skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There used to be a lot of farmers there as well, but the mega-farmers won-out and now it's just massive acres to a relatively few folks. Most of it is just sheer ruthlessness paired with advances in technology.

The condition of rural America is going to be the same condition in any other area dependent on a monopolized industry. Just you wait and see, "tech" is going to go through the same thing. In fact, it already is. Those "tech bros" are the same kind of shit bags that left rural American in a mess.
And the pro state mods removed this from the front page.

Fuck you mods, you must love the police state
This sounds great. To my mind, it seems an approximation of Tarsnap but on Windows.

Is it possible to use Arq to backup to network connected disks via Windows SMB? In other words, is it necessary for me to use one of the supported cloud providers or can I just use one of my own servers as a destination? Similarly, is it possible to setup multiple redundant backup destinations (e.g., S3 and Google Drive, or S3 and my own servers)?
To play the americacentric's advocate: "[...] most bloody civil war in human history, up unil then".

It could easily be argued that earlier wars were either smaller, or not truly "civil" (because the rather pointless semantic distinction between internal and external wars has rarely been as clear as at the time and location of the American civil war).

Personally, I'd grant that title to the 30 years war (despite it's very international nature), but that is not because of any objective reasons, I just happen to live in a landscape culturally shaped by it.
Moreover, to keep the beam tightly focused on one probe at a time would require an adaptive optics system that compensated for atmospheric turbulence — something astronomers know how to do over a span of 10 meters, the size of a big telescope mirror now, but not over a mile.

Would it be easier just to put the lasers on the moon?
It took 3 years of disconnection before I got a notice the other day that one of my old backed up PCs was going to be deleted.

It makes sense; they're not an open-ended data archival company. If you don't have a copy of the data locally, you can't expect CrashPlan to keep the one true copy indefinitely. Connecting the data to the internet twice a year doesn't seem too onerous to show evidence of that, particularly for a cloud backup, the entire premise of which is that you're connected.
> Where is the moral panic about this type of petty nonsense?

I think the difference is that petty nonsense on college campuses is publicized and quasi-institutional. If, somehow, a DMV employee was publicly and proudly making people they don't like go to the back of the line, and they had powerful people aligned with them, there would be some outrage.

While a few overzealous activists are not going to end Freedom itself, I (and apparently many others) still want to confront petty nonsense when it begins to institutionalize (by being supported by faculty/admin or influential media members).
What if you deploy to Linux and Windows? Do you have to develop on both OS's?

Monocultures where you develop and deploy on the same OS are more efficient in the short term, but cause massive problems in the long term when you have to start supporting a different OS and you suddenly realise that you have finely tuned things for one environment at the expense of robustness.

It's just like in nature. Monocultures are better in the short term, until the environment changes. Then they struggle to adapt. (I suspect that most mass extinction events have been a failure to adapt to changing environments when overly adapted to a specific environment).
>>It used to be the good bands would eventually rise to the top and the shitty garage bands would be relegated to small venues.

really? Are you sure? Plenty of big bands did not deserve it but were well marketed and plenty of smaller toilet stop tour bands deserved it and never made it.
The mods dropped this from the front page

Fuck you mods, duck your pro censorship pro totalitarian mentality.
They're not going to put them into orbit, just a fly-by. Then they'll continue until they hit something some time in the future. In a million years some unlucky alien might get hit by an iPhone.
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I was disappointed that it wasn't a discussion of Constraint Satisfaction Problems.
The mods dropped this from the front page, fuck you mods
Interestingly enough, leclan.ch renders fine on my local system.

Edit: HN's VPN endpoint hatred is preventing me from replying, so I'll post here as an edit:

Not likely eot/svg. You and LE are both serving me OpenSans-Regular.woff - yours is 21956 bytes, and theirs is 14272 bytes.
Fuck you mods for censoring the abuses of the police state. You must support torture as well
Just a side note, I saw the founder of Pandora speak and he said their mission is to create a middle class for musicians by making it easier to discover, listen, and support non-hit artists.

I'm not sure if their plan had a broader strategy, but I felt the vision was at least admirable due to its mission beyond just firm profits.
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HN supports censorship and the police state!!!
Firefox 45.0.1 on Arch Linux running KDE Plasma 5.6 on X here. The font renders fine for me.
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One way of thinking about it [from YC]: http://www.themacro.com/articles/2016/01/minimum-viable-prod...
There's an app called Free Download Manager which has this feature. I suspect it may be using youtube-dl under the hood, since the functionality looks similar (with a GUI, of course). The app allows you to copy/paste youtube urls and it parses the page for available downloads (audio and video). I use it regularly for putting technical talks onto my phone to watch or listen to on my commute.

The app is very easy to use, and one of the few I would recommend to a non-technical person for the features it has.

I know the name makes it sound like spyware, but it's the most lightweight tool I've found for both this and the occasional torrent.

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
> The rules to drop them are simpler than the rules to keep them.

Hmm. "Semi-colon at the end of each statement" is a pretty easy rule, and I think it'll be hard to top that in simplicity. But I'm open if you've got one.
> So a porn website (by far, the most effective mean to objectify women)

i find this phrasing to be curious. perhaps you're only suggesting that it "objectifies women". well, sure - but it also objectifies men. rarely are the chaps more than grunting and thrusting animalistic instruments of sex, are they? i think it's a valuable thing to be aware of objectification and whether we're treating any givern person with consideration, but at the same time, "objectification" isn't some objectively (!) negative abstract bogeyman.

> But I do see women feeling uncomfortable with a man entering woman's room.

should a female-to-male transgendered person, dressed and groomed and to most people's eye a seeming "biological man" - potentially with facial hair, even - be forced to use the women's room? would this not cause the same discomfort you describe?

> And second, basically any person can claim to be of the opposite gender, and walk in to fulfill a sexual fantasy, even a mild one.

i think fear mongering using unclear, disembodied "sexual fantasy" isn't all that productive of a conversation. it's about on par with "won't someone think of the children?"

> I simply don't understand what is the huge effort in using the restroom appropriate to your physical gender, and simply avoid the psychological conflict with the rest of the population.

not sure i follow - you're saying that someone like Buck Angel[1] would be more comfortable using the women's restroom? that any women in said restroom wouldn't be wondering why a man was in there?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Angel
It is weird how everyone has cancer. I heard rumours of those worthless shitbags at the CIA doing secret tests and crap in rural America.

Paired with a corrupt government, poor infrastructure and corrupt officials... they might have some really bad standards. Not to mention all that racism and toxic culture. Although both are as much symptoms as the rampant abuse of drugs.

Maybe the CIA just ran out of blacks and chinese people to sell drugs to, or got chased out of those areas by stronger and better equipped competitors and resorted to pushing pharmaceuticals to rural USA. Who would that surprise, nobody at all.
No need to build more housing. Everybody who is priced out of their favourite market, move to Detroit!
"Making music" is a very small part of the "musician" package; a lot of it is pure ethos. Difficult to identify with algorithmic output, even if you put a fancy brand on it.
> OO is harder to teach, and clearly harder to understand

That is a pretty damning judgement of OOP. It seems to me the whole point of a paradigm should be to improve understandability. If, in practice, it makes it worse, then it is a failed paradigm.
I thought about this previously. There's the obvious regulatory issues to deal with. I suggest looking into Cottage Food laws, which allow individuals to sell food that was prepared in their kitchens.
Just add a query parameter to the url, or toggle an optional trailing slash; happens all the time.
Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver
Maybe instead of looking for "outs" we should look for the positive value of ideological diversity.

People get lost in the argument that the First Amendment only applies to the government. To be fair, you didn't. You sidestepped it entirely in your examples.

This issue is whether people consider themselves strong enough to allow a marketplace of ideas. The answer for this fragile generation appears to be no.
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Maybe it's the backstory for Seveneves.
Great Leaders Embrace Office Politics
This is more or less how NearlyFreeSpeech works. You can set what level of identity proof you need to reset your password, or disable reset entirely. They seem pretty serious about it!
To the probes, wouldn't the 20-year flight 'feel' like 16?
> The fact that the GNU project has implemented a lot of the tools used in most distribution does not mean is has the right to lay claim to the title anymore than the Apache Foundation or Python Software Foundation.

GNU is a fully free Unix replacement---an operating system; it is more than a bunch of GNU software:

https://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
xlwings doesn't let you write Python code straight in the cells and have it immediately Just Work. It requires you to install a plugin and write commands in a separate file to execute Python. The UX difference is key here.
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The release notes at https://www.arqbackup.com/download/arq5_release_notes.html mention that you can now backup to a local directory or network drive. It's weird that the most interesting features were not actually mentioned in the main announcement.
Skrillex got rich by marketing "EDM" to the mass US festival market.

That and probably to no small extent the huge influx of MDMA and MDMA-like drugs.
Ah, but without the loophole of naming your company "AAAAAAAAA Services" to land at the top of "organics" :)
Minnesota's Great Wealth Migration
It might be easier to fire the lasers from the moon, but getting the lasers to the moon would be a huge pain.
Steve Albini's essay really illustrates how labels blaming streaming for declining album revenue is akin to the top 1% of income earnings blaming the poor for the middle class's economic problems. The labels always come out ahead, and streaming has become an easy way for the labels to refocus musicians' attention away from the actual source of the problem.
It would be a great way to buy a house in a very private setting for a trivial sum. It's kind of like buying a house near high-tension power lines. Enough people with kooky beliefs will lower real estate prices.
>> When I started learning C++ I was shocked. Instead of using objects for compartmentalizing functionality, they were just used as a holding pen for loosely related functions. Instead of communicating between themselves, objects were operated on by some bigger parent object. I found it absurd and fought it for a long time.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with C++. It's like blaming a microwave oven because your kid put a ball of tin foil in it.

C++ is a great language when you are developing big compiled programs and need strong metaphors for decoupling and modularity. Most developers today work on distributed systems where the individual cooperating pieces that they write are much smaller. Your 1000 line HTTP handler in python won't benefit much from strong static type checking, but the linux kernel does, and so do a lot of the infrastructure components we all take for granted every day.
Thinking out loud: You need an ingenious design that allows the laser sail to double as a directional antenna. And you pick a frequency which is not radiated by many other objects in space so it's easier to pick up the dim signal. And then you build a ginormous radio telescope bigger than any ever built before. Luckily you have a decade or two to build the telescope after the probes are launched.
> a swarm of unguided relativistic projectiles

In a sense, this is essentially what the universe is.
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Possibly so I've not look recently but the cost of reactors is historically high because of the way they where built.

Newer cheaper safer reactors built in volume would be cheaper than old designs, when the french went on their reactor building spree the cost per reactor was massively less than what Hinkley is costing.

Tooling, scale, been able to lots of the same thing, experience etc all drive the cost down.
Do wind turbines kill birds?
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When I hit a rate limit on sub1.example.com, it let me create a certificate with a SAN for sub1.example.com and sub2.example.com

So I think it's actually essentially unlimited, you just can't request the exact same certificate more than 20 times per week
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If your internal domain is also a public (ICANN) domain, you can use DNS-based validation to get a certificate. Basically, you create a TXT record with a challenge token and make sure Let's Encrypt can resolve that record. Your actual internal domains don't have to be publicly resolvable or routable for that to work.

This is still a WIP in the official client, but there are a number of other clients with dns-01 support[1].

Publicly trusted CAs are not allowed to issue certificates for internal domains (i.e. made-up names which don't end with an ICANN TLD.)

[1]: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/wiki/Links#bash
Historically, artists were long dead before their work was recognized and valued.
What's your thoughts on Dask? I saw a talk on it at Strata, and it seemed fairly promising.
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Even if we completely ignore most of the risks and hidden costs, nuclear power is still unattractive in its centralized form - large, expensive power plants that require safety measures, usually a lot of water and huge overhead power lines and need to keep operating or millions will be without electricity. On top of that, the consumer is affected by (international) market price fluctuations all the time.

I much prefer being self-sufficient with solar panels on my roof and some far away plant as backup. Once nuclear power is safe, I'll happily put a small reactor in my basement as backup too.
What does your dysfunctional relationship with social media have to do with producing works of art? I honestly just didn't follow your train of thought.

The arts have to be their own reward. If you're making art for money, and not the love, it's probably not worth doing.

For better or worse, the marketplace is finally realizing this.
I'm guessing the APK on Google Drive is because this does not comply with Youtube terms ?
That is not the definition of OOP the author is using. He made it clear what he meant by OOP; a paradigm seen often in production systems. Productive discussions start by accepting given definitions and arguing against the resulting points, not by arguing that the definitions are wrong because they don't match the exact form defined by someone somewhere.
Pandora genuinely has a channel for independent music acts to submit material for play consideration. They are incredibly obscure about the process of whether they accept or decline to include specific music. But it does actually exist, so credit where it's due.
You could easily live to ninety. If that happens, you expect to be working until ninety?
Uber for mac
Yep, this is in our ESLint config:

"semi": [2, "never"], // Disallow semicolons
"no-unexpected-multiline": 2, // Prevent edge cases caused by excluding semicolons.

And I haven't thought about it since. I'd expect an article like this 5 years ago, but it feels like bikeshedding at this point. If you choose to not use semicolons then add lint rules to protect against the edge cases and stop wasting brainpower on it.
Did you read the article? I ask because one of the problems was a compromised email account.
Fantastic. I think I'm going to give Arq a trial and see how it works for my use-case.
FWIW, I: have a recent medium-end graphics card; have listened to music on my desktop for almost twenty years; and change my screen configurations nearly daily. No problems here.

I only use mice & keyboards, so I can't say anything about graphics-tablet support.
We're taking that as a compliment. From talking to users, a key piece of feedback we've gotten was that the experience of using AlphaSheets has to be really similar to that of using Excel.
You have to contextualise it.

Imagine you were partly responsible in one of the biggest financial meltdowns of all time in your country, that made similar waves across the entire planet.

You get caught, and get a penalty. What should it be?

Then imagine your penalty was 0 days of jail time, and about 50% of your salary of 2015. Or hell, not your salary, just 50% of your disposable income.

Then consider that you profited a multiple of that fine I just mentioned, by engaging in this illegal behaviour in the first place.

That's what is called a slap on the wrist.
IIRC, you have to auth to Tinder with a FB account. Not saying that nothing shady is happening, because I believe it is, but note that there are hundreds of ways for a company like FB to connect the dots. Post locations, event invitations, friends of friends, searches, ads/trackers, even your behavior/patterns on the site. The only real options, IMO, are to delete FB or accept the uphill battle.
Not that much. Time dilation due to speed is sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2). At 0.2c, that's 98%, so 20 years would "feel like" 19.6 years.
Or maybe there can be multiple things which have names with the same initialisms, and we don't need to humblebrag about ones that aren't relevant to the thread at hand?
Does having them spread out over a few AU make beamforming possible? They do have their light sails to do double duty for comms.
Modern pop music follows strict patterns. I have little doubt that much of what's playing in the top 40 can be synthesized or already is :P

All that you need then is a human avatar that the kids can connect to and take as their role model.
I've reviewed all 16 of your comments on the page and beyond sawing a single person at Namecheap didn't follow policy and blaming the user in question, I don't see anywhere that you've stated there's an issue with controls.

Am I missing something, or is Namecheap saying they didn't do anything wrong?
Yes, this is the textbook example of victim blaming.

Then "victim blaming" is a meaningless concept and we should quit using it. Because if I choose to do something stupid, I do bear some responsibility for the outcome, even if somebody else violates my rights. That doesn't absolve the other party of course, which is my point. That is, you can blame the perpetrator of a crime while also pointing out that the victim could (possibly should) have done things differently.

Placing any amount of blame on the person who is the victim in this situation is saying that they don't have the right to walk down a street and not be mugged.

It isn't "blame" for the actions of the other person. Why wouldn't you point out the stupidity of knowingly putting yourself in a dangerous situation?
I'm using open sans (locally hosted as woff) on that site so i'd say it's unlikely to do with the font itself. Maybe your browser has issues with eot/svg fonts.

Could likely be something to do with fontconfig on your system.
It's fascinating to see all the other theories here. It's the exact same information, here's the hex code list with system error codes: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh994433.aspx

My favorite is 0xDEADDEAD

A BSOD isn't interactive, the only thing you can do is search for the error code. Even if users copy down and type the hex code correctly (not at all a given), the search results might be a random ten year old blog post or information about a different version of Windows. The QR Code takes you to an official help page that gives updated, version specific instructions a normal computer user could follow: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/troubleshoot-b...

I've troubleshot BSOD errors over the phone with relatives. Plain-text error message are a welcome improvement over hex codes.
Much of the Boston area didn't really drop much either. Certainly a much different situation from, say, Las Vegas where there was a huge amount of speculative building and bad loans going on.
I agree. And certainly don't think MIT, nor Harvard, are shit. You get what you put in.

Mostly, I was educated in the Québec system, and had no idea before I was 16 that if I got good grades I could get into interesting universities -- even the American ones. Reading up voraciously on Richard Feynman, only to discover that if things had been different, I, too, could have gone to that school. By that time, it was too late, I simply didn't have the grades. My parents' perception that it would cost a fortune certainly didn't help.

Not that I'm complaining, I can't change the past. But the idea of never attending MIT is one of those very few, recurring what-ifs? that will sometime keep me up at night, half a lifetime after.
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