jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> A properly implemented, simple pepper can only help password security and can't hurt it.

Well, yes. But what is the definition of "properly"? There are definitely constructions of "pepper" that look simple, but drastically hurt overall security:

bcrypt(hmac(password, key), salt)

If hmac returns raw bytes, you're in real trouble: http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2015/03/security-issue-combining-b...

It's sort of like the difference between birth control and counting based contraceptive methods (Standard Days Method). Executed perfectly, they are equally as effective. But with a slight error, one stays roughly as effective (losing maybe 5 to 10% effectiveness overall) while the other drops drastically (down to 10 to 20% effectiveness).

Considering using encryption is as effective as using a pepper, and it's less prone to weakening the core password hash, I suggest using encryption instead of peppers.
The mainstream Standard Model of economics generally replies to calls like yours with:

1. Investment income has already been taxed once labour income, it isn't "fair" to tax it "again".

2. Property value taxes drive out elderly on fixed income.

Soros' promotion of economic reflexivity broadly addresses these responses. As a practical matter however, capital behind investment income (including property interests) has generally captured sufficiently large sections of political, legislative and regulatory infrastructures that you could theoretically muster enough votes to get taxes ostensibly "raised", yet still get defeated in detail when it gets down to brass tacks implementation in those areas.

The way it works is if the political races cannot be tilted in favor of sufficient numbers of legislators to dilute/destroy the implementation of the vote through successive election cycles, then pressure through lobbying will attempt to sway legislative processes (from standard lobbying tactics to clamoring for parliamentary manoeuvres, etc.), and if the changes get through that, then regulatory capture will work on diluting/nullifying enforcement.

It's not hopeless; go into it with eyes wide open.
The premise of "micro" anything in Java sounds attractive. I think the JVM is awesome, but often times I go back and forth on my enthusiasm about it because my recollection is that most things implemented for it end up being bloatware (think Eclipse). In the back of my mind I can't stop thinking any given Java app may be using n times more memory than necessary [1].

By the way, I think they went overboard with the marketing. Jodd libraries are all of: efficient - elegant - fast - lightweight - micro - powerful - slick - super - tiny - versatile. It is almost like they picked a random superlative for each piece. I get the point! I see lots of projects going this route on their marketing materials and it ends up being a bit annoying.

1: http://stackoverflow.com/a/632525/855105
The wu-mao is real.
Oh man how I would love to get something from the Crash Bandicoot series running on my computer now.
I think Lisp was on an upswing before Clojure came around. Certainly, Clojure has helped a great deal but Paul Graham's essays, Practical Common Lisp and a proliferation of libraries relevant to the problems of today's programmers all preceded Clojure and likely contributed to its popularity.

I suspect any significant gains for Prolog will be in the form of Prolog-like DSL libraries for other languages. It looks like there has been some initial work on one for Clojure, incidentally.
Doesn't this happen once every couple of months?
Ebaumsworld. It's always Ebaumsworld.
I know various people who are not tech savvy, and use Signal. It doesn't require a lot of skill to use Signal; on the contrary. IMO, if you can use WhatsApp, you can use Signal. Some features like Axolotl and 2FA even overlap. That's why I decided to switch away from WhatsApp to Signal. Whoever doesn't follow can send me SMS or e-mail.
... and I can lie and show you the vote of someone who voted the same as your orders, unless you following me to the polls (in which case, you might as well hide a pinhole camera in my button).
"minimum wage, socialized healthcare, welfare, unions"

We have those things in Europe and yet our economic periphery (Italy, Spain, Greece, to a degree France and former East Germany) is very similar to American rust belt. High unemployment, numerous industries collapsed, bitter voters casting their lot with populists and extremists.

The Yellow Vests in France were much more violent than anything that happened in USA recently, and they were driven by the same combination of economic uncertainty and alienation from the political elite.
The business model is unsustainable and relies on constantly growing the userbase since there is no recurring revenue.
We used to use this when creating backups on CD-Rs and later DVDs, before hard drives became cheap...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
Not what I said.
There is a right to bear arms in the US. Its specifically there to prevent the gov form getting to powerful and abuse its power. The people who decide on their own free will that guns should be removed form the people put themself and others in the victim position. If you get brutalized by anyone and you voluntary dont want to defend yourself that Is victim mentality. If you CANT defense yourself (for whatever reason) that's a different situation.
But why is Signal not as polished and more importantly, can we do something about it? Would it help if we fund it? https://www.signal.org/donate/
That’s not a good comparison. There are many alternatives to WhatsApp and it’s not a „critical“ infrastructure. In contrast, you sometimes can’t choose your ISP and internet is much more critical.
This is a large portion of why enterprise software sucks - accommodating all those processes is a huge pain in the ass, it tends to scare off many of the people who think that software should be elegant, and it tends to result in overly-complicated, byzantine software from the rest.

There's a lot of money to be made for those willing to cut through the bullshit, but be aware that there's a lot of bullshit to cut through.
tl;dr version: I've always found jobs through my personal network: friends or friends of friends. I've never really used a recruiter or searched a job board.

Microsoft 2003-2007: I was attending WWDC on a student scholarship and ran into a Lead Program Manager I'd known during my internship the previous summer. He was working on Visual Studio and needed a UI-focused person.

Skytap 2007-2009: My girlfriend at the time had an old boss who was looking for Program Managers at his new company (amusingly, he's working on recruiting me for his current employer).

Dibspace 2009-May 2010: Started it with a friend.

Contracting work May 2010-Now: I have two in-flight contracts for Rails and iPhone work. The iPhone project came about because I knew a guy whose company might need one and I cold-called him about it. The Rails project was a friend-of-a-friend thing. I'm putting together a proposal for another iPhone app contract right now (to start later this summer). I heard about that one through another FOAF.
My girlfriends boss introduced me to a former colleague of hers. Later I called him up and asked if he was hiring. He said no, but to keep in touch. So I did and one day he called and offered me a job.
That's just about the coolest response to a letter one could hope for - the kinda thing you frame and show your friends (or in this case, highlight on a blog).

Handwritten is awesome as it is, but the little sketches give it such a great personal touch. Very classy.
Michigan's deposit system is very effective at getting beverage containers recycled!
It’s harmful to the economy. They should just plug those tax loopholes
I've never had public profile information. Only visible for friends (and my phone number wasn't even visible there). How would my private phone number get into that dataset? That would suggest that they have more than just public data.
The fun thing is you can s/PSL/DNS/g and the statement still holds. Same for BGP
You do own the property after purchase, just not land. You lease the land. After 70 years, you will need to pay for the lease again, it automatically renews. I believe it is set to 2% (too lazy to do research now). About the price, it varies a lot depending on city and area.
> So you want the government to force private companies to continue doing business with someone they no longer wish to provide services to?

OP didn’t make that argument, and I’m not going to make that argument.

That said, with or without government coercion on the counter party, innocent until proven guilty is a fairly good standard to apply. It’s more important when it concerns the use of government force, but that doesn’t mean it is unimportant when dealing with private parties and it is fair to judge Twitch for not applying innocent until proven guilty as a standard when it comes to Twitch-streamers.

It’s easy to get someone arrested, and it is easy for a cop to make an arrest. An arrest is not a presumption of guilt and shouldn’t be used as a signal of guilt.
>and decided to stop the war against their users
The thing is that the question is who are their actual users?
Truth is just that we arent the actual users, by we I mean the tech savvy crowd we are a minorityand form what I have seen the majority of the users of notion are happier with they way it has evolved, and at the end of the day notion and places like it are going to follow that, I dont like it but this is usually what the war against their "users" is a byproduct of.
Not, honestly. I'm sure it depends on the company.
The virus spreads in an instant,

Your holes are its seducing.

It slays from a distance,

You're on the list for

E-XE-CU-TION

GAAAAAARRRRRRRGH!!!
Oh dear. Seems like the competitors have already eaten Clubhouse's lunch and they still don't have an Android app yet. Even if they do release it, the clones are already ahead of them.

Looks like a16z and the other VCs have to try even harder to pump the steam into this hype train; Its looks like its about to get de-railed by the big players.
So you're proposing a natural selection strategy that would, on the evidence so far, probably kill around 1 million people in this country alone and possibly cause long-term health consequences that we don't fully understand yet for millions more who get the virus but don't die of it?

And that's still making the implicit assumption that the greater number of people getting the virus and therefore greater number of opportunities for new mutations to develop don't make things any worse, for example by evolving a mutation that severely affects other demographics in the same way that the current known variations of the virus affect elderly or otherwise vulnerable groups and/or that can withstand the treatments and vaccines we have available so far.

And it's also making the obviously false assumption that the NHS has the resources to offer the best possible care to everyone who does get the virus in your scenario, and that care for others with serious conditions is not compromised causing further suffering and loss of life.

I don't think most people would agree that such a strategy is either ethical or likely to be more effective at controlling the virus than the lockdown measures, under the present circumstances.
Try:
units 3km miles
> What enabled/led them to make those choices where others haven't?

Others have to some extent — AMD is certainly not out of the game — so I'd treat this more as the question of how they've been able to go more aggressively down that path. One of the really obvious answers is that they control the whole stack — not just the hardware and OS but also the compilers and high-level frameworks used in many demanding contexts.

If you're Intel or Qualcomm, you have a wider range of things to support _and_ less revenue per device to support it, and you are likely to have to coordinate improvements with other companies who may have different priorities. Apple can profile things which their users do and direct attention to the right team. A company like Intel might profile something and see that they can make some changes to the CPU but the biggest gains would require work by a system vendor, a compiler improvement, Windows/Linux kernel change, etc. — they contribute a large amount of code to many open source projects but even that takes time to ship and be used.
Interesting. IIRC, at least some of those (Descent and Descent II) have source available.
When American companies invade the privacy of European citizens, it's because Facebook is collecting marketing data to make a buck. The concerns the US has about these Chinese companies is not that these companies are collecting too much marketing data, but that the CCP has coopted them into doing espionage operations on their behalf. Note that the US didn't care about these Chinese companies back when they were only collecting marketing data. It has only been since Xi's recent consolidation of power and crackdown on the autonomy of big tech that these issues have been hot topics.
http://imgur.com/Lr6aI.png

Social Networking is Destroying The Other Parts Of Our Internet\
This has been proven to not work (or work very poorly). Can supply references if you'd like.
Have professional experience with dissolving
1. failed (general) partnerships
2. with profitable businesses
where
3. the other guy is clearly nuts?
Yup, and you corrected my mistake as well. For some weird reasons, I typed ^ (xor) when I was actually thinking of | (or).
In our case we were able to convince some of our clients to let us keep ownership of the iOS code developed for them as long as we didn't sell it to their local competition. We basically gave them a license to do whatever they wanted with the code while we kept all ownership/IP/ability to create a product with it.

After 5 months developing a fairly complex iOS app for a local cable company (think i.TV + Netflix like vod recommendations) it sure feels that we have created some value as we can go out and create spinoffs or repackage the same solution to other (non local) cable providers.
I wonder if this was related to the crappy weather in the south bay? My power was out for from 8 until 8:45ish (PST). Of course, I would hope their datacenter has a UPS and generators...
That is cool. Are there specifc bootcamps that you think people should avoid? Have you thought of running your own bootcamp inside of just writing a guide?
Here they are: http://www.evolvingai.org/fooling

There is also a video summary of the paper there.
Around 1998 I was working for a small mom and pop computer/networking shop and had a customer successfully run Ethernet over barbed wire so he could network between his house (where the main computer was) and his barn.

It was about a fifty foot run at 1Mbps. He did have issues when it rained, once the posts got wet enough to ground the wires.
Go back to the late 1990s and AOL had it. When I was in college (early 2000s) away messages were all the rage.
Someone scheduled the conference call an that person would determine the location (or I will log in at X local time on Y date which should be attached to the event noticed and then figured out by my calendar).

Well, to get from [Location] -> [Time Zone] is a group of rules including the date.

UTC is nice for a lot of calculations, but it really isn't in a user's perspective.
I feel like 3 seconds to load a page is still slow. I assume that is time to build a page that doesn't hit cache, and that Wikipedia is using something like varnish to cache pages most of the time.

Still, 3 seconds to load a page feels like a slow page and should be a lot faster.
Marketing is a conversation: listening to people say what they want, and telling them what you've got. The "listening" bit feeds back into your product development, advertising is part of the "telling" bit.
Your claim that the reviews are fake is untrue. These are genuine reviews. But if you don't believe me, I can't change that. I can change what ends up on the printed page, though. We want these books to be the best they can be, and if you want to help, here's how:

Submit errata for the book when you find a mistake:
For Learning iPhone Programming, it's http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/create/errata/?b=5073. For the Cookbook, it's http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/create/errata/?b=15595. We don't pay people for errata, but I'll make an offer to you and anyone else reading this: for every 10 new errata submissions of yours that we can confirm, I'll give you an O'Reilly ebook of your choice free.

Be a tech reviewer on an upcoming book:
We do pay a modest honorarium for this. You'd be reading the book, looking for mistakes and other issues. Contact me for details.

To take me up on either offer, drop me an email at bjepson at oreilly. Act now, and I'll hook you up with an early access ebook for an upcoming book that I'm working on, Programming iOS 4: http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920010258. I'd be interested in your opinion of that book.

Thanks,

Brian
The support rep has given you wrong informaton. We ask all of our developers to put a notice in the Details page of their app, which APNDroid clearly had posted for all users to see. We also provide an API for developers to build custom opt-in and opt-out for the push notification ads.

Some users give bad ratings to many types of ad units, including rich media ads and full page interstitials.
That doesn't mean a developer should avoid them.
He actually does:

http://www.instapaper.com/publishers
Patch the bug Facebook.
The closest I've found (and spent 10s, if not hundred+ hours reading) are: System Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly System Administration) by Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci [1] and the somewhat dated (and Solaris centric) Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet (2nd Edition) [2]

I'd love to hear that there were better book out there - if anyone has read either of those two, and has found a better one, I'll be one-clicking it in 30 seconds.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/System-Performance-Tuning-OReilly-Admi...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Sun-Performance-Tuning-Java-Internet/d...
Wasn't that the idea behind the Amazon appstore? Bringing an Apple-esque restricted store to Android to compete with Google's free for all market?
AKGs are decent headphones. Those look like 701s maybe? Or the discontinued 272? They're comfortable at least.
Cubics vs. Quadratics is not as big an issue as you thikg. Cubics flatten down to quads just fine. (side not: Flash was all quadratics). The hard parts is that vector graphics just doesn't map well to gpus. Way too much CPU work involved. Another really big problem with vectors is that they are relatively unbounded. With raster you scale pretty linear in the number of pixels. Vectors jump from very easy to very hard all the time. And in graphics you need to care about the worst case.
This doesn't make sense though. Are you really suggesting that younger programmers believe they're in the ranks of the top programmers in their subdomain? I compare myself with programmers around the same age and experience level as me, not with domain experts. That seems like such a ludicrously obvious point to make.
They're highly amused at how they have misinformed places like HN about places like NSA.
I looked hard and can't find the exact verse, but there's a specific verse in the Quran that basically says the same thing:

If all of humanity gathered to believe, it wouldn't add Him anything. And if all of humanity gathered to disbelieve, it wouldn't remove anything from Him.

People still have this latent idea of God as an old bearded guy (or any variation of that myth) "interacting" with the world (via spells and miracles).
Ah that makes sense, like a finale animation after the game has ended.
I felt that too. Especially the "typety type" part.
> --tab-width

> --single-quote

I mentioned.

> --use-tabs

Relates to the "indentation width."

> --print-width

Yes, that's another big user-configurable parameter.

> --trailing-comma

This exists only for JS version compatibility.

> --no-semi

> --no-bracket-spacing

> --arrow-parens

Yeah, those are there too.

---

But that's really it for JavaScript formatting options. Like I said, this produces very standardized code in the ecosystem.

Compare to clang-format (which suports JavaScript): http://releases.llvm.org/5.0.0/tools/clang/docs/ClangFormatS...
Probably shitty LED bulbs with poor drive circuitry. Eye strain is usually caused by flicker, which often comes from bulbs that use PWM (cheap dimmable bulbs) or don’t have large enough capacitors (or any at all and just rely on a diode and resistor to manage voltage, so you end up suffering from 50/60hz flicker, frequently half wave rectified making it even worse).
Vulkan really shouldn't be a protocol. What you really want is DRI3/Present extensions, which are fine. But then you still have issues with window resizing and reconfiguration, and the difficulties with COMPOSITE... basically you're asking for Wayland by the end.
> [...] and labor prices are still stagnant for decades.

Labour's share of GDP has roughly stayed constant. GDP per capita has increased, both real and nominal.
It looks like they had a problem with the king takes queen animation. This video [1] includes that animation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YcRkzCvPHI
San Francisco had many private bus lines until the 1970s. They were called "jitneys." The city made them illegal as Muni service continued to degrade, to shield Muni from competition.

It's unclear how Chariot is getting around San Francisco's anti-jitney regulations. My guess is they're just ignoring it and operating illegally.
I hate how drone has become synonyms with UAV. All UAVs are drones, not all drones are UAVs.
I've seen the following argument a thousand times:

"Well the marginal cost of a copy of [some digital good] is 0 so it isn't stealing!"

That argument is actually completly irrelevant.

I took a train the other night, and there were only 2 people in my whole car. The previous week it was packed. Both times I had to buy a ticket at the same price.

If you don't see what that has to do with pirating music (or software, or movies, or TV), then you don't really understand economics.

Everyone compares it to widgets where there is some fixed cost and some marginal cost, and suddenly the marginal cost is 0 so we should be able to have it for free right? Right?

Wrong. The train has 0 marginal costs, and all fixed costs. Whether that train is empty or full, they pay for the conductor, the engineer, the maitanence and the gas. But you are expected to pay for your ride whether you are 1/1000th of the total population on the train or 1/20th. And if you don't pay, you are breaking the law. Stealing services.

Digital goods are things with a high fixed costs (software developers, authors, directors, actors etc) and 0 marginal costs. There are plenty of other things out there with the same economic model and you are expected to pay for all of them. The only difference is that it is far easier to steal from content creators than service providers.

So please correct everyone you see making that arguement. The fact that copying the music costs nothing really doesn't matter. It comes down to dividing the fixed costs by a certain amount of customers, or there simply won't be content creators anymore. Maybe the songs need to be 2 cents each, I don't know, but the fact is there are high fixed costs and they need to be covered somehow by someone. The lack of marginal cost just doesn't matter.
It depends on how you define 'problem', but here's one small example ( http://fabathome.org/?q=node/110 ) and I've been reading recently about others. e.g. all kinds of small kitchen, bathroom, and utility items that are currently sold at relatively high margins in stores.

I remember when mp3s were too big to store or move easily, and couldn't be played portably. Piracy was purely a geek thing then. That situation changed incredibly fast.
The best time for a reminder is when you're least expecting it.