jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Read the whole Genocide Convention of 1948:

> genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

> (a) Killing members of the group;

> (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

> (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

> (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

> (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Was CCP trying to destroy Han via the One-Child Policy? No.

Was CCP trying to destroy Uighurs via (b)(d)(e)? Arguably yes.

https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/vol...
There is nothing inherently good or bad ethnic diversity. What is inherently good is to not treat people any differently because of their ethnic/gender/sexuality... group membership. But that’s not the objective of HR diversity programs. Those programs are designed to introduce race based (or gender based, or sexuality based...) decisions into the hiring and promotion processes. You can form your own opinion on whether that’s a good or bad thing, but it’s certainly not universally agreed upon as a good thing (in fact it’s quite controversial), and it certainly is a common element in “progressive left” ideologies.

However, I would also very much appreciate knowing whether a company has such policies as early in the hiring process as possible.
Which implies that I'm being untruthful or lacking introspection of my own guilt, by objecting to this phrasing. By accusing we/us of experiencing a specific unconcious bias, the author has set up a trap. I want it phrased honestly without assumption about the reader.
You're right, it's not a good figure

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Bu...

TLDR:

> Last year, the city spent $305 million on homelessness. In the most recent one-night homeless tally in January 2017, the counters found 7,499 homeless people. People understandably divide the first number by the second and come up with the so-called fact that the city spends $40,672 per homeless person per year.

> “That’s a ridiculous number,” said Jeff Kositsky, director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. “If that was the case, I should definitely not have a job.”

> Of the $250 million he spent last year, two-thirds went to people who aren’t homeless at all. That’s the amount spent on rental subsidies, eviction prevention and permanent supportive housing. Those are great causes, but they’re aimed at preventing people from becoming homeless or to house the formerly homeless.

> But divide $57 million by 15,000 homeless people who need city help each year, and you see the city spends $3,800 per person per year. Or $10.41 a day.
Trivialize is probably not the right word. Exercising our right to bare arms is built into our constitution.

Firearms are most definitely not toys. A bring your gun to work day is a way for coworkers to bond outside of work as well as a great learning experience for the ones without much knowledge on how to safely and responsibly handle a firearm. It’s also a lot of fun shooting targets.
Any difference between this and the Quiet Modem Project? https://github.com/quiet/quiet

There are other data-over-sound libs listed here too https://github.com/ganny26/awesome-audioqr
I empathize with this person. It’s clear from his story he does not have a support network.

I think many of the decisions you make that are good decisions are helped by your friends and family. When people act alone or without support, they tend to make bad decisions. (Not to say this is always the case, just something I’ve noticed and felt in myself - I make bad decisions when I feel alone)

The first mistake he made was not seeking assistance after the stabbing incident. Either he didn’t trust anyone or he simply didn’t have anyone he could turn to to take him in. Many people would be able to go back to their parents or stay with a friend after something like that, but he felt that going homeless was the only option.

Even if I wanted to go homeless, I can think of a number of people who would literally drag me off the street and in to their house. Where was that for this person?

Surgery is a decision that an individual cannot make alone, it’s too overwhelming, you need support to get through that.
During my time at school 10+ years ago, the answer was no -- you had to fill out a FAFSA (with your parents' tax information), and you had to take the maximum allowed Parent PLUS loans before you could take federal or private loans in your own name. If your parents would not take the PLUS loan, you were SOL.
This is my standard now. Logs rotate all the time and it very convenient to have tail continue working without my intervention.
> To ask the opposite loaded-question, [rhetoric]"what will happen the first time there's a credible link to someone's life being saved by a Wikileaks release?" (Perhaps someone being released from Guantanamo Bay when they wouldn't have otherwise been? What if Wikileaks catches child-molestors in high places?)[/rhetoric]

This is where discretion comes into play. If they caught a child molestor, that'd absolutely be the kind of thing you should leak - a crime.

Leaking war videos to show people the real impact of a war - probably okay.

Leaking war plans and war logistics info - a heck of a lot more questionable.

Leaking anti-nuclear proliferation, leaking informants trying to protect dissidents - totally, straightup wrong.

Discretion. They just demonstrated they don't have very much. Why the hell would they release that Chinese informant info? That's crazy. That's nuts. That's against their own frigging goal of more openness in the world. They want publicity, and don't have a sense of judgment.

Leak crimes. Absolutely, yes! That's a public service. But don't frigging leak info that obstructs obviously good causes and accomplishes nothing.

> Should free-speech be hobbled for those situations where the secret-keepers screw-up?

Free speech has limits. Risking getting objectively good guys killed - like the Chinese politburo agent - is probably over that line.

Can you see any good reason to leak that info besides getting celebrity and attention? Let me ask you Joe - do you think leaking that was bad? I do. I don't see any good it accomplishes for the potential damage it does.
Same here. Definitely not blocked anymore...
I think Wikileaks main site is down.

"It works!

This is the default web page for this server.

The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet."

Going to their IP 88.80.13.160:

We are sorry,

WikiLeaks is currently underoing scheduled maintenance. We will be back online as soon as possible.
For status updates you can follow our twitter feed.

You can still visit our IRC channel:

* Using the web interface available here
* Using regular IRC client, connect to chat.wikileaks.org SSL port 9999
I'm objecting to the wording of the headline. I'm sorry if it seems like I'm arguing that there's no story at all.

The "China's official involvement in Google hack confirmed" headline is a serious overreach.
If you read the rest of his comment, you will see his explanation for the opening (and inflammatory) sentence.

A basic grounding in recent world history would also likely be useful. The point, if I may be allowed to interpret his intention, was to point out that having spent a couple hundred years marauding around the world toppling governments that didn't suit its ideology the USA has lost sight of other cultures, their values and just assumes their way is the way. Democracy, capitalism etc are not the only political and economic models that have any value. In fact, an argument could be made against both of these, but currently it seems that they work well enough - especially when you back them with sufficient number of nuclear warheads.

I am not making any kind of political point, I live here in the US and love it, but having traveled the world, I have seen first hand that there is actually a disconnect between how this country, in aggregate, thinks and how much of it actually works.
The cables simply do not "confirm" China's involvement in the attack. Such confirmation, it seems to me, would be a blockbuster story worthy of the front page of CNN.
In the latest iPad firmware, WebKit supports TrueType web fonts (http://blog.typekit.com/2010/11/23/ios-4-2-improves-support-...).

I think that makes it feasible to write an ePub reader that renders to WebKit, and does support WebFonts (or does iBooks support that already in the new firmware?) That is not quite 'install custom fonts,', but it would be good enough for some use cases.
Not really.

"public static final" is not particularly verbose. It's a one time upfront cost which defines a few flags. It's error free, since a typo in any of those keywords will be picked up.

It can also be automated easily etc.

But Ruby using 'end' etc instead of curly braces, that's going to add up to a lot of verbosity.
> Isn't this more about using strings to build executing code from untrusted input?

No.

Its about lack of care in building executing code from untrusted input. If you took data from the outside world, converted it into x86 machine code, and sent to it another system, you could still have the same problem if you didn't handle the input properly.

SQL-by-string-interpolation/concatenation is an easy target because its a common enough mistake that the same style knowledge of how to exploit the holes in it can be used against lots of targets, not because the transfer format from the poorly-built system generating the query to the critical backend system handling the query uses strings.
You're full of assumptions and guesses, but little facts, and you're assuming Office is more productive when it could easily be the opposite.
True. But here's what it would affect.

If you are a huge company, or a government, with an extremely large negative net worth (ie. you loaned loads of money). Deflation will cause :

1) your income to go down by more than the deflation amount
2) your loans don't go down

So deflation will kill large companies very quickly, and put governments in a really difficult position.
I'm mainly referring to the (more or less central to linux) concept that everything is a file, and that you pass informatation between programs by pipelining text (and, if necessary, saving binary information to file that gets read by the next process).
Past performance does not guarantee future results :)
> and another implementation in Perl

[sslh in Net-Proxy](https://metacpan.org/pod/release/BOOK/Net-Proxy-0.03/script/...) predates that even longer - first release in 2006.
It's a move that makes sense - his business of allowing you to share and download files puts him at odds with authorities. Given this nature of this business his clients would motivated to use secure communications. He will be able to market to the sort of people who need privacy and have used his services before.

If you should trust him [1], and if you like him are another matter - but clearly there's a business opportunity for someone who can market to the megaupload crowd.

[1] https://anoninsiders.net/mega-960/

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Edit: Changed 'like' to 'motivated' as it describes the situation better (see Zigurd's comment below)
This is just stupid IMO, but I'm not any economist.

You worked X time: got 1000€

Day 1: You can buy 1000 candies at 1€ each.

Day 2: Inflation, prices +100%: you can only buy 500 at 2€ each

This means that you just lost 500 candies or 500€. This means that what you worked 50% for nothing! You just lost 50% of your money, just like that! So who has my money? not me of course.

Let's think about deflation:

Day 1: You can buy 1000 candies at 1€ each.

Day 2: Deflation, prices -50%: you can buy 2000 at 0.5€ each

Now if you would only buy 1000 candies you would still have 500€ to spend on other stuff. You might save it or buy other stuff.

Let's think about none of them:

Day 1: You can buy 1000 candies at 1€ each.

Day 2: You can buy 1000 candies at 1€ each.

Today is the same as yesterday, I've worked X hours I buy Y candies, everyday. Why should it change? I know many factors change the price but why?

Well, if you can see inflation is good for the banks. They inject more money in order to make your money less valuable. So in other words you lose money (your hard earned money) while they are just printing easy money! So who is the dumb one? We can do nothing.

Again why deflation is bad?

I would buy to eat even if inflated or deflated, maybe less and more, depending by inflation or deflation. I might even buy higher quality meals.

If I need a new phone do you wait until the prices fall to 100€? No some people still buy them at 1000€. Some not, but is not inflation that will make that change. For example the same people that don't wait a few months for the price of Iphone to fall from 1000€ to 300€ will not wait for deflation to decrease the price from 1000€ to 800€. He just want the Iphone and it will buy it.

This is just a big lie thrown in my face!

please correct me if I'm wrong!!!
If you're just looking for personal sync (as opposed to collaboration), Syncthing [1] is a common recommendation, though personally I've had better luck with Unison [2].

[1] https://syncthing.net

[2] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Which is pretty much what I've seen on Android. When I go looking for something I find an assorted of apps but rarely are they just bad clones.
Nginx does this too under certain circumstances...check out the ngx_strN_cmp macros in ngx_http_parse.c. (where N is an integer from 3..9)
My way of thinking about it is this: if I can't resist twitter and/or my email long enough to get something done, is it really worth doing?
When it went down, I quickly realized my addiction to Twitter via irssi.
You seem to be implying that there is no such thing as a bad attempt at a trade. This would probably be true if all trades were rational but I am saying that the very act of asking for a trade biases it to going through, even if it is a bad trade for the person being asked.

This is because there is a social pressure to comply. My point is that you shouldn't be afraid to ask for something, but you should be aware of the line when you're taking advantage of a person. That line is gray and usually culturally defined.
I thought I just said that I would prefer to hire highly competent teachers to do the evaluations. Not third parties, not politicians, and certainly not Haliburton or the DOD.

Those who are competent ought to be able to recognize each other.
I may be in the minority (I doubt it), but I have no problem paying for content. This includes books and music. As a now-hobbyest DJ, Beatport was a godsend in terms of being able to get hard to find music and at a high quality. Paying 0.99 - 2.00 per track when I used to pay $10+ per vinyl with 1-2 tracks is fantastic. I think the trick with content is producing high-quality content - this is something people will pay for - and making it stupid easy to attain (This is why P2P music-movie sharing really took off. No need for figuring out FTP or other mechanisms/tools for the layman. Just search and download). I believe the success of the Kindle and the Apple App Store prove this point - it's drop dead stupid simple. Search and download, payment is done in the background. On the news side I'll give an example as well. If my local paper would stop reproducing AP stories and did real investigative journalism on local issues I would gladly pony up for the content. I think the problem with the music and news industries these days is they've effectively turned into content farms...and no one wants to pay for that crap.
I am Australian and I don't see why American programmers would deserve any special treatment over Indians, Kiwis, Saffies etc.

Anyway, Australians are more expensive than Americans at this point. The AUD has surged against the USD and property prices and the rents linked to them have spiralled out of control.
Yeah, it's not the same email as in my profile. But I just signed in and I see it's working fine here. Great product; I love it so much I pay for Pro. Keep it up Weebly.

EDIT: I've emailed Dave and they replied to my support request within the same day, for the record. I just didn't check my email.
Intel doesn't define how we will interact with computers in the future. They only enable companies like Apple or HTC (and so on) to do so.

Intel's results were very interesting but how Apple's products are doing might even be a bit more interesting for HN.

Apple sold every iPad 2 they could make. That's not newsworthy how?
Lower sales because they aborted the iPad 2 launch there? I'm not entirely sure how to interpret that sentence.
I'd like to do testing. The problem is that all the examples of these tests are of modules that work on simple data and produce deterministic outputs. In those cases, I can see how it's easy to set up an automated test.

But a large portion of my code is Monte Carlo, so the only way to see if it works correctly is to evaluate the distribution of the output, which will be correct only in a statistical sense. Moreover, the modules operate on classes with fairly complicated data, so it's difficult to mock up input data without running that part, too.

Why don't anyone show a realistic example of setting up an automated test on a real-life piece of software?
This tool uses elevation maps to estimate what areas would be underwater in the event of sea level rise: http://flood.firetree.net/
Why does it take you twice as long to include unit tests?

Here is one possibility: when you don't test it, you don't know it's broken, so you don't spend time fixing it. When you do test, you do know it's broken, so you spend time fixing it. Hence, writing tests takes longer.

Edit: But, if you only use 10% of your code, it is probably fine if 50% of it is broken.
You also can't schedule a sale for Christmas, because if you do, it will make your app unavailable for sale. So much for our "most important day".
Don't miss the response in thread from ST developer Yoz Grahame.

http://www.metafilter.com/98848/The-Post-That-Cannot-Possibl...
There is a central limit theorem joke in here somewhere, I just know it.
Some of you might remember the individual charts. This has been brewing as a side project since March last year when I first did the chart of the 200 most popular flash drives. Called it "The tourist map of flashdrives" at that time. Added more products and the interactive filters later in the year. Every time it got good responses here on Hacker News and even some press outlets picked it up.

So I decided to turn this into a full fledged project on its own this year. Got a proper domain name and made a homepage for it. So here it is. ProductChart.com!

Mission statement: For every product type, provide a nice overview of what is available in the market, plus the filters to choose the perfect product.
http://fallibleideas.com/emotions
Or is it just that using Flash for ads is an abuse of the tool?
Just the other day I was in a line at Sears' automotive department. There was a lady in front of me who had brought in a dead battery. She was about to leave it with the Sears guy when the man behind me said to her, "It's none of my business, but there are terminals attached to that battery that you might need when you put the new one back in the car" (or something like that). He was right, and they were grateful to him for pointing it out. I thought it was an interesting politeness, actually, that he prefaced his comment as he did. In his place I would probably have started out with "Excuse me, ...", which I don't think is wrong, but his more elaborate intro perhaps made it clearer that he knew he was butting in, albeit with the clear intent to be helpful.
...but a bitch ain't one. sorry.
This is one of those ideas I feel like I should have thought of.
Some logos are like "Kill Me Now, Please"
I run a hospital lab, and I see requests for testing for all sorts of bizarre things, largely by naturopaths, deriving from the "philosophy" expressed here. We refer to people who believe this stuff as being on the "Quest for Purity", a quixotic drive to remove all "toxins" from their bodies. Regardless of whether or not there are substantiated examples of low doses of chemicals causing effects, the worry about this problem being widespread is a very common delusion that consumes an enormous amount of attention and money, is preyed upon by charlatan doctors (or naturopaths, who call themselves doctors), and is incredibly confounding. The rub in these potential illnesses is that you can never actually remove any of these exposures completely, and thus you are required to continue to purchase diagnostics, cures, and consultations forever. If there is a true toxicobiologic effect in here, it will be essentially impossible to discern from the obvious and overriding psychiatric issues and financial conflicts at play.
https://www.getguesstimate.com (I'm not affiliated) might help with estimates like these.
Currently discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22655316.
turning stress and chaos into patient and focus (and using this time to do whatever is beneficial)
Big thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17072662

Little bits from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11951823, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11606453

Big from 2015, back when Professor Frisby was merely Dr Boolean: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9884616

(I've put 2018 above but it's not clear when the bulk of it was written.)
Ganja.js is exactly the opposite direction from what I want. The generality is not useful, the performance will be abysmal for graphics code, and the non-standard syntax is totally bonkers. It's a really cool experiment but not suitable for production use.
You should do stand up comedy.
Nearly everything arrives separately already with Amazon, so not that big of a change. They seem to ship things from different warehouses half the time.

I'm not sure I understand the blowback on how and when to push the button. It's only for amazon prime members right now, so presumably you'll press the button when you need something within the next few days.

Do you wait until you are completely out of something, drop everything and drive to a store and buy it, or do you plan ahead? Same thing here without having to go to a store or write it down on a list to remember.