skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very easy to succumb to cynicism as it allows for an easy response to just about any issue in life.

For the record, I hear you. There are times I want to throw my hands in the air. But.. about 4 years I was driving through Ohio and I saw 'Save us Trump' sign on lawn of a delapidated house..Probably one of the saddest things I have seen in my short life.

I guess what I am saying is, it is really easy to dismiss. It is so much harder to try to understand others.
The whole line is not as shocking

# BURN, BABY, BURN -- MASTER IGNITION ROUTINE
Constraints breed more than creativity
Thank you for the inspiration. I'm tempted now to start doing the same myself.
That seems really disingenuous. Can't you update the article with this important detail?
In a world where you can plot a pin of yourself via gps on the map the need for street names, building names e.t.c. at higher zoom levels just doesn't matter because you don't need it to figure out where you actually are, with paper maps you did.

If adding that information to the map serves no need anymore but clutters it up, why do it?
Maybe a small select group have been. Do you really believe that the resources available in 1983 are even in the same category as the current ones? Come on.
Font selection in browsers isn't limited. Browsers don't have embedded fonts—they rely on whatever fonts are installed in the operating system.

The challenge is that to ensure consistency, you need to use the "lowest common denominator" of fonts that are installed by default across all operating systems. Which leaves you with (like) Arial, Times, Courier, Verdana, Georgia, Palatino, and (hahahaha) Comic Sans.

The real answer here is why web designers use Google Fonts as opposed to embedding their own fonts. To which the answer is: it's so much easier. (Tech, licensing, formats, compatibility, etc.)
The link I provided (their documentation page) is the demo page. The source code is at https://github.com/docsifyjs/docsify/tree/master/docs which is a single static index.html that renders a bunch of markdown files.
Good degree from good university?
Love the language here. Even see this as a meaningful way to explain concepts to children.
Nim maybe? https://nim-lang.org/
If you or your company has enough money for a web farm, you should just buy your own cert.
The show "Californication" is a pretty good representation of the time period.
I took Es in Prague around 2000. I was afraid I had done some brain damage with that stuff. Turns out, it was the very loud music that did the permanent damage. Now have ringing in the ears. So, hopefully they don't have the patients also listen to loud dance music.
Thanks, hearing that helps a lot.
Well, it's been popular for 20 years, so that sounds fairly sustainable to me. A lot of projects with many more contributors have come and gone in that time period.

Either way, that doesn't make it "closed source" like you said in the other comment.
There's plenty of psychotropic medications, but none specifically for PTSD or CPTSD (most likely to be treatment resistant), of which I'm aware. I asked my psychiatrist and many of my friends have asked theirs and it's all similar answers. The only real medication for flashbacks is prazosin, a med that was originally a blood pressure medication that they found to be effective in blocking nightmares of a traumatic origin.
But not just your economy, I'm sure China feels the same way, as will the EU once they see what you raise...

I think the recent reductions in the US tax are moves in this direction, which is good. And what else to tax, lots of countries administer VAT, it's not so difficult, and seems quite hard to dodge. But there are lots of other taxes, too. Income tax + 401k starts to sound like a consumption tax, too, only paid on what you spend right now, like VAT. We can adjust that however we like. And before the profits in Ireland can be turned into a bigger yacht for any owner, they have to be paid as dividends (or by selling shares) by some real person who lives somewhere, and we can tax that.
A president of Harvard, Lawrence Summers, was forced to step down after a 2005 speech in which he suggested that the under-representation of women in science and engineering could be due to a "different availability of aptitude at the high end".

Could this regional brain structure account for the higher variance in male intelligence?
The sterile world you desire is not one I'd like to live in.
This is fantastic!

Other posts here are suggesting the choice is either a commercial school like Lambda or Harvard, so it's also worth noting that there is a whole range of options for folks.

Obviously, there are public and community colleges that teach programming. Many of these have a long history of working with non-traditional students who have jobs or other commitments. Some are remote-only or remote-friendly. In my state (GA), tuition for an accredited public community college is about $6,000 over 2 years for a programming diploma. That's $3,000 per year, and there's no income share required. (I'm not sure if people can do it faster for less money.)

There are also a set of nonprofits and foundations that offer free programming programs to certain populations. I believe NYC has something along these lines.
Experian is a pretty unique case, because the people whose data they lost (you and I) don't have a choice to not do business with them. And the people who actually do have a choice (businesses) realistically don't have a choice either.
Ionic 4 custom date component
Correct -- Double Irish is no more as of December 31st 2019. It was closed a few years ago but not with immediate effect.
> If Bloomberg gets elected the US is done. It's not longer anything resembling democracy and the only thing that will save us from the new order will be revolution.

So being extremely wealthy and successful now disqualifies you from being a good President?

Unlike our current super wealthy President, Bloomberg has more experience in government (mayor of NYC) and has a more successful track record in business.

Money shouldn't disqualify you from being a good President, poor judgement, low moral character and lack of relevant experience should.

I certainly wouldn't mind if Bill Gates ran for President and if he did I doubt he'd accept donations.
all this got me curious and looked it up. here are a few things that often contain palm oil: bread, margarine, some cheese, ice cream, soap & shampoo, chocolate, pre-made pizza etc.

looks to me like you might want to go back to making everything yourself or know every single brand around...
Yes. Actually I thought I wrote that code to be a bit narrower in its edits, but evidently not.
"I was relieved to see that only internal employee information was impacted"

Believing that puts a lot of credence in their analytical/forensic/security skills. Which doesn't align well with "inside Citrix for Five Months".
First find a problem you want solve. Then, solve it with JS. That's the way how you learn stuff. Re books and online resources IDK. JS is huge and there are many ways to do JS. If you are into functional JS look for a problem in the React space. React's ecosystem incl. redux is quite far and reference-like re functional programming. If you like types => Typescript and so on.

I also tried to learn JS from all the popular books and the problem was that most of the stuff I read in thos, I've never used in real life. And so much sophisticated stuff which books didn't teach was hidden in some lib's Github repos.
Now he is popular, but in 2016 the $66 million of his own money that he spent on his campaign was vital to his election bid.
Instead of creating C code inside cmake scripts it's better to use command configure_file (https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/configure_file.h...). The command creates a source file based on a template file.
Clinton got more votes than trump as well, not the best example
When I was taking an operating systems class I wrote a fork bomb to play with:

~ $ gcc fork-bomb.c
~ $ ./a.out

I saw that it did indeed crash my lab machine, and when it rebooted I went on with my life.

Our CS lab had a central server which served a lot of important functions and also was the terminal server you could SSH into when working from your dorm. All of these had shared home directories.

Late one night working from my dorm before a big project was due I ran:

project $ gcc project.c
project $ ~/a.out # note the '~'

And forkbombed the central server. A lot of people were pretty mad at me.

Lessons learned:

* People should not be logging into the central server to do their work, or it should at least have nproc limits

* Always name your executables (gcc foo.c -o foo)

* Don't leave bombs lying around
The case for never demolishing another building
What financially-savvy individual would keep their wealth in an inflationary store of value?
I've found online courses can actually be MORE expensive than meatspace courses because online, they usually make me buy some DRM nonsense that self-destructs at the end of the course. So it's not possible to acquire "books" through any of the traditional means secondhand, theft, borrowing.
Where's your bio?

My email is my handle at gmail.com

No obligation. I just want to connect with an individual interested in a "non-traditional" language :)
For what it is worth, I got text asking for donation to Bloomberg's campaign. So I would not expect Bloomberg not taking money from large donors.
Programmers die way too young. We need to chill out, code less, walk more. Or we need ways to code while walking.
Last month I discover NGINX is not pronounced "en-jinx", and today I discover SQLite is not pronounced "sequel-light".

2020 is turning out to be pretty terrible guys.
If Trudeau was pushing it you can bet the PCs are against it.
Folding glass: how, why, and the truth of Samsung’s Z Flip
Hey! Thanks for supporting us! Sure, I would love to discover owwly. Good luck with your product too, guys!
All of the other candidates are also doing that; there's nothing special about how Bloomberg is spending his money. The others are doing the same, but with other people's money -- people who will now expect to wield influence behind the scenes. Is that not worse?
They mention that the wearable component was a conscious design choice to overcome certain limitations of standalone devices:

(On standalone device limitations)

>(2) They rely on multiple transducers that enlarge their jamming coverage but introduce blind spots locations were the signals from two or more transducers cancel each other out. If a microphone is placed in any of these locations it will not be jammed, rendering the whole jammer obsolete.

>To tackle these shortcomings, we engineered a wearable jammer that is worn as a bracelet, which is depicted in Figure 1. By turning an ultrasonic jammer into a bracelet, our device leverages natural hand gestures that occur while speaking, gesturing or moving around to blur out the aforementioned blind spots.
>... they realized that if this is a critical part of their infrastructure, they needed to make sure my business was sustainable.

>So companies which are typically large companies that really depend on SQLite as part of their product, they just pay us an annual fee.

>... we are a 100% engineering shop.

An intriguing option for anyone sitting on an original infrastructure solution, and looking to turn it into a livelihood, with quality of life as first priority.
50 years ago 99.9% of computer programs were written in completely imperative assembly language programs, such that even arithmetic involved statements and temporary mutable variables. Fortran was a more mathematical higher-level language with boolean and arithmetic expressions. Functional programming just continues this trend, resulting in more mathematical, higher-level declarative languages, which as far as I am concerned, makes them more suitable for modelling real world business problems.
It makes sense in context, of course, I just didn't think of NASA in the late 60ies as the sort of place where you could write 'clever' things like that.
Even “cash” held by individual companies is not actually cash in a bank. It, too, is invested in marketable securities. Holding cash is an incredibly foolish move due to inflation.
These courses should be free.

If government agencies really had their acts together, then these courses, as well as many others would be free, as part of 'extended learning' programs.

For all the crazy amount of grant money being thrown around by so many governments, and given the need for certain disciplines, it's odd that this doesn't happen.
That's not what 'fixed set' means here.

It's 'fixed' in the same sense as the compiler knowing what are the subclasses of a base class.

Just as you can always 'extend' the OOP base class by adding a subclass, you can always 'extend' an algebraic data for by adding another case.

Both can be extended, but more importantly they can be enumerated.
Yes and No. It has been attempted by a company in the UK, that would raise your rates of you fly in conditions that they deem risky. I think market is so niche and unprofitable that this large data analysis is seem as an unneeded expense for underwriting.
I think what they mean is why don't browsers just include the most popular fonts, so the underlying OS doesn't matter?

Instead we're restricted to only a few fonts that actually have decent cross platform support.
Are you keeping ALL AIS data, or all data for the SF Bay area? Curious if there are some fun research opportunities with that data.
Seems like you could work around that by swiping right at random.
Just another speck of anecdata: I've had to replace almost all of my < 10 years old, <~10k hours of use Cree bulbs. The last 5 years of LEDs (feit, Cree, GE) haven't failed yet.
I accidentally took down Netcom with a fork bomb in the early 90's. They quickly discovered the problem and had the system back up within about 10 minutes, after which I found that I could no longer log in because they had banned my account.

I called them up and explained that it was an accident, but also asked why they did not enforce quotas on user accounts to prevent such things. They thanked me and re-enabled my account right away.
I did not ask "how", I wished to know who supports a DNS service like that and for what price.
Python tools for record linking and fuzzy matching
Facebook lets Grindr on.
approximately 15 years ago I read a comic book / graphic novel / bande dessinee, and it heavily highlighted the concept of artificial intelligence at least during a few pages, perhaps throughout that whole issue, or perhaps over a whole series, but I only read the 1 issue, and barely remember anything. I tried but failed identifying which comic that was...
So it is clearly not politically motivated, and is just a court case going through the motions since 2011. Here's another article without a paywall from 2018: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2018/05/16/fac...
My experience here on HN, over the recent past few years, has only ever been consistent with this thread. Anything that could possibly be interpreted or misinterpreted as sexist gets voted down into oblivion. As do any defenders on abstract principles, or who take neutral stances.

This very comment of mine could be interpreted suspiciously as insufficiently antisexist, and be downvoted too.

Further, I use HN as a proxy for the general attitudes of the tech industry.
Then why are there 36 trillion requests?
This is not a new phenomenon! During acceptance tests of F-15e's a few (many) years ago we found things like McDonald's cups.
What It’s Like to Describe Porn for a Blind Audience
> I tend to far more blunt with my comments probably because I just get a kick out working up the zealots on both sides.

HN is not the place for that sort of thing.
I've read about this a few times now, but have been unable to find a good resource on how to set such a VM up. Do you have a link or resource somewhere so that I can at least get started?

Still unexperienced with letsencrypt, but I know enough that I cannot use the standard way.
Does that really help in that regard?
All NASA images and videos are in the public domain, but the same is not true for any technologies that they develop.
I hear ya :-/
He gave us so much more than cut, copy, paste. It's clear from all the design history books that I've read that he's a legend.[1]

NO MODES!

https://itsthedatastupid.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/nomodes...

[1] One of the more rare sources for Larry Tesler's contributions is his interview for Bill Moggridge's Designing Interactions (http://www.designinginteractions.com/interviews/LarryTesler)
My point it has nothing to do with traditional motivations for unionizing that everyone is discussing. Also, workers definitely have nothing to do with deciding whether whether some content is appropriate. It has nothing to do with workplace conditions or collective bargaining. They aren't the ones who lose money when Republicans drop Kickstarter.
I think the idea isn't to increase security, but to decrease log spam from attacks that are attempted but won't work.

For example, if you don't have WordPress, then all the attempts to access /wp-admin will never work, but will fill your logs with 404 errors.
Money sitting in a vault and money invested in companies that employ people and produce value for society could not be more different.
Bloomberg doesn't need money. He solicits donations because the act of donating money causes the donator to feel personally invested in the campaign. They will be more likely to take steps to influence their friends and family to vote for Bloomberg, and more likely to actually bother to vote themselves, than someone who hasn't.

This is the same reason governments sell war bonds -- they don't actually need the $100. It rather serves to make ordinary people feel they are contributing something to the cause.
It's disappointing that such an article doesn't even mention the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil [1] that is set up to address exactly these problems. It's early days but you can look out for their logo on packaging.

[1] https://rspo.org/
It does improve security by improving the SNR in logs.
>Ken Thompson and Rob Pike are mostly our not at all involved with Go anymore.

I'm fine with Ken, but if Rob is not involved, things might progress faster. I have a big impression he was the impediment in most cases...
How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter
It was Equifax that had the data breach, not Experian. Equifax was fined $700 million. Experian benefitted from the breach though since Equifax provided Experian credit monitoring services to those whose data was released.

Equifax stock has gone up since the 2017 data breach, though because consumers are not customers of Equifax, it's banks and lenders who are not concerned with data they don't control. If hackers had broke into Equifax and changed people's credit scores, the banks might have been a bit more concerned.
Sounds like you only fly first class. Have you ever flown 10+ hours in economy and felt ready for work (or even vacation) stepping off the plane?
wow. this is amazing
Does anyone know whether this service generates any revenue for Google? I can’t see selling fonts data as something desirable by 3rd party companies but maybe that’s just me?
Thanks friend - I sort of assumed it was something along those lines but was curious about your thoughts as a pro.
Software engineering and white collar work in general are very visual-heavy professions. It is absurd not to include health coverage as part of compensation when the job involves 40+ hours a week of staring at computer screens. It is also ridiculous that vision and dental insurance are bundled separately from "medical" coverage, but that is a different issue.
> So you snuck it in

Linux did not win the server space because admins snuck it in. It won because it was free and worked well enough compared to signing up for tens of thousands of dollars worth of lengthy contracts with SCO/HP/IBM or even Microsoft.

> Sneak ClojureScript in

I don't see this ending well.

It's great to do your side projects in your favorite language but foisting it onto your employer so they they are forced to use it is a pretty bad violation of trust.

What happens if you quit and ClojureScript programmers are hard to find at the price the employer can afford without going out of business?

I would never try and pull this off.
by my reading the parent was comparing personal income tax policy with corporate income tax policy, and as a person you can take a loss and still be taxed.
Follow these steps to make your router the default host: https://www.att.com/support/smallbusiness/article/smb-intern...

And then plug all of your devices into your router. Easy peasy, albeit not as easy as Comcast’s big bridge mode switch on the modem control panel.
Jamming wifi (as well as many (most?) other frequency bands) is very simple and very illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming
My 'smart meter' is Zigbee enabled, and I own an adapter that spits out data from the meter in XML format. I can see power consumption with ~400 Watt resolution every 10 seconds without messing around in my breaker box attaching things.

Downside is that we're a decade into net-connected thermostat and HVAC systems and none of them support any of this.
The Hinge API doesn't explicitly track your "desirability" bucket, but JSwipe (Tinder for Jews) does. I was curious how their API compared, and there's a field which records the percentage of users who liked your profile.

After doing this for a week, it does seem like the quality of my suggestions decreased, but they returned to normal if I limited the number of automated swipes.

TL;DR: automating up to ~20 swipes per day is the sweet spot to maintain match quality.
https://archive.md/MCRbf
I'm sorry to have bothered you with the facts I presented.
> I believe people are not idiots and are capable of judging their own interest...

I feel like this is often the crux of the argument against any kind of government regulation. "The people are smart enough to not be duped!" And in many cases it's easier to create chaos / scam people than it is to defend yourself against it. Just because some people seem capable of defending themselves / cutting through the fraud doesn't mean everyone who can't are idiots or children.

I'll give you an example. There used to be a ton of "Anti-Virus" apps on the iOS App Store. Due to how iOS is built, these apps literally weren't even able to do anything—they were all pure scams. But... people purchased them, not knowing about it. Many of us on HN would recognize immediately that these were scams, because technology like this is in our wheelhouse, so to speak. But it's likely someone in your family (a non-idiot) who's used antivirus software on computers before, and was comfortable with that arrangement, would easily be duped into buying one of these apps. Your analogy would have you advertise or endorse these products, then turn around and mock any "idiot" who purchased them. That's, to me, classic unethical behavior. I can't fathom how this is defensible to anyone with a modicum of empathy.
During other takedowns the FBI will seize a C&C server. They can then see which IP addresses it has talking to it.
A good and true quote, but to equate things like the Nazis or genocides with a couple of assholes on the Solution Design team who strongly prefer Technology [X] is overkill.

They're not evil, they're just a wet blanket, and you're not a good person, at least not per se, for opposing them -- maybe they're right?
>To the users, if you want generics, WHY DID YOU CHOOSE GO?

My employer chose it. So there's that.
I think this practice is a bit worse than other forms of electioneering since it is not clear if views being expressed come directly from the candidate or not (unlike a TV ad or a rally). When governments do something similar this, their methods are rightly criticized as being undemocratic [1,2]. I think a similar line of reasoning applies to US election politics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades