skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The close reasons ("too broad" and the others) are good descriptions of the typical bad questions. Anything which doesn't fit into any of the dozen-odd close reasons is not typically a bad question.

This summer I waited on a lot of six- and even twelve-minute batch jobs, and I spent some of those on the SO moderation queue (I'm one of the 3000-karma users, not an elected moderator). It didn't take much more than six minutes to learn that picking the interesting questions out of the flood of manure is a terrible chore.

It would be nice if the intellectually interesting questions could be left alive. But I don't think it's humanly achievable. People will post their job interview quizzes and first-year CS exercises and say, oh, mentally stimulating and please do leave open.
I've enjoyed these:

http://www.amzi.com/AdventureInProlog/index.php

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog

And I'm currently working my way through this book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-prolog-second-edition (free PDF available)
One upvote is not from agreement, but from interest to see replies to your comment (which upvoting it makes more likely).

Personally, I do think the matter is complex. However, if you're trying to protect the current model by arguing that building a reputation costs money, you will not convince those who, quite reasonably, believe it should be earned by contributions to knowledge, instead.
Edit: I answered completely off base. Misunderstood the question. My hunch on the original question: Maybe some system only allow injected JS? Wordpress anyone? Not quite sure.

Yes, I learned it not so long ago in fact and I am a bit ashamed of it.

Try to save this into a HTML file:

<html>
<body>
<script>
let someJSON = {"hello": "</script><script>alert('powned')</script>"}
</script>

If you execute just the JavaScript in your browser console: perfectly fine, valid JS. Now open the HTML file in a browser: powned.

This the because the browser has a HTML parsing phase, and only after JS is executed.

When <script> is parsed, then the HTML parser is looking for the next </script>. It doesn't matter if the </script> happened to be inside the context of a JavaScript string. At this point the browser doesn't know about JS.
The well-articulated tension here is that perfect privacy is ungovernable but zero privacy is undesirable.
Ask HN: What's the salary range for senior software engineers in Berlin?
I'm doing some market research on salaries in Berlin, and they seem very low. A lot of the forum posts are from years ago, and I imagine that the salaries have become more competitive recently. From your experience, what's the range for senior engineers in Berlin?
I think the "harsh" comment was because you suggested you might recommend the journal reject a paper because it was outside your interests and expertise, not because of any lack of merit. But that implication only arose from some selective editing.
1. The problem is that most population is terribly poor at defining and managing risk, by biological design and social selection - those who are good at it are usually not the best neighbors you want to have.

2. In many businesses, the actual customers are not the end-users, whose data is leaked (all the nice free services you're getting over this invisible thing called internet), they are the merchandise business is selling to somebody else (ads, etc.).

3. There are two ways of coping with this:

3.1 darwinian, where stupid users who choose to hand their data to dumb businesses all jump off the cliff holding hands

3.2 paternalistic, where we elect somebody competent to make choices for the rest of the community, which would prevent people's poor judgment to both hand data to insecure businesses and for businesses to be insecure in the first place.

4. We tried darwinian one since the day 1 in many fields. Reverting it comes at cost (antibiotics would be one good example to think of).
OCaml for the Masses (2011)
This is not the experience I had when interviewing at my current employer (or any employer I’ve interviewed at!) and I didn’t go to college.
Just take a look at British Leyland to see what happens when the state gets involved in car manufacture.

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

The best option is to let uncompetitive businesses fail and concentrate on things the private sector can't do well.
It's weird how someone like this always pops up when someone complains about customer service.
Do the effects of two Nobel prizes compound? One data point says yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Sanger
I worked on a project that needed to implement regulations specified in legal documents. An analyst did work on reading hundreds of pages of legislation to extract UML diagram representing the objects and their relation sand also all constrains defined by the legislation. In this case, it was quite useful to have UML as an intermediary and not force developers to be jurist. The UML documentation was checked and validated by expert of the domain.
> "What about libertarianism were you guys talking about? Because the motivation around this coin is simply NOT libertarian.."

According to the wikipedia article on Libertarianism[0] there are actually two almost completely opposing definitions of "libertarianism", one they call "right libertarianism" (which sounds like it aligns with what the original article calls "anti-socialist"), and the other "left libertarianism". From what I've seen, when European literature uses the word "libertarian" it usually means "left libertarian" and when US literature uses the word it is more likely to mean "right libertarian". Given the same word has almost opposing definitions, it is usually safest to either define it very carefully when using it or avoid using the word at all.

BTW, in the context of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, from what I can tell, it was originally more on the "left libertarian" side with talk of benefits like "democratising money", but now is more on the "right libertarian" side. From the original article: "Taler’s design explicitly tries to block opportunities for tax evasion ... We need a state to do many vital jobs, including fund research, fund education, provide people with medical care ... provide justice, including to those who are not rich and powerful, and so the state’s got to bring in a lot of money."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
Using Calibre to Keep Your Digital Library in Order (Interview)
They didn't actually specify positive. It would be pretty easy to reduce IQ by 5+ standard deviations. Plenty of monogenic disorders cause learning disabilities, just gotta knock out those genes...
Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far – Mark's Blog (2005)
Investigating the noise residuals around the gravitational wave event GW150914
What is being counted?

Have I got this right?

In the UK it appears they're counting the deaths per billion miles that people walk.

In your BMJ article it appears they're counting deaths per billion miles that people drive.
In that case, the HTTP part would probably just be working against you. Fortunately, people are working on DNS over QUIC:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-huitema-quic-dnsoquic...
I was once doing some SEO work for a client and noticed something similar. Any URL that contained an apostrophe would return a completely blank page. I asked my manager if I could spend a little time investigating that as a security vulnerability that would have been out of scope for the project and within 45 minutes I had a working SQL injection proof of concept that would return credit card details from their order table.

1. They tried to prevent SQL injection attacks by stopping the page from loading instead of properly escaping data.

2. They failed to actually check if parameters had the forbidden characters they were looking for (they checked the URL, instead of the parameters after they were parsed so all it took was URL encoding an apostrophe)

3. They stored credit card details that they should have never recorded in the first place (including CVV code) rather than just storing the transaction ID from Authorize.net

4. They never bothered to archive old order data even though their ecommerce site didn't even have a customer login and they had absolutely no use for old orders after they were complete.

If you spot that kind of incompetence on something inconsequential from a small team, dollars to donuts they're making the same kind of mistakes with far more serious code. And due to the Dunning-Kruger effect, they're probably too incompetent to realize that they shouldn't be touching anything related to i.e. payment processing or authentication.
Reminds me of the story of a farmer asking if an engineer can help him identify sick ostriches on his farm. So to identify a sick ostrich, it doesn't eat anymore, so the engineer develops a tilt sensor that you strap to the ostriche's neck, and if it doesn't tilt enough times a day the ostrich didn't eat and a LED would light up red indicating the ostrich is sick and requires the farmers attention.

Now the problem is to separate the sick ostriches from the healthy ones. So the thinking is you connect the ostrich camp with a narrow passage to another camp, and put out food in the other camp and as the ostriches move to the new camp you capture and divert the sick ones.

Turns out that when you put out food in the new camp, only the healthy ostriches will move to the new camp and the sick ones will stay behind because they are in any case not interested in food.... which negates the need for engineer and his sensor in the first place :D
It seems to be a similar sort of addiction as Candy Crush. Hysteria is a kind of entertainment, always easily accessible.
A favourite fact of mine: Every point in the UK is more northerly than every point in the contiguous USA (i.e. excluding Alaska).

Take that and think about winter in Minnesota vs winter in England. The sea and the Gulf Stream provide a lot of warmth in winter!
Not forever. This all started with the death of Atari, which was commonly blamed on poor-quality 3rd-party games ruining their reputation with consumers.

I haven't looked into the history enough to judge whether this perception is accurate in hindsight. Like most things, I expect it's a lot messier than the popular narrative.
Building the Dremio Open Source Data-As-a-Service Platform (Interview)
I also like the word, "Klämrisk"...

(In German, there's the word "klemmen" = to tuck, get stuck, get trapped, get caught; presumably it's a cognate. So, the above presumably is a Swedish word for "the risk of getting stuck and squeezed".)
I agree, the solution is not a technical one, it's about money. If funding agencies require, as they should, day one free and open access, the problem will solve itself. Not without a good deal of temporary pain, but it will be solved. (I am an early career professor who has to worry about promotion - and am happy to bear the pain of such a transition.)
It’s funny to see Western standards here. There exist Eastern parents who will try to train their 2-year-olds to fly. That’s damned risky and an Indian tried it a couple of decades ago.
Ask HN: Best tool to find personal email address from linkedin?
There are many tools which can find users professional email ids of linkedin users like hunter.io.

But is there any tool which can find personal email id of a linkedin user?

lusha is good but its too expensive. any suggestions?
We finally reached Gattaca
He said that virtually all his traffic is organic search through Google. That means you are arguing with yourself here.
It's not hard to see that proving up failing businesses leads to inefficiency. Why bother making a more competitive product if you know the government will save you with bailouts or tariffs.
I've not seen it elsewhere in Europe. But makes sense if other countries do this as well.
There is no way of having charges "deducted from your account" with Bitcoin so there's no need for dispute or chargebacks.

The way cyrptocurrencies work, in order for there to be an interface that allows third parties from charging your account, you would need a smart-contract for counterfactual transactions instatiation.

Right now, I can't think of a "problem" that would require chargeback or dispute resolution and couldn't be solved this way.
His prize was :

> for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.

Including virus structure, such as tobacco mosaic virus:

http://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/109
I'm Dutch, not German. Typos happen. The Dutch mistake would have been to use only 1 f.
I seriously don't understand the majority reaction here, either. It's just a simple, friendly, open-ended question. If you don't want to answer it, who cares. It's amazing what some people feel offended by nowadays. I guess these people would rather others just ignore them, as if on a subway.
If the primary motivation anywhere was to alter driver behaviour, a points based penalty system is all it would take. Monetary fines in traffic infringements are entirely for revenue.

Anecdote time: a friend from one of the nation's major universities was involved in a road authority funded study to evaluate the safety impact of newly installed speed cameras at several intersections.

They found there was none. Said road authority pulled the plug and pretended like the study never existed after that.
On the one hand, hurray for them for trying to eliminate a couple of quite serious diseases.

On the other hand, we have very little clue what the long term effects of not having CCR5 will be for these children. Furthermore, do we really trust China to start messing with people's DNA? I could think up several uses for this that are downright dangerous in the hands of a country like China.

Some of them:

- Remove a key gene in a metabolic pathway which can be mitigated by dietary supplements, creating a biological dead man's switch in order to make it easier to control the population.

- Inserting a viral genome into the host genome (preferably also under some deadman's switch), creating in effect a biological weapon
How do you save the 2-3% processing fee? People will continue using their Visa / Mastercard credit cards so you'd have to persuade for profit businesses that do processing currently to use DAI and lose their income from fees. Not going to happen. You'd need to offer alternative payment method and somehow persuade people to switch.
One of the definitions of messiah is

>a professed or accepted leader of some hope or cause

Seems like an apt description of Stallman, and I'm guessing you were more aware of the Jewish king definition.
A community open free to the world license then. The exact license isn’t the point but that the research is not locked away behind a paywall but free to benefit society and not let a few pocket and profit from the research often done by public institutions like universities and such.
> for most people
I think it's really dependent on the individual. Also those 5 judges preside over a nation of only 250M people (1/23rd of the world population)
As an alternative, https://momondo.com works quite nicely for me most of the times.
I've IQ of 90 (taken it multiple times) which is considered below average on Standford Binnet test.

I didn't do good at school but i had many friends! I never felt i was less intelligent than my friends which make me question the IQ score thing.

My Dad has high IQ (135) and he's a mathematician.

So how did i inhert low IQ? My mom's score is average at best, 102.

I've sold 3 companies, i am married and I've managed to be quite wealthy.

You don't need to posses high intelligence to survive and reproduce in this world that's why it's not selected for.

We don't walk out of womb and given a puzzle to solve where if we fail, we are instantly killed.
Given the nature of the violation I think bankrupting them would have been perfectly warranted.
Do you think the current legacy model of journals and the peer review of articles isn't contributing to knowledge?
They can accept both forms of payment. They can simply add DAI as a form of payment accepted by their shop.
Examples of Low Budget Winners in Advertisement
In 2018 John Lewis (UK home store) spent £5.5M (~$7M) on their Christmas Ad featuring Elton John:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=mNbSgMEZ_Tw

Here is another one that has same emotional effect with production costs of £40 (~$50):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHX0btJYcyI

Any other obvious examples out there?
The problem it solves is that it enables two parties to exchange digital values automatically and without interference.

The problem manifests itself in full view in situations where citizens are asked to leave their money or possessions in a country before they are allowed to leave or in situations where the inflation rate makes surviving on a fiat currency next to impossible (ie: Venezuela).

In the western world, the problem of interference in your ability to do commerce with whoever you wish might be harder to detect but just recently SWIFT decided to enact the US government's capital controls on Iran for EU companies, despite the EU having declared they would stand by the agreement... For a EU based company or individual there is now very little chance to do legal commerce in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Myanmar and a few other countries because of the US's influence on the money markets.
No cutting corners cutting corners
well, then it means one understands "treatable" as "there's a treatmen for", it's different thatn "there's a cure for"...
Ideas for Google Analytics Custom Dimensions and Metrics
If you're not gaming the system there is very little risk.
WooCommerce Inventory Management System
I maintain that, for the UK at least, that banning male drivers under the age of 25, would save enough lives and money that the backlash would be worth it. Plus you'd probably get a big upswell in support for public transport initiatives.
Sounds like the real problem is that there's too much friction with schema migrations.
That would be really cool. I need to refactor a bit to allow different translations of the text, but I can get back to you when it is possible.
> it's someone taking one step to order the cars to stop. This would be fine if there was a "reasonable stopping rate" clause, but it doesn't sound like there is.

Rest assured, no car driver ever stops in this situation unless the pedestrian is at a zebra crossing.
Looking forward to use it on Android :P
The genome is the ultimate legacy code:

- it's been written for billions of years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis#Earliest_biologica...)

- without any sort of upfront architecture or planning

- the development methodology can be summarized as "change characters randomly and see if it compiles"

- incredibly bloated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-coding_DNA)

- contains random snippets copy/pasted from other codebases (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_viral_element)

- the only success criteria is that the "program" shouldn't "crash" before it can make a copy of itself
It solves the problem of not having to rely on a central bank to maintain the value of currency. It may seem unnecessary in the US, but pretty damn useful in countries like Zimbabwe where the privilege to print money has been abused. The opposite problem of deflation (a la Japan) seems more likely to hit the US. As population declines (and with it the demand for housing), it'll become necessary to destroy money with negative interest rates to reach the target inflation, boost investment, and check unemployment. But that's damn difficult with currency notes. And there'll be political opposition to any effort to target higher inflation or fiscal policy that has the government borrowing and spending more. The behaviour of UK and EZ governments and their austerity policies (especially towards Greece) do not inspire much confidence. An alternative currency might start looking attractive when that happens. Bitcoin is even more deflationary and won't help. But some other cryptocurrency could.

It's also a matter of principle. There are some who don't like the idea of central bank monopoly. A competing currency could be beneficial even if the only thing it accomplishes is keeping central bankers more vigilant and honest.
You're right - it's "fatalities per billion miles walked" vs "fatalities per billion miles driven".
To me it was quite apparent that he referred to produce quality and quality of ingredients/too much sugar in various products.
Integer overflow.
IQ is positively correlated with physical and mental health, height and longevity. We have strong evidence for all of those. Given it’s generally positive effects and the fact that we have copious examples of high IQ success stories this result seems unlikely to hold up.

IQ predicts health and longevity.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0963-7214.200...

Intelligence Predicts Health and Longevity, but Why?
Linda S. Gottfredson1, Ian J. Deary

Low iq is a risk factor for several mental health disorders.

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/appi.ajp.20...

> Results: Lower childhood IQ was associated with increased risk of developing schizophrenia spectrum disorder, adult depression, and adult anxiety. Lower childhood IQ was also associated with greater comorbidity and with persistence of depression; the association with persistence of generalized anxiety disorder was nearly significant. Higher childhood IQ predicted increased risk of adult mania.

Childhood IQ and adult mental disorders: a test of the cognitive reserve hypothesis

Karestan C Koenen
Writing a small module in 2018
I think it would make a lot of sense for countries to have laws stating that the results of publicly funded research must be publicly available. It's bizarre to allow a profit-driven business to monopolise and exploit it without paying for it.
That sounds simple when you say it but persuading merchants adding new exotic payment methods is a tall order. Do they need to buy a new device for processing DAI payments? That is extra expense they don't want. It would depend heavily on how the integration is done.

Do you need to train their stuff how to accept new payment method? Also now they are holding money in multiple places (bank account for normal payments, some wallet for DAI) so this introduces another overhead for them to handle.

How many people will pay with DAI? Will it be more than 0.01% of customers? Because there are almost no people who own DAI (nobody outside of crypto bubble), so you have problem on customer side. And why would merchant go through the trouble of supporting new payment method when it will be only used by a minuscule number of people (there are merchants that tried supporting Bitcoin payments and it turned out they had like 1-2 people paying in BTC in months so they don't bother anymore.)

I don't see it happening personally unless it can be done in a completely seamless way (for both merchants and customers) and I don't think that's the case. Existing payment methods are too entrenched and very convenient. People actually like using credit cards / Apple Pay etc. It's easy and user friendly.

The few places that accepted Bitcoin payments back in the day when it was trendy, it looked really weird and inefficient, people scanning QR codes, having to use special mobile apps to handle the payment instead of POS merchant already has and knows how to use. Seemed kind of pointless.
While that is true, it is also true that it's much easier to remain on a sustainable amount of calories if you're eating better, more filling food that's not just empty calories.
So basically a quad CPU + motherboard for $1000. IBM doesn't seem confident enough in the performance of the power 9 to publish standard benchmarks like CPU2017.

So if you want something with published scores on a wide variety of benchmarks that are included in CPU2017 get an Epyc or a Xeon.