jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think Assange underestimates the power that this information wields, and as a result is being reckless and potentially dangerous to those he's trying to "protect" under the guise of freedom.

This is a dangerous game to play, especially for someone with little experience doing so.

I don't know how I feel about the concept of Wikileaks itself, but I do feel uncomfortable that this man seems to enjoy playing God.

Replace one tyrant with another and you end up in the same place.
"The material includes a reference to Vladimir Putin as an "alpha-dog", Hamid Karzai as being "driven by paranoia" and Angela Merkel allegedly "avoids risk and is rarely creative". There is also a comparison between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Adolf Hitler."

Shocking news. Absolutely shocking.
I only know a little bit of Python so far, but I think it's things like the "underscore methods" (__len__, __cmp__, __init__) and the lack of blocks (which give Ruby a kind of elegant unity).

I do think, though, that Python's list comprehensions are quite beautiful, and I'm looking forward to using them.
They're government workers; their salaries are probably not that bad.
I think len() being a function instead of a method, explicitly specifying self for each method and other inconsistencies(albeit small) lead rubyists to think of python as ugly. I'm no rubyist(I prefer expediency to elegance, hence python over ruby), so take this with a grain of salt.
Thanks for the correction, changed to exception-throwing - that's the behaviour I don't like
You didn't quote the entire sentence:

"We hypothesise that the SARS‐CoV‐2 infection triggered an anti‐tumour immune response, as has been described with other infections in the context of high‐grade non‐Hodgkin lymphoma."

That suggests this has happened before and is not specific to this particular virus. Seems like an odd omission when you're after "the whole basis of the article".
Avoid $ success at all costs
All thanks to China's economic policy. They managed to suck out the wealth of the west for years, something they could do because they were and are in a privileged position. It is not the same for many other developed countries. In fact if you don't consider China, since 1981 we have 1 billion more poor people in the world.
My favorite one is definitely Simon Sinek's talk on 'How great leaders inspire action'.

If you want to see a collection of inspiring videos on social entrepreneurship you can visit this site:

http://trendguardian.blogspot.com/search/label/Social%20Entr...
Google gives permission to some sites to do more. we are one of those sites.
Take a look at the how to play guitar chords page... it's everything you would want if you did that search.

people stay on that page for 20-60 minutes!!! and there are 50 people on that page all the time learning to play guitar chords. sorry it's not how to set up a cassandra cluster, but it is of value to people learning to do something basic.

best jcal
There goes Meego and then Nokia I guess.
I hadn't even thought of that angle! i guess businesses also have civil rights online. :) and mainly: it might help us bootstrap the ecosystem. thanks!

it means we should write the unhosted storage node in AWS, GoogleApps, etc, because that is what these businesses will want, right? should be trivial, i'll put this on the tasks list :)
A lot of people who achieve a minor level of success adopt this sort of "if I wanted to I could" attitude, and it's usually rooted in self-delusion rather than tested empirical knowledge.
Ah just seems that it's an Op Ed ... so should be taken with a large box of malden sea salt.
Reading books isn't just about consuming a simple, distilled idea in a short time. I'm working my way through a biography on Churchill in WWII, trying to understand the background for the role he plays in the English society into which I've recently relocated, and also because I'm very politically interested, and he's one of the big heroes of the movement I associate with.

This process (and lord knows it's a process, the book has been on my bed stand for months) has given lots of time to reflect on the person and his time, it has prompted inquiries and discussions with people better acquainted with him, the time and Britain. On a recent visit to the Imperial War Museum in London, I was able to draw on my readings, while the experience conversely expanded my horizons and my gains from reading the book.

Had this been a ten paragraph blog post, I would have gotten a re-iteration of the view that he's a hero, a central figure in post-war Britain, and particular in post-war conservatism. A comment on that blog post would probably point out the usual criticism, that the bombing of Dresden was an atrocity, that he was an unrelenting imperialist and that WWII was won by the Sovjets and the west just swooped in at the last minute to collect the prizes.

Well, I knew that. I just didn't understand it and it's implications. I still don't (and still have a few hundred pages to go), but I have a much better framework for exploring the issue.

One thing that good books can do, that I've never seen even the best blogposts do in a lasting way: they get under your skin and stay there. I read Microserfs several times in my mid- to late teens, and I'm certain the "Yes! This!" experience I got from this book forever shaped me towards entrepreneurship. I haven't read it for a decade, but the picture of sitting in someones garage passionately working on your own product is still my ideal of life.

A good handful of books have gotten under my skin in various ways, in ways that reading stuff online never did. There are many, many forgettable books, but the prize of that under-the-skin experience is enough that I keep trying. Even lacking that, getting sucked into an alternative reality is excellent entertainment.

Finally, I simply enjoy reading a book (or on my Kindle). I enjoy not having the distractions of a computer nearby.
I don't think net neutrality legislation means what you think it means.

government regulation with regards to ISP's is broken, thus stifling the competition that would ensure far more robust net neutrality than any legislated version.

you don't stop monopolies from abusing their powers by legislating that they play fair. you take away the governmental protections that allow them to have a monopoly and let the market consume them when they refuse to change their shitty business practices.
... because, obviously, only Indians can't spell.
No, but I think it's safe to say that it's off the mean in many areas.
Subpixel rendering (used in the font referenced in the article) really ought to count as cheating. It effectively increases the horizontal resolution, so it can only make a real claim to be "smallest" in the vertical dimension. Furthermore, if you blow it up (which I'm guessing plenty of people are inclined to do), it actually looks worse, whereas the true bitmap font becomes, while clearly pixelated, more legible.
There is a need for such a service.

Anything that is done "in real life" has a purpose that applies equaly "online"

There is not point is judging an action by itself, only the consequences matter, but some actions have fairly predictable consequences.
reading from iPhone is hit and miss. it seems to tell safari on iphone to use older page content. iPad at same point in time always seems to get current stories.
>The debate should be about the ethics of privacy and HOW it is being violated, not WHY.

It should clearly be about both. Both are huge, existential problems.
People hoarding chloroquine medicines has left many cronic patients (lupus and autoinmune diseases) without their dose, and now they will have to wait up to one month to fix the stock break. another way people is being selfish on this times.
It's been tested for years (decades? it's generic) as an anti-malaria drug. Any drug can be overdosed.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy is excellent. Not 100% sure it contains the very first men on Mars, but it does contain everything afterward.

For a more dramatic and dream-like take -- not "hard" sci-fi by any means -- read Bradbury's Martian Chronicles. I consider them to be masterpieces, though again, it's a softer, more mythological-like style.
I agree. It looks really clean. I'm not about to throw out haml for it yet, but I'm definitely intrigued.
From what I've read that's already happening.
Just type ok. in the window to start the tutorial.

If you like what you see, try some of these:

http://www.erlang.org/download/getting_started-5.4.pdf

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/
I suspect you may have received the old "mild" patdown and not the new "enhanced" one. I think the new one uses the front of the hand.

The guy in San Diego who refused the patdown a couple days ago now has the TSA claiming he was only going to get the old one:

"Aguilar says that Tyner was facing nothing more than the traditional pat-down that TSA has used for some time, and not a more aggressive body search in effect since late October."

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/15/tsa-probe-sca...

If this is true then patdownees are not yet experiencing the real thing in some locations.
Considering the photos were taken several weeks after his pancreatic tumor surgery, I doubt keeping his office tidy was a top priority.
Yeah... this article is so old that the zappos $3000 dollar thing is written about in detail in one of my college management textbooks (Fundamentals of Management, 7th edition, Pearson Publishing, page 17)
Just exactly how imaginative can you be designing a phone's external appearance? It's just plastic (or metal in some cases) around a screen in a somewhat rectangular shape. Hard to get that wrong. What do you mean plasticky? Is plastic a bad thing? The lower density makes the phone take less damage when dropped.
I think the phrase you are looking for is a "juridical person."
Furthermore each listed risky activity should be balanced with the micromort risk of not doing it.

For example suppose I take a plane, then ride a bike to go hiking for a week with friends. Maybe this trip will save me many micromort from health and mental perspectives. Having a deeper friendship is certainly also a net positive.
> I’m not against monetisation at all, we all have lives and need to pay our bills.

OK, I'm game. How should SourceForge monetize?

Just about everyone here is running ad blocking software, not that display ads pay much anymore. Not that anyone will tolerate seeing an ad for the free software they're downloading.

Should SourceForge charge a monthly fee to projects? To users? Perhaps SourceForge should arrange licensing deals to make white label SourceForge clones? Maybe they should just start doing consulting on the side?
As mentioned in the OP, support for checked arithmetic does exist in the stdlib, and has for ages.
Settle for nothing less than individual offices. If I don't get an office, I work from home.
Some times the student's home country will pay for their PhD tuition and expenses abroad, which means that from the university's perspective they're a paying student.

The catch is that the student then signs that they will return home for a period (e.g. two years) immediately after the PhD or be liable to pay the scholarship back.

[source: am an ex PhD student, have seen friends under this arrangement].
This is pretty cool, Ben Nadel also built a similar app using cold fusion and Twilio: http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1967-Cell-Phones-SMS-Twilio-Pus...
Looking at their product, I wonder how hard and how much $$ it would cost to make your own home-build type version?

I was trying to work out why there was something that looked like an LCD screen on the upper-side of the wing and then I realized that is just a regular point-and-shoot camera.

An EyeFi card (perhaps with an antenna built into the wing) would make a relatively easy upgrade from their current setup which looks like you have to wait to retrieve the plane before you can view the images.

As the website states local laws may not allow you to run a UAV domestically - anyone know what the laws would be here in US?
"saying you've developed sufficient enough design skills after one site redesign"

He's developed sufficient enough design skills to make his site look better than plain jane HTML. He's not claiming anything more.

There's nothing wrong with developing design skills over a summer -- I can develop Python skills over a summer without claiming that I'll be correcting Guido at the end of it.

This is hardly linkbait.
toast, again, great post and thanks for sharing.
I'm at the point now where I'll never design for my projects again. I've found the talent available on odesk.com is amazing and for a negligible investment I can have an amazing site to show my work in the best light. The cost is easily justifiable as I'd rather spend the money on someone talented than waste time doing something I suck at (and have no intention of becoming better).
We've replaced a landed aristocracy with a financial aristocracy.

Modern aristocrats farm money, in the form of rents paid for access to money. Land ownership is a useful byproduct.

It's still a feudal system. In the same way medieval peasants were tied to their lord's demesne, the modern peasant class is chained inside the local capital flow network and dependent on its favours for survival.

Education will only get someone so far towards becoming a financial farmer.

The irony is that money is a fiction anyway, and socially it's just a proxy for executive power.

So when the aristocratic class decided to 'fund' a project they're simply giving it an aristocratic nod - which they only do if they believe there's an acceptable chance they can benefit from it personally.

No actual stuff flows from one person to another. There's just a temporary infusion of transferred political power and status.
Yeah it was 8 feet deep (I mentioned my height for reference).

I don't have any phobia of water. In fact, a week after the incident I signed up for more swimming lessons (8 1:1 sessions) and I believe I'm a pretty decent swimmer now.

I was actually planning to start training for the Alcatraz swim but moved out of the Bay before that could happen!
Just as an aside, hacker news, reddit and facebook/instagram are the absolute worst for adhd.
> I quickly learned not to talk about DIY on anything that wasn't toys unless I wanted to listen to people generalize from their own lack of experience and consider me reckless.

Yeah... I know exactly what you're talking about. Look for dirt under fingernails on a Monday morning, that's a good clue someone might do their own work. Or weld splatter burns on a beat up jacket. Of course, occasionally you get a dead giveaway like someone driving an 80s sports car to work that is clearly both well maintained and not quite stock...

What I couldn't wrap my head around was the sense of "proud ignorance" a lot of people seemed to have about not knowing how to do anything mechanical. It wasn't just, "I don't know how to do that, is it hard?" - it was "I don't know how to do that, and why would I bother learning when I can pay someone else to do that?"

It never made sense to me. If a vehicle is easier for me to work on, then it's going to be easier for someone else (a local shop) to work on as well. And if I know what a job requires, I can decide if it's worth paying someone else to do it. Paying someone $200 to do wheel bearings in the dead of winter? Worth the money. Paying someone $800 to replace a water pump, serpentine belt, and a few other things when I can do it in a few hours on a nice Saturday? Not so much.
> The point is, even among STEM subject, there's a taboo around computer science and programming.

I really thought this was no longer true, but it rings true to me as someone who was in school in the 1980s and 1990s. Back then, being into computers was a social liability. It was way worse than being into math and science. Math and science weren't optional, and they were important for college admissions, so being good at them didn't prove you were a weirdo who actually liked that stuff. You were just taking advantage of your intelligence to succeed at something that everybody else wished they were better at, too. (Assuming, of course, you didn't cop to thinking calculus was SUPER COOL.)

Being good with computers, on the other hand, demonstrated a kind of stupidity that outweighed the intelligence it required.

To understand how it could be socially negative to do something that everybody assumed required a lot of intelligence, you could, from a narrow point of view, compare being good with computers to going to jail for beating up a police officer. Being strong and tough was a desirable attribute, just like intelligence was, but that particular way of proving it was way worse than not being strong at all. It showed a different kind of weakness that cemented your identity as a loser, somebody that a "good" person was better off not knowing. Even if it made you seem mysterious and fearful, at the same time, it made you "less than" and socially irrelevant.

I thought this was changing in the 21st century. When I look at people under 35 in the industry, I don't see signs of having grown up under that social stigma. I might be missing it because of other generational differences, though. I'm curious what others think.

> Perhaps better than saying "programming is hard," or "programming is easy," we say "programming is worth it" and leave it there.

Maybe "programming is necessary" or "programming is ubiquitous?" Maybe the best way to remove the stigma is to convince kids that people who struggle with programming will wish they were better at it, rather than being able to dodge it entirely. Let's turn it into something that everybody wishes they were a little bit better at, so they don't automatically look down on people who succeed with it.
I don't think it's funny either. I am a black person, and plenty of white people have been traumatized by their experiences (or lack of experiences) with black people. It's also not "immoral" to be afraid of anything, it is uncontrollable.

Don't avoid a direct, clear question by painting it as non-serious.
Pandemic is the only thing preventing organized lunch with coworkers. Nothing about wfh prevents it - just agree on a place and time.

Internet is a problem, but a solvable one - assuming you are in the US, we need competition for ISPs. I had ATT fiber for a while and it was for all practical purposes as good as office (symmetric gigabit).

Cycling has been covered :)

Separation - door closed to the space I work in works great for me. When I didn’t have that, putting everything away and leaving the work space for a few hours did the trick - it’s all in mental discipline.
The main reason I hope WFH is here to stay, is because there's no tech hubs left that are livable for families.

Austin and Denver use to qualify. But an out of control real estate market, basically makes it impossible to buy a home there. Every listing gets 20 all cash, no contingency offers for hundreds of thousands over list price.

Unless we embrace full remote work, the only people who will be able to work in the tech industry are either those who bought property in a tech hub before 2020. Or the young and single who are unencumbered and willing to live in small expensive apartments.

Insisting that engineers live in the Bay Area or Seattle or NYC or Austin will essentially lock out a huge pool of talent. Blame America's dysfunctional housing market and NIMBY culture. Tech generates a ton of wealth, but essentially all that wealth gets slurped up by land owners in tech hubs. The only solution to break the cycle is industry wide embrace of full remote work.
Hey hobbies are great. Everyone needs hobbies.

I don't live with my parents so I can post on hacker news.
Trust issues. While 80% of employees could be more productive remote, 18% could have serious issues with productivity and 2% might actually turn nefarious while remote (steal company IPR or something like that). Or I would imagine thats what the fear is.
Even if they are just faux-trustworthy, that certainly limits their room for maneuver. Facebook basically says "so what" and issues a non-apology later. DDG's whole reason to exist is predicated on their behavior.
Oh, wow. I can confirm that said "feature" is still live. People's names and profile pictures show up after entering their email address in the login form shrug
As with many algorithms, coin flips might have been better.
https://oig.justice.gov/

This is basically internal affairs for the FBI. Report here. Personally, I would make a report here no matter what, just to start a paper-trail of them harassing you.
Unity is just fine. 1000s of shipping successful games. The latest hit game made in Unity is Valheim.

I don't choose games based on their engine I choose them based on if they are fun. Same as I don't choose movies based on what camera was used to shoot them or what software was used to render the CGI scenes.
It’s interesting you use the word “casino”.

She wasn’t gambling in a casino. She was gambling in what is essentially a pub that has a large room filled with pokie machines.

This is common across Australia, pubs have dedicated rooms (so called vip rooms) filled with pokie machines as they bring in a lot of money for the owners. Pubs are ripping out dining/general social space and putting in Pokie rooms.

It’s cultural to go have a pint and a bet.

She’s absolutely responsible for stealing but Australia’s obsession with Pokie machines and amount of Pokie machines is also problematic encouraging problem gambling. Pokie machines provide no benefit to anyone except the owners.

Not being Australian born the gambling commercials on tv was also eye opening.
This? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15506954
> So your view is that the long run is a few decades? :)

I suspect that there's almost nothing going on at the Ford Motor Company that has even the remotest connection to anything technical that happened during the early years of the company's founding.

Sometimes, stuff just really does age out.
And yet, someone did guess “when.”
If everyone is doing SEO , wondering what and how is the best method to do stay on top of this method. Any idea?
If you’ve seen the NSFW video of the protestor getting shot in the neck while in the Capitol building, you would have noticed someone next to her holding a semi-auto rifle (AR-15, my best guess).
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

Moving to a different walled garden is not a solution.
I am sorry for the unclear question. I was curious about the bull case/potential upside for ShapeShift equity. Specifically, what makes you believe (if you do):
1) ShapeShift will succeed as a business long term
2) ShapeShift will capture value as a business

Broadly, where do you see the company in 5-10 years :) What makes you bullish about it!
There were gatekeepers before, who generally acted responsibly.

Now that anyone can publish anything, and make it appear reasonably professional, there's much more competition for everyone's attention.

And the media outlets who cater to specific biases, and are outspoken and over-the-top, seem to win the attention.