jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I use OneNote, and have my notebooks in my Dropbox folder. I've just downloaded the MobileNoter app for the iPhone, but haven't used it yet, so I don't know how well that will work-- but I haven't had any problem with the OneNote/Dropbox combination yet, and I certainly haven't found it slow to access my notes.
Yeah, after a few weeks of a clueless founder, and surrounded by our fellow 'agile' and 'rockstar' programmers, you might be longing for reassuringly foosball-free break-room, and the steady whir and click as the TPS reports roll into the out-tray of the HP. Mmm. Kay.
Backups with lower grade technical security are possible if you’re willing to compromise speed. For example an offline process where you have to present yourself, in person, and show N forms of ID, to the service provider or their agent with a mandatory M day delay. Or where you can have X other users, who can log in, vouch for you to reset your access token.
oh, so not the convenience store...
Ya, I ran for a long time with a passphrase in a system without a TPM. I recently got a TPM for it so I could have it restart without me being present.

I used the `manage-bde` command rather than powershell:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informatio...

The GUI for bitlocker doesn't provide access to all the functionality that manage-bde provides (iirc: if a TPM is present, the passphrase options aren't presented in the GUI. And it used to talk about a "PIN" instead of a passphrase/password, but the "PIN" can (with some gpo tweaking) contain letters/space/punct as well as numbers.
No, AMD (which indeed surprised me).
I tend to see a lot of highly promoted "short and fat" principal engineers and other internal thought leaders who lack depth. In fact the career path seems to top out if you prefer being an expert in something rather than jack of all trades and able to talk about any subject.
A significant annoyance is that permissions cannot be encapsulated within a database but are global to the instance, requiring extra consideration at every step, from the very logic of your migrations, to how you dump/restore.
What's the difference to you for using {} vs <>?
The idea is that, if free software principles were widely followed, this kind of spying could never be built in the first place. It'd be like a rice cooker that refuses to cook a full portion if you're putting on weight, or a washing machine that won't turn on during peak energy hours; a bizarre, unprecedented imposition on the principle that you should be able to do what you want with your stuff.
You obviously have a nose for good design.

Seriously though, that is awesome.
That's a false dichotomy, saying that it's one or the other.

We could have much higher precision, and add highly sensitive pressure sensitivity. For most tasks touch sensitive surfaces would be identical and equally easy to get into, except that they would allow for much higher ceilings of mastery and skill than they do now.
There's a great 15 minute video by CGP Grey introducing the same set of concepts that technology will contribute to unemployment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

Its a bit pop-sciency, but its very approachable and well explained.
When I was 18 I had already dropped out of college, was homeless and in pretty poor shape. I had to live "fake it till you make it". None of my clients needed to know I was programming their web applications from a library computer at a college campus that I only was able to use by logging in with random strangers student ID numbers.

I worked my ass off to build software enginnering experience taking on challenges for little to no pay. That alone didnt keep me fed all the time while I was learning to market myself (and gaining more skills to market).

I did everything from working many day-labor jobs (manpower, laborready, etc), factory work, tractor sales, retail, telemarketing, street preforming, teaching old people to use the internet, etc.

It was a long road but over time I began to get the occasional programming gig for clients in way over their heads with money to burn. Allowed me to build confidence, income, and vital experience. I made sure I earned my keep and got referrals.

So far I have started 5 companies, worked for/with countless others, tackled hundreds of fun projects, learned a lot of tough/valuable lessons, and built a network of incredible people. I am now working as a software engineer at an amazing startup and I love my job.

TLDR If someone like me can make it, anyone can. Just gotta work for it and learn how to leverage the resources around you.

Also... ignore the people saying you can't make it without a degree. Many of my friends employed at major tech firms don't have anything but hard earned experience. No one worth working for has degrees as a manditory prereq. Obtaining a degree or two may well be the easier/sane path for most, but certainly not the only one. My path was at least debt free and came with experience I would not trade for anything.

Feel free email me (google for it) or hit me up via http://hashbang.sh . Lot of very successful mentors there that love helping people like you.
I have fond memories of the Sierra adventure game that was licensed from the Disney movie.

IIRC the game ran on Sierra's original 286/EGA era interpreter (the same as Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and others), but it required less typing and had less complex language than other Sierra titles so it was much more approachable.

I was about 9 years old. I and my friends wanted to play adventure games so bad, but we didn't speak English, so in practice we were dependent on an older kid or a parent to play Space Quest for us... The Black Cauldron was a Sierra game that we could learn to play ourselves. I learned so much English from that game. (I can vividly remember learning the word "cupboard" in a scene that was set inside the protagonist's home.)

Maybe The Black Cauldron didn't do justice to the original work, but it certainly made an impact on me, and I'm grateful to Disney and Sierra for making it.
Your body contains a feedback mechanism that is extraordinarily good at fine-tuning how much you WANT to eat and WANT to move in order to maintain its desired weight. You can fool this system in the short term, but most people can't fool it in the long run - it will correct - and likely overcorrect - any imbalance you try to impose. So the problem with the equation is that it strongly suggests that (calories in) and (calories out) are variables that are independent of one another and freely changeable by you, which they are not.

But if you still question this, let's consider an EVEN SIMPLER equation that governs your weight: we'll ignore calories and instead focus on MASS! Here's the equation:

(mass in) < (mass out) == (mass loss)

So if you want to lose mass, all you have to do is breathe out more than you breathe in and poop/pee more than you eat/drink. This is clearly literally true - if you lose mass you must have done that! (Okay, I'm simplifying a little - there's also dandruff, perspiration, hair and nail trimming and absorbing water through the skin - but those factors are probably small enough to safely ignore.) So go out and use my simple equation to lose mass!

But wait, you say that you can't MAKE your body exhale more mass than it inhales or excrete more mass than you consume on a consistent basis? Well, maybe you're just not trying hard enough. Exercise more willpower! :-)

Both equations are true, yet both are useless.
Do you write articles for TechCrunch in your free time?
It's an apples to oranges comparison because Visual Studio is an IDE built for programming for Windows while Emacs is a text editor that can edit C++, Python, function as a Lisp IDE, edit org charts, browse the web, play music, read e-mail and typeset papers, among other things. It's, actually, a small OS built to emulate the OS Lisp machines ran.

Emacs can be used as an IDE. I use it every day that way. I can use it like that because it's completely programmable. When I needed a Pyccuracy-specific editor, it took me an afternoon to write one (not from scratch) in Emacs-Lisp. I could probably have a spreadsheet inside it, if I really wanted.

Try to build a Lisp IDE inside Excel... ;-)

About the "go to definition" thing, it depends on what major/minor mode you are using. There is probably something like that for C-ish development. I just never used it.

And for finding all files in a project, there must be something that parses makefiles and rounds up source files. Emacs is older than many of us and someone must have already solved this specific problem in the past 40 years.

I am playing with "nav" in order to build special-purpose browsers. I would love to have a YQL-mode, but I feel I should replicate the multi-pane tool Yahoo makes availabe.
agreed, I immediately thought the old index is structured and layered, the new index is a big ball of mud...
Notice the last sentence?

I merely tried to put the figure into perspective.
Generic shortened URLs are becoming a plague upon the web and are marginally useful at best outside of Twitter

Marginally useful at best outside of Twitter? Care to explain? Less than 1% of bitly's traffic is coming from twtitter, so obviously there are other people that find value in trackable URLs... I'm curious why you think it isn't useful?
> Now I have to assume that other large corporations - other tech companies, Wall St. - have similarly impressive secrets locked up behind their confidentiality walls, stuff that we'll never know about but that is far better than the best open-source alternatives around.

Which also shows the power of open source, as a tool for enhancing your reputation.
Thanks. Couldn't make that out from their website easily.
Twenty minutes well spent.
As an alternative you can go into game programming or the demoscene for a small chance of fame.
that was great!
Isn't that just a C REPL with very limited history?
This is just me, a non lawyer, talking. But I kinda feel like the SCOTUS cases you reference were wrongly decided. When CA asserted its public easement over tidal lands it's hard for me to see why a taking from a regular piece of land should be any different than a piece of land that happened to be governed by the Mexican government over a century ago.

At some point doesn't the past have to become the past?

I think Khosla should be allowed to shut down the parking lot, but be required to maintain some sort of minimal road/path easement.

I should really read the full SCOTUS decision though before feeling confident in this POV.
System wide themes used to work, and we didn't need an explicit Dark Mode because of it. Sadly, computer interfaces have regressed significantly from 1995.
Kind of sort of? American companies heavily use local talent, or people from Taiwan, often Chinese expats with American citizenship. The government could still apply pressure to family, I guess, but in general the publicity alone is enough to make sure they don’t interfere much. Likewise, American branches want as good relationship with the government as they can get, which tends to temper their actions.

Working in China for 10 years, I can’t say that I didn’t feel the party at all, but their influence in our work was pretty much nil. They mostly interfered in the distribution of benefits and such.
While there is a temptation to "do something" just because someone is sane enough to recognize that an approach is doomed to failure doesn't mean they have all of the answers.

I have seen that asserted but I haven't heard explicit answers. Why do you or others think it isn't tennable? How do you think it will collapse with lack of action?
1Password and other password managers can import from Chrome and integrate with Firefox.
Actually, I found the homepage (landing page) not so great, and came here to the comments, in the hope to get some more information. Specifically, I use Mosh, and I would like to know, is this the same thing? If yes, how is it different? What are advantages/disadvantages? I would have wanted a more detailed comparison. The name is also a bit confusing; just from the name, I thought this might be a terminal emulator.

Back to Mosh: If it supports scrolling, how does that work? Is there also a prediction engine like in Mosh? What about ncurses apps? I skimmed briefly through the "how it works" page now, and it seems it also uses TCP instead of UDP. Shouldn't UDP be a better protocol for such a tool (also, that's what Mosh uses)? That page also does not say anything about how the prediction works (which is important in Mosh for the low latency), or whether it even does that (or how else could it have low latency)?
Knowing HN, yeah, they probably consider seatbelts extreme big government overreach lol. "Let the market decide what safety devices people want! You're just raising costs for everyone with these unnecessary nannies!"
1. I'm a Christian myself, and I see no contradiction between my religious beliefs and the rational conclusion that science tends to provide the best answers for a vast scope of phenomenons

2. I would never use hallucinogens out of my own volition. But, because science is credible, I would definitely do so if there were a reasonable consensus in the medical community that this category of drugs was beneficial for me.

3. I believe your idea of the effect of hallucinogens is incorrect. They do not disconnect one from reality but merely alters how such reality is perceived. One might even argue that hallucinogens can get you closer to "reality" (whatever that means...) by allowing you to notice a wider range of stimuli that is not available under normal conditions.

4. Maybe hallucinogens are gifts from God, like quinine, lithium, and penicillin.
Given that much of the support for that insurgency stems from heavy-handed anti-civilian actions by the Colombian army and associated paramilitaries, it actually might.
It is a shame your developers allowed you to commit perjury in such an automated fashion.

With all due respect to you and your company (and while I fully support your right to invoke your TOS to take down content within your own service) I'd actually love to see one of the people you DMCA'd slam you on that aspect of this situation legally if for no other reason than to make other companies think twice (or three times) before they improperly invoke the DMCA to scare people into submission.
I don't think I am getting it no. You don't think ZFS is the problem?

So you aren't calling ZFS a "crappy solution"? Just the DAS usage?

What is your gripe exactly then? The overblown critique of networked storage? Well we agree on that at least then. I think.

Honestly, with all the "read the fucking article", it's-not-DAS, oh-it-is, CloudFS is way moar better than ZFS, I never said ZFS sucked, "Bryan ZFS Cantrill is a jackass" you've left me absolutely bewildered at what your intended point (if any) actually is?

For the record, my only comment on (free) distributed filesystems (that aren't vendor-locked and actually unusable to me) is that I wouldn't personally trust them with my data. Not until they have the features I need, and then are running out in the wild, widley deployed for a couple years so I'm not a guinea pig.

I'll even throw you a bone: Even just last year ZFS was having major melt-downs when a new inadequately vetted feature was added. A few years ago it wasn't uncommon to face corruption when trying to do fairly routine things managing disks. Bugs can and do happen.

Maybe CloudFS, or Gluster is ready for prime-time, housing terabytes of data reliably and never making a misstep. I just don't think it's smart to bet your business on it. Not at least without a plan B since moving data around isn't an option when you're down and have terabytes you need to get back online.
"Fair trials to those we have an open and shut case against! Continued detention and possible military trials for anyone else" doesn't sound like a slogan I can get behind.
So was said that Social Security Number will be used for tax purposes only and now is the de facto personal identification method. This looks like a gambit to me
Could they just be creating a "Game Center" for Android?
The journalist A.J. Liebling said, "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."

I guess the corollary here is, "If you don't own the server, you don't own the file."

Maybe this is why Richard Stallman calls cloud computing "careless computing."
Or you can just share a folder with someone or give them the public link - and both are even easier solutions.
DMCA notices aren't a joke that you can idly send to anyone who annoys you. You are legally liable for them, and telling a judge "Oh, we just send them automatically without checking" is not going to help your case.
> You couldn't invent a more polar opposite of Steve Jobs than Elon Musk.

Jobs would start off describing a common problem before unveiling the product which inevitably solves said problem. This often brought cheers that felt genuine.

Musk simply shows something bizarre and talks about how they made it, never how it solves your problems (other than a desire for the latest tech). edit Regarding the transition to EV vehicles, that's what Musk always says about new models, it's not a new thing.
Most of the features of this truck are things that we should have already gotten in our pickup trucks 10 years ago when they started breaching $50k.

Hopefully this will light a fire under Ford/Chevy to actually giving us some tangible value.
Hacker News never fails to amuse.
I didn't even realize there was an announcement event. Don't care. Take my $100. This is the beast-mode version of a Model S.
That's a pretty common reason people cite for buying big SUVs. A belief that being the bigger car in an accident makes you safer.
Reminds me of a Syd Mead design or something from Car Wars.
To be fair it didn't shatter. The steel ball did NOT make it through the glass.
Hmm, hard to say without the dimensions. Seems shallow enough.
Reminds me of the “Homer” upon laying first eyes on it.
Hope you won't mind the comments here:

Regarding the huge form, while I know you'd like smaller, I would like to say it is pretty standard for online purchases. Name, Address info, phone in some cases, and email address.

Recurring billing is coming.

The upload applet works great for most, but I agree some have problems with it. The real reason things have moved beyond just simple FTP is that files aren't hosted on simple servers any longer. When things move to cloud computing, adding a file to the cloud is much more complex than the old days of just FTP'ing it into a directory. While we are continuing to work to make it better, anytime a client does have problems, we are quick with some other options, including we can pull the files down and load them for you.

Ken White, Chief Customer Service Officer
FastSpring E-Commerce
There is also Fos (FastCgi Owin Server) https://github.com/mzabani/Fos
And you forgot about the capability of sending other rich content like a map! ;-)
If you are willing to turn away interested customers, then feel free to require JS.

But, myself, I browse with NoScript turned on at all times, and if I come to your site and it does not work because JS is required, then I will simply leave and go to the guy next door who does not require JS just to use his site.
it's not the 'un-necessary' part -- is the fact that not even giving out the SIMPLEST of offerings like 'how much memory is my software using?' -- 'how much memory do I have access to?" -- things like that are a given in almost ANY serious sofware project -- and if you can't have them then you have NO CLUE what you are doing and shouldn't be writing software
That's not good design, that's just the esthetics.

It's easy to make a steel plate with a handle, but design should incorporate usability (notification LED, for example) and safety (locking mechanism). Without those it's just pretty bad design.
hey kareem... heh well i do now ;)
I have talked to Tim about this so he is aware. And recently Doron Swade (who built the Difference Engine No. 2) has joined the project: http://plan28.org/ for details.
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I agree with the first sentence, but I'm pretty sure the NSA could do it.

Until recently it would have only cost a few million dollars to fab enough ASICs for a 51% attack. I haven't seen a recent analysis, but it's probably still only in the 10s of millions (possibly 100s of millions)
Manning joined the military in late 2007 or early 2008...long after incidents like the prison abuse at Abu Ghraib, and even the admission by President Bush himself that the decision to go to war had been based on faulty intelligence.I cannot take Manning's claims that he had no clue that there was anything untoward going on until he arrived in Iraq and began reading secret military reports.

Now, I wouldn't have expected him to have an adult's awareness of all the political issues, but did this young man never see the front page of a newspaper or watch a television news broadcast during the previous four years? You would have to have been living under a rock to be unaware that the US invasion of Iraq had been the subject of controversy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iraq_War
I've seen this pop up a few times over the last few weeks. I just thought Safari was bugging out because I'd refresh and it'd be gone again. Hope it sticks around.
> To the absolute limit of our ability to measure it — and our ability to measure it is really good, since we used electromagnets and lasers and other expensive science things — when an object is dropped, it begins falling instantaneously.

That's not true. Our ability to measure the "speed of gravity" gives us measurements that say "the speed of light":

> the actual measurement confirms that the speed of gravity is equal to the speed of light to within 1%.

I eliminated the cruft so it was more obvious. RobotRollCall's information is older than the linked article (that's from 1998).