jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
more details here:

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/SAQ_A-EP_v3.p...

http://blog.spreedly.com/2014/03/26/saq-a-ep-a-big-shakeup-f...

If you want to use a PAAS and want to be able to pass any kind of infrastructure audit, the fastest path is probably via Aptible (YC S14)
Viking Code School -- SF / Remote

Design for Code swap. We'll teach you to code for some design help. See http://www.vikingcodeschool.com/design-for-code for details.
Depending on blur function the result could be identical. Rendering blurred balls means brute-force calculation of contribution of each metaball for each rendered pixel. The larger your blurred image, the higher your fill rate will be. This would choke the performance for large number of balls. You also end up with sampled (pixelized) output which doesn't give you normals and similar geometry information.
Cognesia is a tech company. A tech company CEO participating in a riot that broke into the US capitol I'd argue is of interest to the HN community.
Still free on the new 3g enabled models. But when you say 'free' it only allows you to browse Amazon and buy Amazon books so they just build the costs into those... So thanks to everyone who buys eBooks on Amazon and funds my Kindle DX's 3g connection :)
:clapping: Interested in more...
SSSS book 1 was funded by an indiegogo campaign[1] in October 2014, which pulled 500% of the target. Book should be available fairly soon.

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/stand-still-stay-silent-b...
The problem that people are trying to solve by abolishing time zones is the annoying need to deal with time differences when scheduling meetings.

No, abolishing time zones and DST would also remove huge swathes of code in all of today's operating systems, numerous costly bugs, and make time unambiguous without qualifiers like time zone or location. There are lots of reasons to do it.

As others have pointed out, the real fundamental problem is best solved by people indicating their status somehow now and in the future, because not everyone in a country works 9-5, not everyone is available all of that time for phone calls, and why should everyone work to the same schedule anyway?

If you want to schedule calls, use a calendar, if you want to make a call right now, use an availability indicator.
W. Keith Nicholson's Introduction to Abstract Algebra covers a lot of different topics in mathematics from an algebraic perspective.
There was a comedian that talked about this a couple years ago.

The old 'Swear to God' that would prove any piece of fine BS to your friends, is no longer valid. Swear to Google is the new 'believe me'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoVxOLew_cU (towards the end).
but isn't the important thing whether or not these are public or private, and whether you have control over them? the precision of the location may affect some use cases, may not affect others, but doesn't strongly affect why this is important or not (on the other hand, it;s the kind of thing people can have a nerd fight over, which seems to be a big attraction...)
I think Mozilla is also making SpiderMonkey threading model more strict. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JS_THREADSAFE says:

JS_THREADSAFE is now permanently on.

We have recently made major changes to this feature. Until recently, sharing objects among threads would mostly work, although scripts could easily make it crash. We have now completely removed that feature. Each thread that uses the JavaScript engine must essentially operate in a totally separate region of memory.

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So both VMs provide essentially the same multithreading capabilities.
Don't worry; hopefully by tomorrow this disaster will be over and we'll be back to the state where your advice is really good advice that everyone needs to hear and I'll be sipping delicious drinks somewhere.
What about for those who rely on Heroku? So far there is no way to run multi-AZ deployments.
Oh I like the sound of this. Though personally I found this to be the easy part; getting Arduino to send web requests to a webserver on button pushes is far harder (especially if you want it to do DHCP and DNS lookups).
Hi jcr,

Thanks for the response. To be clear, the blog was the HubPages official blog. I used to be an engineer there.

I completely understand about the secret sauce at HN. I just wanted to check to see if there was something I could do.

I'm always amazed at how well HN runs as a PG part-time project so even if there is an impact on me, I accept it.

I've attended start up school enough times, that if I don't get to attend again, that's ok. Maybe it's time for me to be successful enough to be a speaker. :-)
I'm working as an IT Director.

We're living extremely frugally when it comes to absolutely everything other than career-related expenses, and my fiancée is covering all of the shared bills.

If you saw our apartment, you'd probably guess that our combined income is around 10% of our actual combined income. (It's terrible, but it's a short, well-lit, heavily populated walk to the Broad Street Line, so it seems safe.)
fb.com will jsut further confirm FB asa platform

The addition of the features that they have in their roadmap, such as video hosting, email, payments, apps etc really make a compelling case for a long haul plan.

With the recent defection of high level googs - it is clear what is planned.
The longer you use MacVim, the more that will be true. Before you know it, you will hardly miss TextMate at all.
Oh? How many other social networking sites do your mother or cousin or friends spend their time on? If you blocked Myspace and Facebook on your corporate network, which one would people pitch a fit about losing?
I was wondering if it would make sense to hand out dosimeters instead, to encourage people to think about what they're submitting to.
The original research paper
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2010/NR/C0NR00...
It's fine to get fired if you're great at something and fate/luck is on your side. Or your parents are extremely rich. For most people, it's not a good thing.

Certainly do not try to get fired from a good job.
It would also be nice to include some objective, unbiased data explaining how effective these types of security measures are at preventing terrorist attacks.
Why would a developer not want to deliver traffic to everyone with HTML5 video? There an inherently higher cost (bandwidth) or something that I'm unaware of? Seems if I have the video in a format that will work for HTML5, that I'd want to deliver it as that if the user's browser can deal with it.
> Feynman was just making the point that there is a point where no matter how hard your work your little tail off, you will simply be at a disadvantage compared with someone who has genetic gifts or the like.

Actually it was Hans Bethe speaking about Feynman, and he didn't indicate that it was due to genetics. When I see people multi-tabling poker it looks like magic to me, yet it's just a skill that is developed from years of practice.

> a 5'5 basketball player will never play starting center in the NBA.

Neither will a 6'6" player like Michael Jordan. They will play the guard position. Earl Boykins has been a starting guard for 4 teams, and he is 5'5". Scored 36 points twice. He has certain advantages against tall, lanky players such as being able to shoot under them, being able to change direction more quickly, accelerate more quickly, and pick balls up off the ground more quickly, including getting under their dribble for a steal.

> In Europe, they are more slanted towards the nature point of view

Michael Jordan grew from 5'11" to 6'3" between 10th and 11th grade. None of his family members are tall. His older brother who he used to practice against all the time is 5'7".

Even when you can SEE something very easily, you only see how it is, and not how it will be.

> This ideal is highly romanticized and is part of our education problem. We strongly belief EVERYONE should go to college,

Actually in the startup world, this is not true at all. Peter Thiel even started a fund to pay kids to drop out of school and do start-ups instead.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/27/peter-thiel-drop-out-of-sch...

> and EVERYONE is equal

Equal rights, not equal ability. You should have the right to pursue whatever interests you.

> and it would be damning to believe otherwise, as all of a sudden you wouldn't have a shot at being the next Bill Gates or the next Linus Torvalds or whoever it is you worship, on the basis of your hard work alone.

Who thinks "success" is due to hard work alone? There's a big luck factor that everyone acknowledges, including things like being in the right place at the right time.

But you can't just "luck into" being an expert programmer or artist; it's not like winning the lottery.

> It is part of your responsibility as a human being to find out what those things are that you are most gifted at and exploit them to their maximum potential.

For all I know, I'm gifted at being a ballerina, and could be the best to ever don a tutu. But I don't care!

My only responsibility as a human being is to achieve my own enlightenment and not harm others.
If you work with a lot of bad software, a better conclusion might be that producing good software is hard for multiple reasons than it being a "game".
What sort of training? What's the evidence it works? Do you have a link, or can you provide more details?
This does not really apply to me because I tend to bind boringness/excitement to problems and not technology.

For example if my task is to create a typical website, that is relatively boring by default. Speaking about databases I choose postgresql not because it is boring but because that is the most convenient, elegant, and general-purpose solution I know. I dont't get excited about NodeJS or MongoDB by default. What I get excited about if I encounter a hard problem: maybe a very hard scalability issue that is impossible to solve with PostgreSQL. Searching for the solution to that problem is interesting and then I might get exited about some NoSQL solution.
Also I don't really get excited about new programming languages as almost all programming languages try to solve the same problem. On the other hand I got excited about recent advances in Deep Machine Learning (and frameworks like Caffe, cxxnet) because with these new advances and tools it is possible to solve problems which we had absolutely no chance previously.

Also it is pretty standard for me that the stuff I do at the workplace is relatively boring, and the stuff I do at night by myself is exciting.
It's really just making their current policy explicit.
Wasn't the point that yellow was a poor choice of colour to add since there is not much missing from the gamut between the red and green primaries? I'm no expert, but looking at the diagram I'd say a cyan colour would be far more gamut expanding.
I think I get part of it
n/n+1 means that as n gets bigger it becomes ever more likely that s is close to the real maximum.
But I have no idea why 1 is added to s
well, you should say, any os with a _responsibly_ _managed_ software repository ...
There is, had to learn it in a probability class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
That's a good point-- the horizon that people care about probably widely varies... But people want to climb mountains. If you can say with a straight face, "I really don't think it's going to get better than this," I don't think you can last long!
You get extremely similar viewpoints for any single fathers, especially if they have a / more than one girl.

There's next to zero support for single fathers in any area, including monetary support, job support, emotional support, family support, you name it, it's not there. In many cases I've quite literally heard people & support-providers say that most single fathers drove their mother away and are raping their kids, some even saying that all single fathers should put their kids into foster care because "men can't raise kids" or "kids need a mom".
Finally! I've been waiting for something like this.

I never care where I go. The more random the better.

I wish they could just plan the full trip for me. Flight + hotel + (maybe) car.
The novice sometimes has "the potential" fogging their view of reality. While for the expert, sometimes the shadow from what-is-lacking mountain covers both.
#1 - http://gnip.com/ ?

#2 - I don't get it.

#3 - Interesting idea, interesting idea to build functionality on top of Dropbox. Didn't know that was technically feasible.

#4 - This space is way crowded, to say the least.

Good luck!
You don't need a mobile subscription to use a phone if you're mostly stuck at home and have WiFi.
this looks fantastic! i've been wanting a reason to pick up a cheap chromebook.
I think the reality that needs to be confronted is that many, many neighborhoods were harmed significantly by a large range of occurrences over a good chunk of history. Redlining, first and foremost, if we're discussing neighborhoods. White flight from urban school districts is a closely related issue.

These happened. Redlining was in no small part due to direct federal policy. These have had impact on our neighborhoods, impact that can't be downplayed, and communities adjusted to survive. Gentrification in a lot of ways looks like the undoing of these policies, which would be fine, but look closer and you see that the neighborhood ecosystems are being strained yet again. Whatever equilibriums were obtained (many via struggle and sweat equity by families with ties to the area/no other options) are now being threatened.

I think reparations to neighborhoods, communities, and people directly affected by redlining is necessary, and would serve to lessen the power differential between communities and neighborhoods. Doing so would ease the problems created by population transfer.
1.tl;dr

For short codes, our pricing is better. Tech-wise, honestly SMS short codes do not have much room for any difference.

2. long versions (if you're curious, in general, why someone would choose plivo over others)

http://vincedasta.com/p/why-i-went-with-plivo/

http://clintberry.com/2012/why-plivo-cloud-is-better-than-tw...

happy to answer follow-up questions.
looks cool, i really enjoy gedit with all the dev plugins and theme customization etc. Will def try this out to see how it compares
I met the creator at the launch fest this week. Standup guy!
Look downthread, the core is not open source.
I would say naive folk fucked by the system.

In Europe it is kind of similar, but not as bad. My relative has non-lethal cancer. It was diagnosed by private doctor and waiting list for operation is a few months. So he called ambulance and went to public hospital with 'unknown pain'. The very same doctor (who also work in public hospital) diagnosed cancer second time and bumbed him on top of the list, since it is an 'emergency'.

Just in case someone ask about morals: it is very commom here. This guy has bellow average salary, worked 40 years and got medal for rescuing 5 soldiers in combat.
Pro- decriminalization was the reasonable compromise. If it's illegal but not criminal, then it's OK to do it away from anyone who doesn't want it around the., like Colorado safety stops.
>Yeah, there have been lots of "breakthrough battery tech" announcements that didn't lead to commercial products

Although very important to note in these discussions: a lot of them
did. Yes, in mass production as as part of a whole battery system vs a single lab cell the gains are almost always far smaller, but small gains add up over time. Energy density has dramatically increased over the last few decades [0] as well as cost dropping and those trends together have combined to make the current electrification acceleration possible. There isn't any need to be overly cynical about this stuff, the progress is real and a tipping point was reached a while ago. With the amount of capital for R&D and production pouring in at this point it's not unreasonable to hope for even more.

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0: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/eternally-five-years...
You can execute arbitrary code on drop operations by implementing `std::ops::Drop` for a type.
I have had mixed results with lists. When there’s an obvious priority for each task, i.e. I can just complete the tasks in order, I am a machine. When I need to prioritize and order the tasks, I end up paralyzed and crash hard.

Do you have any advice in this regard?
I worked at a place where the org structure had been heavily influenced by software architects. And I found that there was way too much of a "this team will come in at this point to do this" kind of coordination assumed in the org design that may be possible with software, but works very poorly with actual people. People did not see the value in handing off or involving other groups just because the org plan said to, there were not proper accountabilities, and there was tons of communication overhead as groups flitted in and out of involvement and debated who had what responsibility.

Obviously you can't blame all that on software architecture, but it is a danger that comes with architecting an org in the same way as code, and expecting it to work once animated.
In this case I don't think that giving the user a choice over whether they are tracked is playing government. But agree with the general sentiment.
I suspect "no-history-mode" would be an easier sell. It would certainly explain a little better what's going on, but clearly lots of folks wouldn't still understand that the 'history' is only on their end. "I wanted no history of what I was doing anywhere!" Use Firefox+uBlock, or Tor, or...
> We've been doing the "spiritualism self understanding" thing for 100,000 years and it's just let to wars, virgin sacrifices, and other dumb human outcomes.

Indeed. At some point, if you stare inwards hard enough, you just end up divining patterns in a random number generator.
Almost all of the skills I have acquired came from repeated practice, and mentoring. I got that practice and mentoring "on the job." Reading and studying have value, but nothing beats actually doing.
"The Lyft app has hundreds of duplicate files, the largest consumer of space is a single asset catalog copied 73 times in separate bundles. Another asset catalog that is virtually identical except for the timestamp at which it was created is copied 67 times. Each of these contain nothing but 482 colors (colors can be stored in asset catalogs to simplify management of dark mode). With each one taking ~250kb these quickly eat up 35mb."

I read this as: Lyft installed Dark mode for 35mb. I can only imagine what my JavaScript modules are doing behind the scenes.
He was not a reporter or news journalist but he clearly was a journalist and employed by WaPo. Columnists are journalists.
I understand your view but I don't blame anyone for those reactions. So much double standards on what we condemn and what we don't because of our "interests", and also so much false accusations that lead to heavy consequences that people just don't know what to believe and what not anymore.
Native execution on x86_64 only. "Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS", where "BIOS" means that it will boot a machine and run on bare metal. On non x86_64 systems, the driver script will try to run the binary using QEMU (which has to be installed and on the path):

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/40291c9db386d8a952...

If i have understood how the portability works, it would be pretty straightforward to add support for another OS which uses the same ABI as the unices and has a compatible system call table - just a matter of adding a column to consts.sh (system call numbers in the nr section, constants from system headers in their appropriate sections) and adding any OS-specific system call rituals to systemfive.S.

Note that all system calls will go through the syscall interface. If your OS has some other way to make system calls, like Linux's vDSO or io_uring, that won't be used.

If your OS had a different system call table, like Windows, then you would need to write more bespoke code for it, like all the Windows wrappers:

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/0e85b136ae1beb0d2b...

You would then need to go through the Cosmopolitan libc and add implementations of its functions on top of your wrappers.
I think it's unappreciated the extent to which Congress has been doing version control long before programming existed. Public laws (i.e. commits) are written as amendments (i.e. diffs) to the United States Code. When a bill is voted into law, they are accompanied by reports in the Congressional Record (i.e. commit messages) explaining the rationale of the changes. And it's all documented with decades of CSPAN footage.

The biggest missing piece is the United States Code Annotated. It has notes showing for each provision the public laws that changed it (like svn log). Unfortunately, this information is collected and maintained by West and Lexis in proprietary databases. But everything else is out there and web-accessible.
I've noticed this trick only works if I'm using Chrome. In Firefox (my default browser), the article content is still blocked.
Thanks for sharing the link. From what I understood, that community is focused on helping working professionals. I want a similar community for college students.
> in due time

While the rest of the world leaps forward perhaps?
If you're focusing on OOJS then you should be focusing on learning other programming patterns in JS, because it isn't meant to be used in an OO context.

Look into stuff like functional programming, reactive programming, contextual programming. Learn the patterns and learn to apply them in your projects
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The generic tangent thing is particularly important [1]. The hottest few sensational topics are like black holes that suck in every passing spaceship [2]. This turns every discussion the same, when what we actually want are diffs [3]. Curiosity withers under repetition [4].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
From a hardware point of view, it would normally definitely qualify as a PC. However, since it's walled-garden'd, I definitely would not consider it a PC as it is.

Unfortunate that it's artificially restricted like this.
Nice feature.. but when i clicked at the link and then clicked on 'Other' (bottom center), it says 'Use SSL/TLS: no'.
I wonder if the chat messages are sent unencrypted ?
This video is embedded on the home page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XZ9-_EgisE.

"gr1d.org is a persistent multiplayer online programming game. Its inspired by games such as Robocode, Planetarion, various persistent online worlds and cyberpunk fiction.

"gr1d.org combines write-your-own code, persistent online world, cyberpunk-RPG, and multiplayer risk style domination and resource gathering together into a fun experience for programmers.

"As you gain levels, skills and experience, you can code more powerful agents to use these skills. You produce a fully-fledged class in the .NET ide of your choice, and upload it to the gr1d.

"While you're offline, your agents continue to run within the gr1d, looking for experience, resources and combat."
Yes, MD5 was a mistake :) I was tweaking our cluster's MD5 implementation so it was stuck in my mind. Just sub in "hash function".

You could up the iteration however much is needed (say, 1000, 10,000).

It's poor security countermeasure, but it was a specific scenario :) The general idea is to combine salting and iteration to produce a poor mans slow hash.

(which works great for software you're distributing for use on random shared architecture a la wordpress - just to give an example)

Use Bcrypt where you can.
Opera's built-in “Wand” + my own script. I like that Opera highlights recognized fields, but doesn't fill them in until I tell it to.