jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I had misgivings about Dropbox too, which is why I only sync one file, namely a 1GB TrueCrypt archive with all my data inside it. I hear Dropbox added TrueCrypt support in some fashion in their latest release, but I haven't investigated that yet.
All I know is that I hooked a small panel up to my multimeter and if I put it in direct sun light it produced 5 volts and under indoor lighting conditions the voltage was around 3 volts. So I don't really know how they work but I know how to measure the voltage coming out of them.
Agreed, but then again I brought one as at the time their were no alternatives on the market with a light (unsure if this is still the case - excuse the pun). The light is rather a nice feature that I doubt I'd go back on and they're solidly built.

That said, the OPs cases do look good and appear to be good value for money.
They have taken a use case of Twitter and Facebook and turned it into it's own product. People seem to enjoy using it but breathtaking is a bit much.

Also, what breathtaking technology innovation have they produced?
They send RST_STREAM, which can be done as soon as PUSH_PROMISE is received (which SHOULD [RFC2119] be sent before any data).

As I understand it, the more latent the connection the worse the behaviour (i.e., the more likely you are to receive too much data you don't need).
Please avoid such things. Useless warnings just create noise that mask real ones. Just this one may not matter, but the same rationality would apply to hundreds more.
Do you have anything to do with ezrj45.com?

It seriously looks like they're ripping off telephoneparts.com: http://telephoneparts.com/index.cgi?category=EZRJ45 (For example, compare http://www.ezrj45.com/ezrj45plugs.php to http://telephoneparts.com/index.cgi?product=EZRJ45/Plugs/CAT... ).
The film also mentioned that governments are subsidizing the industrial fishing industry. That's an obvious angle of attack that goes beyond consumer choices.
>HyperCard is an echo of a different world. One where the distinction between the "use" and "programming" of a computer has been weakened and awaits near-total erasure. A world where the personal computer is a mind-amplifier, and not merely an expensive video telephone. A world in which Apple's walled garden aesthetic has no place.
Once you get Internet access, legitimate cargo cultism probably fades quite quickly. Why revere John Frum when Jeff Bezos lets you buy in one click?
Instead, the heir now descends from the houses Battenberg ('Mountbatten') and Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha ('Windsor')...
I have a very minimal nix.configuration, write very small shell.nix files, and try to only use things I know or understand. So I’m definitely only using 1% of Nix right now but I’m comfortable with it!

Edit: I should clarify Nix is the build tool at work for Haskell and some of my colleagues are contributors so I know I can get help if stuck. I’m a noob though.
You also get a card on your 60th wedding anniversary
I think modern web apps alleviate a lot of these issues if done right.

They can function without internet since they can contain and persist a local version of the required data. Oftentimes you can save it locally and _eventually_ sync with the server.

Legally, at least in the EU, you can request at least all personally identifiable information in a standard compliant or easily readable format.

API based clients also theoretically allow for easy fetching of data, which you can then in turn persist in any way you like.

Still, for the average user, most of the times you are at the mercy of the SaaS provider. I think a legal requirement for standard-compliant data export would be nice.
i feel like every week i'm told some new thing is why we are taking down rain forests.

is it for beef cattle? palm oil? vegetables? lumber?
"sacred geometry", esoteric, Pythagorean and holistic? It certainly sounds freemasonry-like. Was he a Freemason?
I think a lot of the negative sentiment are people who havent tried enough. Good luck!
Why Do People Have Such Strong Feelings for the East Berlin Pedestrian Signals
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/the...
> Both still leave the original text based protocol and would stop ISP header injection.

SSL is not a text-based protocol.
The general who is skilled in defense hides in the most secret recesses of the earth

-- Sun Tze

(attack from underneath)
They seem to be more than assertions. You get warnings at build time and clearly some proving engine must be in use.
> Not everyone wants good enough; some people want an excellent, purpose built language for the web with all of the goodies we’ve come to expect on Day 1--no polyfills, no hacks, no waiting for a years long standards process to run its course.

Yes, absolutely; and Dart just doesn't fit that bill.
* But who decides if an action is unlawful? Oh, that's right... the courts.*

Your comment can be massaged into something reasonable with a bit of after the fact recasting, but in the context of the parent post that's possibly the most misleading way to characterize trials and judicial review that I've ever seen.
trying to get ideas? :)
And it is one of the reason why python is slow and difficult to scale on multiple cores (the main difficulty by far of removing the GIL is reference counting).
Not really directly connected, but in embedded systems you can actually see a lot of hardware software codesign approaches.

There is an approach called NISC [1] (No Instruction Set Computer), where the instruction set is completely removed and the compiler generates control words directly for the architecture (which can also be designed from scratch and optimized).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NISC
that's not a bug, that's a feature.

a questionable feature, yes, but not a real bug.
Bookmarked. Thanks Swombat!

I'd like to take the chance again to pitch the idea of somebody coming up with a more useful navigation system for all this information. There's a tremendous amount of good stuff out there. Any type of organization helps, therefore this list alone makes for a great resource. Just wish we could do something better with nav.
Out of curiosity, by parsers and compiler-compilers did you mean Lex and Yacc? It is always a significant undertaking to implement a dynamic language in that way.
Since this was a District Court decision, the appeal would go to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which keeps statistics on reversal rates on its web site. Last I looked, the reversal rate was somewhere between 18-30%. I.e., the odds are stacked against reversal on appeal.
But having a numeric score of 59 versus 9 is relevant, despite them both being F. Likewise, 89 versus 90. NHTSA can do whatever they want; I can say it is just a silly metric that is about as good as gaming reviews, as another comment points out. A 5.4 score is still relevant; why would they throw away precision?
Two Drummers Auditioning For a Jazz Course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKRzq-t8lIY

(warning: very funny)
I think you are taking a wide range of beliefs and summarizing them in the worst sounding way possible. I certainly believe that most homeless people have made some bad decisions to get where they are. I think many if not most of them probably have poor financial skills.

I also believe that many of them were born with a range of disadvantages and could have done very well under other circumstances.

A lot of them also do struggle with addiction and mental illness and it is worth considering that this can mix poorly with handing people a bunch of no strings cash. I don't think that's a reason not to do it at all but it shouldn't be ignored either.

I'm certainly not the worlds biggest expert on homeless people but I volunteer at a needle exchange and have encountered more than most so I'm somewhat speaking from experience. Sweeping this stuff under the rug doesn't make it not true.
very nicely done. simple and to the point!
Supporting HTML in the description makes XSS more likely:

https://provetheywantit.com/project?public_token=pub_KSUPBwl...
wait, tell us more! his does that work?
> Negative. Territory is things, not people.

It is also a human instinct to treat people as things. Thus, we appear to be creating a society that can override baser instincts. Anti-propertarians would thus be claiming to transcend those instincts in the name of greater justice, in the same nature as you are claiming to transcend this instincts to abolish taxation.

> You’ve neglected to consider laws that prohibit without specifying consequences for violation.

Those laws are clearly in the minority.

> Now you’re understanding why a “social contract” can’t be used to justify violating someone’s rights.

Correct, and it means that your problem is with the whole of the social contract, and taxation is but a fraction of what it entails.

> You’re arguing against it with me right here.

I argue because I choose to, not because it actually reveals anything about my actual opinions or convictions.

> roads predate the government that expropriated them from the commons.

Much like private property.

> I shouldn’t need permission from bureaucrats to use the roads.

Then you are stealing from the actual parties who built those roads and maintain them.

> You’re losing the plot.

Tu quoque.

> Bureaucrats taxing and spending necessarily means that I’m competing, with bureaucrats, for goods, while the bureaucrats are using my own money to compete with me.

Yes, yes, the issue of private competition with public services does exist. All of which can be explored without denying the fundamental principle of taxation, as aforementioned ad nauseam.

> So you agree that I do not have the right of exit.

Yes, but you believe in it for the wrong reasons.

> [citation needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_taxless_countries

> No, it is not.

Sure it is. Do you claim to be able to protect it if a foreign power assaults it? Can you take on an entire criminal cartel?

> Rent is not a unilateral transaction, neither is it extortion.

Rent is unilaterally determined by the rentier, who establishes a coercive rent regime due to monopoly ownership over the property in question. Thus, it is extortion because the other party is inherently at a disadvantage.

> You think the government is an alternative to might makes right? Interesting.

Even most minarchists who want only a night-watchman state will agree upon the necessity of court systems and law enforcement to enforce contracts. You are free to advance an alternative, if you'd like.

> Unowned property becomes owned through homesteading, owned property changes hands through voluntary transfer.

Homesteading is established through force, and voluntary transfer exist along relations that are backed by the violent force that is society.

> Force is a primary means of retaining property when someone attempts to take it from the owner.

Because in a Hobbesian state of nature all property is up for grabs, property is inherently in need of protection, and thus force is always on the table.

> I’ve made a solid case that does not rely on Proudhon

It certainly doesn't, but your case lives in the same moral universe as Proudhon's does, and has about as much relation to reality as his.
I thought there was a flag or commonly used library function that would do VirtualAlloc(MEM_RESERVER) and then from an in-process page fault handler attempt VirtualAlloc(MEM_COMMIT). But I guess I was wrong? I assume it's possible, just not as common as I thought.
The problem isn't that GMT changes, it is that the local time changes.

If I schedule an event in 1 year at 08:00 in MyCityTimezone and you store that the event occurs at 13:00 GMT then 3 months later MyCity decides that they aren't doing Daylight Savings Anymore your GMT time is now wrong. My event must still occur at 08:00 which is now 14:00 (or whatever) GMT.

"Just" storing it in GMT isn't enough. You probably do want to do that but you need to store the local time as well and update GMT to match if timezones change.

This is very frequently done wrong because timezones don't change often so the "Just store GMT" mostly works. But if you are writing a high quality system you need to deal with these cases.
I think I didn't communicate clearly. What I meant to say is that I think birds fare as well when birds strike aircraft (jets, helicopters) as when aircraft strike other aircraft. There's a measurable difference between a 200g soft thing bumping into another one, as opposed to a multi-ton rigid structure full of high explosive liquid and fast moving things having a little tiff.

I get what your saying about the organized chaos, but the risk slight accidental impact imposes isn't even close.

Would be awesome, though, gotta say.
You'd observe that the players treat it as a contest, and care about the results. It's like if you were trying to understand, say, a water pump, that you couldn't understand see internals of - speculating blindly about what kind of gears and motors might be inside would be completely futile, the path to understanding it would be to first understand what it's being used for, and then you might be able to start to reason about how.
Something tells me the average American who moves from a mass-transit city to a car-centric city is happier than someone from a car-centric city that moves to a mass-transit city.

People are allowed to like different lifestyles than you without being victims of Stockholm syndrome.
Hi, we build open source technology to make it easier for people to learn about and manage their physical and digital security on the move through our app Umbrella.

Our core set of users until now has been activists, journalists and human rights defenders all over the world. They deal on a daily basis with issues from being hacked to being kidnapped.

Anyone can use our free, open source iOS/Android apps. Web version in testing here https://umbrella.secfirst.org Learn more about our work helping some of the most courageous people on the world at https://www.secfirst.org.

We have found some awesome people here on HN before over the years (Hey Rok!) and now it would be great to find some people who are interested in helping give us a bit of a boast - from funders to founders. Especially techies who can volunteer time and possibly someone interested in coming onboard and helping us build out an open source business model around some of our tools (specially our CMS, Tent) to allow other organisations to help manage and train their own staff security more effectively. We've already had a lot of interest in that area, so it would be great to have people help us explore that opportunity to diversify.

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I can't see why not, though I honestly fail to see the point.
A good first step would be a government that doesn't waste months denying the existence of the crisis in the first place.
It’s funny how all of people crowding in will price out the entire crowd that makes it cool.
It sounds like Texas has a substantially different market than most of the rest of the country, by typically utilities are heavily regulated. I would be curious how the other market players react to this (perhaps requesting more regulation).

It kinda feels like someone who could have gotten insurance but declined getting coverage until after learning they have cancer. That's certainly not the spirit of how insurance is supposed to work (spreading tail-end risk across a pool of people), and if everyone acted that way, it would be far from sustainable.

As a whole people are poor at assessing low probability risks. Low probability high cost risks pose a big threat. Letting people get spot pricing may help the market be more efficient, but considering many people would struggle to pay a $200 unexpected bill, it does feel odd to let everyone do spot pricing if they want. For many people, even having one bill that was double normal would financial headaches, much less 10x!

Giving consumers spot pricing feels like having everyday people selling naked call options. It may work fine for a really long time, but when the strategy blows up, it has unlimited liability potential.
CMarshal brings Go style JSON marshaling / unmarshaling to C.

You can generate cJSON based JSON serializers and deserializers by adding a /* cmarshal:`true` */ comment to your C struct.

Potential use cases:

* Auto-generated JSON config parsers

* Simple struct printer (as a debugging mechanism, my goal in mind for this project)

* Introspecting C structs using cJSON API

* Easily bloat your program line count! (not the intended use case, of course)

Let me know how you think about this.*
That’s not even close to a majority. Why would that even occur to you?
Long time HN lurker here - this is my first post. Found this link via a comment on the NY Mag Lab Leak Hypothesis story (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25640323) and was surprised to find no discussion about it at all (although the link has been previously posted). I was hoping that some experts in the field could comment, because if this is legit (and the author does appear to know what they are talking about), then this is the story of the year, for sure.
> There just aren't any good candidates willing to work for the money we're willing to pay.

...so pay more money? Or take a chance on the not so good candidates and have a great training program? Or start an internship/co-op program at a local university and find cheaper talent. Get creative.
Why is this post being downvoted so much? Although I don't agree w/ the author's position, torture and its effectiveness are still debated.
Does anyone find it odd that insurance companies can demand this kind of information?

I pay them a fee (not willingly either - it's required by state law) to provide coverage for me in case of an accident. I tell them how much coverage I want and pay the amount required for that.

Seems to me that should be the end of it, as with any service.
http://amazon.com/dp/1558607013
Specifically, with respect to openssl and unicode

* The language standard specifies Unicode strings

* The Haskell Platform library standard adds support for Unicode IO based on packed text buffers

* OpenSSL is provided via the venerable hopenssl library

And there are many happy web users, such as Janrain, Galois, typLab, Bump, Deutsche Bank and others.

The ecosystem is in a pretty nice place now.
The article at Techreport seems more informative than this one.
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/20853

To summarize, NVidia has been making chipsets for use with AMD CPUs and their main selling point has been that if you wanted to run SLI with an AMD CPU you had to get an NVidia motherboard. Because NVidia is getting out of the motherboard business, however, there's no reason for them to not let AMD sell northbridges that can handle SLI, and now the 9XX series of AMD northbridge chips will work with SLI.

EDIT: grammar
Your question is fine. If a thread raises a question in your mind, then that can be the entirely appropriate place to ask your question. Keep asking questions.
Okay, what bias did I run into here? Not everyone who is excited about Android is going to immediately shell out a few hundred bucks when they already have an iPhone. For me, that's enough money that I think about how to spend it, and new gadgets usually lose out to other priorities. Does that make me a bad nerd or something?
Like the poster below says, its lighter, thinner, and has a nicer screen. My MBP has a DVD drive (yes, I still use Netflix discs because no, their instant doesn't have everything), better graphics, and a killer CPU by comparison.

It really is about tradeoffs. My MBP is my only computer, and I need the above.
All 3 of the main PC manufacturers (Dell, HP, and Lenovo) make such a system:

HP Z-series (I like the Z600[1]), or the Lenovo Thinkstations (C20[2] is currently my favorite workstation, as it's tiny but still can have dual Xeons).

[1] - http://shopping1.hp.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/WW-USS...

[2] - http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...
I'm introvert but I loved eating with my coworkers. It's very different from the energy consuming socialization that you would experience at parties or otherwise.

Then again, I didn't eat with all of my coworkers, just my friends.
The major difference is that a ticket is a perishable item. She entered a binding agreement that, in exchange for her money, she can have the tickets. Had she not bid, and won the tickets, he could have sold them to one of the other apparent bidders and he, himself, would not be out any money. She was wrong. This was a mistake on her part, not his.

However, with that being said, had this guy not been a douche he would have sold the tickets to her at face value (maybe + gas) but nothing more. In the end, they are both in the wrong.
Er, that post is from 2005. CDBaby has been sending emails like that since at least 2003. Maybe they still do.

That said, I think CDBaby was probably one of the first companies to engage in conversational marketing, which includes emails that look like they're written by actual human beings. (Even if they are (were?) a little over the top.)
Standard rules for patent trolls: that'll happen later. They're going after little guys now so they can go into a case like that and claim that their patent must be good - just look at how many other companies paid up!
Depends on where you are in the world. The European Patent Office explains:

Virtually every patent office in the world (including the EPO and the JPO) is based on a first-to-file system. ... The USPTO, however, is the only office to be based on a first-to-invent system, meaning that a patent is granted to the person who first conceived and practiced the invention, rather than to the person who first filed the invention with authorities.

http://www.epo.org/topics/patent-system/patents-around-the-w...
but it (and every other operating system) still has drivers for network cards that use binary, closed-source firmware that operates on the network card's own processor.

which can be backdoored, and would then be impossible to detect from the operating system.

http://esec-lab.sogeti.com/dotclear/index.php?post/2010/11/2...
I'd change all amazon links to affiliate links (assuming they weren't affiliate links already, not that I've seen very many here). There are a boat load of posts devoted to books here, and lots of book recommendations going on outside those posts. The big book threads get linked to again and again.

The only other thing I can suggest that I think would appeal to the community would be to sell ads to ycombinator startups at ridiculously low rates. One to two ads per page, nothing obscene.
> I can't think of a single more successful achievement of software engineering, so can someone explain why I shouldn't answer with an emphatic, "yes!" to this question?

Because you've taken a single question from TFA out of context as a straw-man. Yes, the web has been enormously successful. But that's simply irrelevant to the practical questions posed by the author. To stitch together the full question that Ben Morris is really posing using a quote from the article:

Is the web a model we really want to emulate [as] "the only collaboration fabric for a large and complex set of decoupled, autonomous and collaborating services"?

To which I could just as emphatically quip "no!" Note the "only" in there. Morris is explicitly not throwing REST out, but questioning the REST-uber-alles mindset by pointing out limitations of that paradigm.

Immediately after the quote you pulled comes (IMO) the best part of the article:

It’s not just HTTP that provides a limited model for service integration. The web has been an inspiration for REST but is it really that successful a distributed system? It’s slow, fragile and prone to security problems. It’s vast, decentralised nature makes it impossible to find anything useful without indexing engines that are so vast that only one or two companies have been able to create them.

It's not, again, that the web isn't successful. It's that the applicability of solution to problem is being questioned.