skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Still WAY too complicated (look at all the stuff you have to know and type)

The website mentions at the bottom that they're intending to get all of this automated, but they're not at that point yet; they're still in public beta. Certainly all those commands look automatable, just with enough integration with lots of distros / web servers, testing, and debugging. The Let's Encrypt protocol (ACME) is very much designed so that a web server can acquire a certificate with just about no human interaction besides telling it to do so, and keep it up-to-date with no human interaction.

I certainly agree that the instructions on that website are still way too complicated for general use, though far, far simpler than the status quo ante Let's Encrypt.
The higher the cost of treatments, the higher the costs of premiums...
What? I'm talking about English, not universal rules. The non-native speaker is the one that shouldn't be making assertions about what phrases do or do not have 'issues'.

Also Sapir-Whorf is dumb.
Get naked with your users (why data transparency matters)
One thing to consider is prescriptions. In some cases doctors provide no value and are only present because of laws governing who can and can't prescribe medicine.

Another thing is liability. There are cases where a triage nurse could easily tell a patient "you're fine, go home and rest". But that can't happen right now because everyone's scared petrified about liability issues.
Absolutely - it is certainly a HUGE undertaking. Though the value to the society/community/voters would be equally enormous it's unlikely we'll ever find the resources to have such a thing executed in a thorough, responsible (unbiased) manner. I suppose this is the part where I motivate myself to design and build it because nobody else will...

Sidenote - high-five for the stuff going on at 18F :)
Did anybody ever use Java applets for games? It's been a long time since I've seen a Java applet in the wild, and I can't remember any games.
>Of course, the right choice is always to know what you're doing and never to make any mistakes. This may involve sketching your network architecture out on paper, doing a masters in machine learning, or getting someone else do either one of those for you and going to the beach instead. If you are a fallible human being, though, or you've blown through your vacation budget already, I hope these nuggets of intermittently sound advice help you iterate faster and (eventually) get your bleeping convnet to work.

Or you could do a master's in computer science.

Grad school is not trade school
The problem in American education isn't dumb teachers, but dumb teacher training
Well the law says[1]:

Except as provided in this section, sections 30113 and 30114 of this title, and subchapter III of this chapter, a person may not manufacture for sale, sell, offer for sale, introduce or deliver for introduction in interstate commerce ... unless the vehicle or equipment complies with the standard and is covered by a certification issued under section 30115 of this title.

which according to [2] has been ammended with:

(A) LOW-VOLUME MANUFACTURER- The term `low-volume manufacturer' means a motor vehicle manufacturer, other than a person who is registered as an importer under section 30141 of this title, whose annual worldwide production, including by a parent or subsidiary of the manufacturer, if applicable, is not more than 5,000 motor vehicles.

So assuming the various shell companies aren't owned by each other it just depends on whether the factory's owner is manufacturing the car or the company leasing the factory. The definition[3] of manufacturer says "person -- (A) manufacturing or assembling motor vehicles" which doesn't give a lot of guidance on that because these laws are clearly aimed at the corporate person not the individual assembly line workers (who would of course be employed by a temp-agency).

I mean not that it matters much. They still have to be 25 year old models and any IP has to be correctly licensed (which would mean getting the companies to sign off on a deal with a probably very high dodginess/profit ratio) I don't see any one trying to make or succeeding to sell 10000 '89 Ford Ranger clones.

That said you're absolutely right that if it ever got to court the judges would pierce the veil like * that *

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/30112

[2]http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&dbname=cp114&refer=&...

[3]https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/30102
This recent article [1] is a great example of all four facts.

DuPont knew for half a century that their chemical, PFOA, was poisonous to people and to drinking water, yet kept exposing their own workers and dumping it in places where it killed livestock, leeched into the soil and contaminated water supplies.

DuPont is still fighting regulations, and fighting thousands of personal injury lawsuits in court, one by one. It settled with the EPA for $16.5m — essentially nothing. The EPA's role is to regulate, but it is basically powerless to do so.

Meanwhile, PFOA and related fluoro­chemicals are now apparently present in the bloodstream of almost all animals and people on Earth — including everyone on HN — as well as much of our drinking water.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-be...
Mine were horizontal and were going to be a problem. The surgery was a breeze and almost painless afterwards. Going through the constant ache of braces for a few years is far worse.
"The price is about $100,000, and unfortunately hover conversions and flux capacitors aren't included."

Sad that the original manufacturer options are somewhat lacking, but luckily there are always after market add-ons: http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/detail/EB00/121G.oap
Theranos Lab May Pose Threat to Patient Safety, Regulator Says
Proposed State Bans on Phone Encryption Make Zero Sense
Here's an article that explains it: http://archive09.linux.com/feature/58142
> (Actually, telling me if it changes would be the useful bit).

I'm curious. Has anyone ever encountered that scary warning you get when an SSH host key changes, and thought "oh man, I'm getting MITMed, I'd better not connect to this server!", instead of thinking "oh right, I guess they reconfigured the server, now what command do I type to make the warning go away"?
To my mind, Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the most radical attempt to
address the complexity that is introduced by trying to only give
benefits to the "deserving": there's often a view that social benefits
(food stamps, income support, child benefits, health care, etc, etc)
should only be given to those who "need" it. So then you need to:

- decide who actually "needs" the benefit

- figure out how to recognise these people ("means-tested" benefits!)

- catch the people defrauding the system

Instead, you could just say, e.g. for the case of child benefit, that every
child receives $400/month and get rid of:

- the complexity in deciding who gets $400/month

- the enforcement of fraud

The "underserving" middle- and upper-income will receive this money too,
but it doesn't matter - it's effectively coming out of the higher taxes
they are paying already.

UBI is just a generalization of this idea to all benefits.

Introducing two kinds of dollars smacks, to me, of the same mindset that
introduced means-testing/etc in the first place: "we don't want fraud", "we
want this to only go to deserving purposes". Lots of complexity, hard to
manage, and for no convincing benefit.
>> And you don't even have to do anything to take advantage other than upgrade to go 1.6

I know, right! That's what's sick. Even upgrading to the latest version of go is easy: "To remove an existing Go installation from your system delete the go directory. This is usually /usr/local/go." Then install the latest...
One option would be a Java WebStart application. You could reuse virtually all of your code.
This is probably why I will work in Europe instead of the US.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983747

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984346
In the context of the number of new cars manufactured and sold every year, the amount of kit or specialty customs is not worth worrying about.
Today I was thinking about the Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 hours thing. That's his theory from the book Outliers (which I haven't read) which argues that to become a true expert in something requires 10,000 hours of practice.

Now, say I wanted to become an expert in programming. To the point where I was an elite 10x developer. If I quit my job and lived off my savings, I could conceivably work on programming 100 hours per week. So after ten weeks I'd have 1000 hours, and after 100 weeks I'd have my 10,000. So that's two years or so at a minumum.

But living off savings for two years would be incredibly costly. Working full time would let me squeeze in say 20 hours a week, so I'd now take 10 years to reach the golden 10,000 hours or experience. If I cut down to a part time job, it would take 20 years.

I think the latter two are unrealistic because they take so long. The 100 hour per week option is more of a possibility. With universal basic income, everyone would have the opportunity. If lots of people pulled it off, the productivity gains for society would be enormous.

Obviously there's lots of people in society who have this sort of spare time and simply do not use it. However I think there's an argument that the people most likely to achieve this 10,000 hours goal are people who are gainfully employed and wouldn't pursue it without some sort of income support.
Are you horrified by all the parents who put their kids in day care while they work?
Gas stations make barely a profit of selling gas.
Thanks for the feedback! Will have a look at the linter.
The biggest misconception people have about contemporary history is that computers have already "happened". We haven't even finished setting up the network yet. We're in the equivalent of the day you move into your new house and are just unpacking and playing with the new surroundings. We haven't even seen 1% of the change computers will orchestrate.
I rather doubt it.

Historically there has been a back-and-forth with chess engines....

Early engines tried to really "smart", but consequently couldn't really analyze very deeply, as they spent a lot of time on each position. Newer engines mostly churn through really deep analysis, going many layers deep, but are making comparatively simplistic analyses.
Lol. Every single of them are why I want to continue WFH.
That's odd. The tool downloaded and ran just fine for me. Even manually scanning with Windows Defender results in nothing. I'm using Windows 10, version 1511. My virus & spyware definitions are up to date.
Beijing came to mind as a counter example, but I'm not sure what conclusions we can draw from it.
We have npm as our single source of truth, although you could host your own npm, or use a tool like sinopia [0] which makes pretty reasonable tradeoffs while being usable. Instead of asking you to replicate all of npm, it just keeps local copies of your packages, and if a package isn't found it'll hit npm.

[0] https://github.com/rlidwka/sinopia
It won't matter how many facts you quote here, you'll still be downvoted for stating it for some reason. There are quite a few paid downvoters on reddit that engage in this sort of behavior. Based on what I've seen on HN, the same applies here.
For GSM encryption, at least the commonly deployed variants, you do not need cooperation or stolen keys, you can just straight-up break it in a few minutes. (EDIT: might not be correct for up-to-date networks, see below)

And if you impersonate a cell tower instead of passively sniffing, you can just turn encryption off or downgrade to a weak one.
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I wish there was a way to get involved with civil liberty movements like this. I strongly believe NSA spying has harmed free speech in America.
Same ideas as the The Millionaire Next Door.
Admittedly, I haven't dealt with Dell much in recent years and I admit probably having some opinions colored by the various Dell fiascos on the consumer side (root cert etc.).

My interaction with EMC on the other hand, particularly on the CE side has always been positive. Their CEs are consistently some of the most competent people I've dealt with across multiple vendors; Oracle, Netapp, etc.

Lenovo etc. to me are more targeted towards a consumer audience. My enterprise customers demand the high touch experience and subsequently drives my interactions with vendors too. So to me there's a clear difference between various players. Not right or wrong but a difference nonetheless.

Besides, VCE not withstanding, it just seemed to me Cisco's product lines would have been much more complementary to EMC&VMware's than Dell's but that's just me.
Ah, glad I didn't presume it was a valid message! I've heard people joke about this kind of thing exactly this way in the past.

But now my "technical breakdown info" box has no tidbits in it. :P

I'm glad you're back up now (sortakinda - what sort of traffic are you sustaining right now? :D), but a rough idea of what asploded would be really cool to know about.

Speaking of which, I'd like to take a moment to make a strong point about the fact that disaster-recovery situations don't get blogged about enough. Vague "we fixed it" datapoints get buried in status update logs like it's something to hide and hope nobody brings up.

In situations like these, the only constructive perspective is for everyone to accept that something went horribly wrong and not make a fuss about it, and if such a mentality can be established, this creates an environment within which we can share technical breakdowns of "we found ourselves in XYZ position and then we did these thirty highly specific things in heroically record time to be up and running again", and I think sharing this type of info would potentially be more educational than setup tutorials or the "we switched to X and it improved Y by 1400%" type things the Net's full of. Sure, you'd have to generalize and probably give a lot of backstory about infrastructure, but it's becoming trendy (in a sense) for companies to describe their operations in precisely this way, so it's not completely nonviable.

(Note my use of the angle of "we found ourselves in XYZ position" - maybe a small highlight of what led up to the disaster would be included (worth considering if the information would be educational), maybe not. In a blog context, moderating comments to keep the discussion on-track and constructive may be necessary, but IMO would be worth it.)
Maybe helpful for things that prevent you from even getting to Chrome's settings.
"They got slapped for giving people risks of disease using genetic data over the internet -- a method which was not peer-reviewed or shown to be accurate and precise."
So if they delivered the results by mail or phone call they would have been in the clear? That is bullshit.
People keep bashing Java for its security record. And yet, for example:

Firefox 44: 12 security fixes including 3 critical vulnerabilities

Firefox 43: 16 security fixes including 4 critical vulnerabilities

Firefox 42: 18 security fixes including 3 critical vulnerabilities

On the evidence so far, I’m not sure browsers, as they expand to try to do more of the things we used to use plugins for, will necessarily prove to be significantly safer than what we had before.
Lifi vs. Wifi
+1. I am a willing test subject. where do I sign-up? That said - given the cost of living here in CA, I would assume that in the eventuality of becoming unemployed for an extended period of time, I couldn't support myself with the basic income only and would need to look into moving to some less expensive areas. In fact, this is what was suggested in some discussion ( couldn't find a link ) I remember reading relative to Finnish basic income experiment cited in some posts here. E.g. unless basic income would vary based on cost of living in your region, it would effectively result as people relying solely on it having to abandon living in more expensive cities and areas. Which seemingly is a notion few politicians would want to put forward when introducing basic income. But when you introduce regional differences in level of income, you open a can of worms that seemingly leads to all kinds of potential abuse, managing which then prevents dismantling of bureaucracy that was the whole idea to begin with.
What are questions?
2 dan pro is a much stronger strength than 2 dan amateur. The difference between a 2 dan pro and a 9 dan pro is usually just one stone handicap whereas the difference between a 2 dan amateur and a 9 dan amateur would be around 7 stones.
To be honest, that doesn't seem any less secure than requiring a signature.

It's a lot more effort to make a spoof card like that, more effort than the 5 minutes of practice required to vaguely copy someones signature and get it past a disinterested, minimum wage store clerk.
We can see the way Go solves this problem without breaking your code, a way not taken these days where not so well designed solutions break when we have to upgrade. Python 2 and python 3, angular 1 and angular 2.
I guess this is the difference between a pet project gone wild and a well thought and well designed programming language designed to make the process of building applications faster and better!
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I think the big advances will come through efficiency improvements:

We may not make huge leaps in anything but I don't think making things run smarter and more efficiently should be scoffed at.

From my background as a materials engineer I'm optimistic about finding applications for Graphene and advances in high temperature superconductors. I think both have the potential to be game-changers.
That was partly to blame to my protest. Either way (doctor or not) it is 10-14 days of pain and drowning in my own snot.
For anyone interested in why this would not work (coming from someone in the left) please see the "MUC dollar" used by a Peruvian president in the 70s[1](https://books.google.ca/books?id=8M6ueEbn3GUC&pg=PA343&lpg=P...)
Further evidence that the browser is becoming the new OS.
> A big downside is that your Chrome settings are basically tied to a specific PC, so forget about moving them to a new PC unless you sign in and sync to Google.

Even then. I'm not sure why extension config-data isn't transparently replicated between hosts, but it's a really noticeable problem when you have an extension installed that's as complex as XKit or RES. Even for uBlock, you have to copy-and-paste your whitelist rules between hosts, rather than having them just follow you around.
Ask HN: Time to walk away?
Today I have found myself at a crossroads, first a little background.
I have been building a thing for about 18 months on and off. About 3 months ago I decided to partner up with someone and go all in - my partner is based on the other side of the globe, so as part of him coming on board we met and spent some time together - including pitching to VCs. As part of this partnership we bestowed the title of CTO on me and CEO on him. We have worked on perfecting our message etc and can really hit a good pitch, the problem comes from commitment - I am working on "thing" full time and also doing some freelance to pay the bills/feed my family. CEO can see this so advised me about 4 weeks ago he was going to quit his day job so that he could focus on "thing", however since that day there has been one excuse after another for not doing it. I have been responsible for all research, tech poc's, pitch deck, basically everything other than meeting and setting up pitches.
A few days ago we got a "no" from a seed VC - we had pitched them in November and had been through full DD and met all the partners, so I think we were kinda hopeful (but thats a post for another time). Now I was not involved in the "no" phone call so I am not certain what was said - however I have been told by CEO guy that "They don't like that the R&D will happen in <other country>". I trust CEO guy but I do suspect he is being given an excuse, I think the real reason is that the VC can see that the CEO guy doesn't have any passion for what we are doing - if we have a meeting then nothing happens (like a thank you email)
unless I prompt it, every decision gets evaluated over and over, things that I could decide on a dime (like going all in, or who to bring on in partnership) have to take weeks to decide and then revisit over and over. We get direct feedback from VC's saying "we want to see a plan for x, y and z" and this somehow turns into us changing three things no one mentioned... Its like he is unable to make a choice and then turn that choice into action...
I suppose other than venting my real question is this: I have told CEO guy that he has to decide between "thing" and "day job" or we need to part ways. am I being precious or is this the right call?
Chrome app/extension malware can be handled from within Chrome itself, though. You only need a separate tool for OS-level malware.
>Not sure why you'd need to go under or have nitrous.

Many people (myself included) have anxiety around dental work. Just like going into an MRI might be fine for you but people with even a mild claustrophobia may find it unbearable.

The other thing is not everyone's procedure is as simple as yours. Your tooth was exposed, thus easy to extract. Your teeth were not fully impacted, for example. This - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNLuyFaOQoo - shows the procedure for removing impacted wisdom teeth.
I'd wager you're being downvoted by the paid downvoters that exist on reddit and other sites that now seem to be on HN for asking things like that. It's a valid question and there are valid downvoted responses below.
This is some clever self-parody.

The outer wrapper: science-flavored with no actual science.

It warms you up with feel-good nonsense designed to flatter the listener for being a responsible rich person and/or smarter than all those foolish poseurs with their fancy cars and houses.

Then telling you to avoid overt advertising because (the article claims) it just flatters your ego to trick you into buying something, followed by ...

New Age hokum repackaged as Buddhism lecture you're going to nod politely at as you scroll through without reading.

... and the punchline is an affiliate ad to buy enlightenment for $12

p.s. Overt advertising is a way of buying a piece of culture, you don't literally need to believe it for it to work so don't be smug if you don't "fall" for it. Affiliate marketing like this is a direct assault on your brain. This is the evil advertising you should be ignoring, not the "expensive stuff is expensive" ads they use as examples.
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Welp. Remember to vendor your Go dependencies, folks.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who gets infinitely annoyed by these pissant attempts to mangle the English language and belittle Americans.

It's really simple:

* United States of America : America

* American of the United States : American

There is, without question, no argument to be made that "USAian" or any other profoundly stupid proposed demonym for Americans, is superior to what we've already got, on grounds of social justice, language consistency, nor clarity of meaning.

And I can't think of any other people where a visible portion of the global population will insist on using a demonym for them, that the people in question would themselves soundly reject. Not at least without being called out as racist which, in this case, while you may not be able to call this racism as such, it's close.
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