jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Have you taken a polygraph? It's not something that anyone near their right mind does for fun.
Should I expect price drop once feds start to sell it? Or they'll just destroy the keys (keeping the money invested forever).
Yes, and users voluntarily agree for said “big brother watching you” dystopia to get free mailbox, maps app and free photos backups

Nobody signed up for their coworkers monitoring your calendar and then you find you beign doxed externally. Company investigated, gave out warnings, and yet the hostile behavior continued and here is the result
ah, nice to see that code linked! quite a few of those repo's aren't very interesting, some are:

- httpd (have been using it as my webserver for many years)
- qwm (window manager, inspired by acme and a bit of dwm, but a bit buggy)
- vixen (vi clone in limbo (i can't use acme for days on end))
- wmrun, together with qwm and vixen was an attempt at get more of an acme-like workflow
- ssh & novt, ssh client and terminal

i attempted to write enough software for me to use it daily. sadly i ran out of time & energy.

inferno is such an amazing system. very clean code. limbo is a joy to program in. it deserves more attention than it gets...
You've taken 2 completely unrelated issues and mixed them into a straw man.
That said the fight against malaria is proving to be counter productive, all we got so far is that every strain of malaria is now resistant to all malaria medications but one.
Malaria is also not a chronic disease(although we made it now due to drug resistant strains). The only relapse you can have is either due to poor treatment(which again goes back to having limited to no healthcare infrastructure) to reinfection which again is a sanitary issue.
Turning marshes into fields, stable water and sewage infrastructure, sanitary life stock control all help fight Malaria, and are probably more important in the eradication of it than just dumping more and more meds which are not properly distributed in the first place.
"corruption in many of these client countries"

You say that as if governments in donor countries like the US were responsible with public funds.
> It's a bit unfortunate, but getting a substantially cleaner, safer SF would require a cultural shift away from egalitarian principles that are deeply ingrained in the city's DNA.

No it wouldn't. It would just require spending more money on public sanitation.

Of course if you let homeless congregate and don't provide the services to clean up after them the place is going to get filthy. But there are more solutions than getting rid of the homeless.
These critics simply want a share of the pie which they dont own. That is why they criticize. These peopel should be ignored.
Compare 95 cpl Times New Roman at 12 pixels to, say, 80 cpl Source Code Pro at 14 pixels. People are more efficient at reading at a certain cpl because the eyes don't get tired (less movement) and it's easier to find the beginning of the next line (maybe I'm the only one who has trouble with that for long lines). Most of these factors depend on the typeface used, the font size, line height, and of course, the distance between your eyes and the medium your reading. When you're talking about code the syntax of the language probably plays some roles in all of this as well (Python is a narrow language, C++ isn't, JavaScript needs lots of indentation, etc.).
A friend of mine worked as a volunteer nurse at a make shift hospital in a remote part of Ethiopia. There was a group that carried a dead person for more than a day to the hospital to see if they could save her. I have no idea what it is like to provide health care services in an area like this.
> Beyond the HackerNews crowd, most people don't care about privacy.

I think the ratio of people who are technically literate is growing. So even if true, its still important. Think of how many non-technical people are trying to push their kids towards coding, in part, due to the unavoidable evidence that techies are making more loot that lawyers and doctors. Its a top profession for middle class now.
No one has ever heard of Signal anywhere, that's the point. It's not like it's very common elsewhere either.

No one had ever heard of WhatsApp once. But now billions of people use it, why?

I mentioned the new WhatsApp TOS to my tech and non-tech friends and I've managed to move all of those I've talked about it, or at least have them install it and get it set up. I still have to find a convincing argument for the least tech oriented people I know, but moving a billion people over to another app is done like that, one friend at a time.
contextually the 737 vs 737-max distinction is important.

The 737 vs DC-10 distinction is not :D
Another option would be for Europe and the US to get people from Asia and Australia/NZ to teach us how to track and trace.
> Censorship and oppression is not the answer

Trying to overturn election is oppression. Literally, there is nothing more authoritarian going on right now then that.

Donald Trump and other republican politicians spread lies about election in an attempt to overturn election in any way possible. They tried and failed dozens of lawsuits to overturn that election. Trump trying to bully Georgia Officers to find votes for him.

And somehow, those lies being spread among their fans and their party proves that ... democrats should not have won the election.

Election means that your party can loose. And your party then can try to convince people that they are better party. But you loosing election and then not being able to accept that your party should be ruling everything or that it was rejected by large groups of people does not mean you should get some concessions.

Just because you are throwing anti-democratic tempper tamptrum does not mean you have entitlement.

> But calling a populist movement with millions of supporters, terrorists is very short sighted. It will only accelerate the fire.

Whether they are terrorist depends on what tactic they use. Not on how many supporters they have.
Can you explain what the issue with this is? What does this circumvent that cannot be done with pure JS?
> And the tech monopolies absolutely will not survive the level of influence they have now, even if they think they are playing it safe by supporting a particular political faction which happens to be popular at the moment.

I hope you’re right but I have my doubts. Currently I see the left waging total war when it comes to censorship and control of allowed/disallowed speech. Their consolidation of power and influence (and their attack on foundations like free speech principles) has been rapid, and pervasive. When I look at the left trying to inject things like the factually incorrect “1619 Project” into schools, I see them trying to make their temporary power gains permanent by propagandizing, so that there is no avenue by which different thought can enter the Overton window.

Maybe I’m being overly cynical but I don’t see a way back from this. I foresee an increasing amount of leftist authoritarianism as the future of the US, because there won’t be a balancing politic on the other side to moderate us.
" Those "Nazi tunnels" shown are clean, dry, and equipped with modern fluorescent lights. Those are not recently discovered tunnels."

That picture is from a site nearby. The newly discoverd site is connected to the one depicted in the image. This is well written within the article:

"The underground complex is connected to the B8 Bergkristall underground factory, where Germans produced the first jet fighters, the Messerschmitt Me 262."
While PCI compliance might not be as important as dumping toxic waste, it's sure as hell more important than whether you smoke pot in your garage.
Exactly, this is the opposite of news. Other things they probably do more than non-prisoners: stare at the wall, push-ups, chess and/or card games, walk in a circle.
Correlation, not causation.

With 500-1000 identified/unidentified species of gut bacteria floating around, mimicking one is a bad data set.

Corollary example, we've not proved that H.Pylori causes Ulcerative Colitis, yet they coexist frequently.
How about a video recording app that punishes you for shooting vertical.
Done. I also didn't hear about this until now, but surely the 2-to-1 matching is very nice.

We really need to donate to this kinds of projects. We can't let our technological past be forgotten, I think.
The buyer is actually not Alcatel Lucent (French-Canadian telecom infrastructure company). The "Alcatel" feature phone business was a JV with TCL (Chinese electronics giant), and Alcatel sold off in 2007. TCL retained the right to use the Alcatel One Touch brand (unclear for how long).

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCL_Corporation
I don't think I made such an assumption. He's saving money, regardless of whether ignoring credit card security was an intentional money saving move, or merely a happy side effect of ignorance or incompetent.

The person I was responding to was taking the position that you should not take against against someone if they are not harming you. That money saving, regardless of how it came about, harms OP's business, and so justifies action.

Note I didn't say the action should be calling authorities. Contacting the competitor and letting him know there is a problem would be action, too.
It would be trivial, which is one of the problems with A-EP when you look at it from the POV of someone who knows something about web security.

As for iFrames vs. Direct POST, from https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/Understanding...:

Examples of e-commerce implementations addressed by SAQ A include...[merchant] website provides an inline frame (iFrame) to a PCI DSS compliant third-party processor facilitating the payment process...Examples of e-commerce implementations addressed by SAQ A-EP include...[merchant] website creates the payment form, and the payment data is delivered directly to the
payment processor (often referred to as 'Direct Post')
On Heroku, someone reported my site as being infected with malware that stole peoples Facebook passwords. Heroku took the site offline and notified me. I explained that it was just a web proxy and that there was no malware or stolen passwords. A week or two later they emailed me that I was correct, but they were going to keep my site offline and change their TOS to forbid proxy sites. (As far as I know they never did change their TOS, so GoPee should still be safe.)

On Nodejitsu, someone tweeted links to porn that went through my proxy, and they disabled the site thinking that I was using their service to host porn. The CEO told me that they'd turn it back on if I added user accounts and a way to ban users. But at that point, I had a newborn son and was in no mood to put a bunch of development work into making my anonymous proxy not-so-anonymous.

So, right now, it's still offline. The source is at https://github.com/nfriedly/node-unblocker if anyone's interested.
He even says this is possible via Bayesian experiment design:

FTA: Bayesian experiment design: With Bayesian experiment design you can stop your experiment at any time and make perfectly valid inferences.
"the best designers wouldn’t dare having anything less than a gorgeous site."

LOL!!

This is the type of advice you get when you have marketers writing articles about how to hire "top" designers.

Most of the successful guys I know are WAY too busy to worry about having a gorgeous website. Some of the best designers I know use a Tumblr blog. One busy friend of mine hasn't even bothered to change his default wordpress theme.

There are many amazing designers that get their work purely through word of mouth. Websites are only really useful if you need work.
I propose the protocol enforces a random shutdown period for days at a time. This would be for no reason other than "market cooling".

Also, the logo should be a frappuccino.
Charlie Stross also doesn't even understand why he hates BTC. He complains that it's deflationary, but then completely botches the reason why standard left wing theories claim deflation is bad.

http://www.bayesianwitch.com/blog/2014/bitcoin_critics_not_e...

Jbooth was far more honest than Stross: "Personally, I just get annoyed at the libertarian dreamers...I find myself hoping it'll crash just to shut these people up."
the main goal of Tesla is to transition transport to away from non-renewable resources

Funny the that thing about the tires ;D
> It seems the US is the only country where everyone wants to continue using SMS/iMessage for everything.

I use Whatsapp regularly and it still can't hold a candle to iMessage. I blame Android adoption, and the fact that Google never built an iMessage competitor so they are stuck with 20 year old SMS.
I mean, they're different products. There are good reasons for quitting the Facebook social network product which are separate from reasons for quitting all Facebook-owned products.
>Assume the next person to maintain your code won’t be as smart as you.

It's especially easy to assume this because I've often gone back to code I made a year or even months ago and barely understand it.
As I understand, young people already aren't happy with Facebook. FB's heavy users seem to be primarily millennials, gen X, and boomers.
I actually had the opposite experience: my profile was so inaccurate. It said I had kids when I don't, for example.
Facebook has shadow accounts, so even if you don't even have an account on Facebook, they know exactly who you are, where you live, what you browse on the web, who your friends are, what you buy and where you buy it from, what illnesses you've been looking up on WebMD, who your health insurance is with, and so much more.

Twitter and Reddit aren't even playing the same game, let alone in the same league.
I owned one in great condition as a university student in the mid-90's. It died one day and I got rid of it -- moving onto more modern pocket computers. But I totally regret getting rid of it -- now that I know so much more about electronics it probably would have been an easy fix.
I have setup a load balancer with 3 instances of matomo connected to one mysql database to handle tracking on a website with around 7000 visits a day. It could all probably be handled by just one instance but that is sort of the standard setup we have for things.

matomo is very comparable to google analytics in terms of reports. matomo has some things that seem a little easier to get to; like visitor flows.

However, matomo seems to just give up on big data, complex reports. Similar reports in google analytics take a long time to complete, 10 to 40 seconds, but they at least complete; eventually.
There are a variety of different traditional calendars from different cultures, but I strongly suspect business people in, say, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, or UAE use the same calendar we do. I in fact strongly suspect _everyone_ in those countries do, for their day-to-day non-religious date-related tasks.

Wikipedia confirms "The Islamic calendar is now used primarily for religious purposes, and for official dating of public events and documents in Muslim countries". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar#Uses
This was killed by user flags, but we unkilled it. It's surprisingly thoughtful and unusual enough to make it intellectually interesting and therefore on topic for this site.
Not always but many big company scale compensation to local cost of living including Elastic, GitLab and Buffer. See here https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/global-compen...
See also Kashmir, Microsoft 1995: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42...

More accidentally, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20061027-00/?p=29... : Microsoft accidentally flood Poland.
I have not found one. That's mostly my fault. I try to jump in whole when I'm getting stuff done.

What I meant to say earlier is that in a consulting lifestyle, one gets to choose how soon to move to the next gig. For me, it is always a few months between gigs, so the average number of deadlines per year is low :)
Oh i wasn't saying that cost doesn't matter, just that it isn't the only factor.
It's obvious that many currently inhabited areas are going to become uninhabitable.

Not only will coastal areas be inundated but previously relatively temperate areas will suffer from regular inundation, storm damage, and/or droughts, or possibly all of the above in alternation.

This is already happening in Europe, California, Australia, and elsewhere. And we haven't even had significant sea level rise yet.

Anyone who doesn't understand what this means for developed countries - never mind rest-of-world - isn't thinking straight.
I think we already covered that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21647777
The sentence about google maps is wrong. Google shows whatever you want to see.

https://i.imgur.com/2HaIhPh.jpg

Google.com.ua users see a state/province border (top image)

Google.de users a disputed international boundary (middle image)

Google.ru users see an undisputed international boundary and Russian spellings of city names (bottom image).

(and I think there are generally no borders shown in the oceans)

I made the screenshots using proxies or maybe just changing the domains about a year ago (don't remember what exactly I did).
This might be true for social and cultural learning, but I doubt their peers are teaching them math or history, which is probably what the educators are interested in.
* Nearly two thirds of consumers surveyed claimed ‘Basic Familiarity’ or to be ‘Very Familiar’ with 5G, but of this nearly one fifth of consumers already thought they had 5G.

* While one in four consumers in the US listed 5G as an important feature, one in five didn’t yet see a need for 5G...

* Apple fans in the US believe they are 5G leaders despite market reality. (Apple does not sell a 5G phone)
No, actually I had somehow never heard of Hyper-V before today (or maybe I had but for some reason it didn't click it was software I could make VMs with). Great suggestion, I'll look into it.
> In my opinion Go has been designed by people who have been using C all their lives and don’t want to try anything new. [..]
> Another grating issue is that because Go is procedural (just like C ‘shock horror’) you start writing code in a procedural way which feels archaic and old hat.

Ok, Go is not object oriented, but it has a few features that make it possible to do some stuff that are very cumbersome if not impossible in C.

- first class functions and closures

- you can safely take an address of a local variable and use it after the function's scope exits (the compiler takes care about promoting variables to the heap)

- interfaces allow you write modular code: e.g. you can create your own Reader and Writer interfaces and the standard library can operate on it. People are focusing much about generics/templates but it's not that Go completely lack any way of creating modular and reusable code.

- pointer/value distinction but having safe pointers by disallowing pointer arithmetics and instead providing runtime bound checking (slices)

- garbage collection (this topic actually opens a can of worms of it's own, regarding the placement of the language on the spectrum)

If you take C and add those features (instead of starting from another language and removing the features, see Blub Paradox) it's more apparent that it adds some value.

One could argue that the comparison with C misses the point, given that one of the main reasons C is still alive and kicking is because of it's ubiquity and the fact that its calling convention is the de facto standard of modern operating systems, all of which is defeated by introducing a new language (with a non-C calling convention!) that doesn't even aim at the level of control (especially over memory allocation) that C gives.

However that's where Go's cultural roots are. Well, except for the concurrency parts and other bits that were inspired from other languages, but when talking about sorting or reducing arrays, that part stems from the C culture.

I have the feeling that one of the reasons Go is so successful, is that there are many people who would actually like C but recognise what a giant time sink can be to become proficient and write good quality software in it.
new SEO strategy: add the image, get millions of links, rank well...profit
It's because Switzerland is civilized. A civil nation has no active army but a culture of self-defense and gun ownership.
The evolution of communications vs military technology.

The world is becoming more interconnected and subject to shocks.

Reputation systems will thus have to become increasingly efficient.

A statist legal system is a monopolistic claim on managing reputation, but its inadequacy will become too costly to maintain.

Competitive solutions for reputation management will arise - the semantic web.

Law by force will be gradually replaced by law by reputations.

If the tacit acceptance of the legal system fades away, so does the power of the state.
Educational funding from the Govt to public schools has drastically decreased over the last decade causing schools to cancel classes and let go people. There's not much to do in terms of increasing revenue but to increase tuition, increase enrollment and such,.
Betfair isn't just for gambling. You can trade betting positions. In that sense, it's a marketplace amenable to algorithmic trading like any other, entirely without relying on having a gambling advantage.
Only from a purely financial perspective. He clearly gets off on it.
For a lot many schools, the donations and fund raising increases as they have a better athletic presence. In the long run, athletics doesn't really lose money for the school. Athletics at a lot many schools are self-sustaining.. especially after cutting off a few sports that were a moneysink. Big Time Athletics is Big Business these days with sponsorships, TV revenue, ticket sales, advertising and elicited donations.
I ended up using that very same technique and ran into the exact same problem. My solution to this has been to sign up for one gravatar, but after that I simply stopped caring about the service.

If whatever service I am using can't work without gravatar, they will have to see a generic picture.
Just as every business card in the world has a phone number on it, 20 years from now every business card in the world will still have an email address on it.

Email simply addresses one of the most basic needs of human communication: sending a written message to another person.
That's fanciful. If your hardware is vulnerable to such an extent, you might as well keel over and give up on any security. For example, such hardware could reasonably be expected to occasionally scan main memory for crypto keys in the first place, or perhaps install an SSH server and a root user, or...

Again, the reason why people care (or rather, should care) about RNGs is because it's theoretically very easy to tamper with them and very hard to then detect such tampering unless you're actively looking for it: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/researchers-can-slip...
> Or let them explain it to the slower kids.

It's a good idea, except... It would defeat the main purpose of education, which is to teach obedience to authority and that knowledge and subsistence comes only from authority figures, not ones' peers.
Assets similar to bitcoin are somewhat rare on the ground. Art, antiquities, maybe a few other things. (Precious metals are typically useful for other things.) Few people regard those assets as useful investments, in anything other than a diversification sense. No one regards them as economically productive.
Excellent investigation, and an elegant solution.

There's a "but" though: you might end up getting banned from GTA Online altogether if this DLL injection is detected by some anti-cheat routine. The developers should really fix it on their end.
Not in python, maybe. Smartbombs have been doing the necessary image processing with much less processing power, on much less capable sensors, for a long time.