jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
eBay is the only on that list not dominated by hackers. Yes even Larry Ellison is a hacker, from Wikipedia:

During the 1970s, Ellison worked for Ampex Corporation. One of his projects was a database for the CIA, which he named "Oracle"."

"Ellison was inspired by the paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database systems called "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks".[4] He founded Oracle in 1977, putting up a mere $1400 of his own money, under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL).

And despite a HUGE first mover advantage in a market where size is critical, eBay is floundering.

But I think you and the grandparent are not really disagreeing. A company can succeeded if it is dominated by very competent marketers and sales people... as long as they have something to sell.

The point is competent, passionate people are a great sign of success.

And if you have hackers and sales people, and designers, all of that type in a company... they can STILL be foiled by bureaucracy.
It would be good enough to make one issue, even if it took 40 years. As long as you could copy it afterwards.
Yes, and I've checked that it's not the connection or the browser. I'm on XP, so it's likely not the OS either.
Out of curiosity, what genres/types of games, and why do you think you're enjoying them less?
One of the better recent sites has been RSnake's:

http://ha.ckers.org/

But he just retired from blogging about netsec and is done with the industry, I think (a lot of ppl get sick of it, I left the sec industry 10+ years ago and never looked back)
In this particular case, the detainee is a demonstrated security risk. At this point I'm sure that people will be inclined to point out that he hasn't yet been convicted of anything. True. But the bar for "demonstrated security risk" is in a very different place from the bar for "guilty."

How did you make that distinction? He's not guilty, but he's a "demonstrated security risk" by virtue of what - the lack of a guilty verdict for allegedly being a demonstrated security risk? You can't have it both ways - he's either not proven guilty and therefore should not be treated as if he is a known threat to others or he has been tried and proven guilty. For all the evidence you've seen, not even being a judge, all charges could be false. At this time you have no idea other than a preexisting, evidence free belief based on things you've heard from some (mostly anonymous) government officials quoted in some random news article. And until you have further details, I can't see any logic beyond sadism or a misunderstanding of the concept of innocent until proven guilty that would allow you to support the reported treatment of Manning.
security of property. pff.
Source code has a better value than the binary: I'm sure Facebook will deploy some counter-measures pretty soon, making the binary unusable.

Nobody's got the source code ? I tried to checked it out but I get 403's again...
The server-load quip reversal, still going strong in 2010!
Jives nicely with this recent post about classification and allowing for ambiguity: http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2010/11/23/4827/data-c...
Is this a finished thing?
I also wasn't a programmer before I started university, and I haven't regretted getting a Master's in CS one bit. There's some sort of general aptitude for programming you need, and no university education in the world can help you if you lack that. But if you have that, a CS education is a lot of help in making you a good programmer. Not because of whatever languages are in fashion when you get the education, but because of the more timeless subjects: Algorithms, paradigms, complexity theory, and compiler theory. These are the tools you need to be able to quickly pick up a language, any language, and be reasonably good at it.
There's one suggestion per card (I have the original 30 card deck).
I'd be fine with this if they would strip companies like this from having section 230 protections and allowed anybody to sue for liable for anything on their platform. The banning for conduct off the platform should be seen for what it is, namely discrimination that will not be applied equally to everyone. If you are a right wing person, the bar will be low for bans, but if you are an active Antifa type the bar for being banned with be much higher.
Here's an interesting comment about this work by mahmud from 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=831568. It would be great to hear more.
It does seem to have been a plainclothes USCP officer per new reporting. I had read possibly erroneous reports that he was part of Pence's detail.
I think more core to the issue is status quo bias. Cops are much more likely to agree or strongly agree to questions like “the current US system is fair and just” and similar pro-status quo ideas. Typically speaking left wing protestors are agitating to change the system, especially policing, which is why cops do not respond as well. Is it any surprise that cops respond worse to those protesting against the police, no matter the slogan, than they do against the “blue lives matter” crowd?

Oh, and cop organizations are run through with neo-nazis and white supremacists who have made a concerted effort to make inroads with police departments and military members.
"Pushing a narrative" is a pretty hilarious way to put it when you also say "the media, all governments, and tech companies" were the ones doing it.

It implies a conspiracy to paint the picture differently than it was, which seems like an audaciously high bar of scrutiny to pass when it unfolded live.

Could it also be that everyone just reported what they saw?

And could it be that what everyone saw was the President of the US tell his fervent supporters to march to the Capitol and "not be weak"? And that such supporters posted videos of themselves committing crimes in the name of a conspiracy theory which is been more thoroughly debunked than any in modern history?

I'm almost afraid to ask what the competing narrative (the one being covered up or bulldozed by the popular one being 'pushed') could be.
Belgium, Italy, UK, Slovenia

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Parler is incapable and unwilling to moderate nazis, white supremacists and terrorists. Worse, they thrive on those users.

First they came for the nazis, and I didn't say anything because, well, fuck nazis. Then end.
Well that's about as varied a pool of replies as I could want, given the question, so thanks!

- my official title includes it but I don't use it, to ease the competition

- use it when you're smart and fast enough to help & enable others (but you might be a lead engineer or manager at that point)

- let it be bestowed from without, and by the way it's dependent on the context (tends to mean more the bigger the company, and is usually stated in relation to others around you)

- several more saying let it be bestowed from without (including possibly by asking for it to be bestowed)

- I use it only to game clumsy recruiter searches

- I guess I'll add my own, which is kind of half-joking: Once you've got 5 years of experience you're "senior," and that's because, as Uncle Bob Martin pointed out recently, the number of devs in the world doubles about every 5 years. Which means if you've got 5 years of experience you're above the median; you're more experienced than half the people out there!
Hacker News :)
You probably won't get frontpage traction with a generic AskHN post, but you might still get some traction and discussion, as we see here.
> You'll encounter the same problem if 23:59:58 is followed by 00:00:00

On the contrary, I would expect skipping a second to happen all the time from the perspective of userland programs, due to common things such as blocking system calls and program scheduling under load. Also features such as sleep and hibernate can easily skip entire days.
There are many aspects to sperm donation that hit a raw social/emotional/cultural/instinctual nerve.

— There is massive demand for sperm from desirable men but zero demand for undesirable men. There is only a shortage because clients are wholly uninterested in most sperm. This is a reminder of natural behaviors, but made more explicit when society used to soften the blow until now. If in the future, undesirable men have fewer and fewer occasions to reproduce, and are rejected more and more explicitly through increasingly online and impersonal services, this might probably lead to social unrest.

— The anxiety of not seeing your genes passed on. Even if you have an existentialist mindset, it can affect you on a fundamental level. I saw a comment on the NY Times section of a person saying their excellent genes might die with them. But isn't the possibility to reproduce the fundamental, inevitable benchmark for the worth of genes, by definition? It does invoke a strange impression that Isaac Newton not reproducing does imply a certain failure on an important criteria compared to a junkie having many children.

— From a Darwinian perspective, donating sperm to many different women but not having to expend any energy raising them is probably the ideal. Of course, from a cultural perspective it's frowned upon. Some of these donors are probably more genetically successful than many kings and conquerors of the past.

— The complex feelings successful donors experience as a result of all of this

— The clash of morality and Darwinian success. Most commenters on the Times noted the number of foster children awaiting care. But to me, that sounded completely tone deaf. The drive to reproduce is something so raw and fundamental that you'll have a hard time convincing people not to do it in exchange for fulfilling some vague moral appeal. Ironically, the ones who listen to this brand of morality and opt to raise another person's child will be rewarded by not passing on their genes. Conversely, adulterous people who employ to cuckoo tactic or parents who abandon their child for adoption are rewarded for it. Their personality and decision style passes on.
Wouldn't the driver be covered under their personal insurance during the idle phase anyway? They don't have anyone else in the car, so e.g. A passenger would just be a normal passenger if they had one, not a paying client.

I don't see why they'd need some special insurance policy to cover the idle phase. Do personal insurance coverages have some disclaimer about waiting around with the intent to use your vehicle commercially?
Longtime user of your site! Thanks!
> relatively wealthy middle class

Bear in mind that the definition of "middle class" has changed.

Back then, all business owners were deemed "middle class", including people who own or manage large businesses. The term "upper class" was reserved for nobles and other hereditary landowners.

Nowadays, large business owners are synonymous with "upper class". Nobody would call someone like Warren Buffett or Sumner Redstone "middle class" nowadays, but that term would've been applied to them in the 19th century.
http://thebarking.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Krem.jpg
Both IMO. Patches + mailing list isn't an ideal medium for code changes, and it's not as easy to quickly browse a list of patches that haven't been merged yet.

GitHub lets you update patches easily (and see the updated patch), drop comments inline in a patch (very useful for code review), and tag patches (extremely useful for large projects).

Having to go through the extra hassle of a mailing list just to have the maintainer ignore them sucks.

Another benefit of GitHub is that users affected by an issue that has been patched but not merged can just fork the repo and merge the PR themselves and use that (I've done that in multiple cases). Mailing lists aren't as easy for this.
Why bring new terminology to replace "concentrated benefits and dispersed costs", which is well established?
Electronics. I got started with a spare Raspberry Pi a friend gave me. I got hooked and test as much things I can get my hands on. I now have a BeagleBone Black, a few Arduinos on the way and lots of sensors.

There are a lot of interesting small projets you can do with small electronics.
You're right. I hit a paywall at first, but with private browsing got through to the full article, so I guess I used up my quota.
That depends. Most countries have ratified the biological weapons treaty. If proven to be lab created, the onus will be on them/whoever to prove that this was not part of a weaponization effort. Not to mention, instant loss of goodwill across the world.

Personally, I think the idea of this being lab created by China is far fetched.
How is the tooling more limited? I have never had a problem using any java library/framework with Kotlin.
What's odd is that there's a fairly strong sentiment that EVs are the future, but some of the existing automakers seem to still be covering their ears and singing.

If Tesla starts suffering mortal market-share wounds, they will still be a compelling acquisition target for one of the existing automakers who are late to the EV party-- you get a ready-made bag of patents, supply chain, and designs. You can immediately start building a Model 3 with an Acura or Chrysler badge, and you've got something to ship to dealers in countries with punitive tax regime or ban on gas cars, and a few more years runway to fully adapt the design into a full full own-brand EV.
It's been a propaganda sheet for decades. The WP is worse.

...

On that topic, I find it mildly funny that the NY Times goes out of its way to grace Jill Biden [0] with the honorific "Dr" despite her bottom-of-the-barrel EdD, while a practicing clinician is "Mr. Siskind".

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/politics/jill-biden-fi...
Shark skin has similar properties. The sharks use it for super efficient swimming, it reduces their drag considerably.

http://www.asknature.org/strategy/038caf2e453c09b3016465cc6c...

Car wash companies will hate this stuff, and wouldn't it be nice if it could be etched into windshields, no more wipers!
Interesting case: Killer Petey (Pedrinho Matador), the most prolific Brazilian serial killer (probably around a hundred kills) served 42 years and is now free and turned youtuber who preaches for peace.

https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/wiseup-news/brazils-greatest...
Is this obviously a bad thing? My understanding of the argument for tenured faculty teaching courses is that tenured faculty are (or have been) actual researchers in their field, so they have deep knowledge. But I'm skeptical that deep knowledge is really necessary to teach random undergrad courses. Seminars, sure. But since the number of people going to college has also grown since 1975, it seems...reasonable? to hire more teaching faculty.
Web 2.0 could also be construed as a philosophical and artistic (pertaining to visual style) movement.
Just curious;

I never got these "for students" type of promotions. Everyone does it. Amazon, fogbugz, local pizza shops, and a ton of others I'm sure.

Maybe I shoudn't say "I don't get it", because I guess I do. The student label is pretty convenient and as everyone seems to understand it; "students are broke" because they have to pay for school and cannot work full time? Is that it?

A lot of people legitimately struggle to pay for things and are "broke". While it is true that being a student is a good thing, it does not entail that not being a student, (or maybe just specifically not being a student at a qualifying university that gives out .edu addresses or something) is a bad thing.

I guess my point is people struggle in all sorts of ways, and I would be happy to see a company say something more like "Free for people in need", "Pay what you can", or something like that. Ok so I'm not the best marketer but that would be nice in my book.

An open, honest, and truly unbiased form of helping out. =)

P.S. I guess I should put my money where my mouth is. I'll incorporate that into my side projects and hopefully I can refine it enough to share my results (and promotions) here with HN.
* House parties - at peak, I was throwing a house party once a month.

* Hacker Dojo - almost always something interesting going on. Highly recommended.

* Bars - Rose & Crown or the Nut House.

* Watch a limited release film at Aquarius or CineArts.

* A lazy afternoon drinking wine at Vino Locale followed by dinner out at a nice restaurant.

* Board games, poker, or whatever with friends.

* Chill out by the pool at a friend's apartment complex.

etc.
Well political realities make it almost impossible. Not putting the nation at risk is doable.
Save him some work and prevent him from having to spend time learning Cocoa Touch instead of working on the desktop client and server? Sometimes it's better to embrace passion than to hit the auto-lawsuit button.
Sadly, anyone who wants to open a club in California (not just SF) really needs to consider jwz's many horror stories about keeping DNA open, such as http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2009/02/13.html and http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2010/01/17.html.
> “We had a mouse,” she acknowledged. “But if you live on the Lower East Side, you’ll always have a mouse.”

I live on Lower East Side, and I've never had a mouse. Having a cat helps ;)
The midpoint locations mentioned in this article are directly applicable to Seasteading. http://seasteading.org/

Many of these optimal trading locations are in the ocean. The spar buoy based structures designed by the Seasteading Institute are directly applicable, as they are about the only seagoing designs that are safe for permanent habitation. (Immune even to rogue waves.)
Jeez, why wouldn't he just give it its own name and graphics, and call it a clone? Would have been perfectly legal, and brought almost as much attention.
I assume things have changed in the last 4 years but before that all large software companies were sponsoring H-1Bs.
How about scheduling consistent time for work and then at the end of the day, logging whether the work session was 100% focus on the task or if there was any distraction.

Then you can see how many days in the month were focused, how much were distracted and if you care about it enough, you could set a goal that 95% of the sessions in a month should be distraction-free and keep working towards that.
Thanks - yeah it wasn't something I anticipated happening, but got real lucky that it worked out that way.
Those asshats. They can say whatever they want, but at the end of the day they did it to be asshats.
Did you seriously just make an argument that a government would choose not to do something just because it would be expensive and ineffective?

"Incredibly costly" + "I don't see how they would benefit" is only an effective argument against individuals and businesses whose continued existence depends on not wasting money. The state runs on taxes and executive orders.

You may not realize that one of the non-publicized goals of recent executive administrations has been to keep the official unemployment rate of war veterans low enough that it stays out of the public consciousness. This has been accomplished in large part by steering them into make-work jobs with strict citizenship or clearance requirements along with hiring preference points for military service.

The government probably does not care to intervene in our nerd talk, but it can afford to, and if that provides a minor political benefit beyond sticking loyalists in dubious, relatively-high-paying desk jobs, then so be it. If I were to attempt to promote state interests with respect to encryption and network security, HN is certainly one of the sites I would pay my subordinates to read and influence.

Don't assume that just because you think it is stupid and pointless, no one is actually doing it. That doesn't mean that anyone is, but you can't realistically argue that everyone is not.
When I started working at public housing in the early 2000s, I came with this notion that people my age didn't have jobs or didn't work hard enough. What helping friends with their resumes taught me was folks often pursue jobs doggedly -- but because of their race, background, and education, find themselves in dead end work.

It seems to me the classic economic arguments you're making need to be turned around: In an environment where the options in the mainstream economy are unstable, low-reward work and you lack the capital to secure credit to get an education or make serious investments, wouldn't you think about joining the drug economy?

Also both the gangs and community groups were entirely capable of self-governing.
Hal Finney is sort of a bitcoin Walter White. Someone please make a cable series on this.
Tagspaces (http://www.tagspaces.org/) is worth checking out if you're interested in files organizaiton
10,000 nukes * pi * 30mi ^2 = 28,274,000 square miles.

The lower 48 states are only 3,119,884.69 square miles if you inclde waterways. With just land it's only 2,959,064.44 square miles.

So, 10k nukes let's you carpet bomb the lower 48 and have one within 10 miles of just about every point. Focus on population centers and I suspect you could easily get 95+% of the population within 5 miles of a detonation.
Everyone needs to learn about media queries. http://robot-or-not.com/ - Resize your browser window and the CSS changes. Check it out on an iPhone too. Works great and can be hacked into IE.
I appreciate your concern, Thomas, but you seem to be telling me that:

1. no one will be able to gauge the integrity of a web app by reviewing the code, and

2. I should fix the security problems sweis found by reviewing the code.

I wholeheartedly agree with #2 (and I'm working on it now), but it rather contradicts #1.

I threw this thing together because I'm a long-time open source fan and I've been watching as more and more code people entrust their privacy to moves behind the opaque border of the web app cloud. I'd like to find ways to deal with that.

Bug reports are interesting and useful, and I'm extremely grateful for them. My implementation is flawed, no doubt in ways beyond the ones sweis has already pointed out, and discovering those flaws is one reason I posted it somewhere like HN.

But simply declaring that javascript is an unsuitable language for encryption, or that web clients are an unsuitable environment, doesn't add anything factual. I think code transparency is a boon to security, and I would like more web apps to at least try to make their security reviewable, even if reviewing is a job for experts. If you don't think that code transparency adds anything useful, well, fair enough. I respectfully disagree.
Is that a yes or no? (I don't have safari 5)
I disagree with the term 'fallacy'. Perhaps 'mental map' might be better, or perhaps learned bias.

It's true that many of us use this type of thinking to navigate our way through life. Stereotype thinking and heuristic using allows a person to go through massive information without stopping to process each part.

There's no doubt people see homelessness as something brought onto a person by themselves. There's no doubt that this is not true in all cases. However, having a mental map like this allows one to get through life without getting bogged down in negative thoughts.

You need a mental map which says something like 'bad shit happens to good people' and just get on with your life. Trying to parse all the worlds injustices is like staring at the stars and working out how insignificant you are, fun for stoned undergrad students but utterly useless in moving your life forwards.