skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- SELinux Enabled
- Sysctl tuning applied
- Inbound/Outbound/Forward iptables rules enabled
- ipset iptables rules enabled
- iptables intercept rules to route all ntp/dns over VPN
to VPS nodes.
- Unbound DNS overriding many spammy domains
- tinc vpn enabled to multiple VPS nodes.
-- Each VPS node load balancing to multiple datacenter open resolvers that
are NOT OpenDNS or Google.
- ip route blackhole about 20k bad networks from firehol on github
- syslog to internal host
- Surricata IDS logging to syslog
- tc cbq traffic shaping enabled
- haproxy L4 vips for sending select traffic to select squid proxies.
- power conditionor / ups enabled, one for router, one for cable modem.

Those are the basic things. My router is always Linux running on commodity hardware with dual gig interfaces for clear physical demarcation.
Tell that to Uber's 15,000 employees.
Levandowski threw himself under the bus. One with a very large "G" logo on the hood.
A little off-topic, but does anybody know of any hacky ways to disable hyper-threading (on Haswell if it matters) if the firmware doesn't provide the option?
That's a hardware issue, not a "Windows breaking the public API contract" issue. It's not really relevant to what GP was saying.
The primary factor being proximity to other people in the same industry is dramatically higher, and jobs within the computer industry in Silicon Valley are so much more dense than any other place on the planet. The joke in SF is that you can't walk 5 feet without running into a programmer or a startup founder. Go to anywhere else in the world and there are comparatively a very small number of programmers/startup founders.

In LA you have something similar with movies -- most people are aspiring actors and there are many people in filming and sets. However, working as a programmer in LA versus SF is very different -- there are a lot fewer engineers and entrepreneurs here per mile than the Bay Area.

It comes down to proximity to people of the same talent set. Where are the people who are good at X living? That's where X is thriving. If suddenly all the engineers left Silicon Valley, it would no longer be a tech hub.
He is including time spent on here :P
> Well, it's a totally reasonable airport for Providence, but marketing it as Boston is dubious!)

If your destination is truly downtown Boston.

However, a lot of people are coming from the suburbs or going to somewhere on Route 128. In those instances, Providence (or Nashua) is WAY faster--especially even remotely close to rush hours. Digging your way into Logan is always a nightmare. And Providence is a vastly nicer airport experience.

The Boston airports really do qualify as close to each other if you're renting a car (less than an hour to Boston under most circumstances and probably less than 45 minutes if you're going to Route 128/I-495).

(Long Beach to Ontario in Los Angeles is nominally 45 minutes but WAY longer due to traffic).
That's pretty much a standard procedure: Deprecate "in favor of", i.e. the correctly spelled one. You get compiler a warning telling you to rename it.

The explanation made no sense to me.
TIL that "referer" is a misspelling of "referrer" (from the top comment).
I think without a doubt it will remain the best tech hub in the world.

The change that may occur is that Silicon Valley, while remaining in the lead, will see its centrality diminished by the emergence of decentralized funding using ERC20 tokens, aka the token sale model, which is quickly approaching traditional venture capital volumes [1].

I don't believe this would hurt SV's economy, as the decline in funding friction, while having very geographically distributed direct benefits, will have the second order effect of expanding the tech sector, and with it, tech companies operating in sectors not currently amenable to these new nontraditional enterprise structures and funding models.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_funded_crowdfu...
What the heck does that have to do with privacy? You make it sound like you think people are talking about which browser is better overall.
No one talks of breaking existing functions/API calls. Deprecation is not the same as removal.
Looks interesting. I probably need to get my hands dirty to understand how it's different from Hashicorp's Vault. A quick glance says it's a cloud-based solution with simpler UX. I see only client binaries and sign-up instructions. There are no server setup instructions.
uBlock to block the ads, disable 3rd party cookies to block the trackers. Add a hosts file and you're miles better off than either of these proposals.
There are several Model 100s and 102s and even a PC-2 pocket computer. I can't say I've ever seen any of those at a thrift store.
That's pretty cool. Makes sense, especially with stage 1 being so light on re-entry that a single engine would have a TWR > 1.
It sounds like you are worrying about skills & tech before having a problem to solve or a product to build.

Investigate some ideas, find a need and a solution you want to build. Keep things simple and see if there is demand.

You can decide then what skills are important and either learn as you go or hire. You will be much more motivated to learn if you have something specific to build & customers waiting.
Colorado Man Is Second to Die in Quest for Buried Treasure
The actually appropriate thing to do would be to [tell] Google/Waymo of the potential IP threat and insulate

Exactly. That's what Pepsi did.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/07/06/pepsi-alerted-coca-c...
Oh, well that sucks. :/ I haven't done any iOS dev yet, I guess Android doesn't have the monopoly on stupid though.
> I think comparing online clothing retailers to firearms retailers is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison. Everyone needs clothing, firearms not so much... Because of this clothing retailers have a much larger client base to draw from, and thus there's more money pumped into their sites. Firearms are a niche good, so the base they draw from is much smaller. Many other niche goods have effectively been absorbed into the Amazon monolith. If Amazon (or equivalent) were to not exist, many of these goods would have their own small niche retailers. These small retailers would have minimal capital, cue PHP hell.

The clothing I'm talking about is pretty niche as well. It isn't everyday clothes/shoes.
The most of programming languages suck even with integer numbers, their integers is more like ring of integers modulo 2^n.[1] Its not true for every programming language, but for languages like C, C++ it is. To implement math integers one will need to allow that integers to grow in size and to be more like strings. But such a engineering decision will hurt speed of program and raise memory usage. Though some languages do it. Common Lisp, for example, uses arbitrary precision numbers, and so you can get very big numbers while calculating without any special efforts like using external library for arbitraty precision numbers, GMP for instance.[2]

Computer numbers is not math numbers, and its better to always remember this fact.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicative_group_of_intege...

[2] https://gmplib.org/
And we can't even time travel or leave the galaxy yet (◔_◔). C'mon scientists.

https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=2*3.18
Tesla, of course! But it might be too late now...
These things should spread.
That premise doesn't inherently follow at all. Quite the opposite.

The uncharted territory combined with Musk & Bezos being willing to do audacious things with billions of dollars, is why breakthroughs are about to accelerate again. With scale and greater R&D capabilities, SpaceX will (perhaps along with Blue Origin and others) be responsible for the next great leap forward in space technology - finally.

Whereas the US Government launch platforms, through NASA and ULA, had been extremely stagnant in several areas that SpaceX & Co are operating in, due to eg wild (but typical) Congressional incompetence (constantly shifting goals, setting up the context where ULA was granted a monopoly (again due to Congressional incompetence or worse)). The Space Shuttle was an absurd production in all regards, it set US launch progress back decades due to the hyper bloat / cost that was entirely unnecessary. The Shuttle was the space equivalent of the F35, a boondoggle that isn't really great at anything and costs several times what it should have. Now that the incompetent Congress is much further removed when it comes to deciding which way to go (how to get there, why, etc etc etc), space tech will accelerate again.
I'm guessing over $200B of Amazon's $475B valuation is from AWS and Amazon's subsidiaries. They have [small] stakes in some companies too. To be fair, the subsidiaries are peanuts^ (let's be generous and give them a combined value of $10B).

Amazon has their Kindle product line of e-readers (along with their ebooks infrastructure and Kindle Unlimited), tablets, and smart tv sticks. Their Alexa ecosystem is thriving for now and its products are at 5 now.

Amazon has around 70M prime members. That's over $6B in revenue alone. Reports say these members spend more at Amazon too. They probably don't care about prices being a bit higher on Amazon either. That last sentence is my own hunch.

And who knows how the Whole Foods acquisition will shake out.

I'm not sure how much debt Amazon has, but their cash pile is over $20B.

^Like Audible, IMDB, Goodreads, Twitch, Zappos, Alexa, Kiva, and Souq. Woot went to shit. And they shut down Quidsi's sites like soap.com so that didn't matter anymore.
Tandy computers, in the early days at least, had a reputation for being high quality at an affordable price. The Model I was often called the TRASH-80, but the business machines, the Color Computer line, and their line of PC compatibles were all fairly highly regarded.

The Tandy 2000, in particular, was not 100% PC compatible, but a) it came out at a time when that mattered less than it would in later years; b) it was much more performant than IBM products that would be released even a year later; c) it was cheap for PC-grade hardware. And the legacy of the Tandy 2000 lives on: the layout of three rows of four f keys above the number keys was first used on that machine's keyboard.
It's a weird edge case, since we know virtually all of the facts of the event (an officer shot and killed the person with intent to do so), so let me ask you directly: is doubt about whether the victim was reaching for a gun reasonable here? Because that's the standard to apply.
No paywall:

http://news.morningstar.com/all/dow-jones/us-markets/2017062...
The moment a Nazi attempts to use physical force against you, all bets are off.

But the idea that you can physically attack someone for carrying an offensive flag can't possibly be defensible.

I understand how the flags and racial slurs and such create strong emotions and I offer you all the rhetorical space in the world to talk about how you personally would beat the everloving crap out of someone who tried to burn a cross in your field of vision. I'm not condemning either you or Ed for having strong feelings about Nazis.

But it remains a simple fact that you can't use coercive physical force to stop people from talking.
But making and exfiltrating copies of data isn't theft as defined in criminal law (it may be criminal, but not as theft.)
> If inflammation is the root of most disease

Reminds me of a quote in one of Heinlein's books, that all forms of death could ultimately be described as heart failure.
having often attributed these things to cosmic rays as well, anyone have any actual estimates on how often/likely cosmic rays are to cause errors in desktop-like setups?

had to have been a cosmic ray at least once right?
My point is that renewables aren't independent of geopolitical factors.
AAPL, they earn all of the profits for the most important device of the 21st century. I will own them until that is no longer the case.
> welders cross-train into software

From what I've seen, software engineers cross-training into welding would have a better ROI. What's a welder who can program's hourly rate look like? Better than a programmer who can weld.
I assume you are replying to GP who said

> Don't understand why this was flagged/killed

Just for everyone else, I tried to look at the guidelines for flagging but I'd just like to point out that it is OK to flag something that you consider

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link. If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top. (Not all users see flag links; there's a small karma threshold.)

But here's the interesting part:

> If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

I didn't realize this was the meta. I've often seen people explaining their down votes but I have never seen anyone explain flagging. I guess down votes can still assume good faith but flagging usually does not?

Not that I ever flag but this was interesting reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This does not seem any less complicated than Vault or Keywhiz.
>Many modern legal systems thoroughly limit the autonomy of individuals with regard to suicide, either by directly criminalizing it,

That's an edge case for which a stronger argument exists for lack of mental capacity to provide informed consent.

For most actions, the nature of the action does not automatically suggest mental illness or incapacity. If you move away from the edge cases that you're fixating on to bolster your contrarian position, and look at the general pattern of legal rights, you'll see a heavy bias and tendency toward personal autonomy with the exceptions of actions that violate other people's equal right to the same.

So while you're right that societies generally don't provide an absolute right to personal autonomy, if one were to find those conventions that find the most overlap between disparate cultures, you'll see a principle that suggests something inherently natural about social norms that maximize personal autonomy.
I wish IEEE had a newspaper! A really great, comprehensive list. Really good that they have added also the CCD chips and the DLP micro mirrors as well!
I was thinking a bay area network, as in "got a call from Netflix," but yes.
In-memory full-text index vs. disk-based trie
Google Engineer Refuses to Fix Golang Protobufs
IDK, their register model "the belt" has a temporal addressing scheme that seems to lend itself well to software pipelining in a way that's a pain to extract with a standard register set.
www.iota.org as it is trying to solve internet of things problem using mesh network
Delightfully context-free
As I understand it (and I am not an expert I just enjoy the field) sintered materials retain some degree of porosity (and loose some strength due to this and how the particles are adhered).

This is OK for the average power drill in your house. It isn't critical, and they can compensate for the porosity with extra materials.

If we were replacing a steel part with at TI one, then sintering might make sense, the extra strength, and lowered weight would compensate for the differences in materials.
Why a couple risked it all to start a toy company
Crap from a crappy company that treated their employees like crap.
We should rename the profession. "Nurse" is gendered, but also poorly captures the responsibilities of the modern nursing profession.

It is batshit crazy that our first line of medical care in the US is medical doctors. For 80% of what ordinary people see doctors for, Nurse Practitioners are superior to doctors: they're more available, can spend more time with patients, and can more easily escalate cases to doctors or specialists than the patients themselves can.

What would make a lot of sense to me would be to rename "Nurse Practitioners" to "Associate Doctors".
"EQ is not a psychometrically valid concept. Insofar as it is anything (which it isn't) it's the Big Five trait agreeableness, although this depends, as it shouldn't, on which EQ measure is being used (they should all measure THE SAME THING). Agreeable people are compassionate and polite, but they can also be pushovers. Disagreeable people, on average (if they aren't too disagreeable) make better managers, because they are straightforward, don't avoid conflict and cannot be easily manipulated."

https://www.quora.com/What-is-more-beneficial-in-life-a-high...
> everyone can't be a web developer

More people can be web developers until the labor market balances out supply and demand and web developers make median income.
Raymond Chen's blog post are always interesting and enlightening to read and we should be grateful that he takes the time and effort to write them - but his people skills appatently could use a good bit of improvement.

So he teases a significant detail of the answer, then notes that not only won't he explain but he will not allow anyone else to explain either - no reason given. Then, when people unsurprisingly do discuss it, he gets mad and deletes the comments.

That's in addition to a lot of aggressive or condescending answers I've read to what seem quite reasonable questions.

If commenters are such a problem, wouldn't it by now be better to simply close comments completely?
I feel like this comment is the equivalent of posting a meme on Reddit.
>Also, opposition to slavery great organically over centuries, not from the proposals of one person.

Why would that matter? And even if it did, is it true? Opposition to worker exploitation has been happening for centuries too, and in the larger sense, the tradition which the Communists continue, the opposition to the class system, fits in with opposition to slavery.

>To me, "radical change in social organisation" is far milder than "societal reboot"

A radical change in social organisation is a societal reboot by any definition of reboot. It is to change the very nature of how people are able to live, how they can obtain sustenance and how they can enjoy themselves. I would very much describe the transition from pre-capitalist society to capiatalism a radical change in social organisation, yet it is every bit a reboot. Granted, Communism goes further not only by abolishing one class system and replacing it with the next, but rather to abolish the class system in general.

"The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general." — Freidrich Engels

And the idea that a movement needs to have made headway to be considered worthy or lacking in hubris, is as I'm sure you'll agree contradictory. The radicals of the 19th century were writing in direct opposition to this relatively new mode of organisation and indeed its strengthening in the Industrial Revolution. In fact, Marx himself dedicates a few chapters in Capital to detailing exactly how capitalism originated, with what laws passed in England and how this helped secure the position of the bourgeoisie.
A great analogy might be the biotech industry. The Bay Area was dominant for most of the first 30 years. Much of the original research was done at UCSF and Genentech was the first biotech company.

SF is still doing well, but it's no longer #1 when it comes to biotech VC dollars. That title goes to Boston now. And I can say that working in the industry, Boston has much more buzz when it comes to biotech than SF at this point.
There are some assertions that the wheat-based carbs we eat today are deficient in something (allegations vary depending upon who you speak with) that is missing from modern wheat grains and especially flours. It would be interesting to find a micro-culture or community that sources and exclusively uses freshly-stone-ground (not roller milled), whole, heirloom grain varieties for its flour, and compare the incidence of metabolic diseases with the general population.

That means a population that only uses a flour that is ground locally, then immediately used within 12-48 hours after grinding. The mill grinds the entire wheat grain, under cold temperatures, sourced from older strains of grain (e.g., einkorn or emmer), without separating and then adding back in bran, etc. Before milling, the grains are held in cold or even freezing, dry, dark storage.

If such a population can be found and studied, it could support or refute these assertions that modern hybrid grain strains and modern processes for even "whole wheat" flours is causing deficiencies in our diet that are contributing to various metabolic disorders.

Whole wheat is a poorly-regulated term [1]. Baking with whole, heirloom wheat might benefit from deep learning algos, automation, and appropriate sensor tech, considering how finicky the variables are [2]. If we can solve that, then we might be able to deliver industrial-scale baked goods with all the asserted benefits, without the high prices of artisan production. There are a lot of claims surrounding the adverse effects of industrialized grain and its affiliated production [3] [4], but I don't know of anyone coming at the other end, showing populations that eat heirloom grains that are freshly-processed differ from the general population in significant ways. I'm curious if an analogous condition exists for rice.

[1] https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/08/16/the-whole-grain...

[2] http://www.thekitchn.com/chad-robertsons-5-essentials-for-wo...

[3] https://paleoleap.com/what-is-wrong-with-grains/

[4] https://authoritynutrition.com/modern-wheat-health-nightmare...
Singapore? Really? LoL
The culture there is cheap the only good thing here is the tax
Consider that the stuff from that era was typically hand-made, point-to-point soldered or wire-wrapped. There was a lot more labor cost in the manufacturing in those days.

That said, Realistic brand "hi fi" was never that good, and overpriced for what it was.

I'd be more interested if someone discovered a trove of Heathkit stuff.
Both of which are designed to look and feel exactly the same. And even then, there’s two choices. Not twenty or two hundred.
I don't have a formal degree! I have 1 semester of college from 1995, and that's it.

You don't have to do RE to be in software security. There's virtually no assembly-level RE in web application security, and very little of it in mobile security. Both of those specialties are more lucrative than RE, a specialty where maybe the top 10% go to high-status RE and exploit dev careers, and the other 90% go to low-status malware analysis and SOC jobs.

My advice is to pick a technology stack you really like and get comfortable with it at a nuts and bolts level, and then build security expertise on top of that. Maybe that's iOS and Swift, or maybe it's web and Django, or maybe it's distributed databases. Pick something, get good, and then be a security expert for that thing.
The article makes it clear that the problem with renaming was not that it would break backward compatibility (because it was still a private API when this was considered) but that it would be painful to coordinate all the teams to make the change simultaneously.
Possibly the former, certainly the latter.
How GitLab Abandoned the Unix Philosophy
I think one has to see populations as distributed along a normal distribution (a bell curve) or some other probability distribution rather than somehow coalescing to a single "representative individual".

Protesters represent one tail of the distribution on some measure (e.g. "belief in social justice"). The fact that protests get more intense and/or more frequent and/or more populous are indications of a shift in the distribution (picture a normal distribution being shifted along the x axis).

That's what I am pointing to. I don't think everyone has to be in lockstep to be able to talk about what a given group does or believes or what not.