jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The first sentence sums up what's wrong with government reactions to crypto.

>[...] for the first time in history, anyone could encode and exchange a message that no law enforcement agency had the technical ability to intercept and decode.

Here's one famous counterexample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad

People have always been able to communicate secrets. I don't underestimate the value of doing it conveniently, and obviously many people have been caught by lazily talking on a wiretapped phone, but the crypto war is only a war on convenience. There can't possibly be an effective war on communicating secrets unless people just give up trying. If governments want to fight it, they should at least be honest and say they're fighting convenient crypto, not crypto in general. They're fighting crypto that average people can access easily, crypto that makes everyday privacy achievable, not crypto used by coordinated criminals. At least it would make more sense and could lead to a reasonable debate.
How many data points do you need to uniquely represent every person in earth? I bet its a smaller number then the number of constraints and requirements in your system.
Seems to me you can buy and sell a face detector (or find it open source on github) all the better if somebody or something somewhere can identify the concept of a face detector.
If you can escape from the constant firefighting of interrupt-driven work, you can finish things on a predictable schedule.

Unfortunately, you log on to work on X, and it turns out customer A had a sev 1 outage, and youve got to scramble. Maybe once that is resolved, you can get back to X tomorrow. Except tomorrow, customer B reports some other bug, and you're dragged into triaging and reproducing that, while its still fresh. Now it's Wednesday, and you get one day to work on X. Thursday rolls around, and your day gets chewed up by another handful of meetings and status checks with A and B, also C came in with something. On Friday, you're worn out and reeling, and you realize project X never really got off the ground.

Rinse and repeat until things just fall through the cracks.
Probably changed the phone number after it had been leaked.
It's set up so that you have to prove you own the email address before knowing if you're included in "sensitive" breaches.
There’s nothing wrong with PHP. And Laravel is very popular for good reasons.

There are people out there writing Python just as bad as what you think of as bad PHP.

One dev I knew insisted everything must be a list comprehension — including all for loops in regular flow control. That was Not Good(tm).

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Edit: please read the parent comments for context. GP said there’s no right or wrong and OP said then why not use PHP and I said it’s not wrong.
USB-C was finalised in 2014, two years after Lightning was shipped (so possibly up to four years after Apple had started development of Lightning).

It also requires a larger port than Lightning, so you can see why Apple would be okay with adding it to iPads, but not to iPhones.
> I wake up in the zone every single time because I sleep what I need. I also do exercise and eat well. It is that simple.

Tried that, didn't work. Hell, at some point in my life, the only consistent way for me to get into the zone was to be sleep-deprived.

The zone isn't about stress per se. It's about focus. Low levels of stress can often help here (acting as rails that bounce you back onto the track if you start to veer off). High levels of stress will of course prevent the state of flow, but if you can kill off that signal somehow, you may have a chance to get back into the zone.

> I see people trying to get by by using stimulants like coffee to work, but that is deluding yourself. It is just removing the signal from your body that you need to rest after stress.

Thing is, people often have no other choice. The body doesn't have a "snooze" button - once it considers something an emergency, it doesn't understand the signal was received and noted, but there's nothing that can or should be done about it now. It'll just keep bugging you.
everyone I've talked to who's worked on bluetooth hates it.

except ble - I think is a different and simpler protocol
I have always enjoyed that essay, it reminds me of something my Dad once said to me, "Cannibal's don't realize they are cannibals." It wasn't strictly true of course but it tried to capture the essence that if you've grown up in a society where X is the norm, you don't know what living in a society where X is not the norm is like or can be like. Combine that with humans who like what they know more than what they don't know, and you find communities moving to high entropy / low energy states and staying there.

That said, there isn't anything that prevents people from having standards. Both FreeBSD and MacOS are pretty coherent UNIX type OSes. But it is important to realize that a lot of really innovative and cool stuff comes out of the amazing bubbling pot that is Linux as well. I sometimes wish it were possible to do a better mashup.
Ah, you're right. Chrome Dev has support for classes now. Good to know!
the very frequency with which the Farmers' Market is now held in Union Square... might be construed as little more than cover for crowd control, have as it does the effect of making this space all but inaccessible to protesters.

Not saying your argument is unfounded, but may be overstated. I do most of my grocery shopping at union square, and there seems to be a protest there about 30% of the time. I'm sure some people get turned down, but it is clearly accessible to protesters often enough that there are basically permanent police barriers there.
Have you tried obfsproxy? You can make a tunnel that looks like web/skype/etc traffic, it's worked well for us in China when we've needed it.
Do I basically need a gamepad to play braid? Or will it work with the keyboard decently? What about the other platformer and the asteroids style game? Playing under linux if that matters.
In short, whatever you want to do - just do it.
> On the other hand, there is no chance that Samsung will shut down its phone division, whether or not Apple wins the lawsuit.

Samsung may not shut down their phone operation but this suit could make them re-evaluate the cost-benefit of Android phones... others have mentioned that this is a proxy lawsuit against Google, I'd agree.
If they're going to outsource you, they'll outsource you. Whether you come to the office or telecommute won't make a huge difference to the decision when you're looking at wage differences of 5x-20x.

In fact, a telecommuter is cheaper than onsite -- much lower overheads. Employees in the office mean renting office space, getting insurance, paying for utilities ... overhead which can add up to a lot of money quite quickly. If they're at home you can pay them more and still come out ahead.
I'm all for digital, but I think we need some serious commitment from publishers and distributors and content warehouses before we continue making huge investments into what is essentially a collection of content licenses.

This seems a lot of work in a world where most content, and most popular content, is disposable by design.
Don't forget Kupfer
http://kaizer.se/wiki/kupfer/
Oddly enough, my non-reference books have become reference books because of their ease of access. For example, I was once trying to explain how a simple shift in perspective can lead to radical changes in behavior. Pulled out Ender's Game and a blurb of "the gate is down" as a 'concrete' example.

As a book nerd, you often relate to books in response to certain situations. Instead of summarizing, we can now quickly access the eloquent prose of a gifted author that had time to express herself :)
Béla Bartók
If I took time to link to each one of those would it change your opinion any?
I don't understand how this role doesn't fall under the scenario of: "The engineer becomes a manager"

In order to do a superlative job as a manager of a software engineering team, one has to master these same skills. Perhaps the term "Software Scientist" will help distinguish good software engineering management practices from bad ones, but I fail to see how "The Software Scientist" is not a management role.
Yeah, it's a weird catch-22. But I think there are a lot of smaller businesses (maybe mom & pop shops) that would be totally fine saving on cost to employ a student (and depending on the student getting some pretty good results). Tons of students are already the "computer kid" (or something similar) that all tech support/website help gets funnelled to...

Maybe give students a way to submit leads? Like if a student has a family member that wants to make a site, but they don't want to do it themselves, you can give them something (not sure what) for submitting it to the site?

Yeah, basically -- you should be able to run a ton of it without building it yourself (for speed, and of course tons of open source tools already exist), but the idea is basically for different types of students to find each other.

When I was thinking about it, I roughly broke it into some of the types of roles you have in a startup

Engineering/Programming

Design

Business

X-Factor (for those that don't fit in the narrow categories I've suggested)

Then students can sign up, add their resumes, and post ideas that they want to collaborate/get help on, and see if they can attract interest from other types of people.

The site would then provide collaboration tools (gitlab for code, general chat/team management with phabricator for example, etc) to the group.
Out of curiosity, has the original kernel patch been merged into mainline yet? Which version will it be launching in?
I wonder how much something like this would cost if produced in bulk. I would love to run some of the iPad apps as a digital whiteboard.
Steve Jobs remarked as much in an interview once (Paul Rand designed the NeXT logo): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJthkRrQcfo (around 1:40).
HELLO!? WHAT, I CAN'T HEAR YOU, I'M AT BEST BUY! WHAT? I SAID I'M AT BEST BUY! NO IT'S RUBBISH!

edit>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYLMk8xplqw
Thanks. Filed: https://github.com/nodejs/undici/issues/1203
"Argue for your limitations, and they're yours."
Is the generalization between one, two and three spatial dimensions straightforward?
Yes? In many places, housing prices are higher than they were in 2008. 2008 was still a bubble, though.
Not really competition. People will just use different platforms and not speak or hear each other anymore. We're just going to see a further fragment in our society.
does it support data lineage?
> I’d love to see how these two speak to their donors and each other vs how they speak to the public, for example.

All you need to do is look at the stimulus bill. It's full of "I'll give you this if you give me that" items.
Yeah, they kneeled for the photo op, then deployed tear gas an hour later.
Le sigh. Just because infections are increasing does not mean masks don't work. Tell me, what would the numbers be without masks?
Do you accept that there is a difference between r/dt and your bookshelf?

In principal, are they different technologies? Or is all information, regardless of medium equal?
Why would it be of the interest of any US citizen for elected officials to have any "secret" ?

Full transparency should be paramount.
Wait. How does one have time to see a small piece of tape on a gun before making a decision to shoot someone with a gun pointed at you?
Not by the sitting President, but by every single mainstream media organization and a pretty solid fraction of sitting Democrat Congresspeople and Senators, who spent months excusing and denying violent riots as they raged for months.
Yes, that's the most straight-forward model - companies paying posting the jobs.

You could theoretically also serve some relevant ads (products or services for Software Engineers) but the conversion would be probably very poor.
No, anonymity is refreshing because a world where you are always on the record with your most formal identity with everything you say runs largely against the ways humans develop their worldviews: by trying on certain opinions, sorting themselves out, and participating in low stakes interactions where they can make mistakes and learn with minimal consequence.

This doesn't mean 'planning a coup' is one of these contexts, but you are focusing on a very narrow example of the broad social system impact of anonymity in online communication.
>Morality is relative, please don't inflict yours on others.

Suffering is not relative.

“It just isn't possible to mass produce meat without torturing animals. In fact, raising animals specifically for consumption, i.e., “humane slaughter” is an oxymoron.” —https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cynic.html
Everybody will read it as «пидора» which is highly obscene swearword for [a certain F word HN doesn't allow to utter]. You can't even write that with a straight face, let alone speak it out loud, definitely banned for use in mass-media in transliterated/vocal form. But not many on the internet were offended by the name or anything. Quite the contrary, people thought it's a funny name and makes good marketing.
Thanks will do it.
This is wrong. The name Coq is a reference to CoC (the Calculus of Constructions) and to Coquand (the inventor of the Calculus of Constructions). Incidentally, it is one of symbol of France. Its meaning in English provided an opportunity for Gérard Huet to troll with the name, but if the intent were to troll, there would have been many other possible names suitable for trolling, no need to choose Coq. And reciprocally, with many different names would have it been possible to troll, if your intent is to troll.
Love this. Something like this (with comments) is sorely needed for those of us trying to innovate in the education space.
How is that not disputed by those graphs? While there is distortion at both ends (particularly the lower end), it nevertheless shows self-assessment is positively correlated with ability.
Motorcycles? Bicycles? What is next on his transportation agenda...
Thanks to you and @mandelbrot for the suggestions!
As measured by lines remembered, I suppose that Yeats has to top the list. In no particular other order, Eliot, Ransom, Wyatt, Hardy, J.V. Cunningham, Bunting.
When the "opposing side" (the heartland institute) also deny the existence of global warming and second-hand smoke, I think your choice of references does more to harm that viewpoint than support it.
Amazing, cool to see you here D.
The API isn't all that matters, though. You have to deal with differences in types, differences in the way foreign keys are dealt with (e.g. in SQLite you can have a foreign key 0, but in Postgres you have to make it nullable and use null), differences in stored procedures. The API alone is minimal compared to the actual functional differences in RDBMS engines.
Not sure if appropriate, but thought it could interest the GTD/health geeks around here.
I am launching (soon) a webapp in this space. As far as I am concerned, this only validates the idea and proves there is a need for this type of webapp.

Is the line of thinking correct?
Fortunately there is a standard Python database API: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/ . Although it does take more effort to target the API than any single database adapter module.
Yes, provided that you were strict on separating logic from display in your app, and that the logic part of the code accounts for enough work to justify the effort...

Otherwise, good luck trying to port your QWidget-based app to something that even remotely resembles a web app.
Trade barriers, in the sense of protective tariffs to prevent outside manufactures selling cheaply in your domestic market, can be very, very, very good for industrial development.

Governing a nation is like cooking a small fish, grasshopper. A little bit of salt (subsidies, tariffs, regulation, taxation to pay for infrastructure, etc) is a wonderful thing, too much salt is unfortunately very easy to apply. And arguments about whether salt "is good" or "is bad" are just plain silly and show that you haven't cooked that many fish.
Does anyone know why the source was pulled?
"This video contains content from Channel 4, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

I'm in the UK :(
Facebook has a decent explanation for why they do not use P3P in the headers for their Like buttons:

P3P CP="Facebook does not have a P3P policy. Learn why here: http://fb.me/p3p (URL redirects to http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=p3p).
I disagree. There are hundreds if not thousands of people willing to waste his time (Linus) with theory and conversation, his abrupt, rude tone makes it clear that unless you are communicating actual information, not just theories, don't bother him with this stuff. It is rude but I expect he does not want to be bothered with fluff, only real information.
They REALLY need recaptcha on park reservations, or some sort of other automation. I'm 90% sure that botting is the only realistic way to get campsites in some high demand areas (such as lower and upper pines of Yosemite).

I'm convinced the only reason there's not MORE scripts around to do it is because their API/web framework is impossibly ugly and not intuitive.
Wonderful term. I've been aware of the phenomenon for a while but not its name.

Link for others:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
I cope by realizing this is just a place to learn and i keep calm. The answers you seek are beyond the mental temporary paradigm. When you see your Self with your purified mind and are satisfied within your self as eternal consciousness then all your anxiety falls like dead leaves. I recommend reading the Bhagavad-gita by Prabhupada 1972 edition.
Google, Facebook and Microsoft are supporters of this? And do their names have to come before many others in the list? Do these companies now have the audacity to claim that they support or will abide by this contract? It sounds like propaganda lifted straight out of 1984 — “freedom is slavery” and “ignorance is strength”.
If a word accurately conveys meaning to another person, does it matter that it's made up? If you hadn't mentioned it (and I hadn't looked it up as a result), I would have had no idea it wasn't a "real" word.
I was going to name John Resig too. He was one of the few programmers who seemed to get it, that a library should be easy to use, even fun. The function names are short, chainability helps keep the whole snippet short, the flexible arguments and graceful handling of empty sets --- all these things made it a breeze. The ergonomic improvement over its predecessor, Prototype.js, was remarkable.

The internals were impressive too. Making a library that worked with all browsers in those days was no small feat. Furthermore, in its releases, jQuery was always talking about speed --- how must faster it was than the last version. A prioritization of speed is always a good sign.
I remember, years ago, when VLC was fairly unknown and my dad asked if I knew what VLC was... he was convinced it was adware as he had never seen it before and when you clicked on it, nothing really happened.

I looked it up after he uninstalled the nothing-burger of an application. Found your website and decided to download it. I remember malware would masquerade as real software a lot back then and it wasn’t that far out.

Installed it and ever since has been my favorite for watching anything, and helped streaming files and the like.

VLC is awesome and I haven’t stopped using it since.
I hadn't heard of that - here's a Microsoft Research video: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=173013

Sadly the video player is horrible, and I didn't see this video on YouTube.
Though I don't disagree with all of that, "its poverty rate is at least two points above the national average" is an odd statistic to cite in a pro-Texas article, since Texas's poverty rate is even higher (TX 17%, CA 16%, national average 14%).
The best movie on startups I've ever seen. I've watched it at least 20 times and appreciate it more each time. Woz has said that it's fairly accurate, which makes it that much more awesome.
You can quote the parent post's context in your reply to keep a safe copy.
I counted 8. And these aren't the scans everyone is talking about.
Hoop Dreams. It's a documentary, but it is both inspirational and feel-good.
In that case, I will concede you might not be a dick ;)

I'm sure they'd look at trademark filing dates, just like prior art is a factor in patent applications. If this approach were possible, I bet someone would have already tried it, and that hole plugged.
Wall Street!
That statement takes considerable license with the word "interesting" and practically reverses the meaning of "enforce".
Army of Darkness
With a bunch of "transform it over some other dimension to achieve a good divide between the clusters"
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>I do believe that 34% of polled workers said they would quit rather than return to the office, but I do not believe even a majority of them would actually go follow through on that threat.

They can't. There's not nearly enough remote positions available.
Two steps back, but the new step forward is in better direction.