jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> because authorities time and time again have misled them.

I personally feel like most of the problem is exploitation.

When the news has some piece, "New research blah blah blah," you and I and most of our peers know that "new research" is unlikely to stand up to the test of time. Yet it's breathlessly reported by one station, and derided as nonsense on another station.

When the weather report predicts no rain, and it rains, you and I and most of our peers know that the prediction wasn't wrong, that we're just talking about likelihoods.

When polls predicted a 99% chance of Hillary Clinton winning, you and I and most of our peers know that the polls weren't wrong. Sometimes chance comes out that way. Plus, reporting those polls probably impacted the outcome.

The news, and politicians, and talking heads, want our outrage because that's engaging. So they exploit us, by misrepresenting research, science, polls...

Which erodes trust in authorities.

And yes, sometimes authorities did horrific things. Like the Tuskegee Experiment. Or silencing Li Wenliang. Or MK-Ultra. Gulf of Tonkin. Red Flags.
> the author assumes he's one of those geniuses

Exactly the opposite actually. Not only do I not assume that, I specifically deny it.
Yup, -i is very very useful, though I prefer to always call it as -i.bak (=> do the edit in place and make a backup of the original file as "filename.original.bak"), in case I do something hideously wrong.

For what it's worth (you may know this but maybe not everyone does), Ruby also provides the -i flag.
I have the image of the injured bird in "Up" limping along burned in my memory. I actually thought the scene was a little mature for the kids watching the movie, so I agree with you about them convincingly conveying emotion.
I would go with premium features.
I still use my mechanical typewriter (a Royal Aristocrat handed down to me by a family member) quite frequently. Computers are nice, but they also offer many distractions and lack that wonderful tactile feedback that mechanical keys provide.
Early animated movies mostly did well, and resonated with people, because of excellent voice acting from recognizable actors. (Think Toy Story.) Up's gambit is to show that well-orchestrated music and animation can surpass that. It isn't technically superior, but it is far more important.
I think you overlooked:

But executives can hurt their careers when they care about something too much.

The article is more about how emotional involvement can be detrimental to entrepreneurship rather than career choice. For example campaign staff are hired guns, freelance graphic designers have to run a business, writers have to tailor their work to commercial realities, and in a corporate setting the bottom line is the bottom line.

[TL;DR version] If you love what you are doing, it is really hard to pivot when it is unsuccessful.
HN official corkboard

http://corkboard.me/jm6XtCnV8k
A correction: Google has eliminated the April 29 deadline and (for now) again seems to be suggesting GV hosting/links will work indefinitely:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/04/update-on...

Also, the example of a great video that will be disappearing was actually copied over to YouTube in 2007:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtFroEJN1nI

I suspect Google's own TechTalk series will remain accessible via Google's preferred video portal no matter what happens to GV.
Quoting Anonymous on their involvement is a moot point.

a moot point? moot? really? i like your choice of words. Heh.
I'm sorry but what is the author rambling about here? Facebook was an overnight success? I don't understand what the 20 people who voted this up got from this post.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems really limited given that they've been in "stealthish" mode for the last few months. I don't really see why I would use it over Facebook photos or Instagram. The website is also limited.

Maybe I'm just jealous because all of the buzz they've received. I hope they do well. :-)
The bottom line is squeezing an industry with 5% profit margins cannot possibly last. This is the basic point I took from the author's extremely well written and obviously experience-infused post.

5% margins??? Seriously???

My sympathies to anyone in this shithole of an industry. That's impossible. No wonder all the restauranteurs/restaurant-employees I know are unhappy or insane. Or both.
How do I join? It seems I need to be invited by the team admin.
Isn't this all better implemented in the nginx/apache server in front of the application?

I've just done a very similar thing for my Django hosted website, but didn't touch Python at all for it.

Edit: Here's a blog post where I detail the steps to set this up in Nginx - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9256200
> I just don't like criticism without offering an alternative.

well sucks for you. god forbid someone should point out a fire without being a certified firefighter. raising awareness gets other people thinking about how to solve the problem you've noticed.
https://youtu.be/ymaWq5yZIYM
Rare did align with Nintendo’s core business - and was an exclusive Nintendo64 developer - but even Tim Stamper, co-founder of Rare, is apparently none-the-wiser...

> “One of the most interesting parts of the interview is Stamper's view on Rare's sale to Microsoft, and the question that seems to eternally be on everyone's lips: why didn't Nintendo snap up the studio beforehand? Nintendo owned almost half of the UK company, but for reasons unknown never tried to buy Rare outright, despite the fact that the Stampers were clearly on the lookout for buyers.

Stamper is at a loss as to why Nintendo didn't step in and open up its chequebook:

I've no idea why they didn't do that. I thought we were a good fit.” [1]

[1] https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/08/rare_co-founder_ha...
My cousin switched to Signal last year and she just sent a message saying she was switching to Signal. It's the only reason I installed Signal.
Everyone is an arbiter of their own platform. They do it when they take down spam on their platform, and they do it when they take down harassment on their platform. And now they do it when they take down calls to violence on their platform. I'd rather they do that than be a place where all of that festers.
I'm curious to get people's take on how they are approaching this migration.

One thing that I am considering is keeping WhatsApp around without leaving any of my groups, but making very strong efforts to only send new messages through my new service.
If someone believe something is legitimately toxic to themselves or society, like being around smoke, consuming certain substances, eating meat, using walled garden internet services etc... They should not be peer pressured into giving up those views.

I for one avoid Google products for personal communications. A lot of long term friends decided they only want to socialize online with Google products fully knowing it excludes me, in spite of easily accessible alternatives like Matrix and Jitsi.

They are not using Google products because it makes the world better, they are using it because they don't like change, and changing to maintain a friendship with me was not worth trying to use less privacy hostile communication mediums.

Fair enough.

I for one would not exclusively socialize at a Brazilian steakhouse if I had a vegan friend in a given social circle.

I will go to great lengths to accommodate people that are acting on authentic ethical convictions but if someone is only doing something that conflicts with my ethical convictions because they can't be bothered to try something new, then they obviously don't value me, and I'll invest more time with people who do.

You should live your convictions and find people that either share them, or at least respect you enough to accommodate them.

I don't expect others to think or act like me, but I would expect that my legitimate desire to maintain privacy in personal communication to be respected by anyone worth my time.

Plenty of friends that don't share my views put up with using some open tools to keep in touch with me. I likewise accommodate some of their preferences that don't make any sense to me. Everyone has a mix of deal breakers and things they can be flexible on in any type of human relationship.
You are entitled to your opinion and your echo chamber of choice, but you are doing a disservice to your fellow citizens if you think in black and white
We don't want DNS anymore, but we don't have a replacement. It's the same as Facebook->Diaspora, Twitter->Mastodon. The non-centralized versions are too hard to deploy to all the non-techies out there, despite being the "morally" correct architecture.
I'd like to see some analysis on the real "cost" of a line of code.
They are ranked in an objective and monodimensional way, and the 5% lower ranked are fired, without considerations about why they got that rank.

If you don't get at least three problems with the situation above, well, I'm glad I'm not on a tam managed by you.
I think that one of the most frustrating aspects of dealing with people (at least for myself, as I'm loathe to extend my experiences to others) is that they fail several key things:

People are not:

* linear time-invariant

* rational

* abstractable

By the first, I mean two things. People do not react proportionally to a change in input--raising your voice slightly or disagreeing somewhat harder may suddenly get you punched in the nose instead of just yelled back at somewhat more, or being even nicer to somebody may not return any change whatsoever. Moreover, the same input applied at a later time may completely change the reaction of a person--a harmless text message repeated at a later date could set a person off.

By the second, I mean that people simply do not follow a logical chain in most situation. Given a set of rules and inputs, you'd think that a person (and even their mental state) would behave predictably; this is obviously false if you've ever done business or sold to consumers or dated.

By the third (possibly the largest), I mean that people can't be reasoned about at a high level. You simply can't ignore or approximate all of the little minutiae that make up that person's background, and if you try you'll find that everything falls to pieces. "Every girl likes compliments" fails, "every customer wants the cheapest goods" fails, every abstraction falls over in contact with the enemy.

EDIT:

People seem to be reacting negatively to the opening statements of the article. When I read it, I interpreted it as the author trying to express the idea that even massively difficult technical problems are still amendable to standard problem-solving techniques, in implicit contrast to "people problems" which the author finds elusive.

A correct reading, I suggest, would be that the opening is more an attempt at example than braggadocio.
The US is never going to nuke another country over hacking, especially of a movie studio.
Does Twitter hijack everyones back button on Mobile? Im using FF Mobile and whenever I visit a twitter link I have to close the tab because I cant go back.
Isn't that somewhat sweeping? Sure, for some types of photography, getting a shallow depth of field is rarely a concern, but in other disciplines, a shallow depth of field is highly desirable.

Many wedding and portrait photographers have at least experimented with the Brenizer Method[1], the sole purpose of which is to create an image with a shallower depth of field than is otherwise possible, and replicate the appearance of large-format photography.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brenizer_Method
We're already seeing some automatic exploit discovery. Fuzzing tools plus machine learning turn out to be able to find exploits. That can only get more powerful.
I think it ultimately is just a simpler wrapper around groupby once you start trying to do multiple levels of analysis.
I'm a big fan of Disco. It is very easy to set up and use. I'm pretty excited to give this a try.
DDOS attacks are generally launched from botnets consisting of computers that are illegally accessed without their owners' permission. While the DDOS itself may not violate any laws, executing it via hijacked computers certainly does.
That's a good question -- I don't know enough about SE to answer it right now.

My impression of SE is that it is about asking and answering questions -- for the site I envision, the question is always implied as "Am I wrong?" and you lay out your plan. This matters because people expect questions to be precise, but that doesn't translate well to trying to find errors in reasoning unless you already have a theory.
I have seen some exceptions in Oregon(Portland had a bunch of 65-75k "senior" developer jobs when I looked into that city and North Carolina seems to have a strangely low market average)

How much of this do you think is attributable to differences in cost of living?
ok, understood, gonna set it free, and upload it on github. hope the community would get interested in it and give me some advice :D
This is a much much bigger deal than the Gawker security breach. Sony had substantially more information on its users than Gawker could ever hope to dream of. Specifically information on real names, addresses, and potentially credit cards.

This is a big F'N deal and I wouldn't be surprised if it cost Sony more than Microsoft's infamous 1 billion dollar write-down with the Xbox 360's Red Ring of Death.

I don't think this will kill PSN or the PS3, but it's going to significantly dent things. I'm curious to see how much media attention this gets and if we'll see a macro shift towards the Xbox 360 and Wii.

If I was Nintendo and particularly evil I would leverage this opportunity to tout the new system and emphasize the cutting-edge online modes with rock solid security. And MS can also talk about their great track record in the online world.
rather than just walking over and turning it off or talking to the person?

Yes. First, I wouldn't turn off someone's ringer. Do you want people feeling that they can just pick up your personal property? I don't.

Second, having dealt with several coworker issues like this in the past, the way people respond can vary wildly. Some people simply realize that they were unaware, and adjust their behavior accordingly. Others will rationalize it as you being the troublesome complainer, not noticing the glares from the entire room (that's what happened in this case, and his behavior only changed once he complained and noticed that everyone else supported my position), these people require overwhelming social pressure. Others, like another coworker at this place, will become instantly angry at anyone who dares 'impose' their will on them.

Since this particular tech company valued skill over all other aspects, there was a higher than normal concentration of antisocial types.

Anyway, my point was simply that this app represents something which may be of far greater value to someone other than the user.
ok, it's now free
Holy Cow! This has to be one of the most serious breaches I remember in recent times. While I dont work in security and my security foo is weak it appears that they did not have a strong layered security apparatus in place? Is it just a coincidence that this breach and geohotz exploit happened around the same time?
Look, you're not a programmer.

You are a business value-adder. You just happen to use technology.

I wish more people would be aware that there's a distinction.
Rutgers Houses. It's smack up against the Manhattan Bridge, so I get to see my apartment window in movies now and then.
Agreed. Wasting margin space on an already tiny screen is ridiculous.
> The law isn't even relevant here, since the conduct happened in a theater of war.

If the law wasn't relevant in theaters of war, we wouldn't have phrases like "war crime".
It's so cute that you think the neo-Nazis are on Parler in spite of what Parler is.
I'm basically seeing 4 posts about "kill <group/group-leader>" and otherwise standard speeches... and then someone later posts screenshots about Jan 20 re-org posted on twitter..

It seems like the basic political discourse you find on twitter, fb and every other social media system, both red and blue posters, at pretty much the same level of intelligence; I'm really not seeing anything there that doesn't equally merit the banning of, well, every other social media app.
"Just build your own social network", they said.
Some of Parler's problems may actually be due to a few hundred trolls deliberately posting crap to get the site in trouble. Easily done, unprovable, and clearly effective.

In the future, this will be how all websites work: ban certain keywords or risk being blocked, regardless of your TOS and good intentions.
The FDA forces food standards. Should the government really be able to prevent a farm from cutting your meat with sawdust?

Should government really keep pharma companies from selling you pills that are filled with snake oil?

Should a government really force you to allow black people to eat at the same tables in your restaurant as white people? It's your business after all and it's private. You should have a choice on which customers you get to serve.
Are they now controlling the military? Have they taken control of the media and silenced their critics? Have they rounded up in a sudden sweep all those in government who might oppose them? Are they pushing out prepared messages about how this is being done for the benefit of the people? Have they actually done anything involving taking control and establishing themselves as the legitimate authority, deposing the existing government?

If this is a coup, it's the shittest coup ever, being done by the least competent coup conspirators I've ever seen.
Hmmm idk... anyway, time to get back to grinding leetcode so I can go work at Facebook and make 200k instead of a paltry 150k somewhere else!!
Yikes! Should I make haste to the bomb shelter??? Please inform!
Also,

* Amygdala triggers emotions, rationalized by neocortex

* Our bodies respond automatically to emotions, even though through the neocortex we can try to modulate and fake our body language
Especially the ones with 30 years of accumulated C libraries.
Yes, there was.
If the tradition is well-known among Chinese, what's the point anyway? (Or is it dirty secret of business people only?)
Ah, I see, thanks for that.
This presents a good opportunity. Why watch movies for the day while getting paid, when you can work on your startup instead?!
As they mentioned in the post, Urban Airship costs money (after the first million messages per month). Also, they'd need to build the infrastructure to poll the Twitter API for updates and push them to Urban Airship--definitely not trivial.
Very cool. What does isometric mean? Is it like Eschere drawing, i.e. marble goes bak up the hill?
Taking the Carr and Wikipedia 'high NFC' qualities together, don't you see a description of people who often prefer thinking deeply to themselves over superficial smalltalk and other group social 'grooming' activities?

Compare 'high NFC' with 'introverted' as described by this famous "Caring for your Introvert" article:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/03/caring-f...
He (and I) likes to be active, others like to watch YouTube videos.

To each their own.
If done consciously, with one's own capital or openly disclosed to investors, this is a risky strategy, but appeals to some: one will want to exit the trade before the rare event happens. This occurs for instance in a speculative bubble, where one purchases an asset in the expectation that it will likely go up, but may plummet, and hopes to sell the asset before the bubble bursts.
This has also been referred to as "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taleb_distribution#Risky_strate...
Am I the only one surprised that they are using robots from an American company? I would have thought that this is the kind of opportunity that Sony, Honda and the like would jump on immediately. Or is it really only iRobot who has something that is appropriate for this kind of situation?
Lenovo's about to release the ThinkPad X1, with relatively beefy specs and the MBA's form factor. Do want. It's freakishly expensive though (almost $3K).

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/23/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-shows-...
It looks more like facebook PAGE lock-out. Furthermore, aren't they legally obligated to do this under DMCA?
Also see http://daringfireball.net/2007/03/blank_slate and scroll down to "Yes, even URLs are designed"
Many IT security standards actually require account lock-outs. For example, PCI-DSS requires it. No one seems to understand that the goal of the attack may be to deny access. The attackers may not want to compromise the account, only to keep someone (or a group of people) locked out for a bit while they do something bad elsewhere.

Edit: I'm surprised an account would be locked by a DMCA request though. Block or remove the content (if it's a legit DMCA notice) but keep the account alive. That's just one more way to carry out this sort of denial of service attack.
Those Photoshop instructions are for older versions of Photoshop. In later versions, there is a "remove redeye" tool that seems to be much easier to use than Picasa's:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b...
Don't forget the Grid plugin (similar to Aero Snap) implemented by default. Drag the title bar to any edge of the screen to resize...
The SSD. It's fast, fast, fast.

I use an 11.6" MBA for everything I do. At my desk, I hook up a 24" monitor. At a client or a meeting, the 1366x768 resolution is just fine.
The only generally applicable rule I have is that the founder relationship is ideally viewed as a long term and ideally repeatable relationship. If you leave anyone feeling screwed, it probably is a lose; you negotiate much harder and win-lose for a one time purchase with a stranger than with people you will be doing business with long term, especially people who need to be intrinsically motivated.

I think the same applies to employee salaries; negotiating someone down into taking a much lower salary than necessity is 10k sound and 10m foolish.
Really nice one! Love the "gracefull degrade" implementation where if you dont have tilting device, it uses the mouse instead ;)
It's not cruel, it's just reality: some people have a natural aptitude for programming[1][2], while others don't.

C is a small enough language and has a simple enough programming model that it would be clear early on whether my kid had the natural aptitude that would justify focusing significant effort on learning programming as opposed to other worthy endeavors such as music playing or 4H club or learning another natural language.

[1] http://www.ppig.org/papers/18th-dehnadi.pdf

[2] http://www.daimi.au.dk/~larsen/papers/mental_models.pdf
(uk) police to discover web is world wide
The problem reported there is slightly different; the program linked in the OP operates recursively, building a larger and larger graph of 'in flight' FDs, while the earlier report simply allocates a bunch of pairs and sends FDs to them. The earlier report is apparently fixable by triggering the GC in this case (as mentioned in the lkml followup), but that fix does not address the exploit in the OP.
Right now, I just have it in mutual funds. I'd be interested if anyone knows of better options that don't involve a ton of micromanagement.
>Is there another tutorial that can explain the fundamental of "emulator" first before the NES part kicks in?

>PS: I'm planning to use Java for this side-project.

One place to start might be to try and write an emulator for the DCPU-16. It's a simple made-up computer that Notch (creator of Minecraft) designed for the game 0x10c.

Although the game was never finished, many people wrote emulators based on the DCPU's specifications[1]; search Github for "DCPU Java" to see several examples in that language.

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gatesphere/demi-16/master/...