skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big takeaway for me is how the internal security teams knew it was bad and couldn't make a case for the change.

Once a process is in place, it takes a well delivered argument to make a change. Not allowing paste into password fields is a prime example of something that seems like a good practice, but isn't. If anyone is reading this and needs to convince others to allow paste, NIST says to allow pasting passwords, and that it improves security:

> Verifiers SHOULD permit claimants to use “paste” functionality when entering a memorized secret. This facilitates the use of password managers, which are widely used and in many cases increase the likelihood that users will choose stronger memorized secrets. [1]

People will no doubt still say it's bad, but its a fact that the National Institute of Standards and Technology says to allow paste, and that it improves security

[1] https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
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If I was asked to do some comp-geom problem involving convex hull algorithms or intersecting lines, I would be boned. I haven't touched any of that kind of thing years. Even something simple like a quicksort or Dijkstra's algorithm would be a challenge for me to code off the top of my head. I shouldn't have to study for a job interview, I should be interviewed on things that I do on a daily basis.

The thing with a lot of these algorithms is that they seem so obvious and simple when you know the answer, but they still took a very clever person to discover them in the first place.

A good interview question should be a question where the algorithm to implement is trivial (e.g. binary search), but the application is novel.

A good algorithm question I was asked a while ago was to reverse a string in place ("hello world => "dlrow olleh"). Then after completing this task, I was asked to reverse each word, but keep the words in order ("hello world" => "olleh dlrow").

Neither of them is a difficult algorithm. There's no specialist knowledge required to implement them, but there is a degree of logic and problem solving required.

The problem itself wasn't meant to be hard (although apparently a lot of candidates completely failed at it). It was a vehicle for me to discuss how I went about solving problems. It also ended up being a good discussion about why unit testing makes life a lot easier. My code itself was incorrect at a couple of points due to off-by-one errors, but the interviewer wasn't worried at all, because he was aware that it was a whiteboard, and these kinds of errors would be picked up in a real coding environment with testing very quickly.
This is the kind of thing everyone should think through post-highschool/college/in their 20s -- glad someone's written it out. I would love another guide/write-up like this for friendship -- it seems like people my age (late 20s/early 30s) and younger are in this world where "friendship" means so little (as used by Facebook) and yet so much (as used by your actual friends who you make efforts to see and enjoy spending time with).

Finding people that have actively thought through many of life's quandaries (should you eat meat? how should governments be run? what do you want out of life?) and have formed opinions backed by mostly fact but who are ready to change in the presence of new data is so difficult though. I have a hunch I'm not looking in the right places but even in my late 20s I run into so many people who just haven't thought about most of the important shit and are just looking to glob onto someone for the rest of their life. Like sure, listening to music and digesting memes is great, but if you can't align or at least come to reasoned disagreement with your partner on shit that really matters, what is everyone doing.
How enforceable are prenups?
A write-up on the document can be found at [1]

[1] https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/09/11/securing-the-vote-n...
Sounds a lot like my situation brother; mine was a two year legal battle finally concluding this spring. The State has seemingly determined that in order to be “fair” to whomever is sees as the weeker party (always the female) that it will utterly bankrupt and ruin the life of the perceived stronger. I asked several lawyers what happens in homosexual divorces and got a big cup of “dont ask, we don’t know, but it can’t possibly be applicable to you.” Look, I didn’t want to screw over my ex - I just didn’t want to get screwed in the process. This whole business, including the child support insanity, needs to get fixed as it is an antiquated, vindictive system
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Nothing I'm this life is unlimited. That's just marketing speak for "more than the usual customer uses".
> I have a girlfriend who is half my age

Cool detail, bro
Unfortunately, the transcription doesn't match what I said. The video is now available at https://youtu.be/zPd0Cxzsslk
But nowadays, to stop quickly in an emergency, shouldn't you simply stomp as hard as you can on the brake while still remembering to stear? Or do you find that people don't even know that?
Sure. But then you need to play it cool, and gradually shift assets to secure forms and/or places.
It’s more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow. I own a few motorcycles and the biggest one has a 450cc motor for this very reason.
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The video for the talk is now available: https://youtu.be/zPd0Cxzsslk
Less top speed, which is governed by many factors (consider that maintaining any constant speed in a vehicle requires some minimum power output to counter losses to heat/friction throughout the drivetrain and between the vehicle and oncoming air, not to mention the maximum safe operating speed of the drivetrain components themselves), but rather the potential for acceleration. If you look at the torque curve for some power plant, where the independent variable is oscillation speed and the dependent variable is output torque, you'll find that (for some fixed gear ratio between the power plant speed and the wheel speed) the maximum acceleration occurs at the point along that curve where torque is maximized. Electric motors have a much flatter torque curve with respect to rotor RPM than do combustion engines with respect to crankshaft RPM, but they still see a nontrivial drop in torque as rotor speed approaches its operating maximum. Transmissions exist to maximize the driver's access to torque: if you're traveling at 60mph on the highway with your engine spinning at 2K RPM, but your engine makes maximal torque at 4K RPM, you can shift downward to maintain your same vehicle speed while increasing the speed at which your engine turns over, thus giving you enhanced ability to bring your car up to speed before you merge with the lane to the left of you where everyone is driving much faster. A car that loses available torque at high power plant speeds and that lacks the ability to use such gearing to take advantage of optimal power plant torque will be unable to produce as much acceleration at high speeds as a car that has several gear ratios available.

Caveat: I'm just an automotive hobbyist, so if an automotive engineer rolls in and calls bullshit on anything I've said above, they're almost certainly correct.
It’s unclear to me that more driving equates to more danger. Driving is currently very unsafe but that is a product of the drivers. If drivers were safer driving itself would also be safer.
It's interesting to me that people in the U.S. (maybe all the West, I just have experience with the U.S.) spend so much effort trying to find a marriage partner. But it does not appear to me that folks are happier in their marriages than in countries where some form of arranged marriage (not necessarily a "big A" arranged marriage, but maybe a "little A" arranged marriage) is common.

I suspect:

1) We're not special and in fact there are a wide range of people we'd be relatively happy being married to;

2) It does not take that long to figure out whether our partner falls into bucket (1);

3) To the extent that initially happy marriages sour, it's because of changed circumstances, and there is little you can do at step (1) to prevent those.
The health-care-education correlation runs deep. The premier health care systems are almost invariably associated with the premier universities in the area. The administrators write the rules.
> Here's a very, very simple chart that shows population with tertiary education [1]. The US is not significantly above other countries where education is paid for by the government.

As you can plainly see in the data, the US has significantly more graduates than each of the counties I listed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_...

> What's more is that those numbers are very generous to the US because, as everybody knows, most colleges in the US are shit.

It's appalling that people can drop this kind of drivel on an HN thread and let it stand. Most colleges in the US are not "shit", by any measure. And while non-selective schools and for-profit schools make for good headlines, they form a minuscule proportion of the college-educated population.

> But, yes, somehow we need to get the government out of education. That will surely fix everything.

You're responding to claims I never made, which reveals that you're less interested in having an actual conversation than you are in pushing an ideological stance. That's not going to be productive, so I have no interest in continuing this further.
Because if there was one instance of it during trial or there was someone that had it while on the medication even unrelated it's probably in there.

So say someone took Advil then had, as a minor example, violent giggling fits completely unrelated. Now violent giggling fits is going to be listed as an adverse effect for Advil because, maybe it caused it?

Now replace violent giggling with fun things like: stroke, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, or whatever other fun things are listed on Advil...

Basically, likely to scare yourself for no reason. But for more serious drugs? Maybe worth some digging.
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Happy to hear. This should be a positive thing for the already booming tech job market here. Glad to see more companies catching on. It’s a nice place to live if you’re in the industry.
Ooo - first submission and I've botched it. Better to go directly to the guy's site:

http://trafficwaves.org/
80% of Americans live in cities. It’s entirely possible to reduce our reliance on individual car ownership.
Sorry if it was unclear. I think I explained preciely what I meant in my responses to grzm. I don't think there's any debate on the "poor resiliency" point for anybody that has already used a distributed database or even just used postgres in production and experienced a slave promotion. For the "Schemas remains at postgres core" thing, it's probably not as straightforward, but once again, I really think anybody who has ever used a document-driven database can understand what I mean through this. You really don't use postgres as you use a document-driven database because it's impractical. (More generally, this point could be completed with a list of all the features that are easy to handle in pretty much any non-19xx database and that are a nightmare in postgres (users, permissions, indices creations/deletion, …).)

threeseed has summed my thoughts up. Solar/ES are solving issues that postgres just don't address at all at the moment, and it's definitely not only about text search (which is also a point). Saying that postgres should be/can be used for any use-case apart from TS is an absolute nonsense and that's what made me react in the first place. Moreover, the feeling that the community don't largely agree just on the fact that postgres doesn't meet these four points is indeed a bit appalling. OK, saying that postgres should try to solve them is another debate, but let's just agree on the fact that if you absolutely need a very resilient OR distributed OR document-based OR easy-to-upgrade DBMS (although for this last point, I have to agree that things have changed recently, partly thanks to the Uber gate I think), postgresql is probably not a good choice. There's definitely a HUGE trade-off and we should agree on this. Postgres don't come even close to Solar/ES in term of horizontal scalability. I'd really like it could, but as of today it can't.
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An unregulated healthcare market, complete with all the benefits of the free market, was the rule in the US until the Pure Good and Drug Act of 1906. It's history is... entertaining.
Right? gotoAndPlay as a function still holds a special place in my heart. It was a damned great environment for building interactive games!
I think that's exactly the point: direct control and heavy regulation are two different things.

This in-between fairyland with artificial barriers to entry on the frontend but no control on the back end is what's creating these captive markets where old companies to do almost anything because new companies can't join the market.
I have never owned a deportive car but in my country automatic transmission is not common. For a long time automatic cars were much more expensive.

I have owned manual my entire life and IMHO after the first month driving switching becomes something your brain does automatically, pretty much like biking.
> Prescription drugs. The FDA has a "no existing alternative first" policy - they work on approving drugs for conditions where no current treatment works before they even start considering competitors to existing drugs. This sounds quite logical, but the effect of it is that every new drug is granted a monopoly for a long period of time before any competitor can even legally sell their alternative, so the drug company can literally charge whatever they want.

You think that's government control? Most countries have the government negotiating prices on behalf of it's citizens in a very "take it or leave it" manner. Pharmacists also have to offer a generic if it's available, regardless of what the doctor prescribes.

Those much stronger government controls produce better (cheaper and universal) outcomes.
Agreed that it can’t work everywhere but 80% of Americans live in cities so there are significant populations that don’t need cars.
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I’m not convinced. 80% of Americans live in cities. Certainly some of them do truly need cars but there must be some significant population that can get by without them.

For a sample size of one I don’t actually need one myself.
>The bots beat a team of 5 casters (granted, with some of the older restrictions in place) who are individually in the top 1% of DotA players by MMR.

And without the 5 couriers the caster team probably would have won.
If you've had the misfortune of walking or biking on American roads recently, another reason becomes obvious. Drivers don't have a hand for a stick when one hand is on the wheel and another is texting.
Most people dont care about driving. Its a tool to get you to a place.
It's typical of people who think that a tiny amount of knowledge makes them experts in anything related to reasoning and data, as a good number of practitioners in this field do.
@ethomson Any word on this long standing feature request with the rebranding - read the comment on the request, a simple update would be super helpful.

https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/330519-visual-stud...
> Why do people always reach for central control, when we have the ultimate mechanism of price control as a core part of our society (competition).

Because it will be plausibly working.
Of course, but the parents comment point was that not using Tor has even wider ramifications if you ever draw the ire of some large foe.
I would love adaptive cruise control for Seattle area traffic. What kind of car do you have?
Then why have driver training at all? As it stands a person could drive for 60 years without ever being instructed in changing rules of the road. This is independent of someone driving their car irresponsibly which should be punished more severely.
> I used to drive from Connecticut to Queens every single morning.

That doesn't seem like a bad drive. Try two hours from Western SF to the Golden Gate Bridge (roughly six miles).
This also comes to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlite
This is exactly the reason that "normal people" (not just celebrities and the super-wealthy) sign pre-nuptial agreements. As a lawyer will tell you, if you don't make those decisions with your partner, the state will make them for you, and you may not like how they are made.
Do you want a choke, too?
> Yeah, I don't at all understand this mentality that stick shift is a burden in stop and go traffic.

It's a burden if you're stuck in bad traffic, if you've got a heavy clutch, or if you're crawling up a hill. Worse if you've got more than one of those compounding factors.
Just marry someone who a) deals with their shit and b) doesn't drive you crazy.

If you're not sure your love interest is doing "a", find a mouthy asshole you trust and mention things about your relationship to them. If they don't convincingly criticize your love interest (or you) then you're probably ok to get married.

If you don't yet know what drives you crazy: stop. You are too young to get married.
re: "is it the tool or is it developers using it wrong" it's clearly the tool(s). It's like the JS scene can't leave well enough alone and must constantly reinvent everything, and anyone who preaches restraint is regarded as a luddite who "just doesn't get it."

I mostly blame the "JS thought leaders" i.e. people who should know better. They hype one tool after the next with little to no concept of the cost of obsolescence (having to throw out your 2 year old new web app), which is yet another major issue with JS hype. Then employers ask for the tool, then devs _have to_ learn the tool whether they want to or not if they want to match job descriptions. Everyone's afraid of "falling behind" and as a consequence everyone rushes headlong.

Ironically, given that this article is about DX, the JavaScript ecosystem has in recent years been regarded by many as an insane mess of infinite complexity, majorly frustrating many developers who have jobs besides just learning (or teaching) new frameworks. That is to say, I don't think these costs have even bought us good DX. They've bought a "lowest common denominator" environment where you can hire a new dev bootcamp grad to build your website and your app quickly and cheaply and agile-ly and quickly and cheaply and... did I say quickly? Nevermind the mess you'll spend years cleaning up.

Summary: JS (and beyond) thought leaders & framework authors are selling silver bullets and businesses just can't say no.
“(1) If you statically link against an LGPL'd library, you must also provide your application in an object (not necessarily source) format, so that a user has the opportunity to modify the library and relink the application.”

So for LGPL. As a commercial application developer I’m not sure I’d want to do that. I’d then have to field support requests for that object file.

Still, good to know.
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> planning with both of your current and future states in mind

This is what is so difficult about marriage. You sign up for a lifetime commitment, but no one plans their life 100% in advance. People change, desires change, realities change.
The worst part is nobody knows the real price. The posted prices are ceilings.

So the government pays, but each student pays a different rate.
My manual VW Golf would like to have a word with you.

I don't drive in stop-start traffic, so I don't know how well it would work, but my manual VW Golf MK VII has adaptive cruise control. If you need to shift up or down, you just do so and cruise control re-engages.

I'm pretty much always in 6th gear when I've got ACC enabled.
This is perhaps inarticulatedly stated, but the line really does paint the OP in a (IMO deservedly) bad light. Trying to gain a few status points with online strangers while complaining bitterly about your ex wife? Not very classy.
Extremely assuming they are done by good lawyers and that both parties are represented. (YMMV depending on jurisdiction, of course.)
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There is still technically an upper limit to "whatever you want" and that is the lifetime expected value of the education to the student. We recently seem to have started bumping into it as more people ask (publicly) "is it worth it at all?".

The direct consequence of the government guaranteeing the loan and making it undischargeable for life is to transfer the expected monetary value of the education away from the students and to the operators of colleges with a nice cut diverted to bankers along the way.

The students are reduced to being sharecroppers of their own minds, spending a lifetime working the education that someone else owns.
I don’t actually think climate change will kill off humanity.

I’m very optimistic about our ability to solve this and also think the sensationalism is out of control.

But even in that worse case the planet is far from dead.
So like a diesel, it may need a heater circuit.
> Driving a manual car isn't about efficiency.

It was about efficiency and cost for ages though. That's why manuals were popular and why they aren't popular in the US anymore. Modern automatics (dual clutch, CVTs, even computer controlled single clutch and plain old torque converter slushboxes) are so much more efficient now that manuals don't make as much sense as they used to.
> defined renewal periods

My preface is that that sounds like a really reasonable and prudent approach that combines all sorts of good ideas and principles. It has given me something new to think about.

The flip side is that children do change things quite significantly. My memory is we already exclude children from personally entering in to contract law because they don't really make good decisions; and in a messy marriage breakdown they could quite reasonably be expected to be caught in the crossfire. There are bound to be issues here that separate what is needed in family law from ordinary contract law.
Seattle's power, sewer, and water bills are all growing much higher than inflation; have been for at least a decade; and are going to continue at this pace for the foreseeable future.
Why should we get married in the first place?

And how do you clarify your values? Can you give some examples of what your values are?
I'm not sure I could identify my "core values" in a crowd -- where I feel lucky is in the "healthy discussions". My husband and I don't hit each other with too many of the Four Horsemen: https://www.gottman.com/blog/the-four-horsemen-recognizing-c...