jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As I wrote in another comment, high entropy passwords by definition must be hard to remember. It's not strictly true, but it definitely refutes the title of this submission.

While I think this post is rather optimistic in its calculations — using maximum entropy distributions, for instance — it does bring up a good point: Personally memorable nonsense sentences are rather high entropy.

Actual practical guessing is not pure distribution entropy but instead closer to the KL divergence since an intelligent brute force guesser has to make assumptions about the password distribution in order to reap benefits. If your password comes from an expected distribution (letters in English words, words in English sentences) you're losing a whole lot of potential entropy, traded for particular memorability.

If you can hedge between those bets, though, you're in a good place. "this is fun" is not actually terribly secure compared to "J4fS!2" unless you're actually attacked by a uniform dictionary brute force search. "slurping radicals debilitate enzymatically" is super high entropy and quite likely easier to remember than "J4fS!2".
Or put it in JS so users can "run" it on the fly http://icefox.github.com/js_email_link_hack/
The Lisp Curse is all the people writing opinionated articles about the Lisp inferiority complex, instead of contributing to existing Lisp software.

There are tons of incompatible, undocumented libraries for Perl, Python and C. This is no correlation to anything. The people who want to use existing libraries use them. Those who want to reinvent the wheel will do that and there is nothing you can do to stop them.

Lisp Machines aren't magic.

If you think GNU Emacs is "obsolete," you can work on http://common-lisp.net/project/climacs/ or http://common-lisp.net/project/phemlock/ or http://mclide.in-progress.com/ , but don't expect anyone else to share your opinion. GNU Emacs is the best multi-language, multi-platform programming environment available today. Most people somehow manage to avoid the "Lisp Curse" and just work on improving Emacs extensions.
At my school, before every test and on every major assignment, each student had to write out the school's written Honor Code and then sign it, serving as a contract through which they could nail you to the wall if you got caught cheating.
Yes, but since Netflix doesn't use Silverlight for the iPhone/iPad it's not like it's going to make a difference one way or another.

MS has licensed their DRM, but they will not license it for use with Moonlight. From my understanding, the licensing they have done has generally for hardware (the NXP chip in the Roku box, for example).
There is a huge logic gap here. He is comparing 11 characters passwords to 6 character passwords. The difference in length also will account for a significant difference in the time required with brute force.

I think what he is trying to show is that is that the lower security of using multiple common words on a password with 11 characters is still greater security than a random 6 character password, and still quite acceptable.
It averaged a gross profit margin of 38% the past five years. While paying a dividend. And doubling the stock price.

Which companies in that list have profits let alone profit margins? And are half as diversified? I see the big upside. I see the big downside. But I don't see how they all grow to average 3x NWL/Rubbermaid in the absence of bubble valuations.

Also all this "2x or 3x" after the big rise talk is just dilly-shaking anyway. The numbskulls who jumped in on the last Tumblr round would've made more money flipping Microsoft stock over the same period. Talk about unnecessary risk for the sake of risk.
And they got their way if my memory doesn't fail me. DEFCON talk was cancelled.
One implication of work from home is that it makes manager performance more auditable. Everything a manager does is logged.
> I will ask that the team work out an appropriate culture, which probably includes coming to the office at least once a week

What a stupid way to ruin most of the remote upside - not having to live in a particular shitty metro.
That seems more reasonable than assuming an anonymous source is right.
It's a culture and communication issue. Many middle managers are used to back to back meetings and full calendars and hallway conversations and constant face-to-face. Of course it'll be an adjustment. There's no innate limitation of WFH in this scenario, but folks need to adapt to the technology.

Some of the best managers I've ever interacted with managed remote ICs or were remote themselves. Their communication skills were excellent. The average manager I've worked with has poor communication skills (sure, lots of meetings though) and won't adapt well.
Along with storygraph and readng.co and librarything, there are several other goodreads alternatives.

This was my recent attempt to find the best one for my purposes:

https://bookapps.info
That moves the goalposts from "did satoshi premine?" a question with a well-defined criteria, to something more vague like "is bitcoin fairly distributed?", which opens a can of worms regarding what "fair" means.
This is a great idea. Now that I think about it, it seems silly boasting how I've coded in so many languages. The reason I had them on my resume was to indicate that I have experience writing code in them. I like your idea of listing something under "Currently used" and listing the others under projects. That way, there is less chance for ambiguity.
> Why do you figure it would use 2x the fuel of a 'normal' RC Jet engine?

Because I have no idea what I'm talking about estimating fuel consumption in RC jet engines, and "2x" seemed like a reasonable guess? Looks like I wasn't too far off.

I wonder how much adding a payload would affect that, and what the max weight is including possibly larger fuel tanks and a cargo payload.
> We don’t invest in themes; we invest in special founders with breakthrough ideas. Which means we don’t make investments based on a pre-existing thesis about a category. That said, here are a few of the things we’ve been observing or thinking about.

The list is nothing more than some of the things they find interesting.
I played MUDs for many years. I miss those days.
> I remember the days of using prototype.js over jquery. If only someone could have saved me the time.

There was plenty of criticism from the JS world when Prototype came out, and the main issue everyone had was how Prototype attempted to shoehorn classical OOP into JavaScript (hence, the abuse of prototypes and fake class inheritance), which is a mistake amateur JS developers make to this day. jQuery has at least made it so using the most popular DOM abstraction framework didn't also mean you were running less-than-ideal code inherently, but developers still manage to mess this one up.

I think it's because when you learn how to program, you only learn the classical style, so you're not ready for the pitfalls of prototypal inheritance. So a lot of developers go through the "phase" of attempting to retro-fit their own ideas of how programming should work into a language that is designed in a totally different way, inevitably lead to problems, and have "the revelation" of understanding the prototypal inheritance idea. It's kind-of like a growing pain, which is why I'm really happy JS is being taught more heavily in schools and especially to entry-level programmers. Unlike Java, JavaScript is more accessible (just pop open the REPL in any browser) and its results are easier to observe. While it's not a great tool to teach people the concepts of OOP, I think it's very useful to teach kids at a young age that there isn't just one way to do things. They're different enough to screw developers up on a day-to-day basis, but not different enough that spending a few weeks with the language isn't enough to grasp its power.

As others have said, you really didn't waste your time there. If anything, it was simply a matter of JS developers collectively and simultaneously going through the same growing pains and eventual realizations about how the language works.
Great link. Then I'm even more confused that it makes the point to say it doesn't have "componentDidMount," [but it just has something else instead]. To me, the mixed markup shown on that page is a bizarre way to express a component's rendered state. Just my personal opinion.
This is incredible. I've been successfully nerd-sniped away from work. Also nice touch w/ the time-scale factors being Fibonacci numbers :) Great work.
Tragedy of the commons. That's why the solution is to privatize everything. You'd care about people killing your wolves.
Do you have a recommendation for a beginner VR setup?
Is bartering for online services common?
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I've build a rapid development application in Python/Flask/MongoDB, see <https://github.com/cabalamat/frambozenapp>.

I'd be interested in gaining experience with TypeScript and front-end web development.
thanks will do.
> The entirety of the point that was made is "people are different and have different opinions"

That is only a superficial understanding. What you left out is the manipulative hubris of your clumsy rhetoric pretending to command some kind of hegemony of opinion. It is no surprise to see a continuation of that in the further comments.
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That doesn't matter because your phone carrier is already tracking you and selling that data, regardless of what apps you use or don't use.
As a resident of New Orleans I can categorically tell you 99% of those assholes in the pictures on Bourbon St were tourists taking advantage of cheap tickets
ehh, people are at work a lot in Japan, but no one really does anything.
Unintended consequences aside, this is less about a kill switch or government censorship and more about forcing a industry that has not taken security seriously to get their act together.

Many providers don't actively police their customers for botnet activity or respond to security incidents that don't affect their network infrastructure or back office systems.

This appears to establish a regulatory framework where network security officially becomes more than a law enforcement issue.
I didn't take it as mostly PRC firms outsourcing (some) of their work, but more of foreign firms moving their lower in the value chain work to less expensive countries (and as the same time the PRC continues to move up the value chain).

Haven't we seen some (or a lot?) of that in clothing manufacturing? The PRC government doesn't have too much leverage over that, e.g. we're talking small companies (at least compared to Apple, Dell, etc.).

But you do have a point about their ruthlessness, and it might come back to bite them. Their policies, especially in exchange rates, have a tendency to beggar their neighbors. In the long run that's unlikely to be a good thing.
A client is currently paying me a rather substantial amount of money to come up with an authoritatively presented answer to this question, using BLS data and some programming. (It figures that the number crunching would take one week and the presentation layer would take three. sigh)

Spoiler: College degrees are still worth it. Some are rather substantially more worth it than others. If you feel yours isn't, you almost certainly aren't majored in engineering or (certain flavors of) geology.
Pasadena, near JPL/Caltech. The downside to being out here is that there aren't any public hacker spaces (that I know of).
PubNub is Comet for all web browsers. iPhone iPad worked I tried it!
The article should make it clear who should be contacted to express negitive opinion about such a bill. Its not immediatly obvious as it is.
I can't speak for anyone else, but if you took "The folks on HackerNews are sick of Calacanis-Baiting" and removed "-Baiting" from the end that would be pretty accurate.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18404144
> If it wasn't Seth Rich who leaked the e-mails, who was it?

can't explain something, picks favorite conspiracy theory to explain it. makes sense.
It would be nice to have read-only endpoints.
Heroes are characterized by extreme competence at something. Some people dedicate that to doing good because they believe it to be valuable for it's own sake.

Selflessness just gets you walked over. Being good is both an individual positive for the hero and a collective gain for the people.
I wish the PureDarwin folks would prioritize clear build instructions. It'd be really great to see something like a "Linux From Scratch" or process to build a bootable disk image using only what's in their git repos. (Maybe it exists but if so it doesn't show up/is linked to from any of the obvious pages of their wiki)

That seems like a necessary first step towards eventually getting a bootable ISO that can install a PureDarwin system on a blank machine, physical or virtual.
"There's more than one way to do it"
Actually, far worse than the shills are the cancelling virtue signallers who have nothing better to do than 1) quit a service because someone tells them to; 2) go running to that forum looking for approval by telling them "I cancelled!"

Oh look, you're one of them. (pat on head)
VS Code also doesn't support Macros in the same way Emacs and vi do.

In fact its not even remotely close.
We're already moving towards self refreshing panels and the like. And it's not a stretch to imagine in-screen cursor movement.
As for the browser suggestions: it forgets to mention uBlock Origin and uMatrix. As far as I know you can block everything with uMatrix.

https://getublockorigin.com, https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
I agree with your points re. Myers-Briggs, however modern IQ tests are generally regarded as pretty reproducible and an individual’s score remains quite stable over long periods of time. Confidence intervals are about 10 points for decent tests. [1]

They are not perfect of course, but it’s a little unfair to compare MB with IQ tests in this manner.
I know you caveated your comment by saying that not all IQ Tests are like this, which is certainly true. However, I see no statistical reason not to tell people the result of a high-quality IQ test.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Reliabil...
.yu shut down in 2010. This site looks like it started collecting data in 2011.
>but in the particular case of just one game, the value of the token is linked to a single, central authority (the company producing the game) and implementing transactions on an open blockchain seems somewhat superfluous.

I don't understand your angle here. Instead of buying a game on steam, you buy a token. You convert e.g. a stablecoin to the game token and you can trade that token on the 2nd hand market later.

>Another aspect is that when the central authority is also the sole issuer of tokens, no counteracting forces exist to drive a meaningful market dynamic.No matter how much price pressure exists from users, the authority can always act to restrict issuance or increase issuance to force a particular price, and over the long term in the absence of that authority (due to bankruptcy, obsolescence, ..) the value of all issued tokens drifts towards zero.

That depends on the monetary policy for the token which might not be possible to change later on( at least in some blockchains it is set in stone for trust reasons). So you can't just arbitrarily print more or less unless you set it up in such a way in the first place which is transparent. Also I don't understand how the value of tokens drifts towards zero since they live IN THE BLOCKCHAIN and the smart contracts are working regardless of the gamedev existing or not. So you have a digital second hand market essentially.
> Housing prices across the world are insane,

They only are insane if you insist on living centrally in large cities. Which you can't do anyway if you live in a van. So it's hard to give a lot of weight to this prediction.
"Thinking" is not present usually in this process. It's people that have never seen anything but a driver's license.

There are always stories about how people got turned down for trying to present a passport, or an out of state ID to buy alcohol or for other ID requiring purposes.
https without certificate verification still leaves you vulnerable to MITM, as long as the attacker can intercept, and manipulate, the session negotiation. However, I do think there is value in a trust-on-first-use (TOFU) model for trusting self-signed certificates. The biggest challenge is how to educate users on when it would be appropriate to accept the risks of TOFU.
Well, they could spend more paper on showing how other OECD countries tackle discrimination and even campaign for similar measures in the US.
> The reason why we haven't done the same for critical thinking is that the people in charge won't be if we had a citizenry which could think logically.

I think this is only true because people think its true. There's plenty of PhD holding scientists that still participate in tribal politics. There's also plenty that are smart in their field and nothing more. This was logic that was used in the past and every time we've educated people the elite haven't lost their positions of power. But everyone's lives have increased in quality, I mean we don't use the streets of London as a sewer.
To nobody's surprise, this is true in Denmark too.
I think those are all totally reasonable and justifiable feelings. I agree in general that our military/intelligence arm has been carrying the US brand the loudest since 9/11. I think that was by design. I won't argue whether that is good or bad, because I could make the case either way.

My intent was to say that yes the self protective parts of the government are going to be inherently anti-foreign, by design. I think what your comment adds is basically replying to that with: "Ok, well if you guys make that part of your government the loudest and strongest part to the rest of the world, we probably will stop liking you guys, and will stop wanting to play with you."

I think that is a very valid criticism. It is one for the legislators and the public to take on however, not the arms of the government that are intended to protect it.
There's also a question of skill liquidity: if there's a very low supply and a low demand - even though the demand might be multiples of the supply - it puts everyone in a tough place. The employee doesn't have the leverage they might hope for because finding a compatible employer is very hard.
It's only smart to be "woke" when it's profitable.
> Is it even possible to not be broken by something like this?

Which then “justifies” harsh, potentially fatal, punishment.
What ? This seems like a bold affirmation. I find it very simple actually :

apt install python3 virtualenv
virtualenv env
. env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Done. And then with fabric you can automate deployments in a few lines of codes !
> YouTube Premium is literally the service HN wants: honest payment to support a Google service costs and creators publishing on it

Except that's not what it is. They've bundled Ad Free with YouTube Music and YouTube Originals, which I personally have no interest in. How much of that ridiculous price is going to the production of that original content and music licensing fees?

$15 a month is a big ask when I see zero value in 2/3 of the offer.

Bundling is what is driving cord cutting and piracy. People don't want to subsidize crap they don't want and didn't ask for.

\* I would probably think differently if I was a YouTube Red or Music subscriber and they gave me access to Ad Free and Originals as bonus for my subscription fee but I'm not and don't want to be.

Amazon Prime did something similar but by bundling Video and Music but I was already paying for Prime just for the free shipping so it was just extra.
I mean I agree the TSA theatre is complete and total nonsense, but the logic here is at least defensible. Those goods are inspected as well and they have a known supply chain.

They’re not worried about bottled water, obviously, they’re worried about something bad that looks like bottled water carried in by you.
It's a neat trick: it emphasizes that they are amoral companies required to do nothing but make money, and simultaneously that they're only companies like the thousands of other gyrating tickers on the stock market. This same author frequently uses the term "Microsoft Github".
“I don’t believe in a no-win scenario.” Probably Kirk’s best quote and a valuable life philosophy.
yep, what Stalin did in Ukraine was comparable, while helpful idiots in Western press were praising him for education and healthcare
Or rather, the military is the state, always has been, always will be.

It just appears to be a secondary, nested construct because often it outsources many of its non-core competencies to a civil bureaucracy.

For example, you can destroy the infrastructure, diplomatic service, civilian authorities, and civil society of a country, and the military will still collect the taxes and keep approximate order when it benefits by doing so (in fact this has happened rather commonly in history).

But if you get rid of the cops/armies, all the other state systems crash very quickly.
I wonder if they will still sponsor all the Top Coder competitions?
It'll work with a finger or generic capacitive stylus just not be as accurate. Since they support both modes, they can leave the relatively expensive stylus out.
> It's....not [part of the military]. It's part of the Department of Defense.

I think you're picking hairs. While NSA is not strictly a military branch, NSA is a defense agency within the DoD. It is not directed by a civilian, but by a commissioned officer of the military. That seems pretty damned close enough to me.

> the vast majority of its member agencies are all civilian agencies

I don't know how you came to this conclusion, as the actual numbers and ratio of military vs. civilian personnel is still classified to the best of my knowledge. To the best of my (circumstantial) knowledge, the ratio for civilian vs. (usually US Navy) military personnel is likely somewhere around 60/40. I couldn't tell you which category is civilian vs. military, though.

> the person who heads it up (Secretary of Defense) is a civilian.

No, the person who heads it up is an Admiral in the Navy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Rogers

The SECDEF oversees the DoD as a whole.

I'd love to know how you came up with your conclusions, as you seem to have some familiarity with the Beltway, because they don't match my experiences.
The author seemed to get pretty damned scared below 160 knots, and the manual says 145 knots:

http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/5/5-8.php
Ugh! How to put this: The space and furniture looks awesome but is "cold" and "sterile". For some reason reminded me of furniture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his houses, nice to look at but you definitely don't want to live in that house. Even the desks are super tidy.
Would the Fair Use doctrine apply here, or does that not apply to trademarks?
I don't know of any way to link them. I post using my real name on StackOverflow, for precisely the reason of "brand management" or what-have-you. Presumably my name and current employer were unique enough for the recruiter to put two and two together on his own.
There have been rumorings that Google is working on a tablet. I'm really hoping so - the Nexus One was an excellent reference phone, and really kickstarted the current generation of Android phones. If they could do similar with a tablet, I'd be really happy.