jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can empathize with the sentiment of the article.

I can't understand why you want the blogger to keep his ideas to himself, though. I appreciate these types of articles because, quite frankly, I'm tired of hearing only about the latest round of funding XYZ location-based "game" company raised. It's healthy to question fundamental things like the usefulness of these services.
Can someone explain the advantage of this over a magstripe credit card, from a consumer standpoint?

The card companies charge high fees, yes, but I would bet it's a lot faster to swipe a card than get a barcode on your phone, scan it, etc. etc. And the credit card companies seem to have really good anti-fraud heuristics at this point.
I was also joking in that in Eliezer's fictional work he writes prolifically about 11 year olds who attend wizarding school and there is precisely one who reads them.

Perhaps a </joke> would have been necessary.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..."

I would say that most people agree this is not a reasonable search.

continuing:

"...and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

So even if a search is authorized, there has to be probable cause.

One might say that you submit to this as part of the deal to get on the plane. But if that were true, it would be between you and the airline, not the government. That means it really should be the airlines that decide how intrusive searches should be. And you would be free to choose an airline whose policies you agree with. And the airline would be free to reject you as a passenger.
It's not the naked pictures, it's the being microwaved. If the machine is improperly calibrated, you'd be cooked.
"You wanted an Art community ..."

No, I was wondering if there was something like, or conceptually analogous, to Y Combinator [http://ycombinator.com/about.html], the start-up funding/mentoring/development thing, not HN|news.ycombinator.com
Of all the ways for humanity to go out, that would be one of the cooler, not with a whimper but with bang! :)
This article provokes more questions than it answers. While I got the general idea about creating more Resistant Starch, the details about the transformation from digestible to resistant is kind of murky. Perhaps seeing the data in the source publication would make it clearer but the full report isn't readily available.

Furthermore, the effects and benefits of the cooking method are also unclear. Obesity is no doubt the most complex problem in all medical science to unravel as every body system is implicated in its origin and continuation. Obesity treatment is extremely difficult because of the tremendous level of parallelism inherent in the processes of energy storage and utilization.

For this research to be pragmatically significant, it needs to be convincingly shown that consuming this rice vs that rice matters, and that this single change produces a difference in adiposity. My experience as an obesity treatment specialist suggests it's unlikely that will happen.

A problem resulting from thousands of contributing (and highly variable) factors is not going to be solved by altering some small subset of elements. Understanding the nature of the problem is a herculean task. But until a clearer picture emerges, all we will do is nibble at the edges.
I don't think GPL needs discouragement, the dev community in large has decided they just don't like copyleft. I appreciate all that Stallman has done, but his ideas and practicality don't always align.
Was that funding tax deductible?
I just had mandatory diversity training, and TBH I'm genuinely confused about what is considered acceptable by its proponents.

If your comment is based on diversity of gender, it seems to run afoul of several "diversity" tenets I was just taught:

- It infers their physical gender based on their appearance.

- It conflates physical gender with gender identity.

- It infers race based on physical appearance.

- It infers ethnicity based on apparent race.

- If brings up the topic of those particular persons' races, ethnicities, physical gender, and perhaps gender identities, when you can't be sure they want them to be discussed.

I'm not trying to be snarky with this comment. I genuinely don't understand what it is that the diversity-advocating crowd is advocating regarding acceptable discussion.
I’m wondering if there’s any statistical analysis of the value of the items inside any given safe? It would seem as this phenomena happens more and more it would be valuable to have an aggregated list of the number of safes we’ve tried to open and the eventual value of the contents so we can better asses how much work to put into opening this new one.
Mullvad. Does the trick. Cheap. Anonymous. Easy to use. Not too blacklisted. Compatible with my phone.
reporting to the DMV and the insurance companies is over the top...those 2 entities specifically ignore vigilantism and your record can only be affected if a police officer who actually knows the law issues a citation.

all this will do is overwhelm the resources of the DMV/insurance companies, costing them money, which they'll transfer to their customers.

and seriously, the only people who'd do this, would be someone who does 60mph in the left lane, while everyone else is doing 80. And in fact, the guy is the one who is breaking the law, since he is impending the flow of traffic.

i look forward to having 4chan track this guy down...snitches get stitches.
My personal experience is trying to run a food related startup in Oakland. It didn't go so hot, but then again I think we tried to do too much.

We tried to make the food, deliver the food, and provide the technology to order the food. (a menu that changes day to day - different menu items based on what was in season, etc) In 2010.

It may seem that you can be the 'local boy makes good' when in Oakland, rather than SF. You can garner a lot of support from various groups by bringing business to Oakland as well. Just realize that as long as you are tech focused most of your customer base will be in SF.
This exact topic just came up in a conversation I had today about some friends moving to SF from Seattle. I told them they better check out the Human Wasteland map [1] when choosing where they want to live. Depending on their desired poop contact level, they may want to choose neighborhoods selectively.

The good news, it appears most of the human filth concentrates into a relatively isolated part of the city.

The bad news, this appears to actually be something you have to care about.

(I would never call any of the big East Coast cities "nice and clean", but at least worrying about wading through human feces is not something anywhere near the top of my list)

(also for the record, I found L.A. far more filthy on average than SF, just less poop everywhere)

1 - https://jennz0r.github.io/wasteland/
Please explain how "this is a WordPress issue"

Given that WordPress runs over 20% of the internet, it would be prudent to elaborate.
Try to see things from the manager's standpoint. Without good demos it's tough to get sales. Without sales the developers don't get paid. If you're working on a large piece of software with dozens of developers split into several teams and you don't update your tasks in the project management system how do you expect anyone outside your team to know whether your tasks are complete?
> Personally, I think it's totally valid.

To be fair, though it's a bit ambiguous, I read sebastialonso's post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8799362 as indicating that he or she believes that the result is true—i.e., does not necessarily reject the validity of proof by exhaustion as a style of argumentation—but does not feel that the proof by exhaustion is an explanation.
It's certainly a valid argument, but it's not... enlightening in the same way other kinds of arguments are.
The emotional withdraw is the real problem, not the legal hurdle of being guilty of not giving food and shelter.
> drank milk

mcpoyle ?
In the 80s and early 90s most people didn't have internet.
And why should people make sacrifices if you could solve the problem without making sacrifices? This smells of a religious dogma that people should suffer because of the original sin.
Yes it is as he's explaining what's generally accepted here (not downvoted). Maybe you do not usually read the comments but it's often discussed. And your personal case does not make it less valid.
Is this better than JIRA? (Yes everything is better than JIRA, especially a rock, as that is fast and does not get uglier with redesigns.)

Is this open source? (I guess not, but still any thoughts/plans? AGPL? Mongo/Redis-like anti-AWS license?)

GitLab has issues. I mean the feature not the bugs. Is Fibery oriented at code based projects?

Can I model a CRM flow with it? (I don't know what's the "correct" answer to this, it's just something that comes to mind sometimes.)
I can't respond directly to kissorgy because of shadow ban I guess.

Anyway, yes the author says we are worse today, but keep in mind that we "just" connected a few billion devices. It will take a massive effort to get that fixed properly and keep all up to date security wise.

Nevermind that goverments wants to ban security in some places.
I burnt out decades ago. Unfortunately, I kept coming back to tech when I could half-stomach it again and desperately needed money instead of doing what I really knew I should have done, which was to make a career change to something drastically different. This is one of my greatest regrets in life.

Now I'm old, my skills are out of date because I really don't give a crap enough about tech to learn the latest buzzword technology out there, and that and the gaps in my employment during my severe burnouts make for a CV full of red flags, which means that even in this nearly ideal seller's market for people with tech skills nobody wants to hire me. I don't blame them. I wouldn't want to hire me either.

So if like me you're burnt out and feel you're really no longer suited to the tech field, it might be better for you to permanently get out sooner rather than later. Consider doing whatever it takes to make a career change to something drastically different, even if it's risky and maybe you don't know exactly what you'd rather do. Taking such a risk will be a lot easier when you're younger.
How insensitive and solipsistic of you to assume my time zone. It’s morning here.

McCarthy and the pinkos then, your lot and the alt-right now. Same shit, different bucket. Enjoy it while it serves you.
Yeah, no. I don’t trust the ad industry. They’ve never been honest before, I doubt they would start now.
The answer depends on the tuning parameters used for the bcrypt hashing (cost/work factor) and the length of the user password. Obviously a 1-character password will fall even with a high workfactor and a dictionary word will probably fall as well. This paper http://www.emsec.rub.de/media/crypto/veroeffentlichungen/201... tags some numbers on breaking passwords with a low cost factor. Assuming a cost factor if 5 (12 would be more "real" world) and an 8 character password with an alphabet of 62 chars (uppercase, lowecase, 10 digits) the estimated cost to break a password within a month is in the millions with dedicated hardware designed for brcypt breaking (Fig 5). With a work factor of 12, an 8 character password will not break on EC2.
Or if you experimented an economic measure that froze your account like this one [1].

They froze all accounts and they even threatened the population with opening the safe deposit boxes.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito
The reference was to the mortgage crisis, where unscrupulous mortgage brokers colluded with banks and credit reporting agencies to give mortgages to people who could not repay them. Triggering a remarkable financial crisis which still reverberates over 5 years later.

And to re-iterate, as this tends to get lost sometimes in examples, my position is that I am for broader participation in the early investing stages of companies, but I am also a fan of a "fence" or a "marker" which mitigates the risk of bad actors pulling in unqualified participants. The "qualified investor" rules are just such a fence.

One more example then. Criminals are a small fraction of a population, but the harm they do is disproportionate. The number of mortgage brokers who were acting fraudulently was a small percentage of the total, and yet the harm they was quite high.

Large, interconnected systems, with humans providing some of the linkages are difficult to manage. And some of the humans are trying to "game" that system all the time. My claim is that the "qualified investor" gate is a mechanism which is a current inhibitor on the games players in terms of potential victims for investment fraud. Loosening the rules, as was done in terms of mortgage qualification in early 2000's, will give these bad actors the pool of victims they need to fund their games. The damage they will do will be disproportionate to any gain we might have achieved by getting a company funded which would have otherwise gone unfunded. I hope I am shown to be wrong in this fear, but it is my current best guess at how this "crowdfunding early investment" change plays out.
Why would encrypting email addresses break password reset? You can encrypt the database at rest such that the application has a private key that can decode it. That way both the application and the database server need to be breached to obtain anything usable.
Seconding ngircd

Hassle-free configuration
It's presumably being downvoted because it's just lazy propaganda, not a serious answer.

It'd take more than 10 minutes simply to setup a server which ircd would run.

Then, of course, you'd need the time to setup all of the other services which Slack provides (i.e. durable file storage, integration with your applications and other services, etc.) and pick or develop clients for all of the platforms people use.

Then you have to actually support all of this: that's basic stuff like redundant servers and backups, account management, and the ostensible purpose for doing all of this: staffing your own security team at or better than Slack's level.

None of that can't be done and if you already have a good ops team it might even be worth doing. It's just way more than a 10 minute job even if you cut a bunch of corners.
Chess opening theory is the result of ~150 years of mostly human effort. Grandmasters do use computers to assist with opening preparation, but it's certainly not the case that computers have completely rewritten the opening books. In fact, I can't think of a single example of a computer significantly altering the evaluation of a major opening system. They do make small improvements, but almost all of the major openings that were popular 30 years ago are still popular today.
Just to expand a bit... here are a few things I have built over the past several years (part time now... I have a full time job)...

-A load builder, temporary placement scheme creator, and shipping router for a large cattle feedlot in the Midwest (my brother got me this job, while I was working on it a building maintenance man came by, asked about it, told his wife who did data entry for a crop harvesting company and I got the gig below)...

-A ticket management and payment system for a crop harvesting company. The original application was in Access, and was slow and clumsy and full of bugs leading to bad payments at times. I re-wrote it using SQL, python and web interface, and host it for the company. Now they can use the application when they are out doing remote harvests (they harvest grains etc. in 4 or 5 states). The owner was pleased and recommended me to a milk producing co-op (below).

-Milk production and payment calculation for a 15 dairy co-op. Working on this right now weekends and evenings (I have a full time job). This is a complicated application that takes a number of factors (amount of Butterfat, government fuel prices, amount of bacteria etc.) and calculates payment due to individual dairies. The original app is in Lotus Approach and it's been a struggle getting everything out and finding how it all fits together (the person who made the original application passed away). In fact, I should be working on it right now instead of playing on HN. But Lotus Approach is no fun. At all.

Not sexy.. but good side work that fills a real need. There are lots of companies that could use an update, or have very specific needs they can't fill with off the shelf software. And they generally don't have a clue about how to fill that need.
> Successful "techies" never work at companies they don't believe in.

This is an odd application of No True Scotsman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

There are many nonobvious reasons for choosing to work at a certain company, even if you don't believe in the company (e.g. salary to support a family as the highest priority)
Or 3G, or a business T1, or...
This idea is too obvious to stake any sort of claim. And once you've decided to do it, there aren't many variations on the theme.

Basically anyone who has programmed with VoIP and has a callbox has thought about or done this. E.g., I did this years ago using a VoIP server that I wrote -- silly prompt sounds and all.

Furthermore, companies like Twilio are seldom surprised by applications of their platform; they likely had to come up with tons of examples for investors when they raised money.
Sold me out? How? Speakeasy still gives me exactly the capacity they claim to be selling me, and they still have their US-based 24-hour support if there is a problem. Yeah, that costs more than AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast, but you get what you pay for. People that choose the "popular" ISPs do so because their Internet connection doesn't really matter. If it goes down, they can just do something else. If they don't get their advertised capacity during peak hours... who cares? They're only paying $8 per month!

I don't think this is a particularly bad thing, as long as the terms are made clear in the advertising. In my experience, it is; they say "up to" when they advertise their speeds.
There are WAY too many links on the home page. The whole point is to help someone be removing the number of choices they have to make to get the correct result. So design a process that does that, instead of just throwing a bunch of links up. Perhaps a step by step quiz (10 questions, build a profile of someone etc.)
Since they're using Twillo, it now costs $0.03 to enter your apartment plus $1 per month for the phone number.

Food for thought. Does anyone know if Twillo does sub-one-minute billing?
...and if you forget to enter the setup string during the initial connection, at any time during your ssh session into the remote system, you can enter ~C then the setup string.
So, to use the above port settings, when you find your file, you just type:
~CR2222:localhost:22 remote
Then you can issue the scp command just as above, or... if on Solaris (or using an old OpenSSH on "remote"):
scp -o Port=2222 file.tgz localhost:
Rather, all the draft-N devices I'm aware of interoperated. If you bought a draft-N network card, it didn't stop working the day after they published a new version, as far as I know.
I'm sorry I had no idea I was ripping you off, I appreciate that you're a Twilio early adopter. Like you mentioned, I handle customer support for Twilio and hear about countless ideas, feature requests, etc. everyday. There's no way I could remember who came up with what, and multiple people run similar ideas by me all the time.

I built this to scratch my own itch and its also a really simple use case to illustrate the ability to control real world devices with DTMF tones. Some Twilio projects I had in mind when I built this include Buzzeromatic.com, which is also powered by Twilio and costs $1.95/month and had a very public launch. Sunlight Labs also did a door hack with Twilio and an arduino that I thought was pretty sweet.

What I think is important is that what I've built doesn't have any UI or anything like that, just a really stripped down version and I'm not looking to make it into some paid service. You could certainly take these guts and turn them into a kickass product, but these <100 lines of PHP are not the defensible secret sauce.

The ability to use DTMF tones with Twilio has been around for awhile, I got the tone generator from a Get Satisfction thread that's about a year old:
http://getsatisfaction.com/twilio/topics/dtmf_tone_generatio...
The outward effect of a liberal arts education is being a more knowledgeable citizen, better able to think about the world around you. I'd say that goes a bit beyond conversations over cocktails.
I've put up job postings in the past and you get a lot of mindlessly submitted resumes that have nothing to do with what you're looking for. I can only imagine that number of mindless, irrelevant submissions has increased with the recession.

Realistically, a company would take a person with the skillset and credentials they're looking for even if they're unemployed. They just don't want 500 irrelevant submissions for every 5 good ones, and "UNEMPLOYED NOT CONSIDERED" probably works more effective than "PLEASE ACTUALLY FRIGGING READ OUR POSTING AND ONLY APPLY IF YOU'RE A REAL CANDIDATE" - I'd still apply if I thought I was a relevant candidate and wanted a job though, I think this is largely much ado about nothing.
Just bc those in power prefer something does not mean that their systems have the ability to enforce these preferences.

Whitfield Diffie showed the world that cryptography is NOT the exclusive preserve of the government.
Compare that to the rapid developments of post-war Germany, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, then post-1990: Poland, Hungary, The Czech Republic etc. We have to look at opportunity costs, not just raw improvements.
No one mentioned Apple's docs? I find them pretty well-written.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/navigation/
What are the pros/cons of using CSS instead of images?
I think the number of neurons should not be missed in those calculations.
Hackers doesn't really leave that much of an impression to me. They are, after all, oftentimes referred as computer criminals.
This is a small side project I built to see how people play the game of Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. It is funny to see how many people concentrate on beating the bot, instead of maximizing their score...

You can find the bot on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/DilemmaBot. You can start playing by tweeting "@DilemmaBot play".

I'll be happy to answer any questions!
There's a 0% chance that Nvidia would allow them resell graphics cards. These cards are earmarked for specific OEM purposes. None of those companies want to bring down Nvidia's wrath on them, either.
The combat system in Achaea was always so fascinating to me in terms of balance, but back when I was still playing it I was on bad dialup or satellite internet, which gave me a pretty big disadvantage against other people.
I am not a hardware designer, but are you saying one large 64 bit multiplexer to access the whole memory would be impractically slow ? Even if we don't get register speed, it would simplify software design, wouldn't it ?
Sure. First of all, in all systems averse effects can happen. Secondly, regulatory capture is countered by democracy and transparency. If politicians become corrupted, you vote them away. In capitalism without regulation, there is no good way for citizens to intervene (except through violence).
The whole reason for doing WSL2 was running Docker on Windows, which is currently one of the development "killer apps". AFAIK in the previous implementation they could not get Overlayfs to work properly.
Well to be fair, the target audience for this newspaper is stuffy finance types.