jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You can choose to make your email on your profile public. Take a look at the number of emails exposed vs. the number of phone numbers exposed, there's a reason why it's a small portion, most people don't make that public.

This was just an attacker abusing "Who can look you up using the phone number you provided?" for users where this was set to the default of "Everyone" and then scraping the public details for the profile that popped up.
I am not a tax lawyer— is there anything stopping Mr. Bezos from simply voluntarily paying more in taxes than he owes? Or even just Amazon turning down the tax breaks for e.g. locating a distribution center or office center in a new jurisdiction? Support of a policy would seem to go a lot further if he was already voluntarily attempting to achieve its goals (presumably funding more public services). Without that effort, it seems more like a desire to subject everyone else to a policy that he feels he can weather.
I thought Facebook and Gmail were the sites that far-right extremists use most.
> you can sign up for where they will cycle through the registered AC units to balance out peak load in the summer

This is inefficiently attempting to solve the problem in the same way while trying to maintain that flat electric rate. We need to get past the idea that electric rates must be flat.
My kid was playing Lightbot at 6yo. Most programming toys I've seen have similar mechanics. I put together a cardboard version myself to help him practice some concepts (e.g. procedures), with the difference that it uses actual directions (up, down, left, right) instead of the usual forward, turn left, turn right commands, which in my observation was more intuitive.

He didn't seem to take much more interest in programming after mastering that, but he did eventually take interest in chess. The reason is that we borrowed a bunch of chess books from the library and he would go read them whenever he was bored, and he would play with his grandpa to try to apply the tricks he was reading about. Point being that having self-study and tight feedback loops seem to help in acquiring proficiency in a skill.

Personally, after the most beginner level, I'd start to move away from using game development as a motivator for learning programming simply because after some threshold, the math requirements ramp up substantially (e.g. implementing jumping in a side-scroller requires middle school level math at a very bare minimum). In my own journey, I've found that web development (using only the most vanilla subset of technologies) was a relatively gentle way to get into programming. The syntax is relatively forgiving, the building blocks are high level enough to allow easy creation of interesting interactive things, the built-in tooling in browsers nowadays are amazing and the tight feedback loop is there.

YMMV
It's also bonus points towards sustainability to ensure their devices have a life after obsolescence.

Honestly Apple could use some of those points considering how many little plastic parts they force people to buy.
The back story is that the Metropolitan Opera board and manager Peter Gelb decided to furlough their world-class orchestra in April 2020. Using the pandemic as cover, they are now attempting to force the musicians to renegotiate their contract. In the meantime, Gelb hired a group of scab musicians from Vienna to perform in a holiday concert. The Artistic Director of the Met, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, has decided to provide financial support to furloughed Met employees in the form of matching contributions.
You are spot on there. Here is Tom Loosemore (one of the originators of the Government Digital Service) explaining how it came to be:

https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/abfe49d3-f24c-4b93-b8e...

Unfortunately the spend control that GDS had, has been removed.
This may help:

In Persian, "Death to America" is "marg bar Amrika"

Common Persian phrases, and these are everyday phrases in Iran include:

1) Marg!
Literally, Death!, closest we have in English: Shut up!

2) Khabare margesh!
Literally, the news of his/her death! This is used with someone you don't like, as in, you're only interested in the news of that persons death (perhaps a politician is a typical example).

3) Boro bemir!
Literally, Go die! Again, in English, the equivalent is along the lines of Shut Up!

4) Che margeshe? Literally, what's his death? Used mostly for objects, such as when your car won't start.

5) Marge man, literally, my death. Used when you are swearing you are telling the truth.

Iranians have so many expressions/figures-of-speech related to Death.
>Why the hell are we not just using beam forming with WiFi?

AFAIK the router I have from years ago is advertised to have "beam forming". Whether/how well it works is another story.

>Why are we restricting the construction of computer networks to some few privileged companies?

The theory is that building out networks in a planned/organized fashion would produce better results than ad-hoc deployment. See sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25652088
WTF? taskwarrior, bullet-journal and beeminder, all-in-one from command-line :fire! It's all I wanted/needed but was afraid of building myself... Awesome!
Hydro pump storage works because you don't have to pay for the weights. Building a train is worse than batteries in terms of economics.
To elaborate on my comment, per our original question whether there are respectable scientists who hold non status quo positions for scientific reasons, my example of Sanford as a YEC who holds the position for scientific reasons seems to still stand. It is not uncommon for scientists to disagree, so I am unsure what your quote is demonstrating regarding our original question.

Just to outline the discussion up till now, I maintain that even non status quo views should be given a hearing, if they proceed by well established criteria for good argumentation. You questioned whether any such people/arguments exist, and if so whether they are in fact being unduly censored. I offered the biological fine tuning paper and Sanford as ID and YEC (in turn) examples to support my claim there are well argued minority views held by otherwise highly intellectually respectable individuals that are currently being censored, unjustly in my opinion.
OK, I think we mostly agree.
Not the same thing, at all. Getting an invite with Gmail didn't mean you could only use Gmail to communicate with others who had received invites.
I didn't want to clog the article with an explanation of each of the heuristics I provided, so here it is in the comments.

#1 is pretty self-explanatory.

#2 is the expected value, halved because an awesome startup with every chance of success still fails half the time. If you're swinging for the fences (shooting for IPO), you're way more likely to either fail or get so much preference ahead of the common that you never see anything.

#3 is because everyone underestimates the amount they'll need to raise.

#5 The huge penalty is for two reasons. One, because it's tremendously bad for the common. Two, because it often means something worse: the company's up against a wall, the CEO's a bad negotiator, everyone's expecting the common to be worthless so they have to make it up in preferences, etc.

#6 Again, the direct impact isn't as bad as this makes it out to be, but a CEO who does a good job negotiating preferences is a leading indicator of other good things: s/he knows how to generate demand for the company, has leverage, knows how to squeeze every ounce out of a deal, etc. This is basically a proxy for if the CEO will do well during negotiations to sell the company.

#7 A common-dominated board will tend towards common-friendly exits, and indicates a CEO who does well in negotiations.
Again, this is all guesswork, particularly trying to figure out the all important "will the CEO do a good job selling the company" factor. But I think it's a decent swag.
People forget that devices like the iPaq with Microsoft's Pocket PC on them had touch-screens long before both the iPhone and Android.

Those people at Google are dicks for competing. It's like they are operating in capitalism or something.

But what I really hate is hypocrisy. Everyone understood why Google did it without blog-posts from self-proclaimed spokesmen.

In the case of Apple though, things aren't so clear ... and I would bet that Apple would've gotten into the advertising business anyway. They just picked a fight ... and you don't need brains to figure out why. Look around ... picking a fight is good marketing.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1435044
Fair enough :) I did think a while after that my comment may have been rather too blunt. I can certainly accept that the vuvuzelas are part of the modern culture and that to remove them would be to remove the South African flavour from the event.

Just be careful of rashly accusing people of "complete cultural ignorance" when it's a really just a benign matter of people wanting to enjoy the football in the way they're accustomed.
Subversion doesn't have a built-in notion of branches in the same way that distributed systems do. Instead of being names for nodes in the DAG of commits, branches in Subversion are usually handled by manually maintaining separate versions of the same code in a branches/ subdirectory. In a distributed system, you could keep a wiki or bug database on its own branch, and commits to that branch wouldn't be visible if you only cared about the main branch. In Subversion, those commits would be visible, because it's all part of the same tree.

One caveat: Subversion's branch management may have changed since I last looked (version 1.5 or so). However, systems like Trac and RedMine were designed when branches worked as I described above, so it still serves to explain their rejection of SCM-backed storage.
SL uses the browser stack by default, but also lets you use its own HTTP client stack.
Will try to make it!
We've found that detailed sprint burndown records are a useful tool. If you can say "historically, our estimates are 90% accurate", and then pull up a bunch of charts and figures to back up that assertion, it lends a lot of weight to your argument.
Ghetto? How about just "old and crufty"?
The whole TSA taking the child story apparently was half way made up.. at least according to the TSA. http://blog.tsa.gov/2009/10/response-to-tsa-agents-took-my-s...
Going by the answers to other questions, roughly 2/3 of respondents are also not worried about terrorism.

Naturally, there's a huge number of permutations there, but this boils down to an awful lot of people perfectly willing to be looked at naked or felt up just because someone in charge says it needs to be done.

This is part of why I've gotten into arguments with other libertarians who want to rain abuse on TSA employees simply for working at the TSA. The truth is that the TSA simply isn't doing much that most Americans aren't perfectly happy to let them do.
Both this site and Reddit(or at least /r/programming) cover tech news it would be sad\weird\strange if things didn't make it to both sites. As far as the comments go they are what you make of them, the quality improves if you stick to the less redditish article titles.
I like it.

The only thing I'd say is, get interesting startups -- and the rest will take care of itself.
It could be propaganda if there were a political or totalitarian purpose behind the claim. Scientific measurements, and related hypotheses, are not in that realm.
> Swagger ... is not suited to describing hypermedia APIs

Why is that? It wouldn't force/guide you to create a hypermedia APIs by default, but it could be used to document one couldn't it?
I have paid a lot of attention to RMS over the years.

I took him out to dinner once, my wife and I, and had a lovely evening talking mostly about his childhood experiences.

He was extremely respectful to the staff at the restaurant I recall. Going out of his way to compliment them on the food.

That at some point he said: "women who have not been introduced to emacs...sacred duty of all members of the church of emacs" is entirely possible. We all have said stupid things. Out of context especially, had these things been recorded, we would be ashamed.

To use that quote to define RMS is a gross insult, intellectually fraudulent, it is a political attack.

I do think it is important to play nice in politics. So if you have criticisms of RMS' stand on software, make them.

This sort of thing is insulting to all of us who do our best to imperfectly maintain standards of debate
Why? Speed and integration.
I wish DSP had multiplayer built in. I know their is a mod to add it, but it seems like such a great candidate for a multiplayer game at the core.
On the contrary, investing in cans of beans may offer a great way to protect your wealth from inflation. They may be a non-deprecating asset.
Grandma’s Boy and Office Space for movies.

Various aspects of The IT Crowd, Silicon Valley and Mythic Quest for TV shows.
How has the mass changed? If we're talking about a fraction (density) it's pointless to talk about the numerator on its own.
Then could you please tell me the actual memory model of the language? Because that is the numero uno thing I want to know about a language, yet I constantly read contradicting thing on vlang’s model. (Is it boehm gc?)
They really, really don't suck in Germany. Taxis there are mostly clean, comfortable Mercedes (E-Class usually, Mercedes has a long history and special contracts for that), and Taxi drivers are massively trained. Up until recently, part of the extensive examination was being quizzed about how to get to obscure streets (and remember that Germany does not have a grid system like in the US). That has been abolished, because with ubiquitous GPS it's not necessary anymore, but the other strict requirements stayed.

Uber has nothing on that.
I had this same exact thought, and will open fast.com once in a while to give my AT&T 1Gb fiber at home a kick.

But I never assumed malice, even if it is AT&T. I'm not a network engineer but I can see how giving whatever back end networking management system they have a nudge by requesting a fast connection improving things.
Uber shifts the relationship from rider <-> taxi company, to rider <-> Uber. This places a significant responsibility on Uber to create a high quality rider experience. If you book a car and the driver doesn't show up repeatedly, Uber will remove that driver.

Uber also fields customer service, meaning you're not trying to call into a one man shop to argue for a refund with whoever happened to pick up your ride that day. You're talking with Uber.

Some cities, such as NYC, have created their own structure around taxis, but in many cities it's a complete guess as to the quality of service you'll get when you call a local cab company.

This is the exact same playbook as Doordash, Seamless, Taskrabbit, Airbnb, or any of the other gig economy platforms. They're vastly more than just software. They're certainly different from software provided to independent operators, though individual people can come to their own determination of whether or not that is "better."
This has shot right over my head, but as a google suggests the place is well regarded, I’m going to say ‘with’…
Some of the citations are factually incorrect, do people actually check this papers out before they get published?

Dodgy Science & whitepapers!
I immediately thought of Bill Mudron's gorgeous maps of classic videogames (Zelda, Super Mario, Castlevania). The easiest way to view most of them is the page where he's selling prints: http://mudron.bigcartel.com/

His homepage has a few more, http://www.billmudron.com/, if you go to "For Me" and click on the bottom right for the gallery.
But what x86 can express hasn't changed; just how it performs.

An abstraction never includes the details of execution; abstraction is that separation itself! A piece of 80386 code running on an 80386 is no more or less abstract than the same piece of code on a Core i7. They agree in their external effects, like what inputs are loaded from memory, and what result is written.

The fact that EAX is renamed to different internal registers or whatever isn't really "high level": not "high level" in any way that helps the programmer express something. It just changes the performance.

It's not high level the way that, say, "reduce + list" is higher level relative to "for (total = 0; i = 0; i < list.length(); i++) {total += list[i];}"

(Exceptions are situations where programs do certain things; e.g. self-modifying code needs to tackle instruction caches on one implementation, but not another. That's where the abstraction "leaks".)
I too have been trying with Haskell in the past. I don't know, maybe I'm just dumb as a box of rocks.. I found working through learning Standard ML (which consequently has lead me on poking about with F#, but that's another tale), has been a considerable help in general for the ML style languages.
Also Rossi's Architecture of the City and Habracken's Structure of the Ordinary are another two of my favorites in somewhat similar [to me] conceptual spaces.
You should see the unreadable mess in his blog.

http://thedutras.blogspot.com/

When did English drop those letters? 400 years ago? If he really wants to use those letters, he should also use the grammar and vocabulary constructs.

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8102/pg8102.html

(all that being said, I would mind a few more letters to use in English, particularly the schwa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa would make everybody's life easier w/r to spelling).
Windows Azure

Since we run on .Net and SQL Server it felt like the right choice. Microsoft has some really nice C# libraries that make accessing things like Blobs, Table Storage and Queues dead simple.
I wonder if this partnership goes the other way as well -- is Seeing Interactive also offering SEO services to Weebly customers?
Windows Azure?

I agree that the examples you provided are not cloud hosting. But there certainly are other true cloud platforms.
Aside from him visualizing primes using the word "whirlpool", that doesn't sound like the same thing at all. For one, the Ulam spiral doesn't employ binary representation. And it distinctly presents a diagonal pattern, whereas Clarke seems to be describing a visualization with no patterns at all ("apparently according to no laws").
I'm looking forward to the personalized voice recognition from Android. I suspect Google will be able to do very interesting things with a model of my voice over the years.
Depressing to me, because I find most of the content there to be, "clever only to people of pedestrian intelligence." Then again, perhaps this is just savvy marketing.
HN is my main source for "my kind" of news. Google News is my main source for mainstream news. (BBC gets in there sometimes for more of a world/different from U.S. perspective)
not sure. FYI, xkcd also makes (or made in 2008) it's money on merchandise.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/business/media/26link.html

“People are generally surprised that we make a living from it,” Mr. Munroe said. Without being specific, he said that the sales of xkcd merchandise support the two of them “reasonably well.” He said they sell thousands of T-shirts a month, either of panels from his strip or in their style, as well as posters.
I'm inclined to agree - I use a iPhone 6 daily, and while the bigger screen is nice in some ways, the loss of usability is aggravating.

"Reachability", to be blunt, is an admission of defeat - and I know this is a tired trope - that would not have happened under Jobs. Sure, Jobs may have surrendered to the trend of larger screen sizes, but he would've insisted on something that wasn't so plainly awful as Reachability.

The bigger screen is beautiful and I love looking at it, but I hate touching it. I also hate the fact that the top right corner of all apps is now no-mans land, covered with touch sensors as a matter of obligation than actual usefulness. Expect app developers to start treating the top right corner of the screen as non-user-interactive space only useful for displays.

It's too bad that Apple evidently doesn't have any intention of continuing the 4" form factor. I'd like to have seen multiple screen sizes given priority.
I used Lucid Charts. It felt easy to work with.

https://www.lucidchart.com/
http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/
Right. You are free to have your opinions. But if you offend the wrong person, you will most likely get fired from your job, shunned completely from your community, or bullied online.

It's not even about the truth anymore. Even mainstream news organizations spin and lie about what actually happened, with real-world consequences (and no consequences for the news orgs or the reporters). Every news outlet spread lies about the Ferguson incident, before we even had any credible witnesses or facts. When the facts finally came out, they continued to spread the same lies (and many continued to believe them).

In the past couple of years, there have been dozens of reporters that have gotten fired for an obvious mistake that was deemed 'offensive' by the likes of political activist groups and used as fuel to fire them. It's just another form of bullying.

Many people don't even know that Al Sharpton will threaten companies and demand money or work in exchange for not going after them publicly. Pepsi paid him thousands per year in the 90s and XM radio actually gave him his own show for a couple of years to get him to stop talking about the "homeless charlie" incident that happened a few years back. A quick Google search will show you many companies that essentially pay him hush money. It tells me that when he cries racism, it's not about bettering society, but lining his pockets. It seems this is public knowledge now. Why isn't he in jail?

I don't really use Facebook besides some simple private messaging between friends. Why? I can predict the coming storm that many people don't seem to see. Anything online can and will be used to instantly form an opinion about you and your life style. Not having the right "culture fit" might just mean someone in management doesn't agree with your political opinions.

The ex-Mozilla CEO is another good example of the problem with today's society. He donated a small amount of money to a cause he believed in and was bullied and ridiculed online until he quit.

If it had been the reverse (he supported gay-marriage and was bullied until he quit) many of those same people would be crying out about how we need to stop online bullying and probably demand the government step in. If I were the Mozilla CEO, I would have set an example and found the people that worked for the company that spewed the most hate against me and fired them on the spot.

As I've gotten older, I have found that most people are the same: they preach open and honesty..until it's for a cause that they disagree with. Then, they just want to silence and discredit the opposition.

Few are for actual freedom, which is sad.
I beg to differ. The economic principles underlying both are the same — technology pushed the supply curve too far to the left, past the critical regeneration threshold (which must exist for any self-renewing resource).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmChiLZZHg#t=27m53s
http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/09/the-iphone-5-ad-that-apple-wan...
I think the size of the phone is just a small problem. In my opinion it's the software the needs work. Right now, iOS is just scaled up and that's just not ideal.

For example, take how the Home screen icons stick to the top. You can in theory have 5 rows of icons with a blank one on the bottom. This may have worked well on previous iPhone's but with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus it makes it even harder to reach.

These are things I hope Apple addresses in iOS 9. Right now it's just scaled up for big phones. It's now time to optimize it.
They still sell the 5S, and the next generation will include the same size as the 5S.
It's okay, but it does suck for those of us who enjoy smaller screens, since there are no longer any flagship smartphones for us. :)