skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever flood control in The Netherlands is discussed, it's worth looking at this detailed elevation map:

http://www.floodmap.net/Elevation/CountryElevationMap/?ct=NL

The elevation profile of the entire country is one where the coast is much higher than sealevel, and then gradually slopes downwards to bits of the interior that are entirely landlocked, but are say 1 meter below sealevel. In other words we have pockets of land that are below sealevel, but they're surrounded by and protected by land that's not.

The facts on the ground are very different from claims being made by a sibling comment that "we are ALREADY beneath sea level!". This is why the NYT article is talking about "reservoirs for when the seas and rivers spill over" and "to let water in, where possible". Managing the water is largely about protecting these pockets that are below sealevel.
So rockets aren't going to work. Maybe instead of a space elevator, we need a space fountain. Pump water up until centrifugal force takes over.

I bet it's going to be spectacular.
Of course you're right! I shall correct it when I get a chance! Any more suggestions welcome!
It is easy to reason about these things on an armchair, much like it is to reason about war.

And much like soldiers who have actually been in the battlefield, many prositutes suffer from PTSD. I suspect the percentage of corporate drones suffering from debilitating PTSD is much lower than among soldiers and prostitutes.
> I wish my SSH supported the null cipher.

That's very risky.

If it supported the null cipher by default, users would be a single misconfiguration away from losing all security. By forcing the few who have a legitimate need for a null cipher to patch and recompile, this risk is reduced.

It's the same reason reputable crypto libraries avoid implementing things like the TLS null cipher suites (they exist), and also why the new TLS 1.3 protocol has only PFS suites and AEAD.
I flagged your message because you gave a financial recommendation without any support to discuss it and behind a new user in HN.
There's also the crustaceans known as sea lice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_louse
Power Grids Increasingly Vulnerable to Malware
The link is interesting. Looks like it checks for the HN's user logged in cookie and redirects to imgur.
Hmm you're right. I will definitely look into improving the search.
JAWS is a very popular screen-reader, not just "some proprietary screen-reader". Probably the most popular screen-reader, although it no longer has the market dominance it used to.
> IMO it is understandable that fixing some piece of proprietary software is not a top priority. I believe it's more appropriate for the author to rant against JAWS for not caring about QT, than the other way around.

Worth pointing out, JAWS is proprietary, but it is also very widely used. I'd imagine its user-base is many, many times that of NVDA (which is the open source equivalent).
Blur the faces of children in an image with Sightengine
I'm not asking them to not oversubscribe. Just don't do QoS. This isn't a problem today and there is nothing that suggest it will a problem in the future either.
Amazon has outages too. Remember when AWS was down for mor than half a day not that long ago?

https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
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There are few things that truly exemplify quality; I count the simple but not minimalist visual aesthetic of GNOME 2 as one of them.

It is unfortunate that they changed the aesthetic so much with GNOME 3, particularly making it more minimalist. I prefer the prevailing toolbar aesthetic in GNOME 2 of icons with text, and the less integrated desktop management scheme at a high level in comparison respect to the Shell. Even if the old toolbar style wasted space and the new desktop scheme provides more power, they destroyed the configurable simplicity of GNOME 2 in favor of minimalism. In addition, you have to respect the history of a product's UI if you wish to retain users who want to stay comfortable in the software they use.
The economy of a nation produces a certain amount of wealth, and that wealth needs to be distributed in a way that is as efficient and fair as possible (for some notion of fair).

Capitalism attempts to distribute the wealth produced by the nation according to the value each individual (and that individual's property) contributes to the economy. There are false positives and false negatives there (people who make more money than their contribution is worth and vice versa), but that's the theory.

A fundamental assumption of that system is that almost everyone (apart from the sick or handicapped) can produce enough value to sustain themselves. Even if someone has no capital or no education, we assume that they can trade unskilled labor and that the value of that labor suffices to buy them, at least, the things they need to satisfy their most basic needs.

That assumption might become untrue in the future. If that happens, the problem won't be that we don't produce enough value to support these people, but that the current system for distributing that wealth will no longer work.
This is very much not true. In the US, prostitutes are very punctilious about paying their tax bills, because the having a discrepancy between declared income and visible consumption is a quick way to land yourself on an auditor's desk. Remember, they got Al Capone for income tax evasion.

The IRS is very open about this. A fellow HN commenter pointed me to this document [1], on which you should search for "Bribes" and "Stolen Property". Even if you don't want to trust to the IRS's confidentiality rules (for example, it won't share your tax return with law enforcement without a court order), it's still common practice to come up with another description for your income in order to pay tax on it.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch12.html#en_US_2016_pu...
Cause nothing is off topic in HN that's the rules.
> They saw something that you with all of your 'vested interest and expertise' didn't

No, they gambled. There was nothing to 'see'. It was reckless behaviour. Don't run around and spread retroactive financial advice that was unwarranted without the now available posteriors.
> 2 years

Also, you can stay on oldstable for a while if you absolutely cannot upgrade.
Surely you can see the part about recipes was an analogy to make a point and not directly equating two?

I think you're dismissing the post without engaging its arguments, so it hardly seems fair to start calling people naive, anti-intellectual, and ignorant. (btw, we all get that these are different ways of calling someone stupid, which is never productive and isn't justified in this case.)

To attempt to engage your argument, as far as I understand it... i think type systems and programming paragidms, however formal, can at best solve problems only in a corner of the problem set of software development. The limitation is because these do not take into account various kinds of constraints on software systems which nevertheless exist and are often the dominant constraints, depending on the project... Requirements, maintainability, usability, estimation, etc -- most of the stuff above the red line from the article.
You can use the same trick dividing by all the numbers up to sqrt(n) [or n-1], instead of dividing by prime numbers.

You can replace

li:first-child,
li:nth-child(2n + 4),
li:nth-child(3n + 6),
li:nth-child(5n + 10),
li:nth-child(7n + 14) {
color: grey;
counter-increment: nature-count nonprime-count;
}

with

li:first-child,
li:nth-child(2n + 4),
li:nth-child(3n + 6),
li:nth-child(4n + 8),
li:nth-child(5n + 10),
li:nth-child(6n + 12),
li:nth-child(7n + 14)
li:nth-child(8n + 16)
li:nth-child(9n + 18)
li:nth-child(10n + 20) {
color: grey;
counter-increment: nature-count nonprime-count;
}
15 quick tips for a better Tech Résumé
> The idea was popularized by a journalist, Daniel Goleman, not a psychologist.

Looking at Daniel Goleman's wikipedia page it's clear he was actually both a psychologist and a journalist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Goleman
That already exists but with a different meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain
I'm a full-time developer on Ethereum, and also wish I'd bought more early ETH. But developers who understand this stuff are in high demand right now, and there are all sorts of opportunities. There's plenty of money to be made by working instead of just hodling.
I think their value will increase at first as they will be closer to the water, right before plunging, no pun intended.
Yes, but why would you? If you understand it well enough to have hung on that long you understand that the full potential is a lot higher than where it is now.
> I'd have a hard time implementing my own crypto,

Yes. Or, it's actually rather easy - but it's extremely hard to do well. That's why one shouldn't do it (or, you should, but perhaps for toying with and not for production). See, you obviously know enough about the topic to know this! This is exactly one of those nuggets of "broad knowledge" you need as a software developer. How much do you know about crypto:

- You need to know when to hash ansd when to encrypt.

- You need to know the properties perhaps of symmetric/asymmetric crypto and key exchange

- You must know that you never implement any of these algorithms yourself, you only choose from them.

That's about it. You need to know what you don't know (how to write reliable crypto) in this case.

> If you have a poor understanding of how indexing works, you'll probably have a hard time selecting the right data model.

Right. Basically understanding a database is around the amount you need to implement a toy database. You know the difference between an index lookup and a scan and so on. Lacking that understanding means the database is some oracle (haha) you feed SQL and it spits out data. If you do know a bit more you might have a vague idea about how data sits on pages that are oriented into a btree. You might know that how the disk tree is magically updated in both ends to be consistent even if power is switched off mid-write and so on (I don't know, this really isn't my area - I have coded 13 years without a db). You didn't invent or even deeply understand any of these algorithms to the point where you could write them on a whiteboard. But it does help you if someone asks "what happens to users' bookings if I cut the power?" or "will it be faster to join in the DB or later in the language".

Another pet peeve of mine is people who can't identify NP /exponential problems. It happens several times per year that junior colleagues of mine develop solutions that are exponential in time/space, because that's what the problem is.

Them: "Look, I optimized the order in which we pick the X from
the list"

Me: "That will take the remaining life of the universe already with 30 items!"

Them: "Dang :( that took me two days to write"

Me: "Do it the dumb way and get off my lawn"
Any joker can start a company and declare any regulation they like. I could require that all software be written in COBOL by moustachioed developers standing on one foot.

If I did that, I think Debian would not change their software to meet my bizarre "company regulations"
I think ive read enough LKML to realize name calling doesn't slow software development and free software devs can handle being told off once in a while.
Because tulips?
Can you clarify what you mean here? (not trying to be cheeky, but I'm just not grasping) What is the difference between a difficult task and a task that sees high growth in accumulation of knowledge? In terms of the classical orchestral musician/swe analogy I don't see what you are driving at.

>In high growth areas its not easy to make it big without working insane hours.

In classical music (and jazz etc.), you can't succeed at even a prosaic task such as winning an orchestra audition without working life-destroying hours. From age 10(or earlier, really) to age 40+, most classical musicians who "succeed" practice alone at least 4hrs a day, and rehearse, perform (and teach, when they are older) another another 4-6 hrs per day. There really isn't room for anything but this in their lives. That is the info I can offer to help w understanding this half of what you are saying. I think I didn't realize that this was not widely known. Coming from this life, it is easy to lose perspective on what is generally understood.
"anti-diversity" . Lol. The left surely know how to control the discourse.
It's a pretty drastic oversimplification to say "women have better people skills" but there are definitely personality differences between men and women [1]. (I don't know why this comes as a surprise to anyone)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149680/
Weiboscope: Tracking censorship of China’s most popular social media platform
Devon/Cornwall is a lot more like the north or indeed a different country compared to London. Even in London people will come together in the right situation - commonly moaning about the weather, queuing etc.
New York’s Subways Are Not Just Delayed, Some Trains Don’t Run at All
The materialism being referred to is the cosmetic perfection of the kids' teeth (presumably beyond ensuring their health).

"Tawdry little baubles" does not refer to the children themselves.
Stop telling people there's a dot in your Gmail address – it doesn't matter
Yeah sorry about that. Maybe "some" seems a bit too careless. Not intended that way.

Substituting it for "the most popular proprietary screen-reader software" still doesn't change anything on my opinion though :)
Would this make it possible to implement a cryptocurrency that wasn't an ecological disaster?
Because it is much much cheaper.
OVH PCS $0.0112/month/GB
AWS S3 $0.0245/month/GB

Less than half the price, if you are willing to believe they are comparable products. Actually pretty great performance they offer as well for taking encrypted backups etc.

But I think your comment is still generally fair in terms of the quality of the rest of their offerings. I would also add one more strong point for OVH - kick-ass DDoS protection.

S3 has had it's own (catastrophic) issues as well. The failure mode for PCS so far has been more irritating, however - it will fail you every 1000'th request or so.
[Screencast] Restricting Access by IP Address
Actually, that's what I used, but in this case the conversion didn't work very well. I had to do a lot of editing to get it formated so checklsts worked and get all of the links converted. Org is a bit more finicky than markdown...

I wish the pandoc conversion worked better because it would be nice not to have to update changes by hand.

It's all little things like making sure that there is only one space in every "- [ ]" between the dash and open bracket.

The original placed the entire document under a level 2 header, so I placed all top headings under their own level one header. I also changed the bottom level of headings into boldface link items so that org could see all of the checklist items. If you open both versions side by side you'll see how I did it.

Again, thank you for the list, it really is fantastic. I'm considering creating a different version for NGOs and Non-Profits here in Cambodia. Marketing is a large part of what NGOs do to raise funds and there is a lot of overlap between commerical websites and non-profits. But there are a lot of resourses available for non-profits which could be added as well.
That somewhat reminded me of XKCD's https://what-if.xkcd.com/53 and https://what-if.xkcd.com/54/ :)
> I love the non connection and unpreciousness of my possessions - how profoundly and easily replaceable they are and how detached I am from them.

Being someone who is lower on the income scale, my stuff is by no means replaceable. At least not easily. To be blunt, it's easy to say that none of your possessions mean anything when they actually don't; when that shitty old car means about half a year of income for you, it means a lot, even if not sentimentally.

Frankly all that sounds to me like just a reverse-posturing for the wealthy; "I have so much and look how I live, I don't need things." Yeah that's very easy to say when you could have literally any and all the things you ever wanted, should you change your mind. I would query back how many people are living check-to-check to make that fortune possible? I don't mean this as an attack, but in my experience, pretty much everyone who has a lot of money in the bank also has a trail of people behind them with fresh footprints on their heads.
Here's a shared workflowy of the checklist for anyone who wants to use it:
https://workflowy.com/s/FSjJ.Z6V7qfO5CD
Australians like their badass reputation of surviving on a continent full of deadly animals, but the biggest killers in Australia, by far, are horses and cows.

http://www.bobinoz.com/blog/12250/australias-most-dangerous-...

One of the remarkable things about the country is how few people die from the many venomous species there.
> ...it's your body so you have the right to an abortion.

Absolute sovereignty over one's own body was never really a thing. There were always substances that were illegal to consume somewhere. There were always, even today, laws about public decency. There were always laws against suicide. Today things like trans fats and alcoholic energy drinks face bans.

So the controversy isn't about whether people get to decide what to do to their bodies, it's about when.

I tend to be more libertarian on these issues, but I recognize that the principle of personal bodily sovereignty isn't widely held.
Quick poll of my coworkers (we do industrial automation, there's next to zero thought or money given for accessibility except the awareness that start and stop buttons, typically red and green, must also be labeled in case users are red/green colorblind:

- Me: On HN enough to know what it means.

- Senior EE in PLC programming: No clue.

- Senior dev, mostly self-taught: Means it can be accessed? Easy to use, or intuitive?

- College Intern: It means it's able to be used by people with disabilities.

(Senior dev: Oh yeah! I read an article on that a while ago.)

So our shop was 2/4 on it. Granted, we're a little atypical, but as a lot of programs are written with no thought to accessibility, there are a lot of devs who don't think about accessibility.

I suspect we'd have similar results for 'localization'. They'd probably guess 'internationalization' from context.
Well, the murder rate was steadily increasing, so something happened
“Consequently, if the network is attacked, our scheme guarantees security, with algorithmic costs that are commensurate with the cost of the attacker. Conversely, in the absence of attack, algorithmic costs are small.”

Hope it works.
If you've got a service that's that critical, shouldn't you be paying for a private leased line?
You really think a single engineer's marginal contribution to speed improvements of Google search results or engagement improvements in Facebook's newsfeed are of similar value to highly-technical life-saving treatment, delivered at scale in hospitals?

Certainly, I could imagine the latter being devalued, at the physician level, if there were good automated alternatives. But, there aren't.

Does your opinion hold of engineers working on Snap and Instagram?
I don't understand how people can be so entitled about free software. Especially given the reply by the Qt developers:

> The JAWS people didn't answer emails when we reached out to them (admittedly quite a while ago), so we've been focusing on NVDA support. Patches to improve the situation with JAWS are welcome. Note that we may eventually implement UIA as opposed to IAccessible2, but that work is currently going slow.

So they tried to work with them, but they did not reply. How are they supposed to fix the issue?
For those of us who don't know what this is:

PyTorch is a Python package that provides two high-level features:

Tensor computation (like NumPy) with strong GPU acceleration

Deep neural networks built on a tape-based autograd system

You can reuse your favorite Python packages such as NumPy, SciPy and Cython to extend PyTorch when needed.

We are in an early-release beta. Expect some adventures and rough edges.
For full effect, someone should give this project a $3.5M seed round.
> OVH Public Cloud guarantees 99.999% SLA for all available resources. (compute, storage, network)
Where the support team detects a lost connection that isn't caused by scheduled maintenance, you will receive damages of 0.5% of the monthly rate per minute of unavailability (up to a maximum of 100% of your consumption for the current month).

Clever, they get to schedule maintenance outside of the SLA guarantee so it's entirely meaningless.
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yep, will fix it later
> Spending money on 4 good quality ceramic plates which will last the next 10 years is.

Are there bad quality ceramic plates? Mine costed $1-$3 each and they're great.
> Capitalism attempts to distribute the wealth produced by the nation according to the value each individual (and that individual's property) contributes to the economy.

Where are you getting this from? I am aware of no such attempt. I thought that, in idealized capitalism, everyone gets as much as they are able to convince or legally force others to pay them, and 'value' produced is irrelevant.
Somehow the author assumes that the native gui has better accessibility features. In a world of bloated frameworks and browser as a gui type apps not every app is accessible. Most of the time it isn't even on their radar because of the tiny user base. One of those things that is just plain wrong when you spectate but when it is your job to do you find it a pain to implement.
> Who invests in these ICOs?

Mostly idiots. or people who think they can pump the price and flip it to a greater fool before the "founders" exit scam everyone.

> How do ICOs reach these people?

Reddit forums, Ads on crypto-currency related sites (ie: coindesk.com, etc...) and on Facebook etc...

> What is the legal status of ICOs?

SEC says[0] if you operate your ICO like a securities offering then your tokens are securities and you are subject to applicable federal laws.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_co...

> Are there any case studies regarding how successful ICOs take place?

No idea, most ICOs I'm aware of are hugely problematic and on the grey side of ethics at best. If the founders are pre-mining/keeping a large portion of the coins for themselves I would stay way far away. Bitcoin by contrast wasn't an ICO the only way someone got Bitcoin was by mining it.
> free software devs can handle being told off once in a while.

That's survival bias: Those who can't are not Linux devs.
Better off socially? Difficult to determine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_prostitution_in_Thailand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Thailand
Actually it won't, as there is relatively little ocean-side property to affect in the first place. With the exceptions of a few coastal towns like Scheveningen, property development is illegal along the coast as it would hinder future coastal protection. Consequently private ownership of coastal area is also unheard of here. Because there are no buildings on them, the most cost effective way of improving our coastal defences is relatively easy and low-tech: just add more sand to the dunes and beaches.
Honest question: is the goal really to have a 50/50 split of men and women employed in the field? Because that's the general sense I get when the existing distribution numbers are cited. If so, why is that the goal?

And why is positive discrimination justified? Why not lift all the fingers off the scales and see where things end up?
well, it would be awesome. Then I could hire sales/marketing team and rent big office :)
It's fairly simple. You let the user set QoS bits in their own packets, and discriminate based on those, with appropriate target neutral constraints to prevent abuse. (e.g. limit the bandwidth available to packets marked low latency.)

This allows people to use whatever services they like, but still get the benefits of QoS.