jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I am confused about the terms used in this post, some details need to be explicated. If a user uses a song they don't have the rights to in a youtube video, the content holder has the right to issue a DMCA takedown request. Google also, alternately, offers the rights holder the option to monetize that third-party use instead.

Is Google seriously removing that monetization option unless the rights holder agrees to release ALL their music through Google, and on Google's terms?

Because that's what Zoe's post is implying, and that would be some serious next level anti-trust bullying kind of nonsense.
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/36fj0t
Can't beat the traditional burning orange.
Let me repeat: Therac is a radiation cannon, designed with the explicit purpose of killing cells. It's billions of times more powerful than an x-ray backscattering scanner.

The fact that a cell killing radiation cannon malfunctioned and killed someone does not imply that an illumination device billions of times weaker could do the same thing. Similarly, a laser scalpel will kill you if you shine it on the wrong place. A flashlight won't.
I have heard good things about the Apache Portable Runtime [1], GLib [2], and Sglib [3] if you want something a bit more stripped down.

[1] http://apr.apache.org/
[2] https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.34/
[3] http://sglib.sourceforge.net/
+1 to jenius for a server-side solution but in addition:

Yeoman helps manage and coordinate various build tools, but for pretty permalinks on your production build, you're probably going to need something like a plugin for `grunt build` that renames files as they're copied into your /dist directory.
In other words: Being smart is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition. And so is soft skills.
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No ads please. It will ruin the aesthetics.
If you have no idea what you are doing then doing it exponentially faster won't help much.
It would be a huge mistake to cut of China from the internet. Whatever power the US wields militarily as well as economically is an absolute joke compared to the power it wields culturally. American culture through movies, tv and music dominates global culture, allowing it define what normal society looks like.

You want the people in China consuming more and not less of it.
It just puts more pressure on people to move their wealth into corporations. How would you fine someone with no income or wealth, but who controls corporations that have plenty?

Also, a persons wealth has nothing to do with the crime. Punishment should be based on the crime, not on a person's status.
It might. It might not.

What would the technical and cultural cost of moving to a different toolchain be?

The author seems to think that obviously moving to modern tools would be better.

Would it? Or would it just add to the chaos? Would build times really improve, would debugging become easier and more streamlined, would issue tracking improve?

My guess is that changing the entire culture to the point where there were real, measurable benefits would take from a few months to a year, with a lot of unproductive downtime.

The current toolchain is not optimal, but it still sort of works. And in a limited environment like set-top, it will probably continue to work.

Bottom line: don't innovate tools for the sake of it. Innovate if it's going to give you more customers and more profit. But not otherwise.
SYN Flood is already mitigated a long time ago with SYN cookies. The rest ..... well, it's basically just packets.

I see this latest development as good news. The Javascript MITM trick was very clever because forcing github to render and serve a page is a lot more resource consuming than just firing packets at servers that ignore them (like a UDP or SYN flood). The latter can saturate network links until the sources are blocked, but those sources tend to be somewhat focused and don't shift much. An HTTP level attack driven by random web users means every request might have a different IP and it requires running way more of the app stack to be able to filter them out. If China is now resorted to SYN flooding then it means they ran out of better techniques.
The first attack based on the Javascript wasn't actually using Chinese IPs to do the attack. As otherwise it'd indeed be very easy to block by just blackholing Chinese traffic.

What it was actually doing was a massive MITM attack against non-SSLd HTTP connections from inbound connections to China, from Chinese users abroad visiting Chinese websites. It's an extremely clever trick that is only possible if you have the ability to mount mass MITM attacks on an entire country, but what it gives you is a massive ever shifting botnet.

The lesson I draw from this is that we need more SSL, we need it everywhere and we need it yesterday. I hope this stuff puts to rest the idea that some websites aren't worth being encrypted.
Because the author of the code didn't take into account this part of the language spec
Beautiful HN Reader :-)
The President of the United States is the spokesmodel for our owners. A presidential candidate thinks he/she is going to be a leader.
If you mean "cyber-blow-up" there's https://www.sans.org/netwars/cybercity

I've no idea if it lives up to its own hype.
Xbox was a response to PlayStation--the only "innovation" of the original Xbox, to use commodity PC hardware, was dropped with the second generation. Surface is an also-ran. Which leaves Microsoft's true innovative legacy as the inventors of the bendy keyboard? Well, that's "as much as, if not more than, Google and Apple" if I've ever seen it.
The header of that page blew my mind!
Similar sentiments here.

Those numbers are likely to reflect something, but the fact that Yahoo is so irrelevant to geeks and highly self-aware Internet users is a good sign that their position is very unstable. Somehow reminds of Microsoft gradually sliding into irrelevance (while still generating some dollars) for geeks first, and then for everyone else.
So far you're still stuck calling Wiring methods <digitalWrite, pinMode, etc...> from directly extern'd C. But a quick wrapper around the basic functions shouldn't be too hard and allows for a more rust-y (rust-ful?) experience.
We don't torture PoWs. We know that information obtained from torture is -at best- unreliable, and more typically is whatever the tortured feels will make the torturer stop torturing.

Comparing American torture to Korean or Russian torture is not the point. (The misbehavior of other countries doesn't excuse the misbehavior of ours.) The point is that, as a matter of policy, we do not torture because it doesn't provide usable information, and it gives enemies more reason to torture our troops when they capture them.

I carefully read the remainder of your reply. While I agree with one of your over-arching points (poorly lead large organizations in chaotic situations often produce sub-standard results), I don't see how the remainder of your reply relates to my condemnation of and furious anger toward those who destroyed our reputation as a country that humanely handles PoWs by ignoring centuries of history and research.
It's ridiculous to think that there is no possibility that there were people who could have prevented it, but choose not to.
Why the heck don't they teach interesting, non-plug-and-chug stuff like this in high school math?

Every month, I get a little more resolute in my belief that the standard HS math curriculum needs to include a semester or two on number theory, at least for the honors track. If they're short on time, they could teach geometry in a semester (as my school did), and/or teach Algebra II + Pre-Calc in two semesters.
It allows you to inherit functions from a prototype and still have them execute against the current receiver. Consider:

var base = {
greet: function() { log('my name is ' + this.name); },
name: 'base'
}

var derived {
__proto__: base,
name: 'derived'
}

derived.greet();

If the greet function was bound at creation time to base, then the last line would print "my name is base" instead of the desired "my name is derived".
FWIW, just recently wrote a go program that watches a Youtube playlist and downloads new videos to a configurable path: https://github.com/raine/ytdlwatch

I use it to download videos into a Plex library.
Growing up as a 'white bread' kid in the 60's and 70's, I had never had a farm fresh egg, nor local hand-made bacon.

So you can imagine my delight when, exactly 40 years ago today on our honeymoon, we stayed with some friends of my parents on the Maine coast (Brooklin, in Penobscot Bay, on a little inlet called Herrick's Bay -- just visited there again last week) and they provided fresh local eggs and bacon for our breakfasts. It was truly ambrosial!

(Of course, being in the first days of our honeymoon, in a romantic little converted boathouse out over the water might also have had something to do with it.)

But I can attest that fresh eggs are night and day compared to store bought.

(Of course, we're spoiled now, getting our eggs from friends who raise free-range chickens, so fresh eggs are just table stakes.)
Funny how none of these random "bugs" never delist major mainstream media.
Why not madam?
Is it using sshfs or 9p over ssh?
Where do you get your data for the games? I've been thinking about doing something similar for NHL...
Privacy is about protecting freedom of speech. That usually leads to democracy, but theoretically doesn't have to.
The Bay Area is way bigger than SF, and it said "space", not "dedicated room". Obviously not everybody will have any room whatsoever but some folks in the Bay will be able to spare a bit.
Capital markets are notoriously incompetent in spotting disruptions and often reward those who are failing right up until the bitter end.

I wish market evangelists would acknowledge this more often. The market is a useful mechanism but it's far from omniscient.
>They'd in no way be able to get your physical address, unless you lived alone in the countryside.

You seem to be using this claim to dismiss the importance of the data, but I lived in a very secluded area, do I not matter?
From somebody who only tends to do single-system administration...what do you use in place of NFS? Local storage and sync it? Something else?
If A, B, C, and D are all on gigabit on the same switch, if A and B are using their full gigabit to talk to each other, C could get significantly different bandwidths if it tries to talk to A vs. D. Is that homogeneous? Depends on how you define it but "no" is probably the more useful answer.

(There's a couple of other possible outcomes, like the switch prioritizes C, but then the A<->B link sees variable bandwidth over time, another type of inhomogeneity. One way or another something is going to give.)
Fair enough. As I mentioned in my earlier post, there are available solutions that mitigate the risks of these fallacies for AWS's customers. When you build on top of a networked service, you are taking a hard dependency on its SLA, and if you need something with greater reliability, it is your responsibility to provide the necessary redundancy.
I was expecting this to be building things rather than sorting them, but the designer deserves props regardless.

Also, seeing the robot from the 2nd angle (the camera in the middle of the room) really put this contraption in perspective and blew me away. Those robotic arms are really something else. The amount of amazing things people create out of lego never ceases to amaze me.
It's ugly, but true enough. You don't have to like it to acknowledge it. It's just another cloud outage bringing down one or more high profile sites. It's a "dog bites man" story.
For clarification: are you referring to your MBA or to an undergraduate business degree? If you were in a graduate program at 20, then you're probably an outlier (in a good way!) to begin with. If you're talking about undergraduate-level business major or focus, then I think that's a different animal altogether -- and should be treated as such.

My biggest concern with the MBA (master's level) right now is that it's converging too much on the same territory and same age group as the undergraduate business curriculum. There is absolutely a lot of value in an undergraduate business curriculum, but it should be fundamentally different from the curriculum at the graduate level. The fact that the two curricula are very similar right now is indicative of a problem, IMO.
Government and business are in bed together. This is how the capitalist system works.
> Earlier today Vance gave the keynote speech at the conference, hosted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, saying he was going “rouge” by speaking out on the matter. He made an emotional plea that police might not be able to stop crimes against children or solve murders without access to the data.

They somehow solved these crimes before the advent of these devices.

Also, I personally regard stopping the NSA from spying on Americans - all Americans - without cause to be stopping a bigger, and more important, crime than stopping the number of crimes that the encryption would stop them from solving. It's stopping a crime against millions of people that corrupt government officials have not only refused to properly investigate and prosecute, but have shielded for personal gain, knowing that they were circumventing the law of the land.

Stopping rampant corruption is a good thing, and it's sad that it's fallen to public companies rather than government prosecutors.
It does, but only when it's so small it almost doesn't exist. Trillions of times (10^20 times) smaller than a proton. But heavier - about 1/5000 of a flea.

It's not known exactly what will happen, current physics does not go so far.

But what I meant was that it's always either a black hole, or it's nothing. At no point does it become visible.
From link: "Reason #5 to do SEO: you can do it. It's not black magic. It's really just generating content and building links."

Absolutely. So stop calling it "SEO" and just call it what it is: "good web design." Oh, wait - that would mean you lost all those exorbitant consultancy fees...
Do you think what you added was useful?

The iOS DPI controls are some of the most shockingly rudimentary and backwards of virtually any contemporary system, which is exactly why they simply doubled each axis' pixel count (then inventing some asinine "retina display" nonsense to try to make lemonade out of the teeny screen size in the face of better equipped competitors). To see someone calling it a model to strive to is simply shocking, especially on a generally more knowledgeable site like HN.

Windows has been dealing with resolution variance to much greater success since the early 90s. Seriously, by your claim, Windows XP would have been a revolution had it come with the new ability to target both QVGA and the exclusive new VGA functionality.
Yes. They're like quines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram#Self-enumerating_pangra...
They'd have to be quick--it would take time for them to scuttle those ships, and they wouldn't go unnoticed since we almost always have a carrier battle group in the Gulf anyway (plus, who can really keep a secret anyway?). The US Navy continually operates to protect freedom of navigation--they'd prevent any scuttling operations there by any means necessary, considering the stakes.
I think the narrow DOF helps give laypeople a better sense of perspective and size. I'd rather see a high resolution showing of both head-on, but a shot like this does have a strong emotional aspect to it.

In other words, I guess it's just a more powerful photo.
The panel used on the Droid is of the TN kind, so the viewing angle is nowhere near as good as the iPhone 4 -- the perspective difference between your left and right eye is also enough to make the screen appear different to each, which makes it harder to look at and resolve detail. The iPhones up until 4 are all like this, too, which is one of the reasons why the difference between them is so striking.

The Droid is a cheap plastic gizmo. Two of my friends have had theirs slowly break from everyday use. If you have to baby your gadget, it will never really break into the mainstream and make a difference.

(I still like AMOLED more.)
Creativity comes in all flavors. Someone creates a Jump-to-Conclusion mat and makes a million while someone spends their entire life working on elliptic curves to improve cryptography. Get-rich-quick stories entice even the most brilliant of the minds and we're no different. A story about some kid making $35k/month from a stupid app for iPhone makes people wonder why they even bother learning Clojure or spending hours improving their writing skills. The truth is, you must ask yourself what will make you truly happy - being the developer of a gimmick app that made money or someone who has directly contributed to the world with their efforts.

Upon hearing the above, many have said "well, once you have lots of money, say like the reddit guys, you can spend your time doing what you love and help the world." No. The reddit guys WERE doing what they loved and would have done what they're now doing regardless of the money. Sure, having money like Elon Musk helps but then again, it may not. If you hate your career now, get the ball rolling to change it. If you are happy with it, who cares if someone else made millions sharing pictures of cats? I mean do you feel bad that someone in India made $10m selling a special type of plastic sheet to farmers? Or someone in South Africa made millions selling vuvuzelas?

If your ultimate goal is to make money, then certainly wonder if you chose the right career. Money laundering or even investment banking might be a better path. Otherwise, realize the money is just a serendipitous by-product of any venture.
Please avoid mixing your response with an attack on the author
This article is from a couple of weeks ago?
Well, I wish what you were saying was true, but recent data show that it is not, see for example [1]

Furthermore, depletion of resources is not a simple numbers game: a rich person produces several orders more CO2 than a poor person to name just one example. If Africa becomes wealthy enough to come anywhere close to Americans for meat consumption there is going to be a huge issue.

Population control of some kind is so much easier now than if we wait 20 years and Chinese-like draconian measures become necessary.

1. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329882.800-global-po...
Playing golf is irrelevant. Hanging around on the lawn with a stick and a ball and the right company is the important part.
It's interesting looking at his code (http://github.com/cloudhead/less.js/blob/master/dist/less-1....). It's clear, well described, and ambitious.
People's Bank of China will exchange practically unlimited amounts of Yuan to USDs for other banks in China.
Open your news feed, i get at least 15-20 photos. Go to a profile page, you see their wall and photo's they're tagged in for example. Most of the time thats above 5 as well.
One could argue that Renaissance (Jim Simons) and D. E. Shaw and Co (David Shaw) are actually technology firms, and only incidentally financial firms. The majority of their competitive advantage emerges from software design and implementation, and systems integration.

With Renaissance, it's even in their name - the full name of the company is Renaissance Technologies, not Renaissance Capital.
Sensationalist headline but I can't wait to try this. When you start representing everything as JSON trees, web programming gets so much more consistent, compact, and easier.

Also see:

MongoDB - save data in BSON (binary JSON) And query with JSON

Node.js - Build an entire smoking fast server side web app with JavaScript objects. Bonus: run a node app on Heroku to compile and varnish cash less.js if you are worried about performance

Mustache.js or Pure - JavaScript templating to turn JSON into HTML

V8, tracemonkey, Nitro - blazing fast JS interpreters everywhere that will .eval JSON

Convergence anyone?
This security hole is now fixed.
We had a specific problem with the way we dealt with SPF records. Dustin didn't set any up, and there was a specific way that Robin Duckett's email server responded that caused us to flag it as a false negative for spoofing.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1443143
how about rice, bread, corn and other starch staples?
Any competent designer could come up with the interface for Dropbox. The code affects the user far more than the design or the interface ever will. Code decides what's possible. Design decides how what's possible will feel. Both are important. Some of us want to change what's possible for users. Others enjoy being knocked on our ass by how hard the problems are when you try to make the impossible possible.
The problem is not Dropbox being "a feature, not a product". It's a perfectly fine product, but it's hard to compete with products given away as loss leaders by companies who have other sources of revenue.
My point is that they are criticizing him for his good deeds which are already done, because he did not instead do a good deed which only in their hindsight appears to be a better alternative. It's purely ridiculous to criticize someone in this manner.

The appropriate thing to do would be to write an open letter to Gates encouraging him to instead invest in basic services now, since what he's already done cannot be changed, nor is it worthy of such criticism.
I wonder how far Borat would get with the Anti Defamation League types these days.
https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/printers/

Yep, to highlight some problems on the printer firmware side:

- outdated RootCA list, forcing Googles endpoint to stay on old CAs

- devices not supporting newer TLS versions like TLS1.2, TLS1.3 etc

- ossification of auth mechanism
Can anyone vertically scan 5 paragraphs of a long-form article in a 1-2 seconds and ambiently detect keywords that signal relevance? By ambient, I mean in your peripheral vision, without even knowing which word you're looking for or actively reading anything.

I acquired this "skill" about a year ago and now I use it when I suspect there may be filler text or introductions to concepts I already understand. I know it works because I uncannily land on interesting but otherwise nondescript passages. When I scroll back up I find that I did indeed skip the filler. Of course, this isn't voodoo or unprecedented. It's just funny that I've read so much that my brain basically has a regression model for various semantic characteristics that signal novelty by subject area. I suspect I also switch into different modes of scanning based on the writing style detected.

Because of all that, I actually prefer no layering at all. Reuters articles are Layer 1 compressed and I find them annoyingly curt.
Normally, my wife has a far superior sense of smell than I do. Today we were driving behind a car burning oil and as I searched for the recirc button to close off the vents she was perplexed as to why. Now I'm a bit concerned.
I'm working on two things right now:

1. A coding language for UI designers.

2. An online drawing game for my and my local friends.
“The recruitment team will get in touch..”

Everybody says that all the time.
Love how buying the site only gets you 1GB hosting. Hope this works out.