jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My default is to distrust someone with nothing but what looks like a personal phone, until I'm sufficiently convinced that they are in fact who they say they are.

In every experience you describe, the device they use is not just a standard iPhone. It usually has a special case with a card scanner and reciept printer for starters. At the Apple store they wear apple badges and have branded clothing. I haven't been to the Gap in a long time, but I'm guessing they have some sort of way of identifying themselves. You even said yourself you wait for the notification that you were charged by the right entity name, which is another clue that you made a legit purchase.

I have no problem making my purchase from someone with nothing more than an iPhone, as long as there are other clues that they actually work there. But I do feel it is my responsibility as a member of society to at least attempt to verify their veracity.
Other way around. It's a cache for CoreLocation, and the location data comes from Skyhook.
http://i.imgur.com/r7SVE.png

It's all moving very smoothly and realistically for me on Chrome 12. You can also move your mouse to move around. Cool stuff.
+1 for this. Saw a talk on pagekite earlier this year and it looks very cool and a good alternative to this service.
it is nicer than javascript where associative arrays (ie objects) and real arrays are entirely different types.

Actually, while we're on the topic: these should be separate types, for exactly the reasons I outlined in that code snippet. Arrays and hashes have entirely different memory characteristics, access times, growth strategies, and indexing semantics! Trying to smush both models into the same construct is what leads to PHP's befucked implementation of "arrays"/"hashes", which succeed at being neither.

As an example, compare Ruby (an abysmally slow language) to PHP on array iteration--a task in which PHP loses by a huge margin on both memory and time complexity.
There's a flaw in your analogy.

In the first case, there is a more direct relationship to the monopsonist (ie, super-customer), but in the case of Facebook/Twitter, there is strength in numbers (your company relying on FB/Twitter is likely one of thousands).

Relying on a platform is not new in business, and the standards and ethics are fairly understood... ask the eBay sellers in the 90s or folks who made parts for typewriters back in the 70s.
The most obvious way that this is working is as follows:

- Checks the MX record for the domain name listed.
- Attempts to connect to the SMTP port of the listed MX record
- Attempts to create RCPT TO lines using permutations of the name in common formats (firstname.lastname@, lastname@ firstletterlastname@, etc). Reports the first one back that is a match - which may be a major false positive as well:

Connected to smtp.ins.dell.com (143.166.83.183).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 pc-smtp.us.dell.com ESMTP
HELO
250 pc-smtp.us.dell.com
MAIL FROM: test@tester.com
250 sender <test@tester.com> ok
RCPT TO: mdell@dell.com
250 recipient <mdell@dell.com> ok
RCPT TO: michael.dell@dell.com
250 recipient <michael.dell@dell.com> ok
RCPT TO: dell.michael@dell.com
550 #5.1.0 Address rejected dell.michael@dell.com
RCPT TO: michaeldell@dell.com
250 recipient <michaeldell@dell.com> ok
QUIT
221 pc-smtp.us.dell.com
Connection closed by foreign host.

I don't expect the majority of those to really go to the person listed as they are probably fielded by other employees first for legitimacy (just a guess).
how does scala handle the case where the order of arguments to the lambda is not the same as the order in which they appear in its body?
is it regular expression day on HN? Waiting for the inevitable Phplar (pheeplar) and Scalar :)
"All other questions had been answered, and until this last question was answered also, AC might not release his consciousness."

Sounds like a memory leak
(3) will be the clincher for this guy.
I hear there's a guy in Washington you could make an offer to. ;)
I think they've said they are working on a Swift port (at the end of that F8 video talking about it).
This comment is actually quite interesting.

For a while, I've stuck to the Wikileaks suggested formula of "Scientific Journalism" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_journalism] and I've seen the progression of State Actors (both automated and manned) across the www.

What's telling that I did a CTRL+F for the term - and it's not mentioned. Added to that, even mature news sources (such as the Guardian or Telegraph in the UK) have only ever dabbled at it - for instance, the Guardian provides links within its own articles, but the links are entirely self referential. i.e. recursive back into their own site. Even with actual science articles, actually getting a link to the paper [pay-walled or otherwise] is rare.

I will say that certain writers for the Guardian (Monbiot recently on soil), however much their bias, actually source links to multiple first / second tier sources, which is a good thing.

The upshot of this is: there [b]is[/b] a solution, and you can often spot the genuine comments by virtue of first and second tier links (wikipedia being second tier).

The actual real issue (again, not mentioned in the comments here) is to break the media consumption mold whereby people read comments as personal anecdotes / opinions. It's a form of conditioning around since forever [the TV turn to the camera, eye contact, personal little look].

What might be a fun project for HN viewers would be an independent (eff?) project that pattern matched text and caught similarities. Probably using a modified code base from a commercial plagiarism detectors. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism_detection]

Note: the US at least has spent a lot of money on their own versions. As probably have the Russians / Chinese: you can be fairly sure comments are chucked through an automated detector to see the (likely) source: yours, theirs, randoms, bots or the 'Other'.

[Let's see if this comment gets flagged by evul bots!]
> The station uses off-the-shelf photographic equipment: a Canon EOS 450D DSLR, used with an EF 50/2.5 Macro lens for satellites in Low Earth Orbit, and an EF 100/2.8 Macro USM lens for high altitude objects (objects in a Molniya orbit).

This is no doubt a stupid question, but I thought Macro lenses were used specifically for photographing subjects that are extremely close to the lens. Objects in space seem to be the definition of far away [1], so could someone explain what I'm missing, please?

[1] small vs far away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS12p0Zqlt0

edit: greatest of thanks for the replies -makes perfect sense :)
> would anyone pay more for the "social experience" of a human cabby?

Only if i had just moved to the area or was in another country so i could talk to the driver - but this is no different than if i were in a traditional cab. But otherwise i agree, the point of the most of these lyft/uber/cab rides is the destination, anything else is just fluff.
No webview.
Huh, smart idea to piggyback off existing infrastructure. Have you contacted Stripe Climate? They are directing money from stripe businesses to fund carbon removal, and they just put out a call for new companies to contact them.

Believe I saw it within past 7-10 days on Patrick Collison’s twitter. Here’s the link. Has details and an application: https://mobile.twitter.com/orbuch/status/1359926307149148162

Btw for anyone with a business using stripe: stripe climate is now open for anyone worldwide. I set it up to contribute 1% of my revenues. And it should be deductible as a marketing expense: Stripe let’s you out it on your checkout, invoice and receipt. The founder of Nomadlist found it increased his conversions. Haven’t tested it personally but plausibly it’s actually profit generating.

Probably the most impactful climate decision you can make with your business, takes 30 seconds to set up, and may boost your revenue.

https://stripe.com/climate
I was thinking that this word is not, in fact, below the level of discourse of HN and based on the other replies I don't believe I even have to back this statement up.
> (Not joking) You are tired of running Helm charts or writing large YAML manifests. The config syntax for Nomad jobs is human friendly and easy to grasp.

I write all of my kubernetes resources in terraform because I don't want to fight with helm charts. I was going to have to write something to monitor my deployments anyway and alert my co-workers that their deploys failed so why not just use terraform that tells you:

- what will change on deploy
- fails when a deploy fails
- times out

I didn't want to tell developers to kubectl apply and then watch their pods to make sure everything deployed ok when terraform does this out of the box..
I'd imagine not. Assuming the JVM's semantics aren't too different from those of the Java language, you always know at compile time how many arguments a function takes[1], so this optimization wouldn't be relevant.

[1]: Java does have variadic functions, but we also know at compile time which functions have such a signature, so it probably just desugars to a normal array as the final argument.
I would say that the sophistication of the Solarwinds breach is in the success of its scale, as opposed to the methods with which it used to successfully reached such scale.

Stuxnet was very sophisticated to hit a relatively narrow target by comparison.

So I think they are both sophisticated, but not comparing them directly.
What you say makes perfect sense but I find it hard to convince myself the same, but I will keep trying to maintain a confident mindset before interviews until I get it right. Thank you.
I was agreeing with your points....until I got to the bit, "Texas typically imports from neighboring states". Not with power. ERCOT is an isolated grid.
Yes, that is the correct way to approach security. Preventive measures alone are not enough to secure an organization.

In the security world we refer to this concept as "Assume Breach" and to throw in a buzz word you might hear often these days "Zero Trust".

Joking aside, Assume Breach, Zero Trust and what I call "Homefield Advantage" are the main strategies to help secure the modern workplace in my opinion.
I really liked Nomad last time I tried it (~2 years ago) but I was driven away by the subtle inconsistencies between Nomand, Consul, and Vault's HCL configs. Things that should be the same in all three (e.g. bind port, simple permissions options, etc. standard boilerplate) inexplicably had different config keys or HCL structures between them.

Maybe this has improved these days, I'll have to give it another shot.
I'm not so sure. I'm saying they can be efficient with it.

More efficient than a jr with 1-2 experience in it for example. ( If the implementer that is new knows multiple languages and there isn't a fundamental big difference ( eg. the new language is functional))
Older Simcities actually already had this to an extent, with the traffic mechanics, which tended to be more stressful than fun.
I agree on this: debt in deflation is rough. Maybe the lesson is that people/governments should stay out of debt, not that deflation is the boogeyman. That'd certainly be more anti-fragile.
Because it would tear down the entire stack? If you're a real business, depending on servers to be up and data to stick around, then it makes absolutely no sense to have machines shut off and volumes deleted if you hit some arbitrary marker. There's nothing you get for free in AWS (besides the Free tier, and not many people are running their entire, highly profitable business on that) and the only solution to "not spend more than $X per month" is to literally shut down and delete things.

I'd love to hear use cases where legitimate businesses, who make money off of the products or services they offer, can literally afford to have their business just stop working. It sounds totally contrived.
Former Academic System's Librarian here. "Fair Use" when I was a librarian meant absolutely nothing. Librarians were the biggest defenders of copyright and would scold and threaten anyone that they felt was on the borderline of fair use. REASON? The fair use clause is horribly written and is legally provides zero protection from libraries or schools from litigation as told to us by lawyers.

So don't touch and don't get near anything that looks beyond showing a video in the classroom. Then a school was sued for students watching legal videos in "public areas" AKA lobbies and even outside on their laptops. This was when buy these viewing licenses to cover yourself for classrooms that show video content started.
HTTrack is how I passed web design 101 way back in the day.
Uses udp and probably udp is not filtered in the firewall
> ...you don't risk breaking any existing functionality but
> then why not just use a test suite?

The examples fail to make explicit that there are two programmers: One is building and distributing a library, the second is building an application using that library.

The library programmer can easily distribute the test suite so that the application programmer can run the tests, but that doesn't change the fact that if the library programmer changes an object's interface, it breaks the application programmer's code. By committing to keep the old object's interface intact, the library programmer is giving the application programmer time to migrate their code to the new objects.
Yeah that's my point - if they were using a slower language they'd be clocking in at say 20 or 30 servers. Not remotely worth optimizing for saving that many servers at their scale.
Do you refuse to use any other software mandated by your company? What's the difference?

It's standard policy to cover any potential personal data that they might receive. What is your concern exactly? That they shouldn't spell it out? That would be illegal under current data regulations.
It's probably not surprising to anyone who knows how industrial production works, but to a layman like me it's really surprising how hard it seems to be to produce more suitable masks in a short time. I didn't expect the supply chain and machines for such simple products to be that complex and hard to set up.
When the dust settles, it will be interesting to not think in term of absolute number of deaths, but in term of additional mortality over a normal year. I understand that something like 99% of people who died of this virus had pre-existing conditions, in many cases serious ones. Logically, a fraction of the victims may have died of something else that same year.
It looks sloppy as hell too. Which is partly why there's always so many complaints about how the US responds to any event.
> Germany may be doing something better than Italy

been curious about that super spreader story we have been hearing about italy. they probably need to study what happened there so we can all learn from it.

maybe italy has a life style that made it easier for the virus to go around?
The tests have an approx 20% false negative rate.

You test someone who has symptoms. The test returns negative. What do you tell them to do, given that you know the false negative rate?

This doctor says it better than me.

https://twitter.com/keirshiels/status/1241042696560619523?s=...
This feature is primarily used in educational-type settings so instructors can tell that students aren't paying attention to something else.

As far as I've been able to determine, there is no collection of "apps" or other data, just "not paying attention" time.
It's romantic to speak in such absolutes.
Those two firms are ok, from people I have spoken to there. There are a bunch of small prop shops around, throwing spaghetti at the wall, hoping something sticks. Like many other fields, if you can get in with a quality crew it can be a good experience. Otherwise not.
I am going to split with my girlfriend because she's too beautiful and she always satisfies me in bed.

I need some misery.
This is an effective non-fee for an entity their size. I'd assume we see the associated negative pattern - there's little real legislation impact, meaning there's little value in reporting, when examined economically. Were the fine larger, or more severe the reverse message would be sent.

From a certain (not my) point of view poor compliance was just incentivized.
How dare you suggest Mark Zuckerberg is a hypocrite after said
"Privacy is no longer a social norm", and then bought all houses surrounding his one.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-buys-4-homes...
but Azure has a cap? if MSFT can do it, what is preventing GCP or Amazon to do the same.

and it takes GCP a day to report billing to consumer. they can monitor the data earlier than that, and stop the services early
1000 lines of Cargo.lock is 100-200 total dependencies. Importantly, a "dependency" in Rust is a little more granular than in some other languages. A single dependency might have ~4 sub-crates which are there own "dependency".

I would guess the 1000 lines of Cargo.lock represent ~32K of Rust code. That is probably no longer minimal by most definitions, but having a dependency on libc is like 200K of C so an additional 30K seems not so bad (assuming the dependencies are well known).
I know two presidents off the top of my head who were touting
hydroxychloroquine as a vaccine substitute, without any evidence.
>> If it couldn't, how does anyone think it'd be at all possible to learn how to get better at anything?

Personally, when I've come to the point where I'm thinking to myself "that must be it, what else can it be?", I am at the point where I need to do more work to answer the latter part of the question.
I wonder what the significance of this mechanism vs long term potentiation (LTP) is. Any insights?
You can use TURN server in case of symmetric NATs. RTCPeerConnection can accept a list of TURN servers and fallback to them in case p2p connection cannot be established.
I'd be wary of a Dropbox folder that contains a link to a parent directory of itself, with the possibility of an infinite loop.
Regarding disputes, the difference is that the arbitrator isn't involved at all if there's no dispute. He's not taking a piece of every transaction whether there's a dispute or not.
It only takes one break in the chain to compromise the entire web of trust. With such wide-spread connections across the planet these days, the chance of someone you trust three times removed accidentally breaking that chain is quite real.
> How do you go through life being so rigid on such relatively trivial issues?

At a guess: after spending enough of that life to realize that those 'trivial' issues can make all the difference between feeling good in the longer term or feeling miserable.
Can you elaborate? Your previous example was that he deferred a ticket until the last minute. Is there anything else?
People in the military have the right, and legal duty, to refuse unlawful orders, including orders that violate the international laws of war.

They do not have the right to unilaterally decide to violate a lawful order because they think it is better for humanity at large. They do not have the right to expose classified information because they think it shouldn't be classified. They do not have the right to violate orders because they are stupid, or because they're bad policy.

They do not have the right to make those decisions because, in the US, the military is supposed to be entirely subordinate to the laws enacted by our elected officials. Not "subordinate as long as it's for the best overall." This is a good thing--when enough members of the military decide to do what's better for the country against the lawful orders of the elected government that they serve, we call it a coup.

Obviously there are grey areas. After all, the Nuremburg trials punished people for violating laws that didn't exist during the commission of the crimes. If Manning had, say, only released extremely strong evidence of war crimes, I might agree that hiding that evidence was itself unlawful. But he didn't--he released a giant trove of classified diplomatic cables and military logs. These may have been unnecessarily classified, but were not unlawfully classified. Releasing them put Manning firmly in the "violating lawful orders" camp.
Encoded with a Vigenere cipher ... cool!
But on the other hand, Martha Coakley just narrowly lost a senate election, so while there is some rare downside risk to prosecutorial misconduct, there's the potential upside of being elected to high office for being "tough on crime".
Tim Ferriss is all about gaming the system. Whether the system is business, the workplace, the human body, or the publishing industry. He finds and analyzes the weaknesses in a given system and then exploits them to his advantage.
Hacking, in other words.
Another nice story:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ahg8x/what_is_the...
akephalos is also worth a look, as opposed to env.js. We've had much better support for things like jquery live() using (a slightly hacked) akephalos: http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/1658763359/thoughtbot-and-...
Actually, she is pretty much a tech hater, but the DVR supplied by DirecTV and then the local cable company sure helped. We described Netflix in terms of a DVR and it seemed to take. The new remote (aluminum) for the Apple TV works well since it is so much simpler than the cable companies remote.
If all you want to do is learn the beauty of Lisp don't waste time mucking around with arcane (and great) editors like Vim or Emacs. I'm using LispWorks 6.0 Personal Edition to work through Norvig's PAIP - no headaches.
It's easier for them to get jobs that require higher education (compared to most americans). IT jobs in particular, which pay really well.

Look at the average graph, only 18% of the population make more than $100K. How many people in IT make less? I don't know too many, apart from really junior developers.
My LG OLED television has it and it's such a nice interface overall, together with a wiimote-like controlling device.
Green coffee doesn't really go stale—it can be kept in storage for long periods of time without loss of quality.

Once you roast it, it's a different story—it's recommended to consume coffee ideally within two weeks of roasting.
>How would China gain access to their citizen's phones then? There's no way that they don't have some type of ability to get into any single citizen's phone.

Through literally every other part of the stack from the wireless carriers to applications like WeChat. They don't need an iOS backdoor when they have CCP officials at Tencent's offices. Most people use Android and the police just make them install an app on their smartphones, something they can't do on iOS [1]. The way to access an iOS device is with 0days. I used to see plenty of credits on iOS security updates for Chinese researchers, but China seems to have put a stop to that with the goal of hoarding them [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/technology/china-xinjiang...

[2] https://www.cyberscoop.com/pwn2own-chinese-researchers-360-t...
I was making a comment that "market" is a plural word. If it's a single entity involved, it is not a market. Even a discrete or organized set of entities is not a market.

Accomadating, implicitly or explicitly, the Chinese government is not respecting or listening to a market because the Chinese government is not a market. This is a different kind of relationship to "people who buy iPhones" or "Canadians".
Looks very much like the ones we also eat where I live. Like baked with herbs and butter, although that variation is probably of French origin. We call them vineyard snails, and we've got a lot of vineyards here! ;-) Now I feel like eating!
I too have heard the positive version of the rule. The randomness might be intentional, so as to make one wait a random but not too large number of months, perhaps to discourage marrying in haste or as an artificial (but reasonable) constraint on planning to increase the perceived value of the event.
Agree, but please don't everybody on HN switch to this particular Searx instance. Spread the load and use other instances. I spun up my instance but hesitate to publish it here.