skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think theres an interesting and generally applicable point to this discussion concerning the choice between optimizing chances to win by choosing a "boring" option, as opposed to choosing a more "exciting" option with a smaller chance to win. Obviously there is some value in "excitement" and more of it would always be preferable, but when facing a choice between excitement and competitiveness, sports has to be about winning above all. For instance a showboating NBA-player sacrifizing effectiveness for flashy moves will and needs to be scolded by coach, fans and media. Otherwise, whats the point. Theres a reason nobody watches practice sessions and pre-season games aren't exciting even though you would probably see more flashy moves and wow-factor there than in competitive games. The players aren't playing as if their lives depended on it and it doesn't really matter what the result is. If you want exciting chess, I'm sure theres plenty of excentric flashy chess players in lower levels. It's just not as exciting to watch as the highest, most competitive level. And competitiveness must never be compromised. Even in a theoretical scenario where you may up your "excitement" factor by 10 by sacrifizing just 1% of your chances to win, the competitiveness must win. If Carlsen had played the final game down to the wire, commentators should question whether that was the optimal route to win and it would and should be considered a mistake if common census was that the choice reduced his chances. It's a very valid discussion whether the rules of the game should be redesigned to avoid this choice, but the players must focus solely on winning within the boundaries of the given rules.

I'm not neglecting that theres value in providing excitement, and the most celebrated players are the ones who manage to provide excitement, without sacrifizing competitiveness (or at least keeping the audiences' illusion that the competivivenss is not sacrifized alive). But sports has to be about winning, and competitiveness must never be compromised. Just the same as business has to be about creating value (however measured, monetary or humanitarian) and code has to be about effective solutions to worthwile endeavours. In business, the equivalent may be Elon Musk failing with Tesla while being "exciting" as opposed to Jeff Bezos churning away with Amazon and "winning" while being boring. In this case I would see it as pretty obvious that Elon Musk would be disgraced and Jeff Bezos celebrated. And of course, the player who both provides exctimenent and wins is the most celebrated of all (as Elon Musk appears to be right now with Tesla seeming succeeding).
That only makes sense if you stop putting morons in charge, though.
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So if I understand correctly, this was found by scanning the Alexa top 1M for exposed .git directories. It's based on research from 2015 where the authors... scanned the Alexa top 1M for exposed .git directories.

Anyone want to hazard a guess at whether anyone else between 2015 and 2018 also thought to run the same experiment with the same parameters and thus also downloaded ebay.co.jp's production database passwords and Wordpress admin credentials?

Of course, that would only be a concern if the master hacker in question decided eBay Japan's backend data was more valuable than having their name on a website that says "good job thanks".
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I had been Soloprenuer for a long time and built a good business over past few years. Now I have a small full-time team of 3 working for me. I worked and mastered lot of technical & business related things not by choice, but compulsion. I had no choice but keep moving forward. I always wanted someone to be available to help with me for lot of technical stuff to speed up my growth.

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I don't think it's fair to say 'because of war'.

Many if not all of those could have been discovered in any other circumstances, or equivalents would have been found. I mean that anything we find useful now could have been discovered for their sheer usefulness. War accelerated the process, and prioritised some kind of discoveries, but it's not a source of discovery in itself.
how is that extortion? Extortion needs a threat for non-compliance. Offering to sell a company information with no consequences for rejection is an invitation to trade.
I don't think either of these are directly used in combat situations.

Personally I feel there's a difference between using hard/software for planning and logistics, and directly in combat - I know it might not be logical, but ethics rarely is.
At the same time, it's just the source-code for a WordPress (which is already public).
None of this address the original point I was making, in that US wars in the last few decades have not made Americans safer. Or anyone else for that matter.

The fact that people might now be clamouring to have them back after they left a power vaccuum to act as blocker on warlords and religious zealots fighting for control doesn't change that fact.

> nything else is just a naive world view. I was like that when I was in my early 20s, then I grew up and realized how complex the world really is.

Implying that I'm immature because I disagree with you doesn't make you look as good as you think.
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That’s the first thing I noticed too. Not that it truly matters, but it makes me wonder if the creator actually played the NES.
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I’d quite like a guide for that. I imagine making something in as small a space as possible is even harder then most common design trends to pull off.
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You must be living off ramen then.
I’ll take a stab at it: Defensive Underground Missile Bunker Sites, or something to that effect.
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That ebayisapi.dll was 3.3 million lines of code. Currently it is only still in the URL for SEO/backwards compatibility reasons, all of their main frontend code is Java based (V3/V4)
The teachers can do it voluntarily and for their own eyes, without making it an evaluation form.
Fusion in ships is a ridiculous idea. Fission has much better power density, and volume in ships is limited.
True. Maybe it's a general property of infrastructure-as-code code.
I'd say if it's a country-specific thing with domain terms that one would need to learn and know anyway to do the work, even if the programmer was foreigner... then keep those terms without translation. It will be less confusing.
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I designed We Tell Stories for Penguin back in 2008, at Six to Start. It won Best of Show at SXSW in 2009:

https://www.sixtostart.com/we-tell-stories/

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

It told stories through Google Maps, blogs, real-time writing, and infographics. Sadly the website was ordered to be removed by Penguin, despite the fact we offered to continue hosting it for free ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also Smokescreen for Channel 4, which won Best Game at SXSW in 2010:

https://www.sixtostart.com/smokescreen/

This had gameplay and stories told via analogues of Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. All done in HTML - no Flash! Again, this was taken down by Channel 4, like tears in the rain etc etc.
During the Second World War, the English air force was in a bad situation because the Germans were too effective in destroying military factories and defending their own. Churchill then decided to bomb German cities. The Germans did the same in London, which allowed the British to rebuild their aviation. That is what my history teacher, who was a student at the time of these events, told me.
Then shouldn't you start a short nerd ERG instead of a white male ERG?
I just applied via a recruiter for a position as a director for software development.

He told me the HR lady would like to see my abitur certification (sth like a high school diploma) ... I am 34 years old for christ's sake. I seriously considered not applying. Ah - and according to the recruiter an asset of mine is not being older than 40 - what?

In short - a lot of HR people are causing serious damage to companies and the industry in my opinion.
not UK though
"Fun fact" this doesn't happen to some of the UKs crown dependencies like: the Isle of Man or Channel Islands

(though they're allegedly leaving so it won't matter too much anymore)
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Because they (or, at least, the ones being discussed) have no covalent chemical bonds or other static arrangements of atoms that can be disrupted. The ions are all just single atoms with more or fewer electrons than the neutral versions of those elements. The atoms can be ionized by radiation, but the resulting weird oxidation states just fall back to chemical equilibrium as the electrons redistribute.
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Those studies are extremely poor and do not adequately control for variables that could easily be causing the effects or are covariant at the very least.

In other words, these are your run-of-the-mill sociology/psychology papers.
IMO, the ease of credit has led to lots and lots of consolidation and companies getting into markets where they don't belong. This has indirectly led to big companies getting bigger and even bigger and "competition slowly dying".

But, I think this is temporary. As and when credit tightening starts to happen, and it will with time, many of the companies will be hard pressed to pay what they are owed. And with time companies will start to restructure their businesses back to where things were.
What if you work at a cyber security company could you not send an email saying you found a couple of security issues on their site and offer your services? Where is the line here?

If I find a security issue with someones site why do I have any obligation to tell them?
Voice is in a way the easy case, because we know the antidote. Constant Bitrate (CBR) mode of an audio codec consumes the same amount of bandwidth regardless of what is transmitted, which is inefficient but secure. As I understand it Signal's voice chat is Opus in CBR mode.

Other scenarios are trickier and may need custom work. For example Encrypted SNI currently requires a host to pick a maximum name length, the encrypted name may be any of those names configured on the host, and is padded to that length so that an adversary can't guess which name from the length.

Because we don't have a general solution, TLS 1.3 defines an zero overhead optional padding, you can add extra bytes of padding to any TLS message but neither TLS itself, nor the HTTPS binding defines a "good" way to use this padding to shield users from analysis of content based on size because there is no general solution known.
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This works well but is subject to the same initial issues that pair programming has - it feels weird, you feel watched, and it is just uncomfortable.

Eventually you get used to it and some even prefer it - I know I really get a lot out of pair programming with someone close to me in skill but with a much different background - but getting over that first hump is tough.
I thought it had five main engines, four with six chambers and the fifth with eight?
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There is no chance that you do massive surveillance in a microkernel. There might be running an app on the top of the kernel that does that sure, and yes we cannot trust google with mobile OS like Android but I think developing a microkernel is fine.
But in order to train something you have to have the input of what is actually there, I don’t see how that is provided here.
Zero downtime in 10 years - sounds impressive.

What is your system doing if you don't mind the question?
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> this safety doesn't even cost more; it's actually cheaper than the alternative when you net out all the costs.

You can't just drop an argument destroying bomb like this with no citation
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I haven't, but.. commenting on the comments only

If it was possible to objectively determine teacher quality, student evaluation probably would not exist in the first place. The reason we ask people's opinion is in order to quantify the subjective. Double edged sword, because we tend to conflate quantified & objective.

That's half the theme here. erm.. people's opinions are subjective..

Part of the problem with "student-as-consumer" is that students aren't always the real consumer.
Yeah, this guy actually PHPs, in contrast to most of the "php is so stupid" people
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> It's understandable why anyone who isn't specifically specialized in this fucks it up. The documentation is arcane, redundant and lots of it is inapplicable.

I fully agree on the first sentence. For the last < 2 years, I was really fortunate to work on a project which is required by law to comply with WCAG 2.0. I've learned a lot, so I'm trying to share my lessons learned whenever I can. From my point of view, I cannot fully agree with your second sentence. If you know the basic WCAG and ARIA principles, the WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices is a highly useful and clear resource for implementing custom components. However, using this document without any prior experience will lead to the rabbit hole you described. We can definitely do better here, and fortunately accessibility has been gaining traction in the last few years.
Maybe they are in a metastable state, they are not forced to compete and no one is losing market share?
It's beyond me why they don't reward such guy even if they don't have any bounty program in place. 10-100K is pennies to them. It just seems more economic to pay white hats than to deal with effects of black hats actions.

But maybe I'm wrong and in the real world there is not much penalty for exposing data of thousands or millions of users..
Big companies usually already have their enterprise customized image of the OS, when they buy hardware, they are interested only in the hardware.
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Also, if you do a job that is defined in law (doctor, architect, journalist, etc), the bureaucracy might actually stop you from working until you’ve jumped several hoops - exams, payments, years of practice, and so on.
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What has communism got to do with any of this?
RSS feeds are linked in meta tags. You simply point it at the frontpage (or blog) of the site and it'll find it. There doesn't need to be a visible RSS button on the page.
The guide should then specify some common instances where arguments may be flipped.
Sorry no, it doesn't work like that. In either case.

Doctors, like professors, are evaluated by former patients based on a mix of factors.

In your doctor example, doctors don't "solve problems". They see patients. Many times these patients present with conflicting and hard-to-resolve symptoms. I imagine with the internet this has gotten worse. They use a mix of Occam's Razor, deductive reasoning, and social psychology for the patient's long-term health.

You don't want a doctor that finds the answers to complex problems and gives out morphine. You want a doctor that over decades has patients with the best outcomes. In my example, the one doctor may have ticked you off so much you decide never to go back -- and quit smoking just to prove her wrong. That's a win for both you and the doc, although there's no problem being solved.

You can speculate various ways to go at this. Perhaps the doctor is evaluated by other doctors working at that location. Or perhaps it's a matrix of various things. As long as you're just pulling stuff out of the air, you can invent any kind of system you'd like. And tech will deliver it for you.

Human interventions are messy affairs, and thank goodness for that. We are not robots. Your proposal might do a great job of sorting out professors who teach students well enough to take the test, but heck if I see where that is the end of the analysis. That's just the beginning. We're just getting started talking about professors who can lead a class to mostly pass a test. That should be a baseline for any professor.

This is the problem we see in software development. You can come up with all sorts of metrics to stand in place of evaluating whether a team/person is good or not, but whatever you come up with mostly seem to work -- and has very bad effects on those being measured. (With the possible exception of business-value-loop feedback time)

I don't think this is tractable in the way you seem to want it. If I were picking a college or professor, I might look at five or six variables and weigh them in various ways depending on my personal needs and goals at the time -- which might change tomorrow. I might want to go interview them. Meet some current and former students.

There is a severe and onerous "platform danger" in tech. It starts with the conceit that we can build platforms for anything. It ends up with people not-as-smart-as-they-used-to-be having Google tell them where to go for dinner. Or Wally in Dilbert coding himself up a minivan. [0]

I'm not saying the metric definitions and accumulations aren't interesting. They deserve to be considered. I'm saying that by reducing human judgment to single vector, it makes us as a species dumber. That's one of those intuitive things that sound good but are in reality quite bad.

0. https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13
It helps if you're tired. I'm not sure if it helps with focus or if most people just have dismal sleep quality.
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Not everything needs to make a profit. In fact it's better that some things don't.

And using European trains as an example of poor service is mind-boggling.

They are far, far better than the US or UK offerings (which are privatised, offer piss-poor service and are overpriced).
I actually agree with this. Defensive soccer/football is incredibly boring to watch. 0-0. So fun. When the number of players in any sport is changed, it puts everyone on their heels because they don't know exactly how to react, and so you know what you get? Sport!
>The problem was that they didn't maintain it. They let it languish, staying exactly the same for years ...

That's what maintenance is though. Keeping something functional, but not developing it further.

>... because they never figured out how to monetize it.

That's not true. They shut down Reader because the codebase was dated, and there were few engineers left on that team. It was a reallocation of resources.

>Sunset Google Reader over a much longer period of time, like a year instead of the 3.5 months they gave.

That I agree with.
That may be. I don't know. Still the stated problem of there being no token sale seems to be missing the point. The journalists have already earned their tokens and could sell them themselves, when they receive them.

I don't really see why civil needs to sell any in this situation.

Isn't the whole point of 'the blockchain' to avoid having to trust 3rd parties.
I think that sadly, legally, you already broke the law doing something outside "intended use" (or whatever it's called) when you found the security issue. Unless they paid you to do the research.
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Commenting as a reaction would help more than just downvoting of course, because I am still not seeing how, as a consumer, I am supposed to know that those are illegal keys. Other platforms that facilitate fraud on this scale are always forced to take action, yet ebay gets away with it. I am wondering why that is.
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> If people have qualms with how the weapons are used they should take effort in the political process

War and politics are very much the same thing, if we would have have managed to "fix" politics by now I'm pretty sure war would have also been "fixed" instantly. But "fixing" politics is an elusive (and I personally think impossible) job, we've been having a go at it for at least 2,400 years (think Plato) but apparently it still seems that people in power like to promise the impossible to the multitudes who believe them just because (think the propaganda lies told to the Athenians just before the ill-fated expidition to Sicily [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Expedition
The UK situation with its dependencies is very complex. I found this short video helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10