skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but the Carlin quite has always bothered me. No one actually feels the way that he's mocking. Drivers don't regard everyone slower as an idiot, only those who also unnecessarily hold up traffic. (eg camping the passing lane) And they don't find all faster drivers to be maniacs, only those who also make dangerous near misses.

(And yes, I'm sure your interpretation of the joke was always consistent with the above, but some people consider it an actual insight in addition to being funny.)

To be sure, the general point is sound, but that is a really bad, false example. A better version might be "Ever notice how when you're angry, it's because of a legitimate injustice, but when someone else is angry, it's because they're just in a bad mood?"
A golf clap for you. Well played, sir.
BANK+OF+ENGLAND+OWNS+USA+part+2+-+YouTube
> Things are going to come to a head sooner rather than later. People are more and more talking about how bloated and slow web pages have become. Now we have ad blocking thrown into the mix.

I remember people talking about this since the late 1990s.
Is targeting ridiculous niches the future of fashion startups?
Is this a religious discussion now? I'm not sure that applies, anyway; ISTM that Jobs is already a dung beetle, or whatever. Besides, TFA is hardly "seeking revenge". The tone isn't even particularly harsh. It's just: here's some shit that dude did.
What's your definition of "free?"

I'm possibly free to construct and run a fission facility, but I still have to follow the relevant regulations at all steps of the process.
https://www.digitalocean.com ?
It implies people aren't usually attracted to intelligence, despite that being an entirely normal and common thing.
> We use vanilla SmartOS, so that there is no dependency on FiFo for your running VM’s. You could just switch FiFo off and all your VM’s would continue to just work.

Please, just 'VMs'. There's no need for the apostrophe.
Demo app: how to structure large/modular angular app
> ctrl v doesn't work (nano/pico)

OT, this is a big reason why I encourage people to learn vi/vim.

It doesn't rely on ctrl, and can be used in environments that do weird mappings to control characters. Anything you can do with ctrl, can be done with regular keys and commands.
disclaimer: opinions are my own

I suspect that it's unlikely that google can remove this because bad guys tend to spin up many free trial instances and do bad things (sharded bitcoin mining, DDoS'ing, etc). Privacy is #1 so they aren't allowed to look inside your machines or inspect your traffic...so that leaves billing / such metadata to fight abuse.
A t2.micro will run you about $10/month (you have to have some amount of EBS to go with it).

By comparison, an f1-micro on Google Compute Engine (GCE) is just under $5/month thanks to lower prices and "sustained use" discounting: https://cloud.google.com/compute/#pricing

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine.
> Otherwise what would you do if sshd crashed?

Kill that instance, and spin up a new one.

A wise BOFH gave a preso that stuck with me "Treat EC2 instances like cattle. When one strays off the farm, put a bullet in it's head."

Don't treat your cloud machines as special snowflakes. Build infrastructure via script.
Good, because it sure sounds wrong to me. Otherwise, I'd have to believe that radioactive pollution is only a problem when it looks bad on CNN.
Is the CIO the Next VP of Electricity?
True, I was referring to what I assumed to be the default settings that it seems everyone uses. Thanks for clarifying!
Why the Internet Needs IPFS
Promises also have a notion of parallel tasking which isn't, at least in my mental model of IO, really IO.

But of course we're talking about IO... so my mental model is just that: mine and mine alone, really.
More accurate than people in 50's thought about 2000
There is bad grammar and there is "I will see you their".
I’m a student, I have not much time to work during the day, and jobs during the night are not exactly growing on trees.

Also, I’d still cut expenditures equally. Even my parents – both of which have studied law – do this. Actually, most people I know do. Why waste money on useless devices if it takes only seconds to unplug them?
I don't have it on my main Google account, so I signed into a test account that I use pretty much for testing apps, but never for anything serious, and voila, there it is. So I'm guessing it's pretty random how it is being rolled out.
"Surprisingly, Tombragel’s fake fork passed impact testing—but barely. If this had been a real Specialized, it would be re-engineered to pass by a higher margin."

This line is when I decided this was probably a PR placement. I guess that maybe took me a bit longer than most, but it just feels so stilted.

"We passed our test, but we'd want to pass more." - then why did it 'pass'?
They may not get the details right (being impossible to predict as noted) but they do tend to get the generalities right (like instant worldwide visual personal communications, cheap fast travel, instant long-shelf-life foods).

Underdiscussed is how many predictions are entirely possible (like hotels on the moon, total eradication of vermin) but we don't because we're not interested after all or see untenable consequences (space travel is boring for the cost, disruption food chain is devastating).
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
Most paradoxes vanish, become obvious this way (when you increase the numbers). The brothers paradox mentioned: 'I have two children. At least one is a boy.'/'I have two children. At least one is a boy born on Tuesday.'; 'What is the probability I have two boys?' drastically changes when you change to 'I have two children. At least one is a boy born at 7h:35m:42s.' -- it becomes clear that the succeeding information exactly specifies the boy as it becomes specific, in the limit turning into 'I have two children. The first is a boy.' (so the probability goes from 1/3 to 1/2).
Ask HN: Advice on my financial situation?
I'm a CS grad who's never had a programming job and who's been unemployed since April. Unemployment services told me in June that I hadn't worked enough in the past two years to get anything from them. They told me that if I registered with them, it'd take me 6 months to get any money. At that time I was being taken on a 2nd interview by two companies, so I figured, I'd rather focus on that. I also started doing freelancing for an entrepreneur. He needed somebody urgently and there wasn't much work at the beginning so I told him we'd worry about money later on.

A few months forward, I still don't have a job and I'm getting broke. I've done many more hours of development for this guy, at an absurdly cheap rate. I did these in hope they'd improve me resume. My problem is, he still haven't paid me anything. He always seems nice, but then postpones it. He doesn't have much money himself, and I do am asking him to do a full-fledged contract, so that unemployment services would recognize it and skip the 6 months delay - this has a cost as he has to pay somebody else to do the paperwork. We had a group phone call with that person in August where we agreed on the principle.

I have two possibilities right now. 1. I asked him to send me money without doing a contract, so that I could buy food and pay rent a few more months, hoping I find a job before that dries out as well. This seems to meet less resistance with him, but will he actually pay? 2. The code I've been working on is on my server, he's using it to show it to clients, meaning I could shut everything down until I get what I need.

What do I do?
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Uber's Long Road into Las Vegas
There seems to be 5GB of associated storage ... would be interested to know if they are charging for that or if it's part of your wider Google allocation or if there's an ongoing cost once you generate data in there that will keep charging forever, even if you use the service only intermittently?
It sounds more like an autocorrect mistake than anything. I hope people don't let those linger in their minds.
David Eberly has a pretty nice followup to Mirtich [1].

[1] http://www.geometrictools.com/Documentation/PolyhedralMassPr...
The life of a young Nigerian before he became an Internet user
Agreed, dealing with LDAP would be far, far easier if there were a single monolithic config file (or hell, even a folder full of config files) instead of the unbelievably complex LDIF process.

LDAP, or LDAP + Radius (for integration with a second factor) is still a dynamite technology and pretty much required once a network / team reaches a certain size. There's definitely demand for an "EasyLDAP" or the like that offers sane defaults and easy config for deployment in a cloud environment.
Im trying to find the price, but cant? This may be because its displaying weird on my mobile(android/chrome).

It is an interesting idea, and using Azure servers i assume would go a long way towards reliability.

I do wonder what the limits would be(eg could i spool up a 64 player arma3 server with custom mods?) and ofcourse, how expensive it would be.

Edit: i actually think that isnt displaying weird, i think thats intended(although i do have some slight word overlap, and damn that font looks huge on my note 3).
cloud based physics?? That is an oxymoron, physics is something happening right now, there is no room for latency due to streaming from the server, unless you want rubberbanding.
"It isn't the layman that's ignorant, its everybody"

https://youtu.be/lVCL3Rnr8xE?t=18m39s
This is a great approach -- don't just learn words (and string them together in sequences taken from your native language... not likely to be right!); learn common chunks that you can re-use everywhere.

There are still verb tenses that I haven't properly learned in French, but I use them because I learned some chunks that use them. I'm not at ease with using the tenses involved in "I should have ___ but I ___" -- but I know the chunks for that particular phrase without thinking about it (e.g., J'aurais dû lui dire mais j'avais complètement oublié) -- that's technically conditional past then pluperfect.. which I had to look up just now; I don't really know them! There are oddities with imperative form that I only really know through chunks -- but "don't be afraid" (n'aies pas peur) is easy even though it's irregular, just because I know that one.

And now they're less alien-feeling, so -- being comfortable with the chunked versions -- I now have mental hooks that let me recognize similar conjugations used on other verbs when I run into them.
the link looks weird
>...but I've also got a better understanding of technology than the general population.

You sound like you're very smart.
I forget just who it is that said this, but the problem isn't so much HTML, as that there's no single entity in the role of enforcer to require that what's posted as HTML is actually sane HTML.

It's possible to do _very_ good things with HTML, CSS, tables, and Javascript even. I've done a few things myself of which I'm somewhat proud (my CodePen, referenced earlier in this thread, carries a few examples). But, as with much else, it's possible to throw out complete crap.

And browsers will render it. They've got multiple sets of quircks and brokenness modes to deal with just such issues.

Search engines will index that crap. Hell, many SEO optimisation techniques themselves are based on abuse of HTML (keyword and other semantics stuffing).

Tools that simply say "fuck you" and stop rendering shit content, or just do what the user actually wants, would go a large step toward fixing this. Various ReaderMode tools (now on Safari and Firefox) are a key example. I'm actually using the latest Firefox for Android and it specifically addresses a number of my own key browser grips in at least part (though by no means all or completely).

Google's Chrome is actually about the worst of browsers from this perspective, it's leaning far too much in the direction of yielding full power to Web authors. Yes, it's possible to create some slick Websites in that process, but you and up with gobs and gobs of shite.
That struck me as well, though as a consumer, you'd like to hope that gear has been engineered to exceed tests, not to the minimum. Though perhaps the minimum should be increased.

The article also contained examples of catastrophic failures in use of handlebars and catastrophic failures in testing of helmets.
I agree- I've seen some amazing Chinese products across all hobbies recently, which are oftentimes almost as good, if not better with a little modification. That being said, counterfeit products are almost universally worse than their real counterparts.

I would not be surprised to see Chinese products that are identical in quality to their genuine counterparts within the next couple years, especially for high-end products.
I agree with your assessment on limited CSR and think this is just a poorly written article.

The logic flaw here is the categorization of CSR as somehow separate to the scandal. The reason there is a scandal is because the company has failed in its basic responsibility to society.

The article raises a very limited definition of responsibility which by application would actually imply that no wrong doing had occurred.

The authority of the article contained within the line "The social responsibility of a private company..". Is actually the journalist just quoting their own words from two sentences down as a means of reinforcement.

The fact that the journalist thought it appropriate to quote themselves on their own opinion piece makes this whole piece especially dubious.
Not familiar with that, though microformats generally, somewhat encouraged by Readability, seem like progress as well.
That's pretty cool, but seems like something that could just be a collection of ansible scripts. I suppose this allows CloudParty to take a cut and make it easy for non-technical people to use.
I don't think workers, in the united States at least, are fighting for their share. Marketing efforts by the capital side have rendered the working side a helpless lamb ready for the slaughter. But if a symbiotic relationship becomes parasitic, sometimes the host is destroyed, taking the parasite with it.
As asdfaoeu noted above, the chances of this actually happening are very close to zero for any password anyone would realistically use.
This article is an incoherent mess. No hard numbers. No characterization of the problem: Is it factory seconds being stolen and sold? Is it contract manufacturers selling US OEM products they are contractually disallowed from selling?

It seems unlikely that a frame sold in extremely limited quantities would be reverse engineered and copied. It is more likely that OEMs have lost control of their suppliers while chasing cheaper costs. Boo fricken hoo.
Anybody try this out yet with an app server like Jetty or Wildfly Swarm? I am curious if it supports a way to do graceful shutdown/restarts but I didn't find anything in my initial scan of the documentation.
>for less than 4000USD

I'm assuming this isn't including paid labor and you're doing the engine/tranny swap yourself? Do you have any links to people doing this?
The capital class is a much much smaller class. In any valid form of democracy, they should never win the way they are winning now.
Port of TinyWM in Go
Since minimum emissions, maximum fuel economy, and maximum performance are somewhat contrary to each other, I wonder what most of the population would choose if they were explicitly asked to decide on the tuning whenever they bought a car. The extremes would be minimum emissions with horrible fuel economy and dismal performance, maximum fuel economy with higher emissions and also not the best performance (around where VW seems to be aiming), and maximum performance with horrible "rolling coal" emissions and low fuel economy. I doubt most people would choose these extremes, but it'd be interesting to see where the majority would want their cars tuned. I'd probably choose the optimum somewhere between fuel economy and performance, meaning emissions somewhere in the middle.
In the 1990s Apple didn't have leverage over the web like they do now and not being an internet company that makes money from ads, their incentives are aligned with combating this more than ever.
"The biggest flaw that businesses do in this situation is believe in that the quality of the product will continue to outweigh the cost difference. It won't. ;/"

Do you count the loss in sales as cost? Or time to rework something? Sometimes it's hard to figure out if there's going to be a correlation before you do it.

About 10 years ago, we tried to do most of our work offshore. Company said they could hire 5 engineers for the price of one here in the states. We started looking overpaid and I'm sure the managers thought we were. It didn't last long. We still offshore, but it's much more strategic.
> That's a consequence of using impulse-constraint contact simulation on ragdolls.

Why is that the case? If I recall Erwin Coumans now has generalized coordinate articulated bodies in Bullet, which uses an LCP based impulse system.
It's a bit of a stretch to call these predictions of the year 2000 from 1900. In reality, these were likely just a fun way to put cartoons on cigar boxes in order to get people to buy the next in the set. I don't think 1900's Parisians really believed in a future of whale-powered busses and people riding super-sized sea-horses.
HaaaS (Haas Avocados as a Service)
I ordered a highly rated head light and tail light the other day off amazon. When it came everything was super cheap thin plastic and the head light wouldn't turn on at all even with fresh batteries. The tail light turned on once, then my finger pushed the button through the body. Apparently there's a common amazon hack by sellers where they sell the real thing for a while to get good ratings, then switch to selling cheap knock offs...
Sales of ivory in California banned after Gov. Brown signs conservation bill
Negligible impact on real estate.

If you live in the vast majority of the landmass that has no public transportation, your commute isn't long enough for a self-driving car to register on the factors in where you live. If you live in places with great public transportation, then it seems like it matters less--you now inherit issues (and cost) with parking and maintenance you didn't have before.

If you're looking for real estate impact, consider the aging population and the ability of self-driving cars to keep people in their houses longer than they normally would. Along with the factors above, I see the big beneficiaries being the service providers (anything from Uber to grocery stores to healthcare providers) who can now optimize location and distribution differently.
http://www.ovh.co.uk/vps/vps-ssd.xml

I think this is the cheapest I've ever seen.
I do not understand the need to be charitable to Steve Jobs.

If he was not the brilliant leader of Apple we would simply say he was a douche bag. Just because he was great in one area does not excuse behaviour in another. Is there any level of business achievement that says that it is ok to have millions whilst the mother of your daughter is struggling to survive whilst bringing up your daughter?

As a business man he was brilliant. As a father he was a loser.
I'm not sure if I'm in the minority, but I find the ragdolls in Dark Souls to be hilarious and charming.

... uh, if rolling around with corpses could be described as hilarious and charming. Wow. I just realized how very strange video games are.
you don't need to threaten him with shutting down the codes you wrote.
Ask him nicely, make him see reasons with you.
After that, you can do as you want and no one can blame you for its outcome.
You work for something, you have the right to get paid for it. Don't be shy about asking for your right.
I know you are one of the good guys that hardly ask for what they are owed because they want peace and not trouble.
What an excellent, yet dated article. It comes from a time when blogging was a craft. Now there's not a blog I read without wondering "Is it neutral, or was the author influenced, or is it a PR piece, or does the full blog belong to a bigger agenda"...
Thanks for sharing the paper. I am not sure how to interpret those mathematical formulas presented in these papers otherwise they are great resources.

I am working on rendering a human body in a web app. I think I can take little help from this paper.
I think they are being too harsh about the "cavorting with marine animals" comments. We actually do have scuba gear these days and we do a lot of things underwater that would have been fantastical at that time. We do have submarines, diving gear, deep sea diving equipment, etc.
Need a system for writing jokes?
You mean Half-Life gravity gun?
A lot of people complained when they removed those comical ragdolls in Dark Souls 2, so they added them back in Bloodborne.
That'd only apply if they're using very long, random passwords. For a 128-bit hash that'd be at least ~20 chars using the entire keyboard, and over 22 if alphanumeric only. Your docs mention SHA256/512, so double or quad those.

If your attacker is able to "figure out" 128-bit+ passwords, then you've probably got other problems. And if the point of using passwords is for emergency logins from phones, I'm not sure how useful a 80 char pass is. Might as well keep the ssh key saved somewhere and type it in eh?
You have to actually do something to impose the correct incentives if you want entities to act in a particular manner. I'm not convinced that in the absence of CSR these incentives would have been imposed - which seems to be the lynch pin of the telegraph's piece - and see no evidence to support it.
Not a VM but a real dedicated server: €3 month with an IP address, €2 without for those microservices of yours. (I'm not related to then other than been a happy client) - https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/
Why is this solution preferable to making a hash preimage at least three orders of magnitude more difficult to calculate, e.g., using SHA512 instead of SHA256?
I understand your point. I host on linode which has Lish (an out-of-bound terminal that gives you command-line access without ssh). I have it turned off normally, but again can be turned on by anyone who gains access to my account with credentials and 2-factor auth. It should take a lot more from an attacker to be able to access your servers.
Well, in the sense that a biologist would have a better understanding of biology than the general population, I don't see why someone working in tech wouldn't have a better understanding of technology than the general population.

I don't think the parent poster was bragging or anything.
Make it easy for peers to create lessons for peers. Plus skill matchmaking. "I know this. I can teach you this." Those may not be complementary ideas, since one is formal and pre-arranged and one is informal.

You either have to share wealth, or share karma. Depends on the gestalt you're going for. Create two companies with different brands, A/B the results, winner acquires the users of the loser.
> Though perhaps the minimum should be increased.

It may have been—which is what makes the angle in this PR piece so questionable. The minimum might be a value that is equivalent to a 200kg rider jumping off a 15ft cliff and not breaking the forks.

(or it may not be, but I'm sure you get my point: Specialized just wants to seed doubt regardless of quality)
It seems like a pastime of TC is to write sensational filler articles out of the more questionable bile emanating from HN. See also "Death to C": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9477878
Is the poor punctuation in the title (the article's subtitle) deliberate irony?

I realize that headlines don't follow quite the same rules as normal English, but the way it's written is a real mess:

> On dating sites, spelling, punctuation are judged

Why not use correct and easily understood punctuation and grammar?

> On dating sites, spelling and punctuation are judged