jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Because the inclusion of JavaScript in the "AcroForms" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF#AcroForms) feature means PDF has scripting. That's the literal answer, not sure if your comment was rhetorical or not.
I don't know. It's been uninstalled for months.

I think they used to market it as "we'll find you all sorts of cool music", so the expectation I had was that I'd be able to type in an artist or song and it would run an iTunes-esque "Genius" on it to give you a playlist.

Instead, I'd type in an artist or song and it would come back with no results.

It was happy to play music that I already had on my machine, but seemingly had no capability to go out and find new music from the internet. Given that that was its stated purpose, I was annoyed and uninstalled it.
Photos are best viewed on dark background (e.g Flickriver), can you provide some templates and a quick way to switch between them ?

Also, could we have slideshow for playback where nothing will be displayed except the photos themselves ?
I really like this:

At ThoughtWorks, when I worked there, we had an inside joke. Every technical person would call himself "Just a Developer" and there weren't any hierarchies among developers except ones of peer acknowledged competence
Amazing that they get away with this...
Interviewers are usually HR who have no idea what they're going on about
The real problem is not that firms took innovated and took risks, it's that no one seems to have been held responsible. All the "failed" banks, investment houses, and businesses should have been allowed to fail. They should have been liquidated to pay their creditors and their assets allowed to be bought out by firms that acted responsibly. Instead, the irresponsible were/are bailed out, and their managers are allowed to continue operating.

The lesson is: Take risks. You will pocket profits right away and bailouts will cover any downside.
>(BART has similar issues, if you're trying to get in and out of east bay.)

Fortunately, the AC Transit 8xx bus lines run from the Transbay Terminal in the city along East Bay BART routes after BART shuts down and leave every hour (and every half hour for awhile on weekend nights.)

There are SamTrans buses that take you between the city and Palo Alto after Caltrain shuts down but they leave every hour and take a couple of hours for the trip.
If your mind is wandering, it's probably because you're not interested in what you're doing. Therefore I doubt simply focussing on whatever boring task is before you will bring happiness: the trick is to actually be doing stuff that interests you. Not exactly an Earth-shattering revelation...
The Federalist Papers were not anecdotes. They were philosophy. Anecdotes must be true to be of any consequence, so the identity of the author helps to verify the anecdote. Philosophy just has to be correct, which makes the identity of the writer unimportant.
For me it was usually "when the teacher explains it once", occasionally "before you ever cover it in class" if it was a subject I was interested in beforehand. I rarely did homework assignments and never took notes.

There's also an interesting thing you can do with standardized tests, where you infer the answer from the questions and the other answers given. Standardized test authors are actually really predictable: they usually think of multiple choice options based on common error patterns, so if you look at the answers and think "Well, those two are off by one, and those two have factors that are off by one, and those two are what you get if you add instead of multiply", you can triangulate between them and come up with the right answer even if you don't understand the question.

Actually, I once did an experiment to try and quantify this effect. Throughout high school, a bunch of my classmates would say, "You're not really smart, you're just a good test taker." So I figured I'd take the AP Comparative Government without ever having taken the class or done any self-study. Just a half hour of reading a test-prep book over breakfast. I knew I didn't know anything about the subject, so any score I got could be solely attributable to test-taking skills.

I got a 3 on it, which is a passing grade for many colleges. I got a 5 (the highest) on the tests that I actually did know the subject area, so it wasn't all test-taking.

It was funny though - the AP Comp Gov is a big multiple-choice section followed by 4 essay tests, and I obviously didn't know the subject, so I'd have to bullshit the essays. So I did the multiple choice through a combination of looking for patterns in the answers and using my common-sense knowledge of foreign governments that I'd picked up from newspapers. And then I used the questions they'd asked in the multiple choice section as talking points for the essay. Basically, I was using the test itself to answer the questions on the test.
> Backscatter scans would be perfect if it wasn't for the privacy problem

What about the safety problem? A few academics at UCSF drafted an open letter regarding the safety backscatter scanners, available at http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf

Reading it firmly shifted my objection from one based on privacy to one based on safety. Therac-25 wasn't that long ago, after all. And, of course, let's not forget shoe fitting fluoroscopes.
It means increased liquidity on the market and that can be a good thing.
Have you tried Debian? I run Debian on a desktop, but my sense is that its hardware support for netbooks lags a bit. I'd be interested to know how easy it is to get working on an Eee PC. (And the OP might as well: a Debian base install seems like it might be a nice compromise between the kitchen-sink approach in a base Ubuntu install and the configuration required by something like Arch -- though I don't really know.)
I know that this is an unpopular opinion but I've seen numerous cases where NIH is the optimal approach. I worked in a large company that insisted on using open source everywhere they could. Except that making all of that zoo work with a a single {build,logging,monitoring} system was a major PITA and so folks often cut corners turning large parts of crucial systems into black boxes. Also, some of the open-source stuff used was of suboptimal quality to say the least and so the company was forced to start maintaining a whole bunch of projects that no one else cared about. And if something stopped working there was hardly anyone who understood how exactly a FOSS project X or Y works and so countless hours were spent on digging through proverbial mud.
Whether a person is exceptional is wide open to politics when there are large salaries on the line. That is the primary problem. We really have to look at the people that are touting others as exceptional and ask what their agenda is.
"A tachyonic antitelephone is a hypothetical device in theoretical physics"
I think we all need to watch this video, particularly business and project managers. I'm shocked at the complete lack of understanding of what agile is by virtually everybody working on any project these days.
> Any reputable tech company (or startup) will provide health insurance

... which generates another dependency on the employer (beyond the work visa thing).

I know the history of the employer-pays-for-health-care model in the US, but really: it's broken, fix it.
Part of me thinks it was my own disgust in the model that made the New Yorker article feel it was a negative take on the clickbait industry. That was an ironic feeling, given the context. The portions of the story where it discusses his family life, and the glorification of this person's intelligence... they felt borderline satirical but probably only because I want it to be pointed satire. The 22 year-old former Syracuse student, for instance, quoting Uncle Ben rather than a more auspicious figure (Jesus, Roosevelt) with the same basic quote... It just felt like the Twilight Zone.

I hope that this parasitic method of generating ad revenue with meaningless content languishes rather than flourishes.
The answer to your question is, that DRM doesn't help console games in the least. It helps some companies like Sony to control the market with lock-in and restrict what users can do using corrupted laws. DRM itself can be broken and will be broken as the practice shows.
No bigger than the difference between "in the office" and "some remote"
Extremely powerful library
See my comment below.

Externalities are not a problem when all property is owned privately and the courts are philosophically equipped to handle the ordinary disputes that arise.

Remember that if you can detect some pollutant or annoyance well enough to write a scientific paper, you can probably convince a court, and there is probably a big enough market that detectors for the chemical or vibration (or whatever) can be sold, making effective, objective litigation (inherently a nonviolent process) much easier. This works for land, sea and air.
This should include the effects of the user changing font size
Another improvement: you purchase the footlong and discard half. Subway sues your doctor for telling you not to eat as much.
>Scoring a big hit like that when you're young sure sucks, everybody will be disappointed in your forever after.

Nah, you just need to have the right attitude about it; see Joseph Heller: "When an interviewer told Mr. Heller that he had never written anything as good as 'Catch-22,' the author shot back, 'Who has?'"
Matrix & Signal is the best I've found so far. The new Matrix (Element) client is good & people have a much easier time signing up and connecting. Overall pleased.
"leaves a bad taste in your mouth" - May be you should not try to eat a protocol ?
You can’t use it as collateral in traditional bank loans, unless you hold it through a proxy like an ETF or Microstrategy. BlockFI and a few places like it allow you to borrow against it. That’s how BlockFI provides its high yield to depositors.
I'm pretty sure security would have been a bit higher even in Brussels if armed nazis with a history of breaking into legislative chambers declared they would "march on the court house".
Sadly, I have to stick to Messenger. All my contacts and friends are there.
I ended up setting a web interface (converse.js) primarily for use with iOS. No push notifications with it, but also heard that iOS native clients tend to crash and lose messages, and apparently can't run in the background.
Element is really slow on mobile, Signal and WA show my list of conversations in fewer than 5 seconds. Element needs ~10 seconds just to load UI, then 10 more seconds to sync list of active conversations, then I enter into a conversation and it needs between 2 seconds and 2 days to synchronize e2e keys. I can literally leave the conversation open, phone in charger for night and it still can't sync message. How do I explain to my parents that their message from 2 days ago "call me when you're free" didn't arrive because Element couldn't read it? They changed name 3 times already, changing APP ID, forcing me to reinstall it on all devices, update all my bookmarks in browser, having to sync all keys between all devices, not only on my devices, but also my family members who were using it. Their initial-setup of the app is really bad experience. Sometime I can NOT have two devices online at the same time to login and send message from new third device. It's cool on browser, I had nothing bad experience on mobile + web.

Signal is simply best because it works as SMS client AND encrypted messages client. Best UI/UX, one app to rule them all, consistent behaviour, not owned by FAAMG.
Signal. Only thing I don't like about it is the regular reminders to re-enter my pin.
Speaking as a Matrix user: it definitely still has performance issues. I'm regularly running into sudden lag spikes that have no clear justifiable reason to exist.

More details about my specific case are found here: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8612 - and occasionally other performance issues pop up for other people too.

I'm sure this will eventually be fixed, and honestly the performance is probably good enough for most people, but Synapse is definitely not as performant yet as a homeserver should be.
You know, the coding part was by far the most fun but was only about 30% of my time.

From meeting with regulators(fintech startup), bankers, government officials, investors, interviewing, compliance, procedures, speaking at and organising events the coding was the easiest part.

Sadly I've only recently come to understand the importance of a personal network and only in the last few months began to develop mine. I imagine this is common among many people who (like myself) prefer the digital side of things.

I can't speak for other startup CTO's but I'm not just someone who can only code, the human/sales side seems to be my weakest link though.

edit: wrote this before you'd filled out your comment in full.
Amusingly, you can run that software under Linux also.
What difference in vetting is there between Black Cab drivers and Minicab drivers in London?

What difference in vehicle maintenence?

The vetting process may be flawed, but it's flawed in both hackney carriage and phv licensing. This was acknowleged by say Milton Keynes, which gave a Hackney + PHV license to an applicant with convictions for rape and other serious sexual offences [0]

I have no confidence in London that the vetting process works, and the authorities are far more interested in retaining an obsolete cartel. Rather than fix their vetting procedure (which has always allowed dodgy minicab firms, which were never a threat to the powerful black cab industry), they concentrate on Uber.

[0] https://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/pressreleases/2014/aug/taxi...
"Say I want to have a simple photo uploading service: file into a folder and have those files automatically processed by you guys to post to Ars," said Gross. "There are weird states: if there's some kind of processing state, how do I know that's completed? How do we create the appropriate set of APIs without making it too onerous on the user experience?"

I already set up a simple photo uploading service via Dropbox without the API, by watching subfolders of the box@ourdoings.com Dropbox folder for new files. I never felt the need to do processing of those files in place. Where I'm looking for more API support is handling shared folder requests. There's manual setup involved for new users that I'd like to eliminate.
I use both and my focus sort of correspond to the PR waves you mention. I use Zumo for less active files and more as storeage although the iTunes sync is nice. Dropbox is for more active files and sharing web sites in development and such. Perhaps it's the manner I use them but Dropbox seems a little more agile and quick.
fortunately I'd blend in because I'm Eastern European -- and its something I'll have to deal with anyway. =)
What your thought on new companies like yammer.com and socialcast.com ?
hopefully the upload speed is faster than 40kb/s :-D
It shouldn't matter either way, but I'm halfway to MBA.
Putting the "Share" button on every little page makes me never want to click it. You should only put it on really significant events that I might actually want to share.

Also you didn't make a big deal when I leveled up, and I have no idea why that is even valuable. Normally leveling up is the most awesome thing you can do!
> Sadly I've only recently come to understand the importance of a personal network

Ditto. I'm working hard on growing mine now as well. I imagine this is the stumbling block for most developers turned freelance/consultant/whatever.
I assume you mean the airlines?

The airlines, in a strict sense, don't care. They'll set whatever prices the market can bear. If the market demands that flights from LAX to JFK are no more expensive than flights from LAX via JFK to Elbonia, they'll just raise prices on LAX to Elbonia, because LAX to JFK is a vastly bigger market. It's the Elbonians who lose, not the airlines.
At Google you start with an initial large grant that vests over 4 years. For example, let's say you get 400k as stock that vests over 4 years and 100k as salary to make math simple.

So you get 200k the first year, and at the end of the year you get another stock grant that vests over 4 years. Let's say you get 80k.

The second year you get 220k (100k salary + 100k stock from initial grant + 20k from first year's grant). Let's say you get the same 80k again.

If this process continues, the fourth year you get 260k, but on the fifth you will get 180k. Typically what happens is that unless you get promoted 2 times in those 4 years, your salary will decrease substantially on your fifth year.

I've simplified things a bit, but that's the general gist of it.
The author has obviously "found enough proper sources" because they were able to quote the figure about the issuers controlling 85% of the supply etc. It's really not too much to ask to link to the place where they read this.
FreedomBox is the only one that security updates from Debian. And for more than five years. Without breaking changes.
I have studied the language for years when I was younger and was conversational in it and had no such problem. Are you sure it's not the accent/pronunciation and the speed at which some people speak is what you have a problem with?
This makes sense, but specifically promotion tied bundle? Or was it just a shortcut for "did not get promoted" AND "did not get next stock grant"?

I guess I am trying to understand whether this is causation or correlation relationship.
I think everyone should get fired at least once, preferably early in your career. Business is business.
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How about "ShitEatingGrin" or "AphexTwinAlbumCover"?
If it isn't a thing, why does a wikipedia page exist for it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture

You can say you disagree with "cancel culture" being used pejoratively, but it absolutely exists in the minds of many.
Maybe where you’re at. Where I’m at it’s mostly NIMBYs and small business owners.

Either way, the source is irrelevant to the fact that it is a real cost.
Another round of navel gazing and arguing over the best way to self-promote from the security industry talking heads? Color me shocked.

More seriously, some people disclose privately, some people disclose publicly, others don't disclose. What value does a standardized take on disclosure add to the security industry?
Although he is willing to say that in print, I wonder if he is so willing to say that to his patients.
Are you looking for a prebuilt solution or are you willing to fab your own ?
Here are a few things you could look at
a) http://www.compulab.co.il/t3530/html/t3530-cm-datasheet.htm
b) the gumstix modules
c) nxp has some devkits
d) hack the sheeva plug to do what you want.
No, and that's not what the comment I replied to says. It says that a hotel has those things, but this new lodging doesn't.
Hah, I didn't know others used that functionality.

I stick various companies and startups management team pages into my google reader by the dozen in a folder called "Knowledge Is Power"

:-)
In particular: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trespass_to_chattels though you'd have to show some actual damage resulting from it, which in this case would be just about nil.
It's meant to be used in conjunction with her instructor-led classes, so it won't necessarily be the same as something that was written explicitly to be a 'book'.

That said, Rebecca's very sharp, knows her stuff, and how to communicate and explain things well in person. I haven't read this yet, but assume much of that will translate to the written word.
Not to nitpick, but this sounds a tad revisionist:

"Sun’s invention of Java could be seen as an attempt to introduce sideways compatibility between its shrinking server market and its competitors (Windows, Linux) by introducing a new, cross-platform programming layer."

If I recall, Sun had a healthy server market when Java first emerged. In fact, the original intent was for Java to be a client-side technology. It was only after client-side Java didn't live up to expectations, that they pivoted to focus more on the server end. Or perhaps I mis-remember?
His books are enjoyable and thought provoking.
Any other archives? archive.is is refusing to connect.
But Google has the access logs to their own website to know how frequent use of any particular browser is, regardless of circles.
I’m not sure I’d agree here. RTPM is probably the most popular live streaming protocol, and it typically has huge variations in instantaneous frames rates. However it’s time base is hard coded to 1/1000. Which means it can’t even accurately represent 30fps. Flicks would be at least a massive improvement here. And even given variable frame rate, a time base must be chosen in advance, so flicks is at least as good as any other value.
> GIMP's UI consists of medium grey on slightly dark grey with occasional third shades of grey. It's low contrast and not particularly accessible.

I agree that's bad. It used to have colored icons. You can change the themes in preferences so it uses colored icons, again. The background color is also changeable. So, yeah, default theme got bad, but it can be fixed in less than a minute.

> GIMP's UI is spread across a huge pile of small windows with overlapping jurisdiction such that you're never sure where anything needs to go.

Configuration over convention, I guess. It does remember where you put said windows for the next time you launch it, so just put them whereever is best for you.

> Oh, when I paste, it doesn't offer to expand the canvas. That's unfortunate. Let's expand it manually and paste......but it still tries to paste into the tiny rectangle I originally had rather than the whole larger viewport. I give up, I'll manually guess a few sizes until I get close.

I think your expected behaviour is too ambiguous. Where should it expand to, the right, the left, up, down, all sides equally? You can "Paste as > New Image" (Ctrl+Shift+v) and you'll get an image the exact size of the image you're pasting. Does that help?

> OK, let's edit my picture. I click on the paintbrush tool in one window......then select a brush in the "Layers - Brushes" window, but it's too big. How do I fix that? I look for the "Brush Editor" window (different from "Layers - Brushes") and see a "Radius" selector. But it's read-only and I have no idea why. I have to go back to "Layers - Brushes" and find a tiny "Edit this Brush" button.....then go back to the "Brush Editor" window to make changes.

Where are you seeing "Radius"? I see "Size" and I can't get it to be read-only.

> Let's add some text to my window....oh, the text properties window appears over my image, translucent (even less contrast!) and the font select window is.......a free-form text box? No dropdown to see the names of my fonts, much less a preview of them?

If you start typing the name of fonts, you do get a dropdown with names and previews. I do agree it would be better to be able to make it drop down without requiring any text input, though.
In what way are the poor exploited?
have you considered just using IPv6 instead of paying that charge?
The initial repulsion to truck not fitting on the hunkered <-> stoic spectrum is quickly overridden by societal queues indicating this could be a real status symbol. And with that, the consumer closes in for the buy.