skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not directly related to your comment, but I was driving downhill a few months back when some halfwit came the other way in a car that clearly wasn't roadworthy. Must have been leaking a huge amount of coolant into the oil, because the cloud of steam (or smoke) behind it was so thick that half a dozen cars ended up just parked in the middle of the road, waiting for it to clear before moving off.

Turned my lights on to avoid being hit, seemed to work - or maybe I was just surrounded by cautious drivers that day.
> I think the best thing to do here is to relentlessly keep a long, safe distance from vehicles ahead.

In Germany, this is legally required. However, the safety distance is often abused by other vehicles when passing.
Why is that useful?

Cryptocurrency is >9 years old and so far nobody has thought of a real use case for it (other than selling drugs and child porn) that requires its unique features.
Ethereum was a target of DDoS attacks few years ago and the community has made several updates to improve the protocol since.
>But I would bet the variable is statistically significant.

You need to justify this then because it's not at all obvious to me. I've had a few friends who once were alcoholics, they look significantly happier now. Socializing probably makes you happier but you don't have to drink alcohol to do that.

>But to go to the other extreme and say there are zero positive effects correlated with happiness is an overstatement.

I didn't say that, I'm just saying that you're argument is weak. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't but drawing conclusions from this list of happiest countries in the world is disingenuous, I'm sure variations in wealth, education and political climate (and even climate in general) drowns any statistical influence "drinking culture" might have. And while I'm willing to believe that alcohol consumption might has positive effects for some people you have to balance it with the many potential negative effects to see if you end up with a net positive.

The link you posted said people are happier while they drink, which is not frankly surprising to me. It doesn't say that drinkers are happier in general. If you drink to forget your troubles I'm sure you're happier while drunk but I'm not sure it's a net positive.
115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet in as fast as I can go (Dan Tentler) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtu7vV_HmY
I'm one of them and have as much extensive experience with Windows 7+ as someone who write *nix and embedded software for a living can have. Windows 2000 is the last Windows version I used exclusively.

The "mostly successful efforts" you speak of seem to have been focused on delivering ads, TOS-backed spyware and those weird Metro apps. The result is certainly simpler from a strictly visual standpoint, but more usable is something that I wouldn't be too willing to concede without some data (and I don't mean install data/user base, given how Microsoft's customers don't have much of a choice in this department). Frankly, I don't see how the weird start menu or having both the Control Panel and some weird Settings thing help with usability, but UX is a surprising field, I guess.
It is normally cut with other shit though to bulk it out and get more profit.
> It is possible that we're all made of fairy dust, but there's no way to prove or disprove that.

That is very true, and modern science therefore decided rightfully that these questions should be outside of scientific enquiry.

The issue I have with "hypercompetent rationalizing system, whose purpose is to hide our true intentions in order to help us better operate in a social world" is that it sounds like a scientific conjecture (my brain associates it with evolution theory), and at the same time you admit that it is pretty similar to the fairy dust hypothesis.

I agree that stating your arguments somehow forces you to use what is in our current language, leading to unwanted implications. Still, it would be good to either rephrase your hypothesis so that it becomes testable, or mark it clearly as metaphysical speculation.
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I would argue that git at its core solves the problem of handling a shared verifiable state. The history of a git repository is build on the same hashing principles as a blockchain to ensure that history cannot be changed. The main difference to a blockchain is that in order to change the state you have to convince other humans that your change is valid.

In my understanding the main selling point of blockchains is to outsource the accepting of state changes to a consensus protocol which does not involve human interaction/interference. And just as git a blockchain still works if only one or few actors are involved.
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I think the big difference between reality and a lot of Hollywood hacking is 1. the time it takes 2. how elaborate it always have to be 3. the fact that during the initial exploration they would most likely find an even easier point of attack.
Panadas: Plan for dropping Python 2.7
Sorry perhaps I don't understand your point, but the research in this article is entirely about governments and bad actors penetrating home networks for their own use.[1]

Are you suggesting private APT's exist? Seen no evidence so far that it's anyone but a dozen nations who lamely try to rebrand every now and then.

UPnP is a world of trouble in general, but even moreso for the average person disabling it in a house full of kids. There's needs to be responsibility taken by any large tech company pushing insecure products on their customers.

[1] researchers at Symantec had uncovered parts of this proxy network due to their ongoing investigation into the “Inception Framework,” and the APT group behind it.
As an aside:

> (overly processed and HFCS added) Orange Juice

In Europe and the US this can’t be sold as “fruit juice”. The regulations are as strict as they are clear: “juice” can’t have sugar or HFCS additives, it must be 100% fruit, and its processing doesn’t affect its health benefit. That said, fruit juice still contains boatloads of sugar and no fibres (and thus creates no feeling of being sated) and is therefore pretty unhealthy.
Absolutely agreed. The article is very grave-sounding, but they're talking about people who drink 100-200 grams of alcohol per week having a life expectancy 6 months shorter than those who drink 0-100 grams per week. 200-350 grams drops you by 1-2 years. So? It seems like a big fuss over something that isn't expected to reduce the length of your life all that much, whereas there are many other common or even routine activities in life that carry much more risk.

Certainly if someone gets to a point where they're dependent on alcohol, or it's negatively impacting their life, that's a problem. But that's not what we're talking about here.
It looks like this exploit gets around disabled remote maintenance, since it makes remote traffic seem local.

Disabling upnp will do it. I’m going to set up blocking all inbound on 1900 on ISP’s router stopping traffic before it gets to my home router. I might finally be grateful for being forced by the isp to use their hardware for nothing other than a hop between my network’s router and the isp’s network.
Plunging Population in Poorest EU State Nears World War II Level
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At Trowbridge, a rat stole someone's food off a table a couple of years back.
I think he means more about the pluralistic than capitalisation. Outside the US (and officially) it is a mass noun so the plural of lego is lego. "Legos" sounds as grating as "sheeps".
Learn Solidity. Shark of the Pool – Part 1
>If you’re refusing to hire men this would be illegal. If you hire men but pay them only 90% of their market value, then your company will be known as not paying competitive salaries and won’t attract candidates (not just men — any job applicants).

You can just make your company seem unattractive to men. I once talked to a recruiting company that boasted that they were a company founded and run by women. This already seemed like a huge red flag to me as a man that I might not want to work with them.
Also, surely that needs to be more accurately described as 'safest car ever tested /for its occupants/'.
View Source still exists, the presence of JavaScript and CSS means that HTML is more meaningful (as it's it's free of display information and behaviour). But looking at the DOM is the inspector is even more useful to undertsanding the tree structure.

I agree with the sentiment of the article, but developer tools are better, not worse, than they were 20 years ago.
It's like the definition of set defined here should really be a subset, and the definition of space should be a set. Maybe just say a set is any collection of objects?
Researchers trained an AI to create Flintstones cartoons
Research: Legal Marijuana and Gay Marriage Have Been Good for U.S. Innovation
Introducing GRPC, a New Open Source HTTP/2 RPC Framework
No its part of the employees comp - you seem to have a very 19th century Dickensian view of employees.
How would Apple have benefited if Steve Jobs were technical? – Alan Kay
On the other hand it is very cheap. If you pay £2.50 for scrambled egg on toast with a refillable coffee then you're not so put out if it isn't that great.

If you've paid £5 that's another matter.

My worst pub food experiences have always been in far more expensive places.
How important is a social media presence to your bottom line?
It seems super-valuable for something like GA to get pulled into a classic vocational-training style setup. Adecco seems very well suited to place a large number of entry-level programmers, including on the receiving side, to help business structure teams around getting value out of such employees.
Looking further back to the days before cheap writing, I recently enjoyed reading this paper by Netz about the Ancient Greek use of counters as a tool of thought:

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_quer...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=86099607799623165...

It explains how Greeks began using various sorts of counters or tokens for currency, policy making, court judgments, food distribution, recreation, etc., and demonstrates that Greek numeracy was quite varied and sophisticated while remaining concrete/tangible.
Unfortunately, they've been underdelivering their products so far.
As opposed to the use of multiple share classes with different voting rights?
I was about to take Cruise Ship Management in school last year. But unfortunately, when I received the result in hepatitis b test, it was positive. I don't know where I got this. I've never experienced having sex with any man or boyfriend. I was so disappointed at that time. But then again, it is never the end of the world. I repeated the test in a well-known hospital. But, it came back positive again. Early this year i purchase Hepatitis B herbal remedy online from BEST HEALTH HERBAL CENTRE. They told me i will be negative after 4-5 weeks of usage of their Hepatitis B herbal remedy, which i believed and have faith. After 5 weeks of usage, I did another test my HBsAg came negative in routine checkup, so I have done all investigations for hepatitis B. My test reports are HBsAg negative 0.04 on 22/02/2018. I will never stop telling the world about BEST HEALTH HERBAL CENTRE good work in human life ..
I currently use win 7 in win 98 style. It is faster on the graphics and the processor.
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That guy gets an a+ for presentation but I couldn't find much to agree with him on.

He talks about code being linear lines of text as though that's a bad thing. We've pretty much been stuck with this as state of the art in our writing systems for thousands of years, what would be your reaction if I suggested everyone should watch videos instead of read books? It's a flexible and easy way to represent a program that no other tool has come close to.

> We (programmers) are notoriously bad at advancing the tools in our field.

We've been trying to automate ourselves out of jobs for the entirety of the history of the industry yet programmers are in more demand than ever. Everyone wants to work on interesting problems and creating inner platforms is far more interesting than writing boring business logic. Yet for all our efforts we've barely progressed since the 70's, why do you think that is?
There are ongoing investigations into the leave campaigns (which Wetherspoons was a part of), new evidence was published last week and a few people are appearing in front of a HoC committee this week.

So the timing isn't really odd and I don't think they're doing it because they're sorry about supporting Brexit. There's a reasonable chance that they've shared data or spent funds in a way that would find them on the wrong side of the investigation.
This is fun but I hope it doesn't replace the normal gook search since it doesn't seem to have any advanced search features like limiting by date.
Apple Now Runs on 100% Green Energy
Which is the best Screwdriver tool set in 2018?
Yet another misuse of 1.1.1.1 in the figures.

Actually, it was a mistake NOT reserving more human-friendly IP blocks for documentation/example purpose. The three /24 blocks reserved all fail blatantly because nobody remembers them, and they look as unsuspicious as normal blocks.

1.2.3.0/24 would be a much better choice because people would easily remember them and know it's not "real", just like you would not take a phone number 123-4567 on a filled form as "real" (even though it might be).

Next time you make anything, please remember to design for human.
>We (programmers) are notoriously bad at advancing the tools in our field.

I think the tools of our trade have advanced tremendously. Visual Studio for example is an amazing experience for C# programmers, one that most languages don't have. And this is in text tools.

Programmers know that text is the most powerful and flexible, which is why we advance those tools that help in working with text.

GUI tools are good for people who only want to do something every once in a while. Something they don't need to repeat. Where there's a simple recipe for it. And, yes, programmers don't do that much to advance these, because they have no use for them themselves.
This is such a clickbait article.

It doesnt mention any details of how the data was actually stolen using the thermometer. It doesnt even explicitly say that the thermometer was an IOT device. "Hacked through a thermometer" could mean so many things
I don't mean to sound flippant or sarcastic, but I'm not sure I'd look to a psychiatrist to be an expert on the physical (not mental/emotional) effects of alcohol.

Beyond that, this paper does actually seem to shed some light on what is and is not safe. If 0-100 grams of alcohol per week only decreases your life expectancy by 6 months, I'd consider that pretty safe. I mean, I imagine getting behind the wheel of a car to drive to work every day reduces your life expectancy in a way that working from home every day doesn't. And yet people all over the place drive daily, and we consider that plenty safe enough. At least drinking alcohol is a lot more fun.

Absolutely agree with you on the idea that there seems to be a concerted effort in research to find a way, any way, to deem alcohol consumption safe or good for you in some ways.
"Options vs Cash" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14505378

"Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15314663

"First employee of startup? You are probably getting screwed" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949323

"How I Sold My Bible App Company" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032480

"Ask HN: Who is willing to work for coin?" actually a negative example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776408
Interacting with Ethereum Smart Contracts in Python
Our language and our knowledge about the world are both moving targets. For example, people rarely use the word 'sin' nowadays to scold others for unaccepted behavior. But 200 years ago, 'sin' was a generally accepted concept, as real as 'addiction' is today.

In addition, great thinkers often struggled to express their innovative thoughts, and invented new terminology for that purpose. This new terminology then became part of our language over time, in lock-step with the new ideas expressed by it.

So I think inferring reality structure from from language structure is a fallacy.
Oh, com on, IKEA"s are deliberately designed as a maze. Yes, there are 'semi-hidden shortcut passages' and maps, both required by the fire department, but they also are deliberately obfuscated. The name of the maze game seems to be maximizing impulse buying, not just by forced exposure, but also gamed to the psychological effect that when on the threshold you will grab it 'now' anyway as you will never find your way back, and once in the cart 'dumping' it again in an 'inappropriate' place is something most people don't do.
While we are reinventing the web, why don't we have independent accreditation institutions which regularly verify the truth behind websites ? Finance seems to have solved this problem.
It might be annoying, but even if a few cars get in between you usually don't lose much by getting a safe distance again.
you could just use the meditation algorithm, and meditate by yourself for 10 (or however many) days for multiple multi-hour sessions a day, and avoid having to sit through Goenka's religious meanderings, weird sound tracks and cultiness.

Check into a cheap hotel during non-tourist season, sometime in the mountains or near a lake or sea. Switch off the phone. Eat + meditate + sleep * 10 days (or however many you want). Et voila. You get all the benefits without all the cultiness.

Vipassana is a technique. You master the technique by doing it. Attending a cult's course is one way of doing it.

Whether it is the optimal method is open to debate. The key seems to be to spend long hours practicing the technique for many days (vs 30 minutes a day). I'm not convinced proficiency in the technique can only by attained by a retreat with a specific organization.

One can learn to program in Clojure (say) by attending a 10 day course by $ClojureGuru. One can also learn to program with a book and a laptop, and occasional questions on irc. Both methods work, and have different trade offs.

Personally, I learned Vipassana (and Jhana) meditation by myself, by reading and experimenting. I've since encountered advanced Buddhist mediators (abbots of Buddhist monasteries etc) who 'confirmed' I'm "doing it right" (fwiw, I wasn't really looking for validation or advice, it just came up in conversation). They didn't seem surprised I taught myself. So I doubt it is that uncommon. If the only way to learn to 'hack' is to attend a 10 day course, that isn't much of a 'hack' in the first place.

I strongly push back against the "only way to learn is be attending a 10 day course" idea. Other than this, I enjoyed reading the paper, Steven is an excellent writer.

My 2 cents. YMMV, as it should.

PS: I do admire the grit of anyone who actually completes the 10 day retreat, not so much the meditation as enduring all the culty BS. As grit training, it probably works ;-)

PPS: I have no belief in the religious dogma of any Buddhist school. I just think the techniques are useful
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Previously they deleted their entire customer email database [1], so they certainly have a history of making bold decisions when it comes to digital marketing.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/wetherspoons-email-database-g...

Edit: grammar
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No mention of Feinstein, who voted for bailout, despite 90 percent of voters against.

https://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/11539
What exactly do you mean by "items ≌ ∅"? The only thing I read in that is "is isomorphic to the empty set", which with all reasonable definitions of isomorphic is the same as that 'items' is empty, which isn't the same as "items are all equal".
The article mentions the demise of Google Reader (rest in peace) as a turning point for the spread of fake news. I agree that there needs to be some counterweight to the deluge of news designed to influence public opinion. However, I don't think the tool to build that with is RSS.

I recently learned about jsonfeed [0] from Hacker News and built a news aggregator for my own personal use. I believe the future of news content is in aggressive, hackable aggregation tools for a variety of content. jsonfeed is a solid foundation to build on :).

[0] https://jsonfeed.org
SPAs have made almost all desktop applications obsolete. DevTools have deprecated view source. Through progress and innovation the web can do a lot more than 20 years ago.

Sure the web is being abused for tracking by Google and Facebook but that was also possible 20 years ago with a single img-tag.
A couple of months ago they were still using beermats pushing for a harder Brexit.
https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#6.7.6.3p7

"A declaration of a parameter as ''array of type'' shall be adjusted to ''qualified pointer to type'', where the type qualifiers (if any) are those specified within the [ and ] of the array type derivation. If the keyword static also appears within the [ and ] of the array type derivation, then for each call to the function, the value of the corresponding actual argument shall provide access to the first element of an array with at least as many elements as specified by the size expression."

According to this, the following syntax could be used for optimization

void foo(size_t n, int array[static n]) {...}

pointers to array could be used too

void foo(size_t n, int (*array)[n])
{
printf("array %zu, *array %zu\n", sizeof(array), sizeof(*array));
}

foo( 10, null); // array 8, *array 40
foo(100, null); // array 8, *array 400
You should read Date and Darwin’s The Third Manifesto.
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Finding shops etc. in shopping malls is a challenge even in 2018. Why is it so?
Using Machine Learning to estimate discriminations by origin in France
Poland was shockingly liberal during the 1400s
Zuckerberg can't blame Cambridge University for Facebook's privacy violations
Developer tools are better mostly because webpages are 100's of times more complex now than they were in the past whereas the typical amount of information on the page is still roughly the same.

Understanding how a modern webpage source in combination with a browser results in what you see is a pretty complicated affair, in the past you just did 'view source' and it was obvious what went where.

The web is now much more machine-to-machine than it was in the past when the humans could process the pages roughly as easily as the machines could.
I might suffer from the curse of knowledge bias, but it seems to start from the basics.
Sorry, I didn't intend to make it a code block, just wanted to indent the list headers. Is there a list syntax for HN comments?