skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been close to deleting FB a couple of time, but I keep it for the unexpected / distant people that it keeps me in touch with.

I am going to Chile in a months time. I was there 15 years ago. I have a couple of contacts on facebook (I think I started using it around 8 or 9 years ago) that I will meet up with, but there are more who I would like to catch up with, but I have litterally lost touch with them.
Yeah, everyone keeps mentioning the whole "evil" aspect, but I was fairly sure google left due to the many, many attacks on it by Chinese hackers (who they believed to be the Chinese government) attempting and successfully stealing their source code: http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/03/03/china-google-idUSN...
Has anybody reported anything? The commons project seems to have been made aware of this just this weekend through third parties. If nobody reported anything no wonder it didn't get fixed.
"Net neutrality is about not prioritizing or throttling responses to your request, not how Comcast bills you."

So if Comcast bills you at double the rate for going to Facebook instead of Google+, that's consistent with net neutrality?
Kari from the build team said on Twitter that this was really close to happening but ultimately it didn't get picked up. Discovery is going to need to fill the hole in their lineup somehow, so maybe it'll come around again. I'd love to see that revived.
"we simply cannot watch the less fortunate suffer"

... as though that was what the bulk of taxes were about. (If you define "less fortunate" and "suffer" to cover everyone and everything who happens to have a smaller income than you, it is weak sauce.)
Making the polyglot was the easy part, definitely.
I just thought it would be interesting to see if it would actually load and run on a C64.

By the way, a simple way to test it if you don't have a real C64 at hand is using the CCS64 emulator: Just drag and drop the .PRG file onto it.
> Also, society is conditioned to believe there is something objectionable about the poor being made to drink a tasteless subsidized potion because they cannot afford the other kind of good food. There are movies in which people consuming tasteless but utilitarian nutrition is depicted as evidence of dystopia.

It seems conspicuous that it wasn't mentioned that Soylent is the namesake of one of those movies. Is it assumed that most NYT readers will make / have already made the association?
It really is. I'm hoping they're just offloading less consequential crap instead of core apps. Those are on mainframes in most banks I know. Maybe legacy lock-in will save customers' data and money from cost-cutting managers. Ya think? Would be ironic as hell haha.
"One of his more famous stories..."

Ever see the John Huston film adaption?
Yes, I agree it is important and it is still also one of the last things you should think about. Certainly breaking the one-package-runs-everywhere by delivering different packages for different architectures in order to save disk space is one of the last things that should be considered. There are plenty of optimizations before this that you can make by compiling your native libraries differently, removing redundant information in resources, etc, before you should consider delivering architecture-specific APKs. And this is precisely because there are many back-channels for distributing APKs (back-channels which are also probably more commonly used in developing economies where those newer phones are unaffordable) in addition to the Play store.
It sounds like the same tune to me.
When we have continuous scanning of the earth by satellites you could put out some tarp that is easy to scan for with software. Instead of laying out rocks to say HELP you lay them out in something that looks like a QR code.
https://xkcd.com/1545/
What's especially bothersome is that the first cognitive function you lose when you're tired and overworked is self-assessment.

"This is insane! I've never been so productive" has entered my mind many times just as I looked up, understood that this hour-long work was actually six hours and that meant it wasn't productive at all, and finally went home or to bed.

It's only funny in retrospect...
How Hearthstone Onboards New Users
Efficiency vs. effectiveness...
Or use a fuzzy matcher...peco and fzf (the go version) are my favorites, since they install with no dependencies on a runtime, but there are python/ruby options (fpp, selecta, percol) as well.
That would be a great ideal, but I've never seen it in practice. Probably with the truss-style roofs that are used commonly now, the snow weight is less of a problem than with the older rafter-style.

I'm unclear what point ventilation or insulation in the attic would have to do with ice dams... In my experience, it's caused by snow that doesn't get removed, which then melts, seeps down to the roof, and refreezes, with the texture of the shingles providing a greater surface area to freeze against.

All things being equal, it's nice to have a steel roof that will warm up on a sunny day and have all the snow slide off.
>How many HN readers, a sophisticated population, have reviewed Tor's code?

"Who actually reads the code?" https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/who-actually-reads-the-c...
The capital of disruption fears it may be experiencing too much
I deleted my facebook a year or so ago.

I still talk to all the people I wanted to talk to when I had a facebook.

Obviously not for everyone, but I enjoy it.
If you do, do the police arrest you (I assume no)? What happens?
What's crazy about it is there is a wealth of scientific information that says even shoveling coal you won't be very effective doing that over the long run, let alone an intellectual pursuit
The Dying of the Whites
You beat me to it, I just paused reading to come moan about that before continuing.

But not only that, having read a lot about benzos and have previously been prescribed a few different ones for insomnia, their effects are to quote Wikipedia "sedative, hypnotic (sleep-inducing), anxiolytic (anti-anxiety), anticonvulsant, and muscle relaxant"

Unless mixed with another drug - but I'm guessing he wasn't drinking in there - I don't see how their effects would be relevant.

Edit: 'When a new doctor took Bergwall off the heavy doses of benzodiazepine, his confessions abruptly stopped. "He sobered up and thought, 'What the hell have I done?' " Hill says.' But he didn't tell anyone until a journalist visited? Really feels like the author of the article heard "psychiatric" and "drugs" and jumped on the assumption that they were the cause. Interesting none the less.
and at least 1/10th of the exploits?
Why would an oil fired steam turbine be a bad solution for a submarine, compared to then contemporary diesels? Fast ships did use oil fired steam turbines, not large diesel engines - so why not submarines? What are the differences?
How many of the accidents are really attributable to the steam turbine?

The article is a little shallow on that point, I think it's an interesting question. Why were so many holes needed?

I think quite many of these histories tend to "a new plane was designed and made, it was faster than the previous ones, it was used by these units for these years." You don't learn much.
The picture per day part is really cool - instead of having to look for a life raft/debris, we can look for patterns of abnormality across time. Given how large the ocean is, we have a good sense of the 'normal' distribution of images every day, so maybe we can find patterns like consistently "abnormal" images along a wind/current vector over 7 days. Individual debris may not be visible, but fields of debris may have some characteristics we can recognize.
Imagify – Interessante Optimus Alternative
Yup: so I moved my low traffic vanity site back to static html when I worked out that I was spending more time reinstalling WordPress because of security advisories than actually writing anything.

As the chap who runs pinboard put it [1] people like me should not be running web applications like WordPress on live server space.

So I ran WordPress locally and harvested the html pages. Then realised that I was using a poky little text area to write when I could just use a text editor...

[1] http://idlewords.com/2009/09/how_to_not_get_your_blog_hacked...
No, you can use spinning media just fine, as long as you take them off-line after making your copy and if they're in the same physical location to remove them from the premises.
what kind of costs are involved?

I run a community site that does 1m pv's a month and growing but we get hammered on 'breaking news' as wp-super-cache does not seem to handle post updates well under high use thus interested in possible solutions or alternatives.
We know so little about nutrition that it's risky to deviate too far from traditional cuisines. I would bet that Soylent has some detrimental effect if it's not part of a varied diet.
Uber vs. Lyft surge pricing
Everything written in this article about scala is totally wrong.
And even in C# some things are bad.

Also some would never write:

> To be fair with Scala, something similar to async/await
> can be implemented using map. Let’s see an example.

You're scala is really lacking you should not do a comparsion.

Oh god:

> Let’s look at a more complicated example I found online

Console.println doesn't even exists.

Yea async await is great however it's just syntactic sugar and the scala api is way more clear. Also you should neither use it with this kind of lack.
It also would seem to be an argument for governmental intervention. Industry is unlikely to do it for the same reasons individuals are unlikely to consistently make good environmental choices... If ever there were a case, this may be it, assuming all of the predicted outcomes are actually going to come to pass, otherwise.
I'd have thought the submitter would put one if they felt it was needed or a mod could put one if the submitter hadn't. If the submitter puts a bad title then I guess it might still need editing ... so still space for those that want to argue about it! Win-win!!
Too bad putty still doesn't support ed25519
American parenting is killing the American marriage (2014)
> a symlink

Like, a cname?
It bugs me that people's justifiable criticisms of Facebook lead to tarnishing the whole concept of "social networks".

Based on the studies the author cites, the title of this article should be "Facebook is bad for you". But what about other social networks that don't focus on exploiting their users and manipulating them to addictive activity? (Dreamwidth is one that leaps to mind.) I'd bet dollars to donuts that the dynamics are very different in those environments.
Probably best for Soylent drinkers to regularly chew gum. It'd be pretty awkward to discover after a few months that your jaw muscles have atrophied so severely that you have trouble chewing even the softest dry foods.
The much-derided "right to be forgotten" is a key part of this. In the past you could just move to the next town, but now your permanent record is public and follows you...
I configure things that I don't need to be fast to run over Tor. IRC and email are examples.
maps.google.cn (or maybe ditu.google.cn, can't remember) is also handy, and doesn't have the offset that maps.google.com does.
I was close to deleting my Facebook account when I discovered the News Feed Eradicator[1]. This way I can still use messages, groups, events, etc. without having to experience the dreaded news feed. It really improved my quality of life.

Another major step I took was to stop posting. That way I had no expectations of feedback and logged in far less in general.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
i would say at least 50% of the companies receive 0 or negative value from their direct presence at these event.

If you are not good with booths and crowds then you're wasting your money.

On the other hand, if you ARE good with crowds, and your product or service is relevant to a wide enough market, then it could certainly be worth it.

Just do the simple best case / worst case math and figure it out yourself.

If my service costs 1000$ per month, and it would be relevant to 20% of the prospective audience, then it's probably worth it for me to go to the event.

Events are just another marketing channel. Wasting your money an channel that's wrong for your target audience is the same no matter if you're wasting money on bill boards, facebook ads, or in this case -- booths at events.
Concrete Ships of WW2
You're just telling me how the abstraction gives rise to more abstractions. That seems to be getting even further away from where the rubber hits the road. I want to see a program that does something directly useful, something there's an actual business case for, that would take more code to implement without the Category abstraction.
> Symbolics, I disagree. I (a regular programmer) have reprogrammed my computer's keyboard to imitate parts of "programmer's dvorak.

I think that qualifies as 'most special'.
This study seems to confuse American political parties with philosophy...

For example banning guns is similar philosophically to banning drugs (the state knows better than the individual) yet in American politics one of these is a liberal value and one a conservative values.
It's a principle of HN that submitters don't get extra privileges w/r/t stories. Once they're posted, they're community property. So the feature you propose can't be as simple as a second text input for the editorialized title: that gives the submitter a kind of "super-comment" that other community members don't get.
also take this to another level with ublock, you can block whichever elements of any page you want, eg the related videos on youtube.
reminds me of:

The Purge: What happens when you unfollow everyone on the Internet?
https://medium.com/@helena/the-purge-what-happens-when-you-u...
A dive into the why and how of using Shrinkwrap with Node.js
A deeper look into GoGuardian's use of StatsD
> "Apple is successful, therefore your criticism of [unrelated company and their unrelated product] is irrelevant.

I see this a lot. It is ridiculous.
FYI, it's more about cod than sex.
woof. what a boring article.
I just started using this, and it's wonderful. I previously was using Stayfocusd to limit Facebook time to 5 minutes per day, which I depleted quickly. Sometimes I got cut off in the middle of writing a reply to someone, or even doing something for work. Now I don't have to restrict myself anymore, since there's nothing to mindlessly scroll through.

Reading the feed was like playing slots. It pays out just enough to keep you playing, but on net you're still losing. "Maybe that next post will be interesting! Oh, nope, just another story about Donald Trump. On to the next post..." Never again.
>Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1564

State of Italy did not really exist then. Pisa belonged to Holy roman empire.(?)

I hate this shit. I'd like to know why Galileo from HRM did stuff. And some Joe Smart from Castile didn't. It takes ages to find the relevant states.
I don't agree with all of the article, but I'd argue Twitter, Instsgram, Reddit and HackerNews follow the critical aspects of that dynamic.
^ this.

If you can work 70 hours a week with no productivity loss you have the kind of work machines/software will automate away shortly.
> arrives at a probability of 183%.

I don't see anything wrong with the math. It simply means that Quick is certainly guilty, with an 83% chance of being double-guilty, which is an obscure legal term I don't expect the technocrat audience of HN to be familiar with.
This is not entirely true.

You can delete most of the content, and in theory, for 3rd party, it's pretty problematic to dig up. ( Unless you're a government agency, but that was always the case, wasn't it? ). You can even opt-out of archive.org.

IPFS would be a very different scenario, and that is one of the reasons I hesitate to join.
Indeed.

"The dominant file systems at the time the design was done were TOPS-10, TENEX, TOPS-20, VAX VMS, AT&T Unix, MIT Multics, MIT ITS, not to mention a bunch of mainframe OS's. Some were uppercase only, some mixed, some were case-sensitive but case-translating (like CL). Some had dirs as files, some not. Some had quote chars for funny file chars, some not. Some had wildcards, some didn't. Some had :up in relative pathnames, some didn't. Some had namable root dirs, some didn't. There were file systems with no directories, file systems with non-hierarchical directories, file systems with no file types, file systems with no versions, file systems with no devices, and so on. People often critique the design now because Unix and Mac and DOS are so comparatively similar (compared to some of those others)..."

-- Kent Pitman in comp.lang.lisp, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.lang.lisp/Pl...
Martin Shkreli says a new price for the drug he hiked could be here by Christmas
Your employer risks some (huge) fines, depending on where you live. Here in France, we have "Work Inspectors" who verify sponteously those rules − they can be called by employees themselves, too.

Of course, if you are self-employed, there is no way that those rules can be enforced… but it will be frowned upon by your relatives, because we know that it is wrong in the long term.
You don't often see vulnerabilities in Putty, which considering the amount of corporate systems it's used with is quite amazing.
Motivation to Lose Weight
Agreed 100%. I feel like I could get as much done with a 25hr/wk workweek instead of 40hr/wk. I try to stay focused and work hard for those 40+ hrs each week, but things eventually trail off anyways.
Themosis Framework is my life saver, along with WP-ORM
Yeah, right now, You are saying "I believe X" and I'm saying "I believe Y" where X and Y are mutually incompatible, but largely subjective opinions.

My original point, that you sound like an elitist when you start going on about how much better education makes you in impossible ways, still stands. If you want to sound that way, it's fine.
Note that 286 is hours in front of a computer, not hours at work.
> I have all email notifications turned off

No need to do that, they only work for a couple of days even if you try to get them work.
In these days, means of production may also mean the company resources & venture capital, with so much production being digital.
Looks like ed25519 was added in May 10th, 2015. [1]

We claim version: SSH-2.0-PuTTY_Snapshot_2015_11_08.b003e5c
Server version: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.7p1 Debian-5
Using SSH protocol version 2
Doing ECDH key exchange with curve Curve25519 and hash SHA-256
Host key fingerprint is:
ssh-ed25519 256 <fingerprint>
Initialised ChaCha20 client->server encryption
Initialised Poly1305 client->server MAC algorithm (in ETM mode) (required by cipher)
Initialised ChaCha20 server->client encryption
Initialised Poly1305 server->client MAC algorithm (in ETM mode) (required by cipher)

I'm no expert, and this might not be what you are talking about, but to my untrained eye, it does?

Now, to get back on topic, they believe that the attack would already need access to the server.

"To exploit a vulnerability in the terminal emulator, an attacker must be able to insert a carefully crafted escape sequence into the terminal stream. For a PuTTY SSH session, this must be before encryption, so the attacker likely needs access to the server you're connecting to. For instance, an attacker on a multi-user machine that you connect to could trick you into running cat on a file they control containing a malicious escape sequence. (Unix write(1) is not a vector for this, if implemented correctly.)"

[1] http://tartarus.org/~simon-git/gitweb/?p=putty-wishlist.git;...
Can you cite a few?

Robin Hanson analysed it a while back[1] and it was 60 hours for peak productivity with unknown applicability to modern workplace.

[1] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/12/construction-peak-60hr...
Still in Alpha stages so there will be bugs/few missing video trailers.
It's also not possible to catch all systematic design flaws. It's possible for someone who is deeply knowledgable in an area like crypto to deliberately introduce strategic design weaknesses into a system that might seem like reasonable choices to anyone who doesn't understand the exact context.

I have always been suspicious of Tor's choice of long-lived circuits over packet-level onion routing. It seems like each packet should follow a different path. It would also be easier in a packet-based scheme to implement some level of noise / decoy traffic generation to make statistical analysis of traffic more difficult. It seems like a design choice that would make statistical inference easier by someone who has a God's-eye view of traffic. Large powerful nation states absolutely have this, while smaller ones may not, making it an ideal asymmetric vulnerability.

But that's just one example. A true deliberately-introduced weakness might be something far more subtile than this: a choice of order of operations or timing for example.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/sea-level-rise-predictions....
I don't know any investment bankers, so maybe that's true. Certainly there are jobs that requires little enough of you that you can keep doing the same thing for twice as long. But I'm not convinced that it is "the great majority of jobs".

Even in a lot of manual jobs the true cost of reduced attention gets obscured in increased error rates, increased accidents (and according insurance and compensation costs) and burn outs (resulting in higher churn and increased hiring costs).

I'm sure some have numbers that prove it's better for them to push staff harder (and places with extremely high salaries like investment banking certainly can take larger productivity drops and still come out ahead than most places), but most places I've worked and most companies I've contracted for, have no clue at all even how to measure their staffs productivity, much less do it on a regular basis.

In a few jobs I for the first time (for my managers) started delivering weekly reports that did not just report what we'd done, but combined the reported time spent with average salaries by function and assigned them to products and feature requests etc.. Doing that in my experience always leads to uncomfortable conversations in the team afterwards when management realises what different decisions actually costs. (Amusingly, or depressingly, a common response to me actually asking for average salary information was confusion even when I explained that I was going to report on costs; apparently this is quite unusual for development teams in tech companies to do other than in aggregate for whole departments, which is just plain ridiculous)

Generally I take anyone claiming to be just as productive over long hours with a huge amount of salt unless they can explain exactly how they've actually measured it - usually it turns out people are "self reporting" what they think is the case because they feel busier. Often because their productivity has actually suffered, and made them busier.
It's a power grab by specific industries and several governments, not 'the corporations' as an amorphous concept. Mischaracterizing the shittiness of TPP to score rhetorical points for favored politics is a sorry trick, and it lends an air of intellectual dishonesty to a very important topic.
Seems like a flawed setup. If I observe a change, "see, there's climate change." If I don't observe a change, "duh, it's global change, you can't just measure locally." Heads you win, tails I lose.

And seriously, compare this year to last? Do you think the climate in years 1000 and 1001 didn't change? This is exactly the bullshit "science" climate change deniers use.
> This bug was found with the help of American Fuzzy Lop
Actually, 50% more than Yummly: that was £20 million, about $30 million.
Systemd-Networkd vs. Legacy Tool Benchmarks: Faster Than Light
Is there a similar software for time accounting for Linux?
When is the right time to rewrite your software?
It's the Trade federation all over again!
Washington State: Worst Tax System in the Nation