skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is part of the risk of startups/business.
This is like the opposite of survivorship bias...

Think about all the successful companies out there that DO depend on third parties:

- Buffer (Twitter has a bad day? Cut their API access off!)

- Candy Crush (Apple hates them? Remove their apps!)

- RetailMeNot (Google thinks they're spam! Delist them!)

- DuckDuckGo (Bing hates them? Cut off their API access)

- Heroku (Amazon has a bad day? Cut off their AWS Access)

- MailPlane (Google doesn't want Gmail apps?! Cut them off!)
Yes, this is what you can find inside a wireless charging pad or inside a wireless charging phone. You can find them on ebay for $3. Look for "usb wireless pad".
And sorry, I missed the reference to the nursery in the post.
VICE did a take on LGBT culture in Japan and one of these services is part of an incredibly moving episode at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnrAISE6x08
Yeah, I gave up on Slashdot comments when the comments on the "Microsoft is joining the Eclipse Foundation" news item turned into a "Microsoft is killing Eclipse" conspiracy.
Is working as a cashier or janitor literally worse than dying over there?

If you're a Japanese man raised by middle class parents, the prospect of working as a cashier or janitor implies:

You will never have economic security. Substantially all cashiers are hourly contract workers; virtually all janitors are. (The janitorial exceptions are government employees.) Contract workers can have their employment terminated in a fashion similar to in the United States. This contrasts markedly with the traditional expectation of the Japanese middle class, which is lifetime employment.

Your parents will consider you a failure, principally because you have failed in the one thing men are expected to do.

You will find your dating and marriage prospects markedly curtailed. You will be considered a loser by the vast majority of young women who you wish to date. Some will tell you that, in as many words. Many will prefer euphemisms like "My ideal boyfriend is someone who has debuted in society." Honest labor as a cashier is not considered honest labor in the Japanese middle class, at least not for a member of the middle class.

Japan is a very status-conscious society. Cashiers and janitors occupy some of the very lowest rungs of it. You will spend most of your day being obseqiously polite to people; you will watch other people spend their fragments of your day snubbing you, repeatedly, in the ordinary course.

You have recently read of other blue-collar employees who worked service jobs dying cold and alone, because the government safety net doesn't really consider them a priority, they had no savings, and they never had a family for the above reasons.

So, tell me: given that this is your mental model of reality, and the mental model shared by substantially everyone you consider a peer or mentor, how attractive does working at 7-11 sound to you?

Oh, salient fact: if you work so much as one day at 7-11 past college you'll probably never work as a salaryman. You're damaged goods for the rest of your life. If you thought of maybe doing it for 6 months while spending your time playing in a band and then getting on with your adult life, go ask one of the 45 year olds working at 7-11 and living on ~$1,400 a month how that decision worked out for them.

The above math, or something close to it, is why most salarymen consider themselves blessed to be proper employees at a stable corporation, even if that job is actively killing them. (n.b. I'm not Japanese but I am a recovering Japanese salaryman. "Salaryman" is a local coinage which identifies full-time white collar employees of a certain strata of Japanese companies which are desirable to work at. The traditional expectation is that you sign a deal with the devil ^H^H^H^H^H your company where the company insulates you from all risks and in return you commit to the company mind, body, and soul.)
(Btw, it's not me that's downvoting you.)
Where's the coming from? The only thing I've seen as evidence of that is http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/underst... - but I don't read that as an advocacy of white supremacy, it's just saying that Nazis were "utopianist" (as in _they_ believed in a utopian ideology), and it's actually as an analogy to characterize modern liberals.

"Vocal advocate of white supremacy and racial slavery" seems like a bit of a slander, but maybe I'm missing part of the equation.
Wikipedia Doesn’t Realize It's the Developing World’s Internet Gatekeeper
Allow Open Carry of Firearms During the RNC Convention in July
There have been many mass exoduses from there.

I was into Slashdot back in the 1990s. I lost interest about 15 years ago. When the Sourceforge thing happened I was mildly surprised to see that Slashdot still existed.
I the article I have already covered that LevelDB is known to have better sequential performance anywayz http://leveldb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/benchmark.html
Were that many of them partnering with those particular two? And if they had really good access already they wouldn't need a new tour.

Well I'll just assume it made sense in context.
Angular is over-engineered and I doubt what they are doing is the right way to go. React, on the other hand, simplifies the stack a lot actually.

I don't think we will seriously find a consensus until we get WebAssembly.
Excluded, intimidated and harassed: LGBT physicists face discrimination
Great article, but could have used a little editing:

> It was around this time that Sanders met his beloved Josephine King.

> It was around this time that Sanders met his beloved Claudia Price, a young divorced woman who lived in Corbin.

> It was around this time that Sanders met his beloved Bertha. Bertha was his nickname for his first pressure cooker, a new contraption that rapidly cooked vegetables using high temperatures and pressures.
Boxbe is one that I have encountered people using: http://www.boxbe.com/help It's a little surprising this was never a standard part of email. It's the same workflow as granting permission to be contacted by IM.

Based on a quick search, you are right that the phrase "permission based email" has been SEO'ed into uselessness by email marketing services. What should it be called? Screening? But the spam filtering services have almost SEO'ed that into uselessness.
Hi Silhouette,
I really appreciate your feedback! Regarding the English version, we will update the website very soon.

You bring up some other really valid points:
- Exchange rates; if you charge in EUR and settle in GBP, a charge of 0,66% will be added.

- Test and production is almost the same; before you go live, your account will be in test mode, and after you are live you will always be able to send in "test=true" to make test transactions. No separate environments (unless you create multiple merchant accounts, which you can).

- Price; We'll charge a percent fee for all European countries except for Sweden which also has a fixed transaction fee.

Bedsides that, we also support Invoice, PayPal, DirectBank and Swish.
Let me know if you have further questions or feedback!

Best,
Robert
My opinion on cascade ciphers is currently neutral. If done properly, they are a nice hedge against currently unknown weaknesses, but a more complicated construction means more places to make mistakes.
> LMDB already runs on iOS and Android. In my experience you will have issues on some Android devices though. For instance, I recently found out that on some Android devices writes to a mmap-ed file through the usual POSIX interfaces are not immediatly reflected on reads through the mmap, which means that on those devices you MUST use MDB_WRITEMAP.

How is that possible if they are using Linux and UBC (Unified Buffer Cache). It's unlikely they anybody would go undo that from the VM/FS layer.

The only think I can think off this behavior happening in a Linux app is if you're creating a private mapping... Private mappings are COW and a write to the global would cause a copy of the old data for you app. They'll be no sycing till you msync()
I meant Carcassonne, XCOM, and Hearthstone. (One could make an argument for Pinball Arcade, since it uses classic tables, but I feel like the game experience is probably different enough to call it more than a straight port.)
Well, Amy Chua sold a lot of books with that same thesis...

(and apropros of virtually nothing, the US did bomb Chinese property)
This is exactly correct. Sometimes I would like to think starting a technology business is all about the tech but in reality business is personal.

Building relationships is critical and so is maintaining them. They provide real value and if you are building on someone else's platform you better trust they won't pull the rug out from under you (or at least have a backup plan). It's totally okay to rely on a company's platform as long as you understand the risks and mitigate them. Getting a bug in someone's ear at the company is one way to reduce the risk that something will go awry.
Just write a chat or email application that persists your conversation on disk. It goes crazy at times.
I had a massive memory leak in normal usage of std::stringstream in Visual C++ 2008, which eventually got fixed in an update. Wasted a lot of my time tracking down that leak, though.
I don't think that's right, do you have any links?

Italy, Spain, Ireland, England... actually all european countries (AFAIK) use Monday as the start of the week. All countries with a strong christian tradition.

The only countries I know that use Sunday as the start of the week are the US and Israel.

A quick search in wikipedia[0] also mentions that it's used as the first day of the week in Hebrew tradition and in some muslim countries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday#Position_in_the_week
Dazzle wasn't intended to hide the ship but rather make it difficult to ascertain it's class, speed and heading.
That's fair, I edited my comment. Apologies for the tone.
My mom was on a bowling team while carrying me. Unfortunately, none of that experience transferred across the womb, and I'm still mediocre at it. Having a c-section was common back then (I was born via one), so there is a recovery time with that, as the muscles knit back together.

Every woman is different. I have known women who have gotten right back into their exercise routine, and others who have taken a fair amount of time before becoming active again. Do what you're comfortable with, and talk to your doctor/mid-wife if you have questions.
I wonder how long it will take till we find a way to accelerate the rate of learning. If you give a user (experienced with games), a tablet with the FTL game, chances are they will beat it in 10-30 attempts. AI on the other hand still takes thousands of playthroughs to get good at a game.
Niches dating sites are mostly parodies or clichés. :)
Putting your money into Vanguard requires more investing knowledge (picking which ETF, how to spread investment) and is not nearly as easy, nice to use as betterment

You could also just pick a couple of already-well-diversified index funds. In the end, the additional knowledge that Betterment offers you is only a benefit if they have higher returns than a simple portfolio of index funds after fees.
I already did a port of SQLite4's LSM engine on Universal Windows (https://github.com/maxpert/lsm-windows) would have to do some more work before I can do a benchmark. Would love if someone can contribute :)
Blond roots – Pacific Islanders’ golden-locks mystery is solved
I've heard ICC is pretty buggy. Tinycc seems a bit obscure. pre-release versions of GCC as you mentioned are not well-trodden.
It depends on the woman and the pregnancy. Some women do bounce back right after childbirth, but my guess is that's the exception rather than the norm. The combination of healing from childbirth (which can be minimal to significant for vaginal deliveries, and is uncompromisingly significant for C-sections), the hormonal whiplash, the sleep deprivation, and the demands a newborn places on your time will almost certainly make it exceptionally difficult - though certainly not impossible - to be productive at much of anything.

Regarding stress and exercise during gestation, there's a lot of research that shows that high stress levels during pregnancy should be avoided, and high-impact exercise is generally out. Low-impact exercise is generally fine, though your doctor will tell you to avoid it if you have a high-risk pregnancy.
Notes from Cassandra Day Atlanta 2016
Lottery terminal hack allowed suspects to print more winning tickets
This attack requires some time, but the general strategy works from feet away, or from the other side of a wall, or from far away on a VGA cable headed to a projector. Don't dismiss it as requiring "direct access to the hardware".
There might be confusion about terminology here. I think of unit tests as testing contracts of individual units and then each appropriate level of abstraction has its own set of unit tests. Integration tests are those that use the external user interface and represent a use case, BUT a unit test of layer N+1 could effectively be an integration test of layer N (I just wouldn't call it that if it was using a mocked layer N interface).
I didn't use any of the sophisticated stuff at all. As article states, I did it like what a typical programmer might have done if he wanted to do some basic key-value storage.
I'm reminded of Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame)'s anecdote about being "blessed with a name that is mercifully short and simple":

"After a long flight I've already got my car, got to the hotel, checked in, and am fast asleep. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Secretary General of the UN) is still stuck at the car rental counter at the airport patiently explaining his name to the befuddled clerk."

(Although admittedly, whilst I understand the humor intended, I could also see this anecdote as being perhaps a little offensive, too...)
I asked this question of the Boston VC community as a soon-to-be father, and the resounding advice was: "wait until the baby is at least a few months old"

There are a lot of logical reasons for this that you already know, so I'll just vouch for the emotional one, which is a style of thinking that's going to become more prominent in you as soon as you hold your child. I'm really glad I waited. Unless fundraising now is life-or-death for your company, I think you'll both be really glad if you wait, too.
OONI – Open Observatory of Network Interference
> Some women jump right up and get back into the swing of things.

Even 25 year olds in the shape of olympic champions take a week or so to be back in the full swing of things. The first few days are limited movement. A couple of weeks is more reasonable, particularly since two weeks of bonding is highly recommended (for both mother and father). Skin to skin! :)

I'm not saying there isn't a woman out there, somewhere, who had a kid at noon and was ready for work the next morning. But that's incredibly rare, certainly not anything to expect or plan for.

That being said, if a founder missing a few adequately planned for weeks of full time work kills a company it probably wasn't going anywhere anyway. Not that the investors would see it that way.
They wrote that into the Terms of Service a couple of years ago. I know because I created one before the rule change and had to remove that part.
On downtime, I've been playing the new Fire Emblem, which has made me really wonder how the AI works on the simple 3DS hardware. This is a nice complimentary read.
Checkout https://github.com/maxpert/lsm-windows for port of the core LSM engine of SQLite4. I might be doing one in one more weekend.
Showerthoughts: DDOSing an important social institution (and fixing it) – Part 2
I think this guy must be a wizard level troll.
Ask HN: How do you really feel about web-based programming?
1) What do you love about it?

2) What do you hate about it?

3) What do you wish got better?
When people say "the government", they mean the specific institution or individuals that this applies to and form part of the government. When it comes to the powers of "government institutions", it seldom makes a difference that only "parts" of the government believe/do what is being discussed.

To say otherwise, I believe, is to try detract from the actual implications and make them seem more benign and less dangerous. I.e. "Oh, don't worry that the CIA is spying on you, the 'supreme court' will make sure your rights are upheld!"
Tools to fight against digital attack
It still strikes me as plausible. Sub-harmonics are a thing; it is entirely possible to leak data about what the CPU is or isn't doing down into the ultrasonic or audible bands.

As an example, one of my computers leaks a ton of noise into the onboard audio that quickly becomes audible with a moderate amount of gain. So much so, that I've learned to recognize changes in the noise pattern from various activities (shuffling windows around the gui, launching a program, compiling a program, etc).

How practical a real-life, working use of the method described here will depend in no small part how much noise the device being attacked casts off. There's some pretty bad devices out there.
But it isn't the title of the linked article. It's been editorialized which is counter to the guidelines of this site. Poster should have made an initial comment along with the post (with its original title) explaining their position rather than pushing it into the title.
Some better info here on the incident and more details on the venting issue with the Briz-M stage:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a20044/exomars...
The GCC devs do seem to be pushing hard on undefined behaviour optimisation, sometimes a little too hard, resulting in the introduction of bugs.

I have come across a lot of transient miscompilation in visual studio, I guess, usually when doing incremental rebuilds. I was thinking more of persistent miscompilations as things you are unlikely to find on the 'well trodden path'
A few years ago I ordered a custom license plate 'NULL'. What should have been a 2-3 week process lasted 8 months, with the order being canceled multiple times, and at one point a blank plate being shipped to the county clerk's office.

More recently I've gotten out of a parking ticket in a certain municipality when a frustrated meter maid told me they saw my plates were valid, but the handheld device used to issue tickets would crash any time they tried to issue the ticket.
Worked in healthcare, some of our practices were much more immoral (not illegal) than trading sex for money. Part of why I'm not there anymore.
US. State Targeted Traffic
Wouldn't it be sadder and even more pathetic to be lonely and refuse to take action to alleviate that loneliness even a little, for even a short time?
Super happy how this turned out - Pandorabots back end :)
By the time I came to the third repetition of this, I was pretty sure it was a running joke. :)
Any recommendations? Maybe start a flowchart for collaborative editing? Please link me.
They are paying property taxes and consumption taxes. Though I'm not sure how much money you can receive, as a dependent, from outside of the country before the CRA comes knocking.
I have to give credit where due. It's unfortunately rare for someone
with a brand new HN account to immediately contribute so much relevant
and substantive information. Very Nicely Done!

Your articles are well written, easy to read, and seemingly accurate
(n.b. without me doing any due diligence to check facts), but the meme
images are too distracting, even a bit annoying (this is most likely due
to me being a curmudgeon ;). Of course, opinions will vary, and I'm sure
others might say the memes break up the reading and help hold attention.

For notes, it's generally a poor idea to submit a bunch of good stories
at (roughly) the same time, particularly if they're from the same site.
Your submissions will be competing for attention with all other stories,
including your own. Though your "101" article is currently sitting on
the front page of HN, your second article "Dev Guide" suffers from the
others' success. Spacing out your submissions, like one a day, will give
you better results. Also, the HN Guidelines (link at bottom of most
pages) ask for users to avoid submitting so many links that the new page
is dominated by your posts.
I've actually experienced the opposite..

With couchsurfing, i've tried both hosting and surfing. Hosting felt like I was managing a free hotel - the guests seemed to have little interest in hanging out or socializing at all. They just stuck to each other. Maybe my mistake was allowing couples instead of individual travellers. I never got a chance to surf, all requests were denied, I get the sense that you basically have to be female and traveling without a partner to succeed in surfing. Context: 29 yr old asian american male, no deformities or anything like that.

With AirBnB, most of the time, it was just a business relationship, but I did form a few friendships which lasted a while.

Of course, anecdotes are not proof - I think it really shows that it is more the luck of the draw than anything else.
Shoot me an e-mail then, its in my profile :)
> What's wrong with Google shopping? I've found deals using it, it's had greater than zero value for me.

The Google shopping that exists today is not the same service that was originally launched. It used to function more like a standard search, but limited to all online stores. So long as there wasn't a robots.txt, Google was index the site and include the product in their shopping results. So basically like standard search, but with logic to determine if a site represented a store.

Then Google modified shopping so that it was opt-in for the retailers, meaning a large number of stores were no longer included. To be included in Google shopping now a retailer must have a Google merchant/adwords account. It's more of a curated search now.

Nothing wrong with it now, but it used to be great for finding hard-to-find items or items that were mispriced by less sophisticated retailers.
stringstream is maybe one of those terrible APIs that bugs remain in because barely anyone uses them :)
Previous discussion about the paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11358471
That's why I used them. There could be obscure, mathematical interactions that they introduce that are problematic. We might eventually figure those out. The enemy might be able to exploit those without knowing which ciphers, which order, and which initial data.

Meanwhile, there's a steady stream of problems in regular ciphers, modes, and protocols that justify mitigating any one in a design. So, yeah, my polyciphers are a hedge. They also exploit combinatorial explosion by randomizing extra, large numbers. Used to by resources required to simulate the combos of algorithms themselves but FPGA's made that obsolete. :(
Fair enough but a ports or portage recipe with use flags that are known to work are more likely to produce the expected results and do so for everyone rather one for the few custom builders who do it right. My concern is based on the fact that I see rebuilding nginx as part of getting started guides for many things, including rtmp streaming and since these guides are usually followed by less knowledgeable nginx users who say just want to stream, the numbers of broken or vulnerable nginx setups increases substantially. How many of those setups would be up to date if they were installed via a ports tree compared to the current manual configure and make steps and need to follow nginx upstream for new releases. In pkgsrc, gentoo, nix, etc. others already took care of that and you just have to run e.g. emerge.
That is implementation specific behavior and changes even between versions of the same compiler.

Has it should be, actually. Freezing inlining algorithms in a language specification hinders future optimization algorithms.

Chandler Carruth has done quite a few interesting talks how the clang inliner works.