jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The difference is these countries pride themselves on the freedoms their citizens possess, yet they go behind their backs and surveil everything and anything they can about them, usually using technologies and platforms their own citizens helped devise.
Both outline.com and archive.is can’t bypass paywall. I don’t read wsj often: is there still a valid workaround?
> USA protectionism

Is it just maybe possible that the US public is waking up to the ongoing genocide, ethnic cleansings, and widespread human rights violations in China, which may lead to the state being sanctioned like so many other despicable regimes?
Bitcoin is not a risk to the bankers. It’s just another vessel they can use to make money. It’s been 10 years and all bitcoin has done is make people think they can get rich by investing in it.

It the early 2010s it was billed as the Next Big Thing that was going to change the world. I’d argue Facebook has changed the world more than bitcoin, for better or worse.
I don't think much of the criticism directed at Facebook has been about them not putting in enough effort to expand their market share. Am I wrong?
It's not at all. RISC-V Foundation can develop open-source CPU's in the US as they have thus far. They are moving explicitly to circumvent US export restrictions to China. The CCP's mass surveillance in Xin Jiang is incredibly sophisticated[1]. It is simply not possible for them to accomplish this computationally without state of the art hardware which they will now have a new avenue to acquire.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/world/asia/china-surveill...
They participate in social media for the same reason you blog, speak, write books and ... participate in social media.
There was blockchain hype, but it was mainly among young adults. Those of us who are older have been through enough hype cycles to know that the tech is only as good as the people running it, and "a shadowy cabal of exchange owners whose names we don't know" is honestly way worse than "a shadowy cabal of publicly traded banks".
If you know Haskell,
or are willing to learn, this is a brilliant explanation with code (you build a dependently typed language as you go). It ramps you up very fast yet each step is accessible. This alone really caused me to get bit by the dependent type bug.

https://augustss.blogspot.com/2007/10/simpler-easier-in-rece...

Here is the example code from this post

https://github.com/scott-fleischman/simpler-easier?files=1
Funny that I still got down voted for disagreeing. Ah, the new HN.
And even that benefit isn't enough for many people to wear masks unless absolutely required (e.g. inside shops). It's been unusually cold the past few weeks in the UK and I've seen less and less mask usage on busy streets and even shop queues.
I hope our government doesn't use a digital wallet solution for smart phones https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210114005294/en/Bro... but I'm sure those companies are already heavy lobbying the politicians.
I personally prefer it because it is nicer looking, and much simpler to use. I don't require much advanced features in word or spreadsheet editors, which is why I use Calligra. When I do require something more advanced, LibreOffice is my go to office suite.
And malware. I don't know why that popped into my mind as the first use-case for this and the web server. :|
There's a fascinating history on the spread of sign languages around the world to different deaf communities. IIR most sign languages derive from only a couple source languages and have very little relation to the local native language.
It's probably being purchased by someone right now anyway.
As I said above, people will just not believe it.

Things are obviously more complex than everybody just automatically not believing, and owning the discourse makes all the difference (although owning the press like a sibling comment says is overkill). But it happens again and again on politics, and rarely becomes a problem.
It'll be there eventually. I think they're waiting to implement it, until they include a general placeholder that fetches the favicon.
We are able to get reads on the order of 10k/s+, and writes on the order of 5k/s+ using NVMe drives and practical serialized business object sizes (0.1~5 megabytes). I can easily saturate an NVMe drive using SQLite. In fact, it is substantially easier to max out storage devices with SQLite and carefully-tuned code than it is with something like SQL Server.

I should amend my original post, because I know a lot of developers fall into the trap of thinking that you should always do the open/close connection pattern with these databases. That is a huge trap with SQLite. If you want to add some extra zeroes to your benchmark figures, only use a single connection for accessing SQLite databases. Use application-level locking primitives, rather than relying on the database for purposes of getting consistent output from things like LastInsertRowId and in cases where transactional scopes are otherwise required. This alone can take you from 100 inserts/second to 10k without changing anything else.
Could you elaborate on your understanding of the difference between SRE and DevOps?
CEO bonuses, not always a good thing. Buybacks are not always good (because stock-compensated corporate managers sometimes abuse them to increase the stock price), but for airlines, buying stock was the right choice. You can read Matt Levine's argument, but basically:

If airlines didn't spend money on buying back stock, they could have:

1. Invested it in growth. But if they had invested it in all the normal things an airline might invest in, they would still suffering because of the pandemic.

2. Saved it for a rainy day.

You're arguing (2) should have happened. But an important thing to remember is that companies' savings are not like your savings — companies have far more reliable future cash flow, which means that they can borrow at much lower rates than you can through the equity markets.

If airlines had saved their earnings, maybe they would have grown at bond rates (investing the company's savings in the stock market is too risky and unorthodox for corporate finance officers). That's not good for investors who are looking for 1) return on capital and 2) higher exposure to travel. By returning the capital to investors, airlines increased their exposure to airline-adjacent things and their return on capital. That's a good thing for investors because it gives them more choice! If an investor wants a safer investment, they can create their own basket of bonds and airline stonks.

Similarly, now that the coronavirus has hit, investors know that airlines' fundamentals haven't changed — they're just hitting temporary turbulence. So, to raise capital, airlines can issue stocks and bonds to temporarily get them through 12-24 months. And that's exactly what they did last May: https://www.wsj.com/articles/aviation-industry-races-for-cas...

Basically: corporate finance is not like personal finance, and it's a mistake to think that companies need "rainy day funds." They don't: that's what the equity markets are for.
Nice! Still need to check an additional feed/website though
Vornado used to make an air filter that fires straight upward, but they discontinued it in favor of a design with proprietary filter media.

Air filtration shouldn't be this expensive.
But before anonymity was allowed, so all this toxicity & harassment didn't hurt too much because you could just create a new identity, start again, and it would go away.

Today most people are on FB & social medias under their real name & with their real face and everything is stored & will hunt you for the rest of your life. With fingerprinting, facial recognition, surveillance, etc. there is now no way to speech freely without having your identity tied to it.

Some people claim this is great because you say less crap when they're forced to put their name on it, I think this is a very poor argumentation when we look at what we're losing in exchange. There is a reason why in most democracies voting is anonymous.
Straw man, argument 'self-defense == bad' not present.

Possible arguments:

1) The ethics (and humor) of pre-emptive strikes

2) Given that the proportion of resource-containing matter forming planets inhabited by sentient life to total resource-containing matter in the galaxy approaches insignificance, it seems extremely improbable that homo sapiens will ever be engaged in a competition for resources with sentient alien life at a time point where homo sapiens still exist and have not evolved into several other species.
Wow. I'm almost done watching iti right now, and didn't catch him saying 'right?' at all; maybe it happens in the earlier part, but in the last few minutes, none at all. If he's saying it, I hardly think it's meant as some subtle pysch trick.

Nor did I get the feeling that his claims of being wrong was in any way disingenuous. At worst it's a ploy to structure his talk.

Every TED talk works off the assumption that the speaker has some insight worth sharing with the audience, presumably non-obvious or non-trivial realizations, so of course he's going to try say something worth thinking about. There's nothing subtext about it; it's the whole point of being on stage.

My takeaway was not simply "for every Steve Jobs, we need a bunch of workers to actually build the iPods", but that there are a lot of seemingly oddball jobs done by happy people who did not bother to "follow their bliss", that conventional wisdom on what work might make you happy or how work should be approached might very well be wrong, and that plain old labor should not be looked down on.
Simple yet effective:

Turn on CNBC while you're working at your computer. Make note of any unfamiliar words or phrases and Google them throughout the day.

Do this for several months and you'll be surprised at what you're learning.
We hear only about very few people, doesn't mean they are all failures.
In the grand scheme of things, I have come to realize nuclear warheads are not that fearsome. Thus far they have caused less damage to the surface of the earth than a pimple causes to your face. And the earth is insignificantly small.

They are definitely scalable, but they are certainly no Dr. Device
> One point of note is that is that a small-enough black hole would be essentially harmless.

I never realized that.

... Can I have one as a pet?
The number of times 'vision' has been correlated with 'efficiency' or frankly even 'cleverness' is very small. Vision isn't about building a better cow, but how you apply that cow.
Because as someone smart said - If we want to defend our own freedoms, we have to start with defending freedoms of scoundrels, because the government will always start with taking away theirs. And when it's gone, ours will be gone too.
What the article fails to mention is the NSA's instrumental efforts in weakening crypto standards and computer security in general. We don't know the extent of that undermining yet, but it's likely significant. They are also hoarding security vulnerabilities and not releasing them, as responsible researchers should. They're weakening security for everyone.

Now, the US government as a whole is in a very strong position to actually push for genuine security compliance and to ultimately defend against even the most determined state cyber warfare initiative. They haven't done that because they want a way to get into systems even if it makes people less safe on the whole.
Was thinking the same thing. Comments asking unbiased and valid questions are being downvoted...
Even better still the filter was bypassed by using the HTTPS version of Wikipedia.
uninformed rant: Do-not-track headers feel like a sham. When you access content and services funded by advertising, you opt in to advertising. I think a service would be fine to ignore the header, because the user has presumably already implied permission to be tracked by accessing the service.

Consumers want 'cheap' far more than they want privacy. They sign up for retail credit cards to save $20 on a single order. They scan their grocery keytag every time they shop. They give their mailing address for a free t-shirt. Maybe you guys don't do this, but I still find myself irrationally hemming and hawing over a small purchase. To fix this, the way we think about money as a culture would have to shift.

Privacy awareness is a good thing coming out of this, and consumers understanding privacy can lead to better choices and more competition, but in the short term I don't see much practical impact.
I use flux as well. I still don't get tired at night (not if I'm working on something remotely interesting...), but it does seem to help me "settle down" a bit at night, so when I decide it's time to pack up for the day, I can often be asleep within 10 minutes (this used to be harder for me).
What time does your small child go to bed? (Not your point, really -- having lots to do, including lots of physical play, does a great job exhausting you... but I'm looking at many of the responses to your comment.)

I can't tell you how many parents I know that complain (sometimes bitterly) about how early their kids wake them up, and I find out they put the kid in bed at 7pm. Or 6pm, even.

My wife works best in the morning (and I work just fine whenever), so we play with our almost-2-year-old in the evenings and she generally goes to sleep at 11pm or sometimes later, then wakes up normally about 10am. She's never had a bedtime earlier than 10pm.

I don't know about every other parent (and how this would fit in with life) but this works great for us. We can go out to dinner and/or see friends in the evening when we want to (we take her along), we get lots done in the morning, and she gets her sleep.

Is there some other factor I'm missing? Why, when a child wakes up at 5:30am, is it not automatic for the parents to think "we're putting her to bed 2 hours too early"?

A possible enabler, now that I think about it -- we have great shutters on our windows, so it's dark until we open them.
That must be a British thing; she's not my queen, she's an old lady in a funny hat.
I like where Scottchin is going with this one, Ghostbusters.
You can't fix a problem by slashing at the symptoms. I don't disagree, but it shouldn't have come this far.
Uh, I am a native Chinese in China. This would look like overkill just one year ago, but today it seems more than likely.
It does. Especially under McChrystal there were numerous deaths of American soldiers due to the very restrictive ROEs.
Someone "caught" one of those SSH scans recently. It's the "Chuck NOrris" botnet, which apparently runs on MIPS-based DSL, wireless routers: http://www.muni.cz/ics/research/cyber/files/chuck_norris.pdf

That's not exactly the tidal wave of viruses, trojans, BHOs, worms, etc that Windows gets. Even supposing an 'attach' from a Chuck Norris botnetted router suceeded in guessing a user ID and password via SSH, the MIPSEL code wouldn't run on your x86 or x86_84 linux box.

You can still download the code that guy got: http://safu.stream-portal.org/pwnd.tgz

Also, the "fractured" nature of the Linux software base comes to its rescue, eh? No strength in monoculture here?
Long before Swype, I enjoyed Fitaly on keyboards that were so small they needed a stylus.

Fitaly is designed to minimize single finger travel:

http://fitaly.com/fitaly/ofkey.htm
I miss the document based web. Actually what I miss is the "amateur web". I remember in 1994, when I first got the internet, typing in "Star wars" and visiting the many many fansites with random pictures, midi files, fan fiction, etc. Those sites don't exist any more. Sure, there are still some amateur sites out there, but they're always pretty professional, not the type done by complete-amateurs who just want to share something they're passionate about.

Do a Google search for any hobby, fictional universe, sports team and see how many pages it takes you to find a "geocities" type of site.
Sheesh, I drink coffee for the taste, not for the caffeine. So caffeine pills is something I would never consider using in my life.
This is exactly the right direction for Ubuntu. I'm installing this remotely on my dad's computer as I type this.

The shortcut keys (using the Windows-button) are very useful and the dock-like launcher is a good replacement for the old task-bar.

It might take a couple more years but somehow I have the feeling that Ubuntu might be heading for the mainstream. Rightfully so.
Both, if I remember correctly.
But i do want to learn more about how my car works, theres very little technology at home that i haven't seen disassembled(washing machine, microwave oven, tv, pc, mp3 player, cell phone). I've at least skimmed over parts of the source of a lot of software i use daily(emacs, slime, sbcl, HN). Even though i barely understand the electronics in my tv, and even though I've barely scratched the surface of emacs, i still prefer a more hands-on approach to the things i use in my daily life. I've been like this since a very young age, apparently i didn't have any toys that weren't destroyed by my curiosity :) I had the impression that this was true for a lot of people on this site.
Just did this: it works.
I hate the phrase "law of leaky abstractions." Where is Joel's peer reviewed article containing a mathematical proof describing leaky abstractions?
Different types of carbs, man, different types of carbs. =)
r/machinelearning, r/types r/reviewmycode, r/datasets, r/statistics
Hello Rocamboleh, what route you need to take to learn programming skills depends entirely on what kind of business you intend to start. Programming is a big field and has a lot of different technologies in it to pick from.

While espeed gave you good advice for how to setup your own server and all the tools needed for a Linux-based web application, this isn't necessarily the best route for you to go. If your software is intended to run in a big corporation, for example, then you should probably consider learning either the Microsoft technologies or the Java Enterprise technologies. If instead you're going to be working on iPhone/iPad or Android devices, then you will need a different tool set. There are a number of other alternatives you could pursue, as well. The answer really depends on what kind of startup software you need/want.

If I can help you further, please send me an email (address is in my profile) and I will be happy to try. Good luck with your endeavors.
And that no security measure at the airport will prevent a threat before the security checkpoint. With or without people opting out of the body scanners, security checkpoints are bottlenecks (something that the scanners have, in fact, exacerbated) and therefore vulnerable.
would rather not trade their dignity for convenience

I wonder if that idea is still as powerful today.
Better yet, t-shirts. The front of the t-shirt is innocuous (so the security guards don't get alarmed too early), but the back explains the body scan process to everyone in line behind you, with example images.
Getting fired is only a good thing if you're on the path to being a loser. If you aren't, then being fired means you are ruining your current career.

Maybe instead of being fired, you should do something more sensible and ethical: Quit.
We also have a bunch of internal data from our q&a search engine. I wouldn't want to publish that publicly, but feel free to email me (address in my profile) and I'd be glad to share.
This has nothing to do with the browser. This has to do with network effects.
There seems to be debate about whether or not this day is good or bad. But it is pretty simple if the scanners are good the day is bad, if the scanners are bad then the day is good.

This is the real issue, but there has probably been alot of debate about this already? What made you take your current stance?

I went though the body scanner this Monday in Cincinnati, well aware of the fact that they can see your penis etc (and it was cold that day...). It didn't bother me that much, but it was much more time consuming than going through the old metal detectors, and I don't like the fact that this could be harmful (but I haven't researched how credible this is).
My website (whirlpool.net.au) sees IE6 account for 2.3% of traffic on weekdays and 0.9% on weekends.

Combining all versions of internet explorer together, the figures are 28% and 23%, respectively.

The only browser with a greater-than-expected boost on the weekend is Safari, but only by a very small margin compared to the increase seen by Firefox and Chrome.

All figures from GA.
I've recently been writing command lines tool (for internal use mostly) and wrote them in bash because running other command line tools and checking their exit codes is simpler in bash than in Python for example. Problems start to come up when I have to deal with APIs that return or expect JSON.

From what you're writing it seems that it might be worth checking Go out for that. Would you happen to have pointers for using Go for that purpose?
Contactless but you have to tap and most will make slight contact :) exciting nevertheless!
Clojure's anti-OO stance is far subtler than people seem to understand. It's primarily about not reaching for classes as a first tool and eliminating local state (and even this is allowed!)

However there are times when the OO approach makes sense and you have a full range of tools from multimethods to protocols. In ClojureScript you even have Self-like functionality in the form of `specify`.
The word 'synergy' will also be used numerous times.
The name means it's likely to be blocked by the web filters it's meant to bypass.
The number of people who might like to run Linux on their Macbook is a pretty small number, all things considered, but it's absolutely gigantic compared to the number of people who could possibly fix the types of problems described in the parent.
@mkr-hn I understand. But, just check the site title if you haven't already. Maybe that would help see it from a different angle ?
> No country's going to go first.

Apparently one is.
>> I discovered this in the process of helping a new customer export their data from the old system.

If you report him, you're going to have to explain how you discovered everything you've outlined without exceeding the intended access to the system.

I see a lot of downside here for involving law enforcement. You run the risk of being accused of hacking your competitor.

If I was in your shoes, I probably wouldn't report him, but I probably wouldn't be quiet about the weaknesses of your competitor's security.
Re: PCI-DSS 3
Uh no, if you qualify for PCI SAQ A, you are fine (so if you link off site, or use an iframe to collect info - like Stripe Checkout). If you used a direct post method or some JS tokenization, its likely that you know fall under the PCI SAQ A-EP rules which would require PCI compliant hosting.
This article could be replaced by a rock with the words "Heuristics are valuable but will bite you in the ass" chiseled on it. /s
Thats the wrong fallacy advertising agencies know that online advertising numbers are bullshit but the marketing people on client side really like big numbers to impress their bosses.
You can (and most likely already do) with microcode [0] :)

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16549/rocket-lake-redux-0x34-...
Psst. Try PaperWM. It allows quick resizing and tiling.
> we're in a Windows world

There are at least dozens of us linux workers here
When I was doing a postdoc in Germany I would go eat mushrooms in Amsterdam and have the same trip about "exceptional events" over and over again.

Than Taleb wrote that book and I wished I'd written something about "exceptional events".

Then Taleb just coasted, drifted and became irrelevant.
You can't short a company unless it's publicly traded, can you?
Neat idea, have you checked Princess Auto? They are on sale right now there for 14 bucks each, but maybe no stock in Kitchener?

Anyways thanks for the model, good work!