skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was sad to read:

> Botnets appeared as a way to get around RBLs, and in response spam fighters mapped out the internet to create a "policy block list" - ranges of IPs that were assigned to residential connections and thus should not be sending any email at all.

Your residential connection might not, but mine does.
While that made good points back when it was written (2009), nowadays we have flexbox - which solves the problems that essay describes with such precision it makes you wonder if the spec authors were responding to it in particular. I mean, if you take, say, MDN's tutorial page on flexbox, it demonstrates the exact same layout that used to be such a problem:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Flexibl...

So perhaps the story is, more precisely, "when it comes to layout, abusing floats is fundamentally flawed" - yes, in the past, tables may have been the best alternative in a lot of cases; but now we've got it, flexbox is superior to floats and to tables. It really is a joy to work with once you get your head round it IMO.
You get a hang of these things by building stuff, as well as looking at works and designs of others.

3/4" (~19mm) plywood is thick enough for most furniture projects. You could use 1" dowel for the legs and attach them by making a hole through the plywood, sawing a small split to the leg, drive it through and tighten it with a small wedge in the split.
Thanks for the correction! I hope the general intent of my example is still somewhat clear though.
Who could have! Who could have!
Other than the fact that AWS has more options and flexibility google instances have more options and flexibility... hmmm
Yes I spend a couple of months every year in Europe so I'm aware. The thing is health care is better, drug abuse (not use, but abuse) seems lower and also society has less tolerance for acting out. I've got a lot of mental illness issues in my family, so I hopefully can say this without sounding rude. But a lot of people dealing with mental episodes can to some extent moderate their behaviour. Not that it's easy, but the ability is there. However particularly in SF we are very tolerant, maybe to the point of causing more harm than good. So then some people just indulge in their every impulse including engaging in poor sanitary habits.
I am not familiar with GCP support but with their product support. Once I bought a device from Google and it broke on the first day. The device was completely dead, did not even turn on. When I engaged their support and explained the situation to the customer representative she kept asking me which light is on even though I explained to her 10 times that the device is completely dead. I was lucky because I bought the device through Amazon. I visited the website clicked on the dead device needs to be replaced button and in 10 minutes the replacement was on the way to my home.

I do not want to draw any conclusion here but when it comes to which company gets my money decision I always prefer Amazon.

The following applies to customer trust too:

"It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute."

― Will Rogers
I thought one of the reasons Germany was accepting refugees more so than other countries was because they had a demographic / labor problem that refugees would help fix?
Talking at Def.camp 2016 in Bucharest, Romania
It is entirely automated, it can be thought of kind of like googles alphago. A neural net is used to guide monte carlo search, though it is working on the space of programs and optimizing running time. Instead of using known rules, it can learn its own optimization rules for software.
I actually like the gcloud CLI -- I wish its output was more tunable (CSV, Table, JSON)... I also think it's weird they use a ~/.boto config.
It wasn't that it was unsuccessful, it was that so few were made before ATARI folded. There weren't enough to go around.
Agreed. I particularly valued this part, which helps me grasp some other content posted here:

"Bohmian mechanics [describes] a 'pilot wave' that is computed from the whole configuration of the universe... a global function that influences everything".
Yes, but you where not attending to university at the same time.

I too think that the article got the timing wrong somehow.

But it was probably computers as (and in) pop culture that turned away many that saw computer science as a career path just as law school and medicine.

In the early 80s the white coat scientists where gone in the media, and replaced by neerdy kids, culminating with the unlikly tale of Bill Gates.

The message was that you had ti be incredibly smart and geeky to be able to work with computers.

---

The reality is that you probably have to be just a bit over average, but mainly just very stubborn and won't mind spending hours and hours solving very stupid problems...

Edit: One way to get stubborn is to be inherently fascinated by computers and self-controlling systems. At least it works for me....
The 220mbps limit is entirely false.

Between two m4.large in two different AZs.

Test Complete. Summary Results:

[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr

[ 4] 0.00-60.00 sec 3.13 GBytes 449 Mbits/sec 39391 sender

[ 4] 0.00-60.00 sec 3.13 GBytes 449 Mbits/sec receiver

CPU Utilization: local/sender 1.4% (0.0%u/1.5%s), remote/receiver 7.2% (0.8%u/6.4%s)
> (cause I'd pay more to my cleaning staff).

cleaning staff never gets a lot of money and if you need 50 ct to use your toilet it will probably not be the preferred one because people who pay direct money mostly think they can do whatever they want (they paid for it) so every use is more problematic than somebody who can use the toilet for free (exceptions confirm the rule).
I am not sure that you can really use the size of your support org when talking about customer experience. Why don't you come up with a 3rd party customer survey about how your customers are happy with you compare to Amazon? If you are absolutely certain that your support is great it would prove the point.
I never did and never will understand why an ATARI ST family, meant to compete directly with Amigas, had a three channel sound chip on the level of the C=64 SID. What were they thinking?

The AT&T DSP was light years ahead of the rest of personal computers' sound capabilities, and is in fact still competitive today. Amazing piece of work.
Or you know, they could just remove a non necessary component eating a lot of power - like that powerhungry screen they added on top of the keyboard no-one asked for.
Ask HN: Is it possible to secure an open source app that uses 3rd party oauth?
Isn't the whole point of CLIENT_SECRETS to keep them secret? I understand that once your code is run clientside there is no point in trying to obfuscate anything. However, isn't there a risk in your application being compromised by someone using your credentials or am I missing something here because it seems to be the norm, the google api samples all have hardcoded bits that you plug your tokens and keys into. There is always the option of having a middleman to intercept calls from the client, authenticate and send back the access token but this doesn't seem to deter most people I've seen that just hardcode these anyway. ie: https://github.com/manosim/gitify/blob/master/src/js/utils/constants.js#L3:L4
so they buy the non PRO version
According to this article:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light

the idea had some pretty serious consideration of serious scientists though.

As for dimensionless constants, the way I see it, it simply suggests that something else must be changed to get a meaningfully different c.
The North Pole is 20°C warmer than normal as winter descends
I just watched "Perfect Blue", it was really great. I'll keep watching more Satoshi Kon movies if I can find the DVDs. It's really hard to find them.
Intriguing indeed. Something like when a write happens, instead of just plain blocking it redirect the write to a honeypot environment and send out an alert. Sure, that won't fool a good attacker for a very long time, but would be interesting to capture various drive-by and skriptkiddie attacks.
Ask HN: Why are my stories marked as dead
Hey guys, for some reason all of my stories with posted links are marked as dead. Does someone know why? Are there some restrictions or do I need to exceed a specific number of posts to bypass this thing.
> It is not a good idea to restore attacker-owned applications to a "known good" state before you have done at least a cursory post mortem. Not only do are the security holes intact but since the attacker now knows they been found out, you can invite more serious damage.

I would also add that attackers are actually after the data. Exploiting application vulnerabilities is just a mean to that end so bringing back exploitable application from the previous image is a BAD idea.

Having said that previous image can be a good starting point to patching up the vulnerabilities and bringing the application online.
It is historical fiction. blackthorne did exist, did get samurai status and estate, did build ships for Toranaga (Tokugawa Ieyasu). The characters are real and James Clavell spent 4 years in Japan researching and writing the book. His depiction was rather accurate, though of course exaggerated and romanticized.

http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/learning/Learning_from_shogun_...
This assumes that

1. Participating in the program will cause you additional costs

2. Participating will decrease the voluntary payments

I have no data to back this up but my gut feeling is that neither is true. People will prefer toilets in restaurants anyway and at least the locals are used to favour them over public toilets. My thesis is that putting up the "Nette Toilette" sticker will not draw more "customers".

When it comes to the voluntary payment: It's considered tipping money for the cleaning staff, so people will probably tip the same. And even if they did not it shouldn't make a difference for you as a restaurant owner, because it's not your money anyway. At least in theory...
The only feature that any company can copy from a competitor without any effort is price. It is well known in product circles that you can't compete with price only, you need to put in other features that make your product attractive compare to the competitors. I am still waiting for something extraordinary from GCP that would make me consider them over AWS or Azure. Price - for me - is simply not enough.
Many Fish Spotted at Kankariya Lack by FeelFactFun
I think it's definitely more nuanced in the US than "poor vote for welfare, rich vote against." Unfortunately, I'm not sure what a more fitting summary would be.

I think you're absolutely right that Trump supporters' motivation seems to be "I work my ass off and don't have anything to show for it" (born out of wage stagnation in real terms). But the question would still be "Then why didn't they simply support a candidate that promised welfare increases?"

Part of the answer is that Clinton didn't lean on redistribution as her narrative to the degree Sanders did, probably to prevent Republican attacks. The optimist in me also likes to think that there is something in the American zeitgeist about work earning rewards. Which I think is confounded by two modern trends: free trade / automomation depressing or eliminating low and middle wage jobs, and a growing realization of wealth disparity and work effort disparity (e.g. myself making many multiples more than someone breaking their back building infrastructure).

End result being someone comparing their work effort to what he or she sees on TV, then comparing their rewards to what he or she sees on TV. And feeling depressed and angry as a result.
I'd really like to see a recent reference on how much. Given the discharge maintaining the batteries is very small and very manageable I highly doubt it is significant over any lesser depth with these lipo batteries manufactured specifically for Apple.
well you just buy the lowest possible and start new instances and stop them when needed, when the lowest possible raises you just reserve more.
A lot of these fights seem to revolve around the word Pro. I'm a professional: I've worked with computers and software my whole life, and I am very good at it.

I don't think I'll particularly need 32GB of RAM or USB ports on my laptop. Does this mean I'm not a true professional? Real men need 32GB and USB?

That said, I'd probably opt for 32GB and a bit more weight.

There is a 2TB option, by the way.
Yep. In 2001

http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/writeup/

http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/vegard_bilder/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_LeShan [1]

See:

1. The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal (1974)

and much less intriguingly:

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Bem
whatever the value, I hope it stays buried.
> I'm only half joking.

It would make for a great pro laptop and I'm not joking at all, especially since there's no other way to get ECC support from Intel.

There are issues with that though, at least in Skylake:

* Mobile Xeon now require Xeon-decidated chipsets (C23X) which AFAIK don't exist in mobile form (and thus have a TDP ~double that of the regular mobile skylake chipsets).

* The mobile Xeon range (15X5Mv5) is very limited with just two Iris Pro 580 and two Intel HD parts.

* While the 1575Mv5 is higher-specced than any non-xeon mobile chip (3.0/3.9, graphics 0.35/1.1) it's also twice as expensive as the 6970HQ, which is already a $600 part.

Still, might have been nice on the 15".
Death's End? I think it is, but previous books are amazing too.
This article uses a very contrived data set (bit manipulation), and also a "synthetically generated dataset", which would never occur in real life applications. This means that the results are unreliable and need to be repeated on something more realisic, or at least on programs that are uses by peole in some context (spec2000, spec2006). Moreover, the authors never compare the performance with that of llvm or gcc on different levels of optimisations, or at least do not mention any of that.
shame on you both.
you are biased to google, but I actually preferred the AWS documentation.
I still will migrate sooner or later to GCP, because of the superior pricing model. However missing postgres is still bad for us and we don't want to "go trough a partner". Cloud is already not so cheap, especially when we only need 3 boxes and a database. The problem is there aren't many alternatives that lets you have a managed database and 3 boxes in your own small network. If you want to do it yourself you either need a VPN or you would pay the same price as a Cloud if you want to interconnect hosted servers on non Cloud providers.
how is this relevant to HN?
Huh, really? What's the product?
Spyware Windows 10
We should send carbon sequestration probes and contaminate it with life.
> you still get on net a slight excess of bit flips in the psi direction.

Is that "net" extracted from all published experiments, i.e. in some meta syntheses? And is statistically significance calculated in each individual experiment?

> Is psi real? Seems highly unlikely. But what could possibly be left - publication bias, fraud, or what? No one knows.

Publication bias toward positive results should be detectable via methods such as funnel plots.

If you've looked into these aspects it would make interesting reading.
An alternative path would be going with hand tools. Mathias Wandel is a very good wood worker but he tends to use a lot of power tools, not all of which are affordable and they require a ton of space. If you're interested in hand tool work, check out Tom Fidgen's (the Unplugged Woodshop) and Paul Sellers' YouTube channels.

For a budget of about $1000, you can get a very nice, full featured suite of hand tools that you can build pretty nice projects with. And this price is for getting premium quality tools brand new. If you've got more time than money, you can get second hand vintage tools from online auctions and real estate sales and refurbish them to work as good as new ones (I wouldn't recommend going this path if you have no prior experience).

By contrast, you'll blow your entire $1000 budget on a table saw and a planer, and you can't even get very good ones for that price.

Word of warning: do not buy new hand tools from the big box hardware store. Either buy vintage ones or premium tools from woodworking speciality stores. Modern, mass produced hand tools (e.g. saws with hardened teeth) aren't very good, they're harder to tune and are not designed to last a lifetime.

Working with hand tools isn't all that much slower than using power tools, unless you'd do something very repetitive where you do the same cuts on a ton of pieces.

I do woodworking using hand tools almost exclusively (I visit a shop once a week, where I have power tools). I find it really enjoyable and relaxing compared to working with power tools with all the noise, the dust and the danger (the power tools at the shop aren't great quality).

I'd recommend the following tools to get started:

* A rip saw and a cross cut saw (or a Japanese Ryoba which has both)
* 4 chisels: 1/4", 1/2", 3/4", 1"
* A #4 smoothing plane (if you have a good workbench or intend to build one)
* OR a low angle block plane (if you don't have a bench)
* Sharpening equipment because tools don't come sharp out of the box
* A saw file if you got a re-sharpenable saw
* Optional: a coping saw or a fret saw, depending on what kind of joinery you're into

The above will cost around $200-300 and is enough to do quite complex projects.
Yes, you're right, I too think people would "tip" anyway. I just assumed that if you're participating in the program the cities may kind of forbid to ask for money.
wow, you've got me interested. Those are some cool ideas to think about.
Sounds like a job for Icecast to me.
Is anyone backing up Homestuck? Once webcomics end they tend to vanish from the internet after a few years...
This is what they're there for:

https://youtu.be/JIO7lZuokpQ?t=7m25s

Also, I'm not sure why the OP referred to them as rear view mirrors. I've only heard them called side view mirrors.
StocksFM
Surreptitiously redirects to

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/21400-windows-10-is-spyware
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If you get too stressed, maybe you should drive a bit slower.
Ask HN: Licensing terms for self-hosted product
I am working on a product that I want to provide in three pricing categories: basic-free, premium-hosted, and premium-self hosted. I wish to use AGPL.

1. Can I put additional terms on top of AGPL?
2. What terms should I use for the self-hosted category? I wish to provide the license for 1 year.
Hadoop scheduling is hard, and the one thing I'd love to give someone some money to come in and fix.
Apple are just victims of their own game - making stuff thinner/lighter every year as it's somehow the next world wonder. Unless they'll finally admit it and stop this BS, they'll get themselves cornered soon enough.

I mean just use the advantage of new technology to fill up the gained space with batteries. The premise of limiting RAM is also pretty much BS - if I get a device with 16GB RAM I still get the same battery life as now, but if I put more memory inside, I do this willingly to sacrifice battery. NOTHING CHANGES for people with 8/16GB configuration.

Unless they're doing this with the classic Apple smug "we know what's best for you" reason. Oh and to sell more adapters.
designed PC by technical dilettantes with maximum performance everything.

Half a TB of RAM, four Titan X, two 24-core Xeons, and a battery that lasts four weeks sounds good to me.
This is why I built a hackintosh last week. 64GB, 4.5ghz OC, 6GB CPU. I'll keep trudging along with my 2012 MBP when I travel, but considering I work from home 80% of the time it was more important to optimize that time.

FWIW, building one is far easier than it used to be. Everything is working great, took me about an afternoon to get it there. Watching Photoshop open as quickly as Sublime text will never get boring.

Edit: This is my build if anyone is interested, http://pcpartpicker.com/list/gwV6qk
While I agree that SF has a much larger drug abuse / mental illness problem, that problem exists in Berlin as well - even with the better health care system and unemployment benefits.

One thing to keep in mind when comparing homelessness in Berlin and SF is the clima. I don't know how much it contributes but homeless people in Berlin risk to freeze to dead. So I could imaging homeless people prefering warmer cities.
Never got it.

I tried to get into it but it completely eluded me.

Also I like with Doctor Who, I didn't like the fan-base. But I found DW on my own and later the fan-base so it was a bit different. But it took away a bit of the fun to see what kind of people they were :/
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all of this largely depends on personal preference.

to me, i value battery so much more.
The Ptolemaic system was pretty complicated too...
So then both options have equal value to a VC.
> The Berlin patient shows that cure is possible via treatments that also eradicate the bone marrow, but these are not generalizable across populations due to the high morbidity and mortality.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that patient got HIV back a year or two after the bone marrow transplant?
We have viable alternatives to running on oil and there are people actively pushing to switch the society to other energy sources. It can be done, it has to be done if we want our grandchildren to have a livable conditions on this planet.

The thing we need is for people to stop countering the change out of their short-term interest in lining their own pockets.
Zorglub will be in charge
A cheaper option would be using a benchtop thickness planer (about $600 for a good one) and use a jack plane to flatten the other side. Ie. flatten one side by hand (doesn't have to be perfect finish, just mostly flat with no twist or cup), run it through the planer, then flip it around and plane to final thickness. It's a pretty sweet spot when it comes to tool costs, space requirements and time investment.

Jointing and planing is something I have an issue with being a primarily hand tool woodworker. I don't have a proper shop space so I can't be buying stationary equipment. I do visit some shops occasionally, and for my next project I intend to go to a shop with good machines and do all my jointing, planing and dimensioning. It's not very convenient (far away) or cheap (hourly billing), but it'll work.

For my previous project, I hand planed some of the work pieces all the way from rough lumber and it wasnt't that bad. But it did take a bit of time and my end result wasn't perfectly flat, square and parallel. But it worked out and the pieces were too small to go through a jointer and a planer anyway.

Buying pre-dimensioned lumber is also an option but a very expensive one. And wood doesn't like to stay flat when humidity and conditions change, so a minor touch up might be required.
I might look into this more deeply and open some issues to discuss possible improvements. I like the general goal, and these days it's refreshing to see someone not reinventing the wheel with a nodejs script.
A Topiary [pdf]
Game developed using River Trail API for parallel programming in JavaScript
You should probably apply for work in the Apple PR team for "Pro"fessionals.
Are they? Carbon credits are at least in principle meant to accomplish a reasonable goal. As for relying on taxpayer-financed investments, that's exactly what tax money is meant to be used for. I mean, damn it, Tesla is the golden standard of using government loans efficiently, for the betterment of society, and even paying them back in full ahead of schedule! And they get criticized for it. I guess some people don't care about reality if it doesn't fit into their ideologies... sigh
"The Germans have figured out a cheap way to provide the public with bathrooms."

Aren't the bathrooms the places where somebody can bathe?
Congrats :) Well done!