jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Still better then russians: ten, twenty, thirty, bag of furs, fifty, sixty, ...
Well, it also affects certain AMD and ARM processors as far as I know, I was just talking about a specific example. If software can be exploited because of a bug in hardware, I think it only makes sense to assign liability to the hardware company.
Or when you just landed on the other side of the planet and don't have a good internet access (or it costs $$/Mb): the app is still expected to work, because you need your ride right now
Good for you, very individualist, looking out for yourself.

That said, the vast majority of people is not aware this is happening, will just hit 'agree' on anything that asks permission, etc. The only thing protecting them is legislation. It's up to people like you and me that are actually aware of these things to fight back.

I mean if it wasn't for 'us', tech- and privacy savvy people, secure and encrypted communications, privacy laws, etc would not be nearly as much of a thing that they are now.

That service you mentioned mentions that data will be exported to the US: https://www.di.fm/member/privacy. They don't seem to mention what user statistics or tracking they do though.
We knew spills are bad before the Deepwater Horizon spill, however the estimates of environmental damage (for the worst case scenario foreseen) were far smaller than what has already occurred with the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Why? Because spills of the magnitude of this one are quite rare. But, like any low probability event, as the time horizon increases the probability approaches 1.

Obama knows that another spill is very unlikely to happen soon, so he is under no pressure to create a new regulatory environment that actually reduces that probability.

The gulf is a public resource, and so the question for the American people should be something along the lines of: If we are likely to get a Deepwater Horizon level spill every 20 years, should we still allow drilling? My guess is that (barring misinformation) most Americans would agree that we should absolutely not allow any offshore drilling at all.

Offshore drilling in the US does not have a meaningful impact on oil/gas prices as experienced by consumers. It simply enriches the firms that extract that oil, but not enough is extracted to significantly impact the market price of a global commodity.

Supporters of offshore drilling claim that gas would be $10 at the pump without it... which is total nonsense. If anything we'd see about a $0.05 increase per gallon at the pump.

What is your explanation for why Obama is not doing more to create systematic reforms that decrease the chances of another spill? It sounds like you think he wisely views the risk as acceptably low.
Misinformation: when your lived experience doesn’t match the government reports. Don’t tell anyone if this happens.
The modern incarnation of this is CrossFit, http://www.crossfit.com.
How come the asshole bosses always end up finding people that will 'take it' ?
Honest Criticism: Too slow. I don't like being put on hold. Please just make it fast.
Rather than getting rid of 'limerent' feelings, is it possible to channel them into motivation for something else? For instance, Y loves unobtainable woman X, but sees there's no reason why X should want Y, therefore sets about a disciplined program of self-improvement and wealth/prospect/prestige-accumulation in the hope that X may one day be attracted.

It comes back to the universal problem of how to focus ones mind in order to become more productive.
Same. Registering a new account took ~1min. Waiting to add a movie to favourites - around 30 sec. Way too slow.
> There's no upside.

Do you know any police officers? They frequently retire in their 40s with their living expenses covered for the rest of their lives. To generate that much passive income in another job typically would require a person to accumulate $2 million or more.
As you said:

> This is Destiny saying that if it takes someone committing mass murder to stop property damage, it is justified. There's no two ways about it.

“If [...], then justified” is an ethical statement — and as you say, there’s no two ways about interpreting it.

You simply lack the intellectual honesty to admit your own summary of the statement plainly shows it’s an ethical statement, not an incitement to violence.

You disagree with the statement, so you’re making emotional, inconsistent arguments to try discrediting it.

The only person “weaseling” is you — who are contradicting yourself and refusing to address my points.
What is an example of something done much better by a closed source database (compared to open source)?
I really like this "1-1" answer. That's very creative :)

But honestly, compare each one of these answers to js's official workaround calling the Number() constructor on the primitive string value and attempting to convert to a number since the subtraction operator is only defined for number and then proceeding to complete the operation.

For me, it looks very logical and convincing given that the language is loosely typed and it breaks her heart that it fails any of its loved users :)
What about ping seems stupid? It seems really straightforward - send something out and wait for the echo.
It's a patch to apply to the linux kernel. I guess you can assume GPLv2.
I disagree, Emacs isn't a "full gui app" even if it has a gui with menus and can show images etc.; because almost all kind of interaction happens inside buffers opened in (new) windows. there are no proper dialogs/popups (they're not used even if it's possible), so Emacs is not a proper GUI app as anyone would expect.

I don't claim it's a good or bad thing, a lot of people love emacs because of it's buffer/window centric approach, but it's not even remotely close to what you would expect from a modern gui, so Emacs is still oddball when compared to all the other gui's, which is why new users still struggle with it even though on paper Emacs has all the features other gui editors have.
> Notification of a personal data breach to the supervisory authority.

Not users. FB had probably done that already.
Use the Engineer Montgomery Scott method. Overestimate the length of time for a project by 300%. Tell management it will take 3 weeks, get it done in 1 week and let management know it is finished in 2 weeks. You look like a genius and scored a free week.
The problem is who judges the Adams and decide that they are assholes. People are worried that the judge will not be fair and it will be biased in favor of some ideology.
What is the record of our corporations? When did our multinationals become paragons of moral virtue and arbiters of righteousness? Do you think companies will only do things you like with this new found power?
I invite you to peaceful evening walk through Venice Beach, CA.
getting rid of unions is also a problem, maybe limit the powers of public service unions.

They are allowed to work for pension increase, wages, vacation time, but not allowed to touch disciplinary situations?
Most humans enjoy being comfortable. Costs (financial and ecological) ignored, it's safe to say that a large portion of the population would choose to proceed quickly from point A to B in the comfort of a private enclosed vehicle.

Obviously this desire needs to be balanced with environmental protection, practicality and accommodation of those who legitimately want to cycle or walk. There are a few technologies coming down the pipeline that should help achieve a compromise between all of these:

-mass electrification of vehicles

-pervasive small-diameter tunneling: The jury's still out on whether this can be done cheaply enough, but if this works out, it completely solves the urban scaling problem. Passenger vehicular traffic in cities can be pushed down into the ground, freeing up existing space for cyclists and pedestrians. Parallel tunnels can be trivially added when specific routes require additional capacity.

-self-driving vehicles: Self-driving taxi services would reduce the demand for personal ownership of vehicles, thereby reducing the total ecological burden.

I'm in complete agreement with you that automobile-oriented transportation, as implemented today, is completely awful. That doesn't mean we should reject the human element, and force people to do things they don't want to, when technological progress can allow us to satisfy those wants responsibly.
> Thank goodness for old.reddit.com but I don't know what all of the users who have starting using the old subdomain are going to do when they eventually shut it off.

I looked it up once, and Spez mentioned somewhere that they plan to keep it alive indefinitely. Although this can always change in the future of course, given that i.reddit.com is still online, I'd say that Reddit has a pretty good track record of keeping old versions alive for people who want it.

The biggest issue is that some new features aren't supported, like ``` ... ``` code blocks which render badly. I looked at the new reddit code to see if I could hack around that in some way by ajaxing the new Markdown in to the old reddit or something, but turns out it's rendering all the Markdown in the browser... which is probably one reason it's so slow.

As for why it's so bad ... I don't know. Last time I used it I couldn't even scroll with more than ~2fps; it was truly horrid. I think there's probably an interesting engineering tale here somewhere, but AFAIK it's never been made public by a (former) reddit engineer.

Interestingly, Gab is very similar in its technical horridness (and before people get the wrong idea: I just registered to see what's going on there).

> Apart from constant connection errors, lots of the time the site "forgets" I'm logged in, then all a sudden remembers, actively bombards users on mobile to install their app

I use reddit most days, and I never had any of these kind of issues. I set it to prefer old.reddit.com in a distant past and it has kept working for me ever since without issues.

Maybe some anti-tracking thingies can make a difference here? I use uBlock Origin + Cookie autodelete in Firefox, but reddit.com is whitelisted.
The entire point of these generated subdomains is that you do not have to buy a domain name...
I realize this is controversial but from reading the docs I really thought Pipenv was the official solution. Took me a while to realize this wasn't the case.
Weird...

ruby-1.8.7-p302 > [].respond_to? :exec
=> false

Guess I shouldn't trust it. (Also, I originally ran Array.respond_to?...)
When you're raising a brilliant kid and want him to have a good academic work ethic, you have to hold him to standards that don't have any other pragmatic justification. They raised their standards to a level that made him work hard in school, which is perfectly appropriate. There are other things they could have done, such as home-schooled him, pushed him to excel at academic extracurriculars (if they were available), or forced him to abandon his friends and attend university early, but they may not have been aware of those options, and pushing him to do well in school is a decent approach. Holding a kid that smart to "reasonable" standards means allowing him not to work at all, which means he's in for a big shock when he gets to the real world and realizes that sitting around being 20% smarter than everybody else isn't actually rewarded (or rewarding).

He doesn't say precisely what he's complaining about. Since everything else seems to have worked out well for him, I can only speculate that maybe he has some personal problems he attributes to the way he was raised -- but who doesn't? It's much easier to understand how our own problems could have been avoided than to imagine the problems we would have had if we were raised differently.

P.S. Any other mistake parents make -- like making a kid feel deficient or unloved -- is separate from holding them to high standards and making them work hard. If a kid's feeling of being loved or being a valid human being hinges on what his parents say about his grades, they've screwed something else up already, and they can't fix it just by giving a thumbs-up to his grades.

P.P.S. Just wanted to clarify I'm not presuming to talk about details of the real Kim here; I'm talking about a situation we've extrapolated from a few words in the article, which is as good as hypothetical.
"Never make decisions when you are depressed" <--- this is gold. Learned it the hard way.
"translating" Python examples into relatively idiomatic Ruby shouldn't too much of a problem if you really want to go down that path

Really good point -- thanks for that.
As an application developer, I applaud effective rights management. The OEMs should not have exposed the slot, and were cautioned against doing so.
Nah, I'm sure you're right if you take it literally. There was supposed to be an implied "among people who gave a crap about their computers."
Besides that, the iPhone is the phenomenal success it is not because of its long list of features. It has famously lacked features other phones have had for years, exactly because Apple's focus is on the experience of using the phone, not the checklist with which other people choose to describe it.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/78742
agreed. I think the right way to do this is move all the way to the driver's window and adjust that mirror so that it just barely sees the side of the car on one side. Then move to the center of the car and do the same for the passenger side mirror. You'd be the normal distance from the dashboard in both cases.

I think State Farm sent me that tip once. It makes it very easy to set mirrors up when you're in a strange car. And you verify by making sure that objects leaving one mirror enter the next one.
I'm surprised that no-one has posted "So you want to be a consultant?" by Steve Friedl. This article helped me to get started:

http://unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html
"It's not an appropriate payment for two days work."

This is based on an assumption that there's only one (high) standard of work.

For a kid trying to get one of his classmates to do his homework assignment for him, that doesn't sound too far out of line for "my first web project" level of quality.

You pay chickenfeed you get chickens. Sometimes for sound business reasons or real world issues you want chickens, not a soaring eagle.

The business world is ending a cycle of outsourcing where the mantra was "who cares about code quality, as long as its cheap".
Yes you're right. Operations teams then find that they have to lock down their Chef / Puppet master much more tightly than before. In so doing, they make these systems harder for developers to work with, and they introduce additional work and overhead for themselves (servicing secrets-related tickets).
The engine is generally a auxillary power unit mounted in the bussel rack of an m1a2 for example. Some may assume parent is referring to the main engine which on m1's consume quite a lot of fuel.
Maybe it takes time to adjust after they were told for weeks it was a hoax?

You're blaming the wrong people.
What... what?! You think that

| ...those people recorded while spreading their spit all over a train cart.

are simply acting in ignorance because they have no idea how to behave?
The argument for massive Pigouvian taxes on advertising seems much clearer. Advertising imposes massive costs on society and the viewers. These costs aren't borne by the advertiser, so they should be captured through massive taxes and put to good use.

And many brands wouldn't feel much of an impact: what matters to Coke is that it spends more than Pepsi. If their $6B on advertising only buys 1/10th as many ads as it used to it still has the same impact because they still have twice as many ads as Pepsi does.
It sounds like the politician hopes the tests are "built" in few weeks but the producer has not them yet and I am not sure they will have in "a few weeks" unless he means months
I believe that the trend to call vast numbers of people selfish and irrational is itself inaccurate and part of in group psychology. People who are not like our group are immoral. Perhaps someone is struggling with drugs or mental issues or poverty and needs to go out, perhaps there are other factors which should not be waved way as selfishness or being jerks? How can you tell? It's easier not to bother and have less empathy, ironically.

We should take a page out of social scientists and ask these others how they think and feel and not simply cast them away to the immoral bin. I can detect a certain glee in people who are looking forward to harsher measures to punish the outsider.

It's similar to what it was like after 9/11. Many people would do anything to save lives and punish the evil. We should take a step back before we step forward on people.
Basic Python syntax is enough for most playbooks, and it's no more difficult to learn than the ansible yaml dsl.

Anybody provisioning a machine knows a little bit of bash, and most probably python. Python is way more "used all over the place" than yaml.

Worst of all, when you are a beginner, ansible yaml errors are an utter mystery.
Interesting to see interferon on here. I remember it being hailed as some sort of wonder drug back in the 80s, but then sort of fell off the radar.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=interferon
Virtual girlfriends have been popular in Japan for years. Love Plus (2009) for the Nintendo DS was the first to catch on. There are now many others. Some text and send you pictures of what they're doing. You can send your virtual girlfriend presents on-line, which costs real money.

Now in beta, an Oculus Rift virtual girlfriend.
Well if nothing is changing with the language, or no new frameworks, then that does mean stagnation. Is it a bad thing? Of course not. Such stable languages and tools are great to have.

Likewise I do think the sleuth of frameworks means progress. Not always good progress, but we will continue to learn and improve things going forward as these experiments succeed or fail.
For those who prefer standard syntax in an open-source system, see:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/queries-with.html
A bit dated and probably things have changed... but yes.

http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...
WeWork is fundamentally real-estate, shouldn't trade at the multiples of a tech company.

But it's interesting what they did with their real-estate by repackaging it as the "Cloud Computing" of office space. Fundamentally, they solved the issue of selling office space to folks who either needed to add capacity in a short time or who just had to go month to month because no landlord would talk to them (a startup with N months of runway might not be the best tenants. Prime real-estate is rented out with leases that are in the 5+ years durations).

Their network was also an interesting feature: For folks traveling for business it might be an interesting value proposition to be able to just go to any of their locations worldwide. That's a real differentiator from most coworking spaces around (I'm thinking Hanahaus and the likes) that only have in the single digits locations.
What about videos of police brutality, etc? How would you go about getting consent from cops to upload it?
How do I differentiate
Maybe like Matrix did?

Sell turn key servers for people that lack the time or interest to run their own.

Federated and ethical.
Unifi is still great for APs or switches. Their routers are OK if you just want the basics. If you set the controller up in a VM or raspberry pi you can stay 100% local all the time. Leave auto updates OFF, only upgrade the firmware/controller until you have a real reason to - something important gets fixed, a new feature is released you want to use - that sort of stuff.

I have sites that firmware hasn't been updated in years and doesn't need to. It always amuses me in one thread people bitch about MS, Windows 10 and forced updates then in threads like this I read people fessing to having auto updates enabled voluntarily. Ugh.

As for alternatives, Cisco's small business line is looking pretty reasonable. You can find used gear on ebay easily, you can upgrade firmware without a subscription or even needing an account (yes, I'm still talking about Cisco!) and while their management console is a bit weak, it's maturing. I think it will mature faster than UBNT who was strong out the gate but delivered nothing new or significant for almost 7 years now in routing, switching has never delivered layer 3 - especially useful for larger switches. APs seem to take longer to get bugs resolved in their firmware - but like I said if you only upgrade when you really need to that won't even effect you.
> [...] this guy that died are a total joke.

An article Krugman wrote in 1999:

> Later Mundell would broaden this initial insight by proposing the concept of the “impossible trinity”; free capital movement, a fixed exchange rate, and an effective monetary policy. The point is that you can’t have it all: A country must pick two out of three. It can fix its exchange rate without emasculating its central bank, but only by maintaining controls on capital flows (like China today); it can leave capital movement free but retain monetary autonomy, but only by letting the exchange rate fluctuate (like Britain–or Canada); or it can choose to leave capital free and stabilize the currency, but only by abandoning any ability to adjust interest rates to fight inflation or recession (like Argentina today, or for that matter most of Europe).

* https://slate.com/business/1999/10/o-canada.html

His theoretical work allowed the Euro to be developed (which may or may not have been a good idea).
That's a good point. We were talking MS SQL but yes, that would make way more sense.
HTML entities seem to break the parser. And FF warns of XSS if I want to share my XSS sample text:

http://regviz.org/?state=%7B%22regex%22%3A%22XSS%22%2C%22mod...
None of the complaints about time coupling and location coupling are specific to REST at all. They're simply properties of any distributed system, though they're more noticeable the more latency-bound the system is. And since CPU clock speed won't really be getting any faster, we have to scale out if we're going to scale at all.

I think this illustrates pretty well that an actual understanding of what REST means is rarer than it should be.
It would depend on both.
I agree with you about the news, but disagree about the suits.

Most people still think a nice suit looks nice, and are automatically think the guy who looks like he cares about how he looks is more capable or responsible than the hippy in a hoodie.

Where this may be an exception is in tech but even then it's hardly universal. Edgar the Line Programmer and his buddies might dress like slobs because it signals they are not constrained by fuddy duddy old school managers like Mr. Rheinhard in the Matrix who was born before asynchronous IO was invented, but if you look at the people who really hold the power and money in tech, they are all wearing suits or at least looking very sharp if not actually donning a full three piece suit. There are reasons for this.
Heh. You were sort of right. They just broke it. :-) New build is just horrible. Java doesn't work and they've butchered start menu and task bar.

Fortunately they've left by mistake an option to roll back to previous build. Which I promptly used to restore my wonderful Windows 10. Then I just as promptly I disabled automatic updates.

Maybe in few months from now I'll try latest Windows 10 build in a VM to see if they backpedaled a bit from the insanity they've served in this last build.
Hm seeing as it's a bitcoin startup with an .io domain.....
Not bad, but would be better with temperatures indicated in reasonable units :)
Thanks. Do you think it's okay to ask for a percentage of what revenue they take from the service? If so, what would be typical? I will host the service, they will point their customers at it.