jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't suppose we should be checking the pages that should actually be secure. IE Ubuntu is listed as bad, why not check their login page? https://login.launchpad.net/ or launchpad.net. Perhaps once https://letsencrypt.org/ comes available it will be worth the extra effort to encrypt everything. In the interim it's most likely a waste of funds, especially for projects that operate on donations.

Edit: I was surprised to see the WSJ listed as Bad. Checking their login form, something that should be encrypted, the post goes to... https://id.wsj.com a secure page. I wont go through the entire list, but I expect most of the ones in this list have a similar configuration.
BitCannon Windows Guide with autostart script for the curious http://www.htpcguides.com/install-bitcannon-personal-kickass...
The only true human utopia is one where we feel most connected to each other and the world we live in, which sounds simple in principal but harder in practice. All the other utopias are just attempts to replace this longing with something easier to achieve.
Meanwhile, Comcast has no plans to run fiber to homes.

https://twitter.com/#!/ComcastBill/status/45843247490273280
Looks like they just updated their blog.
Hey. Thanks for the comment. Yep. Right now the beta only works on regular OS & browsers, and on the Nokia N900, but we still have some work to do on Android, and have yet to test on iOS, but theoretically we have no known incompatible tech.

We hadn't thought about chart drawing, but it seems to make good sense. Thanks!

We're constantly brainstorming about the best ways to import and export source and data. We're currently thinking about Dropbox or Github integration, or maybe a very lightweight client-end component which simply allows you to sync the current directory to your PythonAnywhere server-side storage.
It seems like companies that apply with no idea, then, would be at a noticeable disadvantage during interviews. Is this true?
I think that is because investors believe in Jeff Bezos more as CEO than Larry Page. Bezos comes from Wall Street, so Wall Streeters probably have more confidence in him. Plus he has been CEO for a long time, whereas Page comes from academia and just started the role (again).
What do you consider fringe politics? And why would forcing people to vote keep them from becoming overly influential?
> As an attempt to project power and send some sort of warning, something about it just seems like a pretty flawed strategy.

I've been wondering about that myself. Perhaps the lesson to be taken away by most is that if you're not Github, you might not be able to effectively counter such an attack. That could lead to self-censorship.
Found some cons http://www.drop-dropbox.com/
During an ongoing attack? I wonder why not...
If you know about it, it's not secret, so you're in a losing position of being unable to come up with an example of corruption the public doesn't know about.
This is a great idea. I looked at the auto scaling repositories on GitHub: 1) There wasn't a good solution for Rails 3 yet. 2) The GitHub repos were typically forks of existing repos (like for CollectiveIdea's Delayed Jobs) and therefore would not always be up to date. I wouldn't be too worried about Heroku implementing this (though I hope they do) because there isn't a direct incentive for them to save you money by auto scaling. I'm definitely going to try this out.
No, it would merely add sexism. Don't be sexist.
Presumably, it would help the small corporations with lots of valuable IP. It would be nice for patent trolls, too (start a new company, fund a battle out of this fund, fold if you lose.)
Or, simpler, use watch:

watch -n 17 -p command

Make a wrapper to run command in the background (&) if the process runtime is greater than your interval.
Sounds like "The Paradox of Choice"
>I do know that a programming language is just a tool.

I'm probably going to sound very negative in saying this, but I _really_ hate it when people pull this line out like it means anything. Only in the most narrow, trite sense is a programming language "just a tool." They are the whole reason programmers exist. Language is the single most important development in human history, and computers have touched human life in irreversible and undeniably important ways.

Everything is just a tool, if you look at it the right way, and it takes a particular kind of pointlessness to opt to see the world like that.

Language is the thing that makes the genie grant your wish. If you wish with the wrong words, you get a billion dollar tombstone.
I like SPDY and I don't like Dart VM; I think that reflects the broader consensus as well. Dart VM just isn't better enough to justify switching the entire web to it. SPDY is.

Personally I wouldn't support any proposal for a new web VM unless it could achieve no-compromise full-speed execution of transpiled C/C++ code in the web sandbox. That's the #1 most important feature and #2 isn't even close.
I own HackAbroad.net and HackAbroad.com. I am interested in developing a program for college students to spend a summer/term abroad, hacking on their own projects. I want to use it as an excuse to go abroad myself. Would likely entail building hype, taking applications, then choosing a location and renting a place for a few months.

I just graduated from Yale and want to develop this in the next 6 months. If anyone wants to assist, please get in touch - miles.richardson@yale.edu
I really liked Stuhlinger's reply and I am for space exploration, but this question is relevant. Without knowing what she asked, it is not possible to know whether the answer addressed the concerns she raised.
There is also OSMand that uses OpenStreetMaps and allows you to download tiles for offline access (which is wonderful if you're overseas).

While I realize AirMapView is a library that you can include in your map, I wonder how difficult it would be to modify OSMand to do this, which would be able to leverage the offline maps as well
Yes, I think this is a common problem. We collect things, because they seem worth reading/watching but never return to them. One thing is that some effort is required to read/watch those things but other thing is that we forget that we even saw that particular article/video. So, maybe bookmarks should have a reminder mechanism built into them of some sort? Sombining Spaced Repetition with bookmarking seems interesting.
To give some context on who this is given the multitude of simulations out there at the moment he is one of the key contributors to the UK's COVID response policy.

> Ferguson is a mathematician and an epidemiologist whose work on the spread of Covid-19 is informing policy in not only the UK but also France, the US and other countries as well. The centre he founded with colleagues at Imperial College, the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, collaborates with the World Health Organization.

> The massive shift in the UK response from essentially letting the virus spread through the population to the wholescale stay-at-home policy now in place resulted from Ferguson’s work, supported by other modellers especially at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/neil-ferguson-...
I recommend the podcast "Pragmatic 96: I’ll Do The Procrastination Episode Tomorrow" It discuss what may be causing "laziness"
Whats so shocking about it? Hamilton probably spent an hour or so for each of those laps, maybe less. Top 10 guys spend days or weeks doing it.
Ok fair enough. My issue is, whenever a project grows beyond trivial scope, it will usually involve at least some scripting, and likely some tooling, like a process which watches the source files and performs some action when they're updated.

It's very limiting not to have a shell, and arbitrary execution environment, and the wealth of tools which have been created over the years for the *nix environment.
In some sports this is kind-of normal procedure to reach a weight class before a major competition. You go into a sauna or do sports in air-tight clothes and lose a few kg of water. After getting weighted and assigned a weight class you drink lots of water again
All of those shipping container to modular homes should be working on making mobile hospital wards.

Doesn't need to be fancy, just functional and better than being in a tent.

Need someone to coordinate it though.
> I really don't understand how this practice persisted for so long next when we have the right to due process.

Can someone clarify for me- I read the article, and it SEEMS to be saying "the feds will no longer be participating in this process, which will of course still be carried out by state and city police". It's more about where seized money gets allocated, than about limiting the actual seizures.

Is that right?
I think all of the cynics on here (including me) should pause for a moment and reflect on what is happening in this case: the government is going to do something that will cost it revenue, just because its the right thing to do and the people wanted it.
Frankly, use of "typeof" to tell between explicitly named types baffled me a bit. I hope they'll introduce pattern matching on type some time later.
Breaking Bad is a high bar and Charlies Angels was always pretty low-brow fluff but I agree with your basic point. There were some good shows (Twilight Zone for example). But the list of shows from that era that are truly enjoyable today is pretty thin in a way that isn't true for movies. While a show like Breaking Bad isn't to everyone's taste--and arguably doesn't work without time shifting and even maybe the Internet--anyone who tries to argue that there's nothing good on TV any longer basically doesn't know what they're talking about.
To see both sides of this issue, you have to understand the thinking that brought this sort of legislation into use. Let's say you have some bad guy, whether he/she's a low-level crack dealer that sells on the streets or a gang leader who has all kinds of stuff going on.

When you arrest this person, what happens to their assets that they've (assumingly) illegally obtained? The hundred thousand in drug money? The guns, high end electronics, luxury cars, etc?

You weaken the individual criminal and their gangs by taking their money away. It's far to easy to just pass those assets on to another person and they can simply assume the role. And after the person does their 5-10 years in prison should they be released back to what they had obtained through illegal activity?
If I may ask, where to?
GitHub isn't required to work from the US and can choose any other country.
"There is a crap-ton of evidence of fraud" ??

Where? Certainly not presented in any court case!
Could you elaborate on "using cursors" part? Are you talking about database-level cursors? If so, do you know any resources which cover this approach?
They were requested by the DC Mayor and approved by the Pentagon for deployment yesterday by... But no idea where tf they are.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/04/politics/muriel-bowser-dc...
Thank You for the points.

As a complete noob please can you elaborate on the last point. Thanks again.
The most impressive thing I've seen is that when accessed in a TLB friendly fashion that the latency is around 30ns.

Anandtech has a graph showing this, specifically the R per RV prange graph. I've verified this personally with a small microbenchmark I wrote. I've not seen anything else close to this memory latency.
Sorry, corrected it.
There is nothing those protestors would like more than a violent response. Imagine the social media response. The leadership is scared of sparking a bigger fire
CISO of ShapeShift here.

If our values speak to you, and you're a security researcher - WE ARE HIRING

https://shapeshift.com/careers

In liberty,

--Michael
On that note, the Pa. State Senate Republicans are just refusing to swear in their new democratic colleagues.

I Can't wait for this attitude to inevitably cross the pond.
> I don't believe some parts in the story.

Cool story, but I have trouble believing parts of it.
For some reason, the vast majority of developers take 'premature' to be a synonym of any.

If CS majors spent a fraction of the time learning how to optimize the way EE/CEs do, we'd need a lot less magic from the latter.
he is not paying enough then - you gave to persuade more of the high IQ types to go into Enginering rather than the Law, Medicine and other the other higher status and better paid professions.
At which point you get fired.

If you consistently can't meet deadlines and your boss isn't helping then people lose jobs.

There's - always - some variant of these laws, and all states have people who can abuse it.

For many jobs though, over time should be there, because many jobs have only a finite amount of output achievable by a human being.
Violating the terms of a copyright license by making an unauthorized copy is not the same thing as theft. If I steal your car, I have one car and you have none; if I copy your data, I have a copy of your data and so do you. You have not been deprived of property, so there is no theft.

If you offer to sell me a copy of your data for $X, but I decline, then choose to get a copy of the same data from someone else for free, I have stolen nothing, since you still have your data. What you have lost is the opportunity to offer me a lower price, which I might have accepted. This is not the same as theft, and I am far less sympathetic to this vaporous loss of potential than I would be to an actual loss of goods or services.

As far as your belief that intellectual property can be extremely valuable, or that people involved in the development of new technology necessarily depend on it for a living, that is commonly claimed but does not correlate well with my experience. My career only took off when I started giving my software away - I made more money selling my consulting services than I ever did by selling licenses for my software, and freeware gave me a better reputation than shareware ever had.

Conversely, for a stretch of about five years not one line of code I wrote actually shipped, because the companies that owned the rights to my code changed strategy, went out of business, or simply lost interest in the project. I have heard similar stories from other developers. Think of all that work gone completely to waste, because it was all locked up behind a wall of "intellectual property!"

As far as software patents go, they have only negative value: they are worse than a zero-sum game. Patenting a software idea is a great way to make sure no software developer will ever read about it, since nobody wants to be liable for triple damages due to willful infringement. The only value a software patent has to anyone is the opportunity to sue a large corporation.

In summary, I don't agree that intellectual property necessarily has significant value, and I don't agree that violating pointlessly restrictive copyright licenses is necessarily harmful. Nor, for that matter, do I think "strong anarchistic elements" are a bad thing.

The justification is that making it easier for people to get what they want is generally a good thing. Violating the artificial gatekeeping privileges of an arbitrary rightsholder in order to increase the general happiness sounds like it is probably a good thing most of the time.
You've probably seen this ACM Queue interview with Arthur Whitney (http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242), but just in case.

I submitted it to HN, as well. (I thought I had already.)
No, they can answer the question by stating the gift they would like as a present. It doesn't always have to be Christmas to give presents.
It doesn't need one, but I'm sure there is (maybe significant, maybe not, but a trigger in any case).
I resolve that problem by using a tool like Balsamiq or MockupScreens to create quick pencil sketches. That allows me to play with different meta-ideas before I start getting more real.
FileAPI is already in Chrome: http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/html5storage/index.htm...

So is File System API:
http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/html5storage/index.htm...

And so are native apps: http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
I'm no expert on the history (or the topic), though I did find the article I linked persuasive. The author did get into an argument over the history, though. You can read what he had to say about it here:

http://volokh.com/2010/11/15/on-the-true-story-of-the-histor...
Actually, these observations don't seem to fit with standard inflationary cosmology.

"...to reproduce the effects that we appear to see, within the framework of inflation, one would require a mechanism for producing recurrent explosive events close to the inflationary turn-off point. No such mechanism has ever been seriously contemplated."

(but someone might start seriously contemplating it now!)
I downvoted it for the uncivil language. Surely it is possible make a contrarian point without peppering one's rant with "scumbags", "idiots", "degenerates", etc.? Maybe that would be acceptable language if we were talking about serial killers or people engaging in torture, but surely we can have a more rational, level-headed debate about file-sharing on all sides?
Why yes, I work on Wall Street and the man's got a point. In fact, the situation he describes is part of what inspired me to change careers.
Depends on your situation. Dual load balancers serving a virtual IP allows one to fail while still maintaining connectivity. Behind that, you might run a pool of machines doing static files (or use a CDN where they handle much of the redundancy for you) and machines that run your app along with machines that handle your datastore. Design your application's architecture so that you can pull off pieces to enable easier scaling.
Which really begs the question why they don't have some automatic monitoring on who starts accessing a hundred thousand documents not related to their day to day job.
I think it would but regexps are not enough to parse most interesting languages. Perhaps you could extend it to general parsers, but I think it may be impossible to do it efficiently for general context sensitive parsers, because unlike regular expressions the parser can be in infinitely many different states when it arrives at the substring. Perhaps laziness can do some tricks though. Anyone have some ideas?
Every site will downmod a candid opinion it doesn't agree with. Reddit downmods my pro-ID and pro-Christian opinions.
CNN? Really, seriously?

That's almost certainly CD or album sales, from a source at least as reliable as CNN: http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2010/01/07/704350...

But it looks like overall, sales are up: http://www.prsformusic.com/creators/news/research/Documents/... I will grant that's for the UK, not worldwide, but still, a good indicator.

Further, in a competitive market, the price of a good tends to fall to the marginal cost of production. That's Free Market Econ 101, and we're all Free Marketeers, at least since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The cost of producing (in an economnic, not artistic sense) has fallen to almost zero. Why wouldn't we expect revenues to fall like that?

Also:
>I am virtually certain people will argue that this argument is invalid for whatever reason, but I'm pretty sure that'll be more indicative of the bias seen among hackers than anything else.

Then why bother to ask the question? You've just stated that you're not going to listen to answers, except maybe if they confirm what you already believe ("bias towards piracy").
True. For the headline to be solid, these would have to be Chinese cables, not US ones. But this is probably closest we are going to get.
> why are command line interfaces still the most efficient way for experts to interact with a system?

That's an easy one to answer.

It's for the same reason humans developed natural language by sounds emitted by vocal cords, with a pretty simple mechanism ... you've got a vocabulary of words that describe something, like an action, or an attribute or a physical object, and then you can mix them together to form phrases, with multiple phrases used to describe entire plots.

So you're not limited in any way, being able to communicate designs, strategies, emotions, just with words ... and the combinations you can come up with are infinite, the more you talk and write, the more skilled you get in communicating.

It was the most efficient way it could happen ... there's only so much you can describe with hand gestures without the movements becoming unintuitive.

So it is with command-line interfaces ... you've got commands you can issue perfectly described by words. And you can mix and match them however you like in totally unpredictable ways.

It's not natural language, but it's a lot closer then graphical interfaces. And a lot of the work programmers or sysadmins do is just story-telling. Personally I don't see any way around that unless we are talking about very limited niches.

The question is why don't normal people do it? Well, 10 years ago very few people could type. Now 12 year-old teenagers do it efficiently, and typing on a computer is quickly replacing hand-writing. I believe that in the future most people will be familiar with a programming language / CLI interface (while also having more advanced graphical interfaces).

Sooner or later everyone will for the same reason humans learned how to speak ... evolution didn't favor those who didn't. And learning a natural language is the hardest thing humans do ... we just don't notice it anymore since we're learning it since birth and it's in our genes already.
Right, yeah, looks like S-Corps don't pay federal corporate taxes. I knew it was to avoid double taxation but I had forgotten which taxation S-Corps were exempt from. My bad. Unfortunately, for California, you owe the 1.5% (minimum $800) franchise tax on company income whether you're an LLC or S-Corp or C-Corp. In NYC, you are subject to the full corporate income tax rate, even as an S-Corp.
Thanks, I did mean that :)
I spent about an hour last night, while watching TV, helping keep a 2pac-free zone clear. Can't understand why.

I also played tic-tac-toe for a while, which somehow became at least 3 player with someone playing z's as well as X and O.
Hey Thomas,

I've been thinking about something philosophically for a while, and you're one of my favorite posters on the site and we agree on a heck of a lot of stuff, but we've got split opinions on taxation. Would it be alright to ask some kind of difficult questions philosophically on the matter? I want to understand what you think. These aren't easy questions:

Would you willingly pay your taxes if you believed the money was going to an illegitimate government that is doing bad and destructive things with it?

There's an easy answer to that that kind of avoids the question, which is, "Regardless of my personal feelings, governments can, will, and should go after people who try not to pay." And okay, sure, that's reality, I'm looking more philosophically.

Going a little bit further, do you think it makes a difference whether the government is a democracy, as opposed to, say, a totalitarian state or a theocracy?

And final question - what if you're in a democracy, but the people have been mis-educated as to what's actually happening by the official government? For instance, imagine North Korea switched to an actual, real, voting democracy tomorrow, no secret police, no Dear Leader any more. But they've still gotten mis-educated and brainwashed for all their formative years. Is their will morally binding on each other for setting state policy? Is it morally binding on you, no matter what, even if you disagree with it?

I guess these are hard questions. I've thought about them. I've got my answers and am happy to share, and happy to answer hard questions in turn if you like. I think this could be a good discussion because you're bright and I respect you a hell of a lot and would like to hear what you think on this - our feelings on the matter seem to be far apart, and I'm kind of curious to figure out where our beliefs start diverging to get to the end conclusions.

-Sebastian