jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I read the article and the hesitation to expose various details through the web, what the article describes as the conservative approach, is absolutely valid. The biggest problem with exposing anything to the current web is complete exposure to anonymous strangers (loss of privacy) and all the security implications that come with that.

It doesn't have to be that way. The crux of the web is HTTP, which exposes a pseudo-anonymous session-less client-server model. I am working on an application that inverts HTTP to a non-anonymous session-oriented server-client model exposing a GUI in the browser.

The goal isn't privacy, but exposing new capabilities that only make sense in a private environment. There are numerous things people are willing to do on their desktop that would be absurd to do over the web. For example: there is no reason cross-platform file transfer should be challenging. Simply expose a slice of the file system to the net on a computer you own to somebody you trust and they can get what ever files they need at their convenience and discretion, like copy/paste from one folder to another folder except those folders are on different computers. The way the web currently works this isn't practical. The closest thing is a shared storage space in the cloud, like DropBox.

Other potential capabilities include remote application access, remote hardware access, built-in media sharing (think non-proprietary video conferences/presentations), and synchronizing things between your various personal devices.
Hi everyone! I recently built TileFlip, which is a playground where you code a rule that applies to every tile and try to make a visualization (inspired by tixy.land!). I’d love to get feedback from the community. If you’re interested in how I built this: https://github.com/vbhaip/TileFlip. If you create anything cool, please share it in the comments, because I’d love to check it out!
> So Matomo can still do without the user consent (from what I understand, the relation between GDPR and e-privacy is no easy business).

It also depends on the jurisdiction. For example the ICO has been clear that using a cookie based analytics tool requires a GDPR level of consent, without exceptions.
That's also a really cool alternative.
> Maybe these things are meant to be a proxy for how good you are at other development task

They are also a proxy for how hard you are willing to work to join them. I don't find that a useful metric as it implies a huge power imbalance in their minds... nevertheless, sometimes hiring processes make you jump through hoops just to prove that you are willing to do so.
In a similar vein Belgian startup FibriCheck is doing the same thing for detecting atrial fibrillation.
Did you mean to say “for instance” instead of “but”?
Yes, but "Android" is not a phone manufacturer.
Last place I worked for someone else (an investment bank) had both:

* web apps that only work on IE6

* web apps that did not work on IE6

simultaneously.

There was no official workaround, so everyone ran copies of Firefox on their local desktop, with the help of IT, and ignored the architecture astronauts setting the policy.
I've had experience in every configuration imaginable -- except having a cofounder.

What I found is that farming out work is effective, but it also introduces a lot of friction into the customer/product development cycle. Somebody you pay just isn't going to have the passion you are, they are going to do exactly what you tell them (and sometimes not much else), and they very, very rarely help you get a grip on which way to go.

My conclusion is that self-funding and bootstrapping as a loner is probably best until I absolutely must bring somebody else in, at which time I plan on using an intern. That way I have no illusions about what I'm getting in the deal.

I think you can do it. I would just be careful.
I can smell the nerd from the first comment, which uses characters to distinguish differing pronounciations of "th". Is that a peccadillo of his own, or is it a thing?
I'd love to help but don't have the time. I just wanted to say as soon as I saw the page, I thought the same thing.

If the author made their data available, it should be reasonably easy to restructure the data a bit then use something like OpenHeatMap (www.openheatmap.com) to create layers on top of Google Maps.

EDIT: Another idea -- if the author made their data available in shapefiles, it'd be easy to use with any mapping program.
Greenwald has posted two responses to this:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/29...

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/29...

(They seem to be returning 404s occasionally for some reason.)
I'm honestly ok with prefixing registers with a consistent symbol, and discerning for eg. immediates and literal addresses in a uniform way is pretty useful in a lot of instruction sets. I think those are ok.

On the other hand, though, there are the ways that it diverges semantically from the platform's norm: Indexed-mode, like you said, adding suffixes (for word size) to opcodes, the always popular reversal of src,dst arguments. That's where it bothers me.

When you put it all together though it just gets a lot more frustrating. On the plus side at least you always know what you're looking at.
That is not accurate in reality. Just because a provider is reported for an area doesn't mean they are obligated to service the entire area.

The data presented is unreliable and so a potentially valuable tool like this becomes worthless.
Should I just try to expense a cheap Thinkpad then? To be clear, this was not a corporate issued device, it is my home PC that I installed the VPN client on - my work is largely done in a browser on a "LAN" website. The VPN client won't connect unless I have AV up to date and windows updates up to date
The lies aren't for the international community, it's for the people of China.

If the wet market is at fault, it can be blamed on the local party leadership, which was easy enough to do because they continued to screw up during the early stages of the pandemic. One memorable one is when they hosted a massive dinner for 20000 people in close proximity when it was starting to really heat up.

If it's the lab, that squarely falls on the national government, which in all things can and must do no wrong.

A poster above said it perfectly, when your authority comes from competency, you need to show your competent. The CCP has this precarious position in China where the people support it strongly because they've been doing a good job giving people better lives, at least from their perspective. If that turns badly in any way, it could break them.
I have been using an ortho-linear for years now. I programmed it in a way so that the layout is not too different from a regular keyboard. I like it very much, but because I use a laptop I often switch to a "regular" keyboard (MacBook Pro 2016).
I find this ok, and I still appreciate the comfort of the ortholinear.
When folding the washing, I don't make sure the t-shirts / pants / etc are the "right way out", reducing the already heavy burden on the folding server, and pushing that work onto the less heavily burdened clients.
Wanna land a Chinese beach instead? Diplomacy is a difficult game.
It's interesting that this software is using NPM as package manager even if it's written in Shell itself.
also it hadn't occurred to me that this might be something interesting to even publish a paper about. so thanks for that too [assuming someone else hasn't already done this too..]

edit: well no surprise there i guess! http://www.nextflow.io/blog/2014/nextflow-meets-docker.html
Stephen Donaldson also would be in with a good shot as the "anti-Tolkien" - the first Chronicles of Thomas Covenant are in many ways a mirror opposition to Tolkien's work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Thomas_Covena...

Possibly the finest - and darkest, in the genuine sense of the world rather than "this has sex and violence in it" - portal fantasy ever written.
The search you mentioned there specifically is problematic on any large data-set, because in its current(ly unoptimized) state it wont be able to use index-seeking to arrive at an answer.

This means that at best it will need to do a index-scan (in practice a full table-scan on the index consisting of a subset of the table-data). The results of a query like that can't be obtained fast, at least not milliseconds fast, and its not well suited for caching or reusability.

There are (obviously) ways around this, but they all involve indirection and workarounds.

Anyway, as a rule of thumb: Any time you want to do general full-text search queries on relational data, the LIKE operator will very quickly meet its limits and depending on how much outside its bounds you want to go, you will find yourself having to do quite a bit of work.

And in those cases you mihgt want to use the full-text capabilities of your RDBMS if it has any. Or maybe something like Elasticsearch might be a better fit.

Disclaimer: I've never used Elasticsearch myself.
> Google has already said multiple times that it won't be pursuing any military contracts.

And you so quickly trust one of the biggest corporations in the world to "keep its promise" over following whatever its biggest interest will be in the future?

Google also said it won't deal at all with the military before they bought the robots, and a few months later it was selling them Google Glass...so yeah.

And Google Glass is something anyone barely wants. Imagine Google's robots were so great that it would cause a "revolution" in what we can do with robots. Do you really believe that if Pentagon came knocking at Google's door saying "Here, we want 1 million of these robots for $100,000 a piece". Google would say "Um, no thanks buddy, we already said in public 10 years ago (under a different CEO) that we wouldn't sell to you...but you could pay that $100 billion to Microsoft's robot division if you like. Our shareholders won't mind".

Is that how you imagine it going down? That said, I'm already pissed off because Oculus/Facebook have decided to sell Oculus Rifts to the military to make drone assassinations that much more convenient.
This is one of the things covered by public choice theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice#Special_interest...
lol nope, I'd hope the real Christopher Johnson would paint himself in a better light than saying he was involved in a childish feud with a self-styled reporter of the underworld.

You could say I'm just someone who is shocked at how badly everyone here wants to suspend reality and believe the yakuza story. Anyone who has met Adelstein knows within about 20 minutes of talking to him that he is just another Japan-weirdo with a big imagination.
When you MITM SSL like this you severely undermine the security of every application speaking HTTPS.
And I thought these were already the terms we use for this type of software...
> I'm not sure what you're talking about here.

My take is that doctors and lawyers both have powerful professional associations that limit the supply of new doctors and lawyers by establishing competency standards. The AMA also explicitly caps the number of residency positions available in each hospital.
My first thought was North Korea
False. For the last 3 weeks I've been sleeping in a place where the clock chimes on the hour and every half hour and there is constant car traffic. I feel better in this environment than I did at my old and quite place.
The problem with the standards is that getting copies costs actual money. If one really wants to start learning about databases, it can be very difficult to decide what to pay for. Implementation documentation, at least, is generally free.

For books, I've heard good things about http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Database-Systems-Ramez-El..., though I haven't read it myself.
Never discount Microsoft, if only for the sole reason that they'll just throw infinite amounts of money just to be relevant. For example: Xbox and Zune.
I don't know the whole story, but I have known very good, moral people who worked for companies that they didn't completely agree with ethically because they put their family or their health first. Ethics isn't always so simple. If "a very good salary and benefits" is the difference between being very sick or getting that surgery you need, or if it's the difference between sending your kids to a good school or a bad one.... Let's just say that I wouldn't be so quick to judge.
I agree. But, as I said, it's not an ethics issue for me. I just want to avoid the military culture.
Isn't this just saying that the BTC buying volume generated by Tether is less than what was claimed?

That's important to note, but where does he argue that the central and most important claim - i.e., that Tether isn't fully backed and is therefore liable to collapse like a house of cards - is false?
> If you fail to see the moral difference between typing on a computer and "curing ageing"... I don't know what to say to be honest

GP's not alone, maybe you're not too, but the point is, GP's point of view is not a snowflake. This person sounds mentally able, keeps her tone gentle, and make sensible arguments. Maybe it could be a wise move for you to reassess a logic you seems to adhere to a bit too much, so that there could be room for discussion? Because, liking it or not, anti-ageing medication and aging prevention is already here.
Did you mean West?
It's actually quite easy to make a business that is absolutely secure. You simply turn off all of your computers, fire all of your employees, sell off all your assets and empty your bank accounts. There, now you have a business that's absolutely unhackable.

What this hopefully demonstrates is that security is never the final goal, it's always a proximate goal and will always exist in tension with other goals.

Default Permit: We've all heard stories about dumb corporations where programmers couldn't even install a compiler without filling in a form and waiting a month. Default Deny kills productivity in a workplace because of the 80/20 rule. It's very easy to whitelist the 20% of apps that account for 80% of the usage but nigh impossible to whitelist the 80% of apps that are specific and niche. There was a post a few days ago about some guy working for immigration who figured out how to automate his job with UI scripting. That would have never happened under a Default Deny workplace.

Enumerating Badness: Like he said, this is a specialized version of Default Permit and all the same criticisms apply.

Penetrate and Patch: Building software that is architecturally secure is hard because it often imposes global constraints against your code. Global constraints get harder to implement as you start distributing your team in space and time and as you need to adapt code to changing requirements. Penetrate and Patch works because it allows you to deliver code quicker which is overwhelmingly more important than delivering secure code.

Hacking is cool: That he brings up spammers instantly undermines this argument since there's nothing less cool than spammers, yet spam has grown as fast if not faster than hacking over time. The threat vectors most of concern to companies nowadays are from nation states, organized crime and economic extortionists who could care less how "cool" their job.

Educating users: I remember when GMail started stripping out .exes from emails so we would start sending exes inside of zips. Then GMail started inspecting .zip files so we would change the file extension to .zip2. Then Google started detecting ZIP signatures so we started sending encrypted zip files just so we could email exes to each other. Why? Because emailing exes turned out to be a really, really useful thing to do. Any kind of paternalistic security policy inevitably ends up damaging more productive work than it does protecting against threats.

Action is better than inaction: Tell that to all of the industries that have been disrupted because they didn't stay sufficiently on top of trends. There are pros and cons to being an early adopter vs a late adopter but one is not universally better than the other.

The main point through all of this is that when bad security practices are widespread, it's usually because it's in conflict with some other business goal and there are rational reasons why security lost out. There aren't many silver bullet fixes because if there were, they would have been deployed already.
Not to talk down Clojure, but it sounds like the real success here was being able to reinvent existing systems, and having a CTO willing to give you the space to do it.

After all, the majority of sites like this are getting data from <data store>, squeezing through <template> and delivering to the user's browser. The language you do that in will have a much smaller effect than, say, your caching strategy (particularly at a high volume site like MailOnline).
This might not answer your question completely, but here's a thread from the last time I recall this discussion happening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8402542

It's been a while since I used MacPorts, but I imagine there is some benefit to using the same packaging system between OSs and not having all package descriptions as executable ruby scripts.
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I've attended every year so far, it's a blast! Like someone else mentioned, like many conferences, the more you put in the more you get out. There is a large variety in content and lots of opportunities to socialize. I've taken back lots of new ideas to my work, whom has always paid for it. I even spoke this past August! https://www.thatconference.com/sessions/session/1171
You're right,back to what I do best I guess.
Why? Because most of the ones they show is that a global lookup is more costly than a local one.

Something that may -very- well change quickly.
dict() slower than {}, and so on...
Going to finish Days Gone, then look for some new games.
"I finally stumbled upon the cure when I interviewed at a small startup that had a different approach. I met the leads for lunch, then followed up with a social chat with the whole team. We talked tech, but they didn’t try and vet my skills."

Meeting potential employers outside the office like this (over lunch or coffee) has been so much more effective for me as well. It takes the pressure off on both sides and lets everyone really get to know each other. If you can't sit down with someone over coffee or lunch, how are you going to work with them?

We're gathering companies who are interested in this approach to hiring (and trying to make it a trend). Employees at the companies offer coffee meetings (their treat) that anyone interested in the company can request. If there's mutual interest, they meet for coffee to chat about the company.

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One glaring problem with the proposal is that, even where we can expect university curricula have even treatment across universities (the hard sciences, say), university curricula simply are _not_ the same. Nor are the students who take them. Does anyone really think that courses taught at (say) regional universities and the students that get through them can be measured alongside the courses/students at top tier universities? That's unlikely. For one, the students were more or less uniformly measured going in and found to differ significantly. Second, I doubt the curricula are comparable in terms of depth and coverage (I can't prove it, of course, but my experience suggests that this is so).

To be clear, I am _not_ saying there are not good courses/universities outside the top tier. I know of some. But I think that on balance, my claim would hold up.
We should not merely disarm; we should build up defenses so that our citizens cannot be targeted. At the very least people who operate remailers and Tor exit nodes should not have to live in fear of having teams of soldiers assault their homes.

This is a classic problem for governments when it comes to cryptography and computer security. On the one hand it is easy for enemies to take advantage of the poor state of computer security, committing various acts of industrial espionage or shutting down critical systems. On the other hand law enforcement agencies want to be able to investigate people, and computer security systems can hamper those investigations; similarly our own spies want to ensure that our enemies are not able to protect themselves.
You might like to take a look at Irmin [1], which seems like it would make it easier to get what you're after. It's also part of a larger stack that will make distributed programming a lot easier when it lands [2].

[1] http://openmirage.org/blog/introducing-irmin

[2] http://nymote.org/blog/2015/brewing-miso-to-serve-nymote/
The article does not lay the blame on the devs:

| A single clueless person in a position of trust with non technical management, an outsourced project and a huge budget, what could possibly go wrong...
The proposal is not dependent on boot, only our demonstration of it is.
If we have a society don't like ads (perhaps a subcategory: intrusive ads, offensive ads, loud/bright/aggressive ads, extremely large ads that clutter our cityscape), we could simply ban those categories with law. Honestly I would prefer that. I find the intensity of advertisement to be offensive to my ability to live, my freedom of thought without people spamming images at my face all the time.
One example that comes to my mind after reading this is of the aboriginal/native tribes in various continents that decided not to explore alien areas. In my opinion, the natives were far less developed when the explorers from the old earth conquered them.

This is primarily the reason that we should explore the space and try to find new and exciting things.
It's been a while, but doesn't it have restrictions, like you can only use it for one liners?

Edit: found this via Google - "lambda functions can not contain commands, and they can not contain more than one expression"
This is actually kinda ridiculous. I feel so bad for companies that have invested in this product. Just pulling the downloads like that... wow. I'm hoping that paying customers at least got some heads up, data migration is the hardest thing to get right.

Good luck to all the former FDB'ers.
Lord - Conditions are no-doubt tough, but there is internet infrastructure, and there is most definitely talent. Brownouts do occur in the evenings. Gaza Sky Geeks also has a generator so that entrepreneurs in the co-working space can work late. Investing is not an issue. There's a new $9M fund that just formed to focus on Gaza.

Check out the Indiegogo page - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-gaza-s-only-startup-.... It has a ton of info