jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In my mind cases like this (even this case) represent the most important issue we need to fix (before any attempt is made on copyright/software patents) - or at least get drummed out of boundaries as "something we could sue for"

I'm confident it will come out right, but sometimes you never can tell with these things :)
There's a piece missing from your logic. Exactly what does Apple have to fear? That they won't become the Dell of tablets? I don't think they're afraid of becoming the maker of the fashion statement tablet -- that's where the high margins are! A killer app (with healthy competition) that benefits all tablets helps them. A killer app that's a monopoly can hurt them, because the killer app can disappear from their platform.
I'm surprised I haven't had an answer to this. I thought I was the target market.

This looks like an inferior web based edition of Exchange/Outlook functionality. It was a serious question - is there an advantage to using this? If not, you might need to do some market research to better target the problem you are trying to solve.
By Neil Sloane at AT&T research

http://www.research.att.com/~njas/

I also discovered it from HN[1] :)

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=579925
True though there are other studies that suggest younger children are more likely than older children to present critical symptoms.
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Yes, you are making a lot of mistakes. No, on the contrary, both studies encourage the use of masks. And it's totally beyond me why you're so bent on distorting the fact and trying to get that dangerous message of discouraging the use of masks.

Go back the first study and read the full sentence that you conveniently cut in the middle:

> In this population, there was no detectable additional benefit of hand sanitizer or face masks over targeted education on overall rates of URIs, but mask wearing was associated with reduced secondary transmission and should be encouraged during outbreak situations.

See the part about secondary transmission which you deleted? Also remember that unlike in that study (which was conducted in households with a known sick patient), in reality, there are sick people (both symptomatic and asymptomatic) whom you don't know in advance that they're sick and do not wear masks --which is something you can't fix by education and instead have to implement mass quarantine because now everything could be infectious and people have to avoid everything.

Second study:

> In conclusion, our results suggest that hand hygiene and facemasks can reduce influenza virus transmission if implemented early after symptom onset in an index patient.

And make sure you also read the word influenza, and remember that with COVID-19, the main driver is asymptomatic cases by far. Which means everyone should wear a mask.

> Aren't masks common in both South Korea and China?

Yes, masks are common in China and South Korea now, which is reflected in their low transmission rates: China 0.06%, South Korea: 2.0%. Compare that to 35% in US. Initial outbreaks in China and South Korea were driven by people not using masks. The spread rates plummeted after the implementation of countermeasures which include, surprise, use of masks by everyone!

> That said, if you are asymptotic you aren't coughing or sneezing, so I'm unsure of how helpful a mask would be.

Coughing isn't the only way people spread water droplets ---people do that just by talking. Virus is also carried in aerosol that remain in the air for longer periods. Coronavirus isn't the only thing that cause sneezing or coughing (especially in this season, so there could be people who think they just have pollen allergies while in reality they are symptomatic carriers of SARS-CoV-2). And regardless, it obviously is better than nothing. Yes, it's not going to be 100% effective, but even a 1% difference will be the difference between life and death for some people in your community.

Really, what are you trying to achieve by pushing this nonsense? If all people in the US don't start using masks already, they won't be able to achieve the success in suppressing the spread rates seen in Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong (all are countries where mask usage by everyone is high) within the same time frame. The growth will be stronger, there will be far more sick people and more and more fatalities. Is this what you want? If not, just stop, please, and start acting responsible as a member of your community. Please.
Producing aerogel is not easy. It's "just silica" in the same way that a diamond is "just carbon".

The regular house insulation already works pretty well, and heating is not incredibly expensive. Aerogel would have to come way down in price for it to make economic sense.
That's a good point.

Guessing the fix is to tape over the port?
So what you're saying is that this is guaranteed to work:

if(ptr) ptr->action1();
if(ptr) ptr->action2();

While this might blow up:

if(ptr) {
ptr->action1();
ptr->action2();
}

That's the only if statement in all of C that works that way, and violates the principle of least surprise in a huge way.
I can't determine if "chicken boolean" was a typo or an in-joke.
You're asking society to solve two problems:

1. Convince people that a certain action is morally wrong

2. Once 1 is accomplished, convince those same people not to do the action

We typically use law and consistent enforcement to solve these problems, because it's basically impossible otherwise.

What do you expect this would look like in reality, without laws and fines? Someone is seen buying 50 cases of toilet paper and loading into their truck. His friends or family, or a bunch of strangers at the supermarket, then shame him, telling him what he's doing is wrong. Then, he sees the error in his ways and decides to return the items? There's no way that this is a workable, scalable solution given the culture in the USA.

Generalization time: 1. People here are timid and avoid confrontation, and tend to not call others out on bad behavior, particularly family members. 2. Even if you do confront them, it is extremely difficult to convince people that what they feel justified in doing is actually wrong. 3. Even if you've convinced them that they're wrong, people don't respond to shame (either public shaming or private).

What people do respond to is consistent incentives and consequences. If there's a good chance you'll lose money or go to jail for doing something, then people will think twice before trying it.
Ninepoints is getting repeatedly rate-limited. He invites anyone with questions to ask questions in the Klein discord (https://discord.gg/gkbfnNy)
I'm not sure... I think I'd be more comfortable working for a weapons shop than for (tracking) adtech. Ethics is a spectrum, so there can be many opinions on the topic.

Going back to adtech, I more or less equate it to the tech you alluded to, as well as global tracking, NSA-sized surveillance, and a complete disregard for "privacy", regulations and civility. Would any self-respecting person follow their neighbors around, write their every moves on a notebook, and sell that to the highest bidder? It's literally what is being done by those tracking giants, on a much bigger scale (and Google does track your every move, or does its best to do so).

I feel like I'm distancing myself more and more from conventional Internet platforms as a result.
That's gravity...
I'd argue that it's acting like an engineer not a craftsman.

Either way, I'd be thrilled to be treated like an engineer/craftsman. That would be a big step up from "interchangeable cog".

Also, I'm not clear on what's wrong with "it was built with jquery and no one has touched it since 2014". The fact that the system is built using an archaic technology, that technology is inferior to current technology, and the engineers are not familiar with the code base is completely relevant to how long it will take to make changes.
Yes, I also still prefer HTML.

I mostly do Tor onion sites. So I absolutely don't want any scripting. Because that would piss off the most valuable part of my potential audience. And given Tor's latency, you want to avoid unnecessary traffic.

I write mostly in ReText. It generates decent HTML. But I usually end up tweaking.
If I take a complete Backend but only use 1 of 10 methods, that relationship is better expressed as an interface with that single method. Constraining the possible behavior of that code via this kind of contract makes it easier to understand (the signature says more by permitting less) and test (the interface provides a natural mock point).
I'm back on the Noscript train & just white-listing stuff on the sites I frequent
> We take the security of your information very seriously...

I am trying to read this with a straight face. Perhaps T-Mobile was just waiting for their turn to get breached.

> with your prepaid service account, including name and billing address (if you provided one when you established your account), phone number, account number, rate plan and features, such as whether you added...

So your personal identifiable information has been accessed by the attackers? Fraudsters can now link my data from another breach and get my detailed phone number information. Jolly Good /s

There you have it folks, nothing more than just sitting rubber ducks with your data.
I know that, at least in the 3rd Edition, D&D consistently used she as the default pronoun. I don't know that I've seen is consistently anywhere else.
Another good point is that biometrics aren’t secure. They invest millions and billions in fingerprint and eye scanner systems that get fooled by scotch tape. Just not effective security.
The problem with this argument is that Facebook very clearly refused to join the wage fixing scheme, and in fact it was Facebook that was responsible for the collapse of the scheme (by aggressively bidding up wages and poaching Google employees). And Facebook is in favor of looser immigration.

And you can't claim that Facebook now wants to bid down wages - your assertions rely on using a company's past actions as evidence for their future choices.
Transitive property?
Monoprice did the same thing when they were hacked last year. Two months after it happened, I got a letter from them with a few papers describing the identity theft monitoring service I would receive for a year.
> Security and privacy were, after all, Diaspora's raison d'etre.

The irony of its all is that Facebook's privacy issues has nothing to do with open/closed source. They can open they're entire source-tree tomorrow, it wouldn't make them more privacy-oriented than now. It's not how they collect the information or how they store it, but what they do with it and with whom they share it.

>"Amateurish failure" pretty much nails it

I think part of the problem here is, as much as those guys have good intention, the whole affair was ill-handled from the start. From the get-go, asking for money before showing any effort made me sceptical of the whole affair. The amount of exposure and money they got, without anything even resembling code, or implementation details was absurd.
And then, what they initially came up with could've been done by a few software devs working on their free time, and was riddled by security issues. My advice to those guys is to use the money and hire some good programmers, which is what most startup guys do.
Art is usually unique; I'm not sure the markets are comparable (wines have a limited run, but not so limited that two true fans will push the price into the millions.)

This study shows that some/many wines cost more, yet don't taste better. In other words, a random expensive wine is likely not great from a price-quality, or even just quality, perspective. This is relevant to the unsophisticated buyer, i.e. most of their readers.

I think you're arguing that, essentially, a well-chosen expensive wine is noticeably better than a similarly well-chosen not-so-expensive wine. I'm inclined to believe you, but that is much harder for the average consumer to act on.
I don't have any reliable data other than my own experience. I would guess 10 - 30 km.

Sweden is a sparsly populated country. Compared to Germany, we have a tenth of the population spread over a larger area. Even though Large parts of the north are practically empty, and the population is concentrated to the cities, the difference is noticeable.
As with Twitter, I don't think Rails, nor Ruby, is the issue. Whatever you do with a framework, or a language, is mostly your fault. Ruby on Rails can only be as good as the people use it are, and while I realise the Rails aggressive marketing gives people the impression that RoR is a bullet-proof solution, it isn't, and shouldn't be blamed if a developer doesn't understand the tools he's using.
Here is a modest proposal.

Take some examples of varying severity. In front of the class say,

I have identified many examples of plagairism on the last assignment. Let me show you some...

Then say, "I have identified more than X cases. If you think you may have been one of them, let me know by email, and I'll let you redo the paper and ignore your first submission.

Anyone that I have identified as a plaigairist who does not offer to redo your paper will be failed. If you think you may have quoted too liberally from an unacknowledged source, I would strongly recommend playing it safe and redoing your paper.

Then on the next class come in, pick a random name out of the list of people who have not reached you yet, call that person by name, and ask him or her if he or she wishes to fail the course. After the kid says no, say, "Then are you going to be redoing your paper?" Then to the rest of the class say, "If you should redo the paper and haven't talked with me yet, I suggest doing so soon."

I believe that once expectations are clearly enough set, most of the problem will disappear fairly easily. As for the rest? I have absolutely no problem with failing cheaters as fast as possible.
I suspect the reasons are to do with practicality and dealing with customers who mistakenly cancel, rather than any kind of malice.

E.g. if you keep backups of deleted files for 30 days, the files are technically still within the service's reach, but they won't look at them unless you ask them.

Ultimately, if you want your files to be completely secure, and you really care that when they're deleted, they're permanently deleted, you probably shouldn't trust any third party backup service anyway. Even if they do delete the files, they could easily be recovered by forensics examination of the hard drives.
Underlying schema or code changes that drastically affect the service's availability. In terms of mysql you are talking locked tables when there is a schema change. But then I dont know if they still use mysql, they were talking about a move to cassandra. At that scale it is never simple. If a change takes 30 seconds on your dev machine it is not going to be that way in production with a billion rows partitioned across multiple tables.

I am actually curious as to what this "deep" issue is they speak of.

You guys got any examples of infrastructure issues that could cause availability problems in a large scale environment?
Warning: not about the Model View Presenter pattern. In this case it stands for Minimum Viable Product.
If you read the father's comments on the article, the courts were involved with trying to separate their son from the homeless lady, but apparently not even that was enough to stop it.
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That's not a resolution because the claim is that they're useless ("not effective"), which is not the same as there existing a better use. They could have communicated the truth, instead they chose to lie, which erodes trust.

https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321...
Very nice... and right at the end they ruined it: "rainfall may spread diseases like e.coli".
http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/verizon-sprint-lead....

ATT covers 280m people with LTE versus T-Mobile's 210m. Note the number of posters here saying they'd switch to TMobile if coverage was better. Anecdotally, on the east coast between Phila and DC, TMobile is good in the major cities and along thebhighway, but useless in many suburbs. Of course, ATT also spends more in a quarter on CapEx as TMobile does in a year.
It can appear in the range (making up assignment syntax here)

foo :: (Num a, HasField "slot" a b) => b -> b
foo x = x.slot <~ 1

Technically, depending upon the semantics of records (how anonymous they are) it could even be that the input argument has a different type as the output argument, e.g.

foo {} ==> {slot = 1}

Anyway, there's a lot to be said here but I think that this isn't merely a syntactic difference. Even the idea that

map (\x -> x.slot) listOfFoos

could be inferred would require mixing type inference and syntax de-sugaring.
I think people that go to JUGs and people that do enterprise development are entirely different species...
They're more interested in math than programming. I'm rolling with it.
You definitely can't mute any random keyboard with software, though (before someone comes out with some kind of switch with a electrically controlled clickbar or something)
> Big oil has been funding anti - nuclear and anti - hydro efforts for years.

You gotta stay updated with the latest current affairs. Big oil is no longer big. They have moved to electric and tourist
I don't particularly want to be 'that guy', and perhaps/probably it's part of the joke ('whoosh') - but 'the LRU items go to the bottom'.. it's MRU? The top item that you take (assuming you're not digging about) is the most recently used, we don't classify queues by what's at the back/bottom?
More indoor lighting can make a big difference, especially for folks with Seasonal Affective Dissorder.

CO2 can also cause brainfog, so measuring CO2 content and cracking open a window can really make working indoors less constricting.
> A lot of people say “there’s no such thing as asset inflation” [1] and I find that very confusing.

I think most people agree there is a lot of asset inflation. Your link doesn't match your quote either.
My point is that if all crops go organic, then they no longer have the higher margin of a premium product and are still at the current commodity price.
The most painful thing for me, but not to ordinary users, is that the formulas are localized in the user's language.
Interesting, thanks I didn't know about this. I'm still struggling with "If we add $1T to the economy and TSLA goes up 500%, how do we calculate the actual change in TSLA's intrinsic value?" I still don't see how the CPI is factoring this in, do you?
If a country lied and kept information from the public and had internal propaganda which convinced a significant portion of the population that the US was in fact responsible, and it was transferred from the US to China, I would be quite concerned as well. The difference is that here our scientists can speak publicly, and in China that is not the case.

China's behavior is concerning.
So I've downloaded the tool. Gnoway your right the videos do not do it justice. This tool does a great job of understanding group nesting. I was not sold at first, but considering I manage multiple sub-domains this tools seem to save a lot of time finding group membership across sub-domains.
Tesla isn't mining it. Bitcoin costs nothing to hold. It's a hedge against inflation given TSLA's massive cash reserves.
That support has always been there since around 2000.

Sun, Oracle, BEA, IBM, Excelsior, PTC, Aonix, Aicas, Fujitsu, HP, Nokia, Sony, Azul and to certain extent Apple (for a while it was the Swift of OS X), Microsoft (until J++ venture turned into C#)
Because building infrastructure on Earth takes forever and I don't think that it goes faster on Mars. Supply chains for even trivial things are terribly long. It's a lot of work to build replacements off-world. I mean, just having the life support to sustain a sufficient population to run and maintain the machines for simple steel production is a huge task in itself. And then you also need chemical manufacturing (without the benefit of having oil), semiconductors, electronics... modern civilization is hard.
The public have to care about corruption more than culture war.

I've noticed in the UK there's been a number of corruption stories, starting around Brexit but hugely accelerated by pandemic procurement, that have been raised in the press and then just forgotten about.

In the US you can see how much energy has been put into fake scandals while distracting from real ones, e.g. Pizzagate vs Matt Gaetz.
There are groundwater plumes of TCE around air force bases because they used to just dump extra TCE into open pits thinking it would evaporate. Maybe those plumes reached enough city wells to cause problems over the last few decades.
Also what's up with those side margins? A little margin is nice (HN's feel reasonable), but the margins on both PMFW and BMFW look like they follow the philosophy of maximizing scrolling and margins to cram a bunch of ads in the margins, only without the ads. One caveat might be that I'm viewing them on a desktop monitor and not on a cellphone.

(Edit: Okay, I should have read TFW. They mention the reason for the line width)
it's a max-width. and the viewport is set sensibly, so it looks great on a phone.
Slightly greyer is OK, but if you give up most the contrast and use a small font, a large fraction of the population will find your site hard to read. There are way too many low-contrast web sites out there.
From "walled garden", downhill to "walled marketplace" now ...

You're welcome to sell, inside Amazon's walled marketplace.-
Maybe you can take some inspiration from FrontAid CMS https://frontaid.io/
Indeed: mainframe COBOL programs often invoke transaction processing and data management facilities (using “EXEC CICS,” “EXEC DLI,” or “EXEC SQL” statements, for example) that aren’t part of the standardized COBOL language.

There are commercial software packages for re-hosting mainframe applications to other platforms. These typically provide not only COBOL and PL/I compilers but also functional equivalents of CICS, VSAM, JCL (JES2), and other mainframe system software.
They're doing you a favour.
> WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS.

Do you like 400 nits of #ffffff right into your eyeballs? No? Me neither.

The alternative is absolute darkness with extremely bright text, which in turn makes it unreadable (if you have astigmatism as I do) and literally causes pain due to the high contrast.

Nothing in nature has such an extreme contrast.

The only reason anyone would ever use full contrast is if they have a shitty 6-bit monitor panel that doesn't even reach the contrast ratio of a shitty 1990's monitor. And they don't even have a proper color profile, so their computer thinks their monitor has all the contrast ratio in the world, and doesn't tonemap fuckall.

The only way to resolve this is if either everyone finally switches on a color managed workflow, or we outright ban the shitty panels where #000000 on #ffffff is necessary for readability instead of being just painful.

#ffffff is the color of looking directly into the sun and absolutely painful bright, #000000 is the color of the deepest, starless night. You need these colors for movies, for games, for images. But your text should never be the contrast between a starless night and looking directly into a star.

Increase the contrast of your monitor, calibrate your panel, but don't build a worse website to compensate for your shitty panel.

EDIT: this comment puts it very well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26741285
One word. Dropwizard.
Continue to use your previous IDE or editor and gradually switch to Emacs as you learn more.