jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
At least for EU countries that’s not the case:

“Today, Facebook does not use your WhatsApp account information to improve your Facebook product experiences or provide you more relevant Facebook ad experiences on Facebook. This is a result of discussions with the Irish Data Protection Commission and other Data Protection Authorities in Europe. We're always working on new ways to improve how you experience WhatsApp and the other Facebook Company Products you use. Should we choose to share such data with the Facebook Companies for this purpose in the future, we will only do so when we reach an understanding with the Irish Data Protection Commission on a future mechanism to enable such use. We'll keep you updated on new experiences we offer and our information practices.” [0]

[0] https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/security-and-privacy/how-we...
"Russia" has turned into an "airhorn" term, one that when deployed stops all further thought. Others: "terrorist", "white supremacist/racist", "sex trafficker" and the perennial favorite, "What about the children?"
This has been well known for a while; they block all third party clients and libraries outside of using their official bot API.

Having been on the receiving end of over 50k compromised accounts attacking my server (with verified phone enabled); largely stolen oauth/access tokens from real users, I can also see why they would do that as a platform owner.

On the other hand, as a rms-thoughtpattern, this is awful.
I'm glad that I'll get to witness a live ED-209 in my lifetime.
He attempted to Assist in the Overthrow of the United States Government.
He is a Terrorist
he admitted he did it.
Televise his TRIAL
put him away for 99 years.
I clicked on a few random references.

Several use The Onion to establish "Cultural Significance": the logic seems to be that if something is well-known enough for The Onion to mock, it has a reasonable amount of cachet.

Clever, as I doubt there are many sources that literally report "X is a household name."
This is a very good reason in and of itself to stop using Chrome. What you're describing is a very real attack by Google through a kind of regulatory capture on any possible competitor.

Basically, the only tracking solution that becomes viable is their own.
USAA works fine for me. It just asks you to enter the token during login.

EDIT: and I think it migrated to OAuth anyways so no more tokens
That's because the recipient of your message doesn't have iMessage (which is everyone that doesn't have an iPhone). The OP is suggesting that Apple should have brought iMessage to other platforms (Android in particular).
Apple shares iCloud backups with law enforcement.
I would call the custom build glass for the front and back of the iPhone, along with the multi-purpose custom alloy bezel, and the other hardware innovations to be the definition of state of the art. What other vendor is putting this level of detail and innovation into their products?
I love this idea. Interestingly, they reference Gates and how cheap computers helped him. All those guys, Gates included, started out working on mainframes and minis that they stole time from in University labs.

Probably that's what Gates-of-2030 is doing right now; making glowing mice in the basement of the University of Minnesota, or somewhere similar.
The parent comment is the sort of "advice" that is easy to dispense and makes everyone feel good, but is fundamentally useless.

Thanks for the feedback, timr. As the author of the parent comment, let me see if I got this right...

1. In response to OP's post about fame and programming, I shared some of my innermost feelings about my vocation. I absolutely believe that it's the software, not me, who is the star. No matter how long I do this, I am still in awe of the entire process and thank my lucky stars that I was born when I was. Energy comes to me from some unknown place, goes through my brain and finger tips, and results in this untouchable thing that affects so many lives. What can be cooler than that? I have never desired fame for this and only want to get paid properly and see my work put to good use. (OK, an occasional pat on the back would be nice.) I am perfectly content, and in fact function best, when the code is the star. I shared these feelings, fully understanding that others may not feel the same. Nothing I said was intended as "advice".

2. Others voted this comment up. I can only hope that some of those people have shared my experience and feelings.

3. You presume to know what others were thinking when they voted, which is not what I hope they were thinking.

4. The purpose of the tshirt was identification. It was my first trip ever to SV and it worked beautifully in a crowd of 700 programmers. I met 27 people who I already knew online, but none of us had any idea what each other looked like. I have stayed in touch with most of them even though I try to maintain my anonymity online. The only question is why didn't I meet you?

Sorry you feel this way. I don't need fame, but I do need to build cool stuff and I do need to see that it's going to good use. I think that other programmers feel that way too. The best thing I can wish for you is that you feel that way too someday.
I don't know for certain, but I think that IE, Chrome, others asked NYT for permission and don't just go ahead and use the RSS feed.
Thanks. Installing the AUR package as I'm typing this.
Having read RyanMcGreal's comment above I now realise there is grammatical ambiguity as well as orthographic :)
I think if you were so inclined, you could probably consider Internet Explorer the same. It's only made available to Microsoft's own Windows customers.
Mochi web (used to be Yaws) with nginx in front of it
I kind of agree about the flashing notifications, but on the other hand, just yesterday I took the output of a grep, sorted it and removed dupes via Emacs, and then tried to copy-and-paste it into Mail.app. Turns out there's some bug or other issue with pasting into new messages, and it dumped the newlines. Now I'm off searching for this issue and reading Apple support threads from 2008. If I was using Emacs as my mail client, presumably I wouldn't have this issue at all.
I wonder if a shopping cart would be less ambiguous? This looks like one of those cultural issues that's hard to get right everywhere, though.
When I first started programming, I didn't know which of the two symbols / or \ was "forward slash" or "back slash", so I got into the habit of calling them "uphill" and "downhill", respectively. I still tend to use those terms when I'm working with people who aren't computer savvy, and those terms tend to be a bit more intuitive and help avoid confusion.
Double the regular price and say that all proceeds would to his Virgin Unite charity. You might actually stand a chance.
There is a psychological term for that state of mind, which I'm sure most of the readers here know already. It's been investigated thoroughly by the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (try saying that 3 times fast).

It's called Flow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29) and to me is a really interesting topic, as well as a mental state I'm sure most programmers are experiencing regularly. At least unless they are sitting in a hectic environment, like say, a home office with 3 cats and a frequently insisting girlfriend (theoretical example).
I want mine to not have too.
Exactly. Each of the big players has incentive to be an OpenID provider (control everyone's logins!) but not be an OpenID receiver (accept AOL's logins? are you kidding?).

Nobody at OpenId seems to have quite thought through the incentives here. Identification is not in fact a technical problem. That's trivial. It's a business/social problem.

The problem is, "How can I make multi-billion dollar companies want to outsource identification to someone else, given that they're reasonably bright and given that every time in the past that someone else has inserted themselves into another's business, things have gone badly for the insertee?"

Businesses look at situations where companies like Ticketmaster and OpenTable have successfully inserted themselves between pre-existing businesses and their customers, and siphoned off a lot of the value of those customers. Then they say, "Gee, maybe I should learn from that and not let someone do that to me." And then the OpenID geeks come calling saying they've got a great solution where all you have to do is outsource your accounts to another multi-billion dollar company and everything will be cool, that other company TOTALLY won't steal your business or anything.
Was trying to figure it out too. The problem is the dual criteria:

famously aggressive + develops their own military technology.

Who is known for developing their own military technology? US, Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Israel, North Korea, Iran, Iraq (the last two only if WMD accusations are true)...?

Pretty much everyone else buys their military technology from China, Russia, US, France, or Israel, be it AK47s, F15s, or silkworm and exocet missiles.

So, which among the countries that manufacture military hardware are famously aggressive? Well, lately that's pretty much the US and Israel. Maybe Russia with the Chechen and Georgian thing, and maybe China with Tibet and threats vs. Taiwan. North Korea, but is anyone there actually allowed to learn English much less programming?

'Little' I also took to be diminutive, not literal.
"It's overwhelmingly better than being poor with an economy built primarily on the drug trade."

Not necessarily. The U.S. economy was built on drugs when it was starting out. Even today most of our famous colleges are named after drug families.
For what purpose do you believe we went into Afghanistan?

For their opium?

[Edit: Afghanistan, not Iraq.]
Part of what makes the content of a post good, though, is that it's someone saying something they actually think is true / is good advice / whatever. If someone's saying something because they're being paid to say it, it seems just not worth spending any time on. Same with other kinds of insincere writing; I wouldn't be very interested in someone's story about their startup if it were totally fabricated, for example.
It makes sense though. You're essentially allowing your user-base to feed itself - they generate the content and then consume the content. Nobody knows what the audience wants better than the audience themselves.
Thats really only funny until you realize they aren't talking about the Gulf oil.
Maybe Taiwan, Korea or Singapore.
By the numbers, Nigeria is far better off than Afghanistan.
While I have no direct experience with Angular (I used to do javascript but now iOS) the folks in the office using Angular seem testy all the time.
My experience has been, "this works -- kind of -- but it is not sustainable, difficult to break into, difficult to maintain, and in the end you will have sleep debt and/or suffer in overall cognitive function."

I took this as, "4 hour nights are for code sprints and burning man."
ANC doesn't ever provide perfect isolation. If you see advertisements ANC it will say "blocks 99% of sound" or "cancels 99.9% of noise" which is equivalent to a 20dB and 30dB drop respectively.

You're right though that it doesn't work as well at high volumes. The louder the noise, the more distortion in the microphone/amplifier/driver, so the efficacy of the noise cancelling is reduced. For example in this THD graph of the AirPod Pro's, at 100dB it adds approximately 3dB compare to the 90dBtest.[1] Going much louder and you'll start getting digital clippings as the built in amplifier won't have enough range.

> . For example, if a car beeped its horn at you while using ANC, i hear it.

Car horns are above 100dB, and at the frequency they are, APD only measures about 20dB of attenuation [2], so that only brings it down to 80dB, which is still very loud.

> ANC is merely for constant low background noise like airplane engine.
What I find very neat is that even though only 20-30dB of isolation is measured, many noises really do "go away". If you play around with ANC you'll realize that as the background noise gets louder, the white noise hiss from the ear piece gets louder. This mostly the result of error in the system, but this increase in background noise has the effect of masking any external sounds that make it through. I believe it also moves a lot of that energy to higher frequencies where you don't notice it.

[1] https://www.rtings.com/headphones/1-4/graph#1625/4029
[2] https://www.rtings.com/headphones/1-4/graph#1625/4053
Since Apple's bug database is private, what would be an objective criteria that you would accept? For my own part, I have more bugs reported on 10.9 and 10.10 then any other releases.

My everyday users hate iOS 8 and 10.10 due to network, Finder, and file share issues.
Did you have any thoughts to share on the article?
As a general rule, credibility is needed to figure out the facts.
Hell yes. It would cost TMO very little to provide this to me, as I travel very infrequently. But I consider it to be a very nice perk indeed.
>The bigger mystery is why Americans are now far likelier to die in their cars than Europeans even after you control for the time they spend in them.

>A great many Americans drive 30+ highway miles each day between their suburban homes and city offices

Seems like the answer is right there. People get exhausted on the road. Closing your eyes for 2 seconds is disastrous.
We're launching a private beta of our low-code tool. Think Visual Basic or Delphi, but in the browser, and multiplayer.
Yep, videos are automatically taken down after a certain number of flags. I expect it'll be restored if/when someone at Google catches wind of it.
Please don't do this here—it's just as bad as the bad thing. Worse in fact, because it's smug too.
this is great idea. you need guided tour when you visit a museum as vast as louver
Activating the DLA (Defense Logistics Agency) to handle supply control and distribution instead of this states vs. states and states vs. fed gangbang of bidding and suboptimal routing of resources that's going on right now.
Seems like an obvious flaw in the zoning rules. A hotel room is basically a studio apartment, why shouldn't it be easy to rent it out as one?
Not building anything exciting, just a basic app for tracking my kata reps[1]. It's a tool I've wanted for a while and it's giving me a chance to play around with Cordova and Android.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate_kata
Another alternative is to buy quality in the first place. I spent around $100 on a Patagonia backpack, and it’s been in everyday use for over 6 years and is still fine. If it does fail, Patagonia has an excellent repair program.
I’d love to hear more about your thoughts on draft tours! Currently, you can record as many tours as you want per codebase, and so you could record one that was scoped to just key API calls, and have n-number of other ones with more detail, alternate flows.

Would that satisfy what you’re thinking? Or were you thinking about being able to record a tour, and mark certain steps as being more important than others? Any feedback here is unbelievably valuable!
> I strongly get the impression that much criticism isn't based on my admittedly trite analysis but because a lot of people just don't know how to handle really bad news and are trying to blank a nasty reality.

No, you just made a large number of flaws in your initial analysis, and it made people despair of going to the effort to point out where you went wrong.

E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22648730

You're producing a future estimate, assuming that all properties of your dataset are consistent (they aren't) and will continue to hold (they won't).

As a few examples: (1) varying ratio of confirmed cases to actual total, (2) % increase in testing per day, day-over-day, (3) varying time offset according to disease progression and symptoms presentation (aka testing).

You seem to be of the opinion that any information is better than no information. In scenarios like this, I'm of the counter opinion that bad information is actively harmful and inferior to no information.
There are negative externalities to Uber too, such as Traffic and pollution.
Have you been to Boston? People often told me they knew I wasn’t from around there because I smiled so much.
> Sadly we see national security being used as reason to avoid transparency, and of course corruption follows.

Man it took forever for someone to make this point. There's a lot of bad Chinese Gov behavior that US Gov players absolutely aspire to.
We’re just not following a good process of discerning truth here. We started with a blatant, baseless conspiracy theory “this is a weapon China created”. Then we white wash the theory to “China created it, but maybe it was an accident”. Then suddenly the burden of truth is on China to disprove this claim. It’s just not a sensible process, rooted in the fallacy of the middle ground; as you said we need to start from the evidence and not from what you want to be true.
You know the Puritans left for the US because they wanted to enact even more strict religious rules right?
"... where someone is toiling away with just the most fascinating work, often for just the shear love of the technology. ..."

Fran tech rocks, literally. Check out the pages on the guitar pedal effects: <http://www.frantone.com/history.html> and <http://www.frantone.com/about.htm> absolute works of technical art.
I'm more interested in the damage they caused, than what percentage of the population they are. Murderers make up a small portion of the population as well, but we still punish them and take steps to prevent crime.

I've never heard a convincing argument about the Fair Housing Act - more than anything it reminds me of the 'spectre' of welfare queens riding around in limos that was a favorite of the right for many years. Although, I suppose if your claim is merely that it is more responsible than any individual banker, that might be plausible, if only because the contribution of any individual banker must necessarily be quite small (even if some of them did end up becoming famous for their role).
Yes, and in the cases when you want to work at something home just mail it or something
People should be judged on an individual basis - because we are all different.

Countries are not judged on their best individuals, but on the decisions they make as a whole. This is a function of their system of government, which in many ways is a function of the decisions of their populace as a whole.

California, despite its liberal population centers in San Francisco, and LA - voted 52% in favor of banning same-sex couples from marrying in 2008. The same state that is home to the Castro district in SF, and the same state where Harvey Milk was elected.

[opinion coming] The United States will likely NOT be judged favorably in history for its bullshit touting (see Jindal VERY recently) politicians, usage of torture, imperialism, and infringements on privacy. 60 years ago if you were black in this country, you had to drink from a separate water fountain.

The linked story is interesting...but unfortunately...Nazis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene#Safety

"While PTFE is stable and nontoxic at lower temperatures, it begins to deteriorate after the temperature of cookware reaches about 260 °C (500 °F), and decomposes above 350 °C (662 °F).

…

Meat is usually fried between 204 and 232 °C (399 and 450 °F), and most oils start to smoke before a temperature of 260 °C (500 °F) is reached, but there are at least two cooking oils (refined safflower oil and avocado oil) that have a higher smoke point than 260 °C (500 °F). Empty cookware can also exceed this temperature when heated."
Honestly, no. If you've got no overview, you'll not "surf the internet" but get drown in irrelevant or outdated stuff which exists in abundance.
It's convoluted.

Ninth Circuit courts held APIs weren't copyrightable.
The Federal Circuit (which only had jurisdiction because of the thrown out patent claims) held that they were copyrightable. The majority of SCOTUS here explicitly said they weren't deciding copyright of APIs. Instead they looked at both cases and said: "either it isn't copyrightable, but even if it is copyrightable, that this is fair use." Either way, Oracle loses. Arguing in the alternative is a common legal pattern, as is ruling on the narrowest possible ground.

Generally when a circuit court makes a ruling, it's only "binding" precedent on subsidiary courts within that same circuit. The federal circuit is weird though, as it doesn't have a geographical jurisdiction, instead it has a subject matter jurisdiction. If a case has patent claims (or a few other things), an appeal gets routed there.

So, effectively, APIs are copyrightable if there is a linked patent claim in the same lawsuit.

Courts can certainly use the Federal Circuit ruling as "persuasive" precedent, and rule the same way, but it's not binding, and it's not settled law.
In the current climate the way you phrased things comes off very similarly to the common "capitalism bad, socialism good" argument that lacks a lot of nuance between those opinions. The specificity of capitalism in your statement seems fairly irrelevant to what you have expanded upon, and this likely will just lead to fighting (and I suspect is the reason for your downvotes). It definitely comes off as if you are trying to blame capitalism for the problem, but that may not have been your intent and just that I (many of us?) am primed this way. So I'm trying to pull the conversation away from this "Capitalism v Socialism" argument because it is difficult to have a real conversation when we even approach this framing, even on HN these conversations divulge to a race to the bottom really quickly.

FWIW I don't think the majority of people reject the idea that we need some amounts of regulation, some amounts of social policy/protection, etc. The argument is how much, but we use bad terms to discuss this and definitions people refuse to agree on nor recognize that others are using different definitions.
I think the issue being discussed here is also, "how can we make a government whose bureaucracy will be able to be engaged?" So many examples show bureaucracy and the abdication of responsibility go hand in hand. In order for the government to be empowered, its workers need to be empowered, and we have few cultural narratives of how rule following enabled great outcomes.

Instead, almost fetishistically, we embrace rule breaking as the ultimate expression of self actualization, from forming businesses to bureaucrats who actually took time during their breaks to help.

IMO, working for a company and working for the government are both exercises in limiting personal liability, and I've not yet encountered a construct that allowed people to limit liability without also limiting their agency. I also think it is important that we as a modern democracy do work to solve this issue.
I mean, I sympathize with them, but that's no excuse. If you can't stand blood you don't become a janitor at a hospital. If you can't stand raw meat you don't become a janitor at butcher shop.

There are other ways to drive a car for money that don't involve interacting with people and their possible service animals.
Floating point is bad as null are, and is defended by the same apologist of null: "I don't make mistakes... so is good!".

Floating point ARE a major source of errors across everyone that use them. ARE infectious. ARE semantically wrong. ARE not made for financial calculation.

ARE WRONG.

Period. Just because under a lot of discipline (or luck, or just "assume" is working but nobody have checked, or work before but how knows if today?) not make it a good choice for financial/money.

Is the same error when people think old String types can be used in the unicode world, instead of have a proper type for that.

Luck help a lot. But is not something to be proud about.