skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of mathematical proofs isn't really to convince people psychologically that something is true -- it's to show why something is true.

Do you really know "why" 0.99.. = 1 by writing 0.99... = 3 * (0.33...) = 3 * 1/3 = 1 ?

I'd argue that you just kicked the can down the road.
> Hackers and others within that category are great. Thanks to hackers you can get full access to devices that would otherwise be locked down. Thanks to hackers you can take full control of your media content, playing it without constraints and on any device.

You're ignoring a lot of the other things hackers do. Like, you know, break into systems they don't own for profit. On the dark web, you've got DDoS as a service and botnet as a service sites.
Somewhat strawman, yeah. But it still seems valid - React allows you to do this, and you do see it in the wild.

People who have been bitten by it (or read enough best-practices stuff to avoid it up-front) will know better and won't do so, but you have to know better - that's kinda the central point in here. React has more footguns, and the article is arguing that they're unnecessary / things end up worse than if they weren't allowed, without losing flexibility.
I'm glad you were able to get the information from a more reasonable provider.

I guess I was lucky to some extent, and I hope we're all able to find "better" providers.
Telling people to kill themselves is bad, especially if there's any chance they might do so.

But the excerpt from the IRC log at the start is a horse of a very different colour.

The IRC user comes across as maybe a bit abrasive and certainly a bit exasperated, but at the end of the day he/she

- told the questioner exactly what they asked for

- established what they really needed

- told them that too

- (hopefully) taught them a lesson in how to express their needs

If <feline> was really "just sooooooo tired of beginners coming and asking stupid questions", presumably they wouldn't have bothered to: (a) answer a question (twice); (b) make sure they were answering the right question; (c) help the questioner phrase their questions better in future.
Are you saying zooming in on the sun makes damage more likely?

Wouldn't zooming in spread the sun's energy across more of the sensor? Same energy, larger area = less intensity.
Section 28, (6) of the BDSG (German Federal Data Protection Act):

(6) The collection, processing and use of special types of personal data (Section 3 (9)) for own commercial purposes shall be admissible when the data subject has not consented in accordance with Section 4a (3) if

(...)

4. this is necessary for the purposes of scientific research, where the scientific interest in carrying out the research project substantially outweighs the data subject's interest in excluding collection, processing and use and the purpose of the research cannot be achieved in any other way or would otherwise necessitate disproportionate effort.

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https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bdsg/englisch_bd...

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IANAL. Everyone may draw their own conclusions.
Was the traffic worth that? If so, would it have been worth it if the corrupt employee had been reassigned after three months rather than three years?
Lovely blog post. Well written, thorough and clear. Getting people involved in a large project is not an easy feat, and I think this may open the eyes of people not knowing were to start.

Well done!
How do Re-framers handle components that wants to redraw using a timer, such as an animation or progress bar?
Practical example, neural architecture search to discover convnets that require less computation, https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07012 "Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition"
Coincidentally, "the only reason most of us in first world countries are paid well has nothing to do with our own superior ability (eg. bus driver in India vs. Norway), but due to immigration control and the institutions we inherit" clearly explains why a bus driver in a first world country would/should vote for anyone who promises more immigration control and sticking to the institutions we inherited.
I think the trick is to release them as soon as they are almost done, think 95% because for me the last 5% was always the hardest and that's what caused the longest delays.. Trying to sort out all the bugs and making it perfect.

Once some money or feedback starts rolling in it makes it incredibly motivating (or sometimes demotivating but that's good too) to keep working on it.
Should Kids Be Sedated for Dental Work?
A good lawyer is a good hacker - they know how to hack the legal system and find novel solutions to laws.
Erm, do you mean "worse" as in more money to repair a dropped camera (new body, realigning lenses, etc), or worse if there were two separate problems? In the second case, I'm guessing the repair technician would say "In addition to being dropped, the image sensor is also burnt", and the camera shop would say "okay, looks like you burnt the sensor with the eclipse, and then most likely dropped the camera on purpose", and would cover nothing.

In general, insurance relies heavily on intent. Intentionally breaking the camera on the ground would not be covered. Gross negligence (like ignoring the warning of the camera shop and proceeding to burn the sensor) is interesting because to the person doing it it feels like an accident, yet to most everyone else it feels like they didn't try hard enough not to.
1. Make releasing your stuff the primary goal, because anything you don't actually put into the world is just personal research.

And then update the project and release a new version!

Your product-making skill level is the number of product releases you've created. If you want to get better, you have to do more releases! Unreleased projects do not count because there are no other users!

Releasing is like exercising a muscle, so the more you do it the stronger you get. Jony Ive would be like a 350 lbs bodybuilder of product development.

2. Constantly be creating new projects. Do not settle on one and spend years perfecting it, unless lots of people are really excited about it and you are too (see: Linux).

Don't get your ego or excitement wrapped up in one project. Tell yourself that this is just one of many projects and that you're going to keep doing new ones even if this one is successful.

Keep creating new things at a rapid pace. Don't get bogged down unless by very deliberate choice.

3. Be ambitious. Go ahead and create a Google competitor in 1000 LOC, or whatever. It's amazing how few people even attempt to do anything big just because they assume that's someone else's job.

Go bonkers. Tilt at windmills.
Aha, nice to know. But are they of the same etymology?
I reported a safety issue with an Airbnb rental. All the smoke detectors had been removed. I even sent pictures. They didn't care.
I wouldn't eliminate the initiative process entirely, but there definitely needs to be a higher vote threshold for laws the legislature can't modify.
One might say complicated, I say feature rich! I think it's a shame that all focus is on Swift right now, because Objective-C has seen so many improvements in the last years, and it's now an incredible, mature language IMO. Wonderful to work in, and while I do dabble in Swift occasionally at work, and it has some neat features, I would still not choose it above Objective-C for any new stuff I'm building.
Ask HN: Who are your (programming) heros/heroines?
I am enamored with john carmack and cliff click. I watch all of videos and read all of their blogs. Who do you idolize as leaders in programming?
>By indicating you want it and being a participant in the market for it.

Does it count as being in the market if no exchange of money takes place? Is Github a market, for example? If not, this would seem to invalidate the idea at least when the material is found by chance or provided free.

>There are people who, knowing you are like them and enjoy that sort of thing, will make it for you.

That's true, but if you're using this as an argument against all the material then I think I should step in and say that it does not apply to all the material, or at least, you haven't provided evidence that it does. I don't doubt it happens, but to use this as a general argument seems to fall flat on its face.

The "good porn" analogues are people who record themselves because they like the attention. But I think this is a minority.
'Situational awareness' is maybe a better phrase. Predicting the future was probably next. Knowing that sunset is soon or that rain is coming requires situational awareness, long term memory, short-term memory, and all kinds of other stuff.

A realistic set of stimuli, a LOT of artificial neurons, and a lot of time will probably get there, eventually.
It's definitely not exclusive to the left, but it seems to me that the left is "punching down" at Christians, and I think that's one point of hypocrisy among the left (every group has their hypocrisy). While Christians are perhaps more numerous, the liberals doing the punching include university faculty, media elites, celebrities, business executives. It seems like if liberals could separate themselves from the situation, they might see a group of wealthy elites "oppressing" a religious minority.
I'm thinking the same. I have about 13 eth in there. I'm trying to avoid sunk cost thinking and assume someone is giving you for free 55% of coins now or unknown amount >55% in the future but tangible risk of getting nothing. What is better?
Unfortunately I don't think so. The only draw keeping FF alive for years has been its extension system. They gave up the unique UI flexibility, now they are giving up the flexible extensions. When Google makes it so easy to find and install Chrome everywhere, and sync it with your mobile device, now that the extensions world will be on "par" FF is even less distinct than it was and thus less reason to use it. This is the beginning of Firefox's final dive.

In a few more releases I really won't have any concrete reason to recommend FF over Chrome anymore (and no, 99% of users outside of this forum don't care about memory usage and keeping 100 tabs open at the same time)
Also amazing for creating MVPs. If you are a solopreneur with no shame (as in you don't give two shits about bugs, best practices, continuous delivery, etc) then I believe that a week is more than enough time to launch even the most ambitious of projects with PHP.
> break into systems they don't own

What is wrong with that? The owners of these systems should have made sure that they don't run shitty and (vulnerable/old versions of their) programs.

> On the dark web, you've got DDoS as a service and botnet as a service sites.

These things exist on the normal web as well.
> Where letters could be long, too? New, or do. Ran other!

I see what you mean...
Not the best name perhaps? https://matrix.org/
The overwhelming majority of child porn sites either require payment or require one to provide some child porn of their own as a barrier to entry. In either case, the creator is benefiting.

You haven't met a victim before. For them, the knowledge that their abuse is being watched by people for sexual pleasure all around the world years after it happened is a profound source of psychological trauma. It harms them.
If you use dpdk it has some of the fastest (if not the fastest) ring implementation available.
I'm sure many of them will try to sue later on but that's not an overnight process, it can take years for a lawsuit to make it's way through court. Plus the property owners don't even fully know what their full losses are yet, it's way too soon, the dust hasn't settled. $20,000 is too much for small claims court so it's going to be a big production. Furthermore, these scumbags are the type of people to say "LOL" to a legal judgement instead of paying it. That means more time in court to get wage and bank account garnishments (if they are even working). If they don't have the $20,000+ or a well paying job or assets then the judgement is worth as much as the paper it is written on, you can't get blood from a stone. If you get a wage garnishment you may collect your $20,000 in 10 years if you're lucky.

(Ignoring the fact it's a several months process to even evict a tenant in many states in the first place.)

You can't let AirBnB off the hook here, they have the moral, if not legal, responsibility to prevent the most egregious abuses of their platform.
> I'm looking for documented cases where common people have been harmed so I can feel more impacted by it (and I have better examples when talking about these subjects with friends and family).

https://www.thenation.com/article/how-clerical-error-barred-...

https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-checked-wrong-box-rah...

Some highlights:

* it was revealed in the lawsuit that she was put on the no-fly list due to a clerical error

* the government used nearly every tactic available to keep the details of her lawsuit secret in the name of national security, meaning a) they were actively trying to cover up embarrassment of the clerical error, b) the DOJ actually don't have an easy way to know why someone is on the no-fly list, or c) they have a way but have little to no interest in finding out. None of those are good options for a democratic developed country.

* this interrupted her Ph.D. studies at Stanford.

* this interrupted her ability to appear in court for her own lawsuit (because her name remaining on the no-fly list prevented her from travelling back to the U.S.)

* this cost millions of dollars in attorneys fees and what looks like years of time for her

* there is no evidence that the administration of the no-fly list has improved since then, and indeed has only grown (almost certainly a link from the Intercept that backs this up, but you're not paying me to research this and I am now bored and hungry)

Edit: just so it's clear-- the reason she kept reappearing in the list is because the nature of wide-net surveillance databases is that they sprawl across multiple agencies that often don't have the ability to communicate well with one another. Further, no congressperson in their right mind is going to publicly take up the cause of "cleaning up the no-fly list" because the moment there is anything resembling a terrorist attack an opponent will beat them by calling them "soft on terrorism."

One final edit: Question: be honest, if she had lost this lawsuit and I had included her story as an example of common people being impacted by wide-net surveillance, would you have found it convincing?
Did I say it was a mathematical proof?
Here in Norway at least, all voting is on paper ballot.

You receive an election card (valgkort) in the mail to bring to the polling station containing all your info. ID is also required.

If you forget this card, they can print it out for you.

Then you enter the booth containing party lists. You can't "punch" the wrong party as each have their own ballot. You can erase/add/reprioritize names on the party list you choose though.

Then you put this ballot into an anonymous envelope.
This envelope is then put into another envelope along with your election card.

When they count it, they pull out the ballot envelope and the election card, register that you have voted, then someone else will open and count the actual vote.

It seems to me to be pretty secure and anonymous.
North Korea says has developed more advanced hydrogen bomb: KCNA
Not correct. Some legacy plugins work fine: the add-ins store relied on user testing and flagging to confirm which still worked.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Guides/Multi...
Great introduction to the math/comp sci behind it, and I'm not sure if I missed it but I am wondering how nodes get in contact with each other.

As it is decentralized, it isn't obvious how the network knows about itself.
> only used by 333,000 people

doesn't sound like an "only" to me.
Nothing in this article has to do with speed/performance.
many of the apis were shimmed in such a way so that they'd work, but could still slow down the browser. Those shims will disappear.
Nope. First of all, in many cases, they have no knowledge of who the tenant is. Second, tenants come and go - the city or county has a deed with the landlord's name on it and can put a lien against it to be sure they get paid. I'm a landlord; fines ALWAYS go to the property owner, then you have to go after the tenants to recoup your money.
Amazing! Thank You !
No, I didn't know that. Thanks to the US Navy.

I just expressed my personal perception. I see politicians talking about, that the government should be able to decipher whatsapp etc.

They probably don't like tor either.
In the Midwest, microbrew (American) pints are often $3.
Given a choice between protecting the rights of the tenants and protecting the rights of the landlord, I think we should be very careful about leaning on the side of the tenants and I'm saying that as a former landlord. The landlord may lose money but the tenant could be homeless and living in unsafe conditions if you veer too much in the landlord's favor.

As far as making it easier to recover money. Since it is just another civil case, it would take a complete overhaul of civil court.
just tried it on macOS and I have to agree it feels very well made.

Some issues though: instead of going for 'native', they still seem to feel like Firefox is a little planet of its own. It doesn't use macOS-style menus, nor transparency. Not that Chrome uses all macOS style elements, but it at least feels like it has had some effort put into making it feel at home on macOS. There's also some weird defaults / ignorance of convention: every browser launches a private window with cmd+shift+n, Firefox uses cmd+shift+p. There's still a separate search field next to an URL&search field. Probably a few more that I missed.
I would say not even earth but life, everything and universe is insignificant but it does not matter. So does using your time wisely does not matter, just try to have fun (in a nice way) and don't panic. I am reading it again this week.
I used a Canon 80D with a EF-S 55-250mm lens and a solar filter film over the lens. My camera was fine.

https://imgur.com/a/OmPQP

Taken in rural Oregon (just two shots I selected at random for this post)
So I'm still skeptical... because the branding, presence and everything is just way too professional to make me believe he's done this alone. I also believe that he's using multiple HN profiles to manipulate visibility (there are a number of profiles who's first comment is this on this post).

However, I do believe he is legit about his age.

Searching for his name, I found this old CodePen account: https://codepen.io/KingKabir/

There's a link in there to: http://www.main180.tk

That link is expired, but it showed up in this Quora from 2015: https://www.quora.com/Should-an-11-year-old-know-full-stack-...

Looking in the wayback machine, you can see what content his site used to have: https://web.archive.org/web/20151231214946/http://www.main18...

This lead me to this blog: https://180projectblog.wordpress.com/

It looks like he accomplished most of them? I didn't count, but the last entry on that site was in March 2016 (https://180projectblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/bubble/)

Moon was started in July 2016 (https://github.com/kbrsh/moon/commit/2e38db7571adf64c9192cfe...).

So while I'm still skeptical about his presence, I think it seems plausible that he is who he says he is, but that doesn't mean he's done it alone, etc, etc.
I wonder if that guy damaged his lens while making that. That lens looks similar to one of the damaged ones in the article.
Probably not, they are expensive, fragile and have very limited utility outside a major eclipse event.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1335775-REG/formatt_h...
it's for academic research papers
> And actually most of the C and C++ bugs beside the bad logical implementation which would be a fault of a person who write the code is the problem with not dealocated memory or pointers that point to a wrong part of memory and make programs crashes. In other words buffer overflows and stack smashing which all lead to segfaulting or even worse if they are not properly handled by the operating system like in case of Micro$hit windblows.

Yes, I would hope no kernel contributor ever refers to Micro$hit windblows, or has such atrocious grammar and communication skills. It seems like this guy is trying to explain the C memory model, but doing a terrible job. I would have guessed that most of the commenters are children in high school, but worryingly many seem to be full-grown adults.

This excerpt (above) is from a comment made by a GitHub account that is six years old and who claims to be an 'Experienced Linux System Admin'...
Trump names climate science denier to run NASA
What kind of Machiavellian logic is that? I'm able to hack you, therefore there's nothing wrong with doing so? What about in the physical world? If you don't know how to defend yourself, is there anything wrong with me mugging you?
There's a widely accepted concept in land ownership: essentially the land belongs to the person that tills it. You cannot buy 1000 acres, ignore it and expect that your grandson can show up 60 years later with the deed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession

Maybe the homeowners should pay more attention to their properties? Not to mention that in most cases they are the ones posting the listings. If the tenant breaks the rules, sue him or keep the deposit.

But to be fair: the tenant should pay the fine, provided the landlord didn't give him the OK. The govt can easily find the true violator
> I want my blue title bar on Windows, my menu bar, my status bar, my square tabs, etc, etc.

So like this [0]? The title bar isn't blue, but neither is any other title bar on Windows 10.

To achieve this on Nightly I opened the Customize view, switched the theme to "Light", checked the "Title bar" checkbox, and enabled "Menu bar" under the "Toolbars" dropdown. Tabs have squared edges by default.

[0] https://vgy.me/KvNgxS.png
The Streisand effect talks about hiding, removing or censoring a piece of information. To me, that is quite different than not promoting.
The hashes were acquired as Freenet content hash keys. He was sharing CP on freenet, which the government scrapes for known CP signatures.
In a few years lots of the edgier stuff will just be very realistic computer-generated imagery, but I expect the puritans will be making the same argument? In fact, even if the government set up some sort of bureau of approved CP (maybe they would enforce that all legal CP could be built from source?) lots of people would still want it outlawed...
Secrets put on internet in Whitehall blunders (telegraph.co.uk)
11 points by nthcolumn 1 hour ago

Please put (2011) in the title. The article was published 10:00PM BST 17 Apr 2011.
Why in the world did the US not put monitoring equipment in place after discovering the first incident months ago? I can't imagine a broadband SPL meter or microwave detector to be THAT expensive to protect the health of the diplomats who remained, or at least rule those out as possible causes. Did they think the attacks - or perhaps accidents - would not reoccur?
Plot twist: figuring out that objective function may prove as intractable as the original problem! We'll need an objective function writing objective function, and then it's turtles all the way down.
>I know of no biological forms that have evolved wheels.

Silly to reduce all rotary motion to wheels.

Less complex to roll as a ball -- the benefit of rotary motion without facilitating the additional complexity of adding a steering mechanism.

> But wheels have turned out to be a hell of a lot faster than fins or legs.

Nature doesn't somehow cares about hyper-optimizing for a single characteristic like 'speed', rather the characteristics arise from individual (species) successes between genetics lines.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rolling_animals