jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Here's one use case: you're at a conference and you meet a person. You get along great and you see yourself becoming friends.

In normal circumstances you'd try and keep in touch through email or social media but as time goes on and you both get busy with your lives you lose touch.

Luper helps you remember to keep in touch with people. With Luper you'd add that person to say a quarterly time lup and every 3 months you're reminded to contact that person by either phone, email, or text. You can also add notes to that lup (what you talked about, how you met, a follow up item).

Luper has one purpose, to help you remember to stay in touch. This applies to personal relationships and professional relationships.
As interesting as these smoothing algorithms are, they can't add any information to the sprites that wasn't already there. Why make everything look smooth and plasticky when the original game was carefully hand-drawn, pixel by pixel?
He sounds like he wants to be a self-sacrificing martyr hero for coding. What's the point of all this? Are we supposed to hail him as a "one true coder" for willing to do this? Is this a competition about who can take the most pain? It's so pointless.
Reflexive but actually relevant (in the sense of incredible pace of advancing efficiency):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5cYgRnfFDA
> That's the paradigm shift.

You can make desktop apps in Python, Ruby, Tcl, hell even PHP for a long time now. No compilation needed.

Whether this works effectively or not comes rests almost entirely on how good their architecture is. "Hackable" doesn't mean anything if the codebase is a coupled mess. Given GH's pedigree, I don't expect that this is the case; which means there will be some ramp-up time learning the various subsystems.

Desktop apps aren't things that you can cram into this week's hipster JS framework.
As a cyclist, I can confirm that, unfortunately, the pedestrians do rely on sound quite a lot in figuring out whether a vehicle is dangerous: if you're silent, they won't try to avoid you that much. Sometimes it becomes ridiculous: a pedestrian looks in your direction and proceeds walking across, in the middle of the street, forcing you to brake to a halt. They don't do that to cars.
Did anyone else see this file about how a guy used mosh to escape from an elevator? http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite?gopher://sdf.org:7...
I don't want to have to relearn everything like I do for powershell, everything from *nix should carry over.

I want a package manager for everything, something like nuget (which is great), but for the entire OS like brew/apt/yum.

I want a ssh client/alternative, I should be able to administer a windows box without having to RDP in.

These are my main issues but i'm sure there are plenty of other small ones. My workflow is typically web development but I work for a smallish company and do a bit of Ops as well.
Python. I am a beginner and I am loving amazing things I can do with Python. It's very beginner friendly, has a great community. You can find tutorials about anything on interwebs. Most of the things one want to do are already there in the form of libraries. And you just have to take all of those and build together. Just like LEGO.

That's what I love about Python. I am working on a project with Python, after that I will try to explore other language and learn.
Storing a history of all of your messages in the cloud isn't a feature for everyone.
While i agree whatsapp web should work in every browser the auther is forgetting one IMPORTANT gotcha:

Whatsapp, is a messaging-routing platform. It doesnt store any messages. Thats what makes whatsapp strong. Its a feature. Thats why you need your phone. Its like SMS. They are not storing all your sensitive message.

If you dont care about storing sensitive messages on servers. Use Telegram/Facebook Messaging, etc...

I think its really a feature, that its not storing your messages.
Got a few deniers of global warming on this site. As well as believers in the economic status quo.
The HN community definitely cares more about privacy and security than 99% of 'regular' users so what you describe has a good chance of being common behavior here!

I personally can't be arsed to protect myself, but that's just me- I'm kinda fatalistic and assume that everybody knows everything about me already.

But you'll definitely find a lot of others who are mindful of privacy here.
Would be tech writers need to learn that when you mention jargon like a solid state drive (ssd) you should define it in the beginning of the article, and it helps to explain what it is.
Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes.

Learning about these domains allows you to talk to people in them. That allows you to educate people outside of the development group on the specifics of the product and get valuable feedback from them. This allows you to make a better product and at the same time gives you a foundation for doing Biz Dev.

Design is a bit different, but yes - learn the basics of that too and treat designers and design work as development unless your business plan is cranking out logos and t-shirts.
This looks promising: https://github.com/philcryer/lipsync#readme
See also the slow adoption of Python 3.
You can check the author's blog, he has a few videos on how he made it, in particular one where he uses a kinect interface:
http://blog.aleksandarrodic.com/?p=60

I'm running firefox 4 (linux ubuntu 64bit) and it works fine.
This is addressed in the FAQ.

http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/#12

The app downloads:

* OpenStreetMap background tiles
* jQuery main script file
* OpenHeatMap script and CSS
Of course. But I'm no longer looking for an internship - I already found one.

Those other communities are great. However, a lot of that 21+ crowd socializes through happy hours - and I sadly wouldn't be able to participate. At this point I'm simply looking for a community of interns (people my age) with similar interests that I can contact for housing, lunch, pure social enjoyment, etc.
Indeed they are!

Our problem is we have a highly technical, generic tool and we've found it really hard to write docs that are easy to understand and a product description that resonates with people.

It's quite eye-opening to see how someone with a relatively small subset of our features can completely wow everyone by very clearly presenting just one use-case. Simplicity really seems to be key, at least to getting this kind of attention.
Ethics?

The problem is practical; do your users want the features or do they care about privacy? Let them make the choice, and don't hide it from them. That's the ethical behavior.

It's unethical to assume everyone values everything the same, including privacy. Some people don't care about it as much as you do, nor should they.
Why are finance people drawn to New York?

Why are film people drawn to Los Angeles?

More is different.
When we got married my spouse was already on the green card waiting list. Their lawyers had prepared 2 reams of paperwork during the process. It shouldn't be this difficult.
I thought this was more commonly known...
In terms of understanding browser history, The Facebook like button and Google's ad pixels and Chrome web browser are perhaps the biggest offenders. I'd argue that they were specifically created for the express purpose of collecting more user information - for better ad targeting and whatever else
>the ease with which really hardcore porn is increasingly accessable today means very young kids are able to get their first views of sex being extremely warped. This creates expectations of what sex is that many are likely uncomfortable with, but will perform because porn has made it 'the norm'.

Instead of blaming porn, easily accessible or not, we could mention the role of parents or even schools that could be more involved with sex education.

>I can't recall any ex-porn worker having anything good to say about their previous profession, instead what I've seen described comes across as a really shitty situation, where many turn to drugs in order to make it through 'shoots' and then again to forget.

Well, maybe if this population was not constantly vilified and ostracized, things would go better for them.
It may be specific to markets.

In Canada's national capital region (Ottawa/Gatineau), where I travel to frequently, I've used Uber extensively even though it's more expensive and less convenient (taxi is right in front of hotel, Uber I have to call and wait for), simply because all cars were in good shape and all drivers were polite and reasonable.

For some reason in that region, majority of taxi drivers:

a) Have cars that are falling apart. Not just significant rust on the car, but frequently wonky suspension, brakes, bearings, etc.

b) They strongly believe they are rally drivers, and traffic lights, pedestrians, let alone bicycles, are their mortal enemies.

Further, all Uber drivers were happy to be Uber drivers, and 70%+ of Taxi drivers were profoundly, existentially unhappy to be Taxi drivers, and would spend entirety of their ride letting me know why.

----

Now, in principle, just from theory and articles, I'd agree that Uber feels it is / should be more exploitative of drivers and less safe for riders. I personally just haven't found it that way in practice... :-/
> The burden of proof lies with the person who says publishing research and making it immediately available to those it directly affects is irresponsible. It is not.

Burden of proof? This isn't a court case. The overwhelming majority of users will never see a vulnerability write-up, do not have the education needed to understand such a writeup and - even if they saw the writeup and understood it - lack the tools and information to fix a vulnerability in proprietary software.

The vendor only factors in because they are the only one who can fix the issue.

A disclosure like this only helps hackers and the few consumers who are capable of hacking their own product. It hurts everyone else.

> The vendor releasing the patch (prior to publication of the paper) is just as much a drop of the 0day as publishing the paper is.

Who here is arguing against disclosure? We're arguing for responsible disclosure. Once the vendor distributes patch, consumers can actually do something to protect themselves. At that point, you can put the vendor on blast all you want without harming the consumers.
This is a stupid argument.

If it was a mandatory treatment that would be a problem.
If people want to be taller, go for it.

Like saying : "Oh we cant research cures/preventative procedures for downsyndrome because that might offend some people". Nonsense
I use this "feature". But generally I use the same number for all items because it is a pain to have to renumber everything.

maybe the solution is to renumber if a list uses all 1's, but leave it untouched if it has different out of order numbers.

So this gets renumbered:

1. item 1

1. item 2

1. item 3

But this does not:

1.

3.

7.
Just because they make a high salary, doesn't mean they're not exploited. Remember that wage fixing scheme where the big tech companies had been found to be suppressing wages by about 20% with mutual non solicits?
Does that give them the right to take a screenshot of it and send it out of the company?
Those Boston dynamics robots are expensive small and would be easy to take down with nets or other innovative counter measures.

For China Once your getting to the point of a riot its cheaper to bus in police / paramilitary from a distant province and have them kick some peoples heads in
> post blockchain era

There was a blockchain era?
What do you mean? The fix is to load a firmware update from the host computer.
This is why I never use drives from the same batch, ideally never the same model, and usually not the same manufacturer. It happens way too regularly that drives start failing around the same time.
That’s a lot of work. And shipping PCs is pretty risky and expensive. I’ve found buying the cards from Facebook Marketplace for a little over MSRP to be easier - although you’ll likely be supporting a scalper.
I take it you've never been to czech?
Key quote: "We have become extremely dependent on conda and conda-forge. We must think of their sustainability."

Then it talks through the steps being taken to reduce dependency on Anaconda Inc. While the company proved to have a lot of goodwill in the past, there's always future: it gets acquired, and the new owners might not be as well meaning as the current ones.
Oh, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn251007.aspx says specifically that you need professional, premium or ultimate.

Glad to learn I was wrong!
I for one love the title. It's eye-catching and controversial enough that it stands out, but it's also very relevant to the article, and the article itself is refreshing and something that I've never gave too much notice to. It's also nice to note that phones and tablets are transient items as our technology advances. Desktops are our workstations, but phones and tablets (and watches) will come and go as we discover and design even better interfaces.
"Unlike Django, you have an up do date free ebook..."

http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/
Ah, that explains it. I had just assumed it was a blog post, but it was actually supposed to be journalism. Through that lens, what you say makes perfect sense.
I'd recommend just getting on with it. MySQL is the obvious first choice as it's widespread and well documented. Get it running locally then install the MySQLdb package for Python.

Note that in practice SQL is a small subset of the languages accepted by MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle et al. Each defines it's own custom dialect but the concepts are mostly universal.

At first I would use the 'mysql' command-line utility so you can see exactly what's going on; this comes bundled with the installer. Have a think about how your data would fit into rows and columns, but don't over-analyse too much - it takes practice to start thinking in a relational way.

Create your tables and insert some example data. Now in Python connect to your local instance and try querying for some rows (hint: DictCursor is useful, albeit wasteful if you care about performance).

Now read about database normalization and transactions. You should be well on your way!
Rob Enderle is a troll, except when he's being a shill. Bah, I wish I has seen his name at the top before I wasted several minutes reading that dreck.
Instagram, Color, Path, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twitter, Quora to start.
Yes, it would essentially be a hosting company with multiple providers. That in it self is a single point of failure, but at least it would give some insurance against outage of the more physical kind.
There is nothing in Django that makes it inherently unsuitable for untrusted users. There are plenty of authentication / authorisation modules available for it such as OAuth2. Plus you can always customise existing code to fit your use case.

I mean we are programmers are we not? If something doesn't immediately fit your needs it might be easier to just write some extra code yourself rather than investing the (sometimes) significant amount of time required to become truly expert in another web framework.
I interpreted that as corporate governance, not US government.
There is an even better review at Notebook Check:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Update-Lenovo-ThinkPad-X...
Certificate Transparency[1], a public log that makes maliciously issued certificates easier to detect, will roll out in Chrome [for EVs to begin with] this spring. FF will probably follow.

It doesn't solve all CA problems, but it does soothe some.

[1] http://www.certificate-transparency.org/
> Similar for toilet paper in stores. Previously you spent 8-12 hours at work using your company's supply,

You've missed one possible mitigating factor. Many people save their more... erm... resource-demanding toilet activities for home. ;-)
Virginia Cyber Range / Blacksburg, VA / ONSITE / can support VISA / Software Developer (TypeScript/Node.js/Vue)

We're a state-funded organization attached to Virginia Tech (same benefits as provided through University). We provide a platform, community, and courseware to support cybersecurity education in the state's public K-12 and higher education. We leverage "the cloud" to spin up hundreds of thousands of virtual machines so students can practice real hacking offense and defense. By popular demand, we have created an offshoot organization to provide services to non-Virginia & private schools called the US Cyber Range.

A software developer on this team would work in an agile/scrum environment to help control access to the student servers with our own "light weight LMS". We have additional projects in the works to further support the platform and community around Cyber security education. The whole stack is typescript, and nearly everything is serverless (aside from student machines).

Typically 24 days vacation/year. Upfront sick leave. Retirement. Healthcare. Small organization (~13 FTE, ~6 are DevOps). Tuition waivers for continuing education a Virginia Tech.

More details/apply: https://www.virginiacyberrange.org/jobs
You need to sign an entire chain of HTML+JS+CSS+everything else, as you can build keylogger with CSS. Web if weird. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that one can build keylogger with some tricky font file. But it definitely should be possible to build an addon like that. Although it would require some good cryptographers as not to make a mistakes.

I don't think there are any browser standards for that. I guess that such a webapp is too niche and this threat is extremely niche, so very few people would care for it to be a general purpose standard.
Amazon's treatment of its physical laborers resembles a high tech version of early 20th century factory labor. It is frankly surprising they have not had some kind of modern equivalent of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire.
Some friends recently pointed me at:

https://covidbase.com/
I did think about this. There probably is some adjustment that needs to happen with the supply chains, but to some degree it's just changing the endpoints a little bit.
Pretty sure that would cover every essay.
Whatever syntactic means you use to specify long clauses with the current syntax you can reuse with my syntax.
How about helping competition to beat FAANG network effects by deregulating everything?

Increasingly, "more regulation" seems to be the go-to solution for any and all societal problems.

There seem to be no free market capitalists left on HN anymore :(
But the comment was not really about liabilities, but even in that context I think the history is still relevant.

Rewriting history the way we do in the context has all kinds of problems associated with it
It's not just you. The existence of everything from ad blockers to alternatives for the web are the product of people who want to escape from this commercial dystopia. Will it reshape the Internet? Undoubtedly not, but at least there are places to escape to even if it is for fleeting moments in time.
To my mind he's right on Google v. Oracle, too.
This is someone's personal property we're talking about. Should they forced to shuttle around drunken and incontinent people too? Why should anyone be coerced with being kicked off of a platform and losing (their possibly only) source of income because they don't want piss, shit, and vomit in their car?
Support or service subscriptions are probably your best bet.

The only software I have paid for on my Linux machines is IntelliJ.
It seems difficult for pornhub to do anything about this(from a hosting perspective), considering people also will upload completely consensual videos along the same lines (where the "victim" is just pretending to be passed out and is fully consenting).

Pornhub could make you sign an affidavit, but even then, it is relying on trusting the uploading party - if they are already breaking the law by uploading non consensual sexual assault videos, odds are they will probably check the affidavit box saying that everyone in the video has consented.
I definitely has issues with non multithreaded workloads, my guess is the building renderer.
Ah, I didn't expect a response. Nice.

I totally missed the part where you're willing to trust the server providing your Javascript (but not the storage node). That is a much more feasible design. Thanks for clarifying.

With respect to generating keys: PuTTY uses a blank rectangle and says "please randomly mouse over this". There's a simpler solution, though: since you're willing to trust a server, you can just let that generate a key for you.

Again, thanks for the clarification. You still have some chicken-and-egg problems to overcome, and you'll need to convince people to code in this way, but I'm happy to see that the basic design isn't as impossible as I'd feared.
i don't know if i'll have time to finish anything, but if you would like to send it to me (email in profile), i'd be interested in looking it over and trying it out.
It was just a debate, and one that seemed fairly well-reasoned to me. A back-bencher (represents a local constituency and nothing more) put the quest forward, and was told "We believe in an open lightly regulated internet. [...] Government have to be wary about regulating or passing legislation".

If you're interested, you can read the transcript verbatim, free of tabloid scandal, at http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2010-11-23c.235.0
How is it a glass cliff? She didn't work at Yahoo and was not promoted into that role to take a fall. She was offered a job there and took the job. Her choice. Not the same as being pushed in any way shape or form. At all. Separately impossible to feel sorry for someone at that level of sophistication knowing full well that the job is not going to be easy. People take chances all the time when the upside is high enough. Of course she could have stayed where she was or taken an easier job.
the transition/duality of particles and waves is something that, despite having heard about it many times, I'm still unable to grasp intuitively
Is this even legal to sell in Europe? Looks like it is designed to slice objects on collision.
I'm fairly sure you also used to be able to put bullets in blockquotes, right?

e.g.

> * My quoted bullet point

I can't double-check it now as all my workspaces have converted
I don't think that's inherently true. What's required is trust that one hasn't fiddled the numbers, and scarcity of some token is just one way of accomplishing that. Here's a monetary system, not unlike bitcoin:

All transactions occur in the market square, at the Town Ledger. Everyone's balance is public, and every transaction is witnessed by everyone else lining up for their turn at the Ledger. Everyone keeps an eye on their balance and the balance of a few friends. The mayor locks up the Ledger at night of course, but discrepancies tend to get the mayor lynched so she keeps a very close eye on it.

The system started by tracking barters, but it got too confusing to track all the different things, so it was agreed to simply write down a number equivalent to the trade's value in chickens as determined by average exchange rate over all previous transactions - nothing special about chickens, they were just a very commonly traded good which made for well-defined exchange rates.

After a few chicken runs, the villagers agreed to abandon the chicken standard in favor of shiny meteorites that fell from the sky once every ten years. They were technically slightly inflationary, but people lost them from time to time as well so it kind of evened out. Anyway, there weren't many of them around; most transactions were in fractions of a shiny meteor-pebble. It was just a convenient reference.

And nobody had to mine anything.
You’re forgetting - there just aren’t that many people who want to live in Montreal. That keeps costs down significantly.
Any thoughts on the value proposition if/when >= 64 GB RAM will be available on apple silicon? Even if the chips are relatively slow, the extra RAM could be worth it.