jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So, encryption is bad because our doo-gooder international police forces can't read the messages of the terrorists?

I find it hard to believe that someone this high up the totem-pole would not be able to come up with better arguments about why the government (especially the UK one) has lost the 'hearts and minds' of its constituents and what could be done about it when it comes to encryption.

If you make everybody a suspect without prior cause then people will start to behave as if they're under suspicion.

When in the past 'encrypted communications' probably counted as some kind of red flag the value of that flag has been diminished or even eradicated because the government has driven ordinary people to be worried about their conversations to the point that so many people use encryption now that just using encryption is no longer a signal.

So they're going to have to expend a ton of computing power on monitoring networks of ordinary people in order to catch a few miscreants. On the whole the only things they've achieved is that the haystack is now much much larger than it used to be and that people trust their governments less than ever before when it comes to privacy issues.

Well done! I'm curious what they'll come up with next, outlawing of encryption is probably high up on the agenda in at least a few countries.

The thinly veiled message to tech firms to give Europol and the likes unfettered access to un-encrypted messages will surely be received with open arms, I think all those companies whose logos featured prominently on Snowdens documents still remember those disclosures fondly.
I think you meant "(arse|ass)?holes".
Make each "hit" cost as little to you in bandwidth/resources, and as much as possible to the attacker.

National solution is to stop known bad nodes at the ISP level.
I think I'll dig around my parents' and see if I can spot any issues.
Same here with walking directions. Without street view I found Maps on my iPhone to be nowhere near as good.
My son wanted an Xbox just to play Halo, so that's one.

Of course, the Xbox has since died and we get along just fine with a PS3.
>I think we can both agree such testing does measure a worthwhile metric.

I don't know about that. I've come across plenty of critiques of standardized tests, especially back during the debate over Bush's 'No Child Left Behind' initiative.

That kind of 'education' may produce good little worker drones, but I'm not sure it's something we want to base the entire education system of the Republic on.
Could you give me a screenshot of editing in a page where content is displayed? Didn't find one on their site.
Have you? My school was by no means "inner city" but I did grow up in a very low-income area.

The fact of the matter is that the majority of students did not care as much. There was that group of students who I basically knew from elementary school to high school, the core group of students who really put in an effort and tried harder.

Bad system and bad students are not mutually exclusive. There was definitely students who I know tried but did not do well because they required more help and couldn't get it.
Amazon was losing money for the first 7 years of its existence. It didn't turn a profit until 2001, a full 6 years after it had sold its first book.
Yeah it's an admin interface away from the site.

I think non-techies would also prefer something simple and consistent, like logging in -> publish -> type in fields -> submit.
And fundamentally why the idea that private enterprise is always more efficient is a fundamentally flawed premise.
most relationships that come to a bitter end are like this. you want to remember the good times, but the reasons you are breaking up always come front of mind.
Sounds like a good reason to use a pidfile or mutex so you can eliminate the possibility of any concurrent jobs.
Is there a group that saves and reuploads the same photo every day, compressing it into oblivion?
C was famously designed in Murray Hill on a system with Teletype 37s, which featured then-fairly-novel { and } keys (as it so happens, the shifted versions of [ and ]).
I don't think we disagree about anything you stated in this comment. I disagree with your earlier, unqualified claim:

> > So can we have "herd" immunity when the majority of the able-bodied working-age population and school kids are not protected yet?

> Yes.
She spends a lot of time at home reading books (mostly non-fiction) and browsing the net (she reads a lot of online articles about a wide range of topics) and chatting with her friends on social media (most of her friends live in different countries because we traveled a lot). We do a lot of outdoor activities together but aside from that she doesn't like to do much. We both spend most of our time at home because I work remotely. She hates working or doing anything productive. She even tried painting once and is good at it but she could never be an artist as she is allergic to the idea of earning money.
Sounds like you should see a therapist.
Maybe? Another possible explanation is that some people try to correlate income in USD to education levels.

It's not a direct comparison since the cost for education is also cheaper in China. Also since K-12 is almost free (at least meals are not included 20 years ago when I was a kid), parents just send kids there.

In recent years the trend is that even assembly factories require high school education, bachelor preferred... That's another interesting topic though.
I was surprised to read that long options were invented so recently, in only 1990.
I am glad I wasn't the only person thinking about LPL for this. I wonder how much he would charge for a internet consult and recommendations on tools. Might end up being way less than the try-every-combination-or-we-drill-it locksmiths that are an hour awway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment
I really am impressed by the packaging..very good work
Web of trust-based spam filtering takes some effort to use, but is a workable solution.
It's the website of the House Judiciary Committee, which is controlled by Republicans, and hence can and does challenge the President. In turn, the White House website, which is controlled by Democrats, can and does challenge Congress.

Both sites could, of course, adopt a stance of editorial neutrality. I would prefer they not, though -- both are fundamentally political organizations, so to do so would be eliding their true nature.
The problem is that the search query does not go in the URL in the Lite version. That really sucks. It makes it useless in the browser history as well. In fact, because all the URLs are the same on each query, they're not even added as separate entries in the history.
No cars is no solution, unless you can solve the problem of people needing to go places. Public transport just doesn't cut it and I'm from Europe.
i would settle for not having our businesses hacked by their state
Clickbait antidote:

The real class war is between the 0.1 percent and (at most) the 10 percent—or, more precisely, between elites primarily dependent on capital gains and those primarily dependent on profes­sional labor.
OTOH hlmost many modern IDEs can't even open two copies of the same file and display it side by side or record arbitrarily complex macros and play them back any number of times.
I can never be too mad at TI for this, since I'm only a programmer today because of a Ti-83+ and TI-BASIC

Or at least that's what I thought about I got to the part about the guilt the author felt over the purchase, and the teacher trying to buy them out of pocket. It really is despicable that we require 100$+ purchase every student's education when there are so many realistic cheaper alternatives
Hey neat! I wrote this tutorial. Lemme know if you have suggestions for improvement (or you can make a pull request).
Hitting far above its weight in this category is autocorrect (my wife took to calling it autocarrot in a small act of rebellion), which "helpfully" corrects millions of painstakingly correctly-spelled obscure words into completely wrong but more common words, every day, making human communication less understandable.
A goes and buys flour for 100$ from farmer B. Then A goes and pay independent baker C 100$ to make bread from the flour. Then A goes and pay independent retailer D 100$ to sell the bread for $500.

Each cycle A makes $200 in profit, nobody loses out as everyone agreed to the terms.

This is enough margin for A to pay an independent manager $100 each time he repeats the process, ultimately netting A $100 without A doing anything. Is A taking advantage of everyone here? No, of course not, everyone still agreed to all the terms, A was just aware of a business opportunity the others were not, risked his own money paying for goods and labor he wasn't sure he could sell and now everyone is richer as a result.

This is how businesses works. Of course in practice sometimes businesses does scummy things, but that is why we have laws which are meant to ensure that all businesses are net positive for society. If a business is not net positive then we send the police to them and shut them down. That doesn't work when businesses have politicians in their pockets, but it works in parts of the world where workers have more political influence.
Luckily, Oracle cannot just delete concepts. JRE does not exist on Oracle management roadmaps, but the world can still use it.

Zulu has a JRE (even JRE with JavaFX) which is so handy and has the added advantage of not being from Oracle.

There is a reason tooling lags support for jlink: it's a mandated "solution" that nobody asked for. Just like JPMS, another great solution from Oracle in search of a problem which is still giving fruits 4 years later.
Great to hear a non-profit is attacking this. Unfortunately, companies like code academy don't benefit from users actually learning to code. They are focused on user engagement. Ideally, they are one and the same, but in reality so many of these "learn to code" platforms do not teach the concepts very well.
Some Chinese guy gets a weird pop-up with English text when visiting Chinese websites. A deeper investigation reveals that China's national firewall (GFW) is hijacking some popular JavaScripts to DDoS GitHub.
I agree with the spirit of what you're saying, but I think it's more accurate to call what you're describing a "free market" than "capitalism"; the latter does not in fact preclude market failures such as oligopolies/cartels.
The proposals that I have seen (including http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax) call for a standard deduction of sorts, so the tax burden on those with low income and hence low spending would still be minimal.
Seriously? The Natalee Holloway murderer guy is a "story of the year"?
Depends if real learning happened or just point and click zombification.
Looks like it has some of the same stories, but it's definitely much more US-focused. But that's definitely the case for virtually all the major US media, which are very much in to US navel-gazing. The BBC is much more international in scope, and is much closer to Al Jezeera in that sense.
Vernor Vinge --- A Fire Upon the Deep. (Also worth seeking out is the hugely influential novella "True Names", but you'd probably have to dig it out of a library someplace.)

Neal Stephenson --- Cryptonomicon. (Present day setting, but with an SF sensibility; ties into his literally epic Baroque Cycle.)

Charles Stross --- Halting State. (Investigation of an MMORPG bank breakin spills out into real-world skulduggery.)

And an oddball that folks here may not have encountered:

Mary Gentle --- Ash, A Secret History. (Starts off with interleaved narratives of a Joan of Arc figure in a strangely different medieval Europe, and a present-day Ph.D. researcher who's investigating her, and finding out that his sources literally don't say the same thing day to day. Then it gets... weirder. Quirky, brilliant, and kind of hard to find in the U.S.)
Wanted to quote from the Founder's answer above:

"Re: business model. We make money by selling the platform to corporations as a way to manage their employee volunteering programs."

Non-profits do not pay to use the platform or for any tasks completed. Large companies pay an annual fee to enable access for their employees and related reporting metrics.
Not exactly. More like the IIPA filing more complaints against Russia and keeping them on the Special 301 list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_301_Report#Complaints_b...

Bribing in Russia is a home game, so no go there. Putins plane might have a malfunction though.
I'm not sure that a headline containing a tiny bit of hyperbole required a semantics lesson. We all know that the laws of physics are safe and in tact.
Agreed, though there's still something to be said about strong default settings.

And there's a huge difference between something asking for a password than something installing something drive-by without any notification whatsoever. From a social engineering perspective, it's a lot harder to get someone to
enter a password than it is to get them to simply click on something.

Yes, there'd still be malware because of stupid users, but there'd be a lot less of it.
Finally the passage in Pride and Prejudice where Mr Collins says "one thousand pounds in the four per cents ..., is all that you may ever be entitled to" now makes sense.
None. I messed it up all by msyelf.
I hate to break it to you, but the most successful people in society usually got there not only from hard work but from being in the right place at the right time.

According to studies on "luck", one key is to be in a LOT of places. It increases your chance of being in some right place at some right time. Another key is a positive attitude, of seeing opportunities and taking advantage of them.

So it is difficult to tell when someone's behavior (work) causes a success versus when it truly is a lucky break.
Thanks for the feedback in the comments here!

I made a few fixes to Emscripten, and the code that was mentioned that doesn't work, should now work in the demo, for example |for x = 1,10 do print(x) end|.
Is there a reason that profiles don't have email as a contact mode?
Do these set off metal detectors?
Did values affirmation actually make men score lower? Or were they just ranked lower because women, on average, had higher absolute scores than the control?

Speaking of control, writing about values in a physics class could cause people otherwise interested in physics to lose interest in the class.
That too. But also able to discuss your issue or what you're trying to learn rather then just here's how to fix x y z... :-)
one which i stumbled upon by accident is pressing option when you're in a menu. e.g the apple menu at the top of the screen: If you press option while you're looking at this menu certain menu items change - in this case about this mac becomes system profiler. Also if you press shift in this situation force quite becomes force quit active application.
That's basically what Google Glass is doing.
So basically zero repercussions for judges and law enforcement that swear and sign vastly incorrect orders that do drastic damage. Just like that article the other day where there are no repercussions for badly behaving prosecutors.

I guess at least they didn't kill anyone like a no-knock warrant on the wrong house for the wrong reason. Still, it's the general attitude that really should wake up people who have blind faith.
I wouldn't say Things is dead. The Hit List, another task manager, also went under the radar…

But at least Andy (the guy behind THL) is showing some progress: http://www.thehitlistapp.com

Cultured Code mentions some internal problems. I wonder what happened?
I played with IndexTank a bit this past weekend, and it seems like they are really hurting from lack of a good gem that fits into Active Record. When compared to something like ThinkingSphinx or a project like that it feels very un rails-ish.

I noticed this project has cropped up to try and solve it, which is awesome:
https://github.com/flaptor/thinkingtank
however it's not Rails 3 compatible right now.

If I were IndexTank, getting a gem like that up to speed would be my top priority I think to get real traction on Heroku or amongst rails folks.
Why would one want to use IndexTank instead of Sphinx Search?
That's your distro, however, not Bash itself. On OSX (for example), you must install bash_completion and source it.

I'm not saying that this is a significant amount of work, but the author's complaint that other shells don't do per-app completion out of the box is valid. However, there are good reasons for keeping such completion code separate from the shell itself.
Changelog is here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
Can anyone suggest a quick alternative to skype conference calling? Today is the one day I actually had an important use for this and it goes down...

A phone line could work, but is not ideal due to distance. Thanks.

UPDATE: Skype just signed me in. Anyone else have this happen?
UPDATE2: Back down again after only a few minutes. Hopefully they're close to a fix.
We also noticed that someone put out this gem:

https://rubygems.org/gems/tanker
If you're interested in assembler language, Randall Hyde's Art of Assembly Language is pretty good (he's the author of HLA)

http://homepage.mac.com/randyhyde/webster.cs.ucr.edu/www.art...
thanks for going on a tangent about something unrelated then /s
The gp isn't talking about YAML in itself, they're talking about YAML as it's used by mainstream CI systems. Github Actions, for example, encodes conditionals, functions, and a whole lot of other language elements in its YAML format. To say it's "just a data format" is like saying XSLT is "just a markup language" because it's written in XML.
>It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Mind you, that quote has no qualifiers, so by "earn a living," the implication is earn any living, anywhere. Please give an example of someone has been banned from Twitch for opinions which have made it impossible for them to earn any living, anywhere.
Having a baby.

Well it was small at first!
Sickle cell anemia can be "cured" by inducing expression of fetal hemoglobin (fHb). You don't need to shut off the defective gene and the disease is effectively "cured" if you replace enough scHb with fHb.

So you remove bone marrow from the patient, modify the cells, put them back in. The modified cells produce fHb at a high enough level that symptoms of Sickle Cell go away.

Not that different than the already approved CAR-T therapies (with the exception they don't use CRISPR for the genetic modification).
A $200 air purifier can make a world of difference:
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier...
(I own a Coway Airmega 200M.)

I bought a Temtop monitor to verify if the "smart mode" (where it only runs if the air quality is low):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DHXQXGK/

I live in Los Angeles where the air quality isn't that great and in a rented apartment where I have limited choices. The air purifier made a dramatic difference in the first hour I had it and now it keeps the PM2.5 reading down to around 2-4 with minimal cycling.
"That loaded fast"

welcome to non-garbage HTML! ;)
> Went to college for it when I was a pre-teen

Does that mean you studied software when you were 11-12 years old (pre teen: before 13-19 y/o?), together with college students typically 19-25 years old? (Sorry if it's a silly question)
> within the District of Columbia

Nothings in your court case says anything about the Capitol building.
Try reading the order?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-eviction-dec...
so what,as a Chinese I still can't afford a house
Don't forget the effect of rent control.

If your parents live in a rent controlled apartment, then you're probably going to a public school.

If your parents can afford to pay market rents, then they probably can also afford a private school.
Then how do you explain the low socio-economic mobility in the US?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the_...

The good news is everyone is getting richer (rising tide), the bad news is inequality is increasing and low mobility is nothing to be proud of. Like logicchains I'm Aussie and we fare better at the moment, though we're also starting to head in the wrong direction by these measures.
Erlang on Xen[1], mayhap?

[1]: http://erlangonxen.org
Hopefully with the rise of remote work and software to support it "peak office" will be soon.
"If a path is specified," which is correct. The checkout command is like two commands in one.
It depends on how much time he spends on this on a daily basis. I am guessing its only a few hours a week now. If you take that view then I think numbers are very good.

This saved time will allow him to do other things and spawn off other interesting projects which is pretty cool imo.
> Trauma is the natural state of the universe.

As a survivor of sexual abuse on a lifelong journey of survival, it’s difficult to communicate just how strongly I disagree with (and am repulsed by) this statement and the sentiment behind it.

It lacks awareness of the many kinds of trauma, and trivializes the experiences of those who’ve been subjected to things that are anything but natural.

Do not mistake the prevalence of something for being “natural”. Trauma, by definition, is the opposite, prevalent though it may be.

And even if you could lump all kinds of trauma into the same category, my conclusion would be very different than yours. If trauma is the natural state, then we should be doing everything to change that state, not throw up our hands and conclude “oh well, that’s just the way things are, and the best survive”.

Imagine taking this stance on slavery, or more broadly: racism.
To quote from kiba's reply elsewhere in this thread:

>The problem is that systematic problems requiring systematic solution doesn't provide a framework for individual behavior in the meantime.

To twist your analogy around, it's more like having a doctor say "you probably got cancer because you lived next to a coal plant." Incredibly important information to have societally, should absolutely be considered and maybe even an have impact on policy. However, that does nothing for the patient today.
You talk as if there's an alternative.
Will countries be also given a global minimum of nuclear weapons?
Comparing something closer, the Model 3 Performance is significantly cheaper than the BMW M3.

I recall the old (pre2021 facelift) Model 3 Performance either beat or performed very competitively to its various petrol competitors (M3, C63, RS5, Guilia QF, etc.) while being significantly less expensive.

Would be interesting how the facelifted Model 3 Performance fares against the new hog-nose G80 BMW M3/4. Or the upcoming 4cylinder+electricmotor C63AMG.

Now people complain that the Model 3 doesn't have the "soul" to be a true driver's car of course.
For me, resilience is more like bending tree branches. The green ones return to their original shape easily once force is removed, the dry ones keep their form as long as possible, but snap abruptly if too much force is exerted. Repeated bending results in microfractures, then breaking in either type.
If you did something like asked for the first and last digits and the other digits of the phone number in any order and then returned the list of phone numbers that contained those digits even that would be better.
There's a simple metric for the state of modern music - where are the modern equivalents, in musical stature, of David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, Bob Dylan, Elton John, U2, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan & The Eagles? Answer - there isn't anything anywhere near the pantheon of talent that graced the late 60s to the mid-80s. It's just a phenomenon of history. It's not relativism due to ageing. It's a fact in the same sense that Shakespeare's work outlived that of his contemporaries.