jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Had started nGPS - location using geomagnetic-field. But the concept never took off the drawing board. Limitations were mainly the inaccuracies with the consumer-grade sensors in smartphones.

http://thecodeartist.blogspot.com/2012/01/android-sensors-an...

With the current gen hardware in the phones.

1. Globally, nGPS is only good enough to act as a secondary source or an AGPS to reduce GPS time to inital fix.

2. Locally, it is already possible to map out the ambient magnetic-field of the terrain once and then rely on pattern matching to determine one's location within the terrain.

The tipping point here is the size of the terrain that needs to be mapped.
It was decided in the Shavers case that Bitcoin is a "security" or "investment contract" for regulatory purposes. The SIPC insures securities, including investment contracts, and cash you have with a US regulated broker, up to their limits of $500K securities/$250K cash. They don't do commodities. The SIPC successfully unwound Lehman Brothers, Madoff, and MF Global, and everybody got their money back up to the SIPC limits. Dealing with a failed Bitcoin exchange would be a small job.

The SIPC is good at finding and getting back assets that somehow wandered off. See "http://www.madofftrustee.com/". Some insiders who thought they'd gotten away with big gains from Madoff funds had them "clawed back" by the litigation trustee. Billions of dollars were clawed back.

Madoff himself is Federal Prisoner #61727-054, in a cell at Butner Federal Correctional Institution, scheduled for release in 2139. That's what should be happening to heads of Bitcoin exchanges where the assets just "disappeared".
> Around 6:45 at night, as the event wound down, an eligible person arrived for a shot. A nurse punctured a new vial to administer the vaccine, which activated the six-hour time limit for the 10 remaining doses.

Why would the nurse open a new vial when they know they are about to close? That is very reckless, considering that vaccination is not time critical. That person could just come back tomorrow.
I think selling stock with proper disclosures to the people who wanted it should have been achievable.

This was in fact the biggest bull case I could think of: that by getting maybe $1B on the balance sheet they would be well capitalized to take on projects to revamp themselves.
Technology Connections did an episode on air humidifiers a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeehYYgl28

The fan and filter size matter the most. Most of these things are hugely overpriced for what they are.
Negative taxes are better. No need to give to the wealthy in the first place to come back and tax them later.
I think there are alternatives. The question becomes: is the fraud detection cost higher than the potential fraud? and even if it is, is it significantly so? I don't think the current system has no fraud in it either.
Because they unfortunately don't have to legally. It never caught on in politics and lawmaking. Not even the GDPR seemed to bother revisiting it.

By honoring it they would loose an advantage over all the other ones who don't.
The cool thing about politics is that failure will always be made in due time. That is, if you don't take great care to educate people.
Because suddenly most of the bitcoin demand would stop which would make the price drop
"Nobody" is an exaggeration. There is a big community of enthusiasts who enjoy cryptocurrencies for what they are and enable, not for their USD value in the markets.
No, but I would need to see evidence, not just your opinion that such evidence exists. Same as for electoral fraud.
I've seen that too, but there are also tons of projects that stay true to their original intentions and it wouldn't make sense (to me at least) to morph synergy into a "one size fits all" framework. It has a clear set of responsibilities and my ultimate hope for this library is that it will be eventually become redundant as all of the features it provides become a part of the web platform itself.
I think a Java implementation could do tail calls, but it would have to create a fake stack trace when needed.

(I haven’t looked, but I would expect modern Java implementations already make up quite a bit of the stack trace only when it is needed, for example when inlining calls)

And, traditionally, it _is_ unusual to expose call stacks to calling programs for Algol-style languages (implementations typically dumped a call stack and might add a way for a program to walk its stack, but that would be implementation-dependent)

Without exceptions or a repl, where would you use them, other than in a crash dump?
and whatsapp used to have a mandatory subscription in mahor western countries (~$1/year) that was profitable. The sub was removed by facebook who were likely interested in the private data value, not the sub profit.
Yes completely agree
I want to know what accounts they're following online, who they might be taking direction from - and whether those people are domestic or foreign.

It's possible these things are entirely home grown, but it's also possible that there were foreign operatives in the crowd or operating behind the scenes.

This is what makes it infuriating that all of them were not immediately taken into custody.
So I did some research and found a way to access article body text without having to use diffbot so that'll be fun. I found a python wrapper for boilerpipe [1] so I plan on redoing this analysis. The amount of data I had to work with was pathetic. This time around I'll utilize
jv22222 's suggestion on how to get the hyperlinks out of the tweets too. Thanks all! This was fun :)

[1]: https://github.com/misja/python-boilerpipe
True, but more advertising dollars are spent on TV-like products.
My mom makes this spinach lasagna. I emailed her asking for the recipe, and she sent back "Just google spinach lasagna and click the first link". It was an ad from Kraft's website. She's probably clicked it dozens of times.
I work for a university as a teacher. What do you think the economic implications might be for a university in the coming months? I can see less new people enrolling next semester, current students refusing to pay the same tuition if it's going to continue being all online etc.
> But MacOS does handle low memory conditions much better than Windows does.

Interesting, my work machine runs a linux vm on a windows 10 host. It regularly uses 95 to 96% of my 16GB RAM. When this happens Linux grinds to a halt yet Programs running on Windows are still usable. MacOS must be amazing,
More specifically:

- The Fed operates under a dual mandate. It is tasked with managing both inflation and unemployment.

- Its mechanisms are "open market operations" (the purchase and sale of assets, usually government bonds, though occasionally other securities), "the overnight window" (a lending operation for banks needing cash, lent at a benchmark "prime" interest rate), and bank reserve requirements.

These adjust the total amount of dollars in the financial system, the basis for interest rates (the cost of renting money), and the multiplier by which banks themselver create money through loans.
The macOS version installs itself before you give it permission to install: https://twitter.com/xnyhps/status/1149630190877696001?s=21. It is basically malware.
> Trying to "pause" commitments would take years to implement. It would be like trying to go through the world's internet and "suspending" all user requests and server processing.

I don't see the parallel.

Covenants, ultimately, have to be enacted through the courts. (I mean, presuming debtors' legal departments get the message from the government that they don't have to worry about covenants during this period, whatever their creditors demand. The creditors would ultimately have to take them to court to attempt to get their covenants enforced.)

And, if the covenant enforcement hits the court system, then the government would already be "in place" to suspend traffic—it's "the wire" that court-system messages are flowing through!

(Or, really, it's more like a judge is a router and the legislature controls a WAF module in said router. The judge, as router for motions, is required to deny any motion the law-as-WAF declares as illegitimate.)
Works just as well on any sufficiently powerful old laptop. I find that any damaged laptop or one with a battery that doesn't hold a charge converts nicely into a home or lab server.
I thought there was already a number that 80% won't need to go to the hospital.
Isn't this why they charge for extra bags? Because passenger bags takes up space and weight that other people want to pay for? People argue about whether that's fair or not to charge passengers for more baggage when they're already paying, but thinking about a plane being for transfer of things, we can see why they charge more.
This is spot on. It encourages continuing the discussion even if the other side has support of its fan club.
How do you vote down?
I'm so excited by this technology. Can't wait to learn Spanish.
Thanks for that! I think paying $10 for Locale seems a bit much.
Neat idea.

What do you suggest for non-US volunteers (and callers, although I suspect that is harder to solve, at least for free)?
This is an issue with most (all?) PR systems. The author's argument was not that crazy minority's should get into power, but they should at least be represented in the political system (Parliament or whatever). They should at least have a chance to air their views on the national level.

I think this has two side-benefits: one is that such crazy minorities are often shown as incompetent when given such 'legitimate' representation; the other is that it removes their PR boost of being "downtrodden outcasts".
This has some features that would be really nice for a backbone project I'm working on. Specifically, nested routes would really help me DRY some of my code. I watched this, and will definitely be using it once there is some cross-browser testing.
Posted 1 day ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2480946
That just sucks for you. I am not you.

10-14 hours a day is the norm and I still get in the gym, dinner with the wife, vigorous sex, a few games of vain glory and other facets of "normal life".

I also take weeks off at a time because I mostly work for myself. In fact, I've been traveling for the last 4 years (I moved to Vietnam from NYC about a year ago).

So, it might suck for you, but I would hardly say my life sucks because I work so much. Mostly because it isn't really work to me, but mostly because at 41 I know what balance works for me.

But thanks for the concern.
The CA system is fundamentally broken. Centralised authorities are bad.
Since the rejection email seems to apply as well, do you guys feel like it was a very close call?
Not working here.
Isn't using a top-level domain not allowed?
Here is a link to a screenshot of what he tweeted after the video and which Twitter subsequently removed: https://d.pr/i/Ex15UI/ABdSwruLJz
Same with medicine. Although under-served markets are common you still have to market yourself in private practice. New specialists advertise to GPs to get referrals for example.
That wasn't a fork, it was a research project, and the resulting patches were integrated into mainline linux back in 2.6

It was run by the University of Utah and the NSA but eventually involving several contractors to implement the FLASK architecture as prototyped in the Fluke research OS as patches against Linux. Met and worked with some people who handled the user-space tools and patches, interesting stuff.

The goal was to enhance Linux beyond discretionary access control (DAC) to mandatory access control (MAC) which would put Linux a step above WinNT and in the same boat as Trusted Solaris, so you could properly implement a Bell–LaPadula security model (write up, no write down)

They succeeded and so now you have stuff like General Dynamic's PitBull cross domain solution which builds on and extends it. That was really what NSA wanted out of it in the end, since they have the responsibility to provide and approve such systems, which are very in demand in DoD and govt.

AppArmor uses the same framework in the kernel that SELinux uses, but the policy implementation is different. The competing needs of AppArmor, LIDS, and SELinux are what prompted LSM to be created in the first place.

But that research also has applicability in the space of trust segmentation, providing similar capabilities to containers and sandboxes but before they popularly existed. SELinux still performs this policy enforcement function for many distros' container security implementations, in addition to seccomp.
> Teachers are overworked and underpaid, they can't afford to go far beyond what curriculum says they should. Parents demand schools prepare kids well for their adult life - which for almost all families means primarily preparing for a decent job. Thus the labor market is indirectly but strongly influencing the curriculum. Labor market demands a way to sort people, so standardized testing and pressure to choose your career at even earlier ages appears. On the other side, governments are embedded in the market reality, they need to manage their budgets and seek savings, so their prioritize, tightening the school system to provide what the market demands.

If there's no slack in the system then how do you propose to expand the scope of function provided by a system running at its limitations?

> I could go on and draw some other feedback loops. But the point is that you can't disentangle schooling - or anything government - from the economic reality, and that this economic reality is sufficient in explaining the shape of education system. No conspiracy, or ill will by any rich and powerful agents needed.

I agree with this, which is why I questioned you. A free market in education would do a lot to empower educators to offer real, functioning education because they'd be able to charge what they needed and compensate their teachers appropriately.
The link you provided is for last year, and that site doesn’t have any data after February 2020 anyway. I think this is the best source:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...
This is the straw that broke the camel's back, for me anyway..

Just started the process of notifying my connections that I'll be uninstalling WhatsApp. If not Signal, then just Phone, iMessage, SMS and email work well..

Hopefully this will drive larger adoption of Signal..
A lot of people do use social media as their main method of socialising, especially during this pandemic.
A coup is a “forceful seizure of executive authority and office by a dissident/opposition faction within the country’s ruling or political elites that results in a substantial change in the executive leadership and the policies of the prior regime (although not necessarily in the nature of regime authority or mode of governance).”

Source: https://www.systemicpeace.org/inscr/CSPCoupsCodebook2015.pdf
It was solved as soon as ordinary passengers realized that hijackers didn't want hostages anymore. The cockpit door thing is security theatre too.
Interesting, thanks for pointing that out - it wasn't obvious to me from skimming the paper.

In their "Conclusion" section, they write:

"We thus propose Cuckoo++ which adds a bloom filter in the primary bucket, allowing to prune unnecessary accesses to the
secondary bucket without requiring expensive computation.
Cuckoo++ hash tables have a uniformly good performance
when compared to both pessimistic and optimistic implementation, and an improved performance over DPDK and
Horton tables for all cases.

We also describe a variant of Cuckoo++ that integrate support for entry expiration directly in the hash table, avoiding
the need for external management of timers and the associated overheads. This relies on a new memory layout more
compact than DPDK’s original one, and on the use of 16-bit
timestamp."

That seems to imply that the timer/expiration feature is an optional added bonus, rather than a core feature of Cuckoo++.
Break on exception? Done!
http://nodejstools.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Debugging#bre...

We have SO MANY PLANS, so please upvote or request the ones you think are important :)
https://nodejstools.codeplex.com/workitem/list/basic
even with code I write myself, I can't remember the line by line implementation on the entire code base. To be honest I often forget implementation details on code I wrote last week.
Yak Shaving - I like that you have a word for the concept of a simple task that can break down into lots of complex things.

Where I work we do low and high estimates (in hours, no scrum) but there is no way to express "this may take 1 hour but if the system is horribly enough designed in that area it may take 1 month" - in which case perhaps we should decide if it is worth it.
When removing cables gaffer taped to the floor, always remove the tape from the floor and the cable at the same time. Never remove the cable from the floor with the tape (which may be tempting, as you can just yank the cable up). Otherwise you will find yourself spending half an hour trying to release said cable from the tape's gooey embrace.
I wonder if adhesive tapes were also generally used (surely some people tacked some goo onto a leaf to seal something at once) in antique times.
As always, it falls on the entity making the claims. See Russel’s Teapot for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
No, a work factor of 10 is usually fine. I generally use PBKDF2, which uses a parameter for actual rounds, and set that to about 20k, but don't think about rounds, just see how many authentications per second you need to be doing at the most, time your servers and use a parameter that gets you those authentications. 200ms is usually okay for most applications.
Well, except for the fact that it only impacts people who access Baidu from outside the Chinese firewall. People who access Baidu from inside China would not have their Baidu use interrupted.
This is huge. That 10 TWh compares to 20,000 TWh used worldwide [1], or 1/2,000th of world use. ~3,500 TWh of world use is from dams [2] and another ~3,000 TWh from nuclear, so CA utility solar PV has displaced more like 1/1,500th of fossil fuel use for electricity. We're making progress!

[1] https://yearbook.enerdata.net/electricity-domestic-consumpti...
[2] http://www.worldwatch.org/use-and-capacity-global-hydropower...
The Air Force grew a backbone and did not bend to political pressures, good on them. Space X needs to compete on Cost AND Quality.
A properly implemented, simple pepper can only help password security and can't hurt it. Obviously you first must be using a good, slow algorithm (bcrypt, scrypt, or PBKDF2 with high work factor), but a pepper will only help you. (Let's assume the pepper is an AES key which all hashes are encrypted with.)

Yes, many times a dedicated attacker who has read access to your database will also have read access to your source code or config files, but many times they won't. And if they don't, then they won't be able to crack a single one of your passwords, while even with a modern and proper hashing algorithm they still may be able to crack passwords.

Take the scenario of a relatively intelligent hacking or hacktivist group, of which there've been several in the past 5 years. Let's say they're targeting someone they dislike for whatever reason, and find out that person is registered on some forum and decide to compromise the forum. (This tactic of lifting a whole haystack to find a single needle is very common for motivated attackers.) They don't care about any of the other users, they just want to try and crack the hash of one single member and have a full GPU cluster with which to do it. They're also willing to spend weeks trying to crack that one hash.

If the user's password isn't particularly strong, it's going to fall no matter what algorithm they used.

But if the forum is peppering all of their hashes, and those same attackers can only manage to gain access to the forum's database and not its local filesystem, then their chance of cracking that password goes to 0.

This scenario is a bit contrived because odds are motivated and intelligent attackers like these will end up gaining access to the filesystem and reading the pepper with enough time and effort, but the pepper is still an additional defense and means SQL injection alone won't be enough to crack passwords.
Remove "on my behalf and I feel bad that it wasn’t more fruitful"

Replace "that you even considered me" with "your time".

Watch for any signs of self-diminishing thoughts such as stating that your time is being less important than other's time.
ICBMs (and SLBMs) are allowed to fail more often than spysat launchers or human rated rockets. For important targets, you can afford to launch 2 missiles, but NSA can't afford 2 $4B birds, and can't afford the lead time for a replacement if one is lost during launch.

1 year on ISS is launching on Soyuz in 40 minutes!
You can set up Workload Management[1] to restrict the amount of compute / query_slots each query/user can use.
It splits the memory/compute into slices, and queries can use multiple slices, so you can get some fine-grained control, but it takes a bunch of work.

[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/cm-c-modifying...
There was pornography before there was the internet, young fellow.

Once there were special 'cinemas' and printed pictures in 'magazines'.

And, before the advent of photography there were etchings.

Most of it was purely for titillation rather than artistic pleasure.

---key--------

cinema = youtube-in-a-building
photography = jpegs-on-paper
magazines = non-electric-ipad

hope that helps
Here is an article from 1955 that details more about what they read:

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,861231,00.html
I first found out about Linode by participating in Rails Rumble, which they were providing hosting for, and switched to them from Slicehost after last year's competition. They offered 3mo free to any competitors who wanted to sign up. I sent in a support ticket and it was dealt with in literally 15 minutes. I've been extremely happy with them ever since.
I loved this as a kid, and remember when we got a new computer (a 286?) and it was "too fast" to run Battle Chess [not sure how that was, but memory].

So, a few years ago I looked for it online - found an exe that I tried to run with WIne on my Mac, but could not get it to run.

Would love it if there was some way to still play!
Can't you just replicate the entire 2d context api and pass through to an appropriately scaled (1px per block) offscreen canvas? Then pull the image from that and legoify it up to the display scale. That seems like a lot of unfun boilerplate to write, but ultimately an easier way to implement this, which would give all the gnarly parts of canvas without having to pull in external libraries ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m actually only 3-4 years into my career.
We will never know why it does, even though it is a well-motivated prediction of classical and modern theories.

It is possible for us to test whether or F=ma, though, and so far, it (with relativistic corrections) checks out.

An example of this sort of test from our research group: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98...

(I'd go dig up more citations on the subject, but we have a grant proposal due in two days... :) )
> but these showing up on the front page almost every other day

Can you provide links to recent posts like these? If they show up "every other day" that should be fairly simple. Using the HackerNews search and looking for the term "duckduckgo" I only see 8 stories within the last week, only 1 having reached the frontpage (this one), and including this one, only 2 about switching to DDG and only 1 being somewhat critical of Google. My cursory search does not seem to agree with your statement.