jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Regarding this and the other response to me. I would never do what I described. I was just trying to demonstrate to those that don't understand XSS properly, that these issues are serious. I don't think a Rick Rolling really gets that issue across.

If I do an XSS attack against you on github whilst you are logged in, I can compromise all of your source repositories, your code, and in turn, potentially compromise the systems of your users.
That is the thing though, the rockstar that is famous for pretty much everything rockstar is famous for is in Europe ( Edinburgh, Scotland to be precise.) So it is a little disingenuous to say he is working for a company with a history of quality. He works for a company that was bought by a company with a history of releasing quality products not quite the same thing.
One million words and "stands" is the best you can find to describe a set that is "growing like mad"?

:p
""We have got things now we didn't have before," said Memphis Police Department Director Larry Godwin, who has produced record numbers of arrests using all this new analysis and technology. "Some of them we can talk about. Some of them we can't.""

Since when does a local city police department have things they "can't talk about"? Is that even possible given that eventually the arrests they make will have to go to court and presumably whatever technology or process they are using will have to be made public as part of that case?
regulation is like optimization ... can be the root of all evil if done prematurely... or necessary to do useful work.

(I would add - the problem that exists right now is companies like Comcast want to start taxing companies like Netflix and Google)
This comment is too smart for me (and added a new word to my english vocabulary). Care to elaborate on what you mean?
Booo this man. Its 'really disappointing' seeing someone complain about amazing free open code they're able to contribute to. Its great to offer feedback but you can do so without implying some sort of entitlement. Come on now...
wasnt the hyperdeflation even higher in the 90s when Moore's law still worked? My laptop and phone are both 4 years old and still sellable on ebay.
It really blew my mind how much differently tendons recover and strengthen compared with muscles. I think step one is to consider them differently in terms of rest, loading, and lengthening.
When you're confronted by someone larger than you, more muscular than you, that's enranged at their partner/coworker/family member and have been violent already and want to make you their next target, let me know how well trying to talk them down works 99 times out of 100.

Less than lethal options exist because in some scenarios the fact of the matter is you have to deploy a less than lethal option, shoot them or get hurt/dead.

While you might be able to talk your best friend down when he's mad that they put lettuce on his sandwich, that doesn't work when you're talking to someone that doesn't have respect for authority and is drunk/high/mad/mentally unwell and wants their way.

- Pepper spray/mace, despite spraying in a stream, are NOT targeted devices. They will immediately spread to the surrounding the environment and while the intended target may take the brunt of it, everyone in the immediate area will feel it to some degree

- Less than lethal rounds, like a rubber bullet, can be considerably more lethal than a taser

- Tasers can miss, fail to seat, and yes can cause death in some circumstances

- Bullets, at best, are going to cause permanent damage and at worst are instantly fatal.

I urge you to see if your local law enforcement has a community outreach program and if they do to actually attempt to talk to some officers about the sort of things they deal with daily and how they personally feel about their various offensive tools.

I come from a law enforcement family, I have many friends in local, state and federal law enforcement roles. The extreme majority of law enforcement officers hope they NEVER have to draw their firearm or even need to deploy a taser or spray someone but the fact of the matter is when police are called to deal with someone that is being disruptive, or actively attempting to harm others, they've already thrown reason out the window and there is a realistic chance they're going to attempt to harm the officer(s).

A taser is a deescalation tool. Simply drawing it can be enough to back some people down although as the study I linked shows You've got roughly a 1 in 3 chance that even sending electricity into someone isn't enough to get them to comply after the first round. That alone should tell you something "shocking 1 out of 3 people causes them to continue to resist" is exactly why law enforcement carry firearms (again, that they hope they never have to draw and certainly never use).
I have a low limit credit card that is used exclusively for sketchy stuff, such as gas, restaurants, smaller ecommerce sites, and so on.

It is not attached to my normal bank nor does it have any subscriptions/autopay so it is no big deal if it gets compromised (has happened once).
Which in fairness is probably less than 1% of the 2-3 million US college students out there!

Thiel and co. don't have the resources to fund that dream for so many individuals.
White light gives me headaches.

I also work through the dark hours the night. Switching between bright white terminal/app/ide to pitch black, as I do every night, is jarring and, again, gives me headaches. Dark mode should be an option just like every site should be accessible to any assistive technology.
They do sadly, which is why you wanna keep them off, or I suppose burn them all out at the same rate. I know my OLED TV actually does a burn-in balancing once I turn it off.
I co-founded Dev Bootcamp where I was responsible for training our teachers and designing our curriculum. I 1000% endorse the article.

The author isn't suggesting students will "magically figure it out". He's helping them develop the muscles they need to articulate, build, and refine their own mental models.

You can get students making CS-relevant predictions without them having ever seen a single line of code in their lives within the first hour. Students will enter the world of programming with an orientation that enables them to learn 10x faster, which is even more critical in the coding bootcamp context.
Yes, Excel is superior, but part of the beauty of the graphing calculator is the limited feature-set. It works well for classrooms and especially test-taking environments.
It shouldn't take much longer than an HTTPS connection, could be something with your server configuration or latency?
He said that this is just to try out github for now. And for now the official development will be on Google Code. And then when he's ready to move it over, he'll wipe the current repository on github.

"To see how well this works I have created a SNAPSHOT of the repository.
This way we can try it out. "
Absurd.

> ...and I don't see what Chrome brings to the table that an older Linux PC with Firefox didn't.

Are you serious? You can't see that Chrome OS is faster? Easier? As in: much, much easier? People are very afraid of Linux - they think they won't know how to use it if they try, and this is true some of the time. But everyone will immediately know how to use Chrome OS.

> 1. Wireless networks aren't reliable.

First, they're totally reliable for me. I've not had interruptions in...well, a long long time. It has been months or years since I've wanted wireless connectivity but couldn't have it.

Second, the author claims that Android apps handle this gracefully but Chrome apps don't. That's garbage. First, that problem has nothing to do with the platform. Second, Google is pushing hard to make Chrome OS work well offline. They'll deliver offline Docs, NY Times already has a fully-offline version working, etc.

> "Living in the cloud" will bust your data cap.

Short term problem. Again, this has nothing to do with Chrome OS. You don't think your data caps will get higher and higher as more bandwidth becomes available and consumers demand more and more? I promise you than in 1 year, the same amount of wireless data will cost less than it does today.

> 3. Web technologies suck for many app categories, especially games.

Historically true, but changing rapidly. This author is stuck in the past. In three years, HTML5 support will be old news; it'll be in every browser, fast and much better than it is today.
I will agree with you. I can only pick the standard Yale locks, but the gun is "insert, pull trigger, turn, done".
I saw the white bridge on the far left of the picture and had to look it up, as it seemed very similar to a bridge I'd seen in Buenos Aires:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_del_Alamillo

Sure enough, it was the same architect (Santiago Calatrava):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_de_la_Mujer

BA's another amazing city; I would love to see it get the same 111-gigapixel treatment.
Forgive me for being kindof ignorant here, but wouldn't this be pretty heavily dependent on your connection? If you're close (logically, as in network hops) to their datacenter?

Here: http://www.linode.com/avail/

That's a list of their systems. If you want to test the latency, ping one of them. For instance I'm on qwest's network in Phoenix, AZ. My ping time to

dallas1.linode.com is 40-45ms.

atlanta1.linode.com is 85-100

They're named by city...dallas1.linode.com fremont1.linode.com atlanta1.linode.com etc. etc.
Well, I had an idea for a web application that I'd otherwise create in Python. I figured I'd use Lisp to get some experience using it (also, my AI class next semester uses Lisp).

While it will probably cause some additional hurdles of complexity (such as figuring how how to use ASDF and manage packages), I find it is hard to motivate myself without a shiny carrot in front of me. The web application is something that I would use and want to build, whereas writing a simple and purely educational program doesn't provide the same kind of motivation.
The claim sounds weird to you because you are considering how the claim sounds to a citizen in a western democracy. The truth is, Putin really couldn't care less about that. The remarks were absolutely aimed at Russian citizens -- see, we are not that bad in comparison.
My father grew up in the favellas without parents, his mother (my grandmother) died when he was just a kid and he never knew is father, as is common in the slums. He was able to support himself through pickpocketing and any other way to feed and clothe himself. Sometime in his late teen years, through a gang connection, he was placed in a job at a factory. He worked his ass off at jobs like this for twenty years.

He has never told me how, but one day he left his job and started a small manufacturing business, partnering with the manager from his very first job who he had befriended.As soon as he could afford it, he took my mother and sister and moved to the United States.

I lived in Brazil for almost five years after grad school. My father passed away just last year, and I promised him to go back and look for entrepreneurs like him to fund with micro loans.

My father represents the entrepreneurial spirit that you claim is lacking in Brazil. I know that you are wrong when you say Brazilian culture cannot support a Silicon Valley.
Could you offer a counter example? Moral values that I know of can be somehow traced to emotional well being (or could be at some point in history).
why should we care?
One important thing that I didn't see mentioned was if the crystals that they grow can be in any desired plane. Recent papers on the subject, including the ones from Nakamura's UCSB group, only seem to depend on different substrates to obtain the desired characteristics and not this method.
The government is very adept at pointing out what handouts people are getting and hiding how much its actually costing them. And it seems to work on plenty of people.
First, you need to talk to a lawyer.

Second, you need to do a paternity test.

If the baby is not yours, or if the baby is yours, and your cofounder decides not to keep it, then you are a douche, but you got off lucky. Your marriage is probably destroyed, but your standing in the company might not be.

If the baby is yours, and your cofounder keeps it, and you do not take responsibility for it, expect to be booted from the company. Your marriage is probably destroyed.

If the baby is yours, and your cofounder keeps it, and you do take responsibility for it, expect to lose significant property to your wife during divorce proceedings. With lots of luck, you and your co-founder can both raise a child and maintain the company. Considering how much integrity you lack, I wouldn't count on it.
can anybody really blame facebook for not allowing export? your contact list (with email) is basically their golden goose. if they let other services suck this data out, their competitors only need to sign 1 person per social circle for pretty much everyone on FB to get an invite to leave.

in the spirit of openness, it sucks, but if you owned facebook would you welcome that risk?
Reminds me of the Cory Doctorow short story: "The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away"

Available here: http://www.tor.com/stories/2008/08/weak-and-strange
So, you'd classify a right to the belongings of others as a positive right?
Why not just ship with Chrome?
>No. I don't need to discuss the other effects because everyone else is discussing those, I'm adding another point of view to the conversation, it doesn't mean I don't understand the other side.

No, 'everyone else' is not discussing the effects I'm talking about.

'everyone else' is focusing on about the person buying the split ticket.

You are focusing on the other passengers on the plane, which is a noble goal.

But you're only looking at half the picture of those other passengers.

'everyone else' is looking at 50% of the picture, you are bringing 25%, I'm showing the last 25% and how (in my opinion) it counters your argument.

The person buying the split ticket has an effect on the other passengers, but their main effect is changing which potential other passengers are able to buy tickets. Since this is a random and chaotic process subject to the butterfly effect, I declare that it is impossible to not affect it, and therefore affecting it is not disrespectful. It can only be disrespectful if you reduce the total number of seats fulfilled by other passengers. Because supply chases demand, buying extra seats should not have this effect. Therefore there is no disrespect.
My point is that the cost to support Opera isnt as high, or in A LOT of case, adds nothing, to the effort needed to get to a final product.
Yep, they could have. They could have also listed exactly what they had for breakfast. But do their customers care?
Excellent. The typography reminds me why I stopped using webmail. People like my mom actually wrote me messages in this font, and I was powerless to change it.

Now I read my email in Emacs, and everything is very pretty DejaVu Sans Mono-9.
Maybe we should just change the default to "she".

Why?
-I'm a male and ambivalent about "he" being the default. But, if it's an important issue for some woman, I'm happy to oblige.
-"They" doesn't work grammatically for singular nouns.
-Creating a new pronoun for gender neutral situations probably wouldn't catch on.
> > Our product development was almost stalled for months on end.
> Then you're doing something wrong.

Easier said than done.

I reached a point where I finally realized how deep in technical debt my startup was. Actually, that's not true. At some point I realized "OMG, I've got three months of work to do just to stop stuff from breaking every day". I was wrong. It was literally 12 months.

I'm now at the end of that 12 month slog.

I will never let stuff get as bad as it got then, so this was a wonderful learning experience.

...but to say that, based on where I was, it was the WRONG decision to put out the house fire before building more additions on the building is to speak without the detailed knowledge that someone in the situation brings to the problem.
How is it an improvement?
This is a media distortion.

Are you seriously asserting extremist feminists seeking privileges for women don't exist? I've met them. In the interests of being verifiable, I'll link to a particularly noxious example:

"At a stroke, the one thing that women had going for them [the ability to commit paternity fraud] has been taken away, the one respect in which they had the last laugh over their husbands and lovers. DNA tests are an anti-feminist appliance of science…"

http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/6391918/whos-the-daddy...

All organizations, movements and political affiliations have crazies, and very often they will come to dominate the media attention. It's just a sad fact of life. And no, your favorite organizations are not immune.

And no, I won't be drawn into a discussion of the merits of "social justice" (whatever that means). It's utterly irrelevant to the point I was making. As I said, my point applies equally well to the Tea Party, a rather disorganized group who's aims I'm moderately sympathetic to.
nothing says sucker better than a 2yr contract attached to a $250(contract) + $600(phone) fine.

i rather very much pay the phone i can afford and not be abused like that.
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Thanks for the pointer, though I already know about it. But then I can't change the volume when in a text input field - with headphones and very dynamic music I found this to be an issue.
So you are certain that the higher chance that medical personnel isn't carrying the proper terminal with the proper keys is not an issue in comparison?
How does it change the semantics of Scheme? It avoids blowing the stack for sure, but the stack size isn’t part of the semantics of Scheme. If you imagine a computer with arbitrary amounts of memory, then the language behaves identically with or without tail call elimination, right? The only difference is performance and memory usage, but the meaning of programs is still the same.
And people got around the patent by using the marching tetrahedra algorithm, which uses tetrahedrons instead of cubes.
But it's not. 55 year olds are not dropping like flies like you're implying in your previous, false, statement [0][1].

Furthermore I have contracted it and guess what, I'm fine _now_ (sure we could argue about "long term effects" but at the moment that is big unknown). I'm also quite young so that played a part of course.

It's not dismissive to say everyone has to go sometime, it's just the truth.

If you're willing to sacrifice resources to give an extra few years to an already dying or sickly subject that's fair enough but pardon me if I beg to differ and look at the other side for the argument and focus on the repercussions for those that will not be _medically_ affected as much.

[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1327
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid#case-fatalit...
Wait, this is a thing that people actually do? I thought the "talk to your representative" thing Americans say was a polite way to tell people off.
As time approaches infinity it will be harder and harder to find unique project names...
I'm looking at their docs now...

I worry about Dropbox + security. The fact that I'm sharing folders publicly with other people in the same directory that I have private data, worries me. Lots of room for human error

Why does 1Password need dropbox? It would make much more sense if they had their own cloud solution

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I love dropbox and I'm sure 1password is great. But I don't feel secure with dropbox (ever lost a file that was in your dropbox because you or a colleague made a mistake on a synced computer?) and I hate the idea that a person could have a copy of a single file with every one of my clients critical passwords, encrypted or not
This would prove something closer to "some wines taste better than others", a statement which is not disputed. (E.g. the results of wine tasting contests are not nearly random.)
Another example is language certificates. Maybe less well known to the monolingual English speakers here, but jobs in non-English speaking countries often have the requirement to speak English for business contact, to read professional reference material etc. There are many exams and certificates (local ones, or international ones, like TOEFL, IELTS, etc.), and they are nice on a CV, but they will always do a short test if you can actually speak the language. Passing a standard test is not always enough.

It may also be the fact that doctoring is more about keeping a large amount of facts and experiences in mind as condensed expertise, while programming is more about raw intelligence and solving novel problems analytically (although this sounds a bit pretentious and self-important, I know). Cardiology is very unlike logic puzzles. Now sure, day-to-day programming may also not be much like logic puzzles, hence the endless criticism of whiteboard leetcode interviews.
SOLVED: less +F -R <file>

Interprets color codes as RAW, relaying them to the screen as-is.
Maybe these 10X programmers can quickly solve bugs and problems because they have faced similar issues before and spent the time nesseccary to understand the problem. In that case the important lesson is to limit the amount of novelty in your work so that you are mostly building on technologies you understand well.
I'm hoping that you're kidding, but in case you're not, this is definitely not secure. It's only marginally more secure than just sending it in a regular font.

If anyone were trying to intercept that document in order to steal passwords, the font would have absolutely no bearing on their ability to find the password. In plaintext (ie: document opened in Sublime, or other plaintext editor) the password would be very obvious. And even if the interceptor didn't open it in plaintext, it would be incredibly easy for them to just... change the font.

Using a "password" font would only decrease the likelihood of someone reading the password over your shoulder. I guess that has value, but I think you'd be way better off finding a real encryption solution.

My coworkers and I use Keybase for sending secure info back and forth. The UI there is super simple for people that don't actually understand PGP, but it's (almost) just as secure. You could even do something simple like `keybase decrypt password.txt | pbcopy` on a mac, and that would take the encrypted text and put it in your clipboard - it would never show the password on your screen in plaintext.
> John Aaroe said, “I have been in this market for over 30 years and have never seen the level of growth that the luxury market has experienced in the past year, with no end in sight.”

Hyperbole, or truth? and why?
Redacted Script? More like Doctor's Handwriting if you ask me :p
People want the Chromebook device without the ChromeOS.
and what number would you choose ?
waitbutwhy had an interesting discussion on this a few weeks back: http://waitbutwhy.com/table/how-long-would-you-live-if-you-c...
Yep, I've had that happen in a past. And the only reason I was able to tackle that "one problem no other developer could fix" was because I had already tackled it numerous times freelancing. In that case, I was almost a 100x developer.