jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Worst possible option. Unmute Trump, or mute all election conspiracists including Fox. Force the vandals to organize on Parler amongst the people they scammed, and don't let people get sucked in on accident while they were just trying to look at baby pictures.

This half-measure is the most dangerous of all paths. Depending on your interpretation of the 1st Amendment, you have to do either A or B. This is short-term survival at great long-term cost.
Kind of want to agree, but you're comparing the extremes on both sides. The truth is somewhere in-between, and consider that for mainstream products like WhatsApp or Windows or whatever, the general public never deal with actual salesmen, just word of mouth and marketing.
Things escalated really gradually over the course of 4 years
> And all major Exchanges are down.

No, they're not.

I guess it depends on your definition of "all major exchanges".

If what you means is "US exchanges", then maybe.
One thing that's not security theater is if you try to get into the room where the VP and Congress are you will be shot in the face (neck). Taking a podium or making a mess of some paperwork isn't all that meaningful. I think it shows that the security professionals have it figured out.
This could explain why Orange County, Florida has relatively low transmission rates in spite of Disney World being open to hundreds of thousands of people a day. Mostly outdoor parks, social distancing rules, masks required, but lots of shared surfaces.
I agree to an extent, "upperclass", "underclass", "middle class", "lower class" and so on are not meaningful ways to describe societal structure, they're mostly arbitrary delineations to group income brackets with similar consumption levels and behaviors.

In the UK class still refers more to traditional social standing (i.e. someone from a bloodline of aristocrats would be considered "upper class" even if they have a measly income and no generational wealth or political status) but in the US this has almost entirely eroded to refer to how much money you make (with even distinctions between "new money" and "old money" evaporating over time). Most countries lie somewhere in between.

Marxists often try to be similarly reductive by saying ownership of "the means of production" is the only class distinction. But even Karl Marx wouldn't have agreed with this strictly binary approach.

If you spend even a few seconds studying the biographies of the top billionaires, it should be obvious that even a small-scale business owner has less in common with them than with the working poor. If there is a single dividing line, I would say it is if money means being able to purchase goods and services, or if it means being able to exert political power.

A billionaire not only has at least a thousand times as much money as someone with a thousand dollars to their name. This level of wealth compounds. Merely having this amount of money readily available not only affords them easy access to credit (and thus additional liquidity) but it also affects other people's (and companies') behavior towards them. Poor people on the other hand have to resort to collective bargaining (e.g. labor/trade unions).
It’s because it’s for a good or service outside the app and not a digital good.
I'm sorry if I came over dismissive. I'm sorry for your losses and by no means tried to imply it was a fault of a "deliberate choice" made. Which my comment may imply.

I was trying to say that traffic is dangerous, which your experiences seem to confirm. And that we, as society, somehow, don't push back against, but simply embrace and acknowledge. Every morning that we get into the car to work, again. And again.
Even games on Steam?
Yes, check out michael osterholm's joe rogan interview. He called out hand washing as basically security theater
yes sir!
giovanni 45211 pts!
No, I don't think I could safely say that, but the lengths to which one must go to fail are really astonishing.
Heck it's impossible to have consistent keyboard shortcuts across programs, no matter the desktop environment. I tried everything, wrote config files, remapped layouts, set Firefox config values for modifier keys, etc. Impossible. I got close with KDE, but eventually gave up.
It sounds like they were maybe pattern matching to strictly. If the value is always a string just save the empty string and try to discover that service. If it doesn't exist, oh well, it doesn't crash the process.
Well I think the fascism comes with the conclusion, i.e. "because most people are not equipped to understand what is reasonable, therefore we must control them"

Whereas something like "because most people are not equipped to understand what is reasonable, therefore we must provide them with the tools to understand what is reasonable" isn't necessarily fascist.
Dupes from the last three days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810204

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8818710

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813743

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8818635

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8818667

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8819003
I'm sure you mean well but I think there's a few things you're missing. Many people are getting diagnosed now instead of drinking to deal with their problems. Talking about mental health and seeking help is much more acceptable now than it has been before.

And here's a point of data for thought. I'm bipolar. In the United States, 2.8 out of every 100 people have the same diagnosis. Bipolar is highly genetic and largely incurable. Depression and anxiety disorders are far more common.

Yes, people can get anxious and depressed over life events but there are a great many people who truly need help because their problems don't have a known cause and there is no enemy to confront.

Perhaps the reason the current generations are "weaker" is we aren't hiding it anymore.
Julia feels like a scripting language but every function is effectively a template. I prototype lots of high perf stuff in it because it gives you control of memory layout and what gets evaluated at compile time, so it'll get you within spitting distance of an optimised c++ implementation but with 10x better iteration speed. Thoroughly recommend it to any Comp Sci / ML researchers.

Only thing I'd wish for is better control of memory layout for mutable structs, but I know that's unlikely since that's one thing that the Julia folks want to keep abstracted from the user.
Unless you're stuck in the cold. (source: me waiting outside at night :)

Body temperature might cause other somatic benefits (ala wim hof) but I'm wildly speculating here.
Both have significant revenues and are arguably still in their growth stage. I don't like either stocks, but even these names aren't comparable to what was happening during the dotcom bubble.
All it would take is for replicas to be simply marked as such. Then the intrinsic value of the goods and the quality are the place where the competition should take place.

Plenty of so-called knock-offs are produced right alongside the 'genuine' article, the only difference is in who gets compensated. The whole reason this idiocy exists is because goods are often traded well above their intrinsic value.
It doesn't make it okay, it just makes it not a "net neutrality" issue.
It's more of a "good neighbour" issue.
Apparently they also believe in super fucking annoying websites.
Original message is here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.racket.user/3209/foc...
I bought Hello Android, TDD screencast series & The RSpec Book. Amazing bargain!
I believe the current limit for slow-start are not adapted to the current Internet anymore.

According to my own observations, the first 30Ko of my pages seem to be transfered faster then the next 30ko. It is not until much more is sent that the average throughput eventually get up to what it was during the first 30ko.

This is definitely weird.

Note: I am using Ubuntu on EC2 hosted VMs.

As a result, for as much as I can, I try to keep the size of my content below 30ko, using multiple concurrent HTTP requests.

I believe this is related to "slow-start" being pessimistic.

Unfortunately, "slow-start" is not configurable on Linux and I don't feel confident enough to go with some kernel level patch...

Any clue?
If you call supporting a tyrannical regime fun..
Java: Because No One Hires Pascal Programmers Anymore

On a more serious note, it would be nice if the AP test used a language with less baggage. Python is becoming popular, but Scheme still makes me happy.
This is quite interesting and I think that rather than saying 'trust me', by providing a bit of background it makes it much more likely for us to have a productive conversation. But for what it's worth, while I don't have an academic background in it, I'm a Buddhist practitioner.

Every retreat I've been on, and every book I've read has presented the precepts as a set of mindfulness trainings, and specifically distinguishes the concept of precept from the concept of 'commandment' or law.

We talked past each other, but to say that Buddhist ethics are stronger about things like 'not taking anything which is not freely given' is indeed correct. But equating that with theft is still not meant to be taken literally.

If we were to go down that road, much of what I've read about the precept not to commit murder also applies to speaking harshly to someone. I've always understood this as figurative, and valuable. But I am not going to call someone who harms someone through their words a murderer.

I feel like you are emphasizing too much on the words you are reading and not the intent or meaning behind them. That was the point I wanted to make, and hopefully I've done that now.
Yeah I've never had it before either after reading this it feels like a red flag. I also lost my appetite and lost about 5 pounds, but that just may have been from anxiety.
Meister Eckhart: ”Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
Is this "bouncy" effect the elastic one pulling against the end, snapping the list back to position when you release it, or is it the the one where the scroll ricochets off the end when you apply great force in order to quickly scroll to the end? The former is a very nice UI cue, but who on earth thought the latter was a good idea? As an Android user, I wish there was a way to disable the ricochet on all apps.
Developer of the browser extension here. Please ask any questions you may have.

I have been working on this extension for over a month. There is hardly a day when I don't come across toxic content on social media. Some days when I am down, I don't want to see such type of content, hence the development of this extension. I hope the community here will like the idea. If that's the case, I will work on improving the machine learning models and developing it for chrome and mobiles. The last thing - the goal of the extension isn't to suppress freedom of speech for everyone. It is to have the ability to be able to control the type of content you 'want' to consume.

The code of the extension is open source at: https://github.com/faizann24/toxnic
That doesn’t make a difference in this case. It just affects which filer gets priority if more than one party files claiming the same invention.

The winning filer’s claim still has to meet the other requirements for a patent, including novelty and non-obviuousness.
I'm 28, fit, physically active (bouldering / running / gym), no pre-conditions whatsoever, take vitamin D supplementation, I don't take any medication.

I'm going through a nasty pneumonia that hurts my lungs just breathing and I've never had something like this before. I get tired just walking around, whereas 2 weeks ago I did a 40 minute 10k. Take that anecdata as you will, but if you can protect yourself, do.

So when you say it's just a "bad cold", I chuckle a bit. What's going to happen to the millions of overweight, high blood pressure / diabetic Americans? Sure don't panic, but be safe.
Everybody in the business
knows the secrets anyway.

That's so interesting. How does this knowledge (the secrets) transfer between individuals, in a way that doesn't generalise to teams? I'm asking because I've just been asked to build a research team ... (and one of my goals is to open all our results).
It used to be the Access of Apple shops.
Tangentical, but relevant for complex systems and organization of them and their code:

I’ve started to look at BPMN, a thing I used to shun (bloated java enterprise junk that just slows coding down), as a way to actually help organize code.

If you have a process layer on top that describes exactly what is supposed to happen and you organize code accordingly it makes changes to complex systems easier to reason about.

I know there’s a lot more to it than this, but in my mind concepts from domain driven design, minimal service scopes and a de-coupled process layer really can help.

I guess this is why “tech” versions of bpmn-ish like systems have appeared with for example netflix conductor, uber temporal/cadence.

Split stuff up in relevant domains and describe their relationships and processes. Try to stay away from massive code bases spaning domain boundaries if possible.

No silver bullets anywhere ofc, but this is currently a topic at my employment this very moment. :)
It doesn’t seem as general as MetaOcaml. Just two-stage evaluation, and without quote and splice.
I resemble that comment
That would be fantastic, especially if it was easy to call into R from C# via for example RDotNet.
> Companies that want to get serious about data analysis often have to hire elite programmers who specialize in writing Hadoop MapReduce jobs.

There's no need to do so, you can use Hadoop Streaming (http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-mapreduce-clien...) and anything that works with stdin/stdout.
It looks that way. Irfanview reports 24bpp for images saved when I selected > 256 colors in CQ.
I find asymco's analysis truly fascinating at times. First he casually, almost forgetfully offers the opinion that the US's second largest company in market cap should be trading at a 32 P/E. Then accepting this opinion as fact, he presents a "common argument" against it which I've never actually heard discussed before and proceeds to deconstruct it as not being significant enough to provide the downward pressure on AAPL that he suggests is a simple fact of nature.

The purpose of all of this, the best I can tell, is to worm the idea that AAPL is undervalued by 50% into the subconscious of the reader, and not actually about the effect of google's products on apple's stock value.

Quite a fascinating to see it done so well. I'd assume it's quite effective - I found myself feeling like I agreed with some of his premises simply because of how they were presented.
If I were you, I'd send them an email requesting this, on your behalf. At the end of the day, its their responsibility to make the console unavailable. I will be more than unimpressed if they dont see this logic here.
Are you able to enable the 'read-only-mode' using the same method?
Sorry, bubbles happen even without government action. Read up on the tulip bubble for a classic one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

There is also plenty of blame to spread around. EX: Irish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_property_bubble burst 2008. UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_property_bubble burst 2008. Australian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_property_bubble (yet to burst) etc.

What is really interesting is how little the price could increase before market forces brought things back to reality. Housing is such a large percentage of the worlds wealth that we never saw the sort crazy multiples over value that other bubbles get to. EX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble
Sorry, I was talking about the default accepts header for jQuery AJAX requests.
dude. buy the .com. if you don't a squatter or competitor will.
Of course they wouldn't have the ability to appoint at will, but they certainly could install opportunistically. You start by spotting someone who manages their career in a way that indicates useful skills and mindset:

http://www.siliconbeat.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-beware-steph...

...then you make them a high-valued member of your senior leadership team...

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/stephen-elop

...then when opportunity strikes and Nokia tries to buy him away you set up an under-the-table quid-pro-quo deal that would, one presumes, dwarf the $6m signing bonus Nokia gave him:

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/03/11/stephen-elop-of-noki...

Sure, it's just conjecture, but it's not implausible.
Even so, .5% downtime per year is about 44 hours, and Reddit's definitely had more downtime in the last few months than that.

Of course, that's assuming that 100% of Reddit's problems were due to EBS only and not a combination of EBS, EC2 and their own code.
I'm a technical writer and always treated rsi as an unavoidable occupational hazard. Then I read this:
http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain.htm...

What worked for him also worked for me.
on the way

You said it - websockets aren't here yet.

Plus I think there are still plenty of good applications for static HTML. For starters, even full AJAX apps should work without JS enabled if you care about accessibility.
Medical radiation machines have malfunctioned and killed people before: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/01/unforgivable_medic...
You're definitely right, actually. I've been working a lot in clojure, node.js, and html5 <canvas> recently on various projects (more posts later), and there's a definitely feeling of reinventing the wheel, and doing it poorly.

That said, there are a ton of different approaches - At the oak.js meetup, I saw a sammy.js app embedded into couchdb. Definitely not my style, but a cool idea anyway.

I'm very eager to get this into several html5 apps that are currently node.js or rails backends and for particular reasons would be well suited for a lisp backend. The goal is to tie in very closely with the html5 landscape, and drop a lot of the legacy stuff that other frameworks care about.
Not just because someone knows the rule he likes and plays by the same rules aswell
Thanks for posting this. Very insightful.

The thing I keep in mind is while I might not have a problem with this kind of pat-down I doubt many women are going to be ok with it.

The pat-down itself isn't even the real problem here or even the potential to abuse it (which is bad enough); almost certainly if you are an attractive women this is at the minimum going to be an embarrassing scene. I told my gf about this and she was shocked; she happens to be a very attractive asian women who normally draws a lot of unnecessary attention just out shopping/doing whatever.

So does she choose a private pat-down and who knows what kind of risks that brings? Or does she do it publicly so everyone can watch her getting groped? Sure as a guy I think no big deal, but for women this really is a big deal.

Anyway, what a mess and worst of all it fixes nothing.
I don't get it.
Videoconferencing is insanely old and never took off.
First there was ISDN video conferencing.. apart from the job at a telco i did once i've never actually seen one that was used.

Second, the first UMTS mobile i got had video conferencing, that's really a long time ago (Motorola V980 btw.) and many UMTS phones shipped with the second camera for years now. Yet, noone ever used it. Atleast i've never seen or heard of someone, although technically i could have done that with most people i know for years.

Is it that this feature was never available in the U.S.? Or why is this news over there?

Also, i've probably overread some feature that distinguishes it from the old UMTS way.
Why wouldn't you try to make your new product seem as "incredible" as possible?
The document in question is merely a set of discussion topics. "We anticipate that different participants in the roundtables at which this document will be discussed will criticize some or all proposals, improve others, and add ideas of their own. The purpose of this document is precisely to encourage such additional analyses and brainstorming."

It's for an upcoming roundtable at the National Press Club. The actual document is here:
http://www.ftc.gov/opp/workshops/news/jun15/docs/new-staff-d...

The public can also contribute ideas here:
http://public.commentworks.com/ftc/newsmediaworkshop/
Are you sure that's not just 3x on their last round? If they had done a lot of prior rounds with cash in that may be covering old money for their LPs. i.e. if they had done 5m in their last round, but 10m in two prior rounds--3x is just getting the money they put in back.
I think learning about typography would be a good stepping stone to learning design in general.

Start off by reading Typography for Lawyers and iA’s post “Web Design is 95% Typography”. Both links have great advice and talk about the fundamentals of typography and type on the web.

If the last links perked your interest than I recommend picking up The Elements of Typographic style. It is a great bible on the subject at the macro level.

[1]http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/

[2]http://informationarchitects.jp/the-web-is-all-about-typogra...

[3]http://www.amazon.ca/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Bring...
And, to be precise, by "a bit more secure" we mean "resists attacks by people who don't understand either Javascript or AES".
We really need to give kudos to these guys. They have been persistent for years in developing a high quality Scheme, and then taking it to the next level. PLT Scheme is practical in its library design, flexible in its reader, meticulous in its documentation and fast as an execution engine.

Making a language fast and well-documented is a thankless task. It's nothing short of a herculean accomplishment for these guys to come out of left field with such a fantastic offering.
More than that: all (I think) the proposals came from outside the FTC, and the draft points out problems with some of them.
It is, or at least I thought was, well-known that the exclusivity agreement Apple entered into when developing/releasing the iPhone had a term of five years.
Didn't you build a racing game around that time, too?
I still see the "tiny comment" issue on Android, where most comments are normal size, but some seem to be in a tiny 3px font that requires zooming way in and scrolling back and forth to read.

In short, no noticeable change.
That's probably poorly worded but their obviously referring to places where the power goes out for prolonged periods of time.

Especially during peak times.
That's the attitude that they say murdered wikipedia. Rules are there to foster a better community, not to kill off good community initiatives. As soon as the adherence to the rules becomes more important than the quality of the product you've basically lost it. The whole trick is to know when not to apply the rules. AMAs are an exceptional item and a different ruleset for AMAs would not be all that hard to imagine. Pity.
Yep, for me GPS is the reason I've changed my dumbphone for a smart one. Too bad this Nokia does seem to have it.
This guy has everything. Why is it that people feel an urge to praise him right to his face? His ego is going to start leaking out of his eyeballs.
I'm a big fan of fail-fast, but no-one tests for leap seconds (and how can you?). Every time a leap second happens, there are massive failures, both in big corporate systems (oracle!) and in open-source ones (linux!).

If seconds matter you should be testing seconds. I submit that being off by 3 seconds all the time is an easier mistake to catch in testing than "explodes every time there is a leap second".
While much ado has been written about their intelligence being a threat I am more along the lines of it further distances those who wish harm on others from having to participate in the act.

Just like leaders used to issue orders to armies to kill others evolving into planes delivering payloads to people the pilots won't even see and now to drones, we will truly be entering an age of fire and forget.