jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I didn't see any mention of a DMZ. What percentage of his company's servers are hardened in the way he describes? What about his users' desktops? There's got to be some point at which one declares that the "administrator" of a computer (an individual user with a laptop, even) must be protected from himself.

What I liked about his argument was that he was actively thinking about threats instead of applying a heuristic of "it's ok -- we have a firewall." With all this said (and asked), I'm no security expert.
Either that or act like he bumped your testicles too hard and fall to the ground clutching them and writhing in pain. Soccer fans know this maneuver as "taking a dive".
> It does seem, however, that the dam is about to break on the TSA. The number of stories I see on the net seems to show dissent skyrocketing, although I admit this is a limited sample.

The trouble is, increasing dissent by 100x still doesn't make much of a dent if it just means 99.9% of people are willing to be abused instead of the 99.999% it was before. From the comments by security staff typically quoted in these articles, it sounds like almost everyone sucks it up in practice, whether because they don't care or because they're too worried about not being able to make an important journey to protest the point.
It has been done in laptops for wifi antenna for a while now. the macbook air uses its frame as a wifi antenna as well. I doubt you could patent it (or protect it)
But of course, your daily commute releases more CO2 than the occasional long-haul flight. So unless you ride your bike to work everyday, this is a premature optimization.
Yes. But we are talking about the high level mobsters. Those that grabbed whole enterprises and were running multi-million dollar racket jobs, not local street gangs.

Some people think of local street gangs because they are just more visible, I am thinking of mobsters who were running the whole country. There were often connections between the two but both were operating at different scales and in different domains.
and here it is. but the other reads are pretty good as well.

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/05/11/the-dunning-kruger-ef...
If they don't consider history as a minor, they should refuse to grant clearances to anyone under 25 or 28.

I also seem to recall being granted S, TS, TS/SCI, etc. is a lot easier/faster if you're in the military than if you're a contractor. Different queue, different investigators, and higher presumed loyalty to the US. (i.e. you were willing to roll the dice and potentially be stuck as a cook for 4-8 years, which a spy might not be willing to do)
Not only funny, but bad SEO. They'd be better off separating the words rather than concatenating them.
This was submitted here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1410917, but I wanted to comment to mention that it automatically refreshes with good pictures.
I was under the impression "placebo" includes the effects of:

- the extra exercise of going to the medical center

- better behavior under monitoring

- talking to the test administrators (important for e.g. depression)

- better organization to follow the intake schedule

Which are not affected by knowing you are in the control group. Is this really a surprise to the medical community, or is the article just going for the "mind over matter" and general woo line?

Also:

open a door toward ethical use of placebos in daily
medical practice

Haven't this been extensively discussed and ultimately rejected for a long time?
> So is hiring a stranger with a great github rather than your brother in law, hiring a woman if she is the most qualified, etc.

Oh, such wonderful news. So height is not a requirement for positions of power now! Someone should change the wiki page. And well, it might just be sheer coincidence that many big names in India have women CXOs. The western style management has ensured that women in the west are very well empowered to reach positions of power without any gender bias troubling them.
In the US, we have a fetish for proving people guilty. That's not to say our false conviction rate isn't through the roof, but even though everyone knows that someone is totally guilty, we don't do anything unless we can prove it.

So the sad fact of the matter is, if someone is a good enough criminal -- for instance, a CEO of a company with dozens of lawyers to advise him, who actually manages to not put anything in writing, and has enough firewalls between him and the activities in question to create reasonable doubt and plausible deniability -- he can totally get away with it.

On the other hand, if someone shows up and it's all amateur hour, and they all but gift wrap a big pile of evidence of their misdeeds, notarize and hand-deliver it to the authorities, we shouldn't hold off on prosecuting them just because smarter, bigger criminals are getting away with it, any more than we should hold off prosecuting the easy homicides just because the hard ones go unsolved.
Exactly. When i hear a discussion in public, i won't ask for permission if i want to use or reproduce part of it elsewhere. I would give them attribution (i don't like to pretend that i came up with some idea when it isn't true) but that's all.

The attitude of content creators is quite schizophrenic. On one hand, they want to spread their work as far as possible, on the other hand, they want to limit access to it. The source of this stance is of course their business model often based on copyright law which links the financial reward of the author with the artificialy created copying limitations. Replace this with some other model where content creators reward is not depended on the number of copies sold or on number of page hits, but rather on some more rational measure like the amount of time and effort put into the creation itself, on the popularity/reputation of the creator and quality of his previous works. Then, this 'copying is stealing and stealing is bad' attitude disappears because i believe that no sane author would realy object against spreading of his works.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? The point wasn't that earning money requires controlling the flow of information, since that is absurd. The point is that despite your views, a great many people not only desire, but actually need compensation for their work.
I'd always heard "manager", but I think "accountants" is actually a stronger case.
Sentiments like this please me greatly. Out of curiosity, what do you prefer?
> Pretty much everything else you said is wrong.

and yet you're unable to explain why, although you can repeat the same insult repeatedly in the hopes that repetition will make it true. Telling…
I totally agree, just like Secret and Yik Yak, some will use it for harm, some to unload tension, and some just for the lolz. Only the repercussions here might get you fired. Which is probably the reason this app was invented in the first place.

Also, that's part of why I shared it. I'm an agent of chaos.
From my experience of using this for a few weeks now on Chrome, I would recommend this over AdBlock Plus etc. I haven't done any specific performance tests and personally no numbers to back it up. However, I do have the subjective impression of improvement.

I'm using it in combination with µMatrix.
I see this a lot in general online.
Paypal treating people like absolute crap and simply locking their funds for 'suspicious behaviour' and then just sitting on them for very long periods of time, gaining interest at the end-user's expense.
The trouble is, Paypal can get away with it because they're so embedded in the standard end-user's online way of life. Shopping on Amazon? Might as well use Paypal, it's quick and easy. Ordering Pizza? Hey, I can just use Paypal for this, too!

I don't see the issue resolving itself until a viable alternative starts to knock Paypal off its golden pedestal.
The issue is picking a winner. As Warren Buffett points out, there are thousands of bankrupt airlines and car companies. If you pick a loser, you wipe out no matter how well the industry does, as consolidation is inevitable particularly in high barrier to entry industries. This keeps early valuations low.
You're in luck! I actually have two friends who just started their own little space in Chamonix, might not be the most professionally organized office right now but really fun guys and awesome location

http://theskilocker.com/
The phrase "damned with faint praise" comes to mind…
Last statement on this subject:

I will just hold it that I do not agree with all of you and see it as violent. That you do not see as such scares the living crap out of me. Your idea of mute is to downvote, not ignoring a commentator, someone else's idea is just more physical, but ideologically similar.
To make things worse, it's basically impossible to remove a domain from the PSL as no one knows how software built against the PSL would handle it. A removal could break tremendous amount of software that people rely on.
- I'm a young college grad. It's difficult to new meet people without that workplace structure

- I'm far more productive in an office

- Onboarding remotely really doesn't work at all

In short, working from home is boring, lonely, and stressful all at the same time.
If you explore Apple apps for utilities/tools like Qr code reader, currency converter, call recorder, vpn, etc. you can find hell lot of similar scammer who are playing it hard for apple to catch.
> It was the only thing NOT totaled when we got hit with ransomware, and is what holds our PII for our clients/workers.

Because it's actually more secure, or because it's so obscure that the malware didn't know what to do with it?
I am a huge fan of Chick Corea; he is my favorite jazz pianist. I was saddened to hear this news this afternoon. My very first jazz album outside of smooth jazz was “My Spanish Heart,” which was my introduction to jazz fusion. I then discovered Return to Forever and the Elektric Band, and I also learned about Chick Corea’s post-bop work. Chick Corea’s music has been a mainstay in my life for the past 15 years. I love the playfulness of his piano playing and his compositions, which I feel is missing in a lot of music. He has helped inspire me to play: I received an electronic wind instrument (EWI) for Christmas that I’ve been practicing.

The jazz community lost a legend. RIP Chick Corea.
How do other countries devastated by war have to do with US economic equality?

Shipping technology has only gotten better since than too but that just hurts mom&pops and helps online retailers.
I liked the power of graphviz and especially tools like https://dreampuf.github.io/GraphvizOnline/ to sketch out data flows or architecture for a new project without having to worry about layout or style. Kind of like markdown or latex.

I wanted something that could use actual component icons but also that could run in the browser, no programming language script to run or backend server.

The UI is not great (backend dev by trade) and the layout engine could use some improvements but hopefully it's useful to someone.
Lose password manager master pw: you lose access to your accounts

Have your master pw compromised: have all passwords compromised

You're taking multiple failure points (which certainly has a higher chance of a failure than a single failure point) and replacing it with a single point, with lower chance of failure BUT with bigger consequences
That's not a problem, that's a feature.

Competition between frameworks and libraries ensures that there are multiple solutions to meet multiple needs, and also that consensus, where it exists, exists due to the popularity of a package, not the dictate of someone setting an arbitrary "standard" for the community. You can guarantee that Laravel is going to be updated because people use it and contribute to it, not because it's the only option.

And there's no guarantee that a single solution is going to keep backwards-compatibility. That is always entirely at the whim of the developer. Removing room to innovate only guarantees stagnation, it doesn't guarantee the standard.
Yeah, the lack of awareness in these comments is pretty entertaining.

"Tesla will teach those dealerships who have too much influence over the legislature a real lesson by holding that same legislature hostage to achieve their own selfish corporate goals."
I like Common Lisp's LOOP, personally.
Greplin et al always have the exit scenario where their product is so much better than whatever (say) Facebook has in-house that Facebook buys them as a social-search talent-acquisition play.

This sort of scenario might be easier to identify and invest in than "the next Facebook".
It could benefit from a better CPU and more memory of course, but heat's been the only real issue - when it gets too hot OS X's kernal_task does some stuff to keep the CPU busy doing nothing which really impacts performance a lot.
I think that might have something to do with the underlying GPU capabilities of your computer, happened to me as well with Chrome 12!
Yes, but that's robotics, not AI. Highly advanced robotics can exist without much "intelligence" (however you define that). The golden ring in AI is human-level (or better) intelligence which may or may not require robotics.
>Must purge my github account of cruft...

You just summed up my third thing: organizing things instead of doing.

"I should really work on that project that's important to me, but I can't do it without 'clearing my mind' first. Better clean out my github/bookmarked reading list/workshop/garage/etc."

Turns out I'm really good at getting ready to do things.
The tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, has a total of 120,000 square metres of windows. It's already got some solar panels that generate 690MWh of energy a year, as well as heating most of the water used in the residential bit. Obviously that's a special case (it's huge and it's in an ideal location) but it's not entirely unbelievable that other buildings could benefit from this sort of technology.
Yeah, that's a problem in a lot of fields, not just programming.

Just from my own experience, writers, marketers, filmmakers (and all the sub-disciplines within filmmaking), poker players, and entrepreneurs all suffer the same challenge these days. It's all too easy to get caught in the read -> feel you don't know enough to start yet -> read more -> never actually finish anything trap.
> but you can bet lots of people will be more attracted to someone who looks young with a full head of hair compared to someone who has typical male pattern baldness.

People are attracted to confidence. A person who has issues about self-image (baldness being one particular aspect of that) will always be less attractive from that angle alone.

If you're bald and feel self-conscious about it making you unattractive, the better road to attractiveness is to stop being self-conscious (easier said than done), rather than stopping being bald (even harder to do). This is basically what the OP is alluding to: the solution to the "baldness problem" isn't treatment, but rather acceptance.
Yeah, that was weird to me also. It just sounds like YC companies collectively use enough AWS to get some premium tier support. I assume GCP has something similar, but YC companies don't spend enough there to get it.

Apples and oranges.
In the culture war the U.S will come out on top like they always have. They are the kings of soft power and they fund academics to spread their ideology all over Europe. You can see it taking root in our universities.
Unless our politicians wake up in a massive way we'll follow wherever America goes and it's not a trip I'm looking forward to.
Confusing title, quick read. This is about sales/cs not product.
GPS is a good example. Heavy math. Lots of physics. Not dumb at all, and you'd never get sub-1m accuracy with ML-GPS.

Once you get it right (& get a lock) it works every time, instead of occasionally deciding you are in Nome.
Tell it to Switzerland. Also, I bet the dominant crime in industrialized nations, wage theft, was uneffected by there being fewer guns.
I was able to get 130k free GCP credits (over 3 years) just by filling out the startup forms... as a complete nobody. You don't even need an affiliate to sponsor you.
But 30% is still a lot.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11530734 and marked it off-topic.
I don't get it. What are music cd's and HP calculators doing there?
Yes, I said Blueprints (and have had quite a lot of fun with them) - https://twitter.com/mojobojo/status/471669248910049281

Was curious what the main difference was.
This looks insanely cool (congrats!) but from a purely practical perspective I'm not sure if I'd want to use it even if it was a perfect, finished product. After all, I'd have to forget everything I ever learned about text editors and IDEs.
We will all be coding in Rust on Rails by then.
fb employees, do you really use this IDE?
Ok, I know a bit about Erlang and think elixir is cool.

And for do a professional work, go for it is the right thing.

But here the problem of "just do erlang, is better" and where the JS folks are doing BETTER is that they try to show how do things, not just say this or that is better.

And look: I read that post, and because I see some functional stuff (map, filters, blah) I get the impression that was a good explain!

I know... a lot of JS code around is a terrible hack, and kinda cool/sad/funny how in JS are re-inventing (and a lot of times, poorly) what is better in X.... but as marketing, they are winning.

So:

Where is something like this that show how build reactive properly? And I mean, build, not just use..

And hopefully in a digestible manner. I read a ton of stuff related to languages (because I wanna do one, for fun) and is like this:

http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/fppatterns/ivorytower.jpg

So I think some examples in how do this well and why are needed.

P.D: For example, http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/fppatterns is probably the best advocacy that I have found about practical functional thinking. Is the reason I have trying F#!
No snark, but I did completely misunderstand your comment[1]. In any case, I apologize, and I learned something new!

[1] BTW, if you're mentioning a term that isn't widely known, it's helpful to link to a definition.
i guess it is like with Groupon - the value is in the spinning of the wheel of the business. The faster the wheel - the more money gets invested which are directed toward spinning the wheel even faster.

Bubble prediction is easy. I have predicted it already some time ago :) The value is in predicting of the burst of the bubble. And so far there is no such in sight... When this sentiment consume majority - i guess that would be the time :)
I don't know what it is, but the xiph.org blog posts always seem so well written and interesting to me. Probably that I perceive the subject matter as magic :)
for all the people waiting for an IDE with proper Hack support I'd say this is fairly dramatic
As it happens I recognised the effect without needing to see the code, but had that not been the case, the JS file begins:

/** @license
* DHTML Snowstorm! JavaScript-based Snow for web pages
* --------------------------------------------------------
* Version 1.41.20101113 (Previous rev: 1.4.20091115)
* Copyright (c) 2007, Scott Schiller. All rights reserved.
* Code provided under the BSD License:
* http://schillmania.com/projects/snowstorm/license.txt
*/
I did see the case studies - that was nice. Just suggesting that you integrate a case study into part of the product tour presentation as I think it could help bridge the disconnect between tool and solution to a problem. For me, it's easier to understand not just what a tool does but how it will solve a problem for me. I understand features more when I see practical applications.
Fascinating story...

More than the shotgun (I would spect to die and Im not very curious on that matter) what really intrigues me is what would I feel after 10 years of zero sexual activity.

Sexual feelings are really strong, that has to cause real pain through the years, I dont know if being grateful of being alive could easily overcome them
Is that really necessary? The article is only a few years old. Also, the elements involved (in this case, C) have not changed significantly in that time.

Tagging posts with dates like that IMHO encourages the view that anything technology related is instantly obsolete. Since the industry seems to keep rediscovering old ideas every couple years and then rejecting them as "old", this probably does far more harm than good.

"You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time of amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to the dusty archives, dig out something fun, and go for it. It's worked for many people, and it can work for you." - Ron Minnich
Small stuff adds up. Also, in Ruby you can use the same construct to iterate over any collection.
I think the FSF is off here. Time's Person of the Year was never about positive or negative influences, just influences. To prove my point, former honorees include Deng Xaioping, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin. Honoring Zuckerberg as POTY only indicates that they see him as the single most influential person of 2010 with regards to world events.
How is that crazy? iOS is orders of magnitude more complicated than some JavaScript.
If they didn't I imagine that Sony is afraid that they could have. I'm more curious if credit card numbers etc. were stolen...
Anyone know how they were planning on getting revenue? I know that can sometimes be a snarky question, but this seems like a good idea and I'm genuinely curious... especially because it looks like they launched as a free service. Were they thinking this is something that a small business owner would eventually pay $5-20/month for?
Wow. Considering that you can't play Netflix on your PS3 without the Playstation Network operational and the article on the front page about Netflix being bigger than cable companies, I wonder how much this is affecting Netflix traffic. I realize you pay for Netflix whether or not PSN is working but then who has responsibility that you can't stream?
Never give up, keep on trying, your aha moment will come.
I'd be happy with automated renewal. Certificates that don't expire seems like a bad idea.
How is Japan a cautionary tale? They're one of the most (the most?) developed countries on earth, enjoy one of the highest standards of living and economically punch well above their weight (based on population and access to resources).

I don't see where the problem is... The vast majority of countries, even many western countries only wish they had Japan's 'problems'.
At the two large orgs I worked at, they both had procedures for moving to new departments. Had to be in the current role for at least X months (12, usually, i think), with good reviews for the last year or so; new department wasn't allowed to offer a raise, so offering less wasn't an option either, except for geographical market adjustments. Needed approval from new and old managers too.

If you have an excellent relationship with your current manager, you could probably ask them about the details and if they know anywhere you might be more engaged. If it's not a great relationship, that's probably not the way to go; scope out the internal documentation and see what the options are, and talk to prospective new managers first.
BTW this sort of happened in Camden NJ. Continually crime ridden and poor, it's the East St. Louis of Philadelphia. They had problems negotiating with the fire department and police for years over budget cuts, contract negotiations etc. Eventually they fired the entire police force and created a joint one with the entire county of Camden. Things seem to be working slightly better since then.

Anyway I am sure I got some details wrong, it was fairly interesting news when it all went down.
That is not what this link is. This is a link to a project that aggregates all popular font icons (font awesome, material, etc) into a single project.