jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Assigning different semantics to two passages of code whose only syntactic difference is in the composition of their whitespace seems like it might be a misfeature.

I'll admit it's a bit iffy. However, newlines are already significant as statement separators, so this isn't totally outside the bounds of reason.

name = { "Fred" } // implicit return

This looks a little too similar to a setter definition to me. Also, it makes sense here, but would look really strange for a lambda:

people.map {= |person| person.name }

The typical solution is "=>", like:

people.map (person) => person.name

But then without a trailing delimiter, it's hard to chain multiple of these calls together, which is really common in list manipulation.
Until cloudflare are contacted by police then I see no reason to drop a client.
Isn't Twitter a private organization that can ban anyone they want?
I couldn’t get past the first several paragraphs because the article drips with smug superiority by adopting the trope of being above it all and “blaming both sides”.

It claims that it was going to explain why the US regime has failed, but so far seems only to name drop and blame various well known politicians.

I’d like to read the simplified, less narrative summary of the main argument of this article to see if the thesis makes sense or offers any explanatory power.
Unfortunately, "candor and telling it honestly" is frequently code for "I want to be hostile toward people I don't like, but I don't want to experience social consequences for it", so there's a lot of noise in the interpretation of this space.
I'd like to give an alternative perspective on SymPy. Whilst I'm not familiar with Mathematica, and therefore cannot draw parallels between the two, I've used SymPy for a number of years and found it to be really useful. I was initially introduced to it as part of a first year programming module in a Physics degree, and it was more than sufficient for that use-case; for that use-case, it absolutely wasn't worth paying for something like Mathematica. When combined with a graphical REPL (some may use Spyder, I personally use jupyter-qtconsole) or a Jupyter Notebook, it becomes really quite useful as it incorporates LaTeX rendering to make its outputs more readable and a little less daunting. Whilst the syntax may not be optimal for the mathematical way of working, for many problems like simple rearrangements, automatic simplification, checking equivalences, etc. it is almost always the first tool I reach for. The syntax is just cosmetic, and I use Python enough that the syntax doesn't even bother me, either. It does its job well, and it's helped me solve and verify solutions for a number of mathematical problems during my degree. Admittedly, I do run into the occasional problem here and there where there are obviously better tools available, but that's the same with any gratis vs paid solution. In most cases, SymPy does a sufficiently good job.
Thought they have mirrors?
> There is a very strong sense in which whole "asking your manager" thing is a mere formality—it's very unlikely to be declined if the title you're asking for is remotely appropriate (and, to be honest, often even if it isn't.)

That's interesting, I really didn't think that it's that common. In many companies this ranges from very difficult to completely impossible and certainly isn't just a formality. I guess that we have just been exposed to very different types of company/management.
I am more surprised that MCO/SJU route (Orlando to San Juan, Puerto Rico) is listed as international too.

I am quite certain that is a domestic route, at least for immigration purposes. Perhaps the airline industry differentiates territories as international for some reason.
Here is a short tutorial of the SymPy APIs that are relevant for high school math (equations, algebra, functions, etc.) and first-year university (mechanics/calculus/linear algebra): https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd...
Thanks for the comment ehiggs. This is a case of convergent evolution - I've been writing on resumes and career advice for over a decade, including several Amazon bestsellers:
https://www.amazon.com/Ladders-Resume-Guide-Practices-Leader...
> who rarely have their licenses taken away.

My understanding is if you accumulate a certain number of points, it gets taken away. The reason DUI etc. receives such harsh penalties is because the number of accidents DUI has caused makes it obvious that drinking is a factor. It should be the same with "autopilot".
FogBugz calculated “daily task” times based on the site’s time zone. If this was set to a timeline like Chile, the daily tasks processor would crash in a loop, until the next day, which did have a 00:00:00. This caused horrible alerts to plague the systems engineer on call.
Does Third Room support blobs (.glb files)?
They used .git-blame-ignore-revs.
Dan Benjamin recently interviewed Markus “Notch” Persson (the creator of Minecraft): http://5by5.tv/pipeline/30

I thought it was especially interesting that Notch essentially hired to “business” people because he thinks that he isn’t any good at it and because he wants to focus on developing.
URL: gingrapp.com
Company Phone: +1 877-324-7759

We're currently building out our "Additional Services" tool, which are services that get applied on top of a reservation. I'm currently working with a couple of groomers to build in some tools that could help fit their needs. Could use all the feedback possible.
I don't understand the math but I think I have seen that style of secret management where any 3 of say 10 secrets can access something but no 2 or any 1 secret can do it.

It would seem to solve a lot of just organizational problems where "jan is out of the office today" and nobody can do the thing ... but if access is spread out among 10 people ... 3 probably are in the office when needed.

Granted I've never seen it used in production personally, not / seen it on a granular level.
A lot of bubbly tech stocks are down massively, it's not particular to Square. The bubble popped.

Teladoc is down 77%

Fastly is down 77%

Pinterest is down 71%

DraftKings is down 70%

Zoom is down 69%

Palantir is down 66%

DocuSign is down 62%

DoorDash is down 61%

Twilio is down 57%

Twitter is down 55%

Roblox is down 55%

Etsy is down 54%

DigitalOcean is down 53%

Shopify is down 50%

Cloudflare is down 50%

Unity is down 49%

Netflix is down 42%

CrowdStrike is down 39%

Okta is down 36%

Atlassian is down 35%

Salesforce is down 31%

And so on. The air also continues to leak out of the meme garbage stocks.
That’s not an explanation, that’s a talking point that fell off the back of a libertarian uhaul truck.
FWIW, you really shouldn’t put them in your ear…
> Paying with cash is literally the easiest thing I do to reduce my data trail.

Sure, if you prioritize anonymity in your transactions over convenience cash is much better.

OTOH, contactless pay with your phone is so much better than handing your card to a random server to make an imprint or whatever - and more secure/privacy maintaining than using the card itself if done right.

It's not a binary decision.
There is a clearly defined way.

The invoice email for each app has a link for problems with purchases.

Every single App purchase has this.
Hehe oops you're right, i meant "plant life"
I'm not from USA so I don't really care. I just named the station that most often contradicts science, defends itself in court by saing they shouldn't be taken seriously because they are entertainment organisation not information organsation and boldly defends free speech when it allows for voicing same manners of idiocies as they do.
Wait, is the idea I can go to signal on some library computer and send a message to whoever I want anonymously?

Because that's a pipe dream.

First of all, you can't monetize it, and, unfortunately that is a non-starter. I can't see people throwing money at this, with the implications. Secondly, assume I want to contact the same anonymous person again. They have to somehow easily prove they have access to that username.

Even 4chan had a mechanism for this. Assuming you don't shield your IP, or you move between locations between, at least the service knows that, and that isn't anonymous.

A pre shared key off a one time pad only proves that someone has the same pad.

I think anonymity isn't achievable. Secure is more important. I talk to someone a lot, I want that secure. I don't really care if anyone knows we're talking, just whether they know the content.

Hosting your own metal somewhere helps with that. You'd obviously notice a warrant or whatever.
Second Life improved avatars by quite a lot in fairly recent times. There's also alternatives to it, eg, check out the project I work on: https://vircadia.com/

It's a sort of spiritual successor to Second Life, since it was started by the same guy -- Philip Rosedale -- after he left SL. It didn't quite work, so the commercial project died and got picked up by open source forks, which is what I work on. It's less polished than SL, but the avatar capabilities are excellent.
They (the most wealthy) are only prey by your logic if they have no influence on the government. I would suggest that they have disproportionate influence, in many cases. I think the perceptions raised by the OP support that suggestion, even if you only taking the aspirational voting into account and not economic leverage influence.
You're targeting the wrong audience by posting here - we have brains. Oh, and if you don't mind, could you fuck off and die.
I can’t wait until the Kubernetes/container/Microservice beasts we are building today become legacy in 20 years. Fixing a COBOL application will probably look simple in comparison.
Apple was at KubeCon last year, so I assume they've moved to Kubernetes too.
Agreed on both points.

I mean my biggest pet peeve is just drawing a simple diagram. No drawing tools seem to be as good as a good old fashioned white board.

This is especially true when trying to make a system diagram on the fly or come back to a previous discussion...
It's Puppeteer but not only for Chrome.
Polygraphs are intimidation devices with no scientific merit. They don't work. By making people believe that they do work, sometimes interrogators are able to get people to admit things they otherwise wouldn't.

Polygraphs are not admissible as evidence in court and civilian employers are not allowed to administer them to employees. Regardless, the US Government still uses them for security clearance.

More information: https://antipolygraph.org/
This is actually kind of brilliant. It's very similar to parliamentary voting systems in top down democracies ( as seen in Europe tm ). Except it's US constitution compatible. Clever hack.

I tentatively like it. Will require more research.
Obama isn't the one trying to get this power. Read the article - it's a bill being proposed by Joe Lieberman, not by Obama. The article doesn't state anywhere what opinion, if any, Obama may have about this bill.
Except that a large portion of internet communications get routed through the US at some point. My guess would be that shutting down the internet for the US would impact more countries than just the US.
Like I said in an email to jazzychad last week, Notifo is my favorite YC company. It's an amazingly simple service that does exactly what I need without much setup. Congratulations!
Its interesting how the internet went from a network that was designed to survive a nuclear attack or other major disasters to something where a bureaucrat will be able to flick it off for "national emergencies".

I wonder what the practicality of a kill switch really is, it seems next to impossible.
As long as the candidate was reasonably well matched for the job and the employer felt it was at least worth talking to that candidate in person then even if the candidate is not hired then the employer still trusts that recruiter to find other candidates worth talking to. If the candidate is an embarrassment then that employer won't work with that recruiter in the future. Recruiters can tell just by talking to a candidate if they are least reasonable enough to sit through an interview and not be embarrassingly unqualified. If the candidate doesn't get an offer, then oh well, as long as the employer still trusts that recruiter then all is good. If the candidate gets an offer then jackpot. Play again.

The recruiter is only trying to please the hand that feeds them which is the employer. The recruiter only wants to maintain a relationship with each employer. Candidates are the commodity being traded, and therefore candidates are only given enough attention to ascertain their general qualifications for the job and likelihood of getting an offer.
And if I were a career criminal, I'd probably have a pretty low opinion of the justice system (actual problems with said justice system aside).

My point? It's hard to be reasonable about things when you're coming at them from a certain perspective. Just as a criminal sentenced to life without parole probably thinks that the courts trying him are corrupt, people who lost a lot of money on MtGox probably think that the entire economic system and Bitcoin market is broken. Are they correct? It's possible, but they're not in the most rational frame-of-mind right now, are they?
> does escape antibody drugs and reduces neutralization by convalescent sera from past infections

what does this mean in plain words? this SA variant has a totally new evasion system?

what exactly are we dealing with here? what causes it to rapidly mutate like this?
Marketing Radar App for Windows Phone in Russia
http://www.ivanpr.com/blog/2012/12/23/marketing-radar-app-for-windows-phone-in-russia-and-results-we-achieved-after-app-advertising/
Are you curious what others are doing to achieve success with marketing applications in Russia? Here’s a story about a mobile startup called Sibity that marketed their Radar app with our help and achieved outstanding results. You’re guaranteed to find inspiration for your efforts in marketing your application for Windows Phone in Russia here and learn about the tactics that can work for your mobile application too.
Rapid Single Page Application development with typescript, couchdb and domo
http://joeriks.com/2012/11/19/rapid-single-page-application-development-with-typescript-and-couchdb/
Nothing special, just a nice combination of techniques. I'm looking for a nice and rapid playground for testing client side app ideas and I this is one of the best yet.
First look at the Facebook AS3 API - Basics and hints
http://paralyzed.se/2009/12/08/first-look-at-the-facebook-as3-api-basics-and-hints/
I have been recently using the Facebook As3 API in a project involving two banners and a campaign site. And the point of this post is to give you some insight of what it is like to work with this library, and also give you some handy hints and pointers.
Ask HN: How do you differentiate yourself in the face of commodification of devs
I'm early in my career and I'm wondering how I can differentiate/specialize. I imagine that as you progress in your career, the differentiation becomes valuable to employers and allows you to stand out.

Personally, I've been interested in building full-stack and product-side of things, so I'm unsure how I can differentiate myself with these.

This point also ties in with what certain threads were discussing on the LinkedIn gig platform post from today, where they mentioned that in the long run development would become a 'gig' thing.
Textbook API's actually save students hundreds of dollars on textbooks?
http://kikbooks.com
Kikbooks will allow students to do price comparison for textbooks.
Taupe irradie : Page malgache d'une taupe-irradiee
http://harenatv.com/taupe-irradiee/
Taupe Irradiee: Harena et sa famille soutient le JO Pekin 2008 et TAUPE IRRADIEE.C'est avec joie que nous annonce qu'une taupe irradie malgache va participer au JO Pekin 2008.Tout à propos de taupe-irradiee (taupes-irradiees).
Virgin Mobile MMS site requires IE - breaks latest browsers
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5fW3VbCYAAJoOB.png
It would be nice if Virgin Mobile UK could pull their fingers out and update their MMS get message site to work with modern browsers.
Node.js' sweet spot.
http://samoraspeaks.blogspot.com/2013/11/nodejs-sweet-spot.html
A 2 years old dev's opinions on PHP, Ruby, Python and Node.js.
THIS IS Not A DR(E|I)LL
http://data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvkz7ffkhA1qhk04bo3_1280.jpg
I find the typo in "DRILL" interesting because "E" is typed with the left middle finger and "I" is typed with the right middle finger.
SSC Result Bangladesh 2011 SSC Result Bangladesh 2011 Bangladesh SSC Result 2011
http://bdexamresults.blogspot.com/2011/04/ssc-result-bangladesh-2011-ssc-result.html
SSC Result Bangladesh 2011 SSC Result Bangladesh 2011 Bangladesh SSC Result 2011
Adaptive Path Begins CEO Search
http://www.gototheboard.com/articles/Design_will_have_a_seat_at_the_table__what_do_we_do_with_it
Adaptive Path has started their CEO search...
New theory of superconductivity
new research proposes Carrier Induced Dynamic Strain Effect as the underlying mechanism for superconductivity! read on at: cidse.net
College email hack: send POP/IMAP campus e-mail without SMTP/outgoing server
http://jtame05.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/uiuc-pop3-send-mail-with-outlook-even-without-an-outgoing-mail-server/
I have struggled with this for a while now, because my ISP sucks and has no outgoing mail server. So we use Gmail as a relay server, which actually works really well. The e-mails will read "From: you@school.edu". Alternatively, you could just drop out of school.
The Polygon Count: A PlayStation Retrospective
http://www.thegamerschallenge.com/featured/the-polygon-count-a-playstation-retrospective/
The original PlayStation; can one console be given enough plaudits? Who would have thought a simple research engineer relatively green to the video gaming industry back in the early 90s, would upstart Sony into creating one of the most successful gaming platforms in computer game history.
A Product Development Manifesto
http://infospace.ischool.syr.edu/2013/01/29/a-product-development-manifesto-for-startups/
The following ‘manifesto’ captures high-level thoughts concerning Rain Agency's approach to successful internal product development.
Avoid falling victim to registrar phishing attacks
http://www.enterpriseefficiency.com/author.asp?section_id=1207&doc_id=231786&#msgs
This is the 2nd of two parts. The 1st part talks about scams where phishers impersonate a registrar like GoDaddy, Tucows, whoever. The email is a notice that asks the reciever to go to his registrar account. From there it's just like identity theft except instead of stealing creds for a bank account, the phisher gets control over domain names and can modify their DNS.
Workout app with 100.000 people on waiting list launched
Hello,

I'm CTO of madbarz.com - a workout app that has finally launched after reaching milestone of almost 100.000 people on waiting list.

Now in less than a day we have already 15.000 registrations!

Check it out at: http://madbarz.com/
Show HN: Rafflio.com (giving away a ps4 for launch)
http://rafflio.com/
Check out my new contest website I'm launching. We have some cool prizes for launch.
Show HN: Hacker-Board – yet another HN client
https://hacker-board.herokuapp.com/
I have created this a while ago. Using scraping to get the images from actual article as well. The comments section is not something I am proud of. Let me know what you guys feel about it.
NZ's Fonterra recalls baby formula due to botulism risk
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10907957
there goes my country's economy
Are You the Best Person to Lead Your Startup?
http://startupcollective.com/are-you-the-best-person-to-lead-your-startup
Sometimes, following can be the most productive form of leadership.
Why we created Mealnut & How?
http://blog.mealnut.com/post/7685201838/why-we-created-mealnut-how
Mealnut is one of the startups I'd been following for a while, now as I'm going to be in the food and health sector, now on. Thanks to the team, for caring to share the why and how.
Virtual Assistants India, Assistant Virtual
http://www.livehelpindia.com/dedicated-24-7-virtual-staffing.html
livehelpindia.com offers you the facility to Hire Dedicated Virtual Assistant, offshore skilled Virtual Assistant India. Hire Virtual Assistants on contract or full time basis. So Hire Virtual Assistant from India LiveHelpIndia.com is a leading Virtual Assistant Services, Sales and Support Staff provider company having facilities in USA, UK and Indore India.
Best Free Screen Session Recorder
http://hackspc.com/best-free-screen-session-recorder/
You probably sometimes spend hours explaining to someone, over the internet how to do something. Instead of typing at people, you can create screen recordings for them and shown them what you´re talking about.. Especially if you have your own page and write tutorials, then it´s very useful to create video tutorials. For that you need a screen recorder.I´ve tested a few free screen recorder and make a list of the best.
Donate $5 to A Place to Turn food pantry and the CEO of Punchbowl will match it.
http://www.startupswami.com/2012/02/place-to-turn-for-punchbowl.html
Read the post for details about the Startup Swami donation challenge.
Ask HN: For new companies: Ethical marketing VS Effective trickery marketing
Which one do you find new companies are using most often? Although I assume ethical marketing is take precedence, I wonder if I'm wrong.
How Does Spotify Know You So Well? (2017)
https://medium.com/s/story/spotifys-discover-weekly-how-machine-learning-finds-your-new-music-19a41ab76efe
“How Does Spotify Know You So Well?” https://medium.com/s/story/spotifys-discover-weekly-how-machine-learning-finds-your-new-music-19a41ab76efe
Command line utility for github issues
https://github.com/kashifrazzaqui/github-issues
The browser based issue tracking on github is cumbersome. This runs from the command line.

Usage is described in the README.
Researchers Break Vanish Security System
http://cacm.acm.org/news/43680
Computer scientists say they have cracked Vanish, a security system that attracted wide interest because it protects data by making it unreadable. Now a team called Unvanish claims to have broken Vanish.
WordPress loops: with_posts() is my way of dealing with them
http://labs.earthpeople.se/2013/02/wordpress-loops-with_posts-is-my-way-of-dealing-with-them/
Clever? Looks handy to me.
Ask HN: Review my startup, bakeoff.co
http://www.bakeoff.co/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=click&utm_campaign=hackernews
Hi HN. I've love some feedback on my new app BakeOff. Good and bad, everything helps.

www.bakeoff.co
Disable or Enable SSH Root Login and Secure SSH Access in CentOS 7
https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/disable-or-enable-ssh-root-login-and-secure-ssh-access-in-centos-7/
We all know that CentOS comes with root access disabled for the outside world by default. This means that you can not directly log in as a root user via SSH, but you can still go ahead and utilize root privileges by using the ‘sudo’ command instead. However, sometimes it is more convenient to log in directly as the root user. That’s why in this article, we will talk about how to enable, disable and secure the SSH login to your server when attempting to log in as root.

https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/disable-or-enable-ssh-root-login-and-secure-ssh-access-in-centos-7/
Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie Makes First Benchmark Appearance  
http://www.itechpost.com/articles/4538/20121120/android-5-0-key-lime-pie-benchmark-appearance.htm
Google could be on the verge of sending out an entirely new build of Android for the next-generation smartphones and tablets sooner than later and previously, a number of reports have pointed towards the build’s existence, or that it is in development. Now, per reports, Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie has apparently made its first benchmark appearance with some positive results.