skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why this particular CVE is [re-]surfacing now, but the January 1, 2019 Rapid7 Sonar HTTP port 80 scan found ~5,000 vulnerable servers and the list of vulnerable versions is larger than what's on the CheckPoint page: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2002-0392/?q=CVE-2002-039...
DNS is just a glorified search engine that’s controlled top-down by ICANN.

Anyone can build a different, distributed search engine where things are looked up on a DHT by their hash.

I have come to the conclusion, and have since then ofted said, that URLs do NOT need to be human-readable, and the idea of hostnames and domains tied to IP ranges will eventually give way to far lighter weight things
There's one at the Barcade in Jersey City, too. You can even reboot and switch it to the Empire Strikes Back ROM.
Doesn't "Steamboat Willie" predate even the 'Mickey Mouse' name, anyway? I think it would be quite feasible to make a derivative work of SW that still had so many deliberate changes compared to what people associate with the present-day Mickey Mouse trademark, that no one, not even a young child, would be expected to conflate the work with Disney's products. This is one thing that would not be possible if SW failed to enter the public domain. Of course, things would become more interesting-- and perhaps more challenging-- as later stuff started entering the public domain as well; just as with "Sherlock Holmes", many features of Mickey's character were slowly accreted over time.
The story is that there is no story. They have no seats, no news, I don't really hear about them at all, good or bad.

People just pirate instead of making a political statement out of it. Sometimes they justify it in terms of how they're broke anyways, or support creators in other ways, or in terms of how ridiculous copyright law has gotten... but none of it really rises to the level of a significant political movement. Maybe it's the usually toothless enforcement, or the general lack of will to sue 5 year olds for millions over singing happy birthday, or just enough settlement NDAs to hide the lawsuits under the rug, but I guess it just isn't seen as much of a political issue.

I suspect it's seen as a theoretical problem more than a practical one. When specific instances of draconian abuse of IP law do rise to being a visible practical problem (company vs company doesn't count), eventually enough political pressure mounts that one of the parties might fix it. But there are "bigger" issues, so it's usually pretty quiet, with neither party having clean enough hands to score any easy points, so they just settle for not kicking any more puppies.

While copyright reform gets little traction, mucking with the ability to pirate will stir up enough of a hornets nest to actually be a political issue (cough Net neutrality cough), which is currently generally "fixed" by the more regulation-happy Democrats than the business-friendly Republicans.
I think a point to make here is that the creative output of someone is often unrelated to other aspects; I know of many artists online, for instance, who are very skilled but have insane (relative to modern Internet conventions) restrictions, such as that you can't even re-share the picture with credit and a link to the artist.

I also take issue with framing this as entitlement, since copyright only exists due to the idea that content producers are 'entitled' to restriction on what they release to the public. I'd also argue that all members of society should have some entitlement to re-use and re-mix the social product. This isn't such a popular idea in late hyper-commodification, but I think it's an important one nevertheless, just as the creators of the material felt entitled to use society's abstract product (ideas and support) maybe it's right for me to feel entitled to use their abstract product - the idea of Mickey Mouse and Batman.
Nielsen Norman Group have also ran a study, with results similarly unfavorable for flat design: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-ui-less-attention-caus...
(Possibly it's not the only study of theirs on the topic.)

Notably, NNG uses a more 'real world' methodology, testing realistic user tasks in browsing websites. For the unfamiliar, 'Nielsen' is Jakob Nielsen, an authority on usability, working and writing on it for two decades now, and he's a big advocate of usability testing in design process. (BTW, “Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity” of his is an excellent writeup on how websites should function—I'd bet it's as valuable today as it was in mid-2000s for me, because the functioning of humans doesn't change.)

They also noted that flat design has made some steps back to the immediate recognition of the olde pseudo-3d interfaces, notably with 'Material design': https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design/ But not many steps.
> straight-cut gears are better at basically everything except noise

Noise means vibrations. Which is why e.g. cheap lathes and similar machines have cheaper spur gears, while high end machines often have helical gears. This impacts surface finish, for example.
Related: Adam ruins everything had a segment about IQ in 2017,
https://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/blog/adams...
The US Democratic party, going by its principles, is center or center-right by most standards outside of the US.
America controls the limits of commercial free speech in countries around the world through its control of Visa and Mastercard. American standards (by which I mean limits) on free speech are exported and controlled by limiting what credit card companies are willing to permit to be sold.
In china, laws are "suggestion" in most cases.
You have not been engaging in good faith, and your continued replies are further evidence of your lack of respect for me or the conversation I'm trying to have with others.

My ego is irrelevant, you are objectively wrong and also not using HN as it is intended.
Italy used to be a dozen city states... And before that, Italy, France, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, a bunch of Baltic nations, England, and a bunch of others were all one state.

The number of states waxes and wanes throughout history, there's not a clear trend.
... but g is the only thing of importance.
We already have 3 superpowers today with potentially 2 more developing. The others don't matter at scale.

It's more likely that the cities will become the dominant form of a citizen's home sovereignty rather than a nation, with only a few national boundaries around the world. People are inherently tribal and human behavior isn't changing anytime soon but countries are quickly becoming stretched too thin to keep up with all the varied and changing populations and their needs.
> And this part of the issue. I come from a small town. The “values” of small towns are racist, homophopic, and nationalistic.

As someone that comes from small towns and lives in the city, I find city dwellers to be much more racist and judging than rural folk. The fact that you put nationalistic next to racism probably tells me trying to get into a intellectual conversation about this though isn't going to get anywhere.
I love things like this. While 99 bottles of beer is pretty simple, applications like this give you a slightly better look at the language.

I try doing a simple 4 function calculator (*/+-) with parens and with two numerical addins (sometimes I pick sin/cos, sometimes I pick max( ....) and min( ...)

The RPN version is good since you need to create stack management in the core.

While this doesn't have the panache of "Write a web server in 3 lines of Ruby (oh don't forget those two 500 line libraries.) It does give you good example of the simple things you can do.

He also has a pretty good swath of languages, I'm always excited to see Awk, Lua and Python (my go to lanaguages) on the same page. I'll need to see if I can break out my COBOL skills and get a pull request made up.
The Indian men who make money selling trash
The Worst Interface Ever: The Self-Destruct Switch (2004)
Can't every constrained optimization problem be converted into an unconstrained one? For eg, instead of saying "minimize f(x) with the constraint g(x) = 0", can't we just say "minimize f(x) + abs(g(x)) * 10^30" ?

Also, is there a reason why most optimization texts (like this one) only discuss point optimization and not path optimization (i.e. calculus of variations) ?
Even though most people work “at will”, firing someone always has consequences.

- There are usually HR policies around firing people that takes awhile and a lot of paperwork.

- You open yourself up to lawsuits whether they are successful or not, it still a hassle and has costs.

- you increase the amount you have to pay to your states unemployment insurance fund.

- It puts a chilling effect on other employees. They think they can easily be fired to.

- if the employee is really bad, they do “negative work” and put more work on the other employees who have to work around them or redo their work.

Very rarely will one employee that you don’t hire make or break an established company.
Netflix Pulls Episode Critical of Saudi Arabia After Government Complaints
Being “nationalistic” and racists are two separate things.
It's pretty simple, through taxes. Most of the tax we would pay would be akin to the premiums we pay for private insurance... remember that we already pay medicaid and medicare taxes now.
This is really cool, I think I would like to do this as an exercise with a similar small program. Does he have some sort of write-up after making all these talking about the individual languages?
IQ is undoubtedly overemphasized by some factions, especially those with an axe to grind and a dog whistle to blow, if it helps them feel less guilty about their position in the world or otherwise rationalizes injustice.

OTOH there's definitely a difference between people, people who aren't mentally defective, people that are quick on the uptake, sharp and alert, who adapt to new mental models. IQ might be an unscientific metric for identifying these people, it might leave some of them unidentified, but they definitely exist. Anyone who's worked with other people, hired other people, had to evaluate other people's capabilities, can be in no doubt about this.

It's hard to separate out Taleb's own axe-grinding from anything concrete he's trying to say about what IQ means as an independent concept. He seems more upset at short-sighted application of thought to first-order problems rather than asking higher-order questions about why the problems are problems in the first place, why the questions are being asked. When I've seen a difference between people in this degree, it's more a matter of personality than intelligence: the more detail-oriented, autistic-spectrum someone is, the more they focus only on the details, and miss out on the bigger picture. It takes a little effort to step back, but I think it can be learned. Whereas IQ (or g) doesn't seem to be improved easily with learning.
> In recent years children have made up the majority of victims killed or wounded by such weapons in Afghanistan.

This is common in many landmined countries as time progresses, but it's boys not children, boys will be boys, they actively seek out unexploded ordnances and don't handle them correctly despite education campaigns.

If only it was girls, we'd probably stop all landmines.
> How will a non Christian “integrate” into rural America and “share their values”, by converting to Christianity? How will either a gay couple or an interracial couple “integrate” where some Christians think their “lifestyle” is a sin?

Probably better than a gay in rural iraq, iran, syria, jordan, isreal, china, japan, india, africa and many other countries.
Ask HN: Software consulting firms that can help me develop my projects?
Hi Hacker News, and happy new year!

I was wondering if people here know of any groups of software developers that I could work with to develop my projects?

I am a software developer myself. However, most of my (early, 1.5 years) experience is with backend application level or business level software.

I see myself working on prototypes or MVPs of certain ideas of products I'd like to see people use. I see myself describing different parts of the product to able software developers. I see myself reviewing the checked in code every couple of days.

The developers do not necessarily have to work together. I can contact each one individually. However, I am wondering if I could find such a group of people.
> It is funny... the manual tells you a lot about the game ... just not how to actually play.

That feels fitting for a GNU project. Copious amounts of information, little of it immediately useful for your current question.
Have you heard about the intel management engine?
Also the people with 180+ IQs that make random lists of “smartest people ever” if you look into it, basically have IQ test taking as a hobby and practice for it to improve their IQ (or rather, ability to take IQ tests). Or they took some test like Stanford-Binet that allows child IQs to reach ridiculous levels if the child happens to develop faster than normal (because of the formula of adjusting a child’s IQ to an adult level)
Farmers and other ag/food processors can mass import immigrants on special visas for farm labor. It's usually seasonal but I would imagine with a wall it would have to change, especially if workers have US dependents.

Most illegal immigrants also simply over stay their legal visas.
We're not talking about under age 12 here though, we're talking about under age 5. And furthermore it is not convincing unless you find a precedent involving toddlers as consumers specifically in a trademark / passing-off case.
I've used Fair to lease a car. The entire experience has been a nightmare. Billing errors, really bad support, them losing records of giving me a car, charging me interest for not making a payment when their system had an error, their auto-pay system is broken, their mobile app not working, they forgot to register my car with the DMV, them not able to generate receipts for me, etc.

The idea is great, but have had a really bad experience so far. I hope the resolve these issues. We need more competition/innovation in the space.
Kinda makes me appreciate the lengths that Microsoft will go to to ensure existing applications work on new platforms :-)
Best parenting advice I ever got was to praise children for hard work, and avoid calling them “smart.” Intelligence becomes a stand in for some measure of goodness or social fitness that after a while it’s hard to know what we’re talking about anymore. Further, it’s seen as innate whereas hard work is something anyone can do. Being “smart” implies there’s a set of “un-smart” kids that don’t have the same fitness or goodness, and since it’s innate, they’ll always be that way in an ungifted underclass. Cue the icky connections to racism and eugenics...

Usually as a parent, seeing your kid as “smart” corresponds to noticing affinity for a kind of interest or task. You’ll help their confidence more to encourage that affinity and notice the hard won accomplishments than just saying they have some magical innate thing called “intelligence”.
At this point I would accept it if someone told me that 100% of what I perceive as "smarts" when interacting with someone is explained by confidence and other learned social behaviors.
Maybe I'm dumb, but why is "performance fat-tailed"? It was kinda left as an exercise to the reader, but maybe someone has insight. The article got a bit edited, but I'm still not getting it.
At least the code is presumably sane. Minix is a good system.
My guess is that the question never comes up. If you're an adult thinking in terms of an abstract blueprint of a weapon, the thought of a child stumbling on the dirt-strewn concrete implementation of your device is very far from your mind, almost impossible to think of. The only way you would think of it is if someone pulls the possibility off a checklist built from cases like this. Be honest: if you saw the picture in the article without the surrounding context to make you think about toys, how likely would you have been to think of them that way? To think that someone else would think of them as toys? I'm guessing it's low. My first visual impression was of dead bugs or cigars wrapped in leaves (which I'll grant might be just as tempting to a child).

Not that any of that makes it ok. I'm more convinced than ever that failure of imagination is a form of morally judgable (what's the right word here?) negligence. But it would have been hard to see that far into the future in this case.
Two threads about this from last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18756946

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18755193
Powerless at work
SQL Server fixes 18 year old bug that made function calls a thousand times
The title doesn't seem to match up with the article.

The point seems to be that IQ is good at predicting intellectual deficits at the low end but bad at predicting 'success' above that; further it indicates that IQ is mis-used in this range. This doesn't seem to indicate that IQ is 'pseudoscience', just that it's a misused statistic. Not a real shocker there, almost every statistic is misused by some group.
Even if someone is in the right, what is to stop Disney using frivolous lawsuits to deter people from exercising their rights?
WiFi Over Water: Misplaced Priorities in the American Way of War
The title is actually much less extreme than the article. The author basically claims all of psychology is a pseudoscience.
I'll admit I spend probably greater than average time brooding over how dumb most people are. But I don't think this is inherent in those people. I think it's mostly a result of their prior knowledge, sleep, energy level, stress/anxiety, and give-a-shit. I think most people are fundamentally capable of great intelligence.
ANOTHER GREAT APPLICATION FOR SOLAR HOT WATER: AQUAPONICS
But we aren’t talking about other countries. We are talking about rural America vs larger cities.
So, they are already here ...
Ugh ok, another 'IQ is worthless but I have no alternative' article. What's the point?
If you can't make money in 20 years for a movie, it's never going to make money.
What other useful implementation of it was there been? It's been over ten years and nobody has thought of a better use for blockchain
Q. What is an IQ test? A. A test that measures intelligence.

Q. What is intelligence? A. The thing measured by an IQ test.

Throw this at the next person who mentions IQ to see how intelligent their answer is.
So, does this mean that when I read some "genius"'s endless tweeting about how he "has one of the best I.Q.'s" while soandso is a "very low I.Q. individual", that doesn't actually mean anything of substance? Color me surprised!
Just to clarify, are you making the claim that everyone has the same mental capacity for thinking/deduction/memory/etc, it's just our perception of that based on various external cues which makes us think these levels exist? Because I would disagree with that statement. Even if I had 50 years of study I would not think on the level of say Terrance Tao.
Menus show the hotkey by default. Needing to know a hotkey to figure out what hot keys are seems backwards.

And I don't mean the underscore, that was for fast access in the menu. Most menus would say actual hotkey on the right side of the menu by default.

But even the underscore gives a default visual clue that you can do something with that letter, and you can then ask what. If you're new to computers, the concept of anyotkey may not be obvious to even ask about.
> The story is that there is no story.

Exactly the point. Why is that? In Europe they exist.
The original tweetstorm and this post aim to show something very specific, namely that IQ misses the mark as a measure of intelligence the further away from IQ 70 one ventures. In other words, stupid is stupid, but smart seems to come in many flavors.

The title of the article itself points to this fact, as the word "largely" is inserted. Nassim Nicholas Taleb himself can see the value at the lower levels.

If the goal was to find people that can, say, program, I think IQ works as a perfectly fine metric. If one wants to find someone who can make revolutionary break throughs, possibly less so, but even then, if IQ can exclude 50+% of people, you are onto a good thing.
It's much like that "cultural appropriation" absurdity.
Ask HN: Quit after burning +$120,000?
Last January I founded a startup to commercialize a technology I invented, which solves foundational problems in one of the world's most valuable industries. After six months pursuing my original vision, I discovered an exponentially better solution and made a hard pivot.

I believe this new version of the technology could make the industry's incumbents obsolete virtually overnight. In the hands of a competent executive, the company to bring the technology to market (and to own the underlying patents) could grow into one of the most valuable corporations in the world.

But maybe I'm not that guy. I've burned through +$120,000 of seed capital (from myself and people close to me), and still don't have a polished demo. I've lost all credibility with the brilliant engineer I recruited, since for half a year I've been promising a whitepaper I can't make myself finish because I have such bad anxiety.

The worse I perform as CEO, the more I feel like an impostor, and the harder it is to break the cycle. I could walk away and earn enough money in my old career to pay back my investors (for moral reasons), but I'd hate myself for giving up. How do I go about righting the ship?
> I remember a 2001 German car I owned had terrible cupholders that broke easily(I noticed that is a lower priority for foreign cars). The next model year changed to a more sturdy design.

Volkswagen Jetta?
Wow. So much hatred in this. Iq is just one of many ways to measure certain aspects of aptitude. No institutions are shortsighted enough to place strong emphasis solely on IQ test. This is why college admissions take other data points into equation because sat and act scores are highly correlated to Iq.
Web development jobs. Ranging from CMS-based websites using WordPress and Magento, and built in frameworks in stacks, LAMP-based to Ruby on Rails to using React.

These jobs all are underpaid, 1099 jobs. Made anywhere from $15/hr to $35/hr in a medium COL American city. I need work that is more stable and doesn't have me hopping around, and not having to live paycheck to paycheck.

All of these jobs are for small business clients, with usually me as the only developer. It sometimes feels more like consulting work, but I want more experience working in a dev team. I don't know how to pass interviews for FT jobs working in larger groups.
Interesting, I've always wondered when a tool like this would be made.

Another improvement I thought would be cool is to intelligently find similarities in CSS classes and combine them into logical shared classes... but it could be very problematic
the cosmonauts remain on soyuz for like 6 hours until they dock, mostly confined and executnig orders. whatever boredom probably comes later when they 're in the station
Momento weddings
Amend the constitution?
First of all, being a reader of hn in Sweden probably means your monthly salary is in the top 10%, which of course colors your view of society.

It also means that you’re taxed higher. While most people pay 31% in commune tax, the top earners pay an extra 25% adding to the resentment.

I think most people agree that the quality of health care is an issue, but pretty divided on how to go about things. About 50-50 split.

Fun fact, since the election in September the Riksdag still hasn’t been able to elect a prime minister due to being to divided on such issues. The only thing they do agree is to not to collaborate with SD, giving both sides roughly 40% support for their favorite candidate.

Wikipedia had a nice map of the situation. We hn 10%ers tend to live in the more densely populated blue areas, again giving a pretty distorted view of things.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Swedish_general_electio...
Semantics. You can call it whatever you want, but it’s censorship.