jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Individually, it doesn't seem convincing, but if you find multiple instances (individuals), in their own different styles, and all the addresses are in the same mailing list... I think it can have significant weight. Alternative would be what? Someone framing the service provider? Or joe and bob and maybe others staging it? Possible, but frankly, not very likely. I think the service provider would have at least have some explaining to do.
I'm amazed Tesla went ahead and used easily guessable and unchangeable passwords. It's just such a trivial and obvious issue that it seems strange Tesla engineers let this happen.

I wonder if this was an off-the-shelf solution they're using here, or was developed by external contractors, for lack of a better explanation.
> A lot less dangerous than the alternative of not hiring a Bridge Engineer at all and still having to build the bridge, which is the analogous situation for legal services.

That is the absurdity here though, that people are being forced to build a bridge with no support. With more funding, we could provide an engineer for every bridge (and a lawyer for every case). Nobody should be forced to go through the legal system without an lawyer. Period.

The number of lawyers has been growing in recent years. It's hard to claim standards are too high when more people are becoming lawyers than ever before. See: http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyer_population_15_...

But those lawyers aren't working as public defenders because it's probably the worst job to take once you've invested in a law degree in terms of pay and stress. And until the funding situation changes to make that job more desirable, people will continue to suffer no matter how many lawyers there are.
At my 5th startup now, with good pay, normal hours, really interesting technology (not a website).

Startup 1: Decent pay. Extremely long hours and high stress. Fascinating technology. IPO.

Startup 2: Average pay. Very long hours and high stress. Very interesting technology. Very profitable acquisition (right at the end of the dotcom bubble). Acquiring company killed the product line. Go figure.

Startup 3: OK pay. Easy life but dull technology. Dull, dull, dull. Surprisingly, paid off a little years later in an acquisition. Did I say how dull it was?

Startup 4: Good pay. Great technology -- got to build a distributed key/value store before it was cool. Most stressful work experience of my life. Very long hours during this period, but it let up once the product was working. Very good payoff in an acquisition. Acquiring company kept the product going, but it was Dilbert-land, so here I am at startup 5.
QED Silicon valley has turned into a giant ponzi scheme.
Lovely discussion here. Looks like you could argue forever. But the rule about that is, the less the differences matter, the longer you can argue.
Folks campaign for what they know, because they are more productive in a familiar environment. Makes sense. But its definitely not an argument about the thing itself.
This is cool. BUT, it is sad that the Transcreen semi-transparent film material, which as large as it is in the video, costs over two-thousand dollars! - - Anybody got any ideas for a replacement to this five-layer film?
Not that I wish the author anything but the best, but he's not alone in this.

Tim Robinson, of Meccano/Erector Difference Engine fame, has been working on building the Analytical Engine in Meccano for some time. His website (http://meccano.us/analytical_engine/index.html) shows a working control barrel from three years ago; I believe from memory (I'm on a mailing list with him) that the design and construction has progressed since then, though I don't have the details to hand.

I wish them both luck, I'd love to see both designs up and working at the first possible opportunity. Tim's Difference Engine was a thing of beauty to watch (there certainly were videos online) and had a fantastic sound in operation.
Revorad, your last inclination is correct. As I explained in previous comments, I do bring more to the table than just an idea. Thank you for recognizing the sarcasm, and irony of Winkelvoss and Zuckerberg.
This seems more likely to be used against ground targets (u.s. Citizens) than any arial threat that ground based radar couldn't detect. What non-state actors have cruise missiles?
Actually, with Google, advertisers don't target anyone, really. They have a few knobs to tweak, but mostly it's Google that does the targeting, based on much smarter (but not yet smart enough) algorithms.
A few reasons:

- Python3 makes some concepts, like unicode, division, the print function, etc, simpler to understand.

- Almost all major packages (only scrapy doesn't that I can think of), including the scientific stack, are compatible with 3.

- The trend towards 3 seems to be accelerating. 2 isn't going away anytime soon, but I'd like this content to be relevant for some time.

Ultimately, they aren't that different, and I may have a section listing out what you need to do to switch between them.
Well, imagine if the gender roles were reversed then. "Haha, you're so much better/funnier/sexier than my gf" would be a disaster to a woman, especially if I spent my day flirting with this fake girl. The hypothetical real girlfriend taking offense at this is 100% understandable. Go ahead and post to /r/askwomen if they think it would be hilarious if their boyfriends and husbands flirted with a fake woman 24/7 and compared her to them. I suspect you won't be getting this libertine and ultra-thick skinned response out of them.

To a guy on the receiving end, its "buck up, pussy" which seems unfair. Men's feelings deserve validation too. Shamefully, the gender dual standard continues even to the younger ultra-liberal crowd who dominate HN.
I think this is good advice, but I worry about wasting the interviewing companys' time. Of course in my experience they rarely worry about wasting my time, but I guess I'd be concerned about becoming known as someone whose interest in a position isn't trusted.

I suspect that this is my inner Cinderella -- be humble, scrub the floors, and one day my hiring manager will come. I feel like that princess is really hurting my bank account.
Even when you "own" your home you don't really --try not paying those property taxes and see what happens.
The new 16" is ~.8 pounds heavier, and a bit larger, than the 2016 15" model, whose size and weight I was pretty happy with (though I was less happy over time with the butterfly keyboard, poorly placed touchbar, missing physical esc key, and poor trackpad palm rejection.)

It is still thinner than the 2012-2015 15" model (which had a perfectly functional keyboard and trackpad) but ~.3 pounds heavier.
And so once again, Alan Perlis' famous quip is proved right: syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Seriously -- look at the complexity of these rules, and then tell me that Lisp's parentheses are worse.
This is sometimes true, sometimes not. I know a few amazing designers that are on Dribble all the time, because it's an outlet for fun things they're making that have nothing to do with client work.

By the same token, if you check out /leaders, lots of people at the top _are_ killing it. There are obviously tons of successful people that aren't on HN, but "commenting on HN means you're unsuccessful," is trivially disproven.
So far, I've really only lived (spent 2+ months) in four separate places: Ohio, Pittsburgh, New York City, and San Jose. That said, there is no way in hell I would ever think I could characterize "America" in one essay without specifying a huge number of exceptions for each of Ohio, Pittsburgh, NYC, and Silicon Valley.

Yeah, it's kind of fun to see how someone with a different perspective might characterize us, but this isn't the kind of thing you should read and think "well, that doesn't gel perfectly with my experience," because no account of all American people ever will.
I'm not sure if it's technically feasible, but there is probably a huge market for a game engine that can export JS/Canvas code to a native app code.

I think now that Apple lighten up on their developer rules this is now a possibility.
I see a lot more barriers to this entering the enterprise market than it entering personal markets.

For example your company would have to run entirely on web apps already or kiss all of your existing infrastructure goodbye (shared drives, word documents, excel documents, externally received word/excel, Lotus Notes, Exchange, etc.)

Also if your company depends on using any other sort of software it's a no go, anything installed like AutoCad, Photoshop, Development tools, etc. I think many industries have one key piece of software that they can't exist without that must be installed.

And how does working in the cloud make an organisation more nimble? If anything it makes them more exposed to risk and of unintended downtimes when their internet connection plays up.

For example one of the companies I'm contracting with uses manymoon. Aside from being a bit poo, every now and then it stops working. Sometimes it's their servers, sometimes it's our wifi, sometimes the internet connection. It's not a key piece of software, but it makes you think of the kind of risk you're exposing yourself to. What if tomorrow google apps was shutdown due to a court order or bankruptcy? I know google won't go bankrupt, but there's no saying your other providers won't. Or a patent war which shuts down a key part of the system?

Obviously there are massive benefits like not having to run your own infrastructure, but it's still a risk.
Reasons:

> they usually mean that I have a substandard experience when I'm not on my phone

> I can't sign my children up so that we have a general chat tool.

This isn't a privacy thing, this is a general tool that is fundimentally broken if I'm not on my phone.

I'm not always on my phone, and my kids don't have phone numbers.

They are unusable.
It's an ISA whose purpose is to be an open alternative for people developing microprocessors. It's actually a (large) family of ISAs, suitable for diverse applications.

The major advantage over rolling your own is that you don't have to develop the tools, and you can leverage quite a lot of software (still growing daily).

The major advantages over going with Arm is that you have the freedom to extended the architecture (in a well-defined manner) and the ISA is completely open and free. You can implement it yourself, use on of many open source implementations, or license the IP from many companies, including SiFive.

Nearly all machine learning startups use RISC-V for this reason, including Esperanto Technology.

Off the shelf chips are slow to come out, but there's a steady stream. The next generation of the ESP32 is RISC-V based and there's also BL602 in the same class.

For desktop (RV64GC)[1], I'm not aware of any chips for sale, but SiFive sells motherboards with their chips.

I expect a lot more RISC-V silicon in 2021, including RV64GC capable parts.

[1] see my rant elsewhere of why the "C" part is a !@#$ disaster.
If you look at the wikipedia page for Sam Walton, the founding looks a little more nuanced:
"Walton went on to open more Ben Franklin Stores with the help of his brother, father-in-law, and brother-in-law."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Walton
Because typically workplaces are already biased towards men and employers do not need more incentives not to disadvantage male employees, I suspect.
>a huge rift opened in Dutch culture after WWII

I'm not sure what you mean there but WWII was 65 years ago and I've not heard anyone being called a 'collaborator' in the 40 years of my life here. It's just not an issue.

>It seems like a lot of Dutch social institutions are built around the fact that neighborly associations and quickly-built friendly acquaintanceships don't really happen as much in the Netherlands.

I think that's largely true. If we want to meet people we tend to just go to bars and cafes, do sports or go to concerts. We tend to leave our neighbours alone, give them their space. We do practically live on top of each other
so it just seems common sense.

>it's not somewhere I'd want to live, especially as an outsider.

Then don't be an outsider :)
There's lots of scripts that let you do this with imgur.

I'm sure it would be possible to do the same with this, but I think the site isn't really aimed at 'nix gurus! :D
You can use the built-in photo sharing on Dropbox, or use Dropbox integration with http://ourdoings.com/
I would love to see them pay handsomely for this and set some case law precedent.
No. They're like a mini-USA sans guns.
Output 0.1 nW
Yes please!

I suggest that the net harm to society from slimeball salespeople outweighs the net harm to society from black hat hackers by so many orders of magnitude that a comparison involves astronomical entities like red giants being compared to planetoids.

I would ask you to think about the computer business if we could remove the enterprise salespeople, but my mouth is watering so much that I can't finish typing my comment...
Or even:

load_first_five_bits_into(0x323abc)
load_last_five_bits_into(0x89bbca)

Or if you do mappings a lot, I'm sure I saw an IP packet parser based on syntax like this:

[----5----|----n----|----5----]
[0x323abc |void |0x89bbca ]
To give a real world example:

Quite a few ISPs in the UK institute bandwidth caps. Sometimes these caps can be horrendously expensive compared to the real cost of the bandwidth (i.e. high markup).

But there's also quite a few ISPs with no unreasonable bandwidth caps. I have the choice to use one of these ISPs instead (and I do).

Same deal with net neutrality. If non-neutral ISPs pop up, then you can be sure that neutral ones will too. There's no better selling point than "we're cheaper than those guys".

I think the government is right not to mess with a well functioning market when there's not even a problem yet. I'm not so keen on them trying to spin non-neutral practices into a good thing (this may just be the article sensationalising).
Generally when a company fails it goes into bankrupcy, where the process is designed to keep the business functioning while things proceed. So even if Amazon or Google declared bankruptcy tomorrow Adsense and Amazon Marketplace would go on. The people who would be in trouble would be the people who Google owed money to, which was very much the concern with Lehman Brothers.
Not only that, the BRK & GS deal was hugely publicized as were the favorable terms for BRK. Anyone who would care about it probably would have known that already. He is watched with millions of eyes for his every move.

Anyone who who owns pretty much any public equity can say he/she benefited from government intervention.

Full, unnecessary disclosure: Long on BRK, GS, C, BAC and others.
similar premise to polyvore http://www.polyvore.com/
Whilst I think projects like this are cool, it's a real shame that browser vendors don't make embedding other engines easier.
I've got one of these on my desk and I can assure you that it's amazingly solidly built. Evan and Mike have tweaked the dimensions just so that the plywood they use, sanded and waxed in the way they sand and wax it, fits very precisely -- or rather, it doesn't quite fit, unless it is squeezed a little bit, which is actually what you want, because that means it snaps together securely. And this is why the laser cutting is necessary: it's the one technique that lets you achieve the tolerances you need for this sort of thing without manual adjustments to each piece.
And in SF I bet most of this market rate construction would be snapped up by overseas buyers from China looking for a save haven should the Chinese economy go really pear-shaped - just like London
Yes, it pays dividends, but there's still a big asset that can never be mode liquid.
There are plenty of reasons to use source-to-source compilers (which is what I assume you meant by "converting programming languages")

* Running multiple languages (each with it's own strengths) on platforms that natively support only a few languages. e.x. GWT, CoffeeScript.

* Enhancing an existing language. e.x. Objective-J, Stratified JavaScript.

* Performance. e.x. HipHop for PHP.

* Quickly building new languages. Objective-C (and I think C++?) was originally just a preprocessor for C.

That said, I personally don't find a Ruby-to-PHP compiler particularly useful. Maybe it could be useful for running Ruby on the ubiquitous and cheap Apache/PHP shared hosts, but I suspect the overhead of loading a large amount of code (even just Ruby's standard library, let alone Rails) on each request will make that infeasible.
A lot like Instamojo, but Razorpay looks more refined product. Signed up and used the API a bit. Using it was a breeze. Also the documentation is like Stripe which helps a lot.

Congrats on the launch! I am hopeful that recurring transaction problem will also be tackled later on.
Hi, We do not support that model at this point because of additional regulatory hurdles. We do have it in our roadmap though.
I rather prefer Smith on these matters to Hazlitt, whose own conflicts of interest with FEE are well known.

What are the common wages of labour, depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower, the wages of labour.

It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily: and the law, besides, authorises, or at least does not prohibit, their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work, but many against combining to raise it. In all such disputes, the masters can hold out much longer. A landlord, a farmer, a master manufacturer, or merchant, though they did not employ a single workman, could generally live a year or two upon the stocks, which they have already acquired. Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year, without employment. In the long run, the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him; but the necessity is not so immediate.

... and on for a bit (as Smith is wont to do).

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes Of the Wealth Of Nations

Chapter VIII. Of the Wages Of Labour

The produce of labour constitutes the natural recompence or wages of labour.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm#link2H...
"Corban"?

No, that's not what Corban is. A Corban is an animal sacrifice.

Is your error or an error in your source text?
OP was trying to suggest that the world has become more callous about civilian casualties, using drones as an example, and was wrong on both counts
That's an interesting idea. It would allow unit tests to check what breaks under different precision settings.

It could probably be emulated in C++ with user defined types and overloaded operators. In C one could go the other way - '#define double float' and see if it breaks sooner ...
>you are a senior resource, you should not ask such questions; if you want to find answers, look into the code itself.

You should never tell anyone they 'should not ask such questions', but I will absolutely tell you 'hey, go read this code / documentation and it will help you understand'. Mainly, I just want you to show me that you've at least attempted to solve or research the problem yourself. If you've done that I'm happy to help. Unfortunately a lot of Jrs straight out of school seem to expect to be spoon fed answers, and it makes me wonder if college has changed since I graduated.
Better lower that bandwidth requirement estimate:

https://www.engadget.com/reddit-movie-floppy-disk-vcr-180230...
Something you spend 1/2 of your waking life on is never "just" something.
They work perfectly fine under a SPA. SPA pushes history which lets the back button work and you can bookmark the URls. They have real URLs so you can create tabs.

Go look at https://www.target.com/ and see if you can tell difference between SPA and regular web page except for the speed aspect.
I am talking about a much more general class of security than just XSS. You’re making perfect the enemy of good here - yes, of course XSS is not completely mitigated by httpOnly. That was not my point.

My actual point stands, the Web Storage API doesn’t offer the same protections as cookies. Don’t store sensitive data in localStorage, that is emphatically not it’s intended use.
Not really my experience, KDE was a really stable desktop environment till maybe 2019, after that year, every release in Framework or Plasma usually brings back old bugs, regressions, some of them get solved eventually, some other are "tagged" as not solvable because arquitecture reasons or tech migrations reasons, and that's it.

The current stability of latests versions of Kwin in X11 environments is suffering nowadays from graphical glitches, bugs, performance issues and whatnot, not just in Nvidia, but with Intel and AMD hardware. Other windows managers, even some old window managers, work better than Kwin or have no bugs or glitches or performance regressions whatsoever running on the same hardware as Kwin.

Lastly, some users started to get caught in some strange bugs related to non-functional clicks in widgets, or losing some previously working functionality, like keyboard shortcuts (no, I'm not talking about the ever present bug of the meta key not being able to trigger the main menu if there are several menu widgets loaded in panels).

I'm not really a fan of Gnome, but lastly I keep finding myself solving technical issues in KDE that were long solved, years ago, and now start to appear, a couple every week or two, with the latest "stable" versions.

Not that "old" stable versions work better than the latest code, most distros have a two-four months old KDE in packages and those obviously show the bugs and regression from that moment.

Not really a good moment for a KDE fan as myself, now testing other desktop environments looking for a workable combination of software to use, instead of just accepting Gnome and its limitations.
There is already a ton of software in your car that can theoretically just steer in the other direction and accelerate.
A bit of an obvious question
Elm, Typescript and Purescript all offer Javascript + Types

Clojurescript is dynamic, beside the lisp syntax which is arguably cleaner, and offer some nice advantages like homoiconicity

What is the real advantage of Clojurescript (?)
> It's the solution that gives you 90% if the value with 5% of the work.

It’s not, though. History tables don’t provide only 111% of the value of this, and don’t take 20× the effort. They have a deterministic relation to base tables (so generating the schema from that of base tables, and the code necesaary for maintenance, is a scriptable mechanical transform if you have the base table schema.)

OTOH, lots of places I've seen approach this by haphazard addition of some of what I think of as “audit theater” columns to base tables (usually some or all of “created”, “created_at”, “last_updated”, “updated_by”), so its also not the worst approach I’ve seen.
This is an incredible piece of art. I can't express the positive emotions I feel for this.
The Lords are actually more often known for stopping the passing of bills that sail through Parliament and really, really shouldn't have.

Is this a deliberate attempt by the Lords to sabotage the passing of the main bill, by putting in something they know the coalition partners the Lib Dems already voted down? Seeing who tabled it, maybe not, but we need to be alert that the latest fight for our liberties won't just start at the next election.

Better make sure the Lib Dems know. Ugh.