jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what is worse:

- the fact that this is technically possible,

- the fact that the software and service providers think it is appropriate to offer the feature,

- the fact that some employers (such as the one in the article) actually think it is even slightly reasonable behaviour to use the feature on someone's personal phone,

- the fact that the wiping behaviour isn't already clearly illegal with horrific penalties, or

- the idea that the kind of employee waiver mentioned in the article might actually be considered a fair and enforceable part of any employment contract.

This is just so completely wrong, it's hard to know where to start!
I think that the thing that bothers me most about this story is how plausible it all is. That said, it's one of my favorites of his (although none of the rest come close to Printcrime: http://craphound.com/?p=573 ).
This is exactly what killed Google Wave: lots of hype, followed by secret invites. A collaboration tool launched specifically disallowing collaboration. Stupid.
Agreed. I at the very least wouldn't want the baby to be awakened by the cat.
Enlightenment and insight comes from listening to a variety of sources, not all of them agreeable.

I believe the most appropriate of responses here is, no, not necessarily.

In the end, communities defined and redefine themselves, and they do so constantly. One way to keep the level and content of discussions in acceptable territory is to restate, emphasize or otherwise promote the original purpose of the community. Discussions such as this help, if each party isn't entirely focused on mindlessly arguing with other and actually try to understand where their fellow HN-er is coming from, I suppose.

Keep in mind that the sentiment, as you put it, of the grandparent does not necessarily imply the elitism you so readily cauterize. Like it or not, communities have a narrow focus, at least narrow in the sense that contradicts a sentence like "Politics are ubiquitous!". Insight and enlightenment in this particular area of focus usually has a prerequisite the deep and fundamental familiarity with said subject.

Your point about the front page I liked alot. I noticed I only view the front page, deliberate as that may be. I wonder what gems I might be missing..
> It's hard having ideas and then lacking the social skills to bring them forth.

This article kind of reminds me of a professor I knew, but I'd describe him as the opposite: big on vision, self-promotion, and the whole social game, while not having the ability to back it up with good ideas or implementation. And for both the author and the professor I know, I'd say the social side is the source of their success, rather than its limit. Not everyone can take simple ideas that are semi-common sense to people skilled in the area, and build career success from them as an independent researcher.

I always suspected the professor was bipolar, because in addition to the brimming energy and excitement about taking over the world with his vision, there were down days too where he got angry at the world for not believing in him etc.
the sentiment regarding steroid use is becoming less negative and stigmatic. A lot of older pros talk about it openly now (ex Dorian Yates) and a lot of current modern pros are openly disclosing their routines. Sponsors are becoming more tolerant of this as it's now as the honesty is now seen as cool and attracts an audience.
Alt+W (Windows) brings up the window menu, from there just deselect fullscreen
I'm pretty sure my jar of mayo has lasted me for, like, a year.
I'm still unclear on what this has to do with gorillas.
I don't meant to be critical in any way (I just want to offer a genuine perspective) -- I really didn't like it. Not sure if it was because of the bright yellow color or because I just took a long survey before checking out the site (which was another long form).
Well - I'm not sure if it means anything to say that I've spoken with network engineers from Netflix who make from $130K - $185K, but there you go. Those numbers, by themselves, don't actually mean anything. $185K is undervalued for a Sr. Network Architect. $130K might be good, bad, great, or average - depending on what your responsibilities are.

A better way of looking at it, is if you have two job opportunities, one at Netflix, and one at a bog-standard Radord 50th percentile silicon valley company, my anecdotes (four) indicate that that you would be looking at about $30K/year more at Netflix.

With that said - Netflix isn't so much interested in 9-5 employees, as it is in entrepreneurs who can navigate the company, show leadership, and get results. It's a challenging environment for an employee that looks for hands-on management.
You would think though that in the ~8 months since Jason wrote this some kind of specific claim might have surfaced?

Nope. Personally I would wait until it's too late for the major players to back out before I make a patent claim. There's no 'statute of limitations' on patent claims. Laches may make things a tad more difficult but holding off until the actual specification is in use would probably hold up.

I'm not at all convinced WebM doesn't have patent issues, but I'm certainly not going to assume it does have patent issues because someone said it might have patent issues.

As Jason said in his article (and he's probably in one of the best positions to judge technical ingenuity in this area), it's very likely that it does have patent issues. That's not someone saying it might have patent issues, that's someone saying it probably does.

Also, for what it's worth, the burden of proof is not on Google, that's not how patents work.

In court. We're not in court. The claim is being made that we should use WebM mostly because it isn't patent encumbered (certainly not for technical reasons). This is a claim that Google should defend. Without support for this statement there's no reason to use WebM instead of H264.
It's advertising. Admittedly, I don't have the numbers to back it up, but I would imagine that the economic impact of this advertising is worth more than the cost for Google to send a CR-48 to be blended.
White House would he the first call made from your country if you were invaded

not if you were invaded by order from the White House, but I guess it doesn't count.
Kalaksi is really cool, too bad it didn't catch up! I applaud your goal to make the open web thrive by using RSS. I see that you're even incorporating RSS-bridge, that's very cool !

Since you want to use the open web standards, you probably have heard of the indieweb movement. They have been working in this field, have standardized a bunch of protocols, among which webmention is only one (see https://indieweb.org/graphics#Illustrations_and_Sketch_Notes) and are all about doing first. I think there's a lot more you can reuse from their work! Kalaksi could be a nice demonstration of what the openness could bring. In particular it seems Kalaksi could become a social reader (https://indieweb.org/social_reader). This is exactly what we need to remove the importance that siloed private social networks.

Small comment: it seems the planets don't have the <link rel="alternate"> in the header that allows the browser to detect the rss feed, so one can't use the page directly but has to copy-paste the link to be able to subscribe outside of Kalaksi
I know trackpads won, but would love a trackpoint. I keep buying Thinkpads solely for that feature.
I'm coming around to the idea that Google (and Facebook etc) need to be called out and held accountable for the "negative externalities" that come with their business model, the same as if a company was polluting the physical environment.

Google has turned much of the internet into a wasteland (there are examples as it related to news in the article but this is true for most content). They don't have to pay for this pollution, but it literally affects everyone in the world. The internet at this point is a vital part of people's lives, and when we see companies doing the equivalent of dumping chemical waste into it, we should more actively rebuke them.
Wow, just wow. "Don’t buy that dinner, don’t buy those school supplies, don’t buy those gifts because you won’t have that almost $500 you paid in dues." It seems Amazon's main argument for why people shouldn't join a union is that Amazon's wages are so low that they cannot financially afford to.

That's almost like saying

"You're too poor to fight for your rights. Know your place."
Doesn't have to be what the average person is doing, it just has to be an option for those who want it.
That’s the problem with free ad-based media giants. For an individual, the deadly combination of the platform being large enough, free and closed (no APIs for feature-complete third-party cross-platform clients) means a huge barrier to switching over to a different social provider with better ethical, infosec and privacy track record—and all the while company’s interests are aligned with ones of the advertisers, the actual paying users. Stock performance, of course, reflects that.
As a note, the PM that passed this legislation is now the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees.
Ok, true about the divergence, but how installing lasers along your flight path? In principle that should work, right?

Or alternatively instead of placing stationary fuel pellets in your flight path, have them accelerated by an external accelerator to as high a speed as possible.
When you charge through the platform we issue the charge on behalf the connected account, so you are never actually in the flow of funds.

Re: chargebacks, there are 2 situations where this becomes relevant:

- With managed accounts, you're responsible for losses in the end anyway. This mostly dictates which account balance the fee comes from.

- Generally if you're providing the customer support it can make sense to take on liability. Take Lyft for example: they don't debit driver bank accounts if they get a chargeback.
Is it not the case that many/most games now are some smaller C++ components being scripted by something higher-level?
The head of government in a parliamentary system (in the German system of the time, the Chancellor) is usually appointed by the chief of state (in that system, the President), but this is usually constrained by constitutional restrictions governing who the chief of state can ask to form a government and requiring the government to be supported by a majority of the parliament.

The Nazi party was the largest party in both 1932 parliamentary elections, with no party securing a governing majority after the July election (leading to rule by emergency decree by the President and a minority government), but after the November election the Nazi party formed a coalition with various others to form a government (now, those others thought that they'd be able to blunt the Nazi party and their growing popularity more by including them in a government and giving Hitler the chancellorship, but that's not an uncommon reason for bringing trying to bring a party into a governing coalition.)

Hitler was elected in the same sense that Benjamin Netanyahu, or any other head of government in a parliamentary system whose party only directly controls a minority of seats, was, or is, elected.

> Hitler achieved power via the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act, not ballots.

Hitler achieved greater power through those mechanisms, sure, but he was in a position to do so only because of the Nazi parties strong showing in both of the 1932 elections, and the inability of any opponents of the Nazis to form a government without them.
What's your use case? You can't use cards stored in Stripe on non-Stripe sites, if that's what you're asking.
At least the bugs are documented. Ruby bugs just are, theres nothing confirming them.

Java bugs need to stay there because if they were fixed then it would be a backward incompatible change.
Oakland is incredibly close to San Francisco. If you want all the benefits of being in Silicon Valley's startup network with only a fraction of the cost, then Oakland is your spot. The only downside is that many businesses already realize this and have begun driving up renting costs.
You have a point. I used to work with/for a few of them, and sometimes the online persona was perhaps more aligned with their IRL personality than was good for them. But for the most part it was a way to vent frustration.
Two things, I think:

3) The "turmoil in Signal" article that made the rounds a few months ago had mentions of the MobileCoin work; I don't think is news so much as people weren't really paying attention.

5) The price spike, to my knowledge, was (partly) some whale at play. This is not a rebuttal to your point as I don't think anybody could prove this for sure tho, but mostly throwing it here for context.
You do not need to have retained a lawyer to say that. You haver a right to remain silent means you have the right to remain silent and not say anything. If you don't have one and still want one, you can get a public defender. It has to be a federal public defender in your district if you are hiring one because federal law enforcement does not handle state law.

The nature of the KGB-style interviews given by federal investigators is that they can be hours long over multiple sessions and you are not allowed by statute to record them. A white shoe caliber law firm will have attorneys record everything that is said manually in notes and keep the client on track to avoid accidental self incrimination. Everyone including super genius multi millionaires and saints who have never so much as received a parking ticket will incriminate themselves in the course of FBI interviews without extreme care being taken to avoid it due to the manipulative nature of the process. When normal people without lawyers self incriminate in the course of these interrogations, the feds then use this as leverage to get cooperation from the interrogation target.

Hence why one should never volunteer to talk to them about anything for any reason including if you are trying to help them to track down your mother's killer (probably especially if they're on that case, because you'll be target #1 for railroading).
http://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/2014/12/the-13-most-infuriating-...
Ares Drones makes Kickstarter Tech Weekly Blog; just need to scroll down a bit to see us.

https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/tech-weekly-cookies-and-cac...
Gmail used to show an ever-incrementing storage limit that was huge at the time, coupled with a message (when you were logged in) saying something like "you're using 5% of your limit".

If Amazon did something like that, they could call it "Practically Unlimited", go on about "you could store 10 thousand hours of high def video" or whatever so that normal users get the idea that it's plenty, and still give the actual limits to those who care.

Maybe the catch is that they want a limit that's high enough that practically nobody will hit it, but low enough that it isn't a net loss if someone does fill it up, otherwise their enemies could get a bunch of dummy accounts and fill them up. So they'd rather just maintain the right to preferential treatment.
Excellent news.

We, AppNeta, use PhantomJS to perform Synthetic web-app monitoring

http://www.appneta.com/products/appview/

While PhantomJS has some limitation here and there, it is the _only_ headless browser our there AFAIK.

Disclaimer: I work for AppNeta (specifically for the AppView product).
I do this for ads that are irrelevant to my interests (and most ads they show me are). Saves my time in the future as a lot of Twitter ads are repeats, and sends them a message that their guesses at what's relevant to me are off.
I am totally agree with 'Use data to prune unused features' point.

It might happened that some features were introduced years ago based on demand. But It would be not usable for now. Still those features are maintained. I believe those features should be removed which eventually gives you space to work on innovative features for same product.
> A few obvious choices are a better ranker or transforming to perception-friendly colour spaces like HSV.

HSV is not good for perceptual comparison. Try HSP [1].

[1] http://alienryderflex.com/hsp.html
You are not getting my point. He is saying that something (which is kind of like a container or context for values, but even this is a false analogy) behaves like a monad (lets call the monad M) if and only if functions that take some value (of type a) and return a value (that may be of a different type) within the monad (so that would be M b, where M is another type) obey the monad laws when combined with bind and return.

Monadic functions have the type (a -> M b)
return has the type (a -> M a), so injecting a value into a monad
bind has the type (M a -> (a -> M b) -> M b), or without currying, (M a, (a -> M b)) -> M b, so that given a monadic value (M a) and a monadic function (a -> M b), you get a result of type M b.
And hopefully one or more not-so-well-known, local data sets to check that the results are actually as claimed?
Well there are other things to consider like cache size which I'm sure is much larger.

Plus a lot of the load will be put onto the graphics processor.
Well just let me know when you implement a restore feature.
It is worth it. It takes time, but it really is worth it.
They probably have an army of underutilized graphic designers.
That could very well be. We're underprivileged when it comes to mobiles, unfortunately.
This was the dealbreaker for me when I last tried to pick up Emacs (albeit at this point that is about 8-9 years ago) there was just nothing at all that could compare to intellisense, for any language.

How's that going today? XCode has fantastic intellisense for C and Objective-C along with jump to declaration / jump to definition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business
The article says:

"When breakthrough thinking is needed, a fun, collaborative and supportive environment will generally yield better/faster results than the pressure of sticks and carrots. This is especially important in the early days of a startup while the team is still figuring out a viable formula for the business."

But it's assuming there is already a startup company that you've founded.

I'm currently going through the agonizing process of filing for an S-Corp and setting up all the other legal structure to found a startup. Are there really people who would get a couple friends together and file all that paper work and pay all those fees then sit down and think "Hmm.. okay. Now what should we sell?"

Even if you just have an idea for a fun product, if you aren't monetarily focused, I have no idea how you would get yourself through the whole process without considering a "viable business formula."
This is ridiculous... why is this TLD being allowed? Its main use is going to be abuse, ranging from squatting to phishing (chase.co, paypal.co, anyone?).
How does one even know there is such a thing as SLIME or Clojure or Leningen? How does one even know that there are computers or that they can be programmed? How do you know?
I'm not the standard user of emacs, but as an arts student in university, I have to write a lot of papers. I write, using LaTeX in emacs, and it has dramatically increased the speed in which I can write. More important is probably the editing portion of it. I don't have to worry about fooling around with font sizes and formatting, that if I make this bold it might make the rest, etc. all those little annoyances that come with a large word processor. I just want to write. Emacs lets me do that.

Of course, I'm not comparing emacs to vim, but to something like Word. I plan to learn vim in the next few months.
Elon mentioned the problem was that they ran out of hydraulic fluid about 30 seconds too soon. The rocket had to try to right itself using only engine gimbaling instead of using the waffle paddles, which didn't work out so well.

The great thing is they've already fixed the problem for the next flight.
Which is the best?
Thanks a lot for the feedback! That’s how we use Nooot on our own :) You can just delete the text from the note after you’ve copied the link, it will be deleted permanently.
I love the illustration - http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/sites/default/files/images/s...

It looks like part of a discarded plan by some deranged megalomaniac.
I love shell scripts because they let you distribute zero-setup portable programs without dependencies. But if you're already going to be depending on shellfire, why not instead depend on a VM for a more appropriate language?

I think posix shell is quite a beautiful language, and I enjoy hacking together a medium size application with it just because it's fun, but it has a lot of disadvantages relative to a more modern scripting language. If you use perl/python/ruby/javascript/lua/lisp instead, your application will perform better, be easier to maintain and be able to run on windows without cygwin.

I get the impression that this project is trying to advertise itself for making real applications, but I don't think that's realistic. As a toy, though, it's really cool and I'll probably play around with it at least a little.
Wow, that sounds exactly like what I do. I can stare at something without really seeing it, the information goes in one eye and out the other. It's like I have to "try to see it" a couple times.

Just hearing about someone else having the same symptoms from marijuana actually helps clarify things for me. I also have some other anxiety related issues so it can be difficult for me to disentangle what is my problem vs. a substance causing some effect, but it sounds like in this case it might actually be the ol' cannabanoids doing work on my body chemistry.
> And an epub is just a collection of HTML files anyway, so it shouldn't be difficult to make a website instead. I think what's missing is a "website archive format" supported by all major browsers, so the user can have an offline copy of the "book".

Seems to me that, since an ePub is just a collection of HTML files (well, there's more than that -- there's also an index file, at least, IIRC), the solution is that browsers should be enhanced to read ePub directly. You've already got the "website archive format", you just lack the browser support.
Or maybe s/dark sheep/dark horse/g ?

In any case, I think the g is superfluous, as "dark sheep" only appears once.
I generally agree with that conclusion, an ideal competition would be all barefoot. (And if we could hold marathons barefoot on golf course grass ... wow!) But I'm willing to compromise, just not very far.
I don't believe I've ever seen a .ir website in my ~25 years online.
I can't answer for others, but I'm involved in a large team inside of a large department where it can be difficult to understand who really owns a piece of code, and we're all expected to be able to slice all the way across the codebase.

I can't tell you how many times I'm heard a team mate mention something that they're working on that I have direct knowledge about and I've been able to cut a week of time off their project. And vice-versa, they've helped me.

I usually don't care about exactly what they're doing or how far along they are. If I need that information I join that group's regular sync, or check the bug status, or ping them and ask.

It's more about knowledge that a project actually exists. I have about 5 projects that I'm actively leading and another 10 or so that have been backlogged or deferred. There are about 50 people at my level in the department, so I assume there are at least 200 active projects, and I can't handle that firehose. Actually, I'm positive that there are at least 200 projects of various sizes ongoing, and I may be low by a full order of magnitude.

But when a question comes through my team, the fact that we can overhear what's going on and tune in or tune out can make or a break a project.
Generally yes and that is an enormous step.
He did pay taxes, but probably at a lower rate than an average doctor. The preferential treatment of capital gains over wages is a huge giveaway to Bezos.