jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Is NekoVM interesting? As you said, using it for Flash is the most interesting part, as it's a good alternative to the official tools, especially on platforms Adobe doesn't like that much. Yet compiling to PHP for the web (page/service) part of it seems oddly wrong to me.

JavaScript/node would be another option, but something more native might pique my interest.
I don't understand what you're trying to say here "you can always find a defense, but my basic point is that PHP forces you to find them all.".

What features of other languages make them inherently more secure than php? Do you know of any that aren't admin issues? Yourself and the other person in this thread loudly claiming php is the reason for this are both doing the same thing. Handwaving around bad language design without pointing out anything concrete about security. Do you know the answer to the question or are you just parroting?
I think you greatly underestimate the programming challenges available in large investment banks, from "We ingest literally thousands of separate sources, many of them time-series, at the rate of gigabytes per second." to "How does one manage a programming team of ten thousand people split between six countries?" to "Where do we strike the balance between the-most-fault-tolerant-computer-is-one-that-is-powered-off and a-bug-in-our-application-can-bring-down-the-firm?" to "We have an open-ended research brief which is attempting to answer the question 'Are any 2+ parts of the world's most complicated black-box system correlated with each other in a way that nobody knows yet?' to which any answer in the affirmative is instantly verifiable by the presence of the river of money falling into our bank account that it implies."

Plus some of Wall Street's hijinks are positively Googlesque. It's a place where "I wonder if we can do image recognition on spy satellite photos to count cars in parking lots to get an estimate of traffic to a retailer before they publish their quarterlies" was met with "OH HECK YES WE CAN DO THAT."
All this is not relevant to the fact that there is no evidence for depression being caused by a chemical imbalance.
This is an asinine comment.

He also wanted to move to New York to be closer to his children and grandchildren[1]. The big tech-using companies in NY happen to be finance. But I guess by your logic wanting to be closer to his family is just BS. He just wanted the money.

[1] http://www.stroustrup.com/bio.html
What would he _do_ there in that capacity? I think of him as a technically brilliant engineer -- a "Managing Director, Morgan Stanley" and Bjarne Stroustrup just don't sound compatible (to me) on the surface... at least he's getting paid, though.
Commute was nearly 3 hours for me back when I had to do it. I'd say being remote certainly can help, but has it's own drawbacks as well.

For instance, if you're already programming and working 8+ hours a day in your home, the last thing you want to do is more of it. One of the biggest things you'll want to do is get out more often since you're home a lot, and staying home to work on a side-project doesn't sound awfully appealing.
The Romanian independent press publishes from time to time inquiries (sometimes undercover) about similar paid structures used by local parties (PDL, PSD...) during electoral campaigns and not only. First time I've read how they are organized and how much they get paid was like in 2009 (here the Google Translate version https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...), but I'm sure the technique is in place since long.
No. I have a friend who discovered programming at around age 40. He is now ~45 and doing Ruby on Rails programming instead of his old blue collar job.

That said, I think you probably won't succeed as a programmer unless programming seems fun and interesting to you. If you've worked with programmers, but never tried programming before now, that might be a warning sign.

Still, best way to find out is to try. Start with something small and simple and see if you enjoy the process. Good luck.
ReactOS is one of those projects that has been on the net for a long time. You see it resurface every now and then and each time it looks better than it did before. I have to hand it to the their team, they have tenacity.
Yeah, the military systems may be able to survive, but it could cause mass havoc among the 300 million civilians, so still a decent first strike.
I want one. Much like a Bugatti Veyron, I have no idea when I would have the opportunity to really use it or where I would safely store it but I want one nevertheless.
Again the (in this case draft) RFC begs to differ:

http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-dusseault-http-patch-...

"PATCH is neither safe or idempotent as defined by [RFC2616] Section 9.1."

The only semantics it has seems to be "change this resource in some way". Sometimes such a change might be idempotent, sometimes not, and the PATCH method provides no way of communicating this.

Personally I see little advantage from adding a PATCH method. Its semantics, as far as any generalised client software or middleware are concerned, seems the safe as POST.

Really the question which this raises is: for what reasons are new REST methods justified?

I think Fielding et al are vague on this topic, and I think the vagueness shows in HTTP (and in proposed extensions like PATCH)

Personally I think new methods should only be justified where they have generalised semantics which can be exploited by middleware (or middleware-like layers in client software) and where no existing method is available to express these semantics. Terms like 'safe' and 'idempotent' are relevant and useful properties to consider at this level.

The data-level semantics (like 'applies a diff to' or 'does something approximately like a full update to') aren't really relevant when it comes to request methods, unless they are properties which it's genuinely useful for generic middleware to know about.

I say this because hypertext and standardised hypertext media types and relations are already great at helping people discover available operations, together with their data/domain-level semantics, without the need for any new request methods.
> I think it's clear now that the GPL 3 was a mistake

It isn't clear to me; perhaps you'd like to give your reasoning
Looks very interesting, $20 + S&H for US customers, although #%(&#%(& Amazon.com for refusing to sell print on-demand books that aren't printed by their POD subsidiary.
I admire you for getting in late, and knowing what life is like without it. Do it. You might have a good experience if you do this: get python, and follow some tutorials to set up a web server using SimpleHTTPServer. I don't know what project you have in mind, but as general advice I'd recommend that you avoid any and all javascript until you've got a good feel for crafting sites on a page-by-page basis.
Then why don't the universal health care people advocate for the abolishment of such laws?
This is one of the main selling points of Blosc https://blosc.org/pages/blosc-in-depth/
> Warmongering has next to nothing to do with currency.

Arguably currency is a consequence of wars, as are markets[0]. Markets and currency (fiat & hard specie) are usually the consequence of states needing to raise armies, equip and pay for armies, and do something with the tribute collected from vanquished foes. Small scale agriculture can work on either physical barter or interpersonal debt systems, it's only when you need to equip and train men to fight full time that you need actual coinage and markets to produce arms for them and do something with whatever they seized abroad.

Assuming that one accepts this, this is actually a pretty big problem for the "bitcoin will stop wars" crowd, as arguably currencies are a consequence of wars and not vice-versa. If one wants to stop wars, one has to tackle the root causes, not the side-effects.

Furthermore, it's also clear that it's possible to organize and fund wars on the back of several different types of currency. We've seen wars funded with hard specie (early Roman Republic/empire), diluted hard specie (late Roman Empire), wheat backed coin (Sumaria), lead (Sparta), paper notes backed by land (French directory), gold backed paper (America pre-1971), fiat (everyone nowadays), and probably more still. There's really no clear reason why one couldn't use a cryptocurrency to organize and fund a war.

Heck, if they actually worked it would probably make modern wars a bit easier. Modern conflict often involves the funding of proxy groups with a variety of openness and plausible deniability. This usually requires the actual transit of physical money, which is dangerous and expensive. The ability to just digitally wire a bunch of currency to your proxies without the need to fly pallets of money and gold to your proxy fighters would simplify things significantly for current world powers. The ultra-private currencies would be a pretty good way to send money to terrorist and rebel groups you don't want to be seen visible funding too.

0 - For more on this see David Graeber's Debt, the First 5000 Years.
I've got a couple of these:

- Stretch of freeway by my old house that looks and feels like any freeway you've ever been on, except they limit the speed to 45mph. Try to go 45 at your own peril as car and semi alike go 65 past you. Then the cop camps there. I avoid that freeway now.

- Shopping center exit onto a small side street had a "no left turn" sign, but trying to obey this meant a massive detour around if you needed to go left. The side street was empty most of the time (and low speed!), so people tended to just go for it. Cop camped out there. They removed the sign a year later.
Not for anyone aged 0-60. It looks like there’s a giant upward explosion on hospitalizations for this age group. Or am I reading this wrong?
no one needs a $17 salad but this is the same type of talk which tries to convince people you cannot eat healthy by spending less than what junk food costs.

However the cost of living does bring along a feeling that if life is this expensive why doesn't it feel or appear better.
No, “this scenario” being the one you described in the comment I was responding to: there is no power and people are mining Bitcoin by hand.
Ocean access, proximity to Asia, and natural spaces are found up and down the entire West Coast. Access to nature is considerably better in Seattle than the Bay Area, for example. Most world-class universities on the West Coast are in California but Washington also has one.

The main advantage of California, from a tech perspective, is its large and mature ecosystem, which isn't intrinsic. San Diego does have uniquely perfect weather but that does not extend to the rest of the State and no one goes to San Diego for tech.
It's interesting to go elsewhere in the world and see advertisements for say hard alcohol.
I understand where you are coming from. I have a love-hate relationship with patents. That said, I try not to pass judgement on such things until I fully understand the story (not saying you don't).

For example, if a technology took ten years and ten billion dollars to develop to the point of it being commercially viable, well, yeah, a patent-protected monopoly is likely the ethically correct privilege the inventors should be granted.

An example (out of many) of bullshit patents and monopolies that should have never been granted are the horseshit patents Color Kinetics got years ago. These people had the audacity to patent the use of pulse-width-modulation to control the intensity of LEDs and make lights that could produce different colors. The patent office granted these people patent after patent. Once they had enough they started to attack the entire LED industry. Philips ended-up acquiring them. They let the industry know they would not enforce the bullshit patents. Still, the crooks took their thievery all the way to the bank.

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As for the relative cost of LCD's vs. E-ink. I think the primary difference is very simple: Volume. I haven't done the numbers, but I think I can say that the LCD industry is at least 1,000 times larger in volume. It's like the LCD vs. OLED comparison. Volume is king.

Another element is the tooling-up for manufacturing. A modern LCD manufacturing plant runs in the billions. Two billion dollars the last time I checked, but I haven't been in the industry for ten years and have lost touch. You are not going to take a multi-billion-dollar factory and slice-off a corner to make e-ink displays. These factories are highly automated and tuned machines. They are designed to make millions of displays per month.

This means that making e-ink displays requires putting-up a specialized factory or retooling an old LCD factory that might no-longer be competitive for making LCD's. Regardless of the approach, this is likely to be a very expensive undertaking. That, coupled with lower volume, is guaranteed to translate into higher prices.

Disclaimer: I was in the high performance display business for ten years. Exited a decade ago. So, yeah, I am a little disconnected as to the latest and greatest and what might be new in manufacturing. That said, I get the sense that material changes haven't been as significant in the last ten years as they were during the prior ten.
It's really easy to write simple games with the canvas element. I recognize it lacks a lot of the WYSIWYG tooling flash had but you don't need frameworks.
Yeah it’s creepy. Creepier is the unadulterated vitriol, lashing out, and chaos surrounding Twitter mobs like this one.
This is not entirely true. For example the .se domain is not controlled by the Swedish government but is administered by The Swedish Internet Foundation which is a private foundation (source I work there..). It is (now) regulated somewhat by law.
So the poor word choice was revealing how he knew to reach out? So it's that he got caught?
You have an explanation for these reviews and I believe it, but the developers you're attacking surely have a good explanation for theirs? Is it possible that bad reviews are not always the result of bad intentions?

I support your effort to improve the App Store and get Apple to be more fair. I don't support using public outrage to accuse other developers of purchasing reviews, without proof, in a way that could harm their income. It's immoral and possibly a tort of defamation.

I don't doubt that you have good intentions but going down this path will just lead to developers using public outrage to try to damage each other, not to Apple adjusting their rules and review process. Someone with enough twitter followers could easily do this to someone else.
What does 10x refer to? If it's the spread between min and max, then it's obviously true.

If it's the spread between median and max, then it's easy to sympathize with it being true. The median startup has 0 or negative economic contribution. Similarly, there's a lot of programmers that create tech debt or low value, so 10x that isn't so outrageous.

What about CEOs? Whats the difference between a median CEO and the best CEO ever? That's got to be way more than 10x.
> Chick asked me to sit in a chair a couple feet away from his piano. He stared at me with the a look that seemed to say "whatever you've got, I'll work with it." If I had to imagine how I looked back at him in that moment it would've been the simulacrum of a mathematical model of computation that defines an abstract machine that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. It felt like I was being imitated, state by state, symbol by symbol, my inner-most thoughts understood but unspoken as my utterances were scribbled onto the infinite tape.

> I was also a newly married man who had gained some weight.

> As Chick tickled the ivories, he whispered, "I shall call the song of your life 'The Imitation Game'."

> A moment later, he whispered my name. I do not recall me telling him my name.

> "I wrote this for you, Benedict Kummerspeck," whispered Chick.
Then we do
Far right is 100% in bed with corporations as well. Free speech arguments by those in power on the right are mostly symbolic, and will never get close to _actually_ threatening capital in any way.
My recommendation for other people:

Read the primary sources! They are the source of truth, there is no need to rely on wikipedia editors or journalists to rephrase it correctly, which they are often unable to.

Just bypass wikipedia. Your implication that its something that the world requires is not correct.
That was a government sponsored program that was government canceled in the first place. A private company, would not have even bothered with it in the first place, especially if there was no subsidy.
"but it's dry, desolate, windblown, and hundreds of miles from any regions with, say, hospitals, or airports, or actual grocery stores, or land that can grow something other than grass, or other frivolities of modern living."

So, sort of like Southern California before the boom, then. :-) Except that there are areas in SoCal that couldn't even grow grass. If I recall correctly, several of the early Spanish colonies starved to death.

If you could convince people to move there, the grocery stores and hospitals would soon follow.
It may be a negotiation but it is a very asymmetrical one. That by itself might be the root cause of a lot of the anxiety.
I would be curious to know the results of this. There needs to be meetups set up for this purpose. Nowadays in the bay area, there are too many useless networking events, there needs to be more initiatives that actually make a difference.
What are you talking about torches and pitchforks? I wish we as a community stood up against this and bring torches, but rather we stay behind a computer and sit quietly.... No torches and pitchforks even if we wanted to...
Possibly the latter. In any event, there's certainly nothing inherently avant or enlightened about not sharing photos on social media.
Added it into the guide as a link, thanks for the heads up!
No capital gain taxes is important for internal Russian businesses.
It would boost Russian economy.
For me, using a laptop isn't about saving living space. Instead of having a desktop at home, a desktop at work, and a laptop for the rest, I just have a fast laptop that I can connect to a big monitor at home or work. No need to deal with synchronizing files between computers and I only have to back up one computer.
I've spent the last couple of weeks looking for work on Elance, things have been pretty slow. There are some good people there (one of my old co-workers introduced me to it), but it's easy to lose them in the mass of offshored firms. It doesn't help that most people who post bids there only care about the price and will go with the cheapest one, which is the offshored firms.

I got my foot in the door on one job by charging the minimum for it ($50) because it involved changing one line of code (guy sent me the script for review before I bid). I'm now revamping more of that for a little bit more. But every other bid I've placed has been declined and they've accepted people who must work for $15/hr or less.

Elance is a totally depressing place, but all of our clients have us on hold so I'm looking everywhere I can.
"Mafia Boss" provides benefit to humanity?
Sure, I'll buy that.

I think it is fair to say that 99% of the problems are on the client side... at least, that is how I made my bonus ;)

I always loved it when 10@100 became 100@10.
In response to all of the comments, would be great if you could direct them to the post itself. The team behind the site/push have said they are happy to address/answer questions so please fire away.
>So are you proposing that people don't periodically change their passwords?

This always gets me thinking.

Why is it "good" to change your password periodically? The only reason I can come up with is that, if someone gets your password, you prevent them from being able to use it if they sit on it for X months until your routine change comes through. To which I say "What?! Why would they wait that long?". It's a ridiculous assumption.

There's also that forcing changes (kind of) ensures system A doesn't use system B's password, so you don't lose everything if one account is compromised. But people get around that by having several that they cycle through, on all sites - mostly negating that argument. If they got in once, they can get in again, and (as below) each of those multiple passwords is more likely to be weaker.

Meanwhile, on the flip-side, we have that more frequent changes create weaker passwords, as they all have to be remembered, or trivially-guessable changes. Which means every password is easier to guess, or if the attacker sits on it for a few months, they can probably guess the one of a few hundred likely changes you made, and it really makes no difference that you changed it. Or they wrote it down and stuck it up somewhere, which means it's wide open to social hacking if you have any coworkers.

So the solution is to use a unique random value for each password, stored in a keychain somehow. At which point: why would changing it help? You would only lose the password if someone got your keychain, or hacked the system the password is used on and retrieved it. Either way, it's gone for good, immediately, and it wouldn't matter if you had changed it last week. And all you lost is that single account, which was lost the moment you lost the password anyway.
Thank You. Now I understand what you are trying to say but am having trouble seeing the logic supporting that assertion.

How is lisp so much "more powerful" than (say) Haskell (or Erlang ) to such an extent that problems which are technical issues in Haskell or Erlang are "social issues" in lisp? It seems to be that without some serious convolutions wrt "power" to fit a pre existing bias, lisp is hardly "more powerful" than Haskell ,or SML (or erlang or smalltalk or J or even Lua).

Most of these lisp "power" comparisons seem to focus on easy to beat up languages like PHP or Java and not so much the better designed ones like Erlang or Haskell, which have vibrant communities and plenty of interesting software written in them. Is lisp really "more powerful" than Erlang? or Mozart/Oz? or Haskell?

I suspect pg's ideas of language success depending on the energy of the main Open Source contributor + mainstream programmers aversion to S-expressions may be more accurate.

Maybe all we have to do is wait a year or two and see which of Scala or Clojure dominate on the JVM. The founders of both are very talented and energetic.

If you are right, Clojure should end up "more powerful" than Scala but having (relative to Scala) this "problems which are technical issues in Scala are social issues in Clojure" dynamic. I somehow don't see that happening though.
Of course, in this example, the symbolic calculus functionality is distributed with the OS, or arguably even as part of it, which I guess is a bit more rare than simply having the option of installing it.
So to be clear: Facebook allowed Trump to win in 2016 but them censoring him in 2020 isn't a concerning form of censorship?

I think we're past the point were we have to admit social media and the tech monopolies aren't just websites anymore.
I would die without Salads and other veggies... meat only would get old very fast for me. If I don't have a very heavy garden salad for too long I feel really weird and my cravings for vegetables are through the roof.