jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't know what you mean by the HN blocklist extension, but it doesn't sound like a feature we have. Are you using a third-party extension?

> the effective politics you produce by what content you do police

People tend to overinterpret that. Politically, HN is pluralistic (all major positions are represented, as you'd expect in any large population sample), but it turns out that pluralism is experienced by each side as bias in favor of the other side.

This is mostly an artifact of HN being a non-siloed community. Nearly every other place where people encounter political views on the internet has already been pre-filtered (by subreddits, follow lists, friend lists, etc.) That's what everyone's used to, so when they walk into a place that doesn't work that way, they quickly encounter a much higher frequency of opposing if not offensive viewpoints. This is painful; it feels a bit like getting smacked in the face. Because this painful experience doesn't come with any explanation, people reach for the handiest and in a way most comforting explanation—not, "oh, this is about what you'd expect from a statistical distribution", but rather "this place is a (SJW|alt-right) cesspool". Even if the distribution were more in your favor, you'd still feel this way, because we're so primed to notice the things we dislike and to weight them more strongly.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(I know you said you didn't want to engage about this, but it comes up so often that every now and then I feel like writing out my latest take on the topic.)
It's quite amazing how this values SpaceX at 10bn, less than 50% of WhatsApp. This makes me think that there's something systemically wrong with the current incarnation of post-oligarchic shareholder-controlled short term interest based capitalism. One can argue that WhatsApp has better money making potential than SpaceX, but that is only because the whole system is warped.
When does Nvidia become a hassle? I've been using my 1060 on NixOS for a while with no issues so far. Everything has just worked. Are there edge cases i should consider?
WAHH and The Art Of Software Security Assessment (TAOSSA) were the other two. We didn't grill candidates on crypto or have work-sample tests that involved crypto. Sadly: you'd be discarding 95% of the candidate pool, and particularly and paradoxically the experienced candidate pool, if you screened for crypto ability. The software security field is just awful at crypto.
It is hardly greedy for a company to pay dividends. Remember that many retirement funds and some individual investors depend on dividends like this and that certain types of funds will be required by their charters to sell a stock that ceases to pay dividends.
I think weev is the first person to have crossed the trolling event horizon.
It's not live yet. Probably Tuesday by the looks of it. We gave this interview hoping to flesh out the natural questions that people might have. So far, Hacker News has done the best job. We're compiling things for the FAQ and the other 80% of the comic not shown on the newspaper site.
How does any of this address the adverse selection problem? Many nations joining the alliance doesn't change the fundamental problem.
From my read of Obama's address last night -- and the Congressional discussion of precisely $20 billion over the last couple of days -- this was not really optional for BP. They seem to have been given the option to do this willingly, or to do so unwillingly. The choice between those two is clear. Forgoing payment of dividends, given this large outlay, seems to be a logical way to keep a cash buffer.
Many have some sort of same-sex unions, what Iceland did recently is eliminate all occurrences of "man and a woman" and replace them with "two persons" in their laws.

Most countries that have same sex unions have a different set of laws for them, usually for religious and political reasons. The Church of Iceland opposed the recent change, but it lost that battle.

Regarding Jóhanna, it's sad that the first openly gay head of state is also so openly incompetent :)
Wow, nice guy. I watched about 3 minutes of his toorcon talk and he seems to be advocating destroying internet infrastructure and committing as much crime as possible. Exploiting 0 days, etc. What a class act. We need more upstanding individuals like him in the "community."

His livejournal is like looking inside the mind of a drugged out crazy. He seems to be anti-jew, anti-muslim, anti-gay, and affiliated with the Westboro Baptist Church somehow. Basically, if there is some psycho hate speech group on the Internet somewhere, he's probably in it.

Not exactly security professional material, if you get my drift.
Isn't that what the "Zip Code" field is all about?
The difficulty here can vary, do you know what kind of database the current django instance is using? If you shoot me an email (profile) I'll try to connect you with someone who might make this work. Just need some more details.
> Use the HTTP PUT verb to upload your files to the service. Since this is a REST interface, the file will live at the path you specify. Retrieve it with an HTTP GET. You cannot replace existing files. PUTs to existing files will fail with "405 Method Not Allowed".

PUT does not mean what you think it means. The whole point of PUT is that you're replacing an existing resource, which gets you idempotence. You're not supposed to use it to create a resource at the supplied URL, and the whole point is that you can PUT to the same URL repeatedly.

You want POST. Using PUT is making your service less restful.
> of course you can argue [that] no code is truly static

what the hell is static code? Static has very specific meanings in different technical contexts (static pages, static allocation, static scoping, etc), but I've never heard someone refer to static code.

Can you give me an example of code that is and isn't static by your definition?
Check out the extensive benchmarks here:

http://blog.cyclecomputing.com/2010/11/a-couple-more-nails-i...

(HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1906452 )
Your last point is interesting and I agree. I wonder when the tipping point for most people will be banking in a browser as opposed to a physical location. I definitely do not envy those who have to design for banks because their work is surely cut out for them. Such a large dataset and support for everything down to IE6 (even futher?) must be a serious challenge.

Also checkout BankSimple, they're gearing up to change online banking as we know it– so says the hype machine.
Don't forget to rinse,

These "formulas" don't amount to much, but clever hindsight.I like the burst of inspiration from reading something like this, but it's a generalization.
Society should pay for it, since society will benefit from it.
"There was a crime here and just because it wasn't violent doesn't make it any less criminal."

Actually by definition there wasn't. What is a crime is defined by law (in the broad sense of the word). This woman was authorized by law to perform this search. Ergo, it's not a crime. (the fact that she wasn't informed doesn't change that).

A prison guard beating an inmate who is rioting with a night stick doesn't perform 'assault' on that inmate either. Again, because the guard is authorized to do so by law (within the limits thereof, obviously).

Now you may hold the opinion that in these cases, the touching is unlawful. It's within your rights to do so. It still doesn't make it so. Saying it is dilutes the meaning of the words used, words that we as a society have spend decades on refining to be as clear as possible. Then using there words in a different meaning to give your argument (opinion) more weight is not intellectually honest debate. That's what the OP was objecting to.
"Higher education should be free!"

Do you mean no one should be paid to provide it?
Can you elaborate or provide a reference explaining your use of "built up" vs. "discovered down"? I don't understand what you mean, and those terms don't look google-able.

> And, as long as the core axioms are valid, it will be consistent

Are you using "valid" informally here? Formally, validity is about logical truth under any interpretation of the symbols of a logic. I don't see how that applies, since most statements about the natural numbers do not hold for arbitrary objects.

My guess is that you're just making the statement, "we don't have to believe in conclusions, only the premises - the conclusions follow logically." Logical reasoning just provides a way for us to extend our beliefs. If we believe in some axioms, and we believe some conclusions follow logically from those axioms, then we tend to believe in the conclusions as well.
> At the beginning of this year, there were twice as many four-year college graduates working as waiters and bartenders as engineers.

Umm, maybe this is because 60% (or more) of college students studied the humanities rather than engineering?
Totally agree, however, there is a fine balance between delivering on shipping promises to the stakeholders as a company and trying to perfect the hardware to the point where sales suffer. I believe there is no right answer. Intuitively I feel a bias towards shipping gives Silicon Valley it’s advantage. Also comes with the trade offs like you mentioned and other stuff in the news lately.
Your point? MySpace was free, and the cost of switching to another social network was fairly low.

Most phones in the US have 1 or 2 year contracts with ETFs. Outside the US, the unsubsidized phone price is quite expensive, rougly to $500-$600 USD.

What I'm saying is your comparison doesn't really apply. It's actually even worse than the "Apple vs. Microsoft 2.0" or "Open vs. Closed" debates.
Splitting equity 50-50 is almost never a good idea. When hard decisions need to be made, someone needs to have the final say.
> For starters, those antibiotics will be followed by bankruptcy for the poor person in most cases.

So? Bankruptcy eliminates debt, which is a good thing for poor folks.

And yes, I've read the studies about "health care bankruptcies" - have you? They counted anyone who had health care expenses, and they included gambling and drug abuse as health care problems.
I find it extremely disingenuous to say that because the Canadian (or British)
Constitution can easily be re-interpreted in different contexts, that it will
always be interpreted in 'the correct way.' You seem to be pointing to examples
of the US Constitution being interpreted poorly, making the implication that a
'dead tree' constitution can only be interpreted poorly, and a 'living tree'
constitution can only be interpreted in a good way.

A constitution that can be easily re-interpreted may allow for your government
to 'turn on a dime,' but it makes no claims to whether your government is
turning in a good or bad direction.

As to the US Constitution:

* The US Constitution can be re-interpreted by the US Supreme Court through the
setting of legal precedent.

* The US Constitution can be amended by Congress. (Prohibition was a
Constitutional Amendment).

* The current interpretation of the commerce clause could be overturned by the
US Supreme Court should a case come before them, and the make-up of the
justices leans towards overturning the current state of affairs.
British citizenship and some chocolates.
The other critical point is that "the rich" are not passive targets but highly mobile. Swing at them too hard and too repeatedly and they will just leave. If your life is on your laptop this really isn't that hard.

Unless they then make it hard. After all, the state paid for your (compulsory) education, so to some you owe them all future success. And so you can't leave to escape a regime which is broke and desperate.

The end game of this process is East Germany or North Korea, where the state taxes 100% and literally shoots you if you try to leave. In the US, of course, we don't shoot you if you emigrate...but in 2008 the US did, for the first time, implement a massive ~50% exit tax for those over 200k in net worth who renounce citizenship. It was remarked upon as a radical shift, as a desirable/wealthy place makes it hard to immigrate while an undesirable/destitute country usually makes it hard to emigrate. A harbinger of things to come?
Brilliant! I'm in Bali at the moment, it's great. Hope you're coming in the summer. Enjoy your Christmas Break and Indonesia :)
Not quite sure I follow.
Pidgin provides quite a few hooks for shell scripts, you could pretty easily make a shell script to use GPG to encrypt the log files, push them to Dropbox and sync whenever your im session starts/ends.
Hearst Castle. It's stunning, and a great story. (Also, I want an afternoon alone on the driveway up the hill to the castle on my motorcycle...)
> To push the metaphor a bit further, I'd point out that a living tree is considerably more resilient than a dead tree, and is likely to adapt to conditions which might otherwise destroy it.

Trees that grow in unexpected ways get cut down.

Explicit amendments are far more legitimate.

The US has amended its constitution several times. If something really is a good idea, the amendment process is no real obstacle.
I would go so far to say that if you use this technique and find a recruiter doesn't want to deal with that, you've just found a great recruiter filter mechanism. Move on to someone else who actually adds value.

Recruiters annoy the heck of out of me as a contractor: They claim all kinds of value when in fact they have but one thing to add: they know someone looking for a job. They add no other value to the equation (and in fact, often detract by doing horrible buzzword matching analysis to put you in front of someone). They don't necessarily know quality employers, good jobs, or even how to help get you hired. They're like real estate agents: they merely want the transaction to take place, regardless of the actual price. The difference in commission for a house that sells at a "suggested market price" and maybe, your ideal price of $10,000 higher is a lousy $400 to the agent. It's not in their interest to push that with the buyer. It's in their interest to make the transaction happen.

The same is 100% true of recruiters.

EDIT: Having dealt with many recruiters in the past, my experiences reflect what I describe above. It's possible that a shining few exist out there that do add value. If you're out there, for heaven's sake REPLY and tell us who you are. This thread would give you a deep pool of talent for sure.
It was throwing some errors up at me, but now it's fine. I'm also seeing reports of Tumblr going down for a short period of time. I wonder if there is some net attack going on.
I think that now that Google has the manufacturers and networks hooked, they will close the loopholes (e.g. swapping out the search engine) by changing the licensing for newer versions.
I made some changes based on your suggestions.
I don't know. I'm hugely aware of how Ron Paul got stereotyped in the last election, and I think he's not the guy to fix it.

But we're not at the point of fixing it yet, I don't think (unless TSA comes to their senses. One can always hope). More likely is that you will see politicians who are considered outside the mainstream begin to pound the podium over this. In time, I expect it to become more mainstream. A month maybe? A year? As hot as folks are, it might happen very quickly.

The big problem here is that the answer requires putting people in charge at the local airport who are allowed to make mistakes. I hate what's happened to airport security, but I'd happily do the naked body scan and group grope -- as long as it was done on an ad-hoc basis. Maybe once out of every thousand flights or something. There's a bit of a quagmire about the way politics works, especially involving areas of risk and fear, which I won't go into here. Let's just say that yes, Ron Paul is not the guy, but things could change, and change quickly. But the overall problem of how to solve airport security is just going to stick around. Even if the grownups show up and set TSA straight, the only thing they're going to learn is how to use fear to sell even more equipment that intrudes on every passenger. Just in a different way.

They need to find the terrorist, not the weapon. The plane can be full of weapons, and as long as nobody wishes any harm to be done, it's as safe as a plane without weapons at all. Such a simple concept, yet I think it's going to be a bridge too far for policy-makers. (of course a plane can't be full of nervous people carrying nitro-glycerin and hand grenades, but you get my point)
If they had stuck with plain C they'd probably only need 2 developers.
Because by the time people are looking at cutting TP costs, it's because their household income is down probably substantially, or they're afraid it will be in the near future.
It was like that .. am i missing something ?
Top out? I started at 65k with one year of experience in Utah Valley. And the company I worked out didn't pay super well.
Surely you are not using the term "ricer crowd" to refer to Asians?
riot.mountTo() lets you "lazily" render a tag on a specific node.

Thanks for the analysis.
This is the first time when I see the UAE being called ARE in a country list. I even went and asked Google, and it turns out there is in fact one ISO standard that calls it ARE. All the others, including ITU (we are talking about phone codes, after all) call it as UAE. Really strange choice of naming standard for something phone-related.
I'd expect that the name and address will still be stored in their payment processor.

Then the invoice itself (containing your name/address/payment method) will need to be stored by the company in some form for accounting regulations.
s/hekp helps/help with y behavior
Like many developers, I've used postgresql unquestioningly for many years, say 10. But if you ask me, I've rarely have had to face stringent scaling or availability requirements.

Many deployments were a variation of AWS RDS or a similarly managed offering for HA. And they weren't exactly flawless.

So this article is good food for thought. Why are we using postgresql? Because of the features, developer-friendliness, and so on.

Does that align with actual customer requirements? Not necessarily.

This problem framing aligns well with other phenomena one can observe. i.e. many complexities in our industry are completely self-inflicted (some personal 'favorites': OOP, microservices, SPAs, graphql).

What if postgresql could be added to that list?

Note that I'm not necessarily questioning postgresql as a project, but instead, the hype process that can lead communities to unquestioningly adopt this or that product without making an actually informed assessment.
> They have a $100B enterprise value

That number is meaningless for how much a company is hurt by a fine. A market valuation is just based on the current stock price. It doesn’t mean that the company has access to that much cash or assets.
I think it’s worth mentioning that most of these problems only occur at a scale that only top 1% of companies will reach. I’ve been using PostgreSQL for over a decade without reaching any of the mentioned scaling-related problems.

PostgreSQL is still the best general purpose database in my opinion, and you can then consider using something else for parts of your application if you have special needs. I’ve used Cassandra alongside PostgreSQL for massive write loads with great success.
> When it reach the cap, all your service stop working? This is incredibly user hostile.

So set your cap to a very high number, much higher than any amount you expect to be billed. Surely for everyone there is some number at which they would rather their services go down, than have to pay it?
Typically if you miss a leg, any leg, they will then cancel the rest of your itinerary. They won't give you a refund, but it still falls under the normal missed flight rules. To me this is more fraud on their part than you not flying a portion if the itinerary
I've never felt I got so little for so much tax as when I lived in California.
There are a lot of things that work in the mobile space that are use-hostile. The only reason they work is due to limited choice (or at least the perception of limited choice). Ads popping up in between games is common, let's support Firefox by randomly disabling the pop-up blocker. IAP is common, let's give users the ability to view static sites, but CSS is ten sites for 99c, Javascript is five sites for $1.99, or you can get it all for $99! Subscribers get SSL added on for only $15/mo.
You can't kill people with a marriage license. Driving, although very dangerous, serves a purpose other than killing people. Although I'm not sure I agree with interstate reciprocity for driving licenses-- a Texan or southern California driver plopped onto a North Dakota road in the middle of winter sounds more dangerous to the public than him having a concealed gun.
I'm sure it's great for Amazon when someone gets one of these things. For a relatively small cost, you've likely permanently neutralized all possibility of switching brands or suppliers, and substantially reduced awareness of price increases. From that perspective, this is clearly the product of a diabolical genius mind. I just don't get why anyone else would care....
I still can't help but think, tomorrow is April first. It's a odd but interesting idea, however, the timing....
Is that really a fair comparison? The Pebble Time kickstarter campaign was just a pre-order portal in disguise --- it wasn't really a "true" crowdfunding campaign.
Great, but why is there a limit in the first place? It implies you're not hashing passwords.
>On average, you and I eat half a chicken.

I have no idea what you're trying to say. There are millions of people involved. Averages make sense to use.

For example maybe 450k are unable to get a ticket because a plane filled up with non-riders, and 550k are able to get a ticket when they couldn't before because additional capacity was allocated to the route. Is it 'disrespectful'? Hell no, in my view. It's just shuffling what are fundamentally random numbers. These people are buying tickets too late to be assured seats. Some will get them, some won't, and buying your own is not a negative unless you do something like coordinate to buy out an entire route.

Edit:

>I'm not the one considering one single outcome

Yes you are. You are only considering the possible downsides of a purchase. I could use a similar argument to say that nobody should ever buy anything non-critical because stock might run out and screw over the person behind them.

And then the economy collapses.
El E-commerce en LatAm ha crecido 51% entre los años 2003 – 2009
For the theist, probability has nothing to do with it.

I would hope the same is true or the atheist/agnostic.

Edit: I was considering the Christian theist.
I use my iPad on a stand beside my computer, with a bluetooth keyboard, for email. The idea is to keep the email monitor separate from the computer display so I can focus on one or the other. It's not a bad setup, although sometimes I tend to forget and fire up gmail on my mac. The typing experience is great, though - the text selecting shortcuts from OSX are all there.
...I stumbled upon a highly rated comment of yours and stood speechless; at no point in my life had I read a comment so insightful and informative.

I remember that comment well. Just one instance of many in your collection, which is just one collection of many from other commenters, too.

I like your baseball analogy, but sometimes I prefer the spaghetti analogy, especially when it comes to blog posts and comments: just throw a bunch against the wall and see what sticks. You never know whose life you may influence.

Sorry to hear about your parents. This time of year may amplify the feeling of loss, but also reminds us of the wonderful memories we still have just one seek away.

Best wishes for the new year, Daniel, and please keep on giving. I, for one, will gladly keep on receiving your gifts here at hn!