jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I found the language interesting too. It's subtle but exactly the same "you're holding it wrong", refusal to really admit wrong or truly come clean attitude that they displayed with the antenna saga.

It's a very interesting comparison as well with Google who (for example) with Buzz and the Wifi sniffing incident did complete and total mea culpas without reservation. It didn't particularly seem to help Google in those cases so it's hard to argue that Apple needs to do the same, but I do feel they would be better off with a simple and direct "sorry" and a promise to do better rather than a "oh it was just a bug, and we found it ourselves anyway, and by some definitions you're all wrong anyway so there!".
Try /r/coding and /r/compsci as well.
Perhaps VISA is willing to take a smaller cut so long as the total number of credit card transactions that flow through them increases quickly enough.
Great execution! I did immediately look at your domain name and think "you pout". Was I the only one?
On a programming topic, on HN, maybe 20% of the comments are interesting, or at least informative. On a programming topic, on Reddit, maybe 2% of the comments are interesting or informative, but there are 10 times as many comments, the interesting ones are voted to near the top (not necessarily right up there), and some of the interesting Reddit comments don't have an analogue on HN.
Unless I'm missing something, this only occurs if someone sends two messages to someone and the receiving user responds to the first message but gets the second message before sending his.

Using average read/write times for a message - taking its length into account - it should be fairly easy to check if someone could have read and written a response to a message. Assuming it is a response if he could have written one in time should be fairly accurate.

You could probably even cheat and use a constant time while still getting good results.
I went down a rabbit hole for several years, probably "wasted" $10,000 on AWS, wound up with $80k on my home equity line. I've done two years of regular work since and I expect to have the HELOC paid in the next few months.

It was stressful on me and my family but we kept it together.

Since those events I worked a year for a "startup" company in the data analytics and AI field slinging Python and now I do Java and Javascript for a non-profit/academic organization, entirely focused on getting data out of a database and in front of customers.

I am focused on doing application programming well on my day job but I do side projects involving printing, arduino, embedding Java inside itself as a Lisp-like DSL, etc. Practically those things line up: in the process of understanding handicapped accessibility for work i learned to think in terms of "value", Ansel Adams, and how to generate random color schemes that are always legible. jooq which I was using for work got me thinking in a mathematical way about what is possible to express as a java internal dsl, etc.

Do it again?

That's out of the time horizon I am thinking in today but I wouldn't rule it out.
You can also have a separate set of pads that decrypt the messages to something entirely different from the real messages. I'm not aware of another crypto system that allows for this. Here's an example:

$ padder -d -m c2wrbumxvj8gob34mxn46pxg29a6kxnwfhcaam3en-hr-2v -p ryxrvqnlhz04icqq6eg56cuhg10vlx5dff3ba44wg6ic-kd

PlainText: we-are-moving-north-and-will-attack-at-the-pass

$ padder -d -m c2wrbumxvj8gob34mxn46pxg29a6kxnwfhcaam3en-hr-2v -p zifs6d9dgk36k94m9d5x77jhj277ip59gw9btmv4j7in-kc

PlainText: our-group-fled-south-to-the-city-we-sailed-east
There is an idea called FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early). The first half is having enough money to not need to earn again, so you are not dependent on work or others. Once this is achieved, then you can retire early if you would like.

The conventional wisdom in this community is that if you invest a sum of money in equities, you can withdraw a certain percentage annually without ever running out of money. That is, you mostly live off of the growth of your investments. Generally, 4% (inflation adjusted) is considered a safe withdraw rate. So if you have a million dollars, and you can live off of 40K a year or less indefinitely, then you can retire.

Obviously this is a simplification and there are more considerations. Let me know if you have any questions. This is a topic I am passionate about and happy to give my 2 cents on.
Again I see no blame. What I see is a description of how the frames the two sides use, largely in response to one another, don’t accurately capture the causes of the current problem.

The author is selling a book in which they say more.

The author’s thesis is that the causes are not captured by the political discourse, but are in fact structural, and they attempt to contrast the discourse with these structural ideas that they think are causal.

If you are convinced that the causes are rooted in the behavior of one ‘side’ then you clearly disagree with the author and are unlikely to trust or listen to them.

“What is to be done? I have my own thoughts about how to build a new America in the ruins of the one that has collapsed, which I discuss in my book The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite and elsewhere. But the painstaking reconstruction of the United States, if it takes place, will be the work of several generations and the challenge is not one to be met by 10-point plans and PowerPoints. First we must agree on the causes of the collapse of the latest in a series of historic American regimes. To that discussion, this essay is a contribution.”
Stop spreading misinformation. You are being part of the problem.
> I'd be more than happy to work a job for 80% salary for 4 days per week...

In the Netherlands it works exactly like this. Half my team is on either a 90% or 80% contract. Other half doesn't have children yet :P
It was apparently stolen from a conference room and used only for presentations. Still a bad look for Capitol Police and physical security operations.
I work for an ultra mega corp and honestly the amount of meetings would be comical if it wasn't so monotonous. The recent meetings have centered around increasing capacity, I've tried to explain that less meetings would give folks more time to produce value, nobody gives a shit so I stopped caring too.
Which are much less powerful than uBlock Origin and only work in the browser (which isn't an issue on desktop, but on mobile a lot of the tracking is also done by apps, so blockers need to be more than just browser-focused).
The last two biggest enemies of the U.S. government had wars started against them based on made up evidence. How many more times does this have to happen before the default position is assuming that the charges are trumped up?
Interesting analogy. And this is what veteran internet marketers keep doing with the never ending sales page (for parrot training kind of ebooks). Have you noticed how they have call to action at the end of the page and never at the top?
This is just my opinion, and I'd love to hear whether people agree or disagree with it.

I think part of the reason for the lack of outrage over The Patriot Act was the timing. When the Patriot Act was created, it was a short enough time after 9/11 that the US was still strongly emotionally effected by it. It was easier to say "This will prevent terrorism" and be believed.

Years later, it's become easier to take a rational look at the risks and benefits, and see that it's unlikely that such measures will prevent enough terrorism to outweigh the costs.
They only started out as two people. Daniel was undeniably the most visible person - not that the ratio of effort is to be inferred from this at all.

It was probably more of a Disqus effort than a Daniel Ha effort, but until I know for sure, Daniel Ha deserves the credit. :)
If someone is trying to incite real violence, they're unlikely to do it on Twitter. Holding people to account for things they tweet is insane.

Twitter isn't a credible communications mechanism IMHO. It's for people to shout random things.

You simply can't judge intent in 140 characters. If I tweet "I am going to bomb london bridge tomorrow", there's no way to know if I'm just having a bad day, making a joke, or am a terrorist for some reason tweeting my intentions. (The last is extremely unlikely).

Even if I tweeted "All gays should be killed at birth", that doesn't in itself IMHO warrant any action. It could be some weird 'in' joke or meme. It could be that I'm gay and I wish I was dead because I'm having a hard day.... People get offended way too easily these days. Tweets are just words. They're not offensive because there's no connection or intent to harm.

People need to chill out and start applying common sense to life. 99.9% aren't terrorists. 99.9% of people are pedophiles.

The security theatre at airports doesn't make us any safer, prosecuting people for tweeting things doesn't make us any safer.
"re-education through labour" is the literal translation of the Chinese words "laogai"(劳改), which is already in Oxford dictionary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laogai
If you are going for effect, a chair is too dignified. Maybe somthing along the lines of a breeding stand that clamps you into a bent position "for your safety" prior to probe insertion.
It looks like Facebook's messages has opened up new opportunities to disrupt for everyone, not just themselves.

I've just posted here at http://www.minklinks.com/weblog/2010/11/18/what-facebook-mes... about what it means for my HN November Launch app.
I don't understand how that's the case. You still need to authenticate with your OpenID provider using -- you guessed it -- a username and password.

Or, you could allow your provider to put a persistent cookie on your machine, and (as we've seen from the Firesheep news lately) making it that much more likely your identity will be compromised. (Not to mention if someone steals the cookie for your OpenID provider, the impact is potentially much larger.)

The i-name stuff is just DNS for OpenID providers. It adds another layer of bullshit on top of layers of bullshit that don't need to be there in the first place.

I carry the key to my car. When I want to get in, I press the button on the fob or I open the door with the key. OpenID is like having to make a phone call to someone, tell them I need to get into my car, so they can then press a button that will open my car door. And hopefully they aren't on their lunchbreak.
Wow, thank you for mentioning that. Your source says that they have declined to compete because they are focusing on a commercial product of some kind. That is very exciting news.
This is why I love HN, every so often we run across a link like this where someone is toiling away with just the most fascinating work, often for just the shear love of the technology. By the way, if you go up to the home page, there are many more interesting gems from Fran.
"A large majority (82%) support mandatory labels on GMOs, but curiously about the same amount (80%) also support mandatory labels on foods containing DNA."
You could also not use Perl 6 for that.

Today, you could use almost any language for that.

Thanks, people who got stuck with Perl 5 code and now have to deal with it. May the whole concept die in a fire.
Please tell me more about the conflicts.

I have only occasionally had Python scripts broke because of dependencies, but not since the introduction of virtualenv.
"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We all find such annoyances annoying, but having a subthread like this upvoted to the top of a thread (which happens routinely) is like an invasive species taking over an ecosystem. That's why the guideline exists.
Most node modules are simply js files that host js functions. You can install those by ftp'ing over the files. Modules with bindings are a different story though.
I think that's fair for a beta app where they really need the data to tighten things up. It would be nice if metrics became opt-in post-beta, though.
My point is that, what GCs do at runtime (discover garbage) can be done statically in all of these cases. The sole reasons GCs do that work at runtime is because of cycles.

Cycles aren't common at all and the answer shouldn't be "let's create a huge complex GC that handles all cases, then down the road we'll optimize for the common case" the answer should be "let's do the sane reasonable thing that handles the common case and push the problem of cycle-management to the programmer"
Ahhh, I see, "Charleston Road Registry Inc" must be Google's registrar child company. Thanks for the link!
> ublock [...] is being sold to most has an ad blocker, but really it blocks everything.

This is the first sentence on the project page:

> µBlock is not an ad blocker; it's a general-purpose blocker.

And toward the end:

> Free. Open source. For users by users. No donations sought.

It's not "being sold".
>implying that 4chan isn't already an echochamber
When they say "free for the first year" is that "free to upgrade" during the first year it's available, or "free for one year" then you'll pay a subscription to continue using the operating system after that year?
Hi, here is Morpheus creator.
Isomorphic means an application able to share the same state between client/server, and render static html on the first load for attaching to the DOM Javascript behaviors once the DOM is available.
I agree that they are taking a laissez-faire approach. For now we will adopt their curriculum (which is great because we were moving to a JS only curriculum anyway) and their class schedule (till 8pm daily and class on Saturdays). We'll keep our name and staff as is.

We'll likely adopt their admissions process, however, we're very proud of some aspects of our process and we're looking forward to see how the two can work together.

No changes were made to any part of the program leading up to the acquisition.
That is, to be blunt, bullshit. Frederick doesn't let them do their thing; he actively enables it. That's significantly different.

Comparisons to Hitchens are similarly misleading; there is a large difference between enabling vs not stopping.

While I support eg the KKK or gamergate jerks' right to talk and organize, I'm damn well not helping pay for it.
Hasn't happened in a long time. I haven't seen CP on /b/ in probably 2-3 years. Granted, I'm not on it much these days, but it went from being something you'd see constantly to something you see rarely, if ever.
Elaborate on what? You have to purchase a version of Windows that has the POSIX layer because POSIX compliance costs money. From what I gather it has been dropped in Windows 8.1.
it's still in b regularly
Location: Seattle

Remote: Yes

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Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oz2pvrebxdl8sif/Craig%20Carl%20CV....

Email: craig@gestas.net

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 8 issued patents, https://www.dropbox.com/s/z0nbaewm06ulwmu/Craig%20Carl%20Pat....
Agreed, but I don't know if anything can really be done for 2.4GHz at this point.
The fact that you passed Amz sys design simply tells me that you are good at studying and absorbing existing knowledge however shitty or flaky it might be. I think its an important skill to have and I guess thats also whats tested in interviews. Its like "this is the syllabus how much of it do you know".
But you're sailing along with a false dichotomy. We can have hardware that is safe for mom and dad, and open for professionals.
Without any comments though. Given the interest here, seems like the community simply missed it, so a repost was beneficial. A month is OK amount of time to wait before posting.
Didn't know about WITH RECURSIVE, very cool - thanks
What is said there might be interesting, alas I will never know, for I gave up when my finger started to hurt from the seemingly endless scrolling.
Logic programming is one of those paradigms where if you haven't learned it you're doomed to repeat its mistakes. As with Lisp, Prolog makes you a better programmer even if you never end up using it.
I also found the book of the new sun dull. I don't agree it's a good book at all.
Hyperion written in 1989 is a much better book and arguably more sophisticated. But hey it's just an opinion.

I've heard Gene wolf is a good writer but after trying the book of the new sun I'm not tempted further. It probably comes down to personal taste.
Read the article. It names other instances that did come from industrial meat production. And there are other issues on the rise: mad cow disease, antibiotic resistance.

> if you seriously expect anyone to transition to veganism over time then only allowing a limited amount of hunted meat would be a good intermediate period.

You dont make sense here.

> So transitioning to global veganism would make it temporarily worse!

Still not making sense: what'd be worse?

Glad you acknowledged that on the long term veganism does provide a solutions to some global issues.
Indeed, and asking for (and subsequently handling) first-name/last-name splits can thus be awkward.

Also, while I haven't stepped through Starbucks' gifting flow recently, gift cards might be given by collective entities as well, like "Your friends on the swim team" or "The Middleton Book Club".

'They' works better for that, too.

Starbucks' copywriter (or copywriters) knew what they were doing.
>get hacked and disappear

Is this the accepted narrative? It seems overly generous to bitcoin and the various exchange operators. A lot of these exchanges were shutdown by their owners so they could, with impunity, steal the coins of their customers and other dirty dealings. Hacker attacks, which are often used as cover for these criminal activities, seem to have been the least of bitcoin's problems.

> I think overcoming the regulation issues and having actual proper accountability will help bolster the credibility of the exchange.

If I wanted to use an easy and stable regulated currency why not the USD? I can trivially pay using a variety of sources: my own bank, paypal, my credit cards, direct deposit, wire, etc. If bitcoin gets turned into a strongly controlled and regulated currency then I don't see its competitive advantage outside of very, very narrow use cases (darknet purchases, investing, ransomware, illegal activities, etc).
I feel this way so strongly. "Why do you want to work for us?" Because I have to sell my labor to pay my landlord for a place to sleep.

I'm passionate about a few things, but none of them include being told what to do, then having someone take a large cut out of the value I produce.

Edit: I'm currently researching alternatives to traditional corporations, like worker owned cooperatives. If you or anyone reading this have ideas or want to talk, my emails in my profile.
Don't underestimate Hollywood and alike :)

But I can imagine that playing certain music for a large crowd requires a specific license? Something like a radio station?
It’s definitely similar, though should be a lot easier when one of the things you’re trying to distinguish and remove has a known high quality reference track you can use, right?
I was extremely clear in my wording and explanation. Your attempt to misconstrue my comment and intention, as well as your ad hominem attack, suggests you were never arguing in good faith from the start.
one interesting artifact of MP3s in pop music is that symbols are transformed from a clean Crashhhhhhhhhhh, to a sound like a dog slurping water.

However like Jpeg this is a tradeoff that we are used to. in the same way that tape has frequency inbalance, records just sound shit (sorry I know you like it, but they really don't sound better. they are great for evoking a feeling, but not for fidelity. Its lomo but for sound)

I don't like the distortion that 128k mp3 introduces, but I imagine that in years to come it'll become a fetish for certain types of audiophile
One of the best collection of images of the Chernobyl disaster is hidden away on some marketing companies website. I've lost the link but it just comes up with a list of files as opposed to a bunch of web stuff.

I assume it's some IT guys thing.
WebKit started as KDE’s KHTML/KJS and LLVM started as a research project at Univeristy of Illinois.

Apple took the code and extended it, they had little choice for the source code license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webkit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM
I also don’t get it, what does this service do?
My gf and I each have a wireless keypadless AA-powereed apple keyboard, one of which takes two batteries and one of which takes three. I only know because I was using one and it ran low, and I discovered I had prepared the wrong number of batteries.
> adding automatic differentiation to Swift

That work is still happening (as noted in the link). One of the primary engineers who was working on it at Google works at Apple now.
Haven't received my semi-yearly Google recruiting email this year, I was starting to get worried! I'm itching to decline for the fifth time! :)
But over suspend to RAM? Suspend to RAM eats through basically zero battery, and can trivially survive the plane flight. (I've taken my laptop on flights, drained the battery to <10% in the course of the flight, and had it spent the last several hours in suspend-to-RAM.)

(There might be some discussion about security in America's airports, and their overzealousness towards illegal searches, and on that basis, I'd entertain hibernation as superior.)
rytis brought up slaughterhouses. talmand replied about hunting. the use of the word "game" in hunting is a coincidence.
>Or am I giving US/Israeli intelligence too much credit?

The US military is a big operation. They deal with big groups and big numbers. I just don't think it's in their DNA to approach a small group of blackhats to do what they could contract a legitimate firm to do. The US military contracts out to private firms for almost everything. To think that the US would approach a small, illegitimate group requires viewing Stuxnet as an aberration. I just don't think it is. It may be a new medium for the military, but it isn't a new paradigm: they identified a problem, and approached a firm that could solve it for them. That's my theory, at any rate. It's supported by those in the security industry who've analyzed it and determined the code itself wasn't anything special, just that the number of 0days involved was unusual. Any major security firm will have a shelf full of 0days kicking around; just look what we saw come out of HBGary.

I don't have any evidence that Stuxnet was a contract job. Hell, I don't even have any evidence beyond hearsay that the US was involved. I'm simply looking at the known facts and the known motivations and standard practices of the institutions that were (likely) involved.