jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The manager often isn't savvy enough to discern whether the software itself sucks. You may be able to blame a lot of lousy business processes on enterprise software, but a willingness to move forward without fixing major known problems can also be very harmful. Everyone may agree that the process needs improvement, but too often that process gets baked into a new process or software application. When that happens, chances are things will continue to suck for a very long time.
Why those young whippersnapper, outrageous, why back in my day at we called it the Octothorp, which sounds like a good and proper syntactic mark.
You've taken a very specific definition of "broken", then decided that the article doesn't meet your definition, so the article is worthless?

If you're losing customers for a bit of security theater, I think "broken" is a pretty good term from the perspective of the retailer.
That sounds like an inverse lamentation. I'm pretty sure I remember a couple of dev's in the cocoa blog world complaining about the amount of unsolicited consulting requests they got after launching a couple of somewhat popular apps.
http://wow.joystiq.com/
Really? Asking somebody to tell you how a formula works, or helping you remember the name of that guy who was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence is cheating?
They hyped something DULL. Apple knows exactly what the tech media will do with it, that's why they ran a teaser.
I've used it for sometime now and it handles multiple accounts just fine. I run 3 IMAP accounts on it (served from Google Apps) and it handles all of them fine.

Its my favorite email client by far because of its simplicity in function and UI. I get some extended functionality from indev's products, in particular Mail Act-On for quickly sorting mail and Mail Tags. I'd love to see it with slightly tighter calendar integration but otherwise I love it.

http://www.indev.ca/
Just for one thing: evolution is not going to help YOU in this life. Intelligently designed software does.
How do you update the copy that is with a trusted party in a different state (and how do you track which accounts are stored on each)?
I read recently that the problem is the next wannabe- fascist is not going to be so narcissistic. They will be smarter, and more interested in power than in attention.

In many ways, president Trump failed (in a more aggressive implementation of right wing polices) only because he didn’t care about the next steps. He wanted the spotlight. Arguably this is why Mitch McConnell was so effective with the judiciary. The guy filling the vacancies only cared how much attention it garnered.

I worry about the far right politician who has the popularity but also an agenda they intend to execute.
I particularly enjoyed:

Reproducible Builds: on creating a build that produces the same exact binary on every machine so people can verify the integrity of the binaries published by an open source project).

Snitches get Stitches: pen testing switches used in utilities like furnaces.

And of course the SS7 talks.
Static site generators using Disqus for comments seem to be quite popular in certain circles.
A relatively fit person ran it in approximately 15 seconds without training. High school training in track brings it down to 12, from when I looked it up in the last thread.

So the difference between someone in high school and a professional runner is 12 to 10 seconds, approximately, and the difference between professional and elite is .5 seconds.
> More generally, is there anything on TikTok which is banned by Facebook?

That's wrong question. It usually doesn't matter what is banned, but what is "shadow-banned" really matters.

You can't see what is shadow-banned on Facebook because they don't tell us how they do moderation on their news feed.
How is Windows OS these days? I haven't used it since the early 2000s. I think the last version I used was... XP? Everyone at my work uses a MacBook.

Some of my children are in their early 20s now and have never used Windows. It has always been OSX/MacOS, iOS, Ubuntu, Android, or ChromeOS. I don't know if my kids are typical or not but if many of the rising generation don't grow up using Windows, will they want to use it when they are adults? Will Windows hold on to its OS crown?
Maybe it is that I have used a lot of javascript, but "prototype-based inheritance" communicated the idea to me, but "Delegated-Parent Inheritance language" does not.
> "Nobody knows better than me what is better for myself and mine."

Smokers and anti-vaccination also use the same argument. Even though their actions are also dangerous to other people(kids). I am sure they felt oppressed when public smoking was banned. Smokers will tell you that smoking isn’t different to dangerous sports or unsafe sex. Yet, dangerous sports/unsafe sex isn’t banned.
the Police can employ people to "crack" or other wise physically open the safe if they have a warrant.

The owner is not liable for withholding evidence, even if they know the combination as they are under zero legal requirement to tell the police the combination
Tried using Forestry (twice!) for Hugo based sites. Never got it to work properly. This was at least 1 year ago.
Physically typing in a passcode is less secure that you think given the wide range of cameras everywhere. All I have to do is observe you entering it once with a camera (likely from any angle where your movements are visible) and your security now belongs to me. FaceID cannot be recorded in any way. Of course you have to occasionally enter the PIN so it's still not perfect.
The advice here is terrible. How are you supposed to get 8 hrs of sleep if you are anxious all the time, lol. Its like saying 'just eat healthy food ' to the person struggling with weight issues. You cannot solve the anxiety financial insecuitry for your family with "self care".

I think your only option here is to

1. move into non-coding management role, you have to do everything at your work to make this possible.

2. Apply for management jobs everywhere after you have accomplished 1.

3. Get upto speed on system design, study a little bit everyday. Its not hard stuff.

4. Get your spouse to start working even if its a job at walmart.

5. Not sure what is going on with finances but why don't u have a 401k?
> Also this looks like an applet that runs a js vnc client locally and connects you directly various open VNC servers. Its your IP address in those logs and depending on your jurisdiction or policies, may get you in trouble just for visiting the site. Took me a second to realize this. May want a warning here for those at work.

Not quite. The VNC client is noVNC, with a websocket proxy on the same machine http://srsly.de runs on. The connections you make with the web interface will go to our server, be translated from websockets to regular sockets, and then forwarded to the real VNC server. The address they see in their logs is ours.

We don't log access to the VNC client, by the way.
Going out on a limb here but I believe the phrase "Now you have two problems" is just a simplified (and slightly abused) rehash of Buddhism's 84th problem parable.
More of the "I'm in; close the gate!" mentality.

"People who arrived after me are ruining Boulder!"
I know that pain
I really like the design of this site, it is almost exactly like Tempmail[1].

[1] http://tempmail.de
What don't you like about it? Say more. I'm open to your feedback.
No, and I meant relatively speaking compared to other mechanisms. Startups mint new money rather than enrich old money, and they create high paying jobs.
I read Atlas Shrugged as a 15 year old, and again as a 29 year old. I think it's better suited for my 15 year old self, as I found the historical context of the book more interesting than the philosophy this time around. It also just goes on and on and on -- you get the general premise early on and it feels overly verbose by a factor of 2-3x. The characters don't age well either, my older self has found them to be kind of flat and boring.

Still, it's a good read. Especially the economic mechanics of the universe -- it's fascinating to read about the technology, culture, sexism, and politics from the first half of the 20th century. That alone makes it worthwhile. For example, the characters are constantly smoking cigarettes, to the point where pivotal moments in the plot are revealed, more often than not, because of a smoke break.
Sounds like a "stage 3" tribe, in the Dave Logan sense.
The Roland MS-1, I remember wanting one of these but having to settle for a second hand Roland S-330.(which I was actually glad to have done) The MS-1 is a quirky sampler- has a simple interface and IIRC is battery operated. It did some data compression internally to bump up the sample time and stored the samples in flash memory. This is not really a "hi-fi" sampler, and depending on what settings were used, I would argue that its characteristics would smooth out harshness rather than enhance them. I think you could get around a minute of sample time if it was set to its lowest sample rate. Not bad for the 90s...
same in US except its not a policy just a reality
A thought I recently had about all this:

Let's rewind two years. You work for a company that's headquartered in San Francisco. You live in Texas, in one of the suburbs of Dallas, as part of the company's small, but substantial, remote workforce. You've been paid well, but less than you'd be paid for the same position if you lived in San Francisco.

Now fast-foward to the present day. Many of your coworkers have moved out of SF to lower-cost areas. Your company has decided to adopt a location-based pay system. You look at the charts HR has put together, and find that if someone who currently lives in SF wants to move to your town, they'd get a 15% pay cut.

You think about this in reverse. You've wanted to live in SF for a while, but were turned off by high rents. SF rents have been down a bit because of COVID, and you want to give it a try. You contact HR and ask them if you were to move to SF, would you get an automatic pay raise due to the new location-based pay policy.

What does your company say? My guess would be they'd say no. They try to justify it by saying that there's no headcount available for hires in SF right now. But of course there's no "headcount" specifically allocated for people who want to move out of SF, but those employees are still free to move where they please, more or less.

So, big surprise: the "location-based pay" only applies when it benefits the employer.
> How many people on the open market are going to buy your coin for $1 on an exchange?

Even if 1 client per year buy it (let's say my token purpose is to give to access to private content on my website), then my marketcap is still 10^32 $, because marketcap is just the number of supply x the last traded price of my coin.

And yes, we both agree, marketcap has 0 value. It was just to make a point that using the marketcap as argument makes no sense.
Interesting that you're reacting against the Typescript trend...

I'm personally starting to wonder if/when the backlash against Typescript will gain steam.
What are some reputable media companies not owned by big money?

NPR - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR

CSMonitor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christian_Science_Monitor

???
My goal was only to point out that Scott's article missed the substantial effects of affirmative action in law and medicine. I find any theory that doesn't account for the reduced sexism in other fields unsatisfactory. I haven't taken it any further than that; it seems unlikely that I'd come up with something useful.

If you are interested in this area then I would recommend reading the book Why Aren't More Women in Science?. It has 15 essays by experts debating the issue.

rayiner, a HN lawyer, also has some good posts that discuss affirmative action in law (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21775576) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6875443).
How is it reasonable in the least to expect a big house with a garage and a yard in one of the most expensive places in the country?

Of course it’s going to cost a crazy amount of money. It’s not even an option in Manhattan, but plenty of people would disagree it “sucks” there.
>>You're skipping the often difficult task of getting the students to properly engage with khan academy.

As someone who is very much in favour of online education, this is still a pretty big unanswered question.

My response to that would be to ask to what extent this is being done in the classroom. Much like in the workplace prior to covid, people mistake physical presence for actually doing work. And if the classroom is then replaced with online learning with the ability to play back lessons and study at your own pace, how do you define "engagement"?
Running on a shoestring budget is not very interesting. What would be interesting is running a well funded production level data center in a completely hostile political environment with every other commercial entity trying to refuse business with you.
This makes sense, everyone loves debugging MPI programs, so of course we'd want to replicate that experience on the desktop.
If the problem is carbon emissions, we should be taxing carbon emissions.
What laptop do you have? You may know this, but for anyone who doesn't: with Linux, you really have to choose the laptop model from a list. Here's a good list for Ubuntu: https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop

I've got two thinkpads that I've never had any real problems with. One is a 2-in-1 and the tablet mode is amazing with xournalpp (I've never owned an iPad so I can't compare).

Bluetooth is always a little testy though. Lately, it's been getting a lot better, but if bt is a make-or-break feature, you might wanna try wsl or a VM.

Also, remember to 'sudo apt upgrade'. It fixes a lot of random problems.
I have found it to be somewhat awkward too. I’ve been using a headless Linux server under my desk recently and using remote vscode and shh to interact with it from macOS. Just the other day though the wifi just stopped working, nothing I did could bring it back. Until the fifth restart, still no idea why that happened. Sometimes it won’t boot, gets stuck in the boot sequence and I have to reboot a handful of times until it straightens itself out.

I just don’t get these issues with macOS. But sadly the specification of machine I’m running Linux on costs 1/3rd of what I’d pay for a similar Mac Pro, so for now I’ll have to live with it.
I just read it again recently. Shiri’s Scissor.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
do you really believe that bitcoin or similar is not superior in this use case than whatever they did back then?
I think "naughty" is a great word for that quality. The undesirable quality would be maybe something more like "reckless".
goggles noticed it pretty well instantly
Do you run xlarge to get the extra ephemeral disks?
Seriously, why are they not using tokens on every request? A simple md5(user_id + salt) would be more than enough.
Google Goggles picked it up on my Nexus One.
Days is ridiculous. A few months instead of the years chemical rockets would take is probably a better estimate. The big advantage to VASMIR is that, unlike the Deep Space 1-style ion engine you can get reasonable thrust and a high specific impulse at the same time.
A manned mission to mars is a great idea. As long as they don't intend to use tax dollars.
Actually, I'd say that neither of those are really lessons here. Facebook already does #1 (and has for some time). #2 was already understood as part of their threat model (hence why FBJS exists), but a bug allowed an attacker to bypass their filtering.

If you HAD to draw a lesson here, I'd go with something more along the lines of

Even if you protect your site properly against clickjacking and CSRF, an XSS vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass all of those protections.
If qualified applicant need assurance of all these things before even applying, that confirms in my mind that such applicants have the privilege of scarcity.

Has your hiring experience been substantially different from mine?
1Password takes care of that for me. I don't see any accounts available if I'm on the wrong domain name.
I don't personally use these services, so I can't confirm this myself, but does anyone know if this statement is/could be true?

"On the one hand it is free, but then so are Hotmail and Yahoo - which both also rely on advertising, but which don't appear to trawl through your emails and hit you with intrusive ads within milliseconds."

I find it hard to believe that Yahoo and Hotmail don't target ads... seems to me that maybe Google just does a better job.
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 10px on a 22" 1680x1050 - It's clean and crisp. Seems to be the only font I'm happy with on both Windows and Mac.

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1....
Why take such an aggressive and accusatory tone? You don't have to reply with such vitriol.

Secondly, I didn't actually say websockets were insecure; I said if they were, then Firefox is sensible not to include them.

Third, even if the websocket protocol is secure in theory, if the majority of proxies don't correctly implement the upgrade header, then using websockets is insecure in practise.
You're asking how people would feel if they were forced into high-tax and low-tax test groups.. But suppose people are given a choice opt-in to a tax lottery system, such that instead of paying a fixed rate the taxpayer would have a random chance of paying either a higher or lower rate.

As initially reprehensible as this sounds to me, the government could make quite a bit of money by taking clues from the gaming industry. Gamification of the tax system?
No, indeed it is not. If the problem is that people are getting phished because they type their info into a spoofed login page, how would making one standard login page be the answer?
It's been tried much more than twice. And it's been done with success. For example, Kennedy in 1964 was very successful.

See http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2003/08/The-Histori...

And also http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/tx-grwth/reagtxct/reagtxct.h... :

High marginal tax rates discourage work effort, saving, and investment, and promote tax avoidance and tax evasion. A reduction in high marginal tax rates would boost long term economic growth, and reduce the attractiveness of tax shelters and other forms of tax avoidance. The economic benefits of ERTA were summarized by President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers in 1994: "It is undeniable that the sharp reduction in taxes in the early 1980s was a strong impetus to economic growth." Unfortunately, the Council could not bring itself to acknowledge the counterproductive effects high marginal tax rates can have upon taxpayer behavior and tax avoidance activities.

Since 1984 the JEC has provided factual information about the impact of the tax cuts of the 1980s. For example, for many years the JEC has published IRS data on federal tax payments of the top 1 percent, top 5 percent, top 10 percent, and other taxpayers. These data show that after the high marginal tax rates of 1981 were cut, tax payments and the share of the tax burden borne by the top 1 percent climbed sharply. For example, in 1981 the top 1 percent paid 17.6 percent of all personal income taxes, but by 1988 their share had jumped to 27.5 percent, a 10 percentage point increase. The graph below illustrates changes in the tax burden during this period.

Indeed, I'd like to see your evidence that it's bad. That evidence should be clear, in that it shows that the problem is not actually government over-spending or other issues.
Interestingly I was reading a paper about this the other day:

http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/ioerger/ICAI04-linli1.pdf

It uses textbooks as its example too :)

There seems to be a reasonable amount of literature on algorithms for this kind of combinatorial optimisation, including reasonably fast but well-performing heuristics like the above. Maybe amazon should pull their finger out.
Old news is old. This was posted by Bruce Schneier not to long ago.

None the less, it doesn't surprise me a single that it got this far.
I've seen one reason to keep old code in: if the new implementation is complicated and the old one is short and simple, keep the old one as documentation for how the new one essentially works.
It's sound advice and hopefully someone will benefit from it.

Not sure about the title though.
Thanks you for your nice words. I would have suggested this one, although it has been discussed Ad Nauseum on HN in the past:

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/03/why-why-functional-progr...
Thanks for the feedback. Glad I'm not a designer :) Will update it soon.
Thanks, and good catch, this is being updated right now including historical data.
The Google Search engine was at some point written in Python.
That's great information. Sounds like it's voluntary at this point but required by January 1st, 2011.
on one of these, those hills will be your favorite part of the ride. I've been up and down very steep inclines and get the feeling of defying gravity.
Mixed with the rumored gingerbread AR that'd be amazing in a vehicle. Can't wait to see what Google pulls off with Android.
PHP on Trax (http://www.phpontrax.com/)
The future of anything we wish was built out of philosophical purism is to be built on crowdfunding.

As for this particular case, SSD > liberty for me. I'd rather boot at a reasonable speed than die waiting to copy files.
It's because of the difference in how arguments are passed to functions in 32-bit vs 64-bit mode.

In the System V AMD64 ABI, the first integer argument to a function is passed in the rdi register.

The fib function however, being written for 32-bit mode, is expecting the argument on the stack, and loads it from esp+4, so it gets a garbage value.

The value on the top of the stack is the return address, which is probably somewhere around 0x0000000000400000 (the default entry point). Loading from esp+4 gets the high bits which are all zeros, so that's what goes into %ecx.

If you build the program as a position-independent executable (gcc -fpic -pie), it will get loaded at a random address and it will print a different value.
> UK citizens would have sounded a bit too Airstrip One

Which probably would have been fitting in this context.
>making sure to mention the terrible state the developer tools are at this point

Terrible compared to something like a mature IDE like Visual Studio or Eclipse and/or an established toolchain.

Because compared to what most newcomer/not top-10 languages have (languages like D, Racket, Haskell and beyond) it's extremely impressive, especially considering the language is so young.
Varies a lot between teams, even between individual teams in the same organization. Though the teams I was on were pretty good about cutting things if it was clear work wasn't going to all get done.
Nice. +1 for puttin together some sample logos in the blog.