skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My son is 4 years old and very into trains, and we've lots of trips to local train switchyards together. It's interesting how similar it is to the Internet: packets (shipping containers) are received from input devices (ships) at ports (ports). Routers (switchyard) send them along lines towards their destinations. The first people to be called hackers were those in the MIT model railroad club who tinkered with the electrical stuff under the table.
I think the author is writing under the assumption that there are diminishing returns as one gets better at a skill, when really the opposite is true. The number of topics you can absorb per unit term obviously increases with your pre-existing competency with the skill.

This is because you can leverage your existing knowledge of the subject by comparing what you already know with what you're trying to learn.

There is no "sweet spot" for learning a new skill. Most skills have a learning curve where competency starts low.

The author is trying to make a generalization based off his perceived sales skill but is probably suffering from a Dunning-Kruger effect. That, or software engineering already taught him a great deal of the requisite jargon required for his particular brand of sales. If the author were to instead move into say, spectrometer sales he would most likely find that his "30% or 40% prospects" would really be 0%.

Not a very well-informed article.
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/content/map-sea-level-trends
My father was the navigator in a B17. He said the Luftwaffe would try to sneak up behind the B17, to see if the tail gunner was watching. The tail gunner would let off a few rounds, even out of range, so the tracers would let the Luftwaffe pilot know he was watching. If not, well, another B17 down.

If that didn't work for the 109s, they'd do a head on attack. A head on attack made it very hard for the B17s to hit them, and the closing speed was so fast it would carry the 109s out of range quickly after the attack.

My father said that unlike the buffoonish German pilots portrayed in WW2 movies, the real ones were careful, professional, and deadly. You never wanted to let your guard down around them.
It is single player or SUD.
Bangladesh alone is 100,000,000 people looking for new digs.

$1T is about right. And someone is going to pay it. Only question is who.
Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10664178 it seems that you are running the tracker on your main domain.

For a site like this I would put the tracker that's being hit by sites on a different (sub-)domain, to prevent massive traffic spikes on client sites from also taking down your own homepage.
That would make people in the US feel better, but it wouldn't make any difference. If a country can force residents to install software or reconfigure their machines, there's nothing browser vendors can do to make those residents secure. Essentially, Kazakhstan owns (in both senses) the Internet-connected computers of all its residents, and it can do whatever it wants with them.

It's also well within Kazakhstan's budget to do subtler, harder-to-defeat things to stop MITM circumvention. This is an arms race that Google will lose.
Thanks for the link, I've added it to my notebook.

I like how they don't know much about how it works but they have filed two provisional patents :-) Reminds me of the early days of Radio in some regards.

There are a lot of theoretically interesting things you can make out of carbon if you can arrange it "just so." The trick is always finding ways to do that at scale. I was fascinated by the carbon nanotube stuff and set about to build some, and while it is "easy" to build nanotubes, it is "hard" to build a specific kind of nanotube, or a nanotube of a specific length, or one with specific properties. All the ways of making them that I explored could make pretty much any kind (single/double walled, conductive/non-conductive). And you can pull one out and say "look here is this cool structure" but there wasn't any way to make a few hundred thousand without going blind looking through a microscope.
You can also attach other sqlite databases which might make it easier.

attach database 'old-database.sqlite3' as old;
insert into dbtable ( id, name ) select id, name from old.dbtable;

Then you don't need to use Python to iterate through each row.
An old 90s-era laptop with a monochrome display whose brightness I could turn down to 0, a screen reader that let me arrow around all the tiles, and a bunch of long boring high school classes where teachers thought I was such a diligent student, always taking such great notes.

:P
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Stargate Universe (small spoiler alert) was also investigating a message in the CMB before it was canceled.
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Some think this might be why the lucky stiff.

https://twitter.com/leahculver/status/671713994441293824
And everyone made fun of Netflix for implementing a secure protocol on top of http. Suddenly that seems really useful for people in Kazakhstan.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/10/message-security-layer-m...

https://github.com/Netflix/msl
Is this also done remotely by gPanel?

>Once we've gathered all the information we need about the machine, we enter configuring, where we assign a static IP address to the IPMI interface and tweak our BIOS settings. From there we move to firmware_upgrade where we update FCB, BMC, BIOS, RAID, and any other firmware we'd like to manage on the system.
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Apart from changes in sea level, sometimes the land is moving up, sometimes down. See for instance the still ongoing rebound of Scandinavia, taking place since the start of the current interglacial period (11,700 years).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound#Vertical_...
If they can unwrap the first layer of encryption, and most normal traffic inside isn't encrypted, people tunneling through MITM'd TLS are playing a game of cat and mouse with a very well-funded adversary that can imprison, torture, or kill them.

Obviously, a lot of people do this kind of thing in China, and from what we know, circumventing the "Great Firewall" isn't routinely getting people killed. But people should know what they're doing before they try it in Kazakhstan.
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Interesting from the screenshot, that visitors with adblock have a lower bounce rate and 25% higher pages/visit.
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Having blown up a tonne of them in Tie Fighter, the stock YT-1300 basically had all the fighting ability of a cabbage. The only real thing to be worried about was ramming them by accident, or possibly laughing too much to rebalance your shields.

So yes, I'm pretty sure the Millenium Falcon was heavily upgraded.
I guess VPN is the only way to avoid it. Or sshuttle or something over port 80. But then again, how long will it take before they can detect that and then block it?!

Or you can use non-standard ports, and change them continuously.
Really hard to not take you for a crackpot. You:

* initially call everyone science-denying alarmists

* ignore all the responses that point out that there is trend in the data you linked.

* respond only to the reply that gives you the benefit of the doubt ('what smoothing do you recommend so we can see it's unchanged.') by switching datasets and trying to make the same point again (unable to defend it in with first source?)

* make a claim of your own ('it's unchanged'), but switch to a different, easier-to-defend claim when contested ('it's not a foot, like the original article claims')

So do you actually believe it's unchanged, or are you irrationally dead-set on disagreeing with the article? Can't take you seriously like this.
If the protocol is delivered over HTTP and runs in Javascript DOM context, it will be straightforward for an adversary that MITMs all traffic to defeat it.
Not enough developer uptake for Haskell early on; quite frankly because it requires a thoughtshift that many developers find too difficult to do.
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> this is the same cheetodusting that makes people take Linux-on-the-desktop people with all the unseriousness they demand.

FWIW I've been running a Linux-only desktop for over sixteen years. I honestly think that it's pretty close to being usable by nearly anyone, and I don't think that's an unserious opinion. It's certainly usable by — and useful to — anyone technical, and that's not an unserious opinion.
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I didn't realize Bell Labs (Unix), Microsoft (Widndows), CERN (HTTP), and DARPA (TCP/IP) were based out of Silicon Valley.
People who want to do string concatenation will continue to do so no matter what we tell them. At some point, we have to educate users. Giving them an easy-to-use alternative is a step in the right direction.
It doesn't not seem like something _why would do.
I'm pretty sure that if our cave-man ancestors raised children the way we do, humanity would have either have gone extinct or babies would be way less annoying[1] thanks to evolutionary selection. There's no way a huge percentage of stone age babies wouldn't have been shaken to death or hurled off cliffs at 2am otherwise. I'm sure some were anyway, but it'd have been most of them.

It had to have been a more collective effort than it is now, with a greater relief from work for those involved in the caretaking than we enjoy. It must have been both, because even a single dedicated stay-at-home caretaker will go nuts without support/relief, and the typical working partner does not have the capacity to properly provide that at night and not be really, really messed up during the day.

[1] I write this as a parent of two. Hospitals bombard new parents with "don't shake your baby" educational material. They do this because babies are phenomenally shakeable things, especially when they're shrieking for no damn reason at 2am and you're so tired from days on end of terrible sleep that you're beginning to hallucinate.
If you don't mind my interjecting..

Between link-sharing sites like this one, print and digital publications, and never ending ad campaigns masquerading as blogs and "relate-to-me!" emails, most of us are inundated with the specious ideas and arguments of people whose reliability can be difficult to assess. A simple heuristic is stop reading if the author appears to not be grounded in the empirical tradition. Which, unfortunately, most writers aren't.
That's all the model needs to do to be valuable.
What the game actually crashing or was world gen just restarting with a different seed?

World gen works with different parameters and will scrap worlds that are generated with in compatible conditions (e.g. There aren't enough evil biomes to support the minimum number of goblin fortresses).
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> I believe the DBMS's model shouldn't be conflated with the application's model. Sometimes the row is an entity in the domain; however consider a normalised data structure, where the entity as the application understands it may span a couple of tables.

If the right DB structure spans a couple of tables, then it probably shouldn't be one monolithic object in an application model (there might be a "central" object of sorts, with other related objects of which it is composed; that doesn't mean the models are identical, or even exactly 1:1, as, e.g., aggregates are sensibly single objects in an OO design, but multiple rows with some common attribute in a relational design for the same domain model, but Active Record generally accommodates that.)

> DataMappers also shine when working against a legacy database or one that cannot be changed.

I generally prefer Data Mapper as a pattern for a variety of reasons (just not the particular ones that were raised as problems with AR upthread, or, at least, for reasons that seem different to me than how those were phrased) -- even though I find that there is a usually a close correspondence between the natural relational model for a domain and the natural OO model, with divergences in models usually indicating a violation of good design principles on one side or the other (often the SRP on the OO side), I find AR itself is a violation of the SRP principle; the description of the pattern in PofEAA should raise a big red warning flag about this: "Each Active Record is responsible for saving and loading to the database and also for any domain logic that acts on the data" --"saving and loading to the database" can credibly seen as one responsibility (more succinctly, persistence) but that "and also" introduces a completely separate responsibility.

I also don't like that the simplicity of most AR implementations -- the main benefit they seem to offer for that compromise of the SRP -- tends to rest on making additional compromises, mostly in DB design and use, but sometimes on the OO side. If you avoid those compromises, you end up with something that isn't any simpler to set up and maintain than a Data Mapper, and Data Mapper gives you more freedom to evolve the persistence implementation independently (even if the model is still usually closely parallel to the application model), and even use different types of datastores.

(On a note that does approach one of the issues raised upthread, its also a fact that real world DBs and OOPLs both often require pragmatic compromises to the natural abstract relational or OO models for a domain to optimally address real problems; while it would be ideal to choose better tools -- or improve the tools -- to avoid these problems, that's often not a practical option, and tightly coupling application and relational models means that that compromise you choose on one side gets reflected on the other side, where it may not be necessary, and may be counterproductive.)
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Not really. How many owners of those 25% of web sites are programmers who have any opinion whatsoever about programming languages?
I always end up opening a lot of tabs so One Tab (https://www.one-tab.com/) has been my saving grace.
They've been hitting the barge, I'm guessing landing on something stationary should present less of a challenge ?
What did your due diligence process look like?
Massive speedups once you get to thousands of tests. We 12 minute runs for the 3 apps that are part of a release. When we went parallel it reduced it by 1/6 (6 test processes).

Of course, we also had some slow tests we rewrote and had to fix some tests that did not play nice concurrently. But it was well worth it.

I don't think you'll see a big benefit for a current 10-second run because of fixed cost of startup is some of that. But running tests in parallel may reveal some bad testing practices: leaving data behind or improper mocking that cause tests to fail in parallel. Fixing all that once you get to a massive set of tests is really painful and slow becuase you have to fix them ALL before switching your testing config. So that might be a benefit to turning it on soon and growing your tests already in an parallel environment.
Are there any publications using Storied? My concern is that using a third party service will always be sub-par compared to a setup like that at NYTimes, where the developers, designers and journalists all work in the same building.
Yes, it's all of that. Tides, temperature variations, ocean surface winds, and circulation all go in to changing sea surface height, at various time scales. It amounts to order of a couple of meters, peak-to-peak, in a weekly average.

Sea surface height (SSH) has been measured from space with great accuracy, using radar altimetry, since 1992. We can now also measure sea surface temperature (SST), salinity (SSS), and surface winds. The winds are knowable because wind ruffles the water surface and this changes the radar scatter properties.

Therefore, somewhat surprisingly, we know more about the ocean than the land.

For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_surface_topography; the data is at http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CoreMeasurements
Look at your data. The last time it trended down significantly there was a major weather event (hint: 1997-1998)... The same major weather event is upon us right now.

Anyhow, fit a regression line, and the trend is upward for most parts of the world. Maybe someday we'll return to an ice age, I mean, we were there in some parts of the world 10000 years ago. Right now the data shows we're in a warming cycle. It may be human-caused, it may be forces beyond our understanding (after all, the planet has gone through several heating-cooling cycles), but either way it's happening.
There's some noise, but the trend seems clear to me. The median starts out oscillating around the '1' line, but by 2008 - 2014 it barely touches the line at all.

There's a drop from 2014-2016, but it's too early to say if it's temporary like the drop between 1997-1998 (El Niño?)

We can say a priori that the sea level is not a random walk. A random walk is boundless - the sea level is not going to suddenly rise 100 meters.
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It's not actually doing reversions, right? It's just scoring edits. Wikipedia editors keep hot-lists of articles they watch edits for, or patrol lists of edits or page creations; ostensibly, all this needs to do is sort those lists of edits.
The bubble exists, but it's ludicrous to believe that SV startups don't have profound effects outside it. What % of people use Google, or Facebook, or Android/iOS every day in the west?
Curious. How do you go about (trivially) defeating asymmetric encryption?

EDIT: or do you mean to replace "all" (content + js)?
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I've tried to do a test like this and the results surprised me. While the testing conditions weren't perfect, I tracked how much time it took to port Fortran code to C++, and how much time it took to write the C++/CUDA optimized version. I would have expected writing all the optimized CUDA kernels would add significant time to the project, but in reality it was something like 1.3x for a solution 15x faster.

I think as developers we often underestimate the amount of work we need to put into the non coding part of development for larger projects, like testing, debugging, optimization, and design. When these components become important then despite the local productivity gains of using rapid development languages like python or Julia, it would overall be a wash if you're writing the system from scratch in a language like C.
They're not aging at an accelerated rate, they're exhibiting similar symptoms of aging from their microgravity environment (weak muscles, frail bones) and from there being no shielding from cosmic rays (cataracts).
That's just wrong and a really unpleasant slippery slope.
I hope this causes a huge backlash from users and the internet at large.
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This comment gives a good smoothing in the interactive data set, it might help:

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=10664069&goto=item%3Fi...
That's what we're seeing so far. Nice attention to detail.
I would ask them for clarification in writing on that. They might just mean exclusive as in you can't lease land to another dollar farm that could compete with them. Or they may be giving you a blanket statement so they can stop you if anything is planned that will affect their business such as 15 years from now somebody offers to lease your extra land to put up building which would in turn cast shadows in their panels.
Yes, you'd have to sideload the initial keys/code, presumably outside the country. It works for Netflix because it's baked into the client. But at least once you've somehow gotten the keys you won't get stopped by the government blocking it since it isn't 'https' and doesn't look like 'https'.

Until they figure it out and start blocking that too of course.
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