jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sithu,

Here are a couple of resources that I tend to hand out to startups that we do work for at Matasano. No charge :-)

Not trying to be a salesperson, but I feel like most startups get more value out of sitting down with a security consultant for a couple days and talking about architecture and dev processes then they do getting a full penetration test. Like the presentations say, the big risk in the early days is lack of interest, not security. I feel like a startup's big security concern it doing something that's going to make them have to rewrite everything later on.

http://chris.improbable.org/2009/9/24/indie-software-securit... (old presentation from tqbf. We might one day put it back on our blog. Don't hold your breath. Anyway, the slides and presentation aren's great IMO, but the blog post is!)

http://firstround.com/review/Evernotes-CTO-on-Your-Biggest-S...
Just throwing a shout out to Unicomp, in case anyone is looking for new a IBM Model M-type keyboard, with bulking spring switches.

They're also working on a new ten-keyless model that should be out "soon"...

http://unicomp.com/
The epoch times, like the theatrical performance Shen Yun [1] is part of the propaganda machine of falun dafa/gong. They've been predicting the imminent downfall of the CCP for over a decade.

FD has been under attack for a while with minimal international support [2]. It's difficult to discern the truth of the situation.

[1] http://www.yelp.com/biz/shen-yun-performing-arts-cuddebackvi...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong#International_recept...
It may be a poor metric, but it's not like we have any other metrics to measure code by.

Well, "dollars / year", if you work in an industry where you can directly A-B test against revenue, but I think most of us are happiest not knowing whether our particular lines of code are EV-positive.
I skimmed the four suggestions: digital tracking, avoid bottlenecks, invest in infrastructure, and overcome break of gauge, until I got to that last one. Break of gauge? Turns out Russia and Europe operate rails at different rail widths (gauge) and there are rail cars with variable width axles to accommodate running the same trains on both. Too bad it doesn't work for freight. TIL: fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_gauge
What's the benefit of using QE for communicating that would outweigh its downsides? And if you say "instantaneous communication", you might want to read more about QE :)
I'm sure you already know, but Google Earth's actually had a really basic 'flight simulator' built in for a while now:

https://support.google.com/earth/answer/148089?hl=en

In gaming or technical terms, it's not much good as a game per se (or at least, wasn't when I last tried many years ago) but is still quite fun when playing around familiar areas, getting an idea of various flight times.
Isn’t that just another regular project they do at coding boot camps these days? I would guess every full stack developer should be able to do this after 3-4 months. Rewriting Twitter isn’t hard at all. It’s their scale that’s impressive.
> as it pursues other extortion schemes using Sun’s Patents.

They bought Sun 12 years ago...not much time left to pursue that...
I'm curious, can you cite some examples? In my experience The Economist has a definite bias toward "market reforms" (which some people might instead describe as "gutting the state" or something), but "trivially false" seems a lot more extreme.
Student here. Why do you run a localhost web server before pushing to git? Is this a git thing? (I am a newbie to github). Thanks. I like this nice short article.
Can they be even compared? KDiff3 merges based on the "common ancestor" (3 versions to the fourth) and I don't see in that feature in the screenshots of WinMerge?
I don't think it's the Russian government you should be concerned about when using Telegram. Sure, TG is far from a secure platform, but the Russians have spent considerable effort trying to shut it down so out of all the possibilities, I'd say TG being in Russian hands is among the smallest.
XMPP + OMEMO
Linus Torvalds, Lars Bak, Anders Heijlsberg, TJ, Rich Hickey
Or, how about we hold them accountable, to teach people that this is not acceptable?
Not really. Tizen wouldn't work on a small low-power and low-RAM bluetooth SoC like the NRF52 this watch has. Tizen requires iirc a minimum of 512MB or 256 MB for "Tizen light". So: different focus, much bigger SoC and RAM, much shorter battery time.
Yes, I would like to publish some lessons in the future somewhere. However, a few quick takeaways:

* The microcopy matters, a lot. We had a button stating "I've got a notification: read what you should do after getting a notification" (from the top of my head and freely translated from Dutch, we didn't have an English translation back then). This was part of a bunch of buttons on the main screen that all gave information. Some screen reader users got confused and thought that they had a notification. If you don't see the visual layout, it is not obvious that this is just a plain button and not a bold text in red that is giving you a warning.
* In the same category: the app has a status text that says "The app is working fine" or "The app is not working fine". Visually, the error state is signified by an exclamation mark and styling that makes clear that this is a serious issue. However, in text there is just one word, not, to signify that there is a serious issue. Following WCAG, the info signified by the exclamation mark icon was available in text, so no text alternative was required. However, we gave it a text alternative anyway to ensure screen reader users were also clearly alerted that something is wrong. Same goes for the "all is ok" icon, we gave that one a text alternative as well to ensure users all is fine.
Speaking as someone who recently blew through a 4-way stop with other cars waiting, because the setting sun made it hard to see the stop sign, yeah, there are no shortage of human factors at play.
COBOL programmers are in high demand right now
AC induction motors (typically what's used in electric cars) have a pretty flat efficiency curve. For example: http://powerelectronics.com/motion-systems/motors-efficiency...

There would be some minor efficiency gains from having multiple gears, but it's probably small enough that it would be hard to overcome the extra losses from having a more complex transmission.

Note that technically electric cars do have a transmission. The motor wants to spin much faster than the tires, so you want a reduction gear to let them both live in the ranges where they're happy. It's a single-gear transmission, though, on every electric car I'm aware of.
On the contrary, many books that now live in the literary canon as "classics" were barely appreciated or noticed in their own time. It is almost certain that even a commercial success like Great Expectations or The Adventures of Tom Sawyer enjoy more readers in the 21st Century than the 19th.
Neat stuff! I don't know much about how your sensor communicates... wifi or cell maybe. But if you happen to be using 915MHz ISM band for anything we make a little $99 MFi accessory for iOS designed for drones you might be interested in playing with. Feel free to ping me.
Don't let my kids see this :)
I wrote something in college that attempted to remove the station logos TV networks embedded in the corner of broadcast video. This was back before they started making them animated and jump around. At the time they were usually semi-transparent, and fixed in a corner. My software would determine the location on the screen, then interpolate the correct color to replace each pixel with based on a guess on how transparent the logo was, what color it thought was behind that pixel, blended with a nearest-neighbor average color weighted based on how close to the logo edge that pixel was. Worked pretty well for most cases, though my implementation was all doing this as post-processing - not in real-time.
There is a great documentary on this. Unfortunately Youtube only has the Italian version (not that there is anything wrong with Italian). I have seen it in English (narration and subtitles, so it's out there, somewhere).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYB2oBc1BpA
Here's an explanation of the reasons why the paper, which is used as a reference in the article linked here, was retracted: https://retractionwatch.com/2020/03/04/heavily-criticized-pa...

As far as I can see from this, Valentina Zharkova's paper is basically a joke, technically.

Notice that Zharkova made headlines previously by claiming that Earth is headed for a mini ice age: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

Some comments from the linked article: "other solar scientists have criticized the model as being too simple, created based on just 35 years of data, and failing to accurately reproduce past solar activity."

"the model fails in reproducing past known solar activity because Zharkova’s team treats the sun as a simple, predictable system like a pendulum."

"Zharkova disagrees – I contacted her, and she told me that she believes a grand solar minimum would have a much bigger cooling effect. However, she also referenced long-debunked myths about global warming on Mars and Jupiter, and made a comment about “the preachers of global warming.”"

"But Zharkova’s climate science beliefs are irrelevant. While she has created a model predicting an imminent period of quiet solar activity, other scientists have identified serious flaws in the model, and in any case, research has shown that another solar minimum would only have a small and temporary impact on Earth’s climate."
So a private court instead of a jury of peers. Furthermore it will rule on a handful of cases because they can't oversee every single ban. A PR stunt?
What a ridiculously stupid thing to say.

There is no choice, you either list on Google, or die. Google has an almost absolute monopoly on search in the West. They are the only game in town. There is no 'choice'.
The issue with this would be counter synchronisation, as services shouldn't accept cloned responses when the counter ceases to be monotonic for what should be one single device.
Direct link instead of "relevant third-party content rehosted in a company blog": http://www.rescuedfilm.com/
I laughed out loud when I read this.

One of our cats was a big, fat lovable bully who would growl until the other cat moved away from the food.
They all show for me apart from absolutepoker.com but that could be DNS related
Oh come on. Really? You know exactly what I mean. No need to get pedantic.

It's as good as any Time Machine or similar backup, you know, the kind of backup a tiny minority of normal people may actually attempt to make.

It's, at any rate, a vast improvment over the kind of baclup most people make (none at all).
http://www.irdial.com/conet.htm is the official page - note the challenge a bit down the page
To be clear, Apple is not licensing ARM IP "just like everybody else". They have a very different relationship, being a founding shareholder, and then acquiring an "Architecture License" from ARM after also acquiring PA Semi according to Wikipedia.

So Apple Silicon is not the same as someone else licensing ARM IP.
Imagine owning a phone that can only get content approved by Apple and can cancel you for any arbitrary reason.

Its like buying a radio that can only listen to democrats approved stations, its ridiculous and yet the fanboys will defend their shitty practices no matter what
> very alienated

You're going to need to explain exactly how the right is "alienated".

> last public channel

You're going to need to explain what right they have to an audience or for other entities to provide time/effort/money giving them a voice.

> This risks further escalatation

Oh good. "More violence if we don't get our way"? You're literally saying "deplatforming them in response to incitements and planning of violence will lead to further violence" as an argument why we should allow that to continue?

> This compounded with the stark contrast to how the protests were handled this summer.

I'm sure Trump will be pushing for "10 YEARS FEDERAL PRISON" for protests at this federal building, any minute now.
I can't believe this amazing comment was removed, because it's true. Where is the line? No one knows.

"I think a seriously dangerous and underreported factor in these issues is the widespread use of the English language. I think it's time to hold accountable the Oxford English Dictionary company ("Big Word") and their agents, English teachers, for their role in enabling this ghastly event."
Absolutely.

The only reason Parler is getting banned and Facebook isn't is because Facebook is too big to fail.

Facebook and Twitter have the same amount of questionable content, just better PR and bigger clout.
A lot of chemistry was alchemically transformed into nanotechnology under the Clinton administration. It's a follow-the-money sort of thing. Turns out, chemists were working in the nano scale all along. Who knew.
I'm in total agreement- and as such just about everything you listed you would rent instead of buying, and businesses exist to rent them out. When the purchase price drops below some point, it becomes cheaper to buy and own than to rent and so the economics of trying to lend or rent them just don't work out.

There is also a middle ground. For example, many people choose to rent their washer and dryer or living room furniture while most people purchase it. But for an item like a $20 drill, I don't think there is a point at which the small amount of room it takes up outweighs the cost and inconvenience of having somebody come and create the holes for you. Which goes back to my original point- this logic is backwards-looking. There may have been some time in the past when you simply didn't have a tool to make holes so you would have to hire somebody. But because people's time is expensive (as well as the tools) the invention of a battery-operated drill would be viewed as a huge leap in convenience. Now I can just go out to the garage and get my own and in ten minutes do the job that would have previously been very costly.
What's with the obsession with S3 API? Why not FUSE and just use any programming language without libraries to access the files? (Obviously without some S3/FUSE layer, without HTTP, just direct access to garage with the fastest protocol possible)
I just take a paper towel myself. If there is a guy standing there holding the only paper towels in the bathroom, I'll just ask him why he's holding them. I wouldn't use one from him either, that just seems gross. I wouldn't tip for it in any case. It's just slightly glorified panhandling, I assume it isn't at all condoned by the club owner and they'd probably throw the guy out if they were aware. I haven't actually seen it in the US, though, just at international airports outside the country, so maybe the dynamic is different here.
"When everyone is super... no one will be."

The incredible (heh) thing about this is that My Hero Academia answers it. In the world of MHA, nearly everyone has a superpower, or Quirk, of some sort; but superheroes are still a distinct class of professionals who have honed their quirks through training and, in general, developed courage, self-sacrifice, and inner resolve way beyond even the average superhuman. The greatest heroes distinguish themselves by exemplifying these values the most (though having powerful awesome Quirks helps). It was the perfect thing to come along at a point of maximum capeshit saturation.
If there is any suspicion that the prominent child's death was not an accident, it can very quickly become a free speech issue.
Another possibility is Ironfish(https://ironfish.network/), but I don't know how much liquidity there exists in either of these. I don't think you could launder/hide $4bn through either of these. Perhaps slowly over a long period of time.
Daniel Ek (born 21 February 1983) is a Swedish billionaire entrepreneur and technologist. Ek is known for being the co-founder and CEO of music streaming service Spotify.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ek

When he was born he didn't have billions of dollars. Now he does. Pretty sure it came from Spotify.
On the one hand, the mob would probably be happy to buy them for 10-30% face value. On the other hand, how do you contact a reputable mob boss?
You could take a look at Javascript jQuery Hotkeys Plugin http://code.google.com/p/js-hotkeys/
SM is indeed that proof -- she is admirably surviving without fear, and being mostly happy at it as well.

You tried to counter it first by lumping fear together with pain.

Next, you tried to counter it by pointing to some hypothetical group of fearless people that were dead specifically due to lacking fear. I asked if you could point who these people were. I'm genuinely curious to learn and understand how in modern times -- where people with their elaborate plans, not snakes with their instantaneous attacks, are the common threat -- a person of average or above intelligence could end up risking their own lives without having to involve fear.

Your argument for evolutionary conservation doesn't hold at all. Intelligence evolved fairly recently (in evolutionary terms) and thus, pending genetic tampering by us, it should take a plenty of time for any such adaptations to be successful. Besides, fear was indeed essential to us prior to intelligence evolving, as the quick and dirty survival mechanism of instincts was all that we had to survive and reproduce successfully.

> Why does the only cited example lead an extraordinarily risky life?

What I'm asking, specifically, is: are their other (cited or non-cited) examples of a woman or a man with no fear whatsoever leading an ordinary or below-ordinary life? I'm more that happy rescind all that I've written to you here if you could successfully provide them. After all, you have a track record of doing meticulous research.

> How many white female artists ever get held up like that? Or 4 times? Hell of a coincidence...

Are you suggesting that those 4 gunpoint/knifepoint perpetrators were influenced to do so, in part, due to SM being fearless? It really is hard to say without understanding her life context. Besides, this is going down the speculative path.

>> All that these scientists could come up with over the years to justify their (and the general public's) fear of lack of fear is those four incidents of being held at knifepoint and gunpoint.
> 'All'?

Yes -- and I'm not too sure what you were aiming to point here -- I took the liberty to assume that people like Antonio Damasio wanted to specifically find out/ bring out incidents from her life to buttress their opinion of fear being essential even to modern humans (he did say this in his book 'The Emotional Brain'). Of course, these scientists are also interested in the larger goal of understanding fear itself -- they have published a plenty of useful material -- but it also helps to know they have biases of their own to bring to the table.
Perhaps adding "hour" fixes the sentence.
" ... she may be on an 18 hour flight to the South Pole with no internet access."
I think they mean "you know you can use the person's name instead of listing 'Current Resident'?". I don't think they are encouraging you to send the recipient's social security number on the card.
Sure 5 < 100, but does that somehow change the morality of what's being done here?
I work for a company that has a "managing" application that runs on windows. This application has a browser plugin that runs in an equivalent IE7 environment which must be supported.

Unfortunately that is what you get with proprietary sometimes.
That's just standard address selling/marketing and common since decades. Data is split by region, age groups or interests. Have a look on http://shop.schober.com/ for example. Sadly everyday business in offline marketing.

This one happens to be more targeted, maybe crawling on mailing lists. The data might have been acquired legally (e.g. buyers of certain Linux software which agreed to some terms of service) or illegally.
BTW, the infamous 40-bit limit was set as part of a deal between NSA ans SPA in 1992, and applied to the RC2 and RC4 algoritms.
I wish they had plotted those time-series graphs with simple lines, instead of with overlapping filled curves that hide the initial history for data plotted "underneath".

Has MIT changed from a technical institute to a business school, where pretty colors matter more than the conveyance of information?
> "One last note on the data load process: At the time of publishing this blog post, all phone numbers beginning with international codes 4, 6, 8 and 9 have completed loading. The other codes are in progress and may take several hours more before they're searchable."

https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1379366099544797189
I think I've heard a saying about this, something about premature optimisation...
So a rainbow table of just 2.9 billion numbers covers the USA phone set. So I think searching for a specific number clear or hashed are roughly similar exposures. Maybe the right way to search without disclosure is really to filter. Meaning instead of putting in your full 10 digits. You just put in 7/8 and it returns a list of the rest for you to see. Then you visually scan to find your number out of the returned 9999 results.

(Assuming seeing hacked numbers are public already - but I don’t love this either)

What’s a secure way of searching without disclosure by either party? (Non troll question)
Idea: implement history to log and show what the other users tried to do with the shell. It would also probably be a great way to get new feature ideas.
One cannot change human nature, but instead, must engineer a society which uses our nature as a plus, not minus.

FB is a detriment to society, but this is primarily due to capitalism's flaws, which entices profit above all, and even punishes those who stray from this dogma.

(A board must remove a CEO not on mandate, shareholders will sue if they do not, etc...).

Everything has flaws, needs to be tweaked, no engine runs without maintenance. We handle this aspect of capitalism with regulation, patching an inherent flaw where required.

Banning a social network would only see it pop up elsewhere, perhaps in a place like China or Russia, with all of the censorship and state controlled manipulation this implies. Think Facebook is bad? Imagine all of Facebook's issues, with no spam control, no privacy legislation, plus members of the state on the board, and state sensors filtering posts, and injecting state approved data.

Destroying Facebook is ... nuts.

Instead, create a level playing field for all via regulation, tweaking and fixing the for-profit motivation which leads to bad societal outcomes. (And, keep positive for-profit motivations, edited to clarify I am not anti-profit.)

Fix, repair, improve, do not destroy.
I'm completely unsurprised that my phone number is in there despite the fact that I deleted and closed my account 10 years ago.
> Are you including the cost of people? That is, the cost of paying people to maintain the servers, develop the backend and design the frontend?

They're a lot cheaper than people involved in printing paper and distributing it.
The one thing that bumped me was their API for selling customer/prisoner data. I'd like to better understand what their plan is there.
I changed the UA on Frirefox, then whatsapp web started working. Firefix even showed desktop notifications.

BTW, you cannot have two web sessions going on at the same time. Once you start a new session on one browser, other detects and prompts

"WhatsApp Web is open on another computer or browser. Click “Use Here” to use WhatsApp Web in this window."

also, it needs phone to be connected to whatsapp service. So it sync from phone to your browser.
That project obviously has been dead for a long time, but its successor Extempore [0] seems to still be in somewhat active development. And btw. it runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows.

[0] https://extemporelang.github.io/
Neither is between two choices: he's presenting Three.

Small point, but it grated.