skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's because I keep changing features, and specs on the fly. The site I plan and the site I actually launch have a difference of day and night and TDD adds a sort of rigidity to that. Creating mocks for API calls, mock Models, etc is just too much overhead.

Also the rewards haven't been that significant as people claim, at least for me. My focus right now is to spend most of the time on SEO / marketing / generating leads.
It's all about the commas.
My wife had an account hacked years ago. I don't know for sure that it was brute forced (could have been phished or exfiltrated by a keylogger or session jacked with an XSS vulnerability or...), but I also don't know that it wasn't brute forced. She used very short, simple passwords at the time.

Come to think of it, I also had an old account with a very weak password that I hadn't used in years mysteriously hacked one day. The language settings were changed to Russian when I went to reset my password. The fact that no other account of mine appeared to be compromised and I hadn't used the site in years certainly suggests brute forcing.
This Is My Brain on Rock Climbing
Seriously great conference! The concept is really appealing - step out of the echo chamber of your own programming language / framework community and learn a bit about many other languages.
Hours? Could you elaborate a bit what exactly you mean with "by hand"? I'm probably not thinking manually enough, I can't come up with what could possibly that time intensive about any deployment.
> If you have a type of expense that's (a) unpredictable, and (b) rare, then it's a good fit for insurance.

That fits fine for things like cleanings, cavities, and implants - but what about impacted wisdom teeth and resultant issues? Broken teeth due to impact injuries? Even people with excellent dental hygiene have a decent chance of chipping a tooth, and even those types of things aren't covered under medical insurance.
Definitely the latter, there's no way to say it's impossible, just incredibly unlikely. It's easy to imagine a universe in which it is possible, and that universe could be consistent with the math. The big "but" however is that our universe has none of the features we'd expect from one with the necessary curvature or exotic matter/energy.

Does that make sense? I mean, if we discover that there are multiple universes, or that Block Universe is true.... who knows? Even then however, I suspect we'd run into something like Novikov Self-Consistency Principle, or we'd have noticed time travel by now.
My favorite restaurant in college is a high-end hotel in Johannesburg (actually it's not, and I've never even been to Africa unless you count a week I spent on Tenerife as a child).
Because it is a trivial todo app?
It wouldn't surprise me if they simply don't know.
Maybe we have figured it out, and just don't like the answer.

(Short answer: we're alone, or at best among the very first tech civilizations in our galaxy. Longer version: given sufficient time and space, even the most unlikely possibility will take place with probability near 1. If there have been technical civilizations in galactic history at a level slightly above our own or better, it's near certain that somebody would have launched a self-replicating interstellar "Bracewell - von Neumann" probe, and they'd saturate the galaxy for the rest of time. We don't see them, though.)
Well, the article itself is not discussing the merits of Kindle Voyage so the comment looked out of place for me. And certainly marketing via internet comments is a thing, even on HackerNews. I think it's called "integrated" marketing, or whatever the current newspeak for that one is. Regardless my comment was mostly made tongue-in-cheek
Audio is the only thing I don't do myself! I do the programming, art, writing and game design (and marketing/business stuff) but the audio side of things would be severely detrimental if I had to do that bit too.

The music is done by Peter Nickalls (http://peternickalls.com), a friend of mine that I've known for years and years. Too talented a composer to be working on my little projects, but I'm thankful for his work. The music he's worked on for my current, somewhat more ambitious project is absolutely incredible though.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review apply the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended; the USA PATRIOT Act is, AFAIK, largely irrelevant to them.

Their decisions, including the legal reasoning and analysis, are largely themselves classified, and are (like most warrant application procedures) non-assertive, which presents a significant problem of transparency. (Regular warrant application processes, insofar as they support what eventually turns into criminal prosecutions, at least are aimed at feeding into adversarial proceedings which can reject their results, which mitigates the problems stemming from non-adversarial proceedings.)
Hi Ajainy!

Engineer from ReadMe here. We do have a support forum that you can enable[0] for your users. Is that the kind of customer support you were talking about? If not, I'd be curious to know what you meant!

>[0] https://readme.readme.io/docs/submit-a-question
The reason they usually do not tell you is that cell networks on the ground do not handle phones well that are visible in too many wide spread out cell towers.

If planes were in danger because of turned on phones they would check for them much more thoroughly and also check lugagge for turned on phones.
Ok, we put it back.
Any of them.

If this question has haunted you for literally years, the right question is "how do I get through my analysis paralysis", not "what is the right stack/language/etc."
Moties, he's thinking of, as in "The Mote in God's Eye".
That really seems like wishing.

In an ideal world you'd want Youtube's (Google's) legal teams working for you, protecting you against DMCA abuses and alike... but they don't. Not unless you're a top-tier YouTuber and even then it's laughable dice roll as to whether they feel the bad press is worth their time to do anything.

And I don't believe from a bottom-line perspective the shareholders believe it's worth their time to do anything more than provide a platform (no matter how problematic) and market it.

Will Cloudflare do everything they can to keep your content accessible? Sure. Anything above and beyond that? lol. Good luck with that...
The future of space colonization – terraforming or space habitats?
So what would you have done? Make it so people can't say mean things about you? Nullify the right for people to choose who to do business with? (Sorry, Anti-Discrimination laws don't protect against discriminating against hate speech.)
Since I'm a "performance guy" I use vim ... which has been 64-bit compatible since last century.

Sure, Visual Studio is a much much bigger challenge to make compatible. But come on, they've had over a decade during which it was obvious it should be 64bit compatible! A decade!

During the same decade-long timeframe they should have been working on lifting the 260 char path limit, another bug they "wontfix".

My guess is that they've had really strong product management - they really prioritize those snazzy features and releases, but aren't allowed to spend any time on the technical debt. (And, seriously, they've had a decade ...)
Wait, why did the title change to specifically target "full stack programmers"? This is certainly less appealing to me now!
Yes, Slackware.

As for Slackware, it is not a "compile everything" distro. The install disk comes with most stuff you might want for a fairly typical desktop. For the rest, much of that can be had by using Slackbuild scripts from https://slackbuilds.org/ which handle all the compiling and packaging for you, leaving you with a ready Slackware package to install.
Assuming MS means Microsoft then you are incorrect. You can use Google Authenticator just fine with Microsoft accounts (because I'm doing it.)
Or even that their interests and yours are even remotely aligned.

They sell you a widget/service. That's where your relationship ends.
Can someone explain how the combat is supposed to work? I suppose that if I had more experience with these kinds of games it might be obvious.
An earlier exploration of this idea, but in a science fiction novel: Time is the Simplest Thing, by Clifford D Simak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_is_the_Simplest_Thing)
No because they are only short bursts. If they were guiding a spaceship in our direction then we would observe them as a constant source of light.
>You won't be able to prevent the wealthy from modifying their offspring anyway and the unfairness of having them do it vs 99% not being able to afford do is not enough of a reason to stop progress, not even close.

How is that not enough of a reason? The argument is the government has to step in and make it routine from the start. The alternative is to allow the wealthy to literally write superiority into their genes.
C#, Java, Swift, Rust, D probably.
> Having said all that my kids will be getting physical books. The distractions in electronic devices is something I'm still struggling

Having four kids myself, I would never have tried to start them reading on a device. Kids don't start reading novels or textbooks, they have books that are physically interactive in a way that doesn't translate very well to a screen. Starting out, children learn by touch and taste as much as with ears or eyes.

Even at ages four to six, many kids need a physical or tactile element to help them learn. My youngest used to love turning the pages back and forth to talk about the differences in the characters of Dr Seuss books like Go Dog Go. The physical interaction of turning a page to demonstrate progression of time in a story is something that doesn't seem to translate as well when swiping or tapping in a tablet.
What part of my comment suggests "that some human rights atrocities are more morally acceptable than others"?
Actually, probabilistically, it does not. There's effectively infinite correlations you can come up with that have no cause and effect
Google is a platinum sponsor for Let's Encrypt, which is slowly taking away market share from almost all commercial CAs[1]. They've also removed special treatment for EV certificates on mobile browsers (and are regularly thinking out loud about doing the same for their desktop browser), taking away most of the incentive for using a commercial CA (and not a free DV CA like Let's Encrypt). There's probably also a good chance that they'll offer something like Amazon's ACM (free certificates for various AWS services) as part of their Google Cloud offerings with their newly-acquired roots[2].

I think we can safely say that this would be a very weird way to go about earning a few bucks through CA investments.

[1]: https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/ssl_certif...

[2]: http://pki.goog/
This looks great. Ha, their travel stipend for speakers is a clever 256 EUR or 1024 EUR (in or outside Europe).
My Windows 10 Pro VMs always had some Candy Crush bullshit in the start menu and happily displayed celebrity news every time I had to open Edge (mostly to download Firefox).
Yeah the uncoerced choice to eat chillis is a major potential confounding factor. It's really not for everyone and frequently seems to have something to say about the environment you were brought up in & the type of food you normally eat.
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As someone with an unusual name (used for my public-facing email address) and who uses a fairly unusual email for personal stuff... that's pretty different from my experiences. I've never ended up with someone else's mail at all.

That's a solid argument for business cards with vCard QR codes as I see it. Or a pack of stickers with QR codes that you could slap on whatever documents you needed.

It's too bad QR code adoption is so horrible. I'm just as guilty of it as anyone else, I assume that any QR code is probably just some marketing thing.

But vCards seem like one of the very legit use-cases. Now that I am imagining using stickers and never filling out my contact info on a form again, I realize that's definitely a world I want to live in.
It's funny because I'm the exact opposite. I have to have paper books for my pleasure reading, but most of my technical or higher brow books I keep digital since it's massively cheaper and easier to search/bookmark/leave notes/etc.
> Todo lists don't make billion dollar businesses

That's the domain of photo sharing apps.
It's a solution that assumes things like a perfectly uniform sphere of gas collapsing from infinity (Schwarzschild geometry), without any angular momentum. Even then, the ERB isn't traversable. A lot of the talk around wormholes and time travel suffers from map-territory issues.

For example, if you look at the maximally extended Schwarzschild geometry (the Kruskal-Szekeres extension) you see two asymptotically flat regions of spacetime connected by a "wormhole". It's probably just an artifact of the model though, and not anything physical.

A lot of the, "Math allows" stuff probably falls into that category, which is why when it comes to relativistic masses and velocities, you can't ignore quantum effects either.
But is diseases really the type of diversity we want though? Some mutation that is generally bad does turn out to be good in some cases [1] but I am still not 100% convinced that the disease causing mutations is diversity that needs to be preserved.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3499995/
> 120 divided by 5 = 24. Not bad! 24 mph is only a bit faster than the speed at which experienced parachutists land.

This is of course being a little silly, but it does get the physics wrong. Your energy is proportional to the square of your speed, so you have 25x more energy to dissipate at 120 mph, not 5x. Even if your five point landing was perfect, each of the five 'hits' is the equivalent of a landing at just under 60 mph, not 24.
Kanban boards have existed since the 50s. The "magic" of trello was the instant updates. It was a perfect example of software eating the world.
I think .Net Core is getting quite close to that.

It still needs a project file, but it has a nice command line interface, which means you don't need VS.

But I'll probably still keep using LinqPad anyway.
It's not often I read a back-and-forth exchange like this and end up agreeing with both sides.
Based on the countries you're mentioning, I'd guess that it's a legal limitation.
Rawioli
There is a DNA joke in there somewhere.
Or we could feed people real food.
Yes, please send an email to our sales or support address and we'll work out the details.
You know I started this thinking it was idiotic, based on the headline, and it's actually quite interesting. I think it's totally the wrong way to look at the Universe, but it's rational and well articulated.
I remember stumbling across Oz late one night not knowing anything about it and thinking "whoa. This is different..."

But - as others have said - there is a gradual evolution. The trend in TV content didn't have a miraculous genesis. There's amazing stuff going back much earlier - it depends on what factors you are including.
Yes lisp.

(constant lisper)
Not sure what happened (moderation?), but now the title is, indeed, different from what I originally submitted
"The one who wants - seeks ways, who does not want - seeks a reason"
I'm convinced, after working on a (micro)service-heavy 2+ million line code base for a couple of years now.

Our thousands of unit tests are invaluable, primarily for providing a strict definition of what the code should do, but also for catching bugs when refactoring. We don't often introduce bugs that break tests when refactoring simple parts of the system. But for the complex parts of the system, the tests both maintain a ground truth for how the code should behave, and make it trivial to ensure correct behavior after refactoring.

If we hadn't had the tests, we would be almost guaranteed to change the intended behavior of the code when modifying complex parts of the system. Perhaps no big deal if you're writing an Instagram clone and crashes will show up in your logs and prompt you to investigate, but critical when your code processes millions in financial transactions and subtle logging errors could cause a nightmare.

As always, it depends on your problem domain and priorities. There's an expensive overhead to having good test coverage. Many failed tests will be false positives.
As you can see from recent world events, the words of scholars carry less weight in turbulent times than the words of populists.
I think lots of great ideas are obvious in retrospect
I was talking about traveling between galaxies, my understanding is there's essentially nothing between them: no asteroids to mine. So you'd need to bring everything you might need in advance. But maybe I'm wrong, maybe there is a decent amount of debris floating between galaxies?

> They could literally just be a bunch of machines that "live" in space. Floating around from place to place, grabbing resources from asteroids as they go by.

Whenever I think of what an advanced civilization would look like, I picture something like this (though not necessarily just machines). Something semi-nomadic, an entire civilization of ships in a big fleet, wandering together through the galaxy, stopping at various systems to gather some resources or explore the planets. Maybe the fleet breaks up and goes in different directions for a time, and rendezvous later.
The main Android detection here can probably be defeated using a tool like Pry-Fi on a rooted device,

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.p...

You can also set specific MACs per-AP so it'll defeat probe-based attacks too theoretically. This should get it by 4/5 attacks here.

Their RTS/CTS method in particular sounds like it'll be impossible to defeat without Wifi chipset manufacturers simply removing their hardcoded MAC and switching to letting the OS pick it - unless there's a possibility of triggering that change via a driver already, might be time to start looking at datasheets on wifi chips.
It should have ended with the 3rd season. The 4th season was directionless, the 5th season was ok, the 6th season again went nowhere (not to mention the stupid magic-as-drug subplot and Tara's death), and that's when I stopped watching.
Sci-fi with a happy, conflict free world is pretty boring though.
Donald Knuth did say once that he's not much of a fan of unit tests. See his answer to the second question of his interview at: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856

Then again, there are probably less than a dozen people at his level of ability on the entire planet so unit tests will be part of our lives for the foreseeable future.
> Correlation implies causation

It doesn't.

> which is why scientists proceed from there in search of proof.

Scientists don't prove anything, in fact all they do is disprove or fail to do so.
(It's worth noting that you can configure pro in the same way. There's a gpedit property) and a regedit property in home to achieve the same thing
Yes, the game uses some (few) components from the rot.js toolkit.
The letter itself says:

Although the possibility that FRBs are produced by
extragalactic civilizations is more speculative than
an astrophysical origin, quantifying the requirements
necessary for an artificial origin serves, at the very
least, the important purpose of enabling astronomers to
rule it out with future data.

Never mind the fact that it makes testable predictions:

It should be possible to distinguish between FRBs of
natural and artificial (light sail) origin based on the
expected shape of the pulse, as the beam sweeps by to
power the light sail. More specifically, the sail
would cast a moving shadow on the observed beam,
thereby leading to a diffraction pattern and multiple
peaks in the light curve based on the sail geometry.
A series of short symmetric bursts would be observed as
the beam’s path intersects with the observer’s line of
sight. Hence, looking for similar signatures in the
signal could help determine whether FRBs are powered by
extragalactic civilizations...
Over a decade ago I worked at one of the big semiconductor manufacturing R&D outfits (there's very few of those in the world) and the mirror making for EUV lithography R&D was done by polishing by hand at the end by two guys with metallurgy PhDs. Good chuckles were had.
The bending of space is possible though. We could figure out how to bend space in a different way. Think about it, alchemists were trying to figure out how to turn lead into gold. We now know how to transmute an element into gold, although not economically. Science is till pretty young. I wouldn't rule out something similar to the Alcubierre Drive for space travel.
While I still use my Kindle for travel, I've actually purchased more hardcover books SINCE I got a Kindle, then I have at any other point in my life. Using the Kindle, just gave me even more appreciation for the experience of holding a book, flipping the pages, the smell, that whole tactile experience that is just missing otherwise.

I'm also making a serious attempt to distance myself from technology for at least part of the day. Smartphones have essentially taking over my life, and I'm actively removing myself from that as well.
Amazon Launches Alexa Fund Fellowship to Help University Students
What's even more annoying is that some sites ask for verification, but then proceed to email you stuff even if you don't click verify. Someone in Australia created an Apple ID using my email. I ignored the verification, but then I got a bunch of purchase receipts from them later.

What I really wish for is a link in emails that say "I am not the intended recipient of this letter." Normal mail works like that. You can ask the United States Postal Service to only deliver mail that has your name on it, and if you send back mail with someone else's name they will add that person's name to a database that says the mail is undeliverable.

I don't want to mark these organizations as spam, but that's basically what they are to me. I've started using the password reset to log in and change the email preferences so I don't get these emails anymore.
You can go into settings>system>display to configure the alignment of the two desktops. It looks like they might both share the bottom edge rather than the top edge
Immediate thought, unchanged by the content of the article: how many people (a) know how to build a billion-dollar business, and (b) how to distill the "failure" to reach the billion-dollar mark into simple talking points? Something that big has so many moving parts and intangibles, I'd imagine a rigorous analysis would be very difficult.
Really? I find that his ability to write dialogue, especially in the context of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was unmatched. Look at the influence the way they speak has on language and pop culture references. A lot of the idioms and jokes began with things he wrote. I think that's a fairly reasonable marker in the "Joss Weedon is pretty good at writing dialogue" column.

IMNSHO.

Edited to add: Made changes for clarity.
This is called alternative facts :P
>Doctor: So do you want the $500 edit to ensure your child won't have diabetes. How about the $2,000 Autism edit? Then the gender change edit is to late to perform. We could do artificial semination and guarantee the gender of your child.

I don't have a problem with any of that.