jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I linked to Flex Your Rights[0] in the blog post. They have two great videos (both available for free on Youtube) about dealing with police encounters.

Unfortunately, the TSA are not police officers, and so you don't have the same rights as you do when dealing with police officers. (Notice how the police officers refused to be present during the pat-down - I didn't mention this in the article, but the cops stepped out of the room every time the TSA officers patted me down).

If anybody has a good, analogous resource for dealing with TSA and the FBI, I would love to know.

[0]http://www.flexyourrights.org/
It certainly is not the best. The worst case scenario for nuclear isn't even remotely acceptable.
Don't fly in Ramadan? I would rather say: don't fly to USA. I'm from a muslim country but I'm not muslim, but I would never ever fly to the US.
> This is a high-profile case, which could make or break the reputation of this solicitor. She is bound to frame the ruling in a positive light, no matter how ineffectual she knows it to be.

I remain unconvinced. I don't see that you can infer this soley from her representation. I have seen many solicitors strongly condemn a ruling and admit a complete failure, although not in those words.

> They are still going to discover evidence of any unrelated criminal activity, and as far as I'm aware this ruling doesn't prevent them launching separate criminal investigations — the police announced today they are doing precisely this.

I have not read the ruling, so it is impossible for me to know for certain what it prohibits. I think it's pretty unlikely that they would make a ruling that prohibited nothing without at least some mention of it by someone with knowledge.
For a lot of stuff, the idea of pre-negotiating price between patient and provider sounds great. I'm not sure how emergency care can work well though without some third party to help set fair pricing.

You get taken to a hospital out of your control, and they're allowed to decide what services to provide and as well as the price they're going to charge you. After the fact your only leverage to negotiate the bill down is declaring bankruptcy.
Possibly worth noting that Jet Blue has had some other problems in their history:

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2008/09/30/the-video-that-...

http://www.jessdugan.com/blog/13699650/JetBlue-stole-my-came...
Just wondering: what part of the East Bay do you live in?
Wouldn't be so bad if it weren't almost always paired with entering said clout of gas with gas masks and beating and arresting protestors.
It's a great idea to try other providers - I run stuff on Linode and Digital Ocean myself (though I stick with Heroku for the vast majority). Let me know if there's anything I can help with re:deployment or support of node apps on our platform.
Was innodb buffer pool as set to default as well?
Exactly. From a purely technical standpoint, it's better than any existing alternative for scripting in the browser.
Here's Ruby for example, before it was popular: (2004) https://web.archive.org/web/20040211074335/http://www.ruby-l... and here's when/right before it (arguably) started picking up a community https://web.archive.org/web/20070805190709/http://www.ruby-l... (2007)

Popularity being based on the Rails 2.0 release since that's when Ruby/Rails seemingly started to take off. It's a bit before my time so if anyone knows better feel free to correct me.
The synchronous vs asynchronous communication argument is on par with a “best programming language” debate. The style of communication is just a tool that should fit the need and the tasks at hand. If you are working on a largely engineering driven project with a thorough spec where "heads down" development can be most effective than email/messages between team members probably will probably be effective. However, when developing on a small-sprint, iterative agile team that style of communication would be a death knell to effective communication.
Not that I have any strong belief in Microsoft's purity, but Microsoft isn't primarily an advertising company, so...there's that.
SCOTUS isn't the end point for most cases so I'm not at all sure that makes sense as a measuring stick.

The case in question was just filed.
I have run into this exact problem. A many-to-many table had a business meaning, not just an "invisible" relationship. We wanted to put a model in front of it & add soft deletes and created-at/updated-at fields, at it was a mess of hoops and hacks to jump through.
In a decent system? No.

Would you be willing to risk that the system you live in is decent? I live in the UK and I hope I never need to find out, because I have a few doubts.
>The article is right that Goodreads is used as "an organizational tool to keep track of what you've read" (or what you're planning to read). But that's actually a bad thing. Selecting books should have an element of randomness to it.

I think that would have to be at least part of the reason why they didn't call it "a selection tool to keep track of what you want to buy."
Why? Brave has an integrated Ethereum wallet. In the future, you won't want to use an app that doesn't have one, or at least doesn't have hooks for WalletConnect. Web3 has a fairer monetization system than the exploitative Web2 advertising model built on spying and manipulation.
To be clear, I'm not disputing unknowns in quantum chemistry in general (I lack the requisite background). But I was definitely of the understanding that single atom (and possibly somewhat larger) systems are thoroughly understood from a mathematical perspective at this point. I would appreciate concrete examples of open questions, either for hydrogen atoms specifically or for quantum chemistry more generally.
I'd be scared too, still, I'd say I need to consult a lawyer and have one present, otherwise I'm not saying anything or even listening to them...

If you are in such a situation you are already in trouble due to power imbalance. In other places where you can't get a lawyer / have friends high up you might as well play along...
My question was based on this crap article and the crappiest "First" paragraph I have ever come across regarding startups!

How can he say it's a vote of no confidence? It shows he has not experiemented with "single" founder startups or he has not learnt anything about how single-founder startups are run most effectively...(They have to be extra caution when taking decisions as they have to look from all perspectives)I can say much more but there is no use in "saying" this to bunch of people who believe that his article and words are like "Bible" for the startups.

I like to quote a proverb that says "What you see is a lie,What you hear is a lie,So do investigate and find out the truth"
This blog post by the author points at Daniel Yellin for the theoretical underpinnings: http://unobtainabol.blogspot.com/2014/10/constraint-attribut...
> maybe Adobe Illustrator uses it?

Yep: http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/06/23/two-steps-adobe-illu...
Can you (or anyone else) explain why these occur?

Is it simply a case of the acquirer wanting the technology and maybe the personnel while the acquired company is losing money hand over fist so they just shut the company down?
Pretty much:

> Editor’s note: Bill Maris is president and managing partner at Google Ventures.

Hold onto your wallet. Wall Streeters are moving to tech[1], as are retirement fund managers[2]. Bubbles only work as long as the Smart Money can profit by selling to more fools.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/technology/ruth-porat-goog...

[2] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/daily-report-privat...
Do you have data disproving the anecdotes?
The problem is, downvotes due to disagreement are codified as acceptable.

Which still sucks, since downvotes can lead to shadowbans.

PS. Just double checked the Guidelines, and this codification is no longer there. However, there's also no guidance to suggest an appropriate reason to downvote.
Yes. The author of the article buried this point under all the Google, Facebook, Amazon commentary. Yet, it’s the key point.

Also, this article got me thinking that maybe public research should get to work on the AR/VR aspects of the web so the key infrastructure of the web continues to be publicly owned.
From their wifi. eg go to your enemy's house, connect to their WiFi, frame them with an encrypted file that they don't have the password to.
It's the opposite for me. I've been paying for Youtube Premium since back when they were calling it Youtube Red, and the nag screens haven't gone away. When I'm signed in, Youtube still sticks up banners that remind me that I have exclusive content I don't care about. I still get reminders about all of the "cool" features I don't want. I still have to jump through hoops to archive content that I care about. I'm paying money for exactly 2 reasons:

- I want to support creators.

- I want to watch #%!@X videos without distractions.

Youtube Red only helps me with the first point -- I can support creators, but it's even questionable there whether I'd be having a bigger impact by directly giving money on Patreon. In the meantime, I'm still paying money for Youtube Premium right now and I've gotten to the point where I don't use it, because the experience with an adblocker and proxies is better than the experience I pay for.

At some point, when someone is paying money for a service and then going out of their way to avoid signing into their account or using the thing they pay for, you have to question whether the service is designed well.
I do not use DuckDuckGo since they announced that they partnered with Yandex.ru. I do not want my searches going to Russia, even anonymized.

https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/a7nl1v/duckduck...

This is based on my political views. YMMV.
Wait. What. Digicert is now BRCM?
What was the escape key trick?
I can only speak from experience, but I know two large corporate entities that used Java and have over the years dropped it in favor of Go and websites.

Edit: i like how my first hand experience is disagreeable and should be hidden. This site gets STRANGE with facts that users just don’t want to see.
As a hiring manager for 15+ years, I’ve never nerfed someone’s offer because they came from an agency, nor have I ever caught a whiff of this happening.

I am conscious of which roles I offer to outside agencies, but once I do, I stop worrying about the cost and focus only on the value I can get from the candidate. Those agency roles are some of the most competitive positions; I don’t expect to be able to hire the best who happen to not realize that $0.75x is smaller than $1.00x for positive values of x.
Can you use the methods in this library to do constrained optimization? Whenever I look for such gradient free optimizer it's always comes with some constraint.
Why couldn't facebook instead facilitate that same small model railway business advertising on the railway group pages, and non-facebook pages about model railways? Why not just tie the ads to the content of the page visited?

With targeting you're correct that facebook (and others) can instead follow the user around the internet and show them (perhaps) relevant ads on sites that may be cheaper to advertise on (e.g. some crappy link-bait / SEO built site) which may be more effective than an ad otherwise shown on _that_ click-bait site but perhaps less effective than a railway ad shown on a railway related website.

Facebook can transfer revenue from the higher quality site on railway topics to lower quality sites that may just be click-bait and capture nearly all that difference for themselves.

Bottom line is you de-fund high quality sites (railway hobbyist sites in this example) and encourage surveilling individuals for only facebook's benefit.
In the post, I try to make the case that there were, in fact, promises. Obviously, I didn't make that case well.

However, if I was very careful with bc, despite the fact that no one was going to exploit it (which would not be the case if there was a vector for it, such as someone using bc in a script that runs as root), how much more careful should the Cryptography authors have been, since they were writing crypto?

And if they were not going to be careful, they should have used Rust from the beginning and not made (implicit) promises to users.

Edit: typo.
> no good solutions

Yeah there are no good ones, facebook is clearly morally wrong, but they are not in the business of morals anyway.

Let's see if their ever-socially-conscious advertisers will "pull out" their ads in protest again
Facebook is indeed a tool for authoritarians.

Facebook becomes the major, if not the only, online channel for citizens of a country.

Facebook adheres to orders of an authoritarian leader. Authoritarian leaders easily shuts out opposition to his/her regime.

Authoritarian leaders didn't have to spend much money and resources to do this. Facebook did it for them!
You can just say $0, click paypal, and then you just go directly to the download page. Also, no, no source
I've checked; for the backend developer positions we are open to remote workers.
Yes, these are the attacks we know of, and the first one only because the FBI told us so. I suspect Tor is a lot more targeted and dangerous than people assume and using it casually to administer servers is asinine.
> It's a lot harder than you might think.

Sounds like those spam emails for Viagra
I mean the pop-up ads are sometimes ads to online casinos, sometimes very popular mobile games, etc.

To be honest, I am very frustrated with the ads, but I have to make money somehow and I never found a better way how to do it.
Seems to still be actively developed: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston/commits/master
This is a good idea. I'm thinking about adding functionality to the next version of Userify that will provide customization of ciphersuites (etc) on the sshd_config side. It'd be even cooler if it used just this sort of table.
There are several reasons we've been using go for web backends where I work:

- Very easy deployment (we can just copy the same binaries between our 64 bit linux boxes and run them)

- Go's libraries for developing minimal web interfaces are excellent

- Being strongly encouraged to do all the explicit error checking made our Go code much more reliable and easy to debug than our previous python versions.

Of course, all of this depends on how big the project is. We just have several components of a project that require a simple webpage frontend with a small REST backend to interact with Redis. Our entire server for both the frontend and backend is ~1200 lines of Go and easy to understand. If your project is much bigger, you may end up needing features that aren't present in Go (as was the case with Dropbox), which may slow you down some.
Got a great speedup when I added Redis. When a word is first requested, the JSON is put together from the Postgres database tables, then just stuff it in Redis for subsequent requests.

Since there have been so many requests, most common words are in Redis at this point.
It's not being done in secret; everyone knows that the negotiations are happening. For example the U.S. government has a mini-website all about the TPP:

https://ustr.gov/tpp

The negotiations are being conducted solely by national representatives because the TPP is an agreement between nations. When the national representatives think they have a deal, they will present the proposed deal to their governments for ratification. In the case of the U.S. that will mean a Congressional vote.

Similarly:

Corporate deals are negotiated in private by company staff, and then presented to shareholders for ratification.

Domestic legislation is negotiated in private by Congressional staff, and then presented for consideration by the appropriate Congressional committee.

Etc.

National negotiators do seek input from their citizens who might be affected by the TPP. From the USTR site:

"On Wednesday, March 6, negotiators from the 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership Countries paused talks to meet with more than 300 global stakeholders at an engagement event hosted by the Government of Singapore. Representatives from academia, labor unions, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations from around the world spoke with and heard from negotiating teams about priorities for and progress on the pending trade agreement. The negotiators also had the opportunity to listen to 60 lecture-style stakeholder presentations."

https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/tran...

edit: speling
Exactly my thought - this looks like a good review for people who breezed through this stuff in high school or college. Speaking as someone who was never able to get this stuff (not for lack of trying) back then, this guide uses the same obtuse language and carries the same "if this explanation isn't immediately understandable then you probably aren't cut out for this" tone that I hated back then too.
> System Alerts:

> No Significant Issues!

That's an odd way to report an outage, it's almost as if there isn't an outage.
I think you overestimate the non-frivolity of proper laptop use and life in general.

Beyond providing the bare essentials of survival to yourself or others, you're just playing around. Call it Serious Business if you like, but if you don't need to do it to survive then it's no more important than blending laptops to entertain the internet.
Yes, and it's not. Did you look at the site?
maybe we need better incentives

and I think we used to have better incentives, back when enforcement was local and directly responsible to the parents of those whose heads they might crack. Of course, they weren't always fair to people just passing through.

The community relationships of the past have been weakened and/or replaced with relationships to politicians and unions. I see no reason why the police should not be subjected to rule of law like the rest of us.
Definitely. Down here in Australia, even before the mining industry boom, there was always a shortage of GIS developers.

I did ArcGIS development for a few years, and some other ESRI development before ArcGIS was a twinkle in MapObjects and ArcIMS's eye. I've never seen anyone skilled in those technologies wanting for work.

Plenty of contracts to, which can be quite lucrative once you've got some experience under your belt.

I could go on...
Damn, this is frustrating... geo-location is such an exciting technology - just shocked that one company can own the rights to so much.

Patents that cover ideas this expansive are so illogical.
However if you don't mind, I still prefer my soup, purée, mashed potatoes with some entropy.
Huh? Java "protected from decay and dilution"?

Compare Java to C#. C# was originally a Java clone, but the designers liberally borrowed from everywhere, worrying about actual use cases and not purity of any sort. Today C# is at the boundary between mainstream and academic programming. (It has monads for God's sake. They don't call it monads, of course. They call it LINQ.)

Java? It added generics after C# did, and only now is it finally going to add proper closures.
I definitely second The History of Rome. I haven't kept up with it lately, but I loved it when I listened to it.

My favorite programming podcast is se-radio ( http://www.se-radio.net/ )
I especially like this one for getting a general overview of a variety of coding related categories and practices. Being self-taught, it's been been an invaluable source for broadening my basic understanding of the field. The guys that run the podcast definitely strike me as being more involved in the corporate space, but the topics are relevant to just about every topic in software construction, from episodes on embedded real-time systems, an interview on the internals of the gcc compiler, clojure, and tons of others.

I listen to This American Life frequently. The stories are always fascinating and well-produced.

Stuff You Should Know has always been one of my favorites. It's like spastically browsing the internet in audio form. You learn all kinds of super-interesting things, but never really learn much about any one subject. I'd suggest this for long car-trips when you're not trying to accomplish anything, heh. Love it, though.

howstuffworks.com has a lot of interesting ones outside of Stuff You Should Know, but I'd hit that one first.

those are my favorites, off the top of my head

History of Rome,
Software Engineering Radio,
This American Life,
Stuff You Should Know
> The original plan of CrashCorp was to create mobile games using augmented reality, but the young company soon learned that the hardest part was developing the back-end geolocation infrastructure that would support their applications.

Geolocation technology is around for decades, with widely supported standards and a number of open-source servers available. Augmented Reality in the other hand sounds very challenging, due to image manipulation and dealing with an environment with limited resources (mobiles).

Am I missing something?
Sounds like your passion is your family :)

Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
My biggest problem with most of the "I just need $1m" people I have met is twofold.

One, most of them would have no idea how to use that million in a sustainable way. Take a look at all the lottery winners that end up broke. The article does touch on this ... you don't need a million dollars to do half the things that many people feel they will do when they miraculously land that million.

Secondly, most people are not prepared to put in the kind of work that leads to a million dollar payoff. No, playing the lotto does not count. Getting a big payoff takes hard work, luck, and more hard & smart work.

Far too many people are not prepared to pay the price of success.
Looks interesting. Slightly off topic, but what are the chances of getting a Montana (406 area code) phone number? Or, alternatively, is there a method of forwarding an existing phone number to Tropo?
Great question, derrida. The projects were launching MVPs of projects over a weekend as part of a larger group or just a few friends working together. I've worked on:

* Copywriting - for a landing page, app, email responses
* Setting up the CMS / working on HTML & CSS for the project
* Integrating online tools into the project (Wufoo, Mailchimp, Google Analytics, Get Clicky, Get Satisfaction)
* Marketing - Designing and implementing a process for attracting new users and having them sign up
It's always possible to MITM if you can't verify the signatures. No matter what they implement, the server can just relay messages back and forth.
I have to disagree that the green and red bars are easier to understand than simple written signs e.g:

No parking: 10pm-6am

1 hour parking: 6am-10pm

Red/Green is first of all a terrible choice as it's a very common form of color blindness. Yes the red areas also have diagonal bars but the meaning of those may not be understood.

I know I would need to stop and study a sign like that to understand it. This is an example of something that looks pretty but is actually useless, like a lot of design trends lately.