jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is purely personal preference and probably not reflective of the overall market, but to me the big disadvantage of the iPad is that, as long as it's only running iOS, I still always feel like I need to own a "real" computer to do "real" work on.

The Microsoft offering is inferior as a tablet and inferior as a desktop OS (again subjective opinion), but it lets you have both a tablet and a laptop form factor without needing to own two units of hardware.

In a lot of ways it feels kind of like when I first switched from Windows to Mac back in the early 2000s. I knew that for 98% of stuff I do with a computer, OS9 (and then OSX) was perfectly fine. But the hassle of doing any of the other 2% kept me locked in. Making the jump from OSX to iOS feels the same way. The apps all seem to be 90% of what I need without issue, another 8% okay enough for now, and then 2% just unworkable. (And then there is the nightmare of trying to use many regular old websites on mobile these days with all the unresponsive scripts and ad cruft they carry.)

I'd love it if Apple could figure out some kind of bridge for iOS workloads to meet this, similar to how Parallels or BootCamp can let you get by with those 1 or 2 Windows things you still needed to do after switching. Maybe just let the iPad remote into my Mac at home if it has internet or have it run some kind of stripped down, emulated version of OSX.
Yes, the Optimus 3D's 3D photos are pretty meh...
Well with spring boot you can use spring wrappers but there are always (atleast in my expirience) ways to override their way of doing things or just completely skip their wrapper and just use whatever is under the hood
Yup, Scala is to Haskell what F# is to Ocaml.
> A lot of users and companies are effectively forced to use Facebook because of the network effect but would prefer not to.

Don’t forget that a lot of them use Facebook because it’s easy. For a restaurant owner, what’s the easiest way to have a public page on the Internet with your open hours and your menu? A Facebook page (or a Google Maps location).
As an academic, I would advise lay science enthusiasts to steer clear of anything classified as "general physics" (or "general mathematics") in the arXiv. There's far too much of it, mostly junk, and you'd be better spending your time elsewhere.
the Washington Post had a fantastic series which tried to get a handle on the complexity of the intelligence services operating in America today: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articl...

here's the leader:

The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.

It's a harrowing read.
Great to hear you had successful sales on Flippa. Interesting theory on scammers. Be assured that we do a lot of work to identify and remove duplicate accounts to block this happening as well as stop shill bidding.
Coordinated users could arguably still trade sites between themselves but this would be an expensive exercise for the sites over $5K. Finally, not sure how much value buyers put on a previous sale price is given the rapidly changing nature of the website in the right (or wrong!) hands ..
A wonderful story that restores my faith in humanity, just a little bit (and reminds me why coming to HN may be worthwhile, despite the nasty bickering it devolves into at times -- it still remains a good filter for finding worthwhile reading material).

It is easy to be generous when life is easy, the true test of a person's heart lies in their actions during times of personal adversity.

It is easy to lose hope, more so during hardship, when it is needed most. This story is one of those faint glimmers that may help someone make one choice versus another and start a chain of paying it forward. So, yes, thanks for sharing it OP.
This exposes information about the password: namely it's estimated entropy. The bet you're making is that the increased work factor overshadows any advantage an attacker may gain knowing that information.

How could someone use this? Well, I could decide to only target the rows with a low work factor. Since your entropy estimate is high for these rows, I can know that it's more likely they'll be 8 characters or longer and use a wider range of characters. I can likely ignore all candidate passwords that are shorter or that do not include non-alpha characters.

How useful is this? Let's assume 2 choices of work factor. Also let's assume strong passwords of length 8 have 96^8 ~= 53 bits of entropy and eak passwords of length 8 or less have 27^8 ~= 38 bits of entropy.

You just let me cut the search space for strong passwords of length 8 to to ~15 bits, and in a double whammy, I get to use bcrypt with a low work factor when brute forcing against these rows.

I'm not a cryptographer, and so it's entirely likely I've made some mistake here. But as a general rule, I think it is an _extremely_ bad idea to use cryptography in any way that exposes additional information about individual rows in a database.

Cryptography is not a place for innovative thinking. Even cryptographers need their cleverness to undergo exhaustive review.
I'm wondering why they have a landing page at all, rather than simply directing viewers to the site that opens when you click the link on the landing page.
I see software as composed of: data (what) -> control (when) -> alg (how). And software should be designed in this order.

Hence you should write tests only when you want to freeze your design in a specific area. I.e. make sure that you got the domain model right, and freeze it via tests, etc.

I found this book very valuable:

https://www.manning.com/books/unit-testing
It's simple really, you need to put all those souls somewhere. I'd store them digitally too.
'Purchasing power parity' seems to work quite well for most economists.
If wikileaks can snoop tor nodes to get its first data release than that is in fact a trojan horse..no imagination required..
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Edit: I can trim one more off, to make it 12:

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email in profile (or could you email me via my profile)
This seems to have had no activity in 2 years.

Since that time, App Engine now has a Java Runtime, which would be useful instead of porting the client library from Python.
Email is one. Outlook is another. Many small business owners are decent at Microsoft products because of previous day jobs. I'm sure it pains you to think that your next startup could look like Word's interface, but that could be the meal ticket.
It's not a trivial question of who is offering you something. It's a combination of who is offering you something, what they're offering and how much you need it.

If you were dying of thirst and Hitler had a water bottle, against any other concerns, you're taking it. Also, if you needed change for a pay phone to call a tow truck and Hitler offered you a quarter, you're probably not going to stick to your principles in that case either; because the risks are so much lower and need a bit higher than the aforementioned sandwich (we'll suppose you have gloves and no plans on licking the quarter before inserting it into the phone).

So, really, that Zed doesn't use Tor says more about his own situation than whether he thinks a better or truly-trustworthy way to anonymize live bits is even possible.
I’m 36 and followed a similar path “retiring” a few years ago to be a stay at home dad. I missed out on my daughters early years due to being a workaholic and didn’t want to do the same with my son. I failed to realise when I was young I can earn more money but never more time and memories built from a phone video suck.

I enjoy spending time doing work on the house and since we moved to France in 2018 I do a few small volunteer jobs such as teaching IT, programming, and helping people improve their conversational English at coffee meet-ups or picnics in the park. Nothing special as I’m not properly trained but it keeps me active and social.

I should probably look at making some money from it but I also don’t really care and like how it’s something I want to do rather than have to do because money is involved.
Something like this that that could operate efficiently on 100M+ rows would be hugely valuable in biology
#2:Use HTTPS where it matters.

In Chrome "https" is red and struck out:
digitalsecurity.intel.com
Identity not verified
I think the re-focusing stuff is mostly a cool-looking gimmick that not many people will take advantage of. Instead of doubling their camera budget to buy 2 cameras, I think I'd rather have them pay double for a much better camera, and be more competitive with the best mobile cameras on the market, today.

As for shooting 3D with dual-lenses, I don't think there are many applications for that right now, but perhaps there will be in the future.

If for example recording video in 3D will make it look much better when watching it later with a VR headset, that could be pretty cool. It could also be used for creating models/avatars of yourself, again probably most useful in VR worlds/games, and other stuff like that.
pg provided no data, he provided a sketchy anecdote and made an unsupported claim.

The idea of offering more rewards is that people who otherwise go into other fields (which are more rewarding, socially and financially), would then be attracted programming. A percentage of those people will be great programmers.

Grouping great programmers together gives them a tiny, tiny, tiny chance at large rewards. It's a gigantic risk. People aren't stupid. Most go to paths with less risk. The market has corrected itself. It attracts people in a manner appropriate to its risk/reward equation.

The way to reduce that risk is to provide more guaranteed rewards. Which means more compensation. Which means transferring more of that unused capital sitting around in VC accounts to the great programmers. Which means the limiting factor is the capital put into the system.

Absent some big payday from a startup, which is a roll of the dice not in their favor, programmer compensation is low relative to other, much less risky career paths. If the field truly wants to attract the best and brightest, it's got to offer a lot more rewards.

How much of a reward are "great programmers" 71-100 that company needed in pg's example going to get, anyway? How huge a success does the company have to be for someone that far down the line to come out way ahead? You have to offer those taking such a position a lot of up front compensation, or you won't get them.

As far as "great programmers" being intrinsically motivated, that's only true of people who are currently in the field, as the extrinsic motivation isn't really there, is it? So how do we know extrinsic doesn't work? We're not trying it.

It's ludicrous to think we have all the great programmers we could have. There are any number of people who are capable. Any number of highly intelligent, incredibly driven people who could fit the bill. They just go into other fields with better odds of superior rewards.

Want more great programmers, offer better rewards. They will come.
Lol: https://srsly.de/image?id=210.70.80.52-5901-vnc
That sort of feels like telling someone to wear gloves while they snoop around my house, or getting someone else to do it for them, and you thinking it's okay because we left a door unlocked.

What was that thing Warren Buffett wrote recently, with regard to moral decisions? "If anyone gives this explanation, tell them to try using it with a reporter or a judge and see how far it gets them."

Edit: a word
Founder liquidity seems like such a minor issue in comparison to employee liquidity that I fail to see why it is taking up any brain cycles at all.
I'm pretty sure it was a TVP meatloaf/burger... that it was veggie and the worst I'd ever had, thought it may be relevant... or at least a comment on taste.

I know that they can be better, but sometimes people will attribute better taste to something by its' nature, not that it actually tastes better.
I'm not sure you understand Microsoft's business model.
Software engineers should write at thewinnower.com. Here's why:

1) their writings will be preserved with the same power that libraries afford traditional scientific publishing

2) They wont just be blogging, they will be publishing.

3) They can assign a digital object identifier (DOI) at their discretion making their work "count" in the scholarly literature.

4) Their blog will be automatically formatted as a PDF.

5) https://thewinnower.com/papers/science-the-pursuit-of-the-tr...

6) https://thewinnower.com/papers/making-scientific-blogging-co...
I wonder if the limit on lines was due to 20 kHz filters on the audio output. When the 24/96 audio sampling & perception discussion went by a few weeks ago I seem to recall some testing showing that even high sample rate sound hardware had low pass filters just above 20 kHz. This kind of issue should have been easy to spot in development and testing, though, so maybe just a limitation of the medium.

I've got an old hobbyist oscilloscope, it was my former boss and mentor's first scope. I really should hack up something with it along with some of these low cost cpu boards.
Sometimes I feel like the only person who doesn't think that data portability is a right. After all, when you willingly hand over your data to a service, say Facebook, you do so with the assumption that you've read their terms and conditions, which probably don't include data portability in your favor. You're exchanging your data for a service they provide--social networking--and is it really your RIGHT to force the business to build special software to then transform your data for export at your whim? Sure, it's icing on the cake if they do so, but I really feel like calling it a "right" is somehow demeaning the word. If you don't want your data stored in Google or FB's servers, just don't use them--just as if you wouldn't use them if you didn't agree with any other part of their TOS.

Take my own business, which is a social network for writers. Imagine someone coming along one day and complaining about their right to export the writing they've posted, and their personal profile, and hey, while we're at it, all of their private messages in a nice XML hierarchy, and why not an annotated list of the critiques they've written, because it's their data dammit! The cost to develop that kind of system because someone has the idea in their head that it's some kind of new-fangled digital Right-with-a-capital-R would put me behind for months. Sure I'll delete your data if you leave, but if you don't want my data stored on only my servers, then don't use my site.

Edit: This could easily be framed as a consumer-damaging argument. I suspect that many of the people who support data portability "rights" are also the sort of people who support anti-DRM campaigns (which I do too, for the record). But if you have the right to demand your data back from a company at any time, why shouldn't the company have the right to demand its own data back from YOU--music, books, movies? Remember the fuss that happened with Amazon deleted some people's purchased Kindle books--which is nothing but data a consumer has licensed--from their devices without warning?
All theories, all ideas are worth consideration and should be evaluated on their merits (or lack thereof).
Yes, the nothing-to-hide-nothing-to-fear logic is reversed. Governments should be transparent to their people, not the other way around.
I wrote a blog post about a DDoS on a website by the Chinese at http://dvps.me/ddos-attack-by-torrent. Falsely I assumed that it was torrent tracker injection, while in fact this looks like a spike in the affect of DNS poisoning in China.

http://serverfault.com/questions/656093/mod-security-block-r... describes the problem as well.

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Are+You+Piratebay+thepirat... also describes the same thing.

As well as http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=9351951
The article makes it seem like this technology will completely replace copper, which is obviously untrue. Silicon photonics for use in interconnects in multicores, though, is very promising purely from the perspective of bandwidth. HP and Intel have expressed interest, and there is a lot of academic research at Northwestern and UCSB ECE, for instance. I do not know what energy efficiency figures you were referring to, but emitter efficiency is dependent on the band gap and other properties of the semiconductor and lasing material, so the specific technology used does matter.
The FreeBSD OOM killer finds the biggest process (swap + maybe resident), and kills it. But in my experience, you often get a good amount of allocation failures before the OOM killer gets triggered.
And if you run it, you get the Daring Fireball homepage, which surprised me - it's not configured for this problem.
For some types of security, a proof of correctness could be used. (This proof could be machine verified)

This would be expensive ( in time and effort spent), but is possible for some things.

With things like crypto though, AFAIK most crypto is based on certain assumptions which seem to be true, even after a high degree of investigation, but for which a proof has not been found. In these cases, it would not be feasible to prove the program to be "secure", but one could prove that the program correctly implements the algorithm.

But then there's also timing attacks and the like, and I don't know that there are tools for proving things about the running time of a program, so as to prove that the running time doesn't leak information?

But for some things, one can trust a program to be correct if it contains a proof that it is correct, and you agree with what correct is being chosen to mean.
But light in free space travels 50% faster than electricity in copper and doesn't incur a heat load for the distance it travels. Likewise it carries more information than an electrical line.

Importantly as a counterpoint to

> the power efficiency of an electrical-optical-electrical transmission line is an order of magnitude worse than direct electrical transmission,

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> In contrast, semiconductors of main group IV — to which both silicon and germanium belong — can be integrated into the manufacturing process without any major difficulties. Neither element by itself is very efficient as a light source, however. They are classed among the indirect semiconductors. In contrast to direct semiconductors, they emit mostly heat and only a little light when excited.

>The scientists at Jülich’s Peter Grünberg Institute have now for the first time succeeded in creating a “real” direct main group IV semiconductor laser by combining germanium and tin, which is also classed in main group IV.
So let's say you take the job for 80-90k for a salary of 30k below market. In exchange you get 2% equity.

Suppose there's a 5% chance of a $50 million dollar exit after five years and there's a 2:1 dilution risk of 50% and a bad-will at liquidation risk of 20%.

The 2% of a $50 million exit is $1 million. The 2:1 dilution risk at 50% reduces that to $750k. The bad-will at liquidation risk reduces the value to $660k. The 5% chance of such a payout makes the value of the equity $33k.

So on those optimistic assumptions, there's $3k of upside in taking the deal. Continual reassessment is necessary to make sure that continuing with the company is a good investment. Odds are that the odds of a big exit will go down over time and that dilution and bad-will will go up.

Finally, if you're arguing for more do you really want to work somewhere that requires constantly convincing people of your worth? Investing in the current opportunity limits your ability to invest energy in something better (in fairness it also limits your ability to invest in something worse).

If you're already willing to walk out the door for another job, why fool around with something that offers very marginal return? Go into business with people who share some of your interest in your getting rich.
Why is there is a five second animation to load a completely static home page?
I often hear that but I don't think this is good at all. To be honest I am not subjected to a lot of ads today, but I don't want personalized ads because it always means the advertiser has incentive to collect info on me. Ads aren't worth that, not even close.

You might think otherwise, but for these cases I think there should be opt-in mechanisms instead of the assumption what people want. If they are that off with their ads...
Haha, that's what he did :D.

Coincidentally I looked OP's profile and found this URL again http://hn:hn@sHiTMyseLf.com/index.html. I had stumbled upon it in a previous thread (don't remember which one, but I only look at profile when I read some specific kind of comments).

I didn't get what the website was about last time and I didn't stay long enough this time either.
It's been "draft" for years.

Hasn't stopped tooling from being built around it.
That you like some of the people exercising their First Amendment rights more than others is irrelevant.
Eh, that was an example that everyone can grasp. A more inline alternative would be Lightning Network.
Relative peace of the 20th century? At least 108M have died in war. I believe it to be one of the biggest on record, and certainly not one of the peaceful times. So relative peace compared to what?
I just did the same. First two entries were clearly marked as [AD], including that hotel in Maroochydore. First non-ad entry was Bondi.
"In an ideal world, personalized ads wouldn't be called ads, and would be like having an assistant."

Right, I'm truly stretched to the limit to think of any ad that I've seen on the web that's actually been truly informative to me. For that I have to go back to ads in specialized technical magazines that used to list detailed specifications for the products they were selling, today web advertisers simply don't do that - all we get is hyped-up uninformative and often misleading crap that interferes with our access to the site's web pages.

Similarly, many, many websites that are selling stuff are cluttered, disorganized and otherwise hard to navigate (as well as being very, very slow). Of course, this is a deliberate marketing ploy but the effect on me is that I'm straight out of there as fast as possible.

Internet advertising has always been an unmitigated mess and unlike those old magazine ads, almost without exception, it's gotten in the way of the main presentation to the utter annoyance of website visitors. It's little wonder so many use ad blockers.

For years, my solution has been to block ads as well as all the accompanying JavaScript of which much is devoted to spying on the user.

Eliminating both ads and JS not only speeds up websites enormously but also it eliminates all those hesitant pauses and other jerky/delay-like responses that make browsing such a damn pain.

I'm now so used to 'clean' browsing that I cannot ever imagine myself returning to the standard defaults - ads and JS. For those who ask 'how do you do this or that without JS?' I'd just say this, there are millions of sites on the web, if one blocks me then I instantly move on (one good point about the web is that most of the information on it is paralleled across multiple sites and there are many sites that are more user friendly than others). That said, there are rare situations where I still have to use JS. When necessary I just toggle it on and off, the default being off.

As far as I'm concerned the web has been ruined by invasive advertising and we need a new paradigm to fix it. There are many options for that but it's too big a subject to discuss here.
I disagree, nuclear power is hugely beneficial. I am very sure global temperature would be past the tipping point for many years now if we didn't use it. Consider all the military vessels powered by nuclear energy that would use fossil fuels instead; and of course a huge percentage of global energy mix is nuclear, that would be coal if we couldn't use nuclear.