jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Baseless lawsuit.

NSO, your actions have repercussions. You choose this path, you abused it, you get banned. Take some accountability for your actions.

>“Blocking our private accounts is a hurtful and unjust move by Facebook,” the statement said. “The idea that personal data was searched for and used is very disturbing to us”

hurtful? To your reputation, business model or what? Stop trying to play the victim when your a bad actor. You know very well FB sells this data that YOU submitted.
https://i.imgur.com/k23xtZz.jpg

A screenshot. If something is posted here and HN expect people to have a constructive discussion about its content, then that resource should be free to read or HN doesn't really want people to actually discuss the content of the source. HN can't have it both ways.
Hey, this is pretty cool! I made something similar but I was doing image comparison via cross-correlation template matching using OpenCV: https://github.com/jidicula/tinderizer.

A small correction to your README though:

> These pictures are in very low definition though.

There is a way to access the original (highest) resolution of the submitted images through the API. My code picks the lowest-res one though since I'm doing image comparisons.

However, looking at what the output is now, it looks like Tinder has tightened up their API since I wrote this. It used to be the case that each teaser profile that likes you would have all of its images accessible through the API. This is no longer the case, and only 1 image is accessible for each profile that likes you.
All businesses in China beside your neighborhood street vendors, noodle joints, corner stores, etc, are required to have a Communist Party Commissar stationed at their top management to control the company when needed.

Major companies (e.g. Huawei, BABA, BIDU) are already "Party owned" (via some complex ownership structure to hide the party behind), or in the process of being transferred to Party owned.
Note: Party owned, not state owned. In China, the Party owns the State, and the army. (Can you imagine Republican (or Democrats) owned the US Army?!)

You may start out as a "no-one-cares" startup business, but once you get to certain size or they recognize you as a potential unicorn, they will coerce you to give up part or all of your ownership or insert their Commissar, because the Party cannot stand anyone beside itself to have any influence.

It is the policy of China under Xi Jinping since he gained power, and we are now seeing the effect of it.
That's not correct. The California Constitution has always made beaches public[1].

The Coastal Commission was established in 1972 to improve access. The act grandfathered in properties with no access, but requires any improvement or change to pull a permit with the Commission. The Commission requires public access when approving any permit.

[1] Tidal beaches only. Beaches on lakes can be private
> private equity bubble

It's institutional investors (think pensions) chasing returns because of low interest rates.

PE's played a role in a lot of things we're currently seeing.

I wouldn't characterize its role in tech quite as propping up a bubble. Easy money means companies are trying a winner-take-all approach, loss-making longer, and delaying IPOs. Tech IPO performance has been mostly lackluster because of a lack of profits and private investors already captured gains from most of the growth.

Outside tech, they've been buying up medical companies, raising out-of-network rates, leading to surprise medical bills.

They're also under fire for leveraged buyouts, but turning around distressed assets is what PE's historically been good at, and for all the noise about leveraged buyouts and store closures, these were already sinking ships. PE didn't kill Toys R Us, Amazon did.
You should have simply switched to sticky keys, so you don't have to press keys simultaneously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_keys

Also, you can change the keybindings.
It is, but as significant number of people have not gotten the memo, or have been told but refuse to accept it.
I think Node.js is neat but could someone tell me how it's so awesome.

When Rails came it was truly awesome because the language it used and the framework was so much easier to work with then Java or .Net and some would say better designed then Perl or PHP.

I don't see how Node.js makes developing so much easier than say Rails (unless of course you have a crazy high IO kind of app, which most don't)
Google used the Apache Harmony version as the basis for Android (Until Nougat).

Some of the argument was over whether the Apache licence inherited by Google from Harmony was valid, or whether Harmony itself was in breach of copyright (and therefore had no valid licence Google could use).

Once the courts decided APIs are copyrightable the argument switched to whether Google's was Fair-Use, with a jury saying it was, federal appeals court saying no, and thus it ended up at the Supreme court.

Here's a Groklaw [0] copy of an early (April 2012) Oracle argument asking for Jury instructions around the licence topic that explains it well:

"As made clear by Apache itself, Apache never had a license from Sun or Oracle for Harmony. Apache had no rights to Java technology that it could give to Google"

[0] http://groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogle-959.pdf
My father has a 2015 i3, and it's more than fast enough off the line- my Bolt is the same way even though they are both 6+ sec 0-60. EVs have instant torque and in fact are a bit scary to me as both the i3 and Bolt have small wheels.
>>We're talking about economics here, the social science where it's notoriously difficult to conduct controlled experiments?

Yes. All sciences besides physics, chemistry and biology cannot test theories with controlled experiments. This extends to epidemiology and climatology too.

It doesn't mean we dismiss the scientific consensus on vaccines, climate change or price controls.

>>A repetition of anti-minimum wage dogma from popular persuasive economics books and places like the WSJ and AEI

If you want to keep calling widely accepted scientific principles, like price controls creating economic deadweight losses, a "dogma", we can just end the discussion.

>>Looking at historical experience, there is no obvious relationship between the minimum wage and unemployment: adjusted for inflation, the federal minimum was highest from 1967 through 1969, when the unemployment rate was below 4 percent—a historically low level.

Because minimum wage almost always is extremely mild in its application, in only affecting something on the order of 4% of jobs. Combined with the challenges to measuring impact that come from labor mobility, minimum wage restrictions don't create easily observable effects.

Any significant application would have effects that couldn't be ignored or obscured by left-wing ideologues.

In any case, my point is that the principle of price controls being harmful is widely accepted in economics, due to a century of empirical observations. It's unsound to create legislation that conflicts with the principle.
You make it sound like reviewing these documents is free.

If a company ask me for similar paperwork (which they have) I have the paperwork in order and ready, they sign a NDA and I am sending them. It's just a step in the sales process imho
On that line of argument, you should use the roadster, not the model s.

The Model T wasn't the first car, but it was the first widely accessible and usable one for the masses. Tesla's innovation is more comparable to that.

That said, Elon should have never been in charge of a public company. He's good at challenging the status quo and should keep doing that in new markets. He's a terrible person to be in charge of an established company (which tesla very much is now!)
Ho you mean Amazon AWS?
I believe media de-regulation exacerbated the effect.

On a more philosophical level one might say that all media is biased - and that those who nakedly display their subjectivity are easier to parse using critical analysis than those who mask it through centrist positioning in an ideological spectrum.
this. I think most office workers couldn't care less if they run Windows. But they know those Excel hotkeys as well as any Vim hacker knows the escape key.
There are examples posted elsewhere in this thread, although from a beta version.

Also, Opus already blows any requirements, either in terms of latency or in terms of size. Adding such unreliability for minimal gain seems foolish.
>there are more reliable mechanisms both to observe the consequences of not being good enough.

Are there? Doctors are one of the main causes of death nowadays and it doesn't appear to exist many pushbacks.
Perhaps each of these cohorts are speaking out of their own biases and not any kind of impartial findings
Why not ask for something impossible for them to agree to so they leave you alone? For example "I'll become an informant if you pay me 2 billion per contact and 1 million per week while being an informant". Will that not work?

Besides why didn't you go for a lawsuit? They threatened and harassed you. They threatened your employment, your livelihood.

Not to mention you claim to be a security researcher and the first thing on your mind wasn't to record them and take down their details to publish later on internet.
It's a good punishment. It would prevent those who visits you to do certain work and with their face and name everyone will know what they are, where they live. In case people want to visit and leave some very justified feedback about the FBI.
It's perfectly legal to record them since they entered your home/property. Always, always record!

I bet they left a card so you could contact them. Even publishing that alone is good.

FBI is very afraid of the public light because of this in my opinion illegal stuff they do. FBI must have positive PR. Bad PR means less trust, less informants, etc.

A a security researcher you are supposed to know this stuff. How to deal with FBI, etc. I'm disappointed.
There aren't dollars riding on whether a wikipedia story makes the front page.
Interesting. Do you think it's the same reason car manufacturers always put either 'z' or 'x' into the model name for a 'sporting model'. The list is endless, it's easier to find a sports model without these additions. Coverage is near-complete if you add 'GT' and/or R into the list, but these speak to 'grand touring' and 'racing', whereas 'z' and 'x' do not.
We're not really in the habit of announcing products before we've launched them (although we've already pre-sold this product to several customers). If you work with a newspaper we're not already working with, give us a call at (888) 850-2497. We'll schedule a demo for you after we've launched our initial customers.
I would, but the Solstice is passed :P

Obligatory_Bad_Xmas_Song

Heretic's Christmas Carol

God rest ye merry Pagan folk,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember there's no evidence
There was a Christmas Day.
When Christ was born is just not known,
No matter what they say.

Glad tidings of logic & fact; Logic & fact.
Glad tidings of logic & fact.

There was no star of Bethlehem;
There was no angel song.
There could have been no Wise Men
For the journey was too long.
The stories in the Bible
Are historically wrong.

Glad tidings of logic & fact; Logic & fact.
Glad tidings of logic & fact.

Much of your Christmas customs
Come from Persia and from Greece,
From solstice celebrations
Of the ancient Middle East.
We know this so-called "Holy Day"
Is but a Pagan feast

Glad tidings of logic & fact; Logic & fact
Glad tidings of logic & fact.
Am I missing something, or is this article just another variation on "my CS program didn't prepare me for my particular career of choice because it didn't teach me everything I needed to know on day one?" You can make this claim about any CS program you want and how it should teach agile development practices or Ruby or version control or whatever particular thing you've found useful during your day job, but that really shouldn't be the measure of a degree program. I think an undergraduate program should be measured in two ways:

- Does your education enable you to identify general types of problems and know how to solve them? (as in "oh, this can be expressed as a graph search problem and I can create an admissible heuristic, so I can use A* to find the shortest path between these two points, done")

- Did your education provide a solid enough understanding of the fundamentals to enable you to learn most things that you don't understand fairly quickly?

That's it. How hard is it to learn git (or your source control of choice)? A particular development methodology? iPhone programming? The average turnaround time I've seen from hiring a new college graduate to having that person be a meaningful contributor to a large project is between two and three months. I'd much rather that CS programs keep preparing them for more and different theoretical things instead of limiting that for the sole purpose of trying to make that transition period a few weeks shorter.
Lots of corporate logos give up on being readable and instead go for something stylistic, and only vaguely based on letters. Look at the LG logo in the top left of this page:

http://www.lg.com/us/index.jsp

Ford could have gone down that route as well, if it wanted to.
Merry Christmas! May your unauthorized performances bring you and yours happiness through out the year!
Yep, programmers will screw this up, and that's where good docs and good easy to use implementations come in.

I also believe there's a market for auditing people's use of services like this. At the point where programmers can screw it up you just can't invent better tech to make them less stupid, so a better approach is to have social elements. Badges saying they're audited, documentation, good examples doing it right, well done APIs, etc.
Or if you've ever used a Dell computer. :)
Thanks for your response, although I expected some guidance.
Yes, and it's connected to an Imperial DarthTouch.
Android phone encryption: http://www.whispersys.com/ -- the good sire @moxie_ makes it. I believe it's supported on the nexus one and nexus s.

They all at some point will have the source code available, though until that occurs I've only got redphone / textsecure installed. Great apps., great developer.
Thanks, it makes sense!
I think I read a lot. I also keep a list of the books I think everyone should read. That list includes around 20 titles right now. Twenty out of much, much greater number. Moreover, it seems that the rate at which new books are added to the list is slowing down.

The article is a typical NPR piece in that the unproven, unexplained assumptions that the author makes in the process of writing are by several orders of magnitude more significant than the thesis of the text. The thesis seems to be "there are lots of books, and you won't read them all". The assumption is that all books have equal value.

Frankly, if someone believes that any book has equal value to any other book, I wouldn't much care about that person's take on literature. To me, it's akin to listening to a "mathematician" who says that all proofs are valid.

My point is, the number of books that I would really miss reading is very finite and manageable. My problem isn't in reading them all, but in finding them all amidst the ever increasing amounts of garbage.
The learning part of the experience was definitely the most important part... A handful of teams built really impressive shippable products.

The hope or fantasy that your idea or your team will be one of those teams is part of what fuels and attracts people to these events. I didn't expect a Wayne's World type ending or anything.

I just acknowledge that I could have done more hustling, and pitched better...

Had I done a better job pitching/mingling my weekend would have been much different, BUT I'm not sure I would trade the experience I DID have with the team I landed on for anything (well almost anything...)
Whom cares what your local utility is up to. Convince your landlord, or your wife to allow you to install said units on the roof. Problem solved.
Kudos, love the software. :)
You can also see Graham Spencer at the beginning of the video. http://www.google.com/ventures/graham-spencer.html
You are "that guy". I didn't say we didn't know about this distinction, I said we have a better understanding. It used to be the case submitting originating email on port 25 was accepted. Now, if you have that configured, it's wildly considered that You're Doing It Wrong™.

Many email clients, like Eudora and Thunderbird, were submitting email on port 25 for a long time, in the clear, where the only protection was very loose source IP address restrictions for outbound, otherwise you'd be an open relay. Using different servers for inbound vs outbound mail submission was a relatively rare thing too, because the routing can be a bear to set up. SMTPS (SMTP over SSL) on port 465 wasn't official and was locally used where it could be supported (by the client) and where an admin had bothered to configured it. Many email clients didn't have support for even using a non-standard port for any thing mail related, so even once the mail submission port 587 was standardized it was often a problem getting a client to use it or providing authentication on it.

But even the OP is saying that fetchmail is a problem because it's trying to be an a full, transparent MTA when it's really a glorified MUA. The fact that fetchmail (and its ilk) talk MUA protocols to receive email (pop3, imap) and can then turn around and reinject that message into the mail stream using SMTP to implement local delivery is where a lot of the problems with fetchmail come from (such as munging the headers or creating email loops with mailing lists).
Yes - this is the root of most evil. It's perfectly possible to be far from center on most topics and still not "pick a side", but this is lost on more and more people.
I use a variation on pg's laptop-across-the-room-plus-no internet-on-dev-machine trick.

I need internet for what I do, but I keep all of my bookmarks (especially RSS feeds) on my laptop in the next room. The laptop is also at bar height, with only a hard plastic stool in front of it. So procrastinating for too long is uncomfortable.

I can still go to various distracting sites (I'm doing it now), but it's a decent speedbump (and noprocrast is your friend).
Firefox 3.6 with stupidity disabled (no js, no css, no referer, ...).
I use a Logitech G15, and it has a little switch on it to switch between "computer" and "gaming" mode. Since I rarely use(d) the super/windows key, I tend to just leave it in "gaming" mode. Without running into a post like this, I would have found it extremely tedious to click the icon type the application name, and then click it's icon.

While I'm sure I'm in a minority, it is always something to consider when writing shortcuts to consider that people may not have a key available.

I haven't tried recently but last attempt I believe alt+f2 did not work as a "run" dialog
People said the same thing about Mint, but things worked out pretty nicely for them..
Doesn't anyone use code for password?

{login(url='google.com',user='meric',password='sun');}
After seeing that Autodesk is finally iterating on some of their software to support the rapid protoyping/3D printing community in major ways, I'd like to see what kinds of tools Autodesk could come up with. I see Holo Studio as the MS Paint of "Holographic computing" or whatever we're calling it now.

Is that a killer app, I guess not, but if this HoloLens device is really running Windows 10, and the API's are baked into the OS, that puts it MILES ahead of where Google Glass was, and developers will be able to do something more interesting than take photos and share them on Google+.
Awesome! This needs a Google-Maps like database for billboards which everyone can contribute to, look at a billboard to detect its borders, coordinates are uploaded and downloaded by others in the same area.
I think that there are two possible definitions, and they get confused. This confusion does not help us to think clearly about the question.

Definition 1: Consciousness is awareness of your external environment. By that definition, my dog is conscious, insects are, and cars are becoming so. And if cars are conscious, then this must be a mechanistic property - it just takes enough sensors (and perhaps complex enough wiring).

Definition 2: Consciousness is awareness of your own awareness - being able to watch yourself think, and to think about thinking. By that definition, humans are conscious, but I'm not sure about dogs, or even apes. It is much less clear that this is purely mechanistic.

But when we have these discussions, it's going to be helpful to specify which version we're talking about.
So far I think I prefer the visualizations in http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html

For pure visual intuition, I prefer 3blue1brown's Essence of Linear Algebra on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...). Even though they're not interactive, the visualizations themselves are the most compelling and insightful.

Has anyone used both interactive texts? My initial impression is that the GA Tech text starts with matrices and applications to systems of equations (like Strang) while the immersive math one seems to start more focused on vectors and geometry with computer graphics applications.

Neither seems to have supporting exercises yet which I think really limits their use as primary texts.
But the author of this post mentioned a lack of support in apps like Zoom being a dealbreaker. I've also run into incompatibility with TeamViewer. And that is just going to happen whenever these companies get around to it. And if your work requires using such apps, that is just what you need to use.

I would prefer some kind of WebRTC-based screensharing solution, but I don't know of any that are preferred and many people just think of WebRTC as a security nightmare, and I haven't seen much momentum with it.
Oh no, that's no typo (hence the "What do you care?") below.
I don't understand why you need monads to get STM. orElse is neat, but there are other ways to do the same thing in imperative languages.
I can't vote you high enough.
Rescue time is the biggest thing that happened to my working discipline.
I don't even use the tools to block non-productive work, but seeing a report in which 70% of your time is spent on non-productive activities can be life changing.
Those examples do fit: Tyrosine kinase inhibitors turn an always-on enzyme into an always-off one, when the normal behavior is for it to act as an on/off switch according to the cell's immediate environment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlotinib#Side_effects

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatinib#Tolerability_and_adver...

Once the gene mutates in a cancer cell, it's never going to work properly again (unless all the cancer cells are killed, or the gene is somehow replaced). It's just less harmful if it's disabled than if it's permanently active.

Antibiotics tend to kill good bacteria in the body, too. Most people are willing to take a week or two of GI problems and some extra servings of yogurt in exchange for survival, but still, that's some collateral damage.

The common problem is, once one part of a system in the body begins malfunctioning, it's very difficult to fix that part without affecting the surrounding system, or other parts that work similarly but aren't malfunctioning.
> Jeff started to think - we have all this excess server capacity for 46 weeks/year, why not rent it out to other companies?

If Amazon rented out excess capacity after Nov/Dec, what did they do for next years Nov/Dec peak? Did they build up more capacity throughout the year and not rent it out?
What’s the one where it’s not worth launch an interstellar vehicle now because one launched in, say, 50 years would overtake it and arrive first?