skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're critiquing this service like it hasn't been launched yet.

Despite people being able to do this for 'much less', the man built a successful business providing a service that people are willing to pay for.

Every business has competitors and often you can do the same thing that a business does yourself. This is true for everything from restraunts to taxis to clothing stores.

The lesson here is to not overlook creating something simple that can provide value to other people.
>I'd be interested to know what malware avoids Lastline

The one you don't hear about unless it ends up as front page news ;)

NSS is hardly a benchmark for directed threats.
Price discrimination in eCommerce has been known for some time now. This is an interesting read on the subject:

http://personalization.ccs.neu.edu/papers/price_discriminati...
I'm thoroughly bemused as to why they picked it --- unless you're aiming at some sort of binary compatibility, and given that it won't run Windows I have no idea what it might be compatible with, surely one of the ARM or MIPS stable would be more appropriate for this kind of device?

...over here, in this cardboard box, I have an old SheevaPlug: a 1.2GHz Marvell ARMv5 in a plug-sized box with some flash, an SD card interface, ethernet, and some USB ports, which appears to be pretty much the same device. (Of course, it's the software that's the interesting bit.)
If you've got a phone supported by CyanogenMod, it has a very nice mode called "LiveDisplay" which will adjust the phone screen's colour temperature on the fly based on time of day and both the brightness and colour of the ambient light.
It's really uninformative to look at average incomes or average prices anywhere, let alone someplace with as big of a spread as the Bay Area.
I disagree re: willpower. I've seen serious junkies hit rock bottom over and over. Go to jail, be homeless, get beat up. And in jail they might talk about getting clean and I think even mean it, but the she gets out and OD's the next day. The brain chemistry is a powerful thing, something society needs to come to terms with -- that for some with addiction, medical, chemical intervention is needed. Having strong willpower to me is like saying someone has a pure soul a hundred years ago. I just don't see the value in the statement.
The era of "Swiss privacy" is now officially over. Germany seems to be the last remaining beacon of hope (mainly thanks to its Constitution, its Courts, and a slightly higher privacy vigilance from the German population, not because its government is any better than the rest).
Two related funny stories if you have the time:

- The 7 legged spider story.

- The guy that tricked Nigerian spammers into acting the dead parrot sketch from Monty Python
Perhaps this is our bodies telling us something, a piece of our evolution. Perhaps we aren't meant to sleep in the open. We are easy prey at night. Sleeping in moonlight, out in the open, is dangerous for prey animals. A dislike for sleeping in moonlight might therefore be a survival tool. Those uncomfortable with moonlight were more likely to be sleeping under cover and less likely to be hauled off by lions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27ZWhOM2W8
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I respectfully disagree. Nothing feels like a greater waste of time when working remotely than when someone can't be bothered to think about their problem enough to ask via text and demands a phone call. Maybe it's just the teams I've worked with, but voice calls almost invariably end up as 99% noise, taking forever for people to figure out what they actually want to ask and never getting to the point.
I'm an adult with a good income... and I have a $600 microscope on my wish list just because I think it would be great to have one (the same way other people have home theater systems, I build out a home lab).
Paradise lost: does Copenhagen’s Christiania commune still have a future?
I seriously doubt it could be realistically implemented. More probable outcome is ballooning law enforcement costs due to significant fraction of population becoming unemployable and resorting to crime, and almost endless, Japan-style economic stagnation in all developed countries. Sorry for sounding pessimist.

This time it gets serious and software is going to really eat the world. By the way in some countries (like Belarus) there is already significant public backlash against programmers because people see their incomes as unfair profiting at the expense of others.
Rechtshilfe im Bereich des Schuldrechts – R and E
You might want to think about moving your blog to be a static site. Publish it with something like http://stout.is and it will be much cheaper, easier to maintain and will never go down.
Citation? That's a bold claim.

As phrased, it also sounds really far-fetched since cataracts are not a disease of the retina. Maybe that's a problem with the phrasing and not the claim, though.
I would guess that a train is much harder to stop than a truck. Further, one can drive next to a truck and have people jump on the truck to do some "snooping." The "driver" is not going to freak out/swerve as the drone truck just keeps going towards its destination at a perfectly efficient speed, perfectly centered in the lane.
So many of the useful answers are closed. A lot of the stuff from google etc. are from 2009-2011. It seems like now most of people are a bunch of assholes trying to be elitists.
Another article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4131462 Even older, lots of comments :)
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Sure the cost of goods will go down the same way that we all work less hours now due to efficiencies that technology has provided.

It would seem that having trucks that can be on the road for 24 hours straight will result in less trucks being needed. I am sure the auto industry will make up for that that decrease in units sold by increasing the price per unit sold. I don't think there will be any dividend passed on to consumers.
One should not need good working experience of how Lua works or how JITs work in order to rapidly achieve a basic understanding of the codebase.

I am being downvoted because people can't look past personal likes/dislikes and are conditioned to look uncritically at software that they like/depend on.
Yet the obvious point I'm making here has nothing to do with the quality of LuaJIT as a tool that can solve problems. There are lots of examples of powerful, high-quality software that sits on an atrocious, impossible-to-understand codebase (e.g. pretty much anything by fabrice bellard, which ironically enough, some even consider as _good_ C) and while LuaJIT may not be at that level, it's not currently _good enough_.

I think we need to move past personality-worship and start striving for quality where it matters. Read this thread and you'll find numerous posts referring to Mike Pall as an alien/god-of-coding and so on. This is not at all helpful.

A software project that is positioned as something with staying power and a base for others to build on should be judged more on its ability to attract and maintain a community around it rather than its creator/profit that it generates/other superficial attributes. It is for this reason that a well-documented codebase that facilitates understanding is of _paramount importance_.
My city used old-style mercury-vapor street lights up until the early 80s. For those who have never seen these lights, they have a bluish-white appearance but emit light only at a few very specific wavelengths, and almost none in the red spectrum. The effect is that under these lights a red car would look strangely black while everything else more or less looked normal color. I loved the effect.

I have fond childhood memories of seeing my street bathed in the bluish-white light from these street lights, especially during those long winter nights when the ground is covered in white snow. I am quite certain that these street lights did not produce a generation of "physiologically unwell" people.

My city has now begun switching to LED lights and I think they look terrific.
It drives me bonkers that there's no details on where I can get the lens, or paper template. I get that I'm not the market, but I still don't see "why not". I know they made the lens themselves, but specs or something would be great for me.
So we can all play more video games: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/23/why-a...

"Most of the blame for the struggle of male, less-educated workers has been attributed to lingering weakness in the economy, particularly in male-dominated industries such as manufacturing. Yet in the new research, economists from Princeton, the University of Rochester and the University of Chicago say that an additional reason many of these young men - who don't have college degrees -- are rejecting work is that they have a better alternative: living at home and enjoying video games."
Pff, 2014. I remember the good 'ol days when you read Carmack's plan on Blues News as he was discovering BSP tree's and firing Romero :)
The ability to interrupt is what I most dislike about voice. IRC/IM/Slacj/HipChat/whatever can provide just as short of a feedback cycle, and people can be inattentive in voice calls as well, which is a greater waste of time due to their synchronous nature.
TRY TO CONTRIBUTE TO A KAGGLE COMPETITION AND GET IN TOP 10 AND THEN GIVE YOUR OPINION.
OTHERWISE JUST KEEP KALM AND BE HAPPY.
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This is a bit of a Luddite viewpoint. There will be some ups and downs as people adjust to the need for different skill sets however, automation won't simply wipe out any need for human labor. There are lots of things that will likely never be cost effective to automate or are impossible to automate.
I should wrote about focusing in light without blue component, not focusing under blue light.

http://www.eyedolatryblog.com/2014/02/myopia-may-be-reversib...
Technically, it's called 'domain drop catching': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_drop_catching Common service, so I wonder how park.io is so successful.
The same could be said for almost any service.
Seems you're mostly referring to auto-biographies.
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Are DDoS attacks really a problem for journalists getting out information to the public, or are they more so just a problem for journalists who want to distribute content via their own website? Wanting to run a website is reasonable, as it enables journalists to make money on ads as well, but does the inability to run your own website truly hamper free speech?

This seems more like an architecture problem to me, not with regards to the Internet, but with regards to how articles are distributed: by contacting a server who responds with the article. If I really wanted to get some information out, I would upload it to: Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3 and any other free/cheap hosting service I know, and spread the links out on Twitter, Facebook, HN, Reddit, etc. Would it really be possible for any attacker to take down all these services, thus preventing the information from getting out? Or is this more about distributing articles via a web app?
> I know you can change window managers but thats technical and dense. It would be nice to have a way for designers and front end devs to mess with the UX.

Not really, you're a few clicks a way from installing KDE, Gnome or XFCE on any Linux and you can start hacking on it after some looks at the docs. Nowadays there should be plenty of HTML & CSS inside both Gnome and KDE themes... you just need the free time to waste on this!

Problem is not making the most gorgeous looking and butter-smooth animated desktop environment. Problem is you can't freaking expect drag'n'drop two work between any 2 applications because they are all so different and incompatible, or you can't have nice experiences with anything that need to integrate with the file manager because you don't just have one "windows explorer" or "finder", you have Nautilus, Dolphin, Thunar etc. And the zillion things that "half work": like, try copy pasting a folder open by ssh in Nautilus file manager... the damn idiotic thing will do a round trip through your machine and back instead of sensibly translating your operation into ssh commands...

A Linux Desktop Environment I'd pay for wouldn't have more diversity and hackability, it would have less, but all possible UI interactions and inter-program integration would be thoroughly tested and debugged. Also things like hot-plugging in/out your machine into displays and projector. All UI things that now work would work reliably! And customizatons would be a simple right-click/cmd+click + "options..." away on any UI element, not having to dig through pages and pages of settings in a damn "Control-panel-like" thinggy, or to install a buggy "Tweak tool".

As stable as Linux is for server applications, all Linux Desktop Environments I've ever used are unstable as fuck and I can get them to crash/freeze/delay-for-minutes probably once a day.

Ubuntu's unity had a right goal, but their head is up their asses - it's buggy, annoying to both power-users and new users, and pretty unhackable/obscure for non-professionals underneath. I don't event have a simple on/off toggle for "group windows in launcher task bar" which is 2 clicks away on Windows.

Their vision but "done right" and with enough respect for "regular power-users" ("power-users" who don't want to edit config files or install buggy tweak tools, that just want the advanced options baked in and thorughly tested!) is something to pay for...
While it is good to encourage people not to be judgmental or angry, I have to logically point out that your religion contradicts itself:

Stating "judge nothing as "bad" or "evil"' and then stating "you are now free of any judgments, guilt, resistance, anger, or suffering of any kind." suggest that those things are undesirable traits. But isn't that a judgment?
I agree that it's an ethics problem, and a non-trivial one at that.

It seems like another problem caused by the fact that code can be data and data can be code. By which I mean, both are information. 'Free speech' implies the intent to be communicated to people, and can be considered 'data'. However a DDoS is a bunch of information with the intent of affecting the behaviour of computer systems, and can be considered 'code'.

The problem lies in discriminating between the two, given that "bits don't have colour", as explained here: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

I'm not at all sure what the right answer is, here. I'm also not 100% convinced that Cloudflare has the right approach, but I'm leaning to "yes", considering the alternative.

(by the way, you'd probably be interested in watching the youtube clip jgrahamc posted elsewhere ITT, with someone from Cloudflare saying some words about their perspective on this dilemma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12564876)
Of course you can do that. It's just a terrible idea because it drastically reduces the efficiency and output of the lights.
Is no more fetherbedding than any other regulated profession (doctors, layers) who get to themselves decide who is a member in good standing.
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I haven't heard a good political-economic explanation of how a universal basic income that actually finances the living expenses of a large portion of the population avoids spiraling into yet another welfare program.

The point of a UBI in the academic literature is to enable dismantling of high-overhead welfare state in favor of a low-overhead and higher-level grant (check out eg the overhead of Social Security Retirement income vs Social Security Disability income), but that tradeoff is somehow never actually offered.
I'm using Ember FastBoot to render the site on the server, so it's not quite static. For some reason it's throwing lots of errors and dropping requests right now, even though it didn't when I launched Indie Hackers on HN last month and had about 3x as many requests/second. Frustrating.

Anyway, I'm in the process of just moving it from Elastic Beanstalk to serve it from S3 via CloudFront directly. Waiting for the CloudFront distribution to spin up...
It seems to me this relates to contemporary books that are chosen for self-mentoring purposes.

There are other sorts of biographies, and other motivations for reading them.
It's worth looking into in advance, but not writing about every week. It's a bridge we'll cross if and when we come to it. So far, automation has displaced some jobs and created others. Will it start doing the former more than the latter? Only time will tell - we are not there yet.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12558308
For stuff in water there's the water drop + laser microscope. I'm going to try this with my kid.

Here's one video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHSys_pIEA
>SO isn't dying any time soon, and the content is still good.

While I'd say this is currently true, answers on SO tend to stick around for a long time, and the 'marked as duplicate'-heavy behavior means that even if the best practice to solving a given problem changes, the top SO google result won't. While this isn't a _huge_ problem right now, with the way the site is set up I only see it getting worse, to the point that some years down the line I imagine many SO answers will either cease to be relevant or push people down the wrong path when solving a problem.
Probably a carefully calculated PR play for A16Z.
I'm not trying to be dismissive of his impressive project, but from my perspective, or from a business point of view, it doesn't make sense. While I have no doubts that this was nontrivial to create, history has shown that raw technology alone is rarely enough. Isn't trying to gain some form of lock-in an oft repeated point on HN?

Also, could you elaborate? I do wish to understand why, if I was wrong.
> People always talk about how SO is so terrible, and yet it's still the best resource by a mile.

I can often stick with second best in class as long as it doesn't have a habit of biting you for no apparent reason all the time.

> People have just forgotten that the lack of that carefully curated environment created the complete mess that was all the forums we used to have before.

People keep saying that and I keep wondering if we either never visited the same forums or if I'm somewhat blind to all the vile bullying that must have been going on.

Edit: broaden answer with first quote and answer.
I'm not even talking about striking up a conversation or even saying hi to everyone you pass. :-)

More like be there in that moment when an opportunity arises and try to project more good energy into the routine interactions. There's a payoff for that that. It feels good even if it only works sometimes.

It's easier said then done as I'm always tempted to look down, passing through. I practice, fail, fail again then maybe get into the groove better the next day. No big deal. Fail isn't quite the right word as there's no real cost for trying to be a source of good energy even if a lot of people aren't trying.
I disagree with this. SO helped me with Python, Postgres, and SQL countless times.

If we are going to consider the value of SO, I would argue that it is a cornerstone.
Housing is proportionally higher cost but many things aren't that much more expensive in the Bay, which helps cancels it out. Plus if you're willing to commute, rent and/or live with other people, it all helps (unlike that Yelp lady who got her own place, kept her car, etc...).
I disagree with this conclusion, and I tend to disfavor the PCE. The argument is that employers are spending more on benefits, therefore pay has not actually fallen. However, the largest component of the difference between the PCE and CPI is based on employer-provided healthcare; in the US, healthcare spending has been growing at faster than inflation for decades, and medical costs are one of the main avenues of wealth transfer (for example, $300 billion a year, 2% of GDP, goes in patent royalties to owners of pharmaceutical companies).

It is a bit crap to suggest that because we are paying people more so they can pay their doctors more, for worse outcomes than anyone in the rest of the developed world, they are somehow turning out better. In any case, the fact that real wages have remained essentially flat requires us to believe that workers are fine with not having made any gains in disposable income in exchange for better benefits, which seems unlikely.

Also, the fact that labor peaked in 1973, when the graph begins to diverge, should reinforce, not contradict, this argument.
When you pay money to buy or rent an apartment or a house, are you squatting?

People pay Google and Facebook to display their ads; I guess they're eyeball squatters.

The guy has a product he's paid for with real dollars by customers who gave them to him willingly to get something they want. It solves a need people have which is something I haven't been able to do yet.
As long as the key is password protected with a reasonable strength password (say, a sentence which you remember) then why not put them everywhere? I generally have a copy of my ~/.ssh copied to a few locations, and I'm not really concerned about people guessing the password more than someone hijacking a ssh auth sock on a remote system (which is why you should ssh -A only when you need to :}})

Edit:

To elaborate on this a bit more -- perhaps I'm not an ideal role model for 'best practice' ssh key behavior -- but I end up dealing with a whole load of keys and boxes in $dayjob:

punkz:~$ wc -l ~/.ssh/known_hosts

1473 /home/punkz/.ssh/known_hosts

punkz:~$ ls -l ~/.ssh/id_* | wc -l

31

I deal with these by creating a new keypair for each client I'm working with (sometimes one for each of their environments) and I incorporate their name, or the location of the office I first attended for them, into the passphrase for the key somehow. While this is similar enough to the others that I won't forget the whole thing and so if I have to pick up some old client where I've forgotten the phrase there's usually only about 4 combos with the client's name or the address with various CaSeOpTiOnS or so on that I can usually get there..

I suspect if someone, or ... say .. some state, was targeting me personally to get access to a specific key that if they've gotten to the point where they have copies of them anyway; I wouldn't be able to stop them with a clever passphrase which is more unique than what I currently do.. Thinking along those lines then, I'm aiming to protect against lazy/stupid attackers wanting 'low hanging fruit' as it were, vs the big boys who probably have other ways of pulling these secrets from me....

I maintain a completely different passphrase schema for my personal keys -- either way, that's how I do it; seems good enough for me.. Any thoughts?
Mike Carson has put park.io up for sale. Asking price is $1.5M.

https://feinternational.com/buy-a-website/8340-platform-doma...
Swiss Democracy is Direct Democracy, not Representative Democracy. EDIT: Meaning similar but not the same, and the power ultimately rests with the people to make the decisions, thus providing some requirement for them to understand the issues, and not just leave it up to their representatives.

It's a subtle difference.
In plenty of places, you can stop a train simply by cutting the signal wire (because it will fail-safe).
Sigh. Duplicates on the front page of HN, that is the first time I've seen that. The URLs are different but they point to the same page. Perhaps a quick MD5 hash of the page would be a good way to check for duplicate pages.
I suppose that is why he is making $125,000/month running this business and you aren't. You see no business model here but he obviously did and is benefiting from it.

This is the perfect example of why it is not always good to listen to the many naysayers. There are a ton of single purpose things that can be turned into a service. Most people overlook those things because building the next unicorn sounds so much sexier.
There are reasons for that. Have you considered using something like luacheck?