skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Russia is already post-industrial state

> Russia lost most of its industry in competition with China and hi-tech manufacturing to the West.

Congratulaions, you've managed to contradict yourself in one paragraph.
Learned this the hard way. I spend a lot of hours learning stuff in a bad way—I end up not mastering anything!
To me, the only enticement of torrenting a movie is that it will be DRM-free.

Please note that I don't mind DRM when used in streaming but I find it onerous when I "purchased" something.
Two words: language barrier.

In the U.S., you can launch a startup in NY, SF, or Texas. It doesn't matter. You can still reach everyone in the U.S. with a web service in a single language from the same location.

It's very different if you launch a site in Germany, Estonia, or Spain. You just won't have the same reach by default, especially if you only offer the service in English.

If you want to reach all of Europe and most people, then you'll have to offer the service, the ads for it, and the support, in 20+ languages.

Alternatively, you can stick to English...but you'll reach far fewer people. Search for a certain type of product or service on Google Adwords in say Estonia or Poland in English, and then in the native language, and you'll see at least an order of magnitude more potential traffic/clicks for the native keyword.

It may be easier to scale physical products than services in all European countries, but it still won't be as easy as such expansion would be in the United States. You may still need to deal with locals in their native language, so you may have to hire some people in those countries that speak that language.

Hopefully, Google or someone will solve this issue through technology, so that in 10 years it won't matter if your service is offered in English only. Because otherwise, it will probably take another 50 years before 80% of the European population speaks English well by default and prefers to search for everything they want to buy online in English.
I can't believe I'm the only commenter who seems to want one of these. I really want one of these. I'd like my kids to be able to mess around with car repair as they get older, and this just seems perfect for teenagers -- camping, glamping, drive 11 closest friends around -- seriously, I love this.

This is just a very modern car/truck. I love it.
You probably can OD on Kratom, but overdosing caffeine is easier if you want to off yourself.
God forbid either of those words imply there's a difference despite the very definitions of those words are to classify and distinguish plainly different groups.
> to make the company look strong enough

This make the company look like it has weak leadership and is clawing for scraps. A strong company would switch to 4 hr days and still survive...
The Dutch have a MRSA strategy they call "Search and Destroy" with harsh quarantine regulations for non-native patients.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/combating-deadly...
What's "not a real name?" A name just something you are known as so there's no 'fake' names by definition. Some of my family have totally nonsensical names. I don't tell them they have fake names. Squirrel is pretty 'normal,' people have been taking animal names forever.
Lego Surprisingly Wants You to Stop Buying Its Toys
Transistors of the 1950s and 1960s were particularly vulnerable to high voltages. Modern transistors and ICs have some resistance to high voltage discharges such as static electricity, but back in those days, you could easily destroy entire circuits with your hand. Early transistors were made with materials and processes we would consider sub-standard today, which is particularly significant because they were almost exclusively using bipolars instead of MOSFETs (which are much more durable), and the manufacturers of the 60s could not and did not add protection diodes. ESD control was one reason why certain American companies got so far ahead of the Soviets (and the less-adaptable competition such as Phillips, whose workforce refused to adopt ESD control practices).
The built-in dev tools are also a social-engineering attack vector. Try opening the dev tools on facebook.com and you'll see a huge warning to users that have been told to copy/paste malicious JavaScript into their dev tools. So one could make a reasonable argument that built-in dev tools are a bad thing.
Your point sounds good. Also, even the XB-70 was an indicator of what the US aviation industry could get going if motivated. I've seen one up close and personal, just wow.
The Romans 'discovered' leisure, calling it "otium". The opposite gives us the word "negotiation".

(There is also a book by Robert Putnam called "Bowling Alone" on the decline of group hobbies, but I've not read it)
The Hateful Eight had a little media blitz when it first came out because you could watch it in a number of theaters that still do 70mm, and I think Tarantino was the reason.
Ok, maybe not filled with "exotic", but at a cursory glance (all within the past year or so):

Living in Manhattan while working as a writer (in Manhattan)

Thailand

Massachusetts

New Orleans

Austin and surrounding area

All over CA

All over NY

Lake Tahoe

Seattle

Vancouver

Miami

TED2015 (tickets are thousands of dollars if I remember right)

Attended several exclusive fashion shows in NYC

Yeah let's see someone doing this all in the same year while making 30k in a regular 9-5 job. They'd be hard pressed to do ONE of them.
Another issue with this approach is that AT&T is incentivized to NOT upgrade the internet in these areas because they might lose revenue. I think the people who came up with this program had great intentions, but it has backfired pretty horribly in some areas.
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Yeah, and "just" relocating ain't exactly trivial or foolproof.

The alternative is glaciation? If we have enough control over the climate to make it a bunch warmer, surely we have enough control (should we choose to exercise it) to keep it in the middle.
Low margin? My wife switched to La Croix which seems to be the new popular water drink around here. It's easily 3x the price of Coke.
Correct. Which is why it should be classified, but somewhere around Schedule II, like other typically used natural opiates. E.g. Morphine and high dose codeine.
Oh, great. Ugh, thanks.

edit: Now my ip is reported as "ifconfig | grep inet | grep -v inet6 | cut -d" " -f2 | tail -n1" which is amusing.
The people to whom this is important have already dropped all the browsers from for-profit software and/or online services companies for (among others) Firefox because of these concerns. So they don't complain about Chrome as much -- because its already dead to them. They complain about Firefox more because it still matters to them.
You're just describing one of the most well-established facts about learning: the dominant factor is intrinsic motivation.

Whether you call them hobbies or studies, the fact that you were intrinsically motivated to pour effort into them is why you got so good at them.
Most interaction at Google between SRE and developer teams is mediated within the context of a "failure budget". For example, let's say the agreement between the engineers and the product and budget people is that the service needs to have four nines of reliability; that's the amount of computing and human power they're willing to pay for.

Well, that means the service is allowed to be down for four minutes every month. Let's say for the past three months, the service has actually only been out of SLA for about 30 seconds per month. That means the devs have a bit of failure budget saved up that they can work with.

How do you spend a failure budget? Well, let's say you're a developer and you have a new feature that you just finished writing late Thursday night, but the SREs have a rule that no code can be deployed on a Friday. If you have a lot of failure budget saved up, you have more negotiating power to get the SREs to make a special exception.

But let's say that this Friday deployment leads to an outage late Saturday night, and the service is down for sixteen minutes before it can be rolled back. Well, you now have a negative failure budget, and you can expect the SREs to be much more strict in the coming months about extensive unit and cluster testing, load tests, canarying, quality documentation, etc, at least until your budget becomes positive.

The beauty of this system is that it aligns incentives properly; without it, the devs always want to write cool new code and ship it as fast as possible, and the SREs don't ever want anything changing. But with it, the devs have an incentive to avoid shipping bad code, and the SREs have reason to trust them.
There are other companies who followed the rules and do have a successful test for Zika. A company with Theranos history should have been following the rules, knowing they had already screwed up. They're currently, unless their appeal succeeds, going to be barred from performing ANY testing for 2 years. Actually the fact that they are under appeal makes failure to follow procedures even more astounding.

The question is, why is this bar a problem for them and not others? Inability to follow a basic protocol is a good sign of their incompetence with regard to deeper issues I suspect.
Seems to me that the data is stored in the positions of the particles that make up the planet.
My thought on this, for some time, has been that people need ways to effectively express, legally and technically, their disagreement and noncooperation with such terms.

An alternative model for funding both innovative reasearch and creative content (writing, music, film/video, visual, and other arts) also seems increasingly essential. Information and culture are public goods, and cash-on-the-barrelhead (or bitcoin-through-the-anonymised-exchange) transactions are largely not appropriate for them.

I am very much hoping this all dies in a fire. I'm increasingly concerned as to just how all-encompassing that fire may turn out to be.
I love this optimism in this post. I know its a tinfoil hat theory but as long as Google and Apple continue to cripple browser performance on their mobile platforms, mobile web will never be at par with native apps. Do I think that apple and google could do more to improve mobile browser performance... ABSOLUTELY!. As of right now there is no incentive for either to, because their app stores are generating revenue along with allowing them to control the ecosystem.
No, I think the about page is just trying to hide the fact it was started by a 16 year old.

The image is just a stock image: http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-160492445/stock-photo-portra...

Yes, the text is also misleading, but again it seems more to hide the fact that she's 16. Her father has businesses in China so it's likely that she has been visiting China for 12 years. I doubt she's been giving English names to Chinese babies for that long though.
A/B testing and measuring specific goals. If the goal is to frustrate people less measure how much time they spend on things. If the goal is revenue measure if the ux change converts better or worse, etc.

But it is hard to get people to listen when it's just one opinion or the other. Arm yourself with data.
I think it's a good contribution. Couple of things though:

- lsof can also print the list of files open by a process. fuser can tell you which process open a specific file. lsof is mentioned later in the zine though.

- sysdig is not mentioned but is great.

- wireshark/tcpdump/ngrep/etc might be challenging to practically use in the presence of SSL/TLS. you can mitigate this problem by setting up SSL termination at your network perimeter so you can monitor unencrypted traffic.

- additionally to netcat you have curl, httpie and many other clients for similar purposes. in the Chrome developer tools network tab, you can select a request sent when visiting a website and click "Copy as cURL". this will quickly export any request you were making as a cURL command. likewise, proxies like burp also implement this same feature.

sometimes you need to debug DNS problems, that is not covered sadly. I use dig for this purposes but I wonder if there's something better.

if you are going to be using command line utilities, getting acquainted with cat, grep, cut, sed, awk, tail, head, colrm, tr, sort, uniq, comm, wc, etc. is very recommended. ministat is also cool.

then, about java and node... java has excellent profiling tools, including the free jvisualvm tool shipped with Java that does the job for the most part. profiling and debugging node in runtime can be really challenging. specially analyzing node coredumps with mdb_v8 is not for the faint of heart... you need to set up a VM with joyent's SmartOS for this. there's an npm package that simplifies this process called "autopsy". now, flamegraphs might be fine, but i strongly prefer nodegrind + qcachegrind.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I really think we're losing something by not having this kind of knowledge more evenly spread out in the population. There was a time when my near-ancestors could all stitch up a wound or re-set a bone. Such first-aid was a necessary skill. That too is missing in the population today.
OK in that case may I keep my bookmarks, history, password management, download manager etc.

One person's bloat is another person's feature.
Fully agreed. I work with several startups both US and EU side. I see 3 hurdles, all solvable:

1. No unified capital market and banking union, hence funding is restricted to per country Capital accumulation.

2. Still no unified digital products, payments, and IP market. The cost of selling any sort of IP in the EU is orders of magnitude higher than in the US.

3. Most countries have some sort of ridiculous immigration and work permit regulation, hindering startups to hire people easily and from anywhere.

At this point it is easier for somebody from the EU to incorporate remotely in Delaware, setup a bank account through Atlas Stripe, do fundraising in the US through Angellist, hire globally through any number of online platforms, and close deals with ready made YCombinator SAFE notes, and travel with a visa waiver every quarter cheaply to the US, than to even try incorporation in the EU.
I absolutely agree. Chess reveals in a very concrete way that you can just run out of talent. Every player seems to have an innate ceiling on their abilities that no amount of study will overcome. Spend long enough in a club and you'll see it over and over - the duffers in their forties who can never seem to break 1800 and the snotty kids who skyrocket to 2300 with no apparent effort.

Golf seems to be fairly similar. Lots of players spend every weekend at the range and take endless lessons and workshops, but never manage to get their handicap down to single figures.
Related paper: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01353884/document
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It is probably most similar to medium dose codeine. Which happens to be available over the counter in many formulations.
Many children from my school spent a lot of time and additional classes to learn math. I never did that. I almost always skipped my homework. Yet I was the best in my class. Things, that other children found confusing and hard to understand, were very obvious to me and when I was asked to solve something from home work, I just did it immediately.

That said, I was talking about ordinary children without any selection. After school I went to math faculty in university with similar children. That was cruel, I sometimes felt so stupid.

There's definitely talent. And there's hard work. And sometimes it goes hand-to-hand, sometimes it's not. There are untalented people who's working hard and achieve a lot. There are talented people who doesn't give a damn and yet achieve a lot. And there are talented people who word hard and flying in the sky.
I read this as implying GS has decided the software has no value.
I fail to see the problem with this.
Q&A with Birchbox Cofounder Hayley Barna
1. They restore and restart the simulation from the last known stable snapshot. So you don't know about a downtime even if one happened.

2. While testing out a RTC program on 8085 processors in college we used to run the clock faster just to check if Clock counted to all conditions correctly. There is a always a fast forward option to jump the states you are interested in.

3. For the people running the simulation the time between big bang and heat death could be something like 5 mins what we perceive as billions of years.
School took a lot of time, but was not her main focus.

Considering she wanted to be an artist and mostly did that on the side, school was a net loss of time. It's one thing to scrape a C and doodle in all your classes, it's another to find time to draw on the side in the middle of a hectic schedule. Getting a 5 in AP calculus is hard for most people who want to use it, for someone who has little interest in math that's a huge time investment.

AKA if you do one thing well then you can argue it's a time investment, when you do everything well that takes something more.
I hate watching videos, and the transcript as provided was just unreadable, so in 2010 I put the transcript on GitHub and started reformatting it: https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006

Pull requests welcome!
I volunteered a couple times at an elementary school near Jordan (a neighborhood in Hong Kong) where lots of South Asian kids attend. I am not sure if the ones I saw were refugees but they clearly needed more help.

Many of them were sufficiently smart to do well in school but the curriculum was only designed for people who are fluent in Chinese. For example, the Math homework was all in Chinese but many of the kids could barely spoke Chinese, let alone read (they spoke English reasonably well though). It's no wonder that many of them didn't want to do homework and (presumably) not doing well in school, even if you don't consider the situations at home.

Hong Kong has good public education but the local schools are all designed for the local population. The expats (and well off families) send their kids to international schools which are expensive. I am really not sure what's the best way to help those kids.
I like ss, except I can never seem to remember the name. The two letters don't seem to have any relation to the functionality.

The man page refers to it as "ss - another utility to investigate sockets". That doesn't seem to help.
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I grew up near Menwith Hill in the 80s. They did tours of the facility - not inside the golf balls or the other secret bits, but they had a bowling alley, all kinds of fun things for bored servicemen.

Everyone living nearby knew what the base was and what it was for. When I asked my dad about it, he said "We use it to watch Mr. Gorbachev eating his cornflakes". Now 'we' use it to watch Mr. Al-Baghdadi eating his cornflakes instead.

Don't make the mistake of thinking the majority of the British public disapproves of NSA/GCHQ's capabilities and actions. They're more likely to be proud of them.
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It takes genetics to be interested in something too I believe.
DNS pcap Fragments
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That's why you need to invest in index funds (ideally the S&P 500 or Nasdaq 100), high-IQ companies - specifically Google Amazon and Facebook- or use the inverse ETF decay strategy that makes 20-40 percent a year.

Buying in-the-money call options using 3-1 leverage on Google, Amazon, and Facebook has returned 200% since 2013 vs. 30% for S&P 500.

The motivation behind this strategy is that average-IQ people can make good money piggybacking off the creative contributions of America's smartest .1%. Facebook, Amazon, and Google stock will keep rising, as part of this trend, allowing average people to profit by joining the ride.

But existential problems are harder to solve than money ones, and even the smartest are faced with them (hence philosophy as a subject).
I imagine it's very difficult for civilizations it is to coordinate over the span of millennia -- even within the limited geography of their regions or planets, much less throughout a solar system or galaxy.
> Not much for encrypted data, but they can still get metadata out of it (which site you visited, how much traffic was exchanged relative to other sites you visited, what times of the day you visited, which days of the week you visited, usage patterns, etc.). For

Just use a VPN?
Very true. I have to admit to having had similar fantasies when I was a younger software developer working for BigCorps who just didn't care about the things I cared about. "One day, the company will collapse in ruin because we ignore the 800+ compiler warnings in SoftwareProjA, and have memory leaks. KILOBYTES of memory leaks! Soon, I will walk among the rubble of this once-great company and tell all you managers 'I told you so!' SOON!"

Of course, as we all know, it never happens. BigCorp continues to churn out buggy, leaky, unoptimized code, and customers keep giving them money for it. I suppose you can handle this in a number of ways: 1. You can accept this and re-adjust what you consider to be "good enough to ship", 2. You can get jaded and dismiss all software customers as morons, or 3. You can start your own company that TAKES SERIOUSLY the proper use of namespaces, and see if that lets you outcompete the competition.
and if you don't have the data to make your case, start getting the data.
The point is that you should be able to disable anything that is connected to the planes electrical system, to stop fires and prevent damaged systems causing issues with other functional systems (i.e. broken GPS causing electrical surges should be disabled to ensure other controls continue to work).

Unless your luggage is plugged in, this is something that ground based security should be assessing the risk of prior to placing it in the plane, followed by the redundant fire suppression systems in the luggage hold as a last resort, this should be fairly under control by the time the plane is in the air.
Unified theory of Alzheimer's disease
What makes you think beings simulating us are in a universe with resources lesser than us?
Did we all just see transforming of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader?

From "Do no evil" to "???"

Feel the power of the dark side..... :-)
From the wikipedia page, it seems more common than you would think. In the US it is the 10th most common cause of death, and globally kills 200k a year.
tl;dr The software is called SecDB. Giving it away is like giving a sports almanac to people that can't travel back in time. Somehow GS ended up using it at the right time, and even had fun speculating on how much to sell it for.
Uh where are you buying your La Croix? They are the same price on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Croix-Naturally-Essenced-Sparkling-Va... https://www.amazon.com/Coca-Cola-24-12-Fl-Cans/dp/B0012QO8AY...

Edit: As people pointed out Amazon has shitty prices on these things. Still in my experience La Croix is about the same price as Coke when you compare them both on sale or both not on sale.