skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The timing is coincidental, at least from my side.

We keep track of all mentions of GitLab on sources such as HN, but also Google+. There I was pointed to this comment [0]. This triggered me to look into the existing issue again [1] and reevaluate.

The data showed that there was no good reason for us to keep GitLab Pages in EE, so it made sense to move it to CE!

[0]: https://plus.google.com/u/1/115261498097261634859/posts/EWhA...

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14605
The PV panels are mostly a solved problem and firmly in the realm of physics, chemistry, and semiconductors. This field is dominated by research institutes like Fraunhofer ISE, and startups that spin off from its researchers, but to play in this field requires a very unique set of domain expertise.

Methods like load management, demand response, and other ways of dealing with the mismatch between momentary generation and demand -- sometimes lumped into the catch-all term 'smart grid' -- lie at the intersection of data science, algorithms, public policy, and infrastructure. The parts are inseparable: this is a field very reliant on meatspace and subject to the whims of the economy, nature, and the political process.

This is a lot of factors to base your profit on (in case of a startup). And while employment at energy companies is stable and moderately lucrative, the fruits of one's labor are subtle and not immediately observable by the general public, while at the same time being fairly high-stakes. This limits the field's appeal.
Nice. D. Lee Fugal is also a co-author of The Essential Guide to Digital Signal Processing (2014):

https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Guide-Digital-Signal-Proces...
This sounds more dramatic than what it actually is, a merge of two CryEngine forks.
Game theory is probably more relevant in the nuclear war scenario.
Mommies want freedom
"A bunch of their staff" jumped ship? What are we talking there? 5 people? 10? 50?

Unless you're talking about a mass exodus, more high ranking employees left Blizzard Entertainment the past couple of years than that. Is Blizzard a sinking ship as well?
How We Sped Up SNI TLS Handshakes by 5x
The article is only 2 sentences long, and says no: "all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16"
> where any and all of your traffic can be sniffed

*all non-SSL traffic, no?
I've taught guitar on and off over the years, including to retirees- I would say you are never to old too learn. Please forgive how reductive this comment will be, it may not help at all. I do think you have to have this coincidence inside you where you can learn to love practicing, and not knowing things. The trickier or more stupid something is, the more you have to love unpacking that problem, and allow yourself to dive deep into what it is made up of. That attitude was what finally got me to stick with learning programming after years as a musician. Figure out that every obstacle is a gift you can learn from. The main thing I have found that helped me in learning is that you are not teaching your hands specific positions, you are teaching your fingers specific paths between locations. Focus on the paths.
Golang, GraphQL and Vue.js Demo App
> from hearing from people one knows personally (and trust), who heard from others they know (ditto).

So what you're telling me is that you know the economic impact of this phenomenon from social gossip?

Like I said, you need actual evidence. For example, a survey from a reputable census data agency. "It is known" and "he said/she said" are not acceptable arguments.
I bet a lawyer could help with this.
The link should probably be updated to point directly to Venturebeat [0] instead of the AMP version. I think submitting the AMP version might break the guidelines, which ask you to submit the original source.

I preordered Star Citizen a few years ago, but I stopped keeping track of all updates after a while. To be honest, I kinda assumed it'd just become vaporware.

Although I'd heard about Amazon Lumberyard before, I hadn't considered this before: I wonder if Amazon will start a game studio at some point, since they seem to have a hand in pretty much every other tech scene. Are there any big avenues open for disruption in the videogame scene?

[0] http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/23/star-citizen-and-squadron-...
True, so perhaps it would be better to ask you to join the cleantech industry as an employee first? Then, when you have learned the ropes and pain points, quit and start a company to solve that pain point.
buggy temporal semantics? use TLA+
This is the type of site which is a really interesting idea but finding it half-way through sucks somewhat :(
99% of "Show HN" type of apps are website-in-a-box HTML+CSS+JS blobs.

There is at least 50 frameworks for easily building apps for both platforms (with some also supporting Windows Phone as well) with a single press of the button. Choose one, use it, stop reinventing the wheel.
Works in Chrome for me.
The application uses Beego framework, with Gorm instead of Beego's ORM, which I hope people will find useful.

It also demos how to integrate a GraphQL Golang backend with a Vue.js + Vuex frontend.

Hope people will find this useful.
I believe in labor solidarity so: absolutely not.
As far as I knew, the plan was to use the various Google Cloud services for the backend, but I wonder if CIG found the offerings from Google too paltry. AWS seems to have better geographical proximity for Australia and South America, along with Asia in general, which was a complaint/concern among backers from Asia and Australia and South America.

As far as the license for CryEngine, I believe that wasn't an ongoing cost per se. I know CIG has done a bunch of customization (64-bit floating point precision vs 32-bit floating precision the biggest) but they were originally talking about folding some of those changes back into the general CryTek offering. I wonder if they're instead going to offer that to Amazon for Lumberyard as a cost offset to their use of the services.

Star Citizen would be a pretty big feather in the cap for Lumberyard, as well. I'm optimistic about the game's development.
I'm pretty sure that even if it was just a US and Russia thing that some places in the UK would be hit - the Fylingdales BMEWS site, possibly the UK Trident facilities on the Clyde.
Are you familiar with Zipf's Law?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law
Probably cyanogen himself [1].

1. aka Steve Kondik: the original founder of the open source project which preceeded Cyanogen Inc, of which he was a co-founder before he bailed.
The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music [pdf]
In 4th grade, they started teaching kids about their "digital tattoo". A reasonable analogy -- like a tattoo, it's very hard to erase whatever you put out there.

Non-profit: http://www.mydigitaltat2.org
I still haven't heard a good explanation why this must mean that conservation of momentum is being violated. Couldn't there be a new phenomenon at which forces act at a larger or more distant scale on other masses, similar to gravity? That seems more plausible than beating conservation of momentum.
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Amazon actually already runs a game studio: https://games.amazon.com
What are the differences/tradeoffs between OpenVPN and IPSec?

EDIT: I asked further up on the thread; kindly answer there instead. My apologies for the double-ask.
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Very cool thanks for sharing this.
I think the devs deserve slightly more respect. Nobody wants to spend years of their lives on an unfinished product.
Cool! So the timing was a coincidence. Also see our internal chat log with timestamps https://gitlab.com/snippets/34152
You can just not distribute your software. Keep it for yourself.

Last year, a german developer did that, because he disagreed with the policies of the European Union.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/paper-retracted-after...

That's were you see the notion of country is a great invention: you can gather all the non racists in a country, and all the racists in other countries (classified by races), and then everybody is happy. But of course, don't distribute your products cross borders: establish tariffs and rules for importation and exportation.
The interesting stuff is what happened after the date when contradictory information began to appear.

Most people's identity gradually changes over time. The usefulness of knowing what they've done comes entirely from being able to predict what they will do in the future. If all you've got is stuff > ~5 years old, it's virtually useless. Occasionally, if you're running for public office, some newspaper will dig up dirt of something inappropriate you did in college, but all you have to do is say "I'm horrified and ashamed that such embarrassing old stories have been dug up now, and they in no way reflect my beliefs or actions today" and most of the public will give you a pass. Most of them did pretty horrifying and shameful stuff when they were in college too.

This also suggests a general way to erase yourself from the Internet: just stop posting. Eventually, all of your old posts - if they don't get deleted by sites going out of business - will simply cease to be relevant, and becomes active misdirection for people trying to predict your actions now.
Heh, reminds me of a 100 Mbps fiber connection I had... with the slowest router in existence, which could only push 45 Mbps before literally dying (simply stopped responding).
I wonder if the ISP used those on purpose...
I am curious do you have a different suggestion for a LISP implementation for working through SICP other than CLISP or would you agree this is a good choice?
We've updated the title from “Runners and musicians have better-connected brains than the rest of us” to that of the article.
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> I wish he'd explained somewhere how they leapt to examining virtualized NTP clients...

I had a hunch [wrongly] that the traffic was caused by a particular operating system. I didn't have enough machines to run the tests on bare-metal, so I virtualized them. And I suspected that virtualization would provide a worst-case scenario (the virtualized clocks would be jittery).

My big surprise was that Windows was a model client (once per day), OS X was good, too, and that FreeBSD was the worst and Ubuntu a close second. It was a complete inversion of what I had expected to find.

> what they ultimately did (since there's no part 3 that I can find).

I never wrote part 3, but now that it seems the post has gained traction on Hacker News I might be inspired to write one. The summary would be as follows:

To reduce your costs by a quarter, use the following lines in your NTP configuration file to throttle overly-aggressive clients (the important directive is `limited`:

```
restrict default limited kod nomodify notrap nopeer
discard minimum 0
```

Here is a description of NTP rate-limiting and why `limited`, `kod`, and `discard` are important: https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/rate.html

Here is my current NTP configuration:
https://github.com/cunnie/deployments/blob/95e9c71e882d453ec...
This seems more of just a problem with how the two parties try to win by absorbing every fringe groups crazies cause into a national platform. It is a failing of our country to have hyper partisan politics controlled at a national level and holding all members in every state accountable to the same platform.
Err...then what elon musk is doing exactly? Is not he dreaming of wiping out whole big power plant industry from face of earth using only solar power. What more you are asking for ?
> Popular

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> 3. Artist Targeted by #Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory Speaks
> 4. The Accidental Social Media Artist Who Can’t Stop Falling
> 5. The Masterful, Unsettling Work of a Female Cuban Printmaker

Somebody's got a talent for writing clickbaity titles - and I mean that as a compliment. They're compelling, yet much more subtle than the typical BuzzFeed or listicle piece
Then I guess you'll have to use somebody else's free server.
archive.org has copies of the various Usenet archives, but doesn't have a specialized UI for viewing the data as threaded postings in groups.
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My bad. Now that the post has been picked up on HN, I'll try to write up a conclusion.
Of note in this instance is that the VC-backed for-profit sponsor was established years after the project itself was self-sufficient. Also the original project founder is onboard with the fork
Apple has pulled all of Nokia’s Withings products from its online store
Sounds more like a feature from Twitter's point of view.
Others on this thread have mentioned Algo VPN, which uses IPSec instead of OpenVPN.

Googling for IPSec leaves me a bit befuddled; can anyone explain the differences / tradeoffs?

If I felt like setting my personal laptop to always use an IPSec VPN for day-to-day computing, what downsides would I experience?
Amazon ECS – Support for Windows Containers (Beta)
Superb. Thank you, Sytse, and have a great holiday!
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Thanks, Spooky23. As you pointed out, contributing to the community takes more time than originally expected.
Errrr, how is this lunacy? Seems like something everyone should be aware of.
Kudos to China!! We should give credit when it's due.
Seems possible, check this out:

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/criminals/
It would not be open source if you didn't allow Trump supporters to use it.

https://opensource.org/osd

The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

There is no such thing as pro-life or pro-choice open source software.
> That's the problem right there. It's easy to imagine that everyone lives like you when you are in a city that rarely leave, unless it is to fly to another city

I hope you can see the irony in rural areas being upset that "those city people don't understand us" when they also make little attempt to understand the political motivations of urban voters. They also seem to believe that the world should keep subsidizing their jobs even when there is a long term trend of urbanization etc.

Personally I think rural and urban areas need each other but we need more compromise - why are urban areas subsidizing infrastructure spending in rural areas and the farm bill only to get kicked in the teeth when issues associated with urban areas come up? Do we want to go back to rural poverty being the norm? My wifes grandparents grew up in that and it was a hard life. Those people need affordable healthcare and benefit from being able to send their kids off to good universities etc.

Rural America doesn't have a monopoly on the "real" America - they are just as out of touch with urban America.
Same in the SF Bay Area. Called the Street Sheet and it's handed out for a dollar generally though you could of course give more.
Is rhetoric the real problem, or is it nuclear proliferation? Schlosser's book, which I've read and much admire, makes the point that nuclear stewardship is insanely difficult. If the world is less safe its because where there were once two nuclear powers, there are now between nine and twelve depending whom you ask. Rhetoric is the least of the world's concerns when countries which cannot build and maintain effective basic infrastructure are engineering and maintaining nuclear stockpiles.
Isn't being "technically" correct, but actually not doing what people expect kinda frowned upon?

> Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
Even when you're using SSL/TLS the traffic can still be seen on the network. The difference is that a sniffer will see cipher text rather than plain text.
I wonder, should this be solved with local NTP servers that resolve from the name pool.ntp.org?
A hypothesis mentioned in the original paper: "...it is also possible that the cognitive benefits of exercise occur because locomotion is not simply an automated repetitive motor task, but is instead a highly complex behavior that involves domains related to both motor and cognitive functions. For example, walking or running through complex environments can engage several components of executive function including volition, self-awareness, planning, inhibition, monitoring, attentional switching and multi-tasking, in addition to motor control..."

If that is indeed the mechanism which accounts for the brain differences claimed, perhaps mountaineers, sidecountry & backcountry skiers or snowboarders, mountain bikers or long-distance hikers might be better groups than runners for validating this.
Especially when you speed it out across 500 jobs it's only $1400, which is nothing compared to what welfare would cost and the loss in tax revenue.

So it's not a bad deal if you look at it in isolation, but there are reasonable concerns on whether this is scalable and whether we want to introduce protectionist policies with the expectation that the rest of the world may retaliate.

Because if that's not the plan, then the Carrier deal is just showmanship with little substantive impact.
Why did you stop climbing?
I took jlibtool from Apache. I don't think they're using it any more.

I fixed a lot of bugs. It's now a 95% drop-in replacement for libtool. The builds are MUCH faster than with libtool.
> The word Redis didn't even exist on the page linked

really?

"Compare to Redis at 0.5M ops/sec (cached reads, Macbook Air), even with pipeline optimizations turned on, here: https://redis.io/topics/benchmarks"
So you want to exclude people based on their political opinions ? How is it different from excluding Mexican immigrants from using your code ?

Trump supporters are persons you know, just like gay people, blacks or immigrants. What difference do you see between your attitude and the average Trump supporter's one ?
CIG deserves a lot more respect than that. I'm appalled at the quality of the comments here.

They are one of the best studios in the industry right now when it comes to consumer and dev friendliness. Their blog is a treasure trove of interesting posts on the internal development of the game, far more often and rigorously updated than anything else.

Seriously, keep the unsourced/unresearched flames to Reddit. You'd think that HN of all communities would be more appreciative of what CIG brings to the table.
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They have Russian interface (https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ru/peer/), so I guess they are based in Russia? Also, Russian "about page" is more informative than English: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ru/contacts/
Oh wow, that's a great link. So it seems this person does continue to have a restriction on the use of his software in certain countries as a visit to his website shows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT

Carrier-grade NAT (CGN), also known as large-scale NAT (LSN),
is an approach to IPv4 network design in which end sites,
in particular residential networks,
are configured with private network addresses that are translated
to public IPv4 addresses by middlebox network address translator
devices embedded in the network operator's network,
permitting the sharing of small pools of public addresses among many end sites.
This shifts the NAT function and configuration thereof from the customer premises to the Internet service provider network.
I'm surprised at how quiet SpaceX has been on this, the tech seems right up their alley.
> There is public interest in knowing who owns the property at a certain address, but the reverse lookup of the same information--where does a certain citizen live--should be made illegal without the permission of the citizen.

This is not possible. The most you can do is make it slightly inconvenient to invert the Address -> Resident lookup.

I'm also not sure "public interest" is a valid justification to violate privacy in this way at all. Perhaps one shouldn't be able to look up who owns an address without some rigamorole.
Distributed social media where all your posts are on your own private server/NAS box next to your router. This means only people you "connect with" will have access. No companies will collect data. At the time of your choosing you can just delete your info. This doesn't prevent your friends from making copies, but they usually won't. As for sites like HN, use an alias so the posts can't be connected back to the real you. That's hard to put leakage, so let's try to create such sites so that when an account is deleted it really is. Not sure how to ensure that.
World’s first solar road opens in France: It’s ridiculously expensive
Lots of people, especially in engineering and similar professions, are salaried. We are paid weekly to accomplish whatever amount of work our boss expects of us that week. That doesn't necessarily mean any specific number of hours, or that the work be done continuously without breaks.

The trade off of course is that sometimes the work takes more than the nominal 40 hours, or has to be done at odd hours, and you don't get paid more for that.
Uber is exploitative in that it can set prices in a completely arbitrary manner that has little to do with the way an auto-regulating market works. It's the classic "invisible hand", only in this case it's completely calculated and pre-meditated by a god-like entity.
Pretty sad that your post was downvoted, since while Google haven't dropped Usenet entirely (I wish they would, and hand it to someone who gives a shit about it), they have gone out of their way to make a once useful service as unusable as possible.

Go to groups.google.com in the early days and you got the Usenet archive. Go now (and for many years), and you get this:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!overview

Where's the Usenet archive there?

Furthermore, Google is a significant reason why many people deserted Usenet over the last decade or so, as it provided via Google Groups a gateway for posts that were almost exclusively troll, abuse or spam (or, at best, clueless Googlers (like AOLers of the past) who didn't know they were posting to Usenet, or what Usenet is) and Google completely ignored pleas by people in the Usenet community to stop the abuse.

Edit: Funny, after making this post, after trying to find (via Google) examples I knew of people on Usenet complaining about Google, I now do another Google search and I'm greeted with a captcha, due to "unusual traffic from your computer network".

I don't wanna get all conspiratorial, but it's still creepy as hell.
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It's more like all non-HSTS traffic, unless you're paying extremely close attention. Otherwise a man in the middle attacker can just pretend the server doesn't support HTTPS and serve the page via HTTP.

And even when you're using HTTPS you're still leaking DNS queries etc.
Does it though? Does the latter actually take a "lot" more work to optimize? That sounds too much like a convenient excuse.
Appreciate the report. Safari has the same issue for some reason, so I will check it out on an Android device as well. ty