jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's a new one to me, thanks.

For anyone who didn't know about the extensive rss features of reddit: https://old.reddit.com/wiki/rss
Tomayto, Tomahto...
"Block all JavaScript" never required an extension. All the browsers have an option to turn JavaScript off entirely. NoScript started out as a way to provide an easy UI for selective blocking of scripts.

But it experienced the best kind of scope creep: it gained the ability to block other dangerous web features (eg. Flash and other plugin objects, web fonts, etc.), gained features to make life easier when blocking scripts (ie. the surrogate scripts feature), gained other security features for blocking evil actions by the scripts that are permitted (XSS blocking, clickjacking protection), and helped pioneer some security measures that weren't related to scripting (HSTS, ABE as a precursor to and superset of CORS).
It may be selection bias but when I did community service in coal country WV there seemed to be only two kinds of people in those forsaken towns. Depressed or self destructive. No opportunity and no escape is a hell of a combo. They weren’t starving, but they didn’t have money for much of anything else so their house was decaying around them (our job was fixing up the houses) along with the rest of their lives. This was back in the 90’s. I suspect those towns have been lost to opioids and meth now.
Twitter and google are indeed aware of the importance of tends and context. They may not be where the op would like to see them yet, but there's clearly work being done in that direction.

Facebook, on the other hand, doesn't really seem to be doing much with its data. But it does have an extremely powerful API, so, maybe someone could try taking this matter into their own hands.
Have still one, called Void. 4 years old now. And a Belgian Shepard.
Beagle 2 hitched a ride on Mars Express which was and still is a very successful low cost mission. It’s still orbiting Mars and being used for scientific research more than a decade into its mission.

The total cost including that decade of operations is about €300M (until 2013) – and less than 20 percent of that was spent on Beagle.

But that’s not even the whole story. Venus Express was heavily borrowing from Mars Express and did consequently cost substantially less (€85M vs €150M for launch and spacecraft, excluding subsequent operations and in the case of Mars Express also Beagle 2; total mission cost until its end in 2014 €220M).

Beagle 2 and the whole Mars Express mission was really put together on a shoestring budget. It’s more a demonstration that you can do a lot with a little, really, than anything else …

Other then that SpaceX has shown incredible process in their re-usability quest, the latest failed landing included. They have been on a steady march towards re-usability, without any major roadblocks (except the usual delays). There is nothing there that shows them hitting any kind of wall, actually.
I use Firefox all the time on Linux. Sounds like there's something else funny going on with your system.
Different word because there is a colloquial meaning "I am depressed because my car died on the way to work" or "Wow, that movie was depressing." which isn't even in the same ballpark as the disease.
You are correct. It makes no difference. This has been an exercise in "bad things will happen" used to reform political views and stoke sabre rattling. China is a bad actor in many arenas, just as the US is a bad actor in many arenas. The idea that any country releases some lab-grown bug will never be politically admitted, so the theory is irrelevant.

I tend to think China is a danger to humanity at-large, but I could be wrong. These specific events have not surprised me (new virus, spread, etc) but the sheer amount of incredulity at the behavior of countries (China, US, etc) is disheartening.
I took a look at the paper, and that is not an unreasonable explanation... It seems that the increased computer use did indeed reduce the time spent doing non-computer homework a bit, although the data is quite noisy and may not be statistically significant; TV viewing was similarly impacted. But what really took a hit was time spent reading recreationally. I can't help wonder what influence the reading had on grades relative to the homework.

Another thing in the paper that I found somewhat surprising was that slightly different parental rules had markedly different effects:

Interestingly, we …find evidence that the presence of parental rules regarding homework mitigate
some of the negative effects of winning a computer voucher without affecting the gains to computer
skills and cognitive ability. On the other hand, the presence of rules regarding computer use reduce
the positive impacts on computer skills without improving academic achievement.

http://www.columbia.edu/~cp2124/papers/computer.pdf
I'm still not sure why Mt. Gox existed in the first place. Isn't the whole point of bitcoin that it is decentralized?

The failure of Mt. Gox could be viewed as a market reset.
> police have been devoting a huge amount of resources to track down peaceful people engaged in voluntary trade like Charlie Shrem and the operators of the Silk Road Market

Um, the "operator(s) of Silk Road Market" allegedly attempted to hire a contract killer. I'm pretty sure that's the opposite of peaceful, if true.
Spotify acquired the vast majority of their current users since 2015.
Grocery stores would raise prices. What is the issue?

If the issue is it affecting poorer people adversely, then that should be addressed by making them less poor, e.g. the government giving them money.
Yes, responsibilities will be adjusted accordingly. On-Call depends a bit on your sector and what the unions agreed. Most of the time one hour on call will count for 0.25 hour worked I think, at least that's how it was for someone I knew.

And most people simply put their days / hours in their e-mail signature so other colleagues know when to expect a reaction. From personal experience this works fine. Half my team is off every Friday and some also on Wednesdays.

Companies can and do require 36 or 40 hours though, but most of the time vacancies will list something like "24-36" to signal the possibilities.

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edit: for your curiosity: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/dashboard-arbeidsmark...

It's in Dutch, but as long as you know that 'uur' = 'hour' you can read the charts.

As of 2020, 72% of men worked 35 hours or more (full-time) compared to 26% of women.
Yeah, that's expected. It comes from the shim I'm using to support import maps, it's explained why the error is "wanted" here: https://github.com/guybedford/es-module-shims#polyfill-mode

I could probably silence it, but since I have examples with that module in the tutorial it felt dishonest to do so.
Just think. If your ability to get good quality health insurance/coverage wasn’t directly tied to having to be employed for those benefits, we all could pursue our passions and desires.
You sound like you've really solved working
We tried that in the 70s. It was called New Math. It failed because parents and teachers didn't already know basic number theory. Some students (like me) were in special programs with well trained teachers, and became highly successful STEM professionals.
Opera exists on the basis of the superb mobile browsers - Opera Mobile and _especially_ Opera Mini.
(there was a previous post about this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1882753)

In India, where smartphone penetration has just started, pretty much Opera Mini is defacto here. Especially with the cheap, underpowered Chinese smartphones which come pre-installed with Opera Mini.

In fact, a significant percentage of Nokia phones out here are preinstalled with Opera Mini (or Opera Mobile). I'm pretty sure there is a per-device licensing that is making money for them.
This isn't really a configuration suggestion, more of an architecture suggestion: let's say you're like me and you have 5 VPSes. You want precisely one to have SSH exposed to the public Internet. Everybody else has SSH only listen on a private IP. (Your host can probably set those up for you. Slicehost does, for example.)

e.g.

ListenAddress 1.2.3.4 #This is not really your IP address.

You can go an extra step and drop all packets to the SSH port on the public interface in IPTables, if you want. It strikes me as being overkill but, hey, whatever.

If you need to log into any server, you do so by tunneling through your gatekeeper server. That fellow gets locked down tightly. All of your other servers are firewalled tight as drums, with the exception of public-facing HTTP servers who have 80 and 443 opened (and that is it).
I think he meant that because of the complexity of sshv2, it is much more likely that implementation will contain bugs/be compromised than the simpler sshv1.

sshv1 is less secure in terms of crypto, but not in terms of secure software implementation.
Is it because pg's comment has a more developed (and karmaful) subthread?
jQuery In Action is how I learned jQuery .. but it's slightly outdated b/c jQuery 1.4 is out
Since when is anybody alleging that Moxie is affiliated with Wikileaks?
sum(pg's thread) = 80 points

sum(brh's thread) = 130 points
>You're arguing ... legitimacy is significantly a function of the execution of power against part of the populace.

I was not advocating anything, merely describing what often goes undescribed. Further, I wasn't arguing from where the legitimacy emerges, only that it exists, and that that extant legitimacy, coupled with the extant power and willingness to engage in otherwise-criminal acts is what makes a government a government. Take away one or the other and we wouldn't call it a government.

>I quite like rule-of-law states

Here ya go, a long but rather good piece written by a former professor of mine:

http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
"Maybe this is one of the reasons the Finnish education system works so well"

No it's not. In fact it's pretty much the opposite.

http://www.greatschools.org/improvement/international-compar...
This is true of most big movies, too:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/07/hollyw...

The book itself is worth a read.
I've been using Kifi[0]. It lets you collect any webpage thats interesting, tag it with multiple tags, and search your whole collection based on tags/content of the page. I highly recommend it.

For example, I want to learn more and more about distributed systems, so when I see an interesting article, i tag it. When i have some time, i go through the relevant tags.

[0] https://www.kifi.com/
Yeah, I made this game with graphics from my other game, Zezenia, which is a MMORPG heavily inspired by my favorite game as kid, Tibia.
Honest question: Why is it awkward? I think if people dig down deep and think about the answer to this question, there is no reason for this. Because nobody is ever paid what they're "worth."

Assume for a moment that you don't need the money. Would you show up for your job tomorrow if they stopped paying you? If the answer is "no", I sincerely hope you are looking for a job that the answer could be "yes". If you aren't, then I assert you are in the process of tacit self-immolation.
My friend and university classmate - a kind of wounderkind.

He was accepted to university without exams, because he had great results on programming olympics.

Turned out he was also good at chemistry. When he was around 8 his mother arranged him to take
chemistry classes with elder schoolchildren. But he dropped the classes because he was borred - he already
knew everything taught there.

In university he tried drugs (marijuana, mushrooms). He also bought Hofmann's book with all the formulas and started cooking himslef.

One day he jumped off the roof of their apartment building. His mother found him.
She said at first sight she thought it was some garbadge on the street, and then recognized her son.

On his computer he left open Richard Bach's book, with selection active on the phrase "you can fly, Jonathan".
He left a note between pages of the Exupéry's book (I don't know exactly on what place, his relatives
hadn't pay to that at the moment). The note said to dispel the ashes over the ocean.

The guy doesn't care - he is dead and feels nothing. But it was horrible to see his mother, and father too. He was the only child.

This case makes me doubt LSD and drugs in general are harmless.

I also have evidence the "inspiration" when you're on drugs is false, and actually it's more like a delirium.

Please, don't promote drugs.

UPDATE:

Surprisingly, some people even down-vote this comment, and convince me in telling false story. If so, what are my motives?

If you care, you can find plenty of documented evidence of drugs danger.

BTW, he jumped not because he "convinced himself he can fly", as many commenters suggested. His note said to dispel the ashes over the ocean.

If you heard something similar before - it doesn't make the story false, other way around, looks like such things happened more than once. In my case I am describing a real person I knew for years, and was present on his funeral.

This thread, and many comments here suggest a conspiracy theory -like idea, that anti drug laws and information is a malicious and false propaganda, imposed by state and society. Sorry, but it's just stupid.

It is irresponsible and inappropriate to promote drugs (LSD or whatever). And off-topic for Hacker News. There are people who unstable, who have internal emotional conflicts, etc. For them drug use may be a catastrophe.
Some people assume that taking LSD gives you some kind of super abilities which would make one more competitive in this world, but it's not what the experience is about.
Yes, while tripping, your mind can handle infinity or galactic-sized data sets, visualise abstract concepts and zoom in and out of matter or numbers, but I don't think that's the true power of this substance.

The real power comes from the realisation of who you really are and always have been, it's like you finally 'remember' that this life is just one in an infinity of previous and future 'lives' and that everyone and everything is you. It's the realisation of the fact that you (and everyone else) are in fact God who came into this body to feel separated from himself, that the Universe is some kind of cosmic simulation which you've created since the beginning of time.

This realisation is what frees people from the mundane reality of existence and gives one courage to embark on the craziest of endeavours, which sometimes have the side effect of changing the entire world.
You are seeing it only from the technical point of view.

UNIX and C were developed together. Like most system programming languages before it, and even those that failed in the market, C's original purpose was to bring its host OS to life.

So to remove C from a UNIX compatible OS, you need to remove C from UNIX culture, which is impossible.

The resulting OS wouldn't be UNIX any longer, it would be Plan9, Inferno, something else.

As for C++, is pretty popular nowadays because it also came from AT&T, so it has been part of the UNIX culture from the mid-80's. But never at kernel level.

There are OS written in C++, like Symbian, BeOS, IBM i and others. None of them are UNIX compatible OSs.

I cannot imagine any commercial UNIX vendor to allow anything else other than C on their kernels, nor I do see it happen in the FOSS world.

Alternative OS that try to research new paths in OS architectures, yes. But not OS that try to clone UNIX culture.

If you look at my comment history, I am not very found of C, but I just don't see it happen from the social point of view of how comunities behave.
Because they are known for having fast EVs. Having a team and losing would be a hit on their reputation, but having a team and winning wouldn't change much. So they have a lot to lose and little to gain.
think of it as an integration server for a legacy API you are integrating with: data inside it isn’t going to go missing, but you should expect your connection to it will break at any point. You need to isolate your users from it, protect you application from it and consider carefully how to protect your data from outages.

I get that in terms of practical advice - but the biggest thing I've been wondering in this whole GAE debate is why you'd select a service where failure is such a norm. Is it solely a cost decision because GAE beats someone like AWS by such a large margin? Theoretical development costs seem like they'd be much lower on platforms where you expect lower error rates.
Don't know. Maybe some humor, but definitely not dry.
There is a fundamental difference between working on a problem like this and doing design work. If you work on this problem you will probably advance our knowledge in some domain and can even apply the results to other problems (such as network routing). Look at the groups that worked on the Netflix Prize. Most of the leading teams had academics seriously working on them.

With a design competition you are basically doing work for free and the only one that benefits is the one giving the competition.
It's amazing how fast web development can change. jQuery Mobile and Backbone didn't even exist a 2 months ago and CoffeeScript is also just getting popular lately.

Who knows if these new libraries/technologies will catch on but it's an exciting time to be a web developer.
Submissions do not consist of code, merely predictions (at least for the competitions I'm familiar with). I don't think there is anyway they could compel you to give up your code, but I'm no lawyer.
I guess I don't understand the analogy in the title. How is workflowy any more "distributed" than a to-do list? I mean, instead of carrying around my notebook of ideas and to-dos, I put it all on workflowy. It seems like I've traded one centralized system for another.

That's not to say that workflowy doesn't have advantages over a notebook, but the svn/git analogy is flawed in my opinion. Maybe if they'd compared other task management systems to cvs and workflowy to svn the version-control-system analogy would have fit better.

EDIT: Grammar.
> You need to win over administrators, you need to convince them why they should run your software, that your software is flexible, well-written, stable, and infinitely customizable.

I think that's almost exactly backwards - you just have to look at the proliferation of PHP and MySQL for a counterexample. They're installed everywhere, and have been for the past decade, because people use them - not because they're stable or well written. And development tools aren't even particularly viral - unlike a social network. Whatever the reasons for Appleseed's lack of hype, I don't think features or maintainability have much to do with it.

An interesting sidenote - Facebook has also been in development since 2004 ;)
I have a lot of legal concerns! Is this going to get me sued by my existing customers, whose details I would be sharing? Can you perhaps explain why this would be legal?
They would probably also say that smoking is bad for your health.
Phones are annoying, and the UI of most apps is user-hostile. Here are the equivalent steps you have to do to accomplish the same thing as this button does:

- Wipe your hands from moisture/whatever you had on them.
- Find your phone in your pocket.
- Orient it.
- Unlock it.
- Exit whatever app you left running in the foreground.
- Open the app drawer.
- Find the ordering app.
- Click through several layers of UI to get to the right product.

And only now you're in the same position as after just pressing a button. This is a significant cognitive load. When I realize I need to order something, I want to order it, not navigate through countless steps. Having to do more than two actions is too much.
There is a vibrant community of people experimenting with old vintage lenses. Mirrorless full frame camera's are relatively easy to make/get adapters for. See Mathieu Stern for inspiration. [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYX22a35sKhA0T6ee7uZfvg
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This. Our media spends years affirming that rioting is an acceptable reaction to feeling disenfranchised and here we are. I condemn it (all rioters) but can’t say I’m surprised.
I built myself a FluxEngine some time ago and I absolutely love it. I've used it to read some not-so-common disk types: MS-DOS, CP/M, Amiga and C64 format 5.25" floppies; MS-DOS, MSX and Amiga 3.5" floppies, all without a hitch.
Use a CPU that does constant-time everything (e.g. has no caches). Most of the super-simple in-order RISC-V cores that are available on github will do. Just put one of them in an FPGA, and you are set up.

Most of those CPUs are designed by CS or EE students taking a computer architecture class, so... in a sense... one can argue that defending against Spectre-like attacks is actually super simple: just use a simple CPU design.

To actually become vulnerable to Spectre, you need a very complex CPU design, so in the same way, it can be argue, that making a CPU vulnerable to Spectre is actually hard, since it takes a lot of work to create such a CPU design.

Now, if what you want is a CPU that's both fast and secure, then I'm sorry to tell you that such thing cannot exist. Those two goals are at tension. You can either get a F1 or a tank, but no vehicle that offers the same amount of protection as a tank is going to be able to compete against a F1 car, and vice-versa.
That is what I'm planning to do. Mac Mini with two 4K screens running at 60Hz. Was just making sure that it would work.
It would draw some criticisms, but Twitter would be banning his personal account, the one he used before becoming president and will probably use afterwards, providing it isn't banned.

The official Twitter account of the POTUS is @POTUS, not @realdonaldtrump.
It's not, but one, congress was in session, and two, they knew there was going to be a big group of agitated protestors outside. Compare how tight security was when there was a BLM protest there.
This solution was designed to solve the whole package. The script is designed to run on BOTH a CI system and a standalone dev box (real or virtual), giving the same deterministic, stable environment so that everyone is always on the same page (Honestly I'm surprised this isn't done more often).

As a developer, you run the script once on your fresh Windows dev box, and then you can develop, run unit tests, or even run the CI script locally to have confidence that it will actually pass CI when you check your code in (and not overload the server with bad builds). In fact, I did all of my dev work in a VM because it's super easy to tear down and rebuild if I break the OS somehow or introduce an unexpected dependency ("it works on my machine" syndrome).

As an admin, you only have to include this one script onto a fresh Windows image, then run it and save the resulting VM image for the CI server to run (instead of installing everything on every run as part of the build script like they were doing).

The original issue was that everyone was using the CI server AS a dev environment because they couldn't get the project to build on a standalone box (it was tricky to set up, and undocumented, and the build scripts assumed a complicated CI environment). And management wasn't even raising a stink about this, despite the HUGE cost (in a large corporation I can understand this sort of thing falling through the cracks sometimes, but not in a small startup!). I'm actually not a sysadmin (I'm a developer), but I do hate inefficiencies like this enough to do something about it.
There is no backend :-)

I use a JS library on the client to convert the SVGs to PNGs - https://www.npmjs.com/package/save-svg-as-png

The zipping is also done on the client