jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That is not a crazy idea at all. I'd feel a lot safer if I could run some detection on my personal Downloads folder, and on my apt feeds.

The problem is, Linux antivirus does not really exist.

Granted, there is some software that will scan your files for known signatures - but those signatures are for Win/Mac malware, which solves a completely different problem.
Let's take the 'on a computer' portion out of it.

If I specify that my company takes orders that only have certain header columns and must have specific format in certain fields on the bill of goods, is that /specification/ (not the full text I wrote, but the facts of the specification itself) copyrightable? Why? I don't see that the abstract facts of a specification of interoperability should receive any kind of copyright.
Oh, hi there, it is good to see other thruhikers here indeed!:)

Yes, I can imagine that being the case, I'm actually reading Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey, mostly about the times he worked in Archs National Park and it sounds just like that.

Fun fact you might share - I stumbled upon Edward Abbey following a quote I saw on a blaze in NorCal (which carried bullet hole, obviously, but it actually what made this quote stand out to me): https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5bbY00X4AA_eeu.jpg:large

It was misattributed I think, I later found out these were Abbey's words.
You can choose what filenames to use. You could theoretically also stick everything inside an encrypted volume.

I don't really understand how that is a big deal though. If at some point an attacker gets to see what filenames are on my hard drive, I have bigger issues than if he knows I have an Amazon account or not.
This is just a default setting, though. Often it's useful to know what meetings are occurring so you can attend or contribute info, and it's certainly useful to know who's booked a room so you can swap or shift them to video conference if you need the room more.
It wields a heck of a lot more power than many countries on Earth. It's not that fatuous.
I think it's worth including here a link to the protesters statement, especially because one of the employees states that they were categorically told they were not fired for leaking company information.

https://medium.com/@GoogleWalkout/googles-next-moonshot-unio...
I hope he is being ironic. Because it's not always possible to change companies for people, let alone entire countries.
What's the pathaway to justice for a family to go to die for the cause, when their children gonna die anyway if they do?

Vengeance has never been a pathway to justice, kamikazes go to die because their families are compensated or because their families are threatened or because they are radicalized in other ways, there's no connection between bombings and suicide bombers, in fact you don't see fathers or mothers do it, you see young males do it (85% of all suicide bombers are man).

Radical organizations use bombers as weapons, they need them to be reliable (as reliable as possible) you can't just count on the momentary lapse of reason that could bring a father to hope to kill his son's killers.

Hamas, for example, was against using women as suicide bombers, but in 2004 they changed idea, after the first woman was used, they said “this is a significant evolution in our fight. The male fighters face many obstacles... Women are like the reserve army―when there is a necessity, we use them.” [1]

[1] https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pdffiles/PUB408.pdf [PDF]
Yes, Google uses Google Calendar internally.

Signing up for email alerts about somebody else's calendar is definitely weird. But the information you'd get is the same as someone would get if they checked your calendar manually, which is an expected and normal part of Google's culture.
Go is the most boring language I have ever coded in, and that is why I love it. Sure, it doesn't have some fancy bells and whistles people seem to want, but when you can sit down and write something functional, portable, and readable fairly quickly, I'd say that is a huge win.
Ask the governor of Florida. He's the one who put out the press release but refuses to offer any evidence for why books were banned.
Just wanted to show my support to @psyc and you (@stuntkite). I come from a mildly dysfunctional family and while everything worked out fine in the end it made me quite sensitive to these issues and I am aware of the struggle. Big hug, guys!
The point missed in most save/invest vs. spend arguments is this:

If you've been raised to be a saver, you are well trained at living cheaper/less frivolously. Note that this presupposes that you make enough money to live reasonably and save; I'm not talking about the extreme poverty cases where immediately spending the rare windfall actually makes sense.

By cheaper, I mean one car instead of two, simpler vacations, less eating out, less fancy house, "using up" quality consumer goods instead of constantly replacing them with the latest fashionable stuff (e.g. second complete kitchen makeover in 15 years).

Suppose person A makes X and spends X and saves nothing. Person B makes the same, but spends 0.5X and saves 0.5X. Now suppose an economic disaster where all those savings are wiped out and A and B additionally end up taking a 50% pay cut. Who will continue to live in comfort, albeit with misgivings about not being able to save up again?
Nothing about Apple's products in 1995 would have told you to expect returns like you would have gotten over the last 25 years. Tesla's technology over the past couple of years hasn't really changed but their stock price has gone up 10x. There are no fundamentals that justify the current price, AFAICT.
Recursive DNS is still unencrypted and would be visible to your ISP
It’s a coincidence seeing this article on Hacker News this evening. Earlier today, while planning a trip to County Cork (in Ireland), I’d been reading about the Sack of Baltimore¹. In 1630, the fishing town of Baltimore was attacked by Barbary pirates/slave traders who kidnapped over a hundred residents (mostly English settlers/colonists) and brought them back to Algiers. Those who escaped fled to a nearby town and Baltimore itself was abandoned until the late 18th century.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Baltimore
Not to be overly pedantic, but Heroku does also support PHP.[1]

[1] https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php
This is another case for rate limiting
Xv6 is another one http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html
This is way cool
Except for being genuine, authentic. You can't be 90% genuine - that's not possible.
Even without a review process by making the device locked to their App store they put themselves in charge (and responsible) for these sorts of matter.
No, this is a case where obeying the HTTP specification would be preferable. 410 GONE means: Gone. Don't try again.
What an asshole, no wonder paypal is such a piece of shit.
The term "blind faith" works, but may be a bit harsh.
Optical typing must be like duck typing taken to the extreme. If it looks like a duck then it's a duck, dammit!
Of course, because they're unlucky. Most of them realize that. The mentally healthy accept it, and then ignore it.

I think that the disconnect in this thread is between people who make their decisions based on what is true and those who make it based on what is useful. The former see the factual reality - that a lot of success comes down to luck - and then conclude "And therefore it doesn't matter what I do..." The latter see the factual reality - that a lot of success comes down to luck - and then conclude "But I can't control my luck, however I can control my luck surface area, and my preparedness, and my judgment". They shrink their world down to the parts that they do have control over and don't let the stuff that's out of their control worry them too much; after all, it's not like they're going to get a better outcome by thinking about that.

The wiser of the latter group always remember that there is still a lot of luck in any success or failure that they have, but there's a lot of psychological pressure to either believe luck doesn't exist or to let it rule your life.
I use Syncthing to synchronize between my phone and desktop.

It's a little confusing to set up the first time, but I've had it on this phone for 3 years and not needed to fiddle with it.

(It uses its own protocol.)
I agree about YouTube tutorials on subjects that can be described well with text and still images: it's often easier and faster to read a written explanation. On subjects that involve motion, sound, and human action, though, YouTube tutorials can be great: how to play a musical instrument, how to do a dance move, how to use a tool, how to cook. When I was young, if I didn’t have somebody to teach me, the only way to learn such things was from books, which could be extremely frustrating.
> you think chargebacks are handled by an "automaton" (not true) or "underpaid" (irrelevant) human

I am talking about PayPal disputes (within the PayPal platform), not disputes/chargebacks from your bank. There are plenty of stories out there (both as a seller and as a buyer) where PayPal sides with the wrong side despite ample amounts of evidence. The only explanation could be (bad) automation or idiots.

Edit: Indeed, I have mostly assumptions. I have not personally used PayPal enough to get into any trouble (because I didn't trust them for anything high-value in the first place), though the possibility of said trouble (and other nasty stuff they're doing, like their data sharing processes) was enough for me to completely stop doing business with them.

I have however worked at a business that used PayPal to broker payments (we weren't the seller - just a marketplace linking up sellers and buyers) and the dispute process was hit and miss. Some disputes were completely legitimate and had plenty of evidence and yet PayPal sided with the wrong party.

I have also read stories online about how scammers are abusing the PayPal dispute process to steal goods by sending back empty/bogus returns (which PayPal considers legitimate because of the tracking number).

I also know people whose PayPal accounts were closed because they were processing payments that PayPal didn't "like" for some reason (despite being totally legal), and the process was to close the account had hold the funds hostage for about a year before the seller can finally withdraw them. This does not take as long with any legitimate bank.

As a reason I have more than enough evidence to conclude that the company is scummy and use this to base my assumptions upon.
what i am envisioning here is the content of a webpage compiled with ads therein. it would be desirable by the googles of the world for this very reason.
But these are all things that real world business can learn as well about you, more or less.

You don't have a problem with them knowing that.
Thanks for the insight! So how frequent does schema change happen to UDB?
You need to distinguish between battery cells and battery packs - a pack being thousands of cells combined with complex monitoring, heating and cooling systems.

Cells are made at the gigafactory by panasonic (to a tesla design).
But the battery packs are manufactured by Tesla, and there is a lot of engineering and innovation in the packs themselves.
One way to block it -- create a file in the place of the directory where Ask instlals (such as c:\Program Files\Ask). Give the file read only / system attributes. Most installers don't know how to deal with failing to create directory because a file exists by that name. I've used this trick to block a number of regular malware from reinstalling, along with Ask, and whatever else.
Fools, turn back. In 1908, Tunguska, my grand-grand father, at least so he tells, was involved in a similar happening. Two russian farmers in the area had come up with a new breed of cold resistant potato, and after sucessful tests, they took to a local inn to celebrate. Little did they know that the congregation had just a little too much liquid joy, and how focused the praise would be. After several days of nonstop praise, the hyperbolic density reached critical levels, and the russian authorities were alerted. Realizing the magnitude of the problem, they knew that they couldn't disperse it by themselves. They sent a letter to Prussia, world reknown for its somberness under Bismark, to send a congregation of the most straight faced military officers that they could find. My grand-grand father was within that troop. But alas, they came too late, as by the time they reached the village of Kezhemskoe, a flash was visible and loud explosions were heard, as the inn had reached critical hyperbole. You may not want to believe me, as all signs of the potatoes, the inn are gone, and all records were wiped during the cold war.

Overstatements are hell.
Agreed. I was a very satisfied customer before this announcement, and I remain so afterwards.
Their FAQ (http://www.architexa.com/support/faq) seems to imply that it's for Java with possible C/C++ coming.
I am with linode and pretty happy with the experience
And $12 gets you 512MB on http://prgmr.com/.
I should be able to make it
There's very little context in the "article" or these comments. Can someone give some background for users who have never entered a keyboard shortcut on an Apple computer?

What exactly is the author concerned about that's interesting enough to post about on the internet and interesting enough to link to on HN?

I'm interested and feel like I'm missing part of the picture.
http://lifehacker.com/5564085/how-to-silence-vuvuzela-horns-...
> guess what happens

Because intrinsic pleasures of the job are more important to you than your compensation package, you initially find dealing with "lousy coworkers" demotivating. But you endeavour to make the best of a bad situation by finding out how to help your coworkers become better at their jobs. You end up developing a far deeper satisfaction in your work than you'd previously thought possible.

Did I guess right?
"Perhaps that suggests that we need to redefine what we mean by "Recession", which officially is two consecutive quarters of economic contractions."

For the 10%, or 20% (however it's counted), they are experiencing two or more quarters of economic contractions.

The two economies of corporate profits and individual well being are disconnected.
I agree. Everybody will have a smart phone because they're so useful and for a lot of people that will be all they need, particularly if money is tight. I'm in Vietnam now and most people here make next to nothing but they still have smart phones and I even see a lot of iPhones, even though they cost a fortune by Vietnamese standards.

I see a fair number of cheap desktop computers too but they're all running bootleg copies of Windows. People aren't paying for their software anyway so the price advantage of Linux is negated.
Actually during the train sequence you can choose tunnels with your arrow keys, but it’s pretty much an easter egg given the lack of prompting.
For those playing along, Jeff is heavily involved in the GNOME project and thus have a strong opinion on all these things.

Much has been written on the indicator spat and the tension between GNOME and Canonical, and it seems that's there's not and end to be seen of it.

Mark Shuttleworth has some thoughts (from the other side of the coin) on his blog here:
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/654

I'm not going to join in, but I have trouble reconciling the arguments "GNOME not adopting their code/protocol" and "not contributing to upstream projects".
Why do you need to communicate your agreement? I receive no benefit from knowing that you, as an individual, like something.
I'm personally waiting for V-GINY.
They should have done whatever they could to keep Zuckerberg. They had their rockstar who could execute, but they couldn't keep it together. Oh well, they still got a lot more money out of the deal than they would have had Zuckerberg never entered their life and had their app built by another developer.
I think he's just saying, there's a time and a place for Rails, Sinatra, etc, but you can get some simple stuff done without a whole lot of overhead.
You sir, are a beacon. A bacon of hope, light, justice and marshmallows!

Your idea has definitely never been tried or abolished. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
100K guaranteed sales count for a lot. I'm sure Tesla would love it if their shareholders placed 100K orders for this new truck.
This is so accurate. Thank you. I’ve lost all passion for technology as an industry, unless I find a suitable opportunity to fix the current issues.
You sometimes get a private attorney who is assigned to a small public defense case load. I don't know how voluntary that is on the part of the lawyers. It can be forced upon them as a duty of court officers. In theory it should distribute the work more equitably.
I would say the industry definitely has its own hype. And honestly, I think the news media is a trailing indicator on that hype.

For example, there's already an ongoing replication crisis that's been ongoing for several years with ML papers in computer science. I've spoken with people in the industry who have even speculated that there's straight-up academic fraud taking place. If you get a splashy, sexy finding you can get scooped up by a FAANG-like company with a fat salary before anyone gives your work a second look.
In real world you could have an event that happened under five different, unaffiliated cameras. If all of these match up, that seems to be something a judge should consider.
I always wonder why some many developers work with Postman (or Postwoman), and so without any automation whatsoever. Example: Requesting some JSON payload and extracting some generated id from it looks like a clumsy point-and-click adventure. With curl, you can use any appropriate program to extract output, say jq:

curl acme.org/my/resource | jq -r '.id'

I see how some project manager doing a presentation of a bleeding-edge feature might profit from Postman, but as a developer?
Yeah but it definitely never was this accessible.
The way legal cases are funded needs to change. You shouldn't have to put up money up front to try a case, but of course then we would need to figure out a way to discourage frivolous lawsuits.

But I'm sure it could be done with some sort of escrow system or something.

Imagine a system where both parties put in however much they are willing to spend, and then 5% of the pool is given to each side for their upfront fee, and then the rest of the pool goes to the winner of the case, or maybe the judge gets to divvy the fees or something.

Then if a big corp and a frugal individual go up against each other, the big corp can put $100,000 in and the other person can put in $5, and neither party gets an advantage because both lawyer teams get $5,000 up front. Or something like that.
"The answer's not in the box, it's in the band" - Antitrust
>"While it may be succeeding in marketing its
turnaround narrative to the market, we see ADM at a point of no return."

I believe you mean "AMD"...
I bet you'd also be real stuck on what possible value Apple could bring to building a phone. All the bits that made a feature phone valuable were also outside of Apple's competencies. Thing is, cars are becoming more like computers.
There is something all of us can do to somewhat mitigate the trends, though nothing short of radical measures can halt the overall decline. We can practice minimalism in terms of what we consume. It appears deceptively simple, but the key thing is it can have a huge cascading effect and it is also something each one of us, no matter how busy or jaded, can actually do, even starting today.
Notably, many college campuses seem to offer most of these services already: food courts restaurants, and cantinas, small retail for student and faculty needs, utility buildings, housing (undergraduate and graduate, including for students with families), childcare centers for the children of students and faculty, office space (duh), gyms and pools (which HN is fond of ranting at), access to medical services, green spaces, campus fire and police, and park-like green space around campus, and competing services in many of these categories located just off campus.
I find it interesting, but I'm biased against frameworks because I've yet to see one which claims to support every JS browser, which is one of my objectives.

For example, Opera 12 (Presto) has full modern DOM support with .createElement and such, but I doubt your framework would work with it?

There are hundreds of browsers and engines out there, and I want to support them all. Would your framework degrade gracefully in a browser you've never tested before?

Also, how do you deal no-JS users? I read through the documentation, but could not seem to find one?
> that was only getting more extreme

Even disregarding any content that may or may not have been on the subreddit, the ban happened (four?) months after the subreddit's mods had already locked it down and everyone had migrated to thedonald.win. The ban didn't actually have a purpose by the time they did it, so that reason was just an excuse to get rid of content they didn't like.
It is an upgraded SE with the logic board replaced. Same 800K floppy drive internal as an SE.
Same here. I do understand disliking Teams if you have used the more clunky alternatives, Skype for business for example. Overall though, I find it more useful than before if only because the cultural change it’s leading in my company where more direct communication is now being encouraged instead of Japanese business emails with 10 extra lines of boilerplate and extreme business language tacked on.
No, that is wrong. Plants emit O2, and consume CO2. This is called respiration.
Nope I’ll build it.
Emacs's package manager does come with Emacs, starting with some recent version (I don't know which version, though).
What I find really frightening is where they write:

From a military perspective, surveillance of the Internet is merely "Phase 0" in the US digital war strategy.

[...]

This enables them to "control/destroy critical systems & networks at will through pre-positioned accesses (laid in Phase 0)." Critical infrastructure is considered by the agency to be anything that is important in keeping a society running: energy, communications and transportation. The internal documents state that the ultimate goal is "real time controlled escalation".

This isn't about fighting terrorism. It's also not about the usual warfare it's more like the infrastructure or a set of tools to control nearly every other country or the planet or at least make sure that the US will always be able to keep them from disagreeing.
> I'm skeptical that people can code better (if at all) while on LSD.

Here's another reported success: "Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming" by Dennis R. Wier http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v18n1/v18n1-MAPS_24.pdf (Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=654168 )
I did shrooms a few dozen times throughout my college years. Most of the time it was in a group environment just for fun. Sometimes we would try things like the artists you mentioned, but as we were all bio/engineer types it was never serious.

That said, I did perform a handful of solitary experiments where I would lock myself in my room with a programming assignment working non-stop for some 5-7 hours. The output was remarkable. But the drug was rough on my system and would take me days to recover.. so no more than once a month. Eventually stopped doing it altogether after a bad experience.
Heh. Gentoo required too much hackery and configuring for my tastes.

Redhat and fedora were always my faves. Love the rpm packaging system. But it seems Ubuntu and it's ilk are the most "user friendly".

Great write up btw Josh!
It's irrelevant what exactly he meant. The bottom line is that Google can't be trusted and he said this explicitly in the interview. Whether that be because Google doesn't care about your privacy or because they are afraid of fighting with the Government is immaterial. The end result is the same: don't trust Google.