jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I too was a Microsoft intern and you're completely wrong. They ran as user level accounts with administrator escalation privileges. This is equivalent to running as a normal user account with sudo access in Linux.
The character of Lisp communities is all over the map, since each particular implementation has its own. It's not as if someone that picks up Racket is going to waltz into #clojure looking for help, advice, or reinforcement.

So, of course there are some Lisp communities that regularly have a quorum of asshats, and we all know which ones those are (in general terms, perhaps). On the other hand, the generally-positive reputations of others are also fairly well-known (e.g. I've rarely had negative experiences with schemers of various stripes, and it's hard to dispute how fabulous the Clojure community is [to wit: http://wp.me/p10OJi-6a ]).
It should at least be more interesting than a Techcrunch "scandal".
The "cloud" is still made up of real servers ^.^
This is a deep misunderstanding of Apple's business model. Apple doesn't 'want all your data' because that's not useful to their core business. They're selling you privacy as a secondary effect, but they are indeed selling you privacy.

Apple publishes explicit statements about their privacy standards. Believing that Apple "wants all your data" requires believing that many, many written documents they publish, many of which would be easily falsified if untrue, are bald-faced lies. It's simply not reality.
Also, slowing down with a crew means continuing to pay them for the extra days. Slowing down w/out one should not incur significant extra costs, making it worthwhile to do so.
Well, it's not only tables: if you take a look at the html you will see also the center tag, deprecated attributes like align and valign, inline styling etc. Hacker News is very far from what is nowadays used for building (by hand or automatically) web pages. Yet, it works, so this might be the final answer.
His behaviour is atrocious. I cannot imagine that I would be very happy about him doing this to someone for whom I cared. If his location is easily findable, I am amazed that no-one has enthusiastically gone to address his behaviour in person, especially given that the 'authorities' don't seem to care.
And now it's apparently owned by a company partially owned by Microsoft.
Brad Fitzpatrick says in "Coders at Work" that his father taught him to program when he was 5 years old.
I've always viewed 4Chan as a remarkable study in how quickly (and easily) mobs can form. They do, for the most part, coordinate in relative anonimity. The typical 'operation' involves someone thinking up a nefarious scheme and posting it. The mob then kicks into gear and executes it. All it really takes is a single post and something to rally the groupthink of the mob around.

The recent bit with the rage-face T-Shirt where they convinced whoever was making it that it wasn't rage-face, but rather a racist meme. It was triggered by a single post and was incredibly effective (and creative actually).

http://play-this.org/2010/11/operation-black-rage-4chans-arm...

It's amazing what a link-minded mob can do really.
seizing a domain is like seizing your cellphone # and saying it's ok because someone can still contact you using your email address(that forwards to your phone)...which they don't know
Totally.

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/06/my-gmail-is-fast...
i'm pretty sure everywhere you put "base", was "32" before.
the only 29 in the code when i read it, was on the checksum.

why did you pick this checksum? what are its coding properties?
This can be read in the process of issuing a wildcard certificate a Trustico: https://www.trustico.co.uk/geodirect/order/step1.php

The server count option tells us how many physical servers you intend to install RapidSSL Wildcard on. A licence will be activated for each physical server installation and you must pay the full product price for each additional server installation. Most customers choose to install RapidSSL Wildcard on 1 physical server only. RapidSSL Wildcard includes 1 server licence free of charge and can be installed an unlimited number of times on each licenced physical server.

Licenced SSL certificates per server? Come on.
I think a quote from Feynman is apt.
"I think it is safe to say that no one understands Quantum Mechanics." (Richard Feynman)

My understanding of the article is this, simple yet hopefully useful.

Einstein and many others in the past assumed and observed that the inertial mass is always equal to the gravitational mass because no measurement has or could tell them apart.

Like the break down of classical mechanics at small scales, so too does this assumption, or so this papers calculations predict.
In fact the calculations suppose a situation in which you could measure, through "atomic spectroscopy", a difference in these masses.

One must remember this is in the QM world, the size scale of atoms and mass scale of electrons, not with "classical" sized things.
Interesting, but, agreed, not the greatest map.

Deschutes County, OR (Bend, basically): Californication.

Boulder, County, CO: a lot of people are going there, but those who leave appear headed for the pacific northwest.

Maricopa, County, AZ (Phoenix): wow... that's a lot of people.
a little invasive don't you think
For (B), that's a good thing. Nowadays, the GPL merely prevents software from having widespread use.
Hmmm still doesn't counter the fact that there is overdevelopment in China, just this year CNN ran a story on a ghost district in Tiajin....

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/19/world/gallery/china-tianjin-gh...

Also Vice had an episode featuring ghost towns:
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/explore-chinese-ghost-towns...

Yes our news media likes to hype up anything China these days. The problem with overdevelopment is not that the cities remain empty, it is the debts that come with them (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-04/china-s-ci...). I can imagine many Chinese cities with flashy buildings are deep in debt, American style.
I apologize for reading the word "scoff" into your comment about technology, but I think my point that the pervasiveness of social media represents another qualitative (or perhaps "fundamental", to use your terminology) change during that period stands.
Now that the main maintainer quit, can those nontechnical reasons be resolved?
Roundabouts differ wildy in design, sometimes a separate bike path is better and sometimes its better to be unseparated. In my experience (I've biked in several European countries) the most important parts of unseparated roundabout biking is to take the lane (to reduce the right-hook risk) and signal clearly.

About the video; the thing that sets Netherlands (and Denmark, IIRC) is that bike lanes have right-of-way. Separating bike traffic into a generally slower infrastructure, and then slowing it down further by giving cars right-of-way is contraproductive - if the goal is to increase biking.
Argh, sorry! Must have typoed the link in the header. Should be fixed now.
Oof. Just looked it up and it immediately gets my fancy. How was the learning curve? And any downsides that you now have?
>I just don't see the average Whatsapp user ever switching to IRC.

The participants of this thread are not the average Whatsapp user - they're self-identified "hackers".
Let's not make light of terrorists who have killed people.

Many remain unaware that four city blocks of Seattle were occupied for a month by gunmen with assault rifles [0][1][2], or that those self-identified antifa gunmen shot and killed an unarmed black kid [3], or that antifa Twitter celebrated the killing and their shooter's "beautiful shot placement" [4] until it turned out they'd murdered a black kid instead of imaginary white supremacists. Note the now-deleted tweet's many likes and retweets.

The murdered kid's name was Antonio Mays Jr., and despite or perhaps because of [5] the many antifa eyewitnesses to the shooting, his killer remains at large.

That's just CHAZ/CHOP. I haven't even mentioned Michael Reinoehl, Matthew Dolloff, Jesse Taggart, and others. For some reason these incidents rapidly slipped from public view, or were never a focus at all. Fortunately the relevant livestreams, tweets, and video clips have all been archived.

Many of the original sources for the CHAZ/CHOP shootings are now unavailable. I encourage everyone to use tools like youtube-dl and archive-dot-is. Even if a clip, tweet, or stream doesn't seem to embarrass its owner or violate a platform's TOS, it may always get deleted for some other reason. If you want to refer to it later, always archive.

[0] https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/chop-shooting-seattle-defu...

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/after-early-mornin...

[2] https://www.the-sun.com/news/980814/heavily-armed-leftist-gu...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/seattle-protests-CHOP-...

[4] https://archive.is/D0fZs

[5] https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1282703884721348609
Libel of public figures in the US has an extremely high bar. It needs to be proven that a statement was known to be false or the publication was reckless in deciding to publish the information without investigating whether it was accurate. (Initially established in New York Times v. Sullivan.)

You can of course sue for any reason but winning is another matter.

(It's easier if the defendant is not a public figure, but still, in general, it's relatively hard to win libel suits in the US.)
(Author here)

Power meter pedals are significantly more expensive than the bits that went into this project. (There's a complete BOM in the follow-up post: https://ihaque.org/posts/2020/12/28/pelomon-part-iii-hardwar...).

Also, there's no fun in just buying it ;)
Even a tiny amount of monetization should pay for development of a chat app...

Imagine you build it with a team of 5 software devs for each of linux, mac, windows, android, ios, web. You build it in Europe paying a generous salary of $80k. You need 1 server per million users (as whatsapp did pre-acquisition), hosted on say AWS. If you get 10% of the world to use it, the total running costs are 1.2 cents per user per year.

That can totally be paid for by sending each user 1 sponsored chat message per decade. That's a pretty acceptable level of advertising I'd say.

It's incompatible with VC's demanding hockey-stick revenue growth though...
The question was not about wrong political choices, but about the right ones.
This is exactly the argument the GP made: your view is extremely niche.

Most people want features, convenience,… real stuff that feels like feature, instead of abstract concepts.
It depends upon your environment, it wasn't clear to many people.

I thought that proprietary unix was doomed when I started an internship at a bank's IT ops department in 2005. The seasoned Solaris admins I worked with had commissioned some Linux servers the year before in a non-prod setting and had written it off as a toy...
Have you seen sayid and the cider debugger?
So your claim is despite the black ridership being 10%, black people are more likely to be beligerant or do something else that is somehow hidden but illegal so citing for eating is justified?

You're really bending over backwards to give Bart police a pass.
Hard is relative. For example, the filling of the atmosphere with a powerful oxidizer was a major extinction event (the "Oxygen Catastrophe"), yet we do not find it extreme because we are adapted to it.

Even environments that are energy-poor, or cold enough as to inhibit chemical reactions, may support rich forms of life that operate on larger time scales.
I think, for more or less healthy people (being able to walk) it's the opposite what would be usefull, not sitting/being passive when we were once moving/using our muscles, but running/using muscles when we were once just sitting (more or less passively), I remember a standing desk with a running treadmill underneath as a nice example.
This particular example requires that you cross your eyes to 'overlap' the two images, so those without good sight in both eyes will not perceive any depth.
Hey, guys. I run Hacker and Founders SV (http://hackersandfounders.com ), and I'm trying to keep track of and keep in touch with other HN meetups around the globe. https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmQExXr67OcTdDBZZl9...

I noticed that you recently posted a link to a google groups page: http://groups.google.com/group/hn-london

Is there any other place online that you're collecting and trying to organize? If there's anything that we can do to help you guys, let us know: jonathan@newsley.com or laura@newsley.com. And, if you're ever in town, drop us a line, we'd love to connect.
Doing multiple passes with slightly different camera settings is becoming more common, but you would only use it with something like the NVidia 3D system, or any other 3D display technology. You would never use it to do something like this.
LLVM in under 2 minutes is way more impressive. That's a crazy CPU.
I spent a ridiculous amount of time working on optimized table rendering in the early years of my company, and I came to a simple conclusion: if you want to display full-screen tables, with dense data, and scroll around fast, the only option is canvas. "Virtualized" HTML tables are always an order-of-magnitude slower, no matter how much effort you put into optimization.

The fundamental reason why you end up back at canvas is that if you are scrolling a full-screen table fast, even at 30 FPS you are going to have to rerender about half the table on each frame. So "virtualized DOM" doesn't really work; it's all about render speed. And canvas allows you to achieve unbeatable render speeds by specializing your drawing algorithm for your particular scenario.
I wish more open source code took this approach. Rather than install something that is designed to be a black box that I don’t need to understand and can’t adapt, so often I would prefer to get a well designed, battle tested starting point, but be able to adapt and change that code in the future if I want to.
"Ask"? Of all the open source work I've done, I never ask anyone to use it. I put it out there with the hope that others will find it useful. I never go around pushing people to use it.

No one is entitled to anything, including free support. Many open source developers provide free support, but don't have the patience to deal with users who won't even do the bare minimum to help themselves.
This link should be edited to use https instead of http
> Ask your sister what fraction of those stacked-up notifications consisted solely of the word "hi".

We ended up discussing her dating experience at length at the time. Honestly it was plain ridiculous. Sure, many of the OKC messages were short "hi" or other thoughtless one-liners. But the content didn't matter, she treated them all as signals for a live one which drew her to their profiles where she would then hold a little impromptu trial of eligibility based on their photos and profiles. Most of the time she wouldn't respond, and it had nothing to do with the content of the messages. It's the photos, age, race, married/divorced status and religion that matter to her. The message notification just made her look.

What I saw was the polar opposite effect to "confidence-destroying". She became increasingly superior and picky with all the interest. And when she did go on real dates, she would find the smallest flaw as fatal because she had the impression that there were an effectively unlimited supply of competitors.
Racism is a not a "structural thing", and neither is it about whites or non-whites.

Everywhere you go on Earth you will find racist people, whatever 'race' they are some will be racist against other 'races'.

Specifically regarding your point: there are people who are black and racist in the US or any other country.
Not true. While hurt feelings isn't the legal standard, it doesn't have to rise to firing or hiring impact either.

The ADEA standards apply to age discrimination. The ADEA prohibits requiring people to work in a discriminatorily hostile or abusive environment. … The standards for assessing a hostile work environment claim under the ADEA are analogous to those utilized under [Title VII]. … Thus, the ADEA is violated when the workplace is permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult … that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim’s employment and create an abusive working environment.

Citation: Murtha v. New York State Gaming Commission et al, 17-cv-10040, 2019 WL 4450687 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 17, 2019)
Not saying it's the case, but could this also be in relation to the dealer and/or insurance companies you've used for quotes?
The timing of the publishing of this seems coincidentally aligned with YC's very recent backout of a Chinese outpost.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/21/y-combinator-abruptly-shut...

I read this as a coded way for Paul Graham to express his distaste for those opposing the YC China expansion.
I haven't checked in quite some time, but AngelList used to do a great job at this.
There is a an option, deep in your account settings to see what Google has collected on you.
Why is it any better than a slow true random seed and pseudorandom numbers based on a secure hash function? I can't think of any application.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8388314
As soon as I hit my "quit and build a start-up" targets, I'll be doing just that. Can't really stand being an employee much longer. I'd rather deal with users and clients than coworkers and middlemen managers.
Does anyone not believe they had similar access to Iraqi systems before either of the wars? The problem with good intelligence is that sometimes it doesn't mesh with your political goals.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber_gap

"Realizing that mere belief in the gap was an extremely effective funding source, a series of similarly nonexistent Soviet military advances were constructed in a tactic now known as "policy by press release." "
> but it goes far beyond dogs

Does it really matter what the animal is? Abusing the rules with a dog is just as bad as abusing them with an alpaca.
"The chance that an American programmer will work on software harmful to humanity is quite small. The chance that a North Korean programmer will do so is massive."

It is the same argument made by nuclear non-proliferation countries. Only responsible countries should own the nuclear weapons. Well, guess how that argument turned out. The only country to use nuclear weapon is the one calls itself responsible one.

Along the lines of your argument, DPRK citizens shouldn't be learning physics, chemistry, mathematics, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering and medical or any subject because they all can be used as "weapon" for nefarious purposes.

Keeping the population of a country uneducated because you don't agree with the government running the country is discriminatory and racist. No person irrespective of race or belief or country of citizenship should be denied education.
I bet there's multiple issues in the text input / autocorrect buffer bounds checking. It's possibly an exploitable security issue too, or at least a nice area for research.
s/dogs/kids
The artsy waterfront areas that are now gentrified were originally large dilapidated work lofts that were not really intended for residents. Many of them lacked bathrooms or kitchens. There is a really good new york times article from the late 1980s that talks about how residents coped with the lack of such basic amenities (I can't find it now but I used it previously in an essay).

Rezoning paved the way for true residential housing and with that came the high prices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamsburg,_Brooklyn#Gentrifi...
It's fairly unsurprising that the extreme parts of the spectrum aren't listening to each other, given how far removed they are from each other ideologically.

What's way more worrying to me is that they aren't listening to the people that try to understand their perspectives, but keep them grounded in reality. It seems to have become an 'either you are with us, or against us'-situation for a huge number of people, sadly.
There is a large overlap between any serious engineering discipline and firearms enthusiasts.

The engineering and physics involved in building/tuning guns and shooting accurately is very interesting.

Furthermore, the "renegade" spirit required to reject the status-quo and push the envelope in science and engineering attracts quite a few of the same types of people.

Finally, the idea of "banning" guns -- which every basically qualified engineer or physicist should be capable to building from readily available materials and tools -- makes them even more interesting. If for no other reason than to illuminate preposterous and insulting nature of the idea.

IMHO. ;)
> What if we didn't encourage a world in which people identified with and advocated for their own race?

It saddens me to see the woke ideology taking hold across the United States. It is indeed fundamentally racist and brings us back to our most tribalistic behaviors. It's the kind of thinking we learned a long time ago to put in the past. But now it's making a resurgence. And it's spreading. But articles like [this](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threa...) and the most upvoted comments within it give me hope that the west hasn't become entirely mad. It seems the French have observed the discourse of modern American events and see how decisive and destructive the ideology is. I'll quote the top comment within this particular article.

> Yes, importing the American political correctness/woke/cancel culture will destroy France. How do I know this? Because it is already destroying the US. It fuels social division, and it distracts from the real problems, which tend to be economic and environmental. Much of the recent scholarship coming from the US, obsessed about race and gender, is completely useless and extremely ideological. It is no wonder that many of the most important books of global interest from recent years, such as Picketty's Capital in the 21st Century, do not come from the US. US universities are not free environments of vigorous intellectual debate anymore, and the faculty lives under constant fear of uttering the wrong word or phrase, and of being canceled because of their ideas. If a child of mine decided to study social sciences or a humanities field, the US would the last place I would send them to. I'm glad France is standing up against this nonsense. It gives me hope.
Delete current videos, ignore new videos uploaded later?
This would seem to undermine companies like Chariot, who are offering more MUNI-plus like services:

http://chariotsf.com
There is no programming job in the world that would take me six months full-time to become effective. Maybe a month, if it's an awful setup in an awful, unfamiliar programming language with unhelpful colleagues. It sounds like you're assuming if you hired a React programmer to work on your React app, it would take that programmer 1 month to get up to speed, while it would take a Haskell programmer 6 months. I claim: if your codebase is complex enough and your situation unusual enough that it would take a React programmer 1 month to write productive React code, the Haskell programmer will take 2 weeks. This is because the vast majority of the learning curve is in your domain and setup, not in how React components work. (Assuming for sake of argument they are actually smarter.)

People vastly overestimate how long it takes a decent programmer to learn new tech.
Only on the database side, and most people will be logged in, making rendering caches obsolete.

What I have utterly no idea is how the karma system works. Updating karma counts and comment sorting only on new submissions would help with performance, but on the other side karma "decays" over time, so there needs to be some sort of external cron?