jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> freedom minded

> tech oligarchs

...here we go.

I really struggle to understand how some folks didn’t realize they were using other people’s things until recently. Maybe the fact that they weren’t physically in a space was hiding the proverbial threshold crossing activity that takes place a dozen or so times as you travel to twitter.com.

It is free speech to kick someone off your platform. Freedom minded individuals seem to think freedom only goes in one direction. I will defend DJTs right to tweet stupid shit all day and every day, just as I’ll defend Twitter’s right to kick him off the platform.
This doesn't really move the conversation forward, but an important point to make (I think) is that we as a species have never agreed that we're observing the same universe. Think of all the wildly different beliefs that have co-existed (though certainly not peacefully!) at the same times throughout history. It's a feature of all reality, not a bug of the _current_ reality (I say this because some people seem to think we're in a new & novel time of history where no one agrees on anything because of "the internet" or "misinformation", but I don't think that's the case. Humans have always disagree on what reality is).
> Popularity might not be the best indicator of quality, but it's a pretty good indicator of longevity of the project

Certain projects have either a niche audience, are less known, less easily groked by users, etc.
That is one solid point. Thanks for helping all of us out!
Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement

The Song and the Pendant by Magnus Von Black
I agree with this approach more than the common wisdom on this site that you should not name a number first. Pick a salary that you would be happy making given the desirability of the job, your current employment situation and the market. Quote that number and see if they accept. If they do--great! You have the job at the salary you want. If not, then consider their counter-offer and decide if that's something you want to accept.

The hiring managers for most jobs are not business owners. They are middle managers with multiple bosses. Most see the hiring process as an opportunity to show they are management material. If you give them a number that they know you will accept, they can pull whatever levels need to be pulled in the organization to get approval. What they don't want to happen is that they overbid for a candidate who then still rejects the offer. That makes them look incompetent in front of HR and upper management. Most managers would rather just give you a safe offer that you are more likely to reject than a politically risky one that might still get rejected.
Wow, quite a good rant on the state of the world! I only had time to read the first 1/3 but will enjoy the rest tonight. Thanks.
It's ironic that you're unable to commit code from within Atom. Apart from that there are a couple of things that I feel can be added.

- Soft undo for multiple selections.

- Search settings since the panel is overwhelming.

- Markdown preview should be updated live?

- I really miss Go To Anything from Sublime Text 3.

- You should be able to select the syntax highlighting from the status bar.

- Inline preview of audio, SVG (toggle?) and fonts? That would be rad.

- Syncing of settings using GitHub settings?

But other than that this is really good progress!
Depends, is not like some who have code in a Imperative, OOP paradigm, is gonna learn a functional language in no time.
Very cool - would you mind elaborating on the tools you used to analyze the sentiment? Any open source ones / is the source available for reuse? Would love to apply this to other areas.
It always just feels like unnecessary terminology and technology. Here's the core pattern.

function app(injected) {
return injected.doSomething();
}

function main() {

var injectable = new Injectable();
var result = app(injectable);
console.log(result);

}

Everything else is around obscuring that core pattern or making it "convenient" by providing some kind of naming abstraction. That at least makes a little bit of sense in Javascript, like above, since you need the stringy names to simulate types... but in any language with nominal typing you're just killing yourself with unnecessary complexity.
Some people who do computer programming might not need CS was the point I believe.
In general, I would say that "early adopters" are not necessarily rich so much as flush with disposable income.

This is actually a weird case, because usually being an early adopter requires a financial outlay to purchase some product that provides some sort of superior service of some kind. In this case, we see people with the early adopter mindset but trying to save money who are instead giving up some convenient service (at least, cable with DVR is convenient) for a cheaper alternative that is now merely "good enough". Because I've done it, and while I'm slowly putting the pieces back together as the world catches up with me, I have definitely sacrificed some things. I'm not getting superior service here, I'm cobbling together bits and pieces.

Still, we are getting there. Sports was a big hole but I just watched $MY_COLLEGE_TEAM's last game of the year online in HD over the Internet. That's progress vs. even just three months ago. Cord cutting is getting easier and easier.
The greater idea would be that free people should not be forced to go and wage aggressive war. If a political entity decides in favor of war and there is conscription, individuals can't legally refuse if they disagree. Sure, aggressive wars can be waged with professional armies, but then at least there is the possibility of opting out.

In the case of defensive war, there are two options: take refuge or take up arms. Sometimes, the refugee option is better. If you're a married man, your first responsibility should be toward the safety of your family. If that means running away, that is indeed the better option.

Learning to defend oneself and one's family should be a primary responsibility. But I'm not sure the army is the only means to achieve that.

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As an aside, in a country with conscription there would be no civilians. If all able-bodied men/women are expected to serve in the military, they are fair game according to the rules of war. Conscription is one of the things that makes total war possible. Without conscripts, the war machine will eventually run out of money. With conscripts, the state can wage war up to the point of self-destruction.
This is tricky because you're also making a false comparison. Specifically, you're comparing between "you" and "older you." I would agree that in almost every conceivable case that "older you" is more competent and resourceful than younger you. The problem is that the comparison isn't necessarily between "you" and "older you"; instead it could be between "younger you" and some other set of programmers. There are a decent amount of good, young programmers and a really large amount of bad programmers.

Also, generic "experience" is a false dichotomy. For example, if we were both given the problem "write a hardware accelerated virtual machine monitor kernel" I would probably run rings around you. Why? Because I have experience in that subdomain. If we were given a problem that focused more on your subdomain the situation would be reversed. Experience isn't black and white and there are some situations, like kernel development, where I'd probably be as good a choice as someone who never learned C but is a great Java developer.

In other words, strictly age is a false comparison and making such naive comparisons is practically guaranteed to land you with someone unsuited for a specific problem.
I've never understood the fascination with cucumber. If you've got a customer in the loop actively working on or reviewing acceptance tests, cucumber is very nice. If you don't, then cucumber is a big waste of time. For some reason, cucumber was the ruby/rails "meme of the day" for a while. BDD is awesome. Webrat is awesome. So if cucumber is your first exposure to those two, then cucumber seems awesome. Do yourself a favor and try BDD & Webrat without cucumber.

If steak becomes the meme of the day, at least it isn't actively harmful like cucumber was.
This is true, but it doesn't invalidate the description of gravity as being an attractive force between masses. The warping of spacetime is just an explanation of what's happening to create that force.
Thanks for spreading the word! To be clear, new and existing customers can take advantage of the pricing. It is $5 for new domain registrations.
My reaction was knee-jerk and colored by me hearing the argument repeatedly from people who fit the profile for the two categories I mentioned; I was too quick to put you in those categories without knowing anything further about you, so sorry for that - I should've been more factual and leave out the last sentence.
And this, ladies and gents, is why you should always insert third-party scripts, widgets, and frames either asynchronously or dynamically after-the-fact if you can help it. Between all the analytics and social third-party code people love to throw on every damn page these days, the average page load time is a mess.

For a prime example of how to utterly fail at making your page load time and CPU usage small from social bloat just visit any Mashable article.
Very relevant here is Isaac Asimov's The Relativity of Wrong:

http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm

HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1147968
A flying car is the wrong solution. It’s equivalent to building a faster, much more dangerous horse.

The problem is:

1. People need to commute large distances

2. People need to go fast

It can be better solved by removing the majority of commutes and using very fast, efficient, underground mass transport systems to move people when they (rarely) need it.

I’d rather cities and VR were redesigned so the average person doesn’t usually need to go more than 5 kilometers in any direction on a given day.
Thank you for that clarification — I was beginning to get a little bit worried :)
Apparently we're confused most of the time.
I was confused about this one because their own study did not show a single person with /etc/nginx, and only a small handful with any vulnerable path.
One thing you might want to consider is just using the same family for each of those versions of the font, rather than using the same name as the font file, per this article: http://www.metaltoad.com/blog/how-use-font-face-avoid-faux-i...

Also, I hooked up support for data: URLs so you can use your stylesheet as a source for fonts (if someone was interested in extracting the .woff files back to individual files, for instance):

webfont-dl -d "https://github.com/steakejjs/OpenSans-CSS/raw/master/OpenSans.css" \
-o css/font.css --font-out=font --css-rel=../font --woff=link
great.. now everyone can easily find out if my ssh port is open...
what are ip port scanners commonly used for?
Hypervitaminosis D is hard to achieve _by sitting in the sun_ because then your body makes as much as it needs and then stops making any more.

It is not hard to achieve when taking supplements, because you can always stuff yourself with way more supplemental vitamin D than your body can clear up before it starts causing problems.

Source: I was prescribed vitamin D3 by my endocrinologist (it's actually officially a hormone, cholecalciferol). I had regular blood tests for a year or so (for reasons) that were monitored by my endocrinologist, then at some point she told me to stop taking the D3 vitamin supplements because the amount of D3 in my blood was reaching the upper limit of a healthy person's. I too live in the UK.
Nice! It seems to be quite useful.
Is there a reason this isn't scaled out as a service?
I don't see how contributing to Bitcoin could be a bad thing whatsoever...

This is just all in your head
i didn't really have any programming experience prior to enrolling in tea leaf academy. Upon completing the courses, Kevin told us that we would be an intermediate level rails developer, and that kind of stuck with me when it came to interviewing. I positioned myself as an intermediate dev, and received an offer. I highly recommend them.
I'm of the belief that earlier on, it is better to work for companies fulltime since there is a better chance that they would be more willing to give the opportunity for developers to learn new tech on the job.

My own experience is that I tend to get siloed into AngularJS projects since my Angular knowledge & productivity is nearly impossible for companies to find. However, I have leveraged it to get some backend experience in languages like Java and some Android experience.

There is a danger in freelancing - companies tend to hire freelancers/contractors to do work quickly. This means that they tend to be biased towards candidates who know the tech and can work quickly.
I think they're OK, but would not recommend them unless you have serious bandwidth woes.
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We just don't have all the answers yet. We are at a strange era in human history. We have had privacy for eons, and now we may not. We can't even answer the question "do we need privacy?"

If you were raised with no privacy, you wouldn't know the difference. Imagine living your whole life with cameras on you. You know if something bad happens, you have video evidence. Now imagine all those cameras are taken away. You would probably feel very scared to the point of mania.

We don't have the answers yet. We are lucky the internet is still open, so we can try out all these new things and share ideas.
Well, I missed this memo. Wow.
the old masters were certainly talented but you could argue much of their fame comes from there being so few people who'd have had the means to pursue their art hundred of years ago whereas nowadays many people can find the means one way or another.
There's also an established pattern, the cynical might say, that goes a little like this:

1. Sell product to enterprise.

2. Realize there's more money in consulting to them.

3. Continue development of said product, but now motivated not by ease-of-use or effectiveness, but by how much it can add to your consulting business, resulting in the bloated, out-of-the-box unusable enterprise software that we're all familiar with.
Apple publicly responds to iPhone tracking allegations. http://nkdv.co/1k
Good luck, last time I tried nested lambdas in VC10 they weren't able to capture local variables from any context except the immediate outer context.

This makes doing something like e.g. map(map(...)) extremely annoying.

Javascript (nor does, really, any other proper closure implementation) has no such issues.
But technically an apartment number being wrong is also "invalid whois information." If it's just selective enforcement, that's a whole other pain.
My quick estimate, on average, for large numbers: n/(log2 10)/10 which is about n/33.

He says it way mo better tho.
The human brain has much more bugs than any current piece of software.

The actual program will be small. The brain is clearly a learning agent in a task environment. The sensors and actuators are implementable, the only real question is what algorithm should process the input stimuli.
I'm not sure how it's not storing history. I ran the app and it showed in timelapse how I'd traveled around, including a recent trip to Oklahoma. How on earth is that not storing history?

As to the accuracy, I don't know where the author lives, but my town must have pretty dense cell towers as it pretty accurately pinpointed my house and the streets I drive regularly.

I think the actual important question here is whether it's an invasion of privacy or not. At this point from the articles I've read it looks like the data is cache data that isn't transmitted back to the phone company and not available to random apps.

That said, I'm still happy this is receiving attention because if the phone can store this kind of info, you know the phone companies are logging this info as well. That is the real thing people need to worry about.
Another, related, question: "If what you are building has been necessary and possible for a long time, why hasn't anyone done it?"
Unfortunately they only ship to India...
Sorry, I still don't understand. Is it something people will want to install for themselves, wordpress style? Is it something else?
Because at times, the interests of advertisers can conflict with the interests of Wikipedia. And should that happen, Wikipedia's reputation and value becomes seriously undermined.

I consider it somewhat analog to BBC being funded through a license fee rather than commercial advertising - aka Sky (BSkyB, owned by Murdoch).
Probably all of the violence, vandalism, looting, and coming in with tools to take hostages. And bombs with timers placed elsewhere.
For those not aware, Gab is notable for having a bunch of QAnon adherents post regularly.
>You need a crystal ball to draw correct conclusions about the future though.

I don't know about that.

I'll prognosticate that the close compatriots of the violent insurrectionists who are currently enjoying three hots and a cot courtesy of the US Government will almost certainly engage in more violent acts. Probably fairly soon.

History is generally a pretty good guide to the future.

Will every single person who smashed windows, beat on people with pipes and bats and went looking for Congresscritters to take hostage show up at the inauguration with RPGs to kill as many people as they can? I don't know.

I can't say for sure, but since they've already shown themselves to be angry, violent and willing to harm/kill others, it's a pretty good bet that a significant number of those people will attempt violent action against their perceived enemies in the future.

Why is that an unreasonable assumption to make?
CRuby has had JIT for over 3 years now and I think JRuby must be over a decade?
> Not sure how recently you may have been to San Francisco

I am raising 2 small kids in San Francisco. It seems fine.

Smashed car windows are frustrating and disappointing (there are clearly some organized groups fencing laptops or whatever, and the police should get off their butts and do some more serious investigatory work). But the city does not feel at all physically unsafe, relative to other places in the USA. Cars are the biggest danger by far, just like everywhere else in the USA.

We have some mentally ill homeless neighbors. When (rarely) someone is shouting obscenities into thin air we cross the street and stay out of their way. The rest are harmless, though still sad to see. I don't chat with them as much as I used to, because they aren't the best at wearing masks or respecting social distancing during the pandemic, and we haven't been walking around the neighborhood nearly as much.

> picture perfect place

Yeah, this is the problem. People care about things being picture perfect way more than they care about where their kids will enjoy living, or where they will grow into the most kind, resilient, and capable adults.

Yuppies often have a pathological fear of dirt and poverty, and have conditioned themselves to feel discomfort or even nausea when thinking about it. If your kid steps on dog poop sometime, or has to sit near a smelly person on the bus, or has a weird conversation with a homeless guy at the park, it isn't going to do them any serious or permanent damage.
Thirdly: A debilitating attack if you don't seek to preserve anything of the colony, is also relatively easy.
What I don’t understand is what the world gains by this level of global software time accuracy that couldn’t be localized to the very specialized cases that actually need it. Why can’t the world generally drift a second here and there over a few years and super time sensitive programs keep a tally of leap seconds to adjust? Sure it’s a pain in the ass for those applications, but isn’t “we don’t know for sure if this time adjustment is going to disrupt major world affairs” more of one?
They instead cripple it by restricting important functionality to native apps, e.g. WebGL and push notifications, and by preventing users from modifying the system to remove these artificial limitations.
The NY Times would very likely not run with your leak. That's why WikiLeaks came to being.
This article is crap. In the end of the day it is EXACTLY as Al Franklen put it "net neutrality is the 1st amendment issue of our generation." The government sees an oportunity to dub someone/something as "evil" and "anti american" and of course proposes laws that would allow it to police such information. There is no conspiracy. Wikileaks is trying to do good, and naturally once you start going after the alpha dog, he will bite, and one on one you are shit out of luck... going to die.
If this submission is going to get anywhere, you're going to need to submit that first link instead. Direct links to a .tar.gz aren't going to go anywhere.
That's like saying that you need to make your website work with Opera, when most people don't bother. In this case, Microsoft is in Opera's place. I'd say it's pretty safe to ignore them.
Agree - also, it's unfortunate for the Danish startup scene since he was one of the only knowledgeable seed investors in the country.
Hello all, the simplest answer for why we did not include the gen_fsm is that it is not used very often. In 11 years of Erlang programming I have only used it a handful of times. You can easily replicate it's behaviour with the gen_server in any case. Furthermore explaining it's use clearly turned out to be complicated. Rather than confuse readers, and add pages to an already lengthy book, we decided to skip it. If you clearly understand gen_server, superviser, application, and gen_event you will be able to pick up gen_fsm when you need to. If we do a second edition perhaps we can include the FSM as an appendix.

The gen_fsm implementation is elegant and I do recommend taking a look at it but you probably won't find yourself using it all too often. At the end of the day we wanted to write a book that prepared people for real world Erlang situations and the gen_fsm does not weigh heavily in those scenarios.
It is available in the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
Genuine Question: They let you change your password without having you supply the old one?
They report earnings this Thurs after the bell, so we will see then.
You're wrong. You're not even wrong, to be more precise. Your comments are filled with inconsistent use of terminology and drift between discussions of individual people, cultures (semi-coherent bodies of artistic, intellectual, and artistic achievement), and societies (aggregates of people who more or less share a culture, physical space, and institutions).

If you re-phrase whatever point you were trying to make by consistently using words with meanings we can agree on, then maybe we'll have something to disagree about.
How do you use stored credit card info if the cc# is not stored?

Unlike passwords, the encryption for the cc#s has to be reversible. That's part of the reason why they introduced CVCs, right?
Aside: Google's Market search is seriously broken. Link NSFW-ish:

https://market.android.com/search?q=Anticipates&so=1&...

Same results on a real phone.
Same person. He changed his name a while back.
So, third-party tools are, and should be, a way of life

You can't make a statement like that and then conclude the article with "use function xyz when it makes sense to".
http://xkcd.com/638/

"We've searched dozens of these floor tiles for several common types of pheremone trails. If there were intelligent life up there, we would have seen its messages by now."
And they used the same servers for development as for production. Isn't that non-PCI-compliant?
I fking love entrepreneurs! Always find a way out of a situation. Relentlessly resourceful like PG says!