skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO the ideal situation to selectively play along. A router running Linux/BSD which can be configured have regular, VPN and Tor route is the ideal situation to avoid scrutiny from third parties.

Connections to Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc. should go un-tunneled. It's good to feed the beast with data it already owns anyway.

Connection to porn websites (say by your 16-year-old cousin who came to stay at your place for the weekend) and other ethically debatable content should be routed via Tor. Connections to torrents should be routed via VPN[1].

I understand that some people here prefer their personal VPN against a VPN provider like TorGuard, etc. There's no good and poor solution here, everything depends on the use case. A VPN provider will be handling thousands of encrypted connections and gives you a dozen exit nodes. From each exit node thousands of different connections are routed. It's way harder to target and isolate a user, even for a medium state-level actor.

Conversely, if you route all your connections from, say a DO droplet, you're controlling the droplet, but you have one exit point for all your connections... It's extremely easy to target your connections for a state level actor.

Of course there are thousands of schemes one can choose. Everything depends on the use case.
This is an incredibly well written, helpful article. Thank you! I love that you included the Gist as well to show some real code, and that you mentioned how often each type of rate limiting is triggered. This is like the best example ever of how to write a tech blog post!
The path forward is to build-up a portfolio of successful freelance projects. That will raise your visibility/marketability. Start identifying Directors/Managers in web development who you can help-- then reach out to them.
Why battery operated? Wouldn't this just increase electronic waste?
ISDN was 64kbps pet channel though - and to my knowledge did not use a wideband voice codec by default (or at least didn't mandate all ISDN receivers support wideband audio).

Lots of people who had ISDN kit plugged their old POTS phones into their TAs anyway.
nope, it wouldn't ever happen. without capitalism -- or greed, incentive, however you want to put it -- none of those companies would exist.
I see, but is it really that better than Google Drive or Onedrive? Also, if you sign up for these services you get a bundle of other apps (office).
Thimbleweed Park review
You get up at the time your contract says and you go to home.

Its a matter of expectations, if you usually stay late, people will expect that you will be there. Its like if your boss gives you 10 things to do and you accomplish all of them, the next time it will give you 12 things to do, then if you stay late working on those things and you deliver the next time your boss will give you 14 things, because he is measuring your throughput of work

The solution is simple, just stand up and leave and talk to your boss about the amount of work so he can hire someone to help you or delegates the work to other person.
You can remove people from replies. Click on the usernames in the 'Replying to @personA and @personB' and it'll open a list of people you're replying to, each with a checkbox that can be used to remove them.

Dot replies haven't been necessary since Twitter added the ability to retweet yourself. You respond to someone as usual and then retweet it, so all of your follower's will see it, even if they aren't following the person you responded to.

It can definitely be a bit confusing for old users (and the UX for the first one isn't the greatest), but nothing's been removed, it's just been changed.
In this case I think there are several tiers of villains.
Like that extra funding for the NHS, what was it? £350million?

The EU has given funding to areas that the UK government has neglected for years. Why are they going to start giving the money to them now?
I was replying to someone who was saying that 45% of workers pay no Federal income tax, so the upper limit did not enter into consideration. For the mathematical concept of direct variation, which I meant, but did not quite explicitly call out, see: https://www.freemathhelp.com/direct-variation.html
Autonomous Nissan Leaf in London Traffic
Here is one way:

"OK, enough of the office; I'm going to go home and work from there. Beat traffic, get home before dark."

But then not actually end up working from home.
Older Workers Find Age Discrimination Built Right into Some Job Websites
Was I not responding to deliberately inflammatory sarcasm?

I usually ignore it, but if it's unacceptable to reply in turn then I'll happily take a ban.
Funnily enough, I used to use OneDrive OneDrive (SkyDrive back then) with symlinks and it had a bug in its earlier version that basically fucked up your backups if you used symlinks and upgraded OneDrive. It ended up creating file_1 file_2 etc multiple versions of all my files and was a pain to sort through.
I had to swipe back 6 times to return to HN so I could write a comment to complain…

More usefully, this isn't an API, it's a data source for in-universe facts! It has an API (but is not one).
Here’s why airlines don’t always reveal the full truth about flight delays
We can also give Georgia the benefit of the doubt and assume there was a decision maker involved in this at some point who (rightly and in good faith) thought annotations might be a great thing to add to the official law to make it more robust/useful. And they had no idea of the potential negative consequences of the way they went about procuring and labeling the resulting artifact.

We have enough mistrust in the government these days and I think labels like "protection racket" should be saved for times when we really need them.
> Nowadays Internet chat services are cobbled together by happy-go-lucky engineers who, prior to this, maybe did an ads firehose on Twitter,

Skype has been around for 13 years. It isn't a young startup full of ex-node.js programmers.

WhatsApp also has some excellent infrastructure built on top of Erlang which has decades of experience and refinement of heavy-duty telecom usage baked into the framework.

If anything the experience of previous development trickles down and younger engineers benefit from that knowledge. But I'm not sure I buy the idea that you can only build great systems if you've only been doing that one category for your whole career.

The rate of jobs changes faster and in front-end development the pace of toolset changes pretty fast. But even in front-end development it's still the same languages. usually just the tools are the trendy part. And if it's switching languages every 5-7 yrs that knowledge of languages is transferable. I've only benefited as a programmer from exposure to many other languages (and projects).

Regardless, the hardcore backend guys you get to build this type of infrastructure isn't the same hipster front-end devs that Twitter hired in the early years to build out a consumer product. Consumer is very different than building out telecom infrastructure in Erlang/C++.
I think it's virtually certain that, if they are indeed top figures in their fields, it's guaranteed that they are deeply involved in their work, and that means their subconscious minds are processing that stuff non-stop. But the subconscious is a funny thing, because it doesn't seem to require "effort" to operate, however you may define that notion.

It's the fully conscious, purposeful, organized work that requires "effort" and consumes "energy". Not even sure how to define these things properly, but everyone seems to understand them intuitively. Anyway, to be successful at the highest levels, it seems like you have to be awfully protective of this "energy" thing.
Silicon Valley Career Guide 2013 [pdf]
You reply as normal and then retweet your own reply. All of your follower's will be able to see the tweet regardless of if they're following whoever you responded to.
The fair tax proposal actually proposes removing Social Security and Medicare taxes as well so there would be no income tax of any kind. I stand by my numbers.
Common Lisp: The Language (2nd Edition)
The unique challenges of the CIA’s recreational activity leagues
Exactly. What happened to Google Maps market share on iOS when Apple make Apple Maps the default option (even considering that at that point GMaps was way better than Apple's alternative)?
I've seen you make the same exact post in the last vision related thread.

Please stop shilling for whomever it is.

The main risk associated with these surgeries is that there's no "preview" to check if your vision will be better or worse than your current contact-corrected vision.

If it's worse - then by my definition, the procedure is a failure and that's the only thing I care about. The risk that it's worse isn't the same as the risk that is commonly defined in the success of the procedure - it's much higher.
What an irritating article. If you do anything pleasurable you don't normally do in the morning (like eating ice cream for breakfast) you're likely going to be in a better mood.

What happens when someone eats ice cream every day? I'm sure you will lose this effect. In fact, when this person skips a day of eating ice cream for breakfast they're going to be more irritable - classic response to addiction/habitual use.

I haven't read the original study and it's not to necessarily suggest that the author is pushing stupid science, it's the annoying pop science article posted here that people will pass around in semi-joking defense for eating more sweets.
.. and noone here (including myself) has any clue what it means in real-life. There is no discussion of potential consequences etc.

I'm not sure this is how it should be (EDA professionals congregrate elsewhere, I assume)... but it kinda sucks. These things are so important to our collective progression, but it's all done in closed-source silos when it comes to hardware things.
The 'neural network' is probably an SVM or logistic regression. There's nothing special that a neural network can learn with high-level features like network speed, ping times, etc.

In fact, it's probably just a TCP-like algorithm, i.e. decrease rate of packet sending if not getting ACKs back. One day, Intel might come out and say their microprocessors are AI-powered, since it has branch prediction.
> I run it at nice 5 and ionice 18

No thought required. Simple.

;)
so, so bad..
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13997523 and marked it off-topic.
>you're figuring out ways for people to share more cat pictures

Ahem, it's called "changing the world".
My neighbors don't have a problem with me running the airbnb. They do it themselves, too, or at least like having the option to. The balcony was a mess but it wasn't damaged, nor did it cost anything to clean.
> I hope my outreach has a positive net impact on the HN community.

And of course on your wallet.
What is interesting is that it appears to be non-linear. There are diminishing returns as you spend more, based on this data.
For anyone about to try out algo – I assume it's great if you are using AWS or DigitalOcean, but if you're self hosting, or have an unsupported VPS, I've had nothing but trouble getting it up and running. I am most certainly to blame, but just a heads up.
The Opus codec ( http://opus-codec.org/comparison/ ) can enable very low latency audio. 26.5 ms algorithmic delay (the time it takes to go through the algorithm) by default, but can be set to a very impressive 5ms. Digital audio can't achieve the near no-latency analog POTS has, but it can get pretty darn close e.g. if Opus is used in the very low latency mode. I believe Mumble and maybe TeamSpeak let you choose the Opus latency. I know some other apps like WhatsApp, Wire, and Signal use Opus as well. I don't know what settings they use though.

Another problem is cell phones add ~150ms latency (pre VoLTE) and people that route calls through Google Voice adds an additional 150ms+ latency on top. If you ever talk to someone on a cell phone on google voice, it sounds like they're calling from the moon.

150ms is about the human limit before turn-taking and talking over each other becomes an annoyance. That's why cell-to-landline conversations (150ms one way) were tolerable, but cell-to-cell (300ms one way) conversations are abysmal. And that's all in the same area code. Once you add long distance, it gets worse.
Alas, this isn't possible on iPhone, where most of the table is offscreen and unviewable. So not annoyingly "unreadable", but literally (literally) unreadable.
Sure. But who's running every node in the DNSCrypt graph? I've never been clear about what that looks like.

I still see DNSSec as providing value before the entire graph of DNSCrypt or DNSoverTLS exists.
Good to hear someone had good interactions in #sbcl
Still have a bitter taste from attempting to report the issue there.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13993120. This account has been posting a lot of unsubstantive comments, so please stop and re-read the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This looks pretty solid, and the ability to create our own resolvers makes things much more flexible.

Currently creating a cross-platform react native app using realm.io for persistence. While it's is great, the debugging performance is slow (rerouted RPC calls) and it has a few quirks (each model is a proxy, odd optional field support, poor error messages when data is erroneous).

The benefits of this seem to be:

1. Pre-created retry logic, optimistic update logic

2. Less effort to save data to realm

3. Less effort to load data from realm on app reloads

4. Potentially shared actions across our apps/web projects, as there's no realm specific abstraction in our apps.

Gonna have a look at implementing this one day soon to compare and learn :)
Whether or not you think they're still necessary, dot replies are a different thing than retweets. The ability to reply while at the same time making that reply visible to your followers has been removed.
Absolutely. Every single day of my 40 years (no doubt this experience is strongly connected to having been raised in poverty). Not confrontationally, face-to-face, or with violence. That's the whole point.
Former South Korean President Park Geun-Hye Is Arrested in Corruption Probe
It's trivial to come up with successful compiles of C code that does invoke undefined behavior.

Successful C compilation rarely means that only higher-level semantics not encoded into type system is now violated.

The battles in C are already being lost in the trenches of lower-level semantics.

If worrying about these higher level things and getting them right were the only problem in C development, C development would be in fantastic shape.

In safe languages which don't have type systems that can express pounds versus inches in inviolable ways, that sort of thing is rarely any sort of obstacle to real work; it's a fluff concern.

If I have to program in something which has no way of enforcing pounds being added to inches, and that is the only significant drawback of that language, I'm laughing.
If I may, the article would be much more enjoyable with pictures of the animals discussed populating the margins. I am constantly googling for said animals :)
Top Drupal dev banished from community after being outed as BSDM practicioner
Isn't this old news? I heard about it roughly four months ago and don't work for either company.
bribe would be accurate since they were offering payment outside their remediation process they setup.

Instead of simply offering payment in exchange for the damage per their guarantee, they wanted something in return: Silence.
Well that's a different question. Do non-technical people think of these as the same as Dropbox?
We've always been at cyberwar with Eastasia.
Background: http://www.bartleby.com/129/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener

This rewrite differs considerably from the original. Bartholomew is sinister and parasitic in a way that Bartleby was not. Less absurdist Kafka than Orwellian nightmare. Both versions have virtues.
I guess I look at it as Susan gets 5 times as much benefit from a stable society (they would both lose their incomes if society collapsed or the country were bombed, etc) and thus should pay _at least_ 5 times as much as Joe.
Flux is a standard idea in the React world... I don't know that there are any "fundamentally different paradigms" for managing state in React.

Before Redux came out, I built my own state management system around Backbone. I recommend using Redux.
If they do the same for hashtags, they shouldn't appear in the tweet body. This seems like it could lead to what tags on Instagram are like (people piling on 20+ tags), which is pretty ridiculous.
If your argument is that the world doesn't conform to any kind of Hegelianism, Marxist or otherwise, I guess I'd agree with you.

But if it's that there are no such thing as classes of rich and poor people, or that the former has not persecuted and exploited the latter for its own gains, now and in the past, that seems to fundamentally misunderstand history and human behavior.
> We are ridiculously aware of the latency issue in high quality voip. We do not at the moment support user generated keys the way Telegram does but we do use TLS/DTLS encryption end to end for our VOIP streams.

Any plans to make this available to developers as a service via AWS?
I used the Pomodoro Technique to transition from the "Lazy-SOB" side to the "Deep Flow" side. It's a regulative tool, generalized for the average person, so depending where you are on the spectrum, you'll have different results.

For myself, the consistency was awesome. I applied it to work, leisure, studying, socializing - everything. Before this, I would binge. Go out for hours at a time, play games for hours at a time...I didn't track/measure anything.

I started having more time to accomplish my goals (because I was deliberately making time to do so) and I also got my hobbies/leisure activities under control.

But about a year ago, I would get frustrated when I would be getting into my state of flow just about when the timer went off. I decided I wanted more time in my flow state, so I decided to not follow the technique when I was doing work-related things.

Now, I only use it when I know I'm going to do something leisurely - mostly video games. It now serves as a way for me to avoid getting into the "flow" for things that I really should be cognizant of, while freeing up time to be in the flow of things I'm passionate about.
Could you send me an email with what browser and OS version you're using? edwin.wee@stripe.com
Here's are some pics i took from nearby Ardnish on October last year - https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/cS5bQE
Conway's Aftermath
The next part in the series will include read-write benchmarking. Taking suggestions for other benchmark scenarios!
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20170330184054/http://observer.c...

archive of page. adds were crashing my browser.
I don't think you understand what a monopoly entails. Having a large marketshare is simply not the only qualifier. It's also not remotely anti-competitive. That's just not what that word means.
I, too, started using Twitter semi-seriously as of late. I'd like to see Twitter conversations in a tree interface, like Hacker News and reddit. It's too much scrolling around to see such small nuggets of text.
I think you meant https://represent.us.
RPCS3 Progress Report March 2017
The Current World
Yes, but insurance companies haven't loosened the reins on these drugs. Even with the lower prices, patients are being denied.
Ask HN: Who is using spark/parquet nested schema?
After having seen Spark + Parquet In Depth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Wpwj_gvzg), I have found very inspiring the nested schema feature.
I have a lot of use case in mind, where this could make manipulating data more readable.

Now coming from "regular data" world (Oracle), I am still a bit worried about using it. So my question: are there people here using such nested schema, with reasonable volume of data in production like system.

What are your experience with spark and parquet nested schema, is there any specific issue to be aware of ? Any regrets to have tried to use it ? Or on the contrary a good bet ?

Edit: add Ask HN in title.
What kind of stability issues are you seeing? Have you OC'd? What are you running as OS? Windows or Linux?
(I apologize in advance if I've missed recognition of your authority on this topic; as an outsider it appears you are wrong.)

Are you speaking generally or specifically addressing a shortcoming of the linked paper which demonstrates a methodology to determine whether or not two AWS VMs are on the same physical host?

After a brief review I still don't see any mention of "hardware info" you mention as assumed being available.

Edit: If something has come up since 2009 with this specific paper, I'd appreciate the heads-up!
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This man found a lot of meaning in mountains, rivers, skies and trees [0] and passed it to others. At least the first 3 of those are not made by natural selection.

[0] http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/2014/09/2...
Russia hired 1,000 people to create 'fake news' in key US states during election
These 8 metrics predicted 70% of satisfaction at work
> If the market treats them like a product

A product is something you buy once. A service is something that is provided to you over time to use, usually in exchange for money. My issue was people calling cloud based storage a 'product'. It isn't, it's a service.

You seem to be somehow ignoring the little glass-faced elephant in the room: iPhones/iPads. The number of people who use these devices is not tiny.

The people who don't care about Apple but are still potential Dropbox customers are still using an OS: either Windows, Android or ChromeOS. The manufacturers of those OS' also compete with Dropbox. So what's your point about Apple exactly?

Non-technical users are exactly my point. Why would grandma use Dropbox, when its almost certain the device has built-in cloud-syncing storage from the OS manufacturer?
The place where Dropbox is spectacularly bad is multiple account support. Google does a good job of multiple account support - you log in to the relevant multiple accounts and things work.

Dropbox expects you to pseudo-merge exactly one personal account with exactly one business account. You end up with a mess. It gets even worse when trying to unmerge them. And is not useful should you have more accounts than exactly one of each. That mess will keep coming back to bite you almost every month as Dropbox doesn't do what you'd expect.

Dropbox is lucky that that they do two things their competitors don't: they support Linux and syncing generally works.
Yes, it's unacceptable to reply in turn. When the purpose of the site is to support intellectual curiosity and discussion, it's never productive to make already-bad threads worse.
> When people have to choose between your product for $155 or mine, of equal or better quality, for $25, they will choose mine every single time over yours.

Not necessarily:

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

...and related with:

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

You probably already know this, though - and I am not saying that because of these two things that your premise (or anyone else's) is wrong -or- correct.

I just wanted to inject this, as to many it may be counter-intuitive that by dropping your price (or selling at a lower price), that sometimes people won't purchase it.

I think there have been studies done where they've used the exact same product, but priced it differently, and despite the product being identical in every way, people purchased the higher-priced item more frequently.