jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm seeing the same among my Gen X and Millennial friends. Unlike most of our parents, we're staying in the city to raise kids despite having the option of moving to the burbs. The sidewalks in my neighborhood are choked with strollers on weekends. And apparently little league and soccer leagues are turning away a large portion of families who want to register and still having trouble finding enough fields for all their teams to play.

This is happening to the degree that preschool admissions are now hypercompetitive because so many upper middle class parents want to give their kids the best possible chance to get into a magnet or private elementary school so they can go to a good high school and get into an Ivy League college.

I wonder if part of the reason this is happening is that kids in the suburbs are now allowed to roam and play unsupervised so much less than our generation was that it doesn't seem to make a difference whether they're in the city or the suburbs since they're going to be indoors most of the time anyway. If you're going to supervise all their outdoor time anyway, might as well just take them to the park.

Besides, you can argue that for younger teens the city is much better than the suburbs. Instead of those too young to drive themselves hanging around in bunches and making trouble out of sheer boredom, those groups walk around the (actually interesting) neighborhood, go to the park, take themselves to a movie or poke around in their favorite stores. They can get to their friends' houses without having to pester their parents for a lift, and they don't put themselves at risk getting in a car with a 16-y/o driver and multiple rowdy passengers.
Yes, this ruling is a pretty straightforward application of United States v. Jones, rather than much of a development in 4th-amendment law. The opinion [1] is 4 1/2 pages long, and doesn't do much more than say exactly that: it points out that the lower court's holding is plainly incompatible with Jones, and sends it back down to be reheard accordingly.

[1] http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-593_o7jq.pdf
The insurmountable problem so far on these cargo airships is ballast. It's what killed off the Cargolifter Project (as I read while sitting naked under a palm tree in its former hangar. [0])

Their killer use case is moving heavy stuff to inaccessible areas. Wind turbines being the flavour of the moment. They combine the long distance capability of a plane, the hovering of a helicopter and the lift capacity of a crane...

However, once the 160 tonne payload has been dropped, the ship either needs to take on 160 tonnes of ballast or jettison helium (not an option since it's so expensive). The Cargolifter idea was to just pump up water if I remember correctly, but for land-based tasks that meant being met by ten tanker lorries at the drop site, thus negating all the benefits and meaning you might as well stick the cargo straight on those trucks.

I'd love to see it work out, but so far these projects have been nothing but a wipeout for investors. Coincidentally back in 2006 I worked a couple of desks over from people managing the liquidation of Skycat, which was basically the same thing, also built at Cardington. It may even have been the same team.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Islands_Resort
Not that Ms. Steele reads Hacker News, but thank you for everything you have done.

The EFF consistently takes on unpopular or cringe-worthy cases because they are able to see the bigger picture, and how even the smallest ruling against privacy in the age of the internet can have a butterfly effect that can last ages.

In the sea of questions about privacy and authority, the EFF had become such a consistent voice. That the EFF seems to be attached in some way to almost every case that - at least I feel - is an egregious overstep of authority is both a source of actualization and comfort, in that even if the day is lost, I know the fight was good, and will continue onward in another venue, on another battlefield.

I have donated repeatedly to the EFF for these reasons, and I hope anyone listening will as well.

Again, Ms. Steele, and by extension, everyone at the EFF, thank you, thank you, and all the best of luck in whatever is next.
There are tricky ways to get vm86 working with 64-bit operating systems, although it's not as nice as with 32-bit.

Edit: An edit went on the wrong comment somehow. Ignore what it said.
How many times were you groped by a peer while learning to program? When you were in high school and first learning to code, did you have peers whose presence inspired all the women to leave the room because of their obnoxious behavior? These patterns of behavior are a real, measurable problem that discourages female computer science participation. That shrinks the talent pool and benefits nobody.
"when their peers disrespect and harass them"

That's pretty damning accusation you're making for programmers everywhere. Do you have citations?
If I were interested in becoming a cook, I would take the classes and become a cook.

If I were interested in becoming a dancer, I would damn well become a dancer.

You can't just say it's the mens' fault. That is disingenuous and insulting to me as a male programmer.

The fundamental problem has nothing to do with men: it's that women aren't interested at all in computers. They're interested in babies, families, and things that are warm, cuddly and emotional. I'm not being sexist, I am quoting my girlfriend.
"So regardless of the pay, I would not pursue it."

The current unemployment rate for college grad worldwide is ~30%. So you're not the norm.
It's common for some of the major studios to implement intentional errors - DVD format spec errors that are designed to make copying disc data difficult while not hindering playback. The efficacy of their plan is pretty questionable, but they've been doing it for years, so at minimum it makes them feel better.
How do you measure talent while recruiting? The person with the most accomplished resume or who can answer your technical questions most aptly? Both are only proxies, albeit usually pretty good ones, for measuring talent. Perhaps that interviewee was nervous or maybe they're really really bright, but just haven't been programming as long as some of their counterparts.

Tracy Chou of Quora wrote a really insightful post about being a female software engineer: http://www.quora.com/Tracy-Chou/Women-in-Software-Engineerin.... It really opened my eyes to some of the reasons why maybe there aren't more women who even get started in the field - even if there isn't outright prejudice, women in engineering still face a lot of challenges that men simply don't. Sure, you can argue that you should give the most talented person the job, but keep in mind that the methods we use for measuring talent are hugely subject to circumstance. For example, I'll bet the average age when most female engineers start programming is higher, so they simply haven't been programming as long. It is rather naive to believe that talent is the primary indicator of whether someone gets a job or gets into a particular school - success is just as much a product of circumstance, getting the necessary opportunities, and other external conditions as it is of one's own inherent talent and work-ethic. And let's face it, women in software engineering face a wholly different set of circumstances than their male counterparts, so let's stop pretending that it's just about talent.
namecheap support has told me (via the live chat) they have no option to view passwords.
Most people aren't good at programming, at least until you train them. It's hard to convince women to spend ten years becoming excellent programmers when their peers disrespect and harass them. I've never seen credible evidence that women's brains "lack the wiring" - that's an awfully Victorian era sentiment. The fundamental problem here is with the behavior of men in the field of computer science.
The patent answer was a response to "how are you going to protect your intellectual property and keep your competitors from imitating you?" Doesn't exactly sound defensive, does it? Keep in mind, too, that if Hipmunk is bought out by (say) Orbitz, Orbitz suddenly owns all their patents and will use them if they can.
Great point! Fast food tastes "good" because it is loaded with fat and sodium.
> Nancy Pelosi told fellow House Democrats that she had received reassurances about safeguards to prevent Donald Trump from launching a nuclear attack

As of ~5 pm eastern, the Reuters article [1] does not have this text. If I assume it was there at one point, what happened?

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN29D2HA
Bitcoin is bits of data on a network. It does exactly what its supposed to do; a dictionary for strings to integers.

Securing external value to people is not a goal or responsibility of Bitcoin. That's simply a consequence to how we as humans choose to use scarce assets.
It’s quite a common problem with pasting commands from emails (or I guess some other webpages.)

Two spaces when writing an email get converted into at least 1 non-breaking space and these make bash sad. Unfortunately there isn’t really a good way to have bash treat them as white space which is annoying.
"Upvote if you still believe Trump will be our President for the next four years. People are forgetting this man is a genius and has always been ten steps ahead. Now is no different."

This is one of the top threads on that site RIGHT NOW. Its easy to judge someone participating in that discussion.
Giving up manufacturing would be terrible. It really feels like Intel is ceding any hope of leadership to focus on milking their IP for cash. That would be incredibly frustrating and sad.

I hope it's not true or just very limited scope.
The riots last summer didn't involve insurrectionists violently invading the seat of power of the legislative branch with live ammunition intent on disrupting the peaceful transfer of power in a democratic republic.
Reduction in Complement 3C seems to be correlated with protection from Alzheimer's in mice[0]. Good news for Lupus patients (who typically have low 3C3).

"Blocking complement
function by deleting C3 rescues plaque-associated
synapse loss in PS2APP mice and ameliorates
neuron loss and brain atrophy in TauP301S mice,
improving neurophysiological and behavioral mea surements. In addition, C3 protein is elevated in AD
patient brains, including at synapses, and levels
and processing of C3 are increased in AD patient
CSF and correlate with tau."

An earlier cohort study[1] of nearly 100k humans said "Low baseline levels of complement C3 were associated with high risk of AD"

1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30243924/
2: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdf/S2211-1247(19)30964-7....

The immune system is a crazy thing about which the medical community knows far less than one would think. There's some fascinating potential in there if it can be well-understood (not just 'hacked').
It's not reasonable to expect it to be a defacto messenger if you can't save chat history. Full stop.

If I want a conversation to be private, I set expiring messages, for the rest of it, I want to be able to go back and reference things all the time. Whether it be digging up a song link I sent a buddy, or looking up the address someone sent me a week in advance.

If they can't operate or are unwilling to operate under those guidelines then they just aren't ever going to replace whatsapp with the general populace and the community should start work on something else or agree that telegram is "good enough" (I don't think it is).
If you retire at forty with a million in the bank, how do you make it if you live till 80?
Copyright was designed to further human civilization as now become one of if not the greatest threat to the advancement of human civilization.

Copyright must be reworked,and reduced. back to AT MOST the original 14 years plus 1 extension of 14 year to the original human creator (not a company)

Failure to do this will continue to see humanity limited in our growth
With Bitcoin you own property that can never be confiscated or debased by any government.

With IPFS you can host and access files that can't be censored. (same level of censorship resistance as torrents)

With Monero you can transact free from surveillance.

The biggest applications on Ethereum right now is decentralized finance, with billions of dollars locked in.
> These critiques never seem to address the most parsimonious explanation for periods of increased Tether issuance, which is that they are driven by genuine demand for bitcoin, and much of that demand is routed via Tether

The bigger question is: Why are so many institutions using Tether to purchase 7-8 figures of bitcoin at a time instead of simply engaging with any of the well-known institutions who will facilitate the purchase directly? What do all of these buyers possibly gain by using an intermediary currency and funneling all of their money through the Tether company first?

The only explanation I can come up with is that Tether is being used to skirt financial regulations or launder money, which doesn't bode well for Tether either.
Awesome! It seems that most of the references in search results are around interactions between Apple and developers. But it definitely looks like the best place to send violations as well. Thank you!
Ski traffic to Denver.
"You’ve either started a company or you haven’t. ”Started” doesn’t mean joining as an early employee, or investing or advising or helping out. ...... The important distinction is whether you risked everything, put your life on the line, made commitments to investors, employees, customers and friends, and tried – against all the forces in the world that try to keep new ideas down – to make something new."

That is what pissed me off. I was not a founder. I did not have a house and I was not going to take any more CC debt. But I put everything else I had on the line. And Chris is telling me that unless I founded a company everything I gave up meant nothing. Even founders draw the line some where right. After that second mortgage? Similarly I had my line drawn some where too but it was pretty deep.
It's a shame that the results will be skewed by people who read about the experiment first. The more I think of it, the more I regret posting this to HN.

I'm deleting this submission. Please do not re-submit. Lets wait until Ars writes a blog post with their own analysis of the data.
This submission reminded me why I love HN: On Reddit, there would have been a flowchart (at best) if I followed the link. Here, there's an engineering solution, with practical tips for machine-learning.

Now I want to build a "that's what she said" bot for Twitter, which will parse new tweets and reply accordingly. (Maybe I will, as a learning exercise.)
Likewise, HSBC don't feel that cards need to be cancelled at this stage either.
BitTorrent the company is hardly relevant anymore. Even if BitTorrent, Inc. went under tomorrow, I highly doubt the BitTorrent protocol would die anytime soon.
This is the link you are talking about, I think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840896

Edit: responding to your edit.

I think you're right that the guide would miss a piece of wisdom like that if it tried to teach in a normal top down way. Some kind of Q&A subsection may need to exist, and it may be a good source of inspiration for new lessons or case-studies that should be published.
No OS X support... :(

I used to love Europa Universals 2. Looks like paradox doesn't value mac users anymore.
How exactly do all these cost comparisons factor in the ability to quickly deploy hardware in 4 different regions in the world without having people at location to swap broken hardware or reboot an instance that is not available for whatever reason?
I'd much rather prove you right.

I do think email will change (not just new MUAs but improvements to current protocols for more modern use cases) but it will always remain in some form since it is so basic and universal. Your email address is currently your core online identity and it would take a major shift to change that. That alone fortifies email's position psychologically.

I see four main uses for email: 1) communication within a business, 2) communication between businesses, 3) social communication between individuals, and 4) communication between businesses and individuals. Groupware solutions/messaging/etc have tried to replace email for #1 for some time but email is still needed alongside it for communication with the outside world (#2, #4) and because a lot of enterprise software relies on email for their workflows. Social networks have made huge inroads in replacing email for individual to individual communications but their adoption is still not yet universal. I've also personally seen many people default to email after using a social network as an address book-- maybe email is just a more personal method since there is a stronger sense of owning the messages? Or maybe it's easier to check email than keep up to date on several social networks. Finally, as an individual interacting with a business (legit marketing, but also order confirmations, other notifications, etc.) email still is preferred since it is so universal and won't require leaning on another business for them to conduct their own business.

I'd be interested to know if others have a similar taxonomy or if they are aware of better, non-email solutions that can simultaneously cover more of those use cases.
Please don't do this here. These threads are problematic enough without it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14164831 and marked it off-topic.
> A portrait of the Grand Master Sardone by Evolve Artist Founder and master portraitist Kevin Murphy

Ok so this piece is content marketing for a self-proclaimed master portraitist who gives art lessons. Guess what? He thinks the current generation is taking art to a "whole new level" (I wouldn't be surprised if the quoted artists are former students). I'll take that with a pinch of salt.
Java and .NET MVC stacks, with a sprinkle of vanilaJS.

If it has to be PWA style, Angular.
I agree, you'd have to be a pretty bad programmer if you can't wrap your head around JavaScript in a couple of weeks. TypeScript even. Also, React. Babel. Grunt. Gulp. NPM. Node. Cobertura. Comfey. JQuery. Angular. Vue. Bootstrap. Flutter. Mocha. Minior. Yarn. Leftpad. Webpack. Npx. JSON. Rest. CORS. XMLHttpRequest. WebSockets. Web Storage. IndexDB.

Actually, I think some of those might be Pokemon.
The prominent example of gatekeeping is game industry.
Not using multiple accounts,
please do not make unfounded accusations or I will report your account as harassing.

Why are you flagging relevant discussion threads on moderation and undisclosed shadow banning policies that are relevant to the HN community?

Shadow banning is a particularly severe form of moderation as it intentionally silences a critical voice without any notification that his/her voice is being censored, and without any ability to appeal to the larger HN community in case of an error.

FYI Dang, the moderator of HN, reversed your decision on flagging aka “killing” my previous thread,
please see his comment to you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30252141
Counterpoint: People write worse poetry than they used to, the books are worse now, and all the architecture is terrible.

Grant that they don't have anything interesting to write about and it's too expensive to build decent buildings, but the poetry is indisputable.
I used S3FS to upload 50k images (about 50KB each) and the performance was atrocious. The upload took an entire day on a 100mbit pipe and the s3fs userspace application ballooned to over 1GB of memory usage.
Tools have been built to help amateurs better share what they want. I guarantee Tumblr + Posterous + Weebly + fanfiction.net + wikia have far more 'amateur' sites and content on any topic you're interested in, than the entire internet in aggregate in 1994.
None of those things will produce a word document that looks exactly in Word like it did when I created it. This is the problem.
If the task you're doing with the account-information is asynchronous make it inaccessible from the web frontend (or writeonly, public key encryption) and run your cronjob on a different box with a different database user so that the data is safe if your public facing application gets hacked. Also do not store the passwords in plaintext and store the private key in the safest place possible.
Amusing, yes, but not illogical. If I'm away for work chances are I'll be at a starbucks 4 times a day, sometimes same at home. I love it. But I've never had a caffeine pill, and if I don't drink coffee I don't notice any difference. (Exception being that if I'm massively underslept one morning a coffee does have a really good impact on getting me to feel less shit.)
RAII is great, and should be used where appropriate. I'm not sure what it has to do with reference counting, though. Reference counting is just a particularly slow and unreliable form of garbage collection; I don't see why you would ever prefer it to a proper garbage collector.
I still don't have access.
Can you give an example of any codebase not using any new or delete at all that compares in size?

"Right or Wrong" are irrelevant in the face of "Practical or Not".

The fact that all large pieces of serious code use new and delete would either imply that the author is smarter than all the people writing that code combined, or (more likely) he did not consider something w.r.t. the practicality of not using them.

Let me go further and explain my original post in a more succinct fashion:

One giant [[citation needed]] on every claim in this article, including, but not limited to, new and delete being useless.
That typeface is terrible, I can't read that.
Sure, but it's needed if you have multiple users|mailboxes on the domain and you don't want to manually create the rules to forward mails for another users for each alias you|they had used.

Because I'm the only user on the domain I don't need the subdomain addressing.
I really wish there was a non-US alternative to this.
Shout out to Code&Quill. I had a notebook subscription. Canceled it the other day.

Manage subscription > Cancel.

No confirmation[1]. No incentive. No survey. No guilt. No ultra light grey buttons. Just click. "Your subscription has been canceled".

[1] Which isn't a huge issue, I feel, it takes about 30 seconds to re-establish.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8826656
> * Scala minor version are binary incompatible

Isn't it "major" versions?

AFAIK Scala has a version scheme of "epoch.major.minor"
Librem Key can do OpenPGP and uses FLOSS:

https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-the-librem-key/
Animating progress bars to decrease perceived wait times.

http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/progressbars2/Progress...
Thanks. Noted, and updated.
> Sharing knowledge in the business world, never. That's a great way to lose a job.

If you're working at a functional organization that rewards growth, never sharing knowledge will ensure you put quite a low ceiling on your advancement.

I've written countless promotion justifications. Been on countless promotion review boards at several very successful tech companies. Being the best programmer, or what ever, is only going to get you so far. Advancement comes from teaching and leading others. You do that by sharing knowledge.
I'm glad someone said this before I did. Male sexual harassment has been so normalized in media over the years that we can barely recognize it in the wild. As a man who has dealt with sexual harassment before, I feel like we should talk about it more.