jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> without smuggering up the earth as much.

Rental might be a “different” option than buying a newly produced 2.7 metric tons truck?!
> Also think to yourself why this is front and center? Whereas cigarettes literally kill millions a year and they are perfectly legal.

This is a flimsy comparison. The sale and use of cigarettes is tightly regulated, with sale banned to minors and use banned in most public and commercial spaces. If there was anywhere close to this level of restriction on social media usage you might have a point.

P.S. Facebook also contributed to the killing of thousands in Myanmar. So there’s that.
That is a violation of ToS (using registerd accounts for scrape) and could carry potential legal implications.
After the fifth DNC debate, I am convinced the legacy media ("MSM") are exponentially more dangerous and insidious.

In fact, I suspect that this persistent campaign against "new media" is nothing more than a turf war, waged as it were by the losers.

Good riddance to the self-appointed gatekeepers. It's no surprise this speech is sponsored by the ADL. They are probably good allies with racist MSNBC, lying NYTimes etc.
Their branding is cool but not really reliant on the name. The whole alien thing is pretty fun and simple
It's interesting that this story has already vanished from at least the first 100 'news' entries on HN, 9 hours after posting, and currently at 400 comments.
Are you sure it's not worth that much? That's only $235 per user. Given how affiliate revenue can easily approach 10%, and their average user probably spends thousands of dollars online per year, it seems easily within the bounds of reason to me.
"Stringly typed" means literally a string. Go doesn't always distinguish between errors, but the error type does distinguish errors from non-errors and that's important.

It seems better to have coarse-grained types than to standardize the wrong type hierarchy?
Making new connections doesn't preclude pruning old ones (or pruning new ones for that matter). And in fact the brain is doing both all the time.

I just didn't think it was relevant to this discussion to go deeply into the details of neurogenesis.
Who? The guy who followed the laws, albeit creatively? Or the mob that is canceling diverse thoughts on imputed pretexts?
The downside is that we won’t be able to see his tweets about being banned from Twitter.
Zip ties?! The horror!

There was also a guy dressed up as a buffalo and, mostly, a bunch of fat old people who get all of their news from Facebook.

It's weird, and it's stupid. It's not terrorism.
Snowflakes gonna flake.
>Furthermore, I take issue with the emphasis on "property damage" as property is fairly meaningless when you fear for your live or live paycheck-to-paycheck. America has an unhealthy obsession with "property damage" as if it should be the driver for any sort of discussion on societal issues, when in fact, it should not be.

Ah right, so the ends justify the means. It is OK to vandalise and destroy a small business if you feel bad and frustrated, but only if you share the corporate-approved politically correct opinion. Do you not see where this road ends?
Oh yay, a totally obvious "tattoo the jews" comment. The nazis are on the alt-right side, buddy.
Do you think decentralisation is the key? I’ve been thinking about it since yesterday and i’m leaning toward profit motive as the difference.

We were pretty centralised around a few locations like slashdot & newsgroups.

Walled gardens were a thing, here in the UK a service called CIX was popular but AOL is the big famous one.

It’s not that we communicated less, group messaging with non-techie friends was done over email - cue flashback to 300-message deep top-posted replies.

It’s not that we were better in any way, the anarchist’s cookbook cost many a high school several new sets of door locks. Back orifice was a thing and was used for real scummy purposes sometimes.

I landed at profit motive as the difference. Just before the era of spyware is where i’m thinking it fell apart but I’m not at all confident in my assessment.
It was brilliant -- but it reduced the number of leading-edge fab players from 3 to 2. Intel pulling the same move would reduce the number of leading-edge fab players from 2 to 1.

See the problem?
I just want to make sure I'm understanding you correctly. Are you saying that:

- What the pro-Trump crowd did on 2021-01-06 at the capitol building is essentially the same as what the anti-Kavanaugh crowd did on 2018-10-04 at the Hart Senate Office Building.

- And so, the actions themselves have not escalated; what has escalated is our sensitivity to them in that we no longer deem them as "OK".

? Or am I totally misreading you? Because if I understood you correctly, um, see what 'benmaraschino wrote.
Very nice. I like it more than evernote. There should be a way to save to the site without visiting (for instance, to send myself a bookmark). An Android app would be awesome too.
I always simply ask "Is this a going concern?"

The answer is always telling,.. even if they don't know what I mean.
I forgot to clarify, running the dev build on Ubuntu. I am using 10.04 right now.
Dup. Again.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1420553 <- 128 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1416811 <- 7 comments
Thanks for the suggestion. My first instinct is indeed to run for the hills :)

I'm watching the video and the first point is that you should fire the graphic designer :P (I suspect there isn't any, if a programmer did it, at least the screens are very clear - heck, maybe a graphics designer would murk it).

PD: after watching the video it's very clear that it's not what I need at all, but thanks for the suggestion.

Greenspun's rule is something I'm painfully aware of (the main enterprise app I work with has an ad-hoc implementation of... assembler :P ), but thanks for the reminder.
His Spanish was funny, because it was gramatically flawless but spoken with a heavy Portuguese accent.
I've seen and tried sizeup before I made the switch, and though I feel that it's a great application and a great step towards a middle ground for tiling, it is most definitely not the same thing.

Being able to have windows automatically be positioned is key to the tiling wm, I feel. It allows you to have a layout work as you'd expect without fumbling or thinking about it.

I do agree about the inaccessibility of desktop Linux (though it seems to be getting so much better these days!). A previous co-worker of mine uses AwesomeWM every day inside of a VMWare instance with Mac hotkeys disabled and loves doing that. Might want to give that a shot if you like what SizeUp gives you.
You could presumably use the plus sign "hack" to make that a bit easier: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-m...
I don't know specifically about the `crashme` tool but I can say that fuzzing is not a technique that has gone out of vogue. In fact it is standard security practice for finding ill defined behavior in programs for buffer overflows and other nasties. When you read the exacerbated cries of the security researchers who have been sitting on a critical IE/Firefox/Whatever bug they almost always scream something to the effect of "Why didn't they just use a fuzzer, it's easy to find these problems that way -- that's how I did it." I would like to give props to Google, their security teams have been diligent in running static analysis and fuzzing tools against their code (white box[1][2]/black box testing[3])

As always, Wikipedia is a great source for information on this one[4] and I can personally testify to OWASP's fuzzer if you're going after webpages (my last local OWASP that I went to was on fuzzing and was REALLY interesting)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-box_testing

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_code_analysis

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-box_testing

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing

EDIT: Fixing formatting
To add to this, utm originates from an analytics software company google acquired some time ago. And they have kept legacy utm prefix ever since.
It was Tice. My mistake. Thank you for the check.
I'd say one of PHP's biggest flaws is that it's just too easy to get started. One might argue that's not a flaw, but it is - it allows junior developers to dig right into the code without knowing the basics of how web works, in turn producing extreme technical debt and waste years on bad practices.

I've been there too, and I must say I agree with Jeff on this matter - if I was forced to use Ruby instead of PHP when starting my career, I'd be a better developer today. But I'm catching up :)
you know you can do the same with php, right?
$ git push fortrabbit master
...done
Some one will walk with metal detector find this rock and kick it. Game over! But hey at least its cheap!
Comparative comfort _is_ luxury, compared to that which most of the people on the planet experience as their daily lives.
False. Conclusion is: nothing will kill Facebook, or Google, or Microsoft. Stop worrying about "what will kill Facebook".
My guess: it would be more work to take it out than to do nothing.
That seems incredibly counterintuitive though, and can't see the mechanism that explains it. In the locksmith's case, the mechanism is that clients believe the duration of the task is directly related to the effort, and they are willing to reward greater effort.
Kind of. The cablegate is scandalous because it shows that wikileaks is serious and efficient. Otherwise it would be difficult to explain why virtually every country and major corporation in the world is shitting their pants now and want Assange's head on a silver plate. They figured they may be the next ones.
In what sense is it "not close to being done yet"? I'm using 4.0b7 right now; it has Panorama in it; it works fine.

I dare say it could have more features and/or polish added, but that's true of almost any software. It's certainly of releasable quality.
The article adds zero value to my knowledge. It's all noise it seems.
"Why yes I did travel to DC to protest. No, I didn't break into the capitol building"
Backlink: https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/31
Here's a Nebraskan protocol for reuse of disposable masks

https://www.nebraskamed.com/sites/default/files/documents/co...
I find trailing commas annoying because every once in a while I need to copy some object to use as JSON and... it doesn't work since JSON doesn't support trailing commas.
So, the filtration on this is a hepa filter. It’s a cool way to still get infected
A README.md in most Github repo is already a statically published page, easy to author and easy to access. Even most PWA festures can be added to this setup with just Jekyll configs. Am I missing something in the question?
"Rackspace is setting aside $10M in free OpenStack Public Cloud hosting resources over the next 6 months for organizations participating in COVID-19 relief efforts"

https://www.rackspace.com/lp/covid-19
As a technical writer if push comes to shove I would recommend leading off with what you need to do first and foremost, and then going into detail about why as needed. You should optimize your content for the audience that is already convinced and just wants to know what they need to do in order to stay safe. You can follow up with the information explaining why they need to do this for the secondary audience of people who still need convincing.

In other words, if you think about it in terms of the typical inverted pyramid model of journalism (which many here on HN already know about), what you need to do is the most important information, why you need to do it is secondary. That might be debatable to some people but that's how I view it.
It'd be nice for Newsweek and other outlets to cover Mayer and her good work without it repeatedly being yet another spin of the old "Girls can do it, too!" trope.

Yes, they can do it, they've always been able to do it. Stop pretending it's surprising or 'news,' and you'll have fewer people incorrectly feel women are out of place in technology.
But how much would it cost Tazo to upgrade their landing page to be merely mediocre-but-usable? I would think that for a company of Tazo's size and success, the cost of doing this would be trivial.
I respect your reasoning but I have to disagree. As a programmer when I am stressed or worried then I am working on the issue non stop until it's solved.

When something is easy you aren't stressed thus you aren't going to work on it immediately. When the issue becomes something stressful, because of time, that's when you begin working on it.

Therefore I'd have to say that we are pushed to work hard when we are stressed whether it's having low skills or having very little time.

I'd say when you are able to finish your project in a short amount of time, that shows you have a high level of skill, but if you have low skills and start it immediately and give the same results that shows a high level of skill in the form of determination.
Can you explain what kind of product it is, and how you got your hands on it, if you didn't develop it?
Gotta love Gruber. He makes good points, but at the end of the day he falls back on the intangibles like emotion. Apple does consistently make superior products and have succeeded in cultivating an emotional fanbase, but emotion don't mean much. There has been plenty of companies with rabid fans who have died before.

Plus, linking to a Nexus S "line" that the photographer admits was posed? Here's some numbers. There are 323 Apple Stores in the world. There are over 1,150 Best Buys. That is Apple's real problem. They can evoke all the emotion they want, but they picked a battle against the entire industry. I doubt they can remain the profit leader for long.
I'd say if your business depends primarily on search/keyword traffic then hyphens are ok. Otherwise, no, since you are just giving away traffic to the non-hyphenated domain.

Example of search/kw dependent domain would be something like if you sold wedding favors (wedding-favors.com, for example).
I think the squiggly yin-yang is a "no icon" placeholder; presumably the user knows which is which.

> Nah, I think GNUStep's appearance is provably horrid.

GNUStep is the library; it doesn't have an appearance. You're objecting to the NeXTStep theme, which is designed to imitate the now 20-years-old NeXT OS. You can see a screenshot of NeXT at < http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/NeXTSTEP_deskt... >

Keep in mind that the main goal of GNUStep is to provide compatibility for a long-obsolete spec, so naturally the applications it runs are not up to modern standards. It's no different from Win95 applications running in Wine.
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digital-photography-school....

Fair enough, they do have some good stats. Still very much the exception however.
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Since the NIST dictionary is continually updated, reposting it on HN
every couple years is useful but here are the previous discussions:

2 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5525893

4 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2496539
> The only difference between that and terrorism is the rhetoric.

they also weren't killing people or 'inciting terror'.
It's obviously different when everyone already has an iPhone. Most crime is opportunistic.
Don't know about Papa New Guinea, but where I live we have had lots of healthy trees fall over from a bit of wind when the ground is soaked.
Asking for resilience without at least simulating failures periodically is a fool’s errand.

Imagine if you asked for bids for a backup solution but only ever tested your backup when you really needed it. Likely after a few years of never actually needing to access the backups, the backup companies would start taking shortcuts either to undercut competitor’s pricing or to increase profits.

Likely, something similar happened here as well.
> Sexual content existing on one platform

LOL.

So you DO think this is a sexual content.

And the difference between 'other platforms' sexual content is the lack of an exposed genitals.
I think we are reaching peak absurdity.

This is vaporware on top of vaporware (what ever Tesla will be building it won't be what was presented).
Remember that the relevant set isn't the set of all trees, but the set of trees old enough to be large enough to sleep under. That means the average lifetime would be: (number of years it takes for a tree to become big enough to sleep under) + 13.7.

I would still guess that the number is wrong, I suspect that trees have a longer life on average from becoming what we would consider "big" until they fall over. But it's still an important detail.
I've thought about this a lot, but I'm not entirely sure how to tag it in such a way as to be useful... do you have any suggestions as to the types of tags you'd like to see?

Possibly part of the problem was that I was looking at it from a "general startup" point of view (the narrowing down to early founders is recent). Perhaps with a narrower focus, tags will make sense.
"souped up"
You're right, except you sell your own answer short when you say "curve". In practice, the set of trade-offs has a much higher dimensionality, and solutions are much less often strictly "wrong" as they are "less optimal" or "out of scope".

Now, you might be thinking "that's not true, if I implement a function to add two numbers, and it returns 1+1=3, that's wrong. So that's a clearly wrong solution." But I argue: is it wrong? What's your context? What are your acceptable trade-offs? In many real-world applications, precise correctness isn't always critical. Sometimes, sacrificing accuracy might be acceptable, and may save on cost and/or complexity. Other times, that's not acceptable. But it's worth considering even these types of non-obvious trade-offs, not just the obvious ones. That's what an expert engineer does: ask the right questions and identify the right trade-offs, and they've become efficient in that process from experience.

An expert sees a problem space as a wide range of trade-off dimensions, including:

* computational performance
* memory performance
* implementation complexity
* maintenance complexity (understandability)
* accuracy
* reusability
* design time
* reliability
* debuggability
* bug-proneness
* scalability
* etc.
There's no need to demand anything.

Do what works for you.

The boundaries will be where you set them.
The issue I have with that statement is that it cannot be proven. There is no source code of whatsapp, so this could have been changed anytime.

I mean, it's certainly possible to have an administrative backdoor that just shares the local keys. Even when that wasn't the case when you worked there, and even if we believe that you say the truth: we still cannot be certain that this won't change on February 8th.

I mean, whatsapp was remotely exploitable for more than 5 years before it was discovered (just to make a point).
Thank you for the thoughtful comment. I do actually agree with many of your points. And you are right, this could be a much longer discussion. Let me just add this - your last sentence doesn’t have to be in past tense. I believe publishers still can set themselves apart and leverage their strengths. The next couple of years will show if GDPR and the CCPA can actually help to achieve that.
In Australia, this is known as the 'Tall Poppy Theory'. The idea is that the tall poppy is the first one to get cut. Staying alive means staying at the exact same level as everyone else.

It's an awful pattern, but is hardly restricted to one cultural or racial milieu. Class systems everywhere are predicated on the same basic idea: you're supposed to know your place, and you're not supposed to forget it.
Watch, they'll cancel orders last minute and say thanks for helping fund the sequel, "Duke Nukem Never".
I bought the domain iCapsule.com for an idea I had a few years ago but never pursued. This post reminds me that someone could use this without paying squatter fees. Ping me if you're interested...
You don't need the "gg" (move to top) before ":5" (go to line 5)
The ad is gonna run on 31/12 and 1/1 - I'll post some of the stats here as soon as I can.
I love artifacts like these. This, Mark Zuckerberg's /. profile, Sergey Brin & Larry Page's Stanford course page, and the like. Digital archaeology.
Look into some of the Envato websites, CodeCanyon springs to mind as you say you're a proficient programmer. I actually reduce my overhead by using CodeCanyon snippets and GraphicRiver designs where possible and I know a lot of other developers that do that too. It allows me to sell affordable websites without sacrificing my time and money and you can benefit from that. Don't re-do the stuff already there, but think up some simple, but often-needed snippets to sell and you could be onto a small income. Probably not enough to allow for $500 a month, but it's a start. Mobile Apps probably make more if they become popular, but there's a lot more time involved and with Apple, a $99 up-front charge to become a member of their developer's community.
What's the "20 years go" bit about? It's not in TFA's title.

Twenty years ago was (late) 1990, not $700 VCRs, no video games, or people kicked off of airplanes for wearing sweatpants.
Previous discussions (I wish HN did this automatically):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4586692
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=600736

Related:
"To Dissect a Mockingbird" http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/index.htm

(also previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7684210)
Why would people sell regular mushrooms laced with a substance that is in all likelihood harder to get and more expensive than magic mushrooms which can be grown by anyone?
I don't think it "wouldn't take much". Intel certainly has resources, but they'd also be competing against Apple, nVidia, and some other heavy hitters. Additionally, I doubt the TSMC would have much incentive to de-prioritize the needs of a valued customer (AMD) against a competitor in the semiconductor space who will likely switch back to their own fabs as soon as they're competitive (if they ever are).
Thanks, I finally see the overarching point, make all doctors become carpenters and all his needs will be satisfied. Problem solved.
Well, he's knowingly misrepresenting himself. He's sending email as Dustin, with the specific intent of gaining unauthorized access to a system. (and he knows he's not authorized to post on Dustin's posterous)
I tried it out but none of the demos worked for me, which made me pretty wary.
Steve Jobs is great in marketing. Since startups makes great things, it doesn't hurt to tag myself as a startup.
I can name plenty.

By the standards of the dictionary I have before me, then, you meet the minimum requirements for the word "fan" to be applied to you. It doesn't mention anything about wrapping your identity up in the target of your interest/admiration, nor does it mention anything about needing to believe that the target is flawless.

But that's good news, right? You don't need to get your hackles up when you hear the word "fan" anymore.

It should be obvious if you think about it, though: Would someone need to deny that Willie Mays ever made an error in order to be his fan?
One problem with my long replies is that other people sneak good advice into the thread while I am still typing. ;)

Study typing! Practice your high-speed essay-writing!