skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this category of posts ("falsehoods programmers believe about X") to be patronizing and unhelpful. Most of these lists (this one included) don't give good explanations and don't have guidelines for how to avoid the problems that are highlighted. It's usually just a list of condescending gotchas.
At least theranos had real, good scientists doing real research work. Of course we know management went awry [failing to admit defeat and pushing on despite the problems] and threw everyone under the bus, but they had real researchers.

This company here from the outside looks closer to quackery. [and can't imagine them having a good team of scientists behind it].
Can you run it as a Hackintosh? Asking for when my 2012 MacBook Air gives up the ghost.

Edit: You can.

https://github.com/tylernguyen/x1c6-hackintosh
It's literally nothing to the top brass.
I'm thinking of ways to start groups of aquaponics to grow local and toxin free. Spending more time in the green is good, eating simple and fresh too.

The ~power of mainstream is high, it's not super easy to swim across the flow
serious question: are there enough predators to influence the algorithm? what you're describing from the "yoga indicent" sounds like an anecdote?

edit: holy shit, i just watched the video report. YT in serious trouble.
Also the ability to run 60 MPH.
I would personally add one (maybe I'll do a PR): Phone number formats never change for a particular country.

Vietnam just removed a few months ago one digit of all the mobile phones making all the previous number recorded for the country invalid.
> most shampoos, cosmetics, soaps, detergents, cleaning products, etc.

Cosmetics are a bit of a black box, but what carcinogens are supposed to appear in soaps, shampoos, detergents, or most common cleaners?
Repeat after me: After reading this I realise the difficulty in using phone verification while scaling internationally.
We call those copycat or follow-up posts and mostly downweight them, on the grounds that predictability makes HN less interesting.
This! Not to mention that at the time, people HATED Ewoks.
Normal people would feel bad for doing this though and try to avoid hurting people, wouldn't they? Or am I the strange one here...?
It's interesting to see that question show up, because we work so hard on the code. It makes sense that you'd ask it, though, because most of the changes are either not visible (like anti-spam or anti-voting-ring features), or are subtle. For example, you may have noticed more capitalized titles on the front page in the last couple days—but this is an experiment we're going to roll back.

One reason we don't do a lot of visible changes is that HN's minimalism is one of its biggest assets. Another is that users don't like things to change, and the internal pressures that cause companies to do arbitrary redesigns are thankfully not in play here.
"Users will only store phone numbers in your product's phone number fields"

Not entirely sure what this point is trying to achieve. Do you read a birthday field expecting a phone number 99% of the time? Should you read a phone number field expecting an email address? And at what point in that process did you decide that not having data validation on both ends was a good idea?
Here is just one small example:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945593/

If you look at the ingredients of your average shampoo bottle, google each one, click the Wikipedia link, you will find many more.

Many of them will also have a number in the hazmat rhombus, which is also not a good thing.

Detergents and cleaners are just as much of a black box, if not more, as cosmetics, and the largest source of indoor air pollution.
Isnt every language unique?

I feel like this teaches a way of thinking.
So basically phone numbers are one or more alphanumeric fields.
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No, it is not easy at all. And even in educated circles, your opinions will be in the minority, and cognitive dissonance will work against you too.

People hate finding out that they're wrong, and nobody wants to admit that they've been poisoning themselves and their family for decades.

It's either that or cancer, though...
Cool, I have a bulletproof regex for that
You'd need to find some way to allocate that money other than "to the winners". And/or, you'd need to disqualify or otherwise punish cheaters so strictly that players aren't tempted to do so.

Then again, I confess I really don't understand pro sports.
> An individual has only one phone number

Always feel these lists include things no human actually believes.
Really? While I personally don't need to work with phone numbers for my job, I found this list to be incredibly interesting. For many, this type of knowledge is often attained by making incorrect assumptions in your code/system design and having them proven wrong over time. Having a list like this which lays it all out for you in one shot is amazing.
You're trying to make it a "progessive" or "Democratic" thing when it was really an anti-gentrification thing. After all, North Virginia is heavily Democratic and they welcomed Amazon with open arms. Amazon's existing officials are nearly all in heavily Democratic cities, and Seattle, it's HQ, is one of the most progressive cities in the US.

Queens and Long Island did not need Amazon HQ2 in the neighborhood that Amazon wanted to put HQ2. It would have ruined traffic and driven up housing prices for the 99% of residents who wouldn't work at Amazon, and the tax credits would have resulted in a net tax loss because the tax credits would have far exceeded the expected tax revenue from the net jobs Amazon would have created in that neighborhood (compared to the jobs that would have been created if Amazon did not move there).

VZ was the richest country in the South American continent --not the "poor" country, at the time they claim

This was the result of cronyism and vote-buying political programs. Like what the Trump administration is trying to doing right now...Communism and socialism had very little to do with it; after all, most Scandinavian nations have extremely socialist policies, and China, Cuba, and Vietnam have been doing fine and even thriving despite being Communist nations.
>1. An individual has a phone number

Requiring a phone number one way for me to ignore your website or service (ie, Signal) forever. But if you do it I'm probably not your target demographic anyway.
This is a pointless straw man argument
That's how I interpret it as well. I also think interesting articles on a topic jog people's memory and cause them to re-submit interesting articles from the past on that topic.
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This type of operating procedure is absolutely unethical. This is the type of decision in which the decision maker in charge should be held responsible for.
As long as you don't try to validate the email address I entered. The list of gotchas for email address parsing is impressive too. (e.g. "Cool Address"@example.store is a valid email)
Programmers make stupid assumptions all the time... usually because they are focused on some other more difficult problem and they assume some other problem like this is easy and they don't have to think much abt it, so they don't.
You are talking about people being shunned and gossiped about like it is on par with being kidnapped by armed government agents and confined in a cell.

So one is bad stuff on the level of violent terrorists and intelligence agencies, and another is bad stuff on the level of mean girls in high school? No disagreement there. Both of those stink. Then, there's bad on the level of groups of people going around in masks, using anonymity to get away with beating people up (1), committing vandalism, and terrorism on a level where universities have to hire $600,000 in security. That's also happening. (Shouldn't this be the sad, tragic legacy of the past?)

Namecalling, exclusion, silencing -- none of these is intellectually worthy. None of these gets us closer to the truth. All they do is fuel and add legitimacy to the unreasonable extremists and prevent the reasonable discussions from being had.

Like going to jail or being killed and getting cancelled on twitter are close enough to the same thing that the same philosophical framework applies.

The common mechanism is the coercion in contrast to convincing. The key concept is that authoritarianism.

I'd suggest you back up and re-evaluate how you got here.

I'm not backing up. It's high time that lots of people stopped backing up and started calling out all the authoritarianism which is supposedly happening in the name of human freedom. It's coercion going against human freedom. If you are really on the side of justice, then when given the opportunity to hear people out and talk, you hear people out and talk. The side of justice, in the end, finally convinces through appeal to universal principle, not through force alone. In the long arc of history, it's clear who uses force alone. (Even in WWII, the victory of military arms would have meant just another war, if it weren't for the demonstration of principles and generosity by the US as victors. The subsequent cold war was won by the truth of our having a better system, not authoritarianism.)

(1 -- Even beating innocent people up, because they are too taken by anger to tell the difference.)
I have/had a Facebook account with a phone number. The account was left unused for a few years. Recently, I used my E-mail to reset its password, unfortunately, since the account was abandoned for a long time, the system flagged my activity as "suspicious" automatically, and asks me for confirmation using my phone number.

But I no longer own that number.

And from the customer Q&A forum, I realized I was not the only one - it is almost impossible to find an actual human from Facebook to solve this kind of verification problem.

All I wanted is to delete it, but I can't. Now, my account becomes a zombie, can't be used, can't be deleted, and has lots of personal information. All thanks to the falsehoods Facebook programmers believed about phone numbers, and its non-existent "customer [0]" service.

I've heard Google has similar issues [1], if the machine works, then everything is fine, until you need a human...

Repeat after me: fxxk Facebook.

[0] because I'm the product, not the customer?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18886804,

and read this comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18887548
Just a design suggestion...

Make or have a bigger/bolder logo and center it vs. making your branding small and to the left.
Management never "went" awry. The whole thing was a fraud from day one.

And hiring "real researchers" to front your fraudulent operation as a way to hide what's going on behind the scenes shouldn't be reason to look the other way. In some ways it's worse than the alternative, since there's not just fraud, but activity intended to take attention away from it.
I'd rather hear from the people brave enough to have tried this to gain their perspective.
Militant meh-why-notter. Can I use that? :)

(thanks for your support, btw...)
Before we start sucking the blood out of the veins of young people, let’s make sure we have all our other compulsory economic transactions eliminated.

All the essentials like:

- showing up to work

- putting clothes on your back

- putting food in your belly

- putting a roof over your head

- having an actual family ...of some kind, not just loose-knit acquaintances that you watch movies, TV and play video games with, not internet friends. People who would do more than share a room with you for the purpose of polite conversation.

Then, we can talk about how and why people might open up the faucet, and let strangers tap their veins, when they’re barely old enough to make choices like drink, fuck and smoke cigarettes.

We do expect this to be a choice, right? This brokering of blood?

Not an option to confront out of financial desperation?

Really, though, I’d rather see people grow their own genetically cloned vats of blood, than accept externally sourced transfusions at all.

The young blood that enters your veins should be sourced from in vitro repositories, not pulled from people that match your type, but are otherwise genetically distinct.

It shouldn’t even come from anliving twin. It should be cloned from your own body.
You can't do that because that's not the way encryption works.

The reason onion addresses are random looking is because they are a function of the hidden service's public key.

If you could generate a "private key" from the public key, anyone could use your "domain name". The reason tor doesn't require centralised domain name services is because we can trust that whoever owns the private key to the public key which we identify with the onion address, owns the onion address.
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While I don’t think self driving cars have much of a near term future, I do think this technology can be applied to infrasucture with dedicated right of way like Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) to greatly improve headways. Sure transit operators might have the same level of staffing, but now they can run much more frequent service. And that more frequent service means more ridership and fare revenue that can go to offsetting the technology cost.
You can put symbols in phone numbers.
as in from the 1k plan to 10k per month? You're supposed to be in an "approved" accelerator to get it, but in reality if you pester the reps, they will move you up.

By rep what I mean is IBM has a network of people who go out and evangelize their offerings. They are the people who vet the original applications and if you live in a large city with a decent tech scene, you'll eventually run into that person.

First time I did it, I wasn't on the approved accelerator the local rep moved me up after I convinced him how cool it be for us to be "powered by IBM softlayer", as it was known back then
Blackberry has media presence, and existing and very loyal customer base, and an existing distribution network...

Oh wait...that didn't work out so well for Blackberry (or Palm or Microsoft). Does anyone remember when Creative dominated the media player market? Or when everyone thought Sony would take over the electronics world? When everyone thought Yahoo needed to be broken up before it threatened the internet?

if I were investing in that sector I wouldn't discount them as a meaningful contestant, remembering they can always buy their way in to third party tech.

One thing most of Tesla's competitors all have in common is that their business interests are opposed to Tesla's business interests. This means that a licensing of self-driving tech is extremely unlikely.
Junior remote is hard, which is why I'm saying get the skills first. This is not just a one year journey, you should be planning your path for the next 5-10 years. Optimize for skills and learning first, then go for maximizing income (as much as you can afford this delay). Always keep interestingness and quality of life up high in priorities.

Get a local internship / job first either in your town or in a bigger town like Vancouver / Montreal / Toronto. Learn the trade, best practices, best technologies, get an open source presence, etc. All of this will require a genuine interest in the field and hard work on your own time. You will of course also progress your skills on the job, but relying solely on that you will grow much slower, and will be strictly capped by the quality of your workplace dev culture. You can start your growth before even getting a job btw.

In Canada, lots of companies hire juniors, both big and small. Look at your peers and know how to stand out. Did you build a simple app, put it on github and host in somewhere? Congrats, you have demonstrated more skills than 90% of your peers, and you haven't even interviewed yet. Google your way into finding these companies – see angel.co, many lists of companies hiring remotely, local job fairs, etc.

As for cross border contracting – yes, working for US you will most likely be a contractor unless the company is big enough to have a Canadian office. Better that they don't, then they will be less likely to offer you a Canadian salary. Being a long term contractor is not really a problem as long as you have the skills you advertised. Taxes are easy for contractors. There are legal things you need to know, and you will know after you do proper research on this, but there are no showstoppers there. If you want to take the most from this career, you don't let some paperwork or the illusion of job security get in the way. You work hard to become the best developer you can be, and allow the highest bidder that you're interested in working for pay you for your work.

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This might sound very... effortless and maybe pompous and out of reach but it's entirely doable. Knowing who you want to be, being interested in your work, and spending a lot of effort on becoming a better developer year after year is really all it takes. It's a long path but thousands of people have walked it.
Did theranos have anyone doing real research work? My understanding was that theranos had real, good scientists who were continuously pressured to fabricate results and do quick hacks to keep up appearances. What real research work could anyone have been doing if everyone there was ignoring the fact that their procedures and equipment did not product accurate results?
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I don't see how any of the citations you've presented incriminate GMass in helping spammers bypass their detection systems.

And the phrase "It's not that we're looking the other way... we don't have to look at all" simply means he's delegating spam detection to the Gmail/SendGrid platforms instead.
C# has a core class to safely lifecycle protected strings. The decryption key is only resident in kernel memory, so a dump of the user process when protected theoretically cannot read the protected string contents. (Of course, this doesn't prevent against a cold boot attack unless the keys are escrowed in a TPM.)

https://referencesource.microsoft.com/#mscorlib/system/secur...
God help the woman who tries to do something like your woodworking or firearms channels, especially if she is attractive. Maybe all those commenters are 12 years old, but I doubt it.
Authoritarianism by definition requires a strong central power. Whatever you're talking about isn't authoritarianism.
TNT is indeed a very safe explosive. And yes, it burns ~like wax, but lots more sooty. Basically, detonation requires high-velocity shock. More even than blasting caps. You need a secondary explosive. Which, anyway, is why it's good for artillery shells.
The software already does that when it can. The [dupe] marks are added by moderators, or in some cases by user flagging. I'm sorry if it feels like a stigma—that's not the intention!—it's rather that otherwise a lot of complaints arise about why the story is buried.
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The point is that the world and the work of human beings is flawed, fallible, and imperfect. Whether or not heaven exists in heaven, it certainly doesn’t exist on earth and essentially never can.

Into any system of sufficient complexity, a little suckage must come!
If the signal transmission worked at 400 microns, I would say that your feature size argument would be a good reason to consider other explanations, but they explicitly show that such a gap prevents the signal from being transmitted.

Instead, the transmissible gap is poorly characterized—-they cut then stick the slices back together. Depending on how clean the cut is, the gap could be quite small. Yet they argue that this unknown small distance (which presumably still contains a fluid interface) is enough to eliminate the usual explanations. That argument feels undersupported to me.
It seems like a TPM would be a good way for the OS to implement CryptProtectMemory.
This. Public videos should t be default. By I assume, this change would bring YouTube a lot less eye balls and hence revenue.

At the end it boils down to the truth that a Corporation is a hive mind, an intelligent machine ruthlessly optimizing for stock price and profits at the expense of sometimes human values.
Once people realize the stupidity of hoarding and analyzing all the data that we do, I think they'll back off a bit. Too often these processes yield suboptimal results. We're in a dark age now because data science is currently quite sexy, and intuition decidedly not
There's a great piece of advice an experienced founder told me: the longer you wait to raise, the better off you'll be.

In my first startup we were so happy anyone would be interested in funding us we took on, in hindsight, some pretty bad terms. But having said that, our first raise got us onto a tech blog where a person reached out intrigued by what we did and turned out to be our best engineer.

It's really a calculated risk. Despite all that, since we got acquired reasonably early on, our engineers made a pretty solid return.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97573

https://web.archive.org/web/20080115223854/http://ycombinato...
It wasn't a Dem thing, it was a progressive thing. Cuomo, DeBlasio, et al are Dems. They clamored and campaigned for it. It was the new Progs who killed it. AMZ didn't stick it to NYC/NYS so much as the new Progs actively killed it (Read what Cuomo has said).

VZ: Author claims it was poor. It was rich prior to Chavez, regardless if he and the state were true Communists or fakers loved by Bernie.

According to this polling[1], there was strong support across the board in NYC, and Queens in particular for HQ2.

[1]https://harrisx.com/2019/02/new-poll-shows-overwhelming-supp...
It’s not that people believe this - it’s just that they don’t think things through when building something. This point was mention because there are plenty of CRM/contact-management systems that only have a single phone number field per contact. Or worse: Outlook, which is expressly marketed as a contact management tool, with its arbitrary restriction of 3 phone numbers and 3 e-mail addresses per contact - or how all contacts have to have first and last names (how do I have a “company” contact? Etc). Point is, don’t be like Outlook.
I don't think that's how evolution works. Species don't gain traits that would benefit them. "Why didn't they?" seems like the wrong question :)
>Only much later did I find out that TNT fumes are toxic.

sounds like those self-made detonators we used to dispose the stuff of were a healthier choice :)
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Maybe we should add another. Any ideas?
>>> The US, in comparison, makes sure that everyone - including adversaries like China, Russia and Iran - can navigate the Suez, the Panama Canal, Red Sea, Arab/Persian Gulf, S. China Sea, Straits of Taiwan etc.

Right now they do. But if conflict breaks out between China and the US you can guarantee the US will use its navy to block all trade with China. This puts China in a very vulnerable position, which is why they're willing to risk upsetting neighbours by aggressively pursuing bases in the South China Sea (as well as the Belt and Road project).

>>> There would be zero problems, and US Navy presence in Asia would be minimal if China wasn't trying to hustle this outside it's borders.

Why do you think that?

>>> China will continue to pursue the authoritarian entrapment of the citizens of HK and Macau, and of course Taiwan, which isn't good for anyone really.

My wife is Taiwanese so I understand the situation pretty well. I just think it's a mistake to put this down to ideology or democracy versus authorianism. It's just two states vying for power, the same thing that's been going since forever.