skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quit your job. Make it real. Fear is one of the best motivators.

Unfortunately this is bad advice for most people, because the truth is most people don't have the full skillset required to own a business. Maybe they could learn it if they apprenticed under an entrepreneur or in an executive role, but I'm honestly not sure.

I own a business with studios in New Orleans and Atlanta, but I worked in the real world, went to grad school, and then came out and immediately went out on my own which is easier for a lot of reasons.

I also think a series of fortunate and somewhat unreproduceable events led me here, strangely enough involving Gabe Newell, though I'm sure he wouldn't remember.

I honestly don't think reading a bunch of books telling you how to be an entrepreneur are helpful or real at all. In fact I would describe them as more of a stalling tactic.
All sources have some level of bias. can you demonstrate that Politifact's bias compromises them in this context?
Linux can use kpatch to upgrade the kernel while it is running.

The difficult part is writing and validating the actual patch. I recall that the only people writing kpatches charge a lot of money for them and only provide them to their paying support customers. Then all of the free software people complain loudly. Yet, you don't see THEM writing (and TESTING) these functions to update in-kernel data structures in place.
Or: i is signed, and wraps from 127 to -128 forever, always staying well below 255.
To add on to this, the centralization factor of your webapp being a google search away is just one token of the overarching theme of "write once, run anywhere" -- this translates to value for the user. Web apps are quite literally the only thing that can be run on essentially any device that is or can be connected to the internet. Nothing else achieved this because nothing else had an interpreter which was the most essential foundation of browsing the internet.

From a user perspective, being able to instantly download any "app" you need (i.e. visit a website) has been the logical conclusion of high speed mobile data. It's low investment, takes up a miniscule amount of ephemeral storage, and works on anything.

From a developer perspective, you can be assured that your single codebase will run on virtually any device, with minimal adaptations to it. You have enough performance to run mildly resource intensive 3D games, some basic concurrency, and an ecosystem that fixes all of the most important faults in the language (typescript is the biggest one IMO). You also increasingly have APIs that allow you to do everything that you could otherwise do with a proper desktop/mobile app.

Literally the ONLY reason webapps are not the first choice for most companies is because they're not as sticky (obnoxious). Users aren't forced to look at your icon and receive your notifications until they disable them. That's it.
Also note that GeoTrust is Google's root CA.
Oh.. so I guess it wouldn't be worth it unless you are away from the grid.
To be fair, Lagos is far a more recognizable geographic place to an international audience, even if it isn't accurate. Coming from California, I recognized Lagos from the title, but not Ogun State.
Nigerian currency is Naira, so he meant US Dollars.
I'm concerned about whether their infra can handle it -- part of the reason for the higher prices is to throttle the demand to something manageable without the staff they can afford to run the store. Didn't the rush from this overload them? Can they afford to ramp up for long-term lower prices?
To me the issue isn't the lack of literal gatekeeping, its the intended audience. If I'm having a conversation in public with my friends, I still have a reasonable expectation that my conversation is "private" as long as I make an effort to keep it among those in my group. That someone could walk by, eavesdrop and overhear something objectionable doesn't meaningfully alter this dynamic. I see subreddits as similar to this. The fact that there is a specific URL that indicates its topic is enough gatekeeping to warrant the conversations as "private", in terms of who is the expected target of the conversation. In the case of fatpeoplehate, the insulation of the content of the sub makes it reasonable to expect that consumers of the content will be "in on the joke". Objecting to the content because its in a "public space" and therefore not appropriate for public consumption doesn't make sense.
Or maybe web apps are going to be good enough and cheap enough to develop that app stores will end up full of stale apps. If everything is on the web, that's where users will get their stuff.

For instance, how often do you try to get a desktop app for something instead of a Google search? Does anyone start by browsing the Mac App Store?

Related: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-a...
Cool, I must try it sometime :)
There was a book I read in the 1970's about "sociobiology" that explained this. If I remember right:

People share exactly 50% of their genes with their parents and children, but only probably 50% of genes with siblings -- it could be 51%, or could be 48%. To preserve their own genes, people will feel altruistic to give their lives for three of their siblings (about 150% of their own genes saved), but not for one sibling (only about 50% saved). People share between 90% to 110% of their genes with two siblings (I'm guessing the variance here), so will give their lives for two siblings they share 110% of their genes with, but not two they only share 90% with. The feeling of "liking a sibling as a friend" is the same as being willing to give one's live for them, so in today's age of large urban groups where friendship is a proxy for one's siblings in small tribes during the hunter-gatherer era, it follows people choose their friends because they share more than the average genetic material with them.
One advantage of a trained ham radio operator is that false reports such as you've described are sifted much more thoroughly before being broadcast. Limiting access to the communication channels by requiring licensing is a great way to improve signal to noise ratio.
Ok, but how calculate what I need (ie: How many solar panels, battery, etc)?
> Another thing is, let's say I use some other CA for my certs, and I don't want LetsEncrypt issuing any. I can't really stop them, can I?

CAA records. If you want full control over when issuance happens, you can even set the list of allowed CAs to empty and only change it when you actually want a certificate.

> And finally, say I wanted to use LetsEncrypt, but I wanted to manage the keys myself

If someone can submit a CSR and complete the challenges they get a signed cert, yes, just like with other DV-CAs. LE code (certbot or other clients) doesn't have to touch your private keys, as long as you give them CSRs, as with other CAs.
Ask HN: Is the star rating system a good indicator of restaurant quality?
Fine print: software will be ready in 2050.
What about present day believers?
Any chance we could talk about how you unfuck bad times from undergrad to move forwards in a research career?
Do you know the title, author or journal by any chance? This sounds interesting, but it seems my google skills are lacking.
I guess you could go through the case log of FIRE.

https://www.thefire.org/category/cases/free-speech/

How many instances does Evergreen rate? How many instances of self censorship do you think such an atmosphere creates? Do you think actions like this only result in one person being afraid to speak up? Does it only matter if someone is willing to go to a journalist and make themselves a target?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/06/0...
Could it have been E.O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiology:_The_New_Synthesi...

The two brothers/eight cousins idea goes back as far as Haldane regarding kin selection:

> No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane

Wikiquote has that as quoted in 2007, but I'm not sure how far back he originally stated it.
Not to mention that this kind of dirt gets around. Employers don't want to be viewed as bad employers.
I dunno man, I have seen standard size organic milk carton go for $5.12 at Whole Foods where as 3 standard size Organic milk cartons are $10 plus change at costco. I have shopped at Whole Foods before and after and it has def. got cheaper at key essentials such as - organic egg, organic milk and organic chicken. Now the costs are more in Target/Kroger range.
Yup, it's interesting that the two things Jesus seems to preach the most about is (paraphrased somewhat) do not judge others and do not be a rich dude.
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> Another thing is, let's say I use some other CA for my certs, and I don't want LetsEncrypt issuing any. I can't really stop them, can I?

You absolutely can. Let's Encrypt was one of the first CAs to support CAA (and, IIRC, they supported it when they first launched). CAA is a DNS record that lets you specify which CAs are permitted to issue certificates for your domain.

> And finally, say I wanted to use LetsEncrypt, but I wanted to manage the keys myself, and require only private key X could be used to sign Y, and manage it myself. They don't really let me set those requirements at the CA level - it's all on my own host + network security.

I'm not quite sure what you're saying here. Do you want the ability to issue certificates under your own (constrained) intermediate certificate? That's unfortunately not possible under the current Baseline Requirements unless you get audited as a CA.

If you just want to use your own private key, that's of course possible (in fact, there's no way for Let's Encrypt to generate a key for you). Or is it that you want to limit limit issuance for domain X to key Y? What other CA allows you to do that? And how would you prevent some other CA from issuing a certificate for a different key, even if Let's Encrypt would support such a feature? With that in mind, it becomes clear that in the end it's up to your host and network security again, even with such an agreement in place.
> Wouldn't it make sense to train a few thousand of them to make sure there is efficient dispatch of rescues?

Why DoD? You might as well double train all the Fish & Wildlife people. The US has a long tradition of volunteers and they are enthusiastic and fairly effective. Single point of dispatches fail, badly. Its in the national character of the US. Having the government do everything isn't.
Ah, Karl Popper, interesting to see his work about tolerance make a resurgence of attention. It seems to be mingled about in various political discussions from talking heads. It's right on about lax tolerance welcoming the intolerance and the whole system crumbles. In the end we all have to make a stand for something, every robust structure needs a sound skeleton to stand upright.
This tool is more useful for immediate communication with 'somebody' not 2 way communication. I listened in to a channel with Irma closing in, and People were asking questions like "I'm on the road, and not going to make it, what is the nearest evacuation center to where I am now?" or important messages were relayed like "We are working at store X, in city Y, and we just got another truck with more bottled water"
I disagree with this sentiment and it's tautologically false.

Have you ever worked in a mature babel code base? I have worked in many and frequently get contracts to clean them up. I have yet to see a clean one. Can you even point to a clean open source one?

The complexity doesn't reach some steady state, it just keeps growing.

The argument that something simple needs to be complex because of unknown future needs is a prime example of design based on emotion, not engineering.
This was discussed here [0] in more detail (and from the original source) earlier today.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15220760
Hopefully in a not too far future you and all the others that are convinced that are better drivers will be forcefully signed up so your scenario can't possibly occur given that the other car will be self driving and always paying attention.
Worrying too much is going to hurt the community as well. Worrying that your friends are spying on you, worrying your family will leave you, worrying the world will come to an end. How much can you worry?
Step 14: Find out in a couple years that someone else took the same idea to fruition and succeeded.

When that happens I'm sad that I didn't fully pursue it, but happy that someone did.
Lot of misconception on this app that it works without cell service, like a regular walkie talkie.

Does seem like a good idea if Apple or Samsung might build in some point to point radio hardware similar to a Gotenna that's works without cell infrastructure.
What are those behaviors?
Keep in mind part of the cost is the battery, and you would not need that if you are grid connected.

On the other hand the inverter would be more expensive, since you can't just use any old cheap inverter, but you need one that is true sine wave (cheap ones are filtered square wave), and able to phase and voltage match to the grid.
To be fair Safeway is also very overpriced...
Drawing your argument to its logical conclusion, those that act on such impulses based on their genetics and instincts are less evolved than those who don't.

Sounds like something a plantation owner from the antebellum south would agree with.

Now obviously anti-racism isn't "the real racism", but I think it's kind of funny that many commentators here seem to think that by defining certain sects of people based on cherry picked attributes will somehow prove that we've moved beyond the biological impulses of discrimination.
The safest thing might be for the car to pull over, put on hazard lights, and tell you to wait or call for assistance.

Humans deciding to go continue driving in such conditions is a mistake, leading to more collisions. Perhaps there will be a manual override, like "Unsafe conditions, voice password and waiver required to continue in manual mode; you might die or kill someone else."
I argue that the 15b isnt just replacing lost capital but is an investment. I think you underestimate how much houston contributes to our economy.
Surely the distrust doesn't apply to websites with the Norton Secured Seal, the most trusted mark on the internet: https://www.symantec.com/page.jsp?id=seal-transition
Some poor programmer had to grit his teeth and implement this while pressured by his "agile" "product" "manager" to "finish the sprint".
You may be interested in seeing a discussion on this same paper over at Voat!

https://voat.co/v/fatpeoplehate/2122645
> So your argument is that because the credit reporting companies may raise prices as a result of being sued for their bad actions we should prohibit anyone from suing them and allow them to operate with out any legal liability.

Nope. My argument is we need to account for the costs of this when we decide if having arbitration ban is a good thing or not. It's not "evil fatcats want no responsibility for their greed, let's stop them!", it's "we have two setups here, with complex cost structure, before we decide which one we are going with, we need to carefully weigh the costs of each, not dismissing any of them because it makes us feel bad and not using unicorn-land economics that says everything that makes one feel bad doesn't really exist". My point is not one is better than the other - I didn't do the work to know that - my point is you have to do the work to know it. Wishing well is not enough, unlike fairy tales, in the economics it's not enough to be pure of heart, you also have to have math and data on your side.

> Really? That is your position

No, not really, you can stop strawmanning now, before you caused local straw shortage and the costs of straw skyrocket.

> but if I want meaningful access I have to pay them a monthly fee to access my own data.

I know right now about half-dozen of absolutely free ways of getting credit reports and scores. I didn't look for them that hard, I was told about them by companies' marketing, banners, mails (both paper and electronic), etc. Discover, American Express, Barclay, CreditKarma, Mint, Citi. Everybody is doing it now. I am sure if I look harder, I can find even more free offers. Surely, the paid ones could have slightly better UI and maybe a couple of added-value services like insurance and notifications and stuff, but bare access to data has been free for a while, if you spend 10 minutes on research.

> This data breach should mean Equifax as a company is dissolved,

So instead of 3-way oligopoly you have 2-way oligopoly. That surely will fix things.
> you still objectify women

I would rather live in a world where women are still an attraction.
I used to drive a Volt to work, where I had access to charging and Booster for the rarely needed gas fill-up. On days when my wife's Prius was low on gas, we'd switch cars and I'd fill it up while at work. We didn't visit a gas station for months with either car.

Unfortunately, we got rid of the Volt and I now ride my bike, so no charging and no Booster. The Prius tank now has to get below 0 on the gauge before either of us will find the time to go out of our way to a gas station.
You may be interested to see a thread discussing this same paper over on voat.co

https://voat.co/v/fatpeoplehate/2122645
That... is the point of the DV cert?
https://www.avogadr.io/?background=5f0000&foreground=ce3838&...
Hi, thanks a lot for pointing this out to me! However https://qntm.org/tetris#sec6 does not have any cases for width 10 where the player wins. Are you implying that you have run more calculations than described in this article, and that the player can win for width 10 with a sufficient high depth?
Language is mutable for this reason. If we didn't add any words but just kept using "nearby words" then we would be DANGER NO GO.
Things to not put your body into.
"Lots"
Though the authors clarified that only the hate speech specific to the banned subreddits has disappeared. I think that's still a strong result, but maybe the users might have gone on to spread hate about different topics. (I think that may be unlikely though, since they probably aren't just indiscriminately hateful but focus on a certain topic.)
I doubt this, because I have seen too many native apps that have something off. Misalignments, blocking UI when doing requests, issues with the keyboard etc.
Hey, it's me, avogadr.io guy. The first thing to give out seemed to be the molecule rendering server Sourire (running locally) which is a Clojure webserver wrapper around a cheminformatics toolkit (see GitHub for more info). The molecule rendering server process was crashing for some reason under the load (physical memory, disk space, jury's still out I'm honestly not sure at this point) so the site itself was being served but any requests to Sourire were failing (hence the lack of a molecule in the UI during the hug of death). More RAM/disk space seems to have sorted it out for now and it's holding steady. I guess it comes down to a question of how many molecule renders are possible concurrently on the hardware (including any temp file/cache/RAM cleanup time).
If Whole Foods becomes anything like Amazon, their locally-sourced grass-fed beef could become commingled meat product from various fly-by-night suppliers that's just "fulfilled by Whole Foods."

Amazon's inability or indifference to combatting counterfeit sellers on their website has completely eroded my trust in eating the food they source.
https://www.avogadr.io/?background=0176ff&foreground=38ce72&...
The latest Proton can get payload to orbit for a lower price per kg than an expendable Falcon 9. The price difference isn't huge, less than 10%, and it comes at the cost of using UDMH/NTO for its propellant. This propellant combination is both highly explosive and highly toxic. It's an acceptable propellant choice for ICBMs, which the Proton was developed as, but for everything else it's really unacceptable. The price of the Proton also does not include development costs, making every flight in essence subsidized by the Russian government. Once the price of the Falcon 9 drops due to reusability, it will be the cheapest launch vehicle per kg of payload.
It doesn't follow at all because the vast majority of genetic diversity is not tangibly self evident from just being friends with someone. We all share the same number of genes with each other. The common differences are tiny single base changes. The vast majority of these are not phenotypic but neutral chamges that dont impact the products produced by your genes.
WebAssembly will help hide this!
the reality of the situation is that a dorm was closed by the people whom it's financial viability depended on because it never grew into something fully independent, nor into something that the people running MIT's budget found especially useful.

Already there we have a narrative break, sure a lot of people who's identity have gotten mixed with a particular community feels they lost something but that don’t mean society did. And the fact that one of the people responsible for tanking the US economy lived there don’t actually change anything.

This debate is classic and symptomatic for any kind of bohemian community, who always have a super important pedigree until it have to be quantified at which point the super important narrative kind of falls apart, and this is not a isolated case every city on every continent have it's Senior House.

The problem is that your asking people to fight for something utterly insignificant(more of a local petting zoo then a civil rights landmark) as if it had an impact on the battles worth fighting which it frankly don’t.

Yes there is a trend on the way towards the institutions to stop financing and sanctioning counter culture but again what good is a counter culture that only exists when it's sanctioned and financed by the establishment?
>Do you really believe that ridicule is a reasonable way for society to deal with this (or any) issue?

Isn't that exactly what's going on with the backlash against hate groups? Like it or not, ridicule is an effective social tool for behavior modification.
Arguments against the Swoon Theory:

1. If a Roman soldier let a capital prisoner escape, including by bungling a crucifixion, that soldier would be killed.

2. The Roman soldier didn't break Jesus's legs. So he was sure he was dead.

3. The eyewitness account says that blood and water flowed from Jesus's pierced heart, which means collapse of the lungs and death by suffocation.

4. The body was wound in sheets.

5. The turnabout in behavior by his disciples. Before, they were in hiding. Afterward, they died for saying that Jesus rose from the dead.

6. There were Roman guards at the tomb, again who would be put to death if they let the body be stolen.

7. How would a half-dead person move the boulder of the tomb?

--- The Handbook of Christian Apologetics, by Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli

The Swoon Theory eventually dovetails into a theory of conspiracy, by the disciples and authors of the texts in the Bible. This theory also is addressed by that book and others. For the sake of not getting too far off topic, I leave it to anyone to read in their own time. Besides, as others have pointed out, the resurrection that this article is about is the resurrection of all dead at the end of the age.
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