skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I love free speech but fundamentally social media is a product that I use and not having to deal with hate speech all the time is an important part of that product for me. At a certain point I've found moderation leads to a vastly better product to use than no moderation. For people where no moderation is important they can use a product without it (like some of the different *chans) but they just aren't as popular with people.
There are cheeses being made today in Sonoma and Napa that are truly amazing. If you are a cheese aficionado at all, I implore you to sample them.
Just because it's sunny today, doesn't mean you should plan a picnic for tomorrow if all the forecasts say 100% rain. Will it rain? True, we don't _really_ know. Enjoy your sausages, friend! I'm sure they'll be plenty to go around.
What's your plan to wind down Tumblr?
Tumblr is in a free fall for years, especially after last december. What is there for wordpress to take? the domain name? it's not that great ;) Maybe it's worth it to convert the few remaining blog owners?

I don't think tumblr is a valuable brand name, most of its adult blogs have moved to twitter and newtumbl, and judging from google trends that was ~50% of the searches.

Anyway automattic seems a good fit , but i hope they didn't pay too much for it.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=tumblr
Go has a really neat stack allocation technique that makes #3 extremely non-wasteful compared to C and Rust threads. Unfortunately Rust cannot use the same trick as is is llvm based and llvm doesn't support that technique.
Google wants to be the world's business authentication provider, but without taking on the responsibilities of an EV certificate issuer to the "relying party".
About the salary of one Uber dev.
> But the bulk of the article was promoting tools for protecting privacy. That's a good thing, no?

Some of the stuff that he recommended strike me as ~useless. That rubber mask. The glasses. The silly personal assistant. And so on.

And he totally didn't consider how pointless it is for most people to focus on obfuscating activities in meatspace. Unless you're cheating on your spouse, organizing a revolution, dealing drugs, or whatever, it just doesn't accomplish much. And indeed, it flags you as someone who may be up to something.

Online is really the only place where you can claw back some privacy. But you gotta make sure that your uplink doesn't flag you. Using numerous VPNs. Using Tor, I2P or Freenet. Lurking around public WiFi hotspots. Those will all raise flags about you.

And the focus has gotta be on compartmentalization. You have your meatspace life. Your family, your friends, your career, your hobbies, and so on. And that's gotta look totally uninteresting, from the perspective of adversaries. You gotta blend into the crowd.

And then you have your online personas, and their friends, careers, hobbies, etc. Which must be entirely distinct from each other, and from your meatspace life. They must seem like entirely different people.

So adversaries can track you all they like in meatspace. And they can track your personas all they like online. But as long as they don't correlate any of that, you're safe.
Back in the '90s, Yahoo! owned some of the hottest properties on the Internet. But by the end of the '00s, those properties were all Web 1.0 dinosaurs that had long been surpassed by modern platforms. They wanted that old relevance back; they wanted to buy a modern platform that was popular with young people and had a huge userbase and cultural influence.

And Yahoo!, being Yahoo!, never really knew what to do with that acquisition and just let it start to die on the vine, and when Verizon took over, they pissed away whatever goodwill they had left by gutting Tumblr.
> Why push it up several levels to a few specific IDEs that most people don't even use?

Because those IDEs those solve problems, so that you can close tickets on the project at hand, without having to port it to the best language evar.
If I, as a business owner, can get 1-4 hours of your time and spending money - it’s probably going to be well worth it to front the cost of land and charging equipment for a park-n-charge spot
They've already said they won't reverse the porn ban.
Many games lack a way to convert from in game items to real world money so I can see where existing gambling things wouldn't apply, eg only a few games have a market setup where you can buy and sell items for real money like TF2. Some even completely lack trading so there's not a way to get money for them period.
Yes, it does: https://duckduckgo.com/search_box.
I think it's the second largest. If you do pretty much any amount of flying, your carbon footprint will be dominated by that unless you drive an absurd amount.
UK has decent disability law that I’m sure is comparable to the US’s, where both have exceptions for difficult to adapt buildings. Whether that be the protected and iconic British Museum or the hundred year old Tube stations.
"He said he had tried to take the building back from the students in part because a computer server that hosted his research was inside and malfunctioning."

If he had been successful this would have been a nearly perfect xkcd - https://xkcd.com/705/

I realize that's a little glib, but there isn't much of substance to say about something like this. If a university wants to abandon one of its buildings to students (or squatters, etc) going rouge and trying to take the building back isn't likely to end well for a university employee, regardless of the politics in play.
I'm very interested in this and will be watching to see where this goes. I've just started PHP this summer as an intern at a company that uses it. At first I was really put off by the language, I had never seriously worked with either web languages or languages that used dynamic typing. So many things seemed strange, dated, or even just plain wrong. On top of that, the official documentation is often confusing as far as best practices go and the ~20 year old comments can only add to confusion (though it is neat when one helps out).

All that said, I've come to enjoy the language for what it is. It works seamlessly with HTML/CSS and can provide so much function with little effort put into configuration. Nearly everything I need to be done can be accomplished without frameworks or libraries, maybe just Bootstrap's CSS to make things pretty enough for the end user.

I could see P++ being useful for PHP as a chance at rebranding. PHP horror stories had made me believe it just had to be bad language. If P++ brings all of the good of PHP along with typing and better syntax in general, I believe it would be a much easier sell to devs in a situation like my own.
So basically an exercise in blowing several million dollars.
Perhaps you don't know who Examine.com is, but they are cited by the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, CBC, multiple Wikipedia pages all over the world, and over 12,000 other websites. I assume they did more homework than you.
It was really really huge for the LGBTQ community. There has been no replacement.
In Washington State, you can register period-correct plates for your car. The problem is that you can't register the actual digits that are printed on the plate. The cops and cameras can't pull up your information, and you get stopped and questioned all the time. Explaining how the plates work to the Police gets pretty tiring.
"Simple" things like good bike lanes and traffic calming enable cities to redesign gradually, and of course this is largely already happening (perhaps too slowly) in many cities.
Thanks - I didn't realize that this is actually one of arguments that skeptics make - the matter of the correlation between CO2 in the atmosphere, and CO2 emissions.

I see some indications that the rule of thumb is that roughly 60% of emissions stay in the atmosphere, which makes the current numbers make more sense again, but so far I haven't found anything more authoritative. And I see some estimates that 430 ppm corresponds to 1.5 degrees, while 450 ppm corresponds to 2 degrees, but 60% doesn't work for the 2900gT = 2 degrees estimate.
Tiny yet somehow dominant.
This is just straight up not true. It's all about the attackers aversion to force and end goal. Americans did not want to raze the country, they wanted to take out a small subset of the population which was hard to identify and find, and create a well functioning democracy in its place. In china, if they dont care about killing civilians or about what the land will look like after the war, they can certainly eliminate the uprising very easily. Simply bomb the crap out of the city, invade and shoot anything that moves. An army wins everytime, especially China's.
I think they're suggesting programming in implicit CPS/callback style. Eg:

int bar(int i) { return i+1; }
/* bar takes a implicit return address in [esp+0] */
noreturn foo((*ra)(int),int x)
{
/* where (*)(RetType) is a return address */
int y = bar(x); /* x86 call pushes eip */
ra return bar(y); /* pseudo-tail-call (push ra) */
}
int quux(int x)
{
(*ret)(int); ret = (return); /* get implicit RA */
foo(ret,x);
} // unreachable

You'd also need to adjust the stack and/or frame pointer though, which is probably going to be the hard part.
So it's an acquihire then.
Monadic is a type-class. Like how Equatable is a type-class. Adapters essentially add a specific type to the type-class the client is looking for.
Well they decided to allow users to use arbitrary HTML themes for their blogs so there's not a whole lot they can do about that. The default theme isn't too terrible but a lot of the user themes are.

The worst is people using some old theme that embeds a script hosted on a site that no longer exists and the whole page load hangs until the request times out.
Pure aquihire then it sounds like:

>Mr. Mullenweg said his company intends to maintain the existing policy that bans adult content. He said he has long been a Tumblr user and sees the site as complementary to WordPress.com. “It’s just fun,” he said of Tumblr. “We’re not going to change any of that.”
Let's talk about one specific thing from the article:

>Things started to go awry when he first registered the tags. He tried typing in his license plate but the DMV website wouldn't accept it.

Let's talk about the fact that the DMV website wouldn't accept it. Do you think this is all right behavior on the part of the DMV website?

It's really interesting because if you're coding up the DMV web site, it makes sense to disallow NULL just as a preventative measure, like not allowing '-- in a query (to prevent SQL injection attacks.)

I would generally think that on the whole you should accept -- as a substring in a password. But is it wrong programming if you don't allow that substring?

Disallowing it could cause someone's chosen password to fail, so they have to change it for you to accept the password they want, but if you know for sure that you use sql as part of processing passwords you might well decide that it is acceptable to make people have to try a new password before you'll accept theirs, in case you are not confident that you are escaping everything correctly.

So from my end it seems okay to do something like disallow NULL.

If you consider the choice of the programmer on DMV's web site, what do you think about their choice to reject this input, even though in fact it turned out to be legitimate? Is it acceptable programming practice?
I enjoy how you ask questions but never click on anything because it must fraud.

You can click to the about page to see who he is. And who edits the work. And how the editorial process is. "Wyatt Brown" is clickable.

The 42 citations are done directly after each claim, and the study is linked. Most sites just have a bibliography at the end.

You are just cruising here to pick a fight.

> Fraud

Lordy, I'm afraid to even consider what you do professionally.
Sounds like it worked. He can now accrue tickets without penalty.
How is producing a single pen using solely the labour of residents of China 'protectionist'.

Can you explain where I have accused the US of being protectionist?
Unregulated free-for-all is kind of what we have, though, in NYC at least. People double-park with impunity, drivers leave cars on sidewalks, and the worst offenders are the NYPD, the very people who are supposed to enforce these regulations.

We could trade subsidized parking for…

- bus and bike lanes

- garbage bins (the trash situation here is just humiliating)

- inducement for the city and state to fix the subways

- cleaner air

- loading zones for shops and deliveries (Fedex and UPS have a crazy deal with the city for near-immunity from traffic fines)

Yeah, I know, I'm dreaming, but I just don't see how the status quo is sustainable. Electric cars won't solve most of these problems.
Is there a special reason to forbid using native languages unless your native language is English?
I'm the only employee here (co-founder).

You do realize we started off of reddit, have had tens of millions of visitors, and so it only makes sense there nerdy people who like what we do? [I have a comp engineering degree myself]
> Does being a researcher or doctor make you a reliable expert and able to make claims about medicine and science and health?

Doubting people quoting papers, and doubting papers are two fundamentally different things.
Then I think you understand it.
Ummm the best part hiking alongside and beneath the the falls and up to the top of each one is closed. Not worth going there anymore!
Get around the paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20190812203131/https://www.busin...
You aren't breaking any law by sitting in an Uber, since it isn't your responsibility to make sure that they are following regulations. At worst the company will get fined or the driver will get their license suspended.
Ask HN: For a new product, do you favor simplicity or flexibility?
How do you decide whether a minimum viable product should favor flexibility* or simplicity^?
Do you focus more on breadth or depth?
If flexibility comes at the expense of complexity is it worth it?
If simplicity means you shrink your market size is it worth it?

Take cost of development out of the picture.

*flexibility: refers to how easily adapted the software can be to new users/markets. Could also refer to how rich of a feature set it has.

^simplicity: ease of use (UI/UX), how targeted the product is to a set of known customers.
Axios says "well south of $20M": https://twitter.com/danprimack/status/1161015743531618305
Does it? This seems to indicate that the site has been declining since 2013 and that the policy was more of a "final straw" type factor
Yup - EAT and YMYL has been a thing for a long time. That's why all of our authors are on an about page, why we distinguish editors vs reviewers vs researchers, why Kamal Patle has his own page, and why we even explain our editorial process.
Giant Batteries Supercharge Wind and Solar Plans
All migrated to Reddit already.
In short, ignore them... for actual details, you can google "Cry it out". There are a variety of techniques, varying from letting them cry for 5 minutes, to just letting them cry. Most modern ideas lean towards the 5 minute route, starting when they are close to 6 months old, as then they are old enough to not need feeding overnight.

It does work. Kids do learn that crying doesn't bring any attention, so they stop, and learn a sleeping routine. And with 7 kids, I can understand the appeal. With less kids, we went another route. When my kids were little, there was research saying these techniques were not healthy, but in the last 10 years newer studies have said they are OK. But it is a heated debate among parents.

Ultimately, every parent needs to make their own choice.
They only paid $20 million.

Buying a brand name and some domain relevant developers for that little is probably a good deal.
Why not put it in your marketing material as a sample? Seems strange to make me jump through hoops just to see what I'd be signing up for.
Tourism being more accessible has some big negatives though: the big ecological cost of air travel, and the fact that generally the more tourists there are in a given area the crappier the experience is per tourist.
Not to pry, but I'd be curious to know how those investments did for you, if you don't mind sharing!

Institutional investors often succeed at nabbing seed-stage investments then holding onto them through 10,000%+ profit. In fact, I heard that in most cases, a few outsize successes are responsible for most of an institutional portfolio's returns.
Import system is pluggable, so the semantics are there to be customized. Sure, it could be abused (as many things in Python), but an import hook that checks for a vendored dependency with specific version, seems like a reasonable way to resolve the problem above.

> remainder of the file as Ruby and not Python

That's a little excessive
What's wrong with TLV? It helps getting rid of end-of terminators, no?
On points:

1) There's insignificant differences in total land mass on the planet in the past few hundred years. I'm not sure what you're suggesting there. Sea levels have varied by dozens to hundreds of feet in the past. Life went on.

2) There are absolutely no scenarios where heat accelerates to 140F. The planet had CO2 PPM in the thousands for hundreds of millions of years. (of course, the CO2 in those years, was caused by volcanic activity) Still, life went on.

https://www.livescience.com/44330-jurassic-dinosaur-carbon-d...
http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/climatechange2/07_1...

3) Oxygen levels have not changed significantly. What kind of statement is that? O2 outnumbers CO2 by orders of magnitude in the Earth's atmosphere (21% of the atmosphere is O2, CO2 is way <1%).

Record highs in Europe are local record highs (from the past century), not global all time highs. Russia, for example, experienced record all time lows during the same time Europe was getting hit by its heat wave: https://electroverse.net/all-time-record-low-temperatures-tu...
You’re gonna waste your money, Automattic.
https://evcompare.io/blog/this-is-a-security-camera-video-of...
Wait, how did you jump to the conclusion that it's clearly a fraud site? What's fraudulent about the site?

Relaying scientific results by the best of your ability without being a doctor or scientist is not fraudulent by itself. All mainstream media sites does this on a regular basis.
Making Your Design Decisions Count: A Primer on User Experience Testing
I think after Verizon failed so hard on their Oath thing, they probably just want to dump all the crud they bought in the process.
You might want to re-read both the comment of my parent, and my comment again.

Parent complains that Discord 'servers' are misnamed because they are not literally individual servers. I asked them if they have a similar gripe with IRC, because IRC 'channels' are named that after radio/tv channels, but they are not literally radio channels.
Security Camera Video of the Moscow Tesla Crash
I firmly believe this was done on purpose. They knew what they were doing by making it look like a tonka toy. EVs were just a write-off attempt by GM that didn't get the gov backing they wanted, so they made sure production remained low by making the cars hideous.
How+To+Add+A+CheckBox+Column+to+GridView+in+ASP.NET
Considering the rate at which new technology is coming into being, banking on such new technology to scrub away the CO2 from the atmosphere isn't a bad idea.
It's not 100% clear these are that different from RTGs it sounds like they just use Stirling engines instead of thermocouples to do the heat -> electricity conversion which is more efficient than the old style but seem largely the same otherwise.
Most of them were just half-broken APIs (e.g. some less-used query URIs would just error[1], or had buggy triggers), or only partially-covered indexes (so e.g. the stock app would be able to display conversations quickly, but [your query / 3rd party app] might not), or additional columns or queries (very common, occasionally interesting). A couple had obvious SQL injection bugs (contacts providers sometimes have these too). And most that I looked at were using older versions of the provider than the OS should have had, which is... great. Just great. I don't think fine-grained checks are part of the CTS.

Broken APIs can usually be worked around by doing a couple smaller queries and gluing the data together (often performs better anyway), partially covered indexes often mean the same thing (or just making do with less data in your app). And/or just decompile the stock app and see what it does differently.

SQL injections are fun tho, I managed to use a couple to dump the full databases, or add / repair missing indexes or triggers (never shipped code that did this, but it helped locally! would've probably broken if they ever upgraded the provider version tho). Some phones also try to protect / escalate Facebook data / access, but if there's an injection you can usually change the "protected" marker on its data.

[1]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/providers...

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I love that android has these shared providers, they let you do some super interesting and useful things, and for the most part everyone plays nice (but the "social stream" stuff in contacts is... odd, and rare). They seem to get pretty low amounts of attention tho, e.g. the sms provider had a few rounds of "caching bug in stock app" -> "finally make that pk autoincrement so it stops reusing ids" which were painfully obvious from reading the source: https://github.com/aosp-mirror/platform_packages_providers_t... . The current version has most or all of these fixed, but it took a few years to get there.
I have a friend who is a diesel mechanic for fleet operations. We've talked about his customers and their views on electric or hybrid vehicles. Obviously this is an anecdote, but he says many of the customers he has are planning to stick to diesel for quite a while because they don't have a team of mechanics who are qualified to work on electric drivetrains. The ones who exist are expensive, and it's expensive to train new ones.

Sure they don't need spark plugs and oil changes and they don't break down often, but when they do apparently it's hard to find non-dealership technicians who can repair/replace parts.
>“It’s just fun,” he said of Tumblr. “We’re not going to change any of that.”

English translation: "We are hell-bent on making sure not to steal bdsmlr's thunder and maintain tumblr's death-spiral."
Someone in my old neighborhood did this too. It generally seemed like a pretty bad idea, but it didn't actually bother me.
If you are concerned about timing it right, or macro-economic swings, simply purchase a corresponding long position in an index fund / S&P 500. Options do cost premiums, but shorts typically do not. You can however even recover the option premium with a similar strategy by selling a matching option on the index.

You can construct a trade that will make you money assuming your assumption is correct (that that company will underperform the market).