skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm missing something but one of the core technical conceits driving the first few episodes is that an IP address found inside a "dat" file is compelling evidence that the person with that IP address was guilty of something. Of having an IP address that somebody typed into a file? I didn't get that. As I say perhaps I misunderstood.

I actually believe it would be possible to build a coherent and effective story around technical ideas but it would require a writer of great skill, who just happened to have a very technical background.

The way it would work is that the plot would be driven by a technical obstacle/issue. Instead of focusing on the details of the technical issue, the key would be to elucidate the conceptual background to it. Obviously, this has to be done in a way that respects character and which eschews heavy-handed exposition. Which is hard. It would have to be a much slower burn in terms of action. I think you'd have a single hack maybe taking an entire season :)

I think though this approach has been successfully used in Film and TV when representing politics. They manage to show how big issues break down into specific pragmatic issues and then how those pragmatic issues in turn feedback.
For those curious about the "what" and who don't know x86 opcodes from memory, from the first link and in its earliest incarnation,

"LOADALL restores the microprocessor state from the State Save Map that is saved during the transition from user mode to ICE mode. LOADALL loads enough of the microprocessor state to ensure return to any processor operating mode."
> They have < 10% order accuracy after ~100 orders.

Why do you continue to order through them if they're that inaccurate?
No, I wasn't being ironic. I'm pretty familiar with how shady both men's sexual ethics were...
I only looked at one file. [0]

The 'filesize' section is from [1], only the word 'bytes' has changed to 'B' and 'filesize' in two places. It looks like there are other copies of this same snippet in a Google search, but this one shows direct descent from [2] via the 'forked from' tag, so is probably the root of the trail. Not saying that's where you got it from, but this is clearly a derivative work.

Then your 'showFocus' section is from [3] and [4], both posted under the same username. I can't immediately see any other path this piece has developed from and it doesn't seem as significant, but your copy only differs by some trailing spaces.

I stopped looking after realizing over 50% of the first file I looked at was stolen from other sources without attribution.

[0] https://github.com/mitchas/ffftp/blob/master/app/app.js

[1] https://gist.github.com/napoli1890/d33c7b9056e77a8670874e93d...

[2] https://gist.github.com/thomseddon/3511330

[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22776662/catch-ng-show-ev...

[4] https://gist.github.com/ezsi/77a708fde8af5cb4d239
> When they drop the bombshell of that reality in the second series, that the narrator is unreliable, was a great moment that had me giggling with glee.

(spoilers) The Fight Club parallels were there from the very first time he saw Mr. Robot in the episode one. So I kind of expected what was coming.
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No, Neo is a tiger that they released into the wild. He thinks he escaped.
With 1password you have to have both the password database (one factor) and the password to unlock it. (another) It's not traditional 2FA but it fits pretty close. (a thing you have and a thing you know)
But can it run Doom?

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-catalogue-of-all-the-dev...
There is also a cost of companies having to fly you to interviews using this strategy, so I guess it will make things a tiny bit harder.
Engineer's solution: drink less water when you want to use your wireless headphones (also, for a few days previous)
https://gitlab.brokenpipe.de/stettberger/avremu/tree/master/...

instr is a true work of art.
I've seen recruiters pass along résumés in plain text format. Now it makes sense -- copy/paste from PDF.
That's more than I got from clicking the download button. Didn't do anything for me.
I think this, what you have stated, is the appeal of that scene in the Social Network where Mark Zuckerberg is building Facesmash:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSKoVsHs_Ko

Most people probably don't understand what Emacs, Apache configuration or "wget magic" is but they don't have to. Sorkin's screenplay makes, what might otherwise be a boring evening to a external observer, seem really exciting while communicating the high level ideas.

In other words: people who saw the movie partook in the excitement of watching a programmer build something cool, fairly quickly, that elicited strong feedback and reaction, which is rewarding to any programmer and they did not have to get bogged down in the details. As well, this scene also doesn't embellish in the details of hacking with absurd looking command lines nor GUIs like "Hackers" (the movie) does and, therefore, does not elicit an obligatory 'eyeroll' from the programmer/hacker community.
You find "decimal" to be an inconveniently long name? In my experience "import...as" is reserved for things like PowerIterationClustering and the like. The overriding principle is to always choose readability over succinctness.
FYI, my React/Redux links list has a section pointing to discussion on the PATENTS license, including Facebook's official FAQ on the topic: https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master... .
It will be years and years before transpiling for backwards compatibility is no longer necessary. I breathe a sigh of relief when I learn that our customers are using something as modern as IE 11.
It's not a SciAm article, but a blog post by someone we're not familiar with. There's no new information, it's just a retrospective review.
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Is it just me, or they didn't have any experiment description in the article?

They talk about LENR but don't mention under which conditions it would take place, even in layman terms.
How do we make money?

Volume!

Seriously, though. This is an interesting idea, but what's the endgame?
Probably. Azure scale is a rare example, though. Most of the time a company will be much lower volume. They might consider S-ASIC's like at eASIC before ASIC's. Prototyping cost at eASIC can be as cheap as $50,000 per some writeups thanks to the eBeam machine. With low costs, they're easier to swap out than full on ASIC's too.
Even so, there are other benefits, such as your TOTP key never being sent over the network (unlike your generated password).
Average users will get frustrated that they can't right click.
Now you're just being silly. Yes, I'm sure they enjoy a luxurious transport and it would be more efficient for them to walk or take a rowboat or fly commercial.

But the energy used, carbon emitted, is fairly small for the 1000 or so flights they take relative to the aggregate benefit they're making by buying so much "cleaner" power.

You really ought consider the relative perspective, I don't think their 757 carbon impact compares to the output of a 5MW data center running 24/7.
This looks like ANSI art from the early 90s
It seems Reddit admins don't have that ability, if I read the thread correctly. Rather, Spez helped build the system and just knew how to manage the prank. It wasn't even really a backdoor thing, he just had the know-how to do it (like being able to log into the database and update a row).

That's the confusing bit about the outrage to me: I think people expected it to be secure and tight, and ... well... I'm not sure what led to that conclusion. I can easily imaging that until Spez pulled that stunt, they just figured it was too hard to screw with and that the databases were sufficiently secure. After all, the techs have full access to the machines*. It's like being surprised that your ActiveDirectory admin can change your password at will.

But you can bet your booties they'll try to lock it down a bit better now. Wouldn't expect it to be the TarSnap of forums, though. Reddit's not exactly a bastion of authenticity :P

EDIT: What I mean here is that someone has physical access to the machines, right? Or at least some amount of root? Or can log in? I guess to me it's like being outraged that the guy who targets the Hubble telescope abuses his position and points it at Earth or something as a joke; huge amount of time and money on the line and it would be a dumb thing, but it's also pretty harmless. Might still get fired for it, though.
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FWIW https://reviewable.io supports arbitrarily complex review completion requirements, and the outcome gets fed into a PR status that you can make required as well. Right now the completion condition must be self-contained but I'm considering passing in designated metadata files so you could have, e.g., per-directory "owners" like Google does.

(Disclosure: I'm the founder.)
What use cases do you find Bluetooth keyboard / mice enable? Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I've never been able to come up with a compelling answer for myself.
This is really interesting...we are furiously refectoring our site to make it more accessible....u r comment could not have come at a better time for me.
> I disagree that the constant churn in FE/JS is necessarily a sign of "rapid progress",

It's the field that is progressing rapidly. Browsers are constantly adding new APIs, problems are being solved, etc. The difference is that it's open source

> a lack of strong stewardship/leadership

You can't have leadership in a field which has no owner. It's not like Oracle owning Java and deciding what happens with it.

> people reinventing the wheel.

This is a stereotype by people who don't really know the subject. Every new tool improves on the previous one. For example, grunt was the first JS build tool, it had some issues (huge configurations, and speed) some someone invented gulp, which uses streams for speed and code instead of configuration. But streams don't handle splitting files in bundles and other problems so well, so webpack was invented. There are overlaps but they all solve different problems, and all improve on the previous generation. They are not "reinventing the wheel"
I will change the title to say "Faster than Dokany" without mentioning NTFS.

The deception is not intentional. For me it was important to verify that my project is not slower than NTFS when using my test file system, which is an in-memory file system. You may notice that Dokany is actually slower or on par with NTFS in many scenarios even with an in memory file system.

Trying NTFS on a RAM disk is a good idea. I simply did not think of it.

There is no on disk implementation of WinFsp that I can share at this moment.

Please let me know if you have other questions.
Ask HN: MTurk/Kaggle for small programming jobs
Hi, I happen to know some labs looking for an mTurk/Kaggle like service for getting small programming jobs done. Examples include getting bioinformatics data plotted in Gnuplot or getting fancy Latex done on a document. Does anyone know of such a service?
Discussion on the first article in the series: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13079023
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Well, yeah, by then we'll have to go back to serve different JS files for different browsers. Luckily old IEs support conditional comments so it shouldn't be an issue.
How many times do we have to rewrite make in nodeJS?
Why Most Planets Will Either Be Lush or Dead
Nice, I knew you could play Nethack in a browser, but not DCSS! Might have to dungeon-dive a bit! Do you know which version I should play? (is "trunk" generally safe? Is there a test suite in the code?)

Any tips for noobs?
To each their own of course. Perhaps it's the underlying plot that really bothers me with Mr. Robot -- it feels very 90s to me, even if the surface details are much better. Today, we live in a world where "lone genius hacker" types are becoming thoroughly commoditized. It's all about careers, money, thesis papers. Weaponised exploits are now bought and sold. To people with capital it might as well be magic, why should they care? If you're a kid who identifies with a character like Elliot on some level, you may not realize that's what you're getting into. Maybe this is toched upon in a way I didn't get or see in Mr. Robot?

Then Westworld is basically science fiction, with a good bit of philosophy (which I didn't expect when I started watching it). I liked the way it shifted perspective between the guests, hosts, and operators throughout each episode so much, it left me questioning reality a bit for a few minutes after each episode.
As discussed in the thread, that doesn't work given that we're trying to avoid extra storage, it adds an extra tuple member to the class. It's still true as of the latest compiler just like it was in 2009:

$ scalac -version
Scala compiler version 2.12.1 -- Copyright 2002-2016, LAMP/EPFL and Lightbend, Inc.

$ javap -private Rational
Compiled from "Rational.scala"

public class Rational {
private final scala.Tuple2 x$1;
private final int numer;
private final int denom;
public int numer();
public int denom();
private int gcd(int, int);
public Rational(int, int);
}
The Robot Revolution Will Be the Quietest One
Heh, I never cease to wonder at the variety of -- often contradictory -- code review workflows. For me and many others automatically disappearing comments are a misfeature, since we _want_ to verify that a comment was correctly addressed. To each their own... :)
Interesting! Glad to hear that they're explicit design goals.
You don't get it. In FE the target is Java 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 and 3. Everybody uses different browsers, on different devices. If you wait for the least common denominator all websites would still look like geocities
We reverted the title from “Google: FIDO keys more secure, easier to use, and more affordable than SMS OTP” to that of the article, since it appears to be neither misleading nor clickbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That, and birthday cake, are as bread as pizza is bread (and yes, pizza is bread.)

If you find it hard to believe, it helps to know there are many varieties of pizza in Italy that do not include tomato sauce (pizza bianca). For example, quatro formaggi is often without sauce. But the plainer pizze bianche are actually similar to focaccia, which is a cousin of the world famous pizza, and indisputably bread.

So at what point along the focaccia - pizza continuum does the dish become un-bread? At the addition of tomato sauce? Then how come is quatro formaggi so often served in pizzerias? At the addition of cheese? Marinara, one of the most classical of all pizzas, is defined by its lack of milk-based ingredients (which do not preserve at sea, hence the name.)

Clearly, pizza, too, is bread.
Not sure what you get exposed to on a daily basis, but this is pretty much factual. The amount of SQL injection is astounding.
So this post is supposed to show a relationship between transistors and documentation. Fine.

x86 has 4181 pages of documentation. Quad-core Skylake has 1.75 billion transistors. This is 418560 transistors per page.

The 6502 had 12 pages of documentation. It had 3,510 transistors. This is 292 transistors per page.

Advantage x86.
Make doesn't solve all the problems those tools solve.
Can confirm, got the Quiet Comforts myself about a month ago and use them every day. Use them with my S7 Edge, Surface Book, cheap 20$ bluetooth dongle connected to my gaming PC and a fat 2012 13" MacBook hand-me-down at work. The only machine I have problems with is the MacBook, to the point where I'd rather just play music from my phone all day than fight with it.
Mine too! Just when you thought you'd seen everything LaTeX could do (and we see a lot of it at Overleaf[1]!)

If the author is reading these comments, what motivated/inspired you to do this?

[1] https://www.overleaf.com
Thanks! Did you already have some audience to start with (i.e. blog readers, Twitter followers, etc) or were you starting from scratch?
Dutch Journalist Okke Ornstein Imprisoned 20 Months in Panama for His Blog Posts
State actors aren't the only ones threatening the security of SMS OTP.
What about the whole thing with Neo vs Smith in the last movie?
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Yeah, as someone whose go to languages are C++, Scala and Ruby[1], it's awesome that Perl 6 does so much[2], but I think I'd have a hard time keeping track of it all.

[1] Meaning I like having lots of features in my toolbox.

[2] And, amazingly, Rakudo is a pretty compact executable compared to most other langs.
I am.

Also used Mesosphere (Marathon/mesos/chronos...) before in production.
That's it, thanks :)
I think you're reading into the question a bit much - it's just asking "What's the best city for Devs without a Degree?" Granted, having a why is really nice. So here goes:

I'm not sure I agree with OP's assessment that it's be best without explanation, as a Portlander myself. There really aren't that many tech jobs here, not like SF at least, and given that it's competitive (everyone wants to live here), anyone who wants to see a C.S. degree on their resumes can discard the others until they find what they're looking for. Granted, since a lot of companies here are small and don't have the money to fly prospective hires in for a visit, living here and at least having technical skills is valuable. It also helps your case that aside from Intel we don't have much of a presence from top software giants - ya know, the kinda that can be picky about who they hire. A lot of the jobs here aren't "high tech" though - as a developer you might have a hard time finding the sweet spot of fun/interesting/world changing work you're looking for.

That said, the DIY ethos is strong here, and there really aren't that many techies, so a good history of development will get you as far here as anywhere. I think the lack of nearby schools producing C.S. grads is another factor in why most of our tech community is self-taught or imported from somewhere where C.S. is taught.

Culturally, I think casual tech people are happier here since the community is small and not as serious as in SF or other places. People who are really serious about their work are rare and talking about work makes you seem clueless in a city full of people who love to play.
crawl dev here! I'm generally pretty dumbstruck by the rest of the team. They're as good or better than professional groups I've worked with. A handful of super devs really drive the project along and we've had a fairly long history to develop over. My own involvement is 7 years, while I think there are others who have been hacking on it since 2005. For a lot of the time dpeg has been our de facto tastemaker/PM.
For a new grad, your pedigree is the biggest factor in getting your foot through the front door. If you don't have an impressive resume, you might not even get past the first screen.

Lacking that, you can try to get a warm open if you know someone working at the company who can vouch for you.

After that, it's all about your interview chops. Pretty much all SF unicorn startups have the same Google style interview.
No, Lin-Alg is in fact what I work on in my research on spectral graph theory and graph partitions for approximation algorithms; but I do think there are different tools for different jobs.

There are plenty of interesting results where linear algebra shines and is beautiful (Kirchoff's theorems for counting trees, random walks on lattices as electrical networks, harmonic functions on graphs, topological data analysis) but there's plenty of statements where linear algebra is a hammer that's wholly unnecessary---statements that are already simple or elegant using other descriptions of graphs.

Though: interesting paper you linked to, thanks for that.
No I'm not stuck, but realistically when you make a change like that you're going to have to update the entire module. There's no way that having a mix of incompatible different language versions in individual source code files within a single module is ever going to be practical for real world large scale product development.
I love the guy claiming that his iPad was listening to their conversations and he magically got ads related to his conversation.

I'm a little skeptical of that one.
Is picasa for Linux still usable?

Picasa is/was great.
Which did you like better and why?
Ask HN: What has your experience with DreamHost's DreamCompute been?
For anyone that has used DreamCompute, what has you experience been? How do they compare with DigitalOcean? In terms of pricing and what is being offered, they seem to be very tempting. I'm looking for a cheap route to host a few small apps with dokku.
The video says that one in three adults in the US will die of Alzheimer's or dementia. But that doesn't match any data I could find. Heart disease and cancer kill over half a million people per year, while Alzheimer's is around 100,000.
They didn't. In layman terms: It is the electroysis of heavy water (D2O) on a palladium electrode.
A lot:

https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=make+build
You have to love comments that spawn links. "Why is that a thing?"
I don't totally agree with this title change. Of course FIDO security keys improve security. What is interesting about this article and the research conducted is the comparative effectiveness of FIDO keys versus the much more widely deployed mechanism of SMS OTP.
Futher discussion just over a week ago, where Exhalation was called "one of the best SF stories ever written", and several other recommendations were made:

Ted Chiang on Seeing His Stories Adapted and the Ever-Expanding Popularity of SF

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13053377
Man, I miss geocities...
It doesn't have to be an either/or thing, especially if it's presented as an option to tip rather than to purchase!
This could also be an issue on Fitbit's side. Open Sourcing all the IP makes the deal less enticing to them (that's the first order analysis, but there's arguments in the other direction too)
SMS-based 2FA doesn't stop phishing, which is a significant security benefit of U2F.
Or if 60 hz is moderately effective, and the switch to LCD screens increased the rate of severe cases.
To be fair, all landing pages already look like this.
Another possibility is that wealth comes through windfalls or inheritance.
The trouble with modern universities is that they often conflate what are at least three separate concerns: intellectual formation/pedagogy, job training and research. Typically, when you ask someone why they want to go to college or why they did go to college, the automatic answer that they've been taught to give is "to get a job" (otherwise, you're going to "work at McDonald's"). The result, broadly speaking, is that these three concerns compete with each other, causing the university to suffer in the process.
Julian Assange defies prosectuors to release a statement on rape allegations
You must not be using the new macbooks...
Honestly: not surprised. The margins on DoorDash were way too slim to ever make the unit economics work. "Customers are used to paying $30 to Uber across the city — but very few will pay $30 to Uber their sandwich." [0]

[0] https://medium.com/@review/the-food-delivery-death-star-85f9...
Good to know! My only experience so far with Cython comes from lxml. It's a weird language that seems to have a lot of corner cases, though. Just like C++/CLI.
I love this. Also a super fan of the UI. Seamlessly led me to a download button with the source. They've coupled it with an awesome hosting setup process. I can promise you I will use this service for the very next project of mine.

Commoditisation of design cannot come soon enough! ( at least the web design part :) )
Really appreciate you taking the time to answer all of these comments & concerns. Guess it's time now to sit back and see where this takes us