jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
But even those contractors are professionals if they get access to anything of value.

Trying to keep a "detain"-button secret, having it manned by thousands of people that only have a high school diploma OR a year of work experience in security/aviation/screening, doesn't sound easy (those are by the way the education requirements for a TSO according to usajobs.gov). Since a leak could stem from a minor overstep of their contract (ohh, I told a buddy about it, big deal right?), and there are frequent policy violations by agents, it does look grim for the existence of such a button.

I heard of them kicking the machines to make them go off though, so there's a "button", and it's public knowledge that they will use it if they want a pat down.
The DA and cops are in it for convictions not justice.

Anyone in the police or DA's office who had a hand in railroading him should get 10 years in jail.
Just a little hack that I am using on my MBP is changing Caps Lock key to be the Control key. It helps a lot and I know I barely ever use the original Caps Lock key.
I really just ran out of time :) Had intended to go back and add that someday, but never did. In retrospect, I think it's fine the way it is - whoever reads that article will have a good foundation for actually using lambdas, which will be easy enough for them to learn about in other ways (if their language of choice even supports lambdas).
I don't think most people know about this sort of thing. Most non-techies I've talked to are actually quite surprised about the printer thing: the idea that a printer would secretly print a pattern of light yellow dots on your paper that wasn't in your source file is very surprising to everyone I've mentioned it to. It's the sort of thing that's weird enough that some people think I must be telling them a conspiracy theory.
Thanks for the comment. One of my main goals was definitely to make an easier-to-debug and easier-to-throw-things-together-quickly-in functional language. To help accomplish this goal, there are some other significant differences from Haskell, such as dynamic/weak typing and cleaner syntax - I think that some aspects of Haskell's syntax are barriers to adoption and comprehension, so I'm going for a more Python-esque "readable pseudocode" syntax as much as possible. So, there will never quite be equivalence to Haskell. I think your idea would make an interesting project as well, and as a Haskell user I'd definitely use it.
The syntax is absolutely based on Prolog, as evidenced by the significant capitalization and the mixed semicolons and periods.
It doesn't seem like this is really an AI vs. Humans issue. Rather, it's saying, regardless if you have some optimal algorithm X for a class of "Full Employment" problems, it is always possible to have an algorithm that performs better for a specific case at the cost of worse performance for other cases.
The survey was (according to the post):

* Gender

* Age

* Would they use the service as described above

* Give me 3 examples of how they would use the service.

* General feedback or ideas on the service, why they would or would not use it.
A few months ago I explored using Dhall and Jsonnet to re-write an Ansible playbook [0,1]. I wanted to like Dhall, but found the type system got in the way more than it helped, while Jsonnet was very productive and a huge improvement over YAML.

[0] https://www.kmr.me/posts/dhall_jsonnet

[1] https://github.com/retzkek/ansible-dhall-jsonnet
Stats for my heavily used MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018)

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 37 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 2%
Data Units Read: 45,932,352 [23.5 TB]
Data Units Written: 48,394,214 [24.7 TB]
Host Read Commands: 1,069,241,760
Host Write Commands: 698,888,162
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 137
Power On Hours: 661
Unsafe Shutdowns: 48
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0

Now my battery health is a different story...
Affirmative showing it's telltale it is FOX BUSINESS by FAEX NEWS BUSINESS
User can still easily opt-in to tracking - so saying this is bankrupting small businesses is really admitting that they need users to be tracked without their knowledge and/or against their will.

I mean, it was always kinda obvious, but seeing them confirm it out right is interesting, to say the least.
I will agree to the tracking. I like the ads on facebook. I have found out about a lot of interesting niche products from them.
In the very first version of firefox with full screen mode it ended up doing just that, rendering full screen inside a normal window area in my tiling WM. It was likely a bug/unimplemented feature at that stage, but to be honest it would have been nice to have as an option prior to pip.
This seems like it might be a perfect time for some company or startup with a different business model to swoop in and displace facebook.
Seems like most of the criticism is about them charging exorbitant fees for small transactions. 30 cents on a $1.50 transaction is given as an example of such an exorbitant fee.

With BTC that'd be more like a $4 fee on a $1.50 transaction. Problem solved!
I generally don't trust anything that sells 'unmetered' bandwidth as it nearly always ends in disaster. Their metered accounts seem to be 10TB for $95 which is about what we're paying for freeware downloads now (we can't host those on SourceForge, of course).
It seems like a step backward. Dealing with callbacks manually is an unnecessary hassle compared to being able to use "green threads". See python gevent and ngx_lua for examples of people doing things this way.
I have not. Frankly, I feel like I've just scratched the surface. There's a HUGE body of knowledge in beekeeping and very little of it is passed via what you'd consider a standard method - instead, you get a mix of anecdotes, best practices and "common sense". Now there ARE beekeeping papers, but many of them are studies of colonies in the field, not prescriptive.
There are plenty of elon haters around. Some people just can't accept that someone can think outside the box and profit from it. I've seen the same mentality in crypto and other places.
As far as I know there is no legal basis for them to contact the banks, at least under GDPR. The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) is there to enforce GDPR and will not add additional requirements.
I don't each much sushi, but in the grocery store "White Tuna" is common. However, it's usually marked "Albacore White Tuna" to signify that it is not escolar but in fact albacore tuna.

For example, from Trader Joe's: http://yeastfreeliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/4-8-10...
> And then sue Google for infringement when Google doesn't actually manage to keep their music off of YouTube.

This is an egregious abuse of copyright. It is not ethical to encourage this.
Clearblade - MQTT message broker, integrates push, horizontally scalable and flat fee for the platform. Secure / encrypted as well.
Wait, what exactly did the union accomplish here? From the article it sounds like:

1. They got a suspension for talking about unions overturned, but not her later firing over the Facebook post.

2. Google signed a document saying its employees "have the right to discuss wage rates, bonuses, and working conditions," which is just a restatement of U.S. law.

3. Nobody admitted any wrongdoing and there was no monetary compensation.

If that's what winning looks like, I hate to see what losing is.
The model is interesting but Groupon's margin will drop as more competitors come in and self-service comes in. I don't think that a 50% margin is tenable for many small businesses.

I disagree with the statement that Groupon sheds light on issues in a business. Restaurants, for example, aren't structurally built to handle that. Think about it for a second - it's really hard, even at scale to make a $10 (market price) tuna sandwich for $2.50. There are companies focused on better-serving restaurants like Corner Dish.
Just do it. Do it now, right when you read this post. It's completely worth it. It's just not worth it to come here and read articles about how to be productive and then not end up doing anything because you're on HN. I did it a few months ago and never looked back.

Back to work...
The first thing we were taught in the business and formal communication class (mandatory for freshmen at my university) is that in the body of an official letter, the first paragraph is essentially a small pitch of your company or product. I found it stupid at first but then in the third lecture I asked the question "But why?" and the professor gave just that reason. Customers and even other business which provide raw materials, tool or purchase your product/service might not remember who you are even if there is a gap of a week in your communication.
After reading the previous thread, I got interested in this and dug up the free ElectricSleep app for Android (http://code.google.com/p/electricsleep/). It seems to be pretty much equivalent to iPhone's Sleep Cycle app, it uses the phone's accelerometer with the phone placed on the bed. Only had time to test it one night so far, but it managed to wake me up easily from a duration of sleep that would usually have left me in zombie mode.

Problem with these things is that getting psyched about a fancy wake-up technology is likely to create a placebo effect for a while, so I'll need to stick with the thing to see how well it works in the long haul. Might look into WakeMate if the accelerometer alarm thing is still working good after a month or so.

An interesting thing to try with these things is doing the Everyman sleep schedule with a 4-5 hour nightly sleep and several 20 minute naps every day, and attacking the most common point of failure where you oversleep on the nightly core sleep with the smart alarm.
I'd be very curious to see HN's perspective on Biden's plan to scrap the LTCG tax (aka tax it the same as income.) On the one hand, it would be a fairly clean way to tax the wealthy (basically nobody poor has LTCGs.) On the other hand, it disincentivizes long term investing. It'd also cost a lot of people here a lot of money, so I imagine that would make it at least mildly unpopular.
Not if you are caching permissions. Or bank account balances. Or game scores. Or a million other things that are not Facebook comments.
I love the idea, but there are a few UX issues which area rather annoying. One such issue is that the <input /> loses focus rather easily, like with as hitting the TAB key. The other thing which I find suboptimal is that the input does not get focus when I click on the "terminal".
If I use the shell, I expect to be able to type whenever the pane receives focus.

Another non-technical thing is that as a non-tech user I would be lost, since there's no indication of what to do on the page, a little hint in form of a MOTD would be a nice touch to round it up.
Please also add "arrow up" to repeat the last command :)
Ooh boy, those are some great examples of what I mean by people blaming unions for corporate (or government) failure.

> For yet another example, all the passenger rail services in the US went bankrupt after they were forced into collective bargaining with unions.

Yeah, no. The railroad industry is famously boom-and-bust cycle, with virtually every major railroad overexpanding during boom years and going bankrupt in any economic downturn, this happening both before and after unionization. Passenger rail itself was killed not by union featherbedding but by competition with the automobile and airplane--and government regulation that prohibited railroads from being able to cull unprofitable routes (as you needed government permission to cut a route, which it was disinclined to give even after the railroads were in poor health.)

> For another example, Bombardier in Canada was a successful airplane manufacturer, and the demands of its unions gradually sapped its international competitiveness.

Bombardier's troubles (to my understanding) largely originated from its attempts to push up into larger aircraft, bringing it competition against the Boeing/Airbus duopoly, who did not look kindly to a new entrant and brought expensive cases against Bombardier, which forced Bombardier into a partnership to survive.

My sibling comment already tackles the US auto industry one, so I won't cover that.
>If not, legally allergies and fear of dogs are not valid reasons for denying access or refusing service to people using service animals.

This should change. Especially on the allergy front. Forcing someone to suffer an allergic reaction because a customer has a service dog is immoral.
1600 hours is 9 months at 40hr/week. What's the risk they were taking? They wouldn't have taken the case if the risk of losing was high, so their E(X) was at least 250k.
Absolutely not. Not increasing its power is not undermining it. It's neutrality. Stop changing definitions to suit your political goals.

We have enough "with us or against us" going on driving violence to let more slide.
Another point to consider is that Germany also has/had access to cheaper labor through people moving there from the east. And later the euro allows them to export heavily while not skyrocketing the price of their currency, because other euro countries somewhat balance it out.

It might be that unions are the reason why German car companies are doing well, but there are definitely other factors at play too.
Exactly. And if you have moral objections to how a country is run, leave. Don’t try to change it.
If anyone hasn’t seen the Black Mirror episode on this, S04E05, Metalhead, please do. It’s apparently based on this robot too, and it’s terrifying. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)
> "The individual set up notifications so that they received emails detailing the work and whereabouts of those employees, including personal matters such as 1:1s, medical appointments and family activities"

Which could mean simply:

1) individual subscribed to other employee's work calendars, which are visible to everyone within Google,

2) individual had calendar notifications turned on, and

3) other employees posted personal matters on their work calendars.
It's a little stalky, but yeah your work calendar is public on purpose - it's incredibly useful. People look it up before walking to your desk to chat and especially before setting up meetings. Just put a block of "busy", serves the same purpose. Nobody really cares if you're in a hospital or just running.
So given the rate at the time,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#/media...

with some 1M ips given out PER DAY, how long would two /8s last? 4 weeks, or 33 days. That is not "quite a bit longer", it is literally what I suggested.

It is only now, long after the crunch that thinking entire networks would share a single ip (hopefully never running any SIP,bittorrent or something that needs more than one port simultaneously) or the entire network would quickly run out of the 64k ports usable...

So, if Ford and whoever had that second net did give it back when it started to get scarce, all of 33 days is what we would have "won". Good margin for writing up that ipv6 migration plan I guess.
Thanks edited.

>which were used by a democracy essentially because the war wasn't over by the time they've built the thing).

But the same U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieved General of the Army Douglas MacArthur when he wanted to drop A-Bomb on China during the Korean War.
If Heather Adkins endorses the message that these employees were terminated for sharing internal Google data to the outside, then that was probably the case. I don't think we have to care who these employees were or why they did what they did; they severely broke policy.

But I'm absolutely sure there's an element of "rules for thee but not for me".
Use https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim

It works very well
It takes many of the good parts of both and wraps it in some very nice syntactic sugar. What's not to like?
It sounds like they at least facilitated it by providing a car and making engineers available “on speed dial” as the author states.
Such a deja vu. Once the big boys come. I think I've heard this being repeated ever since 2013. But hearing it for 8 years makes me believe somewhat less that most of these old school manufacturers will ever bother to do much. Except for Volkswagen, they seem to be taking EVs seriously.

Other old car companies sure do talk a lot, but there's little action. They might have okish EVs, but no plans to truly mass manufacture them. Once they finally get to it, it'll be too late.

We'll see. Tesla is a "big boy" itself now. They got capital to make things happen.
What’s the main difference between Simple and YNAB? I’m a YNAB user but have never used Simple. You say that you can’t see the extra value of mvelopes (and I assume YNAB) but if you don’t have Simple then why is YNAB not good enough?
They are unwilling to do so in the timeframe needed to make a difference because they are too invested in their ICE vehicles.

They'll start trying once the market has already shifted and by then it will mostly be too late.
Well that is only one problem, the other is that 58% of the hasrate is controlled by only 5 pools .
They would be a waste of time, if every job seeker took advantage of such sites / blogs.
First of all, let me apologize for not being more charitable with my assumptions.

As to the actual point, WSJ has a paywall in place which they deliberately open to let Google through. Not just Google's crawler, but visitors using Google's search page as a referrer.

It's quite different than AT&T being incompetent or negligent with their customers' private info. WSJ is the owner of the content and they are making a strategic decision to allow this behavior.

Again, I wish I hadn't been rude. It would have been nicer to have this exchange without it.
I used to donate to WWF. I stopped after I watched the ARD greenwashing documentary which alleged that WWF accepted money from large corporations in return for certifying their activities as "sustainable".

I visited Kaziranga in Assam, India which has the highest density of tigers. The local rangers said they don't get any help from these aid organizations. Looking at WWF activities in detail suggests they do almost nothing for the local people. The WWF leadership ( http://www.worldwildlife.org/about/leadership ) has no representation of people who actually live in the areas which are key to survival of these species. In my opinion, that dooms it to failure. My belief is that to save tigers, you have to provide the people who are poaching tigers with a viable financial alternative. I would much rather the person taking a photo of a tiger in the jungle be a genuine local rather than a corporate employee doing greenwashing. http://tigers.panda.org/t2/mars-cindy-jiang-joins-wwfs-tiger...
I'm pointing out that Vermont doesn't have any dense urban environments. You should look at criminology more before making some of the crazy claims you're making. Yes, more crime happens in urban environments; criminology is pretty clear on this. But what you originally did was point to a largely non-urban area and claim it as a counterpoint to places that have dense urban locations.

you have a 0.00001% chance of getting murdered in Italy and a 0.00005% chance of getting murdered in the US.

Presenting the statistics this way? Yes, you really do need to study criminology a bit more to understand why this is a bad way to present data. In Honduras, you have a 0.0009% chances of getting murdered (per year). Still sounds tiny, yet that country is the murder capital of the world and very much not safe to live in.

It's also worth noting that I never said that crime was directly proportional to population.

Edit: the other side of the 0.00005% argument is: if you're making the argument that it's really rare to die from guns, then why bother with the 'if only X had a gun' argument? If it's that 'rare', why bother making that argument in the first place?
uBlock's philosophy is to, by default, block crash reporters (bugsnag, newrelic) and all forms of analytics (customer.io, optimizely, kissmetrics, mixpanel, newrelic, pingdom, piwik) because it can.

This is a stupid policy that hurts independent website developers because now I have to write my own version of these tools because if I use third-party services they will be listed in uBlock and blocked by default.

It is stupid but these are not used to run ad-networks, but rather improve the quality of the website you are on.
It's easy to tell if they wrote it. Just start asking them questions about it. How does this work? Why did you make this design decision? What happens in this case?

I would be delighted if an interviewer asked me such questions about my code.
"Most of the work was done by hand..." Well, the machines and jigs to make them were quite sophisticated.

From the video:

"You'll notice that at no time are they touched by hand." Start at about 12:05:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDvF89Bh27Y&t=12m05s
RIM's market share in 2010/Q1 according to Gartner (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/google-android-smacks-...) was 19,4% and year before that it was a little bit over 20%.
As has been discussed elsewhere, they broke the terms of service (specifically, you're not allowed to use the terms "donate" or "donation" unless you're a registered non profit) -- they screwed themselves.

While they should be able to get a response from a human, the idea that they're innocent is silly. It seems every small/indie developer thinks they can do whatever and ignore their contractual obligations and get away with it.

Just because you're small doesn't mean things don't apply to you.
I'm not trying to defend the cable company (hate them anyway), but I just want to point out one potential problem with the thinking: it's very likely that the 10% of channels that you are interested is in the 90% of those that others think are pure crap. The original idea to charge a lump-sum subscription fee instead of a-la carte is precisely to combat this trap. Otherwise, many niche programs will not be available in the beginning.
And a president that doesn't even need a trial to determine whether or not someone broke the law.
Before that^ you must del all social apps on your phone, and try not to open social websites. You can leave messenger but not soc app. Also don't open world news websites for a month or two so you can freely focus on stuff^.
> 2. How do we stop payments to international terrorists and rogue states.
> 3. How do we stop money laundering.

No currency ever achieved that.
All you have to do is be the change you want to see in the world. There's plenty of us out there still living the dream of the 90s. Your descriptions sound like you're still stuck on the big platforms where money rules everything. Just stop. Start hosting your website from home. Code it by hand. Don't care if anyone but you likes or sees it. It's the best you can do.
I used to be a bit like that too, but then I just accepted myself and stopped caring (and other people never cared anyway, as I found out eventually). Good luck, I hope you find a way out!
I see a lot of people using m, but to me the point of Wikipedia is not just a base article, but also its history (recentness, number of editors/edits) and talk page, as well as the consistent sidebars, which expresses the common attributes of that type of information. The hotkeys don't even work on the mobile site. So I get really peeved when people use m links, and don't get me started about the heinous Wikiwand; Wikipedia loses a lot of its value if people consider it a read-only thing (and yes, casual people can edit successfully, still).
If it's an internal chat system then the server admin just runs that second layer on top for those who want it, they're all multi user
Luckily there are efforts being made to stop it, and fines paid and systems put in place. Are they perfect yet? No. It is still orders of magnitude better than pretending the problem doesnt exist or outwardly encouraging and abetting it.