skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a nifty machine, and he has some really interesting videos on his site (woodgears.ca); one of the fun ones is his experimentation making a better mouse trap.

For the joints that he's making with the machine I'm a bit skeptical that this is really the best way to do it. At about $1000 for a pre-built metal one shipped to the US, you can avoid some of the fiddling you would have to do to construct the machine itself (but still need a router motor). However, this is more expensive than the special purpose jigs, and I'm not convinced you're going to have better results.

He demonstrated the integral dowels, but frankly, with glue being stronger than wood, I'm not sure that it really is better than just a doweling jig for that purpose.

For example, with the $150 Porter Cable dovetail jig, you are going to get a few patterns and be able to do dovetails much quicker than with this machine.

He clearly enjoys working with his machinery (e.g., he built a dust collector and band saw from scratch), so I'm sure he had a lot of fun designing and building it. And there are many reader-built panto-routers too, so some people certainly like it.
From the perspective of PayPal, it's not that his personal email address is made public. It's that the fact that he has a PayPal account associated with that email address is made public.

It's similar to advice for "forgot password" forms not to acknowledge whether or not an email address or username actually exists--simply tell the user an email was sent for that account regardless.
A fair point, thank you.
Extremely good essay.

Here's the thing.

A left tackle ( using "The Blind Side" here ) has a particular set of physical properties. If suddenly, for nutritional or environmental reasons, there are 10x of the number of people who can qualify physically as a left tackle, then the locus of competition will move elsewhere.

This, IMO, is what we see now. Paul's not advocating it ( again, IMO ) he's commenting on it. We are without the massive corporations of the 1950s to absorb people of "ordinary" ability[1]. Then again, I get stories of how those jobs slowly killed people.

[1]Yes, I hate that sentence but that's how the story goes...

Investing in inner city kids is a great idea, but it's hard to do. Using yet another sports film as a source, "The Street Stops Here" talks about Bob Hurley.

You don't find a Bob Hurley every day. Bob Hurley is a retired parole officer. It's clear from the film that he'd do nearly anything to keep kids out of prison. This is his white whale; he doesn't play fair and he doesn't care who objects to it.

Money will not help with that. Finding what can be done is a profoundly difficult problem.
Even if Netflix is serious about blocking VPNs, it's unlikely to succeed
I've been getting the same emails for a while now. I sent to paypal through email and got no response. I also added on a topic I thought was relevant on their forum, and a guy there said he reported it and got a less automatic response than I did.

https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Access-and-security/Gett...

I haven't got more messages lately, so I'm guessing they managed it already.
I'm probably unusual, but I have major writer's block and anxiety when writing about myself. I can write clear, detailed communications about nearly anything with little effort, but it takes me 45 minutes to write three paragraphs about myself.
How to extinguish a lithium ion battery fire
You can still go meet that bartender, but now when you ask her about the technique you can explain what you've already tried, and will almost certainly get better knowledge from her.
Damn that's sexy.
I'm curious what happened to HomeJoy? They talked about having good cohort analysis numbers(retention) and then they blew up?
My A1222 has arrived
From the x86-64 archive:

> Actually, I'm a bit disgusted at Intel for not even _mentioning_ AMD in
their documentation or their releases, so I'd almost be inclined to rename
the thing as "AMD64" just to give credit where credit is due.

TIL.
> The fact that BlackBerry designed around this early on leads me to suspect (as an outside observer with an imagination) that mass metadata collection was known by folks in industry back in the 90s.

Wouldn't a simpler explanation be that it was just over-designed for 90s-era threats in a way that hardened it to some more recent threats?
True. I think it will pick up once Node.js + Chakracore (or other Javascript Engines) starts taking momentum.
Isn't Y-Combinator's whole thing "Make something people want."? That's a rather succinct and meaningful statement on its own. A very powerful one that should be held above perhaps all others.

I'm sure that whatever your business practices are, after boiling everything away, you should be doing this above all things. An article like this suggests perhaps some sizable amount, or many organizations are losing sight of the way.
The only real compelling reason anyone has these days to buy a bitcoin seems to be for use on darknet markets, mostly to buy drugs. The merits of those markets are wonderful to discuss, but as I don't really have a use for drugs in my life right now, I have no need for bitcoins.
Yeah for sure, I think it's mainly a lack of structure which has also been solved in various forms, none of which necessarily prevail.
"It's not really about censorship... and about keeping the lower classes from organizing and causing trouble."

That sounds like censorship to me.
Well this is the point. If private citizens adopted BTC over their nation's currency it would completely upend the political power structures - which arguably is the most democratic thing possible.

No nation state would ever encourage it, but in theory it would flatten the world to the greatest extent ever - moreso than any transportation technology (shipping, airfreight etc...) ever.
Oh, I've still got filtering, but it reduces how good/aggressive my filtering has to be.

It is indeed very difficult to keep ALL your email addresses from being publicly listed, so I use GMail accounts for the ones plastered all over the web, and let GMail handle the spam.
>I don't really understand why they need to grow quickly. You only need to grow quickly if you take millions of dollars and need to distribute a profit to your investors before too long.

You need to grow quickly because the world is a big place and technology concepts unfold more or less sequentially, with each iteration building on the past.

As a result, the world is full of people who are going to have similar ideas to you and similar opportunities to take advantage of them, around the time you do, and whoever gets established first will get to take most, if not almost all, of the pie.
> Finally I find it a bit odd that someone so concerned with privacy uses so many Google Apps. Isn't that rather counter productive?

There's a fairly big difference between having a company consolidate your personal information and a country willing to throw you in a hole for thinking certain thoughts.
How Engineering Teams at Spotify Do 1:1's
Anybody tinkered with the headset? It's $360 for the most basic.

https://emotiv.com/insight.php

EDIT: seems you need to buy the $750 to read raw data.. and you can only publish open source apps or you need to buy a $1000 license, includes 5 user at 1 platform
>But by then, the startup has already won. They already got the funding thanks to their sleazy marketing, and the social validation/connections that comes with it.

Only if getting seed money and failing in 18 months is their idea of winning. I have a hard time seeing how this is an ideal outcome in either the short or long term for anyone.
Sorry if it came as an attack it was not my intention. I apologize. English is not my native language and I'm afraid I did a poor job at explaining myself.

What I meant was : don't loose your time with a private company that will send you probably useless prep stuff since they don't know you, your needs and the scenarios you're preparing for.

I believe you will always do better than them even if you don't dedicate a whole lot of time to it.

I was comparing the government and private companies since I believe they will do both a poor job helping you get prepared.
All merged by now, more than 60 signatures ATM.
IA torrent files use the archive as web seeds if they have to. But if there's a spike in interest - like right now apparently - it would reduce the load. So it will still work if there are no seeds, and it will reduce load on the servers when that's possible.

Edit: this is all just to be polite, since the archive is not worried about using a ton of bandwidth.
I asked this before: If they need to log many hours of driving and various conditions - why cant they hook the brain of the car up to playing videogames like GTAV and EU truck simulator etc... and have it play thousands and thousands of hours of the game without killing any pedestrians or getting any tickets
I have actually seen an inverse relationship with the amount of time invested in the application process. I spend 45 minutes laboriously transferring every little detail already on my resume into the fill-in forms of their candidate blackholing system, also upload my resume, and include a cover letter: no contact.

I locate my HTML resume on my file system and click "send": I get an e-mail response within days, and take the first call the same week.

So I'm willing to write a custom cover paragraph. I say where I saw the job posting and the single detail in it that most influenced my choice to respond.

But I only do so at the end, if the application process hasn't already gone over 20 minutes.
There is no reason to send a non-boilerplate cover letter to a large company, especially given the fairly high likelihood that it's either processed by a machine or discarded entirely. The lack of transparency about what happens to cover letters is even more discouraging, so maybe you should put a little note in your careers page that you prefer no cover letter to a boilerplate one.

On the other hand, if it's a small company and the CEO/CTO/Hiring Manager is <firstname>@<companyname>.com, then a meaningful cover letter that's not more than 2-3 paragraphs has a good chance of getting a response of some kind.

In my most recent job search, all followup came from going to events, meetups, or hackathons and gaining contacts that way. I figured out that spending 3 hours a day trying to compose meaningful cover letters could be better spent going to events talking with people, although this is only an option for people in certain cities.
Researcher Bypasses Apple's Updated Malware Protection in '5 Minutes'
Engaging the Voyage to Vulkan
I reach for the 'reader' button in Firefox to convert the page to newspaper-style.
It's no surprise that music leads the way, video (and especially live video) next, and software after that - they are ordered here by complexity.

However, the anti-censorship instinct of the internet will eventually drive all of these forms media to an open distribution model.
No, that's the birth of objects, objects and object orientation are entirely different things. Objects are an abstraction, Smalltalk did not invent them; Object orientation is a description of a programming style; Smalltalk invented that. Alan Kay absolutely invented object orientation as he coined the term which means taking objects and basing the entire language and programming style on them, i.e. the language is oriented towards them to support the object as primary abstraction style.

Simula had objects, but it was not object oriented, it was still a procedural language; objects were bolted onto procedures. Smalltalk was the first object oriented language, objects are the means of abstraction from which the entire language is built; that's what object orientation is. The term object oriented and thus OO was never uttered before Smalltalk and thus Kay made up the term and is the inventor of the OO style of programming.
Startup as PG defines it in his essays is a company that's experiencing rapid growth - often to support growing rapidly you need a lot of money.

I think growing rapidly can have certain advantages - in Facebook's case it allowed them to take over the social environment for all colleges and then eventually everything else. Slow growth in trying to do this may have not allowed them to win.

Since VCs are betting on the exponential growth wins (AirBNB, Facebook) they're only interested in hypergrowth companies which YC narrowly defines as startups. Going slow doesn't mean you can't make a great company, it's just not a 'startup'.

Of course you need to be 'making things people want' and iterating with users before you can grow, which is what I think sama is talking about.
definitely... MSFT, Facebook, Google, Apple, Salesforce...
WiFi was turned off completely on the phone, also message itself was a native UI dialog, not something on a webpage.
A better solution in this case is to fill the memory with junk -- 0xdeadbeef is a popular solution.
At my old job we had a lovely django app that acted as the base for multiple e-commerce sites. It's database layer was initially MySQL but due do reliability issues, lack of robust admin tools and poor GIS support we made the move to postgres.

The switch in code was trivial as we were making full use of the Django ORM and the migration script we created was simple as they were both Relational DB's. However most of our time was spend testing and creating fail safes as changing a production DB if done wrong can have dire consequences.
I'm not totally agree with both letters, just for personal reasons, but this is not the point.

Overall GitHub is a cultural place where anyone can improve his personal skills, expecially in computer programming, thanks to the huge code present on it.
I have romantic vision of Github.
For instance, guys from poor parts of the world can study great code with this site.

Yes it is a company with investors and probably it made some wrong decisions, and if we want we can choose other services, but today sorry for the repetition Github represents an open and huge cultural Hub.
Yes he did, but I'm not sure how that relates in any way to anything I said. His message idea were based on how cells communicate via messages in biology. Objects are cells. As I ran a popular Smalltalk blog for a few years, I'm well aware of Kay and the history of Smalltalk and his intentions about messaging.
They don't need to grow quickly. But this community has set their own definition of 'startup', which includes rapid growth, and this is a member of YC talking about what they tell their startups, so it is falling within that context.

Outside of the 2-letter acronym world (YC/VC/SV/HN), absolutely entrepreneurs should set their own speed -- they only have to answer to themselves.
The wrinkle here is that not all people with disabilities agree that their conditions are actually a bad thing.

Among those who are deaf, for instance, there has been a long-standing debate over whether deafness is actually a medical problem, or just a different kind of human experience. The latter group would argue that a campaign to restore hearing to the deaf would actually be a kind of genocide -- a coordinated campaign to wipe out a distinct culture, with its own languages and traditions, just because it is physically different than the majority.

That may sound wild, but the more you think about it the more troubling questions it raises. Well-meaning people would never consciously try to shame deaf people for being deaf, for instance, but the viewpoint embedded in the idea of ending deafness is that the deaf are broken people who need to be fixed by being made more like the rest of us. Do we actually agree that deaf people are broken, incomplete? If we do, does it follow that deaf people who refuse our cure should be compelled, in some manner, to accept it? How far are we willing to go to eradicate deafness? Is "eradicating deafness" even a morally legitimate thing to aspire to?

I'm not deaf myself, so I won't pretend to have an authoritative perspective on any of these questions. I just raise them to note that the standard tech-centric view of these things (here's a problem, let's create something that solves it!) isn't the lens through which everyone sees the lives they live.
The Best Things in Life Are FREE- for Students
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From the readme:

>My previous Doom levels were made in 1995 for The Ultimate Doom (e4m2, e4m6), so this is a warm-up.
Of course it won't be 100% successful, but it will block the average VPN user (they can pretty easily get the blocks of IP from these providers).

This will satisfy the content providers and the tech savvy people will still be able to get around the block.
Obligatory Penny Arcade:
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/25
Well, there are a lot of zealots in every camp, so they'd attack even if you named it PISSwatch. But you have spent time and put out great, useful work, and nobody has the right to complain, as you didn't do it because you had to, but because of your good will. Kudos for that, very nice website.
> But by then, the startup has already won.

Has it, though? You will run out funding eventually, and if your revenue isn't cutting it, your users are leaving, the few employes you have quit, etc... Getting funded doesn't solve everything magically.
Mike Hearn works for R3
I created this app out of frustration with how hard it is to find low priced items online. You usually have to drill way down before you can filter by price. Do you think this is a useful service?
Let’s Bring Rosie Home: 5 Challenges We Need to Solve for Home Robots
I remember the IA-16, IA-8, and IA-4 articles on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IA-16&oldid=13741...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IA-8&oldid=137416...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IA-4&oldid=195098...
If you want to grow slowly, that's fine. It's just a different game.

With technology, there's so much leverage, the winner can achieve massive spoils and that typically requires growing rapidly.
>Honest question: do reasonable really look at the The Great Recession and think that there are "individuals" wholly responsible for what happened?

Yes, that is how we handle complex issues. We look at the people who did the biggest wrong and hold them responsible for most if not all of the blame, even though we understand that there were far more actors who could've greatly impacted the actual harm done. Consider child abuse. There are certain forms where, depending upon reactions from parents and therapy offered, the outcome could vary greatly from extremely harmful to minimal damage to the child. But regardless of the outcome of the harm, and regardless if the outcome was influenced by other parties, we place the guilt of all the harm, both realized and risked, on the one who committed the abuse. We do not need mastery of how the financial system broke to deal out punishment just like we don't need mastery of the pathways by which emotional abuse leads to suicide attempts to punish the abuser.

It isn't perfect, but it is better than just washing our hands after slapping a few wrists when we don't understand all the details.
I think the average VPN user IS pretty tech savvy.
This post really resonated with me. In a past life I was involved in most of the hiring for a large functional group in the ad agency world. Ad agencies are notorious for their poor work/life balance, and this shop was no different. As I was often the last person to interview (once they'd made it through everyone else), I'd typically ask some question to the extent of "has anyone discussed the workload and typical hours with you?" People with a couple years experience would often say "no, but I expect they are typical for agencies" indicating they knew what the game was. Entry-level candidates needed it spelled out though, which I did.

The ones that accepted the offers inevitably all told me at some point down the line that they appreciated that I didn't sugar coat things in the interview. I also found that it helped them be happier in the role because the job better aligned with their expectations for it.

What candidates did not see were the battles I fought behind the scenes to get more resources, push for SOWs that were actually reasonable based on the team allocations, etc. That said, the fact that there's really no changing that in a low-margin service-based industry was a large part of why I decided to go to a a healthy product-based company that didn't react negatively when I stated one of my top requirements for a company is a healthy work/life balance.

That's just one example, but there have been other hiring situations I've experienced throughout my career where I wish I could have been very candid about things like:

"You would be filling a hole in a team with constant churn because of poor management"

"The client you will be on is a real asshole who yells at everyone and has unrealistic demands"

"We typically pay below market because everyone wants to work on our clients and we know you'll be gone in 1-2 years anyway"

The list goes on. I've also been on the receiving end of some of this when looking for a job. I'm fortunate that I'm accomplished enough in my career to have the luxury of being pickier in where I work, so I'm able to ask some pretty blunt questions that others might frown on to get to the root of these, and the answers are always enlightening, and I avoid situations that almost certainly would have been miserable. But I also get the hiring manager's perspective...if you are resource starved and drowning, sugar-coating things is more likely to get people accepting the offer and being there at least in the short term. It can be really hard to put the long-term health of the company ahead of your personal pain when you are just an overwhelmed cog in the machine. Being honest and upfront about these things takes bravery, and will inevitably grow your team with people whose expectations match the reality.
They link to the HTTP version of their Onion address:

http://www.propub3r6espa33w.onion/

A bunch of important resources like CSS and images fail to load for me because their Content-Security-Policy dictates that non-https resources should be upgraded. However, the certificate isn't trusted, because nobody (other than Facebook apparently) can get a https certificate for an .onion hostname.

If I change it to https and accept the certificate, it all works fine.

Interestingly, it also works fine when using Tor Browser Bundle. Just not in plain Firefox or Chromium.

[edit] In the TBB console: "Content Security Policy: Couldn't process unknown directive 'upgrade-insecure-requests'" - So presumably when TBB is upgraded to use a newer version of Firefox at some point in future, TBB users will start to see the same problem.

[edit2] Dropped the guy an email to let him know.

[edit3] Although the website is fetched over a hidden service, they still load resources from lots of non-hidden services into the page, from the likes of Facebook, Google, Twitter and so on. They state in the article:

"Our readers should never need to worry that somebody else is watching what they’re doing on our site. So we made our site available as a Tor hidden service to give readers a way to browse our site while leaving behind less of a digital trail."

A much better way to do this than implementing a Tor hidden service would be to stop handing over visitor data to Google, Facebook, Twitter, Disqus, Reddit and Linkedin.
I wonder what engine he'll use to demo the finished wad? Will he stick with the Classic Win95 Doom engine, or using something more modern like jDoom?
You failed at trying to make yourself sound smart by using a fancy word.