jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's the beauty of the free markets. You can always compete. The problem is that alternative social networks such as Parler don't have wide enough audience as Twitter. But that's also an effect of the free market. If there were enough people who value having access to the kind of content which can be found on Parler then it would be more popular. Twitter is simply catering to the majority of consumers.

The market interest for networks like Parler, Gab, Voat, Thedonald.win, etc. is simply too small for any of them to succeed. Their audience is also too narrow, it's just politics and almost no discussion about anything else. If a ton of people would suddenly move to Parler it would mean the majority wants it and Twitter would respond by enabling the kind of content they are banning now.
Prove their point by getting millions of others to also receive it in a harmful manner and then also have them take violent action.
Ah, but here's the rub: danaliv isn't (I don't think...) the President of the United States, much less one who has repeatedly offered support and comfort to people who have committed acts of violence and insurrection.

Context matters.
Same line of thinking among officials and POTUS's entourage is being reported (I don't know if the source is reliable) :

> High-ranking national-security officials have spent the last 24 hours scrambling to figure out how to keep their commander-in-chief, Donald Trump, from inciting further violence at home, spilling national secrets, or sparking last-minute confrontations with international foes.

> The concerns in the upper echelons of the administration’s national-security community range from fears inside the Pentagon that the president will do or say something that effectively throws the U.S. into a military confrontation with another country to anxieties in the intelligence apparatus that Trump will divulge classified intelligence on his way out, according to four officials who spoke with The Daily Beast about the matter. All requested to remain anonymous in order to speak more openly about the discussions.

> “This isn’t a hypothetical anymore,” said one senior administration official. “This is real. What happened yesterday changed the calculus. People are concerned about [the president’s] state of mind.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/after-capitol-riot-trump-offic...
Telegram is really good for this, in my experience, and similar to Signal.

But you're right, Signal is designed for secure communication between parties. Allowing messages to be exported or archived should at worst leave only your own messages (and remove all others including media) and at best not exist at all.

Sure, let me just single handedly backup our conversation and send it to the HK police...
Billion dollar US company under attack by Chinese!
I still have some questions about CoreOS. (Actual questions, not doubts).

When you say that CoreOS auto-updating would patch things like OpenSSL vulnerabilities without any intervention (as the founder said on The Changelog), that just doesn't add up to me.

Say, I have CoreOS, and an nginx docker image running (based on an Ubuntu 14.04 image).

If I have an OpenSSL vulnerability and CoreOS says they auto-patched my server, great. They patched the host. But that doesn't mean the openssl library in my nginx image is patched, right? So most of the manual patching (rebuilding the docker image, etc) and responding to these kinds of things is still an issue, isn't it? I might be missing something here that involves the union FS, etc.

Would appreciate a clarification on that.
> You need to write a full parser to discover all the targets.

I don't think grep '^[^ ]*:' really counts as writing a parser.
That was great. Didn't think that Id watch the whole thing, but now I want to see more. She put on an awesome presentation and the REPL worked really well in this format. Thank you for putting this together and please do more (if you have the time, of course).
IMHO, the US is heading down a dangerous path as regards things like this. One case I'm really looking at is this one that will be decided by SCOTUS by June 2021:

https://www.jurist.org/news/2021/03/us-supreme-court-hears-a...
Are there any theories why this is happening?

It it "just" the mentally difficult situation people are in, who get infected?
Or is there some neurological damage done by the virus? Maybe even permanent damage?
> UTF-8 is just a way to encode, it doesn't decide what goes into Unicode.

If UTF-8 had not had sequences above 3 bytes, you would not have been able to use it to express Unicode characters as high as Emoji which would certainly have hampered their adoption, is what the person you're replying to means.
That's pretty much what I mean by hard headed, no one is willing to consider change. Not an individual, just the people that create laws and policies.
This is kind of an overreaction. Companies file patents for all kinds of things all the time, most of which never become real products. And if this one did, I can just deny Spotify access to my microphone on iOS and macOS. Not a big deal.
Punching holes doesn't work only when network devices in between are broken or are actively preventing it.

From the network point of view it looks the same as two hosts starting an outgoing TCP connection through nat - if that works then hole punching should work too.
That is an unfair caricature of Republican. Who in turn make an unfair caricature of civil servants.

The position of most on the US center right is that because of governments unique power over our lives we ought to be very careful about what we allow them to do.
"Don't be evil" means that sometimes you should do things for the good of the community without expectation of direct rewards. Maybe I'm idealistic and naive but I think that Google tries to live up to that.
Dropping の can create a different meaning. For example, 日本料理 (Japanese cuisine) and 日本の料理　(cooking in Japan, which could well be used to refer to the quality of the italian or chinese food here). The former is truly a single word and the latter two words separated by a particle.
It's often illegal for government employees or agencies to accept certain kinds of 'gifts'. It definitely depends on how strictly they follow the rules.
The marginal value of more use of antibiotics is not necessarily constant, if a certain antibiotic can be used a certain number of times before it is ineffective, those "turns" can be used more or less effectively (I propose). These turns put together make up a commons, how do you avoid the tragedy of it?
I would never for a second claim the price for a Lian-Li is just because it's prettier. It's a bad analogy.
I have the SliceHost ip in the list of recent activity too. Let's find out.
I was about to write something similar about prgmr. They just don't care.

In our case, we just got bored of all VPS providers and took a dedicated server. Take the time to compare a VPS to a dedicated server and you may have a few surprises. My current server is 80$/month and a similar one on Slicehost would be 250$/month.
Or possibly to make a dirty bomb by refining brazil nuts.
frankly I'm shocked that Google still does such shitty customer support.

Sure Gmail, Search etc, I can understand that you can't supply customer service for a free service used by millions(many of whom will call you for the most trivial stuff).

But when you are dealing with people's money....surely you can afford $8-10 bucks an hour to give people proper customer support. It's not like google is some tiny startup which can be excused due to size, they are bigger than most corporations.

If you hold 6 figures of someone else's money, you better have a way for that person to talk to you.
This is pretty close to a real solution, much better than SIFR. This lets you specify a remote font file, which the browser will download and apply to the text. This means the text shows up as text and not as a picture or Flash embed. It also means that if the font file is not available for some reason, the browser will fall back to something reasonable.

The Google Font Directory is a library of freely-licensed fonts that you can link from your own web pages. When you click a font name here, it will take you to a demo page so you can see how well it works. http://code.google.com/webfonts
I don't see a correlation between product growth and engineering complexity.
I see, that number came up in search but I did suspect it wouldn't be the full story. Thanks!
Paper ballots help, but it’s still not a properly secure system.
We took up karate together with my childhood sensei over Zoom. It super fun, more interesting than just working out, and a great bonding experience.

DM me if you want my sensei's contact details, she's joyful and makes the sessions great.
People are too frighten of a nuclear meltdown like in Chernobyl or East coast Japan.
Sure, we have been productively making nuclear plant to be safer but it takes time to convince the population, i guess.
You are right. It is entirely possible that they were instructed to fall back and re-group at a location where they can control the crowd better.

But, that needs an investigation.

However, emotions are high because there is an obvious difference between treatment of BLM protesters and those who rioted yesterday.

Is it because of orders or individual decisions?

The original poster tried to shift the blame from the police as an entity / institution, to individuals taking decisions.

That is an obvious tactic of trying to cover-up the complicity of the institution. Happens always.

edit : Another video showing a police officer guiding rioters into the areas.

https://v.redd.it/tl6j5jo2lz961
> human cognitive biases that make us bad at objectively assessing risk

I generally agree strongly (e.g. car vs air safety). Though this group is highly cognizant of KNOWN risks. It's the UNKNOWN risks (usually found at those interfaces I mentioned above) that get overlooked. Unknown risks definitely will be more problematic in a compressed-schedule environment.
Does it work out if you account for the increased CO2 dissolved in the ocean?
This moron did: https://twitter.com/TreWardWBAL/status/1347226070085480448
All of humanity speaking one language, and having multiple languages, are not actually mutually exclusive.

Diglossia and multilingualism are the norm. There's no reason why people can't speak a mother tongue at home and in a local community, and use an international language for math, science, and travel.

The question is whether people should be coerced into abandoning their mother tongue.
Well the New Yorker and NYTimes are more liberal and left leaning vs conservative so have less of a hawk/defense agenda to push. So I think you do yourself a disservice dismissing articles like this out of hand under a broad umbrella of "generic China narrative"
> When you are running a SOCKS proxy through ssh, you are not doing TCP over TCP

Are you sure? SSH uses TCP, and encapsulates the web traffic which also uses TCP... in what way is that not TCP over TCP?
A camera on a tripod and a light source would give infinite flexibility as to angle and illumination. Once optimized, the setup could be left as such.
This idea definitely has legs for what I do day-to-day. We have a data aggregation framework with hundreds of bots. Due to the fluid nature of maintaining it we use Python. The trade-off for the productivity we require is performance - we use GEvent to mitigate this to a degree.

I have already replaced parts of our suite with components written in Go, but at this point I wouldn't port the pointy end because I don't want to loose the agility that Python allows. If I could spider/parse with JavaScript and at once exploit the Go performance and concurrency features, this would be very attractive.

Funnily enough, the previous incarnation of the same solution was written in C++ with a JavaScript run-time used in exactly the same way. It predates Node.js by some years.
It wasn't the main reason, but certainly didn't encourage me to keep working on it.

I burned out on Scheme and not having a large community of developers, but I'm starting to work on things again, but not iPhone apps.
Ok, but you're sort of equating 'getting into YC' with 'success'.
I feel your frustration and, while it is true that any individual person is exquisitely vulnerable to legal and extra-legal coercion by state power, this still does not mean that the laws of one country apply to the citizens of another country.
And as someone who has coded both Python and Ruby on the job, and most recently Scala, I find the amount of time I'm debugging runtime errors much less in Scala, which is very valuable.

I also don't feel the amount of code I am writing to be all that significantly larger than what I was writing in Python/Ruby.
> until Oracle closed their code in 2010

At that point, why credit Oracle instead of Sun? Oracle finalized their deal to buy Sun in January 2010. How much did Oracle contribute between then and the announcement that they were closing their code?

Edit: Oracle announced closing OpenSolaris on August 13, 2010. The last "release" of OpenSolaris was June 2009.
Eligibility requirements do say that you need to be faculty/student/mentor, but no idea if it's enforced. I'll have to try signing up with bogus info sometime and see if it works.

> To join the Education Community, you must be one of the following:

> Faculty Member - An individual person who is an employee or independent contractor working for an educational institution which has been accredited by an authorized governmental agency within its applicable local, state, provincial, federal, or national government and has the primary purpose of teaching its enrolled students.

> Student - An individual person enrolled as a student at an educational institution which has been accredited by an authorized governmental agency within its applicable local, state, provincial, federal, or national government and has the primary purpose of teaching its enrolled students.

> Autodesk-sponsored competition mentor or competitor - An Autodesk-sponsored design competition mentor is an individual who provides guidance, advice, coaching, or instruction to competitors engaged in competing in an Autodesk-sponsored design competition. A competitor is a student or other individual who is registered and accepted or otherwise approved by a design competition organizer as a competition participant. A list of Autodesk-sponsored competitions can be found at Design Competitions & Events.
Consider a page like wikipedia. Every time you click on a link to another article a new request is made, the page is loaded along with all its dependencies and resources.

A SPA would instead only get the text of the new article and write it in place. Therefore, removing the need to re-download the entire page again. You can also read about this in the blog post by bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/company/2015-03-24/bloomberg-weve-m...
Because programming gives us very easy means of getting something on the screen (just write a line of text and computer will execute it; magic!) but makes it very hard to accomplish anything (due to extreme indirection AKA „Yak Shaving“ and archaic computer-centered text-based „tools“).
Also because we generally lack culture of Developing things (i.e. understanding that production and polishing of things takes 95% of effort which takes enormous amounts of perseverance, focus and discipline).
But, that holds true for all apps. So why is facebook rated comparatively worse?
He's definitely on to something here, FF with a hundred or so tabs open:

With ABP:

12961 XXXXXX 20 0 2615960 1.483g 58692 S 45.2 9.5 2:13.00 firefox

Without:

13098 XXXXXX 20 0 2157212 1.109g 57476 R 142.6 7.1 1:26.25 firefox

Both after a complete stop and start of the browser, restoring every tab by activating it.
Ah, then I guess it's the same as if they had just said the updated quote. Thanks for clearing that up!
To me the key parts of that interaction are that he was immediately available to you and empowered to fix your problem. If phone support picked up on the first ring and did something more than try to deflect, it would be fine too.
My point is that you won't solve the problem by merely breaking up/shutting down Facebook or Google - something else will immediately take its place.

If you want to solve the problem you have to eradicate the underlying disease with regulation and then Facebook and Google will fix themselves (by adapting or going out of business).
I said it half jockingly, but I have read about over 5 transitions from UI framework to UI framework in Windows-land in the past 25 years...

Haven't even heard of this maui thing -- the last thing I remember was XAML, WPF, etc.
Logically speaking, if someone shared such code from Iran, that would be the opposite of what the US government is concerned about. It would be import into the US instead of export.
I do. The find and replace is better. You can do it across multiple cells. I don't like the drag and drop method of moving cells. Switching between notebooks is faster if you normally use multiple large notebooks at the same time. I am biased against JavaScript heavy UI. I just have had so many bad experiences with single page apps. The only problem I have with notebooks is the mathjax J's seems to cause the browser to hang on opening or running large notebooks. But it was the same in labs, but even worse with the tabs being handled by the UI instead of the browser. Switching back and forth between tabs and having to wait for them to render was annoying. I gave it a good go for a while recently, but the find and replace in classic notebooks is just so good I couldn't make the switch permanent.
Atlas Air, ATSG, and the like provide the pilots and therefore the training. Amazon has nothing to do with it.
Individuals are frequently given “life without parole,” which effectively erases them, but corporations almost never get this.
> I like the concept of this, but it seems like it'd be tough to validate that something was actually illegal from the individual actor's level.

By design. The corporate structure of plausible deniability protects executives, and ultimately shareholders, when lower level actors are subtly "encouraged" to commit criminal behavior which advantages the company — and then cut loose if they get caught.

The incentives provide a strong force ensuring corporate criminality in the aggregate which completely overwhelms the weak force discouraging it at the individual level.
My latest PL idea, inspired by Rust's "unsafe {}" blocks is "expressive {}" blocks.

The "base language" would be boring, pedestrian, optimizing for zero surprises. But inside an expressive{} block, you could have macros, operator overloading, DSLs, first-class continuations, you name it.
> The proportion of people aged 65 or over is forecast to reach nearly 40% of the population in 2060, the government has warned.

These sorts of demographic shifts provide some of the best investment opportunities of the 21st century. Japan offers one of the most extreme shifts that will be found, but there are numerous others around the globe.
Still waiting what is considered as high. Compression etc are not part of the question.
Some closure? You have closure when the TSA is abolished and the people involved are hanged for treason, not before.
Is it the case that if the power is out, that such devices can't communicate over the powerlines, even if they have their own backup power?
It could happen, hypothetically, if you repeatedly picked winners and losers and in that way steadily grew your share of the economy. But it's quite infeasible.
"If your fire exit strategy currently relies on the ability to break a window, you've already failed at fire safety."

This is quite false. The ability to use a bedroom window as an emergency exit is required by typical US building codes (e.g., http://www.bobvila.com/articles/406-what-makes-a-room-a-bedr...).

The basic rule is that, besides the entry door, there has to be one other exit that opens to the outside, which can be another door, but is usually a window. There are size rules for the window.

The window is intended not just for entry of firefighters, but also for unassisted exit.
damn. both of those guys are really good
I think that nailing down the smaller more focused categories is the way to go. If you can make it both more relevant and more focused it would be both different and useful providing a real reason to give it a try.
Units is older, frink is a lot bigger, it's a whole programming environment.

Frink started from and extended the units defined by Units, I don't know if anything has gone in the other direction.

Later: for simpler calculations an interesting feature frink adds is the ability to do interval arithmetic. Terms can be specified as ranges that are then carried through the calculations to the result.
Apple also released a few demos for html5 a while back, you will have to use safari though.

Quake 2 was ported to html5 sometime back. You should have a full html5 compatible browser to run it
http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/
Is this high school?

Yes. Though Tumblr and 4chan both have older users, the ones that participate in this kind of thing "seriously" are generally of that cliquish high school mindset and narrow worldview characteristic of but not limited to teenagers. Ironically, it's that same earnestness that provokes raids like this.

Why would you destroy your time, resources, and sense of humanity for this childish crap?

Lulz. Srsly.
You're not anonymous to admins, only to users. Every post is still associated with a big fat naked IP address and it's a single click to ban a user of a specific post.
It's still bad, and there's a lot of bad legacy PHP code out there, but I don't believe it's as bad as it was. Although most new developers working with PHP will probably be hacking wordpress themes and plugins (which don't really have much in the way of best practices other than WP's sometimes infuriating API and mixins as a feature) but others will still end up using a framework like Symfony or Laravel, or Composer to manage dependencies and autoloading.

I don't know if it's even as common as it was to start in PHP without at least touching some kind of framework... although that's just an assumption on my part. At the very least there's a lot more good PHP code out there and better practices to be found, even if education seems like a dauntless task.
Your theory doesn't explain male foot fetishism at all.

Personally, I believe this has much more to do with the taboo nature of feet (as they are usually seen as dirty), similarly to other fetishes (e.g. urine).

Foot fetishism is by no means a modern phenomenon driven by advertising.
I wonder if there would be a market for high quality dumb TVs. I would personally love to have the option but I suppose it would be hard to pitch a TV with less features that’s more expensive than the smart TVs from recognizable brands
"The doctor cannot compel me to cancel a trip across the Atlantic if I refuse to submit to the tests"

I'd suggest that failing to discover a fatal disease would be slightly worse than failing to travel somewhere.

What you mean to say is that it's OK for a doctor to do it because in that case the recipient believes he is doing it for a good reason. If everyone going through an airport fully believed that these checks are an efficient way to ensure our safety in the air, far less people would have a problem.
Phallus?
Margaret Thatcher had voice training to make her sound more authoritive.
Here are 2 clips the first from 1975 and the second from 1987.
They don't sound a whole lot different to me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK3eP9rh4So
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vIt9lRzuFE&feature=relat...
Hi, I've tried this on my Mac with Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, all recent versions, and the Capture button worked in neither. In another comment you mention that you don't have Linux support. Does that mean this is Windows only? If so, why doesn't your page say so? I must say this was a somewhat frustrating experience.

This looks neat and I would really love to use it. Is there a timeline for Mac or Linux support?