jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
While I can kind of understand why someone might want to pay for virtual goods an app clearly targeted at kids that can potentially make an in-app purchase of tens of dollars with no further authentication is plainly wrong.

Also in the iTunes description the developer states "iOS will keep you logged on for 15 minutes after you download the App. Additional purchases won't require a re-entry of the password during this 15 minutes interval. This is a function of the iOS software and not within our control" (My emphasis)

Any good developer would make sure the UX made it clear when you were making an in-app purchase in an appropriate way. It's not good enough to blame it on iOS.
>I have the feeling that the sort of thing Hub is what Ruby's supposed to be good at, and Go not particularly.

Actually go is very good at command line applications. The fast at start up time and easy concurrency make CLI applications in go very nice.
Can't reply to your last comment, so: no disrespect intended, and I'm sorry I took the bait. Enjoy the site. It was one of the last ones not taken over by woo merchants (along with the WSJ), but apparently the management policies and moderation guidelines are moving in a different direction.

If anyone has a suggestion for a site similar to HN's original spirit, but where longtime users are allowed to downvote stories, I'd be interested.
I don't think you read this properly. This isn't about working with the X clipboard - it's about copying/moving files on the filesystem.
Interesting idea, but isn't ssh very sluggish when it comes to throughput and latency? Doesn't it cost quite a bit more in CPU? I'd hate to make ssh the protocol replacement for http for a busy site.
Both those links are currently unavailable for me. However, their content is still available on the main page if you scroll further down to the relevant blog posts.
Good answer.

If I had to guess, the reason would be threefold. One, it requires tuning on both ends of the connection to make the high speed transfers work well (and it looks like it will interfere with multiplexing as well, the reason the fixed window exists in the first place).

Two, the "none" cypher which it enables completely undermines the security of the secure shell. The cypher renegotiation after authentication would make it trivial to MITM the connection. You could probably disable the cypher after every transfer by restarting the sshd daemon, but that's being a bit optimistic.

Finally, there is no visible license on the patchfile, or on the homepage. The project's sourceforge page lists it as being BSD licensed, but there is no indication from the author that this is the case.

http://www.psc.edu/index.php/hpn-ssh
The entire selling point of zoom over a peer-to-peer solution is that it's not peer to peer, but rather every client connects to the server that mediates the connection. It needs to decrypt the stream.

Peer to peer connections would quickly become impossible when you have meetings with more than a handful of people connected. Meetings/Webinars with hundreds of participants would be impossible with P2P technology.

Adding proper videoconferencing hardware would be tough using P2P since all that supports is usually some sort of SIP standard.

Zoom does collect some data by virtue of providing the service - it knows the IP addresses of all clients connecting, it does know all the data you enter when you create an account. It knows the OS that the client runs on. And their privacy policy reflects that.
I believe the author just gave this as a popular example where tracker music can be found. Not a lot of people are fully aware of the "demoscene", where this music/tech is still quite popular. The cracker scene and demoscene have some common roots (and I think still some personnel overlaps), but I met/know plenty of people who aren't into stealing/distributing cracked software, but are very much into the demo scene, producing wonderful pieces of art without breaking any copyright or other laws ;-)

If you have no idea what I'm talking about (and mind that I'm not involved with either scene), check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
There seems to be a large number of people who almost look forward to having their favorite (post-)apocalyptic movie/video-game becoming reality.

In times of prosperous peace, most struggle is crazy making pecking order BS. Are you doing better than your neighbor? Who is number one on this list? What does it pay?

During times when the world at large isn't trying to kill us all, hell is other people. Hell is being at the bottom of the heap because society will make sure that's a terrible place to be even if there is no objective reason that it needs to be.

During a real crisis, that crap tends to mostly drop away. Suddenly, people with money are willing to share it with those who have less those with less aren't treated like they must not be trying hard enough and clearly don't deserve better.

We revert to absolute measures rather than relative measures. Instead of "Do I have more or less than other people?" we ask "Did I get what I actually needed today?"

It's very rare for big change that kills off the most awful aspects of our lives to come some big positive change. It's almost always a disaster that leads to such.

Those dystopian fantasies very often include the idea of a sense of community and pulling together in the aftermath that is generally lacking in the lives of most modern people in developed countries. We seem to be unable to imagine creating a sense of community in the face of plenty.

Longing for community seems to be a primary reason to have such fantasies.
could recently retired cargo aircraft (ex FedEx/UPS/DHL) be pulled back into service to help deliver critical supplies around the World?

I imagine quiet a few cargo B727, B757, A300s and even some B747F aircrafts sitting at Mojave.
Regarding the "attention tracking" feature...

If your boss/manager/etc is excited about this feature as a way to monitor you, odds are they already have you under surveillance in a bunch of other ways. It's unfortunate that you are in this situation, and I hope you're able to find a way out of it soon (e.g. by switching teams or finding another company that values and trusts you more).

This feature is of limited use, though. With my laptop in my lap, it's trivial to hold my phone right in front of the lower half of my screen. It will be outside the field of view of the camera, but there will be no discernible difference between me looking at my laptop screen vs my phone screen.

I'm all for fighting against companies chipping away at our privacy, but this one seems pretty far down a rather large list.

EDIT: clarification
firefox support isn't all the way there yet.

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758
Morally motivated veganism is the obvious example.
This article was kind of misleading and only keep the important stuff at the end.

> Instead, they were told to play a song on Spotify, react to receiving a text message, make a phone call or navigate to a gas station.

For sure doing anything more advanced will be more dangerous, even more so on a touch screen (but still doing complex tasks are the dangerous things). This article is misleading because we could easily replace all the words Apple Carplay and Android Auto with "having passengers". Doing complex tasks in a car setting, whatever how, will distract you, including with someone else, believe me, if I play rock paper cissor with someone else while driving, that's going to be dangerous.

Android Auto isn't the issue, it's the tasks that people does on it. Even on a red light I tend to avoid chaning song on it.
If the banks periodically need a bailout, shouldn't bankers be paid like civil servants? (because that's what they are, apparently)
I'm not really qualified to have such a discussion, but I guess the reasoning is that, if you have an actual revolution, you can quickly throw out the old crappy stuff (bad laws, bad taxes, gov't agencies, etc.) and introduce new, better ones. Then, more importantly, if a nation had to fight for its political system, it will value it and not fuck it up.

Eg. as I describe in a post below, our current gov't is using its current power to change the constitution to better fit its short term political goals, in other words they don't respect it, unlike eg. the way the U.S. Constitution is a symbol of the country's core social values.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_to_the_Unite...
>>That’s only a good reason if you’re opposed to the actual programs and/or outcomes. If you favor those programs and outcomes

Most of the people that philosophically opposed to easy taxes, are philosophically opposed to taxes in general and by extension most of the programs the taxes fund.

I am one of those people, doubly so for income based taxation which IMO is unethical. I prefer a Henry George Style single tax system for public finance but that is beyond the scope of this thread
Thanks, you've given me some more topics to research.
Investors won't want to invest in someone that isn't fully committed to their vision. Just imagine if someone asked you to invest your hard-earned money in them, but they didn't even believe in their idea enough to actually leave their day job. Would you be comfortable with placing that bet?
Which is where quantum mechanics comes into the picture. If we could measure something in Planck units, we might discover that there is a smallest increment. Of course Nyquist implies that we may only be able to measure something at most, twice that unit size... but that is still on a scale far beyond our reach.
That makes perfect sense to me, and I've also been aware since my early teens that there are plenty of people out there who will try to manipulate people on that basis. Count me out from this moral vacuity you describe.
Consider software. No matter what new tools and amazing techniques to reduce and control complexity, everyone is still operating at or beyond the limits of the human mind to manage that complexity. That pretty much defines the state of the art in any technical field. I'm sure that applies in finance, too. And whoever invents more effective tools to manage complexity will be richly rewarded, on average.
Actually in this case it sounds like the reporter wasn't to blame at all. Woz is simply saying "What I really meant was..."

Personally I don't get why his thoughts on things are given such importance. Each Apple release he appears at some fan line to go "Hey, everyone remember me! I'm the guy who was involved with Apple for a short period!". Not trying to be cynical, but seriously I suspect he's a major irritation for Jobs.
this is why I submitted my YC application without filling in a single field
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I think you might have missed his humor. It was his way of getting you to imagine something and then create it.

Translating it to be a bit more explicit...

The blank page starts with unlimited potential. But each word you add reduces its possibilities.

Same thing with that business idea you've had forever.

Or that beautiful person you haven't spoken with.

<sarcasm>
So maybe you should just leave them in your imagination, where they're at their best.
</sarcasm>

OR...

MAYBE...

The one thing that would be even better is if you...
VMs running on my box might not get a lot of CPU time, but will still get good IO performance.

It's going a bit beyond just simple performance, too. For example, I can add logging of reads on client network file descriptors like this:

https://github.com/dustin/labrea/blob/master/examples/lognet...
I'm honestly curious, and not being critical here - How do you get 30 week construction from 108 days? Is a construction week 4 days?

Also, you do have to admit, that there are some inefficiencies involved in running shifts back-back, and using multiple cranes.

And the Project Plan and Management on this development must have been 10x what you would have seen in a typical six-nine month building project.
1: You love it,
2: You hate it.
I think you mean "elegance". ;-)

That said, I agree with you. Most of the time, the elegant solution is fast or can be made fast.
It's not just operational inefficiencies that are slowly strangling the USPS. There are also factors like Congress' bizarre mandate that the USPS fully prefund their retirement and health benefits programs[1], which is something not required of any other federal entity nor something done by private enterprises. That's a huge portion of the USPS's revenue stream poorly tied up.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06...
That's beautiful. However, programming is only one of many fields for which you could apply those "two things".
The computer will always do exactly what you tell it to.

With the obligatory footnote: "Unless you get into multithreading - then all bets are off." ;-)
I'm not really sure what the normal american way is. At this point I've made mac+cheese in every way possible. (ie for a while I was trying milk instead of water when cooking the pasta, and attended the pot as it cooked on a slow simmer. It works OK)

Since you're British I recommend you try making "Mac+Cheese tikka masala", basically use your favorite recipe for chicken tikka masala but swap out the chicken and no rice, and the sauce will call for (among other things) heavy cream! It is a crowd pleaser for sure.
Oh I mean SF Bay Area, apologies for the confusion. Let me try to fix it.
With a separate salt for each password not even the NSA can crack that (that we know of). With a single salt for all of them, maybe.
Enjoy your world tour of such havens of freedom as most of the Middle East, North Korea, Cuba...

Obviously, the current Australian government is a disaster in many areas, but there are a large number of places which are considerably worse.
When I'm working on multiple monitors/desktops and I switch to one and want to do some work there, but my 'active window' context is in previous spot where I was working!

I wish someone would invent some type of eye tracking that would intelligently assign the context to open windows on your screen(s).
That's because you're conflating "rounds" with "work factor". "Work factor" is actually 2^rounds, you're using 65536 rounds. Try 4.
Lieberman is not part of the Obama administration any more than Ron Paul was part of the Bush administration.
It would be nice if it allowed to post where/what city the calls got dropped?

I live in the Midwest and so far AT&T's service has been not too shabby.

Not all of us live in NY/SF area.And it seems like those two cities makes up most of the raucous bunch complaining about dropped calls.
SpaceX is going to launch the next set of Iridium satellites. SpaceX has no satellites of their own nor do they intend to.
If I were to follow this philosophy more often I'd try to be damn sure I knew exactly what I was doing before I did. Going off on your own to do something because you know others would not agree is a bit arrogant. It has to come from a belief that you know more than they do. So if you are going to do something when you know your boss/colleague/co-founder would disagree then you had better make sure you do know more than they do.
Is putting random shit at the end of a URL really illegal?
Yes, that's my point. The OP is a list of .NET content management systems, not a list of CMSs that have broad or interesting features. Hence my question about why anyone would specifically want a .NET CMS.
"I'd settle for having my reputation carry over to related Stack Exchange sites."

If you have more than 200 on one site, you get a boost of +100 when you link the account on a new site.

(Maybe not enough for you, depends what you want to do, but I just thought I'd point it out in case you didn't know)
Filled with amazing ideas and insights!
Even stranger is that it doesn't seem like a very good product (in general, not just the Kickstarter ones). Not a good watch, not a good running aid (even with the ugly dongle that's required), not a good iPod.

I realise that watches are almost totally (and iPods and phones are partly) fashion accessories, but it's still strange to see something so functionally awkward associated with the Apple brand.

(As a fan of factory films though, his latest update was hypnotic in the best tradition of such videos. Made the whole project worthwhile as far as I'm concerned).
No. It doesn’t. Unless they got a board seat as well.

I love the idea of a group of uniformed Chinese generals showing up at the annual shareholder meeting to demand Reddit do... wait what does the CCP want Reddit to do?
The best part of content marketing is it creates organic growth once the strategies and execution plan are in place.
>Who would save you then?

Why would I need to be saved? I'll just buy a device from a different manufacturer. If there are literally no privacy-respecting options, and a majority of people think there should be one, either a company will form on its own, or constituents will make enough noise that the government will step in.

If not in the US, the EU still seems to have some basic respect for the rights of their citizens.
I love reading but I’m not going to tell you it’s the best thing in the world or that you have to be like me.

Like Hemingway, Kerouac, and James Bond, I also like going to bars in exotic places, meeting women and other people, and not reading.
Exactly, I’ve seen Sql servers handle billions of rows with 2 thousand columns. I think also people that work too long at one company don’t realize how problems were solved elsewhere.
I agree with you on most of these points and would argue the defining traits you’re putting forth is curiosity and some grit. You’re curious about pottery and will learn about it but with enough grit and obsession that you’ll actually do it and once you’ve done it once you want to know more. Most people I know (including myself) have a tough time staying curious once you get that initial taste. You see the cool textile mill and in the moment wish you knew more but by the time you get home your mind is elsewhere.
Apple's incentives appear aligned with their customers. Facebook's are completely opposed.
First thing is engineers are not second class citizens in any startup worth their salt. To the contrary, engineers are absolutely the most important thing, and if you can put on a bit of a product hat it's a super power that will drive not only your career success but actually impact the trajectory of the company as well.

The problem though, is anyone can start a startup, and so you need to be sure you don't fall in with bozos. If you have a 5-person startup, and someone is "Head of Product" and full of their own ideas and talking down to engineers (or otherwise making them feel as you describe) then most likely you have a bozo on your hands, perhaps due to ego inflation during years of successful hoop jumping promoted by our education system & corporate culture.

The bottom line is that product management is one of the hardest disciplines, and within tech it's filled with wannabes who schmoozed their way in but don't actually have the chops. This is not the end of the world if they are humble and willing to take input from engineering. The flip side though, is that as an engineer you need to be customer and business-centric in your thinking—not all engineers can/want to do this, but with the structured thinking the discipline requires you at least have a head start. Good luck.
I agree that that is the best way to learn Emacs (and vi/vim). For me, the hard part wasn't so much learning to navigate Emacs as it was customizing it to my liking. The basics of Emacs are pretty straightforward (unlike vim, which takes a while to get used to), but using it well requires you to understand how to install packages and at least read emacs lisp.
Because it would take roughly 1 billion years for those standards to have actual, web-wide meaning (thanks in no small part to the popularity of Microsoft's so-called browsers).
This seems like a dangerous precedent for Oracle to set for itself, especially when it's sitting on many other popular open source projects.

Not that this comparison is 100% accurate, but they could learn from why the police don't give in to terrorist demands.
How can you call it fragmentation when everything ultimately turns into valid JavaScript?
Minor nitpick - JavaScript is dynamically typed rather than untyped :)
This article had zero scientific conclusions (or in fact any science at all) and the title said "we" in the non-royal sense. Why is this here?

And the article even says they don't know whey a bike stays upright:

"What their math can't apparently tell them is why so many different bike designs tend to stay upright."

To me it sounds like their math is the problem. Its like the bad programmer who blames the compiler for the segfault.
How about because that 8% drop in stock price just collectively cost his thousands of employees a significant chunk of money? Larry may not care about the stock prices, but the people who work for him, for whom stock options are a major incentive, certainly do.
Will be helpful if it takes Time Zone of user in account. It is already Monday afternoon and your app is asking me things to do for Sunday.
72% of bitcoins are not generated yet.

The largest known amount is 400000 BTC, that is around 2% of 21m coins.

2% of US money supply (M2) is around 180 billions.

And the owner of that coins should wait decades, before bitcoin economy reach such size. Probably they will spend it long before that time.
Indeed, it would.
I'm extremely confused by this post. You claim to know JavaScript very well, which is fine, but then you go on to say that developers "fake class-based OO using the limited functionality that JavaScript does offer." That doesn't square with the fact that prototypal OO is strictly more expressive than class-based OO. You can implement class-based OO in a prototypal OO language. You cannot do the converse.

A lot of people who know JavaScript and several other languages very well don't hate on JavaScript. JavaScript has more than it's share of warts, obviously. We all know the story: it was written in a week, etc. It also has more than it's share of good parts, though, and if used correctly it is a very expressive language. In my experience, the haters are more frequently people who don't know the language as well. Clearly our experiences differ. I find it hard to believe, though, that anyone experienced in both languages would claim that JavaScript was worse than PHP, and PHP is still the most common back-end web language.
This can be written as another law of newton - if there are driver less cars it does not mean everyone will have driver less cars :-)
Well, the obvious answer is that the rule of law is a fiction.

As you point out, even if it's true for most of us, most of the time, it's the edge cases (abuses) that matter most.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/philliprhodes
If you dupe someone's Dropbox host ID, they'll only see the one entry on their page, so it's quite likely they would not be aware that they've been "duped".
According to Jobs, anything created while he wasn't there is not canon.