jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure that's just a buzzword for "revenue model", which is to say a plan for how it will make money. The charitable interpretation in this case would be "how to keep devs on the job and not homeless", and the uncharitable case would be "how to make Moxie Marlinspike and his buddies obscenely rich".

It looks to me like either there's a lot of selling out going on here or there's a lot of great examples of how not to market a good thing to reasonable, aware, suspicious people (which is, in short, pretty much the core market demographic of privacy software users).

As for me, I'm starting to wonder whether Session is much better than Signal, and I think that if you want privacy in a cryptocurrency you're probably better off with Monero.
> Nope, not really

Within the context of a political discussion among laymen, yes. The relevant case law stretches over decades and jurisdictions. That said, one person's grey is another's black and white.

> This is not correct

It's not phrased legally precisely. But unless I missed something recently, the clearly established law requirement set by Harlow still holds.

Disclosure: I am not a lawyer. I have worked on rule making and legislation in this domain.
I hope that you're wrong in the sense that I hope that it turns out it is possible for it to change for the better... but that line definitely reminded me of the software industry in a strong way.
When you visit Israel your passport is not stamped so they have no way of knowing you have visited Israel.
Sure, but we started reading them to my daughter when she was about 20 months old. I don’t think it’s being over-protective to gloss over the dozens and dozens of times (to every one happy moment like the one you chose) when the parents express regrets at choosing to have a kid. They didn’t even go to his school play!

I mean, I loved it, too, growing up. I still think it’s great. But some things ring differently as an adult with a kid. And I can wait a bit to expose my kid to that.
Congrats! Me too, until recently.
I think one person can understand the backend at google scale. You shouldn't LARP solving problems you don't actually have (it's stupid to pay those costs, especially when the google state of the art isn't really that good) but you can still understand it.

- Modern hardware realities (nearby network faster than disk they say, memory of all sort slow relative to CPU). My mental model is the good ol' hydrolic analogy, but with molasses. Wires are slow, components are hardly slower. Flash is slower still. Maybe also think of the machines being close relative to length of wires in CPU and mollases properties.

- DB arch and similar. Well, if everything is molasses synchronizations is clearly hard. Rather than think about nifty hacks in isolation, think about what is the "business logic"'s actual expectations of synchronization. Remember financial settlement is the original example solution for this sort of thing, long predating computers.
Of course the risk to the college student is low (although I call bullshit on your 10 times because you probably made that up). Catching the virus does not merely concern yourself; you spread it around everywhere you go if you’re infected. Surely, again as OP, you heard that a thousand time, so why are you ignoring it? I say that as someone who opposes what’s being done to student in the article here.
Agreed, this is empty of information.

There's a wikipedia page for the organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl-violations.org Among other things, it mentions that the website was offline for most of 2015, and while they recovered it, I am not sure if they have been in activity since (whatever their activity is).
>But generally the boss/HR has power over the worker even after onboarding (a different kind -- to fire rather than hire)

I agree, but it's a matter of degree. In practice, it's significantly easier to reject a candidate than it is to fire an employee.
Code tends to be a liability rather than an asset.

A no code solution to a problem tends to be better than one with code
Most sites which offer U2F (or WebAuthn, which is what they ought to be doing for new sites) have a last ditch "Write down this huge random string" way back in. If you're the sort of person who'd hate to lose an account (seems like you are) then you should definitely write that down, and keep it somewhere damn safe.

But, as I wrote elsewhere in this thread, the only site I'm aware of that forbids multiple Authenticators (Security Keys) is AWS. And to be fair, AWS accounts are multi-user. If Bob loses his Security Key and Bob was your only admin, the biggest mistake wasn't AWS forbidding Bob from having two keys (though I agree that's bad) it's you not assigning another admin. Jim, the company secretary, may not know a t2.nano from m4.xlarge but he can keep a Security Key in his desk drawer and never give it to anybody unless the Big Boss authorises it.
i‘ve been watching interviews with homeless people on the Invisible People youtube channel (highly recommend), and one thing that struck me is how skin deep most support networks are. having friends and family vanish the second they could come up with a reasonable excuse seems to be the hardest part for many of them.
These are... incredible
I disagree. I just opened Tor myself to check, and indeed every circuit (I've refreshed ~10 times using cmd+shift+L) results in an error page that literally states: "Reason: Blocked."
Same here. We received well over 150mbit/s, also on Monday the 19th, also from China. We also saw occassional spikes starting on January 9th. We saw the same BitTorrent /announce traffic, and lots of other random traffic.

We ended up mitigating it by moving our IP address on that host, and blocking all input on the old address.
What competitive advantages does a bitcoin-based exchange in the U.S. have over other [U.S. or otherwise] exchanges?
It's just a hot issue, so some politicians will take a stance on this (the cynic in me says - to get some support in the disgruntled segment of the populace...)

As it is; while us vocal minority are kicking up a stink most people are just apathetic about these things. Till that changes, nothing else will.
Glad to hear SOAP is basically done: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2010/11/10/...

That's laws of natural selection at work.
Sure they will, if they feel like shooting themselves in the foot. Android would probably survive the accident, but it'd certainly start limping.

The open source part of Android created by Google (which is most of Android) uses the Apache Software License (v2.0). If they change any conditions, Android would no longer be open source.

The biggest winner would be Nokia, because Meego & Symbian would then become the only viable open phone stacks, although some would defect to Apple, because if you're going to use a non-open phone, you might as well go with Apple.
fixing the problem will take bi-partisan agreement -- which (at least in my opinion) will only happen if the grassroots outrage continues to mount. in that context, a powerful speech on the floor of Congress adds flames to the fire not matter who makes it.

and don't underestimate Ron Paul's influence. the Tea Party movement (which has a lot of overlap with libertarians on a lot of issues) and a general "small government" attitude were big winners in November. and with the Republicans recapturing control of the House, Paul's seniority leaves him well-positioned.

for more about the general political situation for privacy-related issued in the upcoming congress, here's my notes from a Privacy Coalition call early this month: http://getfisaright.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/looking-forward...
I'm not sure it's a "strange" technology. The .Net platform is great for startups.
put linux on the chromebook and you can run libreoffice, gnumeric and minecraft
If history has taught us anything it's that cycles ofboom and bust are inevitable. The lengths of e cycles varies. The degree of the booms and busts varies. Bu the cycle is constant.

It's a fundamental part of human psychology: markets are riven by fear and greed. They overbuy on greed and oversell on fear. There's your cycle.

I'm not predicting the next recession other tbqnthere will be one but guarani more prophetic than saying "it will rain eventually".

The problem is that governments tend to make these things worse and more frequent. Letting banks fail would be q good first step to weeding out the bad participants.

We may not be put of recession but the Internet/VC cycle is closer to the peak (IMHO) than you might otherwise think.
Looks like the NYT are going to dilute it, you can get it all here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-us-embassy-cables
Instead of:

public int[] filterEven(int[] array) {
aggregator = int[array.size()]
for(int i: array) {
int aggregatorSize = 0;

// The next line is the only unique part of
// this function!
if(array[i] % 2 == 0) {
// Someone please tell me there's an easier way
// to append to an array than this
aggregator[aggregatorSize] = array[i];
aggregatorSize += 1;
}
}
}

int[] array = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 };
filterEven(array);
// => { 2, 4, 6 }

in Java, you'd normally use collections and not arrays.

So it'd be:

List<Integer> result = new ArrayList<Integer>();
for(int i : argument) if(i%2==0) result.add(i);

So it's really 2 lines, not 7.

And if you really needed to work on an argument passed in the form of a primitive array, you'd use Arrays.asList(arrayArgument) to easily turn the array into a list.

Java really shines when you are doing multithreaded code because you have a rich set of thread safe collections. (e.g. multiple simultaneous requests in a web app all modifying shared data structures).

With reading something into a file, anyone that does this often will just use a library (either their own or a 3rd party one).

Thus, they'd just do:

String data = FileUtil.readFile("abc.txt");
> Are you reminding yourself of that issue?

Both of us, yes. My original comment was painting with a broad brush, and your follow-up is too.

> Guess which one Ruby has?

You're still speaking around me. The implementation of Ruby's metaprogramming is irrelevant, it's the place of prominence it's been given in the design and culture.
Am I to take from this that journalism is a higher calling that requires a self-less attitude and a humble ego? Because I'm pretty sure that kind of journalism has never existed.

Regardless of whether Wikileaks is self-aggrandizing or not (and the recurring theme here is that people "feel" it is, but can never substantiate), the information released and the results achieved speak for themselves.
That guy has 804 followers. What makes you think he's capable of orchestrating a DDoS?
The only consistency that exists with measurements is that theories are formulated as a potential interpretation of them.

So, back to my original hypothesis..
Plus, a couple of those countries will wipe Assange and his organization off the face of the earth. Assange is only picking on the US because we're more civil. It's like how the anti-religioun crowd tends to pick on Christianity, instead of one of the actually vicious religions that will kill them.

Really, Assange is merely perpetrating a sophisticated form of bullying.
I really doubt they'd do that. Far too many people using Skype for business purposes. I need to be able to talk to people who aren't my facebook friends.
In the case of Facebook, it was clear that there needed to be a website that showed people what all of their friends were doing, and helped people plan social engagements with their friends. In the (paraphrased) words of Mark Zuckerberg, "I knew someone was going to make a social network with a billion plus users, so why not me?"

In the case of twitter, I don't think there was any temporary economic disequilibrium, which is why they are stuck with the revenue model of a service business and the cost structure of a startup. You could always make up something after the fact, like saying they are arbitraging the lack of money and literacy ability of inner city minorities, but that's clearly absurd because they never would have started the business if they had thought about it that way.

If they were applying to YC back in 2006 and had to answer that question, they probably would have written that there isn't currently a way to send text messages to groups, and it's clear this is going to exist some day. But that's probably about as much detail as they could have given, plus maybe some version of the usual mobile software use cases from Howard Rheingold's book Smart Mobs.

Is it necessary to have a temporary economic disequilibrium? According to the business school definition of entrepreneurship, it's one of two things that separates a lifestyle business from a startup, the other one being the potential for rapid scalability. (Cornell b-school actually uses the phrase 'temporary economic disequilibrium' in their 'official' definition of entrepreneurship, I didn't just make that up.)
i've been to half of the countries you listed(england, japan, indonesia and korea) and was pleased by their airport's staff attitude and helpful behaviour.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Collatz_conje...
>so they can't hide malware in the same way that the firmware of USB drives, hard drives, and optical drives can.

Unless you boot the machine with the floppy in the drive. Oh, boot sector viruses!
Totally. The pixels were carefully composed that way on purpose. Don't mess with them.

I've always been a "pixel art" purist. It even bugs me when games try to use pixel art but get it subtly wrong. For instance, a game might use sprites that are scaled up at different scales at the same time and/or rotated in high resolution. This just ruins it for me.
No, the outage in 2007 was in August, and had to do with churn of the supernodes related to updates. I wrote about it here:

http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2007/08/skype-offers-fu.h...
A google union, or any tech union, can arrange whatever compensation scale it wants. Every union is a democratic organization, structured however its members want it to be structured.

There is no reason a tech union would have a strict seniority-based pay scale.

A tech union could do things like insist on better work/life balance, a seat at the board representing worker interests, you name it. A google-specific union could insist on bringing the 20% "work on your own thing" scheme back, for example.
We own a 100 year old place that we’ve been renovating for the last 2 months (when we took ownership). I found a (small) stash of money under the carpet (about £200 in pristine 1990s notes).

That’s probably the best thing I found. Less savoury was the discovery that the house was, in fact, owned by rats. They were everywhere. There was a lovely little nest made from a bag of straw and lined with a newspaper from 1938. They’d eaten into the expansion tanks in the loft so they had a fresh supply of water.
>The issue affects SSDs with an HPE firmware version prior to HPD8 that results in SSD failure at 32,768 hours of operation (i.e., 3 years, 270 days 8 hours). After the SSD failure occurs, neither the SSD nor the data can be recovered. In addition, SSDs which were put into service at the same time will likely fail nearly simultaneously.

Looks like some sort of run time stored in a signed 2 byte integer. Oops.
There's definitely a thumb on the scales. I've found that controversial comments of mine that go up and down a lot in point totals are much more likely to trigger the mysterious "you're posting too fast" message even hours after my last comment.
Not to mention C# is as modern as it gets...
I swear the video on that site is edited to make things seem worse than they are. Literally the only thing we ever see is a close up of cow faces, sped up to make the movements seem more erratic.

All the language is also full of hyperbole ‘the terrible exhausting journey’, ‘their sad faces’, ‘the aggressive behavior of the truck driver’.

I just cannot watch this thing. These people instantly have an agenda to me.

They may be right, but there are enough terrible stories out there without any attempt to make it worse (as seen from some of the stories posted here).
That's a fair description. Even so, with VHDL being rather verbose you might prefer the "C++ skin on VHDL" version for some things, especially algorithmic things.
There is no doubt that Manning was stupid, but he's a 22 YO kid. Lamo made no attempt to talk the kid down: he just sold him out to a military that runs secret prisons, tortures, and claims the right to be able to assassinate its own citizens.

My guess is Lamo, despite his argument that there was morality behind what he did, sold the kid out to protect himself. Given Lamo's lax sentence for past crimes (6 months house arrest), I'd guess he made an agreement to inform in the future.
>Install. Accept permissions. Choose a PIN. I can send you messages. You can see your friends who already use Signal. Well done!

Sure but that does not in any way take away from the point that siloed messengers are a bad idea. If the XMPP/Matrix people wanted to they could set up a trusted third party server to link identities to phone numbers just like Signal does. They could even claim to use some sort of hardware enclave to do it. You could at that point create clients that were functionally identical to Signal but that worked on the respective federated networks. Heck you could probably do that with encrypted email and no one would much mind any added latency.

When people are talking about messaging systems that do not interoperate they are complaining about the underlying protocols. Client useability is a whole other discussion. I think there is a tendency to confuse the two in this sort of discussion.
Actually, you were correct. Firefox on Windows and Linux has provided a print preview "since forever", but this is the first time Firefox has had print preview functionality on macOS (outside of using the system print dialog to generate and open a PDF in the Preview app).
I would like to help. But I don't have experience teaching to blind/low-vision individuals. If someone has experience teaching blind/low-vision students then I would like to pair with them and then we both can teach. Do you know someone who has experience in this field?
Of course, the Chinese predecessor of the Gutenberg press used wooden blocks.
I've seen people doing that on the highway, too! It appears to generally be one gesture, and occasionally the horn is used for greater emphasis.
They are already using LFP chemistry on Standard Range Model 3 sold in China and Europe. (Batteries produced by CATL I believe)

They also called this out during their last battery tech presentation:

https://cdn.motor1.com/images/mgl/JvxPA/s3/2020-tesla-shareh...
Asl is actually a diff language than English. Surprisingly, ma y ppl can understand the asl but not the textual English. For many people English is a 2nd language they understand less well than asl.
Mmmm, knafeh!
Because the native language of the deaf is sign language. Spoken language has very little in common with sign language. Text is a written form of a spoken language for those who hear so it isn't too hard to learn. For someone who can't hear it is completely different from anything.

Imagine the time where you knew something of a second language, but were not fluent yet (some of you may have never tried, but most people have done at least a little of a foreign language), watching a program in that language with subtitles in that language. That is what text subtitles are for a lot of deaf.
I am in that minority.

It breaks my heart the way Blockstream was brought in to intentionally kneecap Bitcoin.
Step 2: convince yourself that you should only use NOSQL if you absolutely have to. (Corollary: if you ask for NOSQL by name, you most probably don’t need it.)
Thanks for the response. It's great that you're trying to build something that will allow folks to do self-hosting well, I'm fully on board with this aim. My point about the political bits though, is that even for folks that agree with you, pushing the political bits too much can signal that you're not confident enough in the technical merits of what you're doing for them to stand on their own.

Re: the paperwork vs code thing - While a full white paper on your theoretical foundations would be nice, IMO the table stakes for getting people to take your product seriously is a sentence or two on the model you're using. For example, adding something like: "We aim to prioritise consistency and partition tolerance over availability, and use the raft algorithm for leader elections. Our particular focus is making sure the storage system is really good at handling X and Y." or whatever would be a huge improvement, until you can get around to writing up the details.

The problem with "we write code" is that your users are unlikely to trust you to be writing the correct code, when there's so little evidence that you've thought deeply about how to solve the hard problems inherent in distributed storage.
Yikes! Sorry I'm rebooting my vps now!
Dating is just meeting people of your preferred gender (for possible romance) -- it doesn't have to be so serious. I used to go on dates with no hope of leading to anything more than friendship, and it was a lot of fun! Got me out of my comfort zone, and I did meet my partner through that. There's nothing depressing about meeting a lot of people in my opinion, on the contrary it made me enjoy life more!
The article has an absolutely astonishing clam if it's true. IBM will eliminate 26% of its employees? That's almost unprecedented for a company of that size.

There are 35 comments under the article, many from insiders. The start of the first comment perhaps sums up why there are so few comments here on HN:

Why is IBM even relevant enough
to discuss any more?
I can buy the regulatory measures in certain areas, which is why I mentioned the highway. I find it very difficult to believe that these kind of regulations would be adhered to, 100% of the time, in the chaos of a busy urban center.
DPR definitely broke the law, there's no question about that. A lot of us think it's an unjust law, but whatever. He may have also put out hits on people (though, curiously, he is not being charged for that). If that's the case then he's also a danger to society and really does belong in prison.

But, it is immensely frustrating, even heartbreaking when you consider the cost in human lives, that given the choice between something like Silk Road and Mexican drug cartels, we as a society have apparently chosen Mexican drug cartels, and all the gut-wrenching bloodshed and destabilization they bring.

I'm reserving judgement on Ulbricht the person, but what he did should not be illegal, for reasons ideological, practical, and humanitarian.
Fun fact: Ken Thompson and Rob Pike of Unix, Plan 9, Go, and other fame had a heavy influence on the standard while working on Plan 9. To quote Wikipedia:

> Thompson's design was outlined on September 2, 1992, on a placemat in a New Jersey diner with Rob Pike.

If that isn't a classic story of an international standard's creation/impactful update, then I don't know what is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#FSS-UTF
Perhaps so, but I have seen innumerable posts here that do take the concept of "being senior" seriously.
This question was asked whenever young found a new way of amusing themselves. The same was told about penny-thrillers that came with an advent of literacy, and internet discussion groups.

It may well be that when we amuse ourselves in new ways, the other activities get less attention. But ultimately our creativity will bring scientific papers about Factorio and Eve Online, just like there are interesting papers about number theory, optimal strategies in Chess, or AI for StarCraft.
Oh yeah? Try not programming. I've tried, it can't be done.
What is the monetary amount, and do you have evidence of the theft?