jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is EXACTLY why this is bad. If you censor the narrative, then you get to control it and history tells us that the first thing you'll do with it is mislead the masses.
> So the government should be able to force your business to do something against your will?

No one said that. We can criticize companies for censorship with or without wanting government intervention.
> I really do not think that most willing to smash a bunch of windows would hesitate to attack you if you stand between them and said windows.

Unless I misunderstood it this statement implies that a window smashing person would as well attack another humane being. It's not true. These acts are different, require different motivations and a different mentality/personality traits to follow through.
None of these monstrous corporations would exist in anything resembling their current form without a tremendous amount of regulation that entangles government deeply in the affairs of these private companies. So that ship has sailed, you might say.
This is a pretty likely outcome - fracture. And certainly wouldn't be the worst for the Internet.

What if the same happens to the Union ...
There is no whataboutism coming from me. You are welcome to point out where I've advocated for such a thing.

For the last four years there has been a constant refrain that we need "adults in the room". Right now more than ever, we do. For some people the chickens are coming home to roost and I'm just saying -- we -- and by "we" I mean reasonable people -- should avoid our worst tendencies in this moment, even privately.
That tweet is unavailable now. Was it moderated by chance?
I just don't buy the premise. Kids get interested in programming by being able to create things. Back in the day creating things meant getting any kind of text/ascii on the screen was an achievement.

Now, kids want to learn how to do things that look as nice or do as much as the rest of the computer (or web) features they are used to.

For those that get interested some will go back to the roots and become hackers, some will continue to work in higher level languages. I don't see the problem.
Which is true if and only if the problem can be solved at all by a centralized system. This is not true for the major use cases of erlang.
I recently read a similar (exact same?) quote in the book "The Name of The Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. Almost certainly not the genesis of this quote but it's the only instance I know of.
Syncing with Simplenote (http://scrod.posterous.com/interesting-facts-about-simplenot...) to get the notes on iPhone/iPad is great, so is Syncing with Dropbox (http://wiki.github.com/scrod/nv/synchronizing-with-dropbox).
It's a different world that the one we grew up in. My son showed no interest in understanding the CLI or programming, but he loved scratch:
http://scratch.mit.edu/
It's more than just linguistic software. Our knowledge of linguistics itself is currently very limited; it's a nacent science and there's still a great deal of debate about how to even approach the study of language. Even leaving aside the difficulties in just transcribing speech, linguists are still a long ways off from coming up with any formalism of human syntax that could help create software to syntactically parse normal human speech.
I don't think it's the C64 - I started on a Laser-128 (an apple clone). I didn't start with graphics though, I started with a guess the number game (computer picks, and you guess and it tells you higher or lower).

I still remember the day I learned about strings in variables - that simplified my program quite a bit from a mass of hard coded strings combined with gosub.

If I have just one suggestion it's to increase your visibility. About a year ago I actually searched quite a bit for program exactly like yours. And didn't find it. I eventually found an online BASIC emulator in a browser.
If you do not oversell your systems, you HAVE to charge more than the average. It's simple mathematics.

Read the blogpost Dreamhost did on this, basically saying: yes, we oversell.
I despise these things, and I don't know of anyone who disagrees. If you're seeing an improvement, then I guess most of the world treats them differently than I do.

As soon as I hear "If you want X, please say...", I start pounding the zero button. The thing is, relying on buttons is not only faster in itself, but also doesn't force me through so many "you said 'X'; is that correct?" questions.

If it were something straightforward I would already have helped myself on your website. The fact that I'm on the phone means that it's an open-ended question requiring a real human on the other end (or that your website is useless).
That very well may be true, but in essence the values of lots of art are a product of the whims of curators, directors and art dealers. So those people who see their monopoly on power threatened probably would make a disingenuous stink about what he's doing.

Basically he's sort of being the itunes/pandora/spotify/whatever to the radio DJ of old who could make or break a music artist.

There may be a few pieces of art which are historically significant because of how they shape(d) future artists and appreciators of art --but those pieces are few and far between and moreover you don't see the same value assigned to similarly significant things in life but which aren't regarded art.
So would you consider a pointer to a memory location to be an object?
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The EFF fights for an Internet free of surveillance and censorship, and we’re hiring. EFF's technology team implements EFF's activism campaigns, builds exciting new activism tools and creates new technologies to protect the Internet as a whole.

A small sample of projects we've worked on in the last year:

- Worked with over 100 volunteer developers to crowdsource and populate contact-congress, an open dataset describing the contact forms of members of congress.

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- Created a new (and soon-to-be open source) activism platform that’s currently live at act.eff.org.

- Launched numerous projects including Surveillance Self-Defense, DearFCC.org, The Day We Fight Back, Trolling Effects, Tor Challenge and others.

- Launched a preview version of our OpenWireless open source router firmware.

We're currently hiring a frontend designer/developer and a backend developer with experience with Ruby on Rails and Node.js. Both positions are listed here: https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/jobs

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Inbox | https://www.inboxapp.com/ | San Francisco, CA (Mission) | Frontend (JS), Design, Backend (Systems+Ops)

Hi! We're "The Company Formerly Known As Inbox,"[0] and we're looking for help building the next generation email platform. We're building a missing piece of Internet infrastructure and are looking for frontend engineers and designers and backend systems and infrastructure/operations engineers to join us.

Companies are building their core businesses around our email API right now, and that means we have to be reliable, up all the time, and fast. We have more data for a single user than in most startups' entire database. That means big technical challenges to solve as we scale out our fledgling distributed backend. If you have experience with automated deployments, debugging running systems, release engineering, and on-call schedules, but are still comfortable writing code, this job[1] might be for you. :)

Many people spend their entire days buried in mail clients which haven't significantly changed in years. That means many opportunities to tackle UX challenges as we build out our client scaffolds and create a new framework for the next generation of mail apps. (Ever meet anyone who really loves their email experience? We want to change that.) Sound exciting to you? Apply here[2].

== We're particularly looking for folks who ==

* Take personal pride in their work and value autonomy and ownership.

* Want the chance to step up and lead a team.

* Put the work before ego. We've got each others' backs, and we want you to be with us on that.

== A bit more about us ==

* Our backend is built on tools like Python, Flask, gevent, nginx, MySQL, AWS, and Debian. We've been careful to keep our architecture componentized.

* Our frontend projects use Coffeescript, React, (Re)Flux, WebSQL for offline caching, Atom Shell (NodeJS + Chromium), with a strong focus on extensibility.

* Tons of our code is open source. Check it out: https://github.com/inboxapp

* We're 40% women on our team of 13 (12 engineers), including 1 of 2 cofounders. We want to make that number 50%.

* Our sunny Mission office is more lived-in than tidy. Think art studio, not corporate.

* We're more likely to end up at the climbing gym or on a bike ride together than out drinking at the latest startup event.

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Apply via Lever at https://www.inboxapp.com/jobs. Include a cover letter letting us know what draws you to the job. We welcome and encourage applications from women, LQBTQ folks, and people of colour. (We even have some already on the team!)

[0] A certain large company recently launched a product of the same name, so we're going to change ours soon. Roll with the punches, eh?

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[2] https://jobs.lever.co/inbox/54f73eb2-9094-40ab-b59e-f9df4868...
Most likely the Lion of Judah, who's symbol and emblem was and is still currently used, considering Yahweh was the national god of the Kingdom of Judah.

This can be seen on the coat of arms of Jerusalem :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem_of_Jerusalem
It's not like things are perfectly adapted. Many changes will put species closer to their ideal and give them a larger safety zone.
For developers who sell the same app on both the Mac App Store and outside of it, do you keep the same price for both or do you encourage users to buy directly from you with variable pricing? Thirty percent is a significant chunk and I'm wondering if anyone's tried to pass some of the savings (so to speak) when selling directly.
The article is a little annoying in its portrayal of artist being completely unaware. A really good discussion broke out on Paddy Johnson's (artfcity) fb page where Simchowitz chimed in. I'm glad to see it on hn though ~ I think there are many analogues to the tech scene and many younger builders/hackers/engineers. I think it's a symptom of wildly speculative markets with potential major payoffs and few regulations.
This is pretty big disrespect to Rev. Warnock, who seems like he’s going to be very good at his new job.
Aren't our entire telecom infrastructure powered by Erlang which exploited hot reloading as a desirable property for that kind of mission critical infrastructure?
I thought managers only care about how many years of experience you have and the presence of certain technology keywords, so how hard is it to write an adequate resume?
> But who is selling their (temporarily) valuable bitcoin for worthless tether instead of USD?

You're asking what the utility of stablecoins is:
Stablecoins are widely used as a legislatively advantageous on- and off-ramp for the whole crypto market.

Off-ramp: If people want to sell BTC or other volatile tokens because they want to realize profits, the obvious thing would be to sell for fiat (USD/EUR). But due to taxation and legislation this is often difficult. Stablecoins like Tether provide the utility of a low-volatility currency that fiat would fill. Main advantage is bypassing legislation.

This use is so common there is jargon for "Tethering up".

There also exist many debit cards that allow paying with stablecoins, increasing utility. The rise of DeFi and money markets for stablecoins also provides a good return on stablecoins while in theory being low-volatility.

On-ramp: If people want to buy a certain token they first go into Tether. This is usually for bypassing local legislation limiting the buying of a specific token or use of exchanges. This use is less common, I would wager.

Of course, for any of this to be actually useful Tether has to remain the same price. If Tether starts to deviate significantly from the 1USD peg, a liquidity crisis cuold be triggered.

Personally, I haven't trusted Tether since the first BitFinex scandals and avoid it like the plague. For my stablecoin needs, I use something that is audited and over-collateralized like DAIv2.
I can't edit my original comment, or else I'd add this line:

Everyone afraid of this, you ought to be afraid of micro-drones like the Black Hornet Nano - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hornet_Nano

No one is going to send a fleet of these ultra-expensive Robo-Killers to assassinate you and everyone else on the battlefield. Once these micro-drones can be mass produced cheaply enough, and you can put enough high-explosive on them to fly up to a person's neck and !!pop!! someone's head clean off, you'll see them programmed with swarm behavior and be unleashed onto the battlefield.

They fly faster than you can run (13 miles per hour), have a 1 mile range, and a 25 minute flight time. More than enough capability to swarm entire battalions and wipe them out.
Right, but I'm specifically referring to legal, but repressed transactions.
the limitations have been researched extensively outside of the echo chamber of bitcoin development. It is possible to scale a utxo system like bitcoins to hundreds of millions of txs per day. Xthinner[1] can compress blocksizes by 99%, but bitcoin devs have ignored this with handywavy arguments.

[1]https://github.com/jtoomim/xthinner-spec
As a user of tab containers and cookie auto deletion, cookie notices and sign up prompts are the bane of my existance. I audibly growl each time I open YouTube.
Imagine a murder happened. A judge issues you a general warrant to search for anything suspected as evidence regarding the case. You now can now search anyone anywhere.
I have no expectation that Apple will make iMessage available on non-Apple devices.

My point is that in the context of the current debate about WhatApp's new T&Cs and the question "what can I use instead of WhatsApp that won't infringe my privacy so much", comparing the two doesn't make sense because for the majority of people iMessage isn't even in the list of possible alternatives.
I agree im very exicited by this phone.

if you donate 100 euros do you get anything or is it just supporting the project? Couldn’t quite figure out if by donating you got like an early revision type thing?
I think the premium is a "convenience fee" people are currently willing to pay.
> Do you have a source to back it up?

It seems unreasonable to expect others to provide sources when you don't source your own information.
> If you are ever asked an interview question which you've already answered in a previous interview, you should tell the interviewer immediately.

That's sort of like saying you won't shot a man in the back during a war.
One thing I do all the time is making macros on the fly for repetitive edits with :map. E.g., switch the current and next line

:map * ddp

Then type * in command mode to execute the steps.

And if you mangle your file beyond hope with out of control macros, there's always u to undo and :q! to quit without saving.
What about these?

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Alas, the wayback machine won't let me see the video, but even the name of it is bad since it contains the word "coin".

Most may assume that "dollar" means USD, but that is not the legal meaning. Dollar is a generic term, as Canadians use it, for instance. But further, if I were to say "20 USD in Silver" I'd be referring to the US dollar and I'd be naming a price for this amount of silver. This is no different than saying "$5 in coffee beans".

Edit to add: My real point is to disagree with the idea that the liberty dollar advocated (generally) passing it off as US government money, as they spent a great deal of effort trying to prevent that perception or anyone associated with the organization doing so.

I'll concede that you saw a video where someone didn't make it explicit enough that it wasn't government money and that put you off of the idea... and in fact your quote might even be exact. In which case you are not misremembering.

My point isn't really to debate the video, so much as the intent of the organization.
No need for trickery. Just don't hand over the keys until you've been paid. This is all handled with relative ease with contracts.
Eric's thoughts are always interesting.
They are accused of a conspiracy of intentionally fraudulent financial transactions.

From the press release:

... arranged for the money received from U.S. gamblers to be disguised as payments to hundreds of non-existent online merchants purporting to sell merchandise such as jewelry and golf balls
but this case will probably be the highest profile to date and will hopefully raise public awareness about this disturbing issue

It will but not in the manner you hope, you see they always go after sex, drugs or gambling when they are trying to set precedence. The moral outrage hands them the jury and then they can use the precedence on less morally distasteful targets as case law gets build upon past rulings.
It looks like my multivitamin has 25 mcg of K1, but no K2. I'll look into it. From what I've read so far, it seems like deficiency is rare, but it might still be worth taking some extra.
>These artificial scarcity rules help make creativity economically possible.

This is the common utilitarian refrain, though utilitarian arguments usually include some cost-benefit analysis. In the IP debate, it is simply (and erroneously) assumed to be a net positive.

>3. If prospective investors know that copiers will quickly destroy the ability to charge money...

Then perhaps it's not a sustainable business model. Perhaps that's why they spend money on such things as DRM, or making online-only services. Perhaps, in the absence of state coercion, some other things will be invented to deal with the potential loss of profit.

>4. So while copyright infringement may not seem like stealing, it can have a remarkably similar economic effect.

What "effect" would that be, less profit? And thus activities of others which result in less profit for you should be illegal? I'm sure you don't think that, but it necessarily falls out of your utilitarian position.

The curious task of economics
is to demonstrate to men
how little they really know
about what they imagine they can design.
This issue here is research funding
Conan is probably the flagship C++ package manager and supports multiple build systems including cmake. Nuget/vcpkg is also usable but does not come with build system integration.
Yeah if anyone deserves to make buckets of money patenting software it's the developers of this app.
Rub it in why don't you.
It's still asking for a beta code.
I'm not completely getting what parts of them you think make them seem more like c blocks. Could you clear this up a bit?
> Doesn't that just leave you in an echo chamber

Only if you choose to. "I don't want to be consuming" doesn't need to mean that you disagree with them, just you aren't getting value from reading it.

Further to your point: It's one of those paradoxes that while the marginal utility of listening to some people you disagree with is obviously high, the marginal utility of listening to any particular person you often disagree with is likely quite low. Most people are not particularly thoughtful or particularly articulate, but your best bang-for-buck will be to try and find some who are both.
Have you seen any good mods for emonPi that increases the number of sensors? I really want to monitor every circuit in my panel (40)
I'm having a tough time buying STM32 MCUs. When I started my most recent designs about 6 months ago, the SMT-assembly service I used, and retailers like Digikey and Mouser had ample stock. Now, I'm unable to start production due to being unable to find MCUs. The whole STM32 line is affected - Only a handful of variants are available, which may or may not be the ones a given design can use.
I had the same question.

I guess when you pay a part timer to deliver you’re not paying for the added overhead for a whole new division of highly paid engineers, marketing folks, advertising, expansion budget, underselling, etc.
But it needed a disk, right?
Managing an enterprise doing it at scale requires a larger-than-small percentage of revenue. Catch 22.

Also note that plenty of delivery workers have, historically, been paid under-the-table. Can't get away with that if you're uber
First off, miners need to ensure that the coin they're mining retains value, so they need the network effect of the entire economy. No miner is going to make a decision that makes the underlying thing that they are mining worthless.

Even if 80% of miners wanted something, if it was egregious enough, like a change in supply, then no one would go along with it. Ecommerce companies like Coinbase etc would just ignore the fork and keep going with the remaining 20% of miners whose heads are screwed on straight.

Those 80% of rebel miners who are burning all that energy, and have all that sunk cost in hardware, would be stuck mining a nothing coin that no one wants, and would lose everything almost immediately.

Remember, miners have sunk costs. They, more than anyone, need the coin to retain value. Their incentives are incredibly aligned with everyone else in the ecosystem.
1000% agree. "Ethical" is not restricted to "no guns, alcohol or cigarettes".
Honestly, my xps is the only laptop that comes close to my macbooks... Yo be fair, the touch screen and pen on the XPS blow away the ones on the Macbook.
How many restaurant owners and delivery gig workers do you know? From my (admittedly very limited) experience long-term gig workers have a "system" that tends to work well enough for them, though they're not so successful that you'd hear about it on the news.
> Are you saying it isn't stealing to pirate my iPhone app?

Yes.

> Are you saying it isn't stealing to copy my website's design?

Yes.

> Are you saying it isn't stealing if I take something out of your house for a day but return it before you need/notice the item?

No.

For stealing to have occurred, the owner of the item must be deprived of ownership of the item. Pirating software or design is (probably) wrong, but that doesn't make it stealing.