jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Once you publicly post something, or even post something privately to someone else, it’s not entirely yours anymore, in an important sense it’s theirs.

Yes Usenet used to gave a spool lifetime, but that was clearly variable and there were no guarantees about it. Anybody could set up a mirror and frequently did. Also anyone could copy out content to other media and there was no expectation that they couldn’t do that.

We are all responsible for what we post to other people and in some cases also the effect it has on them. Consider bullying, abuse, criminal conspiracy, the record of receiving a message belongs to the receiver not the sender.
In my view, leaving people who want privacy to have privacy is what separates journalists from paparazzi. If NYT starts to act like paparazzi, I would no longer give their words any more weight than I do TMZ. In my opinion, NYT broke an ethical rule by damaging someone's privacy. You may say Scott's name was not fully secret before the NYT entered the picture either, so it's OK. But that's like saying it's OK to throw a stone and break someone's window because there already was a small crack on the glass. Privacy is not binary. NYT was taking his privacy from perhaps 85% to 2% and that's gotta count for something. I, for one, have been a reader of his blog for at least 5 years and I had no idea what his real name was until this fiasco happened.

I am not going to write a lengthy comment about this. Scott himself has written on the subject with more depth and eloquence that I could. I just want to add my own anecdote that I am done with NYT. After my Gell-Mann amnesia broke about NYT, I do not see myself ever becoming Gell-Mann amnesiac towards them again.
It's not a non standard definition of what a type system is. If anything, yours is the non standard one that is more commonly called type checking.

Either way, you've devolved this into condescension and I refuse to engage further with such petulant discord.
The article has two major problems. The first is the one you're describing, that there's barely anything substantive at all. The second is that for what evidence that is linked, if you follow those links and actually read the source material they contradict what the author says in pretty blatant ways (Alexander points this out in his response). For one example he didn't cover, the author deliberately mischaracterizes, again, what Damore said in his memo, saying it claimed it was only biological differences that explain the gender disparities in tech.

>That week, a Google employee named James Damore wrote a memo arguing that the low number of women in technical positions at the company was a result of biological differences, not anything else — a memo he was later fired over. One Slate Star Codex reader on Reddit noted the similarities to the writing on the blog.

There's so much wrong with these two sentences. The first is just flat out false, and that they didn't link to the original material in the piece - but instead to another NYT article, which links to a Vice article which finally has the primary source - is really telling. The second sentence is just ... what? Some redditor noted some similarities? This is breathtakingly embarrassing journalism. Maybe we can attribute it to just lazy prose. Okay, then where is the editor? It's so poorly written that, you're right, calling it a "hit piece" is giving it too much credit.
The OP isn't talking about Ajax calls and Dom transformations. He's talking about using semantically correct markup (c'mon, it is literally an ordered list) and a style sheet. Things that would make the site faster, easier to maintain, and easier to parse.

If this were anyone other than pg, you'd all be excoriating the developer for living in the 90s.
I rewrote the HN markup to use XHTML + CSS + MicroFormats last year, but never got a chance to re-write the actual templating code in news.arc (http://www.arclanguage.org).

If anyone's interested in finishing that last part, let me know and I'll be happy to send you the templates and stuff I made. I also added some rudimentary support for mobile-specific stylesheets and scripts.
The military doesn't have to make a bid to buy them. All they have to do is throw down a billion dollar contract for prototyping an arabic version and Quest Visual will have no reason to sell.
Advice: don't write that kind of comment publicly, you may regret it many years later.
I know her personally. This is what she currently does:

April comes into a startup that has a proven business model and brings it from 30ish people to IPO or acquisition. She is extraordinarily intelligent, technically knowledgeable, approachable, and successful. She is one of the key people in the Toronto tech scene, and even if she cut her teeth on big tech, she really is a growth phase startup person at heart.

With respect to this post, I actually don't care much for it, but some of her other ones are gold. Specifically I've liked:

http://www.rocketwatcher.com/blog/2010/10/marketing-metrics-...

http://www.rocketwatcher.com/blog/2010/05/a-new-marketing-fr...

http://www.rocketwatcher.com/blog/2010/11/startup-marketing-...

http://www.rocketwatcher.com/blog/2010/09/competitive-intell...
This is actually fairly old, from 2009.

Same thing demonstrated in 2008 - http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/css/slopes

And more polygons by Tantek Çelik in 2001 - http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/polygons.html

The speech bubble effect in the demo can also be done without presentational markup by using pseudo-elements - http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-speech-bubbles/
The existence of user-visible files is orthogonal to local vs network. Dropbox gives you a network-accessible filesystem, and iOS stores data locally with no visible filesystem.

As long as you have the ability to move your data around, eg 'export photos from flickr to facebook', adding some file system only complicates matters.

I'm not convinced that having to learn how a dozen different websites import and export data is an improvement over having a file that I can do whatever I want with. That seems like a step back to the 90s where every app had a unique format and your options for manipulating and moving data around were limited to what each app explicitly supported.
Can you get them to implement highlighting? I want to keep text for reference, with the main points highlighted so I can quickly review it when needed.

Hundreds of fonts and font colours to choose from, yet such a basic feature isn't available... it's puzzling.
Yeah, I'm beginning to worry about some CS disciplines, especially Software Engineering. SoftEng appears to be playing catch-up to industry in a number of sub-disciplines, due to the pace of knowledge sharing across the net exponentially increasing. It feels like unit testing might be the last huge thing academic SoftEng contributes.

There's going to have to be a little bit of realignment, I think, and some disciplines are going to have to start letting go of being "we're the practical ones and you could deploy our tech tomorrow" to pushing out a little bit, maybe incorporating things like AI and stuff.
It's upvoted because it demonstrates why the original comment is exactly what shouldn't be on HN: an empty stream of popular jargon that turns argument into a hipper-than-thou fashion show of buzzwords and name-dropping. HN should be more than a beauty contest to see who can sound most like a guy who's going to get rich someday. keyist's comment may be ugly, but it's insightful and just.
People keep making comparisons to other social networks, but in this case the two products are way too similar to coexist. Influencers will decide what platform they like best. You can't exactly do a simultaneous broadcast on both apps at the same time.

Just seems like if you were in the loop it would have been an unnecessary risk to invest now without waiting to see how the market responded to a Goliath competitive offer.
Yes, seriously. Which company is anyone's guess, and some are more likely than others, but it's conceivable a single company from that list could achieve a $200B valuation on a 5 year time scale.
Thanks! I caught the 1060 Addison reference from the Blues Brothers. Was thinking I was behind the times on something similar here.
I support the seemingly-exaggerated response of Salesforce. In a risk of starting a religious flame war, I don't understand those of faith who discriminate against anyone else for any reason. Jesus called on His believers to love your neighbors as you love yourself. "There are no commandments greater than these" (from Mark 12)
So that you're in action when the round is oversubscribed.
My vision "Awethu" a non-profit startup is to use technology to help people from developing nations (such as mine) to solve their real-world problems, which in either case be expensive. i.e, create a "affordable" solution. And, it's been difficult for me to find co-founders who are as motivated as I am AND be seeking less or no profit out of it.
In the case of React Native, we don't actually compile a JS runtime. We avoid that overhead by using whatever JS environment is available on the platform. In the case of iOS, we use JSC.
Uhm you can throw diophantine equations after Z3 which certainly isn't a decideable problem. I have no idea whether it errs on the side of termination (i.e. not giving an answer) or non-termination (i.e. running forever).
We seldom see this idea because it's mostly not true. To the extent that it is, it's because some cultures have spent more time thinking about algebra and spaceflight than others, and have more words for them. But words are cheap, they're easy to make.
So with bitcoin and some other uses the actual public ecdsa key is hidden behind some hashing such that you gotta invert the hash function to get to the ecdsa public key before cracking. Also that's not a one to one but... Can you crack sha256 with quantum computing too?
Nice labor of love, and team accomplishment. I might have to re-buy Vice City (for game assets), just to try this on my Linux GPU box.

I got into the GTA franchise when (after not playing video games for a long time) I happened to see an old PS2 Slim that someone had put out beside the trash on the curb, brought it home, and started buying old games on eBay for a few dollars.

Adolescent humor and terrible themes&glorification aside, GTA Vice City led me to GTA San Andreas, which was both a compelling open world, and some great gameplay. I came to very much dislike members of other gangs, who were always starting crap when I was just going about my business -- which I suppose fit the story, and was also good mechanics for a game.

At some point, I had to buy a PS3, for GTA IV, which had been out a while. The PlayStation was a GTAstation. At the end of the story mode, as the cast-of-thousands credits rolled, over a montage of views of the New York City world they'd built, my reaction was that this game was a significant achievement for humankind.

And it was engaging enough, that, by endgame time, er, I might've developed muscle memory for consistent PVP headshots, high-speed "chicken" drive-bys, and literally driving circles around another player's car while concentrating fire on their driver position. One of the highest compliments you can receive is being wrongly accused of cheating.

In the very limited time I have for gaming lately (none, at the moment), it's usually been Ubisoft open worlds, but, whenever I check back into GTA Online freeroam, I'm reminded that it's the most actively fun for me. Cycles of retribution with another player or three, for the most creative or spectacular ways of fighting each other. And sometimes I even have the personally fulfilling opportunity to teach-- OP Mk. II griefers, that the Buzzard is still to be respected. (But forget heist stealth missions with randoms... :)

(Story-wise alone, The Last of Us might be my all-time favorite game. I dislike zombie stories in any medium, but, by the climax, I was misty-eyed, caring for the child character I was protecting.)
Sure, and universal health care helps even more but it doesn't fill the pockets of the members of the medical associations the way private health care does. Regulatory capture in its rawest form.
Only on HN will you find the creator of JavaScript, Firefox, and Brave helping an end user troubleshoot.

Thanks, Brendan!
Absolutely. My brain must just not be wired right to appreciate Apple's designs because I think MacBooks aren't all that pretty. I liked the look of the iPhone when it first came out because the rest of the cellphone market was hideous, but by now Apple has fallen behind and even with the 4th gen phone the look is somewhat stale.

ThinkPads, on the other hand, have barely changed at all but still look like you can sit down and get some bloody work done.
In reality, probably not. If the parents found out you were contracting a convicted pedophile for whatever reason, it'd be the end of your daycare.

You'd fare much better contracting law enforcement who catch pedophiles for child protection policy.
There's a comment beneath you that quotes the page (near the bottom) "you can not send emails (you can receive them)."

Although I agree with you, a comment explaining would have been better than a down-vote -- best not to take those personally!
Cheap program launcher for Windows users, but I've had something similar on Linux at one point:

1) Create directory "shortcuts".

2) Map path to that directory.

3) Drag shortcuts into there, for e.g. documents, folders, programs. The further-from-your-desktop the better, because that saves the most time. Rename them to 'ideas', 'timesheet', web', 'projects' etc - note that the shortcut name can be quite different to the file name.

4) Change IE setting for autocompletion in the URL bar to true. Probably Tools/Internet Options/Advanced/Use inline Autocomplete. This affects your start menu.

5) [Windows key]-R and the shortcut name. Your shortcut should execute. If you have done #4 above then in future you should only have to type one or two letters of the shortcut in future. 'ti' for timesheets, for example.
I've noticed that I don't do this often enough. I don't know if it is because I've become conditioned to say yes to tasks and assignments at work, and that has bled over into my personal life, or just because I hate friction. Either way, I agree with this tip. If you don't want to do it, say no. Otherwise you're going to spend a long time making excuses.
Here's a guy implementing a Lisp machine on a FPGA:

http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/
"what has apps has apple banned?" didn't work :)
If this is true this is outrageous!
"Saying "I'll do anything" doesn't make the MBA-intern clueless, rather makes him a lot more motivated and open-minded about his career and future path."

When you say "I'll do anything", I hear: "I'll do anything that you want me to do"

That's the problem. I don't want to spend more time figuring out shit for you to do than you spend actually doing it.

I would rather hear you say: "I'd be willing to do anything, but I know that I could really help with ________"
Sharpness and Focus != Ambition

Ambition is drive one feels to achieve - that IMHO is very different between genders (on average offcourse).
Right. What if I make a bunch of publicly released changes* that are then pulled back into the Kod codebase?

* Changes that fulfill this "meaningful modification" provision.
A good case in point. It is illustrative that the demise was initiated by the arrest of its owner, who was the only Russian oligarch who "came clean" by publicly acknowledging the corruption of the Russia's top businesses and state, and called for transparency in both.
Positioning is all about finding your spot and own it. Reminds me of the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island. Now, that's positioning!
http://scienceray.com/earth-sciences/physical-geography/larg...
Yup. Terminals ahoy.
Is that what that's supposed to be? I always pronounced it "Woo-allah" in my head.
As Facebook transitions into the next decade, they must focus heavily on mobile. I see a lot of people mainly using Facebook for its messenger app, so it's very smart of Facebook to buy a competing messaging service that is gaining huge traction in the international market. If WhatsApp were to expand into the States, Facebook could be in trouble. Very smart investment by Zuckerberg but I can see why people are shocked it was dealt for such a huge amount.
http://www.moneydance.com
Looks like Sublime Text but with a ton of resource-consuming shit I'll never use, which itself is similar to the reason I stopped using Sublime Text. I'll sick with vim, thanks.
I believe they are very mistaken, just like I believe practicing scientists who also believe in God are very mistaken. There are arguments for and against my beliefs, and I don't want to go into them here. I'm just explaining that to me a spiritual scientist (or a collapse-postulate scientist) is placed in a category where I can't believe that they take their science all that seriously. This doesn't make them impossible to learn from, or not worth it, or wrong about everything, but honestly I'd rather learn from someone more serious and excited about learning like Feynman. Someone who revels in the odd and beautiful nature of reality and doesn't need to invent comfortable intuition-friendly (and complicated) "reasons" why or how something does something.

That said, if such scientists that I put into my would-rather-not-learn-from category want to teach me some math or programming or something solid and backed by experiment, if they want to show me an experiment to learn from, I'm all for it! I grew up in Utah, I can't think of a single influential teacher not a Mormon, obviously I didn't think because they were religious they weren't worth learning from.
I just opened my backpack to find my macbook had been on and running for the last hour. The CPU temperature must have been pretty close to 90c, the laptop itself was too hot to hold. Somehow it still works, thanks to the giant unibody heatsink, I guess.

Today's lesson: Don't change your bluetooth mouse batteries after putting your laptop in your backpack, unless you want it to wake up and potentially start a fire.
Only the people that need one, which isn't everyone.

And they pay for it now because it's established that the internet is essential for doing business, but if domains had cost US$500 from the start we might not be in that position now.

Hiking up domain name costs makes sense only because we live with an internet that was developed without ridiculously high domain name costs.

Raising the cost now would be futile - it would actually make all the people hoarding domains a huge pile of money.
I think the link is wrong - that article is on the Concorde aircraft.
I can't speak for the others, but I have lots of friends who have phones with no data plans (probably 90% of my friends, in fact). I can't send links to their phones, but I can send them screenshots via MMS. It's come in handy on many occasions.
Lobster, http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Lobster
I typically send all three. I send the link for the driving directions, I send my own summary which makes sense to local people, and a screenshot of a map, with my scribbles on there. "There's this landmark, here's where you turn, this is Xyz Lane which you'll see on your left just before the street you turn into, so be ready when you see it, here's our house on the left. If you're coming from the south instead of west, this is where you'll be coming from." As far as I know, no one's ever gotten lost this way.
My hopes were also dashed. Bring back gopher!
Thanks, Jesse. Just got accepted.
Do social things with others (especially so if you're working by yourself).

Go outside everyday.
Do you really think that the average person browsing iTunes realizes that there is a difference between the TWIT brand and all of the "This Week In . . ." stuff? Largely, they don't. I've spoken with people that didn't realize they were unrelated. There's a reason for trademark law. So that someone can't come in and do the same thing you're doing in the same market with an identical branding and stir up confusion and dilute your own business brand. I suppose the audience at TWiT may generally be savvy enough to recognize there is no relation, but the network also caters to a very large audience of laymen who can no more discern the two This Week In tech-related networks than they can discern "The Internet" from "Internet Explorer".

I've dealt with this, personally, when someone produced the exact same service as I had been providing for many years. They changed two letters in the name and that was it. For years afterward, there was great confusion among the audience and I had to deal with people emailing me to complain about problems with the other group that I had nothing to do with, because they didn't realize they were different. They filed reports about me, thinking that I was the other place. They would use my service and get upset that "the site has changed", because they didn't realize that they had been visiting "the other" site this whole time.

The only reason I couldn't do anything about it is because I'm just one guy and I don't have tens of thousands of dollars to spend on lawyers and legal processes or, believe me, I would have.

You might also notice that "This Week In NASCAR" would, of course, be about NASCAR. There is almost no concern about brand confusion or dilution when one is about technology and the other is about racing. There is, however, potential for brand confusion when one is primarily about technology and tech culture and the other is about technology and tech culture. And when one is distributed over the internet and iTunes and the other is distributed over the internet and iTunes.

It is a naming attempt made deliberately for confusion. You can't argue that it isn't, because any reasonable person starting a project would look at the naming conventions of similar services and products and say "well, I don't want to be confused with this other one, so I want my name to be unique and very identifiable". It's skeezy, unprofessional, and the fact that the guy asked "do you mind if I name my show This Week In..." shows that he recognized it (notice he only ever said "the show" and not "an entire network").

Anyway, I'm not invested in TWIT whatsoever and normally could not care less, despite the characterization you attempt to apply. However, it certainly bears some relevance to the topic as it was posted.
We're going to add CNAME support soon. Thanks for the feedback about the color scheme.

If you sign up for an unlimited account and you're _really_ unhappy, send an email to support@showoff.io and we can talk about a refund :)
As far as I remember clojure just spit out "This is not a function" or something like that, without any indication where the error occured.

There is a trace macro but it doesn't provide complete traces without explicitly adding every function you want to trace, which becomes tricky very soon. Manual tracing with printf()s like in non-functional languages isn't built-in either. There are half-baked macros for this on blogs if you google hard enough, but that is not the kind of thing that leaves a solid impression of a language.

Maybe I was just working in a non-clojuresque way.
When this story broke this morning, my first thought was "this must be something related to or used by the MobileMe 'Find My iPhone' feature." I'm not entirely convinced of that, but I'm willing to wait for the official 'reality distortion field' answer before I start grumbling. Even then it may not really bother me.... It's not terribly different from how my car phone provider back in the mid-90s provided triangulation "guesses" for call locations. (It's just always on.... but in that respect so is my phone.)

What does bother me, though, is how easy this data is to get to.
I'd much rather be able to do this over an SSH port forward than having to install a Ruby gem.

I think the http://browserling.com/ guys are working on a solution where you can proxy your local web server over an SSH tunnel for previewing your website in multiple browsers without deploying it.