jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Why would programmers want to promote GPL, if they are not FOSS programmers?

See vdaniuk's response in this same thread.

Also, just because someone hacks on proprietary software doesn't mean their preference is to hack on proprietary software.
WOW Thank you for writing down such a clear learning path! I'm going to dive into it as soon as possible.
> and, besides, Earth’s microbes could not possibly grow in an alien body.

They'll grow anywhere they damn well please, and if you're lucky it's not underneath a membrane that protects your brain or some other organ.
You mean this check handed right here?

http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/this-hilarious...
Hmm good so far. Presumably there will be at least some losses, since the system is open to the atmosphere. So you'll need good evidence for how safe the chemicals are. (I appreciate you may not want to tell us what they are yet)
I'm slightly left of center so parler is not for me - but I am curious and I like to see what's going on outside of my bubble. When I had to commute to work for instance, I'd listen to AM talk radio on the way in. It did nothing but reinforce my left of center world view. In any case, my point is that in this society we live in, merely having an account is seen as an espousing of the views. With parler's poor history of user data handling, there is no way I am even creating an account and risk having my (real-life) reputation take a hit. It's a sad state of affairs.
Now, one might argue that I've just said I'm slightly left of center on hackernews, why don't I fear that - it wouldn't take much for someone who already knows me to tie my person to this account. I guess parler has a reputation as being (extreme?) far right and that's the difference. Again, it doesn't make much sense.
> The Haredim way of life is less than 250 years old.

I would say, less than 80 years old. In most normal countries this kind of behavior would be called "destructive totalitarian sect".
That feature is one of the reasons for Javascript's flexibility, many hate JS in beginning but then they start to appreciate the advantages of this features and start to like the language.
I don't think it detracted from the discussion at all. Rather, I think that RicoElectrico's comment is helpful and that this sub-thread is not. It's not like retard is a clinical diagnosis any more, so there are no "retards" out there to offend, anyway.
Bonus points for not citing Wikipedia.
What's the situation in Alaska then?
"The main advantage they have is of being closer to the raw data"

That's my point. Both companies have the ability to come up with the most amazing formula for working out reputation but applied equally, Klout is going to be "inherently less accurate" because they have to trickle feed the data via the API and many interesting data points that may be stored in the Twitter database are not exposed on the API.

Twitter has direct access to all data points.
Strange days indeed: Reason Magazine advocating a federally-issued biometric ID card.

I suspect that the body-scans and frisky-frisks are just door #1 and door #1 in a grand plan to get people to enthusiastically adopt (as yet unannounced but coming soon) door #3, national biometric ID cards and/or an official federal 'risk rank' per person, that would be based on background checks or even 'Total Information Awareness'-style data mining.
Perhaps not better, but still a good idea. If for no other reason than to see where the advice overlap. Say risk-taking: Doing a start-up is a risk in itself, so you'll never get a successful one without risks - but you'll never fail at it, either. So does that differentiate the successful from the failures? No. Yet still, it's often featured as a property of the successful.
Just mentioning Primer is enough to send my brain into tilt.

I have to watch in again tonight.
But the new car is already here, sitting on a nearby lot, not being driven while I drive my clunker around. Your argument may apply to a future reduction of car shipments if enough people follow your advice, but that is hard to count on.
Ironically, the roughly 7% increase in MSFT share price due to his retirement announcement, has added nearly $1B to Balmer's net worth.
Fiksu, quoted in the article, is also in the business of pay for position. We tried them once and all the downloads came from Egypt, China and similar places but none of the users actually used the app. It did artificially boost the ranking but only as long as you keep paying. I hope Apple stops these type of folks.
So the gist is that Apple is all about vendor lock-in.

Well, no surprise there. That's been the case for a long time.
Can someone enlighten how is Yeoman vs grunt?
Citation needed. If they receive a copyright takedown request and don't act on it, then they're liable. Otherwise I don't see where liability comes into play. Please cite court cases showing websites are liable for content posted by its users. Nobody is using Twitter to archive copyrighted material.
On the book reviews comment: If you read a few books and also a few book reviews, you'll find two things: These two types of review are most common, and they are written when the author has nothing positive or negative to actually add on the subject of the book. The author just can't be arsed.

The commonality is that these cheap jibes really add no information, they are aimed at derailing a discussion someone doesn't like. You know that, though.
> These groups are concerned U.S. authorities may decide that some closed-door technical discussions ...

I do not see why they would not do open-door technical discussions then. Transparency is good.
Well done. I actually want to test this product.

Hard to say why but something resonates with me. Maybe it is that I love working in a desktop environment (KDE) that people love to trash lime this yet is really comfortable for me.

Or maybe I'm just so fed up with landing pages and this was just different.
I'm curious, how ridiculous? I'm not at FANG but I've considered making the jump.

But good luck to you. There are always game companies you can go work at for a lot less!
Yep might as well just use one of the BSD linuxii
> 90% of the quality

Hm, are they? I haven't actually tried recent Chinese knockoffs specifically, but historically, "almost as good as Lego" is pretty disappointing. That last mile (last micrometer?) has always set Lego apart.
and what about Scooter Libby?
Similiar to the foodme example app (https://github.com/IgorMinar/foodme/blob/master/app/js/app.j...).
Do such laws (you must give password) apply to you if you are just visiting a country with such laws?
Did anyone here donate to this guy? If so, can you explain why you did it?
Who is "they"? Google is an enormous organization that goes to great lengths to protect its image. As an organization, I think Google is more concerned with its image than jail.
skrowl, can you quantify your arguments as to why you think Web API is better? In what way? What do you not like about Nancy, where does it fall short?
This has been true of Australia for decades. The corporate elite have been using Australia as a proving-ground for their strategies for a long time now, since Australia is one of those western nations where heinous, fascist behaviour, has been permitted for centuries. The colonial/imperial systems used to rule Australian society - and destroy its previous occupants - have been refined and enhanced for application in the modern era, without much hindrance alas.
They keep bringing that up as if it was a flaw.

What's wrong with people using BTC to buy drugs?

How is it better or worse than people buying drugs with any other currency?

Why is it "bad" for Bitcoin to be useful and first adopted in that niche?
To a large degree, but for continued utility, mining has to occur, and should the price drop below a rational point, that impairs Bitcoin's long term success.
@spenceryen what's the backstory? How did you come up with this idea?
No, I'm a hard gainer at age 29. According to my athletic-snack cookbook this means I'm "inefficient" because I waste a lot of energy as heat. I seem to be really hot a lot of the time, I handle cold temps well (as long as I have enough food), sweat like a dog in dry saunas (and do not enjoy them), and every girl I've been with says I'm too warm, so it seems to make sense.
You know you answered your own question right?

"What's wrong with speculation?"

"I imagine bitcoin's volatility is just never going to go away. Any cryptocurrency is going to have the same issues. Using bitcoin is making a risky gamble. This is why we're not paying our mortgages with it."

What a great "currency".
In Uber, both drivers and riders have ratings. Drivers can turn down a hail if the rider's rating is low enough.
Not yet; currently the OpenStack Charms support RabbitMQ, and we have branches in testing for ZeroMQ support.

Qpid is not on our product roadmap, but if someone who knows it well wanted to charm it up, then adding supporting into the OpenStack charms would be fairly trivial.
A few thoughts:

1. The definition of an "experienced" developer is subjective and varies widely. Startups with younger management may (incorrectly or not) apply senior labels to candidates with fewer years of experience and lower compensation expectations.

2. Anecdotally, I have seen startups in SF/NY take advantage of the lower earning expectations of candidates who are relocating into those metros and aren't prepared for the sharply different cost of living. There are places in the US where $90K goes much further and is a more competitive offering, especially for those who are willing to take less cash for the opportunity to work on something exciting.

3. "Developer" is a huge category. Some technical skills are far more scarce than others.
As described, the experience doesn't really show that dogs use humans as tools, but rather that they look to their face for hints as to how to behave.

This is the almost-universal behavior of low-status individuals to high-status ones (in a boardroom everyone looks at the boss to know how to react to a joke).

So it could mean, not that dogs "use humans" but rather that they recognize humans (and specifically their trainer) as the leader of their pack, which wolves do not.

It would be interesting to do this experiment again with dogs and a human that they absolutely don't recognize as a leader (a toddler that they have never seen before, for example).

My guess is, if there are two humans in the room, a "recognized leader" and a "recognized non-leader", and if the non-leader knows how to solve the riddle, and the leader does not, then the riddle will never be solved because the dog will never seek the help of the non-leader.
FWIW, Japanese much less commonly have or use credit cards. It's one of the reasons eBay failed while Yahoo Auctions succeeded in Japan, by not requiring a credit card to list.
Countdown to the articles on twitter enabling the sale of child abuse content in 3...
Interesting about the Money argument, haven't heard anything like that before. Is there some more explanation for why the intentionality is specifically a problem? I have no trouble believing that indeed a new kind of currency has never been created from scratch, but why should that mean that it's in principle impossible to do so?
The main export of the Rust/WASM library is just a function which outputs LaTeX; it should be pretty doable to add a button to the website which does what you're asking. I think I'll just add a checkbox to set whether it actually renders or not.
Instead of proceeding with blinders on, like many other aspects of systemd, please don't ignore your out of focus items. Sure, don't implement for them, but do some investigative plan for dealing with them eventually if should be needed.

Project Managers call that "risk management". I sometimes get the vibe that Systemd calls that "wontfix".
This is one reason why, when the UK had capital punishment, a premium was placed on speed. The condemned cell was set up a few yards from the scaffold and the idea was that the time from the executioner entering the cell to the trap being dropped could be well under one minute.

The movie 'Pierrepoint' shows this pretty well (and has a very good performance by Timothy Spall as the eponymous professional but slightly conflicted hangman).
> If the connectivity state doesn't matter to the user, why would you show it?

It's due to Live View triggering a visual indicator that the websocket connection isn't available.

It's a combination of CSS and JS. You can turn this off but if you turn it off then you have no way to show an indicator when you do care (such as transitioning between pages or submitting a form).

I don't think LV at the client level can be coded in such a way that it can tell the difference between the server dropping and the user's connection dropping due to their internet being spotty.
> how many engineers have probably worked on these attacks. And the answer we came to was, well, certainly more than 1,000

Anyone have insights on what part of the attack might have taken a thousand people?
Oh, cool, interesting to see a similar thing exists elsewhere. It looks like Griddy is missing a reasonable price cap though.
[N]o local copies of development files are allowed
... without special authorization

I'm curious what kind of employer would hire programmers, and they tell them they couldn't develop locally as a matter of _security policy_, rather than "it won't fit on your machine". That seems like it would be very constraining.
> The US gets the wrong impression of Mexico from the immigration to the USA. That immigration is disproportionately undereducated, rural farmers.A thriving middle class has tended stay in Mexico.

Actually, lots of Mexicans have complained about the enormous brain drain of the Mexican middle class into the USA; while undereducated rural farmers may be disproportionately represented in illegal immigration from the US to Mexico, legal immigration (which is, even considering the not-inconsiderable expenses that often associated with illegal immigration, in practice as I understand it more resource intensive) from the US to Mexico (and some of the illegal immigration, as well) is educated professionals, especially those with family in the US, moving here because the pay they can get even taking a big step down in prestige compared to the positions they are qualified for in Mexico is enough to not only live better in the US even accounting for the higher cost of living, but also provide surplus after that to improve quality of life for a lot of their family living in Mexico (plus, give more of their family the opportunity to eventually legally immigrate to the US, through family-based immigration visas.)

The uneducated, rural farmers get more attention in US media coverage of immigration, perhaps because they are overrepresented among illegal immigrants (which is usually the focus of media coverage), and perhaps because they are better fodder for emotional images (both those seeking to provoke sympathy for the poor and those seeking to provoke fear of the unwashed masses).
I'm sorry! I forgot to put ShowHN in front of the title.

Reposting it on ShowHN
While I appreciate all the downvotes and "get with the times" comments, a significant portion of the population does not have a smartphone, assuming everyone has a smartphone or will instantly know what to do when presented with official instructions that only mention smartphones/tablets seems like a bit of a security oversight on Slack's part, no?

Those pointing out PC-enabled authentication apps: thanks. That's USEFUL feedback!
> But dismiss his whole work because he might be wrong on his final politic suggestions is a disservice to the science (no matter how small amount of science there is in Economics).

Not in the least because he himself appears to be very open to criticism, as a proper scientist should be.
Was a Sprint customer for two years then last year I kept seeing all these great deals pop up due to T-Mobile. I kept calling them asking if they had anything competitive. The only thing they had was this terrible framily plan where I had to work to find people/anyone to join this plan with. Even deadbeats. Stupid & when I started to travel I noticed how bad their network is!

I have since switched to an ATT family plan. 15 Gigs split between 4 users, free WiFi hotspot (had to pay $15 additional a month to Sprint for that) and I pay less then $50 a month. ATT coverage is solid everywhere in this state and up and down the east coast.
none of the "science" (or blogs in your case) people quote about pastured meat is close to correct. This blogger assumes that all methane from cows will be released into the atmosphere like in the factory model when it is in a big pile by itself. This assumption does not hold when the cow manure is spread out and worked into the soil by nature. Methane is probably the least of our concerns in such a comparison anyways- there is a much greater damage done to find and burn all the fossil fuel for the fertilizer to grow the grains with and other energy used in this process- by some estimates a calorie of factory farmed meat comes from 10 calories of oil.
Compare this to grass fed meat where most of the energy input is solar to grow the grass, and the topsoil actually grows instead of being slowly degraded while growing grains.

I am really not going to bother debating a ridiculous comparison of eating meat with slavery. It is essential for our health and we don't need to feel bad about it when we aren't destroying the environment or torturing animals.
I built Klicktrack based on Java and it's a great platform for a startup especially for larger teams. The only drawback I can think of is the compile deploy cycle which can be a bit annoying compared to scripting languages but it can be mitigated.
HN has a great community and a lot of intelligent people with a wealth of knowledge that has truly not been tapped yet. There are times when I crave reading technical postings and learning beyond my current levels of understanding but HN does not always permit that unless I sift through the broad spectrum of links. Usethesource.com to me appears like a continuation of HN in a pure technical fashion but is yet to see any community form around it or more than 1-2 postings per day. It would be great if we could help it flourish.
Its fine. But that wasn't my point. You specifically target Diaspora related stories to plug appleseed.

To me that seems like bad form. IMO YMMV
I think bytecode in the browser would be useful even if we still used it to run pre-compiled JavaScript code that got no speed benefit. Not only would it remove the problem of different browsers having different versions of the language standard, but it would allow the language to evolve without having to wait for every browser to catch up to the standard.
This sounds like something I could use for my job, but what I’m wondering about is:

What feature does it have (or will it have) that R or Python doesn’t already do better? I don’t see why I’d choose this over generating a report in R Markdown
Where in the original example was encryption involved? The salt and pepper were only ever used in a hashing algorithm.
> I can't really bring myself to blame corporations for following short term private gain

Why not? They should be blamed for it, especially when they sabotage interoperability for such gain. This irritates me the most in these companies.

> the nerds who ignored licensing issues in favour of short term technical superiority deserve some blame for this local minimum we're trapped in.

That's free codecs should be ahead of the competition by a big margin. Daala is not just next generation, it's next next generation, which increases its chances to beat patent encumbered competitors and to actually gain traction. No matter what backroom deals can be proposed, if someone can save tons of money on licensing and get much higher quality, it's a no brainier to do it.
I'm saying that, as someone who has read his various rants throughout the years on jwz.org, and followed his twitter feed, I can say with a great degree of confidence that a) he didn't post this to HN, and b) he really couldn't give enough of a shit to "viral market" anything.

You're free to form your own opinions, although if you must, I would urge you to avail yourself of the opportunity to read through his website and past writings. I find your continued contention that he is using viral marketing to be rather amusing.
This is a persistent pain point for me. I don't just need owned chat, I need chat that does multi-presence cleanly and supports push notifications to mobile devices. My team is distributed and works inconsistent hours and we rely on notifications to coordinate effort when needed.

I've run internal IRC and XMPP servers before, and they do one client admirably, but multiple presences for the same user rapidly becomes problematic.
The reason it doesn't make sense to you is because you are assuming it is applied in an ideal perfect universe, while the statement is referring to the real world, where any retributive rule is applied by imperfect actors who make errors in the assignment of culpability (both in identification of who is responsible and in identify whether their act was justified in the first place.)

Such errors result in people who shouldn't be blinded themselves being blinded, and are themselves the subject of retaliation by the same error-prone process.
6500 bcrypt(5) hashes/second with custom FPGA:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=703252...
I'm mixed on this. It's undeniably true if everyone is in the same building but in my experience this is rarely actually true as people need to work from home, use mobile devices, other offices open, partnerships or acquisitions happen, etc. That tends to lead to people requesting holes in firewalls or using VPNs as a sort of aftermarket spray-on security measure, which inevitably makes things much worse because now you have exposed services[1] which were setup and operated by people whose threat-model was “Sheltered internal service accessed by trusted staff”. It's much better to start with the assumption that your services are exposed to the internet and secure them accordingly.

1. VPNs are almost always terrible for security because people tend to get them for one need (i.e. email, one line of business app, etc.) but when their computer gets compromised the attacker now has access to the superset of everything which every VPN user has ever needed to access and in all likelihood a bunch of other things which were never intended to be exposed but were never adequately firewalled internally.
This was my experience with a ThinkPad last year. They could not do on-site (in home) service due to the French lockdown so I had to do mail-in. They even emailed a PDF with instructions on how to remove the drive.

Sadly this is not possible with a modern MacBook. When I have had to send a MacBook to Apple (or a service partner) for repair I was instructed to wipe the machine (along with ensuring I log out of iCloud to disable Activation Lock and disable Find My). While it is good to ensure my personal data is not compromised it isn't user friendly at all to have to wipe my whole machine for a battery replacement :(
HN thread on Stadia from earlier this month:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992664
I disagree, the menus take up a lot of visual space, often for stuff that isn't used all that frequently. IMO, it makes much more sense for more actions to be done as a tab off the main content rather than via menus and popup windows. IMO there should never be popup windows when not explicitly requested by the user. As people are now used to mobile-style menus, hopefully (IMO) the older style text menu headings will fairly quickly go away in general. Keeping the other menus as normal menus does not describe what is happening in this case as the pictures clearly show.