jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>If service providers want to deplatform centers of radicalization, I think that's ok.

The fact that there is widespread support, let alone demand, for subjective, unaccountable censorship is frightening. You don't understand this, "war on domestic terror" will include legislative attacks on encryption? That bad actors always use, create and amplify perceived crisis to expand their power and permanently erode our rights? You can be certain that when the center of radicalization in Washington DC decides to whip up another war that will kill a million people, they won't be "deplatformed" (as opposed to those "radicals" who will oppose that war, who most certainly will).
It won’t be baffling but appalling to see how the Signal team (moxie in particular) have responded to requests for a backup and restore feature. They’re user hostile and prefer to do things their way. On iOS, Signal has always prohibited its data from being backed up with iTunes (doesn’t matter whether your iTunes backup is encrypted and protected by a password or not). Even now there’s only a recent “transfer data” feature from one phone to another in real time.
Of course. But the problem lies in what constitutes crime. Few years ago, interracial marriage was crime. Should ISP's be shutting down forums where couples can find the social safety that they long for?

Would you support the silencing if leaders of the Augusta Civil Rights Riot were using forums, or Reddit, or FB, to organize themselves?

There is a reason why freedom of speech, without any limitations, is so valued in the free world. Those in power will always use "crime" and "think of the children" as tools to sway the public into weaponizing the government.
I'm not sending all the MIDI data, just a simple 3-integer representation:

1. command
2. note (or byte1)
3. velocity (or byte2)

From testing you don't tend to get stuck notes (though in theory this could happen if a note-up command was lost forever and never sent), though you do see some jitter.
Unlimited is also limited by the bandwidth to transfer the data.
Read the article, there's no way to specify "optional closing tag depending on whether a `src` property is present" so therefore it's manditory. You can, of course, write the parser to do it, but there isn't a way to express it in the HTML grammar.

I always have wished that the script inside the tag would be executed if the `src` couldn't be loaded, which is something John Resig suggested years ago [1].

[1] http://ejohn.org/blog/degrading-script-tags/
I'm going to try to explain this; but words really won't do it justice. I cannot convey the strength of "cultural bonds" with text on a computer screen.

As someone from a Nigerian family, we too normally have very strong family bonds. You can't just do whatever you want. The closest thing I could compare it to is kinda of like, all your family is considered immediate-family. In the same way you must balance decisions with your spouse you also must consider everyone's feelings & wants - Even people who are not logically impacted by your decisions and live 1,000+ miles away.

Just throwing away the family network brings you great shame. Yes, pure logic says "Why should I care what a bunch of elders 3,000 miles away think? They know nothing of what I'm going through." ...but somehow... you can't just do that. It's a major part of who you are and breaking those bonds will you empty inside and dishonored by your family(maybe friends too). This is even more the case with women of the culture. It's much easier to create an external reason to defy your family like this lady is trying to do - so it looks like "Hey, I tried to do what you told me. Something else got in the way! Sorry! But you still love me, right?"

This will probably sound like nonsense to anyone not part of this type of cultural system.
I don't understand how this is 'ruining' lives. I mean, it seems her husband's family overstayed their visa deliberately and without due process.

How is this not a warranted situation for deportation, and why should he not be deported?
So you just proved my point. Just because the ORM is there doesnt mean you have to use it. There are libraries that generate relational SQL without ORM!
Complying with lawful search warrants is one thing, doing targeting ads based on users behavior for money is something else.

Targeted ads can be anything from a DEA honeypot that advertise cheap drugs, to quick guide for easy tax evasion made by the IRS. It might be ads targeted at people with specific sexual preferences. Any search-able trait imaginable that Google can target is exploitable, and the policy document is an official intent to do so.
hmm. i see android device! omg!
Well considering you're an outlier, I probably shouldn't waste my time replying, but because you felt the need, I will reciprocate.

The average web page is what we're talking about here. Even your page which is demonstrably unaverage should not be hundreds and hundreds of megabytes of raw images.

Images are crucial, but running a car classified site, you should know how to properly demand load images and not just have the page load every image unscaled as soon as you hit the page. Thumbnailing was properly figured out in the 1990s, we've only added fanciness to it over the intervening decades. And even at "retina" sizes, thumbnails are a pittance in the memory budget for a webpage - if you went nuts and had 640x480 "retina thumbnails" for 20 cars, that's still only 24.6MB uncompressed. Feel free to rerun the math with your own numbers on your own time.

Since it needs repeating, we're talking about the average webpage coming in at 200MB. Give yourself some logos and a few other UI images and you're still talking nowhere near 50MB of decompressed images on the page. Yet, that's only a quarter of the page's size in memory. Somehow the DOM, Javascript engine, iframes and UI element layout are costing the other 150MB. And that's where I call bullshit. That's how nasty and tangled and batshit insane modern web design has become.

And we're not discussing video here at all, since video is probably one of most insane things about the modern web: either you're forced to use Flash which is basically like running an entire second browser rendering engine inside of your browser, just to download, decode, and play some video, or you're lucky and can use HTML5 at which point the overhead beyond audio/video decompression buffers (which people will be doing in Javascript soon enough, yay!), the setup for the OS's multimedia engine, and a small bit of DOM is inconsequential in comparison to the video stream itself. This makes the amount of space video takes on the client at best unpredictable and at worst, terrible to think about.
You should check out NoScript if JavaScript is SUCH A BIG DEAL for you.

enjoy the downvote
Because most of PCs are windows machines.

p(windows|vnc)=p(vnc|windows) * p(windows) / ( p(vnc|windows) * p(windows) + p(vnc|non-windows) * p(non-windows) )
Nice job! Not to pull anything away from it, but I just published my first Mac app to the App Store, its a native HN client. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mackernews-hacker-news-clien... Will do an official post once i have a landing page up.

Nice job on your webclient. Loving the material design-eque buttons :)
That was just a nice round number. According to Wikipedia from ~1970 - 2000 Russia had 10,000+ nukes with a peak of ~40,000 in ~1985. No idea what the actual numbers where though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_arms_race

Mostly, I was just pointing out that fairly soon they could branch out and target just about any population center. I don't think they ever actually targeted death valley for example.

Anyway, the important thing to remember is by the mid 1970's many of these bomb shelters had been unused for 20+ years. It's very natural to look at something like that and say spending more on this is probably pointless.
This is no longer accurate. Some remain "contractors" still officially due to regulatory issues, but we now have employees in multiple locations outside North America. And that list of locations is growing.

(I work at Automattic)
This is a great how to article on remote management. The tools he lists are all there. The author mentions Skype, Slack, G+ Hangouts, and then surprisingly WordPress. Would the author care to discuss how he specifically has used WordPress to remote manage a team? I think the issue is that most managers don't want to remote manage which makes me wonder, "Why?"
Did they do the same thing with FB after Cambridge Analytica? or is it about a social platform going big and popular and should be taken down to keep the current status quo.

Also apple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25411660
Let's see. Guns. Handcuffs. Zip ties. Duck tape. A gallows and noose outside. A large part of the chain of leadership in one place. No, just "first amendment rights", I'm sure. No-one was ever intended to be harmed. Those chants of "Hang Mike Pence" were entirely ironic, no doubt.
Yes, that is what reddit, twitter and Hacker News reinforce constantly. It's either because it's true, or because the other side has been repeatedly discouraged from adding their two cents in those communities. I've been seeing the world through this lens for so long that I can't tell.

I find it somewhat implausible that half the population is dumb, racist and all those other labels. It seems much more likely that I don't fully understand their perspective.
I've often thought about this same point.

Isn't interesting that last week, an article summarizing the soft sciences' best attempt at determining whether allowing children to play violent video games makes them actually violent later in life was so well received? No one on Hacker News was surprised that shooting people in video games does not correlate to shooting people in real life.

But if someone is permitted to watch Islamic terrorist propaganda, or read white supremacist's flawed logical arguments, that's somehow guaranteed to convert some percentage of people to those ideologies; therefore they should be banned from all platforms.
> I don't think it is reasonable to suggest these people think their health care is "worthless."

That was literally OP's point.
The city's name is romanized as Hsinchu in Taiwan, ROC, not Xinzhu as PRC pinyin would romanize it.
> Are you unironically contesting that popular social media was used to organize

No, everything must be organized, I get that.

> riots and massive property damage last summer?

I'm asking for a source regarding the accusation that they were used to "burn down parts of Minneapolis, Chicago, and LA"

And before you ask, yeah, I take issue with the idea of most of those events being called "riots" - they were almost entirely peaceful protests, with unarmed protesters, that were met by militarized police forces and unnamed federal agents. Furthermore, I take issue with the emphasis on "property damage" as property is fairly meaningless when you fear for your live or live paycheck-to-paycheck.

America has an unhealthy obsession with "property damage" as if it should be the driver for any sort of discussion on societal issues, when in fact, it should not be.
...which will lead to nothing in this specific case because iOS is absolutely the main platform holding back PWAs.
To be fair most traditional DBs are not really ACID. This could have implications in tradtional DB application development. NoSQL at least is more honest in its documentation. You know that you are not getting ACID, or if you are getting limited ACID like with ArangoDB.
It seems a little confused really, about whether it will be all of your communication or part of your communication...

But with more methods of electronic communication continually evolving, it seems unlikely you'll ever have a single stratification of messaging systems.
I was hosting blogs on my own server in the past.
But it takes additional effort to host it on my own server...
May be I should...
Actually, Assange was wrong. A leaked NSA Inspector General's report provides specifics about historical NSA surveillance programs. It's apparent that the agency only scaled up its domestic Internet presence after 9/11.

https://www.aclu.org/files/natsec/nsa/20130816/NSA%20IG%20Re...

Pages 29-34 provide detail on when the agency gained access to Internet content and metadata.
I don't think people will be upset to get an "WARNING: You might have committed a secret" if it's a negative.

You might be right if it really is a ton, but then you work on your algorithm. I think the problem is so big that there really do need to be warnings for these kind of issues.
I had no idea how much money was being thrown into the tech sector before the 2000 bubble. $100 billion seems unreal.
Maybe we're not in a tech bubble like we saw in the nineties

That's what I think. Not repeating the same mistakes doesn't mean we're not making new ones.

Which means the bust will also be different, for better or worse.
To multiplex multiple users and applications. Which is less necessary in these days of virtual network devices etc, eg SR-IOV can make a PCI device appear as say 64 network devices so every application can have its own.
Most of the good programmers are here by choice. Even if this choice meant being the nerdy kid in the room through school / life. To be fair - no one thinks of a doctor/lawyer as a geek, but our job comes with that distinct tag. It is just that we have learnt to ignore / live with it.

This is going to sound ignorant - but: Is it difficult / different for a woman to ignore that tag and still do cs (assuming she wants to)?
---- key quote from the above discussion ----

We asked how to collaborate with them.

Their replied as following:
"It's interesting what you guys do and let's keep in touch. I'm not really quite sure right away in regards to what can be imported to the main branch, but hopefully we'll find things to collaborate on. We're a bit busy towards the end of the year, so probably a good idea to catch up in January."

More than two months have passed. We are still waiting for their requests. We are very confused ...

----

Seems reasonable to me. These people are running one of the largest websites out there, the project is open source, they seem to have put a reasonable effort into merging the changes back in, they were ignored. They could have just kept the changes internally but they decided to share. Good for them!
You are too young to worry this much.

You should aim to get a good software job within a year. For this, I recommend
- Work on small projects or contribute to open source with the aim of lightening your resume.
- Start taking part in online programming contests (TopCoder, etc) to clear those interviews. This also ligthens your resume.
- You seem to be do-it-from-scratch-everything-myself guy. Instead learn technologies like Wordpress, Joomla, GWT, etc and get yourself one of those fancy personal websites.
- Keep trying for a good job and get over your failures after a beer. It may take a hell lot of interviews but eventually you only need one job and it won't matter how many interviews you did fail.
Could you define "proselytize"?

I.e. were they denouncing you or were they trying to convert you?
I'm sure you can get a job meanwhile, but learn more and you'll get better jobs :)
I was just wondering how do I create an AMI from the sources, ISO or VM builds ? If this isn't possible then everything is open-source, but this part of your project is closed, probably because it also seems to be the preferred way to charge the users (at some point).

Adding an hourly fee in the future for your AMIs would make everything very expensive. 10% over the EC2 rate sounds cheap if you only test the 'appliance' for a few hours, but 2 large instances cost about $500 per month. 10% of that would be $50. This is a whole lot compared to the usual $0 Canonical or Alestic get for their images.
I give FB about two, maybe three, years.

It's hard to imagine tectonic shifts, but they happen in technology pretty often. And we have all the ingredients for a shift. The only thing left that's needed is a well-played challenger, and we'll get several by year's end.
That's not a problem with weddings, that's a problem with not being able to discuss money/agree on spending in your relationship :)
And? Quicksort in general runs faster than Heapsort, yet the worst case performance of the first is O(n^2) while the later only O(n log n). If they implemented it, I'm sure they've found that there's a performance boost for large datasets.
I feel you. My last name as a space (Di Cillo) and here in the States everyone think that Di is my middle name so now I have a bunch of documents (even credit cards) with my name written Davide D. Cillo... sigh.
Forgive my ignorance, but is there some reason why Table Tennis ranking is different than any other kind of sports ranking?
Good point, but it seems like so far they're only applying a tourniquet, unless I'm mistaken.
I wasn't.

Celiac is a really wild disease, in that it can cause an enormous variety of symptoms due to the nutritional deficiencies it can cause, and also can fail to cause them just depending on your own body. Consequently, it is really difficult to diagnose. My primary symptom was iron-deficiency anemia, for instance, but the traditional answers that start with that symptom would have been wrong. Also, despite malnutrition, I was also obese. (Not "clinically obese", but obese no matter how you slice it.)

There are two things going for this diagnosis (even as I tip my head to the "don't trust internet diagnoses" crowd). First, per chasingsparks' excellent point, you shouldn't look for something rare when something common may explain it. In fact, Celiac is not a rare disease; estimates are now hovering around the 1 out of 133 people in the general US population, which is not really a "rare disease". The odds of at least one other person reading this message having Celiac without knowing it is actually virtually 100%, because of the second thing: It is known to be underdiagnosed due to the difficulty of diagnosing it correctly. It appears to match everything you've described, up to and including a known correlation between Celiac and other autoimmune diseases (especially when left untreated) and raised IgA. Testing for IgA is a standard first step of a screening: http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/conditions/celia...

With this you should be able to find a doctor who can help you confirm or deny this diagnosis, assuming you have not yet tried a gastroenterologist.

If there are money issues, the "don't eat gluten" test rksprst mentions is actually as good as the medical tests, if not better. Stop eating gluten for two weeks, or preferably three. If you feel better after that, then you may be on the right track, but wait, it might be placebo. To be really sure, have yourself a big ol' bowl of pasta or pizza. In about 5-7 hours or so, if you're suffering from Celiac... you'll know. And I apologize for that night. But at least you'll know after that.

Be aware you can not do both. Celiac tests only pick up "in progress" Celiac, if you cut out the gluten for three weeks, then go to the doctor, you will quite likely test negative even if you have it.

At your age, full recovery could take 3-4 years, but you'll start feeling better right away.

I feel your pain. My father was diagnosed in the nick of time for me to figure out what my problem was. I too was starting to lose enough cognitive power that I fear I would have lost my job.

Edit: Also, if this does turn out to be the problem, start taking a multivitamin. Many people say that multivitamins are not helpful for normal people. This may be true, I honestly don't know. Celiac is not "normal people" and I've found it helpful well beyond what "placebo" would cover. You may be able to stop when recovered, I'm just barely getting to "recovered" myself.

And yes, this could be me having a hammer and seeing a nail. Still, it does fit, right down to the difficulty of getting it properly diagnosed.
I have friends that game their apps into the Top 50 by buying it with 30 or so different accounts they set up. This is not in the entertainment category though. I hate marketing and I hate marketing for the iPhone more than anything. So many of the iPhone app review blogs seem like payola plays too. "Expedite your review for $200" and that kind of crap. This guy's smart because he probably got Xbox blogs to cover it, not iPhone blogs.
On most compatibility tests, IE9 always seems to come up way short. It looks really good on their tests. Where does IE9 really stand? What are the chances of getting <canvas> support? IE9 could be the key to taking the web to the next level.
Apparently it can be spelled both ways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease

I'm a non-native english speaker, over here it's spelled "Celiaco" (in Spanish) so that influenced me.

Many foods are labeled "celiac-friendly" over here (Uruguay) with a no-wheat symbol.
> Skype's main attraction is not the technology, but the network effect

I agree. Having said that, it's not difficult to change to another system. I'm a member of an organisation that has weekly VoIP conferences. We used to use Skype, but that proved problematic when more than 5 people were involved. So we (fairly painlessly) moved to another solution. Other people, if they find Skype painful, will move too.
It sounds like you're describing ES6 arrow notation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Alternative title: how design trends ruin everything
Send them to the space? Last time I heard there are plenty of space over there, might also be a cheaper than maintaining a toxic waste facility essentially forever.

Where to store in space is a different question although. You can't just leave them in orbit around Earth, because of Kesler syndrome, any ideas?
"Vision without execution" is getting old too.

What exactly are we calling execution? Is it the fleshing out of the idea into focused executable parts? Because we could also call that part of the idea or the vision.

When I think of execution I think of deliverables. Doing what you intended to do or leaving no stone unturned. That involves thinking things out and doing them. The thinking things out part could easily be part of the idea. You can blame the success of some startups on "the execution", but you can't prove it. The success could also have come from the idea that had the most clarity.

It sucks that we're not always able to picture which ideas will be successful, but that doesn't mean ideas suck.
> .NET is riddled with "safety" features like sealed classes that make programming a living hell.

Java already had `final` classes (which are the exact same thing, as far as I know).

And there's a school of OO thought in which classes should only be inheritable if built for inheritance (so not only should final/sealed be available, it should be the default).
As an avid smartphone user (have had several in the past couple years), the iPhone 4 camera is simply the first smartphone camera that takes really good pictures at a decent megapixel (5mp). Other smartphones are following, and the days of point & shoot cameras are numbered.
Clickable: http://lineofthought.com/

Tools powering Line of Thought: http://lineofthought.com/sites/lineofthought

Here's a few examples pages too:

Tools powering Twitter: http://lineofthought.com/sites/twitter

Sites using Python: http://lineofthought.com/tools/python

Sites using Ruby on Rails: http://lineofthought.com/tools/ruby-on-rails
According to Microsoft's stats, there actually aren't many people running IE6 in North America and Europe.

http://ie6countdown.com

Microsoft is trying to get sites involved with getting old IE users to upgrade.

http://ie6countdown.com/join-us.html

It might even be worthwhile for Microsoft to have a generic campaign where they encourage all users on a given platform to upgrade to the latest IE possible. XP to IE8, Vista and Win7 to IE9, and next year Win7 to IE10.

Constantly reminding people they are running an older browser can only help.