skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a sidenote - oh, dear again a book discussion. As if my pile of unread books was not high enough. Already ordered a few titles from this thread - I'm anticipating with dread and excitement if any more apparent must reads pop up. HN literacy thread plus instant click to buy - lethal.
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I want one just so I can glide around dressed as M. Bison at Dragon Con.
"So for me, the living, it makes a huge difference (...)" that's the whole point. This is all for you to feel better about someone dying. I don't like it, because it's so selfish; someone dies and you sugar coat it with bs.
That was really interesting. The guy had a $200,000 per year salary, but Frys loaned him $10 million. What were they thinking?
Disappointing that they only featured white males in this article. Maybe that's part of the problem?
1. I don't remember when I last ran into anyone who voluntarily limited their code to 80 characters. I doubt it was this century. I worked for a while at a Major Company that had an 80 character coding standard. It was universally despised on my team, where everyone had 2x27" monitors.

Clearly you work in a different environment with different standards. I think more or less formal coding standards are important for any dev team. But they can be very different in different teams. Don't assume what you have grown used to and comfortable with is some universal truth that must fit everyone for all times.

> But what should I guess? If I look at your code and see a 90 col line somewhere, how do I know you won't drop a 100 col line in and hurt the readability again?

If we work on the same team, that is a discussion we'd need to have. Until then, let's continue being happy in our respective circumstances, OK?

2. By "Readability" I mostly mean "cognitive load" for the human reader of the code. What to fit in a line is mostly decided by what's an easily digestible chunk. If you can fit "one thought" into one line, that's ideal. Line length is a factor, but just one of many, not one that overrides every other.

So, come to think of it, I actually would break out a variable solely for line length reasons. Absolutely not for the sake of 1 character, but probably for 20.
Ah I just knew I would see mention of "beta male" strewn somewhere in this shithole thread. You are a moron :)
I did not want to touch that topic, since there are different things to consider and experiences can differ.

I mentioned only working in a company, since from that what I saw in my country, compensation for ordinary developers in a company are far less than when working in other sectors as software developer (in deed, I do not know any sector, where payment is less than in the Gaming industry). At least one plus is that the Gaming industry is more likely to take people without formal education (which might also be connected to the lower wages).

Of course, when working in a company, you are less likely to not be able to pay your rent any more.
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Eh, they certainly tend to avoid fluff, and by definition, until you get to Marx, James, Freud you're not going to find "pop psychology"! A lot of them are very much worth reading, I personally would recommend:

Homer and a few Greek plays

Sample a bit of the great story teller Herodotus, then read the birth of historiography in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, which by itself is also very interesting and important (wonder why the Founder of the US didn't like direct democracy? There are very important object lessons in it).

Surely Plato and Aristotle deserve some attention! The contents of the latter's Rhetoric is essential for when you can't reach people with dialectic.

Euclid's Elements is still about as good as you can get for what it teaches.

Plutarch is great, but I really like that period of history. To it I would add reading some of the earlier bits of Livy.

Read, or better yet listen to audio of a few of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, out loud you can follow their Middle English.

Machiavelli's The Prince is still damned good, and a landmark in talking about politics as it is, not as how people would like it to be.

Shakespeare surely needs some attention by English speakers. Swift's Gulliver's Travels were amusing when I read them in their original, and obviously very influential.

So, yeah, check out some of the classics.
Real estate is weird. Easy to have absentee owners. Easy to house money not people. Etc.
Here's one good example: abc (abstract base classes) from Python's standard library -- https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3.4/Lib/abc.py
>> nearly 40 years is a very long time in airplane years

The reason it isn't, in fact, a very long time is that airplanes, unlike most other vehicles, are subject to highly rigorous regular maintenance and part replacement programs. The airframes themselves can last essentially forever (well beyond the decades time frame that we're discussing) if specified maintenance continues to be performed. Witness the many WWII and earlier aircraft still flying at seven or more decades of life.
The nigger brain cannot understand what a NIST certified random number is. I fucken hate niggers.
This is how Betalist got us funded
....going forth and only because the ICO fined their arses.
He doesn't disagree with you; he's a professional pentester.
This is an unnecessary. "You can't prove a negative" isn't a statement about logic, it's a statement statistical evidence (incorporating logic). You need to observe the entire population in order to reduce a probability to zero.
I should clarify that it is for Real Estate, thus the SSN. That link might be helpful.
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Just buy your handset from amazon and use a SIM only deal. Don't have to go out then :)
I order veggie burgers with bacon on top all the time, it's delicious.
This pretty much doesn't happen unless you enter a specific licensed/high-risk profession or get arrested and booked for a crime.
I believe --- but can't really say for sure --- that they're talking about the DNSSEC root keys.

Which means absolutely none of this matters in the least. It's a little embarrassing (a) that they even do these silly ceremonies and (b) that anyone would write a news story about them.
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oops, sorry. For some reason it isn't giving me an edit option, so thanks for your correction.
> You don't pay for any fraudulent charges.

If the thief is slick he / she may make small charges that you wouldn't immediately notice or at all if you're sharing the card with someone else (e.g. a significant other). It's also a HUGE pain in the ass.
Thats a good point. I don't want to open the can of words and add SSL myself, some interesting things to think about for sure.
So twice normal walking speed is good. I can walk at 10 kmph, and I can walk 12 km. But I can't walk 12 km at 10 kmph. However, I can't imagine that I could balance on such a small, short platform, moving at 10 kmph. Even on a smooth surface. And the shape seems wrong. I'd be far more comfortable on a board. Sideways is cool, but only when leaning backward. Catching an edge is so not fun.
>FYI, Azure already has monthly spending limits built in and suspends your account once you hit the cap.

Perfect. Also seems to support python which suits me. Many thanks friend.
We're fatter than ever and people are creating ways to be even more fat.

Humanity! F Yeah!
I would get one of these for living in SF. It would make lots of otherwise unwalkable neighborhoods perfectly accessible while only using it to go uphill.
Skimmed the responses, and I don't think anyone has said this, so...

Write a web app. Find the least friendly, most bare bones server in whatever your favorite language is (sinatra, flask, gin-gonic). Write as much of the MVC stuff as you can yourself. You will unintentionally implement at least one of the OWASP top 10 bugs. Maybe try to intentionally implement as many of them as you can.

So far the most educational coding I've done is writing a web proxy and a web router. Pentesting forced me to look at most parts of an HTTP request... rewriting headers, implementing session stores and (trying to) handle SSL has all been painfully educational.
> Could it be that you agree more with the rules Apple has put in place, or at least don't feel as strongly about the rules of the App Store, but maybe feel some distaste for someone trying to "police" this somewhat different arena?

Yes. If Apple put those rules for an open source project, I'd reject them just as violently. There is no need to police in open source, no matter how benevolent it is.

> Do you have any specific gripes or examples of policies you think are wrong?

Yes I think it went far too contextual to be a generic "don't be a jerk" policy. It dictates what emoticons one can use and one cannot. Let me backtrack you to history of smileys. Smileys were invented at CMU because researchers often failed to glean the sentiment of a comment made by a peer reviewer.

So they started making happy and sad faces on peer reviews. Now, we don't know how emoticons would evolve in, say, next 30 years. But it sure as hell is possible that someone in open source community might invent something while coloring outside the lines. If he isn't allowed to, we will miss on the invention.

Moreover, I have a feeling these policies will be policed more by "community coordinators" or similar people who don't code and will ridicule real contributors for using a wrong emoticon in an issue. No real programmer will care about this non-technical piece of junk. Open source is not for that kind of environment.

We don't know what we will stifle by putting such policies. Thinking that we're smart enough to know future is extremely naive.
Arguing about whether Serre was a better mathematician than Grothendieck is a bit like arguing whether Thelonious Monk was a better musician than Duke Ellington...
Similarly in frequentist statistics "you can only disprove a hypothesis" is false.

If you think you can disprove x > y, (where x and y are parameters like the mean of some quantity for two different populations) then it follows that you can prove x <= y.

On the other hand you cannot ever prove x = y since there will always be values of x and y that are so close that your test has no power. but you can still put bounds on how close x and y must be in this case
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Or this: http://www.cocreatellc.com/
Between this, electric skateboards and scooters, and the half dozen other devices I've seen popping up - every day we're inching farther along a trajectory to Wall-E status. These devices are inherently anti-walking and anti-exercise (contrasted to, say, a car, which can be used as such, but also provides utility far beyond what walking can accomplish).
Being able to report GitHub issues freely already kind of puts you there.
Worth mentioning too the concept of bailiwick, which Wikipedia doesn't really cover.
This topic has been beat to death. I guess there are more articles explaining metaclasses then people who understand them. There are 11K results for /understanding python metaclasses/ in google.
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It's still a major hassle when our cards get compromised and subsequently canceled by the bank.

I've had it happen when I'm traveling, and my primary card suddenly stops working. I always carry backups for this reason, but it's still disruptive and potentially embarrassing.

Also if I have a card on file for recurring payments or repeat orders, I have to go find all of those places and update it every time the card gets replaced. When it happens once, it's not so bad. When it happens two or three times a year, it's a headache. I finally took to having a single card that is used for ONLY recurring payments, with the hopes that it wouldn't get compromised and when the others do I wouldn't have to go through this whole exercise again. So far so good.

The bottom line is yeah, it doesn't cost me money, but it does cost me stress and time. I have better things to do with my time and energy than cleaning up after yet another compromise that happened through no fault of my own.
Can anyone comment on the future of Pyston[1]?

[1]: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
Great idea. If only the malls would allow me to stand and cruise while my wife shops. I'd me that much happier.
What a bullshit title. Was the ban really based on the "muslimness" of his name?
I've been (slowly) working through the series (Oxford History of the United States) and want to put a mention in for "What Hath God Wrought", covering 1815-1848. Similar in scope and depth to Battle Cry, gave me similar feelings of "How can a book so long feel like it's barely abel to get all this information in."

Thats the period I was least interested in going in, but have ranked as the best History book I've read.
Almost certainly the US Treasury's Specially Designated Nationals list:

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/

Sure enough, searching the list for "Hasan Ali" gives seven hits.
This is why I use a 2nd account for online use (and paypal / virtual card for the extra sketchy looking sites).
I believe this will be most awesome on tradeshows or on large company premises.

I'd be interested to see how it can deal with gravel, rain, wind and what happens when you encounter that small step that is just a tad bit higher than the device can take.
It looks like he's riding a MacBook. Looks kind of... dorky. They should design this as a Skateboard, and it might just take off.
First exactly look gravel friendly.
Ah, for startups in general, you should look at The E-Myth by Michael Gerber, no matter what you're doing it'll have some essential advice, and you should examine your business model in the light of his general thesis that you should make your business "franchiseble". At the very least, observe the principles of leverage, "no one ever got rich typing".
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The secret to man's intelligence? POTATOES enabled larger brains
It doesn't actually use bitfields, it describes an alternative to them that was a better choice in this specific instance.

Huffman would have been much slower to access, which would have been unacceptable for the use case (iterating 100 million data points multiple times a second).
Or not be American and travel into the US.
Although obviously there's still a preprocessing step to make that possible.
I have a piece of titanium in my orbital bone from when I ran over a little rock when inline skating. If this thing hits a rock you'll go flying. Really hard.
Not everyone is in a position to do that, unfortunately!
Thanks! They should really add this to the guide, because it's a confusing step at the moment.
Nothing is stopping you from being active with purpose. Go to the gym, run, bike, etc. I currently own a solowheel and it's been a lifesaver. I'd just be taking transit otherwise, I'd say doing this over transit is better for you.
So less than 2 weeks later, anyone who had shorted 10K based on your sarcastic comments to do so would also have been quite pleased.

Thanks, man. It was a brilliant call.
"User on list blocked by downloading Sophos AV for Mac"
Seems incomplete. Surely one would want simple foot controls to allow stopping without having to jump off. Or even moderate speed control.

Also having recently seen first hand how much losing ones mobility to illness, this could be a really great product for older people if it were modified into a walker that carried you. Also if it were setup as a walker for the elderly basic hand controls could be added.

Very interesting product I all be very interest to see how this develops and improves with an iteration or two.
Care to name anyone else who you feel should have been interviewed for this article?
Alternatively just walk those neighborhoods and they won't feel unwalkable very shortly! My 89 year old grandmother used to walk from her house in Japantown to Chrissy Field and back, regularly--your legs get used to it and suddenly the city feels a lot more accessible.
Full subtitle: "POTATOES: Humans evolved large brains because our ancestors ate starchy carbohydrates"

Our saliva suggests improved carbohydrate digestion: "...humans possess six salivary amylase genes, while other primates just have two, increasing the ability to digest starch. ...after cooking became widespread and the salivary amylase genes multiplied, this increased the availability of dietary glucose to the brain and foetus which, in turn, allowed the acceleration in brain size which occurred from around 800,000 years ago onwards."
No, will never take off.
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Sounds like it was based on the "terrorist"-ness of his name, i.e. whether the name is on a watchlist, which (rightfully or wrongfully, in the West) correlates with "Muslimness".
No, actual workplace interactions that have all the involved humans in the same physical location don't use textual descriptions.

Instead you get the actual actions. Because people who spend that much time interacting tend to not stay in a Platonic Ideal "strictly professional" relationship, but become acquaintances or even friends. In which case it's that set of rules that apply, rather than the ivory tower set of rules based on said Platonic Ideal.
Original source (with more data, linked in the article): https://research.facebook.com/blog/1605690073053884/the-not-...
Awesome, I wondered whether something like this might be possible when I first found out about bitfields, but maths isn't my strong point (and certainly wasn't 20 years ago), so I just forgot about it.
Cloudflare may be a good option for him. But, the quick and free Cloudflare SSL would still be non-SSL from Cloudflare to his site – an improvement against many home/public-Wifi threats but not a total fix (nor true compliance with credit-card agreements).

Also, for a totally non-technical person, it will take – and be billed as – more than 5 minutes of someone else's time to get even that free half-measure into effect.
Gilmour: Framework for Writing Micro Services2
Gilmour is a framework for writing micro-services that exchange data over non-http transports. Currently the supported backend is Redis PubSub. Redis pubsub channels are used like "routes". Gilmour started off simply as a non-http alternative to Sinatra, but has grown into a feature rich microservices communication library and framework.

Gilmour provides a clear abstraction over underlying sub-pub Redis broker and supports request-response, as well as signal-slot pattern of communication.

Gilmour also provide Unix like Composition, AndAnd and Batch execution.

Gilmour is available at: https://github.com/gilmour-libs/gilmour
The difference is informed consent. If the mother wanted to keep the child, and the drug she was given caused horrific birth defects...
Most death isn't that bad, its a quiet snuffing out, rather then a violent in the throws. Death is bad for the survivors, not for the decedent.
Has anyone else tried using that name to see if it triggers and do they really call you?
Gilmour is available at: https://github.com/gilmour-libs/gilmour
VPN addresses a different issue not the one discussed in the article. If your router is compromised, then the encryption on the local network is useless, including that which is used to encrypt the VPN tunnel.
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Well, they can ask my conscience to not run an adblocker because otherwise it impacts their income. If it was just that.

But they cannot ask my conscience to open myself up to security issues because otherwise it impacts their income.

(note that I have read the rest of the thread and am aware that simply running an adblocker wouldn't have prevented this exploit)

(second note/disclaimer is that I do run µBlock, for the personal reason that I feel they also cannot ask my conscience to open my attention to energy-draining distractions because otherwise it impacts their income)
I love "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely and "Influence" by Robert Cialdini, both fascinating reads about how the mind works that yield useful insights for UI design and marketing.
Parallels to the problem of the biological species concept: humans need to think categorically but life doesn't operate that way, mostly.
I think, "not being able to prove a negative" is more related to the idea that you cannot prove/disprove (ie. Assign an absolute truth value to) the non-existence of something. For example, you cannot prove that a God does not exist.
Isn't "Hassan Ali" an incredibly common name?
The best history book I've read is The Origins of Political Order. Disguised as an academic political science book it is a sweeping history of human civilization starting in China and going through Arab and European states. It is chock full of intersting facts and surprising theories and implications for today.
... and then read Pinker's reply http://stevenpinker.com/files/pinker/files/comments_on_taleb... TLDR: The book’s structure was lost on Taleb, who blends the different chapters and then criticizes his own
confusion.
There are parts of the video where he slows down and speeds up. Tilting forwards and backwards, maybe? I think the jumping off feature is being demonstrated more as a safety system, rather the main way you control the speed.
Yeah, the first half of this seems to be mostly for color rather than really debunking the slogan. Not even the most naive users of the slogan "you can't prove a negative" literally think that you cannot prove negatively phrased mathematical or logical claims, such as "1 + 2 != 5".
But culturally, there are many big examples where that's exactly what happenened over time: things that are initially considered "just fine" gradually become abhorrent or indefensible.

slavery
women as property
child labor

and others that really seem to be moving in that direction:

child discipline / spanking
circumcision
homosexuality and gay marriage
confederate flag (which is exactly your example)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtfNE4z6a8
Serpentza (Winston Sterzel) covered these things from Shenzhen a month or so ago. Take a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGWR-KQlEBs
Ask HN: Thread to buy/sell/trade unused domains
So almost everyone on here has domains but probably don't ever use them or get around to developing them. I think this would be a good thread to buy / sell or trade domains.
Post domains that you have, price (or if they're up for trading) and any other info.

I'll start:

Looking to sell these, make an offer:
nocturnalfeast.com (expires 2020)
superspeedyservers.com (expires 2023)
subsonicsoftware.com (expires 2023)
Thanks! I knew I got it wrong!
The paper very specifically addresses that problem at length.
That's true, but humans are generally creatures of convenience and follow the path of least resistance. Today people are forced to walk in many situations where they have no feasible alternative (can't afford it, transit doesn't go there, etc). It seems pretty evident that, on the whole, the proliferation of these devices will contribute to less exercise and more obesity.
I suspect that what's more likely to happen is that the board will wedge in a hole, stop moving, and you'll simply find yourself stepping forwards off it.

The standing posture means that you're braced for a step anyway, and the speed is totally compatible with your mark I human undercarriage system. It's not like you're on a skateboard going at 30kph. Plus you're not fastened into it.

I actually think it's a really interesting and subtle piece of design. I want one. (Plus I have to admire anything that looks quite that stupid.)