jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For those who didn't know what tptacek meant by U+2032, like me, a quick Google search picked up this: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1940713 , in which he explained it three days ago: "This is a classic web security problem; most famously, WinAPI systems have a 'flattening' function that would convert things like PRIME U+2032 into ASCII 0x27 (the tick that terminates SQL statements)."
It's interesting that the New York Times comments about that site are so negative merely because of the name.

I am totally against fascism, but I think the name is clever and catchy.
No they aren't. According to the Oxford English Dictionary:

de·fund

prevent from continuing to receive funds.
"the California Legislature has defunded the Industrial Welfare Commission"
Software/Techie...

HanselMinutes
Stack Overflow (inactive, but might come back)
Security Now

Just interesting...

In Our Time (BBC Radio 4)
Stuff You Should Know (How Stuff Works)
I downvoted you because I believe your F1 analogy is off. F1 cars are highly optimized to do one thing: go around the given circuits in the calendar that year as fast as possible, within the rules. For a specific GP weekend, they are further optimized to go around that circuit, even if it means doing weird things to the car's balance.

What are Fortune 500 companies optimized for? Certainly not for making money, they're wasting money left and right --- for example, on legions of MBAs.
As far as I understand, no:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/xrat/xbd_chap0...
This is good. I agree that recognizing luck (one of his 3 ideas here) in its random occurrence and its ability to multiply your efforts is key to entrepreneurship. It's a different way of saying that timing has to be right but with an added notion that the conjuncture needs to be not only favorable but so favorable that circumstances will naturally multiply your efforts. Jack obviously figured out how to turn simple concepts into great software. Thanks.
Nit: "Jumped the shark" or "Jumping the Shark" does not mean "Has started to suck." It's a specific subset of suckage where the subject is clearly aware that they have no new ideas and resorts to ever-more desperate tricks to try to appear fresh and new.
Google for a broker in the area you're moving to and call them. They should be able to generate a quote for you over the phone and give you a more concrete idea of insurance rates for your demographic in that area.

Rates are dependent on many factors, age, tobacco usage and location (sometimes down to your county or zip code for some carriers).

You may be able to find a quote service online as well, depending on the location you're moving to; that way you don't have to talk to anybody.
Helicopter shuttle services have been running on and off in NY since the 1950's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Airways

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Helicopter
I think people figured all this stuff out without the aid of a comic on the app store.
I think it's sad though that people want to have an armored car that looks like a stealth fighter.

It's also strange that you can sell it in a context of 'being prepared', with the offroad capability and everything - I don't know a better example for a vehicle being dependent on an always-on infrasructure than an armored electric truck.
I believe that the point of the theft charge was to get a search warrant, which they did.
Regardless of if he “walks” on the theft charge it seems unlikely that the evidence they gathered when serving that warrant will be thrown out.
Same for the Netherlands, but here it's only for business owners. But nowadays even the mailman in a business owner, thanks to contracting changing the job market.

A small Peugeot diesel crossover, weighing 1392kg, will cost you €1484 per year in road tax. Meanwhile a Toyota Hilux at 2030kg will cost you €496 in road tax. Even a Ford F250 with the 7.3L V8 and 2850kg will cost you only €692 per year. Less than half of a family crossover.

The worst thing is that some pickup trucks don't have a bed big enough to qualify as a work vehicle, so they cut the bed and make it longer (VW Amarok) or they take out the rear seats and put a divider in between to create a cargo area. Or people just buy a bigger truck so it's big enough to qualify. It's also exempt from CO2 tax giving you between €5000 and €72,000 (not a typo) off your initial purchase. So the €256,000 Range Rover SVA suddenly becomes a whole lot more affordable at €184,000, just by tossing the rear seats, calling it a utility vehicle and registering it on your business.

Mind boggling that we do this while construction of new homes is shut down all over the country because of the nitrogen crisis.
It will also be illegal in any country that cares about pedestrian safety.
I really just looks like a car in Playstation 1 era graphics
Dyson filters aren't consumables. You wash them out and reuse them.
The most impressive thing about this is that the offending app doesn't even display the image, it was some copypasta code the app developers apparently didn't even understand.
That's fair -- development has been off-and-on, and there's not much of a desire for xbox emulation.

Still, I think it's a good example of how just because the xbox is basically a regular Pentium III system with a modified GeForce 3 GPU, doesn't mean it's easy to make an emulator for. And the original xbox was more "PC-like" than the PS4/5 or current xbox lineup, I'd wager.
Complete aside, but how is Swift these days? I used it literally a week after release and promptly stopped because the compiler kept segfaulting - I imagine it's more stable now?
I agree with your assessment of our education system. I would go further and say we intentionally do not teach money management skills as it makes people harder to fleece. We have indoctrinated a whole country that debt is good, rampant consumerism is good, all of which leads to really bad money management.

I am of the opinion that these habits and the ideology that supports it is the biggest reason people who are in the lower income brackets continually stay there. The best path to wealth is to convert your work into capital. If you spend everything you make and more there is no excess to re-invest.
Even though some of the API specifics change, the BSD sockets API has been widely copied. It's a pretty decent introduction to the concepts in general.
I'd say with couple of times a week usage for a thing made out of plastic I could expect a lot more troubles than it had.

It did require one dyson service which they kindly provide even for old devices and one this pipe thingy swap since it ripped.

But as other commenter pointed out - it still works we just wanted to move on to something smaller and cordless and we expect the first thing that will fail in V11 is going to be batteries because other than that they're really sturdly built.
You shouldn't downvote people for asking questions, but asking a question and supporting it with a link that tells you the answer is fair game, especially when your "question" is an argument hidden behind a question mark, and the link disproves that argument.

There is, of course, the possibility that wincy's comment was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, though. I personally can't quite tell which way it was meant.
I've used this for an app I've build for fun (to check out Swift).

It ranks bad for both Yoga and Meditation, yet one can't use the app for anything else. I could, theoretically, remove these keywords, but what would I replace them with? I have no idea, and your tool doesn't help me.

I'd say it is more valuable to rank for a strongly-related keyword anywhere than to rank high for a weakly-related keyword. I.e. if my Yoga and Meditation app ranked #1 for Airplane, it would be completely useless :-)

Otherwise, I enjoyed using the tool. Nice flow through the process and good visualisations in the end.
It feels like the better way to do it tbh. The PM gets the benefit of her experience without having the media use her words to beat him with if he choses a different direction.
aww to be able to go back to those days :D
Fwiw, I think you were misunderstanding part of the comment you replied to. It was not saying that the babysitter or contract plumber make $400k but that the local grocery shop owner might, and that both that shop owner and someone truly rich add comparable amounts to the economy in terms of service consumption.

I suspect that both of those claims are dubious, by the way. Someone with more wealth is in fact likely to employ more plumbers (due to having more toilets) and babysitters-per-child (full-time nannies, tutors, etc). And given how low-margin grocery stores are, I don't know that I'd expect a grocery shop owner to end up with $400k+ taxable income....

> Yes this may need to be adjusted for inflation down the road, like anything else.

My main point about the inflation bit is that it's disingenuous to introduce a new tax with a claim that it "does not affect the middle class" when you know with near-certainty that in 10 years or less it absolutely will. In fact you are banking on that to make the numbers you depend on actually work out.

Almost all proposals to "tax the rich" that do not come with automatic inflation adjustments built in are just proposals to tax the middle class in disguise.
I wasn't able to finish the documentary. Not only it seemed to be poorly researched, I have hard time with the fact that a twentysome year old is pretending to be an expert on a very complex subject, explaining what is wrong with this world and what needs to be one. That has really put me off.
> These events are white swans

These are more "Black Elephants" imho:

A Black Elephant, notes Vinay Gupta, ‘is an event which is extremely likely and widely predicted by experts, but people attempt to pass it off as a Black Swan when it finally happens. Usually the experts who had predicted the event – from the economic crisis to pandemic flu—go from being marginalized to being lionized when the problem finally rears its head’ (Gupta, 2009).

https://postnormaltim.es/black-elephant
We really don't need a new post every few hours about whatever the current in-progress state is...

EDIT: after looking at it more closely, its not even an update, its a straight-up duplicate from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26745214
Hi there,

My startup (http://www.goclio.com) makes web-based practice management software for lawyers - specifically solos and small firms.

One of our newer features, called ClientConnect, does exactly what you're looking for. ClientConnect allows Clio users to securely share documents with clients. It essentially creates an extranet for each client the lawyer deals with, and allows them to securely publish documents to that extranet. The client can then view and comment on the documents. The client sets up their password the first time they access their ClientConnect account.

You can see the full ClientConnect announcement here: http://www.goclio.com/blog/2009/02/announcing-client-collabo...

Cheers,
Jack
I don't have a good answer. there are many problems with this idea, this being one of the.

Conceivably, someone who held employment in a disrupted profession for 10 years could qualify.

Alternately, retraining could be open to anyone who comes in, if not too many people come in practice there is no need to keep the doors closed.

Like I said, I don't have a good answer.
Wikipedia has a list. The list is out of date. I was adding to it to bring it up to date. There was never any suggestion that these people shouldn't be there. There was never any mention of removing material from the original article. As for notability, every US senator, General or head of even the most minor agency seems to have a wikipedia page these days, along with all their wives/husbands and kids. I don't see those pages being deleted when they leave office.
They were not content neutral. They by themselves said that they wont apply the same rules on Trump then on other political players on twitter. They did not wanted to ban or limit him, because he was president and thus special.

That is not being content neutral. Had it been content neutral, his account would be policed the same way as other peoples years ago.
He can still use Telegram, like all the other conspiracy wakos.
Jami? https://jami.net/
Is Matrix a good alternative to Signal? I'm currently using Signal, but I'm not entirely satisfied. My major issues are that I don't like their stance on a couple of issues: third party clients are not allowed, mobile first and desktop is only synced, phone number required, and distribution only over the app stores. Also we frequently get "encryption errors" and everybody ignores them, this is worse than with SSH key errors :-).
I hadn't heard of mailtime! Last one I used was DeltaChat (https://delta.chat/) and it was super slow.
> Everyone can verify their individual vote was correctly and uniquely counted

This violates the secrecy of the vote. I can threaten you to vote for someone then force you to prove you voted according to my orders.
I have a 2012 Macbook Pro that's still okay for most of what I do with it, including Android app development. Though the Nvidia GPU driver is terrible and leaks memory copiously, and that's annoying. Web apps are sometimes sluggish, but I got used to the fact that modern web just can't be fast on any hardware unless done by people who know what they're doing which is rare. I'm looking forward to whatever the refined and beefed up M1 successor would be. That would probably last me another decade if not more.
Oh, I'm just talking about how it was seen at the time it was introduced. It was never going to be a permanent fix, but it was kind of seen that way, after a lot of weirdness with DVI extensions and proprietary stuff and pushing VGA way beyond its practical limits.

This lasted right up until multiple DP versions started showing up, and then it became transportable over Thunderbolt and then USB-C, but with the version of DP dependent on the chipsets on both sides, and... suddenly everything is terrible again.

USB-4/TB3 _may_ become the next "it fixes everything!" standard... until people want 8k screens.
cough library genesis cough
Thanks!

The Massdrop price seems pretty fair, especially considering that I was able to get a discount on a few things and had free access to a laser cutter.

I haven't looked into tents, but they seem interesting. Getting used to reaching the far thumb keys takes a bit of work. Seems like it might make gaming awkward, though. What design did you use to make the tent?
Slightly older (I don't think it mentions the exterior sugars) but more detailed and comprehensive Economist article about the coronavirus structure and how it motivates research into different solutions (e.g., why do we hope remdesivir will help?): https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/03/12/understanding-...

Was also previously discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22572311
I'm in the Yaletown office, as are the positions I posted. There are definitely open positions in the off Burrard office as well.

The yaletown office has maybe 60 or 70 engineers? The other location is larger I believe (and has a better view), but don't hold that against us!
Or bath. Douglas Adams endorsed baths for such purposes!

I'm just glad PG is writing them. I don't mind if they're not always in his sphere. That's the point of essays: to try to sort out our thinking in new areas (from the French word essayer).
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One of the things I learned working on software with millions of users is that ANYTHING that does not have a limit will eventually be abused by someone - often not even maliciously.

Got a feature that lets users add multiple additional options? Someone will use it to add 10,000 options, and now pages which display them in a <select> widget will slow to a crawl.
Is the term "social distancing" being used in other languages? I assumed they'd have appropriate translations.
Hungary has a "very high" HDI (higher is better), a very low GINI (lower is better), and a surprisingly high GDP PPP per capita. At least that's what Wikipedia tells me.

You may be a bit too pessimistic.
My son has similar experience. He moved few schools already and every time teachers are mostly “meh”. This time we aren't changing the city of living, but looking for a better school for him :)
There's some truth here but I feel like it's lacking nuance.
> The article leaves out the cases where the parents at home are maybe disfunctional in parenting and school is maybe really the better place for the children.

Not really. TFA does say that for some (or most?) parents, school is a babysitting service. The author says, despite that, school isn't a terribly good place for a child to be growing up either.
I don't think he understands the concept of efficiency. More efficient means doing the same thing at a lower cost. What same thing does bitcoin do at a lower cost compared to what?
Was your school completely unstructured? Where did you find time in the school day for all that?
Im not what I consider a programmer though I can program. Ive most experience with Python, on Linux I use shell scripts but am no expert. On windows I use AutoHotKey, though I know most wont consider it a proper language.

My main aim is really to learn about it. I wouldnt mind having a broad general experience in high level and low level before I decide to focus on anything in particular.

I've started looking a compilers and how they work im working through a book about building a compiler. Im really just interested in whats going on in the background. I always find myself wondering about the implementations of the languages I'm using.
This author brushes over the importance of social peer interactions at school. Even if kids would be allowed to hang out with their friends, it would still deprive them of social interactions with non-friends. Ignoring the academic element, school prepares children for a live as an adult.
Indeed the Chinese countries outside China - Taiwan and Singapore have dealt with things very well and openly.
The whole story background story is extremely alarming. NYT unilaterally decided to reveal someone's real identity against that person's wishes. It should honestly be made illegal but given the current political climate it's doubtful such course of action will ever be considered. This whole situation gives even more credence to the idea that decentralisation is the only way forward for mankind if we intend to preserve the liberties our ancestors enjoyed for the past 300 years.
Right, I would agree with this.
Microsoft are evil. They enthusiastically helped the NSA spy on their own customers. Now I hear they have a big fat contract with the US government. Shady as all hell.

I had the Lumia 920 but sold it when Microsoft betrayed my trust. Installed Mint Linux and phasing out the godawful Windows 8 too.
If you are trying to imply here that the facility that Snowden worked at did not have auditing on top of not having proper access control then you have to wonder who else has a private copy of some of this stuff.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/21/sending...

Has a quote to the effect that this was mostly to send a message. If that was the intended effect it failed spectacularly, if the main operational goal was to get an idea of what was taken then that paints a different light on things but so far this is mostly a theory. It would be a very interesting development.

What I don't get about all this is that the only thing that Miranda should have been carrying was a one-time pad. That way they could use dead drops afterwards, to actually move the data was an unnecessary operational risk, especially if the decryption keys were in the possession of the carrier.

Moving data+keys via the same carrier is the same as moving it in plain text.
Anyone who has kids knows they are vectors for all sorts of pathogens. Give a kid your phone for 10min and It comes back covered in boogers every time. Speaking of, have to go wash my waterpoof phone now.
Google is easy to get rid of. It requires willpower.

1. Don’t use or get off gmail (fastmail is good but not free).

2. Limit your use of google search. If you need to try to mask your identity as best you can.

3. Don’t buy google hardware. Because you and your data are the product for google. The hardware is a Trojan horse.
It's 800GB, not Gb. Original title has been replaced completely and used wrong units. Original is "Report: unidentified database exposes 200 million Americans" which is far more useful.
The README doesn't link to the final version of their article: https://research.fb.com/publications/bolt-a-practical-binary...
- If you tell the public that masks are great protection, and the public can't find then to buy, that is a huge source of unrest.

- The messaging (in Spain but looks similar everywhere) has been that you should wear one if you are sick or, more importantly here, if you are at risk. This is a clear indication that they do help protect against being infected. This should have prevented everyone from harassing anyone wearing one ("they must be a risk group"). The fact that people did that is indication that people are not acting responsibly.

I personally hate being told something that is patently false, but I totally understand that, collectively, we need to be lied to for our own protection, because collectively we become a bunch of idiots.
Maybe you should try contacting politifact with the correction?

I dont disagree with your source obviously but several major fact checking websites are reporting the opposite.
All great points, and the time to start taxing carbon is now at this low price, as the shock to consumers won’t be as great.
On Saturday March 21st I was at the tip of Canada's Point Pelee National Park, approximately 41.909055, -82.509154. At 9:12 EDT (1:12 AM UTC on the next day), I saw a an approximate disordered line of satellites passing above Orion. They were all going at the same speed and in a very similar direction, west to east close to parallel with the belt of Orion. But they were all on slightly different almost parallel tracks. The spacing was more regular, though also a bit irregular.
There's a tremendous opportunity being missed here. What someone should do is start giving away empty oil barrels and offer some price for them returned filled with oil, a price determined by how difficult it will be to then refine and make use of the collected oil (someone could just scoop up the oil off the beach, but then the sand suspended in it makes it difficult to do anything with). Let the public put their ideas to work to get things cleaned up. Everyone is looking for a silver bullet, a single solution to instantly clean it all up, which is unobtainable.
> But Python has never been about performance

I have been burnt by this. As much as I like python's "expressiveness" so to speak, it is too slow for my needs; the ML community gravitated towards that because it is simple to implement and test large models because C++/C/Cuda are doing the lifting. However, in my flavour/field of ML, python is often the bottleneck because the sampling/simulations are glued with it and the need to sample 10s of millions of steps ends up with possibly billions of function calls in python.
Doubt that. NYSE is definitely a scam. I have heard they pivoted from creating a new social network, like Facebook just better.
Yeah, I was working at a VRML startup at the time and we used Floops to test our code. I probably watched those animations thousands of times...