skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully this will at least get you to look for modern, home defense rounds and then come to your old conclusions about 5.56 and dry wall... I'm not trying to prove you wrong here, just trying to get you to do some research about modern 5.56/.223 and really just modern ballistic advancement in general.

"The hypothesis turned out to be correct: V-Max bullets started fragmenting within the first sheet of drywall and completely blew to pieces on their way out of the second sheet, leaving dramatic craters." http://how-i-did-it.org/drywall/results.html
True!

I won't risk getting out of my depth. My comment was simply saying there are unique nerve signals from unique points across the cochlea which uniquely convey the information "this frequency is currently being heard at this volume". To say that that information is what we perceive... that's not an argument I'd make. But it is a step along the process.

Everyone knows we "see" in rgb, but few people seem to know we "hear" in frequencies more than we "hear" in waveforms. That's my point.
How does one parse thousands of ideas? How does one keep it in a character limit? Post an image like he does? Would it be a novel idea to copy the already posted images and then repost with dummy(but appear real) accounts using automation making this exercise worthless(or does he plan on doing this himself with no attribution?)
Likely they block dns too. 99% of the world uses the default dns for a connection.
I'm happy that he's willing to give those kinds of benefits to his employees when he doesn't have to. But I cannot have respect for someone that doesn't believe that everyone should have that.
Technically, there is not one ledger. This post is being pedantic, but the parent is wrong, technically, on the central point of its post.

Every node keeps a copy of the blockchain and occasionally one node adds a block to the blockchain (upon successful mining), then notifies other networked nodes of the new block. As soon as a block is mined, the lucky miner has a different ledger than the rest of the network. It's not until that new block propagates across the entire Bitcoin network that the ledger is updated.

Because of differences in protocol implementations, not all nodes accept the new block (this happened at least once). With the new BTC fork, it will be obvious that any stragglers on the old fork (or the new fork, if the protocol change brings insufficient consensus) will have their own fork of the blockchain, which will mean the ledger is forked.
One guy is far too many. There is absolutely ZERO excuse for that happening.
It's a textfile.

Much of it can be converted to other forms, including PDFs or HTML.
I didn't say there should be no return. Suggesting that is quite dishonest on your part.

I merely stated that the bulk of reward should go to those who actually DO something, not those who's only contribution is already having money. Of course they should get a return on that money. It just shouldn't be the bulk of the reward.
As it shouldn't. It's a different URL.

It's pretty annoying when dupe filters "catch" submissions with ?repost=1 appended to them, for example. It was either Reddit or HN that did that at one point. Sometimes there are legitimate reasons to resubmit.

It's also a form of letting the community express themselves -- if a thread is repeatedly flagkilled, having some mechanism to resubmit it is a way of resisting the urge to cry censorship. It often gets a thread to the front page (albeit with cement boots).

That's a bit tangential, but I'm just providing a few counterpoints to resist the urge to tighten the dupe filter. The manual method works pretty well.
The difference of course is that in the Deere case, it is a DMCA issue (read legal). Msft is not stopping you in any way from putting the OS that you want on the device, it is not stopping you from opening the device, it isn't even preventing you from upgrading the device.

Now have they made it really difficult to do so because of the design choices they made, yes, absolutely, but they are in no way actually preventing you from doing something with the device. You don't have some inherent right to have a device that is easy to disassemble.

And the market absolutely wants this. I've owned probably a dozen laptops over the last 15 years or so and the only upgrade I ever did was to add more RAM. I haven't upgraded a laptop in the last 5 years and I always am sure to purchase my laptop with a healthy set of RAM. These devices (Surface and Macbook) are not trying to compete with the $200 devices. They are trying to capture the top 10%(read: those with disposable income) of the market.

Panos Panay, Terry Myerson, and Satya Nadella all didn't sit around figuring out how to screw Lordarminius out of their money. They designed a device that the market wanted. Combine the market wants with the fact that there really is just no need to upgrade/update like we used to even just 10 years ago, and this design choice makes perfect sense. My OG 15" Macbook Retina Pro is still a solid laptop today despite being over 5 years old.
Funny shirt (so true)
WTF, MySQL is not doing performance regression testing on each commit?? WUT.
As the author admits in his update, this document is not very interesting. When I saw the title I was mainly interested in perhaps a formalism of mathematical exposition and proof notation.

The problem with the author's proposals is this: he proposes replacing well-known, well-distinguished symbols (alphabets and digits) with symbols that reflect a certain geometric interpretation.

First, the geometric symbols are difficult to read, and a small error (either in printing or in reading) can mean a huge change in meaning.

Second, the obvious criticism that they are too radical a departure from the current convention for them to be widely adopted.

Most salient, however, is that they offer no benefit to the development of mathematics. The mathematical enterprise is based on abstraction, generalization, and symbolic manipulation. The symbols proposed reflect only the most banal representation of the mathematical objects they discuss.

For example, he discusses representing the natural numbers with a number line. But this is an elementary schooler's notion of natural numbers. Mathematicians would like to discuss other representations and constructions of the natural numbers, say, their Peano axiomatization, as Church numerals, as an algebraic structure, as indices, as a countable set, and many more. Hence it is honestly more convenient, and less intrusive to the discussion of novel mathematical ideas and perspectives, to simply use a flavorless symbol of the alphabet, rather than one that is associated with a particular geometric interpretation.

Finally, I'd like to point out that while many things have changed in mathematics since ancient times, we still follow Aristotle in using letters to denote mathematical objects, and Euclid's rigorous exposition and proof, and actually use them today with far more frequency than they ever did.
No. Three of them have very senior positions (e.g. principal or chief engineer). They've always had paid overtime at every stage of their career.
Why should anyone have the right to decide that someone else doesn't have the right to buy something with money they lawfully made from someone who is willing to sell it?
Seeds = cheap. Water = cheap. Dirt = free.

Hard to be that price! :-)

(this assumes the opportunity cost on your time is fairly low, because it would take time)
He (well, Amazon) could be more forthcoming with taxes.
I vaguely recall reading that a population of apx 200mil is required to maintain a modern industrial society with all bells and whistles (e.g. semiconductor fabs, rockets, etc).
Or feature branch at least
The typographical equivalent for thorn is 'th'. You would therefore want to do "the" -> "þe".
I find it unlikely that Oracle doesn't have extensive performance testing infrastructure.

If they have it, how can they miss this? Is it too specific?

If they haven't, did they throw it away after acquiring Sun? Or Sun never had it?
The technique I personally use, as a full-stack developer, is if I can get features planned out into weekly chunks, segment days to backend vs frontend work, and move forward.

Monday is backend, Tuesday is frontend integration, Wednesday is front-end adjustments, Thursday and Friday are refactoring and further integration days.

Also I batch my issues, so if I'm planning to work on something that day, I'll look for other issues that may be in the same code area. Then I'll work on all of them throughout the day, as I can with primary focus on the issue I started with.

Refactoring happens any time you look at the code if you can see a need.
Growing your own food is expensive. Growing food for your neighbourhood is profitable if done right. Selling better food to the rich neighbourhood is even more profitable. Selling them prepared food, even more. Giving them the convenience of that delivered to their homes, much better. And finally, giving them the option of buying this online with set payment schedule and quicker deliveries. Thats Amazon + Whole Foods.

No one ever lost betting on people to be lazy.
Lol, as if Musk is the first to dream of colonizing space. Please.
>It's a different URL.

It seems ripe for abuse. #walawalabingbang is also able to pass.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14573297

That opens the door to unlimited resubmissions.
Oh! Gotcha. Thanks for the vote of confidence.
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Paint me cynical...

He's a smart kid, a lack of insight and focus do not come to mind when I think of his ability to tackle challenges.

In other news today... a lot of middle to upper middles class people, who view Amazon as a cold corporate digital version of Walmart, just had their favourite grocery store taken over.
There's a nature and a nurture to how we perceive music and harmony.

Nature is the aspects of harmony that independent societies have all agreed upon, likely due to an unknown biological reason harmony sounds pleasant. Nurture is the connotations society and culture put on top of that.

The author is only attempting to explain the nature part of things.

You wouldn't fault the theory of gravity for not explaining cell biology, so let's not fault this guy for ignoring culture.
So she didn't have any opportunity over the forty years prior to secure any of those documents?

Having to deal with something like this at the same time as being evicted and losing your mother is very sad, but that's not an excuse. It's a human interest story.
Like the John Oliver episode where they found a DMV that was only open on the fifth Wednesday of the month, those months that have a fifth Wednesday. Super easy to get an id.
Tried and... true?
Hard to say if it opens doors or not, but it is not out of the realm of possibility.

Think about this: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Who is Amazons BIGGEST enemy? Probably Walmart.

Getting a partnership with Walmart would be HUGE for Shipt. And honestly would be good for Walmart as they try to defend their turf.

Sarah Perez had a good article related to this: "Amazon wants to become Walmart before Walmart can become Amazon" (https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/16/amazon-wants-to-become-wal...)
Those of us who have spent multiple weeks on single bugs in systems that were made by people who also did not believe in debuggers politely disagree.

I see a debugger as a means of last resort, if all else fails and you've spent that week reasoning about the problem where you already know how it behaves and in spite of that you still can't fix it a hint can help a lot.

Linus is showing an attitude in this message that simply does not help, at least he acknowledges it. Essentially he's saying that a debugger being present in the kernel would open up the kernel to lesser gods contributing and he can do without that, if you can't cross the hurdle then you're not welcome in the elite kernel hackers group.

It's his playground so I'm fine with that but this attitude probably is one of the reasons why the Linux kernel keeps on giving when it comes to really old bugs. As every experienced programmer knows: what the code seems to be doing is not always what the code actually does and in the presence of optimizing compilers a debugger can come in quite handy. Especially if those compilers themselves are of the buggy variety.

Making kernel writing a black art serves nobody, it just reduces the pool of contributors. I often wonder if Linux became as successful as it was because or in spite of Linus' character, even after a couple of decades I haven't been able to decide but I'm grateful for its existence anyway.

It's also another reason why I'm a big fan of micro kernels (the real variety), it makes operating systems much easier to debug because each and every little module lives in a process of its own, isolated from messing up other processes' memory. That's well worth the speed penalty.
They would be paying for customers and talent. Why spend time building your own network when you can buy someone else's for the right price?
Malice seems unlikely. There has to be some way to prove your identity, and people have tried to impersonate others.

Is there a way to offer that kind of system while avoiding the concerns about identity theft?

EDIT: After thinking it over, I guess identity theft isn't a big concern. It seems pretty unlikely that someone would actively exploit this system to get someone's ID, then their birth certificate, then somehow get a loan in their name, or something along those lines. I hope someone with more experience can chime in either way.
For me it's the editor tools. Keeping my projects/todos/etc in a text file that is organized outliner style is really good, the org specific editor commands makes changing that file easy.

Having the agenda view (calendar) generated, having sparse trees, having spreadsheet like tools, having precise and intuitive folding behaviour make it great.

I don't care at all about the whole org->html pipeline. Who cares. It's not very good and it isn't better than markdown. I get that if you are already in the org world it's nice, but it's not the reason to get into that world.
OK, now I'm intrigued. How does changing the spelling of key words not break iambic pentameter?
Bribe all of congress. It's not that expensive for someone with Bezos money. Why let energy companies, telcos, insurance providers, and military contractors get all the action? Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple are bigger than they are!

For less than the cost of SpaceX they could have just bribed congress to give NASA sufficient funding.

For less than the cost of whatever Bill Gates tries to do with education, he could have just bribed congress to fund schools properly.

If they really believed in equal rights regardless of gender, sex, nationality, sexual orientation, race or religion, they could bribe congress to fix those things.

If they cared about the environment, you could bribe congress to fund the EPA more.

Single payer health care, they can just make it happen.

If I had that money, that's sure as hell what I would be doing with it. The fact that they haven't already suggest to me that maybe they don't actually believe in these things as much as they sometimes pretend to. Rich assholes never put their money where their mouth is.

And when I say bribe I mean the legal kind. Where you fund their campaigns through SuperPACs. You can outspend those Koch bros. easily. Why not go for it?
>(a) hacked Linode

Fair.

>(b) dumped everything you found online

Not even true. Neither Linode customer db or source code were publicly released.

>(c) spend your days in every Linode thread trying to shit on them while pulling wool over HN's eyes as some kind of moral high ground just "obligatory warning" a bunch of people about your own fucking actions.

Mostly not my actions, but I seem to be uniquely well positioned to give such advice given my that I've seen the insides of Linode.

>You are not the moral high ground. Please stop pretending to be as some kind of authoritative voice.

I'm certainly not the moral high ground, but I've certainly seen for my own eyes just how much of a mess Linode is.

>Move on with your life. You hacked them, you got busted, and sitting around like this four years later is just indefensible.

I don't really care about any of that. To be fair I'm more annoyed with a bunch of my time being wasted because some guy with a thick Australian accent (i.e. obviously not me) swatted them.

But this isn't my personal blog, hit me up on IRC and we can chat.
Since version 3.2 you've been able to enforce data types with validation.
I want to add another data point to this discussion. I also read that as Paris. return0 has a great hypothesis on this.
Yeah my thoughts did rev up to the drone delivery concept till I realized Elon Musk is building a tunnel underneath because thats more realistic than drone delivery.
Mate ID's expire every 6 years. Expired ID's are not valid ID's.
> Also, ensuring the (double and single) quotation-mark characters are used, but that scare-quotes and actual measurements (6'1", etc.) don't use them

Scare quotes are a adaptation of quotation marks for use/mention distinctions, and shoukd use proper quotation marks the same as anything else; measurements should use the prime and double prime characters.
Not uncommon for employee access systems to evolve from
flags (or even email domain regex) on the product's user table.
Her Social Security card and birth certificate were among the things lost that day.

What reasons are there for the system to be structured such that obtaining an ID is difficult?
http://whathelpsthehomeless.blogspot.com/2017/06/documentati...
>"engineered to simply keep people in the hole once they through misfortune or carelessness slip up"

This seems like a pretty extraordinary claim made pretty casually.

What would motivate someone to intentionally prevent poor people from helping themselves?

It seems much more likely a case of straightforward government dysfunction enabled by all the usual factors that make the government suck at accomplishing things.

If the government ID infrastructure ran as well as Facebook's ad targeting department, we would have no problems of this kind whatsoever.
I brought my kids home some Turkish delight from Istanbul and they absolutely devoured it. It was not sickly sweet and the flavors were wonderful. I think our favorite was rose - delicate and much more complex than the mass produced candies they were used to.
Just to be clear, a better term would be "dynamic schema". You can ask for data type validation since 3.2.
"Data Leakage Protection". The idea being that the everything that ever goes in or out of a mailbox is recorded, audited, etc. Yes, deleting an email/thread doesn't remove it from Vault, but this way, other than copying/pasting from the browser window into another client, there is always a trail of where an email went, and users can't "take home" a dump of their entire mailbox. When legal get involved and need a dump of "every email between employee X and external party Y", there is no question of whether a different SMTP server was used so we may not have a record of the sent messages, etc.
Sure, I don't disagree. I still don't see evidence for Lewis's plot to poison children against Middle Eastern cultures. Keep in mind Tolkein explicitly describes the dark-skinned, Eastern peoples as being seduced by evil. Does he get a pass for being less overtly religious?
Echoing this about Amazon Fresh. I have ordered 3 times (mainly meat and veggies) and it's been flawless. Their packaging is great, the quality of the food is great. It is a luxury purchase but although the prices are more than at my local store, they are less than what I would pay at WF. Most importantly, the delivery times are very flexible and easy to arrange...with the same great search engine amazon uses for everything else. I tried a few other grocery delivery services over the years and they couldn't promise any delivery window, their packaging was terrible, and you had to be there in person to get the groceries.

As an aside, the amazon fresh packaging is great as trash bags. The ice packages they send along are great to put in your freezer and use later on trips. They recently (at least to me) added a durable cloth-based cooler, which they say you can put on your porch and they will reuse. I may let them have it back or I might use it as a cooler for my normal grocery store trips.

It is slightly more expensive, but the bottom line is that in the middle of the week I am just too worn out to go to the store, so being able to have a mid or end week delivery means that I have stuff at home instead of having to order out.

I guess I qualify as an amazon fanboy ;-)

Relevance to this HN story, I think they can probably leverage this to help their Amazon Fresh business.
How unlikely does it seem to you?

A case was just before the Supreme Court:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/voter-id-laws...
> Malice seems unlikely.

On the contrary, I suspect that is the most likely explanation. See, if there were any other explanation then the government would go out of its way to provide people without identification with the right identification.

> There has to be some way to prove your identity

There are many ways, for instance in some countries several citizens themselves in the possession of valid identification go together with you before a judge and swear on the penalty of perjury that you are who you say you are.

> and people have tried to impersonate others.

Yes, and guess what that valid ID is meant to reduce?

> Is there a way to offer that kind of system while avoiding the concerns about identity theft?

Well, given that we have fingerprinting and biometric information these days it is hard to think of what else - short of DNA - we could give up to offer 'that kind of system' but don't worry, it will still happen and probably in your lifetime.
Social security cards and birth certificates do not expire.

Drivers licenses do expire, generally at 4-6 year time frames. Assuming you're still at the same address (which she was), most states allow one to renew it through the mail.

Checking a box, signing a card, and paying a nominal fee once every four years does not seem particularly onerous to me. Though if it were up to me the fee would be entirely eliminated.
Carlin hated government and both parties with a passion, but he leaned a bit liberal by his own admission. That said, he would be disappointed to hear he's being compared to Donald Trump. See his bits on the "business man" and "politicians" for reference.
Don't even need to turn off WiFi. Just don't connect to store WiFi.
Probably to avoid identity theft.
The problem I find with most philanthropic efforts, most namely charities, is that it's a black box with little measure of accountability. You don't know how exactly the money is spent, and how effective it was.

If someone can start a 100% transparent charitable organization, where each line item of expense is open to the public, it would give people more confidence in giving, and it would give the organizations more incentive to make effective and efficient decisions. Kind of like a manager overseeing your moves, except it's the public since they provide the funding.

In terms of where to focus the efforts -- I find providing education is the only short term effort that can lead to long term and everlasting gains.
And the Earth-Moon system orbits their common center, though that center happens to be inside the Earth.
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