jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This article is not talking about _malicious_ applications running on your system, but unintentionally-security-weakening ones. Think of the bash RCE bug from a few months back: the problem was not that Bash was malicious, but a mismatch in expectations about how to trust the environment variables. Similarly, lots of bits of code not written with the glimmer of a notion that the environment is sensitive may end up accidentally leaking them.

This is an extension of the "don't put secrets in the query string" advice for HTTP: it's not that it's more secure: anything along the way that reads the query string can also read the post data just as easily, but that more bits of software may inadvertently leak the query string but not the post data (in logs, for instance).
I think there's still a distinct dip in the '90s. In the '80s we have the last gasp of Dr Who, we have The Tripods, V, Day of the Triffids, and a bunch of one-off adaptations. In the '00s we have big remakes of Dr Who and Battlestar Galactica (hell, even V), or the aforemaligned Dollhouse which for all its flaws was more willing to engage with sci-fi themes than, I dunno, Quantum Leap.

I've neglected Babylon 5, which is probably unfair to the show, but I feel like it never had the cultural impact of those '80s or '00s shows. The '90s drought feels real to me, but maybe it's just a matter of perception.
It has been credibly alleged [+] that Mt. Gox's general level of engineering acumen can be summed up as "No tests, no staging environment, live coding by SSHing into production."

[+] Unnamed employee of Tibanne, the parent company which supplied substantially all of 0-employee Mt. Gox's staffing: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2105920/lost-in-translation-t...
The involuntary back burner started designing "how would I set this up as a business", and I definitely ended up with setting up docker containers. Sandstorm, unfortunately, is an example of being a bit too ahead of its time... sandstorm has a lot of stuff in it that just isn't that big an advantage to me vs. being in a Docker container. (I'm aware of at least some of the differences, but... it's just not that helpful to me for the most part.)

I think something that could be like sandstorm but using docker containers might be a good thing, but there's still the "you need to hand me your credit card if you want me to register a domain for you" which is a big barrier vs. the screen I showed above. A credit card off the top is already 4-6 entry fields, and everyone knows to be a bit nervous about entering those....
At least 3 large power stations. But is that necessarily a loss of supply or could it be a spike in demand? The UK was famous for demand spikes when people turned on kettles during the break in popular soap opras or football games. Maybe a cold day tripped a bunch of houses to turn on their electric heating?
Under the new Administration Twitter will assuredly ban anyone who doesn't appropriately mouth the narrative. The bans are already picking up steam, and have been since the election.

Trump: gone. Khamenei? Still tweeting about how America is the devil and the Holocaust wasn't real. Where's the explainer under this tweet [0] telling me that this information is disputed wrongthink?

0 https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1321494146989907969?r...
Well, it certainly was a few decades ago when I was in my twenties. I was in Washington D.C. as tourist, walking around, seeing the sights. Having been educated in a typical U.S. public school of the time, I thought to myself, "Gee, as long as I'm here, I should visit my representative's office." The security situation was probably different then. I just wandered around the building, found his office, walked in, and announced myself as resident of his district. He wasn't physically there at the time, but I was welcomed and given a tour and chatted with a staffer.

I was nobody - just a kid - but I was voter.
It's long been the case that companies legally have to disclose what data they collect and what they do with it in their Privacy Policy/Notice. That applies to services on any platform, including iOS, Android, or the web.

I think that the Privacy Label is a "one size fits all" box ticking exercise, that a lot of people are going to ignore/not understand.

When all of the most popular apps state that they collect a lot of data, there's no reason for people to think any given app is "bad".
Some large energy consumers that also have slow processes (so they can survive a temporary blackout) have contracts that give them cheaper electricity, and in exchange the electricity company is allowed to just cut them off for some time, if load gets too high.
There's a lot of bots doing arbitrage between exchanges though. If one diverges significantly from the other, the bots will eat up the difference, I don't think you can make any claims about where the demand is coming from based on this?
> when miner subsidy runs out the average transaction fee will need to be >$127.

Stein's Law:

"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Stein#Stein's_Law
> it doesn't take long before you just get sick of eating meat. The charm of it wears off.

Yes and no. Food stops becoming an enjoyable activity, and just becomes fuel. If you're hungry, in the true sense of the word, you'll have meat and fat and ask for seconds. Fat adaptation works because if you have fat around you, your hunger signals tends to fade as you're already carrying a significant amount of energy.

The fact that carbs and sugar are so sought after is great when you're a paleolithic man, but is the cause of the modern obesity epidemic - it's an energy source than can be easily stored and accumulated around the body, so our taste buds have evolved to encourage us to eat plenty, because it was VERY scarce until recently.
First of all. The word click-bait needs to die. It implies wrongdoing by the author, but all you are really saying is the headline grabbed your attention and you didn't like the content.

Second, the aggregate chart shows the total amount invested went from 9 years of growth to it's first decline. Look at Q3 2014 vs Q3 2013 more than a 50% decline in seed deals! With numbers like that it's hard not to interpret it as foreshadowing continued declined.
There is an update now on the article. Could be a very wise move.

"Update: Spokeswoman Kay Luo and co-founder Konstantin Guericke have since responded. Both said the change had nothing to do with the financing. Hoffman hired a recruiter almost four months ago, and interviewed 72 candidates. Hoffman wants to build LinkedIn into a multi-billion dollar company, they said, and realized LinkedIn needed to scale, which means giving more attention to management issues, something that isn’t his strength. “His passion is in the product,” said Guericke, “rather than in sorting out management stuff.” Nye is a protege of Intuit Chairman Bill Campbell, someone Hoffman respects, Luo said.
Wow, I don't even know where to start. Where in the article was it mentioned that students copied homework? While you're at it, explain to me to how students currently share their entire homework (generally written in Microsoft Word) through Facebook Chat. Why would you think sharing homework is a bad thing? People generally do so to compare methodologies and answers with their peer's data. It's generally part of the learning experience.

Everyone in school/college/university shares assignments (albeit not all assignments are of the shareable type) to make sure they're on the right track, make sure they didn't miss anything, or to get a different perspective into a subject. If you didn't do so when you where in school/college you missed out on the opportunity to learn a little bit extra by means of poking into fellow student's minds.
Yes. Though the usual word for new games tends to be `create' rather than invent. I don't believe there's more than a linguistic significance to the choice here.

(Though you can `invent' new game mechanisms.)
AFAIK you can't weasel your way out of product liability like that.
Isn't the card on those phones behind the battery, so you are expected to just buy it once and leave it there forever as added storage?
In theory, yes... but there are a number of problems, the most obvious one is that those "units of knowledge" used in the pass/fail process are extremely coarse.

Grades are handed down per activity... and in general on a monthly or even bi-monthly basis. In theory, this should provide feedback to the teacher to adjust the pace of the learning. In practice, the study program is set in stone and the students who cannot catch on their own will be left behind, no questions asked.

The only pass/fail test is at the end of the year, where everything is shoveled together. If the student completely fails to grok subject 3... but excels at subjects 1, 2 and 4. This liability gets lost in the numbers, remaining as a time bomb that will blow on his face in a couple of years when subject 3 is a building block of more complex stuff.

This problem is exacerbated by the fact that grading is extremely lax also. This is my personal opinion, any grade less than "B" shows knowledge in either immature (student needs to study more) or flawed (students have inaccurate assumptions that need to be detected and corrected by instructor) stage. If C and D students are allowed to proceed to later stages, they are being set to fail, because the teachers there are unlikely to devote any attention to correct deficits from previous years.
As far as I remember there was no multi-button mouse by Apple in 2004.
Given the effort he puts into simple, minimalist designs for the Mac, it's a bit surprising that kind of fastidiousness isn't present in his office organization, too. But it's not in mine either, so I'm no pot and he's no kettle. Even if it's an old pic, it's still fun to see the human side of a man so often put on a pedestal.
Sounds like an awesome opportunity to me..especially if it is a firm you respect and would want to work for/ with.
This guy is being unfairly downvoted. A not insignificant number of cases of depression are rooted in not cultivating proper emotional awareness, and then ignoring the body's emotional signals. But people are unwilling and, frankly, unable to take responsibility for their emotional life so this attitude is an unpopular one. Also worth pointing out is that it's unrealistic to expect that everyone can be happy, some unhappiness is essential to social stability.
He talks about "myths that somehow bear truth only through repeated assertion" and then he goes ahead and repeats such a myth: "At one point in Steve Jobs' reign they were effectively bailed out by Microsoft."

It wasn't a bailout (especially since the amount MS paid was negligible compared to the couple of billion dollars Apple had in the bank at the time) so much as it was a settlement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company
Hmmm! 90s: 195, 00s: 157.

Assuming that trend continues, I'd not speculate that there were more learners in the 90s; but where, if anywhere, are the learners from the 00s hanging out?
direct to hq: http://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/front_640x360.gif
"Whether by design or effect, Kevin Poulsen and Wired have played a critical role in concealing the truth from the public about the Manning arrest."

Manning is in a cell getting the worst possible treatment for God's sake.

The damage has been done, however, anyone who cares can sign this petition "Stop the Inhumane Treatment of Bradley Manning" (it's a blog post with a petition, to be more precise): http://my.firedoglake.com/blog/2010/12/23/bradley-manning-sp...
one could hope
We reduce the topic to a singular metric (time spent in front of screen) but the actual problems are more complex. It's better to address them individually.

Sitting in front a screen implies sedentary behavior. You're not going anywhere, so you're not getting any exercise. Writing a long letter on paper and then scanning it doesn't solve that problem. In fact, it makes it worse because you need to spend even more time sitting. Unless you feel you write better on paper, you'd be better off typing the letter out so you can move on to the next thing, or get away from the desk altogether

The other big problem with screen time is that it starts to detract from other activities. It's easy to go from working to socializing to consuming entertainment in front of a screen, but the real question is what are you giving up? Instead of consuming more NetFlix and YouTube, try substituting another activity like cooking or walking or exercising for an hour per day. If you're less happy, you can always go back to Netflix. However, I think you'll find that you're happier and healthier when you use free time to do something other than sit in front of a screen and consume.

Sitting and staring at a screen can also cause physical issues. You should get up and walk once per hour (Apple Watch or similar can help if you forget), adjust your monitor height to reduce neck strain, get a quality chair and adjust it to encourage proper posture, set brightness levels as appropriate, and other minor tweaks to your environment.
Not here. Status page still does not load at all.
That's what Microsoft did. Initially there were a lot of issues and also things like hibernation didn't always work right.

Linux needs to have similar certification. The rest would be to have customers look for it and prefer hardware that's certified.
If you really care about user experience, I recommend seeking out products made by companies that are vertically integrated, like Apple, because they have the power to curate the components of their products for maximum compatibility and support.

The closest examples so far with Linux are System76 and Purism:

https://system76.com/

https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/

This is also what makes the Surface tablets and Surface Book so great. There's a top to bottom alignment of interest in creating the best user experience and making sure the product works.

The closest thing to computing hell is when a commodity operating system is slapped onto the cheapest commodity hardware by someone who isn't concerned at all about using it, but has a list a mile long of systems to configure. There are plenty of enterprise IT-managed work laptops with no display or chipset drivers that can't hibernate, but at least they have McAfee virus scanner installed and the corporate group policy enabled.
This tends to also apply to whitebox models. I have a no name ODM laptop which has options in the Bios to indicate the system is booting as a Windows, Linux or Android device.

Oddly, enabling Android got the touchpad working in Ubuntu.
Large scale network partitioning can happen. Data center ingress/egress can go down. If you shard to multiple data centers, it's still possible for an entire autonomous system to have an interconnect with a different AS break. That is rare as hell with the actual Internet because of all the route redundancy even between ASes, but I've seen it happen on more specialized networks. For a few days last year, the entire western half of the US was cutoff from the eastern half on Raytheon's internal TS network because someone digging a hole somewhere accidentally cut the wrong fiber line.
I want to dip into react or blueprint.js due to the data heavy side of this application. However the tutorials around react all assume using non that loads a ton of dependencies that makes it difficult to judge what all is going into production .
> Only if the plane is partly a passenger plane. If it would be a pure cargo plane, the whole back could be unpressurized, or am I missing something?

I'd guess you'd get stress issues in the bulkhead behind the cockpit if you tried that. You'd need to completely redesign the joint between the cockpit section of the fuselage and everything behind it. And then, for your trouble, you've given up the ability to transport anything that can't tolerate the pressure and temperature swings of an unpressurized cabin.

Given that the pressurization systems are already implemented and don't seem to hurt efficiency much (afaik they typically run off engine bleed air), I don't think there's much reason not to just pressurize the whole thing. I guess it probably makes the structure marginally heavier, but at that point you may as well just design a whole new airplane.
From the "What to write" article:

This means you need to playtest the tutorial under all sorts of different circumstances, making sure that it always works (even on Windows)

Just a little offhand comment. MSFT is totally screwed when this is the average developer's mindset. We were always so worried about 'Linux being ready for the desktop' that nobody noticed that Mac & Linux have owned the developer desktop for years, long enough for the author's comment to be not even noteworthy.
I heard it as the effort required to blog was preposterous, pre-Posterous.
Sounds more like "7 habits of highly bored people" :) But in addition to word-playing with the title, why don't I also say something useful for a change.

Why is everyone so concerned with efficiency? One might say "that machine is efficient" or "this machine is not efficient". Why is that? Well, machines are created and owned by humans for a specific purpose -- a coffee-maker makes coffee; a CPU processes logical operations; a carriage horse drags around a cart full of spoiled rich humans :)

We can talk about efficiency of things we own but we can no longer own humans. In a civil society, humans are owners of services that they exchange under conditions of a free and fair market.

There, I said it. Now stop talking about efficiency of humans. Start creating efficient things that efficiently do all the things we hate so we can all be a bunch of lazy fucks :)
While I expect it could take years to get to the level of being able to design an interesting IC, could anyone recommend some good online EE introductory material?
At one point the mom says she asked him whether he wants to take the medication ("it is his life"). I wonder whether she asked his permission to publicize the intimate details of his growing up.
Yes, you're not really arguing against me here (I'm only claiming that the monetary value of some externalities are hard to measure.) For example, the problem of overuse of antibiotics leading to an increase in resistant bacterias, how do you solve that one? Even if the judges found a way to make the parties pay for the harm they do to others. How do you measure the harm of an increase in resistant bacteria that leads to a shorter average lifespan the cause of wich also, on average, makes it possible to work more hours (and thus raises lifetime income and consumption)?
You missed a big part: they did a big NAS run to make it work.
> It feels to me like "science" has become something of a religion unto itself

I think this is true but I doubt it's anything new. I think the fundamental similarity between religious belief and "trusting the science" is the psychological simplicity of delegation to authority, and probably a deep seated property of the human mind.

Not knowing the right answer to questions we deem important, or worse the mental state of doubting what we've been raised to consider foundational and "obvious", is just too uncomfortable for the majority of people (I would've said all people, but I can't be sure).
I’m all for clothes that I want being manufactured for a fair price (e.g. not next best to slave labour)

But it should be just as easy to buy those as others. Right now everything is made China. It’s super hard to find made in [home country] stuff
Who would I vote for who is "in my interest" to vote for?
What about different countries? Where do you the draw the line? At some point it's just an economic reality we've lived with for centuries.

I'm not really saying it's right, just that if a company is set up to be able to handle you working at great distance and cross timezone, then probably the outcome is that they can get it cheaper than you are.

And it's nothing new, it's just that we call it 'outsourcing' when they're Indian, and 'remote working' or 'digital nomadism' otherwise.

I'm no 'SJW', far from it; in my book the modern free market capitalist employer embraces remote work, but certainly doesn't pay SFBA rates through the nose for it.

(To go with such remote friendly trends though, CoV has also brought anti-globalism trends, so who knows, really! I'm quite looking forward to reading about what's happening, in ten or twenty years' time.)
Not for us string players :)
Agreed. The most visible manifestation of this is that I've recently noticed is the phrase, "wear the mask." Not the message, but the phrase. You see, it's not an ordinary English construction like "wear a mask" is. So when I see people saying it, I can be pretty sure that it was copy-pasted word-for-word as a slogan, not the expression of an original thought. I don't have an issue with the message, but it bugs me because it's such a visible example of people just repeating something. Most of the people saying to "trust the science" haven't read any more of it than the people saying not to or peddling conspiracy theories.

And of course, there is no "the science". "The science" for decades said that fat was bad and carbs were fine. There was other science that said otherwise, but that's what "the science" said. Same with tobacco and many other things. And people believed them, because they just "trusted the science" instead of doing their own reading. The most scientific thing one can do is to always view something with skepticism and subject evidence to harsh scrutiny. There is a reason that things as well-established as evolution and relativity are still theories.

I like Murray Rothbard's take on this "scientism", and would recommend his writings. https://mises.org/library/mantle-science
You've kind of got it backwards. The RNA modifications (uracil depletion and using less immunogenic analogues) and in these vaccines are to avoid the getting too much immune response to the mRNA itself, and allow time for spike protein to be translated and lead to the immune response.
I know! In this case the OOM killer should kill the process that requested the XFS operation in the first place! To avoid deadlocks it should just KILL it not TERM it. I don't see any problems with that solution :).

In all seriousness, wow. This is the type of thing really must hurt. It'll be interesting to see which path they choose.
I think Project Euler has a good compromise - you can see (and comment on!) solutions once you've successfully passed some baseline. Then you don't feel like you cheated, but can pick apart their solutions, now that you've already focused on that problem for a while.

I've learned a LOT figuring out how some outstanding PE submissions worked, translating their algorithms to my favorite languages.
Growing up in the 1970s and reading lots of sci-fi, I expected that by my current age, I would be on an interstellar colony ship - or at least living on one of Jupiter's moons. I also thought the human race was sure to give up on traditional religious taboos and stop wasting lives and resources on war.

None of that happened, but as a consolation prize, modern smartphones and the internet are still pretty amazing and the social changes they are bringing about have obviously only just gotten started.