jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Mod parent up. The United States has NEVER gotten over its plantation/slave owner mentality. It's too deeply embedded in the collective unconscious to be calmly refuted--it's so close to the bone that it has to be vehemently, hysterically denied. It goes together with the inability of the United States' public to comprehend risk pools. And not only workers are enslaved, but you entrepreneurs are also, because the state requires you to administer a social program that the government is in a far better position to administer: health insurance (private insurance could then be purchased for more benefits). But forcing businesses to do this is a huge chunk of the deficit, incredibly economically inefficient and is forcing companies to outsource labor. Your new slave owners are the prisons and the insurance companies.
The loss would be a shame, but calling it a "sick tragedy" is a bit of a stretch. Unmaintained, the data will get stale fairly rapidly, and it won't take long for another service to step in. There's a vacuum here, and someone will fill it.
As other comments have drawn attention to, it's a shame that the first things to go in any government austerity drive are sciences and things too complicated for the average, TV-educated Joe to care about. Imagine how different the world would be if in the 1940s the UK decided computers had no use outside of war and cut their funding. Or if in the 1960's the US government decided that DARPA should be focusing on cutting costs, not trying to connect these computer machines together over this network they'd been working on...
Not only that, but no one has been able to nail the physics of it either. The elastic snap back at the top of lists (I'm not sure if Android has this, but the cheap Samsung phones do) is very unnatural, and slow.
onlythelonely can't reply to your comment.

But you are speaking to the guy who finds it easier to communicate with machines than people a lot of the time, and lets say I'm going through a dry spell, I have no religious or esoteric beliefs to cloud my opnion or judgement. I still see no redemption and only compounded misery in a product like this.
Yeah, because the only reason we have sex is to make babies.
> Can someone sell me on Go over Java?

Do you need generics? then Go isn't for you.
node.js is basically the JavaScript equivalent of Python's Twisted or Ruby's EventMachine, an asynchronous server toolkit. If the node.js documentation doesn't explain it well enough, look at its "rivals", maybe that helps (well, maybe not in the case of Twisted, if I remember correctly).
Genocide is a bit much. Then we should also call what Israel is doing in Gaza "genocide".
nice I've been waiting for something like this. thank you.
It's broken on Chrome, Firefox works okay.
> Now apple did it, and everybody is crying and said this would hurt publishers.

Not even that, Reader is not an ad blocker it's a reformatter, it's a built-in Readability and nothing more. And you have to see the page before you can even trigger readability, so really it's not like it's disappearing your ads.

> I don't see this too different from the "Popup Blocker" feature. Remember the days when popup window was the standard way to display ads. Now pretty much every browser comes with popup blocker.

In fact, Reader is much less anti-ads than popup blocking ever was.
No need to laugh. It was a reasonable assumption.
Exactly.

If you're AT&T, when households are looking at their bills for stuff to cut, you don't want them looking at their data plan and saying, "well, I guess I don't use it very much..."

You want the gym membership to get the axe.
On Linux too!
Many of them are primarily motivated by status, yes.
Thing is, it's not even going to do that. You have to be on the (first) page to trigger Reader, so you'll see ads anyway, and it will fetch all the pages one by one when reformatting them.

They just built Readability in the browser (literally, there are acknowledgements to Readability in Saf 5)
OT but I've never liked the term 'big data' precisely because it's so ill-defined. Most people I speak with on this think they have 'big data'. Anything they can't comprehend is "big data". Anything that makes their Excel 97 crash is "big data". It's pervasive a term enough that people have heard it, and use it wrongly.

Colleague of mine is at a company that's advertising for someone with "big data" experience. Collectively, for more than 10 years in business, they have maybe 100g of data. They just do not know how to organize the data sanely in a relational database, and actively refuse to consider normal data structures.
sorry, what is wrong with a given measurable short frame of time?
The question I'd ask is, why do I need the salesperson at all? I know exactly what I want when I buy a car. For my last two cars, I sourced and specified the manufacturer option codes for my order.

The role of a salesperson is to convince someone to buy a product. If I am already convinced, why should I have to involve this person in my transactions?
Good list! Red Hat should probably be in here too, since Canonical is there.
I don't see what any part of this has to do with the VC economy and you have not elaborated. None of the $485M is coming from banks. VC's (the 23 investors) don't borrow money from banks to invest into Snapchat, and LP's (their investors) don't borrow money from banks to invest into the VC's. And anyway these funds were mostly raised years ago. So I just don't see even a third-level connection (which would add years to the effect becoming visible.) Snapchat isn't something everyday individuals or banks are investing in - these are investments by VC's with funds already set aside for this purpose. If there's a closer connection with low interest rates, you haven't made it clear to me.
Sure. But IME, somewhat paradoxically, the lower you go, the more freedom you gain. Not to speak of understanding.
The longer before its operational, the sooner its deployment will be replaced or reduced by UCAV (combat drones). Technology will make it economical and tactically advantageous for unmanned aircraft to replace manned fighters and bombers in many situations. It will be interesting to see how autonomous they become.
> Digital TVs will automatically blank the bad channel out

Some digital TVs will put fake snow up when the signal is lost. I think I've seen my Samsung do it. First it says "No signal" but I think if you leave it long enough it goes to snow.
Spaniard here.

Death rates are around 0.6%. Depends on the population pyramid, etc. Forget the detected cases. Focus only on deaths, multiply by the 0.6% rate and you've got the number of infected up to ~17 days ago. From then, exponential growth: doubles every 2 to 4 days, except if contained.

The health care system doesn't matter: the growth is exponential; it takes not long for it to crumble, however good it might be. That's happening in Italy (incl. Lombardia) and Spain. What matters how much profilactic material there is (masks, etc) and ventilators; and to prevent the exponential spreading with containment.

In Germany (where I leave) I'm yet to see a single mask. At least people are taking containment more seriously than the government. We'll see what happens when we hit 1000 deaths next Sunday.
It makes perfect sense as "makes it 95% less likely to hit this bug."

Notice from the write up that they already also modified their code to be resilient against the bug being hit at all, so "reducing the number of times the resilience code needs to be invoked by 95%" on top of that is a net win.
Good. This was expected and also unprecedented by the prime minister. The people who tested him on the weekends, by having a non-essential stroll-about in the park and treating this as a joke now can't do that again for the next 3 weeks or else they will get fined.

Nobody wanted this but since it is for the urgency for the country to protect others then, such measures are needed to stop the spread somehow.
Great point that I forgot to mention, because I take it for granted- this laptop is upgradeable (SATA, NVMe, and RAM), so you don't have to commit 100% upfront, but can upgrade over the life of the computer.

Regarding an above comment about the resale value of the Lemur, I'll be interested in how my e495 depreciates over time. It included Windows 10 Pro, which I left on a partition, expecting to dual-boot into. I haven't ended up needing it yet, but it will probably contribute a higher resale price- just delete my Linux partition, resize Windows back to 100%, and toss onto eBay.
I had PrimeNow (UK) slot to be delivered between 6-8pm but nothing came. It says package is still being prepared. It's getting worrying now as the whole UK is closing down and there is an even bigger rush on online shops. We need to isolate for 14 days at least due to suspected Corona virus infection (looks to be mild). We have enough to power through but it's getting serious. Slots are now available online in April and May.
I don't understand why Linux still does not have reliable hibernation. Sleep requires working with BIOS and other hardware components, so I could understand that without proper drivers things might be shaky. But hibernate is hardware-agnostic feature so it should be rock-solid by now.
Doesn't have to be. It is more related to the style of sequencing .
Now there's even a hardware device that does this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQufJBVvAtY
Melting of the polar ice caps.
no, never
Right, and the knowingly violated those T&Cs and got an email about it. Which, by the way, is a hell of a lot nicer than a certified letter from a law firm.
It means if you join a union you can't work unpaid and off the clock to be "helpful and social" with your coworkers.
For every ChainkLink there's a dozen pnd/rugpull scams.
It’s probably banner blindness. Not a best place to put a price near “as seen on...” section. Had to actually use “find on page” functionality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness
Great work guys. The design looks modern and travel range is impressive. How does it compare other three wheel scooters?
That constraint is only really required because paper money can be minted in a way that BTC (or gold) cannot. That's why the distinction is relevant in the case of cryptocurrency. The overall point is that the ship has mostly sailed with regards to whether Bitcoin can be a deflationary store of value like gold. The question now is who will provide the vaults to hold the new "gold bars". These vault providers are not really comparable to central banks.

> The whole reason we have a strong central bank is because we tried the alternative before and it worked terribly

I think there's a strong argument to be made (derived from history) that having a purely gold-backed currency be the sole and legal tender is bad. That said, there's a third option: "porque no los dos?". Do we know for certain that there's anything inherently disastrous about a society that has BOTH fiat-backed legal tender as a hedge against "Wildcat banking" alongside "digital gold" backed currency as a hedge against fiat-backed legal tender?

I think the answer is "probably not". I'd even go so far as to argue that we've already been doing that for the last 70-odd years; people still use gold as a hedge against the USD. Bitcoin is just digital gold that derives value because it's easier to trade Bitcoin for bread than gold bars (in theory).
Hypothetically, can publishers go after authors who used sci-hub ?
Only 3 bytes for requestid ? is not too few ?
Are you saying that GCHQ don't do it?

Or that GCHQ does do it, but because they're GCHQ and not NSA that it's irrelevant?

Because now you have evidence that GCHQ does it you should allow the possibility that NSA does it. The reason you don't have evidence that NSA does it might be because NSA is a secret organistion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8867335
A small correction there, you aren't making them public by putting them in EXPORT. What you're doing is actually using another module to munge the namespace that used your class. In fact by default all functions defined in a package that is used as a class are public by default.

And here's the boiler plate for more modern perl:

package MyClass;
use Moose;
1;

You can define properties of the class using has 'property'; This will setup any accessors and also handle initializing them in the constructor that's created for you by default.
Thanks for sharing, I will add a section about the webcam.
Why not, but which virtualization software to use? I can see the advantages, but what about the drawbacks? Does someone using a virtualized Arch Linux system under Mac OS X is willing to share?
> In the same way that GitHub implies an Internet hub for gits.

well, isn't it? Kidding, kidding.
Engadget Commenter: OMG! You easily installed a new OS on your unlocked Nexus S?? Android security suxorz!

Android Dev: OMG! You easily installed a new OS on your Dell desktop?! Windows Security must suck!
Well, .00000003% or so of the US population gets eaten by sharks every year, so there must be some circumstances under which it becomes a significant risk.

The question is whether those circumstances are identifiable enough to be worth the cognitive load of avoiding: If 90% of shark attacks happened to people swimming at night in Florida, and only .00000006% of the US population actually swims at night in Florida, it might be an activity worth avoiding.
Like others have stated, depends on your willingness/ability to travel. I will say that the 10k more for consulting is actually probably significantly higher than that when you calculate a few other items into the equation:

1. Food - if you are on the road, you're gonna get paid decently to eat! You may get a per diem, or allowed to expense "at cost." This is a HUGE cost savings for most people and you'll be eating very good. You will get sick of nice restaurants!

2. Miles and Points: You travel like crazy, you get points like crazy. You won't be buying any airline tickets for personal travel for a long time and you will be staying in nice hotels for free with all those points. Get a credit card that rewards with points, and you'll be getting points for all those meals you expense too. Oh, and rental cars and ... you get the point.

3. You get to see a wide variety of people and tech challenges. This is good. Think of it as "technical culture" -- much like world travelers, but for tech systems.

This list could go on for a while, but those are the major advantages. Don't be fooled though! Disadvantages are many. It's hard living this kind of life. It gets old and I think it ages people prematurely.

Don't let it factor down to a money thing. Let if factor down to what you really want.
You're derping, but a browser plugin seems like it might actually be a good idea for this. Even if JS is too slow, someone who uploads lots of video through a site might well be willing to install a little plugin to make it faster, especially if it comes with other simple things like queuing a directory of videos, etc.
Sorry, the definition of enslavement is coercion through direct and actual threat of physical violence and does not include other forms of exploitation.

i.e. "Slaves can be held from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery

If you have a mortgage you can still refuse to work and just become homeless. Company men will not drag you kicking and screaming to your cubicle and force you back to you home in the evening to watch X-Factor until you vomit and pass out.
Here is an alternate simple five step process.
1) TEAM
2) TEAM
3) TEAM
4) TEAM
5) REALLY VET THE TEAM
Seems a lot better for consumers in my book. Like having insurance on a car.
I enjoyed Mad Men. But comparing web advertising today to the 70-80s is disingenuous.

Fact of the matter is, advertising today / web marketing relies on user tracking. I'm yet to see anyone debunk this.
For some reason it carries over to cars a lot. If you lease a 2021 BMW M5 through BMW North America/Financial and you want to make a warranty claim for a defect, is your warranty void if you did some of the work yourself prior?

I think it's something like that. I could be wrong.
> Or users regularly injected code into your iOS at runtime to remove or change views

That used to be more of a thing. A big iOS app I was indirectly involved in eventually added jailbreak detection. Not because they wanted to block it, but to log it so they could track down some fun bugs caused by random tweaks that changed the UI in impressively hacky ways.
See for example https://amp.dw.com/en/winds-of-change-push-german-power-grid... or https://www.greentechmedia.com/amp/article/germanys-stressed... .
Not sure why this got downvoted. Seems a perfectly legitimate statement.
I definitely agree with your statements, and I think this is in line with the mission of Skillshare, the author's new startup. People should be learning for the sake of learning! We need to rework our terminology when it comes to speaking about the value of an education; we should be thinking in terms of learning, not economics.

By the way, if you guys are really into the topic, then you should check out Skillshare's latest project on Kickstarter, an animated video (one of those kinetic typography types) about the impending Student Loan Crisis: http://kck.st/d0MG8o
Funny, I just came back from a 4 months stay in China. It was the best experience I had in many years.
I Am A Physicist and well aware of that. My arguments is based on the safety ratings of these machines and the research supporting those ratings. I'm not arguing that the safety of microwaves carries over to these machines: I'm arguing the same methods of judging the safety carries over. I also didn't include regular flying for nothing. Finally, we used to be sitting behind CRT monitors all the time...
Dude, beggars can't be choosers. What do you mean size of startups you wanna work with? Are you referring to money invested in them?

Startup is a startup - regardless of size.

Do an OFFER HN with list of all that you can do. I am sure you will get enough insight of what kinda people need you.
I've updated the page so that it works properly in IE9, at least (all I had to do was add the <!doctype html> header at the beginning, and that seems to be good practice anyway, so I have no issue with it).

I have no way to test IE7 or IE8 at this point, and I don't like the idea of adding code that I can't test. If someone wants to volunteer their time to help me test those browsers with excanvas, I'm willing to give it a shot.
To tilt the camera up and down, making it more adaptable to the range of televisions it may be housed on or under.
>The TSA maintains that their machines are unable to store images

They may maintain that but they've done one lie after another about these machines. An actual TSA screener seems to indicate here [1] that they do indeed store the images, they just choose to delete them if they aren't pertinent. This sounds much more likely, if they find something they will probably need the photos for any court case that comes later. Note that this would also mean that the images can be retrieved from the machines and possibly in a very convenient manner.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/e49v8/by_request_iama_...
This was my favorite startup/silicon valley-based movie until The Social Network came out. Great acting, very accurate storytelling (considering it's a made-for-tv movie from 1999), and pretty damn motivational.
The internet is how we maintain dialogue between peoples when our Governments behave like posturing (arse|ass)+holes. The worse a Government behaves the more (not less) internets the country should receive.
Yes I have, thanks for your concern. I have a cache of these links from earlier when I cared enough to argue.

So you agree that the framing of “they pulled out a mysterious box from under the table” is completely false? That was the part being debunked. The story is “people started packing up for the day, then got asked to resume the work”. I fail to see what’s illegal about it. Where’s the fraud? Sure, if you’re already inclined to be suspicious you’ll find hints of problems in any little hiccup. That’s a little bit thin as far as proving a coordinated multi-state conspiracy goes.
I think the Tinder mutual swipe before message requirement solves this - women’s messages are limited by who they swipe right on (presumably restricting messages to people they’re interested in).

I suppose this leaves out the potential for unswiped men to differentiate themselves with an interesting initial message, but I suspect the success rate for that is pretty low.
My ISP-provided router supports IPv6, but I've disabled it because I don't feel like setting up a firewall for all those poor devices on my network.

Are there any guides for how to properly secure a home network so that I can re-enable IPv6 with a clear conscience?
That’s not entirely true. Everything p2p is complicated with nat2nat and requires things like STUN, which are not working reliably all the time. Casual users need IPv6 to get better video and voice chats, as well as interactive gaming experience.
The post never tells you what JWT even stands for. I thought it was the Java Web Toolkit...
You can't imagine a situation in which a government is justified in using force to suppress protesters. It's hard for me to view that as anything but a failure of imagination. Your perspective also demonstrates over reliance on analogy: hypothetical violent riots over gas prices are equivalent to pro-democracy riots in HK.
Compatibility with screen readers that blind people use.

Moreover, fuck Google and non standard practices in general.
Why would you buy two of the same terribly designed item instead of getting, I don't know, an MX Master (3)?
So, I tell here what I am looking for: maybe someone will find it interesting and want to implement that.

I have android phone and few linux desktop. I want to be able to record notes (simple unformatted text is good) and maybe even voice recording on my phone and have them appear via widget on my desktop transparently.

There are webapp that kind of let you do something at least remotely similar (oi notes, astrid, springpad, evernote) but none of them offer a good set of API that would allow me to have a transparent client.
The most sane option, really? You'll use a runtime without garbage collection. And a GUI framework, vastly inferior to say WPF ( GUI accelerated, XAML DSL, tools for designers ).
Luck exists
Being picky about funding is an interesting concept. If one large sponsor picks up the tab why care about the source of the money? Unless it comes with strings attached but that need not be the case. I still don't get it.
>or Uber/Lyft/etc having to go through extortionary-like procedures in California?

Forgive me for not knowing all the details, but what is the extortion in the fact that Taxi co's have to pay fees that Uber and Lyft don't? I'm guessing there is more to this than I know.
How do you know who "they" is? The Tor project said it seemed like it could have been a research project.
I personally like the sound of a 2-stroke diesel - one of the types of engines that died out due to their much higher emissions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkH9QRaQJM0
Getting the business level support is absolutely necessary if you don't have someone with AWS experience and are doing anything substantially complicated. The free-ish support is, on the whole, pretty abysmal. The availability of solution architect time is not always useful. You ask 3 people and get 3 different answers. I've given some thought to doing consulting around this for equity but haven't figured what that would have to look like. There's a lot of wrong turns one can go down pretty easily. Bottomline, Activate is helpful but not sufficient.