jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That may be a factor but I think it's pretty easy to see why banning him now (instead of earlier) could be done without the reasons you invoked:

1. His tweets didn't incite angry mobs to assault federal buildings before

2. Some time ago when Twitter was defending why they aren't banning his account, they said something about this effectively being a public government account so banning it would do more bad than good (and instead Twitter went ahead and "annotated" his tweets instead of just removing them). This determination had both pros and cons for Trump, the pro being much harder to ban his account but the con being that he couldn't block people from replying to his tweets anymore. With him now out of office his account loses that status so it should be much easier to ban it.
I mean, I definitely recall the need to turn off unauthenticated DMs because of all the IRC bots recruiting racists to their "ChimpOut" network, which purported to ban black people. So it's not like you really need viral amplification to coordinate a rally, nor is it that hard to fake.
> Of course, I had to get all that info from thedonald.win because almost no-one else is talking about this.

This and the Twitter account that you linked is the usual "no one is talking about this! they are hiding the truth" rhetoric that has lead to where we are four years later.
It’s not even how any knowledge in the real world works! These people frustrate me to no end.
Primarily right-wing apps, websites, subreddits, communities. I'm afraid there will be attempts to cite some kind of complicity and ban them.

I'm troubled by it because right-wing != violent, and 74 million people voted for the republican candidate. Continuing to disenfranchise their speech options will not go well.
Sedition, terrorism, and advocating the overthrow of the government ARE NOT PROTECTED SPEECH.
If the government did tell Trump he was banned it wouldn't violate any liberal principles. It's not personal that's just the law. And it's litterally the law in every country on earth.
Those instructions only apply when you've altered the image. If you want white, select white.
But TVs are no better than laptops when it comes to names/numbers. Models seem to last just a few weeks; then another one comes out with a letter or two added or removed, or the number incremented, or the whole name changed. Often its just another connector, or a different remote, or a software change, or a matte screen.,.
Turn your outside, rear view mirrors out on your car to completely expose your blind spot. When done right, you should have a continuous field of vision by scanning your eyes from your inside, middle rear view mirror to the outside mirror, and then by turning your head very slightly while still scanning your eyes to catch the cars directly to your sides. It's disorienting at first because you can't see the sides of your car, but that's rarely useful anyway, and when it is, you can just move your head until you can see what you need to (e.g. when parallel parking). You'll get used to the setup pretty fast. I can't count the number of times this hack has saved my butt on the highway.
My #1 reason to buy Apple laptops: keyboard. All I want is a simple keyboard layout, like Apple's...no extra keys...no numeric keypad...no page-up&down...no custom keys to control media...oh yeah, and also drop all the extra ways to click the mouse...just give me a big touch area and drop the three extra keys and eraser-knob.

If anyone knows of a manufacturer doing it right, please let me know as I am tired of paying a premium to get a sane keyboard. At the moment going Apple for both desktop and laptop allows me to use the exact same keyboard whether I'm at home or on the road. So bonus points to a laptop manufacturer that also sells an external keyboard to match my desktop same as embedded in the laptop.

Seriously, there has to be a market for this!!! The keyboard is the single most important input device. Build it right and they will come.
Click "Change Background Image" in the bottom right corner, select "Editor's Picks", scroll to the bottom, select white.

Problem solved.

I personally like it. Nothing wrong with big beautiful images that do not slow page load times.
Wasn't that the lesson Apple learned the hard way? IIRC one of the first thing Jobs did on his return to Apple was to trim the product line.
Since we aren't all standing in a room having a real conversation, the only way I can tell if people are going to agree or disagree with me is an up or down vote. "I'll probably get downvoted for this" is another way of saying "the predominant opinion here is x but i'm going to state y." My intent wasn't purposely to avoid downvotes (or get more upvotes,) but point taken.
The article brings up a great point wrt XSS. I'd say the new XSS stuff was responsible for 2/3 of the upgrade-errors my automated testing didn't catch, so pre-fixing this like they did would have had big rewards. But I was too impatient so after the upgrade I let my client feedback cover the edgecases :).

I'd actually say upgrading to Ruby 1.9.2 gave me more headaches than upgrading Rails.
I am using Haskell to simulate data for a machine learning system. The project has other components we are planning to implement in Haskell.

You may fight hard with the compiler to get your program to compile, but after that "it just works". Also functional programs are bite-sized, so making changes feels easier.
Finally... Sweet GV push notifications... :D
The table of contents is now available on the book's catalog page (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596802356/), and you can view the table of contents and preview snippets of the content on Safari (http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9781449389802?portal=oreilly...).
It would be a waste of a question because the President will never have to experience this scanning. Better yet: ask Chelsea Clinton or the Bush daughters.
I don't hate Haml, but I think HTML is ok as HTML, especially for those cases where I want someone who is not a developer to work on a template.
I've wondered if haml is just a reaction to I don't like XML mindset, so we'll invent a new syntax. Personally I like SASS, since it needed hierarchy defined. But cleanly written HTML gives you that (yes, you need close tags, but I already write closing parenthesis).
Makes me wonder that don't they have kernel APIs for process schedulers and I/O schedulers by now? The scheduler tweaks have been going on for ages.

Instead of compiling a single new kernel module (or downloading it prebuilt from an apt repo or a PPA) and kicking it in with modprobe, we now need to obtain the sources for the whole kernel, apply the patches, configure, build, and deploy. Sure Debian/Ubuntu has that partially automatized but it's still a pain.

At least I'll wait for stock 2.6.38 on Ubuntu and cross my fingers they put this patch in.
Can we please try to avoid multiple version of the same topic. We have a Google official link on the front page right now do we need to have a "TechCrunch Version" of _every_single_ news release out there?

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Then I envy you. It’s not some big secret but it definitely happens with my keyboard. Maybe it’s loading it from the keyboard itself? Either way it only happens during windows updates
Why not the way we did it in 1995 most of the time? Out of the head and big fat book.
Sorry to say it, but in most cases we require US citizens. There are a few rare exceptions, but overlapping typical US business hours is always required.
I can't believe the amount of misinformation about Android in general. I know this is a phone and not Android specifically, but in general, WTF?

PCMag is reporting the Droid X and Droid 2 are the same phone, Engadget was making the same mistake less than a week ago. Now MacRumors really believes that it's even possible to have a 720p density screen on that size of a phone, even when the same mistakes were made regarding other phones that called the screen by the camera resolution.

It's just pathetic. These are high profile sites that consistently get information wrong that has been known to ANYONE paying ANY attention for at least a month.
What will happen is that they will send a cease and desist letter to you (like they did to Pete). At that point, you have basically given notice and it becomes much riskier to continue doing what you're doing.

That's not to say their C&D is valid or enforceable. It just enters into another legal bin that's a bit more hairy.

Unfortunately, the legal precedent for all this is murky at best. Past cases have been very specific to the details of those cases. No line has ever been drawn about what is ok and what is not.
From what this article says, this would turn out to be a fairly week bill. Though I don't know what a better alternative is.

With the life of a phone averaging 18 months, phones rarely outlast the contract, plus why would you want to change carriers and keep your old phone when the new carrier will give you a new subsidised phone.

Sure it may benefit the few who want to take their fully paid phone to a new carrier, but I suspect this is a real minority of customers.

At the same time, today I got a txt message from Telus informing me of a further increase in the rates of international txt messaging.

Is Canada the only country where basic services like this are getting more expensive?
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http://posterous.com/faq

Addresses some of those issues.
The guy in the video said the content would "literally pull me in." I quickly closed the tab because I didn't want to get stuck inside my computer.
If the Droid X has a 720p (720x1280) screen, as Verizon's site indicates, then it would have 341 PPI, above Apple's 326 PPI in the iPhone 4.
I agree. I wrote about this too: http://utkarshsengar.com/2010/01/indian-republic-day-where-t...
Though I may simply be ignorant to their plans, I have yet to see compelling evidence that Twitter really knows how on earth it can really monetize itself. My guess (as I said in an earlier Tweet) is that the network itself is worth millions of dollars to businesses (quite likely even more than the $3.7 billion valuation) but I don't see how it translates into real revenue for Twitter, the company, as operator of that network.

One of the things that's always amazed me about Twitter is that with everything the company has done to make a really cool service, they seem to be in the absolute worst position possible to actually monetize that service.
The OP states that web dev is overly complicated and broken. I counter that modern tools are far from being broken, and are infact lightyears ahead of what was available only 3 or 4 years ago. Not a refutation per se, but a counterpoint.

* elastic compute - easier - no need to worry about hardware
* REST - easier - no need to worry about WSDL and XML
* HTML5, CSS3 - agreed powerful standards to create create UIs
* jQuery - much easier than hand-rolling
* JSON - easier and lighterweight than XML
* decent modern browsers - improved standards adherence, so easier and quicker to write for multiple browsers
* NoSQL databases - easier to work with (no ORMs), quicker to set-up (no schema) than relational dbs
Thats a rad tip! I'm totally going to start doing that.
You want others to help you with your commercial project, for free???
Could this be why the Pentagon has recently recommended to cut its own budget? -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2478908
Which one would inspire more people to pursue a career in aerospace?

And just many aerospace companies do you know of that are desperate to hire people because there isn't enough talent?

The aerospace industry has many challenges, but last I heard an undersupply of people who would love to build planes and space probes was not one of them. It's a demand problem, not a supply problem.
Why downvote a perfectly reasonable, valid personal opinion and constructive critique? Only effusively positive aesthetic comments count?
Thinking about all this, maybe kids will no longer want to be astronauts when they grow up, but entrepreneurs who get to send people to the frontiers of space.

It's so fascinating to see a private enterprise undertake these inspirational endeavours.
The way I think about it, you can either take your pain up front or at the end. At some point you have to ask yourself whether your goal is to impress Mike Arrington, or whether your goal is to make money.
This is one reason I like Netflix. It keeps track of every movie you've watches and which you've rated. It makes me less likely to switch should another competitor come along. If my supermarket gave me access to all the junk I'd ever bought from them I'd have much less of a reason to shop around--the data is much too useful to abandon once you've built up enough if it.
Or you could work towards having a higher moat skillset. It's hard to work in distributed systems or embedded systems without a lot of training.
Apple could do a privacy focused social network if they wanted to. It won't look like a social network at first whatever it is.
The Project Oberon site ( http://www.projectoberon.com/ ) listed has the books in PDF form (in sections.)

Awesome books BTW.
The patents in question are https://patents.google.com/patent/US7949129B2/ and https://patents.google.com/patent/US8321675B2/
This is great! Thanks for building solution that solves a real problem.
That reminds me of how excited I got when I got a pokedex and workable pokeballs from Santa. It's been a long time since there were only 150 Pokemon. I wonder if they're even still using pokedexes in the series.

I also got a couple of digivices from Digimon, from the second and fourth(?) season. I remember they had story modes and contacts at the top for multiplayer gameplay, as well as a walking sensor for story advancement which you could cheat by just shaking the device for hours. My friend with whom I battled it out never had a chance because he actually tried walking the distance. That's until he noticed the gap between our digimon was getting too big despite all the walking he did, and I ended up telling him the trick. Quite a facepalm moment right there. Those were neat little devices for our ages back then.
Do you want to model things in 3D and render them? If so, Blender is a great tool.

I feel like this question is like going to an art forum and asking if you should learn Kubernetes. You could, but it's not going to help with your art.
That could trigger the App Store review block. But this is Uber, so I'm guessing there's special treatment :)
Yes, long-term everything could be printed via nano-robots. Even if not directly but as a sequence of building different plants. So something like a seed nano-robot colony + manufacturing blue-prints.
> I don't know that I've ever heard anyone say that they prefer PHP over Python

I hear it all the time. Primarily by polyglots who are interested in prototyping things. I use both, I prefer PHP and I'm increasingly aware that people aren't learning PHP rather than watching it evolve past Python.
1. Using Multisig transactions and Oracle signers to implement Smart Contracts on Bitcoin blockchain.

2. Ethereum Smart Contracts and DApps.
I've taken small doses of LSD (half a hit) with great success while coding or creating more traditional art. I find that the small dose makes it easier for me to imagine where bugs might be, visualize and compare algorithms, and consider both high level architecture ideas as well as low level details simultaneously. That said, I've only tried it a few times back in college, so I don't have many data points.

Larger doses work differently, and less directly for me. They tend to help me gain greater perspective on my life and my work. It can give me a renewed energy and excitement for what I am doing, or, conversely it can help me realize that I am on the wrong track, and will motivate me to make changes that help me live a more fulfilling life. I often end a strong experience with so much energy that I can't wait for the next day to begin so I can put into action everything I had been thinking about. I code vastly better when I have a deep understanding about why I am coding.

As with anything, these experiences have diminishing returns, so spacing them out over years has helped me keep them 'productive'.
Node is a common word. I would fight them to the death if they sued me over nodecode.com (which someone has already private registered). IMHO, this is just a precursor to a sellout.
RIM needs to become a services company and focus on what they did best - enterprise class connectivity on the go. Take your set of tools and apps across devices - and email is just one of the many things they can offer. IT Depts dont really want to choose the phone people carry but have to standardize. The Apple and Android divide will only get more polarized, if Windows Phone does well, all the more better - imagine one set of RIM tools integrating with every device in your company to offer secure email, security + wipe clean, documents, BBM, social features, etc. For that though, RIM will have to become a software company. And they suck at that. The opportunity is big enough to support a $30Bn company, for sure.

Oh and they should forget about consumers. That whole thing was just dumb.
I would guess that since it is artists talking that she was asking why he chose "Sap green" for a particular portion of a piece of art he made as opposed to another color.
RIM can absolutely, easily pull this out. Probably a few different ways, actually.

They make great hardware, and still have a vastly superior keyboard experience to any softkey phone anywhere. They have buckets of cash, and had great, really great earnings last year.

They have an ecosystem problem. This would be simple to remedy -- they just need to commit to HTML5 for apps, maybe adopt jquery mobile as a significantly-supported project.

Staff a small, awesome webkit team, and start making it dead simple to deploy to Blackberry. Start a webstore to compete with Chrome's webstore, but this one lets you take it with you on your Blackberry.

Second internal team would be dalvik support, adopting the android ecosystem. RIM never really made a ton of money on the 'app' ecosystem; this would put them on equal footing when being evaluated against Android.

I'll await my offer from the RIM strategy folks. : )
noone cares that Ruby on Rails is a registered trademark of DHH, see '"Rails", "Ruby on Rails", and the Rails logo are registered trademarks of David Heinemeier Hansson. All rights reserved.' on the bottom of rails website.

They want to use that name, and they won't sue people for making consultancy business based on that technology for certain, since that's the way development of platform goes.
I love Peepcode, the NodeJS tutorial is great, explain to you everything you'd probably learn in days of reading. I also got some VIM videos and a MacRuby video.

In my opinion they have the best tech screencasts on the web
Being a generalist isn't always an easy sell, but we can be uniquely valuable in a small shop that lacks an army of specialists. Just since last year I've been called on to document several protocols for partners, design and back-test a Bayesian estimator, troubleshoot a balky load balancer using only a tcpdump (it was reusing port numbers too aggressively), sleaze together some last-minute map/reduce analytics feeding Excel graphs, and track down regressions caused by bad svn merges. Nobody sane would put all of that in one job description (nominally I maintain a soft realtime Java app server), yet someone had to do it, and there I was. As a specialist I'd worry about only getting asymptotically better at solving one problem which could become irrelevant.

Actually it's the stuff I'm supposed to know how to do where I feel like a fraud, because I compare the imaginary progress of an idealized version of myself to what I've actually accomplished. When I'm handling one of these tasks from left field, everyone knows I'm winging it, and that makes success sweeter.
I am using a Haskell/C combo for a distributed (on a "supercomputing" cluster) Machine Learning (commercial, non academic) project. About 20k lines of Haskell. A couple of 100K lines of C (Most of this will be moved to Haskell over time). Works like a charm.

As to why Haskell, I have not yet found any other language that combines its expressiveness and raw speed.
It says that the hijacking occurred in April. Someone in China accessing your email just two days ago is probably just coincidence. However, it would still be a good idea to look into it (and change your password)
China just validated that they can intercept trafic for malicious intent, with no international retaliation to speak of. How is that not serious?
There probably were soldiers there too, so you are probably remembering them.

As for the wages for soldiers, the soldiers actually get a lot of economic benefit from it. People with previous military experience are far more desirable to employers, and there is a very large income boost from it. You can think of it as a form of internship.
Disclaimer: I am not a security expert, but I did study networking and network security for a few years.

This article seems a bit over the top. It's pure speculation, and it seems much more likely that an engineer configured a router incorrectly, panicked for 15 minutes, then fixed it.

"What set this incident apart from other such mishaps was the fact that China Telecom could manage to absorb this large amount of data and send it back out again without anyone noticing a disruption in service."

We've got a technically inclined community here: When your Internet access is slow for a while, what do you attribute it to? I doubt anyone's first instinct is "must be a man-in-the-middle attack." Again, it seems much more likely that they simply had the capacity to handle most of that traffic (biggest country in the world, modernization, etc.) and no one noticed because the Internet is often flaky.