jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Curiously, that page has a poll that seems relevant:

"How concerned would you be about your own privacy if U.S. law enforcement starts using unmanned drones with high tech cameras and recording equipment? Would you be very concerned, somewhat concerned, only a little concerned, or not at all concerned?"

Very concerned Somewhat concerned Only a little concerned Not at all concerned Unsure
7/25-30/13 49% 20% 15% 14% 2%

(Not disagreeing with your point, mind you)
This only works if you believe speech doesn't influence people. If you believe it does, then you have every right to feel compelled to destroy it if the influence in your opinion is disastrous.
Sometimes I hold down the Start and R keys and quickly type wordpad or calculator. It works but then I realise I'm basically back to the MS-DOS prompt where I started 20 years ago. But minus the 4dos autocomplete enhancement.
There's no amount of axiomatic reasoning you're going to be able to generate to make your argument work. Vulnerability research is expensive. Google is giving it away to its competitors. Those competitors and, much more importantly and to a greater extent, their customers, benefit directly. Those aren't so much statements of opinion so much as they are simple facts.
MSN (Live) spaces were somewhat popular at the time.
> I think it might just be hard for many of the people on HN to have an objective opinion about it.

Opinions are, by definition, subjective, and the issue here is a subjective question of feeling, not an objective question of fact, so, yes, its impossible for anyone to have an "objective opinion" about it, for a few fairly fundamental reasons. (And its not just limited to people on HN.)
Translation: plain-text email from the FBI says: "Please stop using IPSEC."
Huxley's second novel. His first, highly autobiographical, was published two years prior -- Crome Yellow. Discussed on HN a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30997257
This is a public website, there's no security check for "Is american,
went to Stanford and lives in SF pulling 100k/yr".

I know plenty of software developers that frequent this site and make around 20-30k a year in Europe.
I am skeptical of that statement. It would be 6 times longer than the legally allowed time, for one thing.
Yes, that would be nice, instead of the current scheme, where you sign up, have to put money down, and then get reminded monthly that you should go spread that money around. I signed up to get paid, not pay.
"a previous YC funded company most of us know about, Square,"

Last I checked, Square was not a Y Combinator company.

But good writeup! I laughed at the anecdote towards the end ;-)
Online retailers who handle their own CC processing tend to keep credit card information around if only for fraud/chargeback tracking in the future - being online opens you up to massive abuse if you don't keep it in check.

A big player like sony should have been complying with PCI standards - but from what I've seen, that's not so difficult to pass and then forget about - people take shortcuts - and how many companies out there have ever had their processing revoked for NOT complying with PCI? That would be an interesting statistic.
The AWS outage is definitely not over. Apparently RDS is built on EBS and they have not all been restored, I can tell you that first hand.
I'm pretty sure there is not a shopping cart involved. You just click the item and it aggregates your shipments as necessary and automatically selects destination and payment as configured by the user.

It's a business process which I thought were not patentable but it was reaffirmed in 2007. It's set to expire in 2017 so in a few years whatever advantage this patent gave Amazon will dissolve. Personally, I'm scared of all the half-assed implementations that will no doubt mushroom all over the web at that time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click
No. Goodwill is the difference between the price paid to acquire a company and the book value of the acquired company. To put goodwill on the books, you must buy a company.
Great idea, pages loading up slowly though.
It's not intended to have a link there, but the menu required one. I'll make a page though, were I gather all of the styles.
thanks! I tried --window, -window, and -w before I gave up. Thank you!
for a while I tried to start a collection of those "free install!" discs from various ISPs. it got too depressing.
In wealthier societies, people don't need others as much to get by. They tend to view others first as competition, and then freeloaders, trying to steal their hard earned dollar.

In places where there is less material wealth, people need more cooperation to get by. There's a lot more give for the sake of giving.

I could be wrong though. Thats just my experience.
Understanding the Continuation-Passing Style transformation, and how it makes the internal state of the interpreter explicit.
C-h m brings up all the shortcuts for the current mode.
Agree, it may even be a good thing for them, because as apple is popularizing HDR picture, friends with 3G phones will want to do the same and find an app. Sometimes it's nice to have the big player do the education of the market.
Yeah, and then they could be fairly trivially memorized, even.
Probably depends on who you ask :)
The submission URL can be found on the main website by navigating in the menu to "The Site" > "About the Project".
So if I create a culture of fear and abuse, but everyone on the company follows it, it's suddenly a good culture?

That's very reductionist.
A legendary Something Awful story about somebody getting paid for nothing at all: https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/blob/master/Stories/Ameri...
Fight it? How?
https://elonmusk.today/#teslas-are-boats

_Someone_’s gotta try this though !
It isn't and hasn't been for a decade (since the ACA)

Medicaid is free and of reasonable quality. Or if you can't get access to Medicaid because you live in a non-Medicaid-expanded state then a silver ACA plan with 94% cost sharing will be no more than 8.5% of your income (which means free if you have no income).
He's welcome to pay all the taxes he wants. What a turd.

What he wants is small businesses destroyed by taxes.
I see what you're saying, and am not qualified enough to disagree, but the quote in my OP at least indicates that something can be done.

I realize this won't yield the best results everywhere, but might yield better results than nothing in most cases, which is basically what I want.

But regardless, I appreciate the thorough response.
Except that suicide burdens everyone around a person terribly.
Whataboutism, giving up on personal freedom or privacy, because it takes effort is not helpful. Your handle betrays you.
Reverse proxying is a little harder, but not much. In NGINX, for example:

location /adtech/ {
proxy_pass https://adtech.example/;
}

What additional trust are you thinking about? HttpOnly cookies are already sent when you use the subdomain approach.
Ok. So, are you angry when someone with a different religion moves into you town? Or different food? Or different ideology?

I feel like the more this is being explained to me the more unsavory it seems.
Good point, I hadn't been aware that the first dose was that effective without the booster.
Before JS browsers handled clicks without any 3rd party code. They were much more predictable and easier to reason about as a user.

Those clicks usually translated to HTTP calls.

What is so fundamental about business processes that they can't do an extra page render and HTTP call? (I imagine there may be some, I just can't see how they are so fundamental and on the order of billions.)
Hello kvz,

I've just launched a site which has a goal to collect different companies that support Gumroad's model - https://creatorjobs.co/

Is it possible that I list your company there? If yes, please contact me with additional information - contact@creatorjobs.co.
In this context, I think you're being unnecessarily pedantic. When the President foments an angry mob to attack the capitol and threaten the lives of legislators, we are through the looking glass.
I'm seeing people talking about MAC address issues.

But how does this device work exactly? Is every phone throwing around a mac address, even if it's not trying to connect to wifi?

For example I have my phone set to use 3G expect on my home network. Would I count?
It probably depends on whether they're using active jamming or passive signal blocking. And the jurisdiction, of course.
You can still take a test drive in TX, I've done it. Just make an appointment. I'm not sure how they can do it legally. My guess is local contractors are hired to do it and not Tesla themselves.
Finally after watching this video, I can tell with great confidence I don't understand the first thing about quantum computing.
This is honestly the worst of it IMO. Apple does have better hardware, yes, but the difference in speed out of the box is stunning when bloatware is involved. Microsoft didn't have a chance to keep up with OSX.
They paid for Prism compliance. The Prism program entails access to the data.
At least get an SSL certificate…
I've got a wife and 4 kids so boredom isn't even an option for me.
Mindshare and a device in the living room is what keeps Microsoft from slipping into IBM territory. And with the consumerization of IT, OSX or Linux would be even more present today I suspect.
I'm surprised not to see anyone mention this but a large taxi service for Google can become a huge competitive advantage if it can be intelligently used to gather real-time traffic/street-view/etc data.
PostgreSQL wants to be web scale but it will never touch MongoDB scale. MongoDB is true web scale with full cloud compatibility and horizontal scaling like how clouds spread out in the real world. MongoDB mimics physics because physics is green technology. MongoDB is truly efficient with zero carbon footprint unlike PostgreSQL which is like diesel exhaust clogging up your network pipes when you try to shard upwards and outwards into the virtual scalable cloud atmosphere. PostgreSQL chokes your environment and doesn't support 10gen's new invention the MAPREDUCE which is the successor to outdated SQL. If you use PostgresSQL with auto-scale your will never support big data but MongoDB can scale up to even 100GB of big rich object data without relations so the data truly represents your client's needs.
Another spin on this is to build an editor for GRE/GMAT exam prep. Huge market.
I don't mean programming language but things like English, German, Mandarin etc.
> The problem I have with it is the level that it is done at. Using OS level virtualization (lxc) seems somewhat messy, because now you have to have a whole addition layer of proxies and indirection for any networked services.

Nonsense. You can have LXC containers work at directly at ethernet-level with each container having it's own regular network IP, just like a regular VM.[1]

Just because the default is to create an internal network doesn't mean LXC is limited to this only.

And then all the problems you mention go away. You get the hygenic benfits of a VM without the resource-related cost.

[1] Simple example on setting this up on Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/LXC/SimpleBridge
I suspect however that the paperclip maximizer as proposed is far more likely to devote time to space travel, as it will soon realise that most of the mass available for paperclip construction exists off-earth, for which it is likely to find human cooperation useful.

This is why it first built Elon Musk.
> It's even worse in Europe, where a "mandatory tip" is already included in your bill by the time you get it.

Recently a lot of restaurants in London have started adding this, however the "service charge" is completely optional (UK advertising laws state that the advertised price, in the menu, should include all fees and taxes). I think they've only done this as European tourists are used to it, so they can get more £££.
> Modern software is crap. It's orders of magnitude slower than it should be, it's buggy, and,yes, bloated.

And, that's where he lost me. Software was always crap. Emacs = Eight Megabytes and constantly swapping.

Because even if you squeeze every last cent of performance, someone will have a great idea that will spend each dime you saved and then even add some debt on it.

Performance is never a positive as much as a disqualifying negative. Features are what sell the software. Why would people use/pay for IDEs over a free text editor.

And if you listen to Casey's advice, well, be ready to rewrite your entire stack because almost no software today is willing to do what you need.
It's a good advice if you know you'll keep programming for next 120-30000 years. And don't have any competition willing to cut corners.
What makes you think that it is any different elsewhere?
Also I’d like to add that your claim that the gyms would be 10x more expensive and that most would close is baseless. In Sweden there are gyms everywhere even though their are consumer protections against exactly this sort of thing. The gyms in Sweden are generally cheaper than the IS as well. I’m not going to draw a general conclusion from this other than “it’s complicated”.

The fact is you don’t really know how gyms would be affected en masse by such a law. The only thing we really know for sure, is that people would have an easier time not using services that they don’t want to use. I don’t really understand who could argue against such a change. Arguing against it is like arguing for some weird mini welfare for gyms on the backs of random members of the population. If we want that, then maybe we should just pass laws giving gyms money from the general municipal/state budget. It would accomplish the same thing and be much more fair and honest.
Seeing as the US are war criminals that refuse to be judged and committed unspeakable and uncountable atrocities over the past few decades...YES
@nhangen: The government. They offered to collaborate in order to make sure nothing bad would be released.

The government ignored them, however. What does that say?
Good luck properly determining that.

It still doesn't solve the problem: then they're all just squatted by the rich.
Self-image can be a powerful feedback loop that reinforces other qualities. I think that the types of things he would value if his self image was of a "persecuted international man of intrigue" would be things like vigilance, perseverance, cunning, suspicion, and those would be helpful to his role @ Wikileaks due to the nature of his work.

My $0.02.
Not really, on freedom of speech grounds.

That said, I'm a bit torn on wikileaks as an organization. I think there needs to be an organization like wikileaks that serves as an outlet for whistleblowers, but I also think that wikileaks is falling too far down the path of self-aggrandizement for me to take them seriously.

For one, they've heavily promoted some releases that have turned out to contain very little truly new information. More importantly, their inclination to editorialize hurts their credibility in a massive way. The "Collateral Murder" video is case in point -- you not only have the title the video was released under, but the entire thing was annotated telling you exactly how you were supposed to interpret it. You're a helicopter pilot observing a combat zone and somebody traveling with a group of armed men pokes a cylindrical object around a corner in the direction of your forces - are you likely to think that object is A. a weapon or B. a pro-grade telephoto lens. According to the Colateral Murder video, it's ridiculous to think A.

Things like that make me somewhat distrustful of wikileaks since it makes it clear they have an agenda beyond the simple dissemination of information, and forces me to wonder whether they'd actually publish information contrary to that agenda if they were to receive it.
There was a similar discussion elsewhere about this. Short version: what's the point in developing them? Despite what ardent proponents of either will tell you, they're essentially the same language. Porting code from one to the other is straightforward or trivial. Learning one with a background in the other is a matter of days.

I get it for the FORTRAN -> Java transition; I understand that you'd want to port your stuff to Python from Java. But why would anyone port massive and complex libraries (SciPy is not your regular "Yep, coded that in 4 days!"-gem) to a virtually identical language? [1]

No point. Learn Python, and get some stuff done.

[1] Now, if you're about to build a good scientific/numerical/statistical/(...) library for Clojure -- I'm all ears.
Nothing.

I'm pretty happy with the things that I have and I can't imagine anything that I need (but don't already have). When moving to two different countries in the past I've managed to pack all the things I need into a single backpack.

Besides my phone, my laptop, my bicycle, and plenty of clothes I don't really have any use for other things.
Not really. But they surely want to save some money on their Cable.
the point is that you don't limit yourself from the outset by designing in code (i.e. you don't impose implementation restrictions that can be resolved with images/js/svg/whatever). it's a double edged sword, though, i don't think the article is exactly spot on here, you need to sort of bottom-up & top-down the whole process.

The reason you mock up in psd (gross) or fireworks or a sketch book (yay!) or anywhere is because you can be purely expressive in an orthogonal capacity than you would be if you were implementing in code from the start.

You ignore issues like "oh, will this p be in a div or in a series of lis contained by... blërg" while those implementation details are valid to keep in mind, they're not entirely crucial to address when you're sketching which is really the key word here.
I don't think this is true.

The GPL allows you to copy & modify code for your own desires very generously.

The limitations you fear apply if you distribute the code (in source or other forms) or modifications yourself.
> While the cross-pollination of ideas from different teams and departments is lost, along with interesting and serendipitous discussions

While this always sounds good, in my experience it rarely amounts to anything. A company I used to work for tried to make "hacks" and "hackathons" etc happen. People did make hacks, but they remained as hacks. Products were finished just like any other product is finished: as a result of hard, dedicated work.
(sorry for my english) As a psychologist I love your post. The first paragraph it's so relevant to understand, when we are discussing "disorders" and not a disease. Epistemology often view as purely theoretical, it's essential for this kind of discussion.

For anyone interested in this topics, the essay in the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy is pretty good.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-disorder/

A less technical discussion
https://www.npr.org/2010/12/29/132407384/whats-a-mental-diso...
Sure, but about 90% of their userbase is happy with the free community edition and will never upgrade. What is more interesting is the distribution of the remaining 10%.
> it is more likely and quicker to get answered in person instead of over slack/email/zoom.

It was more likely quicker because you felt like you could just walk to the person's desk and interrupt whatever they were doing to demand that they solve your problem.
What I find really fascinating , and would love to understand, is this:
Once maps of the earth became widely available, how come it didn't become a top priority to investigate why Africa and South America seemed to fit so well.
Funny thing, that is literally what I was told about drawing realistically - anyone healthy can learn to draw realistically. These days, there is whole pedagogy on how to do it, you "just" have to work hard and follow instruction.
I tell beginning students that programming hard. And that anyone can learn to do it if they want to put in the time and exercise.
For sure. The job I had during March 2020 was difficult because my boss came off as unwelcoming to questions at points (even in the office I could see him open my slack messages and ignore them), which made working much more difficult when you're adapting to new systems. Thankfully, I had some great coworkers who were very welcoming and helped me a lot. If there is anything I learned from that, it's that being welcoming and open to questions from a coworker is extremely important. Sometimes it's easy to get frustrated with a coworker, but being able help them kindly is such a huge skill I will continue to appreciate and reciprocate.
How many people do you know that play 40+ hours of chess a week?

How many people do you know that don't work a job, are 25 and able bodied, and live at home with their parents to play chess?

How many people do you know that work a dead-end factory job, and come home and put all of their effort into chess over advancing their career?

I know of 0 for any of those for chess, but I can think of at least 100 people that this applies for video games.

Video games are great! I get it. But when it starts to be the purpose of life, it seems a very sad life.
I don't know anything about the operator of 8chan. I was objecting to the way that you were asking your question. The form of Why? Because [some unjustifiable reason you made up that is one of many possible]? doesn't serve as a reasonable argument and it doesn't add anything to the discussion other than the slightly passive aggressive tone it has.

If you actually want to call it paraphrasing, I'll go ahead and say that it's an outright misrepresentation of the post you responded to, since it contained nothing to suggest that.

> But I'm guessing blindly believing rampantly biased media surrounding the subject is more your style, right?

Where do I begin?
ublock doesn't work on quite a few sites, whereas I've never had an issue with adblock. Couple of examples off the top of my head:

1. giphy: it removes the share and twitter buttons

2. doesn't block ads on hulu

There were others as well that I seem to be forgetting (I remember having to disable it on quite a few sites). Good intention (lowering memory consumption), but the execution still has some way to go.
Seems like you are getting a minor convenience in exchange for risk of major annoyance (when it breaks).
Why did you feel it was unfriendly?
It's also kind of sleazy as you're getting them to do work for you for no pay. I've been in interviews where similar questions were asked, and they had me go into more detail as I was actually solving problems for them.
I would say that their ux is actually really good. I'd go so far as to say they have one of the best on boarding experiences I've ever seen. But that's just my opinion.
You can create your own dice word list by selecting 7776 words and indexing them with a base-6 ID.
The automated bidding was randomly in the last ten seconds (from a brief look at Swoopo its the same). That was quite easily beaten my a bot that could bid at the last second.

I put in equivalent of $3,000

Won: iPhone 4 32gb, $200 vouchers, Dell Streak, 64gb iPad, 640gb hdd, BlackBerry Torch, 2x GPS, Wii game, 32gb iPod, 100gm gold bar (and still had roughly $300 of bids left)

^ All in two weeks which raised a lot of red flags and then got my account suspended. It was a little greedy perhaps - but I figured they'd probably update their terms and conditions with text against bots at which point I would have stopped.
Hasn't Adobe done both?
yeah, you can tell, I am not a designer, my goal is to just keep the design neutral (not get any awards for it :) and focus on selling the functionality.
Damn, keeping it neutral is turning out to be so hard :)

Any ideas welcome in this regard as well.
You guys at Dropbox rock at neat marketing gimmicks that make your users feel good about promoting the product.