skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three business models have emerged for newspapers:

* Be a sponsor's mouthpiece. This works pretty well if you're OK with your news being nothing more than someone's PR department.

* Advertising. This, as you say, hinges entirely on tracking users.

* Subscriptions. Also hinges on tracking users.

In short, you're absolutely right! There could be a better way! I just don't know of any and can't think of any.

I'm 100% convinced this failure of imagination is just my personal failing, through. I'm very interested in knowing what this better way could be, and I'm sure the news industry would similarly be deeply curious. What do you have in mind that's practical, workable, reliable enough to build a business around, and in no way, shape, form, or manner involves tracking users?
Gambling is fun.

>And the longer view, is more people will be impoverished with more easy to obtain gambling

As long as they are doing it out of their own choice it is nobody's business.
Having just visited Vietnam, this logic no longer makes any sense to me and I’m not sure how it ever did. Standards we set many decades ago for ourselves aren’t even close to being followed in that country. I can see no reason to believe why any future restrictions on ourselves will be any different.
Which is misleading for a whole bunch of reasons as generally people were dying due to the incredibly dangerous life it was then plus lack of medical care.

If you survived your 20s without being killed you were likely to live into your late 50s with little problem.

Being young was dangerous. Being a religious knight meant you basically skipped all that until later (and then put yourself in less harm than the average peasant soldier did)
Talking about Q with people who haven’t followed it closely, to include journalism about Q, feeds the Q phenomenon for the simple reason that so many people get it wrong. By wrong I mean, it’s as if they haven’t done their research, or worse, have an agenda. If you’re going to write about Q, furthermore if you’re going to criticize Q, it would serve your cause well to research it thoroughly because the autists will eat you alive further painting Q as a “deepthroat” the cabal “doesn’t want you to know about”.
How can the author write that a plastic bag has been found in an (open!) database of photos and videos, and not actually show the photo??

So I found it there:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/09/worlds-deepest-p...
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while this is about anti-commandeering doctrine, I often wonder if they should revisit the expansion of the commerce clause that came about by the famous "stitch in time that saved nine".

To me, how case law enshrines coerced decisions in the court, is something that should be addressed.
I'm more annoyed by the anti-adblock thing that covers the page after ba few seconds. I got it when using the default option to enable tracking protection in a Firefox private window. It's in German despite this being an English article (I do realize only a small fraction of the site is in English), and while they show a guide to disabling common adblocking extensions, there's nothing about Firefox's built-in feature.
I'm curious to see Elon publish rough stochastic simulations of his Tesla Model 3 assembly lines. Both current and proposed. Full automation without buffering at several stages requires massive uptime for all segments.
That is some Silicon Valley fanfic speculation right there haha.
That's true but it has done wonders preventing retalliations.
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Glad I'm not the only one. NYTimes and SiriusXM are companies with solid products whom I refuse to do business with due to the hassle of cancellation.

Meanwhile Netflix allows you to sign-up, cancel, or even temporarily pause your service without a single moment of hassle.
Has anyone seen a tool that will go through a mailbox and check for this attack? I'm really curious if anyone can find an example of this in the wild before publication.
I'd also trade it for open space on my lot (since usually the attached garage has less driveway & structure footprint). But your point is well taken.
tesla's liabilities are still less then their assets, and their order book is absolutely insanely robust. Their price makes it so a car manufacturer (save maybe VW) couldn't buy them, but given that both Apple and Google are trying to get into automobiles, Either of them would jump at the chance, assuming a sane valuation stock wise.
I like working in finance. I get the impression that they treat their employees well because nobody wants to work for Evilcorp.
Very good point about Docker giving you a false idea about being to able to run old images on new OSs, which only real VMs can do. CentOS 6 isn't even old - it's used all over the place, and people hang on to it because it's systemd-free.
Isn't this exactly what he explained? The user has a easy toggle on their dashboard to rotate credentials - and if he needs a hand with it, contact their support for some help.
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Sichuan Airlines jet makes emergency landing after cockpit windshield breaks off
Way back in the 1990s, I had to deal with a null-vs-0 bug in C. It was caused by the Sybase API for BLOBs, along with some careless programming by someone years before me.

Sybase, at least back then, stored BLOBs as 8k chunks. So when creating a row, if you passed NULL (in C) for the pointer to the data to store in the BLOB, then the BLOB became null. But if you passed 0 as the pointer, then Sybase allocated 8k and stored an empty value.

For years, we had stored data in BLOB fields, sometimes empty. We'd never noticed the 8k allocation into empty fields, because it was swamped by the ones with real data. But we pulled the data out into files and added a file name field to find it (for performance reasons), and adjusted the size of the databases, because disk was expensive back then!

I had implemented the transition, and had argued for removal of the BLOB column entirely, but our cautious lead dev rejected it, out of fear the missing column would break other things. Testing showed everything working perfectly. Then we put it into production...

...and saw that we had about four hours before we ran out of rapidly-filling database space. And we could not gracefully roll back, for business reasons. So I had four hours to find and fix the bug.

The real problem here wasn't NULL itself. That was a reasonable way to communicate a state to Sybase. But other problems made it a problem. First, the C programmer's habit of treating 0 and null pointers interchangeably. They are usually but not always equivalent! This bug had actually been sitting latent in our system for five years at that point - we just never noticed it.

The other problem was the lava flow antipattern, not removing a clearly unnecessary database field out of fear of downstream repercussions. That one bothers me more, and to this day, I try to be good about not keeping apparently-dead code out of fear.
This seems like a complicated way to speed up a linear scan. What's the advantage of this approach over just sorting the strings and doing a binary search, which is log N?

(Not a naive binary search using strcmp, but the trick where you find the lower and upper bounds given index 0, refine it using index 1, etc. until your input is exhausted.)
That's a ridiculously high percentage: 200 out of "thousands" tested.

Judging by their use of "thousands", I'd bet that the number is somewhere between 2000 (making 1 in 10 suspended) and 8000 (making 1 in 40 suspended).

Now if that number was out of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, then the number would indeed be quite small.
This whole case is just so upsetting. At least now people know not to do what he did.
made a little tool to catch these things https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks. working on a CI version of it right now as well. gotta protect those credentials.

edit: ci version here - https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks-ci. work in progress, trying to add readme and instructions tonight. Also if anyone is interested in making gitleaks-ci into a paid github app... hmu
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I didn't realize "daily fantasy" was a thing. That sounds like a PITA.
It's been out there quite a bit:
http://bgr.com/2017/05/04/elon-musk-tesla-apple-acquisition/
and

More to the point, there have been discussions in the past. Apple apparently started discussions back in 2012.
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The strategy of these firms is probably to launch a series of apps that run the spectrum of popularity, from thousands to millions of users. Banning the big ones puts a dent in the problem, but a company could have released 50 apps with 10,000 users each that sucked down profiles of 1 million people each (via calls to friends' data). My guess is that each of those would not qualify as "large" by Facebook standards.
Because it's worse for the environment to ban plastic. And who likes to be taxed more? A new Danish study claims that low-density polyethylene (LDPE) has the smallest impact on the environment. Meaning plastic bags are more environment-friendly than paper bags, bio-plastic bags or cotton bags.

"The use of a unbleached paper bag is equivalent, as it needs to be recycled 43 times, a bag made of renewable PP needs to be recycled 45 times, and a cotton-bag has to be brought to the supermarket and back up to 7100 times (and around 20,000 times, if the cotton is organic),to assure the environmental impact is similar to the LDPE-bag."

https://stateofgreen.com/en/profiles/state-of-green/news/pla...
Pretty much. There's no overarching theme to the LOTR that can be readily matched to a Christian one. Tolkein clearly borrowed a lot from various mythologies in weaving his story. Certainly Christianity was part of that. But it was inspiration and not allegory.

The point is not that there are differences. The point is that the differences are far more numerous and significant than the similarities.
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Kenosha, Wisconsin has a population of less than 100,000. They rolled out a new street car line in 2000 at a cost of $3 million per mile.

http://www.lightrailnow.org/facts/fa_ken_2005-01.htm
I propose to put a plastic bag on the Moon. Just to make a statement and make people think.
There is simply no way to know what Africa, or the rest of the world, would be like in 2018 without hundreds of years of history of European colonialism -- with the settlement of the Americas and mass enslavement of Africans being part of this. To imagine what things would be like in Africa without, is just science fiction alternate history. European colonialism changed the planet. And not for the better for most non-Europeans.
I have seen this as well. At a role earlier in my career it turned out we had a major engagement with McKinsey around figuring out what was actually happening in some of the most areas most critical to the future. One could rightly point out that this is a symptom of dysfunctional senior management but I think that oversimplifies the issue. Organizations are built over time and simply hiring a new CEO is not really the answer. Its not like a public company can just fire its entire leadership team, even if that is the right thing to do.

I ended up feeding a lot of data to the McKinsey team who as it turned out were really smart and helped in both directions, both connecting our team with other parts of the company that might be able to leverage what we were building and also helping our team craft our message to gain the broadest visibility. We could have done it all ourselves but given that they were already there it greatly speeded up the process.

The final thing I will say is about costs. With an engineering budget that ran into the hundreds of millions annually, saving a couple million on consultants might seem like an easy optimization to make and it will make no material difference to the company. If they do add some value it will probably be at some multiple of what they cost.
Carrying heavy things is (by my humble estimation) 4/5 of war. So if there’s something that can carry heavy things, yes it will be used for that purpose.
In my .zshrc:

# Summary: run `note <title>` to make a new note
# run `notes` to get a fuzzy finder (if available) to view all notes
function note() {
NOTE_DIR=~/Dropbox/notes
mkdir -p $NOTE_DIR || true
NOTE_NAME="$1"
if [[ -z $NOTE_NAME ]]; then
NOTE_NAME="$(date +%Y-%m-%d)"
else
NOTE_NAME="$(date +%Y-%m-%d)-$NOTE_NAME"
fi
vim $NOTE_DIR/$NOTE_NAME.txt
}

function notes() {
NOTE_DIR=~/Dropbox/notes
mkdir -p $NOTE_DIR || true
pushd $NOTE_DIR > /dev/null
# Use the fuzzy finder if available
if command_exists fzf; then
# Only open the selection if one was actually chosen
NOTEFILE=$(find * -type f -maxdepth 0 | fzf)
if [[ -n $NOTEFILE ]]; then
vim $NOTEFILE
fi
else
vim .
fi
popd > /dev/null
}

I dump my notes in my Dropbox folder so that I get sync for free. And fzf makes finding notes super easy.
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Charge me per article I want to read. 25 or 50 cents? Make it seamless so I can hit Apple Pay and then read the article.
I would do it, and I bet so would many others.
Law 0 / A robot may not harm humanity, or through inaction allow humanity to come to harm.

This precedes the 3 laws.

Source: Isaac Asimov in Robots and Empire
Why on earth is this on front page?
It’s also not quite true to say he wasn’t selling them. He was using these disks to add value and get a higher price for his recycled computers.
It's always a difficult balancing act between "We need to protect this large diverse group with a huge difference in opinions and actual behaviors" and "Liberty (TM)"

How about this: Gambling is legal, write your representatives about sponsoring a bill requiring X% of gains by casinos/bookies to be sent towards funding addiction recovery programs? Is it perfect? No. Is it something that will help? Yes.

Vice legislation is hard, but there's no proper morality in telling people, "no you idiot, I know better than you and you can't have this thing you want". (Unless those people are children, in which case no, they can't have this thing they want). Some people can occasionally do drugs, gamble, or visit a brothel. Some people can't. Saying that the percentage of people unable to handle access to their vice means that nobody should get it feels wrong to me.
They did a Lenten fast once a week, which is not usually the same as abstaining from food. From the article, it sounds like they were eating but not eating meat. However, note that fish is not considered meat for the purposes of Lenten fasting.
I work on Zulip, so will only attempt an answer for that. Zulip is designed to scale team chat past when you're getting 1-200 messages a day.

With an IRC- or Slack-like communication model, waking up to 100+ new messages every morning is a big drain on time and energy. Also, once a channel starts getting 100+ messages a day, it stops being useful for real communication. If someone starts a conversation at 10am, and you come by after lunch, it's hard to respond in context.

You can see how Zulip solves this problem on the Zulip community server, https://chat.zulip.org (send test messages to "#test here", follow the code of conduct, etc., it's a live server). Feel free to PM me there if you set things up and have any questions/feedback.

To address a previous post: Zulip, Mattermost, and Rocket.chat all take about 5 minutes to install, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. Zulip and Rocket.chat also come with SaaS versions if you don't want to run your own infrastructure.
What would be the most sensible steps forward for the PGP maintainers? Is this a rewrite, or can they iterate though and make incremental improvements around the flaws that have been discussed over the past decade?
Right, and I'm making it clear that opinions born of ignorance should be avoided.
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Amen, though once I called them it was pretty easy to get them to cancel me. SiriusXM, though...spent 25 minutes on the phone arguing with the rep that I didn't want to pay for their service anymore, in any fashion or form. I was begging them to let me cancel by the end of the call.
I admire your attention to detail and keen sense of aesthetics. Well done.
Growing up in the USA I was taught in public school in the 1960s and 1970s that we lived in a better version of Ancient Athens. It took years to realize (e.g. reading Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, and Smedley Butler) that in several ways we instead live in a version of Ancient Sparta instead. Perhaps the Athenian ideal was indeed more true when those teachers themselves grew up (in the 1920s and 1930s).

But in any case, as Manuel De Landa says, all real systems are combinations of both meshwork (associative freedom) and hierarchy (imposed structure) -- that often transform into each other. http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/meshwork.htm
I expected all of those downvotes, honestly.
The problem is this seems like fragile security -- most mail clients do render HTML, so better make sure that option never gets set to on, or you are hosed.
You'll be surprised to know then it's not just the "West" that considers it a problem. Here's the Indian state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital, introducing a plastic bag ban and deposit on PET bottles.[1]

1. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/ban-comes-in...
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I don't know, IRC in its current form doesn't have any message-ids and yet seems to be working fine.
I think the parents question was why they wait for the customer to do something instead of blocking/rotating the compromised credentials once they became aware of their existence.

E.g. I remember reading that Amazon even scans Github for AWS credentials proactively now, since this happened all the time.
There's an enormous difference in model complexity between key phrase detection and (general) automatic speech recognition + natural language processing. There's a reason nearly everything Google Assistant does except "OK Google" is done on Google's hardware.
“Api’s”
Looks good; Needs refined UI
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Your statement is factually correct.
> We have recycling programs

Most recycling centers bundle plastic up into barges and ship them overseas where they may end up being partially recycled and partially in the ocea. There's often too much contamination to properly recycle. China has also recently stopped taking in these plastic barges so many municipalities don't have anywhere to put this except the city dump.
He was only searching 16 strings. The overhead of a binary search on such a small N would likely overwhelm the algorithmic improvements of moving from an O(N) to O(log N) implementation.
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The legalization of sports betting will probably have a secondary effect of resuscitating the newspaper industry. It will be a huge boon to a lot of industries, actually.
This is worth it if you read their content even slightly regularly. But I really only visit the WSJ when it's linked to me like on HN. I just checked my Chrome history and I've visited 10 articles total this year, counting this one. So $18.50 per month doesn't really seem worth it to me to read 2 articles a month.
> in fact, in the middle ages almond milk was more common than cows' milk

Got a link for that? Seems highly unlikely to me...
I genuinely don't see many people doing it, at least not enough to make a tangible difference to the papers bottom line. The only answer these days is a subscription service, but I don't want to subscribe to 50+ different ones... be nice if there was a general 'internet' bill included in your ISP that distributed the money according to the sites you visited the most. Though that's a whole tracking/privacy problem once again.
The main idea is that Congress can decide if it is legal or not, but to say it's illegal everywhere except for Nevada makes it a non-federal statute as they are arbitrarily deciding that some state gets an exception, making it non constitutional.

That is why it was stricken. If it said it was illegal everywhere, then the supreme court would have upheld that.
1st level and in the same small org. People that would have known, interviewed, and hired the person. Companies don't just hire rando's of the street they know nothing about into high management positions.
Would this ruling potentially affect federal drug laws? I say this because some US states have chosen to legalize marijuana, despite it remaining illegal at the federal level. This seems like a similar kind of situation.
Supposedly Doug is taking time off before getting started on the Model Y in a few months.

We'll see.
I was looking for a line on a map or something. And the length of it. I know it was 500' at some point, but now it's longer, though unclear how much longer. Or where it goes.

FWIW, Wikipedia answers my question. I should have checked there before commenting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company#Los_Angeles
It's not just active filtering of inbound resumes. Recruiters target their outbound searches by technology, keywords, companies, and universities. (Source: I am a hiring manager and I work closely with the recruiters who sit a few desks away.)
Interesting it survived this long.

NJ has been fighting this for almost 10 years. They were facing their biggest opposition from the sports leagues. It just goes to show the political sway the NFL, NCAA and MLB have over the government.
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Ask HN: Is the comparison of social media to drugs a hyperbolized one?
Is our obsession with social media akin to us being hooked on heroin? If that is the case, why isn't this a much more serious issue? Aren't we all doped up then?

Or is this just fear mongering?