jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is just poor wording of an important legal point; or, rather, "Apple are not responsible for what your kids browse for on their phone".

Unfortunately we live in a world where a small subset of people will seize on any opportunity to blame a company for some sort of indiscretion - in this case, letting their kids access porn (or whatever).

It's just legal ass covering which >99% of people, sensibly, ignore.

No news here.

EDIT: in iTunes I now see "application" not "game". So either they fixed it or it was a bug for some users.
Something I didn't do: try making a game using SDL or some other game library before you go all in on your own. From that, you will learn how it can be done, from the public API. It will give you a sense of when things should happen and why.
I was reading through the culture deck and I love The Values. I even like the idea of regularly letting people go who are not contributing to the success of the company.

However, there were a few points that are a little disconnected from reality, or perhaps they are not being entirely honest about the employee / employer relationship.

When I'm working for somebody I give them everything, my heart and soul. My passion. My success is the companies success.

But I think it's honest to be clear that I am giving up _time_ with my family or _time_ working on my own projects to bring home a salary. There is a big difference between my heart and soul for 20 hours a week, or 40 hours a week, or 60 hours a week. Hours do matter. Hours are my side of the bargain, and in return for hours I get paid cash.

I think its a form of dishonesty to gloss over this and wave your hands around and say hours don't matter, just come in when you want and do your best and if you perform well you won't be fired. When I hear this I think the employer doesn't expect you to have anything else in your life other than your job, and that what they really want is _all_ your hours in exchange for your salary.

I don't think that's necessarily bad, just say so and be upfront about it.

Having no holiday policy also artificially creates a grey area, or a point of conflict between an employee or employer. If I were a cynical old bastard I would suggest that the no holiday policy is actually so that holidays don't accrue from year to year. In my experience young engineers don't really take holidays and if you don't force them out of the office they end up with months and months of leave saved up.
Some of my favorite episodes are like this, such as "When You Dish Upon A Star" and "The Mysterious Voyage of Homer."
Happened to me as well. I was scared initially if it was hacked or something.
- Got notification on phone saying I am signed out.
- Couldn't sign back in from app or mobile web.
- Couldn't open my twitter page from mobile web.
- Couldn't sign in from Desktop web.
- Could open my page from Desktop web.
- Could sign in from desktop web.
- Still can't sign from Android app.
This is really interesting. moz6581, can you please email the Git development mailing list[1], I'm pretty sure there are lots of folks there who may have missed this that are interested in this topic.

This approach is novel and quite gittish, and I for one would like to see this explored further.

[1] git@vger.kernel.org
I cant login on my machine... i get "something is technically wrong"... I was already logged in on my iPhone, but my android wont let me login now...
Personally I remember the PS1 Spyro games to be really fun, critics and scores be damned.
Yeah, you can definitely get Linux running on pretty much whatever. But the point would be for Ubuntu to provide something that requires absolutely no fiddling, and where everything is nicely tuned and tested, and hey, maybe with some really kick-ass hardware at that.

I'm in the market for such a machine, and it's driving me absolutely batty.

* The Dell XPS 13 is the front runner, but I would prefer a larger screen. I stare at it all day, so that's more important than having something super portable. Also, compared to my current 1900x1200 screen, I'd be taking a pixel hit going to 1900x1080. Because some morons decided that watching movies was more important than doing actual work with computers. Also, the Wired review does mention Wi-Fi problems with the machine, which are not Linux specific, but probably due to the construction. http://www.wired.com/reviews/2013/07/dell-xps-linux/

* The Chromebook Pixel. Now this is a screen! I love it! The whole package looks pretty nice, although it's maybe a tad underpowered in terms of CPU and memory - I'd spend a bit more to get something I'm going to be comfortable with for the next few years. The killer though: 32 gigs of storage! NOT OK. Yeah, it comes with 'Google Drive' cloud stuff, but that doesn't cut it for me. I don't use a lot of disk - my current machine only has 100 gigs used up, so I'd probably be able to get by with a 128 gig SSD, but 32?! Sorry. Also, I'm a bit worried about support for the machine: Dell's has, for me, been pretty good in the past. I'm not sure I trust Google as much.

* There's a new Samsung that's supposed to come out with a high res screen soon: http://www.samsung.com/global/ativ/ativbook9plus.html - it looks pretty good, but once again, 13 inches... not sure I'd be happy with that, and I'm not sure it'll be out in time for me to get it during my trip to the US:-/

Sure, I can get an external screen, but that means I have a completely different screen environment depending if I'm at home, at work, or somewhere else.
>$200 (not a typo)

I genuinely wonder how they get by. (Especially with multiple family members to worry about.)

In the future, if you want people to be sure it's not a typo, you can just say the words "Two hundred dollars", then your meaning will be absolutely unambiguous.
Keyboard controls would be great for this.
No one is forcing you to write in js. You can write in any language you want and then compile to js.

Why you have such intense and strong feeling toward a programming language?

It's just a programming language after all, nothing more nothing less
My summary of the author's points: no generics, inexpressive, no good package manager, procedural.

Of these, caring about the fact that it is procedural seems pure opinion. Lacking a package manager is not really a language issue (PHP's package manager, for example, is not coupled to the core language).

So, we are left with the lack of generics and the lack of expressivity. I'm not deep enough in the weeds to be able to argue pro/con for generics intelligently right now, so I will concede that as a concern that has been raised by many.

The lack of expressivity seems to be an inexorable consequence of the goal of simplicity, so I'm sympathetic. That said, it seems to be a tradeoff acknowledged by Go's authors, not an oversight.

Overall, these points don't convince me of the author's thesis (or, at least, they don't seem to justify the title's degree of inflammation).
I think I have an interesting take on this that I'm not sure has been used in a production game yet. I'll send you an email.
Either I need more sleep, or you are being deliberately obtuse, because I have no fucking idea what that comment is supposed to mean.

Three orders of magnitude of what? What is being measured? Do you mean that platforms are bigger than modules?
> If an attacker submits multiple requests simultaneously, it would be possible for them to determine if you were actually working, or just sleeping - and you're back to leaking.

how?
The websites that are smart enough to count '+' as a valid character are probably smart enough to strip off that part when selling your email.
>there is a high correlation between sharing your room and poverty levels?

might be one variable. Another could be "average size of a typical home in sqm" and "population density of city where family resides"
> I've tried to do a little reading up on Saas, Paas and Iaas and tried to understand this a bit better

To distill this down for the purpose of this specific topic (map tiles):

- the map tiles being provided under CC is a copyright / right-of-use / legal intellectual property thing. Nothing to do with any provision of material service by Stamen

What Stamen provide that's relevant here is a service, that's somewhere vaguely in between SaaS and PaaS.

- SaaS would be if Stamen provided some kind of maps website, with accounts, etc. for working with data & displaying maps. They don't really do that fully.

- PaaS is a bit closer to what Stamen do: they run a server and host their own map tiles. You can point your website at their server, and they pay the hosting cost of the traffic you send there. (PaaS as a buzzword technically involves a bit more than this, but this would be a subset of it).

- IaaS is an unrelated thing here: this would be like if they offered servers for you to go and host your own map tiles on, along with a load of tools for managing those servers.

TL;DR: The CC-licencing of tiles is about releasing "artwork"/IP? (is there a better term for map styles??) that they've already created. Tile-hosting is about paying for internet traffic of the browsers hitting the server where those tiles live.
That's a weird take from someone named MLthoughts :p

But you seem to think everyone agrees that dynamic languages are more productive and that using (say) haskell is a trade-off for performance. For people used to (good) static type systems — for me that'd be OCaml — this is just not the case. Types do not impede, they help. I guess it might be a question of taste or habit, but don't make it a universal truth and accuse others of being biased when they disagree.
Storing metadata together with data will just make it harder,slower to query metadata (since it will reside in hdd in most cases).

You may think "it will be cached in ram, because it's small", yes, but then you'll end up querying many nodes just for metadata queries.

Yes it's nicer to manage only 1 system, but in big scenarios it's probably better to separate.

You can have 50+TB of nvme in 1 server, so your metadata layer probably doesn't need to horizontally scale.

Imagine if you lose some objects (because you lost some replicas). You won't even know WHICH objects you lost, because the metadata is gone together with the data.

Having separate, you can add a 5-replicas to metadata to be even safer compared to the usual 3 replicas.
The Spectrum and ZX81 were super-affordable, so a lot of working class families bought them, often as games machines at Christmas.

Some of those kids made a career out of them. If you programmed a game you could set up a business for the price of some cheap print ads and cassette labels.

The BBC was for (mostly) posh parents who could afford the inflation adjusted equivalent of £1500 to £2500 (with disk drives) on something more serious. It was really the UK's Apple II.

But they were still cheap computers. An S-100 business system would cost between two and five times as much as a BBC, and a low-end minicomputer like a PDP-8 or low-spec PDP-11 would be more like five to ten times as much.

IMO Acorn lost out by selling to education. If they'd sold a rebadged version as a business machine with support they'd have stormed the market.
It’s also a lot easier to shop around for those goods and services.
I did not confine the oppressors to just the NSA. I said the ruling class.
I wonder if it would be possible to shim PNaCl with emscripten as a fallback.
Banks become forced to compete with an (almost) free and instantaneous method of transferring value (sending bitcoin peer-to-peer without the use of a third party).

It currently costs $40+ for a comparable fiat service (wire transfers).
The primary purpose of the "giant list of trivia" method of interviewing is to give you cover to only hire people who have "cultural fit" - i.e. look the same, speak the same, and act the same as the people interviewing.
It seems to happen with certain areas of interest more than others. I would say I encounter them in as much as 30% of my searches, which are web development related.

While I understand the intentions of the moderators, they seem to assess the value of a question for people at the moderator's own skill level than at the people who might be asking the question or seeking an answer to a particular question.

The silver lining for me is that at least they don't delete the questions and answers they mod down. I've found a lot of useful stuff in questions that the mods didn't like.
I already posted this, but it was relevant to you so I repeat:

Manic depressive people have also been observed before to perform more variably between-and-within subject (on a puzzle-game with more than one solution) during their depressed state, while performing more stereotypically during their manic states.

Another variation of the study looked at how manic depressive people who report low sensitivity or intensity to their own feelings would not experience the same patterns in behavioral variability during their manic and depressive swings (this is just an enriching complication, not something that directly responds to you).

Frustration in rats and humans alike produce variable behavior, whereas satisfaction produces stereotypical behavior. Why is this interesting? Because stereotypy is the enemy of learning and innovation, while being the friend to optimizers, while variability is a friend to learning and innovation, but an enemy to optimization. If you are often doing the same things, you experience an opportunity cost in which you could've been NOT doing the same thing.

That's not to say that if you do the same thing, then you are optimal, or that if you change up your behavior, then you are creative. Creativity is a mere possibility to change and newness.
> more than half of the 200+ employees at Stack Exchange are working on StackOverflow Careers.

So at the end it's all about recruiting like LinkedIn?
Honestly I think the drone approach is where the smart money is. You could build many, many jet-engined drones that can provide air support over a wide area and would be fairly difficult for anyone to shoot down. The cost per unit would be low enough that you wouldn't particularly care if you lose a few here and there.

I have to think some nation is going to pursue the swarm of drones idea and once it's proven in combat the whole air power paradigm will shift.
What features does Firefox have that Chrome doesn't?
>How do a requirement for multivitamins make vegan diets unworkable?

It doesn't. Clearly vegan diets are workable, as evidenced by millions of people. Requirements for supplements "seem like a twist" to those of us who maintain more natural diets (vegetarians/omnivores). I understand how vegans get along with their lives, I've taken my fair share of nutrition and health courses (they counted as easy lab science credits ;) I was explaining why people view it as odd/a trick.
Myself. I run my own CA for internal use and sign all my own certs, and occasionally those for customers. This works only because I generally control all the devices that the certs will be used on - I wouldn't use this on public facing sites.

Wildcard certs are expensive last I checked, but simply too useful to ignore.
Just imagine how scary it wouldn't be if you understood the security implications and risks of cookies compared to the lack there of for a local browser db storage....
If you are concerned for speed, you want to go with one of the "big boys" to get a cert that is closer to the root the browser trusts. The more intermediate certificates you have to supply, the more the client has to download to complete hand-shake, and you should strive to keep it under 4k to avoid overflowing the initial TCP window (which would then require another round-trip).
Hopefully they mean all the spammy little blogs that exist purely to wrap AdSense around cut & pasted articles.
There's approximately 16 zillion places to stash code on a modern PC. You don't need to touch the hardware to make disk imaging ineffective.
Iterate MD5 several times (i.e. 50 or so). That will introduce a similar "slow" factor (it's not a solution, but a stop gap)

EDIT: I've also recommended using a random salt for each password too, but this is only a layer of security if you're code is not also stolen, then it is simply a slight additional "slow factor"
That would be a terrible reason to unionize.

Let developers race to the bottom for bottom-feeder work. It's no concern of yours, since that's not the sort of work you want.

You're a professional, and will deliver high-quality work in exchange for a premium rate. There are plenty of clients out there who are willing to pay for things to be done right.

All that unionizing would accomplish is dragging you and me down into that pit you describe. I'll thank you to refrain from doing so.
It's an abstraction over other file systems, like S3 or Azure BLOB storage. More a convenience than anything else, and helps ease porting code between cloud providers.

Not a traditional file system, or even a HDFS clone.
Yeah this seems really really bad and I’m surprised that people in tech are suggesting it since we all experience the “if you fuck up you won’t be punished so long as you own to it” policy that makes it so that issues are actually felt with.

I mean the poor guy who caused the AWS S3 outage doesn’t need to be personally personally responsible for the millions people lost due to it nor does their teammates via their 401ks. These are structural issues and trying to find someone to scapegoat makes it so people ignore them.
It’s ridiculous for the very least response for all ideas to be tolerance when there are some ideas that shouldn’t be tolerated at all. For example racism , by any means, shouldn’t be tolerated. Activists against racism shouldn’t be expected to tolerate the very thing their advocating against.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. Improper language in a PC environment isn't a good idea. It doesn't matter what anyone else does. (I actually got fired once because I was in the room when an exec muted a conference call and made a racist remark.)

Hire your own assistant. Having one randomly assigned isn't a good idea. There's no trust involved.

It sounds like malicious compliance for schadenfreude or the assistant sought out to get the exec fired for omitted reasons. It's impossible to judge from afar, i.e., if back problems were real or not.

Don't give the appearance of impropriety.

Get necessary things in writing (email) because they're often subject to discovery. Don't get other things in writing that could be used against you.
I don't think this makes sense when buying ebooks is so easy and instantaneous. It's not like you make a special trip to the ebookstore and load up 10 books that you're intending to read over the next few months. In this system, it would be very easy for people to keep a wishlist of what they're interested in (already built into most ebook platforms), and only buy something just before they start reading it. They still might abandon it, but I don't see how the publisher is getting any increased sales.
Url changed from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-trading-sec/u-s-se..., which points to this.
Using radar interferometry, you can get very high-resolution altitude and surface shift detection. I knew the researcher who was doing the synthetic aperture radar back in the 80s starting with SeaSat data, and he was getting very detailed elevation maps and earthquake change maps.

He was also measuring glacial flow.

Funny that the author of the piece doesn't mention the principal researcher on that project at JPL (and she happens to the same last name as one of the other JPL researchers).

Anyway, I can only imagine that this technology's gotten a whole lot cheaper now.
Really? Seems like it’d be more reliable and a lot faster to just hop in one of the hundred rickshaws on every street. Besides the fact that they’ll overcharge you if you’re a tourist.
“VSE: Hide cache settings and adjust defaults” was in this release and likely related.

https://developer.blender.org/rBf448ff2afe7a

This page is well-done for other-than-major release highlights:

https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.92/M...
This is making me reconsider a bit my stance on laziness. I'm usually in favor of eager, call by value, cause it's simpler to reason about in terms of complexity; but in OCaml I often have to be careful about deep recursions and it's annoying.
Thank you for bringing some sanity to this thread.

I think the vast majority of drivers are taking their eyes off the road to adjust media / climate controls even in cars with traditional tactile controls. It's a glance to see what the current setting is, or to make sure you hit the button you think you will, switching stations until you find the one you want, or more.

That's not to say there are no drivers that exist that actually do operate these things without glancing off the road. I just think they're not nearly as common as these HN threads make them seem. And even cars with touchscreens often have voice controls, which allow for keeping your hands on the wheel in addition to your eyes on the road. Beats tactile controls even, for safety.

We know the data's out there and we know there's a very vocal group that would pounce on any supportable conclusions. At some point, a lack of data is data. The Tesla Model 3 has been out since 2017, and despite thread after thread decrying the touchscreen, we've got no evidence of any measurable impact. Maybe it's worth burying this dead horse and moving on.
What about buying from the online Apple Store (http://store.apple.com/nz)? How do the prices compare then?
Understanding percentage of GM allows you to set the allowable percentage of all the overhead expenses below the GM line. It matters not of you have high gross margin dollars but spend it it all and your net is zero.
You might be using 1.1.1.1 dns. The workaround is a static hosts entry.
Bitcoin was designed by an individual with intimate knowledge of the state of the art in suspicions of NSA backdoors.

You are assuming Satoshi is sitting on money. Satoshi took care to hide it’s identity, and thus would have switched mining to different addresses very early in bitcoins history.

It would have been obvious to Satoshi that spending from a known address would blow it’s identity, so only did so for testing.

Satoshi may well be a billionaire and spending bitcoin every day.

People seem to take comfort in this idea that bitcoin was created by a government... because bitcoin seems radical when you first learn about it. However the attempts to create it date back a couple decades before it was created. Satoshi combined existing inventions with just the new element of his time chain.

But even if the NSA were behind it, what could they do? Anything they could do could also be done by someone with a math breakthrough. So whether the attacker is the NSA or not bitcoin has to be robust against it.

So where is bitcoin vulnerable?

It’s easy to imagine vulnerabilities in the cryptography, but hard to produce them.

Further, if you did, it doesn’t necessarily affect bitcoin. This is bitcoin’s genius. It’s not software, it’s a set of incentives. Show an error in the software, it will be patched and bitcoin will carry on. Worst case is a hard fork.