jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A number of things here are being said in misleading ways.

The title:

> DROPBOX: We'll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To

No, they didn't say that. They said, "... Dropbox cooperates with United States law enforcement when it receives valid legal process, ...." (emphasis mine) And that is quite a bit different from "ask". I imagine the Dropbox people know the difference; I would be pretty unhappy about this title, if I were one of them.

> ... shouldn't affect the average user unless they're doing something wrong.

As pointed out by HN'er sixtofour, the real issue here is not whether you are doing something wrong, but whether you are accused of doing something wrong.

However, I will point out that this change in the privacy policy, will, in fact, affect no users at all. Dropbox is simply pointing out that, being based in the U.S., they are of course required to obey U.S. law. They were required to do so, even before they pointed that out. Now they are being clear about this fact. Good for them, but it doesn't change what they are required to do.

Also, it's worth noting, that that ridiculous line about "unless they are doing something wrong" does not appear to come from Dropbox, but from the author of the article.
Reading this thread, it's strange to see how many people assume that developers are software-only. I'm in a company that needs access to hardware for development and although we have a win/osx/lin mix of developers who can all access the hardware in their manner of choosing, there are definitely 'developer differences' between the OSs in this respect. Juggling USB numeration into a virtualbox VM can be a real pain, for example (older VirtualBox didn't even support that).

tl;dr: 'developers' can sometimes need direct access to hardware, OS selection can affect that, and while VMs are awesome, they can also cause additional overhead.
Airplane mode is a vague label.

I use airplane mode solely for saving battery life when my device is near me as I rest.

I like "Interesting person mode" -- that's a nice perspective!
It's unclear if the result come from looking at a font that's hard to read, or simply one that's unfamiliar / not Arial. Would have been nice if they tried setting it in a reasonable text font as well like Garamond or Bookman as a third option to see how that impacts performance.

Instead, we get a study that says "use comic sans instead of Arial." Thanks.
See p. 7 of Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month, for "The Joys of the Craft" http://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineerin...

He lists 5: creation; usefulness; intricacy; constant novelty; tractability.

Some of these are in common with graphic design; but the "constant novelty" perhaps addresses your "boredom". Turing said that programming need never become boring, because any repetitive coding (or concept) can be captured in a function or module. Once you're worked out the solution to a problem, you write a reusable module to deal with that problem, and embodies your understanding of it, and you don't have to do it again. So it's always new problems.

Now, in practice, it isn't always that easy. Code that can be reused generally is much harder to write than code for one specific case (the literal meaning of ad hoc: "for this"). The hardest part is specifying what it do, not coding how. This approaches AI: to go from a problem that initially you cannot even understand, to one that you can automate 100%, is transcendent. Almost Frankensteinian... (aka The Modern Prometheus).

For me personally: I get a simple pleasure from making something happen on the screen (like any act of creation); but I actually don't like programming much for its own sake. I enjoy solving problems, and making them real. It's easy to dream something; but to do it is a real accomplishment. And anything on the road of that journey becomes equally important.

I don't know what stage you're at, but it's possible that you're not yet up to wrapping up the common parts of your coding, so you don't have to do them again. If you keep on typing the same predictable, mechanical things, that would be boring. Computers are ideal for this kind of mechanical work.
Having perused the mailing list discussion it seems clear to me that certain entities within the W3C HTML WG (including Apple[1]) are now seeking to emphasise emerging differences (however slight or hard-won) between the W3C draft of HTML5 and the WHATWG draft of HTML. Meanwhile Mozilla and Opera have remained quiet. The timing of this debate is effective because HTML5 has recently hit the mainstream as a buzzword and people unaware of its development history will instinctively refer to the W3C.

While wresting control of the spec from WHATWG may be a worthwhile end for some in the W3C, one has to wonder what Apple could gain from insisting that only 'Portions of this specification are also part of a specification published by the WHATWG'[1], and thereby marginalising the group which is responsible for the spec's very existence and of which Apple is a prominent member.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jun/0369...
But then isn't this all a recipe for disaster? If you need a piece of software to be written from scratch for you, then it's probably critical to your business. It may even literally be your business. Why in that case would you want to scrape by with a crappy coder and try and wield them to be effective? I think if that is the situation you end up in, you're better off not doing it at all.

Granted I've never done a start up, so maybe I'm just naive. But it seems like if you want to do a technical start up, you should be technically minded.
The problems one solves in basic web development is to be honest, kinda boring. For most websites it's just CRUD (create, read, update, delete); coding in this case is just a form of glue.

Coding gets interesting when you're solving and implementing problems like PageRank, which you're not doing (I'm assuming).
I've been thinking about this exact concept since the Mythbusters tested it. I'm glad someone has gone out and prove it has legs/pushed it forward.

While I could see the benefit for the scenarios they listed (aircraft, space shuttles, etc) I actually think the real killer use could be for forest fires.

With forest fires you're constantly running out of water, and the only way to ship it the location it is needed is often multi-hour drives (which consume a lot of fuel).

If this concept worked then instead of moving water from A to B you only now have to worry about an energy source (e.g. diesel). So you could drive up a truck with generator on it and diesel in a fireproof tank, and then spend hours extinguishing fires.

Now, yes, fires can reignite. However that is also true with water, water evaporates extremely quickly from an area that was on fire both because that area is extremely dry, because of the ambient heat, and also because it likely started out hot to begin with.

PS - Fire retardants help keeping fires out, but they're bad for the environment and are also hard to keep supplied in remote areas, and when you're refilling directly from a river.
Chrome and Safari are supported. I have no plan to support Firefox. If someone is interested to make it work on FF or elsewhere I'm posting the GitHub soon.

Thank you for your report.
This is my experience of the .NET world: spoon-fed is, oddly, preferred. I don't get it, myself.
F# might, but I doubt scala would.
Is there a better source (in English) for the real information?
You should really read the Cialdini book if you haven't.
It's just a very very very good guide.
> Pizza rolls and fast food are not, so the comparison between the two is a false equivalency.

They may not be advertised as a full-time meal replacement, but they are certainly used as such by a non-negligible number of people. Nobody is up in arms about that fact.

> not being in a nutritional program doesn't suddenly make you a scientist.

Nowhere did I claim any such thing.

> Engineers do not practice the type of science required to develop new food/drugs.

I wasn't claiming that they do, I was simply claiming that it's not his first time hearing what the scientific method is. He's not a complete foreigner to the field, though many people have cast him as such.

> Where are the long term studies across various demographics with double-blind tests?

How do you propose to accomplish this? This is exactly why nutrition is such an undeveloped science. You can't reasonably test hypotheses in the field, predominantly for ethical reasons (forcing someone to eat nothing but fast-food is clearly unethical). Double-blind is also pretty much impossible in most scenarios, e.g. Soylent vs. McDonalds.

The lack of rigorous double-blind studies isn't because of anti-intellectualism, it's because those studies are completely impractical. The best we can do is have volunteers try it out and provide anecdotal evidence. It isn't rigorous and it isn't scientific, but so far the results are all positive.
I love Americans. Some of the behaviour of the United States government I am not so sure about.

Of course the behaviour of governments in other countries can be just as absurd. We are not so different. You're not seeing Italy firing bombs at the Middle East right now. The stories are different, the absurd behaviour is much the same. http://www.beppegrillo.it/en/
Correct me if I'm making an unwarranted leap here, but why shouldn't I read this as "More Yahoo users have spyware than Google users"?
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”

― Albert Einstein
Yes, it is true that the carbon footprint on a Tesla right now is just as shitty as on a gas automobile. What the article overlooks, however, is that it costs extraordinary amounts of MONEY to pull carbon out of the ground (whether in the form of gas, coal, or whatever else) and pump it in the air... we just don't have any better solutions yet.

This means it is likely civilization will eventually migrate to cheaper ways of generating energy without the expense of pulling carbon reservoirs out of the ground.

Even if most electricity is currently generated by burning carbon sources, this won't always be the case, and electric cars will eventually be decoupled from fossil fuel sources.
I meant to generate a full binding instead of using cvv8. bea[0] does something similar, but is somewhat limited.

[0] https://github.com/codeboost/bea
This was the bane of our (backend developers) existence at an Elixir startup. Even if you maintained typespecs--good luck!--and signatures it was still a nightmare.
It's fused to accept a non-signed BIOS. Microcode is separate and, considering how tight-lipped Intel is about it, almost certainly won't be customizable in the foreseeable future. (Unfortunately.)
That's a mistake. It's 77g sugar for 20 fl oz (which is a lot more than 100 ml) http://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/01213104
I don't think so. Bear with me as the analogy is not all the way there, but small nuclear 'pebble' reactors already exist. Not that much people care... BUT the company that makes them available to the masses cheap and safely will change the world.
Thanks — will add these soon
Yeah, you're right, that is cool and that is remarkable. But Javascript still really sucks sometimes.

To use an analogy: I'm not saying the plane doesn't fly, but I am saying the plane seats are uncomfortable.

Also, this is a total aside: what if there actually was a way to stuff like C++ on a computer in sandboxed environment that could be loaded automatically by a user in a seamless way? If that happened, if you took away Javascripts monopoly of the highly portable and convenient environment, it'd be dropped so fast you could blink and miss it.
I believe "gilded" is spot on here, because that's what the state of the art Web essentially is: sleek designs rendered by stacks of software/technologies "hiding serious, fundamental, and widespread problems" (browsers).
And Angular directives are pretty self contained, with their own scope, template, functions, etc. You need angular.js obviously, but that's just the generic library.
Everytime I travel, I notice a huge number of people checking bags. See how that anecdata works?

And if explosives have magically gotten smaller and more stable in the last 12 years (somehow defying chemistry and physics), why aren't we seeing more successful attacks? Or arrests of terrorists who underestimate how good the TSA is? Could it be that we're protecting ourselves against a miniscule threat? I bet if we invoked some type of placebo security where the guards just watched a rerun of South Park instead of the xray screen, we'd be just as "effective."
The funny thing is, the larger the company is, the less likely anyone there will remember anything you (as "some supplier") does or says--unless you're the one who wins the sale.

With the super-Enterprisey corps, you can even fail horribly to sell one branch/office/department, then turn around and strike a huge deal with some other branch/office/department of the same company.
To be fair, it looks blurry on non-retina screens, too.

The pixelated typeface they use seems like it should have straight edges, but is blurry for some reason. It makes the whole site hard to look at.
It's also fairly boring if you're not into schmoozing with college students or retirees, and there's no good food compared to the Bay Area/LA.
Fully agree.

I love JavaScript, but I hate having to switch between BackBone, Angular, Dojo, etc. between projects. Learning each one, as well intentioned as they are, winds up being a productivity hit at some point, if not semi-regularly.

In a way I feel as if I've spent more time learning how to get things done w/JavaScript frameworks, than actually getting them done.
It's common in San Francisco: http://sfcasualcarpool.com/
"Later" could be days or years! I'd love to hear even a very approximate ETA...
I think that's a valid comparison. If Flash Studio was designed today for mobile with some inspiration from HyperCard (specifically how it allowed non developers to build great software). We think our When & Then system is category defining.
Entrepreneurs are not bothered about income tax rates you make your $$ via capital gains.

Frances problems in this area are more to do with the technocratic elite from ena running the show
I'm very excited about this, but it's worth highlighting this from the FAQ:

Q. Can I submit my own React Native app to the App Store?

A. Not yet, but you will be able to soon. If you build something you want to submit to the App Store, come talk to us ASAP.
I agree, the more math I learn the less useful I think it is for most people, but if you enjoy it it can be rewarding to study on its own.

I think some more practical stuff would be great, unfortunately I can't remember ever coming across a good introduction to programming. The way I learned was just by
finding example programs and then modifying them to do something different. That's a hard skill to teach though.
"Curiously, infected men found cat urine odor more pleasant than uninfected men; in women, the opposite occurred."

I read somewhere that they sometimes put this odor in perfumes (such as Chanel 5), I find it interesting to see this process must make it less attractive to women and more to to men, I wonder if they also put it in men's perfumes.
In the long run it's true. The abstraction levels shift, you think in systems, data, bandwidth, maintenance, etc, which are outside of language scope (for now). Lisp is different though, it's not really a language, or it's just enough of a language to express ideas the way you need them to, so it does matter a little.
Use emacs with evil mode.
Wow. How did I go years without knowing this about the repl?
Try this one from the same publication. Written in 1945 and reads like it could be written in the future http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...
Good to know; I've only dealt with a couple and they were on workstations that encrypted files on mapped network shares - vssadmin wouldn't have any access to remove shadow copies on the file server, and in all but one of those cases we had both shadow copies locally on the file server and offsite file backups in place (backups only for the last).
That movie is in my top ten off all time, also on Netflix! Go watch it!
AWS as a service is providing a great deal many more services at a much faster rate than much of their competition, they basically own public cloud. They were also first to jump the gun with stuff like ECS and are doing some interesting things around RDS with Aurora. I feel AWS will only become even more dominant.

This is not to say there are some advantages in a few others (say, Rackspace appears to be simple to grasp, excellent human support) and GCE (load balancers don't need to be pre-warmed, etc).

But if anything, I see it increasingly harder for the other providers to keep parity with Amazon, because of their velocity and market share.

Now, for many people using cloud as just a easy way to get IP addresses, it's all the same, but once you start using a lot more of their services, they provide a lot of good stuff in what is basically "middleware" for applications to latch onto.

The question is whether an organization is doing this themselves (i.e. run their own Foo on their nodes) or is using the value added services or not.
Functional programming isn't just a rearrangement of subjects and verbs....
HitmanPro.Alert (http://www.surfright.nl/en/alert) includes a variation of this - it's not looking for fingerprints, it's monitoring for process behavior characteristic of individually encrypting bunches of files.
Bruce Perens maintains that Stallmen is employed by the FSF. According to all their tax filings, he has not ever drawn a salary. Perhaps those with stronger legal education than mine can answer: how does the ADA apply to boards?
One of top contributers I see is . (dot)

Yes. Just dot in symbol.

https://answers.yahoo.com/activity/questions?show=AA11447210
I haven't had the chance to check the dump but I am sure Facebook had my phone number. I'm surprised this site says my number wasn't leaked.
Maybe he has friends who are only on Signal that he talks to?
Are you a man?
It's tricky because "world" already makes us imagine a reality whose fundamental operation works like it does here. In fact, "reality" and "operation" already come with that baggage. The very mechanism that we know as "mind" (or at least, intellect) may be incapable of imagining other possibilities. On the other hand, very strong psychedelic experiences (a la DMT) or meditation can certainly give the impression that other possibilities exist. The problem is, you can't bring those possibilities back here via memory.
Yeah, those were some of the ideas I thought about but I found it difficult to find the kind of value PG mentioned from them in the midst of the bad ideas.

Thanks though! I also find myself hesitating to comment or post here to avoid getting downvoted. I would've thought HN would be the most tolerant among online communities of controversial or even obviously wrong ideas.
Takeaway: Maybe London should spend some effort becoming more naviagatable, instead of demanding professional drivers acquire a PhD level education (the Knowledge) to find their way.
Ironically, there are probably just as many regular hikers that stay in because of hunting season also. Or find trails on non-hunting lands during this time of year.
It doesn't sound like it's ready (as of June): https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/4#...
> absolute pitch, the rare ability to identify a musical note like F# just by hearing it, can be a massive benefit to a musician. you can learn the skill in a matter of weeks, but it can only be acquired before the age of 7. only 0.01% of people end up learning it in time!

I find it dubious that you can only learn this by age 7 - although I'm sure it's easier if you're younger. Is there science behind this claim?

I am not a musician, but I have recently started learning to play piano, and training my ear is something I'd really like to learn. I've used some apps to practice ear training, and I'm able to discern intervals decently, but I can't recognize and identify a single note on its own. I do hope I can get there with more deliberate practice.
I think the issue is scale. Keeping track of one doctored image with a missing Yezhov next to Stalin is easy.

Keeping track of myriads and millions of doctored images is harder. Even if you have a hash database or thumbprint database to keep track of all of them, someone is going to think they’re miscategorized or attribute the classification to politics or soft censorship. etc.
In Sweden, and I think in most of EU, once a month is the standard. I know of no-one with in Sweden with a full time job which is once a month.
> As an artist, I can tell you that "realism" is something that we can all agree on, but that art isn't really about portraying something (or someone) realistically. In the old days, it was the only way to preserve our likeness, but these days, a camera will do a much better job than even many of the most skilled artists, if you look for realism.

As an artist, you should know that a camera does not represent reality, it flattens and distorts it in such subtle ways that often art of the thing is a better likeness than the actual thing. It's one of the most basic steps in any art class -- to draw reality, not what the camera gives you, and is the reason why Botanical Artwork is still highly favoured over images (along with other reasons, like being able to represent the most important parts of the plant accurately in a general sense as opposed to a specific specimen).

Hyper-realism, in my experience, also tends to be based off of images and still has that "unreal" skewed/distorted perspective thing going on.
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You will work on a range of projects, getting into the nitty-gritty details of code and frameworks, to help gain footing in this important period. You will help develop new key performance metrics and tools in the exciting realm of sports analytics.

Main requirements:

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Ideally, East Canada or German time zones (but not a requirement)
This doesn't work because you're not left-shifting (doubling) the carry. But when adding the shifted carry to (x ^ y) we're back to potentially overflowing the highest bits.
The solution is to add the highest and the lower bits separately:

lower = 0x7f7f7f7f;
highest = ~lower;
z = ((x & lower) + (y & lower)) ^ ((x ^ y) & highest);

Note this only improves performance for larger container integers.
It Works like this in Denmark
Thanks for the feedback! We will definitely be adjusting our pitch in further iterations.
There are security angles to this that it's the governments job to consider. For example, there is the case of sole source of components from a company or country and there is the case of back doors from countries that are known to spy on the US.

I would expect a country like China or Russia to do the same thing with goods designed or manufactured in the US that could have the same kind of impact.
If that's your cause, what do you think about reducing the tax rate on wages below 30k? They pay about 20%.
> PI trying to determine marriage issues, health issues for insurance reasons, etc

From my perspective, either of those have ill intent towards me.