jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If I ever lost my laptop, so long as I have network, they'd still
> be there, just everything would run slower for a few days.

* It would also always be there for governments and corporations to spy on.

* It would also always be there to some extent even if you tried to delete the data (archived by design or by request of government/corporation).

* It would also make it that much easier for governments/corporations to secretly data-mine everyone's data for suspicion of subversive thoughts

... etc
Utilitarianism isn't the only nonreligious, rational perspective on morality.

Actually, there aren't any purely rational perspectives on morality, as they all seem to hinge on preserving some intuition or another. But in terms of logically consistent, secular ethical frameworks which produce results most of us are comfortable with, utilitarianism isn't the only one on the list. And there are actually points where utilitarianism might end up producing results people aren't comfortable with (such as kidnapping people and killing them for their organs).
Works great. Would like to see this rolled into a browser extension to make it a part of my workflow.
One sentence summary/advice: don't hire a pretty girl.

[edit]: hey why the downvote? go read the story and you'll see why.
The other day I have been looking at some of the large cities and countries. I'm a medicine student and if you have had the change for a deep study of the human body, you'll notice that humans and cities are quite similar.

A Country is the human body. Cities are like organs. They have similarities, but each one has got a special function/strength (industrial, financial, agricultural). Houses and building are like cells. Roads are like vessels. People and different products are like proteins, electrolytes, and chemical components. People channel in roads, they go by foot but also by car (different chemical components has car-like proteins to drive them in blood).

Let's get into a cell. It has different components: Wall, Mitochondria, kernel, ribosome... A house has similar things. It has a wall like the cell has, with openings which aren't just holes (doors in the house and special kind of proteins in the cell).

I really can't describe that clearly, due to my poor English and also to the complexity of the idea. I hope you get the idea and you try to expand it.

Another interesting point is how they both started. The city (in the dark ages) was very simple, and now has progressed. The same way for the human which started from a cell that has multiplied and become a fully functioning animal.

Now cities don't start from 0, just like human. It doesn't need another billion year for a human to be created, but only 9 months, which is the same in the city.

I hope you get the idea, sorry for the bad release.
It would be interesting to know exactly which policies BoA is referring to, and why it thinks Wikileaks is in violation of those policies.

Without specifics, it's impossible to know whether Wikileaks is in violation at all.
RedesignMe may be helpful: http://www.redesignme.com/
tried trolling?
Yeah sorry. Should have been clear that I was talking about the standard library. I've got the chops to contribute standard library code - would never even think about trying to tackle implementing language changes. I don't have the time nor energy to deal with C++ standardese since the spec is an ancillary artifact describing the thing rather than the thing itself (the thing itself being the implementation & documentation).

Granted, this isn't necessarily everyone's experience in std as the change I implemented is well-worn/adopted by any condition variable implementation. Something more controversial/exploratory may have been pushed off into a crate first. I'm still impressed that it only took ~2 weeks to get [1] reviewed & into unstable. I wasn't even involved in the stabilization work/cosmetic renaming that it took to close out [2] which was driven by a community ask & the std maintainers doing a pass to make things consistent. Rust's velocity seems to be that they can deliver changes a full 1 year faster than C++ can (& likely faster if the community really asks for it). In my book it's largely owing to having 1 compiler & 1 standard library & the latter having a much more streamlined RFC process.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/67076
[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/47960
>Researchers found the malware hidden within an app on Google Play called ’FlixOnline.’” The app is a fake service that claims to allow users to view Netflix content from all around the world on their mobiles

Whatever happened to that saying...

'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.'

It's especially applicable to any software promising to do anything slightly sketchy.

Free apps with overblown claims are the snake oil of the internet. For every 1000 you find claiming to do this that or whatever amazing thing one may actually be real, 99 are probably useless and the other 900 are probably malicious.

I dunno, I try to think of installing software as letting someone come live in my house who may bring all their buddies with them. The more permissions an app wants, the more of my stuff that person's going touch and fuck around with while living in my house. There's also a good chance they'll let their buddies touch my stuff.

So you gotta think a bit about whether you want someone else in the house, you've probably got a little party going on already, and everyone's already messing with your stuff dammit.
Interesting. My volumes were similar and I even had issues with my 'beefy' enough DO VPSs. The primary issues for me were with the clients, especially if I, say, moved a folder of 2000 files from one directory to somewhere else within the Nextcloud drive using the UI. Anyway, I'm not here to troubleshoot that - I've long since decided that it's just too much for my personal simple use case of keeping two folders in sync with each other on different devices. Out of curiosity, how did you install Nextcloud? Snap/Docker/Manual?
> features can be developed while being kept switched off with a flag

But maybe you don't want everyone to know about all the features / announcements months in advance?
Take a typical 9-5 job. Problem solved.
Even if the world stopped writing new Java tomorrow, Microsoft could see years of growth just from people migrating their existing Java code to Azure.
Yup, CCL works very well, while SBCL (I think) still has serious problems with Windows in general. I generally use SBCL on my Linux machines and CCL on Windows ones, as the other alternatives (e.g. CLISP) are painfully slow.
they probably also rewrote the code (they just didn't change the language) right ?
IIRC, They were routine pit stops
yes they did
Mafia is more ethical
> Nothing ever comes of it because it's always possible to say, "well the investigation wasn't honest" and keep on believing there was fraud.

Release of an investigation report would go a long way to quiet these claims.

> https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/misplac...

Wouldn't display for some reason.
Guerilla warfare only works if the guerillas can hide among a sympathetic populace or in a remote area. The former seems unlikely (how many Americans are really willing to risk life or freedom for Trump) and the latter is largely ineffective because of geographic separation from targets.
This sounds like we're halfway done, and just need to do the other half then. If Maryland doesn't want it, perhaps another state does? Hawaii, perhaps?
Nice. Good to have a web version of this. Would be handy if I am on a machine without access to LaTeXIT. For displaying html content is there is reason to use this over mathjax?
Step 1. Get an IMAX projector lens...
I agree.

The headline reads like "Horse-carriage threatening the future of transportation".

Facebook is merely the latest evolutionary milestone, and it's crackling already.

There was once a time when AOL and compuserve defined what Joe Sixpack would have called "the internet" when asked.

It shattered and we entered the era of portals (yahoo, lycos), whose dominance, again, faded when the first worthwhile search engines came around.

Today we're just seeing the latest cycle in this pattern, the new concept now being the social graph. And just like before it's at first being beta-tested and refined in a small number of closed silos (facebook, twitter), simply because implementation, experimentation and monetization are so much easier in a closed ecosystem.

Now that the concepts have matured it's a matter of time before the good parts break out into distributed protocols and services, which will incrementally erode the monoliths.

Internet evolution at work, nothing to see here, please move along.
I've been in Berlin for the last month and people in general here seem also to be less career-focused than Americans. People live well here but I sometimes miss the charge you sometimes feel in the air in the U.S. and even more in Asia.
Novell owns Unix copyrights. Anyone remember SCO vs Novell?

Regards
This is supposed to be why we have a republic rather than a radicle democracy.

People forget, statistically half the population has an IQ below 100. And importantly, to be absolutely clear, that does not mean those people should not have a voice, or that they are “stupid”, far from it. It does however mean that certain issues are overwhelming complex to assume every American can make competent decisions on. Many of these rioters I’m sure don’t grasp how the very system they are protesting works on a fundamental level. If they believe the earth is flat, how can we expect them to understand the electoral college process, or the role of state versus federal government in our election process.

Certainly everyone’s voices need to be heard. When people and their families are struggling, many of them doing the jobs that make this country function, they are ignored. So when a savior seems to come before them, we need to be very vigilant.

We’ve seen these things happen before in history with other demagogues.

We expect in this country that all voices should be heard in order to elect people who’s job it is to lead. That’s the definition of a republic. That leadership should have killed the conspiracies and falsehoods from the start, protecting those of the democracy who are vulnerable, many of them suffering from the consequences of this pandemic.

Instead they sat on their hands. We need to hold our leaders responsible. We need to ask, en masse, for those leaders to hold each other accountable.

We also need to take ownership as a people. Us. We consume this media. We have created these social media companies, and allowed them to spread this stuff. Ultimately each and every one of us is responsible.

Let’s make sure going forward we ask more for those we ask to lead in our stead. Our vote isn’t the only thing we have to do that. We also have our voice and our 1st amendment. Let’s use it to the fullest.
Unexpected juxtapositions are often the basis for humor. And Comic Sans is from the mid 90's, so it isn't an old biddy yet. It is young, and it goes places/does things that others think it shouldn't. So, rebellious teen fits.
This is a very similar implementation with how Blackberry Blend is implemented. Although, the core value was for security. It's definitely hard to understand what was the motivation for WhatsApp to go this route or what their future plans are.
Sorry but maybe Apple and Android don't care about BlackBerry because it's going under. Nobody wants to hang out with a loser and that's what they've become. His whining doesn't help.

I'm sure turning around BlackBerry is a monumental task but I feel like he should be focused on innovating and leading and let his PR team do the writing for public statements.
As a large, mature Go shop we have several “macros” that are now quite load-bearing. They’re based on Bazel rules and text/template.

Get support for these workflows (which are increasingly common) into the upstream toolchain, combine with the “AST” package and pretty printer, and Go is well on its way to being a Lisp.
It's important to take pride in your work but also to have a crystal clear image of what that work is supposed to be. Mistaking an apartment renovation for building the Burj Khalifa is the source of so much heartache.
imho all of these are easily offset by the fact that unlike in sqlite or mysql, `cast('1,031' as int)` will throw an error instead of returning 1.
Archegos was at 15% equity / gross positions and had stakes as large as 25% in their investees. Their positions were enormous, concentrated and not reported on a 13F because Archegos was a set up as a family office. All according to WSJ. What they were thinking, who knows, but I bet it involves lots of talk about beta, other greek letters and VaR.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-archegoss-epic-meltdown-...
>I believe they're describing a call center

Nope, definitely not a call center. In fact only team leads and higher have phones.

> someone on HN needs to hire this guy,

I wish. GED + 15 years doing a job that doesn't translate to much of anything else doesn't help one's jobs prospects sadly.
Well, Scrabble not being rated near #1 is preposterous. I'm a tournament Scrabble player (there are a few thousand of us in the US that are rated) and Scrabble is an amazingly well designed, deep and strategically very complex game, yet is rated in the high hundreds somewhere, whereas games with much smaller tourney communities are rated much higher.
OT but when I open an article like this in Firefox's reader view, it often displays each image twice, first a blurry version and then the actual image. This is frustrating when I want to print a long article from reader view as I have to go through and delete all the blurry duplicate images first using developer tools (given that I don't want to waste ink or paper). Is there a better way I can fix or work around this?

I'm also interested because, as my username implies, I'm learning web dev and I would like to ensure if possible that any websites I make don't have this issue for people wanting to print pages from them.
I'm curious what you mean by "overkill." SQLite has really low startup costs and is easy to use from almost any language. The code you have to use to query it is not verbose. Typically when I see the word "overkill," I expect that there is some downside for using an approach that is too powerful. But I can't think of a downside to using SQLite in this context.
An app I wrote called FoursquareX (http://codebutler.github.com/foursquarex/) uses the OSX CoreLocation API (Skyhook) for geolocation. Here in Seattle it's amazingly (and somewhat horrifyingly) accurate.

As far as I know, Safari uses the same API, and always seems to work when I try it. The reliability really depends on the density of wireless networks nearby.
If you're comfortable with sharing your data with mint, they offer text alerts for unusual spending / custom triggers you set. http://www.mint.com/ That won't prevent someone from accessing it though. I suppose you could e-mail banksimple and see if they plan on implementing it when they launch: https://banksimple.net/faq/
I have been in this situation with high profile sites before. When there is downtime that is very public like this incident, you get a flood of emails and calls from service providers offering to help. This can actually often work, a relationship I established with a particular hosting provider (who I introduced to numerous other people as well) started out during a downtime incident when an executive of the company sent an email. If you are a startup that offers services, I would recommend taking advantage of these opportunities to get new business (put on a good pitch at a time when the potential client is vulnerable).
You're right. Sorry if I offended. The parent comment only triggered the style of the quote in my memory, and in that context I didn't really think about the content. But looking back, it's probably in bad taste, especially among strangers. If we knew each other, I'm sure it would be clear I meant no disrespect. Point taken.
That's probably as far as MS allows them to.

With margins as low as any PC maker, Dell cannot risk pissing Microsoft off.
The specific reason is that using an anonymous name for a specific implementation means that pages written only to that implementation will instantly break when it's standardized differently - hence explicitly identifying your browser's version of an unfinished standard is a form of goodwill.
Ugh. This sounds like something that would be done at Yahoo than LinkedIn. Like that ad campaign they ran: It's Y!ou or something of that sort.
Don't those work more or less like the network notifications? They don't bring the app to the foreground, they simply give the user the option of launching the application from an alert dialog....

Or am I wrong?
Great tl;dr summary. The example of the robot that drinks beer was a pretty good illustration of how much better being concise it, though.
It does, but you'll have to load it or set it up manually.

You can safely assume that everyone using node will have npm, so keeping scripts contained within package.json is simpler.

If someone decides to contribute to your project they don't have to worry about setting anything up, they can run "npm test" or whatever tasks.
Totally, half the trouble with the recent conflicts between the police and the policed here stem from the fact that law enforcement has had all the social problems that we've abdicated responsibility for dumped at their door.
Why is it specifically Mozilla's fault?
If I may ask, who'd you go with?
I would really like to see people stop using "Godwin's Law" as a rhetorical cudgel, as though it were making a substantive comment that somehow refutes and invalidates any possible reference to fascists. In this case, the reference was relevant to the discussion. The fact that some people have given a cutesy name to the act of referencing fascists is not a substantive or relevant point.

As for the other point, I understand very well that the parent comment was trying to point out that the western world is also not perfect and so we should be careful when judging. That is indeed precisely the substance of my counterargument: this is exactly the "tu quoque fallacy." The moral imperfection of some other actor is entirely irrelevant to the question of whether a given actor is morally correct.
right, perhaps i could use vbulletin or wordpress with another piece of software handling the decentralization and encryption parts, i didn't think that was built in, though.
Not sure about that. It seems like they were caught because they were totally and utterly beyond flagrant in their abuse of their office. Reading through that complaint I saw at least a dozen examples of actions where I wondered "what the hell did they think was going to happen next" in regards. Using government subpoenas to intimidate payment processors, having their name associated with bitcoin startup pitches while still being on the US Government payroll, and engaging in literal extortion attempts against DPR which were discovered easily when his servers and computer were seized, were just a few of their greatest hits. These guys were on a fast road to discovery from various different directions, it's hard to comprehend what they were thinking their endgame would be.
Stopped reading, felt like way too much of a generic marketing pitch.

Shouldn't I be compelled to read all of it if the claims were true? :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification

Law does not equal to the "rules of society", at best they asymptote the "rules of society", if there is even something like that.

In programming term, law is the formalized code (ie a program) of a society's moral stance. And as any computer program, it has bug, unintended behaviours, and changing one part of it will affect other parts due to unknown complexity. Imagine how hard it is to do random stupid CRUD app at scale, our moral code itself is complex and ambiguous, applying to a few hundred millions users and it's a big fat mess that's barely coherent.

I don't have an opinion on the whole "war on drugs" one way or another. But it's straight up dangerous to believe that the law is the be-all end-all in a society, especially when more basic ideals are put down to be less important.

> they broke the rules of society and now society wants to punish them

Contrary to popular belief, every single one of us here on HN are still human, not robots. And we are decidedly part of society.
I'm amused that this pops up two scary security warnings in Chrome, presumably due to the fact that it's a self-signed cert and is using what Chrome says is outdated crypto.
>they are criminals

They likely disagree that their "crimes" ought to be illegal, and do not accept the legitimacy of any punishment for such behavior.

Why should they have to "make a choice" and make "better decisions" when they don't believe what they've done is wrong?
Percussion caps were only invented in the early 1800s and weren't widespread until the 1830's, so this is not as wrong as it sounds. Flintlocks were still widespread when the Colt revolver was invented.
I think the crowd here over estimates how tech savvy everyone else is, or whom actually are aware of the .us domain, and also care enough to think it should redirect there.
I work at a similar company (less than 10 employees, no deadlines, (almost) no meetings), but unlike Gumroad we actually have health insurance, 401K with matching, donation matching, etc. So it is possible to to have "freedom" without laying everyone off and removing all benefits. You can read more about it here: https://simpixelated.com/two-year-work-retrospective
The article (as well as being old) is also false.

"Currently, the ACMA list of prohibited URLs that is notified to accredited filter providers does not contain any URLs within the Wikileaks website," the ACMA told ZDNet Australia in a statement. "Since April 2010, the ACMA has investigated two complaints about specific pages of content on the Wikileaks website, which both resolved to content found to be not prohibited."

http://www.zdnet.com.au/wikileaks-removed-from-acma-blacklis...
Any idea how to apply the coupon code if paying by Paypal?
I have found that the performance you get with canvas as opposed to using a DOM based rendering varies greatly with the device and rendering engine that your code runs on (shouldnt be a suprise really).

For my game I have encapsulated redering to use webkitTransform and translate3d if hardware acceleration is present. Otherwise use canvas, or in the worst case (IE6-8), use DOM with left and top css attributes.

If your game, like mine, can use a form of dirty-rectangle, invalidation strategy to rendering, its possible to do 60fps rendering with low CPU usage on iOS and desktop browsers.
Looks awesome, but they are going to have to contend with battery life issues (for the projectors mainly), and visibility issues (the projector/keyboard etc would be nearly invisible in any kind of lighted situation).
There is also grantlee (http://gitorious.org/grantlee) - a port of the Django templating engine - which also uses Qt. These two might be a good combination.
Shipping was listed as $6 for me on that mug! That seems high, but perhaps it's just me.
> There was a huge increase in speed - people were actually COMPETING who can set a record!

We had that when those cameras were introduced in Norway too. The cameras were then changed to not displaying speeds above the limit - it now just says "over 50!" if the limit is 50. Solved the speed competition problem.
> Leaking war videos to show people the real impact of a war - probably okay.

"Probably" ?!!? Who are you, people?
That's a fine answer, and some people may find that a helpful way to organize programs.

However, for me, and the CPU, we treat code execution differently to data access.