jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They lie about encryption. They call themselves an encrypted messenger when they're not, at least not in the way that people expect nowadays. I volunteered for their support team a few years ago but was rejected because the first test question was about their encryption and I refused to lie (I said regular chats are encrypted but only to the server, i.e. that Telegram can read your messages which was true then and is still true today, and that you need to use secret chats for encryption.)

I ended up adding a paragraph about it anyhow but that's why, when starting to write the post, I didn't add Telegram to the list. There is also rocket.chat further down that I didn't mention on top, fwiw.
I was a bit surprised too that my new fastest processor macbook pro only has 2 ports. To make matters worse thunderbolt 3 hubs don’t actually exist!
Yep, I took a punt on a 32" 4K one recently to see if it'd do better than getting a second 27" 2K one (3 screens including the laptop) and I've actually stopped bothering with the laptop screen too. Saves me a big chunk of mental space just knowing everything is (usually) on the one screen.

Not defending Apple, it's a pretty clear hardware failing.
Rectangle is an alternative that's actively supported: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
> When M1 finally supports docker, I might even consider not using the 16 inch at all. It crashes due to thermals about twice a week due to the constant high temperature and eats through batteries!

I guess it would be better to wait for M2 or M3 rather than jump on a new system that has a work-in-progress developer ecosystem or un-optimised software (Even if it is faster on M1 than Intel Macs).

By the time that Apple Silicon software support is optimised, the M1 Mac would already be out of date and superseded by M2 or M3 Macs.
Would anyone care to put forward a solution to proactively tackle a similar script.

What I am specifically after, methods to know that this one computer ( keep it simple ) has sent x 1,000 requests in a short time ( ie to quick to be human ).

Before some of you lay the blame purely on AT&T for having poor code.

Other scenarios which are similar but different.

Perhaps we want to use this to throttle api requests, or to tackle a brute force attempt on the login.
a lot of it is to prevent arbitrage opportunities. If the euro and the US currency exchange rate were out of line with Euro to Yen and US to Yen, someone could make money on the arbitrage.

The stock market is therefore a perfect balance of supply and demand and any discrepancies are immediately rectified.
I wonder how well covered their downside is. Will a black swan make it blow up spectacularly, negating any previous gains?
Math 55 isn't nice because of how much math it covers (you could take equivalent classes that cover the same material, just split up, at the same or higher level). It's nice because of the bonds it forges between the students, who are usually the top mathematical talent at Harvard. I'd suspect that it's these bonds that help the students throughout the rest of their mathematics education rather than their incoming ability or what the class teaches.

If you look at the problem sets, they're very hard (especially given that the students are all freshmen - a few of whom haven't ever done advanced mathematics before), but not unreasonably so (not really even beyond the top math majors of most top schools, I'd wager). Having made friends in a trial by fire like the 55 a/b series though, is a key to surviving later ones.
Check out http://www.investimonials.com It's like Yelp for finance related stuff. It's a great place to find reviews of brokers, books, newsletters, blogs, etc.
Insane? How about nonsensical? The "blow up the earth real good" goal is of the mentality of someone who watches Star Wars and decides the movie portrays real physics. Vaporizing the oceans and turning the crust into molten lava is plenty of destruction. It's also many orders of magnitude less energy than a lot of the patently unphysical proposals in the article. Equivalent mass of antimatter? You'd need a lot less than that to exceed the gravitational binding energy of planet Earth, and even that is ridiculously inefficient.

That's like the proposal to achieve AI by simulating a whole human body down to the molecules. It sounds clever to college freshmen, but it really just shows people are ignorant of the orders of magnitude of what they're discussing.
now that's what someone would call a self-made millionaire mindset!
That's why it's so popular :(
FruityLoops and Reason compete with Garage Band too closely, application denied. Firefox competes with Safari, application delayed and then withdrawn...
What circumstances? I realize I already asked you a similar question earlier in the thread, but I'm not trying to be combative, I promise :).
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/Students/MEngStudents/index...
> On the other hand, in a statically typed language there is necessarily a distinction between code that is executed at runtime and (although we often don't talk about it this way) code that is executed at compile time.

Is the distinction or separation necessarily obvious? Statically typed languages which have a unified term- and type-level seem to get a bit subtle in this regard, since a type can be used as a value. And Idris passes proofs around, and has to use proof erasure in order to not let it infect the runtime: proofs can remain until run-time if you're not careful.

I am asking this as a question since I don't have enough experience with such languages to really know myself.
Hello, this application packages the official WhatsApp into a Chrome Application, this way it "feels" like a Desktop Application.
I read textbooks on my Kobo Aura HD all the time. I upgraded from a Kobo Glo exactly for that purpose.

I would like it even bigger so that research papers in PDF could all be full page without panning. Textbooks in epub are good. Allowed me to finally leave all paper books behind.
Glad to see some more effort going into deployment tooling. I think the main goal of reinventing such tools in different languages is to get rid of the need of having dependencies outside of the current project's platform, which makes sense, for me at least.

Shameless plug: I'm the author of Flightplan[1], a library which provides a simple, yet powerful interface to execute sequences of shell commands on local and remote host(s).

[1] https://github.com/pstadler/flightplan
You underestimate the limits of the human body. A lot.

A cold-adjusted human can easily deal with 10C without protective clothing (at least for short periods), and human heat-resistance actually improves without body-covering clothing. (Clothes impede the effectiveness of sweating.) Any hot environment humans can handle without AC, they can also handle without clothing.

Just look at any of the african tribes that either wear an insubstantial skirt of some kind or wear nothing at all.
Here's my experience, being an author of an "underdog" js framework.

My project (Mithril.js) has ~2600 stars on github, a relatively lively mailing list, and it's on the front page of todomvc, so it's definitely more popular than many "competitor" projects, although not nearly as popular as Angular or Ember.

My general impression of the landscape is that affiliation w/ a famous brand helps a lot in driving adoption. Being a guy in the outskirts of Toronto, working on the project on my spare time (with two small kids), it's pretty hard to compete w/ teams that get paid full time and get opportunities to talk at big conferences in San Francisco. I'm skeptical that this kind of gap can be made narrower with hard/good technical work alone. This reality weaves deep even into the design philosophy of Mithril: one reason the project is small is that I don't have the resources to tech-support a huge complex one. Lack of time is obviously not a selling point, so the design of the framework itself needs to account for it - I put a lot of thought into reducing learning curve and framework complexity because that is something that both reduces my workload as a support person, and is itself a selling point (especially considering all the recent Angular criticisms).

I think the only reasons my project enjoys any popularity at all is the efforts I put into non-coding tasks: writing docs (took me like 2 months of writing docs nearly exclusively to get to what I consider a decent level of documentation, even despite having a tiny API), writing articles, talking to the community, getting on twitter, adding shameless plugs on HN :) etc. In a way, this is similar to being a startup founder: there's a lot of peripheral stuff to do. It's not uncommon to be spending more time on non-coding aspects of the project than actually coding.
See my earlier comment (and some bits of the original post). Go does indeed support arrays-of-structs, as well as taking pointers to the middle of arrays, and directly to struct fields. This gives you a lot more control over memory layout, and lets you avoid creating garbage if you're willing to put just a bit more work into it.
There's a LOT of designated workers who have to go out, though.
in a world where you have many options and have to figure out which is best by repeated experimentation, but where experimentation itself has some cost, you have a multi-armed bandit problem. (the name is supposed to evoke a room full of slot machines -- you want to find the one with the highest payouts by repeatedly playing them, while losing as little money as possible before you find it.)

for example, if you have a few medications, you might start by trying them all equally at random and then as data comes in, use a bandit algorithm to gradually shift more and more new patients onto the ones that prove most effective, in a way that optimally trades off accurately estimating the effects with wasting time testing the less effective drugs.

interestingly, the first formulation of the problem is due to Dr. Thompson at the Yale Pathology Department in the 1930s; he came up with Thompson sampling. So these are techniques that were originally designed for medical trials.

I think that designers of medical trials probably do have a good grasp of this stuff (some statistical estimators that originated in the medical world have even been successfully imported into reinforcement learning/MAB research) so probably they would be using a bandit-like technique if they felt it made sense.
Ideally, advertising is a way for the seller (or teacher/advocate/government) to pay some of the buyer’s/researcher’s search costs.

Targeted advertising lets the advertiser pay for part of more expensive searches.

One of the problems with Google and Facebook is that they are businesses whose core product should be driving search costs very low, so they compromise their product so that their advertising remains valuable to close the gap.
But in this case, they actually did won the battle. Yes Serbs preserved the vast majority of their military equipment, except planes. But only by hiding i.e. not using them in battle. Losing a war as a result because they weren't much better equipped this way than the Albanians, and the field was leveled.

If they tried to use the equipment to the fullest, they'd just lose it, as Saddam tried in 1991, and result would have been pretty much the same. In a way, it even benefitted Americans because it couldn't be told that they won the war by massacring Serbs (hardly 500 of Serbian military plus about same number of civilians were killed - if they tried to properly operate their military equipment it would be destroyed along with crews and mean a lot higher casualties).
Right, but then like "accepting cookies" or ToS/EULAs they'll just make explicitly giving them this permission a requirement for using their application, and we're back to where we were before.
After some googling it looked like he's talking about being "merchant fulfilled" vs "fulfilled by Amazon" (FBA) on Amazon's marketplace.
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We already see this - have you read the disclaimers on loans? Many will have a call out for California, Wisconsin, and South Dakota if I remember correctly, as those states have certain things required or prohibited.

Any online store dealing with gun or gun-adjacent stuff already has been dealing with variations of these for years; knives that are illegal in certain areas, etc.

Home Depot has to block shipping gas-powered lawn equipment to CA now.
The American personal banking experience feels so shady and insecure. Afaict companies often have the ability to pull money out of my bank account or credit card, that's just the way subscriptions work here. I just have to trust they don't abuse it.

In my home country we've had a national system for electronic invoices for ~10 years which allows you to receive invoices to your bank account. You can remove any such entry at any point in time. You also see all scheduled payments ahead of time and need to sign them before the due date, using a 2fa system that isn't tied to the bank itself. It's not perfect, and even feels a little aged today, but it's so much better than here in the US.
Really? How do you feel about buying a $10 movie? Or a $10 bottle of wine?

That was my initial reaction as well, but then I felt pretty sheepish. Here is an app that people clearly love (low risk) that speaks to a pain point I have (my phone behaving in a certain way regardless of context) and I'm really waffling over $10?
If I'm going to take a service seriously, I don't want to spot spelling errors within 20 seconds of hitting the homepage.

stradegies->strategies

That said, interesting idea using JS to create buying/selling patterns and test them against historic data. That could be handy, if not just geeky fun :)
Except that you've got people like Beck or Breitbart running around. Your election system has to be simple and transparent in order to make it as hard as possible to delegitimize in the eyes of the electorate. It's bad enough we've got a serious fraction of Americans who think Obama's not a legitimate president and/or who think that ACORN rigged the election, based on extremely spurious evidence. We can't give these factions (on either side) more ammunition.
Known credentials, not necessarily. But it would put a priority on increasing the visibility of good input and diminishing the snark and bluster, and culturally, it would be tuned toward intelligent civility.

Think HN-style comment ranking, for instance.

However, if someone were to verify relevant credentials, then that would be indicated visually somehow such as with a small icon or a highlight color for their name.

An alternative idea I have is to be more active in curating the content -- make it a blog and disabuse common misunderstandings in a comprehensive and constructive way. A link to that entry would serve as a convenient and comprehensive way to address those issues whenever and wherever the popped up.
"stories that twist the facts"

Like this one?

Really, his message is, it's all going to shit, but we can survive?
Totally. I doodled this truck all of the time. However, I'm not sure if the 70k USD model will be equipped with external rockets and bazookas like my sketches predicted
Vulners.com isn't a free service, are there other cheaper alternatives (perhaps less comprehensive) that maintain database of vulnerabilities?

Interestingly, the very impressive infosec people behind Vulners are employed (?) by QIWI, a Russian payments company. That isn't an issue now that you publicly claim to use their service, but were there any reservations raised by legal or otherwise?

How much in relative terms were the cost savings when Cloudflare did switch to in-house audits via Flan Scan given the requirements / development / operational / maintenance effort expended + licensing service from Vulners?

Does Flan Scan also scan network equipment (like switches, routers etc)?

Given the complex heterogeneous nature of the global Cloudflare network, what did the deployment process look like? Will there a follow-up blog post on how that was automated/accomplished?

What are the other big cloud / CDN providers doing to scan for vulns / compliance at scale if you're privy to it? Have any of them shown interest in contributing to and/or using Flan Scan?

What does the short-term and long-term roadmap for Flan Scan look like?

Why "Flan Scan"? :)

Thanks a lot.
The rear-view mirror is a display that shows the back camera feed. In the prototype at least.
If I had to rent a pickup truck on short notice, I'd hit up U-Haul, who has a bunch of them.

Last time I had to leave my car in the body shop after it was hit, my insurance got me a rental car from Enterprise. The only rentals available at the time were F-250s, so I drove a pickup truck to work and back for a week.

Why do you think that pick up trucks are unrentable?
Economics 101. Any producer would rather sell a tenth of the units at ten times the cost. This is one way to do that.
Any real thing to show or just poor dream?
That's absolutely the case for a novice chess player vs expert.

A novice will see so many pieces. So many possibilities. They have no idea how to choose between them. And there are so many, they'll fail to see an excellent move, or that one of their pieces is about to be killed.

An expert sees far fewer moves, and so is able to look much further ahead.
I use Kind (and Minikube, and a number of other solutions too), but this is kind of my "Kubernetes-the-really-hard-way" fun project.

Note that I maintain a parallel configuration that runs a multi-node cluster on Vagrant for local development [1] as well as a docker environment built for CI purposes[2] using almost all the same images, with the same Ansible playbooks to configure them all across platforms.

[1] https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-dramble/tree/mas...

[2] https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-dramble/tree/mas...
I would have like to see more reasoning and less emotional appeal in your argument. I’m deeply skeptical of this commonly-stated theory that people do something because it generates clicks/sells books/whatever.

Money is not the only motivator, it’s not a durable motivator, and even if it’s motivating to the business owners of the NYT, the reporter is not getting paid per click. (Or maybe they are! I’d be very surprised. Prove me wrong.)

Do we have a systemic problem regarding what sort of headlines attract attention? I believe so, yes. Does that mean that everything—-or even just the things we dislike—-produced on a for-profit site is inherently biased? I doubt it. Such a position strikes me as profoundly naïve; in fact, it’s the same sort of naïvety that this article is talking about.
I like the content, but I wish it was a blog so that I could simply follow the RSS feed.

Literally, your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I have to wonder whether a person is legally obligated under such an order to actively hide the existence of the NSL request. Does he really have to lie to his clients, friends and family when asked directly about it, or would "I can't answer that" satisfy the letter of the law while giving the asker a strong clue as to the answer to their question?
The rent situation is accurate, in that discrimination is not illegal. On the other hand, it is definitely not something that prevents you from getting a decent place full stop, by any means. And none of my married (to Japanese) friends report any trouble at all, for that matter. And permanent residence is certainly on the table if you've been here long enough.

The dating scene is awful though, don't let anyone tell you different :-)
I have never gotten this. And I've been here eight years. You're wrong afaik :-)
"Apple has not “lost sales” to Android as it has been selling all it can produce. "

I'm not sure that's a useful way of looking at it. If Android were never born Apple may have doubled production capacity and still be selling out for lack of a viable competitor.

And even if it's been benign so far, it won't be soon. It's hard to spot the effects of competition in a rapidly growing market like consumer smart phones or tablets. It'll be a lot easier once everyone already has one, and how far away is that? Phones are almost there and tablets probably will be in 2-3 years.
Yes and no.

Amazon is not _a_ store it is _the_ store. Once you get Amazon Prime, retail is dead to you. My personal experience (and several colleagues) of course, but once someone gets hooked on Amazon great service, 2 day shipping, easy returns, etc, you just can't use retail or even another web store. They just _suck_ in comparison.

Amazon is fantastic at what they do, more so than any other company I can think of. Maybe Apple, but Amazon is _cheaper_ than the competition not 50% more expensive.

The platform is just a bonus. They found out a way to do infrastructure right and now they are even making money on what is normally "just" a cost center.
It's definitely a limited outage. My three instances seem to have operated all night with no problem. Two of them are EBS instances.
ZumoDrive was acquired by Motorola. http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/22/confirmed-motorola-mobility...
I paid for the Premium Google Apps for one of my domains. When it was about to expire, I got emails almost daily reminding me to renew. The day before it was to expire, someone from Google Apps actually called my cell about renewing.

For a different domain that I was using regular Google Apps on, I couldn't get an email response to a support question I sent several months prior.

Whatever their focus, it's not on customer service.
Thx, I looked for ways to do comments, but I just don't see one because the cookies are tied to Y Combinator. Hopefully Y Combinator will build a native mobile site soon :)
divided into two parts: the acoustical modeling (from audio file to "phonemes"), and language models

That seems a little off to me. It seems like you would want a list of phoneme probabilities to work with along with how long each sound took etc. Your language model might say “I saw the see past the dune” is less likely than “I saw the sea past the dune” but the more information the language model has to work with the better. For example, dialect impacts both the sounds people use and the words they use.

Also sperating background sounds from a message is easer if you are following the content of the message etc.
Seems good as it is; we haven’t changed much in several tens of thousands of years, let alone fifty.
You are right, that's the best tool to use for the job!

However, as it usually happens with scripts, adding non-coreutils dependencies becomes an issue (now the script needs to check for existence, request users to install if missing, etc...) For this use case which is so well scoped, a single character removal seems enough but in general I totally agree with dos2unix as the better choice.
Honestly I can't even fathom trusting my hard earned money to a person that doesn't blink.