skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using BDXL seems like a pretty good solution. Most of this data is archival and existing data is very unlikely to change. You can use HDD/SSD as a buffer as users upload data, and then optimize the packing to ensure you're using all available space on a disk. Possibly encrypt each user's data block on the disk. The system itself would only need to track metadata (file metadata, cartridge/disk, key). Deleting a file would be deleting the key and marking the file as inactive. Once/if a cartridge is marked as completely deleted, can just recycle it.
> ... from the driver perspective, the network effect protection is relatively poor

I disagree. A driver will prefer as little time between the end of one ride and the beginning of the next, since they don't get paid for down time. Whichever service has the most riders is most likely to have the next closest rider.

You are right that at the end of the first ride, the driver could examine all services to see who has the closest next rider, giving a new service a shot, although the new service riders are far less likely to be the closest one. Uber (incumbent) for example already counteracts this by giving drivers bonuses for picking up more riders in certain timeframes, so the driver picking the less popular service will also be giving up on those.
Closer to Vimperator is probably cVim[1], which also provides command line mode.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cvim/ihlenndgcmojh...
How about keeping the capital gains tax I suggested on secondary homes, thus keeping out one class of people, those who are actually making handsome profits on this behavior.

Renting out to people during the 6 months of the year is already an incentive, you get a check each month. You might also get to talk to a few people, learn a few things and make some new friends. Not sure if there is renter insurance, but that might be nice in case you get a tenant that damages the place. A service like that might give property owners some peace of mind.
A multi billionaire could've bought all the land, displaced 50,000 residents, and the world still wouldn't come to an end.
IP addresses could help them identify people trying to get away with smurfing by setting up multiple accounts [see: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smurf.asp], and customer support for banking is typically about reconciliation -- if coinbase has any mutable records in their databases (likely) that'd be the only place to find the original information -- if they don't get it in the first court order they won't have a super good reason to ask for it later (a judge will ask them why they think the new order is needed, and if they suspect the information supplied to be false -- if they ask for it immediately it can be used to create a more detailed picture of how certain accounts developed).

Not saying the order is justified, merely that the people asking for it want it for actual reasons.
> Do not compromise with others in coorporation. Ask for script for everything. If sysamin tells you that your server is low on disk you ask for proof in the form of the command you can execute. If you give it a job to create a IIS site for you ask for a script. If you are a project manager like me, do not close tickets without a script.

That may be the worst advice I've ever seen on how to work with others. It's the PowerShell equivalent of not just preaching veganism but requiring that anyone interacting with you start an organic garden.
I've actually just been disabling css via umatrix, but yes. I've found that disabling JS makes sites load at decent speeds, and disabling CSS makes sites readable again.

I'd love to be able to control umatrix via vimperator though
I have Vimium in Chrome, VimFX on Firefox and Vimmy in Safari.

Maybe something like Vimium would work for you?
Is Noise the right answer to any of these crypto "questions"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9593916
I think linking to the homepage would've been better. It includes a "What is it good for?" section, as well as examples.

The articles on the vmprobe[1] homepage are also very well written. They present a simple scenario, and talk through it without lots of buzzwords. A bit sad that there's no macOS support.

I just tried using vmtouch on the root of a web project with lots of dependencies. I tried evicting and touching a few times, and it seems to consistently take ~1 second off its startup time. Unfortunately, touching seems to take ~3 seconds.

Does anyone regularly use this in their daily workflow?

[0] https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/

[1] https://vmprobe.com/
Only in certain jurisdictions
In addition to this, don't ignore survivor bias. It is amazing how so many things are ignored if they are normalized.

An easy example, right on red. Statistically, this has been shown to be dangerous. Chance of convincing people of this... Pretty much nil.
You have a weird view that selling plasma is something shameful or degrading. I've participated before. There is nothing shameful or humiliating about it. I don't see anything objectionable about selling plasma, and they pay enough to make it worth the time.

>Do they? Is a "better" world a one in which people are forced to sell their plasma to survive? In your dimly utilitarian view, you've neglected to consider whether such a state of affairs is truly a good one

You twist my words. Is the world optimal? Of course not. Does that have anything to do with the plasma industry whatsoever? Again, the plasma industry did not create poverty. They are not "forcing" anyone to sell plasma. They are not making the world any worse than it otherwise was. The people who sell plasma are better off - otherwise they wouldn't continue to do it voluntarily.

>Whether or not people choose to give to your pet injustice (there are many of them, after all) is not indication that they passively abide by it.

If you want to know what someone really believes - what they really value - you need to look at their actions, not their words. People lie about their beliefs and values, even to themselves.
I've been thinking about making the move from Toronto to Montreal. Way cheaper rents and the city has better transport than Toronto, but I'm worried that getting by in only English is going to be an issue.
What about "Monkey Patch"?
I've found that keeping tires out of the sun makes the biggest difference. If kept out of the sun, bike tires can last a long time. One time I bought a bunch at the same time, and over the years I've regularly gotten one or two out of storage and found them satisfactory.
The difference in the UK is that just about every government agency you can think of, including the 'Food Standards Agency'(!!), can look into your browsing history without having to apply to anyone. Presumably the Food Standards people have a role in preventing terrorism that is not clear to the rest of us.
For anyone interested, specialist tandem outfitters used to shave off the heat dissipation fins on old-style Arai drum brakes. The point of said brakes was not to dissipate heat, but to stop the tandem. It is true that very old tandems with rim brakes had heat-dissipation problems.

http://www.bikeforums.net/tandem-cycling/52661-shaving-arai-...
>This can be an issue, but it depends on the type of app you are making.

It does, but the problem is Electron is the new hotness, so every chat client that could have been a 10MB native app is now coming out as a 100MB Electron app. Instead of looking at the problem being solved and choosing Electron, people work backwards and choose Electron because that's what looks good on a resume/is easy to hire for/is popular/etc., then try and fit their problems into it.

"simply don't have an equivalent in native app development"

Really? I mean I know D3.js is just an example, but between LiveCharts, OxPlot, MS Charts, and a decades worth of charting libs there's nothing like it? The thing is native has decades of legacy, which isn't always a bad thing as much as people tend to assume it is.

Electron apps are not doing things that are extraordinarily new, I'd be shocked to find that there are popular libraries for frontend web dev that don't have alternatives on native (not to mention native has WebViews that get updated outside of your own release cadence, and offer performance that's at least good enough to embed in places where you really can't find anything as good as the Js equivalent).

>In general, Web technologies are advancing at a much faster rate than native, and native tech will find it hard to keep up.

I find that statement wonderfully ironic, I think with things like Electron, the Web just started getting to where native tech is. Web technologies "advance faster" in the sense that technology "churns faster". Look at what web apps were doing in 2006 and what web apps were doing in 2016 from a user's perspective. While from a web devs perspective React and co might have brought us forward (or sideways) lightyears, from a user perspective not that much changed. If WPF could do what that user needed in 2006, it can do what they need today, that's why there's so few "advancements".

Now we're getting stuff like WASM so we can essentially utilize native stacks on web tech, I don't know how easily I can call that "advanced tech" over native.
ROE is a financial performance indicator. They're generally in the single digits, low double digits is considered good. In a competitive market, they should converge to round about the same number on average, even across industries (module riskyness, correlation with market as a whole, and such factors).

The ROE of academic publishers is abnormally high, indicating some sort of market failure.

In this case, scientists do almost all of the work (write, typeset (mostly), referee) for free (or nominal amounts), so expenses are low.

The publishers charge libraries inordinate amounts for subscriptions (dollars per page).

And scientist need to publish, and they need to publish in high prestige/impact journals, and the prestige/impact is tied to the title, and the publishers own the titles, it is hard for competitors to enter.
Mitsubishi Elec considers 3-day long weekends as rethinking long working hours
https://www.google.com/search?q=bill+gates+headstand
And then click on "Images". However YMMV ...
Rape Victim Jailed for a Month, Treated Like a Prisoner
Half the people only speak English.
I'm not sure there is the massive "losses from unreported cash wages" you seem to imply there is.

There's two main forms of "cash wages" in the US. One being wait staff, the other being "under the counter pay" to workers, generally labor intensive. Wait staff who regularly under report their tips are easily identified by the IRS. In the second case, these generally aren't well paid jobs (thus wouldn't generate much, if any, tax revenue).
NopCommerce roadmap for ASP.NET Core
By keeping it simple and sticking with proven building blocks and patterns so as to not "roll my own crypto" (which is very, very bad).

If you're using something like AES in GCM mode and ECDHE the only part where you have some leeway in implementation is in how you exchange the ephemeral keys. I largely get around this because both clients and servers are required to have valid X509 certificates and the protocol won't proceed if they can't mutually authenticate. You can use these certificates to sign the preliminary messages (selecting ciphers, digests, and protocol specific parameters) until the key exchange is complete and you're encrypting everything with the ephemeral keys. At that point, even if the static keys are compromised you still get PFS.

You can also mitigate things like KCI MITM attacks by simply forcing strong cipher suites and key derivation protocols. AES-128-GCM and AES-256-GCM when used with ephemeral ECDH (using the right curves) is very well studied and known to provide PFS among other things.
You can always publish the paper on your own website.

Publishing in a top journal like science or nature is primarily for getting the social capital of having gone through a difficult selection process. People need to get paid to see if the science done in the paper was good, whether it was plagiarized, peer-review, etc etc.
Simply.. more selective = more effort = more cost.
Are you seriously comparing selling blood to slavery? What does that have to do with anything?

Slaves work because if they don't, the slave master will beat or kill them. The plasma industry isn't going to beat or kill you if you don't sell them blood.

You may have problems in your life that make you so desperate, you need to sell your blood. But the plasma industry didn't create those problems, and they aren't making your life any worse.
There is also a sibling project called Muttator, which brings vimperator to Thunderbird. It allows you to get mutt-like ergonomics (including vim as text editor) with support for HTML mails.
A Search Engine for Programming Language Syntax Is a Pretty Good Idea
I'd recommend:
- "Learn PowerShell in A Month Of Lunches"
- reddit.com/r/powershell
- the powershell podcast at powershell.org
Why would a bike in storage deteriorate that much more quickly than one in use? You do need to store the tires inflated, but I use one set of tires for years, and I keep the bike outdoors in all weather and use it daily.

I do get the impression bike tires have gotten better over the years, because I don't remember tires being that robust in my childhood (but, well, memory and all...).
Out of curiosity, why are you a fan of CC up front for free trials? I'm trying to decide whether or not to include that for my service.
No, it does not seem to use information from the compiler to get the actual types. It seem like it sometimes does something based on imports or something like that. But it fails even on trivial code:

https://i.imgur.com/mPUbrFP.png
Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkMnk_eCDQU
The IRS regularly busted people for this when I waited tables back in the 90s, so I can't imagine that it got harder for them to do so now with more advanced technology.
Ask HN: Dual monitors, or single 4k?
I currently have a single 29" LCD monitor which I'm finding a bit cramped. More and more I find myself with multiple tiled windows, and I'm starting to feel that 1920x1080 pixels is not enough anymore.

I'm a coder by trade and hobby, don't really do any video or graphics stuff (the odd logo in Photoshop)

I'm trying to decide between getting a second 29" monitor, or a higher resolution and probably larger replacement screen. What's your setup? Which do you prefer? Is your average 4k TV good enough to work as a Desktop monitor?
I'll vouch for the "Ian Knot". Throughout my life I had to double-tie the classic shoelace knot or else it would come loose a some point during the day. Then I tried the Ian Knot. It is significantly faster and easier. And, now I have some laced shoes that I just slip on because they stay tied for weeks instead of hours.

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm
Front end developer or Back end developer?
https://bit.ly/frontend-side
or
https://bit.ly/backend-side
Animated map shows location of world's largest city over 4000 years [OC]
I'm not sure that this holds true in today's ecosystem. Yes, developers may come to the platform, but the big companies won't come unless the consumers come to the platform. And consumers won't come unless Facebook, Snapchat, etc show up.
I wouldn't care if the chain is heavier. The scary stories I heard from what happens if the chain falls apart are enough for me. I would even pay more. No problem.

However, when I asked the guys in the shop, they had nothing like that.
Harsh as it sounds, and without wishing to be personal (but of course, everything is personal to someone) that's good news. It should discourage you from doing more landlording. Maybe even encourage you to stop making this loss.

I also want to discourage anyone else from doing more landlording, and a tax break for you and others like you would work against that.
Good idea of extending the technique.

I want to address you last concern. moxie's specific concern is that without the extra measure I explained in the blog article, WhatsApp could find out on a large scale, covertly (!!!), who has this setting enabled or not. Simply because after a while pretty much every client will have to face the decision whether or not to retransmit for a benign reason.

Of course if they MITM, they can distinguish the re-send text from the garbage text, but the point is that then they are MITMing already and risk being detected. So instead they could've just MITM the conversation from the beginning on with risking of being detected.
I'm always fascinated with how deep some niche-topics are. I mean, it's just a shoelace and very few people think about it at all. So cool!

Fun fact: searching for 'shoelace' on google puts this site on third place for me, right after shoelace.com and the wikipedia entry.

edit: Ian Figgen is the inventor of the Ian knot that somebody else has posted here. He has to be _really_ into shoelacing!
He didn't close Guantanamo, kept authorizing drone strikes, expanded government surveillance, failed to prevent/aid/resolve Syria, didn't pardon whistleblowers who exposed agencies infringing constitutional rights.

He believes that the government should be able to play by its own rules.
This is a funny joke.... But ultimately nonsense. Any other planets with any life?

At best, it is looking like most life dies off. Conway's game is incredibly fitting in that.
If you can't downvote at all, then I likely have the threshold wrong. This thread makes me think it's 200 or 500.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8381148

Two other factors I know of are:

- You can't downvote a response to a comment you posted

- You can't downvote comments after a certain interval (24 hours?)

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TL;DR: Keeping an unworn chain on your bike is important.

I can't speak much to bike chain quality, but 15 years with one chain seems kinda exceptional. I am also relative child still, so I may just not have been alive to experience chains that last that long. Chains are tested by measuring the distance between links with a tool[0], or by checking to see how much wiggle room your chain has between links when it's on the largest cog[1]. If the distance is too great, that means the chain has "stretched" (which is a bad word for it - the pins that hold the links of your chain together wear, and the distance between each link grows, so nothing has actually stretched). Worn chains usually also start to cause wear to your cassette and cog, so getting them replaced can be important. Make sure to maintain your chain by keeping it clean, adding lubricant once in a while, etc.

[0]:http://pardo.net/bike/pic/fail-004/18164_061544.jpg
[1]:https://cyclingtips.com/2016/09/how-to-check-for-chain-wear-...
The meat of the article is about the flurry of timeouts you get late in a close game, which have never not been incredibly boring.
Why IBM's Watson Speech API Might Be Right for Your App
It starts out with facts. That those facts reflect poorly on a person has no bearing on their truth value.

If you believe the article misrepresents the state of affairs, say so -- but whataboutism doesn't cut it. It steers the discussion off course.
Link? I haven't seen Nature claim or try to push any FUD that open-access publications do not have top papers.
Or it can be a demotivating factor, as the list of things he's finished has increased but he's not a single step closer to finishing. I've seen lots of grad students invent plausible reasons to do things that aren't finishing the dissertation, and this blog post fits that description.
eLucy – Information about Lucy, an early fossil hominin
I should have said "as long as" instead of "especially when." When you're cloning a data structure, obviously you need to think about what you're cloning, no matter what language you do it in, and you need to know the difference between Copy and Clone. My point is that a cloning operation is still fast and modern processors are well optimized for it as long as the library author didn't put some computationally expensive or blocking operation.

You have to "notify the memory allocator" in every language but in Rust you don't pay for the extra GC overhead unless you explicitly opt into RC, Arc, or your own GC. The point is that in a low level language, allocating and copying to maintain safety guarantees is fine because you have finr grained control over what you pay for. For a beginner, it's more important to get a feel for the borrow checker and cloning allows someone to get a positive feedback loop until they figure out how to structure their code to work with the borrow checker instead of against it.
You should really really inform yourself better.
Ready for a NWO
Hold on tight,

Our //G// is tech

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Almost time for round 2

Code 77

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Hear trumpets
Thanks for the reply.

I came up with:

f(x) = (sin((pi * x) - (pi / 2)) + 1) / 2
where x is between 0 and 1

I'm a collector of randomness functions for games. Weighted, gaussian, linear, etc. This sinusoidal randomness will be handy! Thanks for the inspiration.
Yes they do, for example: http://www.tannus.com

The trade off is that they're somewhat heavier and have more rolling resistance than a good air-filled tire.
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Same here. I consciously choose Lyft and feel good about encouraging competition and voting with my money against all the evil things Uber does recently.

Oh that, and I refuse to give Uber my location 24/7. Uber App went to trash.
Not all breakthroughs are just theory. If you can show me someone actually managing to land a launch-capable rocket, and not just some testbed demo capable of throttling to less than hover, I'm all ears.

The only other player in this space is Blue Origin, and they are still working on their commercially-viable engines. Everybody else throws away their rocket after the launch.
I've always been puzzled how it could be possible for a machine to predict stock markets, even on an purely hypothetical basis. To me the idea seems to generate the same kind of paradoxes as time travel or oracles.

I mean, imagine there is a machine that is capable of predicting the markets with 100% reliability. Then soon enough, the machine will acquire a reputation and everyone will follow its advice. The machine says "the price of X will go up", everybody would buy X, so the price of X would indeed go up, but this price surge would have only been initiated by the machine statement and we'd have a self-realizing prophecy. Other situations would be more complicated I suppose, but in every case the machine would have to take into account its own prediction, which would be some kind of a mise en abyme.

In the end just like antic oracles, the machine would have to make cryptic predictions that would make sense only with hindsight.
I spent 15 years in academia and now work with dozens of former academics. In all my time, I don't think I've ever met a single person who didn't loathe the journal system from top to bottom, and that includes at least a couple journal editors.

I seethe in anger every time something I'm looking into ends in a IEEE or other journal who militantly police arXiv preprints.

The day we bury the last for-profit closed access journal will be a momentous day in the history of science.
Any thoughts on Blackrock's smart alpha ETF offerings like MTUM, QUAL, etc?
You could try freeswitch which has some fun cli stuff. mod_portaudio lets you make and take calls from your terminal (although you have to use fs_cli, but you can alias dial to fs_cli -x"pa call $1"). There are a few sms modules as well.
You can still get 6-7-8 speed rear cassettes (which use a common 6-7-8 speed chain size) if you're worried about chain durability and don't care about the extra range. In general 10/11 speed parts are still more expensive than 6/7/8 or 9-speed parts.