jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The American companies (which are mostly multinationals now) are rich (but also have a huge debt load). The typical Americans are poor and suffer from lack of jobs/credit and growing inflation (which is why Republicans were voted into office this month).
I wish for the Flattr guys (winner best Startup010) "ThePirateBay gone legit" and for the European startup scene, the same fate as for the (quite controversial in their time) Kazaa guys, which then started... Skype.
Would Clojure be worth trying rather than CL or Scheme for someone who doesn't have any Java experience, though?
full disk encryption is also possible with a shared computer. TPM and PBA are some keywords
That demo is oddly satisfying
This article was written clearly before the Mueller report was disseminated to the public, and quotes William Barr's letter of the report which we now Mueller took great exception to. I don't think it's a great resource at this point in time.

Here is my money quote from the report:

> If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment.
Technically, the configure script is responsible in a non-ethical/moral sense.

In terms of *nix spirit, it sounds like Ubuntu is not being generous in what it accepts.
And even that makes sense. When you have leftovers from yesterday, it's a brief 'time of plenty' and thus a good time to gain weight (build up reserves), hence the weight gain of those who eat before exercising, or eat and don't exercise!
Google Docs couldn't have hoped for better publicity.
On what distributions do you find ancient versions of boost but recent versions of GCC? If the standardization process moved faster you'd still have to wait.
He's talking about distribution, watching on some network's schedule, etc.
I don't agree with this at all. If there's any preferential treatment that I've seen in the review line, it has everything to do with which category the app is in and how popular the app is.

I've self rejected an app that was in the top 20 of a category many times. I can't even think of a time we submitted an update that we didn't self reject at least once. This app still gets much quicker review times for updates than another app which is much less popular.

I guess I'd like to see more than "here's how i think it works" and instead some explanation as to why this guy thinks it works how he thinks.
After four years of being a student at a major state university, I can sadly say that I have never had a teacher with that attitude.
The opacity change when the mouse is over text doesn't work with touch screens (iPad, iPhone,...). Appart from this I really like the idea.
"VMware acquired Tungsten Graphics, a company with core expertise in 3D graphics driver development on November 26, 2008.

On August 10, 2009, VMware announced the acquisition of SpringSource, a leader in enterprise and web application development and management.

On January 12th, 2010, VMware acquired Zimbra, an open-source collaboration software tool, from Yahoo.

On May 6th, 2010, VMware acquired GemStone, to be operated under VMware's SpringSource division."[1]

And now Engine Yard?

I am trying to see a coherent strategy in all these acquisitions. Anyone?

[1] Source: Wikipedia
Agreed the finance "layer" of the world today is important and can have large positive/negative effects on the "real" part of the economy. I just don't think it's part of the foundation. One thought experiment would be to imagine the world without finance: could we still eat? have places to sleep at night? Raise kids? Heck yes. Now instead imagine a world without food or shelter or babies, or the ability to make them. We'd be doomed. Also, humans lived millions of years without finance and can again in the future if really needed. We can't live without food production/consumption. Foundation elements are revealed real quick in these kinds of comparisons, I think.

Again, not to dismiss finance and capital markets, investment, etc. as non-useful. It's just that they are a very modern and recent invention, at best one particular tool, and only an abstract layer on top of the more "real" parts of human existance.
He is obsessed with "being open" - that's the only "point", all other people are "missing the point".

Ask the phone users, TV users, ... do they care? They didn't miss any point, they just want a better phone, open or not open doesn't matter.

Ask Google, if they care about "open", why not open source Google search?
Just post your pictures to Hot or Not to find where you are in the scheme of things.
threadless was founded in 2000ish. they didn't take money until around 2007ish.

37signals is about the same (time period and what not)
Is it me, or are there a lot of communist on HN? Such fear and loathing of free markets. Everyone should be equal. We should all get a 5% return.

We should cease all activities deemed "non productive" by the state and get back to work in the mines.
It depends. You could optimize for having a chill life as one of your top priorities. I think the advice is about consciously and explicitly managing the tradeoffs of your choices.
i wish new grads don't get attracted to the free lunches of faang and have more of the pirate like ethos of the old hacker days. vlc reminds me of that so much.
Yeah the current definition is restricted to 4 octets in RFC 3629. Really interesting to see the history of ranges UTF-8 was able to cover.
Just a small anecdote, one of the first times Reddit did a mass banning of subreddits there was a public outcry that to me, uninformed at the time, seemed reasonable. The creators of Voat assured they'd never adopt such a policy. If you know anything about Voat's history, you know how it ended up. I couldn't just ignore the slurs on the front page of the website. Back on Reddit, the mythical day where they came for the things I love would never come. Ever since, I've found free speech is much easier for websites than people pretend. By removing bad posts, the only lasting implication is discouraging more bad posts. Easy.
EDIT: thanks everyone for quickly correcting my mistake, I missed the part that explained that more forms of contactless payments would be accepted

I don't really understand why a merchant would use this feature.

If you already use a PoS, why would you replace it with another one that only supports customers who own an Apple device?

If you accepted only cash, maybe it's a small improvement because you can use your existing iPhone if you had one to accept cashless payments from Apple customers...

Does Tap to Pay only make sense in the second case or am I missing something?
I’ll by Go or Rust, but Java?
I have spent too much time fixing java software recently.. it’s dependencies are a complete pain.
> If you want to do voluntourism, I suggest something different: start a business ... You'll definitely have a positive effect on people by teaching them about western business practices.

Yeah right. Unfortunately, it might have been too much of positivity for this kid from Bhopal (http://media2.intoday.in/indiatoday/images/Photo_gallery/060...) to handle.
Man it's so much much better then crap-tml! I can layout anything flexibly and reliably in like 5 minutes.
Yes, you are.

People can expect compensation and not get anywhere (see OP), especially if they publish content (they absurdly think it can be made accessible to everyone but not be copied - heck, we still copy content today that was published thousands of years ago!). Or they can build something that is useful with no such expectations and sometimes they will be rewarded anyway.

If I had stuck to expecting compensation for every hour of work, I'd now be very likely stuck in a dull job somewhere ...
It doesn't mean that Servo would use more memory. Current browsers are doing things like multi-process to trade off memory for security and getting less safety in return than a memory-safe language would provide.
That's where I was going. What do they mean by age?

Although one could argue that the speed things travel through the universe alters their age, but from when the Earth materialized, it shouldn't change much from particle to particle.

If you're arguing for "oldest living thing" I do get it.
I, personally, don't know. We'll have some kind of post-mortem internally to work out what happened, and how to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Why? I don't get anything particularly insightful at all from this snippet.
The uncomfortable truth is that many HN readers are the ones gleefully building these tools.
Even if his criticisms of coveillance are correct, I still think the world is headed that way.

Simply put, you can't put the genie back in the bottle. We passed a similar threshold with industrialization, and the consequent removal of autonomy for workers on several levels (is the 1800's factory of exacting time cards and constant repetitive movements that far behind the warehouse the author describes?). It was a tumultuous transition (strikes, revolution, communism, etc.) but we made it through. The transformation in state and corporate power that tools like surveillance bring will be similar, but just like in the industrial revolution we can't turn back the clock and have to instead ride out whatever happens.
Single piece doors aren't legal in many states, but interestingly it's not because of the safety issues (which are much greater than tracked folding doors with extension springs, due to the angle of extension).

I've never even seen them outside of California.
I've heard of the "Deep State" with respect to Turkey and Erdogan, but never in the American context. Can you elaborate a little on what you mean by that?
For 2013 & 2014 I used the questionnaire from Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich". It was interesting to see my responses from last year compared to this year. The list can be found here: http://www.stephenfrasier.com/blog/self-development/grow-ric...
Read the Kapersky analysis, it starts to answer your questions regarding the reuse of Shamoon by NK.

Doesn't matter though, my point was, this was not the media regurgitating a US gov opinion as the comment I replied to claimed.

I agree that the publically available evidence is never 100%, but the malware samples and c&c infrastructure point to NK. If you have evidence that someone else did it, that would be interesting. As it stands, NK has a very strong motive for the timing of this move, so that plus just the public info, and the FBI claim based on nonpublic info is enough to convince me they are responsible.

However, the spectrum of "responsibility" is quite broad: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/what-does-responsibi...
ActiveX isn't a major concern, in current IE if you look in the security tab in the Internet context, it is pretty locked down and damn near depreciated.

Intranet is more liberal. But a lot of enterprises add their internal portals to the trusted list if they still depend on ActiveX (as a depressingly large number do).

Chrome and Firefox's extensions are better. Although Firefox's extension model is a little clunky due to how old it is (or at least it was last time I used it).
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/business/roaring-kitty-ga...

He was a securities broker registered with FINRA. FINRA representatives have a whole lot of regulations placed on them.

To me, the main things he did wrong were, not disclosing that he is a securities professional on his channel (as opposed to just, some guy), and not disclosing his youtube channel to his employer.

> MassMutual, officially known as Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, also informed regulators that Mr. Gill gave his notice on Jan. 21 but was technically still an employee of the firm and its securities and investment advisory arm, MML Investors Services, through Jan. 28 — the week when GameStop shares surged the most.
hm, state changes between draw calls are hard to get rid of...after all that's why they're separate calls in the first place. profiling the driver is probably indeed something i should look into.
Wow, that's cool, so you replaced each of the game's functions individually until you had the majority replaced and working stand-alone?
Where are tech people finding jobs? I havent gotten a job offer to my mail that looks somewhat interesting for over a year now.

From personal experience i would recommend to think out of the box. There are always "dirty jobs" that nobody thinks about that are happy to hire someone that uses the job as step and not as one way street. All kind of delivery work comes to mind, a friend of mine really enjoyed their "break year" in burger king before they re-started their carrer plans. Its not an solution, but it buys you the time to do what you want and actual real life work experince is worth a lot too, no matter what.

Whatever you find, i wish you good luck!
The sentiment on WSB from what I can tell is that they can’t coordinate which thread to sticky, let alone which stock to buy. My impression of observing it for a couple of weeks is that this is true. They aren’t capable of truly coordinating anything.

Best I can tell, Roaring Kitty/Deepfuckingvalue basically had been buying more and more GME stock for like a year and every month showed screenshots to prove this saying a short squeeze was coming. Eventually in January something happened and everyone else was like “he might actually be right, I’m buying”. Then the news picked it up and it hit a positive feedback loop. Robinhood stopping buy orders put a wet blanket on things and after they lifted the restrictions enough time had passed that the frenzy slowed down. The short squeeze might still happen but lots of WSB participants bought at $300+ and I suspect will never recover that loss. But also because of this specific crowd it seems a good chunk of them are not selling on the idea that if you buy at $300 and sell at $50, you definitely lose. And if you hold the stock it might some day rise back to above $300-400. Mark Cuban did an AMA there where he basically reaffirmed this point of view which they took and ran with.

Part of this behavior is that WSB wasn’t really focused on going long on stocks until now. They mostly traded options which have specific deadlines. They simply aren’t used to the idea of an open ended investment. I saw people talking about how GME is a solid company and how they believe it’ll transition to digital successfully. How it might grow from fundamentals, etc. Nevermind their EPS, or the fact that their valuation currently sits at 10x what it was with no justification as to how their fundamentals might have changed to account for this. The difference with this crowd is that they for the most part acknowledge that this is gambling and that you are likely to lose all the money you invest so don’t worry about losing it. They also acknowledge that they don’t know what they are doing vs pretending like this is all based on research, experience, or education. Makes them a sort of dangerous crowd, especially as some there do accumulate a good amount of wealth, IMO.
>I recommend you read the NYT peice then, because it points out that if they publish his name as Scott Alexander (as he was going by) people would find out who he was simply by Googling that name.

If the NY Times published the article that links his pen name to his real name, that would be a stronger link than anything that previously existed. You can dox most people on the Internet if you put in enough effort, but the NY Times bears responsibility in lowering the effort required when there's no real reason to unmask him.
Had a similar issue while using a JTree, where programmatic nodes modifications generated events as if user had clicked on the tree, such as I had to override and disable a few JTree treatments to avoid triggering a wave of undesired side effects.

That’s why in some framework I´m working on, the only events are those from input devices (keyboard, etc.) and windowing, views don’t generate any and are just here to paint the state and indicate to the controller where things are on the screen.
It doesn't seem to be, though. The article says:

> I find the level of abstraction involved in rationalist discourse a little untenable.

And here's the kind of “interesting writing” it refers to:

> Five million people participated in the #BlackLivesMatter Twitter campaign. Suppose that solely as a result of this campaign, no currently-serving police officer ever harms an unarmed black person ever again. That’s 100 lives saved per year times let’s say twenty years left in the average officer’s career, for a total of 2000 lives saved, or 1/2500th of a life saved per campaign participant. By coincidence, 1/2500th of a life saved happens to be what you get when you donate $1 to the Against Malaria Foundation. The round-trip bus fare people used to make it to their #BlackLivesMatter protests could have saved ten times as many black lives as the protests themselves, even given completely ridiculous overestimates of the protests’ efficacy.

(from https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-ever...)

This is a pretty controversial take (one that I have some pretty major objections to – e.g., BLM isn't about everyone with dark skin, but a specific group of people who are being persecuted in a specific way), but it isn't racist.
Nah, if we're going to blame the tools then I blame the C language without which ML would not be possible.
What tools do you use for that? I tried similiar strategy just by looking at the publicly available tools (e.g. MartketWatch), but it seemed I'm always too late, so I resorted to mid-long term investments to the companies I believe.
Between this glaring infringement of First Amendment, and Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights, and the push to lock up the borders preventing easy egress from the US[1], it's really starting to feel like the United States is the world's largest prison. Sure, we (mostly) have freedom of movement and rights within the borders, but try to leave or come in and you end up harassed and detained for no reason.

[1] http://www.wnypapers.com/news/article/current/2015/01/23/119...
So after taking a closer look, this appears to be a PXE installation and server provisioning tool not unlike Cobbler.

The difference is that it uses YAML for configuration instead of Red Hat's Kickstart format that also powers their Anaconda installer, is far more minimal, and seems to be intended for configuration on a lower level than Cobbler is typically used for.

Quickly skimming the modules, they're actually remarkably unsophisticated. Most of it just directly shells out to programs like Dell's firmware tools, or ntpdate (which is officially deprecated, funnily enough).
Today, anyone trying to advise a web site
owner on security has to balance elements
within the site owner's control — fonts,
domain names, sources of content,
validation of user input, for example —
against extrinsic elements the site owner
can't touch. The latter include user
operating systems and software, the
security of remote sites supplying content
and homologue internationalised domain
names. Plus, there are all those tricky details
of interactions between tags, and
everywhere — in all software — bugs.
Thank you for posting this. This is the kind of thing I come to HN for.
That's absolute nonsense
In the field of programming languages design and implementation look no further than Erlang, MIT Scheme (a true gem), GHC, Scala and Go.

Those are creations of exceptional masters.

For smaller projects take a look at nginx, Tokyo cabinet (a DB), redis, and, perhaps, python's requests and Clojure (one man's effort to unify obvious things).

Again, these are masterpieces, not just merely good things.
> So then I guess McCarthyism was completely ok.

Are you under the impression that the Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations is a private entity?
If we use this logic then we are saying what people aren’t talking about will be the “right” thing to archive.

Is this a true statement?
Is it not that popular things are the things that people remember? The Beatles were popular. But that’s not why they are remembered. There were other popular bands completely forgotten.

Things become popular for various reasons.
Sometimes it is because it reflects a truth of the time, or it was simply good, or beautiful. Other times it is because it’s something that feeds a craving. Mass produced food isn’t necessarily good, but it is popular.
I think the things that are good beautiful and true, can be the popular things, but they often aren’t.
However the things that last are often good beautiful and true and the things that don’t aren’t.

Then again our memory of Hitler lasts, and he wasn’t good, but he did reveal what good was, because it shone so bright against the dark evil of his way of thinking that permeated that culture so well.
If you think of Hitler’s murder of Jews, then think of the stories told about those unknowns who risked their lives hiding Jews. The stories show that an utterly unknown person is a vastly better person than Hitler, and his name will never be celebrated the way that unknown person is.

We’d do better as a society if we told less stories about Hitler, and more stories of the unknown, courageous, good sacrificial man, who saved the lives of many Jews.
I think that the Lafayette Square episode with the Trump church visit would look mild in comparison. ‘When the looting starts the shooting starts’ was what Trump said then, where is that rhetoric now?
I don't know how fair it is to bring the last two years up. Our society was no closer in 2018 to solving climate change.
Because they think they're the good guys:

> “This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. She was crying, hysterical. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”

* https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/capitol-trump-ins...

* https://archive.is/tZVFs (paywall)

See also John Wilkes Booth:

> He had spent so much time among like-minded people who hated Lincoln, and he had read so many accounts denouncing Lincoln as a tyrant bent on destroying the Constitution and "personal liberty" that he expected to be hailed as a hero.

* https://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield/status/134722988063564595...
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Not a framework, but here's an extreme "counterexample": the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm is useful. But Fulkerson eventually committed suicide.

I think we can safely say that the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm is not some cursed object that we should not learn about. So clearly there's some spectrum of creations and the imprints left on them by their creators, and at one end of it, there's pretty much no imprint at all.