skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instagram created a monstor
Fastly does have a good reputation, but they are currently experiencing a global outage. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14654231
My five year daughter old mostly just wants to build castles, so if there was a less-expensive way to get large number of 2-peg width bricks (especially in pink and purple, which she reminds me daily are her favorite colors), I could see that being useful.
A CS degree isn't intended to teach students how to code. What did you expect?
I'm not saying that this exact situation was all hard work. I'm saying that he created the opportunity for interactions and to be noticed through hard work and creativity. There are many notable ways he could have done something with the work he did that would gain some kind of 15 minutes of fame - maybe having nothing to do with acting on a celebrity tweet.

Taken as an exact specific outcome, sure, it's improbable. But across all of the interesting outcomes it's far less improbable.

This reminds me of the argument from Creationists about how we couldn't have been exactly created as we are because the odds of our turning out exactly as we have are insurmountable.

They ignore the success bias of our current outcome and the possibility that many viable evolutionary paths could have led to stable life and even intelligent beings like ourselves.
Not a fanatic builder at all, been almost two decades since I built something with Lego, but really surprised to see that the categories are not color separated.

If you're building any esthetic Lego project would have color restrictions. Also I imagine some colors are worth more than others, just because they're used in more projects.

Also, color separated Lego bins just look pretty.
The RTGs on Voyager weighed 37.7kg for 157W (initial) of electricity. The later RTGs on Galileo and Cassini weighed 57kg for about 300W.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHW-RTG
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPHS-RTG
You want it to be one way but it's the other way.
Google ordered to remove a firm's website from global search results
I would think that the skin in the game requirement would be tied into eligibility for federal student loans. Since a 17% institution wouldn't be using those it wouldn't impact them. I agree that model is even better at aligning incentives and shouldn't be forbidden.
The loophole isn't unidirectional. It can make the China Post deliver many letters to small villages in China.

The problem is that no one on those villages are interested in paying some small price to receive a thing from America.
Well, it's clear it doesn't compete fairly with the other daemons, because it's the default one since Ubuntu 16.10 [1]. So, bundling it with the systemd package doesn't harm anybody, because you'd have to install another package anyway to change the default.

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-May/0393...
As to your second argument, I'm still not sure why it is legal to buy or own materials in the US created by human rights abuse. Let's take a case of a Chinese good produced by political slaves in prison. By buying or owning that good, a person is financially supporting the abuse that went into creating that good. Same applies for something that is produced for cheaper due to an ability to pollute in ways that aren't legal in the US (or other countries, this argument need not be just for the US).

But there are some digital goods where we do not give this same treatment (namely digital material involving really bad child maltreatment). Regardless of the legality of where the material is produced, owning it in the US is illegal because it couldn't legally be produced in the US and funding such illegal action elsewhere is considered morally wrong enough to ban.

Simply put, I think the core idea should be applied to all financial transactions. If one is buying a good or service that would be illegal in the US due to harm to another human, it should be illegal to buy or own in the US, even if where it is produced is legal. The law should prevent a person from harming another human by shopping around and finding wherever has the least legal protections.
For me it's just a matter of what you're used to. We're used to 2+2, and sin(x) so that's what we do. If you learned +(2,2) then that's what's more intuitive for you. And with time you get used to new approaches anyway.

Also, infix has the unfortunate problem of requiring operator priorities to parse.

f(2, g(3, 4))

is impossible to misunderstand.

2 f 3 g 4

isn't.
It's not just weight -- it does seem to actually have more neurons and glia numerically. The rest of your comment stands and is probably the most likely / default hypothesis, but there are others.

What if elephant brains actually do outperform ours but along an axis we're not seeing because... well... it's something we suck so bad at that we can't see it in another being.

A relevant story:

I've seen people with insanely great social abilities. I had a friend once who could walk into a room and tell me the personal situations of everyone and we checked this once by starting a few conversations. She had a near-perfect hit rate at spotting things like people who had recently broken up, people who were unemployed, etc. It was spooky.

I'm nowhere near this good and might be "on the spectrum," though it's also possible that my preference for technical and intellectual stuff from a very early age just wired my brain for them. My brain only has so many neurons so I assume there must be a trade-off in what we dedicate them to. The woman in my story above came from a weird kind of complex abusive family and extended social situation (can't go into it and would be too long), so for her she might have dedicated a ton of mental resources to understanding social environments as a matter of personal safety as a child.

I was much more "spectrum"-y when I was a kid and a teenager. For the first 18 years of my life I was kind of oblivious to deep social cues. My social awareness improved really dramatically in my 18-25 years, and it felt very much like being color blind and then gradually acquiring the ability to see color. I became aware of cognitive abilities and aspects of existence that were all around me for the first 18 years of my life but that did not "exist" for me.

As I acquired these abilities I started to spot them and have respect for them in others. Prior to this I didn't notice any variation in other peoples' social abilities because I couldn't notice variation in an ability I didn't have and couldn't perceive.

Neurons are demanding cells. They eat a lot of glucose and need a lot of fats, oils, and micronutrients for their formation and maintenance. It doesn't make evolutionary sense that elephants would maintain a bunch of neurons that do nothing to boost their fitness. Brains aren't externally visible like antlers, tusks, etc. and so serve no intrinsic display or offense/defense function.

It could be an evolutionary accident of hypertrophy. Evolution is not such a greedy optimizer that this is impossible. But the high cost of brains is certainly suggestive of evolutionary benefit.

Edit: I've brought up these kinds of ideas in other contexts and I've found that they bother some people. People almost get defensive, like it's a personal affront to suggest that there might be alien cognitive abilities. I feel that if we ever do meet actual ET aliens we are going to get some kind of massive reality check. The obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/638/
They're also in front of PyPi and NPM.

Someone shared graphs of the drop in requests to PyPi at https://twitter.com/EWDurbin/status/880071713874202624
> I'm 1.5 years out of a coding bootcamp I paid about $12,000 for. At a 17% rate, I would have paid $11,500 already, and would be on track to pay $22,950 more if I stay at my current job for 1.5 more years

But you needed that $12,000 upfront, which means you spent time in crappy jobs to save up for it. Time that could have been spent in your new job making more money, so you're not accounting for that wage difference, ie. if it took you 6 months to save that $12,000, how much faster could you have made it at the new job had you started code camp earlier?
> This incident has been resolved.

>> Posted 13 minutes ago. Jun 28, 2017 - 14:40 UTC
I've found that people who dislike fact checkers often have viewpoints that conflict with objective reality. Thankfully they're usually pretty explicit about it, "this campaign won't be dictated by fact checkers", and thus easy to discard.
FreeBSD, OpenSSH, Apache mod_kerb2 (and mod_auth_ldap for authorization), Active Directory.

1. install server

2. msktutil tool joins machine to domain (simple tool; no dependencies) and now you have /etc/krb5.keytab file

3. minor configuration for base OS -- LDAP using keytab instead of bind user with static password, etc

4. webservers just need an HTTP principal keytab created (simple msktutil command, then extract it from the /etc/krb5.keytab file into a file apache can read/write)

5. I can ssh to every server without a password after running "kinit" on my macbook

6. it just works and it's reliable, time tested, and secure.
Right? The smell alone isn't fair to other coworkers.
Seems like most people use Linux because they want to develop software like NodeJS in a shell.
No matter how fantastic and benevolent a company is at the moment, they always need competition to keep them in check and on their toes.
But in this case they are doing something, right? There's an education. And money isn't changing hands prior to employment.

I know nothing about the particulars of this school, I'm just speaking to the concept, but it is entirely distinguishable from what you describe.
The .feedback scam
A $400 Smart Tea Machine Gave This Brit an Existential Crisis
Please do not generalize. Japanese people are extremely considerate about not making noise / being loud.
Your $37k debt figure sounds low...really low. I graduated 20 years ago with a (then average) debt load of ~$20k. Tuition rates and debt loads have skyrocketed since then. $37k could represent average debt load including those who have been paying for years already but I'd love to see your source for that figure.
This Fund Manager Trains Algos to Copy His Brain
Indeed. Or to simplify:
- At no point during the editing process do you have an invalid s-expression.
- You manipulate the code datastructure, not the code text.
If you were caught off guard (and wouldn't mind sharing) what was an anecdote that in retrospect you realized was an obvious red flag?
Law-drafting isn't the entire job of representation. Also, current performance, such as using legislation written by consortia of corporations with lobbying interests, doesn't speak highly for such specialization.

You might as well require representatives be CPAs, or MBAs, since budget allocation and oversight of spending is at least as important as making laws.
Advice on a paywall for SellDom.io
Hi!

I'm working on this project, SellDom.io where anyone can submit the unused domain and anyone else can make offers.

I've thought long and large on how to earn money with this service, and here's what I came to:
1. Manage the sale completely, act like an escrow.
I would get the money from the buyer, and wait until the transfer has been successful to release the funds to the seller. This is interesting, but there is too much issue with it. I'm screwed in case of chargeback, and in legal and accounting terms, it's just hell.

2. Ask the seller to pay up-front.
This is not good as I want to have a maximum of domains on sale on SellDom. Putting a paywall upfront would be against it.

3. Ask the buyer to pay to submit an offer.
I'm not for asking the buyer to pay something again. He will already have to pay for getting the domain + transferring it to the registrar. Moreover, (s)he is not responsible for using SellDom.

4. Ask the seller to pay to access the buyer's offers.
This is the best solution I came up so far.

So here I am. I have implemented a paywall that asks the sellers to pay 20$ (fixed fee, not a percent of the domain price) to get access to the offer's information.

The reason I decided to ask for 20$ and not a percent fee is that I don't want to make tons of money on it, just get a few to pay the servers and make a bit of a living out of it, that's all. Moreover, I believe that the higher the price will be, the more chance the seller will pay to get the offers.

What do you think? If you own some unused domain, would you use SellDom or would this information be a huge downer? Do you think of an alternative idea I didn't think of?

The project is recent, I released it today, so I can make an 180° change without any problems!

Any feedback in appreciated :)
That's not what democracy is. Also the EU has been shamed as undemocratic since their representatives are not elected by popular vote. People do vote for who represents them as a country in the EU but I doubt any of them had a choice in the Google fine.
Cynicism.

If there's none at all, then people likely are afraid to talk openly. When there's cynicism about everything (revenue goals, vision, hiring, retention, ...), that's a sign that most everybody has lost hope.
as a customer:

13:49 - first errors
13:55 - first internal report
14:00 - status page update (acknowledgement)
14:05 - status page update (identified)
14:06 - customer support acknowledgement in chat
14:08 - last errors
14:16 - status page update (fixed & monitoring)
14:40 - status page update (resolved)

so, a ~20 minute outage is bad, but man is it a night-and-day difference level of communication and updates than certain other well known status pages.
know an alternative news source? looking for one as a result.
Thanks for the tips!

> Forced updates: select Defer Feature Updates

My understanding is that unless I'm running WSUS, I can only defer updates for a while (maybe 35 days max?).

Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I think that means ever 35 days or so, we have to accept all update that Microsoft wants to force-feed non-enterprise users. Even those updates which are much younger than 35 days old.

If I'm correct about that, then I'm not sure it reduces the risk enough for our business needs.

> Telemetry: install Spybot Anti-beacon or run a PS script like Debloat Windows, takes about 2 minutes.

My understanding is that (a) Microsoft treats this as an arms race, and/or (b) it's hard to be certain that these are catching all of the telemetry. Am I mistaken?

> The same telemetry is in your current install of Windows 7, btw.

Actually, it's not. I've done what's necessary to avoid having that patch installed. Which unfortunately puts me in a more precarious position, security-wise.
Strange possible coincidence yesterday evening my iPhone screen kept going on by itself and it would display (with a play button) some weird URL that started with https://airtv and then had fastly somewhere in it.

Connected? I know, vague. It's just I've never heard of fastly until yesterday when this happened and today I see some kind of outage notice on hackernews :)
I use OSX daily in my current development job? In that way I was forced to switch from Windows. These are all personal shortcomings I've experienced. I think OSX is great for people that want to open the box, turn on the machine and use it as is. I'm a tinkerer and consider myself a power user, compared to Windows it falls short of my preferences. I like the Unix base but with Windows' WSL that edge is fading.

Strange my ignorance is so "clear" but you've provided 0 reasons why.
If you ask the engineer whether to build the bridge, you might get a biased answer.
> I can’t see anything in this container

This is only a myth because of the full os base images - which not every container has. And frequently, the more minimal base images are missing a lot of useful tooling, so it's still an issue.

> Docker hardly works on macOS and Windows

Docker for mac is still not very reliable. Shared volumes (related to IDE and DB "myths") frequently get "stuck", it still occasionally consumes a full core of CPU, and finding a shared port (say, for remote debugging) is still a pain.

It's a useful tool, but for reliable development I still prefer a normal local environment; going back to Docker when I'm done developing and am ready to do a release.
Trump lawyer targets poor for donations to fight Obamacare via charity
Absolutely, I used to work for a large company that did a lot of acquisitions and I was on the pre-acquisition due-diligence team for a few of them and I recognised the enquiring but slightly worried looks of employees. I've been on both sides!

NB I didn't wear a suit though, I do have some standards ;-)
SiBi Adds 'Shop Instagram“ to See It Buy It App
Includes services that use Fastly like Imgix.
If you want to check the website, the url is https://www.selldom.io (I know HN doesn't put links on posts :) )
Have you ever experienced it? I used to think it was silly, too, but I've come to appreciate the convenience of not having to buy and pack my own snack items. It's also much cheaper than salary and benefits to extract extra work out of younger and naive developers. Sorta like giving the newly hired former intern the title "senior engineer."
Market Cap per Employee – S&P 500 companies
Show HN: wolkenkit – a CQRS, DDD, and event-sourcing backend for JavaScript
Why are people making these posts? Learning to code is not hard, finding a job is not hard. Most people would be able to do shitty javascript apps if they only put in the time. Stop posting this shit, please. There are subsections of programming that require math and actual CS, but most programmers never ever touch that stuff. So please, stop posting these useless "how I did nothing special but I need praise" posts.
Ask HN: What advice would you give your 18 year old self?
رسائل+حب+وغرام+2017+اجمل+رسائل+ومسجات+الحب+وغرام
Webinar: How to upgrade your OpenStack cloud easily, without downtime
Seems like a better approach would be to have the ransom increase higher after every person that paid. Just so you'd have some competetion to pay sooner.
Hey, I actually do that while eating my lunch. usually with reddit or HN on my phone.
MissionU does something very similar (charge nothing up front and take X% of your salary for X years after you graduate) http://www.missionu.com/ It is really a great model, the "school" doesn't get paid if you don't get a job after graduating.

Higher Education in it is current form has limited time left. Universities will have to evolve or die. Student loan debt is completely out of control and University's aren't preparing kids for real jobs.
"At a 17% rate, I would have paid $11,500 already, and would be on track to pay $22,950 more if I stay at my current job for 1.5 more years with no salary increases (I expect salary increases)."

If the bootcamp is going to shoulder that much risk, expect them to get paid for it. If you can afford to just pay for it up front, expect to pay less net money, but then, you're shouldering more risk that it won't be worthwhile. If you consider the distribution of both money and risk it looks more balanced. Whether it's precisely balanced or something doesn't have a unique answer because people have different valuations on the risk vs. the money. In particular, someone with no money to speak of at all is obviously going to prefer the single option that is available to them for the chance to come out wildly better off than they started, even at a 17% salary cut for 3 years.

(Also, I note you were not making wild accusations or anything, so I'm not being accusatory either, just elaborating.)
Prevent Business Intelligence Leaks by Using UUIDs
Just a simple NGINX server with Letsencrypt with images running through a orgin-pulling CDN like CDN77 should survive the HN effect without having to rely on thirdparties like CloudFlare. Especially when you have a CMS that has good caching or static HTML pages.
GIGAmacro Elevates DevOps, Down to the Smallest Detail
1. CEO is an ass.

2. Supports Booters, script kiddies, and pay-to-play blackhat hackers

3. Fucks over Tor any chance they can get.

--------------------------------------------

Proof for said allegations:

[Youtube video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW5vJyI_HcU

A: He continually berates because "he called and Brian Krebs never responded"

B: Cloudflare CEO states that the booters (ddos pay-as-you-go sites protected by cloudflare) don't even pay, or pay with stolen credit cards. And admits is "just a disaster".

C: Direct insult towards Krebs onstage "Well, who needs to actually ask questions as a journalist?" 48:08 [/Youtube Video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12575047
look for user:eastdakota
page text:"Yes, you can see Brian's critique of us here:"
Does this often happen? Saving money on lunch might delay a company's failure for a week at best. My perspective is most startups will maintain all benefits until the bitter end explicitly to avoid giving their employees this kind of impression. Hints like this might cause critical employees to jump ship during a financial crunch time.
True, the build quality is great - thats what attracted me in the first place - but upgradeability is not really a thing with Macs. Sure, I upgraded the HDD, swapped out the SuperDrive for another SSD, but the motherboards only support so much RAM, so once you hit that limit there is not a lot else you can do.

Sure, for some people building things in the cloud is fine, but others (like me) I like to have things running where I am.

Laptops are obviously a different beast - nobody expects to be able to upgrade every little thing on them, and the Macbook will be staying until such time I can no longer bear to work on it, or it gives up the ghost completely. And I can get a better spec laptop for the same (if not less) price as a new Macbook - and have ports that I can actually use :p
What percentage of teachers know computer science? Who will teach the kids?

I am afraid this will end up a disaster because the teachers themselves do not know how computer science.

this could end up in a situation analogous to Lockharts lament
Please, Linux 1.0 was 150k loc, it's in the millions nowadays
Surely you sense the common theme? It's not expected of everyone to demonstrate outstanding mastery of literary or numerical skills, however some tasks are generally useful and require a basic understanding of the fundamentals. The list above illustrates a sane basis I'd expect from the people in my community for one. Many other skills are window dressing as they say.

Teachers, especially here in France it seems have taken to the notion that one teaches better through abstraction and unrelenting positive encouragement. I don't want to be the grumpy old fart, but maybe a stricter enforcement of realistic & basic requirements like those listed in your parent are a good first step.

Let those who want a diploma/certificate work for it and encourage students by all means, but sometimes not good enough is just not good enough and that should be OK for national education to recognise and adapt to.
Pro: News sites I never want to see are finally gone from the editors recommendations.

Cons: White space as far as the eye can see, no more article preview, much less content available with a lot more scrolling, slow on my i5.

All in all it's a dogs lunch
IIRC the machine sorts like that already, but you can't have a bin for every separate type - you'd need a warehouse of boxes, and the boxes would have to be of several sizes. So I think the pictures just illustrate how he's chosen to cluster for now, as an example to people who try to decide how they'd actually want their purchase to be grouped.
coursera has some; I typically have locally the images-2012 one, but you also have things like dsp-001 which is a bit more advanced. Generally speaking, coursera has some good material in many related domains.