skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dunno if it's just me, but I just can't watch old TV shows like I can movies. They just feel off somehow.
But you don't exactly know what the motives of the resourceful adversary are. You are likely to be attacked for reasons that you don't anticipate.

This is what I call "defense by presumed motive" and is flawed.
So, your first two complaints are you not understanding Ruby operator precedence, not Ruby logic being broken, and the other is you not understanding Ruby truthiness (null and false are not truthy, all other builtin/stdlib values [and conventionally all other values] are falsely.)
The modern Sprint network is nowhere near as awful as you think - Sprint falls down in the same place T-Mobile does - in coverage. Sprint does beat T-Mobile in densification in some markets.

Sprint and T-Mobile are now mostly LTE carriers with each of them having a certain (small) percentage of their spectrum allocated for either GSM or CDMA carriers.

This slide deck makes it clear that their plans are to rapidly refarm the CDMA only subs to VoLTE as soon as possible.

https://allfor5g.com/content/uploads/2018/04/CREATING-ROBUST...
"...and here's why that's a great thing for your security!"

https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-war-clear-encryption/
code golf is its own thriving subculture; and a lot of fun
Any idea if seitan recipes appear anywhere?
Unless you can short-circuit that system by convincing the lower tax brackets that their success hinges on minimizing the taxation of the top-bracket.

Then the whole thing just sort of goes to hell.
Amass: In-depth subdomain enumeration written in Go
You actually get used to the "line noise" pretty quickly and then you can read it. It's weird but true.
>Nukes have nothing to do with the independence of nuke-free countries. It's not like either any of the nuclear club countries can threaten, say, Chile, with nuclear attack if they don't do whatever it is they want.

No, but it's the opposite. The countries not having nukes can be easily pushed aside and be invaded (like Iraq, Libya, and so on) in ways countries with nukes cannot.
A lot of that technology is secret and needs to be developed in house, or with closely partnered companies.

So a big part of that cost is the r&d needed to keep current.

In any given generation, one fab will have the best tech, and another the second best, and all the other fabs have compete on price at a tiny margin or just sit that generation out and make cheap chips with thier existing machines while hoping to catch the next wave.

That means it's an industry got the deep pockets. You need to be able to take a huge loss and keep investing to stay in the game.

So it's basically Intel, and sovereign wealth funds teamed up with interventionist states like Singapore and Taiwan
...

The US and other western countries had and lost this industry because of free market idealism.
He's not joking though. I've experienced 3 rounds of stupid tricky questions followed by a 4 hour "take home" project at a UK startup in Deep Learning before they were willing to even send flight tickets to London, and the feedback I've received was so comical that I almost wrote a blog post about it (I still might). Another robotic startup in SV grills with 6-hour stupid codility tests as a first phase (i.e. waste 6 hours just as a handshake). Not sure if they think time grows on trees or people have no other things to do just to pretend a day has 48 hours. I took those to see what the interviews are these days to stay fit, and I must say it's like a panopticon of Google-wannabes for uncompetitive salaries and useless equity with bad liquidation preference.
so like port knocking but at an electrical level, nice.
Wow that's crazy... you buy something yet but you don't own it. It's a bit like cellphones, I guess.
Well, I think you're kind of misrepresenting his point as "competitive programming doesn't improve your programming abilities".

It's not that competitive programming correlates poorly with job performance; it's that, given you've been hired by Google, being a competitive programmer correlates poorly with job performance.

Hypothetically, let's say there's 2 dimensions for a programmer's ability, competitive programming and job experience. Each of these is distributed independently from 0-10. You get hired by Google if competitive programming + job experience > 10. However, let's say that for their actual job performance, it's 0.5 x competitive programming + 1.5 x job experience.

You now have a case where competitive programming could correlate poorly with job performance at Google, despite having a positive correlation in general.
You've repeatedly posted uncivil and unsubstantive comments, engaged in flamewars, and now crossed into personal attack. We've already had to warn you repeatedly about this.

If you can't or won't stop, we're going to ban you, so would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop doing these things on HN?
Even before you mentioned statins, I was starting to suspect you may be eating a lot of carbohydrates/sugary stuff or that you may have diabetes.

It could also be the statins which seem to be more harmful than helpful, but it may also be your diabetes or pre-diabetes, which I assume you have.

Either way, try a keto diet for a few months, and do some blood tests afterwards. See if your blood results improve (I believe they will) and then you can drop statins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlbdMb8oGDo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynpqxnxtLi8
I've heard from a close friend of mine that the NSA order over 200 sex robots to their headquarters in Maryland. Not sure why but that's what I've heard.
F9/FH cannot throttle down enough to do a hover landing, so they have to do a suicide burn (i.e., fire the engine just so the speed goes to 0 m/s at 0 m altitude.) The engine is too powerful and the body is too light to hover.

Blue Origin might eventually encounter just that problem with New Glenn.
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Somehow, despite domains having sufficient differentiation, it has evolved to the point where the first part seems to be all that matters.

In this case, "something.fr" should be sufficient in France and yet the reality is that if you don’t also control "something.<foo>" for all possible values of "<foo>", you might encounter a problem later.

Even worse, it has evolved that we now have to care about certain patterns on certain sites. What if you don’t control "something.facebook.com", or "reddit.com/r/something" for instance?

It’s crazy. We need to be deploying security technologies further so that names alone can stop mattering so damned much. All we seem to have in wide use are certificates, which are still not required and essentially not understood by users (if they don’t get an entity name and padlock, they’d probably load the site anyway).
Surveillance Database of Journalists to Be Compiled in US. Where Is the Outcry?
And this innovation tax takes priority over all of the other things that need to be funded? What about the millions without healthcare? Also are we really going to trust some bureaucratic institution to dispense billions of dollars in a fair manner?
Sue after you start working in your new job and are established.
This is really silly to me.

Making computers accessible seems like a completely reasonable, sound priority. Yes, computer literacy is something we all need to work towards, but we'll never be in a world where the average person understands PKI, and saying that we should limit accessibility until they do is absurd.
Maybe? The reality is that most OSS is run from downloaded binaries and not precompiled. Even if it were, most people would be using the exact same compiler.

From the description of the attack though, the function charging the capacitor wouldn't have to be all that obscure.

The attack could cause a privilege escalation but if the running process that accidentally triggered it isn't asking for escalated privileges then having them won't cause harm.

The circuitry could have a discharge resistor across the capacitor causing it to drain quickly. This would require the trigger to be executed and then subsequent attack in a very short window of time.
SpaceX is forced to do the "hoverslam" landings (where the velocity reaches zero exactly as altitude reaches zero) because their engines can't actually throttle low enough to hover when the booster is almost empty. At the lowest power it would still accelerate upwards.

Blue Origin's booster, as far as I know, doesn't have this limitation (not that it seems to cause SpaceX too much trouble).
ChuckMcM offered an illustration of how this innovation has played out in higher education here a few years ago that has stuck with me:

I think it is even worse than simply "easy credit", I think the rewards built in encourage exploitation. Allow me to explain.

1) You have capital seeking a return.

2) There exists a basic need that can be facilitated by the application of capital (a degree for a "good job").

3) You remove all the risk out of providing capital for filling the need through government guarantees.

4) You provide a rate of return that is higher than the government guaranteed rate on their own capital instruments (treasury bills).

#4 there, which gives you higher returns on low risk investments, creates a demand for those instruments. And that demand causes a supply of instruments to be created. And the regulation on that supply is minimal.

The result is you get financial institutions giving loans to students for useless degrees at inflated cost institutions knowing that the government has made defaulting nearly impossible (hence the low risk) and they can offer better rates than t-bills.

Students are being exploited exactly like unqualified home buyers were being exploited in the mortgage fiasco of 2008.

What annoys me about the journalistic coverage is that the 'rage views' are "Students are graduating with few prospects from college and a mountain of debt" whereas the bigger story is that "Rich people demanding higher returns, enslave unsuspecting youth through their loan seller proxies."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6225976

Then there is this observation by dsirijus a few years back which now with the ICO craze seems ever truer:

Any sufficiently advanced business model is indistinguishable from a scam.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227941
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This book gets to the point fast.
But for the fundamentals this book serves more as a refresher than a course.

Skiena and Sedgewick both have excellent books and online courses if you need more depth.

A nice thing about this book is that the full TeX source is on github.
That slide deck is great.

More than $6 billion expected run-rate synergies

JOB CREATOR FROM DAY ONE

How? Magic!
The parent comment referenced two use-cases for such nefarious components. Both of which seem quite possible:

1. Bridging an air gap. This would basically be a radio repeater that lets you reach other compromised components. It just needs power, and could certainly fit within one of these component packages.

2. Denial of service. The component may be a simple diode, but if it stops working, you could potentially disable a weapon, or maybe even cause it to self-destruct.

That said, I'm sure that defense contractors are very careful about where they source components. They likely have spies placed within their suppliers, and perform regular audits and teardowns of components.
an email address and a phone number are still the only things you can safely assume everyone has. for many of my older relatives and non-tech acquaintances, the only options are email, sms, or phone calls.

i dislike phone calls in general for all but the most time-sensitive and/or intimate conversations. i get a bit anxious on the phone and i don't like being essentially blocked for the duration of the call.

i dislike sms because i don't have an iphone, so i cannot respond using a full sized keyboard without using workarounds like pushbullet, which i don't feel like setting up for the small number of people who insist on using sms.

i don't love communicating via email but i would contest the claim that it is a legacy technology on the basis that it does not have a clear successor.

there is no modern service that matches the ubiquity of email; the penetration is unequaled even by the likes of facebook. i would also point out that (personal) email addresses provide highly stable means of communicating with infrequent contacts. while people's phone numbers change over time, people seem to accumulate personal email addresses and at least forward the old ones to their main account. if i got someone's personal email address five or even ten years ago, i have a pretty good chance of reaching them today. on the other hand, i assume that phone numbers that i haven't used for a couple years are dead links. with messaging apps, you don't always have a clear indication of whether the person currently has the app installed with notifications enabled.
And the final complaint was about Rails, not Ruby.
> In kids’ shows back then, there were no missiles loaded with sexual references - or clever deconstructions of TV itself - aimed above young heads

As soon as I got to this bit I knew either the author was deeply wrong or pretending to be so for the sake of the article; so much British kids TV had a surreal, occasionally dark tone to it in the 80s. Danger Mouse was a fourth-wall breaking spy parody. The Magic Roundabout was overtly trippy.

Especially regarding sexual references: this is Britain, home of innuendo culture. Where Kenneth Williams had a whole series of running sketches full of gay sexual references on primetime radio at a time when homosexuality was illegal - relying on the censors and censorious not understanding Polari. It would be surprising if people didn't sneak innuendo into kids TV.

Then there's an entire section of American cartoons that won't be broadcast any more; I remember seeing the wartime Disney propaganda Donald/Mickey output, which was both extremely dark and by current standards extremely racist. Someone in 80s programming had evidently decided to stick cartoons on an afternoon without paying attention to the content.

(Polari example: https://telescoper.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/round-the-horn-a... )
Is the government seizing those too?
Playing two hours of first person shooter games keeps me young
I do not see how censorship at the CA level is worse than the ISP/ DNS level. We should not discourage people from using TLS because it allows for one of many other methods to censor.

SEC takedowns have happened for years without relying on TLS.
If you want to spend a while learning more about how magnetic cores work check out these videos made by the US Army in the 60s:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HPT7Wtp3yoo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=An-GIhx0z4c
Most major cities outside of the west coast allow you to find boring corporate jobs.

https://www.matrixres.com/resources/salary-survey

The cost of living in most of those cities are much lower and there are plenty of jobs.

"A boring job" doesn't mean you don't have to keep learning new technology. A boring job means you can work 40 hours a week and not try to chsnge the world.
I'm another 50-plus programmer. It's not that new is better it's that you just need to know about new things. You need to know about C++ 11 and C++ 14 if you're a C++ programmer. You should learn before you interview. Right or wrong companies are looking for people that have a grasp of current Technologies. It's not about being better it's about knowing what's happening in today's world.
I haven't looked into how Find works but a roaming profile on one carrier and clever APN configs seem like they'd get the job done.
What services do this & are they expensive to implement? Are you just unloading CC data & other hashed values for matches like Maxmind?
It's probably because APL doesn't look anything like your typical PL.
I sincerely hope I can have the wisdom you have at your age. I'm older than most here but your words really spoke to me, thanks for that.
It seems like the debate boils down to "should subclasses be able to override behaviour in ways the base class doesn't anticipate?".

Pro: sometimes it lets you extend classes in useful ways that the original author didn't anticipate.
Con: it makes it difficult or impossible to reason about invariants in the base class.

Seems like it's a trade-off between hack-ability and robustness.
I'm surprised the article didn't mention the value of the domain.

I used to work for a domain name marketplace where we sold kittens.com for $6 million dollars. France.com has to be worth a few million.

Painful.
>Even though exercise is important gyms feel alien with loud current pop music, ever-present perfume/cologne, intimidating healthy younger people seemingly at will, current slang words and gym fashion. Even the smells of hair products and cologne are alienating, in my heyday it was CK-be and CK One. The experience can be a strong deterrent to be so isolated generationally.

Sorry, but it's like you've made a list of several insignificant things, going out of your way to feel alien (40 something here myself).

You make it sound like gyms are some kind of German techno dungeon clubs...
>Would you support the imprisonment of someone who was proven to have smoked cannabis back when the state viewed it as illegal?

So you're arguing that: yes, the state should expend resources today to imprison past-crime even though it's legal today.

I wish I could have people like you foot the tax bill for imprisoning people, who decided for themselves what they could and could not put into their body, and not me.
It's a hydrogen/oxygen engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BE-3), the exhaust is basically water or maybe hydrogen peroxide.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/16821/what-is-the-...
Another reason for shortening code in programming contests (apart from being able to type and edit/iterate faster) is that it helps you avoid errors. For example, in the heat of the moment and under intense time pressure (e.g. you have finally figured out the algorithm to solve the problem, but you have only 13 minutes left to implement it or whatever), it's easy to write code like this:

for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
for (int j = 0; i < n; ++j) {
...

instead of what was intended (j < n).

So if you have (in your pre-written library of snippets) a macro like

#define FOR(i, n) for(int i = 0, _n = n; i < _n; ++i)

then you can write:

FOR(i,n) FOR(j,n) {
...

(the _n in the macro is for cases like FOR(i, v.size()) to avoid recomputation) and at least avoid that particular error. Of course other sorts of silly errors are still possible; some examples here: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-worst-mistake-youve-made-i...
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why? nissan.com is owned by Mr. Uzi Nissan so there is a reasonable defense that he has a justifiable claim to the domain. seems a lot more clear cut than this.
I must move in different circles too. Every programmer today uses git, only maybe people stuck at a big company like Microsoft for their whole career don't use git and even Microsoft uses them now. And make: it's what everyone uses. Sometimes cross operating system projects use cmake instead of make but it's not that different. All the new programmers I meet coming out of college use these tools.
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Sure but this doesn’t sound like a one time thing. And if it causes emotional distress why hang on?
people were most worried about awful traffic immediately next to the highway

Where better to put a big box store than away from residential property and landlocked by a freeway?

The Sunnyvale Home Depot has no such traffic issues, and it is only accessible from Kifer... which is not a big road. The whole "traffic!" issue was a crock instituted to chase a dream of a "Santana Row West" which never had a chance. The subsequent new huge Safeway Marketplaces at Hacienda and Bernardo/ECR create far more traffic, both in car trips and truck deliveries, yet they engendered no complaints.

The result: the property became a medical center that generates essentially zero sales tax revenue for the city; that lost half-million a year goes to Sunnyvale's Home Depot and Lowe's instead.
Schneier likened NSA crypto to alien technology just a few days ago [0], which I guess is not technically magic.

[0]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/04/two_nsa_algor...
> The federal reserve driving high monetary inflation (ie low interest rates) has fallen squarely in the times of the most income inequality

[...]

> The Federal Reserve and its monetary policies can not be ruled out as the issue.

The current easy-money policy postdates the trend of rising inequality by around four decades; it can unequivocally, therefore, be ruled out as the cause of that trend, unless one accepts retrocausality as plausible.
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The version of this in the Lisp family is the many attempts to replace s-expressions or "drop the parens". The original notation always bounces back unscratched because it's a deep fit for the mindset.
FYI article is from (2013).

I had an interesting personal experience recently.
I’ve been trying to learn Russian from Duolingo and to better enable myself, got a few books on Russian grammar etc. I read them at night in bed. While I was trying to memorize a grammatical rule by reading over it a few time. I suddenly had a recollection from a early childhood. First I had this visceral feeling inside. Very similar how a smell might trigger a feeling of memory inside. Then I remembered something very vividly that I had not thought about or had completely forgotten. It almost felt like while my brain was trying to memorize something, it reactivated something inside.

I’m now curious if this was a random coincidence or if memorizing something new will help me keep older memories or reactivate some forgotten ones.
I made this switch, although it ocurred slowly through the last 20 years.

My nickname is Sleepy (the brazilian version Soneca") due to sleeping almost every class at highschool, which was from 7h30am to 12h30.

Later I would work much beetter later in the afternoon and sleep until after noon on weekends.

Then I noticed after my 30s that I was becoming a morning person.

Today I wake up with the sunlight (something unimagible for my younger self). And I am very productive in the mornings, working on my own project from 6am to 8am everyday before going to my day job
FWIW, consider the possibility that a foggy mind is the result of a sleep disorder (which may have other underlying causes). You can't learn or remember anything without sleep.

I know people who are using FitBit track their sleep. I've never used it; instead I got the sleep tracker that was mentioned in a recent blog post here:

https://www.amazon.com/Emfit-QS/dp/B0158W3E2A

They're not medical devices, but if you're mystified as to what's going on, it might help to figure out if problems correlate with poor sleep.

(I don't know anything about statins, but if you want another place to look...)

EDIT: I saw in your other comment that you're working 70 hour weeks -- personally that is the first thing I would address. You don't have enough time to pay attention to your health, which is false economy!
There's not a single code snippet listed on Wikipedia.
One difference I find is that Blue Origin's videos almost seem too polished to me? With the advertising-esque overlays, the rock music, the editing. Always feels like I'm watching a commercial vs. an actual space flight. SpaceX has done this but usually it's just during their 3D sim videos. I guess the difference is that Blue Origin really needs to market this to the "general public" as that is their projected income source for now.

Edit: I also found it interesting that they chose to show the closeup of the capsule landing in "slow motion".

Edit 2: Seems they have just added the full live stream video vs. just the polished edited version I was commenting on earlier.