skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, straight out of Motivational Blogger 101. Lots of quotes, pictures of people doing things, a couple keywords. The actual content of this post? One sentence: Work hard, fail, learn, fake it till you make it. Never read that before...

He’s basically saying that being in the 99% of people (in his world) means that you suck, and you haven’t amounted to anything. Being in his 99% can be both very comfortable and challenging though. And you don’t have to be your own boss to be financially independent and travel the world. I’d even say that’s more likely if you aren’t your own boss.
most of the code we run every day is very old. the idea with open source packages is that you do not have to repeat the work made by others. but you can improve it if you can/want.
old code is often "battle tested" and thus it can actually be safer then something that get constant updates.
The UK developed the first portable timepiece good enough to accurately tell longitude. It's theirs.
I'm glad Harry Potter was not written by these rules.
By executive do they mean big co executive? The pattern with most regulators & prosecutors is they go after the easy to prosecute. If your hard to prosecute then they stop doing it because it doesn't look good for their career numbers.
The victim needs to be running a local geth node(with his wallet unlocked for hacker to actually steal funds) which will give the attacker the wallet addresses atleast.
A nice writeup, thanks. There are a few variations on this workflow that I've found useful in practice; perhaps they'll be helpful to some folks:

- Linux perf can profile unmodified Go programs. This is handy when your application doesn't expose the /debug/pprof endpoint. (http://brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html#perf has detailed instructions)

- Recent versions of https://github.com/google/pprof include a flamegraph viewer in the web UI. This is handy when you want a line-level flamegraph instead of a function-level flamegraph.
> We wouldn't even be able to physically fit the House of Representatives in the chamber anymore.

I personally think it would be interesting to have more federal districts scattered throughout the US than just D.C., and representatives would adjourn at the nearest one. In the age of the Internet and video conferencing it seems like a neat idea.

(Tangentially related, but on the matter of residents of D.C. not having a voting member in Congress: I don't think you should be able to take up residency in D.C. in the first place.)
Not that I'm aware of. Unfortunately this feature seems to be a little underutilized throughout macOS.
Maybe, if stripping the runtime and making use of the betterC compiler mode.

In any case, with only 20 KB available, the only sane option is Assembly, as every byte counts.

Any kind of high level programming just means using a crippled language, trying to match Assembly, while wasting more space.
No way, I’ve implemented a few of them myself (my research area is in love programming), and none of the languages I’ve done were functional. All you need to do is checkpoint, which is true for non trivial FP programs as well.
>the protocol will likely have been evolved by force over time to meet the needs of increasingly prevalent surveillance states.

Are you saying the protocol will be easier or harder to intercept in the future?
That is what constructors are for.

In any case, they might make it into C++20.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/aggregate_initiali...
This is what happens when you refuse to backdoor your devices for the US government.
To be clear, TLS 1.3 has no (or negative) support for interception. The delays are due to adding hacks to cleanly prevent interception, not to add it.
If you like pigmented pens but don't want to use them in a fountain pen, for the reasons the author lists, consider a Pigma Micron pen: http://kk.org/cooltools/pigma-micron-pn-pen. They're available from Jetpens and are expensive enough to be good but not so expensive as to be terrible when lost.
China historically becomes powerful then brittle then falls apart then unified to become powerful then brittle then falls apart and on and on....

The inefficiency of democracy is supposed to combat the brittleness and power-corrupts-ness of philosopher kings.
Really? That's the problem you see here?
Technically, UTC is a time standard, and GMT is a time zone, so the two, although equal, are not really the same thing. Also, you can set your iPhone to UTC in the World Clock, which I do as an amateur astronomer.
Yes. I don’t know if Snips is any good but it seems extremely relevant and the “I won’t use remote automation” comment led clearly to the posting of Snips in this conversation.

Putting aside Snips for a moment, my point with my last comment was to note that you took the “upvotes aren’t a meaningful indicator” tangent and ignored the rest of the reply. You ignored the fact that the criticism led to a meaningful reply and did in fact contribute to the conversation. You also ignored my questions about what constitutes actual contributions to a conversation. Is it just positivity? Because most of the positive stuff people post is still not new and it seems unreasonable to me to claim that criticism is at heart not contributing to the conversation while fanboyism is.
I admit a skeptical bias against Manjoo ever since his raving review of the Apple Watch, which made it clear he is unusually unable to handle his iPhone and social media/notification noise: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/technology/personaltech/a...

His recent column under discussion has the same kind of outlier perspective. I'm younger than him (he says he's nearly 40) but even though I too rely on social media (Twitter and HN) for much of my daily news diet, it still wasn't so long ago when I can remember getting my news in "slow" formats like print. I'm not saying it's easy to quit the digital newslife today, but I can't imagine how short his memory is for him to experience such a blissful epiphany. There are plenty of modern folks today (especially in the NY tech/media scene) who experience the quiet info ecosystem on a daily basis, judging by the huge success of Kindle ebook readers.

Here's an example of what I just can't relate to with Manjoo:

> Now I was left with the simple, disconnected and ritualistic experience of reading the news, mostly free from the cognitive load of wondering whether the thing I was reading was possibly a blatant lie.

I follow just half of the number of Twitter accounts Manjoo does, and I bet I get in as many if not more Twitter discussions/fights than he does. But when I see people tweeting around links to the NYT or WaPo, I don't have such epistemological skepticism about their reporting that I think their web stories might possibly be a "blatant lie". This doesn't mean I automatically accept their work as truth, only that if these news sources required constant skepticism because they might be total bullshit, I wouldn't be following these news sources in the first place.

This reminds me of Manjoo's Apple Watch review because it seemed then like he couldn't imagine how to turn off or reduce notifications before the Watch came along.
Three kinds of industries
You can fix gerrymandering without changes to congressional limits. Simply use this criteria:

* All boundaries of a congressional district must be either a state's boundaries or fixed to a single latitude and/or longitude and meet at an approximate 90deg.

* Exceptions to the prior mentioned rule are acceptable only in the cases of remainder space, which is space remaining for a congressional district only after the prior rule is otherwise fully executed.

* Remainder space districts must not be adjacent.

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An alternative approach:

* Congressional districts must be limited to county borders in the case of low population density districts that may comprise multiple counties or subdivided entirely within a single county for high density districts.

* Subdivision of a county must occur strictly upon either points of latitude or longitude, but not both and cannot exceed the borders of any single county.

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I believe the shape and size of congressional districts should be flexible to account for variances of population density. I happen to live in a state with a huge population and perhaps the most wild fluctuations in population density. For horrid examples of gerrymandering view our current congressional districts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_de...
There must be individual differences at play. I find Go the easiest to read of any language I know (and I've only been looking into it, reading more than writing, for a few weeks). This is part intrinsic limitations (it's a simple language, and there tends to be one obvious way to do ordinary things), in part culture (a strong leaning towards consistent idioms). Perhaps these aspects of the language are a more natural fit with some of us than others.

As for short variable names -- I think they're a readability boon where they are essentially placeholders into common structures that you can read as a whole unit at a glance (counters in loops, readers/writers/buffers in input/output idioms etc), but detrimental elsewhere.
You can reason about what kind of device is this and in general basically look for statistical patterns. Which is what they seem to be pretty good at. If you have modified device then it's likely that you are an outlier.
Nothing pyrrhic about it. They're just relicensing the automotive industry's IP.

Disrupting parking with yet another expression of the gig economy. Democratization of employment. You choose when you go to steal cars, they run the chop shops.

Shorter commutes for most, improved foot traffic and they're making housing more affordable. It's like equifax, facebook or google. We all benefit.
Lisp isn't non-strict by default, though, right? I always thought that it was pervasive non-strictness that made it painful for some languages.
Question: why don’t all companies pay the guy in the mailroom the same as their top scientists and sales people? I’ll give you a hint: it’s not greed at the top (most of the time)
Elon Musk: SpaceX and Tesla almost went bankrupt in 2008
This is an old article since iOS has added UTC time zone to system settings and clock app.

Android still doesn’t support UTC time zone, and need to use Iceland as hack. Which depends on Iceland not changing their time zone.
On a tangential note, OneTab is an un-reliable extension beyond a certain point. Crashed recently for me, taking around 5 years of data with it.
Raises a lot of questions, how is PGP more secure than your normal EndToEnd Encrypted messenger? Why are the Feds afraid of one but not the other?
Thanks for that link.. lots of good resources...

I want to start an MSP (Computer Repair / Maintenance as a Service) + Hosting + Development Business as a worker co-op someday, when I get the free-time and money to do so.
A lot of videos by the Gaming Historian are brilliant. But why the timestamp?
This sounds great. Kudos for undertaking this. Looking forward to following along.
The title implies it was some innocent "like", when actually he was harassing someone that way.
There is something timeless about writing with a fountain pen that a crappy gel pen can never capture. I rarely have to write by hand these days, but when I must write something beyond a few scribbled notes, I find the fountain pen encourages me to write with intent, and to savor every stroke.
I agree with regards to appliances like Bluecoat, but is TLS as a black box to keep users from seeing what the device is sending over the wire better?
Yesterday I was pondering what the ultimate “side-piece” phone would be (that is, a secondary phone you use for OPSEC when leading a second life.)

Unlike a burner phone, you wouldn’t constantly be throwing it away (just getting new SIMs every once in a while) so cheapness would not be the #1 priority—but it would still be #2 or #3, since this is still a whole 'nother phone you have in addition to the phone you usually use. And you’d want it to be ergonomic to text on, so a 1990s candybar dumbphone wouldn’t quite cut it. It wouldn’t need apps like a modern smartphone (other than maybe messaging apps.) And battery life would be important—it's often hard to find private time to charge a secret phone—so a big screen would be a drawback, not a positive.

Ultimately, I figured that an old Blackberry would be perfect for this use-case. Guess I deduced correctly.
Will all of the course video and discussions be available for download from YouTube permanently? I am very interested in following along with my 10 year old daughter, but we will need to move at a much slower pace. If we can still access the course video a week or two late that would be ideal.

My daughter knows how to code in python, but not C or C++. I will have to teach her that on the side which will slow us down considerably. She is really motivated to learn though. We are both excited about your course.
My wife and I both draw with Namiki Falcon fountain pens, which are fantastic, and use Platinum Carbon Black ink, which is a pigmented ink. I don't know if it's nano-particles (i.e., the pigment is ground extremely fine so brownian motion alone is sufficient to maintain dispersion), but we've never experienced clogging, and it has a permanence (and blackness) on par with Noodler's Bulletproof Black. She uses her pen almost every day; mine can go a week or more without being used. Still works perfectly every time I pick it up.
"Only new and overhyped platforms don’t have problems, because nobody cares enough yet to discover them"
I’ve actually got a set of these and I have to agree that they are fantastic to write with. The plastic tips have such a nice friction, well, at least to my personal taste.
I think it's not entirely clear what sensations even are and, if you follow this line of reasoning more thoroughly, you arrive at the classic problem of qualia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia).
Probably not, the toes really aren't built for fine motor action the way the fingers are. You would probably get RSI pretty quickly. You'd want to stick to motions that are more typical, such as stepping the foot.
I'm not sure anyone here is reading the actual articles, or even the titles.

This story has the headline, "The Times tech columnist ‘unplugged’ from the internet. Except he didn’t".

But that's not what Manjoo claimed at all. He never said he was offline. The title of the Times article is "For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned." The story isn't about being disconnected from the internet, it is about getting the news the next day, in print, instead of from nytimes.com, news alerts, twitter posts, etc.

It's not a question of whether he tweeted, it is a question of where he got his news.
Glad Segment is making good use of aws-vault and it's components! Did you consider whether adding okta support in aws-vault might have made sense? I've been thinking about doing that for a while, interested what made y'all decide to create a new one.

P.S. Any chance of a link back in the mention of aws-vault in the article? (aws-vault author here)
Since there's no CEO/board/etc demanding 10 million/yr+ each then there's plenty to split.

Not really; the thing with the rich is that there aren't that many of them. Take the top 1% - their average income (including the people making billions) is $1.15M. Let's redistribute $1.1M of those. ($1.1M * (1% of population)) / population = 1% of $1.1M = $11k. So each person only gets $11k extra.
This looks great. Will you be writing about or discussing your stack machine implementation on the blog or elsewhere then? The annotations are nice but I would be interested in hearing/reading more. I've got it bookmarked. Cheers.
Prescription versus Description is a false dichotomy. Certainly, the choice of words to include is prescriptive. Any other interpretation of the debate would be paradox, because, a descriptivist would have to describe it as prescriptive if many users think it's prescriptive. Getting out of that paradox requires reasoning that would be absurd compared to the simple solution that they are in fact being prescriptive whether they want to or not.
Blockchain and sex
This articles says that inkjet ink "frequently uses pigment, not dye," but my understanding is that most inkjet inks are actually dye-based, and that you have to somewhat go out of your way to find pigment-based ones (and they cost more).

The latter are usually recommended for archival printing purposes (e.g. Epson's "Dura Brite" inks), because they are less likely to fade over time and are better bonded with the paper (and actually have particles that can bond with the paper).
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The usual mismatch between "London is in GMT+0" and "...in BST"
That said, location can be derived from cell towers data if they somehow know what phone you have anyway. Can't beat a nation state at that game
I had a similar experience, I couldn't get myself to exercise, at all. So one day I told myself I don't have to do any more than one. One situp, one pushup, etc... whatever I wanted for my routine. This was easy to start, easy to maintain, and fantastically simple to overcome the mental block to do it.

I started 3 months ago and I am still not great at exercising, I do 2 minutes at a time at most. And I'd do this a couple times a day. But no excuses allowed because it's too dang easy to do, and I sound like a tiny baby complaining about one single pushup.

Within a couple weeks of doing this, my sleep improved. I fell asleep a lot easier, and woke up more refreshed. There's a freedom you get when you can truly say "something is better than nothing", and then stick to it.

A number of times I have literally done one single pushup for my workout. :P And it's just fine.

Edit: Actual routine (2 min) 20 pushups (maybe), 20 squats (maybe), halfass jumping jack things (30 secs?), 20 crunches (maybe), 20 stupid looking back crunches (not a real thing, but I like them), swing my arms around (monkey exercise?), twist my next (feels good). I attempted a pullup multiple times a day,finally after 2 weeks of this, I did a full pullup!

Today I did 2 pushups. :)
Richard Binder specializes in repair and maintenance of old and valuable pens. Recommendations for those pens don't necessarily apply to cheaper modern fountain pens. I've been using Noodler's inks for about 8 years in a Lamy Safari, and I've never had any trouble. The only Noodler's ink I've heard of causing problems with these pens is Bay State Blue, which is unlike any other Noodler's ink.

I personally recommend Noodler's Bulletproof Black. It writes consistently and reliably on any paper I've tried, it's waterproof, and it's reasonably priced. If you're interested in fountain pens as a hobby rather than as practical writing implements you might have different recommendations.
>In addition to removing the microphone and camera from BlackBerry devices

Most people want to be able to use their smartphone as a phone. I also don't see a device without any sort of camera being that popular.
I only have experience with the "not very smart" programmable thermostats, which I adore. I've had one for over a decade with no issues. When I bought another house, it was one of the first things I put in. It's "slightly" easier (lower effort) to program it once and never touch it again (except for "exceptions") then to try to remember each time I move from zone to zone or go to work. Definitely pays for itself in net lower energy (unless you're super diligent yourself, which I am not!)
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Some religious nuts are preventing me to visit Wikipedia. I use encrypted DNS to protect myself from man in middle attack, and it helps. But then they intercept certificate's name and drop the connection. So, thus this mean that TLS 1.3 will prevent sniffing certificate's name? And there won't be any certificate fingerprint on the wire to be sniffed, right?
Yeah, I was confused for the same reason.
An intro to Node.js via a set of self-guided workshops
Well, Rust can. I‘ve spent the last week to see if its true. But I wished it was easier.
Super niche? PowerPoint slides are the format of choice for communication and thinking in the corporate world. If Paste could take even 1-2% of that market they would have it made.
“Table of Disruptive Technologies” by London Imperial College
The way Americans use the word socialism is very confusing. It's just a single word lacking details. Sometimes it's just pure ignorance.

>Capitalism is an ideology that is far more encompassing than it admits, and one that turns every relationship into a calculable exchange. Bodies, time, energy, creativity, love — all become commodities to be priced and sold. Alienation reigns. There is no room for sustained contemplation and little interest in public morality; everything collapses down to the level of the atomized individual.

What she is describing is markets, not capitalism. Markets and socialism are orthogonal concepts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism

The opposite of markets, price mechanism and incentives is turning everything into politics. Every relationship becomes politics. Bodies, time, energy, creativity, love — all become politics and power struggle. Political connectedness reigns. There is no room for sustained contemplation and little interest in public morality; everything collapses down to the level of special interests.
This is blatant spam. Plus don't risk your business in Google suite. If any of your Google channel is banned for whatever reason, Google will delete all your accounts and even all your related accounts.
My dream keyboard would be a Kinesis advantage with some significant modifications to make it good for taking it on the go, since I travel a bunch and work from public places. In order of importance:

1. more compact. No extra surface, instead just have separate wells connected either by a wire like the Kinesis Freestyle, or fully wirelessly ideally. Kinda like the ErgoDox keyboard.

2. lightweight. Don’t want to be carrying a brick in my backpack. I’m totally fine with using low travel keys like how a MacBook or any decent chiclet keyboards feels, I mostly just want the layout.

3. wireless. Bluetooth with ability to switch multiple inputs like the Logitech K811 would be incredible.

If anyone knows how someone would start to hack something like this together, please tell me! I have never done hardware but I would love to mess around with something like this as a project.
NEO is still very raw, and it takes a lot of work to get involved, however it’s a tight nit developer community and some serious opportunities to get involved and shape the project. Source: I am active in the developer community and have a company building on NEO
Fountain pens work well when you've a flat surface that you're sitting above. They work much less well when, say, you're standing and trying to write on a notepad you're holding in your other hand.
While his victims get a life sentence of addiction.
Agreed, also yeah I still don't see AR being used in everyday life still, maybe for a few applications but it still feels like just a cool tech "fad" right now, plus still very expensive for your everyday consumer.
It's just exposition, conflict, rising action/climax, resolution
the irony resolved into something simpler. statement languages are about state - the fundamental primitive is about mutating a state, so it make sense that the preferred debug tool is going to let you inspect the state of the program. Expression oriented languages really encourage and/or force you to write stateless code, you don’t need to pause a program and inspect its state if you code it as an expression because it has none. that’s the theory at least, i am a clojure and clojurescript developer and i spend enough time in my debuggers (probably because real programs do in fact have state) but not nearly so much as i did in java and javascript.
Yes it requires an restart for kernel but for one machine I never did for an year