skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why meaning and happiness are mutually exclusive. For me, I rarely can have one without another. do

Also importantly, overworking yourself does not lead to happiness and only to illusion of meaning. Long term 70 hours a week schedules are not about effictivity or happiness. Even if you absolutely love that job.
This. Imposing no restrictions is generally the best option for most websites, which should focus on things like rate limiting, secure hashing, and 2FA before getting user-hostile wrt passwords.
Is it bad to just like work?

I couldn't think of anything I could do for the number of hours that I work that wouldn't send me insane. Travelling, hanging out with friends, partying, sports, random interests - not that I don't like them a bit, but I would lose it after just a few weeks.
It's not clear that I can try it clicking the blue "Ask" circle on the right. I wanted to try it without creating an account or installing something, and I ha to see part of the video that you have a live demo.

All the questions in the "Ask" deme had the same answer:
"Kindly share your email and we'll notify when your question is answered." You should mix some questions with answers.
Thank you so much, so right now I feel relieved I am not missing anything.
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> We really are a society of extreme scarcity.

That scarcity is completely artificial though. Wealth and income inequality make this obvious and they are the problem. A different social organisation could allow for everyone to have enough and probably make society less wasteful too.
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> But some 1000 people come to a city like Bangalore everyday

That’s really a lot of people if think about it. That’s 365,000 people a year. If a new city was built for all those people, in France it would be the 5th largest city.
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> How do stories like this keep making it to the front page?

In this case, it's probably because the decidedly pro-EU mainstream media rarely publish EU-critical articles. It's sad that so many truths that are fundamental to understand how the world works are only told by dubious organizations to further an unrelated agenda.
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Just another data point on CrashPlan...

I've used them for a long while and previously had good experiences.

I was recently adding a new backup to CrashPlan and was a bit miffed that my backup is capping out at around 3 Mbps (and down to about 500 kbps at times). Opened a support ticket, went through a whole bunch of things, and they basically came back saying 1 - 5 Mbps is the expected range.

In 2018, I really don't think that's acceptable when you're trying to backup a couple terabytes of data. I have not had this issue with other backup services I use.
Somebody signed up for Diner's, of all things, using myname.mywifesname@gmail.com (we use a shared email for utility bills).

I don't even know anyone who has a Diner's card in Italy, or even thought of getting one... It's even less commonly accepted than AmEx and has fewer perks.
While I do agree with you in spirit, I think it will just leave society more polarized by people self segregating into groups they believe and trust. Kind of like the divide and conquer thing. Hopefully you are right. I just have a lack of confidence that the superpowers (I.e. countries and mega corporations) would let that happen.
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People doing electronics cover their tables with medium-high resistivity material mats (high enough so it doesn't interfere with bare electronics, but not completely dielectric). The mats are grounded to Earth ground via 1 megaohm resistor.

From personal experience, static discharge against such material is a lot less painful than touching grounded metal objects.
I'm gonna buy one, because I'm quite used to spending $1k on computers .. been doing it for decades .. and this machine is the kind of machine I'd rather be spending my next $1k on, than say, the current commercial crop.

So I hope this won't be the first rev, and that I look back in 2 years or so and go 'well, time to upgrade it' .. this would be an economic as well as practically good investment. You know, like any computer you might purchase ..
My rough understanding is that infection is trying to make body slightly cooler by changing perception of the temperature, while deep infrared light heats my body directly, bypassing the skin. Body always tries to raise temperature of infected area and deep infrared light helps to do that without raising temperature of the whole body.
The hard part is generally figuring out what cipher is being used. Once you know that, and the cipher is old, modern crypt analysis would probably easily crack it.

This is down to kerchoffs principle, which states that you should not rely on the secrecy of what cipher is being used, only on the secrecy of the key.
As such, writing in another language is not cryptography.
There is a name for hiding info by depending on the method being unknown: steganography.
This includes different using different languages (see the navaho code talkers), or hiding data in the less significant bits of an image, or hiding a message in the first letter of every sentence and so forth.
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Looks very cool! Could you explain the tech that you developed ? Did you create a new algorithm for extracting the content from the page or used an existing one ?
> I'm not sure there will be cheaper boards, to be honest.

a) No need to assert honesty - we assume everyone is trying to be honest with each other here.

b) History is littered with people believing or claiming that some thing can not possibly become smaller / cheaper / faster ... it's a dangerous predictive path to wander, with basically no recorded precedents to cite.
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> If you don't normalize your input, you could have a situation where an account created on, say, Win XP, might be inaccessible for the average user from iOS.

This only applies if you handle the normalization in the front-end. But you should normalize it in the back-end, right? Or am I missing something here?

Edit: Answered further down by wongarsu
Why was this downvoted? By Americans who have never experienced this?
Sure whatever. I'm just saying land area isn't the problem.
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I dont really get the use-case for this.

macOS has had print to pdf for any app since its inception, iOS has had it for at least the last couple of versions, surely Windows and Android have similar functionality built in by now too?
Can you point me to good resources to learn more about Unicode normalization especially for passwords? What are the gotchas? One the one hand, when users are allowed to enter any character, they often have difficulties to log in when they are aboard and not use their own devices. Though, I don't know if every Russian (for instance) would be able to enter a "English" password.
Thanks! Despite all my googling, I had missed this one.
Regarding Spring, I have heard an opinion that the "new features" in latest Java EE versions make it somewhat obsolete, but I lack knowledge to evaluate the statement. What do you think? What are the advantages / disadvantages of Spring vs "pure"(?) Java EE.
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Yeah, that stood out as some serious asymmetry.
or alternative to working on OSS is to create a product and try to sell it. If it sells you dont need a job at all and yout are sitting on a money making startup. And if it doesnt then you can use this product to show case your skills to the potential employer.
I’m not saying you are wrong, but something really annoys me when I here you can’t become stateless. It's like saying you can’t not have an owner.
You could consider going to Laos, the air is definitely better here
I used to work on Google's account system and wrote up a set of suggestions for how to implement user accounts on your website here:

https://blog.plan99.net/building-account-systems-f790bf5fdbe...

The advice overlaps in various areas, but is different in a few. Might be useful as another take and to see what's the same and what's different.
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I don't see how former fans can't be haters and in either case it's unreasonable. PC's became good enough for most common tasks years ago and a lot of the low-hanging fruit has been picked. The technology is not quite ready to go the next step, like for example worthwhile VR.

You didn't even explain what you want from Apple. Is it about performance or some groundbreaking new feature?
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I have read dozens if not hundreds of EU-critical articles in the "mainstream media" during the last few decades. Maybe you should just read more, if you're missing EU critique. (Why people who already dislike the EU so badly want to read more critique of it is another matter - maybe to feel better?)
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In contrast to Rust's language design, -fsanitize and -Weverything and static source code analyzer can't give guarantees over memory safety.
Considering that your main activity in your Github profile is concentrated on JavaScript, I wouldn't be so cheeky.

Feel free to post your self-written applications (no fuzzers or similar with uninteresting attack surfaces) written in C for open review.
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This is bullshit. All they need to do is create means to prevent bulk scanning of whois databases.

WHOIS information is absolutely vital to the proper operation of the internet. It has to be possible for _regular people_, not special boards or committees with super access, to be able to find the contact information for the owners of a domain name.

This is a much bigger problem than anyone has really appreciated. Frankly I expect the worst, because none of the people debating the issue are "regular people", they're all special people with special access and privileges and clout. How are they going to represent the needs of every day internet users.

WHOIS privacy works fine for non-organization consumers to protect their information from spammers. For organizations, spam is just part of their daily lives and it's not a legitimate reason to break the entire domain structure.

What is really going on here is registrars want to force you to use their brokerage agencies whenever you want to purchase a domain name that's already owned but not being used.

The domain name system is a racket, it's been a racket for decades, and if we don't fight them it will continue to be and will become more of a racket.
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I think there is a dichotomy, but I don't think it's meaning vs happiness. Rather, it might be people who find meaning in what they do for a living, vs finding meaning in what they do outside of work. The key, I think, is identity; your answer to the question: "what are you?"

Happiness is a more complex question, I'd refer people to Maslow's hierarchy of needs. I'd add that happiness is usually fleeting, contentment and engagement with life is more achievable.
I don't think there is actual free will, and I think the appearances of it is just how our minds present things to us -- that is, I basically agree with the description you give.

But I object to statements like:

> the free will is there but only as a convenient abstraction.

Here's an analogy to illustrate my objection. It's inaccurate to say that the person Santa Claus literally exists but only as a mental concept.

The accurate way to put it is that the Santa Claus person doesn't literally exist but we have mental concepts describing such a person.

Free will doesn't exist but we have a mental concept of such a thing.

That's the honest way to put it.
The idea is to produce a PDF that makes the article more readable than if you relied on the default print output of the site itself.

In somes cases, e.g. a site that's gone to the trouble of creating a good print stylesheet, printing from the site itself will probably create a more readable output than this. But many sites don't do that.

There's also the use case of automating PDF creation from code. For example, automatically sending a PDF to your printer (some wireless printers can now be set up with email addresses) of articles you save to read later in a read-later service.
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I think for free will to exist, something neither totally random nor totally deterministic would be required. That’s why free will isn’t really a scientific concept.

The idea that there something non-deterministic give some hope that though it “look random” there actually order being directed by “something” there. Essentially if you’re a mind-body dualist, this is the point where mind meets body (would be my understanding).
I think use of other languages could be described as a form of cryptography. It's been done before as well - see the Navajo code talkers in WWII[1], who were very effective in terms of speed, and who the Japanese found difficult to even transcribe. Of course, this relies on the language being obscure, and many more languages are well documented now than in the 1940s.

>it should likewise be trivial to crack any remaining unknown ancient scripts

That doesn't follow. Part of successfully decrypting a message is knowing when you have the right answer. That doesn't apply if you're looking at a limited dataset (or claytablet set), and you have no idea about the context the texts were written in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker
At least we all have the equivalent of a Tricorder in our pockets now.
> upvote.pub collects information based on what pages you browse and what items you download on this site.

Please, dissable this sh*t function[0]! No need collect such data in our non safe web...

[0] https://upvote.pub/h/privacy-policy
This is a really interesting idea. Even if the initial code was “staged”. It would demonstrate that the applicant could grok existing code, respond to an issue ticket and implement a solution.

Great idea!
This looks to me like something you could (literally) throw up on Github as a JSON file, so that it's easily updated by people and usable to other applications.
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There's nothing wrong with being passionate about your job
To be fair, a lot of tech company offices are not much quieter than a WeWork e.g. open plan office/many places I've seen put engineers right next to people that have to be on phones all day.
If your stateless password rules are stronger than a backtracking RE engine, I have bad news for you.
I'm much the same way, though I think another reason behind preferring the human checkers is the fact most self checkout machines are horrible in terms of usability. Oh no, you removed an item from the bagging area! Time to shut down the whole machine until some staff member comes over and unlocks it again!

Why? Who in their right mind thought this was a good design decision? It doesn't stop theft, it doesn't stop scams, it doesn't do anything other than infuriate legitimate customers at seemingly random.

Or in another example, trying to find the item you're buying if it's not a standard product with a bar code on the bottom. If the shop has a bakery or meat counter or whatever, that usually means lots of scrolling through pages trying to find the item you bought while hoping you can remember what the name of the damn thing was on the shelf in case two items look almost identical. Or in case you can't make out certain details on a tiny icon properly.

A human cashier can usually sort this stuff out much quicker than a customer using a self service machine could.
1. Hash passwords
2. Allow third party identi-... WAIT, STOP. WHAT?!

Allowing third party authentication in your software is not a "best practice". The blog is some corporate advertising bullshit that Google is trying to shove down your throats under the guise of a public service thing.

Jesus Christ why is evil tolerated? Entertainment value?

"Third-party identity providers enable you to rely on a trusted external service to authenticate a user's identity."

Anyone who trusts Google or Twitter or Facebook, the three listed, is an idiot and doesn't know anything about internet security and has no place writing authentication schemes or working at that level of I.T.

full disclosure, I allow social logins on my personal blog. Because it's just a blog and who cares. If it were a sensitive system for example, a bank or a credit agency, then under no circumstances would a third party authorization be allowed.
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The reliability of demographic data across Sub-Sahara Africa is a significant problem for a multitude of research disciplines.

But there's been a host of severe famines since World War II across the Sahel. It is possible that the reliability of birth data would have improved over this period to a degree sufficient to support research techniques.

In fact, there's been research along these lines in SSA already, especially regarding the impact of malnourishment on intellectual development among other factors.

Still, important research that goes to show that famines have generational effects that extend all the way to the genetic level.
That's fine, I also clicked the link to see how EU keeps poor countries poor, expecting a research findings, some charts and numbers but it turned out to be pure opinion piece by an advocate of that opinion.

IS everything alright with the brexit process? Why people keep pushing the propaganda of "evils of EU and wonders of Brexit"?
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If you get a private office at WeWork, you’ll get that peace, quiet, and isolation. Or you can just put on a pair of noise-canceling headphones.
Perhaps they are more internally-focused?
Yep, I am flummoxed by people who don't seem to be bothered by chores. One of my friends said she enjoyed doing the dishes. Something beyond my understanding drives them.

Much better to start from a position of "These are two different things" and then talk about the interplay between the two
Spot on ! I've so far been unsuccessful at understanding this interplay.
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My point is that for every article that exposes EU protectionism, there are ten articles praising the importance of so-called "free trade".
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Land usable for agriculture is a significantly smaller percentage than that.
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I used to work 60 hours a week because I absolutely loved what I did. It gave me meaning. Then I had a son and it fell to 40... Then 30... Then I quit. Now I'm home with him and absolutely love what I'm doing. I still feel successful nurturing a little human. It gives me more meaning than my job ever did. Financially I need to work again, but I doubt it will ever be the nexus of my day.
Your ad hominem attacks, appeals to authority and straw men aren't going to get us anywhere constructive, so let's ignore those.

I didn't say I thought MS was building products no-one wants. My original suggestion was that their current strategy seems to be pushing towards big, enterprise-scale customers and the low-end home user market, at the expense of the middle ground, and that time would tell whether this was working out well for them.

Clearly they have had some missteps with their OS strategy before -- there's plenty of evidence around about the poor reception and low adoption rates -- so I still don't understand what point you're trying to make here or how anything I've written is at all controversial. Your original reply suggested that they might consider driving a large group of customers away to be beneficial, but it's hard to see how that would be the case here, and you don't seem to have offered any further argument to support your position.
Can be broken down to roughly these steps:

1. The tool for extracting article content is Full-Text RSS[0]. It relies on arc90's original (open source) article detection algorithm, Readability, as well as a set of site-specific extraction rules which we maintain on Github[1].

2. Our PDF Newspaper[2] application then cleans that extracted article output to normalise HTML/CSS styles so we can present the output in our own layout without things breaking. We use CSS for multi-column output.

3. Finally, we use Chromium's new headless API to request the generated output in step 2 and create three PDFs - injecting CSS to increase the font size each time. After we have the three PDF files, we check the PDFs in order of smallest to largest font size and as soon as a larger font size creates an extra new page, we discard that and keep the PDF we had before and return that. So if PDF 1 (small font size) has three pages, PDF 2 (medium font size) also three pages, but PDF 3 (larger font size) four pages, then we return PDF 2.

[0] http://fivefilters.org/content-only/
[1] https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config
[2] http://fivefilters.org/pdf-newspaper/
Pretty much every country has a way to grant right-of-residence visas (or even instant citizenship) to people in a position to invest a large sum of money.
Same, people always ask me why I do this to myself but I don't see it just as a job, more like part of my life and I kind of enjoy it and can't do without, albeit I must admit I am a workaholic and not everything out of this is positive.
As a buyer I found that the key is to find a seller who specialises in items that were originally good quality and high ticket prices. For example there's a UK company called Rohan who make outdoor/adventure/travel clothing, it's great gear but eye watering prices. However on Ebay it's relatively easy to find sellers of this gear and, because the stuff is good quality, older items are still perfectly servicable ( even waterproofs ). Also I think that the better quality manufacturers will have more consistent sizing which makes buying easier.

Personally I prefer Rohan's older designs as I think that they're more practical which is even better because they're cheaper! These days all my walking gear, other than boots, comes from Ebay.
I think you can be stateless, but then you're not allowed to be anywhere civilized