jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I really like Periscope. It's clean, fun, and there is a lot of potential, especially with their Twitter distribution. Tried it out this morning and it was really smooth.

Meerkat is great too, but clearly has an uphill battle for the next few months after the initial hype. They certainly have passionate initial fans though.

I'd be curious to see with Facebook's dedication to video, especially highlighted at F8, if they would consider swooping up Meerkat right now and offer distribution through their ecosystems. This might just be me, but I have Twitter streaming all day, while I check Facebook maybe 2-3 times sporadically, so it might be a bit tougher to capture attention. But who knows, it will be really fascinating to watch.

I'm assuming Grelock, their recent series B lead, would not be interested in selling so soon after their investment for anything less than 2x. Post-valuation was $52M, probably a few buyers out there at that price but who knows(Full details on their Series B: http://i.imgur.com/9zOonad.png)
Seriously, what language that is shipping today should Joe Codemonkey be using? For me Go is a hybrid of C and Python and it's preferable to either.

The industry goes where the shiny workable solutions are, and you haven't offered up any.
they are not doing it at the Registrar level(by contacting the registrar for the domain and forcing them to update the authoritative name server info to point to NS1.SEIZEDSERVERS.COM, NS2.SEIZEDSERVERS.COM), but rather through the agency who controls the top level domain. In this case, all the “seized domains” appear to be .com and the agency/company who has the ICANN contract for this TLD is VeriSign(which also controls .net TLD).

More details can be found here: http://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/the-background-d...
Thanks for the reminder on that, I'd forgotten about it although I was pretty impressed when I first found it way back when. That might work though it'd still be ideal to be able to use rsync et al to interface.
Still, it’s a nice illustration that treacherous behavior is not inherently immoral. I think you can generalize that to “Illegal behavior is not inherently immoral.”

This discussion is making me uncomfortable, though. Besides not really being HN material, I really in no way intended to compare Manning to the Founding Fathers. That would be ridiculous. I don’t think what he did was heroic, I think it was mostly stupid, probably immoral.

But I cannot understand that hunger for blood (I have never been able to understand that, no matter the crime). Locking him up for a few years (in a normal prison) and destroying his career will be pretty certain to discourage anyone who could be discouraged (those willing to violate the law in general don’t expect to be caught). Why punish someone without any positive effect, just for punishment’s sake? That’s what I don’t get.
I think a further thing that builds on your thing is the ability to be exposed to ideas that need solving. Big companies have lots of pain points, things that an unemployed grad or person who has only ever worked in 10 person companies is never likely to be exposed to. Coming up with ways to solve these pain points can easily lead to enterprise application startups.
The entire idea of the "paleo diet" is based off of quacky.

http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/01/30/jane-says-if-you-...

When I go through my depression episodes I am unable to eat for days. Food tastes like cardboard and is repulsive. If i eat more than a couple bites I vomit. Yet not eating doesn't make me less depressed.

So the idea of just eliminating the current fad "inflammatory food" just doesn't seem plausible to me. Especially since the food seems to change with time.

Many people resent being told they "just need to cut out grains/meat/sugar/fruit/cooked food." Food fads come and food fads go.
> Try installing a ton of 3rd party stuff, add a bunch of old software, expect it to work with any hardware you throw at it

But that's the thing: one the biggest value-adds of the mac ecosystem is that the hardware combinations are all well tested (or, from the point of view of an app/driver developer, they are heavily constrained). While it's not Microsoft's fault that they have to deal with a combinatorial explosion of drivers and it's not 3rd party vendors fault that they have to deal with a combinatorial explosion of hardware configurations, it's still a problem that leads to instability in the Windows ecosystem, users still have to face the instability, and it's still an argument in favor of using the Mac ecosystem if you value stability (outside of enterprise contexts -- we're in complete agreement there, OSX server is a shitshow). My personal anecdata is in a sibling post to yours.
Really? In my city, places can literally hire off-duty cops to stand guard around construction sites or direct traffic. And they show up in uniform and with all the legal powers of a police officer.
Knives are unAmerican. You're supposed to have an assault rifle when robbing a store.
Most AI tasks that I think of - image labeling, NLP - the majority of that happens in the brain? Do we process language in our peripheral nervous system?
Maybe you will like these little gems I came up with back when the gn patch was merged:

nnoremap <key> *``cgn

nnoremap <key> #``cgN

Hit <key> to change the current word and ... to repeat on the next occurrences.
The vulnerability is CVE-2021-21974[0] and has been acknowledged by VMWare with their own advisory[1] and affects ESXi, VCenter Server and VMWare Cloud Foundation.

Apparently, the RCE exploit requires no authorization to upload files to exposed servers. According to the submission link:

"CVE-2021-21972 allows hacker with no authorization to upload files to vulnerable vCenter servers that are publicly accessible over port 443, researchers from security firm Tenable said. Successful exploits will result in hackers gaining unfettered remote code-execution privileges in the underlying operating system. The vulnerability stems from a lack of authentication in the vRealize Operations plugin, which is installed by default."

There have been multiple proof-of-concept exploits[2] published and thousands of systems[3] appear to currently be under attack.

What I want to know is why anyone would expose their VMWare management interface to the Internet?

[0] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21974

[1] https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0002.ht...

[2] https://gist.github.com/milo2012/9ba4ac8bb0dfa59497d02b27d82...

[3] https://nitter.mastodont.cat/bad_packets/status/136467246670...
> Transferring data meant either a stack of floppies,

Not often. Usually one floppy (maybe two) would suffice: programs and data were proportionally smaller. And if you had two floppy drives, as many computers did, this was no big deal.

The only time you needed "a stack of floppies" or LapLink is when you wanted to backhp or transfer an entire hard disk.
Depends on your threat mode. Killswitches will definitely prevent connecting to wrong towers and location tracking.
I remember I learnt most of this stuff from a neighbor, he took an "informatics" course that taught him all that wizard stuff.
There's no legal requirement I know to show the warrant prior to seizure of material evidence based on a warrant. Do you know of any relevant case law that says otherwise?
The concept of sensitivity is actually not too far from the questions asked in ML. "The minimum number of bit flips needed to change the answer" -> adversarial attacks, prediction stability, corner case performance. "Which bit flips are needed to change the answer" -> feature importance.
Are you talking about hatred towards apple? Pick any positive article about Apple on the web with a comments section. You will see that the comments are filled with hateful anti-Apple invective.
Obama's rhetoric was uniformly and unironically idealistic during the 2008 campaign. I can't pinpoint when it changed, but he really fooled a lot of people into dropping their cynicism.
>This is idiotic, especially when we don't have scarcity any more.

We are nowhere near living in a post-scarcity world - a world isn't possible anyway (assuming an earth based society) because there is a finite amount of resources such as land, water, minerals, ect.
Does Trader Joe's have a habit of hiring local people?

Of course it does, it is a chain store. I'm all for working out alternatives, but actually work them out before seeking to demolish what currently functions, otherwise you are just making the perfect the enemy of the good.
Being able to call emergency services (999, etc.) is a big benefit of carrying a mobile phone.
The editor looks good. I'm more excited about the fact that this is a good looking desktop app, built using, what are normally considered, web technologies.
I think you have a remarkably bad TV.
I agree with what you say, but I know a ton of users that run PHP on windows.

I think there are a class of developers who prefer to development on Windows but deploy on *nix.
when I was a kid, I always remembered the difference by thinking of the line as a pipe that lets electricity flow, and the circle as something blocking that pipe (and therefore blocking the flow)
Perhaps if we just went back to pre-1950s levels of meat consumption, there would be less pressure on the food industry to cut so many corners.
"this could result in a nuclear war within the next fifteen years"

We've been hearing these exact warnings for over 20 years. There's even a timeline of these warnings at http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1108/Imminen... :

> Fear of an Iranian nuclear weapon predates Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution

> 1984: ... US Senator Alan Cranston claims Iran is seven years away from making a weapon.

> 1992: Israeli parliamentarian Benjamin Netanyahu tells his colleagues that Iran is 3 to 5 years from being able to produce a nuclear weapon – and that the threat had to be "uprooted by an international front headed by the US."

> 1992: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres tells French TV that Iran was set to have nuclear warheads by 1999. "Iran is the greatest threat and greatest problem in the Middle East," Peres warned, "because it seeks the nuclear option while holding a highly dangerous stance of extreme religious militanCY."

> in early 1992 a task force of the House Republican Research Committee claimed that there was a "98 percent certainty that Iran already had all (or virtually all) of the components required for two or three operational nuclear weapons."

> 1997: The Christian Science Monitor reports that US pressure on Iran's nuclear suppliers had "forced Iran to adjust its suspected timetable for a bomb. Experts now say Iran is unlikely to acquire nuclear weapons for eight or 10 years."

> 1998: The same week, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld reports to Congress that Iran could build an intercontinental ballistic missile – one that could hit the US – within five years. The CIA gave a timeframe of 12 years.

> 2007: A month later, an unclassified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran is released, which controversially judges with "high confidence" that Iran had given up its nuclear weapons effort in fall 2003.

> June 2008: Then-US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton predicts that Israel will attack Iran before January 2009, taking advantage of a window before the next US president came to office.

(Bolton is the author of this op-ed piece. He was wrong then. Why should I believe he's right now?)

> May 2009: US Senate Foreign Relations Committee reports states: "There is no sign that Iran's leaders have ordered up a bomb."

...

Despite decades of warnings of nuclear war within the next decade or so, the response so far has not been to bomb Iran. What's different now that we need to bomb them, that we didn't need to do so a decade ago?

I also see plenty of evidence that there are more than the two options of "war with Iran" and "ignore Iran completely." Few say that we should sit back and do nothing at all.
Thanks, I'll look into that. I'm more interested with iOS and OS X apps (though Pidgin works well for OS X). And iOS doesn't permit messaging apps to work in background as far as I know, so push notifications are needed for comfort work. Though I'm usually near my laptop and probably can live without them.
The DDoS tactics may have changed but the initial attack [0] was from all non-Chinese IPs who were visiting Chinese websites. That's what makes this attack so difficult to block -- requests aren't being made from Chinese IPs but rather from everwhere else.

[0] - http://insight-labs.org/?p=1682
I must say I wonder a lot of the volume of generated traffic. Is that hundreds of connections? Thousands? Millions? What is the number of unique IP's hitting them, bandwidth, etc.

Does anyone have any data on that?
I wish there was something like Bitcoin for messaging. Users need a better way to prove their identities (or hide them, depending on the situation) and be able to verify peers. The current hierarchical security system is probably destined to require money, but the free alternatives make me uncomfortable because they tend to need private keys.

What I really want is an open version of Skype where the private key can always be generated by the user's mind, overcomes all the limitations like NAT that make users second class netizens, has no central tracker, and (optionally, but possibly required to work around the limitations) allows a certain amount of traffic to be forwarded like Tor.

I don't see how we can have a conversation about who pays for messaging when the underlying infrastructure for truly secure online communication hasn't yet gone mainstream. I don't really trust Freenet or Tor and can't quite figure out how come, so maybe we could start there and figure out why that is.

And a billion dollars for anything messaging-related completely blows my mind. Most of the world-changing software was developed for a few thousand dollars by a couple of people working in their spare time. To me, paying that much completely misses the point and probably hinders progress by locking capital up in niches that exclude developers who are working towards creating a non-scarcity based economy.
My Alma mater in Brno, Czech Republic still have one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t_1rqeQwOc
> I get the impression that they're continuously discovering new and exciting ways that individual facets of individual pieces of software (and the processes around them) suck

As a software engineer, I think this is my experience at every job I've had around systems in general.
This is almost up-votable.

The thing that is it missing is, oddly enough, the very thing we see in large organizations that try agile: accountability. That is, if you have a small team building a web site for a startup, you either do the job well or you starve. If you have a larger team working as part of a 1200-team project to build product X, you just play the game, doing your best to look good and keep your immediate bosses happy. Organizations have traditionally set up large bureaucracies -- to manage agile teams. Sounds totally crazy, and it is, but we have to keep reminding organizations that agile means distributed control and accountability, not just the same teams doing the same thing inside a complex organizational structure just with a different name and emphasis on stuff.

In American government, job responsibilities are purposely split up between the federal, state, and local government. In addition, each level has three different branches to handle different kinds of work: making laws, enforcing laws, interpreting laws. The idea here is that if your local elected official wants to outlaw bazookas in town, and the townspeople don't like it, they can march down to his office (or home) and ask him to do something about it. That's what is called accountability. Governments "closer" to the people are traditionally given more power over their lives, and those "farther away" -- like in Washington -- are given less control. (This is one of the ways gun control used to work so well. You lived in a crowded city, local officials can tell you not to have guns in such close proximity. You live on the open range, nobody cared what type of weapon you owned. You can continue making this analogy with other forms of state control, such as abortion or property taxes) In this way our agile government teams can have timeboxed work and get regular feedback. Timeboxing and feedback are critical parts of agile. (Also note how critical timeboxing becomes in government. You don't want instant feedback -- that's mob rules. You also don't want no feedback. You must have regular feedback for the thing to work)

The problem is that the federal government is taking control of everything. Also the districts have been rigged so that most federal elected officials always get reelected: its becoming like a new nobility. This means that effectively there are no timeboxes and everything is being controlled from the top-down. Can't have agile teams in an environment like that. You can have sales picthes, feel-good meetings, wonderful speeches about change, and marketing plans, but you can't have agile.

The author's heart is in the right place, though. [People get so worked up about what they want government to do that they never get around to talking about how it does it. If the overall structure is bad, the results are going to be bad.]
I hear what you're saying and I tend to agree. I can't help but notice a huge parallel to my days in high school marching band. The state (Texas) imposed a limit on how many hours a school band could practice that our school mostly respected. However, one of our rivals did about double the allowed max by having "optional" practices. Yeah, you guessed it. Only those that showed up to all the optional practices got to march, everyone else was stuck on the sidelines.

Granted, it worked...This school's band was always awesome due to so many extra hours and handedly beat us and everyone else in competitions. :-(
I've never liked this expectation. To me a lot of overtime is a sign of bad management.

It also burns out employees a lot faster. There are times where overtime is needed(if you're on-call, or around a release occasionally) but it should always be repaid in lieu time or a bonus.

If you're putting in 60-80 hours a week standard you're probably so tired and miserable most of the time that you're not going to be performing at your peak anyhow.
And for each winner idea there is one successful implementation still thriving, versus 1000 failed attempts.
I had to add that it is exactly my experience.

I was bitten by the space leak once or twice and my programs was useful for my colleagues despite that errors.

One great example is the model of CPU. Space leak made it to slow down quadratically - simulation_speed=O(1/simulated_time^2). It took a second for 5000 cycles and couple of hours for 100000. But all interesting effects about CPU execution could be discovered in 5000-20000 cycles - inner loops of various use cases. So you have to wait about minute or so to see what is good and what is not.
At least they didn't implement them by trying to come up with every possible mixin you'd ever want to write and then define them in the global namespace. Progress?
They just need a better distribution model for new movies and they would kill it completely. If I had to pay, say, 10c for a 24 hour new rental on top of the monthly I'd likely be using it all the time.
I have already applied but did not get an invitation and hence I submitted request to HN.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gyook/how_would...

Actually, a fair part of the links about programming are just the same both here and on Reddit.
I don't think so, considering that the 1st comment thread on Reddit is a series of "that's what she said" jokes.

Edit: All the same, I'll try giving /r/programming a chance. As a whole, Reddit looks less civil than HN, but maybe I haven't been fair. People tend to criticize subjects that they don't know about or have never experienced 1st hand, and I'm guilty of that here.
Its the whole serving two masters kind of thing. It rarely works out well. I completely understand Mike's desire to keep on in a role (blogger/pundit) which gives him a lot of satisfaction, and his alternate desire to actually be a mover and shaker rather than a reporter on same, however he should take the clue from some of the small things he's run into (admitting or not admitting he is an investor to a fellow blogger etc) are only going to get worse.

The low point of that road has him losing all credibility as a blogger (since people will accuse him of favoritism based on his investments) and as an investor (as founders discover that his opinions and or presence cause other groups to shun them). $29K here, $100K there, isn't a huge deal but when one of those pops and suddenly the paper value of his holding is $10M and what he says can materially change that, then he has to shut up or defend himself in court.

The subtext of my suggestion was that he may not recognize just how deep the hole goes, nor how easily he can slip into it. Doesn't matter to me of course. I've seen death by conflict of interest and it isn't something I'd wish on anyone. And I recognize it's really really hard sometimes to step away from something you are pretty sure you can pull off. And I'm a huge fan of people who are willing to risk everything for something they truly believe.

But you have to take a cold hard look at the downside and be OK with that outcome. Time will tell.
I would agree with this. While my other comment distinguished between different kinds/volumes of "ambient environment", in total I find I don't -- can't -- reach the depth of thought that your descriptions describes and that I (sometimes) experience myself in the same kind of setting.

Although, sometimes what I may need for a bit is more "breadth" if also less depth. The occasional cafe can actually be quite beneficial to a balanced personal philosophy.

I guess it's like the coffee. One cup is good. Three, and I start to get pretty jittery. ;-)

ADDENDUM: Two hours is about my max, even in an "optimal" cafe. Sometimes three. After that, walking out the door to relative silence is a blessed relief.
Yes, the Titan museum is very interesting and I recommend it.

I wondered the same thing about the punched tape, if I could extract the coordinates from it. I read somewhere that they were extremely strict about keeping the targets secret; before any maintenance on the computer, a special team came in just to ensure that the coordinates were erased from memory. It would have been a huge oversight if they didn't encrypt the punched tape, so my guess is that it can't be decoded.
I like DCSS, but I’ve found the recent releases are making it less fun by removing mechanics I liked. E.g. removing inventory weight limits, food types and nerfing abilities that modify the dungeon.
Working on my chess AI sandbox game ChessCraft on Google Play. Version 1.7 will have pieces that cannot be captured (iron pieces), and choosing your language to override my crappy translations, optionally. Popular request ;)

Almost done!
New York City is rationing testing as a measure of lowering healthcare worker exposure and reducing use of limited personal protective equipment supplies.

"If you think you have COVID-19 and your illness is mild, you do not need to see your health care provider and you will not be tested. Getting tested will not change what your provider will tell you to do to get better. They will tell you to stay home so you do not get others sick.

Unless you are hospitalized and a diagnosis will impact your care, you will not be tested. Limiting testing protects health care workers and saves essential medical supplies, such as masks and gloves, that are in short supply."

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/coronavir...
Looks promising! Is this an open source tool? Or once the software leave beta, will potentially be charged for usage?