jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Historically I'm not a guy who likes "fancy" note-taking or TODO-tracking tools. I tend to prefer things like vi or TextMate. That said, I played with WorkFlowy last night and I really liked it. I think it provides a very useful kind of tool experience. Scratchs a useful itch. I was surprised. The only thing that I don't like is I'm uncomfortable with it being a webapp hosted by some company. I'd much much much prefer it if I could run a native app version of WorkFlowy, with my data stored in a file on my own computer. And if it's stored in a file(s) that I control, then I could, say, use something like DropBox or git or rsynch or TimeMachine or TrueCrypt or whatever to make sure that data is shared or backed up or encrypted exactly how I want or need. Right now if the WF company goes away or I have no connectivity, I can't access my data. (I'm aware of their "copy-and-paste out" feature but that doesn't address this particular problem, and is hacky and will be prone to having out-of-date data stored in your backup cache. And it's too manual.) This is my only negative with it so far. Otherwise, I think the UI is great and I think it's really useful for certain cases. Possibly a killer app for those use cases. Turn this into a native app for Mac with all my data stored locally wherever I wish, with no connectivity requirements, and you can put me down for a purchase. Great work!

I also want to throw a shout out to Notational Velocity. First time I've heard of it was in this discussion thread. Just played with it now. Also like it. Nice use cases supported. I can see this really being useful. It's a different beast than WorkFlowy so I don't think they compete, they are complementary or orthogonal tools, at best. I could see using both. Couple advantages I see with NV are (1) native app, (2) open source, and (3) it stores your data locally where you control it and own it. NV does not have the cool collapsible hierarchical bullet point UI mechanism that WorkFlowy has, however, so again they don't really compete directly or scratch the same itch. The 100%-keyboard-drivability aspect is awesome and very useful. I wish I could control the font size, the default is uncomfortably small.

Anyway, glad I discovered this thread, and I'll be adding both of these tools to my toolbox going forward. Kudos to the folks behind both.
The difference between Reddit and HN though is that a well-reasoned "corporations suck" comment will not get downvoted, while on Reddit a well-reasoned "unions suck" comment will get downvoted.

Reddit has bouts of reasonableness, but I've never found a subreddit that is free of the mob.

Except /r/dwarffortress.
I am appalled, disgusted, I will read 30 articles and write 5 blog posts about this obvious that.

Oohh, wait, you're saying... Ukraine, who's Ukraine?
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Its Occam's razor -- if a house party full of underage drinkers just got busted, and a drunk 20 yo is hiding on your porch, do you personally think this is a flight or fight situation? Think this guy had a bit of an itchy trigger finger? Honest question.
He did, he released info that could, COULD, have lead to other informants directly. You have no idea rather or not anyone actually came to harm, neither do I, but the possibility is plain because of his actions and irresponsibility. If I drive drunk I'm arrested because I MIGHT harm someone with my irresponsibility. No different here, he released info that could lead directly to other intelligence agents, that puts them directly into harms way.
We sorta-kinda translate or mangle some names, don't we? I've often wondered why the English name for "München" is "Munich"... it's not even that close and doesn't mean anything in English.
Practice a lot, as much as you and your friends can bear. Review the videos between practices.
Apparently this is post is being heavily flagged. For what reason I cannot fathom.
I stand corrected!

And I just looked back over my Alice orders from a few years ago. They do indeed include tax charges! Bummer.
I'd say it's your tacit responsibility, simply because of your concern, to build tools to resist the outcome you're worried about.

It's imaginable that we will live in a future with good encryption and privacy controls.
I suppose some day I'll have to start writing my HTML to be read by machines, rather than humans. Right now I treat it like code: proper indentation, helpful comments, and the occasional hidden message for the reader.
It's about control. With email, I can't control what I receive. If I want to unsubscribe from your newsletter, I'm at the mercy of your site. That sucks. If you want to send me an email because you came up with a message just for me, wonderful! If you want me to ready your form letter that you send to 100,000 people and that I didn't really ask for, fuck you and fuck your conversion rate. Sending me email is a gift; treat it that way.

What's interesting is that newsletters would be better-implemented as RSS/Atom feeds... but nobody ever does that. Why? Because nobody would actually subscribe. Makes you wonder, doesn't it.

(Again, I'm not saying that spam is ineffective, it is effective. But then again, coming up to me and hitting me on the head and taking my wallet would probably get you the money in my wallet faster than creating a business would.)
However from an educational standpoint Pascal has a great advantage over BASIC. It was invented after people came up with structured programming, and is designed to make structured programming easy and natural.

This is a pretty significant advantage to me. (Though these days I wouldn't choose either.)
Java. Lower level language, performant cpu-bound multithreading, deep object orientation, platform independent runnables, lots of libraries, Android. Java has numerous downsides too, of course, but I'd definitely suggest to consider it as a very useful secondary language.
I think it's a failure to make sure that the product that they sold was legit. They are such a powerful site that products should be throughly investigated before they go up.

That said it is nice and neat what they did...
Google can't exist outside of the power company. Does that mean the power company is bigger than Google?
OTOH, you don't have to teach them everything from the beginning. Even if the language is smart and feature-rich, you can always pick and choose.

And when the bright kids explore it and discover the cool features all by themselves, imagine the thrill.
That's all well and good for unsolicited email, but for those of us who have lists of people who have signed up to receive email from us, this sort of thing is terribly relevant.

And if you're selling things online and aren't creating these lists, you're leaving a bunch of money on the table.
None. I don't care what people say or how they say it because we're all different.

However, since it just came to mind, on StackOverflow.com, I despise when someone pops in and says "read the documentation" then provides a link. As if I hadn't already read it a thousand times and ended up at Stack because I was stuck.

Whoa. Way off topic.
Thanks! So it would appear that my hunch was right, only the first comments are used for avg, after that it never changes again:

"So it takes your comments numbered 6-50, throws out the highest-scoring one, and averages them."
Thanks for the tip, fixed: http://sitekite.com/no-more-xss-for-me-vSlYWg
I especially enjoyed the following paragraph from the paper:

"It should be noted, while the subject of this paper is silly, the analysis actually does make sense. This paper, then, is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics"
hard science, art, and entertainment?
It's not just colour acting as an equaliser, but people being unable to distinguish when you take yolk colour out of the equation entirely.

From the linked thread:

> "blindfolded tasters couldn’t really tell the difference between fresh pastures backyard eggs and 2-week old supermarket eggs"
Not all humans suck, obviously.

I think the solution to demand problems is better options. Tiger poaching to sell their balls as boner pills went away with viagra. Viagra worked better than fake animal snake oils.

Domestic robots will solve the human trafficking for domestic slaves as robots will be cheaper and better.

I think there’s also social progress as neither I, nor anyone I know has human trafficked to get a butler or whatnot, but 100 years ago that probably wouldn’t have been true.
One single EEG (not even an MRI) of one guy before he died.

This is very weak evidence, bordering on anecdote, from which we can't generalize to anyone else.

Even for this one guy, the EEG patterns "suggest memory recall". We don't know what was actually going on in his mind. Maybe he was remembering something. Maybe. Maybe it was of a grocery list. We have no idea.

Even if it was a memory of his entire life -- a big stretch, given the very, very weak evidence -- it could have happened purely by chance.. that he happened to be remembering something, and that happened to be a memory of his life.

It doesn't mean that that happens to everyone else.

This whole article is very low content, and the "evidence" for what it claims is very poor.
> "Can you articulate a single, _specific_ current business problem that would be solved by NFTs and _wouldn't_ require appeals or validation from a non-blockchain source like judge or insurance adjustor?" Do you have one?

Here is a business that is using something called ENS (Which the names are NFTs). [0] [1]. ENS is used for translating human readable names to addresses and allows users to send, sign, verify and reference anything without using a third party service for that.

Now an answer to my question. Since it seems you're also replying for the other person:

>> So according to both of you, that means with 100% certainty it is going to completely go away after this crash; guaranteed?

[0] https://skiff.org

[1] https://skiff.org/blog/skiff-x-ethereum-naming
From a quick internet stalking, it looks like he got married a year ago so he's likely doing fine personally.

I too think the rust community lost a lot when he decided to leave.
Lengthy indeed but thank you for making it.

Gene expression, signaling proteins, and protein synthesis or epigenetics in general are excellent examples both of the duality but some circumstances where the distinction gets fuzzier, particularly depending on the context and perspective you take.

I had not heard of GPCR heteromerization and will be reading more. I ended up going down the complexity and theory path more heavily and assigning my brain into business software so my knowledge of the concrete mechanisms is shallower than I'd like.

I definitely enjoyed thinking about about where to more specifically pin the difference in this context so thank you for being gracious with my making that attempt to offer a formulation. I think there's another interesting question to ask whether the duality divide matters but perhaps another day.

Thank you for the conversation.
Sure if you like to do stuff by hand, I rather use visual design tooling (think Qt Designer, Microsoft Blend) and have bigger fish to fry in distributed network calls than who is owning what, instead of using Akka, Orleans or Erlang.
That's highly unlikely and not the way one deals, with this kind of thing. The responsible thing to do in that case is to shutdown your operation, just what lavabit did back in 2013.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit#Suspension_and_gag_ord...
Yes I understand that argument. I am part of a "protected class" in the US. I'm glad 8kun is gone. Not afraid to admit that I did browse certain 8kun boards for fun too. Anyway, you should at least be conflicted over the scenario where we need to pick the lesser of two evils. That is to say, the direction the web is headed is still very bad.
Why would you do this?! Please tell me this is some form of elaborate trolling?
>The chance that an American programmer will work on software harmful to humanity is quite small. The chance that a North Korean programmer will do so is massive.

Spoken like a true patriot.

In actual life, most of the world hates the US interventions (too numerous to mention, including toppling legitimate leaders and installing friendly to the US dictators) and invasions (from Phillipines back in the day, to Korea and Vietnam and on to Bush's wars).

Besides South Korea, and if that, nobody has much to fear from North Korea, an insignificant provincial state that 99% of the time deals with its own issues.

Compare that to a hypocritical world "cop", dealing BS "democracy" all around the globe (e.g. mostly ruining previously stable countries to get rid of dictators it doesn't like, while doing business with or helping install dictators it does like elsewhere) to serve its interests.
"currency": "$"

That's quite ambiguous. A lot of countries use dollars. Why not use the ISO currency code standard[1]? Bonus feature - you could ask for payment in XAU (gold).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217
Ironically new standard wider monitor screen ratios make you see nothing before scrolling, I guess we need to "above the fold" concept for web dev.
Not only am I not a lawyer, I also don't know/remember many of the details of this case. And I said likely, not definitely, guilty in my opinion.

Regarding mens rea, I imagine it's tougher to argue that you thought you were legal technically than to argue you had no idea you might be breaking the law? E.g. Someone who has never heard of magic mushrooms but find then growing and sells them has a better chance of not being convicted for selling illegal drugs than someone who knows and had researched the laws and thinks they have a technicality to allow them to sell? Of course that's assuming they were wrong about the technicality.
If this is the same issue I've been having, the seed prices starts gobbling up gigabytes of ram, and thats cause similar issues for me.
The Mongol invasion, although destructive for probably all civilizations of the time, had definitively a positive effect to the survival of eastern romance culture. In the dark ages the amount of migrating population was so great that for quite some time they outnumbered the descendants of the former Roman Empire around Carpathians and Balkans. The dominance of the vulgar-Latin speaking population suffered serious setbacks and were being confined to smaller and smaller less accessible areas like mountainous regions. The west-most areas of the Mongol raids were around Carpathian Mountains up to Pannonian Basin and were they went through, they basically cleaned the densely-populated lowland of the most of its inhabitants. Its a known fact that the Mongol incursions were disastrous for Hungarians, Poles, Russians, and other populations that were in the region at the time, but on the other hand they were vital for romance population. Of course, the romance population suffered from those raids too, along with other cohabitant populations, but after that, that mountain-descending romance population become dominant again. Have not Mongols come, the fate of the eastern romance population around Carpathians would have been the same as the one of the former eastern romance populations south of Danube - for a while they probably would have managed to manifest some cultural and even political power (like the Vlach-Bulgar Empire of Asănești), but in the end they would have been assimilated completely.
I'm aware of those studies and an anti-DRM proponent, but this has all to do about how it's done nowadays and whom it profits.

It's not done with the user experience in mind, which is quite different with the dungeon master protection which allowed to play the game for a while (it was even possible to finish it with well timed saves but not see the end scene). Video games now are an industry and most come from major corporations in it for profit which means DRM are badly done, slapped on a game as an afterthought (see below why it's bad)

Besides DRM are a joke for crackers while on the other hand the dungeon master protection caused much respect from the crackers of the time:

What's the best job of a game crack (ST) you have ever seen?

Dungeon Master. It seemed to be written in some kind of interpreted language which made it very difficult to fathom. It also had protection embedded throughout the game. Good protection is like good encryption, it can never be an afterthought, you can't buy it off the shelf, it has to be part of the fabric of the game. Apparently it had a protection check after the final boss, just so you couldn't see the end sequence. Hats off to them. Hats off to Was (Not Was) for cracking it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20081121032254/http://www.dbug-au...
Being tall is a mixed privilege. It helps basketball players, but not jockeys. Both the very tall and very short have difficulties getting clothing, and some of the very tall are that way because of medical problems.

Most things are a mixed privilege. An ex-neighbor of mine, who was a good looking fitness instructor who rode a motorcycle, would also be harassed when she was on her bike, solely for being herself. Friends of mine who are moderately rich say they have difficulties because a lot of people associate with them in the hopes of getting access to that money. (Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8809183 to see the number of people ready to jump on $7 million.)

While there are many ways to use the language of privilege, and it can even be used as a weapon to undermine other viewpoints, it seems that your last paragraph falls strongly in the standard privilege viewpoint. That is, I suspect that most people who talk about privilege will agree that "A black child born into a well educated and wealthy family is far more privileged than a white child born to a poor, uneducated and abusive family" is something which falls into the privilege framework, even if some may disagree with its validity or object to a real-world usefulness of a partial ordering which combines multiple privileges.

I'm therefore confused about how that's an example of how privilege commentary is 'really unhelpful'.
I can't imagine how homeless people here in Canada survive -25C or lower temperatures, combined with wind it could feel like -50C.
The answers you get here will be posted in the best of intention by the people here, but i can't help but point this out — Whatever they post will to some extent be affected by their identity (which is unique to everybody). Most will ask you to invest it in startups, some will probably even ask you to save, and whatnot.

The thing about money is, when you don't have it, you think of all sorts of things you could do if you had money. But when you get it, you go blank. So I'd really suggest getting some professional advice from a financial planner (an expense that you can actually afford, given your financial position)

Personally, I'd buy a BMW M4 Convertible, and then think of what to do with the rest. But that's just me.
Thanks for taking the time to reply, that's quite interesting. I also wonder how this applies for countries other than America, for example in New Zealand you can't actually 'sue' someone, you can take them to court if they've performed a criminal act but I'm not sure how you'd get with content on a website.
now that would be awesome! :-D
If you really have to, you can use a static salt -- this is no reason not to use a designed-to-be-expensive hash function.
I absolutely agree with you - that's the same society that I want to live in. The notion of 'rights' won't get us that society though. The only way to get there is to elect governments that understand what we want, respect what we want, pass laws to make what we want happen, and ultimately realise that those laws also apply to what the government itself does.

While people believe that they have privacy by virtue of something outside of the law and government, they're never actually going to have privacy.
>Saying that is disrespectful to the culture she is coming from.

I'm getting the feeling that the culture she comes from is causing her to fear for her life because of disobedience. She may deserve respect herself, but her culture certainly doesn't.
I love this because it works on getting kids into the wonder and power of coding before they hit the CS meat grinder later on. Falling in love with it and getting some experience before they hit more rigorous learning down the road. It will help a lot of other CS & engineer majors in their first year. I hope that made any sense.
Charlie Stross on the topic:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/02/rule-34-...

'For starters, it turns out that 3-11% of Yahoo! webcam traffic involves "undesirable nudity"'

"I am still trying to get my head around the implications that the British government's equivalent of the NSA probably holds the world's largest collection of pornographic videos, that the stash is probably contaminated with seriously illegal material, and their own personnel can in principle be charged and convicted of a strict liability offence if they try to do their job. "
What the hell is going on in this world? When did everybody loss their minds? How can you even start to ponder if it might be a good idea to record web chats from random internet users, even less actually do it? Mankind, I am disgusted. Seriously disgusted.
That's not what he says:

Unlike BlackBerry, which allows iPhone users to download and
use our BBM service, Apple does not allow BlackBerry or
Android users to download Apple’s iMessage messaging
service. Netflix, which has forcefully advocated for carrier
neutrality, has discriminated against BlackBerry customers
by refusing to make its streaming movie service available
to them.
I like your library/application distinction.

For applications I'm not sure open/closed makes as much sense - http://codeofrob.com/entries/my-relationship-with-solid---th...
WhatsApp only supporting Google Chrome for their web client is silly. Should they be allowed to look silly? Yes.
It was fun to put together, since the old Times Online website lost a few episodes and I had to scrounge them up where I could. I couldn't find episode 54A for months, and in the end, one guy just emailed it to me.
That is exciting to hear, but it seems like it is ways away unfortunately. Thanks for the link.
I can't believe no one has mentioned payment gateways yet. First example that came to mind for me.
Marco has now updated his system with automatic S3 backup: http://www.marco.org/1630412230
If the students consider this material useful to study, it's unethical for a professor to deny them access to it. Making the knowledge harder to acquire is precisely the opposite of his job. Especially when the only reason is that the professor wants to be excused from doing the other part of his job by simply recycling an old test.
Blocking the display of images client side that contain large amounts of uncovered flesh isn't going to do shit to prevent the accidental access of child pornography.

And seriously, how often does that actually happen? This is just another 'think of the children' argument designed to disable critical thinking.

And as for your first (uncited) assertion, consider the following: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/30/unsafe_surfing/ Summarized: regular websites host more malware than sites dedicated to pornography.