jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
An unsubstantiated ad-hominem attack. As long as he promises "Ill try and dig up the link(s) but" and never gets around to it, he can accuse Snowden of anything he wants to make up that fits his narrative.

If he had any proof that countered the message he's trying to divert attention away from, he'd provide links to that, instead of just promising and failing to provide links that supported his unsubstantiated attack on the messenger.

It's ironic how irishcoffee wants to divert attention away from the facts and instead towards Snowden himself, much more than Snowden himself wants the attention. It's a textbook example of "narcissism by proxy". Snowden isn't a narcissist just because irishcoffee wants him to be the center of attention.

Ill try and dig up the link(s) but I'm not full of shit so here it is:

http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130609-edward-sn...

Snowden also told the Guardian that he does not want his personal story to divert attention from the larger story revealed by his disclosures. “I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.”

“I really want the focus to be on these documents and the debate which I hope this will trigger among citizens around the globe about what kind of world we want to live in.” He added: “My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.”
> If so, what happens when, say, your apples come bruised?

Me: these apples are bruised

Tesco man: sorry sir, let me refund that straight away. And keep the apples, you could make a pie with them.

Though in five years of online grocery shopping I've only returned a couple of items. The apples have made it all the way unbruised from New Zealand after all, four more miles is nothing.
I don't have space in my apartment for three of everything.
Google is NOT in the business of selling information to advertisers. They're in the business of choosing who to advertise products to based on the information they collect and hold onto.

There is a significant difference between the two.
Amusingly, Intel have been marketing a 486 as their Internet of Things solution, in the form of the Quark CPU used on the first Intel Galileo board. It's been augmented to support the Pentium instruction set and ported to a newer process node and bus, but architecturally it's a 486. It's about as competitive as you'd expect a 486 to be against modern ARM designs - not very.
Is that a typo? I can consider <20 chars small, but not "absurdly" depending on what.
Pen testing not a viable alternative?
Minecraft, yes. Other Windows software, maybe, if you are lucky.
Ack! No. I was mobile and it pinged me to login after generating the comment, then brought me to a blank screen. I'd thought I lost my comment.

That's a good idea though..If only I had the time
The text is not online as far as I know. It's available here for like $10 shipped: http://www.pendlehill.org/bookstore?page=shop.product_detail.... That's where I got my copy.

It was republished in a collection of essays in 1971, so imagine it's still under copyright. Hrm.... I'll take a look at what the collection says when I get home.
> Actually it buys polymorphism.

So does "square and rectangle both derive from polygon," but without the problems. (For "polygon" substitute "shape" or "drawable_thing" or whatever based on what your program is doing).

And "polymorphism" by itself isn't an end unless it makes your program better.

> of course a square is a rectangle.

Let me ask you this: is it your opinion that because a square is mathematically a rectangle that you should automatically express this with an inheritance relationship, even if it makes the program worse?

If so you are exactly the person that my message needs to reach. Please take it to heart and think about the hurt you are inflicting on the people you work with.

> Oh, and by the way: the rectangle/square relationship is not "world modeling" --it's mathematics, as close to pure logic as it gets.

It's absolutely "world modeling." You're trying to take some ontological fact about some object (in this case, a mathematical object) and express that in a software design.
What's funny is that Delicious had changed their UI (again) recently, making it harder to save bookmarks with appropriate tags. It's as if the developers or managers don't actually use it themselves, or have no idea how large numbers of people are using it.

So I've been looking around for an alternative. I've been using Diigo, though the UI (at least for the bookmarklet) is not all that much better.

The comments here about Pinboard, though, motivated me to go sign up. I figure, better now than later after the exodus drives the cost up. :)
Unless I am misreading the terms you are only submitting a URL to a REST webservice you create:

...Once you submit the URL of your service at the evaluation web site http://spellerchallenge.com/, a job will be scheduled to call your web service and post a status update to the Challenge’s community page...

Basically it sounds like you are giving them the right to use whatever service you create for the purpose of the contest. It would be hard for them to evaluate your entry if you didn't give them the right to do so. After reading through the rest of the terms, I can't find any requirement to give them access to anything other than that webservice and, if you win, a paper describing your research (no code requirement specified in any of the submission requirements and if you don't want their money, you don't even have to write a paper to participate).
Looking only at that diff, the fix is a break.

It inverts the sense of the test so that the authenticator of the packet is used even if the tag is null.
The best analogy I've used in explaining Git to my non-tech friends is that "it's like kind of like photoshop layers"

It's definitely not complete but gets them to appreciate it.
I solved it in six using only three unique digits and one unique operator (excluding the required equals of course). I expected it to be more varied and grew more despondent as all of the digits and operators dropped away. Even with the restricted character set I'd expect the operators could produce some varied gameplay, but from the one puzzle I got I'm not too hopeful. Are these hand-designed, or random for each person?
Yep -- Laravel has always been the work of grownups in this regard.

It's a really very good platform for headless PHP. The job queuing stuff is so neat it actually makes me write queueable jobs.

Combined with Lighthouse, Spatie's Stripe Webhooks library, Spatie's MediaLibrary, I've actually had fun with Laravel.

I see no reason for hate now.
EDIT: game's over. It's already been done: https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/

Is anyone keeping track? So now we have:

*wordlists*:

- [wordle](https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/): wordlist picked by creators partner

- [byrdle](https://rbrignall.github.io/byrdle/): wordlist has to do with choral music

- [lewdle](https://www.lewdlegame.com): lewd words

- [sweardle](https://sweardle.com/): 4 letter "sweary" words

- [plantle](https://plantle.netlify.app/): herbs/fruit/flora/shrooms/etc

- [digitaltolkein](https://digitaltolkien.github.io/vue-wordle/): lotr words

- [taylordle](https://www.taylordle.com/): words from taylor swift lyrics

*math*:

- [primel](https://converged.yt/primel/): 5-digit primes

- [nerdle](https://nerdlegame.com/): math equations

- [mathler](https://www.mathler.com): math equations

- [mathle](https://mathlegame.com/): math equations

- [hexle](https://jamesl.me/hexle/): guess the hexadecimal number

- [byrtle](https://jamesl.me/bytle/): guess in base-10, but answers/guesses are converted to binary

*other*:

- [squirdle](https://squirdle.fireblend.com/): pokemon, tells you if you got the right gen, type, weight, etc

- [absurdle](https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html): adversarial wordle

- [dordle](https://zaratustra.itch.io/dordle): 2 words at once

- [quordle](https://www.quordle.com/): 4 words at once

- [wordle](https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/): countries, correctness based on distance

- [letterle](https://edjefferson.com/letterle/): one letter

- [squareword](https://squareword.org/): 2 dimensions!

languages:

- [言葉で遊ぼう](https://taximanli.github.io/kotobade-asobou/): kana (Japanese)

- [wordle (es)](https://wordle.danielfrg.com/): spanish

not wordle:

- [three magic words](https://www.threemagicwords.app/)

---

Edit: added suggestions, categorized them, and added descriptions

I guess I'm the one keeping track
...If you have to ask...
The Apple credit card only shows the number if you reveal it in Apple Wallet app. Their card, technically run by Goldman Sachs, is all white with no numbers. Not sire how to verify but I've heard if you use it with Apple Pay I think it doesn't use that number, but a rotating one.
Okay, XCode crashes on me about every hour of use or so on my Mac Mini (especially when I leave it and come back). None of my Windows 7 programs have crashed on me in over a month. Btw, once XCode crashes, Apple offers to let me send in a technical report.

*Sent from my Linux Mint machine.
Shame this didn't make it to the front page...
Alternative: Public Transport. Works well in large cities. Subways easily achieve double the average speed of cars in dense areas or rush hour. 30km/h vs 15km/h are typical figures.
What are the odds that NSA officers sometimes engage in insider trading?

>Most of the incidents, officials said, were self-reported. Such admissions can arise, for example, when an employee takes a polygraph tests as part of a renewal of a security clearance.

So the only way we catch them is when they admit it. Great.
Forget the email model of public metadata. What about a new protocol where you encrypt your message and its metadata completely, and give it to everyone (for some N). The "address" is just the public key used to encrypt it.
Deep in the article:

it should be noted that since the first half of the twentieth century, Costa Rica has entrusted its defence to the United States, directly or indirectly.

Easy to give up spending money on defense when someone else is willing to spend a LOT of money to defend you.
See, you've got the right idea already!
Anyone knows what kind of project would nim be a good choice for at the moment ? I mean both the language feature as well as available libs. I think i've read somewhere that web server coding isn't a target yet (at least regarding websockets use, which was my primary concern at the time i looked).
It takes you to the trait definition but not the specific implementation. There is an open issue looks like a hard problem to solve, but intellij does it so must be doable.
I dunno. Exceptional though they may be, I can imagine situations in which it would be a net gain to write mp rather than map. I don't think "readability" should only mean "readable by someone who is unfamiliar with the program's conventions and is encountering it for the very first time". It does mean that, but it should also encompass "readable by someone who is working with the code repeatedly, as if it were clay". Devices (like long names) that help you read the code de novo can get in the way after a while. Map itself doesn't mean what it says; it's a convention, one I bet was introduced for brevity. I think it's reasonable for languages and programs to adhere to conventions and ask the reader for patience while first working with them, especially if the notation has been crafted to maximize the intelligibility of the code over the long haul.

One doesn't just sit and speed-read math in a single pass. Nor poetry. Good programs have that kind of density and deserve the same consideration; they are not newspaper columns. The trouble with the shallow notion of readability that says "I should be able to random-access any line of code and understand it right away" is that it results in less intelligible whole programs, which is a net loss of readability and of other things as well.

I wish more good programmers understood this. The bad ones we can just write off, but too many good ones have been schooled to focus overly on the line-of-code. If you have a million lines of code, it doesn't much matter how readable an individual line is; nobody's going to be able to read the whole thing. What we should be striving for is to produce an equally functional program with orders of magnitude less code (which would automatically be a more functional program). This requires a quite different notion of readability.
Environmentalists by definition will complain about anything that even remotely harms the environment, which is good, but not realistic when it comes to crafting policy. I wish there was more of a willingness on the part of environmentalists to pick the lesser of two evils over the short term in order to reach a larger benefit over the long term.
You know, I started getting the feeling I was being trolled early on, but I didn't dare try calling it out here. Trolls seem to be dealt with by the staff but regular users who call them out get spanked too.
We need the Mozilla Foundation for it's values, not it's software.

Things like setting up a free SSL CA [0], and lobbying alongside the EFF are what Mozilla should focus on, privacy advocacy isn't something folks would reject.

But I have been playing with Mozilla's Rust, and I think even if FF drops out of the game, Mozilla should certainly focus on making sure this language reaches production-ready status.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-...
Got it now too (about 2.5 hours after grondilus post). I wonder why it is happening so slowly... Are they mailing us manually?
Fortunately, the authoritative RFC index works just fine for both of those: http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/
Not sure I agree I am dyslexic and I simply do not have all the inate skills that non disabled peopel have eg I have to work hard to spell of "of" and not "ov"

But on the gripping hand I had a reading age of 18 or so at 10 - Average for population is 13 :-)
I think you're asking whether they optimized the rewrite, rather than just ported it from Ruby to Scala? I too would be interested to know if there is any data to this.
Out of ignorance - how so?
Most students do not have a normal high-school graduation exam. Neither is there a national US school curriculum. Therefore, it is difficult to compare GPAs between students from different school systems.

The SAT is also a thinly disguised IQ test, so it serves a different purpose anyway compared to high school grade records.

A lot of people have strong feelings against the SAT, but I actually think it's somewhat egalitarian. Before the SAT, prestigious colleges would only recruit from well-known feeder high schools whose curriculum was known to be rigorous. Since there is no unifying national curriculum, something like it is necessary so students from worse high-schools have a shot at getting into the nicer universities.
Is the source code for ASPSecurityKit available for review? Generally enterprises prefer that when it comes to using a security component in a critical production system.
It's not, I linked the patch. (I don't fully understand the patch so I'm happy to be corrected here, but it looks like it was an ordinary "use atomics incorrectly" bug.)
They just don't want to use the K word.
I am not against knowledge in any way. More research will only help. What I am saying is that in the people who get sick, the mortality rate is 1-3%. This data does not tell us whether that generalizes to everyone or not because merely having these antibodies does not guarantee that you actually won’t get deathly ill. It could be interpreted that you have full immunity or it could be interpreted that you have a weak immunity to COVID. More research is necessary.

However the “pretend mortality rate” you refer to is not a thing. It is 1-3% in people who test positive, which correlates pretty strongly with people who have the disease. Think about it this way: the yearly flu in 2018-2019 had a mortality rate of 1.3-48.7% according to the CDC. The denominator in that was 61,000 or so cases. If you found out that 100,000 additional people were exposed to the flu but had no symptoms and by any definition had no flu illness would that change your outlook on whether the flu vaccine or hand washing is worth it?

Or another example: there is surgery which has a mortality rate of 15% due to post surgery infection. Not everybody needs the surgery, only 100 people per year do. Does that mean the rate of mortality here is fake because the denominator should be 7.5 billion? Or should we only count the people who get the disease that necessitates the surgery?
I've been using Mozy for over a year now. It works fine with my 700GB of storage.
Ok, ignore the increase in my ability from then to now. When I was young I compared myself to every other programmer and thought I was in the top 5%.

Now I compare myself to every other programmer and think I'm average. I also look back and realise that when I was 18 I was probably in the bottom 5% of programmers worldwide.

I agree there is no such thing as generic experience, but within the same domain experience does make a difference. Everything else being equal, an 18yo kernel programmer will have less kernel programming experience than a 35yo kernel programmer. Now I'm not saying this automatically makes the 35yo the best choice or the better programmer, but it certainly does add some value.
Altera (and probably others) has been shipping ARM + FPGA SoCs for years: http://www.altera.com/products/devices/arm/arm-index.html

Interestingly, Altera has basically end-of-lifed that approach in favor of their NIOS II soft CPU. Atom is definitely a bit higher end than NIOS.
> As a fisherman, I've often killed fish as humanely as possible.

Thanks! That's a good link. Yes, I should have said "Commercial fish being caught in quantities large enough that you aren't dealing with each one individually immediately (so, using nets, for example) are not killed humanely". I appreciate the correction.
I noticed two network outages in the Newark data center over the last year. I moved to the London facility in May and have had 100% uptime there since.
Not all rocket fuels are the same. Falcon 9 appears to run on kerosene and LOX, which combusts into H2O and CO2. H20 is all but a noop (technically a greenhouse gas but cycles very quickly and you're not going to affect the net balance with a rocket), and while the CO2 may be a concern, bear in mind that as big as a rocket may be visually it isn't necessarily a big contributor relative to the rest of the industrialized planet as a whole.

Also, remember that one of the things a practical commercial space program will do is start mining the asteroid belt for rare earth metals, many of which are needed for green technologies. For instance, one problem with fuel cells is that there isn't enough platinum on Earth to make them for everybody. It is not hard to spin the math such that private spaceflight could be one of the greenest things to ever happen to industry. (And I felt I should be honest about the word "spin", but there is a truth there too. One must make full accountings to decide whether something is good, not count up the costs, ignore the benefits, and make grand pronouncements.)
> frankly agressive way you denied ever having a problem with admiting mistakes...

Respectfully, that is a straw man. I never made that claim.

I am saying that GGP's claim is unsupported and therefore baseless. Knowing myself exactly how things really work there, I read it as ignorant hyperbole.

To answer your questions, are there problems in Samsung? Samsung has the same problems with communication and admitting mistakes as other companies for whom I've worked of similar size. I've actually seen much worse at small companies, i.e. startups.

I personally never had issues at Samsung. I could directly communicate with anyone in the company and did so, often. When necessary, we coordinated work ahead of time, even after hours. It wasn't a problem.

I don't want to make it sound like working at Samsung was a walk in the park, because it wasn't. Samsung was by far the hardest job I've ever had. But working there taught me that with the right team and good teamwork, you can accomplish anything. We did some amazing things there.
i think you may have misread it. no one claimed any absolute (in)effectiveness. my point was the % of cheating they do prevent is sometimes not enough to sufficiently improve the user experience, despite the large privacy tradeoffs. for example, queue for ranked in R6 Siege... saying "citation needed" on repeat is kind of lazy.

OP's point here was that anticheat - while necessary in practice - is particularly egregious at invading privacy and/or degrading the user's experience, which i think is fair to say goes against the free software ideal. the experience would certainly be worse without any anticheat, but that doesn't mean anticheat couldn't be better or isn't still very non-free.
Correct, this is why I relatedly believe the Linux Desktop is actually a ridiculously huge success. I don't compare it by percentage of market share, I compare it do "how garbage would desktops be if Linux wasn't around to provide useful pressure?"
Get certified in Internal Family Systems therapy. You can do these trainings without being a therapist. I believe that this is going to really blow up as studies come out on its effectiveness.
Having just gone through this question for fun, the codebase DECR command has this clipping code in it to avoid the value going negative:

if(delta > value) {
value = 0;
} else {
value -= delta;
}

A caller reverting operations by sending the same values with the operations flipped around must already keep track that they didn't ask to drop below 0, or they may not get back to the original value.

Plus, the atomic update happens with a lock/release between each operation, so while you might get the same result at the end of your rearranged ordering, clients may see intermediate results and changing the order would change which values they see, which may or may not matter.
The real surprise is that Stallman restrained himself from telling the dev that having children is unethical.
I don’t understand the point about the difficulty of grayboxing with Unity. Can you elaborate? All my projects start with programmer art — often just the built-in primitive (cubes, spheres, cylinders, planes).
Related, the reason why Clang was created is because GCC was specifically made to prevent it from being used with non-free software. You can find that quote around 3:17 of this talk:
https://youtu.be/NURiiQatBXA?t=185

It turned out to be easier in the long run to write a compiler from scratch, than to work with GCC.
Good point, I'll fix both these shortly.
Luckily his opponents can easily all agree that "go home" means "don't go home".
I think a more 'popular' pattern is is to base64 encode the JSON. This is how we do it (tracking pixels/get requests), and lots of analytics/ad tech uses that pattern as well. But I'm not sure on the compression/size.
I've heard rumors that their budget dropped precipitously after the fall of the Berlin Wall...
I was wondering a few months ago why there wasn’t a Spidermonkey implementation for Node; didn’t realise it was tied so tightly into V8. This should be good.
Picking the right tech and keeping your product size small is sensible.
We're seriously considering sproutcore for our next web project. Personally I'm a little uneasy about investing so completely. I mean it's nothing like jQuery or other libraries where you just sprinkle it here and there, it's an entire development methodology. It'll be interesting to see how it goes.

Would be really great to see some feedback from other users.