skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> chokes Firefox and Chrome are getting a hell of a pass if you're going to say web browsing is "confined to an application."

Well browsing in Firefox is confined to Firefox, not sure what you want to say. The fact that Firefox isn't perfect in every way shouldn't mean that Windows should go 100 mph evil with its telemetry.

> is of the most benign type that Apple, Google

If it's not straight keylogger still doesn't mean it's anywhere near acceptable. And it's fallacious to think whatever Apple and Google does on their platforms should have any bearing when judging what Microsoft does on its. There's been pattern of derailment whenever Windows is mention and it should stop.

> and nearly all 3rd party apps have actually been collecting (enabled via TOS agreements and practicality)

Lack of _informed_ consent and the fact that telemetry as part of OS is ever present (and not segregated to third party software) is what makes the difference. Flaws in third party applications are still reproachable, but they aren't the subject of discussion here and hopefully they are replaceable and not installed and turned on by default.
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Would you say that a back-end interview is comparable to a standard software engineer/developer interview?
Thunderf00t isn't just some average Joe on the street. The guy has a PhD in chemistry and has dedicated a decade to educate the world at large about matters of science and intellectualism. The world would be a better place if we had more Thunderf00ts on YouTube.

His videos on the hyperloop are pretty comprehensive and succinct about their reasoning. Why not watch them instead of mindlessly repeating the same strawman argument that every other Elon Musk fanboy/fangirl left on his videos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDwe2M-LDZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFesa01llk
Because the mortgages are backed by the US government.
> Just like the web is nicer without flash, ebooks are just nicer without publishing formats like PDFs.

Web is nice because of flash. The video tag in HTML5 happened only after successes of services like Youtube and Vimeo and hundreds of others after they set off on their paths with Macromedia flash. Stop fooling yourself with that kool-aid against flash in recent years.

It's dated for sure, but credit be given where credit is due.
It blew my mind when I first encountered it.

The basic idea - flip bits a lot until things crash - wasn't totally shocking. But learning that Project Zero had put up working privilege escalation attacks off something so bizarre? That's just too far.

At least Van Eck phreaking is still hard to use in practice...
Wow. That seems like a lot of work to get a software job. This guy seems pretty knowledgeable too. Has it always been this hard to get a job as a programmer, or is this just a symptom of the times?
I see! Thanks.
Ability to execute is worth more.

Ability to build good product is worth more than ability to build good back end.
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Interesting, I wonder what are the performance / overhead on "long statements", I see there is support for async.
Is it vim's own async system or NeoVIM's async system is supported as well?
What's in a name?

We aren't so far away from the days when your actual name was simply whatever you called yourself.
What's the likelihood your rent in, say, five years will still be less than your mortgage would be now? Your mortgage payments won't appreciably increase. In high demand areas, though, rents will.
I would be more than interested to see a demo code using pseudo-language to explain exactly the concept you have in mind.

That would be more than interesting for lots of us and you never know; we might get something out of it and why not implement it as a FOSS project?
> We need full time displacement, but voting over multiple days allows partial results to influence future votes.

Voting over multiple days doesn't mean that partial results are available. (Given that, even in places that don't have all-mail elections, mail/absentee ballots are a significant fraction of ballots, we have voting over multiple days now -- even in the places that don't have "early voting" at actual polling locations. We don't have results before voting closes, though, and this prevents partial results from having an impact [outside of Presidential primaries, which are series of separate-but-related elections, where we have a very big effect of results early in the process].)
Consider the way things were before Thiel showed up. Gawker destroyed lives[1] with impunity because their victims didn't have deep enough pockets to fight back in court. Thiel is just leveling the playing field.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3488027/Gawker-edito...
People walking away from houses wasn't the problem. People walking away from houses they were underwater on was the problem. Besides, if you were underwater and could still afford the payments there is no reason to walk away. I am currently underwater on my car, but I can still, you know, drive it.
Yet I'll still be stuck behind Seattle drivers fiddling with their phones, flipping me off because I dared honk after we already sat through one light cycle.

Snark aside, I assume this is a preview of bigger things. As it is described, I'm not entirely clear on what problem is being solved (unless is has <voice=ominous>"Put the fucking phone down, it's green and other people need to get to work."</voice>). I like the "light's turning red, let off the gas", but I didn't get the impression that's being implemented soon.
> Did anyone find this conference useful?

I attended the first one, I believe in 2013 or so? I don't regret that I attended, but it wasn't life changing either.

The talks ranged from a little bland and cliché to insightful - but none of them gave me a "man, so glad I'm here - wouldn't have thought of this otherwise" feeling.

The network is whatever you generally feel towards networking. I tend to dislike it, so it wasn't for me, but if you really want to meet tons of people who are into startups and YC, then it's a good place to be.

> What's the selection process? How's my answer on the application going to be used?

The selection process is YC people doing whatever they want to select who'll attend. Who knows what the actual criteria are besides what they publicly say on the website. It could be that names will be picked out of a sorting hat, or that only participants who have an even number of characters in their essay get picked, or who knows what else. I would answer it truthfully without stressing too much about it.

> Is it worth the money to travel?

Probably not, unless you have other things to do in the Bay Area the surrounding days. Otherwise, if you're a startup founder, that money and time are probably better spent either a) implementing your product or b) talking to your users.

> I am always interested in creating a startup myself but at this stage I haven't decided on exactly which idea to pursue.

Seems like you might be putting the carriage before the horses here.
Yeah we should totally get a holiday for an act that takes all of 10-15 minutes and doesn't require drinking alcohol. /s

Don't you guys have work from home policies? This is a solution looking for a problem.
Depends really. I setup and use my bot in a more human like fashion to make it harder to catch. If you use the default setup you will most likely get caught due to how the bot moves. Usually the bot defaults to walking in large circles.

By using a more human like path it's much harder to catch.
Totally agree. Unfortunately, it's a market with low liquidity and opaque fundamentals, so black magic reigns supreme.

The greatest difficulty is trying to predict how the product will evolve, and thus how the software must also evolve. We should always be thinking about how the relevancy and requirements of each component of source code may change in the future: next month, in 6 months, 2 year from now, etc.

To better evaluate the risk of each call option, there needs to be a strong, coherent, and tangible vision of what the product should be. This vision should be internalized by the entire team. There also needs to be a healthy, forward thinking dialogue between designers, product owners, and engineers.
When your solution to an incredibly minor and easily-solvable problem is to ask people to bug Apple engineers about adding new features to a decade-old encoder, maybe you're on the wrong track.

I'm frustrated by Marco's extreme fussiness, not his curiosity. (And there's no doubt his curiosity often leads to interesting places. I learned some great tidbits about MP3 encoding in the last few episodes!)
They made a new address for the bidding since the last ones where getting spammed with troll bids
Here's the new BTC address:
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Old growth wood is just plain stronger than the type of wood you'd find in modern buildings. How much stronger? About 2-3x depending on the wood. Also, heartwood (from the center of the tree) is stronger than wood from the outer portions.

You cannot find (significant) lumber from 300+ year old trees anymore. That's what the original poster was referring to. I don't think aesthetics has anything to do with it.
Where?

Your (I assume you are the author) instructions say, for the dev server case:

> Ensure you've set quiet: true in your WebpackDevServer constructor:

I don't have a constructor. I just have a "devServer" section in webpack.config.js that contains a contentBase entry.

Note that I am fairly new to webpack and am finding the (non-)documentation for WebpackDevServer unhelpful.
Security checks will be the same, speed is lower, price is higher. No added value except novelty factor.

I would rather hoped for suborbital passenger transportation. 10x improvement: delivered (and engineering-wise, about as hard as Hyperloop). People are meant to fly, not stay tethered to the Earth forever.
Trump a Democrat plant?
Many indices have well publicized "index methodology" which describes how companies are added and deleted. For the most part, the rules are quite linear and deterministic... But sometimes a human index committee has to meet to make decisions.
https://us.spindices.com/documents/methodologies/methodology...
How has the ARM vs fixed mix changed?

We started with a 30 year fixed, but refi'd to an ARM after we got over the conventional wisdom and noticed how much lower the rates were. We paid it off before the rate reset and ended up saving thousands.
The technical hurdles are enormous but they are nothing compared to the economic hurdles.

Just look at the planned LA-SF high speed rails. It suffered delays and cost overruns over and over again. The latest figure of $68B most likely will not be enough[1].

And that is a garden-variety high speed rail that has been proven all over the world for decades. Hyperloop is completely unproven and requires construction of end-to-end airtight tubes.

If a few hundred miles of vanilla high speed rail costs $70B and counting, how much would hyperloop cost? $500B? $1T? It'll never work economically.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-train-c...
Projects don't fail because of technical debt, but organizations do.
Gawker pissed off Thiel by doing their standard trashy tabloid garbage and invading his personal life.

He took the opportunity to get even when they went too far with someone else. Good for him. He's not taking part to cover up anything, or for revenge because they exposed some wrongdoing on his part. He's doing it because Gawker is a trashy worthless site.
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I also like to make references to how if you're an electrician and the customer asks you to run a wire through a puddle or through the plumbing, you can tell them to politely go fuck themselves because it's not up to code.

In software we have no safety regulations and so it's up to you to win that standoff on your own, and most of us don't have the stomach for that confrontation, so we cave and agree to really stupid stuff all the time. And we know that even if we say no, they'll find some other developer who will say yes.
I'm not sure how a gigantic many mile long pressure vessel is supposed to be cheaper than maglev rail...

In my opinion the Hyperloop is an insane idea and these companies are suspect. It seems more likely that they're the 2010s version of the Moller Aircar, something to keep "almost there" for decades while you milk investor money.
>There may be a little bias too since YC obviously has an interest in the most stable of all configurations for their startups, which is the 50/50 split (although it may not be the most fair one).

It seems this is what founders want too. If the goal is a big business and instability makes that less likely, I would optimize the equity split for effectiveness over fairness.
You're right, but... what's the alternative? Fear of "mob rule" is what kept the nobility afraid of a transition to representative government.

I want the populace's will represented (constrained by constitutional protections of various rights), but I'll admit sometimes you just wish you had another populace. That's just the cards you're dealt. Other forms of government aren't responsive to the people.

This comic was an amusing commentary on this topic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sword-of-democracy
It's an interesting experiment and an inspiring one.

However, I don't think this solution will help too much with regexes. To me it's overly complex and less readable than regex strings.
It can be, for example with tumblers, CoinJoin implementations, or conversion to cash at a willing financial institution. However, none of those avenues are reliable for someone facing a sophisticated global adversary.
I think the consensus is closer to: use Postgres unless you have a very good reason to use something else. SQLite good for dev and toys.
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Good point, and I agree that the code in my example wasn't perfectly clear, though I think some formatting could help it go a long way.

I don't think the prefix notation is much more readable than what I suggested, if it is more readable at all... But without any hands on experience with the library, I am in no position to make that argument.

In the spirit of excessive, needless suggestions: Maybe they can make it like the testing libraries, where you can import different packages for different syntaxes... (not serious)
There are many degrees of VBR MP3 seeking support, and it's often surprisingly bad. In the case of Firefox's <audio> element, it was very poor (nearly unusable in my testing) until a few months ago:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=994561

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1163667

I had a fun time testing different js audio players, and going though their many confused bug reports, issues and threads all stemming from this. Even if Apple fixes their stuff, I still wouldn't use VBR MP3 for anything that's going to get streamed. There's always going to be some platforms that screw it up, and even a future browser introducing poor seeking seems very possible.
> long as the free speech that he protects isn't critical of himself

> He vehemently defended his friend's right to yell "Faggot! Faggot! Hope you die of AIDS!"

He's gay.

This all started because Gawker outed him years ago.
The "built-in disk encryption used in Ubuntu/Mint" is simpler for three reasons:

1. All the crypto stuff is done by the kernel and hence they are not responsible for it.

2. Most of work that goes into setting up the kernel to manage an encrypted drive is done by a tool called cryptsetup and they are not responsible for it.

3. The part where they are responsible for lives entirely in the root's space and hence they are not susceptible to security issues that arises when trying to cross a privileged user/unprivileged user boundary.

The reason why TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt in windows specifically have so much problems is because they are doing everything themselves.

They have less problems in linux because they delegate user data encryption/decryption to the kernel and they cross normal user privileges to root's privileges using sudo.
Sure, some people will pirate PC games with or without Steam, but a lot of people switched to paying when it became more convenient. Convenience and availability matters. It wouldn't be that far-fetched to propose that this is also true in voting.
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Ubuntu automatically encrypts private keys while not in use, and I store the encryption password in KeePass.
The problem with AAC is in the container format, as Marco explains in his podcast: While some important metadata like chapter marks which a podcast player might want to display are within the first KB in an MP3 file, this same information is interleaved somewhere in the stream in AAC.

Which means that you can't have all features when streaming an AAC file, in a time when streaming podcasts is getting more popular every day. You first have to download the whole file before you can display e.g. chapter information.

Of course you could just embed that information in the RSS feed, but you could do the same with jump tables for VBR MP3s. So AAC does not solve all your problems, you just get a different set of problems.
Here's the issue: you're paying for CC transactions anyway (cost gets passed on to consumer), so you might as well try to get some of it back (with reward points, etc.).

I've never understood the credit vs. debit aspect. I know my budget and can easily just not spend more than I can afford. Paying the balance is automatic, so the only difference between using one card or another is that one gives me an e.g. Amazon gift card every couple months.
Thanks for the report! We've fixed the bug now.

That definitely earns a sticker, check out https://sourcegraph.com/about if you want to redeem it :)
It's also almost an octave of color---I cut my brain some slack
> It's just a different kind of self-control to avoid temptations in the first place.

This is exactly it. We all use both kinds of self-restraint, but it's still worth arranging external forces to support the kind of self-control you find easier.

I've used credit cards, and taken on debt, but always with a clear plan in mind (metaphorically, I drove to the donut shop intending to eat one?) It's been for large purchases (primary car) and some time-convenience things that came without interest (washing machine).

If I were seriously worried about spending into debt without a plan, I probably wouldn't keep credit cards, or would keep 1-2 low limit cards. As it happens, I don't struggle much with that issue, but we all use mitigation in places where we do struggle, and I see nothing with it.
I don't... Apple is really stubborn about selling their own hardware with every copy of their OS... no thanks, my hardware is fine. And as a matter of fact, my Linux is great too.
If renting is cheaper than buying right now, a better question is whether rent will increase faster over the next five years than an index fund portfolio funded with the difference.
One of Maglev's biggest problems is that it requires a great deal of power to keep at high speed because of atmospheric drag; Hyperloop's evacuated tube mitigates this issue. Hyperloop is also faster than most Maglev concepts, and having the tube helps to guide the vehicle (without requiring complicated curve construction).
A couple of years ago I found Perl was fastest at processing Wikipedia dumps.

It also didn't require having a JVM preloaded to make startup times acceptable during development (naming no other tools).

I do use shell tools to process data, a lot. They're particularly good for exploratory programming and initial analysis of new datasets.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10665113
Cheaper today? Absolutely! But if a Hyperloop were created the costs would continue to go down and speed would be faster than the typical 747. Seems like a worthwhile persuit though this first batch of companies mostly seem like a facade with most of them either not being possible or they're simply maglev.
Unfortunately, yes. The fad seems to have crested, but for a goodly while both Pair Programming and TDD were basically touted as cure-alls, by certain people.
You could use something like Django as an API for React to hit. It has user auth, and if you use django-rest-framework it works flawlessly with React/webpack
From the article:

"Until 2014, his name had been Kevin Brogan, but he legally changed it to merge names with his wife, Bambi."
Not only that, but that exact example is already blocked by default in Easylist by this rule:

Static filter /ads/ad. found in: EasyList
I like Haskell's laziness by default myself. But it turns out that it is hard to reason about for those new to the language, and hard to efficiently cross-compile to a non-lazy language.

Perhaps I should rectify that I do not think laziness is a flaw, yet probably a large hurdle to adoption.
I'm not on pgsql-general. Or any of the postgres lists besides announce.

So, I'm not sure who's fault it is, but I'm listening in one place (your website mainly), and you're talking in another place (pgsql-general apparently), and so we're not communicating effectively.

Actually, at least as recently as June, when I emailed you guys directly you didn't say that. Instead I got linked to a blog post from Dec 2015 that didn't answer my question, and then a "Not yet" when I replied to ask my question again.
That's correct. A passive index manager is passive - they don't have to worry about some balancing act. It differs from active management because the manager isn't making decisions about which stocks are in the fund. Where the passive fund manager has to do work is on index rebalances and on any constituent corporate action.
Only if it gets big enough that reading through all of them is too much work. They could curate it instead.
I now whitelist javascript and use an adblocker after being hit by a drive-by javascript exploit that installed a bitcoin miner.

After taking these precautions, I haven't had an issue with malware since.
This isn't for setting up webpack (which you usually do once), but rather running it continuously in development mode. At Formidable it's normal for us each to have several long-running webpack-dev-server instances going at once, so we can just edit files and see the changes immediately.
Neural network based forgery is around the corner!

I believe handwritten signatures or text will soon become inadmissible as an authentication method!
settle down, Cassadra. Air transportation is only around 2.5% of the CO2 emissions

multiple sources, all from 2-5%, this seemed to be a mainstream representative:
http://energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/articles/national-academies...
Count me in as well. I'm freshly unemployed and looking for fun projects, preferably with a side of fighting for great good!

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Unfortunately that's the situation most devs find themselves in.