skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon was completely right for banning acd_cli.

What they were doing is using a server in the middle for auth. But oh god the server started handing out the wrong keys so you might end up having total control of another acd_cli users account.

And when acd_cli got banned they (not acd_cli themself but users that modified the source) just used rclones app ID and keys to trick Amazon into thinking acd_cli was rclone. Then rclone got banned.

They (amazon) did say the problem with rclone was the keys were public since it is open source.
"general incompetence of public management, by misunderstanding how contractors manipulated costs to reach their estimates and establishing perverse incentives"

1. In the Bay Area, we have a Civil Contractor who's name rhymes with the Italian treat gelato.

2. For years, I wondered how they procure every job.

3. I have seen the jobs go on for years. It's beyond irritating.

4. As a inactive Contractor, I kinda know how the system works.

5. Basically, the county/state/public entity puts up a project to bid upon.

6. They collect at least three bids. I always thought, How is Gilato always winning the bid?

7. I started looking closely at three contenders in the contest. I noticed a Gilato is in all the "competing" companies. (It looked like they sent their kids/grandkids to Sacramento to get their contractor's license. A pretty easy feat. )

8. I have a weird feeling this family is bidding against themselfs, but can't prove it. Even if they are, it might not be illegial? I don't even think it's illegial to share those expensive toys. "Hay dad--I need that loader for Friday!"

9. All I know is it's taking forever to get a project completed.

Even if we have a big infrastructure bill pass through congress, I don't think it's going to put a lot of people back to work; so much of these projects are done by big machines. They will hire a lot of sign holders though.

It's a lot more nuanced than my simple rambling, but throwing a bunch of money at Giloto will scare me--if Trump gets this infrastructure bill passed. I gave no real proof for what I just said, other than noticing familiar names in the competing contracting companies.
I said it is unviable without more secondary formatting, not that it is unviable period.
>that this "care" is hardly that and "affordable" is nowhere in sight.

What do you mean by this?
DFS+Fanduel+MLB+Picks+6/8/17:+DraftKings+MLB+Lineup+Top+Pitchers
> If dealing with a function, the evaluation will always be arguments from left to right are evaluated first, and then the function is called with the result of evaluating the args.

The order of evaluation depends on the dialect. Common Lisp evaluates the arguments from left to right, but e.g. in Scheme the order of evaluation is deliberately left unspecified.
Hacker News is not an ad platform for your one hour old account to peddle wallets.
Yes. And we avoid balance parentheses with secondary formatting information, otherwise it becomes a mess quickly.
> TL:DR - the way to combat rising costs is to constrain the supply of capital.

I don't think that's a fair summary. He talks a lot about incentives being aligned, not just constraining the amount of cash spent.

To be fair, it's a very difficult thing to design incentives. It's cat-and-mouse game where people will try to find ways to beat the system. There's a good example in the article about the contractor who bids low on everything but the bituminous.

Your proposal, that the manager gets a share, can also be gamed. Once you've won a bid, there's a cost to firing you. Do the job cheaply and shoddily, and hope the adverse effects (eg bridge needs repair in 5 years instead of 10) don't manifest until you're out of town. The suggestion about keeping debt small is partly related to this: one generic way to pay for things is to get future generations to do it.

Generic ways to game the system:

- Time shifting costs. Pay tomorrow using today's credit rating.

- Quality bait-and-switch. We'll use less sturdy concrete, bridge will look the same.

- Selling optionality is another. Tunnel proposal A can be expanded to suit future traffic. During the project, we decide not to do the extra drilling required.

- The sunk-cost game. Bridge is almost done, but not usable until we spend a little bit more.
Well, people might be interested to know that one person has managed to use 1.73 PB+ of the unlimited plan. Looks like that's the highest anyone's managed as far as I know.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6583s2/the_pet...

Check out the first comment
so your basic stack are some regex? sounds interesting ..
> There is very little spoiler effect [under approval voting].

Why do you believe this?
Introduction to Apache Kafka for Python Programmers
I like the idea of the reptilian brain and the monkey brain. Not sure how true it is.
All anger and similar emotions, I feel, reside in the monkey brain. And the best way I have found to shut it up for a good period of time is to jump straight into an ice bath. No mental preparation. Don't wait. Just jump straight in all the way. And stay longer than you'd like.

Cheers
Two materials combined to one over a 3d surface where instead of mixing in certain areas you can have one or the other depending on a texture transparency acting as a mask. Or a gradient color customized to act as a bit mask with one and off values in the colors of black and white. Non continuous data in sound can be midi or any form of modulation source like a square wave that can also act as a bit and tons of other methods.
Generic latisse
Sure when targeting the web with software that doesn't exist yet I would definitely write that in JS. However, if there is a well-tested crypto library that has 300.000 lines of well-tested C code and that I can use without too much pain by transpiling it to JS I'd always prefer that to writing my own implementation in JS. In that sense transpiling is a great way to reduce redundancy by allowing to use code in different context. Concerning the intermediate form: I'm a big fan of model driven development but I think our tooling for it isn't good enough yet, so until someone invents a description language that is really powerful enough to describe let's say a crypto library and then generate code from that in various languages I think transpiling from one concrete language to another is still a better option.

BTW a lot of the power of Python, Ruby and JS comes from the interface these languages provide to existing C/C++ codebases, and I assure you that the binding code to make this work is often far from pretty. As end users we don't care about this though as long as it works.
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Macros aren't so much syntax as they are semantics (inlined for performance, but we can still think of them as special procedure calls). Lisp has been relatively successful in its various forms, it should get some credit.
Or you could have just bought the cards with Bitcoin. Same for phone verification. By buying the card in person you leak a ton of location information.
Can anyone comment on the quality of the books?
A lot of the covered topics are of interest to me (Docker, nginx, git) but I'd like to know if those books are worth the read.
Not affiliated to the author, but can recommend 'Behind the Curtain' chrome extension [1] that lets you dispense with overlay popups using a keyboard shortcut. Saves having to move the mouse around and hunt for the magic [x].

Combined with ublock origin[2] to get rid of the payload of those pop-ups, can also reduce bandwidth / lag / frustration.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/behindtheoverlay/l...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
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Still a sample too small, they need at least 1500 participants IIRC
What's the story behind the name “X11”?
work less.
There's Siacoin, a cryptocurrency/blockchain built around the idea of decentralized encrypted p2p storage.

They're dirt cheap to store as of now: median contract price is $12/TB·mo, but network storage utilization is currenly only 2%, so actual deals settle on about $2/TB·mo. Downside is that exchange rate of their coin is highly volatile, at least was during last month.

https://sia.tech/

http://siahub.info/

http://siapulse.com/page/network (Prices tab)
I've also experienced this kind of existential dread on and off for the past 10 years or so. What really helped me was reading the work of Alan Watts. I find the idea of the concepts of "self" and "other" being mere illusions and that everyone is the universe looking at itself through a different lens really appealing, and makes the idea of dying someday more acceptable to me.
If you were paying $60/year for 2-3T of cloud storage then Amazon was subsidizing you. Even Glacier would cost $120/year for 2.5T, and Glacier is so cheap that everyone's trying to figure out how they could possibly sell Glacier and still be making money.
I'm occasionally accused of interrupting others. But here's the thing: I like being interrupted. I enjoy conversations with lots of rapid back and forth. When I'm misguided, I want to be corrected as quickly as possible. I want others to finish my thoughts.

But hey, I mostly rein it in :)
If it's just backup, and it's from a single computer (with potentially multiple external harddrives), then maybe BackBlaze: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html
Can you handle “square” and “girl”?
Exactly, you had to write a wrapper. And the next project will do so. And if you want to save time, and improve reliability, you'll test it, and write doc for the 3rd. And the new team member.

Or you can use the few ko of jQuery.
Why is Jerusalem not marked? Was the city not big enough at the time?
A true testament to how much ill informed the American voter is
> Maybe it's immediately intuitive if you've used pandas.
I don't find this formula any different than anything in any of the math classes I've ever had. Haven't used pandas.
And why is that a problem? Copyright is theft.
GCE's Nearline maybe?
> In fact what YOU wrote is actually sexist, since it suggests that the corrective action would be to act differently toward her, but not the men.

No - the "correct" response is to avoid talking over everyone. Helps everyone, overall helps women (as a group) a little bit more.

> But even if that's the case, you are still saying that women are incapable of speaking up for themselves the way the men did to gain their voice back from the moderator.

Nope, I'm saying that there's a sort of cultural training against interrupting people, and women are more severely affected by that cultural training since it ties in with a lot of "be nice/the good girl" pressure that women get while men are pressured to be more competitive. What I'm specifically not saying is that this is something inherent in being female - it's a cultural issue, not a female one.

Or, in other words - it's easier for men to interrupt people because it's the norm for men to interrupt people and so they have practice at it. It's harder for women to interrupt people because it's not the norm for women to interrupt people and so they have less practice at it. Doing something you don't normally do is hard, even if you have the knowledge on how to, and it's especially hard when you know you're going against the norm to do it.

I'm sure most people go against the norm sometimes - but we should really be creating social environments in which people don't have to go against the norm to get the same result as their peers.
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Show HN: UIFontComplete
I get 404 on this link.
Source on the 1PB guy for the curious: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5s7q04/i_hit_a...
It is marked, as Aelia Capitolina. It was renamed after the emperor Hadrian razed the city and expelled its Jewish population in the aftermath of a revolt.
Web Performance: Leveraging the Metrics That Most Affect User Experience
Oh; thank you for the great link!
You can even "Select another database"; they have a lot. Nice resource.
There's an episode [1] of Bill Mollison's Global Gardener series that addresses this well.

[1] I don't know of a link to watch it, but this blog post explains it well enough: https://permaculturenews.org/2014/10/11/discovering-oasis-am...
Why `;` Is Important in JavaScript and How to Encourage First Time Contributors
This is the one I've got my eye on - once the marketplace boots up on both sides, it's going to be hard to compete against it. I suspect some day even the big providers like Amazon and Google will sell into these kinds of marketplaces.
> Pandas, for some reason, cannot stick to python-isms. I can't do simple things like...
> if not df: # Check if DF is empty
> return ...

This part is a gotcha, but it's also a reflection that allowing if checks for things other than empty leads to subtle bugs. (there are long mailing list posts about it and about the bugs that were uncovered). See here for some explanation about why numpy does it: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/8622
Why is CrashPlan incompatible with NAS? I am running it on a headless Ubuntu server and it works just fine (you just need about 1GB of RAM for every TB of storage).
this resonates a lot. I recently moved and now I have the space for a desk at home which allows me to play video games again, which I loved doing at a kid (starcraft, etc) and had to stop doing due to space for 4-5 years.

Now that I picked up video games again, I feel better and it's the best way for me to get my mind off work!
PVS-Studio Team Willing to Work on Improving Tizen Project (open Letter)
Next, try electricity.
Yes, but squirrel is still impossible.
English prose, which presumably is very readable, uses very little in the way of visual patterns. Spaces between words, periods between sentences, line breaks between paragraphs, and a tiny handful of punctuation characters are enough to write an entire novel. Almost all meaning in English is represented by word order rather than punctuation or visual patterns.
> Medicaid is not something anybody wants and in many ways is worse than the ER as a measure of last resort for acquiring care.

Medicaid is almost entirely state run and varies radically from state to state, but in all cases subsumes and goes beyond ER care, so in no way is it "worse than the ER".

> Medicare on the other hand is much better, though still not all that great (it's better than private insurance in many if not most cases).

Basic Medicare is worse than private insurance (and even, in some ways, most state Medicaid plans) in a number of ways (especially in the way that it is segmented, particularly the separate prescription drug portion), and deliberately kept worse to promote publicly-subsidized, privately-run (often for-profit) “Medicare Advantage” plans, which (unlike basic Medicare) are comprehensive and integrated, rather than segmented.
I loved my Motofone[0], it was dirt cheap (paid £10 for it without contract or SIM) and lasted ages (~2 weeks) on battery.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone
>Even Glacier would cost $120/year for 2.5G

$120/year for 2.5T.

https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/
I feel like a luddite but I have three backups at home (PC HD, 2 rsync'd USB drives I bought several years ago) and one off-site backup (encrypted HD in locker at work). Far cheaper afaict than any cloud backup.
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It also need not be everyone who fights against {cell towers, high-density housing, clothes lines, airports, railways, wind farms} -- the relevant laws/regulations/procedures let a sufficiently motivated minority have a pathological amount of influence when it comes to obstructionism.

For example, there's a pathologically minuscule number of people who file the overwhelming majority of airport noise complaints; 6852 out of 8760 complaints for DCA in 2015 came from one single person, and this pattern holds for many airports: https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/screen_shot_201...

How many excessive tonnes of fuel burned in circuitous flight paths, how many years of administrative work wasted, how many near misses are we risking -- just to please this sort of goddamn wingnut who makes 18 fucking airport noise complaints literally every single day?

This is what NIMBY nonsense looks like.
Obviously, we're not living in the same "Canada". For exemple, there is a recurring problem with homeless (most generally men) with mental illness in the lower mainland since the Riverview Public Mental Hospital got CLOSED.
There were several plotpoints about how there was NOT surplus of antimatter (or whatever propellant they used).

And in case of "blowing up" they could use those am engines as LAS (they apparently had enough thrust), so what risk are you speaking about?

Seriously, bitching about science stuff in Interstellar, very large but actually very well crafted scifi is kind of dumb. It's big enough that you find SOME mistakes, but most of the time you'll be wrong (or blaming them for not explaining every detail), and it has pretty correct science overall. Just hating for sake of hating.
The skill tree is absolutely great.
From Wikipedia: "A problem p in NP is NP-complete if every other problem in NP can be transformed (or reduced) into p in polynomial time".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-completeness
Ok, Google Storage Nearline is still $10 a month for 1 TB. That's $120 a year vs $59.99 a year for Amazon Drive not including Google bandwidth which could be significant.
Good point. On the other hand, the confidence interval I provided is correct as long as the original survey and the repeat are sampled in the same way (regardless whether it is un-biased sampling or not)
If it was a men complaining about the same situation women would be the first to tell him to man up and speak up.
Websites shouldn't break if you disable CSS - just look worse. The text should still be perfectly readable and images viewable.
I completely agree except in this case the software is just outright bad.

I found a function yesterday that was 15 lines and reduced it to one, it was a Boolean check but they hadn't just returned that.

Its mostly php and they declare all variables and then immediately overwrite them, I'm not convinced the main programmer had a good grasp of PHP tbh.

In any case its mine now. :)
My hometown of Curia is there as well.

Although, doesn't make me especially proud, it has been an uninterrupted population history that starts way before the Romans. :-)

Not much of Roman ruins to see nowadays unfortunately.
Given the most of the troops were conscripts, does this actually make much difference? When I read the WW1 war poets I find it hard to conclude that their deaths were any more justifiable than civilians who may have voted for or supported the governments directing the war efforts.
Show HN: Daisy: A private blockchain where blocks are SQLite databases, in Go
I built a shed in my garden. I sit in it and listen to classical music for about 45 minutes when I am stressed after work. My family and I both benefit.
Surely the point of a democratic election is for there to be the possibility of change? If every district is 90% in favour of one party or another then that will never happen. Assuming there are an equal number of districts then every election would be a tie, and any party that wanted to win would have to resort to gerrymandering in order to affect a change.
Corporations see "complicity in an illegal act" as a negative utility far larger than the ultimate lifetime value of any single customer. So, when you do something illegal (even if for dumb reasons) and use a corporate service to do so, you've got to expect that said corporation will immediately try to distance themselves from complicity in that act by terminating your account with them. This is one of those "inherent in the structure of the free market" things.
Check out http://sia.tech this tech provide less than $10/TB by blockchain storage hosting
J. Crew's Biggest Problem Isn't Clothing. It's Greed
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I doubt that minds survive death. Anything's possible, of course. But expecting survival seems iffy.

Here's the cool thing, however. You'll never know that you're dead. And, unless you're being executed, you'll never know for sure that you're dying. Or at least, the experience probably won't last for very long.
> Excellent. Too many women don't, in my experience. In my personal experience, I find women not standing up for themselves in the situation at hand, and then complaining about it for ages after.

That complaining about it is pushing back. And you whine about it right now.
Isn't this exactly what Pied Piper gets used for in later seasons?
Here is something to use as a replacement for "grep -q".

In the past I found grep -q was not portable.

There are times when I do not have grep.

But I always have sed.

cat grepq

test $# -ge 1||
exec echo usage: $0 PATTERN \[FILE\]

# count lines until PATTERN
__=$(exec sed -n '/'"$1"'/!d;=;q' $2);
# no of lines
exec test ${#__} -gt 0;

For example,

grepq '93.184.216.34 example.com' /etc/hosts||
echo 93.184.216.34 example.com >> /etc/hosts

One of the very early OReilly books has a chapter or two about sed that tries to describe it using an analogy to a scrivener in a monastary. Quite amusing. This is not the "sed and awk" book. It was an earlier book on text editing with UNIX. It may have been co-authored by OReilly himself; I cannot remember.
Understanding what people hate about advertising is easy: Getting shoved stuff in your face that has nothing to do with what you want to do/achieve.

Provide a value and put your product references / affiliate stuff in these. Make me sign up not because of a trick but because I hope to receive regular value from you. Don't spam me because I use a reasonable ad blocker.
Part of the problem with health care is it's so complex as a patient you have no way to know if you're getting good care unless it's very bad care. Public infrastructure isn't really like that.
Exactly!!! Thank you.
truly brilliant.
You're not alone. "Squirrel" pops up as that one word most Germans seem to be insecure about even if they otherwise speak fluent English.

I think this is mostly because Germans are generally taught RP, where it is pronounced /ˈskwɪɹəl/ (skwe-rel). The American /ˈskwɝl̩/ (skwerl with a very faint r) is considerably easier to pronounce for German speakers.

Because neither the English /w/ nor the English /ɹ/ exist in German and because they're both pronounced in close proximity to each other, the combination tends to be confusing to pronounce (as with combinations of th and s/z).
Especially 1 and 5! These are also a big part of my daily worries.
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I don't get it. It is impossible to identify who receives the packets but TCP/IP requires an acknowledgement that the packets have been received before sending more packets. Surely the C&C could be tracked from this acknowledgement? Or were they using UDP?
I think the parent comment was suggesting stocks could be a in a bubble due to the popularity of ETFs/index funds.
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So is it fair to say that I'm an alcoholic due to those criteria? I think most people would agree that I'm not,

Depends on who 'most people' is I guess. In my book, I'd rather describe your situation (sounds like almost daily drinking to me, i.e. a proper addiction, and trust me I know those) as alcoholism then my current situation (once or twice a year I'll totally overdo it, but for the rest it averages out to like 1 drink a month).
Yeah! it's fucking awesome that it's feudalism all over again! Feels good.
Any time someone brings up Stanford, I want to scream patent troll. If you sell to a patent troll, you are a patent troll.

http://news.stanford.edu/2015/02/23/haber-patent-trolls-0223...

Shame on you, Stanford! What a sorry college.
It's just a job man.