jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It appears that the classification of any discussion at all, short of total condemnation was considered by many places to be "abusive". I have never in my life seen such aggressive comment-filtering, almost everywhere, as related to this topic.
Yeah, I'd guess that someone leaked to wired accidentally or on purpose (but the person wasn't cleared to leak) and to keep any info from getting out they gave Wired an exclusive on condition that Wired keep it's mouth shut until today.
Except on Windows due to Boots current lack of support.
Cortana made it from code name to product name, as did Windows 7.
These are really cool. It's amazing that Kubrick is as good at telling a story through photographs as he is at crafting one in a movie. The two mediums always struck me as being so unique from each other, that I wouldn't have thought that you could translate between the two.
Stopped explaining myself
The meaning of the phrase “Made in China” has now evolved to “Do not buy”.
It's operating 24 hours.

I bet the number of people working at a given time is more like 15,000.
> Protocol buffers also known as Protobuf

Classic SEO.
Soviet Union did exactly that - they had gulags.

North Korea is doing exactly that as we speak.
So, how to do we revive Persona? I mean, it's still around, but it's been kind of back-burnered by Mozilla.

The odd thing is that I didn't even know it existed until this whole conversation about Google dropping OpenID came up...and I use Firefox as my browser across all my devices, I use sync, I use Thunderbird, I follow the Firefox OS development with interest, and yet, I had no idea Persona was a thing.

I've always been uncomfortable with Google and Facebook being my "identity" provider, and I've been equally uncomfortable with the fact that they would happily provide those authentication services but won't accept them (i.e. I can login to thousands of services using my Google or Facebook account, but I can't login to Google or Facebook with any other service account). I simply don't like Google and Facebook owning my online life, but the convenience of it often trumps the ethical and privacy implications. I have, thus far, avoided integrating Google or Facebook logins on my sites because of the ethical implications, but I hate making my users keep up with passwords and usernames.

Why aren't more websites supporting Persona?

For my part, I plan to integrate Persona into the next version of my company website launching early this year, as well as our wiki and blogs. I may even try to figure out how to fit it into our products, somehow.

I found the following, seemingly maintained, extensions for Persona support in the apps I use for the websites I maintain:

https://www.drupal.org/project/persona

https://wordpress.org/plugins/browserid/

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Persona
Anybody can say that ideology kills during periods of intense famine, but on the other hand, that really doesn't seem that related to the ideology itself. I don't know what a better alternative would have been, but I'm not sure that Fukuyama-style liberal democracy would even work in times of desperate famine, let alone allow people to pull themselves out of their own misfortune.
How about we all agree that you can't/shouldn't, though? Because taking a contrarian position for no other reason than the fact that you literally can does nothing to advance a discussion.
Do I understand correctly that the encoding is only done to obfuscate the URL from automatic spam filters? So the choice of Morse code was arbitrary - any other simple substitution scheme could have been used to the same effect (maybe very common ones like base64 encoding or ROT13 are already being checked for?).
To a certain point it is just grinding the hours out and trying not to drop the ball on too many people at once.

To help bring balance to the situation though I have reverted back to setting a standard weekly schedule. Basically, set a schedule saying Tuesday and Friday you are doing Sales, demo's and client followup. And then the rest of the week you work on product. Or reverse it if the needs are reversed. But you get the idea. Of course, when you do that it doesn't mean you ignore calls/emails. Instead you immediately respond and schedule time on the next day/time available and in that followup make sure you aren't missing an immediate issue or hot prospect. Use your calendar of choice and just schedule yourself in detail.

Like I said, I am doing this (again) and it is helping me refocus a lot, but in fairness I sometimes struggle still putting off a demo until another day so I catch myself sometimes doing a "quick" demo or talking to prospects when I should be finishing something. Every time I do a non-critical (e.g. service is not down) activity out of turn, I wind up kicking myself later because rarely is the case where it has led to a sale or where it was something that could not wait 1-2 days while I finished what I was in the middle of.

As for sales, I think if you haven't already you really need to identify how people find you and how you get them to signup. If this process is primarily human, that is a key if not primary place to focus a lot of your efforts. Signup and on-boarding need to be automatic as does the ability for a person that hits the marketing site to understand the products value proposition. Small quick video(s) and image walk-thru's help from what I have seen. It doesn't mean you stop being human and talking to everyone on the planet that will listen, just that you need the research and on-boarding process as smooth as possible so that you don't get overloaded doing work a computer should.
No, I've actually just clicked the wrong reply button. My apologies.
Reddit hasn't been about sharing links for some time now. They added image and video hosting and some subreddits disallow linking to third parties. So instead of linking to the source it is all reuploads or screenshots of tweets. It's quite sad actually. Also probably copyright infringement in a huge number of cases.

Probably good for reddit though. Now instead of people following the sources they stick around on reddit hoping to see it again.
How are you generating revenue? I don't see any ads.
> You will then likely also have to renounce your old citizenship.

While that may be true to obtain citizenship, it won't be necessary anywhere for permanent residency.

Citizenship is nice e.g. if you want to vote locally but isn't really necessary for anything else practical. Permanent residents will have equal access to health care, they have the same freedom to move elsewhere in the EU, etc etc.

Citizenship might help if you want to commit crimes with no risk of being deported though, so maybe look into it before your first bank robbery.
I'm not sure you took my point. FirstData is the largest merchant acquirer in the country; it's now privately owned, bought for $30B. It used to be part of American Express, as an interesting sidenote. These are entrenched industries, and you can't simply change them over night.

Out of curiosity, have you worked for a +$10B business?
Josh nails it here. The whole reason I created Dungeon Adventure was because I didn't like the "no choice" games and the adversarial choice games couldn't engage both of us. Connect4 against a 4 year old is fun a few times, but then gets old.

My simple RPG allowed me to have fun building the dungeon and setting up the scenario and my daughter has a blast smashing the monsters, collecting the treasures and saving the day. Kids that age really respond to following a story, which isn't available in any board game I've come across.

As far as decisions, there are tons even without introducing extra things. You have to:
1. Decide which hero attacks which monster (gang up vs spread attacks out strategies)
2. Decide which paths to take through the dungeon
3. Decide which heroes get which items you find.
4. Decide when to buy and use food

Could we fix Candyland? I would give the kid 4 cards to hold in their deck and let them choose a card to play each turn. At the end of each turn you draw another from the top so you always have 4. You'll learn all about taking turns and following directions while seeing how your choices affect the game.

I just fixed Candyland. You're welcome, Hasbro.
For sure. And it's why frankly in my opinion it's very hard to scale software development effectively beyond 25-50 engineers. After that politics and faux-meritocracies take over as people lose personal touch with each other.

Not that small companies can't be hell, too.
So you talked to Jack Ma? Lol you read a bunch random speculation about how he’s missing when there’s no proof. The. Try to construct a narrative from it
> So 9 cents in India is equal to 30 cents in USA. Now, that is 30 cents per GB and not 1.91$ per GB.

I couldn't get this from your earlier comments. I get it now.
Weird that you don't see any text. In FF on Linux it works as expected. What system are you on?
Thanks for the suggestion, I have been looking for a good note-taking app forever, this looks interesting!
Israeli here as well. The Haredim way of life is less than 250 years old.

Also, name calling authorities you don’t like is a not even a national sport, it’s a global one.

There’s a lot of good arguments against them, but they require more nuance.
Sorry, "you" was meant as the generic "you" in that post, not specifically "cookiecaper". And I also tried to make the point that I'm being nonpartisan, too, it is simply that right now I lack the ability to name a name of an organization on the left that is actually trying to clean house rather than further entrench the current power structure. If I could you better believe I would.

But much of what you outline is actually happening to some degree, and events have forced me to admit that my previous cynicism was too much; if the ruling elite do manage to take civilization to hell in a handbasket, I can no longer say that everybody sat passively by and let it happen. "Most people" would still be fair, but there were people who saw it coming and however misguided you may think they were in their efforts, they actually did try to do something to stop it.

(I have to say "civilization" because the same basic disease seems to be everywhere, just not equally concentrated. Claiming that one country or another has more or less is just another distraction technique.)

(My position is that I'm a libertarian, but also a pragmatist. I would love to see a popular leftist movement rise up on the basic platform of "We want to care for people and we believe in a much more powerful and muscular government than this 'jerf' asshole thinks is wise, but it does no good to anybody to offer them unlimited health care and amazing retirement benefits and protected jobs for life and all this other great stuff if the government then goes bankrupt in five years, at which point all those guarantees become void. First we must make sure we can afford the things we want to do, then we can do them." In my opinion if you really believe in liberalism and leftism then the absolute most important thing for you to do right now is join hands with whoever it takes to make government spending sustainable, because without that basic foundation the government will not be able to do anything you want it to do, when it no longer exists. I'll happily argue about how much government is wise after we've made sure it'll still be there in twenty years.)
What photo? The one I see looks right to me.
The only program that I think beats Amazon Prime is Zappos VIP, which gives you free next day shipping. Zappos seems to hand out VIP memberships right and left to keep customers happy.

Of course, now Zappos is owned by Amazon.

Edit: I have both Zappos VIP and free student Amazon Prime, so I'm pretty happy sending my cash to Amazon (not to mention AWS).
Disabling an entire domain name remotely is different from seizing physical counterfeits or evidence -- in its impact on speech rights and other legal activities, for example. We know what was alleged against these sites, but not their possible defenses -- that they were selling designer lookalikes without intent to deceive, for example, or providing DMCA-compliant search and user-contributed content services.

How do you know IP violations don't make our society and culture richer? The USA's greatest period of growth -- over 100 years ago -- and China's more recently were both characterized by lax IP enforcement compared to slower-growing areas.

In your scenario about software piracy, it really depends on whether the pirated copies primarily displaced sales, or went to young/poor/loosely-attached users who wouldn't have purchased at the actual price, anyway. It is not the case that if a wand could be waved and all piracy prevented, every pirated copy would be replaced with a paid copy. Given that, some piracy in OS, office, and even game software is thought to help top publishers by making their titles/franchises more popular. It's not at all the same as 1 copy made, 1 sale lost, someone loses more than the 'pirate' gained. Sometimes it's a boon for the pirate and neutral-to-mildly-beneficial outcome for the rightsholder.
I agree, It would be very cool to see some breakthroughs in AI from Google.

But what I meant was that some sort of an editorial process would help in these situations, and the people that usually get up in arms about organic results and anti-trust should accept that this falls under first amendment rights and can be very useful in improving results.
Linear versioning has the baked-in promise that version N is no longer needed because version N+1 is substitutable for it. If that's not true, if apps legitimately depend on specific revisions of the library code (because its authors are not maintaining backwards compatibility), those library builds need different names so they can coexist in the filesystem and dependent apps can name the one they need. There's no reason to treat them as versions of the same package, because switching between them is effectively migrating from one dependency to another (which happens to have many authors in common).

> why should it be npm/RuyGems/CPAN/easy_installs/pip's responsibility

Because they each have far less work to do than the growing number of spur-of-the-moment integration targets that rpm and dpkg would face. It deters them from requiring features which rpm and dpkg don't have, and which they aren't prepared to implement in a way that every sysadmin everywhere is willing to rely on. And it's they who are creating the problem.

> recognize files outside their native database

How useful would it be to auto-detect random crap that's been smuggled onto one particular production box behind everyone's backs? You wouldn't know how to uninstall it cleanly, nor what its dependencies currently are (so you could ever safely uninstall anything without potentially breaking it), nor whether it'll be okay to clobber it with a legitimate version from a repository (or what might break if yum let you do it). I'm not that familiar with dpkg, but those are awfully fragile results just to avoid writing an rpmbuild .spec that definitely states these facts and then runs ./configure && make install.

--

If I seem like I have a grudge, it's because we spent months digging ourselves out of the hell of "this code is just somehow there on a few of our machines, but we don't know which version it was for which files, how they got there, or how to cleanly deploy a new server that actually works." Unfortunately the pain wasn't borne by the slobs whose negligence got us there over years. That's a drawback to startups—between failures and turnover, too many authors aren't required to work with reckless implementations long enough to learn how bad some ideas really are.
Mandino specifically discusses Franklin's method in Chapter 3 of "The Greatest Secret In The World"; this is from the Kindle edition thereof, the only one of Mandino's books I've seen, so I don't know if earlier editions or Mandino's original book mentioned it.
I don't think this matters as much as you think it does for two reasons.

First, the relationship your computer has with the DNS is as a "stub resolver", meaning that you rely on real DNS resolver hosted somewhere else to do the walk from the roots to the leaf names. DNSSEC doesn't protect (or, more appropriately, disrupt) stub resolution (a different protocol, TSIG, does this instead). If Comcast operates the real resolver and all you do is aim your computer at it, you have little opportunity to "disagree" with the results they feed you.

Secondly, regardless of how much noise people may be making about DNSSEC's impending deployment (and it's been impending about as long as IPv6), the prospects for widespread DNSSEC adoption aren't great. It solves very few problems, is a bear to administer, and creates operational problems. Most of the Internet is (thankfully) oblivious to its attempted deployment.
From friends who have worked at FB (in particular, both FB and Google) they report that the culture is a little strange and affected: Mark and others put a big emphasis on the importance of their 'hacker culture,' but try to create said culture through the exhortations to protect it... [?]

Anyway, I can't vouch for Facebook one way or another, but I can say that Google certainly has a very strong culture, although it waxes and wanes depending on where in the company you may be, and can take on different characteristics by business function. Also, you really can only get a certain snapshot by visiting, versus actually working there!
True, but that was because no one had social media. Now that a big majority of people have it and interact over it, if you don't have it the chances of being marginalized are higher.

When everyone was using SMSes to chat, how did the kid that did not have a phone felt?
And people were social before phones existes too.

I think that being outside of the main mean of communication is going to have an impact on your social life, independently of what the medium is
Which similar posts?
> [riot? attempted coup? insurrection?]

Putsch

"A secretly plotted and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government"

Though this wasn't so secretly plotted.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/putsch
> Religion is not a tool. It was not designed by anyone. It's an emergent phenomenon, a product of culture.

It absolutely was designed. Thoughtfully and explicitly.

You might find it interesting to learn about how the new testament was assembled. Many books did not make it into the final version of the new testament, left on the cutting room floor of history. The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew for instance has a teenage Jesus fighting dragons. Check out the New Testament Apocrypha. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament_apocrypha
The projected natural end of this pandemic would come within a year when the majority of the population got infected. As a society we've decided to not let this happen. Which is why the numbers diverge from your simplistic formula.

> A fast spreading variant could overall reduce deaths over the next 5 years.

What do you mean by this?
That bit about it stepping through evaluation of a formula is interesting to me. I've never seen an IDE offer that before, and it'd sure be useful sometimes.
I fail to decrypt who TJ can be
“A specific event that can be attributed to the particular type of misinformation spread by FOX”

So really you are just saying this was caused by FOX.

You could have just said that.

In my view our political environment is much more complex than that and involves a pattern of escalations which can’t be so reductively disentangled.

I accept that you disagree with this.

When the NYT misrepresents something, for example, it contributes to the narrative of distortion just as much as when FOX openly claims there is distortion.

FOX news as far as I am aware has maintained that there is no evidence of election fraud, and called the election for Biden very early, so it’s not clear how you attribute this event to them. I don’t watch it, so I could be wrong about this, but it wouldn’t change the point.

The problem is not so easily attributable to a particular media outlet.

I wish it were that easy.
That situation would be more similar to this one, but it isn't their point.

I think the grandparent was indicating that this is mostly a debate between the positions "Facebook should be broadly permissive of legal speech" and "Facebook should shape the discussion in ways that benefit the public good". The argument that Facebook has a moral right to do whatever the hell they like is mostly just a cudgel of an argument, though, to be picked up when it suits whichever of the two "real" arguments you support.

One refutation of this "private property argument is instrumental" position is the one the grandparent mentioned: That the people making the argument would "support" Facebook taking down speech that they deem "just". If the private property argument only holds for taking down unpalatable speech, it's not a position that's held honestly.
Having been on the other side of this, archaeologists don't take pictures to look good, but for documentation. There's typically also some ethical concerns if human remains or sacred sites are involved. Nevertheless, there are some photos in this article:

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/2-500-year-old-aphrodite-t...
That's ok. I care about data hygiene. Signal cares about data hygiene. I don't want old data lying around and ready to be used by nefarious third parties at any point in the future. I'm sticking with Signal as long as they stay true to their values. I don't need it to be #1.
> The DOJ bringing charges has to be step one towards that end.

Sure. My point is that it's quite different from a conviction.
It was a real downer seeing how low-res the images are, they look so cool!
Yeah, me too. If they don't have this in 2021 their IT staff should be fired.
Actually, even n=10 is really nothing, not being able to do that kind of calculations by hand reasonably quickly is more of a reflection of terrible basics, which isn’t surprising in American high schools.
pipes...?
You are of course right that I was being neither tactful nor political and wasn’t really expecting to sway anyone already committed to the idea. However I’ll ask openly and genuinely: what does anyone stand to gain by allowing a wealthy individual to cudgel away their right to access a large swath of beachfront as enshrined in the California state constitution? To what benefit to ones self can you possibly point?
After years of trying to confront the source of my depression, I found out that I inherited incurable bipolar disorder and the only proven effective treatment is drugs. How do you think I should confront that?
“Societies grow inexorably more complex until one day they become really simple again (collapse)”
I'm not redefining anything. I'm asking whether you accept it to be possible that one day a flaw will be found in arithmetic, leading to a contradiction. An example might be proving that 17 is prime on the one hand, and then finding a factorization of it on the other. The fact that arithmetic is widely used throughout the world without contradiction does provide some evidence that it's consistent, but other famous theories (e.g. Newtonian physics) have been found to be not quite right. Maybe the flaws in arithmetic only show up when really huge numbers are involved.

Stated another way, how do you know that arithmetic is "internally consistent"? Why do you judge it to not be among the "potentially inconsistent axioms" of stronger systems? If it's just due to our empirical success with numbers to date, then you should admit there to be some small chance that we've just not discovered the problems, to date. Or, you can prove arithmetic correct in some stronger system, but then how do you check the consistency of that system? At some point, you have to rely on your intuition about what the axioms are supposed to be about.
That's a good point and might eventually lead to inefficiency or looser team cohesion. Management reaction to strong growth probably feels more like Apple than Microsoft, but maybe with less angst ;)
Thanks for the share, have fixed.