jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's not about whether the 'election was stolen' and the court cases weren't in regard to 'fraud'. The court cases were on whether or not the federal government had the right to audit the state votes. The court cases decided that no, you can't. The states have all the power to run their own elections on their own accord, fraud be damned.
Austria and Germany also report lower total ICU capacities than 1 year ago before the start of the pandemic. Weird...
I'm curious if this will be possible 10 years from now. A single corporation to be able to censor a president. No matter who that president is or what is she/he saying. What if that corporation is led by someone else with totally different political views or motivation?
Seriously? Both only have crappy web apps that you basically tunnel messages through your phone (at least that's what I remember) and are tied to a specific mobile device with entire companies being built around the apparently extremely complicated task of moving WhatsApp messages around.

Meanwhile, the Telegram desktop client is at feature-parity with the phone app with both running entirely independently on as many devices as you want.
This is a situation where there is nothing Jetbrains can say to totally remove doubt given the link to Russia. It is akin to the famous question: "Do you still beat your wife?"

I certainly hope they don't [beat their wife]... I love Jetbrains software.
i guess that makes white males minorities.
I like his suggestion to replace 'Standard Model' with the name 'Core Theory'

"The quantum revolution gave this revelation: we’ve finally learned what
Matter is. The necessary equations are part of the theoretical structure
often called the Standard Model. That yawn-inducing name fails to convey
the grandeur of the achievement, and does not serve fundamental physics
well in its popular perception. I’m going to continue my campaign, begun
in The Lightness of Being, to replace it with something more appropriately
awesome:
Standard Model → Core Theory"
As far as intimacy and close privacy are concerned...why not just go email.
People will upload these "intimate or personal" pictures ...and then later complain about privacy concerns. Why all this struggle and buzz.
If you want privacy, stay offline or go email.no need for a new app for that. Seriously.
In fact, just writing the light cones for an event with two different frames of reference will yield the same result. One of those fun little first-year special relativity results.
So another photo sharing app but with some personal network theory wrapped around it in its limitations?

These guys have been working on this for a long time, and atm the app looks like a prototype. In the interim instagram and a dozen other services went out, launched, and gained traction.

You can talk about the network theory stuff but most users aren't interested in that

I hate being Mr Negative, I am just a bit underwhelmed considering the hype - these guys have already been covered a lot in the national mainstream press
TSA is pushing forward sexual revolution -- there is no place for sexual shyness in the new world.

If you think about it: TSA pisses off both Liberals and Conservatives now. I wonder how long would it last.
No, you can't. Not yet, anyway.
They must think this will allow them to sell 20 more Windows licenses a year...
And how fiction came to be in the first person? Sounds like a valley girl telling a storey to her friends.
The newspaper (and my) headline is kind of misleading, the gene was discovered in 2007, the link to obesity is what is new.
We can only hope that they are working on providing their own cloud-based service now that developers are going to have to find ways to easily and reliably test in IE6, IE7, IE8, and IE9.
Suppose you have a number k in mind, and you discover that whenever that number divides a product mn, then your chosen number divides one or the other (or both) of the multiplicands.

In shorthand, your number k satisfies k|mn => k|m or k|n

Alternative formulation: k|mn and not(k|m) => k|n

This is an interesting property to have, and has arisen several times in different contexts and different places. 17 is a number like that, and so are 37, 41, 43, 101, 103 and 257.

Such numbers as k are called "prime."
Tether, though...
I would not at all be surprised if the long load time made for a sunk cost that kept people playing for longer sessions rather than picking it up for less than half an hour at a time.
what is being tested is not that the _average_ active investor won't beat the market, but that it's impossible (or very hard) to pick a set of active investors that would beat the market.
If you like mate then stop by The Mate Factor if you're ever in Ithaca. It's run by a cult whose religion somehow requires them to make the best mate in the world. You have to be part of the religion to work there, so I was seriously thinking about converting for a couple months just to learn how to make some of their drinks and food items.
> In the span of just a few days I received an outpouring of emails from fellow ‘vegan’ bloggers, who told me in confidence that they weren’t really vegan ‘behind the scenes’.

> I even received emails from two very prominent and well respected members of the vegan AR community. One a published and much loved vegan cook book author, the other a noted animal rights blogger, their emails detailed their health struggles and eventual unpublicized return to eating meat.

This pisses me off the most, and what makes veganism look like a religion to me. You learn much more from being wrong, and talking about being wrong, than from standing by a point of view because it's popular.
He's been here almost 10 times as long as you have. I wouldn't be so quick to blow him off.

At the moment, nine people have voted up a comment on Matt's story that asserts that Matt's real issue is that he supports the TSA. I think that supports his point somewhat.
Try adding a few crushed cardamom pods to a pot of black tea, they add a fantastic flavor. Milk is of course required.
How social sites devolve.

Many social sites start with a small community of thoughtful, intelligent people because they were created by those people. Certainly this is how reddit started, and HackerNews after it. Then as the site becomes more popular, the masses (and particularly the immature masses) join up. As the masses join up they start outnumbering the founders, and the center of gravity of the site moves towards the lowest common denominator. This makes the site even more interesting to the masses, who join in greater numbers, and so on.

Current sites are on different positions on this timeline right now. At the far end is HackerNews. Reddit is more devolved -- because it's older and because of the digg debacle. Then probably comes digg. At the far end of the sewer of the masses is 4chan. But make no mistake: all these sites are gravitating towards 4chan-ness. It is unavoidable. Our only hope is that as sites slip towards oblivion, new ones take their place at the top of the hierarchy.

I suspect the #1 reason why these sites devolve is because their handles are anonymous. This gives you leave to be a jackass where you'd never do that in reality.

I have decided to test this. On reddit or digg or whatnot I have my own name as a handle for official announcements, and of course I have various anonymous accounts, including novelty accounts. I'm sure that's the case for everyone here. But on HN I solely post under my own name, and have no anonymous accounts at all. Numerous times I'd write some snarky thing on HN only to delete it at the last minute as I realized that this was going out under my real name. As a result I think my comment quality has been radically better and more thoughtful than it has been on, say, reddit.

I still think the flow is unavoidable. But I wonder if HN could at least slow the inevitable flow towards oblivion by requiring real names.
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Well driving assistance are mostly about assistance.

While Tesla allows for and gives the impression of it doing more than that, when it can't. You are expected to react within a split second at any time. Actually just driving the car is a way simpler task than supervising someone else that has unintuitive blind spots.

Something that google discovered early on and anyone that thinks about it realize. A car that mostly drives itself is way more dangerous than a car without any assistance at all.

Ask Uber.
I assume he meant because the difference turns out to be small enough to be barely significant. (And possibly completely in-.)
Wait, Lynx runs youtube just fine?
Okay - I understand. And use what, though? Pirate Bay? Maybe launch a startup that has only public-domain videos to start?

There has to be a good solution.
I take your point and I understand that you could get that impression looking at the website; they have stuff to sell.

There's also more of a market for some of that stuff, and the reason is the huge proliferation of different PHP execution environments. PHP runs in more places and there are more opportunities to help correct for the limitations of those environments (with log monitoring tools and the like).

(Also -- contrarywise as they say -- PHP does _not_ run first-class in some serverless environments; you need a custom execution environment for PHP in Lambda. So there's an opportunity there.)

But as a developer experience it is really not commercialised at all. I do not look at or think of any of those things, and I've not encountered any significant upselling. I'd forgotten all about Forge until you mentioned it! (And will now revisit it)
I'd bet there's a non-zero chance your exchange counterparty at one of these groups is an undercover cop.
No, I didn't! PHP's string and array types are neither immutable nor a reference type. In this way they are very different from what Python, JavaScript etc do.
what do you do about sealioning

Interesting - in the talk.origins days this was called the "Gish Gallop".

In practice, everyone who debates you is sealioning you because they don't see what is so clearly obvious to you. And they just never stop being wrong! And if they weren't wrong, wouldn't they be able to change your mind? Ergo, they're wrong!
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makes as much sense as the bible
Well, I'm already feeling sorry for the people in 2020/2021

However, even sadder than that would be having no accident because nothing flew
> "Ejabberd is a famous open source Jabber server written in Erlang… The next few years were spent re-writing and modifying quite a few parts of ejabberd, including switching from XMPP"

Anyone looked at what WhatsApp sends over the wire these days? I wonder what it is? A binary protocol?
does anyone know where they were hosted? did they colo or use a msp?
http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/27/meet-telegram-a-secure-mess...
This is the most clear piece of writing I've read in awhile. No fluff. No big words. Clear sentences. And great content. Thanks,
Arbitrary rules & restrictions on behavior aren't fun, even if you don't intend to break them.

I'd rather go somewhere without them.
Why don't you ask the author? pg@ycomb...com
As the author points out, all those success stories are known because the worked out. He then goes on to lament the companies that failed because their founders gave up too early. But there are also companies that failed even though their founders never gave up, and we never hear about those, either.
Don't you think that it is a stupid name? Why should it be a zero-sum game?
Also, I still do eat with spoon, fork and a knife, but I do not call that "war on spork".
There are already very good porn videos with celebrities, probably not as good as this, but is just a matter of time.
The barriers to enter are really low, you don’t need the already-powerful groups.
I'm not quite sure what you're asking about the 'two main problems of CSS' - can you explain more about what's problematic about defining 'local styles' or updating styles dynamically?

CSS custom properties, which already do have browser support, are a wonderful example of allowing JS to set values that CSS is able to take and use dynamically - check out libraries like Splitting.js or ScrollMagic for examples of applications of that.

Houdini worklets (pluggable Layout, Paint, Animation worklets) are definitely coming - this is what's currently being worked on as well as the 'Typed Object Model' for CSS where they're tightening the bolts and helping JS become aware of the different values and types inside the CSS language.

Also, when looking at support, keep in mind that as of Jan 15th, Edge will have the same support as Chrome :D
Has he seen the political ads that ran on local television over the last 30-40 years?

I can't believe people WANT Facebook to ascertain the veracity of political ads. How do you do that? How does Facebook look at an ad for something like the recently proposed 'Green New Deal' and apply a truth value to it? And if they do 'allow' it, now it's an implicit statement of support for the position (the way Twitter's blue-check marks are a de facto mark of some kind of recognition by Twitter) and if they disallow it, it's not.
Yeah, I don't agree with people advocating for violence against me. That's why I don't want it in my social circles. What's wrong with that? Why do you support hate speech? Do you agree with it?
Most, if not all, points have been made before. That doesn’t make them less important.

We need more officials with common sense—and I’d like to say we need officials with guts, but it seems there is one with guts, who made it to president of a very large country, lacking all other attributes one would expect from a world leader, so obviously guts is not enough—and integrity. Most cases are not gray-zone free speech or not. Most cases are pretty damn clear cut.
I have this setup for my parents to allow them to print to their chromebooks. This will be annoying as heck to replace.
I should have checked Wikipedia at least, who link to a 2005 CNET story on the Where 2 acquisition. - https://www.cnet.com/news/google-mapper-take-browsers-to-the...

It looks like a talent acquisition: the Where 2 codebase was a C++ app, nothing to do with the Ajax implementation they rolled out.

I'd be interested in learning more about this story.
You have to be joking. Demand for ML skills, especially scaling in production, is off the charts.
To say there's no "deep state" is a contradiction of very clear reality. Whatever you call them, the doyens of the DC establishment are permanent members of our government.

Chomsky and Peter Dale Scott were some of the first to use the "deep state" terminology, and I have no idea how you could call them or their philosophy "right-aligned." The deep state, as Eisenhower warned of it (though by the name of the military-industrial complex), is very real. Further to your point that pointing this out is to be "right-aligned," Weinstein is/was a Bernie supporter.

If you want to argue that opposing these sick and deeply entrenched power structures is "right-aligned," I'll gladly adopt the label.
Yeah, it was a disaster for Keybase IMO. My messaging tools are already valuable enough to me, the last thing I wanted was a reward on hacking it. When keybase did their Stellar drop, I didn't activate it and it was just a nagging option in the UI forever.

I don't like using SMS for 2FA because it encourages people to social engineer the phone company to port the victim's phone numbers. I wouldn't want crypto in my messaging app for a similar reason.

Right now hacking a user's Signal account means you get some txt messages. Big deal. With payments there is now real reason to try to hack Signal accounts because some percentage of them will contain money.
Such is the unintended (?) consequence of the "right to be forgotten"
>But even when it is uncontroversial to call the subject depicted a "child", that is no excuse for censorship. Having a photo or drawing does not hurt anyone
You are taking his arguments out of context.

Everything out of context will sound strange.
But RMS is one of the main reasons why there is any free software in first place. Without his obsession, it would be long destroyed.
Northern European/Scandinavian countries got a pass for things that got Latin Americans slaughtered. I'll give you as many guesses as you need to figure out why.

Hint: resources or hegemony

| Also why would only the dictators survive?

Because they ruthlessly crush their political enemies and live in a state of constant paranoia?
Yes.The only billionaires that should exist are the party members of the communist party /s
But why force me (if I link) to change the name I appear as on youtube to be the real one they required for g+ ? I can't believe I'm the only one with things I posted as FooBar42 that I don't want under the name Mr John Smith, not in an age where your name is googled for about anything.
I don't understand Google. They are closing down most projects, including those that have traction because, according to Larry Page, the want to rally around core projects. If that is the case why this?

All this is going to do is kill the motivation of freelancing sites because the dinosaur has entered the room and definitely kill some of them. Yet I doubt they are going to be that of a big player in that niche. sigh
Sadly, I'm pretty sure a lawyer can be compelled to divulge passwords and tokens.
It sounds like a totally reasonable definition to me. All you've done is to repeat over and over again that the definition is stupid, without identifying why it is stupid or how it could be improved. That's why you got downvoted, not because of your opinion.
Wasn't this article on the front page less than a week ago?
How would this be enforced?

I suppose it could end up being more of a problem for the hiring company after this practice became more widely known.
I once had a no name company (getglue) tell me that I need to do a 3-hour programming assignment before I can interview with them

In that case, I would think I was the subject of a psychological experiment entitled, "How far can we push developers".

Although it would be tempting to accept the offer and then write whatever code they asked for in QuickBasic 4.5 (circa 1988) telling them they need to use something more stable than the crap they're using.
>you are statistically less likely to contract airbourne diseases with a mask on.

What are you basing this assessment on? Are all masks equal? Does training in mask application matter? For what duration are different types of masks effective?
Before I saw it I couldn't picture how they could make a front flip happen either
I do international business payments all the time and most of them cost 0.15 EUR and are easy to both accept and send. More expensive ones (those outside the EU) can cost 3 EUR and have a exchange fee of 0.5%. And as far as I can tell prices are going down. I had to pay 0.3 EUR in 2019. Most transactions take like 2 bank days, but that is no big deal since most invoices are for 14 or 30 days.

To me it is unclear what issue there is to solve unless your country has messed up banks.
Dudes, relax, it's just a heuristic, a rough zeroth-order estimate to measure the pace of evolution of a language.
Google doesn't even show any convictions - implying someone should carry a scarlet letter due to allegations is IMO insane.
Potentially but that's not definite. No company will risk profits to invest in an unknown short term demand. They're fine letting people languish so they can ensure maximum profit.
The problem is that the terms of use can change at any time. If I'm choosing infrastructure for my business, for example, I can't be sure I've got a handle on costs if I'm dependent on the availability of a bunch of SaaS services that can change their terms or go out of business at any time. If I use locally-controlled software instead, I can be assured that it will keep running as long as my server keeps running. The goal is to avoid points of failure that can bring your whole infrastructure down.
Yeah, almost as bad as "You need to install Flash Player 10 to view this".
While I agree that all cities won't be car free in 20 years, I do think in 20 years we'll be seeing cities that have "no cars" as one of their major selling points. Personally I consider owning a car in a city an expensive hassle would love to live in a city that has successfully optimized away the need for a car.
You know, I thought maybe you were right, and I somehow misinterpreted, but no:

"But those creative few that want to do something interesting with a UI, or want to use hardware in a new way, or who want to use a more advanced code execution technique are at grave risk."

It seems the authors driving point is the specific clauses regarding hardware, interpreted code, and the conformance to the Apple design guidelines are somehow inhibiting killer apps. This is on its face absurd. Sure, it may inhibit some types of killer apps (like Google Voice), but the stark majority of potential killer apps for mobile certainly can exist within the current guidelines.
I can see the possibility of a framework to take away the complexity of the manifest and the online/offline status - but this is most definitely the basis of webOS, or something very similar.

"Downloading an app" is simply going to the web page when you are online initially, and then adding a (possibly automatically) shortcut to the "desktop."
45 points and no comments?

I've been playing around with html5 local storage, and it's kind of cool for speeding up some operations by caching data that is frequently used, but like any caching, expiration is still potentially tricky.

Also, the really hard and awesome part for me is syncing/merging online-offline - a standard(s) solution for that would be a real killer app enabler. (Because we all are not online 100% of the time, even if only due to spotty reception or on planes, and it sucks not to be able to access your data).