jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I thought I remembered TurboTax purchased CreditKarma, but googled,and now I'm confused...

> Intuit Inc., owner of the popular TurboTax DIY tax preparation service, has moved forward with its $8.1 billion acquisition of Credit Karma, Inc., after satisfying the government’s requirement that Credit Karma divest its tax preparation business.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/anticompetitive-concern...

Divest their tax prep business? I just did my taxes on creditkarma, and it was the same website that was trying to market me credit cards that i prepared the taxes on.

AHA, that article has a date "January 3, 2021", so I guess still in progress?

But ok, divest their tax prep business... the WAY CK was providing free tax prep was by funding it with the rest of their portfolio, the credit card marketing and such. The tax prep got people into their system (and possibly got their data into their system, I'm not sure how much was opt-in or opt-out).

Divest their tax prep business? Into it's own business? It won't possibly be able to provide the service for free anymore right? They will probably quickly go out of business.

I don't know how the heck anti-trust regulators think this did anything positive. Intuit one way or another succesfully eliminated the competition from free creditkarma tax prep. Gah.
>we have controlled inflation

We do not have controlled inflation (I'm assuming you're talking about USistan). Please remember that the fed is an independent institution which refuses to get audited.
We bought a Dyson fan when we had very small children that liked to stick their fingers into moving fan blades. It works really well for that purpose.
I've always thought they'd switch to dog names after they run out of cat names - it's a long-term dream of mine to own a copy of Mac OSX Chihuahua.
Sending email apparently from a particular address, as described, is so simple I can't believe two things: 1, that Posterous was set up to let that happen and 2, that in 2010, the email system is still so dumb that I can send mail with any sender address that to the majority of people would be indistinguishable from mail genuinely from the sending address.
So, he's firing vortex rings at 200mph from an acetylene powered cannon, and you complain that he didn't use mortar on the construction to demonstrate the impact?

Interesting ...
I have TCP connections that have stayed open for months so this is highly unlikely to be a kernel issue. I have no idea what you might be running into as I've never seen anything like that occurring.
It's actually probably a lot more than CYA insofar as civil liability is concerned. IIRC Meth in particular is a drug in a class all by itself with respect to the first amendment. The Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act of 1999 contained language sufficiently broad enough that merely hyperlinking to instructional content on the Internet would have been considered a federal crime because doing so would constitute knowingly providing information that would aid in the production of a controlled substance. I don't recall if the language that would have had first amendment implications made it into the final bill or not.

Even now the USG is trying to stifle free speech by going after people teaching techniques on how to beat polygraph tests.
Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE said this recently:

Every idea begins with a constituency of one. There’s probably one or two times a year that I turn to our very top leaders and say, “we’re going to do it my way.” Do that too often and good people will leave. But if you never do it, nothing ever happens.
> Stop saying that please.

Might come across as snarky, but really meaning not to: What's an expression that would be more acceptable?
How I miss the days of reading text that has been edited. Today's websites seem to have completely eliminated the editing stage before release. One of my big pet peeves is when multiple authors are contributing where you're reading the article, and then the next author's section comes in recapping what you've just read like it was meant to be another stand alone article. There is so much redundant information that an editor would have caught easily. It also implies to me that nobody is actually reading the article about to be released from start to end, nor do they read it aloud. That was a proofreading tip from long ago as it makes the mind slow down instead of auto-correcting when reading quietly.
https://github.com/joaojeronimo/rimrafall/issues/2 hehehe
I like http://www.debuggex.com/
This is one of the wonderful things about English (and other European languages that I have knowledge of).

My wife (also referenced in this thread here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1439092 ) struggled with English at first until an ESL teacher showed her how easy it is to manufacture noun, verb, adjective, or adverb forms from a single base. She had been working hard memorizing every word form that was taught her until somebody showed her that the way English actually works is generally pretty logical. She says her vocabulary tripled overnight.
Robbery is a lot easier than carjacking, so this proposal comes off as insensitive to people concerned about being targeted by criminals.
> but "deposit paycheck on same day rent is due" is a fairly common problem that people have. the person has the money to pay rent, but it might not clear before their rent check bounces. there still exist landlords that only accept payment via check.

Two things:

1. For paper checks, this has been addressed via Check21 which took effect at the end of 2004. It enforces funds availability for even for non-local checks and/or bank drafts.

2. Writing a check against an account that does not have available funds has all the characteristics of check kiting. Check kiting is illegal.

For non-checks ACH credits settle before ACH debits or any other debit transactions.
That's why it doesn't yet exist! Find a way to either contain or limit the radiation. Use hydrogen fission. I'm not fussy about the details. Tony Stark managed to fit a reactor in his chest! why can't we?
Does it have a human pilot? Any combat aircraft project with a human on board should be stopped. It has no hope of long term parity of a drone controlled airplane without having to cart around meat bags with limited speed and turning power.
zlib doesn't require renaming the software, just not claiming you wrote the original version and if you distribute a modified version of the source code (but nothing about the binaries!) you must make it clear the code was modified.
Still interesting that they internally dont use bugzilla. I wasnt aware.
I don’t have much an opinion about the F-35 but one thing I have noticed:

A lot of people are mentioning Skunkworks planes like SR-71 and U-2. I don’t think that’s a fair comparison. Skunkworks basically built highly specialized prototypes that performed well within their intended use but were super expensive to maintain and couldn’t be deployed on a larger scale. I would compare them more to an F1 team that can build great cars quickly but need 20 people just to get them ready for a lap.

Building impressive prototypes is way easier than building something on large scale in an efficient way.

Again, I don’t know much about the F-35 but Skunkworks is not the model.
> You don't save history for other types of chats, like in person conversations or phone calls

There are more than a few conversations I would absolutely love to be able to revisit, but I can't. Like those small, ordinary moments with my Grandma, of which I remember just very little, I didn't think much of them at the time. With those people I've lost who did leave chatlogs, they have been helpful at times.

I find it also can be very insightful to be able to drop into ten-years-ago me's life, just to find how much I've changed in some respects – or how little. It's a great source of self-reflection for me.

If keeping chat logs is something you personally don't value, that's great, you do you. But keep in mind that people are wildly different and lots will have needs, preferences and principles that are the opposite of yours, and just as valid.
I repudiate the tone and style and not the content.

For whatever reason, the author comes off as "other and separate" from the problematic system, rather than an earnest participant interested in improving the system. Seems to lack humility or curiosity. The presentation prevented me from getting into (the admittedly familiar) material re: structural faults of neoliberal capitalism and American exceptionalism.
Yes, she's being very kind in her opinion, IMHO a bit too much. This sounds like something to be angry and up-in-arms about, but she's got other, closer battles to fight.

Another wonderful quote, regarding her past youthful tech idealism, is: "Unfortunately a lot of those ideals, if they still exist, have become…corrupted is too strong a word….subsumed. The revolution has been corporatized."

It's like the post-hippie era all over again. Someone page Gil Scott-Heron's ghost, we need an update to his poem.
Oh yeah, I definitely agree with you. However, we only spent two days on it and didn't have time to come up with more creative uses.

Thanks for the kind words and the feedback!
most startups reckon you are past it if you are over 23

Is this true?
Maybe, but it has very little to do with the fact that they did it in google docs and everything to do with being skilled animators. If they are skilled with motion graphics, why wouldn't they also charge the $20k market rate that you are quoting? Being talented != explosive startup
Thanks for the info! There are many many usability things that we didn't get around to implementing due to restrictions in App Engine's and Facebook's python APIs, but we plan to make the flow more pleasant in future iterations.
I've been trying to get my head around OAuth2 to see if anything in that is actually useful for this purposes. As far as I can see, 2-legged OAuth2 I.e. "Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant flow" is the type of flow I need, but it doesn't solve the malicious application problem.
For a much deeper attempt at this, read Paul Miller's series for the Verge where he gave up the internet for a year:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/30/2988798/paul-miller-year-w...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/1/4279674/im-still-here-back-...

All posts: http://www.theverge.com/label/offline
That's a major security flaw.

On the plus side, looks like your report worked. As of a few minutes after you posted, the link says it's a phishing scam.
The advantage of AWS is the scale at which it can operate and the rich ecosystem of services (S3, ELB, CloudFormation, RDS, etc) that you can use as building blocks for your app. DigitalOcean, Linode are more like VPS providers and are only suitable for a subset of the use cases AWS covers (or Azure or Google Compute Platform)
It is though a very simplified mechanic, as @pherocity_ says (though FWIW the effects were made much more subtle in the later games). And it's fun to roleplay, but the more you play, the more it's a just a case of how quickly you can read and manipulate the underlying patterns, as with all games. Brainwashing is a bit strong, though I do sympathise with your position somewhat.

Very good read, deals with what your talking about: http://www.theoryoffun.com/

Randall Collins on Sandy Hook, talks a bit about use of video games: http://sociological-eye.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/sandy-hook-sc...

And on a lighter note, regarding video games and real life, Football Manager is possibly the most realistic-feeling game I (and a hell of a lot of other people) have played - here's Steve Gibson's response to an application for the vacant manager's position at Middlesbrough, the club he's chairman of: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/02/you-were-of-course-outs...

NB: My Civ tactic of shooting for communism was simply to allow military units to be stacked in cities to reduce unhappiness, allowing massive military buildup to defend my civ while I poured money into science research. I did always feel for the poor sods in my cities, forced to either contribute to an all conquering soviet war machine or to work as research scientists and generate discoveries fast as possible (no, I am not building you a coliseum), but hell, I needed to win the space race/wipe out the Aztecs. I suppose it's easy to draw parallels with real life.
No need to fake it... if you can get the retinal projection accurate enough, with fast enough eye tracking, the depth is as real as anything else you'll see in real life...the goal would be to have it feel completely natural.
Were those old hoary myths any different? Didn't we believe the salt myth based on multiple studies?
Someone got really worked up over text appearing when they moused over an image, and broke accessibility because of it?
Android and Windows will follow soon, meanwhile we have OpenVPN config files for every OpenVPN capable device too ;-)

https://wifimask.com/contact#androidwindows
But you may not be allowed to ride in their cars.

Given the general sentiment of "people shouldn't be allowed to drive once L5 driving automation is implemented" on forums like this and even among the general public, not being allowed to ride in Google (or Uber's) cars could become a particularly big deal.
Not exactly. If the market-clearing price for low-skill labor is already above the minimum wage, it will have no effect. If the market price is far below the minimum wage, it will have a large effect - positive for the workers with jobs, negative for the ones who are priced out or have their hours cut.
Your crappy connection can stream HD video, but what happens when you are streaming HD video, someone else is downloading some large files, and another person is trying to get in some online gaming?

Edit: Hell, nothing stops you from doing all of this at once yourself.
Couldn't disagree more. Regulation has not solved any of these concerns, in fact quite the opposite. Regulation of telecommunication has resulted in some of the biggest and well-seated monopolies on the planet. Please, god, no. Messaging services should fall under exactly one law of the land, and that's the First Amendment.
Over the past 2 weeks, we have changed our design, implemented some new features and we want to share the updated version.
JavaScript is like working on an old Jeep.

It's not very clean; it's not very efficient; you're dealing with weird nonsensical issues all the time; there's a good chance you will cut off your fingers or mash your knuckles.

But... it's incredibly common, there are a ton of writeups on whatever you're trying to do, and the barrier to entry for getting something done is so damn low that for better or worse, it's not going anywhere soon.

The only thing that's going to rescue us from JavaScript is when every browser ships with a common language-agnostic runtime (a la CLR, JVM). The JavaScript-as-a-Transpiler-Target movement has the right idea and a little bit of momentum, but I think the potential obsolescence, the hassle involved in setup and debugging, and the perceived inefficiency scare most developers away.

Imagine if you could code your web app in whatever language you wanted because they all compiled down to the same VM bytecode...
There are a number of HN readers:

* https://hckrnews.com/ -> my favorite thread browser

* https://hackerweb.app/ -> a mobile focused app w/ dark mode
Could be. But even if some of the transactions became public, it should be fine as long as the end transactions (crypto -> fiat) is private, right?
There's some truth to that but I think it's more than that. This comes up all of the time in the UI world: if you ask people their opinion on something in the abstract, they'll often provide a ton of ideas but if you give them something which they can use now they'll probably either say it's okay or come up with a much smaller list of things they actually care about. Things like style guides are especially tricky here because people have opinions but they don't get a bill for changes — having a formatter available can shift that dynamic to where you can basically say “Black does this for free every time you hit save. Are you willing to build a tool which maintains that level of effort?”

I've had that happen a few times and the number of people who will volunteer opinions has consistently been at least an order of magnitude larger than those who are willing to contribute something like linter or formatter configuration.
I will also never work at a company that uses Teams as its primary form of communication. The whole ecosystem, along with SharePoint, is absolutely broken, end-to-end. Perhaps the worst user-facing software I've had the displeasure of using on a daily basis. I'm not kidding when I say that it a played a factor in me quitting.

Not a single time did we have a meeting on Teams that worked properly. Not once.
I got an entry level magnetic resistance stationary bike for $500. But I can still sign-up for the $13/mo peloton package and use it with them. I am sure Peloton has many price conscious members taking advantage of this offering.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Echelon-Connect-Sport-Indoor-Cycl...
> vino verde

Not wanting to be pedantic or snobbish, but it is "vinho verde", because it is a Portuguese type of wine (I am Portuguese, and that is why I care about this :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinho_Verde
Not a a lone Russian hacker, but American citizens..a husband and wife couple. crazy.
I get to see my wife and 2 kids way more during the day, and my extended family lives just down the street. I'm not missing out on socialization. I imagine if I was still single and lived out of state, this might be a problem for me though.

I don't miss the office-loud-laugher, or the drive-by-tell-you-a-dumb-joke guy when "I'm just trying to get my work done please". My manager wisely scheduled a daily team meeting so I get to see my team every day via Teams.
It sounds like a fairly terrible tradeoff actually. Presumably one of those encodings is the underlying representation, and accessing it in any other representation is going to cause a horrible hit to performance as it thunks between the two.

In practice it feels much better to define a encoding for the platform (say UTF 16 for Java / Windows - though personally I feel UTF-8 is a better choice) and then have a [string encodeIn:UTF16] method if you want something different. Ideally, the encoding would be specified in the type - e.g. String<UTF16> rather than arbitrary unspecified byte arrays.
There is a book out there designed specifically to move C programmers outside their comfort zone: J for C Programmers.

http://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/contents.htm

That's not to say that it will redirect your career from C programming to J programming (my impression is that there are not a huge number of all day every day J programming jobs). But rather, J is one of those languages that requires people to change the way they think about programming languages. It's pretty amazing in my opinion, but I've been drinking the Kool-Aid ever since coming across the book.
M1X will be a lot faster with multicore loads. So if you are daily depending on heavy multi core payloads it will be worth the wait.
That sounds like an absolutely horrible experience. I detest live programming exercises for the same reason. From both a candidate perspective and mine as a hiring manager now.

At my current place (and before as well) we give the candidates a 'take home test'. The problem is a bit larger than FizzBuzz, so that we can see how they would structure things, if they can write clean code, write tests etc. The 'take home' nature solves quite a few of the problems you mentioned, both for the candidate and us if you ask me. And even there you have to be careful that things don't get out of hand. Nobody good who currently has a job is going to spend any time on a take home test that the employer expects them to spend hours upon hours on over a short period of time.

Of course there are always managers that fear it's too easy to cheat but if you ask me, that's either never happened to us or if so, it was very clear after talking to the candidate in person about their code, that we wouldn't hire them anyway, so at best they cheated us out of some interview time.
On a more optimistic note, we're flying an autonomous helicopter on Mars. I wouldn't look at (even successful) consumer apps as a metric of our engineering and computing abilities!
Perfect privacy is perfect protection for scammers. There are always trade-offs.
Approximation don’t have issues with the halting problem only exact solution do. Your argument no more meaningful than suggesting useful simulation of fluid flows is impossible as you can’t keep track of all the individual atoms.
My colleague typically asks this question in interviews, and I've occasionally borrowed it from him: tell me about the last problem you caused and how it got resolved. It's one of those questions designed to just get them talking and there aren't too many wrong answers, except maybe, you know, not being able to think of anything.
This seems way different than the library I remember 6 months ago...

https://github.com/muut/riotjs/tree/8c7e841e2c7724df9bab9397...

Rebrand?
Sorry man, didn't know I'm not allowed to criticize poor UX. I will never say anything at all.

No I didn't come from /r/programming, or reddit for that matter.
I've worked with quite a few pieces of security software that rely on user tracking, and the referrer information was only used (if at all) to tie-in with other parts of the system (ie. which marketing channel brought the user in).
Well if they weren't blind they definitely are now with that probe shining bright lights in their eyes. Assuming they were adapted for really low levels of light, they might just be vestigial.
I don't know if those Donald sites are good for that. That is the small Q-anonish minority that was at the capitol. Most of the discussion is not exactly tethered to reality.
> OP gives no proof that Tether is not holding 1:1 reserves.

I'm fairly certain that _Tether's_ lawyer said, in court, that their reserves were closer to 0.74.
If BTC's price is manipulated anywhere, the market adjusts for it everywhere.
Thanks. I did post the direct link but it seems to have been truncated
i.e., the problem is that "properly secures access to data" is all too often not part of the definition of "works" applied to systems.
There's usually some float in people's plans - if there isn't you tend to go the other way and have projects overrun.
Let's remember the post-Fukishima gloating by pundits such as George Monbiot that naively deemed Fukishima a validation of nuclear power.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/pro-nuc...
> It is a bold exaggeration to say that catalan is as different from spanish as portuguese or french.

Sources? Being a lazy guy, I turned to wikipedia [1], where it explicitly says:

> Despite being mostly situated in the Iberian Peninsula, the Catalan vocabulary exhibits marked lexical differences with Ibero-Romance (Spanish and Portuguese), instead showing general affinity towards the Gallo-Romance group.

The Gallo-Romance group includes French and Italian.

About regions where valencian was never spoken and forced into schools, what is your point exactly? I just said that valencian usage is becoming less frequent lately, and the numbers support this affirmation. Are you trying to say that, with the current laws, the language can not become extinct? Then I may agree with you, but laws can be (and have been) changed...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language (lexical comparison section)

Edit: missing link.
Normally I don't upvote posts like yours but I did here. I'm not sure why every article on Medium (that I see posted on HN) has to have that word in the title. Eventually it just loses its impact. Maybe it's to grab attention, but then I would say more thought needs to go into the headline anyway.