skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find to understand a piece of code, I need to know what all the involved variables are, which I'll have to do regardless of long or short names.

Once I know what they all are, I find it's easier for me to track them through the function if they have short names.

Something java style like

numBytesWritten = copy(destinationBuffer, reader.buffer[reader.readPosition:reader.writePosition]

is much harder for me to follow.
Nothing funny about what he said
I would infer that it's a large number of absentee parents, either working multiple jobs, or drug-addicted, in prison, etc.

Why that leads to suicide I don't know, but teens don't generally have a great sense of the long term. If their future looks bleak now, they don't have the life experience to understand that "now" is temporary and circumstances can and often do change and work out OK in the longer term.
The French didn't like it, but were outvoted. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Meridian_Confere...
See also http://tekui.neoscientists.org
This is a surprisingly low tech solution. You could program a digispark to do this for $3.

Two USB ports and controllers just to press I and escape? Crazy.
Seems like paid speeches (and charities) are a form of bribery vehicle, not sure which English-speaking country this was first pioneered, but American politicians seem to be most active users of this method. [1]

[1] https://www.salon.com/2013/07/17/the_buckraking_practices_of...
The problem is, what constitutes a word? Speaking as a native speaker of German: If it's idiomatic, make it a compound word, as with "setup",whereas "set up" is an oxymoron.

Of course compounds are no solution either unless you want to have runonsentence-monstrosities. English speakers recognized that and treat compound nouns as noun phrases. So it depends a lot on the feeling of a word. If it is recognizable as a single entity that cannot be split up into constituent parts, then it's a word. Otherwise it is a phrase. And phrases typically don't belong in a wordbook. Otherwise you there would be really no end to it. Wiktionary has a rule to include everything with at least three notable usage examples; And it has another rule not to include "sum of part" phrases. So a lot of discussion revolves around whether something is sum of parts, which is quite subjective. A dumpster really is just something where something is dumped. I can only guess that "dumpster fire" proliferates because it rhymes with dumb. Hot garbage certainly is sum of parts if garbage is readily understood figuratively. Dumpster fire on the other hand just has too many syllables to be recognized as a single entity. It's really just sum of parts, still though, it's a heap of trash that's set on fire deliberately and quite well contained.

The term philology is quite suitable as analogue to philosophy, because it is not an exact science. So there are experts who have quite a good feeling for language. They need to release new words every now and then to stay relevant. And to keep the words relevant. By their own definition, I guess, those dictionaries are a dumpster fire.
That’s just your social conditioning, ethics, and morality speaking.

Biologically speaking, female human beings are capable of having sex the moment menarche happens.
"It means that no one would ever be able to start running a computer business. The requirement should not be running a business in the past, but having some experience with that type of business in the past. Bill Gates had tons of computer experience."

Thanks for helping me make my point.

Also, I didn't say "Bill Gates" and "Microsoft". You're right, Traf-O-Data was a "modest success". It reinforces my point.
This is nothing to do with a protocol breach: it was an intentional disclosure by one of the ~100 members of the party's WhatsApp group.
I don't think that holds in the JS world, practically or philosophically speaking.
This is a very well-written, normalized anecdote (serious). I hope you have or start a blog, and add it into your profile at some point down the road.
I liked the part where, thanks to Ford's Rules, a small off-property island nearby hosted a bar and sex workers.

Also the enforcement of the 8-4 shift, despite workers being used to avoiding the hottest hours of the day.
I would just argue for a happy median. Enough to convey intent, without being verbose. Your java example is clearly exhausingly verbose (I’ve seen similar in C#), where it seems in Go it would probably be written:

rd := 1000

How is anyone supposed to understand at a glance what this value is for? Why not just:

reconnectionDelay := 1000

Intent is clear.

And now, I have strayed way too far off topic (I’ve done some flamegraph style debugging in .Net, super useful!), and should probably apologize to the OP.
The page is served over HTTP, so it's permission for anybody who might happen to MITM your connection to run whatever code they like.
I typically use vi for quick edits on servers and other developers computers.
The square brackets are usually just used to give context from previous sentences / paragraphs that would not be obvious otherwise. So e.g. "He [James] paid him [John].". Where both names were in a previous paragraph. If we read the previous paragraph in the article that makes sense, because it was literally clarifying questions about the efficacy of using it for drug trafficking.
I had similar experiences with my Noodler ink. They have a blue that is imo the nicest dark Prussian blue on the market. Unfortunately, it gave my Water Kultur, then Lamy 2000 endless clogging problems. The Pilot Ishigaki line of inks is probably the best compromise between color and reliability.
When you're making a snarky retweet it should occur to you you're still using the internet. If you only planned to hop online to output headlines, that is what you do (hop on, hop off). Clickbait is getting a backlash.
There's human predators of every race, every gender and every occupation. This has been true as long as humans have been humans.

There are human predators that take advantage of people of skeptical minds, just as there are those who prey on the faithful. The human history of advancement and revolution has been an arms race of all of us vs. the great bamboozlers. As we refine our ability to detect them, they refine their ability to walk among us.

Maybe she's lying, maybe she's telling the truth. If she's lying, she and everyone affected are long dead. Doesn't change the fact she's describing a kind of human that has always existed.
If you're a complete novice then an MMO is not feasible, for any value of 'MMO' that you're probably imagining. It generally takes a AAA team with upwards of 100 members (coders, artists, designers, etc.) to even fail at making an MMO, let alone succeed.

Of course there are a couple of notable exceptions, the two that spring to mind are Wyvern ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyvern_(video_game) ) and Eternal Lands ( https://eternal-lands.blogspot.com.au/ ) I can't think of any other solo or small-team-hobbyist attempts to create an MMO that even got as far as releasing something.
> 4. Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.

I believe this line comes from Brian McDonald and am witness to his use of it in a writing class he led at Seattle's 911 Media Arts circa 2000. (The number in their name was in reference to the original address on E Pine St.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_McDonald_(screenwriter)

He is both an accomplished writer and excellent instructor for writers. I found his guidance to work well in tandem with McKee's STORY.

His early works are of spectacular quality (e.g., White Face), and this reminds me to get caught-up on his more recent material.
Oh yes. The parent certainly should be down voted, because down with representation, down with democracy right? No well, please reconsider..
I don't understand your reference to LibreSSL in the context of your comment—why would they be different from any of the other SSL implementations? Are they planning on implementing something else besides TLSv1.3 per spec, or intentionally implementing more or less than the spec requires?
There's a need for cheap/free(unobtrusive ads ok.), trustworthy Server.

Simple server. I know about the free Google, and Heroku freeplans, but just want something simpler for my vanity sites.

I don't need it to Scale.

For small websites that aren't going to blow up.

It does need to be located in the USA though.

It needs to be free.

000webhost used to offer free servers, but now want the customer to pay unless you feel fine with premiumname.com.000wehost.noway

Yes--I'm cheap. I just feel if done correctly, a company might be able to make some money?

Server site requirements:

Not flashy,
USA located,
Free for a few years. (Build a reputation before begging for debt/cc? Many people just want a trustworthy site to put the cat website, or their delusional dream site.)

I know about the low cost ones, but don't trust them with my numbers.

Hot Server, "But how do I pay for my electrons? Who's going to repair me?"

I don't know, but figure it out? I'm too stupid. (Only for small websites--fine!)
If we have learned anything from Trump it is that when lying you should never admit to the lie.
If he saved enough, ha. You'd be surprised at how many doctors making $300k+/yr have less than a couple years' worth of expenses saved up :/
Netflix Secrets to Success: Cell Towers, Dubbing, Codecs
> moving through the air that can receive and/or send signals

Nope.

> and move at very high speeds

Flappers.
Video of this in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhNDgEZj_U
Telex: Anticensorship in the Network Infrastructure
I wasn't trying to convince you. The article's author is going down a very cliche path in life that I've seen many times before, often resulting in some grand multi-year adventure to help get in-touch with yourself (e.g. hiking south america, or living in alaska, or whatever). You are probably going down a different path. I wouldn't expect you to see the things I see nor vice-versa.
Is that currently maintained?
diamine is great. oxblood is one of my favorites.
JAJ.LOL
The crypto world rollercoaster has had some violent ups and downs lately... take a break from it all and enjoy a great belly jiggling laugh: https://jaj.lol
What a great story. Thanks for writing it up, I loved reading it.
I didn't get it until i used a nice ink and pen. the gliding action is an aesthetic experience
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Sigh, right. I forgot. jwz checks your referrer and redirects you if you come from HN.
Someone watched the Onyxia wipe video one too many times.
First rule of HN - "thou shalt not blasphemize the HN gods"!! Flagging a BBC story on Musk and co. is bloody low.

This article is factually accurate. Get over it fanboys
History of Sexuality by Foucault is like the first real text on it. Infinite Jest is decent, too. Sapiens, in its own way. The whole cannon of postmodern literature.
I agree that counterpoint is great. However, I also recognize (and listen to) a lot of 'modern music' that doesn't have chords. Given the right sonorities, that doesn't bother me.

Also, there are hundreds of alternatives to the 12-tone scale, many of which are wonderfully un-'chordinated'.

De gustibus...
I'm still unclear from the article what the actual alleged crime is here? They sold a product that was not illegal to perform a function (encrypted communication) that is not (yet) illegal but it is alleged it was used to arrange illegal activity by a third party?

Ford's CEO isn't arrested when a mustang is used as a getaway car in a bank robbery, even though speed and acceleration are features they sell the product on that are clearly useful to an escaping bank robber. McDonald's CEO isn't arrested when a cartel hitman eats a Big Mac while waiting outside his target's house. When exactly is the line crossed? Is it when explaining how the features of the product are useful to a client who intends to engage in illegal activity?
That is so true. Much of my anxiety stems from being unsure of my personal wants and not being able to separate other people’s wants from my own.

Well said.
There's a really fantastic review of fountain pen culture within Something Awful at https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=37... that makes me laugh every time. Seems appropriate here.
Wikipedia summary of domain fronting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_fronting
Wow, so progressive.

What about the real world maths problems?

"Meep (or MEEP) is a free finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation software package developed at MIT to model electromagnetic systems. Meep used Haskell to generate C++ code, after Meep 1.0 Haskell generation droped in favor of handwritten C++ code."

Alright then.
On the other hand, willpower has been shown in multiple studies to be a limited resource[1], so on days where I force myself to wake up early, I end up making caving and bad decisions later in the day, like eating a bag of doritos.

[1]https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/willpower-limited-resource.pd...
So if middleware can just snoop the SNI and filter (e.g. Wikipedia) on that, doesn't that negate any of the supposed privacy improvements of TLS 1.3? Other people in this thread seem to think that it provides more protection against MITM and snooping from middleware than did 1.2. How is that supposed to work?
The article addresses this:

> Crucially, the complaint alleges that Ramos and Phantom were not simply incidental to a crime, like Apple might be when a criminal uses an iPhone, but that the company was specifically created to facilitate criminal activity.
Or, you could just say what you are using. Is there a reason you don't?
Why wouldn't your 'side-piece phone' just be another normal phone? What does removing the camera and GPS module have to do with any of those scenarios?
someone pointed out to me tha all the Tesla car models so far are named:
S,3,X,Y...

they guy has a bold flair...
Lets be pragmatic here though - it's not reasonable to expect all software to be open source, nor is it reasonable to expect that only people who run a fully FOSS stack be able to inspect network traffic on their computer.
Looks like the actual title of this piece is "Fitter, happier, more productive... and other fantasies of millennial life."

That has a bit of a different implication.

How many older-than-millennial folks feel this same pressure?
This all makes sense, but having to create a special oven to work around your strict interpretation of this rule just seems silly. Just work within the spirit of the rule, and turn the oven on for when you want to cook your pre prepared meal.
Smalltalkers, who pretty much invented unit testing, do most of their programming in the debugger. The technique i was taught was to write a test, run it in the debugger, then when it fails at a missing method, the debugger stops, and you write the code to make the test pass, then restart the debugger.
The New Best Engineer
Thin red line is the numerically weak but functionally strong force required to maintain an empire (British redcoats).

Metaphorically, it's the bubble-skin that separates internal order from external chaos.
That is the substance of the article - 10 years ago, both of them nearly died. As you can see from the discussion here, a lot of people are either confused about the article thanks to the title, or love discussing Tesla's current market cap.
Avue background integration solution
The only way to not be tracked is to not use a network (cellular or otherwise).
What do you use for vim bindings in a browser?
A 1980s study on juvenile crime in Japan sheds light on American gun culture
Well I agree. My main concern is that we're loosing that control in the name of security, in particular on mobile devices. Take Android as an example, which doesn't respect user-added CAs anymore for application traffic [1]. It's even worse with cert-pinned iOS apps where you cannot root easily, although Apple is at least trying to fix this with App Transport Security (which does respect user-added CAs).

I definitely do not want to see a weaker TLS - 1.3 is great. At the same time, I do not want to have 'security improvements' that make it impossible for average developers to see their own device's traffic. That will ultimately enable insecure APIs and gross privacy violations behind TLS.

[1] https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/2054
That page seems better anyhow, so ok.
Is there a reason that a consumer would prefer an application-specific currency (intimate, DentaCoin, whatever) rather than a generic currency (BTC, BCH, ETH, LTC, whatever)?

From my point of view, it seems like an unnecessary friction to be moving value between different currencies depending on what I want to buy - and the fact that I'm buying the currency at all may reveal more than I want it to.

(* I understand why it's attractive to be in on the beginning of a new digital currency, and collect the proceeds of an ICO, or hold a lot of cheap or pre-mined coins; I'm specifically interested in why it's good for a consumer, not the promoters.)
Feature lifecyle in Java
Some useful JavaScript techniques that you may not know
pubmed dot com

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=light+depression

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=ipRGCs+depression
If I wanted to write a program with @nogc, how much of a QoL hit would I take? Is most of the standard library usable without garbage collection, or is it more hit-or-miss?
That's actually what made me think of it (Nicehash pushing up the difficulty on the smaller coins); I just wasn't sure if something more cyclical would have the same effect or be easier to counter.
Dude hates Noodler's ink, but Noodler's brought back fountain pen interest. I still only use Noodler's inks, including Baystate but not the weird ones.
The thing is relative to most developing nations China has had very slow economic growth. Yes, with a massive population, but China ranks 110 by purchasing power per person. It's economy is terrible, the only thing it has going for it is scale. And it's not like it has a massive population density either ranking at #80 world wide.
Definitely not fully serious, so I'm pleased you questioned it. There was no stupidity on your part and no joke to ruin.

I was simply attempting to construct an argument that can be made before somebody else did so. It's not something I agree with, and I suspect few could agree with it as being overall good with the examples I used, but the economic upsides do seem, to first order, to be undoubtedly real.

It's really more like an adaptation of the Parable of the Broken Window [0]. The problem is that for each commercial party involved, any fixing of the root cause makes things worse for them and those they employ. In other words, this is an area where pandering to business interests will never fix the root problem, because economic improvement for a host of industries requires people getting worse.

Politicians don't generally want to put those that elected them out of work. And yet sometimes the alternative is shortening or worsening the lives of others. The thing is nobody will associate the shortened life expectancy or the worsened state of being with the decision-makers but they will if their action causes the loss of their jobs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Well that's enlightening..
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Yes, exactly. And I think we already know that the answer is no, he wouldn't support it. Trump has a very childish perception of the world, and a doctor undoubtedly does not fit his mental image of the drug dealer stereotype.
We both have extra fine nibs, and haven't found them to be scratchy at all. I do recall a bit of a break-in period with hers, making circles on a sheet of paper for a while, to smooth it out.
To all the people who keep asking why we would bother write with a fountain pen, a few reasons I do:

People are less likely to walk away or accidentally steal your fountain pen

I can write in the exact colour I want

I know scribbles or notes are mine without even looking at the writing

My colleagues know which pieces of notes are mine without asking
My notebooks never wander far

I don't feel like I'm constantly killing the planet by binning my pen when it runs out of ink, I can just use the piston cartridge to constantly refill from a glass ink pot

It feels better in my hand than a biro
I wasn't speaking about its value though. Just saying that it can't be made completely illegal. There will always be crypto around in some form.

It was one of the best ways to get one's wealth off the island of Cyprus in 2013 during their banking crisis. There was a freeze on transferring wealth to other nations from the island, so islanders bought BTC instead.

"Life, uh, finds a way." ~Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
I don't think it answers my question. There is an implication that selling a product designed for privacy and secure communication is inherently intending to facilitate criminal activity. At what point is the line crossed? There are products with seemingly fewer 'legitimate' uses that don't appear to cross this line such as lock picks, police radar detectors, miniature surveillance equipment, etc.

I'm genuinely curious what the legal basis for determining when selling a legal product with a legal function becomes illegal is. It can't be merely knowingly selling to a suspected criminal. Is it knowingly selling to a suspected criminal who you expect to use it to evade law enforcement? How is that to be established other than through dubious entrapment activities as seem to have been used here?
Here's a healthy habit: whenever an app abuses notifications, revoke its permissions to grab your attention. At a minimum, disable notifications on the lockscreen. Consider disabling banner alerts if they are too disruptive or distracting. Hide the app in a folder in a faraway screen to avoid being trapped by the little red dot badge.
Jack Ma (Alibaba) and Joe Tsai Invest $20M in Rent the Runway
I should absolutely be able to intercept TLS traffic on my computers on my network. That's the distinction. Third party interception capability needs to be illegal and connections should be tamper evident.

Frankly, I have a higher duty than user privacy. My users have access to data that's critically sensitive in various ways, in some cases they face criminal sanction. I need to both control and detect unauthorized software on the network and ensure that users are following the rules.

More extreme privacy activists will make noises about things using endpoint based solutions or something similar. It's a bullshit position that will ultimately weaken security.
no more dots
It's still an order of magnitude slower though at least on my machine
I think the keyword they use is ambidextrous. E.g. Zowie makes some decent ones that look fairly normal.
I've used fountain pens long ago, but the Tul gel pens are my cherished replacement.
Impact paper. It's the future.
The Unhelpful Ways Cities Talk About Bike Helmets
> It feels better in my hand than a biro

Ballpoints require one to constantly press down to keep the ink flowing. This makes writing tiring. (Fountain pens draw ink with capillary action.)
The big question is cost. Does it make sense to shoot down a hundred $100 drones with a defense system that costs $100000 per interception?
The first thing to do for any new app: go to settings and switch off all permissions.
I tried using one of these Evoluent ones which has a pretty high price tag (I think?) http://a.co/e8u6qen

Ended up going back to the trusty $20 Anker cause it feels more comfortable on my hand/forearm. Go figure.