jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> When you say "self" censorship, does that mean?

I mean that a publisher, as a corporate entity will do what it needs to operate as a business and that might mean, for example, choosing to not to do business with people/companies/countries/whatever that might have any form of negative impact on the business but isn't illegal.

> I think you can have free press without institutional censorship

Not sure what institution you refer to here.

> this country

Not sure which country you refer to here. Spotify is a Swedish but global company, Rogan is from New Jersey... This story is pretty universal I think.

> What's really changed that requires a new call for censorship?

I'm not "calling" for censorship. I'm just stating the obvious: that companies and people doing self-censorship isn't something you can be for or against, "call for", protest against, or ban. You can argue that it's unfortunate when the "landscape of acceptable opinions" shrinks. This is a pendulum that will always, and has always, swung both ways (And is very different between different countries of course).

> intolerance for open dialogue and skeptical challenge generally if it contrasts with the government/institutional positions

Whenever something even gets near authorities and public instutitutions, we are in a whole different area. That's where actual free speech comes into play. The limit set by authorities on what you can and cannot say. The topic at hand here though is only when a privately owned company chooses to not do business with another company or person.
Firefox ReaderView screenshot, with proper fonts

https://i.imgur.com/3wvrz48.png
Thank you very much for the links, I couldn't believe the original article didn't mention methane clathrate at all.
Angular, if I wanted to say AngularJS, I would have written as such.

However, if you see other posts from me, you would also notice that I am largely involved in projects that are quite strong in Java and .NET stacks with SSR.

So even Angular isn't there in every project.
There are very ancient traces of human groups in France and I suppose that's where the name comes from.

Most famous example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux
Good call, if you want to take a pay cut to work at a startup, make sure you're a founder.

You're going to get equally shit pay but will have a decent chunk of equity.
With a captive audience in Stockholm?
Show me your examples of competing products.
In many places there aren't non-covered services on offer. And where there are, a fee schedule is published, publicly, in advance.
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Exactly, the usage of iOS in some countries is high, and that’s where WhatsApp didn’t win as the most used chat.
Isn't clapping five times enough to count to five? Like saying "one" five times would be enough to convey to me that you mean five.
In Slovenia we used to have the old Slavic names for months, but somewhere around my or my parent’s generation they completely died in favor of roman months.

My grandpa is still fluent in them, my parents knew about them and probably knew how to use them once upon a time, I know them as something you see on very old calendars and a curiosity we learned about in kindergarten.

All I remember is that my birthday month, October, is called listopad because it’s when leaves fall down
IANAL, but doesn't vandalism sorta need destruction or damage to happen?

That level is destruction is open to interpretation, but it still requires some form of destruction or damage to be classified as vandalism.
Apart from inertia on initial clutch-in, there are diminishing returns from increasing the gear ratio when it comes to compression losses.
I love that look (not being sarcastic), reminds of my primary school car drawings! (still not being sarcastic, I'd totally get that car).
That it why GP said it was their twist.
Interestingly dvacettri is also acceptable :)
My disappointment is palpable.
Some people I guess never grow out of their ego... perhaps it's my naivete, but I'd like to think they're the exception rather than the rule.
And I disagreed. Application developers need to break their code up, Modules aid that. Applications generally have a few custom templates for something and so concepts will be useful. <=> is useful for a lot of classes.
Authentication and quality control are obviously problematic with "illegal" (statist BS) drugs. While customer feedback on anonymous marketplaces does provide some assurance, it is easily gameable.

Still, LSD is so potent that adulteration is not a serious risk. Few drugs are hazardous, let alone effective, at doses well under 1 mg. And those that are would not likely be sold as LSD, but rather explicitly as poisons.

Blotter and windowpane are the safest dosage forms, because there is less capacity for adulterants. Starting with a low dose is prudent for many reasons. There's a good discussion of progressive dosing strategy in PiHKAL.
SpaceX could be higher long term.
Every time I bring this concept up on HN, I get massive numbers of downvotes....I'm shocked that the parent comment is currently the top comment. Maybe it's me. Anyway, here's one of my favorite applications of the concept:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/superbowlindicator.asp
Rm not implemented loool
Coordination across nation states will be super important in order to stop runaway inequality that happens when you can easily shift capital around the world.

The only way we will be able to close all of the complex tax loopholes that large corporations take advantage of is to coordinate tax rates across nations.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dut...

How often have these loopholes come up and people say "don't get mad at the corporations, we need to change the rules"

This is exactly the type of rule change we need to get this done.

(I know this particular loophole is closed now, but there are new ones I haven't taken the time to learn about yet.)
If it's not about terrorism, somebody should tell Obama; that's his quote I pulled.

Now, regarding:

> the use of encryption among the financial elite to conspire to defraud speculation markets or manipulate stock prices

Is anyone going to attempt to argue that encryption facilitates more fraud than it prevents?

> When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption.

Right. I find it hard to believe that Obama and Cameron are going to take away our encryption and somehow convince our adversaries to abide by those rules.
the market is disconnected from reality

Or perhaps, the impact of any EBS/AWS outage has very little impact on the overall health and success of the entire Amazon business.
They just announced their quarterly results: http://www.americanbankingnews.com/2011/04/27/amazon-com-inc...
This is instructive. Google's stock might not have tanked as hard the other week if LP had come out and placated the street with some jargon like this, re: Google's also ballooning expenses.
Interesting... You're correct. I wonder when that changed. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

3.3.2 An Application may not download or install
executable code. Interpreted code may only be used
in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters
are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The
only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code
downloaded and run by Apple's built-in WebKit framework.

The rule was however enforced. My own app was pulled for it a year ago for embedding an little tiny Lua interpreter for handling a few game logic changes.

The question is still interpreted code that is not included with the app but written by the user in the app. I used to work for TI programming graphing calculators a couple jobs back. I always wondered if we could do a port of one of the later generation calculators to iPhone but I always stopped at TI-Basic or if our CAS engine could be considered an interpretor. Now given the rule change, would user entered code still be considered against the rules. It wouldn't be code shipped with the app... but still.
The people who were reporting these issues made false claims and presented them in the most alarmist and damaging way possible to Apple. They did this without data to support them and continued to make insinuations not supported by the facts even when other researchers showed their claims to be unsupported.

It's certainly reasonable to question their motives.
What makes you think forensics researchers would report this to Apple as a bug? To them it's a feature.
i wonder how much of the current userbase hasn't already switched to pinboard.
Actually, inspection prices are fairly inexpensive.
I've had wonderful experiences with the BBB when wronged by various companies. Although comcast might certainly be an exception to that, everybody already knows they have crap customer service.
well, there goes my weekend
CP/M had them because of DEC, IIRC. Commands like "DIR" and "TYPE" are also indicative. And "PIP".
Most people here drive Skoda Octavia which is one of the most fuel conservative vehicles on the market, worldwide. Having a smaller car brings no measurable gains.
> Regardless, Google is getting savaged by bloggers for killing yet another service, one that most of them never even tried, let alone used regularly.

I’ve got to agree here, this feature got replaced by a native ChromeOS printing feature and probably wasn’t being used much.

It’s not as bad as others.
Well, if you stole a pack of gum and are executed for it, that's still a problem, even though you're technically guilty.

And again, in the real world, there are maybe hundreds of people suffering public outrage even though they are innocent, and there are tens of thousands of people who are serving extremely harsh sentences for minor crimes. The first is regrettable, the second is a major societal issue.
That's sometimes the case with unconscious competence, but it's not implied by the definition.

The line "The individual may be able to teach it to others" addresses precisely this point. Having unconscious competence is orthogonal to being able to explain what you are doing.
then release it!

Headless chrome cat and mouse game is a lot of fun. We need more players.
One of my coworkers generates a fake middle name for every service they sign up with. According to him, this serves as a unique identifier allowing them to determine when a service is selling their data to a third party (or data is being leaked).
Actually you know what, I messed it up. Listopad is November. October is vinotoč because it's when young wine turns into real wine.

Just goes to show how little this stuff is used nowadays :D

Although wikipedia[1] says that listopad is an alternative name for October. I am now sufficiently confused.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_months
Ambulances, sure. Firefighters? Yeah, usually. Cops? You'll have to convince me if you are talking about midwestern American cops. I know they go through lights... because. Or they'll hurry to something non-vital, where there is no one getting hurt, yet scurry none-the-less. I never realized how common this sort of thing was - lights and freaking sound - until I moved away.
At the end of the day, our only defense against deepfakes is going to be to disregard the supposed identity of the speaker and only judge the content itself. Easier said than done.
I wish they had kept going till they found a web hosting firm that didn't have these issues. Can anyone -- not affiliated with such a firm -- recommend one?

If you are affiliated with such a firm, and you respond anyway, please explain what you do differently.
Don't forget CowPiss, I mean Calpis!
Nintendo has a new system that will be more powerful than the PlayStation 3 or the Xbox 360.

I would hope so when competing against consoles that were released 6 years earlier. I'm curious to see how they will implement a "large touch-screen" on the controller, since it calls to mind radically different designs than Wii controllers.
You maybe right, but Economics at least has some scientific foundation.
The things that stuck out to me were a kmalloc/kfree and a goto/label (which isn't the biggest giveaway, but the only C I've seen that used gotos and wasn't terrible code is the linux kernel, the goto is also used in the same style as they are in the kernel).
I think the video does a fine job (music is a bit jarring, perhaps).

But I actually think the video is the least of your concerns. Right now, when I visit your site, I get no impression of what your site actually is -- a news aggregation site.

As it is, on the homepage all I see is "Tune your feed" and a lot of explanation copy. This all makes it look like an app or service.

Same thing on the video page -- after watching through the video, I had no firm grasp of what exactly you were offering because you never planted the simple fact at the outset that this is a news aggregation site.

Once I figured this out, it made a lot more sense. Advice: Before you do anything, make sure they realize what on earth your site is at its core -- a news aggregator. Then tell them why it's special.
This is very true, but the original point still applies.
I was about to sign up, but "Github for X" really bothers me.

Good luck to you, but i think you can be more creative than defining your entire product as little more than an amp setting sharing site based on a project hosting site based on a project hosting site based on a project hosting site based on a project hosting site based on a project hosting site based on a project hosting site.
Those are some very interesting ideas, I especially find the similar snippet lookup thing.

However, for that particular one a more robust database of snippets would probably be necessary, and it would take a long amount of time to gather enough snippets for it to be really useful.

As to some of the other features, I think they go beyond the scope of the project. The premise of codr.cc is to allow you to share code (live or not) using a simpler interface than all the other pastebins out there. That's why I took all of the features that might go a bit beyond that and labeled them pro.

However, I very much like the idea of an API and local plugins. Stuff like a command-line interface etc. would be very interesting :)

Thanks a lot for the input!
I'm surprised he wrote something like this. This seems like the most obvious business information you can write beyond revenue - expenses = profits.
sure, it's just as legal as buying and selling email lists or other leads.
Simpler explanation: programming teachers are worse than they think they are.
A weekend hack project.
How do you know? What if someone forked this program and closed fd 0 before execX()? You have to abide by the posix standard and what the man page tells you. Now it never happens, but later the code can change and the case can hit. Most probably you'd have forgotten about this check.

Malloc failures don't always have to result in aborting the program. Cases can vary.

My suggestion to you is abide by the man page and always check error conditions. Don't overthink the failure cases of stdlib & posix calls. You never know the OS/environment your program will run in, and the only common ground you have is the standard.
So if they are interrupting my communications, i should be allowed to do the same back, right? Example: Im in a hotel on business and use my mifi-type device for my colleges as my company requests me to do to lower costs. Now, if they block that signal they are interfering with my business needs. So in my book, i should be allowed to block their traffic that is interfering with mine. Or would that be illegal as its on their premises and all that BS...
Its important to note the backdrop for the time period when this article was written.

A few key things that happened in 1985:

- Steve Jobs leaves Apple to found NeXT

- John Hendricks launches the Discovery Channel in the United States.

- Super Mario Bros. is released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

- The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA.

- Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0.

- Solarquest, the space age real estate game, is first published by Golden.

There are a ton more, but there was a huge wave of Entrepreneurship in the mid 80's which would have a profound effect on the next 20 years of nearly every part of of culture.

Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985
I guess budget would imply a skill level as well, good point.
TL;DR: TANSTAAFL
We're speaking about expected values here. The expected value of joining a slightly de-risked startup as an early employee -- provided you don't get entirely screwed on equity, which is certainly a nontrivial risk -- is higher than the expected value of founding your own startup at T=0. This has a lot to do with things like risk, salary/equity mix, and the probability that your startup will actually succeed.

Of course, the absolute value of a big win, should a win come along, is higher for the founder than for the early employee. But the early employee has more flexibility, and probably takes more swings at bat over the course of a given time period. He won't hit a homerun, but he may hit a series of doubles. The founder might hit a home run, or he might strike out.

And on an unrelated note, the expected value of a stable job at a place like Google or Facebook is probably a lot higher than the expected value for either a startup founder or startup employee. This doesn't mean everyone should go BigCo and not mess around with startups. It just means people should figure out their personal risk-tolerance levels and ambitions, and act accordingly.
I would just push for the FCC to release more bandwidth then, so there is no overlapping. Lobby for that instead of making a loophole that will be abused in every possible way.
So how does this market crash? This is something I have struggled with for some time. Markets have typically crashed because public investors buy at very high prices and then the market loses faith that the future cash flows of the business will pan out. But IPOs aren't happening like they were. Facebook buying Instagram for $! billion is crazy, but Facebook continues to grow and generate revenue (because of or in spite of Instagram) to exceed investor expectations. If these acquiring companies continue to grow and succeed, then how does the bubble collapse? We have no idea whether Nest can justify the $3.2 billion Google paid for it, we just know that Google continues to beat estimates and the Nest guys continue to afford nice cars.

I also do take exception to the fact that MBAs are all vultures. I am trained as a computer Engineer, practiced as a materials scientist, and got an MBA. Now I am one of those exact vultures you speak of with a startup of my own that I, by the way, believe is going to contribute meaningfully to society.
Brazil is a country where the correctional systems runs with 200.000 people over capacity and has had a 100-page UN report condemning practices which deny basic human rights, yet prison riots are treated by media simply as gang plots with no particular reason; Captain Nascimento, the protagonist of the "Elite Squad" films (who methodically kills/tortures drug traffickers) is regarded almost always as a hero instead of an aspect of the police to be criticized.

Particularly in the elections that happened last year, proposals to "end impunity" (as lowering the age for being treated as an adult in court) have had largely more electoral effect and have been widely more propagated than projects for improving rehabilitation capability or respecting human rights in prisons. In fact, it's common to hear the maxim "Human rights for right people [and not for criminals]" around here to disqualify proposals of the latter.

Thanks to this public opinion trend, stories like those in the article about people who are able to "get out" instead of being arrested or killed are largely ignored. (Seeing them on Hacker News is easier than on the daily newspaper or even than on left-wing blogs which hardly have journalism potential to get a story like this.) It's nice to see them.
There's masses of DIY information on dealing with all these problems in yachts. Power, water, sewerage, heating etc are all solved easily with off the shelf parts available for this market. Practical boat owner is good magazine to find out about this kind of stuff in the UK. Insulation is a bit tricky because the water vapour generated by breathing and washing etc will condense on the inside of the metal shell
of the vehicle, potentially causing problems with corrosion, mould growth and rot in any organic elements. Ideally you would seal up the bus, put in plenty of insulation and have mechanical ventilation with heat recovery. Choosing the correct insulation and making it vapour tight or ventilating the cold side is the hard part. Hygrothermal simulations are becoming quite easy to do these days so this may be the way to go with regards to designing the insulation.
This seems so obvious that I wonder why it wasn't done before. Well done!
All of the about pages 404. What the hell is it?
From 1960 to 1985 the top marginal tax rate crashed from 90% to 30%. And then of course there's the demise of private sector unions, the effects of computerization, etc.

Arguably, it was always a natural law, but the 1970s were an inflection point after which capital was allowed to accrue advantages at a much faster rate.
Are there any plans to extend the ability so that user code can use niche values that aren't 0? Unless I failed at figuring out how to find the relevant docs, I only see NonZero formally documented but this release is clearly utilizing -1 instead (& I'm assuming it's not just doing +1/-1 math when accessing just to leverage NonZero).
I find very few sites in my regular browsing where uBlock Origin makes it unusable. The out of the box defaults are very well tuned in my experience.
Sounds like a great system for everyone with generational wealth, and a terrible system for literally everyone else.
Is there a good AutoHotKey equivalent for Linux?
I'm also a little suspicious of relying entirely on the CADR metric. If you're running a filter in an environment that's constantly producing particulates and you need to filter large volumes of air, it seems useful. If you're about to walk into a smoke filled room and have 25 minutes to clean the air first, there's no question that CADR is king.

I think it would be interesting to run a purifier in a normal house for 48 hours and see what the steady state particulate levels settle at around the house. I would guess that over a certain threshold CADR, there might not be that much difference. Room air circulation combined with a good enough CADR might even be more important, which is what Dyson claims.

For all the people in the bay area worried about the next fire season, CADR is probably the most important since there's an extreme source of particulates. I'm just not sure that's the final say on air purifier effectiveness in less extreme conditions.