jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I’d recommend a quick perusal of first amendment litigation in the early 20th century, it will disabuse you of the notion that we’re living in an unusual decline in liberty. For example the old saw about “you can’t shout fire in a crowded theater” is from a case where a man was prosecuted criminally for protesting the WW1 draft.

We live in contentious times, but at least the government isn’t literally jailing people for protected speech and having the Supreme Court affirm their behavior. Or where there’s a standing house committee dedicated to detecting “Unamerican Activities” and creating explicit blacklists for Hollywood actors and writers based on their supposed political beliefs. Or where using the post office to educate people about birth control is a crime.

We as a culture have a wildly incorrect view about how free our society was in the past. There have been points in our society where it was literally a crime to be a socialist or birth control advocate; whatever our flaws, we have much more personal liberty in terms of speech and ideas than most seem to realize.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

My favorite one is India's tradition of grouping by hundred thousand.
I don’t think it’s exclusive to entrepreneurs. A lot of people who happen to be successful, by their standards, assume it’s thanks to their superiority.

You can see that clearly in software engineering. There’s tons of people who consider themselves super smart and experts on world problems, just because someone is paying them $200k per year to move around buttons in css.
A couple of the best recruiters I know just started an agency aimed primarily at early stage ventures. While they are recruiters, they are amazing, and understand building early teams.

http://lab8ventures.com/
Probably so they can obliterate mentions of spam domains. HN has a similar feature, except that one can also stealth-ban your account for posting links to certain sites. Until we get strong AI, any high-traffic site where users can post links will need such a feature.
Your use of the word 'unfounded' in your front page copy is not correct.
There are a few flavors of dashes in modern Japanese documents. Only one of the following three characters is a dash. ー―一 If you were aiming for a dash, you want the one in the middle, because the two to either side are very definitely not dashes.
He can still ask to be escorted through the secured area --- which is what seems to have happened.
I posted in another thread that it was ironic Facebook would be against the re-purposing of a facebook's info and photos, given that's exactly what Zuck did to create Facemash.

But honestly, one must sympathize with their desire to protect their brand. They don't need "their" photos to be the source material for the entire internet's memes and jokes. Let somebody with less at stake fill that niche.
It's actually $11k apparently and I hope someone with the money, time and energy does get brought into one of these suits.

I actually joined the ACLU recently precisely because they're the kind of organization with the deep pockets and infrastructure for running suits like this.
I love it. But:

The book is NOT a good introduction to the incompleteness theorem. It is not a book about M.C. Escher. It could, barely, be said to be about papa Bach.

If you read it for math or science, you will be disappointed. It's a horrendous textbook.

Read it paying attention to his words, how and why he choses them, and GEB is a pretty marvelous thing. If the English language excites you, then read it, and read Le Ton Beau de Marot. GEB is a demonstration of ideas, not a discussion of them.

Hofstadter is not a computer scientist. He's a philosopher, a linguist, and a gedankenspiel-smith. Read him to laugh and play. Expect pretension because big words are fun.

Or skip it. I don't think it will change your life.
Lamebook links have already been unblocked.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1932259

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/facebook-censorship/
Rather than guess, you could have read the article, which is just about as far away from 'fanboy' in either direction as you can get. Not a perfect article, but not unreasonable either.
If they're "established" through contracts of adhesion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_form_contract) absolutely, and we're expecting/hoping the 9th will uphold the district's summary judgment, at least in principle (if they get into some of the "where do you draw the line" stuff, they might remand it to the district court for a finding of fact, they're only supposed to make findings of law).

However, let's say I spend a month with an Oracle salesman and we cut a negotiated $$$ deal that's expressed in a normal contract; that's a very different thing from the sale of a shrink-rapped package like these AutoDesk copies. I don't find those unconscionable (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability).
One idea is to promote remote/distributed workforces. Find ways to hire folks that live in other cities or countries. There are challenges and downsides to a distributed workforce, but advantages too. The chief of which is the ability to draw from a much larger pool of potential talent.
Probably true, but if you're implying that the left is happy with Obama even though he has not quite lived up to their expectations then I think you're mistaken.
Clearly, your only experience with WWDC was the keynote. If you had bothered to look into anything else about the conference, you would know that the entire rest of the week is filled with tech talks about relevant technologies (both newly announced and pre-existing) and labs staffed by every breed of Apple engineer.

What I'm trying to say is that WWDC has not been overrun by "non-developers." The keynote is the only part of the event open to the press, and they exploit it as much as they can, but the rest of the conference really is devoted to working with useful, relevant technology.

This is not to say that WWDC is better or worse than I/O, just that bloggers have not hijacked the event from real developers.
>A company should only keep those people that fits its culture.

This is where I get nervous when people start talking about "company culture". It will inevitably lead to this. Whatever happened to hiring people that can do the job, hopefully well? If the job requires that they have an "outgoing personality", like some sort of salesmen, then the requirement that they can do the job will be all you need.

When you start weeding people out based on your completely arbitrary idea of what the company "culture" should be, I think that becomes a problem. This is only one step above race and sex based discrimination. Personality based discrimination should not be allowed (with the obvious caveat that you should be allowed to fire people with toxic personalities).
Or until we find a way to stop widespread overeating, substance abuse, and sedentary lifestyles. If we could manage that (probably impossible) then total healthcare costs would be so low that we wouldn't have to worry how to pay for them.
I post regularly promoting single-founder businesses, and think it's useful to see this sort of post from someone who is generally respected among early founders. But the core lesson is not what Fred thinks it is. It's that most managers have no idea how to value technical work (either development or management). And funders who view the business from the distance are notoriously bad at it.

I've seen this play out few times now and have been personally affected once. In the worst case a non-technical manager replaced his CTO and doubled the size of the tech team on getting funding, only to end up firing the entire new team for non-performance about eight months and several hundred thousand dollars later. The business has yet to recover and probably never will.

I'm sure Union Square Ventures serves a purpose in helping some companies grow, But I hope those considering taking funding from them will read Fred's post and realize that when push comes to shove, Fred thinks he knows how to run and manage their business better than they do.
But embarrassing information that is plainly not a threat to national security is routinely classified and hidden. Isn't that a system that should change?

I think overclassification is the real problem here. There would be both less reason to leak AND more respect for security classification if they were only used to protect things that are legitimately sensitive.
Here's a link with an overview of the videos: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9E005D797731F90C

I'd recommend you change the main link to this. At first glance I couldn't understand why all videos from HN would be about guns...

Also interesting: if you run this script on /best, there are no links.
Just the other day I was telling a friend of mine how having the ability to share my Vagrant dev environment was the only missing from what I would consider my dream development workflow.

Edit: I got so excited I even forgot to thank Mitchell for all the hard work. Vagrant completely changed my (work) life. Thank you a thousand times, Mitchell!
any plans to support more languages?
Its called vertical integration, and its been around for a long time before Apple.
It's not "cessation of ideas and thoughts", and the fact that the story gets it wrong could mean that science gets it wrong, which suggest science will never figure it out.
Why? Encrypting e-mail addresses would break password reset features and phone numbers are generally public anyway (yes you can go X-directory, but the real issue here is why these services require a valid phone number to begin with)
APIs are copyrightable? I don't think so. Oracle lost, after all.

However, on the primary copyright issue of the APIs, the court ruled that "So long as the specific code used to implement a method is different, anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to carry out exactly the same function or specification of any methods used in the Java API. It does not matter that the declaration or method header lines are identical." The ruling found that the structure Oracle was claiming was not copyrightable under section 102(b) of the Copyright Act because it was a "system or method of operation."
Thanks for posting this. Better than, you know, the Twitter post that is already posted.
free mar·ket
noun
an economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.

By that definition, the black market is a free market. You could argue about the word 'unrestricted' but I doubt you'd change my mind.
It's quite acceptable for a while.

Non-compliance will increase the longer it goes on, I suspect. There's a reason isolation is used as punishment/torture in prisons.
Yeah, your comment is OK, but there are better ones in this thread.
Top most class.

https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/the-worlds-richest-people-also-e...

“On Wednesday, British charity Oxfam released a study that found the richest 10 percent of people produce half of the planet’s individual-consumption-based fossil fuel emissions, while the poorest 50 percent — about 3.5 billion people — contribute only 10 percent. Yet those same 3.5 billion people are “living overwhelmingly in the countries most vulnerable to climate change,” according to the report. According to the data used by the report, individual consumption — as opposed to consumption by governments and international transport — makes up 64 percent of worldwide climate emissions.

Oxfam estimates that the world’s richest 10 percent of people have carbon footprints that are 60 times higher as the poorest 10 percent. Any estimation that generalizes large populations is difficult to make, but researchers at Oxfam also estimate that the emissions of the world’s richest 1 percent create an even larger emissions gap: the 1 percent could emit 30 times more than the poorest 50 percent and 175 times more than the poorest 10 percent.”
The comment you reply to mentions shared apartments, like students use. In big expensive cities many non-students are also in this situation.

So it is not about "you cannot infect wife [sic]".

It is about an escape hatch of being outside alone so these shared apartments don't turn into the Diamond Princess.

You cannot infect yourself outside if you keep a distance of 5m to everyone. In Germany, the streets are empty enough to allow that without a curfew.

You also very unlikely to infect yourself if you go to a hotel without air conditioning, clean the room yourself, don't go to breakfast and just use the room as an isolated office and keep a frigging distance to everyone.
> Getting out of your own head and own problems and into thinking about other people, is also immensely psychologically healthy.

Hmm, anyone have any tips about what to do if this actually just overwhelms and depresses you? I can deal emotionally with my own problems fairly well. But when I start thinking about the wide spread suffering among both the people I know and care about as well as the world at large,I get immediately overwhelmed and start to shut down.
Are you saying you might be interested to help? Huh, that is interesting - it hadn't occurred to me that other's would be interesting in assisting. I don't think we'd be able to work out the regulatory issues since we are dealing with PHI, which requires a bunch of red tape.

We are about 2 months from having a full enterprise-level SaaS product ready for production. ONC (HHS) funded it, so we will be publishing an open source version as well.

We have always thought there would be very little interest in anyone else wanting to use the open-source version, but it's possible that there would be far more interest now with the current crisis. We were trying to be ready for the upcoming hurricane season and Covid-19 took us off-guard.

I will post the open source repository on HN when it's available.
I also found this related to the same: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lanacion.com.ar/el-mundo/lo...
I thought Java was the first to be implemented by the browser?
That's not really a consideration for most folks buying them, honestly. Even if they are physically able to move, the cost prohibits this. It is generally difficult to give them away.

None of this is a secret, either. Every poor person I knew that saw trailers as a better option than renting knew the downsides.
The market is already fairly flooded with the lowest spec models, while the higher-spec ones are more sought after - for a new device each upgrade step costs 300€.

What do the chips and BGA soldering labor cost?
But as others have pointed out, actual value can be fractional, it's just not priced that way.

I mean, in the US it's actually pretty standard for accounting applications to use a scale of 4 (4 units to the right of the decimal point, the default for MONEY), even though people are never charged fractions of a cent.

Simplest example someone gave is gas station pricing, in which prices often end in 9/10ths of a cent - the price is calculated that way, and only rounded when the customer pays.
> Claim #4 is "I am skeptical of the claim that voluntary pedophilia harms children" from 2006 until it was recanted 10+ years later.

Correction of omission: he changed his mind 2016 or earlier.
Michio Kaku is calling for isolationism.

How effective a strategy has ignore it and it will go away been throughout history?
I suspect the electric motors will - in practical terms - tow vastly more than gas or diesel trucks.

and they will get the energy back going downhill.
Audi gt as well
Most of the 3 body is steel. I believe the fenders and frunk/trunk lids are aluminum.

http://i.imgur.com/5dyII0Y.png
Yes, the Safari UI basically defines the look and feel for macOS. However Firefox has some advantages in other areas, like ad blocking.
UK Security Intelligence Services, will use school reports, NHS records for surveillance purposes on everyone and have been known to carry out operations on primary school age kids, which the kids wont know about until later on in life.
(Video is a random “tech live demo fails” compilation with a bad narrator talking over it. Not recommended.)
I go to gmail once a while because my gmail spam doesn't forward to fastmail (there's some important emails that still go to gmail so I have to check) and I see a lot more useful emails at the top than with Fastmail where I completely forget about certain emails because they're buried down. This is partially my fault, but it'd be beneficial to add this as a opt-in feature.
Yep, if you're going to crash, better to be in as big a vehicle as possible. There is an argument to be made that smaller, more nimble, faster braking vehicles have a better chance of avoiding the crash in the first place, but the statistics do still show SUVs are safer overall, not just on a per-crash basis.
> But for an Elon presentation, this is pretty normal (high awkwardness).

Give me the high-functioning aspie CEO who puts all their energy into realizing a brilliant vision, and has none left over to game their audience with 'charisma' (e.g., Adam Neumann). Not sure that Steve Jobs was much of a normie either - though possibly his meditation practice had some effect to his conduct.
Why would you have ever assumed that he was a psychopath?
This is an unfortunate sign that Manhattan is turning into Sao Paulo or Hong Kong.
What you're essentially saying is that it doesn't matter how much of an asshole someone "important" is to others, but that it's ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE for anyone to dare call him out on being an asshole. Do you really think any community benefits from this attitude?
Seems like a bit of a puff piece.

The tl;dr pull quote:

> [It is a] font created in a virtual environment that can simulate light falling upon any 3-D character in the set, thus eliminating the need to draw tens of thousands of shadows, one by one
>You never need to share the car strangers

Typo here, just FYI
There was a Twitch Plays Internet Explorer once....
Yeah, just render it on resolution change.
> It doesn't frighten me.

I don't think that's entirely true - it's just that all functioning members of society displace or ignore their fear of death with some method. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_anxiety_%28psychology%29
There is no explanations whatsoever of how this work. The linked page is not interesting at all. The Android store page has no additional info.
I guess it's a non issue for rich people, you can always pay a crew to maintain the assets. For normal people, inheritance is quickly unbearable (financial or interpersonal issues), and everybody just want to make it go away.
Doing little things, learning a bit of PHP/MySQL. Training.
Your parent was making fun of the ambiguous (maybe even incorrect) headline. Compare to:

Microsoft’s Windows 10 will support displays up to 8K
Thank you for an interesting perspective. Could you say any more about how you think about the timing of your book sales - are you looking to maximise sales shortly after publication by concentrating on subjects that are topical or do you focus on sales over a longer period?
I worked for a tech company popular with enthusiasts when GDPR was first rolled out. We had a lot of requests from users who wanted us to provide their data per the GDPR allowance. We also had an influx of tech journalists filing GDPR requests in hopes of catching us doing something wrong or tracking too much personal data.

When we sent users their "data", many of them were in disbelief at how little data they received. Many had come to believe that all tech companies are secretly building inventories of user data to sell to 3rd parties, when really most of us just want to know if our heavy users of Feature A are also heavy users of Feature B, or if Feature C is more popular with new users but not old users.

The strange part is that tech companies are taking the brunt of the bad PR for things like gathering customer feedback and serving relevant ads, while traditional companies like cell phone providers and credit card companies are actually selling customer data. The latter doesn't get enough attention despite being a much more widespread issue.

Facebook doesn't sell your data, but your phone provider and credit card company probably do. But ask the average person who's selling their data, and Facebook will get all the blame.
This guy: https://schlafmedizin.charite.de/metas/person/person/address...

said it in this podcast:

https://www.kuechenstud.io/medienradio/podcast/di092-ueber-g...
At the end of the day, balance sheets always balance, every transaction has two sides, and privacy for only one side of every transaction is impossible.
I just want to know how Google's success is not good for our society?

Google is successful because people find it useful, ergo it is good for society. How am I to take seriously an article like this which is purely written based on emotions with almsot 0 regards for facts?

I do wonder if the author thinks that Apple is useful for society? I for one find Google way more useful to society than a glorified fashion brand..

Compared to Facebook's ads and rest of the industry, Google's are actually on point. They do not spam my screen, and most of the time are actually useful links.

And the fact that they are now a huge corporation does have it's negative sides like stated in the article, but it also does have some nice benefits. Google Maps, GBoard, Gmail and to me personally the biggest play right now, Firebase, which empowers small time devs who want a quick and scalable backend with all the good offerings...
Appreciate the insight. All fair points. I guess part of the problem is inertia and comfort level. You figure out how to do something well in one language and it gets harder to start from scratch in another one. Point is well made about the tooling and type system--I miss it when I work with anything else. But I end up accomplishing tasks much faster in Go than in Rust even if I'm not fighting the ownership system. I suppose these are the sorts of growing pains that go away in time.
I swear it wasn't me. :-)
Palm founded in 1992. Apple offers to buy for $1Bn in 2002? Average of $100M per year in business...

Palm sells to HP in 2010 for $1.2Bn. 1Bn in first 10 years and only $200M in the 8 years that followed? Wow. Should have sold in 2002!
I hope this is not the usual resurrected brand disappointment, Amiga-like.
...and the eagerness of the government to 'regulate' wikileaks out of existence proves that the statist's analysis will never converge with reality. Look, if ISP wants to fuck with packets, then all you have to do is encrypt them, on onion route them, or whatever. If you are being regulated by the government, though, you just might get a friendly knock on the door. Or maybe the government will raid you with a swat team. Hope you don't have any pet dogs.
Problem : most people aren't interested in reality and truth. See the the "teach creationism" debate. It would be great, however.
Actually there are a fair few Tories in favour of legalisation of cannabis. Crispin Blunt and Peter Lilley spring to mind as having been relatively forthright on this but quite a few quietly hold these views.
> When investors want to buy BTC they first to go Binance and ask for USDT in exchange for USD. Binance creates new USDT for them. Then they use the USDT to buy BTC (reverse causality).

But why sell them USDT first and then sell them BTC in exchange for the USDT?

Why not just sell them BTC directly? That's the issue.
Breaking backwards compatibility is a more apt description of that list than major rewrite.

Part of the lesson from Python 3 is that large numbers of people will only spend 3 years deciding whether a 5 year plan to make a major change to a 20 year old language succeeded or not.