skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you will fact check claims about Holocaust, you will see that numbers are made up. My mother and grandmother are Jews. My grandmother lived near to Kyiv (Kiev) at times of WWWII. When I asked my mother about Babi Yar (Old Women Rave)[1], where 200 thousands of Jews were executed, she said that it is false: 190 thousands of Jews were evacuated to East, 40 thousands left only in Kyiv and surroundings, including my grandmother. I fact checked that and found that in Babi Yar only 621 Ukrainians, members of OUN, were executed by German army as partisans, including Ukrainian poetess Olena Teliga. Their grave is visible at aerial photos from USA archive made by German pilots: it near to radio mast. However, Russians claims that 200 thousands of anonymous Jews were executed in Babi Yar by Ukrainians, members of OUN, i.e. complete opposite to the fact. I also fact checked other similar claims about Odessa and Lviv and found that they are false too: in Odessa it was done by communists shortly after capture of Ukraine: thousands of victims were sink in Black Sea, in Lviv it just false: 200 dead instead of 200 000, none of them was Jew, they were British soldiers. It makes me to think that Russians are using Holocaust to meet their own goals, which makes it look real victims and real fact less trustworthy. I checked that and found answer in leaked Russian book for FSB newcomers: in Russia, state sponsors fake campaigns to help FSB to develop new agents in various organizations. Book describes technique how to use these fake claims to find a someone who is easy to manipulate. I was shocked by that. So, I know that Holocaust is real thing, because some of my grandmother relatives in Poland were victims of that, but I also know that some numbers are made up or fake. How I should react to all that?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar
Once Doom stops being a landmark in gaming history, I'm sure he will ;)
Max and Peter are two of the smartest guys in the game. Period. And their successes prove it to the naysayers. There's nothing sleazy about what either have done.

What have you done aside from posting comments on HN?
It would be easier to make people give up most of their rights and freedoms than it would be to make them stop eating bad food that will make them an expensive burden to the healthcare system. The only solution is to regulate and tax the way cigarettes are. All that Pepsi goes to fund all that diabetes and heart disease. Everyone, including the highly competent managers and researchers at Pepsi, knows it is bad for you. That does not mean no one should work for Philip Morris - it just means there are probably more virtuous ways to spend your time. Ultimately, society will give the people what they want, so we should tax the bad wants.
Because this is the first election where "spirit cooking" and "pizzagate" conspiracies were put on equal footing with foreign policy and economic positions.
@sytse: If this (BGP + ASN + /24 IPv4 + /n IPv6) is your plan, I'd encourage you to get started on the process now.

Go ahead and apply for your ASN now and an IPv6 allocation. Then start working on the paperwork for an IPv4 allocation. Because there is no more IPv4 to allocate you'll have to go through the auction process and then the subsequent transfer process.

You'll easily be able to find a provider that can give you a /24 if you buy transit from them, but you don't wanna go through the trouble of renumbering into your own IP space if you can avoid it.
I found out that having no news at all is not so good, because you don't want friends and colleagues to believe you're living in a cave. But you only need the two three important headlines in the week, and I get these from Wikipedia home page.

Also, if you are concerned by a topic, say war in Syria, just get your meat from Wikipedia article, it's not perfect but it beats all other info sources by very far.
Holocaust denial itself is foul play. You seem to think the only thing wrong that could be happening here is cheating the algorithm.
My hacking coming of age story involves Doom.

In eleventh grade, we had a classroom with around 20 486 PCs connected in a token ring network. When the teacher wasn't watching, we used to sneak in Doom on floppies, exit Windows out to the dos prompt, and do a manual install.

This was great, but it was a major hassle to do this every time we wanted to play, and to delete the files afterwards.

I came up with the idea of marking the folders as hidden from DOS, and for that extra obfuscation, renaming the folder to start with an extended ASCII character. Sure enough, no one else but my friends could figure out a way in. (We all had Midnight Commander on floppies to run around such problems).

This all went well for a few weeks until the class teacher must have found some way in that we didn't know about. I got dragged up in front of the principal and accused of "hacking the system", since apparently the teacher couldn't figure out a way to remove the files.

I barely escaped a suspension, but that was a great lesson for me in what happens when you usurp your authority figures.
>>> ...could have been spared imprisonment without meaningfully threatening public safety or increasing crime, according to a new study.

So the title is misleading. This is not "without risk" but more "without meaningful risk".

>> “Very long lengths of stay in many many cases do not make people safer”

Who said that long sentences had anything to do with making people safer? The criminal justice system doesn't exist solely to promote safety. That's an outcome, but the system is there to enforce laws. Those laws are based on morality, religion, politics ... the promotion of public safety is only one of many reasons we lock people up.

Mostly, our criminal laws have been passed and grandfathered through without any scientific analysis re public safety. We lock people up because we want them locked up, even when we know it doesn't do society any net safety good. We have to accept that reality before we can set about decreasing sentences or eliminating oppressive laws.

Also, long sentences are at least measurable. In our efforts to reduce them we don't want to fall into even older patterns. Indefinite sentencing is far worse, opening the door to all sorts of evils. Indefinite sentencing is what happens when you start releasing the "good" inmates while keeping the "bad" locked up. Once that starts happening judges and juries might return to the dangerous assumption that they need to over-sentence.
Does it abnormally restrict your ability to write software, or to publish software?

I imagine Windows doesn't do much to stand between you and writing your own code for personal use.
Yes, agree. Also, SDKs are quite expensive - while GPU vendors give theirs away for free. This might be one reason for relatively low adoption vs GPU.
I'm still hunting for that one weird tip.
Chrome for iOS doesn't support extensions, Firefox for iOS doesn't support extensions, and iOS Safari supports Content Blocker extensions, which is a very different API from how uBlock Origin currently functions on the desktop.

A simple port has nowhere to go on iOS right now. (Though there are rumblings that Firefox might introduce some sort of add-on support for their iOS browser in the future.)
> Not sure how you're in the industry without knowing who this guy is.

Max is one of a handful of people who had successful startups of varying long-term influence ten years ago. Knowing his name is hardly a prerequisite for working in this industry, unless this guy happens to work at Paypal, in which case yeah it'd be weird not to know.

Myself, I use Paypal maybe a couple of times a year.

Honestly I'm kinda envious of folks who have been able to stay out of the startup celebrity culture and the glorification of founders at the expense of the thousands of employees and innovators who create value.
There is already progress being made toward stopping that kind of advertising too.
>that was a great lesson for me in what happens when you usurp your authority figures.

...and get caught.
I disagree. The cost of onboarding a new developer is negligible compared to the cost of picking the wrong stack for a project just because it might be the hippest tool at the time. An experienced programmer can pick up a new framework in a week or two tops and their ability to pick up the application code will have more to do with the quality and documentation of said code than anything else, but if you pick the wrong framework you'll be paying for it for the life of the project (or until you refactor with a new framework and write a blog post about why you decided to switch).

If the tools you're using cause your code to be inherently difficult to grok, then that is an engineering problem, but that has nothing to do with how fashionable the tool might be.
This seems particularly interesting as a contrast with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13145245 .
They seem to be taking just an email. Are they actually on boarding customers today? What is the minimum investment?
Is it immoral for you to change the channel or hit the mute button during television commercials?
I think it's mostly because getting it wrong is a Pretty Big Deal, so people aren't sure if they can trust themselves and the scheme they came up with.
I was about to respond (and from rusty personal memory, correct me if wrong) that having larger than 4Gb segments seems fit for todays ram dotations but this answer is even better.
Startups have always glorified stress it is simply part of the modus operandi. Stress is part of life in general and a high-paced, uncertain and extremely competitive work environment compounds this.

I think Max's point in discerning between an all-nighter and continued and long-term stress is very smart. Everyone has and can pull an all nighter, but dealing with problems for weeks on end is a rare trait and most will break. Hence this is a quality he and most in this business should seek: can the candidate handle prolonged stress? If so, he's built for the challenge.

There is nothing impressive about someone writing code to fix a big for 24 hours straight. This doesn't move the needle forward at all.
I would resist any features which have the effect of punishing people for the very real constraints of maintaining OSS work.
I don't think he's referring to "working hard." He's referring to how you behave in hard times, e.g. from the article:

"It’s about having compassion even when you feel you may not have the strength for it in the moment."
> Yik Yak fires 30 of 50 employees, still has no business model

Oh, so what? Ars is trying to spin it off like the former caused the latter, while it's definitely the opposite. They hired too many people and realized it was time to let some go. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a company trying to rectify its mistakes. Instagram had 13 employees at acquisition, Yik Yak might have expanded too fast, but they're fixing it.

> still doesn’t have any obvious source of meaningful revenue. Yet somehow ... valued ... at $400 million in December 2014"

Plenty of companies have no revenue model initially, and can be valued at millions of dollars: Snapchat $800m in 2013[1], Instagram acquired at $1b.

Maybe i'm too naive, but a company makes plenty of epic mistakes throughout its lifetime, and can do some pretty outrageous things (Zuck's business cards [2]) but that doesn't mean they're incompetent, just learning. This article's trying to shovel as much dirt as it can on the company with cherry picked incidents about trouble the company's run into, and it's not a lot of trouble honestly. How is a company's experimentation with mandatory user handles part of a post on its downsizing?

[1]: http://qz.com/97467/snapchats-complete-inability-to-make-mon...

[2]: http://nextshark.com/heres-the-story-behind-mark-zuckerbergs...
When you declare an answer to be wrong and suppress it, the only difference is whether you go on to murder/imprison/exile the heretic or merely silence them.
You don't just sign up to be a resident in another country. You have to be invited. I know its fun to say "Screw this! I'm moving to Canada", but it doesn't work like that.
Twitter reinstates Richard Spencer's account
Hah yeah. I have no idea why I think of that in planes. I assume it would even be worse on ground level, fall into the bedrock and never come back up.

It must be something from my childhood and stories or TV shows, and just stuck with me. I know I had recurring dreams when I was young, a futuristic belt that let me jump through walls, but detected and kept me on the floor without falling through.
It doesn't matter anymore. You're allowed to only have a different opinion if you're rich enough. Like Thiel. Only then it is diversity. Otherwise it's fake news, Russian agents, and Trump spam.
Hotel Stays, Especially in Inclement Weather
We already live in that world today. Corporations already decide what is broadcasted and google does have to rank results at the end of the day. We all see the results on the page and right now they are not pretty. Try "does global warming exist?" I think link 2. is a problem. If it's damaging, maybe those damages should be determined by the courts. I don't think the corporations are the final arbitrator, a court should weigh in on matters of truth with well informed and constructed arguments. Then the rest of us can consider the merits of those arguments and vote accordingly.
I hope to god you are not using Kubernetes for your databases.
Max changed the way money is sent for better or for worse. He changed the landscape along with Thiel and Musk. PayPal ended up breeding a dozen or so entrepreneurs who have similarly changed the game. How this is not monumental is beyond me.
Show HN: “Introduction to React” screencast with source files
Owning all of them, I can say that Q1 and Q3 are more fun than Q2. Q1/Q3 were great, Q2 was... meh at best.

However, of the three, Quake 2 has the most active online community (although Quake has a larger pro scene - yes, it's still going. Q3 is dead, with most of the players having moved to QL, no matter how much they complain about its inferiority).
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13103774
old man yells at cloud
Terrible idea - it will bring all the negativity and toxicity of StackOverflow.
I'd also echo that The Economist is well worth a subscription. It also has the interesting quirk that doesn't use bylines and all articles are published anonymously.
> there are probably more virtuous ways to spend your time

You reminded me of this phrase:

"Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?"

(Steve Jobs' pitch to Pepsi exec John Sculley)
Oh, yeah. Q2 was great.

...If you liked having to wait a week to see if your rocket hit.
It's a little dishonest of this article not to point out that junk food is engineered- I mean literally engineered, by teams of scientists running controlled experiments- to be as addictive as possible. This isn't a question of those wacky consumers and their revealed preference not matching their stated intentions; human willpower should barely enter the conversation when this topic comes up.

If PepsiCo is genuinely serious about encouraging healthy foods, the only way that's ever going to work is if the Lay's and Doritos are re-designed to be less appealing. Putting them in a fight head-to-head with the healthy foods in their current state is a fight the healthy foods are always going to lose, even if Pepsi's intentions were pure as the driven snow. But they can't (again, irrespective of whether they're good or evil) because that would kill the brands and competitors would simply swoop in and take the market share; so once again we have a coordination problem where regulation is realistically the only solution.
I don't want to sound snarky but I'm interested in ebook of writing web apps/pages in old ways. Send a request, receive a request without js. :))
If we're talking about a basic income for just working aged Americans (because kids don't need it and the elderly are already covered by other programs) we're talking about roughly 200M people.

200M * 2000/hours per year * $10 hour = 4 trillion dollars a year.

For comparisons sake the current federal budget is about 3.8T.
I started using flashblock, which I thought was a reasonable compromise. It stopped the most aggressive as content and provided easy manual interaction to enable it.

Then websites started blocking me with ad-blocker-blockers. This occurred in tandem woth finding normal browsing getting slower and slower. This offended me that I switched to uBlock.
Sure, maybe they're untrustworthy, but we don't need to trust them to believe what they say in this case. We can evaluate what they say independently of their trustworthiness, using logic and experience.
Ask HN: Bare metal or embedded OS for IoT security
Good day all,

I'm in the process of scoping out an embedded project, that will at some point be connected to the internet (and then likely in some numbers).

The current complexity of the project makes a microcontroller based system with a realtime OS (FreeRTOS, etc) and an TCP/IP stack (uip, lwip, etc) feasible.

However, there are 2 reasons I might consider a realtime Linux & embedded computer based solution:

* Future increase in complexity beyond what a traditional embedded system can scale to, and
* Quicker development turnaround time (proven stack, APIs, tools, etc)

The big question for me is around IoT security. While not a fan of security through obscurity, a bare metal approach (first one above) means I control exactly what the system can and can't do, and also restricts potential vulnerabilities to something not used as widely (embedded OS, embedded IP stack). There is also no possibility of rooting the device, or running commands or scripts that I don't specifically support. For a Linux based system, my understanding is that the overall complexity of the OS and support tools, and the widely used nature of the stack (bigger attack surface) opens it up to any potential vulnerabilities discovered now and in the future. My biggest concern is inadvertently becoming part of an IoT botnet, knowing that I may not have the resources to fully support and secure any such breaches (or necessarily be able to convince customers to upgrade/update/patch and out of the way system).

Does HN embedded professionals have any input/advice/recommendations/corrections on this topic?
1. Obviously some people don't agree with fact or scientific truth, to each his/her opinion but it seems to me advertising is invasive by definition.

2. "your failed business model is not my problem" seems right. Could it be that most of the web is using an ad based revenue model because the guys who sell ads also happen to run the most popular web services at no monetary cost for the user and it's hard making a revenue while competing with gratis.

The expected solution to this conundrums would be to stop doing the internet wrong (centralizing everything) and start doing right (p2p, self-hosting, federated). The day may come when we have an affordable appliance you just plug in your network which will allow this.
i think i small windowed median filter would do a good job in this case
Hi folks, I made a couple of videos here on how to start playing with React in your browser with almost no setup. I am new to screencasts so any feedback would be great. I hope they're useful!
I've done press releases here and there but never put money in advertising or stuff like that.
I always consider it a bad sign for a startup whenever their founder is interviewed on topics completely irrelevant to the company. This article had nothing to do with Affirm, and is only generic hiring advice that purports to be about startups, but in fact applies equally to a large established company (e.g., perseverance)
Funds like Renaissance's have minimum investments in the millions, are often invite-only, etc. We average investors simply can't play in those leagues.
Sorry, I was confused by the part numbers. I was thinking of the 6028u based system that have 12x3.5" drives. These are what I used for my OSD nodes in my Ceph deployment.

As for CPU density, I still feel like you're going to need more spindles to get the IO you're looking for.
To play is to learn
> Intel has to do only two things to start taking market share away from Nvidia in DL/AI quickly:

...except that Intel has been trying to do that for over a decade, and Intel has been failing repeatedly for over a decade.

If that was as simple and easy as you lead to believe, Intel would've already done it by now.

Except it didn't, because it can't.
Glenn Greenwald is a God-tier journalist. Very few left like him.
And While We Were Here
I agree, the devkit boards are very reasonable now days. I think the part that should be in the cloud is the SDK's. The synthesis is the most computationally expensive part and you could cut compile times down by an order of magnitude if you could run you dev on big iron.
Startup Vlogging - we're vloggin our iOS beta launch w new content on fridays
I had this problem with the Supermicro SATA DOMs. Had problems with the whole batch.

That said, I bought the same 6TB HGST disk for two years.
Hi I'm Brian, the founder of SmashHound. We've started vlogging our progress as we launch our iOS app into private beta. Check it out if you're interested in starting a startup! We'd love feedback too! If there's a specific aspect we don't cover in our vlogs, that may interest you, hit me up!!
What's wrong with renting properties?

>which are wealth appropriating not wealth creating

Literally everything anyone buys is paid for by a portion of their wealth, not sure what you are trying to say here.
I would challenge your assertion that you need a core competency in bare metal. AWS and GCE are performant enough--you're just not using them correctly. Invest in IaaS expertise and be successful; invest in bare metal at this day and age and live to regret it forever.
Be careful with that attitude. The "blocker blockers" were something that convinced me to switch from flashblock (which is ad agnostic and quite minimalist) to uBlock.
Have you ever been to prison? That's where the US Government throws people who they deem to be "bad people" for about 5-10 years, sometimes forced to do menial work. That ruins lives just like what you read in the passage. One key difference is that now, ruining lives has been institutionalized, so people are somehow OK with it. It is what it is, though, at the end of the day.
How to Criticize with Kindness
I'd rather use OpenDNS to block the malware domains than use DNS based ad blocker
> How about publishers serve ads from their own main domain ? ...

Yeah, I'm a big fan of the idea. Imagine this - what if advertisers would give you a small PHP script to include in the website source code, that would run random code on the server, instead of ga.js? Would they think twice before including that crap? I bet they would.

As it stands, I've encountered sites that wanted me to run even 10 different scripts on a page, for ad networks I haven't even heard about.
Not true: https://www.reddit.com/r/physicsporn/
I tried reading Snow Crash and found it to be childish.
How about the morality of attention theft? Or dirty tricks?

Yes, of course not everyone is bad but one is enough.
Precisely.

Intel is trying to compete with NVidia by offering inferior performance at a premium price.

In massively parallel applications, cost is closely tied to performance. NVidia has both aspects secured very well.

In fact, NVidia is already a prominent part in supplying components for the 3rd place in the Top500, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan system, which mixes up AMD Opterons with NVIdia k20x GPUs.
Is it possible to engineer healthy and addictive food?