jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
TurboTax hasn't tricked me into doing anything. I am fully aware that all the forms can be completed manually. I can still remember my Dad sitting at the kitchen table for several nights with all the forms and a calculator every year.

The fees TurboTax charges are worth it to me because I don't want to have to sit at the kitchen table every year and hope that I understand the instructions well enough to fill out all the necessary forms. I can't Unit Test my tax forms. But TurboTax can (and does) and thus it's worth it to me to pay a yearly fee for the convenience. They keep up with all the tax code changes and I complete a 45-minute survey once a year. Boom. Done.
I guess that proves his point - Facebook itself admits how worthless their advertising platform is when it come to influencing important/powerful people.
Cheers. Yeah, sorry, should have mentioned "not statistically significant". We've only just started promoting: so around 500 page views.
Depends on the traffic. The conversion rate I get for people who google for "Tarsnap" is about 10x higher than the conversion rate I get for people following links from my blog, which is about 10x higher than the conversion rate I got from Google Adwords.
I don't know the exact details (or, this may be all there is to it), but, I've seen a few people mention that votes below -4 are still counted, but the total will never be shown anything lower. IIRC, someone compared it to the (in)famous orange dot experiment.
Intranet systems, and those connecting thereto ( e.g. corporate VPN clients ) should really be using only a trusted internal CA with mutual server- client authentication. Probably with hard coded cert signature on each end.

For example on our network every user-laptop-service combination has a unique cert. A user can be dropped from, say, accessing IMAP with a single change on the server and without affecting their webmail access.

MITM is very difficult in that scenario as the attacker had to compromise both ends.
What would you do with a Nexus One, without a GSM network or without the Internet? By itself it's pretty useless.
When you're looking at sites like reddit, hacker news and others which don't have a great/nicely looking user interface you would think it's not that important. But I think it also depends on the target group. For consumer-oriented, less internet savy people websites it is essential to have an appealing professional looking design, great usability, ease-of-use and optimised text.

So to answer your question I would release an early messier version to a closed group of beta users, ie. early adopters but before pushing onto the mass market I'd clean it up.
Why not just write a function? You can do this without restarting tour julia session every time...
Sure: just look at whether the claimed "science" has an actual track record of correct predictions to back up its claims. The nice thing about this method is that it doesn't require you to understand anything about how the scientific model makes its predictions; it could be reading tea leaves or using a magic 8-ball for all you know. The model itself is just a black box that outputs predictions, and all you need to check is how well the predictions matched reality.

The usual objection to this is that it's hard to assemble the data to make these evaluations. But imagine if society's standard response to this was to simply ignore any scientific claims not backed up by publicly available data sufficient to evaluate the predictions on which the claims are based? Note that physicists, for example, have no trouble making reams of data freely available online, or writing periodic review articles that summarize the current state of scientific models in a field, with copious references to the original research that verified the predictions.
I am pretty incredulous at this counting as "forcing you to use a REPL". It is a couple of extra characters compared to what pip, nvm, cargo do, and you can just make your own shell alias for it. And I am not even mentioning the significant advantages it has over pip, especially for binary dependencies.
Batteries solve a different problem. They can smooth over daily shortfalls, but aren't so great when you have a week-long aberration. To fix that, you need significant overprovisioning or alternate means of generation.

That is, if you depend upon wind and wind is screwed up for a week... batteries aren't going to let you stretch limited solar all night long.
Trusting the science is meaningless and more akin to scientism, a kind of religion.

Science says very little about the things we actually care about.
I frequently add videos to playlists, both educational content and music-related, and I see "video was removed" more often than I'd like.

I set up youtube-dl to fetch all videos in my playlists daily at 4am. Digital hoarding is very cheap.
And here comes philosophy. Is it that hard to point out flaws where beneficiaries are few and uneven? It should be obvious to anyone from looking at the numbers, yet literally nothing is done until powder keg explodes. And then things can go even worse.

Most importantly, nobody is actually experimenting. (Not even the Chinese.) Status quo is king, old tried solutions are queen, and propaganda is jack.
> the system assigns a unique identifier that will be embedded in the file, which is added to the content repository.

So.. what would prevent the pirates from stripping that identifier and uploading video “as new”?
This methods does not always work if the intersections are too close to each other in some small edge cases. You usually just need to space things out more which will in turn tear up part of your city.

Another method he uses with that mod is to sometimes not allow changes anywhere on the road. Then he forces them to pick a lane when they cross an intersection that connects to the road.

Also along main roads with lots of intersections he has all the feeder roads yield and tells all the intersections to go on through.
It's very very common. But when domestic media won't cover it full stop, and even social media is heavily censored, it's hard to tell.

My view is based on ex-pats who've shared their experience and did pseudo journalism there.
Hi Marc,

no worries, i'll definitely incorporate some of your advice into future versions.
And Fox News was not the only thing identified with this separation. On the flip side, HuffPost basically fell in to the same category of good source for general news, don't use for politics.
Making things up as you write is totally fine! Just don't pretend it's based on actual history and make snarky comments about Aragorn's tax policy.
Also see the term "barbecue". A good portion of words in any language have just been appropriated and mangled along the way.
There are no cookie policies in the EU. What we do have is a policy around personal data and identifying users, and cookies are mentioned in passing as a particular way this is achieved in practice.
> All the commands he/she mentioned have classic counterparts with Home/End/etc keys, available pretty much everywhere. I use them a lot even now, writing this comment.

Many of those keys require you to move your hands far from the home row (in ways that make it slower for me to type them). I find that the vim equivalents are easier to touch type. Plus many of the gains are not just in the motion, but in editing commands (as well as combinations of the two).

To each his own.
Why USDT and not USDC or DAI? Don't you feel like holding USDT makes you complicit in whatever shit is going on?

Also, I would be very, very weary of using an centralized exchange that "can not hold fiat". With the layer-2 projects that are coming now (take a look at loopring or Stakenet), you can transact as much as you want, no gas fees and exchange fees are about the same as any CEX.
From Linus' post:

"And you're just full of bullshit."

You can be "abrupt and to the point" without personal attacks. Linus personally attacked him, without knowing all the facts.
In your website's example, you have

bcrypt(password, salt+pepper)

Observe the difference between that and the rehash you just posted

bcrypt(bcrypt(password, salt), pepper)
As someone who owns an iPhone, I don't think it's really substantially improved my quality of life. It makes some things more convenient, but doesn't really enable me to do anything I couldn't do before with other separate devices, and it can be a major source of distraction at times.
There was another app from another YC company that _used_ to be online at one point (I believe it was called "PG Bot"), but had been taken down when we needed it. So we wrote something from scratch, but very similar.
I added a couple of comments to the post, at:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2015/03/dunderdoc-simple-python-in...
On a multiuser system there are various cases where being able to predict the PID of a process allows attack against naive code. eg. If a process uses the pid to generate a tmp file name, someone sneaks in first and makes it a link and uses that to put content into an arbitrary file they shouldn't have write access to.

Now, there is a valid contention that any code doing that is broken anyway and should just be fixed, and most code is much better about this now than 15 years ago. There is another contention that randomizing pids can help so why not.

See http://marc.info/?t=94754302700001&r=1&w=1 and http://marc.info/?t=94759485200001&r=1&w=1 for old discussion.
To my mind, the reason that #2 has any merit is that governments claim (at least in liberal democracies) to be beholden to you while corporations are not.
The government is accountable to you in ways that companies are not.

In theory at least. I end up much closer to #4 since I'm not convinced that the government-people feedback loop works correctly, but I can imagine circumstances in which I might be #2.
And recognize or communicate uncertainty. Too often I think that people like to brush uncertainty under the carpet, and then forget that their nice clean plan is just one of many possible outcomes.
Drug users are "only" about one third to one half of acquisitive crime.

Copper theft, at least in England, tends not to be addicts because it doesn't fit the lifestyle.
Ok, but "be a billionaire and start a VC firm" and "kick ass" aren't actionable pieces of advice for anyone except the half-dozen or so women he mentioned.

I appreciate the characterization of VC firms as clubs though. That makes sense.
Would anyone use a service that tells you where discussion is going on for any given article? I use HN exclusively for the most elevated discussion of most articles I read.

However often times HN hasn't linked it, or there is no discussion on the linked article.

Where else is discussion going on?

Reddit? Disqus? The articles comment section? Facebook? Slashdot?

Wouldn't it be cool to see where discussion is happening for the article you've just read, and then choose where you'd like to engage? Worth building this service? Like an inverse Disqus.
Another anecdote to throw in. I have travelled the world round, and not once in my many college DC-NYC Amtrak trips, before, during, and after ID and bag check requirements get checked. This over the course of 4 years of college and working in the Beltway area with at least one trip a year.

I expected more serious, but security was as strict as a DC-NYC Chinatown bus.

To quote Saturday Night Live: "Amtrak, the only way to travel ... when you smoke weed!"

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/04/04fupdate.phtml
I have worked at three companies for the Teamsters, and can say unequivocally that they all held me back professionally while keeping people that should not have a job employed.

I have never been able to, nor do I personally know any union workers that can negotiate an individual bonus.

> If you're a "rockstar", congratulations! Your union has raised the bottom from which you can up negotiate your compensation. Your union will also advocate for things you, as a rockstar super employee, never will be able to. Like your benefits, working conditions and base pay.

No they will use my "rockstar" work to negotiate better benefits for all of the employees, as those with more seniority than me enjoy the better benefits and protections even within the union, do to my "rockstar" status. Why should that be?

> You haven't worked with a good union. Good unions are known for their quality and skilled professionals, just like good companies are for their products.

You seem to know a lot about me, somehow. Show me any modern American union, and I can promise you I will show you how they are holding back their company and better employees for the sake of the mediocrity.

I live in an area of the country that still has plenty of unions, and I have witnessed it time and again, as an employee and an observer.
What I've described are ideas that predate the agile manifesto, and are not subsumed by it.
The conflict between cowboys and farmers is still going strong over 100 years later: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff
People are scared of rebase because of the constant scare-mongering around it. "Rebase is Evil" and "Never use Rebase", etc. Then we end up with junior devs that are too-scared to even use their git IDE's built-in rebase-remote branch onto remote so they end up littering the entire repo with "Merged branch-A from origin into branch-A".

It's so bad that even seasoned developers that haven't delve deeply into git have no idea that this sort of rebase is practically harmless. Instead they parrot "Rebase is Evil" without thinking twice.
> everyone agrees that a tannery or toxic waste dump is inappropriate near residences

I think you'll find that's trivially untrue. It's fair to say the vast majority of people agree or even almost everyone. But to find one counterexample? I bet I could do that.

My point here is that the argument of "it's my home I can do what I want" is fundamentally flawed and all it takes is a trivial extreme case to debunk it. So when you move on to what's allowed and what isn't, what's good for the community, what isn't and so on, which is essentially what zoning is.

> but having people stay, eat, shower, and sleep in a home is literally what houses are designed for

So I'm supportive of people hosting other people in their homes, which, incidentally, NYC allows (as one example). Why? Because then the host is invested in that community and can police bad behaviour. When hosts aren't present, they have no such incentive.

In years passed, having long and short term boarders was commonplace. Many cities in the post-WWII era however essentially dismantled boarding houses and SROs (which were once where a significant number of people lived) and in some cases outlawed multi-family residences.

There are extreme examples of what can happen in an Airbnb [1] [2] [3]. There are countless stories of guests being stranded when hosts canceled at the last minute and scams such as bait-and-switch.

[1]: https://10daily.com.au/shows/10-news-first/a190520wykmx/poli...

[2]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-03/airbnb-bans-party-hou...

[3]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7818881/Airbnb-host...
HN is too full of itself. n-gate.com is funny because it's accurate.
The workers impacted by this most across all companies (whether benefitting or dying from this) are the workplace staff. The people that keep the office running. Most of these people are hourly and only real purpose to keep the office lights on. When the office is closed, they don’t have any purpose any more.

I have friends at various mid sized startups looking to lay off workplace staff because of office closures.

If you hired people to stock canteens, prep lunch, ensure the office is functioning, and now they’re working from home, there’s no reason to keep them around anymore.

The good thing is once offices open up again they’ll need to hire them back. But who knows when that is.
Well, what are your guesses?
The horse left that barn when we had a couple weeks of unknown spread in Washington state.
In what dosage? Can I get 30mg of CarPlay? Can we get 300ml of Android Auto?

Without comparable dosage this is meaningless.
but that's a good thing, the user has then provided clarification to the table.
It's a somewhat odd replacement for Apple TV in that it's three times the price.

I have an Apple TV, because at £200 it was perfect or my needs. I certainly wasn't going to spend £650 for a media centre when I can get a movie streamer for vastly less than that.
Bad idea. A comment that is simply wrong and gets refuted (with the refuting comments upvoted) also fits that profile.
Click on view as one page. Sorry but this is the only page. I know the navigation sucks.
With a $650 million dollar fund you can't afford to do too many small ones.
encode.me & base64.me are taken, but encodify.me is not. Doesn't have the same ring as hashify.me, though.
The point is that Apple's best interests are served by putting the consumers' interests before the developers'. For some other companies it might be the other way around, but Apple has no lack of people willing to be developers. It can easily afford to alienate some of 'em.

But consumers? There's a lot of people with iOS devices, but are they buying apps? If the top fifty apps on the app store are crap, and people can't find the good apps, they'll buy fewer apps, and that bites into Apple's revenues, unlike alienating a few spam-inclined developers, which doesn't.
That'd be great. Will do. Anyone else would like a custom promo code for your customers, organization, or community, just ask.

EDIT: Created and sent.
Awesome. Any way to upload one vid here and then have it automatically sync with YouTube, Vimeo, etc. accounts?
It is very reminiscent of Facebook's homepage. Eerie.
The problem is that we are forced to trust a particular CA because the company we are dealing with chose to buy their certificate from that particular CA.

Whilst PKI provides solutions for this [1], they are not really practical in SSL.

In any case, that's not how it works in the real world.

In the real world, Achmed's uncles do trust Achmed, and might well trust him to validate the identity of a business partner.

In essence, that's the logic behind PGP.

What if SSL could be enhanced to allow PGP verification of counterparties? That way anyone could become the equivalent of a root CA, but your value would only be as good as your reputation / integrity.

Trusted entities, like the governments, could vouch for the keys of their agencies - or other governments.

Friends and Family could vouch for each others keys, businesses for their partners... etc etc.

Unlike PKI, PGP would enable counterparties to establish their identiy by having many validating partners (paid and unpaid), as opposed to the one single root CA that is available.

As well as bringing the source of trust closer to the relying party (really, I live in Australia, who the hell is Comodo anyway?), the network of trust that would result could be articulated in the browser in many different ways.

eg: 25 of your friends and 600 businesses agree that this is the identity of Visa.

Twenty years ago this wouldn't have worked. But today, we could use the root CA SSL system to bootstrap a network of trust that becomes independent of the old hierarchy.

I hope all that makes sense.

[1] eg: certificate revocation, or even the user removing the root CA from her own key store.
A lot depends on your goals and your location. For instance, here in N. Texas you could make 1/3 more money programming Java then a cool language like ruby or python.

Also to be a well paid Java developer here you don't need amazing skills or more than 2 years of experience.
Sure, that's why they chose it. ;) And rightly so, since they came up with a good idea. But California came up with the iP(ad|od|hone) so it gets to set timing for that.
This was my first assignment for my Systems Programming course in my undergrad - really enjoyed that assignment as the lecturer gave 20% the total assignment mark for you to implement whatever you'd like
My initial reaction was confusion. but I've just realised what the problem is. I'm using NoScripts. You should make it clearer that scripts are required, or ideally make your primary messages visible even with javascript disabled.

Your site isn't doing anything that really requires scripts so you should gracefully degrade to support clients without scripting.

(Also, from the front page, after you click "gmail" or "another email platform" the back button breaks)

Other than that it looks nice, I've signed up. (Edit: Well, I tried to but I need an invite code. hint hint)
The real question is, does capitalism just inevitably end up in coporatism?
This is sort of a divisive issue for Libertarians. On the one hand, patents extend the reach of Capitalism into new places, which some libertarians who are reflexively pro-Capitalism like. On the other hand, patents are government restrictions on what you can do with your property, so more consistent (imho) Libertarians tend to be against them.
If that is indeed the question, it should be if capitalism and democracy doesn't naturally end up in corporatism.

There's an unfair amount of blame on the corporate end of this conflict, when the fact is that nothing of this could happen without willing politicians.
I think I need to elaborate a bit - Nvidia has a technology which allows users to use multiple graphics cards simultaneously for better performance, the name of this technology is SLI. AMD has a similar technology for their own graphics cards which is called Crossfire. Crossfire and SLI establish similar functionality but are completely different implementations with their own tradeoffs and performance scenarios. All this licensing allows is for companies like ASUS and Gigabyte to add the Nvidia specific circuitry for making SLI work on AMD motherboards. Going forward - AMD graphics cards continue to use Crossfire for multi gpu support, Nvidia cards continue to require SLI for multi gpu support, a mix of Nvidia and AMD cards continue to be incompatible for multi gpu scenarios (unless you use something like Hydra which I havent tested). This announcement should instead read - "Nvidia lifts restrictions preventing motherboard makers from offering SLI support on AMD based motherboards"
Yes! After 3 awesome, creative hours in the morning, I am a different person when I walk into the office... It's great.
RF isn't the commons they're talking about. The commons is the open access points that people would come by and torrent / download kiddie porn through. People abused open access points, so everyone started closing them.
It's hard to know enough to say definitively what the culprit is. That's why Taubes is mostly content to argue merely the cause of increased obesity is located within the high-carbohydrate aspect of the modern diet. But even that has been a controversial enough position.

The problem could be primarily that the Kool-Aid, fruit juice, Tang, soda and Sunny Delight (and other sweet food like sugared-up yogurt and maybe even infant formula) that we've been feeding our kids for the last sixty years has halfway burned out many of their metabolisms while they were still young. It may have nothing to do with wheat. But we can be quite sure that the suspect(s) is a carbohydrate.

If that's so, those folks with a permanently injured insulin response will have a need for an appropriate diet, which may not be like what metabolically-healthy individuals can enjoy. Taubes takes the position that the most effective diets for them are ones which restrict some or all carbohydrates, which is not going to give you clogged arteries like the medical establishment has been saying.

That's about it. There are definitely other places you can go (i.e. the Heart Scan Blog) if you want to see arguments for wheat as a demon of the modern diet. Yet again, that also interacts with the modern insulin resistance that wasn't as much of an issue in the 1920's.