jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The point of the grandparent's post is that timing information is only leaked if the CPU's timing is data dependent. It's not enough to show that different instructions take unpredictable amounts of time. If the sequence of CPU instructions that get executed are the same for varying data, then the unpredictability of the individual instructions doesn't create a timing attack.

xor eax,eax scans, to an x86 assembly programmer, as "eax := 0". It's idiomatic for clearing a register. There ought not be any expectation from an assembly programmer that such a frequent operation would take the same amount of time as xor eax,ebx (in particular, xor eax,eax doesn't depend on the value of eax, so it doesn't need to stall waiting for its value to be calculated). But if xor eax,eax took a different amount of time depending on whether eax was equal to 42 or not, that would be a different matter.
Did you read their "About" page - https://www.recurse.com/about? It mentions they are in NY in the second sentence.
A little confused. The author is arguing _against_ JSON in URLs, right?

The piece starts as a list of complaints about hacky query parameter encoding, and has the feel of one of those "aren't these things annoying... but here's the right answer!" posts, except instead of a correct answer we get a discussion of how JSON is nice in some cases but we shouldn't use it in URLs, except maybe sometimes.

Is this a response to some post about how JSON _should_ be used in URLs? Overall, I struggled to find a coherent narrative / argument here. Perhaps something went wrong in the article's editing process.
There is no difference between magic and automation. I'd say magic is better because you don't need third party tools, it's baked in the language,documented officially, testable, and doesn't need one to type "Go generate" in a terminal.

I hate to say that , but at this point, C macros looks better than what the go team decided to do.And I hate C macros.
I can't recall reading anything specific about this. I was just relating personal experience. I assumed that this is a common occurrence for everyone.
I don't agree. Readiness for funding should not be a litmus test for whether a business is a "startup." There are plenty of startups that never need funding.

I think that if you want to differentiate between startups and self-employment, a good litmus test would be to ask yourself whether someone would potentially buy your business. If the answer is yes, then it means that there's something more than the income stream from an individual's labor.
If it's not provided to them...then it's cheating.

The idea that students are only allowed to study from materials that are explicitly provided to them seems questionable. I would preface this with a statement of my own ignorance of the matter, if I weren't presently an engineering student.

I have never encountered someone who said "reading material given to you by someone other than the professor is cheating."
Nonsense!

In the US and Canada, you have a one year grace period. It's absolutely standard for researchers to publish a peer-reviewed paper and then patent within that grace period.
> Raise a big stink in the local media and any internet channel you can think of. You might not have a legal leg to stand on but at least you can shame them with publicly available information.

This is awful advice, don't do this!
but I would like to stay away from relational databases

What's the specific reason for that, if any? I'm not trying to criticize you, although people really do keep overestimating their need for non-relational storage solutions. Outlining your requirements would help.
I wrote a custom plugin about 5 years ago for my friend's charitable project. If you are a (Python) programmer then there is little limit to what you can add to Plone.
I'm going to be using JSON to represent data on pretty much all the parts of my App. (Since both the client and server are JavaScript, that's an obvious choice) I didn't want to copy all fields of my objects to a lot of enormous queries or something like that.

Also, my app will deal with a lot of tree-like structures, and representing them on a Relational DB would suck, unless I stored JSON on a text field. That seems like an ugly hack to me.
In a similar way, you can "prove" that sqrt(2) = 2 by approximating the diagonal of a unit square (length = sqrt(2)) by iteratively dividing two adjacent edges of the square (length = 2).

One interesting and useless law that this reveals is that the perimiter of any convex blob of pixels is equal to the perimiter of its bounding rectangle.
It's simple to avoid if you're not intending to drink the glass of water, simply drop a toothpick in - break it if you want to be extra sure. The toothpick has a rough surface, if you break it then you're making an exceptionally rough nucleation point between the jarred fibers.

IIRC it's not so much a clean glass as a polished glass. If it's a regular cheap ass glass then it has enough imperfections that it's unlikely to ever happen with tap water. However polished glass (where the inside is actually sanded/polished smooth to remove imperfections) is the dangerous one, especially with distilled water (why anyone would drink distilled I don't know) or I suppose even filtered water would increase the risk exponentially compared to tap that can contain sediments from pipe scum.
UGH the recent Chrome update also adds on top of this if you select then hit left arrow it doesn't even go to start it starts after https:// soooo annoying

I don't remember it doing that before but maybe i have a bad memory
Yep, that would be fairly straighforward to support as well!
Never log into your production servers via shell? This seems a tad over the top.. especially if you are planning on writing a script to perform operations and need to discover dependencies / etc.
He clearly said that he used to make much more ["20 times as much" ~ 4M/yr at the peak]. I'm surprised he wasn't eligible for an AMT overpayment credit (which would have driven his liability to 0)
A beautiful android media player
Not only did I not know they were available on IconFinder, but I would still bookmark the author's site as it's easier to get a look at the icons and they've got a PSD in the download that's very helpful to me. Your site does have individual downloads but 90% of the time I want them all.
11.04 is using 2.6.38
It does have some nice shorthand, but there is a lot to be said for having nice-looking code for its own sake.
I wonder how accurate you have to hit the target to get the intended consequences.
They also need developers creating content for the platform, which isn't happening either. Chicken and an egg there, though.
Learning more about mobile app dev & Python(especiallly Django)==>preparing to build a website with python and mobile app
still, i think an xpath evaluator for json would have been the way to go here instead
Yeah, I think there is a general problem (that is, not just with programming) with the word "hard" being used for both "requires unique talent" and "requires hard work". Like, I would say math and physics and pretty much every other subject are "hard" too, but I think most people can learn them if they are willing to put in the work.
Once we do get back to "normal" I wonder how the job market will change for me, someone who switched to remote work prior to the pandemic and have no desire to go back to an office ever again. I've seen companies that have decided to just switch to remote on a permanent basis(or at least become more open to remote workers if the company itself doesn't go full remote) and I've seen lots of people who don't want to go back to the office after their taste of remote work. Will I see a wider variety of opportunities and open positions as more companies offer more remote roles, or will the market for remote work becomes squeezed as people decided they want to find new remote jobs rather than go back to the office. Of course it could also balance out I suppose.
"Time" is something I rarely had as a teenager, and that was more than 15 years ago at this point. On top of all the normal high school-age pressures, I had tennis, martial arts, drum lessons, weekend volunteering, AND an unquenchable passion for computers. And with good grades and AP classes, all that got me nowhere higher than state universities. Whatever it would have taken for me to get better than that, it wouldn't have been worth it.

I can't imagine what it's like for kids now. It must be hellishly difficult trying to find time for themselves. Gen-Z already is aware that they will not fare much better than me, at best. It must be tough being a kid today.
Yes, it was updated within a few days to auto click through the full page cookie/GDPR nag.

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Something I've noticed without formal study is that people my age (college seniors and recent grads) don't like working from home. I was working at a new internship (8 months, starting January 2020) and the initial working from home was draining, unmotivating, and a bit depressing (that's partially due to being alone during the start of the pandemic).

I thought I was in the minority because all of HN and Reddit seemed to love working from home, but as I spoke more to my peers about it, it seems like they didn't like it for the most part either. I believe that people who have families are more likely to prefer working from home because they have more contact with their loved ones, where as a single new grad has less contact with the people they know.

Now, to be fair, I'm a lot more open to remote work now that the pandemic is more handled since I can at least get some human interaction outside of work. If anything, the thought of working remote when I graduate in May is a bit exciting since I'd be able to move every few months for a little while before deciding where to live.
I discovered recently that my Verizon phone service’s voicemail had been full for several months. I’m not sure how I was ever supposed to discover that, but I ignored what turned out to be an important phone call and got burnt because I assumed I’d get a voicemail.
Because if you don't do that, then rich people would just give their money to a corporation to "hold" for them. This already happens anyway, but regulations try to restrict it.

Eliminating corporate taxes would not change the fact that corporations want to tilt politics in their direction. There are other suggestions for ways to compensate for the differences between personal income and income to a corporation you own, but they always have to be designed to be cognizant of the way people will game the system.
There are some good arguments to lower taxes on certain people, even some high-earning ones. Reasonable people can disagree about optimal tax rates, and at the end of the day there's nothing wrong with just wanting to keep more of your money.

Even had you made any of the myriad good arguments (which you didn't), going the idiotic "confiscationist" route destroys any shred of credibility or objectivity you may have potentially had. You simply cannot be taken seriously when you're using such ideological flame bait to describe your positions, or more accurately, your misunderstanding of your opponents' positions.
In the fancy offices, the situation is flipped, with the HVAC freezing in the summer and sweltering in the winter. This is actually much worse, because everyone has to dress for the opposite during their commute.
What 'yuhong said: it could be expensive, with NSA having the capability to break only one every couple months. They might need to carefully coordinate which keys they break, in which case it would be an important secret which CA keys were broken.
I agree that the distinction between, to quote you, "society denying people opportunities directly, and people not taking opportunities that they have because of some self-fulfilling belief" is very important. I also agree that, as you observe, it is important precisely because understanding the causes of some problem should, in a rational world, inform the policies selected to address that problem.

The counterpoint I would offer to your statement about the "left wing" analysis of such situations is that, to use similarly broad strokes, the "right" has a tendency, quite strong at times, to completely dismiss the importance, or even existence, of "self-fulfilling beliefs", and correspondingly prescribes exactly the kind of "just get on with it" solutions that I mentioned before. Their political opponents, still observing the problem, are then bound to highlight that, given that the problem does still exist, and that obvious direct causes can be ruled out (assuming they can), then the "self-fulfilling beliefs" must be important.

Although you seem to hold similar opinions to me regarding the importance of understanding these effects and addressing them if they are found to be important, I would suggest that your instincts appear to question whether or not these effects even exist at all. Taking your first paragraph:

> It is very typical on the left for a personal account of the experience and psychology of being X to also be a political argument. Even if the author didn't intend it that way, it's certainly being used in the context of a political argument now. Note the replies by monk_e_boy and rayiner who take the statement on face value and argue that the payoff to education/savings is very small for poor people.

This, to me, looks like an implicit rejection of the importance of these "self-fulfilling effects". By claiming it is political, or is being used in a political way, you appear to be suggesting that her experience is either not real, or is unrepresentative, and is simply being isolated to gain traction for some policy or other. Most importantly, this suggestion appears to be made on the basis that it is unquantifiable experience, rather than from the actual content.

Rejecting anecdotal claims is unscientific is reasonable, and you grant that she may not be directly making "claims" herself. What I would caution against is your (apparent) assumption that the use of her experience to highlight an issue (by the editors of the guardian) can be quite safely rejected simply by virtue of the fact that her experience is difficult to quantify. The most appropriate response, it seems to me, is to demand rigorous research on the subject. If, however, I have misunderstood you, and this wasn't your intention, then please accept my apology in advance.
I keep hearing about Islamic terrorists, but I haven't seen any.

Doesn't mean they don't exist, or aren't causing problems in the world!
People are not blocked from being AAA movie stars on the basis of their gender.
>This is what you get when business people make decisions on technology projects.

I would rephrase the conclusion: This is what you get when people make emotional decisions on something.

It doesn't matter if it is a technology project or not, it is just an emotional response. There are some professional categories (doctors, funeral or wedding businesses, churches, etc) that exploit this weakness. When people are emotional charged, they don't think about the unrealistic prices of some treatments or services, they are even happy to pay them. Without this emotional charge, they would bargain and complain about it.
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Planet Money had a segment about the rocks-as-currency island:.

Segment: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/15/131934618/the-isla...

Entire podcast (also discusses the currency test, IIRC): http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/15/131963928/the-frid...

Very interesting.
I don't know.

80% returns?

Really?

She was able to get 80% returns?

GUARANTEED?

This lady kind of sounds like a potential Madoff who got caught early.

Yes, she may be totally innocent. That is one of many possibilities. Having mentioned that... man...

80%?

guaranteed?

Trading Futures?

Maybe the punishment is a bit harsh, but it really does seem she was not totally on the up and up.

And secondly, what kind of a person gives their money to someone promising 80% returns risk-free? Who did she raise this money from?

I mean let's say you're listening to a financial services guy give a pitch over Evian and roasted sweet potatoes with cumin. Right. He says, "I'll get you 80% yearly on your money! Guaranteed! Risk-free!"

Well at that point you and I probably look at each other, and just leave. Who would believe that?
I found out how to do without cookies: Add the "api" parameter to the query string when retrieving a message. You might have to do manually every time, unless you can write a program to do for you.
When ubuntu first switched to pulseaudio it was apparently a big mess, and the "fix" was basically to uninstall it. So, calling Unity "pulseaudio 2.0" implies that the first thing everyone will want to do is switch from unity to "classic" GNOME because Unity is too buggy (right now).

As I understand it anyway, I wasn't using Ubuntu Desktop by the time the pulseaudio thing happened.
Listen, you're still missing the central issue here. "It's" and "its" do not mean the same thing. Not even close. It's not like the distinction between "less" and "fewer" noted in the Stephen Fry video, where there's some sort of reasonable gray area in the usage. "Its" is a possessive form of it. "It's" is a contraction of "it is". So, this is what you wrote: "The phrase it is self is flawed."

Which is wrong. Full stop. This isn't being pedantic about grammar or usage. You used the wrong word. That's not something that you can defend from any kind of fortress of linguistic theory.

And, yes, we could figure out from the context that you meant to write "itself" or "its self". But we could also figure out what you meant if you wrote, "The phrase itsalf is flawed." The fact that we can decipher your writing is not the point. You weren't trying to employ creative, heterodox language here. You simply wrote the wrong word. And I think that you know that. You went back and changed it, as you would go back and change any other typo after it was pointed out to you.

If you changed it, why defend it? The correct response is, "Yeah, I wrote this in a hurry, and I used the wrong word." Don't get all umbraged and whatnot. Just fix it and move on.
pokerstars.net only offers a play money client; it is not a gambling site by any stretch of the imagination. .jp and .de are not under US jurisdiction.
The problem is that the code is not semantically identical, there is no way for the compiler to know that nothing else has changed while the loop is executing. It's like the frequent optimization case of

int len = array.length
for(i = 0; i < len; i++){

}

vs.

for(i = 0; i < array.length; i++){

}

The code is semantically different and therefore has a different performance profile.
I would normally agree, but for whatever reason these chopsticks don't give off any metallic taste. They're quite odd now that I think about it, and fairly difficult to find. I buy similar sets of them by randomly finding the utensil section at asian supermarkets and weighing all the chopstick pairs by hand.

Good bamboo chopsticks are useful too, but finding the right weight/size combination is usually the difficult part for me. Part of what I think makes my metal chopsticks so awesome is that they're not too light or too heavy, and bamboo usually end up being on the lighter end. I have small tremors in my hands most days and a little extra weight makes all the difference in ease of use.

> Come on, there are most serious things to discuss in the world, and on HN, than a slick ssh iPhone app, or a color theme.

Personally, I think discussions about usability and good design are worthwhile, even on HN. Your product or vision or what have you is not as good as it can be if you (or someone you work with) don't at least take those into consideration. Why do I care that an iOS ssh client is polished on top of technically 'just working'? It saves me time and effort I can then put into my own work, at the least. And maybe that work could be something to improve on ssh ;)
I will continue to reach out to the people in the industry that I know and hopefully someone will reply in kind. As of now those that I've talked with about helping run the project are almost as busy as myself.

A lot of people in my industry have a great passion for it but most of them want to get paid for the work, I have no money to invest in them. I do give them the option to have a direct say in the company as well as invest in its future which will benefit them.

I'm a generous man and I take care of those that help me out, just gotta find the right ones with enough passion and time to help.

Thank you so much for your replies.
Right, you can't assume a friendly environment. You may be interviewed by a friend of another employee who the company is looking to replace, perhaps by you. It's a war zone out there sometimes.
OK, sorry. My broader point, though, is that cell phones are in most cases priced in a dishonest way by hiding the cost of the phone in different places and saying the phone is only however much money.
For as long as the occupation or the work can be divided into routine tasks that does not require intelligence, that work can be replaced.

Take for example my scenario at work: I want to move mountains and can get times more work done than I am able to do now. How do we do it? Extract the routine tasks and assign it to a computer, or to someone who can follow directions. That would free me to do more inordinate things. Maybe then I can move mountains. Also, become more managerial in my tasks with my computer serving as my subordinate. That is another way of growing. Lastly, diversify my newly found time to more ambitious projects where roads and directions have yet to be paved.
> But I also just am so very very sad to see so much talent disappear off the open market, distressed that the lead seems to only grow & grow over everyone else.

All that talent was up for grab: What were the other players waiting for?
This comment is bleeding edge:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com%...
> Range anxiety...

it also affects early buyers who knew it, like our 2014 BMW i3's range, original small battery, is around 70 miles.

I imagine range anxiety is a function of total battery capacity, to your point somewhat. But my 70 miles (or so) range means i have to be very aware where i can recharge.
> Art takes time and thought

According to you, yes. But not according to some. One could claim the ability to make something without time nor thought is art in itself.
> Peloton announced Tuesday that it was cutting 2,800 jobs, including approximately 20 per cent of corporate jobs at the New York City company

According to the article it sounds like they had ~14,000 employees

Edit: I misread. 20% of corporate jobs were cut which contributed to the 2800 number
The Camel became a Perl symbol, much like Peter Norton's pink shirt became the symbol of DOS machine language calls.

Also, Larry Wall chanelling a wizardy school headmaster in his introduction in the Camel book ages before a certain British Author ever thought about writing...

Good times.
That's sounds like stored value or contactless debit. What do you mean "not really paying"?
Please try out the app and tell me what you think.
I would be happy to answer your questions and doubts.
Let's not forget Siri.