jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
D-Link publishes code-signing private keys by mistake
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftweakers.net%2Fnieuws%2F105137%2Fd-link-blundert-met-vrijgeven-privesleutels-van-certificaten.html&edit-text=&act=url
A Primer on Bézier Curves (2013)
https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
Engineer builds 'working' Thor's hammer that only he can lift
http://www.cnet.com/news/engineer-builds-working-thors-hammer-only-he-can-lift/
Why T-shirts matter at tech companies
http://blog.adamnash.com/2010/11/29/why-t-shirts-matter/
Fuck You Sunday
https://fuckyousunday.com
Against SQL
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/
George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600051h.html
Turkish government takes down YouTube too
http://en.webrazzi.com/2014/03/27/defiant-turkish-goverment-takes-down-youtube-too-breaking-news/
Why Web3?
https://avc.com/2021/12/why-web3/
SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition
http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop/
The Art of Reading More Effectively and Efficiently
https://aliabdaal.com/read-more-effectively/
Clojure for the Brave and True (2015)
http://www.braveclojure.com/
American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants
https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2022/10/14/american-airlines-is-trying-to-stop-a-popular-iphone-app-thats-become-a-must-have-for-its-flight-attendants/
System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment
https://blog.system76.com/post/648371526931038208/cosmic-to-arrive-in-june-release-of-popos-2104
Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/opinion/sunday/endocrine-disruptors-sperm.html
Who Are My Investors?
https://avc.com/2018/10/who-are-my-investors/
From Pythonista to Rustacean
https://github.com/rochacbruno/py2rs
Why are payment forms so complicated?
http://blog.siftscience.com/why-are-payment-forms-so-complicated-2/
Google's mapping cars discover hundreds of underground gas leaks
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2016/05/google-mapping-cars-show-locations-of-hundreds-of-dallas-underground-gas-leaks.html/
How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing
US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/11/02/1737219/us-government-you-dont-own-your-cloud-data-so-we-can-access-it-at-any-time
Uber CEO to take leave
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/uber-ceo-to-take-leave-diminished-role-after-workplace-scandals
O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/on2-again-now-in-wmi/
AI Company Accused of Using Humans to Fake Its AI
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002956/ai-company-accused-of-using-humans-to-fake-its-ai-
Confusing UI in iOS7
https://medium.com/design-ux/ce87662270cf
Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/repository_torrent/
California appeals court finds Amazon responsible for 3rd party sellers products
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/1/22414185/california-appeals-court-amazon-marketplace-responsible-third-party-hoverboard
Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (2012)
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/21/offshore-wealth-global-economy-tax-havens
Textmate 2 on Github
http://blog.macromates.com/2012/textmate-2-at-github/
Sir Trevor Editor
http://madebymany.github.io/sir-trevor-js/
Facebook's New Feed
https://www.facebook.com/about/newsfeed
The war against today's dangerously dull playgrounds
http://theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/31/were-cosseting-our-kids-the-war-against-todays-dangerously-dull-playgrounds-wellcome
Rents are dropping across the US
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/16/success/rents-are-dropping-us-cities-coronavirus/index.html
Why Are Topre Keyboards So Expensive?
https://switchandclick.com/why-are-topre-keyboards-so-expensive/
Booting to 'Hello Rust' on x86_64
https://micouy.github.io/posts/low-level-pt-1/
Willem Pinckaers on Akamai's flawed OpenSSL allocator patch
http://lekkertech.net/akamai.txt
EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/why-eff-flew-plane-over-apples-headquarters
Dead End Jobs: Are You Suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?
http://www.chadfowler.com/2010/12/30/dead-end-jobs-are-you-suffering-from-stockholm-syndrome
Cloud TPUs in Beta
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/02/Cloud-TPU-machine-learning-accelerators-now-available-in-beta.html
I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/10/11/i_got_hired_at_a_bangladesh_sweatshop_meet_my_9yearold_boss.html
Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative
https://joinmastodon.org/
Where has my disk space gone? Flame graphs for file systems
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-02-05/file-system-flame-graph.html
Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/saudi-arabia-collapse/463212/?single_page=true
Terminal.Gui: A Cross Platform Terminal UI Toolkit for .NET
https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui
ProjectM – The most advanced open-source music visualizer
https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
How I Finally Hit 2000 on Lichess and Improved My Rating
https://www.trapezemobile.com/2019/01/10/how-i-finally-hit-2000-on-lichess-and-improved-my-chess-rating-by-200-points-in-16-days/
Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia
https://retool.com/blog/retool-raises-50-million-led-by-sequoia/
A small French privacy ruling could remake adtech
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/20/how-a-small-french-privacy-ruling-could-remake-adtech-for-good/
Papers with Code
https://paperswithcode.com/
Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49578500
A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty
https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty
PostgreSQL Rising
http://wekeroad.com/2012/07/19/postgresql-rising
Linux Kernel RNG is now Blake2 instead of SHA1 and 3x faster
https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1476698207413493766
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-falcon-heavy-core-20180212-story.html
25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to my computer
https://matthewkaras.medium.com/25-years-in-speech-technology-d5f9dfd98429
The Y Combinator (no, not that one) – A Crash Course on Lambda Calculus
https://medium.com/@ayanonagon/the-y-combinator-no-not-that-one-7268d8d9c46
SpinLaunch completes first test flight with rocket-flinging launch system
https://www.space.com/spinlaunch-first-test-flight-success
GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism
http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/gmail-designer-arrogance-and-the-cult-of-minimalism/
Google recommends inlining small CSS
https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/OptimizeCSSDelivery
HIPAA 101 for Software Development Teams
https://www.aptible.com/blog/common_HIPAA_questions.html
Ant mill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill
Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide
http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/05/06/how-to-commit-suicide/?utm_content=buffer7da00&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning
https://cybernews.com/news/the-fbi-monitoring-your-browsing-history-without-a-warrant-might-just-be-the-beginning/
Intruder at the top of the 20 meter amateur band?
http://ka7oei.blogspot.com/2020/12/intruder-at-top-of-20-meter-amateur-band.html
What's new in CPUs since the 80s? (2015)
https://danluu.com/new-cpu-features/
Algebraic Subtyping (2016) [pdf]
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/thesis.pdf
Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)
https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html
The System Design Primer
https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design
The Personal Security Checklist
https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist
Kickstarter is Debt
https://blog.bolt.io/kickstarter-is-debt-e3b6a70ce180
Stimulus.js 2.0
https://discourse.stimulusjs.org/t/announcing-stimulus-2-0/1482
Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57219860
Gtk3 on a HTML5 backend
http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/
Awk by Example
https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/l-awk1/
Haiku Project
https://www.haiku-os.org/
Leaving the Apple ecosystem behind
https://h2x.sh/apple/
Your link is about a new route through ice. Not relevant to an ice free arctic.
Disagree. The underlying problem is consensus [0], which can usually be solved. For example, read about bitcoin, which got some attention here recently. It provides global money transactions within a distributed system.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_(computer_science)
Heck, you can even move to a different country where the cost of living is lower :o)

[Posted from Monterrey, Mexico....]
"he"'s a she: name's Linda.

The point I am making is that it doesn't matter "how many books there are", it only matters how many GOOD books there are.

I think a way to know which books are good before you've read them, is to rely on the "wisdom of the ages"; you may have a better approach (your friends tastes, Amazon recommendations, whatever) but it doesn't change the fact that most books are not worth reading and one should only strive to read the books that are.
Evaluating communication tools (IRC, bug tracking tools, etc) and encouraging (requiring?) use of them.
Yeah that's probably true :D it was just hard to imagine myself working with this kind of people for the rest of my life :O (of course not everyone was like this...)
I agree with your comment

Do you think that once they IPO pressure from their stockholders will cause rent seeking behavior? Even if they sold to nvidia frankly.
At least in the UK, the increase in the contactless limit is accompanied by an increase in the frequency at which you're asked to confirm your card using chip+pin.

However, most merchants now have terminals that accept contactless mobile payments without a limit -- Tesco were one of the last to upgrade. So if you pay with your phone then you're back at risk of forgetting your pin.

I'd quite like it if there were some mechanism for setting device spend limits, as my smartwatch will do payments but with only a pattern for security it doesn't matter that I'd be happy only using it for sub-£5 payments: it'll quite happily authorise much more.
Thankfully in iOS 15.4 (currently in beta), Face ID works with a mask on by scanning the shit out of your orbital bones
Ok, that's fair. Assembling your own architecture. But I feel the same risks and caveats apply.
What's interesting to me is how many of the ancient problems involve using compass and straightedge. Recently I have been trying to draw Islamic geometric patterns (or other tilings, like quasitilings) using compass and ruler, and it can be really difficult!

I can kind of see, though, why considerations of what integer ratios are 'good' for such diagrams and questions like angle bisection or intersections between circles and lines become interesting topics. It can really affect how easy or hard it is to draw such a diagram
Boring things are changing the world. Look at the role of containers in global shipping.
So let's summarize: 50 of the 91 coders who work for a given company have mild to severe insomnia.

That really doesn't warrant the ridiculously vague and sensationalistic title we ended up with.
In all likelihood, the stats are referring to wild boars and feral pigs, which can be extremely aggressive and have been know to attack and gore humans from time to time.

Here's a normal pig that attacked a number of people:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-410319/Nurse-savaged...
I think you need to go back and read what he actually wrote, because he very explicitly doesn't make the mistake you're talking about. (You might have guessed that from the fact that he bothers to say "a problem that's basically tractable by human intelligence ..." rather than, say, "any problem".)

For instance, just a paragraph or two later than the bit you quoted: "If such higher types of intelligence can exist, and if a human-equivalent intelligence can build an AI that runs one of them — which is an open question".
Not just SEO. Adsense also pays a lot more attention to the title tag than anything else on the page (at least it did about a year ago, when I last experimented with it). If you want nice targeted ads, unfortunately stuffing keywords into your title is an effective way to get them.
Apparently, the youtube app sends your username and password to... * gasp * Google!

Oh, the horror. Though I'm quite thankful for the breakdown, as a lot of this is probably almost completely unknown to people, some of the inclusions seem rather suspect. I wonder if they included legitimate data transmissions to pad the icon gallery / table.
First off, thanks! To answer your question: what we'd like to do is have some readily available data sources that you could select from a directory/list (a lot of people have asked for that). Right now you have to write your own listener to connect a source with our api.

I'll take a look at our docs, I want to make sure this is not misleading.
Should have known Groupon had an army of writers that it trains in its trademark voice. Only recently have I come to appreciate the creativity that those blurbs demand. But it must get to be a grind after awhile...
In at least some states (Delaware included, I believe) converting is basically a check box and very easy. Check with a lawyer.
> At least bitcoin has a hard cap on the total number of units that will ever be available.

You say that as though it is a good thing. Do you really think the US would be better off with QE? It seems to me it'd look more like the Eurozone.

Increase in money supply != inflation, FWIW.
So the article talks about undergrads getting screwed out of a good education. What about grad students. Whereas undergrads are coached to write tests we're coached to publish. Am I learning yet?
This is now covered in the NYT, although with no mention of any confirmation from ICE (or lack thereof.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html?...
Right there with you. My life would probably be much better had I spent more (well, any) time drinking and partying in high school and college. The traditional advice to be responsible and avoid peer pressure is correct for the majority of the population, but geeky introverts need to develop social skills much more than we need to incrementally improve our GPAs.

"dating will get easier in your 30s"

Supposedly this really is true for men. Not for me yet.
I think interacting with folks over skype/chat might build a deeper relationship--gasp! even friendship--than a message board.

There is spontaneity to chat that the highly transactional Q&A format doesn't allow.

I love this idea... we're actually been thinking about taking some of the experts at Mahalo (i.e. our guitar teacher), and doing streaming lessons/chat/office hours.
So what do your friends bring to the table? Why would any top-notch engineer want to partner with someone who has no network, and can't sell? What will they be doing all day to earn half or more of the profits of the company?

Or do your friends have money, but no knowledge of the industry they intend to start a company in, no network, and no sales skills?

Or do they suck at sales, have no network and no money, but really know the industry? Who's going to pay for servers, the engineer who is also giving up thousands and thousands of dollars in opportunity costs? Who's going to get them in the door to do their terrible sales pitch to potential customers?

Non-technical business people have to be ready to hit the ground running just as hard as the technical people. Having amazing business people really is half of a successful technology company. As a result, having shitty business people basically ruins your chances.

Finally, to address your point, how do you think you get a meeting with VCs? You just show up at their door and they cut you a check? Either you have an in with them through your network, or you have to sell them on your idea. But you say your friends only have one of (money, network, knowledge, sales skills). So, if they have the network they can get in the door, but not get any VC money, or if they have sales skills they can get the deal but can't get in the door. However you slice it up, it's fail.

No, I don't think this conflicts at all with the HN vibe. HN is HackerNews. Paul Graham was writing books on Common-Lisp well before he got into the entrepreneurship game. If anything, HN is about giving awesome technical people the skills they need in business, not hand holding wanna-be entrepreneurs who can't contribute (not that all business people fall into that category at all, but I'd wager all the ones who are trolling the internet to find people to do work on their 'great idea' do fall into it).
I think Facebook/Twitter are basically just blogs with inbuilt blog readers, and a beefed up blog roll. Isn't that why Tumbler seems to be taking off suddenly?

Funny how much of a difference subtle details of implementation can make.
Are there any other pieces of software you want to write? Depending on your financial situation, see if you can quit or take off your job for a year and write it. The years aren't going to come back to you, and you don't want to die having pushed off your dream until it was too late...
>> If you do, the chickens will actively seek you out to hang out with you.

My daughter tends to the chickens here and they follow her and come running when they hear and see her. They adore her. It's pretty awesome to witness that.
> Do people think they’re entitled to private apartments in the most expensive cities in the world?

Yes, they do. Read any thread on a vaguely left-leaning subreddit that even starts approaching discussions of renting, or landlords, or landlord-tenant relations, and you'll get flooded with comments so detached from reality it will stun you.
You can just put a single pair of bracket around it and that’s it.

For locks it is seriously the best way to manage them.
There are services that emerge every few years but they all ultimately fail or get repurposed. The latest was Scroll (scroll.com) that was acquired by Twitter.
> because such options aren't available to everyone

So ? If it’s aplicable to you take it if not seek better advice

I love the universal advice police - everything has to be available to everyone or else it’s useless
I just prefix the file names with "dangerouslySet" to cut the dev time.
OP didn’t say it but an overarching theme in the comments here is that traditional public education is ineffective. So if teachers are overworked, they’ve got energy to expend but they’re expending it ineffectively.

You took this a little far with the personal attack.
For the specific anecdote I mentioned you can read more here

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Barrow

and here

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_calcu...
> Is this a bubble that is popping?

Yes it is.

> Should people delay or hasten their startup process now?

Delay. The time to hasten the process (especially going public) was in 2019.

Now companies with extreme valuations, high operating costs and little revenue like Fast are somewhat doomed if they don't do something about it.
The video being reviewed is on Youtube. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BE6ybK4Io4) Unfortunately, it's tagged as "for mature audiences", which means you have to have a Google account. The DVD is rated TV-PG-L, so that's an error.

Rickover's history is well documented; there are at least three book-length biographies of the man. The one by Polmar and Allen is probably the most honest.
It's funny, the first time, maybe. But if you use software all the time then such 'funnyness' becomes irritating. I'm trying to imagine working hard on trying to solve some issue for someone, mistyping a command and getting crap like that thrown back at me. Imagine all your software would return its errors laced with profanity.

If you write code for yourself then that's one thing, as soon as you write code for potential distribution to a large audience (cron is present on just about any unix machine) then I think you should restrain yourself from trying to be funny (or at a minimum from having your software by proxy call people names).

Call me old fashioned, it just doesn't work for me.
Thanks for the honest feedback. One of my goals in making those videos, was to force guests to spell everything out, for the sake of making complex topics more accessible to a novice audience. Conversely, I understand how that may make the video less enjoyable to more “advanced” viewers. (Or maybe I'm just a plain annoying person.)

That being said, my original plan for the MapReduce vid was to stay out of the shot and not say a word; but Mike actually asked me to help him structure it out as we went along, so… Yeah, as usual, finding the right balance is tricky. But thanks for the note, maybe I'll try to keep more distance in future tapings.

EDIT / TL;DR

I always had the nagging feeling that, while I may be the right people to produce the Tapes, I most certainly was the wrong person to host them. The shame is, nobody else was available :p
That was kind of eye-opening.

Not because it shows how bullshit veganism is; I knew that already.

But because it reminds me of this friend I have, who is always complaining that she feels tired and weak. She goes to the doctor at least monthly, who diagnosis her with some new deficiency. She's always taking some new pill or food type.

I always thought she was a hypochondriac. But it just occurred to me that she might not be, because she's a vegetarian.
I have a masters in computational biology. I did some work on flux balance analysis (FBA), which is a pretty interesting topic.

FBA simulates the metabolic system using linear programming, which is a technique used most extensively in economics, but applicable to biology. Basically, linear programming is a mathematical method of determining the maximization of some linear function given a set of linear contraints.

The assumption behind applying FBA to metabolic systems is that the cell acts to maximize its growth based on what is available in the environment and the stoichiometry of the metabolic reactions that can occur in the cell (ie the constraints of the system).

It is suprisingly accurate at predicting things like the consequences of metabolic gene knockouts, and has been applied to identify potential drug targets.

The most renowned researcher is this area is Bernhard. O. Palsson. His group[1] has created computational models of different organism that can be used to perform FBA and test things such as, for example, the outcome of gene knockouts. His models are available to download.

There are linear programming libraries available for linux. I used lpsolve, which has Python bindings. As a starter project you could do something like identify the essential genes in a organism like E. coli.

I'd be happy to help. My homepage (in my profile) has my email address.

[1] http://gcrg.ucsd.edu/
Good point. Software amps and stompboxes like those in Garageband that simulate classic guitar gear are worlds cheaper, more mobile, and much easier to manage your presets than the actual classic gear. A Fender '68 reverb stompbox is about $150, and Fender amps from the 60's are $1000 and up. Garageband is $5. Gear has already gone digital.