skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. I built a SSMS (based on Visual Studio shell, so same code) extension called SqlSmash www.sqlsmash.com. Half the features in there have made me dig into stuff like that. The latest example was trying to get a handle on the query results grid so that I can use the data in there.
Let me get this straight.

People are criticizing CloudFlare for inconveniencing Tor users - a tool which, among other things, can be used to fight censorship.

At the same time, people are calling them out on their abuse policy which essentially boils down to "We won't take down sites based on content unless we receive a court order telling us to."

That's interesting, to say the least.
What words would you pick?

say

This function is loosely similar to `print` in the sense it sends a version of its arguments to an output handle (STDOUT by default).

But `say` is emphatically casual and human oriented in stark contrast to the formal and computer oriented `print`. For example, `say` uses human friendly gists of its arguments and truncates arguments that are absurdly long. I think `say` fits perfectly.

hyper

Er, yeah. Reasons. Onward:

race

A race delivers the first of several competing concurrent computations to successfully complete (or the last to fail if none succeed). What would be clearer?

start

`start` starts something that will complete later. Again, what word would you pick?

I agree with kbenson about `my` and `our` and note that those were stolen from Perl 5 because they're considered to be spot on.
Mostly in integrations. Quite a few of the Mattermost ones are roll-your-own(albeit with Slack API-compat).
It's called RHEL.
Your rhetoric is in the style of propaganda/PR-speak. Are you implying that honesty and integrity are frowned upon in other countries? In any civilized place, the general consensus is that honesty and integrity are virtues and make a person better.

The argument at hand is that clearly the Chinese government can't take a joke (among many other things, including the whole controlling/oppression thing), and the people of many other countries laugh about it because we find it amusing. It doesn't make us dishonest or bad people, just because we don't talk about how these are our "core values" and part of "cultural tradition."
Friend/Family calling trees take no effort to organize and happen organically. You mostly just call the people who you are closest to and the others do the same with a few people making sure so and so who isn't close to anyone gets the word. I have an absolutely gigantic family on both sides (50 or so cousins total) and this had always been the way it operated on both sides of the family and there was never any advanced planning.

In fact when the news is very distressing (spouse death) the person usually only notifies one or two very close people. Those people make sure the word gets out.
If it actually happened, that's both pretty hilarious and sad for all parties involved. The unintentional fallout has been much more amusing to witness than the actual gimmick of putting a Minion in everyone's email.

I can't get on board the tear train of "victimized by technology, technology maker should make amends!" when the impact of victimization is so small, even the "lost my job because technology maker and especially my boss are retarded" is pretty low-impact. I generally have the attitude of "Sucks, but get on with life" to a lot of things, though.
Laughter definitely scales, it's just not infinitely scalable..

The Onion scales. It doesn't scale past the Generation X audience, but oh, it scales.
Yeah, but I think there's a difference between email and chat in terms of how much discretion you habitually exercise when writing, so it's likely that it's more dangerous to you in court.
I hate this argument. Yeah, IRC is open and there are tons of clients for it, but Slack is the only one that I've used that a) retains history without you having to think about it, and b) is actually really really REALLY nice to use.

That said, if all you need is simple team communication, IRC works great
I'm not sure what the stats are supposed to show, but I suspect they live updated stats don't quite prove the bias the author was intending to show.

At the time I'm writing this, both the majority of those who trust and those who distrust the police saw the situations as non-threatening. The difference between the groups is about 9% points, but that is hardly the kind of difference you'd expect from how it is phrased.

That said, the point of body cameras is to help prove or disprove claims by those involved in an incident about what happened. The use of the tazer is not directly visible but even in the shaky body cam you can see the officer grabbing the tazer and hear a distinctive clicking noise as the suspect falls to the ground. It doesn't fully refute the claim that the suspect is reaching for the gun, but as far as the hands are visible, it certainly doesn't support the claim either (and the cop's aggressive behaviour while the suspect is standing still certainly makes the claim more dubious).

It's also important to realize that when these are treated as evidence they won't just be shown once. They will be scrutinized frame by frame, repeatedly, down to the individual pixels if necessary.

There is no perfect evidence. Even crystal-clear, unobscured video footage of a crime doesn't tell the whole story. But court cases are not about proving what happened -- they're about merely eliminating all reasonable doubt about whether a suspect did commit the punishable crime they are charged with.

As with all "facts" in life, court cases only deal with degrees of probability. You don't have to know because you can't actually know.
Everyone should just stop this shit. I too enjoyed these things years ago, but not anymore. There are too many now, but it also seems a bit sneakier or more malicious now than it used to, the Gmail thing is a great example. And it just seems de rigeur rather than fun or funny.
Funny that when affluent white kids start to do drugs it's because they're self-medicating, but when less affluent children have been doing it for decades, for the same reasons, it's bad parenting/genes/culture.
Clearly helping DDG with Instant Answers is not something you are interested in. I think as long as people are willing to do something without being deceived or tricked, then I don't see what's "wrong" about it. Maybe you feel that it is not a good way to build a relationship with users, but DDG is certainly not forcing or tricking anyone into helping them.
It will help me.

I work for a big consulting company - 70k employees. Corporate standard is a Windows laptop for everyone. But, most software development is done for Linux environments.

I hate windows scripting / powershell, so I use cygwin a lot. I don't love cygwin, but it's my "least worst" option. Local linux VMs are too heavy.

So, I'm excited about the option to have a 'real' linux locally, with a working package manager.
My personal experience working full-time and working on side projects over several years in my early twenties has led me to a relatively pessimistic take on the idea, at least from the perspective of realistically building something serious and taking it to market. It wasn't until I actually quit (more precisely, got fired) and went out on my own that I was able to produce anything non-trivial, although I'm entirely bootstrapped and never took any investment.

Some of it might just be that I had demanding jobs. It's true that the network service provider arena is particularly 24/7. However, I went through half a dozen jobs between 18 and 22, and some afforded me plenty of free time outside the 9-5. With the easy jobs, I was demoralised, frustrated and/or bored, which didn't lead to a lot of spiritual energy for pursuing side projects diligently. With the more intense jobs, I was so busy that I had to try to squeeze in my side projects in the after-10 PM bracket. This all presumed no social life to speak of, by the way; the moment life even vaguely threatened social engagements, it was all out the window. Worse yet, staying up till 5 AM working on my side projects and trying to make it in at 9 AM for my actual job wasn't sustainable. It was arguably the immediate reason that led to my firing from the last job I actually had. It's not just a time thing, of course; sitting in an office all day is draining, even if one's job isn't very demanding. Even with my bright-eyed, bushy-tailed energy at 20, I often came home exhausted and would often spend my side project time just looking at the screen without getting much done. And, as I said, this is _without_ factoring in any other concerns whatsoever -- social life, personal life, working out, errands, grocery shopping, etc.

Anyway, maybe some people can do it, but in my view, this is no way to build something serious. I didn't start really making progress until I could afford to go "all in" with my time and energy. Also, it's important to remember that one is competing with folks who _do_ have the luxury of working on their venture on a full time-ish basis. That's quadruply important if go-to-market time is a serious linchpin of the venture.

Of course, the problem of bootstrapping while having a relatively high personal expense base is that the inevitable consulting required to support it sucks up all of one's time in the same way the day job used to (but with much higher economic stress and cash flow volatility), so it's not that going into business for myself opened up unparalleled opportunities to build product, either. However, even so, it beat grinding myself to powder.

EDIT: In one of my less intense jobs, I tried the approach of crashing out as soon as I came home (e.g. 7 PM) and waking up at 2 AM to spend my "best hours" on development. The actual day job could have the sloppy seconds; it wasn't a development job and didn't ask much of me. That was all good and fine, as long as one is comfortable with exactly two modes of existence: sleeping or sitting at a computer.
Do you think the error you received when you tried to download the PDF was random?
And the pranks can have adverse consequences, like people losing their jobs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11404115
Law is not made on a case by case basis.

I see where you've gone astray: law is made on a case-by-case basis in the USA. The USA has a "common law" system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law) where precedent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precedent) is overwhelmingly important.

If I understand correctly, the FBI was attempting to set a precedent, using an instance that has lots of emotional appeal ("Terrorism!") and they were really working that emotional aspect ("Couldn't look the survivors in the eye") hard. Once that precedent is set, the USA's legal system would require some new laws to make the precedent go away (in a legal sense). The FBI could at the least operate under the legality of the precedent until the new law(s) take effect, if such new laws get made. They often don't, and the USA just rides on the precedent.
No. I did not miss them.

How does that affect your everyday company, with orders of magnitude less competence/intelligence per capita....?

My question is this; what company that uses Slack has good enough opsec that Slack is the vuln to be exploited.

Please name one company where Slack could even potentially be the easiest point of entry.
But google search is way better than stackoverflow search.

And google shows similar but different enough stackoverflow answers, duckduckgo shows only one or sometimes two, many times not the one you're searching for.
The time the Air Force shot a bear out of a B-58
I think comparing the "web 2.0" era (2006+) with magazine distribution is a bit too distant - but imho, things have really been getting too competitive as of late, and that explains a bit of a reduction on the number of side projects.

My personal experience: it got easier to build (although not that much since 2008 or so, to be honest), but my feeling is that there's just TOO MANY projects happening, and too few people actually looking at them at all. I feel people are just saturated, and that's a direct reflection of all that easiness (is that a word?) + the web and mobile converging to a handful of very addictive gatekeepers.

My first couple side-projects (launched in 2006 and 2008) turned into respectable revenue sources (at least for a long while) with very little effort - and a small user-base (both were ad supported). I launched other stuff ever since - a terribly designed mobile app in 2010, on a niche field (QR code reading!) netted thousands of downloads. Then it started to get crowded. My most recent toy apps barely got a download. Some web experiments got dozens to thousands of signups (after, say, a product hunt launch), but retention is just tending to zero. On the flipside of that (as an early adopter), I find myself signing up to more and more landing pages of things that either never launch or I just lose interest when they do. Dunno why.

It's just a point of data, of course. Maybe I ran out of good ideas or I'm just barking the wrong tree. Anyway, just my 2 grouchy cents.
I think TodoMVC should be replaced by something that uses async calls to an API and/or more complex data handling. Then you can spot the ways libraries and frameworks are used better.
My mind is blown that they used punch cards to write Apple II software in the early days.
One of the references cited in this article is a line of shoes released by Nike designed to fit Native Americans better. They measured 200+ native feet and determined that they were wider toward the toe than typical shoes.

While I don't culturally identify as native, there's no doubt that I am 1/16th Cherokee. As it turns out, I have what I call "duck feet". They are very wide up front. I didn't know about Nike's foray into native shoes, but I wish I had and that they still made them.

Rather than being offended, I would be excited to have some shoes that actually fit well. I usually end up with shoes that too big in other dimensions or toe-crampers.
Not just you. I've lived in the USA since I was a young lad and work for Google. I had never heard of 'mic drop' until this prank.

Then again, I don't watch TV so maybe I missed out on it being used.
+term hasn't worked since Google rolled out Google+. The only method that works is to surround it in quotes now, like "term".
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>>For those reasons I went to Microsoft. And you know what? I felt great going into work every day. That's way more important than a billion dollars.

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Well, you can clearly see a lot of commotion happening inside the car. It's clearly not a good idea to just walk next to the driver's side if you already see flailing arms and get no reaction from announcing your presence.

I would have expected the officer to pause for longer before approaching the door and to be a lot more vocal about what he is doing -- precisely because he can't tell what is going on from a quick glance. You don't want to get stabbed but you also don't want to taze or shoot an innocent person to death.
So your answer is 'nope, but here's a product they bought that could have been hacked'?
This reads largely true for me, but it is also pretty obviously not true on a serious scale (compare the F-35 fighter to the J-31 fighter). That said, raising a younger generation of people who think outside the box has its own perils for any government where some boxes are not meant to be left (I include the US government in this list as well). I am a strong advocate of critical thinking and independent verification, but I can tell you that it gets me into trouble more often than it gets me accolades :-). The response to such thinking can be harsh. People who think critically are often considered "intellectuals" and China has dealt with such people harshly in the past, even at the expense of the greater country. Here in the US it is used as an insult in circles where the smart choice would dictate a different path than the current policy (yes I'm thinking about the whole global warming "debate").

Bottom line is that this is both good and bad news for China.
Nope - I just don't want to in anyway mislead anyone!
Good UX is every action should be reversible. And have confirmations before any destructive behavior.

However, that completely goes against the point of this joke. It's not a prank if they prompted, "Are you sure you want to send a Minion gif and mute yourself from this conversation?"
The scary part in that is the line of what is admissable in a courtroom; what if a jury is provided the same video without the surrounding context?
I think that GitHub's pull-request-based model is fundamentally broken. Gerrit's model, where every commit is quasi-independent (and hence must pass tests) and you can easily edit without force-pushing anything or losing review history, is superior (though not perfect) in almost all cases. (Exception: merging a long-running feature branch where all the commits in the branch have already been reviewed.)

This is GitHub's attempt to solve the problem without really changing anything. It won't really change anything. Since pull requests routinely contain a mixture of both changes that should be squashed (fixups) and changes that should not be squashed (independent changes), this just means that you get to pick your poison.
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I'd say great comedy actors like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton or Laurel and Hardy have scaled very well, both in terms of timespan (the first Charlie Chaplin short films are now more than a century old) and distance, as they all became famous all over the world. I'd add Tex Avery's cartoon characters to this list.

So I'd say in the above mentioned cases laughter did become "infinitely scalable". But then again, the guys and girls at Google who came up with this stupid idea are no comedic geniuses.
Megabyte? Luxury! Lots of cool systems fit in 64KB, including PDP-11 UNIX.
Nice! Aything for fish? Cats and dogs can make noise at least but I want to know what Goldie is thinking.
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Thats only one type of credit card fraud. There's fraud against digital goods and gift cards. There's even carders who test credit cards online with real information before coding them to magnetic strip or selling them off. Heuristic based detection is very limited if there is no ip reputation or Javascript to do fingerprinting and other tricks to umask the user.

Ecommerce knows full well the cost of not supporting TOR. Just like we know the full cost when they deprecate browsers like IE9. Opportunity cost of building out more advanced systems to detect fraud compared to just blank banning open relays and TOR. I didn't even factor in the cost towards hardware when ecommerce site get hit with a bot running through a TOR endpoint or Open Relay.

Tor is not the only IPs get blocked. Ecommerce site frequently blacklist Azure, AWS and other hosting providers. They have the data they crunch and know full well who they will affect and what the cost is. There is always collateral damage.

You don't have the right to use any ecommerce site while using TOR much like you don't have the right to walk into a bank with a ski mask on and get service.
> without having to worry that your cash will somehow harm me.

Really? What if it is counterfeit? What if it has some kind of poison, germ, or disease on it?

I get your general point I think, but cash can definitely harm you.
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caveat: I was responsible for code review for 2000+ developers.

We only allowed squash commits on master because of what you're describing. That is the level where history "made sense". However, for code review, we wanted to support both styles, because there is an advantage sometimes to seeing the sausage being made. For instance someone will refactor something -- maybe change a method name. Then they apply that refactoring at all the call sites. Very conscientious developers would break this into two commits. We didn't want the first commit on master, but it made sense to review this way, because it was easier on the reviewers: change, effect of change on everything else.

I call this "telling a story" with your commits. There's a lot of value in that style if you have the time to do it.

The other style of commit-by-commit reviewing, where I see all of the work in progress commits, I don't find valuable at all and I _definitely_ don't want to see on master.
True, but I think it's quite reasonable to say that his share would still have been worth N * 10^9, for some value of N > 1
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