jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Better be a hell of a big compensation. US laws and treatment of foreigners by law enforcement is quite crazy. Spying on my email and all cloud assets, no problem since I'm not US citizen. Even Obama said we have no rights to privacy. And nobody in US bat an eyelash when they hear that kind of xenophobic explanation.
Take a look at Hacker News "India" (http://hackernews.in) and you will see this isn't a problem or anything to be concerned with. Hacker News is what it is because of the traffic it gets. You can argue with more traffic you get worse results on the homepage, but with not enough traffic you will never get that community feeling you do here. You will notice that this new site doesn't have a single new story in the last 6+ hours and the comments for any given article is weak at best. I'm sure with time it will improve, but it won't take anything away from what we have here.
So there was a question on there talking about self worth and brand loyalty? If not I think that's a large brush to paint with.
Hackers typically research something very, very in-depth (compared to the average consumer) before buying it.

Brands are good enough for most people. Also, I think there's some natural law against declaring brand loyalty dead immediately after mentioning Apple.
1000 tweets (maybe with metadata 1 KB) are juts 100 KB/s traffic (if compressed). You could stream this from one of the smaller ec2 instances.
Sync your passwords securely to the cloud, single point of failure averted. For maximum security, also set the master password on your browser.
Short-sighted is not understanding that the example in this article is just a symptom of a much bigger problem, possibly the single greatest problem facing the US at this time, and needs to be opposed not only everywhere it occurs, but also at the root. Lawrence Lessig, the expert, can explain it more detail:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnF6WI5y0aU
The scary thing to me about removing the complexity of interface and usage from computers by making them into PS3/Wii/iOS environments is that the everyday developer can't easily write something for those platforms/OS's without significant investment of money and time. Microcomputers evolved because we could tinker with them without having to risk the wrath of the company that created the platform. Take away the easy tinkering, and you'll limit what is out there, and not in a good way.
In sum, you were a knucklehead and dug your own grave. More power to you, but no one on HN can help you out.

At this point, the only worthy advice that anyone can give you is to be honest. In this situation, honesty is by far the best policy.

Don't even try to "hide this" or "keep it a secret". Inevitably it will come out. Deal with it now before it snowballs into something much, much worse.
That's also the same as the FairTax, which is a major policy proposal in the US. And it involves sending everyone a check each month.

So this idea is actually not that far out for the US, at least.

I should also point out that the FairTax is primarily supported by conservatives at this point, though from my point of view, liberals should be even more supportive.
That's the P version rated at 700hp or so, not the one reviewed. But I would absolute rate 0-60 in 3 seconds as brutally fast. That's Porsche and Ferrari territory.
I'm late to the game here, but I'll chime in. There is a general consensus here that networking is the fastest path to that first dollar, and I agree.

The freelance marketplace is a big reason I created 3cosystem[1] - the biggest and most comprehensive tech and startup event calendar.

See if your metro area is listed. There are certainly a number of events popping up around you. Show up early and talk to the organizers. They might mention you in their pre-game presentations.

[1] - http://www.3cosystem.com
So how US managed to survive without that law for all the years? I can't imagine the law was necessary for anything, except that it allowed US to prosecute those who'd be off the hook otherwise. So yes I do believe it was the "War on Drugs" peddled as the rationale for the law: "look these drug guys are slipping away, we have to make a new law and get them with it."
They're still using Purple Hearts from the first batch MacArthur ordered, which was 1/4 of what he expected to need. And he didn't believe the solid intelligence that revealed Operation Olympic, the initial invasion of the home island Kyuushuu, was not going to work (too many divisions moved to that island, 6,000 or so kamikazes (an underestimate) would be ready and would not have to navigate all the way down to Okinawa ... many people don't know that the Battle of Okinawa was the single most expensive in lives for the US Navy...).

Those planning Operation Downfall, the overall one to capture the home islands (well, the regime would fell after the 2nd invasion of the main island), who didn't know about the Manhattan Project were planning to make liberal use of chemical weapons. Those who did ... well, if the 2nd bomb failed, there's a very good chance future production would be reserved for Olympic, with up to 8 of them being used....

As for their strategy, they started the war with an assumption that we weren't tough enough to see it through. It's said that the truth didn't sink into the IJNavy until we lost 2 Rear Admirals (2 stars) in a single night action off of Guadalcanal, in a body of water that earned the name Ironbottom Sound, so many USN and IJN ships were sunk there.

So when it came to the home islands, they hoped they could make it expensive enough we'd give up before the regime fell. Even after we'd firebombed all their major urban centers minus Kyoto (politically critical for the Emperor) and the 4 a-bomb targets and alternates....

It's a very good thing for the world everything came together in that August and they surrendered. And if I had a time machine, I'd never ever try to change anything in history going up to that point, the horror of those a-bombs, even if each caused less loss of life than the first Tokyo firebombing (in only it and one other attack did everything come together including the weather and winds).
What would you say if the "value proposition" is simply Company Y will pay me more?
It's customary for foreign governments to give gifts to US officials when there's a diplomatic trip, and it's customary for US officials to accept those gifts (under the exception you cited) given that refusal to do so would embarrass both parties. You can see the list of such gifts here: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/04/26/2013-099...

Given that presenting one's guest with a bill (or demanding a bill) would seem to violate social norms and cause embarrassment, I would imagine that meals are typically treated the same way.
My opinion about this depends on the subject line. What do I care about the cutesy text as long as I can get the important information without even opening the email? (“Your CD Baby order has shipped” would be ok. Bonus points for mentioning the date of the order right there. The body of the email should definitely contain a table with the ordered products. Oh, and put the tracking number in an obvious place if you have one.)

You really shouldn’t even have to open order or shipping confirmation emails. Who am I to complain when they contain a gem on those rare occasions when I open them? (Those kinds of mails seem full of legal disclaimers anyway, it’s not like that additional text would confuse you.)
Perhaps they should consider a form of A/B testing. It's certainly true that people are strongly biased by looks, and like it or not, outside of the hacker world, where everything is (allegedly) based on ability, appearances really do matter.

People say it shouldn't be so, but it is. Recognising that and using it is a form of societal hacking.
Flagged for stealthing in a referral code; at least be open about it.
Here's how I did it, for free:

I spent the first month putting together a 'web dev' resume. This took a month because most of my experience was non-public, involved large teams, and/or NDAd. As such, I supplemented my resume by writing a few applications that while not overly complex, were clear demonstrations that I can do more than a basic CRUD app. (After all, I've got more than a decade of dev experience, it'd be weird if I couldn't do that.)

I further emphasized that competence by opening a github account, submitting a few minor patches to other projects, and open-sourcing one full application of my own.

Once I finished that, I started scouring everything I could find for jobs and contracts where I might be a good fit, and I applied to approximately two per day. I started with a 'take anything, as long as it's short' approach, and got pickier over time about what I'd do, and the rates I wanted.

After about two months, I wound up working with a client who was incredibly impressed with me, and wound up buying about 50% of my capacity for $100/hr on an ongoing basis. Most weeks I wound up working 20 hours for him, and the rest of my time was spent trying to land small-ish higher-pay contracts, or working on those higher pay contracts.

Altogether, I grossed about $160,000 in a year with almost none of that coming in during the first two months. The vast majority of that cash was used to pay off corporate debt that was personally guaranteed.

The only reason I don't want to repeat this is because while it would help clear the debt, it left me deeply unhappy. I don't enjoy coding anymore, and I don't enjoy working alone.
It looks like the whole thread is being brigaded.
Star Trek is a USA product so from one side bring USA people dreams, like exploration, journey etc BUT also USA ruling class willing. For instance formally in Star Trek people have surpassed capitalism and tech reach a point that anyone can have almost anything to live a satisfactory life following just their will, formally, in practice Star Trek is designed around "the fleet", like the USA are designed about "the army" (in the broad sense), the sea from witch the USA project their power is the space in ST, people are not at all free, they only think to be. Like most USA Citizens think the USA is between the most free country in the world refusing the substantial fact that there is no real democracy there but just a classic oligarchic corporatocracy that use a formal democracy as a Barnum circle to rule.

Star Trek recognize some other countries like Vulcanians that probably are Europeans, more advanced in tech and civil terms but subject of the newly born "federation" and the Klingon who are probably the Russians, sometimes enemies sometimes friends. The Borg represent the USA ruling class hate and fear of socialism because just before the absurd choice of representing a Borg Queen the Borg are a perfect society where all decisions are made by the people (the collective) and all citizens are really equal. They are represented as powerful, because conservative élites know that a social society is far more innovative than any others, but as terrible enemies, so terrible that federation officers can board their cubes without being assaulted, free to move and look around just until they do something against the Borg, while a stranger boarding the Enterprise is an intruder, need to be contained and questioned etc.

Not only: see how clean, aseptic, against sexuality, rigid federation officers appear, that's a classic USA and even more British characteristic like when at international sport events you see athletes from all around the world in casual dress and those from USA (a bit) and UK (much more) move in suit and tie regardless of the climate, or how USA and UK lay out their dream homes, or how sexuality is (obviously) present but is a kind of tabu in social talks respect of west Europe for instance.

That's dos not make ST a bad series, I like it, I have seen most of it many times, but when you see it take into account not just special effect and formal "good points" shown, see the others elements, look under the trees :-)

BTW personally I'd like much more to be a Borg on a cube, of course without any Borg Queen, than being framed by a fleet who put appearance before the substance... And I like the idea of exploring around with a moving house, armed enough to defend myself but not (really) to offend.
“Things are worse somewhere else, therefore we shouldn’t improve anything here”
Who are the Ferengi?
Weirdest 30 minutes of my life. Wow.
Someone needs to zoom out on this type of study and look into whether degrees at any school, not business alone, contribute to corporate or even career success.

The degree doesn't possess its own inate potential for success. The student has the potential to contribute - either they do or they don't. The school is teaching competency in specific topics and skills. It's up to the student to apply those skills and contribute to their company's success.
Anyone else willing to share their punch cards?
WebKit proper doesn't offer at this point

I've got a radar open with Apple about Safari's performance (that I know WebKit people have at the very least seen) that essentially boils down to this reason.
I'm in operations and I'm a programmer.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=18125

"The upstream work is not sufficient for what we will need. It is only the beginning of the work. We would need to offload compositing to the GPU."

Sounds like Apple decided to enable the existing WebKit implementation while Google is working on their own implementation. (which could very well end up back into WebKit proper at some point) This is exactly how standards in the context of friendly competition are supposed to work. You can't really expect everyone working off WebKit code to coordinate when certain features or standards support are turned on in beta or public releases.
It's funny how many comments with the same opinion here get downvoted but no explanations why it's fine to add your own extensions to HTML/CSS (hello good old IE days). At least make your statements when downvoting so many people.
You do know that vaccines makers have legal immunity, right?

One of the little quirks of the Patriot Act was to make it impossible to sue vaccine makers -- which is exactly why since 2001 you've seen a proliferation of every grocery store offering vaccines.

Presumably you are a start-up minded person. Imagine the legal challenges you would face in trying to come up with a business plan where you could inject biological material into people....think your lawyer would permit?

As for if 23% effeciancy is "worth it", well the protection you are getting must be offset by the negative effects caused by vaccines, if you doubt there are negative effects see Legal Immunity above.
You can always email the guest. We include the guest's contact details in every episode's show notes.
There is still value in unmaintained work. As a somewhat exaggerated example, look at academia: researchers build upon each other's work all the time, arguably more often than they build upon their own work. We don't want a world where people stop publishing work just because other people expect them to continue working on it.
Musk is 50, he’ll be 60 before the first martian settlement and 70 before it starts to pull its own weight. Hell of a way to retire. U.K. his shoes id have taken his billions and bought a nice remote island off a fairly stable country to retire. I’d have bought a few to hedge my bets.

Full respect to him.
On the one hand believing such things can be viewed as funny.

On the other hand it is a quiet serious issue.

While deployed to the Solomon Islands 15 years ago in a very remote location, the indigenous folks thought our helicopters were stealing all their gold and diamonds with giant vacuum cleaners in our helicopters.

Comically ridiculous, but they were serious as a heart attack.

And there were a few very aggressively and violently leveraged those mistaken beliefs.

So we had to respond with great care for their concerns rather than just disparaging them.

Doesn’t the same apply here?

Confirmation bias of internet searches and conformity bias of online fringe communities can lead to quite persistent and amplified opposition.
From what I understand his actual views aren't that horrible. But it's almost as if he goes out of his way to write things in the most provoking way possible. He really has no regard for how a reader might interpret his text. Which is expected if he has some form of autism.

I really think he should run everything he writes by someone who is more empathic. He is a public figure. He has a serious disability when it comes to public communication. He should take measures to deal with that. But I guess he's too proud?

I truly think Stallmans intentions have been OK. But you can't just pretend like it doesn't matter how communications are received by the reader. That's the whole point of communication. It's a bit like driving with poor vision. You don't intend to crash, but it's kind of inevitable if you don't correct for your disability.
> I'm not arguing that we go back to Prince2 and waterfall.

Earlier you proposed: "design the system architecture -> document the APIs -> write the tests -> implement the code -> QA". This is precisely waterfall. Detaching the term from the emotions and bad PR, there are decades of real experience of people who did that and discussed their results.

The bureaucracy is not the cause. I argue the causality is: the "design first" assumption -> the "throw it over the fence" practice -> everyone blames everyone -> Prince2 comes to the rescue.

> I say that as a developer whose been making web stuff for almost 25 years.

> I'm saying that things have gone a bit too far the other way, and many developers need to spend more time planning...

Amen!
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Imagine what it will take to go from space rock to underground chip factories. If we started today, it will take a thousand years or more to have a fully independent Mars colony (one that could survive indefinitely if the Earth were hit by a gamma-ray burst, let's say).

The sheer population needed to run a complete supply chain for high-technology (on which Mars would be entirely dependent for basic life-support) is staggering. Having the entire thing built and operated underground would be an engineering and social feat of unprecedented scale in humanity's history.

Iamgining doing it in a generation is simply impossible. Its more likely to happen by quantum fluctuation in a second than by humanity's efforts in a generation with current technology.
You're making very strong claims here. Signal regularly goes the extra mile to protect their users from 3rd-party tracking (by Giphy[0, 1] etc.) and, as they noted on GitHub at some point, they also consciously decided against UI/UX tracking and error reporting because they did not want to give off the impression that they themselves are surveilling their users. And now you're telling us that they deliberately included tracking by Google? That doesn't seem likely.

> Google PREF cookie

The PREF cookie is for Google's safe browsing feature. How on Earth would that find its way into Signal? (I doubt the link preview feature uses that, given how much effort they put into making sure they get it right[2].)

> Traceable by Google every time you open the App...

How so? AFAIK the Signal app doesn't connect to the Google servers directly (reCAPTCHA aside – I have yet to see it in Signal but even then it would be a one-time thing), so even if the cookie existed, it wouldn't get transferred anywhere. The Firebase Cloud Messaging library / Google Play Services on your phone do connect to Google but they carry unique identifiers, anyway (or otherwise push notifications would not work). If you don't want that, use a phone without all the Google stuff – Signal works fine without it (though it might need more battery).

> and using Google's Backup service to store the private keys unencrypted

Could you provide a source that's more accurate than "decompile the APK" or "read the source code"? AFAIR the app's database is encrypted at rest by a key in the phone's hardware key store precisely because the Signal developers did not want Google Backup to get access to the app's data. (Which is why they ended up rolling their own backup solution.)

> This combined with what went on with LibreSignal and legal threats from moxie made me realize it's just a company selling privacy claims without proof.

What legal threats? (I'm familiar with the discussion but I have yet to see Moxie threatening anyone.)

[0]: https://signal.org/blog/giphy-experiment/

[1]: https://signal.org/blog/signal-and-giphy-update/

[2]: https://signal.org/blog/i-link-therefore-i-am/
This isn't the first time nanotechnology has been connected with an ancient civilization.[1]

It's always interesting to find out which areas ancient civilizations were truly advanced in. We're still not 100% sure how Greek fire was made.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel
I believe that the author is implying, in the first two paragraphs, that they would rather spend more money in the long run than have the drill sitting around unused.
I wonder whether they put as much information into the patches as the US military does. For instance, many programs operating out of a certain base incorporate some variation of the number 51 into their patches. Patches for space launch have even been known to leak classified information. But the badges in the OP seem far less creative.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/creepy-kitschy-...

Example "51" badge:
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/Patches/0...
With a modern system like the Fractal Axe-FX there is no "laptop".

This sin't some sort of jerry-rigged VST host - it's a dedicated DSP. There is no OS to crash other than the built-in firmware.

It's really no different than your old Boss, just hundreds of times more DSP muscle.
Also: Give your profile a makeover now by making your it more actionable, from start to finish and lose those clichéd terms.
No. Use Bcrypt. Always.

Bcrypt is backed by Blowfish, designed by Bruce Schneier. Go look it/him up. It's secure.

MD5/SHA1/etc are not weak because they are cryptographically weak (though some are), it is weak because they are fast. SHA3, when it is picked, will still be a very bad choice because it too will be fast.

So, why Bcrypt? Well, it uses Blowfish. Blowfish has a very slow key scheduling algorithm which basically involves a lot of hashing to get the round subkeys. Bcrypt makes this even slower. So what? Well, with Bcrypt you could set it up to take .3 seconds to verify a password. Try bruteforcing on that.
They break out contributions by OS, which is kinda neat to see. Admittedly an outlier could move the needle if they really want to throw some money down.

~4k individual purchases.

Average contribution:

Windows $5.48
Mac $7.09
Linux $11.45
I'm curious what your use case is for using a suspend function in spark. I have written several spark jobs with Kotlin and have never had a reason to create one. The only difference from the Scala/Java jobs is that I had to be much more explicit with certain things (encoders in higher order funcs, etc.).