jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I read this post a dozen times. As a sysadmin for a sizable ISP in a non-US/UK country, the Belgacom story has haunted me.

Is this the first time you've talked about it?
'How they were caught' you mean how we discovered Toyotas suffered from "UA"? The story claims it was the incident of the off-duty highway patrol officer on a call with 911 for 4 minutes trying to stop the car before it crashed and killed all 4 occupants which blew the lid on the story.
The lack of traction any of those movements get, and the general disconnect that every. single. congressperson. has when it comes to cyber security.
It pains me to see him unwrapping paper-backed rolls of film in room light, then using a strobe to document the appearance of the the roll (before developing). The fogging you see at the top and bottom edges of some rolls is from light leaking around the edges of loosely-rolled spools; it happens even with modern 120 roll film. There's a good chance he's fogging some of the rolls due to his handling.
Forgive my ignorance but even if it was lab created, so what? I don’t really understand why it matters or not. Didn’t the entire world basically have a nearly 3 month heads up on this either way?
This made my day. Got rejected twice yesterday by funding leads I that looked promising. One told me, the best I can do for you is be brutally honest and spent almost an hour dissecting my business to shreds. The other said "I think you are a great guy and I am sure it will turns out well" with a chuckle, but told the guy who gave me the brutal feed back how effed up my plan was.
I use Mathematica for most of the programming I do. It makes ordinary programming (file handling, database handling, etc.) much easier (at least for me) than it would otherwise be. I even run nightly backups with a Mathematica script, taking advantage of Mathematica's logical operations.
That is an amusing personal attack. :)

I test my ideas by executing them, yes. Are you truly claiming that you have all of your ideas completely fleshed out before you test any of them?

That sounds incredibly impressive, if so. Can it be done in some cases? Almost certainly. I question whether it can in all, though. Even most.
Dart. https://www.dartlang.org
how does go compile so quickly?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2976630/why-does-go-compi...

because they fucking forgot incremental compilation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_compiler
True, what I mean is that I can be "messy" in OCaml for the sake of expediency. In principle, I prefer Haskell's clean approach, in practice I'm a bad programmer who sometimes does naughty things.
Its true. I'm sure I'm breaking laws everyday. Your problem is that you assume that laws imply some sort of ethics we've all agreed to. But unless your a mindless zombie, you'd realize that quite a few laws don't make sense.

And in business, you don't get very far if you're not some laws. Rest assured that every single successful business has broken laws and is likely continuing to do so.
From what I've read about Google, they optimized for flexibility in their space. We tried to do the same, although it became difficult when the company grew faster than the office space (at least until we moved again). Not sure this would be any different in a private offices scenario, though. We had a few people who were less than enthusiastic about the open layout, and we tried to give them the space to break out when needed.

We also communicated our preferences directly. If someone was interrupting us, we would let them know that it was better to send an email or grab us before or after a known distraction (arriving at work, lunch, coffee break, end of day). We tried to schedule meetings on Mondays and Fridays to give us largely uninterrupted time during the week. People respected our preferences and tried to accommodate the "Maker's Schedule."

I'm not sure every company could or should work this way, but I worry that backlash around poor implementations of the open layout will cause us to throw the baby out with the bathwater. It's up to each company to evaluate the compromises necessary to create a productive workspace, open or otherwise. I worked with great people and the open office concept worked for us.
Needs a [2013] tag. I thought they had been compromised again.
All is pretty fine with Golang, especially inside Google. Tweet to illustrate: https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/575853496592826369

And I think all will be fine with Dart too. Today's release is very interesting for server-side development. In both cases, on the server and on the client side, people will use Dart when they prefer Dart to JS. And difference not only in syntax or amount of sugar, but in "how the whole system works" (don't know how to say it). And when you know that most profitable web project in human history is committed to Dart, then you can be sure, Dart is here to stay :)
> Status: Rejected
Change Description: No spec change.
Rationale: See Ian and Adrian's rationale in comment 2 and comment 3.

> #2: Working groups can't force a browser to implement something. Are all the browser vendors willing to implement it? That's what matters.

> #3 Microsoft doesn't believe HTML5 needs to specify a mandatory to implement codec. The market is quite capable of ensuring that popular formats are supported on the web. Opus did not exist when ISSUE-7 was closed. Who knows what formats might be more popular than this by the time HTML5 gets to Recommendation, or after that. It's also not clear that there will be widespread adoption of Opus for the purposes that <audio> is currently used.

This does not mean Microsoft is for or against supporting Opus with <audio>, just that the spec doesn't need to say anything on this.

Rationale is invalid, since in other instances standard is enforcing something (same WebRTC). And of course MS was brought as the main antagonist. Some apparently just hate when the Web has interoperability.
Nothing against react or reactive, but it's yet another reaction to going down the wrong path originally -- it seems.

I really don't understand why so many people jump to event driven systems when genuinely parallel computing is so easy. Specifically Erlang/elixir make it easy. EASY I tell you!

Yeah, yeah, Erlang has a weird syntax. Ok, so lose two weeks learning it. But you don't even need to do that-- just learn Elixir which is pretty comprehensible right off the bat.

Where's the downside? There isn't one. Yet people are going out of their way, doing all these different projects and attempts whose sole purpose is to try and fake your way around a problem that was genuinely solved 20 years ago!

To be honest- and maybe I'm wrong and missing something here-- it seems like so many programmers are following what's hip and popular. V8 was a neat javascript engine, and then node cam along, so lets jump into callback hell! Why put up with that when erlang was around and well known?

It's like people choose technologies based on fashion. But that seems too... pessimistic so I don't want to believe that.
I heard Star Wars borrow a $hit tons of idea from Japanese culture, which leads me to believe it is more like some variant of Buddhism than Hinduism.
Where is this intention written down? Can you show me the relevant law?
So true it's painful.
Spend some time in Brazil and you’ll realize just how pedestrian unfriendly a place can be.
Yes and this is because it meets the criteria https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/#info

specifically the item that got it there was that they had external auditing.

> Mullvad's VPN clients have been audited by Cure53 and Assured AB in a pentest report published at cure53.de. The security researchers concluded: https://cure53.de/pentest-report_mullvad_v2.pdf

We would like to see more VPN providers do this. Then we could have more good choices to choose from. A lot of the larger ones could certainly afford it.
I was at Gitlab Commit London and myself and colleagues raised this with a few Gitlab employees. They seem to be aware their jump from Premium to Ultimate is too big. At their feedback booth I passed on that it would be ideal to pay for what you use.

We use a separate issue tracker so any of that isn't relevant for us, but some of the security would be ideal.

Likewise, we have user accounts for non-development departments (Legal/Compliance/etc) that wouldn't be interested in SAST, for example. If we jumped to Ultimate we would have to pay monthly for those users to access features that never would use.

As I said, they do seem to be aware of this. I wouldn't be surprised if they came up with a different arrangement for Ultimate in the near future.
Well, no, but it will make you 10x richer.
HN, reddit, Ars Technica, and several tech websites such as AnandTech and Guru3D.

World news and traditional media are just depressing. I got jaded at a young age and tend not to follow it (for better and for worse).
In the 6th grade. I had Giardiasis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardiasis ) and ended up spending a couple of weeks at home with nothing to do. I taught myself BASIC on the Vtech Precomputer 1000 (http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/324)
Maybe some people, but you can't worry about those people.
Fark comes first.
Would a Linode VPS be much different than an Amazon instance to host a couple of projects without traffic?

I've been thinking about getting something more "proper" than the GoDaddy plan I've been barely using for a couple of years, and was looking at getting a micro instance with Amazon. A reserved micro instance is only $54/year. I've seen Linode mentioned often but I'm wondering if the $240/year are worth it compared to what I would learn using an Amazon instance.
It is one of my many sources. If I had to pick one service that I depend upon a lot, I would have to pick TechMeme.
But, HN is often faster than TM.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Wow. Summary: "I only liked implementing Lisps when they were on vinyl.'

I don't understand smugness when it comes to other peoples' small projects. No one sets out to implement CLv2, just further their own knowledge via a smallish side-project.
I'd charge $19. If people don't know you, they probably aren't going to buy your self-published book anyway - even at $9.99 or less. Those who do know you, and want to support you, will pay $19. If they book is excellent, and people begin talking about it, people will pay $19 if they are referred by someone else who liked it.

My quick 2 cents. In the end it all depends on your goals. Is it to spread your message as wide as possible? Is it to profit nicely? Is it somewhere in the middle? Some stuff to think about. Remember: You can always lower the price and/or go free later. Raising the price later is always harder. I'd test the higher end of the market at $19 first. See how that goes.

FYI, even today we still make a few thousand dollars a month on the PDF and paperback version of Getting Real.

Thanks for your kind words re: Getting Real.
I didn't realize that -- seems like government overreach to me (a political moderate).
Should your pay be reduced if you move somewhere cheaper? Well, like everything else, the market gets to decide. So the answer is probably “yes” because of market pressure.

Like my father used to say in his own version of English, “you don’t get nothin’ for nothin’”.
I think this approach should not be feared.

Over the years I have 'bankrupted' several supporting systems, some more than once. I've deleted shit like

- old tickets
- documentation / wikis
- old infrastructure
- old backlogs

I'm actually going through this process now with my current team. There's so much stuff we have written by our predecessors that is just no longer relevant. So, I've set up or renamed our Jira/confluence spaces and then move/copy back in only that content which is still relevant to us. Everything else will be archived.
In this way, everything which comes out the end of this process:

- is ours
- has recently been seen/reviewed by at least one pair of eyes
- is still relevant to the business and the product
Yes, absolutely never criticize - as a manager, the #1 thing that makes me start to hate a report is when they complain about other people's work. Most of the time they don't understand why code was written the way it was (Chesterton's fence), and even when they do and are making valid complaints it's just a dick move that doesn't help.

Trust me, the lead and manager both know when someone sucks, they don't need to hear more about it. And if you're wrong with your criticisms, you just demonstrate that you suck. Literally lose lose.
This take is so common on HN but I dislike it so much. First off, comparing not having to go to school with the pandemic situation is wrong because kids can't physically meet outside of school either, so that sucks in an entirely different way and is a bad comparison.

Secondly though, school is not terrible for everyone. I didn't have a great household. My parents didn't read me books. I made a lot of friends in school, and I had good teachers who helped me chosing an education and career path my parents wouldn't have offered me. So getting out of my home environment into a different social one was vital.

I'd call the authors attitude the 'nerdy privileged kid' experience, who most likely had bad social interactions as well as a household educated and affluent enough to get a rich education outside of the education system. It's not how it works for many, probably most kids.

There's also an important aspect implicitly ignored in the article. That a lot of parents who cannot work from home, like say cashiers or construction workers who still have to go out, do not even really know right now how to manage their kids. People like that rely on having a school system that works.
> And most of what is taught in school and university is quickly forgotten.

This is, of course, why parents aren't concerned with getting their children into good schools, why there aren't any universities that can command huge tuition fees, and why you will never see a job advert asking for a degree or an employer hiring from a certain school.

That epidemiologist measuring the R0 rate isn't using math and knowledge they learned in school - no doubt they taught themselves because of their passion for the subject, and it's completely coincidental they were in a school studying the subject.

/s
I always use `sizeof(char) * ...` in my projects when I deem fit. I feel like it helps with readability and it shows why I'm allocating a buffer with that specific size: I want it to hold exactly N characters.
> In general, most people I know across cultures think back fondly to their school days, minus Americans.

Yep. I don't remember jocks vs nerds or any other gang warfare forms when I was in school. Neither does my kid and she only finished high school recently.

Must be an American thing, or an american movie thing?
fascinating. You say society doesn't pay for the addiction but if you could translate a verbal problem into a solution, I think society would pay for that. I mean being addicted to solving problems laid out for you to knock out one by one.. but if somebody was trying to build something and didn't really know how to lay out the elements or variables into an equation, you could solve that and get paid.
Social search has limited applications, but it does have applications. You may want search results to somehow be weighted by your 'social graph'. On the other hand, you may be doing searches for things that your social circles aren't necessarily into, and the weighting system may actually hinder your searches. That said, I agree that just searching the sites that you friends (or friends of friends) know about is rather limiting.
Leaving aside the problem of single-issue parties, the point remains that if radical transparency were a vote-winner it would get implemented. But it's not a vote-winner because people don't want it; not only does no political party advocate it, but there's no grassroots movement calling for diplomatic communiques and tax returns to be made public. It's just not an idea which anyone takes seriously or wants.
For 'blow your mind' trivia points, who filmed the demo?
Great approach, but some work could have been saved (and robustness added) using the W3C’s HTML-XML-utils. For example, there’s hxselect, which filters HTML/XML against a CSS selector, and hxpipe, which breaks XML input into a more grep/awk-friendly format. I’ve used these tools myself on multiple occasions, they’ve saved me a huge amount of time.
This guy is named as the inventor on the patent application:
http://no.linkedin.com/pub/lars-petter-endresen/0/6ab/390
Allenbrunson's point is that WebKit is an example of Apple's influence beyond Apple. You could argue that the choice of WebKit wasn't important to Chrome- that they would have been just as successful had they chose another rendering engine. But they did choose it. And that is either true irrespective of the fact that WebKit is based on KHTML.
How exactly does it ruin streetview for you if his house is not included?
I don't see where an Apple vs the world argument is made. More like Apple did it's own thing before and no one else cared. Now they are influencing other companies more than before.

Along with WebKit, I'd say that app stores and touch UI are other areas where Apple has been influencing tech in recent years.
I really wish I had known about them when I made some international wires for my company last year.

A HNer recommended them to me when I griped about it here, and I'm thrilled that they'll be growing.

I'm thrilled to not fork over 4%+ to my bank for a wire anymore.
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It's a very twisted way of asking "do you know that slope is defined as 'rise over run'?"
Also you can choose concrete country in "Params" tab (this is row-level filter). One more useful parameter is "Case Type" which allows you to switch "Cases" measure between Confirmed/Deaths/Active/Recovered (this switch because of undelying CSV dataset specifics where each row is only for one "Case Type").
Yeah but screw that faux populism. Hollywood wasn't losing money even in the 70's when it was wall to wall bleak existential navel gazing. People go see what there is to see.
I've been writing Clojure almost exclusively for 3 or 4 years and it's just amazing. Core.async, Quil, Om, Chestnut, ClojureScript, ClojureScript + Apache Cordova, and I could go on forever.
Eh... in my experience, most people simply aren't worth watching very closely.

Favorite part of the article...
"he used Craigslist to hire somebody to help him improve his productivity. The idea was that the person would come sit next to him and give him a slap whenever he would not be working..."

Love the idea. I recently had a talk w/ my boss about I was thinking about leaving because I was making many times more on the side than I was with the company. But the one caveat... I needed him to keep being my boss and check on what I was doing. Make sure I was at my desk at 7:30 coding away and didn't go home until 5. He laughed quite a bit and said to think about it. I am.

I'm not in favor of massive surveillance, but sometimes knowing we are watched a little helps us at certain times....
'Artsy' is unreliable by nature. You can't maintain a feedback loop on unreliable input or output.
> that data and algorithms rule all

Well actually they don't because they overrode the algorithm instead of letting it do its job.

The culture at Uber is actually "greed".
I wasn't trying to be negative. There have been a lot of editor projects come and go is all. I like the idea of neovim. I just with Bram was more flexible so that neovim wasn't necessary.
So many...

Jerry Garcia
Dave Chappell (he says he built his comedic style here)
Ansel Adams
Francis Coppola
Robert Frost
Santana
Jack London
Tupac
Tom Hanks
Clint Eastwood

This is the list I found quickly googling: https://www.quora.com/Who-are-some-of-the-most-famous-celebr...
It has already mutated, the strains present in Europe aren't the same as the ones in the US and aren't the same as the ones in China
Heh, up here in Canada the Loblaws grocery chain still sells the No Name generic brand. No Name products are about as simply presented as possible: black text on a yellow package, sometimes with a simple photo of the product. And yet they’re wildly popular (and, of course, cheap). Their website gives a pretty good indication of what their products look like: https://www.noname.ca/en_ca/

They actually experimented for a while in 2000-2008 with slightly nicer/fancier packaging, only to do a redesign in 2009 back to the simpler design. I think they might just be the brand that best epitomizes the xkcd comic (https://xkcd.com/993/), and their yellow packages probably stand out even more than white in a supermarket environment.
Not if you "take it" with taxation and "give it" through social programs, I don't think
> How does this not equate directly to inflation?

Creating inflation is the goal.
Rich people don't have tons of money sitting in bank accounts gathering dust.
Is that the one that came under scrutiny a while back because large portions of it appeared to be plagiarised? Or was that another one, because he seemed to like collecting doctorates...
The Fed prints money and uses it to buy bonds. It can reverse this by selling the bonds, and destroying the money. (Of course, most of this "money" exists electronically.)

The bonds themselves pay interest to the Fed (which will take money out of circulation). Even if the Fed does nothing, the whole thing will reverse itself when the bond reaches maturity, and the principal is paid to the Fed.
Yes, which is why I was practically shouting inside my head when Intel recently announced it would finally open its fabs for outside work the way TSMC operates. Finally! Considering the way Intel is structured around its own designs it might never be a significant source of profits for them, but it should at least help to cover their fixed costs during dry spells and production problems on their own designs.