jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've quickly skimmed through the paper and the ProtonMail whitepaper the author supposedly based their analysis on. Sorry to be harsh, but the conclusions of the analysis are pretty much BS. The reason is that the threat model defined by the author is obviously not the one ProtonMail defends against.

The author makes-up a straw-man threat model which is not based on anything that ProtonMail has published:

> A crucial security assumption, based on ProtonMail's self-professed security goals in its specification documents (Ÿ2.1), is that the ProtonMail server P is untrusted.

AFAIK, ProtonMail only claims that your email are unencryptable while you don't access the service. Since they have to receive and relay emails to regular SMTP servers and they provide access via IMAP to regular mail programs, obviously their servers at some point will touch your unencrypted email. Therefore, you put a certain amount of trust on them.

So, yes, under the defined straw-man threat model, ProtonMail is not secure. Thank you Captain Obvious!
Spotify made much of their work model - completely autonomous teams working on whatever they thought was most important. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the reasons their app sucks is because of that. User interfaces don't really work when designed by committees.
The borrow checker.

UIs tend to have designs that require graph based structures and self referencial references, so in the end you get either lots of Rc<RefCell<>> and clone() calls, or have to bind the whole stack to fit into Rust's memory model.

Have a look at,

https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/druid/2019/10/31/rust-2020....

https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/druid/2020/09/28/rust-2021....
Less production also means less jobs which means greater unemployment.

>Who is going to keep producing if you can’t make a profit?

Those who have to repay their debts.
Give NewPipe a try (https://newpipe.net/). I've been using it for several months and works really well. Only thing I haven't figured out yet is streaming/casting to the youtube app on my TV.
The centralization is the critical difference, though. Lots of professions have ongoing exams. Programming is different in that there's no institution to set the exams, so instead we have ad hoc tests of dubious reliability, repeated for every interview.
Mars can't be independent from Earth for generations until we have set up the necessary industry there to manufacture literally everything locally. I'm pretty sure Elon knows this.
> Always the answer is: they didn't make profit because they reinvested or otherwise spent the money.

This is the desired outcome and we should not touch this.
That is a fine photo of an egg
As the current owner of a Kona EV, I wonder how long it will take them to remove Android Auto and switch to a proprietary charging port.
An air gap would significantly increase security, but it would also significantly increase the cost of reviewing the sealed documents. I’m unsure how frequently those files should be read, but an air gapped disk storage would make sense for highly sensitive or rarely accessed and sensitive documents.
Part of the problem is that rich people want to leave behind a lasting legacy, and what better way than buy a building for the campus. At my alma mater, someone got a building named after them despite only donating a fraction of its construction costs, let alone maintenance. No doubt the ballooning tuition costs are subsidizing this man's legacy.
I’m great with money and I used to use a spreadsheet but Simple is so much nicer because it’s highly automated.

It’s a well made, convenient tool. Insulting people because they use tools is idiotic.
-1 to alliant. Had pretty bad experience signing up, they opened the account then closed them, had multiple errors in their website, support wasn't helpful at all.

That was a couple years ago, maybe i should try again
Comparing India to Saudi Arabia and Iran? Lol.
So you agree then that documented eye witness reports of non-Christian gods prove that those gods also exist? That the Christian god is just one of many?
> It's amazing to me how many programmers get shook to the core when something that seems so obviously important to them is actually not a big deal to the rest of the world.

> The characterization really, truly, does not matter.

I don't think that's a fair sentiment. Within the niche that Jetbrains occupies it is one of the most well known players out there, and so it truly is not obscure. It was an unfair characterization. Furthermore, the reporting provides no evidence to support its very damaging claim. To those of us who are familiar with configuring these types of systems, we know very well how easy it is to leave a single permission unattended to. The damage done by this type of irresponsible reporting is serious. Personally, I hope they get their pants sued off for their complete lack of discretion and disregard for journalistic integrity.
I saw it as a real issue. The problem was Trump kept bringing up already discredited theories. Then when disputes came to court they weren't even about those theories. After the third or fourth time this happened I quit following along, and decided the courts would settle it. I'd guess that 40% skipped the little research I did, and has only been following the discredited theory part. Get rid of Trump and we're on the way to reducing the spread of unfounded theories though. I don't know how to fix the rest. Good education maybe, but higher education is looked down on as liberal elites.

I'm aware BLM has become a wedge issue. There are issues they took up like civil asset forfeiture, and reforming mandatory minimums that have widespread appeal. These could be implemented if we had both parties willing to work together to find common ground. Instead Trump calls Kaepernick a son of a bitch, and Pence walks out of a game for a stunt. Then a whole movement is demonized so the issues can be dismissed outright.
“…since ~2015, Unity as a company have been more and more interested in developing shiny prototypes of new features that would look great in presentations, but it would take forever to finally get them to be production ready, and they would be rid with problems even then. It's as if Unity cared more about increasing numbers of newcomers than retain old-timers and studios which already invested heavily into the engine.”

this sounds like the way every other company operates. maximize profits above all else naturally resulting in the degradation of the product
Scenes are serialized as text files (optionally) and you can save objects to prefabs, which can also be set to be serialized as text files.
DigitalOcean, GCP, Hertzner, Raspberrypi
Its one of those many apps governments should have created in the 80's
But the real question is whether you ever saw the beach ball when doing these compiles on Intel processors?

It is not that the M-series chips can never trigger a beachball but that there are significantly fewer scenarios where that happens to the point that many users never find themselves in those scenarios. You see their enthusiasm as fanboyism and they could see you as being grumpy, but the you are just both seeing different parts of a distribution curve.
Out of all five of the largest tech companies - Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Only Amazon ran at a loss for any significant amount of time before IPOing.
I’m 50 and happy.

Almost nobody else knows what to do with their lives, either.

The keys seem to be:

- Anchor your happiness to things internal to you, and not the environment.

- No matter what successes you reach, there will always be ups and downs. Those are natural.

- Career and goal-wise: if stuck, just pick something and tend toward making small iterative improvements to whatever you’ve got going.

Me? I knew I was going to end up in jail pretty early in life, so I joined the military at 18, and got into an excellent technical job.

I still run into periods where I supposedly don’t know what I’m doing, but I recognize it’s normal and don’t worry too much and it passes.
what is an X image
I can't find any indication that the weight of Tesla batteries has changed significantly since the introduction of the 100 kWh pack. In any case weight savings on Tesla batteries seems to have come primarily from improved packaging rather than better chemistries.
Yes some libertarians go to the extreme of anarcho-capitalist where everything is settled by insurance companies, including murder. If you, or one of your thugs kills someone, then your insurance company pays the surviving family's insurance company to compensate the family and your insurance rates go up. You don't actually go to jail, you're punished monetarily.

If you're really wealthy you have such good insurance that they negotiate sufficiently low compensation that you can in effect have anybody killed. And it's called feudalism. Or in early U.S. times, this was the American frontier, a.k.a. the wild west, and hired guns.

Libertarians think they have some new bright idea that's never been tried before to counter the fact we're ignorant violent primates. We want something enough, get pissed off enough, we become irrational. Having the irrational hire enforcers is old hat. And it leads to things like the gangs of New York, butchery in the streets, the warlords of Somalia.

These same libertarians are the first to propose both open and conceal carry (of guns) which are the #1 enemy of free speech and civil discourse. It says, "if you argue better than I do, I might just have to let my gun do the talking, so keep your mouth shut smarty pants." So I think libertarians are idiots and not to be trusted, especially if they're armed.
Minimizing defaults during a period of low defaults is a different exercise than protecting a portfolio against defaults period. Doing the latter is difficult with alternative lenders because the data doesn't go back far enough to be meaningful (most of the loan volume knows only the good part of the economic cycle).

I was in a meeting at a bank recently and the topic of alternative lenders came up. The bank's chief credit officer limited his comments to "I'd like to see how their portfolios and models look after the next economic downturn." Wise words.
I was thinking along the lines of, "After building a suitable gun, you find it doesn't fire because the bullets are of the wrong type."
Perhaps try some of the coFounder pairing events. I'm in the same boat as you; trying to find a passionate co-founder who I mesh with and who can match my enthusiasm.
http://founderdating.com
What insurance do you want them to provide? They can't be held liable for every jackass with a drivers license that rents on of their vehicles.
Things I like:

1. Clean color scheme: The grayscale goes really easy on the eyes.

2. Match Score: While a simple ranking should have been enough, your quantification somehow gives me an idea of how far apart two matches might be. Good move - that is added intelligence.
They owe it to people who care about the web. Those people will make them pay and it's easy enough to do. Simple JS scripts to extract big chunks of text or aggregators that will take your content without linking back. Not to mention players like digg or reddit adding filtering for bad usability.

I wouldn't expect people who built the open web to sit back and watch site owners abuse users. They did not sit back when popups were the norm. Browser makers actually lose money if users are scarred off the web.

The ultimate consequence is from collective misbehavior. The web as it is can be endangered by ad abuse and the only way out is to go back to the old walled garden ways of Prodigy, AOL or Apple's App Store, where there is adult supervision.
If you would have read that article (and followed the advice) you wouldn't have registered names like nfl-anwsers.com ;)
I worked on a company just like this 7 or 8 years ago. I remember the project of the other team that went in flames because of the ridiculous estimates that the sales people committed to the client and our idiot VP agreed to take. People literally worked 24x7 for a month or so.
"At nearly 400 years old, Zildjian is the oldest family-run business in America."

I never would have guessed that.
At this very moment I am using "advanced" search from googles to find a couple of twitter accounts.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=how+to+sear...

Just add "site:news.ycombinator.com" to the end of your search.
If you don't want it crawled, don't put it on the public internet. You're just participating in an arms race.
One thing the article doesn't really talk about is that Japanese companies are very active in investing in (or sometimes outright buying) foreign startups (for example, Recruit buying Indeed).

I think this shows that some Japanese businesses are at least conscious of the problems depicted in the article, and are trying to learn from Silicon Valley.
I haven't enjoyed reading a comment on HN this much in a very long time. Thank you for this very informative post!

(I realize this comment doesn't add value, but what's the point of a commenting system that doesn't let one echoes gratitude with more than just an upvote?)
It would be interesting to see someone try that in the US. I'd probably subscribe. ;)
>"Indeed, there is even a saying among painters:

This is true of many artists, but certainly not all. I know of an artist that showed the same piece (a painting) in 4 shows at different stages of development, I kinda liked that, particularly as she was still putting paint in 5 minutes before the show I was at was to open.
Neat product. This won't work for us since I'm trying to get away from CIFS (it's the transition that's hard), but I can imagine many situations where this would be very useful.

Sure beats fighting with windows replication, and has a lot of benefits over rsyncing.
Lots of the CMU guys just want to go into research. If not, they end up going into a robotics spinoff that only does government contract work.
From an ad on Craig's List. My wife showed it to me on a Sunday morning. I said "yeah, I know who these guys are, but I don't know them". They had originally written the software where I worked at the time, but had quit and moved on to form a start-up. I had never met them.

So I sent my resume and a cover letter on a Sunday morning. 27 minutes later I got a phone call. 2 hours later I was interviewing. Longer story short: I became employee #8 including the founders, we were purchased by a Fortune 200 company a year later. Still there after 5 years.
> I'm glad to see official Google support confirmed, but I wasn't too worried about that. It's an open source project, always available on github at any version, and if Windows XP can survive this long without those provisions, then I'm sure Angular 1.x will be last a long time.

For example, I still using ExtJS 3.1.1 in some projects, even the 4.x version is available for a long time, so, i totally agree with you.
These 10x engineers are smart, but they aren’t geniuses. Genius is more rare
What if you want to update the template? You'd need to change it on every page. That's fine if it's only a dozen, but does not scale well.
I see it so often in tech — the “10x” engineer who is just too smart for social norms like polite communication or hygiene.

I have met a number of programmers that could be very well defined as 10x and not a single one of them were unpolite or lacking hygiene.

I have met a number of programmers that were rude and lacked hygiene and they were more like fractional or negative.
The article is entirely about Steve Jobs growing up in a home very similar to, but not technically, an Eichler.
A cautionary tale for those who are perennially tempted to think Twitter = "the world" or that Twitter is like sooo super important and that it "matters."

Granted, wishful thinking by said parties is sometimes enough to make it matter. For example a corporation that responds to customer complaints on Twitter faster than the ones that arrive in its customer-service inbox, is making Twitter matter more than it does.
For my personal site I just I built my own with Ruby and I love it. It's perfectly molded to my use and I don't have to fuss around with keeping up with updates or handling edge cases that static site builder may not have thought of. For example, some of my work has been translated into other languages and having a template that was easy to streamline into French is really nice.

And really static site builders are EASY to build. It's just building strings! It feels like so much of development has turned into libraries and glue code these days. It's nice to have something small and simple.
And therein lies the problem with a definition whose meaning has been diluted to near meaninglessness.

"Geek" doesn't mean the same thing it used to, or even close to it. Teenage girls running around calling themselves geeks because they spend a lot of time playing angry birds on their phone is a far cry from the MIT Media Lab.

The same goes for latte-sipping hipsters who can use Garage Band on their MBP, or any other person who uses consumer technology as an end-user, then proceeds to proclaim themselves a geek, or FSM forbid, a hacker.
- Most people don't see a difference between an Op-Ed and actual news. Most cable news networks don't easily distinguish between news and opinion reporting since both are regularly done by the same people.

- I've noted a few articles in the previous comment that make the assertion that nothing new was released by Wikileaks in the article headlines. Most people don't really read beyond those anyway.

- Again we're focusing on Julian Assange. While there is a story to be written about him, that story is easy and lazy. The far harder story is to actually investigate the cables. Since the cables were transmitted to Wikileaks, vetted by select media partners, and released, no one has accused him of either fabricating or falsifying anything contained in these leaks. The rape accusations against him (while serious and perhaps true) do not change the information contained therein. The source doesn't actually taint the leaked information.

It'd be like me writing:

Former illegal cocaine and marijuana user, President Barack Obama, took a trip to Hawaii for Christmas break. Since he had been known to get a speeding ticket, it's interesting that he's asked to speed up the time table for implementing the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell".

True, but irrelevant.
> I don't think people working in fields are being told to not go to work.

I didn't mean literal field workers. I mean field as in "job field".
The part I was disagreeing with is that Scala gives programmers more "rope to hang themselves with". You may be correct that restricting what programmers could do was a goal of Java, but writing Java in practice gives a tremendous number of opportunities to hang oneself. Apologies for not being more clear.

Further, it's not like this complexity is something that arose independently of Java itself. One of the most frequently cited examples of super-complicated insanity in the Java world is J2EE, which is a standard and set of libraries created by Sun itself. If the creators of language have managed to create and propagate one of the biggest tarpits available in Java, that reflects poorly on the overall Java ecosystem.
Show of hands. Who actually uses public trackers?
I had this idea in 2005: Sneakershare.com was going to be my domain. Never mind.
True; the point of the article wasn't "Scala is not better than Java", it was "Scala is not 'a better Java'".
Wow, I have to disagree with the very premise here. If you think that it's better to avoid creating "incriminating" emails then go ahead and censor yourself.

If instead you think it's more important to actually try fixing problems, to shine light on poor decisions, to give a voice to reason and sanity, to stand in the way of negligence and malfeasance before it happens, then by all means ignore this article's "advice" as much as possible.
(None of this takes into account semiyearly/yearly pricing discounts.)

The difference is that they sell their boxes with prices proportional to memory so that doubling resources costs double (25.6MB RAM per dollar), whereas at prgmr, you charge a flat $4-per-guest fee and then charge linearly for space on top of that (64 MB per dollar).

Bonus fact: If you both were to offer a 173 MB size, the costs would be almost the same (~$6.70/mo).
According to his post, he discovered it between 1 and 2 months afterward, and the grace period was definitively 20 days.
The caption on that picture in the article is perhaps the most apropos comment I have seen regarding the iPhone 4.
Yes, and to let those people deploy their capital profitably for them.
"Aircraft capacity is 5 (maybe 6)."

Another issue is if they are flying to JFK the idea is you are taking a flight obviously out of JFK. So given that helis are small and weight sensitive I wonder if the app collects that info and/or what the baggage restrictions are.
You're not wrong to read it this way. I might be a little knee-jerk on threads like this. It is very, very apparent that skepticism about the Wired/Boing Boing narrative on this case is a minority view. Also, my current programming project involves advanced stat and calculus, two things I suck at, so I'm extra procrastinate-y today.

I guess my question is: so, we all agree that failure to prosecute CIA torturers and torture-preneurs is a travesty.

Now what? What does that have to do with Barrett Brown?

Is it just that we should militate for more prosecutions? I'll sign that petition. But I don't feel like that's a fringe issue; I hear that concern everywhere.
It's actually very easy to contribute to the design process. Especially for this entire redesign. It was announced right from the start on the website / blog, the mentioned Visual Design Group website was put up, they created a subforum for design discussion and input (very active and so easy that even I, a non-designer, was able to participate), and they regularly posted detailed updates on the design process asking for feedback (sometimes in the form of polls). So I'm not quite sure how much easier you are expecting the process to be.
Sorry - you've conflated two things:

"When building complex front-end apps frameworks help."

doesn't imply:

"Everything on the web should pretend it's an app"

My sweet-spot is is pjax, progressive enhancement and "let's pretend some people have javascript turned off so we can maintain a sane architecture without having to explain why"...

But - some things that run in a browser ARE apps and need some support beyond jQuery et al.
I built a program that automatically locks my OSX machine when I get far enough away from it. It uses iBeacon ranging and I have the beacon in my pocket. Debated on sharing with others but I never managed to clean it up enough to be proud of sharing it.
Did he end up suggesting... NAT?
I suppose easy is a relative term here.
There is nothing wrong with a Gas Operated AR15. It has _less_ moving parts than an ak47 in that regard. While you do get some chamber fowling, it's inconsequential since the bolt carrier rides with minimal contact with the chamber walls. Contrary to popular belief, an AR15 does _not_ require careful maintenance, but this seems to be beaten into deployed personnel.

The real problem is the 5.56mm cartridge. It's under powered, especially in sub-sonic applications, and it can't do crap for penetrating barriers. It should be replaced with the .300 AAC blackout which offers better terminal ballistics and offers an effective sub-sonic option for silenced applications. The coolest part about this cartridge is that ALL M4s and M16s could be upgraded with just a barrel change. The mags, bolt, bolt carrier, lower, and upper chambers are all 100% compatible. That could reduce the cost of the upgrade significantly.
Thank you for your kind and complete answer. Awesome and scary is exactly what we're feeling now.
The end-of-day status email is a really nice advice.