skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, climbing without a rope is the purest form of the sport and has been around for longer than nylon ropes and harnesses.

I don't know much about F1 races but I guess say a fairer comparison would be doing time trials alone on the track versus actual races where you risk the collision with other drivers. The former is safer but the latter is more interesting, not just because it's more dangerous.

Maybe this video gives you a feeling for why free solo is romanticized and worshiped so much in the climbing community.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz5w7q5GHuc&t=3m25s
IPv6 blacklists seem to be based on /64 prefixes rather than individual addresses. That hit me when I was enabling an IPv6 MX on a VPS; I had to get my own /64 prefix rather than use the standard default single address, since the default lied within a spammer-contaminated /64 block.

I know it seems rather excessive to use an entire /64 and only populate a few addresses, but I'd rather have too many addresses available than too few.
Good. It should have always been based on the domain anyway.
Overwatch.
On the Google side - have you looked in DriveFS?

You install the client - and it gives you a virtual file-system built on top of your Google Drive.

Announcement here - https://blog.google/products/g-suite/introducing-new-enterpr...

SIgn up for the early access here - https://gsuite.google.com/campaigns/index__drive-fs-eap.html

Personally, I much prefer it to the old sync client, and have been using this for a while.

Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions

(Disclaimer: Work for Google).
Classic quantum test could reveal limits of human mind [arXiv:1705.04620]
I have a use for IPv6 in VMs: setting up IPSec between my machines which require a dedicated IP. Expensive luxury with IPv4, no brainer with IPv6.
CANbus is also on boats and in industrial automation! The physical connectors follow the DeviceNet spec.

Marine applications use a subset of CANbus (with mainly DeviceNet micro connectors) named NMEA 2000. The best repo to get started is probably https://github.com/ttlappalainen/NMEA2000
The other way to beat the shift -- which few teams/players have adopted -- is to bunt more. Which doesn't require speed, but is more effective with speed.

I've noticed it's a thing the Cubs seem to be doing a bit of; Anthony Rizzo (who maybe isn't a great example given he's not a speedy base-stealer) gets shifted on a lot, and has laid down a few bunt hits this year as a way to beat it.
Having worked here for the last two decades, since I arrived in '94, I've never had real trouble finding a computer programming job.

(I don't count the time period when all I knew was Visual Basic and was re-training in another language while job-hunting, because really, that was on me.)
I was considering being a Catholic priest at one time, I never said I wasn't in a religion, only that I'm not now. And predestination isn't what the OP is referring to. In predestination, one's life is already laid out and chosen by God, that life itself isn't God. The society itself reflects God's plan, it isn't God.
General Electric.

Kodak.

IBM.

Xerox.

All were the first incumbent in their area and were dominant for many decades.

Craiglist even qualifies.
Purely functional Python with Coconut (interview)
Best comment on HN, ever.
Do you have any sources for this? Or is this just speculation?
dunno where this is coming from...my kids both went and got jobs immediately after getting thier DL's on thier own. And they both have/had heavy academic and extracurricular scheds.

they just wanted to make their own dough. both already have retirement accounts running too...even the 16 year-old...we had bank accounts for them starting in 6th grade and forced them to balance, etc...

get 'em going early then they get on autopilot. gotta get the good feedback loop going asap...
CU is not a good school... There are a few good parts but the rest of it is absolute garbage; it is full of lazy rich kids that just want to party
I can't imagine high school without a part-time job during the school year and full-time hours in the summer. I mean, I did AP and Honors courses, plus soccer in the Fall and Winter and Track in the Spring, and worked at Dairy Queen year-round (having a blast with my friends) to make some money and migrate my way in to adulthood. I know many families were more well off than my mom and I were, so maybe such work seems wasteful... but the experiences from almost any work as a teenager seems invaluable: time management/scheduling, earning your keep, learning how to interact with all types of people (including managers who, often, you will butt-heads with ideologically)... all things you simply cannot learn in school, or studying.

And, completely anecdotally, but measuring my friends it seems like the earlier a person started working the more well-rounded and level-headed they are today.
Pinterest raised another $150M and is now valued at more than $12B
Call me Dr. Strangelove, then. I usually browse with JS off, enabling it on occasion. And there are some whitelisted sites.

I used to play around with filtering sites to make them less antisocial, but find that slog less entertaining these days. So now when confronted with a site that's useless without JS, eh, there's almost always another site out there that doesn't mind the terms I demand for my attention.
boy world war 2 really put a dent in clothes washer adoption. That aside, it feels like the adoption sort of resembles 64 bit windows adoptions. took a while but it happened bit by bit
I am sorry but this doesn't make any sense to me:
I can't aggregate information from calendars (Outlook, Facebook, etc.) or any other information source out there. So every info i take, i have to take twice.
The blacklists would probably just expand to subnets.
I have nothing useful to add to this discussion. I just like that this idea is a core part of the TV show Person of Interest.
users in the year 2011 will be so happy
My daughter's school uses i-Ready. It does give differential lessons to each student based on how they've done on the tests. It even occasionally circles back in areas you were maybe just "ok" in. The problem I've seen (based only on her reports so not even remotely scientific) is that if you fail a section, it gives you the exact.same.lesson again. It doesn't try to show you the same material in a different way. It just cycles you back through the same exact thing. Additionally, she reports that "all" of her fellow classmates hate the time they spend doing i-ready. I suspect it's not very engaging, there's no group/social interaction, etc.
Maybe. How does one know that when the document is viewed, random synonyms of certain words aren't used specific to that viewing, and logged along with the identity of the viewer.

Corporate emails sometimes use this trick to catch company leakers.
Uber firings: over 20 staffers dismissed amid sexual harassment investigation
Apparently high-energy physics is in for devastating cuts
IBM is definitely not the only reason there is so much talent. Don't forget about the numerous government research centers.
Wonderful. Now, how many more years before they get write access? The "C" is for "communication".
The paper is here [1]. It begins with:

"""
The purpose of this paper is to give a finite algorithm for computing the set of
irreducible unitary representations of a real reductive Lie group G. Before explaining
the nature of the algorithm, it is worth recalling why this is an interesting question.
A serious historical survey would go back at least to the work of Fourier (which can
be understood in terms of the irreducible unitary representations of the circle).
"""

This work is also related to the "Langlands program", which is perhaps the mathematician's version of a grand unified theory of mathematics.

[1] "Unitary representations of real reductive groups"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2192
Vultr has been rock solid for me for years in the Sydney region.
UK General Election 2017: Coverage in the Media
Well, thats how he makes a living. If it wasn't for his free solos, Alex Honnold would most likely not be able to be a professional climber.
For those who pay him (sponsors, magazines) its an ethical dilemma for sure. Cliff Bar for instance, recently dropped several athletes including Honold when they decided to no longer support sports that they deemed too dangerous.
Maybe there'd be enough jobs if there weren't so many people with multiple.
I've stated this before and I'll state it again: Trump won on his economics, not his social positions. The rust belt won him the election, where many people felt left behind and he promised to bring manufacturing back. It's hard to blame them based on Hillary's position.
So basically they shut down because the law was forcing their 'employees' or whatever to get paid properly and they could no longer extract surplus value. Sounds like a good thing :)

Maybe if they really wanted to fix things they'd do it as a non-profit.
it is aimed at pure math students who are interested in using linear algebra in much more abstract contexts

I don't think that's really true. The book itself puts it much more simply and directly, at the very beginning in 'Preface for the Instructor':

"You are about to teach a course that will probably give students their second exposure to linear algebra."
Its amazing people still wanna bike-shed what is essentially a 20+ year old protocol at this point. Its time to give up on the nitpicking guys, ipv6 is the future regardless of if you like it or not.
I run one of the many keyservers. I have various checks running regularly to make sure everything's fine, both on my own server, some selected other servers, and the pool in general.It's rare to have an issue, and bad servers get taken out the pool within an hour thanks to the pool's automated checks (which are completely separate from my own).

What sort of issues are you seeing? What server are you querying? Where in the world are you located?

There's a bunch of servers out there -- https://sks-keyservers.net/status/ -- but most tend to be in North America and Europe. That might be an issue, depending on where you are.
Yes, but not all hackers that aren't just hackers love climbing. And if I interpret that quote correctly, is there even a remote connection between the article and the kind of social news that are a good fit for this site? I though this site is about computer science and entrepreneurship. And for hackers who love climbing there are online climbing magazine sites, the same for gardening, formula 1 etc.

What would happen if people would start posting here unrelated sports news, or pop music, or motivational quotes, in the name of the quote you mention? Or is it okay if it's only from time to time? What's the ratio?
> because the Germans were inclined to avoid such territories and the population was relatively free from atrocities

The small comforts one accepts in times of war.

Amazing story, thank you for posting.
There you get an insight how hard they work on this project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOgOWWVinfY&list=PLuhSf5DE3F...
Wouldn't scapegoats file wrongful termination suits? Seems like a hell of a risk for illegitimate firings.
I want to point out that axpy is an abbreviation of a * x + y, pronounced "a x plus y", hence axpy. So I disagree with "un-systematic".
It's embarrassing how much some people seem to forget about rationality and skepticism when thinking about this issue.

The leaked info contains a few more specifics about the hand waving from a few months ago, but no actual evidence. What's worse is how the wording of the leaked document and press coverage (including that of The Intercept) interleaves simple assertions of fact into the narrative which do not support claims made by the narrative but simply make the whole thing seem "fact-based" even if it's speculative.

Generally speaking, The Intercept publishes very high quality work, but the presence of Sam Biddle's name on the byline is generally a good indicator of low quality work.
Ask HN: Best science fiction books ever
I would love to know what the best science fiction books are the HN community is reading.

I'm particularly interested in books that depict a "realistic" future of mankind without too much esoterica, magic, i.e. things that don't obey the laws of physics.
Why We Shouldn't Make Cape Ann an Innovation Hub
Location: Florida

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Looking to return to Bay Area

Technologies: Python, C++, Keras, Numpy

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0MjfNblHBVqU2Z3Nm4xQUNLMnc...

Email: josephhernandez5@gmail.com
I wonder why so many financial publications, who supposedly know a thing or two about economics, sound so woefully ignorant when contemplating the behavior of younger generations?

"Millennials are buying fewer cars and houses. Does their 'culture' favor non-ownership?"

No... they have higher levels of student load debt than previous generations, and lower income prospects due to stagnating wages. Almost everyone I know who DOES get a high-paying job eventually winds up buying a car and house.

"Fewer teenagers are working jobs. Are they more lazy?"

No... there are more unemployed adults these days, who are forced into the restaurant and retail jobs traditionally filled by teens. As professionals in the financial industry, surely you understand well enough that the official "unemployment rate" does not reflect the true "labor participation" rate.

Is all of this willful ignorance? Or are financial writers not researching and thinking anymore?
This is awesome! But why am I hearing about it from IBM instead of Apple?
But how do you know you should use a /64 mask? One of my hosting providers assigns much smaller subnets. Some others assign /56. You are at risk of blocking many legitimate IPs and missing many others.
That Godwined quickly.
Because they shouldn't be wasting their summers on a very low-paying job (maybe $5 after taxes, since they're likely claimed as a dependent). They have the rest of their lives to work.
Sunburns ;)
The elaborate scam of automated bookmark spam
+1 This would be great!
Seriously, go read her twitter. That's what gets my tinfoil hatting. She sounds like a mid-range bot. Her account runs from Oct 2016 to Feb 2017. She only has one mode and its Trump sucks.

I have too many theories, but first we need to figure out if there is such a person: That's right, I'm questioning Reality.
I'm still not sure about the OP's assertion, but more than that I feel like if you're going to posit that religious doctrine is the reason you ought to be able to specify what doctrine you mean and not just make a handwaving gesture in the general direction of religion.

And besides that, there is a history of the opposite impulse in American politics also coming from religion -- look at Catholic opposition to the death penalty or the Quakers' efforts at reform.
You mean, like this alternative universe? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...

Flipping this around, why does the 'command line' have to be a string (or a list of strings) that my program has to parse, rather than a ready-to-be-used data structure? Consider instead an alternative universe where the command-line arguments to your program are represented with something like a JSON object. Or better, a struct that the command-line interpreter can type-check.
The poster is talking about post-sentencing "discounts" on prison time served. It's called Good Conduct Time or "good time" for short, in Texas. The way it works is that prison administrators offer inmates early release based upon their behavior. It's a very important and useful prison management tool, one of the only carrots that prison administrators have to offer inmates.

Source, was a CO in Texas, also: http://law.justia.com/codes/texas/2005/gv/004.00.000498.00.h...

If you follow the link, you'll see that participating in work or educational programs can improve one's good time earning class, allowing an inmate to earn an earlier release date. In contrast to the other poster, Texas requires good time for time served in county jails. Also notable, educational opportunities have been severely curtailed in TDCJ over the last decade.
Can you add ?share=1 to your spider to get all Quora's content?
For real though, trying to find a good California roll or a doughnut (Voodoo is alright) is nearly impossible. I gave up on sourdough bread.
How much of that is Pinterest trying to surface something incorrectly based on their matching algorithms, vs. the people advertising Zootopia using poorly-chosen or intentionally broad targeting settings?
“Systematic” would be e.g. `ab`, `ax`, `axpy`, `kx`, instead of `mm`, `mv`, `axpy`, `scal`. (Or whatever other preferred system, hopefully something carefully thought through rather than slapped together.)

The names are obviously meaningful, they’re just fairly ad-hoc and not guessable a priori.
You really need to pick your spots as a hitter there. For power hitters like Rizzo, opposing teams would LOVE if he bunted against the shift instead of swung for the fences. If he does it even more often, you put your 3B on the grass. Getting in their heads and making sluggers change their approach at the plate is already a win for opposing managers.
So awesome. It made me giggy today to remove all droplet level iptables rules and convert them to network level Cloud Firewall rules.

Love how DigitalOcean allows you to specify droplets as sources, groups of droplets (tags) as sources, or CIDR ranges.
I don't see this submission under "ASK HN:". Am I missing something ? Instead, it's listed under "New" and "Threads".
Thanks for this comment. I learned something!
I grew up there and had no idea about the story. Yet I had to memorize egyptian pharaohs and tons of dates of historic events which everybody forgot a week later.

Anyway, a "glimpse into Rozwadow today" photo seems slightly biased. It's a small town but it doesn't looks that bad[1] (knowing HN probably only first few of you will be able to check that..)

1. http://fotografialotnicza.blox.pl/tagi_b/190925/Stalowa-Wola...
While I agree, I think it's a self-limiting problem: those of us who are completely outside of the sport would look at this and think "wow, what an amazing feat" but never fathom doing it. Those on the inside will know how hard and risky this is.
Well given they're shutting down GSuite accounts which upload movies and their continued insistence on increasing difficulty for get_video_info methods to fetch video source, I give it 1-2 months before they stop offering unlimited storage with GSuite.
I think they have slightly different advantages:

- WASM is platform independent, so it can easily be precompiled. Which means just the .wasm module needs to be distributed (e.g. inside a npm package). However WASM modules only have access to things that were already available to JS before (no random C/C++ libraries can be included which e.g. call into the OS, no multithreading, etc.). And the toolchain might be at the moment not yet the easiest to set up.

- Node native extensions have quite good tooling support. Write a binding.gyp and the C++ files and everything works pretty smooth. The native code can also do everything that native code is allowed to do on the platform. However node native extensions are platform specific, which means either precompile them for all target plattforms (and each node release) or deliver C/C++ sources which are always compiled on the deployment plattform at npm install time. They also can't be shared between browser and node plattform.

All in all I think they have slightly different usecases:

- Node native extensions for accessing operating system APIs and other libraries which are not already exposed through nodes JS APIs.

- WASM for making existing C/C++ code including full applications (like games) runnable in the browser

- WASM for making modules which speed up pure algorithms (like audio processing) and which can be used on both platforms.
Mmaybe consider collecting sign ups in a different way? Now that you know modals are amongst the most hated strategies.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/most-hated-advertising-tech...
I think the point OP is making is that you can fire 20 developers who are guilty of sexual harassment in some form but that even though they are guilty of that there should be people above them who essentially permitted their behavior and let it go unchecked who should also be fired. If you believe, like OP does, that the problem at Uber isn't individual cases of sexual harassment but an institutional passivity towards it then someone higher up really needs to be held accountable as well.
Those students are right. I've never heard of a college admissions board that saw working as a valid extracurricular.

I had to work at least a part time job from 15 on, and I was at a big disadvantage to people who didn't have to work. I gained a lot from it, better work ethic, an understanding of workplace professionalism, money management, etc. But college would have much preferred I played a sport, was involved in school clubs, or even volunteered.

So if college is in the plans, and a kid doesn't absolutely have to work, then there is no reason for them to do so.

And then, of course, there's the economic reality that plenty of traditionally "teenage" jobs have been taken over by 20 and 30-somethings (and even older) who desperately need the work.
Ha ha. Like javascript! The thought alone depresses me (javascript, not IPv6).
with 10 heroes per customer it must have been stellar service
It was a bit more controversial than I intended, but I still stand by the opinion that Silicon Valley is weighed a lot more than any other location. I don't disagree that the figures come up from time to time, but they are rarely on the top of comments lists unless the submission is specifically about them.
Wow, thank you for this! I appreciate it and am going through it now :)
You don’t think this book is aimed at pure mathematics students?

It’s certainly not aimed at numerical analysis students, or engineering students, or physics students. (Which isn’t to say that those students can’t take pure math courses if they want.)
Meh. The STEM side is really good, can't speak for the rest though. Also, ahem, there are 4 campuses, haven't you seen the billboards and the A-Line? /s
We had an instance where we needed to read NFC tags and had to use a third party sled. This would have helped a ton.
Agreed! If you actually talk to recruiters and teams at top-tier companies, then the stronger Ivies still do well when it comes to CS careers.
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Not a contradiction. Their first exposure would have been something like multivariable Calculus. So students have seen matrices, but they were magic, unmotivated, and probably didn't make much sense except in a "here is the formula to memorize" kind of way.

Axler tries to teach students how to understand linear algebra.

If all that you want to do is use it, the prospect of that understanding may not be very motivating.
Not sure why this is downvoted. Cheap high-quality entertainment increases the perceived value of leisure and the opportunity costs of working.
If you acknowledge a political problem, the next logical step is proposing a political solution.

If you are ideologically incapable of agreeing with the latter, it will affect your ability to recognize the former.
That was an issue for early IPv6 implementations. In most OS now, even link-local IPv6 addresses do not necessarily include MAC addresses.

However, public IPv6 addresses are obviously part of provisioned ranges. And without NAT, there's no ambiguity about assignment to devices. So in practice, with IPv6 you're sharing something as unique as a MAC with all peers.

One solution is using proxies with anonymously provisioned IPv6. Tor will eventually handle that. It's also possible for VPN services. FrootVPN, for example, does that already, whether you're connecting to their servers via IPv4 or IPv6.
Agreed, and my comment was just that it goes beyond Stanford and Silicon Valley...