jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is actually very tricky subject. In short:
HTML is SGML application, and in SGML features section (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/sgmldecl.html) it has this little tidbit: SHORTTAG YES. This allows the usage of so called null-end tags: ability to close the tag with a single character, which happens to be solidus ("/").
So in essence <br/> in HTML should mean the same as <br>>, i.e. "/" closes the tag and then ">" is just some text.

If you try to validate document using xhtml markup as html you may get this warning from validator:

NET-enabling start-tag requires SHORTTAG YES
The sequence <FOO /> can be interpreted in at least two different
ways, depending on the DOCTYPE of the document. For HTML 4.01
Strict, the '/' terminates the tag <FOO (with an implied '>').
However, since many browsers don't interpret it this way, even
in the presence of an HTML 4.01 Strict DOCTYPE, it is best to
avoid it completely in pure HTML documents and reserve its use
solely for those written in XHTML.

In XML (and hence XHTML) with the help of some mind-boggling trickery (Web SGML Adaptations Annex) you can have things like <foo/>
+1 for "while swinging from the [z]"
That still normally requires admin rights.
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Jason L. Wright is known by many as "Wookiee" for reasons that may be obvious to many of you. Now I realize that it's been done before, but would it be too much to ask that we consider the term Wookieeleaks when referring to this matter? ;-)
Well the highest temperatures in Tempe in the summer are closer to the highest temperatures on the lunar surface during the lunar day than the lowest temperatures in the Northern US winters are to the lowest temperatures on the lunar surface during the lunar night.

So depending on how you slice it, Tempe might in fact be more moon-like.
London resident here. I would like to see Uber compared to the existing mini cab companies and black cabs rather than some perfect vision of a taxi company.

Uber took off here easily because existing minicabs were all really really crap. Not just expensive but often rude or incompetent drivers. I would guess a lot of them were unregistered and uninsured and their cars barely road legal.

Black cabs are Better but very expensive and still rip off tourists all the tine by charging without the meter. Even with the meter it was impossible to get any idea how much a trip would cost before you took it. And you needed cash.

Example: One time I got a minicab, it took the guy over half an hour to arrive, then he had to actually find me which took even longer. Then I realised the back seats of the car were full of vomit and he made me ride up front with the windows wide open - it was winter and cold. Then he didn’t know where he was going and got lost and then he charged me £30 for what would have cost £10 on Uber.

Uber, by comparison is great.
Correct.

Now, replace "the church" with any centralized apparatus of power and you've described government.
Some heresies:

- React is bad and bloated.

- Startup industry is exploiting idealistic young people, as slaves of VC/venture partner "bet placers" with the promises of often unrealizable rewards, by promoting startup mythology, as lab rats most of whom will end up failed experiments.

- China is not bad and should be supported, and the West can learn much from it, if the West could set aside its insecurity and pomp and see clearly.
> lack of experience and expertise. Canada is a relatively young country with very few major infra projects under its belt.

Gawd. As if Canadians are too dumb to go to international conferences like everybody else. Maybe they wouldn't let us in because we are wearing toques and speak in funny accents.
It's on the map, but you have to click on the little 20 in the upper right of Warsaw
Gender issues and workplace diversity.
"My name is Ripoff Reporter." For all that their schtick is about how they're "educating" the public about how shady VPN services are this could be anyone, including a front for a VPN service that isn't mentioned on the site.
Breaking your jaw is most definitely not cheaper. Not by a long shot.

The NSA could, for example, compromise Comcast routers, use this bug to MITM every single SSL connection to e-mail servers, and collect literally millions of people's credentials and messages.

The cost of doing the equivalent with "break my jaw" techniques is astronomical. You'd need massive manpower, huge facilities, and of course the public backlash would be almost incomprehensibly vast.

Programmers of all people should be able to understand that an automated, computerized solution can be applied to a large scale extremely cheaply, and that this is pretty much the only way to scale up to millions of users. In the NSA's case, it's targets instead of users, but the same principle applies.

The NSA wants all of the data. Technological measures is how to obtain it, and that's what they've been doing.
Perhaps an obvious question, but why do APIs need to be browsable?
Worth noting that Ryanair has a habit of announcing things like this just to get publicity. Previous examples:

In flight gambling: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4400676.stm

Coin operated toilets: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/02/27/ryanair.toilet.ch...

Standing room only flights: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2229734/Michael-OL...
If I'm reading something in language A which deep links me to some documentation, I think it's quite likely that I want to see it in language A, not language B which happens to be my machine's native language.

For example recently I was linked to a Microsoft page via a comment, but it rendered in Japanese, which was a pain to me because I was looking for a specific citation in English. I had to switch language then dig through the site to get back the text the comment author was talking about.
The DMCA takedown provisions are a safe harbor against legal liability -- compliance protects a host against legal liability they would otherwise have to a copyright holder for copyright violations. Implicitly, they are backed by the threat that, if the receiver fails to comply, they will be subject to a lawsuit for copyright infringement.

If you are sending DMCA takedown notices and they are being brushed off, you probably are at the point where you need to talk to a lawyer
Not everyone thinks like you, not everyone has the same experiences and viewpoints as you. There are people all over this country that continue to enlist in and support the military, and view it and the government as forces for good. Obviously he knew there was some controversy, but so what? That doesn't mean he's going to make the same conclusions as you.

You're arguing from a certain viewpoint, and being blind to the fact that people can come from different places that are entirely foreign to you. Maybe he was brainwashed, or willfully ignorant, or something else; whatever the case may be, it's possible for people to come to realizations that they were unable to see before.
One SQL database is all you need. (for now)

Learn a new programming language instead, something completely unlike any you're already comfortable with.
>If somebody chooses to literally work themselves to death, that's their own damn fault

You need to read up on employment law. The Employer/Employee relationship is more complex than a contracting agreement. By law, (at least in my jurisdiction) the employer is legally liable for on the job injuries. (there are some exceptions, depending on jurisdiction.) But generally speaking, if one of my guys tries to lift a server he can't handle and ends up crushing his foot? that's my problem. Of course, I'm insured against that (in my jurisdiction, not having workers compensation insurance is a criminal offense)

I mean, I have had guys who won't wear earplugs, and will use ladders that are breaking. Most employees will do moderately dangerous things if you let them. I think that giving the employer a financial reason to say 'no, throw out that broken ladder and buy one that isn't broken' is a good thing, personally, but good thing or not, it is the law.

This is a huge deal for construction companies, and the primary reason why there is such an emphasis on safety in construction. This insurance is a huge portion of the cost of a construction worker. Workman's comp for desk workers is... a trivially small amount of money, and most of my folks have been desk workers most of the time.

Now, I don't know if the death was related to work or not... but if it was related? legally (and personally, I think ethically) the employer is certainly liable.
If Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme it's the most transparent Ponzi scheme in history.
I get what is actually going on, what I'm saying is that RRC's comment does not go from A to B. It goes from A to A', then jumps ahead to B, without any reasoning why.

Or, as she puts it, "If you feel up to the challenging of following a lot of advanced mathematics, here's the best paper I know on the subject.".

What she writes is basically a long explanation of why the speed of light is not correct, right up until the end, where she hastily covers it up with what the actual science says.

What would be useful would be a dissection of the "best paper I know on the subject". The rest of it just says, "It's not the speed of light... actually yes it is. Don't look further unless you're smarter than I think you are."
No, OP's wording can be confusing if you have never used Cassandra before.

You are right. There is one row per symbol. However with Cassandra any given row can have any number of columns, so when you want to write a new value, you just create a new column for that second (/period).

The writes are not buffered in memory.
Gee, I dunno. I'm no great military strategist or anything, but it seems like allowing the Taliban to establish the ground rules isn't the best approach.

For one thing, not all of the US's potential adversaries are radical Islamists. In future conventional wars, we will need the moral authority to demand that our prisoners be treated in accordance with international laws and treaty obligations. Debacles like Abu Ghraib -- to say nothing of the Iraq war in general -- rob us of that moral authority, in much the same way that the Roman Catholic Church loses some of its moral authority every time another child sex abuse case comes to light. To occupy the high ground, you must first take it.

The OP made mention of how Manning's leak directly led to intelligence sources imprisonment and death.

No, orchestrating a bogus public health campaign led to Afridi's imprisonment. As far as I'm concerned, Afridi can take his place next to Mengele in medical infamy.

Manning did an unalloyed good thing in bringing the CIA's tactic to light [1]. I want foreign operatives to tell the Agency to fuck off when they come up with ideas like, "Hey, let's start a vaccination program so we can subvert the local populace and find our bad guy."

You seem to think that the ends justify the means. That's great, as long as you have perfect knowledge of future consequences. In that sense, both the US government and Bradley Manning made the same logical error. The difference is, his actions had some positive consequences as well as negative ones.

[1]: If, in fact, he did. There seems to be some disagreement with briandear's (lack of a) citation on this.
Can't list many from the top of my head. I've seen 'edit source' links on a bunch of sites.
It's inherent inasmuch as that if companies are able to profit by using 'smartness', they will do it, absolutely. I've yet to see one company large enough to sell TVs with a proven track record of not selling data for ads if able.
I had a similar experience with Kickstarter. I helped fund a project and the guy took the money and ran:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/500095192/md-pen-minima...

https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2013/02/9807-kickstarter-fr...

When I reached out to them, they basically shrugged their shoulders and said there was nothing they could do about scammers ripping people off. Unfortunately, I was patient enough that I had run out the clock on the charge back from my bank.

After this, I'll never use Kickstarter again.
But does anybody here really use dumb TV? How is a dumb TV + a TV stick different from a smart TV?
Does that mean something like an esp32 could interact with it, or does the xbox one have DRM like the PlayStation controllers do?
Not surprising. Every time my Vizio TV downloads an update, it "forgets" that I've opted out of all the tracking and phone-homeing
Or you can just spin up Nextcloud, point it at your B2 storage and call it a day.

It really is drop dead simple and you also don’t have to host it yourself. Every hosted provider supports external storages so you’re never locked in with them. And since you’re not actually using any of their storage you can stay in their free tier forever.

I self-host on DO and it works amazingly well.
If only my Samsung tv would stop killing the hdmi ports of Apple TV’s :(
Minor nit: "Origami" usually refers to paper models made through folding, without cutting or gluing. Since these models involve cutting and taping (and almost no folding), they might be better described as "kirigami", "papercraft", or simply "paper".
How would this process have been different if the car manufactures didn't make this mistake? I am a layman, but after reading that it still sounds like increased demand and temporarily reduced supply for chips is the root cause and not the car industry failing to understand their own demand.
You are trying to dilute the impact the racist history of US has had on minorities via the justice system. Justice and policing policies disproportionately target minorities. Sure the poor are affected by lack of proper representation, but minority populations also happen to be disproportionately affected by poverty. Stop and frisk, racial profiling, less lenient prosecutory discretion, mandatory minimum sentencing, and the War on Drugs all disproportionately impact minority groups compared to Caucasians[1]. If you just think we need to solve the poverty problem, a significant part of that problem is rooted in systemic racism too.

Per the Innocence Project, 70% of the cases they have exonerated have been of a minority group, and often these cases involved underlying racial prejudice to railroad an innocent person into a long-term prison sentence or death.[2]

>As of November 2019, 367 people previously convicted of serious crimes in the United States had been exonerated by DNA testing since 1989, 21 of whom had been sentenced to death.[9] Almost all (99%) of the wrongful convictions were males,[19] with minority groups constituting approximately 70% (61% African American and 8% Latino).

1.https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/un-report-on-...

2.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence_Project#Overturned_c...
> I'd say Kotlin is the language with the most adoption that ticks the boxes.

How? Kotlin is decisively an object oriented language.
Great memories.

Delphi was my first programming language. I learned it from programming magazines I used to buy when I was about 17 years old or so.

My dad had a small supermarket at that time, and I remember the first useful program I built in my life was a small application to scan discount coupons he used to accept. Those coupons had a barcode and I discovered the hand scanners we used were just doing keyboard emulation. So I wrote an application in Delphi that would allow my father to scan all coupons at the end of the day and then print a sheet with a table of quantities, amounts, subtotals and totals of the money he had in coupons... something he was doing by hand before this. He was so happy with this program.

The program itself was very, very, very shitty, but it worked well for him. For example, at that point I didn't even knew that arrays existed, so all the logic and multiplication was done manually, like label43 = textInput25 * textInput24 * 0.1.

I also remember that, in order to send the form to the printer, I wrote code to go control by control, change the background to white, the border to black, calling something like form.printForm() and then restoring all the colors. This caused a horrible flickering when printing... but hey... it worked!!

The best memories I have was that probably, this was the first time I had that "feeling" of having built something useful to somebody. And certainly the best moment was when one of his suppliers who also accepted those coupons asked us for a copy of the program. Great times.

Some days I feel like I've never have built something as useful again since then .
Portswiggers web security course is good, instead of releasing a 3rd version of the Web Application Hackers handbook (which was the standard goto appsec book) they developed this free course with practical exercises.

https://portswigger.net/web-security
Site looks good, but you need your business details on the site for people to take you seriously. I wouldn't deal with an unknown entity, hosting in an unknown location
Thanks for posting; Hydrox becomes the imitator...
If you, like me, find the non-political part of Twitter valuable, I have discovered that Twitter has built in filtering tools.

It's pretty simple. Each time I see a tweet I dislike, I pick one word from it and add it to my "mute word" list. It's now filled with words like "trump", "liberal", "minister", etc, and now I see interesting technical discussions instead of political trash.
Duplicate of this post. [0]

I have the same comment as over there:

> It's important to keep in mind that there are always plenty of outstanding experimental anomalies in physics. At the moment, this is one of ~40 roughly equally credible hints towards new physics, and it's more likely than not that all of those hints will fade away over time. That isn't anybody's fault either: it has always been like this, and it happens because experiments are difficult and subtle.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21616084
The devil is in the details (is the app making real money, are there potential legal liabilities, etc.) — so that may be a conversation to have with an accountant or lawyer that you trust.
What's a solid core desk?
You know maybe it comes down to a definition of "top ranked" — perhaps I'm really thinking of the second tier (say an NYU) next to the very top (say a Harvard).
It would be interesting to have a web application that both people submitted the answers to and it came back with just "same" or "different". Might be one was to genuinely compare quickly. Then based on the number of sames you could discuss the differents (or decline to).
When it comes to inspiration, it's hard for me to name any startup other than YCombinator, even in 2010.
Nope, we got the site up to 1000 uniques a day. Then we put some ads up. After determining that even if we could 10X our ad returns and 100X our traffic, we'd still be making pretty paltry money, we switched away.

I suppose we could have tried to be more like Trails.com, but the site is pretty much a search engine, so we didn't "own" any data besides the index. We just linked through to the appropriate reports about places.

If I ever get some time, I'd love to revive and finish TrailBehind. It was my first big programming project, and it was growing, but there was just no money.

It still gets tons of visits everyday. Turn off Javascript and you'll see we did some interesting SEO stuff.
Unless I'm writing a blog or something, in which case I'm not looking for customers and I really don't care if anyone reads it or not.
It's definitely worth mentioning that "confirmed cases" is going to be a small fraction of actual cases, _especially_ for young people whose disease is most often mild or asymptomatic. I would not be surprised if the number of actual cases were an order of magnitude larger in those cohorts.
The fine should be proportional to the damage. A tiny medical startup that leaks psychotherapy records “hurts” more than a company that leaks your shoe size.

Perhaps companies should buy insurance for this and then that would incentivize insurance companies to help protect their clients. Insurance requirements are a significant safety factor at many physical businesses. The law is important, but being denied insurance claims is a great private-sector solution. Or course for insurance to be meaningful, the penalties have to have significant teeth. However, a mega-Corp (by revenue) would likely self-insure, however they’d still have incentive to do right if the penalties were per record, not per breach. For HIPAA, there’s a fine of up to $10k per record for a breach. 10k times 200,000,000 users affected becomes real money even to Facebook. And, let’s make the fines payable to the user, not the government. The user is the one incurring the harm, not the government. The government still gets their slice since such awards are taxable.
https://github.com/LeoColomb/perfectmotherfuckingwebsite/blo...
> The overly curse happy programmer speak is so very stale.

This one isn't so bad in context. It is several down a chain of pages responding to each other that started with a sweary one. As well as each page adding more points (or arguing agaist previously stated ones) they have added a little extra profanity too.

On its own I'd agree with you assessment, but within the pattern if you have followed the story it fits less awkwardly.
Not claiming its only property damage, sorry if I seemed to imply. I'm sorry you're afraid of what has happened and how its been covered. I think the protests themselves will ultimately lead us to a better place - though of course any violence is not helpful to get to that better place.
Except they hijack scrolling (I think their intention is to “snap” to various sections). On my device, that puts the viewport at some point between sections, and I cannot manually scroll to correct it. So I can’t read the content either. Well done there.
I've made a living running one-person SaaS sites for over 20 years, many of them in the same space as OP (analytics stuff). I can't recall a customer ever asking how many employees there are. It just doesn't come up. I don't think small business customers care. Maybe it matters for more enterprise salesy type businesses.
You seem to be unaware of the existence of capability based security. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security
“On Top of Mount Damavand Forever” has quite an extensive collection of classical music, including some gems of Persian classical music.

A sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv_iUYV9uIg

YT channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2zlRzqMd3I9xd3g4nOVx6Q
> While what they offer is technically superior to all their competitors

I don't have exposure to their offerings but I've heard this and it is rarely qualified with specifics. What is it they have that is superior?
Sorry, but Rust is NOT ready for embedded work, yet. The Rust Embedded guys are making great strides and doing great work, but trying to shove Rust into a critical infrastructure piece right now would be counterproductive, anger a lot of people and likely set Rust back.

As much as I think Rust is a good thing, the breakpoint is when the big game development companies start using it. That will tell everybody that Rust is "good enough" for actual production work.
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You're just witnessing the old joke IRL: If Trump could walk on water, the Left would complain that he can't swim.

I'm not saying this works, but it does seem to me that for severely ill patients there's no harm in doing a large-ish field trial. Prophylactic use should receive more scrutiny.