jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Have a look into http://flashgamelicense.com if you haven't already. If you have a quality game, you can actually end up with a bit of a bidding war going on between potential licensees, and most deals allow you to sell again to other sites after an exclusivity period. Each of our Pretender games so far (http://launchingpadgames.com/games/the-pretender-trilogy/) has earned in the high four-figures, with zero in-game advertising except for fairly tasteful co-branding from the sponsoring sites.
Dumb idea:

Have the work factor also be a function of the password itself... this would cause even more difficulty brute-forcing the password, as it means intermediate steps would also have to be tested - breaking one weak password doesn't give you any information about other passwords.
From Florian's blog entry:

"Implications for Android: Concerning Android, I wouldn't rule out that maybe some of the hundreds of thousands of Android applications out there use the teachings of the infringed patent claims in one way or another."

Wow, developer FUD much? Let me propose a small fix for you Florian:

"...I wouldn't rule out that maybe some of the millions of software applications written since this patent was filed use the teachings of the infringed patent claims in one way or another."

Why single out Android on this? oh wait, I forgot, because it's Florian...
Amazon needs to buy some railroad right-of-ways.
You have to remember to cancel at the end of three years or else it auto renews (triennially) for $251.64. Hopefully I will still be using Google Calendar then and get the reminder
Until we have electric aircraft this sounds like a very good idea
As more and more of what we need and want becomes virtual and the virtual things more and more become things that are streamed, it seems that we're approaching a "subscription economy."

From time to time I think about what I'd take out of my place if I had five minutes before it burst into flames. Here's what I think I'd take today:

* Envelope with important financial documents.

* MacBook Pro, iPhone, and iPad.

* Surly Steamroller (my fixie).

I either don't care about or could easily replace everything else in my apartment. I wouldn't replace any of my few dozen DVDs gathering dust on my bookshelves. As far as vinyl goes, I probably wouldn't replace any of my fifty-or-so 12 and 7-inches. I might replace a dozen of the thousand or so books I own. Everything else are legacy assets that I'd more properly call liabilities.

I am interested to see what happens in the next decade or so. I see things through a particular—and some may say peculiar—prism, but I see a world where people will sort themselves into one of two groups:

* People who have given up on the ideology of stuff.

* People who cling—conceptually and literally—to stuff.

To get comfortable living in a city is to get comfortable letting go of stuff. I no longer have to spend hundreds of dollars a month to pay people to care for my yard. I just pay a bit more in taxes and can easily take advantage of one of the world's most beautiful urban park systems. My apartment is a small, relatively rough loft, but it's cheap, and I use the money I don't spend on rent or a mortgage to go out.

The thing I most want to avoid losing are "things" like health insurance, my ability to communicate with people, and the ability to read books. All of these things have become virtualized, and most of them are or are moving in the direction of be subscriptionized.

I look forward to the day when my life is sufficiently virtualized so that my personal, physical possessions can fit in my messenger bag. And when the sum of my digital possessions are the words and source code I've written, the pictures I've taken, the things I've actually produced.

When that day comes, I'll be able to drop into any major city with nothing but a messenger bake and a bike at nine in the morning and by noon be ready for anything.
> my sister has successfully resisted the introduction of video games for at least six years - hope she can continue to fight.

idk. I bought my son a Nintendo DS when he turned 3 (reward for potty training). I'm really glad I did as he's already showing off some cool mathematical and logical thinking ability. There's good games and bad games, plusses and minuses as with everything. I think the key is variety and moderation.
It depends. Sometimes I see comments that I don't understand are downvoted - I upvote these and sometimes comment.

But most downvoted comments are downvoted for an obvious reason: they're snarky, personal, ad-hominen attacks, trolls or just plain wrong. It wouldn't add anything to the discussion to comment. Here's an example of a snarky comment which deservedly got downvoted for obvius reasons: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038245 (it's mine - and I apologise...)
Presumably the faucet hose recoils automatically? Wow that really IS futuristic.
Truth. Which is why I think BASIC is a bad choice. But it can be easy with modern languages, and so that's why I think they're better.
Again, it exists, but if in 38 years of growing up black, going to school with blacks, living, working, playing sports, dating, etc with blacks, I've never heard it, and I don't know anyone who has heard it, I really can't consider it "pervasive".

Lots of things exist, but aren't pervasive - terrorism for example.
This sounds a lot like the beginning of the movie Idiocracy. I think we're all doomed.
Interbank network? Have you been to some of the rural dumps in North America or Europe that are modem based?

I even saw one in rural France that used a web interface and kept 404ing people.
I would not say text layout is done during parsing, it is done when the parse tree that parsing produced is used to produce a render tree ('execution time'?)
Nope. From what I've heard it is standard practice for later rounds to dilute the investors from previous rounds.
Interesting! Wasn't aware of that. Is this something that's being actively exploited in the wild though? It won't let me read the actual paper so it's hard for me to tell how practical the attack is.
I don't know whether SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab. But if it did, then not only is it probably not the first lab-origin pandemic, but it's also not the first time the WHO initially excluded that possibility.

The 1977 Russian Flu pandemic was genetically near-identical to a strain from 1950, without the expected mutations that should have appeared after 27 years of undetected circulation among humans or animals. It's been widely suspected in mainstream literature to have escaped from a research or vaccine manufacturing accident, to the point that the NEJM casually wrote:

> The reemergence was probably an accidental release from a laboratory source in the setting of waning population immunity to H1 and N1 antigens

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra0904322

But at the time, the WHO said:

> Laboratory contamination can be excluded because the laboratories concerned either had never kept H1N1 virus or had not worked with it for a long time.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395678/pdf/bul...

And it's absolutely bizarre to me that people are asking why the origin even matters. After thousands of people died in Bhopal, did it matter whether better chemical safety standards could have prevented that? So with millions dead now, how could you possibly not wonder whether our current standards for the sampling and manipulation of poorly-understood pandemic-candidate viruses are adequate?
People have a disgust response to corporations attempting to subvert our human-focused emotional responses towards their companies. It’s abusive in a sense, the same reason why people get incredibly upset when corporations try and capitalize on children, or martyrs, or movements.

It’s because fundamentally they are playing a trick, and they know it. They’re trying to take a far bigger, greater thing than them, and capitalize it. The capitalization of our most dear values is, really, quite disgusting and a very modern phenomenon. While they were figuring out ways to do it all the way back in the 60s, there’s a certain shamelessness to it now that is maddening. Probably because they way they do it today, like in this case, it’s easy to believe that entire ad teams have been raised in such a corrupted moral environment that that actually do not even understand why what they’re doing is reprehensible, and that blindness/greed combo is especially icky (cheapening/devaluing core cultural values for a quick buck, and not even able acknowledge it as such).
"Building" it in a lab might be too scifi. But it's possible they were experimenting with things.

E.g. "killer bees" are a product of human scientists trying to engineer a better bee - the release was accidental. It's not like we have the ability to genetically engineer a bee from the ground up. But as a species humans have been purposefully manipulating the traits of living things for thousands of years.
Lots of "fine people on both sides" rationalizing here in these comments.

There were social and professional consequences for prejudice before "cancel culture" was full-throated wailed from atop privilege mountain. Rebranding the combination of 'reverse racism', 'dangerous time for men', & 'free speech' as a form of McCarthyism is so ludicrously transparent. Maybe it doesn't feel obvious in anti-intellectual edgy enclaves, but it's farcical to the majority of people that are too polite to remind that consequences for antisocial behavior has always existed.
Well, mask early may not have been the best choice of words then. Taiwan's reaction would qualify as early. And Taiwan is the thing that the WHO has been very conspicuously be silent about even when asked explicitly.

https://twitter.com/fu7371/status/1262786140777545728
Thank you! Has one of the best renditions of 'drunken sailor.'
I joined one called "BioCurious"[1] in the SF Bay area to work on a project making a fluorescence microscope. The project was advertised on Meetup.com which is how I found it, and there were other similar projects that met up weekly. If you paid a membership fee though you got 24/hr access so I met a person there outside of academia who was using the lab's resources to continue the neuroscience research he had done for his PhD.

In the bay area I also know of CounterCulture [2] which I've only heard high praise of but I've never visited. I've since moved to Baltimore and found some places I wanted to check out but unfortunately because of Covid I've been stuck at home.

[1] https://biocurious.org/
[2] https://www.counterculturelabs.org/
> When the peer is found, its public key is checked against the three remaining words (as the words were derived from that key), and a password authenticated key exchange happens to authenticate each other.

What's the PAKE used for, if the public key is already verified? What's the "password" here?
I wonder if this means that any field can be revolutionized simply by removing the fear (or the burden) of politics.
Oh ok, I can be wrong about Haskell. BTW, I really like Ceylon, it's very statically safe (more than Haskell I'd say) and very pragmatic (unlike Haskell IMHO, it doesn't seem to focus on maximizing productivity).
EDIT: The original title of this post was "Someone silently closed 37% (19/52) of Android bugs with 500+ stars on Dec 25th" (it has been involuntarily changed by the mods).

Here's the list (all marked Obsolete silently by e...@google.com):

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1257

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1211

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2117

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2361

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1386

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1730

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2207

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2845

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1285

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2305

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2412

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1089

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1698

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2318

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1041

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=63793

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1284

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1106
The scariest part is probably the SLA business. I wouldn't imagine[1] it's too much fun getting a phone call at 8am (that's 6am your time) saying a SEV-1 has been registered with your service and you have 4 hours to fix it or there will be a (weirdly unspecified) penalty. Oh, and they've already used 2 hours tracking it to your software.[2]

[1] Never been in that position; have been in the "Oh, good, you're finally here. THE SKY IS FALLING!!!11!" position, though.

[2] Actually the clocks don't work that way. But I don't understand them anyway.
Is that even a question? There are many known markets for zero-day exploits against most OS's and software; that means whoever has the money has the ability to own whatever they want until it's detected and patched.
I think OP is referring to the fact that your device is internally making a copy of the image during the download process, yet the creative commons license requires that copies of an image have attribution. The terms of the license are therefore likely not being met.

Very unlikely anyone will care...
Two ideas that might help:

Elixir releases are built in and easy to use. You don't have to write an app file directly for instance.

I usually use ports for C interface (rather than NIFs). I have a little boilerplate C and Elixir that I recycle to do the ground work and then it's just your specific implementation detail.
Auto-pay system here in Norway doesn't allow overdrafts. Instead I get an email saying payment couldn't be done due to lack of funds.
This made me laugh because it hits home. I've gone through many boots, hiking shoes, tennis shoes, and more and always had some complaint about discomfort in some way.

Finally found my grail I can literally walk in forever with zero foot discomfort. Some 10 dollar Islander brand flip flops from Asia. I've got like 5 more pair in the closet.
Yes. But if the minority gets wind of that, it could create its own hard fork and keep out known members of the cartel in the future. Something like the opposite happened with Ethereum in response to the DAO hack, when the majority rolled back a transfer of ethereum by a minority of wallets that followed the rules as written but were against the intent of the rules.

Crypto is often sold as 'anarchy with rules' but it's not really that. Nor is it oligarchy as is the case with fiat and central banks. Crypto is in fact democratic. I wonder whether that's why it's unpopular in certain circles.
Tangental note:

I recently had a flight that had some backwards seats. My seat was one. First class.

I had read for many years that this was the best for passengers but consumers wouldn't accept it. I had always thought that was a bad assumption probably based on some tiny focus group that nobody ever questioned, and look at that, I didn't have a problem with it.
*clutches pearls*
So when I first heard about NFTs for art it seemed pretty silly. As it is now there is nothing stopping some one from copying the digital asset and still deriving as much enjoyment strictly from that digital asset. The other added benefit strictly from the token might be as a status symbol and the ability to profit by selling that status symbol to some one else. So if you are buying the art for solely personal enjoyment then there isn’t much of a value add it seems (maybe you can acquire the digital asset again if you lose it by proving ownership of the token to some service?)

However if a DRM ecosystem pops up supporting this which adds enough friction to showing digital assets without tokens (ex a high end DRM only digital photo frame, DRM only music and video players, DRM enforced public hosting services, ...) then I could start to see how this might gain some traction. Legal enforcement would help as well.

As other comments have stated this does seem pretty antithetical to the culture of the original internet. Though that seems to be less relevant as the years march on.
Wouldn't a bot network used to purchase any kind of good run afoul of the CFAA? I've never heard of such, but I wouldn't put it past a high level company to make a stink and then send Feds to peoples' doors.
I did the same and I’m still annoyed at myself.

Clubhouse is pretty shit, really. So I sold my soul and got nothing in return.
When you leak your contacts, you harm others, not just yourself.

This, among other reasons, is why I never give out the number of my SIM card, or my residential address, et c, to anyone. They're just going to click "allow" and give it to a thousand shady companies, starting with Facebook.

I never give people data I don't want stored in my shadow profile.
> The only way to know if you love drawing at a competent level is to reach that level. In a sense it begs the question: how can you tell if you will enjoy doing something until you have the ability to actually do it?

I have had such a realisation few years back, which I neither was able to put into concrete words, nor did I take it seriously, until I have read yours.

Growing up, I used to love drawing as a child, but later I started to become indifferent towards it and my skill started waning leading me to wonder if I simply disliked it or was just not so good at it. Unbeknownst to me I started practicing in hopes of becoming good enough at it to be able to do better programmer art work for my games. I became reasonably good at it and only then was I able to reason out that my indifference was because programming interested and intrigued me far more than drawing ever had.
There is a major difference between "there are some sucky parts that I do because they enable me to do this awesomeness, and those are called work" and "it's work, it sucks and is not fun". I have never held a job I feel the latter about (well for more than a month anyway), yet I do pretty darned well for myself.
this. Why isn't this 100% clear to anyone with a brain?
Without fake work how much unemployment would there be?
I got news for you: Yes it is.

I love it. It was my hobby when I was young. So much so, that I thought working in the field would kill the fun of it, so I avoided that. Eventually, needing a career (and not just a job), I went into programming professionally.

It didn't kill the fun. In fact, it's now more fun than ever.

Programming is fun.
Jealous and hatefulness makes you feel like that. Just think of everyone as a human being. No race, culture , country, color and gender defines somebody. If you think you're superior than anyone or everyone then you're mistaken. If you look for any such kind of people then you can find it just in your neighborhood. I've seen many people doing that but never differentiated them on the country,gender and color basis.

HTH

Regards,
basileis
Probably whenever the zombie fad passes again. I don't have any evidence to back this up but I feel like they might have been promulgated by the same person/people.
Right. Students, teachers, parents, and bystanders all seem to have the problem of forgetting that the purpose of education is to become educated. Getting a degree is not the point. Getting grades is not the point. Learning is the point.

The only reason to give tests is to gauge how much students have learned so this information can be passed on (to the students so they can tell if they're doing well, to employers so they know if the student knows the material). Tests have no inherent value. If there is a better way to tell if students are learning (and I'd wager that there usually is), no test should be given at all.

I almost never studied in college (because I figured that if I hadn't learned the material by test time, cramming wouldn't help), and I didn't care about my grades (a professor once forgot to bring the graded tests to class and said we could come by his office to get our grades; I told him I didn't care what my grade was, and he was shocked). I cared whether I was doing well or not, and generally I could judge that for myself. When I did get bad grades (which was rare because I took my education very seriously), I either knew why already or was quickly made aware of something I didn't know but needed to know. The most helpful grade I ever got was a D on my first English paper. It's the lowest grade I've ever gotten in my life, but by showing me what I did wrong, the professor helped me improve my writing so that I never got a bad grade on an essay again.

All that said, the test needs to be given again. Some students who got the test could have been using it to study, some could have been using it to memorize answers. Students memorizing answers don't deserve good grades, so the test should be designed to fail them. Students using the test to study weren't cheating, but there's no way to tell that they weren't cheating without testing them again to see if they still do well. In order to keep their grades meaningful, they should be tested again. For an A to mean anything, there has to be the possibility of an F. If students who weren't learning anything were able to get A's, then there's a problem.
I really hope you are not representative of your generation, but I suspect you are.

Same thinking as "no call, no foul". Really sad.
> Before the industrial revolution, most people were farmers.

That's not really true.

OK, perhaps it was only true in Europe.

There were many other things one could be: craftsman, trader, and many other occupations.
That will matter in some far off future where it's worth a burglar's time to go out of his way to check this.

In the mean time, it's much easier to ring the bell to check you're out to work.
Spotify comes pretty damn close, if you are in one of the countries they support (UK, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands.)

For $10/month, you can listen to unlimited music while online, and offline on your iPhone or PC. For $1/per track, you can download songs to load to other devices. And, using the Facebook integration features, you can subscribe to Playlists (by your friends, or others) that will recommend music to you.
Those are really great advantages, but creating a website from the very scratch is a time-consuming process. When I was setting up a website for my law company, I wanted a lot of flexibility. I should admit, I'm a techie person who knows how to code. Though I was looking for a tool that would allow me to customize a ready-made template in order to save much time. By accident, I discovered this amazing website builder that offers really breath-taking templates - https://www.templatemonster.com/moto-cms-3-templates.php . Works great for me.
As is email.
You are technically correct (the best kind), but of course I mean dropping HTTP in favor of HTTPS. I don't think many people could possibly confuse what I meant. We all know the way this works and I don't want to get bogged down in semantics. I don't see anything there as constructive.

I am advocation for a revolution. We have the technology today, and after Let's Encrypt goes live all we really need is for Google to announce that Chrome will run for six months with a warning when using HTTP (similar to what it does bow for self-signed certs) and the will stop supporting HTTP altogether. How quickly do you figure people will move if this was announced?
Consider MySQL compatible ActorDB
Note:

"Cryptopticon" (cf. "Panopticon")

not

"Cryptonomicon" (Neal Stephenson novel)

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Not that this isn't a valuable and fascinating article (and extremely relevant to anyone who connected with that novel), but noted for other inattentive readers who potentially started into it expecting something else.
To me, that is something that you should keep internal, on internal systems with vetted free software.