skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if it is someone in NK, how likely is it that an ordinary citizen can do it?
I don't think these problems are caused by economics. I think they're caused by the agenda.

For example. People are paid too little, because there's an oversupply of workers, because women are working. If women didn't work, men would be paid enough to support the families. But now that women are working, they can't quit, because the man alone won't bring in enough income. I don't think this benefits women, or men, or children, or families, and therefore not society as a whole either.

Of course we all know that not everyone agrees about what we want the world to be, and some understanding of economics is required to affect change responsibly, but this course is clearly left-leaning.

That's why I don't see it as an empowering "new way to learn economics" but rather as "push agenda more effectively". Personally, that's the opposite of what I want.
As a paying user, I find it's more than reasonable. Although, I do wish they'd seperate their calendar portion to another app - their email service is superb for the price. Else, I'd have to pay $5 / month minimum, to host my own -_-
I've always been a little curious how North Korea is able to produce hackers that are competitive on a global scale. It's not only that an average North Korean would grow up with access to fewer resources compared to many countries, but you'd also think that the same information embargo used to keep the population in line would also compromise the ability of the best technical people to educate themselves. Extremely limited access to internet, current books, a creative community (either in-person or virtual), software, tooling, etc.

I guess the answer is the same as how the country is able to win gold medal at the Olympics [1] – money (and lots of it) sunk into state-sponsored training programs — but I'm a little surprised that it's effective. Even in the US, a school that would consistently produce A-grade hackers would be pretty hard to build.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_at_the_Olympics
I'd say the comparison between "fat people should stop feeling bad about being fat and live their lives" and "inferior races should be exterminated" as similar positions is specious.
It's still the employer's fault though, they're supposed to have managers etc that make sure people conform to safety rules and don't wear loose clothes, have their hair tied back, wear hair and beard nets, remove jewellery, wash hands, etc. Actually (reading further in the article myself now), the journalist is told all that.

But on the other hand, there's religious freedom and rules that come into play. In this case though, if she didn't want to remove or replace the loose clothing, she shouldn't be allowed to work near dangerous machinery.
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60 journalists all spend one week covering Cincinnati's battle with heroin
Never heard of Scaleway...those prices seem to beat the pants of DigitalOcean. Might have to look into that, thank you for mentioning.
reminds me of this meddling markcurtis.info/2007/02/12/the-pinochet-coup-in-chile-1973/
In defence of open floor plans for engineering
> but because it makes the weakest assumptions about human behavior

My memory on that is little hazy (it's been maybe 15 years ago I read about it), but as I remember this was the case about Blatt's model as well. And IIRC it's based on earlier ideas by Keynes (uncertainty is a different thing than risk).

I also recall nice idea from Paul Ormerod (but it could have been somebody else or folklore) who had an interesting model of economic agents - do either one of the 3 things:

- the thing that you always did

- the thing that others are doing

- another thing that you think might work

This also leads to an interesting class of models (different from rational expectations) and it's not making too much assumptions about humans.

Again, this shows that Blatt and Keen (and other post-keynesians) are woefully underappreciated in economics.
If you are thinking long term, consider a large scale war, if China and the US get into a large scale conflict, Toronto might be spared.
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Trains and trams are fairly easy to predict, though. They can only really go in two directions, and change speeds very gradually. And for all that we've "learned to be careful" around them, they still rack up 2-3 thousand crashes every year, even with extensive signing and signaling.
I have lived for 17 years at 209 (blank) Street, and found it absurd and ridiculous that less than a mile away is 209 West (blank) Street. That's not twins, but it's so close that it's a real problem.

The most hilarious bit, though, was when someone moved into the other house and filed their change of address with the address "209 West Blank Not Blank", in a hamfisted attempt to remove ambiguity, but they got it exactly backwards. We got their mail for months.
Weird, this doesn't seem to have Stripe listed despite it being the first startup listed on ycombinator's homepage.
Now all we have to worry about are the attacks from our countries' domestic security services.
Cloudflare DNS is one of the best authoritative DNS hosters in the world, if not the best already.

https://www.dnsperf.com/

Cloudflare is also a great free CDN and has a crap ton of edge servers to make your static content serve quickly around the world. Has a lot of other great features too.

Anycast ftw.
>I guarantee your sales people never sell enterprise software for fun.

And I guarantee you your programmers aren't working on your enterprise software outside of work. Conversely, your sales people are practicing the exact same activities (social interaction, manipulation, etc) outside of work on their personal time.
Something like this happens all the time in Corportate IT, I've been seeing it a a lot lately.

It goes like this VP agrees to do these projects in 2018 at X amount. VP gets the highest possible cost for X. VP cuts projects and/or project budgets down to bare minimum. Now he can say he saved whatever amount and is a hero for saving so much let's give him a fat bonus.
>Github pages does not offer secured custom domain name. The best way to get this feature for free is to use Cloudflare.

Quoted from the post. It's used for flexible HTTPS.
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Due to this report by the Star, that's exactly what is happening:

https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2017/09/11/temp-work...

Good investigative journalism can light a fire under companies and politicians pretty quickly when it makes them look bad.
Me over-reacting is most likely true. Been dealing with people dismissing unquestionably life-improving tech for far too long lately.

Sorry.

I do believe most of Linux userland has to be rewritten though. Be it Go, Rust, Nim, D, doesn't matter much as long as it's a memory-safe language.
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Gruber said the images were posted to a public URL. The person who leaked the URL probably wasn’t the same person who posted the images, so before it went live the leaker had nothing to leak.
The only country in South America that kept loyal to the Chicago School was Chile and its results really show.

The rest is very Keynesian and it shows. I'm from South America, trust me. Saying that you're a libertarian here is taken as if saying you're a fascist. Guess who they blame for our own failures? Capitalism and imperialism, of course.
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Neither really when it comes to typing, just the occasional instance where i get "lost" and end up just typing gibberish and need to go back a sentence or 2.

For me I don't think it's a visual thing, it happens regardless of font, size, or how easy it is to see at the moment.
That is not the most obvious interpretation and I don't see any evidence for it except that it would be convenient to your argument if it were true.
Assuming one can trust git and GitHub (and CAs), is there a technical reason why you would consider distributing code via GitHub as unsafe?
For a toy project, I'm currently using a 64-bit integer of which the first bit is a sign bit (I'm using Postgres' bigint), the next 32-bits make a UNIX epoch timestamp in seconds, and the rest of the 31 bits make a random number. In this way, the ID is very easily sortable by time, although it's a bit of a gimmick.

The scheme allows for 2 billion possible records per second, although if you consider birthday collisions, it comes down to a lot less (but I could re-insert on duplicates). I could later also use some of the random bits to inscribe extra data into the ID.

The bits from the two halves are then interspersed to make sure the first half looks random, and transformed to a 11-character id, for example /^[0-9A-Za-z]{11}$/. I can reject some IDs beforehand if they match a list of bad strings. The result is receiving an id such as "Vxe61yU5Cci" or "WgOUBEO88gb".
> It is noticable again and again that devs publishing to npm are not up to snuff, I wish I knew why, as this does not happen with other dynamic languages/their code repos.

It absolutely does happen with other languages. It just happens in Node with greater volume because of the greater volume of programmers, low barriers to entry for JavaScript, lack of a rich standard library, the convergence of server focused coders and frontend coders, and lack of consensus around best practices and frameworks for applications.

Kind of the way it's been possible to write decent code in PHP since version 5. Yet the overall ecosystem is still mostly bad.

Lots of need to fashion very basic tools + high volume of inexperience + democracy = A package repo full of nonsense where it's difficult to find the diamonds in the rough.
Blueborne – A new attack vector endangering major operating systems
> What's interesting to me is that reading through this thread, particularly Sartre's description of anti-Semite thinking, is that the exact same thoughts are voiced in the rightist spheres I inhabit, but referring to the left. Particularly regarding discourse and respect (or lack thereof) for it.

Probably because of postmodernism, which is perhaps best interpreted as "defense against the dark arts" for the left. The "disrespect for words" and meaning itself, a hallmark of postmodernism, has its origins in propaganda techniques developed by corporations for marketing purposes, and was weaponized by the right long before it ever got picked up by the left.
In the aftermath of the Sony hack the NSA burned a few taps when it became known that they monitored the boxes in China that the NK hackers use as staging servers.
I didn't know Smoove B was on Hacker News. Oooooh yeah.

http://www.theonion.com/personalities/smoove-b-1022
> it's quite reasonable for the value we provide.

The rest of your post is fine, but don't say this when pitching your product because value is entirely in the eye of the customer.
I'm going to be doing that, yes, as I'm not getting any younger :-D
I totally agree with this, the bug catching block, occurs because we are not sure if catching this bug will solve our problem at all.

Also this helped me a lot in making things dirtier, use some form of version control system (must). I cannot emphasize more on this. this is to bring you back to the original problem state, which is most cases is simpler than you think.
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In this case, Fi relies on software in order to switch between different carriers and wifi.

They are not able to implement it to their satisfaction with iOS, so they stick with their own devices.
Similar to the other child comment: elinks can format HTML as plaintext.

I have this as my .mailcap and it Just Works (TM) with mutt:

text/html; elinks -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
Sorry, but disagree. I guarantee you many passionate software developers are working on their development skills - learning new frameworks, building personal projects that carry into their day to day work, and yes, sometimes even developing something the company can use 'for fun'. Are there developers that don't? Sure, same as there are sales people that don't.

Edit: As another post says, it's because sales people are only one step removed from the revenue-gaining process - they are often directly responsible for closing a sale, so they can easily claim credit.
Yes, but cloudflare issues only shared certificates (that are shared across multiple domains) on their free plan [1]. If I wanted to use a dedicated certificate I'd have to upgrade to a paid plan.

[1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203349264-A...
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Leverage is a thing...

However, they spend a lot of money on R&D and this is just part of that budget over several years.
Bloggers can one-up journalists though - there's been a number of critical blog posts and articles from (former) employees at Uber, Google, etc, which eventually cost CEO's their jobs. Actually working and living the life is even better than being a journalist and having to dive into it.
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After watching Wes Bos describe his tech stack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CS436KZ35A), it got me wondering how others like Udacity etc did it
It just keeps going and going and everyone gets more and more abusive
Poo-pourri ad creator wants to make it legal to censor movies
You and I are both Italian (good to see you, by the way) - and we both know that every self-driving car would totally fail in Rome :)
Not sure if you'll read this so long after posting the comment - please reply if you do so I know it was worth the effort to write!

A few years ago, after going through a very difficult few years in my life, during which I became very angry and resentful at the world, including at all forms of religion, as well as being very physically fatigued and unwell, I started experimenting with various techniques to try to heal my body and mind. You can read my HN comment history for more detail on this.

After about 6 years of trying various healing practices, and about 3 years after discovering a set of mindfulness techniques and subconscious healing practices that I was finding to be particularly effective, I started experiencing altered states of consciousness that forced me to question the conventional (materialistic) understanding of how the mind and body work together. I started experiencing intuitions and insights that opened a path to new realisations that led me towards a much more healthy and happy life.

These experiences were not linked with any mind-altering substances, and there was no suggestion from people close to me that I had any serious psychiatric illness (apart from being a bit hysterical due to the unfamiliar experiences I was having; nobody saw any need for any medical intervention, I just had to chill out a bit, which I did).

It inspired me to more deeply investigate the most up-to-date research and debate about the mind and body, and the origins of consciousness. It turns out very little is known about where consciousness comes from; it's accepted in the mainstream that consciousness emerges out of brain matter, but when you examine this theory, it's an assumption based on our best understanding of evolution, but it's not proven in its own right.

It turns out that the notion that consciousness is some immaterial ("spiritual") phenomenon, and that consciousness originates from somewhere outside of our own brains/bodies, is just as plausible as the materialist hypothesis, and there are credible, eminent scientists who have sophisticated theories on this.

Probably the most compelling and sound is Sir Roger Penrose and his "quantum microtubules" concept [1]. But there are others with ideas worth exploring. I've gotten a lot out of reading Bernardo Kastrup, Rupert Sheldrake and Rudy Tanzi.

None of this is to say that science proves the merits of any organised religion (or mitigates any of its failings or wrongoings), but it's certainly not the case that science has disproven religion/spirituality and made it all irrelevant.

I'm with you that organised religion as done, and continues to do, much harm in the world. But we also take for granted how much good it has done (the Western system of government and judiciary, and everything that has emerged out of that, for a start).

And for the record, I haven't had any more of those altered states of consciousness for about 3 years, but every aspect of my life (physical/emotional health, friends/family/relationships, career/financial success) has been improving at an accelerating rate since that episode.

[1] http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/roger-penrose-on-why...
This is the first time I've heard such claims. Do you have any more details about this?
I’m told that there are proper addresses in the town I grew up in, but none are posted on signs. UPS relies on area knowledge and some vague conventions (e.g. #311 behind the school). USPS doesn’t deliver since they only have post office boxes.
displaying a SOLD ticket as NOT SOLD, and then CHANGING it to SOLD is LYING.

you're all idiots.
>"We wanted to minimise the risk of robberies and it's quicker with the customers when they pay by card," says Victoria Nilsson, who manages two of the bakery chain's 16 stores across the city.

Nobody seems to be asking why Sweden all of a sudden has such a big problem with robberies.
An engineer doesn't want to make a bad product, but if a company has a good product they don't even need to hire a salesperson
Stolen GitHib credentials.

The code is what we are trying to verify, not that someone claiming to be user x published it.
Bitcoin Cash has support from the best mining farms money can buy, it will be hard to compete with the transaction price for the foreseeable future
Please read my words correcting the crass misrepresentations and misunderstandings in the post from the guy who attacked the MIT AI Lab with the quite aggressive words "Fuck them", as well as the MIT AI Lab Tourist Policy which POURNE violated, and of course POURNE's own words describing how much effort the MIT AI Lab staff and even RMS himself put into personally helping him and even writing him free software to his specifications, and also the words of an anonymous staff member on the topic, POURNE's enduring legacy, asymmetric audience, and his failure to live up to the responsibility of his celebrity. Specifically:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15221830

And finally, read the words [3] of an anonymous MIT-AI Lab member who spent much of their own time helping POURNE and I as well as many other tourists. Even though POURNE isn't around to defend himself, I feel obligated to post this in response to the crass misunderstandings and misstatements of the facts in your attempt to smear the MIT AI Lab and its members (your own words: "Fuck them."), and because I agree with the point that "If he didn't want to have this as his enduring legacy, he had plenty of opportunity to make amends. And the offensive acts were not private ones.", and also with the points about asymmetric audience and the responsibility to do well by one's celebrity:
Every succesful first world country is built with social-democratic provisions to unconstrained markets, those are very indebted to Keynes in particular.
> There are three proposed cognitive subtypes of dyslexia (auditory, visual and attentional)

In the US, unfortunately, many experts focus exclusively on the phonological aspects of dyslexia (which corresponds to the "auditory" description above). In other parts of the world, the understanding is broader and includes visual aspects also.

It seems that the narrower, U.S.-based conception of dyslexia goes back to some research done at Yale in 1996 [1], which is often summarized as "dyslexia is phonological, not visual". Because Americans have such a high opinion of Yale, educators/experts here like to parrot this sound bite, even if they don't fully understand the research or competing research conclusions. Researchers and experts outside the U.S. have a different view (and IMO are less influenced by a research report from Yale).

I have been especially curious about the visual impacts of dyslexia, because the technology I work [2] on is visual, and according to many people with dyslexia, it is extraordinarily helpful for them. Having heard repeatedly that "dyslexia is not visual", I was curious to know why a visual technology would have a materially beneficial effect for readers with dyslexia.

In conversations with dyslexia researchers, I have learned that there may be second-order effects of dyslexia that are visual — even if the root causes of dyslexia are not visual. Basically, people with dyslexia dislike reading and therefore do not read much. This causes them to lag on a number of reading-related skills, including visual tracking. Since visual aids can improve visual tracking, they can help readers with dyslexia, even if they don't have a type of dyslexia that was originally caused by visual differences.

1: http://dyslexia.yale.edu/Scientific_American_1996.pdf

2: http://www.BeeLineReader.com
Treating my identity (aka personal privacy) as my personal property would help remedy this imbalance. Make a buck off my data (property), give me my cut. Allow someone to steal some portion of my identity, pay me damages.

Don't want to be liable? Then don't store my data.
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I wouldn't compare them. I would say most people know about what the US did in Chile (and over most of south america), whereas the russian involvement in US domestic politics is still rather opaque.

And even if they were comparable, one can still find both despicable.
Also woah I didn't read your whole comment. "Will men consider beautiful girls a risk to the workplace?"

What kind of question is that? So beautiful girls don't have a right to a job because men are afraid of them? Honestly that's kind of messed up to think about. "Beautiful girls" are people too...
Re: Zoho, when things go wrong expect days of issues and no real replies, but green status pages due to old school sharding behind the scenes (only small number of customers effected so well stay green, I.e. no mail for three days). Premium customer? Call their support number, yep a voicemail, a callback? not within 24hrs. Terrible company. Sloppy products. Dont ever recommend this to clients, even if the client is a cheapstake and 5 free accounts appeals just say 'not on my name'
My understanding is that based on the position of the Earth, most of the time what we see is the next band over, from our position on the edge of a neighboring band. But like you I've had trouble finding a detailed explanation of our exact POV within the galaxy.
VW spends a lot on R&D but it's not 50% of revenue. More like around $14 billion.
How so? Shared SSL cert is still an SSL cert. Not snake oil.
You can still use Facebook Messenger with a deactivated Facebook account in case you didn't know
I wrote a similar blog post:
https://tberra.com/aws/amazon/meta/2016/11/12/the-birth-of-a...

The main differences on mine are:

- I use Jekyll, which is ranked #1 in the static site generator space.

- Hosted on AWS S3.

- CloudFront in front of S3.

- Routing and aliases handled by Route53.

- Deployed using a tool called s3_websites (change detection only uploading generated files AND cloud front cache invalidation for only the changed objects).

- Coded in a Docker container via a cloud IDE called c9.io using the Ruby template.

- Generator and site files committed to a GIT repository hosted on AWS CodeCommit.
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