jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There is no doubts about the immorality and emotional deception of these designs; they are still worth mentioning because they were extremely powerful and effective at the time.

There is an odd double-standard when this note is appended to a discussion of Nazis, when there isn't a similar one about the communists. In fact, one of the Nazi posters in question appears to be from an election (the other one is about the military). Compare that to the numerous posters of communists invading countries, defending countries, killing the rich, etc.

It's also too bad the author used the BNP as an example of modern propaganda. Their graphic design is awful, and they're using way too much copy. I just wish there was a recent election in which one-word slogans and iconographic images had been deployed in order to get people emotionally attached to someone...
PSL is used to determine the level that a unique domain is registered at. This restricts cookies and privileges to that domain. It’s just a simple list because both .com and .co.uk are valid suffixes. Ios14 is using this list to prevent apps from tracking you across sites by limiting the data that can be stored per site. If you can get your domain recognized as a suffix as mysite.com then you can split information between all higher level domains. client1.mysite.com and client2.mysite.com. This allows you to store as much information as you want.
You're right. However, they can still maneuver in orbit. Having a stealth, or low-observable capability allows the operator to "turn the cloaking device on", maneuver the satellite, and potentially get an image of something that would have otherwise been hidden were the orbit known.

It has its limitations, of course. But it's a step above a visible satellite with fixed orbit.

EDIT: I missed the part where he says it is definitely NOT a stealth capability being demonstrated. So that's not applicable here. Still, a low-observability capability makes sense
This is the project we landed on after asking HN for help with problems to solve last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210981
My one question: does all of this apply to Ubuntu as well? or most of it, and if not why not? I would assume (bad to do so) it should work, only issues would be you would want to package each project independently on it's respective platform / OS version.
Contact us didn't work.

Reporting very poor performance on what seemed like a basic challenge:
http://i.imgur.com/Q8pFCtE.png

Came out as rmm 1.247 mm 111.513 am: 9.99: 3959 4.349 at was Luna L000 9.; n.nnn n.nnn n.nnn Rmavgorh xv: v Rnlalrms u.nnn n.nnn n.nnn M m....;r..=:.....
Interesting perspective-- so, when is it appropriate to not offer SSL/HTTPS? Is it generally okay to skip SSL/HTTPS if a site isn't mission critical or financial-focused? I only ask because on Heroku and other platforms, there is a fixed cost to offer SSL (with a custom domain) that over multiple sites could add up.
One area where android is similar to windows is that it runs on several hardware platforms from several vendors, whereas apple has a single (or three: ipad/ipod/iphone) target platform.
>we should all work to make workplaces where everyone can feel wanted

What about "bros" who want to discriminate against women? Should they feel wanted?

Here's part of a confusing argument I had with a good friend of mine recently.

A lot of people see "bros" (I really hate that term) as a problem. Their culture is a problem, their ideas about getting drunk at work and being loud and boisterous are all problems, and these are things that need to be stopped in the name of equality and progress.

But what about the individuals there? Some of the "bros" I know who run companies where they drink a lot at work, have frequent company sponsored outings to bars, go drinking after hours, go to parties together, etc. are refugees from the world where none of that was allowed.

To them, they've created a safe space for themselves where they are allowed to be what they feel most comfortable as.

The sortof neo-progressive response to these people is that what they're doing is wrong, and should be stopped...

What's confusing and difficult to me about that is that stopping these people is taking away their safe space. Yes, their safe space is discriminatory (to people who don't desire the same space, of feel safe in that space), but is that necessarily a bad thing?

For instance: there is a meetup at a hackerspace in my state called "WTF", which stands for "Women, Trans, Femme". I, as a white, cis, male would not be allowed in the shop during that time. Assuming that gender dysphoria is equally prevalent in men and women, that event discriminates against about 50% of the population.

The justification for this, which I understand, and I think I support, is that everybody deserves to have a space where they feel safe. There is a similar motivation behind things like Double Union in SF; it is a women-only hackerspace that exists for people who will feel most comfortable in a women-only hackerspace.

Good! I am glad that all of these people are getting to have their safe spaces.

But what about my friend that runs a company full of bros? What are they supposed to do? Because it seems like a lot of people think that they shouldn't be allowed to have their space (because it's discriminatory).
A Ford F150 looks blobby and and archaic. The Tesla truck looks like a fucking stealth fighter. How more masculine can you get?
India is quite a bunch of people :) If the academic output per capita is the same worldwide, then India alone would contribute 17% of the worldwide output of financial/economic publications.
Both create more problems than they solve, both essentially break the advantages of css. What bothers me about css-in-js, it does not have a single advantage over vanilla css. Every challenge it supposedly solves is a real world non-issue if you know how css works. Local styles, theming, dynamic styles, safety, maintainability, performance, you can have all of this in vanilla css without the issues associated with inline styles and the js-in-css abomination. Just learn the damn thing. js-in-css is a lazy workaround for software developers who want to do things the way they learned, not the way it was meant to be done.
Who came up with the idea of using SMS for 2FA in the first place instead of e-mail? It sounds insane.
Uncounted number of dead D-class personal and MTF squads later, it's concluded that it's safe.
> This demographic will love the look.

You must hang out with some very atypical truck guys. Most would not be caught dead in an electric vehicle, and certainly not in something that looks like this.
>hence extremely high terminal velocity

the main benefit of the small cross section is not increased terminal velocity through the air but rather to maintain velocity through the bunker (or armor in the case of the "sabot" or APFSDS anti-tank round you mention)
> Well, for a start there's the problem that LLVM itself is architecture-dependent, last I checked.

The idea is not to produce a single cross-platform binary using LLVM - let alone using GCC! - but to produce a set of NaCl binaries for common archs from your portable HLL code using a cross-platform compiler - like LLVM, or GCC - plus PNaCl (or whatever) as the wildcard. Content negotiation is your friend.

> It looks like PNaCl aims to "solve" this problem by using 32-bit-targeted LLVM... including 32-bit pointer alignment. It's not immediately obvious how portable this would be to some hardware,

shrug I haven't heard of any major problems in converting LLVM IR to decently-performing assembler in various archs, so I presume that PNaCl will be able to do okay, especially since the bar is not set very high: consistently world-beating performance is not a necessity in a backstop solution. And if you're on a new or obscure platform (or, er, IE/Windows/x86-64) you're not guaranteed the swiftest Javascript speeds either. The likely worst is that PNaCl will need a redesign: see below.

> and more importantly I'm not aware of any plans to support anything other than x86 and ARM initially (well, and x86-64 using its ability to run 32-bit code as far as I can tell). Am I just missing something on this front?

As I said in my previous post "Obviously the implementation is incomplete and immature, but Mozilla and Opera aren't even pretending that their opposition to NaCl is based on the immaturity of the implementation." Seriously, if the problem with NaCl is that it's not mature and widely ported enough yet, then there's an obvious solution to that.
Shades of Heinlein's "Harsh Mistress" - launching is easy when you're "uphill" from the earth, and rocks are cheap.
Agree completely if you're talking about XML used for storing structured data, as a serialization format, or as a settings format.

Disagree completely if you're talking about XML as an extensible markup language for textual documents, for which it is a perfectly sane choice. Problem is, few people use it that way.
Feel the non-love at HN! I thought I was the only one who thought this way about Guy. I'm glad I'm not alone

I love the way he completely non-answered the specific question about a startup he'd been involved with by hand waving about "It's hard for everyone".
I'm not sure why this has to be a requirement. Retroviruses require host cells (a natural 3d printer you could think of it) to do their multiplying. If the macroscopic picture is functionally equivalent: some form of order spreading, then why not consider it life?
Personally, I kind of like the ambiguity of the term a little bit. It reminds us that things are not always as simple as they seem, that we can't cleanly divide our world into 'friends' and 'adversaries', or place our systems neatly into 'trusted' and 'untrusted' boxes.
Ha ha ha, this is awesome. Thank you for writing this. You have to admit, benefits that are provided sound amazing, hard to look over.

It is interesting times for sure.
Just the other day, I made a comment about how ad-blocking is good for security (which was downvoted):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8916257

Then this happens. I lol'd.
What you're really seeing here is the limitation of full disk encryption. I talked a little about this here (the article is really about cipher modes, though):

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/04/30/you-dont-want-xts/

The problem isn't "crypto". The problem is the extent to which full disk encryption overpromises and way, way underdelivers. It's easy to have a cryptosystem that is at least somewhat resilient to this threat. You just can't get it with a UX that "unlocks" your whole computer to use it, and then "locks" it again when it goes idle.
It'd be easier to just have the machine lock itself and power down whenever anyone plugged in an unknown HID device. The FBI (and other agencies) use USB mouse jigglers to keep the screensaver from activating while they transport the machine back to their lab.
This. Also pick a single language to do it in: I would recommend Java.
Or just disable the video and display a static JPG of the can. The video isn't that key anyway.
But that is the crux of the issue. Wealth is political power. The only way to mitigate wealth's influence on political institutions requires drastic, systemic changes. The wealthy can be as well meaning as they want, but no individual should control that many resources in a democratic society.
Taxes are already too high in NYC. A single adult in NYC with a $100k salary has an effective overall tax rate of 31.5%, and 9% of that is city and state.

Trying to raise the rates higher is insane. We have a spending problem, not an income problem.

Not to mention that the timing of this is just absurd. Everything that makes NYC great has been closed for a year. The next mayor wants people to pay more, but won’t commit to reopening the city? Why would the “rich” stay? Why would anyone stay? For the trash, and piss?
How important is the "floating" part here? How much of this can be adapted to inland dwelling?

Also how resistant is this type of home to storms? New York for instance gets big dangerous storm surges once in a while, not to mention areas farther south along the east coast of the USA.
Emacs org mode, notes synced to repo on gitlab, work/confidential stuff encrypted with gpg.
My only complain about PostgreSQL is COUNT() being quite slow compared with MySQL.

Everything else is pretty good, MySQL has compressed tables, but in PostgreSQL the same amount of data already takes less space by default.

Pghero/pg_stat_statements are also very handy.

But "hate"? No, no hate here :)
I'm getting some kind of paywall. It's all relative but in general if you're hoarding wealth beyond anything you could possibly ever make use of while the people around you want for necessities, you are behaving as an opponent and should not feign surprise at the treatment. Also until we are past capitalism, no, society is not turning on the wealthy (they're still wealthy)
It's not illegal to soft delete your pictures, and it may be illegal not to in isolated cases where a court preservation order is in effect. It is, however, illegal (by the GDPR) to not hard delete your account on request.
I'm a huge POB fan but I felt I could overlook a lot of the liberties taken with the movie. At least it got made! And I think the shipboard scenes on the Surprise were really well done.
I think the main page seems confusing because much it is targeted toward businesses looking to have the site's users develop projects via contests.

If you click on Community->Developer it gets a little less confusing and shows a variety of contests. You can find some algorithm contests at Competitions->Algorithm->Single Round Matches->Launch Arena.

When I try this, I get an error message related to Java. When I last used the site, I ended up installing Java WebStart, downloading a JAR file for the arena, and running the JAR file from the commandline.

Overall TopCoder seems like more of a hassle to get started with than it should; fortunately, other sites like YC-funded HackerRank exist, although I'm not sure how the actual content and community compare.
Heh, I find myself in the same situation. Recently I use Google mainly as a shortcut to Wiki, Ebay, Amazon, SO etc. For a "real" search I prefer DuckDuckGo (that doesn't modify search results based on my browsing, search history and big names) and symbolhound.com (that is very useful for programming related searches as it includes symbols).
Small sample size much?
It's using pkgsrc, which is excellent source-based package management (I prefer it over FreeBSD ports myself; it feels less brittle).

The biggest changes over NetBSD for this NetBSD-derived OS are using git for source control (versus CVS of NetBSD), and by default turning on options like disk encryption. I had a brief discussion with the principle driver of this, and it sounds to me like this is all based in technical pursuits, and not (as mentioned above), hosted in Germany and enabling encryption as an NSA reaction, or anything like that.
Actually, everyone I know who has a blackberry is young. The reasons are varied - one of the big reasons is that most of the cell companies offer plans where facebook, twitter, and BBM do not count against your data plan or you don't actually need a data plan to use these services. Again, the same companies often charge for txt messages but not for BBM.
RIM has been releasing products with terrible software and usability bugs for a while. My torch would regularly report java.lang.NullPointerExceptions when receiving SMS's.

Playbook apps have lots of glitches.. crash for no reason. Users are also getting 0.5 gig software updates every couple of days that brick the device for 30 - 60 mins.

This all indicates poorly managed software teams that are under too much schedule pressure to produce reliable results. Also indicates a broken QA process where RIM thinks it's fine to ship kit that doesn't work properly.

I call deep cultural problems that can't be fixed without leadership changes.
The HN login sends your password over the internet. It doesn't even use SSL. It is in the clear, readily visible to anyone able to run a packet sniffer on your traffic.
True, but I don't remember seeing a specific release date. In either case, yay! :-)
One of my best friends committed suicide at age 18 in 1995. If LSD was not part of his life, I am sure the suicide would have never happened.
You plan out simple fun things like watching a movie or go to a party.
But after started, you won't get bored for sure, you may even try out new personalities just to see how people will react to that.
Funny to me that the section "Sending Custom Events" near the beginning actually supports the idea of using jQuery, or something like it, to get around browser inconsistencies and to prevent eventually building your own jQuery-like library.
By any reasonable definition, being well-off means being able to take out a mortgage on a house, afford occasional vacations to other parts of the world, invest in the stock market, support a family, put your kids through college, give to different charities, save for retirement, all in addition to helping family members in need, which one would do under any circumstances. A software developer might be able to do these things in California, but only barely, unless they have a very cushy arrangement or they've ridden an exit for a startup. Those at the median household income in the US (or anywhere else) are being shafted. The economy is broken.
It will in desirable places that techies frequent. Think this is a rising problem in the Tahoe region right now.
Encryption of video specifically is a bit narrow, but lets widen it a bit: we watch a lot of video, video is neat right? I wonder how much energy goes into the transmission of _all_ video on the entire planet? end-to-end, the encoding, the hosting, the network transmission, the decoding on billions of devices and lighting up all those LED backlights, (and the extra overhead added by copyright protection crap)...

It's got to be on a similar playing field right? i wouldn't be surprised if it was a little more than 0.56% globally. But look at how much _billions_ of people get out of it all over the world: entertainment, art, education, something to connect to people with... it has a huge and invaluable impact on society - i dare anyone to try compare that to Bitcoin (not blockchain, not the utopian crypto dream, but Bitcoin).
I would say it is more like “we noticed the data was present in memory before the server started sending its response”
Similar thing happened in Canada:

https://globalnews.ca/news/6311853/lifelabs-data-hack-what-t...
We'll never get clear statistics on this, but at some point it will be possible to start making judgements on whether keeping this data (and making it available to the public) is a net negative or positive.

My gut tells me that it's a negative, but my head tells me there is, or will be, no real way to stop it being collected, even if it's not public bodies doing the collection.
Have a read - it's interesting stuff - this is from Physics World - http://www.onbeing.org/program/uncovering-codes-reality/feat...
Semi-Related to this is Lars Andersen taking archery to the next level by using forgotten skills he learned by looking at old art and various texts. Worth a watch!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk
Hesitate to post an AskHN about this, but which company has the 66 year old (co-)founder? [0] Glad to see this diversity.

[0] http://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/xlarge_YC-...
I too was around 12 when I would carefully try to type in basic and assembly language programs from Byte magazine into our Apple IIe. What a lot of work! No downloading the code from the internet. No gem install, etc. And if you made a mistake somewhere, good like trying to find and fix it.

I loved every second of it though. Long live Byte!
"There are maybe two(!) good books on the subject, Peopleware and Making Software."

What about Fred Brooks's works? Not being facetious -- curious to know if they slipped your mind or if you just don't rate them.

Criminally underrated comment on the topic: "Part of the problem is that the discourse on methodology is mostly conducted by people who don't themselves do the work. Imagine a bunch of managers working out a 'process' for, say, mathematicians. They'd be laughed out of the room." (gruseom, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=406051)

Along that vein, while we're talking scientists -- are there studies on scientist productivity? Even for computer scientists, I'm pretty sure no one's going around debating whether an academic paper is better if it's written by two researchers versus one. The one obvious parallel I can think of is peer review vis-a-vis code review. But that is a process for after the initial work is produced, not one that dictates how someone should conduct the thinking process for their job.
This post proves exactly why people are recommending not going to College. If you want to be an academic researcher, go to college for CS. It really does work well. If you want to program, start programming on projects you are interested in and build your resume.
It's definitely not a small dot: http://imgur.com/iMd4x. That is large and bright enough to be noticeable, and anyone should be able to tell that that means "ON".
I'm sure there's a market for what they're doing but don't forget:
1) it's a freaking coupon
2) it's ONE coupon, un-targeted, delivered to a wide audience

In an era where print publications are becoming extinct, of course there's going to be a growing market for ads that are delivered to a wide audience and presented in a "legit" manner (eg not spam). This is a new thing only insofar as it is now happening in electronic media rather than print.
I don't see that. But, I do see $450 in 2011 if they announce a Verizon iPhone which I think is likely.
I have the worst of both worlds right now. I'm working for a ~30 person company owned by 5,000+ person company. It feels like a startup environment (in the sense that we're overworked and underpaid, and there are unreasonable demands on our time), but we still have to deal with the bureaucratic headaches of being part of a large company. I'm trying to make enough time to get my own project off the ground, so I can quit - but I'm only left with the odd evening or weekend to work on it.
Oh wow... articles about C by Kernighan, reviews of Missile Defense. This is awesome.
> I find more often than not, that "abrupt and to-the-point" is mistaken for "rude and offensive".

Calling someone's theory bullshit is rude and offensive. Telling someone they are full of shit is also. Abrupt and to the point as a general class of communication further is often rude. Making or attempting to make people feel worse than you need to to get your point across efficiently is offensive.

In this case, for example, Linus could have simply said, "That's a nice theory. If you can prove it, we'll consider it." That's more to-the-point, communicates the entirety of what Linus managed to in his email, and also is not rude.
Really what we are in the midst of is AI click bait. People are predicting the next "AI Winter", like major publications are predicting the next recession.
Citation needed-I think this is an urban legend

Citation (Wal-Mart): https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/03/21/wal-mart-to-pay-2...

Citation (Walgreens): https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/walgreens-to-pay-m...

Citation (Whole Foods): https://www.organicauthority.com/buzz-news/whole-foods-marke...

Citation (Best Buy): https://www.cnbc.com/id/18846852

I could easily pull up several hundred more, but I'm on a VPN routed to another country and having a hard time getting U.S. news results.
A fun thing about this game was that every possible kill combination had a different animation. If you don't have any other plans for the next 9 minutes of your life, you can watch them all here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSnAiXKU7h8