skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens when you need to change the password for a given site? What if the website has specific requirements for the password not addressed by this method (e.g. numerals, a subset of special characters, etc)? Did not see this addressed in the FAQ or intro, only this on the Goals and Design page:

By restricting the system's output ... to upper and lowercase alphabetic characters, we obtain maximum compatibility with all websites ... adding special characters is also explicitly and fully supported by the OTG system.
One weird trick to mine crypto-currencies.
It would be fun to buy graphic cards in places where power costs are high and ship them to where power costs are low.
I eat about 500g of black beans (raw) and 200g of rice (around 2000kcal) and the poops are miraculous.
He also needs to do the calculation for credit cards, the banking industry and central banks, for comparison purposes.
The Prescription for Self-Doubt (2009)
Sort of, I would say that the "million modules problem" is caused by the ever changing but backwards compatible web standards. So even if you don't target the web, but use web tech, you'll suffer similar issues.
The important part of this news has been omitted. FSB will monitor compliance with the law.
And that doesn't take skill?
Or set up a startup thru which they mine coins themselves.
Was the clinic run by a store selling overpriced Vibrams by any chance?

I've run on regular runners for years. Nothing about them makes good technique harder. There may be less feedback you're doing it wrong (in the form of less pain and discomfort), but the designs themselves don't stop you from running properly.

That said, it's not easy. It requires real self-awareness and a willingness to fight the urge to overrun your stride length.
In GAAP you don't have to do calendar time-based depreciation (assuming you're dealing with something that doesn't have a finite life, e.g. nuclear fuel rods). There's also usage based depreciation, so, for example, you only depreciate the cost of the GPU while the computer is powered-on or the cost of a truck based on how many miles it's gone.
> he calls treadmills the "junk food of exercise.

> he believes running barefoot is more natural—and less likely to result in injury.

This has always bothered me, and, even on HN, it still bothers me. Too many experts.

I ran track and XC (HS, DIII, then DI for a season), did 100+ miles/week, won a half marathon, etc. Reasonably successful without any injuries, over ~15 years. Even I would get constant advice from everyone. Still do.

"You're running too much." "Your back looks too stiff." "Your shoes don't fit." "Don't do that with your hands." "You're landing on your heel too much."

Eventually you stop listening to everyone, even your coach. Running (and most sports) would do well to follow science and have a cited source following every statement. It's a little absurd when someone tells me I'm going to get injured if I don't do more barefoot running. I've been wearing this same model of Brooks shoe since I was 15. If you can give me a link to an article on Pubmed, I might read it.
The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense [video]
Blockchain’s social impact
It's mostly a matter of setting up an endpoint in your app to sign manifests using the secret key. It's give or take a dozen lines of code on the backend (to do it in an "unsophisticated way"), and was one of the first things I wrote in Elixir! These two links should get you on your way:

1. http://bencoe.tumblr.com/post/30685403088/browser-side-amazo...

2. https://aws.amazon.com/articles/1434/?tag=vig-20
> There are a lot of shitty parents out there who fear prison more than they fear losing their child. There are even parents who want to kill their children.

This raises a question I've wondered about. Can a parent who doesn't want their child "give up" the child to the state without any strings attached? I.e., without doing something bad that would cause the state to take away the child and without being on the hook to the state for future child care.

Before you tell me that enormous crowds are waiting to adopt cute healthy babies, imagine for example a dangerous delinquent adolescent with a serious genetic disorder. Can you voluntarily ask the government to take such an unwanted child with no further contact and no financial obligation?

You would think that this situation comes up frequently, and that there should be a process: Fill in form 54F, signed and notarized by both parents. But it's surprisingly difficult to google a clear-cut answer for any country or jurisdiction.
My feelings on Part 1:

I felt like the setup of the first part was at time a little frustrating, since I started it during a time when Keras had switched to a newer version which wasn't compatible some of the utility code that was written. Add this to the newbie factor to notebooks, and it was a pretty rough first week or so to setup and get actual learning done. It took me a bit of time to realize notebooks were more like repeatable trains of thoughts than well-written production code.

The other thing is that some of the supplementary material was really long and at times made me feel like, why take this course instead of just going through a course mentioned in supplementary material (e.g. CS231n wrt CNN's)? I think I ended up spending hundreds of hours reading/watching/practicing CNN's by reading papers, watching Karpathy's 231n videos, and doing a couple tutorials from data scientists who elaborated on a specific problem they were solving. I guess at times when watching Part 1's videos and doing the notebooks, I didn't feel like I was 'getting it' as much or as fast as when I was getting the information from other means.

While the forum discussions can be helpful, it was also wadding through a ton of unstructured content. And the service they used for the forums hotmapped the find shortcut to their own built-in search, which was a little annoying. I don't know a great solution to having more structured data, but perhaps adding some of questions that were answered to the lesson's Wikipedia. Or maybe splitting the technical issues from the high level concepts.

Lastly, I think it was either HN or /r/MachineLearning but someone had suggested a book regarding Machine Learning and hands-on Tensorflow usage which I picked up, and I felt like my pace of learning really sped up afterwards. I think part of it was Tensorflow has a lot more written about it so when you encounter an odd problem, chances are someone else has something to say about it.

All criticisms aside, I think I'll try going through Part 1 a second time around prior to going through Part 2.
So you expect this to be above ground? I'd expect that it would be bored since (in states where mineral rights aren't held by the land owner) it's cheaper than above ground right of way. At boring depths (greater than 60ft or 20m) temperature change is less than 0.1c and thermal expansion ~10ppm. Serpentines 100km in diameter could easily be used with radial deflections of only 10cm. The g-load at 1080km/hr=300m/s with 100km radius is less than 1/10th of a g.

You should be designing with much larger margins than 10cm and 0.1g for anything carrying humans. Shock absorbers in the pod to deal with short range ripples (100um/100m) would be a much bigger issue. That's what I mean by accidental serpentine that makes the problem completely secondary.

If you've got calculations, then show them... otherwise please find a different bike shed.
Maybe there are people who would be happier washing their clothes by hand, but I'm sure they're the exception rather than the rule.

Most people just don't like doing the shopping, cooking, and cleaning involved with daily meal preparation. Most people also don't like cleaning in general, and hate their commutes. Thinking of these as therapeutic tasks is as much a luxury of white collar life as unlimited access to maids and food delivery services is.

And the idea that you'd save time or money with proper knowledge of how to source and prep your own fruits and vegetables, or that time spent cleaning disappears because you consider it exercise, all seems like magical thinking to me.

As soon as you place a realistic dollar figure on the value of your time, for most of us, all of those calculations break down dramatically in favor of outsourcing most tasks related to food, cleaning, and transportation, not only as a matter of comfort, but also as a matter of economics.

It makes sense that it would work out this way, too. A single Uber driver with a single car can satisfy the transportation needs of a dozen people. An Instacart shopper can gather everything 3 families need in a single pass through the store. The driver can get those groceries to 3 homes in a single round trip instead of 3 separate round trips.

Outsourcing can seem wasteful and opulent, but in doing so you're often participating in a sharing economy or benefiting from economies of scale and division of labor that actually serve to reduce waste and inefficiency.
the ISS laptops run on commodity hardware and software, often undocumented, and from my interview with that team the notion that they have some fully deterministic system set up for their operations is horrendously false, and they've run into many issues because of it
If proof of work is being done during peak solar load times the effect on the environment is negligible.
Takeout (not every meal) .. OK, but a maid is a kind of servant and I can't be comfortable with this, it feels like a regression in society (as mentioned in another comment).
On the contrary, patents are one of the only things besides engagement that may be valuable about a typical startup. The technology/software that powers any given startup is usually easy enough to replicate (excepting massive cutting-edge projects like SpaceX/Tesla).

Most companies would prefer to copy your features into their own product for ~$1M of engineering time over the course of a year or so (3-5 full-time guys assigned), rather than pay tens of millions for an outside version that would have to be integrated, and wait for an acquisition to go through (itself probably costing close to $1M just in professional fees).

Startups therefore only get bought if they have a userbase that the acquiring company may be interested in, or if they have a good patent portfolio/other interesting intellectual property. Patents are exclusive government-backed monopolies over systems, techniques, or processes ("inventions") that can be used to force competitors out of business (ideal but rare, because competitors usually have their own relevant patents that need to be licensed). More often, patents are useful leverage to get competitors to agree to a mutually-beneficial cross-licensing deal. Thus, a startup with 0 users may be a good buy if they have patent(s) relevant to the problem space.

Entrepreneurs should apply for patents because entrepreneurs need ammo. Big companies are not going to buy your company and transfer millions of dollars because they think you're a nice guy. There are a lot of nice guys out there, but there aren't a lot of guys with a patent that a big player needs. If you want to be taken seriously, you need to get some chips before you show up to the table!

Disclaimer: IHNIWITA (I Have No Idea What I'm Talking About). Not a lawyer or an investor.
30 Truly Amazing Roads You Have to Drive on Before You Die
I was thinking about what this had to do with HN and then it hit me: javascript is going to live forever; and C will outlast it.

We can also see why it's really difficult to compete with early [surviving] frameworks, since they will last for a really long time.
It's perhaps unfortunate, but such a library does indeed become very popular for the very reason that it is open source and free. I haven't used this, but if I ever needed in-browser CSV parsing, I'd use it. Were it not free, I'd find an alternative or roll my own library with the bare minimum functionality needed for my project. Paying for anything related to CSV just doesn't "compute", for lack of a better phrasing.

This applies to things like date pickers and html5 charts as well. While these could be separated into a separate category based on the fact that their markets are oversaturated, the result is the same: why pay when there are perfectly usable options that are free, or can be done in-house on the cheap if necessary?
Going to go out on a limb here and predict credit cards have a better $/watt ratio than bitcoin.
> When you run barefoot, or in a pair of ultra-light "shoes" like Vibrams, you learn very quickly not to do that, or you stop running. The "right" way is to land on the ball of the foot, with the knee slightly bent. The knee bends further to dissipate the force of the landing. This is how evolution "meant" for us to do it.

I'd encourage even an experienced runner to try and do a lap around the track barefoot. It really does highlight the importance of form.
Ok then cards or whatever annotations have been replaced by, but something!

https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/cards
This Planet Money podcast[1] talks about unlocking creativity, including the use of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies[2] cards

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/11/18/502475485/episo...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies
While I understand how some people can take this as a cautionary tale in favor of 2FA, as someone who doesn't like it and won't use it, I guess my mindset is very simple. There's the old saw that over time, computing has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals into dumb people in front of "smart" terminals. This attack is proof of it; and while 2FA might have had an impact, the major issue here is that we had a dumb person - this "unlucky" team member - who either didn't have the training or the common sense to understand that if you have a public presence on the Internet, you are a target. If you have auto-updating software installed on more than 1 machine, you are going to be someone's target because they want access to that person's computer.

The lesson here is: never trust anyone or anything.
I find it strange the team member clicked on the link. For such high value accounts, always use google or type in the URL.

Why would you click?
The R. Kelly ‘cult’ story and the ‘Gawker Effect’
For the same reason why shovel manufacturers don't dig their own gold. Why take the risk of uncertainty that comes with the whole mining operation?
>Blogs are a wholly inappropriate place for back-and-forth discourse to happen simply because if I have a blog, it's my blog. It's not a discussion board.

That's, like, your opinion, man.

I personally enjoy engaging in discussions on blogs and on my (now defunct) old personal blog, and have seen great exchanges (Just see Lambda the Ultimate for an example).

Sure, also bad ones, that's just life. Articles and posts can also be as bad, if not worse, than comments.
Semi-relevant link from Bruce Schneier on the subject and that he did not design password safe with a browser extension in mind. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/09/security_of_p.... The android version implements a keyboard replacement rather than integrate though not as easy to use is still mostly usable.
If you responded to the copyright takedown request(s) in an automated fashion, you might have a chance.

I don't know if it's a requirement for you to police it. Only to respond to the DMCA requests. So make the website, under a corporation (which is easy to do), then build a system which auto takes down pending moderation for every DMCA request.

Obviously, this won't scale immediately, but use mechanical Turk to review the requests initially. Once you know content is copyrighted, keep it. Use it to compare against other uploads.

YouTube doesn't screen every copyrightable material.

Once you get started, get some money, then try to make deals.
The real point is that developer time has not kept up with the rate of RAM price decrease, and unless you plan on seriously defending the claim that developers only cost 1/6000th of what they used to twenty years ago, the points in the blog post stand.
Should I become an intern after graduating a bit ago?
Hello HN!

So I received a startup intern offer for user research/product in Europe. I'm not sure if I should take it?

My dilemma here is: will an internship achieve my goal which is to expedite my skill building within my field of interest?

A little context: My goal is to become a good UX researcher. I graduated 2 years ago so I’m really looking to sharpen my skills and understand the easiest way, imo, is to work under a more experienced researcher/mentor. I've worked in consulting/various ux research environments, but this would be my first real startup.

But from this role, I would given a high level of autonomy and from my understanding the first dedicated intern for this type of role. These aren’t terrible things depending on what you want, but I want to pick up best practices or at least have an idea before I tread out into the "real" world myself. You never know what you don’t know right? The people seem great though and the startup is doing well.

I’m sure I’ll still learn a lot at this startup, but vs to learning directly under a more experienced researcher in a similar environment… I’m thinking the later would be optimal? The only thing is I just have to find it,haha!

It's just for 5 months so it's not the end of the world. It could also be a great opportunity to really challenge myself as it could be a "training" ground + I get to travel to europe (From north america,haha!).

So, I’d love to get your opinion if I’m thinking about this correctly!
Came here to say this. I'm not normally a fan of Bose but I wear my QC35 maybe 12 hours a day and have for almost a year.

Excellent build quality, sound, battery life, and above all noise cancelling. I've owned maybe 30 sets of headphones over the years and never had anything like them.

Little known fact is that they make aviation headsets and the QC35 looks by all accounts to be a consumer version of that. Might explain the chasm between their quality vs competitors.
You are assuming that everyone leads an equally-risky lifestyle when that is clearly not the case.

Statistics are useful for large numbers, but can be quite misleading for individuals (especially for people as divergent in behavior as human beings).

Just a guess, but I would bet that avoiding drunk driving (or being on the road at times that drunks are likely to be driving), taking care with prescription drug use, avoiding swimming pools, and changing your smoke detector batteries regularly would double that 200 year span, at least. Maybe more.
Three areas where self-driving cars will bring new opportunities
The special character is addressed in the faq
Introverts, Emotional Processing, Self-Esteem and Salary Negotiations
What an absurd statement. Daily, you consume the labor of dozens of people.
Sorry that you are blowing off future benefits based on today's actions.
>I don't understand why people write programming blogs on Medium. I think that managing a live website with its own server (rather than only working on other people's projects) is a very important skill.

And knowing when not to waste your time setting up one is an even more important skill.
Look at Paris, this is not true.
These are medium sized. Remember in elixir it's perfectly convenient to map across a list by spawning a process for each element in the list and sending the function you want to map to that process, and then they collapse down and get reduced.

A process (or application) in elixir is no big deal, just think of it as a module or object that lives in its own process, probably has a set of processes and all that...

If you were writing this in go you might call it a monolith because all of those "Apps" would be in one single binary executable.
And the happiness level of all the Uber drivers who shuttle you around...? Remember: not everyone has such luxuries and your average HNer likely has much better QoL than the general populace.
I do, it's pretty much a necessity in an open office where I'm surrounded by several people talking loudly into several different conference calls on speakerphone.

Right now I use Beyerdynamic DT770s because I heard they were very comfortable (I wear glasses, and I hate in ear phones). The ear cups are fantastic but the headband digs into my scalp. So I'm on the search as well.
The fun thing is how this is thanks to an economy based on consumption and IP, making higher profit margins good. My favorite however is the Betamax case from the 1980s. I wonder how lawyers took over in the first place.
I think it's interesting that pretty much every major media company has had to invent their own ContentID and that there are very few companies in the copyright space. Actually, the two companies I knew of were both run by the same founders and both acquired pretty quickly (Rightsflow acquired by Google/Youtube and Source3 acquired this past week by Facebook)
Thank you downvoters -yes, it does go to 11
AMD won't be live streaming their RX Vega launch event at SIGGRAPH 2017
Could be worse. Could be Danish: http://www.fyidenmark.com/danish_time.html
The dolphin emulator's blog is doing awesome blog posts as usual. Reminds me of how JavaScript compilers[1] also compile several versions of the same function, as the interpreter gains more insight on how the function is used.

[1] https://wingolog.org/archives/2011/07/05/v8-a-tale-of-two-co... (Wow, 2011, time goes by fast)
I only iron the shirts the moment I need them. Basically, one or two a day. I got so good at ironing over the years that it only takes me 5 minutes and is now part of my routine.
I had considered building a SoundCloud clone a few years back, but dismissed it for pretty much the same reasons as mentioned in the blog. The cost of the encoding, storage and CDN endpoints was just too much for even a rudimentary song sharing service.

NB: I use SoundCloud to share my own recordings and song ideas, and to listen to other people's ideas and do collaborations with them. NOT to listen to mainstream music or podcasts. I wanted my clone service to facilitate that.

Which is why I had never really factored in copyright violations. But I am thinking as well as human moderation, couldn't such a service also employe a HackerNews style voting system - basically if a song started getting flagged by users as 'copyright violation', it would start to disappear down any searches or catalogues, until enough votes caused it to disappear from the service altogether?
I'm curious to see how someone like Neal Stephenson would be identified. His writing style seems to change to fit the times and persons he writes about.
Not that I can recall, and I'm having a hard time finding anything about this. There's "business class" which means you get to run inbound servers, and maybe send email, etc. but I can't find any penalties for something like VPNing to an office network.
Aren't you (if not you, surely someone you know) a servant to your boss?

Having a "maid", although I don't particularly like the term, doesn't equate exploiting other human beings, that's slavery.
As an alternative to takeout (of which I've been a compulsive consumer the better part of my adult life), I've been using DIY Keto Chow as a way to free up time I normally spend dealing with food. I make two weeks worth of powder, and mix three days worth of meals at a time. Each meal costs ~$1.70 (which is exactly what my school lunch cost in the 80's).

Even for someone who rarely cooks, it's hard to appreciate how much time you spend dealing with food until you no longer have to do it anymore. I don't let a diet get in the way of my social life or prevent me from eating good stuff when I have the opportunity, but I fill in all those meals where I used to run to Chick-fil-A or Popeye's with something healthy I can just grab out of the fridge, chug, and get back to work.

I've done it for a few months, and it saves me ~$300 and ~60 hours per month. I've also lost weight, and I make a weak effort to stick to keto now because I've noticed I feel better when I do.
The plural possessive of entrepreneur is entrepreneurs' (apostrophe after the s).