jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No, the effect is the opposite. First of all, they haven't been talking to each other in a constructive way on these platforms anyway, they merely exchange hateful messages. There is no dialogue between those sides on social media, because social media are generally not conducive to reasonable and rational discussion (with exceptions like HN, of course, where there is appropriate moderation).

Second, pushing radicals out of mainstream platforms is a good thing because they will go to many different places, break up into smaller fractions, and therefore not be able to reach as many people at once. The division and reality-denial we see today is the result of small minorities reaching to large audiences and looking much larger than they are, thereby allowing radical and violent positions to become seemingly more socially acceptable.

It's perfectly fine if people who want to storm the Capitol (or behead Fauci, etc.) get to talk in their own, small little echo chambers. They do that already. Law enforcement is used to infiltrating closed circles and should know how to deal with those who become terrorists.
But you won't in general find many homes built like that beyond 50 years.

That's not true at all. There are thousands of homes in San Francisco that are over 100 years old (built after the earthquake).

Go to the East Coast and these "crap" homes are even older.

I'm hoping your just on a hyperbole kick because your statements don't really line up with reality.
The fridge alleviates many such issues.

I've had fish oil capsules that were packaged under nitrogen, specifically to reduce degradation before sale. But those are not cheap.
Yeah they can do this because A) most people don't care enough or even think to try this and B) at the end of the product cycle, the original one was so overpriced that they can still make a profit off selling the refurb.
Heh did you really just claim that all C compilers "copied" the original C compiler?
Though, $200,000 on a $2 million raise is a bit high for break up fee I think.
The fact that everyone else is doing a horrific job at making a tablet is a bigger sign, to me, that Amazon has a shot at pulling it off.

One thing that stuck out to me recently is that on Amazon's left sidebar digital content is now on the top. If Amazon loses their battle over state sales tax then they need something that puts them on a level playing field and that is going to be digital content.

In my opinion the difference between e-readers and tablets will very soon be non-existent.
> neteller had all it's assests frozen.

... making it just as vulnerable as virtually anything, right? So...

And until they exchange it, it's in a currency that's only recognized by a single "bank" - the Poker site - so in my mind (and this might just be me being insane) it's not really real.

If I can't buy a sandwich or a beer with it, it doesn't feel like real cash.
The comments from their lawyer strongly suggest that he or she (a) knows next to nothing about technology or chatroulette, and (b) delivered what is essentially a template with standard, off-the-shelf questions (i.e., making the client do your work for you). I'm also going to assume this generic work product cost someone thousands of dollars.
Not that much. Term sheets aren't binding, so the fact that it wasn't signed is pretty much just decoration in this story.
I don't think that's just Tesla vehicles, they'll probably supply them for others too? Anyway, Tesla's goal from the beginning has been to eventually take the market leader position by being the first-mover in the electric car disruption.
The article title is pretty misleading. NancyFX looks very succinct, but it solves much smaller scope of problem than ASP.NET MVC does. The only notable comparison he makes between NancyFX and ASP.NET MVC is routing -- while the level of indirection in the RouteManager and the folder structure conventions of the default one provided in ASP.NET MVC, the purpose of that is to give enterprise applications an extensibility point. If you don't need all the ways you can customize ASP.NET MVC, sure go with a simpler framework. But there's nothing "doing it wrong" about using ASP.NET MVC if you need the services it provides.
A blue chip company will usually issue bonds because investors perceive them as low default risk and will buy debt at attractive rates. A company like Tesla would be seen as higher risk and would face higher rates on debt. A convertible note offers a potential equity element that can cause investors to accept less interest in return for potentially sharing upside though equity. The benefit to Tesla is that it won't necessarily dilute existing shareholders unless the conversion is exercised.
That's a really cool technique! Though it looks like his scanner glass is scratched to hell and back (I wish they'd make the glass more scratch resistant.) My exact scanner type, too. I would say it's definitely fast at 300dpi; but it takes well over 90 seconds for 600dpi (full scan, chip scan would be faster of course), never dared try 1200dpi.

Also too bad I can't use use this trick when scanning cardboard boxes and manuals.
I left "freelancing" to do "Contracting" as I was in a similar position.

Alas this also means that I often need to actually turn up to the clients office.

Working though an agency has similar issues, as you describe, but let's face it - no-one likes paying their bills or pay the full whack for stuff.

It's just the cost of doing business.

The only way (that I can see) to totally escape is to actually make something other people will want to buy and sell direct.
- long-term goals and milestones are Post-Its on my wall

- short-term tasks go into something like https://kanbanflow.com

- documents go into Google Drive (I pay £3.30/m, so get 100GB last time I checked)

- I have a Synology with 4TB, backed up to Glacier. This contains my art (huge scans) and other hacks I don't have on BitBucket or Github.

Since the Synology software is so good nowadays (and in keeping with self-hosting) I am considering putting my whole life on there.

A hangover from my gov days is "the strategy is delivery", so I get things out, see if it works, and if they don't, they save me some more note-taking and todo-ing down the line.
I thought I'd stick this thing up, partly because I thought it might be handy. It removes fixed menus which may be cluttering up your article when you click it. I was getting annoyed with them on my laptop and would often resort to 'inspect element' and delete.

Also I was quite impressed how little code it took. Basically apart from the manifest file with the name of the app, it was the three or so lines below. I thought that might inspire someone wanting to make something similar:

There's this in the background.js file that says to call zap.js in the context of the open tab if someone clicks the button -

chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab) {
chrome.tabs.executeScript({ file: 'zap.js' }); });

And the zap.js file has this to find the fixed items and remove them (and jquery) -

$('*').filter(function() { return $(this).css('position') === 'fixed'; }).hide();

And that's it mostly.
It doesn't work in the background and notify you, like the iPhone system, you have to actively click to scan in the app. According to the reviews it's also quite unreliable.
Not to be snarky, but isn't your master password now sitting there, plaintext, in your command-line history? (Worse: when you accidentally do this in a terminal that's remoted somewhere.)
Why was this down voted? You did not like the pic? Sort of uncalled for...
It's really obvious you don't know much about prison and recidivism. Being convicted and spending time in prison has long reaching affects on your life. Your employment options become more limited, you may lose voting rights, your existing social networks are disconnected, you may be forced into low wage labor while imprisoned, you may be denied access to educational resources that would help you be employed after release, among other things.

> It's as if being a criminal was a lifestyle some people choose to adopt from the beginning. They don't even want out of it, and some want back "in" because that's where the culture strives.

You think people choose on purpose to be imprisoned rather than be free? This is a rationalization that prisoners deserve to be in prison because they are fundamentally flawed.
Hopefully this will run on arm, which is something SublimeText does not
Good question. The site's 10 minute guided meditation right now does not sound like the forms of Zen meditation I'm familiar with, and it doesn't sound like mindfulness meditation. What is it? And is it evidence-based?

I practice Zen-style breath-counting meditation (susokukan) now. No doubt many different kinds of meditation are beneficial, but I suspect they have different effect sizes. Probably some do nothing for you at all.

The most unexpected consequence of breath-counting is how dispassionately I see my random intrusive thoughts during meditation, whether it's anger at someone, a happy memory, or a worry about some future task. It sounds crazy to non-meditators, but it's actually hard for me to not to laugh during meditation sessions at how ephemeral and "unreal" these thoughts are... and how quickly all emotions, sensations, thoughts move in and depart like blips on the screen of mind.

After breath-counting for half an hour, I feel a much deeper, more substantial calm than if I'd done something like listening to relaxing noises in the same time. It's a calm of mind that bleeds into the rest of the day, because meditation gives practice at seeing the shape-shifting nature of thoughts and human identity.

Does the kind of meditation practiced on this site have similar effects?
Plane changes at higher orbits cost less. In fact, one of the ways to do them cheaper is to burn fuel to raise the apogee, plane change, then burn back.

Still, the ISS just can't do that.
Google should really extend this service worldwide.
Browsers don't display titles in windows, they are truncated by tabs. IE9, Chrome, etc. There's little point in making them much longer. Maybe twice the length that fits in a normal unsqueezed Chrome tab, so that bookmarks can be distinguished from each other, but the one long title that maxes out the bookmark menu width is horrible too.
Even when there were a few apps that didn't work well, in my experience at least, it was no one near as bad as W8's HiDPI features continue to be today. Apple did a really good job with that.
> Why can't there be a moral dimension?

Because despite what too many capitalists would tell you, corporations are not living beings, much less people.
I thought we already knew how to destroy black holes by evaporating them...

Anyway, now seems like a good time to submit this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1425544 He claims the mathematical basis for black holes from general relativity is false; I don't possess the math skills to really go over his claims.
How would you like 2G for free? Because that's actually the deal with Dropbox. No charge unless you want >2G.
You get used to it. The stuff that's easier in other languages than in Haskell is mostly done by hiding distinctions.
Kind of ironic you chose quitting alcohol as your comparison - locking people in a room is exactly what many high-intensity anti-alcoholism/drug abuse programs do. You stay in there with nothing but food, water, and maybe some books until you've gotten through the cold sweats, the puking, and the other associated symptoms of withdrawal. Once your body has returned to a semblance of normalcy, you start treating the psychological addition issues - which is virtually impossible while drunk/high or while 'coming down'. So a period of cold turkey pain is some times necessary.

I don't know if that's the 'best' way to handle it (I'm not an addiction specialist, I just have many addicts in my family - 2 of which have gone through similar programs), but it is certainly effective. Both of the family members who went through such programs have been clean for >20 years afterward, after 15-20 years of abuse.
Everything else has gotten cheaper, so if it weren't for cost of living you could probably do it on half that now.

The problem is that while hardware, cloud, bandwidth, etc. has collapsed in prices since the late 90s, real estate has arguably undergone hyperinflation. As a result, people can't cope with low salaries as easily unless they're just-out-of-college types with no footprint.
Just listened to the ZFS on Linux episode. I was sceptical about watching a command-line narrative, but this was incredibly well executed, with episode transcript and mini-reviews of related sites. As the episode started, the speech pattern was so slow I wondered if it was a TTS robot aimed at non-English listeners, but then the voice quickly picked up speed to reach excited-hacker cadence.

How long does it take to write and produce each episode? Would you care to share the toolchain being used for screencasts?

I miss the lost promise of SMIL which would have allowed in-context video links to URLs for related sites, or deep-linking to related video snippets in other episodes. If your project continues, you will quickly grow a library which will benefit from cross-indexing. You will also find that a subset of content will need to be refreshed, as tools and environments change. Metadata for modular snippets will improve discovery, reuse and update.

Rails Tutorial has generated six-figure revenue from screencasts combined with an ebook, so there is precedent for monetizing self-service video training.
As others have said, GitHub does produce a merge commit for the PR. You can checkout that commit like so,

git fetch origin +refs/pull/$N/merge && git checkout FETCH_HEAD

However, in my experience I have seen both cases where GitHub makes new merge commits when the receiving branch changes (current master) and where it does not. Due to externalities in our test suite we sometimes have "current master" break and when we push a fix we sometimes see PRs go green and sometimes they do not. I haven't figured out why we see the two different behaviors.
Any attempts to hijack common words for specific meaning in programming will abound with problems. I find it hardly surprising that many people view parrallelism as concurrently executing similar operations. The key being "similar operations." That actually fits with common uses of the words everywhere else.

Consider, what does it mean to run parallel with something else? Means you are running a similar path. Not even necessarily at the same time. What does it mean to run concurrently with something else? Simply that you are running when it is.
I think the people that "dig" on her would dig on a male for the same things regarding treatment of employees so I don't think that's right. It's not like any of us on HN have given Zynga a free pass.
You can easily use netcat to pipe tar over the network directly to zbackup. If you want encryption over the network it's even easier:

tar -c stuff/ | ssh user@example.com zbackup backup /my/backup/repo/backups/backup-`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`
It's a cool way to make fonts, but Metafont has been generating fonts from algorithms since '79
The “Hey” email service toes the line well for me. I’d prefer all of my communications were based on a similar idea.
"I'm moving to reddit!"
The original design goal of signal was a secure alternative to SMS. The use of phone numbers and is core to this philosophy.
Funny you mention the french revolution. I think it's a great point of comparison because the precursor situation has so much in common with NYC's current situation.

The french didn't revolt because the rich were rich or because the rich weren't kicking in. They revolted because (warning, massive generalization) the government was taking a lot of money from everyone and squandering it (paying back debts for boondoggles, to the benefit of many wealthy people) despite times being very tough for many. While few are literally starving in NYC the parallel, particularly the government taking in tons of revenue yet failing to deliver better conditions for its people, is definitely a strong one.

Refresher for those interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution#Crisis_of_th...
> most of Europe and multiple world leaders have spent the last four months spreading or consuming anti-vaxx propaganda.

What? MOST of Europe? When did this happen?
I converted it into a server, I've been running it on full load for a week and the temperatures are 80C +- 2 degrees. I don't know if there is a way to use x16 cables without transferring electricity? Thus, mixing circuits. Consumer PSUs are maximum 2000W, so you have to turn to Alibaba for +2100 W PSUs.
Pretty much nothing, it sat dormant the whole time that Twitter didn't do anything. It briefly had the name of some random news site in the bio but that's it.
In a way, things like this are a part of the whole bloody point that opponents of the NSA have been making: if you put that much surveillance power into the hands of a relatively small number of humans, then they will abuse it. These sort of incidents reveal through their pettiness some of the ways in which massive surveillance invites abuse.
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IIRC http://kythe.io is at least related by heritage to grok.
This is a problem that young people have.
> just about all of their past releases of MacOS, iOS and OS X Server are open sourced as well

More accurately, specific projects from certain releases of macOS and iOS have had parts of them posted online.
Fuck China
To ‘protect it from rain and road debris’ of course /s
I like the smooth action and 'thunk'. It's a pleasure to type on after many years' use.
Beauty must be in the eye of the beholder. This just screams FU gas at the top of its lungs.

As a rider who hates breathing diesel particulates, I love it.
Apple still ships a number of components licensed under the GPL.
Every Tesla has gobs of torque, it doesn't qualify any of them as work trucks.

It's a toy, this is a recreational vehicle hence the ATV. Off-roaders often need compressed air to refill tires after deflating for traction in exceptional conditions like sand and snow.

The decision to have sloped bed-rails prevents mounting toolboxes anywhere on this thing, nor can you place oversized loads across them without sliding off. That alone precludes the vast majority of work truck applications. The 1st gen Honda Ridgeline had the same defect, to a lesser degree.
Where do I hang the back plate?

Also, the ugliest car ever. Worse than the latest Batman car.
In your career you are likely to be using many, many programming languages. I'm well into the double digits (and my current job has me juggling 4 different environments at once!)

If it's a good job, then take it. Build yourself up as a general programmer and you will never be out of work. If you become a X-programmer, you'll be in trouble in the latter half of your career, almost for certain.

And, yes, my friends who work with Scala all seem to like it.
Agreed (about textmate always meeting expectations) -- except for lack of chunked undo :)
I count my calories. And the easiest way I can enjoy my meals, have snacks and maybe a drink is to skip a meal.

3 large meals each day, adds up to a lot of calories, and if you snack and drink: game over.
> What the hell kind of mentality is this?

sighs Traditional Asian mentality. I, and definitely many others, hate it, but it's definitely not just Samsung.
They have that at work and it takes far longer to get an elevator. It's always annoying going to those buildings and using those elevators.
This is a great idea. Khan Academy is one of the coolest learning resources out there, and I've been happy to see it get some more coverage recently (via Reddit).

I think you're totally right in that small game mechanics can really be the difference between drudging through repetitve learning and having fun.

Looking forward to earning some of these badges :)
You write:

"After 2 years, they could run the company into the ground and I will get nothing out of it except experience"

I can relate to some of the frustration you express. I spent most of 6 years working with the entrepreneur behind Bluewall (http://www.bluewallmedia.com/). I worked there 2002-2008 (on and off). We occasionally built some projects that seemed to do well, initially, and which possibly would have grown if the business had had some focus and discipline and follow-up. (We built a decent video store for the yoga site http://www.ihanuman.com/store.php and we could have used the same software to build out a whole network of similar niche/community focused video sites.)

I saw a lot of projects abandoned, some of which seemed to have big potential. It was frustrating to watch as $2 million dollars were wasted on what seemed like a long series of bad decisions.

However, I can not fully agree with this part of what you write:

"I will get nothing out of it except experience, which I can get in many other fulfilling ways."

Strictly speaking, your statement is true, there are many other things you can do, all of which will bring you experiences. However, startup experiences are unique and not easily fungible for other experiences. The question then, simply, is whether you want startup experiences. If not, then you probably should not be working at startups at all, even if the pay was great. But if yes, then I think you'll walk away with experiences that will seem very valuable to you, and worth the opportunity cost.
black color font on dark background doesn't look good
Your proposed solution doesn't solve your complaint of browser security. Even if you use SSL and have a bcrypt hashed database, once someone gets onto the browser they can get at any password typed. It is literally a 1 liner if they have jquery.

That's why I'm saying this doesn't even try to solve the insecurity of the browser, because nothing can. They're just not secure in the face of a moderately determined hacker, period.
Sinister in a very comical light-hearted way, so as to say it's kind of crazy seeing the things he's accomplished over his professional career.
Mele Kalikimaka!
It would have been exciting (well, at least till 7th grade) if one had such a system in schools instead of marks or grades. They are just not cool enough to give incentive to most of the children.
They probably include views by bots and crawlers. That is pretty typical amongst UGC sites.
I was going to say: why would you want to separate out the O2. Many more interesting things that can be done with liquid O2 than N2... ;-)
> If you are already partial to a particular shortener when you tweet, you can continue to use it for link shortening and analytics as you normally would, and we'll wrap the shortened links you submit.

I really hope this habit doesn't catch on. If it does each link will have three points of failure instead of one (as it should) or two (as it will with t.co).
> When it comes to square footage, this is like any other investment on potential. If it is not exercised, then it sits there, taking the extra heating and cooling, adding to your taxes, and so forth.

You're ignoring the intrinsic value of space, the value of privacy, and so on.

That's why I asked about a greenbelt around a city. It's land that just sits there, yet people seems to value that.

I could cram all my stuff into about 1/4th the space. It would be quite busy. Space makes it tranquil.
i work for gnip and i hear your point. for now, if you want to try it, you can provision a full gnip appliance from gnip's site for a free 3 day trial (that we'll happily extend for you if you want more time).
Anyone know where I can find working example apps built on top of Jo? (without having to clone the project from Github, that is.)
That's about the stupidest waste of time and energy I've every heard of. Also France is not neutral... they have their priorities too.
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