skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, but I'm not even asking him to trust me in this particular subthread. The point he made, about the NSA having better reverse engineers than everyone else, really does seem to me to be a non-sequitur.

Reverse engineering isn't zero sum. The benefit you get from reverse-engineering a closed platform doesn't vanish when someone else reverse-engineers the platform, just like your ability to read open source code isn't damaged by NSA's ability to read it faster.
And most of your solutions are incredibly non-obvious, just like Cmd+Up. Right click on the folder icon in the title bar? Hold down option to change the right click menus? This is exactly what I'm talking about. Explorer is terrible but it's better than Finder because you don't need to read a manual or tweak the defaults in order to make it work in a predictable manner.
Cool, let's build the Death Star there.
I'm with you !
They are both criminals and as such should be detained.

Quoting Bill Binney
“Things won't change until we put these people in jail”
If you believe all the bollocks you hear on HN, then the drivers are but poor helpless farmers who don't understand how complicated things like 'money' works, and who were forced at gun point to buy luxury cars to become a full time Uber drivers.
Think we agree, just semantics at this point and me trying to simplify the expression. Thanks!
Right, I don't see them bringing this machine on site and having it print something.

You have to move materials on site anyway, so I bet they simply prefab modular components and then assemble somewhere else.

They just want to show they can build any shape and even take electrical and plumbing into account as they build.
If you host your own VPN on a CPA, couldn't the authorities simply link your VPN IP (the VPS IP) to you via billing? Or am I not understanding how it works?
You're not wrong, but that's kind of a non-issue.

It takes on the order of hundreds of millions of years to lose that much atmosphere.
I take exception to the diagnosis! There was never a system of "national" capitalism under which nation-states could make totally independent economic decisions, except during the two world wars. Even in those times, those nation-states made those decisions not for the good of working-class people but for the survival and power of the nation-state itself.

The social-democratic "reasonably golden" age was based upon the Bretton-Woods trade system, under which currencies were pegged to each-other and surpluses were recycled to prevent international debt crises. That was by no means an autarkhic capitalist system; it was internationalist social democracy.
To fix traffic, change the roads not the drivers
Thanks for clarifying. Totally agreed that economically speaking Toronto is more diversified and stronger than Van and a collapse in housing will crush Van. IIRC real estate, construction etc still produce more than 10% of Toronto's GDP.

Still don't totally understand "why now" wrt Toronto's market taking off if the answer doesn't include foreign money as a main driver.
Shipping Unix tools (like Bash) from this decade would be a start.

Trying to get modern Unix software to run on OSX is getting more and more painful. Since development is the main activity I do on a laptop, this is quite important.
I love the fearlessness. You're now one of my heroes.
I'd start by making it faster. Every time I click somewhere I have to wait and watch a spinner.
One way to deal with this is to charge for the demo and then knock the charge off the purchase price once they commit
> I really can't understand what it's doing

Probably backing up your files to government servers :-)
Do you really think he's trying to sell himself as elite or just mention his past job roles? Sometimes that context can be useful, especially if you want to email him (which he includes).

I realize the point you're trying to make. I'm just not sure it's applicable here.
The Killer.
Disgraceful that they'd rather this guy walk free than spill the beans on TOR. They really solidify the case that the govt is inherently anti-privacy.
Agreed. In fact, if I remember correctly, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Mountain View and Palo Alto notoriously have crummy internet speeds considering their "tech" cachet.
Then how come there isn't a 20% increase in cities like Québec, Montréal, Calgary or Winnipeg?
> really basic stuff not working

Try selecting text in a Windows dialog box, such as the "About" box. It doesn't work, it never did as far as I can tell.
>work bullshit

What's with the "bullshit jobs" thesis I see around HN these days? How is working as a cook for a software engineer less bullshit than writing software? At the end of the day the cook can point to something he has done, right?

What exactly qualifies a job as "bullshit?"
It's called The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa
http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Key#History
TL;DR: An internet executes “man time” in Bash 3.2 on an old BSD machine (that version of Bash is over 10 years old), wants to use the BSD-specific -l option, but finds out that “time” is also a shell builtin.
Does building a magnetosphere for the purposes of protection require an atmosphere, or is it all about capturing and shaping solar wind?

If it doesn't require an atmosphere, could this approach be used to build a magnetospher around the moon? It feels like colonizing the moon first is a much easier and more useful problem to tackle. Once we have a moon colony you can crack water to make fuel and then go "where ever" you'd like - other asteroids, or mars. The moon is much closer and easier to get to, though maybe people need the "excitement" that travel to Mars connotates.
Ignoring the article and its questionable nature, I would like to take this as an opportunity to assist hopeful readers, who were attracted by the headline, by recommending research into Kratom, for those with no other recourse.

While there is (ironically) little in the way of published literature, there are a number of communities (e.g. reddit.com/r/kratom) which espouse the seeming safety and utility of the mildly psychoactive plant. The consistent claims (as with any anecdote, trust at your own risk) are that the leaf is mildly addictive, seemingly safe, with a manageable withdrawal, yet extremely effective for pain and anxiety.

I have personally used it for headaches/migraines, anxiety, and depressive symptoms, and I think it is tragic that the DEA attempted a ban. Note as there is a mild but unmistakable opiate-like high associated with use, although it does not appear to significantly impair cognitive function, particularly when the alternative is performance with pain and/or anxiety.
FYI, camelcamelcamel gets around this emailing users link to a special page on their (camelcamelcamel.com) site that is just a redirect to the product page on Amazon. Users see a brief message "Thanks for using Camel Camel Camel" or something shortly before being redirected.
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/react-101
I recently switched to Vultr from a DigitalOcean and Compose.io setup.

Compose is nice for backups and replicas but they drop the connection like all the time and then the replicas start playing who wants to be master. Which brought downtime to my application at times. Also there expensive so I said f that and manage a Mongo instance myself. Since it was a small project that had to much overhead.

I moved from DO was primarily pricing and the lack of data centers.

Vultr's Miami DC is my jam since I'm in Tampa. Atlanta is nice too.

So far I really like Vultr. 2GB for $10!
It also looks (from the summary you linked) like the lead plaintiff had somehow admitted to multiple violations of the TOS and failed to follow some sort of required dispute procedure, though, so from what you said before, that doesn't sound like the same situation that you were/are in.
No, the operative clause is "I think". You're talking about your opinion, while simultaneously telling me that my opinion is worth less than yours just because it's different.

It'd also be great if I could have a VGA output, but that ship has long since sailed, hasn't it? It'd also be great if I could have more than two USB ports, but I have a 2015 MacBook Pro. To get four USB ports I'd have to upgrade to the 2016 MacBook Pro. See? To me, the 2016 is better than that one I have. It lets me plug in more adapters, adapters that I've been used to carrying for years. I carry four with me to every client site I visit, and you don't see me whining about it on the Internet.

Regressions in user experience? It's double the number of ports! It's a god damn lifesaver!
If you want to build the next Silicon Valley, you have to build the next Stanford first.
Yes, Toronto is probably in a house bubble. Is it in a housing bubble, though? If doing more with less is the goal here (as opposed to less inflation on houses in Toronto) why are people missing the relative affordability of condos and apartments? A large flat structure with lots of mostly unused land (by percent utilization) is horribly inefficient.

A condo costs less to live closer to the interesting things like work and culture and the higher density means the bottleneck resource (land) is utilized much more efficiently. I know there are cultural reasons not to, but to me living in houses is not something we would necessarily ever choose if we started today with a blank slate.

I think a world more along the lines of 80-90% green space with a sprinkling of 100+ storey condos in variable sizes and trim levels would be more livable. I struggle to see why one would want a backyard let alone feel entitled to one.

I think the relative price of land to median income will increase as population does (pretty easy to assert) and that we should instead just build very high density buildings surrounded by green space instead of engaging in zero sum competition for an unused backyard.

We talk so much about AI making web services better as a form of progress but how much of the middle class budget goes to web services? Sure it could make life better in the future but housing density could make life significantly better now.
> Realistically, when you run a website big enough that the people pushing the code to servers aren't the people who wrote it,

My position would be that you should push your own code even/especially on large websites.
The art of invisibility
The benchmarks gathered for this book continue to be incredibly significant (though not really for good reasons) 30+ years later. Quite remarkable.
Check the resource monitor to see which service that corresponds to: it's likely Windows Update since they changed it to mine Bitcoin or something about a decade ago when it went from being I/O to single-core CPU bound.
Well the supply is being "artificially" kept down in the sense that a wealthy few are negatively impacting society at large.
It's called the Rule of Law, as in it's the Law that Rules this land. Nobody is supposed to be above it, despite evidence to the contrary in US politics.
After looking this page everything seems to be moving.
One of the key things that makes Silicon Valley unique beyond network effects, is the number of early adopters there. This helps to iterate and test the product much faster and lower cost than reaching out around the country/World for early adopters when still prototyping.

Hard to replicate a culture of early adoption and willingness to try new things.
The pollution is going down atm. Don't get me wrong, it's still massive, but the trend has been reversed the last 2-3 years.

(Talking to researchers, I don't know how far they're into publishing yet.)
The one time you abuse censorship for something positive! Thanks! APL is pretty neat.
I've been using Vultr for a couple of years and have been satisfied with the service. I initially went with Vultr because at the time it was one of few providers that offered FreeBSD and the lowest cost. In contrast to comments in the article I've found Vultr tech support to be responsive. Haven't needed it much since they maintain a good database of tech info which has answered almost all questions.
So by that logic television ads are also spam? After all, you came to watch the show.

Your objection to advertising is fine, but you do know that's not a definition of the word "spam" anyone else is using, right?
Required reading: Steve Blank's "Secret History of Silicon Valley"

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/

TL;DR: It took decades, spanning back to defense spending in the 1950s and included advances such as radar, ICs, PCs, & the internet.
RangerSteve.io
The east coast US and the U.K. have many universities on par with Stanford's quality.
I haven't had any issues using Camel Camel Camel for the last few years.

Additionally, I usually go there for price history when trying to figure out if now is a good time to buy or when trying to figure out what a good price threshold is to receive alerts. Without historical price info it's hard to know what a good "max price" is to set.
Actually it is irrelevant. I can find bubbles in Africa and 10 other countries across the world. Screaming "bubbles" in 100 random places, doesn't mean your current place is a bubble. Unless you can justify how those other bubbles are related to the housing situation in the original article, we can't assume they are relevant simply because "there are a lot of bubbles elsewhere".

The 2 issues might be relevant to each other, they might not. But you can't assume there is a relationship between the 2 issues.
Try to keep MagSafe 2 connected in any circumstances other than flat and stable. Sitting on the couch or laying in bed no way, it constantly disconnects.

Good riddance.
Only if you have the calm and patience to sit through a major dip. Or wait until then to buy.

Bitcoin as an "investment" is a lot more volatile than most other options. But, as of now, also a lot more profitable.
The article completely overlooks social issues. Tech people may span the fiscal political spectrum, but they tend to be progressive as far as social issues go. Kansas does not have any appeal to most of the tech people I know for that exact reason. They've even rejected the Medicaid expansion for the ACA, which is a useful social safety net for early stage founders with unsuccessful startups.
It's almost as if they were using a semantic markup language rather than a visual description language...
>> in the Financial District, because the people there earn $70,000 or $80,000 not $800,000 or $8,000,000 as in NYC/London.

Uh, that is way, way off. A person making 70-80K/year in Toronto Financial district is like... junior analyst, junior software developer or so.
That person is not going to make 10X or 100X as much in NYC or London.
What is meant by local storage?

edit: oh I see now, that difference for scaleway should probably be placed as a footnote of the table
ιR creates an array 1...R

1↓ drops the first element of whatever is to the right (1...R)

R← just assigns the thing to the right to R, so now R is a variable containing the integers 2...R

R∘.×R creates a 2d matrix of every element in R multiplied by every other element in R

R∊ takes whatever's to the left (that matrix) and sees if any value in R is in that matrix. it spits out an array that is like 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0, where the ones correspond to elements in R that are also in the matrix

~ just reverses that list so now we have an array thats like 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 which corresponds to elements in R that can't be created by multiplying any two elements of R together

/ goes through and only returns values of R that correspond to those 1's

the flow is like this:

R←5
ιR
1 2 3 4 5
1↓1 2 3 4 5
2 3 4 5
R←2 3 4 5
R∘.×R
4 6 8 10
6 9 12 15
8 12 16 20
10 15 20 25
R∊R∘.×R
0 0 1 0
~R∊R∘.×R
1 1 0 1
1 1 0 1 / 2 3 4 5
2 3 5
People are "willing to pay" rents only in the sense that people are willing to give a mugger their watch.

Nobody made land. So why should some people be able to demand money from others for it?
The employees directly responsible probably won't have a bonus.
How a cooker developed a cult following
There's some mystery in this, according to Warren Buffett. He knows that breakfast cereals aren't commodities - they can charge a premium, and stay in business profitably for decade after decade. But most of the other goods in the same supermarket are much closer to commodities. He isn't sure why. (Maybe it's cause we find it difficult to make decisions in the morning and so become captive to habits then, but not at suppertime?)

(Yes, IP is a way to escape the commodity trap, too: but not suitable in most cases. File IP under "nice work if you can get it," because almost always it's rather easy for others to work their way around your IP. Even with patents - it's an intentional feature of the patent system that others be allowed to find and use their own methods to accomplish what you just showed can be done.)
Aren't the French-language laws a powerful barrier against an influx of outsiders?
My next laptop will probably have to be a Windows laptop unless Apple ships a "real" MacBook Pro. I will hold out as long as possible though.
- currently using a 2012 i7 MBP with 16gb memory and a 1T SSD.
- 16gb of memory does not cut it you are running multiple VMs - a decent graphics card for 4K would be a bonus.
It's not the internet, it's the people. Why isn't KC the next silicon valley? There's not a stanford & Berkeley right there congregating some of the most talented young & ambitious kids in the country.

The "next silicon valley" will be wherever a high percentage of extremely talented young adults congregate and collaborate and have access to resources necessary to grow a company. Being able to download a lot of stuff really fast isn't really a necessary condition for that, even if it helps.
The difference to me is cultural — it's not about infrastructure or fast internet at all.

It's hard to explain how it feels for me, when I get to the Bay Area. Being able to talk to like-minded people, not feeling like an out-of-place weird nerd like I do at home. It's no coincidence that I made most of my friends out there.

And anybody I've met that generally wants to "emulate" SV elsewhere generally has entirely the wrong mindset — trying to copy (badly) the investment style, their view / the mainstream media view of "startup culture", etc; it's completely misguided.
WOOOSSHHHH
Not as cool as this or Screenflow, but if on macOS, QuickTime Player can do screen recording as well :)
Stanford was actually a mediocre school in the 50's, and then the government started throwing money into defense spending and Stanford managed to get huge amounts of cash for research. It took decades, but there's reason to believe that just about any university could become the next Stanford with enough time and money (time being decades and money being tens of billions of dollars).

If you want to see something interesting, look at what's happening in Pittsburgh right now with Carnegie Mellon and robotics. They have recently gotten huge influxes of cash and I think might be the hub for advanced manufacturing in the future. Of course, this actually started in the 70's, so it didn't take hold immediately.
I'm not sure, but everyone in atomic physics talks gauss for some reason.
You seem to be getting down voted a fair amount, but I think this cultural attitude is real and a necessary condition. Anyone who's lived on the east and west coast is aware that they have very different cultures, and I'd argue the west coast is a lot more willing to break the old ways.
Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science [pdf]
Would you be able to spend four weeks in Boston?

We have an EdTech accelerator here, LearnLaunch, with a program specifically for scaling startups that are already growing after achieving product-market fit: http://learnlaunch.com/x/#programs
Unfortunately not sure what you mean by CPA, haven't heard that acronym before and Google only came up with "Cost Per Analysis" :P

Theoretically speaking you're completely correct. The main mitigation in practice is to find providers in different countries which are unlikely to be cooperative given the context - for example most countries will look down heavily on picture sharing of certain kinds (if you get what I mean :( ), while different countries have different policies on torrenting.

I've (solely anecdotally) heard good things about UrDN (used to be Ukraine, now Sweden); Feral Hosting runs in the Netherlands, a country often used for VPN type things (and if I understand correctly, you can get up to - big asterisks - 10Gbps-20Gbps with them, without bazillions of $/mo); and I understand Switzerland's laws are torrent-friendly, so getting hosting there is expensive but kind of the gold standard.

As I said before, the VPN industry/scene is artificially inflated. Getting OpenVPN up and running is actually a lot easier than you might think, I had it on my todo list for months (getting a VPN running on a VPS for a friend) and I ended up getting OpenVPN itself AND per-application tunneling going on FreeBSD in about 2-3 days, with resilient client- and server-side autoconfiguration scripts stabilized after about a week. There aren't really any tutorials but it's all fairly easy to do. Unfortunately Windows doesn't do per-app tunneling that well, if at all, I don't think.

I'd recommend playing with OpenVPN between for example two local machines/VMs, or ideally a local machine and a VPS somewhere (even one you're not planning on using for whatever the VPN would be for). This is because your LAN will always be more forgiving and responsive than the Internet, and also because "oookay, so now I can reach my laptop from 192.168.0.3 and 10.0.1.15" isn't as interesting (to me) as "my laptop is 10.0.1.15 and my VPS is 10.0.1.16!".

If you're familar with VM networking or can accept the additional load of learning about that concurrently then go for it with VMs, but I wouldn't recommend it otherwise - your goal is to set up OpenVPN between a remote host and your local computer, not to specialize in networking two VMs together.

There's also the possibility of tethering one computer to your phone for one end of the network (with your phone using its data), and using your existing internet for the other end of the network. That's if your cellular ISP allows VPN traffic. I wouldn't advise using your phone's VPN client for initial experimentation/setup, its debugging will not be nearly verbose enough to diagnose any issues.
There might be better ways to do this but each new instance on vultr takes a few minutes to set up (you can actually use their web VNC console to watch their install script run，a unique experience not offered by other VPS providers I have used) and then you can restore old config from a snapshot which takes a bit more time but it is pretty fast overall.

There are options to load your own distro image and init scripts but I have not tried them since most things I need in a transient instance can be installed by following a simple bash script calling apt.
This is one of my favorite movies. I remember learning that he was working on another movie -- siege of leningrad -- but died before shooting started. A terrible loss!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Ui65SR8KI
On Windows, Cygwin is a kluge.
And the Linux upoort (I believe) is a side-by-side subsystem vs a compatibility layer. It looks like MS found a better use for the old Posix subsystem.
Pretty sure I said that in the second and third lines of my three line comment:

> If there is a problem, it's with the availability of land for building new housing. Zoning laws and NIMBYism artificially constrain the supply side of the equation, which drives up rents. There is no extortion happening - just supply constriction.
I pledged on Kickstarter to receive a pair of these (still in manufacturing), but maybe they'd help?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/branchusb/magneo-first-...