jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Oh but if we can only stop the dirty unwashed masses from sullying our pristine discipline..."

Said any group that has implemented certifications to make entry into their discipline more difficult to newcomers. "Craftsmanship certification" is something I wouldn't be shocked to see becoming a business in the next 10 years.
Guess why most billionaires favor political parties that agitate against simplifying the tax code...
Facebook has released an official statement which appears to confirm my suspicions about how the data was more or less obtained (i.e., via number search): https://about.fb.com/news/2021/04/facts-on-news-reports-abou... (relevant discussion at https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1379579465148157953).

But I too noticed the breach rate in the Middle East seemed unusually high, except my initial assumption was that perhaps the way Facebook was introduced there led to different behaviours in how one finds each other on Facebook. Perhaps it could be even something as simple as small differences in translation that lead to different behaviours when it comes to setting up a Facebook account.

The reason this is my initial hunch (rather than any kind of targeted campaign) is because different parts of the world interact differently with different communications platforms. For example, iMessage is very popular in USA whereas other parts of the world favour WhatsApp, or Telegram, or WeChat, etc. Is there any one concrete reason why one population might choose one "less secure" app over another "more secure" chat app/social network? I'd say probably not and yet, we see large variations depending on which border surrounds a user.

So perhaps a similar 'benign' explanation could explain the high breach rate in certain countries. Perhaps phone numbers are treated differently there too? Other than that, I have no idea. Unfortunately, I know very little about the Middle East let alone the languages there, so this is mostly just a guess.
No it wouldn't. If a program has memory that it doesn't need and can live without it ought to just release it. Otherwise that is called a memory leak. I believe this was tried in early Android releases and was disastrous. Basically during an out of memory condition the kernel would ask every process "hey, can you release some memory?" And each process would reply with "nope, I need it all!"

I don't see how the metadata is any different. What happens when the kernel yanks a page of memory from über a running process?
In summary: if you're a (compulsory) student, a new law says that all your private conversations can be read by a government worker if he or she suspects you of having evidence that someone else is being mean.

I'm pretty sure this violates the Fourth Amendment but the fact that such a law could even be seriously contemplated, let alone passed, tells you something about what schools are in our society (hint: mini police states), and how normalized government spying has become.
That's indeed the case. I basically code my own things and then release them as open source. jQuery Tools, Head JS and now Riot.js 2.0 to name the biggest contributions.

HN is an unique place to get feedback for your own work. I certainly have opinions about others work as well but usually I keep my mouth shut and go back to work.
What are in your opinion the best apps for Linux?
Lissajous figures with a laser and some mirrors?
Please don't do this here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10915862 and marked it off-topic.
If you think that NPR is close to a balanced outlet, I'd venture you're unfortunately the one off. I wouldn't call them communist for sure, but more times than I can count they've shocked me with partisan or incorrect reporting.
Is that a counter example? From the first link:

> As more groups from Flight Operations hear about the EVA Wiki, they are requesting to start their own wiki. As of August 2015 there are 7 groups with wikis. Eventually every group will have their own wiki. One of the long-range goals is to enable inter-wiki semantic data transfer, as appropriate based on access restrictions.

The last sentence in particular got me. It's always a long-range goal :)
Remote wipe only works if you can communicate with the device. If it’s in some backwoods Appalachia klan den I’d imagine there isn’t good connectivity.
There are frequently non-stated properties of the input in Advent of Code that simplify the problem a bit.
Yes and when AWS shuts them down and ISPs block them, they are free to make their own servers and ISPs. And when the financial system shuts down their banking and all of their family members' and public supporters' banking, they are free to create a new banking system as well (assuming they can pay the regulatory fees and have people lobbying for them of course)
That’s exactly how it is intended to work. Twitter doesn’t owe me or even the president anything.
Discussion? I haven't seen discussion come out of the US on a number of topics for decades. Discussions might start, but someone comes along and starts incoherently screaming.
You've been using the site primarily for political battle and breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. We ban accounts that do those things, and have asked you several times in the past to stop, so I've banned this account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can someone explain how mastodon is able to remove an account? I thought the whole point of mastodon was that there wasn’t any one single group who controlled the platform?
Can I play Devil's advocate here? Why not lock out browsers that aren't controlled by the os? What about email clients?
No way. It actually had very little to do with Heroku. We wanted to be involved in the network (I already know several folks from recent YC batches), to contribute, to tap the collective wisdom of the YC alumni, and the connections to publicity outlets.

Like I said, it had very little to do with Heroku and the money. We have a product with users and we wanted some help and to contribute.
My handle's fine, I'm just summarizing Edward Bernay's ideas from Propaganda. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)
It makes CPU usage go through the roof though.

However nice it's looking, I'm not sure if it's such a good idea to have such a battery life eating page as your login site.
I'm sure they have some Windows installations around for Chrome and web compatibility testing. I wonder would happen to Google if they only made products for Google employees.
Comic Sans MS, maroon on a beige background, this is what Readability was made for.
If the risks are indeed roughly equal, I would like to point out that only one of these two risks costs us money.

Also, being blown up doesn't hurt nearly as much as cancer does.
These look like reasons why you might adopt a stray kitten abandoned in your yard, even if you wouldn't go to the shelter to adopt a grown cat.
I hate the title of Ramit's book, because I have to add an explanatory sentence every single time I recommend it to a friend. "You should really check out this book... it's called I Will Teach You To Be Rich. I know, it really really really sounds like a scam, but it's actually the exact opposite. Just trust me. No seriously, really. Please just trust me and get the book. Come on."
It's not "thou shalt not talk about cryptography."

It's "cite your sources."
We have been audited by a 3rd party and incorporated all of their suggestions in the latest 4.4 release.

http://blog.conjur.net/conjur-4-4-released

One of their stipulations for the audit was that we don't use it for promotional purposes so I guess a NDA is required to discuss details.

The tech we use for encryption of secrets is definitely open source here: https://github.com/conjurinc/slosilo

Conjur isn't built on in-house cryptographic software - it uses trusted open-source tools - OpenSSL, PAM and so on.

Most of our work is open-source
https://github.com/conjurinc
https://github.com/conjur-cookbooks
And some are even offering tax credits to move there. Pardon the ugly link, it seems the main town website is currently down. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GyiysDw...

As a curiosity, are you from around here? I'm in Saskatoon right now, but we've got some land down in the Last Mountain Lake area that we might develop with a small "away from the city" home. (In fact, my girlfriend purchased it... 3 lots and an old unplumbed church for $1).
Slack is growing their security team, if you want to help them improve the security of the product: https://slack.com/jobs/dfd75111/security-engineer
Check this out: https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/581068613542649856
I can't imagine that the industry is so uniquely emotionally abusive that it would drive a disparity in earnings across such a large sample size. I'm sure that there are some bad apples though, and I'm sorry that your friends experienced that.
I’m never going to understand why HN frowns upon humor so much.
Screenshot of it editing itself, in case someone wants to know what it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/lndAWbm
Yep, us too. Weeks and weeks of work that'll need to be migrated.
Braille books are quite expensive though, aren't they? Did they already have braille books around the house for someone else?
Unfortunately, it's extremely possible. Up until recently, Lexus didn't have a touch-screen in its lineup. Android Auto / Apple Carplay forced their hand on bringing them back.
> How can you be "illiterate" if you don't have access to Google's source code to see what they do?

By not knowing that sites work based on requests and responses. And that site operators can see the contents of the requests, otherwise they wouldn't be able to respond.

> How is 3rd-party analytics essential and obvious to the functioning of a website?

Whether it's essential or not isn't related to incognito mode. If that were a problem, I'd think it would be a problem all the time, not just for incognito.
you would add a provisioning tool to get rid of download + upload?

Hm. I consider that crucial for a user's control (agency) over it's digital property. To not depend on my tool for the existencial moments of creation and deletion of what is in between populated by my (other) tool.
Open Access journals carry significant fees in many fields.

Beyond that, the best journals in your field may not be open access. In my sub-specialty, none of them are.
The "concatenation case" completely defeats the purpose of using a pepper and leads me to believe that you're not qualified to be giving this kind of advice.
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization, has assessed the carcinogenicity of five organophosphate pesticides. Here is the key finding for glyphosate:

For the herbicide glyphosate, there was limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The evidence in humans is from studies of exposures, mostly agricultural, in the USA, Canada, and Sweden published since 2001. In addition, there is convincing evidence that glyphosate also can cause cancer in laboratory animals. On the basis of tumours in mice, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) originally classified glyphosate as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group C) in 1985. After a re-evaluation of that mouse study, the US EPA changed its classification to evidence of non-carcinogenicity in humans (Group E) in 1991. The US EPA Scientific Advisory Panel noted that the re-evaluated glyphosate results were still significant using two statistical tests recommended in the IARC Preamble. The IARC Working Group that conducted the evaluation considered the significant findings from the US EPA report and several more recent positive results in concluding that there is sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. Glyphosate also caused DNA and chromosomal damage in human cells, although it gave negative results in tests using bacteria. One study in community residents reported increases in blood markers of chromosomal damage (micronuclei) after glyphosate formulations were sprayed nearby.
I learned a little bit about Category Theory a few years ago. My favorite book on the subject was this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Category-Computer-Scientists-Foundatio...

Concise and clear, with examples that should speak to computer scientists.

However, I've always failed to see the practical interest of categories. It's nice to see how various things can be described or defined in a categorical framework. It may shade new light on some concepts, but I didn't see any useful theorems you could apply (like in vector spaces for instance). Probably I didn't go deep enough.
How's that humanity sensor work? ;-)
I meant for posting, I thought that would be clear.
To block a certain hidden service on a relay you need to know what is the hidden service you are relaying data to (obviously), which completely defeats all anonymity - a 'first hop' relay would basically be able to make a list of all hidden services visited by clients connected to it.
The combination of BeautifulSoup and mechanize also makes tasks incredibly simple.
I would say yes, especially if you have newer code you can show off as well. Code can always be refactored and improved, but knowing (and making) what users want isn't something they teach in school!
I like this blog (other entries of which have been posted here before), but I find it a bit misleading that it shows up on HN as coming from "harvard.edu" -- which I assume to be Harvard's official web portal. (Clicking through reveals it to be a posting on blogs.law.harvard.edu, which provides free blog webspace to anyone with a Harvard-affiliated email address.)

Am I just being too picky?
And the relationship is this: 'path' element of bit.ly URLs are keys in a key->value mapping (where the value is your target URL), and one of the best implementations of a key->value mapping is a hash-table. (At least, it's good for in-memory implementations... I suppose that on disk something a little more elaborate may be called for?)

Historically, the authors of Perl and Ruby (and WP tells me, Common Lisp?) decided to confuse the interface with the implementation, and use "hash" or "hash table" to refer to the mapping, and not ever Perl hacker has a Computing Science degree, so now we live in a world of people who think that "hash" means the thing that bit.ly does for you.

Once again, Larry Wall Ruins Everything. :P
Wrong on both counts. Steve Jobs IS Apple, as evidenced by the rather impressive performance of Apple since he returned as CEO, and Wall St. HAS realized it, and Wall St. is right.

Or do you think someone else is chiefly responsible?

Jobs built a great team, and of course he didn't do it all himself, but he sure makes one hell of a great figurehead. :)
I'd say the problem with Instant Run-off is that it feels good and tangible but doesn't accomplish anything.

A prime example is the Australian parliament, where the lower chamber is essentially IRV while the upper chamber has some variation of multi member districts.

The lower chamber has 4.5% of the seats being outside the two major blocks, the senate has 18.5%. I.e., the people want more choice but the system does not allow for it.

IRV doesn't solve the problem of gerrymandering either.

I'm completely with you on the distance vs. political opinions. There is something extremely powerful in electing one, who has personally convinced you, from your town to go and represent us all, but the world doesn't operate on that scale anymore.
I dont. Guess they would communicate by dancing on tiktok judging from my knowlege about teens these days :)
Wonder how that would fare on stack overflow today.
I honestly wish I understood what the big deal is. Don't give the app any permissions and you're good. All they can share then are your contacts.
Where are all the Jabber clients?
I think a lot of technical leadership is a side-effect of ability. People with a lot of technical experience are able to view projects at a high level (and judge other programmers accurately) as a side effect of being good. You want them cross-collaborating because they have better eyes than someone without experience. Whether they know to iron their shirts doesn't matter.

Underdiscussed IMO. It's not a dichotomy.
Same with Portugal and Facebook messenger. I found a solution but it's less than ideal. I have less friends now.
Right, exactly, I have to use WhatsApp because it's what everyone else uses, so leaving isn't even an option.
When the protesters have darker skin.
Trump will blanket pardon them.
There is very suspect video evidence of hidden away votes being snuck in once the room was cleared and those votes pushed Biden on top after Trump was winning. There is also iffy statistical data on the numbers of votes.
Integration is a petri dish. It can speed up both growth and decay, and it is indifferent to which one wins.
iCloud is free unless you pay for extra space or features, and most people I know of don't.
Appeal to authority, what higher authority than the POTUS? For weeks people have been telling Trump and his enablers they were playing with fire. Well..
This one is just as common in the US, precise numbers and currency aside.
I'm certain the small startup I work for hasn't failed too badly ethically. But I don't own a home in SF so... failure?
Can you share an example of when financial services companies have deplatformed (is that the right term?) a political party in the US or UK?

I agree you probably shouldn't care about Iran. I'm just saying that's why presidents and senators care. Also, you should care about all the jobs FS creates both at the top and further down. Without financial services not only would your taxes go up, you wouldn't get half as good a mortgage and there would be a lot fewer jobs across the economy...

Edit:

The only examples of account closures I can find are either for right wing groups (HSBC closed a load of those) or 1 democrat in Florida whose account was closed after she was told they couldn't accept cannabis cash and she said she'd pay that in anyway...
The point of the story is that not everyone can do a Vegan diet and still be healthy. While this is just one example it does demonstrate the principle that meat is a necessary and vital part of some peoples healthy eating.

I sometimes wonder if Vegans worry about Lions on the savannah eating antelope. Do they want prevent that as well. Humans are Omnivores. We are built to get nutrients from both meat and plantlife. Our metabolisms work best when we eat both in moderation. A Vegan lifestyle makes it harder to eat healthy not easier and for some it makes it impossible.
Good fun but too long. I loved it when I first read it, and in college I ran a reading course where we read it over one semester. But when I learned more and later came back to it, I found it disappointing content-wise. I'm still glad I read it, though; it was pretty formative for me.
I thought the argument was that the App Store encouraged per-website apps instead of just using "The Web"...?
Nice.

On a different note, WebKit sure is dragging its feet about adapting Object.freeze. Please, for the love of JavaScript, give us immutable objects.
> I never expected this post to get so much attention.

There is nothing more popular than an anecdote that appeals to people's pre-existing biases. Unfortunately there will be many for which this one story will provide the same weight of evidence as the entire China Study.
F150s still have curved sections... this is more like the F-117.
It’s just not made with that in mind as an important detail. That’s all I was saying at the start. I’m not the target audience.

I sad though. Was hoping I would be.
Just emphasizing the fact that the top end has a 0-60 in sub seconds is INSANE. My model 3 is just a base model and is crazy quick, this is 40% faster than that! Imagine being in a 2019 Porsche and get smoked off the line by this giant industrial crazy hunk of metal.
Yes, the year must have been of some cyberpunk future, because the look is right from there.

I can't but notice how the "futuristic" car designs from my childhood are now pretty common in mass-produced cars. I suggest the recent sci-fi movie esthetics are going to be common soon enough, and this truck is an example.
> The problem here is that "speaking out" doesn't change a damn thing. And it never will. Not in China. Not in the States.

Aren't you doing exactly that right now? "speaking out" on Hacker News against people you disagree with?

> Criticising is only useful when it actually influenced something.

Of course. And countries with freedom of speech allows criticism to be influential.
You have to go back 20 years or so to get a usable bed in a truck. All modern full size trucks are so high that they're fairly inconvient to use too.
To be fair, the other large market - actual farmers/ranchers - does care about utility. But I also don't see them spending $50k on this kind of vehicle.

Edit: Others have pointed out my apparent ignorance of truck pricing; turns out this is a normal price
If they can get the glass breaking issue figured out, this might be the first truck to make an appearance in SF.
Strip away the VR part of a VR shooter and there isn't much game left after that, they are pretty much 90s gallery shooters where you stand in place and shoot at the enemies that spawn and come at you.

I didn't see any indication in the trailer that this will be anything other than the best iteration on this formula yet.
He's not a native English speaker and that has an impact.
My main takeaway from this article is that the correct way to support older systems is not by supporting older versions of SSL/TLS. It is better to add support for plain HTTP delivery and only support modern SSL/TLS variants. Since the author recommends upgrading anyone with 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests' header I don't think there is a downside to doing this.

If you truly don't have legacy clients trying to visit your website then 99%+ visitors won't see any difference in behaviour. So no reason NOT to do this.
> Tesla faces "problems" ever justifying this valuation

On this we agree.
waiting lists "can be long" – it's time to stop parroting these misleading statements. They can be, if your test/operation isn't urgent. Urgent things are treated right away.

Frankly, as an American, I think we have shit quality of health service, based on the insurance cos' red tape and restrictions and paperwork alone. Getting healthcare in this country is a bureaucratic nightmare. Maybe the docs and meds and tests are good, but the overall service is bad.

(Disclaimer that I insist on Kaiser, an HMO – I would not live in a US area without it – which is pretty good, but helping family through health issues who had "gold standard" normal PPO was... different).
While it's not as well-known or popular at large as, say Infinite Jest, I think that the readership here might enjoy "Everything and more" by David Foster Wallace. It's a history of mathematics around late 1800s and early 1900s surrounding George Cantor and the discovery of uncountable sets, foundations of mathematics, etc. It's both informative and entertaining.
Those vehicles shouldn't be allowed on freeways in the first place. They can use surface streets.
That’s Hyundai’s problem right now. They are actually making very nice cars, especially through Genesis, but their brand image has not yet caught up with the increase in car quality over the past decade.

A quality car made by Hyundai with Apple technology and brand image is an incredibly good idea for both companies.