jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I hope I was clear about this. You're right. Cardholder data is radioactive. It can't touch your servers. If it does, I have no sympathy for you: you're in for a lot of pain, some of it reasonable and a lot of it not.

Don't touch credit card numbers. Not even to hot-potato it. If it touches you, it leaves a stain, and removing it will cost you high tens of thousands of dollars.
"smtp relay along the way"?

This isn't UUCP, the message will go from A to B across the internet backbone. There will only be SMTP relays along the way if either your email host or the receiver's email host has chosen to set things up that way. We'd have a much bigger problem with internet security if everyone's email was relayed through questionable servers as a matter of course.
I had a hard time articulating what bothered me about Greenwald's article originally, but thanks to this comment I've put my finger on it.

This article is about fake sideline controversies. It's premise is that we care about whether Lamo was serving the country or his own interests, and that we've been poorly served by the media in making that determination.

But that's not a controversy at all. In reality nobody cares why Lamo turned the guy in. What we care about is that (a) a career military IA agent fed confidential information to Wikileaks, an organization that --- by design --- nobody knows anything meaningful about, and that (b) he got caught.

These aren't even value judgements. They're just the atoms of newsworthiness in the story. People with actual access to real secrets will feed things to random people on the Internet, and it is possible for them to get caught when that happens.

Lamo and Poulsen's motivations are a sideshow designed to get us all hyped up about the good-guy-bad-guy narrative, so we can conclude the story with a warm fuzzy "wikileaks good, big governments bad" feeling. Big governments may indeed be bad, but we have to use our brains, our judgement, and our own sense of ethics to make those determinations. Editorial sleight of hand can't do it for us.
I want a button which stops any sounds from playing when page loads. Flash should ask my permission to run the media when I open a page. It gets really annoying when I open page in background and it starts playing some audio.
Email address is not enough. This one case was a coincidence.

"We had a specific problem with the way we dealt with SPF records. Dustin didn't set any up, and there was a specific way that Robin Duckett's email server responded that caused us to flag it as a false negative for spoofing."
>To be honest, we haven't had many complaints about spam emails or spoofs

Because you're below most people's radar. Compared to blogger or anything similar, you barely measure.

So essentially you are practicing security through obscurity.

Of course we know that is foolhardy.
Yes. It induces respect. That is not necessarily a bad thing.

Perhaps C++ is for those who bother to learn a language before using it.
Lamo bad. Poulsen bad. Ok. But it does not therefore follow that Manning is good. Or that Wikileaks is acting ethically and performing a vital service.

Fortunately Greenwald gave us his actual reasoning, rather than the logical reduction which you provided here. You might not agree, but don't give us tripe about his reasoning.
There are two ways to seem smart:

1) Over-complicate everything.

2) Over-simplify everything.

Aaron's essay describes the former. It, and this comment, are examples of the latter.
Unless the chat logs are open to public (of course, after removing the sensitive or personal information as claimed to exist), there would be no way of telling what's true and what's not.

Lamo is indeed a "Look at me" guy and the quotes in that audio interview totally contradict his statements to news sites and agencies about his journalist hat and confidentiality cover and what not .. it was bldy convenient of Lamo to call Poulsen about him being detained involuntarily and then the whole Manning saga a few day later esp. considering the fact that he was in contact with Manning before May 20.

And what journalist doesn't bother to open emails from a potential whistleblower/informer.
I'll throw in a wildcard and say Scott Forstall as the next CEO so he can get his revenge!
> more money makes increasingly smug, but (beyond a certain point) doesn't make your like any more fun

That's not necessarily money's fault, and I'd point out that there are certainly rich people that don't fall into this category.

People who want to pursue happiness need the freedom to do so. Freedom to pursue happiness can be directly correlated with how much money, or wealth, is available to the person.

It's not money's fault that some people don't know how to be truly happy. Money simply affords freedom.

The problem is that with enough freedom and no idea how to be happy in it, you're going to end up in a worse place than if you didn't have the money in the first place.

Money doesn't automatically make people smug and funless (new word?). People make people smug and funless (when they have the freedom and inclination to (unintentionally(?)) do so).
Like banning guns.
Very cool. This was prefigured in Snow Crash, the novel by Neal Stephenson
I do believe in God. I'm a Bahá'í, so I believe that all major world religions come from the same God and have been sent to humanity at different times and in different places according to their needs with the purpose of educating mankind, promoting its wellbeing and advancing civilization. Most of the activities I participate in are initiated by friends at their homes and have the purpose of contributing something to the community (the neighborhood or the town), like devotional gatherings, study circles to raise the capacity to serve, spiritual classes for children, groups for the junior youth, etc. There are some other events for the Bahá'í community but I wouldn't call them ceremonies because we don't have clergy and they are extremely flexible. These events are usually backed by our institutions, such as a Feast every 19 days where we pray and consult together, a quarterly meeting to reflect on the advancements of our endeavors in the betterment of the world and plan ahead, or a yearly convention to elect these institutions.
No, according to course material you're expected to be somewhat experienced in object oriented programming.
Anonbanker doesn't know who Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. So, if you think it's just some made up name it does come across as racist.
Is not a contest for which story could happen more often though.
Also look for places where small businesses use paper :) My fiance and I started a salon together and we started out using an appointment book and client rolodex to track their customers because the software all sucks.

Two months later, I built some software for it with some friends and now we're getting close to being able to launch it to the world :) Every day I walk by 2-3 barber shops and salons in NYC without computers or with old Windows 3.1-esque programs.
You're not talking about digital media in that case. It's the rest of the "digital economy" that matters to them, specifically the telecommunications part.
I think this is more than a bit naive. Companies have a wide variety of values. Some certainly do the best they can for their hires as they’re able, others very shrewdly extract every bit of value they can. Most fall in between in a variety of ways.

But assuming the best intent is just plain ahistorical. We’re only a century out from when companies routinely hired armed security services to threaten and ultimately murder people organizing to get their share of what wealth they created. That’s widely understood to be excessive now and those of us in privileged career positions take that for granted, but I think it’s worth remembering that some people still have that to survive and most of the rest of us are navigating a kinder gentler version.
Basic income experiments show that you can remove poverty by giving people money.
This kind of highlights the problem with these kinds of products. They are extremely difficult to do properly and expose the user to quite a lot of danger. Really we should be settling for “well it is quite hard so we will let these faults pass”. The product should simply not be allowed to be sold if it can not be done properly.
Wrong. Focusing on “us” ends in ruling class and endless poverty everywhere.

Alternatives to capitalism have been tried and it always fails.

Venezuela is the most recent example.
Look up prosperity gospel. There are dozens and dozens of mega churches across the US.
It's very plausible that older generations are much more sexist in certain ways. For example, Feynman getting the nearest "girl" to fetch his soup. http://www.longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-mac...

There is also the issue of having children. One article I read ascribed a great deal of disparity at the top simply to time: If you take time off from your career to raise children, you have thousands fewer hours to devote to your profession. Even if the male partner is willing and able to do the child-rearing, it doesn't follow that the female partner will therefore abdicate.

Assuming reproductive opportunities as a major driver of behavior, professional success leading to increased social status is a far larger differentiator in males. People are lazy and if they don't have to try hard in a certain category, they generally won't. This says nothing about males being smarter; simply that they try harder because they have to in order to get laid. (Or think they do.)

This is somewhat akin to an evolutionary arms race with predators and prey getting better each generation because their counterpart was better in a previous generation.

If a guy is a gamer, so what; everyone knows guys who are gamers. If a guy is a scientist, so what; everyone knows guys who do that. If a guy makes $100k a year, so what; everyone knows guys who do that. You have to do even better in order to stand out. (Note the attention you'd get, however, if you were a female in any of these categories.)

Likewise, nobody is surprised when Grandma can cook, to take a traditional gender example. But a guy who can cook like Grandma? Now that stands out.

So to some extent it doesn't even matter which gender did which thing -- divvied up randomly, whichever category is overrepresented may start a self-feeding evolutionary cycle within that category.

This could mean that something which was purely social ends up leading to a genetic difference. For example, male 3D spatial relation ability.

By the same token, I would expect female lions to be better at this than male lions!

By contrast, there is nothing about a female being predisposed to be a good scientist which would make you stand out as a good mate in, say, Saudi Arabia. And it could be downright dangerous in Afghanistan under the Taliban. If your abilities aren't recognized as a positive then they won't result in positive selection pressure.

All it takes is selection pressure and you eventually get a noticeable genetic difference. Social differences are a huge selection pressure, so it would be astounding if there WEREN'T genetic gender differences in aptitude for certain subjects.

Hmm, I think I just shot down the political correctness lobby by working from first principles.
What about those things is undesirable? Leaving religion aside, it seems like all those (OpenOffice aside :) lead to a much happier state of mind than the alternative.
I think it mirrors the way women might experience a physics class. They might feel like the class is about things that other people value, and that might make them perform worse.
wxPython does work on pypy http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/05/running-wxpython-on-top...
I'm sure a decent proportion of scientists, mathematicians, physicists, and folks in fields that tend to be dominated by men that couldn't give a toss for the gender of their fellow researchers. They couldn't care in the least who's publishing and who else inhabits their labs. They care about the truth.

Unfortunately, it only takes a few extremely chauvinistic individuals to sour an entire field towards women. If you look through James D. Watson's book The Double Helix, you'll see dozens of disparaging references to Rosalind Franklin[1], inditing her for such crimes as not wearing enough makeup, and being a woman running a chem lab.

I think the flavor of a field can be tinted strongly by edge cases. Although it is a form of confirmation bias, I believe people can't help applying extreme behaviors by individuals to their understanding of the group. I'm sure if I heard the president of some college spouting racial epithets, I'd look a little more sternly on the college as a whole and question how it treats its students. I would make the association that if someone with these views was allowed to become an authority, if it had taken a number of people who shared these views to allow them to get there.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin Rosalind Franklin had an incredibly fascinating life, and most likely would have been credited with a Nobel prize for the discovery of the DNA helix if she hadn't died before it was awarded. She actually died of ovarian cancer, caused by the xray machinery she operated in investigating the composition of the DNA crystal.
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to best solve this problem without complicating the UI.

I've thought about making everything ajax so you can use your arrow keys to navigate through polls much easier. The overhead for that would take some time.

I believe we may launch publicly launch as is (after bugs are fixed), then go from there. I'll keep you updated though.
I'm pretty sure that all you need to start with is linear programming and the Aggregate Production Planning model -- which is usually being used for physical manufacturing, but can be adapted to electricity production. Ideally you'd want a MILP solver to make automated decisions to assign certain binary variables (for example whether or not to build certain large-scale storage projects of very specific sizes -- typically PHES, since they're all different), but you can often get by by simply generating multiple models for every combination of binary variables and picking the best one. Similarly you can handle the integration of nuclear power plants, which would be integer variables (for example the number of 1 GWe blocks in operation) -- just generate N models for 0..N-1 nuclear reactors on the grid. I did one such model for the Czech grid some time ago but I'd have to dig it up. The basics are not difficult, though -- just split up the time period into intervals of a suitable size and observe in each time interval that Production_t + Storage_t - Consumption_t - Storage_t+1 = 0. That's what I did, having known production models but having read no papers on the renewable storage subject either. The logic is the same, though. I just got my grid information from https://open-power-system-data.org/ and ran with it.
That was the story of beriberi too.

Beriberi was studied by the Japanese at a time when the theory of infections germs was developed by the Germans, and the Tokio University bought fully into this theory. There was another guy called Kanehiro Takaki who proved that it was actually caused by bad nutrition, but the Japanese army chose to ignore his findings until the Russo-Japanese war which cost so many lives due to beriberi that they were forced to adapt a better diet.
I'm amazed that anyone can come up with new projects on the pi right now. I guess some people have a backstock of unused ones.

They're so hard to find around here that they're being scaled at $200/pop for the 4s.
I don't agree with this writer on any of these points, it seems like he's trying to come up with some efficient market hypothesis describing how low-level workers are "different" than those of us in tech, when no such thing exists, in fact it's incredibly narcissistic.

My first job was making $7 an hour at Best Buy, then Staples, then a local company for a few years. Now in the mid 6-figures in tech. The thing about all my former co-workers was the vast majority of them were normal and intelligent people. In fact they were a lot less 'oddball' types than half the people I've worked with who want to tell me about a Soylent diet or how they were enlightened by taking recreational drugs in Peru for the 15th time.

The reason people are high earners a combination of Luck + Supply and Demand + Right place at the right time. Grit plays a part too, but not in the sense of pulling all-nighters or working yourself to death. Grit means being in more "right places" at more "right times", working hard on skills that have ROI, and increasing the chances you get lucky.
Any time I hear complaints about "the other side" being bad without recognition of failures of "their side" I can't help but dismiss that as petulance.

The "freedom" protest was an anti-vax protest, no? I get the problem with being subjected to a mandated medical treatment but that's also balanced by a less than respected take on the anti-vax movement in general (IMHO being anti-science and anti-reason).

And as to censorship, there's some speech which is not healthy for society and should not be promoted. How that is done is a delicate and dangerous dance but to engage on that subject without acknowledging that issue is disingenuous at best.

Edit: I'll show a case of where "liberals" (a group that I would be lumped into) are wrong: cases where college students block access to speakers they disagree with. Wrong wrong wrong.

My point remains that not ever admitting fault is being dishonest -- lies of omission are still lies.
Henry George’s LVT is a 100% tax on land rents. A 100% tax is also known as a seizure. Maybe there is some tax rate that would make this more in line with existing corporate or income taxes but setting it so low would also undermine its key benefits.
In the US we don't have the concept of `plain meaning rule`. Which means many contract and some laws as draw up to be intentionally confusing.
At least he assigned a word deadline and not a page deadline. I wish schools would let you get feedback on an essay from the teacher and then hand it in again. Revision is not emphasized.
I found this one interesting: http://betweenthebars.org/posts/28/untitled
Agreed, but to be clear, the luxury I was referring to was specifically having the DEV and PROD staff being totally separate teams/individuals, not just the separation of environments. In other words, nobody on the DEV team did any PROD operations, except in the case of bug investigation, tuning advice, etc.
That cable map is at http://eu-ix.equinix.com/joomladev/images/repository/Equinix...
That's not fragmentation, that's lack of a particular feature.
I started learnimg Scala in the midst of the "2.7 vs. 2.8" turmoil and all I can say is that it wasn't just fairies and unicorns. Hopefully that's gone now and everything I use seems to work with Scala 2.8. All I can say is that I love the language and I keep using it. It's fit for super-serious development.

I sometimes think the problems came from library authors that jumped to Scala 2.8 too soon. Kudos to the Lift framework guys for maintaining builds that work both with Scala 2.7 and 2.8!
The statement:

This is the dumbest thing I've read today.

and:

if I need a reservation to eat at your establishment, and you're not on Urbanspoon's Rez system or on OpenTable, you may as well not even exist.

are in direct conflict.
The headings speak for themselves:

"Avoid the obvious content"

"Take the less usual side"

"Slip out of abstraction"

"Get rid of obvious padding"

"Call a fool a fool"

"Beware of pat expressions"

"Colorful words"

"Colored words"

"Colorless words"

Though [edit] the titles are a good summary of the article [/edit] (as per "slip out of abstraction") the examples given are humorous, thorough, and help in really getting the point being made.

It's interesting to consider how the author's (sometimes verbose) sentences could be shortened. If writing for pure conciseness, what would you cut out? Which parts are completely necessary? Are the rephrasings necessary to convey the different aspects of the current point? Is the example given important enough to stay?

"Pat expressions are hard, often impossible, to avoid, because they come too easily to be noticed and seem too necessary to be dispensed with."

=> "Pat expressions cannot always be avoided."

"A writer's work is a constant struggle to get the right word in the right place, to find that particular word that will convey his meaning exactly, that will persuade the reader or soothe him or startle or amuse him."

=> "Each situation calls for a certain word with a certain connotation; the writer toils to find it."

Again, there's no problem -- it's excellent writing, it just struck me that word golf could be as interesting as code golf. What is the shortest possible phrasing to express this exact idea? (I suppose we're doing it all the time, except in English classes where word count is the goal.)
Super-resolution reconstruction: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=super-resolution+reconst...

Zoom. Enhance!
I replied to your top-level comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2034926.
To paraphrase that eternal optimist William Gibson, the technological and social windows for becoming Steve Jobs are very narrow.

Also, does Obama know about Jobs early "blue boxing" days?
The article says it is bad design. You have just repeated what the article said. Furthermore, I don't think good aesthetics is easy at all.
This post makes good points, the title is a bit unfortunate however, since it has little to do with what the author actually claims.
Okay, if you purchase and keep around a machine that sprays you with hot soapy water... you are a design snob. Or, more likely, you're just using something as an extended metaphor. Can you REALLY not know when it's on? Or is it just for the purposes of this article. They love to take literary liberties at 37Signals. I can imagine it happening a few times, but it's likely there is some indication that it's on and a slight bit of attention paid to that keeps you from making the same mistake.
Not only am I willing, I think it's sometimes very smart to turn away interested customers now and then. The tricky part is determining who and when. May I ask why you prefer to browse without JS? And what do you primarily use the internet for?
Why are you blaming the startup founders? You chose to work for "almost free". And if you have "absolutely nothing to show for it" after working at four startups - where learning is accelerated - it's probably not the startup founders' fault.

Don't mean to be harsh but giving responsibility for your decisions to others is a recipe for unhappiness (and cynicism).
If they are using pressure in the system, the air/gas could bubble back through even a proper p-trap.
Wait is this serious?

I mean second hand bicycles are a big market in the Netherlands, what kind of checks should you go through to make sure a private bicycle seller is legitimate.

I mean if you are buying a banged up 'stationfiets' just to commute is there really a way to know?
so you think it was only faster because GPU init overhead?
Then I simply don't understand. Coq au vin is pronounced cock, not cog.
> Samsung TVs will forcibly connect to any open AP to get internet access...

I wonder what the legal consequences of that.

What if the open network is pay-per-bandwidth-usage? Could the owner bring you to court, since you own the TV? And could you bring Samsung to court over that?

Just wondering.
has been planning this change for many, many years

A decade? That would explain why it's an improvement instead of a diminution.
Yes, and has been so for at least 17 years: https://search.maven.org/

But it's not necessarily centralized, Java package management tools can use many third party repositories, if needed, and can also use proxy/cache/mirror systems where for example a company can point all their package manager just to their official company repo and everything goes through it.

BTW, Java's not interpreted, it's compiled. Just not to native code.