jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I once had a shady service provider that did a terrible job, so I canceled the service when about 1% of the service had been provided. (Legally, this is as specific as I should be.) They wanted payment for 100% of the service and sued me when I refused -- no joke. I suspect this is how they make a fair amount of money.

So, rather than pay for my own attorney, I just bought Google AdWords for their name (which, luckily, was too general to be a real TM). I set up a simple page that explained how they behaved and how they were indeed suing me - complete with scanned documents.

They took it up with Google, who just asked that I rephrase my ad. I did. Then they called me, saying they would sue me for slander. I laughed. Then they called me, asking what I wanted to take it down ASAP. I said: drop this nonsense. Never call me again. I'll do the same.

Worked like a charm.

If I had gone the traditional route of finding an attorney, it would have cost thousands. I think my total cost on Google was < $100.
It's more likely to be something along the lines of skipping a crucial step in adding entropy or subtly botching the rekey cycle so that it leaks session information. If anything like that exists. This may all be a subtle troll of Theo De Raadt, or of the internet at large.
The more famous (with VMware) Scott Lowe rarely writes about BSD and has denied any sort of involvement. http://blog.scottlowe.org/2010/12/14/allegations-regarding-f...
Please take the conspiracist nattering somewhere else. As explained in the second paragraph of the article, the features of IME were requested by large corporate IT departments and pushed mainstream by marketing pressure, with the addition of DRM bits as requested by the large tech vendors who need them to negotiate licenses with members of the copyright cartel.

You look at this and see a secure rootkit. A corporate IT worker looks at this and thinks that they can image a workstation remotely no matter what's currently installed. A security person looks at this and sees secure base platform starting from TPM on down which can be setup to keep malware from irrecoverably compromising the system (remember the recent Thunderstrike discussion noting that TPM would protect against that firmware exploit?).

All of these have tradeoffs which can be debated but it's just silly to pretend that the NSA is centrally directing the entire industry.
> 122m RAM

Huh?

I assume you're not referring to 122 MB of RAM. What's the "m"?
You don't test inner functions the same way as you don't test private methods in a class. You only test for public API. They are implicitly tested when you test the higher level function.
Yes. The pilot can reenter using a numerical code, unless the co-pilot actively blocks it. Even that lock will unlock again after 20 minutes.
Many people will interpret this as “too late, so why bother”.
Oh, thanks! Quite a nice setup partnering with a geothermic power plant!

Currently I prefer reforestation (or even better yet restoration of swamplands), because it's partly EU funded, so there's a small multiplier effect, and there's still a lot of land for "low hanging" forests, which help with local climate patterns a bit.

I'm aware of what >>we<< need to do, and I'm already working on the better heating/insulation part. But individual action is nothing compared to advocacy in terms of impact.
I'm not talking about not-reinventing-the-wheel, I'm talking about making network calls by default, to fetch dependencies. This makes review of such things seem obstructive. As ever, convenience and security are opposing forces.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polices-tepid-respo...
I really like that you mention the geographic restriction clearly, and on the landing page.

I'm based in Japan, and often look at remote job boards. It's frustrating when you have to spend time digging into the content of job posting to find out you're ineligible - it's not much time per post, but it all adds up and it's annoying.

So kudos for being upfront about it!
Thanks, I will email you. Not a bad idea on the accountant, but finding (a good) one is indeed the hard part. How do I even vet that? I hate "hiring" for something I don't know a lot about. As for tax benefits, my understanding is I will save ~4,500 on self-employment taxes (because I pay myself 100k... $130k-100=30 difference... social security caps at around $130k), plus no longer pay medicare 2.9% on anything past 100k. Additional taxes include state payroll things like UI, but it's not a lot. So it could be worth $10,000+ in saved taxes to be an S-Corp instead of a Sole-prop.... was my conclusion.
Could be a burner, or even without a sim card, recording only.

No SIM card is not a complete defense, but still makes detection and identification somehow harder. Flight mode also helps somehow.
IANAL but that is my understanding, yes.

There is a theory that a lot of his desperation to remain president is due to a tsunami of legal problems that are all waiting for him to leave office. Not sure what veracity that has but his desperation to stay in power certainly is consistent with it.
Having rollover is a defining aspect of envelope budgeting. I put aside $150/mo for house repairs. I may have multiple repairs a year, or go almost 2 years without repairs. Rollover makes it easy to make sense of this madness. Multiply this by M for M other categories where spending is not regular.

> But you can also change the dates of charges, so you can move stuff to next month or the previous month if there was room left over which I find convenient for spreading out big purchases.

I do not want to alter the actual record of charges - that would cause lots of other problems. And I don't want to manually babysit this. I want to be able to get a balance of my account with all the money set aside subtracted out (regardless of whether it was spent or not).

Envelope budgeting is an incredibly simple algorithm, and I find it quite disheartening that most open source financial software does not support it. YNAB has shown how helpful it is to many, many people. I think Ledger and hledger are the only open source applications I know where one can do this.
>I mean, expecting people to wear standardized clothes and having them clock in and out? Are we in prison?

Um, neither of those are true in any companies I worked at in the US except for a job in high school as a cash register attendee.
Sounds lovely. How many angles would be needed for total vision blockage?
My brother is literally the best person I know. He has the patience of a stone, the compassion of a saint and bends over backwards to make sure his family's needs are met.

His son is autistic, and will, given the slightest opportunity, walk out of the house and wander off. It's just something he does, no matter where he is or who he is with (local day cares refused to take him after awhile because they literally couldn't keep the kid safe from himself wandering or climbing after a certain point).

I worry for my nephew, because he has literally no sense of self preservation, and he is growing fast. At some point, he may need to be put in a group home, because he is nearly his mother's size (she's fairly short anyway) and my brother is the primary breadwinner for the family.

Don't wag your klep when you've nothing at all to go on about someone.
> although someone has to do that work

I think this is the real crux of the matter: not everyone has the aptitude or interest to be a programmer or whatnot, and that's perfectly fine!

The whole "lift yourself out of poverty by learning X" is not necessarily bad advice – it's good advice actually, and I did it myself – but when you're talking about society as a whole it's missing the point that: ... even if everyone learns all the skills in the world, we're still going to need people at grocery stores, and support agents, and warehouse workers, and that kind of thing.

So no matter which way, we still need to have a conversation about how to organize things so that everyone has a reasonably fair living wage (as well as what "fair" and "living wage" are, exactly).
I agree that there are worse problems in this area (FDA regulatory capture is a major one), but this clearly isn’t a nothingburger either.
I love how insane Page and Brin look in the photographs they chose. (I'm pretty sure BI does this deliberately.)
The true added value of the price of a Windows license
There must be more to the story...it sounds like they converted his account to an eBanking account (which has no fees, minimum balance, or direct deposit requirements, but also no teller access). He most likely inquired about ways to eliminate monthly maintenance fees, and agreed to the switch without realizing he lost teller access.
I feel very strongly about this. I've done good business coming in and mopping up messes after people that attempt to deploy applications this way.

I'll follow up after I'm done with Christmas celebrations, but to think that a random hodgepodge of flavor-of-the-week deploy scripts slapped together by a webdev and scraped from github are somehow better or more maintainable than the collaborative output of some of the world's smartest and most committed developers is flatly-ridiculous.

Follow http://planet.debian.org for a week and tell me these people don't know what they're doing.
Clickable:

http://bookflavor.com

http://bookflavor.com/test
#10 I am not so sure about. 15% is PPC. 85% Organic Click Traffic. Sure there is room and growth, but I think the numbers are misleading.

I think what isn't said is:

Not all traffic is created equal. What do you think the ratio of commercial vs non-commercial searches is?

PPC spend isn't only on searches. It's on AdSense and domain parking. Those account for ~33% of Google's PPC.

PPC gives immediate and quantifiable results. SEO is somewhat blackbox and the results aren't guaranteed or instant.
I think this is what sets BofA apart from the others. When I had bad service at Washington Mutual or Wells Fargo, I had a far lower average daily balance than you (before my business took off, my account balance rarely reached 3 digits). Bank of America was the one bank that treated me with respect even when I was broke, and for that they've earned my business for life.
I agree with you although I would phrase it differently (a la Star Trek's IDIC): diversity is a form of strength.

In a situation with strong institutional bias towards reduced diversity, it just feels wrong to me.
Following a Twitter feed that posts tech jobs in the Dallas area.
I got my first job through a family connection, but in general you should not shy away from recruiters. A good recruiter can get your foot in the door and have opportunities that you might not know about.
This is a very strange take on an anti-apple campaign.

Though I think the authors thesis is flawed.

I am uncomfortable with the app store environment/closed platform, and I've always disliked Apple. They've always told me how great they are, and then I have tried their products and am always disappointed (with the exception of the iPod 1st gen to 3rd gen).

I was doing some market research a few months ago and asking iPhone owners what apps they used most. There was no killer app, nothing that they went to daily or couldn't live without.

The killer app on the iPhone is the browser, which thankfully is built around very open standards.

Once again, I think most of the app store bravado is Apple marketing, telling you how great it is that they have 200K+ apps for you to download, but then try to find something that you actually want.

I'll put games in a separate category, but for the most part, the most compelling pieces of their Jesus devices aren't the apps which they focus on so much, but rather that they currently have great portable browser devices. Andriod and others are only a few steps behind (if they are behind at all).
I think that while the transition would be rocky, there would be a lot more work done on languages, libraries, and frameworks that are secure by default, rather than insecure by default, and in the end people would end up a lot better trained.

We get insecure software for a variety of reasons, including lack of incentives to produce secure software (or equivalently lack of penalties for failing), ignorance, lack of sufficient talent or intelligence to deal with the issues of security, and so on. At least taking care of the first one would have some sort of effect. It would probably also drum some people out of software development, at least professionally, but one could fruitfully argue that anyone intellectual incapable of writing secure software would probably be better employed elsewhere anyhow.
Mmm, smells like crunch time. Good job getting it done.
How do you configure gzip for certain urls on Akamai? This is a problem I just can't find an answer to.
i disagree with the assumption that a good tool will support all or even 90+% of use cases. you lose a lot by piling in feature after feature.

I much prefer a few different tools that do a few different things really well. I don't use active record if I have to deal with legacy schemas. I'll use data mapper or roll my own. If I get to design my own schemas then I love the benefits AR gives me.
> “There is no reason that money can't be an effective motivator, or that grades can't motivate students in school,” he said.

Ok, well then what about this [1] video from this [2] submission?

This makes me think about something else entirely: It should be easier to draw connections between submissions like these. It should be easier to link repetitive discussions into a cohesive whole. It should be easier to build something grand from the time we invest in social news communities. As it is, it often feels like a waste of time. Someone please build this. My time's spoken for.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357390

Edit: It'd be somewhere around the intersection of Stack Overflow, Wikipedia and HN
Most companies don't do this because it is too expensive to out source everything especially when you are just starting.
I loved the idea and immediately sat down to make my own template. Here is an attempt: http://nileshtrivedi.com/ubuntu-1004-on-dell-vostro-1520.htm...

I haven't got around to add a navigation section yet.
Anyone with substantial following, who would be most likely to get snitched on with this new policy, will be making money from twitch.

It doesn't matter to me how you categorize that relationship, my point is valid. "Basically employees" was a plenty fine layman's categorization, though. We aren't lawyers here.
would you mind emailing me as well? <username>-without-the-first-letter-m @ gmail
Recommended up thread, but Feynman's QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter [0] is fantastic and very accessible. It's not particularly "up to date" (dating back to 1985), but it's not obsolete.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED:_The_Strange_Theory_of_Lig...
What's the 30 second elevator pitch on why I should know about Machiavelli? (Classical literature ignoramus here)
"analysed health records of 236,379 COVID-19 patients, mostly from the United States, and found 34% had been diagnosed with neurological or psychiatric illnesses within six months."

Which third? How do I deduce if there's an additional risk, for my risk-group, of developing depression and anxiety to the point where a psychologist would determine that I meet the DSM criteria for diagnosing me with a disorder? Without SOMETHING like sex or age to go by, I think the author is trying to tell us that we should ALL be worried about contagious depression being coughed around.

"The disorders were significantly more common in COVID-19 patients than in comparison groups of people who recovered from flu or other respiratory infections over the same time period, the scientists said,"

I have no doubt that there is a statistical significance depending on the model they choose, but without some numbers I'm not sure if it's significant to you or me i.e significant in the literary sense. I don't mean to be harsh but there's an article for every symptom and covid correlates with many things, but covid has caused me tons of grief and angst but I've tested negative for antibodies twice and negative for covid 3 times. So while I definitely blame covid for causing me emotional harm, it certainly wasn't the virus itself.
If i got a message like that:

- I either wouldn't see it because I'm involved in something out and messages are not priority interrupts. (i.e. I don't have notifications turned on.)

- Or, if I see it but now isn't a good time, I'll reply something like sure but right now is a bit crazy. Call my cell at xPM. (Or I'll drop something on your calendar.)
Completely agree. Do we insist that corporations only sell to a single customer? No that would be absurd. But insisting a person can only sell their labor to a single customer is seen as perfectly normal.
Note: There are actually a few important liquids in a Tesla as noted here: https://forums.tesla.com/discussion/62638/so-what-fluids-are...
You can! That's why I got the high result in the first link: the flat line allows for incredible acceleration if desired, because jumping gives you a boost.
A simple countermeasure at the ISP level: a buffer to merge 'www.you' to 'tube.com'

A far greater danger is DPI that use statistical analysis to detect possible tunnels. You want your traffic to be as close as possible to normal traffic. There is no perfect solution there. The current best is generating valid images with a hidden data payload (to download), and generating pseudo text posted on public forums or email (to upload) while limiting the download/upload ratio, by downloading random content if necessary as most people download far more than they upload.

It works best when using "known" websites like gmail (draft folder) or facebook (messenger), as all the traffic goes to a whitelisted host and look like regular usage.
You're right about that, and that would amount to effective containment, so I guess I was wrong.
I’ve heard one of the early Agile luminaries say that if the terminology in your code is different than the terminology of your domain that it’s a code/design smell. Some day, if not already, that impedance mismatch will bite you in the ass.

Architectural astronauts are fond of their own terminology. It’s nuts. Especially if it’s from someone like my most recent perpetrator who tries to use big words all the time and either gets them wrong or uses obscure meanings that nobody else ever uses conversationally. You may be smart pal, but you’re the biggest idiot I know.

At least the last astronaut was personable and had a hint of humility.
Despite the loss of human life, and the economic suffering of a great chunk of our species, a lot of good may come of the present pandemic. I believe this crisis has the potential to bring about a fundamental change in the way we relate to the world and to each other. It's as if humanity is at a crossroads: everything is possible, and we need to make a choice. I read this morning something that struck me as true: "We were in the process of losing our humanity, but a virus one thousands of a micron has has just given it back to us." [1]

[1] https://www.causeur.fr/coronavirus-covid-19-guillaume-bigot-...
yet she hounded him with as many charges as possible anyway

Why? What does she get out of it? I honestly do not understand. It is one thing pile charges on a violent murderer - not that it makes it right, at least it is debatable. Why would she think decades in jail makes sense in this case?

I honestly do not understand. How do these people sleep at night?
I assume that Treasury will have their own view of this, but I generally applaud attempts to shake status quo. I will be checking on you guys from time to time now.
> "Human networks behave differently than any other network we've ever measured," Fridman told The Jerusalem Post. "In a state of frustration, they don't look for a 'middle,' but ignore one of the inputs.

Huh. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it might imply a causal link between the overwhelming cacophony of modern media, and the breakdown of fact based discourse: faced with 'frustrated' (irreconcilable) viewpoints, it's the tendency of humans to simply ignore one of the inputs, and not seek the middle.
This doesn't surprise me. I've been working in the open source software space for a good while and many many many of my former colleagues now work at Huawei. All of them report to me that it's a great place to work where they're well compensated and put on teams of smart people with ample resources to get things done, including doing things in the open.
Er, Courtney Love was widely perceived as a trainwreck in the 90s, so her Twitter being full of now-seen-as-trainwreck stuff from the 1990s probably isn’t a good measure of change from the 1990s to now.
The point of the naive model is that you assume memory accesses dominate

That is, the math part is so trivial compared to the memory access that you could do a bunch of math and you would still only notice a change in the number of memory accesses.

Also it looks like the response to yours links their test and the naive model predicts correctly
That would work on the hypothesis that the internet mob is a rationale agent. That may not be so.
That just seems short sighted as the seller's account would be tracked down sooner or later. Entering your real details on a receiving account is way too risky.

It would be possible to launder with a similar setup - just not with stolen cards but with prepaid cash/crypto ones so amazon doesn't flag the account for charge-backs. But then there's no real need to steal the book author's identity. You could just put your own name or a pseudonym on it. For a 1099 to arrive they've clearly entered the stolen SSN somewhere. You'd want your own SSN there to prove to the IRS that you've made the money... (and then you'd want to pay the taxes).
> Android doesn't run Linux

It literally does. It doesn't run GNU/Linux. And the native non-Java API is usable by Android applications so it's not just an implementation detail. In fact, I suspect most games are developed this way. This shows how much you know about Android. Google even calls this the Native Development Kit.

> Kotlin is the main official language since 2 years now

Kotlin doesn't run on Android. You need a "real" computer to run Kotlin. It's not an Android native development tool. Why you bothered to bring it up when it's outside the scope of this conversation, I don't know.
There are a surprising number of unplanned segments.

Only takes a few weak links in the chain to prevent massive positive infrastructure from reaching completion.
Although - for further clarification, PostgreSQL doesn't require 2x the total amount of disk to reclaim/reuse space under normal circumstances.

As of version 8.1 (out since 2005), VACUUMing is an automatic function inside the server. (autovacuum)
At the risk of sounding crazy, I'll say fascism in a Western country.
Fingers crossed that Rock Band 4 will support guitar pickups, letting you use a real instrument. It might actually be possible.
I'm saying I wholeheartedly want to see that citation for my own edification.
Start looking into full-time positions in Canada as a backup for when your US visa expires. I know others who are in the same predicament as you who were able to find positions within their own big corp employer. Canada is favorable as US allows for partnerships with Canadians. There is also a cultural fit and comfort factor from customers & future employees.
You are not alone. Even motivated U.S. corps have to jump through many hoops to get their H1s passed. It is not always the employer who is at fault. For example, there is a waiting period for public companies to start processing H1s after a large layoff. Add to this the bureaucratic nature of big corp + big gov't in general.