jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I had this conversation earlier. I think it is a natural question to compare the two similar acts in terms of violent/destructive rioting. Especially so since they are individually representative of both ends of the growing political distance between left/right in our country.

My logic is not perfect by any means but I see a key difference between;
1) BLM was a group of citizens protesting against what is essentially abuse of power/government and they want change. They want legislative action that holds cops accountable. Doesn't matter if you agree with it, but this cause and their right to protest is the most American thing I've seen in a long time. Sure, there are people that took it too far and protesting turned to rioting. But protesting for action and change are patriotic acts.

2) On the other hand, today's events are almost opposite. It's been driven/lead by senior members of government. Using lies and propaganda, conditioning a group of citizen sympathizers over a long period of time to distrust media, distrust opposing "facts" or anyone that disagrees with Trumps agenda. Weaponize this group of people to seize power and considerably fracture our democracy. It's the least patriotic and perhaps treasonous thing I could ever imagine. But they think they are the patriots. It's just so backwards to me.
Is there a good way to follow companies that have announced plans to IPO so that you can buy initial shares besides a Google alert?
Yes they (would)do.
I didn't say you could go to Costco. Just that the market often values gift cards at less than par, because they are generally less useful than normal money.

In degenerate cases, I can see that the reverse could be true.
This and the smaller screen sizes are the reasons we won’t be rolling out any M1 machines at Flatfile. Excited for them otherwise though!
If the main benefit of prefixed IDs is debugging then a dev tool can be created that would just look up the ID in all tables and report what object it corresponds to.
> That is flat-out not true.

It actually is true that there are "lots of sworn first-person statements, which aren't hearsay." This isn't to say there are none that are hearsay.

> I haven't combed through every piece of evidence in every case, but a lot of "sworn first-person statements" basically amounted to hearsay or other statements that could not legally be sustained as evidence.

Right, and we could ignore them and talk about the ones where people testify to things that happened to them or in their presence but its much easier to respond to evidence you don't like by ignoring it and debunking "evidence" that's easy to respond to.

> The first set of cases did reach that stage

I'm not sure what you're referring to as "the first set of cases" but many of the cases were dismissed before evidence was heard. That means you can't faithfully dismiss the evidence on the basis of a dismissed court case because the court never looked at the evidence.

> The people who are alleging this conspiracy--first and foremost Trump himself--are unwilling to sustain any evidence to the contrary.

I disagree and if you could present evidence to the contrary we could perhaps resolve this.

> The Trump campaign and affiliates have lost 62 lawsuits in the past two months (and that's not counting subsequent losses on appeal).

Refer to my statement above. Most of those never even examined the evidence.

> For the first time in 230 years, a mob has broken into Congress

Its not that big of a deal, the last time a mob broke into congress was 2018.

> has broken into Congress to commit sedition

Actually they are trying (in vain) to avoid disenfranchisement. Or if you prefer not to appear to take a position on the object-level issue, its merely a "mostly peaceful protest."

> Why? It's not because we didn't demonstrate the concerns were being taken seriously.

that most certainly is why.

> It's because way too many people were willing to indulge a delusional conspiracy theory that was ungrounded in truth, and to pretend that frivolous lawsuits that were clearly contrary to all prior precedent fanned [2] that delusion.

I like how you compared the idea that people might cheat in an election to a delusion, when people cheat in elections all the time and its probably more properly considered delusional when someone insists (without evidence) that there was no fraud and all these people asserting fraud on the basis of evidence are delusional.

> If two or more persons in any State or Territory [...] conspire to [...] by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, [...] they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

Would that apply to conspiracy to violate election law?
I'm curious: who wouldn't delete their own videos if they thought they'd become evidence? Is that not a common strategy? Not sure how many people would like to end up in court just for the headlines.
It's also standard fare for typical lab work. A good paper's methods section would contain enough detail for you to go into your lab and repeat the experiment yourself, even down to the catalog number for the reagents to order from the lab supplier. Code should be no different, that's why it's encouraged that authors submit all code used in analysis and generation of figures.
In 2017 I saw Twitter advertising in Tokyo’s metro with Trump tweets. Even if their PR said “we don’t like it but it’s in the public interest,” it was obviously in their interest. Twitter has been mentioned daily in the news for the past 5 years, they turned a huge profit thanks the guy.

The only reason they’re acting now is that their excuse is about to expire. If they found another good excuse, Trump would stay.
Comprehensive set of bootstrap-like components (free and open-source)
Do you realize what you just said applies to every successful investment? If you started investing in Apple early, you would be rich too. Does that make Apple a "pyramid scheme"? Or maybe, just maybe, it's just that riskier investments have bigger rewards?

Don't be so stubborn please.
Also true for table tennis
That almost sounds like an "old programmer" joke. Are you sure he wasn't pulling your leg?
Data they collect by abusing android and other permission systems, reading contacts in adjacent apps like WhatsApp, etc. Its gluttony that they are now pretending is a moral high ground.
Considering I've been quoted in articles as an anonymous source on stuff I don't know anything about, I'm willing to bet no one can confirm why he left except Bengio himself.
> I use Signal on a phone and a laptop, switching between the two frequently throughout the day and see the same conversations on both.

I've had multiple issues with this before I gave up on Signal, it wouldn't show history when I initially paired up even when importing forever, then randomly stopped being connected and required me to pair again (losing everything on PC again)

> There's been a manual, secure transfer process between Android devices for years

Doesn't help much when you lose your phone.

I guess what I'm trying to say for most people the value of having your chat messages hosted in the cloud > security.
Facebook also claimed that the only leaked data was "old data", phone numbers from 2019...
"you can work long, you can work hard, you can work smart, but you can ONLY pick 2 out of 3" - 90's programmers.
Who says prisoners don't have internet access? You'd be surprised how many jail pods have a couple of Ipads you pay by the minute to use.
I'd like to hear why you think the latter portion of your statement is true.

The first part I can agree with, but I'm not sure how it helps...I think he's in over his head.
I feel like they are allowed to keep their secrets provided they don't make something secret just because it might make them look bad or because it's illegal.

Remember, everything they do...they do in our name.
This is a perfectly cromulent article, but as someone relatively new to Ruby, I don't see the beauty. Perhaps I've spent too much time with the airless asceticism of, say, Scheme, but Ruby just reads a mess to me. Too many synonyms, too much implicit behavior. There's too much language for my taste. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder &c., &c., &c., and I wouldn't deny that there is a certain pragmatic attraction (even I like to get shit working). But beauty?
To some extent: the underscore methods represent 'magic behaviour' i.e. this gets called implicitly by something else, you never call this directly.

i.e you write 4+2 to add things not 4.add(2)
Most college students I know these days who live in their own place (About 65% of the student population around here) don't have cable. This is because most are apt enough at using the Internet, that they can find all shows for free. Some use Hulu and the like, while others torrent, but maybe one in ten actually pay for cable.
Awesome!

One thing I that would be nice is to add a dominant color to the Color Extractor section. In this example pic I used red is not chosen.

https://www.coolaroo.com/uploads/coolaroo/images/15773_Coola...
Just remember he's from Michigan, #1 in unemployment. Everybody here knows someone that's been laid off, can't find work or is underemployed.

I imagine he's saying 'I'm self-employed' which in this state, people just assume you're out of work. Because who in their right mind would try and start a business in this economy...

Sounds like it's not such a bad idea after all.
Why do game programmers need a union?

As for IP terms/noncompetes/overtime, I'm not sure why you need a union. Why not just negotiate for that yourself?
Anyone got an idea how to easily rasterize these?

Is there an easier way than building a web page with the image and screenshotting it?
Link to a downloadable/non-404 version of Hughes' paper:

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Paper/702256.aspx

Two pdf links below the summary paragraph.
Agree that Apache on Windows is terrible, but IIS7 is still awful compared to pretty much any of the major linux-based webservers.
I would join a union that lobbied against, say, overreaching non-compete agreements and against age discrimination (a big problem in this industry).

But the life of a programmer is typically not so bad to start with.
Static typing is like a helmet that forces a speed limit, too. It won't necessarily help you experiment faster-- the common wisdom is that it does the opposite, in Java/etc. style static typing.
Bodybuilding is a shared interest: something they can do together, talk about, have friends in common, etc. Owning a mac is owning a product... not a lifestyle, or even a hobby... at least I hope not.
> Favorite Books:
> i don't read

Huh, apparently this method of "fitting in" predates facebook.
And everyone runs adblock anyway.

You're overestimating the number of people who use AdBlock. Most people don't. Myself included.
Well, they have about 100 brick and mortar stores. So in addition to all of the other complexities of running a large business, they surely have more than 1,000 people working in stores and store support.
http://go.davepeck.org/
Not every store does ".99". The companies that charge ".99" or similar are trying to hook you in on a good deal, while the others that round it naturally are trying to hook you in on a good quality product. Since most consumer products are just pointless (shiny!) crap I think we see more of the ".99" used. :)
Hmm - I've been on here for a while, and I've never heard of it. Glad to here it's somewhat known at least. Do you know endlessvoid94 or have any experience with Djangy?

I'm excited to see it, and that they're using Git and not Hg. I came into Py/Django from RubyTutorial's great use of Ruby/Rails/Git/Heroku and I was hoping Django would build a similarly good starter kit.

Not that DjangoBook is bad at all, but for noobs like myself I think the simplicity of having everything so integrated gets me past some of the intimidating things and feeling good about the tools without the high learning curve.
Almost all languages use C libraries at some point (as that's what the OSes are written in), but yes, several of the apps are multilanguage.

I find python + weave.inline (insert C++ which is dynamically compiled the first time called) pretty awesome at getting performant apps which are fast to build and simple to debug.
I'm waiting for my invite - looks sweeeeet.

Any plans to do a RailsTutorial-esque Py/Dj/Git/Djangy tutorial (as opposed to Rb/Rls/Git/Heroku)?
Neat idea! The only issue is probably not resolvable. My area code is 847, placing me in northeast Illinois, but I live in NYC. I sent a shoutout with "Hello from NYC!" and it shows up in Illinois!
Question for those with a bit more strategic policy knowledge than myself - what's wrong with just taking the "spoiled child" policy of ignoring them completely?

Seems to me the latest round of crisis talks is just the attention they were looking for. A public yawn in their direction seems more appropriate.
As I said, I could confirm they were. I was reselling their bikes to SE Asia in my last company. You can also google this: https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/peloton-in-housi...
What's your stance on rassolnik?
Good to know. Worth pointing out that the C++ standards committee also almost never breaks backwards-compatibility. Instead, they just introduce The New Way (and then The Old Way becomes just one more trap).

If you're in a position to affect this for Rust, it's worth thinking about. Give the documentation and libraries a few years to catch up, so that we don't have to chase a moving target. Maybe focus more on compiler and toolchain optimizations, and less on language features.

It's a little rough to play in an ecosystem where the language itself effectively has a nightly/unstable variant.
Taiwan has been a well run country for a while, but the 50's were still difficult times for Taiwan. The civil war concluded in '49 and there were a lot of refugees. Based on the opinions of relatives, Taiwan really only hit 1st world status (good sewage, garbage and drinking water) in the 80's.
> USB-C provides 5V by default with no negotiation

Just to be pedantic, USB-C does need negotiation before it provides 5V, but that negotiation is just a pair of resistors of a specific value.

(Since the USB-C cable is symmetric, this negotiation is necessary to decide which end will provide the power. One end has both resistors wired as a pull-down, and the other end has both resistors wired as a pull-up. The end with both resistors wired as a pull-up will initially provide the 5V power.)
"Needlessly?" When the authority figure with the biggest microphone in the country starts promoting off-label drug use in response to a national emergency?

Just stop.
It sounds complicated, but if you have decent abstractions, this kind of stuff is actually pretty easy to accomplish.

I'd be interested in seeing any end-to-end examples of how people are doing this in practice.

For example, suppose you're maintaining a SaaS application and you have a private key to access some third party API that certain parts of your back end code need. How do you automate this process, so you change your private key on a regular schedule and update all affected hosts so your application code picks up the new one?

Ideally this needs to avoid introducing risks like a single point of failure, a new attack surface, or the possibility of losing access to the API altogether if something goes wrong. Assuming the old key is immediately invalidated when you request a new one via some API, you also need a real time way of looking up the current active key from any of your application hosts when they need it, again without creating single points of failure, etc.

No doubt this could be done with enough work, but it doesn't feel like a trivial problem.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12421203910547579...
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/12413672399007785...

So everything below him explicitly telling everyone to obtain and consume chloroquine doesn't count, right? He's the goddamn president. I expect his words to be very carefully weighted.
> sent out a rambling 1400-page email about reorganizing the company

I really hope you mean 1400-word, but the fact that I can't say that for sure says a lot itself. ;)
Ok, so let's count... Just from the top of my head, we have global new/delete overloading. At the class level you have new/delete overriding. Then you have allocators that can be used with any STL container. In you templates you can also have custom allocators. Then you have new with placement syntax, which means that you can allocate memory with anything, including something like malloc or gmalloc. Of course, you can also use the stack for automatic memory... You can even use a garbage collector such as Boehm. And you really want to argue that there are no options for memory allocation in C++?...

The problem with C++ is exactly the opposite, it has too many options, which makes it difficult to create a global memory management policy, unless you define you own complete framework. Quite the opposite of what you said.
Eh, maybe. My impression is that only the ARM ones were locked down though. I think the Surface Pro lets you install Linux or whatever.. I haven't really looked into that since that device doesn't really seem interesting to me.

If their angle was that they needed to keep it locked down to secure slick media contracts, I would expect both to be locked down so that they could keep some semblance of feature parity between the two.
Remember MS-Java? As I recall it was a superset of Java. So you could migrate your java programs effortlessly towards MS, but couldn't get away!

I'm glad they lost that lawsuit
The story about Ballmer making $768m is not about a golden parachute he received. Instead, because he owns ~$10b in stock, the increase in their stock price on news of his retirement "netted" him $768m.
In the video when he talks about future possible enhancements he mentions that the system timer could be set to provide an interrupt to use for page flips. So it sounds like the answer is technically no, but practically yes.
The OS could lie to the app after permission for some aspect was revoked and respond with no data or garbage data.

For example if you revoked permission for access to pictures or something else like music, when that app queried for the number of pictures/music on the device the OS would just return 0. For something like GPS you could return a valid location (like say somewhere on the Google Campus).
It should be noted that used in Thinking Fast and Slow context this micromort induce can be used to show how much we human have very hard time grasping low probability events.

All the lottery and insurance business is just a scam against us taking advantage of this miss computation of micro risks.
Well hang on now - be clear that Hackernews and ycombinator are two different things. If this[1] is the DC post you're talking about, then that's a DC version of ycombinator, and I fully support that kind of 'fragmentation'. A UK YC would be much welcomed (I'm sure there are startup incubators on the UK already, but more is better).

[1] http://codybrowntext.tumblr.com/post/1602181256/dc-is-gettin...

I can see the relevance of regionalised hacker news sites, but I dislike the idea of a regionalised Hacker News site. Note the capitalisation and plurality.
Why not create a "Bay Area" HN? :P
Why stop at the browser? I'd love to see a unified ID that persists who I am from when I log on to the computer, check my email, go to HN, and then play some online games.

All of this is technically possible, but it's like herding cats.
Short story: they provide facilities and services to startups, but aren't targeting companies that are IPO or acquisition bound. Sounds more like bootstrapping+.

Company web-site: http://bigwindowlabs.com/
I thought that's the one we are on right now.
I sort of think the problem is that many people have multiple OpenId providers. It sort of reduces half the reason you want to use it. Originally OpenId was a way to have one authentication for multiple services on the net. However when you have a Google Account, A Facebook account, A Twitter account... problems start happening. Which one did you use to login to this service last time?

Part of the problem I think is that the providers don't act as consumers also. If I originally had an open id somewhere then why can't I use it for facebook, Google, Twitter, and whatever else. Each "Provider" that offers a service to me which I want forces me to get yet another OpenId. At this point I think I have rougly 4 different OpenId providers and with Google I have like 4 different id's. This gets unwieldy quick. The technology had promise but the way it was rolled out and adopted by various folks caused it to suck a little.

Now I need an OpenId manager in my browser like I needed a password manager before. How is this better?
Actually, it seems to me the bigger problem is that some providers just decide to change who they say you are, and those providers (Google) just happen to be the biggest because you're telling users 'just use your google login here'. They don't know anything about openID. Sure, users having multiple OpenIDs is an issue when they forget which they used, but even if this was solved, the other issue seems to be much worse.
If you want to involve browser makers, why not eliminate the OpenID providers entirely? If I can store my profile in my browser and allow/deny sending my information on site-by-site basis we wouldn't need OpenID at all. And there are already plenty of services to sync your browser information (logins, bookmarks, history) to the cloud.
I've heard every LIRR train has at least a couple of state(?) police on it at all times. This is very much hearsay, but if it's true it may be a condition on many other train lines as well.

In the middle of a ride once, the train stopped because of some investigation and all passengers had to exit. Before/as this happened I saw at least two state troopers walking through my car to another car; while they could have gotten on the train at a station, I believe they were already on the train...
Notepad, Address Book and Calendar are already tightly integrated into My Yahoo, which is what the current Yahoo homepage was originally derived from. Delicious was always an outsider in comparison.

Because of that tight integration, I guess those features are tended to be used by certain coveted audiences of the My Yahoo product - like people monitoring their stock portfolios using My Yahoo. So there's enough of an ad-happy audience using those features to make componentising these features - perhaps as YAP modules - throughout the range of Yahoo sites.

Though, as I understood it, Yahoo notepad hasn't had any tender loving care for years (it was something I was interested in redeveloping during my time at Yahoo). It's not much more than a persistent textarea (unlike the defunct Google notebook that had far richer structure)
Yup, it was a pint. I have a wicked scar over my left eye as a memento. I had to get stitches but I'm an Aussie citizen so I didn't have to pay for the ER. That said, try hailing a cab at 9:00am in Sydney with a busted hand (I caught up with him later, it's a long story) facial stitches, and a shirt covered in blood.

But yeah, fighting is an incredibly bad idea. Sorry to hear about your mate, that sucks.

//edit:
This is a photo of me just after I got home that morning:

http://droppingbombsonyourmom.com/photos/banged-up.jpg
At least that's who vocalized having been affected. For all we know, the disabled majority could have been Men, but didn't care enough to complain about it on Twitter.
What if you could use a facebook app on your mobile phone to text your buddy for free ?
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As a guy who's been training boxing for a year or so I can safely say his guard stance makes no sense. Not even in Irish boxing, which is basically what a barfight is.

Your strong arm should be your back arm, that way you can rotate your whole body when you punch and put a lot more weight into it.