skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're confusing service interval items that are "check/verify" with "need to do". I'm almost positive you don't need to check or change anything that extensively on a manual transmission VW.

Also, we figured out a long time ago that sealed transmissions are okay, but it all boils down to how you drive the vehicle. Yeah, if you treat the car like shit, or you get the transmission checked (if this is even possible these days), if it's low then there's something wrong & you'll need to add fluid, or drain & fill. Otherwise? You don't touch it & it's fine. Volkswagens last a solid 200-300k miles before you actually need to do something major, but that's subjective.

Yes, there's all these wonderful suspension components, but I imagine with Tesla vehicles, those components are most likely heavier duty than a regular vehicle, given all the fucking obnoxious batteries. They also probably wear a lot differently & components will fail differently than they will & at different rates compared to a traditional ICE vehicle.
I watched season 3 for the first time on a single long international flight in an economy seat. I didn't want to get off the plane. Well almost.
Again, I understand the theory of Bitcoin. What I'm pointing out is that the actual use of Bitcoin does not yet appear to support the theory.

Here you are basically reiterating the metaphor "the blockchain is like the Internet was back in the day". Since that's what I was responding to, I already am familiar with the metaphor. Repeating it doesn't help me.

What I'm saying is that for the metaphor to be useful in terms of evaluating the commercial/societal impact of a technology, I want to see evidence of utility that is similar to what we could see for the early Internet.

So who do you believe the early vanguard is? Who is actually getting value? Who are the people previously isolated from global finance that are now making daily or at least weekly transactions?

I see you're already aware of M-Pesa, which is only a couple of years older than Bitcoin. But M-Pesa has, per CNN, "30 million users in 10 countries and a range of services including international transfers, loans, and health provision. The system processed around 6 billion transactions in 2016 at a peak rate of 529 per second." Bitcoin's numbers are orders of magnitude smaller, and it's my impression that it would be much smaller still if we subtracted the speculative transactions to match what people use M-Pesa for.
That's the sort of thinking that had me take Amtrak on a cross-country trip back in the 1990s. Never again.

We had 1st class tickets, so it was nice having a private compartment, real beds to sleep in, a shower, and decent food to eat. The dining car was nice and comfortable. But we had two mechanical breakdowns, and then had to make an emergency stop when a car was stalled on a grade crossing. After about an hour delay we then had to proceed very slowly (I'd guess 30mph) to the next station for an inspection.

We ended up being over 48 hours late to our destination. No refunds, no compensation.

Never again. I'd rather drive.
Yeah, I think the title could be better stated as "NIST Advises Against Mandatory Password Rotation Policies."
How an medieval Persian poet inspired modern hedonists
No, the Internet isn't broken: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
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Keeping a diary is pivotal to how I work. I used to write things down in notebooks, but you can't grep dead trees, especially handwritten ones. So I keep a simple flat text file with a new timestamp every day, and nearly everything I do makes it into this file, at some level. I can answer all kinds of questions, from when someone joined or left a team, to how I installed that driver last year, to which servers I installed three years ago and the problems I encountered configuring them. Pretty much anything unusual, or middlin' difficult, or just thoughts on engineering problems. It's candid, I swear and call things as I see them. These notes are an extension of my brain.

I start the day with:

% note (which just runs Emacs on my notesfile)

and

M-x new-day

which just appends the current date to the file and positions the cursor, all ready for typing. Dirt simple.

I used to have macros and whatnot for carrying forward lists of TODO items and important tasks, but that was overkill and keeping things simple seems to be the key to success. Likewise, apps like OneNote and so forth just got in the way and wanted to own a piece of me.
No, there are actual terrorists and have been for ages, though they used to be called anarchists. Attacks on targets by Northern Irish terrorists were a Real Thing. It's the scale and scope of the response that are disproportionate, not to mention the moral vacuity of same.
There are thousands of ways you can describe those companies, marketing speak.

That's why words can influence people so heavily, even though the facts are the same.
id much rather have a reasonable solution for widespread 2 factor authentication than this password mess.

with my bank i have a password, an app on my phone that generates a key and if i perform significant transactions, they call me to confirm before processing it.

the idea that i'm going to use a different password for every stupid site out there that i have an account with is a bit silly. if someone desperately wants to compromise some of them then so be it. hijack my twitter if it makes you feel better. im not going to waste mental energy on securing social media.

"just use a password manager" sounds cute. password managers are compromised, too. password managers are about as trustworthy as the people who operate them. theres no way im handing my passwords for bank accounts over to some random company and for passwords that protect pointless internet nonsense, im not going to use one either because its irrelevant.

you can invoke this whole "password managers are secure" hoohaa. if they ACTUALLY encrypt your passwords properly and ACTUALLY dont save them on their own servers for whatever they want to do with them later, then yes, they probably are secure. but theres no way to be sure that thats the case. Trusting a password manager introduces more uncertainty into your password woes than they will ever make you more secure, if you really think this whole thing through.

the other issue with a password manager is that in theory, they work across platforms. that ends rather abruptly when youre not in a browser and need to enter a password into an app on your phone.
> crossing the border just about everywhere sucks.

I've been to 100+ countries, and my least favourite borders are Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the USA (in alphabetic order).

I assume I'd add UK to that list if I didn't have a EU passport (let's see what Brexit will do).

But in many places crossing the border is just fine.
I'm not at all confident that the Microsoft antitrust moves really did much to erode their dominance on the desktop -- rather, the desktop becoming less relevant has done that.

If anyone won from those actions, it was Google...
I'm taking your response seriously and not as a joke. How is this better then favicons? I'm pretty sure favicon decided to support this for favicon at one point but decided it was terrible for usability.
What may be harder is Cuil's second problem as mentioned: Finding a revenue model.

Perhaps the answer is to do what Craigslist did. In a few categories, ones you have to ask for such as "Shopping" or "Jobs", there are ads, or product ordering boxes, clearly identified as such. Non-commercial information is not polluted with ads.
He included Apple's visa latter which I assume explains in detail that these folks are coming to the us for a conference and not for a work opportunity.
We're talking about best practices; I didn't make any claim about how many people use password managers.

The point remains - if you want to follow password best practices and optimize for user safety, don't enforce arbitrary password changes. You're right about ordinary users - we should provide them with fewer opportunities to shoot themselves in the foot. The lower the frequency they have to focus on generating passwords, the better.
Person tracking.

We're going through something similar to the industrial revolution, lots of people will lose their job to AI (or still be employed, but with significantly lower wages - even previously untouchable professions like lawyers, doctors and programmers).

To avoid riots, these people will be fed either through existing welfare programs or new basic-income style ones. But the old guard will want to make sure they don't blow their money on hookers and blow and booze, so anyone who peddles "here's how we can figure out which of the welfare recipients is non-compliant with their spending habits" is going to make a killing.

Sad, but inevitable in the current political climate.
Don't have the report handy on tbe phone, but it was in a dive in imc over the sierras exceeded Vne shredded the chute.
Typical 'idlewords :). Lots of good points intermingled with unwarranted jabs at Elon Musk, X-risk and anti-aging efforts. I suppose the latter are just signalling, but they do detract from the point he's making.

The points about tech running amok with the surveillance capitalism are spot on. I do have some doubts about other parts though; here are they in somewhat random order:

-- Problem solving.

I'm not buying this villifying of tech world for trying to avoid the "dirty political work". In fact, I believe it's a good approach. Turning a problem into a political issue pretty much guarantees that it won't be solved as people take sides and then invent arguments to rationalize their positions. Just look at the climate change - since it became politicized, it's close to impossible to do anything in the area (Trump's election in the US is not helping either). The only way to address it now is by ignoring the democratic process altogether - by doing research, developing new technologies, and hoping for the market forces to sort things out.

Moreover, why does the tech industry is always blamed for trying to avoid political work? Like, are there no human beings who don't work in tech industry that could try a different approach? Why is tech industry expected to do everything, and then at the same time gets called out for hubris?

Related, on tech and life extension efforts. I call the Comet King principle - "somebody has to and no one else will". Why is nobody else besides tech billionaires interested in putting serious resources into solving that problem?

-- Poland.

Is it an evil surveillance state now? I live there and I haven't noticed it.

-- Trump.

I'm starting to get a feeling that some people on anti-Trump side are just sore losers, and can't accept that he won democratic elections; no, it must be some conspiracy. I'm not endorsing what Trump is doing, but the facts on the ground are that many people did vote for him, and denying them agency makes it more difficult to notice the problems those people face in their lives.
To me, the only thing that is disappointing is how AMD has been repeatedly bitten by Intel, which has been crippling compilers to output inefficient code for AMD processors, and we're only seeing now AMD actively working to defend itself against that type of fraud.
The 'idiot light' is not based on miles, but on how much oil is actually in the engine. There's a sensor in there that if it touches air, essentially, the light goes on. You can trip this on certain VWs if you turn very sharply & you are low enough on oil.

Compare this to GM/Chevy vehicles where this is a 'solved problem' with their on board DICT computer, it measurements the containment (via resistance? electricity?) in the oil & tells you the 'health' or 'life' of the oil until you need to change it. This leads to a lot more reasonable oil change intervals in line with Mobile's testing over the years: 5k, 7k or 10k change intervals are common.

BMW is one of the few brands that recommends once a season, or 10k, because they know what oil is capable of, in so far as they've removed dip-sticks entirely (retarded decision, but hey). However, most dealerships & shops? They still want that sweet money on that 3k oil change. 5k has become the 'open secret' standard, though.
My hypothesis is that both products make it easier to network with semi-strangers.

I meet a lot of people who in theory are 'one friend removed' from my social / professional circle. (Based on shared university, job, or hobby).

The ultimate goal here is to meet people who can help my business, either by funding it, working at it, or hiring it.
I would not call this a hack. A lot of systems are structured this way.
I left the UK nearly 25 years ago because (among many other reasons) I was starting to find the omnipresent security culture oppressive. Sadly the US has gone down the same road and it's no longer the country it used to be. Some things have changed for the better but the fact that both countries currently have such authoritarian leaders is a Dangerously Bad Thing.
Tell that to a competitive street fighter player
I've read that heating and hydrating pasta are separable processes. Boiling hydrates it fastest, but you can also soak it in cold water for a few hours, then boil for 30 seconds to heat it and you're done. Maybe you can skip the heating step completely if you're okay with cold pasta.
What vehicle do you drive that you can get away with 18k mile oil changes? And are we discussing actual gas or that diesel crap?
Thanks for making us look good, UK.

- united statesians
How is that a productive attitude in life towards anything? The people who did the deed are long gone, but the people who want to restore and advance SourceForge are SOL?
Five years ago, tablets were basically cutting edge new tech. They were insanely expensive and crappy as hell. They often faced limitations in functionality because a lot of websites did not accommodate them. I know because I bought two of them 5.5 years ago and it was $2000 worth of computers and lots of stuff just did NOT work.

Today, you can get a tablet for under $50 and Google is (or has) split its search stuff into PC and mobile search and is actively optimizing stuff for mobile because mobile search is eating the world. I seriously doubt anyone expected mobile to take over like this when it was new tech.

In contrast, "net books" seem to have gone extinct. I think that was supposed to be The Next Big thing -- until tablets came out and began eating their lunch.
Look at healthcare cost going up - this is already happening in all markets. People getting old and fat cost an absolute fortune to keep alive.
Of course being rejected in advance is better
Cracking open the CalDigit USB-C dock
I think they almost lost the Graf Zeppelin when four of the five engines failed and it could no longer fly upwind. They had to fly down wind and hook the only mooring tower between then and Atlantic.
Memory is orders of magnitude slower than the cpu at the moment, so you'd need orders of magnitude more bandwidth to come close. So sure, it's going to be faster, but the cpu is still going to be waiting for memory more than the other way round.
Stop explaining things and go straight for the emotional language. It's good to have explanations available but if you lead off with them people stop listening because it's boring. This is something right-wingers understand very well and left-wingers need to learn.
No need for pilots. Air ships should be even more ripe for autonomous/remote control than air planes.
Well, my whole country depends on other countries for food...
I don't know if you had a visa interview lately, but it's not quite an interview, because they just ask you two or three questions and don't let you show any documents unless requested.

My brother showed up with a folder full of documents, but was dismissed without showing any of it. Profile based, I think.
He asked for the letter later, to re-apply, from my understanding. And that letter might or might not be enough in the eye of the law - you can come to a conference and then stay, obviously. And as outlined below, that is the legal presumption.

Just to be clear: I'm not defending that law, but saying that this case might well have been in accordance with the law. There are tons of similar cases that don't make HN. If you think this is crazy, you should work to change the law, not decry this particular case.
There's plenty wrong. I saw kids rejecting their own culture, and an invading one. Coming out messed up so badly they couldn't tell anger from happiness.

But if we forget our past, we risk repeating it.

Remember the bad, and where you came from, and remember the good, so that you have a chance at ensuring the future doesn't look like your nightmares.

Maybe this might be an example of a tribe serving a better purpose:

The elders acknowledged the problems of the next generation. So they built a school, and brought in outside knowledge to run it. The school was too far inland to run from, and a long way from anywhere else. They learned maths, alongside the story of the elder who decided to make peace with the other tribes.

The school is their pride. They rejoice in the girl learning to be a doctor, and the guy who is now a national athlete.

They didn't forget who they were, but they saw who they weren't and are actively trying to add to it. Enhance themselves, by using their past as a guide.
We're using Clojure, ClojureScript & Datomic at

https://blossom.io (project tracking)

https://lemmings.io (incubator w/ focus on art & artificial intelligence)
> I was stopped by a police officer, and knew my UK rights, and he was shocked that I refused to stop photographing the buildings (which I was doing legally.)

I have the impression that the differences you mention are real. But I often hear that the U.K. is more compliant in this sense than the U.S., yet there are lots of cases of police in the U.S. improperly telling people to stop photographing or recording something (often either buildings, infrastructure, or the police themselves). The police here are also often shocked when people don't comply with these orders, and may threaten to arrest people for noncompliance, even though the law is also almost always on the photographers' side. So I'm not sure your example directly proves your point about differences between countries. But maybe police in the Netherlands, at least, wouldn't usually behave this way. :-)
Unless you're in the most remote part of Scotland London is only a train ride away from anywhere in the UK. If your freedom isn't worth the price of a train ticket...
I just browsed over their site, and I found it a very interesting concept. Thanks for the tip!
A gunshot would not take an airship down. It would be like a pinhole compared to the overall volume, and the gas envelope is compartmentalized so at most you would lose the gas in one compartment. At the very worst it would have to make an unplanned landing but could likely stay aloft for hours even with multiple bullet holes.
This is great, unfortunately considering this is only draft I imagine it will be a considerable amount of time to trickle down through the "compliance standards" we are required to enforce. I do look forward to the day I no longer have to change my password every 30 days though.
HexStickers, how to apply them
Yes, I ended up using pre-defined shortcuts for common areas. It seemed like a massive downer after paying money for it, but in the end covered 95% of my use-cases acceptably.
The Tories are winning. Their agenda has been authoritarian and nationalist for a long time. Terrorism is only a convenient excuse.
India. Because it will go from 100mn internet users to 1200 mn, enabled by a massive 4G/fiber deployment currently underway.
Why we’re different people at work and at home
Do you normally just watch Youtube and use Google Docs on Linux? Because that's about where the set of things you can do on both ends
> So what's your proposal to deal with people arriving under false pretences?

No one except the far right cares for the maybe couple thousands of "fake refugees" that are bound to be in the millions of people fleeing war and poverty (which is often enough caused by Europe in the first place!). We don't ban driving or drinking because a few drunk people cause chaos. We can afford to house a couple thousand of "economic migrants" as long as we can clear up billions of euros in a week to rescue banks, imo.

> Also you say refugee but let's admit a lot is simply economic migrants.

And who causes said economic migrants? Mostly the European policy of dumping excess milk, food and clothing to Africa which destroys local industry there as well as European countries robbing the African coasts of fishes (esp. Somalia has been hit hard by this). To turn them away is pure double morality. We Europeans are the cause of the misery, so why should we ignore the consequences?
Cryptocurrency.

Have you sent someone money internationally before? How about across different banks? Typical transfers process at around 3-5 days. With the help of cryptocurrencies like Ripple, Steller and the like. Transfers happen in seconds. This will grow because now, banks will utilize this technology to get rid of the old one (Swift anyone?) and will save banks lots of time and money.
They might evaluate your ties to home (family, job, real estate, etc.), and statistics from your country of origin (i.e. an applicant from a poor country might have a higher hurdle to clear than an applicant from a developed country).
Not only DDG, we developing Bubblehunt (https://bubblehunt.com) - common-based search platform, where you can create own search system without code.

Add interesting sites and resources in your profile and get your search system. Now it's public beta, you can add unlimited resources, but now 1 link - 1 indexed page. And we working on deep indexing system. We have crawler, but we need improve our platform, architecture and other.

On our platform now >150.000 resources, that handpicked and added by users.

I think when you are designer and add 1000 best resources for design - it can be better search system for this topic.

And you can provide your opinion for ANY topic. It can be more transparent, flexible, democratic search system, where people select best resources for search. And where every opinion is important and can be different.
s/over-simplified/over-fit/
Automatic transmissions are better & smarter than you. you may have to drive a little differently if you're driving an automatic in the scenario you described, but saying that it doesn't ''know'' what you wanted to do means either your transmission is virgin & hasn't learned your habits, or, had a different driver for several years & is shifting at the wrong points. This 'ready to go' thing is all hogwash manual elitism.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8406507
IIRC, doordash used to provide a live map a couple years back. I'm guessing they have all the data and could share it again if they desired. Presumably they have some product reason for not offering it.
Nothing.

Although they created OpenCL, they lost interest in keeping it up to date long time ago.

The future of OpenCL on Apple platforms is Metal Compute and I bet there is nothing at WWDC 2017 that will contradict this.
I think you may be missing a bit of the nuance of the IKEA effect - it's not about superfluous assembly, but rather providing a context in which a little bit of user effort is massively amplified to produce results otherwise unobtainable. Take a look at the chart of the sweet spot for IKEA effect: high value with high contribution and minimal effort. The contribution the user puts into the final IKEA product is really huge - going from a flatpack of scraps to a complete piece of furniture - while the effort to do so is arguably pretty minimal.