jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I think a handful of ideologues have arbitrarily assigned those symbols negative meanings.

What's more likely, a "handful of ideologues" assigning these symbols, or the combined history of disempowerment of women throughout history assigning the symbols, which only started being disassembled this past century?

> There's nothing bad about girls playing with girly toys

You misunderstood what I wrote. I wholeheartedly agree there is nothing wrong with it at all. But embracing those aesthetic tendencies (which have nothing to do with being a mom) comes with a cost to the individual in society, not the least of which are being slotted as intellectually inferior. You'd have to purposely ignore the historical cultural signaling to deny it.

> It's also illogical - princesses having power over most men.

This is wholly irrelevant to the discussion, since we are talking about figurative princesses, not literal princesses who are daughters of aristocrats.
Where are you getting this bizarre assumption that the average Republican commentator would side with Intuit here?
I've talked to a past Wayfair employee -- not surprised. I understand that place is THE WORST.
[author here] Unfortunately no - we had many thousands of customers, most of whom had no control over their machines (low level employees at ad agencies). As a company, Facebook has no control over what browsers their customers use. The product would simply have broken overnight
The price volatility is way more expensive than transaction cost, if you have billions of dollars.
I'd posit that people with low-incomes are similarly complex—perhaps less-so, but enough. Are they married, how many children do they have, etc.
The charges levied against him are from the DA’s office. Bit of a stretch to imagine his employer personally reaching out to the DA to try to get cause for dismissal.
I think I remember a setting in Finder's view options waaay back in System 7 that you could check to calculate folder sizes in list view. I usually left it off because it slowed down my (68k) Macintosh, but it was great if you had a screamin' fast PowerPC!
Hot code reloading is nice to have, but incremental compilation is essential. Your compiler has forsaken you if you have to wait 30 minutes for changes to compile.
For double sided tapes:

3M VHB tape (nothing can beat these but don't use them for delicate electronics like USB hubs, sometimes too hard to take them off)

3M Scotch foam tape but only if you use 2 layers, otherwise they fall off (okay for delicate stuff)

These saved me tearing up my wall so many times.
What? So should this be applied the "enterprising" drug dealers and people who break into homes? Someone stole me laptop out of my bag in a restaurant, should he receive some sort of award? Maybe a medal?

But you're right, they probably don't have any other skills. The prison they're sent too should probably have some high school classes.
Hey RiderOfGiraffes, it's not much and I'm not really impressed by it, but my biggest "accomplishment" gained media attention. I believe it was irresponsible. I've grown past it and have decided to put my strive in finding vulnerabilities and coding scripts to replicate certain methods to something more productive. What was less recognized, yet what I put the most work into was a complete remake of Twitter with extra features such as the ability to snap an image from a webcam, including recording a video straight from the browser as Youtube has now.

After the attention, I took down everything. Slowly backed away from the scene for a little while, my mistake. It's been a hard time trying to find way to do something I want without the money or support.

I have ideas where I wanted to create a profiling website, called Whothey.be, where a community of members input information for other members or people. With no way of supporting the hosting and what not, I've never been able to try and create such a thing.

Also a website I had up since around last Nov. till March, called MyTrueColor. It was focused around members posting anonymously or public revealing their secrets.

I have many other ideas, but I either I have no means of supporting it or I'm just not really hopeful about it.
> The only country which has managed to avoid this situation is Norway.

And perhaps Britain? But that was before any country had any industrial sector at all, and the Britons used their coal and iron ore to start the original industrial revolution.
I clearly misunderstood the parent. Apologies. It seems obvious now. Thanks for your answer.
Diet coke is almost or just as acidic as regular coke. It will erode your teeth. Unfortunately, definitely not something you can drink all day without any real side-effects.
>I don't think people are scammers because their career choices are limited. My evidence is mostly anecdotal, but these scammers (when they are successful) do not typically exhibit behavior consistent with people trying to build long term financial security.

The aim is not necessarily to convert everyone but to show the younger ones who have not started scamming that there is an alternative. As it is now, quite a number of people do not believe that young people can make quite a lot of sustainable income online going legit. It would be difficult to make those that do not live where there are role models to understand how it is when you do not have one. Just appreciate that you have the stories that come from the valley to motivate you.
Nigerians are not inherently bad, most of them just want to make money and be successful. If they see alternatives, they will try them. I just hope I can show them that of they put half the effort they put in scamming (believe me it is quite a lot)into creating a startup, the outcome will be much better.
My thoughts exactly. But then again, there was a time when I didn't know what IRC was and thought mIRC was a telnet client.
This page works great on my N900 :)
Yes it was kindof slow
Pretty cool ... how about some mobile safari accelerometer support?

https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/Sa...
Psycho to start with - this behavior is just par for the course for her.
Not to sound like an elitist snobb, but "How do I open a terminal?" was probably the last question I was expecting from someone trying to install Arc/HN.
I'm having the same experience right away. In particular I hate seeing lots of posts in the news feed that come from pages I don't like, but as some of my friend comment and like them they just appear in the feed. In these days here in Italy there's a very high level of stupid and uninformed discussions on politics, a lot of people post things that make me sick and they appear in my news feed (just take a look at this, to understand the level of discussion.. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11354...)
So I decided to stop checking FB very often
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Paul - predictions like yours appear regularly - each time it is something else that would Â‘kill MicrosoftÂ’: pen-computing and OS/2 Warp in the early 90s, Netscape in the mid-90s, Client-Server and the network computer from Sun and Oracle in the late 90s, Linux and open-source in the early 2000s, and now Google and Apple. Clearly Microsoft has lots of challenges ahead but I suspect they have many smart people working to tackle them. ItÂ’s far from Â‘game-overÂ’, just like it was 17 years ago when there were far fewer Microsoft users on this planet..
I don't think Basecamp is a particularly good way to manage agile software development projects, or really software development projects of any kind, and especially not software development projects that have multiple cooperating team members.

Like the commenter downthread said, you want Pivotal Tracker, not Basecamp.
And I absolutely agree with you - it's the subjectivity in their choice of whether or not something actually violates their policies which gives me pause. If you can't figure out in good faith if you're actually complying with their rules or not then that's a problem for developers, myself and Pete included.
Good summary. It is unique and novel - indeed, as one 'Lifer' said, it is in a category of its own. But I was a little disappointed insofar as it is not quite self-contained or self-replicating yet. By the latter I mean spinning off an independent copy of itself which in turn reproduces, etc.

Incidentally, does anyone happen to know of any '3d life' platforms, rather than the basic Cartesian variety?
In the US, when an oil company screws up, they are liable for billions of dollars and then end up on the hot seat in front of the US Congress. But, much of the oil we use in the US comes from places where there is little if any regulation and oversight. You could just as easily exchange Nigeria with Ecuador, Peru or Indonesia. It's a little frustrating how our concern for the environment sometimes seems to end at the US border.
It did not make sense back then, it does not make sense now. Even the traditional for loop is superior to iterators.
I think my issue is that I totally agree that fine-grained project management is evil, meetings suck, I read the books, listen to podcasts, drink the kool-aid, etc.

But, Basecamp is a project management tool. It allows you to track tasks (and due-dates), and milestones. I don't care about task dependancies, or gannt charts.

I do care about agile development. I do need to see the status of my project in an aggregate way (are we close yet?)
Even understanding that estimates are wild guesses, task-level timeboxing is better than working backwards from dates. I can't image the due-date feature working well except for in some very narrow circumstances.

I guess overall if my definition is "project management" is different, then wouldn't they want their product to work to handle users like me? Or not, and that's okay. I'm just saying that I'm cut out of the niche of users they are looking for, whether it be intentional or not.
It's not that we think they are meaner, it's that we think they can't handle anybody being mean to them. I'm beginning to believe the biggest crisis in America is middle school administrators (ok, maybe a touch of hyperbole...).
Huh, I was randomly looking through the things I left as bookmarks in http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=tilly and thought this might be of interest. When no dupe showed up I didn't realize it had been posted.
Yes, speed matters. This is just anecdotal evidence, so feel free to dismiss it:

We recently switched hosting companies and our site load speed went from an average of 10 seconds to the new server speed of just under 1 second.

Our monthly revenue instantly doubled. People stayed on our site longer, they learned more about our products, and thus were more willing to shell over their hard earned cash.
> The 'A shorts to B who shorts to C' type arrangement is unlikely in the extreme. Would B keep paying A for the borrow (and have the collateral tied up) if they have passed the stock to C? Nope, they'd return it...

I think you might've misunderstood the explanation. In Matt Levine's example, A lends to C, who sells to D, who lends to E, who sells to F. B can't just return the shares to A because they've sold them, and they aren't just going buy them back because the whole point is that they want to be short.
I sometimes wonder where the hell most HNers work where 9am is not considered late start. At a warehouse I worked at the shift was 6am to 2pm. And it was great that way as you avoided most of the summer heat. The software company where I work now, 8am is standard, that way you're nicely done at 4pm and have the entire evening to yourself. My wife is also a programmer and usually starts at 7:30am because that's their first scrum.
I’m leaning towards using Ubuntu/systemd to start all my services, and using a single container per project with SQLite.

This way:

- I can easily move from dev to prod by using the private container registry

- I have apt-get on the server and just use the default Ubuntu

- No distributed/network state

I used to use Core OS, but all these container OSes are here today and gone tomorrow, and normally have their own config standard. At least with Ubuntu they have LTS and a bunch of Google pages for fixing stuff.
Definitely! We're bringing whiteboard pretty soon !
It's been updated. The inauguration was in March until 1937.
Speaking as a relatively conservative person, I would love "The Party" to tell Trump to stuff it, as I would have for the past 4 years. The reality is, if you allow me to make a comparison, in the UK they had a similar situation in the Labor party with a leader chosen by the membership that was hated by "The Party". "The Party" went and told the leader to stuff it and eventually got rid of him. In the meantime they're on year 10 or 11 of continuous Tory rule, with at least another 3 ahead.

It's really nice for left wing types to talk about Republicans doing the right thing and going to all out war with Trump for the health of the democracy, I want him gone too. But the Realpolitik for Republicans on that one is a bunch of self sacrifice while the Democrats enjoy their endless summer. I don't really blame them for taking the path they did, even though I abjectly hate it.
Fascism calls out the problem but has the wrong solutions. It's tied to race, nationalism, authoritarianism, and other tribal aspects that are easy for some to grab onto but really do not have any place being part of the solution.

If you talk to anyone defending the anti-democractic occupation of the nation's capital today, you'll see that their response is typically is pro-fascist in this regard.

Even this morning, they quoted Adolf Hitler at the capital:

https://twitter.com/always_margot/status/1346578062700400647
I agree we should take them seriously for what they are: a group of agitators that aren't going to actually effect any change. No amount of protest or agitation among these groups is going to alter the outcome of the 2020 election. The main harm they're doing is to the reputation of the Republican party itself. The notion that there is any possibility of overturning the election is counterfactual. Legitimate avenues of disputing the election have been explored and exhausted. Biden is already working with a transition team. All important institutions like the military, judiciary, and others recognize Biden as the 46th President.

I agree, we need to take these events seriously. And the ones talking about a coup aren't taking them seriously. The staggeringly high rate of belief in a fraudulent election, and agitators like the ones we're seeing today are very serious indicators in their own right. Resorting to embellishment and hyperbole ultimately diminishes is not being serious.
Since this discussion is all about patents: my 2 cents on improving the patent system.

Consider a term project of an undergraduate CS course, where the goal is spelled out, but the method is left for discovery.

Methods developed within any such project immediately invalidate patents. They're apparently obvious to folks learning to become "skilled in the art".

Yes, in practice, reaching a legal threshold would be hard (are you sure the students didn't read the patent or any description directly resulting from it?). But I'd definitely run a "patent invalidation course" - if I had confidence that the results would actually affect patents.
When you're not responsible for balancing the budget, of course you're going vote for more spending and less taxes. The public at large has a lack of direct accountability, so of course direct democracy is going to cause problems when applied to budgets.
Come on people, do some research:

This is because Paul Simon is what is typical of an artist of his age:

He is handled ex-US (International) by Universal Music
Domestically, as of last year he is Sony Music

Worldwide until last year, he was represented by Warner Bros Records (WEA Distribution).

What you are seeing is called "greed" on the part of all parties involved (Simon and management included).

Another band that operates this way? Metallica: Warners in US, Universal ex-US. Although the band made sure they were universally released on the last record (Death Magnetic).
According to his post to the list, Mr. Yegge is responsible for the attitude transplant that the Python community has experienced. It's amazing what he can accomplish from his desk, dashing off memos to language communities. Jack Welch wishes he had that kind of power as CEO of GE.

The most puzzling thing he says is that Clojure's language adoption efforts have been a failure because Clojure is over three years old and hasn't broken the top ten in some pointless programming language survey.

How long did it take Python to get there? I'm guessing at least a decade. And does it even matter?
Centralized Web 2.0 services tend to be based in the US since it's a large market, and then they end up applying US law to all their users regardless of location. Think of it as cultural imperialism 2.0. The real solution IMO is to decentralize.
It is not using SNI so it should work fine on IE7 and others.
If data can be $0.09/GB in India, why does it cost so much more here in the USA?
> It seems companies would rather games today be disposable and incompatible tomorrow so you can either buy the sequel or re-buy the game again on the next platform.

It's not like back then companies were any different.
Turbo Pascal 7 was my intro to programming and it was such a great learning environment
0.02% world’s population, with 5-10% infected. Without a vaccine it would be 0.2-1%.
If they're using fraudulent payment sources (stolen credit cards) it may be harder for them to use them on Amazon versus somewhere else.
Right, how many times are we going to see this same story recycled?
In the UK, anyone arrested (not convicted) on suspicion of many criminal offences has their DNA collected. I believe that more than 3 million people have their DNA in the police database, which is about 5% of the entire population.

The article says that China intends to get the DNA of 10% of its male population, which is about 5% of its entire population, so actually about the same as what exists to day in the UK.

The difference, and actually interesting aspect, is that, according to the article, China intends to do that "pro-actively" and in a way that would allow them to link its entire make population. Does that mean that they have an algorithm to decide who to collect DNA from to reach that goal or are they doing at at random?
My 14 yr old listens to music on youtube about 3 hours a day while doing homework (yes, he has 3 hours of homework, but that's another question).

Very occasionally he'll listen to the music I have on my home server.

Never any of the other free services.

So, I'd agree with the GP, but the demo is much younger than 15-30.
"...print some flyers for a bake sale."

Hey, defeating traffic analysis isn't complex, it just takes a lot of work.
How is this different from Israel or China? Genuine question.
Drive has plans up to 30TB, so it would be disappointing if 10-20TB counted as unusual w.r.t 'unlimited' plan.
That is one reason, the other is being easy and fast to process with tools.
Doesn't every well financed institution do similar things? I thought that was the substance of public relations: getting your side of the story out there. It even happens on a small scale e.g. Yelp reviews.
warez

edit: why downvotes? OP asked what person would be suspicious of, the answer (right or wrong) is piracy.
I argue that startups are probably not best way to commercialize this kind of scientific research. Our world of startups is more a gold rush with VCs taking a lions share of the resources.

There is an inherent moral flaw in having exclusive licensing over life saving technology.
You're trying to excuse the obfuscation and confusion that the signs create by the fact that the restrictions are motivated by a few different needs. But the government exists to serve the people. If the city wants to collect citations, it needs to make the signs understandable.

I also don't buy your cost argument. In all my life, looking at thousands of city blocks where I live, I've never seen parking rules change unless the street is being torn up and rebuilt and all the signs are being changed anyway.
You're right about the boilerplate. I use a wrapper around React.createClass to take care of that. Kinda similar to Marty.createStateMixin, but it's just a component factory.

The Chrome plugin looks very nice, but you can do the same thing with console.log() outputs in your store. It's a nice to have, but not filling a need for me.
Differential treatment of foreigners is hardly a unique US phenomena. And don't interpret that as my support for any particular US border control or security policy.
Be more specific. There were 250,000 cables and it was several years ago, I don't remember any about us torturing people or about extraordinary rendition, but I'm happy to be corrected. I certainly don't remember any big smoking gun.

Information about Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was revealed in 2004 by the Department of Defense itself pursuant to its own investigation. Information about waterboarding (which as far as I am concerned is illegal torture) was widely available and the subject of intense public discussion in 2007, before Manning even joined the army.
Here's the paper behind that:

http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/3/034004/article

Lest the logarithmic scale confuse anyone, the concentrations over most of the ocean are tiny. The scale has a 5 order-of-magnitude range.

As a reference point, Cs-137 background from atmospheric testing is a median 3 Bq/m^3 [1] in the Pacific. (Total weapons fallout was 25 MCi = 925 PBq of Cs-137 [2], about 30x Fukushima's 36 PBq [3]). Both are dwarfed by natural radioactivity, which includes 11 kBq/m^3 of K-40 [4].

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15245845

[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=JLFX6EMPqBkC&pg=PA34

[3] http://www.pnas.org/content/109/16/5984.full

[4] http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/natural.htm
It depends what era you're talking about, but the period leading up to WWI the UK was pretty dominant. Neither the Spanish or Portuguese challenged them during that period.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Britannica
Exactly this. Looking at South Korea every citizen got 2 facial masks per week. That's how it should be done - they are only effective if everyone wears them.