jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No, I am keenly, almost obsessively aware of how lucky I am and how fragile my situation can be.

I have three kids, a stay at home wife, make a considerable salary and have a job I absolutely love and excel at.

But I am still fundamentally subsisting; my living expenses are just covered by what I make and am not able to save a considerable amount. This scares the bejesus out of me because all my kids are young: I have lots of expenses coming up related to providing well for them.

The most important thought I have daily, which was reinforced by the subtext of this article, is that education is the most important thing I can give to my kids.

When there are people who are "struggling to find a minimum wage job for years" to me, that means that they lack the education or skills to have a job that pays more and is in more demand. This is a failing of many parties - but it's the base of the issue.

I want my kids to be able to do whatever it is they want, but to have the skills to actually make that decision for themselves.

So, I am profoundly a aware of my position, am thankful for it and am working to ensure that I provide my children an even better life than my already great one.
"We have fixed it" is easy to understand as "you're now free to blog about this flaw"; one could imagine why Spotify would want to take the time to properly audit the rest of the site.

Also, Spotify is a serious business that doesn't want to go down, and likely has a testing/deployment process a bit more complicated than "just push to master".
This is lovely, but I believe it's a copy of an earlier visualization by Viégas and Wattenberg: http://hint.fm/wind
Well I'm impressed. I wasn't initially in the stock promo videos but once she put the actual device on and you could see the quality of the hologram, the spatial tracking, etc, pretty impressive. We're also not getting a feel for the sound system built into it. They mentioned in the demo the sound is also projected virtually from where the hologram is located.

I'm curious what the price tag will be? Battery life?
Right series, wrong clip, I thought it was going to be this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XeDvKqI4E
It's interesting the contrast between the Sonos soundbar piece and the networking setup - both are described as simple, but I think one is much more complicated to set up than the other. So I suppose it's about the end result being easier to reason about, versus the overall convenience?

Minimalism is good in both life and work. The best code is no code, and the next best is as little code as possible.
No-one likes spam, but I've noticed that at least some email providers do this by domain/ip address of the emailed link in order to combat spam. Maybe its different since it ends up in your spam folder, but its effectively the same result.

Details: I've had a website that got hit once by this, which was funny because we never even sent any email. When testing it out, it seemed to be being filtered by the ip address the link resolved to. Even if I changed the domain name I emailed, if it resolved to the same ip, it still was being marked as spam. Note that this was being tested from a 3rd party email, not by sending from our own mail server.
A "rainbow table" works in a somewhat similar manner, but is based on doing a full calculation then saving only certain starting points. I think what they are doing is actually more like creating a regular expression that matches all words a particular Levenshtein distance from the target.

Here's more about what how they are doing it:
http://blog.notdot.net/2010/07/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Levensht...

This article has a very good overview of the options:
http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=114
From your post it sounds like you do consulting or freelancing. If I may, how long do these engagements typically last? I've flirted with the idea of short periods off in between jobs (FTE though) but have typically kept up ~2 year engagements.
The escape rules vary in small maddening ways and trying to figure out if your implementation is doing the right thing from specs will make you give up forum moderating and join the merchant marine, in the best case.

Fortunately, that's the sort of thing Google can afford so it's safest to just check what their RFC-compliant utility libraries do:

https://guava.dev/releases/28.0-jre/api/docs/com/google/comm...

The apostrophe is not escaped in URI path segments.
In Germany the equivalent is called translated 'non-binding price suggestion'.
So, what, in your mind, qualifies something as totalitarian?
Save a uighur save the planet
Get a desk that is adjustable, you don't want to be standing all of the time. I try to switch between standing and sitting each hour.

Been using 'Geek Desk' for 8+ years, I think there are other less expensive options available these days.

Sitting kills my back because I tend to slouch, standing all day makes my feet hurt.
or at-least bring back the personal block list
The Author brings up an important point about classified research.
He says he is pretty sure all his work is gathering dust somewhere.
Now, one can build of his work.

Mathematical and scientific research is a gradual, incremental
process. Rarely are there breakthrough moments where an entire
discipline of research leaps forward. When no one can build off of
other's research, progress stagnates and little to nothing is
accomplished.

I am pretty sure government's have been stifling research in the
areas of cryptography, nuclear chemistry, and optics. And this is
unfortunate because as a society we are probably missing out on a
lot of new technologies that could be really beneficial.
What signs have you seen in 2013 that Google is not a lumbering giant?

Google Glass (even if it's not commercially viable in its current incarnation). Self-driving cars. Android. Hot air balloon internets.

They've also moved the industry forward on web security.

(Not to defend their Gmail and Google Plus divisions)
I gladly pay my life insurance premium because I want to know my loved ones will be taken care of. It's not a scam. I fully intend to pay in more than I get out of it (I hope!!).

Lottery isn't really a scam either if you derive pleasure simply from playing the game.
Getting active on GitHub was important to me after interviewing last year at a couple of great places. I learned I was out of sync with the developers I wanted to work with. So I got more active on GitHub by sharing code I created which I thought was useful to others. And when I used other libraries I looked for ways I could improve on them and managed to get some Pull Requests accepted. There were lots of benefits. One great benefit is regularly reading code written by developers with more experience than you. And if you form relationships with these same developers and they start coaching through changes on their projects you can accelerate your learning. This work csn even lead to a job. Being active on GitHub is a distinct advantage for sure.
What was the intentional extent of their involvement?
You can find projections on the web so I'm not going to link here, but even if fishing got 100% regulated we would be past the capacity for the next years (other things factored in, as coastal pollution, desertification of corals and global warming).
just installed. Now Hackernews is readable. Thanks Fuzz!
Consider how much time the typical person spends in a car versus a plane; of course there are many more car deaths.
I would be shocked to see any statistically significant[1] difference. The things about alcohol that kill you are cumulative. 3 drinks isn't going to kill your internal organs, not even 1 in a million times.

[1] I would be shocked if, give two groups of a million, both groups had the exact same number of deaths in a predetermined time period. 1 death difference between two groups that large is pure background noise.
It's hard to see it as anything but that because cryptocurrency people don't collectively realize the gravity of the PR disaster they have on their hands. Central banks are looking for reasons to shut down the whole cryptocurrency space and in an ignorant public's eye, bitcoin's absurd energy waste is a perfect reason to do just that.

Where is the coinmarketcap-like tool that indexes cryptocurrency projects' energy (in)efficiencies and e-waste footprints? Where is the tool that's easy to use and shows how efficient cryptocurrency projects are in real time? Without that, the whole space is in serious jeopardy, including those few projects that actually have the potential to benefit people and the planet?
Please watch the video before arguing about something that he clearly explained.
That's not entirely true, though.
By being aware of ones biases, one can attempt to overcome them, or at least modulate one's thoughts and actions to take into account the fact that they are there.

Take Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, for instance, in which patients seek to recognize their own biased ways of thinking in order to lessen their biases and dissociate these thoughts from emotion and action.

The same principles applies to reflecting upon one's thought processes (metacognition) in general, though perhaps to a lesser degree.

While becoming aware of one's biases by oneself is difficult, one can understand ones own prejudices - certainly those that we know that more or less everybody has a propensity towards.

In my opinion, these biases and irrational thoughts are not weaknesses inherent in all of us.
I think they are rather something we all have potential for, but which is expressed differently in each of us.
To call that realistically possible, you'd have to believe that World War II and the invention of nuclear weapons didn't fundamentally change the Western world (I think they did. World War II because we saw the results of fascism going unchecked in a major power. Nuclear weapons because realistically another world war would be close to Armageddon)
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The parent comment is getting downvoted into oblivion (because, again, we're a hosting provider) but it's an honest observation! It just happens to have a simple answer.
Don't tell me what I need. We are visual creatures with a huge amount of our brain devoted to that.
We love you all so much.
Even better would be to have the hourly cron job add the accounts to deduct the balance from to a queue and have worker services consume those queue messages and do the deduction and database write.
Ah, it's not a direct argument when you omit the hyphen and fall into "traditional" mode. I think after years and years I can finally wrap my head around how that works. :D
> I think it's also safe to assume that many people, especially those with anxiety would have faced less social stress because they were confined to their homes.

That’s a huge assumption. Social anxiety is only a small part of anxiety disorders. A lot of anxiety disorders are strongly negatively affected by being cooped up.
>The deal increased in value to $87bn only because NVDA’s stock price increased that much.

I get what you’re saying, but in practice, NVDA was essentially issuing x shares to buy ARM. They could do the same thing, sell them, and keep the cash. The rising stock price very much did raise the “real” cost to NVDA, it just wasn’t a simple cash charge.

Put alternatively, NVDA basically said to ARM “you’re worth x% of our company.” While that may be true at one date, a deal struck at the new market cap would be unlikely to come to the same conclusion.
Exactly. It seems to me like any problem this solves (hardware being stolen) could be solved even more effectively with insurance.
What about a new generation of viruses able to brick your computer using this technology?

It also could be a way for Intel to kill old computers in order to make people buy new ones (Most people would think that their machines were simply too old and died) if wikileaks is still alive then, we might get confirmations about such nasty tactics.

I just hate when efforts and money goes into disabling : I get mad when I can't read an original DVD because of DRM protections (happened three times last month). I hate it when clients money pay for efforts against them. It reminds me of the Sony rootkit. All this is so wrong.
For a "few extra hours," this is excellent. And I like the route that you're taking by trying to produce as faithful of a reproduction as you can. It's set to basically be a drop-in replacement. Keep doing what you're doing. I love it.
Absolutely agree with ErrantX. As it is a fitness app, I went looking to find out what exercises they would be encouraging me to do - nada.

The best I could work out from the screenshots was crunches. And from the TC article it mentions 8 exercises and hints that PushupFu, CrunchFu, SquatFu and PullupFu are combined into Fitfu ... but I still am no clearer as to what exercises are supported.

And for me, knowing what exercises it supports is important. If FitFu is supposed to encourage me to 'move more' throughout the day, well crunches aren't much use at work - I'm not lying down on the grubby work carpet in my shirt and slacks and do crunches. If it's pull-ups, well I can't do those at work either.

Sounds great for weekends/days off though (and I love the concept overall) - but again, would love to know what movements you are encouraging.
Most banks have ssl encrypted sites.
Looks cool. Two things: I would love if you open sourced it, and dear god that domain sucks, but whatever it was free right? :p
Neither are big corporations, like Google.
Aside from their military, North Korea is a sticks-and-stones empire. How's that for irony.
Google also pays you gobs of money.
Sounds like EA and Frostbite.
GamsStop seems to be overly cautious. The rally is public information. Everyone knows they were not doing that well with respect to the price.
This looks nice, I personally would likely switch to it from HedgeDoc if TinyMCE really was “customizable and flexible” enough to have a vi-mode (it looks like it is flexible enough to add one with a browser plugin like wasavi, but I only use web editors on computers where I can’t install plugins let alone a good text editor that makes all web ones useless).
I got something like 200Mb/s using RF noise and FPGA. I am not qualified to make any strong statements about quality of the resulting random bit stream.

I wonder who would need more than that.
Your argument is flawed. The density of appreciable variations in speech patterns in English speaking countries is far greater than the differences in abilities to navigate visual interfaces in the same population.
Ahaha. Too bad. I thought that was a funny concept.
I decide what's worth.
It's a difficult issue to handle in decentralized systems, especially in a way that scales with growth in the network. Any mechanism that is not voluntary/optional but which requires some human judgment would necessarily introduce centralization and various attack vectors to undermine the system, such as people filing thousands of fake petitions as a kind of DDOS attack.
> McKinsey has the best corporate leadership training in the world. McKinsey consultants are very polished in terms of how speak, break down problems etc, navigate the business world etc.

FWIW my spouse worked for a former McK consultant for a while. She (the former consultant) was hired out of a top-three US professional school and promoted w/in the firm once (this is relevant to what follows), then left (presumably not promoted the second time).

From working up close w/ her for more than a year, my wife was unimpressed. This woman was tasked w/ estimating market sizes at the firm where they both worked. There was ample public data about this topic (health-related).

Whenever the woman didn't like the way the numbers looked (for god only knows what reason), she would just make them up! She would literally pull them out of thin air.

Specific example: If we open a clinic to treat X (or develop a drug), we can expect that there are Y total patients annually in our metro area (or patients w/ the condition nationally). [For many conditions, Y is something you can easily track or find out in a variety of data sources, many public.]

This woman would decide that Y was "too small". She was always interested in wildly exaggerating the size of the potential patient population to make her proposals look more appealing to the management.

I bet not all consultants are like that (this one was not promoted after all), but the hiring process cannot be that good and the training w/in the firm cannot be that good, if this person made it through, got hired, and then got promoted!

N=1 here and YMMV w/ consultants, of course, but this is my frame of reference.
Am I the only one wondering if any cases exposed are just by chance related to certain politicians or their business partners? Just a thought..
Are there any good alternatives?
Once a tree is fully grown it essentially stops capturing CO2.
There has to be a formula for this.

You have to take into account:

charging overhead - the time to get off the freeway, get to the charger and hook up.

charging station choice. If there are two stations within a reasonable distance, sometimes pick the further one.

unexpected over-consumption - drive too fast, headwinds, extra heater, having to detour. The tesla charging/nav algorithm doesn't always take this into account. Follow their program, but drive a little too fast and it will start telling you to slow down otherwise you won't reach your destination (depending)
> The DOJ certainly seems to think a law was broken.

And they charged the corporation. They also have a consent decree. You can be sure that under the consent decree both the corporation and everyone in it are under a microscope. A consent decree is, among other things, like probation. If they mess up again, the DOJ will drop the hammer.

A lot of people seem to think that punishment makes people care more somehow, but punishment is always a distant possibility at the time of the wrongdoing. People don't generally think they are committing serious wrongdoing, humans are really good at rationalizing our actions, especially when each individual action is a small step.
One thing universities have little of is small children. MIT's married student housing isn't large and is off to one side. There is no faculty housing beyond the president (all of whom have had no kids or adult kids). Stanford's married student housing (and the faculty neighborhood) is a larger percentage and includes playgrounds, rec facilities and even two elementary schools. Still, it's less family friendly than Palo Alto or Menlo Park.
>"There are many reasons why the college environment facilitates relationships and personal connections. Everyone there is at a similar age and stage in life. Classes and majors tend to group students by interests and personality traits. There is also a relative freedom from responsibility. One factor often overlooked, though, is the structure of colleges themselves.

Because of their scale and walkability, college campuses meet human social needs in a way that is impossible for many of our nation’s towns and cities."

This is a very important understanding for future city/urban planners!
Unused cars & parking lots take a lot of space in cities.
I had no idea. I'd love to meet my reps, especially Wyden. They represent me so well I wouldn't really have anything to say, but it would still be a bucket list kinda thing.
> Do your morals and conscience have a price tag?

Read his comment again. It's pretty clear that's the case.
I created an account for a user with a common name. Obviously, such names will be used up quickly. If a user wants multiple accounts, it would be nice to support realms, so the user portion of the name can be reused. But when I tried "user@example.com" I got an error: Only letters and numbers in your login. Any chance of supporting "@" & "." so I can have easy-to-remember logins for different sites/purposes?
That sounds like fun with Chrome's window-manager emulation. It behaves a lot more respectably when you go Settings → Personal Stuff → Appearance and choose "Use system title bar and borders".
Apart from all the privacy and UI stuff mentioned before. FF works. FF4 works even better. The question is not "why am I staying with FF", it's "why should I switch to something different"?

It's not the IE "why should I switch" situation - FF supports basically every page and any popular HTML/CSS extension out there. I've got my extensions and configuration in place. Why should I bother?
A little anecdote about feeling smug and superior: During that facebook meme last week where everyone was posting numbers and replying with a comment about whichever friend sent them said number, a friend posted the sequence. I called it out for what it was, and he replies "I figured of all people it'd be you who would catch that".

I felt pretty good after that. Why I can't tell you but I did.
IIRC, libcrack will happily use any wordlist you give it. I presume the default wordlist includes "password", yes.

As to integrating libcrack in your signup process: if an account at your site isn't actually important, I'm sad to say that you probably shouldn't bother. People who reuse passwords are, sadly, at much more risk from the other sites (if you're even aware of libcrack, you're well ahead of the curve); and a password like 'password' isn't all that bad for something as value-less as gawker.
I actually didn't have the problem with data not being synced to disk immediately, and I wasn't using getLastError to sync on every operation (AFAIK it doesn't by default, unless you use fsync option).

My more mundane problem was that I didn't know whether database said the (insertion) operation was ok (or, for example, I tried to reuse an unique key value). Without using getLastError (or, indeed, safe=True in Python), I have no idea whether any possible errors (eg. a bug in my code) have occurred.

For data for which you can ignore occasional error (e.g. some logging, or click tracking, or similar) I agree getLastError may not be needed. I believe that it's not a very good default for most users with use-cases similar to mine - you have a VPS, you build a simple app on it, and use MongoDB in it.
What OS and graphics card are you using?

I pegged my CPU and got about three frames per second in both Chrome and Firefox, but that's on Linux with Intel graphics; about the bottom of the heap as far as 3D acceleration goes.
Scala type inference is still evolving (as are clojure, and, I think, haskell and F#)

http://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/ectzr/why_no_type_inf...
I think more than four thousand people are not dumb enough to set '123456' or 'password' as their password. I assume that a good percentage of that would for throwaway accounts and the users would be aware of the implications.

If i want to post a comment on a lifehacker blog post, there is a decent chance that i give some random string and 123456 as the username and password. This is the case when i know that i won't be using it again. True that an email is associated with the login credentials but still this might be true for many of those passwords.
The one beef I have with the "my github page is my resume" meme is that many developers work in spaces where they do not have the ability to work with open source much. I personally have years of work checked into github in private repos, and if I showed it to a potential employer I could be sued into oblivion. Many of us work on very sensitive systems with loads of legal walls around them. Sure, I contribute to OSS in my spare time, but my public github profile is not even close to a fair representation of my professional work.
The former point is correct as far as it goes. The latter is not. A cup of coffee loses heat around the perimeter, not the middle, and the rate of heat loss is entirely determined by that perimeter. The only thing the Joulies can keep warmer than that equilibrium is themselves.

If they start warmer than the coffee, they may contribute to slowing the rate of heat loss. If they do not, they cannot.

I have come to think of this as the Monty Hall problem of thermodynamics. People with degrees similar to my own disagree with me all the time.