skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To put slightly positive spin on that, is being uncreative not a benefit in management? In my experience, those that are creative (although that's a pretty nebulous term) seem to, as a rule, be fairly—deeply uncomfortable in management positions, because creativity is curtailed - more prosaic organisational skills are more important.
you can use coaxial cable if you are using it for testing or education. so you don't "pollute" the legit GSM communications.
If we can stop mining resources on earth and outsource that to some asteroids, why not? We still need resources.
"Having had no idea what made thiel hate gawker so much"

How about when they publicly outed him as gay, when he wasn't out to most of the general public?

Source, but don't visit it, in case you give those parasites a couple of dimes in the process:
http://gawker.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people
This is the follow-up to these:

Default news subreddits currently embroiled
in censorship over Orlando shooting [0]

and

Watching the Reddit readers falling [1]

In response to the censorship of the threads related to the Orlando shooting, readers left in droves. Sort of. But a quick glance shows just how long the memory is. Goldfish, rather than elephant.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11888628

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11890372
Random password, FastMail email alias, fake but plausible name and date or birth, all dumped in to 1Password.

Would love to find a credit card which allowed me to offer up fake billing details - obviously the CC provider would need to know who I was, but there's no reason who I'm paying needs to.
What a ridiculous clickbait title
Is your problem a lack of good ideas or a lack of ideas you are passionate about?
What do you mean by economic simulator? Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_(economic_simulator) ?
I am more impressed by how compact the propellant tanks must be... ;-)
Just some blurry knowledge mixed with ignorance (50/50), because of its platform-centricity. It's probably a bit faster than Java though.
For writing, The Elements of Style by Strunk/ White is a classic I still found useful. Plus, as has been said, read a lot of good prose.

Similarly for public speaking, practice makes perfect. Check out Toastmasters International - a nonprofit that is running clubs all over the world where members can improve their public speaking skills in a supportive environment. Worked for me.

http://www.toastmasters.org
NASA Testing Electring Aircraft. It Has 14 Motors
I can only recommend DocFetcher. Crossplatform, open source, and portable. Requires java. http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html
Encounters with Electric Eels
A game of Snake, a simple database, a little web server, a small compiler.
To ease calculations scientists tend to work around 10^(3*n) kind of numbers. This is why you seldom see hecto- or deca- units, rather than kilo, mega, milli, micro, nano, etc.
Ask HN: I am being sexually excited when facing coding problems. What do I do?
Hi guys,

I am suspecting myself of having some symptoms of ADHD on top of that I am having some issues when I encounter hard problems that require patience and focus. Like...whenever I encounter a problem that requires some time I feel...sexually stimulated.

Looking at the problem that's really hard sexually excites me and distracts me from the original goal (solving the problem).

I have found out that smartdrugs (piracetam) do help and allow me to focus but the effects are not long term so this is not a solution.

I really do not know what to do this really prevents me from advancing on projects and I often feel the need to relieve myself.

I have tried almost everything to stop it. I have tried to regularly exercise, eating soy (to lower the testosterone), smart drugs....But none of this helps!!!

Is there a way to stop this ?
Well, step 1 is don't die. Step 2 is don't suck.

So you have to account for survival first. If you need to get a job, then get a job. You don't need to find a fulfilling passion until step 1 is taken care of.

Also, I think it's important to differentiate between work and passion. Most people never discover an alignment between what they do to earn money and what's most important to them. Instead, most people become passionate about something like their family and work is just something they do to support their passion. It's normal to not find a startup you're passionate about.

A pattern I've seen described, that might work in your case, is to ask your clients if they have any unsolved problems they would happily pay you money to solve. Use their responses as the basis of your search. Keep paying the bills, and in your "spare time" investigate these problems. If one of them grabs you, ask for payment up front, if you get it, then you've found alignment between a passion and work.

An alternative approach is to look for people who are a little bit ahead of you and going in the direction you want to go. People who have found an alignment between their passion and work, and who are a little ways into the journey. Shop among them for one that you want to join. Work on their passion and find out how it's going for them.

Another alternative is to dramatically alter the survival equation so that you can devote yourself to exploring potential passions without worrying about survival. Live super cheap; maybe move to Vietnam or something.

For context, I found an alignment between my passion and work. At least, I hope I did. One person's asked to pay for it already, I just have to get that part built. I never followed a pattern of trying to find a passion I could turn into an income, I just always chased down and tackled interesting challenges. A while ago realized that the solution I'd come up with had way too much potential to remain a hobby. Now I'm in a place where I'd rather fail at this new thing than succeed at my day job.

If that's the kind of feeling you're looking for then try to tackle problems that are standing in the way of things you believe should happen. I was trying to apply the principles of open source software projects to hardware projects and just couldn't personally accept that they weren't working. It started to infuriate me. I could picture all the great things that would come from open source hardware, but none of us could come up with a way to make the process work, so none of those great things could happen. It felt personal. I don't think you're going to find that kind of personal, emotional, passionate connection to run of the mill business problems.
A jQuery-based generator to recreate a unique working environment
Fascinating, I wasn't even aware there were lots of toastmaster clubs in my city. Thanks for the heads up, I'll check them out!
Different cafe sounds and not only.
You can do that with a Raspberry Pi.
India vs. Zimbabwe 2st T20
For golang kubernetes is pretty good, i learnt a lot of tricks just reading code, but you quickly learn it was the wrong language on so many fronts.
For go kubernetes is pretty good, but you quickly learn it was the wrong language.
A personal project that's been frustrating you and could be solved better in the new language/framework. This gives (a) motivation to do something in the new language (b) gratification from the new language/framework's new features (c) low risk since it's not work.

Almost everything I have picked up by myself over past few years has been this way. Golang (frustration with concurrency in Python), JavaScript/React/Redux (frustration with "native" GUI frameworks), Android SDK (Speed, sensors pre-html5-webview), GraphViz (frustration with "project management") etc.
I simply use keepassx with the database being synced between all my devices (Linux, Windows, Android) via Syncthing. I also have a scrambled printout in my bank safe (30€/year) that I update every couple of months.
KeePassX and Syncthing over WiFi. No browser add-ons. I decided to give it a try after the LastPass acquisition to see how feasible it was, and haven't looked back really. It helps that I'm mostly on Android mobile devices. KeePass2Android is what I use on the phone.
Sequential Consistency
Pinterest gets visitor retargeting and other new ad targeting tools
Color subpixel font hinting is on its way out. Windows 8 and 10 stopped using it for UWP (including the start menu / start screen); DirectWrite doesn't use it (font rendering in Edge and Firefox); Office 2013 doesn't use it.

Certainly screen rotation (with windows tablets and phones) would involve a lot of inefficient re-rendering. But i think the official reason was that since the subpixel colouring effect depends on the background colour, it's hard to animate transitions efficiently.

On a high-DPI screen, you'd be hard-pressed to notice the difference compared to greyscale hinting. Colour subpixels were a great hack, but high-DPI is the proper solution to this issue.
You mean it was a mistake for kubernetes to be written in go? If so, I would love to hear a bit about it.
I don't think it is similar.

These languages have evolved during centuries and continue to evolve, whereas the metric system was built purposefully for simplicity.
The equivalent of the metric system would be something like Esperanto. English is as archaic and complicated as the customary system for measurement.
Bushmeat may be to blame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmeat#Role_in_spread_of_dis...
HN don't seem to care overmuch about Pinterest, but it's a crying shame - and scandal - that they would follow Facebook in undermining our privacy like this.

I've since deleted my cookies and given up using the platform, even though it was a great pastime. Guess self-hosting is the only way to do things these days.
Of course you do. That's why you don't reuse passwords.

Why would you trust your other accounts to their internal investigation + PR interpretation anyway?
> I married and Dutch marriage rites require you to state your profession and I stated that I was a programmer. But the municipal authorities of the town of Amsterdam did not accept it on the grounds that there was no such profession.

wow
Yes and no.

Teamviewer, for example, has a few use-scenarios, one of which is the unattended access, which is what appeared to be compromised. Essentially there was an always-on agent process running on the target machine that you could access with a Teamviewer account you set up; said account could manage any number of PCs that had always-on unattended access.

Teamviewer also has a "Quick Support" option, in which the application spawns a computer ID number and a theoretically one-time use password. The complexity of the password could be set within the application. Their QuickSupport tool, meant for a one-off support session, generates a unique session ID (in the past they had a static computer ID and a semi-unique password generated per client) which can be given to a support rep with the full version of Teamviewer to access.

I have not yet followed up on the Teamviewer issue so I cannot say exactly what was compromised there, though last I remember Teamviewer was insistent their service had not been compromised, but that the unauthorized access was the result of reused passwords.

GoToMyPC appears to be the former, an agent you install with the intent of unattended access on a whim. While server access is certainly one use scenario, access to non-server PCs for whatever reason is also a major part of these. Barring a breach of the software accounts or incompetently designed security for the remote access tools, it's probably okay for most people. Unfortunately, it seems like a breach is exactly what happened here with GoToMyPC, though as has been noted in the discussion already, the details are extremely sparse.
A unique password, 2FA, AND a unique email address.

I use https://lastpass.com/ for generating passwords. $12/year and works on Linux & Android. Would prefer open source, but nothing else comes close. I tend to generate 32 char passwords with a mix of upper, lower, number, and special. Only a few websites insist on shorter passwords - or have character restrictions.

For 2FA I use either SMS or Authy https://www.authy.com/ Take a look at https://www.turnon2fa.com/ to see which sites support 2FA.

It does make logging in to some frequently used sites a bit of a pain (looking at you PayPal!) but I think it is worth it.

On to unique email addresses. I do this for two reasons.

1. Allows me to easily see where an email has come from & filter if necessary. I can tell if your company has leaked / lost / sold my address.

2. If I have reused a password, a database leak doesn't compromise other sites. An attacker doesn't know the login details for LinkedIn based on my GoToMyPC email.

I tend to use something like lnkdn@ mydomain / gtmypc@ ... / twttr@ ... - but if your mail provider lets you use a catch-all, it can be anything you like.

One word of warning - it really confuses people when you give the email over the phone! I usually say "I'm creating a unique email address for you so that the message doesn't go into spam. Ok? sound of me hitting random keys It's yourcompany@ ...."
Stealing the password database is one vector. Modifying the login form to log the clear text of your password is another.
> Whatever the terms of theDAO, there WILL be judges to find that what just happened to it is theft.

I am not completely sure if it went to court and it was litigated fully it would be found that the theDAO smart contracts that were buggy could be rolled back to what was "intended" as there was language that specifically denied that form of reasoning. theDAO clearly fucked up but that doesn't invalidate a contract. The intent in the contract was actually clearly declared, the smart contract was binding in its form. The smart contract's intent was its code. It's code was buggy. Thus one will have to litigate in court whether intent can inferred from buggy code and whether a software bug can be rules as outside of intent. Rolling back transactions like that are really exceptional.

I think it is quite interesting. A lot of people in the stock market have lost money because of software bugs, although everyone didn't agree beforehand that that software was the intent. I think it could go either way with theDAO's software contract if it was litigated.

That said you could possibly sue the implementers of the smart contract for negligence to try to recover the loss, or those that advertized theDAO as a viable investment vehicle for false advertizing or misleading one about safety, both of those are much more straight forward legal avenues.
Thanks. That's pretty much the solution we ended up with, though the article author doesn't see the whole picture. Asking a central authority to issue single-use tokens for every call will result in a huge amount of unneeded network traffic.
I only use Apple on a daily basis, so I use the inbuilt iCloud Keychain which syncs my passwords across Apple devices. I use the built in password generator to generate secure passwords that are unique for each website. For the times I do log in to a PC, I can call up my passwords on my iPhone to type them in manually.
I think that's a different lotus; Nelumbo nucifera (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelumbo_nucifera) for India and Nelumbo lutea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelumbo_lutea) for America.
I moved a year ago so there isn't a bank I have an account at in my current state. But my bank is part of a national network of ATMs. If I use an out-of-network ATM the fee is refunded up to once a month.
I have a friend who likes to write fractal generators when he starts looking at a new language because it gives him a sense of what it can do and how it does it in terms of loops/recursion, data structures, math, and visualisation.
LimeSDR board is open source and the complete database is published on: https://github.com/myriadrf/LimeSDR-USB
Ask HN: What is best programmable drone with camera
I am looking for a drone (with camera module) with good support for coding so that you can write applications on top of it. I read previous similar questions asked but for application I am thinking of writing on top of it, it needs a camera module
> My belief is that, after working in a couple of dysfunctional companies, organization design with proper work and communication processes, and effective management,]

These are principles that people generally agree with. However, applying them with force from the top can do more harm than good. You can have a couple of possible outcomes:

* The process will be badly designed and ignored.
* The process will be badly designed and not ignored.

Designing good systems is very difficult and needs to be based on evidence.
Is Trustlessness Terminating Valid Agreement?
Arguably C++ in the 90s is a different beast than C++11 and later.
Any project that you want to do right now and that you think the language can handle properly. The most important part is motivation, and a project-at-the-gates is one of the best drivers. This not only works for languages, but also frameworks and tools.
But those ports are more or less supposed to be available to the general public. You keep those where they're expected to be. Any other port that "does not concern you, move along" is fair game IMHO.

Standards exist so you know where to find the things you're supposed to find, and how to talk to them.
Any time there is a bug in a smart contract, do we get roll back in Ethereum? There will be more smart contract bugs or operations against intent. I think this is going to become a joke.

Ethereum is not trustable if there is rollback when a contract didn't operate as intended. Can you imagine the stock market operating this way?

BTW has bitcoin ever had a rollback in its existence?
Also it makes my Tab unusable using Safari on an iPhone.
English pronunciation <-> writing is so far from a mapping, it causes a lot of resource waste.

For foreigners like me that mostly use it in text, the biggest overhead is in speaking, for example I always mess up the words study and student, it's infuriating.

Even if there are dialects that pronounce the same word differently, you could still find a lot of common ground.
How does the Yubikey work? Do you have to plug it in every time you want to sign into a site?
What is Dash/Digital Cash?
Those compilers and OSes written in C++ were started when C++98 was the latest version available across all major compilers.
What is your point? Consider two color models. One can be "more expressive", that is, have a large gamut, than the second, but be unable to reproduce all of the colors in the second.

Or, certainly Lisp is "more expressive" than APL, and both are Turning computable and thus equivalent, but some trivial constructs in APL require much more Lisp to express.

How do you express Japanese honorific speech in English?
Offline is the New Luxury
Don't know about "financial goals", but goals: If your utility gain from the 20% interest is lower than the utility gain from	the instant availability of that money.

I can think of various situations where, if there were no better products available, this might end up making sense.
I would extend "standard unix tools" to (old) "standard unix services". I learned a lot from the final project in "Haskell Programming from First Principles", which was to implement a server for the finger protocol.
Description:

Offline is The New Luxury
Digital networks are forever expanding. Places without cell phone reception or a Wi-Fi connection are increasingly hard to find. If tech companies have their way, the remaining 'white spots' on the digital map will soon disappear, leaving no place on earth unconnected. But what is happening off the grid?
White Spots is a collaborative multimedia project by documentary filmmaker Bregtje van der Haak, visual artist Jacqueline Hassink, and information designer Richard Vijgen. Working in various media, they travel beyond the frontiers of the networked world to explore unwired landscapes, communities and lifestyles, questioning the need to be constantly plugged into a single, seamless planetary tech-topia. Will offline become the new luxury?

This television documentary takes viewers on a tour of the offline world and includes interviews with internet critic Evgeny Morozov, psychologist Sherry Turkle (MIT), Amish minister Norman Yoder (Shipshewana, Indiana), poet and writer Aram Pachyan (Armenia), and Minister of Telecommunications Harin Fernando of Sri Lanka. The documentary is directed by Bregtje van der Haak and produced by VPRO Backlight. It comes with the free White Spots App (for android and iPhone, design Richard Vijgen).

Coincidentally, I fell while running today and smashed my iPhone. I'm strongly considering not replacing it.
I'm not very familiar with the situation, but could these fast rising prices have anything to do with the recent bump in minimum wage in Seattle to $15? It doesn't mention it in the article.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/02/19/seattles-...
Star Trek – Horizon
I wish the article had spent more time discussing the root causes of the centralized Internet and ways to address them. This is the most interesting problem in tech right now in my opinion and many people are working on it from different angles but I've yet to see anything which really struck me as a killer app for the "re-decentralized" web.

We have to look at why these centralized services have succeeded: for instance the network effects, the economies of scale, their business models are attractive to ambitious VC investments, they have better UX because they have more resources, and so on. Then you can either try to build something which matches these advantages, or you can try to do an end-run where you offer the market something more important.

Privacy and security are things the market is starting to value but I don't think these alone can woo everyone away from the network effects, better UX etc. of the centralized giants.

Anything which brings people out of an ad-heavy experience has a lot of appeal right now. I think we'll see more freemium and paid services in the future which is good because the economies of scale in the ad business are brutal to small businesses.

Anything we do to create more robust p2p and client-side encryption platforms is important. When building an app today it's just much easier to run it on a server and keep all the data on a server. p2p storage, identity and so on needs to become just as easy.

And finally we have to ask how this re-decentralized stuff is going to attract investment and build big businesses, because if the big money is always on the other side it's going to be very hard to win.

To be honest I think the technical challenges are fascinating but it really needs to start out with the business model and investment challenges, if you can figure out how a lot of money can be made off of a decentralized search engine or social network, now you have some real allies and resources and marketing behind you. This requires us to think about why open source business models are typically not as lucrative as proprietary walled gardens, and why they have a hard time getting traction in b2c.
No, only once to decrypt the lastpass database. You can even set to only ask every 30 days, however I feel that this defeats the security features a little
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