skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Assuming for the moment that there is any communication made at all regarding this incident, do you really think the Chinese government is going to pressure some small Chinese business to lose a whole bunch of money unnecessarily because an American anarchist group attacked some American websites with said Chinese company's webcams?

What about naked self-interest? Those webcams are vulnerable and can be used to attack any infrastructure, including China's own.
What's the difference? I understand both to mean 'an angry, emotional attack on something'.
I've never understood, is an Antarctica glacier (or polar ice caps) melting akin to adding ice cubes to a glass of water, or is it akin to ice cubes already in the glass melting? Ice caps on mountain tops melting are clearly akin to the former, but what about ice that's in the water anyway?
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It seems that Soros thinks more about the "Dilbert Guy" more than he should.
> So are you recommending to invest savings on stocks and bonds rather than a house?

I don't think he is saying that. As an individual it may be better to invest in the house. Depending on many individual factors. e.g. Capital gains, timeframe, etc.

What I think he is saying is that collectively it is better for society that more people invest in productive activities that generate new wealth.
I cannot disagree more strongly with this article and the attitude behind it. I mean, look at each of his points in turn:

1. His first two points, stripped of the irrelevant polemic, are the complaint that software is meant to help the business meet its goals. Well, obviously it is. Very few people are paid to build software as artistic expression; that's for personal projects. Software that doesn't meet a business goal is bad software, no matter how elegantly designed.

2. His third point is that when you're in an organization staffed by people with their own personalities and goals, you need to be able to communicate and negotiate and engage in all kinds of human interactions. People who call this "politics" dismissively, as the author does, and think that it is intrinsically bad should never have a job where they have to interact with people; stay a low-level code-wrangler.

3. His fourth point is... well, honestly, it's that he hates his job. Sorry. Most people don't, though. If I were him, I'd look for a different role.

4. His fifth and sixth points are that if you work on a team, you also have to work with teammates, who will have their own personalities and goals and interests, and you'll need to be able to communicate and negotiate and engage with them. Um, yeah. If you aren't willing to do this, you're going to be a terrible teammate, and this guy sounds like he would be one, with all the griping he does about the coworkers he hates.

5. His seventh point is about collective code ownership, which is about treating developers as collaborating equals rather than letting one person on a power trip control everything. This upsets him, because he's the guy on a power trip and he wants to control everything.

6. His eighth point is that management methodologies exist. He seems to think this is self-evidently terrible, rather than considering that changing management methodologies can make a huge difference to the success and happiness of a team, and that agile methodologies are much better than old-school command-and-control waterfall stuff in a ton of ways.

7. His ninth point is that you're not cynical enough, because you don't hate everything already, and he does, and that makes him a better person, and you should also join him in hating everything and everyone.

This is literally toxic advice. Do not take it, and if it sounds reasonable to you, it's time for some soul-searching.
On the other hand, something that is trivially treatable can be borne without issue, which, who knows, could enable later advancement.

Just look at the established tradeoff our species makes- our children are born helpless. Isn't caring for them dysgenic? But, being able to care for & protect them enables significant brain development to happen outside the womb.

Swaddling, clearing a wrapped umbilical cord, suctioning the nose & mouth... there are lots of things we do that improve mortality that are trivial.
function deepFreeze(obj) {
const out = Object.freeze(obj);
Object.keys(out).forEach(key => {
if (typeof out[key] === 'object') {
out[key] = Object.freeze(out[key]);
}
});
return out;
}
FWIW, he's been complaining about shadowbanning for at least a week, well before the effects of the DDOS: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151981022076/is-twitter-shadowb...

I feel like I know Twitter...but I honestly don't know what is meant by shadowbanning in Twitter. If such a concept were to be possible, would it have something to do with Twitter tweaking out Adams' tweets show up for users who have their timelines set to be curated (instead of by timeliness)? This seems like a conspiracy theory that Adams hasn't done much to independently evaluate.
Given how many (more than 90% imo) reset links are something like /reset?email=test@test.com&token=0123456789, that's not quite an issue as it may seem...
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There are clearly many holes in Apple's armor these days, but the one that irks me the most is how Apple's literally handing the Education market to Google. I swear if Apple's hardware announcements this week don't include a Chromebook competitor I'm going to figuratively scream.

Chromebooks are fantastic products but I grew up in the Microsoft dominated 90's and hated it. It feels like Apple's almost trying to make itself obsolete in markets it once owned. Competition please!
And suddenly I get it. Very nice example.
The problem there is that the subsidy money has to come from somewhere, and the longer that tax gets pushed back, the more we have to do other shenanigans to come up with the money: borrow more, raise taxes elsewhere, etc. As it is, the subsidies don't really help folks as much as was planned, and even with the subsidies, the costs are rising quickly. It's a runaway train at this point: costs rise, making the subsidies insufficient, so the politically expedient thing to do is to expand the subsidies, which means that taxes must rise to pay for them.
Eh-- pick your battles.

If family members get a positive placebo effect from listening to "5 Hours High Quality BEST 432hz Meditation Healing Chakra" on YouTube...Who cares?
My Bösendorfer is tuned at 443
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778761 and marked it off-topic.
Excessive mobility has an adverse effect on families and children. It makes sense to rent if you are single, but it makes more sense to plant yourself somewhere when you are a family.
I'm partial to everything2.com. Back in the early 00's, everything2 tried to be a Wikipeida, where people could post multiple entries on a topic. The best part is reading 16 year old, long form essays about places. The recent stuff is short stories, but the essays of the bay area from the peak of the bubble are fascinating.

Highlights:

* http://everything2.com/title/The+NoCal+Super+Layoff+Unemploy...

* http://everything2.com/title/San+Mateo+bridge
It seems that the key lesson is that to minimize the horrible nature of human politics: have less government and more poles of power within it.

This is the design goal of the US Constitution, from the federal nature of the system to the gridlock-by-design of the central government.
> He mostly got hate because people hated Microsoft

There are developers that actually do enjoy using Microsoft stacks, even though we also have experience using other systems.
>The problem with all this nudging and using of biases to influence people is that it is hardly better than spicing their drinks with drugs to make them more complacent and willing to agree.

Funny that you mention that, because one of the recommended, "ethical" techniques mentioned in Influence is to serve caffeine to make the other party more compliant.
4,200 years old pagan relic caught in river by fisherman
Did you guys recycle a domain name? Blocked due to security concerns. You may need to work with the big vendors to get yourselves off the naughty list for actions taken by prior domain owners.
It's spelled out pretty well in the article. But if you want another example, consider these two code blocks:

var foo;
var bar;
{
let foo = "hello";
var bar = "world";
}
console.log(foo);
console.log(bar);

This produces:

undefined
world

The reason being that the `let` statement restricted that variable to the block it was in (defined by the { and }). `var` declares the variable globally, allowing it to be accessed outside of the {}.

We prefer now to use `let` and `const` over `var` because it doesn't pollute the global namespace. With the asynchronous nature of Javascript, it's theoretically possible for you to declare a variable with `var`, assign it a value, then immediately use that value and find that it's different than what you expected because of another function using the same variable name. This isn't possible with `let`.
I've heard that in some caribbean islands, they tune at 420.
That makes me happy to hear. After visiting /r/thatHappened you just stop believing anything funny or amazing is real online.
The study you cite shows an opposite result.

Are there independent replications that actually show the same effect? I recall an attempted replication that produced equal miscalibrations on the upper and lower ends of the distribution, suggesting that the effect was just mean regression.
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To me, the #1 benefit of health insurance is not the insurance (i.e., swapping the cost of the unlikely, major expenses for a regular constant payment). It is price negotiation with service providers.

I would love to be able to get, from my insurer, a low cost option just for this: patient pays 100% of their standard negotiated rates. I go to the same network, they pay the doctor and bill me for the payment. Premiums just need to cover their admin cost plus some insurance that kicks in if I do not pay.

Doctors should not care -- they still get the same $$ from the same source the same way. Catastrophic coverage can be arranged separately, but the above schema I think would provide much of the current insurance benefits at the much lower cost.
I'd add https://publicdomainreview.org/ which I've found to have a large variety of topics covered. I could also spend ages looking through http://www.textfiles.com. Lastly, https://monoskop.org/Monoskop, "a wiki for collaborative studies of the arts, media and humanities."
Frankly the only people who say this are investors. If you look at it from a purely investing perspective it makes sense to buy a house and then rent it out, rather than buy a house and live in it as an investment.

But most people are not investors, they want a home to raise their kids and be a place they belong. That's the disconnect
People are allowed to grow roots, shape and improve a place, and connect with their neighbors all they like. This is the state of places like the USA today.

People aren't allowed to demand that the economy provide them with all the means they might wish for to do these things in any arbitrarily selected location.
There is nothing in the universe quite like a troll on TV Tropes. Maybe a troll on Wikipedia but they're probably all the same person.

Warning: if you say lampshading IRL, no one will understand you. If by strange coincidence you ran into a fellow Troper, you'd have to type it out.
Does anyone have a list of common vulnerabilities that you should check your app against, maybe excluding the obvious ones like SQL Injection, XSS, etc... ? Because I can't keep track of all the vulnerabilities that exist in the world :(
I think I see a opportunity for something new here.

Why isn't there a uber secure OS written in a high level language that would prevent easy privilege escalations, vulnerabilities caused by buffer overruns etc?

It would be nice to have a standard security approving body (like FCC) that gives out graded standards.

It is like every generation forgets the mistakes of the past and repeats them. When $5 Raspberry Pi is powerful enough to run desktop OS, I see no reason to not adopt a high-level language that prevents basic security violations at the roots.
I thought the "coincidence" he was talking about was that the DDOS occurred on the same day that he jokingly threatened to take down Twitter.

That his viewer counter dropped to zero was (as I interpret this post) unrelated to the hack, and the result of some kind of moderation. Whether that is true, I cannot tell.
Orion's Arm is a collaborative world building project for the far future. The articles on monopole physics and wormholes are quite detailed, and the implications of higher levels of sentience are very interesting. http://www.orionsarm.com

The SCP foundation has been mentioned, but a lot of people don't know they have a sister site. http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com

The wikipedia articles about unsolved problems in physics and emerging technologies are huge click holes for most nerds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_p...

Reading about neolithic archaeology is way more fun than you might think. 10,000 years ago people built these huge sites with literally stone age technology, and the nature of their rituals and beliefs are mostly unknown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic#Early_settlements

Shodan is a search engine for devices on the Internet. Looking at other people's queries is a good way to get started. Every time you think, there's no way someone would connect one of those to the Internet, you find out that at least 10 people have gone and done just that. https://www.shodan.io/explore

Running an NTP server in the public pool gives you the IPv6 addresses of all kinds of whacko IoT stuff. Every once in a while p0f can't figure out a TCP/IP stack that's connecting to my server, so I connect back and there's sometimes a really weird device with an open telnet or HTTP port or something. About once a month I have to call someone to tell them that they misconfigured their firewall when they turned on NTP and I'm logged into an air conditioner on a cruise ship or another bizarre combination of thing and place that I never thought I'd ever say out loud. Browsing the logs is a never-ending source of amazement.

PSA: connecting to public NTP servers exposes you to people like me, don't do it unless you have to.
If I copy and re-enter a URL generated by pressing buttons in the demo app, I get a page that just says "BAZ".

E.g., the URL to the demo's about page: http://www.thinkloop.com/article/state-driven-routing-react-...
Hey I may be wrong one day and this comment might not age well but I believe what Apple _is_ doing with AI is crucial. Baking privacy into AI and ML is really necessary and I'm happy someone is thinking about it. I think Apple has a lot of AI stuff going on behind closed doors.
> with Ron Paul or Ralph Nader’s talking points? LOL, right? Well, we’re living out their nightmare, one software fuckery at a time.

Just because you know something doesn't mean you know everything. I doubt any top down approach can save you from all the negatives listed in this article, but I believe it could cause them. I believe it more after reading the article too. It's a strange conclusion to draw anyway.
She's right to get angry. There's nothing special about 432Hz (see my comment above on it's absolutely arbitrary nature), BUT the numerology that falls out of musical harmony is is indeed special and makes most of human race happy because of the aesthetic satisfaction that Pythagorean harmony (or even it's equal-tempered cousin) delivers to people.

Science is very good at describing things and why they're interesting, but science can't tell you what's beautiful or how to live. I understand your desire to point out the meaningless nature of setting up 432hz as some gold standard and agree with you that it's nonsense, but a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down' you could invest more time in exclaiming over the beauty and meaning of the relative pitch relationships in music, the most popular of which happen to nicely (albeit slightly inaccurately) mirror the ratios of planetary orbital periods. Your sister has the right idea in the wrong context, and you're missing out on some aesthetic insights by overlooking this.
Most people don't go skiing every day or enough to justify the cost of purchase, but for those who do they most certainly purchase one or more pairs of skis.
This is trivially testable in most browsers inspection tools.

The answer is it works fine. x.a === y.a === 5

This is because you are simply declaring the binding of y to the object bound to x constant. This does not impact your ability to rebind x or to alter the contents of the object, it simply prevents you from rebinding y.

let x = {a:5}
x = {}
console.log(x.a) // undefined

---

const y = {a:5}
y = {} // Uncaught TypeError: Assignment to a constant variable.

---

let x = {a:2}
const y = x
x.b = 12
x = {}
x.b = 13
console.log(y) // {a: 2, b:12}
console.log(x) // {b: 13}
In Antarctica, most ice chunks are at rest on solid ground.

So, yeah, it's like adding ice cubes to a glass of water.
I just wonder how licensing for the pro version works in regards to open source projects? If I buy the license, can I use it for my open source project?

Also the option to commission your own icon is really exciting! :-)
Even if this were true (he has no proof and the more likely explanation is a glitch), his thesis about this being treason is incorrect. Twitter is not required to host any content they don't like or want. Adams can still bring his message to other mediums.

Also, this post segues from conspiracy theory to political bolstering. It's likely he's using clickbait here to prop up his favored candidate.
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So you left school because one professor didn't have good morals? I mean... just because you have a high IQ doesn't mean you make the right decisions. In fact its a lot easier to fool yourself.
Well, that's just the thing. Whether (we) programmers like it or not, the only relevant measure of quality in a program is whether it does the thing that the user needs it to do. In other words, "functional standards" is the only type of quality standards that you could ever expect to have for software.

Things like code quality and inner loop optimization are largely irrelevant for the people who are using the software.
I don't think a purely legal view is a sensible way to look at this. In much of Europe, abortion is not a major political issue that motivates the voting patterns of a significant chunk of the electorate and hasn't been for a long time. In that sense, Europe is more progressive on women's reproductive rights.
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The British government report it links to (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...) is less so:

The ‘reasonable worst case scenario’ for severe space weather is based on the Carrington event of 1859, aligned to our current understanding of the vulnerability of modern technologies... Research suggests that a reoccurrence of the Carrington Event has a 1% annual probability...

It is anticipated that the impacts would be:

- localised power outages;

- disruption of satellite operations, including to Global Navigation Satellite System outages (GPS) and SATCOM disturbances;

- disruption to High Frequency communications;

- increased radiation to aircrew and passengers in flight, particularly over polar regions; and

- further disturbances to small-part electronic systems.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's worked for me thus far. Actually, most of the time the situations have improved. If you go about raising your concerns tactfully, people start taking your opinions more seriously because you accurately forecasted problems in the past.

It can also work to just take a little longer on a feature and do some cleanup/fixing without getting permission. If anyone bothers you about it, just say "I noticed this issue and wanted to avoid running into problem xyz again since it took us offline last week." Again, most of this boils down to tact. Project managers don't like looking bad to upper management. Usually you just have to point out (tactfully!) how dumb they will look if something crashes in prod on a weekend.
const x = Object.freeze({
y: {
foo: 'bar'
}
});
x.y.foo = 'baz'
console.log(x.y.foo) //baz

immutablejs might be overkill, but not having, and using, a recursive freeze is going to bite a lot of people if the advice is just 'const + Object.freeze'.
> thou candidate who despises half the country she supposedly wants to lead,

Show me a candidate on either side who hasn't made these kinds of statements. This is more a symptom of our partisan divide than any one candidate.

> is above campaign finance law

You can't run for president without bending the campaign finance rules. Again, not ideal, but if we want to fix campaign finance let's fix it legislatively. Neither side wants to deal with it, so it never happened.

> above confidential documents law,

Again, she did no worse than any of the previous GOP administrations. Not saying we shouldn't hold her to a higher standard, but nothing she did here is truly shocking.

> is a child rapist enabler both in home life and professionally as an attorney

Ok, WHOA. I don't think either of these happened. You can't count professional work as a defense attorney because the lawyer is there to ensure that her client receives a fair trial. It's in everyone's best interests for her to mount a competent defense because it should clarify reasonable doubt. Just because she may have defended a child rapist doesn't mean she supports him -- she was an agent of the court playing a role in a system that ensures everyone has the right to a fair trial.

Bill may be a horndog, but that's beside the point. It's not his wife's fault; nor is it any of your business how they handle their marital problems. And I don't recall any allegations of him ever assaulting anyone underage...

> her death count in the middle east must be a million or so

Ok, just stop. Even if you were to blame Hillary for every combat-related death in the middle east and north Africa during and after her tenure as Secretary of State, they don't even add up to more than 500,000. Exclude Syria (you can only criticize Hillary for inaction here - and what exactly do we have to gain getting involved in a proxy war between Saudi Arabia, Iran and Russia?) and Libya (not gonna touch it with all the hate from the Benghazi witch hunt where no wrongdoing was found after a few rounds of congressional investigations, but needless to say you're giving Hillary way too much credit if you blame the entire situation in Libya on her) you don't even get to 10,000. Yes, the refugee crisis is real, but there's not much we can do about it from the US. The EU has to figure that one out on their own, unfortunately.

Honestly, the world is in an unprecedented period of peace right now. Major global conflicts are relatively low-burn affairs where the death count is measured in thousands per year rather than millions. Our goal should be to keep it that way, not go and start the next big war or escalate a smaller one.
While I don't know the exact overhead of 10GigE, there is likely still some overhead.

At the lower speeds, things like 8b/10b encoding and Reed-Solomon ECC added enough overhead that dividing by 10 was more accurate than dividing by 8.