skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the counter would be saved by LessPass. Every time you look up the password for that site, it'll already know what the counter is set to for that site.

This blog post[0] shows how LessPass lets you change passwords per site, and get around tricky password requirements.

[0] https://blog.lesspass.com/lesspass-how-it-works-dde742dd18a4
I've just installed it and haven't yet used it, but as far as I can tell from the docs, the counter is stored as part of the syncable profile for a site.

The profile is also used to store other site-specific attributes, like if it has some weird password rule that requires pure alphanumeric or a specific password length.
It's fundamentally about turning public space into a private club. Fine. Just don't expect me to be happy about paying for roads and sewers in places that keep poor people out.
Lots of places are still running Windows 2003 or 2000 and thus have critical infrastructure that uses NTLM.

Also, many, many places who do upgrade turn on legacy crap to interoperate and never turn them off. It's a lot of work to disable it, and the systems that still use it are usually old crap that isn't budgeted.
Encryption only protects files at rest. The vast majority of attacks are against live systems connected to a network, where full disk encryption won't help you one bit. It is a nice extra layer of protection for when a device is lost/stolen, but I don't consider it a primary form of protection for any important data.
Show HN: Straightforward real time image annotations
Web Browser: Firefox

Email Client: Thunderbird

File manager: Nemo

Basic Text Editor: Anything except Gedit. For example Geany is fine.

Messaging Client: Telegram, Pidgin

IRC client: Hexchat

PDF Reader: Evince

Calendar: Thunderbird's built-in

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: Spotify non-free, VLC

Screen recording: SSR (ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder)

System monitor: htop, gnome-system-monitor

Calculator: apcalc
> The act of joining together particular character combinations into more aesthetically pleasing forms is common and very old practice.

Yep, the ampersand symbol "&" originated as a ligature for et, Latin for "and". You can see this more obviously in italic families and some fonts expose a more fancier variant as well. Example: http://i.imgur.com/Rsmmql9.jpg.
Change in Chrome to decrease memory use does the opposite
Show HN: E-Reveal, an open source tool to reveal emails on LinkedIn profiles
Staying past park hours for the most part is dumb... as far as being a big deal, its not. People walking around trying to play a game after hours is no something that needs policing in the first place...

Is the game responsible for people littering? Or tramping grass (seriously, its grass... lets get over ourselves) or flowers... Is the game responsible for that, or are the people who do the wrong thing responsible? This points at the overall shifting of blame for everything that is becoming so common in our culture... put the blame on the person who does the wrong thing.
Are the batches really that tight still? Seems nice just as a way to structure the curriculum, but is it more than that?
it's interesting because each level of indirection is not like a pointer in C but has error associated with it.

interesting thought exercise to try to understand the error at each level.
A Rare-Book Thief Who Looted College Libraries in the ’80s
In the end, all that we care about is the effective annual rate of return. It doesn't matter if you did 200 trades that year or 1 - the money is the same if you have the same RoR.

The number of data points is important when looking for trends, or for cleanness of data. However, they're not showing us the data. It could be hugely volatile, or fairly linear.
And it would help the applicants, if the bashing is justified.
Ew, no. The fact that they are intentionally confusing users to piggyback off Anki's success is so scummy and distasteful.
Am I the only one that feels Lyft needs to significantly improve their app?

Uber has a lot of issues & I'd like to use them less, but their app is just better. The pins show up in the right place, the maps seem more accurate and the ux in general is more streamlined & easier to follow.

I know Lyft/Uber are having the driver wars, but it seems like the apps should be at parity (at least) and Uber is bar far better to the point that I actually like Lyft more, but use them less because the app is that much worse.

Is it just me?
I think Kevin was being snarky.
A motley combination of a wiki (I use Mediawiki), paper notebooks, and various OpenOffice / Google Docs documents. Also, I annotate paper books with those colored sticky page flags, and - rarely - light pencil marks (I mostly don't like marking on books).

All of that said, I don't have a good, comprehensive, over-arching approach. It's a bit of a jumble right now. That said, in the name of "eating your own dog food", I will eventually be applying some of the stuff we're working on at Fogbeam Labs, especially in terms of using semantic web tech and machine learning to automatically mine rich semantics from documents and automatically link them, etc.
Unfortunately there is very little here that isn't just general interview advice.

As a new grad that went through the hunt very recently - it was a messy process. Very few places will consider you without extensive experience, or a masters/Ph.D. Of course if you're hiring people to research machine learning algorithms that's justifiable, but plenty of the responsibilities people associate with data scientists don't require advanced degrees.

And the number of posts asking for 5, 7, even 10 years of experience... absolutely astounding.

As someone uninterested in going back to school, I've resigned myself to getting some work experience and doing personal projects for 1-2 yrs before trying again.
A challenge I had in choosing a mechanical keyboard was the availability of 105-key (ISO) layouts in North America, as I prefer the Canadian Multilingual layout. Apparently, such keyboards are mostly sold through European resellers, even when they're actually made in the US (looking at you, DAS).

In the end, I went with a Unicomp, and I'm very happy with it.
For a long time you couldn't setup a domain trust without NTLM.
5 year windows are practically noise:

http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2015/Dec/pay-down-mortgage-or-in...
UIs don't need to look the same, and there's no reason they should. Choice is a good thing. The problem, however, is a lack of interoperability: Gtk apps look like shit in KDE and vice-versa. There's no good reason for this; it's possible to make it so apps with different toolkits blend in seamlessly, but the Gnome devs are infamous for being completely unhelpful here and having a "our way or the highway" approach to everything.

>Because while you think gnome3 sucks if Canonical had their way everyone would be using it.

Not true; if Canonical had their way, everyone would be using Unity. Honestly, I don't begrudge them making Unity; it's good to have some diversity, but I do begrudge them switching to Gnome3 recently and abandoning Unity altogether. A lot of people liked Unity and its concepts. Instead of throwing in the towel and becoming yet another me-too Gnome3 distro, they could have adopted KDE, and then created a custom KDE theme or version of Plasma which looks and works like Unity and allows them to continue to explore those concepts which leveraging the existing KDE underpinnings and the superior Qt toolkit. The real problem IMO is the horrible Gtk toolkit: it's in C but bolts on a hacky OOP concept, it's undocumented, and it's constantly changing. I know of at least one commercial project which had to abandon it and switch to Qt because of the constant API deprecation, and there's at least one FOSS DE (Lxde I think) which also switched from Gtk to Qt for the same reasons, and got a performance boost in the process IIRC.

>the alternative is to stagnate with accepting what we have.

I can't even count the number of comments I've read from people who are sick and tired of the constant change and churn in Linux UIs. Lots of people were perfectly happy with Gnome2, but then it was deprecated and they were pushed to Gnome3 and it was terrible and they hated it. As a result, not 1 but 2 new DEs were created, just to satisfy people who wanted something more stable: Cinnamon and MATE. It's a complete mess. A lot of people were similarly pissed when KDE4.0 was released and they couldn't use KDE3 any more because the distros all deprecated it, and the new version was filled with huge bugs and didn't work. At some point, you need to aim for product maturity instead of constant churn. I've been using ssh for many, many years and I don't see that being deprecated any time soon and having to switch to some other standard, but somehow we're supposed to accept this as normal for DEs?
Beijing’s culture bureau explains that the Canadian popstar was barred because of his previous ‘bad behaviour’ which ‘caused public dissatisfaction’
Liberty versus authoritarianism? I acknowledge such people exist, but I don't pretend to know or understand their full argument of why it should be regulated. At least with the religious people, I can understand why, I just reject the silly premises (that God will smite us like in the story of Sodom). With atheists (presumably Stalinists?), I really don't get it. Besides, we've seen atheistic authoritarian societies before, and they were a complete disaster, not only economically but also as far as having a happy, functioning society. Hint: if you have to have a wall to keep people from running away from your society, and you shoot people who try to climb over the wall, then the fundamentals of your society are not worth preserving. Now it might be obvious that I'm following a fairly utilitarian philosophy here (happy = good), but if you're not religious and don't believe in utilitarianism, what exactly is the goal for your society? Generally, societies which do not value the happiness of their citizens are religious, because they claim that they need to "please God" or act in certain ways to have a better afterlife. Remove the afterlife and deity and what do you have left? Either wanting people to be happy (but still functional; not happy as in drugged-out all the time and unable to keep society functioning), or you're running the society on what makes one person happy and to hell with what everyone else wants, which is basically narcissism (which probably describes North Korea today).
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While I've had people say I'm crazy, I don't think I could ever give up my current font I've been using for years now: https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans . It's both readable and fun. Keeps me extra happy throughout the day. :)
Onenote... Helps me organize my thoughts and the search works well enough to find things. Not great for collecting things of the web though, as I don't think the clipper is powerful enough.
Ag workers are not a huge cost driver to the retail price of food, so it'll be fine.
There is a comment in this thread recommending moving out of the Bay Area and directly to China, Russia, Brazil as good alternatives.
Business purposes for startup school:

- International brand awareness, establishes them as a thought leader. Attracts entrepreneurs from all over the world to YC Core.

- Data. Every startup posted weekly metrics and they were segmented into category: AI, B2B, etc. This can be useful to choosing which categories to invest heavily in, and they can tell their alums what's hot.

- Makes their market grow faster. The more great startups out there, the more successful YC will be.
Might be easier to just go with screenshots
Honestly it is hard for me to regard as very credible an author who openly admits not knowing who shannon was before starting this book..
I don't like that --> has a continuous line. that gap in the middle gives me a very clear indication of how many -s there are in the arrow.
https://github.com/roddhjav/pass-tomb
There are definitely trade-offs involved, and I cannot emphasize "well-managed" in "well-managed commute" enough.

For anyone considering it, I'd definitely encourage you to keep the following factors in mind when designing a super-commute:

1. Workplace flexibility; if your workplace requires you
to be a butt in a chair from 9-5 (or 9-6), it is going
to be difficult to engineer a workable commute.
2. Can you engineer an early or late commute? If you
can arrange things to be home for either breakfast or
dinner, and see your family for a couple of hours in
the morning or night, it's way less isolating.
3. Stick with mass transit; there is a big difference
between 90 minutes in a car and 90 minutes on a train.
4. Optimize your work arrival/departure for train/bus
times. If you have to wait 45 minutes for a train
after getting off work, your commute is 45 minutes
longer.
5. Keep a rigid schedule. Commuting 2+ hours each way
with tight margins means you can rarely work late,
come in early, or go out after work with your coworkers.
6. When considering a new home/job with an extreme commute,
evaluate your entire commute. If you only consider
eg the train time, and not the trip to and from train
stations and wait times, you will get in over your
head. Two houses in the same town may have radically
different door-to-doors for two different jobs in the
same city.

It's not for everyone, and if you can't design it well it eats into every part of your life, but my point is just that, if you do it right, an extreme commute ... may not be the most salient part of your life. You go to work, you spend time with your family, and you get whatever you were trying to get by living 80+ miles from your workplace.

And you come to relish your time on the train, where you sit quietly and don't talk to anyone or do anything.
What's wrong with living close to people as a kid?

This line of thinking is entirely new and really foreign to me. Even my grandparents, and the people around them, living in a tiny town and owning quite a few large pieces of land chose to build their homes close to each other. Sharing walls even.

How is not seeing your father better than sharing a wall with someone?
The first impact of self-driving cars will be much worse traffic. While ride-sharing and public transit are helpful, they are nowhere near as good as self-driving cars.

If you had a self-driving car you'd be able to set up a truly productive or relaxing environment, which you're unable to fully replicate on public transit. For example, stick in a mattress with your favorite pillow, add a shower, have a desk with nice big monitors, a webcam to take video calls, etc. Aside from just being transportation, a car is also a bubble of quiet, cleanliness, and personal security. It is a mini house on wheels, a portable locker, and a refuge.

And since you're not driving, who cares about the traffic?
One way to approach it, retaining the free market dynamics, is to have players bid on land with rent. Instead of paying the bank a big pile up front, agree on a rent to pay every turn to keep the land, highest bidder wins.
And this highlights the fallacy that Amazon Glacier is a backup service. It's not - it's an archive service. Something that takes a few days to recover is not backed up.

I agree the other products are indeed backups as they provide immediate recovery.
Vin Cerf review of new Claude Shannon biography
I did a ~1hr 45min commute at one point, with an hour of that on a commuter train, the rest on an uncrowded subway + walking, and I also didn't have a problem with it. The train was calm, I had plenty of room, and as you mentioned, it was "me" time. I could do whatever I wanted- read, listen to music, play on my laptop, work on my laptop, whatever.

The train was also a nice forcing function to get up and leave as well and get in a routine that you stick to. I actually also kind of miss commuting on the train- I read so many books, many technical and textbooks too- there weren't a whole lot of distractions, so you could really dive in.
Github is a good place to store notes, etc. I use either .org or .md files for documentation.

Over the past year, I've been trying to go deeper with my Swift/iOS knowledge and creating small example programs so I have can build a reference as I learn something new:

https://github.com/melling/ios_topics/blob/master/README.md

For a better search, I load the local repo into Sublime.
Ask HN: Add .user-{username} class to posts?
That would allow user blocking through Adblock.
For my current job at HARC LA, I got an apartment two blocks from our office. This has worked out very well, I'm pretty spoiled now.
In Markdown files and Google Spreadsheets.

The markdown files are published to my site...which I accidentally overwrote https://www.aizatto.com/notes/

Google Spreadsheets example:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15J9dbIjHmKP9ShYuy3wm...
I downvoted because I don't think it's constructive to force Emacs on everyone. In my post, I thought of including vim as the default text editor (I have set it as default on my work and home computers, also when opening a text/code file from a browser or file manager) and definitely as the default terminal editor (instead of nano), but many people are just not going to make use of it. If you want something specific, you should just install it yourself I think.

> please, ensure Ubuntu has always a recent Emacs version.

Outdated software is an issue in general. This is one of the reasons I hear people don't like Ubuntu, Debian or Mint because Fedora is actually up to date. Never mind that Fedora frequently breaks and Debian totally has a testing release, but Ubuntu is just lacking in this.
At least things have changed a little. A chap I know from school wrote a MIPS core for opencores & ended up on the receiving end of lawyers. http://brej.org/yellow_star/

Granted this was many moons ago, and they have to protect their IP.
200? Try 6000: http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/plaintexthistories.asp?h...

>From about 4000 BC oxen are harnessed and put to work. They drag sledges and, somewhat later, ploughs and wheeled wagons (an almost simultaneous innovation in the Middle East and in Europe). The plough immeasurably increases the crop of wheat or rice. The wagon enables it to be brought home from more distant fields.
They aren't doing this as a money making exercise. It's a way for them to get the MIPS architecture out in the open and have the next generation of engineers get familiar with it. I think the licensing is just a way for them to protect access to what is still monetisable IP while still making it available for teaching purposes.
I seriously doubt that they are afraid of negativity.

It's just that public comments on these posts would serve no tangible purpose for the companies.
Why should farm work be immune to cost disease when nothing else is?
For some background into the phenomenon that was Lake Park last summer, there was a large concentration of Pokestops around Lake Park in a relatively small area. In Pokemon GO there are geographic boundaries that make up biomes in the game which determine which Pokemon to spawn, for instance if you're near a source of water there is a high chance you will encounter water Pokemon. Lake Park appeared to not have any biome, which led to anything from the game being able to appear, including more rare types of Pokemon. Pokemon GO also has something called a lure module that players can place down which will attract more Pokemon to a Pokestop for 15 minutes. All these factors working together caused a massive influx of players to Lake Park from players from the greater Milwaukee and nearby Waukesha counties.

The area surrounding Lake park has affluent people living around there (homes valued in the range of $500k - $950k), and the Lake Park Bistro upscale restaurant was just north of the park with the largest parking lot closest to the concentration of Pokestops. Prior to Pokemon GO it was a quiet area with a great view of Lake Michigan from many of the homes along Lake Drive.

I'm inclined to believe that it was not only a combination of the holy grail Pokemon GO location for the greater Milwaukee area, but also a bit of "Not In My Backyard" [1] that led to the augmented reality game ordinance.

[1] - http://milwaukeerecord.com/city-life/lake-parks-pokemon-go-m...
>They should let the company moderate the discussion in those posts. I don't care if they're highly censored, I think there would be a lot of value to being able to ask the company questions about the roles.

Ew no. The illusion that a company is good is way more harmful than just disallowing comments in the first place.
Thanks for mentioning it. I previously couldn't have my passwords available from my phone.

I created a seperate ssh key and did this on my server https://superuser.com/a/444899
Although I am in agreement with you, a rise in the cost of wages for this sector hastens more automation
Update on Web Cryptography
Yes, please do provide some citations. This is interesting stuff.
> If a language supports unicode, why not support ≠ for not-equals instead of "!="?

Perl 6 tends to support both multicharacter ASCII operators and single-character Unicode equivalents.
This topic runs close to home for me in a a couple of ways. First, my research is broadly in the area - not geniuses, but individual differences. Second, as a scientist, in professional capacity I've come into personal contact with a couple of giants in the field who have been called geniuses, some who most people here would recognize, others who might be less well-known.

I've grown very disillusioned with the term "genius." Part of this has become because of how painfully obvious randomness plays in all of this, from a scientific perspective - not all, but a lot of it. Another part of it, though, is from seeing how social factors shape our labeling of geniuses from others, and the consequences that has. Maybe they're the same thing, but to me they're a bit different, in that you can ask "why is this high-ability person the way they are" but you can also ask "how is that this high-ability person becomes singled out"?

It's not so much that those labeled geniuses haven't made contributions. But in the couple of cases I'm aware of, it's almost as if there's a cult of personality surrounding them, that amplifies the apparent importance of what they did, far beyond the person's actual contributions. So that their mistakes, and the sometimes serious consequences of those mistakes are conveniently forgotten; also forgotten are others in the field who contributed the same ideas or findings, but at the wrong time or in the wrong outlet. There's dynamic patterns, too, in that the person who proposes the same things, but to the wrong audience or at the wrong time is literally discouraged and punished, and the other is encouraged and rewarded. Is a framework that includes the concept of genius even accurate then?

I think one needs to take very seriously in life whether or not they believe in a just world and why.
So I've been interviewing for data analyst/science positions since leaving Apple in April.

I may do a postmortem on my search later, but speaking from my experience with many, many interviews over the past couple months, the TL;DR is that the conventional interview wisdom on Hacker News/the cscareerquestions subreddit/this article is wrong and out of date. Interviews for such positions require a different set of skills than just reading Cracking the Code Interview (and ones that you can't get at a data bootcamp).
Exactly. There's too many rootkits and other malware that won't be revealed by most of the common malware and virus scanners.

A business that transacts with protected data should never try to remove malware - these systems need to be wiped and reinstalled.
Why bother with Lean and Agile when there's Deft?
Symbolic regression: derive an expression from data