jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There clearly targeting explosions. But, plenty of things generate shockwaves so really expensive active sound dampening or just High frequency vibration dampening.

There are probably far more cost effective approaches, but quieter dental drill for people that just hate the sound. There might be a safety advantage for quieter bone drills etc. Instrument isolation for scientific experiments.
Not exactly relevant but maybe someone with experience sees this. I am really trying to break into freelance work and having an impossible time putting the pieces together. Any tips for newcomers to the freelance world? Looking to just get a few gigs under my belt and not sure what sites/sources are best to find work.
radare is one of the best OS free replacements for IDA Pro on Linux. Very feature rich, and I think they could use this help to make it even better
Not sure if submitter is the author but I think "queues" should be "cues" in the second sentence of the Be A Chameleon paragraph.
My favorite bits from link 3:

In the menu at the start, cursor-down works,
but cursor-up doesn’t (he never hit cursor-up
in menus during the test run).

The small enemies at the start can hit you, but
he didn’t get hit by any enemy shots, so in the
released version of .kkrieger enemy shots deal
no damage.
Dunno, I always liked storing date/time as epoch. Every language under the sun seems to have a native method for working with it. Yeah, I need to deal with de/serialization, but it is a small price to pay, no?
"...US snowed in..."

I hate LA even more now.
0.) Dude, wrong tax cut: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/us/politics/19taxes.html. You'll laugh when you read the article, you're way off base here.

1.) Agreed.

2.) Agreed.

3.) Agreed.

4.) Strongly agreed.

5.) Disagree. Marriage is not a governmental institution and needs to be removed from our legislation and legal code in favor of civil unions.

6.) Strongly disagree. Sorry, how did he "let" that happen? Obama doesn't control Congress. He got the hard work done by, I don't know, negotiating with the Russia and writing the damn thing?!

7.) Agreed.

8.) I recognize what you're saying here, but to not support what Obama has done on DADT based on this feels like a stretch.

I'm not saying Obama has accomplished everything (my comment actually says the opposite and expresses displeasure in some parts of the job he has done). But do note that I was responding to someone who thought Obama was 100% rhetoric and no backbone, which empirically is not true. Also, I hope you realize that young people have thought the nation would be taken over by "young progressives for a more enlightened country" since the begininning of this nation. You do realize the people in power now grew up in the 60s, perhaps one of the most left-leaning decades this nation has seen?
I would love to use Mechanical Turk for a number of activities however, I can't believe you still need to be in the USA with a USA bank account to submit jobs? Ditto for Amazon's payment system.
I guess it depends on how you define business plan.

Business plans are important because they force you to think about things you need to accomplish to have a successful business. Potential market, competitors, goals, cashflow, etc are all very important to starting a company and founders need to all agree on the these things to progress.

However, I don't think a formalised 50-page business plan with research, etc is really all that necessary. It's much more important to have actually thought about all the things that affect the success or failure of your company than to have documented them.
Why is a media company like the NY Times with a stake in the outcome of net neutrality legislation considered a "more neutral" source?
Unsurprisingly, the professional Mac pundit did not beat out the SEO thought leader on SEO 101.
Just one issue I have with this article isn't to do with the core premise, it's the opinion that Silicon Valley is the heart of the industry because it is a traditional home of rebels.

Silicon Valley is the home of the industry for many, many reasons, but not because it is a magical contrarian land. The radical hippies didn't pave the way for startups in hemp and organic cotton. It's not inherently the geographic nation NOR is it because the people there are more alternative. Romanticizing the location because of what came before stops us recognizing what makes it great and being able to guard, protect and replicate that.
>I don't understand how you can consider that mismanagement of public funds. It seems to satisfy both the capitalist angle and the greater good.

As a shareholder(taxpayer) of this corporation(government) i think it is a mismanagement of the funds to allow for the uncompensated re-assignment of the rights to the direct products of the direct investments done by the corporation. You think it is not. Difference of opinions. As in the example i mentioned before - when contractor/builder gets full rights for the toll on the road he merely built and when he was paid in full for the work - i'd see this as mismanagement, and you'd see this as the capitalist angle and the greater good. Difference of opinions.
The two most obvious things would be founding Apple and his daughter. Pure speculation, of course.
Hey look, it was DMCA! Like I said it was... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2493798

For all those people trolling around complaining, the real complaint should be that illegal DMCA takedown requests are rarely followed up on in court. (In other words, Ars would do society better by suing whoever made their content get taken down.)
You can't know that it's speculation. You didn't experience it.
Eh, I think that the delivery idea has the potential to attract people doing it for the money. You could be "the ebay of courier services" (or, at least, that's how I imagine describing it to a vc, not that you'd need vc for a project like this)

I mean, I know this is getting away from the "crowdsourcing" idea, but as I said in another post, I know there are many times I'd be glad to pay taxi per-mile rates for someone to pick up my food, especially if you could figure out a way to make sure they are somewhat trustworthy.

I also know there are plenty of people around here who would be willing to work for taxi per-mile rates.

If you do it right, you could even have an 'elastic' system where very heavy days/times paid better/cost more for delivery. I mean, once I ordered a pizza, not realizing it was superbowl Sunday. the pizza got here three hours later.
That really sucks that your friend killed himself. Having lived through it, maybe you know for sure LSD was the reason he did it. But perhaps he was covering up something else.

If I killed myself today, not a whole lot of people would know why. They might attribute it to something they knew about, but very, very few people know about the thing that makes me want to kill myself.

So what I'm saying is maybe you're right - I certainly have no idea why your friend killed himself, but maybe it could have been something that was devouring his mind that he kept covered up.
I've been an AWS (S3, EC2, SQS) user for over 3 years now and this article detailing their systems at a mid-level is kind of scaring me off of their platform. It just sounds so complicated and I'm not sure I want to rely on it for anything critical until I can really understand it myself.

Also, a couple other complex systems for your trend are; financial markets and commercial jets.
Some people aren't capable of healthy romantic relationships and will cause and experience a lot of pain through trying to have them. Should we stop everyone from trying because some percentage will end up in abusive situations, or with broken hearts, or even dead? Risk alone doesn't make something bad, just risky. The question is if the potential rewards make the risks worthwhile, and the answer for LSD for many is clearly yes. Learning how to deal with risk is just part of life.
I remember rummaging through Mozilla projects source code and seen this name there quite a long time ago.
Nice! It actually was working better for me the on the first post. This one is going very slow --- 30-90 second page loads, then another similar wait for 'fetching data'.

I'm getting a few character encoding oddities using Opera on Mac. Looks like "â€“" is replacing a variety of other characters.

I presume you've seen http://hckrnews.com/? When combined with the browser extension, I find the counter for viewed and unviewed comments helpful.

Making the comments number a clickable link might be an easy improvement. There doesn't currently seem to be a way to go there directly for the non-Show-HN-type links.
DRM doesn't protect anything: if it runs, you can debug it and see how it works.

I don't know from what viewpoint you're constructing this fantasy about computer security and DRM.

Open source servers won. They will continue to win. Open source software is also about as far away from DRM as it is possible to be.

Are you suggesting we create closed-source operating systems and servers? That those would somehow be more secure?

Besides, why would you think I want my code protected? I'm not a kindergartener that doesn't know how to share.
haha, I forgot I switched from slicehost. My VPS _used_ to be in st.louis at slicehost but is now in Atlanta.
Well. It doesn't SEEM hard to do the math, but roulette wheels still make money, so clearly some people aren't doing it right.
> Since we all know that the Chinese government would never do a thing like this

Why?
I have to second this. I've had multiple runs at standing desks, and the only time I've been able to hack it for full days is when I was already doing squat exercises.
If that’s a MITM attack they can’t do anything I guess.
It is a little disappointing to see users flag-kill it. It's a conversation we gotta have somewhere.
Ironically, the comments section has a "Connect with Facebook" button.
Okay, but the issue you describe is one where perhaps employers need to do a better job interviewing candidates for different tiers of roles. "Seniority inflation" definitely happens when it comes to job titles (I don't think it's a huge problem, but it probably isn't good), and people of widely varying skill levels definitely get put in the same levels of roles due to flawed hiring processes.

But the issue is not bootcamps, or StackOverflow, or "positivity" about whether or not individuals can be programmers at all.
> Years of physics, and yet I had no intuitive understanding of what was going on...

The difference between knowing something and having a intuition is so LARGE it can not be overstated. That is also one of the reasons why I love 3b1b [1]. It just clicks for me on some of his videos.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
Github is not a programming tool. Github is a social network. It's value is that it has network effect dominance. That's why microsoft bought it. That's why people use it. I don't see many uses for this if it doesn't allow for stuff like federating to re-achieve the social network aspect outside of network effect centralization.

I suppose if you're a small group of people that don't need github's main feature (other people) and just want a local github-alike for playing it's cool. But why not just git then?
I believe they're describing a call center, and I agree vehemently: the title is broad and doesn't reflect the subject, someone on HN needs to hire this guy, not debate/agree with whether he needs to go back to the office
Yeah, but the "measure of recklessness" needs to go beyond just value at risk and portfolio sensitivities. Those things can be gamed by clever people and risk can be easily hidden.

Unfortunately, most risk managers I knew barely understood the theory enough to identify the hidden risks in the books they oversaw. Most even struggled to get the right data out of the systems to do their jobs properly!

You do make a valid point - if the recklessness somehow pays off, you're a hero (eg. Paulson).
It seems you’re relocating on principle, and the principle is: you deserve the majority of your company’s profits for yourself.

There are other principles you could apply, though. For example, placing even a very small weighting on overall social welfare would probably reverse your position.

How much happier do you think the increase you are pursuing on your extremely large income will make you?

How much happier do you think the same money could make the kinds of people on whom much of your tax receipts would have been spent? For example, state pensioners, or people struggling in the gig economy and relying on food banks to get by?
Not sure what argument is posed by your rhetorical statements.

The original comment lamented the fact that among the most lucrative positions within mathematics and computer science is ultimately tuning models for the purpose of spying on consumers. Be it an phd at Google trying to better categorize target demographics for advertisements or a high level engineer at Amazon trying to figure out what other products to recommend you.

It can be argued that sleep and social life are productivity drains. It can also be argued that it is part of a well-rounded life which is key to happiness. A happy individual is likely productive. Even so, it is besides the point. People sleep and socialize because they enjoy it. People don't waste decades of education and experience on gaming consumer behvaiour because its enjoyable however. They do it because it is lucrative.

My take on the original comment is that it encourages one to imagine a world where we instead incentivise the best and brightest of our generation to pursue nobler goals than consumer surveillance. It is also a natural response to the top level post. Why worry about video games as a productivity drain when there are far greater structural obstacles to building a better world.
There are already employers committing to supporting remote. If your company isn’t one of them, and you need it, change employers. Frankly I want not only to go back to the office but also to not have to work with remote people, so I hope my employer does not allow remote and all of the hardcore WFHers leave the company.
> I am not even sure if there are any intention to bring vertical Japanese subtext feature to HTML.

Perhaps not HTML itself, but the first draft for writing modes in CSS is over 10 years old: https://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-css3-writing-modes-20101202/

> This module specifies the text layout model in CSS and the properties that control it. It covers bidirectional and vertical text.

There have been numerous revisions in the subsequent years. In 2017 w3.org published this article specifically on using vertical text in paragraphs, forms, lists and tables: https://www.w3.org/International/articles/vertical-text/
> For "blessed" logging like Windows Event Log you'll have an even harder time [...] even against privileged attackers

Trying to prevent a determined privileged attacker from doing something is an exercise in futility, since it's impossible in every sense of the word. If they have total control over a system, they can do whatever they want, even if you put up a bunch of stopgaps.

Most post-exploitation frameworks (prominent example: DanderSpritz) have modules to remove stuff from the windows event logs without leaving traces.

It's pretty basic stuff.
> Is it because global variables are can not be optimized well? Is it because of bugs in Julia related to global variables?

Mainly this; it's incredibly easy to accidentally use global variables and swamp your whole program. Think about defining some constant "n" in the global space and forgetting to put "const" in front of it. Then any for loops that use "for i = 1:n" will reallocate n on every iteration. If it's a nested loop, you'll get huge accidental memory allocations (this particular problem [not mine] is one on Stack Overflow that took a while to debug).

It's the same reason garbage collection is used; it's not strictly necessary but it prevents a lot of accidental bugs and makes programs easier to reason about. I think it would be the same with removing global variables.

* Of course, you still want function names to be global, so perhaps define a namespace that you can dump immutable functions or constants into. Or if there's good reasons not to remove global variables, at least make them all const by default and add a "mutable" keyword (and maybe swap that in the REPL). This would at least remove most of the accidental bugs.
You're really very wrong on Nim's macros. It follows Lisp's defmacro tradition instead of Scheme syntax-rules/syntax-case, but that doesn't make it any less powerful (many would argue it's demonstrably more powerful). You are also dead wrong on syntax-rules/syntax-case capabilities, or maybe on what the syntax/AST is, if you think that there's anything they can do that Nim can't. Both systems deal with AST which means they both are unable to introduce new ways of parsing the code, only transform already parsed one. In (some) Scheme and Common Lisp you get access to readtable, which is the parser, but that's really a different thing. And even in Lisps it's not that popular: Clojure and Emacs Lisp disallow this for example.

Personally I favour pattern-based macros, like the ones implemented in Dylan, Elixir or Sweet.js (to show some non-sexp-based languages with such macros); but there is nothing "wrong" with procedural macros and they are not, in any way, less robust.

You don't have to be excited by Nim, but you should try to avoid spreading lies just because you aren't. Maybe a "lie" is too strong a word, but this statement: "Nim's macro system seems to be far less robust than that" is really very wrong and I wanted to stress this fact.
Sounds good, will check it out. Thanks for posting this.
Hurt the sender countries? Maybe in some cases. But in many, opportunities were limited there. They come here, not just for money, but for meaningful work that engages their skills at a challenging level. Good for everybody.
I'm perpetually torn about this -- on the one hand, the way they want to serve relevant ads is by knowing everything about my life, even if I don't want them to. On the other hand, I'll get really relevant ads. That's kind of nice.
I don't necessarily know of any one book that meets all of your friends requirements, but...

Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine might be good for your friend.

http://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder/dp/03164...

Another good option might be Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold.

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa...

Or, how about Coders at Work?

http://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Programm...

Another one that I have (but haven't had time to read yet) is Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg. It might have something that your friend would find interesting.

http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcendent...

Another one that may be inspirational, although it's more about personalities than computer science per-se, would be Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.

http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Lev...
IBM's just trying to get brownie-points with web developers because they know that they won't be around much longer.
That is an entirely different discussion.

Public: Your website doesn't work

Tazo: We are so awesome! Want to ride on my giraffe? It's made out of MONEY!
This is a little bit out of date, but it is a good reminder to be careful.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1787354

this is about (defending) brute force/ssh attacks, but the iptables rules are similar
The problem with Tor, as I see it, is that it can easily make you more vulnerable rather than less so.

When I access some random website from home, my traffic is vulnerable to capture and analysis by my ISP, the intervening backbones, and the website that I am accessing. I don't trust my ISP and the backbone providers not to examine my traffic, but I do have quite a bit of confidence that they don't care about me. I'm not very interesting.

If I use Tor, I add another party who can capture and examine my traffic: The Tor exit node.

I most emphatically do not trust random Tor exit nodes not to examine my traffic. I'm quite confident that the NSA and other government organizations run their own Tor exit nodes--after all, a stream of traffic generated by people who are interested in hiding their activities is likely to be quite interesting.

I can encrypt my traffic...but not all of it, and do I really want to trust that everything important is properly encrypted?

If I had something to hide, I'd do so by blending into the crowd, not by slapping a big "I'm trying to hide" label on my traffic and sending it to the people most likely to be interested in it.
Funny, I think in terms of my "informational immune system" all the time, and the one time I used it here I got downvoted into oblivion (though it looks like I recovered a bit!): http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2006412

Geeks are opposed to certain sources of knowledge, probably because they see themselves as on the receiving end of bad assumptions based on their clothes and mannerisms, and I agree with them that it's always best to avoid subjective judgments when possible. However, there are so many situations in life where you can't audit the source code yourself, and when there's serious risk, you have to make use of the information you have. You can't investigate the provenance of the cheese sandwich, and even if you could, do you really want to spend your whole life playing Sherlock Holmes? I'm thankful for open source and the people who read code, but I am not going to read the source code of every damn piece of software I use. Sometimes I'm just going to say, "The only source for this software is a shareware site in a country I've never heard of, and it claims to come bundled with porn, so I do not feel comfortable installing it on my Windows PC no matter how good some guy on 4chan says it is." Nothing against porn or countries I've never heard of, but my Spidey sense is tingling.
It is not theft or subtraction, it is piracy.

There was no loss when bits are copied, but because the downloader has no rights to the media, it is piracy.

There was no lost sales because the fact remains: the user wants a copy of the media or content without paying. To suggest that they would pay in some alternate universe is fantasy.
No one is suggesting we replace the end of the month meetup.
Why not just bring an extra (charged) battery when you are camping and swap it in when your phone tells you it is low?

Rather than being stuck with the extra weight everywhere you go, you just incur it when you actually will be away from a charger for multiple days.
No it's not.

It's more like saying, "I can have the best chicken in the world, but I like steak."

You equate working for someone else to working for yourself. Others don't think that way.
Thrive Global is Ariana Huffington's vehicle to repackage the last several years of self-care fads and sell them to corporations under the guise of improving employee productivity. It doesn't have anything of value to add to the conversation, as this article makes clear.
The most common use of the concept GMO exclude simple breeding, which is what we have done for thousands of years. We didn’t use to transfer genes between species or even between kingdoms.

I’m not that worried, but I’m not that fast to exclude the possible that something goes dangerously wrong somewhere, say some crop with new genes that make it spread uncontrollable through a whole ecosystem, in the same way invasive species sometimes do.

And then of course the issues you bring up in your last paragraph. The technique is in general not used to help humankind or the world, but to maximise revenue for the corporations. At least in the industrialised world, it is now more important to increase biodiversity than to maximise yield.