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Old School Ford GT40 DESTROYS a Hellcat… Hell Yeah
I always thought this old reddit post was really good.

Alright, here goes. I'm old. What that means is that I've survived (so far) and a lot of people I've known and loved did not. I've lost friends, best friends, acquaintances, co-workers, grandparents, mom, relatives, teachers, mentors, students, neighbors, and a host of other folks. I have no children, and I can't imagine the pain it must be to lose a child. But here's my two cents.

I wish I could say you get used to people dying. I never did. I don't want to. It tears a hole through me whenever somebody I love dies, no matter the circumstances. But I don't want it to "not matter". I don't want it to be something that just passes. My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person. And if the scar is deep, so was the love. So be it. Scars are a testament to life. Scars are a testament that I can love deeply and live deeply and be cut, or even gouged, and that I can heal and continue to live and continue to love. And the scar tissue is stronger than the original flesh ever was. Scars are a testament to life. Scars are only ugly to people who can't see.

As for grief, you'll find it comes in waves. When the ship is first wrecked, you're drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around you reminds you of the beauty and the magnificence of the ship that was, and is no more. And all you can do is float. You find some piece of the wreckage and you hang on for a while. Maybe it's some physical thing. Maybe it's a happy memory or a photograph. Maybe it's a person who is also floating. For a while, all you can do is float. Stay alive.

In the beginning, the waves are 100 feet tall and crash over you without mercy. They come 10 seconds apart and don't even give you time to catch your breath. All you can do is hang on and float. After a while, maybe weeks, maybe months, you'll find the waves are still 100 feet tall, but they come further apart. When they come, they still crash all over you and wipe you out. But in between, you can breathe, you can function. You never know what's going to trigger the grief. It might be a song, a picture, a street intersection, the smell of a cup of coffee. It can be just about anything...and the wave comes crashing. But in between waves, there is life.

Somewhere down the line, and it's different for everybody, you find that the waves are only 80 feet tall. Or 50 feet tall. And while they still come, they come further apart. You can see them coming. An anniversary, a birthday, or Christmas, or landing at O'Hare. You can see it coming, for the most part, and prepare yourself. And when it washes over you, you know that somehow you will, again, come out the other side. Soaking wet, sputtering, still hanging on to some tiny piece of the wreckage, but you'll come out. Take it from an old guy. The waves never stop coming, and somehow you don't really want them to. But you learn that you'll survive them. And other waves will come. And you'll survive them too. If you're lucky, you'll have lots of scars from lots of loves. And lots of shipwrecks.
Everyone does DNS load balancing unless you're ready to do BGP and announce/withdraw your net blocks based on health.

Anycast is nice, but niche.
Thank you. This was an amazing explanation. I am new to SVM's but did not make the connection that margin points (observations along the margin of the hyperplane) become your support vectors. This makes a lot more sense.

And if I am following correctly, it would make sense that the final step would then be:

We would maximize the dot product of a new observation with the support vectors to determine its classification (red or blue)
The Kaggle data science community is competing to improve airport security with
Excessive splitters usually is a sign of ancient cabling as well. I know for a fact that Comcast has passive gain amps specifically built for dealing with homes that have more than like 8 tv's and a modem. You (or your dad, it's unclear) probably were hooked up a long time ago, or the tech didn't know what he was doing.
Ask HN: When do you get downvote privileges?
I get downvotes sometimes.

Sometimes it's because I said something someone didn't like, sometimes it's because it's an unpopular opinion. Most times, I get upvotes more than downvotes, but I can clearly tell a lot of people have downvote privileges.

When do you get those on HN?
Takes time to bring the container up to execute.
actually it now says:

"UPDATE: Through a spokesman, Mr. Caldbeck issued an additional statement on Thursday afternoon: "Obviously, I am deeply disturbed by these allegations. While significant context is missing from the incidents reported by The Information, I deeply regret ever causing anyone to feel uncomfortable. The fact is that I have been privileged to have worked with female entrepreneurs throughout my career and I sincerely apologize to anyone who I made uncomfortable by my actions. There’s no denying this is an issue in the venture community, and I hate that my behavior has contributed to it."
Lost my dad three years ago. Still find myself having conversations with him in my head.

This isn't something you get over. You just deal with it, a day at a time, and eventually you will find that a year has gone by, then two, and at some point it doesn't feel like you are drowning in sadness every day.

Let yourself cry. But also, eat decently. Exercise, even if you don't feel like it. Get your hair cut, shower, and get dressed every day. Find someone to talk to, whether that's an SO, a friend, clergy, or a professional.

I find strength in remembering how my dad taught me to conduct myself - he was an excellent father - and in trying to live up to that legacy. In particular, when my dad died two hundred people packed themselves into our little country church. In a town of three hundred. When I die I hope to have touched that many lives.
500 Karma I believe, so you are close.
First, know that everybody has to go through this, and that time helps.

Reading "Option B" by Sheryl Sandberg can help you putting many things in perspective. I recommend it.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1524732680/ref=mp_s_a_1_1
So in the past I have used two self-proclaimed "visual programming languages", Blueprints[1] and Max[2] and in both cases I found that it is actually harder to be productive while dealing with UI elements than it is to simply write code (as long as you have at least some rudimentary form of autocomplete I guess).

However I have to say that, based on the little I've seen, Luna's UI seems to be actually developer-friendly i.e. the UI elements go hand-in-hand with code rather than getting in the way, I think it's brilliant, sort of Jupyter Notebooks on steroids.

[1] https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Blueprints/

[2] https://cycling74.com/products/max
Thoughts on BAT from an ex-ads product manager
This happened to me as well - Comcast tech A gets on our house to disconnect a "noisy line" and doesn't tell us or anyone else about it, requiring me to wait for Comcast tech B to come out and reconnect. And of course we heard nothing more about this "noisy line" issue, with no changes made to our connection.

Just one of the reasons I no longer use comcast.
No, doubly efficient IPs do not have much to do with ZCash. deIPs are currently too weak to prove the general NP statements that ZCash requires.

ZCash relies on a different kind of "proof" system: SNARKs.

There's many differences between the two:

a) deIPs assume a computationally unbounded adversary, whereas SNARKs assume a polytime adversary.

b) deIP constructions currently suffice only for a limited class of languages, whereas SNARKs can prove any NP statement.

c) SNARKs have zero knowledge variants, whereas it is not clear how to extend many deIP constructions to be zero knowledge without changing the model (ala https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/305).

d) Most deIPs are interactive proof systems, whereas SNARKs are non-interactive.
Toxiproxy: TCP proxy to simulate conditions for chaos and resiliency testing
> The current system is slow and inefficient, and that is wonderful.

It's pretty fucking lousy if you're in jail on remand and haven't been convicted of a crime yet.
So what you’re saying is averages don’t give the whole picture?
I continued navigating through to the actual point of purchase. The default quantity of tickets selected was, "1" and there was a warning message which said, "About to sell out - only 2 tickets left." When I selected 5 tickets, that message changed right in front of my eyes to, "About to sell out - only 6 tickets left," and so on.

Perhaps they really are experiencing heavy traffic...I have no real way of knowing that for sure. But when you program a robot to scam me, at least put some effort in, right?
While I agree that the gaming industry is exploitative, it's unfair to assert that gambling is zero-sum by generalizing all means of gambling as "screens flashing bright lights for a few seconds."

You or I might value a video game more, but some people who gamble actually derive utility from the games themselves (and from a purely scientific standpoint, even a near-miss in gambling results in the release of dopamine [1]).

[1]:http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v36/n5/abs/npp2010230a.htm...
I dunno. I've seen an awful lot of loyalty to ideas that don't deserve loyalty over the past several years, and it seems to keep ruining good things.

A toxic culture really isn't one that deserves loyalty, and Kalanick inarguably built a toxic culture into the fabric of Uber. He's not the only one, but he's ultimately the responsible party. If you want to kill a toxic culture that starts at the top, you simply can't leave him in charge.

It isn't surprising to me that ~1000 people in an organization would want the toxic culture to continue. There's a small subset of people who thrive in a toxic culture, and they, obviously, don't want it to go away.

I'm sure some of these folks just like the guy and never had any problems with him, personally, perhaps because they're a young white male. Those folks probably aren't actively defending the toxic culture of Uber; they're just naively assuming that because they didn't experience it, it doesn't exist and that Kalanick is the victim of a smear campaign.
Those that survive anyway. Most institutions should die earlier than they do. Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy and all that.
Horses as a population can't seek out new opportunities or create new industries for themselves. The horse industry was created by humans for horses, not by horses for themselves. Our entire economy however was created organically by humans responding to needs of humans. So as long as humans have needs, and assets to trade to meet those needs, an economy will continue to exist.
I'm sure it's not "some" but a lot of employees, but most are afraid to speak out just because they have seen what happens to people who advocate for someone who's down.

I know for a fact that a lot of Uber employees nowadays can't talk freely outside about the fact that they work at Uber, when they used to be proud to talk about it just a couple of years ago.

I also know that many employees at Uber (men or women) are proud to work at the company, and again, too afraid to talk about it because the outside world will treat them like nazis.

Lastly, I'm pretty sure people will turn this into sexism discussion and call me a sexist, because they know no one can win over sexism. But I also know that if you ask Uber employees, most of them will say it's no different from working at any other tech company. But again, they can't say that out loud because they will be witch-hunted.

It's kind of sad that the Internet has become optimized for this type of witch hunt. A couple of years ago everyone wanted to get investment from Peter Thiel and "contrarian" beliefs were celebrated. But nowadays it's used as a tool for mockery because it's simply "hip" to talk shit about him. Same goes for Uber, not sure if you guys remember but if you think hard enough, just a few years ago Uber was celebrated as the "savior that fights for justice against the abusive taxi industry, even if it means operating in a gray zone". But nowadays media just loves to spin it as "Uber committed all kinds of illegal crimes, so the CEO has got to go"

Before I get downvoted to oblivion, let me emphasize that I'm not saying Uber is good. I'm saying we really need to stop witch hunt.
> InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana are pretty trivial to set up.

No, they're actually not. They're trivial to get to a state of "the process is running on my machine", but to actually get a set of suitable metrics presented the way you want them, that takes a while, especially if you're not already a skilled sysadmin. It's certainly more than "a couple of hours of sysadmin time every couple of years" that others in this thread suggest.

Time and time again I've seen applications painted as "trivial to set up", then when you go to actually try it, the devil is in the details. Getting it running is only the start of it. Unless you have the simplest of use-cases, the stuff that comes out of the box is rarely enough.

Ultimately, this is all penny-pinching nonsense at these numbers anyway. If your shop is bigger than a handful of people, $400/mo is chickenfeed compared to other business expenses.

Your own use-case may indeed not be suitable for AWS - they do gouge you on traffic, and it looks like you're pushing a quarter-petabyte over the wire monthly, so that's certainly not a happy marriage.
Anything that makes getting user data easier is bad. Better to fight each request. Better to not have a set procedure that is clear and concise. Let them figure it out each time. Change it up occasionally.
... at which point you can edit a single point in the source code to fix it, either defining hot-path to be equivalent to eval, removing it outright, or altering it to be better. Isn't that the point of abstraction?
More likely, there was already a bunch of people on Tinder trolling people for fun, who came across this and wanted in on the deal so they could troll people and get paid for it.
Interval Graph
Introducing the data access project
Intel's Knights Landing Processor Can Stand on Its Own--But Probably Won't
I haven't heard of it but will definitely check it out. Thanks for the tip!
Isn't this a lie though? They do not mention remote compromise and I would bet dollars to doughnuts most old routers have RCE holes.
These guys are both selling something:

1. An MBA

2. YC startups

The question is which do you want to buy? And what can you buy.
Both are investments.

An MBA from a top school likely has a higher pay off long term as most startups fail (statistically). But you have to be accepted into the program. You can read about alumni, gather various statistics, where they are and how much they make etc... There are ~80,000 alumni from HBS programs.

For YC, you either join a YC startup then go to YC, or get into YC directly. It may be easier to do the former, prove yourself and then join YC as a founder. If you want this path. You also have to build something.

YC also reduces the risks of "failure" by building out their own network and keeping alumni within the network as partners or as employees in other YC startups.

As to the rise of entrepreneurial programs.. well it's business. MBA programs probably also want to attract entrepreneurial minded types to improve diversity/value but startups are hot and everyone is selling.
To be clear, I mean opening things up to everyone would be the next step after finding the community's seeds.
Uber Employees Are Circulating a Petition to Reinstate Travis Kalanick
Towards standardization of compact data center switches
I don't think anyone ever expected it to become a success, let alone a language used on everything from text editors to terminal emulators to embedded devices.
what happened to the good ol' days when Americans looked up to self made millionaires and think "I'm gonna make myself a million bucks just like that guy" rather than "hey fk you for getting your lazy ass off the coach and made your life better" then proceed with batshit PC crap to bring him down.
Thank you, that makes much more sense to me. Otherwise it is on par with a developer complaining about their workload running on equivalent AMD processors vs Intel.

It sounds like Netflix could use someone like you.
> There is no heritable "diversity" trait.

That seems like too big a statement to be true. You're saying there is no structure which controls the variability of any phenotype? No gene that decides how much butterfly wing splotches vary? No gene that decides the difference between the shortest and longest legs in a family of mountain goats? No heritable diversity traits across the entirety of life?

Putting aside how unlikely that seems to me, if it was true... How could you possibly know such a thing? You can't prove a negative.
On a Monday, a little more than a year ago I lost my dad, and best friend, too.

Straight up, it's the hardest thing you'll probably have to do. It'll be really fucking hard, but with luck, you'll figure it out a new ay forward. Getting through the 'waves' of emotion and disbelief will be the most frustrating part at first. At the time my dad died I was working on private pilot's license and the most comforting thing I found was the consolations of aerodynamics, specifically the positive dynamic stability of a Cessna 172N aircraft.

Perhaps what helped me get through my dad's death will help you. So I give you...

Better Living Through Positive Dynamic Stability

"Dynamic stability is how an airplane responds over time to a disturbance. Aircraft with positive dynamic stability have oscillations that dampen out over time. The Cessna 172 is a great example. If your 172 is trimmed for level flight, and you pull back on the yoke [causing the plane to pitch upwards] and then let go, the nose will immediately start pitching down. Depending on how much you pitched up initially, the nose will pitch down slightly nose low, and then, over time, pitch nose up again, but less than your initial control input. Over time, the pitching will stop, and your 172 will be back to its original attitude." [0]

What's happened in your life is a lot like the aircraft above, except that instead of lightly pitching up, you've hit a strong disturbance and your aircraft has dramatically and unexpectedly changed its pitch upward, which has then caused your aircraft to in turn dramatically pitch downward. Your aircraft is now hurdling towards the earth, before it picking up enough airspeed to start pitching back up again. After pitching back up, the aircraft starts to lose airspeed and then it starts pitching back down again, hurdling back towards the earth, then it's pitches back up. Up and down and up and down through this harrowing oscillation. It's a crazy, stressful rollercoaster.

While aircraft is going through these oscillation and seems out of control, the oscillations are just the result of the positive dynamic stability of the aircraft. You may not notice it initially, but the oscillations are dampening slightly each time. Over time pitching will stop and your aircraft will go back to it's initially attitude. This is what you must trust in, the positive dynamic stability of your aircraft (you).

Eventually, you'll be flying straight and level again and along your intended path. Yes, you'll be shaken up by what's happened and you won't ever be the same again. But you'll have survived... that which you already knew was bound to happen at some point at some time. This is was always part of the deal. Just remember you're still flying and you've got places to be and great things to see, and you're going to be ok.

[0] http://www.boldmethod.com/learn-to-fly/aerodynamics/3-types-...
My personal thoughts about Travis aside, it seems to be loyalty. I've seen a lot of support of Travis (as a leader/person) from Uber employees on Facebook the past few days. It's anecdotal, but there seems to be a number of people who are deeply loyal.
Dbgcode python package: write debug code with confidence
I'm the UK, the vast, vast majority of cable infrastructure is owned by openreach (BT) because it used to be a government run service. While it's not a general requirement, it is one for them, which in effect means it is general.
https://www.veracrypt.fr/
I don't see how you can possibly look at the words and actions of Travis Kalanick and think that him being rich is the reason that he's hated.
My dad passed away from glioblastoma 2 weeks ago. My mom and I spent every day with him before his passing which helped us not live with any regrets after. After he died, my mom and I would do things he loved to do. It was painful do those things knowing he wasn't physically there... but it was comforting to do them as a way feel his presence. My dad loved camping with his trailer (I know nothing about trailers). I spent a couple days going through all his tools, learning how to setup a trailer and properly hitch it, then going on a camping trip for a few days with my mom. I don't think we will ever get over his loss but its nice to do things that you think would make him proud.
I don't doubt that the linked story is true, but I know that individually this can happen all the time inadvertently. I worked for an ISP which provided "dry loop DSL" (DSL without dialtone service on the phone line) in the mid-2000s and as a consequence of having internet service from a 3rd party over telco pairs with no phone numbers attached, the local phone companies would regularly re-use our customers' lines for new phone installations. Since they were not tagged with phone numbers in the exchange building, and had no dialtone, the phone company techs had no way to tell the lines were in use.
These trucks often have 1,000,000+$ worth of cargo. That's worth a fair amount of risk and effort even if you lose 80% of it on the black market that's still better than most robberies.
This helped me a lot when I was studying for job interviews.
I truly do not understand why anyone would want to "help" the LEOs of today.

I think some people are just naturally authoritarian. Unfortunately they also seem to be most likely to get into positions of power.
I dunno, I'd say it's more an example of why CSS isn't the right abstraction for styles in a text editor…
You linked a site that makes money on convincing people to spend money getting a CDL, not really a reliable source. Very few truckers are doing well, even your source wages aren't that great for most positions when you add in the other costs. And USA Today had a piece last week about one working unsafe hours and making as little as $.67 a week.

https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forc...
Doing it yourself with Tesseract is pretty hard (time consuming, error prone). It's something I would only consider doing once my project was build, viable, and the costs of an API were an issue.
> Counter proof: since BC's 15% foreigner tax was implemented, has the Vancouver housing market cooled off? No. To the contrary, it has actually heated up even more. This indicates that the "illegal Chinese dirty money" that the wonderful local Vancouverites keep spouting is not, in fact, the driver of this growth. It's too bad because they are such an easy racial scapegoat, aren't they?

It could also be possible that the Chinese market for Vancouver houses is inelastic enough that the foreigner tax doesn't have teeth.
Having worked with nodejs for a few years, it's turned out to be pretty okay for prototyping web apps. But, developing these prototypes into robust software and maintaining them is terrible. My opinion is that a proliferation of low-quality, poorly maintained modules-- the "more packages in the Node.js ecosystem than any other"-- makes node unsuitable for production. It does help you "develop faster," but only for a few months per project. After that it's backfilling other people's shoddy code and diagnosing breaking changes between module patch versions.

Also, the proliferation of incompatible JS language features, stacks of build systems etc. doesn't make things any easier.