skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to do that as well. One day I came back to my jeep and the club was stolen but not the jeep. Wasn't sure what to make of that but laugh. Never bothered getting another one.
Thanks for the link!

The Community Details: Edits of Mythbusters episodes (all the fluff removed)

They probably get minified ratios that make js devs jealous.
> the ultimate ‘last line of defense’ will be users who are willing to question ‘what they see and hear’

Nobody cares because they're more interested in their team winning, by whatever means necessary, than being charitable.

> who recently stepped down from his role as Chief Security Officer

... But couldn't make that argument or be effective in that capacity while employed. That is why we need something like codetermination - so that, completely internally, workers can have influence on what to produce, how to produce, and where to produce it.
It's not about being excellent or not, or if he can implement something that technically works.

He or any other excellent guy don't have an idea how the implementation he designs works in multiple workloads and different machines and disk drives. There will be time period of several years of adjusting and tinkering and compromising.
I've posted about this before, but years ago I made a blog about completing the application and exams to obtain a professional engineering license in my jurisdiction. It is just a WordPress blog. Over a year or two, it started getting organic traffic since it provided information in an underserved niche.

After making next to nothing with Google ads, I was approached by another site that sold help packages for the licensing process and we struck up an affiliate deal. It didn't work right away and had to build up, but nowadays it generates anywhere from $200 to $800 per month in completely passive revenue (haven't written a new post in years). The revenue has been growing too. It will have done about $5k in 2018.
The author, viznut, is an olskool demoscener and specifically interested in extreme low-end and vintage computing.
It was very frustrating at times, I cannot lie... It's my favorite editor though, so I just HAD to do it. Now I have to compile all of the plugins I use.
Thanks. I noticed that but tbth I was lazy to fix it as I needed to work on other things. But it will be fixed.
It's hard to come up with good policy around this outside of educating people.
Each book is passive income. I'd consider a prolific author as someone that makes a series of passive income intellectual properties.
> If this is Orwellian then every western country is already miles ahead of them.

Yes, this is actually how some western countries look like from the outside. Awfully unfree surveillance police countries where people believe they are the most free.
If you are a VC and one of your investments is doing this then next time why wouldn’t your investors cut out the middleman (i.e. you) and go straight to them?
This is exactly why I prefer Notepad++, it's resource efficient, it doesn't matter where you run it on. Even on the Raspberry Pi the performance is quite decent.
About 6 months and it was tough!

2 months of that (part time) was the initial build and the rest was hustling to get initial users. GitHub wouldn't put it in the GitHub Marketplace (which drives pretty much all signups now - I don't do any marketing or sales) until it had 250 users and it was a struggle getting the word out to that many people. In the end I did it by commenting on relevant open source PRs on GitHub asking if they'd be up for giving it a try (being really careful not to be spammy).
> While you are in busy, you want to learn or create something new. But, not when you have free time. It's always happened to me.

The book is almost entirely about this feeling it calls Resistance.
Uncertanty is the time for the best buying opportunities.
Economic privileged? You mean where you are as far as your parents financial decision making and work ethic.
Barebones multiboot kernel
I built https://hnrecommends.com a little while ago. It's the start of a curated list of Hacker News recommendations. I'm adding recommendations and products daily.

It's made a few dollars from affiliate links so far.
The real problem is the part of the quote you left out, "even when it means questioning our own beliefs.” I don't meet many people these days who are willing to do that, and I suspect that a scary percentage of them aren't capable of questioning their own beliefs.
The GP comment is much more about the financial model of the business than what we might mean from regular language. For instance, I'm an advertiser, Google and FB for me are just another publisher like CBS or ESPN and clients like us pay most of their their bills - whatever their "industry" status and we're basically buying and space.

On the other hand, we buy tens of thousands of licenses from Microsoft to use their software and clients like me also pay most of their bills and we're clearly buying tech from them.
If the mere fact that you wrote something in a specific language makes you a "craftperson" or an "artisan", I don't want to be part of this industry anymore. The language is a tool, means to an end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI

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>> Everything happened for a reason, and that reason was usually hidden under multiple layers—for staff, customers, or me. I found I became motivated by avoiding reaction, and instead seeing that there was already a motivation behind every interaction, like boredom, anger, and ambivalence. Understanding these individual motivations provided clarity as to what needed to change to maximize team motivation.

At the risk of over generalizing it sounds like you learned to empathize. Sounds like you found that to be a key to success!
I have an App on the PlayStore which generates around 400$ per month on average, liveable money when you're from India
Imagine being able to play these games on ARM without emulation? This is also one of my goals, but as stated in the article, the effort to port them without source code is substantial.
Is anybody doing "Parrot Secrets" type eBooks? And if you have and are reading this, what have been your best selling books?

Referencing this sort of thing: http://www.parrotsecrets.com/

An explainer: https://www.cringely.com/2009/03/14/parrot-secrets/
This is one of the reasons I love the newer C# string interpolation feature. No more frigging string.Format() strings with positional arguments.
What a load of rubbish, Google and Amazon just announced in the past few months they are investing, they all know Brexit or no Brexit the UK is a highly desirable place for business.
That’s insightful.
There are companies that you can outsource the entire development to. They will do the project management, find the developers with right skillset, etc.
Isn't it possible to do a static translation of the machine code to ARM, and run native?
Remember to use the youtube.com version instead of the youtu.be version.
Whenever I read things like this I grow sad that this generation threw out all their computers and traded them in for smartphones, which aren’t really computing at all in my opinion. They are more like watching tv, something we already did too much of.
I was curious how "never lose data" works given that HDDs do not provide infinite capacity: the log is circular. This makes NILFS good for NAND flash.

The continuous per-fwrite snapshotting functionality sounds awesome - I've had a few (minor but annoying) accidents with rm of late, so I'd definitely appreciate an rm-proof undelete.

I was trying to figure out if NILFS had any sort of COW functionality, then realized, d'oh, of course it effectively does, via the log.

To address the elephant in the room - checksumming - unfortunately NILFS doesn't (yet?) do this. The WP article links to https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nilfs/msg01063.html, which states that the CRC32Cs that are written to disk are used only for the remount/recovery stage, and are apparently not suitable for realtime verification.
Listed a paid vm on azure,aws and gcp . The VM has all the required setup for learning Etherem and Truffle. Created video tutorials alongside to help use the VM.
I have made around $1500 so far in 6 months and still counting.

http://techlatest.net/products/products/

http://techlatest.net/support/ethereum/
This is true for most topics the legacy media (print and broadcast) produces.
When I was about 16 I collated a load of information on looking after your bearded dragon and sold the eBook on eBay - maybe made around £150 overall. I was chuffed at the time.
Being educated does not shield you from misinformation, unfortunately. I fact I wouldn't be surprised that the well educated is part of the problem when they get into politics because they abstract things and start to think too much in statistics and lose a feeling for what it means to be most people in this world. The end up creating their own misinformation filter.

The current political climate has no shortage of well-educated people on both sides who have been doing more damage than good the last 40 years.
I think the point this atricle is trying to make is that WhatsApp and the Facebook app share the same shared container, meaning Facebook has access to that unencrypted database. So WhatsApp may be fine, but the Facebook app can access your plaintext conversations anytime too
I wasn’t alive then but always has the impression that “home computers” like those described were much more popular in Europe and Japan while PCs became the dominant platform in the US. Is this why?
>> lack of political clarity makes it very difficult to determine asset price movements

Q: Would "political clarity" determine asset price movements?
Sure, you can take a gamble and win. But you can also lose big. History shows that, lacking a crystal ball, you're more likely to lose than win.

So there's an opportunity for some investors to win big but most of them will lose. And even the ones that win will likely lose out on their next gamble. Such is the way of unstable markets.
Just watched, great motivational content, thank you for sharing! Cake example was really weird and still making me think.

I dont struggle as I used to since I've learned it is about environment we are in (meaning as in video) and tomorrow is uncertain (because many people are involved)
Maybe we should, though? Because calling companies by "it's main competitive advantage" leads to unending confusion.

The rule of thumb seems to be: most companies don't give a shit about the actual product or service they provide. It's only a means to an end (profit), and if replacing their current product line with toilet paper would make them more profitable, they'd do it in a heartbeat. This means you can't really look at the product - or the promises made by sales&marketing about the value it provides - as a way to understand what the company will do. Their monetization scheme, however, makes it easier to predict future decision.
Tilix – advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator
There's no other! An efficient, feature rich, usable product.
If we assume that voters are unable to deal with misinformation then we have already given up on democracy. The next logical step is to decide how to blunt the will of the misinformed voter.
Very cool service, might try this out!
For developers who want to tinker, they can use different means to discover projects. I don't need to see the language or tech name in the file every time I use it just so developers can discover it.

To me it signals lack of creativity. The problem of these projects seems to me that they have no reason to exist (beyond playground for the developer) other than "a tool written in that language". For example, here, awk already exists. Why would someone use GoAWK other than to indulge their love for Go? These are the cases that bother me the most; pushing a language or a tech to give your project validation because it has little as a standalone.
Your logo is beautiful
Fundamental attribution error. It is not good to assume a mental defect on vast swaths of the population. That itself is attributing an irrational motive for their actions before considering if there may be a rational one. That is itself is the definition of uncharity. (But in a different capacity that what I outlined above)

Again, consider that many of these folks are doing so from a rational choice, which is to defeat the other side - they understand it to be a zero-sum contest. You can either win or lose, your choice.
Ask HN: Unicorn IPO success stories
What unicorns have gone public and are solidly profitable and have rising stock price since IPO?
> Yes, very much. I prefer Go and Rust utilities now whenever I can find them over an equally good alternative.

That's irrational. What difference does it make what language the utility is written in, if it works as expected?
Ask HN: Unicorn IPO success
What unicorns have gone public and are solidly profitable and have rising stock price since IPO?
The Orange Papers are a good source for why AA is a great breeding ground for this sort of insanity.

http://aorange1.tripod.com
Quite possible. In the article I mention that a Lithuanian hacker by the name of notaz statically recompiled StarCraft, Diablo 1 & 2. But it's a huge effort, of course. Even better would be to (partially) decompile to, say, C for better performance.
Your pricing seems way too cheap for the value you're delivering.
Annual Apple Mac sales are about the same as the whole of their Apple II production.
There are two types of computing today (2019) - producing and consuming.

I can't cite the correct reference, but it's something along the lines that when the masses do more of one thing than the other, something will suffer bad.
They just don't use Raid 5/6
> Type Safety (?) [Used as a reason for current popularity]

This is odd, specially coming from GitHub. Not only does static typing not always guarantee type safety nor dynamic typing always ensures a lack of it (python, for instance, is strongly typed) but both of them have existed for over fifty years.
I was staying at a yoga retreat in Cambodia back in 2015. Meditation was done twice a day for 30+ minutes. I was familiar with meditation for a number of year's already, but a lot of the attendees were "first timers".

Not every day, but on some days we would share our experiences with the group after the meditation was over.

One of the women who had never meditated before, had the biggest smile on her face and goes, "Meditation is amazing! I managed to plan my next three vacations." -- this is a word for word quote.

Is it amusing? Yes, very! Is it meditation? Not at all.

Try to hold focus on an imaginary object during meditation. It's honestly not that simple.
I convinced my wife to marry me. She was very pessimistic, thinking that I would leave her. It took six months to get a positive response to my proposal and another year of reassurance before we married. We have been married 41 years. The courtship was helpful experience for the marriage.
As I anticipated, it's hard to relate to somebody living in a profoundly corrupt society. My gripe with the university was not that it was exploiting postdocs or killing the environment; rather, that it failed to setup and enforce a system of rules where my extant academic ethics mattered.

The social contract includes not just what's written or implied, it's also what people do in practice, what is acceptable. If cheating is acceptable and required to get a tech job, then I can do that, in fact I can do it better than most. That says very little about my profound sense of ethics.

To counter your analogy: what if you are indicted of a crime you did not commit in North Korea? You surely accepted their rules when entering the country, but would you trust their judicial system to do the right thing? Would you bribe your way out if you were given the chance? Would you ask your country to put diplomatic pressure on your behalf, a clearly unethical advantage no Korean has? Would you consider escaping from prison if wrongfully convicted?

In a narrow definition of ethics as "whatever the current rules are" (typical, I would say, for somebody living their whole life in a state with strong rule of law), the only ethical behavior is to subject yourself to whatever abuse NK decides for you.
When a database transaction fails, it rolls back to the state before the transaction. Exceptions ought to work like this too. Then you wouldn’t have to think about all the places an exception could be thrown. A try-catch block would either completely succeed, following the well-tested success path, or completely fail, leaving the program in its original state.
And the work to get the money in the first place of course
It's not just uncertain. The prospect of no-deal means an economic apocalypse in just over 4 months' time is a serious possibility.
Can you cite any commits for any open source software where a back door was attempted to be introduced & code review found it pre-emptively?

The reason I ask is that this is an oft repeated claim about open source by developers yet when I talk to security people they don’t seem to care about open source nearly as much. To them inspecting binaries is table stakes anyway.

Meanwhile people write backdoors that aren’t obvious for fun. http://underhanded-c.org/
Written in PL/1, Interdata 7/32 assembly language, and Lisp for the MagicSix operating system at the MIT Architecture Machine group.
> If we assume that voters are unable to deal with misinformation then we have already given up on democracy

That’s like saying we have to give up on capitalism because people can commit fraud. Targeted electoral misinformation is a fixable problem.
> We actually have no idea what that means experientially

Well one could start by reading what some of those meditators have written. The behavioral correlate of the half second of gamma seems consistent with the notion of “rigpa”, where one practices direct experience without trying to get carried away in the thought process.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigpa
> The history of the personal computer business, brief as it is, has shown that the successful machines are the ones that have the most and best software available for them. It has also shown that no single company can write all the software itself. It must take advantage of the cottage industry of programmers.
China Rules – The Land That Failed to Fail
A lot of very smart, very educated people are creating and spreading this misinformation intentionally or unintentionally.
I had an interview at a relatively secure place. Premises are walled and gated, the first thing you come to is a checkpoint with armed guards and security cameras. If you don't have an access card or your access card isn't permitted in the area you're going to, you don't go in without escort. And that escort must have been agreed to in advance; the security team must have a document about your planned trip. Of course they check your id before calling the escort. People don't do work on internet connected computers; if you need to browse, there's a separate computer for that. That's about as much I'm comfortable revealing.. it goes deeper :)

I guess it's a place where "getting work done" doesn't involve downloading 1000 deps with npm and what have you from random sources on the internet.
I moved to Sheffield for University and then stayed for a couple years after for work. Have actually ended up in Leicester recently to live with my girlfriend. My job is quite forgiving in terms of location as I'm on the road quite often, or can work from home!
Yep, I'm surprised how quickly we phase out perfectly healthy machines, just because the software quality keeps getting lower and lower. It's not good for the climate, among other things. I appreciate how zealous the Notepad++ developers are about performance and efficiency.
Depends on what you mean by democracy. Suppose you get 100% voter participation through free and fair elections. Are you still sure that fails the definition of democracy? How hard is it to make that case?

What if the voters choose an outcome you just don't happen to like? Is that all of a sudden undemocratic?
> Google and Amazon just announced in the past few months they are investing [in the UK]

Source?
Pull up a map of Greater London, and look at Biggin Hill (very south part of the map). There's no train or tube out here, and the bus routes basically run North and South requiring at least a change to get anywhere useful. We are INSIDE London, and part of a London Borough, having a car here is almostly mandatory if you actually want to get anywhere in a timely manner, or if you work in central London. It 's ridiculous as we're only 20ish miles from Westminster as the crow flies.
Ask HN: What is one mistake you learned most from?
...so that we all can learn from each others mistakes. I'll go first:

There was a time in my life where I was really unhappy with myself and my surroundings. And I projected that self-loathing onto others, being angry and cold to the people around me. Which in turn made things worse.

Then one day I happened to talk to a teacher of mine and he just randomly mentioned that so much hate in this world comes from not accepting oneself and fight that inner conflict on the outside with the wrong opponent (namely, other people, instead of yourself).

This really changed my perspective and I started to change my behaviour according to what I liked doing and hanging around with people I liked. Accepting that I do enjoy certain geeky things that in my old surroundings were frowned upon. This may sound very easy to do, but it takes strength.

I guess what I am trying to say is that it is ok and good to listen to yourself and not others on how you should be and what you should like.
You know this already, but smartphones are just computers that are small and portable. That's the only difference. Many of the operating systems are similar or based on those you'd use on a desktop or laptop computer. There's a large amount of software available on both mobile and traditional computer operating systems.

TV is non-interactive, smartphones allow a great deal of interactivity.

Besides, I don't think watching a fair amount of TV is a bad thing in the first place. It's a creative medium, you're consuming art (okay, maybe a lot of it isn't very good, but it's art nonetheless).

I think you might just be nostalgic.
Why wouldn’t you want errors kicked down the call stack? There are only two types of exceptions in the grand scheme of things.

1. Things go wrong that are out of your control - network down, database down, etc.

2. Coding mistakes. Either in your code or input arguments.

In either case, why not let the end user decide how to handle the error? Sometimes it’s some type of retry pattern, others it just to have a big try catch block that logs the fatal error and alerts someone.
It's interesting how many of the lead Brexiters have such strong connections to financial services. I do wonder sometimes if the whole thing is a play on the markets because I haven't seen any cogent explanation for why Brexit is a good idea yet. What exactly are they going to do with the things they have taken back control of that is better than how these things are currently run?
Transition and Triumph: A Transgender Scientist’s Story
Also the best time to sell crap at a cut rate to lose the liabilities.
Public Holidays API
Self-publishing my first book https://www.theangulartutorial.org/
Asking as a layman unfamiliar with security jargon, do you mean to say that if I ever log in on Whatsapp's web interface, even once, then my Whatsapp app and the messages are backdoored?
The whole damn thing.
Terminology quibble: My understanding is that "genetic programming" refers not to all evolutionary algorithms, but specifically to those where the code itself (rather than "a few key parameters") is evolved. This doesn't seem to use or implement 'eval' anywhere which I think immediately disqualifies it from meeting that definition.
No, that's not what the sentence says