skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not fair. He didn't say "children should be raised to exactly the same standards as they were in 1977". He said "we were raised without the benefits of smart-onesies, and we came out fine". Those are two different arguments.

Meanwhile, the reality is that the bulk of the decline in US infant mortality is attributable to improved prenatal care. If you want to keep arguing about the value of modernizing parenting, can we start with statistics broken out by income level? Has infant mortality among the children of well-off parents declined sharply as well? If modernization is saving children, that statistic should reveal it.
Noooooo!!!!

None of those. I go with Gandi.net

Check them out. They are good people and give back. Never anything but great experiences with Gandi.

You'll get a free year of ssl certificate and 50% off hosting. But, to really do it on the cheap, get a BeagleBoard Black and a free micro instance with AWS to route traffic to the BBB, which you just run at home. One time cost of 35$ish plus domain registration costs.

Also worth noting, going with a company like Gandi over GoDaddy has many non-immediate and intangible bennifits. A simple Google search on customer problems and company practices of GoDaddy should provide lots of material. In the long run, you don't want to have to be dealing with headaches surrounding domain registration. At all. That should be fire-and-forget. Pay the extra $5 or $10, you'll save yourself plenty of frustration and extra admin time going with the right registrar.
That's cool. Another way is to localtunnel to TCP forward to endhost in your config (ie two SSH connections, the first to the jump host, the second through the jump host, without agent forwarding), but that gets tedious fast without scripting support, especially if you want to use different portnums to avoid conflicts. ControlMaster would be a good choice to multiplex multiple connections to the same box.

> I believe that your solution requires things to be on different subnets to isolate them, with separate jump hosts for each subnet, correct? Here, I only need one sshmux for everyone.

Right, we're automating the .ssh/authorized_keys (and sudoers) right now (https://github.com/userify/shim/blob/master/shim.py), so you can set it up however you like, as long as those boxes can get to either Userify for key updates, or your on-premises Userify server(s). Only one jumpbox is needed across any network, depending on how you prefer to lockdown your network. (The HOWTO refers to EC2, but it can be built anywhere, exactly the same way.)

sshmux looks like an interesting project, and love the simplicity. Wonder if Userify might automate the ProxyCommand setup! Seems really useful.

> Good luck with Userify!

Thanks! We have 350 companies on the platform right now and growing fast, and Userify Enterprise (on-premise) is in beta at several large enterprises as well.

BTW, joushou, we're looking for brilliant SSH and golang hackers.. ping me if you get bored :)
Hacker Monthly Issue #64 – September 2015
None of them. They are all too expensive. If they give you a discount on creating the name, then they charge you through the nose to renew it.

My current strategy is to ping pong my domain names between GoDaddy and NameCheap, using coupon codes as much as possible. I don't particularly care for either company, and I think that both are still too expensive, but I don't have an alternative at the moment that I am aware of.
Wow, what does an HP LJ4000 laser printer need a processor that's also used in an SGI workstation for?

I looked into the Wikipedia article and although it's a big printer, I don't really understand how does it compare to a workstation's performance.
I fail to understand how this is going to shut down the CIA, who is:

1. Not tasked with collection, that would be the NSA. Detailed in the article is a meeting that the CIA apparently hosted detailing possible exploits for Apple's phone systems. What does Debian have anything to do with exploits on Apple's phone systems? The article is talking about an operating system-level change and the presentation at the event referenced was a "compromised" Xcode that could sneak backdoors into an iPhone app.

2. Primarily involved in HUMINT (Human Intelligence) which consists of face to face interaction. The article says that the CIA is trying to expand into cyber warfare. That's because the CIA's cyber capabilities are laughable right now -- what do you think they were in 2012 when the meeting took place as detailed in the article?

3. The documents referenced do not even detail the level of success that the research has had on breaking Apple's encryption and security processes. News flash, Apple's phone is pretty much the most freaking rock solid phone on the market security-wise. It would be the holy grail for an intelligence agency to crack this thing, but instead government, state, and city agencies have to literally take physical phones to Apple and ask for them to unlock the data on them if it's crucial to their investigations.

I think the article mentions the CIA to sensationalize, since pretty much anyone recognizes the initialism and a "Yeah, fight the evil government Debian!" clouds the loosely cobbled-together facts in the article. I was a CIA contractor, and I really wish there was more understanding of the scope and functions of the different agencies instead of painting every government activity as being malicious. That the nature of the CIA and NSA prevent most of the details of their operations from being understood is unfortunate, but even if they were it wouldn't fit the constant anti-government narrative on the site. I'm pondering starting a blog to educate about the roles, responsibilities, and what it's really like working in these agencies. I was an NSA linguist, programmer, and mission manager, as well as a CIA contractor, so I definitely think I have a lot to contribute to the conversation but am constantly drowned out by the rage-filled anti-government sentiment on the site, which you can see if you read my comment history.
The article addresses this point directly, but because you aren't a parent, it may have gone over your head. The real problem with a smart-onesie isn't simply that it's useless, but that infants are restless, and any signal this device carries will be overwhelmed by the noise. When you're the parent of an infant, your #2 goal (after "keep the baby alive") is "ruthlessly attend to your own rest needs".
Yet we use public transportation in many parts of the world and few bad things have happened. We use door handles everywhere. Etc.
Sometimes the best business decision is not the most convenient one for the employees - life is full of tradeoffs.

That's very true, and sometimes the best business decision is one that favours staff retention over short term profit. Losing the experience and expertise of someone who's been in the company a while just because you can't manage your team well enough to get people trained to cover one another's vacation time is going to get expensive when people burn out and quit, not to mention the effect it'll have on staff morale and your business's reputation as a bad place to work (which has a knock-on effect on sales).

You're entirely right that a small business can't afford to have complete redundancy for every staff position - the appropriate strategy is to put well documented processes in place, with good handover management and proper knowledge sharing. Discouraging people from taking vacation time to the point where you'd only hire in countries where you can give your staff zero paid vacation days is not.
Why I am still in love with Framework7
Seattle startup is buying everyone a free drink
AAC is played by many devices, it's not an Apple standard, and the licensing fees are less than MP3.
Yup, Xiamoi makes everything interoperable by making it themselves. And Apple makes HomeKit. And Google makes their own. And Microsoft makes their own. And HP makes their own. And...

See the problem?
What? I thought the point of this thread was to use workarounds instead of paying the toll?
Thanks, I was vaguely aware that it was around the turn of the century that these things came in.

An american in 1940 may not have needed a passport to leave, but would they have needed one to get in somewhere else? Surely the nations of europe at that time would have been suspicious of basically everyone?
AlamofireImage is an image component library for Alamofire
I'm arguing that "unfamiliar" does not necessarily mean "hard to find".

My iPad for example is not unfamiliar, but I find it annoying to bookmark a site because of how the bookmark button is hidden behind an icon which to me looks like "sharing" (little square with arrow pointing up). Same for searching for text on the page.... it's not intuitive. I have to "think" for too many milliseconds each time just to do those basic actions.

You could say "I'm familiar with Apple's annoyingly unintuitive iOS Safari UX for bookmarking and searching text on the page." "Familiar" has not saved the day in this case.

When I go to a site because I'm interested in their product, I'm not looking for a familiar interface in terms of layout or design replication from previously visited websites. I'm looking (unconsciously) for top level things such as clear presentation and logical, friendly layout. "Logic" can appear as many pathways. "Interestingness" is what humans get a buzz from and reward each other for all the time, so if I get a dose of interesting too, served just right and not too much, then it's a winner.
ASP.NET MVC: Uploading Files
Probably Postscript and PCL rendering in firmware. Requires a lot of memory and CPU. Current printers use custom ASICs with specialized rendering hardware.
> Google are not the only player in this area though, I suspect that Facebook can also reliably influence enough people.

Facebook have published research in this area of emotional manipulation through their news feed: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full

> We show, via a massive (N = 689,003) experiment on Facebook, that emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness. We provide experimental evidence that emotional contagion occurs without direct interaction between people (exposure to a friend expressing an emotion is sufficient), and in the complete absence of nonverbal cues.
There is no evidence I've found that any monitoring device improves SIDS outcomes, and there is evidence that it doesn't. Forget about the smart onesie: it's difficult to justify even classic baby monitors as a medical intervention.

The decline in SIDS over the last 2 decades tracks the education of parents not to put infants to sleep on their stomachs.
A 1980s Commodore PC has controlled this school district's A/C for 30 years
Lifting is awesome. But you have to actually do it, not just sit around chatting or lifting at 40% your capacity like I see way too many people do.

If you aren't sweating, you aren't getting a workout.

Coincidentally cardio will make you better at lifting. When I recent got back to lifting for a few months I could power through 20 sets of compound lifts in an hour. By the time I change weight, I'm ready to go because my regenerative capacity is so quick (boxing will do that to you). Back when I was just lifting, 20 sets took over teo hours and the gains were very comparable.

I'd lift more, but it makes me slow.
Can we please bring back the reply to the above comment that said something like, "I've read enough of this person's comments to agree with having their flagging privileges removed"?
No R8000? Odd, multi-chip "FP performance at all costs" variant used in some of the SGI Power series. Made SGI a legitimate supercomputer vendor for a couple of years.
Canon develops APS-H-size CMOS sensor with approximately 250 megapixels
Same argument as "we rode on the back dashboard with no seat belts as a kid and we survived". Completely ignoring the hundreds of thousands of kids who didn't survive. Because the ones who were killed doing something dangerous aren't around anymore to tell you not to do it. Doesn't mean we should roll back the clock on car safety.
Programming with distributed functional futures
This Blogger Made $1M in 3 Years and Is Visiting Every Country on Earth
A demo application for the new Android Custom Tabs support library
Home automation is the least likely IoT category to succeed, at first, anyway. The low hanging fruit is in things like public infrastructure monitoring by instrumenting the municipal maintenance and transit fleet. Many enterprises are going to find they can do with a lot fewer desks if they instrument their work environment and spread workers out into co-working spaces.

The people instrumenting these environments are also more-capable of calculating the benefits. Without analysis, it's just shiny toys.
It was easier for me - I just needed to ring my parents and collect cash at the post office.

But I kept the tradition going - first telling mom and dad how I'm getting well along with studies!

Great times
No, actually, anyone who comes into a HN thread immediately derailing it into a pointless regional political debate is an idiot. That's pretty much it. I'm sorry to burst your very long rant where you over-analyze and completely miss the mark, but people are simply embarrassed by you because you've taken this HN thread and run it into the ground without it receiving even one on-topic reply.

> The discussion in these comments is embarrassing (and I'm not even Swedish).

> Apparently the mere mention of Sweden was enough to make local politics spill over here. It's like watching a post about a weather app getting overrun by climate change denialists.

That's the entirety of it.
>A world without bullshit is ... the end of capitalism.

Finally! I get rid of two things I hate in one go!

>It's hundreds of millions of people with nothing to do all day and no way to sustain themselves, an inevitable civil war with the landlord class, and a revolution that manages to install a government's that quite possibly worse.

Why do you find it easier to imagine the end of civilization than the end of capitalism?

http://strikemag.org/capitalist-realism-by-mark-fisher/
A Twitter parody leads to expensive lessons in Peoria
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack
As someone actively working in the smart home space, I refrain from calling our business IoT for exactly this reason. I've even challenged the team to stay away from smart home. We do very little "smart" home stuff and instead rely on cleverly designing a set of devices that don't require an application or future technology (AI, voice control) to work properly. They also don't take up space in your home and combine the functionality of two or more devices into one.

I'd like to think I've been a bullhorn for the "IoT is stupid" movement, but I think the author did a great job of calling it out as well.
nice to see the detail in the article, many times these sort of things are light on information.
TL;DR: article claims Ritesh lied about his "bestseller book", lied about his "Asian Science Camp invite", lied his way into an incubator, lied his way into the "Thiel Fellowship" programme.

And screwed a bunch of people on his way up.

Confident, assertive and charismatic, he always manages to come on top. In other words, a successful modern start-up artist.
This article doesn't consider the myriad issues likely to be caused by as many people arriving as late as possible - like the almost inevitable delays to event start times or how in practice you would measure who the last person to arrive was..
Video of an Extremely Bright Fireball Over Bangkok
Rendering to a piece of paper based on a Postscript/PCL/etc definition is similar to rendering to a screen. Both a video subsystem and a printer want to do that fast.
I can't be sure that if this is a joke or not
There is a whole different dynamic to these devices in China. Air quality, water quality, etc. are part of middle class lifestyle in China, and many people do not trust the authorities to keep these parameters within spec. Multiple air filters in an apartment are common, and monitoring the performance of these devices is an obvious interest to their owners. This is a much more compelling home automation story than thermostats or smoke alarms that should be mostly invisible in the home environment.
I like joker.com
> I don't even know what people do all day on their smartphones

This is a mindblowing thing to hear. You really don't know that people use cellphones to keep in touch with friends?

Did you miss the last 10 years or something?

I have friends all around the world who I don't get to see in person and I want to maintain those friendships through chat and social media bc they are very meaningful to me. I'm constantly on my phone.

Sure a desktop is more convenient, but I'm not at my computer all day. The phone lets you have an ongoing conversation. Without them you'd only be able to talk with people when you're both sitting at a computer.... Or you'd have to send long messages and wait hours to hear back from them; which is less dynamic and engaging.

At the same time it does allow you to have pauses in the conversation, so not only can you take the time to think and for instance write a thoughtful response, but you can also easily do other things in the mean time. You can buy groceries and chat and then stop for a minute when you're at the checkout counter. So it's vastly better than making a phone call
Only part I felt was inconsistent was his treatment of Lauren. She seems a hyper-rational, albeit overly-prudent character, and doesn't strike me as wanting to be involved with the whole boys club nonsense.
Yesterday in a parking lot I witnessed a guy backing out with his face buried in his cellphone (still facing forward). So basically he backed up without looking or even glancing at his mirror.
Do people bluff numbers like that? seems strange that no one verified it. Especially getting a thiel fellowship.
Note: This article is from 2013.

Interesting discussion from when it was first published: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895502
Wow, you are great at this. I really enjoy reading it.
The true size of a country or state
Door handles are a big problem in hospitals. I'd take the bet that they are a bigger problem in public places than is generally acknowledged.
I think I just heard someone say "Mozilla". NSPR's free() wrapper crashes when given NULL.

http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git;a=co...

http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=778...
Bypass iOS 8.4.1 iCloud DoulCi Activator
Not sure if climbing this high on HN on a U.S. holiday indicates a real need or clever marketing for this new project, but congratulations to them for getting the word out.

Thanks also to you for sharing a couple well-established alternatives.
that's my personal bias.
GoRe's REPL recompiles and re-runs the resulting binary after each line entered, accumulating side effects:

$ gore
gore version 0.2.5 :help for help
gore> var i = 41
gore> f := func() { i++; fmt.Printf("universe=%d\n", i) }
(func())(0x4012b0)
gore> f()
universe=42
gore> f()
universe=42
universe=43

when Go was released back in 2009 there has been a string of such REPLs, which don't match "my" definition of a REPL, at least, not the one I want to be able to use for exploratory work (the kind you get from a python or IPython prompt)

again, that's my personal bias.
that said, GoRe is a nice project (gocode-completion, especially, is nice)
About IRIX, an old but entertaining document:
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/tirix/embarrassi...
I love iwantmyname.com. Great company, great site, great support team, and has almost every TLD out there new or old.
Beware of Open Source Software Zombies
>That's just classism, which is as bad as racism or xenophobia

Depends on the kind of classism (and the direction) -- because upper classes DO have power, money, etc, and it's not some basic human right or morality to believe that they should.

Else, we can describe anything with an "ism" and say it's bad. "You hate murderers? That's antimurderism".
The Sean Bean api
I just fork mori and add core.async to it
It's not 'unfair'. (are you implying I was unduly harsh on the gent?)

Let's take sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Because of SIDS, it is now recommended in the videos I watched yesterday, that infants be put down on their backs with no pillows in the parents' bedroom but not in their bed. This has no bearing on prenatal care or wealth, but has an effect, which could probably be enhanced by a smart baby monitor.
I fully understand, that's why I called it 'the ridiculous part'. I recognize that a device that wakes you up whenever your baby is awake would be crazy, but surely that isn't what the device is going to do? I read it more as 'when your baby is crying so hard you will most likely wake up, it will turn on lights and soft music to assist you in calming them'.
Masters of illusion: The great management consultancy swindle
Datapoint: We came out of Batch 12 @ 500 Startups. I don't know anyone shifting gears to 9-5, and although I'm sure it happens, I haven't seen founders take on a big raise unless perhaps the round size was extraordinary.

I think scaling challenges and hiring talent is a far more common issue.
That second part of the advice just rocked my world as a young guy. Thanks.
Silence, isolation, speed.

But maybe the lack of these in public transportation is simply because they can be found elsewhere, I.e. a demand issue that would be solved naturally.
Every human being is the same, lessons from my shyness
Why would anyone think they would not get scammed from someone claiming to have info from a hack?
+1 for Gandi