jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I struggle with the same thing. If we were close enough in the past I'm much less shy now of asking for a phone number/email.

If we're just passive where I'd love to see an update about life stages and progression... fb it is. Really wish the world was but a series of email mailing lists.
I really wonder what good they have done. All of their initiatives are self-serving. And at the end of the day, no amount of good they do will ever make up for all the damage they cause to their users. I am not even talking about the American politics, just the amount of psyops tricks to get people engaged and addicted to the platform, manipulation of one's sense of wellbeing, the social anxiety they cause. They make Big Tobacco look like saints.

As for "being a great place to work" or "the tech": how much of soul-less drone one has to be to look at all this shit and still think "but the tech is cool and they pay really well!"?
Would it also be possible to estimate your location in the store using multiple access points and the latency between them? They might use that to track where people spend their time.
> I worry this will probably fail over the uncertain status of Nyan Cat image/music IP...

That’s how MooGNU was born: https://archive.org/details/M00GNU
>HN memes about M1 memory will die

It is not only HN. It is practically the whole Internet. Go around the Top 20 hardware and Apple website forum and you see the same thing, also vastly amplify by a few KOL on twitter.

I dont remember I have ever seen anything quite like it in tech circle. People were happily running around spreading misinformation.
Hey guys, try and follow the laws of the country in which you live.

Even if you think it's unjust, you can't change it if you're dead.
.onion seems good but I don't trust it.
I find that it is much easier to tell when you're in the zone when listening to music, and I only realize I'm in the zone because after a while I don't even notice I have music playing, then I think about the music and I lose my "zone."
Glad to help with some information, but no, I don't know the Portland area. Perhaps other commenters will be able to give you some tips.
That would indeed be fun to develop for, but the long tail isn't much of a target market. Look at bug labs or sparkfun - they successfully target the hackers/makers, but a single device or family of devices won't ever be the next wave.
Clearly the FBI has the ability to do this... they just did.

Now, do they have the right to do this? Of course not, but not having the right to do something has never stopped the FBI before.

Remember, this is an organization that was created explicitly for the purpose of out-Mafia-ing the Mafia.
I tried most of Java frameworks, Wicket, Structs, Tapestry, (few others too, pyramid, rails) before I settled down with Play!, its awesome framework which gives me lot peace of mind. It just works in a right way and I'm really enjoying working with it. Highly recommends over any other framework. You can use Japid/Cambridge/Mustache as a template if you feel Groovy is slow (but for a production site, its really fast enough, and its syntax is very intuitive)
> undermine the music industry instead

Digital distribution (aka the internet) has beat them to it. It's just not clear because of the legal distortion field IP lobbyists have created.
Today I learned, CEOs are like dictators or other leaders who dominate other people. More democracy please.
I was about to disagree with you (citing that the change of 1815-1915 is much less than the change of 1915-2015). But then I realized that for certain places on Earth, the norm of technology might not be that much more advance than 1915 (this is a bit of a stretch, but you get the point) -- and I 'm not sure those people won't be able to adapt if they got move to the US.
> (The idea that she was doing it for the money, because of her husband's finances, I find absurd. I could be wrong but I didn't see it as remotely likely that she'd get $16M, even if she won.)

Don't be fooled, there's still money in what she's doing. Plus other forms of personal gain. I doubt this hurts her with reddit given their actions over the past few years and this positions her to be a hero to a very powerful and growing political movement.

Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In has sold 1.6 million copies, if she gets $1.50/book thats $2.4 million. Plus $50-100k for speaking engagements, plus seminars, other branding, revenue streams, etc. She's a billionaire so if she ends up making $10+ million through her activism that's no big deal, but it shows there's decent money to be made there.

"Professional activist" is a now career. Anita Sarkeesian's kickstarter to expose male privilege in video games brought in over $150k, originally it was for under $10k but over time she's been able to monetize her victimization in the sense that the more she's "victimized" the more her supporters give to her so she can continue fighting the power. Her non-profit brought in almost $400k during fourth-quarter of 2014 because of gamergate. (http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2015/01/24/anita-sarkee...) Her career hasn't been hurt by discrimination, it's been made by it.

It's like racism and the black community, it's really bad for most of them but then there are the Public Enemy's and Al Sharpton's who thrive on it. Is Al Sharpton a victim of racism? In a way, but he's also a major beneficiary of it. Is Pao a victim of gender discrimination? Maybe, but she's positioned to capitalize on it either way. Could she make more than the $400k severance package she was offered? I wouldn't doubt it. Will it make up for lost income? That's only a question if reddit let's her go, which doesn't look likely: http://fortune.com/2014/11/13/reddits-new-ceo-may-not-be-int...

edit: ah, yes. The obligatory "you're not contributing to the discussion the way I want you to so I'm going to misuse the downvote button to hide your comment" downvotes.
In the context of this discussion, "game" should probably be read as referring to a particular software implementation of a game, like the game Super Mario 64. Not like the game of chess.
By your logic, 419 scammers aren't trying to manipulate people... just "convince" them.
Amazing that the other reply to my post told me to not have such a "nitpicky attitude" [1] when another tells me that such nitpicking is crucial. It's almost as if people are doing any mental gymnastics they can to derail conversation into insignificant side roads rather than the actual issue at hand.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9279813
Electric / digital smart locks that you unlock via a watch or is it bluetooth or NFC?

That does not seem like a rational inclusion in a project intended to be deployed in crisis situations.

Um well our refugees cant get in right now because our generators stopped working or the batteries ran out.

KISS is an extremely important attribute of gear that needs to be deployed fast in under emergency circumstances. By definition it is not known what the conditions will be nor the nature of the catastrophe.
I don't see why anyone bothers with trolling on HN. Is it reasonable to "flag" trolls?
Fresco is compiled natively to support ARM, ARMV7, and x86 CPUs. Almost all Android devices are using one of those three.
I'd argue that the "pre-cloud" era is still going strong. And that is a good thing. My workplace has it's own data center. There are some downsides, but I prefer it.

So username+password really is needed. And should be included by default.

Also, I'd expect the same of something like MongoDB. That it doesn't have that by default is just baffling.
That's what I use, plus Vuze and FireFox (for Netflix watch instantly... because it's currently broken for me in Plex).

The only issue I have is most of my files are on an external FW800 drive, which isn't as quiet as the mini's drive. So, I put the drive enclosure into the cabinet under the TV. Also, Mac OS X is aggressive about putting the external drive to sleep, and because of this I had to set the cache seconds in Plex to 15 just to make there are no pauses in playback.

EDIT: forgot to mention that the superdirve in the mini is so loud that it can't really be used to watch a movie. Sounds like a 747 taking off. However, this is not a big deal for me, because I rip the DVD's to get rid of the menus and unskippable crap at the beginning of the disc.
Disclaimer: I worked for Mahalo last year.

You guys are over estimating the value of the domain names. They is a reason they were able to mass register these domains for just the base registration fee and not have to haggle with any private owners for a transfer. ____ answers is not a popular search query. I doubt any of domains are queries that generate more tha 500 searches a month. These domains have no value unless niche communities form around them and long tail content is generated as a result.
Do you run your microservices as CGIs or from inetd? Or why does the start overhead matter that much?
Talk about a difficult startup to pitch to investors.
Hernan7, you're right. I'm going to change that right now. Like most people's blogs, mine is mostly read by friends. In my case, we're all book nerds who get together and talk on themes like these. But in a public context that does look like an idiotic, pompous thing to write.
Over a long enough lifespan the chance of contracting cancer approaches one. So we'd have to fix that too, for starters.
I looked into moving to Pittsburgh, and then I found out there was a city income tax and changed my plans.
That is exactly what I'm saying, sans sarcasm.

To say what is, as it is, without resorting to secrecy, is indicative of strength.

Time will tell, but I believe Google & Android will win over Apple for this exact reason.

And I'll repeat, Apple lacks in Cohones.
Then why not use the USB connection as the data connection like you can do with an iPhone? Or use Bluetooth?
I personally am not at the moment, though in a few months, probably. I've got about 4 or 5 people who've been asking me how to hire hackers, though... send me an email, we can talk about it if you'd like.
> I'm guessing you're not familiar with Eminent Domain?

I'm guessing you're not familiar with how long Eminent Domain takes when the owner has significant resources.

In practice, Eminent Domain is only used to take things from poor people.
The tax situation is pretty stupid, but then again, lots of people don't actually live in the city proper, and dodge it.
i got 1 and would like to meetup with Dji, 3d fliers
1908 Adolf Loos: Ornament and crime.

http://www2.gwu.edu/~art/Temporary_SL/177/pdfs/Loos.pdf
It's just a marketing thing where they offer 1 gig whatsapp traffic (still a cap).

It's like 1000 free minutes, nothing else.

Becoming a virtual provider works with E-Plus, that's why there are very innovative ones in Germany. I use simquadrat.
Not quite. A better analogy here is this: there is a supplier of fridges that is notorious for unreliable power circuits. People know this, and buy those fridges anyway, hoping that it won't happen to them, because the fridges are popular and have a particular copyrighted layout of the door and shelves so that they don't have to learn anything new when visiting friends or moving to different house. Initially, the fires weren't the people's fault; but when the people kept buying and installing those fridges in spite of the problem, they expressed their disregard for the issue with their dollars. At that point, they began to deserve the consequences. (Of course, the analogy is quite flawed because not everyone knows; there are always some new users who think they are getting a safe fridge, and are cheerfully sold the death trap.)
This is just a bad example. I would use a closure here for the simple fact that it's simpler. No need to create an extra class with __call__ magic when you can just return a closure.

Now, if you're doing something more complex, a class complete with self parameters is simply unavoidable.
Bavarians do that too.
This is standard language to cover everything in normal use. Billing details is obvious. Profile info is provided when you signup and use the service. The system info is used to run and optimize the calls.

Zoom isn't actively scraping your info, and there's 0 evidence of anything in the Tweet.
https://covid-19.direct/state/NY
I went out to a supermarket last night, I was the only person there wearing a mask and disposable gloves.
Is anyone surprised?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/zoom-defends-use-of-local-web-...
Well anybody that quotes Mark Twain, wins the battle.

But I will politely quote Ben Folds Five: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y1wm7CFRCQ

Some cherry pop music for these crazy times.
A surgical mask may also do more to prevent a contagious person from spreading the virus (than to keep a healthy person from getting it) because it stops droplets close to the mouth before they aerosolize.
Pretty much all simple multi-word ALU algorithms need to start with the low word first. That particular terminal wasn't remotely unique (though for all I know, it was indeed the specific product that drove the Intel design decision), nor was x86 the first LE architecture. The PDP/11 made the same decision for the same reason several years earlier (and the VAX followed for pseudocompatibility), etc...

Really, it wasn't until the mid-80's and the RISC revolution, where all of a sudden people found themselves designing systems that would be 32 bits wide from the very first silicon that the community "decided" that the only true byte order should be BE.

And of course, the reason they made that decision was simply that the order of bytes in memory happened to match the way readers of the latin alphabet write arabic numbers on paper. Had the arabs invented computing, there would never even have been a debate.
Speculation based on racial profiling, aside from the obvious fairness issues, is actively damaging to the privacy cause in the US because it frames the issue in nationalist terms. This diverts attention from the more insidious threat of American government spying on American citizens, slowly boiling the frog of our privacy and paving the way for a future repressive regime and police state.
My wife likes him but I get quite infuriated at how slowly he moves. The NYC mayor is doing better with the little he can do. And Cuomo keeps overruling NYC mayor.

In comparison to Trump, he is less partisan and more decisive. But overall, his press conference is very little material.

Still in this difficult time he is a beacon of hope.
> There's another great way to test your mobile app before release: Android.

Although this was a bit snarky, I think it makes a good point.

This is Apple lowering (but not removing) an Apple-created hurdle. It would be nice if I could avoid the UDID hassle altogether.

I need to port to Android and see how I feel about that development experience.

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Honestly, I startups often say "premium features" because that's something that users understand and aren't scared by.

Posterous has raise $5M, so they really need at least a $40M exit, preferably bigger. Are they really going to make enough for that kind of exit from a small percentage of their users paying, say, $5-10/month for premium blogging features? Doubtful.

I think their plan, as well as that of many other startups, is to grow as much as possible and then either find a way to monetize their large number of free users or get bought by a company that wants some combination of the users, the employees, and the technology. But the average user won't be reassured when seeing this in an FAQ:

"It's free, what's the catch?"

"We want to get as many users as possible while making no money, and then we'll find some way to either bring in revenue or sell the company"

Users would worry that Posterous either will die one day when they run out of money or eventually realize they need to make money and ruin the product. But "you'll always be able to keep your same free product, but we'll add some even better features that cost money" isn't scary.

This isn't unique to Posterous. I don't remember which startup there was, but I saw "premium features" on the FAQ of another startup and literally laughed out loud because I knew that the combination of the amount of funding they had raised and the small amount that most users would be willing to pay meant that that was a lie.
As I said in my first comment, a recovery numbers turns it from 2FA into single factor. Obviously that is less secure, since a phone number is generally less secure than a password. I'm talking about true 2FA over SMS.
Heh. Trying to demo the strength of the windows, he had someone throw a steel ball at it. Shattered instantly.

That doesn't mean it isn't an improvement though.
This made me want to learn haskell. What a clean code. Pleasure to read.
Failed twice consecutively. Aren’t the side glasses meant to be breakable by regulation for escaping situations when the door is jammed?
The WhatsApp Commerce Policy states that businesses may not transact in the sale of real, virtual, or fake currency. Keyword: sale.

Does that discard the creation of remittance apps? That's not selling, that's just sending money between parties. I was thinking on sending money around the world using WhatsApp, is that allowed?
Comparing Uigher concentration camps to Nazi Germany is valid and accurate, not a frivolous example of Godwin's law.

Your comment has a lot of whataboutism that isn't relevant to the discussion. I'll mention that US presidents have formally apologized several times for Japanese-American internment (which was 75 years ago), and that I would encourage anybody (and any government) to boycott and sanction companies contributing to human rights abuse.
What kind of knowledge should you have before getting into this book? I've been meaning to try to learn ML and have been looking at some university courses that have all the material available.
The distinction here is between exploratory and scripted testing. Scripted in this sense probably does not mean automated. Think of an actor following a script, reading the lines. That's the meaning.
The crowd is extremely loud and distracting this time. Are they in a smaller acoustic space than usual or is it just poor micing?
> And as much as I hate office politics, emotions getting in the way, and having to hack psychology, they exist and as the logical, analytical, and rational person I think I am those things must be factored into going about things.

You obviously thought about this and got it into account. But being a bit smarter ape that we are all, you decided on what way of going about this is best for you. As a rational ape you should at least understand this much.

The thing is, we are all mature apes and we understand possible problems and we can decide for ourselves if the risk is worth it in a specific situation we're in at one time or another. And we do so, and we have every right to do so, and you trying to take it away from us is very apish and understandable, but unacceptable behaviour.

When a colleague asks me about my salary I think about what to tell him for myself. I consider how well I know him, how long we've been working together, how likely he is to be underpaid, how likely he is to get angry because of it and so on and on. I then decide to either tell him or not, and also on how specific my answer should be, and so on.

Sorry, but I'll trust my own judgement over your arbitrary decision you made without taking into account any of those situation specific things, and - not to forget - for your benefit.
are we talking about now or the past? Marx is mainstream economic thought today, not some heresy. Back then, marx was certainly 'heretic', but i dont think there was talk of the end of history.
There's a photo of the safe at [1] revealing it's a Hayman-branded dial floor safe, and the price of a new Hayman dial floor safe is ~$700 [2]

Getting a ~$700 safe for $600 with free installation might be a good deal - but only if you were in the market for a $700 safe to begin with :)

[1] https://postimg.cc/QK81zbKC
[2] https://www.safesetc.com/brands-hayman-safes-hayman-floor-sa...
I like to think that, like how the "Book of Life" is interpreted in Christian Symbology, where the list of good and bad deeds of a persons life has been recorded for a later judgment, there's a "Book of Time" where, at some point, you have to account for all the bizarre, time-consuming activities that at one point in your life, you decided were worthwhile.

This person will have a lot to answer for one day.
> In the last decade Microsoft has grown profit margins without creating new product lines.

No. To name a few: Xbox, BPOS (Exchange/SharePoint Online), SharePoint, Office Communications Server, Dynamics CRM.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1392036 if you want to hear me lament the awful MS commentary on HN for a few more sentences.
Every once and a while I try to set it up, but I also don't really care that much. I've gotten it to work great for C++ but haven't really bothered with anything else.
Why the down votes? It's a serious question.
Sorry, I live in the middle of no where and don't really know anything about commuter trains.
Believe me when I say that you are _by far_ the minority. _By Far_. I run a web site with over 16,000 registered users. They use the web site regularly and I get countless emails from people telling me how much the site has helped them. And yet, less than 2% pay for a cheap upgrade which gives them a access to a heap of new features and some amazing downloads. I've had one donation _ever_ (in over five years) and every time I ask for support or offer membership upgrades I loose massive amounts of email subscribers.

Whilst it's true that my marketing skills (or lack thereof) are partially to blame for these reasonably pathetic results, it's also compelling empirical evidence that you are in the minority (less than 2%).

If it wasn't for the on site advertising, which barely covers hosting costs, I would have shut the site down years ago. It eats up way too much of my time as it is.
What's the minimum number of corrugations you can use?
That sounds kinda odd to me. If they haven't interviewed you yet, why are they making specific offers? Or is it really more like "We are willing to pay up to X for the right candidate"?

If they are making specific offers to people who haven't interviewed with them, that smacks of desperation to me - maybe there's a good reason why they're having so much trouble hiring that they have to pull these stunts.

If you go to your current employer with a "We are willing to pay up to X for the right candidate" offer, then they have plenty of excuse for ignoring it if that's what they care to do, so it doesn't seem to have much value over just asking for a raise if you want one.

The real bottom line of that point was that interviewing with other companies is kind of a pain, and employees generally won't do it unless they've already decided they want to move on. Other companies usually don't give specific offers before a round of interviews, so by the time your employee has an offer in-hand from another company, it's too late to be making counter-offers. Better to both do your best to watch the market and give raises that match the market, rather than just cost of living, and to cultivate an environment where unhappy employees will be comfortable telling you why they're unhappy before they go looking for another position.
Usually done to junior apprentice mechanics in Australia that wear shorts to work (pants are always required in the workshop)

They're held down while someone else grabs a wad of black, filthy engine grease. Then they shove said grease up the guys shorts and onto his balls

...It's really hard to get off, man
Current funding, recruitment trajectories don't support your claim.
Why pick a name that's already used by the "script" utility (which has been making "typescript" files, presumably, for the last couple decades)?
Unfortunately people can believe in anything.

I mentioned to a friend yesterday about the UK government demanding destruction of The Guardian's hard drives and I was told I was engaging in "conspiracy theories."