jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If the key is securely random AND only used once, it won't compromise the encryption. But it's a bad idea, since it requires enforcing that the key is a nonce, instead of just a key. It's a bad habit, and can easily lead to compromise (when someone inevitably uses it as example code in a situation where those guarantees don't hold, for instance.)
I tend to downplay the impact of role model demographics as well, but then I recognize that I'm represented literally everywhere--except perhaps US football and basketball. I'm willing to accept that because the norm is people that look like me are everywhere, I don't notice the impact it has on me.
Generally, you infringe a patent if you infringe a single claim. There is no such term as "linked claims." There is something called a dependent claim, which is a claim that references another claim in a specific way. A dependent claim includes all the language of the claims it depends on.

Thus, if claim 5 says something like, "The system of claim 3, wherein" and claim 3 says something like "The system of claim 1, wherein" then claim 5 will probably be deemed to include all the language of claims 3 and 1. However, claim 1 does not necessarily include claims 3 and 5 and you can infringe claim 1, even if your system does not have any of the elements listed in claims 3 and 5.
I think you've got it backwards. I'm counting it as a quadruple negative when considering "despise" and "pretense" meaning deception. "Make no pretense" means the same thing as "admit", not the logical opposite. Some equivalent statements to the original:

I make no pretense that I respect the bitcoin philosophy.

Edit: I made an bad logical leap here. The statement can only be interpreted about how the author pretends, and not the author's actual position. So everything after this edit is suspect. All we can say is that the author does not pretend to like bitcoin. The statement doesn't say anything about the author's actual opinions of bitcoin, though that is very clear from the article.

I make a pretense that I despise the bitcoin philosophy.

I admit that I don't despise the bitcoin philosophy.

I admit that I respect the bitcoin philosophy.
A year ago I developed an universal video downloader site http://savedeo.com.

I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but people liked the site and kept coming back. Year later the site generates around $30k a month and the operation costs are around $90 (close to nothing).

The site is very lightweight as it doesn't really downloads anything. It just extracts direct links to the files.

There are a great challenges that I have to deal with (like YouTube blocking IPs, sites changing designs all the time, etc.).
At the very least it confirms suspicions that you do in fact have metal on you. By removing doubt, you do increase suspicion.
From the article:

> Out of curiosity (and for fun!) we’ve recently used Alexa - a web traffic reporting platform - to discover the top ten sites built using Ruby on Rails framework.

It clearly defines "top sites" as those listed from Alexa. In which case, it is correct.
It wasn't a "random" search. Any time you opt out of the millimeter wave scanner, you get a hand pat-down and your baggage is swabbed for explosives.
I feel like part of the problem is that there seems to be a weird form of commodity fetishism that happens with front-end frameworks where your choice defines you as a developer. While that's always been true for OS, language and text editor, it seems more inane when applied to front end frameworks. They all have their own use cases and the major three are all impressively written
tldr; it's a satirical cross-section of programming and comedy, and is specifically a play on the classic Louis C K cellphones/airplane rant as it pertains to javascript frameworks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk
What do you think about the part where they broke into his home? (Assuming they did.)
But is putting finger-sized icons on a mobile device something that Apple "invented"? It's not exactly a new technology or concept, it's simply obvious. I recall owning an iPaq that did the same thing years before the iPhone was released. And for that matter every old fashioned telephone ever produced had finger sized icons.
Both. I hadn't really thought about this before and had previously thought of it as a repository of "good" stuff but.. there's plenty of not-so-good stuff that's in there merely because it's by a competitor or someone else related to my space.
I honestly have to disagree. I remember the day the iPhone was announced. There was nothing like it. Touch screen phones, yes. Apps on phones yes.. but nothing quite like the iPhone. They truly innovated there, and there are some companies ripping them off.

Note that not all Android OS devices are so clearly trying to be a knock off iPhone. A lot of the most popular Android devices (like the HTC) have gone in unique directions. Some are being iPhone knock-offs though, and Apple has a right to protect their ideas as well as their brand.
> * Add your own optimizations to the compiler!
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> I'm not sure here.

Lisp, via compiler macros: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/03_bba...

> The purpose of the compiler macro facility is to permit selective source code transformations as optimization advice to the compiler. When a compound form is being processed (as by the compiler), if the operator names a compiler macro then the compiler macro function may be invoked on the form, and the resulting expansion recursively processed in preference to performing the usual processing on the original form according to its normal interpretation as a function form or macro form.
a comparison..a person entering the US military and getting a the lowest level of clearance has less punishment if caught disclosing than these NCLs..
I came to this thread with the prediction that the top post would be someone asking that question. #WINNING
Have you checked out the iPhone app, Grades 2? Same concept but a lot more powerful in terms of the other features.
The first amendment guarantees free speech from being prosecuted criminally, not civilly. If your speech causes harm to come to someone or someone's property, then you can be prosecuted criminally just the same as you can be prosecuted criminally for using a rock to bring harm to someone. You have the right to throw rocks, but if you cause harm to come to someone then you can be held criminally (and civilly) responsible.

This is not a situation where someone's speech can be said definitely to cause harm to someone. Therefore the first amendment guarantees you will not be criminally prosecuted for it, though the government does not care.

Disclosing confidential information is not protected by the first amendment because it is a civil matter, not a criminal one. The federal government could (within the bounds of the constitution) bring a civil case against someone who violates the gag order, but it would be an uphill battle for them because the person violating the order did not sign a contract agreeing to keep quiet.
Flagged. Hacker News is not a backup discussion board to be used when Reddit goes down.
are we actually sure of what is being reported??... he has miss-reported before
I am quite sure chaos can be an emergent property.

E.g. think of Conways game of life: One could build a contraption which amplifies a very small event into a gigantic one (like a Geiger-Müller tube) and spawn a few gliders (as particles). Now, a very small change in the initial configuration changes the outcome drastically, even though all the rules of the simulation are still perfectly deterministic and linear.
What I want is a social network you have to pay for. Make it $2.50/month, and make everything order by 'created date' (ie no magic sorting algorithm). Then, every quarter after the hosting bills are paid put whatever's left into some sort of shares that each member owns (sort of like a co-op).

E2EE, Federation, self-hosting, open source, etc. are all great, but they don't really address the real reason social network sites are so toxic - We have to entirely remove the advertisers from the equation.

People would be far less likely to post or share dumb stuff if being banned means there's a risk of losing your 'equity' in the platform.
> Wasn't this inspected by leading virus scientists and concluded that its way different to anything that lab ever found and there is no current technology to modify it so much?

Yes, but this only refutes the notion that the virus was actively modified/developed in the lab. A lab-leak doesn't necessarily mean Covid-19 is some genetic monstrosity cooked up by the CCP. It includes the very real possibility that Chinese researchers gathering bat specimens for research and careless with their containment policy ended up being the source of the crossover into the human population. There isn't any scientific evidence that makes it more or less likely that the virus was contracted by some bushmeat vendor contacting the wrong bat than a virologist contacting the wrong bat. There is however, lots of circumstantial evidence that the lab-leak theory should at the very least be as strongly considered as anything:

1. The closest virus to SARS-CoV-2 that has been found in wild bats was in a species hundreds of miles away from Wuhan, and is known to have been studied at the viroligy lab in Wuhan. Its the equivalent of a crossover event occuring down the road from the CDC in Atlanta, even though the closest thing to an animal reservoir we've found is native to Ohio.

2. Every alternative animal reservoir has been debunked. Initially there were theories about snakes, and most prominently, pangolins. But the scientific community has pretty thoroughly determined these are unlikely.

3. The lab in question raised alarms even prior to the pandemic and 2020. International inspectors wrote memos dating back years expressing concern with the level of cleanliness and standards at the lab.

4. The Chinese government has been extremely unhelpful, if not actively working to hinder, efforts to discover the source of the virus. They refused to allow WHO inspectors into the country in the early days of the pandamic, they systematically purged the wet market initially believed to be the source of the outbreak, over the protests of the scientific community as it would make it very difficult to trace potential reservoirs. And they to date have not let WHO teams into Wuhan to investigate. In fact, the WHO has been negotiating for a year and was supposed to have a team given access this week, only for China to balk at the last moment due to claims about visa processing.

Obviously this doesn't amount to a smoking gun in any respect. There is still a substantial probability of no lab-leak. But there has been a tendency to dismiss the theory of a lab-leak in part because it's been conflated with a genetically engineered conspiracy theory, and in part due to politics. I think the fact that populists like Trump insisting on associating the virus with the Chinese government has led to reflexive dismissals of a potential lab leak as conspiracy.
Quite unlikely.

Linux in 1994 didn't had any of that, just a toy OS trying to be UNIX.

Had Windows NT kept its POSIX compatibility story in a proper way, hardly anyone would bother to contribute.

Just like GCC only got serious contributions after Sun started the trend to sell UNIX SDKs and no longer have the development tools as part of a base UNIX installation.
Re-read my comment. It's set-top box not TV.
Perhaps you'd like to explain the merits of this?
Cory Doctorow (of Boing Boing fame) wrote a sci-fi novelette about a datacenter during a crisis: http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked...

I personally didn't find this piece particularly great, but there's an entry in the genre for you.
not to offend - but what does she get in return of the power? like more fame that turns in to more money? i mean does it become an indirect source of more money thru influential contacts (thru newly attained power) ?... OR is it just plain recognition at the cost of huge money spent on the cause that may or may not give enough ROI (when I say ROI it means money, power, fame etc.)

Sorry but coming from 3rd world country I cant digest that smart people like Meg would spend so much money that is 100% risky investment...? or may be I'm wrong here.
This is so poorly written; no wonder print journalism is dying.

"that Kleiner's ever invested in over it's life."

"from a guy who's firm"

"What makes Doerr's boast even more fascinating is the story about how KP's investment in Zynga never happened." (Then what are we reading about?)

"According to lore" (Is that your official source?)

Not to mention that the article is made up of 13 paragraphs, not one of which has more than a single sentence. Contrast that with any article from NYTimes.com, which is likely to have short paragraphs (as news-style writing does), but not single sentence paragraphs.
Why would you trust HN more than any other news source?
This is not Google per se, it is a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync plugin feature. When you install the Exchange ActiveSync plugin[1], it requests that you authorize the software to have the authority to wipe your phone. You must accept that or not use ActiveSync.

The advantage of ActiveSync is "push" email notifications and integration of your Exchange calendar and address book with the base Android calendar and address book.

If you use IMAP to access the Exchange server, the Exchange server cannot wipe your phone.

If you connect to Google's servers (IMAP), Google cannot wipe your phone via their servers.

[1] On my Nexus One, the ActiveSync email plugin was pre-installed and I don't remember seeing the request for wipe permissions when I first configured it. When Google (or whoever) pushed an update for the ActiveSync plugin, it did ask me for wipe permission. That was my first clue that I sold my soul.
The FAQ at http://lawyerist.com/fujitsu-scansnap-s1500-document-scanner... suggests that it does. Based on the information in the subthread at http://www.documentsnap.com/fujitsu-scansnap-in-linux/#IDCom... , you might run into issues if you are using a distribution of Linux with an older version of sane-fujitsu.
I think it's important to distinguish between being an asshole on the internet and being a poor judge of character.
I did a study of the bigger templating systems available on Java earlier this year and the landscape wasn't that great: JSP, Freemarker, Velocity and a number of smaller projects. We decided that it was worth some time developing a system inspired by Django's lightweight syntax. If you send me a note (matthew@mastracci.com), I can let you know when we get our project up on github. It's rendering every page on gri.pe right now and has been stable for a few months now.
I can only speculate on the reasoning, but Kik competes with BlackBerry Messenger, which is one of the key features that keeps Blackberry competitive in the smartphone market. Its exclusivity to Blackberry devices gives them some network-effect lock-in to the vendor and it is the best messaging system out there.

A lot of their marketing is focusing on how great BBM is and how buying a Blackberry gives you access to this exclusive network of people. BBM is also the source of all those issues in UAE and India where its so secure that governments were threatening to block Blackberry because they couldn't snoop on BBM messages. Basically, BBM is the killer app on Blackberry.

Kik would commoditize BBM across any platform allowing users to freely move between them. The literature for Kik itself describes it as a BBM for all platforms, and I can see how RIM would be concerned that they'd lose one of their few advantages in the smartphone market if Kik supplanted BBM. Again, not sure if this actually was the "behind the scenes" cause, but RIM would definitely have a motivation to kill Kik.
You're confusing portability with requirements. I'm aware that a long tail exists. Linux is a big tent for that sort of thing. I think that's great. I also want the freedom to live outside that tent during the times when all I need are the other 85% of use cases, which as I've shown, can be easily achieved by just one person. I don't believe that just because I ship actually portable executables that are able to do e1000/virtio that every hardware manufacturer is going to be kicking down my door eager to get support for their silicon merged. Linux is already doing a great job at that and I think Cosmopolitan is complementary.
They take it seriously, whether they like it or not: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -Ghandi
> Plopping an entire VM into a zipfile and saying "here's your software" felt like lazy engineering to many of us at the time (and still today).

I've seen this (a long time ago) in the education world market. Very small school with a STEM program. They had specific scientific software they wanted undergrads to use (and some of it was pretty proprietary and used to interface with lab equipment) + a pre-configured IDE.

Instead of going through the compatibility matrix of OS and their versions they just gave all students a VM image that would "just work". Everyone could bring in their own devices and as long as you could run an hypervisor everything would "just work".
It kind of does. In case you haven't noticed yet, the guys that create and enforce laws have a lot of power. Power that can be used against bitcoin if they want for example.
I recently tried Kaitai for something like this. It worked for some nontrivial cases, but I felt like I kept getting bitten by syntax limitations. All the way through, I kept wondering if writing a one off utility might be faster. But it was possible to express variable structures, sizes and counts. I was using the syntax and the cmd line visualizer, but might have been more productive with their html/gui tooling.

http://kaitai.io/
Before electric cars it was hard to really use solar PV produced energy.

But with one or two electric cars and the appropriate amount of battery you'll get way higher PV production use by just charging after work and week-ends.

If my 14 kWh pack does 4000 full cycles that's 56 MWh so 0.03 USD/kWh out of the battery.

$600-700 for a 5kW hybrid inverter (stackable)

PV panels are about $0.4/Wpeak and depending on location, in France 1 Wp will produce about 1kWh/year.

Which brings price under $0.10/kWh for a DIY solar + battery system of 4 kWp PV and 14 kWh battery.
Facebook don’t sell data, they rent out their users.

The more info they have, the more accurate they can be about renting out the right ones.
I think you need to get hands on Front end JavaScript frameworks like AngularJS. Also you should be comfortable with widely used JS libraries and plugins (bootstrap, J query etc)
I've always liked The Story of Mel: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
The commenter above, bmmayer1, noted advertisers would be how that would be done. I believe a similar method was used with search engines.
Indeed. No idea why you thought I was attempting to criticize it, validly or not. I was just trying to elaborate on a previous comment that someone else seemed to have misinterpreted.
There are ISPs that don't throttle your access to the neighborhood pipe? It doesn't have to be artificial, either. Just using better tech for the pipe that has to carry multiple users.
If this was due to a breach at Uber, it stands to reason there would be millions of accounts for sale, not merely thousands. I'm more inclined to believe this is a result of shared and/or weak passwords.
It sounds like a creative way to get around bandwidth allocations.

My service is 3Mbps. My modem & my hardline are both capable of much more, but I only pay for 3Mbps so I only get 3Mbps. I think this trick is basically allowing the author to tap into the unallocated extra modem & line capacity that is currently used to feed xfinitywifi.
> So with this hack you would use only your equipment, you're just taking advantage of both networks that are being broadcast by your router.

Check the article again. The author is connecting his router to his neighbor's hotspot.
This is mostly due to the loose definitions for JSON. It isn't a terribly difficult thing to read, but ambiguity abounds.
Ha, reminds me of the Class 323's we have in Birmingham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y25aCRWgvWc
I've never used a bug tracker that didn't have this kind of problem, are there better ones out there?

That idea of showing the top 10 trending bugs is a good one. I also like the StackOverflow approach of suggesting dupes immediately as you type stuff in, so it would be rad to have a tracker that does that.
Alright I'm going ask him to design a site called http://designfor30bucks.com/
When I looked at my account it only shows 100,000 data points now. It was 500,000 prior to this "upgrade".

update, my mistake, I was looking at the wrong account. I also have 600k now.
If you glance up at a URL and see a bunch of %20 it's going to just look like a mess, whereas seeing a short and relevant URL makes sense.
Nyx, email me tim@mixpanel.com and I'll get this sorted out.
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I found mine for $15.99 and free shipping on eBay.
How? And how much work would that be vs right now.

Continuation: Actually, I thought more about it, and I might have some possible solutions. It would probably change how the game works, though.

If unique players were separate processes altogether and they communicated with the server, then the game could support a plethora of languages because it could run each player as a separate process and link to it.

This seems incredibly dangerous for the server (running rogue programs), and annoying for players ("oh, sorry, your particular language isn't supported :/" or "oh sorry, the most recent version of your language isn't supported, even though you're using brand-new feature X"), but possible.
Oh, thought you were talking about driver-d cars.

With driverless cars, I agree.
Also for 2) the problem of loading everything up front is dealt with by some in process technologies e.g. COM, OSGi. Extremely late binding to statically defined interfaces. You can be productive with that. (more so than microservices in my experience)
Tell us more please. We are pre-seed for-profit with a mission (or for-profit arm of a non-profit company, we don't know yet) and we may have an option to join an accelerator (not YC but one with a good reputation too). What was your legal structure? How did the investor influenced your decisions? Didn't he see that what is best for the mission is best for the profit side of the company too? Did you have any clause stating that part of the revenue will be spent on the mission? I suppose profit is a different think.
It's not that hard to do this and the service it provides is great. I currently live in Princeton, where they have the TigerTracker:
http://princeton.transloc.com/

And I know that, for instance, the Swiss railways can also be tracked in real time:
http://www.swisstrains.ch/
I don't think we can know if that's true or not.

Younger people have been more tech-savvy because they grew up with the technology whereas the older generations had to learn stuff that wasn't around when they were young.

Depending on how tech changes in the future, that could well be the case again. We already know that in thirty years the industry will be SO different to what it is now, will everything be a massive scaling up of what we already know, or will new technology arrive that the new younger-generations will grow up with while we'll be growing old shouting "I REMEMBER WHEN..." - only time will tell.
I like side-boxes: http://www.solipsys.co.uk/HowHighTheMoon.pdf

Put the main stream of information down the left side, and any additional notes in boxes down the right.
I propose the last verse of Martin Niemoller's poem: "Then they came after me..."

It is as powerful a phrase as we can get!
… starting in 1986, at DEC, when it was called MICA.
If your product isn't good enough to succeed (or "win") on an opt-in basis, then your problems run deeper than what coercive sign ups can fix.