jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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I think the war in Yemen is a good case study of the downsides of the US as global police. It is a war that was only possible through the US and UK supplying arms, and was prosecuted by a nation that doesn't even pretend to uphold human rights.

This is also pretty typical - while many western nations 'care' about human rights, they don't see any problem with arming client regimes who are often gratuitously sadistic, genocidal, etc.

I'm also not sure where human rights come into the picture when you consider the various US wars in the last century. All of them (especially the Korean war) were extremely brutal to civilian populations, and the prosecution of all of them (except maybe the 1990 gulf war?) skirted very close to the line on war crimes, or crossed that line entirely. I don't think there was even lip service paid to human rights in this period.
do you show to the Stripe billing option to all installations (meaning also the ones that came directly from the App Store listing) or only the ones that came through your website / are existing customers?
What's the interest in spying such connections? We all know what is going to be the content in all those mirrors.
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We are super early stage, seed funded, and focused on the following 3 value props: (1) provide a very complete db of live shows (2) provide value to event venues and producers by getting them access to data about their audience (3) allow for a complete integration of event discovery/one-click-buy/transportation from your phone.

We are looking for a few awesome contributors:

(1) Mobile Developer

(2) Full-stack Engineer (django/flask/python/js)

(3) Growth Hacker

Please reach out to careers@trill.me or to me personally at <my-hn-username> [at] trill [dot] me
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Trill helps you find local live shows (currently in its pilot city of Boston) and everything that happens on a stage (music, theater, comedy, dance, etc).
We are super early stage, seed funded, and focused on the following 3 value props: (1) provide a very complete db of live shows (2) provide value to event venues and producers by getting them access to data about their audience (3) allow for a complete integration of event discovery/one-click-buy/transportation from your phone.

We are looking for a few awesome contributors:

(1) Mobile Developer

(2) Full-stack Engineer (django/flask/python/js)

(3) Growth Hacker

Please reach out to careers@trill.me or to me personally at <my-hn-username> [at] trill [dot] me
I'm not a 'car guy' but I have to say what you've achieved here is very impressive. Good luck to you in 2015.
Yes, archive.org is still being blocked by BSNL's default DNS server in Maharashtra as of Thu Jan 1 20:40:11 IST 2015.

$ dig +nocmd +nostats +nocomments @218.248.255.211 archive.org
;archive.org.	IN	A
archive.org.	86400	IN	SOA	localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
I wouldn't trust anything with the word 'trust' in it. My assumption is that if you have to put some quality in a name (like, say, QualityCircle), then the name is about all of that quality there is in the product.
India is number of ethnic nations lumped together. But there is hardly any autonomy left.
Well, look at Socrates. Read Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. It's pretty clear that he believed his philosophy, and both lived and died by it. Although, if you insist on being doubtful, we only know about him through the dialogs which Plato recorded (or wrote), and he could have simply been used as a mouthpiece for Plato's views, though he certainly did exist in some form.

But really, if you doubt and think that the belief is hero worship, you should probably spend some time reading the wikipedia articles (or whatever else) on them, and come up with your own refutations. Figure out how their lives contradict their philosophies, and then come back and tell us.
Do you mean they don't follow the logical conclusion of the results or do you mean their hypotheses are poor? The latter is not wrong science.
That's another proof that China is on on the rise.
I'm sure pretty soon "Rent a White Guy" practice would cease to exist, because being a Chinese businessmen would be as reputable as being an American.
That should really just be called the hours of practice theory- the 10,000 doesn't hold up to much scrutiny except for a few select cases. It's great if you want to write popular non-fiction though!
So that's how someone would use the API. Other than it's current functionality, what more would I need to add to the API for you to be able to use it in your natural workflow?
"A user's data is stored in a single row in HBase"

Some column families of HBase can be accumulated to hundreds of mega bytes very easily, I'm afraid...
It's almost as if the universe was created to mock us. So much space to explore, but physical law makes it impossible to explore more than the smallest, most insignificant fraction.
why can't we just have a setting -- those who don't want it can turn it off...
Is there any way to resend activation email. I cant register again with my email nor can i activate the account.
Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle for an idea of what being hit by relativistic particles will look like.
I applaud this move. Given the recent history of actions by the Chinese government, investment in China is not ethical.
The name, Hide Likes Everywhere at a first glance seems like a grammatical error. Once I understood it, it reminded me of this Groucho Marx saying:

Time flies like an Arrow.
Fruit flies like Banana.
It's sadly the same even on https://forums.developer.apple.com - a lot of questions just collecting cobwebs without any responses. :(
The reason he made bank is because Softbank decided it would be a good idea to let Neumann burn money, gave Neumann a shit ton of money without actually buying control of Wework from Neumann, found that nobody else thought burning money was a good idea and so WeWork couldn't IPO, decided that burning money wasn't a great idea after all, found that Neumann liked burning money and would continue to run WeWork into the ground burning money every step of the way, found that they couldn't do shit because WeWork still belonged to Neumann, couldn't walk away because they were billions in the hole, and so decided to give Neumann even more money so they could actually control the company this time.

The employees pretty much got the typical outcome of working at a startup (startup runs along for a couple years, then fails). The fact that Adam Neumann made bank is rankling, but Rich People Burning Money and Also Accidentally Giving Some Away to Undeserving People Because They Did Incredibly Stupid Things isn't exactly something we can or should stop. You can't make it illegal to be stupid.
I would find it uncomfortable being a roomate with an outspoken holocaust denier. A holocaust denier probably wouldn't find it uncomfortable being my roommate. I would wager this generalizes pretty well to holocaust accepters and deniers as a whole.

Is the takeaway from this that holocaust deniers are more accepting people?
Because of how it makes you feel?
The point of objecting to the comparison is that there are lots of important aspects of Rust's design that Go's design doesn't account for, and many C++ developers (for example, me) depend on those. (In my case, those are memory safety in parallel mode, GC freedom, data race freedom, fast interop with C code, and zero-overhead generics.) The languages have wildly different designs. So saying "Go is going to beat Rust" like the OP did is pointless cheerleading, and the "apples to oranges" comment is correct to point that out.

A useful thought experiment is: If Rust completely failed to garner any mindshare, could I switch to Go for the project I work on (Servo)? The answer is no: Go's design goals are totally incompatible with the project. C++ would be more appropriate than Go (though it would mean sacrificing many of Rust's advantages, of course). That's why I, and the Rust community as a whole, tend to dislike the comparison. Go is a fantastic language that works really well for lots of use cases, but a C++ replacement for all niches needs a lot of things that Go doesn't have. And this isn't a knock against Go: as I said, Go is a great language for lots of things that could also be written in C++.
Yeah I don't really think we're actually in disagreement here. I pretty much share your thoughts in this comment.
The state supreme court of Minnesota struck down traffic cams as they felt it was unfair because:

>The court argued that Minneapolis had, in effect, created a new type of crime: "owner liability for red-light violations where the owner neither required nor knowingly permitted the violation."
He worked on ffmpeg under a pseudonym. He may very well be secretly involved in other projects.
Just last week I was debugging an issue with a library that used SQLite internally, and I noticed that whenever I shut down, it would leave all these "something.db-shm" and "something.db-wal" files around in addition to the "something.db" file. My hunch was the library wasn't properly deinitializing SQLite, and indeed that was the case, if you call sqlite3_close() properly, these files are deleted (they're essentially journal files for SQLite). The library was essentially doing what you're suggesting, ending without doing the proper cleanup.

Destruction, in general, is one of the most complex areas of software development in my opinion. You're right, blocking or throwing errors during destruction is terrible, but you really do have to genuinely clean things up when exiting, you can't leave messes behind like this. However, in addition to that: you can't ever count on destruction occuring, because it's entirely possible that your program crashes, the user kills the process, the computer runs out of battery (or someone janks the cable out) or some other random thing causes your process to exit prematurely.

You really need a lot of nuance in this area, and I don't agree with "cleanup at shutdown is a code smell". But you're certainly right that you can go too far in the other direction as well: destruction has to be fast, non-blocking, error-free, and never required.
Chaos Computer Congress on Matrix next?
Yep, at KnuEdge we built some processors with thousands of cores in that style architecture. It's a bit different to reason about but you can do a lot of wild computing that way. Too bad the company folded before any of our processors were available.
Most of the studies and methods suggest that rotational grazing or better yet, roaming herds, contribute far more in soils and biodiversity than methane production.

Any time you see cows standing in dirt and mud - that is absolutely not what we're talking about. We're talking about the original American Bison herds of (hundred-)thousands who would move across enormous ranges taking grasses from feet to inches, and fertilizing its re-growth as they move. It makes room for accelerated growth of the grass, right when it is most nutritious and stagnant. Prairie and Savanna ecosystems are far more complex than I initially thought. The large animals are not "big lawnmowers" and it isn't "just grass" that they are working with.

The soil is a huge ecosystem of its own, and what we're experiencing globally on many fronts (climate, food security, general increased toxicity of air and water) are largely connected to soil failure from our hubris at thinking we can cultivate the green stuff on top with little understanding of what happens underneath.
> finch's sudo-graphical ncurses interface is a little awkward.

It tries to replicate all of the windows that the GUI interface creates, but in a text environment where you can only view one window at a time. It's almost like someone didn't want to figure out a way to redesign the interface to work better in a text environment (and maybe just take some cues from the text-based irc clients out there).

[ This may be somewhat inaccurate, I've had little experience with it, but this was my impression. It left a bad taste in my mouth.]
Nothing wrong with advertisements per se.. only advertisements that don't result in you buying something.
Also note that they have recently approximately doubled the number of SNP's genotyped.
Attractive females are scarce... turns out females actually out number males ...
Needs to be fully self-hosted. Web interface is all good otherwise, though.
>Biden's executive order may put his administration at odds with the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency established in 1910 that advises lawmakers "on matters of design and aesthetics."

>Shubow points to a National Civic Art Society survey by the Harris Poll. It found that "72% of American adults prefer classical and traditional design for federal buildings. There were wide majorities for tradition across all demographic groups, including political party affiliation," he says.

The article does not explain what is controversial about classical design or the order. It goes on to describe the homogeneous demographics of the unpaid advisors.
I'll be reporting this to my country's GDPR rep, please do the same where you're from.

Here's the list of reps, you can check your country here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_data_protection_aut...
Spot on: I came here to make this comment about ISO 8601 vs. RFC 3339 and point-out that "European format" is a generalisation, not a rule: Lithuania [1] and Sweden use the ISO 8601 for date representation, and Portugal and Spain uses dd/mm/yyyy.

I must say I just saw the dd.mm.yyyy used in Italy, but it seems that a few other countries also use it.

(And EU requires dd/mm/yyyy in "best before" dates.)

Besides this nitpicking, I agree with the author for several years already.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
Your website doesn't seem to be reachable.
let me rephrase:

"Originally it wasn't mean to be paid by printing "money" but then they did exactly that because somehow they hand no fiat lying around."

Its useless development paid by useless coins for the sake of making the useless coins spendable to pay for the useless development.
A self-feeding nonsense system that happens to produce software that no one would actually want to pay for.

The whole system is only prevented from collapsing by the fact that some people hold on to the coins in hope of future profit and some may even buy them for that reason.
I loath the T and Z characters, so respectively I use a single dash (Between the date and time) and no Z; for time I often leave in the colons (:).

Example: 20210226-00:01:25 this presents the data in a format I can easily visually parse and also easily search for useful things in log files with.

When parsing such a date I tend to throw out all of the characters, but the 'Zulu' or timezone at the end probably should be parsed in anything that isn't a trivial internal use.
Note that we're not talking about skipping slow start completely; we're talking about changing slow start parameters.
You can write at least AWS Lambdas and Cloudflare Workers in Rust, supported by upstream. Maybe other platforms too.
Much longer than that. 60 Minutes was this bad in the late 1970s. In somewhat famous examples, their bogus hatchet job on the Jeep CJ was in 1980. For the most notorious, Audi "unintended" acceleration in 1986 and Alar in apples in 1989; all three of these involved serious falsifications.

The Jeeps were driven by robots that moved the steering wheel twice as fast as a human could, and even then the 4 Jeeps they tested a zillion times were a lot more stable than you would think (I drove a ~1966 Kaiser CJ-5 1977-79). They over pressurized an Audi's automatic transmission, even plugged a pressure relief valve, to demonstrate the failure they were claiming. Alar has never been shown to be a carcinogen, although if you feed near LD50 doses of a breakdown product to lab rodents you can show a carcinogenic effect. If you drink over 5,000 gallons of apple juice a day Alar might be a threat, but that's well over the LD50 (lethal dose for 50% of a tested population) of just plain water, which is around a gallon and a half at once.
That a crime occured does not require you to first convict a criminal.

And an election that was not properly conducted does not require that a crime be committed.
No it’s not my work, sorry my mistake, if you can, edit the title and remove the prefix. Thanks
Well, you could always storm the Capitol again and try to overthrow the government.
We're just going to cut to the chase and build our own country.
Did you read the open letter (original link of thread)? There is an entire paragraph and footnote with 2 refs talking about the problem with the current government guidelines.
The same was true for BLM protests. So, why the different treatment? Racism is a popular explanation, but is it a true explanation?
What happens if peaceful, civil people think the insurrectionists crashed the system, overthrowed the government and installed Biden?
Please stop posting flamewar comment and ideological battle comments to HN. It's not what this site is for, and you've been doing it repeatedly. We ban such accounts, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this.
Nobody is optimizing anything or pulling out the performance card. C# was chosen because that is what they were comfortable with when building the site.

It's not about optimization at all.
wow! nice tool! definitely will use it!
> Backups for home users became a possibility with the advent of cheap storage, first burners and cheap blank discs and now with large hard drives and flash media.

Now your home users need to start regular media rotation with scheduled integrity checks with a full copy stored off-site in a geographically diverse location. Are you starting to reconsider your assertion that “putting backups into the cloud is a terrible idea”?
Man. The only purpose of all for me back in the day was that you could call them up and they'd ship you a stack of 5.25/3.5 floppies so you could "share" "the service" with your "friends". i.e. Punch a hole where the write protect window should be and yay, free, really cruddy, media!
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a rather serious disease (https://ivypanda.com/essays/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-thy...). The condition does not improve even after a good rest. This disease is especially characteristic for residents of populated megacities.
The main thing to do is to streamline the ratio of work and rest, rational physical activity and, of course, the normalization of the diet.
It may be worth talking to your doctor about taking vitamins.
Synopsis: Design agencies are disappearing. The industry of design has evolved from independent experimenters, to being a core skill of successful founders, and now established enterprises are investing in design talent. But, Human Centered Design has the potential to solve big problems, so that's why the author is starting a design firm in the social sector.

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That's interesting, but I think there's another layer happening (admittedly outside the scope of this article). The very skill of design is becoming democratized, and that's bringing the era of the design studio to an end, while people who wouldn't otherwise call themselves "designers" are learning design, and applying those skills in their day-to-day jobs.

The design industry used to survive through the complexities of the craft. Pasting up layouts and setting type took more resources, training, and investment than most companies could reasonably take on themselves.

Now, the tools are so widely available, everyone is a "designer." If I say "Helvetica" or "Times New Roman," most people will have images pop into their heads of what those typefaces look like. That wouldn't have been the case 20 years ago.

People who wouldn't otherwise call themselves "designers" are already learning design, and they're using those skills across all levels of all professions to create presentations, websites, etc..

Of course, there's much more to design than just being able to use the tools. There are visual communications components such as typography, colors, and shapes.

Many people think of design as something that someone is "just wired for," but it's a skill that can be learned, is being learned, and will increasingly be learned by more people – just so they can do their jobs better.

Source: I used to win fancy-pants design awards, but quit that to write a book called "Design for Hackers" (http://designforhackers.com ). I teach non-"designers" about design. I have doctors, scientists, business consultants, software developers – even a chef – taking my courses.
I'd like all mobile internet adverts to have to specify in minutes the "fair usage".

4Gb is "unlimited" fair usage. That would seem less fair
expressed as "35 minutes". *

Packages offering 250MB of 4G would seem pathetic when expressed as "2 1/2 minutes of internet".

*Average 4G speed is apparently around 15Mbps in UK.
Hitachi's proposed updated solution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnX5WZhvzZY
I don't know that you should be so sure. I definitely expect Oracle to attempt to monetize VBox to a greater extent, which to Oracle generally means not-open-source, at least not open-source development processes. Sun is a large acquisition to digest and I'm sure they still have more on the docket for Sun's properties, including VBox. Just because they haven't destroyed it yet doesn't mean they're not planning to. This may also be the logic of the developers trying hard to drive external development, so that a fork can live on after Oracle takes it closed.
(For what it's worth I've upvoted your post - not sure why it's been down-voted so much. You definitely made me think and check myself, however having considered, I still feel there's a lot of bad reporting out there. I don't think it's a tribal thing. You made good points though.)

Whilst I don't feel like digging through Twitter for links to poor reporting regarding Marco's article, it doesn't take long at all to find some examples of recent poor Apple reporting.

Here's Reuters claiming that Apple Watch is a "tough sell" because only 31% of Americans (that's 75 million adults) intend to buy it (a product that they haven't touched yet). It's based on a very small sample size, of course - completely flawed - but that apparently won't stop them writing an article about it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/13/us-apple-watch-idU...

That 'study' was then published in many other publications:

http://business.financialpost.com/2015/03/16/apple-watch-may...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2993902/Apple-Watch-...

But that's not all, how about this article from ReadWrite. Apple Watch will disappoint users apparently - not that the author has used one yet. That didn't stop the author from claiming that it's hard to launch apps, unintuitive, etc. http://readwrite.com/2015/03/19/apple-watch-expectations-dis...

If that's not enough, how about the NYTimes reckoning that Apple Watch (and other wearables, too, although Apple Watch is mentioned the most frequently) could cause cancer (original headline: "Could wearable computers be as harmful as cigarettes"). http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/style/could-wearable-compu...

This isn't a conspiracy. Anti-Apple reporting gets a lot of page views. People click on articles claiming that a massive company is failing more than articles about how a massive company is continuing to do well.
Why is the post downvoted to hell?
It's fast, easy to setup and has less overhead. It's perfectly fine when all you're looking for is a different geolocation quickly.

But it shouldn't be promoted as secure.