jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is old. Here is the same pastie, but posted on February 16, 2011 http://pastie.org/private/97oth9v5tspkiztwwdmnga

They aren't talking about the PSN Hack that brought down the network this time, they are going back and forth about how PSN stores the user's CC information in plain text on the console and that a shady/grey custom firmware has the potential to skim that information off the hardware and onto a bad guy's server.

The only slightly frightening thing about this is how they allude to the idea that this plain text CC information and security codes are transmitted over plain text, but that information is false. All transactions done between your PS3 console and the PSN network were done over SSL.
If you're looking for a senior developer with 5-10 years experience in a language it's a useful gauge of experience and whether they think about the language that they work in , particularly if it's something that might bite you. eg. What does the following do in Python 2:

try:
my_dict['foo'].append(result[1])
except IndexError, KeyError:
my_dict['foo'] = [result[0]]

And you ask interviewers language questions to find out the same thing - namely, whether they really know what they're doing. I'd rather do interesting work, and not get stuck explaining list comprehensions to a bunch of people.
Note that the article quotes the retail price of mechanical turk; Amazon bought Zappos last year, so they probably get a better deal.
I'm with you on all points; however, what I find interesting is that these guys talk explicitly about the credit card data being available via the path they took. If these are the same people--or if perhaps it was someone lurking in the channel--the suggestion is that the technique used would have exposed the credit card data of these users--despite Sony claiming that they felt it was unlikely.

I'm not sure there's a lot of "news" to this post; my feeling is that if Sony, "isn't ruling out the possibility" that my credit card information was stolen, I'm working under the assumption that it was. I'd encourage everyone else who was subscribed to PSN to do the same.
And titles are typically capitalized.
Does anyone else feel this is about as equally cool as NASA's arsenic bugs hype? I mean I kind of assumed you could get bacteria to do that, but some (?) evidence of other universes - pretty cool.
what have you done to VLAD>>>?
That second link is blocked on safe browsing for me as deceptive content. I’m not familiar with the context of any of this.

Edit: in fact, the link doesn’t even load at all even if I dismiss the safe browsing warning. Is it supposed to load, or is that why you’ve included the archive.org link?
Nope. They're Windows ‘virtual key codes’, which are entirely unrelated to Windows ‘scan codes’, which are also not hardware codes (but are distantly descended from the original IBM PC).

For instance, consider ‘/’ (beside right shift). The normal hardware code (USB HID) is page 7 usage 0x38 (sometimes written 0x070038; in theory HID usage codes can exceed 16 bits, but in practice they don't). The PS/2 hardware code (for old keyboards) is 0x4A. The Windows ‘scan code’ is 0x35. And finally, the browser legacy ‘keyCode’ which you can see at https://w3c.github.io/uievents/tools/key-event-viewer.html is 191 (0xBF), which is the Windows virtual key ‘VK_OEM_2’.
Absolutely. He is one of the first few through the breach for us with this tech.
It used to be trivial to rank well in search engines with minimal effort, so if "build it" includes the few seconds to submit to one search engine, yeah, it used to work. You could buy a 2-3 word keyphrase domain, submit it to Google and get traffic for a few minutes of work. I used to rank top 1-2 in my country for "make money" with a random single page site I built in 30 minutes. Had another site (which took half a day to build) make $20k/y with zero ongoing effort.
Depends on the UI.

Midnight commander, for example, has the command line in it, so you don't lose it. But even without the command line embedded, I'm sure I could do common file operations much faster in it than 90% of command line lovers.

Good curses based GUIs can be quite efficient. Usually won't beat the command line, but can get close, and are much easier to learn.
Controlling a 2D cursor is a pretty standard task. If you’ve already got an implant, I would be happy to take your million bucks. If not, you’d need an EEG rig first (I’m not going to jail over this!), but it’s still very doable. Wolpaw et al. had 1D EEG controls working 30 years ago.
It's 2021, I didn't know anyone was still using WinRAR.
I had to solve this for charges and interest and I solved it in a more elegant way than described (I think).

Using mutation iterator, last update time and knowing the rate of change over time you can back apply any any calculations that have been missed regardless of how long it’s been since your cron job ran.

I setup a server to run the job on startup and 1 time a day at midnight. This also allows multiple different charges and interests to be applied to the same account. I also set it up to apply this process every time an account was accessed to make sure the accounts were up to date.
You can get the full stack of the crash point (and a few extra frames that handles the stack generation) in a deferred recover, ie https://play.golang.org/p/XvZteY6Y6fh

github.com/pkg/errors is a simple way to dump expensive stacktraces into each new/wrapped error. Or you can just panic and recover in your own app, it's possible though discouraged.
Judging by how the model and site are put together, I think this is some software engineer's hobby project. Not wanting to spill their secrets doesn't make them a megalomaniac for the same reason being a magician doesn't make one a megalomaniac.
It would be nice if you would add that you are plugging one of your own applications.
Interestingly, I don't have a single embossed card anymore. Even my metal ones just have the stuff printed on the back.
As a web designer, I despair of users upping the font size and screwing up the words-per-line. Which is why I like Safari's iOS-like pinch-zoom feature. I do wish all browsers would move in that direction and in the end disallow users to arbitrarily up font sizes.

That said, crazygringo's point is valid insofar as people do up their font sizes as a matter of course.
Getting a response back from an executive is super-awesome.

I'm a little concerned about how we (80legs) fit into Facebook's permission form, though. We're not using or selling the data ourselves, but we can sell access to an already-setup web crawl - so how does that work? We're like a special case of a special case. Never an enviable spot to be in.
Sorry, not interested.
HTML5 is a replacement for Silverlight, and Flash, just because the article doesn't mention audio, audio is capable in HTML5.

Besides that the article states that things like games, ie. intense and immerse applications, aren't possible, but if you think about things like gmail, google maps, are all full applications built with out flash.

And games aren't that far off check out this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmtQOB_KFzU

a game engine written in HTML5
Is it possible that the picture the author had in his head of "Being acquired" was skewing things here? I don't see any clear indications that an "Acquisition" was ever in the offing here. He emailed Steve, Steve forwarded it to an engineer who the author was lucky enough to hear back from at all.

Most likely they looked at what he was outputting and weren't impressed, or had another solution in mind. I'm assuming (and hoping for his sake) from my interpretation that he never submitted actual code to them - just output.
So pretty technical question about the svn support. It's my understanding that the way svn does certain operations basically requires massive responses, and svn doesn't support chunked responses; how do you guys not blow up on RAM serving those?
shrug I'll take that bet too!
It's too bad librians couldn't muster the mettle to pull a DMCA type of user-based accountability. I'm serious about this, as Fair Use does have significant implications when performed in an institutional setting, but by the use of individuals, it becomes much more easy to circumnavigate. One of the greatest misconceptions is the extent to which Fair Use applies - showing an entire video? That's not Fair Use except perhaps in a Film Studies class by a vetted Professor. Showing a snippet of a video as a point within a broader presentation or lesson? That's the goal of Fair Use.

Showing videos as a general rule is a Performance Right issue, not Fair Use. The DMVs in my part of the world routinely broke the law by showing Disney VHS tapes in the lobby. I'm talking for years, not just an isolated incident. That's not a Fair Use issue in the least, and lawyers, with respect to the law, could reasonably pursue compensation.

Are you familiar with "independent coffee shops" coming under fire from ASCAP for hosting open mic nights and/or playing AM/FM/XM/Internet Radio without paying official dues? The poor widdle coffee shop owners claimed it was extortion, or they tried to muddy the water with some kind of Fair Use claim, but they didn't have a case and I have to admit that ASCAP was abiding by their legal rights. Now, coffee shops are more diligent in telling people to play originals, not cover songs.

Overall, my point is that Fair Use is so utterly abused as an argument by people who don't understand Copyright, Performance, and other nuances of (wholly butchered / Disney-lobbied) legal channels that it genuinely hurts those who understand the concept. I routinely have to counter the argument that Weird Al is an example of Fair Use (as a general principle of using other people's music) because it's a very specific issue that he is legally allowed to do - Parody. Showing Bambi or non-Public Domain documentaries in the lobby of your library isn't Parody, nor should it be argued that way. Besides, if librarians can't find enough Public Domain content or educate students enough to assist them researching a project, then the job is effectively wasted space, and should be tossed out of conversation with respect to utility and necessity.
Honestly, Hackathons are more about what the developers get out of it.

I went to a couple to try and build a wider network among my local devs and to try and win cool stuff.

Some went to hone existing projects using the APIs presented (to know if they actually wanted to use it)

Some went for the prizes

Some went to try and score jobs

To say any of those options are wrong really isn't right. But to tell a company why they should be there they should ask what the developers are hoping to achieve and decide if there place belongs there or not.

I will agree completely on the comment about company reps being present however. A lot of people were turned off from various companies because they were difficult to work with through different online channels and elected to not use their API simply because the cost to get it working with flawed documentation or sparse contact was too risky if they were gunning for a prize. Often the companies didn't return for the next hackathon for what I assume was because of bad reception the first time around...
That's not really the same metaphor. The naming is almost incidental, it's the individual effort going into each item that matters. Most of my 'pet' files are nameless, but they are individually pampered and treated and difficult to recreate.
Both stories have plenty of precedence, I just thought the first was perhaps slightly more illuminating considering the context.

Someone killing someone they don't like, purely because they do not like them, and then getting away with it because they hold a position of influence or power of course happens, and is nothing to do really with whether or not anyone involved is a cop. That situation has been playing out a lot longer than there have been cops in existence and also has very little to do with the current discussion.

edit -

also, in the simple version of your story, where 'a cop shoots someone they don't like, the end', the story is actually too simple to be about corruption.

You need the rest of the story to know if that particular cop is corrupt. As it stands it is just plain murder.

Now if the cop doesn't then hand themselves in and starts planning on how to get away with the killing, then you are into corruption, but also the story gets more convoluted.
That's probably a pretty shitty interview question, but can it with the "retarded" stuff ok.
Yes, Spotify is a Swedish companies, but we have several engineering offices in the US and in Europe. The current openings are listed on spotify.com/jobs
Hitting Escape made it go away for me.
Thank you! This kind of feedback is incredibly motivating.
The one good thing about coinbase is that they do react to outrage on HN. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929705
Are you writing the compiler in assembly language or some other high level language(c,C--, Python...)
>However, they did it only to expose alleged misconduct or illegal activities of their employers.

There is a reason Snowden was very careful to point out in his first public interview that he'd been very selective about what he chose to release and that he wasn't just mass dumping information like Manning did.
I would argue that the state is taking, not the rich (which are not the only people with money invested in the market).
Right. If we're living longer, why do we need to leave the workforce so early? I'd argue that with the rise of technology, there is less and less of a need to retire even if your body isn't doing as well. Unless my hands and eyes give up, why would I need to stop programming?
That's an awfully bi chip on your shoulder. (Sorry, couldn't resist the pun.) My gender and orientation is irrelevant to the argument, as are yours.

I agree that scholarships for women would help, but I'm curious -- why is subsidizing students based on gender okay, but hiring professors based on gender "disgusting?"
But the current remedy of a non-human legal entity is that the entity can be sued and affect many people adversely who weren't responsible for the wrong.

We need a different remedy, like the ability for a citizen to sue every citizen belonging to an organization together if the organization was found responsible for the wrong. Then those citizens not responsible in that organization would have to have witnesses and documentation to prove that they were not responsible for the wrong.

And instead of sueing, I think that prison sentences would work better. Putting all responsible persons from a company into prison would get people's attention. Also, citizens and lawyers producing substantial litigation without merit would be imprisoned.
Other things that TechCrunch has declared dead:

* Phone calls

* Computer mice

* The Web

* The physical book

* Apple TV

* Software

* Music DRM

* CDs

I think that AT&T, Microsoft, Facebook, the library in every single city in the US, Apple, and Apple's App store would disagree.
I'm really open minded when it comes to trying new operating systems. And of everything I've tried (varying from windows, to unix, to slackware, to ubuntu), my favorite is Arch. It's simple and clean. I really suggest that you give it a try.
I don't see the need for you to go to pay-per-post. I'd think that if you honed your pitch, and did a good job with the personalization, you ought to be able to get some feedback from some quality bloggers-- that's your goal at this phase, right?
Right. From my perspective the Clinton-era 90's was pretty great economically. It wasn't a terribly climate that hurt companies. Nor did it stop people from investing heavily in companies or growing awesome companies.

Stock prices from 1992 to 2000 (approx numbers):

Microsoft: $2 to $58
Apple: $15 to $28
Cisco: $.50 to $50

Add in hundreds of companies going public, innovation moving faster than ever up to that point, thousands of jobs created. Small businesses (startups) were not killed by higher taxes.

And I have no idea why our defense spending needs to be so high.
People should also understand generalization, though.

That there's "tons and tons of parallel C code" doesn't matter.

Parallelization is built-in into this language. It is not built-in, as a first class language feature, in C.

A lot of C projects, such as servers, are indeed threaded, but threads are also so last century.

Different paradigms (like in Erlang) are better to parallelize, easier to write, more performant, and much much less confusing to debug than threads. Heck, even no-side-effects functional language programming is better to parallelize than C with threads.
1920 widescreens are not really wide enough for a webpage and a code window. A 2560 widescreen is the obvious answer but they cost 3 to 4 times as much.
"10 weeks of sitting and waiting, expecting something to happen"

this was your mistake.

what are your skills? tons of employers on hacker news.
How do those numbers compare to the usual backtracking approach from the OP?I'm curious, specially with how the backtracking scales as N increases (this would be when all the heuristics from the sat solvers would really kick in)
Where do you get "6% of all bitcoins"? Why would the thief send them all at once? If I was trying to launder a ton of money, the first thing I would do is not hand the entire sum to other parties.

So, bit by bit, the "thief" sends 100 BTC through a mixer. A mixer only has the opportunity to steal 100 BTC and lose reputation/opportunity at any given time. There's no way to get "6% of all bitcoins".

It doesn't matter if one person owns all mixers. The thief doesn't have to send all the money at once. Send 100BTC a day. Maybe on 4 different providers. Max exposure: 1200BTC (assuming 100 BTC on 4 mixers, 3 days per mixer). And in a year, 100K BTC is laundered.

(This is assuming mixers actually work, which I'm skeptical of, especially for large amounts.)
I can understand this; I think it depends on what your trying to get out of the book. There are some books I read (for example, I'm reading Stranger in a Strange Land) where I like the book well enough, but I'm not particularly into the prose and/or writing style, so I'm okay missing some things here and there.

I think that happens to me when I do "decompressing," where I'm reading a book to unwind my brain after having read nothing but papers or technical books for a few weeks.

Other times I'm just in the mood to sit down and really experience what the book has to offer. When I'm in that mood, I don't want to sacrifice really taking the time to let a book evoke imagery and mood, in the name of speed. I guess some folks can get that reading a lot faster, but I can't right now.
Here [1] is the comparison repository, for anyone interested.

[1] https://github.com/davidad/8queens/tree/%2Bc_comparison

EDIT: I don't seem to have -Ofast, but I added a note to the readme to ask people to try it. I also added the recommended flags for Sandy Bridge, i.e. -march=core2 -msse4.1 -msse4.2.
So marry someone with lots of siblings.
You don't get the problem that needs solving. JS is hard to optimize so even if you compile to it from a other language you going to end slow because of the bottelnack of JS. If we had a IL that is good to optimize language that compile to we could get to much faster speeds in the browser.
They placed them in a 9 by 9 organizational matrix to fuel synergies through increased communication by placing them in a physical 9 by 9 cubicle matrix.

Or maybe that's all the headhunters could find.
It's just too easily defeated for it to really work on me, since I convince myself that I'll just check this one thing, then I'll go back to working.

It's the exact same thought process that, after I've been up all night and I'm trying to stay up all day to reset my internal clock, convinces me that it's ok to lay down in my bed for a minute. I inevitably wake up quite confused a number of hours later.

I saw a site once that you can route your procrastination sites to. When you browse the site (by IP address, naturally) it displays a message saying basically "you blocked this for a reason... slacker." Since I can't remember the address anymore, I've been thinking about installing a web server on my laptop to emulate it.

Edit: I found it. The address is 66.135.33.106 and it just displays the message "You've chosen to block this site in your hosts file."
I perhaps should have worded it differently but was trying to make my statement as simply as possible. I'm actually speaking from a business standpoint - this new site/feature has been marketed pretty heavily. "A new way to shop for fashion", "Google wants to dress you", etc. all in arguably locations that probably skew male. I haven't seen any mention of it being targeted only to those wanting to purchase women's clothing and think the message is off because of that.
Nobody did. At my ex-employer, I did an informal survey, with a simple reformulation of the original question: "Would adding developpers to a late project help or not ?" Everybody answered yes, even some people that DID read The Mythical Man Month.
The performance is measured with LinPack which mostly does FP operations and is optimized to run on the architecture, when normal programs are run, it is tough to run them at full utilization, this is because, a lot of time might be spent in data transfer or I/O apart from the computation ... there would be various other factors !
YES A THOUSAND TIMES OVER.

i post a comment with this sentiment a few days ago, and predictably it got down-voted below -4: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1902911

we live in a world full of tremendous suffering. our attachment to survival is the result of a mindless and meaningless processes of selection.

no one can do better for their children than to take a stand against this nonsense and never subject them to this world to begin with.
Not true, a compiler can find deadcode where a developer could not find it.
I haven't seen mumetal mentioned in the wild since I got sucked into the Steorn train wreck back circa 2006. Learned a lot about magnetism, that's for sure.
That doesn't seem like a big deal at all. They don't do blanket removals of tweets.
A great little thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8248473
jack probably messed up while testing
A friend of mine kept an escape hatch dose of Valium in order to stop the action of things became too intense. I don’t believe the safety net was ever employed, and perhaps simply having the option helped keep some of those feelings at bay.
I wonder if you could apply the same homomorphic encryption to ML model training as well, so that you can fully train an algorithm without ever being able to actually “see” the training data.
> LA has .. lacity.org? That’s a bit unexpected

Vs lacounty.gov I guess?
Various function spaces were definitely brought up in my linear algebra class.
That kind of material comes up even in intro differential equations (eg systems of differential equations, Lp spaces).
"Many officials say spending billions of dollars to fight ailments such as AIDS, malaria, and polio rather than supporting basic health services has left nations unprepared for epidemics like Ebola."

This is nonsense. Does anyone disagree AIDS, malaria, polio are higher priority than Ebola?

"You get treatment if you're a woman with malaria or if you're a woman with HIV, but if you've got cervical cancer or cardiovascular disease, you're not covered, Evans said."

Cancers and cardiovascular diseases are not infectious. Does anyone disagree infectious diseases are higher priority?

"You'd get more for your money if you supported a broad range of health system strengthening activities, Daulaire said by phone from Oslo, where he's a visiting scholar at the Norwegian Institute for Public Health. That's a much more difficult message."

This may well be true but very unobvious. While I understand difficulty of analysis and presentation, burden of proof of "You'd get more for your money" lies on health system strengthening proponents. You can't argue as if it is given.