skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the comments stating that paperwork is not the fire department's main task they may already be at capacity, therefore this is a way to expedite the process.

Furthermore almost any endeavor that requires permitting takes a lot of time and a lot of waiting. Paying a few hundred dollars to make it happen 2-4 weeks more quickly is a screaming deal, especially for a business.
nytimes.. i'll skip
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> Calories: Diets don't work, so who cares?

Umm, eating less than your caloric need makes you lose weight. Eating more makes you gain weight.
Flu vaccine as a patch
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Oh, that looks nice. I'm guessing this in TXR Lisp (http://www.nongnu.org/txr/), and that TXR is your project.
Why would I use magic worm-hole instead of Syncthing or Signal? They are both user-friendly and easy to install for the person I want to send the file to.
The only shortcomings I can imagine:

_AFAIR Signal has a size limit on the file you can send

_you need a phone number and a smartphone to use Signal

_The Synching key you have to share is complicated, but sending it via email and making sure you add the hosts quickly on both sides would provide enough security guarantees for most people. If you have a secure messenger then you can simply share the key through this channel. And overall I find it easier to explain how to

1) install Signal

2) install Syncthing and share the keys

rather than install magic-wormhole and use some passphrase.
Npm5 is now `npmlatest`
Before I started drinking coffee, I had a solid nap flow going. Now that coffee is in the picture, I'd probably just lay there for 20 minutes twitching :/.
Strip planking is popular amongst canoe builders. A 1/4inch thick core of cedar has fiberglass on either side. The glass provides tensile strength and the wood provides both compression strength and a useful offset between the fiber layers.

I can lift the bare hull of an 18 foot long sailing canoe with one hand.

The downside is in maintenance/repairs, and the critical requirement to keep through holes absolutely watertight. If water gets into the core it's a total PITA

Also, strips of cedar that are 3/4" by 1/4" by 18' are really weird to handle.
I'm very pro revolution. I just wonder and question what conditions must be met for people to revolt?

Thats why I was asking about nk.
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>If it gets big enough then people just hear from each other if paying unlocks the data or not.

The idea would be to create "fake" ransomware that looks exactly like the real one

>The best way to end ransomware is to get serious about security

No matter how serious you get there always gonna be bugs, there isn't a single piece of mass distributed software in human history without bugs. That said, we should try to improve security of software but expecting it to be THE solution is wrong.

>Also, I imagine it gets easier after you wrote one i.e. many ransomewares come from the same author. So he could gain a reputation by signing messages saying that yes, this is our ransomware, we always unlock after receiving the payment.

Forging a signature is not that hard.
I've been making websites for over twenty years, and I can assure you that there have always been bad web developers. Some are self-taught and some learned at university. Just as there are good ones who have learned in those ways too. Codecamps are no different - there'll be bad developers and good developers who learned through attending them. There's nothing inherently or automatically worse about codecamp graduates. It's all about the individual.
I suspect the Math test the subject failed during elementary school wasn't on Langlands.
I'm gonna let you in on a little secret, it's called "The Joy of Cooking"
Not to be rude, but you sound like the out of towners we are sick of already in the bay area.
A non-strawman analogy would be to sell fake heroin that looks exactly like heroin but does nothing at all. This analogy is more exact because the resource you are wasting its the same: money (not lives as in yours)
but you can write it in a way that's conducive to better codegen, at the cost of developer sanity.
Yes, Mr. Bird was a bit defensive...here's a summary w/ links to the exchange on Twitter: http://www.candlerblog.com/2012/01/25/brad-bird-responds-to-...
Gotta lay off the scorch.
My life is so much happier with Windows. Accessing files on any computer is very easy. Wannacry and that other nasty worm prove it to the world. :)
Out of curiosity which car did you get that was nap friendly (if you don't mind sharing?)?
First! https://github.com/stackimpact/stackimpact-python/issues/1 :D
You can also use https://ondevice.io for that. But in that case it let's you ssh into the remote device even if it changes location/ip-address.
I use it for some IoT tinkering I do.
The skills need to be non-transferable to other places, otherwise the company is just paying to supply their competitors with a better-trained workforce.
It depends on if the employee is truly too busy to handle this permit within the next 2-4 weeks or whether he just puts an arbitrary hold on all permits unless they pay the overtime fee.
Yes but Id rather have a choice instead of being force fed a mobile UI on my desktop monitor.
So? If Google leaves, there's always Bing, DDG, the search engine formerly known as Yahoo!, Yandex...
I don't know. I've been limiting myself to ~400 kcal. About half of the time this is chicken, veg, and whole-wheat noodle soup. That's still a reasonable size portion, and I guess has some vitamins but I'm not a vitamin counter by any means. I do whatever makes me feel good, and this does the trick for me. I used to go to restaurants a lot more, but now hardly ever. And I really do stick to the "if I'm not going to be useful I go home" thing, and fortunately I'm in a group that's fine with it so long is it doesn't affect deadlines. Maybe once a month I'll cave to the urge to eat a big whatever and immediately regret it.
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And this claim is not about the other dominant positions because if they are the better product, they will be shown. This is about Google trying to prop up an inferior product in a non-dominant position using their dominant search position. In this case, the inferior non-dominant position product is Google Shopping. There better dominant positioned product out there that Google does not own which it is not showing fairly.
I hope scrolling on an ipad now works (not a small feature for a website, but html is fun to break).

I wonder if they also fixed the picture problem. They seemed to collect a random picture on the website of the article and associate it with the story on the front page of google news. This leads to terrible associations, like you would have a headline about the Queen of England illustrated with a mugshot of a thug, or an article about some rapist being arrested illustrated by a movie star that happened to promote a movie the same day.
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One sure-fire way to control for this sort of loose testimonial data is to collect many volunteers among those who affirm such habits, and follow many or all of them longitudinally, and engage with them and make observations, hopefully without influencing behavior too much.

It's not a short-cut by any means, if that's what you had in mind.
Eh,I like the concept of kbfs and have it installed on my PC and phone, but it's not really a competitor to this. Keybase reminds me of a secure alternative to Dropbox or Google drive. You've got a quota that you can upload to their server (encrypted). While you can use it to move files between destinations, that isn't it's primary goal.

And it's not a lossless storage at that, as their filesystem doesn't support all metadata . I.e. it removes any timestamps from the files.
You should try out this book:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Cook-Everything-Fast-Better-ebook...
The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society does an excellent job of providing late 19th-early 20th century fonts and prop documents for role-playing games.[1] I use some of those for steampunk projects.

[1] http://www.hplhs.org/resources.php
In my experience, once people are trained to think about the hammer (some programming paradigm/language/library), rather than the table (the underlying theoretical problem to solve), it's very hard to unlearn. They become superb at weilding a hammer, hitting the nails at a perfect 90 degree angle every time, and are very proud about that fact. But start asking them about the statics of the table, whether we could maybe make one with half the nails that can bear the same forces, and they'll simply get annoyed about your utterly impractical attitude.
Sure, send me an email.
Wow, this is like a how to guide on how to not run a business.

Raise a bunch of cash, go into a location that has so much wrong with it, blow literally all the cash plus $1k just setting up furniture and permits...

Why wouldn't you find a restaurant that just went under and buy out the lease? Take over the kitchen in place (buying the equipment from the bankrupt owner who just wants out), do a revamp on the sitting area, and spend pennies on the dollar compared to this? Added advantage that all the zoning and permits are already complete?
You kind of need something that highlights what is important
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I can usually get it done in about half an hour and it's not much faster, if at all if I get the SO to zest and juice the lime since I would always plan to do stuff like that while waiting for something else to finish.
#Shifr #RaaS lets create a simple #ransomware with just 3 steps
You want Castle Wulfenbach.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/girlgeniusadventures.com/2013...
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Why? Both C/C++ and Python are just tools and they have different strong/weak sides. I can't see much harm in combining the strong sides of 2 worlds.

That said, isn't PyPy (https://pypy.org/) already doing the same thing?
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Would you run the AC?
This is categorically wrong. HN sure loves a contrarian comment, even if it's completely incorrect
n=1, FWIW.
Strictly for internal networks, and no crypto in transit, but dead easy - also for grandma - and covering phones as well as the three pc platforms: Dukto. I use it all the time.

http://www.msec.it/blog/?page_id=11
Don't unless you're sure people won't talk behind your back and management won't get the wrong impression. "Look at so and so snoring while we are working hard getting stuff out of the door".

Rationally you'll explain and show the article from NYT, and they'll agree. But irrationally they'll still form an opinion and stick to it.
Didn't catch any malware or viruses since the 90s on my Windows. Copying files with a few mouse clicks is much more comfortable and fast then this...
For me it was enough to stop with carbs, no more afternoon naps needed. And no need to starve yourself :)
Actually cheapness. Young employees don't know their value or how to negotiate.
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I've been clicking on your 'hacker news best comments' button for like twenty minutes now... you weren't kidding when you said 'basically a time waster' :P

Seriously, really good looking stuff for your early projects! I'm not surprised someone picked you up :)

http://www.opusnota.com/hnbc
Hi Oliver, I have enrolled for the Udacity self-driving car Engineer Nanodegree and cannot wait to start! Do you think that browsing through this codebase will help me better understand some of the concepts taught on the course?
There are regulations made to prevent monopoly, abuse of market dominance, etc, which are supposed to guarantee a fair market.

It bites everyone, every kind of group where some competition is involved, even smaller companies, and we all agree on that.

However, when Google is touched, we all feel that we don't live anymore in a free world, that communism has won, etc - at least that's the kind of feeling I perceive every time they have to pay for something.

Why the break up of the Bell System [0]. Afterall it's their business, right?

Why was Microsoft forced (back then) to let people choose which browser to install? Same reason.

I don't know if you have ever read the book "Thinking in systems - D. Meadows", there is an interesting chapter about this which explains why such regulations are important.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
CPUs throttle down for AVX and AVX2 workloads as well. Hopefully your vectorization is sufficient to make up for the throttling.
Could we stop this racing to bottom debate?

Clearly, terrorism is a symptom. Its cause is not bad people are not monitored, but they have various reason to think harm innocent people is the only way to advance their objectives.

Can anyone address such issues? Unlikely. History has shown that terrorism is seldom solved, they are extinguished, through escalation to war or complete annihilation of the weaker part.

Do I support monitoring? Not always. But if I am not feeling safe, I am OK to sacrifice some privacy and take some risk of being harmed by the government.

I am not saying you should agree with this, but that's my thoughts.

> Can you - can anyone - demonstrate that "close monitoring" actually makes it possible to prevent terrorism?

This way of reasoning seems fine, but really is just a way of showing me being using unfounded argument to support my claim. In reality, as I said, solving terrorism is not monitoring's job, but it makes me feel safe, because someone is doing something that can reduce the risk (not substantially).
They employer has ways of making it more attractive to work at their company. More pay, nicer workplace, more freedom... But besides that, many people tend to develop loyality when they started as an apprentice and the employer gives the impression that they offer a stable job for life. That system works reasonably well here in Germany and, from what I hear, in Japan.
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This is kind of splitting hairs. Obviously it's not smart to build something with shit quality that won't last.

To me, the biggest difference between a mansion and a McMansion isn't build quality, it's size. I probably won't have the money to build a place that's 10,000 sq. feet, nor would I want to. But 3500-5000 is feasible.
No, all the training has to do is increase the corporation's profits by more than the cost.

People are getting paid to provide labor, not to be serfs.
Why isn't everyone using DNSSEC?
A Prius. With the back seat half down, I fit just well enough. There are certainly other vehicles that would be better, but the Prius was adequate and nap-friendliness was only one of the criteria used to evaluate potential vehicles.
Wikipedia's current events page is not bad for the big news stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Not sure what to substitute for local news though.
This isn't meant as an Ad hominem, but do your team members ever show any disdain towards having to tolerate working with a person who leaves work early because they ate too much? Are you the boss? Genuine curiosity here.
Create an inverse of Tupper's self-referential formula where you can, given a drawing, find the corresponding value of K that draws that image.

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SQL practice tool

I find that online tools for practicing SQL queries are inadequate, they suffer from numerous problems that should be addressed by any (new) alternative.

Specific question sets, i.e. a decent collection of division problems
A website that looks like it was rendered this century
Insight into the dataset being tested against.
If I was to build this I could imagine doing it using a Python back-end and I would build in a roll-back feature if the tool ever was to be extended to such a degree that one may practice directives such as UPDATE.

Nice to have the opportunity to load in one's own dataset.

Inspiration http://sqlfiddle.com/ http://sqlzoo.net/

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The developer app

Get a message (Tip of the day) each day with, for instance, hotkeys for your favorite editor/editors/programming languages.

Let users skip certain tips: "I already know this" so that it doesn't appear again. Use a Bloom-filter.

Let users select "Emacs", "Vim", "Git", etc.

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Create a Boolean Algebra interpreter in Common Lisp

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Implement an HTTP server with persistent connections in Haskell (look at STM)

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Use Markov chains to create lolcats

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Implement a Shell in Rust (posix grammar is here = http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3...)

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Implement various algorithms and data structures,

A-star
Actor Model
AVL Tree
Binary Search
Binary Search Tree
Bloom-filter
Breath-first iterative search
Bucket/Radix sort
Circular queue
Closest pair
HashMap
In-place quicksort
K-way merge
Murmurhash
Priority Queue
Set
Stack
Union Find
Vector (dynamic array)
For me, almost entirely, yes, it's a direct alternative. If I eat a big lunch, then I need a nap, and if I eat a small lunch I don't. Maybe that's just me. As far as whether it's better or not, if anyone can produce a study where eating more than you need is healthier than eating just as much as you need, nap or not... I think most research shows that eating less is a big deal.

Funny thing is, until you challenged it, I'd never really rationalized it all. But now I'm seeing something bigger than "this makes me more productive".

EDIT: I'm super curious why this would have been downvoted. Not offended at all, the opposite really, just curious what anyone found offensive here.
Neoliberal bias... but yeah, for a while I read it for the quality of the English writing
> but you have to trust the rendezvous server.

Do you? It seems that magic-wormhole does end-to-end encryption, and the rendezvous server acts only as a relay if one or both parties are behind NAT. So yes, you leak the two parties' IP addresses, but not the files you transfer.
> Ok, and? The idea that monopoly is bad - ipso facto - is silly and monopolistic abuse of consumers is largely theoretical.

What?! Monopolies always abuse their power because they can. I live in a country where we still feel the bad influence of a former monopolist ISP (Telecom/T-Online). THEIR influence on the government hurts the customer and even customers of other ISPs. It even hurts the tax payer who may not even have internet because his money may flow into subsidies for them. For example: they recently started eating up net neutrality in Germany. Because they can.

One of the most misused powers of monopolies is dictating a price. Just like we had a few months ago also in Germany with the biggest breweries. Millions of customers have been cheated.

IT IS ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR. They pay for this. How you can tell something like that "silly" is beyond me.
A minor nit: if you convert this over to markdown or ReStructuredText, it'll display more nicely on the page and be easier to move over to GitHub pages or the like.
Domain just sold. Interesting.
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Yes, I often wonder too where all these new inventions are gone after the initial enthusiasm and media attention fades. Probably every weeks you can find articles about 'breakthrough' in material science, battery, memory technologies etc. Yet when I try to Google them after few years, >90% has no follow ups nor these technologies reach market. I guess this is like startups -- good idea is not enough, execution and financing is what matters.
This a very dim, short-sighted view. Most large companies do have training programs and don't artificially limit the skills to ones that are not transferrable. Investing in the skills of your current employees can be far cheaper than trying to hire for those same skills.

Even in your worst case scenario you've presumably gotten some benefit from the employee before they depart and spent less than you would on a bad hire who has the desired skills (and therefore makes more).

If the result of your investments really is competitors with better trained employees then you have a higher skilled pool to recruit from when you need it. Plus, you've saved money in the meantime.
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The evidence I know of that hint at monitoring being effective is from the Italians, where they say they thwart terrorism by closely monitoring and infiltrating potential groups. I remember reading that the Italian police says it takes 20 people to monitor one person effectively (will need to find a link). That kind of man-power is hard to scale.

edit: link on Italian anti-terrorist efforts: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/23/why-has-italy-...

Further debate on the SlateStarCodex subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/6j8703/cult...
The theory is that back doors are designed to look like bugs, precisely so you can make the argument you just made - that they are not back doors.
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Sometimes. Managing that issue was definitely something I thought about, and it affected where I parked and what direction I would point my parked car to avoid the sun. Usually I just rolled the windows down a few inches, though, instead of running the AC. I live in a temperate area and I have more tolerance for temperature swings than some. And I was usually setting my alarm for 20 minutes, so I wouldn't be there that long.
None of those designers had to join the Nazi party or SS because Von Braun did it for them. He was told he had to suck up to Himmler to protect the program. He was obviously ambitious and it suited his ambition well, but he was also protective of his team.

And Von Braun ended up being arrested by the Gestapo for perceived disloyalty. Hitler only approved his release after Speers entreaties that Von Braun was indespensable.
Could you list some these (main stream) languages. I know a few but I am surely missing the others you know of.
I also learned to code after 30. At some point Excel and Origin weren't dealing well with ever increasing data sizes in my field (biology). I did an intro course on Python (2) of 3 days (basic Python and some Numpy). Back on the job I immediatly switched to Python 3, learned about Jupyter and was lucky enough to have a job where I could take time to learn (although it doesn't take much time to get back up to Excel/Origin level data analysis skills with Pandas/Seaborn/Jupyter!).

That combination is still gold for me although bioinformatics is forcing me into VSCode/Bash/Git territory more and more. I can recommend anyone wanting to do data analysis to start with the Jupyter/Python/Pandas/Seaborn combo, the notebook just makes it very easy to write small code snippets at a time, test them and move on. Writing markdown instructions and introductions/conclusions in the document itself help you to make highly readable reports that make it easy to reproduce what you did years ago.
I was more interested in the physiological changes than the social ones. If fire allows a brain to grow more neurons because cooking, does farming allow yet more neurons? Or animal domestication?

Maybe language? That surely changes our brain structure? Did that come before fire? We know that other animals have rudimentary language, so is language a precursor to fire? Is it a prerequisite for fire?