jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was looking at InspIRCd and UnrealIRCd which seem to be popular among smaller IRC networks. Any reason for that? Are they better suited for public networks?
I'm honestly surprised they had to make a law against it. It has always seemed to me that warrant canaries would not survive their first contact with the judicial system; it's a clear attempt to circumvent the intent of the law through a technical loophole. Judges aren't stupid and they tend to not look very kindly on such legal "hacks".

(Related: http://xkcd.com/1494/)
Not only that, but along with the email you may have higher value targets that you will spend more time checking or trying to brute force.

Even if it's a gmail user, if you get them, and they use the same password on their mail, poof, you're in.

What gets me is that banks of all places have the worst password abilities (for their web logins)... case insensitive, only letters and numbers.
For you and I to have a meaningful discussion we would need to not use the word game. I'll just leave it at that.

At least you agree with me that layout and configuration of levels is protected by copyright. At least I assume you believe that assets are protected. You don't specify.

All of these waters are largely untested. It doesn't take much discussion to hit them. Good luck.
no it doesn't. we've had 2 percent inflation over the same period.
It's actually very important that games themselves aren't copyrightable. What if Doom (or whoever did the first FPS) had a copyright on FPS? There was an interesting article on HN a few months ago about the history of game lawsuits. basically, gameplay is not copyrightable, but characters, assets, etc. are.
Salts aren't meant to be secret; they are generally stored next to the hashes (and used in a known, standard way). The purpose of the salt is to raise the cost of brute-force attacks, by forcing attackers to brute-force each password separately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
ffs dont do it. no its not enough. you will always feel that feeling because you are born into this world and it absolutely makes no fucking sense. so you want to atleast feel competent in one thing. but you wont ever feel competent in life because this whole experience of existing is fucking ridiculous. bla bla computer bla bla ping pong. you are an ape and we are spinning around. imposter in the world. not in knowing a "job" skill. haha you comment is so deep i wanna give you a hug and buy you a beer.
Good article, pretty interesting. I've always had a fascination with ancient Mesopotamia and while this era was considered the neo-Babylonian era it's interesting both how this time period played out as well as the king's fascination with the older Sumerian religion.
This piece describes issues I experienced in my younger years. I started working when I was 14 years old learning to build custom cars. By the time I was 18 I was good at it because I paid close attention to the old timers I was learning from. From the very beginning I was paid a flat rate, and because I was good, and fast, I made a good wage, but the work was not full time.

When there was no work I'd take an hourly wage job. If the job was doing custom car or body work, because I was young I was told I had to prove I could do the work, and promised that if I did prove that I'd get a raise, but the raises never came, I got excuses instead.

In all of those cases the person I was working for made a lot of money off of my work, but just couldn't bring themselves to keep their promise of paying me what I was worth after I'd proved I could do the work.

Everyone of those cheapskates despised me for demanding they keep their word and pay me a journeyman's wage, and despised me for quitting.

I got real good at quitting. I'd wait until they bid a job to do custom metal work and took a down payment and then I'd demand they keep their word. But their greed was far more powerful than their sense of their situation. In two of those cases I later found out they were spending the money I was making them on cocaine. Looking back, I think there were probably others that did the same. I called those "the blizzard years" In most of them they went out of business because they took on a job they didn't have the skills to complete and/or snorted all the money.
Sure Jan, you are NOT purging media outlets, but merely "down-ranking" "spam".

Also, you didn't
purge Youtube-dl from the results, you merely gave them porn-like status: you have to explicitly search for it by name.
> [MS Word & Excel] needed some PMs to say No.

Uh, why? Both of these applications were and continue to be massively popular. Excel particularly empowers self-perceived non-programmers in a way few other programs ever have. What's your basis for asserting that packing these programs full of features was a bad idea? Because it clutters the screen when you turn all the toolbars on? That's a "Doctor it hurts when I poke my eye" -> "Then stop doing that!" situation, not a real argument against lots of features. Virtually nobody understands or uses all of Excel or Word, but so what? Nobody needs to understand more than a tiny fraction of these programs to start getting real utility out of them, evidenced by their massive popularity. The barrier to entry is low, but these programs continue to provide more possibilities as user skill develops. Would the lives of excel pros using those esoteric features really be better if those features were removed and the now dis-empowered excel pros were made to each individually plead their case to programmers, begging for the implementation of functionality axed from Excel?
It’s a British panel show, formerly hosted by Stephen Fry and now by Sandy Toksvig, where the panelists (most often comedians) are posed questions about science and history which have surprising answers. The name stands for “Quite Interesting,” and it is—along with being a lot of fun. Lots of shorts and full episodes are available on YouTube.

Here is an example: https://youtu.be/44Db0Xt_ykI
So cool!! Will try it
> close to German standards

Paying everyone the floor rate is one approach, lol.
Can't believe bthomas hadn't encountered that abbreviation in the wild before!
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There are a ton more stakeholders in NFC technology than Apple and Google. The way Mastercard and Visa look at it, they are taking away market share from cash ($).

Currently, contactless payment terminals exist at 1% of merchants (the 1% is from memory, but it is low):
-Fast food (e.g. Mcdonalds, Jack in the Box)
-Convenience (e.g. 7-eleven)
-Movie Theaters (e.g Regal Theaters)
-transit terminals (e.g. Las vegas, San Fran, Chicago, D.C.)

These two companies are not the make or break stakeholders in the NFC equation.
I prefer this one as well because you can print it.
http://www.tickdata.com/
The main answer is by a (purported) schizophrenic. Highly informative and remarkably lucid. (I don't mean the latter as a slight towards the author. I wish more people wrote like this).
forgive me if I'm naive, but can file hashes be spoofed in any way? I'm thinking upload a bunch of files that hash to random numbers, then download the de-duplicated original files.

could someone more knowledgable in this area tell me if this is a credible threat?
Consciousness is axiomatic. It can neither be proved nor disproved, because all proof depends on consciousness. This is obvious on some level: you can't prove anything to a rock, but you can prove things to other people.

(Proof is the demonstration that the non-obvious statement being proved reduces to directly observable, and therefore self-evident, phenomena in reality.)

Now, having said all that, it is possible and legitimate to study consciousness. But anything that's discovered about it is only valid within the framework outlined above, because this is one of the ideas that is required for scientific inquiry to take place. (You can't explain scientific ideas to rocks, or even to the best computer programs we can come up with today.)
I can't speak for those people, but I might be put off by a request for 1-10 language ratings, rather than asking what my core skills are, or something about choosing technologies for a given problem. 1-10 ratings strike me as a bit like, "what are your weaknesses?"
That's a severe oversimplification, IMO. Just recently there was news that duplicating the host_id from the Dropbox config onto another system will immediately gain access to all of the Dropbox files associated with that host_id, without further authentication.

It's not security theatre to acknowledge that the security in such a system could be improved, especially as an option for those that require it.

#3 could easily be paralyzing for many businesses. There are already services (like Tarsnap) which are engineered to not require you to trust them; why should we ignore such services and limit ourselves to doing business only with those companies that we can trust implicitly?

As a specific example, I've had a client for a few years which is government funded and quite paranoid about security. However, they also need to communicate with outside contractors. I don't advise them to "trust" their ISP, the outside contractors' network, and all the other businesses in-between. I tell them that nothing sensitive leaves the building unless it's been encrypted, and that once someone else opens that file, it can no longer be considered secure in any sense.

"Trust us" is not a compelling requirement for doing business, nor can businesses limit themselves only to relying on service providers that they trust. Fortunately, the technology exists now to eliminate that requirement.

Dropbox is currently off-limits to all employees at my client.
Yeah - normally crappy hand rolled PHP ones.
My mind was slightly blown today, when I realized that http://productivitycalendar.com and .net (and all other permutations) were available.

There are still some excellent domains left, as difficult as it can seem to find some good ones.

Let this be some anecdotal pep talk.

Using NLTK to "mine" for viable domains also sounds like an interesting idea. Might even be a business model.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor) and how that was considered a bad direction for game AI and general game depth, at least some were proclaiming it as such, that it would lead to prettier, but dumber games. Didn't make much sense to me at the time and in general I think number cruncher cores were a boon for AI.
What about a job site? Can they play loudly if the company or the foreman or forewoman allows it? Is it unprofessional if they play it loudly?
> And there weren’t many open-standard extensible general-purpose structured data formats.

The thing is, just having an XML parser isn't enough to parse SVG. You also have to parse a DSL. So I think the argument is "why not just use only a DSL, that does a good job of describing the data model?"
Well you have extremist who believe that you have to cull the community due to a few bad (but still contributing) apples. Additionally you have a big lightbending company that produces some questionable contributions to the community as if it's the "scala-endorsed way".

Don't get me started with the whole forcing of "lets be python like" initiatives as of late.
Rust doesn’t claim to have invented this, or many of the other aspect of the language at all really.

From the Rust reference (https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html):

> Rust is not a particularly original language, with design elements coming from a wide range of sources. Some of these are listed below ...
I do think there is a large overlap with American IT workers and gun enthusiasts. I happen to be one of them. But I do agree with your comment. As much as I may find the topic "Czech gunmaker CZG buys Colt" interesting, I believe it does not belong on Hacker News. Little by little Hacker News is turning into reddit. There is a reason why I come here and not reddit. The mods should take this post down to ensure the integrity of Hackers News.
This is amazing. As a complete ML/AI neophyte can someone suggests some books/resources to help me understand the basics of what is going on here?
Ah, but they were hiding from Trump's DOJ so it's ok.
They could start by making it easier to report and act on GDPR violations (fb, discord, google, etc all have known violations but nobody seems to care). Then they say that they need more safeguards, no, you need to actually start doing something.
"If you always knew the wise thing to do, would you ever choose the unwise path?"

Yes, people do that. When someone cheats on his/her spouse, is it because it seems to be the wise path? No, it's quite likely that such a person knows that it is wrong, unethical, and also very unwise - and still do it. And we all do this in smaller things all the time: e.g. exercising our ego and being rude to each other when we know that it will only make things worse; eating a lot of junk food when we know that it will make us unhealthy - and so on.

People are not just rational minds: we also have instincts and emotions. Free will is not about finding the solution to a logical problem: it is about balancing between these things.

Just think about how you could define an algorithm for solving an ethical dilemma. What is your algorithm? What is Mother Theresa's algorithm? What would happen if everybody had the same (supposedly ideal) algorithm, and would kill / self-sacrifice in the same kinds of situations? Would we survive at all?

If transferring our minds to software would be possible, would we want to transfer our emotions or instincts to this software at all? Would we really want to live as robots, or would we want to keep something "human" too?
Ranking between categories is hard. But within a category it is much easier. Adding a language like Mandarin, for example, provides very similar mental utility as some dying tongue, but additionally gives the child a useful communication tool later in life.
> port 443

That's just a default.

>That means it's being encrypted and has been authenticated.

Except that TLS does not always imply encrypted and authentication. You can use TLS with a self-signed cert. You can use TLS with a broken cipher. You can use SSL_NULL_WITH_NULL_NULL. Browsers will helpfully provide things like a slash through the https in cases like this.

Whether the connection is actually encrypted and authenticated is what the vast majority of users care about. I'm not sure how you can call that fluff.

(Now as far as http 2, it's tricky because it's kind of at a lower layer that still runs http on top. And when you're linking to something you don't care about whether that layer exists. So there are pluses and minuses to having http2:// or spdy:// or whatnot. Not that any of that matters, because cocksure middleboxes nearly force it to continue to use http://.)
It's not, inherently fallacious. It may be counter-intuitive to you, but that is by no means a fallacy.
I have a different experience. I had to travel a lot for work for years, and always slept much better while away. I think what made the difference for me is that hotels always (or almost always) have blackout blinds, so the room is pitch black.
Archived (no paywall): https://archive.is/TbKlX
This seems to miss the 'ui=f(state, effects)' model that's sort of what's behind react+redux or elm or similar ideas.

Or is that really the same as immediate mode ?
Can anyone speak to their experience using Bevy on the web with WASM (related [1])? Are there other non-JavaScript game engines you’d recommend?

[1] https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/88
They acquired Citus Data a while back
I've moved to SimpleEmail, which is a fork of FairEmail. Donated to both though. SimpleEmail ripped out the donation part in their fork, which is their right under GPL, but not a nice move IMO. Main reason for me is the fast pace with which FairEmail was iterating. Often with breaking changes. I like my email app to be boring. Which FairEmail is, thanks.

K9, to me, is just too much options and features. A lot of which needed tweaking and tuning, and were not something one could simply ignore.
I used to believe the stuff the NYT publishes.
>50% of working programmers can't write a for loop? Does that square with your experience outside of interviewing?

Not 50% of working programmers, but of the programmer applicant pool. The applicants who can find jobs quickly aren't in the pool very long, and so it's dominated by the fakers and those who otherwise shouldn't be there. ... Which should make the reported phenomenon a little more believable.
Seconded. I was very skeptical of LADR when I was forced to use it freshman year. I thought I already knew all the practical stuff from Strang's book, but learning linear algebra from the mathy angle has paid off again and again and again. Choices of units & coordinate systems are impossibly confusing without having a foundation in how to reason independently of such arbitrary choices and add them in later.

I think the turning point came when I realized that "abstract" linear algebra was actually much closer to physical reality than "applied" linear algebra. Superficially, it seems like the exact opposite state of affairs from computer engineering, where grids of numbers take you closer to "bare metal" and "higher level reasoning" takes you further away. In math, it's the grids of numbers that are further removed from "bare metal" and the abstract reasoning that you can count on when all else fails!

I didn't need to be convinced that I would eventually come to regret having an insecure foundation so much as I was mixed up about up vs down and trying to build a foundation in the middle of the sky.
I never went to college. I submitted a PDF résumé. Amazon hired me.
is Google going to buy Delicious next?
This was a reference to the machine shop in general and lathes in particular. Cloth will sooner or later get caught in rotating machinery. This is the same reason why machinists don't wear long sleeved shirts. I haven't heard of any glove type being exempt from this rule. Hair and beards are definitely discouraged as well. When I was in the air force wedding bands were discouraged during ground battle exercises given the ease of getting caught on something and losing a finger.

I think this is a good example of why the safety guidelines are strict and mostly require rote learning. Gloves protect against heat, but everything you have been plasma cutting or welding needs to be handled with tongs because even if the metal doesn't glow it's probably still pretty hot. Most of these rules make sense in retrospect, but they are universally hard to deduce from first principles.
3D 5K resolution porn.
There is a way to install the old plugin in firefox 4. Look at the post by sergueybloom in this forum:
http://support.delicious.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID...
We live pretty close to one, as it hasn't erupted in quite a long time people have taken the opportunity to build a nice castle and city where it used to be:

http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/cache/offonce/education/resour...

Not sure I would want to live close to a live one!
Stackoverflow makes it difficult to hire people. (I've tried and given up.) There is no way to send somebody a private message saying "You obviously know what you are doing here. Can I pay you a lot of money to do that for me?"
I use Stripe (and sometimes PayPal) so I get 97% of the gross revenue. Monthly recurring expenses are a cheap VPS to run the app and Facebook retargeting fees.
I think we should probably take "accidents" to mean "accidents leading to serious injury or death" in this context.
There's no absolute good or bad when it comes to work expectations.

Investment bankers work 60+ hrs/wk and make $200K a year and get massive bonuses. Most of them are mercenaries who will go wherever they can get the best comp, because what they're selling is the opportunity for the bank to generate profit from their ideas/network whatever. (Please try to read the previous without getting wound around the axle about financiers moral value.)

So, to the extent that you view yourself in the business of "selling value I create," then a few things follow... 1) you'll want highly measurable criteria for success, 2) you'll want comp that is highly meritocratic, and 3) and hours worked don't matter much at all.

Clearly, this post was geared to people who view themselves as being in the business of selling their time, not their value.
Postscript would partially complement PDF support, but Postscript still needs the help of a driver to talk to the printer. (Where does /dev/lp0 itself come from? The port driver.)
turtle, I'm glad it helped... the whole subject had me confused until I looked into it more.

If you need a client to communicate with the API, the client will need the private API key to encrypt the payload and then it can talk with the API directly.

In AWS terms, this is the "Secret Key" that is hidden by default under your Account Access Security page.

If you are trying to publish a public API though, for use by anyone and not "developers", you probably want to go with an OAuth approach.

If you are controlling who has access by way of an API key though, going the route outlined in the article should be fine as every account would get a public/private key assigned to them.
What do they say when you offer to pay yearly? Maybe they have a little more power if you can do it that way. Or hell - just come out and say it: "I will sign a one year agreement this instant if you can make it $x per month with no setup fee."
How do those who currently get 40% of the vote and 10% of the seats feel? I'm guessing pretty cheated.
Have fun scratching off the tissue from millions of votes.

Even if it's statistically sound, it's not practical, because it doesn't scale.
Could be they work at MacDonalds to supplement their major source of income (pension, working partner etc).
As a developer, I'd like to thank front-end designers and CSS experts for style-sheets like this, but why isn't there a demo page ? It seems kind of obvious since this contributes to a project's look-and-feel.
It's disappointing how many UX blogs, sites and "professionals" don't back up their claims with data.

Too many articles give rationale behind design decision while presenting reasoning as fact without supporting them with real data. There's nothing wrong with providing readers your reasoning, but in an area such as UX, I think these posts are more dentrimental than they are beneficial to those coming up in the field.
What I'm saying is that RGB(128,128,128) is not halfway between RGB(0,0,0) and RGB(255,255,255), in the same way that a 4.0 earthquake is not halfway between a 0.0 earthquake and an 8.0 earthquake.

The scale is non-linear.

As far as I can see, the only true linear space is frequency space --- aka "EM spectrum" space.
It's not just the roads, it's the whole infrastructure. I live in a modern estate (cira 1990); from here I can cycle to three town centers within 15-20 minutes. Our local shopping center is 5 minutes cycle, or 7-8 minutes by car.

My wife cycles to work, and takes our 15 month old to daycare on her bike. Next year I'll be able to cycle too. Can't wait :)
We wanted to make it super clear that the primary use case is local development. By saying laptop it removed any ambiguity that it might be a production deployment tool.
A former pioneer in online news, pretty scary.
Microsoft is fair game here, not just because their products are often insecure, but because they are the biggest target of exploiters. I think it is fair advice.
I could trace my home, office, all restaurants, coffeeshops, favourite parking spots, felt like Will Smith in Enemy of the State