jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
People don't seem to understand what censorship is. Nobody is threatening throwing them in jail for saying anything, platforms are just saying "your speech is not welcome in my platform". They can still say whatever they want it in the streets. If they want a platform for it they can build it themselves....
Or you could simply not install Parler.
Being willfully stupid and spreading that stupidity until it turns to violence should though.

(where "participate in society" means being allowed on some/most social media)
Being completely robbed of an outlet for your frustrations while people call for you to be murdered on twitter.

https://cdn.cnsnews.com/styles/article_big/s3/2021-01/Arthur...
I don’t think Kamala Harris said “don’t stop rioting”, I think she meant “don’t stop protesting”. And the bail fund is ostensibly for people who were unfairly arrested, which happened quite a lot.

I don’t think Democrats should paint all Republicans with the same brush, and vice versa.
My wife took a class in "provocation theatre" during her masters degree in drama. An assignment was to do a "shock piece". There was the usual round-up of naked people, simulated excrement, etc.

As a trial balloon Heather said she was going to get a pastor from a local church to come up on stage and sing the Lord's Prayer with his seven-year old son. The outrage from her classmates and teacher at the mere suggestion of this was incredible.

The indignation came from two sources - those who claimed they were being judged for their art and she was trying to redeem them, etc., and those who thought it was basically child abuse. She was basically told (by her "provocation theatre" professor) it would be the end of her degree if she pulled such a stunt.
Not a bad (albeit brief) overview. We're just starting out with CouchDB and haven't gotten to the point where we need to scale past a single instance -- though I can see it coming soon :)

I'm pretty head over heels with Couch -- it fills it's niche extremely well.
At this point, for europe it might just be a better idea to let the TGV network grow outwards from France. It's already started to spread its tendrils in other countries anyway.

Not that the network is that good in France though, Paris-Lyon-Marseilles has been nice for years, the connection to Lilles (and now to Bruxelles in Belgium as well) and to London via the channel tunnel is nice, a line recently opened to the east of the country (Strasbourg) but the TGV network has a few glaring issues:

* Everything goes through Paris. Lyon-Paris takes 3 hours, Paris-Strasbourg take about the same time, but a direct from Lyon to Strasbourg (not via Paris) takes 6 hours even though there is pretty much the same distance (~450km) betweem all of them (yep, Paris-Lyon-Strasbourg almost forms an equilateral triangle). Likewise Paris-Marseille (800km) takes 4h but Marseille-Nice (south-east to south-east but further east, 200km) will be 3h30

* There are no LGV (high-speed train lines) to western France, they stop at Le Mans and Tours (200~250km from Paris) so travelling from Paris to Marseille (800km) takes 4h, and Paris to Bordeaux (550km) will take you 4h as well (as the TGV has to use regular lines for half the travel). Paris to Toulouse (670km direct, 780km via Bordeaux) will waste at least 7h (TGV to Bordeaux then regional train).

Thankfully this is changing, there are new lines in the work and projected to start solving this issue (see dotted lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:France_TGV.png) and overall TGV is awesome, but it's nowhere near perfect right now.

PS: I note that my timings differ from Spiegel's, I got mine from the SNCF database so...

PPS: For those unfamiliar with french geography and cities, Paris is of course the french capital (inner city population 2.2M, 11.7M including suburbs), Marseilles is France's second biggest city (852k inner, 1.6M metro), Lyon comes third (472k inner but 1.75M metro), Toulouse is the fourth biggest (437k inner, 1.1M metro), Nice stands at 5th (348k inner, 990k metro), Strasbourg 7th (273k inner, 638k metro) and Bordeaux is 9th (250k inner, 1M metro)
Brought to you by a Flash animation shop[1] in Amsterdam with clearly no dog in this hunt.

[1] Sorry, "multimedia studio": http://www.lollibomb.com/
So you're saying that in 10 years, there will be no more books in the world?

Even if everyone starts using computers/ipads/whatever to read books, I doubt that all the books in the world would disappear so quickly. I think it will take closer to 50 years.
Chrome on Ubuntu 10.04...
Scrollwheel works for me in Win7 + FF3.55.9
> Mothers prefer daughters while fathers prefer sons, but fathers tend to keep their mouths shut about it

Hahaha, so true.

Myself I couldn't care less ... I actually wanted a girl because I see girls being more close to their parents (a selfish thought) ... but now my wife is carrying a boy, and I started thinking of all the father-son stuff we can do, and I'm really excited.

About the article ... I wouldn't be too worried, unless there is a provable reason for the current bias towards girls. In other countries women that don't get pregnant with boys are getting abortions at an alarming rate, making it very hard for men in their 20-ties to get mates (guess they should come to the US :))
The best advice I've ever heard about writing is this:

Write.

At the end of the day, that's what it comes down to. Don't pussy foot around and talk about feeling or emotion or mood. Sit down and write. Or stand and write. Or lay down and write.

But write. There is no magic bullet. Nothing that will make the words flow all the time, every time. Successful, prolific writers all share one thing in common: they write.

You say you can think about writing, but when you sit down, you can't. Yes, you can. The problem is you aren't writing. Writing is easy. The hard part is accepting that what comes out isn't going to be highly polished glass. What you write first is gonna be hard, grainy sand. It's gonna have rocks. It's gonna have bits of dirt. It's gonna be rough, and it will get everywhere. Later on, after you are done writing the entire thing, you can go back, gather the sand, get rid of the rocks, dirt, twigs, dried figs and dead fish, and start turning that sand into glass.

But write. Don't wait for inspiration. Write! Don't stop. Keep writing once you start. So what if your writing might come out like Saturday night's offerings to the porcelain god, that's why you rewrite.

But you aren't rewriting. Get the story out. Get it down. Get it done.

Write.

Edit: Because I wrote the post. Now I can go back and rewrite it. =)
You don't really need that feature.
"It's always a mistake to read - you learn too many things."

That sentence is probably the most awesome thing I've read all day.

Also, who doesn't like Jupiter? Given the vast, vast scale of the universe, it's kind of funny - and mind-bending - how much there is still to learn about our own solar system.

EDIT: Also, the phrase "Garden of storms" is beautiful!
Obxkcd: http://xkcd.com/488/
Although I would probably find mint.com very useful, I won't use it while doing so still means violating your bank's TOS [0].

Mint.com requires your online banking credentials. Most banks will state in their TOS that sharing these credentials with 3rd parties is a violation and absolves them of liability should your account be compromised (via any means).

[0] http://www.moneysense.ca/spend/the-banks-take-a-bite-out-of-...
Seems like they're going the ST route. I'm kinda disappointed Atom won't be open sourced.
It's entirely possible it's due to my lack of familiarity with OCaml, but I found it tough going. I intend to try a side project using it soon, so I'll have some more in-depth feedback.
What's with all the bad teachers in these anecdotes? I can't imagine any teacher I've ever met getting upset because of something like that. Quite on the contrary.
Out of curiosity, what do you use it for? I use it for caching and session storage, but I still keep postgres for the heavy lifting. I love that combination, especially the fact that I can put session (and other non-essential) data into redis and they'll be persisted and available in milliseconds, but it can crash and I lose nothing.
Writing things without doing a sync for every write.
This'll be interesting test of opinion around here. Are all ideas fair game to anyone who wants to try to better them? or do we feel uncomfortable with someone who not only copies your idea and undercuts you, but also promotes themselves with a direct comparison? What about when it's a product that we heard about here, and that a lot of us liked at the time?

I'm in the latter half, FWIW, but that's probably why I'm unsuccessful. Common sense tells me that the former is technically correct, it just feels wrong.
I've had strange things happen out in the middle of no where deserts, such as my T-Mobile SIM'd Nexus 5 ending up roaming on Sprint‽
Thanks Jacques!
Honestly? Small-scale "Oh hey, that's neat" response followed by obscurity resulting in a tool that I have for my personal use and not much else. :P
Flickr did have a separate login, but it was mandatorily merged a couple of years ago. There was a big uproar about it too.
This was a concept back around 2004 or so called "googlewhacking". The goal was to form a search query of only two words that had exactly one hit on google.
Inertia and/or lack of knowledge, likely. There are colleges in India which even today use Turbo C (maybe v2.0) as the tool to teach C, for example, even though there are things like Bloodshed Dev-C++ and GCC - GCC even on Windows via probably Cygwin, MinGW, or WSL (not checked if GCC works on all those, think I have seen it on 1 or 2 of them).
> You realise how weird this sounds, right? Presumably you donate because you care about the Mozilla mission, and those ads are there because donations alone aren't enough, and relying purely on Google's money is also not a great strategy

It also feels weird to donate to have an ad-free, privacy first, open source browser and get ads in it.

> And it's still Firefox: if you're upset enough to consider "migration to a different browser", why not instead get upset enough to just look up the pref that turns them off?

Default settings matter. "Just turn it off" is not a valid suggestion in my opinion.
findbssales.io is down.
Lindy effect. Sure you can copy it, but the original remains. The scarcity exists inside the network, and in a sense you cannot copy it, because the copy is just that - there is no use in copying it.
The problem with this type of argument is that the fed doesn't want to exceed more than 3% inflation. It has no reason to lie and pretty much every central bank is struggling with lack of inflation.

You can criticize the Fed for doing reckless policies that fail to increase inflation and only drive a bubble. Why would you even need an unproven conspiracy theory like CPI when the problems with the Fed are undeniable? You can even complain to the fed that inflation is too low and they should either calm down or do something else since the Fed is clearly not capable of driving inflation. Considering the mission statement of the Fed that's a huge blow by itself.
I think it would be interesting to see something DF-inspired at an MMO scale. I'd like to imagine what a larger team could do, with access to lots of parallel CPU power.
DF does a lot of work abstracting things that are off-site, since a typical PC can't simulate the entire world in realtime. But if you had enough servers sharing the work, I expect you could do much more. Throw in a bunch of players all giving some direction to their own little autonomous civilisations, and I think it would be fascinating to watch.
Why isn't that "just" either using lwIP, or using your host's TCP running against a TUN/TAP device and then encapsulating the data you read from /dev/net/tun into your custom datagram protocol?

(This is not meant to be dismissive, just inquisitive. I'm sure it can't be anywhere near as easy as what I said, I'd just like to learn why.)
please don't down vote because you disagree. Write a reply. Down vote what is inappropriate and doesn't add to the conversation.

I strongly disagree your stance on Oracle in particular. I had two arrays at a medium size academic library 8 years ago. Anything I had to call about the data base meant a line item for business review due to cost if it wasn't covered by Oracle's service agreement.

PostgreSQL is amazing and I much rather work with that and hire whoever I want with what I want to do either per instance or annual contracts.
You just described the problem exactly. Instead of getting elected based on principled issues such as "America's prison population is out of control. We should reform the justice system to easier for citizens to understand", the only way to get elected is target some special interest group. You stand a better chance of getting elected on some relatively unknown issue that is relevant in a handful of people's lives than something based on principles.

The majority of Americans do not care at all about politics. Ignorance is a rational choice in the face of the enormity of the American Federal government alone. They don't care that if you started reading the Federal Register for last year today, you would die before you finished. They don't care that if you tried to be a good citizen and understand just the tax codes that apply to you, you'd never figure it out because it changes faster than you can learn it.
Scale matters.
Steam has less than 4000 games total.
The App store has 1400 applications every day.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-reaches-100-million-u...
http://www.pocketgamer.biz/metrics/app-store/
You still need root access to connect to an outside network interface from the userland stack, eg a raw socket...

Linux has unpriveleged icmp sockets but no one has ever used them apparently - IPPROTO_ICMP eg see [1]

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14018584/python-with-unpr...
Applesoft Basic, the principal "firmware" of the Apple II, was a derivative of Microsoft Basic.

"Apple reportedly obtained an eight-year license for Applesoft BASIC from Microsoft for a flat fee of $21,000, renewing it in 1985 through an arrangement that gave Microsoft the rights and source code for Apple's Macintosh version of BASIC." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applesoft_BASIC]

Accessories for the Apple II is just an afterthought, really; kind of like Microsoft keyboards and mice for a Windows PC. :)
It's a simple way to launder stolen credit cards.

Buy gift cards with a stolen credit card

Sell the gift cards for cheap to random people on the internet for crypto
Sorry for breaking HN conventions, but:

Oh
My
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Thanks!

> After this the teams rotate and see what they can improve on their original solution

Interesting idea
Stopped contact access, but my business Instagram handle keeps recommending me to follow my personal friends.
“Other part of my income was insured by a private company. They lost my files, claimed I didn't fill the forms and after months of fight and involving my employer, they magically found papers I previously sent and paid.”

That’s the same insane situation like during the mortgage crisis where banks constantly lost papers or made wrong claims and got away with that. It’s hard to understand that insurers and hospitals constantly get away with forgetting or misrepresenting things. I can’t imagine any other business being allowed to do that.
Can't beleive they actually had "PIN IDENTIFICATION NUMBER" written on the display in the movie itself
I watched that interview half a year ago, and came away with the impression of a curious humble guy who was interested in digging deep below the surface and working on big advances.

I think you meant to refer to [2], and that part of the interview is Lex Fridman interjecting him when he was trying to make a deep point about how to think about things.
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I took great care to compare 4x, only considering 16x as a zoom, especially since "zoomed in", it blows out the details too much so you lose the global picture. Still, 16x means HiDPI will make it looks crisp as hell for the same physical size.

As for the video, the dent in Mario's cap outline and the similar angles in the background outlines ruins hq4x for me, while I could live with the "200"/"400" lettering (which looks better on hq4x) because it disappears quickly (but does not bode well for other cases where text appears)
I think it's still early days. There are large projects underway in Dart, like Spark. Once an app that everyone is using is written in Dart, I think it will spur further adoption. With that said, there has been clear growth - as an outsider not on the team, to me that growth looks linear rather than exponential, but it's steady and clearly there. Of course inclusion in Chrome or Android will mean sudden exponential growth perhaps.
I can't find a pause button, and I found that a little frustrating.
I signed up for an invite less than 1 min after I saw the first mention of it on twitter (https://twitter.com/defunkt/status/438789450147979264) and received the invite maybe 15 minutes or so after that.

I was given 3 invites, I gave away 2 but I'll give the third to the first person to email me. (EDIT: gave away the last one)

Doesn't seem like they're keeping too tight of a lid on it, but I guess we'll see. It seems like it can be freely passed around; I think they're just trying to gauge interest since it won't be free after the beta period.
This seems reasonable (and is certainly much better than doing nothing), but it seems like you could have an even more comprehensive solution by just replacing usage of the system SSL/TLS with usage of SSL/TLS against a copy of OpenSSL shipped with the app, no?

I haven't done any iOS dev, so perhaps this isn't feasible, but that puts responsibility for and control of the security of your app entirely in your own hands; is there a reason that it wouldn't be desirable to go that route?
Yay, tons of.. at least with the algo's they compare their stuff to.
This thread is about pry. Don't you think three separate comments pimping ripl is a bit much?
I'd program mine to make pancakes. I imagine that there are many cooking tasks that can be automated like this.
On RMS and Steve Jobs, I once suggested Ryan Tate to forward this series of emails to Steve Jobs:
http://gawker.com/#!5539717/steve-jobs-offers-world-freedom-...
Done. http://www.startupsopensourced.com/sample-grooveshark/
today's proprietary stuff isn't marijuana;
it's heroin, and it's really, really good

I beg to differ -- today's proprietary software is exactly like marijuana.

When it comes to freedom, there's is no black & white classification, only shades of gray. And the whitest of them all are the BSD-like licenses, which are frowned upon by the FSF.

And the reason I think proprietary software is like marijuana is because you CAN be careful when using it, you can also take it in small dosages where it makes sense, you're only required to use it responsibly to not end up hooked with freedoms lost.

And of course, for some people marijuana usage turns into heroin -- but everybody fears heroin and heroin comes with a heafty price for the junkies, which isn't that good in the eyes of consumers (best things in life tend to be cheap ;))

Also, leaving this analogy behind -- let's take as example GIMP.

Gimp is awesome for what it does and I actually think its grotesque interface is the reason why I ended up working with masks, really groking effects like smart-sharpening.

But if you're deep into photography, using Gimp is unacceptable. First, it has serious limitations like 8-bits per color (which means you're losing color info, when importing from RAW formats, or when composing layers -- and as a practical consequence, correcting over/under-exposed photos becomes a nightmare). CMYK support is hackish at best, and photographers (professional or passionate amateurs) do print their photos (whether it's for selling, or for doing exhibits). Then, while the UI forces you to learn about the inner-workings of digital image processing, it becomes a pain in the ass to quickly retouch hundreds of photos (unless you can do them as a batch, with some scripting, but since every photo is unique, no, you can't).

So comparing a product like Adobe Photoshop, which provides real/measurable value to photographers, with a drug that you can get rid of -- that's stretching it a lot. I also view a product like Photoshop as something that gives you more freedom for expression -- also saving you bucks which you'd spend otherwise on extremely high-priced gear.
I think that the prestige associated with chess is appropriate. It's quite a difficult to play and there really is no entertainment value to the game outside of the gameplay itself. Why would you say that its prestige has nothing to do with the game's merits?
You take a picture, and it returns you another picture taken by another Swapshot user.

Just an MVP, if it gets a little bit of traction I'll see what I can add to it (e.g. "taken 5 miles away, 4 minutes ago"). :)
I hand-rolled some scripts a while back to do this, and example.com/feature was on a different machine than feature.com...still had some downtime when it wasn't replaced along with the rest.
They did that apparently, it is mentioned in the article. There are still ways to trace it. For example, if they do it in a short timeframe or in just two transactions you can match the amounts. Not many people send 100k$ in zCash around.
John Locke (who hugely influenced Jeremy Bentham) makes a strong case for the existence of certain universal, inalienable natural rights, entirely independent of any particular legal system, government, or culture.
Hospitals don't turn away uninsured at the ER.

However, due to lack of regular care, by the time you show up at the ER it might be too late.
Some of us try to start small businesses on the side, just for fun. I'm retired, but I do. I assume active devs do the same - buying a restaurant or a bar that suffered due to covid can be quite cheap at the moment.

Now that's been said, going through the person posting history with a fine comb like you did strikes me as rude.
Armed invasion? It was meeker than peaceful protests from the last summer! Not even one building was burned! That shaman guy blessing everyone in capitol chamber (including guards!) was an extreme threat to the society, right.

It is unfortunate how personal biases stop you from understanding the danger to society from unchecked 'private companies'. Trump haters are ok with it so long as Twitter and Facebook silence him but too shallow to imagine that one day they'll silence the politician they support.
Python? Every school everywhere is teaching kids python.
It's a VPN Service that uses cryptocurrency as a means of payment.

What seems really esoteric to me is that the 'Orchid' Ethereum Token has a $737,057,000.00 fully diluted market cap, which I'm struggling to understand:
https://etherscan.io/token/0x4575f41308ec1483f3d399aa9a2826d...
You can check some info on Product https://www.producthunt.com/posts/giftchat
Thank you, Paul Graham, on behalf of obsessive collectors everywhere! This also supports the ‘no free-lunch’ adage. There is merit in exploring uncharted territory, purely for the sake of it, but it is hard work with no guarantees of finding treasure except satisfaction of doing what you are interested in.
C'mon now, you're asking banks to do something to make our lives more convenient.