jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A couple of points:

The term seizing implies the use of force, not necessarily the absence of compensation. When you have no choice but to sell, seizing is indeed the appropriate term.

I'm not educated in the law, so I cannot speak with authority to your assertion about the incorrect use of the term "public-domain". However, given that the term is in quotes and the the author is Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee, my guess is that the term has a historical context of which I am unaware.

Just because Columbia serves many "less well-off" students, or is a 501(c)(3) non-profit does not mean that Columbia is not the big bad meanie in this case. They are an enourmously powerful and influential institution.

Using this legal power to seize (And I use this term advisedly) a small business owners property makes them a bully in my book. There is probably a price at which he would sell willingly, Columbia almost certainly has the resources to pay that price, they are using the power of this law to twist his property out of his hand backed by the power of the state, this in order to further their "Vision". That is wrong.
I always have a question come to mind whenever I read these kinds of guidelines: what percentage of computer users have ever had their passwords compromised?

I'm guessing there's no real way to gauge this because I've never seen a study nor heard anyone else touting one and yet, complex password protection guidelines are always being recommended. Why?
Personally I'd rather be notified sooner - it's fine saying "let them know before they build up holiday debt", but I'm sure that, by now, many of them would have already bought the presents, booked the holiday, whatever it is they would be spending money on.
This is a duplicate of a submission from three months ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1652127

It's also been discussed extensively in other submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891212

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=834599
My point was that, at least to me, twitter sounded like a stupid idea on paper. I was proven wrong, but there are many ideas just like it that you have to implement to see if it's useful. The phrase "try it and see" comes to mind. That's what many of these side projects are for; and, when you have a TON of money to play with, you can go off and throw a few hundred thousand or million at it and not worry about it. If it turns out to be a good idea, then yay! Victory. If not, oh well, you're still making enough outside of that project to cover everyone.
So you have a paper on your wallet, which can be used to obtain every password you use, using an intricate and very specific "algorithm".

Then you publish the fact itself and the algorithm in your blog(real name), which, besides, doesn't depend on a passphrase (which could turn your method in a sort of dual factor authenticator).

The paper could be photocopied and returned to your wallet and you'd never know.

Please, don't talk me about how many bits of entropy your passwords have. They aren't secure.
Are you using zfs?

Have you anyone tries to use freenas as a time machine destination?
Or "then", as in "My spelling is worse then a child's"
Note that for now Ocaml is still single threaded so the concurrency is cooperative, similar to how it is in Python or Nodejs. BTW, I'd recommend Lwt instead of Async because its more popular (kind of sad that there are two competing concurrency libs though)
We have a system of labels (for halal, kosher, vegetarian/vegan) which you can see at:
http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Global_labels_taxonomy
We're also looking at religious certification authorities.
We need help to improve on both.
I had similar takeaways but could not have phrased it nearly this well. Thanks.
I am aware of zero "Know your customer" laws in the US for web hosting, email or other services like that

Know your customer is a banking law that banks have to follow for money laundering purposes
Sure! What is a fair amount of money to pay for 1lb of beans?
I wonder if the story about memorizing Shel Silverstein’s poem is true or if the author stole that too
This is a potentially interesting identity for AI, that is, as a curve-fitting function...

I postulate (but cannot at the present moment prove!) that if there is proof such that:

a) AI fits curves

and

b) That if all polynomial numbers (NX^M .. AX^2 + BX^1 + CX^0) are in fact curves...

then (perhaps)

c) Perhaps there is a link between polynomial numbers (as curves) and AI... that is, perhaps all AI can be thought of as a function with a polynomial solution, such that F(X) = NX^M .. AX^2 + BX^1 + CX^0, with F(X) being the AI in question...

I leave it to mathematicians, logicians, and people who do dimensional reductions/transformations -- to prove or disprove this...
Actually, kava kava is the best I’ve found outside of benzodiazepines.
Yes, plagiarism is wrong.

The author starts by telling how he, as a child, confused the directions of "write a poem" and "write down a poem". He then doubles down on this mistake, rather than concluding that English is weird.

The author conflates legality and morality, stating that any group that establishes extralegal moral norms needs to reexamine its assumptions. The author implicitly and incorrectly assumes that laws are the source of morals, rather than existing to incentive moral behavior.

The author fails to consider the effect of reputation. Reputation is a heuristic that is used to determine how likely something is, given how trustworthy the speaker is on the subject. If a researcher in an esoteric field, having contributed several results to the field, suggests a new way to interpret the field, that suggests that the idea has already been reasonably vetted. A crank email, on the other hand, may present similarly novel ideas, but they have not been vetted. Plagiarism inappropriately assigns reputation, subverting this heuristic.

The author's metaphor of the apple tree has some rather unfortunate implications. By the logic given, a person should plant apple trees farther from the property line, so that all apples fall well away from public roads. In scientific discovery, this would mean hiding one's findings, refusing to publish other than to state that a discovery has been made. This was the method that was in use through the 16th century, and resulted in much slower rate of progress. Read, for instance, the multiple discoveries of the Cardano Formula.

In short, the author's case that plagiarism should be abandoned as a concept is severely flawed.
> [uBO] will increase DNS latency because it has to check each external domain again for the "true" domain.

The browser API used by uBO returns the last CNAME in the chain. I consider the DNS lookup itself to be an non-issue overhead-wise in uBO because:

- The browser would need to do it anyways

- DNS lookup results are cached at both the browser and uBO level
I'm much more likely to set this up as an easy to way to get to my home machine while away without messing with port forwarding.
Whenever you claim no algorithm can do something that a human can, you must ask yourself: what does the computer lack that a human might posses?

In this case, there are indeed machine learning algorithms that can do this task.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5533...
Unless they blatantly broke the law in some provable way, probably nothing. Though as with the guy in this case, he can sue the State/City for wrongful imprisonment and other issues.
Emacs isn't vim. I think vimpulse gives the most essential bits of vim, while the other bits can be replaced with emacs functionality without a loss of efficiency. I don't miss any of my vim plugins. The only plugin I use that brings emacs closer to vim is viper/vimpulse. Vim still feels slightly (maybe 5-10%) slicker when editing text (I'm a long-time vimmer that moved to emacs a few months ago). In return you get (IMHO) superior indentation, better integration with external processes (such as debuggers and REPL sessions) and easier customization.

What exactly is it that you miss from vim that you're not getting in emacs? Is it only a generally decreased feeling of efficiency? Because that definitely went away for me once I learned to leverage and customize emacs.
Application server is busy. Either there are too many concurrent requests or the server still is starting up

Apparently scaling is hard too.
Why can't they write a test that makes sure the basic case works?
Just to answer the question: The incident will normally be reported to the auth.log and possibly mailed to root. The behavior can be configured at compile time or in the sudoers file. For more information, see man sudo and man sudoers.
I have a particularly ingenious defense to prevent reformatting: I have a 3,1 Macbook Pro with a Superdrive. Not only is it incapable of reading any optical media, but getting your disc back from the furry recesses of its lair is almost impossible.
Pricing is going to be a huge deciding factor.

Azure is expensive, but its getting better. They enabled full IIS in the latest 1.3 release. Now you can host multiple websites within a single WebRole and map subdomains to each site. Remote Desktop access and full admin rights removed many other restrictions as well.

SQL Azure still has the craziest pricing. $10/gb. Thats why we decided to go the 'NoSql' route and use Table Storage for everything possible.
I recommend “A Random Walk Down Wall Street” for a safe/conservative, no-bs and simple introduction.
I suggest you organise this with your friends - it is a lot of fun and you can enjoy an adult science experiment.

If you do want to try it, then two suggestions: 1. try to have some way to blind yourself from the results, 2. Make a decision whether you want everyone to get plastered or not.

I did this a few years ago and it was heaps of fun, but I wasn’t careful about amounts so we all got trolleyed by mistake.
This applies less when selling B2B. Auto companies and power companies are GOING to shop based on reliability, and are GOING to notice when your stuff doesn't last as long as it should.
So, instead of HN commenters to ask Florida offer evidence that these math books contain CRT (whatever that even means here) people go off on the typical tangents. Let’s get some facts straight: Florida is banning books, blaming it on CRT, and not offering proof. They could, you know, show the offending pages and texts. The fact that they don’t should tell you something.
> And you definitely don't hold cash. Holding cash has a lot of risk as well

(Sorry, genuine questions) risk of what and compared to what?
we must condemn russias unprovoked genocide of neo nazis
I found it embarrassing that I actually do not know much material that worth to be written. My gut feeling is that one month of intensive research/work/study can be summarized in a long blog post. But in my post-student life I have, unfortunately, avoided so many of those intensive experience because they are difficult. I even switch job every 2-3 years so that I never get much deep understanding of pretty much anything and fortunately not many jobs actually need one.

This might be something I can start working on for my second half of life.
That's unfortunately the reality of America, intelligence plus motivation are greatly rewarded. If you want to do anything more than exist on the standard scale it's considerably harder outside of the US.
Why do you believe Florida here? What’s more likely, that a math book is trying to “brainwash kids through CRT” or known political exaggerators are exaggerating?
And you should work for a company that is a match for you. I've worked on mostly remote teams but, pre-COVID, occasional off-sites were really not optional. Which seems reasonable barring exceptional circumstances. The lack of same has really been something of an issue the past couple of years. Of course, people should choose their own circumstances as well as they can.
Actually one of his lost playgrounds is still there,

http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractio...

but it does look somewhat different. There are however a few other playgrounds (103rd st., Ancient Playground) on that list you found that have similar features.

It looks to me like he's lamenting the loss of a certain kind of vision in modernist playgrounds that were less about swings and slides and more about stimulating creative play. I don't know a lot about it, but you can probably dig for it. What I'll say though is that while the modernism might have been lost, the adventure has not and new playgrounds in NYC get better and better with every new or rebuilt one.
The washington post version had a little more detail:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/25/google-...

Hard to muster much sympathy for anyone here--whether it be the machine, or its acolytes. These bastards all loved that sweet, sweet institutional power back when it was advancing their own agenda.
So few people seem to understand this. People tend to think I'm insane when I suggest that abortion of down-syndrome foetuses will eventually lead to more down-syndrome foetuses.
I'm not from US and I've never been there, but I think the problem is not only about police abuse. When you're in a country where almost anyone can have a weapon (and kind of the military range), the police also is having more risk than in any other country...
> A robot is better than scared and well armed officer

You know how a lot of people is upset with companies like google for the lack of humanity of their moderation policies? like when a youtube channel is unfairly demonetised because an algorithm incorrectly flagged it?

Imagine that, but with the choice to maim or kill.
>you didn't fulfil your contractual obligation to perform Y that you're paid X for?

I'd be interested to see where in this article you saw anyone imply the employees didn't fulfill their work duties?
> the awful objective c

:(
Because the company is actually made up of the people that work for it, it’s not the shareholders/owners keeping the company alive and giving it “personhood” status, it’s the employees. So it only seems natural that when some of the employees think that something is “wrong” with said company that they’d want to take the necessary steps to fix said wrong thing (with varied degrees of success). Google without its employees is nothing, the same as Facebook or Microsoft without their employees are nothing.
I remember reading a letter translated from Arabic to English. It sounded a lot like these letters to Ea-Nasir.
Protection against changes should be done with subresource integrity hashes (http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/). With HTTPS, an observer still knows who you're talking to, and since they can see how big the request and reply are, they can probably guess what you're looking at.
You'd also need to understand that not all full-time Groovy and Grails developers make equal contributions. Funding the 2 technical workers on Groovy might make sense for a business, but due to ownership problems related to the brand, codebase, support, channels, and what not, disentangling these 2 workers from the whole mess is a legal nightmare. Perhaps there's something similar with Grails, but I don't know much about that one. Pivotal obviously decided simply terminating funding was more profitable than trying to split off a separate business and sell it all to someone else.
> the idea that you can say one but not the other

If that was the parent's point then I wish he would have simply said that so that I could have disagreed, rather than whatever weaselly thing he wrote.
Instead of continuing the trend of downvoting you:

Without SSL, you can't be sure of the integrity of the data set by the site. It's important even when not exchanging private data.
That's a cool project!

The author -- Frank Hunleth gave a talk at Erlang Factory last year about it:

http://www.erlang-factory.com/sfbay2014/frank-hunleth (Building an IP Network Camera)

It was fun and he did a demo too.

The idea was that Erlang works very well as an init/supervisor on an embedded system.

Erlang processes map very well to a full OS processes but on a smaller scale -- tiny stack space (a couple K) + but heaps are isolated. There is also a C API which makes it nice to interface with hardware.
I remember their advocacy from internal mailing lists. They were staunch critics of Amazon's effect on the climate and environment. I don't recall either of them calling for a union, but I do remember them as passionate, eloquent, and consistent advocates of the environment, and I was very sad to see them be fired.
I disagree. Use a second process that has a limited namespace where you've mounted only the local files you want an HTML document to be able to refer to and an IPC socket marked for exclusive use. The first process resolves file links and reads file contents via IPC to the second process.
I think you might be surprised at how deftly Supreme Court justices are able to see through specific tech issues to identify the core dispute at hand and how decades-old laws and regulations should (or should not) apply.

If anything, they are even better with age at not getting confused by increasing technical detail of our API era, and making sure that the principles of law cut through that. (and how to structure a decision so it's clear to everyone)

If you relied on a tech-heavy decision to be made, this would not be a Supreme Court issue.
Judge Thomas is terrible.

He simultaneously says that corporations have First Amendment rights to donate unlimited money to politicians, but have no First Amendment rights to moderate content on their social networks.

He's a hack that just does whatever is best for conservatives.
> Yes, it is overriding copyright protection for a creative work that would otherwise apply. However, it does so because a greater good is served

One could argue that this is for the judicial branch, not the legislative branch, to decide.
>What is the FDA doing?

Nothing. PFCs are not federally regulated by any federal agency that I'm aware of. Despite many different NGOs defining "no safe levels" in the water supply AKA 1 ppt is bad.
> Most open-source projects accept code submissions from strangers and it's not exactly obvious that these submissions (bug fixes or new features) are what they really are and if they don't have cleverly hidden backdoors.

I don't think McAfee will mitigate this scenario.

In my experience antivirus programs are so painful and slow that I would accept almost any inconvenience to avoid using them, for example, doing development on air-gapped VMs or even separate physical machines for web browsing, email, and development.

For example, every 'npm install foo' command creates thousands of files, in one specific case introducing a virus scan on each one turned a 10s install into a 5 minute one.
There's a number of times I added significant new function to programs while ripping out great gobs of code.

My favorite was replacing a function call with a single character constant.

Then there were two employers who demanded code proliferation (management incentives tied to KLOCs?). Didn't last long at either place.
This explains a lot. I wrote a small book back in the 90s that had few sales and was unlamented when it fell out of print. A couple of years ago saw it as the subject of an amazon.com sidebar ad and was astonished to find that it was listed at $100 or thereabouts, and couldn't imagine how or why it might have become collectible. The idea that this was the result of competing pricing algorithms makes a great deal more sense to me.

Now, if you'll excuse me I'm off to weep over my broken dreams of belated celebrity.
I don't see any primary keys in that example, just one column that has an index (fast to look up on) and one that doesn't (slow to look up on, but they don't do that in the example).
I guess it's Gb (Gigabit).
Since the only traffic Facebook Chat has is presence, which is handled using separate C++ servers.
Out of 500M users (350M active users) not many of them use chat, maybe because by design it feels disconnected from the rest of the site.
I think Quora is a more appropriate destination for this content, it already has a great critical mass of users, and a more accessible UI. (you also know it won't just vanish tomorrow)
The MySQL slow query log could be of use. Of course you don't get a stack trace this way but it's essentially free (as in built already and not a huge performance hit).
Holy shit, this article could read like all the characteristics that are needed to be a good leader and co-worker. Thanks for this. It made the morning cup of tea taste that much better.
I looked around and couldn't find an appropriate e-mail address anywhere. If you have one, feel free to let them know.
A need or problem encourages creative efforts to meet the need or solve the problem - Necessity is the mother of Invention. Kudos!!
In what way do Google Web Fonts not "look good"? That page seems to imply that Google has modified the fonts in some way but doesn't give any details.
This is downplaying how much development time goes into a startup. There are many more technologies that go into making a startup viable: source-control (SVN/Git), fault-tolerance (nginx/haproxy/EC2 ELB), scalability (optimized SQL queries/redis/memchached), searching (solr/elasticsearch), development tools (Terminal commands/Vim/Emacs/Eclipse/JIRA/Atlassian/etc). These are in addition to being able to make a frontend and backend.

VERY few developers know about all of the above, even if you remove searching and scalability. It's these kinds of developers that startups are looking to hire...and they are rare.

As a side note, successful startup founders often posses the skills above (think Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, etc).
I am currently looking at jobs in NYC. With 2 years of experience I am fielding offers between 60k-80k in a cheap state to live in. Two comments above you make great points: (1) Developers should be making more than what they are and (2) Why should startups be entitled to cheap labor?

That being said my point is if I had the 5+ years of experience you probably are looking for and was moving to NYC I would expect to be making 150k+. Which if that is what you are offering, great. But if it's not then you can find the talent you are looking for, you just can't afford it.
Uhh India hacked Google?(I know about China). References? Google has an office in Bangalore and people here do work on "critical infrastructure".
There are some really talented young people in Myanmar - would like to name Nex, Code2Lab, Total Gameplay Studio. Big open source movement too.

It's an interesting time and our company, Myanmar Plus, is building apps for Android and web - things like http://myanmarestate.net which is launching soon. You can reach me at info@myanmarplus.net - give us a shout if you're visiting or have questions!
Bitcoin bears in the comments here can have fun staying poor.
Fair - but this is an example where if money makes the wheels move more cleanly via lobbying, then those "people" will be the only ones heard.

Organizing millions of poor people to financially compete with lobbyist funds seems a losing battle.
So great! How was your experience using gyrosco.pe? Would love to learn what you loved / didn't love! And yes, only $40 for ours!
OMG in what country do you live? 15%??? We have to pay 50% on this in Canada, well at least the ones who are in the top earning bracket.

I would gladly pay the 15%. I mean how greedy is it to make these kind of gains in crypto and then trying to avoid a measly 15% of tax lol.
Are these buttons not for the action of "select this size"?
Or maybe even buy more Bitcoin than they need? It seems to have worked out well for Tesla so far.

As Matt Levine pointed out yesterday, a mainstream company can make money by buying Bitcoin and then making an announcement that sounds like they're going to use it. (It doesn't matter whether that plan works out or not, as long as the price of Bitcoin goes up.)

For Paypal, getting their own customers to buy Bitcoin (that they already own) would be a way of hedging, if they're long Bitcoin to begin with.