jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think Keyframe is right here. There are many populr story shapes and even guides on how to shape your story using beats (eg if you're making a 90 minute feature film, the hero should run into a problem by page 5 and we should become aware of a villain by page 12 etc. etc.). Form lays out the temporal structure of the story and is useful in terms of adjusting pacing to fit the attention span and general expectations of the audience. The most popular story form in Hollywood is Hero's Journey, based on common elements in mythic archetypes drawing on the work of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. It's a very useful tool for making sure you have a good story arc, without being overly specific.

Formula is more plot-oriented, involving stock characters, relationships and so on, eg part of the formula in every Terminator movie, supportive and antagonistic characters from the future (or with access to knowledge of the future) pursue the protagonist; the antagonistic robot finds the protagonist first and is about to kill her/him when suddenly the supportive character appears in a burst of significant firepower (to the surprise of everyone else in-world, but not to the audience) and tells the protagonist 'come with me if you want to live.' It seemed like a typical quotable one-liner in the first film, but it has endured because it encapsulates both the complexities of the basic time-travel story in the Terminator films and the more general dramatic need for the protagonist to make a risky investment of trust. The time-travel schtick is a narrative framework used to explore basic questions about the inherent anxiety of adult relationships.
I loved Construx when I was a kid. My brother and I would each build a vehicle, sit on the kitchen floor facing each other 10 or 15 feet apart, and ram them together. Whoever's vehicle lost the least number of parts won. We were probably 7 or 8 or so, and I clearly remember the process of coming up with an idea, building it, testing it, tweaking it, and so on, until we finally came up with what we thought was the optimal ramming vehicle. It was a great learning experience.
The biggest thing that Facebook gets right is having respect & trust in their employees regardless of their position or prior experience. They're willing to let their employees own an idea and fail if necessary. Traditional top-down organizations (99% of companies) equate respect & trust directly with title & seniority.
The liquid water requirement tells us a life-bearing planet can't be too hot, but finding life in the deepest parts of the ocean suggests that the water may not need to be on the surface. The nutrition raining down from the surface ultimately links back to photosynthesis, though, so it's not entirely convincing evidence.

The "habitable zone" concept is still useful when it comes to actually searching for signs of life. I'm guessing a planet with organic life on the surface would have stronger signatures than one with a thriving ocean under 500 km of solid rock and ice.
and then you proceed to not do it.
“Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful” - Warren Buffett
Yes, it does. That duel replaces a chase on unknown and strange runtime bugs.

Sometimes it's a win, other times it isn't.
Agree 100% on this. To truly replicate Access online, you'll have to provide some sort of scripting interface that is moderately performant. Seems like a complete nightmare.
That's a pretty distorted view IMHO. There are a lot of people that are working in the Python ecosystem and improve the language, and while they are not directly paid by the PSF their employers give them time to devote to working on Python. I think e.g. GvR had plenty of freedom to work on his Python projects while at Dropbox. I know a lot of companies in Germany that give people ample time to go to Python conferences and engage with the community, as it's also a way to meet and recruit good Python developers.

So it might be true that there are only a few FTEs working on Python, but the larger community of people contributing to it is much larger.
Yes, but Google Spanner is not open source, so it's not so easy to actually look at it. But what is known to public is that Spanner relies on perfectly synchronized atomic clocks within their datacenters, called TrueTime. This solution is very special and does not work for other databases in general.
Way back in the day at Microsoft it was a common practice to add the author's name, email and a small description of changes in the header comment at the top of source files. Then management started making us scrub all of them before release when vendors/competitors started using our source dumps as their recruiting database.
> Works produced by the U.S. federal government, with the sole exception of protected trademarks, are legally in the public domain.

Is this really true? Does anyone have a source for this? Wouldn't this imply that it is illegal for the U.S. federal government to hold any information confidential?
I don't like these quick one-line quotes, especially when they're bold statements without explanation.

Why is this quote true? Isn't building an identity in the mind of the consumers one of the basic marketing rules, and doesn't that imply that you need to focus on what you're good at, on how you're different than your competition?
That is pretty much the main point of my comment is that they bundle these old versions and so many people just click no when java asks to update (I haven't seen a popup for flash so I don't know how many answer yes to that) and adobe only has a tray icon when the reader needs to update (which is perpetually there on so many machines).

One of the biggest annoyances for me with new windows laptops is that many of the manufacturers no longer send the windows cd to reformat if they send a cd at all it is to recover back to the condition with all crapware installed.

HP now has a recovery manager to create recovery disks for you and the last hp computer I saw had to create 5 dvds in order to recover to that state (which would probably require something like a 6 hour reinstall).

It is a sad state if you ask me that you get this now because it allows manufacturers to take away cost by bundling shareware with the computer, just a few years ago toshiba was still shipping legitimate windows cds which allowed you to reformat to normal windows.
I know that feeling well: it's what makes me hesitant from time to time to learn new technology. I think about all of the domain experience I would immediately not have. When I first started I didn't know what I didn't know and thus just dove right in.
You're going to have to delete a lot of points or move a lot of points, so it's probably not any faster than doing a regular run through RDP and then interpolating. Interpolating is easy enough. The bottleneck (at least in the Objective-C++ implementation I have) is pow and sqrt, which are pretty hard to avoid. If you want to make it faster the best way to do it is to remove the interior points of each line segment in the polygon you're working with (before you run it through RDP). The easiest way to do that is to keep track of what direction you're extracting the points from, from whatever you've already edged (or however you're doing it) since most blob extraction algorithms return every point around the edge of each polygon. If you think about it you just need to throw away everything except for the corners.

That's assuming you're working from bitmap images, which I guess is not necessarily the case. If you're working from a sparse set of points to begin with and you're not getting the performance you need you're going to have find other ways to speed it up obviously.
Starting off, I thought he sounded like he had just taken a bong hit while pinching a loaf. As he went on, I became more and more engaged. Each minute of the speech made me want to hear the next minute, and finally the conclusion. So you have to ask yourself, what makes a good speaker - having polished elocution or relating an engaging story?
You're not going to get full client crashes without a major bug. Some amount of attack is possible but I've been getting crashes for a couple weeks now and skype should have fixed things.
I would really like to see a conversation between Timothy and Jonathan about this; it seemed like they were the only ones with useful comments on that article, and everyone else missed the point Timothy was making.
My theory is subtly different from these. I sometimes call it "ambient sociability".

That's a beautiful way of putting it.

I absolutely can be productive in a coffee shop. The best ones are busy enough that I feel social activity going on around me and loud enough that I can't pick out individual conversations without effort.

The ambient sociability, as you put it, lets me feel some sense of connection to the world. The fact that I don't have any actual connection to the people surrounding me lets me focus and get work done.
Hunh? This post by splattne links to Superuser.com where the question is asked by Superuser member bronzebeard and it shows the question edited by Superuser member splattne and member Ivo Flipse comments mentions this subject was already discussed on Hacker News and he links back to the first HN post.

My head hurts :(
Sure. It might make it easier for you to be accepted + the referral will get FCPoints which he/she can spend on gift certificates and such.

<strike>Let me know if you need an invite (email in about part of profile)</strike> No more invites!
Unless you are working on an iOS app, I would recommend a Windows laptop.
Hm I see, thanks for answering that. By any chance, do you know/recommend any book for total beginners about language implementations?
This Shellenberg guy has a really weird schtick. I can't figure out if he's just insane or a member of some strange cult.

A few juxtapositions of this current column against his previous columns:

He doesn't want people to say that climate change will make Koalas extinct, but he himself thinks wind turbines will make several species extinct.

He thinks it makes sense to burn coal in India because it's cheap, but he attacks renewables, which are cheaper than running existing coal in some regions, because they will "lock in" fossil fuel usage which is apparently a bad thing when they do it.

He relies on the IPCC as the last word on whether climate change will have catastrophic impacts, but also rails against it for it's anti-nuclear bias. Are we allowed to question the IPCC or not?

He wants everyone to be reasonable and sensible but think most environmentalist are csecret communists who want to intionally made people poorer?
> net from being just a more privacy invasive form of television.

This is such a great analogy.

The Internet has become a dopamine fix. Platforms are generic and inflexible. (Remember when you could change the HTML?) Content is watered down or demonetized for the sake of ad money (Youtube, Tumblr). You can't read the news without getting a video ad shoved down your throat. Commercial video is DRM'd. Browsers (read: Chrome) enables websites to prevent you from copying text or viewing source images. Your every move is tracked to better target ads and sell your profile.
This is a video of a slime mold finding food: https://youtu.be/GwKuFREOgmo

It seems to be operating in something like 2 main phases: an initial exploratory phase in which it expands almost in every direction and then a second "optimization" (simplification) phase in which it just keeps the links between the food sources.

I think we operate in a similar way. We learn by exploring and then we optimize when "exploiting".

Everyone is different though, some like exploring more, others like optimizing more, and there's a big range in between. It also depends on the subject or activity.

I personally almost exclusively enjoy the exploration part (learning about things), and don't have much interest in the optimization part (executing repetitively the same thing for gain).
Cookies have a special storage place in the browser and limited storage space. This limitation makes it so that usual practice for cookies is to store only a UUID-style identifier client-side and the rest of the data for the session server-side, necessitating a database round-trip before you can even know who's hitting your server.

JWT allows you to use the browser as the fatter client that it has been slowly growing into. Because JWT is JSON, it can store anything, and you're only limited by how large you want to make your web requests. (they're sent with each request)

At the end of the day, they're both ways to build state into a stateless protocol.
> If I understand brianlarsen correctly, the point is that if you downvote 10,000 heresies, one will be correct[1]. The others will just be cranks.

> [1] All numbers made up on the spot.

This is the (or a) problem, at least as I see it.

I'm not proposing that we entertain all sorts of crazy ideas, but I don't think it should be controversial that HN adopts a culture of not saying things that are not true. An example of this is the habitual posting of opinions (often axiomatic beliefs, but not always) in a manner that makes them appear as fact.

Reducing the frequency of this would indeed require some effort, but HN is unwilling to even include it in the guidelines. I find that interesting and more than a little ironic considering PG's essay on the matter.
AMD's (and Intel's) marketing teams are awfully enslaved to the gamer market - gamer aesthetics, big bold packaging, insane names that sound like something off of Tron, the whole RGB enchilada.

AMD started it with Ryzen. That name sounds like a character from the Lord of the Rings. And then we Threadripper - violent to say the least, and finally, EPYC - cheap play of the letters.

What happened to marketing like the IBM System 360? Elliot Noyes is rolling in his grave. I don't think the marketing teams are to be blamed, its the consumers and the Taiwanese influence around what a computer product should be marketed as such.
I find it's best to take part in some local activity in your city. Just meet as many people as possible, and they might have a friend who fancies you.

I was on online dating for years and it was a huge waste of time, but met my fiancée through the local improv community.
Let me rephrase that question in terms of software -- what happens if someone develops an Open Source product that works better than the proprietary alternative, and the proprietary alternatives get wiped out entirely?

The short answer is that for-profit, privatized entities should not be privileged in competition. Community owned solutions, non-profit solutions, naturally occurring public alternatives to products, worker-owned and volunteer-maintained solutions, and so on -- these efforts are no less legitimate than a traditional Capitalist solution. If they produce better results than a VC-backed or privatized product, then they deserve to win.

In my mind, the difference between a free market and Capitalism is that a free market is OK with Capitalists losing sometimes. It's good for businesses to compete not only with each other, but also with forces and coalitions outside of traditional markets.

And worker-owned businesses aren't even that radical of an idea -- they're just a different way to manage the business and distribute profits. Open Source and nonprofits are much farther outside of traditional Capitalist markets than a worker-owned business is.

I'm all for efforts like this.
When you are reusing symmetric keys, both CBC and CTR require unique IV (as do all reasonable block cipher modes).

Contrast to:

CBC requires unpredictable IVs.

and

CTR works with an integer starting at 0, so long as you never repeat.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unique?s=t&path=/

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unpredictable?s=t&pat...

At no point did my statement make an error that was addressed by your reply.
I just released this, so unfortunately I don't have an archive (yet).

However, you can view a fully filled example here: http://websecweekly.org/static/newsletters/example.html

Thanks!
My personal anecdote is the opposite of yours: it was easy for me to convert people to Signal.

Concerning your edit: I thought it was a pretty established part of the etiquette on HN that a downvote is used also for simple disagreement. It means "I do not agree", not "you are wrong and should be shamed".
I bought one several months ago, albeit haven’t used it much yet. My one concern is how hot it ran when I first plugged it in, you may want to get a case for it.
That's right, it only supports x86. However the binary will detect other architectures and try to run itself with QEMU in that case.
The point where it is blindingly obvious that we have created intelligent machines will require passing the point where it is blindingly obvious what "intelligence" is. I would go further to describe these as a circular dependency.
BTW, YC now invests $120k in most of their companies: http://blog.ycombinator.com/the-new-deal
Actually, there is a very substantial difference. The world recognizes and honors that 50%. Particularly the credit markets do and in a liquidity event, you walk with the 50% in cash.

Now if you were to just up and stop paying your debts, you can lose it.
It may not be deprecated, but it's a rather unsafe interface: http://ewontfix.com/7/
Lots of other people have suggested Neruda, which makes me happy, because he's fantastic.

I think my favorite poem is probably "Under Milk Wood", by Dylan Thomas (folks have posted some of his other work, which sheepishly I don't really like). I love this poem so much that even hearing it in a VW ad didn't diminish it. It's quite long, but the beginning is my favorite part:

To begin at the beginning:

It is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-
black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-
rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black,
crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.

The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine to-night in the
snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled
middle by the pump and the town clock, the shops in mourning, the
Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the lulled and
dumbfound town are sleeping now.

Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen
and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher, postman and publican, the
undertaker and the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, \
policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen and the tidy wives. Young girls lie
bedded soft or glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux,
bridesmaided by glow-worms down the aisles of the organplaying wood.

The boys are dreaming wicked or of the bucking ranches of the night and
the jollyrogered sea. And the anthracite statues of the horses sleep in
the fields, and the cows in the byres, and the dogs in the wet-nosed
yards; and the cats nap in the slant corners or lope sly, streaking and
needling, on the one cloud of the roofs.

You can hear the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing.

Only your eyes are unclosed to see the black and folded town fast, and slow, asleep.

And you alone can hear the invisible starfall, the darkest-before- dawn
minutely dewgrazed stir of the black, dab-filled sea where the
Arethusa, the Curlew and the Skylark, Zanzibar, Rhiannon, the Rover,
the Cormorant, and the Star of Wales tilt and ride.

Listen. It is night moving in the streets, the processional salt slow
musical wind in Coronation Street and Cockle Row, it is the grass
growing on Llareggub Hill, dewfall, starfall, the sleep of birds in
Milk Wood.

Listen. It is night in the chill, squat chapel, hymning in bonnet and
brooch and bombazine black, butterfly choker and bootlace bow, coughing
like nannygoats, suckling mintoes, fortywinking hallelujah; night in
the four-ale, quiet as a domino; in Ocky Milkman's lofts like a mouse
with gloves; in Dai Bread's bakery flying like black flour.

It is to-night in Donkey Street, trotting silent, with seaweed on its
hooves, along the cockled cobbles, past curtained fernpot, text and
trinket, harmonium, holy dresser, watercolours done by hand, china dog
and rosy tin teacaddy. It is night neddying among the snuggeries of
babies.
> Facebook's engineering director Jocelyn Goldfein spoke about open office plans during her recent talk at Stanford. She explicitly stated that it decreases her team's productivity, but that it was embraced because it promotes "openness" which is a core value at Facebook.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5768771
Apparently the first attack was targeted at:
https://github.com/cn-nytimes/ and https://github.com/greatfire/

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9284547

Edit: They are also mentioned in the parent article (!!)
Would you be willing to test that...? I.e. Would you be willing to give up the iPhone for a dumb phone for 12 months? What if we collectively donated to a charity to make it more enticing?
I don't know. I don't think many people do, or the market simply isn't that big and that's why the startup folded.
If you had replaced "only" with "most common" in your first paragraph, you'd probably get a few less "oh but I didn't leave because of my boss" replies.

HNers are soooo logical!
Genesco (which owns Journeys, Lids, Johnson & Murphy, Dockers Footwear) had a data breach in 2010. Visa fined them over $13 million in PCI penalties.
I think this article is extremely spun in the direction of paranoia and fear.

Just because X VPN connections could be "decrypted" doesn't mean that current ones are. Unless there is a report pointing to which VPN connection mechanisms are vulnerable this is silly.

I use VPN with a pre-shared encryption key ( as many people likely do who use Open VPN files... ) I doubt very much that these are vulnerable.

Also, SSH can be broken? If you verify the signature, then I don't think you will have any problem. Most people ignore the signature and could be MITM attacked easily, but if you are serious about security then you will check and SSH will not be a concern.

SSL is broken? There have been so many discussions explaining what is broken here and what is not it is absurd. Suffice it to say, modern SSL implementations are not broken. Many are; if you care, you can make it secure.

Intel Management code is a backdoor? LOL. If so, how can TrueCrypt be a problem? Shouldn't the bad guys be using the backdoor to log all keystrokes or something? The management code is exactly what it sounds like; for diagnostic management. This is like saying that PCI Express slots are a hardware backdoor for reading memory. Theoretically you could hot plug a special device into PCI Express slots in order to read live memory...
Worth pointing out that many people use Google for even the most trivial of site visits. Many may have skipped the .com and entered "beard guru" into Google, where at the moment I don't see beardguru.com on the first page of results.

I wonder: for those who have experienced traffic spikes based on domain mentions -- how much of the traffic was direct?
Sure, but the game where Alice inserts random fake information into a stream and Bob tries to pick out that fake information is much harder for Alice than for Bob.

Mostly because Bob needs a 100% success rate while Alice wins with any success rate below 100%.

Oh, one more thing: Assange likes to whine every time he thinks someone is after him. If they'd picked up a bunch of fake CIA-planted information being submitted then they'd be talking about it, wouldn't they?
Yes - craigslist is free for the most part. I'd like to figure out a way to keep this as free as possible.
I've been beta testing the WakeMate for a couple months.

The battery lasts about 2 nights, and knowing this, I recharge it every night. Since doing so, it hasn't run out of batteries during the night.

The app crashed a lot initially (I'm on Android), but that was months back and the WakeMate guys were good about using the feedback data I sent to fix the bugs. It hasn't crashed for me in weeks, since I installed their latest version.

Edit: I meant I recharge the wristband every other night, not every night.