jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah but a ton of people livestreamed themselves during the June protests + riots + looting + etc, and there were absolutely privacy objections to doing dragnets + facial recognition over the videos they posted on on Twitter (AFAIK very little was actually done to identify and arrest the bad actors, by the percentages).
They literally bought a mall to use as a new HQ. https://www.eurogamer.net/amp/2021-01-04-epic-games-buys-sho...
>about the very same thing

It's not about the same thing. This article is about publicly visible people that advertised their actions in a way that was tied to their name. The article you posted is actually about facial recognition.
But your resolver still needs to fetch those from somewhere. So you need encryption somewhere in the chain.
Apple has been increasing the length of support for devices over the past 10 years though. Many years they don't drop support for any Macs.

That said... it would be fantastic to have Linux as a backup.
Now? It's been a gender-neutral 3rd person singular for hundreds of years.
A related assumption is that the best way to learn is through classes or lectures. I can learn faster by reading, experimenting, and asking questions when I'm stuck. Forums are your friend.
Overzealous copywriting?! By a "science" journalist?! NO!!!! Here's the original article. I wrote a partial defense in another comment.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1007137
When I was 12 years old we were forced to take Tae Kwon Do in school for some odd reason (yes an American school). At the end of the practice session we would all sit around in a circle in the brightly light gym/dancing room with the instructor in the center. He would tell us to close our eyes for 2 minutes and when we were told to reopen them the lights seemed brighter. We were told if we did this once a week every week in life we would succeed no matter what. Well I have in my opinion succeeded in life so it must be because of the eye drill.
Not sure why research is being trotted out as a negative. My ability to do research as an undergrad alongside phd students and post-docs was the highlight of my academic experience and got me my first job.

If you want a school where the professor's highest priority is the classroom experience go to a small liberal arts school. But frankly, there's no reason a great professor can't do both so you may as well go somewhere with the resources to conduct interesting research.
Please ask him to do a IamA-AMAA
Ah, one of so many reasons I loved UO!

@patio11, I think the scorn for virtual item sales was not always just one of condescension. Rather, the idea was born from a certain economic understanding. If the belief was that virtual item sales would be a fraction of subscriptions, but that virtual sales could upset gameplay and unbalance games, harming the play experience and undermining the community, they were to be eschewed. At least, that was an argument that I would see a lot.
From TFA (linked in the post - http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/conscience/)

"I was actively involved in something that I was completely against"

Refusing to obey immoral or illegal orders will eventually land you in trouble but it will be much less trouble than treason.
Yeah, it takes a little attention but if you can build a computer and do a little research you can get yourself a fairly inexpensive "Mac Pro".
Why should I or anyone else think I'm better than the guy who empties the trash? A lot of what I do is the technical equivalent of janitorial work. I get paid more than physical-world trash guys, but that's just because fewer people can do what I do. It's not because I'm a better person. I'm probably not.

I'm fully aware that I'm working to make Ben (and his investors) rich, I went to business school so I know how these things work. I'm a consenting adult. I get paid for doing work that I enjoy and hanging out with people whom I like. I'm totally OK with this arrangement.

When I tell people where I work, I get two distinct reactions. "I can has what?" or "OMG! That's so cool! What do you do there!" I think that what we're doing is interesting from both a business and a technical standpoint and I thought I would offer to share with the HN audience.
Uh. No. Or at least not any more so than than a picture of a woman stroking a man's penis (or a man touching a woman for that matter) If it's a drawn or painted image (as it was in this case) it's probably art. If it's a written description it's probably literature. If it's on porntube, it's porn.
the Facebook give-us-your-login-temporarily style stuff is unacceptable

Agreed. IMO, asking for your password when there are API's readily available is alone enough to disqualify a company from being "trustworthy". Just the idea of keeping a bunch of GMail passwords in some decryptable database is quite a bit scary.
Whoa, thanks, I should thought of that! They sent one on the day of the access (10 June).

There are 17 other potential ones, but I had moved them to my spam folder, so I can't tell where they came from originally. Looking closer, the first email in each chain seems to come from my account, but they are spread over several days, not just the day of the access.

Unfortunately, they could have potentially accessed any other services whose "forgotten password" emails go to this one, and then deleted the replies. But it looks like an automated spam attack.

When I realized today, I now logged out all other users (there didn't seem to be any) and changed my password. Maybe I should check all my linked accounts.

EDIT The header of their email has:

Received: from PC-201004061503 ([116.30.36.239])

Where that IP is the hacker's IP. Comparing with mail I've sent, the Received line includes my IP and "with HTTP". So it looks like they weren't using the web interface, but some direct one (IMAP? POP3?). If they're a spammer, it would be automated. BTW their emails all had the same content, most of them with the subject " 请在这里编辑主题...", which I'm guessing is "buy viagra" in Chinese.
Not if you give your username and passwords to websites. I feel like you don't understand this distinction all up and down this thread...

Also, man, what is the point of DBANing your install? Is software that is no longer accessible to the OS or likely even any consumer level hardware going to magically log your keystrokes, I mean make you give your usernames and passwords to websites and then be surprised that they use them?
What's funny is that the article never suggests that the simplest solution would be to go swimming (Phelps example) instead of resorting to things like the cold vest or sleeping without a blanket.

And swimming has more advantages than just being cold : it provides your cardio in a non damaging way (contrary to running) and you gain a valuable skill that can save your life.
What he's saying is: We are being pushed into a total surveillance state without a democratic vote, which means it is not normal to say "don't worry, go back to sleep" unless you're being paid to say that.

(But I guess you knew that already.)
There are quite a few studies that suggest the brain performs better when it's cooler.

Three are discussed here. ("Cool room" was 19 C, "warm room" was 25 C.) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/warm-weather-makes...

TL;DR: One study suggests ability to recognize spelling and grammar mistakes improves in a cool room. A second study suggests ability to do math and make a correct decision based on it improves in the cool room. The third study suggests people in a warm room prefer to avoid complex cognitive decisions and rely on simpler patters of decision making even when it resulted in inferior choices.

YMMV. Empirically, I focus and perform better when a room is 18 - 19 C (below "room temperature", which seems to be 20 to 22 C). I am Canadian.
Here is something for you to go away and think about...

You talk about language as being "confusing" or "inferior". You clearly have strongly held criteria for those. Where have they come from?

Has the English language changed in the last 1,000 years? How have you decided which of those changes to adopt? Were all those changes improvements, given your strongly held criteria? What about in the last 500 years? Which year did the version of English that you believe is most "correct" or "superior" occur? Are we currently at "peak" English?

What improvement would modifying the meaning of "literal" bring? Do you know what the word etymology means? Does the etymology of "literal" support your desire to change its meaning? If the root of a word has subtly changed between its Classical roots and emergence in Anglo-Norman French, Middle English, or whatever, which of these is superior? If the root is unclear, and could be Latin or Greek, and has subtly different meanings, which is the right one to use? What about modern English words that have been adopted from - say - Hindi?

...

Having pondered those, perhaps you could examine the rest of your comment. In the phrase "the thickness needed", what criteria define 'needed'? Cost? Durability? Ability to restrict noise? Foundation strength? Could these criteria change from house to house? Could people hold different opinions on those subjects, and both be right? In the phrase "inferior type of fuel", what constitutes 'inferior'? Could safety margins vs cost lead two experts to come up with different opinions on which fuel was superior?
Some values that you wish to model don't have any logical upper bound. In this case the correct solution is to forgo fixed-size integers entirely and use an arbitrary-precision integer. If that is impractical for your given domain, then you need to select the largest fixed-size numeric type that is practical and resign yourself to some degree of potential incorrectness.
I remember back in the day I used to crack Commodore 64 software, and some of the best protection I remember was when code was written and executed to the RAM in the disk drive, using the intelligent 1541 drive to verify the original disk was in the drive. It was brilliant, and took me longer than any other program to crack. It required the used of a disk memory disassembler, really obscure stuff.

Sierra software used to use multiple encryptions of the original disk-verification code, if I remember correctly. I feel some residual guilt about it now, but I was 14, and honestly, I learned more 6502 assembler cracking code than I ever did writing it. It was like a puzzle. Sorry, Oil's Well developers.
There is research on brown body fat that is developed during cold weather that might have an effect on overweight etc.

https://www.wallenberg.com/kaw/en/research/bodys-brown-fat-w...
that can be discovered and rescued, but not if they just shoot in a cubicle that no one even knows they are there I guess. That's the only(?) explanation on why SF closed up all public restrooms on Market street
I think if they release it as OSS some people would eventually fork it and maintain it.
Give them a better place to do drugs; a place where they get free needles and can throw away the old ones properly (so they won't leave them lying about).
Delphi is still around. A former coworker at my previous job (left this Jan) used it from time to time to make some quick little utilities. Not sure how well it's aged as I've never used it myself.
Perhaps I was taking "adversarial" too literally, but to me it normally suggests an antagonistic or hostile attitude toward the other side. For example, if two next door neighbors don't get along and one of them reports any little infraction to their homeowners' association, they are adversarial. It's sort of the opposite of cooperative.

And this is not how I see the motivation and attitude of most security people. For them it is mostly about the satisfaction of (or other inclination toward) understanding how and where something might be vulnerable to exploit. It is a particular type of thinking related to creativity, thinking outside the box, and seeing things from a different perspective. (So basically what Schneier's essay says. Which fits with my point.)

There is nothing sophisticated or clever about a neighbor calling the homeowners' association. What they're interested in is the effect their actions will have on their adversary. But a security researcher doesn't usually care to actually exploit vulnerabilities. Or if they do, it is only to prove that the vulnerability exists, not to gain from it.

So, getting back to the original point, I just don't follow the reasoning that security researchers would prefer to avoid finding holes in their own employer's systems. If they viewed everything as us vs. them, then yes, they would want to take sides and protect their employer. Instead, I think that because what they really care about is understanding vulnerabilities, they would want to understand them wherever they see them, own employer's systems included.
> Quick, what's 3 months before November

Wow. It took me a second, which is weird since I have no trouble seeing 11/5 and 8/5 as November and August Fifth, respectfully.
Interesting. So my grandmother's maiden name "wrzesień" has a meaning beyond "September" (according to Polish-English translations)?

I don't know for a fact it had the accent over the last letter. Records here in the US exclude it, of course that hardly means it wasn't there originally.
Law as currently practiced, does not require much capital. You're correct about that.

But legal services in general are an expensive, labor-intensive craft industry. Just like any craft industry, there's probably scope for low-touch industrialization alongside high-end bespoke craftmanship. Clothing is a good example of what I'm talking about--rich people have tailors, everyone else buys off the rack. What you have now in law and may other professions only works for the high-touch case.

Atrium (google them) is trying to get around this by having a traditional high-touch law firm use a lot of software provided by a standard silicon valley-financed venture capital startup. They're basically laundering legal fees to the startup side via the law firm. I'm not sure of the exact legalities but we need more stuff like this.

Access matters. A system that, for completely well-intentioned reasons, attempts to guarantee that everyone only gets the best, means the low end will never have access at affordable rates. It's simple economics. Until practitioners work for free (they won't), or there's some way to do things more cheaply, the bottom won't get served.
Hah. Limited supply of lawyers?? That’s not true at all. The problem is the bloated cost of law school, which coincidentally is the same cost as the max allowable federal loans.
> articles that suggest or even outright say that AI is coming up with new theories

I would contest that there are widely read articles saying those things. Yes, surely someone publishes those , but they are generally dismissed. the field is conscious of its hype (e.g. check r/machinelearning), and i don't think students are stupid either
I'm sorry you had a bad experience. I am sure it was not their intention to bait and switch; I've forwarded your comment to somebody at USDS so that they can make sure things like this don't happen anymore.
Always get a share of the revenue. Example: Forest Gump author got zilch because his share was based on profit and not revenue
Is it a meme if it's just text on an image? It has to at least be multiple people doing it to be a meme.
If it were me, my family and friends would have the resources to do something meaningful with their time instead of living to work. I would gift money to projects that have the intent to change the world, but don't have a method to make money. That would include funding sustainable off-grid intentional communities. I would also stop doing anything myself that is just to make money and do things of real value.
I didn't read the whole thing, and I'd be happy if someone could summarize it or could correct me if what I am going to say does not correctly mirror what's going on:

nothing is dying, and discussion always helps.
Sometime all of us can have some kind of moments of discouragment, and need to fight against something just to hear other people tell us "don't worry, everything is going to be ok, you will make it"... or it's just a way to call for people attention. Sometime when we are really discouraged our request for help or attention comes out more as just a complain...

Also sometime the best funny things happen while discussing something too seriously. For example, at some point during the chat...:

* yopp reseting "Ruby community without drama" counter

:)
A protocol is like a set of rules. It it specifies, for example, that each object (a closure) has special bindings, which holds references to its class (which is also a closure) and to itself, so it could send a massage to its super or to self. Classes could have its own methods (inner closures).

Basically, when you send a message, you have to specify a symbol, that corresponds to a method name, and parameters. The protocol specifies the "routing", like if there is no method that corresponds to this name, then send (forward) the very same message to your superior (exactly like they do in army, which is an implementation of the actor model).

If supers doesn't know what to do with the message, then there is panic - an exception.

The protocol also specifies the rules of shadowing of symbols, such that a method could be redefined (shadowed) within a closure, so it "overrides" a method with the same name from its ancestors.

Object methods (inner closures) could send messages to classes (invoking class methods) and then doing something with a returned value. Usually, there is some syntactic sugar for that.

In short, inheritance is a set of rules, and these rules could be implemented using various mechanism, like explicit message-passing (a-la Erlang) or implicitly, using procedures calls.

Brian Harvey in classic Berkeley CS61A explained these ideas much better than me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u3pp7JCAIU
Would never have guessed that it stands for Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center.
SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-dd'Z'") ->
SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'Z'")
Author here, and good point! I was struggling a bit with the terminology to use, didn't think of decorator factory, it definitely would have been a bit clearer.
Love this idea, however have a few thoughts:

1. This format only works for EU countries. In the US this format is not appropriate. For example, in the US, education is a minor point typically put at the bottom of the resume. Experience and technical acronyms usually take up the most room.

2. While pretty, the amount of white space is wasting precious room to make an impression with. Given that for the first few years only one page is recommended of length, whitespace is very costly in terms of valuable writing real estate.

I almost think you could turn this around into a resume writing wizard which tries to extract valuable information in order to write a BETTER resume. Maybe have a formatting independent input, and then let the user choose for what country they want the output formatted. I think formatting is rarely the issue in most CVs, content however is. Maybe focus on helping people write better resumes.

Most people don't even realize how much they know until you start pointing out things such as experience in certain domains, processes, standards etc.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363/
Worfklow is maybe one of my favorite acquisitions by them because it's far easier to run something like this as an OS-level daemon with OS-level permissions than a third-party app. Funnily enough, the Workflow team was folded into Proactive Intelligence, i.e. the old Cue team, another startup that was essentially acquihired for the same reason. Cue was trying to extract all kinds of information from your email, but it turns out you need more than email, which is possible when you run as an OS-level daemon.
I immediately tried to unsubscribe from their newsletter, but it seems all their IT infrastructure's gone too.
I would donate to specific bugs.
It's a quote from "The Big Short".
How does the F35 compare with something like the EuroFighter Typhoon? I know the F35 took a lot of the orders away from the Typhoon, but the Typhoon has already been quite successful in multiple modern conflicts?

(EDIT) Accidentally hit 'comment' before finishing.
I personally saw it as a low-effort question, which could also indicate someone trolling, or trying (and failing) to make a joke. When you've spent billions of dollars on something, dyeing the fabric of your parachute in a particular pattern is obviously such a tiny tiny tiny tiny fraction of a percent of your budget that it's entirely irrelevant.

If you were planning on building these for something where the cost of the parachute would actually matter, and need to do so at scale, perhaps you'd switch to a single-color parachute (with simple orientation/tracking markings). This discussion isn't really interesting at all.
It's still biased, past submissions only tell if user isn't a troll, apart from that, it's only use is to bias opinions.
> Concrete is very interesting material, its history is fascinating and the materials science behind it as well.

It's one of those deceptively 'unsexy' materials too from an outsider's perspective: think of steel and someone may think of, what, swords? watches? but think of concrete and someone thinks of brutalist architecture and urban decay. But there's no reason why concrete is any less fascinating and complex than steel.

What I suppose I'm saying is that it has a PR problem, and I'm glad people like yourself are leaving comments like that to help solve it :)
Uber could never have existed in 1999.
Uber probably won't be able to exist in 2029, as it is today.

Uber is anticipating the self driving taxi though [1].

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/02/uber-opening-robotics-resea...
The author abruptly dismisses blockchain technologies as an approach to this problem, but then goes on to propose a peer-to-peer network that shares some important features with a blockchain:

"Monitoring logs, obtaining consistency and inclusion proofs, and so forth can be done by directly querying the log, but checking for consistent views is more difficult. To do this, the various log clients will gossip. In the long run, this could occur over a variety of protocols—XMPP, SMTP, peer-to-peer connections, etc.—but our first suggestion is to piggyback gossip on TLS. Whenever a client connects to a server, it sends a few items to the server, which the server may verify or merely cache; in return the server sends a few items back from its cache. This establishes what is effectively a peer-to-peer network between the clients."

Except that here, there seem to be multiple trees of hashes (one per domain, if I'm understanding correctly) compared to Bitcoin's single root block.

Given the similarities, I'm left wondering what the fundamental differences really are between a blockchain and this newly proposed P2P network. The new type of network does no proof of work, but it has no need to avoid double spending as it isn't a currency, so that seems fine. What else is different?
Wouldn't that put you out of work, then? ;)

But in all seriousness, using a spreadsheet for prototyping makes perfect sense. Why waste a ton of time setting up a database when you're still figuring out what you are doing, and a spreadsheet works just fine? Yes, there's some hassle when you have to migrate, but that's compared to the hassle of setup. The amount of time to get the first iteration launched is a LOT more valuable than time down the road.
> Brick is just siding. What's the frame made out of?

For brick an mortar houses, the "frame" is also made of brick[1]. All the walls are load-bearing, so there is no actual frame + siding: just brickwork. You have a concrete foundation, then you lay your double-thick brick-walls (for all load-bearing sections - all of the outer walls that are expected to support roofing trusses). Internal walls can be a single-brick wide. The only place timber is used is for roofing.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickwork