jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Speaking as an ex-Facebook engineer it would be incredibly easy to get nefarious people employed there in an engineering role. Once inside, they have access to -all- user data; there is no actual access control (there are some basic access checks built into the Facebook application to keep you from accessing "private" data fields by accident, but all you have to do is edit that code and remove the access check and recompile Facebook on your laptop and you can access anything in the production database -- including peoples private Messenger chats).

Facebook warn you when you are hired not to actually do this, because they have auditing systems to watch for it and you will be fired (supposedly) but for people employed by some other agency specifically for the purpose of getting high-value private data out of Facebook, being fired by Facebook for doing so is part of the expected outcome and no big deal.

A well funded agency could easily keep getting people hired at Facebook to get whatever data they want, as often as they want. Facebook is constantly trying to keep their hiring pipelines full and despite the image Facebook likes to portray, it isn't "only the best talent" that gets a job there. There are some very smart, capable people at Facebook, but there are a ton of very mediocre engineers that lucked out in the hiring process, as well. It's really just a numbers game to get in.

I'm sure much the same is true at Google/Twitter/etc.
React components are not pure functions. React tries to be declarative but at the end of the day, they couldn’t figure out how to get it to work without adding lifecycle callback functions, event listeners, reactive hooks, and overall dirtying the code with imperative constructs.

There are very good reasons for not passing every piece of data through props, but as a result, react components create side-effects, and those side-effects cause components to re-render even when the props don’t change. This is in order to prevent colloquially what we call “prop-drilling” which enables us to dynamically inject props into our react components via hooks. We also need a way to re-render when an event happens inside of a component.
No, it isn't. Not clear if you don't understand or you are being glib.

Passive investing logic is simple. You want to invest in stocks. Say you want to invest in the US market. You want a portfolio that represents, to some extent, the market. How do you get that? There is a benchmark index that weights by "how large a proportion of the market is". That seems pretty sound and consistent with the ideal?

The issue at hand is an attempt at rebranding a micromanaged portfolio as "index investing" - a term used interchangably with passive investing.

I don't mind stock picking. It is a negative sum game and people can play it if they want. But it is irresponsible imo to pretend you are offering something other than what you actually are
Egypt had an actual election, it was hardly a putch and it wasn't at all instigated by Obama, he just mildly cheered it along as you would any attempt to move towards democracy. Just as the Conservative British government here in the UK did. Any of his predecessors would have done exactly the same thing, so it's bizarre that you try to make a partisan point out of it. What exactly was Gorge Bush's "Freedom Agenda" policy about?

As for funding Iran, this was to settle a legal case the US was very obviously losing. In any case, after Iran Contra I wouldn't have thought there were any more lessons to be learned about pragmatic deal making on Republican benches, but there you go.

As a British conservative that grew up in the Reagan/Thatcher era, nowadays I find dealing with US Republicans so exasperating. It very much reminds me of dealing with ideologically programmed socialist students back when I was a student. So much of the can-do optimism and results based pragmatism has just gone.
There are a number of different "day trading" strategies, some are easier and more reliable than others. Different strategies will work for different stocks, so it's really just a matter of getting to know the stock.

Big institutional traders are limited by risk, the fact that they are market makers for stocks in many cases, and the returns required need to be high, since their salaries are pretty ridiculous. Because of this, the fact that you're generally worse than them isn't a dealbreaker, just find a mid volume niche and learn it really well, then trade around general market volatility.
Plenty of anti-war friends from Maine & Connecticut penalized in that sweep. I doubt that the Russians have converted all of our old hippies into spies.
> I'm not familiar enough with US law to know if a prosecution could be possible there, but regardless of the law might say I think juries can be influenced by the clear intentions of the accused.

Possibly true, but US juries are explicitly instructed (ad nauseum) not to do this and potential jurors are often removed from the pool if they seem unlikely to follow through. So, you know, be careful. (addressed less to cperciva than to other readers)
That it is not being debated is the reason it's a strawman. The parent is suggesting that the list of fallacies is a response to an argument that nobody is making. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, but that seems to be what he meant.

If I came up to you and said, "You know, it's a fallacy for you to have assumed that your car wouldn't require any maintenance," you'd probably respond with something like, "Uh, yeah."
Thank you for this, I don't know I tried doing the math without converting the percents to decimals, I should have known better.
keep an eye on https://github.com/abhijith/cxr - a friend of mine is writing it to solve the same problem, but with a "search, don't sort" approach.
I think you're right in the sense that they make it easy to have compute units in different geographic/availability zones, which they make much easier/cheaper than doing yourself.

But it isn't something built-in with regard to fail-over handling, etc.
Important to understanding the joke is the fact that Tom Knight designed the processor for the Lisp Machine, and therefore his power-cycling is imbued with understanding.
> if a wrong leader gets elected

That has already happened. You can probably go back to the last ten presidential elections and this statement would hold true in some form. I'd say the same about moat senators and representatives. It's a disaster we've been engineering with great consistency for 50 years.

I don't know what it will take for the US voter to wake up. Actually, no, I know, things have to get substantially worst. Most people don't pay attention to politics and how the country is being run often enough to be aware. They watch tv networks during elections to be told how to vote, and then they go back to sleep. Politicians love it. Whole blocks of people will always vote the same way. Nobody thinks. We are watching our destruction from the inside and there's precious little we can do about it.
I'm not going to jump on the "hellban jrockway" bandwagon, but I will say that I don't see any reason that being on the leaderboard should net anyone special treatment. The "board" shows history... what you did in the past doesn't change the effect or merit of your current behavior.

By analogy - should someone automatically be pardoned for a crime they commit today (let's go extreme and say murder), because they had displayed good behavior in the past?

All of this said, I am a bit surprised by some of jrockway's comments in this thread, given his posting history. Almost enough to wonder if someone else has taken control of his account.
Finished. That was quite the page turner. Apart from the science twist it is quite uncomfortably believable. Thank you for the pointer!

Score 2 for Scotland :)
Most of the shiny 'gold' things seen in aerospace and motorsports is just vapor deposited Kapton/polymide.

But there are applications where gold is indeed used - but it's unclear (in the literature I've read) when/where it's appropriate to use gold. The helmet use case I can believe. I also imagine large swathes of gold would be problematic - structural surfaces being unnecessarily conductive or introducing inductive noise.
"loss of ability to re-engage those fans and backers post-campaign"

Agree with this aspect. You have more control self-hosting, and that might be the differentiating factor for some people. However I disagree with the promotional aspect. A lot of tech coverage happens because press likes to say: "So-and-so is doing a Kickstarter" rather than "So-and-so is raising money."
While I agree that the CFAA is hugely problematic, regular meatspace trespassing does not carry with it the ability to replicate the property being trespassed down to the atomic level. Digital trespassing, well... does.

Point being that there are differences and pretending they don't exist doesn't help anyone. The metaphor is extremely useful, but it's a start for understanding and usefully engaging, not the end.
That's really interesting, thank you!
For me as an outside observer it is the rate of change of the rights and freedoms that is scary and stunning, not the decline in absolute terms.

US involuntarily have all pieces of the puzzle for a very high quality totalitarian state. The question is whether someone will be able to assemble them before the immune system of the american society activates in full force and dismantles them.

Surveillance capabilities: check

Militarized police: check (Balko has some scary data, but haven't checked it thoroughly)

Obedient propaganda machine: not quite there, but as the lead up to the Iraq war showed - achievable.

Secret laws: check

Btw - KGB means "Комитет Государственая Безопасност" which translates into " Committee for State Security" not that far from "Department of Homeland Security"

As John Oliver said a few weeks ago about NSA: "We don't say you broke any laws with what you did, we are surprised you didn't have to."

Lets just hope that the US society will be able to reverse the trend.
There are also philosophers, which don't fit here: if anything it's both maths and law that are rooted in philosophy. And hell, philosophers are crazy good at this, too.
I know lectors also exist in cuban cigar factories.
> This applies to pretty much every pkg manager ever created.

For what it's worth, the package manager for Dart does not have this problem. We specifically didn't add support for any kind of post-install hook because executing arbitrary code from transitive dependencies feels a little fishy to me, and I'm not at all a security person.

Unfortunately, there's lot of good uses for post-install hooks too. It's a hard problem.
What about that is straw man? I don't think you have a full understanding of the fallacy. The wikipedia definition is

"A straw man is a common type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on the misrepresentation of an opponent's argument."

I haven't misrepresented your argument in any way since I haven't represented your argument in any way. I never claimed you claimed anything. It isn't fallacious to ask someone to clarify an argument.

You didn't explicitly state your argument (or anything of substance), so I asked what you were actually trying to claim.
Maybe you can apply the invert property on images too?

But you might be interested in these browser extensions:

- Dark Reader

- Dark Background and Light Text
You think there are no tech jobs in consulting firms?
I feel the need to mention the movie "The Boat that Rocked", despite being 99% fiction (based on fact), there's a "spirit of the hacker" to it that provides a level of comfort to my soul.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boat_That_Rocked
How do I get rotation schemas to work with borg? Say I want to keep the last 3 daily snapshots, one per week for the last 4 weeks, and one per month for the last 6 months...

I understand this is kinda hard with "zero knowledge" encryption, but it is possible and not a wild feature to request from the self-named holy grail of backups soft.
I use mosh to connect up to a raspberry pi over a slow satellite link. For that, mosh works awesome but I’ve always missed the ability to scroll output when I’m trying to debug something. I’m anxious to give this terminal a try and see how it performs in comparison
> What I am doing is criticising the equally crass argument that if someone wants to suppress something enough, it's probably an indication there's some merit to it...

Which is not the argument that I'm making, at least not quite. I'm discussing the interaction between suppression and counterargument. If an idea is suppressed in the absence of any convincing counterargument, that combination of factors can be heavily suggestive of merit.
Joy app vs MyFitnessPal in a nutshell?
> Borg also has no efficient compression, as it doesn't use multithreading. There are multiple GitHub issues on this subject; I've just checked, and they're closed.

Depending on your use model, this may or may not affect you. Whether you use multiple threads to compress a single stream or not probably matters a lot less if you have 15-30 backups going on at the same time.
Try fasting for a day a week, two if you can. The fat will drop off
My eye color has changed with getting myself drastically healthier. It used to be hazel. It has less yellow and brown in it these days and is closer to just green.
First of all, the headline is wrong. "China" has proposed no such thing as that. One private Chinese banker has proposed it.

China selling all its dollars at once would depress the dollar significantly. That’s why China won’t do any such thing. It would be pointlessly wasteful to set their own money on fire. Storing $3 trillion IOUs in a vault is already a terrible way to use money. It would be better for that money to be in the Chinese economy.

If China starts spending more of its trade surplus on helping people at home instead of stockpiling useless green pieces of paper, all the better. This will have an expansionary effect on the United States, since that’s where the dollars will eventually be spent, and they’re not doing anyone any good being frozen in China’s vault.
Some people are not blessed with hazel or sky-blue eyes. I can look into a mirror for an hour, and all I can tell is they are not black, and not blue ...

They have a color, it's somewhere in between blue/brown/grey/green/... whatever.
What do I check in a form? Depends on the day and my mood.

BTW: I've heard that the eye-color can change with age, nutrition and other factors. Unfortunately I don't have a reference for that and hand.
It'd be nice if it wasn't limited to just user interface, but cocoa libs too. Just so it's all in one place.
Excellent information - thanks.
I'm interviewing 33 startups and they talk about how they got interested in entrepreneurship, ways they dealt with challenges such as finding cofounders, hiring, raising money, staying motivated, getting users, etc. It's the same Q&A approach as Founders at Work, but all of these guys are still in their early stages (although there are a few like Foursquare and GitHub that aren't as early stage).
[SpaceX] has won $75 million from the US space agency NASA to help its pursuit of developing a spacecraft...

I was wondering what possible economic rationale a "private" mission to Mars could have, given that there are a limited number of billionaire space tourists whose ultimate dream is to be locked in a space the size of a bus for six years.

Now I know. They're in the traditional, lucrative business of collecting government grants.

What I'm seeing here is a contractor. Big deal. Exactly what is the difference here between SpaceX and, say, Grumman Aircraft Engineering in 1962?

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

Grumman wasn't part of the government. It was a corporation.

The point of "private" space ventures is that they're supposed to have a different business model, not just a different approach to branding themselves. Thus far their big business-model innovation is to collect checks from NASA without ever using the words contractor or NASA.
There is the issue of BHA in can linings: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/december...
> HDMI is almost the same size as the Mini DisplayPort.

Not it's not. HDMI is almost the same size as full DisplayPort (and nowhere near as good a format for computers).

An HDMI Type A connector is 13.9mm x 4.45mm, a mini-DP connector is 7.4mm x 4.5mm. The mini-DP connector is half as wide.

> Apple just loves their own connectors, unfortunately.

You are aware mini-DP is now under VESA and has been integrated by a number of laptop manufacturers right? (and again, that DP in general is a much better A/V interface than HDMI for computers)
And I have another couple of newsletters coming out in the next few weeks too! :-) I need to write about it sometime - there are some big wins you can make by cobbling together various scripts and techniques. Need to get today's Ruby Weekly out the door now though.. ;-)
I got the early 2011 MBP 15" because i wanted a single machine i work on in the office and at home. I am using it with an external screen though, mostly for ergonomical reason. Working Laptop-only hurts you, dont do it all day!

But the most annoying thing currently is that its fans speed up so quickly during work. Because of this i regret buying it and not going for a MBA11 + iMac.
In the first instance, just ask as one human to another if you can track down contact details - you might surprised. I went through something similar recently and it all worked out amazingly, although I don't imagine my experience is the more common one (the owner basically said 'i tried something with it but it didn't work out, good luck' and gave it to me).
You email PG and ask him politely to delete them (there's no way to do so built into HN - though comments/submissions can be deleted or modified for an hour after being posted). However, I've never heard how well that works. Given that someone asks the question fairly frequently, and I've never seen someone complain about PG refusing to delete their account, I would guess that it works fairly well, though.
Not all large corporations are like that. Here at Cisco most employees are given only laptops (Thinkpad or MBP) and the wireless here is usually fantastic as one would expect. Now if only I could get my hands on a Cius...
It's par for the course as far as event-loop I/O goes.
I don't understand no. 3.

People are being self interested. Why is that irrational?
> I'll try and find the article, but a quick web search hasn't turned it up.

This is the study the article you are referring to most likely references:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa070829
There's nothing wrong with the original at all, it should stay.

In fact the original is far superior to the Ars "summary" because it provides a more neural headline, also provides link to the paper up front, provides the abstract, provides the key graph with error bars and information about comparison to other disciplines. It ends with a reasonable evaluation that this hasn't proven anything either way and calls for more investigation.

Furthermore it was also written December 23rd by a site specialising on these matters rather than by Ars, a pretty low brow generalist site, on December 27th. While the Ars author has a PhD in biology, the guy who got the scoop four days earlier is eminently qualified in this area.[1]

The original link is a better article, published earlier, by a more appropriate author on what appears to be (although that isn't hard) a better site. The HN mods shouldn't be changing the links except in extreme cases anyway.

[1]"Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is a Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Dean for Research Mentoring at Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also the director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research. He earned a BA in chemistry from Amherst College, an MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and an MS in health services from the University of Washington, where he was also a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.

Aaron’s research focuses on the study of information technology to improve pediatric care and areas of health policy including physician malpractice, the pharmaceutical industry/physician relationship, and health care financing reform."
I wonder if something like Aeron (https://github.com/real-logic/Aeron) would work.
They will grant you immunity from the shoplifting charge, or make that confession inadmissible
Yeah, the iteration I'm being served is definitely an upgrade over that. The one shown in your link is what I had previously, so it seems that mine is a refinement of it and a middle ground that I don't think is so bad.
> Can also confirm that online dating is a horrible, confidence-destroying nightmare (presumably for both sexes).

It is, though it's more the overall culture it has created than online dating itself. The culture where there's always more and better options so you shouldn't commit to anything, where cancelling plans is just a text away so nobody takes them seriously. It's infested even non-dating relationships and is quite confidence destroying to have people cancel on you constantly.

Also, when I changed genders the dynamic did shift a lot, but it's still confidence destroying. As a male-identified person it was very hard to get matches and the whole process was a tremendous amount of work. As a female identified person (though still dating women) the number of matches I have is basically infinite. Most of the other steps are easier too, though it is still a fair amount of work to get someone to show up. But when they do, it's rare to find people looking for emotional intimacy. It's much easier to wind up feeling used (as an experiment or otherwise). Queer drama is crushing in its own unique way.

Even if you are reasonably attractive and desirable, people still want to invest the minimum, play the numbers game, and not commit to anything. Even if you're 90th percentile, that still means 1 in 10 are more <insert trait here> than you, so you can keep re-rolling; why not? I'm absolutely not immune to doing this myself; my standard for "Someone for tonight" is worlds apart from "Someone to have a relationship with", but it's not exactly like I'd disclose that up front, even if I immediately know what category my date is in.
Living in New England, you'll see many roads, even schools named after tribes and chiefs like Pequot and Metacom. I always wonder at the reasoning behind that, a rosy view of the past, remembrance of what was lost, just plain ignorance of what happened? The Great Indian War and what led up to it left a mark there that lingers to this day in one form or another.

I'll tell you though, the Puritans became the very thing, if not worse, they were escaping in England...
I don't get what you are saying. Infosec teams are part of the company, if they choose to capitalize on a breach, good for them. They still lost, like i said earlier, making the best out of a loss does not change the fact that there was a loss. Their brand reputation will always be inferior because of this. They accepted loss so they tried to lose well. Not accepting loss would be to not be prepared because your security is too good or to refuse to disclose the public because of consequences right?
What is this comment supposed to add?
Does certbot do the same ? I don’t use either so I can’t tell.

I strongly agree that any python program must install its dependencies in a virtualenv. One could even argue that this principle could be extended to any software !
Okay, so you are comparing single-threaded GNU wc with your multi-threaded Go implementation? That's fair.
> I used to blame LibreOffice for how mangled Word docs looked, but then I used Office365 and realized that there's no such things as the "right" way to display a word doc, since all of the machines I opened it on using Word365 showed it differently...

Probably due to missing fonts being replaced by whatever's available on the machine. Different fonts can have wildly different sizes / metrics.