jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> that seems to be just a special case of "How do I tell if someone is being honest?"

Is it that simple? Nobody is doubting the honesty of anyone involved. The real matter is there is a cultural tradition called gender, and some people see it as a flexible thing, and to others it’s not, or less so.

You linked to the HRC FAQ, so you must have felt it was relevant to what lliamander was saying. I’m curious what information it contains that could convince someone to be more flexible in their gender definition? What would you say to someone who doubts the validity of non-binary identities? What would it take to convince you that those “extreme,” to reflect your language, neopronoun-based identities are real and valid?

> If I understand correctly, you are concerned about cases where someone does not accept either 'they', 'he' or 'she' as acceptable pronouns.

That’s not what I said at all. I’m not sure how you got that impression. I brought up neopronouns to show that most people have a degree of inflexibility in their conception of gender. These examples you’re asking for are besides the point.

Edit: Do you see how I’m using devils advocate? I personally believe that transgender identities are real and valid, for whatever that’s worth. But if you consider an extremely liberal position on gender, it’s useful to see how you react to it.
> Is there a way I can test this more scientifically?

How about the following?:

1. Choose a dozen or so public files on hosts known to have high bandwidth (Google or Microsoft perhaps). Maybe choose a couple of public legal torrents too.

2. Write a script to download all the chosen files (either sequentially or concurrently), and emit timing information.

3. Run that script a couple of times a day at random times. Try to cover weekdays and weekends, days and nights.

4. Repeat 3 but running a speed test first each time. See if there is any statistically significant difference.
As I can't respond to amedvednikov's comment below, let me respond to it through yours (sorry):

> No things are closed source. Never have been.

That's not correct. I seem to remember that when V was released initially, the compiler was available for download in binary form only. The source code was only released later on.
You can set them, but they also reverse the trackpad.
> The 'needs' of the government aren't determined by the rich but rather the imbeciles elected by the masses

Your understanding of the elections in the US is hopelessly naive, especially after Citizens United opened the floodgates for unlimited, anonymous donations to political campaigns. Politicians do the bidding of the people who give them the most money. Elections are typically between two candidates who wear colors of different gangs, but have been paid off by the same companies. Voting forces a choice between candidates; donating and lobbying allows the rich to get their policies in place regardless of who wins.
The thing is, localised advertising is the sweet spot that i've identified in advertising value. If you forget all other data, this is one piece of information that can provide value to both consumer and small businesses.

Facebook, if you know any small business that have a specific region of operation (e.g. one city) derive significant benefit and growth from Facebook's targeted advertising that they just were not seeing before.

Of course, if anyone logs in and fetches their data from facebook as a download and go through it, it is really rather unbelievable how much data there is beyond geographical data. Some of it pretty scary.

What intrigues me further, after i tried to do the same with google, i don't believe google are nearly as open to how much data they hold on a person. There doesn't seem to be any takeaway service that indicates the same depth of information. But of course we know for a fact they do hold some of it.

Anyway, the long and short of it is advertising is all we have to support enormous social networks and I feel some level of personalised data provides mutual benefit. It should of course all be opt in with no exceptions.

I'm actually conceptualising a service/product around this concept right now.
I had no idea that Twitter could do that(or that, apparently, you can just change your Twitter handle) and so it caused me to read his Twitter[1] as though the thief had decided to mock either twitter or @N_IS_STOLEN by tweeting lots of things about trying to get @N back to its rightful owner.

It was actually pretty entertaining.

[1] Really?
Do we count the Oculus stuff?
> If you don't register for Facebook and block websites from loading JS snippets from Facebook with e.g. a simple HTTP proxy or domain-based filter, you can more or less block Facebook from getting and selling any info about you.

How do you tell 80% (being generous) of the people to go about with JS disabled? Let alone setting-up a proxy, or setting your phone to even allow you to block domains.
I don't understand Roko's Basilisk. It seems like a mild twist on Pascal's wager, and like Pascal's wager, it has the following problem: I don't see a convincing argument that we actually know what behavior the Basilisk/God actually wants. It's equally plausible to me that the Basilisk/God wants people to be brave and live out their beliefs (which might be "I think this concept makes no sense") and would actually punish the craven pursuit of a different action in the hopes of pleasing the Basilisk/God.

As long as we're suspending enough disbelief to take seriously the prospect of a deity that wants to punish us, it seems like a pretty small jump to believe that we can't predict how that punishment is going to get decided. So, rather conveniently, we can just live without thinking too hard about the Basilisk/God.
Kotlin is my go-to general purpose language these days.

I still use and enjoy a few others, namely Rust but unless I need something specific I don't generally need to look past Kotlin.

You get the full JVM ecosystem, terse language that supports powerful abstractions and JVM runtime performance/features - i.e threads, debugging, prod tooling.
Mostly led zeppelin, blues. Though when coding very seriously, no music at all.
Why would people buy that? It just doesn’t make any sense.

Without having an OS to back it up like the Apple Watch has iOS and the Android Wear has Android, it’ll just be a worse smartwatch.

What would their killer app be?
When you use Matlab/Simulink for c-code generation and use it for a lot of purposes Matlab was not really made for you might run into processing strings.

But ye for normal use it is not really a problem.
Hugo + Github + Netlify - Exactly what you are looking for
Is there any evidence that paying 5x the price would actually result in a faster rollout of the vaccine? At a certain scale and timeline you can't throw money at the problem anymore there's a finite limit to how fast our global infrastructure can operate.
> I'm a physics PhD student. I simply find julia very useful and pleasant to use and want to share that with others.

User base tends to be scientists and not seasoned Software Engineers. No offense to either one, just that the community inspires the language and its mechanics. This is exactly the reason it is not a general purpose language. You just proved my point.

Glad you find it useful for your endeavors. I reckon DiffEq and other hardcore math is great in Julia.
L4 is terminal at Google now afaik, but same concept.
This is a really cool package. It's been known for a while now that such static anaysis is possible in Julia, but the new compiler hooks in 1.6 make this easier, and now someone has come along and gotten it done!

I hope to see editor integration of this soon.
Is using the arrow keys really that bad? I understand that it moves you off the home row, but is _that_ really so bad? Should I be doing this?

If you're being serious, it kinda seems like just punishing new users for no good reason. If you want that kind of self-flagellation, use vim (kidding! kidding!!)

(FWIW I use arrow keys, but also other smart navigation combinations, a lot. I consider myself a reasonable user of emacs but no pro - I have bells and whistles turned off, fairly hefty .emacs/.emacs.d file, much of which I wrote (or tweaked, to be honest) myself for specific cases, etc. but I know I only use <1% of what is out there. I try and make myself learn a new feature reasonably regularly, though.)
I don't think bone marrow transplants are quite that cut & paste.
And fifty years to build up the social acceptance that his work has much value.
Agree on a fixed fee before the lock is picked. Add that if the locksmith broke the lock, he would have to replace it out of his own pocket.

However, if the fee is higher than the price of the lock, why not break the lock yourself?
Imo it's because you are just a bunch of prudes. It's just literature which by the way is widely sold worldwide by various bookstores.
Besides Amazon accepted the book for publishing, did publish it, allowed people to buy it and now is pulling it off without any compensation for clients/author.
Looks like abuse from their side to me.
Location: Odessa, Ukraine.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: iOS, Objective-C, Swift

Résumé/CV:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7SPn_ujc3r9RzRPN21pbDIxQkk

Github: https://github.com/coffellas-cto

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/agordiyenko/

Email: iosdevcoff@gmail.com
For me these tools are much more promising than simply showing your work to your boss. It could even become a solution to get around censorship. Imagine you plug a p2p share on it with all the wikileaks docs, and other do the same...
Indeed better than tagging. Those who know the 'stuff' might not agree but the 'step by step' is always better for novices (read me). And not to mention, 'step by step' will be a useful keyword for SEO.
http://mmcgrana.github.com/2010/03/clojure-setup.html

http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2010-12-09.html#09:53

http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Stacktraces

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/5b1...

http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-733
Looks like a great plugin, but doesn't seem to work in Chrome Dev on Ubuntu. UI idea, add a link to the options page in your favicon dropdown.
Even more, one could rename the default 'example' page like this: http://boxify.me/box/input-script-alert-string-fromcharcode-... :)

Edit: removed the XSS, but here's the vector (if HN allows: input"><script>alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))</script>)
There are already better products for humanitarian use and for medical use. The medical products come in a wide variety of styles to suit different medical needs. The humanitarian products are much cheaper than soylent and don't require so much water - which is in short supply in the target regions; and they have a more suitable nutrient profile.

It's baffling when people claim soylent could be used for medical or humanitarian purposes, especially when those uses have been debunked on HN everytime they're mentioned.
Is Soylent on SemVer? Does anyone know if 1.4 is another breaking (wind) change?

I would like to apologize to the entire HN community.
In the US, all public sector employees have their salaries/income reported regardless of how much they make. My wife is a nurse at a public university hospital and has her salary published for anyone to see.
Thank you! I assume with walls you mean just blocks that would hinder the enemy from walking past a certain point or something?
http://prntscr.com/5wi90o just to prove google wrong
I understand your point, but - as you identify - LSD users are more aware of the risks and have a higher perception of risk.

Although I don't have evidence either way, my suspicion is that this results in a comparatively low risk in truth. It's not immediate that the legal status impacts on the risk at all.
Paywall is stopping me - any way to see this once I have reached my 10 articles per month limit?
If you materially alter the item, in a way that would surprise the consumer expecting an item with that trademark, it can be a problem. The example legal eagle on youtube gives is a sunglass manufacturer with special protective lenses. A reseller replaced the lenses, and a customer would be expecting the special lenses when they bought them with that trademark. So the court decided that change was material and found against the reseller.
Thanks everyone for the great advice. So far what I take away from this is:

1. People who do download the app are completely lost. This is a major screw up that needs to be addressed asap.

2. I am not very good at marketing. Getting a cofounder who is would be a simpler way forward. Otherwise I need to crank up my skills there, or pay people to do this.

3. Changing the website to specifically target CEOs/CFOs produced strong reactions. This was intentionally bold. Not sure what to do with this.

4. I need to at least give people a comparison to other tools in the field.

5. Be more aggressive in chasing potential customers. Paid ads, linkedin campaigns and other user acquisition mechanisms work.
Helmets would save a lot of head injuries in car accidents - which is why they are mandatory in racing. So would you advocate compulsory helmets in cars?
Ethereum will be released and much of what happened to Bitcoin we will begin to see happening with Ethereum, only it will likely grow much faster.
I took Ken Perlin's undergraduate graphics course in 2002 or 2003. Back then, Java was the only way to execute code in a browser that did something useful in a reasonable amount of time.

More than anything, it enabled a pretty unique pedagogical experience. Every week we'd have to make something which related to that week's topic (diffuse/specular shading, geometry manipulation, inverse kinematics, z-buffers, etc). There were no other content restrictions.

To "submit" our assignment, we'd have to publish the java applet on our personal page. Ken would go student by student and open up the week's projects on the projector, then play around with it a little. If you pulled off something cool, you'd talk about how you did it. If you didn't master the thing (happened to everyone at least once), you'd talk about what was broken, and other people would chime in to help you figure out what was wrong. It was fun either way — detective work without looking at the source.

Most importantly, the whole atmosphere was super-collegial. I learned a ton and it felt like the right way to teach computer science — build things, critique, rinse and repeat. I didn't get much sleep that semester ("WHY THE HELL WON'T THIS RENDER!!!111!!!one" was a common refrain in chat with my coursemates) but it was the best class I ever took.

Plus, Ken drives vim like a fucking boss. Like, he'd enter some arcane vim incantation ":ad8723bsd9asasfd" and bam, a ray tracer appeared in his buffer.
I've starred a load of Android bugs in that tracker; and over the last few weeks, loads of them (many tens) have been flagged Obsolete.

Many of them are absolutely not obsolete; they're as relevant in 5.0 as they were when they were raised.

It's great that they're cleaning up the issue tracker as if they might actually use it (or maybe it's preperation to move to GitHub, as many other Google projects have been), but it sucks that they're just blanked fobbing off a load of relevant cases :(
So who will be able to use this wonderful protocol?
Because I don't think it will be available on gmail(or any other big provider). How it isn't going to end like a pgp right now, when I can sent encrypted emails only to myself, because no one in my circle uses encryption?
Generally speaking IMHO will be a drop in the ocean. If you're talking about India-only devs/projects then you might have some drop but not substantial. IMHO those who's job depend heavily on github are pushing/pulling code through proxies already without even bothering about the silly block.
* Yahoo! will buy Fastmail

* Netflix will win in the same sense YouTube won

* Amazon will launch an OS

* Jason Statham will make between three and five Jason Statham movies.
Yeah, I've felt pretty guilty about asking friends to host me for more than a night. It gets old for them pretty fast, I guess.
Why do they have to introduce a new ball for the world cup anyway? Surely it reduces the quality of the play to have a ball that nobody is familiar with. Not the best advertisement for the game for the casual viewer to see people making mistakes all the time.
No one understands you? Hang out online where people do. You're already here on Hacker News, so nothing to worry about.

Now, back to your 90% done project... ship something sooner rather than later. You're probably still missing a lot! If you think coding is most of the work, you are wrong. How will people know about your project (apart from telling us here on HN)?

It's not something to worry about, on the contrary. It's a great learning experience. So ship and iterate.
Definitely build a project by learning a few of those technologies. It's ok to start out learning with a framework (Ruby on Rails is pretty acceptable as a framework and easy enough to start with; same could be said with Django). I recommend this http://www.railstutorial.org/ It's meant to be newbie friendly and it will teach you a lot of those things you mentioned above (Ruby, SQLite, Version control with git + github, Test Driven Development via RSpec, and cloud hosting via Heroku) while building a twitter clone. After that you should build your own projects and you will run into new questions and problems that will dictate your learning. Also don't worry about not knowing Ruby, the book will teach you. If you are too unmotivated but have 15 minutes to spend, try this completely: http://tryruby.org/

And don't fret too much about changing web technologies. Sometimes, you just have to keep your calm and focus on what matters - essential hacking skills and fundamentals.
That's a bit simplistic. The indie sector releases a lot of crap, whereas the mainstream industry allows the existence of awesome games like Crysis, wich is a terrific aesthetic experience -- thanks to the graphics, and thanks to the money that big companies can put on the table.

Disclaimer: I like Fallout, Planescape Torment and the like.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan details his own relationship with Ayn Rand in his book The Age of Turbulence. I don't have the book or I'd pull direct quotes. But the gist is that he had an immense respect for her and she was a meaningful influence on his life.
Couchsurfing doesn't really set any guidelines for this, I've had people sleep on my couch who were moving, etc. It is really up to your host so make sure you mention this in the e-mail you send them. You might want to try couch surfing but shouldn't stay at someone's for more than 2-3 days.
At the risk of sounding idealistic and spoiled with freedom and lack of commitments (which is, well, accurate right now), I'm not sure I'd want to work for an employer who wouldn't hire me because of something I've posted on the internet.

It's the 21st century. Yeah, a lot of my life is on the internet and relatively easy to find. It's almost like having a free, instant private investigator for all of your potential employees. But do you really want to work for a place that not only sets a PI on you, they put weight in what he reports when they know it might not be totally accurate?

For people who do need a job a bit more than I do, that is a concern — and I wouldn't advocate against pseudonymity because life is not always nice and simple.
It might also be worth noting that the attempts to establish objective pros/cons of programming languages themselves usually start with a subjective decision about what ought to be maximized. For example: how do you weight things like prototyping speed, bug minimization, support for team programming, programmer satisfaction, etc.? Most studies pick one. That's useful objective information going into the decision, of course, but I still think the programming-languages decision is mostly a subjective one, depending on how people assign weights to lots of noncomparable factors. That doesn't mean it's totally arbitrary, because you can come up with cogent arguments for and against various things which help in understanding the pros and cons, but I don't think those are "objective" arguments that can establish "truth".
good idea, i've found a bunch of places already. thanks :-)
> using [...modern C++ features...] can considerably reduce the attack surface...

I'd argue the remaining attack surface is still wide enough to drive a shuttle crawler-transporter through. Even if your core code is perfectly tricked out with best practices, you're going to inter-operate with 3rd party APIs with C style interfaces at some point - and that means raw pointers, rolling your own containers / RAII wrappers, etc.
Which is what makes the article so peculiar. He's either being exceptionally sloppy or...I don't know what the other options are.
Today you'd get a tweet written by Russel Brand calling the nun a stupid whore.
Seems a bit of a leap to suggest that only men are interested in controlling women.
I've always wondered and perhaps someone here might know....do postgres' CTEs translate into big select/sub select queries under the hood? Or are they something special entirely? Ie (forgive formatting as I'm on phone) does:

With mything as (
Select * from table where...
),

Myotherthing as (
Select * from mything where...
)

Get translated to

Select * from (select * from ( select * from...)...)...)

So I'm just wondering are CTEs just easier to read, or do they offer any other known optimizations? We use them loads but mainly just for keeping larger queries easier to manage
It would be interesting to see shipping routes set up that deliberately avoid the large economies supporting ACTA. It could conceivably become a competitive advantage for "emerging" economies like Brazil, India, Russia, and China develop their own trade agreements among themselves, and leave the ACTA countries out. They would probably have more leverage, then, to negotiate better terms with the ACTA nations.
The karma threshold to flag comments is just as minimal as the threshold to flag stories, but it would be much easier to see if you didn't have to go to the comments actual page.
Release cycles matter: just randomly clicking through the tests, most of the reported failures for Safari or Chrome already work using WebKit or Chromium dev channel - both of which are likely to make it into official releases before IE9 comes out.
Not if someone caches your stuff.
Consulting in a hot area like iPhone apps or something, I'd say. Creating and selling some products is much more risk-prone.
I can understand ARM, Samsung, T.I. and others working together to push their embedded platforms/tools/chips.
Not sure what IBMs reason is, though. Do they sell embedded devices/chips?

Also it does mention "Android, LiMo, MeeGo, Ubuntu and webOS".
I suppose this will lead to some better driver support on the linux side and very lowlevel tools to support/push development of those operating systems on ARM platforms.
An usb connector would be also nice.
Here is your answer:

I am near completion of a project that I think will do well, fixes a problem I have had as a developer several times

If you've worked on the project at least give it a shot!

I'm guessing this is that little slump of confidence just before completion; don't let it put you off. I've been there a few times and if you power through you'll start to reach a real high which peaks on "launch day"

There is no requirement to have a co-founder for things to work, "formal" business plans could well hinder you (in my experience anyway). As to funding... can you bootstrap? What are your costs likely to be?

As to the potential success of your project; add some details here and we might be able to comment on that :)

EDIT: wuh, huh? would the downvoter care to comment (so I can improve my response)? :)
I didn't know about this one. Thanks, I will check next time I want to make a submission.
Why are people trying to ruin the beauty of functional programming by grafting it on like a ninth leg to C++?