jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'd say option two is the only one viable. You deny access to the service until credentials are set by the user. You print huge warning labels while the credentials are set by the user to remind them of the possible consequences of setting weak credentials.

Yes, lost credentials will be subject of many support calls. Then, it boils down to your priorities. If you care about minimizing support calls, then sure, leave everything open to everyone. It will surely result in fewer access problems.

On the other hand, if your motivation is actually preventing your end-users from doing stupid things, it makes sense to just do the most conservative thing as default. Let the user change to the more liberal option, but not before informing them of all dangers that might befall them in that case.

I refuse to believe in this narrative of the end-user just being a stupid automaton who does not have any agency, and that any default imposed upon them will just result in them overriding the default with their terrible practices and ideas. I think there is a possibility of education and risk reduction.
Ah... but that is very inconvenient :( I guess comfort comes at a cost.

Is there at least a less shady provider if I would like to compromise myself but a bit less than nordvpn? How far do we go in assuming all are bad?
There's also a more discursive article here about his thought process and some of his activities:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-moment-a-chinese-spy-dec...

I particularly liked his quote here, which echoes my thoughts on even 'benevolent dictatorship':

“China’s view of life and the world simply cannot create outstanding talents because it is totalitarianism, it is dictatorship,” Wang says. “I hope that my child and my family can ... do something for human beings. I feel that in Australia this can be achieved.”
> paying an undergrad full college costs in exchange for a guaranteed employee for 2-4y post graduation at market rate.

Check out the SMART fellowship
while love is going down http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=love&year_sta... sad..
I browse through the titles of the news and read only those that are really of my interest. I cherrypick the news I read and I find a good think that not all the news are of my interest because I don't have enough time to read them all. Sometimes I find interesting articles on fields I wouldn't have researched on my own.
you can get just the adjustable lift/legs parts from Geekdesk GDB1 the base-only is expensive, but not so expensive. My company is about to build about a dozen desks based on the Geekdesk legs and custom tops. but now that we see your desk, we may build a cable slot/box on the back that matches your design. Awesome.
Two quick examples of double trademarks:

Apple Records (Beatles) and Apple (Steve Jobs). They started with an agreement to stay clear of the others turf, but then Apple Computing got into music. I think they went to court before working something out.

WWF (World Wrestling Federation vs World Wildlife Fund). They went to court and the wrestling became WWE.
I think this interview does a good job of showing just how easy people like Letterman and O'Brien make interviewing look.
I kind of hope for something like this to happen to Flickr, too -- Yahoo has had good taste on acquisitions, but such a waist of potential is sad.
Sure, assuming everything is working properly. What happens if Google decides to lock you out of your account?
Simple:

"Google made a 10% across-the-board salary increase, which is driving up expenses this year."

"[Amazon] spent ferociously to build more fulfillment centers and expand its technology offerings."
You cannot know for sure how many leap seconds there will be in for instance the next 5 years. So you cannot know for sure exactly how many seconds there will elapse from now until for instance July 1st 2020 midnight UTC.
One way of looking at the coverage issue is that high coverage isn't a very strong positive signal, but low or absent coverage is a strong negative signal.

It's also interesting to combine metrics like cyclomatic complexity, or relative churn rate, with coverage. Files/modules with high complexity/churn and low coverage are much scarier than those with low complexity and low coverage
no i mean the fees paid to the government for the visas. employee salaries shouldn't go towards training of other future employees.
Reminds me of Metropolis light transport.
These are great points you're making. And I think the way you are making them is very intuitive. It is impossible to default on a currency you control. You just print some more space-credits. I think you sum up why you should always be printing space-credits nicely.

Reminds me a bit of what Paul Krugman has been saying over on his NYTimes blog: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/

> Why don't more people understand this? Partly it's because the growth of the economy is a historically new phenomenon, dating back only about 150 years.

I personally think the reason people don't understand this is because they think that a government should be run the way a family should: save and don't live off credit.
what about a brand like Boost Mobile making a strong move in this space with an unlimited data plan behind their own microSIM for $15/month?

Boost Mobile runs on Sprint's CDMA network. While the phones do have SIM cards, these were inherited from Nextel's iDen, and are likely not compatible with the GSM radios inside the iPad.
Yeah, I've found past 5 or so people, text works a lot better for the major portion of the discussion. We even use IRC as a main meeting medium for one project.

However, this does require that everyone be "text-fluent", i.e. able to effectively produce and understand communications in a text-chat medium, in a way that feels like conversation rather than people sending short memos to each other. True of most people <30; intermittently true of people above that age, depending on the person.
You absolutely could as an initial step in a poor man's solution. However, I wouldn't call this a great UX. It means that all the ones I want to keep will continue to appear every time I need to cleanup. That doesn't group by sender, nor does it sorting out YouTube-like forwards from my dad's friends from the actual content my dad has sent.

I could go on and on for what I'd consider a great cleanup experience. It's surprising to me that such a thing doesn't exist, nor is it the kind of thing that's built into Gmail itself. You'd figure they would be best to offer a simple cleanup experience that has sane defaults.
I'm surprised, because you don't often hear that particular criticism of 2C-B.
Mostly, people complain about nausea, or the fact that it burns very painfully when people insuflate it

Purity and accurate dosage is a function of your vendor. Buying 2C-B pills will be more dangerous, they are notoriously underdosed and should ideally be sent to a lab first, but at the very least spot-checked with a reagent test kit.

Duration is a subjective preference, I feel. LSD is nice, I like it very much, but I can understand than 12 hours uninterrupted is not something everyone can allocate in their schedule.
And the all time favourite: "This programm has violated system integrity and must be terminated"
That works once everyone is already a cohesive, functioning group. If you can get that culture on a ship going, and keep it going? Yes, that is far far better.

What happens if you are handed a group who isn’t already disciplined, knows their jobs well, works together/has the sharp interpersonal bits ground off, etc?

The whole orders, strong command authority, etc. thing is because that is the minimum functional level that is shown to work in combat situations, not because it is the maximum possible or the ideal.

It provides the tools to deal with a lot of common brokenness in groups. It means ‘easy’ breaking of ties or deadlocks in a well known way, avoids most of the confusing ambiguity about what to do when no one is able to process what is going on or things are changing very rapidly, it provides a scalable and field expedient way to deal with bad actors or sudden unexpected personnel issues while also keeping at least the possibility of clear accountability (chain of command), and it formalizes a set of explicit interdependencies and expectations between those who are giving orders (officers) and those doing most of the dangerous or shitty work (enlisted).

it also has negative side effects, and rarely is anyone actually happy with it, but it has generally worked for what it has been required to do and be.
My favorite story by Chiang, "Liking What You see", is available online: http://www.ibooksonline.com/88/Text/liking.html
Where do I get the t-shirt?
I think the casino is the #1 scumbag not the employee. The employee was a gambling addict and the casino willingly exploited her addiction:

> Clerke is now in prison and none of her close relatives would talk to ABC Investigations for this story. The closest we can get to understanding her behaviour is through what was said in court, and through Hannah*, a gaming attendant who worked in the club back when Clerke was obsessively playing the poker machines there.

> "She was quiet and pretty much kept to herself. But she was lovely. She would come in at night and would often leave at closing, at 4am," Hannah says.

> "She was one of the big spenders. I was told [by a colleague] she was the number 1 gambler in the club."

> The court heard that a forensic psychologist had found that Clerke suffered from fear and anxiety, and that she played the poker machines to help her cope with her distress.

> As someone who suffered from low self-esteem, Clerke would have appreciated the VIP treatment and attention she received at St Marys Leagues club.

> "Vicki was at the highest level in the rewards program which is called Pink Diamond," says Hannah. "That meant she got VIP service from a personal attendant, free soft drinks and coffee, meals from her rewards points. All those on the top rewards tier are made to feel special."

I used to work next to a company that ran an online gambling site. They were about ten employees, some developers, a few graphic designers and project managers. One of them revealed that almost all their profit came from a dozen whales. One girl who worked there was their chat moderator. Her job was to greet the whales in their virtual lobby, cheer for them when they won and "comfort" them when they lost.
I guess since it was the same team and the money was coming from the team's first bootstrapped business it all seemed like just adding another product to me. But yeah, it was written up more like it was simply subsidized by a group of investors who happened to be the founders.
It would be curious how the court would interpret this. Just wait for the next high profile SEC shakedown.
It seeems like Wuffs is not really designed to support dynamic memory allocation at all, which is typical for usecases like oneshot parsers.
Video saved to watch later, thanks mate. Though I must say I like your first unedited answer too, so I'll put it back here.

> Its pretty simple. We zap sand with lightning until it starts thinking for us.
See also https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/some-principles-and-obs...
> The problem is that he attempted to question the ideological firmaments of contemporary anti-racist training. These firmaments are protected with aggressive viciousness precisely because they cannot withstand scrutiny. Had Bhattacharya merely scoffed at them, or even if he had been outright condescending and dismissive, he probably would not have received such a severe punishment. The problem was that he was right, and his accusers knew it.

This line of reasoning doesn't seem logical to me, but perhaps someone can explain it to me. I don't see how responding with "aggressive viciousness" leads to a conclusion that one knows their position doesn't make sense and that they are in the wrong. This reminds me of reasoning I might associate with a children's playground: "you got mad when I said it, so the rumor must be true!"
That would be pretty hard to do in our data rich environment. It's pretty easy to look up historical prices of things like oil, wheat, and other commodities, as well as labor, automobiles, and other consumer goods. Even a small systematic manipulation would become really obvious after a decade or two.
I find the pi to be a better version of Arduino boards. On the rpi I can run virtually any programming language without many restrictions at all.

I find it easier to control SPI/i2c devices using Ruby or Rust on an rpi than to use C on an atmel chip.

Its also nice to be able to SSH in to it and deploy new code without having to plug it in to my computer.
For the most part, sales tax is a state and local tax and so doesn't affect federal receipts.
Oh, also, the public rosters of companies bought by Google aren't accurate. I know because I worked for a company that was bought by Google. It was technically a "merger" and escaped some scrutiny that way? I'm hazy on the details but either way it doesn't show up in lists.
There's no point in buying an unrelated business that you're going to leave operating as usual - you might as well just invest that money on the stock market instead, or pay it out to your shareholders. So presumably if a company is buying a solution to X then it believes it can gain a competitive advantage by integrating X into the rest of its business.

Given that, I would've thought that the earlier you buy the thing, the easier it is to integrate it with the rest of your company and the quicker you start gaining the benefits of that. Waiting to buy the winner shouldn't be any cheaper than buying all the competitors in the field at the start, because it's no secret how everyone's doing. So the only reasons not to develop in-house from day 1 are if you're not as good at developing things as a small independent company, or there's some other advantage that you're missing, or the option value from the fact that small companies can go bankrupt on their own (but that's only really applicable if the business is capital-intensive).
>That's equivalent to saying Samsung can't improve the same exact technology used by AU Optronics. Rightfully so.

Well, that "rightly so" is where we disagree - and what patents were made to provide. If you are pro-patent, then that's that.
The US doesn’t have any Block 60 or 70/72 so it’s a tricky comparison due to low production numbers. Looking at the US’s actual fleet the F16 was a much cheaper aircraft and likely would have stayed at roughly those numbers.

Anyway, we already had the F22, the F35 was supposed to be the cheaper alternative and it mostly delivered on that. But now we have a very capable aircraft with far to many roles to excel at all of them while still being quite expensive to operate.
Wait, so nobody who participates in CPI surveys chooses to publish the specific questions? Is it illegal for the respondents to do that?

I know somebody who got a CPI survey last year -- maybe I can ask her.
This feels like a spaghetti-at-the-wall sort of objection blob but let's see if I can disentangle some spaghetti.

When I said moderators didn't do anything, I meant we didn't penalize the post or override any of the software affecting its rank (or anything else). I was not talking about Sartrean inaction, which ontologically is also action.

Sometimes we do specific things, depending on...things? Who doesn't "admit" that? Everything the mods do is special treatment? Not following you. Instinct? Yes. Whim? No.

Stripe wasn't coached in how to become a community darling. At least I never saw that. They were just really good at making products, writing, and interacting with the community. Is the community naturally biased towards YC? In some ways yes and in other ways biased against - it's complicated. jgc (assuming you mean jgrahamc of Cloudflare) is not part of a YC startup, so I assume that's actually a counterexample.

Unconscious bias? I strongly agree. But if you're making some specific point about it, I'd like to hear something specific—otherwise it seems kind of hand-wavey.
These contexts don't change the idea in rule 1, but they do change the definition of what is "necessary". There are words that "dilute" a message and are not necessary to convey the literal meaning. But usually we don't want just the literal meaning of things, we want a certain level of dilution. Without it, prose can be clear and specific, but at the same time becomes dense and unreadable. Lots of academic writing is like that.

There are words that are necessary for the _overall effect_, even if not necessary for the literal communication goal of a set of words.
I'm skeptical. Coca Cola and Pepsi have fairly distinct flavor profiles. There are some that I could see being more problematic. Like RC vs Pepsi, which have a similar profile. But Sprite? Nah, that's got a strong citrus component that definitely doesn't exist in a cola.
Seems "good enough" to me. Currently it's 123430 deposits in total that are inside tornado. The risk is that exchanges will "taint" any ETH that has been passes through there, even if you could prove it's legal income.
Sorry, I meant the email functionality is 1 step and trivial, since they already have an inbox system in place. The search would be much more difficult to do well of course, but i'd suggest a recommendation based search (like Google +1) could be up and running within a year quite easily given their resources.
Not too strange when you consider that most people don't understand networking and the internet.

From the point of view of some people:
"It's the Playstation Network, obviously you have to use a Playstation to get on the Playstation Network. You can't use a computer, they aren't compatible!"

I can't come up with a direct analogy for a similar lack of comprehension, but I keep thinking of the apocryphal stories of people that lock themselves out of their cars with the windows down, and freak out because they don't think of reaching through the window to unlock it manually.
Hey
He wanted to make games. I wanted to find a common activity with him that would be interesting for both of us.
The key here, I think is that it was his idea - something that he wanted to do. So I had several conversations with him till I understood better what he wanted to do. During that time I also explained him the choices he has to make (i.e compromise on requirements but deliver faster).
Never developed games before but have long career as a software developer so it was both interesting to learn game development together with him and not so hard for me - thereby allowing us to get results quickly without affecting my other time commitments.
The most important aspect for me was to keep him going and not giving up.
This meant choosing tools that have small learning curve.
Then choosing tasks that are small enough so that we could complete them quickly.
The above creates a quick positive feedback loop, which keeps him interested to go further.
I am also having lot’s of fun.
The challenging parts is to know where to let him take on a challenge by himself and where to give more help. In general you should give as much help as he needs and over time the kid gets more stuff done alone. But I also had to push him in this direction by giving him different ideas of things he could compete by himself.
The other challenge is more mine personal where I still have to commit enough free time to have a few sessions per week with him to work on the game.
Open access are not always free. I think one of the biggest materials science journal is asking from the authors to pay something in the order of $4,000 to make it open access [1].

The trick is to kick out out the for-profit middlemen who are taking advantage of the prestige and impact that various journals built over time, and now they just receive paychecks and free labor.

[1] https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Au...
just found some similar discussion on Quora FYI.

Always Assume Competition:
http://www.quora.com/Babak-Nivi/Always-assume-competition
This post is 5 years old... C# is now at version 4 and has a boatload of functional features.
here is the google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QtSME0q...
This deal involves 3000 employees moving from Nokia to Accenture. All of them work on Symbian in several different countries. It's a big bunch of people, even by Accenture's standards.
Well. If you are near an access point apple knows about or just by geolocating your IP address, the iPhone can still download datapoints from that central database that allow it to quickly locate you.

That file on the iphone is just a local copy of the relevant parts of the central database.

Sure. It might be 10 seconds instead of one second now, but that's a reasonable tradeoff compared to the huge log it currently makes. IMHO.
Ironically, shrinking the geolocation cache will result in more frequent requests to the server, making it theoretically easier for Apple to track your location.
Since RiderOfGiraffes is not around any more, I'll point out that this has been on HN a couple of times before, with some interesting discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883663

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407796

I'm still sympathetic to the author's plight because my experiences have been similar. After learning Python and Haskell (and Clojure) and then returning to Java, I find myself missing features like first class functions and list comprehensions and so on. It's hard coming to terms with the fact that you're back in Blub and having to cram your thinking back into that box. It isn't so much becoming a worse programmer as becoming a more frustrated programmer.
Only secret chats, and seems people using WhatsApp, tiktok or FB do not care
>The benefits of using a templating system is not worth the cost of introducing the tooling it requires.

Other people use static site generation, you use search and replace in your editor - not much of difference. Your approach is slower in long term, but with your on average 1 article per year it will take some time until you reach the threshold.
You have such a naive stereotype about Japanese people
The webpage reads like marketing material, and the linked audit reads as if the auditors did not operate at arms-length from Secomba.
Sentence #1 of the abstract of the OG paper.

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution"

"Payments" appears in literally sentence #1.
Good news. The torrents are takin' over. Also available via slsk.
It's not just "promising" to certify Harmony. Sun had a contractual obligation to do so.
You are assuming time is constant. It is not.
I don't agree. If you want people to pay, give the software a licence that requires people to pay a fee. You can still release the source, you don't need to do anything about it.

There's a thread over on reddit about how major vendors haven't donated to OpenSSH. OpenSSH comes with a highly unrestrictive licence. If the authors don't like it, then that licence might not be right for the project.

If you feel a debt to OSS it's better to contribute back. Looking at what Gabriel is doing in this respect is that he's effectively swapping his time for money, which is fine. But I don't think companies should be required to do this unless it's clear upfront.
I like Jim's response on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jimjag/status/4284342641623040