jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Can you define "Plastered"? From what I can see, of the most recent 35 commits, there exist seven emoji, plus one that would have been but was a typo. Also, none of them are unicorns or rainbows or volcanoes.

I'm wondering if you're referring to a different project that you've seen and were just reminded of it, or if you're exaggerating because you saw something you didn't like.

Also, using visual indicators is nothing new; Jenkins uses thunderstorms and suns to denote build status, and marketing pages are often full of images, icons, and iconography.

The reality is, the younger generation communicates differently than the older generation, and different subcultures communicate differently from each other. Maybe you take someone less seriously because of the way they communicate, but that's on you, not on them.
Trademarks are protected to prevent fraud and impersonation of other companies. So we don't want to accidentally mistake a e.g. gougle product as a google one. That was the very legal intention of trademark laws.

In the case of postwoman, it's kind of hard to imagine anyone would mistake it for postman. So it's unlikely postman would win a lawsuit against it.
Hopefully the Australian government is not yet too subverted by the Chinese to fail to shield the ex-spy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Invasion_(book)
> There is a federal law that makes it a felony to violate constitutional rights under color of law.

Never heard of that. Link?
Yes, and in that situation the majority of my peers have decided to side with Jenkins and seem to have a strong emotional reaction to the Hudson lead, Oracle and Sonatype.
No it's not. If I was brute forcing a password these days, I'd use the google ngram database, and "this is fun" and pretty much any other memorable phrase would fall pretty quickly.
I have no idea what Rails actually does, but I recently wrote a web application for a school project in Common Lisp, using just libraries (Hunchentoot, LML2 and Postmodern mostly) that aren't really meant to work together in any significant way, and I can't imagine the programming of the application would've been made any easier by using any sort of "framework". And I only wrote one macro if I remember correctly. So perhaps in some sense Lisp doesn't need "rails", good libraries are enough. Anecdotal, I know.
Weren't they all banned in the US a few years ago? Illegal even for banks to process transactions to them.
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Personally I'm against all violence, but here's a story.

4 years ago a voice recording was leaked, where our democratically elected president (F. Gyurcsany), who's been in power for 4 years, said in an internal party-meeting that "we fucked the country up really bad".

As a result, tens of thousands of people, including me, went out on the streets to protest and demand he resign. A very small fraction of people (a few 10s, mostly soccer huligans) started burning cars and breaking windows. Police responded of course, and shot tear gas and rubber ammo at the crowd, I remember a tear gas canister almost hit me on the head. The mayhem continued for a couple of days, plus we had another similar situation a couple of weeks later on a nat'l holiday. (The damage caused by the huligans to fellow citizen's and gov't property was probably around a few million dollars.)

In the end the president did not resign, which I thought is outrageous, but with police shooting at mostly peaceful protesters, including members of parliament from the opposing party being hit in the head with rubber bullets (not pretty), public opinion shifted, so eventually, 2 years later he did resign, and then in the 2010 election his party went from ~45% support to ~15% support. So overall, the protests and ensuing mayhem worked in the sense that it, and the goverment's response to it shifted public opinion.

So what happened after?

The then-opposing party went from ~45% support to >66% support, they won the elections a couple of months ago, which is important because in our system if you have >66% you can basically pass any law (2/3 majority).

So we were all pretty hopeful that the then-opposition, now ruling party would use its huge popular support and power to do great things.

The verdict is not out yet, but it seems that these guys, although they're very much different from their predecessors, aren't that good either, and unfortunately with their 2/3 parliament majority they can wreak parliamentary havoc (eg. they just changed the constitution to fit their short term political goals). A friend of mine more knowledgable in politics said that our system is basically not designed for a single party to have a 2/3 majority.

Final twist: the then-president F. Gyurcsany is actively working on his comeback =)

So, overall I do think that sometimes you gotta go out to the streets and protest, because it does have an effect, but as the above example shows, it's all pointless if you don't have good politicians to take over.
Checking when an update was posted strikes me as being easier to automate than checking photo contents.
That may help Golden Modz - in the appeal, the Ninth Circuit said it wasn't copyright infringement:

Were we to hold otherwise, Blizzard — or any software copyright holder — could designate any disfavored conduct during software use as copyright infringement, by purporting to condition the license on the player's abstention from the disfavored conduct. The rationale would be that because the conduct occurs while the player's computer is copying the software code into RAM in order for it to run, the violation is copyright infringement. This would allow software copyright owners far greater rights than Congress has generally conferred on copyright owners.
The animal covers are great branding by O'Reilly... it subconsciously signals me that the book is of high quality due to experience with other high quality "animal cover" books. It takes away the friction of a random cover on a book that you are interested in and having to do research to figure out if the book is any good.
You combine these tools into a GUI app? Right now, I am working on a feature that compare corpus size of my note database over time.

At the base of it, my notetaking apps sits on top of a git repository and markdown files.
...but using specialized PD software in plain sight like this more or less defeats its point, no?
I suspect the internal decisionmaking will have decided that there are already components of the car which are not double-redundant. For example, if the front left wheel falls off, you're gonna crash. It's simply designed to happen rarely enough that it doesn't have a substantial impact on safety.

This powersteering unit now has a lot of field data about failures - they have 3M+ power steering units on the road.

So they may now have the confidence to put the powersteering into that category of "single redundant, but sufficiently reliable to be acceptable". Whereas before they had that data, it wasn't.
I think bots are just handy to train people/ to have fun against rather than get obliterated….
If we all just keep this story alive, maybe enough people are convinced to seek for alternatives. Then we don't have to wait for Facebook to pull the plug, it will just drain by itself.
I agree. There was an article recently about the new mayor of NYC being caught eating fish even though he’s claimed many times to be vegan. He was complaining that the “food police” was harassing him over something trivial.

My reaction was the same as to this news. I don’t care if Tesla made a small change, and I don’t care what Adams eats. I care about transparency and honesty.
EU producers are already "pushed out" by US trade barriers, on things like cheese and aeroplanes. Does it matter? No. Most USAians have never eaten proper cheese, and they're not interested in buying EU planes - they make their own.
That's of course perfectly fine, but the stock will re-rate to a P/E of 15 - as it has for Facebook - and long time average stock price growth shrinks from 15%+/yr to 5%/yr - which will suddenly halve the compensation of the staff, who suddenly realize that stock- or option-based comp can go down as well as up...

(Of course you could then also draw the conclusion that a company in maintenance mode doesn't need 45,000 people earning half a million a pop, but can make do with paying half as much to half as many -- but that might be a bridge too far for a corp that is still on course to earn $60 billion EBITDA a year...)
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> Peer reviews are not available, as the Editors completed an expedited review using peer reviews from another journal

What peer reviews dismissed most of the study? Is it more than some blogger disagreeing with the outcome?
They usually do send out e-mails about it. Maybe there was a way to have opted out before they announced it.
hn rerun. Orignal thread with comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059985
Yeah, people are going to get more Windows licenses, but they won't necessarily be buying them. If that's their aim it may backfire.
for serious audiobook use, it's pretty crude.
I don't have much MySQL experience, but have lots of experience with other RDBMSs. Large restores take a long time no matter what. They shouldn't take days, but since we don't know how large the events table was we have no way of knowing if a faster restore was possible. A hot restore which it sounds like what they are doing may take longer by simple fact that it's restoring while the table is in use.

And DROPs (or truncates) are almost always used if the goal is to remove all the data in a table like you would want if rebuilding the entire system. Something like 100M record transaction is not generally considered a good thing.
This could use some concurrent data plots showing, say, the number of new bits being received (by anyone). Would be especially useful when comparing the same visualization for traditional file transfers, to show what's special about BitTorrent.
This is almost certainly a pipe dream, but I would love it if my bank started PGP signing (and encrypting if I provide my public key) all of their email correspondance with me.
> Both empires probably had to treat their subject populations a bit better in the presence of a geopolitical alternative.

That's not quite sane: you're (1) placing this as an alternative to a full out nuclear war, and (2) placing the US' and the USSR's influence at equal footing.
I have never followed a Facebook link from Whatsapp because of this. Ironically,same parent company.
I believe the scientific term is "a metric fuckton of people". Just look up any stories from people who had their apps featured on the store.

I think the reason for the distribution is just due to the terrible discovery on the Appstore/Google Play. It's completely hopeless to rely on users stumbling across your app on the store, and the only real way to get users is by advertising/paid user acquisition. The problem with that of course is that you need significant funding to run a successful ad campaign, and "the little guy" is not likely to have that funding nor the knowledge/experience.

And of course just like websites have learned how to game the Google search algorithm, they can do the same for the app stores, which the top publishers certainly have done.
I'm reminded of one of my favorite music videos: https://youtu.be/fTH71AAxXmM
Bitcoin as a concept would be attacked by governments under even the best of circumstances. I don't know why the major players in it have to be so dumb and/or unscrupulous as to draw this level of negative attention to it.

As for Mt. Gox itself, its principle(s) will be aggressively prosecuted and sentenced. The New York US attorney behind the subpoena is Preet Bharara. Preet is responsible for shutting down online poker and obtaining the longest sentence for insider trading ever handed down, among other such dubious "accomplishments". He has never met a camera he didn't love, and will take the opportunity to thrash not just Mt Gox but also Bitcoin itself in the media.
Do you have any actual complaints?
If by outdoors you mean coffee shops and so on, it's fine. But yeah in the open it is bad, like most cell phones etc. I don't consider that a common use case. If you do field work, get some shade behind/over you. Plenty of reasons for that.
Opentype makes this impossible. A glyph has an index of a UINT16, so you can't fit all of the ~143k Unicode characters.

There are some attempts at font families to cover the majority of characters. Like Noto ( https://fonts.google.com/noto/fonts ), broken out into different fonts for different regions.

Or, Unifont's ( http://www.unifoundry.com/ ) goal of gathering the first 65536 code points in one font, though it leaves a lot to be desired if you actually use it as a font.
And Apple Pay is much harder to trace (except for Apple and your bank I guess?) than just using a plastic static card.

I can't count the amount of times I've lost or been robbed physical bills. Never once have money siphoned out of my online bank. I don't use cash anymore, I'm all digital, and still use a VPN to watch porn.

Turns out different people have different threat models. My threat model includes my neighbour, my ISP (to a certain extent), my employer (again, to a certain extent), private companies like Google or Facebook, burglars, thieves, and scammers.

It doesn't include the NSA, the government, the NSO group, banks, or North Korean government-sponsored hackers. If you think you can defend yourself against the NSA, lol. Good luck.
As I understand it, the Poly Network hacker found it impossible to transfer his stolen Tether due to those coins being frozen at Tether HQ.
Personal development is fine and yes, the Peace Corps is incredible for that, but only one thing you mentioned is beneficial to the host country: money.

If pushing through grant money is the volunteer's primary talent, they can just as easily do so without spending all that useful money on plane tickets and training.

The other issue is that money by itself doesn't solve problems. You have to use it to solve real issues. But the Peace Corps doesn't fund research into what the issues are, because that's expensive and unsexy to anyone touting what the volunteers are up to. So you get grants to fund construction of libraries when everyone in the country can already go to an Internet cafe and read Wikipedia.
You can use AWS IAM (https://aws.amazon.com/iam/) to help prevent something like this. AFAIK you can create a sub-account that only has access to specific resources, such as S3, and use the keys from that sub-account.

I haven't used it much, but it looks like you can be very specific in what you allow, such as only allowing access to a single bucket with S3, or a single domain with SES.
The same should apply for the baseball game they are watching.

The less able players should get 4 strikes, the better players maybe 2.

Correct?

I’m familiar with the illustration you referred to. It’s sad how so few miss the fact that the kids are trying to watch a Competition! And, if the rules were as set forth above, the game wouldn’t be worth watching in the first place.
I am always amused by comments like this. You have no idea what development practices they follow (neither do I) but it's hilarious to read your tone.

GTA has achieved tremendous success both as an entertaining game and as a business. It's enjoyed by millions of people and generates billions in revenue. As per this article, it has startup problems (which don't seem to actually really hurt the overall product but I agree sound annoying) but the bigger picture is: it's a huge success.

So - Rockstar has nailed it. What exactly is your platform for analyzing/criticizing their processes or even having a shot of understanding what they are? What have you build that anyone uses? (not saying you haven't, but.. have you been involved with anything remotely close to that scale?)

And if not, whence he high horse?
Wait, so people not only still play, but also actually pay for MUDs?

OTOH, I managed to find the price list and seems to be quite heavily pay to win...
I remember doing this to create a private online session (i.e. no other users).
Oh hey, Hacker News! This is my post.

I’m not strictly allergic to proving that I live in a certain place, so long as the evidence is securely deleted afterward. I’m very opposed to the idea that they can share all of those records with any of their partners or sponsors as they see fit. For example, “proof of residency 3” includes financial or medical records. Suppose that Large Corporation donates $1,000 to Little League. Per the privacy policy, Little League could share those financial or medical records with them. Nuts to that.
mia.bet?? omg is this for real? lol real randomness on blockchain generated by a hamster
This is really cool - how did you develop the background knowledge to solve this? I'm trying to learn more about low-level stuff and I would have no idea how to approach solving a problem like this
>He is captivating to a certain audience, but so are televangelists. That's the whole crux of the problem. If you recognize it as being entertainment and an aesthetic/subculture, that's fine. But Peterson is presented as a leading thinker to people, which is a problem. Despite what I've written, Peterson isn't even someone I'm specifically interested in, it's more about the underlying issue of which he is a prominent example.

I think that's a reasonable point. I'd still maintain that his message is useful and his ideas are, imo, interesting and illuminating. I haven't thought of JP-televangelists comparison before so I'd need some time to mull it over. But in my personal experience I listened to Peterson for a while, internalised what I thought was useful and moved on. Whether televangelists have the same effect - I don't know.

>Consider the following: during the Žižek debate, it became clear that not only was the Communist Manifesto the only Marxist text he had read, but he could not accurately recall some of its main points. And it's a really short pamphlet! That means that Peterson had expounded at length on Marxism, made it a central point of his critique and philosophical brand, while having almost no knowledge or understanding of it. Even with the most charitable interpretation, that goes way beyond just occasionally making mistakes due to a discursive style.

I wish I had more knowledge on Marxism/leftists school of thoughts right now to have a more interesting discussion on this, but I don't. It does look bad on Peterson that he was so ill prepared for that debate.

Having said that, we cannot not say that there isn't a cultural shift happening in the academia and in our societies at large. Traditional cultural norms are being thrown out and in some extreme cases even shamed(not saying that's a 100% bad thing, but imo such things must not be done rashly), instead of bringing equality there are some attempts of inversing the inequality, and people are getting cancelled/silenced/fired/deplatformed in some cases simply for having a different opinion. Whether this is Marxism or not is really irrelevant, what's important is that we note these changes and act to mitigate them, and I believe this is what Peterson was referring to as "cultural Marxists". It might be embarrassing if he got the name wrong, but it doesn't change WHAT he's talking about.
So I just checked this from my PC and indeed uBlock Origin had blocked 3 google-analytics.com links. TIL I suppose.

Unfortunately I cannot edit the OP anymore so I'll provide the original text in this comment

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A corporation is a contractual construct. People can form one voluntarily in the absence of the government. With the exception of limited liability for tort - which should be repealed - every right that corporations are bestowed, like legal personhood in the context of contract law, can be fully justified by free market principles.
If I'm in control, i plan to take a nice deep scuba dive, somewhere warm, with blue water.

I would prefer to avoid a department keeping me hooked up for stats and fees.

Wishing us all a pleasant death! With life being what it is, even some dignity while dying is a great gift.
>I think it’s worth mentioning that most of these problems only occur at a scale that only top 1% of companies will reach.

If you're talking about 1% of all software companies, then it's not true. You don't need to be B2C company with XXX millions users to have a lot of data.

>PostgreSQL is still the best general purpose database in my opinion, and you can then consider using something else for parts of your application if you have special needs.

Well, yes, you're already talking about one mitigation strategy to not get to this scaling problems.
And even after the masks became mandatory in shops and the like, the government never issued instructions on proper mask use.

They could have bombared us through TV, billboards, online. But nope.
I went from using Singularity to bundle scientific tools for HPC cluster useage at my university straight into admining OpenShift at my current employer and I have to say it was not a smooth transition. Felt like a complete idiot for a good amount of time. But after spending a few months with it I’ve really gotten to see the power and use for the k8s infrastructure and its value as a tool/platform.

And honestly, I’m digging it. It’s really cool stuff and once you get developers writing production services and applications that would otherwise have been virtualized on dedicated systems on it, they love it to for their speed of delivery and development. But we’re also managing hundreds of projects with multiple applications/services with high availability, so OCP/Kube makes sense for us.
I think the thing missing in this is all the low-quality questions that end up getting closed due to lack of solvability. One of the objectives of SO's rules is to avoid flame wars and ambiguous answers.

Imagine the question : "What is the best templating engine to use for Django?" This question doesn't have an answer, because it's so dependent on use case (even that statement is controversial). So if it's on SO and not closed, you'll get a bunch of answers that are contradictory, and people flaming in the comments.

I think the main objective for the SO team is to have people land on the site and _have their answer right there_. By removing possibilities of these off-topic questions, you're less likely to land on answers that help your specific thing.

End result is "when I land on SO I get an answer every time" instead of "when I land on SO sometimes I get a flame war". For branding, at least, I think it works in their favor to close those questions
And that right there is the crux of the issue. Short term thinking at its best.
I would venture to guess the pressure to release an immature product is not dictated by the PM but from the highest level of management. The PM was just a conduit of pressure from the business side. A good PM would have the backbone to say no and shield the development teams from the release pressure. The technically clueless is not a single person but the whole group.