jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying that they are bureaucrats, I was talking about the mindset. I know some guys from 'High Tech Gründerfond' (German state fond) and I really see no difference between them and HackFWD, only that they read something about YCombinator in 'Brand Eins' or on Techcrunch and now are trying to make a hyperbolic copycat of it...

Thanks for the lesson about Lars, not that I didn't knew it already ;)
yay standards!
9 hours ago this issue was update to capitalise the W. So there’s progress!
The criticism of this security vulnerability has been well covered at this point, so I'd just like to point out that this should be trivially solvable in a few hours by changing all passwords from HQ.

It'd be quite irresponsible of this researcher if they didn't give notice beforehand (don't know if they have).
Are there any chips which support multiple ISAs? Could a single chip decode both AMD64 and ARM instruction streams? Or could the memory models not be unified so it's not possible?
I'm not arguing having Ethos Capital is good. I'm arguing the UN running it is not a solution. (nor any likely government body for that matter who will likely take down any organization they don't agree with)
Owning a car creates its own demand that otherwise wouldn’t exist.

e.g. choosing suburbs to simplify car ownership, and then relying on the car every day.
I’ve only seen mob-programming to be adopted by teams of junior-slackers, but YMMV
I think the cert issue is because of DNS hijacking by my ISP so that they can (falsely) tell me the site has malware. I can’t view the cert now that I’ve made an exception to it.
No it's hyperbole.

However if you go from writing spaghetti code to something more structured (i.e. loosely coupled, however that is expressed in your language) then you're team mates will hate you less.
I'm still trying to see if I can see a diagramatic representation of the toilet.
> because my culture is incredibly widespread and probably isn't going anyway.

Give it some time.
2015 will be the year with a boom in wearables, and it is a crucial year to know, if this gadgets will fly or die.
There is some of that, but not when wages are a magnitude off. If I can only make $50k in saint Louis and $150k in SF, there is huge pressure to move and start climbing the ladder. The programmer making $20k in Bangalore will move to the Bay area to add an extra zero to the end of their salary if they have the ability.

This mobility checks salary bottoms for those who do want to stay (e.g. for the market I'm in over in China).
I hope you are trolling. Most Haskeller's value getting things done over being clever and actually actively avoid being clever. In your other comment you point out that many of PHP detractors have not used it or have very little experience.

Do you have experience using haskell? If not, you are being hypocritical. Please stop.
Suppose the Chrome team closed everything older than some cut-off date but explained why (perhaps on a blog) and encouraged people to open new tickets about issues that carried forward to currently supported versions.

Would that gesture have kept you motivated to report bugs?
For those using Safari, there is a preliminary version of µBlock here: http://chrisly.me/0B0s2Y2Y3b0R

Note: No automatic updates with this unofficial build.
What movement is being used to harass whom again?
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"It requires passengers to run a nonfree program (an app)."

It looks like with Uber's API, one could potentially issue requests without running any non-free software on your own device. If that's the case, this one is weakened a tiny bit - though certainly I don't think there is currently a FLO client and Uber can rightly (through this lens) be criticized for not providing one.
The Lizard Squad clown brigade seem to really thrive off negative attention. Congrats, script-kiddies, everyone everywhere really thinks poorly of you now.
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The author is very good at pointing out the problem yet offers no solution of his own. How else do you manage a mostly opensource ecosystem and not end up with different versions of everything? We don't get an answer for that. Maybe I should write an article about articles that offer no solution to problems people know exist.
OS time handling is feeble across the industry. Its inherited from 20-year-old ideas about APIs. Not just the antique time structures that are useful for rendering but not much else. Also the abominable Sleep() and such.

Imagine you want to do something every second. You Sleep(1000) or some such. But it takes time to do the thing, so its actually a bit longer between loops. Maybe it doesn't matter; maybe it does. But you're stuck doing stuff like that.

Why not Wait(timetowaitfor). Not a duration; the actual time you want to be woken up. Now it still takes time to wake up and run. And it takes time to make the call. But now, your stuff actually runs say 60 times per minute (e.g. if you wait for successive seconds), hour after hour and day after day.

Also, what's with limited resolution on the time? Its due to the common implementation of timers as a counter of ticks, where a tick is whatever regular interval some hardware timer is set to interrupt. Why not instead interrogate a free-running counter? And if I want to wait 1 second plus 150 nanoseconds, then I Wait for that time to arrive, and the library (or OS) set a real timer interrupt to go off when that time has arrived? Sure there's latency in calling me back; that's inevitable. What's not inevitable is some limited multi-millisecond tick resolution.

Anyway, whenever I'm in charge of designing an OS or application environment, I provide real timers like this. It's about time the big OS providers catch up to the 21st century.
>You keep saying "erroneously" but I'm not sure what you mean by that.

"Erroneously" as in denying coverage for something that should be covered (per the terms of the contracts).

It's unfortunate that you have to go through all of that when changing medications. I don't know the reason for it in your specific case, but I would hope it's not widespread fraud across all of those companies.
Thanks, Glad you liked it
"promoting safety, security and integrity across the Facebook Company Products, e.g., security systems and fighting spam, threads, abuse, or infringement activities;"

This particular one is very open ended. Facebook's internal security team and it's external contractors have internal tools that use Facebooks App on people's phones to locate, block and alert if marked individuals are near company premises or high ranking executives.

Let's say you protest against Facebook outside their offices, they could look you up on Facebook, find your account and if you enter a zone near their office it will send them an alert. Similarly someone with access to the system can ping your phone anywhere in the world to find a location with only the very basic controls present to prevent it from happening. No doubt the internal teams expand that to include key executives, suppliers etc.

In theory they should be logged in to their own account to do this and not able to ping people in their immediate circles, in reality no doubt they could probably have a false account to bypass this. If you think about the power of this. Hundreds of people with limited oversight free to ping whomever they want as long as they can create a loose reason to do it. Remember when the Saudis were paying people with insider access at Twitter, you could imagine how much the ability of people to ping a FB user anywhere in the world is worth. Two billion users...The NSA can only dream of such access. From intelligence targets to lovers to competitors, hundreds of people have access to this data because of FB policies and tech.

At least with FB you don't have to have the app on the phone. WhatsApp is however essentially the new SMS, it's impossible not to avoid it...and now slowly slowly FB is retaking control.

No wonder Brian Acton has gone to Signal. The original vision of WhatsApp is rapidly being eroded by FB. Yes WhatsApp has e2e but slowly FB is being FB and looking for return on its investment.
1. Thanks for posting and showing self motivation.
2. You are no where near considering quiting your job so do your job and your project/startup on the side.
3. It's hard to give advice when you give so little information. Who knows if your idea is even tenable. Please give some more info.
4. The usual step is to start working on whatever you have in mind and throw up a site about it to gather some attention. Find a website template, customize it, and keep your overhead near zero ie free hosting.
5. Work hard and be patient. Don't get discouraged.
I imagine being a wartime CEO is going to get increasingly more challenging for public relations since the company is already so dominant. Even here on HN, people don't see the urgency of Google's situation. It's not enough to be on top. You've got to be way ahead.
no. Elseberg released one study about the Vietnam war. he actually read all of it and had been showing it around to senators and officials trying to get something done. he leaked it as a last resort.

in his video interview with the Guardian Snowden explicitly contrasted what he did with what Manning did : snowden looked at what he was leaking and claims he kept stuff that would harm the US. ( he still supports what Manning did).

this is the problem Manning literally did not read the classified information he was releasing and given his obligation to protect sensitive information and knowing that in some cases information was classified to protect lives( e.g informant names), his actions were morally reckless. if he had leaked just the collateral murder video , the he would have been justified.
Nearly all of the high quality developers I know aren't interested in contract-to-hire, I know I'm not at all. To many things can go wrong in a short contract window, and regardless of the reality, most immediate hires feel they have a much stronger connection to the employer.
HA! I literally caught myself doing this yesterday.[1] It's a terrible habit. My mother would agree and give you a high five. :)

[1] https://twitter.com/pearkes/status/369868903456862208
Thanks.

It's just for me, I was hoping to use it as a kind of springboard to get into coding. I used a few of the ressources (including Learn XX in XX days), but I think I'll learn best, if I have something to work on.

So I'll probably go for the real web app part, just to learn. It'll be ugly, probably, but hey :)
This wasn't the case for me in Singapore. As a pedestrian, I get assaulted with smoke all the time, especially while waiting at a crossing.
Shouldn't that require user's consent to run "ActiveXObject"s?
Point to a single court case in the US regarding this election year where evidence was presented in court and judged.

Every single case was dismissed on procedural grounds.

Edit: At least with this lawsuit we will finally see some evidence.
And yet, the fact that past speculators blew out their shorts has no bearing on whether the stock is presently rich.
"As we stand now even Signal is not safe because of the business model."

?

Ok, good, but you do realize that this is the most existential concern of them all?

Why does FB so aggressively pursue personal data?

For advertising. Because 'that's the business model'.

Do you think that any entity would be in that position if say, people were willing to actually pay $3/month for what seems to be very obviously a highly useful service?

Maybe, but probably not.

If people would pay for value, there at least would be considerably less incentive to have personal data.

People seem to be willing to pay Apple and AT&T through the nose, oddly, not for those creating the services themselves.

"We get what we pay for".
...and to continue to beat the dead horse, news sites can either (1) straight-up paywall their content or (2) show ads without invading your privacy.

Tracking in every form but the anonymous, opt-in, and truly optional (no restrictions (other than the obvious) if you decline) in not acceptable.
Signal's "best practice" for a while was to use special hardware that relied trusting Intel in the best case but in practice was also perpetually being broken into…
See plant based milk, mayo, egg, meat, butter, etc. Also no one is ever upset about peanut butter which isn't butter!

And it depends on your definition. It is cultured like cheese and plays a similar role in cuisine.

Also, no plant based product is ever trying to trick or disguise itself. Their entire market is based around people knowing it is plant based. Yeti's homepage has in big bold text right at the top "Real cheese, made from plants"... you could argue "real cheese" and "made from plants" is an oxymoron but my point is, no one buying the product is going to be confused.
Then they should conduct their own forensic analysis of this image of a Dominion voting machine in Michigan. Until then, their dispute is opinion. A lot of these "fact checks" blur into the realm of opinion, not facts. If you can point me to a counter forensic analysis of this image, including counter findings that adjudication audit logs were not deleted for the 2020 election, then I'd be happy to read it.

A lot of smart people dispute this election. Doesn't make it fact, either.

Krebs called this the "most secure election in history". Seems legit.
It seems to me that the author of TextMate is in a rather interesting position. he has created an editor with a cult like following that he has neither the time, manpower, or interest in updating.

I am sure that version 2 will be completed at some point, but at what cost to his sanity? Imagine for a moment if he just gave up and released the source for free.

Hundreds of itchy fingers across the net dig into the source, enhancing it, expanding it, fixing it, porting it to everything from Linux to the Nintendo DS. The cult of Textmate grows with each new release, finally bringing another contender to the editor wars long raged by vi and emacs.

Since Mr. TextMate dude no longer has a source of income, he decides to write a book about his experiences developing the app and his eventual burnout. It is an instant hit with geeks everywhere. He rakes in tons of money doing speaking engagements.

After a few years, the itch to code returns. Mr. TextMate's new app, TextyMatey - an editor that converts everything you type into pirate speak, becomes the first ever text editor to hit 1 million downloads in the first day. DVD sales of Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy skyrocket, prompting a visit from Johnny Depp. Mr TextMate and Johnny become fast friends and spend the rest of their days as men of leisure on the French Riviera.
load the DLL into memory yourself

Does this work with data execution prevention?
i got fired once. i drank a lot and thought about how nice it was to be gainfully employed. then i did some introspection and realized that the cues were there a year before. i should have quit when i had the urge and i still looked good, because as time went on i hated the work and finally the management caught on. i could have used the good reference.
When comparing to the rational choice, I did what I do in real life: added a safety margin. If anybody tells me there is a 10% chance for a project to succeed, I will always subtract a couple of percentage points for unforeseen circumstances.

You treated it like a school test, looking for the "right" answer. To paraphrase Nicholas Nassim Taleb, if a coin falls head 100 times straight, the chances it will fall tails the 101 time are 50% only in academia - in the real life the coin is fixed.
...alas, we have the next real estate bubble.
apple laptops ≠ linux machines. in fact, most of the new macbooks are quite hard to get running on something modern like ubuntu 10.4 LTS, and just because OSX is a derivative of BSD doesn't make it friendly with current linux versions. especially those macbooks with "automatic graphics switching" and the like. sure you can boot, but all the [proprietary] advanced [closed] features that apple adds don't really function at all.

linux is great on a 2 year old macbook, however.
Just to ruin your day, choosing random answers doesn't do any damage :)

This is all about statistics, and also about comparing with a control group. I assume the authors have (or can get) baselines for all the questions here. They look like the kind of questions Dan Ariely would work a lot with.

So it doesn't matter that the questions are context dependent. If HNers massively answer one way while the college student population doesn't, you have a difference you can work with. Of course, it's not a definitive answer but it's still valuable information.

As for the results, I'd guess entrepreneurs are more risk averse then average, but also more inclined to chose rewards in the future.
I had to do type conversion between QVariant and something similar I designed for an embedded C platform and later included in a Qt GUI. It's definitely the signal/slot traversal I found most interesting though, so I understand the desire not to release it (I'm not trying to do anything with FTP, I'm just interested in language/framework interop in general).
The minimum length should be 1. Usernames with less characters pose implementation problems.
It's actually much higher than that, for a few reasons.

* It doesn't correct for students (12th graders) who were absent on the day of the survey, or for the 12-15% of students who drop out of high school before the fall of their senior year. By using clever methodology they are actually able to measure how the differences in drug use among students who were absent the day of the survey, but they don't correct for it. (They explain the differences in the methodology though.) And as for students who dropped out, Appendix A of volume 1 of the same report explains how they concluded that dropouts were probably 1.5x more likely to have used marijuana by 12th grade. So if you take into account that the 20% of dropouts and absentees have a lifetime prevalence closer to 88%, then that would increase the total lifetime prevalence of marijuana use by about 1%, so to 83%.

* About 1.8% of those who admit marijuana use recant each year. It's likely those who recant actually did use the drug, for reasons that are explained here: http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/statistics/statistics_ar...

The survey partially corrects for this by counting those who recant after admitting to use on at least two previous surveys (multiple years apart) as having used marijuana. However, students weren't surveyed until 12th grade, so it stands to reason that if the 1.8% linear rate of recanting held until age 13 years 11 months, the average age of first marijuana use, then you'd have to add about 5.5%. Again this is somewhat speculative, but probably roughly accurate.

* It seriously undercounts those who later become heavily addicted to drugs. So anyone who didn't use drugs through 12th grade but then became a drug addict essentially wouldn't be counted at all.

* It doesn't count people who would have used marijuana at some point after 12th grade, but who died of non drug-related causes before they got a chance to. This is significant because unlike alcohol where virtually everyone who will ever drink has already started by age 18 or so, a large percentage of eventual marijuana users are still trying the drug for the first time up until their mid 30s.

The fact is that if you make it to age 50, your chances of having smoked weed are probably closer to 88-90%. The Erowid thing I linked to is also good in general for as a quick way of grokking the validity of the numbers.
That story is messed up for sure, but I really doubt Long Beach is the kind local small-town law enforcement the grandparent post is talking about.
Your complaint is that you can't parse the code with 100% certainty without some basic knowledge of the language? That hardly seems like a complaint at all. The same is true of any language that isn't explicitly identical to one you already know.
The Android app is getting loads of negative reviews today from people who think the app doesn't work.
Cane sugar is 50% fructose too. It's not much better than HFCS.

Probably, the worst thing about HFCS is its cheapness, so they put it on everything.
I would imagine that the search volume of this exact keyphrase is pretty low, even this time of year. So, not much competition, and not much benefit for winning.
Yes. Netflix's IT group (Sysadmin's, NOC people, Helpdesk, etc) went through a reorg about a year and a half ago. Lots of change. Not all of it good at the time, but in the end it did work out quite well.
Rat's I will look at that version of FF. If you switch over I would appreciate the feedback on how it works for you.
I personally think they should focos on bands, musicians, and teenagers.

Regardless of whether or not its a good move by MySpace, i think its a little low class of FB not to send their CEO. Yes we all know the almighty FB is king and the MySpace is now officially making it known that they are riding 'bitch.' It's almost like they are proving a point.

I personally don't like it.
It's using the window.history.pushState() and window.history.replaceState() javascript methods. Here's some Mozilla documentation:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Manipulating_the_browse...
What I wrote them was a little more in depth and more general, but I think it is important to mention the specific bill each time in addition to the overall sentiment, so the secretary reading the mail puts an X mark in the tally next to the bill number on her notepad. :)

Basically, I pointed out that things have been just fine with the free uncensored net we've had so far, that this would limit that freedom by attempting to restrict what we could visit, and that those with malicious intent could easily thwart such attempts.

I think that part of the reason they are doing this is to attempt to have access to block off our country's network in case of "cyberwar", etc., so it is probably a defensive measure, rather than what they claim it to be. They probably can't just do this type of blocking at the periphery, since satellite, etc. connections within the U.S. could just as easily be a danger, not just the big trunks coming out of the ocean.

I don't want our country to be at risk, but I think that a simple blacklist is not the way to do it. Now, if they installed devices at each ISP that all traffic had to run through- then you might have a greater defense. But, basically, in cyberwar, we're all screwed. Things like this are chump change compared to EMPs, viruses, state-controlled botnets, etc. Cyberwar would be almost purely offensive, similar to nuclear war.