jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I kind of disagree.

If there were aliens physiologically equal to us, I'd bet they'd come to a similar set of conventions and it (their copy of our western tradition) would be the most popular musical tradition in their planet: 12 intervals separated by the equivalent frequency distances, etc. They'd probably have different (saner) names for the notes, but it would be the same kind of music.
It just does not work like this.

Defence is a sovereignty matter.

I thought we knew this for 2000 years now, since Punic Wars.
Same in chrome on windows ...
And your alternative option is?

Do you still pay your taxes? Because with the way you talk I would call you a huge hypocrite if you did.
Business leaders have every right to comment on issues that affect their employees for whose health and safety they are legally responsible for.
I wouldn't way it neutralizes democracy, just makes it less effective. To me the core mechanic of modern democracies is control of society through legislative power and the democratic procedure to rotate those that have it.

Taxation, even if just nominal, is one of the most powerful proven mechanisms to control human behavior. This is effectively a tax on changing legislation, thus impeding the democratic process.

Effectively this says that the rights of the stock holders to profits are more valuable than the rights of the citizens. Which is a rule that has been historically enforced in various countries time and again.

No wonder this is secret. Everyone who gets most of their livelihood through labor and not capital investment are the unwilling benefactors.
Hey, guess what.

There is a visa category for immigrants with "extraordinary talents". It is the O-1 visa. Someone on the level of John Carmack or Jeff Dean, for instance, would have no problem getting one of these.

http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers...

H1B, by contrast, is primarily used for cheap bodies, at not-at-all high salaries. This website makes it nicely available, but the raw data is available from the Department of Labor.

http://www.h1bwage.com/

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/
> Why is RubySpec the special sauce that is so special that the devs not using it is horrible?

Assuming TFA isn't actively lying[0]: because it fixes the issues outlined which allow (amongst other things) cross-implementation and cross-version uses, because it tests behaviours not tested by the MRI suite anyway and because it's there as an extensive test suite for the language.

Oh, and because according to TFA it found regressions in just about every release it's existed for. Regressions which could thus have been caught before the release was cut.

[0] and I don't see any reason to assume otherwise, quite the opposite.
I collect toys. I don't think of them as investments. I just enjoy them and think they're cool. I feel like this is the way with collecting. If it's all about the return then you don't really get the full enjoyment out of it and you set yourself up for disappointment when you want to sell and your precious aren't worth as much as you thought.
Wasn't there an article on here the other day talking about how Rust will never make it into the kernel as-is? The sentiment seemed to be that the kernel developers simply reject the idea of packaged code and many of the modern paradigms in Rust. I only had a chance to skim it but it made it sound like Rust in the kernel would be forced/relegated to a very different usage and style compared to the way it is written elsewhere.
Amen. There's no way I ever do this in a real code base without checking that the result is what I intended.
From the article itself: "Even if Google adopts it, right now the tool is in some ways toothless."

So, kind of a baiting headline.
But what if your web server is named www.domain.tld?

Speaking personally, I don't even have www.mydomain.tld set up, as I just realized now when I tried to test it. That's ok, in my opinion www is mostly for those people who have learned "When I type something in Internet, it needs to start with 'www'", and my site holds nothing of interest for them :)
If I'm going to give Apple $1,000, I better get a monitor stand out of it at least!
Doing this today is actually way, way easier than it would have been back then. Today we have a wealth of information and much better tooling (QEMU alone makes the process of writing an OS so much easier). Writing a simple OS and compiler are both common school projects, so many programmers today have done it.
Points number 7, 8, and 9 in Vitalik's article are about your 1, if you cared to read it.

The rest of your points are as you say "currency" and usability problems, problems that a layer above will decide to solve or not. There is a lot of work being done on these points too, but Vitalik and the Ethereum 2.0 research teams are tackling a more low level set of issues.

Think of it like Visa, SWIFT, or the internet: those are also technical platforms that need to be engineered and thought about, often in abstraction of other issues like monetary policy and local regulations.

Many systems are built that way, where the underlying platform is kept "dumb", and requirements that need highly flexible enforcement (like the selective censorship/cancelation in your examples) are applied a level above, where humans are kept in the loop.

There aren't any protocol-level rules in TCP/IP that says network packets containing information about the Tiananmen square protests can't go from US to China, those rules are implemented in Chinese routers. Maybe if you had your say in the design of TCP/IP things would've been different, but this approach has so far proven wildly successful.
Are you sure the subject is a complaint and not an exploration? It seemed more to be an exploration of the energetic and computational cost of serving an average Amazon user. I found it fascinating. 30 watts and 88MB to load a page of otherwise static content does seem a little ludicrous, and I've definitely thought the same thing about much of the content I see on the internet that loves loading a bunch of crap that slows my machine down to a halt.
> I want to believe most tech people are mature and educated enough to not treat Google as a single block, hate everything they do or love everything they do.

They weren't mature enough to do that for Microsoft or IBM back in their days of dominance, why would you expect that level of maturity now?
The Western Markets are a drop in the bucket for anime. It is very much still a Japan-first industry.

One Piece is younger than both Lord of the Rings and James Bond but as a franchise has grossed more than either of those. [1]

Fist of the North Star and Dragon Ball are also in higher positions on this list than One Piece.

[1] https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/money-finance/the-...
"US President Joe Biden is expected to take a firmer line than his predecessor Donald Trump on human rights and the rule of law in Saudi Arabia, a key American ally in the Middle East."

What does this even mean? I highly doubt the arms deal will get canceled. That was arranged under Obama and Biden.
Please read the HN guidelines on commenting. You're attacking the commenter's account, assuming bad faith, and name-calling their argument a "rant" instead of responding to the actual argument they're making.

My account has been around for a long time and I agree with them. It's a well-reasoned explanation. It is correct on the purpose of incognito mode (to protect privacy locally only, e.g. from family) as well as the obvious point that if you're using Google.com while in incognito mode (very common), it's tracking you as it would anywhere. Websites aren't even supposed to know you're in incognito mode.

Incognito means and has always meant "fresh browser tab with no history". It has never meant no tracking.
But in context falling out of a plane doesn't kill you. The land you hit kills you.
Of course, that only helps with agents subject to the relevant laws.
There is the possibility of other programs making HTTP requests so you shouldn't assume trust on any request automatically. What you can do is give the browser a cookie once when your app starts which you then check on every request.

Oh and listen on 127.0.0.1, not 0.0.0.0. That way your app is not needlessly exposed to the network.
http://unbounce.com
This isn’t valued everywhere. I worked at a company where doing that kind of work (piling more hacks on top of what’s already there vs taking a step back and seeing if there isn’t a better way to do it while slightly improving what’s already there) was considered over-engineering things and actively discouraged.
> Once you send me a message, it's mine

Only at the most primitive level of morality. Over that basic layer, I'd still consider how the publication of the message may affect the other person.

For example: Do you think it's morally OK to publish nudes that your partner sends you? I don't think it should be illegal, but only a massive asshole would publish their (ex) partner's nudes.
To give one (admittedly not conclusive) datapoint: almost all US Presidents have been taller than the average American male, many of them exceptionally slow (Lincoln was 6'4"!), and the effect has become more pronounced in the modern era (height was less of an advantage in the days when there was no TV or photography so voters had less of an idea what you looked like.)

Also, the taller presidential candidate is statistically more likely to win the election: "In the thirty-one presidential elections between 1900 and 2020, twenty of the winning candidates have been taller than their opponents, while nine have been shorter, and two were the same height. On average the winner was 1.1 inches (2.8 cm) taller than the loser."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heights_of_presidents_and_pres...
This article is all over the place. The author starts with some history on how crisis and necessity for better life brings ideas to life, and then half the article is defending his view on the TSLA stock.

Apart from this, yes ,it’s cleat that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, and companies are forced to innovate as the current struggles provide them opportunities to shine.
No I totally get this. But the cynicism has been relentless since this online, and contagious, and many use it as an in joke, and this is serious stuff. People's careers... 6 hour conference calls involving tens of experts trying to get to the bottom of these things.

Most of these things are just people doing things outside of the language spec and then are somehow surprised when it doesn't work and then make a joke of it all and I don't see how that helps anything.

Again, it was funny at the beginning, but now I really wonder if these people just want to hurt other people by being abusive with this incessant snark. Perhaps this an Eternal September issue, so maybe you're somewhat new, but shitting on things is easy.
A good place to source trees is “Go Natives” in Richmond Beach. I went there this summer and they had hundreds of cedars and a great selection of native plants of all kinds.
> The company has created a board that can overrule even Mark Zuckerberg.

That is a nice fiction. Mark Zuckerberg has the majority of Facebook voting shares. Although it is a public company, it is personally run my Zuckerberg. If there is ever a real clash between the board and Zuckerberg, I would totally bet on Zuckerberg.
The actions that chiropractors use that end up injuring people were not mistakes. They're an intended part of the practice. Since it's not an evidence-based profession, that doesn't matter to them. It's not like someone went around and yanked a thousand spines and made sure nobody was paralyzed before chiropractic became a thing. No, there's not any body of evidence. On the contrary, modern mainstream medicine is based on which interventions tend to help people measurably.
Wow, you sound like you’ve lost all your trust to humanity.

While the conspiracy to cash on your misfortune is possible, it requires an orchestration of multiple corrupt well educated individuals.

I like to think that doctors are intellectually honest people. They might have monetary motives and and biases but they wouldn’t lie.

You can stumble upon a psychopath but most people aren’t and the psychopaths also have a reputation to uphold. It’s dangerous to lie at well documented events like a surgery.
True, but we still don't have enough independence yet (in France). If Agriculture were really seen as the strategic asset it actually is, we could instantly stop importations without starving.
Good points. But it is harder to make yourself not do something, rather than to do something. You could set a daily time or long goal for something that you want to do, but not doing something requires constant vigil. Thats why it can be pretty exhausting.
It's impossible to tell if there's any kind of point under all this "harsh" language.

I feel a bit ill after wading through this post. It's like accidentally stumbling upon hate speech. Disappointing that this got so many upvotes on HN.
This is a great demonstration of why to use CSS3 animations - Flash doesn't support the concept of graceful degradation. This page turns into a static image in Firefox/Mac instead of borking out with a blue lego piece.
And Hamilton's argument was (partially) countered by the 10th Amendment.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
> You say the injunction is worthless, yet the people acting on behalf of Miranda call it a "partial victory". Therefore you have made up nonsense.

They have an opinion, I have an opinion.

You could say their opinion is more educated than mine, but you could also say they have a conflict of interest; it's their job to get a positive result.

> Exactly, and the injunction now prevents them from using this for any other reason.

This injunction prevents the authorities from doing what, exactly, with the seized materials? By which I mean, what might the authorities otherwise want to do with the materials that they are now prevented from doing?
The cost issue is way overblown. $900 per officer is too much for the big cities - each officer in those big cities is paid at least $5000, and with pensions, vehicles, facilities costs, tco must be at least 20k. There's politics in those departments that's preventing camera introduction. A lot those cops in the big cities are the worst offenders in police brutality.

There's a lot of opportunity for startups to get into this game. Smartphones and tablets could be outfitted as cheap cams for the public to videotape their own encounters, fitted in cars, houses, and the side of buildings. Real time transmittal of video to cloud services so corrupt cops can't confiscate the footage.

There's also the huge opportunity in drone surveillance, sold to private individuals, police departments, and local neighborhood watchs.
Seife's book "Zero" totally blew my mind a few years back. Powerful words:

"If this is really what the agency stands for, I am sorry to have helped in whatever small way that I did."
Both. CL wanted them to stop scraping their site because they were republishing content without CL's explicit permission.
Your project sounds interesting. Do you get paid to write such things?
Can someone give a link to some code that will run under Rakudo Star? I'd love to start writing some of my one-off scripts in Perl6.
No, I guess it doesn't. They could do it, but NIH seems to rule.
Can't speak for the 8 zillion client apps out there, but in the web UI, if you click on the "in reply to @soandso" text below one of those responses, it'll bring you to the original tweet.

The better clients will expand to show the whole back & forth of the conversation, if it exists.
Was it there too? I thought it was just on the modrails site, which it still is. "Stupid graffiti" ... somebody doesn't like graffiti art.
Intel also lost that case where they tried to trademark a number (386 or 486). Looks like a precedent now that someone's trying to trademark a unit of measurement.
>Chinese-Indian-Russian alliance

I think hell would freeze over before those three teamed up.
> History is not what is teached in school but how a society sees itself.

Sounds closer to a definition of culture. And culture is never monolithic. Plenty of people are horrified by past atrocities committed on their behalf. And plenty of people don’t care.

But you don’t measure a society’s collective perspective by counting monuments. Monuments signify what was important to the people who made them. Not the people who see them.

For my money you’d do better to look at modern media of all kinds. What are the stories being told today, in news, in movies, in textbooks and in social media? They aren’t the same stories our forebears were telling.
HTML Imports was not an <include> mechanism though.

It was much more akin to JS imports. HTML files would be side-effectful, then you could use the elements they defined, like <x-foo>.
That MIT site is not forcing HTTPS and the link above is using HTTP. Talking about security...
if you write js, you can generate RSS file by using packages like https://www.npmjs.com/package/feed
That % assumes a perfectly functional healthcare system. If it gets clogged, the ICU % is a much better proxy for how many people would die.

Do you have stats for the frequency of hospitalizations in the 20-50 years old range?
The big issue with barrel connectors is how long they are. When the cord is yanked at a wide angle, the outer edge of the barrel connector acts as a fulcrum, turning the inner barrel into a first class lever. With such long barrels, the transfer of force to the tip on the inside can be enough to rip the connector off its solder joints.

USB-C largely mitigates this simply by being a shorter connector than most barrels.
Just avoid the G5s whatsoever. They're enormous, hot , and very poor value for money because they're the fastest Macs that can run Classic, which means they continue to get bid up by people with legacy software. For the same money you can get a Core 2 Duo which will be superior in every way provided you don't need to run MacOS on it.
This view seems to come from the mindset that the output of the economy is static and that there is a fixed amount of wealth.
Agreed. I always saw this as an extension of "fail fast" -- or an encouragement to experiment (even when those experiments aren't as successful as you'd like).

Sometimes, teams get stuck in 'analysis paralysis' -- and this was meant to be a type of antidote.

To the folks that say this is a type of anti-pattern, I say: Either you haven't seen this implemented correctly (it helps if you have kids that you want to encourage to explore) or "There is more than one right way to be creative".
The Swedish word for what happened is that the country is 'fredsskadat', i.e. 'damaged by peace'. The country has not seen a major conflict in more than 2 centuries which has created a zeitgeist in which it has left that sort of problems behind it and does not really need to prepare for the eventuality. The narrative goes along these lines: Why spend time and money in preparation for conflict when you can just talk your way out of it? If people just listened to all the reasonable arguments put forward they'll see reason and refrain from whatever nefarious plan they were hatching. The money spent on defence - civil and military - is so much better spent on improving the world at large, in spreading the blessings of the Swedish model abroad. This is not the whole story of course since Sweden does have a sizeable arms industry which exports to all sorts of countries which stray very far from the above narrative.

Conscription into the Swedish army was reinstated a few years ago, conscripts are now being called upon to help managing the SARS2 crisis. Depending on how the country emerges from the crisis there might be a chance of rebuilding part of the total defence system starting with the civil defence aspects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLxwhsJuZ44

His accent is a mash of both of those!
A study designed like this shouldn’t have data analysis before it is all collected.
Kubernetes is the 2020's equivalent of "nobody gets fired for buying IBM" of 1980s.
I have a strong feeling that the added complexity of Kubernetes does not give most use cases a net payoff for hobbyists. A lot of the quirks and monkey wrenching with both Docker and Kubernetes seems to be like problems that in many cases were solved in traditional _NIX systems decades ago. I'm sure there are benefits of throwing some of that architecture out for some scenarios but people shouldn't treat it as a new paradigm by default.
She gave a very canned response to her fainting while on video. She had the opportunity to look honest and forthcoming after Trump's obviously forged doctor's note and she wasted the opportunity.
I've really enjoyed playing with Quantopian, and I think that I will continue to play with it as an educational tool. However my algorithms so far have been very good at losing an awful lot of money, so I think I will be sticking with simulations for now :)
No printer, but it works great on the iPad! Thanks for sharing the link!
> that a person who became fat through overeating would thereby have fat children

I believe this is actually true. It's called epigenetics, & there was a great StuffYouShouldKnow Podcast about it: http://castroller.com/podcasts/StuffYouShould/1687893-Can%20...
Tech stuff can also go around in circles, the problem with just ignoring politics here and talking about it on other sites is that I haven't seen another community that I would rather discuss or hear their opinions on the subject.

In the 2+ years I've been coming to hacker news I don't really feel the subjects have changed, there has always been broader political, economics, education topics on top of tech and startups.
To answer my own question: No, it doesn't.
Aside from having fun debating - you honestly can't tell the difference?
Google in fact does run the Exchange server that you connect to; setting up Google Sync gives them just as much power as setting up any other Exchange account would.
"We launched just like the usual via TechCrunch and Wired, so we made our first dollar and got our first customer quite quickly."

>>IMHO, That is your problem, I would think. Customer development is something to be gradually worked upon.
In fact, You will have to pay your dues sooner or later. If not for the first customer then for the later ones.
My maths is pretty rusty but... I think describing Euclidean Geometry as wrong is a bit harsh - it's just the system you get when you treat the Parallel Postulate as axiomatic.

If you allow variation in this area you get Elliptical/Hyperbolic geometries - but these extend Euclidean Geometry, they don't invalidate it.
I wouldn't host anything in Hurricane Electric @ Fremont for several reasons:

Back in 2008 an HE based colo "McColo" were shut down because they were hosting a HUGE amount of botnet controllers, spamming operations, and similar shady operations. When they were shut off some security firms saw a 50% drop in spam going through their firewalls.

However it only happened after immense pressure on HE and other providers involved by Google, Washington Post and all sorts of other players.

HE would have been aware because large IP blocks were being blacklisted (I heard at one point all of HE Freemont's IPs were blocked by some of the more extreme SBL lists) but they turned a blind eye and/or claimed Ts & Cs were not being infringed.

More here http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10095730-83.html

I found that highly irresponsible, both in terms of the detriment to their other colo customers who were sharing the BGP-level bandwidth but also from a wider 'being a good actor' perspective.

Given that they are also on a fault line and that good connectivity to Europe is more important to me than Asia, I would prefer to host on East Coast.

I'm actually in Linode's New Jersey and London Colos, and they are both excellent.