skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that sports and national news is super cheap and easy. You just pick and choose a few articles from AP that sell across the country. Investigative journalism is expensive, local journalism has a tiny audience which makes it expensive.

Would you pay the same amount for a newspaper that only had the current quantity of local and investigative news? Or would you pay a lot more for one that had the desired amounts?

It's like lamenting that your burger has a thin beef patty, a mountain of fries and a large soda that's half ice: you paid $5 for the meal, plus the overhead, they can't put $4 worth of beef in it so it's mostly filler.

Also, Lugnuts drool. Whitecaps rule!
At a minimum, it is a testament to the difficulty of using the gnupg commandline interface (and/or its API; does it have a C API?) properly.

For instance, you might ask why the default is to print any of the plaintext of a message that fails the integrity check. If the interface/API of gnupg had operated differently, then maybe even "buggy" users of gnupg would have been protected.

Computer security must make it easy to do safe things; if unsafe things can't be (or mustn't be) made impossible, they should be made difficult.
You are right chess can be harmful too. Those wasted hours studying and memorizing start-games and end-games and then as you say the hatred. Maybe it's good mental exercise but you might better use your time studying mathematics physics science or engineering and that way help yourself and others better.
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Why can't I agree to an alternative dispute mechanism? Private arbitration is age-old as well. If I as a consumer want to choose something other than the courts (which, as a law school grad, I actually do), who are you to reduce my autonomy by telling me that I can't contract for that?

>But if you want to talk about practical evidence, then why exactly do companies have to trick consumers into "agreeing" to future mandatory arbitration?! If arbitration is truly beneficial for both parties, then a consumers can always choose to enter into binding arbitration after a dispute arises!

#1 - Contract terms are not a "trick." Making arbitration mandatory across the board is far better for the company than having it decided case-by-case, because they can estimate costs better.

#2 - Consumers don't know anything about arbitration, and much of what they think they know isn't true. Are you going to argue that consumers are weighing real cost and benefit? You're the one whose position is based on the idea that consumers aren't smart enough to avoid this terrible idea (that isn't).
I never really thought about it that way back then. You are right. I will buy a few copies of this book and leave them in the train stations or on park benches. Thanks.
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Resisting arrest is a typical workaround for that. The antidote is, "well why were you arresting him?" This dilutes the antidote with, "the computer said he was a criminal."

Also, we make way too many things illegal in the US and the punishments are often harsh for a country founded on "freedom." I wish more people would shed this archaic delusion.
Given the markups, sommeliers are used car salespeople of the wine world.

I go for what I like. Ive had some $40 bottles that tasted like musty vinegar, and $7 wines that I bought a crate of. I dont need someone flashy doing what amounts to tricks to try to sell me 55% markup instead of the 30% markup.
I worked on payments at Uber for 2 years, so I know there is unavoidable complexity in operating at a global scale. I would argue payments is harder at Uber especially on the remittance side compared to Airbnb but obviously I’m biased.

I would agree that money engineering is probably the hardest problem they have. But unlike Uber they don’t have any realtime/streaming/GPS-dependent tech.

So outside of payments it’s not clear what “interesting” engineering problems they really have, which means throwing engineers and designers to work on pet projects they’ve convinced themselves is really important to the future of the company but are just...pet projects.
I think it's quite interesting that they are trying to build an alternative internet layer bypassing Comcast with aerials to the backhauls. Goodness knows if they'll get anywhere. Some other stuff https://coincentral.com/what-is-skycoin-sky-a-beginners-guid...

You get coins for being a node on their network rather than for doing dumb hashes like bitcoin which may be better environmentally.
There have been dozens of substantive debates on Hacker News in recent weeks, regarding Bitcoin. And the smart people say it’s a scam. And we can’t have this debate in every single thread. At this point, it seems reasonable to simply downvote the people who are saying unreasonable things.
That's the exact reason that I enjoy going to the gym and exercising, especially intervals and other high intensity exercise without long breaks. It's a great way to shut off from work and other things in life for a while.

At least for a while, none of that matters, because you're more concerned about your immediate situation.

It's the same reason that I enjoy hiking and hunting. No point in worrying about your bills or relationships or work when you're 12 hours walk from the road, and 4 hours drive back home.

It's a much healthier form of escapism than drugs or alcohol.
Error while parsing the 'allow' attribute: 'midi;', 'geolocation;', 'microphone;', 'camera;', 'encrypted-media;' are invalid feature names.
Wow, I didn't know that they just shut down this month. I definitely still have the add-on installed in all my browsers, and thought it was still syncing...
The internet used to be a place to communicate, now it's just a place to mine attention for ads through click bait, poorly written articles.
I've been wondering how often #1 happens. Our coding test isn't particularly difficult but it is timeboxed, and somehow candidates pass it who take 15+ minutes to string together a for-loop when they come on-site.
By the way under the original settlement ZTE is under much stricter supervision and audit. If you kill off ZTE you lose that control as well. The decision to reinstate the ban was apparently done without sufficient deliberation and hurts US interests on many fronts.
<cynical thought> The false positive paradox rests on the relative magnitude of the false positive rate and the incidence rate. The numbers in the article reveal a false positive rate of 91%. So long as the police assumption is that somewhere around 91% of the population are criminals, that paradox will not limit the effectiveness of a technology that's wrong 10 times as often as it's right...
It should have been done via DOM manipulation in the first place. What Signal developers did can be compared to constructing raw SQL requests where parameterized queries suffice. Thankfully, it was just fixed: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/commit/4e5c8965f...
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It's not just wine - different temperatures effect the taste of everything, it's why melted ice cream tastes much sweeter than frozen ice cream and warm cola tastes much sweeter than cold. It's also why I don't like my food piping hot - I strongly perfer luke warm, the hotter the food the less taste is perceived.
When done right (with chip&pin cards and notifying when the hold is placed not on final settlement), the notification is instant (as in, usually before the terminal even shows the transaction as approved, but sometimes a few seconds later).

If the phone chimes when you're paying, you'll rightfully ignore it. If the phone chimes at any other time, you'll check.
Yup just want to point out the replacement suggested in the blog is incorrect. Simply max-age=0 should be sufficient to emulate Expires: past date
do you have specific citations or is this some ideological stance?

to me it makes zero sense to hire a vetted contractor who can then just toss say, classified data, over to some unknown random. it's a completely untenable proposition.
Understanding whether your reports are happy or not is part of being a manager. It’s a core reason to have 1-1’s and if you don’t ask reports if they are happy, doing what excites them, and whether anything should change, you shouldn’t expect them to offer it up unasked. If they do offer it up unasked, you are incredibly lucky and should treat it as a gift. 1-1’s are not a panecea, but they do provide a forum to have more difficult conversations when it’s still possible to do something about it.
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I don't know ow why you were downvoted. It was told on a joking manner but is effectively true. There were many people on here crowing about the greatness of Elizabeth Holmes even though she was a giant fraud. If people are going to ask for ridiculous requirements for well paid jobs then they should expect either A:that people will say what you want to get the position since, as this article implied, reality and what is useful to a company don't seem tied together or B:never complain about a shortage of candidates and the associated highb salaries if you are going to cultivate a list of requirements that exclude 99.99% of humanity
> What source would you reccomend for trying to trace back flavors to the metabolic processes in the yeast?

A homebrew forum.
Would something be wrong with that? Isn't that basically the concept of contracting?
Well, there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketoacidosis
, but I think (I'm not a doctor) the diet would have to be very extreme to cause this in an otherwise healthy person.
I get the impression that debate these days is more of a game to see whose opinion wins, rather than debating to see others opinions and reflect on your own in order to jointly come up with a better result.
Every year, the morning after my birthday, this metaphor plagues my mind.
I felt vim adventures helped me, but then again that's just anecdotal proving your point.
Isn't thai-boxing like Karate or fencing where you stop before you actually hurt the opponent, having shown that you could do it? Whereas in boxing there is no such conception of stopping before you actually hit.

Does boxing cause brain damage? This article says: "Almost certainly":
https://www.livescience.com/1519-boxing-brain-damage.html
As my sibling said, try it out (with different whines)! I remember some red wines which tasted like whites and vice versa. Blind tastings teach humility.
Would love to try it out, but I use FF and Android
I'm not a Freemason, so I'm probably talking out of turn here, but I've always admired Freemasonry and the Masons I know are pretty cool, so I'll give this a shot. Corrections welcome.

Freemasonry is a collection of locally-run fraternities. There is no overarching masonic organization or top-down command structure, it's all done by the local lodge, which may or may not be affiliated with other lodges. They are all "Masonry" because they use the same rough template of traditions and rituals, passed down from earlier inductees (this is a simplification of course; there are different traditions within masonry called "rites", etc., etc.). Because their meetings are closed to the public, and because membership in such organizations is relatively rare these days, wild speculation occurs.

They don't have a mission other than to be good citizens, help their communities, and help each other. A few generations back, belonging to "the lodge" was an expectation for most permanent members of the community, and many community activities and services were effectively brokered by them. The rise of "lodge doctors" in the early 20th century is a good example.
Researchers Discover Vulnerabilities in PGP/GPG Email Encryption Plugins
Why would you resist arrest even if you're innocent?
NSA has a budget of $12 billion.

Let's not pretend it's some impossible or unheard of feat pushing something through, like getting someone to publish it.

You'd have to be naive to suggest the NSA hasn't compromised any individuals in the security community.
> The powerful and government institutions should be transparent, and citizens should have their privacy.

Hear, hear! The most frustrating part of the Clinton email fiasco to me was the contrast between the rule bending going on at the highest levels in the name of privacy, and the pervasive monitoring that the rest of us are subjected to.
This is a misleading title. The article is about a (self described) Q&A platform for college students that has monetized itself with an opt-in job board. I suppose that the incentives for clickbait are just too high... At least it's not damaging to the body of the article.
I have that, but I'm not always watching it. Sound lets me know to glance up at my menu bar to see what's going on.
Generally % change in failure rate is what you care about, in most fields. e.g. If something "increases your chance of getting cancer by 50%" that doesn't mean it increases the risk to 1 in 2. It just means the risk goes from 1% to 1.5%
>backdoor reference check

Anyone know a good place to do one of these on myself? I have an infraction on record (traffic ticket) that apparently shows up as a misdemeanor in at least one database. I found this out during my Global Entry interview. I'd like to begin the long and painful process of unraveling this, but I don't really know where to start. It could be a problem in just one database, or in dozens.
FW900 started at a cute $1999.99 in 2001
Heh - same sort of timeframe - probably a Nokia 8210 though - I could reliably have my Apple hockey puck mouse "crash" if my phone got an incoming call while it was sitting on my desk in a loop of the usb cable for the mouse. It'd just stop working, and need unplugging/replugging to get it working again.

It was clearly electromagnetically "noisy", but I do't recall ever having heard any on my phones make any unexpected audio noise... (My old-and-abused rock concert and motorcycle weary ears probably can't get up as high as inverter whine any more though...)
If you think r/news or r/worldnews are neutral, I've got some bad news for you...
Or go to Toronado in SF, which is basically Russian River Annex! I think I've tried pretty much every notable RR beer there since I started going in 2016, including things like Beatification.

(Just know what you want to order ahead of time and always leave a tip. The place has a heavy local vibe and the bartenders can be a little scary.)
Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
Better yet, ask the data.
#awsdrinks
Step 1: Complain, "Nobody follows the standard."

Step 2: Advise, "This is part of the standard but ignore it because it's pointless."
Well, I can get behind the intended spirit. Cheers
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well you don't need this stuff until you do - some things still need definite, analytical performance guarantees.

I'd be pretty nervous riding an airplane that didn't use modern control theory, or going over a bridge that didn't use FEA - or an self-driving car that ran on a raspberry pi instead of a RTOS...
High West Campfire is excellent.
Still remember few weeks ago or so people are talking about China's few jaywalk shame thing?

I wonder how many people got their face, address and ID publicly displayed there for false positives, and it maybe even effects their "Social Credit Score".

I believe had this kind of bold to blindly implement such system which had such false positive rates clearly showing how incredibly responsible our government really is.
That's good to hear. As long as it's useful for some people that's all that matters for the people that created it. It's not like there's much evidence about the best way to learn Vim so your anecdote is as good as mine. At least there's a lot of people that have generated different methods to suit different people.
Note: I've also written about this on my site with more notes and context:

https://jaytaylor.com/writeups/2018/why-referrer-header-empt...

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Short version:

These days the referrer header rarely makes it through for 2 main classes of reasons [0].

1. Requests transiting across HTTP <-> HTTPS boundaries do not include the referrer header.

2. The referrer header is frequently disabled by sites (especially search engines and high-traffic sites) through the use a special HTML header meta control tag [1]:

<meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer" />

Worry not, though. When client-side Javascript is enabled, ga.js still sends enough information that Google can reconstruct most of everyone's browsing sessions on their backend. Now Google (and only Google) really has all your / our data (generally speaking). :-\

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6880659/in-what-cases-wi...

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6817595/remove-http-refe...
I'd imagine its original design was so that the proxy could choose to honor the response date, rather than just use the current time - technically speaking the date header removes state from the proxy, as the proxy doesn't need to know what time it is to honor cache policies.
Good. We (Americans) fought a war against Britain over, among other things, transportation as punishment.
Chrome Extension says “it can read my data in all the website I visit”
Will these extensions can read my passwords ? what do you all feel about this. How safe are any chrome extensions
I used to like pointing the back of the monitor at another monitor in the lab, and hitting degauss - just to watch the other monitor get influenced by it
Your link talks about CRT TV emulation (NES over composite etc), totally not applicable to DOS gaming using VGA monitor.
Oh Anki, how I love it. 2199 cards and counting
Also, if you ever find yourself in Portland, ME the Liquid Riot single malt is excellent. They ship it to some other places in New England, but it is pretty hard to find outside of Maine.
I was presented this through a friend, and it just seems like a hateful article on all fronts. Wondering other peoples thoughts on it.
As soon as an employer starts lying or doing anything remotely wacky with a paycheck, you gotta bounce asap. Happened to me several times, and I find lying companies always keep lying, and honest companies rarely start. That only gets worse, never better, so either learn to live with it or get the hell out of Dodge.
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Most companies like that seem like they are just there to provide a plausible cover for legal liability. I've had multiple jobs that had background checks where I gave them my [1...n] addresses over the past 5-10 years and the background check comes back with me only have lived at [n-1] address with no indication that the data I supplied didn't match up with what they verified. If those companies we're doing their job they would at least tell my prospectvie employer, their client, that what they could prove didn't match up with what I said
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Zilog refused to send me Z80 manuals when I was a teenager. I was pretty sad. I did print out the datasheet but it wasn't the same.
And on the flip side, if the purpose is Orwellian chilling effects on some types of behaviour, is the accuracy or false positive rate really going to concern the users of the tech? Consider the Mechanical Hound in Fahrenheit 451.
Yeah, getting a contact via NANOG or Outages is the right venue for this. There are a lot of automated/low-level paths to these kinds of blockages that have nothing to do with elaborate hypothesized malice (of course, once that has been eliminated, then you can start hypothesizing all you like).
Backdoor references are very unethical in my opinion. Beyond the fact that you are telling a third party about someone’s job search without the searcher’s consent, you can also get a very biased opinion.

But frontdoor references are guaranteed to be biased no one (well, almost no one) is going to use someone that didn't like them as a reference, they are going to dig up someone that will say something good about them.

We had one DBA hire that was not very good, she lasted 3 months before we had to let her go because she just couldn't do her job. One of her references didn't have much good or bad to say, but her most recent manager (where she worked for 5 years), gave a very glowing reference, outlining all of the projects that she had helped with.

It wasn't until we had let her go that we found that that while the person that gave her a glowing reference actually was her manager, she was also her roomate... and her girlfriend.
Nation-State Adversary is my favorite backronym for NSA.
Do the skull canyon NUCs have fans?
This is the first story that's got traction, apart from the meta-stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikitribune.com
I'm not always a fan of sour beers — too many wild ale producers err on the side of vinegariness these days, IMO — but I think RB gets the balance right more often than not, and their adjuncts tend to be amazing. (Plus, great venue and excellent guest taps on most nights!)
Really interesting, thanks! Yes, it’s certainly been my experience that adding more domain knowledge has helped me a huge amount.
As my mother used to say clean up your own backyard before talking about some else garbage! And no, I am not a liberal or a conservative, I am an American who will love the staggering beauty and grace of this country.
Games development is a lower paying and more competitive space than others, so why do it if you dont like games?
Ah, you're trying to "gotcha!" me. Just being able to understand and explain a viewpoint doesn't entail agreeing with it. Unlike seemingly everyone else in this conversation, I don't feel qualified to have an informed opinion on this.

Of course, if you keep tut-tutting about it being "very telling" when someone is capable of explaining opposing viewpoints, then you save yourself the trouble of ever having to engage with those viewpoints and your bubble is intact. Congratulations on that. I commend you on your emotional and intellectual maturity.

God, HN has gone to shit.
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More power to you, but a sommelier is not meant to upsell you on a more expensive bottle. Their service is meant to assist you in finding a wine that you would like (by itself or paired with a meal).
Can't believe he didn't even let you try it? Dang!
> One of the biggest ways the Scotch distillers have been coping is removing Age Statements from their labels

I'd noticed this, and was wondering why.
I once helped build a fingerprint processing system. One of the things I learned is that police technicians essentially photoshop fingerprints before searching to ensure the best possible match. It took a lot of the shine off of the process and made it clear that as high-tech as things seemed, there were a lot of organic factors at play that were hard or impossible for a computer to sort out by itself. I expect facial recognition has similar constraints.

Edit: Conjugation
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