jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Here's mine -- "Divorce court chess:"

QBNRRNBK
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KBNRRNBQ

I've played this a number of times. It flummoxes chess experts, and it's actually quite fun. Everyone speculates that it's a solvable game. Believe it or not, but in my brief experience, development of the queen has been a big part of this game.
Sounds like the exact sort of place I wouldn't want to work at. Sounds way too much like kindergarden to me.

I'm a programmer. I need quiet. Give me an office or let me work at home. If I need to collaborate, I can go to a meeting room or use my phone.
This doesn't refute the original point. It may even reinforce it! Her father and mother imparted some excellent genes, raised their daughters, and taught them in a way no school can. Judit Polgár and her sister were possibly born geniuses. However, it may show that female geniuses (made or born) can be as good as male geniuses (made or born), if given the chance (which I believe).
We had just learned how to play chess in school. I was about 10 years old I think. Another guy challenged me to a game... he was friendly, but not exactly someone I would have called a friend at the time. We set up in a corner of the library, and he nailed me with the 4 move checkmate. He was extremely satisfied with himself, mainly I think because he had managed to hustle me. He wasn't any better at chess than I was, he had just heard of the 4 move checkmate before I did. I was, if not crushed, somewhat perturbed that this could happen. In my 10 year old life, it was a completely new experience. I realized that playing a game had a lot more to do with just knowing the rules.

In school, you tend to play games with people who are your friends for the most part. Chess is a bit different though... you seem to end up playing against people you don't know well or at all, yet especially when you are starting out in chess, trying to work out what sort of player (and by extension, what sort of person) your opponent is becomes quite important. I think there are a useful set of skills to do with that, which you would otherwise miss out on as a kid.
Here's how I see it: Manning gets thrown in torture chamber, and Obama doesn't give a shit. Despite the outcry from top sources[1] , he doesn't care. Then he announces his candidacy, and as he finally starts talking to his core supporters (for the $$$), he finds out that people are really bothered by the Manning case. So he quickly orders the Pentagon to stop torturing him.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/10/bradley-manning-... (latest in a long line)
The problem with not only PhDs but even the first levels of higher education is only one and it is universal: We see it from an economic perspective.

A bachelors degree is good if it helps you do a masters degree.

A masters degree is good if it improves your chances at finding a job.

And then a PhD is good if it increases your expected salary.

Well, I am sorry, but we shouldn't be complaining about "the PhD problem" then. If you do a PhD, do it to learn. Don't do it to find a job that will pay more.
If someone is really stealing a phone for corporate espionage, couldn't they have most of the important emails located and forwarded off the phone within a few minutes?

This idea of "self-destructing if it doesn't call home in a few days" seems pointless.
I agree, although, wills aside, the one in Economics is objective when compared with the peace one.
I think the distinction is a straw man really. Changing the semantics of interfaces is generally a bad idea once you have code depending on them whether it be within your application or a library. Where open/closed falls down is that it requires that you subclass just for _adding_ new methods to an interface. You're not effecting any existing code but you're still introducing entropy into your codebase.
When the first 32-bit troubles occurred, they should have just switched to a string-based ID, IMO.
I've seen a lot of startups using Java for web application development. Its not not that they are unaware of the other dynamic languages or the new rapid prototyping web app framework.
But I guess its due to their reluctance to move to the new setup.
So how do you decide if an article is 'political'?
This is the tweets by Elon Musk on this
"Tks. Turns out we recovered some impact video frames from drone ship. It's kinda begging to be released…"
" Before impact, fins lose power and go hardover. Engines fights to restore, but …"
"Rocket hits hard at ~45 deg angle, smashing legs and engine section"
"Residual fuel and oxygen combine "
"Full RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly) event. Ship is fine minor repairs. Exciting day!"
"Next rocket landing on drone ship in 2 to 3 weeks w way more hydraulic fluid. At least it shd explode for a diff reason."
https://twitter.com/sacca/status/556107612396457984

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/555980855537975296
Yes that's why I gave you China's motivation. It would connect their two largest cities and China is a big believer in high-speed mass transit.
Current reactors weren't developed by the invisible hand, they were developed as part of the effort to make bombs.
the class system should really limit it to some percentage of the whole award, not over 2x the individual damages.
https://laracasts.com/
Let me tell you what would happen and what DID happen to one of my friends who set off the alarm.

A supervisor was called in, he double checked his ID, found out my friend was using some chemicals the day before (working on his apartment). Waved him through right after.

The explanation may be the thing that got him through but it could also be the fact that they told him what chemical he set off and the fact that he's white as hell.
I think in an interview Loren said he wrote it in OpenGL for his own fun. Haven't we all done that? It's extreme, but it's very good at providing a lot of rich control, but with iOS7 a lot of fancy tricks he did will be pretty simple so I'd imagine that it was a one off.
Imperfect economic analogy is imperfect. It doesn't mean it's unreasonable, and it doesn't imply the malicious intent you want it to.
I run many applications on my computer at once and I often find myself opening the start menu to launch an application while keeping an eye on another window in the background. The hierarchical organization and text-with-icons style of the classic start menu also feels less overwhelming to me than the flat organization and icons-with-text style of the Windows 8 menu.

But I also think these are minor issues and the backlash against the menu in Windows 8 was over-the-top. At the end of the day, I think the real reason people were mad is that it just looked very different from previous menus, which made casual users uncomfortable. Which is kind of funny seeing as it's very similar to the app menus used by macOS, iOS, and Android.
Many PS2-USB "converters" are really just "adapters" that actually rely on the keyboard to do the heavy lifting internally. These do not work at all. It sounds like it has gotten better but it used to be quite hard to get an M working. Of course these isn't much(any?) other ~40 year old PC equipment that is this easy to get working.
Window snapping has been a native feature on macOS for years: https://osxdaily.com/2016/12/06/use-window-snapping-mac/
Reddit has also been burning plenty of bridges with its more conservative user base. It’s a smaller subset but they’re looking for an alternative.
That list is a bit silly. One item is basically "Finder has a better preview feature, but you can get a better-better one in Windows with <third-party app>". At that point, pretty much all other items become invalid, since you can find Mac apps that will give you the required features in ways that are superior to anything Windows ships with. It's also slightly ignorant of MacOS features (like Zoomed windows). The only item I agree with is the window-management icons being too small and hard to reach - sadly the truth is that they don't want you to use them really, in modern macos you're largely supposed to jockey between fullscreen apps.

I'm no fanboy (in fact, I think I'll move off macos in the next year or so), and there is a lot to like in modern Windows, but that list doesn't really hack it.

> why can't I just create a markdown file in a folder,

Because you're "reasoning it wrong" (eh): you don't really want to "create a markdown file"! You want to write something and then store it as markdown. So you open a writing program then save the output as markdown. I'm not trying to attack you or persuade you of anything, I'm just explaining the different approach in terms of usability, the rationale behind the implementation choice.

I also agree that the stock save-dialogs in macos are somewhat less powerful than the Windows implementation, but they compensate with a more consistent handling of global shortcuts (what will appear on the left bar in Windows dialogs is something of a lottery).
Have you ever tried HTTP Toolkit? See https://httptoolkit.tech/ (disclaimer: I'm the author)

It quite a few features on top of the core MITM functionality, like automated setup for a bunch of use cases like browsers & Android interception (not Docker, yet, but it's coming!). If you're an avid mitmproxy user I'd love to know what you think.
The page says SiFive U54 and Starfive JH7100. What's the relationship between SiFive and Starfive?
No, you can selectively decrypt HTTPS requests for only some domains, and act as passthrough for others.
This "fix" sounds like removing the alert only, not fixing the issue, right?

So this is simply hiding the embarrassing symptom.
I didn’t know packets leaked this much information… Thank you for mentioning this.
There are tons of Flask/Sinatra level abstraction frameworks. They bring nothing new to the table. Stuff like auth and migrations are difficult problems, which is exactly why you need a framework. Any halfway decent web dev can cobble together yet another expressjs lookalike, but there are few that can reliably build Devise type authentication solutions. Ever wondered why most build-a-blog web framework demo tutorials tend to conveniently skip user registration/auth?
Makes you wonder how long it will take - if ever - to pay off our current collective debts.
Yes, collaboration and maintenance is another plus for TeX, which was not considered in this study.

However, spell/grammar checking and the longer edit-compile-review cycle (e.g. when coding TikZ pictures) is still an issue for me where Word probably has an advantage.

Any tool suggestions for grammar checking LaTeX documents? I use vim's spell checking, which is ok, but a tool which understands grammar could be better than a simple dictionary lookup.
> Do you know what's the approximate power draw (in Watts) of each drive with these settings enabled?

I do not, but I could find out as I have a external SATA to USB adapter with separate 12V power. Check back in a day or so.

> I wonder if the power saving features reduce the drive lifetimes (because of quicker spindowns)

Ah, I enabled max power-saving without spindown. Most of my earlier HD failures, including a couple of WD Greens, taught me to avoid spinning down.
I doubt the meeting would have gone any better were they using a Windows tablet (coming from someone who has used one).

Note taking in meetings is clearly not the USP of the iPad though, so Ballmer's comments are just a cheap shot... no substance.
"The bill slowly poisons many s corporations."

[...]

"I’m not alone in my concern over the scope of this bill and what it means for our economy. We keep pushing a little bit at the edges of some pretty sweeping changes at an alarming speed – so fast, in fact, that many taxpayers haven’t had time to digest them, much less, react to them."

A general term for this is "regime uncertainty." People continually complain about a corporate focus on the next quarter while not noticing that major tax and other business law (e.g. SarBox) changes every couple of years makes it well neigh impossible to do long range planning.

Things have been quite a bit worse lately and as long as Team Obama and the Congress continue to move at ramming speed a lot of economic activity is going to be suppressed until many months, probably more than a year, pass so that people can digest the changes and their implications.
This! Same concept can be applied to water in countries like the US. Our water is insanely cheap or free in more places, giving consumers no incentive to conserve or otherwise limit their consumption.
> I always thought crazy concept cars were a waste of time and resources for car companies. If they instead focused on massive in-house iteration (like Apple's 10-3-1 prototyping process), better cars would be brought to market.

Definitely. I've been watching the car industry for a few years now, and I'm still waiting for an "Apple" to emerge.
Interesting, thanks for the link.

I actually misread it as noting anyway, so our errors canceled out :-).
I think there is nothing cool about this. Also "National Geographic: Inside North Korea" [1] gives a good insight of what is going on inside north korea. (Especially the end of the video).

[1] http://www.megavideo.com/?v=KBMBL7GJ (video)
I thought of three great ideas but I realized I just want to make those apps :) Good luck. I'll try to post more later.
Some of us just like to use mobile phones, and don't enjoy fiddling with them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FePeTdNswcE

It's right under the "More" menu entry man, dunna how you didn't look there. Also, lmgtfy.
You should verify that with the port you're using.
#ffbb88. I thought the default looks too bright, almost red, when it's a broader swathe than the logo. This just tones it down a bit and makes it look "more like YC" to my eye.

I made this change when topcolor was first introduced and have never messed with it since.
It's possible to use safely, and the benefits are worth it --- no commit charge problems and no time spent copying page tables. (Even in the memory itself is copy-on-write, you still have to set up the child's address space.)

I'm sick of people cargo-culting ideas like "vfork is bad" without really understanding the issues.
There has been no problem - we were just focused on getting the oldest, earliest browsers we can get running. It's not about getting a fully standards compliant browser made 20 minutes ago to run in a browser made 10 minutes ago. It's about providing easy, hopefully pain-free access to web history.
The same way we deal with other entities: rats, viruses, hurricanes. If they harm us, we don't "punish" them, we just seek a way to prevent them harming us.
This perfectly showcase how to make a true master of his craft look like a SNL sketch through amateur video making skills.
Unrelated thing that crossed my mind: while brazilians that post here have a quality of life similar to americans, computer stuff is pretty expensive. Couldn't geeks travelling to brazil bring their MBPs and sell them for the price of a new one in the US?
Looks interesting, as I'm looking at alternatives to blogger for my new site. Going down my checklist, you'll support a custom domain and comments (via disqus).

Here's what's left unticked on my checklist...

Image hosting. (Will you host my pictures or do I have to find external server space for them?)
RSS/ATOM feeds.
Multiple writers on a single blog.
Mobile theme.
You pretty much have to embrace the Homeopathic community in order to stay off the radar of the FDA.

"Nothing to see here, just more snake oil!"
It was mobilegeeks.de and the assumptions are confirmed facts. And if you really think you can turn off "acceptable ads" then i have to tell you that Adblock Plus changes your settings with the next update.
FYI, you can replace "watch?v=12345" to "/v/12345" to view videos without logging in (works for age-restricted content as well). As a bonus, the video fills the browser screen, and removes all the annoying "related" content, comments, etc.
So a price has been placed on an almost exact copy of Medium without the benefits of Medium (an existing readership, existing capital), it's a copy right down to the typeface and even the green coloured buttons. How does one have complete control over their brand with Silvrback? There's no ability to customise the design beyond what already exists. There's nothing marketable about this product yet.
Cost per user is moot when compared against companies which inherently have different users, across different types of devices. Take our latest spot of head-scratchery ala WhatsApp, it's easy to do math and say: "oh right they paid about 40$ a user." Did they really?

WhatsApp has a huge set of "new" users on new and old devices. So, how again is a WhatsApp user on some random (non-smart) phone in India, as "valuable" to Facebook as one sitting in the Valley with their iWhatever.
Now picturing a kaiju-style Regulatory-Leviathon-mecha daintily picking its way through Tokyo and raising a foot over the Mt. Gox offices...
> if you're dumb enough to leave a hole in your security

This is grossly underestimating how hard it is to have a bullet-proof system. Some of the best security people in this planet use disconnected systems when they want to be sure it is safe.
> No, you shouldn't have to turn off a very commonly used service so that people can do better business by tracking it in an intrusive manner. Privacy should be the default option in such programs.

Maybe, maybe not, but if you care about your privacy you shouldn't assume everyone will follow the rules. Opt-in would be tough too--they need to know who you are before knowing if you have opted in.
In 1978 two light bulbs wired in parallel could not be a lunch bill even in Russia.
> Wait wasn't it Amazon who cheated on taxes like no other company

The problem is they aren't cheating. They are hiring a lot of lawyers to find every single LEGAL mechanism in the book to allow them to pay no taxes.

I'm not saying I agree with it. But the problem here isn't with Amazon it's with the US tax code, which has been molded over decades of politicians and lobbyists to allow for this.

To fix the system you need to fix the tax code.
Indeed if you look at the happiest countries list that seems to be true. Finland and Switzerland are near the top and kind of lefty and conservative respectively but both very low corruption.
There have been cases of both the girl and boy being about 16 and sexting each other, and still being convicted for transmission of child pornography. I recall a specific case where the girl's father was pissed off when he discovered what they did, and used the photos to drag the boy to court. The boy is now registered as a "sex offender", same as a child rapist.

Strange how the law sees nothing wrong with two teens fucking each other, but somehow sending nude photos of themselves to each other is a felony.
Not you, I have the same problem with my mum - to her at this point Facebook and YouTube are the internet.

She is entirely almost a passive consumer of what they algorithmically feed her - it also shapes her worldview in some weird ways - some of her personality change is just part of getting older I'm sure but you can almost spot the change when she starts discussing something that she saw on Facebook.
For anyone else who, like me, is curious about these musical portraits, here's a video I found:
https://youtu.be/iVsWELIJ96o
"5 day working week.. Monday to Friday - why is there basically no variation on this model?"

This also double screws you due to crowding. When do people drive to work? Same time you do. When do people go to USPS? Same lunch time you do. What time can you go to the fancy restaurant? Same Friday night everyone else does. Traffic, parks, grocery stores are all crowded at the exact same time.
I see where you're coming from. Ultimately, it comes down to a question of terminology. You say that a service storing the ciphertext of sensitive information is "collecting" this information. I, in turn, maintain it's at least not that clear, given that "collecting personal information" has a completely different meaning in the context of online platforms that don't offer end-to-end encryption.

This is why I think that your original statement that

> Today I still run into people who have no idea that Signal is storing their profile information and their contacts on signal's servers

is at least highly misleading and you're doing those people a disfavor by being similarly vague as the Signal website (albeit in the opposite way).

In any case, I agree that the statement you're quoting from their website,

> Signal is designed to never collect or store any sensitive information.

should be worded much more carefully (as should a lot more information on their website). Nevertheless, it should be noted that that particular statement is not part of their ToS / Privacy Policy and rather just an introductory statement.

> Regardless of the fact that [the profile information is] encrypted, it isn't as secure as you might think. See this thread for details: […]

Like you, I've been very concerned about Signal relying on SGX enclaves and I'm still extremely disappointed by the way they have been handling this topic. In fact, I've sent them multiple messages over the past year, asking them how come they trust SGX so much and what they've taken away from the Signal PIN UI/UX debacle. (I still think it's very poor UX to name a passphrase which should be as long as possible a "PIN".) Unfortunately, time and again they chose not to respond.

Nevertheless, the questionable security of SGX enclaves only comes into play if you choose to activate the Signal PIN feature and choose an insecure PIN. Obviously, this is still a huge red flag as the majority of users will do just that. But at least if you don't use Signal PINs you're good – in the sense that the app chooses a random lengthy passphrase for you. So yes, the encrypted profile still gets stored on their servers but, again, the attack vector is the same as in the case of messages getting stored during transmission.

Overall, you might think I'm contradicting myself – arguing both in favor and against Signal at the same time. And you would be right. Unfortunately, Signal is still by far the best tool we have for secure communication these days. (Where "best" is defined as "striking the best balance of versatility, mainstream acceptance and security".)
Yes, here is Stonehenge:

https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SU11914213

Glastonbury Tor 3D:

https://houseprices.io/lidar/ST5125038630/3d

Maiden Castle:

https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=SY669884
https://status.notion.so/ is working - 'all operational'
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.

-L.P. Hartley

Try watching old movies, something from before WW2. The scripts and the acting aren't just different because of tech, but because the people are different. The similarities, usually in the vices and not the virtues, are eye opening too.

Now that 'drift' from our reality continues all the way into the past, sometimes with violent changes, sometimes more slowly.
Maybe it's a cunning ploy to condition people into agreeing to anything if only it means they can see the damn content?

I already instantly accept cookies without hesitation.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113444
On one hand, anything to make learning to program easier is a good thing.

On the other, every time I hear about Microsoft getting deeper into the open source community, it feels like a friend is telling me she's getting back with an abusive ex because he's changed. I know its a very large company with many faces each with their own pros and cons. I also know vscode is quite good, and if they pulled some classic Microsoft trickery it would be forked.

At this point It's just a gut reaction to all things Microsoft, I don't even remember why I don't like them anymore. Still, more and better software is a good thing. More people learning is a good thing. I don't know, I just think some of the overly negative comments are being bashed more than they deserve, because they were being emotional and not acknowledging it.