jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We most definitely did not get rid of authority, we got rid of central authority. Every nation used to closely control media so all of their citizens were on the same page. What they believed was biased propaganda with a strong illusion of truth due to dominance in commonly consumed media channels and the echo chamber of talking to others who drank from the same trough. It was far from being high quality information but at least your neighbors had the same beliefs as you so it was less contentious. There never was an authority of truth - only a facade of one. Critical thinking by individuals was discouraged to avoid conflict. Now that people can get their information from anywhere they are completely unprepared to use their minds to separate the good from the bad so they try to find "authoritative sources" instead of using their own judgement. Except their are no authoritative sources, and there never were.
> So this works in theory until there is a really bad bug in some part of the code base and there is no one who knows how to fix it.

10 years of production usage tends to have hammered out all the "really bad bugs." Sure it's possible that something goes wrong, but it's also extremely unlikely that it does unless something in it changes. Which, if you freeze it & silo it off, doesn't really happen.

A huge amount of software not made in silicon valley operates exactly like this. It just sits there, running for decades, doing its thing.
I agree from a consumer standpoint, but the article makes a great argument for the form being very functional from a manufacturing standpoint.
In some industries you actually have to document and prove that. That's where these tools shine.
Google should say: "My product is TECHNICALLY release quality, but my BUSINESS MODEL is not finished right now, so I will cancel a working product if I can get enough money out of it".
Is there any reason it should be a worse problem for video than it's been for print over the last 20 years?
Matthew Pierce from Cloudflare has notoriously dropped 8Chan after its content contributed to three mass shootings [1].

Will Cloudflare continue to protect thedonald[.]win? I think we should call Cloudflare out.

https://twitter.com/philipithomas/status/1347621982758719489

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[1] https://stratechery.com/2021/trump-and-twitter/
Its crappy legal analysis; the proposal does not specify the required details, but that doesn't mean it allows warrants to be issued "without providing any specific details" -- because the proposal does not repeal the Fourth Amendment, from whence the requirement for specificity originates. From the "Committee Note" on the provision (p. 341 of the document):

The amendment does not address constitutional questions, such as the specificity of description that the Fourth Amendment may require in a warrant for remotely searching electronic storage media or seizing or copying electronically stored information, leaving the application of this and other constitutional standards to ongoing case law

There's a difference between recognizing that the Fourth Amendment provides the requirements for specific details and allowing warrants with no specific details.
I was talking about crypto and ICO scams
Do you still find the save dismiss less powerful after they are expanded with Ctrl+g
If you're a FF user, the Old Reddit Redirect extension is nice too since it will ensure all reddit links get redirected to the old view.
I’ll agree with Chomsky’s stance on pornography.
Scala is just an amazing language. I'm very happy that the worst of the 'Scala as a worse Haskell' days is over and that the Scala community is finding it's own programming style.

I remember years ago when I had a heated discussion about local mutable state. An that time it felt like heresy to even suggest it. I just recently had another discussion with the same programmer and he was like: "Yeah, that works".

Good times.
Now that's a compliment. "We couldn't use your code as a basis for interviews because it was too obvious how it worked and how to modify it." Definitely a condition worth striving for.
I don't know; "absolutely" can add emphasis. Advising someone not to use it because "agree" covers it anyway feels like trying to suppress their personality. We're communicating, not playing language golf.
My artist friend didn't seem too worried by it. I have no idea if this is common in the industry, but he was saying that much of the artwork is already outsourced to cheaper foreign artists.
This is the same complaint that a ton of people had with Google+, as the feature seemed even more important there and Google already had circles representing interests, they were simply "in reverse". This led to exactly the same feature request, and it was obvious to everyone that it should apply to Twitter.
Some problems might be easier to solve in one language than in another. If you can't solve quicksort in ASM, does that mean people would be correct in wanting to refrain you from solving it in Python? It's a bit grotesque but completely analogous to your objection.

It is the opinion of many that cooperative multitasking is not the way to go if you want to solve problems which require massive concurrency.

PS: In Racket, you could defend against threads going into infinite loops with custodians.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/more/#%28part._.Terminating_.Con...
Isn't the nginx's problem solvable with consistent implementation and complete documentation too?

I guess running some programming script isn't that bad to configure the server - but right now, people do a lot of basic operations on configs via shell scripting which do the deployment. Using bash/sh to interact with sqlite doesn't sound very inviting.
I think that's an excellent analogy - couldn't have put it better myself. SEO is doing all the right things to make your content and hard work as accessible and shareable as possible.
A guide on how to get rid of your vc when they start becoming problematic would be good. I suppose another way out would be to find someone capable of sustaining a longer view (for the companies that avc would call 'Zombies'... zombies being profitable but not earth shattering.)
Hey Fred - I'm the CEO & founder at SEOmoz. We're here in Seattle, too, but don't quite think of ourselves this way. If you're ever around and interested, our offices are a block from Pike Place Market and I'd be happy to buy you a coffee (or other beverage of choice) and chat about how and why SEO helps real people, companies and websites do great things all the time.
What do you use as your p-value cutoff?

I've heard many arguments for .05 being the highest acceptable for research but it seems like you have found an acceptable p-value that is out of that range by quite a bit.
I’m kind of confused by this, even after browsing the backup product page. How is this any different than just regular Dropbox?
Dropbox will be the one service I’ll keep paying after I stop paying for every other tech service. It has effectively made me not need a single central backup location, all I need is a hundred bucks a year and I have full access to all my files , all 2 TB of it, from anywhere. It also ocrs and indexes scanned pdfs so my life is fully digitized across continents.

I am semi annoyed with some of their choices but I’ll still depend on them before i do Microsoft or google where cloud storage isn’t even in their top ten money making categories and can be axed any day.
There are a lot of 50+ kEuro devices which run old Windows OSs.
We keep ours in a skelter and I boil a dozen of so when it starts to overflow. This has been my experience as well.

I have 17 chickens, 16 of them are hens. I get 9-12 a day and my neighbors love me because we don't eat them. The yolks are big and deep orange/yellow and people seem to love them. I have y purchased an egg in a few years so I have no frame of reference any more. They're free range and they eat everything they can find (snakes, frogs, lizards, bugs, plants) and all the feed and scratch I feed them.
> Is the company communication designed to be asynchronous?

No. There will always be some boomer who refuses to use Slack messages and needs handholding on Zoom video for the most minor discussions. Character traits include emotional manipulation, not invented here syndrome, poor time management.

They've been struggling to deploy a simple microservice for multiple financial quarters but will snap and call you slow when their code review process stalls.

It's not easy to teach the concept of decoupling as a problem solving strategy. They've suffered the yoke of enterprise programming for so long, that they feel naked without iron chafing at the neck.
Absolutely! Thanks for pointing this out — it’s in fact one issue with light sources that are not full-spectrum, like fluorescents and (even “white”) LEDs. They can make objects appear to be different colors!
Dropbox for sharing with others rapidly is still superior to other alternatives.

The delay in syncing up across multiple users is least noticeable with Dropbox.

I agree backup seems not to be the niche of Dropbox, because there it is not about fast and reliable syncing.
It's difficult to add docker's RPM repo and install it?
Anecdotally, my recollection is that the most successful organized crime group ever was successful in part because they would work with anyone, so long as they had the necessary skills. Prior to that, the Irish stuck with the Irish, the Italians stuck with the Italians, etc. Inclusiveness of people = not excluding skills/talent based on some arbitrary, irrelevant detail (like skin color, gender, etc).
"Would you hire them? Work with them? Work for them?" - Probably not, maybe, No.

They can change how people view them moving forward, but for some odd reason, they keep digging a deep and deeper hole for their reputation.
Fred should send Dylan Byers a copy of Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People. After reading that, Byers may suddenly realize that writing ad-hominem pieces about made up character flaws of one of the most respected and valuable VC in the business may only expose his own inadequacy as a journalist.
What stops me from switching to Linux is that I value my time. On Linux I have to spend time on meta things. My video driver stopped working, how do I get flash to work, why isn't it finding my memory card, how do I get sleep to work right, why doesn't copy and paste work between these two apes, why did the dropbox menu item disappear when I updated my distro, etc, etc, etc.
Pitiful. 75% of the students made below a 26 on the ACT. I scored at that level in 7th grade!
I run macosx along with 64bit Arch Linux and 32bit unbuntu under VMware Fusion. If I ever get around to upgrading to a quad core notebook with 8 gig of ram I think I should be able to get about 10 years out of that computer instead of the usual 3. Of course I will probably need to buy at least 6 smartphones/tablets during that time between me and my family. Everybody sees the trend, right?
I for the longest time was a developer on Linux and FreeBSD and was extremely happy when I got my first Mac.

OS X for me is by far more superior than anything Linux has to offer, and mostly with MacPorts it has all of the software I could ever want/need.
Unfortunately most developers don't want to put the effort to maintain quality.

They just want to write a code, skipping writing automation test, and call it "magically done by me, the greatest hacker in this company, for under 1 hour".

Forgive me with the sarcasm but that's apparently quite common.
I don't use OS X myself, but it seems like half the mac-specific bug reports I get are caused by Macports screwing things up in ways that I haven't fully understood myself.
I did almost exactly that and I've still been bitten by this.

I had a weak password like 99beers that I've used for many years for the 90% of sites that don't matter. I started to transition to something like adding the first letter of the site name plus one to the beginning, so ycombinator.com would be z99beers. Still not strong, but I thought it reduced the risk if one site was compromised.

But since this compromise has been so large and well-publicized, I've gotten locked out of several sites that do matter, apparently just based on being in the Gawker dump. Since my email has never been compromised, this isn't a big deal, but it's a hassle.

Now I'm making a serious effort to apply LastPass and random passwords to everything.
It's not so much "it'll all work out in the end" as it is "work really hard until it works out in the end."
Also check out this free ebook from FontShop, Meet Your Type: A Field Guide to Love & Typography

http://www.fontshop.com/education/pdf/fsfinalbook_spread.pdf

Got it from http://www.fontshop.com/education/
Steam key for this one too? I love how they sent it out for the last one!
In a case like the Gawker incident, it isn't safe. If the source code to the password hashing algo is compromised (it was) then the salt becomes useless. In short, just use bcrypt.
Just another day that ends in Y. Meanwhile, game developers have lost faith in Stadia and it's been out for a week at best. The reason? Google kills its own products.

It's time for a management change at Google and Alphabet.
Exactly. We've seen this in responses to (for example) the Rolling Stone fake sexual assault story. Many people said "the problem is real even if this story may not be."

So people may push fake stories to make what they believe to be a justified point.
How does this compare to insomnia.

https://github.com/getinsomnia/insomnia
> ejects prominent politicians is political censorship

And is evidence that the _algorithms aren’t working correctly_. They’re supposed to pinpoint indisputably hateful rhetoric and if they’re producing significant false positives then yes, Mr. Cohen, that _is_ a bad thing. A _very_ bad thing.
Awesome, well done!
In this particular case I think the headline of the title is probably better than the one on HN.

Yes, I’m many fields ML has been exaggerated, but it’s just a matter of time. Most companies aren’t using ML effectively yet.

But I know for a fact when you improve NLP, you _can_ improve almost all white collar jobs. NLP the past two years has been crazy, and we haven’t seen anything yet.
Though it completely goes against the grain and it's fairly tongue in cheek - sometimes I wonder if the belligerent drive to innovation is really helping anyone but the stockholders.

Of course, innovation is positive and generally drives the quality of life in the civilisation, but... if Google stayed as Search + GMail + AdWords/Sense for decades and only worked to update those services to be generally useful and offer decently modern UX, who'd blame them? Sure, that'd turn them into a sort of utility, but again - who in the general population would actually lose from that?
LI is terrible if you actually try to use it, but it's harmless enough if you just use it as a profile hosting service, where people are likely to look. I just auto-archive their emails and only visit the site a couple of times per year.
I remember booting Windows 95 for the first time when it came out and being completely gobsmacked at how good it looked and felt.

I was still a heavy Amiga fan back then, even though I was painfully aware that my favorite computer of all times was slowly falling behind. But it was still able to do preemptive multitasking, something that was still widely unavailable across all OS at the time (except for Windows NT). AmigaOS was still definitely better than Windows 3, of that I was still very convinced (and quite distraught that despite this technical superiority, Windows 3 reigned supreme).

All of my convictions got shattered that fatal day I booted Windows 95. The UI was beautiful, preemptive multitasking was working fine despite the memory and CPU conditions at the time. I just couldn't get enough of launching various apps on Windows 95 just to see how they looked.

On that very day, I thought "This is it, Amiga is truly dead".

I sold my Amiga and bought a Windows box in the weeks that followed, with a heart that was both heavy and excited.
The problem I identify with this is that the error creator needs to capture the backtrace for it to be useful. By the time the error has reached the application, the innermost parts of the stack have been popped and a backtrace is of limited usefulness.

This is part of the reason that SNAFU tries to make it lightweight for library authors to add backtraces and allows application developers to turn them on.
Soon we'd read a story on HN "500 million brains got leaked, terabytes of private thoughts published online"

and, a clone of haveibeenpwned will popup asking people to enter their brain scans to check if their brain was in the leaked dataset :)
If EU, Canada, and USA will become a kind of political and economic union (like EU today), meaning no borders and a single market, then there's a good chance that union can compete with China. Separated and divided, everyone is weak today.
Sadly, some people interpret agile and scrum as getting rid of QA teams. Of course you can release faster if no one has to manually check the feature but it just turns the user into the QA team. And no developer can properly test their own code.

I absolutely welcome automated testing wherever possible but for any software with a user interface (including websites) it can never fully replace manual testing.
Is it fine in Germany? I believe that over here in the Czech Republic it's the same pedophile story. You can literally have a bunch of 15 year olds having hardcore bdsm group sex, but they're criminals the moment someone snaps a photo of a nipple.
Because there has been this "out of context" argument used several times in this discussion, and I don't understand it:

Can you explain to me how the context of [1] and [4] makes [2] and [3] - "is having that photo is not hurting everyone" - sound different than without the context?

"[1] This "child pornography" might be a photo of yourself or your lover that the two of you shared.

[2] It might be an image of a sexually mature teenager that any normal adult would find attractive. What's heinous about having such a photo?

[3] But even when it is uncontroversial to call the subject depicted a "child", that is no excuse for censorship. Having a photo or drawing does not hurt anyone, so and if you or I think it is disgusting, that is no excuse for censorship.

[4] The government will invent an unlimited number of opportunities to censor us and search us if we grant the legitimacy of its all-purpose excuses for doing so."
This is a gruesome reminder of the easy-to-overlook practices of industrialised meat and dairy that lie behind many normalised diets and lifestyles today.
> That is not too far from believing in the afterlife, if you come to think of it.

It’s extremely far. One has a chain of reasoning and supporting data. The other does not.

They’re both assumptions, since everything about the future is an assumption. But some assumptions are “better” than others, for lack of a better word.
I think research has become a lot bigger, more accessible, collaborative and derivative since the early 20th century. There are probably tons of graduate students with the intellect of a Einstein or a von Neumann who will likely never get the same recognition because they will be competing with (or working with) others for the same breakthroughs.

We had a lot of early "heroes" in Artificial Intelligence, but their accomplishments were eclipsed by newer breakthroughs in a short amount of time by equally smart people. Overall, this is great for humanity since we are pushing boundaries much quicker than was possible earlier.
I don't think this is the case here:

"But even when it is uncontroversial to call the subject depicted a "child", that is no excuse for censorship. Having a photo or drawing does not hurt anyone, so and if you or I think it is disgusting, that is no excuse for censorship." - https://stallman.org/notes/2011-mar-jun.html#4_June_2011_(Bo...
That's assuming you can trust the news to be impartial and unbiased which they rarely are, because most media is owned by a few oligarchs or entities who have a specific agenda to push.

As for voting, I find these tools that ask you questions and tell you which candidates/parties best match your beliefs to be enough to know how to cast my vote. Not that it really matters, as you've said but it still lets me do my civic duty without the years of stress and anxiety in-between elections and during the elected's mandate. I'll leave it up to other to get needlessly outraged by following the news.
You could look at developing something that would make being in space more habitable for humans. Better spacesuits, better equipment.
Maybe something in the cryostasis..eh..space?
Perhaps they could be used with an rtl-sdr device?
Once you get experience in having a TDD approach, my view is that you don't lose time with testing. Writing tests is a way to formulate your thought and assumptions. You implement this in your code and you selectively run these using the tests. You reduce the size of the code that you think about to small building blocks. This makes you much faster-writing code. The amount of rework getting components to work together is reduced allowing you to implement features faster.

Only if your code is complex, will you need a complex test suite. If your code is complex you won't be fast implementing features anyways. TDD will help you keep your code simple.
Your parent says _sex_ is "one of the most natural acts of almost all lifeforms", not _porn_.
Singapore size should be kept in mind if and when other countries try and copy this. This can go horribly wrong if the Government is not honest enough.
video poker, blackjack, and poker can be made to have positive expected value with enough skill. Also roulette I suppose, if you go down the Thorpe and Shannon route of putting a computer in your shoe.
Yummy. It would be great to add a filter to show only the ones that include a detailed recipe, though.
How about a logistics company ?
Don't forget the story of Nick D'Arcy. Never heard of him? I'm not surprised. He's an Australian swimmer and holder of the Australian 200m Butterfly record. He was supposed to take it to Michael Phelps at the 2008 Olympics, where he had a realistic chance of winning Gold or Silver.

Unfortunately for him, he got drunk at the party celebrating his inclusion in the 2008 Olympic squad. He took offense with another (retired gold medallist) swimmer at the party and punched him, shattering his jaw and skull.

D'Arcy was charged with Assualt, and convicted, receiving a suspended jail sentence. He was stripped of his place in the 2008 Olympics and 2009 World Championships and is unlikely to make it to the 2012 London Olympics based on poor form and a lingering failed drug test outcome.

All because he got drunk and decided to hit someone, probably 5-10 years of preparation and work down the drain, a promising career and future financial success all destroyed. No sporting company will touch him for endorsements, even if he does succeed again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_DArcy
Indiana doesn't. (At least.) You have us confused with a state in the twenty-first, I think.
Ok, race to the bottom: how about 'Adam and Eve, the original lean..' - no hang on: 'RNA: the original lean startup'. Oh: Quarks, the..

Anyway, I won the race. Can we stop now?
The migrations support for Django is being written by the author of South, based on everything he learnt on that project. It's essentially South 2 but baked in to Django.
a developer API would be great
That's cool but... mobilecoin?
It's the grave accent - pretty rare in English outside of loan words from other languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent#English
Happened more recently than that too https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/18/us/teen-plane-stowaway/index....
they come in the different transposed keys for instruments that read in different keys, but technically. the actual key, is all the same.