skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, SpaceX is doing good work, being economical like many other space agencies and yet being able to land back the stage 1 booster. Of course, they haven't reused even one yet, and have not studied the effects of multiple reuses.

But going from this to imagining a space taxi and a space settlement? There is so much work that needs done first, effect of radiation on people? Effect of lower gravity? Effect of high concentration of heavy metals on plant life? Recycling everything? Making propellant on Mars? And so much more, he just hand waives it saying that is easy, all their idea relied on was reusing their booster 1000 times, even when they have not reused it once! If I wanted science fiction (not that I think it is impossible), I would read a book.

It's really like the Wright brothers doing their first test flight, and then imagining a commercial airline system, complete with Boeing 777, airports and hell even SR71 Blackbird. It's just too far off, and feels like a sci-fi con. Plus you can see what kind of people this thinking attracts, like that idiot who thinks that Burning man is what mars is going to be like, completely ignoring the thin atmosphere, lack of gravity, cold temperatures, and all its' effect on humans, plant and building materials.
It adjusts based on your location too, so browsing in incognito might not be sufficient.
This. Here's a quick guide:

JPG - Use for photographic images only.

GIF/PNG-8 - Use for line-art, logos, etc.

PNG-24 - This is a a lossless format/TIFF replacement and generally shouldn't be used for production sites.
Tips and Tricks on Working with vertica.log
tried it, tastes like garbage in my opinion. tried like 3 flavors
Agile itself is perfectly fine for this sort of software. It's a philosophy and approach, not a set of dogmatic rules.

We applied agile methods to developing safety systems for aircraft (something of a pilot project within the company, looking for a "better way"). It was quite effective, focusing on iterative development, small changes integrated frequently, frequent delivery to the customer for verification/validation, etc.
Very easy to use Circle to purchase bitcoin with a regular card, then move that bitcoin to your own external wallet. I can recommend this as a smooth experience.
The flipside to this is how limited OSM is. There are many more things it could be doing, IMHO, but the organization has made the choice to stay small and lean. It does what it is doing quite well though and the folks who run it are impressively efficient.
>And it seems like tons of meat and cheese is actually bad long term, in the sense it clogs your arteries

This is an inaccurate conclusion based on old studies where the subjects underwent a high-carbohydrate high-fat diet.
Recent studies on ketogenic diets (low-carbohydrate, medium-protein, high-fat intake) shows that dietary fats and dietary cholesterol barely make any sort of impact on the subject's cholesterol. Rather it is dietary carbohydrates and genetics which are the primary contributor to raised cholesterol and arterial blockage. When it comes to arterial blockage, studies have found that there is no significant correlation between high dietary fat intake and cardiovascular disease.

>or increases cancer risk

Keto is primarily a high-fat diet, not a high-protein or high-carb diet. Studies have showed that a sugar found in red meats called Neu5Gc is primarily correlated with inflammation in the body and the development of certain cancers.

If you're on keto you're less likely to develop cardiovascular disease, and while there is not enough data yet to draw a scientific conclusion preliminary research indicates that individuals who follow keto are at less risk of developing cancer due to restricting sugar intake.

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/ketoscience/search?q=cancer&restric...

All of these posts link to multiple, verified studies which go into details about what I just said.
Have you ever driven on a busy road way before? Police cannot, and arguably should not have the ability to, monitor drivers 100% of the time. For the most part they are forced to resort to what can be considered scare tactics just to place the idea in driver's heads that they might be caught.

The idea that doubling, tripling, quadrupling, or whatever is necessary, police activity will enable autonomous drivers is absurd.
No, in the video he states that the weekend is their busiest period.
Cool. How 'gaming' specific is the platform itself? It seems very similar to an optimized version of PCoIP.
If I find myself unemployable in my 40s or older, I intend to give that a shot. I'd like, though, to be as honest as possible first and only consider doctoring my resume if it's absolutely necessary. Yeah, sure, removing older jobs and omitting the year I graduated college isn't technically lying, but it's close enough that I'm uncomfortable doing it unless it's necessary for my survival.

Also, at some point, I want to transition to working remotely for reasons completely unrelated to age. That'll mean I won't have to meet people in person, and I can always just use a heavily airbrushed picture taken at a cherry-picked angle for my LinkedIn headshot. Or, for that matter, I could use an older picture: I've seen so many people's using headshots (on both LinkedIn and their companies' staff pages) that were clearly taken over a decade ago. For example, the CEO of my first company was about 60 and had light gray hair, but his headshot on the company's staff page showed him to be in his 40s with dark brown hair.

Also, I do want to save up and get some cosmetic surgeries and other age-reduction treatments when I'm older. Not because of ageism in the industry, but because I have issues with aging in general and the idea of looking older personally disturbs me. If it helps keep me employed, it would be a nice side effect.
Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect
PS4 has been doing this for years through PlayStation Now and Gaikai tech. Remote play works phenomenally well, as does PS Now. You should go pick up a trial of the PC app (psnow.com) and try it out for yourself.
He said eat normal and healthy, not eat low fat; low fat is also a fad diet. And yes, keto is a fad diet with no empirical evidence to support its claims, testimonials are not evidence. There was actually a recent scientific study done and it found keto claims lacking. I've done keto, I'm well aware of what it is, but the weight loss is far more likely to come from eating less than from not eating carbs because it's fucking hard to consume a lot of calories once you cut out carbs so most people on a keto diet are actually on a calorie restricted diet as well which is why they're losing weight.

You want to lose weight, don't eat anything in a box, buy fresh whole food, plenty of veggies and fruits, and meat, cut out sugar, and it'll happen automatically. We're fat because of processed foods that have far too many calories in far too small a bulk that makes overeating so easy you don't even know you're doing it.
Assuming you're not omniscient you'll be refactoring regardless. The difference is whether you'll be paying as you go (clients want a JSON API, we need to add new columns to a table but it'll lock rows) or if you'll be taking on technical debt to be repaid in the future (turns out Mongo sucks and we would do much better with Cassandra for serious horizontal scaling).

I believe that if you aren't extremely certain about what the future holds it may be best to work with a more flexible technology first and transition to a more structured setup once you have solved for your problems and identified intended future features. And if you are extremely certain about what the future holds you're either insanely good at your job or just insane.
Eradicating poverty is a political problem. Going to Mars is an engineering problem. Political problems are orders of magnitude harder to solve than engineering ones.
You are right. Making small changes that can be isolated for debugging purposes is a good approach. What I mean is that we should always question "best" practices and how we apply them to our development process. These days there is a tendency to drink the kool-aid (guilty of this as well). DevOps is something that we are still learning and developing as a profession.
Which is the most important?
It's been available for military convoys for years. Oskosh offers it as an option on their large military trucks.[1] There's usually a manned vehicle in the convoy, but it doesn't have to be in front, and usually isn't.

[1] https://oshkoshdefense.com/technology-1/unmanned-ground-vehi...
You're assuming bookmarks are made because people find it "good". I may come across something poorly done, bookmark it either because I intend to improve it later, or maybe it's a good example of bad design, or ... etc.
No, that had absolutely nothing to do with it. It was based on a bad assumption about volume of trade entries/cancellations during the initial price calculation.
Even though you personally haven't observed any correlation, wouldn't you think that experienced people can make better judgement calls when designing software? Because of their experience (age), that is. Personally I feel like I'm 10x the developer I was 20 years ago. And that is 100% because of the experience and years. One learns while doing you know.
Nothing in your comment makes me question the value of upcoming autonomous cars. It seems you're basing this on your experience with obsolete tech (aka the tech that currently on the road built by the non-tech companies). Even Tesla's assisted driving is being outmatched by a guy in his garage [1] doing full-data collection + deep learning. The more data collected in each ride the more the systems can improve their driving ability.

This stuff is limited right now but the sooner these (actually stage 4 autonomous) cars starts hitting the road and being used in real life, the faster the tech will improve. I expect some dramatic improvements once Google car quality sensors are combined with full-data collection on hundreds of thousands of daily rides.

Of course, it won't become totally autonomous until the vast majority of the cars on the road are using assisted driving and potentially interfacing/coordinating with each other. At that point the speeds can be increased and the driver can be disconnected from the backup driver role.

With kits already coming out with the idea of 'back-porting' old cars to use new automated driving tech, I don't think it's a huge barrier to adoption. It won't require everyone having to go out to buy new mid-level cars to participate. People can purchased insurance (and personal safety) incentivized kits to make their cars automated.

[1] Comma.ai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrgRYa2wbI and technical talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxoke1lDJ9w
I almost fucked up my life by quitting my day job for my startup
Depends. We use Markdown pretty extensively and the drawbacks listed on the site don't really apply - you can always either:

1. Embed HTML (more or less preferred, depending on your situation).
2. Create an extension.
>In "europe" employee protection laws make it difficult to quickly hire and fire employees, making it difficult to scale.

And IMO US anti-discrimination laws are also flawed. I think a good compromise is to only include certain kinds of jobs like manual labor under employment anti-discrimination laws.
Please don't post snarky dismissals, even when you know more than someone else does. In addition to going against what we're hoping for in the culture here (civil, substantive comments and intellectual curiosity), it's off-topic, since it changes the subject to how much you know.

A better way to express your knowledge would be to share some of it, such as by introducing readers to Marc Augé (whom most of us probably haven't heard of) and say something about his contribution to these ideas.
Are we not questioning the NSA's motives here given recent events?

"Don't use elliptical curve crypto because it's vulnerable to quantum attacks... keep using the stuff that is vulnerable to our in-house attacks"
Tell Tesla marketing that. They have autopilot already!
Which carb you crave is probably cultural, but craving of carbs seems to be pretty universal.
Signage that promotes late merging is sort of a special case though. You're basically telling people that it's OK to do what everyone wants to do anyway but don't because 1.) They think they'll look like an asshole if they do and/or 2.) They'll likely promote various dangerous and aggressive behaviors in others against the person "cutting in line."

While I generally agree that driving behaviors are social issues they can also be pretty deeply rooted. It's hard to turn Manhattan or Boston drivers into laid back drivers somewhere in the rural South.
> phonics

Very interesting reading at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics#History_and_controvers... that phonics goes all the way back to the 1830's. I just remember the Hooked on Phonics commercials (if you're too young to remember those, see Youtube).
Post explains structure of vertica log file and walking through common troubleshooting scenarios
Pulling other crabs back into the pot is a pretty poor use of resources that could otherwise be used to improve conditions within it.
How APIs make build v buy irrelevant
Thanks @tdburn. i will try them out as well.
Given that femininity is so devalued in society, it's actually not uncommon for women to butch up to fit in with various groups. That's not quite the same as "dress[ing] like a man", but a lot of us do suppress our girly tendencies so we can be seen as an honorary guy.

Way too many guys say "I don't like being around girls, but she's basically one of the guys so she's cool".
The programming language has nothing to do with the deployment or containers.
Yep, it's scary.

I'm a loyal Logic user (10 years) and a "pro" musician. I started getting worried when Pro X came out. The weird prosumer approach, their poor attempts at beating NI at synths, it all had me worried. Logic used to be fairly bare-bones by comparison but I never had to deal with the kind of bullshit Pro X has thrown at me: whole projects developing strange audio glitches for no apparent reason, constant missing audio files (even on newer tracks), meaningless warnings, system overloads on simple tracks, crashes, you name it. Maybe I was less bitchy when I was 20, but damn, it seems that things have gone downhill.

That doesn't even start on the hardware: $1200 for a computer with sub-optimal hardware pains the engineer in me, especially when the thing breaks every couple of years and has to go to the sandboxed repair store to get fixed.

Like many others in this thread, I leaving for Linux next time and I guess I'll make due with whatever they have.
Roughtime – A project that aims to provide secure time synchronisation
I can relate to a company not putting value on security, or thinking the cost of securing systems may be higher than the cost of getting hacked.

I once worked for a company where I inherited a RESTful API. It stored the company's core data, including private customer information. It had no authentication, completely open for anyone on the internet to read or update any of our data.

I alerted my manager about this and that made its way to the highest levels of the company. The decision was to create a backlog item. It took about a year before we got to it.

The reason we ended up finally fixing it was because we were contacted by a security researcher one day. He said he had found a vulnerability in our system, but wouldn't tell us what it was until we disclosed our bug-bounty terms (basically promising to pay him if he had found a real vulnerability). If we wouldn't do this, he was going to write a blog post about it.

My manager used some delay tactics to buy us some time, while we spent the next 24 hours slapping a bandaid on the API. Once we had fixed it and agreed to pay the researcher, he disclosed his vulnerability and it had nothing to do with our API. It was a minor XSS that couldn't leak any sensitive information.
OnePlus X gets official Oxygen OS 3.1.2 Marshmallow OTA update
The point is that not ensuring security also has a cost, one which is harder to see.
Coinbase blocked my personal account, holding my Bitcoin until I provided photo ID. Just to get access to my money already purchased.

Then they incorrectly decided my immigration status and removed my bank connection.

I closed my account and asked for my inappropriately obtained information to be deleted. They refused to "protect" me from "identity theft". Screw them.
>So: you "hacked" a "bank". You're on their internal network. Talk me through "stealing the money directly".

The attack on SWIFT in Bangladesh [1] earlier this year gives one example.

1. http://baesystemsai.blogspot.com/2016/04/two-bytes-to-951m.h...
Ruining russian military? You mean rusting tanks from the 60's or expired rockets from cold war era? The military can not compete with the west anymore.

People there stopped dreaming in the 90's when the ugly side of "new Russia" showed its face. As i said election process is rigged, many folks there want change. please, do not believe 75%+ public support ratings spewed out by state propaganda machines. they are simply untrue.

Lots of folks are ashamed of conflict with Ukraine but unfortunately there is no political and social platform that allows to do anything about this. Anything thats against the state agenda gets nipped in the bud.
I think it's more likely that a pixelated jpg is a result of the creator using the wrong format (ie, using jpg where gif/png-8 would have been more appropriate) or over-compressing the image.

PNG-24 is a lossless format, and generally shouldn't be used for production sites.
I was hoping that this was a dupe and that the real discussion was happening elsewhere.

I'm not sure whether that's funny or just sad.
Heart attacks are a downstream consequence of the molecular damage of aging.

Everything that isn't repairing the root cause damage of aging is going to be a much less effective way of going about things if the goal is to avoid cardiovascular events of that nature. Keeping a machine from a specific failure mode without actually repairing the damage that raises the odds of that failure mode is a much harder thing to do than to enact repair.

This is largely why medicine for age-related conditions has been an incremental process over recent decades: advanced enough to do sensible things with downstream consequences of damage, and so produce marginal effects at sizable investment of time and resources but for various reasons unwilling or unable to address the damage itself. The reduction in heart disease over the past 30 years has been an enormous achievement when considered within these bounds: really going above and beyond, finding ways to keep the accumulation of damage from having the same level of consequences and juggling biochemistry to keep running at a lower failure rate for longer.

But still incremental, and to really solve the problem you have to repair the damage. Nothing else is going to do the job.
Protobuf v3 allows use of JSON and gRPC for Node.js handles JavaScript objects quite handily. Might not be mutually exclusive.
Yes, the automatic negative reinforcement of feeling gross is helpful
Right, and that's fine and good for WoSign/StartCom. But what if they handed out a one year restriction to a much larger CA like Comodo, or Symantec? And that CA decided to back-date their certificates? Then we still have the problem of large CAs being able to effectively ignore these restrictions because of their large userbase. As long as such CAs are able to set the notbefore arbitrarily, they can backdate as much as they'd like.

The only solution I can think of is to have some kind of giant database of all certificates seen in the wild that were issued by said CA, and not trust any new ones. (This may be something that can be done with Certificate Transparency, but I haven't read enough on that to be sure.) This would allow Mozilla/Apple/Microsoft to actually block new certificates.
Methods on giant structs that contain all the dependencies isn't any better. What would you suggest?
People with families can certainly be successful entrepreneurs and create companies with "explosive growth that maybe change the world". (It kinda came across like you were implying that founders with families were mostly only interested in "lifestyle businesses".)

There are so many factors that contribute to success, and they are never all equal, so any sort of up-front filtering based on some factor you think is correlated with success is going to miss out on people. And besides, I would strongly dispute any arguments that having a family is like some sort of handicap that must be overcome. In a lot of ways, I think having a family is a BETTER situation for starting a company!

My impression from reading YC's stuff is more that folks feel the value of the program comes to a large degree from the in-person interactions people have, so it makes sense to require people to be there in person.

Related, there's this scene from Moneyball, [1] that I love. They're all sitting around, discussing all this stuff that is at best tangentially related to _the actual things that matter_ for success of the team. It's very tempting and natural bias to latch on to this or that factor which you've become convinced makes a difference "all else being equal". But all else is never equal, and the question that is actually important is more the one Billy Beane keeps asking: "Yeah, but can he hit?"

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWgyy_rlmag
I'd be interested in how many SOCs or FI security people you've talked to. It isn't perfect, and things will happen. But when I hear how medicine/education/retail secures their stuff (generically), I think the FIs are doing a bang-up job.
of course its not that simple. simply because this is how corruption operates in the west as well. they use similar channels and ways to hide/legitimize questionable profits.
> that someone is having something to hide

Not exactly to hide, but bring a mess around the truth. This case has something common with political things and so it's a dirty games area.
Let me know if you guys have any questions :)
OK we'll use that for now.
Automatic layout systems can constrain your thinking. Especially early on, you want to be able to tweak things and try lots of different options. Once something is in the automatic layout system, it's easier to explore the space of options the system can handle. But making even a small change outside that space is much harder.
If you were building a team to win the Super Bowl, would you pick the hot shot 23 year old fresh grad from college, or the 50 year old experienced Hall of Famer?
Bayesian Statistics Then and Now
There's also the fact that bodies are different, and have developed differently and gotten used to processing things in different quantities and different ways.

All these studies looking at people overall to figure out the effect of some food on "the average person" is IMO misguided. We need to study links between foods and an individual's body state, be it their gut ecosystem, ethnic/genetic indicators, in combination with the rest of their diet, and such things.
left-pad-as-a microservice

You can also have another service to monitor the left-pad service.
1. Atkins died from slipping and falling on ice, not a heart attack.

2. He did have a heart attack based from a genetic predisposition. His cardiologist said his condition was impeccable, considerint his diet.
I work at a microservice company. An example microservice is our geoservice which simply takes a lat/lon and tells you what service region the user is in (e.g. New York, San Francisco, etc..). You can see how dozens of these services might be needed when handling a single request coming in from the front end or mobile apps. The service may eventually gain another related function or two as we work on tearing down our monolith (internally referred to as the tumor because we do anything to keep it from growing...).
Lessons Learned from Writing My Thesis Proposal