skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tax the wealthy to provide subsidies for the poor, what do you think this is Switzerland? We will probably see more tax cuts for the upper quintile and some yelling about how, eventually, one day, it's all going to come trickling down.
Note that this didn't actually cost them $15M, they bought the debt for $60K.
I feel relatively well versed in American "culture", but I still don't get a lot of the references he makes. On the other hand, I still laugh at many jokes and his rants on Trump are just epic.
Make Donald Drumpf again!
> This ads in the OS is a bullshit I keep hearing. Why is this not a problem with Android or iOS?

Here's what I get if I press the logo key. (Just now it's advertising "Sonic Dash".)

http://imgur.com/ZO6z6x1

The ads in iOS are a problem. But those ads are in the app store, they're not on my home screen.

(The behaviour of a web page in chrome being able to switch me from chrome to the app store to show me an ad is baffling and terrible. If you're talking about sucky ads that's a great example of piss-poor experience on iOS.)
Please share exactly how to do that. It appears that pretty much the entire Internet thinks you can't, so I'm sure a lot of people would like to know.
The sunlight of a regular farm is largely wasted. The plants are spread apart because of their moisture and soil needs and most of ths sunlight hits dirt.

Now, there may be bacteria in the regolith which we don't know about, and we'll find out why they are neededin certain proportions... but even so, we can be collecting dirt from all over the place for the next crop...

It seems that sunlight hitting plants that are "closer together" and stacked vertically will be far more efficient. Besides, some plants don't even need the full sunlight to grow!
The page 404s for me?
> Backporting security updates is a huge cost

Boohoo. Maybe Microsoft should have priced that into the product before they sold it, instead of using borderline illegal methods to scam people out of providing the service they expect?
Website could do with a spell check.
I don't think they get much more in ad revenue because of chrome cast, if I want to watch something I'd watch it on my mobile or PC, casting to the TV is just more comfortable, it's not an enabler to something that wasn't watchable.

Moreover chrome cast is used outside of google products like Plex, Netflix, HBO etc.

Having a low bar for entry into the home is huge for a company which is all about data and insights.
fire and wheel as an example of technological progress (that came after biological). hmmm...
Wheel came only 5-10 ths yeas ago and quickly propogated among Afro-Eurasia. ok.
But fire? it came 1.5 mln years and fire were the reason of latest biological evolution of our species, with body able to support larger brain. not best example of fast technological progress.
Going to go with the fact that original cards were the same size as paper currency at the time and re purposing of equipment to handle paper currency was the expedient thing to do.
The article has the causality backwards. We don't use 80 characters because that's what the Hollerith card used, the Hollerith card used 80 characters because that's a good ergonomic width. (Or, if you prefer, the Hollerith card succeeded because it was a good ergonomic width.)

Coincidentally (or perhaps ironically) the article itself is formatted for ~80 characters per line, not because it's bound by the Hollerith card, but because 80 characters is a good ergonomic width.
In the US, at least, WMC was the only commercially-available software that supported anything other than copy-freely CableCard programs. So if you were planning on watching Game of Thrones (HBO is usually a channel whose programs are copy-flagged), MS screwed you pretty badly.
Cool. Nice to have in contrast.

My personal feeling is this: systemd might be a software blackhole that eventually eat and destroy everything it comes close to and that's OK. If it is so bad then other developers can create a new or modified system that keeps the good stuff and eliminates the bad stuff, while working with other software projects to integrate better.

If we're stuck with systemd, is is better than others worse than some and it isn't like it is the first highly opinionated software project to grace us. A new ecosystem will get developed, wikis written, books sold, training courses packaged. Wise developers of other software will whisper in dark corners about the evil that stalks the land in the form of bad code and design of systemd, and crazed developers will haunt Slashdot, Hacker News, and LWN holding up the hand-lettered signs to make sure we understand how terrible Lennartitis is.

If something new comes along (more modular! less Lennart! doesn't insult the tender heart of tmux developers) developers will fight it out and we can go back to the 5 init systems that we're currently using.
Among this, vvvv, Max/MSP/Jitterm, derivative.ca and other software of this kind: which one is more powerful, more performing and the more mature in terms of deployment of the final product?
For a beginner - I would suggest DD-wrt as its more beginner friendly as compared to Open-Wrt; OPENVPN documentation is pretty good - https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/OpenVPN

As for Router support - the best one would be the Archer C7 from TPLink (http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices#TP-Li...)
ok nice. We know that. I'm personally touching Elm only after they have something like ComponentDidMount from React or something which is better implementend than "wait 50msec and do something like set focus" on their (virtual) DOM rendering is solved: https://github.com/evancz/elm-todomvc/blob/8be8914582870d599...
404 for me too.
To get around GFW, use openconnect instead. That is as or more secure than OpenVPN, and not current filtered.
My guess: someone was registering thousands of bots using common swearing words + some number as their password, and this particular spam campaign happened to be particularly large.
Discussed in other thread. I assume those users were created automatically.
> But even more than that, references that don't extend the lifetimes of objects (like native pointers and references) are simple to create and are in many ways the default type of reference in C++.

C++ has a lot of cases of defaults that one tends not to use all that much (because it tends to default to maximal efficiency). Raw pointers would be a good example. Those are generally frowned upon.

On the other hand, references are encouraged and have pretty clear semantics around ownership.

> At any rate, 'this message queue only works with types that are easy to copy' is not generally a prominent part of the documentation in C++, if it's present at all.

Really? That's a very prominent part of say... the STL's documentation.
I'm reminded of the ending in Iron Sky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uimh2EBB1yQ
Larry Wilmores show is pretty bad, he isn't very good at the political comedy. But he has been the writer, producer, and creator for a lot of extremely successful and hilarious shows like Fresh Prince, The Bernie Mac show, the PJs, and The Office. He is definitely a funny, I just think his current show is just poorly conceived.
You realize that a person doesn't have to belong to the Illuminati as a precondition to lobby for special or opaque legislation, right? The only precondition intent needs is a conflict of interest.

Look at Intuit. A number of years back, California piloted a program that simplified filing tax returns for people opting to take the standard deduction. They would mail you a form that was prefilled so you could simply sign it and mail it back. Intuit lobbied to kill it and won. No laws were broken. They were simply acting in the interest of their shareholders.

The American Immigration Lawyers Association is one of many lobbying groups that represents 13,000 members. Many of these members help the 80,000 some H1B applicants through the process and can charge legal fees in the ballpark of $10,000 to do that. Assuming all 80,000 applicants spent $10,000 in legal fees, we're talking about ~$1bn market on top for that type of work alone. In the grand scheme of things, it's not a lot, but it's one component that can create a conflict of interest.

Let's assume the AILA is an upstanding group and all of the lobbyists they hire are ethical boy scouts. They would never influence our legislators to intentionally complicate laws to serve their members. Instead, they would recognize that it's in our nation's best interest that our immigration systems are robust, thorough and comprehensive. They'd also emphasize that their members provide a critical service to sherpa honest immigrants through this thoroughly comprehensive system.

You don't need to be behind a ridiculous conspiracy to influence legislation to serve your best interests. These days, you're way better off being transparent and operating under an ethical framework.
Me too. DAO is more recent, though. It might be the largest number of backers.
They can call and you can ask but if you say the debt is not yours or you don't recognise it that is not an acknowledgement.
Training is not a problem. Anyone who knows the basic of OOP can learn TypeScript in a day.

On the other hand, giving them constraints (because of the type system) ensures their work is not breaking stuff along the way as they learn the ropes of the code base.

From my perspective, setting up a build flow (dependencies, etc) is the biggest problem with TypeScript projects. If you assume that's already done in a given project, then the negative impact is gone and TypeScript only makes it easier.
I just want to add that if they really cared they would just demand 2FA (assuming it's not broken), or atleast reset the passwords like linkedin did.
Yes, he spoke about "zombie debt" in his segment. "Brought back from the dead" is true only if it was dismissed or past the statute of limitations for collection. It's not "brought back from the dead" if you had collectors calling and then they stopped calling and now they continue calling. You still owe that money and you're responsible.

Do you ever wonder why somebody would extend you a 30 day unsecured 0% interest loan (credit card)? Or a 15-25% interest unsecured rolling loan to someone with little or no credit history? You can choose to make policies that make it harder for creditors, but you can't pretend that won't impact the borrowing rate or the access of credit to many Americans. The idea that you can't buy and sell receivables seems silly.

I agree that some of the reasons people collect debt is unfortunate and unjust. But people need to be responsible and we need reasonable laws that prevent harassment.
These are actually Mikrotik devices too, just with OpenWRT pre-installed instead of their proprietary RouterOS.
He sounds like he's in his twenties to me. If so, do you think he would have had an Acorn computer? I dunno, could be.
John Yoo pwned Stewart when he had him on. And what about the infamous "How are you holding up?" interview with Kerry?
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At the end of the day it's a comedy show not a news show and his job is to make people laugh. You can't make people laugh with jokes about insider domain knowledge only possessed by experts.

If you consider the constraint that Last Week Tonight is primarily a comedy show themed around important newsworthy issues rather than an investigative journalism show it's hard to imagine it done any better.
I'm a former affiliate(7 years in the industry) and I know how the networks do this, it's not targeted recruitment...they put you in their network and promote your offer to their, often low quality, affiliates... they don't actively look after any targeted affiliates for your business.

I'm willing to offer a high quality services for SaaS companies using outreach campaigns and targeting more consultants, web developers, agencies etc than bloggers or marketers(unless they are influencers).

Eventually to also be able to manage and build the program...example of a great program http://www.leadforensics.com/partners/
No UDP support after all these years is really quite shameful. Tunneling TCP over TCP is insanely bad, the slightest packet loss and your connections are toast.
This reminds me of Gabe Newell whose password was "gaben" when Hackers announced gold status of Half-Life 2 early.
Interesting :)
Also being a Persian, glad Iran made it into some good news!
As another comment mentioned I think the issue is far less that computer scientists don't know good PW practice and far greater that management doesn't care to give them time to work on it.
People get their electronics stolen all the time. I use FDE despite knowing that if law enforcement ever seized my computer, they'd probably force me to unlock it or throw me in prison for contempt for the rest of my life. I use FDE simply because I don't want to worry about some asshole stealing my stuff and getting access to all my files.
Access to all the readings at this link has been blocked. Only the newer syllabus is visible.
He doesn't have to, but when it's a mix of serious and funny, it's easy to end up both not serious enough and not funny enough
I'm a righty... so my left hand never leaves the keyboard my right moves all over the place dadada is super easy for me to type. I would think if you're a lefty and using a laptop like most ceos are likely to be doing (if they have a laptop at all) then your left hand is on the mouse making dadada harder to hit?
It works 99% of the time. But yes - some times you hit a snag as when people base their npm scripts in some shell commands, or you need some strange npm dependency that for some odd reason is not cross platform.

Once the next Windows 10 update makes bash available to everyone, though, that'll become a non-issue.
This model isn't internet-connected at all.
You mean like you pre-judged him to be prideful of this fact?
It bothered me more than it should have that you used isuckat@passwords.com instead of isuck@passwords.com for your example :)
Mind being a bit more specific with "has some issues"? Our project isn't exactly small, and we haven't bumped into a problem yet. I'd really like to know what to expect if something is about to jump out from behind a wall.
Maybe the first person to do so, sure. One of the reasons you know that never works (besides physics :) is that people have tried it.
We deploy node on windows server in production. It wouldn't be my first choice if I was deploying a new node project.

In this case, however, it nicely integrates into our existing windows infrastructure.

I haven't found any reason to recommend against deploying node on windows. To this point it has just worked.
Yes, but the people who owed it, now have less issues with credit checks and such.
Maybe it will make it possible for them to be able to buy more medicine.
It's worth pointing out that the Last Week Tonight clips that you see online are generally the second half or so of a longer-running HBO show: you only see the main story, and it generally comes with a spectacular call-to-action at the end (it's an intentional decision about what note to end the show on).

So the ratio for the full show is less 50/50 and more 25/75, which is much closer to your sweet spot.
I can't see any of the current Linux distros taking over desktops in any big way, even with Microsoft's current strategy, by 2020. The application base just isn't there.

In this context, I think Linux has most potential as the foundation for more targeted platforms that might compete for specific niches within the traditional desktop space, along the lines of Chrome OS or SteamOS. Android has shown that you can build a very successful, very widely used platform on top of Linux within the kind of time frame we're talking about here.
It's important to use the same words when discussing like this, because "preachiness" and "seriousness" mean very different things in this context.

We're talking about comedy v. preaching to the audience, not when to make a joke and when to make a serious point. They're completely different discussions.

And to the Stewart point, he was perfectly able to explain (using comedy) why he believed something without implying that you are lesser for disagreeing with it. Oliver seems to be able to do that at most 1/3 as much as Stewart. The remaining 2/3 is "not only am I right for believing this, and not only are you wrong and you should feel bad about yourself if you don't, but you're so wrong that I can't even comprehend how you could possibly disagree."
Good point. Why do we have passwords anyway? Just to authenticate at unanticipated access points? We could always just do two-factor authentication for that. A code would be sent to Google Authenticator on your phone or something like that, encrypted with your public key, and you'd just decrypt it with your private key. The phone would be secured with your password or fingerprint, which is never sent anywhere. The code would allow you to auth with the new access point. If the cellphone was connected to the internet, it could send the key directly and the site would log you in. If not connected to the net, it could use bluetooth or optical or sound to communicate with the access point (eg web browser running on a computer) to send the code. Only in the worst case would you have to type anything in yourself.

Since most people walk around with their cellphones, you could even precompute a couple keys to unlock a site, for those times when there is no internet connection. Of course, your phone should be secured with a password and you should be able to revoke the keys if anything gets lost.
yeah one time he was talking about intra-state groups that talk about and harmonize laws between states.

of course, on HIS show he was talking about why that is a bad thing, and how this shadowy conspiracy organization was influencing democracy. All the children on reddit gobbled it up of course, despite never having had a business dispute themselves that was hampered by incompatible laws in states.
Or the reason for the JHKL vim arrow keys - I've read quite often how ergonomic that is, but it's just historical: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys...

(then again, maybe the original keyboard maker put them there for ergonomic reasons)
Agreed, but just because it's a comedy show doesn't mean that he can be factually inaccurate about things and not get called out on it.
In 2003, when linkedin was founded SHA1 probably made sense. GPU password cracking was mostly non-existent at this point and most machines had a single core processor.
The lack of warrant canary on DDG is strange considering their entire premise.
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It makes other people (like me) interested in Elm
Couldn't agree more, pretty painful
Ah finally! The Mono version is wonky.
Since when has SHA1 been crackable in three days? AFAIK with proper passwords SHA1 is nearly impossible to crack. Did I get something wrong? Salting does make the process slower with bad passwords, but with good ones there's very little difference. Just my gut feeling.
If a company writes off a debt, then haven't tax payers already paid the debt?
The good thing TypeScript has going for it is tooling. It's really solid. IMO, VSC is a pleasure, and the tools (tsc, tslint, etc) are extremely stable. Things don't break.

The GitHub community is going really fast, and I love reading some of the PRs, but it's hard for me to compare in that sense.
Where have you been on the other side?

I stopped watching after several episodes in a row felt exceptionally biased and unfair. Alas I did not write down the topics so I've always had trouble describing to people why I don't like John Oliver.
Maybe my dislike for binary logs is because I haven't yet learnt the tooling around them.

I'm familiar with dealing with text files in Linux/Unix land and have built up years of knowledge on doing so. I feel reluctant to throw that away.
You are abusing the meaning of the term "loophole" then. Something explicitly and purposefully added is not a loophole. A loophole is an error or missed corner case that allows someone to legally bypass some portion of the law.
Probably a bot creating those users for various reasons.
Per hour, the cloud is way more expensive than owning your own hardware.
Indeed. The rule for prose is that a text block width should be somewhere between 2.5 and 3.5 full alphabets. This takes into account the variable spacing of different characters. This is to strike a balance between having inconsistent space or too much hyphenation (if the line is too short) and the eye's ability to find the next line when scanning leftwards from the end of the previous line (which is difficult if the line is too long).

Code is different in several ways. Firstly, code is generally shown in monospace typeface. Secondly, breaking lines too early can be even worse for code than for prose. Thirdly, even with a long line limit, code will generally have lots of short lines anyway, and this helps the eye find the next line when reading. The long lines (as long as they aren't all long) stick out from the rest of the code text, making it easier to read.
First rule of hacking is to separate liability to stay out of jail.

Prosecution is typically limited because the person that discovers the hack isn't the person that exploits the hack, isn't the person day trading Facebook stock after the fake press releases.

And of course - and still up for controversy - selling hacks isn't restricted in any way right now.
80 characters seems really narrow. IDEs like IntelliJ put a guideline at 120 characters, which basically allows two full width editing windows side by side (depending on your font size) at the pretty standard resolution of 1920x1080.

We've all got widescreen monitors now, right? So it makes sense that people are going well past 80 characters.
But there are vicious cycles involved where the mental effort of surviving day to day is too high to leave mental energy to think further ahead and make better decisions. There have been multiple studies about this - if I could remember where I'd read about them, I'd link to them.
This quote seems very telling:

> It used to be that only locals knew all the cut-through routes, but Google Maps and Waze are letting everyone know

So they don't have a problem with people cutting through as long as they're "locals"; it's when the outgroup starts doing the same thing that people get up in arms.

If the through traffic is breaking traffic laws, that's a solvable problem. If the street has insufficient safety measures on it, that's also a solvable problem; see the comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11846812 for an example of getting the road improved.

But if the problem is that the neighborhood street is actually a better route than the arterial roads and highways, then solve that problem; don't blame mapping software for noticing.
Can you please explain what you are trying to say with "neurostatic precepts?" This thread takes the first two spots on Google for that phrase...
Next time you spend hours looking for a strange bug that turned out to be a honest-to-god misspelling, think about how you wouldn't have had that bug in the first place if you were using static typing.
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Or that Police song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v2GDbEmjGE
I got a ticket for one of these types of things, some local ordinance prohibiting through traffic during rush hour.

It's a great revenue generator for the local PDs. Lots of one-off traffic laws that people passing through won't (and really, can't) know about.
An infant could have come up with that combination!
That could just be about quantity, not groups. If only locals do it, that's a relatively small amount of traffic. If outsiders join in, that could be orders of magnitude more.

I do agree with the overall point. If your local road is an attractive route and people use it to go places, don't blame the messenger. But it doesn't have to be about tribalism.