skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes wonder if Tesla should be getting into autonomous nav with some of the evident problems they have with high school geometry and recharge planning. That said, the author of the article used SG&A expenses as a club to smack them with, without bothering to examine the reeds that make up the club. Tesla has more in common with Amazon than GM for a business model, they've got a voracious R&D appetite, and so on. They may well fail, but this article doesn't even seem to have a grasp on what they are, hence the measurements are all of time in furlongs per fortnight :-)
Yup. Computers and the open Internet that we grew up with/believed in is being trashed for 'free' products.
War in the middle east is ruining the West. I don't understand it and I don't buy the oil explanation. With the absurd cost of these wars we could just buy the oil, or pay for megaprojects to replace it with gas (even gas to liquids), nuclear, and renewable power. There seems to be no rational explanation for the immense gravity well of Middle Eastern war and how it drags in Democrats and Republicans alike even if they seem initially opposed to it.

I also don't buy the religious or Israel explanation, as neither of these groups have that much influence. The need to constantly involve ourselves in the Middle East seems like an imperative that supercedes all other concerns.

I wasn't a fan of Trump and did not vote for him, but I did have a little bit of hope that at the very least he might be against these wars on "America first" grounds. Looks like the answer is no as his administration is slowly taken over by the war party.

It's almost like when presidents are elected they learn something nobody else knows.
We have that on Linux, selinux or apparmor. Sure they're not the friendliest (especially for desktop stuff) but they work.
You're misunderstanding what it means to own vs. to license... the latter being dictated by a contract known as ToS (terms of service) which you implicitly agree to when using a website.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14281808
Amazing how long some code lasts. Fond memories of working once in a while with John Gardiner Myers in the 90s.
I think it's the best airport in the country. I can get from plane to car in 3 minutes. But yes, transferring airlines would be a pain, though flights on the same airline are usually within the same security zone.

Unfortunately the KC politicians keep scheming to build a new one. Fortunately the population wants to keep it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-04/vancouver...
This. We tend to underestimate the cost of switching. A new service doing the exact same thing as another (and not just software - the support, help, documentation, community etc) is still not good enough to get someone to switch, in spite of price. It might be easier to get new customers though, but remember, your competitor probably has an upper hand in marketing, and in general acquiring new customers.
HTML5 Geolocation Slidedeck
Yeah, that's wishful thinking. Because even if there were such a switch, it would be deliberately perverted.

E.g. some SD cards have a "write-protect notch" the status of which can be changed by physically moving a sliding tab. Very reminiscent of write protect on floppy disks.

Here's the gotcha[1]:

The presence of a notch, and the presence and position of a tab, have no effect on the SD card's operation. A host device that supports write protection should refuse to write to an SD card that is designated read-only in this way. Some host devices do not support write protection, which is an optional feature of the SD specification. Drivers and devices that do obey a read-only indication may give the user a way to override it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#Features
Primarily organic SEO. I did SEO/PPC consulting from 2006 to 2014 so I used that knowledge to help climb to the top. I won't lie, I engaged in some semi-risky grey hat techniques like buying links (only contextually relevant ones. Never spam). The competition was (and still is) just really bad at SEO.
Just like in Romania, the meritocracy exacerbated realities behind academic advantages and revealed cultural quirks that weren't even considered.

There is a lot of literature behind what those exact quirks in New York City, if you'd like to read about it.
> But I haven't found a good alternative "productive" time waster for when my mind needs a short break.

Hacker News? I mean, you posted this right here!
I want to buy RISC-V, both to play with and to support the cause. What are my options like and should I buy something now or wait for the next generation?
YouTube in particular is really unbearable without adblock.
If it comes down to flags, it's literally less than a minute of work to create an alias. So the comparison to mail servers and taxis is overblown.
> volunteer

this does not last, and is unlikely to scale beyond a certain point. Look how much trouble wikipedia is having with finances - so much so that they are spamming pages with donation pleas.

I'm not saying that advertising is inevitable, but when value extraction from the consumer is low (such as a shitty site that people won't pay for, but will consume if free), advertising is the only viable way. If the argument is that such sites don't deserve to exist, then the arguments from both sides are just arguing different world views, and will not ever be resolved.
Classic example of durability vs cost. It may seem excessively priced but these things last forever. As in I've seen plenty in heavy use for 60+ years with very few operational problems (maybe the wind up mechanism for adjusting height might be a little stiff but still very usable). Big up front cost but it ends up being a decent investment if you can afford it.
War in the middle east is ruining the West. I don't understand it and I don't buy the oil explanation

The conspiracy theory is that the war serves to dislodge the population and increase refugee flows to Europe to destabilize the region economically and politically. The war in the Middle East is in truth a war against the European Union, especially Germany. So the story goes.
Session Management in Laravel 5.4
Still on it, but only for the memes.
Exactly. To quote grandparent:

> If ads help with allocation closer to people's real preferences, they're a good thing.

I can name a lot of things fulfilling this role, but none of them are ads. When I built a PC, do you honestly think I looked at advertisements for components? Hell no. My primary source were subreddits like /r/BuildAPC that have guides on what to watch out for when shopping for PC components, and price comparison sites, particularly those that have a ton of filters. Those resources are either run by a devoted community, or they earn a commission when directing me to an online shop where I can buy the product of my choosing. But they're not manipulating my choice in the way that ads are designed to do.
No, it's not. My argument is simple: if you're going to install an ad-blocker, then go one step further and install a content-blocker instead for any websites that serve the ads you're blocking.

I don't want people to uninstall ad-blockers. I want them to install content-blockers.

So, if my motivation were more money, then please... tell me how less money would fit into my worldview?
> * know political posts were not allowed here around election time*

It's not just election time: general political articles are discouraged. From the guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

You can view the guidelines here:

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

> maybe the flagging was due not to the content of the article but rather the exceptional negativity of its comments

I think this is likely what's happening. Some topics do not lend themselves to civil and constructive discourse on HN, and as such, some members will flag them as inappropriate for HN.
You're not engaging deeply. I find myself in these insane microcosms of things I'm interested in, where people are deeply engaged in creating new and interesting content. I follow artists, designers, fashion, extreme sports, my friends, brands, everything. It's a photo blog in a Twitter style rapid fire format, where everyone is an equal because we all have to create good and interesting comment. There's no way to hide behind words, your content has to be good. And people notice. I've learned so much just from videos of artisans and artists posting how-to and process clips. It's the one thing Twitter should have done but never could have. It's short form blogging in visual form, for me, it just works and I get a lot out of it every damn day.
Critically, no matter what your bid is, you never pay more than the spot price which is “The current market price of a Spot instance per hour.” With this in mind you don’t have to guess what to bid and since your bid matches the on-demand price, your instance will never be terminated early due to the price exceeding your bid.

This isn't accurate, the spot price can absolutely be higher than on demand pricing and isn't a reliable method to prevent your instance from being terminated.
They should ask for lessons from the clubs that Israel's government creates to curb pro-Palestinian speech. They even got Congress to pass laws to curb Palestinian criticisms of Israel on campus ( https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/opinion/will-campus-criti... ). That's a high bar for China to hop over.
Windows replacement shells are a thing (usually, in essence, just an explorer.exe replacement), which is what this is. They were extremely popular in the 2000 decade, but believe the current state of alternative shells has stalled quite a bit in general.
Is this bulk mail? (I'm not implying spam - transactional or opt-in)

I only ask because I don't recall any problems over the years with one to one emails either to my gmail or from me to other people's gmail accounts.
So this should make some sense. If you are randomly picking "people" to buy and sell stuff certain actors are going to buy more and certain ones are going to sell more. I'd expect in the beginning (assuming everyone starts with the same money) there would be a lot of fluctuation. Then you get the "1 percenters", if you will.

But that doesn't mean we can't teak the dials to create better distributions. Being human means we can overcome certain natural processes. We can fly. We can live in inhospitable places. Why can't we do the same for natural economic processes?
Companies that care about cost massively move the needle. Competent large corporations without massively dynamic workloads still build datacenters.
How does an import tax do that, though? Other countries use those to protect domestic industry from competition.
The HiFive1 from sifive for $60 is what I got.

https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive1/
You can buy one from SiFive: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive1 although it's going to be a while until a RISC-V chip will be packaged on a board with USB, Ethernet, SATA, and all peripherals that make an ATX motherboard or a Raspberry Pi worth owning.
> The whole idea that sexual selection is somehow at odds with natural selection instead of just being one of many selection pressures, is deeply confused.

Well, sexual selection is distinguishable, because it's not about the environment or other species, but about interactions between sexes. I mean, consider ducks. How does the penis-vagina arms race have any relevance to overall fitness? Indeed, it seems more like a bug in the sexual reproduction app.

But on the other hand, human consciousness and language are arguably products of sexual selection. And they have increased fitness. So maybe it's most useful to consider sexual selection as just another source of variation, grist for the mill of natural selection overall.
Beyond herd immunity, which everyone should understand, there is the issue of kids not getting vaccinated due to parents choice. Is it ok for parents to deny medical care to a child due to superstition? When is it choice and when is it abuse?

Bottom line though the herd immunity issue means its not just your choice, now it affects me and mine as well, that crosses a bright line for me.
Would studying it be helpful if I wanted to create a static analysis application on top of an existing procedural language?
As a CMU alum, the benefits of Gmail outweigh the sheer frustration using the SquirrelMail web client in the public computer clusters.
I don't qualify for a 2 foot grey beard yet, but if you set up /etc/mail/access to only accept your domain, virtualusertable to your emails only, you should be set.
Oh, and configure fail2ban for sendmail.

Oh yeah, and MX records take some time to update within popular services, so some gmail users might be able to reach you while others will get a user not found error. If you think about it, it makes sense, but it drove me nuts the first time.
> That's a high bar for China to hop over.

I'll say. At least a quarter of the US population - the Evangelicals - see it as their religious duty to support Israel no matter what:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism#United_State...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon#Dispensationalism
I wish we could somehow make people less ignorant and more tolerant here in Canada. People are always blaming immigrants for their problems.
Each of those languages has its downside:

* Ruby and its clones are declining as their signature frameworks (Rails, Grails, etc) are replaced by newer ones like Node, Go Http, etc

* Python has the version 2 or 3 problem for now

* Javascript is too complicated

I think in 20 years time when the dynamic language fad has well passed, like the 4GL fad before it, there'll only be 2 dynamic languages left in the market, just as the 4GL's dwindled to only Visual Basic and perhaps Delphi.

They'll be Python 3 and Javascript, so choose one of those.
This is sad, Red Hat switching to Gmail was probably the most shocking to me since it's supposed to be a company pushing open source forward.
There are no global state mutations in `pkgs`. All immutable parts are in `impure.nix`, which already has a complete `pkgs`.

Maybe you are confusing state mutations with fixed points, which are used extensively (thankfully).
It's interesting how many people instantly try to twist this into an anti-Israel thread.
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Airmail is quite ok but still far from Sparrow usability and performance.

Airmail hangs several seconds on startup doing god-knows-what.
Of cause the students will protest Dalai Lama.

China has a database for a list of certified overseas universities. There was a school removed from that list for allowing Dalai to talk about Tibet in his visit.

:(
Does it really matter why an infant is not vaccinated in this discussion? Unless we immeduatly vaccinate everyone as soon as they leave the womb (unlikely / impossible) there will always be unvaccinated people.
Tell a work friend or someone you know causally about 23andme. If they show interest suggest buying the kits together to save on shipping costs. Mention that you have a few friends who would be interested as well and give them the cash for a few kits. Their credit card and address will be linked to the purchase.
When the kits arrive sell your extras to different causal friends and register yours with completely fake information from public wifi. 23andme will have your DNA but nothing to link it to your identity.
Two main problems with competing on price that I've experienced -

#1 - As others have mentioned, competing on price will mean that you attract users for whom price is the most important thing. These users are often more fickle, retain at significantly poorer rates, and in my experience, they (counterintuitively) consume more support resources. They also have a substantially lower NPS, which also shines through when they write reviews. Those are some big negatives.

#2 - Pricing your product substantially lower than the pack means that you'll have a very hard time competing with other players in many paid acquisition channels, if you ever intend to. There are plenty of other ways to find customers, but you'll have to rely on channels & audiences with lower intent (as in, people who aren't directly seeking out and already motivated to find what you are selling.)

There are ways to succeed with low cost and free products, but it's a winding path that is far from as obvious as it may seem.
> War in the middle east is ruining the West. I don't understand it and I don't buy the oil explanation.

It is quite confusing. So many innocent lives lost, governments toppled, Western Gov. organised coups and plots and massive amounts of money.

The explanation for these actions could be quite simple once the rest is stripped away - Having essentially territorial control and military bases in the ME is extremely strategically advantageous. Control over territory (occupied or friendly regime inserted) is a tenant of power throughout history.
>the benefits of Gmail outweigh the sheer frustration using the SquirrelMail web

This sentence doesn't really make sense. When comparing two things an advantage of one thing doesn't "outweigh" a disadvantage of another. Those are both negatives for the second thing.
Link to source, which I could not find in the posted link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/us/chinese-students-weste...
Reminds me of that one time when some students at UCSD protested against the university hosting the Dalai Lama for a graduation speech.

https://qz.com/908922/chinese-students-at-ucsd-are-evoking-d...

I've always felt that in an increasingly globalized and connected world, we will start to see increased external influence in America from parties that are not the Democrats or the Republicans. China is arguably the world's largest and most powerful political party, and with no domestic competition, it pretty much has the freedom and ability to overshadow smaller, more divided political entities.
You will be competing with the likes of salesforce and an army of salesforce "integration experts". I guess I'm saying your target market might not be who you think it is and you're probably better off talking to the salesforce integration experts and figuring out how to solve their pain points.
Handbrake malware analysis
UglifyJS just released a breaking release with no changelog
I don't know how I feel about posting outline.com articles that are from the NYTimes.com without their consent...

Seems pretty unethical since I don't have a subscription and would like to support them somehow.
My feeling (and I realize this is little more than a feeling) is that corporations need there to be pockets of instability, both globally and domestically, to create a baseline of anxiety which makes people afraid to challenge the status quo. This keeps wages down, prevents people from starting new businesses, discourages people from trying for for higher level positions, etc.

In other words, some light distant instability helps those in top stay there longer.
I haven't heard that one.

I have heard that it is a proxy war against Russia or China, but I'm not sure that makes sense either. Russia in particular has tons of oil and doesn't need any from elsewhere.

The only thing that makes a little sense is that it's an end in itself: we must have war to support the war industry and it's associated jobs and social programs. It's not just corporations with an interest in this. For many poor Americans military service is the only way to advance, and military service signs you up for a much higher tier of social programs than the rest of the public. In truth America does have socialism. It's just enlistment to grave, not cradle to grave.

If there were a prolonged period without war, people would start questioning these expenditures.
If you run DKIM, SPF, and DMARC, you shouldn't have any delivery problems.

DKIM is signing your email with the public key in DNS.

SPF is whitelisting which mail servers send mail from your domain

DMARC is how receiving ends should report how your mail is delivered (or not).

Unless you're actively spamming (ahem, "marketing") to large volumes of users, you should have no trouble at all getting mail delivered to users.

If you are doing mass email marketing, stick with your core competence and let someone else handle the mail servers.
It has not been passed by both houses.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/10/...
Calamari (Italian for squid) also derives from the same Latin root, via the ink connection.
Brought to you by the people who attacked Tor for the feds: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/carnegie-mellon-u...
How often are you on Hacker News?
Most of the globe actually writes €/$19,99 and 30.000, if we're gonna be nitpicky.
I think we have different definitions of "tool"
Not really. A board for the book spine would have been like 4 square inches. You can get three copies of a board for $5 per square inch from OSHpark so $20 total. I doubt 3d printing something of that size is any cheaper.
I noticed this too.
Rising housing prices in Vancouver are a valid concern. I don't understand why the grandparent is downvoted. You don't combat racism by not recognizing valid grievances.
There seems to be several companies selling them in the UK. I know you didn't mean that literally but I suspect there are probably parts of the country especially in less densely populated suburbs that have then.
I did this [1], and so have thousands of others through the Harvard Personal Genome Project and other associated projects. So far, I haven't faced any consequences. If you decide to do so, I encourage you to make your genes accessible to researchers by participating in the Harvard Personal Genome Project [2].

The main risk of sharing your genes is genetic discrimination. It's irreversible to share your genes, so I'd ask yourself: if you were to find out you are a carrier of a genetic disorder, would that change your mind? If so, I wouldn't share your genes publically.

[1] http://genes.howderek.com/
[2] http://personalgenomes.org/
I'm ok with immigrants from certain other countries. Also I'm referring to limiting chinese govt influence here.
>I also don't buy the religious or Israel explanation, as neither of these groups have that much influence.

Um, Israel has yuge political influence in the US - successful secular Jews in the financial and entertainment fields donate large amounts of money to politicians. Their political sentiments are overwhelmingly Democrat, but they donate to Republicans, as well.

Search for 'AIPAC'.
I second this. Many of the people who might have the decision to buy, whether barely or really technical, will have heard of Intuit TurboTax. They'll know that's big deal.
The truth is almost even stranger. Before the toppling of Libya, Gaddafi (whose relationship with the US is absolutely fascinating) made a very clear warning that this and the Arab Spring would lead to such an event. Many western governments have their fingerprints on the above events, but likely had not accounted for the side effects.

I would love to see the plans of the above events in my lifetime.
I believe WordPress and Drupal still work this way by default? I'm not a PHP dev anymore.
It could simply be bureaucratic imperative. 26 years of war in the Mideast has created a whole generation of policy wonks whose expertise is the Middle East; if we cease to be at war in the Middle East, then all of their jobs are on the chopping block and all of their expertise is useless; therefore, they have a very strong self-preservation incentive to recommend policies that continue the war in the Middle East.
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact.