jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wow! Tim Ferriss is on a roll today...
It certainly seems a lot more secure than re-using the same password all over the place.
Every week you should be allowed to upvote something twice. Conspiracy is pervasive in life. As far as I can tell (and I provide no evidence to back this up), "conspiracy theories" are often correct but lacking the direct evidence to do anything about. Those who discount something as a "conspiracy theory" are usually (a) naive, (b) like being "right", (c) personally benefiting from the situation, or (d) going to find a way to benefit from it.

pay people to add backdoors

This is hard if you have the money? Done.

tell DARPA

When the FBI spooks go to the military contrator parties, who else do you think is there? If you know that something is tainted, you tell people who might return the favor.

start a marketing arm to convince people to use it

Why? It's free crypto. Done.

EDIT: A proper response to this kind of situation: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2006694
> It's pretty clear the chief intended on showing the writer how well-adjusted he wasn't

I'm guessing the second 'he' refers to the letter writer and not the chief. It's a little unclear from the sentence.

This seemed like a very well written and thoughtful rebuttal to some of the concerns in the letter. I didn't get a tone that it was showing the letter's author they weren't 'well adjusted'.

> [..] this after many protesters doing similar things elsewhere had been violent and criminal.

If the protesters in Tennessee weren't being violent/criminal, why compare them to the protests in some other cities? It was mentioned that the highways were kept open after the first night.

Sounds like the whole thing went pretty peacefully. If letting the protestors close an onramp or two the first day was the price for avoiding a riot or revolt that may have been an excellent decision.
Yeh right I belive you just as torrents are used just for dowloading ISO's of distros.
I find it hard to believe this is true! Maps or GPS coordinates, or it didn't happen!
Jan 09. A while ago.
The list as a whole was strong on denotations, but weak on connotations. It doesn't answer the general question of why you would use "jejune" rather than "naive". Then again, it is very hard to capture these subtle word connotations by using more words. These words aren't just a great way to capture a particular idea and look sophisticated, they're also a great way to expose yourself as a poser not just by misusing a word entirely, but by using the word where the denotation holds but the connotation is off.
"I grew up with a father who successfully launched his own self-funded business and made it look easy."

Bullshit, I grew up with such a father and he definitely did not make it look easy. From the insane time requirements and the difficulties and tricks of negotiations, I definitely think I could not do it, as a nerdy computer geek.
> The teacher's pass/fail percentage is one of the criteria used to determine whether a teacher gets any more classes, and does not take into account students failed for plagiarism.

That is fucked up; all the schools I've ever attended require expulsion, not failure, for proven cases of plagarism. Expelled students are basically immediately expunged from the records of any classes they were enrolled in at the time, as if they had never registered for them.
But the first marriage based green card is temporary; it expires in 3 years. That doesn't mean that even if you get a divorce you'll get thrown out, but it certainly increases the risk.

Background: I'm a citizen, and my wife when through the process when we got married six years ago. She became a citizen a couple of years ago.
Part of the problem is the time spent on administration (marking them, tracking them, etc) for all the redone papers. Definitely the worst part of teaching.
There's also this -- antivuvuzelafilter.com -- a noise canceling MP3 for ~$4.00.

EDIT: Yup, you're right. Wasn't until I read more into the details did I notice what they were doing. Killing the hyperlink to post http://isophonics.net/content/whats-all-about-vuvuzela instead.
Not every item scales. Land in contended areas edges in on a zero sum game. Political power correlates substantially with wealth, and so wealth distribution affects that too.
The capstone project for my class had a teacher that required we used Blackboard as a code repository system instead of me setting up Github or beanstalk. She also asked that we use stored procedures for MySQL, which no one was familiar with and would take way longer. The code was horrible, the design was ugly, and half the class was spent designing by committee. It was all for an app that should have taken a couple of weeks to build (it tracked absences for the school of business).
- the enemy and equipment art is great

- the journal feature is fun, I wish more games had something like this. you might be able to introduce quests/statusrewards around information contained in the journal (like GoblinCrusher --- punishes at least three goblins/day)

- would prefer to choose a character name (and perhaps an avatar) than to use my own name and image

- too many refreshing pages, my favorite part of the game is the play button, because it's fast, and all of the action happens without pages refreshing

- hard to tell what was equipped / how to equip something, I kept clicking the image because I interpreted the actual button as a decorative bullet)

- 1 action every fifteen minutes is not enough, (I have to stop playing 30 seconds after I finish the tutorial??) This is probably where you are losing people. The speed decrease really threw me off.

- the battle news is an interesting feature, though with the current content I'd definitely want to set the default to skip the play by play and just give me the result

- could not understand the battle system, what do the numbers mean, and how does the max come into play?

- one of the top results on Google for LevynLight was for an autoplaying macro.

- initially thought the game name was pronounced Levy N Light when I saw it as one word
Why? I'd rather have an employee who was the best at the job I need them for than an employee who is good at tweeting.
Let's examine killer apps that actually were a threat to a platform.

Microsoft Office - At one time, Apple would've been very unhappy if Microsoft took this away from the Mac. MS Office is very dominant in its niche, almost a monopoly.

Adobe Photoshop - Photoshop is a defacto standard. There were other image manipulation programs, but only one considered suitable for professional use. There are times when Adobe could've really hurt Apple by giving the Mac release short shrift.

Metrowerks - At one point, the only way to write code for the Mac.

All of Apple's recent actions are consistent with the intent to prevent another monopoly on their turf. They do not want someone else to exclusively control a killer app on their new platform, because when this happened in the past, they were at someone else's mercy.
This is a capitalist country, which means that personal property is sacred and cannot be taken without due process of law. Imagine if the President could just take over whatever property he wanted as long as it was for "national security." The abuses of power would be incredible! Point is, Obama neither has, nor should have the power to repossess the operation.
The airport check-in security process.
Ugh. I agree with your reasoning, but that seems like it will inevitably lead to companies implementing the kind of DRM nobody wants where the software has to phone home every time it starts up, just so they can enforce their license terms.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ipv4+*+run+out+by|i...

Because we've been almost out of ipv4 addresses forever and nobody has an accurate prediction as to when it will really start to matter.
I'm surprised to hear that American bottles aren't recycled, though I also didn't realize we are just washing ours (canada) and re-using them. I thought they were broken down, crushed up and re-made.
Have you ever tried to use Windows as a limited user? It's a nightmare. It's "supported" but I can't imagine they actually expect people to use it that way.

Why is the first account you create an admin account by default. If they wanted the use-case that you imply is supported, they would have you create an administrator account and then would ask you to create a regular user to use day-to-day.

Or they would more fully embrace the su/sudo routine that linux uses.
Abusing cname is an old trick.

You used to have domain.com and declare ns1.domain.com pointing to your host so it would show domain.com instead of host.com
> DropBox

What's wrong with DropBox and why in the world would you include them with Uber? They had a modest $18m operating loss on $428m in revenue last quarter. They have essentially zero red ink concerns right now and their business is still expanding (over the prior three years sales will have increased almost 100% through this fiscal year). Further they have a billion dollars in cash to go with their small trickle of red ink.

DropBox could roll into profitable status in any given quarter and going forward, if they wanted to, just by very gently nudging operating expenses. They don't need to, there's basically no benefit to their market valuation in doing that (not until or unless they start spitting off a lot of profit). They're in a position where they're clearly going to let sales growth gradually lift their operating condition to profitable, I'd guess within four quarters or so at their rate of improvement.

A lot of companies follow the DropBox approach of allowing sales growth and margin improvement to overtake the operating losses gradually. That is especially desirable when pulling back on expenses might harm sales growth and there is no good reason to do it (ie no cash crunch).

See: Salesforce, ServiceNow, Palo Alto Networks, Twitter and Square for recent prominent examples of how this works. It's not uncommon.
Your chart is earnings per share, it’s also from June. That has increased because of all the stock buybacks following the new tax law. Total earnings are down.

MarketWatch - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-sp-500-is-in-its-first...

CNBC - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/06/24/ana...
if their audience blocks ads this isn’t going to help, it’ll only make people mad. I know I’m upset.
I've not seen it obscured. Its difficult to read a person's mind to know I'd they forgot to cancel or actively remembered they had a subscription.
Physical devices already do this: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dnsop/WCVv57IizUSjNb2R...

At least a browser might have a user setting to disable it.
When I think about "technologies of oppression" the first thing that came to mind was not AI, but encryption in the form of DRM and walled gardens --- of which Doctorow has written a lot about already.
When the street gets out a recession has started. Probably still a good time to get in, nonetheless
I don’t think that $29 is too expensive for a webapp.
I’m a bit worried about paying any amount for a product I don’t own and which could disappear overnight. When buying traditional software that we install, even if the company goes out of business, we still have the software we paid for. It’s obviously not the case for a webapp and given how new your product is, this might refrain potential customers.

As for free vs paying feature, I’d only give the time taken to complete the exercise and the wpm, and suggest upgrading to the paying version to have more stats.
I don't get all the fuzz about that. I've been using Tree Style Tab [1] on Firefox since ages and I think it does the work better.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/5890/
It's a good idea to create a new browser that updates automatically every few weeks like chrome rather than IE, which normally can't update automatically because of corporate policies.
Basically, yeah. I have no need for patching without downtime (not really in the scope of lux anyway), I just don't like how the upgrade method tends to be either keeping track of development through patches or starting over from a clean config or other methods. I greatly enjoy the automated approach binary distributions have.
It's created by Ronnie Roller[1] the same guy that created ihackernews[2].

ihackernews is the best way to view news.yc on a smart phone. And viewtext is incorporated there to ensure that pages are readable.

I've had very good experiences with both. Thanks Ronnie.

[1] http://ronnieroller.com/

[2] http://ihackernews.com/
http://envato.com is an Australian company with employees in Melbourne and about the same number of remote staff (many in the US, I work for them).

As for some other examples there is http://sitepoint.com and http://redbubble.com
This grammatical criminal could go "sans" a few apostrophes -- "thanks to it's fun, child-like appearance."
All I can offer is another anecdote, not a more recent study, but in the self-defense courses I've taken over the past couple years, my instructor has stressed that a shooting is always a gamble.

"The only way to ensure instantaneous incapacitation is to destroy enough important brain matter. Do you want to aim at a 2-inch square target on your opponent's fast-moving head, or do you want to take your chances aiming for center mass?"

So I don't know if this instructor is an oddball or if he represents the current popularly held wisdom, but this instructor at least acknowledges that the effects of gunshot wounds are extremely unpredictable, which lines up with that study.
Thanks for your post! http://swombat.com/2010/12/21/startup-fundraising-story
Total billionaire net-worth in the USA is $4 trillion so 1 covid relief would fully tap them out. People are horrible at reasoning about large numbers they think these people have real money compared to the government.
Usury, which is to say lending at interest, will inevitably in aggregate lead to a tiny minority owning virtually everything. This is obvious to anyone who has basic high school math and understands that interest compounds geometrically and wages grow linearly at best.
Yes especially the ones who still had to file in the US as well.

That's one of the things I never understood, the US is only country im aware of where you have to file if you're a citizen, even if you're a resident overseas.
Any person who has seen a youth having an asthma attack acknowledges how disturbing it might be. One of the basic symptoms of an attack is endeavoring to breathe in or hurling for air. This may or not be joined by hacking or wheezing and a stomach hurt. The signs regularly fall apart.

Freezing during quite a crucial time is the most extremely horrendous thing you can do. Your child makes sure to be currently unnerved and needs someone moderating and supporting who can help them with calming down and supervise their unwinding.
That test is 60% city. On the highway at 75 mph, the Bolt would likely drop to 200 or a little below. The Model Y LR AWD does ~240 under similar conditions.
That probably explains why there is a process to declare someone has passed away.

I used it in a similar circumstance, years ago.
The trial still requires full name, email address, and for me to create a password.

The docsend video requires an email address, and rejects "a@example.com" as fake, so it wants a real email address, which implies to me you want to collect it for marketing / lead generation purposes.

Is there any reason you can't put a one or two minute "example" meditation video on YouTube?
it was easy to reason about. It was basically a canvas and UI components wired with callbacks. It didn't have the state management stuff of Redux but it was dead simple to reason about anyway despite everyone rolling out their own "state" objects.

But the whole idea of mutating UI by changing the DOM via a script is a pile of needless complexity for 99% of the apps out there. A simple canvas with GUI components that fire callbacks would be way easier for most developers to work with.
"I think people can be good programmers and poor software architects at the same time. Sounds like that's what has happened in this case: brilliant abstractions that are misused and result in a buggy product and less productive team."

That's fair. I guess if by good programmer we mean, fluency with the language and algorithms / abstractions /types etc then perhaps they qualify. I really meant something more like "software engineer" ie. someone who can architect a simple, sane, working solution adhering to the usual best practices of good software construction. Maybe there's a missing piece between being a good coder vs scaling this knowledge up to the application level. The latter is indeed a much rarer skill and too often, people without it influence major decisions.
https://nsarchive.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/pages-from-chu...

“Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to
pinpoint potential trouble-makers and neutralize them…”

I think I heard a shot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wauzrPn0cfg
Buying in person links your address to your physical person, getting good images, possibly your address by following you, even perhaps getting a DNA sample. That seems somewhat traceable.

It seems much better to send cash via mail, much more anonymously (watch out for cameras near post boxes and use gloves).
Voting is a basic right now, but apparently it wasn't then. That might tell you something.

But if you really can't get the point without a more specific analogy, try doctors. Or going to college.
This is the easiest for people to fabricate and it makes it harder to discern good people from bad, especially when you can't actually look at the product of that experience.
You can also add in the fact the war was incredibly unpopular. Considering the mainstream media coverage at the time (I don't recall a positive article the entire war) it's hard to imagine he still had no idea about what we were doing there with all of the negative media coverage.

His naivety was his undoing in many ways.
> is it their responsibility to make sure he gets a sufficient amount of sleep?

No, its their responsibility to foster a workplace that doesn't lead people to die from overwork. Everybody else already does this.
I remember when I went to interview to get into a computer repair class at the nearby trade school. Right before the interview a girl walked in and the instructor (who was herself a woman) immediately said "Oh my god, a girl!" (Or something else that was similarly disparaging. It's hard to remember now.)

After the interview I asked why she said that, and her reply was something to the effect of 'I have to prepare her for how the boys will act.'. It was a significant factor in my decision not to go.
I really enjoyed the discussion about "Trade Dress" as protected IP, that was something I had vague notions about and now have less vague notions about (the story about how the Coke bottle shape is protected was new to me)

I also find it somewhat amusing to compare the 'Apple in the dead pool' under Scully vs the current Apple. Few companies have made such epic reversals in their fortunes.
Initially, the container is filled with water (shown with white) and a layer of gas above (green). The reaction generates dissolved gases (red) on the electrodes. As soon as the concentration of dissolved gas reaches a critical value, it is converted into bubbles (green) that rise and merge with the existing layer of gas.
It's 2.67 USD for a transaction to be confirmed quickly as of right now.
You misunderstand how the current economic system is built and functions. Bitcoin isn't the equivalent of VISA. Bitcoin is the equivalent of the fedwire.
> The upvote/downvote system turns every thread into a popularity contest.

Agreed. I've been experimenting lately with ordering all threads by "old" by default and using CSS rules to hide comment points. It can make things much more interesting, as all you see are people talking in chronological order, and screw the fake point popularity contest. My next step might be hiding the age of each comment (or obfuscating it when <1 day), so I stop overfocusing on recent comments and stop thinking "I would like to reply to this, but the comment is 17 hours old so nevermind..."
Hey all! This is something we've been working on for a while now. It's the future of native cloud storage on macOS.

I run ExpanDrive (www.expandrive.com). We use a derivative of macFUSE (https://osxfuse.github.io/) on macOS.

Third party kernel extensions on macOS are on the way out.

On M1 machines any third party kernel extension requires a reboot into recovery mode, lowering the security settings, and then finishing the install.

This is a terrible and unfriendly model for users (by design). This is the primary reason these Google/Box/etc aren’t shipping M1 versions of their software.

But that’s okay, they’ve got something better they’re working on. Just keeping it a little quiet right now since it’s not 100% done.

The replacement for apps like Google & Box Drive (and everyone else) is their new File Provider framework (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fileprovider), which they quietly launched but didn’t publicize at all. It’s basically a technology that enables something like Dropbox Smart Sync (project infinite) built directly into macOS fully managed by APFS.

It’s a pretty big departure from the macFUSE style interfaces we've been using for years now. File Provider apps are userspace extensions that work with with placeholder files and on-demand hydration of remote files by the system via APFS. It’s a pretty cool framework, but pretty new (and a little raw).

Box/Google/Dropbox/Microsoft will all eventually be using it, but the rollout has been slow.

The whole macOS File Provider project is an off-shoot of the iCloud drive and iOS file provider projects, but with one key component they’ve added called the replicated extension that has an apple-blessed extension to APFS called “FPFS” (presumably file provider FS) that can intercept read/writes/etc to these on-disk placeholder files and download content (and thumbnails!) on demand. Provides data directly to spotlight indexes, etc.

Whereas FUSE is a really low level API exported into a safer user-space process, this is a little higher level. You give the file provider framework lists of directories, help it monitor changes, provide item info and then it will in turn issue callbacks into your extension to initiate downloads to a temporary location.

Benefits

1. All on demand, driven by placeholders. “regular” sync downloads contents ahead of time, this is not the case with file providers. It’s more like network filesystems in this regard

2. Doesn’t eat up free space. Providers can mark their content as “evictable” which lets APFS know it can toss out the data if space gets low. But what I think is extra interesting is that when you mark the content as evictable it doesn’t even register as being used against free space. You could bring down a 10GB file from the cloud and your free space remains the same

3. Integrated with all the higher level APIs so that applications that open a file with swift/objective C don’t beachball while waiting for a download (for an open) to complete. They appropriate waits and expectations are in there now

4. All sorts of other stuff, happy to keep going
> Why? "I like the stock" or "The new CEO has an amazing plan to go digital!"

This, along with "I'm retarded" or "I'm an ape" is needed to avoid acusations of market manipulation.

That said, it were not the fundamentals of GME the ones that pushed the stock price up: it was discovered that some people just shorted too much, and market efficiency tend to pushish those errors. Some people still think that there's still a chance of squeezing, and they're putting money after that.

It's a bet, and it's played in r/wallstreetBETS. I don't think they're being manipulated: you can read almost daily a report on volume, open shorts, etc. They know that they are playing in a casino, and they know the rules of the game being played.