jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Spam. I think we are going to see more spam as the HN grows. I have been lurking in the background and reading for a year and just created an account. Talk of HN was in the ether. I think spammers heard it too.
Thanks for sharing that. It brought tears to my eyes.

Every time I read such a story, my faith in humanity is restored a little bit. I wish such stories were given more publicity; instead, we read about the latest mugging, stabbing or junkie actor every day.

These stories, combined with Neil Fraser's actions from a couple of days ago, have made the season for me. Thank you, HN!

And remember, people: it doesn't take much to do these things; just the desire to help others. Just do it!
We use the last names of famous 80's baseball players

Mattingly
Gooden
Puckett
Dawson
Ripken
Gwynn
Saberhagen
I don't think that would be a very effective way of teaching. The hard part of programming is usually not writing things like linked lists, but the ability to decompose a real world problem into sufficiently small parts that can be solved by writing down some common patterns. Repetitive learning of patterns won't help at all with developing this skill and may very well scare off students because it becomes boring very quickly.

Unlike playing an instrument, programming is not dependend on muscle-memory skills to produce adequate performances, hence repetition is of limited use while studying.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=apps

The App Store was launched in July 2008...
A full grown cow in the west can sell for $500 to $2000 depending on weight and breed. The main input for a cow is pasture, which is plentiful in rural Kenya. More importantly $80 for a solar panel is a lot cheaper, over time, than the ride into town and back. Since this all makes practical economic sense, it didn't require an aid agency to come their and tell them to do it all.
That's a great point! There's no workout/lizard brain attack defense component. It's also missing a physical exercise component. You're right that does seem like a huge part of the appeal. I'm wondering what I could do to add that appeal.

Beat Saber seems to handle the workout component slightly.

What about a VR version where cards come flying at you and you have to dodge them/block them? That might wake up the lizard/attack/defense part of the brain. That actually sounds pretty fun.

I don't think it was overly critical at all and appreciate the response!
Footprint (ie. of the built container image which must be transferred back and forth to repos) and runtime performance are two different things you may care to optimize differently or not.
Only eat oysters in months without an 'r'?
From a quick search: http://investors.kape.com/~/media/Files/K/Kape-IR/reports-an...

announces the proposed acquisition of LTMI Holdings

Freenode was bought under LTMH. Confusingly similar names, but different companies.

o Plus Ultra – a software that speeds up internet connections
o LibreBrowser – a completely private browser
o Private.sh – a private and encrypted search engine based on proprietary cryptography technology

And then includes a list of what else the acquisition actually includes. No freenode listed there.
I don't really have a problem with it when anybody can create /r/stadia2 and do a better job.
I would say:

100 years ago the education and financial support for scientific research by European-descended upper middle class men

was a thing.

50 years ago I wasn't expecting it to come back, it wouldn't have helped me anyway, overall scientific opportunities were far worse by then and the trend has continued. I wasn't waiting around for an uptick, I just started right away putting in the effort to try and compensate.

And I agree with this completely:

>There are certainly many geniuses obsessively researching into areas that stimulate their intellectual interest today that wouldn't have had the opportunity to do so back then.

There is so much brilliance in so many cultures through so many millennia, it can be seen that education and financial support are not even essential for genius, mainly for documenting, recognizing, and leveraging the influence of a very very small percentage of geniuses through history, only those few whose works were preserved and/or applied.

Surviving largely within a system of lesser thinkers whose works were better preserved and/or more stongly applied.

Which is why I think

>inventing new types of consumer electronics

can be a good thing if the consumer is given careful enough consideration.
That's a good point. I simply didn't get that this was your point.
This is the problem with several privacy companies and one that we don’t take lightly. At Private Internet, we are heavily focused on research and, specifically, have been focused on creating service architectures that limit or remove the need for trust altogether. That is what Zero Trust and Zero Access are about, and it’s the only direction we are heading. That’s why, for example, we launched private.sh, a search engine that you don’t need to trust.

That being said I do want to mention, most VPN companies won’t sign a binding agreement not to log - whereas our partners at KAPE signed an entire binding mission statement which you can find here:

http://investors.kape.com/about-us
So exactly how do you run a business as an ongoing concern if you continuously lose more money than you make?
The first thing is only possible on Android, not iOS. As far as the iCloud keys, Apple insists that they maintain control of them. And at the end of the day, anyone can just decide to disable iCloud backups and they won't have to worry about it.

>Originally, iCloud data was stored on Apple-controlled servers, with the Cupertino company holding the encryption keys. Apple announced a year ago that this would change to comply with new laws in China, and that data for Chinese iCloud accounts would be moved to a server run by Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD), a company owned by the provincial government.

>However, I have spoken to Apple today, who confirmed that it still holds the encryption keys, and states categorically that they have not been made available to either GCBD or China Telecom.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/07/18/chinese-icloud-data-china-tel...
Two and three years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5689971

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3877880
Probably no less viable than any other boutique that makes at least half their money applying the word "vintage".
There's a selection bias at work - emacs.

I haven't met many people who casually use emacs (other than those trying it out for the firs time, or giving it another shot, (or another, or another))

For those who really GET emacs, and think in emacs, it becomes their entire workflow - as they can automate everything from emacs, incrementally. Those guys that work with 80 or 90 buffers open didn't start out that way - they grew over the years to working that way by tweaking more and more functionality to bend it to their will.

You can extend lots of editors - but there's something about emacs and it's lisp nature that lends itself to this kind of developer.
I've tried liking rspec so many times, but Test::Unit really is where it's at. I don't understand the obsession with tests reading like english (Cucumber is much worse in this regard). I'll stick with ruby.
Sadly a live feed of my programming session this weekend would include a tab over to HN every ten minutes to see what is going on... noprocrast is sooo needed for me - but I just can't do it...
I couldn't agree more. I can take a C for about one-fifth the work of an A. I'm usually interested enough to explore the interesting material at depth anyway. I just don't do every tedious assignment.
But if it connects to the aircraft, it could use the aircrafts instruments, at which point it doesn't use the location based API's :P
You should probably update the price column. It still says $49.99, although the price increased to $59.99.
And when your startup fails and half of what you have for finding a job is your grades, what do you do?
Does the FAQ mean to have collapsing text chunks? I see the arrows, and they point right -> down -> right if I click them, but nothing happens. Everything is always expanded.

Chrome 10.0.612.1 dev
Check out https://www.ip2proxy.com
To make a custom chip it requires one time mask fees of up to $30 million for a 5nm chip. If your volume is high then you can amortize that cost. If not then you probably go to an FPGA. An FPGA has a high per part cost but no custom mask costs and you can reprogram it in a few hours / days instead of 2 months for a new custom chip to be manufactured.

A high end FPGA already has hardened CPU blocks, USB and PCIE interfaces, and lots of other things built in. Then it has a large area of generic reconfigurable logic that you can customize to do whatever you want.

This reconfigurable logic will not be as fast as a custom chip but it is still far faster than software and can be used to implement your own CPU (assuming you don't want to use the hardened CPU or got an FPGA without them)
The accomplishment is amazing. I guess our country really still does care about liberty and -- imagine this -- the constitution.

Trouble is, are people going to do anything with their "spitting mad[ness]?" I hope they do.
A simple hosts file will work for windows
Just make sure that you support those "deep" links as static pages or have a way of loading with default args for javascript that drives that.
I emailed my Senators (native Minnesotan). If I get anything other than an automated response I'll be sure to edit and include it.

I'm really dismayed that Franken supported this, especially considering his stance on net neutrality.

We might need 10 or 20 more Jammie Thomas-Rassets to get enough of a popular response from citizens to really change our Senators minds.

Here's hoping...
"Why are we spending all this money on a "miniscule" threat? Why are sexually molesting the population over a "miniscule" threat? (Rhetorical)"

There are companies that are selling these things are and are making fistfuls of money, some of which goes right back into political campaigns etc. In other countries that would be called corruption. In the USA, it's legal.

Think about it - why does the government go on to spend huge amounts of money and piss everyone off? Was there a cause that means we now suddenly need these sensors and groping procedures? Was there a terrorist attack that I missed? Were there politicians campaigning for this who then got elected - I guess I missed that too?!

Kids can certainly forget about putting on sunscreen now, as you're way more likely to get skin cancer from the airport. Either that or they get sexually molested.

The terrorists have very clearly won right now.
One thing to consider is the Pygmalion effect[0]: If you and the people around you believe you inherently lack the moral fortitude to resist those impulses, you are much more likely to make irresponsible choices. Your weakness becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Then there is the risk of recreating castes. It is one thing if you abdicate the right and responsibility to control your finances, but what if that became institutionalized? What if only people who pass certain genetic tests have full citizenship rights? Maybe future governments will legalize gambling and recreational drugs, but only for those individuals that don't have a genetic predisposition to addiction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
Things are not quite that simple. You can't say "because my Go app serves a single request under no load in 50us, it will serve 20'000 per core under 100% load" you'd be surprised it will not.

Modern machines are like a networked cluster themselves. You need to do a ton of work to tune both kernel and "hardware" parameters to identify bottlenecks with near-non-existing debugging tools.

There is one truth here: we used to get more performance by scaling "horizontally". Maybe it's time to "scale within"?
Many chromebooks are on ARM, and chromebooks all have the native ability to run a true linux shell at this point, and have for several years now.
They changed form 1040 drastically a year or two ago. Plus tax law changes from year to year.
They did invent it and name it like this. Is there an issue with calling it Amazon S3? Can't they get credit for it?

Even software such as Ceph calls themselves compatible with "Amazon S3 API".
This idea is cool, but there are some issues with their privacy claim.

They say they are hashing the MAC address (presumably on the device). However, they can't be salting the hash (else they wouldn't be able to match across different stores).

Since there is no salt (or a fixed salt), it is trivial to de-anonymise a specific MAC address (just hash it and see if any server has it).

Worse, there are only 46 bits that are variable in a MAC address, and there is structure in there (3 bytes manufacturer, 3 bytes serial), so a complete mapping from MACs to the hashed MAC is very doable.

A secret per-device key for a HMAC would preserve privacy much better, but would stop them doing the cool stuff they plan — the usual trade off.
What worries me is the chance that we will see another super virus in a few years except one country already has vaccines developed on day one and will not share the information on them.
Without pointing out specifics: Nim has comparable ambitions to Go but Nim actually has escape hatches for people that desire "more."
Haml isn't really for what the author of this article was doing -- writing actual prose. He has it right in the first paragraph: something like Markdown is great for that sort of thing.

For displaying structured data, as one might do in a view in a web application, Haml shines. Just think about table code.

Nobody with sense has ever said Haml is a great replacement for HTML in all cases. But it's useful and (arguably) more pleasant to use within its domain.
There is a meme growing on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%40cnn

Mr. President: Would you send Michelle/Sasha/Malia through TSA screening? Naked photos or invasive genital groping, you get to pick.
In The Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker talks about how, as a security consultant, he takes offhand jokes very seriously. He tells the story about the office which received an odd-looking package that nobody was expecting. They debated whether to open it. Eventually one guy decided to open it, so his coworker left the room. As the coworker was leaving, he made an offhand joke over his shoulder: "I'm going to stand in the other room so I won't be around when the bomb goes off."

Then the bomb went off.

Jokes are designed as a mechanism for saying speculative, potentially scary things without being threatening or looking stupid. When I see a TSA agent with that wallpaper, I see someone who knows at some level that something is very wrong but isn't able to say so out loud. Maybe they can't even say it out loud to themselves.
I wonder if 97% will still stay when the economy gets better and there's a reasonable certainty of finding another job in short order.
I think MSN (or whatever IM program) has been filling this niche for a while...
But when comparing different car companies you usually say BMW 325xi. The 325xi stands for something. Its a 3 series, which isn't as nice as the 5 series. The xi is the type of car it is. When looking for a car and you ask someone they can actually tell you what it is.

When people ask me if the Compaq Presario CQ61-406SA is any good, I have no idea what it even is.
Free linkbait idea: somebody should make a few mockups of Google taking "design inspiration" from iconic elements of other famous brands. Google redone in wall-to-wall Coke Red with a cursive logo. Google with the O's replaced by the Obama logo and a stylized flag background. Google over a silohuette of a twenty-something typical along on a keyboard with stylish headphones on.

You could title this All Of These Are Better Ideas Than Taking Design Direction From Microsoft. (I say this purely for branding -- I kind of like the Bing look myself.)
Effectively, all the crap you have to pay them not to install subsidizes your Windows tax. I'm with you in principle, but if they were willing to sell computers with no OS on them, they wouldn't be cheaper.
> There's nothing particularly wrong with any of them

Then why does it matter that they were submitted by the same person. I'd rather have 18 interesting links posted from the same person than 18 dumb links posted by different people.
Unfortunately, you can only do that if you've got a Google account, which I do not.
Just in case it looks like I was being big headed (the above is good advice anyway!); I'm probably not the smartest in the group.

But anb ability to retain random pieces of information is often confused for intelligence :D
"I've studied Javascript: The Definitive Guide and can use closures, recursion, object-oriented Javascript using prototypes, and jQuery. I would have no problem whipping up a demonstration app."

I think you answered your own question.
Not anymore; the latest models are all shortscreen.
everything important has been said here. stick to this and you'll be fine for the next 70 years.
My friend is getting his Bachelors in Business and in one of his classes his professor recommended that everyone subscribe to the wall street journal. He did but he has never picked one up we have a nice stack by our shoes.
"Undo doesn’t and shouldn’t excuse bad UI decisions."

Do you think that somehow disagrees with anything I've said? All I'm saying is that the author should have included the existance of a refund option in his article.

"Can you get refunds" was my immediate thought on reading the article, and I'm guessing that's the first thought that comes into the minds of most people on reading it.
If only SOAP wasn't the face of RPC to most people, you probably wouldn't get downvoted so hard. ;) SOAP is horrible but REST is worse. JSON-RPC is elegant and simple. I wish more people would use it.
The latest version of Sass (3.0) has CSS syntax:
The compiler supports both variants - the file extension (.scss vs .sass) denotes which you want to use.

See the examples on their front page: http://sass-lang.com

They have a command line tool "sass-convert", which can convert between the syntaxes (and from Less)
Agree completely. Most people don't need to do graphically-intensive tasks, such as gaming or heavy Photoshop editing or other performance heavy tasks, i.e. things that increasingly are becoming the only reason to buy a desktop.

As far as gaming is concerned, I have a relatively powerful PC myself, but I still opt to use my xbox 360 for gaming as using the 360 controller over the keyboard/mouse makes it easier to dive into a game, plus I don't have to worry about install headaches, incompatible drivers/hardware, patches... etc. The 'next-gen' consoles (360 and PS3) have made many of the reasons for buying a gaming PC redundant - networked consoles over Xbox Live! and Playstation network, and advanced hardware that allows graphics and performance to approach high-end PC performance (granted you can spend a few thousand on a gaming PC that will blow any console out of the water, but that isn't a realistic option both financially and in terms of ease of use for most gamers).

For most of the tasks that people want to do on their PC - browse the web, email, compose word docs, skype, instant messaging - I would advise my less tech savvy relatives to buy a cheap laptop.
:-)

i really have to apologize for the hosting. i'm using some experimental hosting software instead of a battle hardened solution. if anyone is having issues with the site you can clone your own repo and just open the index.html in your browser locally without installing anything.

site will become more stable over then next few weeks.
Basically, newspapers and magazines have the same problem as CDs: you have to buy a bunch of crap in order to get the one or two bits that you actually like.

I suspect that ones that serve a focused niche will continue to survive, just not at the size they've been used to.
I don't understand how Google and Microsoft let Dropbox (and Box) to gain any market share at all. It's poor execution from both these giants, particularly Google. I am surprised Dropbox was able to grow for this long.
There's a John Cage piece called "Organ^2/As Slow As Possible" that is currently being performed on a specially-made pipe organ in Germany. Note changes happen every few years and the piece will finish in 2640.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible
Unrelated, but are you the same Michael de la Maza who wrote Rapid Chess Improvement?
Context:
http://blog.samaltman.com/bubble-talk
> Even in a world where Lets Encrypt exists and actually provides free certs, I don't want a world where they become the SPOF for all certs, and I can't even imagine that they want that world.

Considering that Let's Encrypt seems to be planning to release all their software as Open Source, it seems like anyone willing to go through the time-consuming and expensive audit process could become a provider using similar infrastructure.

In particular, Let's Encrypt isn't just about the free certificates, it's about having automatic renewal and easy setup. Automatic renewal in particular is something I haven't seen from any other provider; I don't know any CAs that even have an API. I'd like to see that become a minimum expectation from all CAs.

I wonder sometimes why Amazon doesn't offer a CA as part of the AWS family of services, with an API for creating new certificates.
If I'm reading the information on your provided link correctly, then no, the photographer can not claim copyright - precisely because they are orphaned works. In the U.S. there have been bills, but no legislation to change this.
I hear you but various studies show that negative feedback actually exasperates the problem instead of helping to fix it. When people are given negative feedback their subsequent contributions are of even lower quality and also more numerous.
I'm not saying Dropbox paid Fastcompany to run this piece. I was responding to: "I wonder how you get media to write about your startup like that?".

Native advertising is a thing, one I wasn't aware of until recently.
I'm surprised they let leadership back in so quickly. Maybe the dogs got through the floor/tunnels quickly. There are reports of at least two bombs, though news said outside the building.

I think the symbolism of going back tonight is more important than the small risk. But I agree with you this is a breach that needs to be dealt with.

Though with all those computers hacked via solarwinds already anyways maybe it doesn't matter lol
I realized something while explaining this, it might be intractable to explain other than to just use basic blanket statements lol
There's nothing about that that message that was a message of de-escalation. He literally told the insurrectionists that he loved them and that the election was a fraud.
Impeachment trial does not need to end when his term does. They can still bar him from any future office and show that the rule of law matters.
The people who are in the sacrifice zone of US capitalism have been groomed in their ignorance by the Republican party.

Now even the reality that they are not a majority is too hard for them to understand.