skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do lots of stuff. A YubiKey 4 has GPG Smartcard, U2F, PIV (SSH,CA, Windows Remote Login), Static Password, Yubikey OTP, Challenge Response Mode (HMAC) and HOTP. It does a lot of stuff, I am amazed how cheap they are.

Pure U2F sticks can be done much cheaper. The Yubikey one only costs 18$, but the U2F standards was designed for cheap devices. You can get U2F sticks for less then 10$ on amazon.
Maybe muut.com?
Not necessarily. We visit tons of sites and a small blog has slim chances of getting its assets into the cache in the first place (if browsers put every asset we browse in the cache it could even reach 1GB per day or so eaten by the cache...).

And most blog visitors are traffic by some random success post linked from some popular site or one-off search traffic.

So, they won't stick around for cache to matter anyway -- better give them a nicer first experience in the off chance that they do stick because of that.
See also http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

I really like the minimalism of these. I guess the interesting part of the linked article was the guy wanted to make his blog look exactly the same as it was before he made the optimisations
Yep. Watched the first 3 or 4 of those right after they were posted. Good stuff. I'm not really focusing on Linear Algebra yet, but definitely looking forward to digging into those and the Gilbert Strang ones on LA.
Fair point, Dan. I'll remember that for next time.
well, then, you'd be the poster child for not doing that!
I don't understand. You've verified a Signal key but still felt the need to ask the question With a walled garden like Signal/Wire/etc, how do you get+trust the other's key?

What cost were you talking about then?
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yes thanks!
Yeah. For every anti-ban anecdote about an exemplary human being who happens to Muslim, the pro-Muslim ban side can point to an anecdote like the Bowling Green massacre.
How do you do TOTP on linux with your Yubikey? I keep using my phone.
Home solar panels are a solid investment, but not what's driving up median home prices.

Oddly enough, home solar hot water heaters are a better investment than a lot of the more expensive insulation methods. Double pain windows for example are slightly better than 50's style storm windows which also had 2 set's of glass, but not by a huge amount. At least compared to having 80% of home heating needs in Maine covered for under 10k.

Some of this cost is required by poorly written efficiency requirements. But a 50's style house updated to be highly efficient might cost 120k and sit on 10k of land, but that's a long way from 200+k.
It's fairly fictionalized but the play Copenhagen uses a visit between Heisenberg and Bohr to explore this topic. There's a decent BBC version.
Wait..are you suggesting tax something because reason A in order to raise money for thing B where A has absolutely no relation to B? This is why people hate liberals. Why do we need to arbitrarily tax things? Let me guess these are things you don't like or use so you have no problem with increasing taxes on them.
That's true.

Seems like a great use case for a password management company to add address book management and/or develop an email client.
It might have been Hofstadter and Dennett's "The Mind's I" which includes both "Is God a Taoist?" and "An Unfortunate Dualist"
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Saying "things could be worse" is just trivially true.

As for where my position comes from: mostly logic / inference / reasoning, however you want to describe it. And a bit of history and data. See, for example:

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/matthew-o-jackson-can-...
wire cage just below the diameter of the home, 3 to 4 feet tall so dog can stand up in it, large cable to hoist it attached at the top, install a canvas cinch sack, with grommets in the bottom, completely open on bottom when lowering, run a smaller rope through the grommets, with the grommets low to the ground on the cage.

Also need a light and webcam or remote cam.

Hang dog treats on top of the cage.

Then Lower the cage with the large cable till it's flush on the ground, watch on camera for dog climbing up for treats.

Then pull small cable to cinch the bag under him.

Hope they get the little guy out.
Uhhh, Betsy DeVos.
this looks suspiciously identical to what software engineering has always been about.

There's nothing new in "data science", as per this post, than what has always been true of building a piece of software for non-technical clients. It has always been true that having domain expertise provides a huge boost. It has always been true that requirements are moving targets, that objectives are fluid, that clients don't talk computer science ("data science" in this case). Clients (internal or external) often don't know how to describe their own workflows, and especially edge cases, in rigorous ways. All deja vu. It has always been true that you need to "frame the problem", "clean the data", "design and apply the algos", "communicate the results". We've been grappling with this for 50 years.
Hey there, it's Egbert from TalkJS.

Thanks for the feedback! While I disagree that the pricing is insane, you and other commenters here made me realize that maybe we presented it badly.

TalkJS is 10 cents per conversation per month, plus a fixed monthly fee.

I think our mistake has been that we made the fixed monthly fee also include a small number of conversations, which is where all the confusion comes from. It makes it seem like a single conversation costs $2.

The idea behind our pricing is that with a small app you can go live with TalkJS with pretty much the fixed monthly $49 or $249. Once your traffic increases, the price-per-conversation takes over and it's really just 10 cents per conversation, period.

Note that we also offer large bulk discounts for large sites - do get in touch!
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I left this unvoiced but let's fisk it:

> new startups would be a status step down for them.

No, but highly paid executives can always go to a higher status company; similarly, if you were status-motivated but also a well placed mid career goog eng…

it's not clear to me you _needed_ a sweet bonus in order to switch to your startup, ya know?

>executives do switch companies somewhat routinely.

I think the theory of what I'm trying to advance is, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

I personally feel I would be rather loyal to someone paying me fuck you money, but then again I'm well into my own incredible journey, so it's possible I'm now blind to status incentives relative to working at google.
> digital services are much closer in effect to being a broadcast service

One of the points from the article is that many of these players (e.g. facebook, uber, etc) are not simple broadcast services, but select content from an available pool for users. It seems like 2010 Facebook, with its simple feed algorithm, can much more credibly claim to be an impartial carrier of content a'la the postal service.

I wonder if the influence of a platform on content selection will become legally important for regulation.
Lost productivity isn't a valid reason to tax something, unless you would also tax working less than full time, taking a year of to travel or fishing trips.
#Resist
Are you maybe using the term "test vectors" differently than we are? The test vectors for a crypto construction are just a series of test transforms, provided to make sure you implemented the same transform function as everyone else. They're not a suite of security checks. Most of the most serious misuse errors with crypto constructions don't have anything like "test vectors"; that's what was so exciting about Google's Wycheproof.
Not always. Biological parents, at least in my area, can often reclaim the kids.
I love Gilbert Strang, but _by far_ my favorite book on calculus is "Calculus Made Easy" by Silvanus Thompson. It supplies a very elegant and powerful set of tools to derive many of the "fundamentals" of calculus.
The course that follows the MIT calculus course is "Differential Equations" (which is like applied calculus):

MIT Differential Equations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvL88xqYSak&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...

Don't overlook mathematical analysis -- real analysis, complex analysis, etc -- that's another big leg of the mathematical stool, with geometrical foundations underpinning it all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_analysis

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-100c-real-analysi...

As you self-study and progress into upper level math, you'll come across abstract and unfamiliar topics you didn't learn about in calculus/algebra -- and sometimes it's hard to pin down what category the topic falls under -- when that happens, the topic will often be related to analysis, group theory, or topology (courses taken by math majors but not as widely known).

See http://nada.kth.se/~axelhu/mapthematics.pdf and http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/toe.gif

Crosslinks for all MIT courses: http://crosslinks.mit.edu/topics/?query=subject18.100
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> Does current Rust stable provide equivalent SSE support?

Yes, stable Rust provides equivalent SSE support to the language specified as ISO 9899:2011. :P
In addition to what the others have said, I would point out that TOTP with the Yubikey/Yubico Authenticator has one other advantage. You can move between different android devices without problem. Its even nicer then Cloud-based Authy.

I was in a pinch once and had to do TOTP, so I grabbed the phone of my friend, downloaded the app and used it to log in.
i think it seemed more provocative than it was meant to be ;) But i don't agree :)

I like things that look nice, not fancy, over the top animated. But a good picture paired with a nice font, maybe combined with a tasteful color scheme and i have much more fun reading. It doesn't that much. Idk, maybe we're just wired different, but for me reading RSS in every break would be too repetitive visually ;)
This has been very informative so far- looking forward to reviewing the footage later to see the parts I missed!

Do you have time to walk us through how one of the passes works step by step? Feel free to choose whichever you think is shortest or easiest to explain.
Most won't bother
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There's a pre-RFC being passed around privately right now, I'm happy to say that your cherished dream will soon become a reality. :)
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Pressure waves go through the liquid part, hit the solid part, some of their energy is converted into shear waves which go through the solid core, convert back to pressure waves on the other side, and eventually hit the surface again. By measuring propagation time, direction, etc, the full picture is only compatible with the pressure / shear / pressure double conversion.

TLDR: It's complicated.
> As a relative newcomer to the project, one of my “pain points” learning GCC’s internals was the custom garbage collector it uses to manage memory

It's interesting that GCC has a custom GC.
I agree with you up tot eh bit about 'you are being played every time' someone makes an emotional argument. Quantitative methods are very important, but so are qualitative ones.

To take an example of the latter, conservatives frequently cite the case of Kate Steinle, who was allegedly murdered in San Francisco a couple years back by an illegal immigrant who had been repeatedly deported but kept coming back. (I say allegedly because the defendant claims he stole the gun in a simple crime of opportunity and the fatal discharge was accidental. No motivation for the shooting was apparent at the time, so arguably it was a case of manslaughter rather than murder. Anyway...)

Now this case is frequently mentioned to highlight the supposed danger of allowing illegal immigrants to wander about freely. A quantitative analysis reveals that immigrants, even illegal ones, tend to commit fewer crimes on a per-capita basis than their legal neighbors, so hyping up this case to frighten people is misleading.

On the other hand, all that quantitative analysis isn't much comfort to all those who suffer when someone is killed, and ignoring that (because we can't easily quantify how sad a given tragedy is) undermines credibility in the quantitative approach because it runs counter to the fact of human experience. Soviet-style communism is a good example of crushing individual life through an unyielding adherence to the quantitative data preferred by bureaucrats, and we could find many other tragic examples from other political systems without having to look very hard.

tl;dr only looking at the aggregate data throws the baby out with the bathwater because we are emotional animals and emotional experience matters too.
> There exists an algorithm which transforms names and can be reversed losslessly. (Yes, yes, you can do it if your algorithm returns the input. You get a gold star.)

What am I missing here? Any lossless compression algorithm works, even "string.reverse" would apply.
Soit's like zerotier?
In Lisp, (x x x) denotes a list which contains three elements which are pointers to the same symbol object.
Well, it's to use evidence and inductive reasoning to objectively prove that you understand those things.

You can understand lots of things without being able to prove them or explain their underlying mechanisms.
Hello,

I am a beginner programmer and I wrote a blog post about how I chose the book that I'm currently learning from, after trying and giving up several times.

I am very interested to see what you think about it and would love to hear your suggestions on what other books are great for absolute beginners as well as what books should I check out after I finish this one. Thanks.
There's nothing about sympathizing with or even being on the left that prevents criticism of the left. The left is infamous for the amount of internal bickering, denunciations, and recriminations that go on.

That said, Huxley's critique of the left (if it can even be called that) didn't seem like one based on any left-wing principles or ideas. I really don't know where he was coming from on that. It really felt like it could have been written by some cheap right-wing tabloid. Maybe that's why it was so popular.
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No need for that, gzip will do that for you.
Aw, we feared that would happen on our HN launch already :-)

We're actually working on a new demo which among other things, fixes this. It'll allow you to chat with your friends or colleauges instead of random strangers.

Thanks for the notification, we've removed the offending pictures.
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While that is pretty sad, it is also an extreme case and it sounds like she either needs a caretaker or she needs a better caretaker; I would say the same thing about children: they are the parents responsibility.

And whether you reject the notion the fact of the matter is that it is still going to punish every responsible person with a new tax that will go into the general government coffers.
read this:

The web sucks if you have a slow connection (danluu.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13601451
#1 is like asking "how can this industrial chemical company be profitable if they can't just dump their waste in the sewers?" If a business model is only profitable because they can externalize some of the problems associated with that model, it does deserve certain scrutiny and those who are harmed by the model should have some recourse.

#2 has already happened.
Once zipped the css is tiny anyways.
Does gzip remove comments?
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in that it stores undeleted files, until weekly clean-up

the DB is only incomplete for as long it takes to commit to the SQL layer after storing successfully.
The Sacbee article directly contradicts your version, stating half as many stabbing versions and clearly reporting that the "anarchists" (as you put it) initiated the violence.
Could you please link it?
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Nice to see the positive comments for librarians! I have my MLS and have been in libraries for about 15 years now. I'm actually a full time sysadmin now, but I've worked as a librarian in the past, somehow ended up in systems. Jessamyn is also an old friend of mine, fun to see her show up here.
In part. Life is gray, not black and white. There is certainly a grain of self interest because you will feel good having done it. But that doesn't make the act selfish.
The long term solution is usually building an in-house analytics service but it's not easy and cheap. We're also developing a generic analytics platform that can be installed with one-click to your favorite cloud provider so that you can store your event data in your database and build an internal analytics service without coding. Check out: https://github.com/rakam-io/rakam
He lost his wife, his son was born with significant disabilities and all these kids are dying in his care. I just don't know how he does it. I'd just have nothing left after all of that.
Totally agree; it's just been my experience that crypto specialists don't care about UX any more than UX people care about crypto.
>>Awesome to see Krishnamurti on HN.

But... but... it's not related to technology!

/s
Many pro-Trump comments get swept out in botnet purges, because the pro-Trump segment has some actors who are very busy amplifying their voice via sockpuppet accounts to quiet any dissent or discussion on that subreddit.

Try this: post a positive comment about a policy change there. They also talk openly about using multiple identities to control what is allowed to the top. If you watch the "new" section you can see negative or even just not-content-free stories get added often.

There are folks on various forums and IRC channels who will sell you good placement of a story on reddit for a reasonable sum of bitcoin now. It'd be interesting to enlist them to start getting policy questions onto the top of that subreddit.
What's the advantage of this being leaked? Seems it's likely to hurt "detection" or efforts to find potential terrorists. What do we gain from this exactly?
https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L26...
Ome thing worth considering here is caching. For elements common to a whole site (like web fonts and stylesheets), the initial download might be big, but subsequent downloads won't need to happen, since the browser already has a copy. It still ain't an excuse to load dozens of WOFFs, but it's enough to make the hit a lot less severe for those who've already visited your site.

GZIP helps considerably here, too.
Using encrypted email is only a solved problem (simple enough) when it's as easy as using https for all end users.

Right now it's on par with serving https, which is still way way too painful even for tech people.
The White House defended handcuffing 5 year olds at airports.
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I like to teach the more junior members of my team.

They may have a very basic understanding of some library or concept. I sit them down in a room with a whiteboard and go over the concepts.

I usually have a brief 1-2 page handout with some code examples as its easier to read just from the paper rather than having to write all of the code on the whiteboard.
There are in fact a billion users of a closed-source product owned by a surveillance company with history of subversive activity. They chose it over free or low-cost IM with privacy focus that were usable. They're opting against private messaging for various reasons.

Not an argument for or against any privacy solution if you're citing people who don't care or make sacrifices. They're not the demand side for private messaging. The solution for such people is security professionals getting employed with or consulting those groups to embed strong security into their products with continuous monitoring for subversion at source or repo level. They mostly arent doing that.

So, the WhatsApp point is broken twice: its users dont care enough to use something better; best security people talking WhatsApp security arent there improving or maintaining it.
Please review the post linked from the beginning of the linked The Intercept article, here: https://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/155766682978/fact-shee...

You'll see that SIGINT sharing is not a free-for-all in any manner, it is restricted. It seems dishonest to tell people the Coast Guard can use it to compromise SMS 2FA (I'd be far more worried about other countries compromising SMS 2FA in a close-access scenario, using an "IMSI catcher" or similar device to intercept the incoming message).
Thanks for the feedback. Ideally, I would like to do it the way I think you are describing it. Get a bunch of factors and see how they all interact with each other. And try to get the probabilities of all the different scenarios.

For example, if the coach runs the ball to the right in the red zone, what is the probability that he runs it again to the right on the next play.

The problem with trying to input a bunch of factors and trying to get the conditional probabilities of all those situations is that it can get exceedingly complex and I don't think it will be particularly useful given my small data sets.

I normally only have about 100 offensive plays to analyze and use data from.

My theory is that if I compared the R/L direction of the plays that the opposing coach has historically done in the last two or three games with a truly randomization of R/L data, that the coach will severely regress to the mean because he doesn't like the idea of going 5 times to the right in a row.

However, I need some type of percentage comparison or data analysis to show this instead of a subjective picture.
Hi, Egbert from TalkJS here.

The core difference is that TalkJS includes a full fledged messaging UI and well-designed email/sms/push fallback*. In working on earlier startups, we noticed that reliable realtime data transfer was the least of our problems. Having a good cross-browser messaging UI, for mobile and for desktop, that loads fast, works everywhere (including, say, IE9) and makes people happy was a lot more work.

TalkJS came to be when we realized that many companies spend a lot of effort in reinventing this wheel over and over again, and that all of them ended up building very similar UIs.

Think of TalkJS more like a user-to-user Intercom than a Sendbird.
A bit clearer with the full quote:

> Although limiting liability online was intended to protect sites hosting digital content, it carried over to service platforms
Thanks!

I definitely understand about how seriously you take privacy. For a personal project, I wouldn't think twice about sending it your way.

Source Code Pro is my usual default for a good looking monospace font, but Fira looks like a good choice. How do you go about finding monospace font's width to height ratios? I had do dive into SVG versions of Source Code Pro and doing some hands-on testing to come up with a ratio of 0.6.

Yeah, I'm not doing anything with a margin. In hindsight, I probably should have.

I actually manually picked the code I wanted to include in the poster. I imagine doing this in an automated way would be a much more difficult problem... Do you just ignore certain files based on filename patterns? e.g. /node_modules/, etc...

Yeah, there are a few places where I can parallalize the process. There's definitely a lot of room there for future work.

3 to 4 seconds is _very impressive_. Congrats!

I'd definitely push others to go with your solution, if it's a possibility. The elixir_poster project is really just a hacked together project to build a one-off (two-off, I guess) poster for myself.