skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any citation for this? If this was actually a widespread practice, I would think their insurance premiums would be prohibitively expensive!
Just about everyone in IT. The (software) factories are thriving the world over and despite what StartUp people and various other revolutionists will tell you, hardly anyone is even trying to disrupt this. Because people (both employers and staff) are mostly happy with the status quo. You'll hear a lot of talk about reduced office hours, flexible office hours, working 4 days a week, "commuter revolution", etc, etc... those things are statistical outliers that haven't really affected the large picture. Leaving your job to build a business is probably the _least_ statistically significant factor in all of this.

So yea, factories (and factory working hours) are here to stay for the foreseeable future.
Her category 'lost in transit' is perhaps the biggest cause of UDP drops. No matter how big your buffers on the send/receive side, if an intermediary carrier decides UDP is not important or a D/DoS threat to their network, bye bye packet... or in some cases of rate-limiting, see you in a while perhaps.

A few rabbit-holes to dive down:

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-017A

http://www.christian-rossow.de/articles/Amplification_DDoS.p...

https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-byrne-opsec-udp-advisory-00....

https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/taps/charter/
> So knowing nothing about this subject, why do they pursue landing rockets, or at least landing them vertically? It seems like the hardest possible way to handle this problem, as opposed to for example what the shuttles did. Can anyone explain the reasoning behind this?

It's actually the least complex way to do it. You've already got the engines to slow descent and steer the vehicle. At the highest concept level, all you need is to add more fuel and have very high-performance control system for guidance. Oh, and bolt on some landing legs, and some grid fins. That's not to say it's easy, but the added hardware is way less complex than adding wings, using a runway, etc... But if you watch their landings now they make it look easy and to suggest adding a bunch of other hardware complexity to get the rocket back seems silly in hindsight.

The challenge is to take someones simplistic idea "just have the rocket land itself" and look at it objectively even though nobody does it that way. My own preconceived ideas told me it would require way too much fuel to be practical. Turns out that's wrong. I also thought things would get too hot on re-entry. Turns out that's wrong too. But from a hardware complexity standpoint, it does seem kind of obvious doesn't it? I mean Bugs Bunny landed a rocket on mars right? Why NOT do it like that? http://www.cartoonsonnet.com/bugs-bunny-mad-as-a-mars-hare.h...
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There is, in that you can buy game time with ISK from a player who sells their game time for ISK. But all game time is still paid for in real money by someone, so there's never ISK entering or leaving the economy through this model.

As with other subscription games with a F2P option tacked on later, the F2P option is very, very restricted. A handful of available ship types and skills, and the skill limits heavily restrict how efficient you can be economically.

So I don't think there will be a lot of competition created by free accounts. But more players playing EVE will increase the overall ISK generation rate in the universe a little bit, so you might see some mild inflation.
Left my last full-time job in early 2014, jumping into freelancing with both my old employer and past colleagues-turned-founders as my first clients.

The first year was insanely though - trying to find clients that would pay what I desired - and I went through severe bouts of depression when Canadian Winter hit. My close friends who knew about the situation told me to go back to employment, I wasn’t cut out for this.

But I went through that trough of sorrow and hit many breaks in 2015 with clients that valued me enough to more than make up the losses I had the previous year. Fast-forward to today and I earn enough from consulting that I spend more time on personal growth and working on my own projects than I need to work with clients to sustain my living.
What workflows do you have where renaming functions happens often enough that you need to optimize for it?
Buffers is the putative reason. We'd be tempted to suggest bigger buffers would help. But that contributes to the famous buffer-bloat problem that tanked the internet some years back.

The practical solution is to meter traffic (don't send faster than they can be processed on the receive end or faster than the tightest congestion bottleneck enroute). At the same time process as quickly as possible on the receive side - don't let a single buffer sit in the IP stack longer than absolutely necessary. E.g. receive on one higher priority thread and queue to a processing thread.
Personally, I don't find the value in alignment - indentation is all I do. I especially dislike alignment of this sort:

var a_variable = 1;
var another_variable = 2;
var yet_another_variable = 3;

which is just too fiddlesome and in fact makes it _harder_ for me to read.
How does this compare to duplicity ( http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ ) ?
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The problem is the company is Raytheon, and I spent the first 9.5 years of my career there. It isn't something I can just drop.
If you are just starting to do this...it's very easy to forget you did it for a particular site.

"I can't log in and to boot your site says there is no account matching first.last@gmail.com. What kind of Mickey Mouse operation are you running here?"

"Sir, you are an idiot."
I also do unique aliases for each account I have. Few of them have been a source of spam.

I also have expiring subdomains. So I'm not using domain.com, but something like b2.domain.com. The rationale is that if I start receiving a lot of spam, I go through all the accounts I have, change all emails to use another subdomain like b3.domain.com, and then invalidate the old subdomain entirely. I haven't had to do that yet and my domain is several years old.

With two big exceptions: the email address I leave on my website and the email address I publish on my GitHub profile. These 2 have dedicated throwaway domains like throwaway283728@domain.com. Because you wouldn't believe how much spam I get from that GitHub profile, not just recruiters, but also get rich offers from princes in Nigeria and Viagra pills.
That particular form of formatting is part of Python's PEP-8, which has tooling around it. Maybe not all editors have something built it, though.
The app can be at fault too. Some traffic is bursty (video frames, large files, images) and some client stacks have tragically small IP buffers (as little as 128K in some OSs). Apps must be prepared to read to exhaustion without pausing to process in those situations, then process once the buffer-storm is over.
How about fuse+encfs?
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Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12396243
This is probably illegal in the United States. Expect to receive cease and desist demands.
I haven't fully done it yet, but am on my way. About 2.5 years ago I left my 9-5 career (about 8 years into it) to become a contractor/consultant, basically continuing to do the same type of work, but for multiple clients, with an hourly rate. This was at the same time that our first child was born.

It's probably the best decision I ever made. I'll make about 1.5x what I did as a 9-5er this year while I probably worked less hours overall. I work from home 80% of the time. No commute, so much less stress, I'm lucky to have great long-term clients (who I wouldn't have been able to acquire without my previous 9-5 time).

Eventually I want to bootstrap a startup - that's phase 2. I've built up enough of a cushion, even though child #2 arrives in a month. I've got a side-project going on that will hopefully turn into a business. I'm still figuring out how to best transition, because right now the $ is good and difficult to voluntarily turn down.
From what I've been told, it's a rack-mounted unit that's sealed. That's about it. The Apple unit contains iTunes content as well as iOS/OSX system updates.
If the organization is large enough why shouldn't the CEO make that much? Just because its a non-profit doesn't mean the large organization is any easier to manage.
Well for one, torrent's not a video format. Let alone a streaming video service.

And anyhow, FCC did exactly that; they went after Comcast for throttling torrents for no reason. And throttling torrents just because they're torrents is clearly not permissable by this clause by BEREC either; all it allows for is temporary and exceptional traffic shaping in case of congestion, provided it's done nondiscriminatorily. Which is a good thing; an ISP needs to have a neutral course of action available then besides a meltdown of its net. And yeah, I'd say latency insensitive bulk downloads would be perfectly sensible to deprioritize then. Now, doing what's reserved for recovery in general instead is certainly an abuse of network neutrality, by this rulebook as by FCCs.
> already too late

Ignorance here; too late for what? Treatment? Meaning the wound was already bad enough that you just had to let it heal on its own?

Just curious about what that meant.
Call/cc isn't a macro. It's actually a special form, although in CPS-based schemes, it could probably be implemented as a function if there was a lower level continuation primitive.

And semantically, a continuation is pretty much never a strategy.

As for make-counter not being higher-order, that's just not true. A higher-order function takes and/or returns a function. make-counter returns a function: it's higher-order.
Snowden never took an oath of loyalty. He did swear an oath to of enlistment, which is to the constitution, but that's one of the few things that makes America actually exceptional vs many other countries. Now, when you get a security clearance, you sign what is basically an NDA with the gov.

To be clear, the oath to the constitution outweighs an NDA every time, due to the nature that the constutiton is the supreme law of the land.
I'm in France, and doing 9-7
I just tried this link and it gave me a price of 154:

https://www.amazon.ca/Samsung-Smartphone-32-GB-Unlocked-Inte...
How do you feel about Canadians (and Mexicans!) coming into the US via the NAFTA program? My employer didn't even have to show that they weren't able to hire an American for my position.
Sorry. I couldn't find. Since it effectively downloads the file and uploads again i guess it should work.
This article is just scaremongering at the idea that dirty "profit seeking" banks would have anything to do with charity, which should be the domain of those of pure heart. But happens when you give money to a charity or endowment? If they don't need it right away, they invest it with a bank!
"According to a pre-sentencing memorandum, Tyler was charged with selling 13,000 hits of acid, found on 13 sheets of paper and equivalent to several grams of liquid. Tyler pleaded guilty to drug distribution...."

Wikipedia. Plus the two prior offenses.

And here I was looking at the title and thinking they'd outlawed the Dead.
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99% of unjustifiable gun homicides

You'll have to spell out in more detail which homicides you believe are justified and which are not if you want me to be able to respond to this in much detail. FBI statistics show that handguns are used far more often to win arguments than they are by gangs: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

But if you consider homicide a justified way to respond to an argument, there isn't much to say in response to your claim.

It's also interesting that you think I'm particularly a proponent of gun control. My interest is more in having a better debate about what meaningful gun control would be, I don't expect much change in US firearms laws any time soon. So above I point out that the incidents we pay attention to aren't the largest part of the problem, and I point out that the proposed responses to those incidents often aren't likely to accomplish anything.

I suppose my main thought is that gun control advocates should take a clear look at what they really need to advocate for and start advocating to amend the constitution. If they succeeded in passing an amendment, they would have a strong legal foundation for increased regulation and would have a pretty clear mandate to point at.
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copyright law is in fact harmonized on EU level, by the EU copyright directive. Not that it could be substantially different already by Berne convention on a global level.
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Why should a non-profit pay its employees less than a for-profit company? The labor market is the labor market; the feel-good of working for a non-profit might be a "perk" that justifies a slightly lower salary (like equity in a startup), but it'll only get you so far. Insisting that non-profits pay people less just means they'll get less qualified/motivated people.

(And to the extent that the argument is that you don't need to pay $400k to get a qualified/motivated CEO, then that's true of any company--being non-profit has nothing to do with it.)
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> It is tough, income is still less than I what I made in my cushy job

But you have more ways to avoid taxes (both legal and not so much). If you get paid cash for anything, you may be able to conceal the income. You can creatively shuffle losses into the limited liability corporation, to avoid being personally affected, and basically just sock it to whomever the corporation owes.

Self-employed people typically have way more ways to write off expenses.

In Canada, if you're an employee, you don't get to write off anything. Drive to work? Can't write off gas or car repairs as a business expense. Work from home a lot? Sorry, can't write off any portion of your rent or mortgage. All that changes if you're self-employed; you can write off every this and that: transportation; the proportion of your home that is your office. On the yearly tax return form, all employees can claim a meager little "employment amount": a token sum compensating them for their inability to write off anything.
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We don't need to regulate the people in the basement, just the companies sending 'gifts'.
Quite a few for sure. But does that matter? They are engineers, designers and developers. They post interesting things and if you want to give G+ a try then you might be interested in checking some of them out.
So I just hacked in a super obvious link to the RSS feed on the page.

https://hitreply.co/ep/0/yet-another-startup-podcast/

Hope that helps!
Yes, NaCl is probably the best choice for this.

Ideally you would not allow user-supplied passwords (random password > KDF-ed user password), but it's still solid.
Not at "low speeds" but at line rate it requires a lot more CPU power to process all of those packets which often leads to drops. These drops specifically are called RX ring/fifo overflows/overruns and happen when the NIC enqueues more then rx_ring_size packets before the OS initiates a DMA of incoming packets from the NIC to RAM.

I suppose if you point a 10Gbps UDP stream at 1Gbps NIC there will be drops but these drops will happen at the switch not at the interface which is a different type of dropping.
No. Linux uses the socket buffer to buffer packets while ARP is in progress. (The only sane thing to do imo). I believe the "buffers 3 packets" was how it was done it the early 2.0 kernels.

Windows[1], BSDs[2], OSX[3] only buffers 1 packet per socket while it's ARPing

[1] Empirical testing.
[2] https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man4/arp.4.html
[3] http://www.unix.com/man-page/FreeBSD/4/arp/ and similar for other BSDs
The email they sent out completely neglects to mention that there was a breach unless you follow a link:

"We’re reaching out to let you know that if you haven’t updated your Dropbox password since mid-2012, you’ll be prompted to update it the next time you sign in. This is purely a preventative measure, and we’re sorry for the inconvenience.

To learn more about why we’re taking this precaution, please visit this page on our Help Center. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at password-reset-help@dropbox.com"
I was reminded of the infinite hotel paradox at the beginning, and then suspected that that's where they were going. Sure enough, that's what they did. At the end one of the books on the shelf mentions it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Gra...
Because they are being funded by tax payers.
Yeap, in case of Tasmanian Devils you are right.

I made a a large swooping statement and had this in mind ->
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v17/n1/full/nn.3594.html

When I read it the first time if blew my mind. In principle - traumatic memories developed in presence of a particular scent triggered responses in subsequent generations - without the generations entering into social contact (a case of a female mouse to its offspring). Don't know how well established is statistics in this study though and how well replicated was the study.
It suggests a storage of the information beyond central nervous system - in mammalian sperm.
Wouldn't that imply using tabs but with the added feature that tabs also allow for alignment?
Honestly, why that's research worthy? That's not a new knowledge, that's information is somewhat known to all employees, partners, various NMS vendors, ISPs. 'Nice' graph and latex formatted article doesn't make that scientific research. I guess there is to much useless "since" in style of 'I run ping/traceroute from the couple of locations and here is my scientific research'.
Also note the guy that runs it is the one that wrote this article.
What are the units of spend_mean, spend_min and spend_max in the table, and what exactly are these referring to?

The post says:

>The mean amount you would have been able to spend by year if you had followed this plan, you retired in years 1928-1985 and you enjoyed a 30-year retirement.

But I don't really follow... in year 1, spend_mean is 4.567. Does that mean on average I spend $4.57 in year 1? Is this in addition to the constant spending?

Is variable spending in addition to constant spending? Or is this the % of the portfolio that I am drawing from by spending my const_spend target?
The ways in which packets are accidentally lost is the same between TCP and UDP, but if you have 150Mbps total coming in from four different ports and you need to route that data over a single 100Mbps port, then the router needs to choose which packets to drop. I bet that TCP packets take priority over UDP in many routers.
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Editor is one thing and most fully featured editors probably have an indent mode like this. Then there's all the other tools, like diff/merge tools, automatic refactoring scripts, etc which don't work as well.

I'm not a fan of Python's significant whitespace or PEP-8 in the first place. It puts too much emphasis on aesthetics at the cost of practicality. Writing a parser or any tooling for that is just a pain in the ass. I do use Python occasionally but for very different reasons than aesthetics.
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You're really claiming it's silly to refuse advice from a random person on the Internet, in favour of waiting for studies and clinical data?
I don't know if this is a quote from the book being reviewed, but this line leapt out at me: "famine is rare". I find it hard to reconcile this statement with information like this statistic from a UNICEF web site: "Every 3.6 seconds one person dies of starvation. Usually it is a child under the age of 5."

http://www.unicef.org/mdg/poverty.html
> I doubt this kind of crap happens with companies at SV, because they wouldn't be able to hire anyone because other companies would snatch them up too quick.

No, I can assure you that it does happen in SV too. Everyone claims to be 'desperate for new developers' but the proof is in the pudding--lots of places interviewing, few places hiring. Lots of slowness, endless rounds of interviews, and foot dragging.
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How would blockchain voting address the ability to give your votes away prior to the election? (Or does it?)

For example, if I have one "votecoin" that I vote with that isn't tied back to me (as per necessity of private voting), how can the system ensure that it's actually me voting, and not just whoever I gave/sold my vote to beforehand?
I don't suppose I feel it necessary to reach absolute incontrovertibility on this matter, given Facebook's longstanding history of doing things very like it, but find mere strong preponderance of likelihood to suffice. But I understand that some may feel otherwise.
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Anyone know how long the Nationwide jingle has been around?

Decades, as I recall it from when I was a child, and I've got more days behind me than ahead of me. I'm surprised to hear that they're still using it.
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> Someone kill me please, make the misery end.

How about you just stop posting instead?
There is also UDT as a reliable UDP-based alternative to TCP. Some day I'd like to hear from someone who used it whether it's worth it and when it makes sense.
I work full-time on my website since 6 months, after two years of development and growth when I was an employee.
At first, it was only a little side-project so I haven't done anything to prepare my exit to entrepreneurship. I've quit my job when my partner and I we have felt a real potential for our website. I guess it's less stressful in France than in other countries, because we have in France the possibility to terminate the employment like a resignation, and then receive comfortable unemployment benefits during two years. There is no need to save money, and no pressure at the beginning of the startup.

Everyone has its own way to work on a side project. Personaly, I worked every mornings, before work. Why ? Because my brain was fresher, my spirit less crowded by external thoughts. I could go to work without frustration, with the satisfaction of having worked on my own website. And at evening, I could hang out with my girlfriend or friends without feeling guilty.
use this in production since one year, installed on a synology nas to backup on ovh storage. please get the github version as the download on the website is quite different
You can, but it's not generally advisable.
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If so many packets get lost in buffer overflows, can you somehow make the system wait for the buffer to empty?

If sending a packet syncronously, the system call would just hang until the buffers have drained enough.

How would you do it while receiving? Does the outside network just bang bits through the cable like a radio station? Then you'd have no choice but to save everything as fast as it comes in, lest you loose packets. Or is there, deep down on the lowest levels of the stack, actually some kind of request/response going on, even for UDP? For example at the level of Ethernet frames, or even individual bits? Like "here are some bytes. got them? - yes. - here are some more. got them? - (waiiiiting....) yes." Then you could just let the next router in the system wait while you drain your input buffer.

Even if there is no request/response going on, you could still view your incoming as the next routers outgoing. Configure the router to wait with sending until your client has drained the router's output buffer enough. (That would require the router to know how much data you can take.)