jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> It sounds like you're just chucking "security ideas" over the fence in the hopes that one might protect you.

Precisely my point!

You describe a situation where "buyer beware" means staying up to date with the latest netsec and tech rags. That is simply unfeasible for the vast majority of people, including me.

But you know what: I can't get simjacked anymore because I read about that. I have stronger passwords because of hard tokens, because I read about that.

What next 50 things do I need to read about to stay "safe", and what even IS "safe"?

This is nontrivial and our identities literally depend on it. The fall-off costs are astonishingly high.
The lender has no practical alternative in most cases other than to reject business outright. The reason they go along with it mostly willingly, is the borrower can typically go somewhere else for the loan. The current lender would just as soon keep you as a customer at 2% (vs the old 4%) than see you go somewhere else.

They don't make up for the loss, they accept the lower rate of return vs losing the customer entirely.
Shitposts are more creative. What I would like to see is more extrapolation and complex mixing:

"A photo of a iPhone from the stone age."

"Adolf Hitler pissing against the wind and enjoying it."

"Painting: Captain Jean-Luc Picard crossing of the Delaware River in a Porsche 911".
It's difficult to really get a grasp on Amazon's size but it was a bit eye opening the other day when I was driving down a rural road up in the mountains and passed by an Amazon delivery van. I would have assumed for such a remote location that they'd turn their packages over to the post office to deliver but apparently their delivery service is large enough now to service even the very rural areas.
I can’t speak to judgements, but executives often hold a lot of shares. The largest individual shareholder of Disney is the CEO, for example.
How is "union avoidance" even a service that can be offered by companies? The listed examples of their business practices sound downright perverse to me
Yeah we had a long-term plan to buy a house this summer and we stuck to our plan but it's definitely scary thinking about what will happen when interest rates rise, if we ever wanted to sell. I guess the counterpoint is that the whole market should move in lockstep, so if rates go up and the price of your house goes down, at least the rest of the market should be affected equally.

It kills any idea of getting a real return on your house but frankly that was not a real thing through most of history anyway.
The final book even concludes with the narrator/protagonist suggesting the reader re-read the books to grasp their true meaning. IMO, two reads minimum are necessary.
As a tangent, that's something that I found interesting and understated about the movie "Gravity". You get drawn into the story of the main character, but in the background you're seeing the end of human access to space (at least for the foreseeable future).
Below are some new gameplay videos, which showcase a wide variety of new game mechanics. Particularly the second two show a lot of new tricks they're going to be bringing to the sequel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5THiN8szSKM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq2mZoKkqMw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGlyQmmvj0w

Also, I'm really looking forward to the coop campaign.
Great example of the Iron Law of the Market: markets that don't exist don't care how smart you are.
Show the font in a very small size.
Interesting, sort of like the US "Millions of Toilets Flushing in each city" at the end of the Superbowl or the last episode of MASH.

Still, as may people have asked... why hasn't this been automated? If a guy watching a screen can decide on what systems to turn off and on to generate the power, why couldn't an expert system?
i just got off a plane so i realize i'm not making my point very eloquently.

there's nothing wrong with getting paid. i have a job. i would consider myself a hacker. i just think a hacker group should include non-cash projects as well. not only open source, but maybe for startups/other research ideas/non-"monitized" ideas too. closing it off to cash only seems to exclude some potentially cool ideas.

i'm interested in both cash and non-cash gigs. i bet tons of people on here are too.
I hate to be nitpicking but the protocol, while related to the port is still a separate thing. For example, using a url of the type ftp:// is much more than just switching to port 23, even worse a url of the type file:// is not bound to a port as far as I know. Switching protocols mean the actual exhange is completely different.

You can actually use the http protocol on ports other than 80 and its actually commonly done on local development servers where anything like 8080, 8000, 8090 or many others are frquently used. In such a case the url would be something like http://myserver.com:8080/blabla where 8080 would be the port. The confusion might arise because protocols have a default port associated with them. Sorry for the explanation of something thats probably waaaay too simple for most of the readers but that comment was just so wrong for me.
ummm wow! After 17 takes to get my demo 'perfected' I can't sign up for this fast enough. This is great.
SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in Ithaca, NY)

I’m a full-stack developer with experience designing application architecture, building front-end applications, and backend services. Most of my freelance career has involved working with companies and teams to deliver web and mobile applications using a variety of languages, tools and frameworks.

Technologies I’m most familiar with:

Backend: Ruby, Clojure, Postgres, Node, Linux

Front-end: JavaScript, ClojureScript, React, native iOS

Contact: scott@scottnelson.co

http://scottnelson.co

http://github.com/scttnlsn
In addition to tcpdump, I'd like to add the command 'tshark'. Tshark usually comes bundled with wireshark and allows you to use the same search capabilities as wireshark from the command line. I find it much easier to use than tcpdump especially if you already have experience with wireshark.
I can speak about Denmark from an expat point of view. I moved here 6 months ago. I dont speak Danish at all and I am not very good in English, so far, the language has not been a problem, even many tv shows are in English with Danish subs.

There are many .Net jobs here, and not so many doing Ruby or Python. You can take a look at the job offers in http://it-jobbank.dk or http://stepstone.dk.

The living expensives are really high here.

I cant tell about work visa because I am a EU citezen, so the rules are different.

If you have any question about Denmark or Spain, just drop me a line.
>> This becomes a problem when several highly-ranked stories on the HN are links to sites I assume are behind paywalls, so I simply don't click on stories with from those domains.

I think that's a bad assumption. I read the top stories quite regularly, and I haven't come across a paywall in a very long time.
May as well get an account too anyway. Stack is the new hotness.
Nowadays military IS private sector
I did. Should have mentioned that, sorry.
Or "on the toilet".
The conclusion is being jumped to because the timeline of the attack described in the July Tor blog post matches perfectly with the timeline of the investigation described in the SR2 court docs.

It seems very plausible to me.
That list is way too long. JavaScript isn't that big or complicated, even if you include DOM and cross-browser issues (which by virtue of continuous browser changes, you will never learn about from a book).

My top 3:
1. Eloquent JavaScript
2. JavaScript the Good Parts
3. High Performance JavaScript (see my review: http://carcaddar.blogspot.com/2010/07/book-review-nicholas-c...)

Also, I wouldn't recommend either of Resig's books, despite not reading them. Look at Peter Michaux and David Mark's posts on comp.lang.javascript for criticisms (actually, comp.lang.javascript would be the fourth thing on my list if it was a book).
I've said it before...I'm fairly confident the government will subsidize a nation-wide 5th generation wireless technology for free internet for all. It'll likely be restricted to just 80/8080 traffic, be throttled, and of course governed and monitored by the government. Since it's completely voluntary to use this network, it breaks no laws since by using it, you will grant them permission to snoop if they so choose.

Call me crazy, but I think it's inevitable...likely to go down 10-15 years from now.

Just one man's opinion though, that's all.
Vernor Vinge
Another good alternative, albeit search-based, is http://historio.us.
Probably the only use case I can think of, is for "does it match?" tests. Spam detection, like SpamAssassin, might benefit from it.
Instruments? DTrace?
I hope they got a software patent if only to help protect themselves against trolls who are filing patents for this right now.
People (here at HN) seem to be relating not needing a college degree to not needing a computer science degree. There is a huge difference though with degrees for pre-med (biology, bio-chem, etc.), electrical engineering, civil engineering, nuclear engineering, etc. You definitely need those degrees if that's the field you are pursuing.
I have read about the "getting education for free somewhere else," but I don't understand. I have had taken classes from absolute experts in certain fields, met with them personally and picked their brains to understand their way of thinking.

I welcome "continuing education" opportunities that would give me exposure to such varied academic disciplines once again. How would you purport to achieve this?
The inevitable "baby factory" scene in the movie is sure going to have some punch
Game coders think service people are mad also: How can you use a database that you do not fully understand? You don't even have the source? Using a framework or library or cloud that you do not 100% understand seems "cowboy" to them.

Is that really true? When a team uses an engine licensed from another company, do they really take the time to fully understand its source?
I had tried launching a Reddit/Hacker News clone that used Real Names, but wasn't able to get anywhere.

HN mostly ignored it, and Reddit users were rather hostile to the idea.

You can read the details at - http://e1ven.com/2010/09/15/lonava-com-retrospective/

In large part, I'm sure, I marketed it badly. But I'm also fairly confident that Real Names is one of those features that people wish "everyone else" would use, but aren't thrilled about using themselves.
The TSA posts are manifestly off topic:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

The first TSA post was (marginally) germane. The TSA is now on the front page of CNN. Unfortunately, HN "blessed" the topic by spinning off gigantic discussion threads on early TSA stories. So, even though this is a current events topic currently being covered on network TV news, it still finds a place here.

I bring this up not to further the argument about the TSA on Hacker News, but rather to demonstrate a pathology that occurs when we accept borderline stories that end up breeding months-long narratives in dribs-and-drabs. I also say this as someone who has written many hundreds of words here in comments on TSA stories.

As for filtering the front page: you might as well suggest "sub-HN's", like Reddit. Part of the point of the site is that it focuses a lot of interesting brains on a single spool of stories and discussions.

PS: For what it's worth, this is actually not a tech-centric community full of tech-centric ideas for community building problems. HN is a deliberately simple site curated by a single guy who started it as a demo for his programming language and liked where it went. Very few of the technical ideas anyone has proposed for this site have been tried, much less adopted; that's just not how HN works. This is a community governed by norms more than by code.
Because you can look up some of the same damn discussions from more than 20 years ago on usenet.

For instance:

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?as_q=legitimate+use+o...

I'm sure it's possible to dig up more examples.

It just goes around and around and around. Please leave us our wonderful site for tech and startups and take the politics elsewhere.
Well it would only go up the tree of invitation, not sideways. The most members that could be banned at one time would be the depth of the tree. If A invites B, who invites C, who invites D, and that's as deep as any chain of invitation goes, then at most 4 people could be banned at one time.

I'm not certain how to deal with the problem of initial members / founders. Surely the founder would not set up the system so they would be banned the first time someone was banned. It seems there would need to be a set of unbannables, including the founder.

I suppose you would need to handle the detached leaves of the tree too. This brings the unbannables back into play. So if A was an unbannable and had invited B, B had invited C1 and C2 and C3, C1 had invited D and D got banned, C1 and B would also be banned, and C2 and C3 would be considered invited by A.

I think this is getting far too complicated to be practical.
I'm more familiar with GAE/J than the Python stuff myself. I don't have specific links to patterns, but I highly recommend watching the AppEngine videos from Google I/O. I watched nearly a dozen hours of video during development:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3TuRs9ANhs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgaL6NGpkB8

Here's some random tips I can give:

It's worth spending some time and writing the ORM stuff by hand for your first application. The low-level datastore APIs are well-written and you'll learn a lot about how stuff works by being close to the metal.

AppEngine rarely throws storage or memcache exceptions outside of maintenance periods anymore. Unless there's someone here who's had a different experience, I would consider them rare.

Use as few abstractions as possible, no matter which language you are choosing.

If you don't need something that interacts with an external system done right away, stick it in a task queue, no matter how quick you think it will run. Assume that it'll succeed in your code (it probably will, eventually).
It seems like there's a race between Symantec and F-Secure on who gets the last word in the coverage of Stuxnet. If one comes out with something, the other one follows with a release or a blog post a few days later and such..
You just need two-party preferred voting so that you can vote first for a niche representative if you wish and preference a major party. In Australia, for example, it allows parties outside the two majors to have some influence, which I think is healthy.
Looks pretty cool. Also agree with the video comment, I think you could cut it by at least half. With almost any video editing program you can add a voice-over track, that way you can retry as much as you want if you mess up.

Also wouldn't hurt to cut out the parts of the video where your internet dies, if not for time at least to make it seem more professional.
This is likely intended to be use with batteries that can recharge from very low-energy sources, e.g. energy captured from the body. It has very small energy consumption in sleep mode, so the battery can charge between wake cycles. 200 nA is, indeed, very low.
Definitely a huge improvement over the stock Android player. Another player worth checking out is Cubed (an exponent "3") http://jkontherun.com/2010/03/30/android-music-player-cubed/
A few things I miss coming from Cubed are the ability to queue to the current playlist and last.fm integration.
It looks like their agency is still Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. For reference, here's some of their other work:

Laptop Hunters - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIS6G-HvnkU

Gates/Seinfeld - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFE3XiAxDjA&feature=relat...

Good News (Kylie) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssOq02DTTMU

Seems like a strange way to advertise.
I used to deal with pr0n in the same way. The kids would just go to another site if I outright blocked their current "interest", but making it way slower using Squid just meant they sat around watching a pic appear pixel by pixel. Between them, they had about 1Kb/sec of our bandwidth; everyone else got the rest. Win-win situation. (They never figured this out, afaict. Never underestimate the sheer determination of a horny teenager.)
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1400516
What proportion of the entries are on the graph?
How is this any better than Microsoft's IE9 HTML5 support matrix that only focuses on the things IE9 does well?
Is it just me, or does Ballmer appear to be on medication/drugs? He seems to be slurring, with lazy eyes.

Seriously. Is this just me noticing that?
I have found it to be of a decent quality, about comparable, and I like how portable it is. However, it's also significantly slower.
That is definitely me. The problem is how little reading do I need? What if the next article is really important?
Like this, it's easy: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/scripting.html#wi... (save-lisp-and-die run from a terminal)
mais aussi les francaises connaint pas le cusine extraordinaire angliase, pour example le https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushy_peas et aussi ou et Le https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greggs?

(incredibly Mushy Peas has (only) been translated to Japanese and Javanese, and someone has taken the time to translate the article for Greggs into Galician)
> Why would the brain evolve to do this? it has no evolutionary purpose.

Not necessarily. As another commenter speculates, this mechanism may help one remember a similar situation and thus find a solution to prevent death. The person can then go on to father another generation of people with this trait.
That's talked about in this recent article, "The History of Standard ML" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386336

There's also this video presentation, "The History of Standard ML: Ideas, Principles, Culture": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVEgyJCTee4
The dream is alive.
I am in the USA.

My ancestors escaped from Prussia and immigrated from Sweden in the late 19th century, well after Slavery and the Slave trade was over and lived in hovels dug into the side of hills in the wind-swept and tree-free plains of the mid-west. In a area on the North American continent that was never touched by slavery.

They became farmers and worked the land. My father didn't even have central plumbing for a great deal of his childhood. Had to piss in buckets when it became too cold and too dangerous to go to the outhouse in the winter.

Yet I have plenty of people all over the planet that I should be ashamed to have European heritage living in the USA and that it's my fault there are a lot of poor black people. And that I owe them money and should "check my privilege" because of it.
Anyone knows if this can also be reproduced by animals?
Anyone could turn out to be a friend, but everyone isn't a friend. I don't presume to be familiar. Best of luck.
The pattern-based illusions are actually quite interesting, almost artistic. Half of them are recognizable to humans, the other half at least make sense when identified. I wonder if we can automate the production of postmodern art :)
I generally read comments here to see if an article is worth reading. I bounced back and forth on this article.

I agree with you that the article is under generalized. It really has little to do with Apple. I also feel that the arguments are misplaced; the "46 million Americans [who] are on food stamps" probably feel that those of us who own Apple (and other similar tech.) products are on the other side of the income gap.

How about this gem: "How dare they—followed by near-instantaneous submission. In short, it charted the pattern (half-serious critical recoil, more centric smart takes, and finally, open-armed acceptance) of just about every major Apple hype cycle ever." If we look at the press who follow this cycle then the article falls squarely in the "How dare they" phase.

I'd suggest skipping the article. There's nothing in the article to suggest that any of this is valid and instead isn't just part of the clickbait trend towards "major Apple hype cycle[s]" perpetrated by journalists.
So am I, but look at the vitriolic 'class warfare' narrative that opponents of the administration have been carrying on for the last 6 years. Every time the government makes a bank pay out money to settle accusations of financial asset misrepresentation (eg some of the shenanigans around mortgage-backed securities), the Wall Street Journal and its ilk wax wroth about 'government shakedowns' and so forth. So imagine the response if the DoJ launched criminal prosecutions of big bank CEOs in addition to fraudsters like Bernie Madoff - there would be cries about a communist takeover and what-all else.

It's also true that the regulatory environment was sufficiently lax, and the chain of responsibility sufficiently convoluted, that it would have been hard to make any such prosecutions stick. Financial crime is generally slow to come to trial anyway because it's so hard to prove intent beyond a reasonable doubt, and so hard to pin it on any individual in a sufficiently large organization. As well as (possibly) leading to political upheaval and (definitely) causing a major chilling effect on business activity in the middle of the worst financial crisis in almost everyone's living memory, it would have been ethically, legally, and strategically problematic to bring charges that would not be easily provable at trial. If the CEO of (imaginary) MegaBank had been put on trial and the case collapsed, it would have poised every other prosecution for 20 years. That's not rational, but at the national level prosecutions have a big political dimension, there's just no getting away from it.

My read is that the administration opted to go the route of administrative penalties with the twin goals of maintaining relative stability in the financial industry and getting Dodd-Frank passed on congress to provide much stronger regulatory options for the longer term. It's not an emotionally satisfying strategy, but a pragmatic one taken in the interests of continuity. I would have preferred a top-to-bottom shakeout of the financial industry, and maybe a change in the economic and social order that would result, but the problem with revolutionary changes is that once begun it's hard to stop them turning. Look at the French revolution; half the instigators ended up on the guillotine themselves and 10 years after France had got rid of a king they ended up with an emperor.
I misread the comment. He/she was just giving out Rachel's email address.
I've spent almost all of the preceding workweek partying and spending time with coworkers who are remote but currently in town. I feel like an empty shell of a human.
The problem is, in most cities, it's impossible to take advantage of Sprint's "unlimited data plans" because their data speeds are abysmal. I would love to go back to sprint eventually, but for now I'm happy with T-mobile in Denver/Chicago.
IMHO you can find a better brush engine in Corel Painter.
Also, there is a vast amount of Digital Painting and Sketching apps out there.
I wish the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy site could step up and fill this void, but from looking at it, it's covered in ads and not very functional. Shame the BBC ditched it.

I really think there's room for a wiki site which encourages heavy editorialisation and allows dubious information to stay, provided that it isn't outright libellous.
Phantastic reading list [0] as well! Big thank you to the authors for curating it!

[0] https://github.com/crossbeam-rs/rfcs/wiki