skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The text makes it clear that the week can belong to another year. This piece of documentation leaks numerous clues that it's describing something radioactive that you want to stay away from

And it gives away the specifier that you want: %Y.

"Same format as %Y except ..." means "this is some extended/twisted version of another year format, which is assigned to the obvious %Y letter. Hmm, maybe I should check that one out!"
Who would have thought on putting the simple and prevailing combo Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow as a default hotkey for this? And in a program you didn't even intentionally installed?

Stupid Intel driver programmers, thanks for nothing, really.
Still wondering if this came to life as an internal joke.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
Other brokers do this too, like TDA.
Yikes! Why the hyperbole? I'm sure if someone is clever enough to learn and be productive with ML, they'll be able to pivot and be productive in another field and/or using other tools.
Hearing "Unicode Regular Expressions" makes me think of some other "fantastic" technology combinations:

- XML configuration for Windows DLL dependency

- CORBA aware DST Library
"Suppose, just for a moment, just for argument’s sake, that (some) cryptocurrencies are not a giant scam, and what’s more, they’re not just another kind of financial asset. Come on. Don’t look at me like that. Work with me here. Imagine, just for a moment, that there exist plausible futures in which they matter."

I'm afraid my suspension of disbelief has its limits.
Beautiful code denies its own existence so perfectly you forgot you wrote it
My way of evaluating who my real friends are is by asking myself one question: "Are these the people I'd want to be around if war broke out?".

Similarly, a question I often ask myself to make sure I'm not becoming trivial and shallow: "Am I the kind of person people would want to be around if war broke out?".
Clive James, in 2009, recorded an amusing piece about this on BBC Point of View. Basements in London are nothing new, and this was before the boroughs started cracking down.

https://soundcloud.com/pointofview-clivejames/london-undergr...
All the stars in the sky are also rising in the east and setting in the west. Our own sun is rising in the east and setting in the west. The earth's spin causes stuff in space to appear to go in the same direction.

Stars in general appear to move across the sky (east -> west) faster than the moon does. Does this mean the stars are actually moving faster than the moon? Of course not. The sky is just a stationary backdrop, and the moon is moving along the same direction as Earth's rotation.
Turning off the display of personalized ads and turning off data collection are different. Do the setting you are talking about prevent data collection?
The more likely problem will have to do with a US or Chinese company buying an EU company (given the scale imbalances in question). It'd be critical to maintain the existing GDPR compliance and keep the entities separate if the US or Chinese operations are not GDPR compliant per their domestic businesses.

Alibaba for example likely has no plans to concern itself with GDPR compliance in its domestic Chinese operations. They obviously will segment and comply with GDPR as it pertains to the EU operations / EU customers.
Also customers would just think the website is offline, because browser's error page doesn't say: "You have IPv4, but you need IPv6. Call your ISP."

So there'd be no: "I want this IPv6" calls to the ISP.
Feature/Product Fit
with git-subrepo, you just clone as normal, you don't even need git-subrepo installed. It just looks like a normal repo. You require 0 prior knowledge. You can update all the code in all the subrepos as a normal repo. Never ever knowing it has subrepos. The only people who need to know and have git-subrepo installed are those that need to sync the subrepos.
Yes it is very testable, but probably too controversial to be studied in practice.
Language is a horrible benchmark.

French in Canada, English and Spanish in the US, German among German expats (of which there are millions.)

Targeting a business for extortion because of the languages offered? Ridiculous. GDPR should only apply to businesses with a physical nexus in Europe, anything else is an attempt to assert extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Europeans don’t have to visit US/Canadian/Chinese websites. If they want to “protect” themselves, they simply stop using services they find objectionable. GDPR is nonsense — individuals should be allowed to do what they feel is right for them.

Why not ban all junk food from Europe? Tobacco? Alcohol? Those harm people far more than targeted advertising. If we actually “cared,” we’d be banning those industries.

GDPR is nothing more than a trade barrier.
> The reason I mention that is because I was nearly paying 1.3k/mo for someones basement room in 2011, that same room is now on the market for twice that, I can't imagine how anyone can be comfortable paying that much for such a basic accommodation.

In 2011 I was paying less than £800/mo for a stunning first floor bedroom in a beautiful Georgian house, 20 minutes south of the square mile where I worked at the time. Today, my wife and I pay a bit less than 2.6k for a large, modern all-round tip-top two bedroom in central Camden - it's a lot of money, for sure, but it's a far cry from someone's basement room.
If this was named "Poverty can reduce performance of a test with pretty pictures" I'd accept it.
Poverty might bring down IQ scores, but it does not bring down intelligence.
So what? It was part of the agreement when you consented. The same way that when you go to a club, a strip club, or a casino you know you 'll be exploited in a way. Sounds like advocating for overreaching laws that "save you from yourself" and keep you away from harm / drugs etc.

It's a bit ironic that you brought up mass surveillance because GDPR explicitly exempts the police and security services from its reach.

Edit (i can't post a reply):
- consent should always be required, but if you don't consent i shouldn't be legally required to service you. GDPR is more than just consent hence the overreach

- The NSA has more data than any single actor on the internet, we can't possibly claim that private surveillance is worse. The NSA may have a better profile of me than any private actor even though (and especially because) i m not american. And their profiling can harm something that businesses generally don't care to harm: my freedom
I think that's the wrong way of looking at it.

In the past, when proximity was the biggest thing, we'd look to invest more in the people proximate to us.

They like something I don't? Okay, fine, I'll do it, so I have a friend. And vice versa. I may not really care about doing X, but it's a way to connect.

Now? Now we are willing to keep looking. We want perfect friends. We are less willing to invest time in people nothing like ourselves, because it's comparatively easy to find others.

Even as i kid, I remember friendships that were basically "This kid is in my neighborhood" or "This kid's parents go to the same church as my parents", and that was it. Oh, they liked to rollerblade? Okay, I guess I'll learn to do that. I like video games; they'd learn to like that. Etc.

Now? Now it's superhard; even places I'm proximate to others, why would I choose to spend time with them outside of the one activity that brings us in proximity?
We live on a long straight road in central London lined with Georgian townhouses. It’s possible to see exactly where the bombs fell as every few hundred yards the houses stop and there’s a 60s tower block or a park.

Never realised why until it was pointed out.
Surreal to see people cheering on an attack on memory itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI
Those changes seem to look like a completely new language, cross of Java/Scala/Swift - why don't they call differently, like Jalaft? The main reason to use Java was its backward compatibility. If I needed to learn a new language every 6 months, I'd learn another one to be honest.
Ask HN: Software Package or Dependency Security Vulnerability Reporting Tools?
I'm in search of tools or SaaS products that can alert on security vulnerabilities of open source software and dependencies without access to source code repositories. Any recommendations or experiences are greatly appreciated!
I thought that at first, but it is very handy when I take my laptop between normal monitor and vertical monitor.
The rapid release cycle is going to pose challenges downstream for all the people developing tooling and other aspects of the ecosystem which are not used to moving that fast (eg: Groovy still grappling with the module changes to Java9, let alone 10 or 11). While we all griped about it for many years, the slow pace of Java evolution was in some ways one of it's biggest features. I am curious to see whether the community starts to move fast too, or if actually what happens is that people completely ignore the non-LTS versions and we actually get an effective release cadence of 2-3 years or so in practice.
You can get basically the same thing with Vim and Taskwarrior; this is my preferred solution because I tend to live in Vim (for better or worse) and there are Taskwarrior clients that sync to everything. You can search the whole thing, and version control it if you want. It's a bit more manual but I'd argue equal in effectiveness.

https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

https://github.com/tbabej/taskwiki
Javascript speeding up really has nothing to do with the front-end bloat. I think the problem is that there are a lot of (new?) developers in the frontend space who focus on learning a library (like Angular or React or Vue), and because these libraries have grown so complex in an attempt to solve any frontend problem that might be thrown at them, developers no longer feel the need to write a website without it.

I'm not a purist by any means, but I do think we've come to rely far too heavily on frontend libraries... And not just a reliance, but an expectation of things like single-page applications. I'm sad when I see developers pulling 4-5MB of minified javascript on a page load for something that could have been accomplished in CSS or maybe a dozen lines of JS. :/
I think this is an extremely interesting interface. Not only for journalist interviews but for personal brand sites.

Take a look at Adrian Zumbrunnen's personal site: https://azumbrunnen.me/

(Unfortunately their SSL cert has expired so you have to click "Proceed Anyway")

It's an embedded chat with Adrian.

I feel like it's an equally valid experience vs. reading their CV and recent projects. By clicking through the chat I not only learn about the site author's expertise but also learn a bit about their personality.

I know I'm not really chatting with them but it still feels more personal and human.
And “target” is such an arbitrary idea. Just existing could be argued as trying to target.

The standard should be: “do you have a physical nexus in the EU.” That’s it.
Nobody who uses C++ for embedded development uses or cares about the STL though, and its absence isn't exactly surprising for a number of reasons...

The selling point is features like RAII and templates, which can greatly reduce duplication and improve readability. Sure, you technically can't use the STL for whatever reasons, but practically it doesn't actually matter at all, and its absence comes with the territory for everyone involved.

Being able to use more of the STL in contexts like this would be nice for future projects, perhaps.
I'm sure the movie is terrible (I've read the contemporaneous books, though not Mitnick's more recent one), as you might expect from a Hollywood crime story.

But what's Mitnick's side of this story supposed to be? The crimes he was sentenced for got his co-conspirator probation, right? It seems pretty clear that Mitnick mostly got punished for being a recidivist. Even Mitnick doesn't claim to be innocent of the charges; in fact, he's spent the last 10 years trading on his criminal reputation.
It is not so much 3 weeks of non contact one time, but more of "parent is rarely there".
Also, IPv4 exhaustion doesn’t affect Africa yet, only the American, Asian and European RIR.
Point taken. I love the Barbican.

According to Wikipedia: "The City has a resident population of 9,401 (ONS estimate, mid-2016) but over 300,000 people commute to and work there."
That is the breakdown I was trying to communicate.
There’s always the Mole Man of Hackney who spent 40 years digging tunnels under his house. He dug so much that the pavement outside collapsed.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/aug/08/communities....
For example, .NET framework calls into Win32 CreateFile when opening a file:

https://referencesource.microsoft.com/#mscorlib/microsoft/wi...

Products like Office have undergone significant refactoring to remove reliance on Win32.

Then what are they using instead? Whatever it is, how does it provide the basic functions? Does it call into native NT API directly?

Part of the MinWin project was to extricate Win32 from the kernel and have a true separation.

What? Win32 is not part of the kernel, it's a layer on top of the native NT API (or VMM32, if you remember Win9x...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Disassembly/Microsoft_Wind...
> Of all the retail investing platforms, I think they are the biggest and the top pick for rather serious investors.

I would agree with this, but I'm not sure that this is a meaningful universe for comparison.

It's also quite different from the original claim with which I disagreed.

> use a professional broker such as Interactive Brokers, which institutional clients use

I'm sure that there are some institutional customers who use IBKR, but it's probably not many and they're probably not very cost sensitive.

This is also why I added so many qualifiers to my disagreement. You can open an LLC and be an institutional customer in a certain sense, but it doesn't mean that you're cost sensitive and trying to cut your costs to the bare minimum.
Can it reach/exceed GPU performance?
Thinking of ML craze for GPU.
I just want to say that IRC is still pretty much alive and kicking. Come back, it's still as fun as it was.
In addition to the consideration burke mention, there is just the fact that in American English we generally don't have a term equivalent to flat (i.e., condo or apartment). (In this situation, "home" is not appropriate since that word is much more general.) This sort of use of a special case as an abbreviation of a more general case is a very common linguistic phenomenon.
> Is it unlawful for gyms to charge by subscription instead of per-use based on the model that most people don't use them? Should the NYTimes be forced to go pay-per article instead of subscription?

It isn't, and it shouldn't. Either can choose whatever works for them best. GDPR only outlaws a few particular antisocial behaviours, which makes a particular class of business models illegal or much less profitable.

The "but business model!" whining sounds a bit like complaining that you can't make money mugging people, because the government disallows theft and assault. Cry me a river.
Maybe it's just because I was in this field during the events we're talking about (I got an early start!) but: I don't see how you can be at all familiar with the Mitnick/Shimomura story and think that he didn't use hacking tools. That breakin was famous mostly for introducing the wider world to the concept of TCP sequence number prediction. Unless you think he socially engineered Shimomura's TCP stack.

Kevin Mitnick absolutely did use other people's tools.

I don't know what your last sentence means. DePayne was charged as an accomplice, convicted, and given probation. He obviously did "get caught".
Question: If you had to pick a Doctor for your operation, would you want Hawkeye or Frank? :D

I actually found Frank to be somewhat sympathetic and to have some valid points on a few episodes, but many times he was just grossly incompetent to the point of threatening his patients' lives and his co-worker's careers. He wasn't just honestly mediocre, he rationalized it in all sorts of ways from extreme Patriotism to racism to outright denial, and was constantly looking for empty, sometimes underhanded ways to prove his supposed superiority.
It's too bad the code examples have to be in C++. When I saw the prompt, it brought to mind the fabulous Shakespeare Programming Language, which would allow for a more poetic approach:

http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/report/shakespeare/sh...
The problem is not that the feature exist, it's that is set as default with key combos that are the standard way for selecting text, one of the most common use cases of the computer keyboard, afaik.
Karateka. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqSHLjiJCA
No, "condo" means they are owned by the occupants. "Apartments" are generally rented, although you might hear someone say "I bought my apartment" if they purchased a dwelling in a building that is mostly for rent.
I'll try this on my desktop when I get to work in a minute, but it's totally unusable on my Pixel 2 :)
I don't disagree but it seems to be a bit like the chicken and the egg problem: companies would love to tap on that talent but most business developers want hard evidence that the investment will repay itself, and for that to happen somebody has to actually try. It becomes a mutual deadlock.

Furthermore, emphasizing on hiring graduates isn't a very sustainable strategy; many startups prey on the naivete and energy of young people and their hiring strategy usually revolves around draining a wave of young people of their creativity and energy, fire them when they realize what's going and then hire the next wave of naive and energetic youngsters.

Many companies do that, not only startups. But for that model to work they need a big hiring pool. Not sure if rural-like areas have the volume of candidates for that hiring model to be sustainable.
"Salut c'est cool" is a French collective / group of friends doing this with websites, music, videos, everything. They ended up making a name in the music business, playing on huge music festivals since 2010, for the very reason of making everything quick & dirty for the fun. Lots of people want that actually.

Website : http://salutcestcool.com/

Check out their Christmas Calendars (2010-2014) in the "Trucs" section. Funny stuff. There you can find "Facebook 2" http://www.salutcestcool.com/quatre/facebook2/ or "make a webpage in a few clicks" : http://www.salutcestcool.com/quatre/page/

Music : https://youtu.be/hBduDuYXJHI
Parents brag about boys taking risk, but never about girls.

To paraphrase real world office debates, basically man dying after they did dangerous "at least knew what he did it for" while woman "stupid did not knew the risk". Judgement without knowing details in both cases. I havent seen dumb female death framed in terms of bravery, but I have seen dum male death framed that way. (This difference likely hurts men more then women imo, most paid jobs are actually safe)

Imo, neither that man nor that women meant to be death.
It is real! A few friends and co-workers bought some, and I traded 500 fastcash to my roommate for a bagel. Two internet strangers also bought a little bit.

I view it more as a donation-based project than an investment, so if you feel like buying me a beer, you should buy some fastcash :)
> In that sense I find leetcode style problems to be very fair. [...] It does suck that even the good programmers need a few weeks to warm their cache. But it weeds out the fakers who can't do it given any amount of time.

It also weeds out people who have better things to do than cram two weeks for your pretend-meritocratic little exam.

How about requiring that candidates comment their code using quotes from Classical Chinese poetry? They are proven timeless classics that an intelligent person can apply to any situation. This test would weed out the fakers who can't refresh their caches while also honoring an ancient tradition of stupid job interviews, the Chinese imperial examination.
Title should be "The cryptocurrency alternative"
Hopefully some find their way into rocketry research to help further commoditise space travel.
These are amazing, thanks for sharing!
How I doubled the traffic to my website in 4 simple steps
>I don't intend to write this post to bash the interviewer

pun, intended?
Oddly, I think YOU are underestimating the size of the change coming, too. An upended industry won't go quietly, and I think we're about to see a lot of technology innovation to circumvent the new wave of privacy restrictions.
The source of the 30 million number is a Los Angeles Times reporter.[0] But she's talking about yadong[1], which are individual homes carved from cliffs or also build into trenches.

This New York Times article is specific to a naturally-occurring cave big enough to fit an entire village of wooden houses and then some.

I'm not saying you're wrong. Just trying to explain the discrepancy.

[0] http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/18/world/la-fg-china-ca...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaodong
Will it not still be backwards compatible?
>Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat - they only exist courtesy of their adtech.

Where are the ads in snapchat? Or is the money made from selling people's information on to ad tech people?
> It was part of the agreement when you consented

I didn't consent to shit. GDPR is the response to rampant abuse of personal data without obtaining proper consent. You're still allowed to use my data if I consent, you only have to obtain an actual, informed consent.

> The same way that when you go to a club, a strip club, or a casino you know you 'll be exploited.

What kind of clubs are you visiting? :o. Are you sure they're legal?

> It's a bit ironic that you brought up mass surveillance because GDPR explicitly exempts the police and security services from its reach.

It isn't, because adtech surveillance dwarfs government surveillance. Also, the police and security services are doing something valuable for me, even though they do it imperfectly. Advertising industry exists only to fuck me over. It's a cancer on society.
Ask HN: How is DDoS protection implemented?
The big services (Google, Cloudflare, etc.) provide DDoS attack mitigation (and seem to succeed), but details on their tactics are rare (at least I did not find in-depth information on that).

I guess to make this work well you have to do classification (regular request vs. malicious) on several protocol layers and then reroute or drop packets accordingly. But how does that prevent severe service degradation - you still have to do some kind of work (in computation and energy) on the listening side or can fat edge-servers just eat that up?
'Content' is a terrible term. Please stop using it
So, not very often.
These strongmen also have five times the body mass of the average person - unlike the antarctic explorers....
If lower intelligence isn't correlated with poverty, what that must mean is that intelligence doesn't help people out of poverty.
Upside-Down-Ternet (2009)
Are We Born to Work and Die? A Soul-Crushed Employee Looks for a Way Out
Fortunately web is going behind the subscription model in accelerating speed. In a few years, when we can't justify subscribing to dozens of websites and paying hundreds of bucks for content we have no time to read, we're back in usenet reading single copy-pasted (pirated) articles for free.
Nice read about the life of aquanauts. Strange that there isn’t a modern action/drama movie about them.
That's just it, some projects will likely try to catch up just in time for the next LTS, while others may run a similar set of release branches, one targeting the LTS or the latest release. It's really dependent on individual projects, not so much the whole ecosystem at once. In Rust we have web frameworks that run on the Stable compiler, and then there's Rocket which currently only runs on the nightly compiler (at least last I checked).