skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens in 8 years? Do you pay Tesla for a subscription?
I can't see any reason not to submit the original link as a new item.
Natron and Godot have been added to my bookmarks.

Thank you for sharing, my good man. I will playing with them later to see how the next generation of OSS desktop apps have improved.
The i3 and i8 are terrible cars as far as I am concerned. Range sucks. And, frankly, if I have to go to a gas station might as well get rid of the electric components and make a nice car. I like the physical design of the i8. I spent a hour looking at one. Ultimately, the idea of having to endure both visiting a gas station and plugging in just turned me off. I'd consider it as a pure electric with decent range or gas only but not the combo.
After a few pop-sci economics books (freakonomics, the undercover economist...) I progressed to Ha-Joon Chang's Economics: The User's Guide.

It's covers all the major schools of thought, along with their pros and cons. I highly recommend it.
Summary:

// G is an interface under which all possible types apply
type G interface{}

Actually, this is not a summary. It is the full source code of this project.
the point of developing gimp is to eventually change its name.
Thanks for the idea-- This is how I usually get donations. I currently give the option of Paypal and BTC.
It is a public utility.
Is there a product that fixes this problem? I'd like to subscribe to parts 2 thru N, but don't want to subscribe to the author or the site...

maybe if i save it on Pocket it will bubble it up my recommended list?
That's a good point. I'll look into this too. Thanks!
The government in a broad sense is actually any form of political structure that governs a society. When some people secede and do their own laundry, unless you assume for their new society to live in harmony without any form of political structure (anarchy), then there you have got a new government!

____________

P.S.: I haven't downvoted you.
My Name Is Dave Rapin – This Is Why I Joined Aha
Interestingly, before I read this post and the comments, I have always thought that :-) means a smiling face. Ie, to convey a sense of a smile after writing a message. Not a "I am joking" message.

Well, I learned something today.
Cereal, a Taste of Nostalgia, Looks for Its Next Chapter
Going the other way often works too! (:
TIL it's a kaomoji :-)

Here's an article by a regular user of the emoticon
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/the-be...

And a wiki about those characters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana
> company was officially incorporated on August 28

It's a new company.
I know you weren't talking about politics specifically but this is likely part of the reason there are too many douche bags in public office. How many earnest, smart people want to subject themselves to that kind of scrutiny?

I don't want a president who hasn't smoked pot, fucked on a trampoline, swam laps while tripping, and traveled to at least one other country other than the U.S. and Alaska.

How do we get real people elected if the footage of every time they shoplifted a snickers bar is going to be compiled into a montage for an unfair attack ad? Sure, it seems like a lot of shoplifting but to be fair it was spread out over 20 years.
Originally (in the French Revolution) "left" vs. "right" was about "the people" vs. "the aristocracy & the church".

At the time this put a neat division between "power" and "powerless". Then we had a century or two of democratic power being used to pillory the rich; the boundaries have become confused.

I think the useful distinction is still the same - one should always fight against power, wherever it is strongest. Sometimes, in the modern day, this means supporting government. But most often it means opposing the conjunction of state and private power, which still, as in the early days before the French Revolution, continue to travel together.
It's just a mirror of submissions... Actually kind of useful if you want to search for a submission that you saw on HN a while ago.
it's a "private" utility. But I take your point.

If they remove all the fat making a tweet page 5mb it could be hosted for nearly nothing by some FOSS org.
One thing perhaps ISPs could do is share data on these attacks, and work to shut off the botnets after the fact- so they can't be used again. So for example if Akamai shared information with ISPs about which orgin IPs were involved in the DDOS attack, the ISPs could reactively reach out to the affected customers. Or the ISPs could even try to examine their own logs after hearing a report of a large scale DDOS attack to determine if any of their own nodes were part of it. There may be also measures ISPs cold take on their CPE routers to detect infected machines on the customer network and warn them more pro-actively.
From stackoverflow:

> I hope you're not creating a website for a UK based organisation - if you are, disabling pinch-to-zoom (effectively an accessibility feature) would put you in breach of several laws for actively discriminating against people with visual impairments ... There is never a good reason to disable this functionality ... Ever! – Mike Insch Jul 9 '13 at 20:18
great thing, but why reposting this 3 years after initial blogpost?
So how would you feel about 600gbit+? I'm genuinely curious, would it be an interesting challenge or an immediate avoidance? As a business customer myself and a big fan of CF's general attitude to these sorts of things, I know be very happy to see the blog post on it.
Thank you for the feedback. These are good points which are greatly appreciated.
> Working out of a three-door garage

Enough said.

Nothing against garage startups. I started all my businesses in my garage. But if you are going to go out there and claim to "take on" a market leader you need to exist at a different physical, organizational, technological and financial scale.
iHeartMedia Announces Plans for Its Entry into Streaming
I came to suggest J-Track, and it's nice to see the page still active after over a decade, but I think stuffin.space is an excellent update.

It looks like this page doesn't even work for me. And even if it did, the Java plugin was old. Looks like NASA never updated it as promised in 2012.
I doubt there are many people in the world who can tell the difference between a print printed from RGB vs CMYK. Maybe a few extremely good print professionals with perfect vision and a $4000+ monitor.

I've printed gallery quality prints from sRGB (online and at home), and nobody gives a crap.
Twitter reportedly in talks with Google, Salesforce for potential sale
New UI to guarantee stronger user passwords
That's only in classical music. Jazzers play "pure" melodic minor both up and down.
Mainly that you said you have never heard anyone talk about passion in this respect as well as the description of ignoring loved ones. Speaking as someone diagnosed with ADHD, I have intense periods of hyperfocus where I can spend days on a topic to the detriment of my wife. It's possible that this is truly passion but over the last few years I've been able to "average" my hyperfocus so I don't go all in as often and then realize later that it may have been a passing notion that I can't sustain indefinitely.

If you're interested, the topic of hyperfocus comes up very often on the ADHD subreddit.

: https://www.reddit.com/r/adhd
Yea I read that, but I don't see how it really benefits Salesforce. I can see why the executive likes it.
More Americans access tracks via playlists than albums
Yes, and my cheap $20 Kimsufi (OVH's ultra-cheap brand) still didn't drop off the internet.
Google would be a good match, but dangerous to us. Salesforce would be less of a match, but not so dangerous to us. Salesforce did try to create their own similar application that never really took off.
It's definitely true that getting the manager at pharma company type jobs are hard to get, and lab managers are not paid super well. But: a clinical research manager has an average salary of about $94k in the US, while web developer not otherwise specified has an average salary of about $66k in the US. Restaurant manager comes down to $37k on average, Bath & Body Works retail manager comes up to $54k. Glassdoor lists a bunch of lab manager jobs at $51k to $65k. The average salary for a black man in the US is about $35k and the average salary for a white man in the US is about $48k [1]. Every science-related job in the list is above the average salary for white, black, or hispanic men in the US, and certainly above average for women. Retail and food service fall on either side -- and which jobs are more likely to have health insurance?

What kind of jobs did you have experience with before lab manager? I'm curious.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf
Steps to downgrade from iOS 10 to iOS 9
We've offered to help Brian Krebs out. We don't see any reason we could not handle an attack of that size. We've already seen gigantic attacks and have a very well developed automatic infrastructure for dealing all manner of attacks at different layers and an experienced 24/7 network team.
Nabokov's interview. The New York Times [1969]

-- How do you rank yourself among writers
(living) and of the immediate past?

-- I often think there should exist a special typographical
sign for a smile -- some sort of concave mark,
a supine round bracket, which I would now like to
trace in reply to your question.
>Now, as The Daily Beast reported last week, “Black Lives Matter” is an umbrella term for a decentralized network of everything from blogs to in-person meet-ups—like movie nights or lectures—to protests to Facebook pages, making the task of pinpointing the number to $33 million impossible.

This is the only use of the word "umbrella", here. It does not describe an "umbrella organization", a master control system. It describes the absence of central organization, an anarchist model of organizing, which, by the way, has been the favored method of organizing on the left for several decades. It is pointing out that it is impossible to give a grant to a group of people who lack central organizations. Some money might have gone to groups that are working on issues that BLM activists might care about - but $33 million has not been granted to BLM activists.

If you believe otherwise, show us the list of grants.
Someone just built a real-life “Transformers” car
What caught my attention more was this bit at the bottom of the article: "Radio programs/stations may, for a fee, use an on-campus ISDN line"

So advanced, yet still using a horrible and overly-expensive data transfer line...
My bet is GOOG. They need a streaming newsfeed product in which to insert ads.
Good point, that makes more sense.
Pasting bash snippets into chat is so frustrating when clients try to render emojis :/
Oh good. Just 30% off from when I first bought in.
Why would he give away advertising dollars?

Also, medium is bad. Everyone now thinks if you publish something on medium, the writing is suddenly a masterpiece.
Bought Orkut, killed it, tried Google Plus, went nowhere

> Don't forget Buzz! That time when they default opted-in Gmail users into publishing a list of frequently contacted users on their google profile. Auto-follow was a terrible terrible idea.
> In such cases I have to push down my annoyance with the tone

Don't. This would have deserved a rude answer.
No, you can choose to write it purely, but it's not pure by default.

You can see that here: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/pure-render-mixin.html

"IF your React component's render function is "pure""

nothing stops you from writing impure rendering functions. You can delete and manipulate elements at will.
Show HN: BoardingBot sends TestFlight invites
This is gold:

"Since Scott's original proposal, many further symbols have been
proposed here:

(:-) for messages dealing with bicycle helmets
@= for messages dealing with nuclear war"
Both styles still encourage a lot of mutability and complexity throughout the codebase.

The vast majority of typed web codebases I've seen were exercises in Java Enterprise development of various degrees. Generics or not the time spent typing everything is not matched by the advantages of static typing.

You'd get more robustness by managing complexity and state; I've spent far more time hunting down bugs that passed through the type-system and tests than fixing typos in dynamically typed languages.
That sounds maybe plausible, although what could they have possibly been debugging that required a weaker hash?

Of course, with the paranoid hat on, if your task was to subvert the mechanism, this is probably exactly how you'd go about it - make it seem like an accident. Just like gotofail :)
How is a company which "might never be profitable" considered a "significant asset"?!
My bet is GOOG. They need a streaming newsfeed product in which to insert ads, especially on mobile where FB is killing it.
There is no indication that Akamai can, or can't handle the DDoS. The only information we have is that they are only not willing to do it anymore for this particular customer. There is no indication that they won't do it because they lack the technical capacity to do it. Just as well they might not do it because this thing is financially disadvantageous to them.

As a potential paying customer, what they can and can't do is covered by their SLA, and that's all that matters. If they break their SLA they own the customer compensation. This incident is irrelevant.

Of course I don't actually know what kind of SLA and indemnification Akamai provides. Maybe it's bad. Then after analysing the contracts I would make an informed decision. These things are what I use to make decision, not random stories with no technical or business details on random blogs.
m =^_^= m
I find mathematics interesting, and I'll watch educational videos about it on YouTube and occasionally read some stuff, and I COULD take various free online courses and/or tutorials, and yet despite all this, I'm don't seem to be advancing as much as I did in college when I had to spend three hours a week in a lecture and several times that working problems.

Because having the option to take a course teaches me nothing in itself, and the occasional interesting, non-intensive video doesn't begin to compete with semi-mandatory hours of instruction and practice every week.

A few people will learn a lot without taking a class, but far fewer people have the motivation and drive to do that than have the intelligence and drive to benefit greatly from a class.
I'd like to see these features demonstrated too, without meeting a gimp developer. Maybe they could do a better job of that.
Google wasn't given that reputation randomly or casually. They earned it through their actions and they deserve the consequences. People who don't know the pattern deserve to be educated about it. I weaned myself from Twitter when they added the algorithmic timeline but if I hadn't, I'd begin doing it now and I would be better off for starting it now at my own pace than later, forced to abruptly.
Why does it have Inauguration Day on both January 19 and 20?
More evidence as to why the income tax should be replaced with a consumption tax. Just let people make their dammed money already and apply a simple tax when they spend it. Windfalls wouldn't be "dangerous" or punitive in that model, and savers would be rewarded.

--Of course I oversimplify the consumption tax, and safeguard would need to be in place on that to ensure it is not regressive with respect to necessities...
There are better alternatives to Twitter out there. It’s time for everybody to move on.
I'm sorry if it came off that way .. I thought the reference was well known.

http://quotes.yourdictionary.com/author/linus-torvalds/19029...
I really wish the default response in dev and operations wasn't "somebody is going to get (yelled at|punished|fired|pile on layers of bureaucracy)". It would be so much better if the response was "how can we change automation in our release process to catch this and the engineer that did this is responsible for fixing it". Blameless post-mortems should be the industry standard.
Or just a big enough capacitor to finish the necessary writes to flash memory. Which as I understand it is one of the things that distinguishes enterprise from consumer flash drives, and one of the reasons I use the slowest, smallest Intel enterprise flash drive for system and /home.
I'd say that depends on the hack. The hacks just for prestige aren't really that prevalent any more.

These days it's hack for stealing creds or money or secrets or perhaps just putting ransomeware on all the comapanies systems to get a bitcoin payment out of them...
Look, throughout history countries took prisoners during wars, so did Britain and others, and many suffered because of that.

But to compare this to concentration camps that were literally built to exterminate whole people isn't even funny.

In fact I don't particularly like the British because of my eastern European heritage but they were always known to treat prisoners and people that lived in the colonies they captured exceptionally well and more humanely than anyone else at the time.
So you cap income tax at 2%. Congratulations you just tripled property tax and made sales tax 20%.

Taxes are like wackamole. You can't just limit 1 tiny piece and expect anything to change.

Furthermore you can't just lower the total take unless you want to explain where the cut is coming from.

Less school funding? Less roads? Less police? Less Army? More debt?
Ha-Joon Chang is one of the most interesting economists out there, one who eschews mathematical formalism and takes a much more social history looks at the way economics operates. I was really delighted when the FT gave him a food column last summer - fantastic, diverting discussions about trade, war and development in the middle of a discussion of his favorite dishes. Always read him if you can!
I like that perspective. They're the 'Public Option' that keeps the commercial offerings on their toes :)
I am not sure the analogy is very accurate. You do not advertise your house as a place where other people can come and freely store their valuables and then take it out as they please.

If you did, there is a name for what you have built: a bank. And you can be pretty sure people then will not have any issues with whatever security measures you take. Most of all, your cost of security installation is now covered by other people's money, which effectively gives you very precise calculations on what exactly you can and cannot spend. You are more than free to return the money and shut down shop if you feel you are in a completely unsafe neighborhood which makes your bank impossible to run at a profit.

To stretch this point a little further, imagine you did have a bank, and your customer comes and demands to take their money out, and you say "Oops. I had just left it out here on this desk, and when I went to pee, a kid just came in and ran out with all your money. I feel bad for you, but the cost of moving the stuff back and forth between front desk and the vault would make the service unprofitable. Its not my fault, its all these children in the neighborhood who keep pranking me".

The lowered barriers to hacking, combined with an ever moving target for what constitutes good security, are genuine concerns. But as a company, you are expected to shoulder the burden of security as a precondition of making the claim that you provide a good service. One way or another, people actually pay you to take care of their data as part of the service.
If you are encrypting data, why would you store a hash of the key at all?
I saw one the other day in my town, and liked the look of it. It does look wonky in photo shoots, but people don't look at cars in the same way in real life.
I can't believe they both pled guilty! Is it possible in the UK to appeal a conviction if you plead guilty? IANAL, but I think their are some narrow cases where it can be done in the US, for example if you can show that your legal counsel did not provide competent representation.
This went on for 5 years? I would have hired a lawyer after the first incident and been interrogating the cops on why this is going on.
My city adds a flat 2% to my state tax, based on my state AGI. Takes 10 seconds or less to calculate. Don't think cities usually go too crazy
"I currently spend $X,000 per day in advertising on Facebook" you are wasting $X,000 per day period.
Optimizing optimizing: some insights that led to a 400% speedup of PowerDNS
"Oh, we just leaked the passwords of 300 0000 of our users? Too bad. Let's make a tongue-in-cheek apology on twitter and move on!"
It doesn't matter it would still not cover my losses in the stock. Talk about crappy decisions.
This was seriously jarring to me. I use disqus so having low quality, taboola-looking ads just appear on my site one day was very upsetting. I thought something had gone seriously wrong.

Turns out Disqus just wanted to advertise without asking me.
Very cool read! Got me all pumped up reading it actually.

I'm seeing this website in an entirely new light now haha.
Would using a bunch of previous password leaks to create a rainbow table be useful for programs that do this? With the number of leaks it seems like it would be a pretty accurate depiction of how a lot of people choose passwords.
Oculus Rift inventor Palmer Luckey is funding Trump’s racist meme machine
But the original article is treating it as separate issue. It does not even acknowledge bad career prospects and low salary as a problem.
Note that the std flag package accepts double-dashed arguments just fine, it only never advertises that it does.
Nope. Contract basically says "here are the service levels Akamai commits to meet" and "Customer's sole remedy is to cancel service if Akamai does not meet these levels." Looking at their contract language does not make me feel any better about whether they'd drop a paying customer in similar circumstances. (Quoting from a version available online at http://contracts.onecle.com/akamai/msa.shtml)

8.1.3 Akamai shall meet or exceed the network availability, capacity and operations levels as set forth in Section 2 above; provided that Customer's sole remedy for the breach of this provision by Akamai shall be the termination rights set forth in Section 10.2 below.

10.2 TERMINATION UPON DEFAULT. Either party may terminate this Agreement in the event that the other party materially defaults in performing any obligation under this Agreement and such default continues unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days following, written notice of default; provided, however, that in the event this Agreement is terminated by Customer due to Akamai's breach of its representations under Section 8.1.3 above and failure to cure, Customer's sole remedy shall be its election to terminate the Agreement without further liability to either party (except for Customer's obligation to pay all accrued and unpaid fees outstanding at the date of termination).
One of the best investments I made as a developer: a standing desk