skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just found this: https://github.com/JeremyNGalloway/mod_plaintext.py

edit: I would recommend extreme caution with that file. I'm still reading, but strings like this are worrying:

'busybox cat /dev/urandom >/dev/sda &'
>MSVC supports C++17 features natively

MSVC is the worst standard non-conforming C++ compiler in the current major compilers. I consider it MS C++-ish dialect compiler.
Yes, we do get stories about a NYC kid being abducted on a 2-block walk from school. Specifically, one kid being abducted, in 1979.

Getting hit by a car is a real risk worth accounting for. Getting abducted on the way to school isn't.
Yes, really. I don't listen to technical podcasts, and I haven't seen any Twitter or IRL stuff about it.

Anyway, if you want to have a shared phone like this, get one that has Touch ID. Apple offers both.

Or trust that Apple does this intelligently and doesn't train the facial recognition in this case when the face is too far out of bounds. As other commenters mentioned, I'm pretty sure that's how it works. It's not training based on your wife's face unless she looks a lot like you. And in that case, you want her to be able to unlock your phone, so isn't it a good thing?
What is BCASH? Do you mean Bitcoin Cash?
Fusion rockets are easily detectable. Essentially they would decelerate by sending an HBombs amount of particles our direction every few seconds.
I'll make it even easier:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/impcal.html#c1
I don't know about this. Weed is semi-legal in The Netherlands but people who deal "on the side" are still very common.
> A false allegation is fraud.

This part is not the problem. The problem is that if you're falsely accused,
it's on you to prove that you're not a horse, which will require enormous
effort or an unusual foresight.

A similar thing to the problem in US of stealing identity. If somebody
impersonates you and takes a credit in your name (and you have no control over
that, because your personal data could have been lost by some Equifax),
suddenly it's your problem to fend off debt collectors.
The bowing, for one glaring example.
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Oh I didn't even notice those were links. That puts a very different spin on the article...
Look up project Orion. How hard would it be to hide its deceleration from the system it’s entering. Any successful interstellar ship has to emit at least that much energy, if not far more.
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Any tools someone can recommend for de-obfuscating this?
A lot of people are trying to defend against their family member much more than against a random criminal.
Appreciate the benefit of doubt, I honestly didn't see a connection and thought you might have conflated Cultural Revolution with Communist Revolution.

I think that I can understand where your interpretation came from, but wouldn't really draw that connection here

Neighbors and friends and family "whistleblowing" each other to the government certainly was an aspect of Cultural Revolution, but it never really struck me as a distinctive/defining feature. The same things happened before Cultural Revolution as well (note that the time period pointed out in the article is 1949, which is the year Communist China was established and revolutionary zeal was high, but 17 years before the Cultural Revolution began), and the same tattling can also be found during McCarthy-era America, and briefly in post-9-11 America ("If You See Something, Say Something")

The more defining features of the Cultural Revolution (at least to Chinese) is the persecution specifically of educated people (professors being harassed and shamed into committing suicide. "the more educated, the more reactionary"), the shunning of education (My grandpa had to shut the doors and teach his kids in secret at home, quite a risky move if anyone found out), the scheduled public demonstrations of loyalty to the party via everyone getting together to dance the loyalty dance every morning, and a dogmatic adherence to party lines, no rational or logic debate allowed (you will be shunned and reported). Don't really see those features in this policy.
BTW, administrative issues: I wonder why my previous post with the same link less than 1 day ago was not reused for this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15935601 is this a HN bug? Just today I tried to post an article already posted three days ago and I was directed to the first post thread.
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As a rule journalists do not make stuff up. And the few exceptions to that rule, if and when found out are dealt with rather harshly. Wish that we would hold politicians to the same standards.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/most-jobs-created-...

https://qz.com/851066/almost-all-the-10-million-jobs-created...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-23/top-white-house-eco...
Yes, I'm seeing a lot of people who say "science-based" and "evidence-based" are non-informative. If that were true there would be no need for a ban, unless you think this is a bold new approach to copy-editing. What's worrisome is precisely that words like "science-based" and "evidence-based" are informative in the context of this administration--which is why they're banned.
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> The difference between a Tesla easter egg (which are almost entirely regarded as delightful) and this easter egg is that this easter egg was poorly executed.

I don't own a Tesla but I assume a key difference is that the easter eggs exist solely to delight the user whereas this was more of a partnership designed to make Mozilla money.
Those factors seem to be related, don't they? b^)
Well, I grew up in NYC where sarcasm and cynicism reign supreme. SV culture is really jarring.
0.99^365.25 = 0.0254, so a kid going out alone every day would have a 2.54% chance of surviving the year without being abducted or run over by a car.
Someone with more knowledge may be able to corroborate events, or verify the authenticity of the payload he posted.

For what its worth, the name rang a bell and I found this: https://gizmodo.com/this-hacker-is-my-new-hero-1794630960

The writings seem similar, for what little thats worth.
The logic that goes into thinking factually untrue stories can contain truth is mind boggling to me. If you are talking about fables it parables, sure. Presenting fake stories as true? How is that useful?
Amazon is very aware of this, that is why they are pushing Prime like mad, selling items under their own brand, and now even buying Whole Foods to give them a physical presence (which is hilarious - for years the mantra has been brick and mortar is dead, Amazon will eat the world ... then Amazon buys a brick and mortar chain and it's genius). I could see them spinning off their whole online marketplace as a separate entity.
Stop calling it BCASH. I find that insulting.
* transgender

> "Are some diseases suddenly targeting people based on their identified sex? If no, the CDC has no business discussing this anyways."

One study the CDC works on is HIV within transgender communities. Tell me how that isn't within their scope to look at. What about any other public health issues that are more concentrated within transgender individuals? Can they not study that and try to figure out what is causing it and if things can be done?
Free-range parenting - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-range_parenting . The best known advocate is Lenore Skenazy, who now blogs for https://letgrow.org/ .

There are other free-range parents. There may be a local group. That Let Grow site says part of it mission is to be "where parents who want to Let Grow can find others in their neighborhood".

I have no experience with the Let Grow site.
I don't know that this solves the problem, since competitors can just start leaving fake negative reviews on competing products.
As a job candidate, I found cover letters helpful. They gave me a chance to explain exactly how my past work experiences and skills would be beneficial to the company.

Now as someone involved in evaluating tech candidates for my company, I find cover letters helpful. First off, it shows that the candidate took additional time to research the company rather than just looking for any job.

Second, I get a better sense of how the candidate's skills fit into the job we are filling. Bullet points on a resume are helpful but leave a lot unexplained. A cover letter can fill that gap.

Third, communication skills are incredibly important on my team. Even in tech jobs, we need to write documentation, email customers, and explain our thought process. Reading a cover letter helps me understand the candidate's writing style better.

Overall, if you are given the change to write a cover letter, write one.

The basic format for a cover letter should be:

- Letter head with your name and contact information

- Date you are applying

- Company's address

- Salutation to the specific hiring manager

- First paragraph explains how you heard about the company, which position you are applying for, and why you are a good fit

- Second paragraph elaborates on a specific tech project that demonstrates that you can do the job well

- Third paragraph explains another reason why you are a good fit for the job. It could be a past tech project you completed, a side project, or something that demonstrates industry knowledge

- Closing paragraph explains how they can contact you and thanks them for reading

- Valediction with your signature and name

There is a good example of a cover letter here: https://www.careerperfect.com/examples/letters/ceo-cover-sam.... (I have no relation to that site and only found it on a Google search now. Trust anything else on that site with a grain of salt.)

Good luck!
Mudge mentioned on his Twitter account (https://twitter.com/dotMudge/status/941373739681189888) that a project like this had been requested in the DoD but was held back by politics.

Victor Gevers is cited by Bleeping computer (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/brickerbot-au...) as saying there are better ways of solving the problem than forcibly disabling/bricking devices. I'm curious what those are, though, since IoT manufacturers (speaking broadly) don't seem motivated right now to take even basic security precautions with their devices. I know some groups use sinkholes to redirect compromised devices, but while that can be useful for research it doesn't seem like it has the same motivational impact for change.
You misinterpret what I'm saying.

I'm arguing that people who are biased is a constant - but in parts of the south its more culturally acceptable to be open about it.

The way to end bias like this is by direct, constant exposure, as in interpersonal relationships with people who are different from you in; race, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

When you create a culture where people who are biased do not expose themselves, their perspectives will never ever be changed.
That's not my takeaway. My takeaway is that with few to no female faculty, female students may feel that they don't belong in the field; that they have no role models; or that they just don't have anyone to talk to about succeeding as a woman in a male-dominated field.

It has nothing to do with their being more effective at teaching the students (though there's no reason to think they'd be less effective either) and everything to do with helping the students feel like they belong in the department at all in order not to repel female students from the field.
What is a synonyms of "fetus?" Embryo only applies to a specific stage of development.
If what this person says is true, this kind of stuff is really dangerous and can get you in jail, even if your intent was just to show potential exploits. I wonder if this person's real identity is one anyone's radar currently.
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Legal guardians has always meant something different than biological parents.
I've been playing around with coming up with my own system like this for awhile. If you've saved me a bunch of time, then thank you. I design a lot of simple board games, and I need something to make translating them into video game form quicker and easier.
You presume that the future was predictable in 2009. Satoshi had no way of knowing whether the Bitcoin experiment would truly work or not. How many times have we thought, "Bitcoin is surely dead" due to some Mt Gox / Silk Road / China ban scandal? It's crazy to call the people who stuck it out and believed in the coin "exploitative" when they lost 90% of their value time and time again and still did not sell.
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you guys are calculating different numbers. you just calculated the chances based on the assumption that 1/100 children will be abducted each year. Whereas the other poster was saying the average child will get abducted once in every 100 days
You misinterpret what I'm saying.

I'm arguing that people who are biased is a constant - but in the south its more culturally acceptable to be open about it.
The way to end bias like this is by direct, constant exposure, as in interpersonal relationships with people who are different from you in; race, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

When you create a culture where people who are biased do not expose themselves, their perspectives will never ever be changed.

Your final sentence raises exactly the point I was trying to make - you need a 'marketplace of ideas' to change anyones mind about anything - monocultures do not change minds - they just drive those who disagree underground, and if anything give those who disagree a persecution complex, and subtly reinforce their views.
If there were actually any such duty, the US long ago fulfilled it by investing trillions of dollars of capital into China and allowing dramatically unbalanced trade to go on for decades (resulting in trillions of dollars in trade deficits; not to mention the unfair dumping by state Chinese companies, countless economic regulations in China that are against the rules or spirit of the WTO, and so on).

The US built modern China in the exact same way the old European powers helped build up the US with vast capital inflows and trade.

All the parties have benefited. One can argue China benefited more, however the very undeveloped party in the transaction will usually benefit a lot more (again as was the case with the early US economic development in trade/investment with the British Empire or France).
I'd argue that east texas is part of the south - but west and north texas are their own animals - because of this, Texas as a whole is its own animal.
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Alt+. is a bash (libreadline really) key.

In fish Alt+Up does something similar, but repeated presses iterates over all words of all commands rather than last words of bash commands. A big improvement is you can type some chars first and then Alt+Up only gets words matching this substring — like Up but word granularity! (Closest bash key is Ctrl+Alt+I)

If you don't mind the differences, and want Alt+. muscle memory to work in fish too, do:

bind \e. history-token-search-backward

(plus Alt+Up doesn't work for me in linux console, Alt+. does)
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yes, this - I'm actually advocating that racism in the north, northwest, and west is even more harmful, because those who are in the minority can't take any mitigation steps to deal with those who have bias.
I'm not suggesting that journalists made something up. I would like to see a list of banned words presented to CDC staff. It's not clear to me how serious this is. Is it an exaggeration? A miscommunication? We are not talking about Watergate or the Pentagon Papers. It's hard to tell if this is gossip. Anybody taking ownership of the claim could clear that up.
Great post, I was wondering why transactions were disabled to binance...appreciate the info. And the warnings.
But that comment also completely misses the point Sam Altman was making.
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I agree that anonymity is important for things like Watergate or the Pentagon Papers. Allowing anonymity for anything less just promotes gossip.
"I don’t get how you see plea bargaining as the evil thing in that scenario."

Because you don't get one of the fundamental constitutional rights our country was founded on: The right to a jury. Prosecutors should be forced to face a jury.
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We still have enough land that living in a rural setting is an option for many people. That's a good thing. What is not good is the many urban and dense suburban areas designed according to the interests of people who visit in cars, rather than those of people who live there.

I really hope that you walk your 11 acres rather than driving around in one of those militarized-golf-cart abominations. Your knees will just get worse if you never walk around.
I agree. I really want a journalism source to which I can give a monthly or annual fee which doesn't allow anonymity for anything less than a real scandal.
Thanks for the clarification, that makes sense! In that case I suppose the main strangeness of the video is the shape of the object. Makes you wonder if these might be some secret experimental military craft or drones that happen to be weirdly shaped.
Reminds me how Roman soldiers built roads throughout the empire during the Pax Romana, when they had no wars to fight.
Just to add a little perspective, American Airlines used to fly with a grand piano in their airplanes (in the 747 upper deck lounge). There is absolutely no way that would ever make financial sense without the heavy cost of regulatory capture being integrated into the ticket price. Modern day luxury personal airliners aren't even that austentacious with regards to weight (which directly translates into cost to operate).
On my phone, this entire article reads “blah blah blah [Math processing error] blah blah blah [Math processing error] blah blah blah [Math processing error] blah blah blah [Math processing error]”
While this is true, it's not good enough to just assume that drugs are the same as alcohol because alcohol is a drug.
> I'm so happy my tax dollars are going to subsidize this.

Yep, me too.

I get to try out all sorts of different vape gear by buying direct from China. Have to wait 3-4 weeks for stuff to show up but the savings are definitely worth it. Quality on some of the clone stuff isn't always the best but for the price of a Big Mac meal you can try out a fairly decent atomizer to see if it's even worth buying OEM (which reminds me that the next time I go to the vape shop by my work I need to replace one of my clones before they stop selling it).
Looks pretty neat.
'your Florida home' is problem number 1.
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I was confused on what was so exciting about it, but it comes with built-in multiplayer!
Ugh, so done with this xkcd.

Ignoring people who we don't agree with is how we got to a place where supporting your political party was more important than having an ideology you could morally justify.

I personally lean fairly far to the right but I spend a lot of time listening to NPR, reading slate, and other pretty lefty publications. When I talk to people who only consume one side of the media, whether it's right or left, I feel like I'm talking to a wall of nonsense. People have so little understanding of those they disagree with and will dismiss them with "they're a bunch of idiots" so quickly that their position has no basis in reality. I'm not saying we should give everyone a platform, I'm saying that if someone says "all the rich should be killed" or "gay men don't know love" each position despite being on diametrically opposite sides of our current political landscape need to be understood if we want to move forward.
My first question would be - why do you want to become a software engineer?

Back when I went to Polytechnic (around 1981) things were a lot easier. If you were into business type computing you did some kind of computer studies degree, which covered things like COBOL and business systems (banks, insurance companies etc). If you weren't into that scene you ended up like me in Electronic Engineering. I was fascinated by electronics to the point where I knew I had to study it. Then if you were into microcomputers you bought yourself a Z80 and a few TTL chips and built one. Now there are a multitude of things to go into to the point where your options are almost endless - which probably leads to "analysis paralysis" in many cases...

Which brings me back to - why do you want to become a software engineer?

I would start by taking a long hard look at your interests and aptitudes. Software engineering can be merciless if you don't have the aptitude for it and interest in it.

You could dip a toe in by learning Python. Actually the book you mentioned is very good as it shows you how to do practical things in Python - I have found it a useful source of reference. You wouldn't have to work through all of it. You could maybe use it to whip up a simple web scraper or process some data from Excel and just see how it feels. In some ways when you are starting out it doesn't matter too much what you do as long as you do something.

One final thing - you didn't say where you were starting from. Did you imply you had a degree in Biology? It's not fashionable to say it these days but by far the majority of software engineers I meet today have what you my call "traditional" backgrounds in that they came in through getting a degree in some kind of software/comp sci subject, and possibly a masters. Sure there are a few hot shot self-taught programmers around but in my experience they are the minority.

p.s. I shifted out of electronics and into software development by teaching myself TurboBASIC and then C and assembly language, and then went to work as a software trainer and later engineer, so it can be done.
And you don’t get that that’s a right, not an obligation. A right can be waived (in return for a consideration), an obligation can’t.

In a plea bargain, the state is recognizing your right to a trial; that’s why they can’t just give you the punishment directly! They are offering a reduced sentence in exchange for you waiving that right. At no point is the right not recognized, unless you think that’s what happens with guilty pleas too.

(Edited to provide explanation rather than funny but confusing skit.)
These do exist in the US. There's a good list here, although it includes some schools that aren't fully outdoor:
https://mamookids.com/blogs/journal/the-ultimate-guide-to-fo...

My girls had a great experience at their forest school. I would recommend it for many kids (but not all, of course)
There is a query parameter "m=1" at the end of this URL. I guess that's why it wasn't marked as duplicate.
Using it wrong...would you not try using it exactly as described with $28,000 depending on it? He raised extremely valid points about labeling this 'user error' but the 'correct' use case seems pretty kludge to me and highlights the crypto's shortfalls.
They mostly pitch how their development process / governance is better. "Scientific" is the word they always use.
I think it's fair to summarize her direct quotes as -

1.) All sexual misconduct is as bad a rape.

2.) Men should not talk or have an opinion.

“It seems to me that he thinks that because he didn’t rape somebody – so far as we know – that what he did do wasn’t as bad.”

"The time right now is for men just to listen and not have an opinion about it for once."