skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But at that point you have a DSL which is no longer obvious when one only knows about shell scripting

At which point you can run `man rc.subr` and be enlightened :)
When to Hire a New CEO
The reality is that a large quantity of people will continue blocking ads, so your contribution will amount to nil, unless you can get a non-blocking movement going.

The unfortunate thing is no matter how much we decide to not block ads, the ad companies will continue to take advantage of us with extremely intrusive, unvetted (for safety) ads. You give them an inch, they take a mile. I'm not willing to give them that inch. They will not reciprocate.

If all ad networks were tidy and nice, like The Deck network, I probably wouldn't block ads. But my pre-adblock experience WITH ads is what caused me to block them.

The advertisers had their chance and they blew it. I could care less if all ad-supported sites go away now. You're in bed with ad company scum, you deserve what you get.

If they want to ruin the user experience. I will force the user experience to be better with an ad-blocker.

I understand some content (especially content available for those that are underprivileged) may go away if ad-blocking continues to grow. I don't know the solution, but the solution isn't more ads or not blocking them. Maybe there's some other way... shrug
Does the Internet Have an Image Problem? Maybe
Pretty much nothing. If you have some data you need to recover you'll have to find a data recovery company.

Whenever I send stuff in I always assume I will never get the data back. I generally do a backup and wipe.
I think if lastpass just allowed use of an out-of-channel external file as an additional encryption layer (as keepass can) then you should be able to worry about keeping that external file secure rather than worry about what's in the cloud.
>> Not discussed in the article's introduction is whether Mr. Tanyolacar, and by extension The Economist, might possibly have any learning to do about how race works in America

If you look to the end of the article, it is clear that he had been insensitive at best.

>> The Economist has again chosen a revealing bedfellow

Your choice of language is antagonistic. It seems like you are implying the writer's and the publication's racist tendencies are slipping out. If so, I don't know what is the basis of that assertion.
See also, John Mashey's work and others who have been following the money. http://deepclimate.org/2010/09/26/strange-scholarship-wegman...
I think supporting such a small feature-set of the web is basically rolling back the clock. This is putting people back in the Web 1.0 days, although with a browser built using more modern tools. Even with performance in mind, you might achieve better performance with a closer-to-the-metal language than JS.

I commend the effort but I'm not sure about the ultimate goal. If "trying To show the important content only" is the main goal then you are discarding a lot of the richness of the modern web. The web is not strictly about the text content of pages. That was what BBS's were all about. Even then people used ASCII and ANSI art to make pages feel more illustrative and rich.

I'd be more interested in someone tackling the complexity and un-elegance of the modern website tech. CSS is pretty un-elegant, but there definitely exists a strong desire to dictate style, how a page is laid out, and to present models outside the text + image article format.

I'd love someone to re-engineer the status quo of the code content of webpages, effectively making modern complex and un-elegant browser implementations unnecessary. I don't think the world needs a more minimalistic browser, we've already been down that road in the past, but rather a more minimalistic coding system for webpages in general.
> However, it is pretty clear the intent of the academic in question was to promote discussion and debate about racism.

The Internet - yes, that other one with all the SJWs and their vapid twitterings - has a saying it is wise to take to heart: "Intent is not magic." The particular intent cited has even less magic than most, precisely because it's so often used as a defense by people who are essentially trolling under cover of art.
Unfortunately, small thrusters are less efficient than large ones, overgeneralizing of course. There are a number of components that cannot be scaled down indefinitely.

Although there are other potential options (EDTs, etc, etc) that don't have as much difficulty with scaling.
> arguably, this is an area where the analogy breaks down, as nothing of the last 50 years seems to match the importance of Newton or Boyle

I'd argue that the ongoing computer revolution matches that. While, true, our knowledge of proper science hasn't advanced compared to what Newton, Boyle, et al. have done, our advances in engineering have more than made up for it. Personal computers, the Internet, and smartphones have changed the world like nothing else.

> freedom from racial discrimination being the struggle of recent times

For that matter, let's also add the ongoing culture wars, including the de-emphasizing of religion in everyday life and the struggle for LGBT rights.
Complex needs are better solved with source code rather than special blobs of $system.

> In any case syst emd happily launches LSB-compatible init scripts, you literally don't lose anything.

Yes, I do. I literally have piles of unwanted systemd on my system.
It's a good idea but the whole document comes off as really patronising. I mean - do good engineering teams need to be told to write tests and code review each others work? Do good engineers need to be told that the customer pays their wages?

Good engineers are always focused on delivering value to the customer, and good engineers will always select stable systems rather than be swayed in some kind of hormonal feature porn frenzy.

On top of that, in my experience, humility is not something you have to ask for in an engineer. He or she will be painfully aware of every mistake they make, it's the only thing driving their development.

tl;dr if the head of accounting thought you were a rowdy bunch of code monkeys, then read the agile principles you'd end up with this
The same hotkey (Control+alt+shift+S) still works for me with Chrome in the HTML5 player and shows the same interface as before.
For context: Rick Falkvinge is the founder of the Swedish and first Pirate Party, which has representation in the European parliament and has spawned Pirate Parties in more than 60 other countries. Here, Falkvinge & Co. comment on information policy and civil liberties in Europe and elsewhere in the world.

https://falkvinge.net/about/
Hoping you were not old enough to know this first hand ;)

This is fascinating? Where did you come across this info?
It's definitely a priority here, and more so as we continue to grow. This particular engineering value was intentionally left a little vague because prioritizing the people in the company can mean so many different things, and we wanted to purposefully leave it a little to interpretation and our best judgement.
Ask HN: How to perform due diligence on an affiliate website?
I've found a website seller that's listed an affiliate site that I'm considering purchasing. I do not have any experience in affiliate marketing but I'm a seasoned software engineer that's been programming on the web for over a decade. I can think of ways to improve the site in the future to hopefully grow the monthly revenue that's already being generated.

I'd like to know what I should be on the lookout for though when doing due diligence. Aside from the obvious things like verifying existing revenue and traffic metrics, how would I determine potential threats like other sites in the same niche, future threats, making sure existing revenue does not dry up, etc.

Sorry if it's a bit of a naive question. Just looking to get opinions from the HN community. Is anyone else doing affiliate marketing? If so, what has your experience been like?
Another issue is that you cannot track changes in password for a specific site. Many sites do not allow the previous X number of passwords.
Thanks for your feedback :) I also have an issue with the explosion of 'designs' in the web and this is my first tentative at imagining what a 'sober' web could look like.

I think that to be useful to have predefined template per style of pages. For example for now the hacker news page do not render correctly, and I should add a 'Link List' template.

I could also improve the content detection. On some site it still do not catch all the main article / or catch some ads.

I should also fix some bugs first (as I rush it, it really need more polish).
Most places I've worked had no career path above Senior Software Engineer that did not involve moving into management, which as you point out, is not necessarily a skills match with "that smart individual contributor who you'd like to reward".

I've heard some larger companies "solve" this by providing some title advancement past "3rd Senior Engineer from the left". But is it satisfying to you folks on these tracks? When you go from Senior Software Engineer to Staff Software Engineer to Super Staff Software Engineer to Super Duper Staff Software Engineer, do you consider it to be real career growth? Do you find that this is truly a _parallel_ path with management, or does it eventually plateau (i.e. the management path ultimately ends up reaching farther)?
My compromise has been to come up with a password permutation scheme-- I have a long, secure, high-entropy password which I can modify/salt in a way that's predictable (to me) across sites, such that each site's credentials are unique. Obviously this works across all devices, because the scheme is in my head, and it's simple enough to remember. I don't use any password manager, because like OP, that seems like too much of an eggs-and-baskets risk for my taste.

A catastrophic compromise would require an attacker to see actual credentials (not just the hashes) across many sites, and on top of that reverse engineer my specific permutation scheme. This seems much less likely to me than a very public, high-profile centralized cloud service forgetting to cross a T somewhere and getting hacked.
They send you an email and only with the link in the email can you login. Email is the second factor here.
Hey man, I just finished "What is Code," gimme a minute to refill my magazine-article bar.

As for my admittedly prejudicial feelings towards The Economist, it's been a long ride and I couldn't point to anything specific. I've just developed a tendency not to be surprised when they don't regard certain things as important, or certain other things as fallible.
I don't understand this. So LastPass could increase their security by including a bunch of pictures of puppies in their folder for me? Why not do it then?
Last Week tonight is an absolute gem of television, but do note that most of John Oliver's in-depth segments are illustrated by snippets of actual mainstream TV network news coverage of the stories he's talking about.
"...OneWeb, a British Channel Islands-registered concern..."

If they're so british why don't they think they should pay tax like the rest of us?
Quick question for the ZenPayroll folks lurking here:

How do you handle situations where there's a lack or breach of trust? If an engineer comes to you saying "After $INCIDENT, I find it hard to trust $COWORKER", what do you do?

Trust is very important & I'm glad to see you've given it an entire slide. I particularly like "There’s little
benefit to setting hard deadlines if you know
everyone is doing their best".
"Trojan horse ran out of hay" - Random BOFH-style excuses
I've just started CBT to hopefully fix my broken spirit, the article nailed my symptoms. I'm not sure my staying indoors in a darkened room and sighing a lot is helping me to focus on anything though.
Seconding multiple solutions. I use LastPass to deal with the volume of credentials required, storing most but not all sites. I memorize the most important sites (bank, primary e-mail), never putting them in a password manager.
>I think it all hinges on what "a public vote" is.

While true, it's somewhat of a red herring. If Texas held a vote today and voted to secede, I imagine the position of the federal government would be "Nope, you can't do that." Of course, it's hard to say how that particular scenario would play out given that--whatever wild rhetoric occasionally floats out of Austin--there is approximately zero likelihood such a vote would take place. So one would have to assume a significantly different political and cultural landscape than actually exists.

That said, it's fair to say that there's a widespread presumption in western democracies that if a region of a country holds a legitimate vote to split off, they should be allowed to do so. If Quebec decides to leave Canada at some point, I'd expect Canada would have little real choice but to let them.

In the case of the Confederacy though, I doubt it would have made much difference even had there been a hypothetical vote in which a majority of the entire population voted to secede. The North would almost certainly still have gone to war to preserve the Union.
Minecraft Hololens demo at E3 2015
The problem I have is not with who was removed or not, which I couldn't care less about, but how it was done.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/sl-notes/yarvin.txt

So on the word of a few individuals he doesn't name, with information he doesn't bother to validate for himself, Alex decides to remove Curtis from the lineup because he might be 'distracting', not because of what he'd say, but just because he'd be present. This implies an environment where we're powerless against unnamed accusers, an authority who is unwilling to evaluate the merits of a case, and a group of people who are so unable to separate technical matters from politics that the mere presence of someone they disagree with makes it impossible to focus.

And you know what? I've seen exactly this sort of behavior from other corporations and both the 'left' and 'right'. It's something all groups naturally default to, and active measures need to be taken in order to avoid it. And while I get why people want to remain anonymous, I also know you cannot have the free flow of ideas when anonymous accusers can cost you your position, by making accusations they never need to verify, over things you never intend to address at a venue.

We need to challenge ideas, not bury them, especially at a conference like Strangeloop. And if the Urbit presentation was deemed good enough to hear before these facts came to light, then it's still good enough to be challenged on that basis.

P.S. By excising Curtis Yarvin in an attempt to avoid "overshadowing the talk and acting as a distraction for launching the conference as a whole", Alex Miller has done just that. And if I were to put on my tinfoil hat and give a bad faith reading of all this, considering the internet savvy are well aware of the Streisand Effect, I'd say this was exactly their intent.
No mention of pass?

http://www.passwordstore.org/

gpg password storage. Synchronization with rsync.

Beats the heck out of proprietary cloud hosted software.
I feel like systemd's tools and Emacs are on a race to achieve the title of "only program(s) necessary in one's path to have a fully-featured operating system". :)
"No AD"

What does AD stand for here?
If it's iodine deficiency that causes depression, then why would decreasing intake of iodized salt help?
I'm not sure this is quite right -- it looks like all commits have the name of the maintainer, but two of the most recent 5 commits have in the comment that they're from someone else: http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/33267d6243aa?revcount=1000 is "from Steven Soulen" and http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/a246f9054395?revcount=1000 is "from Frank Denis".

I then went back 25 commits, and there aren't any others marked this way.
Lithium's really only useful if you're treating bipolar depression. It has mood stabilizing properties, and giving lithium to a non-bipolar patient will "flatten" their moods.
As a total outsider basing this on public press, I see this as Noto being the one organized and disciplined person in a madhouse. People who are organized, disciplined and willing to work a tremendous amount of hours tend to get assigned a lot of work because it gets done. And when a firm is very disorganized, those types of people become even more valuable.

The key question I see is can Twitter be run by a non-product guy?
Colorado Supreme Court: Employers can fire for off-duty pot use
Review: In ‘How Music Got Free,’ Stephen Witt Details an Industry Sea Change
Outside perhaps 'architect', what does a reasonable progression look like? I struggle with this personally so very curious what others think.
They gave a talk at my school. One of their head engineers knew his stuff, but it seemed the guy on the political side of things didn't "get it." They definitely understood they were behind, but said they had the same amount of data as the DNC, just they weren't using it.
> Unfortunately for them, something called the American constitution strongly protects free speech, whether divisive, upsetting or not.

I don't think this author understands the constitution. This may apply on public campuses. However, it most certainly does not apply on private campuses.

Anyone is free to exercise their free speech, but that right does not protect them from being expelled, fired, or censored at a private university.

UI is a public university, but Northwestern is not.

Whether a private university should behave this way is a different proposition. But there seems to be this trend of invoking the constitution like some holy shield against "whatever I disagree with".
I'm concerned (but not qualified to judge) that changing your password and keyfile may not be as beneficial as it appears.

A password for an encryption key is very different to a password for a server. Once you change your password on a server, there's little harm in publishing it -- it can't be used any more. But the key is a file that may still exist (see also Wikileaks' key being published by David Leigh).

Consider: your database exists as a file. If someone is able to gain access to a copy, that copy remains valid as long as at least one password within it remains unchanged. So you need a strong key, because it's subject to offline bruteforcing. Now they get a second copy of your database, with a different password. If any of your passwords are ever published or cracked, your database is exposed. If you have to change your password regularly, it's going to be tempting to make it weaker, or to store it somewhere less securely. If you're using key files, they only need to get one of your files. It seems to me that the more key material you need to secure, the more difficult it's going to be?

Anyone who knows better want to chime in?
> It's very easy to agree that nuclear pulse propulsion is a bad idea for a vehicle

Speak for yourself. Who cares if my rocket is blanketing Earth in nuclear fallout if I get to ride it to Jupiter? :)
Lithium salts is most commonly prescribed to moderate mood, caveat being your blood levels have to be heavily monitored to prevent adverse effects.
I found out from an article on Lifehacker. Still have yet to get an announcement in email, extension or app from LastPass themselves.

While the blog post was nice, it would have been better to directly let subscribers know.

I am a premium subscriber with 2fa enabled.

Just received the announcement at 6:54pm CT:

Dear LastPass User,

We wanted to alert you that, recently, our team discovered and immediately blocked suspicious activity on our network. No encrypted user vault data was taken, however other data, including email addresses and password reminders, was compromised.

We are confident that the encryption algorithms we use will sufficiently protect our users. To further ensure your security, we are requiring verification by email when logging in from a new device or IP address, and will be prompting users to update their master passwords.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but ultimately we believe this will better protect LastPass users. Thank you for your understanding, and for using LastPass.

Regards,
The LastPass Team
Even cheap dslr cameras have a small +/-3 diopter adjustment in the eyepiece. Something like that would at least let people with such easy corrections use VR without contacts or glasses.

For other corrections, wouldn't it be quite simple to have a slot for drop-in corrective lenses?
What an affront to freedom of expression, that a university had to apologise for an artwork that if left alone, would suggest they condone oppression of blacks? Stupid article. The issue isn't that black students might fear for their very lives because of a statue, but that they may be made to be second-class citizens - if the university condones such outright support of a racist group, where else might they be unfair to blacks?

The point about 'safe' environment is that university is a stressful (and fun) time with a lot going on. By condoning shit like this, you make it harder for a subset of students, who now have to deal with worrying about a political agenda that other students don't.

In any event, the artist shouldn't complain, because he got exactly what he wanted: a dialogue on race. He simply didn't like (expect?) the contents of that dialogue. The cynic in me likes that, that he hid behind a generalised "oh, trying to start a dialogue" motif, and then had problems when he didn't like the specifics.
Is it "insanely complex"? sudo seems like the sort of tool that could (and should) be kept extremely simple.
I meant that in the same sense as my parent comment; "reach" as in "take down" or "tamper with".
There is no right not to be offended. That's just a right that doesn't exist.
Let's say you go out of your way helping someone, because you go out your way, it is not really a pleasure. Of course it is a pleasure and a feel of privilege when someone thanks/appreciates you. So saying "my pleasure" or "it is my privilege" is accepting the "thank you". To understand in Chinese culture, it is first need to be modest (or to feel embarrassing), therefore, "my pleasure", "it is my privilege", "you are welcome" all fails to fill the bill of being modest (either that or pretentious).

In comparison, "no problem" does not deny that I went out of my way but it is not a problem for me to do it (as long as you appreciate it).
I backed up the hard drive. I am sure I can get that back. I didn't remove the hard drive, though. I am amazed that Dell went so far out of its way to give me exactly what I did not want.

A large part of the trouble is the boot sector jiggery-pokery that I will have to redo to get UEFI removed.
I'll write more about this in my next post, but we started by going on an engineering retreat and came up with a pretty massive document. The hardest part was distilling all the text down to a point that was easily consumable. I actually feel that the amount of text is just about right.
I don't think the phrasing was trying to play up the Britishness of the company, it was merely saying that the Channel Islands are British.

Of course, it's still a tax dodge and the company should pay tax like the rest of most of the world!
This was the best tech talk I have seen for a long time. Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks :) Hope it will be of use to people.
We don't use solr, we use elasticsearch and we also don't hold the unzipped fingerprints in the same format the default echoprint does. But for this dump we exported everything in the official echoprint format so people can use it with the default cluster.
For those of us who aren't aeronautical engineers... if you just covered a normal expressway with a half tube, wouldn't the air start moving along with the vehicles and greatly decrease the drag at high speeds, making higher speeds more economical? Or at what point does the vacuum and ratio of vehicle to tube size make hyperloop work out, but a simple enclosed highway doesn't?