jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is an intriguing proposition, but for the architecture we can trivially prove it false. Just go outside and look at the new developments going up, then go to the library and look at pictures of literal tenements from a hundred years ago.

Even their industrial buildings looked good!
Square and similar terminals aren’t mounted anymore - the vast majority I see these days are wireless wedges that use Bluetooth or some other wireless protocol.
It uses massive amounts of CPU even when idle.

I realize this is common in games, but don't let anyone tell you any different: this is shit code.
Ok, I did not dive to much in the detail.

But I don't think, that repeated rejections would make the patent office happier. First of all, they would create much (political) pressure from the big corporations and second if they reject to much, the number of patent applications would decrease.

Third, they would cash in less maintenance fees.
Haha, well done. Bravo. 👏
It mislead me greatly. The headline is a very surprising claim that they're not participating in the app system at all, ignorant of its benefits. But actually they're already satisfied with the apps they have, and use some of them a lot.
No, being in court with Facebook is only one place where the termination can happen:

>anyone that makes any claim (including by filing any lawsuit, assertion or
other action)

Even just stating that a Facebook patent is invalid terminates your license.

>any right in any patent claim of Facebook is invalid or
unenforceable

Even just stating your belief that software patents are invalid or unenforceable terminates your license.

However, if you read closely, the last paragraph starts out with:

>The license granted hereunder

There isn't actually any license granted after that clause (it occurs before this clause), so I'd argue the entire last paragraph is meaningless puffery.
You still have time to penetrate into the hotels niche.
Cute (and great looking dog). Would be nice to have a way for us to subscribe to Kaira's selfie feed.
So what you're saying is, even though it's ridiculously cold, they still found a way to reduce the number of cars on the road, and it was through more taxes on cars?
Parking in NY is pretty expensive.
The large size of the English lexicon isn't just a result of the Norman invasion and subsequent merging of Old English and Norman French. During the renaissance, a huge number of words were consciously imported into English from classical Greek and Latin by scholars and scientists seeking to make English a better language for learned discourse. The so-called "inkhorn controversy"[1] arose when some other writers objected to all these new, foreign-sounding words, particularly those for which there was already a suitable alternative in English. Despite the objections, many of the new words did gain acceptance, and the English lexicon swelled accordingly.

So it's a little ironic that one of the author's chief complaints is partly a result of scientists trying to turn English into a scientific language in the first place.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkhorn_term
Do you have to connect the HDMI out to anything for that to work?
First of all, other systems in other societies point to that it is not the only possibility. Second, the laws and regulations transform how society views criminals. I think in more modern crime systems (I come from Sweden) criminals are often viewed as victims themselves and the main goal is rehabilitation (quite obvious since it will lead to the most reduction in crime over time).
> You can't receive an alert because that costs something (even if it's a fraction of a cent) to send.

Yea, what a crazy world that would be if AWS just gave each account free stuff like free data transfer for the first gb, or free s3 storage for the first ~100mb
I get the sense that's happening more for show: businesses want people to feel safe coming in; bragging about thorough cleaning procedures is a way of conveying that, whether it works or not
> But once you realize that bill capping doesn't make sense for storage

I'd think you want something like a circuit breaker.. steady costs or slowly increasing costs aren't like to be a problem, but a sudden surge in costs is what I'm concerned with.

Perhaps if it operated like a time-averaged quota.. don't let me incur _new_ costs if I slide too far out of my apparent range. Give me a knob to control that range or temporarily disable it, and maybe a way to monitor those events so I can react to them appropriately for my particular application.
> but with apologies to Mitt Romney, corporations aren't people

I agree corporations are not people but then why are they taxed instead of just the people? This whole country was founded on the principle of "no taxation without representation". Any people or organization being taxed will try to influence politics to improve their tax bill. There is no way around that.

You can have corporate taxes or you can have politics with no corporation meddling but you cannot and will never get both as people who own these corporations will always try to lobby politics one way or another in favor of the corporations.
No. A conference call allows anyone to talk whenever they want.
You prefer laypeople debating to scientific consensus?

Because scientific guidance already involves debate within the scientific community, just with people actually qualified to debate it.

It seems some people are taken aback by their exclusion, but no one is stopping you from becoming a virologist and partaking in the debate.
Have you ever been to a panel discussion? It’s like that.
>He does not have any right to a particular job

No offense but I find this argument to be in bad faith. You would not say that for someone being fired due to being lgbt, would you? (whether it is legal or not is irrelevant here as this is about moral rights)

He was not ostracized because they found him "not competent to serve the organization in a leadership role" but rather because they were outraged at his opinions (combined with a misrepresentation of his statements along with lies and half-truths -- the pleasure cards, the mit office label, etc).

>Many people, including FSF board members, believed he was not competent to serve the organization in a leadership role.

It would be great if these people too didn't try to misrepresent what he said. Such as in http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
Never said the Android method was superior (I think a good analogy is Android is the Myspace to iOS's Facebook), just pointing out that pigeonholing Android as pure function over warmth is BS that people like Gruber like to say to marginalize Android as a neckbeard loser's choice instead the massively popular general OS that it is.
I love reading about this type of hacking/debugging, where they disassemble the binary and patch it.

Can anyone recommend a youtube video where I can watch (not necessarily learn) people doing this sort of work? I'm in the mood for some vicarious hacking :-)
You say that, but at least it was an actual technological product. These days you get Buzzfeed whose product is "lists" and Upworthy whose product is "misleading headlines".
We’ve tried to make it as powerful as the platform allows — there are limitations to how large iOS allows the blocklist to be.

What other features from Adblockers are you missing with Insight that would be helpful?
My understanding is that while the abort was automated, it was triggered because the engineers manually held the countdown and the launch window was only one second. Humans set the automatic limits, anyways.
http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2014/09/23/ppc-for-b2b-sof...

http://www.wordstream.com/articles/most-expensive-keywords

These are the two main links I am going by.
Agree. Different ideas have different execution and value potential: for example an idea to dig a cubic foot hole in the ground in the middle of nowhere has a different potential than an idea about how to solve the financial crisis.
Custom designed phones likely wouldn't work that great for the first gen or two, but no reason they would work just as well as PC's after that. Hell, I could finally get the 1 pound batteries filled phone of my dreams.
I'm still entirely unimpressed with HTML5's audio capabilities, and this 'showcase' does nothing to improve upon that. Press this button to play a 30 second sample? Browsers were capable of that in the mid nineties.

If they showed me a game with a background track and multiple layered, triggerable sounds (like just about any Flash game or iPhone game out there) I would have been a little more satisfied.

The gallery was also suprisingly sluggish on my core 2 quad machine with a somewhat super duper video card.
Best in Class is what? some kind of editor?
I completely agree. The sad fact is while countries like India built great Internet infrastucture in the past, Turkey has lagged in this regard. Many users and companies have to live with a slow connection. Sudden connection failures are not uncommon. This is one major reason why Turkey's Internet-based business has lagged greatly behind, compared to other sectors (the other major one being that there is no reliable, cheap postal service in Turkey, like in the US).
potential solution is to pitch it as an "eco"/self-sufficient living place - that probably syncs with the main force behind the project anyway.

You will find that attracts more women.
I own a Chromecast and like all about it except it's ability to play oyur own content. I understand why they forbid it, but for the same reasons I'm using it much mroe rarely than I would otherwise. Additionally this could have easily been an addition to the original Chromecast via a simple extractor.
"Little Johnny Tables". Um, yes, that was "Little Bobby Tables" [1]. Obviously not a big deal, but it seems emblematic of how sloppy this piece is. The article confuses – seemingly willfully, since Paul Vixie should know better – the concepts of dynamic language, dynamic page generation, lack of proper input hygiene, and various other orthogonal issues. The argument that dynamic languages are less secure depends an awful lot on the language – I don't think anyone is going to buy that C is more secure than Python. Haskell vs Python? Now that's a debate to be had. Certainly, websites that do no dynamic content generation are probably more secure – but then you're stuck with the Internet circa 1993. And of course, nobody is in favor not sanitizing inputs properly.

[1] http://xkcd.com/327/
Also try youtubedown in place of youtube-dl - I think it works with a bigger percentage of videos.

http://www.jwz.org/hacks/#youtubedown
> Can democratic state do without any secret service at all? I don't mean not to have "operational" security.

The secrecy there is in place today is all "operational", there are no other kinds. The problem is defining what constitutes as being within the scope of a legitimate operation, and especially the asymmetrical nature of defining it (only the people know a secret can reason about it, and they are rarely the best people to make the decision).

> There should be no blank exceptions to free speech

You're confusing "free speech" in the constitutional sense with something else, which seems to amount to outlawing private agreements to not divulge certain information. Your definition of free speech would cover my right to post the root password to my employers servers on 4chan and my employer having no recurse against me.

Constitutional free speech exclusively concerns the governments right to decide what you can say. A newspaper or website deciding you can't "speak" on their property is not a free speech issue in the constitutional sense.

> I envision a platform

Your envisioned platform is essentially wikipedia. You have a somewhat naive notion of "truth" - the truth in any half-way juicy issue have a very high number of facets and nuances that frequently allows honest and well meaning people to disagree on fundamental issues, which means compromises will have to be struck where those disagreements can't reasonably co-exist. This is a feature, not a bug, in a pluralistic society.
Writing to your MP (or governor, or senator) is akin to a slave begging his master. I don't mean to say you're a slave, but generations later, people may see this arrangement we have with our governments in this very way. It doesn't matter that we were told to believe our governments work for us. It doesn't take long to realize that we were told this precisely because it's not so. The power they have is so much greater that it'd be completely unnatural if they ever listened to what the people were asking them to do. They don't care. They only care that you think things are getting better or at least not getting worse. They don't care about what things really are. So I suggest people stop fooling themselves about civilized societies and democracies. There are none.
Whenever I've asked this same question, there are always a few who say "stop being complacent, get out and become an anarchist" but that is completely unfeasible for most individuals. Becoming a radical requires a complete and fundamental lifestyle change. That's not something that the general population can get on board with.

I'm yet to find a good way to incite change without having to dedicate your life to a cause. Like the OP, I'm open to suggestions.
Valid point :-) I think they'd be wise to sell access to the source for more money again. Certainly lots of organizations are keen to access that for safety.
Where did I make that assumption?

Concentrating on device resolution ignores many of the other bits of information a browser has when deciding which images to load. What happens when the device pixel ration is < 2, but the device is zoomed on the web page? What about slow connections on retina devices, or users who prefer to load things faster by getting lores images (something specifically called out in the spec)? Or some new browser which gets incredible first page render speeds by loading thumbnails of all images, and only loading hires images for those displayed? Or scripts which want to enumerate images and choose a certain resolution, independent of the intended display size?

This proposal is just making life easier for browser makers who want to cater for 2 resolutions in a hurry (ipad Retina, iPad), not for the people reading pages or creating them, and it puts the decision as to which image to render in the wrong place anyway IMHO. That should be a browser decision, based on data in the HTML.
In both the US and UK, the authors of their respective anti-terror laws are now trying to distance themselves from the predictable consequences of the laws they passed, i.e. that governments tend to overreach and loosely-written legislation enables this.
Thanks!
Actually I wasn't sure people will understand all the ideas I have put in this animation. But you have perfectly described what I wanted to tell, I'm impressed!
I'm not so surprised. If this were a proper use of the law it would be a much stronger case for the Greenwald/Snowden side -- in that case it would be clear that the law should be changed.

If this was a misapplication of the law then all that's called for is a slap on the wrist for the people who detained Miranda and an official apology. They might get some extra oversight out of it, but that's a stretch. Probably just a few internal memos so future actions don't raise such a stink.
The guy's a dumbass. If you're making money off your site, it's a business, just that simple.

It does cost a few 100$ every year, but if you get income from anything other than W-2 jobs, you'd better have an accountant.

I've definitely had little accidents in my filings and minor trouble with the IRS but my experience is that, with the help of an accountant and some common sense, these problems can be worked out easily
Bit of a tangent here...

As a UI designer I find comments to these types of questions always a bit interesting. Don't get me wrong, I am happy to see folks thinking about the inclusion of design input initially. But what I find kinda amusing is that there is this tendency to quickly begin classifying designers (rightly so into visual & workflow), but the same discussion never happens for the term technical.

Your question simply says technical, and the community just accepts the term. I have work with many "technicals" who could code a front end but their work failed because they knew nothing about latency, back end architecture or scaling. And I have worked with many back end technical folks who felt the display layer was the work of junior people as it is not "the hard stuff". Like designers, technical folks fall into two camps as well - and very few excel at both.

Not looking to start a discussion war. Just want to state that the more legs you can put under your idea, the more balanced it will be. Apple succeeds for many reasons, but one thing is true - they have the culture and more importantly the infrastructure to assemble a large team of highly talented and focused individuals.
Sorry, what's the proposed limitation? It's presumably not a rule against saying "fire" at all, since that what fire alarms are for.

I presume you mean that the limitations on speech take the form of punishments after the fact for saying "fire" when there wasn't one. I agree this is sensible.

But I think it's an important point that we can't (and shouldn't, and don't) ban people entirely from shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre, because if they're right, it's important to know.

I think it's worth discussing this more fleshed-out example, because it shows that in order to limit speech without shutting down useful information, you need to have some sort of trusted fact-finding apparatus to punish false alarms, which then become an important locus of power.
That's how power grabs always work - just like the Patriot Act. They draft unconstitutional, draconian bills and have them sitting on the shelf waiting for a crisis (real or imagined) so that they can roll them out and get people to sign on out of a sense of fear.
Paying mortgage isn't exactly slavery. Inappropes.
Is this a race to Godwin's law?
ACH takes "business" days. Bitcoin takes hours, 24/7.
Does it work the other way around, too? E.g., if live in New Hampshire and work remotely for a New York company, do I have to pay the NY income tax?
You are right. I will keep the edit as is.
We're in the beginnings of a new Cold War with China, and we're not winning.
> Fission was discovered in 1938/1939 and we dropped two bombs on Japan in 1945.
> No chance we could do something like that in this toxic environment of today.

Excellent!
Eventually you hit a ceiling, and there aren't companies that pay better than your current employer. You're getting raises each time you switch jobs because your experience & job performance qualifies you for jobs at progressively more economically successful businesses, which both can and will pay you better. This can't last forever: eventually you get to the "center" of your industry, the set of companies with more money than everyone else, and you're better off performing better within them than finding another job.

(Or alternatively, you find a fast-growing startup that's growing faster than the wealthiest companies in your industry, hop on the ground floor for stock options, and ride the stock up. Once that happens you don't need money, though.)
My guess is they have a “thundering herd” problem when a few critical threads get lots of traffic, and any workaround is still manual because it’s delicate surgery. Pure speculation however, I’ve no inside knowledge.
The employer does not benefit from having an employee hanging around just because they can't afford to exercise their options. If they want to leave but can't because they have this huge potential for loss hanging over them does the company really benefit from having them there when they don't want to be?
Uber is a great service that most people enjoy using and won't be (easily?) destroyed by bad management behaviors. At least as long at they keep making good management decisions and partnerships. And they are doing exactly that.
The Takata airbag and GM ignition switch issues are comparable, IMO.

"If the air bag housing ruptures in a crash, metal shards from the air bag can be sprayed throughout the passenger cabin—a potentially disastrous outcome from a supposedly life-saving device."
Google is going downhill for the past few years. Maybe a lack of focus on products that made them what they are? But exploiting both users and advertisers is not a new phenomenon for them. After all, everyone using Google knows this and accepts it. The main problem is that it is starting to affect their products significantly.
my university acquired one this past fall. Not sure if it was donated (probably) or the CS department just decided "we want one" and got it.

Right now, it just sits in a corner on the third floor of our CS building, waiting for people to come buy and play chess or whatever. It's not used much.
One can make a 1:1 mapping from XML to JSON, but it is going to be verbose.

{
'tag': 'Foo',
'children': [
'Some text',
{
'tag': 'Bar',
'children': ['more text']
}
]
}

or (hello, LISP)

['Foo', ['Some text', ['Bar', ['more text']]]]
Bingo. The effectiveness of a textual evidence pales in comparison to photographic evidence.

Sexually explicit images are quite useful for blackmailing.
Funny that you should mention the Whole Earth Catalog, as Stewart Brand has been heavily involved in this venture.

TED Radio Hour did a piece on this in a recent show. It's worth a listen:

http://www.npr.org/2013/08/10/209178988/the-hackers?showDate...
I miss the ability to be in an office, but I must say: my biggest obstacle to productivity during COVID-19 WFH has been COVID-19 related stress and depression, and related familial issues.

I thought WFH was doomed to be low productivity and highly distracting. And to be honest, it is. But so was the office environment. On a good WFH day, I will be way more productive than any day in an office could ever be.

The fact that some companies are deciding to not offer permanent WFH, especially as people are trying to deal with familial issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, is going to do some harm to them, in my opinion.
Saying it is a false friend is just a repetition of what I just said. In English it is a euphemism, like "going out" means being involved in a romance. Traduce- means to translate, as a euphemism it becomes to distort. The only way to know what the word means in English is to know what the word means in English; there's no hinting other than context, and the contexts of the two possible meanings could be very similar.

It's obviously not an incorrect usage, just an unnecessarily alienating one.
hacker101.com and join the community Discord. There's a ton of Bug Bounty hunting content on the internet. Plenty of room to explore and find your niche.
same with me. it has my number from deleted facebook account
Your employer will be saving on rent, utilities, insurance, etc. Don't offer to cut your pay.
> not have connection pooling

Local connection pooling only goes a very small way to mitigate this issue. If you have enough servers hitting PG, you're going to need to add in something like PgBouncer sooner or later.
I just migrated to PythonAnywhere.com and it was a breeze. They also have browser access to command line, REPL, Jupyter notebooks too.
At this point, it's clear we don't know precisely what the risks are, thus it's not possible to say the 'risks' outweigh the benefits, and the product should be pulled.

It's unclear what level of side effects or potentially deaths would have to be in order for the product to be removed from the market. If it was another class of drug, it would have been removed by now.
You're not responding to the GP's argument. They're saying that tax revenue has increased faster than median income, and this hasn't addressed income inequality at all. Why would taking more even faster do anything different?

"If we need more tax revenue" isn't a foregone conclusion. It might be the answer but there's at least some evidence to the contrary.