jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yep, Mythbusters covered this.
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-swimming-syrup/
I'd like to see a transcript of the letter this was written in response to.
How long ago did you fix the last bug? That's probably a good estimate of how long you'll go before you fix the next one.
Things are very different now than in 1999. 1999 we were talking a few cgis and perl script that did funny stuff. Now we have google docs and facebook. I think that is a very significant change that would account for the different view.

I think the idea is the same, but the scales and implementation and hugely different.
Sad that Puerto Rico might become a state before DC
I have literally typed 4 replies to ugh, deleting them before I posted them and then coming back to this page.

I refuse to start this again. 20 years! I will say that there are a lot of problems here, including type of chicken, time of year, and whether the chicken is in fear of it's life or if it knows you're just playing around. I think you'd have the same problem with giraffes.

EDIT: It's also in the feathers. Chickens aren't ducks, so their feathers are made differently. Proponents of non-swimming chickens point to the lack of webbed feet, quality of the feathers, and absence of any aquatic chicken relatives.
That was a priceless post. Turns out Feynman was wrong on one thing though. Wolfram does like being the boss. Possibly very much.
So, after some thought, here's why I don't consider it pointless to have basic auth built in.

It would keep ES from being completely open. If you wanted to get in, you'd have to comprise some part of the network that would let you read the username and password.

The way it is now, anyone can do a scan for port 9200 and get full access right away.

It is also important to have a username and password, even on secured networks. My test instance is on an internal network, and protected by both network and host firewalls, but I still make sure to secure it beyond that.

Basic auth would not provide a false sense of security. It is simply a very basic part of overall security. Not having it is a mistake.
I guess "affiliate monetized" answers the source of revenue question.
Are they wrong? $5k is ridiculous regardless if it was as simple as they made it sound.
> Flying somewhere for vacation now costs $$$, so driving say to ...

What about the rest of the time though?

Would you save money by using a "normal" car for most of the year, and then renting something bigger (SUV, (mini)van) when you need the large volume? Or purchase a hitch for your car and rent a trailer when you need to haul things?

A co-worker of mine drives a Ford F-150 year-round because he owns a fishing boat that he used 5-6 weekends per year. Seems... sub-optimal.
So my hypothesis is the people who buy stupidly oversized pickup trucks (which generally speaking aren't going to be the people on this site btw) are either crazy gun people, trailer _____, or people who seriously are trying to prove something. For all of these people it's about making a very large very visible and very obnoxious over the top statement. Really can't see how any of that demographic either wants anything "cyber" (although again this site is the wrong place to be making this argument) or anything that isn't just "in your face over the top MACHO". If you imagine the Cybertruck in wood, it looks like a cheap Pinewood derby car. The design looks like something a 3rd grader came up with. It should be redesigned to: a) have an obnoxiously loud (yet completely unnecessary) ENGINE sound; b) have an incredibly obnoxious front grill that emphasizes absolute dominance; c) a bed in the back that's open to the elements (because no one carries stuff there anyway, and being open to the elements is tough); d) be about 3x the size. Nobody wants a pinewood derby car masquerading as a truck imho. I think this will be a huge flop.
In the video, Sacha mentions the New Zealand mass murder streamed on Facebook[1] and the promotion of explicit holocaust denial and antisemitic propaganda via social media.

These are not examples I see occur in established media without reprisal.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/19/new-zealand...
Our goal was simple: we wanted to share interesting links without constantly being distracted by messages or Slack notifications.

Itemsy is a free, shared bookmarking tool. All you have to do is:

1. Create an account at app.itemsy.com

2. Create a new private channel for your company

3. Invite your colleagues

4. Add interesting links to the channel (via the web app or by emailing it to share@itemsy.com with the name of your channel in the title)

As a result, you and your colleagues receive a daily newsletter with all the links to read, e.g. while commuting. You can also browse them all via the web app.

If you have a habit of sharing interesting reads within your team, we'd love for you to try it out!
Anyone else seeing a rotating snakes-esque illusion in the first few fractals?
There's still a big problem with de-duplication: Dropbox can still figure out which users have the same file, thus leaking information. That, combined with the fact that they'll know the size of the file already gives them a lot of info.

For example, if the FBI seizes a computer and finds some illegal files, they can still request Dropbox to give a list of users that have the same file.
Android devices don't even have to include the Google app marketplace. A manufacturer or network can put their own marketplace on the device instead, which makes it pretty much like every pre-iOS smartphone platform (at least in that regard).

I don't think that any single manufacturer has the leverage to tell the networks to stay out of the device OS and just be dumb bit transporters. I suppose Nokia could do it, but the idea's pretty unthinkable for those guys.
I believe I understand the intention of this entire thread: in order to flush out good advice try to first highlight 'bad advice'. However I hope that all those who read it and all those who posted in it remember something very important.

Regret is suffering. It is being attached to a different reality that you "should" be experiencing that is somehow better than the reality you are in. Everything that happened in your life, every single stupid thing, was required/essential/instrumental in your life being exactly as it is right now.

I hope we can make use of this thread as a means to help us guide future decisions without it functioning as a way to make us feel regret. Do not expend energy suffering over that which is not only out of your control, but an illusion. Your past is not reality: you are, right here, right now.
"wifi and mobile broadband are already a big potential security risk" -- not if you use TLS
> The problem is that it's visible.
I don't want to be that guy, but it's usually already visible, if the service has photos and allows at least basic descriptions.

Humans are incredibly good at putting a price tag to potential mates. It takes milliseconds to form a base appraisal.
DigitalOcean no longer allows SMTP, you may be grandfathered in.
In the online dating market of 2019 looks is all that matters. Because of these reasons:

1. Online dating mostly depends on looks, it's based on your pictures. Almost no woman reads your bio. Simply because people don't have time (this is another reason why new apps like tinder and bumble even don't give you enough spaces to write about yourself, because it doesn't matter at the end).

2. If a woman does not find an attractive man "interesting" after first couple of dates or so, she can easily find another attractive man with "interesting" personality. They do not have to go for an ugly male with interesting personality. Because women (even average/non-attractive ones) have an extremely large dating pool, men don't. For example:

https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=168948903&pa...

3. Almost no woman picks a mate based on political views. I have seen die hard leftist women dating neonazi guys.

https://mtonews.com/.image/t_share/MTUzODEzNzk4OTYyMDc5NDg2/...

Same sex (specially between men and men) is a completely different ballgame. The mate choice strategy of women is completely different from that of men.
To add another anecdote, I've noticed that many educational institutions (including government departments with tens of thousands of staff and hundreds of thousands of students) use G Suite. I'm sure some corporate staff in these organisations have Microsoft Office too, but there are many people in large bureaucracies who use Google Docs and Google Sheets daily.
Reading Middlemarch was a life-changing experience. Fun fact: George Eliot was not only a novelist, but also very well read in philosophy and even translated Spinoza into english.

My favorite quote by her:

“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

My other favorite passage by George Eliot (the excerpt is a screed written by a political polemicist in Middlemarch):

"Here is a sharp stroke or two. If we had to describe a man who is retrogressive in the most evil sense of the word—we should say, he is one who would dub himself a reformer of our constitution, while every interest for which he is immediately responsible is going to decay: a philanthropist who cannot bear one rogue to be hanged, but does not mind five honest tenants being half-starved: a man who shrieks at corruption, and keeps his farms at rack-rent: who roars himself red at rotten boroughs, and does not mind if every field on his farms has a rotten gate: a man very open-hearted to Leeds and Manchester, no doubt; he would give any number of representatives who will pay for their seats out of their own pockets: what he objects to giving, is a little return on rent-days to help a tenant to buy stock, or an outlay on repairs to keep the weather out at a tenant's barn-door or make his house look a little less like an Irish cottier's. But we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance."
It's not like Amazon/Walmart don't exploit workers, they just do it farther away. And are you really claiming they are not engaged in a race to the bottom? McDonalds is going to be better positioned to invest in automated ordering kiosks than any independent diner... is this because they are a beacon of chivalrous capitalism, or because they have been much better at exploitation?

This is the weirdest defense of oligopoly. I've never understood it.
Right, people are talking about cabbies not wanting to go across the river in this thread for precisely that reason.

You should think of black cabs as vehicles for the wealthy to potter around Central London avoiding public transport, or for tourists to get mugged.

The average Londoner doesn't really use them.
I would actually say that if you like React-Table, you likely wouldn't want to use Ag-Grid for the very reasons that React Table exists.

Had someone asked if there were similar tables libraries, I would have expected this response and welcomed it. Ag-Grid is a great library and their free-tier is very robust, but I don't see how the above comment is anything more than a drop-in marketing attempt.
I think summaries (by their nature) must leave something out. Considering the abstract mentions what you said (and that it's reasonable for me to have read the abstract), I think it was reasonable for the responder to focus their attention on the plot alone (which was the focus of my question).
I'm not buying the idea that the animals somehow benefit from this. I'm not necessarily against animal testing either. But it's one thing to test on animals to develop lifesaving cures and another thing entirely sure to experiment with brain implants with the potential to take away a living creature's free will. Or the ability to intrude on thought. The whole thing is pretty gross.

It's great that this tech could help paralyzed people and amputees, but is it worth the cost?
Who cares about that linuxoid mess? They sabotaged the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project !1!! Imagine where we could be now when that would have been 'the industry standard'?
You cannot do Pkg.update("MyPackage", but you are able to do Pkg.build("MyPackage") and Pkg.test("MyPackage").

Pkg.update() is currently designed to update the local METADATA snapshot and then update all packages. You can also update one package at a time manually with Pkg.checkout.
You're right, I hadn't seen blueprints, and they do seem to address my concerns pretty nicely.

All of the examples that I've seen (including the Flask quickstart guide, the linked post, and everything I could find on http://flask.pocoo.org/community/poweredby/ ) work by assigning the Flask app to a module-level variable (i.e. a global), then using that global at import time for all @app.route usages, so my assumption has been that that's the encouraged style. It at least seems to be pretty common. But I guess none of those examples are very big (only a few split the request handlers across multiple files), so they didn't get to a point where blueprints would be especially useful.

(Also, to be clear, when I say "imports shouldn't have side-effects", what I mean is that top-level code (which runs at import time) should ideally have no side effects.)
Can you think through a scenario in which CTR could be broken? CTR, in particular. What's a hypothetical here?
It might also mean that defamation lawsuits are easy to start and expensive to defend.
It used to have a page. It was deleted because the language was not considered significant. This is a relatively famous case, referred to frequently.
You're most likely familiar with Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London" and "The Road to Wigan Pier", two of the finest books ever written.

The first is his "vivid and moving account of life below poverty line", first in Paris, when he, after resigning being a servant of the Empire as a police officer in Burma, had to resort to low-wage, hard, menial 17-hour works in Paris restaurants, and later when he lived as a "tramp" in London, going from spike to spike, meeting others like him.

I don't know if you'd "enjoy" these books though... But they are unrivaled in their shrewdness and, well, it is Orwell and he can write better than anyone.
I like nacl.

I like the author of this article and think he knows what he's talking about.

I like libsodium but do worry about the project getting away from them; cleaning up the API is one thing, adding new crypto primitives is another. Still: use libsodium.

The person whose opinion you really want on this article is 'pbsd.
I never even turned it on. Since they split messenger off I can no longer read read messages on my cellphone...without installing a separate app. Functionality that worked perfectly fine previously until they decided to disable to force messenger onto people.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/28/facebook-moving-messages/
This piques my interest. When was the last time anyone read the source code of (g)libc "cover to cover" before using it? Does anyone know the precise implications of (not) defining any of the myriad sensible permutations of its "feature test macros"? Is anyone even sure that those implications are actually implemented correctly before relying on them?
SMS, the network.

> If you switch devices from iPhone to Android or vice-versa, messages get lost.

I moved from an Android phone to an iPhone, back to an Android, and then back to an iPhone again. I never had my messages in limbo, and its easy to fix (at least, on the Apple side) if it occurs: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204270

Note that link also comes up as a search engine provided result by google just by googling "disable imessages". That's stupid simple.
sysv init scripts in particular are so pointless to write.

In the end, the whole script usually revolves around four lines of actual code (starting a process, stopping it, querying the status, optionally sending it a SIGHUP to make it reload its configuration), but the result is a script with 50 lines of boilerplate.

Which, of course, could nearly all be automated away by a sane, declarative format.

Leaving all the political mess aside, that's the part that systemd got right.
You write sometthing like

[Unit]
Description=some human-readable text here

[Service]
Type=simple
User=...
ExecStart=/path/to/deamon --with=options
KillSignal=SIGKILL

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

and that's it.

Quick comparison of sysv init script lengths on Debian Wheezy vs. systemd
service files on Debian Jessie: ssh: 162 vs. 15 lines, cron: 92 vs 11 lines,
dbus: 122 vs 9 lines

My point being: it's a bit too much to demand that people carefully engineer
their sysv init files, when about 90% of those very same init files is simply
boring, repetitive boiler plate code. Also, what happened to the "don't repeat
yourself" principle?

I tried writing a sysv init script from scratch. I stopped because of sheer boredom, and resorted to copy&paste to save both time and nerves.
I was surprised to see someone on the list that I used to know. Around 1996-1998 I knew Ehud Tenenbaum (Analyzer) from Undernet IRC.

When I knew him, he was a standard script kiddie. He had rudimentary programming skills and only used exploit code (buffer overflow, race condition, etc) that others wrote. Basically he collected exploits, ran them against servers, used the hacked servers to sniff network packets to get more passwords as well as to scan additional systems. He would spend probably 80% of each day doing this.

Unlike many hackers that would secure the systems they hacked into, he had a habit of putting a root privileged shell onto a high port with inetd. He lost a lot of systems to other hackers because of this. Since he "owned" hundreds of systems at any one time, it never seemed to bother him much though.

The fact that he is on the "legendary hacker" list makes me believe a better name for it might be, "sloppy hackers that got caught" list.

Excuse the throw-away. While the statute of limitations is probably a decade past for me I don't like to take chances.
Get a degree. I've been in this situation (from the US to Canada), and having a degree helps. It's easy to have a company say they want you to work for them. The thing is, visa's aren't just approved because a company says they need you. They also need to demonstrate why they need "you" in particular, and why someone local can't help them. Why can't they hire an American, or a Canadian? Why are they hiring a foreigner? These are questions that need to be addressed. Having a degree goes toward helping demonstrate that.

To put it another way, I've never seen education shut doors for me. It has, however, given my opportunities I wouldn't have had otherwise.
I have been running the dev build for a long time (6.0) and I leave it and some particular tabs open for days at a time, never had a problem.
That's completely wrong (and never was right). NetworkManager is a system-wide deamon and it's user interface is pretty much just a single applet, which you can run absolutely anywhere. There is also a CLI now (nmcli).

(I've been using xmonad and NM on my laptop since xmonad 0.3 or something like that, which should be 3 years now, wow.)
I agree. About a year ago we hired a new person at work and he immediately started looking for ways to improve anything and everything. The problem is, nearly everything we had that wasn't optimal, was still actually "good enough" for our needs and usually included some complexity that wasn't obvious at first glance. He ignored our "if it's not broken, don't fix it" advice and every single time he tried to improve something he ended up breaking it or making it worse.

Sometimes a simple but sub-optimal solution that gets the job done well enough and reliably is better than an optimized solution that includes downtime and requires extra maintenance. I don't think the person offering the advice to leave things alone is always the naïve one.
I would argue that in a conversation about app store rejection policies and specifically Google Voice that someone informing us that they have never heard of it wasn't doing much more than adding noise.

To anyone who has heard of Google Voice it's pretty clear that it's valid to put it forward as a innovative product. The level to which it's failed to permeated the broader public consciousness doesn't count against it at this stage in it's existence.
Awesome, thanks! I was just looking for something like this today! :)
>And given that is a very recent development what possible relevance could it have on anything?

Extraordinary.

>You seem to be claiming

No. I'm not. You are extraordinary.

Look, I'm sorry that I looked at your sacred cow the wrong way. Yet everything you have said has been against a strawman. It's a bit sad, really, but I'm sure you'll have another go declaring that the slant of the apostrophe there means that I think Steve Jobs eats baby blood.
I think it's the monopolist "competing" against the other companies that we're worried about. Where by competing I mean doing all those things I listed a few posts back that reduce consumer choice and competition in the marketplace.
True, but it doesn't supply the analytical tools so that you can find the correct A to produce an eigenvector without iteration to reduce error. Having said that you can reduce the linear system by hand if you are reasonably au fait with matricies etc and derive it yourself; but I suspect this "tutorial" is probably most beneficial for those who are struggling, i.e. the very people who wouldn't be able to leap to a solution on their own.
Many diets eschew flax seed in general, but something to keep in mind is that unground flax seed itself is a good source of fiber. Mind, I'm not saying it's the best source of EFA's, but it's far better than junk food or fast food. I typically will put a very large spoonful of flax seed into about 3/4cp of Greek yogurt and add a little honey for a tasty treat, but I do also supplement with fish oil pills. I'll also add glazed walnuts to a bowl of plain old oatmeal for a filling and healthy breakfast.
Password reset should be working now. Thanks for the bug report.
My "ugly" comment comes from spending my career programming against APIs like this :)

typedef BOOL (* WNDENUMPROC) (HWND, LPARAM);
BOOL WINAPI EnumWindows(WNDENUMPROC lpEnumFunc, LPARAM lParam);
I'm surprised at the lack of variety-awareness in these answers. For me, there is a clear distinction between higher and hire.

Isolated, fire is a tripthong. In connected speech, I'd hazard that it is a monopthong.
There is still unprecedented independent developer parity. I'd build on iOS if I were into making games. I am more interested in enterprise software, however. :)
Also don't forget Firewall iP off Cydia. You get notifications and can set permissions per app.

Ah, I would never use a jailed iPhone. So much less usable.
Why stop at 5 seconds? Unless you're updating that blog entry every 6 seconds, you're missing out on a bunch of good caching by regenerating it 12 times a minute.

How about cache it once at write-time, then again whenever you edit it?
Sam talks only about internal factors of the industry: is there enough value generated by startups to justify their valuations?

This ignores the economic environment. There's just way too much capital floating around US stock markets and private equity funds, and it urgently to be invested in something. What that something is matters only marginally, as long as it is capable to sustain a consensual fiction that an investment is being stored.

A bubble may well be an externally induced one, not just dotcom craziness.
Moving to a city doesn't majically get you a job and livelihood. There is already plenty of depopulated country side with plenty of livable space, people go where the actual jobs are.

Edit: looks like things have gotten worse for Ordos: http://gizmodo.com/4-instant-cities-that-are-still-completel...