jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Government IT contracts are much less insidious than it seems.

The reason you have the same companies has very little to do with "insider" status and much more to do with the fact that these companies have made it their business to be able to operate in the federal environment.

Bureaucracy, far from being a conscious, malevolent tool, is simply the accumulated barriers and obstacles erected over time for every instance there was an anomaly or problem. Accountability was demanded, and new guidelines put in place. These stack up over time, long after the original incidence has ceased to be a major issue. Unlike the private sector where companies and organizations can simply be wiped out and start with a clean slate, government doesn't (and for various reasons, can't) do that.

There's still money to be made however, for those who are familar with the process. Simply being eligable to bid for government work means getting approved on a contract vehicle, complying with various laws on accountability and record keeping, and ticking off various checkboxes for equal representation of genders and minority groups. These regulations are removed and unfeeling of special circumstances or facts on the ground; they are the accumulated "good intentions" of laws passed that now stack up like strata.

People who know this system well are intimidated by all of this, which is why you see many government and defense retirees move on to the private sector to steer these small companies into this kind of work. They know how it works, and just knowing that is a skillset in and of itself.

It's not evil. And there's far less cronyism than one might suspect. (I'm not claiming for a moment that it doesn't happen, but somewhat surprisingly, it's minimal.) Improvements are not consciously forbidden, and making things better is not discouraged. But like an enormous traffic jam, no single person has room to do much of anything. Coordinating a number of people to try and move in a better direction can improve things a little, until they are stopped by another group who has no room to move.

It's a mistake to think of government IT as insidious. It's a problem we have built over time that we have created ourselves. To fix it will require enormous bravery to do away with volumes of regulations that, by themselves, probably did some good. And it will require tolerance of practices done in private that would never have seen the light of day, but in government, has the spotlight of oversight shining on. It will be a challenge to solve.
The "source code is the blueprint for software" analogy doesn't work because the source only tells you what the application does, not what it's supposed to do. There is no way to tell, from the source code alone, whether or not what's been built is fit for purpose. You have to have some other document. The "specification is the blueprint" analogy is saying that the specification is a high level document that sets out what the application is meant to do.

As an example, imagine you're paid $1m to assess my super awesome new database. I give you the source code and tell you "the source is the blueprint." After reading through the code you discover there's no DELETE function. Have I built a clever immutable data store, or am I just an idiot who forgot a critical function? You can't tell that from the source.
So really, this is still virtualisation - but with less overhead.
I wonder how this new information will impact future plans in sending people to Mars since it's so far away.
So? They're still part of it. If flash is being undersupplied, it should all be hard to get. That's what undersupply is.
Ok, but is that actually what Apple is doing? If the distinction is purely hypothetical, it's not relevant.
A widely cited public blog which those people have referenced seems a lot closer to the public end of the spectrum than talking to a barista, especially when you consider that the topics covered have a significant public interest. It’s not like arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin – for example, topics like gender or racial differences create a pretty legitimate area of interest when you think about how many people run or work at SV companies influenced by the people named, or use systems designed by them — the flip side to talk about eating the world is that the rest of the world is going to be watching closely.
What is a grade student?
Which is such a very good idea since they’ll often capture a significant percentage back on their taxes.
Biodiversity implies it isn't cultural.
“...and is still used—in a modified form—for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates.”
This describes it pretty much spot on. It’s the change to make it transparent and clear to end users. One of the core accusations against google and Facebook is that they have been doing this on the sly and in-transparently, as is well documented in the book surveillance capitalism by zuboff.

They have done this for decades, with google paving the way, by slowly and surely chipping away at peoples privacy. People then just give in over time, amplified by single sided terms of service that allow them to pretty much change anything at any time.

This is hopefully one of the major turning points where this kind of behaviour will no longer be tolerated. Expose privacy. Make it explicit. Let people actually decide.
> A district analysis of the program found that more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black.

I'm having a hard time trying to understand what the acceptable outcome they want is. Proportional enrollment based on race?

This possibility bothers me, since I never identified myself by race. So would I be lumped into a generic "Asian" category in their statistics based on my skin colour? Why is this the correct form of human categorization?
I personally feel HCL (or any specific thing) is a large disadvantage for any orchestration platform. Kubernetes is an API for infrastructure. This is why it uses json/yaml. It doesn't mean your configuration should use json/yaml natively.

You can easily write tools that generate json/yaml for you based on your needs. For most applications you're deploying you'll need:

1. A Deployment

2. A Service that points to that Deployment

3. An Ingress or similar

In some cases you'll want to manage persistent state on disk and you'll need a StatefulSet.

A good example of this can be seen https://youtu.be/keT8ixRS6Fk?t=1317 and https://youtu.be/muvU1DYrY0w?t=581
Don't make the mistake of thinking it's just America, the grass isn't always greener.
There are flags you can give to vmware workstation that hide it from most "detect if i am in a vm" methods. You should try them.
I doubt you’re alone, but personally I don’t blame people for their grandparents. My grandfather on one side was a British civil servant during WW2, my grandfather on the other side was a British soldier in WW1, whereas I moved from the UK to Berlin a couple of years ago and don’t think I’d be any good in either military or government professions.
Fry's used to take out full back-page ads in the San Jose Mercury News to show their loss-leader sales. On the release of OS/2 Warp, the Fry's ad spelled it "WRAP" in about 64 pt. font multiple times. Whoopsie.
The American family is notoriously unrooted and migratory. People scatter after college and while looking for work. For those that live near their grandchildren, they are as involved as anywhere else I would imagine.
One interpretation is that it's not actually doing anything at all, which I agree is stupid/frustrating/nonsensical/favorite adjective.

The other interpretation is that it is a blanket zoning change of all existing single family lots. Which creates a whole set of emotions for a different group of people but is no longer, and least to me, nonsensical.

Or there's a subtler middle play, where one can no longer subdivide a lot into two single family lots. You can build single family houses on multi-use plots (I live in one, elsewhere), but you can't stop someone from knocking it right down again and putting up a denser structure.
To be clear I'm not saying carbon capture will single-handedly save us. Carbon capture is a bailing bucket. Our boat is sinking. The bucket can buy us time, and help clean up the boat once we've plugged the hole. We've still got to plug the hole. But we'd also be happy to have a good bucket.
Wonder how people in china adjust with censorships at this height !
Very cool! Any idea what the impact of network latencies and jitter is on the overall experience?
> It's juicy.

Most of the juice in my experience comes from cooking the meat long enough to render the fat. I've had medium-rare steak before where the fat was all still solid. Didn't seem all that great to me even though all the others raved about it.
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Definitely this. I would suggest you do some leg work to at least get in with a legislative assistant. The more prepared you are, the more you bring to the table, the more specific of an issue or ask, the more you will be 'heard' if you will.

Also most don't know your House Rep's office can help with way more than listening to complaints. They are very helpful. Case work, lots of student stuff (if you want to go to a military academy), maybe some grant stuff. But especially if you are having VA bureaucracy issues. There is budget for constituent services including Franking $ to reach out to their constituents. Members actually try here because it helps them win elections.
I believe it's because they are not stored on a server. They only disappear if you delete all the messages. I suppose it could keep an index of groups locally to the phone though.
Done, good catch.
In general 50:50 ratio is observed in most species even with great variability in male reproductive success because the expectation for offspring is equal between male and female so the selection pressure generally keeps it close to 50.
The momentary blip of availability of sperm donors, moral acceptance, combined with eventually-to-be-figured-out reduction in overall fertility will probably have zero effect on our evolutionary trajectory.
That would probably work well, but only if the park has money. In the Outside Online article, a group of poachers were convinced to stop with the promise that they wouldn't be prosecuted and that they would get help to support themselves, but they are struggling to make good on that promise because they just don't have the funds.

Maybe there is some way to repel the animals inexpensively and without killing them.
I use them off and on. They are particularly useful for illustrating information architecture. You could apply this in site navigation, development, or just studying for an exam.

As humans, our mental models follow a hierarchical nature that help us create and understand relationships in implicit, visual, and/or spatial ways that come pretty naturally.
There was no union hate in my comment. There were facts about unions who lobby to have minimum wage increased because it affects their bottom line.
Oh... That was really stupid of me! I didn't notice the responder (you) was the same person!

Thanks.
How long had you known dfranke prior to applying?
> - Keyboard acceleration for application menus is more consistent and robust under Windows. Press Alt + the underlined letter of any menu...

Definitely true. Although, the "common core" keyboard shortcuts are represented enough for me. I don't care to remember each individual program's hot letters. But it definitely is a lifesaver when you don't have access to a mouse.

> Apple seems to prefer buttons that have icons with no labels...Also, they seem to like...

That's beyond debatable subjectivity and well into the realm of "I just don't like it", so I'll just leave it at that (though I will say Chrome for windows is pretty icon heavy, and Visual Studio is moving that way as well). And to be fair, I think API and extensions are beyond the scope of what we were talking about.

> Ooops, I want to delete that folder but I can't do it from the dialog,

That's definitely not true. I just walked over to an OSX machine and verified it wasn't my imagination. Perhaps it was a recent addition, I'll give you that, but I don't recall it being an issue for quite some time.

Sometimes I do miss the full power of a file explorer in my Save/Open dialog, but it's not all heaven on earth. If I'm working in directories in active instances of Explorer, and then I decide I want to save a file from a program to one of those directories, the dialog will use a default (typically My Documents) or the last used path that the application remembers you using. This means I have to drill down or seek out the aforementioned directories either through mouse or typing in the path manually. I find that to be an annoying waste of time, especially if I was deep in a directory tree in a totally different "forest" if you will.

With OSX, I can drag over the folder from Finder to the Save dialog, and it knows that, since the context is "you want to save something", that it should switch to that directory. The Windows save dialog will act like a special Explorer instance, as you said, and copy the dragged directory instead. Sure, there are a few times where that's handy, but I prefer the more logical contextual use.

- Display management

I agree with that, OS X is definitely lagging on multi-monitor features (although I personally rarely need to shut off or unplug my second monitor).
I have found they are a useful tool for group brainstorming. It helps provide structure to the unstructured thought process of a group of people without really constraining their thinking in any particular direction. However, you need a very strong group leader to make sure the map represents the ideas of the group and not just their personal ideas.
Yahoo is launching in this space too:
http://mashable.com/2010/11/16/yahoo-local-offers/

I've heard yelp will be entering as well (I can't confirm if they're already there since yelp perma-banned my ip after I tried to do some lite-scraping)
I do not get the problem? Unless you are using that new site more than that blog, your browser should still give you the desired blog.
You could argue it pushes the problem up the stack to the hiring stage.
Hardly "naked". I think the uproar about this isn't what can be seen, but the future of this. If we can see blobs of people as public images on the internet, if it ever does get to be "naked" then it could be bad.

At this point, I really wouldn't give a rip if someone published an image of my "naked" blob.
Notice I said mild alcoholism, not mild drinking. On the scale of alcoholics (who generally can't get through a day without drinking) I think this is probably mild. But it's just semantics.
Observability, for one. In the article, the author talks about the Y-junction that has a flag that directs the train, and the train flips it in some cases, and not in others. Being able to see exactly what happens the moment it happens is just immediately comprehendible... there's no "hidden state"; so if it does something unexpected, you can see the whole situation.
I wish. Status has even less adoption and dev support. If I have bugs on signal for MMS with my carrier, I presume any smaller niche messenger will be tougher to have loved ones adopt and will have even more bugs.
I would add to that list (35 years ago) - girlfriends.

This takes a lot of time too - when you are with them, and then also when you are not, but your brain is still with them anyway.
It won't make a difference.

How could he go to the media before getting banned? There's not much to go on, especially if he didn't have a recording.

The other part is, who will actually listen to that story? My wife was subjected to pretrial restrictions on a charge that the trooper knew was incorrect. I even have evidence supporting it. An investigative journalist pitching it to their editor, but other than that nobody cares. IAD thinks it's fine, the DA thinks it's fine (an ADA was also aware that the charge was wrong, but I don't think the complaint with the Bar will result in anything), and the judge misapplied the law and contradicted himself so that the issue could be ignored in court.

This story is making me reconsider contacting the FBI/DOJ about police misconduct.
The issue is most people don't think this way. They immediately jump to the worst case scenario and are pressured to accept.
>If they had the ability to ignore them, they would

Not to be too inflammatory but there are plenty of cases where they ignore them without technically having the ability.
You are, unless you have a very good reason to treat your cloud provider as a likely malicious actor, in which case good luck setting up your own data center.
without an alibi it will probably come down to whose lawyer is better
I did an implementation myself a month or two ago and noticed the same thing. The contradiction is hard to miss.
The first time I saw VbV I checked the frame URI. When it came up as securesite.net I phoned up the merchant to tell them their site had been hacked. It’s unbelievable that they thought that was a good idea.
I really like this! It will come in handy when I travel in a few days
Thank you for seeing this - fixed :)
Russian internets are extremely biased, but we've got a meme here, "British Scientists" (or "British Researchers"). They are the people responsible for all the greatest discoveries of mankind, such as:

* Stool Scale [1]
* Ideal Sandwich [2]
* Connection between football team results and
their uniform color [3]
* Toads predicting earthquakes [4]

I kinda feel that's another worthless statistical observation with no real scientific value.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Scale

[2] http://www.foreverblueskies.com/biggest-waste-of-time-ever/

[3] Sorry, can't remember that off the top of my head

[4] http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/tech9.html
I like search and youtube too.
Canada is the worst country ever for cell phone users.
Stopped reading when I read "JAVA". Java is not an acronym.
Every now and then when I purchase something from a Verified by Visa-"friendly" site (Newegg comes to mind), I often find that I'm able to complete the purchase without entering my password.

It's disturbing to say the least.
Ever since that was the definition of the _I_ntelligence _Q_uotient.
>For some he is a saint

He might be a "realist" politician for some, but he has never been considered a saint for anybody. Also neither "antihero", nor "defiant". He had the power of life and death, and he yielded it to a mob with a shrug, something neither anti-heroic, nor defiant.
The author has rightfully directed his words at those considering becoming math majors. Consequently, he makes it clear that most basic math education is inadequate to really understand math and its practicality, but leaves as the only solution enrolling as a math student. This is a great call to action for students, but for the broader audience, it leaves me thinking the following:

My math background is clearly inadequate, and his description of mathematical reasoning sounds like something I'd like to be familiar with, so how do I get there? What's the route to the prize other than enrolling in Fordham's math program?

While the professor in question has no reason to answer this, at least on the Fordham website, I wonder what answers the HN crowd might have... thoughts?
Only in the US release -- extra bodies were added in to the orgy scene to hide certain things.

I saw it when it came out in the uncensored version and, frankly, the less said about the whole movie the better. Stanley Kubrick made some of the greatest films of all time... and then he made Eyes Wide Shut as an old man because it gave him an excuse to look at boobs for six months.
Hey, I'm not assuming that brilliant and artistically valid video games with adult content can't exist. I'm just cynically pointing out that they're incredibly unlikely to actually get made.

Movies are a very different sort of art form, with a very different sort of maturity level. Also, I think it's easier to have explicit (or weird) sex in a movie without it becoming pornography [ * ] than it is in a video game since in a video game you are the protagonist. A Clockwork Orange is (I assume) rated NC-17 due largely to its rather nasty rape scene... try imagining a video game version of that and you can see we've crossed the line from Serious Art to Fucked Up Shit.

Anyway, anyone who wants to develop an effectively NC-17 rated game is welcome to write one for the PC (or Mac, or Linux!) where there are no gatekeepers to stop you. I have difficulty imagining what a non-sucky one would look like, but maybe I just have a limited imagination.

[ * ] Oh, and if people want to make games which are just pornography I don't have a problem with that... except that I suspect they'll wind up as bad video games and bad pornography.
"..can understand mathematics." FTFY
The reply says Christian not Christmas... its obviously Christmas
To address #1 at the cost of an extra step, you could turn on Airplane Mode. (That's worthwhile if only for the side-effect of disabling notifications and rings.) And maybe if that makes you think of the phone as safe and inert, not restricting your movement, #2 won't be such a problem?
This is a really stupid article. Everybody knew that Microsoft would never approve a sex game for the Xbox 360, but this was never about that.

They're integrating Kinect support into their already existing Windows sex games using the thriXXX engine. They're using open source Kinect drivers and software to make it possible, they don't need (or want) Microsoft's approval. Microsoft can't do anything to stop this.

You can read the full press release at http://kinecthacks.net/kinect-sex/ . It's pretty what they meant.
I suppose it depends on if a man is loyal to his conscience, or loyal to his pocketbook. It wouldn't necessarily be a "moral crime" to have kept the money, but it might have been one of "personal value."

I'm sure that many of us set personal values that are more or less progressive than society's moral foundations, and that's a reasonable reason to not keep the money. And donating $100k to charity does not necessarily mean it will go to a good cause. Not all charities materialize "good effect" on society with cash contributions, even if advertised. It may have helped a charity, but it could have also been swallowed away into beauracracy. It doesn't make him a wuss to have returned the cash.
Sorry, behind register wall. If that is bad etiquette, I'll remove this.