skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This hosting/mirroring issue was solved decades ago by having the trusted source provide a hash of the document in question, and then allowing anyone to mirror it.

And solved even better by digital signatures.
Previously and somewhat relevant: Why Team Happiness Can Be the Wrong Thing to Aim for (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11902973)
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Sir, while the gentlemen and ladies of this fine organization are infinitely pleased with your research into the black magic of the nether regions and the treatise you have presented from aforesaid research, we would ask you please be even more strident in your warnings about practicing this subject. It seems a number of neophytes have disappeared under odd circumstances in the weeks since you presented your work, and the interruption to the experiments they were assisting with has become quite burdensome. Additionally, we expect training and recruitment costs to be quite a bit higher than normal next year, and as you well know our coffers are not unlimited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lee_lane_closure_scandal

"The prevailing theory was that the lane closures were retribution against Fort Lee's Mayor Mark Sokolich (D) for failing to endorse Christie in the 2013 gubernatorial election. That motive was alleged by federal prosecutors in May 2015, in charges against Bridget Anne Kelly, former Deputy Chief of Staff for Christie, and Bill Baroni and David Wildstein, both of whom had been Christie-appointed officials at the Port Authority. Wildstein pleaded guilty. The indictment charged that the three conspired to commit fraud by illegally exploiting Port Authority resources for political ends."

I don't have the resources to contend with the Port Authority.
Can be used that way. But should it be? I for one am all for coming up with a gender neutral singular third person pronoun. But I would love it if it wasn't one that already means something completely different.
Yes and no. Most people, if they're pretty satisfied at their current job, won't seek out other opportunities, even if ones exist out there which would plausibly be incrementally better than their current job. And they'll tend to be more pessimistic about the qualities of other jobs.

Sometimes, an undeniably amazing opportunity falls into the lap of someone who is overall quite happy at their present job, and they quit that job. But that's a fairly rare case.
Wherever company she lands at, run. Not only does she have this attitude at rest, she's going to have a chip on her shoulder to prove she's not a failure at whatever venture she winds up at next.
Not the sax solo. It's listed somewhere but it's not right. Some people hinted at some JB's live but I couldn't recognize after many hearings. Someone told me it might be a cat from their neighborhood or some already famous player that got called for a one shot take.
How much of a writer do you want?

Just something that writes DIE's?

Or do you need line info, accelerator tables, etc?
I'm using Firefox on Windows and it's awfully flickery but it does work.
I upvoted it. One of its points is that the coverage itself is mediocre because it assumes disinterest in the actual thing being covered from its audience. It would be better if it assumed more from its audience. I think that is interesting, and applicable elsewhere.
I've used Scaleform a good amount. It's not 100% compatible with stock Flash but it's pretty darn close in the use cases I've been exposed to.

Scaleform has a complex code base but clearly it is possible to reverse engineer the Flash runtime and make a compatible player.
> Isn't it possible to get a good job at a good company based on your skills & knowledge rather than interview-ability?

I did, at Amazon.
The article is misleading. The ABA has no power to "DRM the law." It's a purely private organization like the IEEE or the ACM. What the ABA did is pass a resolution urging Congress to require that private publications incorporated by reference into federal regulations be made publicly-available: https://www.americanbar.org/news/reporter_resources/annual-m...

I.e., if a regulation incorporates the POSIX standard--which you ordinarily have to pay for--by reference, the ABA resolution calls for a copy of the standard to be made publicly available. That is often not the case today.

What the ABA stopped short of doing is calling for a freely-copyable version of those private codes. I can't access the final resolution for some reason, but the draft says "the required public access must include at least online, read-only access to the incorporated portion of the standard . . . but it need not include access to the incorporated material in hard-copy printed form."

I strongly support the idea that anything incorporated by reference into the law should be public domain. But the article is a very misleading take on what the ABA did and even what the ABA has the power to do.
There are certain differences between Librevault and Syncthing now:

* Librevault is simpler for the end user. From my perspective, Syncthing doesn't aim to be user-friendly. More like geek-only solution.

* Librevault supports adding a folder by key, like BTSync. And also, it supports a URL scheme for adding a new folder just by clicking it in the browser: https://librevault.com/blog/lvlt-scheme/

* inotify, fsevents, kqueue and ReadDirectoryChangesW support out of the box. Syncthing requires you to install a separate third-party plugin for this.

* DHT support, so it doesn't need any trackers for peer discovery. DHT is Mainline DHT, so it can connect to BitTorrent clients and ask them for peers. It means, that Librevault can participate in the world's largest distributed peer discovery network and will not suffer the lack of DHT nodes.

Also, it has a proper (!) desktop UI inspired by BitTorrent Sync 1.3.
I think this is the real complaint. Women's gymnastics hasn't been any less well covered than things like weightlifting, it's just been crappy coverage from top to bottom.

Presumably The New Yorker recognized that "women's gymnastics is getting shortchanged" is a better human-interest story than "the US Olympic coverage is terrible", but the second option has more substance.
I can vouch that working at soundcloud has been an excellent experience! It's truly an opportunity to work with such thoughtful, talented, and driven colleagues. Never a dull moment. We are also hiring iOS developers - ping me for details so I can refer you for iOS. https://twitter.com/meghafon or https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghaphone
I strongly disagree that it's a non-problem, addresses are very unusable in many areas of the world.
Almost all of her posts are about demystifying the "magical" parts of a modern system usong code and hacking on things.

There are lots of books we could all read instead, but she uses a great mix of explanations and code and has an approachable reading style.

She also uses tools that we might want to use, so it's less abstract.
memory card = 4x5 sheet of film. Good luck inspecting that.
Well, that does sound like what I felt when I was twelve years old and sent out to mow the lawn. Decades later, after encountering much more thoroughly soul-bruising experiences, I don't agree. I do feel for the guy who lives on a street where everyone want to have lawns that look like the greens at Augusta. But 45 minutes with a mower every week (fall and spring) or two doesn't crush my soul that badly these days.
Could the problem be that airlines treat their IT staff like trash? I get why people like Google. They get treated well and have good benefits. I don't see an airline treating much of their workforce as good as Google treats theirs.
Serious question: how would a psychiatrist distinguish "workplace depression" from your garden-variety depression that strikes people outside the workplace?
How Churn Rate Affects Maximum User Base for Mobile Apps
Supposedly it varies heavily from organization to organization. I work with people from multiple orgs. All of them seem pretty happy. Also, this is probably a violation of some policy which would be a tragic uncuffing of my badass golden handcuffs. Kind of sad that people probably get paid to monitor social media for company image. Probably a good start-up idea there if you squint hard enough and are willing to tolerate a large sales staff with long engagements and a lumpy revenue stream.
That's a great idea, maybe something like "church street" and a number that denotes a length on that street?
Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010)
You read my mind. Figuring out how to put ads in front of people is the opposite of "solving real problems."
Also remember that the USSR (and friends) didn't attend the 1984 Olympics.
When I lived in NYC, this sort of thing would happen every now and then. And never a real cop--always some pseudo-authority figure who thinks he's a cop and knows the law better than you. Got into quite an argument with a ConEd guy once. _Usually_ the easiest way to deal with it is the way this guy did--wait for the a-hole to go away, then come back for your photo. It happens less now that I don't live in New York any more, even when I am out with a big, conspicuous camera like an RB67 or one of my 4x5's. (Actually, then people are more curious than aggressive!)
Wikipedia also has a picture.

The Holland Tunnel is a civil engineering marvel, the first tunnel of its size to be built successfully. The ventilation towers are what allow cars to drive through such a long tunnel without asphyxiating the drivers. We should celebrate what we've achieved as a society, not try to hide them for vague security reasons.
Just realized that that's why I couldn't get any of the videos to load. Thanks!
FWIW, the ACLU has some information about the legality of taking photographs in public spaces of objects that are in plain view [1]. See also, this guidance [2] issued by a law firm about taking photographs. Note that I am not a lawyer, or even a photographer, so I submit these as available information to consider, but I cannot offer any experience or guidance in using the information.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/photographers-what-do-...
[2] http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
To clarify ... I am seeking advice on whether choosing a single non-JS language for "all" form factors is reasonable given existing languages, libraries, etc.
The BBC feed is great. When the Olympics are current I rent a linode in the UK so I can stream it. There's probably another way, but it only costs a few bucks.
The post you replied to was being sarcastic.

"Questioning by police" is an enormous understatement. If Assange leaves the embassy, he will be arrested, extradited to the US, and likely convicted of treason. His fate would at best look something like Chelsea Manning's, and at worst, execution.
Well, there are some provisions in California and other states meant to prevent photos only possible telephoto lens being taken of private property, because of photos of celebrities. Not sure what the legal consensus is on these, but I suspect there will be more consideration of such laws as drones become more normal and provide viewing angles that let you see over privacy fences.

But a building without a private residence is fair game.
My first thought seeing this article was "Since when? NBC streamed gymnastic coverage in place of showing weightlifting".

The BBC feed for weightlifting has been excellent (and it's a sport that needs it, with more 'meta' strategy than many things), while NBC's coverage has been US-obsessed and tepid-to-awful for pretty much every competition.
If airlines guaranteed a Google-like working environment/salary/tech and no Office Space-like management like I assume they have, I'd definitely be interested. I think most of us have prejudices against other industries and companies that aren't tech centric.

That said, I agree with you. Plenty of other industries that affect people's lives every day need our talent.
...how is that possible?
They did not vote to maintain the status quo. They voted to demand that Congress require the codes to be public in at least read-only form.
If you subscribe to the theory that the media is in a deliberate conspiracy against the public, that might hold.

If you believe (as I do) that the media is mostly in the business of giving people what they want (not what they say they want, but what they actually choose to reward with ad impressions) then they are exactly the same.
I agree with what you would like for the new MBP. One note, the 2015 MBP does smoothly drive dual 4Ks plus the internal. That's the set up I have at work right now. I just have the base model, and I'm not sure about the 2014 ones.
That question is hotly debated. Liberals tend to say yes, and conservatives tend to say no.
And yet the karma mechanism on HN and other social networking websites biases users into toeing the line of what is the 'general view'. The view of course changes considerably over time which shows it is mostly about mood or values.

There has got to be a better regulation mechanism than '+1' and the received wisdom.
> CALIFIORNIA

grin
Not necessarily true. Please check: http://arcade.cs.columbia.edu/energy-oopsla14.pdf
Also, our current hardware has no good mechanism for low overhead/latency communication between threads running on different cores. Instead, HFT programmers have to hack something together like Disruptor and insert unused arrays of longint to prevent false sharing.
I think if you have the time you should read SICP. It is not just about APIs, but my understanding of good APIs too increased a lot after reading this.
...this is probably a hint:

00000000 ff d8 ff e0 00 10 4a 46 49 46 00 01 01 01 01 2c |......JFIF.....,|

00000010 01 2c 00 00 ff fe 03 72 3c 68 74 6d 6c 3e 3c 62 |.,.....r<html><b|

$ file index.html
index.html: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, resolution (DPI), density 300x300, segment length 16, comment: "<html><body><style>body { visibility: hidden; } .n { visibilit", baseline, precision 8, 1000x667, frames 3

I wonder what are the security implications of that.
Ah! Makes sense, forgot about that.
Apparently this command fixes the problem:

echo 'net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 999999999' >>/etc/sysctl.conf;sysctl -p

I got this from http://www.isssource.com/fixing-an-internet-security-threat/ but they had a typo
1) Work. If you have coworkers around your age, or not, and they invite you to things and you like them well enough, go. You may not become good friends with them, but that'll introduce you to people (and it's built-in, you're already meeting your coworkers).

2) Sports. Rec league. Just sign-up and play. You get to meet random people if you never pick your team and just get assigned. After a season or two you'll know who you want to play with. Organized play can be better than pick-up games (depending on where you are) because you'll see the same people regularly and have a chance to actually get to know them. Invite them, or accept their invitations, for food or drinks after the game.

3) Church. Unless you're vehemently atheist or have some other fundamental issue with the churches available in your area. Stick around after service, enjoy coffee and donuts, they usually have social and outreach organizations. You don't have to be religious, though you may get pestered about why you don't go to the Bible study, easy to deflect (IME).

4) Bars. Someone else said this. One thing to avoid, if you're feeling particularly lonely/depressed, don't do this. But otherwise, if you can find a nice small bar (not a sports bar, they tend to be too noisy), and sit at the bar. Get to know the bartender, talk to them, there will be other regulars. It's kind of fun too, you may not make as many friends, but I met a guy that was visiting here studying Native American tribes (archeology) from Oxford. Cool random conversations you can have sometimes.

5) Invite people to things. One thing to realize about life, at some point you have to take charge or things won't happen. If you find yourself not being invited to movies, sports, trivia, parties, potlucks, whatever, do the inviting. Get a small group, encourage them to invite their friends. Keep doing this. You can control who you invite so after a while you can focus on the ones that you're actually becoming friends with.
No, there was also Shannon Miller and the other Americans in '96, the first time that the US team won a gold medal in competition with the Russian team.

Gymnastics has been hugely popular in the USA during my entire life (more than 40 years, I'm afraid).
The interesting thing is how well accepted this is. Go on Reddit's /r/cscareerquestions (a popular forum for programming job help) and you'd get downvoted by people who prefer to have to "study" for the test.
Any position can be determined from x,y,z, you could just tack on the z coordinate - though you'd need to match that locally, accounting for sea level. If you are using latitude and longitude you should stick with the paradigm for height, since floors can be different heights.
7 Ways That Startup Competitors Can Win by Partnering
Reminds me of a bit in one of Neal Stephenson's books where a MMORPG company hired a team of geologists to generate a geologically plausible map for their game. The hardest part of their job was finding ways to integrate the parts of the world that had been made up without any regard geology and made no sense in their model.
The problem is that most of us live in a society where we have to lie - or at least, ignore some obvious and unspeakable truths - in order to keep our jobs and income.
By stopping watching aren't you tacitly agreeing with your relative? Why not just tell them that it isn't and continue watching?
I don't know Amazon's policy, but many companies have you sign something when you start saying that they own anything and everything you work on, even if it's in your free time. Most of these companies also will provide you forms you can fill out explaining the projects you work on (or own) that will give you control/ownership of it rather than the company. I've filled out the same paperwork for all 4 companies I've worked at during my career.

If you have something new you want to work on, you normally need to contact your company's legal or HR team and get signoff that you are allowed to work on it (and that you can maintain ownership of it).
Secure boot does not protect against evil maid attacks. (I'm not sure anything really does.) With physical presence, you can still grab the data and run it in a VM managed by your malicious code.

Secure boot protects against BIOS level root kits and similar low-leve but remote exploitation.

No argument it's a bad idea to use MS's key, instead of the computer's owner. The only explanation for why MS made it this way was for DRM - once again weakening end user security to enforce MS's secure against us.
Interesting. Slightly left-field here, but people with autistic spectrum disorders are often considered to be prone to depression, often because of social anxiety, but this would suggest the opposite is also true, as ASD sufferers generally tend to care less what other people think of them.

From personal experience, as someone whose family and friends reckon is firmly "on the spectrum", I tend to be naturally open and honest in a work environment, showing my emotions, being honest about problems and not (consciously at any rate) trying to please anyone, and I think I'm pretty happy most of the time. And on those few times that I have made social mistakes, for instance saying something out of place in a new job, I become very tense and totally incapable of focusing, which makes me glad that I don't care most of the time.
I see the point especially with foreign addresses. It can be bit of a challenge to communicate addresses like "Nándorfejérvári út 4" or "Kısıklı Büyük Çamlıca Cd. No:9" over the phone. Coordinates are of course alternative, but for most of us, few words and number are easier to keep in mind for few minutes.

The given notation is hard to decode inside the head, but if you can memorize it for 30 seconds then you can fire up an app to do the decoding.

Pictogram is clever idea for the checksum. Probably something that sticks to your head. Reminds me of the Lotus Notes login dialog [1], [2]

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-dramatic-password-reveal/
[2] http://www.tenable.com/pvs-plugins/1305
I already said I don't think you should have to pay for it. It just doesn't look completely absurd to me. You already have to pay for a bazillion other things, paying a little bit for access to the codes you have to follow is not an unreasonable burden.

Edit: to put it concretely, there's no practical difference between paying $X for a permit you're legally required to have before you build something, and paying $X for a copy of building codes you're legally required to have before you build something.
https://leanpub.com/restful-api-design
I abused this concept to compress demo code in PNG files, with great success. http://demoseen.com/blog/2011-08-31_Superpacking_JS_Demos.ht...

This is, at present, the most efficient way to pack demos on the web; a few characters of uncompressed bootstrap code, then the rest is deflated.
Hello! Author here (along with my inspiration benjaminbenben). This explanation is perfect. And yes, I think the TODO is to not render the custom cursor outside the viewport.
Bit longer than 10 years ago. Americans have been very into gymnastics at the Olympics since at least Mary Lou Retton in 84, and the 96 Olympics the womens team was a huge part of the storyline. Same with Beijing and London.

Mens generally doesn't get the same attention in the US, but the womens team tend to be some of the most highly recognized and reported on during and after the games.
Snarky me says to create better Kafka-esque experiences.

Pragmatic me says legislators were more than happy to essentially rubber-stamp, "We'll defer to a higher power because this stuff is super complicated and really esoteric stuff" and the higher power said it wanted a paycheck.
> They could be paid with tax dollars, but tax dollars are scarce, and why should every tax payer foot the bill for the cost of writing a regulation that is only of use to a very small special interest group?

If its not a public benefit, it shouldn't be a public rule or regulation.

If it is a public rule or regulation, it should be freely available to the public. This includes third-party standards, etc., made mandatory for an industry, etc., by a public rule or regulation -- such as the various X12 and other transaction standards mandated under HIPAA.
Even if that's not able to directly take over the web browser, it's really annoying to have your mouse taken over like that.
https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/doc/faq/secur...
Why would you ask if you don't want to hear the answer?
Convincing people to buy stuff they don't need is very common road to wealth.
Oriental Institute has lecture about ancient beekeeping on youtube with photograph of 2500 years old honey. It is recognizable but far from eatable.
> but it's not like that's the only option available to you

A lot of the time, though, it really is. I always prefer TOTP over SMS, but it's rare to be given the option.
great hack, could you get javascript working inside a jpeg as well? Or obfuscate the javascript and decrypt in the browser for steganographic purposes?
> black magic of the nether regions

Or plain abstraction violation. “Black magic” gives it an undeserved good reputation: “I must aspire to be clever enough to understand and actively make use of this.”
This is undefined behavior, so you're claim that this is 'in C' is blatantly false. In general, you cannot assume the underlying architecture will pass its arguments in any particular location.
Nope that's not it. Getting the same hanging in both Chrome and Firefox so must be something else. Page loads fine, it's just the video streams that never load.