jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If the subject you'd like to bring to discussion is the quote, post the quote. If you want to bring up a humorous Twitter account dealing with security concerns, post the Twitter account. Reposting a meme posted by that account doesn't serve either purpose very well.
Could you point to a link about how to seamlessly plug Julia into the jvm? I haven't seen any documentation or examples.
I simply had to visit Mongolia and did at the earliest I could. I loved it when I was there in the mid 90s. Very challenging place for me to be and it took me out of my shell a bit. Nothing was obvious for me at the time... ("is that a restaurant or a private house?, etc)

I think about this book all the time. I am honestly nto enough of a historian to judge it overall but the portrait of Ghengis Khan is very striking.

Only slightly tongue in cheek - he was as disruptive in his time as Google. Not because of his cruelty (he supposedly forbid his troops from pillaging and raping and sent the accountants in first...) The deliberately did not destroy towns if they could avoid it so that they could keep the productive capacity going. And they learned every step of the way. New techniques, new technologies.

They engineered a relatively safe road back to the homeland. To insure they could return and they could send back earning of war.

This book answered a nagging question I always had about Mongolia:

1) How did they conquer without leaving a standing army? If they were so brutal then those left behind would revolt, eventually.

2) Did they offer the tradesmen a bagain - give up the yoke of Nobility and Church for a 20% cut and relative safety trading with the other town?

This is an amazing book.
Upvoting for sheer perversity.
great article, however the Jerry Seinfeld gif was bit annoying. Although must admit it is funny and probably appropriate ;-) it was hard to read anything around it. Could only concentrate on the content when the gif was outside the screen.
Answers from my POV:

1 - Privileged access to the dominant consumer operating system, also used by many corporations likely to be targeted.

2 - Minimal effort cost. Good will cost seems like something NSA ignores. Exposure to risk seems minimal given the existence of NDA contracts.

3 - I think anyone who isn't deluded and/or a member of the "nothing to hide; nothing to fear" camp already knows you can't trust Windows. The damage to the US economy seems minimal in light of the Snowden leaks that implicate nearly every US-based technology company, and Microsoft is investing heavily into things like X-box to diversify their revenue streams. I don't think there'd be any fallout worth mentioning, tbh.

When I put myself into the shoes of the DIRNSA and ask myself these questions, backdooring Windows seems like an obvious "Yes".

_NSAKEY may very well not be a backdoor, but I find the suggestion that Windows doesn't contain one to be laughably naive.
I'm not going to down vote either of these at the moment. But the basic idea is to attack ideas not people. Any statements that name call (e.g. 'bastards') or attack the idea by attacking the author of it (e.g. 'dont remind me that I'm privileged') will not lead to an environment where we are all learning from each other.
Because they need to hook the line first
They're taking VC.

The strat here is probably to get as many users onboarded as possible ("of course I'll support them directly on Clubhouse, it's the cheapest way to do it!") and then at some point once people have grown accustomed to supporting creators through clubhouse they'll start taking a cut.
I wonder why they went with 2 rather than 3 or 4 for company identifier. Stock ticker for instance would make sense. Not really practical.
yeah but this is where you really have to be careful where you do your rounding.

3.089 * 10,000 = 30890
3.09 * 10,000 = 30900

A one cent rounding added up to $10 difference. It's easy to screw this up in code, sending values to databases or across APIs, etc.

Also reminds me of the plot of Office Space. Which is a bit humorous since they screwed up their own scamming scheme in similar fashion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjCQ3T5yXo
Not only that but in T-SQL, `AT TIME ZONE` takes DST into account but not in the names. So something like:

SELECT CreatedDate AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' AT TIME ZONE 'Eastern Standard Time' FROM MyTable

would in fact return `CreatedDate` at Eastern Daylight Time if executed today.
Baby Boomer were born ~1945-1965. Defined by being post-War.
In Australia there is still a reasonable amount of unionisation, although membership percentages dropped off markedly when a past government sharply curtailed union powers. In particular, the "right to strike" as understood by much of the developed world is now restricted to only certain circumstances; basically, we can only strike once every few years when negotiating for a new agreement.

Once the agreement is in place, taking collective action against hostile management makes you a target for civil liability. (Which isn't to say it doesn't happen, but the threat of civil damages certainly has a chilling effect whenever the prospect of "unprotected action" is raised.)
For EU users: https://archive.is/rChRr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9284803 One person replied to this here.
> It seems like this can't possibly have been the intended outcome.

It's exactly the intended outcome. Progressive taxes and regressive subsidies are designed specifically to disincentivize earning income. To think these policies are implemented without actually thinking about both sides of the coin would take Hanlon's razor to the extreme.

As more people stop to actually do the math, and realized the mind-boggling treadmill that is the middle-class, not surprisingly the middle class shrinks.

The only reason keeping many in the game while they have school-aged children is some professions don't lend themselves to just taking 5 years off. But some lend themselves surprisingly well to that, and frankly I don't see an ethical dilemma in not working if the work has negative expected benefit.
Hard to say. I can't find any reliable/definitive metric on this topic.
Yeah...although I have to admit, it seems to be getting somewhat better recently, as difficult as that is for me to grok.
the jQuery is being injected from 2 different sources. The first being from a Baidu CDN, I suppose they anticipate some kind of attack on Baidu and included the 2nd one as fallback.

As for jQuery being unnecessary for this job; agreed, but hey, it got the job done.
I'd like to see an updated subset with rhel/ubuntu/debian and systemd.
It can be a weakness in a widely deployed, vital protocol and that would be technically impossible to fix- not because of the technology but because altering the protocol would either require everyone on the Internet to change their software, or it'd preclude certain types of communication, or both.
Then why are all their links broken?
>we don't see severe mental illness as havig similar times of illness and wellness.

We do. In fact, many people who I personally know have gotten off social security and back into the workforce. People with mental illness. They even allow you to make a small amount of money while collecting social security to get some people slowly back in the workforce. In fact, I would say most people I know returned to the workforce. I'd like to see some stats on that.

It is a very complicated situation with a lot of variables. I think wage stagnation and a decrease in collective bargaining may be a part of it.
There's a link to it and a Wells Fargo version at the bottom, so I would say yes.
Thanks for sharing this candidly. It motivates me (an incredibly lazy person) to put something together at least.
I don't know. My programming teacher in high school was literally on his knees begging the last two girls to continue to the next level.
Its not a complicated one, it's an ideological one. I do not believe in the use of coercion to set wages. It just happens to also tend to be the best course of action in pure econ terms.

> Additionally, the Government isn't deciding what 'Your' salary is. They are setting a floor for the labor market. Without a floor for wages the economy would devolve into feudalism. Employers are a cartel and they would use size to suppress wages at the benefit of shareholder profits.

If you want to do X and someone tells you you cant, they are telling you what to do. But if gov is so concerned about those in the lower end of the tax bracket, why do they tax them at 20%?
Ah yeah, US paranoia. It's so European to claim moral supremacy while doing business with a country casually committing genocide.
It's very short. Go for it. Personally it's one of my least favorite short stories by Lovecraft and it's amusing to me that Cthulhu became so wrapped up in popular culture when there are many far more interesting beasties in his lore.
Wow, I just watched the ColdFusion video on We this morning. It's interesting watching this huge disaster in real time, instead of years later.

The blame seems to be on Masayoshi Son, of Softbank, for anointing their founder Adam Neumann. He sounds like a character from the tv show Silicon Valley.

https://youtu.be/QHQTzeve7OM
I just want to know how many of these failed at 32768 hours before they had their oh sh*t moment.
> Odds are, somewhere in the SSD firmware source code, there's a missing "unsigned". And in the Makefile, probably a missing "-Wextra".

Our industry really sucks. We need languages where this can't happen, and we need testing procedures where these things are caught. I wonder if software is the industry with the lowest quality:importance ratio.
> google is subject to much more scrutiny and much more liability.

Not really if they do something wrong they will get a fine of tens of millions but thats a tiny percentage of their profit, its an operating cost not a punishment.

> Lying and retaliating by big companies tends to be rare because it can affect the bottom line much, much more than a bit of internal dissent.

Not really again because they have so much money if anything affects their bottom line they create a pr campaign to change public opinion, its super effective even for something thats very easy to prove is dangerous like smoking.
Average voter doesn't care about the merits of competitive advantage. Maybe if the Chinese actually opened their markets up to competition would we see true benefits in the west. The problem of course is preventing the majority of the wealth going straight to the top.
Interesting point of view from an artist.

Made me wonder if authors of open source code could use something similar to provide for themselves.
It’s ironic the premise is we trust nuclear weapons to the government but not our pithy accounts of bitcoin - which in the event of a trust-less government is worthless (because of the arsenal)
The U.S. is not as rich as it seems. It all comes down to the trade deficits. The U.S. runs a monthly trade and service deficit of $60 Billions. This means that the U.S. consumes $60 Billions worth of goods more than it actually produces - monthly. Currently every single american gets statistically a monthly credit of $160 from abroad.

The total accumulated deficits are shown in the International Investment Position which is currently at -13 Trillion Dollars which are owed to abroad. Mostly China.

Of course this is not sustainable. And of course the american consumer will not be able to pay back this amount of money. So the escape route will be to declare bankruptcy when renewal and prolongation from the creditors will cease. It will come in form decline of the USD exchange rate and subsequent high inflation in the U.S without adjustment of income.

The question is not if but when. My best guess is not in the next 5 but within the next 10-15 years.

https://www.bea.gov/data/intl-trade-investment/international...
The citation was [1]. It is typical for women that attend open source conferences. That really sucks, for everybody involved.

1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/there-sexual-hara...
Fixed. Congratulations on the beta launch.
We are Summer 2010.
The point raised in the presentation is that as Hipmunk is better able to achieve price parity (say, via the ITA deal which will make better search results available to them), the prime differentiation will be the usability of the product.
An interesting article, but I have to disagree with his conclusions about the effect on malware.

I'd say that mainstream Linux adoption would likely be dominated by 1 or 2 major distros, like Ubuntu. Any potential attack vector could be targeted at that distro's package management system, for instance, and be assured of some impact.

In addition, many distros share a common underlying base system (like Debian) - any child distros of a vulnerable system would also presumably share the same vulnerabilities.
"On the one hand it likely has increased the annoyance factor in ripping those DVDs and therefore somewhat decreased the prevalence of ripping"

Hahahaha...
oh wait, you were serious. let me laugh harder.
hahahahahahahahaha

Seriously though, every single movie released in recent years you can possibly imagine has been ripped and uploaded. What exactly has decreased in prevalence?
You are being sexist - you're overgeneralizing from one example (your girlfriend).

I didn't mean to insult you. I did mean to say that the aggregate behavior of many men has discouraged many women from participating in CS. That's not disingenuous, it's a fact supported by evidence.
I also wondered that.
How does French law work? Do the texts of laws have droit d'auteur?
Your attempt to deny what you wrote is as revealing as it is pathetic. The record stands for itself.
I don't agree at all, but even if I did, that's only one of tons of cases. There are plenty of very recoverable errors which aren't handled by example code you copy off the internet, but which you really should be handling.

Take networking code for example: do you really want to be dying without a visible reason because you didn't check `errno` and do a retry? This is really basic stuff.
This topic we're debating is very well studied. There's lots of good research out there that attempts to correlate how predictive certain attributes of code are to future bugs. Here's one paper in particular that is a very good read and widely cited: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/70232/tr-2005-149.pdf

As you would imagine, doing this is quite hard, and quite inconsistent from project to project. Lines of code may bear some correlation to future bugs in code for some projects and languages, but it's far from clear cut that more lines of code == more bugs or more complexity.
I've heard Cape Town is very dangerous... is it?
The cave is an interesting idea.

But with a bit of thought, it occurs to me that the iron at the center of the earth is only 'sold' dues to the intense pressure it is under (360 gigapascals). Relieve the pressure and you've got molten iron (at 5,700 degrees K).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_core#Temperature

A Sunday wikipedia-ing...

The physics is different down deep, as we've found to our chagrin in other circumstance...
wtf? WHY DOWNVOTED? I WAS PROVIDING GOOD REFERENCE FOR ABOVE COMMENT!
The early implementation of CSS in Netscape relied on Javascript. That was no fun.
I suggest focusing on something that many (web) programmers don't have, don't think about enough, and are paid a heck of a lot more if they do:

How are your design skills?

Edit: by design I mean aesthetics and user experience
OpenStreetMaps is great for offline usage, I just wish the online page was faster.
Also, if you're already in decent shape and have the time to devote at least an hour per day to working out, I highly recommend P90X: http://www.beachbody.com/product/fitness_programs/best_selle...

You've probably seen cheesy late night informercials for it on TV, but it really is a GREAT way to build muscle and lose weight if you dedicate yourself to it and have the willpower to push yourself to the limit.

But don't just take my word for it. It has 4.5 out of 5 stars from 500+ people on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000TG8D6I/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
Ouch, sterile? Come on, I was kidding. :)
DA notices aren't legally enforceable though. Most newspapers comply voluntarily.

They're overseen by a committee of both government representatives and those from the press and news distribution (including Google's Europe head of PR)

see http://www.dnotice.org.uk/
Think about the combined seconds, minutes and hours Googles Technologies that they are offering for "free" have saved everyone you know. In my instance its probably a lifetime. What they have done with their technology is giving us solutions to stay productive in a world of information overflow, giving us time back where we want it and allowing usw to discover the world from our livingrooms. Street View is a magnificient tool and its potential is just beginning to unravel.

Giving Google information about my habits and my social life will in the end be used to save me and other people time and money.

On the contrary we have facebook which is mostly just a service where you can happily burn away your life... i'd go as far as arguing that the amount of time people waste on facebook is a social problem that will rise ever more damaging to peoples life.

As one-sided my perspective seems to be, it is the only conclusion i can reach when comparing the impacts of facebook and google on peoples lives and on society as a whole.
Didn't know?! Every western Europe country has one for child porn. It's just badly done with wide blacklisting in the UK.

http://map.opennet.net/filtering-soc.html
Direct link to the White House's receipt calculator: http://www.whitehouse.gov/taxreceipt

They should really send taxpayers a copy of this in the mail though.

I doubt many of the people who are raging about how we can balance the budget by cutting foreign aid and NPR are going to bother going to a website and rooting around for line items on their W2 and tax return.
Shouldn't the real question be whether the Google Analytics, google.com and adwords servers listen to the new header?
Smacks of a Poll Tax. Only those with money can make money. Not very egalitarian, which is a fundamental principle of the Patent Office.
I see this argument/question come up all the time in a variety of different contexts. Inevitably it boils down to some form of "this company/site/person is taking away my privacy!" Typically this stems from the belief that a particular practice deployed at a company like Google forces you to give away information about yourself to use it, thus breaking off pieces of your "privacy".

But let me clear something up. You have no privacy if you use the internet. Not one ounce. There are numerous companies that have data warehouses of information on every single person that has ever filled out a form on the web. I'll actually go as far as to say I believe some of this information comes from brick and mortar sources... even Doctor's office or grocery stores, for instance.

How do I know this? I worked in the affiliate networking industry for a few years and one of the tidbits I discovered is a company called Targus (http://www.targusinfo.com/). For $0.50-$0.75 you can lookup anyone's information via API. This includes things like name, age, location, phone, employer (I think), salary etc... As a developer we were implementing this for our clients and one of the developers opted to look himself up. The children count returned 2.5. He does have two kids and at the time his wife was 6 months pregnant.

The bottom line is your privacy was most likely stolen a long, long time ago and any feeling of giving it up is really just an insignificant personal emotion.
This is somewhat less than accurate. My payroll taxes were moved to the general fund and spent immediately. Because the government chooses to spend my payroll taxes this way, the receipt should always contain the same output for any input that sums to $K.

This receipt also omits that revenue pays for less than 58% of spending. As such, I could make a receipt that says that all of my taxes this year were immediately spent on entitlement programs and it would be (strictly speaking) accurate.
Not really. Get three opinions from professionals giving the default answer and you have three default answers. Because it’s non-competitive it doesn’t even require coordination. Get three home appraisals in 2007 and they’re all coming in at the offer. They don’t have to know each other, they’re just aligned with the same individual incentives.
One of my friends is these days a colleague, with an utterly ordinary English name but his identity management data is full of spurious accents to check APIs do the Right Thing™.

I was delighted recently to stumble on a history of modern women course HIST1158 named Liberté Egalité Beyoncé and I immediately thought two things: 1. Why are our Computer Science courses given unimaginative names? and 2. What a useful test input, I bet some of our systems don't work correctly for this input even though an acute accent is hardly a bleeding edge feature.

I haven't been able to interest any Computer Science professors in fun names for their courses, but I was able in my test environment to name a COMP series course "Untitled Course Name" with a description explaining that "It is a lovely day in the village and there are only two hard problems in Computer Science".
Chicken breast are injected with lots and lots of water.
What is that tweet even saying?
> “Apple could see Hyundai as an ideal partner, because when it comes to legacy U.S. automakers, they all have strong union, which Apple would like to avoid,” said Kevin Yoo, an analyst at eBEST Investment & Securities.

This makes no sense whatsoever - Hyundai Motor has a strong labor union with a long history of frequent and drawn-out strikes: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200426000206 . So it's a complete nonsense to mention the labor union as a possible reason to avoid US automakers and choose Hyundai.
The way the code quality of webkit built up was by introducing a review gate. Chrome inherited its review gate from webkit, because it had established a much better track record for code quality.

The way you get any project to be "actually good" is by adopting methods to ratchet quality. Early WebKit did not have the same strict rules it has today, and we suffered because of that. Introducing review + test for every change rule was introduced, and the frequency of regressions dropped dramatically.
I loved Miniclip in the late 2000s. Their UX went downhill after that.
What if in general there were an option for higher education that was more spread out?

This is how most higher ed actually works out in practice. Where I grew up in Minnesota at least 50% of students at the U of MN worked and went to school part time and took 6-8 years to get a degree.
My concern is that those combinations can significantly reduce Rails apps' maintainability. I wonder if jQuery is that good, can it be rewritten in CoffeeScript? Such that we can settle down at CoffeeScript, which looks like a better language anyway, and get rid of the Javascript fragmentation issue all at once.