jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I was eating an apple (oh the hilarity) while I wrote that with a spare finger...

I want unlimited data, but not because I want to make use of an absurd quantity of data every month - I want it to be unlimited because I don't want to have to think about it.

I realise that I'm ahead of the curve compared to a typical consumer, but I don't care - to me the Internet is a constant. It's just always there and I don't have to think about how much I'm using. It's like the air I breathe.

O2 have said that 97% of their customers will fit into the basic 500MB/month plan, so only 3% of people will really be inconvenienced by this. My response to that is - in that case why not simply invoke the "fair use" policies of your unlimited data plan to move those 3% of people onto a more appropriately priced plan and leave everyone else as "unlimited"?
Apple already "supports" codecs in Safari if you install them (e.g. you can do this now with Theora via the XipQT plugin) and there's a WebM plugin due in a couple of weeks from Google apparently, and I'd guess a newer version of Perian would also work once upstream FFMPEG accepts the patches.

The reason they didn't need to announce this support (apart from the fact that they might not want to give any attention to what they view as a competitor) is because, unlike Microsoft, they hadn't just announced the week before that they would blacklist all other installed codecs and only use H.264.
Hi, maybe you should have a look at Ateji Parallel extensions
http://www.ateji.com/multicore/
What did the chartist movement come from? What motivated them? What did Lords, factory owners and government officials do to workers before eventually succeeded?

Do you know the answers to the above? Until you do, you're missing out on important parts of British history.

I do not think unions are an unadulterated good, and I think many times the law goes silly trying to make it hard for companies to weasel out of their agreements (which is where many of the laws benefiting unions come from), but to act like they don't ever do good things, you really have to have not looked at what Great Brittan was like before they came about.

You're looking at something without the perspective of history when you look at the state of modern labour without looking at it's history and thereby missing 90% of their reasons for doing what they do the way they do it. Lots of the structures and behaviors are there to combat the shenanigans of the companies employed against the workers in the past.
My solution is that I create a password, then promptly forget it. When I want to use that site again, I simply click the "forgot my password" link and create a new one.

Basically, if I don't use a site every day, or it isn't sensitive like banking information, I don't really even have a password.

I am willing to bet that a lot of people are "Login via email" just like me!
No, though there is certainly a notable lack of hacker discussion on that article.

"Hacker" news seems to not even be the second most popular topic of discussion here. Startup crap and politics shit both do a great job of drowning it out.

Then you have the always creepy "article about steve jobs' personal life, which has absolutely nothing to do with computing or even his business"...
Are the product features 100% curated by humans/brands or is it pulling data feeds from Froogle (or whatever it's called now) and building outfits that way? Can't figure out the data?
Apart from these, Google has come up with the WebP image format which may make internet significantly faster than what it is today.

Furthermore Google hosts jquery files on its servers, which for many people is a godsend. While it is a simple thing to implement, it ranks highly on how it benefits websites (and thus the end users of those websites)
I met John Draper at SCALE 5x, eventually a huge group of us went out to dinner at some asian restaurant with him. He was talking about some new anti-spam venture he was starting up and how he would love for us (I was a student at the time) to help him start up his company and sort spam.

All we would have to do (without monetary compensation) would be see if an email was spam and file it as such, and then he would sell the data we were generating to other companies that could then provide actual anti-spam solutions based on human interpretation of messages rather than just computer checked.

Overall I didn't like him. It smelled like he hadn't showered in at least a couple of days, and he was making rude sexual comments regarding the wait staff, overall my gut feeling was to get away from him as he was nothing good.

Here was someone who was a hero to so many people making an absolute fool out of himself and presenting himself as someone who has no social skills what so ever.

When I saw him at DefCon 17 it didn't seem like he had changed much, a friend of mine said she went up to him to just talk to him, seeing as how he is a legend, and all he did was make rude comments regarding taking her upstairs to his room and whatnot and she just turned around and walked away disgusted.

It is pretty cool he is still out there working on various projects, but overall he could use an overhaul on his social skills and learn that when you gain some sort of status in a community you have to act appropriately. Ultimately while John Draper used to be one of the guys I looked up to as having done some really awesome things I was saddened in how he acted in public.
>> "Because Iran signed the NPT"

>In 1968.

So old agreements don't mean anything? I support laying down old grievances, but going back on old agreements is usually undesirable, especially after having no objections all this time. Half the international treaties are older than that, which ones are 'safe'?

>> "How many of those are the result of Iranian involvement?"
>They didn't invade the country.. plunging the country into chaos

Iran sure tried to between 1982 and 1988. And quite a lot of the Iraqi chaos is their doing. They need a weak Iraqi government so their militia can create a state within the state.

>That's blood money, not an apology.

Iran agreed to it. When Iran shot down its own citizens, it lied about the event until footage leaked out making the lie unsustainable.

>Maybe they wanted the Americans out so that the region could achieve some stability?

Right. The guys building substate militias everywhere, undermining half the states in ME really care about stability.

>the US has their [SA] back
Which is why the US really helped them after Iran attacked their oil facilities. Not.

>they're probably looking for the security of a nuclear deterrent.

They are the one openly calling for the elimination of one ME state, and the overthrow of a half dozen regimes on the other. If they want security they should look at their own actions. Or perhaps the 'security' the Iranian regime is looking for is being able to attack others without fear of interference from the West.
You've clearly never flown with them.
Hooray! Someone finally gets it!

Frankly, this is a stupidly obvious idea, and in retrospect we'll all be baffled why this wasn't routine years ago.
Ingress is Pacmanified as well today--various icons are Pacmen or ghosts.
You seem to be conflating the cost of some goods going down with deflation.

Wages would fall with the deflating currency. Goods would not cost less of your labor. They would cost the same.

The benefits are distributed only to those who already have money. Those who are in debt are harmed.

Not to mention, those standard economic criticisms that you don't agree with. Even the working rich with a respectable bank account are harmed in a deflationary spiral.
I signed up for this. I want this button -- but because I want to hack it so I can have buttons for other shit.
Dunno why this is getting downvotes, as it is simply a statement of fact. If we could distinguish a stream of photons that had "collapsed" onto a particular basis from one where individual photons were in a superposition of states on that basis we would be able to communicate faster than light using EPR pairs. It is generally believed this is impossible.
I've beem working on a similar algorithm.

I'm writing a program which takes multiple channels of near-periodic audio wav files, and outputs a phase-stable oscilloscope video. This is done by FFT-correlating (a buffer of recent oscilloscope plots) with (the audio signal) (with quite a bit of added complexity for better results). Incidentally I'm also using Python/Numpy/ffmpeg.

It's most useful for "complex" chiptune like FM/SNES/tracker/MIDI music, which are easy to split into monophonic single-note channels. https://github.com/jimbo1qaz/corrscope Should I submit this separately (Show HN)?
this reminded me of pixar's "university" that teaches technical skills for all their employees (particularly see page 2): http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/business/yourmoney/29pixar...

"Pixar University is at the center of Mr. Nelson's agenda. The operation has more than 110 courses: a complete filmmaking curriculum, classes on painting, drawing, sculpting and creative writing. "We offer the equivalent of an undergraduate education in fine arts and the art of filmmaking," he said. Every employee — whether an animator, technician, production assistant, accountant, marketer or security guard — is encouraged to devote up to four hours a week, every week, to his or her education."

sounds like an exciting place to work and grow
You could at least have them encrypted on disk with a key only stored in memory, i.e.: when the system is turned on. Alternatively a dedicated crypo device where you feed it cipher text and it gives you plain text would also help as the attack wouldn't be able to get the key (even if they have the physical box (for good crypto devices))

While only marginally better depending on the type of attack and permissions gained by the attacker, if all they got was static data on disk, then it would be secure.
If I understand this scheme, we put the "votes" in a box and pick a random winner from them. The NBA draft puts its "votes" (# based on finish order of bottom) and picks a random winner from them.
PCI requires that CC#'s are stored encrypted in the database. A service this big has had a full PCI compliance overview, and they wouldn't miss a basic requirement like that (I hope).
I haven't got a clue to be honest. I believe, at one point, I was unable to log in to my account "jneal" and so I created "jasonneal". I'm not sure when "jtneal" was created. They are all over a few years old.
Hey everyone...
I know that there are mixed feelings about social sign on around here, but I'd like to show this off anyhow.

SimpleAuth is a completely free Social Sign On / Multi-point Sharing / Contact Management (for letting users invite their others from their friend lists or address books).

SimpleAuth also addresses a major issue with the largest commercial player in the market -- the fact that with other services, your provider API Keys are tied to their domain (YOURNAME.THEIRDOMAIN.COM). With SimpleAuth, you create a CNAME and all the API Keys from the providers are tied to your domain. Should the unthinkable happen, you won't be left out in the cold asking your users to re-register.

We're like the SimpleGeo of SSO/sharing/contacts. We've got some pretty neat stuff in the pipeline that will be the revenue driver, but the SSO/Sharing/Contacts will always be free in their full glory.

Would love to hear your thoughts.
Which is why I have high hopes for Racket and Clojure - less NIH syndrome, more libraries, friendlier communities, and a healthy respect for good ideas from a wide variety of programming languages, not just Lisp.
So how do we sign up for the class action lawsuit?
If no one can agree on what they want maybe the solution is a flexible/customizable app? Let the user choose the depth of data that is displayed.
Comically when Apple would setup a store they'd ask their isps to provide an allocation rather than dip into their allocation.
To compare the US model with any of those countries is laughable at best. First of all, most,if not all, of them made long term investments in their people in terms of education, which took decades before they could reap the benefits.The economies transformed into service and high end manufacturing. Secondly, they do have very strong welfare systems,that take care of pretty much everything. Public healthcare is free( through taxation) or inexpensive. These factors create society,where people aren't desperate to lose jobs because they won't be able to go to hospital or buy food. That's why they don't and won't work for a fraction of what it costs to at least exist in those countries.
Is this the same (American) Henry James that I think of as a novelist?
While the vice article suggests that mushrooms will make food for themselves or other organisms from the pollutants they pick up, not all compounds are broken down in mushrooms. For example it's suggested not to eat mushrooms from old apple orchards as they may have a higher lead content.

It still may have a practical application to treat soil in an area (as long as you harvest the mushrooms) but not all of the compounds drawn up by mushrooms are broken down.

http://www.fungimag.com/winter-2010-articles/shavit-morels.p...

There have been some other studies where mushroom mounds were created on the boundaries of farms to help collect phosphates and nitrates in water runoff with some promising success. Couldn't find the specific study I was thinking of with a quick search, will update this comment if I find it.
I once used function pointers in C to generate -- and iterate over -- menu options in a Mac app I was writing. I felt like such a naughty, naughty boy for doing so.

There's probably a rule in those Joint Strike Fighter C++ guidelines that says function pointers shall not be used.
How is it nice UI? I'm forced to read eight words at a time, then click to get eight more words. I have no idea how long this is going to last, and I can't skip ahead to see whether it gets more interesting later on.
That's what I'm talking about. We are hackers. Why should we settle for a mediocre solution (like fighting with MTV from time to time) when there is a better around the corner?
This is an interesting overview but it explains more the process followed by the author when a worked example might be more helpful to others.

If you found the author's post interesting and would like to see some practical examples of how to test for application security vulnerabilities, then the following will help get you up to speed:

http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Testing_Projec...

http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Code_Review_Pr...
ABC: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=087_1292630413
CNN: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/23/julian-assange-walk...
A rebuttal by Comic Sans: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/15comicsans.html
BTW, you can read more in Cliff Click's USENIX paper from 2005: https://www.usenix.org/events/vee05/full_papers/p46-click.pd...
15,000 stores? That's brick-and-mortar, i.e. "offline"? How many stores competition have in NYC?
I think studying higher maths make for a good problem solver, but you are missing out on practicality and people skills.

For instance, in my life, I went all the way up to PhD level courses in mathematics. This translated into me being able to go into my start-up and solve all sorts of problems. I was also solving problems that were already solved because I was ignorant of what was considered good programming practice.

Like source control. Because I could, I wrote my own source control. Like an IDE. Because I could, I wrote my own.

I attribute my fantastic problem solving skills to my mathematics back-ground. After all, when dealing with proofs in abstract algebra and the creative process of making up strange sets that exhibit strange behaviors... Most things seem trivial at some level.

The fundamental problem of mathematics is that you spend a lot of time solving fake or stupid problems to build up the ability to solve real problems. If you are going to go into the cutting edge of research, then you will need those skills. Otherwise, you will be very good at solving artificial problems.

I want to say that it will make you a better engineer, but I'm very biased. I feel like it has helped me compared to my peers in terms of raw engineering power.
I made a beautiful app called ShoutFireInACrowdedTheater. With one tap it would shout “fire” in a crowded theater. Great interface. Amazing graphics. Voice activated. ADA compliant. But Google and Apple both banned it. Cancel Culture is real!
I've been doing that for a year.

I have NFC tags everywhere (toothbrush, dental floss, water bottle, toilet, pills, plants), and I just tap my phone on them to track things. For the rest (e.g., exercise) I use Google Assistant on my phone and smart speakers.

It's working very well.
That's alright, I'm sure you would have said the same to civil rights advocates in the '60s, too.
I reject your analogy on it's face as a banal attempt to justify incivility and barbarism towards those in which we disagree.
> If they want a platform for it they can build it themselves...

Right, right. That’s working out well for Parlor.
This might not be the right place to ask but I've been looking into matrix and am I right that if you don't want to rely on a central authority then you need to run your own homeserver, which at minimum requires a publicly accessibly HTTPS server?

Because while it's nice you can run your own instance those homeservers seem very public by default if you just want one for your personal use. Which makes it seem a bit risky if all you want is control over your username (well and optionally some bridges to replace e.g. signal and whatsapp but no way I'm connecting those to anything publicly accessible).
I agree, and I also urge people to watch this footage. It can be found here[1] (it is also featured for a few seconds in the other videos [2-4]).

There are two takes on this by comedian's here[2] and here[3], which I personally thought were intriguing (and funny).

There is also a comprehensive (serious) take here[4] showing a bunch of extra footage I hadn't seen yet.

If anyone watches these takes
and disagrees with them, I would love to hear how specifically you don't agree?

Especially: how can it be explained the omissions shown in [4] that the media are making, e.g. not showing the several incidences where the masses of Trump supporters were actively stopping the violent provocateurs (protecting police, stopping them from smashing a window, etc)? I am genuinely curious.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/sugaspov/status/13469199432380006...
[2] https://www.bitchute.com/video/bZCHyUgTc0o/
[3] https://youtu.be/xH9XWNz0GW4?t=219
[4] https://youtu.be/BwSxVvRFMJA
And what the article points out (once you get through the OMG 911!!! crap) is that that's a very small target market. And scheduled commercial air travel generally doesn't serve tiny markets well because the demand is highly variable.
Try Sunrise [1], which can use Google Calendar as backend and has push for updates.

[1] https://sunrise.am
> Any new technology also requires new training of pilots and ground crew, and it opens new avenues for mistakes.

I think this is the key point. This isn't iPhone level technology, this is closer to Space Shuttle technology, where things need to be tested to the extreme, radiation tolerant, and able to withstand the force of a literal plane crash.
My only advice is to leave web development if you're afraid of changing technologies. The web is moving at light speed, any framework you pick today will likely be significantly different or gone in 10 years.
No, the reason is "security considerations" impacting locality. The main point is locality.
unfortunately, dwolla is US accounts only, Xoom, transerwise don't deal with Turkey,

xe or Bitcoin may be the only options
The good thing about the nightly builds was you didn't have to use them, and people could respond quickly to showstoppers rather than wait for a sprint. There was a quicklook team to catch bugs which stopped nightly builds from release to general dev, and unless you really needed that build ( to test a new API) you didn't install until quality is restored. With fortnightly builds, if that is now what is happening, there will be massive instability every 2 weeks, until the final round of bug fixing cycles. Which can't finish because the OS has to be release at an event.
> Now that 4K is standard on laptops, and 5k on desktops,

Neither of those are “standard”, they are both high end. On laptops FHD is still dominant. Desktop displays are more diverse, with beyond-FHD being more common than on laptops but split between 1080p-but-ultrawide, 1440p, 4K, and the rarer 5K+.
I don't even use Azure or LinkedIn. But I'm extremely not interested in continuing a conversation with someone who is being deliberately ignorant and difficult. If your attitude is "consumers are not allowed to complain about any shitty marketing practice if I don't like
the company involved" then congratulations, you are sooooo superior.
...or LlanfairPG to its mates.
I discovered Chick's "Children's Songs" about six months ago, ordered the book of music, and have been playing them joyfully since. It's a series of 20-ish little compositions for solo piano, each very short (1-2 minutes). They are amazing gems. You can find Chick playing them on YouTube. I've been wanting to record them to introduce my grandkids to playing the piano. Now they will have even more poignancy for me.
Was this a custom-wrapped ubuntu image, or did someone pick the pre-configured ubuntu image managed by Canonical and Microsoft?
Mir and WAyland was because wayland couldn't do what they wanted technically.

Snap came BEFORE flatpak. Flatpak was the "new competing standard" in that situation.

And Gnome shell, quite frankly, sucked. IMO it still sucks, but back then it sucked WAY worse.
A lot of those can be blocked with e.g. ublock (the "annoyances" filters, not on by default)
Most 5G hype cycle I hear isn't about the phones though. I mean yeah it's mentioned when the latest top end phone has it but it's not really where the hype is directed.
As per Satoshi himself, the value of bitcoin increases because people speculate, start using it more, speculate more, start using it more, etc.

The reason why it is capable of increasing, is because the number is fixed. Inflation would outstrip its value, if it weren't.

Bitcoin is useful. It has organic support. When it comes to storing value, other coins do not matter (nearly as much). Just ask PayPal, Mastercard, Microstrategies, Tesla, JP Morgan, GrayScale, etc.

https://bitcointreasuries.org/

https://hope.com/
The NetBSD rump kernel (rumpkernel.org) does this for every driver in the kernel, and is part of the OS, so they are maintained (there are lots of stacks pulled out but not maintained).

Thats why it is important that this project becomes part of upstream so it can be maintained as the stack changes.
What? I can't do more than just silently upvote if I have nothing to add? The "karma" here means nothing when you think about it - you lose karma in the real world with your purposeless negation.
Actually google has recently added that feature with android app bundles. Apple has something similar with on demand resources, but specifically prohibits binary code in them. Hopefully with android having the feature, it would induce apple to allow binary dynamic libraries in on demand resources too.
I suspect its like datasets for machine learning, you want every last drop to ensure you have the edge, no matter how slim, over your competitors.
Yeah, making incognito mode detectable would be a huge privacy issue: it would enable blocking users based on incognito and all sorts of other bad issues.

If incognito mode is undetectable, there’s no way for Google Analytics to distinguish between “cross-device” traffic from an incognito window vs. from a phone and a laptop. Whether or not cross-decide tracking is good or bad, it’s irrelevant to this question.