skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
disclaimer: i'm not affiliated with that company (i'd love to own such a machine though)

in germany you can buy a 13,3" FHD laptop with up to 32GiB ram and preinstalled ubuntuflavors starting at 1099€ here:

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Noteboo...

keyboardlayouts for a lot of countries and plenty of other customization options available. Batterylife is claimed to be 12 hours. Weight is 1,3kg.

edit: added weight, starting price
I think you misunderstood me. I am not "successful" in that sense. By "you" I meant us "unsuccessful" people who are the target of such "success stories". What are we supposed to do? I'd say it's waste of time to get too pissed at success stories that are affected by survivorship bias.
Server Density was always a great blog. Second this one!
There was a comic in XKCD recently that asked everyone to preface their inspirational speeches with a disclaimer about Survivorship bias. You should read that.
Yep, TheDAO fork represents one of the best things about the community, which is a)ability to make rapid, high pressure decisions, yet still offer fair choice to everyone.

People forget that the ETC exists and is viable for anyone who wants it.

Everyone needs to stop talking about developer losses and whatnot. They gave us a choice, there is 100% consensus on the ETH chain, and there is 100% consensus on the ETC chain. If you want to blame anyone, blame the users. But the dev team has been incredibly top notch and professional all around.
If you like this comic, you'll appreciate Darius Kazemi's talk
"How I Won The Lottery".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw
They also make the content available to the public, which is directly competing with the site owners.

Thats inviting lawsuits they can't win and expecting people to pay the bandwidth for it too.
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Xml does not do it justice, but no way will json be any better. Creating a new format just for svg seems doomed. Whatever best suits it will have a huge battle against its adoption, especially in the browser implementations where it matters most.
Hilarious, it's the same formulation as those infamous Walmart educational videos. The ordinary employee wishing to learn what this "union" thing is all about..

https://youtu.be/zTwY2bF1JI0
The 'new' aspect of this discovery is that we didn't know it was there before. I think that's a perfectly valid thing to call new.

I don't think anyone's claiming the plastic is new.
Got to say. That last paragraph was impressive. Wow.
"There are loads of stories like that."

But I believe that's the whole point that the comic is trying to make.

Successful stories are those that are shared and those that we choose to have as validation that if we do the same we will be successful.

Stories of those that had the same conviction, but failed, are those that few like to share or even acknowledge.

Of course, there is plenty of variation on what we consider "success".

Going to college, work hard studying a marketable subject is a much lower risk/reward proposition than "funding a startup and creating the next Google".
What really struck me as remarkable was this bit: "Digital display with back light gives exact and clearly reading although you stay at the somber conditions"

I wish my TV could do that...
> My bank even uses Chip & PIN as the first step for an in-person transaction at a teller.

Some banks do that here in the US as well, as do retailers. Those are both for debit card transactions, though.
I'm confused about your statement about opiates. You make it sound as if they are designed to not block pain completely, when really it just works out that way. Are you referring to the neurotransmitters that opiates mimic, and their role in pain blocking?

I can't afford decent health insurance right now. I know that in the long-term, surgery is always the better option than allowing further deterioration of my condition, but it simply isn't a possibility for a lot of people. I don't collect disability because I enjoy my field but lately the idea has been tugging at me more and more. I just fear, if nothing else, health coverage denial in my later years because of it.
> Well welcome to writing C?

I've been writing C for 30 years.

> UB is critical to performance

Not really, no. See

"What every compiler writer should know about programmers
or
“Optimization” based on undefined behaviour hurts performance"

(referenced elsewhere in this thread)

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/kps2015/proceedings/KPS_201...
A Crash Course on Programmable Graphics Hardware [pdf]
Here I'd lean towards archiving everything indiscriminately. Politicians especially should not have the "right to be forgotten", because what they do is of historical interest.
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Sure, in some ways, we all did - though I think most of us just got disappointed in a product or two or finally realized the ads weren't realistic.

This wasn't the case with other things, though. I remember really liking Care Bears back in the 80's. My father was appalled when he took me to a movie - he said it was basically an add to get kids to buy the new line of toys. My brother, 11 years younger than I, had the same sort of thing with Power Rangers and then Pokemon. I don't have children and am not quite sure what the current modern version of this is, but I'm sure it is there. Adult versions abound. These aren't the things we can spot so easily, especially as children with little world experience.
I actually really like many of the blogs at Microsoft. It's a bit of a mixed bag, but there's some gems in there.

Raymond Chen's blog[1] in particular was good enough to get me to buy his book (which definitely did not disappoint).

Other ones I subscribe to are the Microsoft Edge Dev Blog[2] , Mark Russinovich[3] and Games for Windows and the DirectX SDK[4]

And there's a few that have unfortunately not been updated for a long time, such as Larry Osterman[5], or have come to an end, such as Rico Mariani[6]

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

[2] https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/

[3] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/

[4] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/chuckw/

[5] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/

[6] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/
SVG does create lots of value. Google uses it a lot in the Docs suite, in slides for example.
> word-forming element meaning "quality, condition; act, power, skill; office, position; relation between, [...] from Old English -sciepe" [1]

It seems like -ship is related to the German -schaft. e.g. Gemeinschaft <-> fellowship, Gesellschaft <-> companionship, Freundschaft <-> friendship ...

Thanks for letting me search for it. Now I learned something on a slow friday.

[1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=-ship
Every time I think of Uber these days I hear Cartman's voice in my head going "I do what I want!"
> It's all about money at the end of the day, isn't it?

I'm still having a hard time seeing any cryptocurrency based application as anything but an attempt to facilitate speculation based on that currency's value. There seem to be so many perverse incentives inherent to this technology that I automatically find any idealistic application of it suspect.

Perhaps this is overly cynical, but all cryptocurrencies seem to boil down to a system that would immensely benefit whoever came up with that particular currency (by virtue of having mined all the early blocks before going public or whatever) and whoever invested early if it ever took off.
I actually didn't know that. Do you operate the same crawlers?

I have considered putting a single file that is only accessible via no-follow links and perma-ban any ip that access the file, as a way to punish bad robots.
Naked mole rats are very interesting, if I remember correctly, they behave just like social insects (bees, termites, ants, etc.) in many ways, but they're mammals.
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C optimizers have and will optimize around UB. Feel free to call it a bug in C, the compiler, or the programmer, or the code - when you write C, when you use a common compiler, you're asking for vulnerabilities.

Thanks for the paper. It's very interesting but I think it has no real impact on my initial statement - these optimizations aren't going away, you can continue to expect problems like this vuln in the future for the same reasons.
Also, that niche appears to be taken.
Most likely you are not the audience - hapless investors wanting to get in on the next bubble are.
It's not ec2, it's the ecosystem.

DDOS, multi-path, multi-az, dr, snapshots, hardware redundancy, elasticity, freedom from datacenter contracts, fiber contracts, driving to rack stuff, jammed fingers, staff costs, firmware bugs, bad hardware batches, cdn, compliance costs. I have more but I'll stop there.

It doesn't make sense at very small or large scales but it captures a hell of a lot of the middle.
Right.

The basis of budgeting and capacity planning is that everybody who participates in a free market secretly wishes they didn't have to.
Terminator devs are working on the same kind of integration [1]. You can already attach to a running tmux session and Terminator will pick up the layout and create the splits and tabs accordingly. It has some rendering issues if you are using zsh and/ or fzf but otherwise great to see the progress.

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1301605
Well, it was posted on April 4th, so that's more than a year by now.
> Survivorship bias doesn't relate to people who worked hard, improved themselves and now earn 1-10MM/yr.

I don't have the actual numbers (does anyone?), but my guess would be that universally given <10% of startup success rate includes those people. In other words, you have 90%+ chance of failure, and <10% of chance of ending up with income better than in a job (including very small chance of becoming a multimillionare).

For example, there are millions of apps on App Store. Most of those are/were somebody's startup...
Essential skills required to every iOS app developer
I don't think you need anything other than java+maven. That's all my projects use as far as I'm aware. Android probably requires some additional stuff for its packaging but I just enabled the maven android plugin and trusted that to handle it - if there's any other config I haven't been touching it.

The grandparent linked to the maven getting started, https://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/maven-in-fiv... . That shows what the minimum looks like - a pom.xml, and application source code in src/main/java (under its package structure). (The unit test isn't strictly necessary but is good practice).

The pom's XML header and modelVersion are boilerplate, but the rest is pretty clear and self-explanatory (though admittedly verbose).

At that point for a library project you're sorted, for an application you can run your program via "mvn exec:java" which is adequate for development. To actually package up your application for distribution you probably want to use the shade plugin a la https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/examples... , but that's something you'd do as part of "productionisation". (Back when I worked at an early-stage startup we had things running and serving user requests via "mvn exec:java")
The key difference here is that the manufacturing never actually happened. They seem to have used preorder money to fund other steps in the process but never actually made the product beyond some initial devices.

Kickstarter to fund manufacturing should happen at the appropriate time in the process, if you're "doing it the right way."
Why Mongodb as a cache backend, rather than something like Memcache or Redis?
It's apparently a thing now.

Peter Thiel has purportedly invested millions in anti-aging. A company called Ambriosa in particular matches older people with younger people for blood routine blood transfusions.

While this study may or may not work with humans, the Ambriosa project does seem to have legs.
A more realistic view of 10x engineer is not someone who can produce 10x amount of code... it's producing the same amount of value at 1/10th the effort by being able to focus on actual goal.

Sometimes that means fixing existing codebase instead of the massive effort to do a rewrite (see gregjor's great comment).

Sometimes that means figuring out that the custom legacy software can be replaced by an off-the-shelf solution.

Sometimes that means figuring out that only some of the legacy software is actually important, so only that part needs to be maintained and the rest can be deprecated.

See also https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/25/the-01x-programmer/
Sysdig has had a bunch of nice posts over the last 2-3 years:

https://sysdig.com/blog/tag/technical/
In my (current) opinion, it's this law that should be forgotten. What's on the public Internet is a matter of public interest. All I can see is this law being used by bad people to hide their bad deeds, especially when those bad deeds should be known.
For those of us in the UK:

http://archive.is/M8y6o
> Perhaps this is overly cynical

Probably not, especially not for all the coins started after bitcoin took off.

Bitcoin itself may be an exception but without a reliable genesis story it's impossible to know for sure.
The morality of whether bots should obey robots.txt is a separate issue to the point I raised about how you shouldn't trust bots to obey them. To use your example of high street stores: shops have security tags on expensive items / clothing as a method of securing products from theft because you cannot blindly trust everyone not to steal (though wouldn't it be great if that wasn't the case). Equally websites cannot trust that bots will obey robots.txt. Which means any content that doesn't want to be crawled needs to be behind nofollow attributes or (if it's sensitive) user authentication layers and any content that does need to be indexed also needs to be in a sitemap. Once you have all of these extra layers implemented, the robots.txt becomes utterly redundant. Hence why I say it's a failed experiment. The benefits it offers are superseded by better solutions.
I totally ignore it and my bot never get caught. If they catch me I will say that the script wasn't working correctly, but what you are saying is wrong, there's is NO LAW stating that /robots.txt must be obeyed. Therefore it's not my problem, I just don't follow your rule, but I have the choice too and you have the choice to block my IP too which I think is more harmful.

Also thanks for spreading bad information.
>However, I also believe that each and every one of us gets lucky breaks.

Why do you assume this?
What would have helped put this goal higher on the list?
Office break rooms solve this by having bottles of Odwalla and the like in the drinks fridge along with all the other drinks. Juicero is ostensibly fresher but, as the demonstration shows, it's really not and the quality is the same as any other cold pressed juice.
This is an American company that strips SSL from many, many medium value targets; if they aren't thoroughly owned then the surveillance state is being negligent.

A paranoid man would go even further than that and assume that monitored DDoS-proofing goes hand in hand with targetted, state-sponsored DDoS attacks.
This is how they do it in movies
> Survivorship bias doesn't relate to people who worked hard, improved themselves and now earn 1-10MM/yr. There are loads of stories like that.

The point is that, due to survivorship bias, it is hard for us to know whether working hard and improving yourself is actually a better path to success than any of the alternative things you could be doing.
Please take your propaganda elsewhere
A concrete example would be the Transputer architecture. Transputers had signed addresses (from -2^(k-1) to 2^(k-1)-1). The null pointer was in the middle of the address space (which already wasn't without problems) and an unsigned comparison would have created a wrong ordering of addresses.

The compiler for such a machine does not even have to be evil.
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OkCupid has great statistical into their data: https://theblog.okcupid.com/
Electric ceiling fan in a small room dries a stand full of clothes in 4-5 hours in a 70%RH climate and costs a LOT less than drum dryers and is safer for the garments.
I would've imagined Netflix had their own hardware, both compute and storage.
> We didn't blame Microsoft for "lock-in" back in the IE-only website days

Yes, we did. Very loudly and very frequently. So loudly and frequently that the company was charged with violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.

The expression "embrace, extend, extinguish"[1] was first used to describe Microsoft's attempt to "lock-in" the WWW. Introducing incompatibilities into IE and proprietary extensions (ActiveX, which Google is copying with NaCL) allowed make a show of embracing open standards as bait for the lock-in. This isn't theoretical - in Bill Gates's own words[2]:

>> "One thing we have got to change in our strategy--allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples [sic] browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities. Anything else is suicide for our platform."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

[2] (pdf) http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/...
> I'm surprised that you consider it controversial that a highly dynamic language can be considered fast to PoC something in than Java.

Sure, but that wasn't the argument; GP talked specifically about async and websockets, which are areas where Java is particularly weak, but areas that I was surprised would be required for a PoC at all.
What if you can't get a job doing what the market wants?
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AFAIK Bitcoin early-mined blocks were mined and are still owned by its creator. So it's perfectly ok to be cynical about Bitcoin as well.

Edit: Some details here https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-f...
> But if you put too much emphasis on survivorship bias then you would think that everything is completely random and use "survivorship bias" argument as an excuse to do nothing.

No, what you would do is you would try to figure out how to get more information on those who didn't "survive" so you can make fair comparisons.
If the compiler can know that the pointer is non-null, why would it need to rely on UB to optimize it?

You've got this backwards. The compilers "knows" the pointer is non-null because you dereferenced it, and dereferencing null would have been undefined behavior. That's what allows the compiler to assume that didn't happen.

There are many operations which will produce undefined behavior for some inputs (e.g., every pointer dereference, every signed integer arithmetic operation). Figuring out if it is possible for a program to encounter such inputs at runtime is equivalent to the halting problem.

This is why any attempt to craft a -Wundefined-behavior that works on non-trivial programs is doomed to failure. It may be possible to prove a program will definitely invoke undefined behavior in some useful subset of cases. Compilers already do this in some of them, even. But those cases (and many more, besides) would also be caught with ubsan and a unit test.
Worth noting that people who were unsatisfied with the low res results of PhotoScan (a poor 3mp), so modded it to bump the final resolution to 12mp https://www.xda-developers.com/modded-version-of-googles-pho...
Poor people, focusing on survival, don't have the time and wherewithal to give seminars.
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Have you tried Sketch?

I agree, all the tools you listed have serious usability problems for the lay user, especially when it comes to an SVG workflow. But in my experience, Inkscape has many of those same problems. Sketch is the only graphics editor I've used that I feel like I don't have to fight with all the time.
If you're on Linux uninstall mscorefonts.
Are they using some implementation of the Ethereum light client protocol? Last time I checked it wasn't available yet: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Light-client-protocol

If they are using the standard protocol then how do they connect to the Ethereum network? Do they use their servers as proxy to the network? Because if it's so, that would defeat the whole point to me.
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If finding potential UB in Ada programs is as simple as grepping for unchecked_conversion, then that's a big step forward compared to C, don't you think?
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They're pretty popular in South America... I've got Northern European ancestry but no back problems, and I sleep well. You can actually get pretty straight in a hammock, I think a lot of people overestimate the curvature. I think this blog has some good pictures to show what it's like: http://www.treklightgear.com/treklife/hammock-angle/
Sorry I should have made it more clear - the links are at the end of my comment.
Stalker was a unforgettable mesmerizing, almost hypnotic film. I didn't know there had been an earlier attempt! IMHO that Tarkovsky was able to make ANY film at all in the hostile bureaucratic atmosphere in which he worked gives a ray of hope to artists everywhere.
Why not just use a vacuum pump and pull the water vapor out at a constant temperature. You can flow 33C dry air (use a condenser before expanding and heating, if you like) across the clothes as they tumble to keep them from freezing.

You wouldn't have to pump below a 10% of an atmosphere to quickly dry your clothes (vapor pressure of water is 5% of an atmosphere at that temp).

To give an idea of how fast:
With a 1liter/sec STP air intake, you would extract ~1gram/sec of water so in 15min you would remove ~1kg of water.
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But you cannot dump your clothes into the room and expect them to dry.
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Perhaps http://snapsvg.io/ could work for your use case?
From time to time, I'v enjoyed Spotify's blog:
https://labs.spotify.com/
Maybe you missed the part where they say that these animals naturally live in oxygen-deprived environment in their nests? They stop breathing because they evolved to do so in those situations. Would you say it's sad to freeze carp to see at what point they stop breathing, even though carps naturally do that every winter?
https://zapier.com/blog/ is a good place to visit from time to time.
Kinda confusing. I assume the colored in ones are that teams filled positions, however some have profiles pictures and some don't.

The "card" itself has a header with one person, so it kinda looks like they are all people and the filled in things are their skills.

Or something, as I mention, it was kinda confusing.
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> Capitalism is a competition. [...] You won because someone lost.

This is false, and frankly a bit insulting.