jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Or from making offset printing plates that can be used to print dollars.
Actually, it is an inconvenient insecure mess. It just looks good at first blush. Here is my take

http://blog.atomicinc.com/2015/03/16/yahoos-on-demand-insecu...

I wonder if they put a college intern in charge of authentication services...
I think the 2 original goals of NFTs was to provide a way for people to continue to own content after finishing a game (whether game dies or a person just naturally leaves its) and somehow transfer that content to another game. The other was just to be able to play games directly on blockchain that are comparable to the small mobile games people play now.

Sadly the problem with anything related to money is it attracts StockBros whose primary goal is to steal/take money from the uninformed.
Yep, as far as I see they could have bought tickets. It's not like that kind of "feedback" is unexpected after what they pulled.
Funny how everyone talks about BP but doesn't mention CAM, RIG, ATPG, and others. If you're going to invest, find the companies that make better drilling equipment because their services are going to be needed for the relief wells and fresh mandates for higher quality drilling.

Funnier still is how we think BP is the "bad guy" when the U.S. hasn't developed a transportation policy that doesn't focus on driving your SUV 30 miles to a grocery store. It's hypocrisy at its finest. We've had a blowup in coal, oil, and shale in the past 2 months but we still need cheap energy.
This - Gizmodo wasn't banned, they just weren't given press credentials. They could have bought a ticket just like everyone else (well, at least be fore it was sold out) if they wanted to make sure they could have someone there.
No. First of all, a lot of startups still need to raise money. It may be cheaper now than in 1998 but it's still not cheap to pay 2-6 people for 6-24 months. And getting users and customers does not necessarily equal profitability.

What has actually happened in that there is a mismatch between investors and VC. In '98, many investors were MBAs who were willing to take VC investment on so-so terms because they wanted to eventually become VCs and they valued the connections. In '10, they want to take a lot less money (because they need less) on much better terms, and VC still hasn't adapted to that change.

But I cannot understate the value of having seasoned, risk-accepting, wanting-to-change-the-world investors and entrepreneurs. Silicon Valley has a singular advantage in this regard.
I wonder for what reasons our society will be judged barbaric by our descendants.
Why do you have an issue with saying banned? It's not like they were forgotton, or passed over due to space constraints, they were specifically not allowed to attend even after thy requested a pass because of the iPhone leak.

That sounds like banned to me.
I really miss being able to add a report to the dashboard by simply clicking on "Add to Dashboard"! Now I have to actually know what I'm doing in order to add it to the dashboard. Which also made me realise how much I suck at understanding all those parameters... (It also shows how easy Analytics was for everyone, right?)
Hopefully it works better than their C/Fortran interface library. Navigating nested/arrayed MATLAB data structures through their API is a complete pain.
As far as I know, the history in git doesn't change unless you explicitly ask it to (rebase). So you should still always be able to tell exactly what changed and at what time it was changed. Perhaps git doesn't employ this information to the liking of others, but it should all be there.
Can't we get all of the data through open graph API anyways?
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
do not code*? I find the same problem at startup events in my (non-american, non-tech) city.. was also thoroughly disappointed. I eventually just started emailing programming groups looking for programming partners. Eventually (1-2 months later) found one guy, great match.. now we're working on a side project/product. Its hard though
This applies to every domain which has experts. Somehow, the learning curve takes you places you later abandon.

If there is a lesson to take from this is that one might be able to get a feeling for what the extra fluff in second stage looks like. The hype, the enjoyment of doing things for the wrong reasons etc.

A rather insidious side effect is that most people who teach / talk about the process are in second stage. The experts usually went beyond examining the process, and have little interest in discussing it.
Let's assume the data in the article is perfectly representative, or that it is chosen "almost 18" percent of the time. I'll say an even 18 to make this easier:

"I'll bet that if you pick any random number from 1 to 20, I can guess it. If I miss, I give you a dollar. If I get it right, you give me ten."

Over 100 trials, you would lose $1 92 times, but gain $10 18 times: net gain of $88. It works almost all the way down to getting $5 per correct guess.

Intuition would tell the guesser that they've got a nineteen-to-one chance of gaining a dollar. You know (in theory) they've got only slightly better than a one-in-five chance of winning.
I assume you buy the non voting shares.
You should checkout squareup.com/features - I don't work for them. No monthly fees. 2.75% + $.15 if card is present. Though I think they are in beta and people in the forums were complaining about not getting the hardware last I looked about a week ago. It's for brick and mortar operations.
Not only is it not about displaying tweets, it's specifically disallowed:

> Customers will only be allowed to analyze the messages, not display them
A lot of energy would have been wasted for a lot less mined volume, so it's probably for the better.
David Hahn used knowledge and materials which were the product of the nuclear age (many of the materials he used were created with industrial nuclear reactions). The most impressive thing he could have accomplished would be a device generously named a low grade dirty bomb, which is to say, a device capable of generating enough hydrogen to explode in a confined space distributing enough already-radioactive material to poison a few of his neighbors. Nothing he did came close to or could have come close to any significant advancement in science or engineering.

The Manhattan project was not about adapting existing bombs for military use, that's just a gross misunderstanding of history. The Manhattan project was about the basic science and engineering of creating a stable nuclear reaction and a runaway reaction in a weapon. Neither of these things existed or came close to existing outside the project. Both required the industrial scale purification and transmutation of nuclear elements only achievable in meaningful quantities by a nation state. The first bomb was the simple gun-type which only required purity of a U^235. The second bomb required the similarly difficult transmutation of uranium to plutonium, but also extremely precise mechanisms to trigger the bomb. Neither could ever be possible by a wonk of any education in his garage.

There seems to be a misguided romanticism about a lone hacker making revolutions in applied high energy physics here that doesn't have any connection at all with reality. Revolutions aren't made by a few people in a vacuum, but are iterative processes by thousands. Sometimes people outside the establishment do contribute, but like everybody else they stand on the shoulders of giants and reach a tiny bit higher.

Many times those that are able to reach just high enough to get over an easily understood hurdle are revered and understood to have made a much larger contribution than they actually did. The reality is that most of the time hurdles are jumped when there time is ripe, someone clever and lucky often takes the lion's share of the glory, but truly if they hadn't been there a hundred others would have made the same hurdle in short order.
Here's the torproject's response to this article. I think they bring up valid points about not drawing decisive conclusions based on this study.

"Tor hidden service traffic, which Dr. Gareth Owen discussed in his talk this afternooon, is only 1.5% of all Tor traffic. Tor gets about 2 million users per day total.

The researcher ran a set of Tor relays for a six month period, and recorded how many times somebody attempted to look up a hidden service (this lookup is one of the steps in visiting a hidden service). Then at the end of that period, he scanned the hidden services he'd learned about, to find out what sort of content was on them.

Dr. Owen's data shows that there's a lot of churn in hidden services, so nearly all of the sites were gone by the time he did these scans. His graphs only show data about the sites that were still up many months later: so his data could either show a lot of people visiting abuse-related hidden services, or it could simply show that abuse-related hidden services are more long-lived than others. We can't tell from the data.

Without knowing how many sites disappeared before he got around to looking at them, it's impossible to know what percentage of fetches went to abuse sites.

There are important uses for hidden services, such as when human rights activists use them to access Facebook or to blog anonymously. These uses for hidden services are new and have great potential.

PS: Law enforcement agencies use Tor to stay anonymous while they catch bad guys. Law enforcement agencies use and run hidden services, too."
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-80-percent-percent-1-2-...
Torque sleep sounds like the electric motor equivalent
of free-wheeling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freewheel
Germany is even nowadays still haunted by herds of radioactive boars, meaning that decades after chernobyl we still can’t eat wild meat or mushrooms.
I think my story is a decent anecdote to support your statement. I spent half of college on academic probation with the main contribution to my terrible GPA being default failing status from skipping too much class.

I dropped out of school, got a job that was supposed to teach me something. It turned into answering the phone, but I used that time and title to land a Jr. software dev position and within just a few months I was being assigned solo projects and completing them ahead of schedule because I actually enjoyed learning the material outside of a structured environment.

I'm not a genius. I'd bet I'm not even that special. I think many people are just too conditioned to follow the wide beaten path, that even when they see a more appealing path they are scared to take it, and no one is actually encouraging them to take that path.
The comments on that make we want to tear my hair out. About half the posts are people convinced Feynman is implying that all women are necessarily non-technical.
Indeed, all software is opinionated. You can't write anything remotely non-trivial without making decisions about what to do, where things go, what to add, what to leave out.

The key, though, is to do it willfully and deliberately. Realize that the end result will come with a point of view, and craft it on purpose.
Gruber is that you?
What are you talking about? Those backgrounds are beautiful especially those by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. As for Chrome's themes, they look fine to me.
Make someone president and someone CEO and split up who has say in what area when you two disagree on something. Somebody needs a veto vote or it won't work and you won't be able to move forward.
Does anyone else feel like this is a painfully low amount of money?
haha...I finally broke down and included my "Man, Economy, and State" by Murray N. Rothbard that I've been intending to read for years in my latest delivery to the goodwill centre (like a 2nd hand shop). I'd love to possess the knowledge contained within without working for it, but honestly, it is hard work reading and really understanding books like this, and it is long.

Plus, as an regular informed investor, I don't think it is too relevant (or actually, useful) anymore in most ways. The gong show in the financial markets in the last 10 years is obviously predictable from the Austrian standpoint, but how one trades it is beyond me (and they don't proclaim to offer this advice, they are only explaining how the world must work over long periods).

There's no way of knowing who to short, for example...a company or now even an entire country can be obviously walking dead, but they can be suddenly bailed out at any time (with money that literally didn't even actually exist the day before), or, rules that have existed for decades can be changed overnight, and can have your ASS handed to you in one hour, for no good economic reason.

I can see how books like this will be read by historians who will shake their heads at how stupid we were, as the perils were already laid out in detail with historic references, but how it can help an individual living through it at the time, is beyond me.
I prefer the salad bowl method:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY8Wi7XRXCA
I had a Nokia for several years. Two of my ongoing questions about it were: "Why can't I copy and paste?" and "What the heck is that keyboard button with a picture of a pencil on it for?"

I figured it out about a week before I switched to an iPhone.
I'd also love an invite, email in profile as well.
Don't know why you're getting downvoted, but I agree. Life's a bitch, deal with it.
correction: iPhone 4 -> iPhone 4

For no obvious reason people buying Apples 3GS over the next year will not be able to receive such calls, nor make them with their back mounted camera.

Since you can't even call to the vast majority of other iPhones, you can guess how this competition would go if you had to show pictures of your newborn to your parents who only had a laptop computer.

So a big hurrah for Apple's sudden embrace of "open standards", as now maybe a 3rd party will bring this to us. Shame 3rd party software is by definition not as good as Apple stuff but I guess we'll just have to cope.
My name is Yann Esposito. Here is the result I prefer (there are at least 8 different manner to write "Yann"): http://i.imgur.com/sJBLz.jpg
I'm still disappointed they killed off Google Reader, it was an excellent product as it was, and it had so much potential to be more.
Py3 is currently more performant than py2.

There are a number of py3 only features pushed for by the scientific community (@ is the most obvious, but there are others).
Mine was DOA -- it would overheat within minutes of being started up, a cooling unit wasn't starting/working at all.

Yeah, I see high temps while gaming, but nothing crazy actually (~80C).

I actually have a second smaller laptop as a sort of redundancy just in case, but if it's been good for you for 2 years maybe it's fine. I do have the newer model they just started making so I assume your model is shaped different as well.
cool, if this is reliable enough to be part of CI process it will be super useful
No, I wouldn’t imply anything about them. The point of discussion is pickup trucks so they’re less relevant.
There is no such thing as irresponsible disclosure. You are allowed and encouraged to publish your security research WHENEVER YOU FEEL LIKE.

The term “responsible disclosure” is a shady tactic to frame publishing immediately and in full to those affected by the vulnerability as irresponsible. It is not.
If you decentralize, you don't end up with something equivalent to "the internet" anymore -- you end up with several islands of things that (to varying degrees) resemble "the internet", and run on the same layer 4 fabric, but are largely isolated from one another.

I think we actually experience a mild version of this today, where entities publish their all their Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat/Whatsapp/Linkedin etc profiles.

I can't help but see whatever this distributed DNS replacement is as basically being this situation but without the backstop of globally-accessible websites and e-mail addresses. You should have no doubt that, for example, Facebook would make a "the internet" which was 100% Facebook-operated sites.
That was a short 'for now', as IJust received an email from Netflix stating, "The price of your current plan is changing from $13.99 a month to $14.99 a month."
I don't get it - is that $17 per month or $17 one-time fee?
If you're interested in taking the Ruby on Rails route, you can check out Chris Pine's book "Learn to Program" in Ruby.

Also there's HacketyHack, Rails for Zombies, CodeSchool.com.

Also there was an old HN thread that is very similar to your situation. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2280070
As someone who was in your position about 2 years ago, I have the following advice for you.

First, you should look at some tutorials before you find this individual so you understand the very basics of whatever language you are looking to grok. If you are looking for PHP, www.w3schools.com is a decent place to start for the super basics.

Once you have a very basic understanding of the language, the best thing to do is find a developer who will work for equity, or a minimal salary, and make it your job to watch him/her as he/she builds your product. It is definitely going to tie up most of your time when you could be doing "other things," but it will serve two major purposes. For one thing, you will have at least a rudimentary understanding of the technologies which will compose your product, thus assisting you in future hires. Secondly, assuming the individual you bring on initially is patient enough, you will have a private tutor who can step you through the creation of a real product, as opposed to contrived academic problems which you will lose interest in very quickly. Granted, this is really just "minimum viable programming" insofar as you will probably not have the occassion to really generate a deep understanding of the concepts behind software development, but at least you can contribute more directly to the actual product.

Ultimately, this approach is dependent on the individual you bring on to build the initial product. If he/she is patient and willing enough to be your teacher, then it can work out nicely.

Best of luck!
As someone who was once part of the original "Ignition Team" at VA Linux for SF.net, and who is still close friends with two of the original core SF team (the first iteration of SF.net was done by just four people in <120 days IIRC) we're all pretty much in sad agreement that it's just a husk of what it once was.

It's certainly dead to me.
This might have been political posturing. The Obama administration was very cozy with SV and there's significant influence from big tech on Biden's administration[1]. Only time will tell.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/21/big-techs-stealth-push-to-in...
Nope, and that’s the biggest blocker for me. I own multiple smart phones (work and personal), iPad, and two computers (windows and Mac). So far Facebook messenger is the only reliable way to do messaging across all of them, which is a shame because I hate Facebook and I don’t particularly like messenger. But I have not found a single other solution that works cross-device and cross-platform. It also helps that basically everyone is on Facebook messenger, but I’d be willing to put effort into trying to migrate people to other chat solutions if there was literally anything else out there that works well on multiple devices.
Also worth noting that most military communications are only sensitive if broken quickly, secret messages sent in espionage might need to stay secret for decades against potentially new mathematical attacks and hardware developments.
...which is why I usually turn to this: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unicodecsv/0.9.4

It's a "drop-in replacement for Python 2's csv module which supports unicode strings without a hassle."
> I had a space dedicated to work in that my employer paid for. Now I must make a part of my house that space and foot the bill.

And equipment. I have so far forked out $1000s and there is deductions or rebates where I live for any of it. I have to pay full VAT (25%) unless I can somehow get through the bureaucracy of fortune 500 company to get them to pay for it, in which case I have to find space in my 40 m² apartment for both my stuff and things from employer.

It is seriously messed up and the fault mainly lies with how governments are implementing lockdowns.
Or they can assuage concerned people with a 3rd-party audit.
Just because Apple also has everything "written down" in their terms, but Shopify CEO is pissed off by them. Also, because they're asking for the commission retroactively for any billing they have done bypassing their API.
It has that generic incoherence
> Want an econony built on imitation instead? Like China?

So just like America then? Where did you get this idea that America is squeaky clean and original?

Newsflash: it's not.
> not expose my site in a way that could be hacked

What do you mean? XSS? SQL injection? What are you afraid would get hacked?

> use cloud edge worker

So you let a 3rd party private company interfere in serving your website? Of course we rely on third parties for some things, but that's a pretty dramatic course of action to let one of those edit your webpages on the fly.
Do you have any data to back up that assertion?
Why the negative outlook? The world now is way more awesome for hackers than it was back then!

1. You can find any information you want, in an instant.

2. Hardware is very cheap, computers can be tiny, you can order components from anywhere

3. Robotics and electronics are way cooler now, with drones etc.

4. Software development is way more productive with all the libraries and tools we have right now.

5. When I was a kid, games were made by 1 or a few people. It quickly evolved into big studios. But nowadays, a solo or tiny team can release super successful games.
It may come down more to a "state of mind" than "personal reason". I.e. nothing very rational. I guess investigators will look at his relationships, communications with other people before the flight, and so on.
Also note that sorting by price doesn't actually sort correctly. In this search, a $6.99 card comes before a $5.99 card (both with free super-saver shipping). This is so broken (and has been for so long) that I almost think it must be intentional somehow.
I'm ok with the tradeoff, except it would have been nice if they also encrypted even the smaller cache file on the device.

Other than that, I think this is a good rational response to the situation.
Well, no, because they actually want something like Do Not Track to succeed. The theory that they made it fail on purpose so that an even stronger version of the same idea will come about is definitely not the simplest explanation.
Working on a sort of universal dock for usb mass storage devices. It's a little linux box wallwart, udev rule, fstab, systemd unit config generator that runs scripts when the device is plugged in.

I've used this pattern for automating stuff with my Point and Shoot Camera and Kindle. Attempting to make it simple and accessible to non techies
There's no such thing as Linux programming without C. You will have to deal with it eventually regardless of how many wrappers Python etc. puts on top of it.
You've got to draw the line somewhere, unless you're fine with the conclusion that you can't trust any form of computing technology (which leaves you powerless against mechanized systems of control).

It seems like we should be able to progress on this front, but I haven't seen much work towards it. Trustable computers are necessary but clearly not sufficient to push back against tyranny, which is why I (like everyone else) just assume my computing base is solid (or at least not infecting the software I'm writing), while working on software to help get us out of this VC-fueled "web 2.0" trap.