jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Tariffs in particular were an issue between North and South forever, most notably in the nullification crisis, where South Carolina "nullies" petitioned their states to "nullify" the 1828 "Tariff of Abominations". The legal theory at the time was that the states had the power to nullify federal law, so if you were in California and California legalized medicinal marijuana (hey!) the federal government had no legal power to enforce drug laws[1]. Andrew Jackson and the U.S. Army put a quick end to that idea. (This confrontation also put to an end the service of South Carolinian Vice President John C. Calhoun, who resigned and ran for Senate, not at all helped by his wife making wild accusations about the Secretary of War and his wife.)

Lincoln's election (when he wasn't even on the ballot in half the states) was the casus belli, in the sense that some Serbian bomb-throwing anarchist killing some archduke was the casus belli of the First World War. But that's like dousing your neighbor's house in kerosene and lighter fluid and then saying it was burned down by a single match.

Incidentally, you're right on the morality thing. A few enlightened liberals were abolitionists, but most anti-Southerners just thought the whole slavery-backed aristocracy thing going on in the South was bad news, and that the "Slave Power" would take over the country and crush democracy. Actually, that was the more consistent argument--the North fulfilled its demand for cheap labor by importing tons of poor European immigrants who worked in factories and lived in tenements, which was in many respects a worse life than slavery. It's hard to take a moral high ground from there.

[1] The legalization laws for medicinal marijuana simply create an exemption for state laws. Since state and local cops don't usually enforce federal law, this has the practical effect of sanctioning medicinal marijuana, even though on a legal basis the DEA could go in and sweep every single dispensary and cancer patient they find. At various points in recent years, the feds actually have gone after medicinal marijuana even in legalized states, leading to significant controversy. So if you can imagine Dick Cheney as a hardcore stoner and Dick Cheney's wife spreading wild rumors about Don Rumsfeld, you have a fairly decent grasp on Jacksonian-era political intrigue.
Yeah, that's a possibility. But it would be a dangerous gambit, e.g. Dell could then move all its manufacturing out (Foxconn, their prime subcontractor (or so I gather) is making threats to that effect anyways right now as far as we can tell) and it would certainly deter a lot of future business from all companies.
Knowing about jobs outside US will be really appreciated too e.g. Europe, Far East, Middle East and etc.
Cambridge, England - Zeus Technology Ltd.

Have graduate software engineer, software engineer and senior software engineer roles and we are hiring immediately. Please send CVs/Resumes to me careers at zeus.com

www.zeus.com/about/careers/
I'm not sure of all the details, but the Unicode people kind of screwed up when doing Japanese. From what I understand there are several older variations on characters not in common use, but that occasionally show up in names (and old Japanese literature), that can't be encoded in Unicode.
Boston, MA - Zazu is hiring both interns and full-time developers. We're a ruby/java/mongodb shop though we're moving everything over to scala/mongodb.

We're building Jarvis from Iron Man, though right now we're focusing on the morning market (as in alarm clocks). You can check us out at http://getzazu.com and you can email me if you're interested or have any questions at marc (shift^2) getzazu (unshift^>) com
This sounds exactly like the semi-secret language that's been floating around in my head for months!
My high school's student laptops were super restricted (I was suspended for installing Eclipse on an unrestricted computer), so I played with JavaScript a lot as a senior. I didn't have a good understanding of the virtues of classical polymorphism and whatnot at the time, so JavaScript's unconventional OOP didn't bother me; I was content writing procedurally, treating objects as structs. JS was also my introduction to the notion of first-class functions, and it made them seem so natural and essential that I get angry when languages don't have them. I think JavaScript just barely misses the mark as a great programming language. But its new standard might change that and make it the best language for learning. If a language like Swift were as ubiquitous as JS I would have a different opinion.
What if you can't connect to the internet to check? Expiry works better in a lot of other cases, including offline systems with intranet-only access. Without expiry, you can DDoS a revocation server and perform an MiTM with a very weak cert issued 20 years ago (supposing the client accepts it.)
Specific example: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125357990638429655.html
So does Zuckerberg have to give 200 million in "facebook stock" to Detroit schools to win the award next year?
These are all full time roles. If we wanted to compare with a contractor, we'd have to fold in Netflix Actuals for Bonuses + Equity + PTO and Benefits. But, you make a good point - the less and less security you have as an employee, the more closely that position resembles that of a contractor in which case you should be targeting about a 30-50% hourly increase (Taking into account the Benefits package). Hint: To get the 50% increase, remit your hours through friendly "Contracting Agency" instead of doing so personally - for numerous reasons, a contractor who would make $100/hour contracting individually, can somehow be charged out at $120/hour by their contracting firm.
I was under the impression that Android was profitable by itself- though I'm not sure where the money is coming from. Certification/contract work with manufacturers?
- Editable quoting (no cut and paste)

- Decent bbcode, but nothing complex

- Good search functions (in this thread, in this forum, on all forums, for one user). Google Search sometimes gets it wrong and that can be very frustrating.
Indeed, they can't throw you in prison.
The TSA kills 20 people per year. Keep the hysteria simple.

Are you willing to kill 20 people per year to keep safe?
HN new links. :)
My post starts with "If". (I imagine the possibility of a singularity and the consequent interstellar expansions and/or virtual entities.)
There's enough people who pretend to be "the Left" and do support or at least enable those people. Thus "the Left" is retarded. But some sane parts are OK.

I'd prefer leftist to drop umbrealla naming and just split into factions. Pro-totalitarian/tankies, commie apologists, social democrats etc. But when I offer that, people seem to defend grandiose "the Left" :/
Moving away from a few megacorps would mean consumers have choice in selecting an alternative provider who takes privacy and security more seriously. Today that choice doesn’t exist because Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other big tech companies don’t face competition either due to a traditional monopoly/oligopoly traits, extreme capital advantages, or network effects.
Large parts of the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are underwater, as they have been every year for the past several years:

http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110417/man...

The reason being that global warming is causing increased snowfall and therefore increased runoff each spring.

But since yummyfajitas doesn't read about this on his climate-change denial website, it doesn't exist.
10fps? wow it ran super smooth on FF4... awwww...
The 15 point gap is because Athtar doesn't have up-to-date graphics drivers for WebGL. It's otherwise the same.
I am honestly shocked at how low these numbers are... I became obsessed with programming in the second grade, and it has been my lifelong passion ever since. Even if I ignore all the sleepless nights I spent in lower schooling (as it is difficult to estimate the time as I had other things I was required to do... not that I often did them) and start the clock only when I left for college--of course, to study computer science--and then even if I only allocated a banal eight hours a day during only weekdays to programming (which is certainly ridiculous--my usual state is to spend all waking hours doing software; I definitely have other passions, but they can't possibly take anywhere near 2/3rds of my waking hours--but like, it is the kind of conservative estimate that I can't imagine anyone would quibble much with: it merely means that this is my job), I am at 45k hours (as of 39 years old)... and I would be shocked if the "true number" weren't twice that. How could Rob Pike--who is older enough than me to have been programming since at least before I was born (when he wrote the first window manager for Unix in 1981)--only have had 30k hours as of 2013? Like, the moral I guess I am taking from this is "I have no life and this is not normal: maybe stop programming for a bit" :(.
And some power meters have IR-based interfaces. A "blink every X Wh of energy used" LED is quite common, but some also have bidirectional IR interfaces, recognizable by a metal circle with two lenses at the front (read heads are magnetic and simply set on the metal plate). (might be a European thing though)
Are you saying that the Chinese government is not subsidizing the entire semiconductor industry in China to drive companies outside of China out of business?

They have a documented history of doing this in multiple industries over the course of many years. Notice how substantially all of the consumer electronics devices that used to be made in the US or Japan or Korea or Germany are now made in China.
> easier for a person to go viral with their words now than through say a newspaper

A person that they allow to post, without secretly suppressing their reach, or banning their account outright. That's not decentralization, that's delegation.
Have you considered that your problem is not with Section 230, but with the First Amendment?
JLCPCB. I'm curious if there are others that have stock; may have to switch if JLC and the retailers are all out. I posted on the ST forums; the replies speculated it would be months for this to sort out.
> Speech on non-majority social media is still effectively free speech

You talking about Parlor or something else? I mean, when people can't use their non-majority social media of choice (whatever the reason stopping them may be), are they really free?
I really hope you're wrong and this device achieves success, but you may well be right honestly.

I suspect they'll have to charge premium prices, but that might be justifiable even considering the availability of cheap Thinkpads.

As good as $200 Thinkpads are, they are old devices, with dim, low res screens, old processors, poor battery life, relatively thick and heavy chassis, old ports, old wifi/bluetooth etc. Again, perfectly functional for many people, but I think there are legitimate reasons to want a newer device.

Maybe there's enough of a niche market there, who knows.
Sorry, wasn't clear - I want to get the minimal input from my users, and right now all I have is the google email.

Totally agree that to capture the audience that relies on email, asking for a mailing list for notifications is much better than notifying the personal email address I get via SSO.

Some current stats on this: 12.5% of the registered users have added a webhook of some sort to their account. This is the primary engagement metric for me, it's very low, but I want to find a way to drive it up before I give in to email :)
Eh? That's not how hidden services work.
There are links but they don't provide evidence of the claim you're making that protesters are 'false flag' plants.
When learning cool bird facts I really enjoy listening to people talk - but when trying to debug or learn a new framework I absolutely insist on written documentation. I need to be able to re-read paragraphs or segue to other topics briefly and then return which is incompatible with anything audio-visual. The existence of Laracasts was actually a strong disincentive for me to go with Laravel and I've been quite happy over in Zend/Laminas land.
I think I covered that case in the end of my comment.

> The same thing happens to devs that aren't curious. If they never learn newer programming concepts then every problem looks like a nail and inheritance is the hammer.

Stringly types or the overuse of Dictionary/maps in a statically typed language are extensions of this concept.
There are two words. You only get to make one guess at a time, and it shows you the results for both words. The goal is to guess both words in seven guesses.
Just one thing I don't understand.

Ok, in the video, the dude's boss comes by and he switches his screen so his boss doesn't know his mouse is actually a PC and he's really browsing pr0n while at work.

Ok, I get that part.

But, then he goes into a meeting and connects his, seemingly innocent mouse, to the projector...

Game over dude.

How dumb is his boss?

Guess what happens the next time you are sitting at your desk playing with your... mouse?

Yeah. Not so slick now buddy are you?
I'm hoping what's next is:

"With mobile and social media platforms having finished their market expansion, and their product categories having settled, privacy-respecting open source alternatives catch up in functionality and usability. Anti-trust and regulation to enforce privacy and interoperability ensure these new entrants get a chance in the market, and consumers have a real chance to escape the clutches of the behemoths"

Tall order? Sure - but all progress starts with a dream.
I'm a lifelong fan but I'm really surprised to see the video on his website was made and created by Scientology. What's that about?
Mostly it's word of mouth, SEO and the occasional writeup on Amazon's Web Services blog. And this:

http://www.s3stat.com/web-stats/cheap-bastard-plan.ashx

It's a strange niche to be in because it's something people are looking for but there was basically nobody doing it when I started out. It goes squarely against the two most fundamental pieces of business advice you can get: "Never build a business based on a missing feature of a popular software product", and "If there's no competition in the space, be warned: there's probably no market there".

Evidently, there are actually a few good left ideas out there that nobody ever thought of doing before.
The cost of storage on Amazon is very low - roughly $3 per month for Marco's 22GB.

I imagine most people running a company would have a separate corporate account linked to a credit card, so that personal circumstances have less of a major effect month to month.
s/Kahn/Khan/g

s/Salmon/Salman/g

For a person trying to invest a lot of time emulating Sal Khan's ideas, I find it amusing that you don't get his name right on multiple occasions.

Try again.
Do you mean Symbola, a Unicode 6.0 font? And yes, but it has elaborate characters that only look good at 40px+. I wanted a much more simplistic style, so I made my own U+1F50D.

Edit: Oh, you meant some unsemantic font.
> K-12 education should teach kids useful stuff, meta-learning habits, civic information, attempt to inspire them, etc., not solely aim to maximize their SAT scores

I agree AND I'm willing to pay for that to happen.

However, I'm not willing to pay for teachers who don't teach that stuff. Are you?

So, how do you propose determining whether we're getting what we're paying for?

Note - if your answer is "trust us", my response is "not with my money".
Anyone got a good Clojure one?
Really it's more a case of extending the 'funky vinyl decal' market from laptops and other small electronics to Ikea furniture.

Limiting it to (some) Ikea furniture gives them a selection of items of known sizes to work with when sizing and cutting the decals.
OpenMoko, which is Linux-based and uses C for all the core apps. I don't think anyone uses it anymore, though; everyone just installed Android on their handsets.
1) Same with the Soviets, as per the original point. I'm not a big believer in communism but these 2 cases together add up to some pretty good evidence for communism when it comes to catching up industrially.

2) Like I said, window dressing. The major corporations are effectively part of the government as far as anything major goes, and internally communistic like any corp. I guess you do get the advantage of one weakened chain link from the corporate leadership to the gov't, and that's somewhat significant, but you can certainly draw parallels from the current chinese miracle to the 1950s soviet miracle -- gotta remember, they beat us to orbit.
The beauty of IB (along with pixel-perfect layouts since there are only 3 devices) is that our designer can checkout the project and skin the app and not have to touch code. Yes, there are something that IB can't handle (try passing a managed object context to a view controller in a tab using IB) but you can do anything you want in code.

In Android, there is no IB. Closest equivalent is someone's project called http://DroidDraw.org. Since there is no IB, it is all code. XML is more code than meta-data when it comes to defining views. To make an equivalent UI in Android that is pretty as the iOS one requires a lot more unit effort than in iOS (and a lot more of that coming from the developer).
It seems like availability zone us-east-1c it's working, i can launch a EBS backed instance right now.
Android achieves this well, too. I guess Apple are just following Google's move (remember when Google recorded all the wireless access points with their streetview vans?)
The difference with Linus, of course, is that he's so often correct. Its one thing to be a jerk. Its quite another to be a jerk that's right.
I'm not sure why you are using prgmr over Linode, Slicehost, or the Rackspace Cloud servers. The others have really simple backup tools.
Actually, EC2 and AWS in general does give a lot of options for automatic failure and redundancy.

I have a highly available application running in EC2 and I have multiple instances ready for failover and scripts triggered by monitors to move into another zone if the whole zone goes bonkers. This would be much more expensive and complicated if I needed to have dedicated redundant hardware in two geographically separated datacenters.
Everywhere on Earth is still within the habitable zone of the solar system.
Honestly this sounds like mostly poor engineering planification and analysis. If you look at the dams with a lot of sediment it's mostly in South-East Asia and Africa while Europe/North America have little of it.
This is 100% not true. As mentioned below, HFT competes against itself, and there are measures to protect against latency manipulation.
Was there any critical reason you stopped mining?
>at a minimum learn to be polite

Excuse me?! Where was I being impolite?

>His question was rhetorical, he even then spent time answering your question

My original question was rhetorical and didn't need any explanation, as I answered it myself in the next sentence, thank you very much.

>if you're the type of person who misunderstands context

This personal attack is just needlessly snarky and adds no value to this discussion.
You can include the majority of commenters on this site too as the effetes.
I get so frustrated when people offer solutions that encourage debate. Antagonized opponents do not need debate. They are not listening to arguments. They are arguing to show their loyalty to their own side and the science shows this. They are not trying to find a new position or willing to change their mind and the science shows this as well.

This naive belief that "we should have more debate!!" will solve our problem must be put to rest. Instead, make the two sides go bowling together, or to a picnic. Then we'll see real change.
I've given up tracking this stuff. Just been adding https://make-linux-fast-again.com/ to my grub configs everwhere.
> The question is, do you want a private corporation to dictate whether or not the government of the United States is able to communicate to the citizens?

Generally, yes, I want private entities to decide whether or not to relay government messages. (The government should have its own facilities for basic necessary operational communication via the post, common carrier phone systems, etc., of course.)

The alternative is to surrender freedom of speech in favor of government direction of media.

There’s a very narrow space of cases where, with appropriate procedural safeguards, which start with legislation determining the need and setting the conditions of use, the government ought to be able to direct messages over private infrastructure that isn’t common-carrier; that role is pretty much covered by the Emergency Alert System [0] in the US.

[0] https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/integr...
> Were they able to send their message to 10s millions of people instantly and lead them to things?

No, definitely not. Some states would have had mechanisms for distributing stuff that the leaders wanted publicised, but it wouldn't generally have been all that common. And, in practice, in many cases, if the leader happened to be insane, the system would suppress it. George III wasn't bothering everyone in Britain with weird rants every few hours, say.

The ability of leaders to harangue the general public whenever they feel like it is, in practice, _very_ new; basically since Twitter became popular.
This tweet links to another tweet, but the linked twitterer has now been suspended: https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1346951966203629570

This bot downloaded the video: https://twitter.com/this_vid/status/1346973985737732097 (2nd video in the URL mentioned in that tweet).

Edit: OK, what she was doing before she climbed through: https://twitter.com/SP_Longie/status/1346952013532184576
This is the fundamental issue when the public square is owned by a company.

I don't think anyone can solve that. You can't disallow moderation in a space, otherwise you just have people screaming at you all the time. If there is freedom of expression, you can't then also force people to platform things they find abhorrent. The freedom to express surely also includes the freedom not to express.

I don't think there are easy answers, and "people should have to have the firehose of the internet sprayed at them unfiltered" seems like a bad take to me.

The spread of propaganda to undermine the democratic process is chilling.
But what does that show?

Those people are being let past a barrier to where a lot of other people already are. So it doesn't look like they are getting let in to a restricted area.

Maybe we're just seeing the police manage crowd flow.

Without some context I don't see that this shows anything bad happening here.
Of course, some people can't be reasoned with and others will just go off the handle because they're crazy. There's no point in being nice to those, but people forget about all the others that are not far gone and we could help them to understand. That's never going to happen if we start every sentence by calling them idiots right off the bat.
Haskell is the gold standard for languages that get you to think differently. Forth is another highly unconventional language.

Other less exotic languages can still be worth taking a look at to see what they do differently. Ada, for instance, is a plain old imperative/OOP language at heart, but it's different enough in the details that it could be worth looking at if you already know C/C++.