jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Assuming they bothered to share the results of those attempts sure. The problem of course is that the NSA is both attempting, and in some cases succeeding in cracking encryption systems but keeping it all locked away behind security clearances. In the past we've learned quite a bit about the weaknesses of various crypto systems via post-mortems of NSA exploits, but it always comes well after the fact that the encryption is weak and broken has already become if not common knowledge than at least largely assumed. E.G. it's probably a safe bet that 1024 bit encryption is either broken by the NSA currently, or is likely to be broken soon, but it will probably be many years (barring another Snowden like event) before the public knows anything about exactly HOW the NSA has/will break it.
Go compiles to native code and uses less memory than Java does.
Go is slower than Java right now (for most things), but is less optimized so there is hope that it catches up and maybe one day is faster.
Both languages have GC.
Go has OOP, but not with classes.
Go does not have generics, see the 50,000 blog posts for details.
Go has less boilerplate than java but still some (mainly it is explicit in checking for errors).
Go has built in HTTP server, and you don't have to deal with containers, application servers, etc.
Go has some pretty incredible tools that come for free (race detector, gofmt, etc) but is lacking in some tools that Java excels with (IDEs & debuggers).

If you're already writing Java, Go isn't a huge win. If you're using Ruby/Python/JS and want more performance Go is a choice instead of the JVM.
I got a Nexus 6, which is a 6 inch phone (I don't recommended it to people because the screen is poorly calibrated). And I love the size.

For me my phone is a an Internet-enabled general purpose device, which includes email, Skype, Facebook, Hangouts, YouTube, browsing websites and reading technical documentation. For me this device works less as a phone and for my use cases the large screen is great. And it has other benefits as well, like much better battery life.
I'd speculate that pocket size is actually a bigger concern for women than one handed use. With skinny jeans it has been extremely common to store a phone in the back pocket. I can't see that happening with the iPhone 6. And I can't see young women giving up skinny jeans anytime soon.

So that means one of two things:

1. Young women start putting their phones in purses again.

2. Stick with the iPhone 5s or switch to one of the few small Android phones. (doubt it)

I wonder if either of these has borne out yet or if it's too early in the upgrade cycle?

Are we nearing the end of the back pocket era?
There is a way to facilitate one-handed use, I'm not sure if it's built-in or an app, but I've seen people using it
I used to have this mindset, but then I had a small stroke and lost significant IQ points. I slowly, but never fully, gained them back over two years. I realized that the ease that I saw/see solutions, compared to others, wasn't just related to the time I put into thinking about them. Much of it came for free, in what I can describe as the length and number of the tendrils reaching out to explore whatever "problem space".

I no longer believe that "anyone with an interest" can be at the same level as someone that can just see the answers, with little effort. Some people have fewer/shorter tendrils.

This has definitely changed the way I interact with people. I used to get frustrated when people, who I thought should be able to understand, couldn't. Now I realize that they just can't as easily. They need that picture drawn out for them, and even then, they'll never see the nuances or perceive the textures of the problem, unless you point it out to them.

I think I'm lucky for being born with the mind that I have. It has made my life easy, pulling me out of poverty, with a mostly addictive enjoyment in what I do. I think you're probably luckier than you realize.
Always in awe to read about assemblies of great minds like at Princeton's IAS.

Does another such assembly exist today? I don't think it does but want to know if others can point to one.

Did it happen then because the discoveries were "low hanging" enough that they would be found eventually, such that today we've basically exhausted the major discoverable parts of nature given human limitations, like a depleting orebody where what's left are marginally economic residuals? Or was there something in particular about Western societies a century or two ago that produced such brilliance (or even specifically the Habsburgs's HRE where von Neumann was from), which perhaps we can learn from to steer things today?
Agreed but i guess the point with aspsecuritykit is that it requires authorization by default and one need not do any additional setup for that
Now you're reminding me of a wacky math conversation I had at Mathcamp [1] with a much smarter guy, who was talking about more esoteric definitions of volume in euclidean space. Something like:

- n-dimensional volume is a function from (some) subsets of space to real numbers

- it should be additive under union

- it should scale by t^n when you scale the space by a factor of t

I think the upshot of the conversation was that 0-dimensional volume of a shape should be its Euler characteristic. In the simple case of a finite set of points, the "volume" would be the number of points.

And by your earlier comment, span({}) consists of a single point, so its volume should be 1. It all works!

[1] https://www.mathcamp.org/
Perhaps it’s just been long enough for the original breach to take root in a twilioml app?
> Retying out programs from magazines isn't even something most programmers have considered these days, let alone programming without the internet.

Wow. Flashback. I started programming late age wise (college freshman in the 90s), because until that first student loan we didn’t have enough money to buy a computer. I would go to the local bookstore and copy code out of the programming magazines and books. I remember writing some c++ code, bumping into a problem I couldn’t solve and driving to the bookstore to look at the books for a solution.
The other aspect of National Geographic is that people didn't throw them out, because they might be useful in the future for a school project or something. This was such a cultural factor that the Journal of Irreproducible Results wrote an article "National Geographic: The Doomsday Machine", projecting that the massive weight of saved National Geographics would eventually cause geological subsidence, flooding towns and eventually sinking the US into the sea. They concluded that "Publication and distribution of the National Geographic magazine must be stopped at all costs!" if the US was to survive.

https://xray-delta.com/2011/05/10/national-geographic-the-do...
Seek professional help, focus on CBT rather than longterm SSRI treatment. I wouldn't have a clue if the neuroplasticity drugs are appropriate, but it's possible short-term treatment combined with CBT would help shift your patterns.

Mainly, treat your brain like any other sick or damaged organ and get professional advice. This is no place for amateur hour.

I will say that your own intuition of what is wrong, is very probably right.
The math gets even worse when you consider the US tax rates for gains on collectibles.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/06171...
Compile times are still pretty bad, I recently upgraded from a pretty-new laptop to a blazing-fast desktop (12900K) just for Rust development. But at least they're acceptable now: using the mold linker, incremental builds take 1-2s on a large (~450 crate) project.

I agree that there's a lot more work to do before Rust development is pleasant on average hardware. Does anyone know if Cranelift is still going anywhere?
I think it's more of a Rice's theorem/ halting problem issue than an incompleteness theorem issue.
While I think this helps, Twitter has their 'lists' feature that effectively allows you to choose what timeline you want to view at any point; the only difference with your post is that it's not forced upon you, and perhaps you envision platform uses some ML model to classify posts from people you never follow. As it stands, people don't like the friction that comes with needing to hand-pick people to put into different twitter lists, so the feature is largely unused.
> Thanks for playing.

Please don't do this here.
Holy crap, very cool! Very neat service too! I'll link to these from the documentation page later today.
> At least XBMC had "media" in there.

OpenELEC also has "Entertainment"and "center" in there.
Is it even that compelling if it's open source? I'd rather it just be based on WebKit and contribute back to that project.
My website: http://antjanus.com/

I wrote articles all the time, not actively and mostly for myself. I make cash off stuff I published years ago and once in a while, one of my one-off posts that I don't even make for others to see hit it off and I make a bunch.
Consider the use case suggested by the image on the copy i.e; on-screen projection of slides in a business meeting. Can this use case be met with a tablet/smart phone using a VGA adapter?
Moving to Moscow is not an option if you are going to spend time writing code and talking to customers, not go for hours in a subway
Around weekends, it does matter. E.g., when it's Friday afternoon in California, it's already Saturday in East Asia.
It felt like there was an inflection point around '96 or '97 when Usenet really dried up and web-based forums became the most common way to discuss things on the Internet. I blamed it on Slashdot at the time but I think it was inevitable as more and more people got on the Internet.

I really feel like we lost something though. Newsreaders provided a much better way to engage in the kinds of conversations that people have on place like HN or even Reddit. To this day I don't know of any web forums that offer the conveniences of newsreaders like tin or slrn. I miss killfiles (and plonking!) and really, really, really well-maintained FAQs on just about anything.

I'm not sure how much of my Usenet nostalgia is just remembering the good stuff. It may not have been as great as I remember, but it sure seemed like it at the time. I learned so much from it, from so many people in so many different newsgroups. Maybe that's what places like HN are to larval hackers today.
I can see what you mean but on the other hand; are they really, though?

If they hadn't come up with the technology and written the patents in the first place, we wouldn't even be here talking about it.
>I don't think anyone's lost their job for using "retarded" in its academic form.

I could be convinced otherwise, but I believe that's a result of more people knowing not to use it, the same way you don't hear much about people getting fired for saying the actual n-word. "Person gets fired for saying technically correct word" is more 'newsworthy' than "Person gets fired for saying obvious slur".

I did find this, although the person who was fired also made racial comments in addition to saying the r-word: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-candidate-lost-j...
Facebook and Twitter is just a tip of the iceberg. Even if you tried to do something different, other companies you have to rely on will either force you to follow what Facebook and Twitter does or shut you down. I'm talking about services like:

> banks, domain registrars, payment processors, cloud services, DDOS protection services etc.

> As a government contractor, I see first hand how f'ing useless our cronyist, bureaucratic government is. Anything they try to do will backfire and make things worse for the average citizen.

I don't completely disagree with you there either, but it will also get just worse and worse if you don't take any action at all. Pick your poison, I guess?
Try https://teddit.net/ for an alternate Reddit UI interface.
Showing a price after an item is in the cart can be a contract hack around pricing contracts with manufacturers or distributors, where you’re not able to directly advertise your “best” price.
Like the author, I also enjoy making things out of plain text. I'm perhaps less evangelical, but after all they are a Vim user, so... ;)

My own flow occurs entirely in Emacs, where I write in Org Mode, then build and deploy to GH Pages using Nikola. No more command-line steps for me! And no inferior new-fangled plain-text format: good ole Org Mode stands the test of time.
That's been possible ever since mobile POS services have started supporting contactless payments, without any catastrophic fallout.
That's just nitpicking. If Bitfinex is acting as a custodian, the property will be returned to the owners. Whether that return happens via Bitfinex or via the feds looking at Bitfinex's books doesn't really change much. The point is that the feds can't destroy property just because they don't like who it was stolen from.
I use Signal every week, it still feels unpolished compared to Telegram or even WhatsApp. Although I must agree with you that it has improved a lot over the last couple of years.

FYI, WhatsApp has added Reactions. It is in beta for some users.

https://wabetainfo.com/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-21-25-11-...
The new Thunderbolt version which works like a native port at full gigabit speed.
When you get paid at the end of the month do you think there is a bloke with a wheelbarrow full of gold, or salt, or even bits of paper running between banks ensuring you get your salary? You've just figured out the entire private banking sector ;)
> They’re hoping other people will buy cryptocurrency from these announcements, driving the price up.

Mostly right.
Do you have numbers? How much do we spend eliminating poverty? And how much would we spend on universal income? Assuming 200 million adults get universal income, that would cost $1 trillion per $5,000 of income. But $5000 hardly gets you out of poverty.
> scala is real big impediment to making data processing accessible to general public in your company

Ding Ding Ding! Presto/Athena now is becoming huge in BI ecosystem. We don't really use Spark for ad-hoc BI anymore, we use it for data science and large repetitive workload.
They're not going to hit you with a wrench... it's a comic.

However, they will hit you will civil asset forfeiture, freeze your accounts so you can't pay lawyers, run your name through the news so you lose your job, jail you until your trial etc.
I agree that a AOT scala would be great. But don't JITs have the ability to react to real world usage and do hotspot optimization and stuff. I assume they are very complicated to build, and if you do thing ahead of time you should, but aren't the things that can only be done in a JIT important?
I like it, just left my email and waiting to get my first notification! Kudos to you.

Quick question : Do you search for the specified keywords in the title or in the link content ?
Looks like someone else discovered Go isn't as good as Haskell to program in Haskell. It's a good, very pedagogical article, however.
Judging by the papers, it looks like it was mainly active from 1994 to around 2000-2001 or so. Although there is also a 2005 journal article: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1075385
I open this (Chrome, Linux 3.18) and just get the two carets on an orange background. WebGL works on other sites. Broken?
Those were _great_ links. "A Management Decision Overrides a Recommendation Not to Launch" was just infuriating, especially when all of the presented options lead to "there's basically nothing you can do". I can't even begin to imagine what the engineers felt when Challenger exploded. It's bad enough when there's some accident, but it's a whole new level of tragedy when the accident's preventable... if only people would listen to their advisers.
Fancy searching for reasons to dismiss someone's argument or thesis! That's not playing fair at all.
This is good news for the education system. Now they have competition that magnifies the flaws in their practice.
Most telling quote: As long as it doesn't require me to do any math, I will write anything.
I think the main issue is the lack of accepted safety. I'm in favor of legalizing marijuana, but quite honestly my biggest fear is people operating a vehicle while high because it's okay to smoke it openly.
I am.

I'm thinking on how to rewrite that. My aim was to say that when we communicate to non-engineers, it should be imprecise and more sales pitchy.

When we need to sell our ideas. It doesn't help us to build an awesome taxonomy when we need to sell the right tool. More often enough, when we try to get precise with non-engineers, it owns us. It creates the need for a manager to organize the cats.

If we were precise, then we would have 10+ movements. a "column store" movement. A document movement. A map reduce movement.
On one side of the equation I'm concerned that mint is holding these credentials somewhere, on the other side I'm more concerned that the only thing between someone and all of my financial data is a simple user name and password. No attempt at RBA or out of band/multi-factor authentication to get into my mint account.
I think you missed one of the more obvious ways to fix the problem. Allow them to set their own rates, and allow other companies access (Permits, Licenses, whatever) to put letters in your mailbox.

The USPS has no incentive to figure out how to deliver mail better when it is the only game in town.
what research field are you working in? please email me personally if you'd like to chat more about how cde can help your workflow. i'm interested in collecting real-life case studies and anecdotes
"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." - Phil Karlton
Show us on the doll where NoSQL touched you.
Is Hamlet an idea? It has certainly been executed famously in a number of different ways. Does a play not exist until it's produced?

What's the idea behind the Mona Lisa?

Of course, there's that whole sticky wicket of Platonic forms , in which the object (the execution of the idea) is just a flawed imitation of the true idea.

(But I hate to sidetrack the thread into a debate over materialism -- although I think the mathematics point was spot on...)

Of course, in reality, Scott was probably a little frustrated that some fans were shooting down a movie before they had ANY IDEA whatsoever about it -- and here the rest of us spend our time debating his idea about their lack of an idea. If ideas are worthless, what are ideas about ideas?
The situation in Holland is pretty good. Only 1 bank (Postbank) has a system where you can login with a username and password (instead of using a physical authenticator) but you still need to authorize payments etc via your mobile phone (textmessages). All the other banks have authenticators where you insert your debitcard and have to input your 4 digit code to login and make transfers.

Transfers are usually instantaneously except to the aforementioned bank Postbank :-)
Ah, thanks. To be honest, in the UK in my experience the "within a few hours" thing only seems to apply when the transfers are between accounts at the same bank.

Transfers to other banks are the same process, they just take days; especially if it's a weekend or a public holiday. I'm sure all of that's just an excuse to hang on to your money for as long as they can.
Hehe. I feel much better already ;)
I wouldn't be entirely surprised if the idea for Ricci flow or PageRank was generated with a dinner napkin. Quite literally, I once used a napkin to explain the Ricci flow to a mathematician, and I've seen dozens of papers start that way, including a few of my own. Such ideas gain value from their scarcity, not from some immense complexity.
> Not including Zstandard is a lost opportunity -- it is far more appropriate than XZ or LZMA for real-time applications like serving web pages.

The article is about offline creation of compressed data dumps and not about real-time application.

The Django code here use only compression algorithms already present in the Python standard library to avoid unnecessary dependencies.
So how do I get the cryptocurrency in the first place? Especially Mobilecoin?
have you ever tried to remove epoxy from a PCB? it's definitely possible, but it's annoying and makes a mess. i'm not sure how you'd remove epoxy without it being blindingly obvious that the epoxy had been removed and replaced.

they're claiming tamper-resistant, not tamper-proof. and counting on the epoxy for that seems reasonable to me.
All of the above, pretty much.
If you don't assume that he's talking about Apple (or, for that matter, Google), which is implied in neither his, nor the parent post, then he's entirely correct and the downvotes are totally unwarranted.
Most users are not going to bother with rooting their phones and installing cyanogen.

> Cyanogen even supports the ancient G1 to very nearly the latest 2.1 version of android.

Disingenuous, Cyanogen specifically supports 4 phones: Dream, Magic, N1 and Droid. Notice the distinct lack of Motorola Devour in the list?
> Detecting metallic objects isn't really a violation of privacy. Neither is seeing an X-ray image of mundane baggage. This is your body, we're talking about. And I'm not aware of any previous policy that allowed TSA to cop a feel with such gratuitous abandon.

Personally, I'd rather have someone see a black and white outline of my naked body than look through my luggage - the former has no meaning or value, the second is actually private. What you consider "mundane," I consider personal.

> When "terrorists" and other boogeymen reach the airport with all their destructive goodies, our security apparatus has already failed.

So - no wiretaps, no racial profiling, no country profiling, no searches, no detainment, no internet monitoring - I suppose we use love and psychic powers?
I'm not suggesting that you should enjoy it. It's not escapism; it's not intended to pass mindlessly into your amygdala. It's meant to be a serious, critical analysis of the consequences of doing such a thing—a satire, in other words. you're meant to come away with it with an opinion on whether or not doing this—becoming alien in this way, having these irreconcilably different values—is a good thing or not.

...which was, oddly enough, the plot of the story itself! The protagonists decided that the values of the Baby Eaters were a bad thing; and, likewise, the Super Happy people decided that the values of the protagonists were a bad thing. One day, our future, alien selves might decide that our current values are a bad thing, and, likewise, if we see their (potential) values as bad enough, we might consider not allowing such a positive feedback loop toward new values to take place at all.
What I took away from being fired was an internal desire to be better. I didn't feel that it made me a loser...I felt that it gave me an opportunity to show myself and anyone in my life moving forward that I'm more than capable of doing my job better than anyone else. It has served me quite well for the last 6 years, I still push myself and I don't plan on stopping.
The problem with books that use C as their example language is that they don't cover the finer points of C that are going to fuck you in real life. What happens when you strncpy a string that's the same length as n? How should fatal errors be handled? Who is responsible for memory allocation and deallocation?

These are questions you need to know the answer to, but are unrelated to whatever the book is about.

The best way to learn C is to learn some other programming language, and then apply the common sense you learned back to C.
I kind of expected the XML to disappear in level 3. In its current form, this is a non-standard extension to HTTP.
John Pistole should man up, show some leadership, and release his bodyscan to the public to demonstrate through actions not words how these scanners aren't a big deal. John: we're waiting for the pics.