jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I loathe too long problems - if only because instead of letting me know they silently truncate the password to their maximum! But only on the password change form - the rest of their site accepts the long one for checking.

I now intentionally limit the longest password my password manager will generate to 12 characters now, just to avoid this mess.
That's fairly off topic - I mentioned that HTTPS is somewhat irrelevant here since Baidu is located in China, and anyway a forged certificate could not be used in a mass attack like this one since the issuing CA would come to the attention of browser vendors rather quickly. For the record, hopefully Google's upcoming Certificate Transparency feature in Chrome will help address the general issue, although who knows what kind of adoption it will have in practice.
It seems a downside would be that this uses more space. The racks are mounted horizontally. Convert an old data center to this and they'd only be able to install roughly half the amount of machines as before.
As a layman, it looks like failures to deliver have very little consequence, so I'll ask some stupid questions here.

If one of these activist investors happened to have lent a stock out, which then failed to deliver, what is the worst consequence they could inflict on the borrower? If no consequences are available, then how do short squeezes happen?
> Bitcoin has no inherent value, it is a string of characters.

Dollar bills have no inherent value either. It's just that people believe they have value. This is basic economics.
Egos are the origination of they why it can occur.

Start with a municipality or country leader looking for ways to cement their "legacy." The leader will identify projects in which their name will can be associated to keep them in the forefront of the people using the people's monies. Be it fixed rail, stadium construction for a private team, or putting on an Olymipic event, the leader needs to fulfill their desire to do something.

Once the project, let us use the Olympics, are whispered as a possibility, an exploratory probe is performed; probes can cost anywhere from $100,000 to $1,000,000 as they include analyses of existing facilities and requirements. Elected officials are excited because there is a remote possibility that the Olymipics could be hosted and sign off on the small funds. Bidding takes a couple of million to draw up plans for the facility deficiencies and shuttle the IOC team around the city; the leader gets to hob nob with the IOC team, press photos, other elected officials get to bask in the glow from local newspaper reports. After the national selection, your city needs to be selected to represent the nation, you move on to global selection committee. Repeat the process and you are looking at $16 million dollars for a successful bid, Salt Lake City was the last American Olympic bid I could find.

If you cannot finance this undertaking you need to find investors willing to finance the program; criminal rings are perfect as they can provide liquid assets and assist with the process by leaning on their contacts.

The risk management for the criminal entities:

* Failure to achieve Olympics, still have a leader to approach when the organization needs assistance with an issue, good result

* Success to achieve Olympics, the leader has favored companies to go to for projects during the bid construction process, further cementing the organizations grip, great result.

The United States has the funds at the federal level to contribute to the Olympic proposals after selection is won.

Reference: I was a periphery in the bidding process.
> Why would you think the next program would be any better?

Because if the powers that be were smart, they drastically simplify the requirements and drop the USMC variant completely. Any time the military tries to design a super-advanced swiss-army knife it invariably fails. This is the worst example of that in history.

> These are the normal teething problems every new advanced fighter goes through. The F-22 went through them. The F-16 and F-15 went through them, though it was so long ago nobody remembers. Nearly every project reaches a point where people say "This will never work. Let's cancel it."

Sure but the problems with the F-35 are waaayyy beyond teething issues. The software is way behind schedule. The fuselage has very poor rear visibility, so a targeting helmet was supposed to be developed but that's way behind schedule and may never work. The plane was designed without proper onboard lightning strike protection so it currently can't fly in bad weather. The plane can't be loaded with fuel higher than 80 degrees in temperature so it can't currently operate in a hot environment until retrofits to cooling trucks. The jet wash from the USMC variant melts the decks of the amphibious carriers it is meant to operate from. It has a poor turning and acceleration performance compared to Gen 4 fighter aircraft. It has poor loiter time. It doesn't have the basic video uplink functionality for close air support that even the A-10 has. It is already so far over budget that the unit price may approach that of the F-22. Some of the partner nations that were supposed to buy it are backing out, thereby increasing the unit price.

The main problem with the F-35 is that the military took a lot of short cuts in drafting the requirements for this program, and when the predictable problems and schedule slippage occurred, they doubled down by relaxing testing requirements.

This is supposed to be the backbone of American air power for DECADES. It would be one thing if this system would eventually perform as billed but it looks unlikely that it will and it will cost twice as much to purchase and operate as originally projected. It doesn't make sense to cripple our air power for the next generation becaus of the sunk cost fallacy.

> By the way, the "flexible plane idea" has been incredibly successful in the F-18.

Yes, but the F-18 is a much, much simpler concept. Carrier-based strike aircraft. Then look at the F-35: stealthy land-based, carrier-based, and stovl aircraft that will perform strike, cas, and interceptor roles. Right off the top the stovl requirement makes it very difficult to design a stealthy aircraft that will also have good enough aerodynamic performance to win a an air-to-air engagement after ther merge.

If the F-35 was only a carrier-based strike fighter that added stealthiness, maybe we'd have a winner. But it is literally trying to be all things to three different services (one with a VERY difficult implement STOVL requirement) then throwing a difficult to implement low-observable requirement of which no other nation in the world has successfully implemented even a first generation of.
And if they used Firefox they wouldn't have disabled the update functionality?
"The Dark Net" by Jamie Bartlett was a book with a perhaps overly dramatic and actually a bit misleading title/graphics, that nonetheless does a very, very good job of explaining the so-what of crypto-anarchism. Also, as it was published in 2014, so it was a bit prophetic.

To crib a Goodreads review of it, it's actually about:

> Bartlett spends the bulk of the book analyzing the impact and development of the internet on human life:

To get to the point, what is really interesting about the crypto-anarchist movement is a concept Bartlett does a good job explaining. The cipherpunks, for all their libertarian wackadoodle beliefs, believed that if you could enable 3 pillars of internet use, the impact of how the internet could be used would be radically improved. Or like, those 3 pillars would enable something really "meaningful" about internet use..

Those three pillars are natively digital...
1) private browsing
2) private communications
3) private spending

If you look at how the past 20-30 years turned out, 1 and 2 came into existence and proved to have immensely impact: Tor and PGP. Tor perhaps didn't shake things too much although has its niche, but consumer-accessible encryption today plays fundamental roles in internet infra basic functionality the same way that web servers and DNS does.

So, the cipherpunks sort of called it accurately on 1 and 2. Along comes 3 in Oct 21, '08 with bitcoin's white paper. At a minimum, that means btc merits attention in my mind, as it comes out of a community that has some other very prescient commentary on how the internet could, should, and would eventually work.
that sounds awful.
Not a lot of details but this sounds like a hopeful new avenue. Most stroke drugs today are targeted at blood clots, but as a side effect they increase the risk of bleeding and hemmorrhagic stroke. There aren't a lot of drugs that can treat the latter and reduce swelling, other than mannitol. Hopeful this research pans out in a few years.
Here's the thing... they did budge. Alex is so caught up in dunking on the FDA that you might miss the fact they just approved a one-shot... within days of hsi last article dunking on them for not doing it.

Presumably, that approach was being studied all along (in the three months that it's even been a decision.

Everyone assumes the FDA are being rigid and bureaucratic regardless of what they actually do. How do you write an article ripping them for magical thinking as they do the thing you're saying they should do? The fact that the FDA didn't pull a u-turn on the same day a"maybe this" thought occurs to a welfare economics professor is enough to accuse them of negligence every week.

Now, it doesn't even seem like even doing what he thinks they should do is enough. They're still caught up in "magical thinking." What for, giving any weight to clinical trial design at all.
Yeah because everyone knows you go all the way to 9 like you are slapping the piano keyboard in movie Big.
> Logic being if someone controls your email account already, it doesn't matter that you have two-factor auth, they can shut it off because they control your account. A lot people using two factor auth with their Google account have been hacked exactly this way.

Can you explain this a little more? I don't think I understand, because to me it sounds like you're saying, "once your account is hacked, two factor authentication won't help because your account has been hacked, so the adversary can disable two factor authentication". Don't major changes to accounts like that sometimes require re-authenticating with all required factors? I need to do this if I want to add a bill pay recipient to my bank account even if I'm already logged in.
No, I'm saying that the ends don't justify the means. I don't think that Iran should have nuclear capabilities, but that it's not our battle to fight, and thus the US (and any other nation) should not be attacking it.
You may be pleased to learn that game developers do not use Tcl for scripting these days and, indeed, few ever have; see http://wiki.tcl.tk/40487. Their embedded language of choice is, by a large margin, Lua.
free text with no validation is the only acceptable answer.

Unfortunately, it's not an acceptable answer in practice.

In my experience, users aren't clear what to do when presented with a free-form, multi-line text box in which they can enter their address. This results in frequent missing data – users aren't aware they need to include a postal code, or county, or country…

This is probably because users are generally conditioned to expect separate text fields for separate tokens in their addresses.

There's a middle ground though – extract the tokens you need (postal code, country) and allow the user to freeform the rest. And don't even think about trying to validate addresses in any real way – you'll fail!
I don't know. The EU seems to be more concerned about not falling apart right now. But then again, I was hoping the people of US would notice and maybe tell their government that they don't want to be citizens of the biggest terrorist state on the planet?
They're deaths nonetheless. In case my previous comment wasn't clear, let me say it directly - the USGOV is terrorizing the world and then uses fear of retaliation to push for more domestic security measures.
That times a thousand.

I've posted here about my experiences with weight loss before (tldr; I got involved with weight watchers, have personally been involved with hundreds of people losing hundreds of pounds each over ~10 years).

There is no person on this earth that can eat less calories than they use and not lose weight. It's not possible. So there are two very easy ways to lose weight.

1. Eat less calories (than you use).

or

2. Burn more calories (than you eat).

(or a combination of the two - as a lifelong program like Weight Watchers promotes.)

Obviously it can be hard for some people to eat less calories.

I'm not saying it's easy, I'm saying it's simple.
Thanks! Do you think people will go for the full source or the binary only version?
I love this idea, and the website is so clear and inviting. I'd order some right now if I was on the other side of the US. :)
And one poet I never appreciated when introduced to her, but love now: Edna St. Vincent Millay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay

Renaissance and Other Poems is full of just staggering work: http://books.google.com/books?id=vxUpAAAAYAAJ
The [how] of the concept is simple so I won't go into that until I have protected the IP or have developed trust in the individual. But I believe I have a way to inform people of [all] the upcoming events that they {the individual} is interested in but did not even know where happening.

Think of the application as your most popular friend in high school - the guy/girl that just knew everything that was going on. The guy/girl you would call to ask "what are you up to tonight?" "what else is going on?" And they could tell you all the fun things that were happening and what your other friends were planning on doing.

I believe I have a way to provide a more complete version of your most popular friend to the world.

I could not go into the other value proposition or sources of revenue without giving away the concept.

I greatly appreciate everyone’s advice. The YC community is an amazing place.
This is like saying just because China and the US act much in the same way (for example, they are the leaders in environment pollution) there is no distinction between people who believe in a communist regime vs. in a democratic government. Of course a distinction between Republicans and Democrats is useful. For example it is a good prediction to say if you have a PhD, you are probably not a Republican.
Game-related libraries and engines can get expensive. They're both 3D, but C4 and Torque for example can both cost >$300USD.

It's pretty expensive, but given how well that demo worked i'd probably buy it if i did any javascript.
Hydro storage is gaining popularity. During the day, with over-provisioned daytime production, they pump water to higher elevation ponds. At night they let it flow down to the lower elevation ponds.

These could still freeze and stop becoming viable sources of energy, but they are a non-lithium source for energy storage. If they could be kept warm enough to flow in these conditions, they could provide generous storage capacity.
I believe that is what the British are doing.
Holy cow! How in the world do you use that much? My old house in Colorado would use ~350kwh/month. Swap out that electric heater for a heat pump asap!
That Tree Notation?
https://treenotation.org/

I don't get it. The descriptions are pretty wild and make little sense to me:

> Tree Notation is like a 2-dimensional binary and could be used at the lowest levels of computing.

But in practice, we have:

- Tree Notation, both data structure and a textual data format. A data structure only has one datatype, which is string value + a list of children. A textual format uses significant whitespace both in the beginning of the line and between the values. It seems to really hate punctuation for some reason, there are no quoting mechanisms or even quotes.

- Tree Language, a parser/lexer combo which generates AST in Tree Notation format. It allows embedding Javascript in the generated output.

- A bunch of examples made using the parser above -- there is some plotting tool for web data, HTML generator, and few toy DSLs?

Overall, I don't see anything particularly unusual about it. I see no advantage of Tree Notation data structure compared to usual string/int/list/dict core types most languages have. I see no advantage of Tree Notation textual format compared to others -- while it may be OK for very simple cases, I have a feeling that the lack of quoting and inability to wrap lines would get annoying fast. The Tree Language grammar does not seem very elegant either, it certainly seems harder to read than BNF variants.
Yes, that is guaranteed.
As bad as Trump was, I think that he is one of the president that delivered the most on his promises...
The solution is round a'bouts. Also my ring camera has a 10 second pre and post event loop. No reason the traffic cams shouldn't have that either.
What is the difference between standard motors and robotics grade motors?
> It's artificially bad: someone took a reasonable design and a list of everything you can do wrong in a page design and built a demo.

Don't underestimate users. Give them the opportunity to use blue comic sans and some of them will use it :-)
I bet they can claim copyright up to the gradients generated on their media, but in the end the gradients get summed up, so their contribution is lost in the cocktail.

If I write a copyrighted text on a book, then I print a million other texts on top of it, in both white an black, mixing it all up to be like white noise, would the original authors have a claim?
Not to mention it's like five cents for the same amount of caffeine in a $5 coffee.
Your kid is 7. I'm pretty sure hat I was eating dirt when I was 7. If he has showed you he's interested in programming then go ahead, but make sure you're not projecting your own interests onto your kid. It'll lead to resentment in 7 or 8 years.
> There are some false positives, but most are not, and not easily fixed by more engineering.

This seems like the crux of the issue. It sounds like there is a long tail of issues that are hard to fix but have large customer impact. Or do they?

If these long tail issues didn't get fixed, how much revenue would it cost? Figuring that out seems key. If it's a lot of revenue, then it would make sense to spend the time to do the hard engineering fixes. If it's not a lot, then it makes sense to let you sleep.

> Management has extricated themselves completely.

This is a big issue too. If the problems warrant waking you up, they should be serious enough to involve management. If they aren't, then it sounds like they're waking you up for no reason.
Exactly, and they have no incentive to make random public stablecoin bagholders rich.
I think disruption of sleep is so detrimental to health that each call should be compensated with one day off (if you are not getting paid for it)
It’s less about latency and more about stability. That 1ms will skyrocket at the smallest interference.
Some parts of the spectrum are only suitable for certain uses. Cell phone providers prefer frequencies in the MHz range because they penetrate buildings well. Higher or lower frequencies wouldn't be suitable for this purpose.

In addition, a lot of Tx and Rx equipment moves around. A quiet part of the spectrum in a rural area might be crowded in a city, for example, and poorly designed equipment could be subject to harmful interference
I've played this in the past and it was fine. I suspect it is getting a HN hug right now.
One of my kids was asking what the biggest building in the world was, which led to what I'm sure was, from his POV, an annoying discussion of what he meant by "biggest" and, eventually, my accidentally stumbling across this. I found the story here pretty amusing and thought others might too.
The back-button does not work (as reported in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8913272)
lol, imagine what you just described in a state machine. The hypothetical program is billed as an anti-terrorism measure, with a stealth payload to reduce irrational fear of terrorism. Those without the irrational fear will resist program implementation, as will those positively influenced by the program. At best the program would arrive at a fluctuating state of half implementation. This also would only ever be a private effort, as it would completely undermine the goals of the state.

I think the best we can hope for is free, high quality, approachable instruction in propositional logic. Now we only need to get people interested in PL... maybe sponsored product placement of SWI Prolog on daytime TV? :)
Maybe it seems like I'm nitpicking, but I think most of the attacks against the 54 number are strawmen. Here's the actual figures that were claimed (from [1]):

Gen. Keith Alexander said these programs enabled the United States to disrupt 54 "events," 42 of which "involved disrupted plots."

Of those 54:

12 involved cases of material support to terrorists;
50 lead to arrests or detentions;
25 occurred in Europe;
11 were in Asia;
5 were in Africa;
13 had a homeland nexus.
Forty-one of the terrorist activities did not involve events in the United States, Alexander said.

Alexander went on to say that in 53 of the 54 cases, data collected under Section 702 provided the initial tip to "unravel the threat stream." He said that almost half of terrorist reporting comes from Section 702, ...

... and the associated infographic: [2]. Your own link states that the NSA claimed 42 plots and 12 instances of material support. Senator Leahy's quote speaks more to both the media game of telephone than the NSA's claims and the fact that the figures from the Section 215 program (bulk phone metadata) were being conflated with the Section 702 program (PRISM).

As a result, this article and a whole slew of other articles try to tie the 54 plots in with the Section 215 program, when right from the beginning General Alexander was stating that the overwhelming majority came from Section 702 collection. Draw what conclusion you may want from those numbers - three commissions have done so over the last year and concluded that PRISM was incredibly valuable[3], but the bulk phone records not so much[4][5] - but, that doesn't say much about the 54 number.

[1] http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/27/19175466-nsa-chie...

[2] http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/802269-untitled0001...

[3] http://www.pclob.gov/Library/702-Report-2.pdf

[4] http://www.pclob.gov/library/215-Report_on_the_Telephone_Rec...

[5] http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Final-...
> Weed (because it has no real downsides)

Cannabis can for some users have severe downsides. We don't necessarily know in advance which those users are. People who have a diagnosed severe mental illness are probably in that group. Thus, is someone with strong anxiety a person who should avoid cannabis because it would exacerbate their anxiety; or trigger an underlying psychosis? Or are they a person who would benefit from canabis?

I am strongly in favour of legalising cannabis but I find it frustrating when people claim it has no downsides.
The problem with ebooks is the false ownership. I much prefer ebooks, but as opposed to a physical copy, unless I get my hands on the pdf or epub file when I "buy" a book in iBooks I don't actually own that book.
smart people, good for them!
Maybe it's moving away from the ships after they realize they're competing too much for food
It was just a little over a decade ago that the United States killed 300,000 + Iraqis, but it's in vouge to portray China and Russia as the worlds ultimate boogeyman.
I don't know what is true and what is not, and am not criticizing any country. But it would be unwise for international missions to criticize any host country when its members are vulnerable - though not exactly the same, similar stances are taken by Red Cross.

https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/article/othe...