jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't see the issue. Our entire society is set up on the premise that American citizens need to consume. My grocery store has little child-sized shopping carts that kids can push around to learn the ropes of consumerism. There's even a little flag on it that says "Customer in training". During the early days of a global pandemic our own government was referring to American citizens as "Consumers" as they communicated information about the disease [1]. That's how they see us. That's all we're good for.

Our entire economy is based on unlimited consumption. People are hired to produce widgets for integration into gadgets that will be consumed. If we suddenly decide that we've had enough gadgets, what happens to the supply chain of gadget and widget producers? There can never be enough gadgets or everything comes crashing down. Not only can there never be enough, there always has to be more gadgets produced compared to the year before, or else the markets in which people have bet their futures become unglued.

There's no concept of fulfillment. There's a vast media empire in place whose sole purpose is to tell us we don't have enough, and that if we don't consume more we will be overtaken by emptiness. Even the HN front page of all places is guilty of pushing this message. Best to instill consumerist ideology in children as early as possible, so they don't start thinking that maybe they don't need the newest, slickest, shiniest gadgets. That maybe there is life and happiness outside of consumption. These are literally society destroying thoughts that must be suppressed at all cost. Western civilization depends on it.

[1]: https://external-preview.redd.it/cloQPFfyR61-VvSdfol941t-AuY...
Most pro level tennis rackets are $200-$250. The Nike Shoes in question are $180.
I agree with many points in the article, but the idea that it’s unfair if one person’s body responds better to the shoe than another seems silly. Distance running is already a competition of who has better gene adaptations. I have a mediocre VO2 max, so I’ll never be an Olympian. Is that unfair? My body requires a longer recovery time after hard efforts than Galen Rupp. Is that unfair? That’s just life.
Not just a racket, you'll need at least 3-4 rackets to rotate around during a match to avoid losing too much string tension. Preferably all the same, all tensioned at the same time before a match, etc.

I played tennis a little bit competitively when I was a kid, apart from rackets you will also care about strings, you will eat through them. The best strings aren't very durable and on top you will be often trialing different strings with your racket until finding a sweet spot for your play style.

It adds up fast.
To be fair I don’t think I have ever been notified by any company when my data has been leaked and according to haveibeenpwned that has happened quite a few times.

I am not a lawyer, but I find myself wondering if they are binded to GDPR in this case as judging from online articles the actual “leak” itself may have happened prior to May 2018. It also maybe that the nature of the PII itself is not such that it needs to be reported to the users (no passwords, private messages etc...)
> compare the differences or similarities on the monopolies which Uber, Lift, and the Traditional Taxi Medallion industry all hold

I disagree with your premise, that Uber and Lyft are monopolistic. They certainly try to be, but they have lots of competitors (including each other).

One other major difference is that traditional medallions were oligopolies created by governments. That system did not arise from heavily-capitalized, loss-leader tactics in a de-regulated market (which is what Uber/Lyft are doing).
I don't think that such a paid subscription would be feasible. Facebook currently earns more than 150 $/year on ads for each of their US/Canada user on average; and iPhone users who would be willing to pay for such services probably are worth more than the average, so the appropriate market-determined fee to replace invasive ad targeting would be quite large.

I don't think people would be willing to pay for tracking-free Facebook more than they pay for Netflix.
Call me crazy, but I don't think they did...
I think a reason for this phenomenon is that removal of something generally requires an understanding of the intent and behaviors of the system as it is (and better yet, why it was built that way, and what levers you have available to you to modify it, or constraints that you cannot change).

Much easier (or takes less thought, or more easily glosses over important complex unappreciated issues) just to add something that you think will solve the individual problem at hand...
If you take the current sum of all human knowledge and calculate something called g, and then subtract two, you get something different from the the real value of g-2. Therefore, we have identified something that lies beyond the sum of all human knowledge. That's kind of the whole idea behind being a physicist so understandably anyone remotely related to the area this belongs to is pretty excited.

If you are wondering, "why does this one single number matter so much, who cares if we didn't know it before," it is because it hints at a great new theory that could change everything. Nobody knows what theory, but in the past small discrepancies in fundamental measurements have been the seeds of great theories.
If they were willing to so brazenly lie about that, what else have they been lying about?
“The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively-- because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?”

— Frank Zappa

I think this “grammar of frames” uses the word too loosely. A frame is more than just a constraint, it’s what denotes the boundary between the subject and the world it is contained in.

Brands don’t have a frame. Brands are not the art used to identify them. I think of brands as reputation, trust, and emotions connected to a company. The brand is an idea, not logos and advertisements.
> I know these people exist everywhere today but there's an unusually large number concentrated in Chicago. Must be something in the water?

Finance is also an extremely tempting lure. The pay is quite good (e.g., significantly better than Google), the hours are better, and the firms are generally supportive of external work. Many of the finance firms my friends work at (I've lived in the Chicago area most of my life) allow/encourage/hire people to serve on the C++ standardization committee, were co-founders of major open source projects such as R, etc.

It's hard to lure people away from jobs like that where you're paid a lot and have a ton of freedom for a potential exit that's smaller than what you currently make, unless your startup becomes Google.
My emacs catches this without any compiling:

http://i.imgur.com/TVkU8KS.png

I'm sure most editors would complain about this. There are also IDEs like PyCharm that give you tab completion for Python.

If a C++ person says they could never write Python it is because they don't understand there is plenty of tooling that will verify your code.
Oh! They're back up again. I'm grabbing _Nginx HTTP Server Second Edition_ now. :-)
> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is.

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

OP made up a sensationalized title, the link itself is fine, sure. You don't have to insult (presumably) volunteer designers when you want to discuss their work.
Even if Gox didn't lose the money, or at least not as much as we're hearing, who's going to 'bank' with them now? Who would leave their money with someone who will, at any time, cut off access and actively refuse to provide information?

Their value has been totally demolished in the eyes of their current customers and in the eyes of all potential customers. It's so bad that it has set back Bitcoin's adoption by months, if not years. The freaking Wall Street Journal published articles about it!

If this is not a case of fraud, then it is one of the worst and most poorly managed acquisitions in history.
Interesting, but it still relies on the default username and password on the router. I think this points at a glaring hole in router security, why aren't password and username changes forced on the first bootup of the device? Having the password as "changeme" is not good enough for your everyday user, they are very unlikely to ever use them without being forced so will plain not know they are meant to at all.
Not exactly. The "real" difference is if we cut down to a 4 cylinder at half the horse power, half the torque. While a "newer" engine does achieve higher thrust to weight nobody is building engines with anywhere close to the trust of the J-2.

NASA actually is attempting to rebuild the J-2, with the J-2X program. The problem is nobody knows how the J-2 works and part of the contract included NASA shipping several J-2's back for re-engineering.

I should also remind you that a year ago NASA didn't actually know "how" the j-2 worked. Their numbers said the bell should melt during flight. Eventually they realized that helium is injected on a outer ring of injectors to insulate the bell.
I wondered about that. I thought "Guru Meditation" was an AmigaOS only thing.
As an update I saw that the original post was about finding all the solutions to the problem, compared to the single first solution searched for above. Running for finding all solutions, I got the following timings (same computer as above, same settings, default consistency).

n time search tree solutions
8 0.8752 ms 767 92
10 14.2759 ms 11431 724
12 306.7616 ms 232163 14200
14 8782.4620 ms 6391931 365596

Downloading the c-versions from https://github.com/davidad/8queens/tree/%2Bc_comparison gives a reference-time using the time built-in command of around 750 ms for 10k iterations. This means that the C solver takes around 0.075 ms per iteration which is a factor of ten faster than the Gecode version. That is not unreasonable given that the Gecode version is a high-level model in a general framework.

I did not manage to build the assembly-version unfortunately.

EDIT: Updated the timings and comments of the C-solver to represent that it actually solved the problem 10k times. Lesson, never do benchmarks quickly :-)
The counter to this is those fresh ideas are built on their limited knowledge of some buzzwords connected to a framework in python which is only in alpha quality. The number of kids who think new is better because they used it on their final year team project so must apply it to production servers is scary. It needs older, experienced workers to say the magic word: No.
Any idea how to do this? I googled "VA Dept of Agriculture and Consumer Services consumer complaint", which took me to https://www.oag.state.va.us/consumer-protection/index.php/fi... -- but that looks like the AG's office.
Vegans have a variety of motivations and yes - some are disgusted by animal products. I have a number of vege friends and for some of them, I make sure, when barbecuing to use a separate grill and tongs. Others don't really care.
We could ask women who, historically, felt compelled to stay in abusive marriages because of the Christian belief that divorce is a sin, or or any of the LGBT population ostracized, tortured or killed because they loved someone of the "wrong" gender, and who until recently couldn't even publicly marry in the US. Is that the humane, benevolent or proper conduct that marriage is meant to promote?

We're not discussing "rituals around sex" in the general case anyway, absent any historical or cultural context. We're discussing the Judeo-Christian complex, specifically the way its rituals have influenced Western cultural beliefs about sexuality, and how those rituals have encouraged the demonization of perfectly healthy and natural forms of sexual expression.
It's indeed silly to focus on C++ synthesis when we have tools like Chisel (or, for that matter, SystemVerilog) that are just as "high-level", and far better matched to the inherent workings of the hardware you're going to synthesize.
As shown in Figure 3 (inset IV) and described in the paragraph above. CO2 ordinarily is linearly-bonded to O's on either side of the carbon (another view: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide); this a temporary change in the bonding angles.

"the rebounding CO2 undergoes substantial intramolecular rearrangement ... CO2 acquires a triangular configuration with nearly equal bond lengths..." called a strongly bent CO2 intermediate.

Interesting idea; hope something comes of it.
They could go for the bone-stretching alternative discussed in TFA
Why would the DMV have access to or notice political affiliation?

Was your friend wearing a MAGA hat?
And everyone wonders why we illegally downloaded so much music back then...

From the article:
'The fact that users would “own” songs was the deal-breaker for a lot of the dinosaur record labels. I remember one meeting with a music label I won’t name, where the exec in the room basically told us, “If you listen to a Madonna song, I want you to pay us for that privilege. You never own music, you simply buy a license to consume that music at that moment. Next year, when you want to listen to that same song, I want you to pay us again. Thirty years from now, when your grandchildren want to listen to that Madonna song, I want them to pay us. You will never own this music, you only buy a temporary right to listen to that music at that moment, nothing more.”'
"How" is necessary, but I think "Why" is more fundamental. There is always more to know about the universe than we can stuff in our heads (I can't even tell you the contents of my desk), but "Why" provides the motivation - a framework or outline on which to hang all the details involved in "How". If the detail doesn't move me toward the goal, I ignore it.
Of the people I know:

my wife - tech unsavvy, afraid of the dvd player - has no use for chrome os. Not enough features for her everyday use. Cannot play 99% of any flash content she constantly uses. Cannot play netflix.

my daughter - 4 years old - has no use for chrome os. Does not play any game she plays. What it plays has atrocious performance.

my grandparents (mother's side) - knows as much about computers as I do about brain surgery, we both know it exists - has no use for chrome os. It does not do 90% of what he does online which is watch videos and not on youtube. They are windows format which can be played on any device other than chrome os.

my one tech unsavy friend - uses facebook and word processing. perfect for her as she has no idea how to save files, google docs is a good solution. Needs to be able to print.

every other friend - same category as wife. Note: I have only 1 tech savy friend.

one friend's father - uses youtube and checks finance news online. The perfect candidate.

So basically from every single person I know, only 2 maybe 3 people qualify as the perfect chrome os users.

However, this reminds me of that movie about making a $100 computer. And they had the exact same concept. No hard drives, store everything on the internet.

If chrome os is a 150 dollar unlabeled computer and we get more useful applications and good performance there, it will change the face of computing. The problem is that its more likely the iPad will do that, not the chrome os, just needs a price reduction.
If you're an introvert, why do you have a job that involves dealing with people all day to begin with? It sounds to me like it isn't lunch that's the problem, it's the hours before and after it.
On an only-slightly-related note, have they realized that their metadata is pretty screwy?

Googling Flattr turns up the following result:

Flattr - Social micropayments
Flattr works well with. Learn about our APIs andintegrating Flattr with your website. " Flattr has developed a small but thriving network of users " ...
Co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek just posted this tweet:

"No it ain't true. Media these days are funny. Soon I'll be reading that Spotify is launching a space rocket."

http://twitter.com/#!/eldsjal/status/63696909176545280
I must admit that the first time I looked at Dropbox, the single folder design made me stop the train. It wasn't until months later that I realized I could set up symlinks. It was a bit of an "I feel like a dumbass" moment.

With this in mind, it's easy to see that the Dropbox made the right design decision. With symlinks, the problem was already solved for them in a way that power users are already familiar with.
I have a lot of respect for all the hard work, especialy since I am hooked to Instapaper like services, and getting rid of the free version might be a good move I think. Now, he seems to have such a policy of ignoring his competition in his talks.

I would guess one reason he doesn't hear complaints about the loss of the free version is because ReadItLater and others have a free app to catch these users. He talks a lot about the cheapstakes that wouldn't upgrade, but the free version couldn't get me to register when I tried it. When it worked afterwards, it was so stripped down it wasn't funny.

In contrast the decision to buy the ReaditLater (same priced at the time) pro version was natural, and I kept the free version on devices I didn't care to sync.

At least, he is totally right, after using the Instapaper free version, I am bitching a lot.
I don't think DNSChain is a feasible project.

However, we can reduce the scope of the problem, and just focus on forcing certificates to be public. [1]

If we went a bit further, and required that the certs be in the public log for some minimum amount of time (say 6 hours), that would have made it possible to shut down MCS before they got started.

[1] http://www.certificate-transparency.org/
Please, point out any systems which have believeable claims for doing this. In my experience most 'DLP' systems do no such thing, they are just like the bit of string which stops you stealing pens at the bank, basically theatre.

Automatic analysis to statistically detect hidden channels is a research topic, it can be used to put bounds on the exfil rate but not reliably detect it.
Which doesn't really compare, given that differently from Markdown, HTML is, in fact, standardized.
Could just be error?
Reading this post I realized I literally have a stack of stock certificates sitting in my desk. Mostly because I don't want to take the time to put them in the mail (then I'd have to dig in emails for addresses, make a run to the post office, etc.) I know I should, I just haven't.

Until my lawyers started asking me questions I didn't even know I was supposed to do anything with them -- I just filed them away with all the other paperwork I knew I'd probably need sometime but didn't know what it was for. Honestly in my mind that goes under one of the bullshit administrative things I wish I could pay someone to take care of. If someone created a Zenefits for cap table management/investor relations, I'd be the first customer.

EDIT: I'm not just talking about cap table management (glorified spreadsheets). I want something much more comprehensive.
On further digging some more examples of assignments not caught:

ps = pyscribe.Scriber()
x = 0
ps.p(x)
ps.watch(x)
for x in range(4):
pass
# x is now 3
[x for x in range(5)]
# x is now 4
Why does insecurity come into play? Couldn't there be other reasons for God being adamant about what a person believes (i.e., worships)? What if man's nature really is best nurtured by and finds its completion in (his telos) the Being called God?

If your kids insist on eating cotton candy (which works against their health) amid a veritable feast (that is delightful and nutritious), wouldn't your ire be justified?
Five seconds of googling brought up this tool https://www.capshare.com, along with a host of others. Seems like that one does a lot of what the article (and you) talk about.
I know what the difference is between Corporatism and Capitalism, but I would be intrigued to see Ron Paul's explanation of the distinction and relationship, and, in particular, how his specific policies would prevent corporatism.
I have the same problem as you. I'm currently developing the backend and mobile apps (android only), I try to choose tools that allow me to develop as fast as I can (right now, I'm using the combo: android + appengine (python).
Tell me how it goes for you :) and good luck
Agreed .I like 10gen but I don't think I could hire them to help me with my side projects which I am using to get acquainted with MongoDB.

I was looking more for guys like contract DBAs that are available for Oracle or even PostgresSQL. Maybe 10gen could create certification programs for admins such that we could have a pool of knowledgeable admins who could support MongoDB newbies such as myself.
You are comparing "working for free at a startup" to working for a big company.

I worked at a startup that was funded, and paid well. I'd say the difference in pay between that and somewhere else was minimal, maybe 10-15% difference, it is hard to say. But I certainly was making real money.

Yes, I worked a heck of a lot hours there. But if I worked 50-60 hours a week there and I currently work 45-50 now, it really wasn't that big of a difference. Especially when the startup was flexible about things like working from home, telecommuting, they gave more vacation time, etc. And I liked every one of those hours a whole lot more at the startup than I do now at the corporate job.

I left for other reasons that really were not related to the job, the hours, or the pay. I needed experience for my career in a different direction to go where I ultimately want to go. I went to that startup to learn about startups, now I'm in the job I am in today to learn about this industry. Ultimately I'd like to start my startup in this industry, having experience in both areas for a few years first. But if it was just about the job and not where I am planning to go, I'd go back to the startup in a heartbeat.
With a normal SRP implementation, I'd ask questions like "why aren't you checking B mod N" (you're using Wu's libs so thankfully you're not automatically boned on the server) and "why don't you hardcode N and g so you don't have to check them for safety every time you run the protocol". That's presumably the kind of feedback you're looking for.

But that's all kind a moot point because you're delivering this over Javascript. Making sure g doesn't generate a tiny subgroup, or that N isn't (say) 2 is past the point, because how can a client trust any of this?

You're not delivering the Javascript over HTTPS, but that'd be a fig leaf anyways, because the idea is to embed this in other people's websites. Every one of those those sites would need to load this script on a page that is (a) itself HTTPS, (b) with every page component also delivered over HTTPS, (c) referencing no active content from the site that could have been loaded and cached previously without HTTPS, (d) absolutely free of cross-site scripting flaws. Otherwise, the attacker you are considering when using SRP can trivially snarf users passwords.

Javascript cryptography sucks. SJCL is a very nice library, and it might even be useful in a setting like Node.js, but it does nothing to make content-controlled code a safe place to do crypto.

This system is, right now, strictly worse than an HTTPS login prompt that simply sends a username and password. I don't understand your idea well enough to say whether it can be better than asymptotically as good as that same HTTPS login system.

I get it, by the way. The idea is just "make it easier for sites that are scared by Coda Hale's blog post to implement better - than - Gawker authentication". But even stipulating that all of this scheme can be made to work securely (I don't think it can): this is an awful lot of moving parts for an awfully small value proposition.