jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I would argue that privilege comes in other forms than wealth, and at a certain point no amount of wealth might make up for a rough childhood, or broken relationships, and those things can drive people too. Some people don’t work 70-hour weeks because of the money, or even because they enjoy it, but because on some level they are broken and it’s an acceptable “addiction” that lets them avoid confronting their inner demons
I suspect that as a larger and larger percent of the population has a cringey internet past to look back on, the power of old tweets will fade somewhat. It'll take a while though, and of course depends on how vile the past actions are.
Visually appealing. The site could use some better caching particularly on fonts. Seeing FOUT on 2+ page loads is pretty jarring.
I fear it would be difficult to hire Elixir people as well, but now I realize it's actually also hard to hire decent Ruby/Rails people. Honestly I think we should just accept anyone who can demonstrate thinking and programming skills of any language and then plan for 2-3 months of ramp-up time to get them into our language of choice.
Maybe at very small companies this opinion makes sense but at 4th largest company in the world, we absolutely need these people. We only have some semblance of workers' rights due to activists and conditions will only improve because of them.
sqlalchemy is an ORM - I'm not sure it can be compared against a web framework, but my experience with phoenix vs python web frameworks is that phoenix is easily faster even for single-threaded web requests (which of course will utilize many threads for things like DB thread pooling etc.)
Off-topic comment: newyorker.com hasn't loaded successfully for me in Chrome for probably a few years now. Literal white page that flickers with the article for a second before going blank.

I figured it was anti-ad-blocker tech, but even disabling ad blocker and going to incognito does nothing. Calls to "https://dolphin.condenastdigital.com/engines/atmo" are the calls that seem to fail with "ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED". I don't see a similar call being made in Firefox, which does load successfully.

Is my Chrome getting fingerprinted and somehow punished for running uBlock, or is newyorker.com just broken for Chrome in certain cases? Either way, it makes using my subscription that much harder...
What does 'driving at a facility' mean?
Since SRAM is physically larger most of the bits would be farther away and thus the speed of light would introduce some latency (3D can reduce that latency but at even more cost).

But I think the real reason SRAM is not used is because it's trapped in an expensive/low-volume local maximum and there's not enough demand to push it into a cheaper/high-volume state. Caches actually work pretty well.
I agree. I show it to people and they are amazed that it is essentially pseudocode.

disclaimer: python was my first programming language.
Yeah, it's so much harder to just type that the first time:

"send X to my girlfriend at 123 bubble st"

So I stand corrected. This is obviously a massive, defensible industry. Nevermind the fact that there are a dozen of these things in Europe, and none are notable businesses.
Fred Vogelstein's Dogfight[0] covers the rise of mobile computing (both iOS & Android) in depth.

0: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0374109206
Perhaps you should instead be composing an XYZServiceResponse that implements the ServiceResponse interface?
Opportunistic Encryption is harmful because people think it's actually useful. Here's the problem with opportunistic encryption:

OE provides unauthenticated encryption over TLS for data that would otherwise be
carried via clear text. This creates some confidentiality in the face of passive
eavesdropping,

You should never assume that 'eavesdropping' is passive. In almost every practical context of traffic interception, if you can read the transmission, you can write as well. If you're going to the trouble of installing some kind of tap, it makes more sense to make it read-write so you can actually do something with that intercepted connection. Collecting data is great, but hijacking is even better.

and also provides you much better integrity protection for your data than raw
TCP does when dealing with random network noise

This is a red herring, and if you need real integrity is totally useless since it doesn't prevent an active attacker from corrupting the data once they've hijacked your unauthenticated connection. For the majority of plaintext traffic, a small amount of corruption is way more efficient to allow for than breaking down and re-creating a connection every time a single bit gets flipped.

To use OE, you have to set up an SSL service in the first place, so just take the extra 15 minutes and make a real signed certificate. There is no such thing as "kind of" secure, after all. Encryption is intended to provide security. OE is not secure.
Cool story. Too bad STS-134 was delayed so they didn't get a chance to meet in space. According to Wikipedia, they would have been the first blood relatives to do so.

Remarkably similar careers.
As someone who regularly uses utm parameters, this has to be the most pathetic attempt at trolling I've ever seen. When looking at data you usually just pay attention to the top performers, not the stuff at the bottom of the list with 1 or 2 clicks. Even if you did notice the troll parameters you would just shrug your shoulders and move on without spending more than a second of your day thinking about it (which is much less effort than the person who pulled of this "troll" put into it).
Are public busses haunted or something? Why are they unsafe when it’s dark? How do you think other countries get children to school? They walk, take a normal bus, ride a bike. They manage a-ok.
"Lack-of-sleep also sometimes offers a slight euphoria or creativity/disinhibition in thinking"
I agree. I've found out that if I stay awake all night I tend to have a rush of completely new ideas about the problem I'm working on.
No.

The problem was that one of the parameters they used in their ECDSA signatures, k, was the same at least once. This allowed the key to be computed with simple math, but the generation of the key itself was not the issue.
Remember when eBay launched their would-be "Craigslist killer" and called it Kijiji? That was a bad domain name.
I liken TAOCP to Proust. Fawned over by a small subset of people (rightfully so), a larger subset who talks about it but doesn't actually read it, and shunned by the majority as dense and intimidating.
Awesome.

One note, it'll be hard to get really good translation quality without a network connection, because good models require tons of CPU and memory -- Google Translate is far better than word-for-word because it uses such things.
Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Explosions in the sky, Interpol
Right now, my Pandora "Nobuo Uematsu" channel. Very well tuned, IMO.

NIN, RHCP (the soft stuff), and trance.
Even an app that converted characters into the most direct meaning could provide insight in a large number of cases into the intended meaning and would be valuable.

An app that converted from characters to pinyin (a much easier problem) would be gold to someone trying to learn mandarin. I'd easily pay $50 for something with that functionality without it even making an attempt at the english. It's a much smaller market than those trying to understand chinese signs on a vacation, but it's one with a much larger stake and interest in the result.
I do when I need/want to find out more about a person of interest.
You have now culture, law, education, and much more conditioning than 50000/100000/1000000 years ago. I would argue that much have changed regarding how other humans react to what we do.
That's strange...

"Healthy Holidays Bundle Part 3: Bigger Brain" on December 13th was WakeMate and FitBrains.

http://i.imgur.com/AGMW8.png
Yes, this is the only reason I'd ever consider this (though it does look okay, the idea of an iPod on your wrist is _unbelievably_ dorky).

On the other hand with an SDK for it I'd consider buying one, never using headphones with it and just reimplementing (that is, stealing) designs from tokyo flash (http://www.tokyoflash.com/jp/watches/1/). Customisable sleek designery-watch is cool, iPod on your wrist is not. Bearing in mind that the time-telling aspect of the watch is basically completely superfluous nowadays.

I guess it's not really apple's thing but I'd rather this design, slightly slimmer and without the audio guts of the ipod.
Legally, yes. De facto it's a lot trickier, and that's always the rub.
Pretty sure it's to make sure that the profits of those that own the teams are preserved.
The "device information" is likely an opaque ID, and the "location" will likely be encrypted using an asymmetric key-pair set up during the pairing process, so the only thing capable of decrypting the location will be your phone.

The part you're correct about is that as they control the device, there's nothing saying they can't build a backdoor into it that reports the information (ie. location) back to them once it hits your phone. And we're also taking it on trust that it works the way they say it works, as it's not open-source.

But as someone else commented, eventually you have to trust something.
I found this staggering though it is accurate. It's less surprising (though no less accurate) when you consider how the numbers skew by borough:

"Ownership is lowest in Manhattan, where only 22 percent of households own a car, while ownership is highest in Staten Island where cars are owned by 83 percent of all households. Queens (62 percent) is also above the city average, while the Bronx (40 percent) and Brooklyn (44 percent) look more like the city as a whole."

https://edc.nyc/article/new-yorkers-and-their-cars
Binge watching it from past to recent videos helps much. Physics is complex, and explaining it without references to a prior knowledge is not possible in a single 20min video, even for Matt. They could do a complete layman format in every video, but that bullshit is already in abundance on yt, and it only solidifies misconceptions and the lack of understanding. You are the target audience, but it is more like a real learning curve than a weekly entertainment. You have to begin from the beginning.

My own impression of SpaceTime is that they are consistent and chronological. I wouldn’t understand that math on my own nor make any inferences, but conceptually everything is pretty clear to me.
I’m not completely certain if some of the large android OEMs would get the same level of buy in with third parties.

Google would be best placed to present an open standard for android, at the risk of fragmentation or segmentation by the OEMs

Samsung seems the logical candidate to have the capability, on account of their broad broad product lineup.

That said, I’m not certain if Samsung has intentions to foster the association between their products and smaller companies in the eyes of consumers, like Apple does with its MFI program. Additionally Apple is quite happy to present products from companies it likes in their stores, something from my understanding which Samsung doesn’t do.

I see this feature becoming quite a common sight on higher value 3rd party products targeted towards the iOS market, at least initially.

If the “Find My” network, becomes popular among 3rd parties and customers, I suspect that any similar system that an android OEM or Google comes up with will have to be broadly similar in implementation to ease integration. Simply because they may not have the clout to get third parties to keep a special SKU just for your equipment.
> Something you spend 1/2 of your waking life on is never "just" something.

Then don't spend 1/2 your waking life on it. Stick to a 40 hour work week, and don't do weekends.
1984-2001.
It is space taken away from drivers, but drivers will treat a painted bike line as more space for a car. This is why the only safe bike lanes on a road with cars are ones that have physical protection from cars.
Those who are a parent would say that those who do have no idea.
BGP and DNS survive due to relative obscurity, despite everyone using it in some way. Web devs do not give a shit about BGP (sadly.)
while i agree google and facebook have certainly peed in the pool, that strikes me as overly cynical, simply through recognizing that only a fringe few actually radicalize or become helplessly paranoid in that way in practice.

most people, whether they rationalize it or not, are cognizant that we live in the grey gradient of trust for various companies and brands. the vector field is all sorts of wacky and inscrutible, but maybe we can point a few of those vectors in the right direction and some folks will happily slide down it to better (but perhaps not perfect) safety and privacy.
VS code with the prettier extension is an IDE with hinting, parser and immediately show when you have (not compiler but) errors. If there is an extension for your CI system try installing it too.
To escalate this further, couldn't the police (semi officially, or police officers cooperating in private) just create musical pieces themselves to then have even more control over weaponizing them?
How good is freebsd to host a typical PG + nginx + docker + Rust/Python backend? ie: Can I use last versions of everything and expect to work? I have always used ubuntu.
Colt has basically been milking the 1911 and AR-15/M-16 for decades. And they lost the M-4 contract to FN a while ago, so they have very little going for them but the name.
This was in reply to people who are doing things like running errands at the USPS and eating at restaurants, right? What does an employer have anything to do with that?
I thought Lise Meitner.
Not U.S. though.
> If we do not spend the the energy to hunt what we eat, it seems clear that we get obese.
> Our natural instincts tell us to eat as much as we can whenever food is available.

Compounding the problem, we've identified what activates these instincts (fat and sugar), and hyper-optimized food to target the reward centers and cause people to eat _even more_ food that they don't need. Then we use what we've learned about psychology to trigger people's desire for food even when they're not eating.

Then we invent expensive drugs (see TFA) to help people lose the weight (and throw commercials at them for _those_)...
Good, bad, or ugly, I'm happy I can embed SVG directly in html files and then manipulate it with Javascript. Life is easier when you're teaching and you put everything in one file that students can open in a browser.
I've had an idea for a monad tutorial that I think might be quite instructive, but haven't had the motivation yet to write.

In essence, the idea is that you are led through the process of implementing: early exit, nondeterminism, threaded state and coroutines using call/cc in scheme. Then monads are introduced as a way of typing those patterns.
For deleted scenes and outtakes, check out her blog:

http://www.elanapritchard.com/2014/12/jail-comics-deleted-sc...
Well it would be boring it this huge RAM filled server got some hardware error...
I think a tweet from a few years ago sums up the situation (at least in terms of "conventional wisdom"):

You know what’s cooler than a million dollars?
Virtual currency backed by nothing and nobody.
@ReformedBroker

The only reason BitCoin exists is because of all the problems with existing currencies and payment mechanisms. It solves a lot of those problems, but creates new problems of its own.
I tried running it, but it keeps looping on '[+] Choose the [num] of the AP you wish to copy:' :-/
I think there are a lot of users who feel the other way around, they can't trust "some random website" with their facebook / G+ identity. They would rather just make a throw away account with some easy to remember password.
Interestingly, the whole point of lorem ipsum is people don't understand it, so they can focus on design when reviewing, not what is written. A good alternative to 'text goes here...' stuff.

These kind of fonts look good on wireframes, not so much on prototypes in my experience.
Lol. Its always the Republicans. If it was priority for the Dems, they'd have done it. They have gotten through several other things the Republicans opposed.

Anyhow, the better alternative is to return to lower the rates and remove deductions (aside from the standard deduction). Even simpler yet would be to go to a flat tax with an extremely high standard deduction (e.g. ~$50k with ~10% after that).

I can't think of many good reasons to continue complicating the IRS code aside from political targeting and giving Congress more kickbacks.
To a first approximation, DoD (and DoE) approximately fund Red Hat. They're fine with OSS.
Interesting, I suggest that people not be rude about it or go above people's heads, but be polite and explain the situation truthfully.

But now I'm curious, if the person was having a bad day, and thought they would do bad with either the hash table, or some second question you're likely to ask next, and they left the interview, and you offered to let them come back, and they rescheduled at a later date, would you still consider it a bad signal?

If that's the case, then I think my advice still stands, but it's better to move on to another company's interview process once you stop the interview. There are a lot of companies hiring out there.
One reason feminists and LGBTQ groups are so powerful is that billionaires and senators have daughters and LGBTQ kids.
> The strike price is the the price of stock of that month (not sure if it's average of the month or at the time of vest).

It was on the day of vesting (1st business day of the month) at the close that day. So we used to root for a huge single day drop on the first trading day of the month (mostly jokingly).
Floppies had directories. Except in the very earliest MS-DOS versions 1.x which didn't have subdirectories. They were added in 2.0

I know people often didn't use directories on floppies but the complexity was replaced by another one: which floppy contained the file you were looking for. Most people had big boxes full of hundreds of them.
Your best bet is probably to use a phablet and a Bluetooth headset for answering if you want to do VoIP.

Actually that’s one of the reasons I’m excited for smartwatches. Headset + BT-only watch + phablet + Internet AP over Wi-Fi/Bluetooth + VoIP over VPN seems like the most elegant solution to the backdoor baseband and general security and privacy issue right now.

Google’s project Ara would be the most elegant, of course. I hope this is the future, but I don’t know.
Minecraft has "resource packs" that change the image and label of items. When the client joins, the server can specify a resource pack for it to download.
Setting aside this lawyer's idea of a new legal strategy, I have a slightly off topic comment: I am getting tired of hearing people talk at parties, etc. about grabbing/stealing stuff via bit torrents.

While I don't like the MPAA and the clout that they have, it also works the other way: people stealing media are also screwing over those of us who are willing to pay for Netflix streaming, etc.

I think that people who steal media content turn a blind eye to the harm they cause other Internet users. This is selfish behavior that is spilling over into bad political actions and government policy.
not to mention the tragedy of the commons

interns who work for free prevent people from asking for wages for their work, to name one example.
Maybe the same novelty that any other achievement based game like system provides?
We do iPhone app dev on contract, my advise is for best results make sure your project mockups are really clear about what you need, iOS UI can be tricky to get right.
This post shows how to use Clojure and NetBeans to create
a GUI for a text generator similar to the one of the chapter 8 of the book Ansi Common Lisp by Paul Graham
Added it to twitterfeed here: http://twitter.com/hnfirehose - I'll work on adding rssCloud to Twitterfeed over the weekend to make it truly real-time :-)
Are they only willing to use copy protection designed by the makers of the operating system they are using? I'm just speculating but this seems to be the case for ps3, xbox, wii, mac, pc, ipad.
It's "quantum computing twitter", so mainly experts twittering to each other.

If you're interested, I made a video about these "anyons" [1]. Or, more briefly there's this [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0mn7UBonSs

[2] https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2030/wh...
Your source linked to a NYT story that says it was updated four days after original posting. As if they received new information and reported on it.

Your source also says "According to Capitol police, Sicknick later had a stroke. It is now being investigated whether he inhaled bear spray, and whether that may have contributed to his sudden death." Where are your source's sources? And does it matter if Sicknick died from being beaten to death or as a (possible) result of inhaling bear spray?
Not that my company will produce anything as controversial as Parler but I now use this example to explain why we go the extra mile with things (e.g. scrubbing headers). Sometimes the worst-case scenario really does come true.
I enjoy most of your comments on HN but I find this one extremely biased and giving advice which benefits the advisor rather than the advisee.

> You don't like when they ask, "Why did you only stay with Company X for 3 months?" They'll feel the same way.

Actually I do like it when they ask. It gives me a chance to explain my position. Heaven forbid somebody's feelings get hurt.

> This question shows lack of initiative

How does a question about the company's business show lack of initiative? It shows the candidate is at least thinking about the bigger picture and future.

> just assume that the answer to this question is "Yes" and sign it.

Honestly, I cannot believe you are saying this seriously. Never, never, never just sign something.

>Ask not what the company can do for you, ask what you can do for the company.

When you are interviewing someone, are you really following your own advice and thinking "What can I do for this candidate?" while ignoring your own company? I sincerely doubt it. The whole reason you are looking to hire is to get a ROI on the person.

I say all these as someone who has asked tough questions of my interview, been hired and then been told "we hired you because we liked the questions you asked of us during the interview."
Didn't Tor start out as a project for spies to communicate?
Reading the fine article reveals "This diet is quite high in protein (at 174% the daily recommended value). I don’t think there are any problems with that, but it’s something to keep in mind. (And it’s interesting to note, since many think vegetarian diets are low in protein.)"

That's quite plausible, given that he planned the diet from the beginning to make use of complementary sources of vegetable protein, and includes milk.
DotCloud [1] is built from the ground up around distributed services. We use a custom rpc mechanism called ZeroRPC. It uses ZeroMQ [2] for transport, msgpack [3] for serialization, and some extra glue for RPC mechanics, discovery, event dispatching, etc.

Among other neat tricks, it allows us to handle synchronous RPC calls and asynchronous message passing in a unified way. It also maps transparently to any ZeroMQ topology.

Combine this with the recent release of gevent support for zeromq [4] and you get a fun, fun playground :)

[1] http://www.dotcloud.com

[2] http://www.zeromq.org

[3] http://msgpack.org

[4] https://github.com/zllak/gevent-zeromq