skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no perfect storm. Those complaining about the helicopter parenting of today forgot that their grandparents complained about how "kids these days" expect things given to them on a silver platter. The phrase changed, which makes it seem like the concept is new. But it isn't.

When this came up before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10404752 ) I found quotes like a 1960 PTA magazine:

> 'I've known a lot of kids who were treated like little heroes. Afterward, they expected everything to be handed them on a silver platter— and it wasn't. They couldn't adjust.' "Beyond any doubt, the boys in Williamsport last week were treated as ...

A Boys' Life article from July 1937:

> We want to teach them not just to sit back and expect things to be handed to them on a silver platter but with confidence, based on their training, to go out and get what they want. We need to stiffen a moral flabbiness that has been affecting our youth.

Life Magazine, March 29, 1949:

> We have reared a bunch of weaklings in our young marrieds of today. Too much has been handed to them on a silver platter without their having had to work for it, and they lack the intestinal fortitude to meet life as a challenge.

Nor is there some recent spurt of left-wing faculty. I think faculty is more centrist than, say, the 1960s. I'll cherry pick https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/08/politics as the first page which agreed with me ("Professors lean left, but major new study of faculty views finds more centrism and less radicalism than critics of academe see -- with growing moderation among young academics.") YMMV.
Well he probably won't. But just one person avoiding it isn't going to make a difference. You have to let everyone else know it is a bad idea.
Nobody died but a large region had to be evacuated. How much would it cost to insure against that? Is nuclear power still cost-effective if we include the cost of insuring against having to evacuate?
Steve ballmer and bill gates have party
You move the earth-sun distance in 8 minutes. I am not sure how well you can track with a camera at that speed to get any decent pictures.
Oh, stop :p

"$ find git -name .c -type f | xargs fgrep '{' | wc -l"

19288

"$ find linux -name .c -type f | xargs fgrep '{' | wc -l"

1408368
They probably own all the rights to everyone's favorite music from the last century.

Disclaimer: Not an expert. Not in the music industry.
If they're doing up to 50 commits a day and deploy all commits to master automatically how does that line up with "It makes it much easier to identify bad commits. Instead of having to dig through tens or hundreds of commits to find the cause of a new error, the pool is narrowed down to one, or at most two or three"?

If you do a commit and find out in the middle of the day the latest deploy is having problems and people are still committing in new code wouldn't this make things much harder to narrow down?
I see fake download buttons, full screen ads, ads opening new windows/tabs, and ads opening Google play automatically from Adsense on a regular basis. I gave up reporting them years ago.

I only see them when using chrome on Android these days. I generally use Firefox with an ad blocker on both windows and Android to combat it. I disable on some sites to support them, donate where I can, subscribe to YouTube red/Google music, etc to be sure I support content.
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The density list seems to be missing a number of places - New York, for instance. Most European cities are denser than SF, but it can be kind of hard to gauge as the line where the city ends can be somewhat arbitrary.

Density doesn't need to be skyscrapers, it often works well if it's just a few extra stories.
Looks like this doesn't have the Windows tax...
> I would be a lot less pissed if an account that I've never touched in 10 years got compromised

Depends on what that account controlled.
from what I am reading they consider it a different market segment and are thus, pivoting.
I use LE to secure my rasperry pi at home, accessible via a domain.

+ client side certs.

Really easy to setup, thanks for all your efforts!
But it redirects to https. That's secure, right?
I don't have Adblock on for Youtube and I've never gotten a popup like that. All of their ads are video ads. Are you sure you don't actually have a virus (that's causing the popups, not due to the message itself)?
Go help the signal project! It needs ios-desktop integration and help elsewhere. But it's almost there as far as a complete chat solution.

https://github.com/whispersystems/
Not everyone uses the Github "releases" feature, you can have a release without putting it on there. They've currently released it on pip.
No, OP didn't have 2FA enabled on their namecheap account. It was namecheap's fault for improper handling of the social engineering attack but OP could have protected themselves by having 2FA
From official docs : https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/t39.2178-6/12057143_1982183939...
Thorium produces Plutonium-238 which is NOT bomb-making material but used in space probes. Thorium advocates should make sure to not have the word "nuclear" or "reactor" in any press and emphasize that the waste is "space fuel".
Historically, mostly performance. Outside of academia, performance becomes an important factor in most programs. In the past, both slower computers and fewer optimizations made implementing the abstractions of functional programming ridiculously costly. Once it lost out to imperative programming, it only got harder to change the tide. Performance is now adequate but functional languages lack educational material and libraries as well as industry support.
> how a well practiced and versatile musician can make a living through their immediate community

There are so many barriers to this.

They need a venue at which to perform regularly, which helps somewhat to promote their performance. These are becoming few and far between. They are not likely to make much money for said performances (of course this depends on the size of the venue and the following they've managed to develop.)

Forgot about making any money selling recordings. People expect music to be free nowadays. The days of selling $10 cd's at your show are pretty much over. Maybe if you cater to an older crowd that isn't hip to the streaming/Youtube culture you can sell a few cd's here and there but certainly nowhere near enough to support yourself.

So... the "healthy primary income" you describe would be nearly impossible to achieve in today's environment. Most local musicians need to supplement their income working other jobs such as barista, Uber driver etc.
You spend a lot of time talking about what you're not (crowdsourcing) - but I don't fully understand what you are. Ballpark numbers would be really helpful for this.
A new trick is to use so many trackers that it won't fit on the screen when listing them all:

http://i.imgur.com/AauOwVB.png

(This is from a site which detects adblockers, and begs you to turn it off, because it's killing their business model)
This. And that's why "settling" for a centrist democrat simply slows the slide into corporate ownership of the US. The real issue here is having winner-take-all elections. We'd have a much more spirited public debate if we had ranked-choice voting.
Everyone seems to be jumping on the bots bandwagon - Microsoft, Facebook, Slack etc. Do we really think this kind of text-based interaction is the future?

Granted, it's an interface practically everyone knows how to use, but I believe it could result in rather long conversations (what are the available commands/questions?) to actually get something a little more complex done.

Our messaging startup is heading in the opposite direction: we offer fully functional tools and games that can be instantly used by groups of people. We also offer a platform that allows developers to create these HTML5 based apps themselves. If you think this sounds interesting, have a look at https://platform.happening.im .
A banana hangs out at ~30000 Bq/kg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
"cascade event can wipe out life on the planet"

That is like saying that exploding all the ice cream factories would lead to continents being covered in continental ice sheets.

Yes, there are some risks - but they are very local, and do not last a long time. I would claim a lone oil tanker is an equivalent environmental risk to a nuclear plant. And look how much oil production we have operating in the oceans.

I think it's fair to say, we've accepted certain level of risk to get our power.

Please don't overstate risks. We are living on a planet whose oceans are dying, whose atmosphere is being clogged by CO2 ... nuclear power is mostly a benevolent technology. It creates very little waste, whose side-effects we can control. Unlike, say ,CO2. Or an oil spill.

Yes, there are sometimes mistakes - but please understand - no matter how the media spins it (because disaster new sell) they really are not that horrific when compared to other things that happen constantly.

The world is already radioactive: People are constantly bombarded by radiation. Like a poster below already mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
Did Led Zeppelin Steal ‘Stairway to Heaven’? A Jury Will Decide
It's always a valid question -- when trying to scale to handle large data volumes, it's always worth trying to scale "up" (bigger single machine) and "in" (faster code) before scaling "out" (more machines).

In our case, we had pushed the limits of the largest EC2 box we could find. We have to keep up with tens of thousands of events per second, and do non-trivial amounts of CPU processing on each of them. Whether Python, Java, C++, or assembler, it wasn't going to happen on a single box. We proved this to ourself by getting the biggest box we could and rewriting the hotspots of our code in Cython. It still wasn't enough.
Not 2 years, they want to fully accelerate to 0.2c in 2 minutes!
I don't think there is a lot of evidence that ancient humans where monogamist. Genetic studies have shown modern humans are significantly mess monogamist than generally thought.
How does this compare to Jump for Cardboard & GoPro Odyssey from 8-10 months ago?

https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/jump/

https://gopro.com/odyssey

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9620224
To me, a large part of process improvement is statistics, statistics and more statistics. I don't understand how storytelling alone, just as creating Visio diagrams alone could come up with a regime that allows one to measure, analyse, improve and control a system.

"My primary competition is non-consumption. Firms (especially fast-paced tech firms) will just bootstrap a solution using MS Visio or some other simple software application with no business intelligence behind the drawings. In other cases, firms spend a lot of money on consultants or on robust software and a team to learn how to use it. They often get lost in the process of process improvement with very little impact on the bottom line.
That was a few years back when another well-known registrar only required the last 4 digit of the customer's credit card, and would even help them guess if they didn't remember.

I sent the ids by fax (yeah a few years back, I still had a fax machine).

I thought asking for id's + phoning on the number listed in the whois database was a good cross check, especially back then.
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To all the naysayers:

1) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0898656898...
2) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1038/oby.2008.284/full
3) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
4) http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/32/12/2184.full

etc etc etc...
Part of the reason it was evacuated was that overblown perception of risks. The evacuation itself did more harm to people that staying in place ever would.
there is some new music on http://www.thesixtyone.com/, the site came back to life again at the beginning of this year.
I did that to my payroll account to try and prevent this very issue.

Little did I know that it's one of those services you need the password (I had written that down at the time as it was temporary) AND these questions that are usually used for password resets.

I don't think that will ever get fixed until I change jobs again.
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> You build anything meaningful on this and Facebook has you by the you-know-whats and can pull the rug out from under you at will.

Is that accurate? If I build a chat-based application, why can't I build out interfaces to various services? It may not be trivial, since some will offer features that others don't, but what's the principal problem preventing me from building a chat-based application that works over Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Kik, etc. so long as they each provide an API for connecting these bots, beyond time?
The issue is when you try to set up the client. Oops, typo in something, let’s try again. Oops, forgot to set permissions. Again. Oops, forgot a domain. Oops, forgot to sudo it this time. Oops, limit run out.

I’ve been through that, now I just use https://gethttpsforfree.com/, which avoids the issues.

And it doesn’t wreck my Apache config every time.
Dynamic or Static DNS? I've currently got a Pi running my site, but haven't bothered with setting https up. Probably also because it seems a bit more complicated if you use a non-standard web server (in my case thttpd). But on the other hand, I baerly looked into it at all.
These projections seem to point to a tenth of the speed of light. 80 minutes is a lot of time, but it probably won't be that much easier.
I think the primary objective of a logo is to be a recognizable symbol for an organization or concept. It's not entirely clear to me that to achieve that objective the logo must fully describe the entity or be some identifiable representation of what that entity does.

For example Apple's logo speaks very little to what it does, and to a greater or lesser extent so do many others including Uber (new and old), Xiaomi, Square and Palantir just to pick a few of the largest startup-style companies in the last few years. Of course the logos come to work as a brand and we identify them with those entities as we get to know the brands.

Under this criteria, isn't the objective of a logo to simply be recognizable? In that case, kind of in a self-fulfilling manner, doesn't even a critical article such as this one make it more successful?

Personally I like the logo, and I found it interesting to hear the logic behind it. Sure it's not to everyone's liking, but is that the point of a logo?
> Governments and cities should exist for people, not the other way around

To a large extent I saw Singapore - for better and for worse - as a country whose sense of purpose was entirely focused on existing for and achieving the ends of what its people actually want (to be much wealthier, healthier and more secure than their grandparents) without worrying too much about means like political debate, ideology or caring much about heritage, national identity, environmental impact or whether William Gibson thought it was as edgy and cool as Kowloon Walled City.

I'm not sure its depoliticised, pragmatic governors whose tenure is secure unless they really screw up are really less "for the people" than the fiat of newly-elected ruling party du jour whose prize for winning competitive elections is the power to decide for people based whether its core ideology is conservative or socially liberal, or indeed systems where popular will is often subordinate to upholding constitutional principles and precedents established some centuries ago.

Of course, just because death sentences for drug smugglers or retaining a token unenforced anti-gay law on the statute book are popular with the people doesn't mean they're remotely good ideas, but I'm not sure that the country examining its collective purpose would change them anyway. Government for somewhat culturally conservative people who have ugly memories of political discord and happy memories of getting a flat with actual running water is bound to take a different stance on what the people want than an competitive democracy in a long-developed country with a long-established libertarian streak.
Until someone says "I know my dad was born in Minneapolis, what does it say??" and the customer service representative replies "Huh, it looks like the answer is just gibberish...", "Ah! I must have just mashed on my keyboard when I made the account, sorry about that!!", "No problem, your password is now reset to foobar".
Could you provide examples? I give to a couple of creators through Patreon, and I might want to reconsider.
Arq is like Tarsnap/Attic/Borg in that it uses shift-resistant block deduplication - it can efficiently cope with small modifications to existing files, where rsync would have to clone the entire file for each new version.
https://messengerplatform.fb.com/
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I hear what you're saying about the irony, but I'm sure Steve's band doesn't mind. The number of musician gigs that pay six figures is EXTREMELY limited.
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It says:
Available on AWS Marketplace Since: 06/06/2014

Maybe it's a new version?
> Reasons for emailing all undergraduates include event announcements for student groups and departments, flame wars, and occasionally lost items. In contrast, the kinds of emails sent within a dorm mailing list include, at the top of my inbox right now, parties, house meetings, and foodmobs to restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring, invitations to test food experiments, and a memo to the person who left their clothes in the middle washer; and requests for empty gallon jugs, superglue, cooking scales, male-to-male audio cables, MIDI cables, 120V twist lock connectors, funnels, and hairdryers.

I can only imagine the volume of email that entails; how do people deal with it? I would guess that these days the mailing lists are through Google Groups so you can at least turn off emails and use the list as a forum, but I doubt most would know or bother to do that and let themselves drown in email.
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In what sense? I'm not familiar enough with their terms but this sounds interesting
Get closer to the money.
Just like how the vast majority of people who want safe spaces and trigger warnings don't want to take people off the internet for failing to do so, so too the vast majority of people who want spoiler warnings don't want to take people off the internet for failing to do so.

Thus, you've helped establish another similarity between trigger warnings and spoilers.
Perhaps, but that means the cost of nuclear power is not purely technical. To keep the cost reasonable, you need to convince government authorities and the general public that they don't need to evacuate. It's a tough political challenge and can't be wished away.
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> if I do "foo.bar()" in C++, the compiler will simply not compile the code if "bar" is not already defined on the class "foo" is declared as

In a more dynamic language, in fact "foo.bar()" may be equivalent of asking foo whether it understands how to bar, and if so, then please do it. If foo doesn't understand, there could be some mechanism for handling that, like a catch-all function that can be defined that gets invoked.

Likewise, we could also have a static language with message passing OOP in which the same check is implemented. The classes declare statically which messages they understand and the compiler checks that.

Quite simply, "late binding" != "message passing". There can be late binding of messages, and late binding of function calls.

There is no real conceptual difference between single dispatch and (synchronous) message passing.

What is Unix ioctl? Message passing or function call?
I think FreeBSD has been available for non-Windows Xen HVM instance types on AWS for a while now, maybe cperciva has more details on when this happened.
Facebook is a prison. It could literary kill the internet as we know.
I have a list of 75,800 subdomains on one of my sites, several hundred sometimes added in the course of a day. On my IPFS HSHCA subdomain CORS proxy, I have ∞. It's not mechanically sensical to just sit there banging on a centralized server all day to get an updated certificate.

Wildcard certs start at $100/yr (for -the- cheapest) and go quickly up from there.

Many people are not using SSL for many use cases because of this, and that's bad. Why leave them out in the cold for doing things like enforcing CORS security?

It's mind boggling to me that they could leave them out of the final product.
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well people have tried excessive orgasms for treating mental health... or drugs... or workaholism... or some other addiction. It never pans out. So I guess surrendering to a higher power isn't so bad. Just gotta choose that power wisely, no?
Yes.
But having it on the MarketPlace make it easier to find and more "Business" friendly.

Before you had to check a list of amis on Percival site's select the right one at your region. So it was not so friendly.

Thanks to Percival for this! It is a huge step in making FreeBSD more friendly for beginners.
> direct deaths, which isn't the worst part of a nuclear catastrophe.

And the definitely largest impact in indirect deaths with Fukushima came from the emotion-based decision to shut down other nuclear reactors, even if there was nothing wrong with them. This lead to electricity shortage and lack of air conditioning, which killed dozens or hundreds (mostly elderly people in hospitals or similar care, who suffered heart attacks in the summer heat).

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-07-12/heatstroke...
Great News! I've been using Let's Encrypt through Laravel Forge and it's far and away the best experience I've had with SSL. Let's Encrypt is great for all web developers and end users.
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PROBLEM

Finding the right parts for your satellite is time-consuming and inefficient: matching specs consumes a lot of engineering man-hours. Why can't it be as easy as shopping for a laptop, cell phone or flight?

SOLUTION

We've launched a satellite parts search engine: https://satsearch.co. Satsearch will deliver parametric-search for the space industry for engineering, procurement and market analysis.

We are building a set of open-source & open-data tools to break open the traditionally conservative space sector. Satsearch belongs to this set of tools. We have open-sourced a number of simulation libraries: https://github.com/openastro.

TEAM

I am an Aerospace Engineer with 10+ years of experience developing software for mission analysis, trajectory design and mission planning. I've directly faced the pain of trying to find parts for mission concepts that I've worked on. I am founder of the thriving Tudat library (http://github.com/tudat) and I'm finalizing my PhD from Delft University of Technology. My co-founder, Alberto, is a software developer (iOS and Node primarily) with a PhD in Bioengineering from Politecnico di Milano.

WHY WE'RE APPLYING

We're bootstrapped and could use the money offered through YCF. More than that though, we think that YC is ideal for what we're trying to build, given that they've recently supported teams building launchers and small-satellites. We would greatly benefit from access to and mentorship through the YC network.
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What is the "real experience" you are talking about? You don't seem to understand what said "connection" is even referring to, it's not a physical fishing line.