skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangential but here's another one: Why don't websites show the requirements at the _signup_ screen?

I've lost count of all the sites where I sign up and paste a long, secure password generated by my password manager. One of three things happens then.

1) The site admins are competent and my strong password is accepted.

2) The site admins are incompetent, and limit password length to a short string, possibly with certain special characters required.

3) The site admins are incompetent and should immediately be fired, because the form accepts my long, strong password, silently truncates it to a shorter length and saves that, and my correctly typed password no longer works. I've discovered this pattern repeatedly after comparing the 'forgot password' email then send with the truncated password in clear text (which is another reason they should be fired immediately) and noticing it is much shorter.

First-world problems, I know, but this annoys me and I would like to see it fixed.
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It's very simple these days - there's a script, `ssh-host-config`, which asks a number of questions (like whether you want user isolation for the service or not) and installs the service as native Windows service (using cygrunsrv).
Cool, you got that subtle implementation detail right. Other similar services I’ve tried got it wrong.
Oh they quite definitely suck - even when "doing the best they can".

The spin I'm trying to put on this is -- they exist solely for one reason: to fill a vacuum. The vacuum created by the fact that both sides (mostly the employer, but also candidates) perceive that there's some value for them. Despite massive (and almost overwhelming) evidence to the contrary.

So my take is... to get to the root of the problem, focus on the vacuum, not on the dregs that rush into fill it.

Not using a calendar app to send out invites for interviews.

Or using them, but being too lazy (or just uneducated) to figure out this pesky time zone stuff.

So you're absolutely right -- the list goes on and on.
Always good to know who made changes! Nice tool, nice idea! :)
> The counter-argument is that anything underground in Japan will suffer from continuous earthquake activity;

Water and sewage is underground right? If they can figure out pipes underground they can figure out power lines underground.
Were your edge router towards one IP was at capacity, but your edge router towards the other IP had excess capacity remaining, you could choose to either upgrade the router or drop packets. This is the situation at many ISPs and datacenters, and it's sad when management decides to drop packets.
What for profit organization is desperately trying to hire Nathan Hatch away from Wake Forest for more than $4 million a year? Has anyone ever gone from running a university to running a fortune 500 company, or is that a comparison strictly designed to flatter?
If a mail client does not support dmarc,or happens to move reject policy emails to junk (as opposed to not delivering at all). And the user loses all their money to a phishing campaign,would cloudflare be held responsible?

I get the intent but in these situations,no solution is better than a half-cooked solution. If I happened to be a victim in my hypothetical scenario above,sure I would get pissed at my (web)mail client,but also at cloudflare for not terminating the phisher's service when they were so sure of the malicious content hosted they went as far as sabotaging dmarc records.

From a more practical point of view,most phishing campaings like to use compromised websites or email accounts to send the email. Now the email itself will typically have a link to some nasty site or an attachment that eventually ends up "dropping" a second stage malware from some other nasty site. So, if these nasty sites sit behind Cloudflare,how does it make sense to not hold Cloudlfare responsible? Historically,their defense was "we are just the network transport provider". But what now? They can sabotage dmarc records but not A records? Their legal team must either be sleeping on the job or so good that an obvious liability like this isn't seen as a business risk.
There is a second benefit.

Right now the crypto space is like the entry point of an MMORPG. Picture a bunch of dollars entering and then walking around and trying things. "What do I do here?" "How do I play?"

Obviously it's bubbly but that's not the point. The point is that all this new money entering the crypto space is looking for something to do.

Putting out an ICO will attract some of it. It is not accessible in any other way.

... and unfortunately ICOs and crypto have sucked a lot of the air out of conventional crowdfunding, equity crowdfunding, and small time angel investing. So crypto is where the money is and you have to go crypto to reach it.

It's dumb but markets are not rational.
Correct this will not stop "sophisticated" users. The whole goal of this system is to cause bad actors to dedicate more resources to using your platform and add a shadow of doubt. Spammers, etc. all want a cheap easy payday, that's the entire point (money for minimal time).

I run a service that spammers and pfishers love. I started by banning these people (and sending them an e-mail letting them know why). They didn't stop, they just grabbed another free e-mail and continued. Now I quietly just delete the data they submit and never ban accounts. I let them submit data, tell them its accepted, then some time later (1-120 seconds) just delete the data. Their account still works, they just can't do much with it. Once the system became unreliable for them, they just moved on to something else.
I think you're being downvoted because the ideology espoused by professors at Stanford has very little to do with spending on administration and facilities which drive costs.
One thing I learned about anime (from discussing it with Japanese folks) is that "anime Westerners like" and "anime Japanese like" can be way different. Something may come out in Japan that has only niche appeal, only to blow up in the West. Azumanga Daioh --
Mother of a Thousand 4chan Memes -- comes to mind. Likewise, sometimes a title takes off in Japan only to find rocky soil here.

I think Evangelion was well loved on both sides of the pond but I have no idea about Lain. It seemed a closer fit for Western cyberpunk sensibilities though, and I have no recollection of it turning into a media phenomenon the way Macross, Eva, or One Piece did.
These organizations try to have it both ways. On the one hand they go to the government and ask for all kinds of tax benefits on the basis that they are doing good for society, but on the other hand when you ask why their employees make so much money they say that's just how capitalism works. If their own employees aren't willing to sacrifice for their mission, why should the rest of us in the form of tax concessions?
I also hear that it’s possible to spend over 100,000 on a car, 2,000 on bathroom fixtures and 5,000/sq ft on counter tops and the price in a lot of cases doesn’t justify the higher priced alternatives.

However I am quite relieved in this case to see consumers rise up and recommend their alternatives to a particular high priced product so that consumers that my want to purchase said product are swayed.
Something is not clear to me: can I use this in any way to generate EVM bytecode to deploy a contract? Or is this solely for use after deployment using the ABI generated by solc, etc?

I think it is the latter, but I was really hoping for the former. I welcome any improvement over solidity.
Yes. Other virtualization solutions in Windows (virtualbox) run in it userland, hyper-v actually boots up below your windows system and makes your desktop os a virtual machine. Other VM run side by side your desktop os. The limitation being going turtles all the way down isn't supported by CPUs. Making the waters even more complicated is that some software moved from virtual box to hyper-v (docker for windows)
Related to this bigger HN submission from yesterday ("Statement on Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15902054

That statement was released on the same day as the Munchee decision, and the Munchee decision is linked from the statement

Context (the Munchee decision is in footnote 6): "I urge market professionals, including securities lawyers, accountants and consultants, to read closely the investigative report we released earlier this year (the “21(a) Report”)[5] and review our subsequent enforcement actions.[6]"
That's why you wait a few days. The hackintosh community is very active.

Also, at this point, the things that would brick you in the past are no longer applicable with a modern hackintosh.
Maybe this is because key auth requires domain\username@host (doesn't resolve the domain automagically)?

https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/420#issue...
> In short, Munchee was undone by two things: depending on the token sale as a vehicle to raise cash for operations and using the typically spammy and scammy marketing efforts most ICO floggers use now, tactics taken directly from affiliate marketing handbooks.

It seems that most ICO do both the things. If not a self-inflicting post about the token growth but at least the raising cash for operations part.
FWIW Georgia Tech's online masters program has been discussed several times on Hacker News and the feedback was pretty negative.

EDIT: Comments below have corrected my recollection, previous discussions were mixed:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15018002
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13382263
you may adapt a standard password to specific requirements
That's how much college used to cost WITH all that stuff. In the 90s. But we had terrible food and no air conditioning.
The money for funding operations is supposed to flow through a registered or otherwise legal security instrument, which this ICO was not. The law hasn't changed, just the supposedly innovative ways of pretending the law doesn't exist.
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> We don't know what the strategies are so we are not in a position to evaluate the alpha.

Then neither are you, and this entire discussion becomes rather meaningless, wouldn't you say?

What we do have are public numbers that indicate, whatever the strategies may be, their returns exist independent of tax-advantaged leverage.
Yes, that. Remembered wrong.
Small SUVs are for people who want the cargo space of a wagon but don't want to be blinded by the headlights of other people driving SUVs.
> GitLab removed TurboLinks from their site not that long ago. It was the source of a lot of bugs, crufty code, and flakey tests.

An anecdote is not data.
" (but no more than 12, because who's going to remember more than 12 characters?)" - please don't do this! What if I use a password manager and I insist to have a long password that I don't need to remember? Moreover, some passwords are easier to remember because they are long.
As a long time mercurial user being forced to switch to git I find that I know more about git internals than mercurial. Mercurial provides a nice abstraction so I don't have to care. In face I've seen a few hints that mercurial has actually changed their internals over the years, but since everything still "just works" I don't think about it. By contrast git is forcing me to care even though I have better things to do with my time.

Sadly github and CI systems provide community tools around git not mercurial (mercurial is an afterthought at best in most CI systems). Those community tools are compelling enough that I'm switching to an inferior system just to get them.
You should try WSL with cmder [1], a lightweight windows terminal that feels great and is heavily customizable. It’s the iTerm2 of Windows IMO.

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Compensation is a vector.
FWIW, looks like this may be a service comcast uses: http://www.frontporch.com/
I wrote a snarky response above, but here's my non-snarky response:

It's hard to answer a question phrased this way because there can be any number of reasons why a useful feature is not implemented. Time constraints, budget constraints, process constraints, organizational constraints ... and then somewhere in this long list is, "Gee, we just never thought about it."

Perhaps a more interesting question is:

Among those of you who believe that providing password requirements up-front is a useful feature, did you implement that feature in past projects? If not, what prevented you from doing so?
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More than one university with a $1B endowment fund still asks for donations too.
This include the 5k display right? Are the keyboard and mouse included as well?
Honestly. I went to Japan just last month and the fact that all of this is everywhere is just crazy.
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It is not uncommon to charge $125-150/hr for high-end work on something as basic as configuring Wordpress sites.

However, high-end means the focus gets drastically shifted from programming to figuring out what the client wants.

That said, you can charge 250-500 as a freelancer for a few hours of consultation. Your rates should largely depend on:

1) How many hours the client intends on spending with you
2) Urgency of work (and thus how much bandwidth you need to give to it)
3) Client's ROI

If you save your client 1000 hrs of reporting work a year by developing them a custom solution, that is easily worth well over 100,000k for that client: even if they are only paying people $50/hr to create these reports.

You can't charge 100,000k, otherwise the client will not have a great ROI. However, such a solution should take you somewhere around 100-400 hours to complete.

That works out to $125/hr in the worst-case, giving the client a good ROI after the first six months, and should give you a solid 4-6 months of work. If they need it sooner you need to charge them more, because you'll spend less time on business development.

This is a perfect world hypothetical of course ... in reality many other things come into play that will only work to drive your rates down.
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If you stick to "standard" parts there is little to no risk. There is so much information out there on which parts are compatible and which aren't.

The hardest obstacle for me was sourcing some parts because they weren't available here in Vietnam. I had to fly to Singapore for most of it. Ironically, it was cheaper to do that for the parts I could get here, so everything worked out in the end.
What figures do you have? How do you count those who leave early to compete professionally?
Other than the link mishap, I would really like to see more DIY guides like this on HN to extend and hack old hardwares that otherwise would have been ending up in junk yard.
sure it is.. it's all under the sentiment of Macs not producing products with performance parity with PCs.. What's wrong with just using a high-end windows laptop for field? Is that gap in the laptop space that big that warrants dealing with two distinct platforms that do not work well together?
So now you're claiming that the only reason why Jim Simons donates is to evade taxes?
> Correspondents say any realistic effort will probably need Congress to agree to a big funding boost.

This is the real issue here. Trump can say all he wants, if the Congress doesn't allow more budget, nothing will happen.
The hypothetical of a manager asking for the feature by the next day is pretty accurate. Besides that, it might be a product or design person that thinks the requirements would clash with the current product/design and don't want to go through another iteration.

A better answer to the problem is to not have password requirements because it's the user's responsibility to choose a secure password. If their password is compromised because it was their dog's name or "password1234" then it's their fault.

A way to engineer against brute-force hacking is to limit the number of attempted logins per username and IP. If they hit the limit then their account should be locked or their password should be automatically be reset with an email.
Wouldn't "captcha alternative" imply that the said alternative is a replacement for captcha and has similar functionality?
Good advice. We're in Canada so he should be ok.
The best creators will innovate these sorts of flourishes, picking things that are thematically and tonally consistent and have a real purpose. Then other creators will copy them, as an omage to the original work in order to ground themselves in the artistic movement they wish to belong to. This is how we end up with such a distinct anime aesthetic; a slow accretion of unique elements forming a distinct culture as multiple generations of artists influence each other in blatant and subtle way.
Indeed. I’m just a bit fed up with all the low signal-to-noise ratio comments on stories about Apple and Google (not to mention Bitcoin, ugh), sorry about that.

The Pro looks like something I wouldn’t mind using, but there’s no way I could pretend that it’s enough value for the price given what I would do with it - VR or AI use cases not relevant for me.

It’ll be interesting to see if they sell, and what the ”real” Mac Pro will look like when the get arond to releasing it.
What does the negative feedback consist of?
And use Firefox.
Apple is trolling to see how much they can really fetch. It's a back-to-the-80's kind of computer price, for the snoots.

It's going to end as well as last time they did that.
It’s mostly because financing by the states has disappeared though.
I am somewhat ashamed to admit this, but I used to use a password that had a common base but was adapted to each site according to a formula. However, it did not contain any special characters. So you can bet that whenever a site indicated that special characters were necessary, I would just tack on an exclamation point to the end.
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Roll Tide to that.
I see people writing who comment about excessive expenses, for instance for fancy facilities. I'm a prof (not in any kind of administrations, though), and when I went to state school in 76 there were non of these things, for sure.

But I have been in meetings where the admissions folks say "Prospective students read in US News that they should ask about athletic facilities and ours is significantly worse than our competitors" and the next thing you know we are building a knockout gym. I perfectly understand the decision.

(It reminds me of the kind of stuff you read in Jared Diamond's Collapse, where the system globally has problems that everyone can see but locally they are forced to act in the same way as everyone else.)
Not true IIRC. Several OS components are decrypted at runtime by “Don’t Steal Mac OS X.kext”. Not very effective, of course.
> I can't see how an algorithm to lookup bit 'i' in a compressed bitmap of size 'n' can ever be constant time.

Well for lossy compression we can, texture compression works this way. Every 4x4 block or whatever block size is compressed to a fixed known length like 128 bits. Then you can address any pixel in constant time.
I hate websites that enforce their stupid password requirements on me. Most of them are stupid, did I say that already ? Well, you can ONLY use some special characters not any. Even worse, you CANNOT use some special characters. Ok I keep trying. My best one: paste is disabled. So I cannot copy and paste my super strong password from my password manager because apparently the genius who built it thinks that copy/paste is a bad idea. Did I mention that some password pages have a maximum length rule ? really ?

End of rant. The best password pages are those who just warn you for things like min. length (a 2 character password is definitely a bad idea).
profits come after labor is paid, so how labor is paid is separate from how profits are spent. there's maybe a certain sort of nobility in a worker accepting to be underpaid to work at a non-profit they care about, but that maybe-certain-sort-of nobility doesn't transfer to the company underpaying its workers.
(Sorry for the intervening edit.)

Here's Akamai's list of countries with the fastest broadband:

1 South Korea 28.6

2 Norway 23.5

3 Sweden 22.5

4 Hong Kong 21.9

5 Switzerland 21.7

6 Finland 20.5

7 Singapore 20.3

8 Japan 20.2

9 Denmark 20.1

10 United States 18.7

Our presence on this list is remarkable. If you were listing countries with the best of some other kind of infrastructure, say subways, we wouldn't even be sniffing the top 10. Nobody would look at the fact that Sweden or Denmark managed to have good subways and say "well, obviously we can do that too!" And we already know we would do a bad job implementing LLU: it was in the 1996 telecom act, and the FCC set rates too low and killed DSL in the process.

Also, it's not clear what LLU has achieved in a place like say Denmark: https://erhvervsstyrelsen.dk/sites/default/files/media/publi....

60% of Danish subscribers are with TDC, the privitized former incumbent. TDC must offer DSL access over LLU, but the two companies that do that are Telenor (the Norwegian incumbent) and Telia (the Swedish incumbent). Those three account for 80% of all subscribers. Is this better than our system?

> I installed fiber (from the street outside) in my house in Sweden and had a pick of 18 ISPs, of which I chose 100/100 Mbit/s for $38/month.

Where I live, I only have two choices for fiber, but 100/100 is $40/month, gigabit is $70-80, and two-gigabit is $150/month. Also: did you or a previous homeowner pay a one-time fee to build the fiber to your house? In the U.S., the ISP usually eats the up-front cost and recovers it in the monthly charge. Finally, U.S. prices include implicit cross subsidies (to build fiber or cable in poorer neighborhoods) that Swedish prices do not.
You're exactly right!

Unsplash [1] was a side-project for our company freelance developer and designer platform, Crew [2] (Crew was later sold to Dribbble; Unsplash now operates independently).

We knew as creators that finding beautiful, useable imagery was one of the hardest challenges in any creative project, so we decided after shooting some photos for our homepage header image, to give the rest of the photos from the shoot away for free for anyone to use.

We setup a $19 tumblr theme, a domain, and posted the site to here.

What happened next was amazing: the site was flooded with traffic thanks to trending on HN, thousands of photos were downloaded on the first day, and most shockingly to us, other creatives began submitting their own photography to Unsplash.

Fast forward a year later and Unsplash was the main source of traffic and revenue for the parent company Crew. I think it peaked at around 60% of our monthly revenue due to customers finding Crew from a simple 'Made by Crew' link on Unsplash. At the same time, Unsplash was doing around 1M downloads a month.

We eventually sold Crew to Dribbble to focus full time on Unsplash, so it's no longer a side project. It's grown a lot since those early days, with more than 20M photo downloads every month, half a million free-to-use photos, and is integrated into thousands of applications, including Trello, Adobe, and more.

If you're interested in more about Unsplash, we've got all the main milestones here: https://unsplash.com/history

1 - https://unsplash.com
2 - https://crew.co
> ideology espoused by professors at Stanford

Would it be appropriate if the comment said "ideology espoused by college presidents" . Here is OSU presidents who make around 3 mil giving a speech about how little people at lower levels get paid.

http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/dr-michael-v-drak...
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The grunts are paid below market rate, while the top execs get paid huge sums of money. It's all a scam.
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Not GP, but I initially though Q# was some sort of CLI (another great name there) version of Q, in the same sense that C# (like C++) signifies some sort of augmented version of C.
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