skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the writeup! Two points:

1. letsencrypt-nosudo isn't deprecated. I still will make updates to it as needed.

2. You can add a "|| exit" after the "> signed.crt" in acme-tiny to prevent overwriting chained.pem when there is an error. I do this in the Readme.
> It's a contest

Yes, who cares? The bigger picture is advancing the field, not scoring some bigger number in some artificial environment.

> This was about as cheating as it gets.

Like I said, so was data flow analysis originally.

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The point is to not just dismiss this as "cheating" but take a closer look at how the current benchmark is flawed and how this sort of shortcut might be useful.
There is.

My view is this: By the time I teach power users (at large companies) how to use tools like Microstrategy, it becomes clear that it would have been quicker just to teach them SQL.

I think there's particular group you have to aim for:

The group that are at large companies, doing sophisticated analysis of data, who don't know how to code, but WANT to build their own reports. This is the sweet spot. Most of the market is more geared towards super simple drag and drop for users who are more interested in getting a canned report to their boss each Monday. Those aren't going to be a market for this.
Thanks for your feedback. Our standard product - (bulk) SMS services - has no setup costs or subscription model whatsoever (pay for what you use only). For the VMN and (shared) short code services, there are monthly costs. We will make sure the quoted text will not be showed at those pages anymore. Thanks again.
39,69 % for Belgium looks like to be the highest? One of the Biggest PSPs flipped the switch
It's 10-12 hours of pulp-grade movie. You can project a lot onto it, because in the end, there isn't much there to either draw conclusions from, or contradict your interpretation.

This gets squared (or exponentiated) if you, like some people have done, decide that the films may themselves be unreliable narration. Which I think is not a useful decision, because you pretty quickly run smack up into the fact that these are just fiction anyhow in this case; the films were not written to stand up to that interpretation.

I think it's particularly difficult to draw any sweeping conclusions because it's not clear to me that the movie universe is written carefully enough to justify them. For every Jedi epigram, you can find a Jedi violating it, or for some epigrams, it's hard to find anyone actually doing the thing. Jedi, for instance, repeatedly act in a way that can be described as "fearful"; is the Jedi proscription against fear simply referring to the brute emotion, or anything that can be described as fearful? Honestly, the best answer is probably that it was not written to be able to answer that. Are the Jedi "hypocrites", or is the writing just too clumsy? Especially after the prequel trilogy, I can't help but think it's the latter. (And I do not mean that as a fashionably-snotty thing to say; I really don't think they were well-written. But they don't necessarily deserve the opprobrium heaped on them; they were not especially bad by Hollywood standards. I'd call them pretty average on that front. Most Hollywood movies are philosophically and ethically really quite mushy.)

One must also bear in mind that from a "hard science fiction" point of view, the concrete and scientifically-proved existence of "The Force" may change things. In our real world, I think almost everything that Yoda says is gibbering nonsense, but in his world it may be entirely true that fear inexorably and directly leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering. There's a mechanism for it to do so that doesn't exist in our universe, and we should expect that if "The Force" is real that it means that there are things that are perfectly true in Star Wars that aren't true here, making it even harder to draw sweeping conclusions.

The conclusion I come to is that this is a fun movie series that, in the end, simply doesn't stand up to this level of analysis, as evidenced by the fact the analyses always seem to simply be the analysis' author writing about exactly what they already believe, dressed in Star Wars trappings.
Pretty straightforward approach technically..!!
If your proven component is so well-isolated from others and doesn't undergo changes (and neither do its assumptions about input), it seems like the same would apply to a model-checked component. Besides, the cost of proofs is well over 1Kx if not 10Kx over model checking, so I don't see how this consideration is important.

Proofs are useful -- because of their total coverage -- when verifying components that will be used in many different projects, like compilers, kernels and libraries, and even then only when they are sufficiently small to be doable within, say, 5-10 years by a dedicated team. A one-time gigantic job will pay for itself by being used (and hopefully paid for) by many customers over many years.
My experience with apple is that you should only use API calls that have been around for 5+ years, because everything else is essentially broken.

For a company that relies on GPU effects for everything, it's amazing how bad they are at supporting OpenGL. I remember a few years ago Valve basically wrote an open letter to Apple to fix their shit, and .. well you can play Portal now, but the state of OpenGL on OSX is still a disaster.
D'Oh! thanks
Surely there are thousands of people on Earth who had the required skill and knowledge at the time, probably much more. Hash cash and Merkle trees had been a thing for a while. On the other hand, a comparatively smaller number of people seeks out the public stage in a way that makes them well known.

Furthermore, I think what's easy to miss in hindsight is that somebody with that knowledge would certainly be asking themselves how such a thing as a Bitcoin could ever have value. Certainly I know that if I'd been thinking about digital money at the time, I would have rejected the idea of Bitcoin as obviously infeasible because why would it ever have value? Whatever the required properties are for somebody to actually believe that something like Bitcoin could take off, they are in the political/social/economic domain and therefore unlikely to correlate much with being known in the security community.

And to top it all off, the mining arms-race inherent in Bitcoin requires an extreme amount of computing power. On the other hand, crypto researchers are always looking for protocols that are efficient to implement. In that sense, there is even an anti-correlation between being likely to invent Bitcoin and being well known in the security community.

You could easily imagine a Torvalds-Tanenbaum-style argument happening in the early days of Bitcoin between the inventor of Bitcoin and, say, DJB. The parallel is actually kind of eery ;)
> Netflix recommendations are awful, but they do exist.

That's odd, they were amazing to me for about 2-3 years :) but that's one of the things that probably varies a lot from person to person because of different preferences, different availability based on region, etc.
Most game engines are heavily content driven due to the common team makeup of a modern AAA title(last game I worked on was ~10 programmers and ~70 art/design). Sometimes you get a subset of the source(Half-Life/Quake era stuff was like this).

Some times you don't get any source but the tools are powerful enough to build an entirely new experience(see DOTA/Starcraft mods).
It doesn't bother me at all that Amazon prices are near to retail - for me the convenience and ease of one online store for everything still beats physical shopping, for most things.

The reviews are now a real problem, though. I think it goes way beyond the Vine Voices program, too - I've seen products with page after page of 5 star reviews, each with a note at the bottom along the lines of "I received this product for free in exchange for my honest opinion". I don't recall these being identified as Vine Voices, they were just "normal" users.

Whether sellers are directly contacting normal users outside of the Vine Voices program, or whether the reviews are just straight up spam or paid shills I don't know, though I'd bet it's a bit of both.
> We started disabling Google ads that lead to sites with UwS downloads.

Google still has a long way to go on that front. A good place to start would be making sure Google's ads always have the option to report them, which currently they mostly don't. I recently came across one of these as a text ad on YouTube, it was quite obviously intended to mislead and give people UwS, and decided to try to report it.

There was no way to do it on the page. There was no way to do it elsewhere, at least that I could find through googling. I eventually reported it to the security team, on a form intended for reporting vulnerabilities, as "whatever malicious-ad-filtering you have can't be working at all if it let this through".
This is what a great QA tester will do. Good devs don't ship code with known bugs - but they will miss things because they code to the feature/user story/known behavior. That's what their job is. A good QA person's job will be to spend a whole lot of time thinking about how to break the dev's app that the dev missed.
He dwells too much upon the age and cruft of email, but this article reads more like a layman learning for the first time about Hofstadter's law, general programming project mis-scoping, and dealing with technical debt he himself created... which is kinda cool to hear about from "the outside".
Actually all he really* did for OpenTTD was disassemble the original TTD into C, which became the first version of OpenTTD. He left in the early 0.x stages of OpenTTD.

*Ok it's still an epic task :)
I've been doing the same for many years (and used a Hurricane Electric 6to4 tunnel before that). Haven't bothered to look at my traffic mix, but I expect it's similar to yours.

Thing is, there are still routers out there that don't support v6 out of the box, and -just as there are network admins who DROP traffic because doing so "keeps them hidden from hackers"- some people keep v6 support disabled because of cargo-cult security concerns. (Others keep v6 off because some or all of their systems are misconfigured and cannot be fixed, or their ISP is incompetent and hasn't configured their network correctly. These are reasonable reasons to keep v6 off. ;) )
Actually, yes. That's exactly right.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/10/29/t...
ownCloud Music app (https://github.com/owncloud/music) contributor here, I integrated Aurora.js with owncloud music app, and created a compatibility layer for Aurora.js and SoundManager2 (https://github.com/owncloud/music/pull/416). Audiocogs's ogg.js doesn't work, so I use browser's built-in decoder via SoundManager instead.

And Aurora.js' doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, I tried very hard to make it build, finding that the build scripts was intended to work on OSX (version unclear), but the developer never mentions it. And even if it builds, the result doesn't really work, Aurora.js, ogg.js, flac.js, alac.js... none of them, as far as I remember.

So actually in the owncloud music app we just downloaded the built js files from the demo site :-p
OpenJDK 9: Life Without HPROF and Jhat
1980's speech synthesis chips
Which says more about you than those things.
Can you name a rebellion or revolution that didn't target civilians? There aren't any, and I think that distinction ultimately reduces to "terrorism is what's done by bad guys, revolution/rebellion by heroes!"
I have a slight hope that may be, just may be, this will result with people stop using labels and actually digging deeper to the substance of each issue.

Especially if they try to pass moral judgement and assign such labels as "good" and "bad" go very complex situations.
If you're working with Postgres then check out https://github.com/sosedoff/pgweb for connecting to a remote server. It supports table data viewing as well as SQL queries, but doesn't provide the same chart capabilities.
It would be okay without the orange logo and glow above it IMO.
PrimeFaces Titan has arrived
keeping up with email became a snap for me once I discovered mutt and procmail. This post definitely falls under "reinventing the wheel", but I can't say that's a bad thing. Unfortunately, most people's workflow is so different, that having one email workflow/interface just won't cut it, and sometimes it takes a custom solution.
I think you misunderstand. Kaggle has a training set (known to all participants), a "public leaderboard" test set (secret) and a "private leaderboard" test set (also secret). You can get your model's score on the "public" test set a couple of times per day. Your score on the private test set is only revealed once, after the competition has ended.

People can, and do, overfit their model to the public test set, but doing so does not improve their score on the private test set, so cheating is prevented even without the submission limit.

The submission limit helps ensure the leaderboard generated from the public test set stays close to the leaderboard generated by the private test set while the competition is running, so that you can get an idea about your standing. But participants know better than taking the public leaderboard too seriously.
Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Librem 13 laptop
CloudFlare does have a pretty compelling compatibility layer just for that purpose:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/202494830-P...
I had the privilege of holding one of these a few days ago. One of my co-workers owns one and was happy to demonstrate it to me. The 9's complement subtraction was interesting to watch.
There was a recent HN thread on the world's highest-grossing photographer, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10689889. Would this impact Prince's business model?
Looks good! Could it be a free alternative for tools like Periscope (https://www.periscopedata.com/)?
Singapore was the focus of intensive capital expenditure by the British Empire prior to independence, and managed to maintain a stable market economy after independence which made it an attractive target for even more foreign investment.
> Why celebrate hard work just for the sake of work?

Why do hard work at all? My answer would be to risk building something great. I doubt anyone wants to do hard work for the sake of it. Building a culture that rewards honest effort would encourage the same hard work in the future despite risks of failure -- though admittedly it's easy to go overboard in either direction! Use your best judgement here.
Do I also need a license to sit in a designer chair?
> Terrorists attack unarmed civilians.

One of the most striking stories my grandmother always told about WWII (she was born in '34) was how, when she walked to school, very often US fighters shot at the children walking there. There was no way this was a mistake – they were still children, the road only led to the school, no one else was walking there at the time. And still, every few days fighters shot at them, and they had to jump in a drainage canal, or similar to hide.

Seeing your friends from school being shot by fighters in front of your eyes can hurt a child a lot.

Many old people here still hold a grudge towards the allies, despite all the amazing things they did after the war to rebuild.

But if attacking civilians is the measure, then the US is a terrorist state. And has been for decades.

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EDIT: I’m not saying the US is bad, or good, I’m trying to say there is no "good" side in a war. No one in a war is innocent.

There is a side that gasses jews, and a side that nukes civilians. There is a side that bombs hospitals, and a side that blows themselves up at a concert in Paris. There’s a side that massacres disabled people, and a side that shoots children.

We can’t compare, or even weigh up the sides against each other, and doing so would miss the point. But we can’t say "only terrorists kill civilians".
why would you imagine a few months or losses indicated the strategy didn't work anymore?
Thanks for letting me know :)
If you want to access faster computing regimes that already exist, learn GPU programming or FPGA programming. Both provide extremely large proven speedups over CPU programming and you can start learning them now. Worrying about Quantum Computing is, imo, rather premature.
That is a very good point. Thanks for pointing it out.
Same. I initially cut cable (and cable internet) because Cox kept disconnecting me instead of my neighbor, and expected me to take time off from work (wouldn't show up in the evening or on weekends) to get me reconnected. Treat customers poorly, and if you don't offer them a compelling reason to stay (cable is hardly a necessity, and there are other ISPs), and they'll leave.
This isn't really about the movies.
That sounds OK, if a bit low. Perhaps the resistors are large, or you might be diverting some current through a low(ish) impedance voltmeter, but those should be rare nowadays.

The trick with diodes is that the curve is exponential - so for a "0.7V" diode, and pulling numbers out of the air, you can get 0.3V for nanoamp currents, or 1.0V for power-station currents (for the brief moment before it melts ;-)

The real equation is very simple, if anyone wants to play. For instance, it's well explained here, midway down the page:
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/semiconductors/chpt...
Or control by organized crime like the Huts. We were shown first hand what their brand of justice looked like. brutal dismemberment at the hands of animals for entertainment's sake.
Please read a personal appeal from lainchan founder Iwakura Lain
Do you have a public source for that?
I don't think this article was meant to be more than thought provoking.

It ignores the history of the Jedi as a peace keeping force of a "good" republic, who are dispersed from that service after a cruel dictator rises to take control over that republic with his supreme powers over the military and no political method to prevent or restrict that control.

As a comparison to the US, it's better to think about this as a concern about what happens as Congress continues to push more power into the hands of the President because they don't want to deal, or are incapable of compromising, due to political issues derived from radicalized voting bases formed from gerrymandered political districts.

In all this tongue in cheek stuff, there is a real possibility that some crazy radical religious fundamentalist ends up in power and abuses that... Oh George W Bush happened, did we survive?
The reviewer doesn't pay for the product they are reviewing. The review is sponsored by the vendor and Amazon.
Let's Encrypt SSL out of the box on the latest gae-init (App Engine/Python)
I heard a Dane say the Nordic ISPs had enough 'foresight' to hoard enough IPv4 addresses for the foreseeable future.
TCO can be done more readily if you know for a fact that all the parameters passed into the function were not modified during the execution of the function.
Under this classification what makes the bombing of Dresden or Hiroshima different from any other terrorist attack? I mean, who is to decide under which circumstances unarmed civilians are a legitimate military target?
The Mystery of the Aleph is one of my favorite books. Great math with a sprinkle of crazy on top.
I don't think I fully understand your comment. Regardless of whether I've read the whole program top-down, it is definitely easier for me to understand early-exit logic in a routine than to keep the mental stack of conditionals going, particularly when (as is often the case) the early exits consist of various deviations from the "main sequence" code (e.g., validations failing or other edge-cases).
> In fact, most features you associate with FP were very well known when OOP came about.

That's true, even though OOP as a paradigm was articulated before FP was (both paradigms were prefigured by less-structured practices in programming, before either was articulated as a programming paradigm, so the techniques of both existed before either was cataloged as a paradigm.)

> So OOP and FP have never been in opposition to one another. Just sets of features that you can choose from.

OOP and FP aren't sets of features, they are approaches to programming; there are features of languages which facilitate FP and/or OOP, to be sure, but the paradigms aren't sets of features.

> As to non-OOP FP, it is quite possible that much of its allure is nothing more than its relative novelty to developers today,

I doubt it; non-OOP FP has been around almost as long as OOP has been, has frequently played a fairly central role (whether or not it was explicitly named as a paradigm) in computer science in education, and, in any case, and it became popular when domains where it particular implementations of it had long been proven (particularly, concurrent/distributed systems) started becoming part of the problem space of mainstream development.

The idea that its popularity is driven primarily by novelty doesn't seem like the best explanation.
> Curious how similar this is to raising capital.

Exactly the same.
If there is a copyright on a chair, you cannot manufacture the chair without permission. Where is photographing it mentioned?
What's great though is that at the end of it, he has a tool that works for him. That's a huge accomplishment.

All too often I obsess over tiny details in my personal projects and never get to anything useful at all. Meanwhile this guy built something that's probably not elegant, but totally does what he needed.
I would pay $1 a month for quick feedback on my website. Give me a quick 10 minute look and try things out and tell me what works, what is confusing etc. Sort of like customer feedback. I am sure you would have a large number of users as usability testing is expensive. There is not really a price point in the $1 range as far a I could tell.
New Podcast: Geekery about goalfests, happiness metrics, $300M buttons +more
oh my god yes thank you, i've wanted this exact piece of software for so long, and just was too lazy to program it myself. this is EXACTLY what i wanted.
Amazon seller here- Yes, it's true. Like many people said here the reviewers must state that they're being given the product at a discount for their review....but even according to Amazon TOS, you're not requiring that they even leave you a review. Just asking nicely.

Amazon is a search engine for optimizing sales. Amazon's search engine heavily ranks reviews in determining order (because listings with reviews convert at a higher rate).

It's hard to get a customer to write a review. As an example, we have a product that we've sold literally thousands of and we have a big fat SINGLE review. It's not a highly competitive niche, so we do well without more reviews. Other products we need at least 5-10 reviews to get on the first few pages. Not the first spot, the first few pages (and the first three or four listings get the lion's share of the sales).
A little annecdote. I was backed a kickstarter project that shipped very late and missing features. I moved on but noted this interesting 'war' between the backers and vendor when the product started shipping on Amazon.

People were so bitter they flooded the product page with 1 star reviews. The company responded with fake 5 star reviews. Then the backers coordinated on the Kickstarter comments page to vote down the fake reviews.

Top 'real' review; 1 star

Bad end to end support from Lima.
By Amazon Customer on August 10, 2015

Lima technologies will not respond to you about tech support questions or questions regarding their licensing once you have the product in hand. They will refuse to respond on any media you attempt to contact them on. It's been very poorly handled.

Buried 'fake' review; 5 stars

Excellent Private/Personal Cloud Device
ByHenry Westbrookon November 19, 2015
Color: Blue
Excellent Cloud Device. It works as specified. Lima is very easy to setup and administer. Well worth your purchase dollars!! It will be interesting to watch the company grows this product in the future

http://www.amazon.com/Lima-Private-Device-Smartphone-Tablet/...