jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Really interesting, as long as you can stop it from becoming 4chan. :P
I really hope his presentations don't contain any code snippets from any GNU tools source code, or maybe portions of the linux kernel code. His work in in sercurity and this seems most applicable to benefitting from the GPL.
Thanks man.

The thing I'm hoping is that it 4chan continues to be the best place to trade porn. They do it better, ImEveryone is more about the actual communication, hence the semi-persistent identities, threading, etc.

I can run ImEveryone in black and white with little difference.

In the gap between the post and the submission hitting the front page there's some degree of filtering - you could get around it if you wanted to, but why not just send to 4chan?
While I've never seen this use personally, UrbanDictionary very strongly corroborates this.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=unf
> Look at the "Arab Spring" -- they got a little democracy and mostly elected totalitarian theocrats. In that case many people want totalitarian enforcement of social norms.

It's almost like you need a strong constitution with heavy restrictions on what the government can do in order for democracy to not devolve into autocracy.
Well, it's a bit more complex than that. I lived int he UK from 1988-95 and a few years after, and I'm Irish. There wasn't a collective freakout, but there was institutionalized discrimination; for example you could be held for longer than the usual statutory period, without communication and without access to a lawyer, based on suspicion of terrorism. There were quite a few Irish people falsely imprisoned because they were made scapegoats for terrorist bombings, and political prisoners were kept in dreadful conditions (and the UK is not known for having especially humanitarian penal policies to begin with). For a long time, Britain governed Northern Ireland with an iron hand and there was far worse treatment of the Catholic minority there than could reasonably be justified by security concerns - and I would not characterize myself as an Irish Republican or anti-UK, indeed I sometimes wonder if Irish political independence was necessarily a good thing. Bear in mind that during the 1980s the UK government was still offering support to the Apartheid regime in South Africa and so forth.

On a personal level, that meant if you were Irish you had to expect your passport to be checked very rigorously, expect different treatment from police, and endure a fair degree of social static; back in 1992, for example, people might exhibit a stiff upper lip when it was announced that the tube was delayed, but when I would meet them at work later I'd know there had been a bomb scare because I'd hear a crack about whether I had a bomb in my briefcase or somesuch. furthermore, Irish terrorism was different in a few ways. First, in Northern Ireland it was counterbalanced by unionist terrorism against the Catholic/Irish republican minority, so a lot of the terrorism you'd hear about there was of the tit-for-tat tactical variety. In London, the IRA called in far more bomb threats than it detonated bombs, and it generally avoided bombing civilians but struck political and military targets - with a disproportionate level of effectiveness, which is one reason that London is awash in CCTV cameras. IRA terrorists killed a lot of senior people in the British establishment, from government minister to members of the royal family. They launched very few attacks on civilians on the mainland, and virtually all attacks on the mainland were carried out in London, the seat of government, or at places where high-value targets happened to be. Most of the country never saw a bomb threat because it was too far from any sort of political/military target. The IRA understood asymmetrical warfare extremely well and had no desire to provoke a wave of popular resistance or anger of the kind that comes from indiscriminate civilian bombing.

Saying the UK had this sort of thing all figured out and then US reaction to 9/11 caused them to turn dictator is just hopelessly un-anchored from reality and at odds with the long historical context. I see why it seems that way to you, but I assure you that things were/are quite a bit more complex than that.
Just wondering if I was downvoted because people don't get the joke (it's a famous quote from the Princess Bride) and thought I was calling all Australians criminals? Or because humour has no place on HN?
The childish part of me says to alter the redirect code to be a bit more...shocking. I think the attack would stop a lot more quickly if baidu users were subjected to, say, goatse or 2g1c.
> Opportunistic Encryption is harmful because people think it's actually useful. [...] You should never assume that 'eavesdropping' is passive.

- Google driving by with it's street view cars and capturing all your wifi traffic for later analysis is passive.

- People sitting in a coffee shop and capturing your wifi traffic is passive.

OE protects against these attack vectors. It does not protect against other attack vectors, but that does not mean it's harmful or useless.

Moreover, with pins it could be a first step to get rid of CAs.
FWIW I go between DrRacket and Sublime Text as necessary. Sublime is of course faster for typical writing & editing tasks. But when working on code-related things, the DrRacket REPL is useful.
Frank Wilczek is both a highly accomplished physicist and an exceptional writer, two things that don't often go together. You can find all of his 2014 writings here:

http://frankwilczek.com/2014

And 2015 in progress:

http://frankwilczek.com/2015
I wrote a quick webapp to help ppl export links (for the command line skittish): http://mattcrampton.com/delicious
Actually someone did do that and called me an "idiot" for thinking free soloing is cool.

But you are right, the fact that I don't see the appeal of the middle ground, and that I expressed my opinion in a "subjectively rude manner" was a mistake. Of course, I was disappointed that rather than just ignore a honest personal opinion or explain the joy of the middle ground, people attacked me personally. But that is fine, and I would like to apologize to anyone who was offended by my personal opinion and attempts to defend myself. Life is too short and I don't want anyone feeling bad about what I said. I apologize if I offended anyone.
I'm writing a Wordpress plugin right now to import del. bookmarks. Stop gap, but could be fun. Will do a theme to go with it...
Agree, but the relative pricing of various substitutable goods is a function of the things which are interpreted by the consumer as "quality". W.r.t. this article, we care about this relative ranking.
Does this mean IE will finally get a built-in spell checker?
If it isn't called that and doesn't have a way to abstract over it, there's a very good chance that many of the logical Monads/Applicatives/Monoids/etc. are subtly not implemented as those things, resulting in equally subtle bugs.
> how do you explain everything that happened on the wealth inequality front from the 1970s up to the financial crisis of 2009?

In one word: computers. In tsunami after tsunami from 1975 to the present, computers have revolutionized everything we do. I remember one tsunami in 1975, when slide rules in September were $125 and by December they were $5 and in January they disappeared. The calculator had arrived. In 1980 at Boeing you could hear the roar of the tsunami coming in the form of CAD. Then spreadsheets, word processing, on and on.

It's no coincidence that the biggest companies in the world are all American, and all computer companies.

The big increase in wealth was created by the computer companies, and accrued to the people working in them and those smart enough to have invested in them.

BTW, according to Google: "The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid roughly $616 billion, or 38.5 percent of all income taxes, while the bottom 90 percent paid about $479 billion, or 29.9 percent of all income taxes."
1) and 3) are in the TODO :D

i don't understand the 2), in what way the "home" button is different ?

EDIT:
now i understand the 2) -.-' yeah, i was thinking about implementing a gesturehandler to handle a swipe and open the link :D
I suspect that if you asked, the answer would be "no." But let me confess something: Just before the interview, I reached into my pocket and tried to surreptitiously start my iPhone's Voice Memo app recording. Just for my own reference, mind you. Unfortunately, I missed the button.

I did, however, type up some notes right after the interview, which most of the quotations in the post are pulled from. So it should be pretty accurate.
I mostly agree, but I think that "app store" is far more descriptive of what the actual product is, and has nearly no similar alternates. "1-Click" doesn't really describe what it actually does, and there are plenty of other ways to say the same thing (even "Single Click", "Immediate Checkout", etc).
"Correlation does not equal causation. Another possible explanation: She was a monster at predicting project success and worked her way onto projects that were going to succeed with or without her."

Fair point, but what would you pay for knowing in advance what projects are going to succeed and by inference which may fail...
Not so much that, but better integration with other devices and services.

Printer integration to automatically wake up and print documents when I need them, not when I remember to print. (boarding passes, etc).

Printers that can take half-size paper, and potentially auto-scale down documents to work with that half-size paper. I hate printing because 70% of the time I need about 5 things on the page, but they're all spread out, and an entire sheet of paper is a waste. Email/web/bookmarks helps out, but we could get by with smaller paper most of the time, except all printers expect larger size paper.

Better auto-discovery of local printers around me, and cloud integration to print things wherever I'm at.

Easier ways to print remotely. If I'm onsite at a client, I can't print something I need until I get home, but I may forget then. Letting me print remotely so it's ready when I get home would help, and/or the scheduling for future printing, either at a set time or set context (IE - at home).

"3D printing" that would allow me to use those awesome red/blue glasses to get the full 3D effect from my documents.

Relatedly, I'm not sure why companies aren't giving schools free paper with ads on the back. This would help school budgets, and give advertisers a captive audience.
Why did you create 3 accounts?
Hair rendering always blew my mind. I remember seeing Monster's Inc in the theater, and the first shot of Sully was when he was asleep in his bed breathing heavily, and you could see the individual strands of hair on his arm flowing back and forth. I felt the world of animation change right at that moment for me, and now I wait with great anticipation for every new Pixar film that comes out. For me, "Up" was the only real let-down.
Not that I know of.

But if I remember correctly, it wouldn't/doesn't let anyone use "1-Click" for ecommerce checkout buttons without licensing it. And I think it even tried to prohibit others from enabling a one-step checkout process. In other words, retailers had to at least have a two-step checkout process.

That's just bad for the end-user.
I experienced personal success with it. It's not that Lisp causes people to not be able to work together. The causality runs in the other direction. Lisp tends to attract people who are antisocial by nature, because if they use Lisp they can be vastly more productive as individuals than if they don't. But then you get a community full of antisocial people, and they tend to drive away the team players. So the team players go off and use C/Perl/Ruby/Python/whatever because those communities are full of other team players. As a result, the whole becomes greater than the sum of the parts, and the team players win, even though as individuals they may be generally less productive/smart/whatever.

On those rare occasions when Lisp programmers manage to all row together in the same direction they can produce some truly spectacular results (Viaweb, ITA, RAX). But those seem to be the exceptions.
Hey

Happy to see Ghotnote on this list. If you want to be a beta tester for our new version let me know.

Also if you are using iTerm you can add ghostnote support manually before the update comes out (finishing touches)

I just posted this blog post today

http://www.ghostnoteapp.com/blog/how-to-manually-add-new-doc...
The thing is alttab, aren't we meant to have gone past that stage in our historical development? You know, plundering and pillaging and what-not. The problem is that any legitimate exploitation of this mineral wealth is delegitimatized (God help me, does that word even exist?) somewhat by the manner in which the wealth was found to exist. It'd be great if Afghanistan became the California of Central Asia but I'm not going to be holding my breath for that eventuality.
Seems to be an example of semantic diffusion. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SemanticDiffusion.html
Why do they want it?
A few things: (and it seems lots of folks here know just enough to be dangerous)

1. Naked Short Selling is illegal. There is an exception for market makers that allows them to trade naked shorts but that is beyond the scope of this discussion.

2. All short selling done by retail customers, hedge-funds, etc. is all 'covered short selling'. This means that the stock being sold is first 'borrowed' from a third party. The third party is paid interest on their loan of stock which is their incentive for loaning it out.

3. There is no absolute time limit on the duration of a short position, but long-term short positions are difficult to hold because you still have to pay interest on the stock your borrowed which eats into potential profits.
It's not that complicated, people are just too proud of their ignorance to bother learning (OP excepted since he went to the trouble of asking).
This deal is extremely weird; in the 4 decades I've been playing this game in one way or another I've never heard of such.

Unless this is a company that started from a publicly traded shell company, the equity they're offering you is unmarketable, it's not something you can sell on the open market to get the equivalent cash (however they compute that).

Assuming you ever talk to them again, ask them how you can turn the equity into cash and then look at that for traps (e.g. "we'll buy you out" is something that at best you can enforce in the courts, which is going to be hard for such a small amount, what you'd see after paying your legal costs).

Their attempt to discount it now says it's not a priced in the future offering, what they're probably saying is that "this is a great deal, $20K today will be worth $20X K tomorrow". That completely ignores the risk side of the equation, the likelihood that the equity will be worth less than $30K when you want to cash out (most likely it'll be worth $0).

The other thing to consider is that equity is cheap* compared to cash, after all that's why they're trying to pay you partly in it.

My strong guess is that either they're idiots or they're trying to cheat you; in either case I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. Given that you're making a "guaranteed" (well, your current job could go poof) $60K in cold hard cash today, they need to make you an offer that's much, much richer if the cash is less and they're trying to make up the difference with very risky equity.

NOTE: if you don't understand something like this, if it feels "weird", it's never out of line to ask what it's all about, how it works, why they are doing it, etc. Since they are offering something unusual, it is incumbent upon them to explain it such that there is no mystery about it to you.
Indeed. Common Lisp is similar with regard to the proliferation of mutation.
Not just systemd, but... everything else that's trying to replace sysvinit, too.

Upstart jobs are really simple, and OpenRC and modern BSD initscripts are also much simpler than SysV (and old BSD) initscripts.

I think we're at the point where regardless of the systemd vs. everything else debate, we can all agree that SysV initscripts are shite.

> I tried writing a sysv init script from scratch. I stopped because of sheer boredom, and resorted to copy&paste to save both time and nerves.

Better yet, at my last job, I had some extra time, so I rewrote Ubuntu's qpidd initscript as an Upstart job, and it was so satisfying to see that giant script get condensed down to a few lines.
Hi, Yes the revocation is free, and you could generate a new one after for free.
I'd say it's to do with having been rebuilt with Symfony components. That's not to say symfony is, by necessity, slow, but I going to guess that completeness and stability was first for such a big change before performance. But... that's just a guess.
Sure, as a 'co-working' concept, it exists. So maybe the GP was referring to that, but then again (while I don't know the specific market in London), there is plenty of supply in that market in every big Western city I know a bit about, so I assume the same for London. Then again you pay 100% premium on those spaces.

What I was reacting to is what I hear relatively often - 'hey my house/room rent is X / m2, why can't I find an office for that price? It's just me and my buddy and we're broke and most likely out of business in 6 months, why don't landlords love us?'.

"We believe that Spacious can help liquidity in the market by making landlords and space operators confident that if they react to shorter contract lengths, they won't have to worry about long periods of vacancy as a potential tenant would be able to find them easily."

It's not clear to me what you're doing any more, since you seem to contradict yourself. Are you about making landlords turn themselves into coworking spaces, or do you have some way to guaranteeing a higher occupancy rate for owners, or are you just Craigslist for office space, like there are a zillion others? What's your added value? The coworking space is so crowded, I don't see any savvy owners who are not in dire straits dive into that market any more in 2014. There is vast oversupply (at least at price levels that make it profitable) in the (admittedly small, niche and out of the way) markets I know about. Those who tried it find out very soon that the small hidden costs add up very quickly, and that it's a completely different kind of business from 'just' renting out property (and a business most don't want to be in).
Hi Bowlofpetunias,

Absolutely, this is the norm rather than the exception. However, asymmetric information only works as long as most parties in the market are acting in this way. As soon as people start being more open, this changed the landscape very quickly, which is what we are seeing in London.

If the market does indeed stay that way, rather than wasting time talking to individual spaces we are working on technology that should be able to inform all those with space (even if they keep the price hidden) of search and budget requirements of a potential. This should at least open dialogue.
I imagine the 3D would be fairly limited because the lenses are so close together. Would this be the case?
> I will ask that the team work out an appropriate culture, which probably includes coming to the office at least once a week

That's essentially what this article is saying: The big tech companies are requiring employees to live within commuting distance of offices and to come in for some portion of their time. The question now is where the line is drawn on how often they can work from home.

The companies aren't saying that everyone has to be in office. Most of these quotes suggest that companies will continue to support remote opportunities for some, but not all, of the workforce.
Nice execution but as always I wonder why the author preferred canvas over SVG. Nothing wrong with canvas but aren't those tabs a perfect example of a vector graphic?

edit: SVG typo.
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It's the novelty I'm interested in. It will be 99% used as mobile keyboard feeding into vi.
As a counterpoint, if you recognize it could be problematic in the future, the extension could be used as a preventive measure.
I seriously wonder where our society would be today if likes/followers/retweets/pins/hearts were not a thing. I know way too many people who take 10 photos in their best clothes on one day, then spread them across their social media with witty captions over the next 90 days. Why? For who? What do you gain?
I think it's reasonable to stick with what YC knows best: Startups in the US. Perhaps this will be an opportunity to use the capital that would've been directed to China for American startups.

I am also encouraged they are still funding Chinese companies and have a nuanced approach to China in this highly politically charged environment that reminds me of McCarthyism.
The extension code is minified but AFAICT it's just injecting some CSS sheets, primarily element hiding rules with display:none but also some spacing fixes. E.g. the Facebook one is

[data-testid="fbFeedStoryUFI/feedbackSummary"] {
display: none
}

It's not clear why the developer chose to inject the stylesheets dynamically and magnify the footprint 10x by including a polyfill library, rather than using the manifest to specify them declaratively, but whatever.
RCT? Perhaps it would be helpful to explain what that is.
It's a long read, but worth it if you've ever wondered why you never got into Lawrence.
Born in late eighties in California. My parents named our first dog after Gorbachev. I think that relief was felt from this side as well.
> Had his parents been able to cure him of [colorblindness] at a young age, we would likely not have any of his works now.

That's not at all a logically consistent argument. His art might have been better without the colorblindness. Or it might have just merely been different, but equally well-celebrated.

Regardless, you can't make decisions based on extremely unknowable hypothetical futures. If Van Gogh hadn't created any art at all, the world would still turn, and no one would know the difference. It's natural to imagine a world without Van Gogh's art with sadness when you already have his art; but had it never existed, no one would be around to care.