jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
2002 onward: indirect full spectrum lighting. Got a lamp off think-geek that adhered to monitor. Set it up at home and requested it in offices.

2006ish onward: Kinesis Freestyle 2 split keyboard. Owned 2ish, had each employer buy one.

2007ish onward: f.lux screen temperature adjustment, relative to sun.

2012 onward: Standing desk with tall chair in wheels or felt pads. At home and at software eng / devops jobs.

2014 onward: floor mat at standing desk, like at a cash register. Firm enough for wheels on chair to roll on and be stable.

2016 onward: thumb trackball mouse. Sometimes places bedtween segments of split keyboard.

2016 onward: good shoes. Memory foam, strong builds, maintainable materials.
How do you execute this?
> There are many places where there is no light, especially in the countryside or in the forest.

The nearest place on land where darksitefinder[1] shows grey (not even black) is across the continent from me, >1000 kilometers in any direction. There are some blue (medium) spots in France and northern Germany (320km in opposing directions) but that's it. I've visited the one in mid-France once and had the fortune of having a clear sky. My lifetime falling star count went from zero to "I lost count at some point" in about an hour and a half. The milky way looks absolutely amazing from there. On the horizon, lights were still visible from a nearby town though. I don't think I've ever seen real darkness outside.

Whenever I go on holiday, I'm actively looking for ways to get back to a blue spot, let alone a grey one. Maybe I should rent a seaworthy boat at some point and go overnight (not sure how much preparation that would take, I've only heard of sea dangers from fiction, no clue if an inexperienced person can just do that with a decent rental boat these days).

Anyway, the point of the reply: I'm not sure that the darkness required for insect life is the same as "I can't see a bright, direct light source right now".

[1] http://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html#6/48.487/9.646
In the beginning I kept going back to Google because the results on duckduckgo just wasn't as good, but it slowly improved, so much that I actually haven't used Google for search for about two years now. Even local searches for my country has become much better on duckduckgo.

And when I have occasionally tested Google to compare results, I also noticed a rapid decline in the relevant results at Google. So much that I can hardly recognize that search engine any longer.
I overreacted. My apologies to the community.
Maybe it is just a two-layer panel: first layer hiding the background ...

http://gd3.alicdn.com/imgextra/i3/1069821249/TB2UIWkbXXXXXXZ...

... and the second layer glowing to show objects.

http://img1.mydrivers.com/img/20140710/c72872d7ae4242b5965e1...
Ah, yes, I'd missed that. Since you have the password at login time, you don't need to store the work factor. There are some practical things about making sure you can version the entropy estimate code without breaking existing logins, but it's certainly doable.
I'm not sure that the refraction of a lens is mathematically invertible/reversible?

As I understand it, the problem with my eye is that my lens doesn't focus a point light source (e.g. a pixel) onto a point on my retina - one consequence of which is that the point source gets smeared out over a larger area (also I have astigmatism which means my eyes aren't perfectly spherical so colours get messed up, but lets ignore that!).

You can't fix that smearing by warping the shape of the image, but maybe you could adjust the brightness of the adjacent pixels to cancel out the smeared out bit - I guess by making the adjacent pixels a little darker than they should be. I don't know if that's a solvable set of equations.

If I flip my glasses over and look through the lens backwards, my vision doesn't get twice as bad - it's actually better than no glasses at all. Not sure what that tells you other than optics is very confusing to me.
Presumably I can get similar benefits for exercising just before dinner? Morning exercise is about the last thing I want to do...
Hey I went to UIUC for Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), the best 4 years (and decision) of my life :-) Of course, it was 95-99 so some of the headiest, fastest paced years in the history of mankind. God I miss the 90s. I feel bad for kids who had to grow up in the 2000s, but am hopeful that they will work harder than we did to make the world a better place.
How close to your workout is your eating window? I was doing 23/1 intermittent fasting and my coach told me it would interfere with my strength training. I'm also training for strength/max lifts, not endurance.
> But I've seen plenty of companies implementing solid (real) security measures only to see employees looking to bypass them themselves due to the inconvenience they caused, thus leaving doors open for attack.

The New York Times had an article recently discussing how measures to prevent Covid have to take human nature into account in order to be effective. In other words, people only have so much capacity for adhering to strict measures, so it's important to stress the really important factors (avoid prolonged indoor exposure with large groups of people) and to allow for some relatively low risk behaviors (outdoor exercise with appropriate social distancing). Also cited HIV and teen pregnancy as similar public health problems (saying "don't have sex ever" vs "limit sex to these less risky behaviors").

So, coming back to security, I think any effective security policy will have to allow employees to get their work done efficiently without undue strain. Avoid "security theatre" while still mitigating against the most severe threats through training, compartmentalization, etc. Otherwise, you risk people going around the security measures so they can actually get their work done.
stay out of sunlight. don't eat bananas. don't use cellphones. don't stare into a computer screen. don't have a WiFi network in your house/office. and probably don't have a microwave oven either, just to be safe. Because none of those things are necessary. ;)
Okay, how about this: every student should learn trigonometry and how to dance and how to cook and how double-entry bookkeeping works and how to speak several foreign languages, most (personally I think all or nearly all) students should learn calculus, and a large (much larger than now) percentage should learn how to operate a band saw. Calculus is just absolutely fundamental to so much of the technology that we use every day that students who do not learn calculus are at a serious disadvantage comprehending our built environment.
I agree with the above. I posed the question because it's an interesting question on how does a startup (or band) maintain its base of loyalists - especially if it stops evolving at some point. Comparing the two, I think (we'd hope) that technology will evolve enough to replace itself quicker than something like classical music. But, at some point, perhaps it won't or there's a app that can last. For instance, I'm interested in how CraigsList can keep its foothold / loyal followers? Sure has done an amazing job so far.
Actually it has been. You had the ability to link up your Gizmo account which was a 100% pure VOIP service. Then, from Gizmo you could link in an Asterisk server with SIP.

Google then bought Gizmo and put it on ice. You can use freeswitch/asterisk to login to your Google Talk account and take calls from your Voice account now and do the same thing.
Oh great, it's our day, and we can celebrate by thanking, mentoring, lending money, and paying it forward.

"Hey Entrepreneurs! It's your day! Please bail out the country, the rest of us have no idea what we're doing!"
I think (hope?) that the structured methods help when there are external factors driving priorities and potentially causing interruptions and interference.

In the absence of any outside influences, 'keep hacking until it's done' is probably close to an optimal strategy.
I hope glassed doesn't mean you had a pintglass broken over your head/face. If so, glad you're ok, hope you didn't need surgery or anything.

This stuff is no joke -- friend of a friend got killed in a barfight in southie once.. guy was one of those typical "its friday night, lets go pick a fight" guys, picked a fight with the wrong maniac. Knifer went to jail afterwards but that didn't really matter to the guy who was dead.
Not an expert on the topic, but Facebook allows for very localized/granular targeting. I'm sure that somebody could identity individuals with the data they expose.
If your are going for a Chromium based browser I think that Microsoft Edge is one of the better ones. You can configure it to be somewhat minimal and does not force login you to some service like Chrome. Edge can also switch between profiles, like private and work, within the same browser session.

They are working a Linux port

https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download

Unfortunate no AppImage, Flatpak or Snap.
Ah yes, the founder’s dream: gaining familial power over young people’s entire lives to further your start-up, before they realize they should develop a life of their own outside of work to avoid complete burnout.
Daily stand ups seem a waste of time to me.

Maybe once a week or perhaps Monday and Friday.

Still, I’m being paid for what I see as a waste of time so that’s the upside..... and it’s the boss who values it, so if they want to pay me well whatever I guess.
I've worked in offices like that, its way more common than you think.

It is 'just life' the world that we get in tech is significantly different than what most people experience in a workplace.
I don't think it's that people in charge of big companies are not creative thinkers. I think their priorities are things other than employee satisfaction, or possibly even employee productivity. Both of those things are great, but maximizing shareholder value comes first. Big companies are applying creative thinking to marketing, sales relationships, mergers and acquisitions, strategic lobbying/lawsuits, cost cutting, etc.
In my younger days, I made the mistake of getting overly invested in the companies I worked for. Always put your long term goals first. If you don't have equity, it's not your company!
I suspect TC may have been leveraged but it doesn’t mean it’s responsible for every horrible misconfiguration that can occur.

Case in point, I have used TC to gain AD administrative privileges before because the idiot who set it up ran a build agent as a domain admin so it could get access to a locked down signing cert. I just created a new build to add me to the right group and ran it on that agent.

These things are really trivial to find and exploit. Also the build agents will obtain and run almost any untrusted software and leave it on disk quite happily for when a later build comes along.
I completely agree. To be a bit more explicit, the extent to which institutions abandon objectivity is the extent to which we lose an agreed upon set of facts. It's really tragic that the hard-earned credibility of these institutions are being hollowed out for relatively little short-term political capital to the great detriment of our whole country and indeed the world.
Fortunately I don't live in a place where WhatsApp is completely pervasive. I personally had luck saying "if you want to contact me use Signal, iMessage or at the very least SMS" and when people asked why, I would cite Cambridge Analytica.
I don't think we can have a productive conversation. I told you what I meant, quoted what I was responding to, and linked it. You seem to be insistent on intentionally misunderstanding or splitting hairs so you can invent some way my comment was wrong ("It wasn't a parent comment! It was a parent of a parent...").

Gaslighting and intentionally misunderstanding strike me as trolling behaviors.
The question for those of us that aren't leetcode fans - what are we going to do about it?

We should make it easier for people to get a job without leetcode. Here's a job board I made for jobs without leetcode.
https://say-no-to-leetcode.netlify.app/
They are disrupting political process via force in the name of ideology. They're domestic terrorists.
The Appalachian Trail is the grandaddy of American long distance walking trails, it is relatively old and was specifically designed to get people in to the woods - even it has bits of road shoulder.

While there may be examples of long "trails" in the US that are entirely exclusive of "road", they're certainly not common.
Your words:

>100% Free and Open Source software is a noble ideal and a powerful tool in the fight for digital freedoms, but in reality it's difficult (but not impossible) to achieve such a state.

>In practice this is difficult (but not impossible) to achieve

sedachv's words:

> What you're really saying is that working against the development of surveillance and control technologies by private capital and government decision makers is hard and so is not "practical."

Those look like exactly the same statement to me.

>> There is not a single "practice" that just happens to be some bad guy opposing FLOSS because he hates your freedoms.

>And once again, that's something I never said, nor inferred.

...that sentence is not accusing you of saying that practice is a person. sedachv is pointing out that practice is not a coherent whole, that's all.

I don't know why you're accusing sedachv of twisting words. sedachv 'merely' accused you of being intellectually lazy for using difficulty to declare something as not practical.
Thanks Scott. I liked this line a lot "Don’t equate making mistakes with being a mistake".
No it doesn't break down. The point of common core is to help students understand why. The how is important but learning the rote algorithms are as helpful for understanding as using a calculator.
I do use a password manager, LastPass, but my mother doesn't. My father does because I set it up for him and he's the partner of a really big lawfirm in LA!

Password Managers are not the solution to the problem, they are a bandaid.
For those thinking that a homebrew version of this may come in the future, you've got it backwards. This is a professional version of homebrew. Check out http://diydrones.com/ as a good starting point, but this design is quite popular for hobbyists and is relatively simple to build. Definitely less than $10k-worth of time and materials.
Flash ads are the whole reason I use FlashBlock on Chrome. I don't mind seeing ads to support sites, but asking me to let Flash hog my CPU just to see your ad is more than I can do. Plus, jumping, animated, and ads that play sounds are more than obnoxious.

Also, it's amazing how HTML5 video can play smooth in HD on my netbook, yet Flash videos stutter and act like my computer is dying. All the more reason to wish Flash an early death.
in our increasingly technological society, jobs require better logic skills, that's a big change for humanity, social skills used to matter more.
How about these, for $300?

http://www.parrot.com/usa/

Or if you're more adventurous, you can chop 4 30 dollar helicopters from amazon, add in an arduino and IMU with xbees, and come up with your homebrew solution, like my friend who I've been helping:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvZKr47qt-A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_uS9clTDY

(These are pre-arduino, pre-IMU. Now it's hung from the ceiling and is controlled through the computer with an xbox controller. It's on a PID control right now, but eventually it'll be swapped out with a kalman filter based system.)
Here's my 2 cents from having spent a considerable amount of time in Lima, Peru. I think primarily its a cultural thing. I don't see the same level of risk taking or entrepreneurship here that I do in the US. People are more focused on finding stable employment and it seems that being your own boss doesn't get the same level of respect as working for a good company.

People also don't seem to have the same level of confidence in themselves here. Kind of hard for me to understand as I am from what is considered the "greatest" country in the world. Hard to imagine what its like for someone growing up in the 3rd world. The only analogy I can draw is perhaps someone coming from a rich family vs someone coming from the ghetto.
Not sure if "children" and "child support" qualify either! :-)
http://gawker.com/5691841/when-facebook-ceos-was-publicly-ob...
http://tex.mendelu.cz/ - to try it out
"Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

(yeah I've written one book with a readership of thousands, 5/8ths of a phd with a readership of 5 and a bunch of academic articles with a variable readership)
I am not author, but I think it was general. My interpretation of cathedral:

- understand your whole system before you code

- list possible data by kinds that need to be processed differently at each point in control flow

- look for what changes together and what changes independently and adjust the code flow so you don't need to test for the same things twice

- when requirements change - don't do workarounds and quick hacks, change the underlying mechanism

- solve problems at the level they originated, not at the level they were detected (for example null pointer is better solved by returning empty collection than by copy pasting if (x!=null) all over the place)

- don't treat anything like black box when you need to change something - if you never change things inside black boxes you will get a lot of nested black boxes doing the same thing over and over, just slighlty differently - this is wrong, no matter what OO theory says about hermetization
Well, if the site will have any success, it tells that Mac users value platform-loyality much more than say, Windows users. Hey, got an idea: dating site for Linux users! I guess the male/female ratio would been about 5000/1.
Google says:
(500 000 (km^2)) * 100 (U.S. dollars / (m^2)) = 50 trillion U.S. dollars

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=500000+km^2+*+100+U...
So long as employers are free to fire anybody for any reasons unless it is written in a contract specifying what reasons they can get fired. So long as people have the ability to work without being employed by a union.

If people wants to form a union, fine with me, but don't drag me into it.
The entire modern conception is bad because they are granted special rights from the government. If a union was just an organization of people doing collective bargaining their would be no problems - unfortunately they want special rights and will use force to achieve them.
In the context of is thread, I read this as, "We're trapped in an illogical social pattern, because we are lazy."
I'm guessing that Steve is referring to Macrovision. Interesting inside look.
I worked on a 20 KLOC app of mine yesterday that has neither static type decls or unit tests and yet is AFAIK bug free. This has been the rule and not the exception in my experience. So I prefer to not have them since in the general case they are not needed and just add clutter and drag.
You have to remember that Glee is backed by the RIAA, they make money off of the show so I doubt they will cover an issue that makes them look like the bad guys.
This article was horrible. It was reminiscent of when Valve first unveiled Steam. Back then everyone hated the idea of Steam constricting their games. There was a huge mainstream petition going around to prevent Steam from being released. Even I didn't want to accept Steam. But I think Steam is a huge success, I buy all my games off steam. I have all my friends on Steam and I know what they are playing and can jump into their games whenever I like. While BNet2.0 won't have the large scale digital distribution system that Steam does. I see a similarity.

Also, in this article the author focuses solely on Starcraft II. BNet2.0 encompasses ALL BLIZZARD GAMES. Even World Of Warcraft is getting updated in the new Expansion to support some of the BNet2.0 features. The idea is to build a platform that connects all Blizzard gamers to all Blizzard games. At Blizzcon 2009 on of the VPs of Blizzard gave a demonstration of BNet2.0, talked about the vision, and where they plan to go with it. They are trying make a quality system that will be useful.

Lastly, BNet 2.0 will introduce a kind of Map Store. SC II's game editor is very robust and allows you to create some very nice custom maps, campaigns, etc. Map editors will be able to sell their maps on this store. I think this may appeal to some people on HN more than the article itself.
See below, it's a photo blog so I can understand some of these comments.
Why does it have to be a border shutdown? It is politicized to the wazoo in the US already.

Canada adopted a policy of mandatory 2 weeks quarantine for every inbound traveler, and if the numbers are any indication, it worked quite well (but then they went lax on some other aspects in H2 and now are seeing numbers go up again...)

Santa Clara, CA is about as democrat as they come and they've recently announced quarantine policies based on travel distance as well, so in my mind, it seems possible to de-politicize.
I can be wrong, but on Telegram E2E is not default. Those are used only in 'secret chats', which I believe are not recoverable.

So you can use regular texting for everything you don't care much about, like sending youtube videos and memes to your friends, and use the secret chat to things that re more sensitive. That's great for most people that currently use Whatsapp
Oh, I loaded up my music on a USB stick for my 2018 Mazda. I ended up having to strip most of the vorbis comments or really strange things would happen. I'd see things like contents of other comments appear inside the title or artist field; the implementation must be buggy as all hell. I wrote a program that strips it down to just album, artist, and replaygain tags, and that seems to not cause too many problems.
It's significant yes, but it's not a new phenomenom.

It's "the Capitol" to you, it's "The US Capitol Building" to the rest of the world.

Is it newsworthy? Absolutely! But it's not a new phenomenon on a global scale, and it's very US centric to claim otherwise.

"First time major thing happens to <country>" happens all the time globally, but only when it's the US that it goes from off-topic to allowed content here.

And that's OK, it's their news site, they set the rules, but it uis jarring to come on here and find essentially general news content and commentary.
We didn't conquer those two diseases by locking down entire economies, damn the consequences. We accepted deaths as we do any cause and worked diligently to create a vaccine. Ebola is different as it is far, far deadlier than COVID-19.

I do not deny the severity of COVID-19. For those over the age of 65 it is far more dangerous than the flu. For those under, it is about as dangerous with the exception of those under 30 where it is far less dangerous.

The problem with the world today is that nuance no longer exists. There is a place between doing nothing and draconian lockdowns. But nobody seems to advocate for that middle ground at all.

You have absolutely no clue about my political stance, so don't pretend to know this is motivated by my politics. The problem is that you see this through a lens of politics. You believe that the only reason someone may disagree with you is political.

Please provide data that refutes any of the points I made. I will be happy to check them out and change my mind, if warranted.
That still doesn't hold water. A closer parallel would be breaking into the church with a group of armed people with the intention of disrupting the proceedings.

Standing up for the wrong hymn doesn't necessitate a lawyer-approved 'statement' to the press.
Sort of a tangent, but have you heard of Miyawaki?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Miyawaki#Method_and_cond...

> The Miyawaki method of reconstitution of "indigenous forests by indigenous trees" produces a rich, dense and efficient protective pioneer forest in 20 to 30 years