jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Full disk encryption isn't an "I'm so clever" excuse - take Ulbricht for instance even if he had shut down his computer before being arrested FDE wouldn't be help from someone asking his password. If you've been seen using the computer recently it's going to pretty hard to convince the courts that you don't know the FDE encryption password.

"I'm so clever" is running something that destroys all the data on your laptop and then claiming that you didn't do that in response to an investigation (and therefore obstructed justice).

Even with Truecrypt installed there's still plenty of ways evidence can be collected that can be used to demonstrate that you realistically have access to encrypted and hidden data. It isn't as simple as installing Truecrypt and thinking you're safe. Be it recently accessed documents lists for folders that don't exist, Truecrypt being installed, having software installed (and with recent execution dates) that don't have any corresponding data files anywhere on the system etc etc.

Think of it like Cold War espionage - you could live your life by "Moscow Rules" where you do everything possible to be able to claim, convincingly, that you're not being so clever. However even very talented agents and intelligence assets failed to not slip up on many occasions, and it involved huge amounts of time, effort and money on their parts.
This is a BIG step forward in further support of a language bashed on by certain people. I switched to R two years ago and it really has been a great fit for me and my work. Excited for Revolution Analytics and what positive things this could mean for R.
Oops, I just accidentally downvoted that. my bad.
KDE is ugly.
It looks like software back then 2010s
KDE is ugly.
It looks like software back then 2010s.
The Economist uses the same pattern.

It's nice if you're aware of it and willing to use it for discounts (faking that you want to unsubscribe, knowing that you'll get a better deal during the attempt), but if you actually want to cancel the service it's awful.
Such as the longstanding occupier of this space, Second Life?

As people often point out on twitter, we're already in metaverse 1.0. The cyberpunk continuously connected world. It turns out that the 3D surface view of that isn't so necessary or even comfortable for a lot of users. But the connectedness is.
No, they don’t. And while I’m not against nudity (though there’s no nudity in the Toronto Sun), sticking some T&A in your tabloid to boost your appeal to the horny demographic is the opposite of a “mature view of the human body”.
If you use latex as your input, you benefit from a nicer layout and have the option to handout pdf's to content maintainers in a professional format.
I am aware of that that channel stands for, or used to stand for. None of that is insane. Perhaps controversial in relation to the current status quo, or maybe not entirely realistic, depending on how deep you wish to delve into this subject, but we must keep in mind that democracy, voting rights for everyone, flying and real time communication across the globe were all deemed utterly unrealistic or outright utopian before we had them.
> a post to the Haskell mailing list led to zero replies

There is Haskell Weekly with weekly job offers:

As of November 2020, over 4,100 people subscribe to Haskell Weekly.
Over the last five issues, the average open rate was 37% and the average
click rate was 16%.

https://haskellweekly.news/issue/301.html
https://haskellweekly.news/advertising.html
The interesting thing is that for a lot of crimes, prison is ment as a time for rehabilitation. If the people that run the prison only make money if you come back again (or stay there), the situation changes slightly...
The cool thing is once you get the ball rolling, it keeps on rolling. Ever since I improved my diet and started exercising, I have times when I just really, really want to jump up and down, run laps, do pushups, lift something heavy...

You do have to keep it up though.
> You're angry because it feels like everybody is getting rich and you aren't. What you don't understand is that bull markets are always temporary. This stuff moves in cycles.

I've benefited massively in financial terms during the pandemic and resulting fed action and I still think it's dangerous and misguided. You are painting with very broad, simple strokes here.

Regardless of the fact that there is press coverage, the average American could not in any meaningful terms describe what the fed is or what it does, while maybe a quarter might know that it has something to do with "printing money" (obviously anecdotal). The idea that the complex consequences of fed policy are well understood by the average American is preposterous. The "experts" can't even agree on basic facts about what the consequences will be or have been.

Case in point, go ask financial twitter if we should be expecting inflation or deflation and watch that aisles divide.
My apologies. I have fixed the docs https://logchimp.codecarrot.net/docs/install/source
Twitter has shown us that everyone has something to hide. You have had thoughts and said things that someone will find objectionable. If in the future as a part of the hiring process they got a packet of things you have said in private conversations in order to evaluate your culture fit, would you still feel you have nothing to hide?

Could be a service used by everyone similar to the current private run credit score system, could call it social score. It will be done at some point if laws doesn't make it illegal.
Wait, fyi it is actually 404ing rn.
Totally agree, point is they already exist in some form.
Not exactly, because share buybacks are optional. A shareholder can decline to participate, increasing their stake in the company (meaning the investor believes that the net present value of the shares is higher than the price offered under the buyback).

It’s not common, though (and for the purposes of the comment you responded to, the distinction isn’t relevant). If management are saying “we can’t think of anything to do with this money”, most investors won’t disagree with them.
You mean when there's only one thing to do per iteration? I'd describe that as when mostly idle. As the system gets more loaded, the one syscall per iteration matters less and less.
The google search term here is "IPO calendar". Each exchange maintains lists, so it can help to add "nasdaq" or "nyse", etc.
> One thought that comes to mind is that I'm sure the most heavily armed nation in the world could have gotten rid of these people in no time

Some people might say the same about the store burners and looters.
For my wife, she had to travel abroad and the family had to stay in contact with her. Since she absolutely wouldn't use WhatsApp, they all installed Signal, and discovered it's actually really usable now.

I can only speak for why one company adopted Signal over WhatsApp, but the main reason was that the company did not want their communication metadata tracked by Facebook. They were regarded as equivalent in terms of E2E encryption and functionality.

EDIT: They also did not trust Facebook entirely not to break the E2E in some way (eg cloud backups or whatever), and the message contents had to remain secure. It wasn't a huge concern, but all else being equal, Signal was the better choice.
Symbols usually become symbols due to them being glaring examples of an injustice. George Floyd became a symbol, for example, due to the obvious unreasonableness of him being killed violently on the street when an officer responded to the use of a counterfeit bill. People don't consider that a reasonable reaction.

If you had asked any American a week ago about what they think is a reasonable reaction for an officer faced with people trying to surpass a barricade, that has been set up for security reasons inside a government building to protect the people inside, after said building has been trespassed by a crowd breaking through the windows, I don't think "shooting" would have been unexpected.As some people pointed out half jokingly, "you can't even try that in GTA".

I don't see the relevance of mentioning that woman's connection to the military either, other than emphasising that she should have known better.

In opposition, I think the flag that symbolises the right of people to own slaves, being flown without consequence in the meeting place of congress while the officers stand around and take selfies with the mob, sends a clear message to the descendants of slaves about how much can they expect to be protected and represented by that democracy. Even more so in a climate where they have been violently repressed for protesting inequality.
Does anybody know how we can export our Whatsapp chats in Germany? It used to be possible, it‘s not allowed anymore. But any workarounds?
I’ve been only a dozen times, but the experience gets fermented in your mind such that you will accidentally try to walk out of a 7-11 without paying. It really is effortless and a totally new customer experience. I’m still not sure if it’s a net positive, but just scanning in and walking out is great.
PA is also the 5th most populous state. 90% of US states are smaller in population.
See also Burns, R., Auld Lang Syne, 1788.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne!

(Chorus)
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

And surely ye’ll be your pint stoup!
And surely I’ll be mine!
And we’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

Chorus

We twa hae run about the braes,
And pou’d the gowans fine;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
Sin’ auld lang syne.

Chorus

We twa hae paidl’d in the burn,
Frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
Sin’ auld lang syne.

Chorus

And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere!
And gie’s a hand o thine!
And we’ll tak a right gude-willie-waught,
For auld lang syne.
kdig anyone?
I think we need to invent a new term which basically means "an ability to make a binary decision based on a set of pre-agreed rules".
I love this idea and I would def use it! It would be also great if it would work backwards aswell, eg.: "the link I found on twitter last week"
My phone is a HaiPai Noble N7889.

I have complete control over my phone (baseband and userspace), including a nifty tool sanctioned by MediaTek to insert arbitrary AT commands in my processor at will.

I also have the ability to toggle something on the range of 75 GPIO pins. I'm not entirely sure what they do, so I don't play with them. But aside that, I have complete control over every part of the hardware.
Still a student as well. I hope to get excellent grades in my classes this Spring. I hope to also land an internship for Summer 2015, so I'm not sitting around all summer doing nothing.

I've applied to about 6 places already and have optimized my resume.
Ironically: http://ckknight.github.io/gorillascript/
I'd say fat-arrow lambdas and multiple variable assignments are good... a lot of the other stuff, don't care as much... though generators/promises leading to await/async is pretty good too.
Say Tim Cook cashes out $50 million in Apple stock today. Say in a year that same stock was only worth $40 million.

Would you then say that he walked away with $10 million more than the actual value he created?

The point here is that at the time the founder cashed out his $2 million in equity, it had a value of $2 million. Not zero, not nothing. And the financiers obviously agreed, and took that equity in return.

You can't judge the deal by the direction the value took later.
Unix was never much of a cathedral, was it? The original codebase took points of pride in its jank.

MULTICS on the other hand...
> the cant-shout-fire-in-a-crowded-theater chestnut.

Shouting fire in a crowded theater has been protected speech since 1969:

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-time....

> In 1969, the Supreme Court's decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio effectively overturned Schenck and any authority the case still carried. There, the Court held that inflammatory speech--and even speech advocating violence by members of the Ku Klux Klan--is protected under the First Amendment, unless the speech "is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action"
AFM tips can be scaned at fairly high speeds over fairly large radius's. More importantly, they can operate easily in aqueous or otherwise life-favoring conditions.

The fact that you could use an AFM tip to both image a target sample and determine if something which looks like bacteria is actually alive, is pretty significant since you can also use an AFM for lots of other things (i.e. rock morphology, hardness testing etc.) Its a way of making one instrument on a spacecraft much more useful.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13997270.
Groff has a letterpress machine in the background, so it's appropriate, but I guess not very logoish.
You assume that there is any staff.
It's economically preposterous to have submersible cargo bulk carriers.

The maximum gross mass for a TEU is 24,000 kg. The volume is 38.5 cubic meters => density of 623 kg/cubic meter.

The density of sea water is about 1020 kg/cubic meter. Thus, to be neutrally buoyant, each TEU needs a countermass of at least 397 kg/cubic meter, or 15 tons.

A 5,000 TEU would have to lug around some 76,000 tonnes in the best of cases.

This could be handled with water, but that implies very large tanks (about equal to the amount of cargo), which greatly reduces the amount of cargo space available.

This is why merchant subs are only really appropriate for dense cargoes (like metals) or for very expensive cargoes (like chemical dyes, medical drugs, and mail; or cocaine for narco-submarines). Even then, it's only economically justifiable in order to run a blockade or bypass an ice sheet.
The TiGr is our titanium lock system, it’s secure,
versatile, elegant, light, easy to use and easy to
store. A really secure bike lock that’s actually sexy.

I think that's a good enough elevator pitch.
Why is that a nightmare? It makes discriminating on gender more difficult, which in my book is good.
While it's nice to see native Git apps taking off like this, I don't think this app is mature enough for daily use yet. Having to leave the app for a diff is too much of an interruption.

I like that the author is paying attention to little details, and I'm sure he'll improve the app over time, but right now I'm not seeing $40 worth of value over GitX.
the command go with pushd is popd,which pop the last path you pushed into the queue.
What do they do commercially? Do they take in contract work? Or do they create products with all these OSS libraries?

Just curious.
Latencies in communication. As long as I'm working on something that depends on other people's responses, I get drifting aloof while trying to figure out something sensible to do until I get my next piece. In contrast, programming a big task in a long-going flow almost demands me to distract myself away from the work so that I won't be totally consumed by it.
What kind of support are you going to be wanting?
Why are you so concerned about speed? Do you know right now that you'll have difficulty meeting a performance target on reasonable hardware?

Depending on what you're doing, Python may very well be faster than Java. I've done a lot of work with NumPy and found it to be both faster and safer than third rate roll your own numeric libraries that so Java programmers like to write. I've also had good success with Pyrex/Cython.

Assuming that run time performance won't be the determinative factor, your decision will probably come down to libraries and aesthetics more than anything else. I'd go with Python since I think it would allow you to iterate faster, but that's a very subjective decision.
I have personally had a great experience with Linode. Though depending on how much bandwidth you use it might be cheaper to go with Rackspace Cloud over Slicehost/Linode.
- talk to your bank to increase your withdrawal limit
- japan is a pretty safe place to walk around w/ a bit of money, so u may wish to revisit your assumptions
- are you sure it's a credit card and not a debit card? if you're looking to withdraw cash, a debit card can be more cost-efficient by not charging you interest fees
- in the u.s. credit unions have a network that provides cheap debit card usage at other banks in their network. of course these are often out of the way, so if you find the equivalent in japan and denmark, it'll likely cost you more than $5 in time and travel to get to the place.

good luck.
Yeah, what is so noteworthy about making a million dollars with a 1000x1000 pixel image?

(this is sarcasm)
> Don't forget that some of the original Hacker News user base is getting older and deciding to try out new things.

I think for the most part that it is because they're simply leaving.
I'm thinking of using it for a new project. What's your opinion of it? Any gotchas?
That would be an interesting trial.

If only we'd have politicians with the courage to take on such a crusade.
Social networking is based on communication. If we can say it is some kind of segment, given the market size does not change rapidly, any alternative emergence in communication leads to potential losing market share for existing players. Snapchat as a way to communicate is definitely grabbing the market share now. So as long as they can grow well, it will become the true next big thing(if they are not one already). I think the market share of communication point of view could provide some help to understand this. I found this out not long ago and believe this is one of the key dimensions to know the landscape better. I have not given any more deep thoughts on this yet.
Are you avoiding self promotion at the expense of your company? Because not announcing a fundraise from a "prestigious VC" sounds like a mistake - you're basically throwing away free publicity and customers.

Anyway, I'd revisit your motivations for what you're doing. It sounds like you're chasing "achievement" defined by others rather than what you want.
I would love an invite! zthorntoncs{at}gmail.com
We almost got the old thing half-working, time to switch to the new totally-not-working thing! I love you, free software.

Recently I switched from Ubuntu's awful default whatever they call it to plain X11 with every newfangled thing disabled, and fvwm2. My satisfaction with my computer's performance is almost back to where it was in 1998 when my computer had 1% of these resources and for some reason double the performance. I'm definitely not looking forward to the next next thing unless it has a really great performance story incorporating all the lessons that whoever works on this stuff should have learned in the last 20 years.
Netflix is the last app that works on my Sony Google TV from 2011. The YouTube app shut off after like 2015, but 8 years later Netflix is still trucking.
They're just some risks, we could also say:
- Local drug dealer knows where you live and cut /threaten you
- Local drug dealer can find out a lot about you, and mess with your job or family etc
- Local drug dealers often always have cut or non pure 'product'
- Local drug dealers from what I've read and seen, are much more likely to fuck you over than drug dealers on DNMs
> Why?

Unfair competition from the state, with limitless pockets, driving them to bankruptcy.

> Wasted or invested?

Wasted when finally repealed, or lost to lack of maintenance.

> Why? By who? To who?

Taxpayers

> Where? Due to what?

No competition. Lack of incentives to improve the network.

edit: love to see the downvotes of those who can't argue. Keep em coming
20th century experiments like Japan and South Korea's public internet infrastructure programs which lead them having fastest and cheapest internet connections in the world?

Britain's national telecom company was rolling out fibre in the 80's before the conservative government decided we'd be better served by private companies.

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-l...
I think it can be rephrased as "we're desperate for any possibly glimmer of hope in the face of this existential climate crisis, and fantastical solutions let us imagine the possibility of surviving - no matter how impractical (in fact, the more impossible, the better)"
At 6000 pounds and a high CoG, this thing is going to handle worse than most ladder frame trucks. And that's bad.

It's also going to have truly awful front and rear visibility. Long windshields are invariably difficult to live with, creating a hothouse interior on any day without clouds. Once you add appendages to make this legal (side mirrors, rear center brake and tail lights, headlights and turn signals) much of the bold charm of the original concept truck (which is all this is) will be lost.

I agree the design is refreshingly bold. But lots of concept cars in the past initially took fans by storm only to fade into the mainstream by the time they shipped. I'll be very impressed if a design this striking can maintain its visual impact all the way through production.
The parts of California which don’t have a housing problem are, broadly speaking, the parts of California which aren’t attractive to a ton of people as places to live.

The root cause is prop 13 disincentivizes moving around keeping the supply illiquid, and encourages ninbyism preventing new construction, as you’re basically locked in whenever you currently live.
Or, at least, I wish Win 10 had some option to increase the size of the window frame. Those almost nonexistent ones are a serious pain in my butt.
Is the base Model 3 giving the BMW M3 a run for its money, or a higher end Model 3?

Regardless, the M3 isn't exactly the pinnacle of bang-for-your-buck speed. You are paying a big premium on the BMW for fit & finish which is miles ahead of the Model 3.

But when I wrote about the pricing on the Model 3 I was thinking more in terms of utility, not pure performance. If the job to be done is driving to work, the M3 isn't the car I'm looking at. It's the Honda Civic.
Twitter is a good example of what can happen when "meta" accounts get out of hand. I think HNers find them fascinating in theory, but feel that they dilute the community in practice.
I always find it a bit disingenuous when I see this kind of competition. I quickly went through the official rules [1] and they're unclear about the true motivations behind this offer. Sure, you get $10k if you develop a great spell checking algorithm, and Microsoft claims no ownership over your implementation. But then there's two clauses that I feel weird about:

* "are granting us an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to: (i) use, review, assess, test and
otherwise analyze your entry and all its content in connection with this Contest; and (ii) feature your entry
and all content in connection with the marketing, sale, or promotion of this Contest (including but not limited to internal and external sales meetings, conference presentations, tradeshows, and screen shots of
the Contest entry in press releases) in all media (now known or later developed)"

* "understand and acknowledge that the Promotion Parties may have developed or commissioned materials
similar or identical to your submission and you waive any claims you may have resulting from any similarities
to your entry"

I'll admit that this kind of contest pokes my CS brain and that other people will be at least curious enough about it to participate. But then you're getting $10k whereas Microsoft would be getting a bunch more out of your work. Am I wrong? Possibly. But my eyebrow moved when I read these pages.

[1] http://web-ngram.research.microsoft.com/spellerchallenge/Doc...