jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks for pointing that out. I don't remember reading it before.

But, they own up to the one security hole that really bothers me. As a sysadmin, I know there is always a way for employees to get sensitive data. If a program can see it, so can a programmer.

Their security faq says: "Can Mint employees view my bank account numbers or credit card numbers? Your bank account and credit card numbers are stored securely. Your information may be seen by technical personnel in accordance with specified procedures and safeguards governing access in order to operate, develop and improve the Service."
Personally, I think the pixel density doesn't really make that big of a difference. Who cares how slightly prettier the screen looks, most of the apps use overly large buttons and layouts anyway.

I think Apple couldn't come up with anything revolutionary so everyone is trying to find stuff about the new phone to talk about.
Have they shipped any of the swiping widgets yet? I signed up about a month ago and still haven't heard anything.
Opera is still the only browser that doesn't support any method of making a script load asynchronously. Firefox was the first browser to support the HTML5 async attribute for scripts.
>... every imaginable risk, which six-months ago, is all the current oil disaster could have been: imagined.

Ahem:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=127_1274931222
This is something that surprised me when I went to Spain and ate almost every meal in tiny family-owned restaurants. Rather than appreciate the closeness between owner and customer, I ended up just feeling awkward a lot (the owner/host would sometimes scold me for not ordering enough food) and I missed my old faceless American conglomerates, with their multiple layers of indirection between the shareholders and me.
In a now-dead comment, someone suggested that safety was a concern.

While it's true that a disintegrating flywheel can be highly dangerous, it's also true that sitting on a tank full of gasoline or a gigantic LiPo battery aren't as safe as lying in bed, either.

If you have enough stored energy to move a vehicle at highway speeds, you've got enough energy to create a Very Bad Day if things go south and all of that energy comes out at once.

There's pretty much no way around that.

The alternative is some sort of power source that doesn't require onboard storage -- catenaries, third-rail systems, beamed power... all of which have their own issues, and none of which have the convenience and versatility of an on-board supply.
Things still on the wishlist:

1. giving cabal the ability to sensibly manage packages (dependency resolution / uninstallation, etc.)

2. Arbitrary-precision floating point arithmetic through openfp (corollary to the use of gmp to accomplish the separation between Int and Integer).

3. Arbitrary-radix integer literals (e.g. as in Erlang).

Regardless, huge steps forward with this update :)
Like a lot of these studies they are only measuring one factor - fat gained/retained. So as usual its good to remind oneself to take it with a grain of salt and always keep a sharp eye on what works best for you overall. It beats waiting for some new study next year saying that people over 40 who exercise heavily without eating anything are twice as likely to have a heart attack or whatever. I know that if I go for a run first thing in the morning when its quite cold in winter without having anything to eat at all I can feel pretty bad for the rest of the day in comparison with (on a weekend) eating some breakfast and waiting for about an hour before I go out. In my case I usually pay attention more to how I feel rather than the results of some study.
Why was piracy a more predictable force than social applications? I would have assumed the opposite. I'd have thought it was predictable because it mimicked natural behavior. On the other hand, had I been born in time, I would have never guessed the concept of "stealing" music or movies would become acceptable on any level, let alone normal.
I agree there are problems with patents and imperfections in the process through which they're granted, but how are they stealing?
However, what this does show is that CCR5 is more than simply protective (which we knew) it could, if properly targeted via therapeutic intervention, eventually cure someone.
It turns out there's a bigger 152 Gigapixel photograph of Rio de Janeiro, published in September: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/58857/

Much more crappy in my opinion, but certainly bigger, so this photo of Seville would not set a world record.
These people seem to be fans of the novelty of the idea, not of BMW. Burning after-images into peoples retinas isn't some back door to their loyalty, anymore than flashing single frames of "DRINK COKE" make people thirst for cola.
Do employers actually care about a degree in CS anymore? It seems that evaluating skill (which you can learn in school or out) is way more important than a piece of paper. Deciding to pay for said piece of paper, but not learning anything is cheating yourself.
As someone from Europe, I work in a company with US presence and my counterparts do get 3x salary, according to levels.fyi at least.
Slowing down the timeline did an awful lot to prevent a heap of deaths. By preventing an ICU from being overloaded, you buy more time for treatment (and rest for the staff) which means less likelihood of death.

Now you just have to deal with long COVID-19 and people claiming that avoided deaths are meaningless.
>Impenetrable length.

Please consider, that Stalker, for example is 2h 42min. Compared to say, the 2h 15min runtime of The Force Awakens, which is intended for wide public consumption, it does not seem that excessive to me.
What does ESG stand for? I searched the article and it’s not there. I’m sure it’s widely known in the literature this writes into, but key terms should still be introduced along with the acronym.
Isn't this something obvious?

There's use for the wild card, for instance if you need ad hoc query of data during development or testing.

If your table is not properly indexed however, will cause unnecessary select all query even if you didn't intend to.

Junior developer is bad for SQL performance but hey, everyone starts there, so there's nothing to be embarrassed about. Just code on!
I absolutely take your points and share your sense that this is unfortunate both for him and, likely, for the industry as a whole.

I did not want to imply that he or his contributions are in fact unimportant.
Rather, the way he approaches communication leads to that feeling among the uninformed such as myself. The unfairness he feels seems to be, in part, a result of his own writing style.
Ok yes that’s not obvious. Thank you!
So it won't impact people who don't have an FB account?
I think this isn't really about his hard-core follower base; those people are kind of lost already, for the moment at least, but rather for the more moderate followers/supporter base, who won't follow him to Gab or whatnot.
It was mostly peaceful protest.
> Some businesses care about maintenance. Some don't.

Yes, that's right. It's also a choice. You don't have to work for a company who does not care about maintenance.

At least I wouldn't, people should have own their standards.

With that codebase you are going to spend your 1/3 of your days. It really matters.
As many have said, far too little too late. It's easy to do now he's on his way out out. Still had four years of milking the cash cow beforehand.

At least we know where Twitter stands now, unless you are literally involved in an actual insurrection against your own government, you won't get banned as a US president.

Twitter is a toxic force in society on balance. I'm glad I quit.
Could those downvoting explain what part you disagree with? I'm making a few claims here, and I'm not sure which of them are disputable/objectionable:

-for most of his presidency, Fox News has echoed President Trump's viewpoint

-therefore for most of that period I'm not confident that his Twitter access has made a huge difference to outcomes (although a number of his comments have certainly been notable).

-recently though, Fox has not been entirely on board with Trump's claims that the election was rigged. They haven't denounced them as strongly as other media, but they haven't wholly endorsed them either.

-So in recent weeks, it appears to be that Trump's direct channel to his supporters via Twitter was instrumental in leading to the current situation.

It appears the majority disagree with me, but I'm not clear where.
Don't blame the tiger for its claw.

I mean, we should help our friends to migrate to new solutions. If we don't we lose.
The order is important. Despite outrageous A, de-escalate and do B. Had it been the other way around I would agree with you.
Like a picture of a blue and black dress?
In practice, you indeed yield often enough — there is no perfect formula I believe — so in loops or elsewhere where you are spending too much time doing one thing. You don’t need to do it perfectly, you just need to yield often enough to give other coros a fair chance at completion.
Relying on the kernel is a bad idea; that’s where you lose on performance. Also, to do what you are suggestions would mean that you use many, many OS threads and the kernel somewhat manages them all in a pre-emptive fashion, and you don’t need to do it yourself; but that means you need to pay the context switching, memory footprint etc costs. It won’t scale and will be slow.
It's disappointing that this needs to be said out loud, but I really suggest people complaining about the piece read til the end. It's fairly clearly divided into two sections. The first is a straightforward critical review of Carr's latest book which does good work exposing some of the worst examples of Carr's sloppy thinking.

In the second part, Evgeny, a self-proclaimed "technology critic" reflects on and examines his own complicity in the very type of thinking he'd previously been criticising. It's actually incredibly self-aware and insightful, both in the clarity of its self-criticism and how well it contexutalizes its arguments within the history of thought on capitalism, social organization, and technology.

I don't have any analytics on this but I'm fairly certain the reason that so many people have been sharing this recently comes from this section.
There was an episode of Planet Money earlier this month talking about Pigeonly: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/03/13/392862778/episode-...
You've said the start by blacklisting all SSL, then to inspect the SSL chain using SSL Shopper, but the link to SSL Shopper is using https. So (at least the first time), you need to inspect yet another SSL cert before you can inspect the other SSL cert you were looking at. :P

(FYI, looks like SSL Shopper uses GoDaddy for SSL)
And the people who defend gov even longer.
How do you zoom in on text at archive reader? I can only go back and forth through pages.

edit: in chrome
> I didn’t say they bound themselves to a castle, I said they bound themselves to someone who could raise a castle.

Except as I told, they did not made that choice. People who could raise the castle decided by themselves where they want castles. Castles were military and administrative buildings for actual powers.

You get to rule that land in exchange for set days of military service for king and in exchange of ensuring taxes are collected. Peasants opinions were not important.

> And I’m sure the first peasants had some choice. Later ones ... not so much.

Why are you sure?
Thanks, and yes I should’ve been more clear about my intent. I am a defender of democracy, and what I said should’ve been better placed in the context of what I actually mean. Namely, the decay of competency and the corruption we see in many democracies will drift to a point where the situations of their citizens start to mimic or echo a version of feudalism.
You're forgetting about the majority of Chinese journalists who do not work for state media. Or from non-English speaking Western countries. Or from non-Western "free democracies". Or from non-free non-democratic countries who're doing good journalism anyway.

Most foreign outlets have only a handful of people in the biggest cities and are basing their reporting on other parts of the country on local reporting and social media, so not having any local staff might not even affect the quality of their reporting much.
I strongly support this advice having felt the pain.

Inherited a setup using a semi-well-known vendors Patroni/Postgres HA operator implementation on OpenShift and it was extremely fragile to any kind of network latency/downtime (due to its strong tie to the master api) or worker node outage/drainage/maintenance. These events would mean hours of recovery work hacking around the operator.

It was not my decision to place Postgres on OpenShift and I will strongly discourage anyone planning to do this for production (or even testing). Please do not do it if you value your time and sanity. Spin up a replica set on VMs using one of the already production ready and battlehardened solutions or if in cloud use a managed Postgresql service.
I guess most of these are consequences of trying to solve problems that doesn’t really exist.
I am interested in using Deep Learning for several Windows Desktop projects but am struggling a bit due to dependencies in various open-source libraries which are often built on Linux platforms.

I have attempted to use Caffe, which has an unofficial Windows port, which nevertheless is failing to compile for me due to some issue. I have looked at DeepLearning4j, but I am again confused by the setup on Windows since it uses some native libraries for BLAS and provides little help on how to set it up. I am now looking at CXXNET, which looks promising since the source code looks very nicely organised.

Another issue I face is that most libraries come with MNIST, ImageNet, etc. examples where the training data is already pre-processed, and I find practically no examples of how to plug my own data. (In fact, the specific problem I am interested in may require modifying the library a bit.)

I am unsure if this work will be of help to you, though I can imagine other folks on Windows who may benefit from this.
The go-to weapon now for CAS is the SDB, which is 250 pounds. In theory the F-35 can carry 32 of them. 48 if they tweak the bomb racks.

Guided missiles are much more efficient than guns on a pound-for-pound basis, particularly for an anti-armor role. DU is heavy.
Allowing searches with wildcards is analogous to publishing the entire database.

That being said, I think the cat is out of the bag on this one so maybe that wouldn’t be the end of the world.
One issue is all the leverage prosecutors have. Things like charges that are deliberately inflated, or 3rd strike rules, defendants already on probation for something else, etc. Many defendants have to take a plea deal because the prosecution has lots of leverage.
I don’t think anyone is claiming that it is “part of some nefarious global plot” in the discrete, conspiratorial sense you are suggesting.
I am not even arguing, as there is nothing to argue against. Get numbers and sources and then we can discuss.

> Demanding citations for easily checked facts is one of the primary signs of bad-faith arguing.

Not providing facts and then expecting people to do it for you is arguing in bad faith. Particularly when it’s trivial to find sources telling that the fact-free opinion is in fact wrong.
How much debt did Greece have before it finally went bankrupt?
I have a feeling that if they took a cut, they would also have to pay the 30% Apple tax. I bet they'll find a way around this though
It likely has to do with a tech stack that's being retired or some other technologically-driven forcing function (authentication, security, etc).

Edit: my bootstrapped company was acquired by a much larger corporation and produced material EBITDA for 10 years, even in the year when it was shut down. Why was it shut down? Because it was written in PHP and the corporation was not going to support that tech stack anymore.

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Analogy from the automotive world [0]:

> the $10m McLaren F1’s software can only run on a Compaq LTE 5280. The reason being that they run on an installed, bespoke CA card. This CA card is the interface that communicates between the laptop and the car. Of course, since the software was developed in 1992, it should be no surprise that it’s DOS based.

[0] https://seilevel.com/requirements/11318-2
There are self-evidently some people (clearly at least 2, pretty surely thousands, not likely a million in the US) who have proven themselves unfit to live freely in society.

Society has to address the topic somehow. For me, it’s not about saving money but there’s also obviously some limit to how much resources society will devote to the topic if an equally effective but much cheaper method is available.

“We’re going to raise your taxes so we can treat prisoners better!” has not been tried as a campaign slogan to my knowledge, but it would poll pretty poorly I’d think.
Time to start leetcode and move to greener pastures
You're creating a strawman. I can't see why Github would make the mistake you believe they'd make as they don't have the self-interest that Facebook and Twitter have in killing your focus with an onslaught of notifications.

I think you could expect all forms of notification to be hidden by default.

It would actually likely improve your ability to concentrate. You would be able to switch into another mode of a developers workflow without needing to context-switch onto an often focus-distracting browser.

Anyway, my core point was that there are a combination of features that allow the creation of a new holistic programming experience. I am not arguing its correctness and I am not arguing that it would suit everybody. :)
Sorry, I was fully expecting to see a demonstration of a working hyperloop model at scale, not just a diorama.
Why? Just because the scammer tried to add extra legitimacy to their scam by committing fraud, pretending to be some other legit company?
I do see Waterluvian's point though. You might still have business with them yet you don't really want to deal with them otherwise. Knowing who this SMS or call was from can be helpful rather than blocking the number outright.

Then again, seeing their name when installing Signal and figuring "oh hey they have signal too" seems no less weird to me than seeing their name in my phone book and thinking "oh hey they have a phone too". If that really sets you off... that seems unlikely. So I don't really get this subthread, even if I see the general point that you might not want to be reminded of certain people on a regular basis (for me, installing a phone number-based social application is not a monthly occurrence).
In Europe we used to think that killing each other over some differences is a good idea. Two wars later, around 10% population lost and look how well we get along.

We used to like having slaves. All people used to hate gays and atheists. Women used to be perceived as incapable of having public lives.

At some point we might reach the conclusion that being lied to is not all that convenient because truth eventually comes out and if it's too far from perception it leads to shitstorms.

People can change. But they do not change by themselves. There is always some kind of technological advancement that forces people to change their ways. I sincerely hope that internet will lead us to more honest lives.
I agree. Plato said, "To be just is to do no harm." I would argue up until now, we had best effort at full information at a transaction level between the police/the incident/the public. The flaw was the only accredable information was asymmetric from the point of view of the police officer. Some times this situation led to fibbing to close a case or cover up a mistake.

Now there can be the solution to have symmetric, or full, information for the same situation. The only 'harm' now would be to those who forget the truth, embellish it, or are just bad at their job and lie.
I thought the same thing. WP plugins do exist already - here is one example of many: http://ignitiondeck.com/id/

I think I would trust the Crowdtilt version more for some reason. A lot of these crowdfunding plugin providers seem "shady" and I guess I trust a YC-backed company more in this case (not sure why)...
> Did you miss the part where the machines gave him a positive for explosives?

Since there's no proof of this "positive", this claim sits in doubt. If he was already targeted, they'd claim the machine would say anything.
If it was just the false positive, that would be one thing but the utterly humiliating, quite frankly stupid, way they treated him was completely unjustified. There's nothing that warranted denying him water and not treating him with dignity.
> These days almost everyone takes market data directly from each exchange and builds their own view of the market,

Minor nitpick here. What you say is correct if you are talking about say the top 50 trading entities in North America. Once you get to the regular hedge funds, pensions, or anyone who doesn't do heavy algo trading this is false.

My guess is that its more like 99% of people who get live market data get it as a consolidated feed from Bloomberg, Thompson Reuters, Activ, etc and not from the individual exchanges.

Heck even the funds I know that aggregate themselves still have consolidated feeds via their Bloomberg terminals.

Market data is very expensive to get individually from the exchanges. In Canada for instance the TSX is $2500 for Level 1 quotes and an additional $3500 for the depth of book.

NYSE is similar. To consolidate the US markets we can spend $50,000 a month. It's crazy how expensive it can be.
The point isn't to stand 100% of the time. The point is to be able to switch it up as your body needs. Stand sometimes. Sit sometimes. I often change over the course of the day.
No, Microsoft is no shit... but it does not offer very secure products. Get over it!

MS's customer base is, in general, not very tech savvy. Also, I believe it is not inaccurate to say that they see computers as "magic". You perform the correct "incantation" and the magic just "works". So, the problem is not only that they do not value security highly enough; they assign high value to a number of features that makes security harder. Think in all the APIs available to 3r party software to make fancier applications (that inter-operate with one another). Think backwards compatibility. Think seemly smooth operation.

What happens with this situation, is that the brilliant developers at Microsoft get a bunch of conflicting requirements, and (strong???) incentives to compromise in those that do not add to the bottom line. Those brilliant guys will burn themselves creating overly complicated solutions that are bond to be wrong in very obscure ways. And this so, even granting the assumption that they will make an honest effort to provide the best possible security given the constrains mentioned before.

Do they care about security? Absolutely, otherwise they would've gone out of business long ago. Is security their top priority? Not really. Are there any better options, security-wise, than Microsoft? I'd bet pennies to dollars; specially if those competitors do not fear trashing the intuitiveness of their systems and making a hell of a learning curve to new users.

An most of the time, it is OK. Most people does not have important enough information at their computers. They can afford the risks and may decide the inconveniences to protect their systems are not worth the effort. But, as IT professionals, it is highly irresponsible not to let them know what they are getting into.
The data is in an unencrypted file on your device and synced computer, instead of in a database at AT&T.
A pedantic correction: Rails runs its server on port 3000 by default; Ruby is the language Rails was written in.
"But what we've seen is always going to be a very small cup dipped out of a very big ocean, and turning your back on the ocean to stare into the cup can't change that." Powerful