jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
for nginx look at Limit Requests http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLimitReqModule - or if not running 0.7.20 or newer, try Limit Zone. This is the best if you're just looking to control things with nginx, but I would also recommend putting HAproxy in front of it and have it handle the connections limit, a much richer feature set to handle such things. It handles slow DDos attacks like Slowaris automatically http://www.snapt-ui.com/haproxy/defend-against-slowloris-wit... - and is able to do tons more. Here Willy (HAproxy developer) talks about other things he's done with it http://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg00291.ht...
Just made a little thing to use CSS Transforms to flip my site over if you come in from the upside down version of my domain. Nothing crazy, just fun :-)
It'd be great to kill the hype, unfortunately though it seems to have always been there, it just moves around... Java -> Ruby on rails -> node.js etc etc
There's an interesting NPR Planet Money article on a related topic
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/06/05/319084976/why-a-pa...

It might be difficult to track the products which change labels as ingredients change.

Another interesting idea would be to see how product lines evolve. Watch as the product line is split into two or more lines to target different types of consumers (or merged for that matter), while at the same time keeping record of ingredients and other interesting info. Sounds fun!
The newest (2015) X1 Carbon brought back those buttons: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8821/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon...
If someone wants to know more about Estonian startup and tech scene, the Latitude59 conference in May is the biggest annual event: http://latitude59.ee/

Here's one list of Estonian startups: http://hub.garage48.org/estonian-startups
Did you receive the invite unsolicited?
It hit the mainstream in early 2014, when a dad in North Carolina posted a convoluted "Common Core" question from his son's second-grade math quiz on Facebook, along with a letter he'd written to the teacher. "I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electronics Engineering which included extensive study in differential equations and other high-math applications," he wrote. "Even I cannot explain the Common Core mathematics approach, nor get the answer correct."

Lunch costs $14.45. You pay with a $20. If you calculate your change without borrowing you just did common core math. The best facet of common core is the amount of adults complaining they don't understand it. Rather than an argument against, it is exactly an argument in support of teaching kids multiple ways to think about math.
5-15 second exposure times takes you back to Mathew Brady-era photography. So it'd be best for landscapes and carefully posed individuals.

This technique needs it's own name - daguerreoscan?
We/I still use Grunt every day, works quite nicely to build two separate apps, provides us with a very solid dev environment with livereload.
I thought your comment was unnecessarily downvoted, but I also don't think you provide much information.

A dummy head recording has the downside that it's no longer fully suitable for playback over anything besides headphones. Also, it is dependent on the HRTF of the dummy matching that of the listener.

I'm not sure Ambisonics [1] would work for 5.1 sound. In most cases, 5.1 isn't produced by mic'ing in the directions of the ideal 5.1 speaker placement (at least for movies and music, I don't know anything about 5.1 production for video games). Typically, the L and R channels are used for directional sound, the C is used for dialog and other things that might be corrupted by panning, and the surround and bass channels are used for (weakly directional) ambient sound. So trying to 3-D pan the surround channels will probably just muddle the effect.

Really, the best thing would be to actually record or synthesize in the Ambisonic format, and resynthesizing based on the playback setup. But a 5.1 recording, even one created with a 5.1 rig, is poorly suited for this.

[1] For those who aren't aware, Ambisonics is a a format for storage of 3-D recordings, independent of the mic and speaker placements at the time of recording and playback. If the mic positions are known, you can project the raw recorded signals from multiple mics onto a neutral format. Likewise, if the speaker positions are known at playback time, the neutral format can be projected onto the proper signals for the playback setup to best simulate the recorded soundfield. Ideally, the recording and playback setups are optimized to capture the full 3-D soundfield.
Cool, but its not exactly taxing to get out of the car to plug it in.
Snake arm projects have been around for many, many years. No idea what the state of their research / applications are though.
In other words it's a material which has a very low reflectance across a large range of frequencies (i.e. a black material)?
This is actually the most accurate description of almost ALL revolutions, if not all. If you read history, you will see the leaders of revolutions are not ordinary people. They are always elites. Revolutions always been less powerful elites getting rid of more powerful elites. People are just pawns in their games.
> Point to a single court case in the US regarding this election year where evidence was presented in court and judged.

Bowyer v. Ducey (while it was also dismissed for a variety of reasons including standing, abstention in the face of overlapping parallel state court claims, mootness, and laches, the analysis in the ruling leading to dismissal for failure to state a claim included a finding that the offered evidence was a combination of unreliable and irrelevant to the claims.)

Plus there are at least four cases that proceeded to trial.

> Every single case was dismissed on procedural grounds.

That's both false (not every single election-related case has been dismissed), and beside the point (as, to the extent that “failure to state a claim” is procedural—arguably that and standing are not, really—it often still involves reviewing the proffered evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff as to whether it could sustain a prima facie case.)
The problem is that, because the variant spreads faster than previous ones, rules which were sufficient to keep previous ones in check will likely be insufficient to keep the new one in check. We'll have to get stricter about the rules, get vaccine rollout accelerated quite a bit, or find ways to handle a lot more disease than currently exists. I have no doubt some people shared weird falsehoods about it, but there's still a true reason for concern.
Now you’re just helplessly denying. I just want to remind you that you’re free to change your opinion, no one will think less of you if you do. I’ve done it before, it can be pretty exciting to turn your world around and re-evaluate things every now and then.
Well, I admit that the first location was a purely rhetorical ploy, because even I don't post on my personal blog anymore, and we'd prefer not to have a forum site about a digital audio workstation cluttered with unrelated posts.

But I think my point is clear: there are oodles of places you can write and post whatever you want. Even here on HN, you can say a great deal of stuff that others will consider wrong without being "censored".

I'm certainly against "wrongthink" which is just a stupid re-use of a literary trick currently being massively over-referenced online in response to various events today. There's wrong, there's false, there's stupid. There isn't any wrongthink in my conception of the world.
He could specifically say there will be a transition to a Biden administration, not just a "new" one, which Capitol storming types have decided means a Trump-Flynn administration, after ousting the traitor Pence. They are continuing to have these fever dreams.
Personally, I don't think that these bannings will lead to something as extreme as what you're describing. Specifically, I don't see this leading to a ban of reasonable people.

If I'm reading your thoughts correctly, your main concern seems to stem from the fact that you're assuming the goal is to stop these people from communicating with each other.

However, I don't think that's the point of these bannings. I think the goal is to stop them from reaching a new audience and expanding (however, as I am not a CEO of a major social media company, I can only guess what the motivations are).

In that sense, if everyone switches to using code words, or to using non-broadcast media (eg, Signal), it's significantly less concerning, and there will not be a strong push to ban people from those sites. By only de-platforming clear violators, I bet they can still have a big impact.
This is something I've had an issue with for a while. It's not a great move to assume that conservatives are dumb.

There are plenty of brilliant people who hold conservative values. Their idea of "success" may not follow the path of others who have moved from their hometown to a coast working in IT. Or the path of those who were "enlightened" with advanced degrees where the sophisticated choice is obviously to be a democrat. It's different strokes for different folks, and there are many ways to live in the United States.

A vote for Trump isn't necessarily a vote for Trump - It can be a vote for "Not Democrat." Whether or not you believe that voting "Not Democrat" is appropriate, it's a far reach to say that all, or most, of those people, are idiots with racist views. This approach discounts legitimate differences that should be open to debate and should be discussed. We can't expect the United States to last or be successful if we assume everyone in the middle of the country is an uncultured idiot who should be censored. Or assume that those who don't share the same views must be racists who just can't be reasoned with.

If Democrats somehow lost control of the primary to a less ideal celebrity candidate (and this is possible: https://www.london.edu/think/why-most-elections-are-ineffici...), there would be many democrats who choose to vote for that person because it is "Not Republican." It wouldn't matter who is on the ticket as long as it is "Not Republican" because a republican choice would be dumb, racist, and unsophisticated.

I grew up in the rust belt, I've lived in the most diverse city in the country (Houston, TX), and I've lived in Cambridge, MA. People are largely the same all over the country - they care about being left alone with the right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. How they define those things differs (e.g., is a fetus "alive"?), but as long as people have those rights protected, then it's all good.

But we need laws where these rights come into conflict: if someone's pursuit of happiness involves owning slaves, this is in direct conflict with another's right to life and liberty. And they are ordered in importance - life > liberty > pursuit of happiness. So obviously, slavery should be outlawed. But other things aren't that clear. Federal legislation doesn't impact everyone evenly, and those who are impacted should have a voice. Assuming every "Not Democrat" (or "Not Republican" or "Not X") voice is a racist, dumb person who should be silenced or ignored is a fast path to division and the collapse of a functioning Democracy.
The rules were there for a good reason. If you follow them, and don't unilaterally change them, this whole mess is avoided.

Same goes for everyone refusing audits and 1:1 observers for counting.

If you can't agree (legislatively) to rule changes (even in a pandemic) you don't change the rules.
I fully agree with you and have expressed this sentiment many times. I use Racket and F# in my spare time, basically sister languages to what you use (!), and I have the same opinions. Knowing these other more structured, consistent, and principled languages makes Python a frustrating and difficult experience. Whenever I program in Python, never by choice, it's an exercise in unlearning sanity.

Knowing these other languages and with others like them out there (F#, Racket, Clojure, OCaml, Elixir), I have no practical or intellectual need for Python.
New residents are but would be residents aren't.
> where she states: > raising White children to be White is a form of child abuse

But she doesn't state that; she states that someone else characterized an effect that DiAngelo is discussing in those terms. You just clipped that sentence to obscure that: “Acknowledging this, Thandeka (1999) argues that raising White children to be White is a form of child abuse because...”
AWS has been amazing, even for someone who doesn't spend beyond 1,000 EUR. You always get a human on the other side of the line. GCP / Google I have no time for.
There's also an automated (and very calm) voice announcement saying "altitude" 2-3 times before the urgent "fly up!" and horn.
I disagree - in your post you're assuming an "uninformed" and "false reasoning" with respect to the majority but not this so-called "expert" minority. Knowledge spreads - the majority will take it into account, and if they're wrong the majority will undo it as the majority will feel the effects.
That is very positive and reassuring to hear. When my then-wife and I had our son, it was still very strong "breast is best" messaging. It really has made a lot of parents feel awful amounts of guilt and shame.

Personally, until we have very strong evidence that breast milk is significantly better for the baby, I think the messaging shouldn't even be "breast feed if you can"- it should be "breast feed if you want". Some women have a terrible experience breast feeding even though the technically "can" produce the milk. It can be physically quite uncomfortable, it keeps dad from being able to bond as well, the baby might not be good at "latching", etc.
I've used both GCP and AWS at multiple companies and personally, and my take is that a handful of important GCP products are significantly better than their AWS counterparts (Bigquery, Bigtable, Spanner, GKE), and a lot are just OK, usually slightly behind AWS in terms of features. If one of those products that's significantly better could be a differentiator for you, GCP is the better choice.
You were born to work at Twillio.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1439656
Blogger writes post requiring complete reading to understand; HN reader TL;DRs and does not.
I'm tired of hearing people complain about private companies' rules for using their information/platforms. Facebook and Apple can do whatever they want on their own platforms and if people don't like it they can leave/not use the service. That's how a free market and free web works. People complained about Microsoft's dominance years ago and now their ascendancy is ending due to this idea called the "market"...
The rules were probably the same or worse when you were younger. Open-minded local leaders have considerable lattitude.

Consider: refusal to participate and let youth see your good example hurts only the boys. And really helps no one.
Speaking as a consumer, if I went to a site that took 10 seconds per page load, I wouldn't feel like I was dealing with a professional organization. I'm not going to expect high-quality products if you have low-quality web hosting.
Sent! Seems like Quora may be having some email issues, check your spam folder if you haven't received the invite in a few minutes.
Iiiinteresting. That sounds terrible... but awesome.

I didn't know it was happening tonight. Maybe. We'll see. I've been on a roll with Hackety Hack lately, and I want to make sure I have a few hours to put in.
They should also announce how long it takes to read their whole TOS.

And really, what if you switched the marketing copy and the terms of service? The marketing says how the app works, the terms of service does too, why not pay to advertise the terms of service, and when you sign up, you get to read their beautiful marketing copy.
Why is this an article?

People and organizations (even banks) and governments erase debt all the time. Sometimes it's from kindness, sometimes for PR, usually because they're unable to collect it. You can't really tell the difference among the cases.
On call being too eventful is a bug (arch, infra, code). The solution is to propose that every wake is responded to as something that must be prevented going forward.

The usual incident review and postmortem process can be applied. If they happen so often you can start with applying the process to some subset to start.

Firefighting is a waste of talented technical resources and results in good people leaving.
> The GUID vs Int problem is incidental to the real problem: poorly formatting logs.

This.

The author's arguments boil down to "UUIDs are bad because the way I generate my logs is an unusable mess".

The ints vs UUIDs problem is also specious because a UUID is nothing more than a 16 byte int that's generated in a clever way. It might typically be presented in a particular string representation but the text string is not the value of the UUID.
I think that's a good mechanism - your community will apply significant disincentives to your not contributing, pushing up the value of contribution.
> It's inevitable that medical care in some way is tied to personal wealth. Some treatments are so expensive and/or niche that public programs likely wouldn't cover them. Such treatments will probably always exist. (And if they didn't, then that could he a problem by itself.)

Not in a single-payer state, no.

It's also not really a problem in and of itself. You'll find that if cancer treatments are actually cheaper and more effective than the status quo as demonstrated by a study that a single payer state will quickly take them up.

[edit] Frequently you'll find these eccentric or fringe treatments that are incredibly expensive aren't actually better per se. There is a point of diminishing returns in everything. If you paid $200K for cancer treatment, would you get a better outcome? $1M? $10M? $1B? No. We know what we know, and we have the tools we have. Healthcare isn't a pay-to-win game. Generally if you find a way to pay more to get better care you're just bumping someone else down the priority list. That may be acceptable in America but it's not in much of the rest of the world.
It was for 200 people. Works out to about $3k per person on average.
HP did the initial renovation of Mayfield Mall into office space in the late 1980s. They moved out in the early 2000s, deciding to consolidate operations after acquiring Compaq.
As an aside: As more and more techies repeatedly fail to decouple their digital belongings from Google‘s infrastructure, it should become clear how strong the lock-in effect of cloud services is in general and in particular their proper UX.

EG.: one of gmails main selling points always was the „available anywhere“ web interface and its quick, and useful search.
> I know how to make dirt,

Composting?
I know several people with campers, horse trailers, car trailers, boats, etc. Most aren’t maxing out their towing capacity, but if you’re driving through any mountains, you’ll want to be well within those limits unless you want a white knuckle experience.
Again: I use it every single day. Not for "CYA". No need to be condescending.
Even for me. (I'm Portuguese and consider Saramago to be one of a kind, a genius.)
c++ is scary
Clearly, a practical definition of intelligence needs to include time. Otherwise, any problem whose solution can be described as a number and quickly checked could eventually be solved by a counter.
I can understand excluding politics, but why are we drinking if it's not to lubricate our complaining about work? In what context is it acceptable for the Irish to complain about work?
Hilarious. I see someone never took compliance training at work. With that attitude I’d love to see you explain your position to a judge. Money laundering is literally financial transactions arranged in such a way as to conceal the original source of funds.

I though anonymity and legal safeharbour were founding principles of cryptocurrency? The original comment is correct that what we call money laundering is an artificial construct of power.
What version of Ubuntu? If it's 12 then you might need to do what I did for my new PC a year ago to get the latest drivers:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

That fixed the only issue I had which was with the 1 Gig ethernet. Now I'm on stock 14 and of course it has all the newer drivers already.
It boggles the mind.

I'm also extremely curious to know how much the Shuttle stack accelerated during those 0.161 seconds the foam wasn't attached to it...
This is why it's immensely sad that Unix "won".

Unix's developers just didn't grok usability. At all. As a result, Unix is very sensitive to even small mistakes. It's like the OS was not intended to be operated by humans, with faulty memories and clumsy fingers.

VMS, on the other hand, was much more tolerant of drunk users, or just tired sysadmins who haven't had enough coffee. These considerations were baked in from the start, resulting in a far more robust command line environment.
If this is so good why aren't cameras using 2 lenses?

The literal answer to this question is that most serious cameras have interchangeable lenses; I shoot with an Olympus OMD EM5 and primarily use three primes. A lot of people use zoom lenses, or primarily use zooms.

If you're only referencing cell phones, I assume that there is an obvious trade-off between size and putting another lens in the camera.
Are the screenshots being grabbed by Pagesnap or the website's end? Do I have to include some sort of JS snippet? Could you use this to monitor the competition's landing page?
That is a similar argument used as when the Amazon tax was first proposed, with the retailers complaining about Amazon's competitive advantage due to not having shipping facilities in New York and people not paying sales tax.

A slightly less onerous solution would be to institute a sales tax for out of state car sellers selling to NY buyers.
“If we find evidence of a terrorist plot… and despite having a phone number, despite having a social media address or email address, we can’t penetrate that, that’s a problem,”

If you can penetrate that with evidence of a terrorist plot, 1) you can penetrate that without evidence of a terrorist plot, and 2) probably so can others.

Both of these make us less safe.
In the December 2014 issue of Le Monde diplomatique there is an interesting article that investigates future possible press models within the French context: http://mondediplo.com/2014/12/13press (in English, but behind a pay wall). The authors argue that for public interest press (news, investigative journalism, etc), a shared publication and distribution institute/company should be funded by the government. In that way, the magazines/newspapers/whatever only have to finance the costs of the journalists and editors. Publication costs are carried by this joint/shared open publisher. The article is focussed on the French situation, and stresses that the government already hands out a yearly €1.6bn subsidy to the press, and end with concluding that funding a joint open publication institute will not be that much different money-wise compared to the current situation.
"Second, we identify a variety of nonmerit factors that suppress, neutralize, or even negate the effects of merit and create barriers to individual mobility."

so clearly the article is concerned with whether merit implies success.
I spent a summer in the Philippines doing exactly that. One thing I found annoying is that many sites forced me to use the local version, and the currency defaulted to Philippine pesos. Other times I couldn't complete transactions, probably because of fraud protections. In particular, GoDaddy and Paypal required calls to approve transactions. You might want to get a Vm in your home country to remote into to get around this.