skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think 'doing solid research' is what comments are about or should be about: that's what the articles are for. Comments are more like what goes on with coffee after the research presentation. They're about saying what you think, asking questions, correcting other comments, correcting the article, pointing to other articles. The mere act of writing causes ideas to be clarified.

The increasing majority of us don't expect any but a fraction of comments to be good. (This applies to research articles too. Sturgeon's Law.) They are like unrefined ore. Which is why we need as many as possible. Misconceptions are dangerous but they are less dangerous when brought into the light where they can be identified and corrected.

It's true that misinformation and conspiracy theories spread rapidly but, crucially, so does the correction of error, especially older and more parochial errors, which may even need to spread a bit before this can happen.

Look at places where people don't have access to the internet and you won't find an abundance of true information. Rather you'll find much less information together with cruder and more parochial misinformation such as ideas about witches and evil spirits.

So I don't think we need to worry too much about the quality of information in the comment section or any frontier of knowledge. It's mostly wrong. What is of more concern is how to guard and improve the conditions under which knowledge grows, beyond what we've already learnt (such as expelling trolls, discouraging politics, fluff).
The article states that the stone does indeed say "There is no danger to visitors" so I'd assume it's vandalism.
I have the same question. I am not aware of a similar situation.
Disappointed the link is not satire. $400/month is less than unemployment
Apache Traffic Server is the bee's-knees. ++1!
My #1 advice for non-internet-addicts is to create a reddit account (no email address required!) and remove every subreddit from your defaults. Then, add back subs based on your interests. Maybe a default or two is acceptable, as some are better moderated than others. But non-defaults tend to have much friendlier, less insulting users.

(adding entropy for my identity here) but the minecraft, sailing, and networking subs are good examples of midsize communities that are fun to be in.

politics and the_donald and worldnews are examples of garbage. /r/politics really is in the pocket of Hillary Clinton. I say that as a non-Trump voter... the overt bias and suppression of anti-Clinton discussion is staggering.
TV Tropes is always good: http://tvtropes.org/
Except when it supports a particular narrative, right?
Interesting - curious about what the actual failures were as I've never seen failures like that with fairly large Varnish caches. nginx wasn't an option for us until they made it handle the HTTP Vary header correctly so I don't have recent comparative experience with it as a cache.
> "Security issues are a problem facing all mankind," it said. "Since industry giants have experienced them, Xiongmai is not afraid to experience them once, too."

The courage to try something new. Oh wait it isn't new, this is being a copycat.
I find it ironic that the site where I see the absolute most complaining about one of the easiest paywalls to bypass is on Hacker News.
Also - for anyone writing code where performance matters, the question isn't when browsers support the syntax, it's when each JS engine's optimizations support it.

E.g.: until some months ago just putting "let foo" into a function would cause V8 to bailout (meaning the whole function gets executed slowly, even if the actual let statement gets removed as dead code).

Unfortunately I've never found any good references on the optimizability of ES5+ features, so I've been avoiding them so far.
yeah, but we release it because burning things is an easy way of releasing energy whenever / wherever we need it. Reducing CO2 can be done pretty much anywhere in the world. So if we needed to build a nuclear powerplant somewhere just to power our CO2 scrubbers, so that our cars and planes could burn fuel, that's completely doable.
The MacBook Air on Apple's site includes taxes/VAT. The Xiaomi Mi Air's price of €867 doesn't include that (or even shipping). Given that a MacBook Air has nearly €200 in VAT alone, the MacBook Air is "about €800" (specifically €825 in Spain, exclusive of VAT). There also might be other fees given that the Irish price of a MacBook Air is €29 more than the Spanish.

It's hard to compare the price of a MacBook Air with VAT and with regulatory compliance taken care of to a Mi Air without those.

I think it's a little more fair to compare it to buying a US-sourced MacBook Air which starts at €826 and the 13" can be had for €918 (exclusive of VAT and shipping). That's the same ballpark as €867 for a Mi Air and the MacBook is going to have an EU Declaration of Conformity. Once we're talking about importing a laptop from China, we might as well compare it to a laptop imported from the US when talking about price.

Heck, import it from the UK. In the UK, the MacBook Air is €842 for the 11" and €1,011 for the 13" inclusive of VAT (and since the UK is still in the EU, you can move it to Spain legally without paying VAT). If we assume €175 of VAT on the Mi Air, that makes the Mi Air €1,042 which is slightly more than a 13" MacBook Air.

For those that say that the Mi Air has more RAM or a newer processor, I'm guessing Apple is going to rectify that on Thursday and that makes a more apt comparison given that this is new and we know Apple has (desperately needed) new models coming.
A lot of Reddit users don't know what SRS is either. That's part of what makes it great, it's pretty easy to completely avoid the shitty parts.
I'm a bit of a web noob as well, so I have a related question:
If I have an https url with a token will the token only be sent through the https connection or is it contained in any lookups or connection metadata or such?
> Driver-less cars, really? Since when people started considering mental retardation as a status symbol

Sure, only 'retards' crash cars. But I am smart so I would never crash a car ever.

People should be more like me, then the world would be perfect, problem solved.
Yes, it is very common.
Don't get me wrong - Trump has certainly earned negative attention on his own. But the DNC has worked with the supposedly "unbiased" media to focus a disproportionate amount of negative energy on him, and they've hired people to harass and assault his supporters. These are dirty tactics they've employed to try to win the election. So yes, the incredible amount of stigma against him is unwarranted.
When that happened, there were fewer residents, so it was more like one party per half million.
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Its a swing state, chock full of independents, so you get the pulse of the average independent, assuming they're politically relevant this time around. Its mostly a white state with whatever implications you have for race in the election (hillary won in '08 for racial reasons but 99.9% of black people everywhere else voted for Obama with a predictable result ... and likewise this time around Hillary isn't going to get the black turnout that Obama got from that racial block of 99.9% D voters both in the primaries and in November). Its very small and proportionately politically active so the residents tend to get involved more than a large empty state so at least in theory it predicts how politically active people across the country will tend to vote. Wikipedia claims a win results in a historical average boost of 27% of total primary votes. Every other election comes after the news media pounds who is a winner and who is a loser into the brains of votes which surely has some predictive capability looking at an un-influenced voter. Barring special racial situations or whatever (see '08) it historically has strong predictive capabilities.

Note that you can "win" the primaries like Bernie did and still have your nomination stolen from you. I'm sure the Bern victims will be just as motivated to vote for Hillary as they were to vote for Bernie, I mean the Bern victims sure are a big bunch of globalist corrupt banker supporters, LOL, so they'll fit in perfectly with Hillaries supporters. Data from NH does predict excitement and likelihood of voter turnout and so forth which has certain implications in November. All 30% and then some who voted Trump are almost certain to vote in November, the 30% Bern victims well maybe not so much.

Good predictive capability often has nothing to do with how much the results or methods are liked.
Sure, it is possible. Isn't it also possible that people who hear a powerful man blaming protesters, the press and immigrants for their troubles would get angry and lash out at them?
This could easily happen in the US if a preferential ballot were adopted. (Rank candidates in order of preference.)

The Republican Party would immediately split into at least three parties and the Democratic Party would probably follow by splitting in two not long afterward.
I'm pretty sure it's not HN's job to work around WSJ's decision to require an account to view their articles.

Why don't people just stop submitting WSJ articles?
Helpful article. Small typo on section 3.5. shouldn't 'construtor' == 'constructor' ?
>I'm not actively trying to screw Upwork

Based on what you've posted, you are deliberately seeking out work on their service, and deliberately trying to close the deal off their service, to avoid giving them any cut, in knowing violation of their TOS.

It's one thing to say you don't mind screwing them over, because you don't like them. But it's disingenuous at best to pretend you're not actively screwing them over.
A tied electoral college wouldn't "throw the election into utter chaos" at all. It just means that the President would be picked by the House of Representatives.

This has actually happened twice before.
> We already know that Y% is ridiculously large.

That premise for the rest of the argument warrants more evidence than a non-backed vox populi.

Apart from that, it also failed to consider the percentage of executed people that were indeed innocent.
I wonder how much (if any) the lax enforcement of anti-trust law has played into this.
What is a rabbit hole? Is it just an interesting site to waste time on?
This is the company behind many of the cameras/devices used in the Dyn attacks. The linked article is mine, please feel free to ask questions.
A recall where you could just upgrade the firmware?
There was no mist in my eyes when I suggested that we shouldn't worship soldiers.
> The web attack enrolled thousands of devices that make up the internet of things - smart devices used to oversee homes and which can be controlled remotely.

It's almost poetic that the IoT devices in question are remote-controllable webcams, since constant surveillance is the other symbol of a dystopian Big Brother society.
> Surely we should be trying harder to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere and spend less time on reducing emissions?

It's simply a matter of cost. While we are continuing to put CO2 into the atmosphere, preventing one gram of CO2 from being emitted is equivalent to scrubbing one gram of CO2 from the atmosphere, and at present the former is far, far cheaper than the latter, and there is a huge amount of low hanging fruit still to be gathered. In fact, a lot of the emissions abatement is profitable - for instance an LED lightbulb might cost $5-10, but saves you 500-750 kWh over its lifetime, which is $50-100 worth of electricity even without pricing in carbon. The hope is if you introduce a carbon price (for instance by cutting other taxes and introducing a revenue neutral carbon tax) that you can further spur investment so that the market will make more of these technological developments towards resolving the problem. That may involve scrubbing carbon, for instance the recent process which has got a lot of publicity, using renewable electricity to turn CO2 into ethanol. But you're looking to resolve things at the lowest cost, and it may be that scrubbing is unnecessarily costly, and you can do everything through other means. We need to just price in the externality and let the market do what it does best.
It's probably just bad English but it really sounds like, "everyone gets hacked, we don't care".
We need a new acronym: IoCT = the Internet of Crap Things.
> The only language I've found / used so far that has these (expected) mechanics is Swift

Rust has similar semantics: https://is.gd/hsRjPh versus https://is.gd/ROgzXl

IIRC you can also declare const objects in C++, but constness is more complex and overridden there.
I agree in some ways.

It's one if those shows I don't think people get...

Everyone thinks it's great, but is it...

It's has amazing production values. Great actors. Good dialog.

Buuuut it's missing plot. It uses emotion as a replacement. And as each story is separate I think you don't seem to notice.

But for some reason I think I enjoy it. So perhaps we don't need a good story for a TV show. Or perhaps it's a cheap trick that might wear out if everyone jumps on board.

PS try re-watching TZ. It wasn't as good as I thought when I re-watched it. Most episodes were at best OK.
The DNS Attack: What It Means, “Who Did It?” and How to Deal
It's not "the right" and "the left" that commit acts of violence and steal signs, it's small groups of people.
If you're wondering what software entrepreneurs can do about it, here's a reply I recently wrote:

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I'm in a climate change startup, and here's how I look at it: 87% of the energy sources we use are fossil-based[1] and will need to be replaced with non-fossil alternatives in the next 30 years. That's trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure and technology growth opportunity for clean energy and energy efficiency[2]. The next Google will be an energy company[3].

To answer your question more specifically, in order to actually pull the 87% energy transition off, clean energy sources face huge financial and engineering challenges. This presents a lot of business opportunities for tech startups that can improve efficiencies for those clean energy companies. Energy efficiency, electric self-driving vehicles, solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal, public transit, etc. all need to grow by 100x in 30 years, and a huge chunk of that growth will be software driven.

The advanced energy industry is already a $1.4 trillion industry (larger than airlines and fashion industries)[4]. So there is, right now, a ton of market size for climate change tech, and it will grow by several orders of magnitude over the next few decades. Now is one of those rare moments where you can save the planet and have a business model.
For example, my startup is a SaaS company that is used by tons of distributed clean energy resources to smooth out the process of collecting energy data for feasibility analyses. We shave about 5-10% off the installed cost of energy audits and distributed solar, and make money doing it.

So if you're interested in doing tech startup in climate change. Do it! We need all the help we can get. If you're interested in the Bay Area professional clean energy scene, check out the calendar https://bayareaenergyevents.com/ (I run it) and start showing up to stuff!

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=11951

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

[3]: http://www.pvsolarreport.com/the-next-internet/

[4]: http://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2016/03/advanced-energy...

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12344113
Without nuclear power, there's no stopping global warming:

https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shellenberger_how_fear_of_...

We squandered the past 3 decades, now we're screwed.
On this note, I read the article and thought maybe I should feel like "WTF Am I Looking At? How Not to Write an Article".

The title of the paragraph that says "The Problem" says this:

> Do I need a new account? “Get a New Account” is the the only obvious button I’m prompted to click. Yet, when I click it nothing becomes any clearer.

That is not a clear enough problem statement for some random person on the Internet to understand what the author is even talking about at first read! Instead of a long winded article (which Medium as a platform seems to attract), where the problem is explained in terms of the solution, and which still didn't seem clear by the end, the problem could've been explained better initially.

Edit: The article about "Tappers and listeners" that was linked to was great!
It is a cultural thing in Belgium for sure. It also has a few other things going for home buyers. The population density plays in its favor, there is less risk that changing jobs requires you to move. The high taxes and fees when purchasing (between 12-25%) are a break on speculation, so there are no bubbles to speak of. And even though land is expensive, there is sufficient supply in quality housing stock due to the backlog of six decades of sustained housing construction. It's affordable to buy at many price points.
Can you explain why you care whether a murderer is dead or in prison for life?
It is very common in non-English speaking countries.
A Multi-Perspective Analysis of Carrier-Grade NAT Deployment
Guess climate change isn't a Chinese conspiracy after all*

*https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/26589529219124838...
Having been involved in running various communities with an online component at various points, there's nothing in the post that surprises me. The biggest difference is just reddit's scale, which just makes things go worse faster.
> Namely, it is very difficult to raise a family of four in a mutual fund.

It is difficult to ski without skis. But most people don't buy skis, they rent them. Renting skis do not mean that no skis will be manufactured. There is a need for house, houses will be constructed, irrespective of whether people will over-bid on them or not.

> A paid off home is a social safety net against homelessness

Stocks and savings are equally a safety net against loss of primary income.

> Real estate can be borrowed against

Borrowing against your home to finance your business is no different than selling some stocks to invest into your business. In both cases you are using previous savings.

> I think there's a lot of sense in NOT taxing one's first home

Why? Again you are assuming that the alternative to owning a home is renting one and having no savings. The cost of housing (renting) would be much lower in a country without massive over-bidding on property. There is no reason to give a tax benefit to this particular type of investment (property) over any other types of investment.
Even if they weren't paid, they were still likely mentally ill. IMO, that speaks more about access to mental health services than a particular candidate.
The problem with SRS wasn't that there were idiots off in their own private subreddit, it was that they took their opinions and vote-brigaded them across the rest of the site. You don't have to go to the shitty parts, the shitty parts come to you.
While this diagram shows, that the current CO2 content is lower than in many historic phases of the earth climate, this has little impact on the seriousness of our current situation. The biggest problem we have with the change of the CO2 content of the atmosphere is the speed by which it changes, and consequently the speed of the warming up. Eco systems change way quicker than they can adapt too. And dying eco systems and their input on our life are the big problem humanity is facing in the next 100 years.
It's a drop-in replacement for an audience who almost certainly have npm already. Path of least resistance for your audience is where you should be.
You and I both. Remember, however, that you and I are not a representative sample of the general population of web users.
/r/politics used to be extremely anti-Clinton not too long ago... instead strongly favoring Sanders.

But yeah, you'll never see a single pro-conservative story on /r/politics
Should You Outsource Manufacturing? A Handy Guide
It seems like the security (or lack thereof) on many IoT devices makes them soft targets for this type of attack, and that is going to have to be improved. Especially because the owners of these devices are very unlikely to know they have been infected in the first place. Attackers surely know now all the commonly used and default passwords for these devices making them easy to access.
> Seamless-immutable however is.

Only in development mode, by freezing the objects.
The entire point of the paid-for violence uncovered by Project Veritas was to paint Trump supporters as the violent ones. So yeah, there's reason to question whether those were actual Trump supporters (who from my experience are generally very peaceful).
* 24 days since the release of the botnet source code.

* 3 days since the latest major DDoS attack.

No device has been bricked so far. No counter attack yet. Waiting for the next news...
I much prefer InternetOfShit (https://twitter.com/internetofshit)
No, not right.
I don't have a favorite rabbit hole but rather I've developed a link-hopping habit that pretty consistently leads down the rabbit hole. Basically, while looking at a site/article that interests me, I usually end up doing a separate search for any concepts or organizations mentioned, then seeing what they have to offer. Rinse and repeat.
I work in higher education, which means there are a lot of {terrible} emails sent out daily. Recently I've started educating the senders on how to be more effective, as well as not just copy and paste event listings from our website to Mail Chimp.

It's a challenge teaching people how to be more effective in their emails communications.
I won't argue that, it's more than fair.
How about just don't send spam?

If you really "get into their head" you'll find what they really want is no unsolicited email at all.
This seems pretty neat, but is it even legal? At what point does something like this become an actual crime (unauthorized computer access)? Sending fake data seems like automated hacking.

Don't get me wrong. I like this. I think that tracking and pervasive analytics are a net loss for society.
It comes from a metaphor:

> "Down the rabbit hole", a metaphor for an entry into the unknown, the disorienting or the mentally deranging, from its use in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
What went wrong, was the question impossible answer with given info?
It still reduces mobility vs. just renting though. Now you're a landlord and probably dependent on the rental income to pay your rent in the other city/country. Obviously, it's all doable. But it's clearly a constraint (even if it's a worthwhile one) relative to not owning.
How so? To an outsider who knows very little, Nadella seems to be doing great.
The problem in California is the grandfathering in of rates, rather than the fact that the tax exists. If property tax was completely removed and the state made up the shortfall in some other tax (hopefully progressive) then there'd be no market distortion.
http://wiki.c2.com
This article was written under the assumption that startups in general = innovation.
damninteresting.com is where I 1st read about the Great Molasses Flood, amongst a slew of other bizarre non-fictional events & people. The wordsmiths make the bizarre accounts even more damn intetesting.

edit: link

https://www.damninteresting.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pritzker_Architecture_Prize

It has links to architects and those pages in turn have links to beautiful buildings. Also the wikipedia pages of art museums tend to be awesome timesinks as well, you can click through every artist and all of their famous artworks.