jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"I just don't really care." (Comparison of matix.org and Signal follows)

It's a lot easier when everyone is using it already. Federated and distributed chat has been really elusive, and that's surprising given that chat has been around forever. This article was interesting because it was about the core problem: how to get a bunch of diverse systems to support a standard mail protocol and is suggesting the protocol behind matrix be used, and not necessarily some implementation of a client.
Same for me. Yet another walled garden. A slightly prettier garden, but when I make a big app move I want to solve more problems than just the privacy one.
https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ls7ft8/protest_note...

Try using the old interface instead of the shitty new one.
Well you're actually saying "the 27th day of the month of February" and removing some of the small joining words of various flavors. :) /s
If you see in your backend metrics, that a button isn't clicked by a huge number of visitors you can start there and analyze. Common screen sizes are helpful, but more helpful is to look at the page since maybe other optimisations can be made, if that is the important button.

Similarly with languages, that you cans er from backend metrics.

More data seems always nice, but analyzing more data isn't making analysis simpler and there is a big privacy impact in analytics, especially when outsourcing to data collectors, who can gather data across sites. (Which then also gives Google information which services are interesting to user and can be integrated into search etc.)
I can suggest "The Selfish Gene". It is about evolutionary biology, not molecular biology. I'm not really sure what you're looking for.
"Kubernetes is the biggest quality-of-life improvement I've experienced in my career."

Can you elaborate? What exactly about Kubernetes improved the developers life?
Bad power management is really manufacturers fault. See android phones or chromebooks that can last days without recharging.
Hm, that's a fair point.

Taxes are something that is, shall we say, less optional. I probably should have went with that analogy instead in hindsight. :)
I'm saying that's it's not harder. Thus his statement is false.
"Ruby (with Matz), Python (with GvR), Clojure (Rich Hickey), the Linux kernel all seem to be doing pretty well with someone nominally in charge to make hard decisions."

So many programming languages. So much confusing choice and wasted effort.

What we need is for someone to be put in charge and consolidate all those programming languages in to one language.
the playing of provocateurs during public demonstration

Far too many people dismiss this too readily, but it may be the most dangerous and anti-democratic aspect of police response to protest.
You're presuming that skiplagged wouldn't then branch into other ticketing angles using all the publicity / usage it acquires prior to losing the original product.

TravelZoo is worth $192 million, and has $158 million in sales. Why couldn't Skiplagged enter that turf with its momentum? (in this hypothetical)
You should learn from examples. Instead of writing codes in languages you learned, read good examples of codes in languages you learned, and try to copy their style.
>Its time to cheer, not to dump.

Very poor choice of words.
YLE in Finland has amazing content (I think it's pretty much the NPR/PBS equivalent).

People in there are actually educated about kids' development, with actual entertainers and scientists.
There are great channels to be found, but also a ton of weird crap that shows up in the recommendations. The stuff that bubbles to the top of the recommendations often isn't quality content; it's stuff optimized for watch time.

There's a class of videos that seem designed to make kids' brains produce dopamine and want to watch more and more.

If you control the remote or device, then sure, fine, stick to quality content, but I wish there was a way to turn off the recommendations that show up on the big screen at the end of the video or when the app loads but before I've searched for or cast something.
At least MS-DOS is pretty well documented.
Yeah I used rules in Cloudfront for this. Only have one API backend so security doesn't really factor into this much. Actually I consider it slightly more secure because there was no way for me to misconfigure CORS.
Smartphone integration isn't necessary for everyone (myself included), but I appreciate most people want it.
> I truly believe if Zuck had the option of nuking a third world country to make another billion or solve world peace and Facebook goes away entirely, he'd nuke the country without a second thought.

You should check these articles out, they were written in 2018[1][2] and then in 2020[3].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo...

[3] https://time.com/5880118/myanmar-rohingya-genocide-facebook-...
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It's hard to separate gut feeling from unconscious bias.

Those times you remember not listening to your gut and regretting it are susceptible to confirmation bias.

Personally, I've had great gut feelings about people that turned out to be terrible hires. I've had bad feelings about people who turned out great. I've had direct work experience with folks that were amazing, and then at a future job they performed quite poorly.

There's no removing subjectivity from interviews probably, but I highly recommend you turn down your gut feelings if you have an interest in unbiased or at least less biased hiring decisions.
This comment is clearly bait, but I'm going to take it anyway and respond with a link to Microsoft's Security Response Center. This isn't exclusive to Linux at all (for better or worse) https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/
I saw his tech talk at google a few years back where he shares his ideas for image tagging. Absolutely amazing work. Watch if you haven't yet: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143...
One of my favorite things about Common Lisp is that it has gotos and stack unwinding to dynamically (at runtime) determined points:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_go.h...

http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/s_tagbod.htm

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_thro...
Thanks, I was just curious. I am not for or against either license but since that how-to referenced the GPL I was curious enough to ask the question.
I don't have the citation on hand, but this goes along with a study I read about customer loyalty. Customers who have a problem which is promptly corrected by the company are more loyal than customers that never have any problems.
Definitely agree on that as well - it's a pros and cons argument. Frankly I miss the scoring for the reason you mention, but I think this method promotes merit. Of course, now we are all subjected to whatever secret algorithm pushes comments to the top of the page, but I'll naively trust that it's doing its job properly ;-)
It should be possible to scroll in the preview section, and then keep typing for more than one page length without any problems.

Which browser are you using? What is the bahaviour you're seeing? Does the preview "reset" to the top scrolling position?

Glad you like it :)
Where's that note? I thought it was all public.

Either way, it's still just an issue of someone being stubborn about a PR that neither helped nor hindered the actual code.

If that's a fireable offense in your company, your HR processes are broken. Especially with no management in place to set any expectations on the topic.
Google's self driving car program was essentially born out of the DARPA Self Driving Challenge where looks weren't in any way a factor. So they started with the best senors possible, and kind of assume that they'd probably get smaller with time.

Delphi, Tesla and all other car manufacturers came at the problem from the starting point that obviously visual sensors where a non-starter. So they started with the smallest sensors possible and kind of assumed that they'd get accurate enough with time

Eventually they'll meet in the middle.
I'll do the screencast for the beer only. :)
I couldn't disagree more. In my opinion it's the most decent looking IDE / code editor I've ever used. Most IDEs are cluttered with a gazillion views. Intellij focuses on the code editor instead. You can hide everything but the code editor and keep full control via keyboard shortcuts.
Maybe you mean stock market correction, as a result of tightening of monetary policy? There is a difference between that and a true recession (which is a sustained contraction in GDP or real GDP).

The Fed is very conservative lately. Monetary tightening is not likely to be drastic, Volcker era stuff unless things considerably worsen. Keep in mind tightening means reducing open market operations, not even stopping them or selling off the assets on the Fed balance sheet. We are still a long way from objectively tight policy, we are just not going to be as ridiculously loose as we were.
I think you and I blame different people for that.

I blame voters for wanting easy answers, having a NIMBY attitude to anything, want scapegoats, won't raise taxes in good times, won't help their neighbors in bad times, blame everyone else for their problems, demand instant results, get bored waiting for long-term solutions, care more about style over substance...

Politicians exploit all of those things. And so do talking heads.
> While it is possible that SalesFolk received virtual
currency, based on my experience, companies that do offer virtual currency as a
payment method or in conjunction with another service often advertise it to attract more business.

Disagree here. I know many institutional funds that accept crypto for investment, solely because the third party fund administrator allows it, who only updated to account for that because so many funds and limited partners wanted that.

You would have no idea how much is happening behind the scenes, with the merchant services pushes being just a small tip of an iceberg with its own success or failures.
>there was no hard censorship

Interesting choice of words..
I said advantages, not innovations. Nobody cares about whether there is a centralized authority or not. I never ordered something on Amazon and was secretly concerned that paying with my credit card involves some central authorities. It may be a nice goody but it is nothing average people care about and therefore no reason for them to adopt Bitcoin.
NSA, no. But a non-NSA influenced USG, or some other new agency that should be in charge of cyber-security and not cyber-war (like NSA is) should be responsible for that. Developing strong security policies, finding about loopholes, and then nagging companies and government about fixing those loopholes and implementing those strong security policies (such as: "Go enable HTTPS for your site already god damn it, EPA!!"). NSA doesnt do anything like that right now, yet they keep yelling from the rooftops about "cyber security".

The NSA should have absolutely no relationship with this agency. If NSA finds out about some "catastrophic" loophole, then they should disclose it to multiple agencies at the same time, including this new cybersecurity agency, and should have no "special" relationship with it.

Also this new agency should be a civil agency, not a military or a spy one. NSA is and has always been a "war-time" agency, even if it has been used for non-war purposes (in my opinion wrongfully). Security is in most cases not about war. So why do we let a war-time agency try to militarize the Internet and treat it as a battleground, with everyone's computers as collateral damage, even if there's no immediate danger of "war"?
Like any liability of any entity, when you possess a swiss franc, you have a claim against the assets of the SNB. The assets of the SNB include a lot of gold and many foreign currencies. These assets have been accumulated in various ways, but are generally the foreign assets of the country in question (held on behalf of the people of the country by their central bank), plus the accumulated profits of the central bank over the years on this capital. Crucially however, just like "goodwill" in a company balance sheet (often a much larger ledger entry than any tangible assets), there is a large proportion of the value of the issuer's paper (be it equity or in this case, money) that is made up of intangible assets. Those intangibles essentially amount to the credibility of the entity, that is, the fact that other people believe that the piece of paper that it issues has value. Thus you have a claim against some of their assets, yes, but you're also hoping, just like with equity, that the value of the goodwill stays high (similarly for GOOG, AAPL or FB or any other company). The value of the goodwill is determined by the strategy and actions of the entity being seen as sound, and ultimately profitable, by the market.

Long story short, I don't personally know of any central banks who explicitly promise gold back against their liabilities anymore (this disappeared at Bretton Woods). Thus your claim is (mostly) on the credibility (goodwill) of the bank which is highly dependent on it not issuing too much paper.

As far as your claim on the tangible assets is concerned (the foreign currencies and gold), you will not be able to walk into the SNB with a 100CHF note and ask for the tangible share of what that represents. In practise, if the CHF loses value, the SNB will (amongst other measures such as raising interest rates and trying to put pressure on its government to spend less), protect your 100 CHF by selling its foreign currencies and gold into the market, "defending" your asset. That's how your claim on the tangibles works out in practise: the assets are paid back out to the market if there is pressure on the currency. Of course, again, only a small portion of the value of the CHF will be backed by gold and FX. The rest of the value comes from the fact that it is accepted by merchants and people in exchange for real goods and services. That's goodwill, otherwise known as "credibility" in monetary economics.
> I just set up ssh, on a non-default port, long passphrase.

Disallow password login, use key-based auth (using a dedicated, passphrase-protected key that you can copy around).

An alternative is to have a "shortcut" that help them fire a SSH client connecting to a server of yours, with port forwarding allowing you to connect back, so you don't have to worry about firewalls and other appliances being reset.
My guess is that what make a group successful in the short run, like if you throw a group of strangers together and tell them to do tasks together in a monitored environment for 5 hours, may not be the same things that make a group successful in the long run.

The importance of emotional intelligence should decrease as roles are carved out and members define their niches, and the importance of individual ability should increase as the group optimizes itself.
How did you perform the blind survey? Format some code with Black and YAPF and ask people which they liked better?
> Its not like that actually. If you could read Italian you would understand that the area is extremely dangerous, anythnig can happen at any time. People get shot just by tresspassing, the people living in the area are desperate and the police does not care (probably bribed?). There are many corps found along syringes and so forth.

While it's obvious that the area is dangerous, where did you read that "People get shot just by trespassing"? Or, that "the police does not care (probably bribed?)"? Police in Rome is really on a budget (like almost everything in Italy). I wouldn't be surprised there was a single patrol at night that's assigned with that whole area (actually, I wouldn't be surprised the area assigned was much larger than that).

Edit: Procuratorate was (in 2003) not willing to investigate further after 150 arrests in 6 months. That's where you might suspect bribery.

From the page: "Parziale e incompleta mappa interattiva di ciò che ha prodotto al Pigneto il narcotraffico e l'inerzia degli amministratori. La testimonianza della loro vergogna e della nostra quotidiana umiliazione. Ma anche della nostra resistenza. Scriveteci per correzioni, segnalazioni e commenti."

Literally:
"Incomplete interactive map of what drug trafficking and inertia by the city administration has produced. A witness of what they should be ashamed of, and what is humiliating us daily, but also of our resistance. Write us for corrections, reports and comments."

What follows is a list of 'interesting' places. There are two death places in the map, one is labeled "Luogo di consumo e morte" = "Place of [drug] use and death", the other "Vittima del conflitto - nordafricano sgozzato alle otto di sera" = "Victim of the fight - [a] North African [illegal alien] slaughtered at eight pm" http://www.ilmessaggero.it/ROMA/CRONACA/pigneto_nordafricano...
For the reasons given by others, plus many news websites have login functionality for commenting, or for subscriptions etc.

That login info, or at least the cookies it produces, should not be sent unencrypted.
Has anyone identified which politician or subset of politicians helped give this specific idea life? Not the general one about contracting out work through bidding where the circumstances call for it. The specific one about doing so as a global approach to such an extent that we have non government entities handling so many core competencies.
That's why i explicitly mentioned the cost of the bandwidth.

I wasn't talking about the development/maintenance.
People Data Labs?
Valve's games generally push the envelope WHEN they write games. They don't do what a lot of game developers do, which is, make games, improve gfx, rinse and repeat. Valve likes to walk in the room with something ground breaking and will knock your socks off. VR is the next logical step and it needed a nudge. I think Alyx is that nudge.

Although I won't be able to buy it for a while due to hardware expenses, I really applaud them in going the VR route. Personally wouldn't have done a prequel. This would have been a perfect HL3 fit. I'd love to hear why they chose a prequel to HL3. Buuuut, what's done is done and I'm sure they did a great job.
I don't like the truck, but I strongly disagree with the idea that no brutalist building can be beautiful. The library at UC San Diego is one prime example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisel_Library
No one has yet complained about the text colours.

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This, despite the fact that the text on the vast majority of these sites is perfectly legible.

To you. To other people they're not perfectly legible, they're unreadable. Why deliberately chose to exclude people?
"Five years ago, the Philadelphia police thought that carrying Arabic-language flashcards was enough to warrant the arrest of an innocent traveler." From a norwegian standpoint, where police are not allowed to wear guns, it's fascinating to see how the answer to security problems is more police, harder prison sentences and more violence. What about increasing happiness? In northern Ireland they eventually got rid of terrorism after they started realising that happy people are much less likely to become terrorists.
How can he become more involved, if he's been banned from contributing to the site in the first place?

On top of that - GamerGate itself has already made it through to mainstream media. All that's needed in this scenario is for some BBC/Sky/CNN/Fox/... news reporter to pick up on the story, and before you know it, "Wikipedia promoting harassment of women in technology" hits every front page in the western world.
sandstorm looks really interesting! Does this provide a global authentication- / rights- / group-management api so all apps could share access rights and user credentials in one database (or ldap store)?
It seems to me, that the project chose LAMP to make it easy for everyone slightly technical to host an instance on a shared web server.

I am the first to criticize PHP, but I would never argue, that it is only good for prototyping. Of course you can use it in production. Also I do not see why you could prototype anything beyond a contact form faster in PHP than in another language, i certainly can not.

Flask has in no way integrated RBAC, you have to use plugins for that. I do not know Laravel very well but Google told me, that there are authentication plugins to implement role-based access, too, just like you would expect from any web framework that anyone has heard of.
> "everyone can learn to code!"

didn't twitter ban people for saying this at one point :D
> this seems to make HTTP stateful

Yes -- depending on how you look at it. HTTP already has cookies to implement stateful sessions. Braid does add subscriptions; but HTTP 1.1 and 2 also has keep-alive at the TCP level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_persistent_connection

> It also uses PUT to patch things, but then why not use PATCH?

You can use PATCH, or even POST, too. We haven't settled on a single best method to use, and in fact you'll notice different methods being used in different specs, depending on the personal preferences of the author that wrote that spec. :) I recommend checking out the Range Patch spec for more: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-toomim-httpbis-r.... You'll see a lot of PATCH in there. :)

Also, please feel free to start a discussion on the mailing list about this: ietf-http-wg@w3.org It's an issue that needs discussion and consensus more generally in HTTP.
Moving costs include only 3 months of rent and the physical act of moving as described in https://github.com/davidd8/us-electoral-college-balancer#ass.... I tried to match it with what corporations do, which is generally give the employee a flat $10K "relocation bonus."

One could definitely make this more sophisticated and specific to state by state rules, but I didn't have the time. But feel free to play around with the numbers in the notebook, as this is just a starting point.
Outsourcing risk to a third party contractor is an amazing way to get transparency, efficiency and responsive government.

Look at the US military procurement programs. By getting unaccountable soldiers out of the way, we have cost-efficient, effective contractors saving the taxpayer money every day.
> As a sys admin, you need to memorize commands and their syntax.

As a sysadmin, I just Google it (or DuckDuckGo it, nowadays). I also take notes; why should I memorize something if I can tell my computer to memorize it for me?
> In the U.S. this does not match what I see. Instead, there are a ton of positions for "senior" positions that are filtering on specific amounts of experiences in such a way that there just aren't enough people that match. Likewise, the field is VERY CROWDED with newer devs that lack experience - they fight over a relative handful of positions that have truly absurd entrance requirements.

Are you in SV? It's almost exactly the opposite in the metropolitan area I live in (one of the markets on this list [1]). There are many hundreds of hiring junior dev jobs open at any time, and constant emails about junior or what are essentially junior jobs.

But there are only a very small handful of senior jobs.

I'm very happy where I'm at right now, but it makes me uneasy. Based on my experience with applying to jobs for which I was "overqualified" as a recent college grad in the 1990s, I wouldn't be able to snag any of these junior jobs regardless of the salary I was willing to accept.

1. https://www.aitp.org/blog/aitp-blog/2018/10/23/tech-town-usa...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626837
"You are much more likely to be killed by bees, dogs, bats, and certainly in Hong Kong, automobiles." http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0204/The-glo...