skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I pack my bag in the morning, even if I have 4-5 hours before I leave, I forget something. The phone, the wallet, the cash I plan to carry in the wallet, the keys, the pencil case, the books... I just have to make it the night before. And generalising this and what you say, simply preparing for the day ahead is a very very useful thing. Maybe for a certain type of people though, because I've known some of those people which just remember the things when they need to, without any effort nor any notes.
~10. In the last decade.
I agree with you actually. Back in the day I coded almost exclusively in Notepad when writing lots of HTML code and Basic code, for example. For the first year of Java I used it for Java because I wanted to really know the language (and without the help of an IDE, you get really, really good at spotting syntax errors and memorizing APIs). The simplicity was impossible to beat, and its ubiquity made it always available.

Maybe that's why I use vim for everything now. It's like notepad but with much more efficient keybindings :-)

P.S. I do use Intellij for java now when I'm writing Java code, mostly because I have to. That said, the feature set is amazing and for doing Java I'd probably use it even if I didn't have to because I'm spoiled. Still use vim for everything else tho.
What do you know about the contracts between Tesla and workers on the production line?
This situation can't be improved. Start using Tor.
Microsoft has a lot of great engineers that have no religious bias against Linux. This was strictly a Bill Gates/Steve Ballmer thing. The smartest thing Nadella did was get rid of the Windows religion aspect to their work and let their engineers do the best thing, and not be afraid of Linux.
When you put up a "yard sale" sign, you're conveying what is called an "implied license" to access the property. The scope of a trespasser's right to access a property is limited to what a reasonable person would consider to be granted by the license. A reasonable person would assume that a "yard sale" sign grants a license to access the yard on which the sign is posted, but not to go around to the back yard and peek into the basement windows.

A public web page is no different. A reasonable person would not assume that content you can only get to by editing a URL manually is supposed to be accessible to the public. A typical person would not even know that you can do that. Those typical people are the ones that get to set the rules, not hackers.
So my impressions were formed by spending a lot of time on credit card forums and reading perhaps several hundred bankruptcy stories over the years. Does chapter 11 -- or even 7 -- regularly help with debts where someone has a well paying job and can afford the payments on a house, but no longer wishes to? Because that, specifically, is where the author was.

I don't disagree at all that anyone in debt to a bank should use every avenue open to them, just as the bank will.
I read that they started doing it recently for international teams. So that they can clarify a few things before asking the teams to fly in.
Maybe he sees a large upside, and enjoys control.
It IS the entrance to Moria.
Show HN: How to pick a career that suits you (based on WaitButWhy)
Security is multi layered.
Googlebot has the resources to fight back against government attacks.
Well, as long as the government is acting capriciously in favor of business...
Well Facebook, if all of the other companies jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?

Saying "But they do it too!" is no defense. Though it does make the argument for stronger regulation.
AI researchers on twitter

www.twitter.com/smerity
Throwaway for reasons.

My wife and I enjoy porn in our relationship. On my birthday last year, we were settling in for some, romance, and we open up pornhub only to find ads trying to entice me into a discount subscription for my birthday. They knew it was my birthday! Which, really freaked me out because:

1) I don't have or never have had an account with them. I've never given them my age and birthday. In fact, I never give out my birthday on the internet. I don't even have a Facebook, twitter, or any other social media account.

2) It was on my wife's tablet. I never ever use her tablet, especially for browsing porn.

Anyone have an idea the machinery involved in making this determination?
My experience (both pledging and running my own campaigns) has been Kickstarter is mostly an early adopter marketing tool. They could easily fund this themselves and start selling it on Amazon.

They don't need another $50k to get this product to market, especially considering to get to this point (prototypes, market research, marketing) they have easily spent more than that. I bet they are spending $15k+ in video production and marketing just for this campaign. Campaigns frequently choose low targets in order to appear like they are wildly successful as well.

They managed to get onto HN with this campaign -- I wouldn't have heard of it otherwise.
That would be an accurate analogy if these documents were linked to from a publicly-accessible portion of the site. They were not. This is more like someone walking into an unlocked back room and grabbing books that hadn't been shelved.
I still play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8 over and over, just for the song, not only because it is 256 bytes, but because it is a compelling song too.
It would be the Android-style Tivoization, where you get the OS on the device you buy, and if you are lucky the vendor publishes their kernel on an obscure part of the website, but without certain binary drivers. You may find you can't actually do anything useful with the sources because of those missing drivers and because the bootloader is locked to only accept new software signed by the vendor.
It totally depends on what you're dealing with and where you're at :) Being on Prozac for the best part of a year helped me out for sure, in terms of keeping me going and not giving in, which in turn led me on to other things. I don't see it as the entire solution or a lifelong treatment (you can't medicate enjoyment and fulfilment) but it can be very effective at giving you an opening or a boost into something new, and in all fairness you can't just suddenly accept, like you're flicking a switch and you're okay with everything.

That window is incredibly important.
The majority is hematite, but iron exposed to air will not form hematite, or even magnetite, but hydrated oxides. That iron will also be spread out over large areas in low concentrations, not richly concentrated ores of oxides. It would be economically and energetically unfeasible to gather hydrated oxides from rusted metal and then try to make workable iron from it. It’s certainly possible, but it would be a kind of insane process with low yields.

The other problem is that you need to use coke as a reducing agent, so we’re back to fossile fuels.
> Ordinary law-abiding people don't go fiddling with URLs

I’m an ordinary law-abiding person, and I fiddle with URLs. I know lots of people in that group.
Please write to CIPPIC [0] and the Members of Parliament [1] and Members of the Provincial Leglisation [2] for both your local jurisdiction if appropriate and Halifax, Nova Scotia to help protect this kid. The federal Minister of Justice [3] and Technology [4] may be good additions. Remember what happened last time we let a government go wild on a kid incrementing a number in a public URL.

The fact is, it is the organization who published "personally identifiable information" on the public internet who should be punished - and, in any case, criminal law is not the tool to do it. The kid who incremented a number in a URL to download that information is not the bad guy. What if the kid was not Canadian? Are you going to try to extradite a Russian national over accessing information on a public web server?

When a server announces to the world that it can answer HTTP requests, making a reasonable number of HTTP requests is, to me and most technologists I know, authorization (and thus, should be seen as with colour of right or non-fraudulent). The fact those HTTP requests released data he was apparently not entitled to is a security issue, a bug, a problem to be paid for by the actor who manages the HTTP server, not a problem of law. Unfortunately, this section of law has not been used often enough to clarify to me the interpretation of those words.

Here are some follow on questions:

- Why was there "personal information" in FOI releases? Surely a FOI release was intended for the public, as that is the intent of the act. Who's fault is it that there was undesired information in the releases?

- How do we get this law changed? As the law is written, it hangs on the words "fraudulently and without colour of right" - the rest of the clause is incoherent babble of a 1985 technophobe.

[0] https://cippic.ca/

[1] https://www.ourcommons.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Andy-F...

[2] https://nslegislature.ca/members

[3] http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/contact/index.html

[4] http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/icgc.nsf/eng/h_00279.html
Thanks for sharing and this in many ways captures the central contradiction of our societies.

People often talk about ethics and values when they expect it from others or wider society. Yet they often fail to act in ethical ways when it comes to them and somehow manage the dissonance.

Our current system incentivizes profit over all else and many will respond to this. If our system rewards unethical behavior we should not be surprised with the results. Regulations around safety, environmental, labour and other ethical issues have to be put in place to temper the worst impulses. If slavery was legal many would be willing justify it as long as they gained from it.

We will have to regulate and disallow micro targeting that drives this insatiable need to stalk users and hoover data to build incredibly invasive profiles. And unless something is done it will keep getting worse.
You said "there is in fact a big migration back into the cities" and that's the part that the numbers disagree with.

Instead, there has been a slowdown in the continuing move to the suburbs. And a suburb-centered population is one that still won't move so quickly on transit and the like, at a state and national level.
> "...I'm sure it was around in the 1990s. They don't seem to have been doing a good job so far"

Totally agree except RE: the last year or so. If you look closely "they" appear to be wising-up.

The CLOUD act (at least how I'm reading it) says that the American internet is American...in other words, "If we wanna subpoena your s#!t in Thailand, we can cuz your cloud-provider is probably based in Seattle, WA, USA."

Law is ultimately about precedent, and there is now a precedent for America to get a warrant allowing them to see any American company's consumer-data, regardless of where that data is geographically.
UK Police Identified a Drug Dealer by His Fingerprints in a WhatsApp Photo
You're not. Ordinary people don't even know that you can do that.
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It's not technically insider trading but the managers of the companies (by way of the Board of Directors) have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. Undertaking a bad merger to bail out a different company from one of your investors could be construed as a breach of that duty. Of course, it would take a long court case to determine fault / damages, so it's unlikely to happen, but there are some safeguards to prevent stuff like this (if that is what happened.. which who knows... ).
Dear Hackers of the world,

Mench is a tool to make great content actionable. This is a link to an example of how can we turn a great post into an actual implementation plan.

I'm a big fan of Tim Urban and his blog WaitButWhy. Last week, he posted an awesome mega-post describing an in-depth framework to help people choose the right career path.

Like all Tim's posts, it's a fun and long read and I highly recommend you read it if you're feeling unsure about what career to choose.

My issue is that just reading Tim's article is not going to be enough. You'll need to actually sit down and take the time to implement every step of his framework.

As Tim knows, humans are the best procrastinators in the world and, without a clear deadline and some motivation, we suck at following through.

My fear is that a zillion people are going to read his article and never take the time to make implement it.

Well, I want to change that! so I went a head and converted Tim's article into a 7-day implementation program on Mench here: https://mench.com/HowToPickACareer

Mench will basically become your accountability partner and motivate you to implement step-by-step Tim's fabulous career picking framework in 7-days.

So, if you're serious about picking a career that actually fulfills you, then you owe it to yourself to do some deep thinking and invest the next 7 days to making a choice that comes from the right place in your heart.

What do you think of this idea of making great content into a tangible action plan?

I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Onwards!
maybe they'll change their mind when their market share goes back to what it was 20 years ago (that's me being hopeful, it probably will never happen)
I'm finding out that using Org mode's clocking combined with recurring tasks for long running tasks that should be done in bits helps me progress on them. I've only recently started using it, and seeing since how many days I haven't read some pages from that 2500 page book which I was supposed to have finished reading a year ago, and how little time I've spent on it than I'd otherwise believe I had, definitely has a positive impact. No revolution, at least in my case, but certainly an improving transformation.
> I already play with urls that have possible id's in them out of habit

Do you jiggle door handles out of habit to see if they're unlocked? It's antisocial behavior. If you were supposed to have access to that document, it would be accessible from a link or search box on the main site.
Then you have no business with users data.
Whether it is common knowledge or not has no bearing on whether it’s criminal, so I wasn’t using ordinary to mean “of normal computer literacy”. If you want to use some specific definitions that turn your claim into something trivially obvious, please define them ahead of time.
It's not necessarily a problem that the older generation can only think about technology in a metaphorical sense, the problem is that the metaphors they are using are idiotic.

I think, by and large, people are constrained to thinking about things they can describe. To that extent, being able to accurately describe something is meaningful, and is therefore a linguistic issue.

Semantics are very important when you are dealing with minutiae, and the law hinges on comparisons and extremely complex semantic arguments.

To that extent, it makes sense that we argue about the metaphors.
Which is even sadder, the tools and capabilities are available , but products are shaped by demand. The current market is Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat like products all racing to the bottom. Who can deliver users dopamine spikes while imposing zero intellectual demand? We need comically easy apps, and single button interfaces. 7 seconds before a user loses interest :O.
> Airport transit investments are, sadly, incredibly hard to justify.

Somehow other countries manage to justify it. Tokyo, London, Paris (TGV too!), Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Beijing... the list goes on. But somehow building infrastructure is hard to justify in the US. Pennywise and pound foolish.
> Well, in Linux the home directory is read from /etc/passwd at login and $HOME is set from that, and $HOME is presumably and environment variable like any other. It's up to each bit of software whether it cares about such things.

On Windows the user profile location is read from the registry (if you care: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList) which is on the disk (if you care: %SystemRoot%\Windows\System32\config\SYSTEM) and %UserProfile% is set for that, and %UserProfile% is presumably an environment like any other. It's up to each bit of software whether it cares about such things.

> On Windows I get confused with "administrator" vs "all users" vs "current user" vs "some other user" that an organisation is using for some reason. It seems like stuff can end up in different places.

On Linux I get confused with /root vs /usr/share vs /var vs ... vs ~/ vs ~some-other-user/ that an organization is using for some reason. It seems like stuff can end up in different places.

I can't say I see what's so amazing about the Linux and so awful about the Windows near-equivalents here.
What is CS 101 explanation for this project?
This is absurd. This is not private property. Ordinary law-abiding people do walk into government offices and ask questions, and when they get answers, do continue asking questions and getting answers. Ordinary law abiding people to browse all the products on display at a store. Ordinary law abiding people do flip through all the pages of a catalog that is sent to their home.

This Orwellian attitude that looking at anything is criminal if the government retroactively decides they didn't want you to see it, is terrifying.

But as usual when it comes to authoritarian overreach by government, you're not de-facto wrong about the government sees things, but you are eloquently defending a morally horrific attitude.
If you are just iterating through an archive, it would be impossible to know whether foo.php?id=24530 was linked to anywhere or not. It seems crazy to criminalize this sort of thing.
The article pretends to answer why they're using Linux instead of the NT kernel, but the answer is either incomplete or a non sequitur; it seems to imply that since the devices has very little power, their kernel isn't a good fit. I thought the NT kernel was pretty good at low power, and also has a highly respected internal design?
What an age we live in, utterly depressing.
...which is not a felony, because that would be insane.
>the kid

Is a 19 year old a kid?
I think the bigger news here is the custom MCU design. What is it? Is it Arm-derived, and if not - why? Anyone pay attention lately to MSFT’s activity on LKML?
Space is big. The asteroid belt plus robotics. There is a lot of energy from the sun. There is a lot of iron.
Also, if you actually want it to work out, you first have to remove all the tinpot kleptocrats and replace them with halfway responsible governments. This doesn't get attempted often, but this was attempted with Iraq, and the attempt cost 2.4 trillion dollars and didn't yield sustainable results.
Very interesting, and it looks like the people working on CBI are also active on Buildkit, which is a good sign!

Thank you for the pointer.
Google works out a way for AI to isolate voices in a crowd
> It's still better than Android or iOS.

How so? Jolla’s licensing system allows its clients to bundle just as much closed source, phone home software on their phones as any Android system. They can lock the bootloader, etc.
> Not to say Cut and Cover was the 100% cause - but it was a major, major contributor.

I don't think it's the cut and cover method per se. Here in Minneapolis when they built a surface light rail line from Downtown Minneapolis to Downtown Saint Paul iirc nearly 200 businesses closed along the LRT and cited the construction as the primary reason. Any construction that impedes travel to businesses for a long time is going to be negative for businesses. Here we subsidized about half the affected businesses along the line during the 4 years of construction but it apparently was not enough.
Tesla Temporarily Stops Model 3 Production Line
Not sure if you mean it as a slight, but I always thought the Zune was superior in every way to the iPod.

Windows Media player instead of iTunes to start with.
Just a hunch, if you were accessing from home, most likely your IP address.
Even Fukushima, which released most of its radiation out to sea, still has 370 square kilometers of exclusion zone.. 90,000 acres of still-uninhabitable land..

http://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/site/portal-english/en03-08....
Alright, I'm not for or against Google - I appreciate the things they've done but really notice their shortcomings - I'd say I'm more "pro-sensible advertising".

> Here's the thing, Google doesn't have the authority to dictate what software you run on your computer.

No, but it can dictate what plugins are available in _their_ store for _their_ browser. Just use Firefox or manually install the plugins. They aren't stopping you completely, but when you're in their ecosystem you play by their rules.

> App Store, Chrome, Adwords, all need to be separated into unrelated companies to eliminate the blatant conflict of interest

Absolutely, and there are other competitors in this space. Google is too big at this point to spin those off.

> As an aside, this is evidence that advertising is dead.

It's not dead because there's no real valid alternative for the everyday website. A lot of users don't want to pay to browse your website past paying their ISP, and mining cryptocurrency isn't an option either. There was a project a little while back called F-U, Pay Me! by Datajoy (https://datajoy.us/fupm.html) that I wrote about that was a worthy replacement, but needs more traction to really take off.

> Thanks to AdNauseum and any similar forks, no corporation in the world, no matter how large or wealthy, can guarantee that their advertising model is honest or functional.

This is where advertising falls apart and it all becomes valueless, which I think is more destructive overall. Google offers a pretty good way of monetizing a website while they help themselves to analytics and a portion of the revenue. Google's AdSense getting shut down would mean (likely, speculation here) a lot of smaller hobby websites being killed off, and larger ones forced to gate access with a paywall. Ultimately, we need a DNS-based tip jar system, but that requires adoption. It's not impossible to run a website if you have a job, but if that website _is_ your job, you're out of luck.
This is rapidly becoming political and rule #1 in politics is “politics doesn’t have to be fair.”
I think that's a bit harsh. The documents at that URL were understood to be freely available to the public.

As I physical analogy, I'd think about it more as one of those restaurant straw dispensers. He got tired of pressing the button each time for a new straw, and instead opened the lid and grabbed a bunch out.
The 'locking the door' metaphor is just flat-out incorrect. A public-facing webserver is simply not a place to store your shit..

A closer analogy would be two tables out the front of your house covered in fruit, with a sign saying "Free Fruit" on one table and then expecting people not take fruit from the other table.
> A basic principle of private property is that you don't have to secure it.

That’s not even true. Trespassing requires that you be told not to be on the property, that’s why people post signs. You can’t be charged with trespassing because you went hiking and wandered onto unfenced land with no signs, it doesn’t matter if the dumb owners thought nobody would ever hike over there.
The laws protect the public generally and can't be negotiated away by anyone.
Am I missing something here? The custom linux kernel part isn't interesting at all - in fact, Microsoft has pretty much admitted they can't scale down Windows.

What's interesting to me here is Microsoft is building an IoT solution that allows manufacturers to delegate security to Microsoft instead of having to roll their own.
Mind explaining what the significance of CO2 is? I'm unclear how this relates to drowsiness.