skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was responsible for a shared library amongst a bunch of teams that didn’t like each other and one greedy global contractor. The latter in particular wanted more money any time the interface changed (even when there was evidence they hadn’t consumed it yet)

What I was handed was slow as molasses and insecure by design (no surprise since I arrived at late POC stage). I spent a considerable fraction of my cleverness on that project to upend the semantics and internal logic of that module with only a handful of changes to the syntax. And most of that came down to massaging the contract and a couple method signatures.

Outlawyering that team is still one of my proudest moments, but I’ve lost less sleep after I left over that code than just about anything I’ve done.
So, does anyone have experience with other video websites, like Vimeo?
> Copyright is meant to be an incentive for the creation of works that otherwise would not be made.

Copyright was there as an incentive for the release of works that would otherwise be kept hidden. As an example, playwrights were very secretive about the plays that they had written. Actors would only be given copies of their own lines, not the lines spoken by anyone else. Full copies of the script were never distributed. As a result, there are a great many works that are simply lost (for example, Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won by Shakespeare). It is this loss of works that copyright is intended to prevent.

With current copyright law, books are being lost by virtue of copyright being too long and covering too much. Books from before copyright became perpetual and recent books are easily available, but very little from in between [1]. If the holders of the copyright do not continue to release a work, it becomes entirely unavailable.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-m...
>domain fronting [...] has become one tool to evade SNI-based attacks.

Unfortunately, most major CDNs like Google and Amazon have stopped offering domain fronting capabilities. I think Azure is one of the major services that stills supports it however.
There are "more" non-computable numbers than computable one. Chaitlin's constant is an example.
Still the same stack I'm using today:

Linux/Apache/PHP/HTML/CSS - why complicate what works. :-D
How would you keep the salt off of them in order to keep them producing optimal power?
This probably is more to do with recreating the logo imperfectly than the font itself but the kernning was way off on the Arial version.
Indeed, all of this are debatable, and the article only specifically mentions "rise up through the ranks", which means management.

Of course, even that's a questionable proposition. It calls out the youth of a Chief Product Officer at Facebook, which may well be cherry-picking/selection-bias.

As I've researched the managers at startups I consider working for, I routinely see on LinkedIn profiles that a high "rank" at a startup turns into a much lower one when an individual moves to a much larger company, though it does tend to go back up once that individual returns to startup work.
The United States is spread across six time zones and has some areas that don't observe DST (Arizona, Hawaii, and most of the territories); we don't have too much chaos in regards to time.
One party in the dispute is rich and politically powerful, the other is not.

...and ironically, a lot of us are quite worried about the other party also becoming "rich and politically powerful" too (although they do seem to be getting there...)
I went back to do my master's degree after I had been working as a programmer for about 10 years, so I knew my way around corporate (dys)function by then. I had a professor who had spent his entire career in academia, but who had grown up under communist rule in (I believe) Czechoslovakia. He would often go on tangents about how horrible communist government was and give examples of their lunacy. I was struck that every example he gave was something I had actually seen happen in a corporate setting in my then ten years of employment. One example he gave was that the communist rulers would draft five-year plans, accomplish none of it, and then go back and change the wording of the plans to make it look like they had accomplished everything. I had literally been through that exact same dog-and-pony show at my job that day.
This could be solved in a language like python using generator expressions, or in C++ with iterators.
New jobs program: you pretend to have all kinds of heavy duty intel, let the Chinese government hire you and then milk the new position for all it is worth.

Could be a thriller, but I would pitch this one as a comedy.
I guess it's more to do with trends and mass adoption. Telegram is a lot more popular than Signal or Keybase, and in particular is more popular than WhatsApp in certain areas of the world. Telegram has also been very effectively marketed as a tool for political activism, so groups using it would be targets.
It's an exception, not a crash.
Defaults are important. C++ provides a much safer string type as default and let's programmers do their own thing in case it doesn't work for their use case (I'd try providing a different allocator before writing a different string type tbh). C on the other hand doesn't really provide a string type at all and forces everyone to start by writing a string library if they don't want to hunt buffer overflows until hell freezes over.
Across the Border (fiction)
World wars do tend to create very active & interesting times, I will admit
That is awfully wrong, it boots a custom linux-based OS, not Android. You are probably talking about other device (probably the yotaphone).

http://remarkablewiki.com/tech/specs

I use the remarkable for taking notes on online courses, and works wonders.
That one is quantifiably the most difficult to decern, but the irregular kerning gives it away. Helvetica has slightly better spacing between letters.
Then they should pay property tax on it.
Ford had their UK plant in Trafford Park from around the First War years until the 30s when they completed building a far larger site in Dagenham. They were asked to resurrect it, as they still had the site, for Merlin production as one of the many shadow factories.

The location made sense, Ford Merlins usually went into 4 engined Lancasters as Avro and Metrovick had several sites nearby that produced the majority of the type.
I work for my state. Sure, I don't get to go on "recharge" breaks, but I do get a month of vacation each year (plus a bunch of sick days) and I'm never required to put in more than 40hrs.

The downside is I'm paid about half of what I should be making.
probably 18 hours
My small 12 meter long boat has a sail area of 900sqft. When sailing perpendicular to the wind it captures pretty much all of that.

The sail on that ship is 100' high, and looking at the aspect is around 15' wide, or 1500sqft. That type of sail I think only harneses half of that area, so half of 1500' or 750' best case.

I can say with complete confidence that if all the energy from two of my boats were towing one of those ships, even in a hurricane, it's going to increase fuel efficiency by approximately 0.0%

EDIT: I just did a random sample of wind speed [1] of points on the globe on international shipping routes [2] and it looks like they are generally around 10-15km/h. Thats barely enough to get my boat up to speed. There is a reason sailboats take very particular routes and don't just go from point A to B

[1] https://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/world-cargo-shi...

[2] https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort...
Why did you switch back, may I ask?
Another common use case is for writing shellcode and other exploit-related work.
I think maybe the idea is not so much that the drugs would be safer but that people would be more willing to go to call an ambulance.
You shouldn't be too happy until the entire world gets on board. Now you just have another conditional branch to follow for a certain region. Complexity increase :(

Even with the entire world on board there's probably a conditional branch per region where you do things differently based on whether the date is before or after the change went into effect. Maybe this is just a problem for the authors of Date/Time libraries though :)
It doesn't matter where they are incorporated if they have their executive offices in the state of California.

Few businesses incorporate in Delaware have offices in Delaware because it's generally not a state executives want to live in.
Another thing that could be fixed: the table in page 9 says long is 32 bits (with a footnote saying that depends on the compiler, the value shown is for gcc and g++).

That's only true when compiling for x86 (32 bits). When targeting x86-64 (the subject of the book), long is 64 bits in gcc and g++.
Here's a pic showing the soot being cleaned from Carnegie Library - pretty black indeed. I kinda remember those days.

https://www.reddit.com/r/powerwashingporn/comments/6ev3pe/ca...

They say "sand blasted" but I'm pretty sure they used gentler methods.
I recently switched to DDG and while the results sometimes aren't as good as Google, the feeling of not worrying what my searches will do to my filter bubble is priceless. I realize I'm still tracked and profiled in a million other ways, but any improvement is welcome. The bangs are a nice touch, but much less important to me.
Yeah I see irrational humans like you can be handled by irrational machines.
Don’t you see that machines will never be humans. They will try to become humans but we will spot they are fake. Can you be moved by a robot smiling at you?
Emotions do you know what hey are? Empathy does it ring a bell?
How would you keep them clean enough to produce optimal output? Every drop of salt water would quickly dry and leave a salty residue. How do you clean that while at sea?
Try WhirlOUT every month or two to remove detergent residue: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000DZBLJ6/

You still [probably] need to hand-dry the gasket, but according to my research it's what manufacturers recommend when pushed. I order a box on eBay every 1-2 years, approximately.
It isn't quite slack ready yet, but its steadily getting there. I love keybase for my personal needs, and share a team folder with my S.O :)
A "protocol" in swift is equivalent to an "interface" in Java.

"protocol" seems to be the older name (per one of the guys that wrote Java):

> I'm pretty sure that Java's'interface' is a direct rip-off of Obj-C's 'protocol'

-- https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html

So "protocol oriented programming" is just advocating the use of swift's equivalent of java interfaces. (It'd be "interface oriented programming" in Java.)

Edit: apologies if you know all this already, it just sounded like you were asking "what makes this protocol stuff better than interfaces".
Interesting but probably not very useful.

Major public websites invest heavily in SEO. So practically speaking, what the user actually wants can often be better surfaced with Google (which draws upon a great number of signals) than with on-site search (which could merely be backed by elasticsearch or by a relatively simple homegrown system).
"There's no need to change time itself.
All you need to do is change your schedule."

I think changing the time is probably a lot easier.
You dont need silos, just baffles. If the cargo doesn't slosh over to one side or another, then it cant solidify in such a position either.
I would be willing to bet that there's not a single county in the US with a population density higher than the population density of its largest city. (obviously city-county mergers like NYC, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, etc would have a ratio of 1.) Indeed, most counties that have any town of > 20k people and that are not dominated by a huge city probably fit your criteria.
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Analysing Apple Pay Transactions
These are good points. To expand a bit for even further nomenclature:

> All algebraic numbers and some transcendental numbers are computable. Thus being irrational does not imply not being computable.

Yes, there is a distinction to be made about set computability and element computability. The real numbers (rationals and irrationals) are not computable because they are uncountable. Hence floating point numbers only approximate the reals, but they are not real representations themselves. But individual real numbers are frequently computable in a finite number of steps, including irrationals. For example, any given digit of Pi or the sqrt(2) is computable in a finite number of steps. But Chaitan's constant is an uncomputable real number.

Likewise, transcendental functions - such as logarithms - are not generally computable as a set even though individual instances can be computed. This is why an inequality including an expression with logarithmic exponents might be reducible in Mathematica, but when you set those exponents to be the ceiling or floor functions of those logarithms it suddenly becomes insoluble.

> You can’t find a general, algebraic formula to solve polynomial equations of degree n where n > 4.

Yes, and the terminology for something with no general algebraic formula is that there's no closed form solution for it. Mathematica's documentation specifically states it can solve any expression with exponents of 4 of less, but it cannot do so with exponents of greater than 4.
I don't care to prove to anyone who I am (hence pseudonymous) - however I do care to prove what I say. Being able to prove I am who I say I am allows me to also prove what I say is what I say. I'm not particularly famous - but in a few social circles I have authority. Enough authority that it is important that people are able to verify within good measure if it was really me who said something or not.
Me too, I'm really hoping that electrics get rid of a lot of annoying and completely unnecessary vehicle noise.

I know they won't kill the tire/wind sounds, but if they break the mental association of loud == fast == cool for men, it could be a game changer.

No more ridiculously loud acceleration from 'modded' cars and bikes...

Also heavy trucks / buses under acceleration can be loud too, hopefully those'll go away as well.
Prepack and the Future of JavaScript Performance with Nikolai Tillmann (Podcast)
All you need to make it happen is Seth Rogen and Roger Stone to collaborate.
And the ships. Drop an anchor and demand ransom to cut it free.
> So it is Telegram's fault for what your Government did?

It is not Telegram's fault that the Russian government decided to ban it. This unfortunate decision is wholly on the government.

But it is not entirely clear to me whether it shares the blame for what happened next, namely for the collateral damage that occurred during their grand stand against the Russian government. I think it might actually be an interesting question worth pondering about.
FWIW, all you've put forward in this thread are ad hominen attacks. If you think most people's lives have a source of deep meaning that is not their children, then I'm all ears. But that's not at all what I see when I look out into the world.
I'm not forgetting about fuel, and gave the most optimistic numbers I could. Weight for premium passengers (eg bigger more complex seats, more floor space, bigger toilets, more galley space, equipment and food/drink) should be allocated to them, not shared evenly. I also don't think it is fair to allocate items like duty free carts, or what belly cargo is using. At the end of the day if you do a more realistic and fair allocation (~half the plane is not used by economy passengers), especially what people have control over (I didn't ask for duty free, dead heading crew, alcohol etc) then the weight differences between economy passengers still are not significant compared to the big picture.
At this point it's not a belief, but a historical record. The whole thing started small with "protect the children" kind of bullshit. Then gradually and consistently escalated to gain more power.
Since we're talking music, I'd probably want a hybrid. This for passive protection, but say auto-extension free of charge if the creator still trades on it. So Aerosmith who continues to do performances of their work would be able to say they're actively protecting it (and when that stops, the clock starts against the previously described mechanism) whereas Led Zeppelin, or whoever owns the rights to their works, would be in this already and paying to retain protections (if they so choose).

Hey, this could even be a method of artists reacquiring rights to their works from labels: if an artist performs songs from their works 20 years ago and the label isn't interested in paying for this protection scheme, it can revert back to the artist until they decide to stop actively protecting the work. It gets dicey with two parties having rights to it, but structurally it would probably be akin to how if you pay tax on a dollar and give me the remainder, I should then still pay taxes on what I received from you, regardless of the fact you had paid taxes on it already.
supposedly Eidetic memory is somewhat common in childhood

"Eidetic memory is typically found only in young children, as it is virtually nonexistent in adults.[5][6] Hudmon stated, "Children possess far more capacity for eidetic imagery than adults, suggesting that a developmental change (such as acquiring language skills) may disrupt the potential for eidetic imagery."[6] Eidetic memory has been found in 2 to 10 percent of children aged 6 to 12. It has been hypothesized that language acquisition and verbal skills allow older children to think more abstractly and thus rely less on visual memory systems."

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

one way to think about what education is, is that its a process for taking your perceptual inputs, and putting them on an abstract lattices

this is an obviously useful process in all sorts of ways

but it probably does change the way you both notice things, and remember things

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(there a sort of similar thing going on when you're looking at something to draw it, you have to sort of un-abstract it, instead of putting the lightwaves hitting your eye onto the lattice 'apple', you have to get it back to lightwaves in certain pattern)
It's a bit strange that this is a .ps file, which Chrome didn't natively turn into a PDF for me. So I converted it to a PDF and hosted it at https://sdegutis.com/ll.pdf for anyone's convenience.
Quantum computational chemistry
One use case I can think of: someone claims to be the author of a well known library. With their github account proven, that's pretty easy to establish.
DevOps for IoT: IoT Device Portal
For it being essentially impossible, its sure been done a lot: Netflix, MindGeek (NSFW), and Amazon definitely have at least as large video streaming (especially with Amazon now owning Twitch). There are a lot of large, though not really global, ones too (e.g., in the US there is Hulu, CBS, HBO, various sports, etc.). I'm not sure how big Facebook's video streaming (probably fairly large, considering its Facebook). Smaller YouTube-like sites exist; for example Vimeo is still around.

Building a video hosting site costs a lot less than billions. Unless you have YouTube's traffic, you don't need their capacity.
Swift from MLH here. Sorry to hear that you feel the hackathon at Rice has changed for the worse. I can definitely understand where you're coming from. Since I got involved in hackathons back in 2010 things have changed a lot!

Having spent plenty of time at non-MLH hackathons, I'd say the phenomenon you're observing is actually a broader trend in hackathons, not something specifically MLH is doing. The truth is, most of the sponsorship money that funds these events comes from recruiters. Hackathons are also a hell of a lot more effective for recruiting than job fairs for many companies. Naturally, a huge influx of people focused on hiring hackers would impact the culture.

It's up to organizations like MLH to help preserve the good parts of hacker culture while enabling it to naturally evolve over time. I like to think we're doing some good work on that front, but there's always room for improvement and feedback like yours drives that!

Thanks for being a part of the community! Feel free to drop me an email if you ever want to chat about your feedback further or share additional ideas.
Ask HN: Keeping secrets out of public repos
How do you prevent API keys, passwords, private key files, etc.. from getting accidentally uploaded to Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket? Is it OK to store them in private repos?
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Free dispersion of knowledge is great, and Internet is awesome for us devs working very far from the main tech centers. Keep up the good work!
Uber drivers working 80 hours a week to survive because they have no workers rights like taxi drivers do would beg to differ.
Well yeah, if an assert() isn't bogus, then anything that follows after it is going to be wrong in some way. In many contexts, crashing is the least worst thing you can do in this situation.

If you're really working on something that HAS to keep running NO MATTER WHAT then you probably want to do the hardcore critical systems stuff like N independently developed systems voting on the outcome. (Ah, but developed to what spec? Now we've just moved the bugs from the code to the spec... At least hopefully there are fewer of them.)
Advertisers, and not content creators or viewers are Youtube's real customer, and their policies align with that. The whole existence of a take down procedure separate from, and more favorable to the take down issuer is evidence of that
How does competition deal with the network effects inherent to this type of service? I as a user don't want to watch my videos on a dozen different websites. I'll use the site with the videos that are most important to me and ignore the rest.
Dan Pink struck a cord on the subject of primary motivators - autonomy, mastery, and purpose. > https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation?language=en
>> An interesting note, Flettner was considered so valuable to the Germans in WW2 that Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo saw to it that Flettner's Jewish wife was escorted to Sweden for her safety for the duration of the war.

That's nice and all but he still helped the nazis with military research while many of his colleagues fled, Einstein included.
Plus, it's information with short-term relevance. Think Beanie Baby jargon. Does anyone really think "having an Insta" or knowing the vernacular is going to be relevant in 10 years? Any more relevant than knowing your way around MySpace is today?
How about "awk /pattern/"?
You project a keyboard too, in a different direction. Then a Lidar sensor to detect finger position.
The issue is that China has blurred lines between government and industry, and industry often uses government resources to accomplish "private" goals. Private defense companies use Chinese intelligence assets to gain access to IP as part of a strategic technological transfer.

The US has no such system. Private companies are left to their own devices and in some ways hostile to government help. On the government side, they are not well equipped to understand or handle the needs of individual businesses.

If we want to combat this, we need to seriously change the way we approach the problem. The reality is that private companies have immense long term strategic value for the US and we need to protect that.
Cryptography, not only for speed, but also for ensuring implementations are constant time.