jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
that's not what I've said at all.

Elected officials shouldn't be in social networks not because they are all like Trump, but because they represent the people and don't need to be influencers or to have followers, they serve the people.

if they want to be heard, they can speak with their actions and their messagge will spread on social networks through the people that supports them, the press whose job is to report what they do and official press conferences that have a wide coverage on media outlets.

politicians shouldn't talk "directly to the people" because it's a lie and a distraction, we spend (waste) more time talking about what they tweet and policing what they tweet about than about what they actually do!

they are not common people and shouldn't be treated like they were.

they can have a social network account for their party and for their press office to report on their activities and that would be it.

you would be surprised to know that Angela Merkel has closed her Facebook account with more than 2.5 million folowers.

Also, social network accounts are one of the best way to leak private (or secret) informations.

back to Frau Merkel, her Instagram account (which is actually the official account of Die Bundeskanzlerin) has ben targeted by Russian hackers from day 1 and they've also stolen documens from computers in the German Parliament.

why risk it?

last but not least, social networks are private companies and don't treat users equally, they offer their propaganda platform to some but not to others.

for example Hassan Rhouani, Xi Jinping, Bashar Al-Assad, Kim Jong-un, they are all on Facebook, but not their oppositions and people of those countries are severely limited in the access to social networks or internet in general.

so why give them a global platform?
because they can pay?

I say let's ban politicians and solve it.

great powers -> great responsibilities
Well, it's like in murder vs manslaughter, the intent matters (but not to the point to get you completely off the hook).
Tantalum wires, a less known altetnative to transistors: https://hackaday.com/2014/04/15/retrotechtacular-the-cryotro...
I've always wanted a Turing-complete printing function.
The paradox of tolerance has been debunked many many times and is a kids level attempt of trying to dissuade any “intolerant” views
>Is it? Would someone refusing to wear a mask, provably resulting in them asymptomatically infecting someone with COVID-19 be charged with negligent manslaughter?

It is not murder. There's a concept called "Negligent homicide," but even that is relatively well defined and requires intent to cause harm.

Don't want to get into the rabbit hole, and I am not in agreement with all the laws the US has, but the point is that "bad speech" is way harder to define than murder/homicide. Not only is it harder, it is arguably impossible to attain a good consensus on what it is.

PS: I don't agree with the premise that we should regulate speech, but if you were to want to do it it would most likely backfire or be counterproductive because of these reasons
Japan doesn't do too badly either. Some brief research is showing me that the configuration of apartment we would recognize as a 2BR would rent for something like $1200 or less in a lot of the Tokyo metro.
I don't care how uncool Microsoft is perceived to be, Microsoft Research would be my dream job over any other tech company. It's like being a researcher at a top university without having to beg for grants every year.
I don't see what that has to do with an "anonymous Web" at all. Nobody on Facebook thinks they're an anonymous forum poster, and I doubt anyone goes around mentioning their zip code and date of birth on forums anyway. (Although many profile pages do have city and year of birth, which might be enough…)

Besides, if it was an anonymous forum (http://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/), nobody could tie your separate posts together even if you put some identifying information in them.

On the other hand, people on Facebook are happy to put their real names on angry political statements. So maybe this article shouldn't have bothered confusing "anonymous" and "uses pseudonyms" to make its point.
PDF and postscript have no ability to reflow text. That is a huge limitation for reading the same content on mobile devices, tablets, and PCs. This has been discussed before here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394134

I think its somewhat sad that Knuth solved this problem in 1978 and we're still dealing with terribly formatted web pages and ebooks over 30 years later.
Writing up a bot program to gather tons of statistical data so you can do your job as a marketeer thousand of times faster than your peers.

Crisscrossing traffic patterns with a database of customers so you can efficiently landscape all your clients and make more money instead of waiting around being stuck in traffic.

Build and program swarm bots that clean the floors of your client faster so you can jump to the next client.

Write A/B testing programs for your restaurant chains so you can increase earning from your customers by incrementally trying out ways to get more customers, sell more foods, etc.

Programming, however, only tended to be used by programmers.
I dunno, I find a lot of useful things in its discussion, and I've gotten a good reception on occasion when I've corrected some error that was within my area of expertise. If nothing else, it's a good way to engage in discussion with a broad range of tech people, many of whom seem genuinely interested in pointers to better information or explanations if you can give them one. One trick is to not come across as, "ugh, I can't believe u stupid n00bs, move aside for me, the expert" when writing posts with those kinds of corrections.

Imo, HN is better in some areas, but they tend to be more specific ones. It doesn't have the same breadth of posters as Slashdot, for one thing: here it's mostly young people, and almost all startup-culture-oriented. And on non-technical topics, I find the discussions here often actually more unbalanced and not always that well informed (in particular, there's a lot more hardline libertarianism, and sometimes a kind of unpleasant looking down at anyone who isn't a hacker).
Maybe he's pulling up the ladder after he climbed it!
The real problem with desktop Linux is that people don't care. They use Windows because they have to. They use Windows because everything works with it and everything comes with it preinstalled. Everything works with Windows because people make sure that their things work on Windows because that's what everyone uses.

I don't think anyone interested in "hackability" feels like it's analogous to having "drain cleaner poured on your face". There may be ways to make cool scripting more accessible, but there's nothing particularly contrived about it IMO.

The bottom line is that people don't care that much about computers. If Windows lets them do everything they want to do, then there's no problem. And all most people want to do is use Facebook, Excel, the proprietary program needed for their profession, and email. All of these work fine on Windows and everyone knows how to get to them from the Windows interface. They know the ins and outs of Excel and for most Excel jockeys, OO Calc isn't going to cut it, because they have to relearn some shortcuts, button locations, etc. to use Calc, but they already know how to use Excel and can hit the ground running, so they prefer Excel. Same with almost all other software.

So the real reason the Linux desktop isn't going anywhere is because nobody cares. If you want Linux desktops to proliferate, you have to give people a reason to care; something new and specific that a normal person would think is cool and buy-worthy. For most people, technical arguments like "The TCP/IP stack is great!", "iptables is great!", or whatever, they don't care about that.
Very interesting, but how do you search for the tweets? Will any message containing the letters "USA" trigger you system? What about tweets like "USA should host the next World Cup"?
I have no experience with /r/politics but I've seen other subreddits make absolutely no distinction between "having moderately opposing viewpoints" and "being racist/belligerent/troll/brigader", so it results in a ban.
US CO2 consumption is ~64M tons / year, so 730M tons >> current US production. Next step for managing CO2 production is geologic sequestration to ensure we have something to do with all the CO2 we capture!
I can anecdotally verify that this was the case.

When I was 19, I knew HTML and enough Java to make a basic applet. I twice applied for a job over the summer that I was woefully under qualified for (ColdFusion dev) and was hired earning $35/hour+.
Apple is pro-gay rights. They donated 100 000$ to the anti-Prop 8 campaign in 2008.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?blogid=...
Delta already supports sending you a PDF which you can show on your phone and have it scanned.

Did this last time as I was running late to the gate.
The other threat to such a system, when it gets larger, is that others who make interfaces to store/use BitCoins might also allows other BitCoin-esque currencies. Which is fine if each of these currencies is vetted the way BitCoin is undergoing right now, however if it's very automated we could see new distributed currencies issued when the demand for new BitCoins is high enough.

TL;DR: Other BitCoin-like currencies could be used to grow the money supply - which might lead to bubbles of such currency or perhaps solve the growth issues BitCoin will deal with.
Thanks for your sisyphean efforts in explaining to this unsympathetic audience why sexing up your bug report with racist caricatures is simply not cool, jessedhillon.
This post is my response to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463305 ("Why PHP Was a Ghetto").

PHP is a simple loosely-typed server-side scripting language. When most of us adopted PHP, our only real alternative was Microsoft's ActiveServer Pages. I can crank out a simple PHP script with session handling and database features faster than your average Rails developer can search Google for a gem to install.
I am just noticing this. I currently work in a semi-cramped office with two other guys, but it's connected to a modern steel/glass high-rise building designed for academic research. It has a gorgeous, large cafeteria on the second floor. It's pleasant enough and there's enough activity during the morning and afternoon that it's a perfect place to work. Usually there are about 5-10 people using the cafeteria to work at any given time, plus there are lounge chairs situated at various points in the nearby hallways that can work as well.

I am less likely to get distracted with stupid internet crap when I'm in the public space. I find it relaxing, and I don't have the nagging feeling that by sitting at my office desk chair I'm wasting my life. Often those feelings are worth it all by themselves, even if there's no productivity change.

However, there are definitely distractions, and I find that I'm usually unable to get fully focused in a public space. I am often drawn to someone walking by or annoyed by a random smell. For difficult technical work, silence and peace are usually more conducive, as well as my multi-monitor setup and fast, wired ethernet connections.

But for stuff like reading email, and correspondence, knocking minor items off your todo list, and defeating a procrastination block, being in a public space seems to help a lot.
You can do this with coupons and an ipad at my local barnes and noble. (They just type in the number. The printed coupons never scan right anyway)
Really nice site but honestly, I find the product pretty boring. You mind sharing why you decided to go with node and sockets.io?
and who are you. writing perlcode all in one file not even using 'use warnings' nor using getoptlong and so on. poor skills but lots of noise here.
Some people just aren't cut out for society. They're called outcasts and they're either stood on or revered as Gods, in India anyway. Here they're just stood on. Most important is not to have unreasonable expectations of how to fit in. Freedom from hope or fear - that's the goal. Watch your mind - that's the method.
And if you like, send me your birthday, time & place and we look at the hand you were dealt: j.v.a.l.a.m.a.l.a@g.m.a.i.l.c.o.m
Not exactly. By 1990 Y2K was an inevitability. However, the Maserati may never come.
Young programmers can easily be guilted into working 60 hours a week because young smart people tend to be a little naive about how the world turns. My advice to junior programmers is "your recruiters/managers are probably more cynical than you think, understand you better than you think, and manipulate you better than you think".
The stigma around Haskell is quite unfortunate. Most complaints that I've heard leveled at Haskell are variations of "it's too academic". Given that those complaints usually come up when one is tackling abstractions like Functors, Applicatives and Monads, it would seem that the true sentiment is that "Haskell is too abstract".

Interestingly, I have yet to hear someone complain about abstractions like Collection, Stack, Dictionary, or looking at the ever popular OOP abstractions Class and Method.

Why is it that OOP is widely accepted[1], and yet Haskell-like FP has yet to take off? Well, I think I have an explanation for why this is.

The abstractions commonly used in Haskell are perhaps a bit "more abstract" than those seen in most OOP programming. Most people can intuit the value of collections/classes/etc., and those that can't are pushed in the right direction by the majority of the industry.

Compare the situation of popular imperative languages to that of Haskell: the utility of the former is easily acknowledged and has the support of the industry, whereas the latter is harder to fully appreciate without investing some time and has the industry actively suggesting that the abstractions are useless.

Haskell-like FP is, unfortunately, where OOP probably was when it was still "the new thing". "Why would anyone use this? Classes, interfaces, methods, messages... Too academic!"

And then OOP picked up momentum as people discovered the utility of encapsulated state, programming to an interface (instead of an implementation), the ability to isolate the System Under Test via mock objects... And then those that tasted the benefits worked really, really hard to shift the mindshare of the industry to accept these abstractions as "good things".

I hope Haskell et al will get there some day. The thing is, ideas like Monads are incredibly useful - just as useful as any of the more popular abstractions. They're just one more tool in the toolbox - if you don't know them, you might be missing out.

In an attempt to dispel the myth that abstractions common in Haskell are academic and useless for professional programming, I would ask one thing of you: please, please, please watch Tom Stuart's talk "Refactoring Ruby with Monads" (given at Barcelona Ruby Conference 2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1jYlPtkrqQ

The abstractions are useful. Yes, just like any of the abstractions that you may have already mastered, they do take time to learn. It's an investment. I know the payoff might not be immediately obvious, but I promise that it's right around the corner. There's a practical, pragmatic reason Haskell is being used to great effect at places like ThoughtBot, Facebook, Skedge.me, and more.

[1] This is almost a given now: recruiters have often quizzed along the lines of "why is OOP a superior paradigm?"
I've already thought about publishing it as an ebook sometime, but the whole contents have to be translated (currently German) and revised first. This wouldn't be a small project (for me). So the blog series would be a good start if there's enough interest.
No, Google Translate is not totally useless for an amusing conversation about cats at say, a cafe.

For a job interview or a more formal business environment though, you're going to start at a considerable disadvantage if you don't speak Japanese in Japan. It's possible (I did it), but it's really, really hard.
To me what's baffling about stories like this is that there are so many people that are blind to the fact that this even happens. This was 50k+ people, yet there are so many that think if you "just work hard" then you won't need to be given help or better opportunities. What's supposed to happen when these opportunities are taken away?

Providing legitimate services to people is a win for everyone not just the people that are utilizing them.
No, storage is not cheap! It may be if you're only counting files like "thesis.docx" that involves directly the user, but in reality we have a lot of programs that do automatic file operations and that would be nothing but storage trashing not to count the performance handicap.
Same here in the Netherlands. Nearly free? How about a salary of €2000 - 2700 per month? Base salary for a policeman or school teacher is ~ €1900
I like that the docs look less like they jumped out of the geocities era. Still could go a long way though. Signalling is important, and if you signal "old and unupdated" to your users, that's not a great start. (e.g.: http://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/Package_Concepts.html)

"prev", "next" (when the table of content is right there next to it) and "top" (usually the header / logo link these days) and collapsible TOC trees screams "we copied this out of MSDN '97 and windows .chm files".

The "...search files..." looks like it was written by a programmer. The white on gray line with the black on white line next to it looks odd. Natural spacing sometimes is a great substitute for lines.

The main docs page (http://docs.racket-lang.org/) contains way too many fonts and way too many colors. Pick a scheme and go with it.

My favourite examples of docs that look like people cared:

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/quickstart/ (well designed, tasteful font, color and spacing selection)

http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/index.html (lack of search bugs me)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:nth-child ("hide sidebar" here serves a real purpose: hides the whole thing so the doc display is wider, kinda nice that TOC follows you)

Conclusion: Glad it's improving, but please keep at it! Great docs make your product a joy to use!

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edit: let me add some WORSE examples to put things into perspective:

https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TdbcCmd/tdbc.htm

http://junit.sourceforge.net/javadoc/ (ughhhh)

http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual/ (whenever I see the gendocs selection page I get nostalgic. Really? 120 vs 420kb? I didn't care even when I was using dialup. Also the "one webpage per node" version almost always sucks because you can't search for anything. And the "all in one page" version sucks because it's too huge sometimes. Who uses the ascii text version or the info docs version?)
To me, your question is about the feast or famine side of freelancing and consulting. The key is to hedge the famine side and sell existing clients retainers. patio11 and Brennan Dunn do a great job of explaining this in a ton of their newsletters and also in their soon to be released recordings here: http://recurringrevenueforconsultants.com/
People use 24h where I live (Poland) and it's much better. I never remember if am in English is morning or evening and I have to check each time I need it (it's a few times a year so the next time I don't remember again).

Please, USA, quit making easy things difficult, switch to SI, put dates in correct order and move to 24h time.
Why does the author think that RIM can't innovate like other companies have?

Indeed. This industry is overrun by people making bold predictions of what has already happened.

Despite being Canadian, I've never owned a Blackberry. I have moved more than one organizations away from Blackberry, because their existing model was archaic.

I applied to the company once many years back and they never even called (clearly the root of their problems today).

Yet of course they can (and are) change. The PlayBook looks like a very interesting product, and QNX is bloody beautiful. I keep my mind open to the prospect that RIM is going to come out with a superstar.
For something like this it's not a maybe. I hear about services like this all the time and never hear about them again. If you want this thing to become a part of the hn community someone's going to have to put work into seeing that it hits the front page from time to time.

Otherwise it's often just a flash in the pan. Good luck!
Amusing:
"Which gets to the real impediment to capitalism, Borker-style, and the reason it is unlikely to catch on: it is physically exhausting. Mr. Borker typically works from about 10 a.m. until 5 the next morning, spending much of that time feuding with unhappy customers. He describes this grueling regimen of confrontation with a heaviness that is enough to make you want to give him a hug.

“I’m sure this is taking a toll on my health,” he complains. “I probably won’t live as long as you.”"
Still beats syphilis experiments or sarin/VX testing.
False alarm:)

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ecllk/the_4_litt...
not really, the dude just got ice ip address, and not the one the site used.
I also think Apple does this to impress the shit out of you. I typed the quotation in on Monday afternoon and got a happy call from my sister on Thursday morning. All the way from China in less than 70 hours.
It's possible to both lament the loss of bullshitting, and the interaction it generates, while also appreciating the significant improvements technology has brought.
looks like this will be some competition for usepanda.com
IIRC they only work with the T420s, not the T420. I might be wrong though, but Lenovo definitely removed the connectors that are required for that in some models of the T series at some point in time...
It does not. This stuff gives argument that Snowden went over to FSB long time ago and that the whole thing is a Russian op a lot more weight.
The article addresses this very point.

It specifically explores the conflict of interest that the NSA must work both offensively and defensively. It makes the argument that the balance has shifted so drastically to the offensive that our defensive is being weakened.
The popular view is that companies who write software know how to prioritise, so if a problem like this isn't fixed, it's because they've done the calculations and decided it's not worthwhile.

I disagree. If there are no internal incentives for the people who know how to fix this to fix it, or if there's no path from them thinking fixing it could improve revenues to being assigned the ticket, things like this won't get fixed. I can fully believe the load times will result in fewer users and lower expenditure.

I think we'll see this happen with Facebook Messenger. Both the apps and the website have become slow and painful to use and get worse every month. I think we'll start to see engagement numbers dropping because of this.
Just to be clear a high water mark isn't a hurdle rate in the sense the OP was talking about.

In hedge fund land a high water mark means that if a fund loses money they won't take fees again until they've gotten back to their original high water mark.

ie you invest at 100, they gain 10% after fees so your units are worth 110.

The next year they lose 10% so your units are worth approx. 99.

Now the high water mark is 110.

Next year they make 5% so your units are worth approx. 104%. T his year the fund doesn't take performance fees as they haven't cleared their high water mark yet.

Point being the high water mark is relative to their own fund and has nothing to do with the market or any other benchmark.

If a fund only takes performance fees after a certain hurdle rate that is becoming more common but would be described by some other term.
+1 on CapRover. Complete provider independent deployments. Just write a Dockerfile and you are ready to deploy.
There is no need to limit personal freedoms - anyone should be free to get the training if they wish to. But they don't have to remain employed as police afterwards.