jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Actually, I dont buy this due to the fact that piracy is largly around fresh content, where netflix movie library is fairly old.

Sure, it is getting better titles all the time - but given the fact that hollywood thinks that paying $30 to see a movie at home after it has been in the theatres for 60 (or was it 90) days is a viable price - You will always see piracy of the latest content.

Further - given the quality of many of the movies that get released it is even more reasonable to expect this to continue.

What will be interesting is when we see the first ever movie exclusively made for netflix streaming.

That will denote a new era.
I don't consider this a nice move. I actually hate it. It's like Gaddafi is going to stand longer than that and that we should only boycott him. We ought better supporting the rebellion or the people who are under the fire.

-- Misrata (24 April): http://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.101501680318019...
Yea, and I also learned how to become a doctor by watching House and ER, fish for Alaskan crab by watching Deadliest Catch, and learned all about how to have relationships by closely studying Friends and Entourage!

So no, that episode of Top Gear does not bring up any "good points" to draw legitimate conclusions about the American South. All it shows is that if you insult the average person enough, they'll get pissed off enough to deliver a few minutes of good footage. Meanwhile, back here in reality (not in TV land) -- if you visited down South you'd find that, given a broad sampling, Southerners are far kinder and warmer than us from New England. (p.s. I'm not from the South).

It gives me great concern that we as Americans assume so much truth from our 30 minute highlight reels.
Maybe it's because they refuse to use Lorem Ipsum in their mockups http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/magazine/6/4/...

"There is no “Lorem Ipsum” used as filler for content, either. At least one of the senior managers refuses to look at any mockups that contain such “Greek” filler. Doing this detailed mockup removes all ambiguity—everyone knows and can see and critique how the final product looks. It also means you will not encounter interpretative changes by the designer or engineer after the review, as they are filling in the content—something I have seen happen time and time again. Ultimately, it means no one can feign surprise when they see the real thing."

Update:
Just a clarification, I was being sarcastic. I'm a user and love the app.
I worked at their HQ in Redwood City briefly right out of college as an entry level programmer. The campus was very nice with a wonderful fitness center that I used regularly. They also had a pretty good offering of cafeterias. It was my impression that most of the employees were relaxed and never really stressed or over-worked. Pretty much everyone worked no more than 40 hours/week. So in terms of "work-life balance" or whatever it's called, I'd rate it pretty high.

Turning to the technical side, I quickly found myself feeling very under-challenged/inspired. The tasks I was assigned were mainly fixing bugs in a huge code base (granted this is probably expected and a decent way to get new hires up to speed on the project). They weren't very involved bugs and never took more than a day or two to correct. So I was constantly asking for more tasks to work on. Frankly, I got bored. I realized the environment wasn't for me. Having come from a very rigorous undergrad program, the difference was like night and day. So I found a startup to work for (something I always knew I wanted to do at some point) and tendered my resignation 10 weeks after starting.

However, I got the impression that each division/group/project at Oracle have fairly different cultures. Perhaps I would have had a different/better experience had I been on a different project. Though for what it's worth, a friend of mine who graduated a year later from the same school had the exact same experience at Oracle as I had.
As someone who has regularly used LittleIpsum at work (web developer), I was discouraged to see that Apple rejected it. I'd hate to see him overbloat the software to meet the "requirements" as the perfection of LittleIpsum comes from it's simplicity. It's the ideal kind of software for the Mac App Store since it's small, has a relatively limited feature scope, and (for now) is free.

I'm sure that we're going to see some other unusual/dubious rejections over the next month or two while both developers figure out the system and Apple refines it's internal requirements.
Finally a great way to customize Twitter and make it useful, while diving into some granular control. Awesome technology on the back end as well.
Golden Rule from Christianity

The Golden Rule comes from Hillel who was a Rabbi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_the_Elder#The_Golden_Rul...
They're playing it safe. I don't understand what the outrage is here. Apple launched the iPhone back in 2007 and took it slow, learning from their mistakes, to build the iPad in 2010. Its a very different user experience, despite being a glorified giant iPhone, it really is a completely different use case. When carriers and hardware people get involved, unfortunately when we're talking about Windows devices, things get notoriously nerfed. Sure, you get every feature known to man in a tablet, but the battery lasts an hour or two and the build quality is terrible. As a colleague put it, it lacks "sex and sizzle". They need to get this right the first time, or at least mostly right, much like they did with the Xbox.
> I would believe these types of pop-economics articles a lot more if they could actually find and example of a deflationary spiral causing a long term depression.

The US depression of the mid-1800s and the UK depression starting in the late 1920s are usually cited as examples, and the Fed's deflationary policy after the 1929 crash in the US is often cited -- even by libertarian economists -- as a contributor to the US's Great Depression.

> Prices for many things already do decrease regularly. Every time I purchase a new computer I'm faced with the knowledge that, in 6 months time, a better, cheaper (or at least better value) model will come out. This myth that consumers will endlessly postpone purchases in the face of falling prices ignores the fact that a lot of ourchases cannot be postponed indefinitely.

Postponing consumption isn't really the issue, reducing investment is. If holding on to cash has positive expected utility, there is less incentive to to use funds that are beyond what is desired for immediate consumption and invest them in productive assets.

Also, see the comments by other posters on debt in deflation.
I agree except for cases/capita. I dont see how that is relevant during the initial phases of an epidemic, as explained above.
Caltopo.com should be a good replacement?
This is all true but it's worth bearing in mind that OS recently made a lot of its mapping data open: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/tools-s....

If you ask me it's probably because their expensive licencing was causing businesses to switch to open alternatives like OSM where possible. My company is generally working towards the latter for this reason as well as the fact that it's a global dataset.
https://emergency-site.dev/posts/2020-03-22-example-post/

I would provide much less background information here. "What you need to do" should definitely not be below the fold. You should boil it down to:

1. This is happening
2. This is what you personally need to do about it.

Then add whatever else you want after that.

I know this is just an example, but it should set a good example.
My Yosemite seems to be taken down the most by a hung iBooks. And iOS8 made my 3rd generation iPad almost unusable.

Just another bit of anecdata.
Seamless network transparency is certainly not infeasible, see 9P and Styx. NFS is rather crufty in comparison.
Having spent time in China and having experience with Chinese manufacturers, I wager most Chinese would continue to take our money and ignore minor slights such as this, if you can even call it that. The immediate need to jump up and be offended by the smallest thing, especially on behalf of the "Other"/non-Westerners, is a phenomenon fairly unique to the Western world.
> Geoff Wozniak

he wasn't even using Apple's software... using the Mac as a Terminal...

I'm using two Macs (Macbook Air and Quad-Core Mac mini) all the time. There are a lot of annoying bugs in the Mac OS. But I can't say that it is more.

Some of the recent stuff is quite cool and very useful. There are some things I don't like (iCloud, iTunes speed and stability, ...), but in general the latest OS works quite good.
I tend to look for the simplest explanation to a question, as quite often the simplest explanation is the correct one.

So in that spirit, if the question is "why does it seem like OS X isn't of the quality it used to be?", the simplest answer might be that Apple just doesn't care about OS X anymore.

I mean, look at their financials (http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AAPL/3797471556x0x789...) On page 29 they list their net sales for all their major products from 2012 through 2014. And the things that jump out from that page are:

1) The iPhone business generates 4x as much revenue for Apple as Macs do -- and if you add in iPad sales that figure goes up to 5x; and

2) The iPhone business has grown by more than 10% each year, while Mac sales have been essentially flat.

So if you're Apple, where does the Mac fit in your product line these days, exactly? People still buy them, so it's not like you completely don't care about them, but the importance of those sales to your bottom line is diminishing year by year as sales of mobile devices dwarf sales of Macs. And there's no indication that those trends are going to turn around anytime soon -- no new major piece of hardware coming from Intel or somewhere that's likely to light a fire under sales of conventional PCs, or software package so compelling it would drive the Mac into new vertical markets.

All of which means that maybe, if you're Apple, you see the Mac business as basically a cow to be milked at the lowest cost possible until it dies of natural causes. You don't cut the hardware build quality (at least, not yet), but you don't put a whole lot of effort into developing revolutionary new features for OS X or wringing every last bug out of new releases of OS X, either. You just do the minimum possible to keep those existing Mac customers from jumping ship, or at least to delay the moment when they do jump ship for as long as possible. And by the time that day eventually comes, you won't care because Macs will be a footnote to your real business, your device business.
OT but... I had an argument with wait staff, then the manager, at a local restaurant I used to go to.

"Everything OK?"

"Well, no, not really. This chicken sandwich is... different than it used to be. It tastes different from 2 weeks ago, but the menu hasn't changed. Did you change the recipe?"

"No, nothing's changed. This is the same"

"No, really, it's changed."

Back and forth, slightly escalating - manager comes over.

Same dialog.

He comes back about 10 minutes later.

"The recipe hasn't changed at all. We just use different ingredients".

Well... it's... a bun, chicken patty, tomato, lettuce and mayo. The bun and chicken had changed. But not the recipe. But they didn't apologize for any misunderstanding or anything - quite irate that I was making a "big deal" out of it.

Back story was I'd been going there for about 2 years, 1-3x per month, getting the same thing. It's what I liked best there. Then it was changed. Except not. And it was bad. But there was nothing on the menu to indicate "new" on it. And I was 'wrong' for registering dissatisfaction with the new change that wasn't a change.
You're annoyed that 'no-one remembers Lion', because people either upgraded from it or stuck with Snow Leopard to avoid it? It's a bit disingenuous to complain that no-one remembers the issues with an OS that folks aren't really using anymore and has been out of support for several months now.

No-one in the Ubuntu world much remembers Ubuntu 11.04 either - so what? Does that mean that the currently-used operating systems shouldn't have their flaws discussed?
A statically-typed, compiled language with libraries for everything also saves you debugging and development time (yes, development).

Beside that, what matters here is not throughput but user-visible latency. And here's where a fast language shines.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=death+of+the+artist#!/story/foreve...
Haven't used SBCL in a while, so just to confirm: is this a better alternative to SB-EXT:SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE?
Btw, you don't actually do that anymore. They dropped the signature requirement.
Identifying leftism as a harmful ideology is certainly a critical step, however it's very difficult to gain traction with that because the term "leftism" is very, very close to "left wing politics", which is strongly normalised as being entirely acceptable in civilised society and always has been since the start of modern democracy itself.

Indeed if you try and figure out where the line is between leftism and left wing politics, it rapidly becomes very difficult. Left wing political parties at least in the Anglosphere are all fully on board with this new leftism of racism, hatred of Anglo culture and history, and all that comes with it. To take a stand in e.g. the workplace against leftism by arguing it is an intolerant and hateful ideology is equivalent to arguing that all left wing voters are supporters of intolerant and hateful ideology. But many of them are not fully on board with all that stuff, even though their chosen representatives are, so to make progress here requires a way to distinguish between people who vote left because they want a higher minimum wage or something like that (reasonable, not the enemy), and people who vote left because they want statues to all be abolished, conservatives to be driven underground and white people turned into second class citizens in their own countries.

That in turn would require consensus around a term that describes the former, socially acceptable state of left wing politics: back when it was a sort of pro-big-government, pro-regulation, primarily economic belief system. Debates about economics and the role of government are far less fraught and far more intellectual than debates about the intrinsic worth of people based on gender or race, so splitting the left cleanly into the parts that want such debate and the parts that want ideological attacks and no-platforming seems like a necessary first step.

Unfortunately whilst there is an abundance of words to describe the new left wing politics (woke, wokeism, leftism, identity politics, critical theory, neo-Marxism, "anti-racism", third wave feminism etc) there aren't many terms which clearly describe the old left wing politics. Thus the traditional wings get pulled along by the new strains, as they lack the intellectual and linguistic framework to push back or separate themselves from the parasitical takeover of their institutions.

Interestingly, Europe seems to have less of a problem with that. In Europe it's still common to describe the more classical centrist positions as "social democracy". This phrase is is widely understood to mean classical left wing politics focused on economics, welfare, higher taxes etc, but without the overt focus on race and gender.
I think that if you're not a public figure and/or have a reason to not be anonymous (accused of a crime, etc) then you should be allowed to remain anonymous.

The NYT publishing threat was gratuitous
You're confused? I'm triply confused.

Confused why you think the article was "news" worth printing, or sympathetic.

Confused with the use of the term "withdrawn" (like the euphemism of someone"quiting for "personal reasons" when they are in fact pressured to resign).

I'm also confused about what you think my comment was supposed to "prove" or not. It was meant as a case in point of the kind of bad, pearl-clutching-style sensenationalist stories increasingly peddled by the NYT.
No it's the combination of the two. If they tie the ip to the domain and then tie that ip to non-safe browsing websites that were visted by that same ip and they can easily start to identify the "safe" sites you visited. If you stop that IP from being identified (also stopping most if not all browser fingerprinting techniques) than it's MUCH harder to identify you as the person that visited those sites. It's the relationship that really matters. Apples proxy breaks that relationship. So does a good VPN setup.
Zuck has nothing but contempt for Facebook users.

The classic Zuck quote, "They trust me — dumb fucks" still applies.

https://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-us...
Zuckerberg controls a majority of Facebook's voting stock. While Facebook the platform may have grown in unforeseen ways, Facebook the company remains ultimately (legally) under the control of one man. There is no reasonable comparison between Tim Berners Lee and Mark Zuckerberg when considering how much influence they have over their creations.
A terminal is a device. It can be physical like the console or a vt100 or similar, or virtual. It represents an input an display.

A shell is a program that opens this device and performs IO with it.
Had some Buckwheat pancakes in Whistler for something ridiculous like $15 for a pancake. Why does food taste so good after skiing!
Typing speed
> consumption tax — arguably the most universal and fair way to raise money for the burden of the aging population

Consumption tax is not fair as it is hardest on the poor, and does very little to redistribute wealth from the top to the bottom of society.
If you did last week you would have already doubled your investment
You can also use lazy loading with iframes.
The author of the Twitter thread links to another thread towards the end that notes the risk of a classified information breach isn't too high.

https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/1347226499930230785

Obviously that doesn't change the fact that the entire building should be considered compromised and scrubbed.
I find that most Clojurist have mastered at least one or two languages before learning Clojure, so that might be the reason.
I understand why that example works but I struggle finding a valid use-case, aside from code golfing...
Exactly this.

My current move is to delete Facebook completely (well, deleted that years ago). I just didn't find as much value there as elsewhere on the internet. And the psychological cost wasn't worth the little value there was there. So, complete deletion.

Twitter, I've deleted the mobile app and I follow no one. I have a separate list of profiles I find interesting. I have to physically go to that list and click on their profiles.

This keeps me out of 90% of the drama and into 90% of the worthwhile content.

It's hard to not look at "trending" but I'm trying. I wish there was a way to turn off "trending" and "timelines" completely.

End result: hugely more productive and psychologically lighter.
That doesn’t look much different than macerators which are used on male chicks in the egg industry.
Yes, but when the soldier dies and drops his weapon, the soldier just behind him, who was sent to the front without a weapon, needs to be able to pick up the dropped weapon and continue shooting. That's how it was during the Great Patriotic War. Or so I've heard. Cue men's choir singing Polyushko-polye ...
A country as large as the US has plentiful ways to ensure tax compliance by citizens. It's small countries that are forced to remain competitive. People won't flee the US by the millions just because you raise taxes.
Croatia just started a program where you can stay for a year (instead of the usual 90 days) as a digital nomad.

>
A DIGITAL NOMAD IS a third-country national who is employed or performs work through communication technology for a company or his own company that is not registered in the Republic of Croatia and does not perform work or provide services to employers in the Republic of Croatia.

https://www.croatia.hr/en-GB/travel-info/croatia-your-new-of...

If you have a remote job or freelancing, this is a good first step.

AFAIK there are only four countries in the world where you can stay more than three months in a situation like this:

1. Barbados was the first to start such a digital nomad program https://barbadoswelcomestamp.bb/
2. Canada immigration authorities have openly declared remotely employed doesn't count as work so you can stay for six months without a problem
3. There's Svalbard. Yeah you can stay indefinitely and work... if you can afford it. Not to mention it "rather resembles Mordor after it has frozen over".
4. And now Croatia.

Read more at https://travel.stackexchange.com/q/45092/4188
For blue card you need a university degree. So (my) the advise would be: get a university degree.
Any competition is good competition, no matter what the quality is. Or do you want a single monopolistic choice of Chrome to rule the world? Sorry, bit we've been there before. Embrace the variety.
I recently had to choose between two job offers, and language was among the most important (although not the only) factors. I ended up choosing the job that lets me write functional Scala, rather than continue writing Python, which has been a major source of frustration in my current job.

A better analogy might be a carpenter who chooses to build houses in the traditional nail-free Japanese joinery style, vs the American nails-everywhere style.
> even wordpress.com

I much prefer a self-hosted WP instance over the wordpress.com offering. WP.com injects tracking cookies and ADs in their free tier, and even with a paid version with your own custom domain, there is still some tracking going on. If you care about the privacy of your visitors, self host WP & don't opt for WP.com
There are now those custom TLDs that are not managed by a government-related organization. Your domain is managed by whoever you registered it at. You can transfer your domain between registrars too. Your email address is managed by you because you control the domain. You can use someone else's email service with your domain, or you can host your own. You can switch between one and the other without anyone noticing.

I've heard stories of how a US carrier issued a replacement sim card to a fraudster. I've also heard stories of how a Russian carrier intercepted someone's SMS messages to break into their Telegram account.
>> I calmly tried to explain to them the evils of the Federal Reserve for around five minutes
...
>> sent them each their five dollar tip
...
>> It was a simple process and did not take longer than thirty minutes.

This is satire, right?
> There are methods and proceedures in place to fact check.

Not everyone follows methods and procedures to fact check properly... that’s... the... problem.

When InfoWars calls things fake news, they ain’t carefully going through your policy.
Actually I have two hands, but functionality of second hand is quite reduced.
Clearly you have never dealt with a large database.
Here's what I'd add to this nice list:

- emacs-jabber: the best IM client in the world and you can use various "jabber2any" gateways to stay in touch with your "legacy" contacts. emacs-jabber allowed me to get off using pidgin grudgingly :)

- ratpoison for managing shell windows under X (and I've heard stumpwm is great, for all you lisp lovers :))

- conkeror (or vimperator) for keyboard-driven web browsing: not character mode, but surely helps a lot when most of your software is.

- urxvt (rxvt-unicode).

- gnus for mailer: probably. I've heard it's even better than mutt, but I don't use email often enough to warrant the switch yet.
I use ffmpeg a lot to extract the audio from video's I've downloaded from youtube.
Does anyone use any command-line youtube downloaders that still work? I use one written in awk (pete krumins). The others stopped working a while back.