jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm curious if a microwave's magnetron strapped to the pursuit drone could act as a poor man's Active Denial System and fry the other drone.
I'm guessing there is a long (week or two) session cookie that they only need to re-confirm their email after a few weeks of not being on the site... maybe as a secondary token/cookie to re-entering their email, if it matches the second token, they're in...

It'd be similar to 2fa, but without the first factor (a password).... I work on a similar site, where each real interaction is a financial transaction... since there's no real need to login after that transaction, there's no password, they're buying a product, and that is delivered via email... no need for the hassle of creating an account to login with... an account is made with a random password under the covers, but it's never really needed.
So basically, moderation of a forum of discussion is nothing other than an embodiment of bloodlust.
Just encrypting the login page or a form action does not work.

Think about, say, browsing on some public WiFi network (airport, cafe, etc.), but it turns out it's actually a rouge access point. Or there's an MITM at the ISP or somewhere. If you hit an unsecured page, I can rewrite the links to be insecure, so now instead of going to https://login.launchpad.net, you actually go to an http page that I proxy to the real page, so you probably don't notice the difference and I can steal your details.

Same with the form - I can rewrite the form action to regular HTTP and seamlessly send it back to the HTTPS once I have stolen your details.

If you have anything that requires security, the entire domain needs to be HTTPS.

Then, of course, there is also the risk of session hijacking.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted as man's apparent propensity for war is a very curious question. Expert opinions seem quite divided on whether it has biological roots or if is a cultural artefact.

Some interesting reading on the matter:

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/07-is-war-inevitable-by...

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/02-no-war-is-not-inevit...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2014/09/17/n...
Absolutely. He's at the top of the "hundreds others" :). I just mentioned those three because I use their non-rails code too all the time.

Also of note are the great screencasters/podcasters like Gregg Pollock, Ryan Bates, Jason Seifer, Dan Benjamin, and it feels like I'm forgetting someone else...
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2055#c...
I presumed that it was a minor think-o and that c2 meant "the best\most appropriate tool in my toolbox". That's certainly what the rest of the comment seems to imply anyway.
Probably because she was the sexist pig. People who assault you, physically or verbally, dont need an apology. I think it's pretty rude to let the door slam in someone's face.
for some reason, the hyphenation does not show up in the source. Could be a glitchy javascript library trying to do intelligent line wraps.
There's no such thing as an "easy-to-remember password", because people have so many passwords. Do you think your site's password is the only one your customers need to remember? Most people with any kind of online life will have so many logins that memorizing even the more important ones (in their opinion, not yours) is out of the question, no matter how the individual passwords are chosen or generated.

(I just checked my own password vault, and I have about 80 of them. This is probably fairly typical for anyone who spends a lot of time on the internet.)

"Forbid users from choosing their own passwords" is functionally equivalent to "require users to write down their passwords".
I'm friend with both Sutha and Aza and I've been following the progress of this startup from week 1. I'm incredibly hard to impress when it comes to startup ideas but this was one I believed in from the start. The idea of using the smartphone as the new interface for your health information is one with almost limitless potential and these are to wicked smart guys who have the execution ability to pull it off.

Mark my word, these guys aren't playing around. They're trying to build the next billion dollar company.
If you're meeting Americans abroad, you're generally meeting a special self-selected type of more open-minded American. I tend to find Germans I meet here at home much more enlightened than the majority of Americans I deal with.
Thanks for the explanation. I tried looking it up on the website, but I couldn't find it.
I distinctly remember that there's a comment by Arthur C Clarke somewhere to the effect that Heaviside was the first person to write down E = m*c^2, which is consistent with him having worked on "electromagnetic mass". This may also be mentioned in David Bohm's book, which I have somewhere but not easily to hand.

If anyone can confirm this it would be extremely interesting.
I'm planning on going old school and re-learning C and Assembly for x86 and, in particular, ARM architectures. My reason for doing is that I want to get back into embedded systems.

I also plan on picking up Rust and somehow integrating it into my workflow (I'm a web developer).

Ideally, for the future (2015 and beyond), I want a basket of languages I could use for building web-scale applications. So, for example, within a single application:

* Erlang -- distributed messaging
* Rust -- heavy lifting for various tasks
* Python -- various data munging tasks and rapid development
* Javascript -- client side applications (e.g. Ember.js)
* C -- in those rare cases where it would be needed

I think I would stick with these languages for the next ~10 years and try not be distracted by anything else.
> Have you been to your local university to research this?

I attended grad school with people who studied sociology and history, who were able to synthesize the state of the fields for me. I'm married to a professor and good friends with other professors who study topics in this space. None of them have good things to say about Murray's work.
Damm, now I have to stop using WhatsApp. I'll probably lose 40% of my contacts or so, but I believe it's worth it. Sad days we live in.
It's not obvious to me whether changing the view on transgression and stigma is practically possible.

In my experience it's strongly tied to personal experience: if I committed a transgression in my past I'm going to be more understanding towards others doing the same (still depending on the nature of the transgression and my rationalization of it). It's also worth nothing that what constitutes a transgression changes with the times, and often the public seem to forget/ignore this fact and retroactively apply stigma and resentment.
To a degree. I think citizens have their responsibility as well. Back in the 90s I had a regular spot in Cambridge UK verbally attacking the lunatics promoting their fringe nonsense in the city centre.

The issue here again isn’t technology but taking ideas as verbatim and lack of critical reasoning. This ultimately leads to people seeking kinship with idiots and frauds rather than dismantling their ideas carefully and ridiculing them.

The issue is as always: education. Education is certainly promoted by the tech sector.

I’m not defending them here for reference, merely suggesting that the issues are human and transcend the platform.
Most PoW coins that have been 51% attacked go on merrily with little to no price suppression.
The worst effect is much longer deposit confirmation times on exchanges.
related content: https://www.thedailybeast.com/peloton-ceo-john-foley-banned-...

CEO held a holiday party for talent/trainers while encouraging thrift/cutbacks for all other employees
I see zero unit/integration tests in the source tree, not even a `test` target in the Makefile. Terrifying.
This sounds like the OCaml module system.
I think the perp encrypted the file themselves before uploading to Google cloud (or wherever). The encryption was not provided by the platform.
Eh, I thought the same thing but I've really enjoyed the classes. For me it's not about motivation, it's about getting structure to your ride without needing to plan it yourself. You also get things like the strength classes, etc, which provide the same value. If you work out every day, planning what you're doing accrues nonzero mental load. It's nice to just pop on a class and know you'll get a decent core workout, or whatever.

And I definitely wouldn't say I'm a member of the "culture", I get on, do a class, get off, that's it. The price is worth it for two people in the house I think.
Machinery needs to be lubricated to run well.

For many small businesses non-tax registered money is the lub which makes them run well.

Jokes aside the price of getting a card terminal where for many businesses completely unattractive for a long time and often still are if put in context to the number of people which will use it.

I know one local takeaway which stopped accepting card payment after their terminal broke recently, as it wasn't worth it to buy a new one. Instead they now allow sending money by PayPal, but non-advertised and mainly for a single specific big recurring customer and sometimes if someone doesn't has cash with them.
None of the techniques we have are exact drop in replacements of one another. But they are all techniques that improve quality. I've seen a good QA person in the right environment be 100x as valuable as all the unit tests and code review combined.

Thats why the answer is really heavily dependent on your team and your project. The key though is considering what you aren't doing because you are focusing so heavily on code review.
I guess I wasn't seriously questioning the reasons why they would do it. It does make sense but isn't there some point where complimenting your customers to make them feel all warm could go "too far"? I'm pretty laid back with not very high expectations of customer service (not a pessimistic person, just easy to please) and it just comes off as rather excessive, at least with the way it's presented.

This probably comes off as looking the gift horse in the mouth but at some point it does come off as excessive, like when I get bum rushed to be helped the second I look at a product in a department store.
Came here to say this. Recommended read.
Right, it also serves to remove that person from society as they are a threat to others. When you kill someone, it stops being about you and your "rehabilitation" and more about other people.
I'm amazed you've gotten so much out of the content there. In my testing it was a lot of jabbering on and it was very difficult to find good, relevant rooms.
> For one, he says, there is only one known strain of the novel coronavirus -- the original one, SARS-CoV-2, first discovered in Wuhan. And, two, there's no evidence so far of a variant that can meaningfully evade vaccines, though there are several variants out there.

This kind of misses the point: yes, the word "strain" is being used incorrectly. But there are certainly a number of different variants whose genomes differ from the parent Wuhan strain.

At this point, there is no clear consensus that any of these variants of concern are phenotypically different enough from the parent strain to have earned being their own strain, especially given how stingy virologists have historically been when bestowing "strain" onto variants. There is however plenty of evidence that a number of antibodies for the parent strain have reduced neutralization against some VOCs, suggesting that some variants may be phenotypically different enough to warrant concern:

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33794143/

* https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00222-1

* https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.12.435194v2

Despite this, the current evidence suggests that T-cell responses aren't negatively impacted:

* https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.27.433180v1

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33594378/

At this point it is hard to say what that means, but the take-away of the article is a pretty weak one.
I've no idea why you're getting downvoted.

Private prisons in the US negotiate agreements with the states with minimum occupancy clauses. [1]

Speaking of an amoral dereliction of duty of care.

[1] http://www.aublr.org/2017/11/private-prison-contracts-minimu...
There is now good support for keeping the data cashed client side, so that if your connection does drop, it can be restored once the connection is reestablished. That used to be a pain point, but as far as I have seen, it has been pretty well fleshed out now. This all happens mostly automatically, so you don’t have to worry about it. I think it’s just a parameter that you set to “true“.
My first thought when I read the list of side effects was "this sounds like a bit like an antidepressant". Then I saw (from the original AP article) that it was, in fact, originally marketed as an antidepressant in Europe.
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What do you think? Anthony Weiner like situations. It was only news a few days ago:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...
Because the worst nuclear accidents have done less damage than coal plants do every year as part of their normal expected operation. If we were rational we'd replace those coal plants as fast as we could, even if it took nuclear to do it.

Because the accidents have all been with very old designs. Even at Fukushima, in the face of a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, reactors built in the 80's instead of the 70's got through it all just fine.

Because climate change is turning into such a desperate problem that we can't afford to leave any solutions on the table. And nuclear works quite nicely with solar power...nuclear all the time, solar for extra peak load during the day.

Nuclear is not just the side effect of a weapons program. It's an amazing energy source. With the most advanced reactors, all the energy you need for your entire life can come from a lump of fuel smaller than a golfball.

It's very sad that our first use of this technology was to kill people. Perhaps if we hadn't figured it out in the middle of WWII, things would have been different, and climate change would be a hypothetical instead of an imminent nightmare.
Product/tech teams raise that concern (logic being that anything could happen within JS) - in my opinion it's more of a product/engineering/marketing conflict than any real logic/evidence behind it.
Most airlines reserve the right to remove passengers from a flight if they feel it is safer to do so. This happens all the time, and I'm sure from the perspective of the expelled passenger it's always "unfair." I trust you will follow your own principle and boycott every airline.
HN rules say to use the original title unless it starts with a number or has the name of the site, etc...

So it's not editorializing, or if it is, the NYTimes is the one doing it.
Why thank you sir for this detailed write up! You did a great job.
The last part really got me thinking, when the author mentioned that his apartment was probably searched by some agency. He would obviously have noted if he had received some sort of notification that his apartment had been legally searched.

Is it legal for the police, the DHS, FBI or any other agency to search your apartment and belongings without notifying you? Are there warrants that will let the authorities do this? What are the circumstances which allow them to do this?
There are towns in rural Saskatchewan Canada that will sell you a serviced lot for $1 if you agree to build a house on the lot and live in it for three years.
Wow, I can't believe people use this.
I disagree with that law-enforcement and counter-narrative strategy for battling radical extremism, even if it is effective.

And seeing concentration camps (or, if you prefer, re-education camps) makes me rather hesitant about learning the rest. If what I learn is attached to re-education camps, I'm not sure I want to learn it.

For example, social cohesion is a good thing. We could really use some of that! But the Chinese method of achieving it ranges from the "social credit" system to the re-education camps. Do I want social cohesion? Sure. Do I want it that badly? No.
My point is that you do not need to write again what is written in Wikipedia. You better go improve the latter.
There is a trivial failure case if the legs are not on a circle around the rotation axis: One leg is closer to the center (rotation axis) of the table than the other three. The floor is flat except for a ring, centered on the rotation axis, under the odd leg.
In this case all 4 legs will never be on the floor at the same time.
> First, it looks good like you declare who you are. Many VPN providers seem to want to hide their real identities which is a big red flag.

While I agree that, as a user, knowing who's behind a service, and in particular a VPN, can help build trust, there are several good reasons why you would want to remain anonymous when running a VPN or any privacy service like secure email and encryption tools. You will be targeted by multiple parties. The technical side of this challenge (both that of operating services like these and that of being a target) is complicated enough. Operator anonymity can mitigate some threats, from social engineering to physical threats, pressure, legal and otherwise, from a range of parties. Anyone with experience in these matters knows what I'm referring to, and don't think for a second operating outside of the US makes that much of a difference. The world is small. Many parties do not play by any rules besides their own.
The thing is, if you've done this HTML -> CSS conversion a hundred times before, you wouldn't need to look it up. They're trying to gauge your experience level

That really doesn't make sense, though. They were gauging my experience level by forcing me into a development process I have never used before?

I don't think the best way to test if a person can do X is to take them far, far out of the environment in which they've always done X, and would be doing X if hired by you.
Honestly, it seems like mostly welfare for everyone else. The rest of the western world is only now caring about having their own functioning militaries again after decades
It removes certain executables, instead of just changing some settings or registry values.
i hope it stays that way, i found a nice little corner with cool people and I don't wanna see any 'influencers' or company accounts on my timeline. I just want to share interesting stuff and dumb jokes with cool people and it fits that role perfectly in my life.
Does anybody know why the bot[1] publishing Pluto photos from New Horizons has been suspended?

[1] https://twitter.com/bitsofpluto
> immigrants fleeing authoritarianism are generally vocal against it

There's a huge selection bias here (the immigrants most visible are those who speak up), so I wouldn't be so certain about this. My prior is that people don't give a shit about what's happening elsewhere, and their life is certainly easier if they don't _publish_ their controversial views. (Even if that controversial view is shared knowledge among immigrants, it's usually not common knowledge.)
Indeed, I hate that the MSRP is far below the market determined pricepoint. The invites shortages and opens the door for scalping.

I have been trying to get an Xbox Series X for months. I would like to have a new one, with a warranty. However, I finally gave up and "won" one with a $606 bid on stockx.com. After fees, shipping, etc, its close to $170 over the unrealistic $500 MSRP, which just shows how out of touch the MSRP really is.
Hmm, which geneticist coined the term? Oh, it was VDARE contributor Steve Sailer? The one who writes about black genetic inferiority and Jewish control of the media?
They don't have to turn a profit from the rent. Many operate at a loss in a bet to build wealth from equity gains.
There’s an easy rule of thumb for predicting how climate will change: Every possible thing will get worse.
This is a pandering quote which everyone already knows and not really a useful comment at all.
Eventually, copyright will die off completely. It's just a matter of when.

When we have sci-fi nanoreplicators that can copy luxury (flying) cars, food, etc., all scarcity will be artificial.

Alternatively, when we have very convincing VR, everyone will be able to experience what he or she wants to as much as he or she wants to. There won't be anything to trade because you can't give someone something they can't already get. Strong general AI will fill in for everything.

Our puny mammalian brains with their limited sensory inputs will be entertained by not-very-advanced technology that eventually becomes effectively free. It doesn't even take that much fidelity to fool us -- think of how unconvincing dreams are after you wake up. There's seemingly some credulity switch that gets flipped which makes us believe something to be reality without really questioning it. Switch that on while awake and World of Warcraft is probably more than good enough.

Incidentally, I noticed that asking yourself the question, "how did I get here?" ala Inception is really annoying when you're awake. It's difficult to question your reality when you subjectively feel it to be true.

My awake existence is mostly in one place staring at a monitor. I almost never do that when I dream, I'm "physically" doing something completely unrelated.
I think the basis for comparison is spring, which has a sprawling API. That is the 800lb gorilla of java frameworks.
What a wonderful reward for your service.
That's a good point. The reason for it is because this service came about from our previous Facebook pages we created for colleges that ppl could use to do essentially do the same thing. Every time someone makes a comment you can see who it is, allowing people to learn about each other and socialize in the comments, around the confession. The posts basically allow ppl to meet new ppl.

Here's some of of those pages:
http://facebook.com/mruconfessions
https://www.facebook.com/UofCConfess
I think this idea is due to the fact that a lot of Asian people are successful, and this runs counter to the narrative that minorities are being actively held down.
There does seem to be a method/interface system (Under the "Methods, Protocols, Implementations" header). And it seems to have some sort of dispatch system for tagged structures that can be later modified by the user.
> The traditional static symbolic notation of math may be the most efficient one... If people had Excel before, we'd never know Gauss sequence sum formula, we'd let the system help us.

I think some people in this thread must be using "notation" in a different sense than I am accustomed to. I don't think of the computer's ability to automate addition as an innovation in "notation", per se.
https://github.com/jneen/tulip
I don't know if this will start a revolution, but Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics attempts to address the problem of notation in physics. The preface walks through the classical notation for the Lagrange equations and points out how inadequate that notation is. The whole book essentially makes the case that a functional notation that can be implemented (in Scheme) is better for doing physics:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/s...
$40 a year in a savings account isn't going to net you much.
If you go to the AMS bookstore and click on a title, there is often a link near the top of the page called "preview materials." I have no idea if that is for every single book or most or a few. The small sample I checked all had a preview available.
I'd argue that the world has moved on from desktop apps. Maybe that's reversible, but I'm not convinced.