jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't completely agree -- I feel like CoffeeScript shares as much in common with Ruby and Python as it does with JS. I'd say a good developer would be the best fit for a CS position; depending on your deployment platform, I can almost see a case where being an embedded JS programmer might actually cause issues. If all you understand is EcmaScript, all you'll write is EcmaScript. Despite its tagline being "It's just JavaScript", it's actually much more.
I'd be careful taking the word of a WSJ reporter on this. I spent 3 years as a tech admin for one of the largest HP fanfiction sites on the Internet (> 100K users & 40K stories when I left), and made a lot of friends in the fandom, some of whom I still talk to and one of whom got me my job at Google. This article reads a lot like some of the media pieces on Google these days: the author comes in with an idea for a juicy story that'll get readers, does about an hour of research to support it, and then mouths off their conclusions as fact, regardless of how off-base they are.

It is true that fandom is overwhelmingly female (Harry Potter was ~99%), and that there is a romantic overtone to many (but not all) of the stories. Beyond that, very little of the article rang true. There are a wide variety of reasons why people write fanfiction.

A large number of them are aspiring writers (hell, everyone seems to be an aspiring novelist), and view fanfiction as practice for the day when they'll eventually write their own original novel. Others of them are obsessive about their favorite shows, and feel like they must write more adventures of the characters they've grown to love. There is the romantic/sexual aspect for some. Slash fanfiction (fanfiction involving gay pairings of canon characters) has become a way for many young gay men to come to terms with their sexual identity. And some people just do it for community, so that they can be creative and share their creations with like-minded people.

The author got her analogies all mixed up. I'd say that fanfiction.net is overwhelmingly the first two and last categories of people. Its demographics skew pretty young (last I heard, median age was about 15, and a majority of the userbase were under 20). If I had to compare it against a "male" equivalent, I think it's closest match would be reddit.com/r/CarlHProgramming or other "learn programming" communities on the web. Just like on CarlHProgramming, it focuses on being creative, and on fostering a supportive, ego-boosting environment where your early mistakes are tolerated.

Explicitly sexual pairings are usually found on boutique archives like RestrictedSection.org. I think their equivalent are things like "Emma Watson nude!" or "See Lindsay Lohan's firecrotch!" tabloid-ish sites (no, I don't know any actual URLs, I don't exactly go looking for Emma Watson nudes).

The closest thing to outright porn sites would be archives of original erotic fiction, like literotica.com or asstr.org. Or romance novels. I don't know the authorship figures for them, but I assume they also skew heavily female.

There's way more complexity than this - I have a friend that did her master's thesis on online fandom communities. Five paragraphs can barely scratch the surface. But "Oh, fanfiction is just like porn for girls" is a vast oversimplification.
I read it as more of an attempt to frame Hao Huang’s accomplishment in a way that a lay audience could better appreciate it. I didn’t get any sense that it was disrespectful.
I believe they mean Land Value Tax [0] in the Geoism/Georgism [1] sense, not in the traditional property tax sense; the main difference being that a land value tax does not take into account improvements to the property (e.g. buildings, parks, or any other development).

Personally, I would be in favor of UBI, even as someone who would see a net loss on it after taxes, since it would mean that if I ever lose my job (or choose to quit), I will still have the UBI to support myself with while I look for a new one, making it a less stressful event.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
It is less than 10% heavier (1.4kg vs 1.29kg) and is 0.9mm thicker. It is about 22mm wider and 6mm deeper, with a screen 18mm larger in diagonal.

Unless you're really being pedantic the two are of the same form factor. Maybe you are comparing the Intel ThinkBook 14? That one is significantly heavier and a bit thicker.

If an increase in size of around 5% is too much, there are smaller laptops with the same processor family.
Aaron is an absolute mensch, I've greatly enjoyed working with him and all the advice he's given us has been helpful.
Eh, I'd say most popular technologies suffer from the same problem.

There's always an accretion disc of "X is garbage/panacea, here's 10 reasons why" content around ubiquitous tools.

In fact, I think I can count on on hand, the number industry-standard tools that don't have these wakes. Can you think of any?
Crypto VCs close deals for hundreds of thousands or millions within 10 minutes without any lawyers or legal contracts. It’s just a different world and the traditional VC insider game is going to end. Will be quite amusing watching it collapse!
> Edit: When I post about this stuff, I often get asked about specifics. For reasons of privacy, and several others, I would rather not get into them. Do your own research, find your own way. Don't wait for everything to be handed to you on a plate. I've provided more than enough information in this comment.

Come on now, are you really going to post about how something "paid off in ways I didn't even imagine possible when I started out" and not name even one example? This lowers your comment to being basically on the same tier of conversation as conspiracy theorists who brush off requests for proof with "DO YOUR RESEARCH, THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE I CAN'T GIVE YOU SPECIFICS".
Nice! Just alpine, or do you rock climb as well?
Yes, but it is good to have such debates. It allows the Linux community continuously to reassess its choice of a c-only environment. Such introspection is necessary, and when people are ready to move on, I think the community will.
I think it should add http:// if it's missing.. I wasn't sure what wasn't working at first when trying www.google.com.

Also, I find gadaf.fi really hard to remember.
"I've always said this regarding piracy - the reason many people pirate is that it is faster, easier and cheaper than paying for content."

It's the beginning of the entitlement generation. People aren't getting what they want, so they take it. Unless the content is $0 and you can get it whenever you want, the vast majority of people pirating will not stop.

I've haven't seen the end of the excuses. There are plenty of legal services for music (trying for free and buying for cheap). Yet, piracy is stronger than ever. What makes you think it will be any different for movies?

I also think about piracy when I start a new business idea. I no longer release any commercial apps..only commercial services.
In a way it sort of reminds me of this:

http://www.cabel.name/2009/09/kashiwa-mystery-cafe.html
at least they didn't have the same guy that interviewed Conan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7TwqpWiY5s
Not quite. The missing tech is, I think, in the area of manufacturing. The settlers would have to unpack and boot up a complete industrial infrastructure since the nearest Radio Shack or Home Depot is 300,000,000 miles away.

But we're moving in that direction with 3d printing and rapid fabrication technology...
never mind, found it - http://oilq.org/fr/node/15240
I really like the .transition, and the attention to browser support in .gradientH and .gradientV. Very nice touch!

Tiny nitpick: IMO the call to action styles doesn't belong (seems a bit to specific for a generic boilerplate). Other than that, nice job.

Edit: I also like that this is more lightweight than Bootstrap - which I hadn't seen before.
Actually, it's the world's first semantically intelligent resume builder. A better site with more explanation of the technology can be found on career expert Heather Huhman's blog, where she calls it the "Most Exciting Resume Tech I've Seen...Ever!"

http://heatherhuhman.com/2011/04/resunate-the-most-exciting-...
That's true. Kurzweil and friends overestimate the speed in which science advances. We don't even nearly understand our own biology yet, as we're still learning a lot from nature.

Kurzweil's "We can upload ourselves in 30 years" is basic hubris. Our brains turn out to be more complicated than we thought every time scanning tech advances.

But once we fully grasp how our own bio-"machinery" works, we may be able to develop something that can survive on Mars. That is probably a long haul from now (>200 years).
How about mentioning that the movie and music-recording industries are pushing a concept called "intellectual property" that's probably false to fact. The consequences of their views of "intellectual property" have consequences to innovation and invention in just about every other walk of life that are detrimental to making progress, and preserving our culture.
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Um, no. I am building this. I am not just sitting around thinking up some idea and wishing it were true.

I am very early in my own development abilities, but I have a technical co-founder, a hospital that has agreed to pilot this and experience in my field which informed the design of the idea.

I think I see way to much arrogance on HN. It appears that you guys are so eager to try to find why things shouldn't be built, when maybe its better to figure out why things should.

I love how you all assume that one comes up with an idea, then just sits around and attempts to wish it into existence.

Lets take a poll. How many of you here think of yourself as a mediocre developer?

I'm willing to bet that many are under the impression they are some Ninja Star developer and that NOTHING in this world can possibly work unless you personally come up with it.
> Does that mean lots of redditors come over here?

I know I did.
And I'd like to add this whole thing wasn't possible before facebook/twitter, not possible at this scale. Technology without responsibility often leads on the wrong path.
> Seek Consensus — Take the time to bring your whole team along. Let discussion and disagreement bring you to the best solution.

There you have it! What the political leaders in this country have been failing to do.
you can easily add a number to a char in C and get a jibberish character, which is why C is a weakly typed language
The question is, how many careers did Hoover kill?
When using Hosted Chef you can't generate a private key and upload it. You create a user, their system generates your key pair and displays the private key one-time-only for you to store somewhere. A user in Chef can only have one keypair at a time. This is just a limitation of their system we have to work with.

It's important to note that the 'user' here in Hosted Chef is not a person, it is an identity in the Chef server that is allowed to upload cookbooks. Its scope is limited to only that.

Rotating the deploy user's key when using HostedChef is a 1 step process, using knife and Conjur together

```
knife user reregister "conjurbot" | conjur variable values add hostedchef/conjurbot/private_key
```

The stdout of `knife user reregister` is the private key so you can update the variable in Conjur without even seeing the value. You could run this in a cron job if you wanted. Your CI system responsible for uploading cookbooks will pull the new private key next time it runs.

Again, not ideal that Hosted Chef only allows you one keypair per user but we can minimize the threat by rotating the key frequently.
If they dont encrypt storage they are highly negligent. Index and search are done in RAM,which is slightly harder to steal than disk data.
I suspect the missing satellites are more easily explained by aliens than totally new physics.
anybody? please.
The real question IMO is whether the money saved by App Engine is more than the development cost of the premature scaling you have to do.
Actually 3G got folders with iOS4.
The features page of your website says this about security:

>All transmission of file data and metadata occurs over an encrypted channel (SSL).

>All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES-256).

And yet I hear people here saying that Dropbox is "missing encryption." What's the real story? Are there more technical details on your encryption posted somewhere on your site?

I'd really like to know, as I actually have a good deal of semi-sensitive information stored in my account right now--a decision I made based on the wording I copied in above and on my trust in the Dropbox folks so far.
my university's general chemistry series had a problem with kids loading their TI-83s with "notes" to remember what oxidized and what reduced (and much, much more).

it was crude and pretty obvious but extremely effective and no one in my class was ever caught.
There is a similar one of an SR71 tooling around over Cuba at god-knows-what 1000s of feet being asked to move to make way for another airplane.
A Concorde goes past, with people in shirt sleeves happily sipping their champagne.
The vast majority of quant firms are not high-frequency firms.
I actually agree. I didn't and wouldn't use the word "simple". My point was more that it's "possible".
SIMILE library is used in OpenRefine for certain Faceting like timeline, clustering, etc. Parallax was originated by David to show how time series data visualizations could be enhanced. David was one of our original designers of OpenRefine and I worked closely with him and Stefano in testing it.
IF you don't refer to them with pejoratives then people might think they have legitimate points.

The rube demographic isn't shrinking anytime soon.
Look out for TLTROs and dual interest rate policies next.
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629443

Has more information and browser support/feature tables.

Thanks a ton for posting this. I don't use Zoom as much as I used to but I know the browser client didn't use to exist. I can't vouch for how well it works to anyone reading this, but I prefer browser clients in general if possible and will try it out to anyone from Zoom. Your email QA was helpful years ago and sent a Linux build with more debugging[0] so you could fix some issue when that was still new!

[0] I don't remember the details now, I don't think they were anything particularly exciting then. I appreciated the "Yep, we've heard about it, can you run this version and email us the logs when it happens again?" That's all I remember so I think we can assume they fixed it.
Well, let's try to imagine if BNS pooped out a corrupt update. Would every BNS client just silently pass on it, or would they all instantly suicide? I'm honestly not sure it's the former.
OK.

Let's say we set aside world police and exceptionalism and nihilistic tourism. What should America be learning from this?
Not the best analogy, IMHO

If the price of a stock or house or investment have been rising for two years, it's risen in cost to get into, and you might never see the gains people have seen in the past; I doubt you'll ever get a bitcoin for a dollar again!

But if job adverts for a new tech have been rising for two years, it doesn't cost any more to learn than on the day it was released. Maybe less, in fact, as there will be more tutorials and more experts to learn from.
QE is revenue neutral or positive. They buy an asset with created cash, and sell it later for a small profit.

Helicopter money is revenue negative and the created cash cannot be recovered.
I have a BA in Physics from UC Santa Cruz, and attended grad school with the intention of working on a search for non-conservation of lepton number at CERN, however my mental illness (Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder) led to my leaving grad school.

I've been toying with the idea of returning to grad school, but if I do I'm going to need to spend some time brushing up on my math. It's been decades.

I dropped out of UCSC after the first quarter of my junior year to work as a software developer. The only reason I ever graduated was that I grew weary of always been asked why I never graduated (during job interviews).

I'm not so sure I would return to particle physics, more likely I would do something to contribute to an equitable and just solution to the problem of energy production, distribution or storage.
Hey, nice write up. As you said in the article it is a controversial topic and I definitively see that "bandwagon effect" when it comes to using OAuth in favor of Basic Auth. One thing I'm a bit worried about, though whenever I use Basic Auth is the longevity of it's credentials. The lack of tokens automatically means that as long as the dev does not implement some "credential rotation" mechanism (carried out either manually or automatically) leaked credentials become a long lasting problem.

OAuth is not perfect by any means but this scares me away from Basic Auth a lot. Especially given the fact that those "leaks" might go by unnoticed. Using some authentication mechanism with short-lived tokens mitigates this risk at least in the long run as leaked tokens will just expire.
A very young project looking for contributions of any kind: testing, ideas, code, bug report/fixes... any contribution will be much appreciated.
One approach: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Are_You_Gonna_Do_...
"Attempting to establishing a legal obligation to share information is pretty much that, I would think. Seems like that's the whole point of a democracy, no? To allow the people to make things their business?" No! Absolutely not!!! How is that any different from the asinine mutterings of David Cameron over data encryption? Freedom of speech does not give you the right to no my, or anyone else's business. What about freedom of privacy?

"I mean, if Apple doesn't want their contracts (which are enforced by democratic American law) to be the business of the American people, then maybe they should leave the country." So you agree that the NSA is right to snoop on the citizens of the US? It's exactly the same thing.
My LL(k) recursive descent parser cannot handle left recursion without incurring in a O(n³) worst case time-complexity. OP please fix. I expect a solution until next week. Thank you.
Sorry I am noob here but since I am PHP enthu wanted to know what is exact difference between Windwalker and Laravel?

Why should one prefer Windwalker?
It depends on the clipher you're using and the implementation/hardware.
What about a way to come up with the best lineup in Fanduel (daily fantasy sports game)? It is also a Knapsack problem. To give you a little background, each night you get to build a fantasy team (2 PGs, 2 SGs, 2 SFs 2 PFs, 1 C) within a salary cap. Each player is given a salary for the night and they are given points based on their stats like getting rebounds or assists. To determine what players should perform the best on a certain night, you can use a homebrewed algorithm or get a projection from sites online that project points.
> I think doing it out of the public eye might have stopped premature use and implementations.

Sure, but so doing might carry its own risk—namely, no community investment once the proposal was released. A very consistent proposal by which no-one feels represented isn't necessarily an improvement!
Thats probably because the server is trying to lookup the client on DNS:
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/slow-ssh
My guess is that, at least, some router ssh implementation is insecure, possibly not by accident.

From the slides:

Page 19: "SSH [...] Potentially recover user names and passwords"
Page 36: "SSH - often have router configurations and user credentials [...]"

http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35515.pdf
Just use a camera to take a shot
I'll give it a look, certainly seems interesting.

One question though: at a cursory glance through the code, the author switches between normal PHP brace syntax:

if ($something) {
// do something
}

and the alternative PHP brace-less syntax:

if ($something):
// do something
endif;

Is there any reason for the inconsistency? I usually reserve the alternative syntax for templates since it integrates well with HTML and the normal syntax for the actual code.
Stargate Universe
For due diligence:

"Where is my flying car?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMPH0tlC5K4

Sci-fi generally fails at future predictions.
I agree - the article kind of lost purpose midway in the first paragraph, so I skimmed it too and found it with an atrocious closing paragraph.

My wife is generally averse to sci-fi, so what I always make sure to do is point out when an 'ordinary' movie is using sci-fi and it becomes disturbingly long.

I like to point out movies like Inception (being a big one people don't see as sci-fi even though it is pure sci-fi), Donnie Darko (a movie about time travel), V for Vendetta, Frankenstein, Jurassic Park and the funniest I've had to point out has been E.T. And that's without even having to step out into the 'grey area' where movies are using sci-fi 'concepts' or just using mild sci-fi elements.

It also works to point out that almost 3/4 of horror movies are still solidly sci-fi.

I think sci-fi's death will be when it becomes so mainstream it's rarely differentiated from regular fiction, which with a lot of movies it's still hard to convince people it's sci-fi. I mean 'Click' with Adam Sandler is a great example. It's sci-fi through and through, but because it's using only 1 element people won't believe it's sci-fi.
Not intending to undermine your metaphor, more as an aside aimed at anyone who has just gone "ooo, I can pack one less adaptor", it's worth noting that in the UK the two USB / outlet adaptors are not the same and do not work together (based on iPhone 3GS and most recent model Kindle).
Cool. Can you hook me up with a hyperlink to a 75-inch computer monitor?
> kubectl is close but doesn't understand secrets/variables, the concept of clusters, or changing image tags programmatically. It's difficult to get right.

Isn't that the problem kustomize (which kubectl now has native support for applying) is trying to solve? I ask that honestly, because I haven't used kustomize in anger in order to compare its workflow to that of helm
Well there is already a TLD with a well known executable file extension: .com
Folks with an eye towards backwards compatibility typically don't implement breaking changes without a year of deprecation warnings emitted by the software. Contrast that to a notice posted in a sub-basement 6 months before instituting a breaking change. The shock and alarm do seem warranted IMO.
I just looked at the article. Unfortunately it has very little data about how much smoking is reduced by higher taxes. The one bit of actual numbers I found: "On average, a price increase of 10% on a pack of cigarettes would reduce demand for cigarettes by about 4% for the general adult population in high income countries".

That's great, for the small percentage of people who quit smoking. But for the majority who continue smoking after higher taxes, it is indeed as I said, "This ends up just penalizing poor people." It's blatantly obvious if you go to any convenience store that smoking has not been stopped by higher cigarette taxes, and thus a lot of people are simply paying more in taxes while continuing to smoke.

It's interesting that the article talks about the effect of cigarette taxes on youth, because currently in the US, retailers are forbidden to sell any nicotine product to anyone under age 21. If anything, it seems that the issue is not taxes but rather our extremely lax enforcement of the law against selling cigarettes to minors.
Under what time-horizon is the theorem valid for?