skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love that, money is everything until you have the bare minimum.

I just graduated and moved across country for a new job and for the past few years have been incredibly worried about money constantly. I worried that the rest of my life I would be completely obsessed about having enough money. Now that I'm starting to get some paychecks the sense of relief of not having to worry if I'm going to go hungry/not make rent etc is incredible
Game of Life in Scratch
Good enough practices in scientific computing
Cancer on mobile. Kept sending me to the App Store to install various spammy apps.
Sadly, that still gives US citizens effectively more control over their data : the right to not give up encryption keys because they might be used to incriminate you is pretty much exclusive to the US.

Also: US citizens CARE about this. Well, some do. That alone makes them far better off, over time. Europeans are really worse off, but no-one cares.
I've used FireWire to connect external disks (verdict: as stable as eSATA, much better than USB2) and to pull video from a cable set-top-box (verdict: the cable box was crappy; no problems directly attributable to the FireWire connection.)

The major problem with FireWire, shared with Thunderbolt, is that it offers DMA to external devices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMA_attack
Thank you EU.
It's really easy to get started with almost any language, the problem is becoming an expert in it. How can somebody become an expert on the nuances of JS, Typescript, Dart, etc not to mention libraries and APIs of each? And that's just for the frontend.
...and if you're filtered out at the resume stage, good luck proving the intent.
This guy had to do SO MUCH bad shit before he was finally called out and I think it speaks to a major problem with Silicon Valley.

I've been working with startups since 2011 and in that time I've seen:

-A Head of HR who gave promotions to his employees based on sexual favors given. This person happened to be friends with the CEO and employees got in trouble for reporting him.

-A founder and dealing with the above situation and doing an "investigation" that ended with nothing.

-The same founder referring the employees who were fired to their friends dumpster fire of a company so they could get a referral bonus.

-A founder I worked with belittled women, all of their female developers left after a few months. I wrote a glassdoor review and was repeatedly threatened by said founder.

-Worked with a founder who has repeatedly been accused of sexual harassment to the point where there are multiple articles about it. Same founder hooked up with multiple younger female employees while on coke in another country on a company trip. During a round of layoffs, the women saved were the women sleeping with executives (there were 4!!!). Still CEO obv.

-Finally, at larger companies with multiple younger founders I've seen wayyyy too many situations where male boss puts female employee in awkward situations, whether its an arm around them in the hot tub or extreme extra attention over male employees.

Each time I thought about pointing out this behavior, there was some sort of threat/warning about shutting up and letting it happen, often followed by actual legal threats. Watch who you work with...
Because you can use it for something else other than heating, like, putting it back into the grid, storing (either battery, flywheel or supercapacitor).
Why the Ethereum Flash Crash Isn’t Surprising, and What It Means for Crypto
Cross Browser Testing in 2017
JS devs encounter a lot of low effort BS/FUD from JS-haters who are clearly talking out of their ass or obviously haven't advanced their understanding of JS since 2005. If you're making something awesome, somebody's going to genuinely be interested if it's genuinely awesome regardless of their "fake language" background. So yeah, if I see "hates <literally any language>" in a profile, I'd probably assume the developer is pretentiously arrogant or will have the propensity to build a toxic community that focuses on bashing alternatives instead of building itself up.
How Do Bees Make Honey
No. I doubt anything less than a decade would make much of a difference.

It's taken a century or so to raise the temperature in the tunnels by around ten degrees C. That already includes the cooling effect of cold air being pushed into the tunnels for most of the year, balanced by the relatively small number of days a year when the air temp in London is more than 14C.

Without that cooling heat has nowhere much to go. It will radiate out into the air, which will make its way up and out rather slowly. And it will diffuse into the clay/soil around the tunnels, even more slowly.

A fully passive cooling-off period would take years - at least.

The problem isn't impossible to solve. All kinds of active cooling solutions are possible.

The problem is that it's impossible to solve affordably. You effectively have to build a heat exchanger the size of central London, which is never going to be cheap.
Umm. I had basic statistics as part of SMP maths in the early seventies at senior high school for A levels. And of course this was reinforced at uni because you can't make sense of experiments without statistics. I studied physics where results are actually often pretty clear but we still had to justify our conclusions with statistical reasoning; surely it is even more important in fields where you have more confounding variables and no or incomplete controls.
Which is kind of ridiculous, because now he has to reload while the second person in the car can grab the gun. I mean, if the cop was actually thinking that the people in the car were trying to kill them.
>Ideal brains would search for what they need, and buy the most fitting thing.

That's not really how things work - there are certain things you need to accomplish other things where your reasoning partially applies but even then it's debatable. But then there are things you do for pleasure - and how you value those things can be completely separate from their physical properties.

For example there was a study[1] where they gave people 5 vine samples, a cheap wine with 5$ price tag, same wine with a 45$ price tag, 90$ vine and the same 90$ vine with a 10$ label, and a correctly labeled 35$ vine. They found that reported enjoyment and measured fMRI activity went up with price even for same vine. Plenty of similar studies that show similar effects for branding, etc. So these things actually create value even if they don't physically change the product - you end up enjoying it more and it's purpose is your enjoyment.

I mean most of the high end stuff ends up being blowing smoke up your ass to make you feel good about paying 2-10x markup, even when the quality is superior they bundle the bullshit and inflate the price extra because they know you'll pay.

[1] http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2008/pr-wine-011608.html
If you don't think Europe has a military industrial complex then you aren't paying attention - check out the list of countries here (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companies_by_arms_sales).

During the Arab Spring there were multiple reports of European surveillence technology being fundamental to the police state in the Middle East/Africa (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40276568). Small arms made by H&K, Beretta, and FN etc are prevalent across the region. Advanced weapons like anti-aircraft systems also flood in from across the globe.

The UK, French, and Germans were also key supporters of Saddam Hussain during the Iran-Iraq War in the 80's and actively supported the WMD program there by supplying technology etc.

Every large power is involved in military manufacturing and seeks markets to sell too. Americans are no less ignorant to this than citizens in Europe, Russia, or Asia.
Because ordinary people don't spend the time to appreciate it, it just look too different for them. Exactly how color movies looked too different at the time.
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Swipx is a European marketplace for business solutions
I hope this helps the politicians realize encryption back doors can never be made safe. If even the NSA can't keep their top secret tools safe, generic 'law enforcement' surely won't be able to either.
Exactly!

Fake parallax that just turn epic scenes and scenery into tabletop models.

It's obvious, but why do they ruin their efforts like that. Don't they watch their own movies after post 3d editing?

I think even Avatar made it too far. I think I've whatched some animated films that didn't blow totally, but almost every other film that I have seen in 3d was a disappointment.
My sister's school bought a bunch of TI99/4As and I got to play with hers once when visiting. She said it was a little flakey, as I recall. One interesting feature of the 99/4A was the speech synthesizer module, which used the same LPC technology that TI used in the Speak & Spell toy. That was a fairly unusual peripheral for that generation of home computer.
Hacking an IKEA Lack Table into a Display
But to revisit the analogy about stolen police/military arms, are we to blame casualties/victims of these stolen arms for not being able to defend themselves?

Yes, those tasked with network and infrastructure security should be held to rigorous and constantly increasing standards. But there has to be some accountability from the state purveyors of this malware when it gets intercepted and weaponized. Publication of these tools is one way to help in lieu of that, but it becomes a toss-up as to whether the world will harden against published malware before bad actors, state-sponsored or otherwise, weaponized it for their own gain.
Like I responded below, psychological marketing effects like branding, exclusivity, etc. have been shown to increase peoples enjoyment of products in multiple studies.

Being manipulated can also add measurable value to you. For example if a doctor gave you a sugar pill for some condition and the placebo effect helped you get better - would you say that it added no value just because the sugar pill physically did nothing ?
If I'm not mistaken that is also true of latter Thunderbolt.
They're looking at experimenting with that on the payload-less Falcon Heavy test flight. For operational use, the payload penalty of the extra mass on a second stage is sufficiently high that it seems likely that only on FH flights (and not even all of them) would they have the possibility.
I would not object to the idea that companies should be held liable for critical faults which get exploited. It was the suggestion that Schneier gave several years ago in order for security funding to be financially sound. However we very far from this reality, where its questionable if companies can be held liable for security faults in extreme cases like voting machines, airplane systems, and medical devices. I recall reading that Schneier more or less given up on it.

We need to get to a point where people in power positions are held responsible for the damages caused by government developed malware that is used in maleware like wannacry. That is hard to do without the issue rising on the political agenda.
11 biographies to read if you want to get rich
I actually know one of the women in the article quiet well, and used to be friends. She groped my boyfriend which I witnessed but she didn't see me standing there. The man complained to me immediately after the event, she later said he groped her and warned me about him. I was standing there and this is man I was with for years and parted way amicably. Since there are a lot of complaints, I assume this guy in the article is a sleazeball, but honestly, I know how one of the women operated even going back a decade
You might look into Secor: https://github.com/pinterest/secor
EMF and RF Pollution are the reasons why we don't sleep well anymore
Underground cars don't have AC/heat? At least in the US those are ubiquitous on subways
Doesn't USB-C have the same DMA problem?

Did eSATA also lose to USB? I don't think it has the DMA problem.
Since we're sharing our nostalgic Firewire stories... the first video camera I ever bought (almost 20 years ago) could only connect to computers via Firewire. I remember almost all digital cameras on the market only supported it. It seemed like a clear winner.

It's interesting to see an article that explains why it died.
In the cars it gets hotter [1], the humidity is what makes it worse.

1. http://londonist.com/2015/07/itd-be-illegal-to-transport-cat...
can your accountant prepare your taxes without looking at your receipts? no. can webmail provider provide you email service without asking your emails? sure he can
Stan Smith realizes his credit card payment for his new gadget was sent out a day late and calls his credit card company in a panic. He can't afford to have his clearance suspended. The foreign support agent tells him he isn't allowed to fix that, but as a favor he does anyway.

Stan is surprised when the lawyer assigned to his foreign suspect by the embassy makes a reference to these new gadgets (perhaps coincidentally?)

What does Stan do? The problem is who can alert Stan's supervisor and how likely it becomes that every agent can be blackmailed as you move toward a zero tolerance policy.
Hopefully, that will include the right to replace your OS on phones,etc (for when they stop updating them, they might as well be broke).
From the article in the top comment :

> Elsewhere, they’ve been using cool ground water to cool some of the stations. An experiment at Victoria station was the first, as water from the River Tyburn was used to cool the air in the station. This was only an experiment, but at Green Park, a permanent version was installed in 2012.
It's the word or similar to the word for the USA in a few languages, like Esperanto ("Usono": the USA, "Usonano": a USA citizen, "Ameriko" already being used for the continent and "Amerikano" for people from that continent). It was a term introduced in the 1800s without a lot of success, then after its use in Esperanto it was mildly popularised by American architectural legend Frank Lloyd Wright, who embraced the term and described his work as "Usonian architecture" and wrote at length about "Usonian character."
The deep level lines don't no. Only the sub surface cut and cover style lines.
I didn't say people should _never_ learn Webpack or Babel or other similar build tools. I said that those build tools shouldn't have to be a required prerequisite you have to spend time learning and configuring just so you can starting learning React itself :)

You absolutely _can_ use React with just a script tag, but the most common usages do involve compilation (for JSX at a minimum, and likely for ES6 and not-yet-finalized features like the Class Properties syntax). So yes, a build setup is generally needed, but someone who just wants to learn React shouldn't have to worry about that part... _yet_.
The problem with writing LLVM is that you must use Static Single Assignment (SSA) to the pseudo-registers. If I had the time I'd like to write non-SSA LLVM assembler that transpiled into SSA for you.
Inventory management in MongoDB: A design philosophy I find baffling
You are right. The suspension also includes h1b transfer too. I wasn't aware of that.
If you ignore the look-and-feel and performance of Swing and just work with the API, Swing is pretty awesome.
> The grid fin, used to help steer through the atmosphere is burning

They're using ablative paint, so that's somewhat intended. It's needed because the current fins are made of aluminium, they intend to replace them with titanium ones in the future which will have improved reusability.
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The tube is warm in winter. It would be nice except you are typically wearing a winter coat so it's hard to get it just right.
The original source [1] has a graphic at the bottom where it says about 300m kWh per year currently, so about 34MW on average if I didn't miscalculate.

1: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2017/06/10/cooling-the-tube...
their business service is somewhat responsive and pretty reliable. That said, the installer they sent was totally unprofessional and also, yes, a contractor.

How can you screw up just connecting a cable modem to a coax outlet?

Run two lengths of cable connected by a four port adapter, and staple the adapter to the wall a foot above the baseboard because why not, this is only in the middle of someone's dining room.

As soon as he left I disconnected the whole mess and ran a single length of cable along the baseboard, with a right angle connector to keep it flush.
Pruning deep neural networks to make them fast and small
Decentralization is futile*

* Except in all the places where it's succeeded and vastly improved the world.
Great article - unbelievable really.

Is USB-C by all measures now superior to FireWire? Or are we still paying for Jobs' mistake?
You're assuming the transgression is against the woman, which is clearly not what the OP meant.

More to the point, this kind of "no sex with coworkers" mentality has many of us Europeans rolling our eyes at the New World. It's absolutely possible to both respect women and have sexual encounters with people we meet at the workplace and do so in a professional manner.

There's a huge difference between playful, consensual flirting and fucking on the photocopier. My experience is that the people who fail to make these distinction constitute -- in fact -- a highly ideological minority.
Aren't those the same apps that claim to use GWT?
Weird... It takes less time to start up for me, and compiling .NET Core is quicker, it even told me ReSharper is slowing down startup time at one point and suggested I disable it. Also suggested I disabled another component on startup because it was taking longer to start VS as a result. I guess it may vary depending on system specs? Not sure. I run it both on my workstation at work and on a VM on my laptop and at my home desktop.
This is probably part of the ongoing craze and ridiculous propaganda of let's just rewrite everything in Go. And they are all headlined as "written in Go" like somehow this now just fixed everything.
The deep level London tube lines would be difficult to fit AC units to given the small size and tight tolerances.

Newer units on the subsurface lines do have AC fitted.
I believe that cletus's suggestion is that the short-term inconvenience of picking up on a few such calls will yield the long-term reward of reduced or eliminated robocalls.
graduation year or first employment

though you can just list your education without specific years and also skip mentioning first worthless jobs anyway to make yourself younger
My immediate thought was whether someone might be able to induce the behavior. That combined with self-dealing (owning both the buying and selling accounts) could extract significant profits from an exchange that is willing to make its customers whole.

I would never do such (I consider it unethical, but more to the point I have neither the capital nor risk tolerance to pull it off), but I wonder if someone might. Or perhaps already has.
USB-C refers to the connector, not the protocol standard.

USB 3.0 is what you actually meant, since it finally added Firewire-like device-initiated DMA.
do you consider github decentralized ?
Offering DMA to devices can be good actually if you care about performance, and the security issues can be eliminated with a properly set up IOMMU in the mix.
> Speeds across networks of all sizes are now so high that there's also little need for something like FireWire. "The packets can arrive way before it's needed, because it's so fast," Sirkin noted. "So you don't need to worry about being synchronous any more."

For use cases where reliable low-latency transport is required (i.e., Firewire's main strength), what could possibly be meant by "packets arrive way before it's needed"?
I loved FireWire. It was faster in the real world than usb 2.0(this was fire 400 too and even 800) and my computer felt so responsive while transferring files.
Ethernet over FireWire in the days of winxp was great also!!
Python... such a shame. I refuse to touch anything that treats whitespace as anything other than what it should be - whitespace.
Just short under 300 iOS apps.
don't publish specific dates for your education and don't mention first few jobs which are anyway worthless, immediately you got few years younger

alternatively you could put your age data in some link with tracking to figure out if they had look at it
- your HAProxy config expects certbot to listen at port 54321. You never configure certbot to do that, so it won't do it, and renewal will not work.

- if renewal did work, the certs HAProxy is reading are never replaced.

Really, there are already good tutorials for HAProxy and certbot out there, why muddy the water with another, broken attempt at one?

If you are setting this up in a test environment and are writing it up as you go, I recommend having screen recording/shell logging so you can afterwards check exactly what you did and write it down (at least that has helped me in the past). If you don't, then you really should do a test run and verify what you do works. Writing up something you did a while ago without replicating it makes it really easy to miss crucial steps.
Semi-offtopic:

I was looking at Insomnia's pricing after reading this post, and was initially confused by the "Plus" feature-list, which includes a flat bulleted list containing "Data backup and sync" and "End-to-end encryption", among other things. My initial read didn't connect these two points as a single entity ("Data backups/syncing that use E2E"), so it seemed like the free version lacked support for some encryption of API activity?

I'm not immediately sure how I'd amend the list to fix it, other than perhaps nesting "E2E" and "unlimited devices" under the syncing rather than using a flat list.

It's worth noting that when I had this confusion, I clicked to the "Plus" page which cleared up my questions, but obviously it's not ideal for the pricing page to require that kind of clarification.
or just introduce basic income and no need to touch retirement
Python... I refuse to touch anything that treats whitespace as anything other than what it should be - whitespace.
Isn't the location of the line always up for debate, though? Since people created the line and give it power, it moves with our consciousness and will. The line today is not where it was in 1890. As women gain a stronger voice, we should expect the line to move. Assuming that men actually care about their input, they'd cooperate in shifting the line to an acceptable standard for both parties.

If the line is up for debate, you would know if you did something wrong - unless you're not following the debate. If you're not following the debate, you really don't have anyone to blame but yourself.
Blockstack: A New Decentralized Internet [pdf]
Current pay/pension of every State of California employee by name
This business of correcting errors to keep incautious crypto-speculators whole is going to kill ETH. Let the people who trade on margin fall. At the end of the day, the critical stability of the currency depends on people like me, who speculate with disposable income, and not on suckers with margin accounts. I have a lot invested in this currency, but it's still less than a quarter of my YTD gain on actively managed mutual funds. If ETH drops to USD0.01, my account sits still until we hit sell pressure again.