jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have not tried recently. The new support articles I've uncovered seem to suggest that the situation has vastly improved. I'm still salty though, and I've put too much work into my Python script to really be concerned about switching to the more "correct" process that was previously denied to me.

The sad fact is that once a consumer realizes the device they've bought is encumbered with artificial limitations, they might not trust it even when (if!) these limitations are lifted later.
Guy de Maupassant is said to have eaten lunch in the Eiffel Tower every day, because it was the only place in Paris he couldn't see the Eiffel Tower.
Hash collisions most likely.
Was this an AI-generated sentence?
OxyData and OxyLabs seem to be sister companies[1]: the former sells data as a product, the latter sells scraping as a service.

[1] https://vpnscam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-08-24-09...
This book is an excellent examination of this concept: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Mountain-Skills-Brian-Lopes...

The author had almost no mountain biking skills and a friend who was one of the best in the world. The book was built up during the author’s advancement through the stages by observing the expert, who was largely incapable of communicating exactly how he was doing what he was doing.
The difference in weight is much more than it sounds.

Work had issued me a Lenovo Thinkpad T61p with a large extended battery pack to make it last closer to 4 hours. It weighed about 7.5 pounds. After just 15 minutes, my shoulder would become sore from lugging my bag around.

I handed them their laptop back and bought a 15" MacBook Pro with my own money. Just that 2 pound difference means that instead of my shoulder being sore after 15 minutes, it takes about an hour for it to become sore.

If I didn't need the memory and the CPU (I do data warehousing work, and need to run VMs almost all the time) I would certainly have gotten a 13" MacBook Air to shave off another 2.5 pounds. Heck, I'd probably get an even smaller bag just to shave off another 1/2 a pound. It's absolutely worth doing.
Sure we still use email, our website/forums and even a tray app. But nothing gets the response Facebook engenders so if we were cut off from that we would take a serious hit, probably not business threatening but certainly it would cut revenues enough that I wouldn't be surprised if jobs were in the firing line (not information I am privy so just a guess).
It is also annoying when you post a reply and the comments have shifted order. I guess PG expects you to start reading the thread from the top again.
You completely missed the kernel of wisdom:

come back the next day and try again

I personally grind away at something until I'm too tired to see straight because I don't know how to put something down until it's done, but several of my friends and at least one professor strongly advocate that approach as working quite well for anything requiring any amount of inspiration or insight.
Most older machines and many new machines aren't 64 bit. All 64 bit x86 machines will support a 32 bit x86 OS. Many people aren't sure about what's inside of their computer. That's why it's the default.
they admit they had no idea what he was doing or looking at in his basement isolation.

I can't say I blame them. The mother also admits she knew nothing about porn at all, and thought that he was looking at still pictures. This is not surprising considering his parents most likely grew up with exactly that, still pictures and perhaps VHS tapes, not the stuff we have today.

Sure, they could have done a better job, but I maintain the route they took was better than killing off his access (which they actually tried to do, see the comment made by the dad after the story, they eventually realized it was futile, and I think they would have saved themselves a lot of heartache had they approached it intelligently from the start).

And letting the lice-infested homeless craigslist woman come live with them? I can't see any way to spin that as a good idea.

Well, another thing to consider is that a lot was left out from the story. It may very well be they didn't know how he found here.

Again, from the comment made by the father:

And then there is the matter of the homeless woman. Again, we did not simply let
this happen. For months the police, the courts, and an entire team of medical
professionals who were not mentioned in the story were involved. We all agreed,
after months of agony, that the approach we finally took was the least of a
multitude of evils. Everything that happened over this period of time, and with
all of these people, is left out of the story, again, to save Alex
embarrassment.
Let me go out out on a limb and say it only works for you the way it does when you trust the second party. The problem for most people is that what the consultant does is black magic and they need reassurance that it is indeed being worked on.
I always said these "expressions" are the devil's making!
I think it's easier to get a PIN or unlock-gesture for a phone, than to get the owners fingerprint.

So the idea of Apple isn't THAT bad.
So, how do I fix it?
Depends on how behind they are and how quickly they can adapt to western needs
Simply put, use the reference nacl implementation only when you really know what you're doing. As with all things crypto it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot, and libsodium makes it a bit harder than reference nacl.
Assume a class Run that inherits from class Action.

If a message is sent to an instance of run Run that the Run class has
no knowledge of, the message will be sent to the parent.

Thus, if message m is unknown to Run, see if the parent classes know it.
This isn't a story that should be on the front-page of Hacker News. It's just rumor-mongering. The fact that the author is unwilling to name names or provide any evidence whatsoever regarding this hypothesis is proof of that.
The majority of Chinese netizens [citation needed] don't care simply because they're not as well educated to digest English content to begin with.

Looking forward to see this issue escalate, as it's the only way to deter the Chinese Gov't.
So there's this for end users, are there any business-specific tools for marketers that Facebook has available or is planning to make now?
> There have been efforts in the past to introduce a JIT compiler, but nothing has become mainline yet

It's been included in the default install of R since version 2.14. You can compile any function you want, and in some cases you can get a speedup of several times. Sure, you're not getting the speed of C, but it's there, it works, and in the future it will lead to much larger speedups.

Some info and timings are here: http://www.rinfinance.com/agenda/2014/talk/LukeTierney.pdf

The experimental version of the compiler can achieve speedups in the neighborhood of 20x.
I'd buy one of these this summer no question - my wife's family lives on a small, mostly uninhabited island, and has some space set aside for a cabin for us. But building much of anything there is crazy expensive, so this would be awesome.

Sell these in Canada/America, please!
> If there was a big shift to encryption without verification

Shift from WHAT? Remember, nobody is suggesting shifting anything from proper encryption, or changing the UI in any way that might mislead a user into thinking they were using a "secure" connection. This is a replacement for plaintext only.

> But what's stopping them from replacing the splitter with another hop?

Cost and complexity. Which is to say, if anybody really wants to throw a few megabucks at the problem, they will succeed, but that is not a contingency that some threat models worry about.

I will refer to Dan Geer when he said[1] (and I suggest this is true for the corporation as well as government):

The central dynamic internal to government is, and always
has been, that the only way ... to control the many sub-units
of government is by way of how much money [it] can hand out.
...
Suppose, however, that surveillance becomes too cheap to meter,
that is to say too cheap to limit through budgetary processes.

This is what technology has done for the surveillance of plaintext. The marginal cost
of recording "everybody"[2] went form about 1:1 in man-hours to practically free, largely because it is possible to log all the plaintext you want to disk, to be processed as needed (or to data mine). By raising the cost at all, we might be moving at least some types of eavesdropping back from "too cheap to limit".

Make the eavesdropper work for it, instead of simply folding because they might decide to upgrade to a MitM.

An even better question, though, is why are you so interested in keeping the internet in plaintext?

[1] http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt

[2] for whatever definition of "everybody" you prefer
I suspect that the majority of people turning up at my front gate just want to drop off the package they're carrying as quickly as possible rather than waiting for me to put on a mask and walk down two flights of stairs for the sake of politeness?
This is exclusive to the iOS version. Apple won't let Signal handle the SMS.

On android it easily replaces messages app and you do all messaging, SMS and signal in one chat.

Complain to Apple. Not to Signal.
AFAICS the system wasn't updated for a year? Well, that's just plain stupid.
If it’s a crime for you to misspeak wouldn’t you err on the side of caution?

Anti trust hearings of 4 tech companies at once... ridiculous... All 4 of you have a monopoly on... something!

Bullshit politics. You aren’t being forced to use ANY services from big tech in the US there is HEAPS of competition. Just US lawmakers shoring up constituents
Then there is no point in having a browser platform, because we are back where we started from.
Then why don’t we simply run JVM apps, there are at least a handful of implementations, and it has at least a decent GUI (half joking here).
But really, the JVM is where WASM may be several years later.
If TOR and I2P are a thing in Iran, they block github if they like but people will find a way to access it.
> One of the most unfair characteristics of US healthcare is that if the health insurance company does not cover a claim, then the patient is responsible for the payment.

As a general rule this is not an unusual characteristic. Get a procedure done in another country that turns out not not be covered and they presumably will bill you for it.

The mess comes about because of attempting to control prices with networks and pre-approvals, which is a fairly recent mess as they tried to control prices and govt layers requirements and escapes/loopholes on them. It would be better to just wipe that all away and get policies that say if you get sick you get a flat payment to spend as you wish. I.e., actual insurance.
Well a deadly pandemic wouldn’t need immunity, they’d all die.

Regarding parent; I believe it was known that the measles vaccine wouldn’t protect for life but for a fair amount of time where having to go through the disease would’ve given life lasting immunity.
I haven't tried reposting. Typically, when I submit one of my blog posts I get around 40~ views and zero comments.
In Germany, wooden houses are unheard of. Not sure where you are getting your info.
I'm a big fan of spreadsheets instead of db -- it has it's limitations of course, but works great for apps with a few thousand read-only records (items/products or even just text captions).

I built HasGluten [1, 2] with react + google spreadsheet, hosted on github for free, you get a cheap, scalable, geo-distributed software stack, with simple interfaces to maintain both code (GitHub Pages) and data (Google Sheets — also great for the non-tech).

[1] http://hasgluten.com

[2] https://github.com/hasgluten/hasgluten
Some of us don't live in CA... :)

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Where-To-File-Addresses-for-Tax-Profe...
Thanks for the link! Great advice for everyone building on corporate owned platforms today. Yes, sometimes it is the right way for your business to start or grow, but make that choice consciously, not in ignorance.
The Explain it like i have been in a coma for 5 years... Elihbiacf5y or just 5 years in coma, explain! 5YICE....

Or ETTT5YA or ET5... explain to time traveler from 5 years ago
http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/

And the HN discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9159557
Actually the company I (a minion stuck in the cogs) work for is a government run lottery that set up a division called Digital Interactive Gaming just to design and build online a gambling website.
Good idea, but seriously lacking in just about everything else.

No online classes?
No search function or categories?
No preview or course outline? ("You'll learn how to make a bag" doesn't cut it).
No details about what makes their instructors qualified to teach? (Being successful doesn't make you a good teacher).
Single classes with an average length of 90 minutes? What could anyone learn from that?

Nothing about their website convinces me that their classes are worth my time or money. I'm all in favor of making education more efficient, but this site just seems to be doing it all wrong.
I appreciate your response, and agree that there's a gray area, but I am now more seriously wondering where parking tokens fall into this mix. They're metallic coins that decidedly represent some value (to the lot owners and offices/buildings that issue them as 'validation' at least).

I can't imagine them being easily mistaken for real money, but I honestly can't see the Liberty Dollar as being mistaken either.
It's not like it was a Google site (gmail, gCal, or whatever) they took down. Google took down his personal blog, which seems really sketchy. Fixing the problem involves more than just taking down the site they says there is a problem.
Historically, someone empowered to act outside of the normal bounds and restrictions of the republic was called a "dictator". The word we use today is derived from the actual title the Romans gave someone when they wanted their republic to be what we would describe as "agile". Eventually, that tactic worked against them.
You worked on Commandos? Holy crap. I'm mid way in to my game development career and played that to death before I even started. Plus 70 hours on Steam as an adult...
Assuming Thanos would snap away China (the whole land not just the people) bitcoin definitely could be considered "down" because it would no longer mine blocks every 10 minutes on average.
Difficulty does adjust but that take weeks. the internet would not be effected like that.
I'll be sure to look into Subsync - Much appreciate the link! I'm currently looking at NUSAutoLyrixAlign [1], and am integrating support for it in a pre-processing tool [2]. Ideally I'd like to support multiple sync'ing tools!

[1] https://github.com/chitralekha18/AutoLyrixAlign
[2] https://github.com/Gazoo101/lyric-manager
Most of this stuff is silly, but I do feel very optimistic about medical science finding a way to prevent people from suffering from aging. I think it would really help us to be better at long term thinking if our lives weren’t so short; imagine if the human population was on average about 500 years old and you told them that climate change was going to wreak havoc in 50 years. Instead of looking like a distant problem for the next generation to deal with, it looks immanent. Plus, I would personally love to feel as vital and healthy as I did in my 20’s and early 30’s for longer. I’d love to learn to draw, to write a book, to do all the things I just didn’t have time to do.
I think Škoda availability is extremely dependent on geographic market.
The Nazis can confiscate the hard drives where your keys are stored.

And - it’s not going to help you against the Nazis if you can’t transact it.

As to gold - that misses the point. Of course it can be taken from you.

However unless that happens, you can still transact it. People escaped the Nazis using gold to pay their way.
Determinism! [0]
I'm switching a browser game side project from Typescript to WebAssembly because determinism enables a simpler style of multiplayer. Instead of relying on a server to manage state, I can just send inputs p2p like a modern fighting game (with rollback [1]). Then the game acts just like singleplayer! For a hobbyist like me, WebAssembly makes the minefield of multiplayer so much easier to navigate.

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Nondetermi...
[1] A blog post on rollback netcode (not in wasm): https://ki.infil.net/w02-netcode.html
Once again, science saves the day!

Glad to see the FDA move quickly and prioritize things. Good work to all involved.
OK, well, I actually wrote part of a few of them, and they do none of that.

First, "replacing system framework with your own hex edited version" -- no. They do patch the kernel, but they exploit it at startup and do dynamic patching using dynamic methods that work on any version. There is no hex editing. For adding to frameworks, they use a similar method to LD_PRELOAD on Linux. No in-binary patching ever happens.

Poor source code? If you mean "not much is released", that's wrong, for example comex posts his kernel patching code at http://github.com/comex shortly after every release.

.git directories? No idea where that comes from.

So, here's what a jailbreak /does/ do: it evades the codesigning mechanisms on the device, and installs a file that does the same on boot. It then injects some code into the kernel, which does dynamic patching to remove the code signature verification checks. After that, it untars a basic *nix setup, with GNU coretools and the Cydia application, and moves the built-in applications to the larger partition (to make space for additional system components). Want to install a "tweak"? It installs MobileSubstrate, a tool that loads itself into processes via DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES (similar to LD_PRELOAD on Linux), and then injects whatever other packages you have installed using that. This allows dynamic patching of whatever we want, and you don't hex-edit or modify a single binary.

So I'm not sure where you got that impression, but it's pretty much patently wrong.
The trash business is a goldmine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HlFKfSS410&feature=youtu.be...
If all you want is a coder you just need $$$.

If you want a co-founder, you need to not refer to her as a coder.
One limiting factor of reignition is the mechanism for lighting it. Some for example use a very combustable fuel that ignites in the presence of air to then ignite the main fuel flow. Depending on what mechanism the Merlin uses, this could limit their number of reignitions.
The service hasn't actually launched yet, per their Kickstarter updates and comments. It makes sense, you have to line up advertisers before you start letting people print, but I think that could have been made vastly more clear on the site.
Lua itself is much faster then Python or Ruby. Both languages look, as if the author did read 'A little Smalltalk' by Timothy Budd, though that its easy to design a new language, and repeated all errors(simplifications) out of the book.
I dont know the main problem of Ruby, but I would point to the garbage collector for Python, as a ref counting GC is required for finalization, and ref counting is slow as hell. Python after 2.0 therefore required two slow GCs. The old ref counting GC, that slows down every object access, and in addition a simple stop the world GC to clean up cyclic references.
Nobody likes the feeling that someone is watching over your shoulder. Not at work, not at home, nowhere.
As someone who spent five years working at MSFT under Steve as CEO, my first reaction is sadness. Steve spent over three decades working there, it is an end of an exceptional career, regardless of how his run as CEO might have been.
The latest releases of Xcode have been massive improvements.
I am kind of keen to see numbers on the negative impact this program has had on the (American) cloud and Internet industry. I know a handful of companies in Europe and Asia who moved away from Google and Rackspace lately and set-up/revived their own machines.

My best guess is that the monetary loss due to this whole forceful invasion of privacy would be in order of billions (I am just guessing here; would be great if someone could point me to a thoroughly researched number though). This cost is apart from the bazillion sunk money that the US/UK Government put in to get hold data from the trunk, set up data center of NSA etc. All to just get hold of less than 50 so-called potential murderers (Avoiding the T-word!).

Looking at the cost of the whole thing and the stupidity of the presented picture, I think purpose of PRISM is already lot more than just curbing terrorism.
That makes a lot of sense. I almost missed a train in NYC due to not being able to hail a cab.

In a lot of smaller Canadian cities they take a while to arrive. But I have had ZERO bad experiences in Montreal and Toronto. The system works pretty well.
windows, Xbox and Explorer from the 90's...all mimic plays
If the thesis is, 'people need soft skills to get and succeed at their jobs', then wouldn't the article serve that thesis by articulating how one could obtain those skills? Instead, we have a citation of Kanye West, and as a result, the tone of the article is fairly anti-intellectual.

For high school students looking to develop soft skills:
http://bit.ly/1b60sBm
http://bit.ly/13Rjiay
http://abt.cm/14nWouk
Take software development as an example. Half the battle is knowing what needs to be built, half the battle is knowing how to build it. The former aspect takes a lot of people skills. If it's a big project, the latter takes it too.

I would guess that building bridges is similar.

The best doctors have people skills too. "Bedside manner"
Maybe the time has come to resurrect Wave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave) and usurp email by turning Wave into a p2p PFS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_forward_secrecy) communications platform.

See "Perfect Forward Secrecy can block the NSA from secure web pages, but no one uses it" (http://blogs.computerworld.com/encryption/22366/can-nsa-see-...).
> GitHub is a social network

Yes indeed social network like Facebook, which can stop access to repository or code based on DMCA. It pose many serious risks, given a lot of open source code is under control of a single corporate entity.

Hopefully social model evolves and become fully distributed which is the fundamental basis of git/hg/fossil and other distributed version control.

Today all the necessary technology is available, needs an effort to integrate them and bring back the self-hosted alternative which automatically forms a distributed social network to collaborate on code.
Totally feel that, I'm in the same position.

Interns we've on-boarded, especially from non-CS background programs, all have had these kinds of issues.

It's been getting better, but I don't see how it's possible to have anything close to "real" mentor-ship schemes with full WFH. When I was interning most of learning happened not with my project but with interacting with the team and seeing/understanding what they did.

I have a sneaking feeling that the productivity boosts due to WFH mostly come from more senior devs w/ specific workstreams that are benefiting from more "head down" time, but without mentoring/training new ppl the quality hiring pool will go down over time.