skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Bitten enough", for Windows 10, is:

- the forced upgrade to everyone who didn't agree with the upgrade,

- the telemetry

- the OEM "drivers" that display ads/change 404 pages/install a CA certificate/slow down an otherwise good the computer/install the OEM's wallpaper/break the trust between the customer and their computer.

For Android it's having coarse-grained permissions, the fact that "Ok Google" means the mic is on all the time, having Dropbox suggest to upload every time you take a picture. iOS is quite good but it's a closed garden, non-USB plugs, the impossibility of mounting the iPhone and just put mp3s on it, and requiring iTunes for music sync, which tries to push you to use their iTunes Store. It's all related to phones, but the point is, people do realize that they're providers don't care about them.
Niche is one of the main one.
Most people have limited time and limited memory and wont use more than a dozen sites every day. Even though I use to bookmark thousands of websites, when Im bored I dont find it easy to remember more than 5 sites that I'm interested in.
Windows has lots of undocumented "features."

In all seriousness, I'm not sure this is a good thing.
Gardener

Housekeeper

Nanny

Personal trainer

Personal assistant

Tutor

Pet care

Archive researcher

Take two things that could unlock numerous needs for jobs.

1) education, which we currently do en masse, but could be personalised to varying extents

2) remote working, which would free people from cities and allow them to have larger houses and gardens, and in general make service provision less efficient and require more labour (it's easy to serve urban dwellers since they are so concentrated)
I got as far as the paragraph where they are hoping to create new drugs from these plants as their brilliant solution to the fact that drugs are our new problem. I stopped there.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

- Albert Einstein
This seems to duplicate a lot of the functionality of Airtable (https://airtable.com/). Anyone catch what it's doing new?
The Compaq Story
In addition to describing and drawing what you see, and manipulating the environment on a slide, a helpful activity is to imagine things zoomed bigger.

My "Remembering Sizes 2015" http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/RBigE has a video "What is micro view?" that illustrates this for 1000x.
Motivation behind functional programming in simplest word
There's a bigger question to be asking here, which is that once we've reached a point where labor is not required for the provision of basic needs, are we going to liberate all of humanity from labor, or are we going to let a smaller and smaller fraction of the population horde the benefits of automation?

I believe we can liberate humanity from forced labor in my lifetime. And I think that the product of that liberation, in terms of cultural production and scientific discovery, will have a bigger impact on human civilization than anything we've seen in recorded history. Because when people don't have to be baristas to pay the rent, and have the resources to pursue whatever they were really passionate about before they had a landlord, beautiful things will develop.

"Basic income" is one possible tool in the box but it's not the only one. And instead of having dumb arguments about the minutiae of handing out free currency in our economic system as it's currently constituted, I would rather see more debate about the principle.
UBI is as big a step as you want to make it. Alaska has an effective UBI with its dividend from oil revenue, and nothing really stops you from starting it at a lower amount and ramping it up over time.
There's nothing wrong with Omaha per se, but some of the most cutting edge technology work is truly happening in, Bay Area, Boston, Seattle, and secondarily, NYC, Dallas, Austin, DC (defense).

Given this, while Omaha, Nashville, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, may, to varying extents, be great cities with good schools cheap housing, etc. they don't necessarily have the best technology companies.

The key to this problem is really held by cities like Twin Cities, Dallas, Research Triangle NC, and Atlanta, which have great infrastructure, industrial cultures, cheap housing. It would be nice if tech companies open substantial outposts there or if new companies are founded there that become Amazon-level successful. Whether this will actually happen is another thing altogether. These cities haven't spawned super-successful tech companies in the last 30 years, but have older "tech"/industrial companies that continue to thrive.
If there is demand for cheap food as well as an assure flow of money into the hands of that demand, it seems reasonable to believe the market will address that demand. Am I missing something?
I actually LOVE reading biographies, in fact this year I made a special point of reading as many biographies as I could. And yes, like this guy I read biographies with the very specific goals of learning life lessons and ideas that I could implement in my own life.

But I agree with his logic:

(1) He is referring to autobiographies and not biographies. As he points out, plenty of biographies are critical and even extensively point out all the subject's flaws and failures.

(2) The value of reading biographies comes from aggregating them not extrapolating from one. If you read 10 biographies of entrepreneurs and you notice the same 3 recurring themes in all their stories, that's a good hit that those themes are not random.

(3) There is definitely a danger of survivor bias, but the best biographies do a good job of trying to figure how much luck played a role in an individual's success.

But the bottomline is that no matter what you read, you do have to take it with a grain of salt and consider that there are probably many other factors which were not included.
I was never in the Scouts myself, but surely one archaic, discriminatory policy doesn't negate all of the good the organization does, right?
These kinds of uninformed incendiary comments make HN so much less pleasant. Firstly, you're criticizing the founder of Park.io's hacker cred because a completely unrelated website (IndieHackers.com) that he doesn't control is down, having done absolutely zero research to find out that that's the case. If you're going to be critical, find out the facts first.

Secondly, as other comments have pointed out, you're being judgmental about the acquisition of expiring domains without any real knowledge of how that process works. It is in no way immoral to buy a domain when it expires. Using the word "steal" is ridiculous. You sound like a media company exec complaining about the internet.

This sort of baseless and lazy shaming that's supported more by ignorance than by cohesive arguments/facts has become so widespread in our culture, and it's sad to see it on HN.
Ha. I swear this comment was on another post to begin with.
> You can edit the top answer or post a new answer

Nope you can't.

- You'll be blocked if your edit is not "in the spirit of the originally post(er)".

If you only have to add a separate and standalone paragraph at the end on a newer subfeature (like your asp example), it's generally fine.

If you have to rewrite one of the main paragraph, the reviewers will systematically reject your edit.

Typically, that means that there is no way to update an obsolete post when the tools or best practices have changed, because it's considered major changes diverging from the original author.

- Combine that with the aggressive policy of closing and locking down questions, and it's impossible to post a new separate answer on most of the questions.
Not really. Think of each key as, well, a key.. If you used the same key in every lock in your house, that might be ok... Sometimes, though, you need to be more careful -- the only motivation for using more than one is to limit the damage someone getting a copy of that key does, right?
> anything from 2 to more than 48 nodes in a distributed database

Why specify a range if you're going to leave it open-ended?
How are the local laws and politics? I feel like SF/CA have a lot of regressive housing policies that some other US cities are trying to adopt.
It's not a prerequisite. It's just that a substantial proportion of the people of Iran are secular (unlike Saudia Arabia).
> Haven't people been asking this for the past few hundred years? And yet we're better off in life than we ever have been.

I don't think everyone--in this time or others--would agree with this. I certainly don't believe in being "better off", I think that's an illusion born out of minimization of our greatest fears. Just because you aren't about to die of tetanus does not mean your quality of life has improve at all.
At what point will the drive back to equilibrium occur, and hopefully rational free market actors figure out you can hack anywhere in the country and that there are many other places you can work or set up shop?
Make your employees feel what they should be doing
I started converting picol to C++14 yesterday:

http://antirez.com/picol/picol.c.txt

I have been programming in C++ for over 20 years and my version is bigger :-( Its nice not having to malloc/free but the moment I turned the structs to classes I was battling the bloat.

I still enjoy programming in C++ but there is a lot of truth in the criticism that programs written in C are simpler.
Sorry, but I disagree. While, yes, I've found that Google searches often led me to answers on SO, I've also lost count of the number of times Google has decided that a question on a StackOverflow page was the MOST RELEVANT to the question I was asking, but SO mods had put a big, fat stamp at the top from moderators announcing that THEY weren't going to permit anyone to answer it.

I don't know how many times I've scanned down a SO page hoping, hoping, hoping that someone managed to smuggle in the answer to my question before the red guards noticed and put a stop to it.

Google simply wants to find the best answer it can to my question, while StackOverflow would rather try to find reasons to prevent it being answered.

I don't want a forum where answering my question is a last resort, and their highest priority is finding a justification for not only not answering, but actually preventing anyone else who was willing to answer from answering.

What we need is a developer forum that is totally open to questions, but with the amazing addition of Google-like search to do ranked prioritization of all answers instead of old-fashioned red guards to prevent answers they didn't like from ever existing, whether you needed those answers or not. You could ask anything you wanted, as long as you were polite, and the worst that could happen would be that your question would be re-tagged (ex: that's actually a DELPHI question, not PASCAL language, because it's not about the language.)

People would then be free to answer or not, as they wished, with votes for answer quality and links to other answers that add to the quality measures. They could express opinions (horrors! opinions from people with experience that you lack! who would EVER want that) or quote the docs, or insert a link to another answer that (in their opinion only) probably answers your question, too, but they do so without preventing anyone else from going ahead and offering their own answer.

Google manages to sort through an entire web full of comments that are "possible duplicates" or "primarily opinion based" and it's amazingly useful. A mini version of that is what we need for software Q%A.
Relevant lines from Emerson:

"Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: It was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or, it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

In source:
https://jupiter.ai/books/vKv9/?hl=mAy
Aren't shorter keys more prone to collisions and bruteforce attacks?

Given the same cipher, more or less, yes. Between ciphers, though, key-lengths are less relevant, and the differences in those ciphers become more so.

EDIT: Think of it in terms of Shannon Entropy: because RSA requires a pair of primes, the keyspace is so much sparser — that is to say, more "predictable" (if, granted, at a mostly theoretical level) — so keys need to be that much larger to be secure.

Contrarily, with ED25519, keys can be smaller, because the keyspace is denser.

(Or am I just talking out my ass here?)

EDIT 2: s/smaller/sparser/, s/bigger/denser/, regarding keyspaces. Thanks, 'lisper!
I was wondering why the app needs access to my all contacts and usb storage and requires full network access.
tcp_tw_recycle is not what you want. It is only applicable to outgoing connections (i.e. not people connecting to your server), and even in that case provides little benefit over tcp_tw_reuse.

I like pointing people here for the explanation: https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2014-tcp-time-wait-state-l...
Looking forward to playing around with this. Native master-master replication is the only thing keeping me on MySQL.
Later versions of the game genie did this too -- they had enough internal memory to make a full copy of the console's memory to do the diffing against.
I guess a question is: where would the income (that is supposed to be "redistributed") come from, in a world where the customers of every commercial entity cannot earn an income to pay taxes and contribute to the pool to be redistributed?

I guess a country could always wage war against another and take their resources or enslave their people.

Is that the ultimate outcome?

Not trying to stir politics here, just to find the theoretical limit of an economy where all actors can be automated.
True, I am exaggerating a little to get the point across, but the point stays - it's harder for some people that others, and that's not that easily controllable.
CRI accounts for this, though it does not reveal the specific wavelength components. You can however be confident a 90+ CRI light source is not going to have an unexpectedly high intensity of any given wavelength.
When especially irritated by spam of this type I like to look up the isp hosting their register link and then sign up on their site with its abuse@ details (or occasionally @localhost for a bit of variety). Every clog in the gears help or at least it's cathartic to imagine so.
It's good to know what range people have tested with, even if it's not a hard cap.
"Voice Acting for Dummies." Perfect.
Possibly, it means that they have tested it with 48, and any more is left as an experiment for the daring. Just guessing.
I guess it means they reached production stability on 48 nodes, but there is nothing keeping you from adding more nodes if need be.
I was discussing Vyacheslav. I assume Mike Pall can work for msft/goog/fb if he wishes to.
So there is no war now?
I just came to the bay because it's nice. I have no allusions that it'll be permanent or I'll find a huge payday. It's just really nice.
You might be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruithof_curve and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Rendering_Index (high CRI).
There are already programs that can compose music or paint pictures. But is that art if it means nothing to the program which created it? Or was unforeseen by the programmer? Of course, it could be passed off as art, or used as a substitute for it.
Today a middle class person will have a doctor, a dentist, an accountant, and a lawyer. That list could extend to include personal trainer, geneticist, travel agent, dermatologist... The list is endless. Some things will allow people to monetise talents that previously were not easily monetised (imagine having a "sense of humour" coach), others will be highly specialised requiring years of education, others will be more like trades which a large percentage of the population could learn with adequate training.
lmao, man i liked when the term "hacker" was directed toward blackhats. This whole "im a hacker" gig is hilarious.
But why would that mean anything to the publisher? They want to sell the magazine and if soul crushing mind rotting stereotypes sell copies at the checkout line then why would the publisher want to be the moral agents of change?
Sorry to hijack this, but this is absurd.

I really must have missed the story here -- people pay for a third party service to manage their private keys?

... Err. That's so illogical it's making my brain hurt to even work out why I would need to explain how illogical it is...

I can't even come up with a good analogy for how wrong that whole idea is, fortunately I don't have to though since no one that has mastered 'ssh-keygen' and 'cp' would actually do so.....

2FA, okay; the service provider only has half the story. ssh-keys-as-a-service? WAT.

Edit:

Okay, I looked a bit more at userify and it seems to be an agent that runs on your systems which generates authorized_keys files....

From their docs:

"There are two parts of the Userify installation: creating the agent (readable only by root) in /opt/userify, and setting the agent to start at bootup. Setting the agent to start at bootup is a bit trickier, but the installation process attempts to detect the server type and set it up properly."

Am I reading this wrong? You hook up an agent, which runs as root, which farms out authorized_keys entries across the estate? One possible mech for deploying the agent is conf management?

What the actual fuck? Why would anyone do this? Do I even need to explain why this is blowing my mind so much?
A bizarre problem I have had on SO is that, after years of gaining reputation into the 5 digits, now if I ask a question on a topic that is new to me, I often get the response that I should know better if I have a high reputation. It's weird. If I have my colleague ask the same question, a guy with much less reputation, the answers are helpful. It's as if the quality of the question is judged by how much the asker must already know. Which is ridiculous if you explore a lot of different technologies.

Then there are genuine trolls who, despite massive reputation, seem to have the sole goal of proving everyone wrong. It's also weird.

This image has never rung more true to me then when interacting with so many "power" users: http://i.imgur.com/Oy6mA.jpg?fb
Re-read your post - do you _really_ think that's why you were downvoted?
In Korea, the magic phrase is 'contains kimchi' and you are guaranteed of safe delivery. All hell break loose when kimchi leaks; boxes get wet and smelly, kimchi stains don't come off easy so delivery people take extra measures to prevent it.
My great grand mother gave birth to 16 children, who had healthy childhoods and good educations. My family was not wealthy. Nowadays only the wealthy could afford to raise 16 children, with good childhoods and good education. If people now are more affluent than they were in the past, then why is it more difficult to raise children? For those who wish to have large families, it seems obvious that the last 100 years have seen expenses related to raising children rise at a rate faster than the median wage has risen.
Those sky high tax rates were only applied to earned income. Capital gains was never anywhere near that high. All that means is the owners of capital stay rich and nobody can earn their way into being rich. You have to invest or already be rich.

If you tried taxing capital that much they'd flee the country.
All the public sources I've found say it is secure.

Except for the ones recommending 512bit EC's

Perhaps you can find the parameters for a 512bit,non NIST EC and we can both be happy?

Otherwise I'll stick with 8000 and 15424 RSA thnx.
Until we hit the singularity, programmers can always get more meta -- thinking about how to do the job rather than doing the job, no matter what the job is. It's infinitely recursive.

In the not-so-distant future, nearly all jobs will be programming jobs. That or shaking hands and smiling.
Not true. When you put it in a bank, the bank loans it out (usually at a multiple). Even if you put stacks of bills under your mattress, you're effectively making a loan to the mint to fund government operations.

Some invested money is bad, though. Investment in many businesses is bad for the world: cigarette companies, casinos, monopolistic roll-up companies.
Thanks for thinking park.io is magical! :)

We have no special advantage other than our knowledge and technology
Looks like a good supplement to httping
I use mind maps in Freemind. Every project has a root node with project name and date last updated. I then try to go through all projects at least once per day, look for any follow ups I have forgotten and then update the date.
This combined with use of appropriate icons gives me confidence I have not forgotten anything.
On each project I note everything, last contact with client, meeting summaries, progress, remaining todos, specs. Basically everything of importants.
Abstract from paper [1] gives a better explanation:

Abstract
Spreadsheets offer many advantages as the computational and data-storage engine for applications that are authored by end users. Paradoxically, however, their main failing in this regard is their computational model. Despite being used in almost all cases to represent data that is essentially relational
(with some hierarchical structuring), the spreadsheet model treats the two-dimensional grid as largely unstructured, with
formulas linking cells in an ad hoc way.
This paper reports on a quest to rethink the spreadsheet
model. The model we propose supports not only conventional flat tables, but also nested variable-size lists and object references. It includes a formula language suited to the data
model and procedures to specify updates.
The model has been implemented in a tool called Object Spreadsheets, which is intended for the development of data-centric web applications. We describe several example applications we built using the tool to demonstrate its applicability.

[1] http://sdg.csail.mit.edu/projects/objsheets/objsheets-onward...
Sure we can! Which rainforest do you want to cut down to make space for the new fields?
It's just like Hollywood attracting actors, directors and producers.

As long as there is the factor of prestige, Silicon Valley is going to continue to see this nearly unbelievable housing market. If there were a true tech crash, like the dot-com bubble bursting, we'd see a slow down. But in order for there to be a sustained weakening, Apple, Google, Facebook, and the Y Combinators of the valley will all have to see a substantial weakening in profitability.

It's the high salaries they are able to pay to legions of workers that is primarily responsible for housing prices. That's what this article is about.
I think the author is inferring the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruithof_curve. We apparently prefer dimmer light sources to be warmer.
I agree that habit is a big driver. I don't see how that makes it conspicuous consumption.
I'm not saying free speech isn't important, I'm only saying that perhaps it's not reasonable to expect that distributing information, that is highly damaging to certain parties, can be done free of charge.

The web exponentially decreases the cost of distributing information, but can we reasonably expect it to be zero, always, for any type of information?

Historically, free speech has meant that you can say whatever you want without fear of violence. It has never been synonymous with the right to have your opinions made available to everyone, free of charge.

I think free speech is immensely important, which is why I think it we shouldn't confuse it with the ability to cheaply serve damaging information from a website with 100% uptime.