jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Compromised data: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Employers, Genders, Geographic locations, Names, Phone numbers, Relationship statuses

Assume these columns are compromised. As a general rule it probably doesn't hurt to change the password and any you've reused.
Get off HackerNews and talk to people IRL.
> you're acting like you understand what they're talking about when they say the word harassment [...] Acting like you understand this whole situation

No, I'm genuinely asking about what they are talking about. I'm literally asking clarifying questions here in order to find out more. I'm not stating how anything is, but merely wonder and want to learn more.

I do experience harassment as well, but not in the form of hearing "Oh, you use Coq so you must be a cock" every day, which is why I ask how the project name can be used as harassment.
It's unwanted attention on the internet. I think it's fine to make fun of people who look like pedopohiles (not saying you are a pedophile, that would be libel probably). Some people have a problem with it, but I don't, so what's the big deal?
PFAS is on furniture, clothes, cooking ware, food containers, firefighting foam and so forth. The firefighting foam gets it into the water table as do badly managed dumps.

It's been detected in milk, eggs, water..
The fine is "up to" that amount. There have been smaller companies that have been fined way less than the top.

One thing I will tell you, when I was in charge of the data of a FinTech in Mexico, we were VERY aware of those fines and took a lot of care regarding our security.
You missed a banner nagging me to download the mobile app, I can still see actual content on about 25% of my phone screen!
Curiously, the author expounds on why he does not like Glass's work (fair enough) and how Glass is not a great composer (certainly up for debate); he spends no time (and appears to have no insights) explaining why, exactly, so many people have been duped into enjoying it. He proposes a few theories, but seems rather dismissive in the face some pretty convincing evidence re: Glass's greatness. I actually looked for a "next page" button.
Fair enough then, sorry. But why did you quote me again in my corrected post? :/ I'm not going to delete it, don't worry. I don't really care about comment scoring, I mean what I say and stand by my words.

(but I guess it's nice that your quote is keeping what I said in black text, eh? :P)
people do a job so that they don't starve to death

So that's why the long-term unemployment rate never rises above zero. Thanks, I'd been wondering why all those predictions of recessions causing high unemployment never panned out.

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Also, there's also the fact that the power imbalance between employer and employee these days is a bit less than the imbalance between slave and owner was.

Besides the existence of non-starving unemployed people, I would like to note the lack of children working 18-hour days.
But the port needs to support the full 120. Cabling problems are on him, but if the builtin wifi can't do 120 to anything, then that's misleading advertising. Wifi is entirely capable of 120, and it's not something you can check until it's already delivered and failing.

If the grocery store makes a big deal out of having staff to carry groceries to your car, and how they sell 120 groceries, they had better be able to carry all 120 to cars that support it.
The library itself is so small you can simply read through the annotated source in half an hour: http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html

There is a trend towards more complete frameworks, but Backbone is still in use by many high-profile companies. Learning how it works is a small investment of time, and should give you nice insights for understanding larger & more complex projects.
I am really not clear on the structure of the "US Digital Service."

The phrase "US Digital Service" makes it sound like a "reified" civil service organization in its own right. There is a USDS Headquarters, which seems to support this notion.

In the copy[1], however, it says that the bulk of the work is done by "agency teams" which, if I'm understanding right, kind of "embed" with their assigned gov't agency. The copy also says they're recruiting founding members for new agency teams. The phrase "founding members" makes it sound, almost, like the teams are independent operations but knowing the federal gov't as I do, that can't possibly be right.

Does anyone here have any light they can cast on whether the USDS is an agency unto itself? If not, what cabinet secretary does it fall under? I have a ton of questions about how this works.

edit: My biggest fear with the USDS is that it can be smothered in the cradle by the next administration. There simply doesn't seem to be enough employees to make dissolving it -- or, maybe more likely, starving it to death budget-wise -- a big deal.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/digital/united-states-digital-ser...
Mesos uses dominant resource fairness:

https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~alig/papers/drf.pdf
5 gear gearboxes?

WHY?

I have an electrical car. They don't need gearboxes, or probably one gear at all.

Had they introduced gearboxes so pilots could feel they do something? If so they don't need gearboxes for that they could manually control the electronics control of the engine.

That leaves the option of manufacturers of gearboxes wanting electric cars to use them.

But this is stupid, and make no sense, as it makes the entire car heavyweight for resisting the torques. They are obsolete. The future is motors on wheels.
I still don't understand why people hate Messenger so much. It works fine for me, indistinguishable from when it was included in the main Facebook app.
I loled. I have thought this as well. something along the lines of he was concentrating on office when a division of microsoft was able to continue working without his interruption.
"The Return of All the President's Men."
Yes, which is exactly why WhatsApp has replaced SMS : group messaging. People still use SMS for 1 to 1 conversation in France
I was kicked off of Twitter for saying that we should let these Trump white trash fools starve.

I also said a hundred positive things to many other people.
I fail to see why the use of native code.

If it is to respect privacy, it should also not have any use of CVE friendly languages, hiding possible exploits.
By default anyone at telegram can read your messages. By default, nobody at Facebook can read your WhatsApp messages. Telegram is a privacy downgrade here.
Been using Telegram for a long time. I don't trust it any more than I do with WhatsApp (therefore, Facebook), however it is well done and thought out, has a real desktop client with a real desktop UI toolkit and enough of my contacts are on it already, therefore it's the best compromise to me. I greatly dislike Signal's UI when I tried it out and I've read about some weird decisions lately (that "using a PIN? uploading to cloud" debacle some time ago). I also believe it shouldn't require a phone number if its focus is privacy and security. Matrix would be my go to in concept, but its userbase is even smaller. At the same time, alas, I am forced to keep using WhatsApp because "everyone" is on it, and if you aren't, you're going to miss out, be it parents school chats, work groups, less tech-savvy friends, parents..
Why not came back to plain old email? The email delivery system is decentralized and can support p2p encryption. You can have "chat-like" user experience with apps like Mailtime (https://mailtime.com/)
> There is no popular position with moderation, everyone hates the umpire.

Afaik, one big issue is that this account was operating under different rules then everybody else. As in, twitter was more permissive with Trump then with other people.
Since we can't possibly include all available options, how about adding an "Other" option?
IMO Big tech will be controlled more & more now. There are images of rioters in the Capitol building with their phones out recording the whole thing.
Can't the mods delete obvious spam like this? Or can we have a flag button for comments below a certain threshold please?
> the Gawker system silently truncates at 8 characters they got consumer.

I had forgotten that part of the whole sorry story. Reminds me of the uni I attended, (Sussex) where not only were passwords truncated, there was in fact a max length policy of 8 chars. This was across their entire campus network, and all intranet apps. Yeah, my degree ain't worth much.
It's not just that. While there is much justified concern about user privacy and security, it's easy to forget that the site also has assets to protect. Giving up control to a third party is a very scary prospect for some organizations.
Absent the political temptation (using the state to "regulate away" the competition), businesses have no choice but to appeal to their consumers with better services.
Uber has done helicopter rides from the city to the Hamptons: http://blog.uber.com/nyc/uberchopper-hamptons-shore-2014

I didn't realize it until now, but they've done Uber Chopper in quite a few places: http://blog.uber.com/tag/uberchopper/
Habit. They're trained to take in the scene in order to e.g. evaluate if they have a safe shot. Even if it only works some of the time, every time it works is a gain.
Everyone, please stop engaging this person who is arguing in bad faith, and only seeks to waste your time.
A good compromise is an actual butcher, the kind who has a relationship with farmers and breaks down primal cuts.

I live alone so a quarter beef would be a real challenge to finish off. Instead, I can go to the local butcher and get the usual cuts, and the unusual cuts, soup bones, hard fat for tallow, and so on.

Where I live, at least, it's all local, beef, lamp, goat, chicken, doesn't matter.
The Secret Service pins are not for shootouts specifically but for access control of secure areas. I worked an event where the President spoke so I got one of the pins once I cleared into the secure area. I’ve still got it in a mementos box somewhere.

Edit to clarify: a matching pin was not sufficient on its own to gain access to the secure area. But being in the secure area without a matching pin would certainly be sufficient to draw some official attention.
> Is the good you're doing via whatsapp enough to outweigh how you could leverage 19B?

That's a very good point. Still, with $19B on the line, I bet there's no shortage of people who would help me rationalize doing something else with that money once it was in my hands.

I tend to have a pretty pessimistic view of human nature, but maybe I'm unfairly projecting my own weaknesses onto the rest of humanity.
the irony is that your parent post comment just described you
If you look at their implementation the balance of probabilities definitely leans heavily towards “backdoor” rather than “not a backdoor”.

You aren’t going to find any cryptographers anywhere who’d be willing to repeat your “They didn’t backdoor it” lie.

If it looks like a backdoor, swims like a backdoor, quacks like a backdoor, then it probably is a backdoor.
DMGs are essentially disk images. So there's a lot of metadata there, inherent to the file system (HFS+ here but any file system would have metadata). Not to mention, there could be plenty of empty space if the virtual disk is bigger than the contained files.

DMG compression is also optional, so not everyone compresses them. The DMG in this case is clearly not compressed. Compressing the DMG itself results in a file less than a megabyte.
Really? When I worked at one of the Big Four a stolen/lost laptop was DefCon 4, despite all of the security precautions. We were actually required to notify a partner in the firm before contacting law enforcement.
I prefer to read from books but the information in most programming books is out of date very fast. For this reason, I prefer learning languages from the web.
I don't know, the more I think about it the less sense it makes. I wonder if we can apply Hanlon's Razor[1] and say it was just a poorly researched article. If the author did some brief googling for things people have said about Scott and his blog, they'll find other people who have quoted him out of context. For the example of "feminists are voldemort", Scott did mention that he's been quoted out of context lots of times on that line so it should show up lots of time on the internet. It might have been a sloppy re-quote instead of original research. Maybe it wasn't so much a hit-piece as a reflection of the easy-to-find popular trends of discussion about Scott's writing. In that case the NYT piece was very irresponsible, but not really malicious.

Part of the reason I'm leading this way is because and the end of the day, Scott just doesn't seem important enough to the NYT to focus on for a hit piece. And even then it reads more like a condemnation of SV tech culture than it does as a condemnation of Scott (however unfair it was to him).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
They describe the rollout as world beating in the headline but simultaneously acknowledge there are a number of countries ahead of the US in several aspects of it. It really isn't a competition but this is just nationalistic nonsense.
Also, xca works just fine on OS X too.
Not to mention potential misbehavior by rogue elements, even when official policy is innocent. LOVEINT being a recent example in precisely this domain, but instances are manifold.
Regarding weak vs. strong AI:

"Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim." -E.W. Dijkstra [0]

[0] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...
> On the other hand, have you looked at getting a femto cell for your warehouse (or using a service like Google Voice to get wifi calling)?

I'm the only employee using a T-Mobile compatible phone so it wouldn't be worth doing. We've put WLAN access points throughout the warehouse (one of my first projects when I went full time there) so it's saturated with Wi-Fi. I can't use Google Voice or Hangouts for receiving calls, since I mainly use a Windows phone, but I do have that set up on my Nexus and it works well there.

Basically, 99% of what I use my cellphone for at work is covered by Wi-Fi, and if anyone needs to reach me they can just call the company.
Yes. They need the information and they visit very often.

But does it really help? I don't think so.

General advices about what to do make them feel good but they don't really understand what it means and how to really use the advice.

I think compared to giving and finding advice, teaching students how to analyze their own career and come up with a practical plan to carry out is more helpful.
They show keyword-based ads. Same as DuckDuckGo and other search sites that claim to not track users.

A search engine doesn't need to track people to make money, they just make much more money if they target ads better by tracking.
Remote control means you can tweak the scale of the cars/races.
Given that things are inconsistent across distributions, that's basically the same as being inconsistent between Solaris and AIX.

One inconsistency I've been very annoyed by over the years is the differences in ps. I ended up making a .cshrc that contained aliases to work around them. I'd check which OS I was using and alias a command to call ps with the arguments I used regularly. I used to work often on Irix, Solaris, and Linux and it was a pain to remember which arguments I needed. This was especially true on ssh connections where I didn't always remember which OS a particular machine ran.
I see this opinion voted to the top of Hacker News all the time. People seem to forget that watching something in video format is just so damn convenient, and requires little effort.
A typical software engineer with a degree in CS or engineering working as a federal employee starts out as a GS7 and would be lucky to make it to GS13 (90-100k) after 5-10 years if they are really really good. The fact that they are starting these people as 15's is pretty unusual.
And Go, presumably.
I have very vivid memories of two particular usenet posts:

- Reading about a thing called "Mosaic" on alt.hypertext in early '93 when I was actually tasked with finding a hypertext browser for the project I was on. I remember thinking "Sounds cool, but why would I want to load documents over a network?"

- In '95 reading a post about a project called "Oak" at Sun that involved a guy that I vaguely knew, sending a begging email to Sun got me a very early copy of Java
I would be so happy if Heroku were to move the version of datamapper they make available to 1.0, I spent a while the other day working out why an app I had done was throwing errors on Heroku, turned out they were using 0.9.11, which didn't have [] & []= functions.

Added the functions myself to the app, and everything worked.

DataMapper, I'm a fan.
I tend to use "java6 simpledateformat" as my query for that.
You can put in both. Full one, so that you don't look like a scammer and the short one in case the first one is broken by the client.
Of course I was oversimplifying :) In any case, that study removes many of the reasons that groups of humans make bad decisions - which is unfortunately impossible to do in most real-world contexts.

If you want to be more precise, we often make assumptions of people belonging to a group that is not our own. The safest assumption to make is that all other groups are dumb. Ironically, this likely reinforces the problem: Why is this other group assuming our application doesn't have feature XYZ? Of course it does, because we're good at what we do. But obviously they must not be very bright to make such an assumption...
This principle may be vacuously true, but it's utterly useless. Kind of like noting that drivers should "reduce their relative velocity with respect to nearby massive objects" in order to reduce our country's (ridiculous) level of traffic fatalities. Yeah, that's true. But basically worthless in terms of solving the problem.
You're only cheating yourself!
This is very cynical. Are we really to believe that the only part of Obama's reaction one would find lacking is his lack of theatrical anger?

I would argue that his actions are coming up short too. The simple fact of the matter is that Obama is presiding over a country that is allowing its largest businesses to gain immense profits at the cost of its taxpayers. A few examples include Goldman which is arbitraging the markets with funds borrowed at a near-zero Fed discount window and oil companies such as BP whose profits (6.2 billion EBIT in Q1) clearly indicate that the leases on which it is drilling are priced far too low and don't possibly cover the external costs of drilling.
The difference is that google search is a service, and the ipod and iphones are products. Once a person buys an ipod/iphone, it is their property. It would be nice if the owner of an item could do whatever he wants with it -- for example, install any particular piece of software on it, without needing for Apple, who no longer owns the device, to approve that action.

Google search, on the other hand, is a service provided by Google, not a product to be purchased. Google runs it at enormous expense. For you to be able to use google results to make money by running your own ads, without paying google for the use of their service, is not at all the same as the situation with the ipod/iphone.

You _can_ use google results and run your own ads, of course, you just have to partner with Google to do it and pay them for the use of their service.

I think the author is confusing "open" with "no cost".
Yes, but when you explicitly politicize the funding system you're going to get political results, like healthy support for "gender studies or literature" regardless of the demand.

Just look at the NYT article on a student with $100,000 debt from attending NYU; you had to go down 30+ paragraphs, to the 3rd from the last, to find out her major was in womens and religious study. An honest, non-political article would have brought that out earlier and as something more than an aside.

How that would play out with STEM majors ... I'm not sure. Starting in the '80s there's been an strong push on the supply side which we can see reflected in flattish salaries, so more subsidization instead of (or in addition to) more H-1B etc. visas might be an outcome. But I wouldn't want to bet on it.

Or take the worse fevered nightmares of the Left, would a President Palin mandate that all biology departments teach Intelligent Design instead of evolution? He who pays the piper picks the tune....
Which is exactly why we need a way to make it possible to fire a founder, but not benefit the investors at all.
Alas sarcasm is rarely appreciated here (and I presume / hope you are being sarcastic?)
How is not building an access road to a private beach causing harm?

The fact that people feel entitled to tell others what to do with their own private property is sickening.
I thought the coding/design pattern was to set the initial value of any counter 1 minute (or whatever eon makes sense in your application) from the roll-over so you'd see it 'right away' if it was badly handled. It's like you should use specific types with default values...
Studies have shown time and time again that the courts treat the wealthy and the poor differently...
Look no further than StubHub / ticket scalper sales. There was a great article a while back talking about tacit agreements between originators and scalpers (scalpers provide a baseline load, and detailed / last minute customer care without involving the originator).
Because Facebook only allows you to have one profile and requires you to use your real name.
Part of how things play on the 6 o'clock news is that things are not transparent enough, and there's a lot of opportunity to re/misinterpret things that the populace doesn't have any documentation for.

Somehow, I don't think politicians are being more honest when it comes to what's good for their constituents when they have conversations behind closed doors. I'm sure closed door discussions do allow the capability to be "more honest" about backscratching and payola with the other people in the room.
I meant bad for the US, though I question the validity of calling what may be a massive international clusterfuck "great news".
After Tony Blair had the Freedom of Information Act passed in the UK (2000), more discussions took place off the record and ministers began to avoid writing down minutes for meetings.
Why not be nice and give someone a copy of the slides if they want one? His reasoning makes no sense, he just sounds like an asshole.
+ Google search "related:COMPANY"
It's just a bloody pointer - give credit to someone who truly deserves it - the fellow who invented pronouns!
Without it, opinions opposed to the prevailing majority view point are not only side-lined, but the very expression of an interest in them becomes a cause for controversy and social rebuke.

I think in many ways we're already there, but it's society as a whole causing this rather than government(s) specifically.

Heaven forbid you have an opinion on (for example) gay marriage if that opinion is anything BUT full throated support. Look at what happened to Brendan Eich.

We definitely need to resist government oversight, but the problem is much bigger than that IMHO.
Wow, they actually have a bug report form? I guess it wasn't around when IE6 was launched.
While CSS 3 gives you some new cool features, but they be another performance killers, so use it wisely.

e.g.

http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?commen...
Interesting...perhaps I should have tried this first. I hate cold showers.
I think Michael offers a 60-day no-questions-asked, money-back guarantee, though you should verify that first.