jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nice work! Can I integrate this service with my HN Mobile Front Page Reader? http://www.vcarrer.com/2010/11/hacker-news-mobile-front-page...
i love reading interviews with william gibson- particularly his take on the tea party movement in this one.
It's a bit hard to take wikileaks as an unbiased outlet considering it's heavy editorializing on the July 2007 Baghdad airstrikes.
Do you trust these newspapers to have access to the raw information? Even if the public doesn't see the names of informants/etc, that doesn't mean that foreign governments aren't intercepting the information being handled by the press.

I guarantee you the NYT INFOSEC budget is lower than you think. : )

More importantly, lots of the information is compromising in a way that is not in the best interests of the public. For example, it embarrases the Yemeni president, along with many other countries. Will that make these people more or less likely to work with the US (or anyone else for that matter) in the future?
Or it might cause a political shit-storm and undermine American credibility, while giving a moral imprimatur to future leaks.

Wikileaks is more powerful as an idea than an organization. They've legitimized the idea of web-based distribution of leaks, much like Napster legitimized file-sharing services. That genie isn't going back into the bottle. Shutting down Napster only gave rise to a host of unaccountable, decentralized services. Shutting down Wikileaks would likewise only lead to the creation of new decentralized services that facilitate leaks without any of the human editorial control that Wikileaks currently provides.
> "It has always been the prerogative of children & half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, & the emperor remains an emperor."

--Neil Gaiman

See also: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging
And your argument is not based on the laws of the US at all.

If the US government (more specifically Obama's justice department) wanted to prosecute, surely they could, would, and would win.

There are political ramifications of that move. I would bet the negative (inflaming a lot of people against the Obama administration) outweigh the positive (not really sure what the positive is, the papers would still find their way out).

Thus, they are aiming their legal guns squarely at the guy who actually leaked this stuff in the first place.
I don’t understand the issue here, and it frankly feels like a manufactured outrage from a minority group of activists. If customers voluntarily release a segment of video to law enforcement, so what? That’s their right. People do so in the interest of preventing crime. I don’t have any cameras myself but I completely sympathize with neighbors who have Ring cameras given the huge uptick in property crime here in the last five years. I’m all for amazon building in facial recognition that works across their network of Ring customers and their cameras.

As for the indefinite retention - what do you think happens if you were to give the police evidence that helps nab a criminal in a non-IoT world? They store it and retain it. Why would this be any different?
Just like with China, Apple will simply roll over, like an obedient puppy, and do whatever's asked of them.

It's funny how Apple only punches down - against app devs or other companies that it can bully, but the moment it faces a formidable adversary (China, Russia, ..), it cowers to safety.
In the last year or so I've grown increasingly cynical about "genius." Maybe it's all bus tickets. (I know my obsessions certainly are.)

Great people are almost never good people and I'd rather be good than great.
Scrum is not about context. You might or might not have context with or without scrum.

Agile development doesn't work without context anyway.
While I don't think blaming labor is constructive or ethical, it seems like most tools pose danger to users in proportion to utility. For example, cars can squish people, electricity can fry people, and power tools can remove limbs.

Typically, people start out using knives and bicycles as children, learn through experience that crashing and getting cut hurt, and carry those lessons forward when they start using tablesaws and cars later in life. How does this apply to elasticsearch? I have no idea.
> This study has nothing to do with taxes, though. It's talking about unconditional handouts

Sure, but it's being read as a pilot study for such things "at home", where it would most certainly have to be funded by taxes. Or at least this reading is GP's explanation for why people get angry.

When people are only discussing how best to spend 3rd world development aid, then nobody gets all that angry.
It’s just great! I think, it’s a very useful initiative!
It doesn’t have to be viable “against” anyone. Amazon for instance is designing its own custom ARM chips for both servers and their network cards. They could potentially buy them.

Exponential Technology for instance was designing PowerPC chips that were faster than Motorola or IBMs. After Apple got rid of the clone market, they closed down the business and started another one. In 2010, Apple acquired them to help design their custom Arm chips.
I wonder if a judge would be willing to shut down this site simply because it's titled "Hacker News." It doesn't seem to be out of the realm of possibility considering the processes followed in this case.
Just wanted to point out that Simplenote saves old versions of notes, as well — not infinitely or as fine-grained as Etherpad did, but hey.
There's a big difference between seeing a peer struggling on a problem and seeing an instructor/professor struggling on a problem.
"The CR-48 stores almost everything in the cloud so that if your device is lost or stolen; someone else winds up with the device rather than all of your files and personal information."

Actually, someone else winds up with all of you files and personal information before the device is lost or stolen.
Oh, I wasn't comparing, I was just remarking that Apple et al can no longer claim illegality of jailbreaking/rooting as a scare tactic.
I imagine that this has already happened back when countries had active biowarfare programs: what if someone clones a mix of potent neurotoxins into bacteria or fungi? Or mosquitos?

What if we create bacteria that can digest anything, survive in environmental extrema, sporulate, and kill off competing strains? The grey goo scenario comes to mind.

Chemical and biological state space is infinite. There is much room for good, but also for bad. Misuse of biology is much more dangerous in the short term than AI.
Patent-a-geddon continues. I wonder if this is an artifact of the great expiring due to start in 2015 of various silly patents.
I'm always suspicious when I see 'in talks' sort of articles because no acquisition discussion I've ever heard of ever had a 'feel free to share this with the press' clause, and there is a real chance that by having actual talks become public, they will fail.

So one wonders, is Tweetdeck leaking this to see if someone else might come to the table? Twitter to see if the market thinks its a stupid idea? Some disgruntled employee/founder who doesn't want the deal to go through? Like I said, I get suspicious.
How do you equate poor performance on a standardized test with being less fortunate?

I'm sorry, are you under the impression that you were a smart twelve-year-old for some reason other than that you happened to draw some good cards from the gene pool? Feeling superior to others for being smarter is like feeling superior to others for being better-looking or having richer parents. It's just dickish. (edit: or perhaps I should say it's normal, but best kept to yourself lest folks think you're a dick)

It's my opinion that university admissions are way to lenient

If you are going to play the game where you mock those whom you consider to be intellectually inferior it's best to master the difference between "to" and "too" first.
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Richard Thaler is a behavioral economist at UChicago, and a prolific author. He wrote _Nudge_ with Cass Sunstein at Harvard Law, which is an interesting but dry book on incentives.

I caught this on Marginal Revolution (which is to blogs what The Economist is to magazines, namely, something I subscribe to because I feel I must) and thought it was interesting.

Nutshell: we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. We can ask companies to insure themselves (either through actual insurance or through heavy taxation) for the harm they might cause. But we don't know how to calculate the costs of future events, which companies will always argue are very unlikely anyways. Meanwhile, there's little evidence that being forced to carry insurance would cause companies to evince better judgement.

On the flip side, we could expose companies to uncapped liability for the damages they cause. But then you run into the inability of companies to pay, or worse, the restructuring of industries to ensure that the companies who profit the most from, say, drilling are never the ones actually doing the drilling.
This is probably the best time to buy BP stock for long-term investment. They might have taken a hit recently, but even if there are criminal investigations etc., the company is in no danger of losing a significant portion of its value. The stock is definitely undervalued right now. (IANA investment analyst, I just play one on HN.)
Since this is basically what Piggly Wiggly brought to the world of grocery retail in 1916, but with the customers replaced by robots (tee-hee), I wonder how long it will be before robots do the moving around of products at a supermarket near you?

Whether I shop at a warehouse store, or I go to the big department store and or supermarket chain stores that are all evolving into the same kind of 150,000+ sq. ft. 'everything' store (i.e. warehouse stores with better product packaging and shinier floors), I can see that retailers are already doing warehouse-sized volume in cities all over the planet.
Guys, it obvious he's from the Vatican.
I work at TeachStreet, and this has been a really dramatic change for us. By thinking through the transition and being as transparent as possible with our users throughout the process, it has worked out as least as well as any of us could have hoped.

Go checkout the article!
It's only because of our crazy and short-term way of looking at things that this is even considered a problem.

People losing their jobs because robots replace menial warehouse jobs is a good thing. They can move onto doing more worthwhile tasks.
The most common form factor in the wild is the 8.5 x 11, usually folded once to make it 8.5 x 5.5. The most common clipboard is actually one that folds exactly like that: http://www.whitecoatclipboard.com/
I love seeing old gems reposted, for revisiting and for a fresh discussion. It's a shame that the latest PG essay submissions are just full of meta rants (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010854).

If you don't like a submission, flag it. Meta posts are the worst, like this comment unfortunately.
This is somewhat unrelated to the actual story, but I hate when online media updates a story with edits, leaving the prior data struck-out (to show it's been changed).

Our media world moves at a much faster pace than it used to, and we publish on dynamic media moreso than dead-tree. This often leads to story research not always being as in-depth as it used to, and that doesn't have to be a bad thing.

If a writer updates or tweaks stats or typos in a story due to the typical reader-submitted proofreading, I'd rather they just call it out at the end of the story in 1 place. The in-line edits are distracting and add nothing to the actual piece. For very minor spelling/grammatical changes I don't think it needs to be called out at all. Change your 'teh' to 'the' and be done with it.
What about the other way around though? Storing the range, say, 159.18.0.0 - 159.18.255.255, and then querying to check if an address is in that range.

The only way I can think to do this is to store the range as two integers, as you suggest, and query twice. The first to find the nearest lower bound for an IP and then a second time for the upper bound.
Lots of tech and travel sounds like a good education to me!
Using a cho based mouthwash is pretty much asking for dental carries. Couple that with a little exercise induced xerostomia and you should be good to go.
Re-using somebody else's code is fine. The test should just make sure that you understand that code. Understanding foreign code is as hard as writing your own.
Considering how many people start dieting and exercise and then fall of the wagon a few months in, I don't buy that.
Steve Jobs had done pretty well with the "young, idealist people working for [relatively] pennies" model. But is there no value to experience in the teaching profession?
There’s been a whole lot of performance and scalability improvements, including adoption of epoch (think RCU).
I think Dalio used to be more against Bitcoin. His writing/books are definitely worth reading though.
In the design suggested by the article (and also used in places like Amazon) the L button should have been visibly disabled. I think this is pretty clear to most people that it means that size is not available.

It sounds like the issue you encountered was that the styling of the option didn't make it clear that it was disabled.
This is one of the reasons why I don't buy digital assets.

And when I buy them I ensure they are not tied to automated faceless recovery mechanisms.

I use google photos, and I will have to pay for it starting june, but I keep offline backups.

Of course, I pay for non-critical from big tech like Spotify which I don't care if I suddenly lose my account tomorrow.
Not only was there no such policy in place according to the article, but physicians are given wide latitude in making medical decisions (using drugs off label, using expired drugs etc...).

If they act unethically, there is a built in method to address this through the licensing boards that regulate them.

Criminal behavior is different, but the Judge that heard the case completely rejected the argument that the behavior was criminal.
> They're literally saying he should have just thrown them away instead of distributing them as best he was able.

I wouldn't necessarily object to that particular policy. It's a shame to waste perfectly good medicine in a pandemic, but would we feel the same if he had not found anybody vulnerable who was available, and instead ended up vaccinating his own children, who are fit and healthy? What if, instead, he taken the vaccine vial to Beverly Hills and called up the rich and famous to try and find someone who wanted to be vaccinated?

I think the prosecution in this case is wrong; and the authorities should have prepared well in advance to make use of spare vaccines in a fair way. But the motivation for the prosecution is understandable - a distribution policy exists to protect the equity of society, and bureaucracy is meant to be a guarantee of that equity.
The game Paypal currently plays with Crypto is the closest thing to printing money I have ever seen:

Their users can "buy and sell Bitcoin" and pay "no fees". How does Paypal make money? "From the spread". The difference between bid and ask. And who sets the spread? Drumroll ... Paypal!

Since you cannot transfer your bitcoins out, when you sell your bitcoins, Paypal pays you whatever they like.

So far, Paypal only offers this in the United States. And do the Americans take this offer? Yes! They buy over a billion dollars worth of Bitcoin per month on Paypal. If this continues, it means that every American from toddler to senior buys $50 worth of Bitcoin per year.

Other companies in the finance industry will want the same free lunch. Run on crypto in 3..2..1..

This will continue until the first companies will start to offer you to transfer your crypto out. Then slowly the market will normalize. Now everyone has crypto. In their paypal/mastercard/bank/whatever account and/or in their own wallet.

Looks like chances for broader crypto adoption are pretty good.
I thought the whole idea of Bitcoin was to get out of the financial system that Mastercard is a central piece of.
Seeing the name JesusFreke is such a throwback for me. He was really instrumental to the early Android hacking scene on the T-Mobile G1. I remember as a teen not-so-patiently awaiting JF firmware versions to drop so I could try out features like bad multitouch and storing apps on the SD card since the internal memory was so small.
The problem is that learning how to do things is really expensive for many people. I think the fundamental problem isn't user-centered design but lopsided bifurcation in who the users are.

For a product like a recipe/grocery app, I genuinely don't care about abstraction layers it uses below its UI. I just want my wife and I to plan our meals and do our grocery shopping in a time-efficient way. I don't want to run into situations where "it doesn't work" and I have to figure out why.

For a product like gulp.js, vim, or google chrome's layout engine, I really do care about those abstraction because I am trying to build things with them and I expect that I'll run into situations where "it doesn't work" and I have to figure out why. So give me the conceptual tools to do so. If that means source-diving without clear documentation about how to do that spelunking, fine. I'll procrastinate on it and be unhappy, but I'll do it. So starting from that perspective, any improvement on the fixing-things experience is a blessing rather than an irrelevance.

But some things necessarily straddle both. It would be very difficult to fund a hardware manufacturing supply chain for a phone without mass-market appeal. Yet the app ecosystem that produces much of the value of a smartphone requires some ability to do things the phone manufacturer did not anticipate, even if it within a playpen.
We edited the title in an attempt to make it more neutral.
I have very little experience with ZFS (all of it positive so far), but 16 GB's of RAM to start? Isn't that a bit excessive? Or, is that only for deduplication, which I don't use because higher level stuff takes care of that for me?
There are lots of tech companies that are real companies that generate revenue, cash flow, etc who've not taken outside capital. They're just not in TechCrunch.

But for these tech companies, traditional banks are not good funding sources. They don't understand these cos (no hard assets)

The Venture Industrial Complex as I've heard some describe it makes you think that tech companies require outside capital and are either 10x or bust. That's b.s.

The company I co-founded is 25 strong (growing to 50 this year) and is a real company. It's possible. Don't believe the hype.

BTW, I think this Indie.vc experiment is an indication of where the world of tech investment is going.
I wonder what the payoff is for running a script to secure the CentOS box you just rooted versus leaving it open to additional attacks. On one hand, you have potential loss of your work due to disruption of services leading to someone noticing and re-imaging the box. On the other hand, I don't particularly like sharing with randoms.

It also makes me wonder if optimized command and control networks have been developed. Most of the code I see floating around public drops goes to very little effort to conceal data exfil, if it even makes an effort to identify data to exfil at all. This seems like a real waste given that some large percentage of machines you steal are likely worth more than just their cpu time and bandwidth. Obviously the more code you run, the higher your chances of detection, but it seems like a huge creative space. How do I find interesting files without tripping all the alarms? How do I efficiently take over someone else's LSM hooks?
Funny, Python is too slow for a package manager and most people who can write fast C extensions have left the scene.

So C++ is the natural choice.
Well authors also want to make money, so we have to choose between having high quality writing that people get paid for or free low quality writing that people don't get paid for.
> I don't see why anything would be different except for the number of deaths.

The number of deaths would make it much clearer that the risk is real. Again, if driving killed 10% of people every year, people saying it is a hoax would not be very convincing, when most of people you know who tried driving for a few years are dead.
Some places parking ticket is revenue, some places it's just a reminder.
> Vimium and uBlock Origin are pretty much the only two plugins keeping me from switching away from Chrome/Firefox to Safari.

+1, especially uBO

Does anyone know the latest on uBO coming to Safari (or not)?
Your vision of Iranians not having internet access in that era is very misinformed, I’m afraid. Young Iranians already made heavy use of the web in the early millennium, though often through VPNs (which, as the other poster mentions, would have masked their actual country).

As soon as Goodreads was launched in 2007, it swiftly attracted an enormous number of Iranian university students: they are one of the most active demographics on the site and they review all kinds of books since (with lax copyright laws and high literacy) translation of foreign literature flourishes in Iran. Does that sound like a people bereft of web access?
Jeffrey Skilling served 24 years in jail

Andrew Fastow committed suicide

Ken Lay died of a heart attack before his trial

Lou Pai walked away with $250 million and disappeared

The litany of charges that were brought against the rest of the people involved have not been very successful:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-ap-enron-trial-glance-sto...

All of those sentenced in the above article were for reduced sentences since many of them testified against Skilling and others in order to get a shorter sentence.

The only one who served any real prison time was Skilling.
Thanks! On a technical side, do you run the whole application in the main thread of a web worker. I wonder whether you considered using service workers for the faster boot up?
Somalia wow. We have a lot to leatn
I turned 25 two days ago, but I have a newspaper subscription here I share with my roommates. We also get a weekly magazine, something like TIME magazine. Also I know a number of people in the same demographic, with the same model.

This is in Germany, don't know if that makes a difference.
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Medicine is still very reductionist and that is not going to change for a while, even though we know that isn't the right way to go about doing it. The thing is that I am not sure that we will necessarily be able to fix the impact of "bad behavior" even at a systems level, because no two perturbations, even with the same behavior are going to be alike. Yes, we'll be able to detect a lot earlier and thus fix things, but in the end, the responsible thing to do is either to take a "I will be better with my body" approach or bear the consequences.