public comment summary.

As such it appears that the plan to purchase the .org registry was predicated on the price caps going ahead and that those behind the deal had intricate knowledge of ICANN’s internal processes."
Read this: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_s...

It appears to be a corrupt inside job.
Plants convert at most 2% of incident light into chemical energy, and spend only a fraction of that binding carbon.

Trees are cheap but need a lot of space and water. People are cutting down forests because they want to use the space for something else.

Ocean surface algae also collect solar power and carbon, and there is little demand for ocean surface for other uses. Algae are limited by available trace minerals -- cheap ones.
So it goes up by $1 or $15, how does that hurt non-profits? They aren't going to out price other TLDs, the market isn't that elastic.
Most criminals aren't criminal geniuses.
Same reason diamonds are worth more than water.
> "torture is sometimes permissible" is not an evil opinion held exclusively by evil people.

... for a rather arbitrary definition of "evil" (and "good"), one I don't share. Doesn't it make you think a little when every depiction and description of hell contains various forms of torture?
Netflix has definitely afforded me the most work/life balance I've ever had. If you are still here at 6pm, it's pretty much empty.
The general points against people trying to establish a rigid hierarchy of languages make a lot of sense - people make a lot of dumb generalizations about programming languages.

I think the article makes a lot of bad claims and arguments though in the service of an overall point that is valid, so it was frustrating to read.

Sometimes the technical differences between languages are actually significant - even though many can be used for multiple purposes, it doesn't mean they can be used for all purposes or have equivalent properties.

I also think there's a bit of a strawman there: "he community and libraries, rather than the technical features, are most important in determining the languages people choose". It's true that the libraries, community and conventions around a language are as important as the language itself, but I think people's statements about the programming language usually mean the whole complex of things around it, rather than just the core language + standard libraries.

I'm also not sure why they resorted to using random internet comments - some of which seem to be entirely tongue in cheek - to support their argument. It doesn't really detract from the points, but it's distracting.
Yeah. That seems to be the case.
A bit surprised article with so little "content" gets so many upvotes.
That Ron Conway SF housing debate clip is so mellow, I mean, only a west coast millenial could call that an eruption. ;-)

But seriously, I am all for challenging the notion that anyone who defends torture is "nice." However, if that is an example of Ron Conway angry, he really is one of the nicest dudes I've ever seen. They are discussing a topic that matters, and where ideas matter. Regardless of who is right, it is much more "not nice" to allow flawed thinking to propagate in matters of public policy, and shouting from the back of the room may be the "nicest" thing a person could do. An asshole would just snicker to himself and count his money.
In my ranking of authorities to trust, I will trust a lawyer involved with the actual underlying litigation over a random internet person, even if the latter is also a lawyer.

Marc Elias says it can't be a settlement call because he would have to be on it, and as someone who is actually involved in the case, that is pretty strong evidence that requires more than a random youtube video by someone who I know absolutely nothing about.

Also, by the way, from the actual call, it appears that Trump is committing a crime on the call, by attempting to get a government official to break the law. (There is an active investigation in Georgia on this matter, I believe). I believe that doing so violates any claims to attorney-client privilege, which would remove any illegality from leaking this call even were it a settlement call (which I do not concede that it is).
> What you state about "wise people framing things a particular way" being part of a known playbook ...

You used quotes, but what you quoted is not a quote from me, nor anyone earlier in the thread.

Also, I didn't write "wise".
Simply alleging something doesn't make it true, or likely or even plausible. It's just saying stuff, especially when you have no evidence and hence no reason for the stuff being said.
Hello --- I wrote this. If you have any questions, stick 'em here.
What are some precedents to this - specifically democracy?

I can think of union busting to protect national security
/ economy ... (air traffic controllers...) ... COVID shutdowns to protect health.
I used and was happy with Simple from the very beginning, right up to the point they removed the check sending facility.

It wasn’t the removal of the facility itself that caused me to leave.

It was the utterly disingenuous statement from the CEO explaining the removal.

They got a lot of pushback on this, and ultimately the CEO wrote a defensive followup which was slightly more honest, but confirmed his original disingenuity.

If Simple had sold itself as a normal bank this would have been business as usual. Not good but not unexpected.

However their original sales pitch was all about how they were going to be more honest.

It’s worth noting that this happened soon after they were acquired by BBVA and had a new CEO.
hey, happy new year! This is a side project I have been working on in the holiday.https://github.com/wentin/Hack-the-Hackpad
Very excited that it gets to a point to be (at least) usable! If you are a hackpad user/fan, I am sure you will enjoy it! Even if you don't have hackpad account, you will still be able to generate articles using other people's hackpad padId! How to use it? http://wentin.github.io/Hack-the-Hackpad/#JVgfJHOyu6O
I came across an app called TeamFlow, advertised at work teams, recently - it tries to use 'location' in the fake rooms to let you hear only a selection of other users. I haven't used it but I wonder if that could be adapted to a virtual conference environment.
yes.

A group voice chat with a pretty UI. iOS only for now. The reason its blowing up is that the big names, the media and the VCs (who also invested in it) are hyping it up as the 'next big thing'. (it really isn't)

Zello has been there for 10 years and has 165 million users. Clubhouse is nothing new, apart from a new way to link up your phone numbers (very bad idea) I guess.

When the hype dies down, we'll see if they can really compete.
This has already been done by some Chinese manufacturers, http://www.szapec.com/default.asp?id=1793, and the Meegopad (http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/10/15/meego-t01-hdmi-tv-sti...).

And given that the Intel's Linux version will only have 1GB of RAM, and maybe a slower CPU than a Windows version, these Chinese alternative could get quite a bit more attractive, given that their price will go down in time as well.
Is there any tool to put back URLs from chillingeffects.org back to Google search results? Should not be that hard to make one (i.e. Firefox plugin).
You'd have a point if people were evenly distributed. They aren't.
I find their 2,000 limit for $20 too low, as it might take a long time to get statistical confidence on such low traffic numbers.
Have you used Nancy? When you have then you can say WebAPI is better. Until then, keep your MS Fanboy comments to yourself
Cool stuff. I'm using entropy (Kolmogorov entropy) to do multiphase (oil and gas) flow pattern recognition, and transition detection from a flow pattern to another.
Love the native idea, but then I clicked on the pricing link - woah. I'm by no means telling you how to run your business, but the pay per email rates seam really high.

I wrote an email marketing system this week for my day job against the Mailgun API to do the sending and to send to 183k recipients, it'll cost us < $80 USD. It would be even cheaper if I used AWS but we're a Rackspace shop.

(I understand not everyone out there is a programmer, but the price is very high compared)

Good luck though.
This is why I wish we could have a file hash attribute added to certain tags (such as script). It could improve caching across domains and validate the content you're serving up. I proposal was posted here a while ago.
What you say is technically true, but that's not the real reason people build apps instead of businesses. It may be extra work and not as much fun to setup a payment system, but it's not that much extra work compared to the difficulty of getting people to pay and dealing with the high probability of rejection.
Thanks for that!

Yea the cash-eating qualities of NYC have kept me dealing with job hunt from the economic safety of my family home 3 hours away in PA. Not so easy to do under 2ft of snow ;)

Definitely a little wary of super early startups if only for the inevitable bubble pop. Under-capitalized and in a competitive talent market is a surefire pathway to quick collapse when the investment starts to dry up...
Maybe it is a bubble and maybe it isn't. We shall see. But this kind of white-hotness occurred in past bubbles, so it's one more indication that's what going on.

And yes, bubbles pop.
In the conversations I've had with Europeans on the internet many have an ignorant, almost comical view of American culture. Perhaps everyone is a bit provincial.

Europeans and American leftists have a tradition of claiming Europe is better than America that goes back centuries. If hard facts aren't at hand, they'll make up soft ones. American schools might be better than Italian ones in every way, so you just claim that Italians have "a more open and flexible mind" - a conveniently unmeasurable quantity. It sounds like you are simply asserting stereotypes as fact.
IMHO we need more growth because the more growth we have the more the establishment can skim off and the more they can then consume.

If we all stopped producing a surplus how will movie stars and bankers get the energy to run their private jets?
Your systems administrators in every job you've had should be fired. There is nothing particularly astounding about three years of uptime from a correctly-administered internal system.
Another part of it which I didn't mention is that I've always wanted to build a text editor, they've always intrigued me. So this was me scratching the itch if you like. I also used it as an opportunity to learn rust, which I really like, incidentally.

To answer your question, I actually hadn't found one that suited me, fully. There are many that I like, but non which did it for me. It sounds a bit weird, but it needs to feel right, which none of then did for me. So that's why I started it. It seems others are interested in it too which is cool!
Yes. It does not have any centralized certificate system like HTTPS so unless you can manually verify the host's public key, you will not know whether your first visit is being proxied. Of course, if the first one is proxied, so may subsequent ones, and you would only get a warning if the proxy was removed or if it's key changed.
It takes 2 minutes to google for Go support on all of these platforms. Did you even bother? Go is supported on Solaris and kfreebsd platforms.
I have ruby installed on those servers right now. Not so much go. I'm not saying go would be impossible, just that it would be harder.
It's a "feature". :P In the same way that it is a feature that the cab driver doesn't have a permit or the proper insurance. Is this really how the new blackmarket is going to work? Do something illegal nationwide with average citizens running it and you are good to go? Maybe I am just being negative. Sorry.
Why do you assert that there is malice involved? That just makes no sense. What’s with this reflexive impulse to always, always, always loudly proclaim malice?

I just don’t get where this weird worldview comes from. If there is no malice involved then this is not a big deal. Wow, people working for the same publication nevertheless criticise each other. Oh my god, what a concept!
Between Guile, Chicken and other *nix Schemes which would you recommend for general scripting and admin task automaton? Which has a more expansive library ecosystem? I found that Clojure isn't the best fit for thEse tasks because of the start-up time and the JVM dependency.