skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I split files between day-to-day work and/or personal documents in the /home/user directory, and a very large partition dedicated to long-term storage which is subdivided again into various media subdirectories and/or other archived files. Long-term storage is made up of things which have to be kept, but are not written on a daily basis - so that includes stuff like media, computer program archives, archived backups, etc.

Daily backups apart from /home/user include enough information to restore the system within an hour or so in case of a system crash: so /etc/, /usr/local, list of installed packages, website, mysql databases.

The total personal storage in /home/user usually varies around 10 gigs which is backed up daily as a single unit.

The total long-term storage is currently around 3 terabytes, this also is backed-up daily (to 2 backup disks) but using rsync so that only actual daily changes are copied.

When stuff needs a date, the date is done in reverse order using only 6 digits: YYMMDD. This sorts automatically by date.

The archive partition is called /a. It has these subdirectories:

audio_music
audio_other
BAK
BAK_MONTHLY
calibre
comp
git
info
jvs_docs_monthly
mail_archive
medical
photo
print
travel
VDI
video
xs

Each of these are subdivided further - examples:

/a/audio_music/bands/pink_floyd-dark_side_of_the_moon/dark_side_of_the_moon_03_time.flac

/a/calibre/fiction_collection/Dillinger/Jack Higgins - Dillinger (1350)/Jack Higgins - Dillinger - Dillinger.mobi

/a/comp/manuals/programming/ucsd-pascal-ii.0-user-manual-reconstruct.pdf

/a/comp/os/linux/pkgs/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.26-108824-ubuntu-trusty_amd64.deb

/a/photo/canon_2003/img_1235.jpg

/a/print/magazines/byte/1988-vol_13/198803_byte_magazine_march_1988.pdf

/a/travel/france-2011/europe2011-docs/travel/dubai_xfers_and_accommodation-nov11.pdf

/a/VDI/Windows7Laptop/win7-50gb.vdi

/a/video/doco/war/barbarossa1-politics_of_fear.flv

/a/video/music/vocal_male/elton_john-greatest_hits/216_elton_john-written_in_the_stars_ft.leann_rimes.mp4

/a/xs/aseries/A050_nse_080513/nse-30/Disks/qd/games8
For ease:

# echo -n "password" | sha1sum | cut -b 1-5
5baa6
If the company is hoarding cash, it's not paying dividends. (Sure, perceived value is high, but future cashflow at some point must reconcile this. Of course, the market can remain irrational as long as it pleases. After all, it's peopleware.)
Wirth has some valid points. And yet, reading that reminded me of why I hate Wirth-designed languages so much.

Wirth says, "Here's the one right way to do it, and the language will not permit you to do otherwise." He even brags in this paper that Oberon's ability to write everything (except the storage manager and device drivers) without using language loopholes is "the most significant progress in language design over 40 years".

C++, by contrast, gives you the preferred way to do things, but also gives you the escape hatch if you need it. And Stroustrup, writing the C++ book, says that there is no one right way to program, but "here is an approach that has worked for some people."

I prefer Stroustrup's humbler and less dictatorial approach. I've been trapped by Wirth's idea of "the one right way" before, and it's hard to get out of. You have to fight the language to do what you need to do, because the language doesn't think you should be able to do it. And of course the better the language is at stopping you from doing what it thinks you shouldn't do, the harder it makes it when you actually need to do one of those things.
They seem to suck at enforcing that. Does tesla not track EU cars? I bet they do.
Hmm, can I reference multiple versions of the same library?

Not that I'd want to, just wondering how it works.
The UX of a blacklist with a half billion entries would be so crippling that it would cause a user revolt.

Most people's password-selection strategies are similar enough to other people's (like kbenson's 4000+ hit) that they could spend hours trying to come up with a password that has never been leaked before.

I tried to encourage Troy to suggest to implementors that blacklisting all passwords was a Bad Idea. Instead, he doubled down:

https://twitter.com/TychoTithonus/status/966400790221930496

Please don't use the entire list for blacklisting unless you actively also guide the user in how to generate a random passphrase (if a human must remember it) or a random password (if it will be stored in a password manager).

Instead:

1. Use a high-level password-strength assessment widget like zxcvbn:

https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn

2. Configure a blacklist with, say, 10K or 20K of the most common passwords.

3. Hash passwords with bcrypt cost 12 (adjusted to your platform's hashrate capabilities), scrypt, or the appropriate method from the Argon2 family.

But for all that is holy, please don't use Troy's entire corpus - or even the first million - as a blacklist. To quote the old NANOG saw, I encourage all of my competitors to use it. ;)

Edit: And since Troy's API at this writing does not support only querying the top X passwords, there's no way to use the API while avoiding the UX nightmare. So if you want to use this data in a professional manner, but don't want to download the entire corpus, here are the first 20K from his list (of which I've only personally cracked 19965 so far, interestingly; gist will be updated once I get all 20K):

https://gist.github.com/roycewilliams/281ce539915a947a23db17...

Edit 2: Preliminary results indicate that this data may be dirty. The 273rd most common password, according to Troy, is '$HEX'. This is almost certainly an import/conversion artifact, since the '$HEX' prefix is how most cracking suites escape non-ASCII or passwords that contain colons. I expect that there will be more artifacts. Use the data with caution.
I don't have a handy link, but I recall a while back seeing a graph that showed the total value of compensation (wages + benefits) steadily increasing while base wages stagnated. Almost all the increase was due to the increasing value of employer provided health insurance.
The 'consent' will be rolled in to the purchase contract. Dont want us to have your data? No car for you.
I've lived in Austin for about 5 years. Grad school, not work. My programmer friends seem to have no problem getting jobs, and I have no shortage of male friends, but the gender ratio of singles is pretty heavily skewed towards men for introverted nerds. I'm a single male who doesn't have a lot of free time, so I gave up on dating in Austin. The city doesn't seem to attract many people I'd like to date. Particularly compared against where I lived previously. Many of the people under 35 in Austin seem to have been attracted to the city for the music festivals and relative lack of cold weather. I'm an introvert who finds the summer heat here worse than the cold on the east coast. As I said, Austinites are typically not my kind of people.

Something to keep in mind if you believe you might be similar to me. Austin is probably not worse than SF, but I don't intend to live there after I graduate either.
My guess is that this is not truly about "corruption" and that the US government is mostly happy about this arrangement.

Consider these possible upsides from the US perspective:

* The US can use the whole operation as a bargaining chip with China's governing party, which probably finds the operation irritating, given their policy of currency controls.

* US intelligence gatherers may be able to glean some info about who the wealthy are in China and what they want to do with their money.

* US intelligence gatherers may be able to strike up useful relationships with certain wealthy/elite/influential people in China.

* The operation itself may well be helping to pay the US costs for occupying such a remote island.
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Speaking purely from anecdotal evidence: Dallas certainly does have a lot of good jobs, but its not a liberal enclave like Austin. In some ways its more representative of Texas than Austin, which is definitely more like SF (except maybe the rents, which are definitely far more reasonable).

But Dallas has its own charms for sure. You can get really huge houses close to work for pretty cheap, the school systems are pretty great. The big Software firms (Google, Apple, Facebook etc.) are all moving to Austin though.
Updated my comment with source info.

Based on that documentary, every case if filed on behalf of a shell company, many of which lead to the same bunch of attorneys. So, its not me saying, but the movie says so.

In that documentary, you can see the frustrations on many of those entrepreneurs and medium sized companies who have been screwed over by these scumbags.

Why dont most people hear about this? Because settlement includes NDA that prevents those who have been screwed over, to talk about how they have been screwed.
I can see it working great for captures, but these people have given you their addresses on the chance they might win something, and not necessarily because they want to receive emails from you.

I imagine this results in significant subsequent unsubscribes and getting reported as spam.
I, too, am unfamiliar with prior art here. Are you able enlighten us?
Read this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=250704
Dallas guy here, also a very senior SW engineer. My last two hires were about 5 months or so ago, but high availability? hah! I can't necessarily speak for the demand, other than it must be high, because it is hard to find available devs. Also from working with recruiters in the past couple of years, good candidates are snatched up very fast. If you have good experience (and are not a contractor that jumps companies every 3 months), you should find a position within two weeks in Dallas.

As far as Austin, no. Only reason people go to Austin is more a lifestyle choice. More people come from Austin to Dallas simply because the number of available jobs. Last time I checked, Dallas has around twice as many developers as Austin as well.

Right now, people in Texas cities other than Austin are staying away too. Austin's infrastructure has not kept up with the growth and it is nuts. Dallas and Houston have done a much better job when planning ahead for the growth of the entire job market, whereas Austin took somewhat of a Boulder, Co stance and decided they really don't need to work on infrastructure to aid growing the population. That's a whole other story though.
Is it possible to have a discussion about anything without someone bringing politics to it?

> He's my dad and I love him, but needless to say, when I see my partners going down the same path, it freaks me out.

Your dad is your partner?

> It seems impossible to have normal, non-political conversations with him anymore, he just doesn't have any knowledge or interest that doesn't come from TV.

And here you are doing the same thing. How about not making everything political? Things are toxic as it is. Do you need to bring toxic politics to HN?
> 1. I would say the primary application is to proving that certain casts (function cast, etc.) are the primary result of the paper.

I think you accidentally a word.

Re 2: That makes sense to me. In Haskell any terms can contain exceptions but they can only be caught in IO.

I look forward to reading the paper this weekend! I started really appreciating profunctors when I first learned what an equipment was, they just seemed to make everything fall into place. One thing I find intriguing about your paper is that the equipment participates directly in the models of the type theory instead of being a way to relate different models ala formal category theory.

Perhaps the reason why profunctors aren't highlighted more often is the same prejudice that gives functions a more central place than relations.
There's some outdated information here: Davis and Ward are former judges for the district, and both "have sons who are attorneys with patent-focused legal practices" in the district. However, both have now retired [0]. The current judge in Marshall, Rodney Gilstrap, does have a son, but one who does not practice patent litigation [1] [2].

[3] gives a lot more information about the origin of the rules that made East Texas initially attractive, as well as how "there are signs [Gilstrap] is starting to crack down on patent trolls." It's a much more nuanced story, with a clear narrative of how judges acting in good faith might design rules like this to speed up litigation... and I'm unsure how much a judiciary can or should take into account e.g. parties' abilities to pay for discovery, one of the main contributors to the environment here [4], when deciding on those rules. Federal legislative reform would be the clearest path here, but that's hard to come by these days.

(I am not a lawyer.)

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/east-texas-judge...

[1] http://mcsmith.blogs.com/eastern_district_of_texas/2011/05/j...

[2] https://www.velaw.com/Who-We-Are/Find-a-Lawyer/Gilstrap--Ste...

[3] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/aek3pp/the-small-...

[4] http://www.patentprogress.org/2014/05/21/popular-patent-judg...
Trust me, when it comes to road infrastructure, there is no conspiracy to help the Big 3. The amount of broken down vehicles that I see on the sides of the roads due to tire issues spans domestic & foreign brands. If there's a conspiracy, it's a conspiracy to benefit body shops and tire/rim manufacturers.
It’s not that easy. They own the network. It’s like saying “It’s a shame we have allowed Verizon and AT&T to own all our communication.”

They own infrastructure and cell towers and such but these publishers own mindshare and they have people’s attention and that’s the whole point. You’re not going to risk your career and publish in some unknown journal (for most people). Sad but true.
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As far as I can tell, that supports, rather than contradicts, the post's point about modelling, fp, and approximation errors. It's a little too easy to ascribe KSP's bugs to floating-point errors, its physics engine just isn't trustworthy enough. How do you really know that the oscillations are not just due to it solving a stiff system of ODEs with explicit Euler, or something perfectly predictable like that?
AMP sucks. I actively avoid it due to the inferior usability. Now never use that excuse ever again. Its not even a little honest.
Another way to view it would be that speakeasies thrived where the police didn't bother (or accepted discouragement) to go. Police resources are financial and political, and often stretched thin over poor or minority neighborhoods. So it is strange to divorce something and call it just "norms" when such strong economic forces are in play.
It's not a myth. It's a fact. Younger people are more naive and idealistic. Older people are more skeptical and conservative.
They release a microcode package for Linux. The kernel will load it from an initramfs, so no need to flash your BIOS. First lines in my dmesg are:

[ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0xc2, date = 2017-11-16
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.14.14+ (mattst88@p50-ethernet) (gcc version 6.4.0 (Gentoo 6.4.0-r1 p1.3)) #19 SMP Sun Feb 4 00:20:02 PST 2018
I think many websites that got hacked leaked email addresses cc info etc, but most do not store passwords so your password wasn't leaked in plaintext.
> I usually do not have another job lined up when I lose my current one, so I've been taking one mediocre job offer after another to make ends meet.

This is your problem: to make ends meet. You're a programmer by profession,
your salary should be enough to have significant savings.
Very secure means high-assurance for both hardware and software, very insecure means no assurance for neither hardware, nor software, with control over system belonging to multiple third parties and what not, basically consumer stuff. And threat model for this consumer stuff just doesn't include an adversary capable of intercepting all of your communication and cracking less secure protocols, this is just silly. Because with such level of capabilities an adversary can just target a whole bunch of third parties that have control over your system, penetrate one of them and push a fake update to your system with screen grabbing malware or whatever. By the way, this is an example of a real world attack.
With all respect for your professor, you could of course simply try rather than echoing words from long ago.

Fortunately not everybody will take 'it can't be done' as the final answer :) It's not what can't be done in theory that matters but what can be done in practice.
The same could be said about 'gofmt' in relation to all the pretty printers that existed before, yet it was revolutionary.
And that's exactly why using this entire corpus - or even more than the first few tens of thousands - as a blacklist would be an extremely user-hostile choice [1].

Password psychology is remarkably consistent across a given demographic, because most people start by modifying of one or more base tokens that are already stored in memory because of their personal significance.

So unless the implementation gives specific, real-time UX feedback to teach users how to pick a password that is very unlikely to be in this (and future, ever-growing) versions of this corpus, using a large blacklist is "gotcha infosec". It creates UX where the user cannot possibly come up with a "good" password using most of their previous strategies. It's the worst kind of "gotcha infosec".

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16434266
> What you're describing sounds kind of awesome, but it's not "homeschooling." It needs a different term.

This describes most of the homeschoolers I have ever known, including myself. It's what I think of when I hear the word. Perhaps I had an atypical experience, having grown up in a Boston suburb.
Controlling for purity should not be a major problem and should be a baseline for being in the food business. Lifestyle (diet, sleep, stress, alcohol consumption, disease, genetics, etc.) will far outweigh the variable of supplement purity.

I hope you find more studies, but the variables such as those mentioned above will make it very difficult to determine causation.
I like this kind of thing in principle, but certificates are already getting kind of large and there are a number of other things that one might put in them via OIDs. But I realize ASN.1 is pretty concise; do you know about how much this proposal would increase the size of a certificate by?

Another concern might be that users might not want this to be disclosed because it might give attackers suggestions about how to attack their renewal processes (although of course CAs have been willing to publish information, like issued certs, that some users wouldn't prefer to make public).
This would be https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11
Watch Patent Scam on Amazon Prime (or on iTunes I guess). Then you'll wonder how is this scam even tolerated!

Basically, its a nexus between the judge and attorneys who have shell companies filing lawsuits against legit entrepreneurs and medium sized companies.

The East Texas circuit is so remote that just going there is a pain.

Laws are such that burden of proof is on the company/person being accused in the lawsuit. That combined with the remoteness of this court, compels the accused to settle, along with an NDA that prevents them from sharing any details about the settlement.
Yes, but why enforce the poor experince?
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Yeah, but you would need two commands then, because you need to search for bytes 6-40 in the resulting output. I made a one-liner farther down the comments.[1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16434244
Unless the site was also storing in plaintext they’d have to actually crack the password hash too, which for some passwords is very hard to do.
> The US middle class has contracted because more people have moved up and out of the middle class and into the upper classes, than have moved down and out

The study cited directly in the Washington Post opinion piece (and indirectly, by way of a WSJ opinion piece, in the Forbes piece -- good effort there passing off the same underlying study as if it were two independent sources) excludes adult children living with parents from the analysis, which makes it completely broken, since that's a living pattern that is known to be more common among adults with lower income relative to the cost of living, and which has been observed to increase over the time period the study addresses. [0]

So, yeah, if you ignore a growing share of young adults that are unable to afford to live independently, the share of the remaining population that is in higher economic strata by income is greater.

Clever spin, but not really a good representation of the reality.

[0] See, e.g., http://www.fanniemae.com/resources/file/research/housingsurv...
Hey, didn't know you were in Austin! Definitely will check out the meetup. I'm an occasional climber.

Besides what you already mentioned: the food is one major factor that I like Austin. From BBQ (Franklin, Salt Lick etc.) to Tacos (Torchy's, Taco Deli) to ethnic Indian, Korean etc. this city has it all and new restaurants are opening all the time.

If you like beer and breweries, Austin has many of them too. Oscar Blues, ABGB, 512, Adelberts, Jester King etc. are just a few that come to mind. There are lot of brewpubs as well and new ones are opening all the times.

If you're young and into the nightlife scene, Austin has a lively scene and you can literally go out any night of the week and find something interesting. From live music to famous bands, to music festivals, there's ALWAYS something to do, which is really fucking amazing.

Generally I don't like to say too many nice things since I like to keep this amazing city all to myself. But maybe HN crowd is ok :).
Right, it's better to be healthy at 90 than in chemotherapy. However, I question the societal and individual benefits of enabling everyone to live to 100.

> We need to rethink the way we think about the elderly, because one day those elderly will be us.

I find this Western fear of death to be toxic. One day we'll grow old and die - and that's ok, that's how life works.
Today, probably yes for Taiwan, certainly yes for Japan. But the pace at which the Chinese Air Force is improving you have to wonder if they could eventually develop air superiority over the South China Sea and prevent US surface ships from getting too close. If so, would the Taiwanese fight bitterly, or would they give in? Fifteen years ago a scenario like that seemed like a fantasy. 'And Afghanistan was a mess.
Dallas as a whole is for sure not a liberal enclave like Austin, however, the downtown/uptown/deep ellum bubbles of Dallas most certainly are. If you are coming from SF/CA, Colorado, Austin even, and you are in that part of Dallas, you will feel at home. The "Texas" stereotypes you have for sure heard about are pretty absent here.

For affordable housing, you can definitely get it, but if you want something close to downtown/uptown, it's a good step up. Also, the housing market here is ridiculous, one of the fastest growing markets in the nation. You will be paying above ask in a bidding war for anything you find. And you better be ready to put your money down, no contingency, sometimes before you get to even walk in the front door to see the house. It's that insane.