jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This never seems to be a popular sentiment, but here goes anyway.

A few years ago I spent a month traveling overland in Iran from Astara in the north (we started in Azerbaijan - that’s a story in itself) to Bandar Abbas in the south (and then on to Dubai). What a country. An incredible country - the history, geography and the people. I’ve been lucky enough to have lived in half a dozen countries, and visited around 80. Iran is my favourite.

The historical sites alone are worth several books, and there are many. But the people are what makes a place, and the Iranians are an amazing people. Like everywhere else I’ve traveled people are have relatively simple needs, keep their family safe, be reasonably comfortable and have a laugh and a drink with your friends. In the cities, the moms pickup their kids from school in minivans and drives them to soccer matches. It seems that the majority of folks have (illegal?) sat TV and watch American and European shows. They know what’s going on in the world. Many are (carefully) very critical of their government. They are intelligent and thoughtful debaters. In mosques, churches and even synagogues, people made time for us, patiently answering our western-biased questions without judgement.

There’s obviously a religious element in everyday life, though in our limited time there it didn’t get in the way. We had a run in with the Republican Guard and our friends told us, no jokes, be serious, these guys can cause real headaches. We treated it like a border crossing (be courteous, honest, and only answer exactly what’s asked) and it was no problem. We also met a guy who I suspect was secret police, but as tourists we were treated well and with respect and were invited to his house to have dinner with his family - again for another time.

I’m not a naive traveler, and like to follow the twists and turns of a journey. I’ve not experienced anywhere like Iran and especially the people there. They are the most western of the eastern countries, and many of the folks I spent time with shared many of our values - unlike the current rhetoric from official channels in the US and UK would have you believe.

I recommend going and making your own mind up, and yes, the music was amazing.
That is a much better article. Thank you.
> Get one of those "You only pay if you use it" plans, though I expect the spammers and scammers would cost me a lot of money that way.

I don't know what country you're in, (here in the UK I'd expect anyone would call that 'Pay As You Go (PAYG)') but could spammers and scammers really cost you anything? By calling/texting you? Even for pan-European stuff only the initiator pays these days.
These sorts of arguments always fall a bit flat with me for one simple reason: They assume a false causality. Our forbearance doesn't force others to reciprocate. If we try to stop people from encouraging the mass murder of protesters, sure, some people will look for ways to censor other ideas that I support. But if we don't oppose pro-murder propaganda, those people will still look for ways to censor ideas I support. When homophobia was the mainstream opinion, gay perspectives were commonly censored (in the sense we're talking about here of "powerful private parties not wanting to associate with them"). It seems pretty unrealistic to expect reciprocal generosity from someone who thinks protesters should be killed in the street, so I don't see how an argument based on ideas of "What if they did it to you?" could be persuasive.
>Held accountable by whom? We didn't elect twitch.

Society. Don't like it, pick a new society like the two commenters you responded to you are considering.

>Who decides who needs to be held accountable, and for what?

Once again, society.

>Shouldn't that be the justice system?

The justice system is purposely setup in a way to make it difficult to punish people. This is good. We don't want the government throwing people in jail with flimsily excuses. However this allows a loophole for people to get away with a wide variety of crime and criminal like behavior which is obviously bad. How would you suggest these people are held accountable if it isn't through "cancel culture" which is basically just the modern equivalent of social shunning that various cultures have been doing for centuries?
"More important"? Maybe. Gonna happen? Nope.
And if you exercise your right to offend people in my establishment, I have the right to toss you onto the pavement.

Liberty is a two-edged sword, which is something a lot of people seem to have forgotten.
The NBA is an organization who's job it is to set rules that teams, athletes, and referees can participate in. They can choose to fire refs who behave this way, and they would because they make more money if the refs aren't racists (especially now that they're getting more into racial activism)

Twitch is basically the NBA of their streaming platform, as in they set rules for how streamers, viewers, and moderators interact. Twitch can create whatever arbitrary rules it wants to maximize their revenue. If advertisers stopped caring about controversy, or if Twitch suddenly found a better revenue source, they would surely pursue it.
Carry a pocket notebook instead.
Honestly the easy solution is to ignore the CBs. Surveys show that the majority of people want more bus and bike lanes, so just build them and skip all of the "community input" aka "giving veto power to a small minority".

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-bike-lane-survey-dat...
It's funny to take a moment and notice that a cutting edge new project comes with build instructions for Mac first and then Debian. It wasn't so long ago that if you weren't on Windows or RedHat you were going have to figure it out yourself.
Ummmm, not quite. Fox, Disney, Universal all have market caps larger than FB at P/E's 20 times lower. I think the $65 billion he's talking about is revenue.
Water is intensely political pretty much everywhere but rainforests, and at all levels of government. However, unless you're directly involved, you don't hear about it because it can't normally be used as a political football. Your opinion on any particular water dispute will have nothing to do with your political views or party affiliation, it's mostly a product of geographic location or industry, and no politician who happens to represent both parties wants to take sides. (And any politician who represents only one side will invariably adopt that side's position.)

(Incidentally, in the modern era, the US Supreme Court's original jurisdiction case load is made up almost entirely of states suing one another over either water rights or boundary disputes based on rivers.)
If TextMate 2.0 is not released soon (or doesn't meet expectations), MacroMates is in trouble.
Agree.

Anytime you have large groups of people (in certain circumstances) things are going to happen. As you noted w/o statistics it's hard to draw a conclusion as far as the risk. Similar to when you hear about things happening on cruise ships. They do but statistically chance is extremely small.

Also things like this:

"Reno. Joseph Pred, Burning Man's Emergency Services Operations Chief confirmed, "Rape kits do not exist in Black Rock City. Forensic exams are incredibly complex issues that have to do with the court system and are not something that is really easily taken on. In Northern Nevada, there is only one facility that does that type of exam."

I found this curious, so I contacted a hospital in Northern Nevada and asked if rape kits were only done in specific facilities. A charge nurse in the ER said that when a person is brought in for rape, they are instructed by law enforcement to conduct a special exam and it can be done in any hospital in Northern Nevada."

So we have one person saying one thing and another person saying another thing. At least the person making the first comment is named. The 2nd is just "charge nurse in the ER".
You really can't imagine a release of materials outcome in the context of active sabotage?

(Which is relevant in the context of massive distributed ones; current nuclear power systems mitigate this by being few in number such that they can be well guarded.)
Oh, my. That is about two years old. Team Shoes has started poking at the Debian beaurocracy to get that fixed, but it'll take a while.

Please send me an email if you have Shoes problems. I've been trying to improve those docs...
Assuming you've read the Four Hour Body, what did you think?
A friend of mine from grad school was born to a Nigerian father (who now practices medicine in South Africa) and spent a good bit of time there growing up. He said that a handful of people there are desperate for the ability to start firms like this because of the large number of native-English speakers and the fact that they are in the same time zone as England. There's definitely a belief among successful Africans that Africa could be the next step for outsourcing.

However, they all knew that it wasn't something that could work because of the perception of doing business in Nigeria. The article makes it seem like there is a still a little of that concern with Kenya, but it looks like they may be the ultimate winner in this arena.
Tea Party supporter here - and I am quite aware of the facts regarding income distribution in this country. Are you saying that people can't disagree on the proper level of income redistribution for a society if they are all aware of the current distribution of income? That's a mighty strange assertion.
neocube, winter hat & scarf, snowboard gloves, 30 piece fine precision screwdriver set, tshirts, socks, sweets
How do you browse though given that the vast majority of modern websites made use of javascript?
With this kind of thing, I think there is a strong case for the idea that you really do need to be born with the right kind of brain.
South Asia? Doesn't that mean, like, India?

Does India still look the way it did 30 years ago?
As for Africa and South Asia, check out this presentationL http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y.... They don't look nearly the same as thirty years ago!
That actually sounds like an awful way to report an XSS. Honestly, as someone that maintains a web service I have to say I'd prefer private disclosure than even the rickroll approach. All it takes is one "genius" doing some copy-paste action and then you're in a world of hurt and damage control.
I could be wrong but I believe "RockStar Games" is one of those studios/companies that got so huge from their initial success as a small studio and innovators that the company size exploded into several satelite divisions/studios/etc, until the point where it becomes just another Big Corporation.

Personally I can't believe how anyone who works in game development can sign up for such an experience knowing all the horror stories and "crunch time" requirements that are out there. It seems to take a huge act of willful delusion going into it to think that you're going to come out the other end with a positive experience.

There's an expression about how those in charge only have the power that the people below give them, I can't understand how the rank-and-file in game development are so willing to go from 40-hour to 72-hour work weeks without any extra compensation.

There are better options out there for you as an employee.
Did they have default 'privacy' settings? I just remember being able to view the profile of anybody who went to my university. I think the only reason I found it useful then was because I actually used it to meet new people in my dorm. Myspace at the time couldn't be used to find such specific people.

"You live on the 7th floor of Terry and like foo video games, I live on the 9th!"

Its usefulness declined after that first year.
I posted it to /r/Fitness a while ago for some feedback, and their number one complaint was the food choices. I'll probably add a bunch more foods this weekend and repost it there.

I haven't actually noticed it go down ever. Are you sure it's not on your end? If not, I'll definitely look into AppEngine. I've never actually used anything other than cheap shared hosting so it should be a good learning experience.
Is this old? Isn’t that Buzz?

I’m being sarcastic, but there is nothing new to see here!
Yeah I think we need a follow-up with LSD, cocaine and friends.
Is there somewhere else where immigration is much easier than the United States?

As a data point, I applied for Permanent Residency as part of the Australian Independent Immigration program in 2000. The processing took about 8 months, then I was granted a permanent visa, then I moved to Australia in 2001 and became a citizen after two years (this has been since changed to four years and the application processing times also may vary, from what I know - 2001 was one of the "good" years).
It seems like Google would be a potential buyer. They've made it no secret that they're interested in getting into the social network game. Purchasing MySpace would be a nice way to bootstrap their service with users.
18% number is bullshit debunked many times. When you control for occupation, working hours, etc between male and female - the difference in pay is only 2-3%
To state the obvious :

Aging billionaire keeps a dozen healthy athletic vegetarian teenagers on hand for weekly blood transfusions.

No joke. It's happening right now.

So is this a bad thing?
Thanks for the link. I'm not amazingly knowledgable in CS or physics, but from what I do know, reading the article had me scratching my head, wondering why no one told me that we had proven that the universe is a computer simulation (or equivalent to one).
Is it that women get underpaid or is there more to it?

Women and men should also tell every woman they know to negotiate their pay. The first offer is not something anyone has to take, and while this may be self evident here, it isnt everywhere.
Is anyone that works with Fortinet surprised?
I looked into safe cracking a while back and it seems most of them are sustainable to various attacks. Instead of spending a dime on what's most likely empty safe i would make it a funny family hobby to try to break it. If they have no use of the safe afterwards i would apply more brute force, seeing they are not limited by time. Drilling a hole and inserting an endoscope would be a fast solution, but would ruin the challenge of breaking it :)
"If explosives were used, there's a pretty good chance it would blow up in our face, so to speak -- not only would the gas ignite (making the process somewhat unpredictable), but it would also likely create a huge number of microfissures that would lead to an even bigger oil geyser."

How exactly is the gas going to ignite in the absence of atmospheric oxygen? Remember, this is the bottom of the ocean. There's no air for the gas to react with. Presumably the solid oxidizer and fuel components of any explosive that would be used for this purpose would be well mixed and present in a stoichiometric ratio and, therefore, side reactions between oxidizer and gas aren't all that likely.

I agree on the fissure problem, though.
Outlier...on many levels.
It's not true in the same way. Debian and GNU are two separate projects for instance, but Debian relies on the GNU userland. Same goes with the kernel obviously, and numerous other projects. The BSD projects however (for the most part) do all their own code, all under a single source tree.

The merits of each method are up for debate, however they are pretty distinct.
This is a really odd way to approach programming languages, I feel. According to the article, none of these are very mainstream languages (although certainly scheme and clojure have their adherents, and LUA is used extensively in the game industry), but they should be watched because of hiring trends?

I'd much rather pick up a language because it has some interesting features, or because it solves a problem I have with one of the languages I already know. Seems they're missing the forest for the trees, somehow.
Have you had good luck with Unbounce?

I love it in theory, but the interface is kind of janky - specifically, I have lots of trouble with alignment, positioning, and lack of an Undo button.
Consider this, then: a secure password box is put at the very very bottom of the page in an obscure location. JS is used to make a fake one that is prominent. How will you deal with that?
I assume you have never had to send email to hundreds of thousands of people with short notice. There are many ways to get banned in very short order. The typical route is to use a third party service, but they are almost without exception set up to not accept a large non opt-in list for immediate mailing.
The actual memorandum opinion is available in PDF form here: http://www.vaag.com/PRESS_RELEASES/Cuccinelli/Health%20Care%...
MikroElektronika Embedded Solutions also sells Basic and Pascal compilers for embedded development.

http://www.mikroe.com/
Hetch Hetchy water doesn't just go to San Francisco. Two-thirds of it goes to other cities and towns on the Peninsula, the South Bay, and in Alameda County. In particular, many cities that the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct runs through get some of the water, because voter approval in those cities was part of the campaign to get the project built.

For example, 74% of Mountain View's water comes from Hetch Hetchy. (They get 87% of their water from the SF Public Utilities Commission, and 85% of that comes from Hetch Hetchy.) [1]

Daly City, San Bruno, and South San Francisco currently get 67% of their water from SFPUC and the rest from local aquifers, with a project in the works to increase the SFPUC portion to 100%. [2]

Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and other towns also rely on it, although I don't know the percentages.

Many have seen the pipeline that crosses the Bay between the Dumbarton Bridge and the old railroad bridge.

There are also a number places in the Peninsula and South Bay where you can see parts of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, either the pipes themselves or the above-ground access hatches where the pipe is underground. These are white structures, often circular.

For example if you walk or run the Dish Trail at Stanford, you can see a number of these next to the northernmost part of the trail. This is part of the southern branch of the Aqueduct, which doesn't cross the Bay but cuts south through Milpitas, Sunnyvale, and Mountain View.

Several places where you see a residential street that is divided with a very wide grassy or dirt median, that's the Aqueduct: Sharon Heights Drive and Ivy Drive in Menlo Park are examples.

Along Edgewood Road near 280 there are a number of pipeline sections where it alternates between above-ground bridges and underground sections through those hills. The pipeline then parallels the Cordilleras Trail in the Pulgas Ridge Open Space Preserve where you can see some of the access structures.

On the other side of 280 on Cañada Road there is the famous Pulgas Water Temple [4], where you can really get a sense of how much water flows through the Aqueduct.

For the obsessively curious like me, several years ago I traced the path of the southern branch of the Aqueduct and made a KML file marking some of the visible structures. [3] Someone else had made a similar file for the northern branch but I don't know where to find that now.

[1]: http://www.mountainview.gov/city_hall/public_works/water_con...

[2]: http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/three-peninsula-citie...

[3]: http://mg.to/earth/hetchy.kml

[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulgas_Water_Temple
Uh, no. Risk aversion is rational. It seems like you're equating rationality with risk neutral preferences, which I, and a lot of other people disagree with.

Besides, it's all about risk preference. As long as my preferences are consistent and transitive, I think it's safe to say they are rational. Take the fire insurance example. Suppose I have a job that pays $10k/year. I would gladly pay $200/year to avoid the possibility of a $100k loss. Those are my preferences, and as long as you can't a non-transitive loop, it's perfectly rational of me to have those preferences. In this case, I'd value the guaranteed loss of $100 to be a much better outcome than the risk of loss of $100k.

In short, rational != risk neutral.
Bundleware toolbars for IE that fake search engine choice make pretty money, malware that steals money - too. Not a reason to enter this business.

You aren't getting that money until you shrug off what you have left of your moral values, so the only feasible thing is that part that doesn't offer easy money. Instead offering real product and real satisfaction.
"One of the most peaceful and long running festivals in the country".

If you don't count rape. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vanessa-pinto/burning-man-rape...
This is not true.

There are companies selling development kits with GC enabled system programming languages, like Oberon, for embedded development.

http://www.astrobe.com/default.htm

Granted, ARM Cortex-M3 and NXP LPC2000 microcontrollers are more powerful than typical Arduino hardware, but one does not need to target all possible hardware out there.
You based your reply to me on a quote that was deliberately taken out of context. Because of that, I'm not going to engage with you extensively. I see that your answer to the question that I actually asked is "I don't know what Rules of War they violated, if any, but I really like saying that Rules Were Violated, as it lends an air of authority and gravitas to my opinions.".

I feel that war is heinous, and a tool of last resort (right after "We've tried every other reasonable option, let's just do nothing and see how that turns out." is seriously considered and maybe tried for a while).

You seem to be unable to rationally think about situations that involve the killing of other humans. In order to analyze such situations, you have to temporarily suppress your visceral disgust for the situation and think about the facts of the particular situation.

In this particular situation you had one or two guys carrying what appeared to be RPGs, travelling with other men armed with RPGs and rifles near the area where US troops recently reported coming under RPG fire. Those folks were killed by people employed to kill (when deemed necessary), in order to prevent the injury or death of US troops. The van that arrived was removing enemy wounded or dead. If the occupants of that van had been successful, the folks who seemed to be involved in rocket attacks on US soldiers would be taken away and nursed back to health in an environment that would allow them to get back to firing RPGs at US soldiers. So, the van, and its occupants was destroyed.

It's a pity that there were children in the van. I can understand that calculus that lead to the caretakers of those children endangering them in the way that they did. I cannot say that those caretakers made the wrong call.

The Reuters reporters were operating in an active war zone, and travelling with armed members of enemy forces. It's a pity that they died, but that is a risk that they probably would have readily acknowledged that they were taking.

Reuters was likely denied access to the gunsight video in part because it corroborates the Pentagon's assessment of the situation, and in part because the Army isn't in the habit of handing out gunsight footage to interested non-military parties.

So, seriously. Suppress your visceral disgust for the situation, take forty minutes out of your life and watch the full-length gunsight video. It paints the situation in a different light. Whenever you feel yourself saying "What! How could they do that? That's clearly unreasonable!", pause the video, think carefully and critically about the situation revealed thus far, and maybe go back and review the last twenty or so seconds to ensure that what you thought you saw couldn't reasonably be seen in another way.

Also, stop misquoting people. I don't know why you think that that's a reasonable thing to do, but it reflects very poorly on everything that you have to say.