skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well according to the rules, if their first guess is wrong, they are considered fooled. I'm pretty sure they have the right guess for all of them somewhere on their list of possibilities. There have been a couple where they very convincingly look fooled though.
An equivalent of blind or double-blind testing for pitches would make an improvement, I think.
Ask HN: What can we do to stop piracy?
Hey guys and girls ;)

I'm at my wits end, and need advice. The site http://www.gfxtraz.com uses stolen credits cards, signs up to our site through Amazon IP addresses, downloads our files, and makes them available for download.

This happens on an almost daily basis, and it is really starting to hurt us. Not only are our files available for free, but we end up having to pay chargeback fees with Stripe for every stolen credit card charge.

It seems as though if you file an abuse complaint with their registrar, they simply allow the site to change domain names. It was previously Gfxtra.

This is not only an issue for us but also for Envato, Creative Market, and the list goes on....

Is there anything we can do?

Thank you in advance!
They do have IPv6 - I just checked the admin dashboard.
> The servers themselves are not noticably cheaper in price than x86-based servers

You mean given the rather slow cores? I can't think of any provider offering x86 bare metal at this price.
I was thinking this would be about thermonuclear weapons. Had my coffee poured and all..
But I always thought speaking HTTP with a server can be considered RPC. We can pack our message in XML, JSON, or whatever serialization we choose, passes on to the destination, unmarshall, do something, return.
He could have taken the easy way out of his problems and declared bankruptcy. I think most would have, but he paid back all his debts, the hard way; that seems admirable to me.
The phrase "nullify a share grant" has no legal meaning that I'm aware of.

There are some semi-legal ways to do this, eg dilute some shareholders by issuing a ton of new shares and give them to other existing shareholders (you see this done in The Social Network). However, minority shareholders do have rights and they can sue if there is no basis for the new grants.

What Juno seems to be doing is asking people to sign away both (1) their shares and (2) their right to sue in exchange for around 10% of what they previously thought was the cash value of their shares.

I suspect the reason for this is that the acquisition is taking place in shares of Gett stock, not cash, and Gett doesn't want 10,000 small shareholders on its cap table, but also doesn't have $50 million of cash lying around to pay these drivers, so it's trying to pay them $5 million and make the problem go away.
Acting Wife: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments [pdf]
So, let me get it right: this attack focuses on two vanity products that people buy from their free will to spend money on bullshit and two 'marketplaces' that nobody is forcing you to use?

The author makes a boring mistake of taking people for irresponsible, stupid children that should be protected from making bad choices. Thanks, no. I've bought a lot of bullshit products in my lifetime, paid for a lot of bullshit subscriptions, and I'm happy to have the freedom to have made all this stupid mistakes, and a lot more too, that taken not just my money.
Auctioning the loser's organs.
What's your preferred alternative for tooling around JS and frontend development?
> they're fully yours: you don't have to share cpu time with other users, as it happens on pretty much all vps providers: you're renting a whole machine.

That's not true with these. These are VPSs backed by a 48-core physical server. Scalaway does have an older baremetal ARMv7 server offering though.
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Thanks for sharing your experiences. I know people who use Merrill Edge (owned by BoA) for index funds as well but I didn't feel comfortable writing about something I don't have any experience with and only a vague knowledge of.

My point was, while Vanguard is certainly a great option, there's plenty of other great options out there as well.
TLDR: Sort of the academic version of the old saying "Big companies play chess, startups play poker."
In a perfect market? Sure. But, this is real life, not an Econ-101 textbook.

In the housing market, there are regulations put in place by NIMBYs to protect their own investments. These limit the supply of housing in popular areas, driving up prices. Nothing a rentee can do but pay up or move elsewhere.

In most job markets, the employer has more knowledge (about compensation plackages) and the job-seeker needs a job ASAP to avoid starving.

In the case of Juicero, the toothbrush subscription, etc? Closer to a textbook-pure market, for sure.
>What would you consider a good developer?

You can convince people you are a good developer.

It's only a title that other people give you -- there's not an objective, definitive test for it and you can use a number of methods to get that title (actual technical skill, social skills, outright fraud). And of course, if you convince a good number of people, it's much harder for you to lose that title.

I know that sounds cheeky but if you look at interviews and how ridiculous everyone thinks those are, you know we don't have a good technical test to actually prove if anyone is a good developer because the test is so different than actual day-to-day operations we do. If we knew about that test, we'd be using it, and we'd have a hell of lot less "INTERVIEWING IS BROKEN" blog posts.

All of those tests are built on opinions on what a good developer ought to be, and there are tons of variations. Being a good developer and a good computer scientist are two distinct things with some overlapping skills.

The real test is just putting someone in the position but that can be untenable for both sides since they cannot afford to spend the time and money for that sort of accuracy.

I have less knowledge about business value but anything that adds to the company's sustainability or profitability or efficiency (to include non-profit/not-for-profits) is likely adding business value.
Or AMF, everybody forgot about Flash and AMF?
These are both wonderful pieces of news! Thanks for sharing.
> ‘My wife is a woman, she has a vagina, you have a vagina, let’s see if everything aligns.’ It’s so offensive.”

This sticks out to me, as a point requiring more of a story. At least one example would be good.

For example if you're pitching integrated circuit technology, and the investor mentions something about consulting his wife---then maybe this is a wife/husband business duo (officially or unofficially, those kind of relationships are common). This is something that would have occurred even if the pitcher had been a man, but I have found that men tend to mention their wives more when other women are present. I am not sure why in general, though I could come up with some anecdotes.

If you're pitching something of interest to women[1], then no matter whatever research you have done personally, an investor may want to spot check it with the nearest available woman. Now one may say that's unfair, you've done research and data should win over anecdotes. However, many investment decisions are partially made from gut and instinct, which is why one can be turned down with a statement of "good luck, but I don't think this is the right product/company for me". Usually the instincts questioned are your own, but if the product specifically refers to your blind spot, then you may question someone close to you who doesn't have that same blind spot.

Whilst I've never had a "hey let me mention this to my wife" moment, I have had a lot of people give anecdotes about their foreign born friends (whom only happen to be from the same continent as me), or mention they'll run an idea by someone who happens to be from the same region I am from.

The funniest times are when someone guesses my background wrong, wants to check with someone from the wrong background, then once corrected gets confused about if its relevant at all.

[1] The article is about a Women's Products Company. This could be fashion, which even men can have a passing interest in or it could be generally sex-specific items (e.g. a husbands opinion on a 'good bra' is going to be very different from his wife's; and he probably knows it).
Scaleway is owned by Iliad. Iliad also owns Online.net. Online.net is Kimsufi's (OVH) main competitor:

- €8.99/mo: Intel Avoton C2350 (2x 1.7 Ghz), 4GB ECC RAM, 1x 1TB HDD or 1x 120GB SSD. 1Gbit/s unlimited.

- €15.99/mo: Intel Avoton C2750 (8x 2.4 Ghz), 16GB ECC RAM, 1x 1TB HDD or 1x 250GB SSD. 2.5Gbit/s unlimited.

I have one of the latter ones, and it's amazing. The only problem I have with it is that the bandwidth between Online.net and my ISP in Denmark goes through NL-IX, and something there doesn't jive. Even though the server can easily hit the 2Gbit/s mark, I'm barely hitting 3Mbit/s from home due to the NL-IX pipe being overloaded.

I'm using a proxy at OVH (Kimsufi), which at least gives me 100Mbit/s (the peering to OVH goes through HE).

Edit: If you're wondering why there are so many HDD servers available vs the SSD ones, it's because they have been hit by a fan-of-death issue. They have fans in their PSUs that vibrate so much (or maybe hit the resonance frequency of the racks) that prevent the HDDs from spinning up. Online still "sells" those broken racks, even though they have dozens if not more servers impacted by this. The problem has been ongoing since November 2016 [1].

[1]: https://status.online.net/index.php?do=details&task_id=720
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Why not just add robot-moving robots to your list? ;)
A Cosmic-Ray Hunter Takes to the Sky
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Libertarians make a community appear to be more left-wing to right-wingers and appear to be more right-wing to left-wingers.

That's why they get so much vitriol from both sides. The similarities make them look like traitors to your side, and the differences make them look like the enemy.

Tech people can't really be considered left-wing, because if we were, there would already be a union with teeth and we'd have UBI figured out. But we're not right-wing either, because we love immigration and hate (local) monopolies like Comcast and AT&T.

By all measures, politicians should be drooling over us as a voting bloc. But the popular kids never really cared about the nerds, and that's why only our relatively high incomes have any real sway politically.

Also, they get annoyed at our ability to penetrate the screening layers of bullshit to identify real problems and come up with workable solutions to them. Politicians fear (rightly so) that we would replace them with very small shell scripts.

As an example, the current political cycle has elevated health care insurance as an issue best able to make the voting populace distracted and afraid. It takes any one of us just seconds to look past the method of processing payments to see that the real problem in US health care is embedded more deeply in the mechanism for setting prices, and in the marginal cost for providing care.

We're more apt to realize when a publicly-asked question has not actually been answered after parsing out the political response. And we have this crazy, weird attitude towards power where we sometimes just give it away, dispersing it to the four winds, instead of milking it as a cash cow until we die. That makes traditional politics very wary of the tech community. They literally cannot understand how our minds work, and they have very little idea what we might actually want. They also have some inkling that a large fraction of worldwide prosperity is now utterly dependent in some way on us, and they desperately need to keep us under control before we (probably accidentally) transform the planet into some form of sci-fi techo-topia that is simultaneously inspiring and horrifying.
I remember this guy had something to do with harassment of Shanley.
I used Bumble app in Japan.  what happened
Because they're threatening the lives of random innocent people over something as trivial as a their easiness to avoid problems with the law.

You're suggesting that rich people commonly drive drunk solely because they get some kind of thrill out of endangering the lives of innocent people and being able to get out of the consequences more easily than other people?

Putting them on jail the same way we do with people that steal iphones. I mean Literally the same way, with a lot of punches and armlocks.

We're not talking about what happens to them after they no longer pose a threat to innocent people. The purpose of shooting a mugger is not to punish the mugger, it's to prevent harm from coming to you.
> Can I just call mmap instead of anything requiring userspace coordination beyond function scope if I need dynamic memory in a signal handler?

Yes, but if you're doing nontrivial work, you probably don't just want memory for yourself, you want to share some actual program state with the main process. See the other comment I posted.

In practice, making any raw system call is async-signal-sae. POSIX doesn't specify this because it doesn't specify what is a system call at all - it's purely a C-language, compile-time interface, and a unikernel that makes everything a library call, a Windows subsystem, etc. are all valid ways to implement it. But on a system where mmap is in fact a system call (and the libc wrapper does nothing interesting) it follows from first principles: there's no userspace resource that can be left in an inconsistent state.

> How easy is it to fuck up the signalfd thing and end up not responding to SIGINT in a timely manner, because I'm being silly and doing some blocking work in the signalfd loop for some reason? Does that happen to people at all?

I mean, this is basically the same question as "How easy is it for a system that's only accessible via an HTTP API to get stuck processing an event and not process a POST /quit". If you're worried about messing up your event loop and getting stuck, then yes, SIGINT interrupting your process is useful -- but also, you've already admitted you don't know what the state of your process is. So an orderly shutdown is difficult. Any work you could do to make it easier turns out to be work that makes your original non-blocking design get implemented correctly.

You should probably just leave SIGINT at its default disposition (terminate the process immediately, same as SIGKILL) and save state to disk periodically or something. Or, at best, implement a signal handler that does very little interaction with process state, maybe just writing a log message (but note that syslog isn't async-signal-safe!) and exiting.
Ask HN: How do you see future of mobile development?
Mobile development is a quite slow-growing domain compared to web development.

Is native application still be the favorite for next years or need a concrete rebuild (mostly thinking of Android SDK)?

Is hybrid application will be the winner?
Re: fossil fuels: just put oxygen tank next to fuel tank!
Shook his hand after a show in Vegas one time years ago. He's genuinely a super friendly guy. And such a damn good showman.
I was fooled as well. Apparently these are not bare metal. "Cloud server" is a misleading way of saying "VPS".
Okay, then wherever most of these public officials stay overnight and weekends. Alexandria? McLean?

Congressmen would be tougher, since they're always flying around. The idea is to bring the pain to people that surround Pai on a daily basis.
Back in the 90s there were real utopian dreams that the Internet could free us and form a world "more humane and fair than the world your governments made before" (Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace, 1996).

Instead, over the past 20 years, Silicon Valley went from being a land of dreams to an accelerator of the conditions that make middle class life so precarious in the developed world.

Nobody in the valley seems to care. Many, including those on this thread, seem to be ignorant of the fact that over the last 10 years, Silicon Valley has transformed, in people's minds, from a place that makes the future better to a place that makes the future worse, yet slightly more entertaining.
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Not much depth in this interview. Regarding the awfulness of human beings, I suspect this is partly explained by a large intersection between the group of people who have the time and inclination to talk to a chatbot and the people who enjoy trolling.
How to use telnet to test ssl/https websites – Bearfruit
Save Captured Images in a NativeScript Angular Application to Couchbase
Until another guy comes, shots you and takes it. Laws exist for a reason.
...and the new BBC news site has this pop up in the console:

B B C NEWS

Hi there! Do you want to help build a fast and accessible web experience used
by over 300 million people around the world each month? We're hiring people for
all sorts of roles. Head on over to http://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/ (search for
"News") to find out more!

Which we have all seen before, but they do CSS in the console for the B B C News 'banner' which I have not worked out how to do yet.
Scalakka devops represent!
I use C1 in production since the beginning along with a bunch of others. Their network is ok, no worse and no better than anyone else's, their weird storage is actually quite nice, nobody else offers anything similar in terms of space and performance in that price range, and I don't understand the point about backups, never used a backup feature of any hosting provider in fifteen years, it's kind of a vendor lock-in feature.

And these new ARM CPUs could satisfy performance needs of like 99% of projects.
I mean if you buy the servers. This site has a selection of these Cavium ThunderX servers for sale with prices (in GBP): https://www.avantek.co.uk/store/arm-servers.html (Edit: Fixed the link)
This makes me think about formalised notation. If you have a mathematical formalised notation, you can express things either more expressively, or with less ambiguity (or both) than without it.

One thing that is required by a formal notation is that before you write a statement in your formalised notation, you need to define the terms and symbols and how they interact with one another or the statement makes no sense to the reader.

I would say this is true even when you're trying to use words rather than some type of syntax, because what you are trying to do is paint a very specific picture (or concept) in peoples minds, and you need these definitions there or people wouldn't understand them.

If you're trying to be concise and to constrain the space of possible interpretations of the words you have written, to only contain the concept that you are trying to explain, and not contain other valid interpretations of the words, that may disagree with the concept you are trying to get the reader to explain, the easiest way to do so is probably with up-front definitions of the terms you are about to use.

TL;DR I posit that an up-front definition of terms simplifies explanation of formal notation (or words) which is necessary to constrain the semantic idea-space to only the valid definition trying to be conveyed.
They have a really nice roadmap that focuses on currently and soon-to-be viable use cases: https://usehelix.com/roadmap
ADS-B hardware would have to be certified ($$$$). It's an excellent addition to the current air-traffic situation but the actual protocol is not very robust. It's pretty easy to jam or overwhelm the system without trying if the software running the transmitter shits a brick. This system is going to become more heavily relied upon since not every airport has a radar (even controlled airports with a tower) and I imagine it will even be used to replace radar systems in some areas eventually.

You'll have to get the FCC involved inevitably, but one option might be to lower the TX power until its range is under 2-3 miles line of sight. Enough distance for a 747 to get an alarm and evade, but not enough for it to take down an entire bravo ring if it fails.
I'm not an economist, but I'll give it a shot: the vast influx of VC money allows for the creation of unsustainable businesses designed to "disrupt" (read: eliminate) traditional players. Buyers are happy to participate because they are getting a "deal" in the short term. Those who have been "disrupted" out of a job are often left to work for those same companies.

Meanwhile, the startup is trying to capture enough market share so that it can then raise rates and lower wages with less competition down the road. In other words, the traditional free trade model can be distorted by the effects of VCs who can operate with extraordinary scale of time and geography.
While I agree with your sentiment in theory, CloudFlare are far from being the only company that handles a significant amount of internet traffic and pragmatically there will always be a need for such organisations to exist. eg if you want DDoS protection, or geolocated content delivery end points, or the ability to scale traffic cost effectively should your content go viral. Heck, even without discussing cloud services you still have privately owned backbones to the internet that can cause mayhem when they experience disruptions to service.
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I think the only reason they get fooled is that they're time limited to come up with a solution and only get one shot at it. 99% sure it's not 'just for TV' as they did the original series in the UK and as it's a competition (which is highly regulated) they said there were lots of rules in place to ensure it was real and not set up or anything like that.
IoTA/Tangle: yet another pied piper?
https://iota.org/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf
They claim to make IoT micro-payments feasible.
Is there any substantial and well-founded discussion about this proposal? Any known attacks on the design? In your opinion, how hyped is this?
Another interesting case: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015TG12Q/ref=sa_menu_kdx...

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