jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They would be able to prevent you from using "nodeconsultingservices" to provide consulting services for Node.js, but I suspect they won't try to sue people who just coincidentally have Node in their name, especially if they predate the trademark filing or the project itself. The word "node" is simply a noun, in wide use across a number of disciplines above and beyond computer science, and they can't just grab it wholesale. Think "Microsoft Windows"; the fact that it is trademarked up the wazoo has not prevented the use of the term in its preexisting manners.

IANAL, but it's not time to panic yet.
For those of you in North Carolina, check out the "Venture Mentoring Service" from CED. It's a free service that connects entrepreneurs with mentors. Apparently it's modeled after some program at MIT that was very successful:

http://www.cednc.org/content/mentor+program/12270

This strikes me as a great resource for those who don't know a lot of potential advisors already. I have my first meeting with these folks tomorrow, and should know who my mentor(s) will be in little while... hopefully this is going to prove very beneficial.

For those in other areas... ask around, maybe there's something similar you can tap into. Oh, and there's also SCORE: Service Corps of Retired Executives. http://www.score.org/ I have yet to try using a SCORE advisor, but it might be an interesting avenue to explore, again, if you don't know any of those "couple of step ahead" entrepreneurs, or anyone else that you can tap from your social circle.
And how would you use that hashed CC number on the server? Unhashing (impossible)? Send the hash to the CC company (good luck)?

Do you mean they should have pre-encrypted the CC number before encrypting it again in the standard SSL transaction?

Would that have helped? Because if the PS3 knows how to encrypt and you own the server, decrypting is as trivial as just looking at the plain text

For people who don't own the server and are listening in SSL is enough and for people with access to the server neither SSL nor any other encryption is enough.

They have done a lot of things wrongly, but this IMHO is not one of them.
Like how Lance Armstrong was banned for from professional sport for life for "not a crime"?
Wow, thank you so much for these links, I'm ashamed of not knowing about differential fuzzing before!
Just sent you a message on your website--I think our companies could produce something exciting together.
> "There is no bad weather, only inappropriate clothing." :-)

Say that in a whiteout blizzard.
Fully agreed -- Pulumi was in this space correctly and right out of the gate while CDK is a relative newcomer (both in general and inside the walled garden of AWS). AWS has contributed to the bloodshed with CloudFormation for a long time.

Also, don't forget that CDK for Terraform now exists[0] as well.

[0]: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/cdk-for-terraform-enabling-py...
This is the most important one. Most people would be happy biking 2mi/3.25km to work

2 miles is around the lower end of what I would consider bikeable, much less than that and I'd just walk.
Now you're moving the goal posts from "able to broadcast yourself" to "starting a twitch competitor.

Then you're moving the goal posts from "streaming yourself" to "reaching as many people as possible and/or making the most money from it".

You can say what you want on the internet, but people don't have to listen and companies don't have to broadcast you, promote you or pay you.

Alex Jones still does his show, but if you accuse the victims of a mass shooting of being actors in a conspiracy for gun control, you might not get to have people subscribe to you on youtube.
If this sort of thing interests you, watch Nomadland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomadland_(film)

It's about people in American with similar situations who decide to go off grid. And like the OP are a bit older, not necessarily the hippie type.

The movie is quite stark and realistic. A mix of documentary and drama. And it starts Frances McDormand from Three Billboards, who is excellent in it.

That said, this lifestyle has absolutely no appeal to me. What do you do when you get older? I mean much older? Is a 70 year going to be lugging propane tanks around and doing odd jobs for food? There needs to be some sort of plan, doesn't there?
Brazilian here: the government will say in TV it's doing its best effort to protect the forest.

However, the president is appointing farmers and non-technical people all over those entities trying to protect the forest, and they are slowly giving rights, permits, etc. to deforestation.

And sadly, despite this being tracked and advertised by TV or other news entities, very little is done to deter these criminals all over the current administration.

MAYBE international lobbying could work with Brazil, as Germany threaten to reduce the money it gives to protect the forest in 2019 (I don't remember exactly when).

And let's not forget that the Amazon forest does not end in Brazilian borders - it goes on in many countries over there. People just assume it's a Brazilian problem (I know a large portion is located in Brazil's side), but it's more a 10-country problem, not to say, a humanity problem...
They don’t do that because they can charge companies $185,000 to become a custom TLD and $6,250 a quarter after that.

https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/24460/how-can...
>I don’t know any one outside some geeky sites and only one person personally who cares about any of this. Some do say lame casually. But it’s not going to be a deciding factor for using the app.

My experience is completely different from yours. Out of the dozens of people I've spoken with about this stuff, I can't remember a SINGLE PERSON who didn't express dissatisfaction with at least one of: lack of privacy and potential willy-nilly snooping by CompanyX employee; arbitrary blocking and post removal without good cause; bad interface design; low quality of content.

I don't go fishing for it either, it just happens in conversation, although I sometimes am the first to broach the subject of social networks.
well, there's plenty of passive speakers which you can hook up to any amplifier from the last 50 years.
You can solve that by not offering it as a default option, but rather only when the need arises.

Here's a case:
Say you have a flight booked at 125/120 seats, there's 80 spots overhead:
- expect 5 not to come (120 left)
- 25 have booked checked luggage, offer them to hand in their carry on (95 left)
- for the remaining 15 until enough people take the offer: offer a higher quota when they check in their hand luggage, e.g. 12kg instead of 8kgs as long as the luggage is the same size
- if anything remains only then use the old system

pretty sure this would be popular, it's less unfair/annoying and takes care of issues in advance at a fairly low cost (of the 15 getting extra weight, not all of these would actually pay for more luggage or even bring more, by not taking more or putting heavy items in jackets etc.)
Do you want performance or durability? You may not be able to have both.

Tesla hasn't been using automotive grade parts in its cars:

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27989/teslas-screen-saga-shows...

Tesla says the main interface to the car was only supposed to function for 5 years. I don't think anyone buying those cars would have expected that:

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39065/tesla-claims-failing-tou...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-recall-idUSKBN2A21F...

Automotive grade parts do matter.
I think "ethos" in the name is funny in respect to, well, lack of respect
As an avid TV show consumer, people regularly asks me why am I still using my 10 years old 32" Panasonic.
Well, not only it still works as day one, so why would I get rid of a perfectly working piece of tech, also I'm not sure a bigger screen will improve my consumer experience.
Having a nVidia Shield and Plex setup, what would be the point of having a smart TV since I've already got everything a smart TV do and even better.
4K UHD ? Legally or not, there is so limited content available in more than 1080p at that moment that it wouldn't makes sense to upgrade now.
Also with new TV it seems that you have to take care of framerate profiles, HDR and whatnot. I just want to watch The Office for the 200th time, I don't care about that and I don't want to.

I remember when I bought my TV, the salesmen were trying to make me buy a 3D TV since it was the hype at that time. But I was certain that 3D was no for me, that it wasn't going to last and a 3D TV will cost me more than a 2D. So I just looked at images on the screens in the shops and finaly I said : "this one", without knowing anything about it except that I felt satisfied with how the images were rendered. It appeared that not only it wasn't a 3D TV but also it wasn't, by far, the cheapest one. The 3D ones they were trying to sell me were actually cheaper than the one I picked. I don't know if the salesman got a better % on the sell, but me I was and still am very satisfied with my choice !

Smart TV is not a trend like 3D was, it will definitely stay so unfortunately I don't see how better it can be in the future since people want cheap TV, and even if some manufacturers offers dumb TV, they will cost more than the smart ones so it will never a huge success.
I have never heard of this company before, not sure if I want to now.

Mark Z participating in these riots would be HN-worthy.
> I happen to trust my ISP, BTW

Unless you can prove otherwise you should assume they're selling you out.
heh, true 'trip'advisor in a way
Sadly, OverloadedRecordFields won't be making it into 7.10.
> Bash bugs erase your entire file system.

EMPTY=""
rm -rf $EMPTY/

Is this the kind of bug you're referring to?

> The thing about Bash is that it is trivially easy to make these sorts of mistakes

I fail to see how any other scripting language would have a different effect when you told it to do:

system("rm -rf "+""+"/")

> the language just isn't suitable to general purpose scripting.

Yes, it is. Bash is deeper than it looks, but not by much. Learn how to handle errors and you'll be fine.
I have never seen corporate policy with regard to attachments and link following effectively thwart a spearphishing campaign and have been privy to studies done at large corporations before and after phishing-awareness training. The short of these studies is that after approximately a week employees mostly reverted to regular habits and that during the week of high alert many employees fell to the internal audit anyway.

Then again, this is only from two studies done at one large corporation.

I looked around but could not find any studies or data about the long term effectiveness of phishing awareness campaigns (only PR junk), nor could I find evidence that SONY did not engage employees with these sorts of policies and training. Do you know of any such studies?

Do you believe that #GOP would not have gotten in if there were more strict policies and more frequent training?
Thats actually not the article I meant to link to but I can't find it again, oh well. Anyways, its obvious that sleep needs vary amoung different people and vary with age. Most people sleep less the older they get. Either way, sleep is very important to overall health and safety. People think they need less than they do.

And I'm not actually sleep deprived, my body just is broken. I have a debilitating sleep disorder. I take (prescribed) stimulants to get through the day, but it only just takes the edge off. I wish I could wake up feeling rested.
Mark my word: powerful. Confidence comes from power. As we move from a largely physical domination to intellectual domination, the form power takes is also changing. So is the form of violence. It is not just true between men and women but in general.

A cave-man or a hunter (man) has only one meaning of powerful - physical. Today the meaning is changing, and Obama is powerful without having much body strength. Whether he is violent or not is something I will let you decide. But my point is that the anti-physical violence rhetoric one hears all day long is only a very recent phenomena and is directly related to what is considered more powerful today - war or politics.

NOTE: To people marking down my answers, what are your opinions about 'why women love cooking?' because statistically more women are found cooking than not, and 'why blacks like slavery?' because statistically more blacks were slaves than not? (HINT: Django Unchained anyone?)
Also, you have the word "work". I believe that should be "word".
I think I met half the addicts in Helsiki one night while jet lagged: The taxi diver took me to the wrong hotel - a Soviet-inspired hulk on the plaza with the bus terminal - after a meeting at Nokia. I woke up at 3am. Hadn't eaten all day. There was a 24 hour McDonalds next door. Yeah, that's who's there at 3am. The whole scene was about as candy-ass as the kleinmotorrad bikers in Vienna. Not exactly a no-go zone.

I see from the map that it's pretty likely that there was a good deal of commerce in other than Big Macs on that night.
Haven't worked my way all through the paper yet. But is it correct that an attacker can perform this attack to something like a keyboard that has been previously paired and everything? What kind of user "interaction" would be required? Will the OS re-pair the device and (possibly) notify the user?

This seems really powerful and dangerous. Probably not that many people who uses laptops and BT keyboards, but many of the iPad keyboard covers uses bluetooth.
I went from "not another fucking framework..." to ok im switching today in 20 minutes
(Prometheus author here)

Yeah, InfluxDB is great, but suits slightly different use cases than Prometheus. That is, monitoring numeric time series vs. event logging, basically. Still, I could well imagine running both in a single organization for these different needs.
I live in Ann Arbor, have my whole life, and am very glad for the wiki we have on LocalWiki. It's been extremely helpful to me a few times now. :)
Every computer program ever written constitutes such a tool.
The upcoming Finnish patient information system will apparently be written in mumps. The total estimated cost of the system is 1.8 billion euros.
Believe me, I understand how hard it is. I've been working alone on a project for the past 2.5 years now (not quite ready for prime-time, but soon), so I know exactly what you mean. However, two things are just inexcusable to me:

1) this is a writing app /with no support for paragraph breaks/. That is unbelievable to me. Nobody who writes for a living can use an app that shows all of your text to you as a really large single block with no horizontal breaks between paragraphs. How? Why? Not only am I stupified by this, but I also am dumbfounded at all of these 5-star reviews that don't mention it or any of the other show-stoppper flaws I pointed out within the first 20 mins of use. Are people reviewing an app that they've not actually used?

2) The price. $30 is a lot of money, and yeah you can try to convince Apple's customer support to give you a refund, but we both know nobody does that.

The combo of high price, glaring product problems, and a masterful marketing effort just doesn't sit well with me. I'm not saying you're a scam artist -- the site and even the app reflect a lot of passion and creativity. But I do question your priorities. More coding and user testing, and less SEO and blogging and convincing everyone in your network to give the app 5 stars, maybe.
Have blind tests been performed, where musicians could't distinguish between music composed by computers and music composed by humans?
I'm in strong agreement with JohnBooty's comment. That said, we might bear in mind that not all open offices are created equal, and perhaps a better way of thinking about this is not just a binary "do I get my own office" but also in terms of square feet per employee.

6 people sharing 800 square feet is pretty nice, and you can actually have semi-private phone conversations in a space like that just due to the distance between you and your coworkers (especially if the space is broken up by half-walls, plants, etc).

100 people sharing 5,000 square feet, on the other hand, might work great for a trading floor but absolutely sucks if you're trying to write code or a thoughtful email to a customer.

In any case, the thing that bothered me most about open offices wasn't the noise so much as the lingering feeling that other people were looking over my shoulder. I was often reluctant to voice this concern because (at least in my mind) the implication was that I had something to hide, but I know that others I worked with felt the same way.
They had “read” them. The first time she mentioned the drug to a doctor he just snippily corrected her on the pronunciation but nothing else. My wife carefully documented everything the paper said in a “Cliff’s Notes” sort of version with links. The next meeting we had with them they were much less hostile, it was like night and day. I guess they were impressed by her careful note taking. Even so the doctor who did prescribe it sort of acted like it was his idea, my wife kind of rolled her eyes and just let him keep thinking that.

The way we think about it is a doctor has what, 15 minutes (if that) to spare thinking about our daughter languishing in the NICU. My wife spent literally all day, all night, ruminating and worrying about her. I had just started a new job, (I was unemployed when she was born!) and honestly poured myself into that position, maybe as a way to avoid living at the hospital (I’m not proud of it but that’s what happened). But it is weird we had to get the pulmonologist to prescribe a medication that’s something the neurologist should probably be prescribing.
If you're a liberal, yes.
SEEKING WORK - FL or REMOTE -

Realtime/RTOS. Small(MCU) embedded, large (linux/FreeBSD) embedded. Hardware. Comm/RF domains a plus. Asst location. POS. GPS. DSP. Satcom. c + 808x/z80/8051like assembly.

Further at who wants to be hired thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8824452 and
https://www.linkedin.com/in/howardgoldsteinfla/
It's unfortunate that you're being downvoted, you make an excellent point.

George Floyd was murdered by police during a routine arrest.

Ashli Babbitt was executed by police for trespassing during a protest.

Both of these (and many others) are powerfully symbolic: of an overbearing and largely unaccountable police state, in which its enforcers use violence as a first resort.
Almost all public utilities have started as private companies of some kind. Broadcast, telecom and railway companies are the most recent examples. They started as private companies but then, due to limited spectrum, unification pressure, needing to include everyone including remote places and wasteful duplication got transformed into publically owned or at least publically licensed and regulated utilities (depending on which utility and country you are looking at).

So, while they are not yet public utilities, they should be turned into such.
I, too, from some other comments in this thread, just found out that chat history transfer has been a feature since June 2020: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/9/21280664/signal-chat-trans...
So one of the key differences was that when I loaded Telegram, I had a list of contacts ready to go, people who already had Telegram. I sent a message to a few people via iMessage using the "Invite Friends" menu item.

When I tried Signal, I saw an empty list and had to add numbers / find people myself. Not much in the way of onboarding IMO. My complaints are likely met with "duh, that's how it works, idiot", I believe that's just how Signal is designed as it's a privacy-centric app.

I'm just looking for a non-Facebook WhatsApp alternative, rather than a complete focus on privacy and E2E messaging, so I don't think Signal is "bad" but it's not what I'm looking for. I just want Facebook out of my life and its grubby hands off my data.
I'd rather they not focus on security. I'd rather everything they do with their computers is live streamed all the time really.

Their incompetence isn't any different than the average person in the work force, and they shouldn't be keeping secrets anyway.

I'm sure some replies and downvotes to this will think I am crazy because they have important secrets like terrorism intel etc, and yes I understand that, but continue to disagree. I believe a nation could function just fine without secrets. It would simply be different. We don't a good job with the secrets anyway.
Your analogy is strange because our society has opted to punish parents for letting kids play outside unsupervised the way they themselves did, while in the case of social platforms, it has opted for individual responsibility and no sanctions. Unless you’re saying we went wrong with the kids and now we should not do the same for adults. In which case I would say that letting kids play unsupervised is an individual risk but speech and organizations have large and exponentially spreading emergent effects, so if you have the profit motive you’re going to end up with certain, shall we say, exacerbated divisions in this country.
I wrote a gui for it, tot help deal with many files being in various states: https://github.com/brenthuisman/par2deep
As someone who also stacked the odds in their favour on a gameshow [1], I can appreciate the effort but am also glad I never got as obsessed as this guy. Although my partner in crime (my brother) did just go on another winning streak on another gameshow [2], so maybe I should start worrying...

[1] https://vincenttunru.com/hacking-a-gameshow or Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/VincentTunru/status/1205527364739981312

[2] https://www.nu.nl/media/6099564/andries-tunru-evenaart-recor...
>I'm a fan of NodeJS, but I would never use it to try to solve a computation heavy problem, it's good at IO multiplexing

No it isn't. It is very bad at it. It just uses the most primitive event loop and foists all the complexity of that onto you as the developer using it.
> Most of the worlds software rides on the back of C. Pick a language, the runtime is probably written in C. Any high performance libraries are either in C or C++ (QT anyone?) and for numerics you may still find <gasp> Fortran.

Maybe you can't eliminate C entirely. But you can avoid using anything in C that doesn't already have millions of users. Even then, I'd still be more worried about those small slivers of heavily tested C than about the rest of the code put together - working on my $100,000,000 project in Scala, the single biggest thing I'd be worried about would be hitting a bug in the JVM itself. The JVM is mostly Java these days, but there's some C/C++ in there and a disproportionate number of critical JVM bugs happen in the C/C++ code (who'd've thought?). And debugging those problems is Not Fun.

C is a hard requirement much less often than people seem to think. I've coded for microcontrollers in C, but I've also done so in Java. Better slow and reliable than fast and buggy.
I disagree; I think the speed of automation this time, and the ever-rising qualifications needed to compete with that automation, make this one different. There was a comment over on Reddit a while back that put it better than I can:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/242gea/47_of_all_...
So Uber has about 5000 engineers. If all of them write/click/draw 10,000 keystrokes per day, and it's all new code, and Uber has been around 10 years, thats 182 gigabytes of 'human input'.

Compiling that down to 200 MB isnt too shabby!
I think emergency often means the next financial crisis (at least statistically). During which, you lose your job but also your access to credit. As worsening credit conditions are often the cause of crisis.

Other than that you're right. Maintaining an emergency fund is expensive in term of opportunity cost. Like the cost of any insurance. There is no free lunch.
I suppose there is little chance of the viruses mutating?

Those who know more can help here.

Are there any precedents for infecting volunteers with viruses to see how they evolve for the sake of developing vaccines against them?