jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, the comment you responded to said they need offensive capabilities because they have/need defensive capabilities.

It seems like a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy to me, which can be a very dangerous thing.

Vulnerabilities should be searched for, but when discovered they need to be disclosed and fixed, not used to create real world damage.
I was poking fun at the black-white views of the world that some people have, the "Us vs. Them" attitudes that crop up, and ideas like "it could never happen in America."
> Computer Security is more like chemical warfare

Ignoring this nonsensical analogy...

> undermine encryption, infiltrate networks, keep exploits to yourself

This is really the MO of any intelligence agency; that is their job.

> you can make everyone secure by patches, standards and encryption that works

Interesting statement, because it shows some things. Firstly, there is a difference in incentives -- why publish a vulnerability when it could be used to further your mandate? For the specific case of NSA though, that also ignores their broader role in securing federal communications (eg, vetting SHA, AES, FIPS, etc). Of course, there are always exceptions (DES, Dual-EC-DRBG, etc) -- but in a way, that precisely illustrates why we have intelligence agencies in the first place: trust no one.
Yeah that's just ass-covering.
Imagine using /s unironically.
Not really. You're just going to enable micromanagement and reduce police effectiveness.

It means that you'll have denial-of-service for high crime minority neighborhoods or other areas where there's a higher risk of liability. It also makes neighborhood policing less effective -- who is going to talk to the beat cop when every interaction with him is going to be recorded and stored somewhere?

It also means that the policeman becomes a surveillance tool. Every time a cop steps into a building, everything is being filmed and recorded. The policeman's discretion to ignore petty things is going to be dramatically narrowed in scope.

It also means that we're going to waste billions of dollars on recording millions of hours of nonsensical video. The NYPD has 10,000 cops working at any given time, which would generate millions of hours of video every week -- video that would need to the kept if were to be useful in dealing with complaints. (In NY, you have several months to file a suit or complaint)
From my cold-dead hands you'll take closures away from me.

(function(){})()

They're a great part of JS these mathemagics.
Fish oil will help with anxiety issues.
Apologies from the get go for my negative-sounding questions, but the skeptic in me wonders:

1. Is this biography in any way vetted by Elon Musk or anyone who has first-hand knowledge of events described here?

2. If not, then how is this anything more than anec-data, wikipedia and googling thrown together in a fantasy narrative?

3. If it is not vouchsafed by the principal, real, living person about whom this book claims to be about, then perhaps a disclaimer about it being a work of fiction should be on the cover itself...
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> the spread-sheeting-loving,

I hope that's just a typo and not evidence that the writer doesn't know what a spreadsheet is.
Nice /lunar/feature rickroll!
I think a lot of people think about this the wrong way.

The way I see it, if you're able to successfully adapt to Uberman, you get an additional ~6 hours a day. Any negative effects you would experience from being on Uberman need to be collectively greater than getting 6 hours of additional life per day, in order for it to not be worth it.

6 hours per day is really awesome. It's not just additional productivity. It's additional life. And it's not additional life at the end of your life, it's additional life now, when the value is likely to be very high.

A useful test for these sorts of things is to ask yourself whether you would make the same trade if it were to be reversed. If you had grown up on polyphasic sleep, would you give up 6 hours of your life per day in order to feel mildly more productive on average, and to gain some additional flexibility in your schedule?
Really neat then =)... Is that an area you've had to spend a lot of time in? Getting that multiple groups conversing where you can overhear / swap conversations or widen the conversation as well has have short sub-conversations is a really great dynamic that's sorely missing in this medium.
No mention of Northwestern. While not always ranked super high on USNWR, its full to the gunnels of smart people that sometimes stay in the city. Although in my experience, if they are into startups rather than HFT/corporate gigs, they just pick up and move. Culturally its just not as friedly for new enterprises. When you tell someone you quit your job to start a company, they look at you like you are crazy, as if you didn't already know that.
Approximately 100 companies have gone IPO this year in the US. And almost 400 in China. Don't know about the rest of the world.

Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/business/18place.html
URL shortening is just a pun. The web is unchanged except that certain long URLs can be referenced with a shortened, more compact name. The longer, cumbersome name is still there. Guessing long and complex URLs is not a common modality of use for the web. Search and links rule.

The persistence issue is a big more complex since the validity of a link depends upon a third party. Shortened links are ephemeral like everything else on the web and may not always be a good choice.
I assume you are talking about fopen-type of functions that are nothing more but wrappers around C standard library functionality.

Use SplFileObject (part of SPL that is part of PHP core) for object-oriented way to manipulate files. On a failure (like your permission issue) it throws Exceptions and if not handled this will result in a "hard" error with a backtrace log.
The best thing i have seen are clojures protocols. They are like interface++. Check it out.
Lesson being? Sometimes losing some is winning a lot in the long run.
> I suspect part of the "forensics" was a bluff.

I agree. It sounds an awful lot like a bluff.

While in college I worked as a teaching assistant, on a few occasions me and my staff identified cheaters.

No one ever got caught by getting the right answer. Cheaters got caught when they had mistakes in common.
Stanford puts their courses on YouTube. Here is the first session:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQzLHgls63E

You can also see the syllabus and paraphernalia (including source code) here:

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/
This might be worse in San Francisco, though, than other places, just due to the sheer iPhone density. I've been on BART trains where over half of the people were on an iPod touch or iPhone (yes, I counted).
Actually, I've been hearing stories of 80-100k out of school for developers. That would be the high/highest end of salaries in cities like Boston, Austin, seattle, etc.
"the text lacks literary value"

Oh boy... Why not ban Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 while we are at it. And let's burn all copies too.

What kind of spineless school principal is this?
I'm pretty sure I'd inadvertently run the company into the ground, but it'd be one hell of a learning experience.
I have heard these arguments before. You cannot separate Linus' so-called "shortcomings" from how they were instrumental in getting him to what he has delivered and where he is today.

Genius cannot be constrained by every single artificial social more and etiquette; we are Humans not Automatons. As long as they do not lead to destruction of product/project/self/others it is merely a character trait which makes the person unique. All successful companies know this and "manage" their most important people accordingly.
This is true, technology certainly has progressed and lowered the barrier to entry for this and many other things, but my point is that the internet is nothing more than a social network.

Also, you might be overestimating how high the barrier to entry was. There were over 200,000 usenet groups at the peak.
Agreed that renv is a better solution here. Even the example code for Groundhog is not written in idiomatic R which does not inspire confidence. Simonssohn is a legend in transparent research but not primarily a coder or software tool contributor (take a look at the source for p-curve if you want to see what I mean) and I think a secondary threat to reproducibility is relying on tools that end up abandoned or deprecated or for which bugs never get fixed.
One act of injustice, or centuries of injustice?
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/peter-turchin-how-elite-ove...

I think the internet is only being used as a tool;
Peter Turchin says its overproduction of the elites, too many lawyers and managers chasing too few positions leads them to fight more vigorously over a limited turf. It's turf wars gone bitter.
The Hunter Biden laptop story was declared bullshit before it was released because the guy who provided it shipped it around to several news outlets including Fox News who initially passed because even their underused fact checking department saw that the entire story fell apart under the lightest of scrutiny.

It does not serve society's interest to have blatant falsehoods broadcast as news.
The most frustrating thing about this post for me isn't the "10 years" issue, but rather this:

Most of these companies have solid internship programs, and almost all E3 (entry-level) positions are offered to returning interns.

What this means is that there's no track into a junior position where you can gain experience and work your way up to senior within a FAANG if you're older than a recent college grad. That's unfortunate, because as someone working for a mid-tier company I'd like to work hard and land a senior role at a FAANG but I often wonder if these companies would look down on candidates who have spent years at lesser companies.
I will point out that a lot of engineers are bad communicators, and those that are not often change roles. So communication is a unique skillset. As is understanding the business.
PS: It was probably not worth the cost:

Perhaps slightly off topic, but I have to disagree - your postscript only looks at one aspect of the CA/T, there were other effects as well. For starters, the old elevated artery was way past it's useful life, and a replacement was absolutely needed. Once you realize that the elevated artery needed replacement, your options start to narrow very quickly: replacing the old elevated artery with a new elevated artery would have been more disruptive than the tunnel construction, and building a new highway in a separate location was feasible since there was no where else to put it. Digging an expensive tunnel was the least bad of a bunch of bad options, but frankly the city was paying for a bunch of stupid decisions that were made in the 1950's.

As for the positive effects of the Big Dig, it reconnected Boston with the water front, it freed up recreational land, it had a positive effect on Boston's air quality, and it significantly improved automobile traffic flow by separating out local traffic (which runs on the surface) from thru traffic (which runs in the tunnel) where before they all moved on the elevated highway which worsened congestion. Before the CA/T opened, this route:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=woburn%20to%20braintree%20ma

would take a minimum of 90 minutes; double that estimate if you were traveling during peak hour. Triple it if there was an accident in the area. Right now, it's a 20 minute drive in non-peak hours, and well under an hour during peak times. Not bad.

That said, it would have been nice to have had more expanded transit to go along with the Big Dig. The Silver Line and the Old Colony lines (which were required as mitigation for the Big Dig) was a good start, but we could have done better.

(ftr, I worked on the Big Dig as a consultant from 1998-2001. I've also worked on several dozen domestic passenger rail programs, include T-Rex, BART Silicon Valley Extension, and the Acela mentioned in this discussion)
One source is just an acquaintance of mine. A couple of others are people on youtube. Mind you, the caveat is these people worked 50+ hours per week. If you want something that looks less anecdotal, google "uber salary". Glassdoor lists a range from 18k-93k/yr.
Yay 2002 Club! (December for me.)

I'd heard good things so recommended them to a quite non-technical client, and was impressed by how much simpler life got afterwards!

Still no complaints. Thanks Fastmail.
PyTorch is research favorite, it's easy to debug tensors and interleave bunch of random code in between layers if you need to. Keras is the easiest one to get a model running in production, but for some advanced things like sophisticated custom losses you might be forced to switch over to base TensorFlow. TensorFlow is the production king but it's super complex unless you use tf.keras and difficult to debug.
Absolutely - and regarding Jordan, whilst Petra was a definitely worth the visit, there's so much more to Jordan that has me wanting to return, not least, the people.

edit: typo
Ironically enough in firefox the google search is broken when searching for that term: https://www.google.com/search?q=the+handmaid%27s+tale

I see a large gray box and little else!
It is possible. Just extremely hard. And I will love to write a book about it after I have gone through a good amount of papers on cultural theories and had a good amount of interaction with Chinese of all walks of life so to have a better grasp of "the Chinese way" and somehow utilise the very knowledge of it in my new start-up to make Vsauce-inspired Chinese videos on liberal arts, philosophy, science and tech for Chinese audience (and hopefully go viral) and build a "quality content marketplace" where people in China get to directly connect with local and oversea creatives and they can sponsor these creatives to make explanatory videos on things, etc. The business model would have to follow "the Chinese way" and I'll need to conduct more experiments.
Markdeep [1] does something very similar.

(Disclaimer: Not my project, but I've developed several Markdeep-adjacent tools [2][3].)

[1]: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

[2]: https://github.com/doersino/markdeep-slides

[3]: https://github.com/doersino/markdeep-diagram-drafting-board
Right, cjdns and Yggdrasil will both forward on behalf of other nodes where no direct paths are available.
You can use the Panda to tow a trailer, obviously you need to mind certain weight limits.

I wasn't aware those laws were so strict in the US, perhaps that is why trucks are so much more common. Owning or renting a trailer isn't uncommon here.
Servant (the typed routing system being used here) has pretty awesome and robust authentication support. I bet it could be added without too many additional lines.
"If I need a lot of space for a week, I can rent a spacious apartment. If I want to have a dinner party, I can rent a chic loft to host guests. If I plan to work late, I can rent a minimal space close to the office."

Yes, you can do that, if you have loads of disposable income.
You do end up seeing the complexity. What can you do without Javascript and/or a server side language? Not too much, really.
You’re probably not offering enough money.
Yeah, I heard those warranty calls people at random, but wouldn't surprise me if some bought people's information from the DMV, especially if they did know your model.
Your first reference states that the Planck length isn't the smallest unit of length in standard physics: "The Planck length is sometimes misconceived as the minimum length of space-time, but this is not accepted by conventional physics, as this would require violation or modification of Lorentz symmetry." It then states that alternative theories do allow for a minimum length.

Experimental evidence (the Fermi satellite data discussed in the link in the grandparent comment) seems to support standard physics.
Youngsters are more malleable to whatever theocratic management scheme you want to shoehorn in. Oldie don't buy in the cult driven bend-over management schemes used in many places.

In short, they outwit their own positions.
Interesting. Unrelated question, is it easier to start a side business since you work for a remote company? (Had to do some stalking to find this out.) I imagine you might have more time to do these kind of things because you presumably don't have to deal with a commute.
I truly, honestly doubt that is the case. Are you hiring remotely or only in an expensive locale? Are you expecting more than 40 hours a week or do you have a good work/life balance? How are your benefits?

All of these things matter more the older you get since older engineers tend to already have a home and don't want to move to California, have a more involved personal life, and expect things like medical benefits. You might be discriminating on age without consciously knowing it.
I hope soon, that's so cool!
I, for one, am excited to see Delicious under the control of some capable people again. I used to use it all the time.
Right. I've had a great time having lunch daily with some groups of co-workers. Others have been boring as hell and there's no way I'm going to spend an interminable extra 30-60 minutes making small talk with them.
Golly, it sounds like re-inventing the web on top of a centralised platform has all kinds of problems! Who'd have thought?
Knowing how great the GitHub people are at innovating their service, I'm sure they'll be open to suggestions like these.
One problem with your "try before you buy" is that an iPad becomes most useful when you put all of your personal stuff on it. People are not likely to do that with a loner. Also, as another post said, it's not really a PC replacement. If a person has a desktop and a laptop for portability, the iPad might replace the laptop, but it is no replacement for a person's only PC.
Introverts tend to "recharge" by themselves while "extroverts" tend to gain energy through interaction. I applaud Joel's efforts to bring his team together but I wonder if some of the introverts are taking extra long bathroom or smoke breaks to make up for all of the face time that is required.
"Put your money where your Like is"
"I'd rather 'chew razor blades' than talk about traffic, weather, casino gambling, baseball,..." +1
Could you or anyone share some youtube videos of such events, possibly? I've managed to find only some crossbow one, it didn't look very fast in comparison, but also crossbow is inherently slower. I'd be very interested in seeing the examples of what you're talking about.

Also, I'm confused by the explanation you provide for the score counting. Is it 90pts max over 3 rounds, + 30 seconds extra? Is the bullseye during the 30s also counted for 5 points? If so, then score 120 means 30 points over 30 seconds, means 5 seconds per arrow on average, yes? If so, then the show by Lars Andersen is much faster. If not, then can you please explain it more clearly to me?

Also, can you explicitly say which techniques are silly, which are unreliable, which are "acrobatic"? It's hard to discuss (either disagree or agree) when you're so vague. For example, as to handling the bow, in some video about "ancient Japanese archery" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egiXLXwhvzs#t=10m45s) they seem to be also keeping the arrow on the same side of the bow as Lars, and keeping more than 1 arrow between fingers; while some random SCA bowmen guys I've googled up on youtube seemed to be handling it "on the inside".
Dedicated people hired as such.
It's great that you're conscious of it, but many people aren't. This entire genre (I call it productivity porn) is problematic because it creates the illusion of progress. People wonder why the algorithms have so much grip over us - it's because all we do is consume and don't act.
"Major technology firms would be granted authority to form their independent techno-governments within Nevada." WTF—Sounds like the beginning of a techno civil war to me! Pretty amazing though to see the evolution of the future of technology and municipalities. I don't think I could have dreamed a cooler story.
Hey Dylan, looks interesting.

A few questions:

- What SQL dialect is being used?

- Does a query execution download all the data from the remote source, and does it cache it for the next run?

- How do indexes and sub selects work?

- How does data protection work, does all data pass through your server?
>Apparently accessing your own data using unapproved software makes you a 3rd party.

That's been pretty clear since Google rather stridently informed me a third party app had access to my data during a security check: the app was Chromium.
You can speed up videos on Youtube. Both natively and with yuotube-dl then play locally with mpv or your (lesser) favourite player.
> Not dead in the sense that it has no users, but that the original user base has been alienated from it and has been supplanted by a profitable horde of "normies".

The simple fact that redditors like to be called redditors and call others "normies" is a big part of why reddit is a cesspool.
I like your points, and I think they'd be useful.

> I'm not sure how much others can relate, but I am hopeless at remembering most of what I read or watch. Even when I spend several days pondering the same book chapter / paper / recipe / etc, taking thorough notes, there is no guarantee I will remember it six months or even one month from now.

Have you tried teaching other people? That forces you to re-arrange what you know into a form that other people can understand, and that helps you understand it and retain it better. And those people get to ask you questions which help point to gaps in your knowledge.

I guess this is similar to "see one, do one, teach one" methods.
..and integrated in VS so you can just select Toolset = Clang :P
Making broad statements about others based on race and gender is ignorant.
The LLVM project as a whole has many contributors from many different companies working on things they care about and contributing it back to the community.
Perhaps faster, but not much faster.

Anecdotally, as a non-web developer I don't find myself fiddling w/ new stuff all that much less than my web dev friends.

edit: Ack, replied to wrong post. This was to Mandatum
The feature to add multiple devices is definitely on our list and should be in one of the next updates.
To the sarcasm-impaired: http://bitcoinobituaries.com
Here is the chat room where you can ask them questions: http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/512/se-podcast
I've found that when preparing for a presentation, writing out my entire speech (in spoken language), and rehearsing from that, THEN boiling it down to keywords on index cards, helps tremendously in organizing your thoughts, determining the level of details needed etc. But this has probably more to do with speech technique than keeping your nerves under control.

Once you're on stage, locate a few spots in the back of the room - not cameras, not persons, and keep your eyes at them. Don't look at people, it's confusing at best.
Why did I opt out? I'm not on Twitterbook, and try to share as little personal (non work related) information on-line as I can (although there's probably more out there than I'd like). It's my 'default mode' to be cautious when sharing data, I may be over-cautious but I still think it's my right to be. There only seems to be upside for Google, and potential downside for me, in having my property on their site.
"remember not to talk too fast"

This is so true, how many time I found myself speaking nearly two times faster in frond of peoples. Take your time, walk, Look people in the eyes, interact with the audience and

Take your time.