skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know Icelanders are proud of their drinking water but most people's definition of "pristine" doesn't include "caked with minerals and stinking of sulphur". Is it silly and wasteful to avoid drinking it? Absolutely. But don't assume it's based on ignorance - plenty of people have tried it and found the strong taste off-putting.
Original here:

https://apnews.com/7f6ed0b1bda047339f22789a10f64ac4/New-secr...
Bret is a great thinker and designer
https://imgur.com/a/9KHYj

this is after start up.
Yes, especially given there's a proper BBC blog system (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet). I wonder if the poster had permission to post this, or if it's just a personal blog. Hopefully he won't get in too much trouble if the latter.
Fedex settled for hundreds of millions of dollars for misclassifying Ground delivery truck drivers as independent contractors.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN0Z229Q
Please cite the source that backs up your claim that the workers are (essentially) temps. What you wrote sounds plausible but if the workers actually have secure employment your entire theory falls apart.
“The Fight Is Outside Washington” Says Ron Paul at a Bitcoin Conference
Resubmited later by another user with the correct URL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15324237
I'm interested in your package, but as a go programmer. I spend my hollidays writing a [colorizer](https://github.com/chmike/clrz) package in go. I compared many colorizer packages and tried to make something original. I also wanted to support faster lexers than the one based on regex. I had to stop by the end of hollidays. Do you have a documentation on how your lexer works ? Does it use regex only ? I don't understand rust and don't want to learn it.
Why You Should Redesign Your Business Website
Is this last-mile delivery funding thing beginning again or the first one didn't stop ? It hurt everyone except the founders.
Does that really make a difference?

Seems to me that's a feature that's generally described as "more than one way to do it" and the goal is getting the app working and shipped not to appease some outside critic's sense of semantics.
caffeine can be a trap. amazing short term but a curse long term. strongly advise never making it a habit.
But indeed is that not what you just did with me? Tried to moderate it so that it feels less aggressive and more comfortable.
That was one of the reasons I gave up on using Joe for system administration. It showed rather big mismatch between my mental model of how a system editor should work and what Joe did.
And you can customize it too! In the past I have set up <r to create an R source block with some common code block parameters for R.
I’m not sure I follow entirely: AES isn’t an NSA design, and neither is SHA-3 (though earlier ones are). Are you referring to NIST, perhaps in the context of DualEC-DRBG?
Front end career path
Hello, I want to have a career as a front end developer, is there a known path? What's the directions? Should I go into UX / Design as well?
But it's a national lab. There should be relatively few profits to be made, right?
If I could go back and have the agility of mind that I had when I was 17, I'd get my head wrapped around system internals and how to find vulnerabilities.

It's something I understand as an adult coder, but it's not my normal way of thinking and I think that kind of a switch changes you.
Soooo, what is this? How to perform an exchange of digital goods without involving a trusted 3rd party?
The Many Arts of the Deccan in India
Is there a static substance that reflects loose neutrons? I thought that the choices for a substance were either to let the neutron pass through, or to absorb the neutron
tptacek's comment lower down is interesting:

> I've already stipulated the politics of the story, which are deeply boring to me.

I'm not sure it's possible to be bored by "politics"-- i.e., to be bored by evidence from the Snowden leaks that the NSA is interested in pushing and has pushed kleptographic cryptography to undermine standards-- and be seriously engaged in a technical analysis.

It's like saying you're only interested in the code of the winning entry of the Underhanded C Contest, but not at all interested in the rules of the challenge. If someone's analysis under those circumstances is that the code looks like it does a fine job of completing its task, one should be skeptical.

[1] http://www.underhanded-c.org/
That's subjective. I know org-mode and prefer it. The people espousing the intrinsic comparative readability of Markdown all appear to be deeply steeped in that world.

For me the org-mode syntax is more logical than Markdown—and I can have cross references.
I'd also imagine you are logging a lot more hours, facing more intense time pressures, and possibly flying some really irregular or odd-hours routes when you're flying cargo.
> People ended up destitute

Weren't the institutions FDIC insured? The wiki page you cited mentions some institutions receiving FDIC insurance. In that case, how did the victims end up destitute?
It brings a certain logic to NIMBYism.
Having written a backup app several years ago, I struggled to gain foothold in the market. I sold the app off. After a few years of wanting more from my backup, I started a new backup app. I utilize a number of commands under the hood but it is an ncurses interface only right now (supports drag and drop still into a terminal window).

I'd guess that if I wanted to put it out for sale I'd need to add a GUI on top that.

Can anyone shed some light on why backup apps are struggling with preserving metadata?
Reference NTP server is less complicated than entangled steaming pile of "let's
not" that is systemd. I trust the reference implementation more than I trust
the team behind systemd with regard to network communication.
Well, the games on the 2600 were simple shootemups and the like requiring little AI, not solo play of serious games like this. But by the mid 1980s wargames with reasonably capable computer opponents were available.
I had better pay when I was delivering newspapers as a teenager.

This was many decades ago (when people bought their news on dead tree) and a lot of inflation as happened since. I didn't see my paper round as a 'proper job', but I think the inflation adjusted rate comes out to at least double the £8 per hour that Deliveroo riders claim to make on Glassdoor. I didn't have to pay rent since I was living with my parents, my income was purely disposable.

Some numbers: late 1980's, my Sunday paper round took five hours and earned me £30 not counting tips. All done by bicycle. I also had a morning paper round and an after school round delivering the local paper. On the back of these 'gigs' I also had gardening, baby sitting and other jobs from my clients, making my childhood wages now seem positively 'over-paid' compared to what passes for 'gig economy' nowadays.

I believe my take of the newspaper sale was around 20% with a delivery charge of 5 pence. Bicycles were just for kids back then and working for pocket money (not paying taxes or expecting benefits like holiday pay) was okay given I was at school. Furthermore, all my work was chargeable, I was not waiting around for someone to click on an app.

From this perspective I find it crazy that this Deliveroo phenomenon has happened. I aspired to do more than ride around delivering stuff in all weathers. Fortunately I did move on to 'proper jobs'.

The Deliveroo drivers are kind of with the pigeons in terms of London's pecking order. Although 'gig' economy, they lack the opportunities my humble paper round offered for 'up-sells' plus there are some venture capitalists creaming off what should be their cut. How did it all come to this?
I've used JOE for 15 years. I recently upgraded form JOE 3.x to 4.4 and was unimpressed with the recent decline in quality to the point of considering switching editors. Hopping between open/close braces with ^G no longer counts nested pairs correctly; TAB now randomly inserts 2 or 3 spaces instead of the 2 I have it configured for and that my files use; and my home-key settings in my config file are ignored.

I'm completely baffled how the developers can add such bugs to a stable, decades-old product. Regardless of whether the bugs get fixed, it's shaken my confidence that I can trust JOE not to screw up my work. (Even 3.x JOE gets into screwed-up states and crashes from time to time; I trust 4.x JOE even less. Even the "save often" mantra I'm cautious about, since I don't want to save data from a screwed-up state. That's worse than straight-up crashing.)
Make it impossible that this could reoccur.

That's coming. Nuclear generation will only shrink from now on. In the solar/wind/natural gas context, the public refuses to pay more for nuclear. With decreasing need for fuel as existing power plants succumb to age and poor management, eventually these labs will be seen as the hideous dangerous boondoggles they have always been.
Scenic Tram Simulator
General advice:

- Writing code that works is only the first step.

- Writing code that works and is written in such a way that other people can understand it and maintain it takes a lot longer.

- Treat "yourself in 6 months" as another person because you WILL NOT remember why you wrote it the way you did. This goes way beyond just writing good comments and documentation.

- Coding for your self is how you get hooked. Coding for other people is how you get booked (paid). These are NOT mutually exclusive and there is a delicate balance.

On the subject of getting hired:

- Writing code that works is the bare minimum. It will make you hire-able but it won't get you hired. At least 50% of the other people applying for the job can probably code better than you.

- There is ALWAYS somebody better than you and that's okay :)

- I'd much rather have someone whose code isn't as good but is better in a team. Again, there is a balance.

- Good interviewers will look for people who can work in a team. Frankly, this only comes from experience working with other people. Contributing to OSS is a great way to show you can work with others' code.
Most of the US labs were managed by universities back "in the old days". LANL and LLNL were both originally operated by the University of California, with Bechtel joining the fray when UC was forced to compete for the management contract.
The quote you provide isn't exaggerating anything and you're countering a claim of primacy that isn't there. Your whole post is a snarky non-sequitur.
The Demise of Social Democracy in Europe
Yea, it's no longer owned by the Dice/Slashdot people. Still that stigma and the bundled adware pushes from the previous owners has kinda tainted them.

I'm glad to see it's still going. Freshmeat/Freecode is now a time capsule sadly.
Dvorak user for ~20 years now. A little over half that time was spent in vi/vim and the last ~7 or thereabouts have been emacs. Navigation in vi was weird, but I did it anyway. Otherwise I haven't found anything particularly odious in emacs.
It was closer to critical than a reasonable person would allow, and beyond their safety standards.

Some analysis from a former LANL chemist: https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/a-critical-pro...
The national labs in general almost certainly do plenty of work for clandestine organizations already. I doubt they need the excuses related to mishandling of dangerous material. They just never discuss those things with the press.

> "What's in section PF-3?"

> "That's classified, I can't discuss it."

> "What's in section PF-4?"

> "That's where we used to work on plutonium for DoE and IAEA but we had a pattern of problems there and it was shut down."
I used to work there right after finishing grad school. It was just when the systematic dismantling of that organization had started taking place. New bosses, new umbrella organizations, new rules (for profit vs non-profit).

Within 12 months of me starting there everyone more senior than me had scattered elsewhere. Soon I was gone too. This happened at every level and in every division. The amount of know-how lost just to forced retirement is incalculable...

So sad to hear things are not getting better there. I was very proud to be a part of it for even a little amount of time.
Ctrl-K Q still produce the "lose changes to file" wording, indicating that a Y answer is backwards from what i would consider the norm these days.
Let's say I have a child with special needs, be it giftedness or disability. If I want to provide my child with decent care and quality of life in the SF Bay Area, a household income of $160k is going to make things very difficult. Not impossible, but certainly very hard, and likely harder than anywhere else in the country.

In this case my "spending habits," as you put them, might include expenses like routine hospital or clinical bills, specialist care, or some sort of domestic help. Double all of that if my child is physically as well as mentally disabled, or if my child exhibits some sort of prodigy that I want to nurture properly.

You have to remember that the price of goods and services in this local economy is largely driven by those earning some significant multiple of our hypothetical $160,000.
Eh, we where pretty long hunters and toughening up to kill that mammoth was pretty much part of all cultures who ate.

The whole control on sexuality is a pure human thing- we are the only species who hides when in heat the stimulus to the opposit sex. My personal conclusion was, that this allowed for more energy to be diverted to other "culture" practices - such as building houses and the likes..
Reddit channels for nerds
What are some of the best channels you can recommend for a nerd that wants to learn constantly?
How difficult can it be?

We've got corporations with global ERP/inventory systems...yet these guys can't keep track of stuff within one facility?
What keyboard do you use? There is already an AltGr key on most keyboards.
>I worked for a nuclear sciences consultancy whose hostnames for machines were Simpsons' characters.

I once tried giving hosts Arabic names. It actually worked pretty well since the naming system lets you express inheritance and works better when spoken than "proxy X on testnet Y" or "proxyX dot testnetY" (especially when not everyone speaks English as their first language and some people may be joining the call from a cell phone in a car).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_name#Example_name

I don't think it would scale to an IT larger than ~10 or so.
Developers use macros. Now since they are developers, they had less problem develop with a programming language and may prefer to do so than using the TeX macro system. The alt-TeX can simply be extended with plugins or modules.
Yes [1]. Beryllium is, I believe, the material of choice (although comes with its own problems, e.g. stupidly toxic dust)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_reflector
They don't have to DDG runs on AWS. In theory, court orders could grant access to the underlying VMs via Amazon without DDG even being notified.
At the end of the universe, we are all iron.
To be 17 again! My teens were a blast. I have a 486 and a PowerPC 6100. I worked a whole Summer to buy Metrowerks Codewarrior for $700 not realizing there was an education discount for $99. :-(

I was into C++ and C. I didn't rely on any toolkits. I wrote my own GUI (Windows, buttons, Sprites, event handling, renderer, physics and threading (although threading was a complete failure). I tried to re-create the Legend Of Zelda with just my own tools.

I still have all of this code from back then even. I should dust it off.

My advice: really learn your language, exploit it, learn another one. Try to write the same project in 2 different languages. Don't settle for what the OS has to offer. Try and create your own classes of functionality. Eat good, get outside, enjoy your friends and get ready for college.
There is a bestselling book "Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success" about these concepts by Adam Grant[1]. From the description:

> It turns out that at work, most people operate as either takers, matchers, or givers. Whereas takers strive to get as much as possible from others and matchers aim to trade evenly, givers are the rare breed of people who contribute to others without expecting anything in return.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143124986
I do something similar and try to get all meetings on the same day(s). Of course this doesn't always work given others schedules, but does help because most of the time nothing is so critical it can't wait a few days to be discussed.
Yes. The W3C committee just railroaded the DRM spec last week..
Ctrl-key combinations are the ones that hurt my hands the most. I think I may try this (again).
The New Electronic Police State
The Abyss of Analytics
It would make a great Snapchat location filter. The location of nuclear power stations, waste storage facilities and laboratories is basically static and well known. Those can be a little grainy. Three Mile Island, Fukishima and Chernobyl can be increasingly more grainy than the baseline.
Respect for individuals as beings is completely orthogonal to prudishness, and it is disingenuous of you to conflate the two issues. If you disagree, see any modern sex-positive sex blog, most of which manage both to respect women, and which – by definition – are not prudish.
AutoHotKey might prove to be really useful here. Speaking of CapsLock I once found a script that made the CapsLock also work for the number keys as well. That was a fun one.
I haven't seen an AltGr key on a keyboard in the US in at least 15 years.
Interesting choice of code for a demo. I wonder if anyone hosed themselves running this.

It seems gnu rm has "-preserve-root" as a default, but that's not guaranteed to be on every rm.
> Snowden

Snowden, a man who worked from home in Hawaii as an NSA contractor making over $200k a year with his smoking hot girlfriend, who suddenly decided he had a moral compass, was able to download tons of classified files over VPN to his laptops and run off to meet Greenwald et. al. to divulge all this information, then flee to Russia where he sends out anti-Russian tweets.

Meanwhile, nothing has happened. The NSA is still spying. PRISM seems to be something everyone has forgotten about (did it even exist? Most companies denied it). His evidence were all rededicated power point slides.

Question the narratives that are given to you.
How is it wrong? If you were currently looking at porn for 2 hours/day and want to cut back, going for only 30 is a step in the right direction.
Beryllium, amongst others.
Most people wouldn't be able to explain to you what a HTML tag is, much less write one.

And the entire point of Markdown is to get something that is closer to how we write plain text.
Why should the NSA receive any more scrutiny than anyone else?

The NSA is in a weird position. Their mission is to secure the state and to gain advantage over adversaries. So they have a vested interest in protecting state industry from it's adversaries, and no interest in protecting anyone from themselves.

So with that in mind it's perfectly reasonable for them to try to slip backdoors into anything and everything, and to also prevent others from doing the same.

The same is probably true of every other intelligence agency.

If we start rejecting their contributions by default then they'll just start looking for other ways to exploit the process if they haven't already.

What's to stop them from bribing or extorting independent researchers?

Perhaps there needs to just be a paranoid level of scrutiny over anyone and everything? When securing software you assume every request is threatening, why not when evaluating it?
Amazon-has-a-new-captcha-that-youre-meant-to-fail
'Angry boredom': early responses to Waiting for Godot showcased online
The problem with your post is that he is probably the last person that would fit this description.
No, you have not understood the question. I'm not talking of what is happening in Catalonia this days. Because in Catalonia there is no majority of people defending independence.

I'm asking what happens if in a part of a territory the vast majority of population doesn't want to be part of that country.

If you want to talk of Catalonia, I can ask what the Central Government can do when 82% of the population (and this includes half of people that wants independence and half of people that doesn't want independence) would defend a LEGAL and proper done referendum.
Hacken Accelerator: The Decentralized Marketplace for White Hat Hackers
Which conditional would you write?
Money Quote:
"Deliveroo grew a lot in 2016, with revenue up 611 per cent to £129 million. But losses were up too — a 300 per cent increase to £129 million. However, the figure to really watch is the food delivery company’s gross margin percentage, which sat at just 0.7 per cent."

How can an investor, justify this as a solid investment when the gross margins are 0.7%?
Stale inventory is expensive.
It's operated by contractors paid by the government. The primary variable to their profit margin is "overhead".
High school through college is probably the time in your life when the opportunity cost of picking up new skills and having interesting experiences is the lowest.
As far as I understand it, Markdown is a superset of HTML (with some caveats). So Markdown does have comments, they're the same as HTML comments.

From https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

> For any markup that is not covered by Markdown’s syntax, you simply use HTML itself. There’s no need to preface it or delimit it to indicate that you’re switching from Markdown to HTML; you just use the tags.

> The only restrictions are that block-level HTML elements — e.g. <div>, <table>, <pre>, <p>, etc. — must be separated from surrounding content by blank lines, and the start and end tags of the block should not be indented with tabs or spaces. Markdown is smart enough not to add extra (unwanted) <p> tags around HTML block-level tags.
How much profit have Lockheed and other defense contractors made over the past hundred years? I'd expect that it's a significant percentage of defense spending in that time.
The road not taken, eh? [1] People tend to overthink the importance of the decisions they made at the some point in their life. While true that you may have made some excellent friends during teenage years and got to jump-start you career but it needn't imply that you would grinding in a low-level corporate job if that wouldn't have happened.

I had to endure few shitty jobs because of lack of connections but that got fixed when I eventually did make good ones. And that happened without any deliberate effort. I can't comment on the importance of working on inter-personal skills but in my experience, being stressful about it doesn't help.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken
I read some years ago about this problem in a paper. They solution they had was this:

1. Make buckets of "pays", say 80-85k, 85-90k, 90-95k, and so on, you can decide bucket length

2. you have two people at hand. we will come to know if there is a wage difference between these two.

3. put box in a room, send one person in, with a chit, ask them to put the chit in the box with the label of their salary.

4. get the person out, send second one in, ask them to open the box of their salary range and tell if they find a chit or not.

If they find the chit, they have same salary and the information is complete. if they didn't find the chit, there is a difference.

I am sorry I couldn't find the link or search it back. Hope the grammar/english wasn't too shitty.
Zenga poker
The CEO and Board should face prison if and only if it can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that they broke the law.

We're a nation of laws, not pitchforks.
Congrats to OP for shipping.
I tried to do something not so similar to this and failed miserably :-( https://hnpicks.com . I guess I just got busy and stopped half way at implementing the NLP and sentiment analysis.
It was an interesting weekend :-)