jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That reminds me of something I didn't really like about the otherwise excellent Europa Report.

<rot13>
Jul jbhyq gur Rhebcn perngherf unir ribyirq ovbyhzvarfprapr, naq rfcrpvnyyl gur novyvgl gb hfr vg sbe pbzzhavpngvba, tvira gurve raivebazrag? Nyy yvsr ba Rhebcn jbhyq unir ribyirq va n yvtugyrff bprna, beovgvat n eryngviryl snvag Fha, ohevrq haqre n eryngviryl guvpx pehfg bs vpr. Guvf frrzf yvxr vg jbhyq cerpyhqr gur qrirybczrag bs gur rlr (jr frr gung gur rlr vf fryrpgrq ntnvafg va pnir-qjryyvat svfu, sbe vafgnapr), naq guhf jbhyq znxr ovbyhzvarfprapr varssrpgvir naq na haarprffnel jnfgr bs cerfhznoyl fpnepr erfbheprf.
</rot13>

It's not a major point, but it struck me as odd given the otherwise rigorous nature of the film.
How are you going to restrain the signals to inside the shop?
I'm the opposite. I thrive on adversity; I love asking questions and getting to the root of it.
It's amazing that this isn't done by everyone. But of course roughly nobody cares about security (and those who do can change the password themselves), so why not save the 5 cents per unit that it would cost.
Two nitpicks that disturbed me:

- Hans Reiser is said to have developed a "computer filing system", not a "file system".

- The rootkit installed by Sony is called "copy-protection software". It was the other way around, the copy-protection software also included a rootkit, which is something different.

I'm sure there are more, this article was quite doubt-inspiring on the quality/editing side of things.
The theory is that liquidising your food means more chemical reaction can take place.

I don't have soda in reach. One 330ml can of soda a day is 5kg of weight gain per year to work off.
Fortran is very widely used. As is Unix. I don't see anything wrong with having that article in there. Also, if you are hacking something/someone then knowing about all the obscure bits of technology they have is vitally important.
Hmmmm....

The Doom9 stuff seems to be more oriented toward ripping and encoding for personal use, not taking a source file and encoding several versions for streaming from a Wowza Media Server, Red5 server, or Flash Media Server...unless I am not looking in the appropriate place.

I haven't yet looked through the flowplayer forums. That seems like a good idea.

That book you linked to has a newer version, but it is over $100.

IF not CLI examples, would you have any recommended settings for encoding to stream for multiple devices and connection speeds (iDevices, Android phones, flash video)? What bitrates and resolutions from a 1280x720 60fps source file?
Have some class and don't copy the name without permission.

(channelling the sentiment of the recent Zed Shaw ruckus)
My netbook almost never runs X, but it still has a trackpad.
> You should dig in to the history of “responsible disclosure”.

That doesn't give a history of responsible disclosure, but it does correspond with my understanding of the situation.

He mentions "RFPolicy" invented by security researcher Rain Forest Puppy [1]. This policy includes the following stipulation right at the top:

> You basically have 5 days (read below for the definitions and semantics of what is considered a 'day') to return contact to the individual, and must keep in contact with them at least every 5 days. Failure to do so will discourage them from working with you and encourage them to publicly disclose the security problem.

This is completely the opposite of "the vendor is entirely in control of the process". A few paragraphs after this reference, the author of your article says:

> This entire charade [a push by Microsoft about disclosure] is nothing more than an elaborate PR scam. The five security companies that are involved (@Stake, BindView, ISS, Foundstone, Guardent), were they not following these general rules along the lines of responsible disclosure?

This paragraph implies that the author of the article identifes RFPolicy -- a policy created by security researchers themselves -- with "responsible disclosure", and is blaming Microsoft for trying to hijack the term.

But instead of insisting that "responsible disclosure" means something like RFPolicy, you're insisting that actually "responsible disclosure" means something like what Microsoft wants it to mean. Rather than fighting to maintain control a term that security researchers invented, you're advocating surrendering the term to Microsoft and other organizations like them.

I think that's bad strategy.

[1] https://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/papers/general/rfpolicy-2...

Edit: Clarify some antecedents.
> If their bank account is drained they will care

For people living in the US, that's just basically an act of God now. The refusal to have a decent ID system has made identity theft laughably easy. Even with top-notch computer security, if you have ever shopped online or swiped a card in a shop that doesn't do in-depth background checks of its employee, you are at risk.
Don't you think that most of your clients being breached is immaterial in the greater scheme of things?

You seem to be bothered by the "overall picture". I am also prone to this sentiment (not in infosec though) but I am actually consoled by the sort of nihilist nature of things. Maybe even optimistic for being so. I think the stuff that keeps us happy are minutiae.

If you are super keen about APIs then maybe building really sensible APIs along the way will bring you the relief of having something stimulating to work on. At the moment I get a lot of satisfaction from tooling vim to be my super-IDE and everytime I use vim now I get a kind of wry happiness from not having to use all kinds of apps and what-not. I think APIs can be super interesting and useful. For example, I wanted to pull the Bitcoin purchasing history from a site and the answer was... you have to use Golang.

I also get a sort of satisfaction from using Perl in this way. (I use Python too.) It's just that all kinds of wonderful gems were once written in Perl by people that were clearly bored with their lives (exiftool comes to mind).
It’s hardly a secret that innovation in smartphone cameras is mainly in software now. This software camera innovation is one of, or the, main area that phone manufacturers are competing on at the top end of the market, so characterising it as ‘easy’ seems strange.
Lobsters is a technology-focused link-aggregation site https://lobste.rs/
Thank you. The Nature's paper isn't accessible for free, but some bibliographies are open for all.
You make the odd assumption it makes any difference to rates of copying.

I actually would seriously doubt that it does.
I drove over the California grapevine in both directions last week and averaged 300 Wh/mi by sticking to 60 mph uphill and taking advantage of recharging while descending. Granted that climb is not as big the climb to Tahoe.
A head related transfer function (HRTF) has already been applied to the stereo mix.
I believe the key to making remote work work is that everybody has to work remotely, or as if they were remote. If you have meetings and other communications happening face to face, then the remote people, to a greater or lesser extent become Cowboys, through no real fault of their own.
Disclaimer : This is my blog and I felt like sharing it. I am not sure if it's fine to do so. Please let me know if I should remove this from HN.
> This is one of the top things that make engineers grumpy: constantly shifting priorities.

Author hits the nail on the head. I was on a team that shifted priorities just about every week - and not really the team but really management. Every decision was "reactive" to something someone said - that "someone" who doesn't really know that much, doesn't have that much power, etc., but management is convinced they'll look good if they can satisfy this one person or group of people, regardless of whether the outcome provides any true value.

The manager was a great guy, but he over-indexed in the wrong things and spent too much effort optimizing purely for "optics".

I realized I didn't see value in my output (nor my team's). I wasn't enjoying my work, and I really wasn't learning anything I really care for. The things I was learning had more to do with work politics and optics.

So I left.

And I took a vacation.

:D

Life is short. If you're going to work 60+ hours a week, at least find something that helps you grow in some way and/or that you find fulfilling. Unfortunately not everyone has that luxury, but if you do, only you can improve your situation.
Hmmm. I might be missing something here, but I routinely clean out cookies in "public"/unauthed URLs in Varnish, as well as hashing the cache based on _part_ of a specific cookie (the bit that defines, say, the site's theme, or a generic user role).

They do mention that they didn't investigate how to do this in Varnish, but I recall having picked up the basic technique from one of the author's posts.
Facebook isn't "playing games" that much IMHO, Facebook is merely trying to make sure it doesn't get sued by stockholders because it "hid material information from them". Thus, Facebook puts a worst-case scenario in their SEC filing so no stockholders can later sue them because "If I had known Facebook has regulatory issues in Europe I'd have invested differently! They didn't tell me, that's securities fraud!" (Cue Matt Levine on "everything is securities fraud")

Of course it's a big claim, but I don't quite see why this is suddenly over all the media for such an obvious stock disclaimer.
people need a "how to work with me guide".
I think the question has not much to do with ADHD. A lot of people hate boring stupid tasks. Let's say maybe more than 50%. Maybe they can deal with it better then someone with ADHD.

Anyway. What you are looking for might be a consultant position, or working in a startup. By the way in my opinion, anything you do will have a bit of boring/unpleasant stuff.
Hmm, with layer-shell, you can run some parts from other DEs under a given wayland compositor. I'm not sure what parts support the protocol, but I'm fairly sure you can run krunner, and probably the KDE status bar under sway. I think you can also run xfce's equivalents.

I don't see why all of that couldn't be integrated in nice, modular packages and sets of configuration. Some say that wayland made everything more monolithic. If anything, I think it helped make everything more modular by forcing to specify the interfaces into wayland protocols.

Now, of course some DE prefer using private interfaces instead of proper protocols...
I don't know if I'm an outlier, but Amazon couriers put my packages on my doorstep, ring my bell and walk away. By the time I've got to the door, even if it's only a few seconds later, they are already in their vehicle ready to drive off. I'm guessing their delivery windows are so narrow now, that they don't have time for politeness.
off by ten shame

The following articles says 27kb, and 63 columns and 254 rows limits.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1681443,00.asp
If it’s equally likely, I’ll gladly take half as many pandemics by eliminating one source of them.
I really don't want to strawman anything. I certainly welcome anyone to explain where the racism is.

Part of the issue is that just asking 'where is the racism?' tends to gets responses that are--in summary--something like 'well if you don't see it, then you're just blind (if they are being charitable) or racist yourself'.

I know what I wrote is going to be very controversial, but you have to remember this is a condensed feeling that took me years to realise. I saw this same conversation play out 100 times:

--Someone post a link to SSC

--someone else says 'oh that guy is so racist'

--Then some poor fool asks 'wait, how is any of that racist?'

That is: there isn't paragraph or argument that is racist per se, but instead a general gist. It's much more about what is not said than what is.

Obviously we have a major communication problem here that I am not sure we can resolve. To some people, the rationalist community is so racist that they feel they shouldn't even have to explain why. If you cannot see it, you're being blind, racist, or as you mention: tone-deaf.

To others, there isn't anything racist about it, and they are left confused about why discussions about Moloch and cost disease are racist.

It's a bit meta, but I think this is a good example of Conflict versus disease
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/
You are paid the minimum the company can get away with. No more, but a lot less.
>The idea that your employer should be able to look at your expenses and judge which ones are valid and which ones aren't, and then adjust your pay "appropriately" is offensive on a deep level.

No one making these decisions actually has this idea. It's just more acceptable PR than "we're going to lower your pay because we think you will accept it because we think that you won't or you think you won't have better options."
> Why is this drivel even here?

My guess is exactly because of statements like yours. He makes a good point, and when you can see past the conspiracy theory tone, I think this article is kind of awesome.

Your kind of response making people feel like this article is bad is almost the entire point why he writes in a crazy way.

Does he actually think the NYT is some singular conspirator, plotting the worlds doom? I highly doubt it. Is the NYT a good embodiment of the spirit that he is talking about? I’d say so.

This was my favorite part from his article - “ Invite friends to write on your blog. Start 20 blogs all with fake names of fake people. There are no rules! Start a blog for your cat and your rat and your flower garden. How does your rose feel about all this? Change your style with every post. Contradict yourself. Lie to me. Commit plagiarism. Be really egregious about it. Misquote authors and butcher philosophy. There are no rules! Ok now write some good stuff. Like some really deep look out the window and ponder the truth of the ages stuff. Get drunk and write. Get high and write. Write a message in the snow with your piss. I hope it offends somebody. Does this post offend you? Good! Now offend me! Let’s offend each other. Doesn’t it feel good to feel something?”
seems pretty information dense to me. tufte would approve. but surely he's no match.
I'd disagree with it being entertaining. I like a lot of his videos, but saying that it equates to white supremacy is an unhelpful and simplistic viewpoint which perpetuates a rather tiring rhetoric of self - loathing against western society. Music theory was simply codified by people using Western classical music as a yardstick, and taking the common ideas expressed in it as the music to analyse using it.

Is definitely somewhat out of date, and in need of improvement to encompass not only the music created in other cultures but also textural and sonic expression which makes up interesting music which could otherwise be under - analysed using WCM as the baseline, but equating this to white supremacy is to me incorrect, and missing the point of what's actually needed - an update.
I'm probably heavily projecting my own personal flaws here, but I've come to believe that the driving force behind that community is to feel smart and be recognized as such in some public forum. Therefore their strategic thinking was compromised from the start in this particular instance. There was no chance of them collectively deciding to follow your proposition.
> I think there are social/political ramifications to seriously consider.

Totally disagree. The political ramifications were apparent the moment the denials and information flow stopped. There's nothing more to be gained. Basic game theory.
Nothing is ever organized on /b/. It's organized on RSC, 711chan, 888chan before r3x archived it, or, most commonly, on IRC/tinychat/whatever. /i/nsurgents view /b/ with derision, and /b/ is only ever brought into the mix if numbers are needed, usually for a DDoS or forum raid. Partyvan.info and insurgen.cc used to be fairly active raid wikis, but insurgen.cc went down shortly before 888 was archived, and partyvan doesn't look to be too current anymore.

You just can't get anything done on /b/. At all.

edit: Actually, it looks like insurgen.cc is back up.
yeah, I honestly went with the flashy title because I wanted some help. Appreciate the assist.
When Zed Shaw wrote that rant 37signals already had thousands of customers for its Rails apps (plural).
You know what? Designers and programmers need to get over their (our) smugness. This type of "oh god we're so smart and oh god you are sooo dumb" thing helps nobody.

Out of curiosity, how do I hire a designer? How much does it cost? Where do I go? Who do I ask?

Is there any question as to the source of ignorance when clients are coming to designers to do work? I don't think I've ever seen a post with something like "so you're a lonely python hacker holed up in the back of a coffee shop staring into a shell...your website has functionality but looks like it was designed by the openbsd foundation? You want to hire a designer to make it look as good on the outside as it does on the inside? HERE IS HOW!"

Why have I seen so many posts talking about how completely ignorant and stupid the general population is, but not a single one trying to help them overcome this ignorance?

Sincerely,

Somebody who has absolutely no idea how to hire a designer even if he had the money to do so.
You realize of course that you're only going to hear about the asset forfeiture cases where the process is abused. The rest of the cases --- which vastly outnumber the abuses --- are boring.

Moreover, virtually every abuse case I've read about has occurred on a local (sometimes even municipal) level. Have you read a lot about federal law enforcement abusing asset forfeiture procedures?
Already posted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1848643

BTW, I'm using it extensively for my NodeJS code, too. Soon I'll add kill-and-recompile-and-respawn-NodeJS-on-(file-change-anywhere-in-dependency-graph).
I just bought a truckload of books for my birthday, but I wouldn't mind some more ;). Sadly, the amount of free time I have is inversely proportional to the size of my wishlist[1]. Such is life.

[1] http://flipkart.com/wishlist/GeneralMaximus
Ptolemy, and his intellectual descendants, didn't actually use epicycles-on-epicycles. Just a single epicycle on a deferent. Although "epicycles-on-epicycles" might be traditionally emblematic of "incorrectly formulated over-complicated theories", it has no sound basis in the history of astronomy.

The Ptolemaic model, while ineffective at meeting the measurements of planetary movement, was a fairly simple, and elegant, mathematical model.
You can play WoW on your 60" HDTV and stream movies from netflix ect. The old Mini was right at the edge of playability but with 2x the graphics it should work just fine.

PS: You can buy a 60" 1080p TV for 800$ so if you can afford this you can afford an huge TV.
Graduate assistantship stipends are probably an OK measure. At my school, funded psychology students get around $9000 or $10000 during the academic year, and have to work as a TA each semester (grading or teaching lab sessions). Genetics students earn $20000 and simply work in their PI's lab. This is for students funded through the graduate school -- PIs can also hire grad students and postdocs with money from their own grants, in addition to those already-funded students who join their labs. In either case, the graduate school waives tuition for anyone on an assistantship.

Plus, science students have relatively good options in industry after graduation, and as far as I can tell, more postdoc positions available.

There are also programs like this for science students:

http://www.sciencemasters.com/
A difference of two points in Elo is nothing; basically this corroborates the current betting odds that Brazil & Spain are the two favorites with small differences between them.

In any case football/soccer results have such a big variance that it doesn't really matter. I think in HK there was a paper no long ago that studied soccer competitions and sayed something like the best team in a soccer competition only wins it a 30% of the time.
GPL: You can do whatever you want with the code as long as your code is GPL too. You can't use it closed-source projects. You can't restrict the next person in any way.

LGPL: GPL except some restricted forms of closed-source use are OK. I believe the idea is that you can use an LGPL library in a closed-source project. Really, both the GPL and LGPL are way too confusing.

MIT: Do basically whatever you want. Just don't claim you wrote it, and don't try to sue anybody.

BSD: Essentially equivalent to MIT.

Microsoft Public License: Essentially equivalent to MIT.

Apache License: Essentially MIT, but you have to make sure people know that you modified the code (if in fact you did).

Academic Free License: Basically MIT but with more legal jargon and more protection (from patent suits, for example).

Really, other than GPL and LGPL, most open source licenses are easy to read and quite clear in what they allow. I would urge you to read them.
Part of me thinks, "Maybe if I send a link of this to my wife, she'll finally understand why I hate shopping so much." Then another part of my brain reaches over and smacks the first part upside the head and says, "Are you nuts? If she reads it then you won't be able to use that clever liver question to get out of a bind!"
Now I'm hearing that the Nameservers have to be in .by country when you register. What about curated.by? Are there nameservers really in Belarus?
Using a period instead of a question mark is a writing technique to imply that the question isn't really a question (most commonly used to form polite but firm requests). Touchè on the [semi]colon.
Two questions I've been struggling a bit with lately...

1) Are widescreen layouts acceptable yet?

2) As long as the UI stays snappy, how much CPU usage is it okay to use?
Devaluing the US dollar wouldn't actually fix the Social Security problem by itself due to COLA.

http://www.ssa.gov/cola/2011/factsheet.htm

I think some form of limited default on our sovereign debt (restructuring) is more likely in the long run, combined with a further increase in the Social Security retirement age and a cut in benefits.
The Higgs is irrelevant here. Photons do not couple to the Higgs but rays of light still follow geodesics in GR.
Word. I want the hours, location, phone number, and menu. All in a format I can copy & paste into my email to convince my friends to go.

I rarely get any of that at a restaurant's web site.

No wonder that it's easier to google/yelp it and use their listings.
A couple of years ago, I locked myself out of the house. I called a locksmith, who showed up at the house surprisingly quickly.

After spending a number of minutes fiddling with some impressive-looking lock picks and exercising what must be years of learned skill, he couldn't unlock the door. Sheepishly, he put away the specific tools and pulled out a dummy key + a rubber mallet.

The locksmith put the dummy key into the lock tumbler, whacked it once on the head with the rubber mallet, and the door unlocked. From the time he produced the tools to the time I was inside the house was well under sixty seconds.

I thought, Why didn't he just do that in the first place? And concluded much the same as you've said -- $70 for thirty seconds of work might seem steep and some people need the song and dance. Personally, I was grateful to have on-demand service like that available so quickly :)
That closed a while back and has already been accounted for.