jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I hate the policy and it is ridiculous, and we need to promote the voices of the TSA employees who also hate it.

Did anybody really think that the TSA employees were going to be excited about doing this? They're just trying to make a living.

So, rather than assaulting them? isn't there a better way to use their displeasure in making the change?
These people are also apparently victims in this charade of security.

The front-line TSA employees are allies in this issue, not the enemy.

I'd like to see John Pistole take the abuse for a day. Get him on the front-line doing the pat downs and getting the abuse. Unfortunately his pride would probably prevent him from reversing his decisions.

Obama shouldn't be asking for a less intrusive way to screen passengers, he should be demanding that another way be found.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/11/21/us_airport_secu...
Exactly. Even assuming that they don't have properly working nuclear weapons at this point (a decent assumption, their last test was a fizzle), there is an absolutely absurd amount of conventional artillery positioned at the DMZ just a few dozen kilometres away from Seoul. If all out war were to occur the city, with it's 25million or so citizens, could be levelled in hours.
I do have just one container of each thing, but I was originally planning to have multiple nodes. I have 3x ThinkCenter Tiny M73 (with the Pentium CPU) and thought one would be a bit underpowered for everything I wanted to run (it was for k8s), so was planning to distribute services automatically across the swarm. One node is more than enough though, so I'd actually be fine with just docker-compose, but splitting everything up into separate 'services' is nice.
Dams all over the world capture sediment. This not only reduces their capacity, it deprives downstream areas of sediment needed for natural habitat, to fertilise wetlands and to buffer against oceanic incursion.

The Sanmenxia Dam in China lost 17% of its capacity in the first 18 months of its operation due to sediment accumulation [1]

Countless other dams have already been dismantled due to sediment build up, and many more will follow, considering that around 19000 large dams worldwide are over 50 years old [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmenxia_Dam
[2] https://e360.yale.edu/features/water-warning-the-looming-thr...
Earth is overpopulated anyway, so this is sort of a good thing
Google, at least. Perhaps others, depending on if/how you want to monetize.
Property rights extend from the benefit of society as a whole. If you accept this, all that follows will make sense. A farmer produces apples because he hopes to sell them in a net-positive value transaction. The buyer gains an apple, and the seller receives cash to trade for whatever he needs. Both parties are better off. If all parties in a society behave similarly with their produced goods, the net benefit is positive utility.

If stealing were acceptable behavior, the farmer would have no incentive to produce apples, or he would only produce apples for himself, and devote more of his resources into protecting and defending the apples he invested in producing. Investing time in protecting the apples by building a wall is a waste of a resource, because he could have instead grown more apples. Producing only enough for himself is also wasteful because eventually the farmer will be sick of apples (diminishing marginal utility) and it is impractical for the farmer to create EVERYTHING he needs on his own (economies of scale, learning efficiencies, and opportunity costs all cause this).

When you steal, you are influencing this entire ecosystem of producers and consumers. Although your actions may seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things, if everybody were to behave the same way, our society could not survive as it is. Ethically, this is can be seen as a utilitarian issue. Who benefits the most from your actions? You obviously benefit, but are there other actions where more parties could benefit, or the net benefit could be greater? If there are, then under this model stealing is unethical. One could argue that stealing is ethically OK if the benefit you get from stealing (the use of the object plus the rush you feel) is greater than A: the loss by the owner, and B: the total utility that could have been had by a standard transaction between a buyer and seller. In fact, this is why people typically don't feel as bad for extremely poor people who steal to feed their family. Sure, the baker might be out a few loaves of bread, but the thieve's family gets to eat a warm meal. Is the warm meal worth more than the bakers loss?

Get help. Regardless of how you decide to rationalize your behavior, society will condemn your actions, and you will be punished. Learn to deal with your impulses.
Ick. Sounds like you need to read a bit more about epistemology. After you have torn everything apart you get a more solid grasp of how to build some semblance of a system up again.

Here's my suggested reading list: Plato to establish a foundation, Descartes's First Meditation (edit: or the skeptics, but I don't really feel the need to subject non-philosophy students to that) to tear it down, Kant to give you a more rounded view (but be careful to note where Kant fails as well), Hume to bring reasonableness into being, Nietzsche to round out the pitfalls of nihilism, and some Neo-Kantianism, evolutionary psychology, and modern ethics to round it out.
don't you think that a bunch of donations might be useful for this? call it crowdsourced vc if that makes it easier to understand.
What happened to TLC? They went from shows like Connections to Jon and Kate Plus 8, which is now their highest-rated show.
Just wanted to point out that, to me, that sounds like an anti-feature. Maybe it's a nice alternative tool for quick, smooth shapes, but I've watched many an illustrator tweak the hell out of those things to get exactly the right curves and sharp angles.

Right. I know that illustrators love their Bézier handles, but I'm not 100% convinced that everybody else loves them all that much. I used to do graphics for a living, and I never felt very comfortable with Béziers (although that was also because my style was pretty much opposite to sharp vector designs).

The Radi curve engine does support Béziers, but implementing the UI for managing the control points seemed like a complete drag (what a terrible pun).

So I figured that maybe I should try doing what Apple does so well: market the "anti-feature" as something new and unique.
No handles -> less UI complexity -> ??? -> profit!

I was also inspired by 3D modelling applications, where a lot of work is done with subdivision surfaces which are controlled by automatic control points, essentially similar to the curves in Radi. I know there was an older generation of modelling apps with free-floating handles, and I get the impression that modellers are happy to be rid of those (but maybe I'm wrong about this one).
Prime example of cyberwarfare.
Theorizing a phenomenon and having experimental evidence of a phenomenon are very different things.
Work for administrations.

Be very nice. Solves their problems. Just don't tell them the time it really took you to do so. They will be happy.

Source: I had several administrations as clients in the past. They loved me because I explained everything clearly even to the less tech saavy of them, was very nice, and had a solution for everything. I loved them because they paid me for very easy work I could do blind folded when I needed to rest between hard gigs.

Just remember if you do only that, it will be soul crushing. But you have your hobbies, so you should be ok.
The website is completely blank white for my samsung s7 android edge browser (but works fine on android chrome). If this was written using your framework, there's probably a bug that's causing it not to render.
Did you have multiple MS-DOS machines?

My first programming class was in 1991 on a DEC VAX running VMS. We had a room with 30 VT100 style terminals so everyone at least had their own display and keyboard.
A lot of these comments are just manifestations of the kneejerk HN "crypto bad" reflex. Here's the deal:

- Whether or not Signal's server is open source has nothing to do with security. Signal's security rests on the user's knowledge that the open source client is encrypting messages end to end. With that knowledge, the server code could be anything, and Signal inc. would still not be able to read your messages. In fact, having the server code open source adds absolutely nothing to this security model, because no matter how open source and secure the server code might be, Signal inc. could still be logging messages upstream of it. The security rests only upon the open source client code. The server is completely orthogonal to security.

- Signal's decision to keep early development of the MobileCoin feature set private was valid. Signal is not your weekend node.js module with two stars on Github. When changes get made to the repo, they will be noticed. This might mess up their marketing plan, especially if they weren't even sure whether they were going to end up going live with the feature. Signal is playing in the big leagues, competing with messengers which have billions of dollars in marketing budget, will never ever be even the smallest amount open source, and are selling all your messages to the highest bidder. They can't afford to handicap themselves just to keep some guys on Hacker News happy.

- Signal's decision to keep development to the (private) master branch, instead of splitting the MobileCoin integration into a long-running feature branch is a valid choice. It's a lot of work to keep a feature branch up to date over years, and to split every feature up into the public and non-public components which then get committed to separate branches. This would greatly affect their architecture and slow down shipping for no benefit, given that the open sourceness of the server is orthogonal to security.
Copy and distribution costs are just a part of the cost. Development and maintenance does require real flesh and blood people spending their days working on developing, building, and deployment. That part costs money.
How doesn't it?
Chinese-style censorship frequently happens after it's "too late" and thousands of people have watched raw footage the government would prefer to keep secret. But that's not actually too late to remove it from recommendations, prevent related hashtags from trending, ignore relevant search terms and delete reuploads to thoroughly kill virality.

It doesn't look like TikTok did any of that in this case, since the BBC didn't appear to have had any trouble finding the video.
I believe it is Steve jurveston who made the claim that on average, post ipo gains are roughly equal to pre ipo. I Don’t know how one calculates that but it’s an interesting thought.
I like that at least you have a plan to do next lol
doesn't have any sense to make manual crawling and parsing, having tools like crawlera or proxycrawl makes it super easy to get data in API style way. So why complicate?
I don't know. I feel that most FAANG employees are too risk averse to start a startup (which is why they work at a big company in the first place). YC actually gave the advise to work at a startup to find cofounders.
I didn't say "cutting edge" though, I said modern.

Modern is not some "PL-community favorite with small following" a la Haskell, it's what programmers in the trenches are using. The same way a modern car is (pick a popular current model) and not some limited edition car with limited sales.

C# "keeps up with the Joneses", brings in ideas from functional programming (bringing in F# features incrementally), etc.

LINQ, pattern matching, dynamic, value types, tuples, destructuring, async/await, null-coalescing operators/assignment, streams, and much more...

Not only is up there with any popular language in the same domain (Swift, Kotlin, etc), and way ahead of Java, but compared to something like Go that gets people excited this is space technology.

(Plus is not like multiple dispatch is a new development, or gradual/optional typing is the "new" thing - we had those things for decades, and I don't see them catching on except the latter where necessary - e.g. adding gradual typing in JS/Python/etc variants like TS, where they can't have strict static typing for compatibility/historical reasons. The only language with gradual typing I remember in recent times was not very cutting-edge itself, Dart, and didn't manage to go anywhere).
This response resonates a lot with me. To give one perspective on working in non-tech: I'm pretty much the only tech person in my organization surrounded by economists and agronomists. I love it, it gives me a lot of autonomy and potential for impact. It's also really fun to mix different disciplines and learn how everyone else approaches things. It's an NGO so definitely not FAANG-level compensation but the work feels meaningful which I think makes up for that. Can't really compare to FAANG though, never worked there.
Just curious - when did you start using Google regularly?

For me, it was after the year 2000, two years after Google was incorporated.
If I can throw something out there: a posterous post has a higher expected word-count than a tumblr post. People will categorize tumblr as twitter with better media features.
U.S. primary and secondary schools do not accept the constructivist school as dogma. Perhaps you have simply misunderstood the differences he was stressing.

For more information on this, you should probably look at what Seymour Papert has been doing in Maine lately.
Jane Jacobs is essential reading for anyone interested in city planning. A lot of the physical layout and design of 'hackertopia' (layouts encouraging people to interact, emphasis on multi-modal development, de-emphasis on cars) seem influenced by her work. The Death and Life of American Cities is a good place to start.
OK

This kind of problem leads me to question the whole notion of "secure privacy" or whatever-kind-of-privacy Facebook is promising.

So the idea, the selling point, of Facebook and it's open source competitors really is the opportunity to share stuff with your friends but take it when you change your mind? Seriously?

If you think about that, it's just silly.

"at least with facebook I can delete a photo and cross my fingers that nobody has seen it yet"

Sure, in just about any system, will have a deletion mechanism that works "some of the time". If that's what you want, who cares? Post your photos on your personal blog, most of the time, you can remove it later and no one will care.

The thing is that those few things that people care about, the embarrassing Christmas photos or embarassing-drunken-comments or whatever, those are what you will want to delete and those are what will have legs - if your friends are gossips, if they aren't to be trusted to start with, they will save their browser cache or take iphone photos of their screens or whatever.

I mean, this idea is essentially personal DRM. And DRM is an invasive, adversial kind of framework. You want to send your friends informational and then control what they do with the information on their computer in their own home.

"You're my friend and I'm sharing stuff with you but I still don't trust you so I'm trying to control how you use the stuff I share with you..."

Do you really want that?
No. Or rather, not yet. Right now it only has a trademark on face when used in the context of "book". Now if they update their statement of use to include the word "time", or face as it relates to video chat software/media; then (assuming the statement of use was approved by the USPTO) apple would have legal annoyances. I highly doubt that it would hold up in a court case vs apple if it were approved.
I don't mind the discounts for actual police or sheriffs too much. They conceivably provide some service for the typical business, by discouraging property crime. What drives me up the wall are the freebies the local convenience stores etc. give the highway patrol. Even if one believes that they make the roads safer (I don't), that isn't actually a service of value to a business, so it just amounts to an exercise in badge worship.
The issue isn't that EU-mandated tin-alloy solders are cheap, it's that the solder balls aren't solid and non-lead solders are brittle. For components that don't undergo constant radical thermal shifts, this is a nonissue. For the only ball grid array-mounted component on the board (the GPU), this is a recipe for eventual failure.

If the balls were factory tested for solidity this would become far less of an issue. Industry papers on the manufacture of solder balls indicate they are not; when those balls were lead, it didn't matter because lead's not thermally brittle.
I use my maxed out 13" for all my work now with an external monitor.

It's an interesting change, the only problem I really have is I live in a hot country so the laptop runs hot and kernal_task screws around trying to get the temperature under control.
No, no, no.

That's why the F and J keys have small bumps you can feel so you can position your hands for touch typing. The 5 key in the numeric keyboard also has one of these.

The backlight can be useful for the function keys or whatever, but touch typing does not need any light.
I couldn't find the "Adamo" listed on Dell's US website, but it is listed on Amazon[1] for ~$1261. That's only a touch less than a MacBook Air. Where did you find it for "half as much?"

1. http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Adamo-A13-6349PWH-13-4-Inch-Lapto...
That's not even news, everyone who has worked with facebook has the same issues. For such an understaffed company, that's not surprising. We have our domain banned from their spam filter before we even launched our game (really, it was just a redirect back to facebook); been like that for months and still no response to our complaints.
Survey taken.

I'm concerned that any competitive bid site like this will lead to the foreigners underbidding Americans, a la elance & oDesk. How will your service avoid that?
I was in that guild. Joi was on quite a bit when the guild was running Molten Core regularly. Good times.

Can't speak to anything more recent, since I quit playing years ago. According to the Armory, the character he used years ago has reached the level cap and has ran some five-man dungeons, but doesn't raid:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/eitrigg/jonkichi/simpl...

That doesn't mean anything, of course - for all I know, he could be raiding every night with another character.
I know it sounds trivial but the lack of a optical (CD/DVD) drive is my biggest barrier. In my work place, I still get all kinds of files and media on CDs and DVDs.
This changed my mind from a MBP to a MBA. Thank you.
Or it could be worth $0 if shared by smart radios. Fixed reservations of spectrum is technologically obsolete and economically very sub-optimal.

Spectrum "ownership" will be the taxi medallion of the 21st century.
Languages aren't all that different from each other. Most of the knowledge is shared between them (with a few exceptions like imperative vs. functional.)
Rackspace is cheaper and offers great customer support. The only pros is there's a lot less software tools compared to AWS but the basic things like orchestration and autoscale is almost comparable.
He says in the video that since the bar to entry into the browser space means feature/speed parity (because if it isn't faster than what we're already doing what's the point) that it will eventually be a complete browser. What isn't covered is whether it will replace the gecko engine or if it will become a new browser entirely.
An informal application of #1, the Ferber method. On 4 kids. Worked great. Or seemed to, anyway. You can't know if anything actually works or if the baby just decided to start sleeping on his or her own.
A very good observation, and one that I've been making to my friends and family. Where else to put the money sloshing around in the system except technology and automation? It almost doesn't matter what the idea is, only that it "could be big." Many other industries are either already commoditized (manufacturing) or require too much money to enter (healthcare, anything regulated heavily by the government). Why not throw some money at a few guys who want to "change the world?"
Is Fonging a thing, or typo? :)
> He added: “The algorithms these platforms depend on deliberately amplify the type of content that keeps users engaged – stories that appeal to our baser instincts and that trigger outrage and fear.

This is rich coming from Sacha Baron Cohen who made a career out of appealing to our baser instincts. Pretty much all his films are built on outrageous scenes and mocking people.
> but this is mind boggling incompetence

I disagree. It's very easy to make such mistakes, often even to miss them in code review. You also cannot simply cover all potential errors in integration tests, because there are infinitely many potential errors you can make.

You need continuous or regular red-teaming or comparable security controls to reliably avoid such things, and you typically only have those at the really big and high-tech companies, or in highly attacked or regulated environments.
Don't assume cheap is bad.

Always assume that service providers are:

- Blithering idiots until proven otherwise.

- Not performing a task that isn't explicitly committed to in the service description or contract. If something is left unsaid, that it isn't happening.

- Not performing a task that they aren't solely accountable for. If you "share" a responsibility, it is your responsibility.
> This would easily be solved by using the same distribution as a live USB, sharing testing sets, and compiling things from scratch with predefined options, but nobody seems to want to go to that much effort to get coherent comparisons.

Alternatively, you could have a sort of "shootout CI server" where people upload their compiled binaries as Docker images and the CI server runs them against several a random subset from a set of (hidden) fixed test datasets, averaging the results. (Random and hidden such that you can't just overfit against the test set; fixed so that it's still mostly measuring the same thing.)

I think the Netflix Prize sort of worked like this?
Kind of like Slaughterhouse Five in the US. It clearly fits the mold of science fiction except for being "serious".
I might misunderstand, but I think the join just isn't the right approach for that sort of child record counting, ie. counting records from two or more independent child tables associated with your rows (if that is what you're wanting).

You're grouping and counting after the three way join. That join will involve all combinations of child records between the two child tables associated with any given parent row (almost never what is wanted). So any given non-null thing you're counting from one child record will appear multiple times, = the number of child records in the other table associated with the parent row.

I think you just want to use correlated subqueries to count the child records: select a.id, (select count(whatever) from child1 c1 where c1.a_id = a.id), (select count(whatever) from child2 c2 where c2.a_id = a.id)
...

TLDR: You almost never want to join independent children to a common parent, use independent correlated subquery expressions instead.
"If I told you to murder an infant girl say, still at her mother breast’s, would you do it without question?"

Bronn then answers "Without question? No. I'd ask how much."
>I expect >50% of the population to strongly disagree, mostly people from different generations

Out of curiosity, which generations? I'm in my 20s and most of the friends Ive talked to think it's comically ugly.
Remember when Gmail got hacked by the Chinese? It was reported at the time that they were using the interface that Google had set up for the US government to get access to user emails. They don't need a warrant to view email headers or emails that are more than 6 months old.

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hackin...