skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is exactly what the people you are responding to are saying.

The client makes a request to the server, and the server either returns the new optimized client code if the user agent is one that it knows supports the new code, or it sends back the older, slower, client code for an unknown user agent.

They are probably returning the older code because they KNOW it works, even if slower, while they aren't sure if the new code works or not on other machines. The author says it works fine on linux when getting the windows response, but we can't be sure he has tested every use case; maybe it fails under particular conditions, which is why they are still returning the old code. Or, perhaps, they just haven't tested it so they go with the safe thing, which is to return the older code.
Many?
yeah, but why? lots of discussions about user-agent detection and how its not a malicious attack against linux users, but no discussion how and why it is slow.

is it protecting users from something further in the UX? is it stuck in an infinite loop trying to download silverlight? are they actually redirecting users to a staging server on the cheapest Azure instance?
I will likely never be a subscriber, since I don't like coffee. I'd love to have a good instant option to offer to guests without having to own a coffeemaker that I'll never use otherwise, have to store, etc.
It's suggesting that arachnids eating as much animal food is even an important statistic to care about. I think that is the bait.

Edit: I don't know if I know what click bait means.
To pull this off efficenctly they are going to want a ~20,000 kg battery pack that's easily swapable on landing. That's going to take a fairly significant change to an airframe and weight distribution is going to an issue. On the other hand they would also want smaller gas tanks if it's really only doing 300 mile trips + buffer.

Longer term, they would want to start using electricity for propulsion and ramp that up as batteries improve.
Yeah, it's really obvious too if you know basic algebra. The article doesn't even attempt to explain it, so what's the point, except for blogspam?
I mean, I'm not knocking the blog. It's fine. But I'm having a hard time identifying what the complex topic was that was given a simple explanation. "Here's a graph" isn't a complex topic, and saying "here's a graph" doesn't really explain it either.
Humans are several orders of magnitude slower.
Selling my banner ad network cpmly.com which makes $4,000 in revenue per month and has over 350 users. It gets about 3 mio ad impressions per day/ 90 mio per month. The fixed costs are like $80 per month only for the server. Send me an email for more information: mail@cpmly.com
Call Your Senators Thursday Morning to Save Your Privacy
AWS Lambda Supports Node.js v6.10
> So it means that I have to think too much about the commands in Vim which slows down my thinking

If you use anything long enough, you no longer think about it. Indeed, the only time I think about how I do things in Vim is when someone asks "How did you do that?" I only thought it, and it happened. Recreating it can sometimes be a short puzzle.

I'm certain this is true for other people and their editors, or anything that you use so intrinsically that it's like breathing.
Netflix content is already on Pirate Bay.
Heh yep. According to the Nighthawk M1 plans the best is AUD$70/mo for 20GB and $0.0035 per MB after that. So their 180GB would have cost AUD$630. Little more reasonable, but still not a mainstream price yet.

https://www.telstra.com.au/broadband/mobile-broadband/nighth...
> It's nice to know that someone is still working on it, but they're not making it to a release version.

There is a beta version.

https://sourceforge.net/p/clisp/mailman/clisp-devel/thread/l...

> Two people are still making source checkins

source checkins = CLISP gets updates

Bruno Haible is one of the original authors. Sam Steingold joined 1999.

If CLISP is important to you, why not help them with testing the new beta release?
Man and Superman: Two Distinct Species
> It's really best to move through the business world thinking everyone is out to get you

i agree, but a more useful way of thinking is that everyone is looking out for themselves, and can be expected to act exactly in that manner. you getting got is usually a side effect of someone else getting theirs through unethical means.
Mysterious new version of Windows 10 created for Chinese government
Thanks for the suggestion! We're exploring what we can do here. Ideally we'd love to make sampling really easy & inexpensive but with our current costs it's simply not feasible right now.
Thoughts on Medium's monetization
Depends on your definition of "ring"; for some people, a ring need not have a multiplicative identity. But yes, any number system worth its salt has at least a couple of integers in it.
Should be testable, for example what optimisations are in the FF48 code sent to Windows that breaks FF48 on Linux?

MS will I'm sure provide those details to demonstrate their lack of malice. /s
> Farmers are an independent group. They are used to relying on their own skills and hard work to make a living, and they are not going to tolerate this.

In the increasingly-distant-from-reality world of yeoman farmers rather than corporate agribusiness.
Pardon my cynicism but is there any actual verifiable third party evidence for this.
"but I get much more enjoyment out of helping people get to where they want to go in their careers. I also enjoy the idea of directly helping businesses make more money/reach bigger markets"

Yeah, you don't sound like someone who will be happiest if you stick to coding. A lot of us code precisely because we don't feel comfortable or confident with the skills you mention.
So, I am curious -- A while ago I experimented with making a better instant coffee. I came up with a few different solutions. I'm curious as to whether you've looked into them:

1) Pouring a ristretto into liquid nitrogen. At reconstitution time, put into boiling water and stir. Issue: Cold coffee, potential colloid separation -- solutions might include some kind of stabilizer

2) Taking a ristretto and removing water content to concentrate it, and then pull a vacuum on it and package it. Said package can then be opened and dissolved in boiling water. Issue: Complexity. Removing the water can be complicated, pulling a vacuum on it, and then heating it while at vacuum is hard.

3) Coffee puck: Take traditional coffee, and put it into a permeable membrane that when exposed to water above a certain temperature is permeable. When that temperature drops, it stops being permeable. Problem: Said polymers were hard to find.
Thanks; great suggestions. 1kW is more than enough to run all of that, with the heater being the only questionable element. In Oakland, we're fine with 1kW to keep ambient in-container temp at 65F year-round.
See, that's the issue, incorrectly specced software.
Generally speaking, you don't have to know them unless you're writing generic libraries in the vein of STL and Boost. If you're just using those, then SFINAE etc is the magic under the hood that makes it all "just work".
Apple earbuds are probably the best case example. Look at the reviews. The volume of fakes is enormous and it's impossible to spot (as Amazon).

You would think hat Amazon would just tell everyone who isn't Apple who is trying to list that SKU to get lost.
> (If you can't see that tau is conceptually a more fundamental quantity than pi, then you actually don't understand the point!)

Well then I guess I don't understand the point. That claim is essentially equivalent saying that circumference is more fundamental than area. You may accept such a strong claim, but I certainly do not.
Good point. It's a work in progress, and we're exploring what's the best model. You can always order me by emailing us. We just saw that having a one-off model completely cannibalized our new subscriptions.

Email me if you want to order a one-off and I can hook you up ;)
Do the machines that brew these accumulate mold like keurig machines?
Because it has nothing to do with the original compression.

Think of it like this.

If you compress and distribute someone's wavy hand-cam pirating of a movie, the poor experience isn't due to the compression, but the way the move was recorded in the first place.

likewise, recording a stream and then compressing it later, the quality isn't because of the original compression, it's because of the quality of the original stream.

Now that poor quality may partially be the result of the initial compression, but recompressing it isn't why the quality isn't great.
A Darknet Vendor Is Selling Millions of Stolen Bitcoin User Accounts
> We will be routing 100% of the revenue from founding members (those who sign up in the first few months) to writers and independent publishers who have important work to do. Those who have hard-won expertise, do exhaustive research, and think deeply. Those who make us all smarter. Those who maximize our understanding of the world but don’t necessarily maximize clicks — and, therefore, are at a disadvantage amongst the highly optimized algorithm chum being slung by the truckload by low-cost content purveyors. [emphasis mine]

Is he saying that subscription revenue is going to writers hand-picked by Medium editors and not driven by writers who have more readers? I don't get that approach. If anything, as a subscriber I'd want my subscription dollars to go to the writers of articles I've liked/recommended. Why are they demonizing those kinds of clicks?

Am I understanding this wrong?
Jim Cramer: It's at 47, well that's a different security entirely, so what you have to do, though, you have to use limit orders, because Procter just jumped seven points because I said I liked it at 49.

:)
Email me and I'll hook you up with a one time order!
This is false. A capitalist society provides the rewards and drives for people to create innovative products. Socialism restricts those. I'm sorry you think it's the opposite
Guess they never learned about Nietzsche...

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
I already prefer instant coffee (sublimated) to the usual coffee machine-grinded bean coffee (it always tastes off for some reason). Instant with milk always tastes perfect.
Happy to get you a one-time order - just email me
http://www.sciencealert.com/lab-grown-burger-patty-cost-drop...
Medium launches paid membership subscription
Automatic recurring billing is a "dark pattern" from back before anyone made up that term. The only reason it makes more money than one-time purchase or an honest subscription (where customers have to explicitly pay to resubscribe every month or year) is that people will forget or get frustrated when it's time to cancel. Do you want to run that sort of business?

"Fun" fact: I bought a used car, only to discover that it apparently has free XM radio. I would not be surprised if someone unsuspecting person's card is being charged for it every month.
Well, I just read about powers of VK moderators on Habr and got more convinced that I need Little Snitch or something similar for my desktop apps for sure.

Just if it was not clear: my email is public on many services. I just think that if you require my email to get the installer, how much logging/tracking code will you run once you're on my machine?
There are integrations of this and various other coding standards into some commercial tools; I don't recall seeing them in any free tools yet.
When I first got the oh so very secret and cool, private 'invite' email, I thought "Great - they are gong to reward me for being one of the first people to sign up and post articles way back when they launched!"...

Click through, and there is a vanity demo badge that says I was a "Member since March 2017" - wait, what? Scroll down - Ah, the first ever mention of money. $5 per month. Close browser window.

Something about the way they are trying to sell this doesn't sit well with me. If it is a paid subscription, then sell it from the outset as a subscription - not some sort of chic, cool membership in a secret society.

Granted Medium has some great articles, and I will still continue to publish my thoughts there, but there are too many 'listicles' and inane 'life lesson' articles for me to spend $5 per month on the platform.
The 21st of March one my server stopped working without any apparent reason, and it could no longer reach the DNS server to lookup domains, so all the API calls made by my app started failing.
After excluding networking issues (pinging from console was working fine), and after a lot of digging I found out that the source of the error was actually a security patch just released by Canonical that caused NSS ABI to break after a few hours of running. This would result in being unable to reach any external domain, and the only solution would be to restart the server.
Thankfully they just released a patch of the patch so hopefully everything should be fine now.

I just find it amazing how something like that could have happened and how installing critical and recommended patches now has become something more like a roulette than a sense of relief.
Firefox:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1021232

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1021235

The spec talks about both securing the CDM with Sandboxing and preventing fingerprinting, amongst other security + privacy issues that should be addressed:

https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/#cdm-security

https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/#privacy-fingerprintin...

the spec also says if the CDN isn't sandboxed then the user needs to be warned and prompted to allow exec:

> if a user agent chooses to support a Key System implementation that cannot be sufficiently sandboxed or otherwise secured, the user agent should ensure that users are fully informed and/or give explicit consent before loading or invoking it.
Dependently-Typed Haskell got specified [pdf]
I don't agree with "people want to watch what they want to watch."

I have quite a few data points that say you are flat wrong about that. I would add to this: people watch what they want to watch and how they want to watch it.

I've literally downloaded HBO shows even though I'm an HBO Now subscriber. The Roku HBO Now app is so horrible, I just hate using it.
> wheat, coconut oil, potatoes, and heme

Replacing meat for carbs is not a great idea.

Edit: I was wrong. 200cal only have 6g of carbs which is pretty good IMO.
I spent the last week testing ext4/btrfs/zfs on Linux and I found that zfs is rather slow and btrfs has improved its performance a lot in the last years (I should refined the script a bit, upload some graphics and make a post).

https://gist.github.com/liloman/d525131fab9b9a440140905921e9...

I'll give it a try on bcachefs. :)

The script needs a 512MB spare disk partition and some basic changes but the fundamental work is there.
I think we lost the ability to make fun of RMS once the Snowden revelations come out. Regardless...

>> It is a techno-centric fantasy to think that browser makers have even a modicum of leverage here

You realize the world's largest browser vendors are Google, Apple, and Microsoft... right?

>> EME is a ideological compromise, sure, but it's a net benefit to the open web since its scope is small and it maintains the overall schema of web standards.

Ahhh yes, the classic "compromise some of my morals to save the rest of them". Works every time.
Apple in talks to acquire Australian startup Sonder (2016)
Struts won't, but turning off automatic stability 'assistance' will!
From OCD to Launching My Fitness Startup and Getting Married (thanks Headspace)
Suppose f(x) = x^n + a_{n-1} x^{n-1} + ... + a_1 x + a_0 is a monic polynomial with integer coefficients. Let x_1, ..., x_n be all its (complex) roots. If it happens that the absolute value of x_1 is larger than 1, but absolute values of all x_2, x_3, ..., x_n are smaller than 1, the powers of x_1 will be close to integers. The golden ratio (1+sqrt(5)/2 is a root of x^2 - x - 1, and the other root (1-sqrt(5))/2 is smaller than 1 in absolute value, so the observation follows.

One way to prove the assertion is following: note that for large n, x_1^n + x_2^n + ... + x_3^n is very close in value to x_1^n, because all the other summands are very small in absolute value, since they start out smaller than 1, and they decrease exponentially to 0. But it just so happens that x_1^n + x_2^n + ... + x_3^n is an integer -- indeed, this is a symmetric polynomial with integer coefficients in x_1, ..., x_n, and every such polynomial has a unique expression as a polynomial in elementary symmetric polynomial with integer coefficients -- this is the fundamental theorem of symmetric polynomials[1]. But, if you plug the roots of a given polynomial into elementary symmetric polynomials, you'll just get the coefficients of the original polynomial times (-1)^k, that is, the original a_0, a_1, ..., a_{n-1} -- for example, a_0 is clearly the product (-1)^n x_1 * x_2 * ... * x_n, a_{n-1} is the sum (-1)^1 (x_1 + ... + x_n), a_{n-2} is a sum of two-products (-1)^2 (x_1 x_2 + x_1 x_3 + ... + x_{n-1} x_n) and so on.

For concrete example, note that x_1^2 + ... + x_n^2 = (x_1 + ... + x_n)^2 - 2(x_1 x_2 + ... + x_{n-1} x_n) = a_{n-1} - 2 a_{n-2}, which is an integer. Try expressing x_1^3 + ... + x_n^3 i n terms of a_{n-1}, a_{n-2} and a_{n-3}.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_symmetric_polynomia...
69 now. still working. big(gish) co so good insurance, would not have it on my own. Embedded systems.
Looks like those last two screenshots are Grafana - do you mind sharing the dashboard JSON for those views? Very cool!
Thanks, i'll have to try it out again
AFAIK, the EE code is also open source. So this is somehow a function of cost.

The massively insanely popular VLC project somehow has no money to pay for it's version control? How did it come down to this?
Algolia V. Elasticsearch for Consumer-Grade Search Part 1: End-To-end Latency
That is the best solution for Mars, but you might need to build the rover in a freezer. Tires that would be soft at Mars temperatures would be liquid or worse at Earth temperatures. For example, you might fill a normal tire mold with diesel, then cool it with liquid nitrogen and there you go -- a lovely tire for Mars that will melt at normal Earth temperatures.

You'd still want to go airless probably, due to a lack of repair shops.
On which OS is this a problem? On Windows it is working fine for me (with 4K).
Ask HN: $4,100 worth it for traffic surge to non-profit website?
A close friend of mine runs a non-profit and they are going to be on national news in a day or two.

The problem is that the website won't be able to handle the traffic.

The host, WP Engine, gave some quotes to upgrade, but really the only option they said would work is $4,100/month. The other options they admitted wouldn't guarantee that the website could handle it (and probably would crash).

It's super critical that the website be able to handle the donations when the news story airs.

Is $4,100 a fair price? My friend doesn't mind paying for it if:

1) It works and the website doesn't crash.

2) It's a normal rate for this type of issue.

The website is:

http://www.kaylacares4kids.org/
Thanks for the reply.

There are plenty of off-the-shelf consensus algorithms/services you could use in the git-hooks that don't have the git-ketch limitation. Zookeeper, etcd, consule, redis, etc. It really just matters your criteria and requirements, they all of trade-offs but I'm sure one fits.

To be frank I think your time is better spent looking into why one of these consensus packages isn't the right call for your needs. Since they could easily plug into the git-hooks & git-shell commands, it could avoid a massive investment of time from your team and you.
They don't want to incentivize people writing just to get maximum clicks.
The CIA are cool now guys stop it!
The US Military also uses a customized version of Windows 10. Probably to remove all that spyware, err, "Telemetry".
Because I'm going to immediately argue with you that there is no reasonable DRM.

It comes from two ideological positions. One believes that content creators need complete systemic control of what they make - at all costs (that the creator maintains full control no matter how the content is interacted with) - and the other is that content shouldn't be controlled (or that I, as a buyer of content, should control the content I bought), and all real world implementations fall between those extremes.

But when it comes to DRM, it should be understandable that plenty of people (myself included) are not willing to allow third party companies to run proprietary code (the drm) on my hardware for the exclusive purpose of preventing me from interacting with data on my own computer (the streamed movie / music). When web browsers start baking in this proprietary functionality, it forces me to look for alternatives to the established open source browsers.

If you are content with that relationship with content (heh) providers, then this is not your fight. But at least accept that a lot of us want to own our computers, and proprietary software takes away that right, and DRM is just one of the more visceral forms proprietary software takes where its entire purpose is to impede the users ability to control their computers.
From Laszlo Bock, former SVP of People Ops @ Google.

> [1] The best predictor of how someone will perform in a job is a work sample test (29 percent). This entails giving candidates a sample piece of work, similar to that which they would do in the job, and assessing their performance at it.

Based on the statistics he provided, it seems like a combination of work sample and behavioral questions will typically produce the best results.

The problem is that Google gets ~2 million applications per year, so there needs to be an aggressive, quick funneling process. If you're a smaller company, you can definitely afford to slow down and give candidates more of a chance.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-google/
Including the serial port as the only connection method? Using parts that are no longer available for purchase?
In theory Haskell has a very powerful type system, but using it's advanced features were always very complicated, cumbersome and intransparent (more like a 2nd, crippled programming language on top of another). This is an dramatic step to reduce that complexity and provide an powerful, but easy to use type system (but, as always, with great power comes great responsibility ;) ).
Cool. I'm not the one who originally posted the question but had the same one upon checking out the starting page. Great idea, something I would be interested in signing up for, but too much plastic at this point.
Bloaty McBloatface: a size profiler for binaries by Google
The art and science behind hand-drawn weather maps at the Bureau of Meteorology
"You won't believe who loves smoothies made of bug guts" would be clickbait. 'Mildly curious fact' is just a mildly curious fact like EO Wilson telling you how much all ants weigh in a nature documentary.
This is why you shouldn't run commands as root.
> I have seen programmers “patch” programs by literally patching the paper tape.

The quoted person doesn't seem to realise this, but that is literally where the term "patch" comes from.
> It’s based on the premise that, instead of yet another never-ending feed, people would be much happier with a limited set of carefully curated stories, chosen by experts among topics we care about.

To see if this would be a feature I want, I went to Medium's "Staff Picks" page to see what they already care about. Front and center is an article about some kind of convention for twins. Also featured: a post about witches getting political and another post about design lessons learned from cats.

Not sold on Medium's ability to curate articles...