skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the quite interesting article:

> Captain Cheap, however, was promoted to post captain, […]

If I understand the term post-captain correctly, this was not an actual rank to be promoted to. It just means that a captain's name was 'posted' on the Navy's seniority list as having been assigned command of a vessel, rather than holding the rank of captain without a command.
It's a CBT journal phone app that debuted here a few months ago.
If you have car insurance and driving licence you should have free public transport. I'm guessing everybody will benefit from you taking the bus instead of the car more that they have to pay to sponsor your bus ride.

And if you don't have a car then you should have free public transport just because it's a just thing to do when you are paying for the free public transport for rich car owners.
That's what I was thinking re scary. But I second your question if there's anything phonetically similar to "deep in" in Mandarin or other language spoken in China.
I'm not saying it's a good idea, but don't forget that these bikes may reduce other nuisance. If this could reduce traffic, pollution, noise in the city centers, it could be worth it.
Ask HN: What info someone can access if they know my Gmail password?
Today, our placement cell of University forwarded a message about the recruitment process of a company

The company asked the students to create a account on their website with the same password of their personal email ID in their message.

Here's the message

Hi,
Please find attached the
[Company Name] Application
Process Guide and
instruction below. Please
request students to go there
the instruction and attached
ppt before taking the test.

Please ask them to use
Chrome to access the link
for test and once they open
Chrome they have to
type [Registration Link]
and start registering please
ask them to keep trying to
login twice or thrice if
they face any error/problem.

Note: Please ask them to
give their respective roll
number as user name and let
the password be the one
which they use for their
personal mail to access.
They have to give only their
personal email id while
registering and not their
college id because all the
test links will be set to
their personal email id
only.

Majority of the students are using Gmail. So, what information they can access if they know my Gmail password?
At least they don’t copy and then act like they were the originator like Apple does.

Apple even tried to trademark the term “app store”. They still listed as one of their registered trademarks even though they could never enforce it and iOS will still try to capitalize the words when you type them in.
Or if you don't have a daily commute at all. Perfect for those who could switch to the occasional taxi or rental but stick to owning a car due to cultural inertia, perfect as that fallback family car that only gets used when the family fleet is fully saturated, perfect for the plugin hybrid that never gets plugged in due to the inconvenience of keeping two kinds of energy storage stocked.
How did you decide to fasten with zipties and overhangs instead of holes through both pipes and bolts?
So, you're not doing it wrong if you have Kerberos providing actual SSO (for "all" services) since before certificate authN was available.

You need GSSAPI anyhow if you have Kerberized home directories and not typing passwords at ssh. Although you're likely to have LDAP (in which you can store public keys), all you need is the KDC and a simple Kerberos setup on ssh clients and servers. I wonder why anyone thinks you need more.

Kerberos tickets and infrastructure are roughly equivalent to using ephemeral certificates as far as I can see. The one reason you might want certificates is if you require FIDO MFA, as I don't know if you can use anything other than OTP with Kerberos implementations. (The hook for "the auth flow" is preauth.)
Blog on this topic: https://solarhub.energy/why-dont-electric-cars-have-solar-pa...
> Still wrong:

ah, ok, they eat them. thanks for clearing that up
Just nitpicking here. Around half of the people eligible for RSA in France do not get it.

The administrative process is willingly complicated and requires an address, which is very hard to come by when you're out on the streets.

Also, receiving RSA means you actively have to look for a job, ANY JOB. They will often force you to take a bullshit job outside of your field, that will make your life project (small business, or non-profit activities) unreachable. If you don't accept, they'll cut the money which is already not enough to just pay one-room rent in big cities.

That's for the people who are eligible. Then, there's many others. RSA is only for documented people (contrary to CMU/AME for minimum medical services) and does not apply to people under age 25 unless they meet some very strict condition. That's why France has an epidemics of very young people living on the streets.

So yes, saving 50-100€ on transports every month can make a big difference for millions of people. Especially considering the last governments passed laws to enforce harsh repression against those who can't pay their tickets: 5 unpaid tickets in a year now mandates prison time, how crazy is that?
Catching Control-C and a gotcha with shell scripts
If you allow new players to enter the game or existing players to expand their supply, the coordination strategy you outline invites defection.
I am not seeing why a cable performing better than marked/advertised (20 instead of 5) is a problem?
Magnus: Shazam for Art
To post code, indent it with two spaces, or HN will turn asterisks into italics on/off.
Kinda sorta, imagine that probability has a direction. Interference is then about alignment of these directions.
That's weird they ask for that.

You can setup a 2FA so that they would need access to your phone as well.

Also, make sure that the email is legit. It could be an attempt to gain access to your account.
Which surely says a lot of the game... ;)
Does “deceive the integrity” have some specific legal meaning wherever you’re from? I can’t find any hits for the phrase in DDG. What are you trying to argue?

I was not vindicating Ito of anything except the narrow charge (made in Ronan Farrow’s New Yorker article) of attempting to hide the source of Epstein funds from MIT by marking them as anonymous. It’s clear now from Reif’s letter that this was actually done with MIT’s knowledge and at MIT’s request.

Both Ito and MIT decided to take Epstein’s money, knowing that he was a convicted sex offender.
That, and the surveillance apparatus which is aimed at catching free-riders.

In most french cities, these systems (and their maintenance) actually cost more than the money brought by selling tickets.
Strongly disagree. One of the great and unusual things about the HN community is that opinions are usually based on evidence. Asking someone to provide the evidence they are basing their opinion on is a great way to cut through all the noise on a subject you don't know well.
Google's Wizard of Oz Easter Egg
I really won't trust in IKEA products at space
Wow, normally you only see this in mails from Nigeria.
For me it would be suprising only if the equation would be about real numbers only. Exponentiation of complex numbers is defined in a way that this is trivially true. Or at least this is my perception as a non math-expert.

My approach to Euler's equation (as a non-expert) was the following:

1. Try to understand the meaning of the operations in the equation. Search for the definition of exponential on complex numbers, because it was not trivial for me how it is defined on complex numbers.

2. I have read that it is defined by angles and the unit circle: e(alpha * i) is the point on the unit circle at angle alpha.

3: Looking at the equation: this is trivial, it basically says that cos(Pi) is -1.

What am I missing?

Edit:
And why is exponentiation defined this way? Why is the base e? Why isn't it 2, like this:

"2^(alpha * i) is the point on the unit circle at angle alpha."

Would this definition lead to contradiction or some difficulties?
Where that analogy falls short is that if a given company pays for cheap and/or inferior real estate, you will still find that company if you explicitly go to their physical location – you don't have to walk past four competitors who paid extra for the right to stand in their driveway.
This attitude is the best argument for not using rust I have seen so far.
Well the latest iPhone has caught up to Philips shavers visually IMO. I'm not kidding, the distinctive "retro" look of it comes from associating that kind of design with the 1960s.
Please come back and post your position on IPO day so we can all have a good laugh.
That's absurd!
Everyone knows you're supposed to open up Developer Tools, then throttle network to 2G and then scroll, if you want to see the footer.

I thought this was common knowledge, guys. /s
The essential difference is that the location of your server matters a lot less than where you are located.

Maybe you have a job that you can work remotely and never have to travel but there is more to life than work. Your neighbours, friends, kids, schools and your favourite coffee shop are part of who you are.
I drive a gen1 Chevrolet Volt. Plugged into a 110V outlet it adds about 4 miles range in an hour. This is enough to make its benefits worthwhile.
Astronomy includes knowing when you aren't doing it and instead seeing an artifact of your instruments or weather.
But why couldn't you do the same with a rental bike? Also not approving, just asking.
That's what emergency recalls are for. It has the benefit of making it very clear to the owner that something in the vehicle is changing because you have to physically bring it to the shop. Not that it can't be solved by software, but it's not solved well today.
French public transports are already greatly financed by public money. Then, in many regions, employers have to pay a contribution to the transport infrastructure, usually around half the monthly price of their employees' transport bills.

Making transports free to end-users actually saves a lot of money by removing all these layers of bureaucracy and control.

No need for barriers, repairpeople to fix the ticket machines, and security guards to beat the hell out of people who can't pay.
Or you're trying to have an asynchronous conversation with someone and don't want to switch to email.

Or you're trying to have a normal conversation on a phone connection, or a flaky connection. Or switch to your phone in the middle.

Or you want to link something to a group of friends and you only want to send one message.
I'm living in Tel Aviv

It's crazy to see how in 2-3 years there are thousands of people using electric scooters and bikes.

The only problem is that it grows in such a rapid pace that the city is not built to it.
There are many small incidents, and in many cases, those incidents are pretty risky.
I understand 'grok' and didn't know SSH certs were a thing before reading this article.

I immediately understood the concepts by skimming the article and the potential benefits, but also because I understand the dangers and effort involved in running your own CA, the potential pitfalls.

I am extremely pleased to have learnt something new today.
I’m in the process of moving right now (literally in a week), I’m quite aware of rent prices. Maybe we have a different definition of “decent” in this context.
naïve (ignorant) -> native (fluent / expert)

not notpicking; those words have opposite meanings here
The idea of markdown is great because it it essentially a text. Even if the client would not support it, humans would be able to read it just fine. Much better and more secure than rich HTML. For example my email client won't display images by default and I am happy with that. Rich HTML should be on the web only IMO!
Well, for one, whoever's running the US gets changed after two terms, sometimes it's a pity, sometimes it couldn't happen fast enough.

But in my opinion, it's definitely better than having the same person running things for who-knows how long, regardless of the integrity of that person.
I'd answer that giving out password is a security breach and they need to rework their process. Honestly, if they actually are asking for that, I wouldn't want to work with them.
I think it's very important to have a good work life balance.
Especially if you work the whole day mentally. I try to do sports regularly.

Especially important is the support from family.
in my opinion it is scarcity all the same: attention scarcity.
This doomsday futurism has an interesting characteristic - the author of such prophecies can't lose. Either they are right and humanity (or what's left of it) will look back on them as prescient and clear thinking, or they are wrong and everyone will be too relieved and happy to care. The Y2K bug was another example.
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> which is entirely impossible

isn't?
Orion Biotech to Initiate Clinical Trials of Microbicide Gel for HIV Prevention
> My gym actually does that.

Do they really tell you how much energy they are harvesting as electricity or do they just tell you how much energy they are dissipating as heat?

Because it is very common for sports equipment to measure/estimate the power applied by the athlete, in watts, all without the slightest trace of harvesting implied.
You got my attention. I've got ~25 years Unix/Linux experience under my belt and didn't know about SSH certs and now I do. So appreciated.
Or just, and here me out here, bike to the outer sunset. Sounds crazy.

Depending on your fitness level, you might arrive a couple of minutes later than your friends, but so what.
As far as I know there is no evidence that the patent system as a whole is a net benefit to society. The negative effects are clearly visible like the formation of oligopolies, litigation costs, licensing costs and so on. So unless one can present data that the positives outweigh the negatives the whole system should be abolished.
As a practical matter it might be much easier to end software patents than it is to end all patents.
Yeah, it is wrong from multiple perspectives.

Christian (judging others), logical (how much does she know), fiscal (most costs to system are not kids)

Forgot parenting (who else is supposed advocate for the kid?)
what i sense here, and i felt that too, is needing an excuse to relax. like being able to tell my boss: i'd love to work more but i have to take care of the kids. once you realize what is going on you can work with that more constructively, at which point you'll be able to relax without needing an activity that you didn't choose yourself. you can and should of course continue these chores, but those too you'll be able to do with more deliberation and awareness of what benefits they give you.
Are they offering British people a free ferry ride across the channel with a return journey in 3 years?
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> But recently, Google has started to use their power as the effectively sole search provider in a few really extortive ways. First, the Basecamp situation above: by making a design choice to stuff so many ads above organic searches for a company’s own name, businesses like Basecamp are effectively forced to pay up whatever Google wants in order to access search traffic for customers searching for them directly. That’s pretty extortive.

On the flip side, if I were a competitor to Basecamp, I love the access I have by advertising on Google on Basecamp. If Basecamp's business suffers from users going to an alternative, perhaps their product offering isn't as unique or valuable as they would like to think. Also I would point out that people searching Basecamp on Google rather than going to Basecamp.com may look for Basecamp type products. It's like if I search band-aid. Maybe I mean band-aid branded products, but giving me access to similar offerings is great for me as well as competitors
But please keep in mind that today's compilers are (most of the time) very smart. Hacker's Delight is somewhat outdated today. There's no need anymore for writing "x << 2" instead of "x * 4".

I recommend Matt Godbolt's Talk(s) about compiler cleverness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSkpMdDe4g4 (see the 30 minute mark for the multiplication example)
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Keybaseproofs
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/nemo786; my proof: https://keybase.io/nemo786/sigs/A0D4hm4ggx87CH2FBil5KGynd5LrtgOZRbRZThoZtoA ]
If you think bikes requires planning and strategy you're doing it wrong.

All you need is a good lock (make sure to put in wheel locks so you don't need to have that ridicolous cable-lock setup).

Do you sometimes need to walk 50m to find a pole or bike rack? Sure, but that doesn't require planning and strategy.
It depends how many Google services you use but it could be a lot. This could be your mail, your docs, calendar, messenger, voice, etc... Plus other services that use Google auth.

This request seems very improper for them to request that you set a password the same as their personal email. This actually violates security best practices. I would be very suspicious of why they are requesting this. Also that they specifically state that the registration process may encounter errors and to keep doing it is also suspicious. Are you sure this is a legitimate request? It appears to me a phishing attempt to me.

If this is legitimate, this company and your University need to be named so others can avoid these kind of bad practices.
like ironnman ?
Cunningham’s Law and Human Motivation
Most of the gym equipment I use, with the exception of treadmills and stair climbers, is powered by the operator. It only turns on after using it for half a minute.

Phones and tablets need 10 watts or less. A notebook somewhere between 25 to 50 watts if it is running at 100% CPU. Why would an exercise machine with a similar screen size need more than that? Even a total beginner can generate far more than 50 watts.
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Well, an urban centre doesn't have much "local ecology" to begin with...
> we know it's harmful when parents try to teach children to drink responsibly and "let them try in controlled conditions". It works much better to not let children drink at all.

Uhhh no we don't know that. Because it's not true at all.

When I was 16, this was the legal age to drink beer. I always thought it was a good idea to first learn what alcohol does, before you learn to drive (which is 18, where I live).

Aaanyway, at some point we did raise the legal drinking age to 18 (afaik, this was for no other particular reason than the Christian Democrats being in power).

I'm still awaiting the reports that binge drinking among kids and young adults has decreased. Because it hasn't.

Except now some kids will wait 2 years before they learn to not abuse alcohol the hard way. But they would anyway (by which I mean, some of them. I know enough people who are perfectly responsible or not drinking at all). Maybe it's a slightly tougher lesson because you're not 17 any more.

But all in all, if parents raise their kids, guide them, and can make sure their first experiences with alcohol are in fact responsible, this teaches the kid valuable lessons and it's good for them in the way they learn about alcohol and its dangers and how to deal with it, instead of having to figure it out alone, when adult. Parenting can be an extremely powerful positive force in the upbringing of a child and really I would need to see some strong evidence to the contrary.

You are talking about actual controlled conditions with the parents playing an active role. I really need to see evidence that that could possibly have any negative effect what-so-ever.
I think the Dutch bike experience is the result of a conscious decision to make cycling feel safe and convenient which was partly motivated by the 1970's fuel crisis.
The real puzzle is why is this the only country make that decision. See also http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2009/10/effect-of-hills...
The vast majority of people don't commute 140km a day.
I don’t know how advanced the go linker is, but the distinction between compiler and linker gets blurred when one adds link-time optimization (https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html, https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/LTO-Overview.html, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interprocedural_optimization)

Even if it doesn’t do that, fixing up various addresses can be a lot of work if the linker can make code shorter (e.g. by using short branches where possible), or if it tries to increase cache locality by changing function order.
This seems to be aimed at a single security domain like a company. That's not what you have in many cases, and supplying a public key to a remote site for login, revision control, etc. is actually tractable.
There is actually longstanding experience with a "global" PKI in the research community with Globus, specifically as a hacked-up GSSAPI mechanism with ssh. It was widely detested as I saw a few years ago. (They could have used Kerberos without inventing and messily implementing all that.)
I always wondered who are these people/kids spending money on useless cosmetics, but the other day a friend of mine told me how his 11 year old, a fine kid, spent his birthday money (about 50€) on his PlayStation. Naturally I thought he bought a new game - it's the first thing we would have done at his age whenever we had some money at hand.

However, he wasn't interested in new games at all - instead he spend that money, all of it, on Fortnite cosmetics, which seems absolutely bizarre and alien to me. Growing up with Quake, Half-Life, Deus Ex and other classics we also loved games and didn't think twice about spending money on it, but I'm sure we would have laughed away any attempt to charge for skins and random items. Of course strong modding communities helped as well.

Anyway, this insight really surprised me - I always thought it's a few whales that participate in this nonsense, but apparently it's everyone, including the otherwise sane and reasonable kid from next-door.
Technically France said no to the EU in 2005, but the government ignored it. If the country would have been a (semi) direct democracy, or the government would have acted on the wish of the people at the time we would be talking about Frexit instead of Brexit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_French_European_Constit...
I’ve always had concerns about exposing MongoDB ObjectID to users.

Is it safe?
> Wouldn't alcoholism be very correlated with total consumption?

Yes, and so is the number of glass bottles they recycle. But it's the alcoholism that is a health problem to address.
lol what ?
Allowing one damaging thing isn't a good enough reason for allowing another damaging thing. In both cases the costs and benefits need to stand on their own merits.
Writing emulators seems like really hard thing to do.
What is in it for you ? Is it about technical challenge, or something else people from outside might not know?
Interesting! I wonder about the economics of that?

Do they just knock down a wall in the middle? Or is there any new construction involved? (Usually the developer wants to go for higher intensity to sell more units per land.)
You can see that if you change the region to US from the link below the map. It may also enhance the resolution.
And then you have all the users who goes to the address bar, type basecamp, hits enter before clicking on the first link in the search result without even looking at the link
That's actually the part that I found a little bit ironic (though I very much enjoyed the post), considering that the author links to and praises a study that points out that many A/B tests result in illusory wins because growth teams end up testing a zillion different variations and stop tests early whenever one alternative seems promising.

In such an environment, you're bound to end up with all kinds of weird "winners" but there's no guarantee that (1) they're actually better than the alternatives you tested and (2) even if they are, that the advantage is stable and not just a temporary novelty effect.