skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This logic is so impressively bad I don't know where to begin. Okay how about this, I'm going to pretend I lack morals for a second.

I would do this with the information:

1. Write a script to webscrape sites like LinkedIn to find out if a name/address/ssn key could be tied to people like doctors, engineers and whoever else might have sufficient disposable income.

2. I would take out loans in their name. If I have to be there in person, I would go from city to city and find people I could easily get dirt on, like people that might be here illegally. I would then cut them in for a piece of the loan and then move onto a random city in a 200 mile radius.

3. Move away after I get away with enough to live on for the rest of my life.

4. Hell I might just sell the rest of the information and scripts to other people who lack scruples.
Fwiw OCaml is a GC language and can run on PIC: http://www.algo-prog.info/ocapic/web/index.php?id=ocapic
Marginal economics seems to be rather popular, but I'm still a stickler for classical ideas of value personally.
The siting of the tubine is indeed art. It will produce close to nothing at that height as air slows down near the ground due to friction. That's why turbines try to be located as high as possible (usually in a trade-off between cost of the tower and revenue from more wind).
>"packagename" instead of a full URL is quite a difference. And you are not addressing the other risks.

It is more characters, and therefore easier to misspell, but a URL also gives you a domain and probably a namespace for the developer, each of which can act as indicators of trustworthiness and help disambiguate packages with the same or similar names.

If you can't double check your spelling for a package name or you just pick the first Google result, or paste from SO, then you deserve what you get. Domain hijacking, MITM, Unicode shenanigans and such are real risks, but not of URLs as package identifiers per se, so much as risks of distributing packages over the internet, which most if not all do anyway.

>You can do that with most package managers as they show you the upstream URL.

But if you don't have to deal with the URL, chances are you won't, and it's less likely you'll bother to follow it. I'm arguing that, if URLs are dangerous because of their length, then package names alone are dangerous because of their abstraction. I know that I can probably trust including "https://github.com/symfony/symfony" but "symfony" or even "symfony/symfony" alone tells me nothing useful.

>Expecting every developer and every system engineer to verify every package and every dependency they install is not "just a tradeoff". It's simply impossible.

True, but Linus' Law is still basically the security model that's supposed to underpin open source software, even it it's proven not to scale as well as assumed. Someone, somewhere has to know the code is safe, and that's either you or someone you trust, or (as is likely the case with most developers) someone you just assume exists.

>Some check for the SSL certificate, some use package signing (e.g. APT). Also if the pypi domain expires everybody will know, unlike a random library.

There's no reason a package manager using URLs can't also require package servers (which, let's face it, are probably going to be Github and Bitbucket in almost all cases) or maintainers to do something similar. Or at the very least put out warnings the way browsers do about invalid or untrusted certificates or unknown domains. You would lose the freedom of the "wild west" model in its purest form but still not be tied down to a single source of authority.
I'd really like to be able to follow links from within a container and have them open in the default container (or a specific container if they are pinned).

Example: I contain google.com to a container called "Google", then I perform a Google search. I click a search link, and it opens in the Google container.

Ideally this would still use default. There is the option to right click every link, select "Open in Container" and then pick the default but it's not really optimal for two reasons:
1. Manual effort by the user
2. The link is to a redirector on Google's site, before it forwards to the third party site (though I guess I can live with this, its kind of outside scope of the feature).

So, really, I just want to pin a domain to a container. If I leave that domain, I want it to change containers.

I haven't been able to find a good way to do this automatically, with any of the configurable settings.
The dining philosophers have chopsticks in all the formulations I've seen. Wikipedia disagrees with me, FWIW.
I'd recommend keeping an eye on it; it's growing very fast.
Yes, I found that quite strange too. I would not consider him actually returned until he apologizes for his support for the death sentence on Rushdie.
Hmmm.

Qt programs are pretty small. Java are bigger but still much much smaller than any Electron-based program.

IIRC JRE is about 50 MB. Probably less. So even if you include it with your Java program, it's STILL smaller than Electron programs.
I mean, I'd love to, and the answer is a resounding yes. But it was buried off the front two pages.

No one respects the moderation more than I do, and how hard it is to make good decisions. But from a commenter POV it does get a little tiresome writing comments that get cut off due to shuffling around the front page. But meh, it's not a big deal.

EDIT: Welp. After looking over the other comments, it seems they made the right call. I wish people would behave themselves.
Surely 'Nukey McNukeface' is the obvious choice.
They do use a scan or a photocopy, but having that stored it is easier to check the identity of the real person once they claim there was identity theft.
The interesting abstract idea here is to use excess power capacity during the night or windy periods in given region for computing applications (like mining or high-latency cloud computing) where geography is irrelevant. This is a cool strategy for arbitraging away one of the biggest problems with renewable energy sources (intermittency). And it should only get more effective as the ratio of power society devotes to computation vs. physical use (heating, cooling, etc.) increases. Not sure why I'd never heard of it before.

(The application of the earned money to funding climate research is basically unrelated.)

EDIT: Maybe not. I'm getting article with conflicting estimates for future growth, but this study

https://eta.lbl.gov/publications/united-states-data-center-e...

suggests that data center energy use has recently slowed dramatically, to just 4% per year. Very surprising to me.
Huh, that's kind of odd. I use QR codes for lots of other things and they are successful, though the images are typically more clear.
Yes as the parent poster said, it may lead to the improvement of the system.
Good idea, but instead of free trial perhaps you should have a free tier. More startup-friendly and in the long run you will build mind share.
I am not the other poster but I would be extremely interested a similar email you offered, but on Go (if you've used it). My email is in my profile. I'm curious if you have any thoughts. Thanks!
Anything specific you'd care to highlight, or is this just hate?

We're in a flagged thread now, so it's just us. But you could still change my mind.
Inertia. The torque applied by electromagnetic force on the rotor plus that of friction and air resistance equals the torque applied (indirectly through a gear train) by the mainspring. The net torque is zero and the rotor keeps going at the same rate of rotation.

The integrated circuit counts how many times the rotor has spun compared to how many quartz crystal oscillations have happened and adjusts the electromagnetic force somehow. My guess is by increasing/decreasing the power passing through some resistor (creating heat).
Sometimes I wonder why Twitter doesnt offer this itself as part of their business offerings. Twitter works as a pseudo default customer service digital desk and this is the kind of thing they should offer to aide in that.
Would those be induction motors?
That's a non-starter. There hasn't been a large social network with an ad-free, analytics-free option you could pay for.
Parent explicitly talks about situations in which you can't just sell your excess power.
His "vision" is too self-centered and he expects people to live after his ideals but in fact people have better things to do than create art, or whatever.

>They choose passive consumption

The same person is likely an active producer in one area, and a passive consumer in others. I know I am.
You can do it online now.
And you'd end up in prison pretty quickly. The point is, it'd be worth the pain. We'd come out of it with a better system.
Being out of touch with what customers care about is bad for a company.

Being out of touch with what investors want is often good for a company. That's an argument against everybody stepping into the CEO role.

Come to think of it both arguments are the same. The reason you don't want to pay too much attention to investors is because investors are often out of touch with your customer base.
I see a lot of myself in these traits; I don't have the best interpersonal skills. While I don't enjoy confrontation for its own sake, I do enjoy robust debate with my peers so long as it serves a purpose.

However, that in no way precluded me being a consummate professional on support calls. Being nice and polite to your customers isn't difficult, though it can require a bit of patience if they are slow or make mistakes as you talk them through stuff. Or biting your tongue if they are rude or nasty; that's generally due to the frustration the software you wrote caused them. Show them some sympathy! I can't say that I particularly liked doing support calls, but I think pretty much anyone can play the role and do a decent job if they can use some basic common sense when talking to the person at the other end of the phone and keep their cool in the face of an angry caller. If a developer can't handle a routine telephone call in a civilised and respectful manner, I'm not sure I'd want them on my team.
The flaw in your logic lays with the bank. You will need a bank account/visit branch/transfer loaned money somewhere where you can cash them. Banks have cameras + Irs will quickly find you and won't allow you disappear or use that money
Likely due to some exponential thing with the switching frequency following the soft acceleration, as the speed as far as I know increases according to a cubic function until about half of full acceleration is reached, and from there on it goes over to quadratic until the train hits about 80 km/h, as they lack power at around that speed to keep the acceleration at the usual 0.9-1.1 m/s^2. And the harmonics are exponential, with log_2(#of_notes/12) giving you the relative frequency difference for a given number of notes spacing.
Is this for real?! Which guidelines are you talking about that are broken? You mean to say that asking for arguments/specifics is something that goes against HN guidelines?!

Now it looks like it becomes an issue if you ask somebody to argue his/her statement. And if you praise somebody for providing a specific piece of info, at the expense of being down-voted, even that becomes controversial. What school of thought are you guys applying to this?

And how-come you show up to moderate this one week after everything has settled? This is an ideological witch hunt on your side.

And where can I verify your mod status? Who is to say that you are not simply pretending to be a mod and acting to stifle rational dialogue?!

I have a suggestion: to make things truly arbitrary, please ban me, and then I will be sure that you are a moderator.

For such a sad joke, feel free to ban this account. I am not interested in playing in your box.
I don't understand this kind of sentiment. Why not?

Its adoption will be roughly proportional to its usefulness. If it turns out not to be useful, it will go away and you won't have to think about it anymore.
So many new books on Amazon are bad quality reprints.

Certain subjects depend on quality, clear illustrations.

I just assumed a new book meant quality of the original, but I was wrong.

Years ago, when I was learning watch repair, I bought a new copy of The Watch Repairer's Manual, by Henry Fried. Published by the American Watchmaker's Press. It wasen't cheap then either.

As I was reading it, the diagrams seemed fuzzy. I thought it was just me though. I'm a first edition collector, and have a huge library. You would think I would have spotted a bad printing run.

Well, I happened to buy the same book off eBay, but was published in 1973. The pages, and illustrations were crisp, and clear.

I learned my lesson though. It's a clever way to sell a new book. My lesson was don't trust new book anywhere. Used, old print is fine by me.

New is not better when it comes to certain books. In the back of my mind, I wondered how anyone could offer a new copy of an obscure book. Well, it's by inferior printing.

There's a market for quality reprints of certain books. We like to think we made so much progress, but not when it comes to printing books. We have regressed. Pick up any magazine from the 40's through the 70's, and you will notice the quality difference. I'm not saying we need to go back to Linotype printing. Im just saying we have regressed in printing.

(My grandfather was a completely color blind printer. He went his whole career never telling anyone. He was laser focused on the print quality, or "tack sharp" as he used to say. Yes--completely color blind. He would ask his coworkers, customers if the colors looked right. He would then make color adjustments. His best advice to me was moderation in everything. This was coming from a 3 pack/day smoker, eight drink minimum, with a 1/2 hose feeding his lower extremities due to plaque. He lived until 80. Crazy?)
Good idea - we are currently looking into it.
We are adding Enterprice-Plus soon for big companies with a lot of extra features. Perhaps we should add a free tier at the same time.
Libraries pay the publisher (who in pays the author in turn) and are limited to giving out one copy at a time (even electronic copies are often limited in this way). Piracy doesn't result in any money going to the artist.
Does Donglegate ring a bell?

A bunch of guys make "dongle" jokes at PyCon, Richards tweets their photo. As a consequence, one of the guys gets fired during the surrounding shitstorm, counter-shitstorm, Richards gets fired as well.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/donglegate-adria-richar...
This is really nothing more than a stereotype. You find what you are looking for. There are entirely too many engineers in the world for a generalization like this to be accurate.
No, no, that's exactly the point. Not equivalent and not comparable. If I want to fly a bunch of people from LA to NYC and am picking out a Boeing or Airbus passenger airliner, there's a different set of trade offs. There is no 'different set of trade offs' between an airliner and a crop duster (or a super-advanced ultralight designed and hand-assembled by Burt Rutan). Because one of those things is not a passenger airliner. It can't fly bunches of people from LA to NYC.
I agree. Advanced search has many of the same features but no email. In our solution we can also create email alerts for some topics where the tweet has more than X likes or Y retweets. So you can discover tweets that might go viral.
Can you define "theoretically model programming"?

He doesn't imply that from what I read. He simply said be empirical and practical. Let data (inputs and what you measure) speaks for itself. This is like the simplified version of scientific method in the context of programming.
It's amazing how radical that idea is.
It's like there's blood running in the streets, and he wants to fund a mission to Mars.

Last VPRI paper I read was some whiz-bang way of laying out proportional text. Cool, but when the whole damned industry is a battlefield for locking-in devs and wringing as much money as possible from the digital peasantry, making a slightly better text rendering algorithm seems like mental masturbation.

If he took that money they were giving him for VPRI to re-live his glory days, and gave it to devs who are giving away high-quality creative software instead, that would go a lot further towards his goal.

https://www.blender.org
https://ephtracy.github.io
http://16-bits.org/pt.php
http://www.audacityteam.org
https://www.gimp.org
http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/
As of Friday, all three credit services online freeze processes were "broken" due to demand (and/or other crappiness).
He didn't call you a neo-liberal. Your whole argument however does rely on the now widespread (and false) assumption that anything worthwhile can be made profitable with the current economic system.

By the way, Alan Kay has built stuff people can actually use. Scratch, for instance is so usable that even children can learn it.

Ah. Learning. I don't want to assume, but it looks like you missed the part where Alan Kay wants the general public to learn about computers, and stops viewing them as magic golems. This is a completely different ball game from merely making a popular consumer device.
Free for the next ~23hrs:
Node.js Web Development - Third Edition (2016)
https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning
I especially liked how she b!tched against co-worker for using company fax to send MRI of the brain cancer suffering mother.
It means showing an episode before the fansubbers (which means the above definition of simulcasting doesn't apply) and pirates get an opportunity to put it online. It means putting it online within as little as an hour or two of airing in Japan. Instead of like what Netflix did with Little Witch Academia for instance. Which took months. For a Studio Trigger show, mind you.
But not the "STEPS" project's code, apparently.
From what I've seen as a member of HN, one of the actions both members and mods take is to flag and downweight (respectively) submissions that are likely to lead to flamewars. I find it frustrating (but understandable) that discussion so often degrades so quickly. There are a lot of important topics that I would love to see discussed earnestly, but that takes a lot of effort on behalf of those discussing.

If you're frustrated, do your best to help make the community the best it can (which is why I commented above). Make good comments, submit good articles. Member and mod reactions are indeed that—reactions to the behavior of the members on the site. If members discussed hot topics civilly and charitably, members and mods wouldn't flag and down weight. From what I've seen from the mods' comments, they'd like nothing more than to let that happen.
Yep, bought a 2015 Leaf with 19k miles for $8,500. Will never buy a gasoline car again.
So much this, there's nothing I dread so much as a "flat profile".

These rules are great if you actually have a smoking gun, however if you're getting killed by random memory access patterns they rarely present that way.
rbanffy submits a ridiculous number of articles.
How We're Building a Business to Last
it is much simpler
Performance is part of computer programming.
It's given us a framework to understand what's going on in a world with fake news. Arguably, Deconstructionists made Trump possible.
My mission is simply to be. To exist in the chaos and beauty of the world. Take it in for all it's worth, contribute something back, and go about my merry way.
Ditto NZ and Aus. Also means that no national ID card or number is necessary. Seems kind of obvious to me. The use of SSN as proof of identity in the US just seems like misuse to me.
The average company has more customer service representatives than CEOs. That should tell you something about their relative importance to the success of the business.

Having said that, sure, why not? Job shadowing is a great exercise if you do it right.
It means that next year it will be 2/5...
True bikeshed enthusiasts would name it "Shedy McShedface"

Its the clear choice
I can understand the "it's not just one comment" angle, this kind of makes sense. Although, I'm still not convinced everything taken as sexual harassment is actually such, at least to the extent external government intervention is need.

With intimidation the words are a non issue, it's just vocalized intention. With verbal harassment the words are all that matter, there is no intention. If there is intention, then it's a threat not verbal harassment.

My concern overall is that in the long term government and policy will be such that even so much as giving a simple compliment like, "I like your shirt", gets taken as punishable sexual harassment because someone find this sexually charged based on their own life experiences. My personal hope is that sexuality will become less of a taboo, and people will become less sensitive to it. This is jut my preference though.
Slightly better analogy of a similar but not exactly identical problem, which no doubt people have actually experienced unintentionally: you and a friend go to a store, decide to split up and buy different things. You go to where the X is, he goes to where the Y is.

You tell your friend "come meet me near the X when you're done, and if I'm done I'll find you at the Y". He tells you "come meet me near the Y when you're done", and if I'm done I'll find you at the X."
Very cool! Out of interest, what are you using as the underlying technology to process the Twitter streams and store the data? Just interested how you're planning to scale and provide realtime Tweet data if you miss certain windows due to downtime, for example?
Would they be resistant to EMP, surely you've got lots of possibility for induced currents that will warp/melt fine components sufficiently to damage the watch?

A sundial is what you need.
HGST is a great brand, which incidentally has been acquited by WD a couple years ago. I highly recommend it.
Biometric technology
>Article makes a false premise: that speed of writing the first version is important.

In my experience, project managers care more about how long it's going to take to build than about how maintainable it is. It's literally always the first question they ask:

"How long do you think this will take you?"

I don't believe I've ever heard anyone in management ask, "How maintainable will this be?" I'll ask around. I bet none of my peers have gotten that question either.
Writable dired buffers really are a superpower.
Usually multiple forms of ID. In Australia you have a "points" system (each form of ID is worth a certain number of points and they are additive) where you need 100 points to create a bank account. This translates to a drivers license and passport, or drivers license and existing debit card, etc.

In Estonia I believe the system is based on public key cryptography (every national ID has a private key that is used for signing things).
Completely agreed. By the way, who are you? I remember when you popped up, and at first I was convinced you were tptacek on an alt. You use 'foo to talk about HN user foo, for example, and you have the principle of charity in your profile. And most of your comments have been about moderation. You've clearly been here a long time, so I'm quite curious.

I don't disagree with any of them, and frankly if you were a mod I think you'd do a fine job. Your judgment is better than mine.

If you don't care to answer publicly, you could indulge me privately. I'm a good steward of secrets. Or just tell me to buzz off. :)
> The author seems to think that academic journals were somehow high-quality products that were co-opted by privacy.

Indeed. And indeed, academic journals used to be high-quality products, that were run on a not-for-profit (or nearly so) basis. Then they were co-opted by rent-seeking corporations. Who have been gutting substance -- careful peer review, editing, proofreading, typesetting, and quality printing -- and focused on over-the-top squeezing of the academic sector. It's arguable that they are the pirates. Or maybe slavers.