skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alaska is a state, not country.

The highest the Alaska oil royalty has ever been was $2,072 in 2015. I think they are now capping it at $1000.

The median household income in 2015 was $73,355, the third highest in the country. Certainly the royalty was enough to move it from number 5 to number 3.

I suspect the royalty does not have much to do with this high income. And this is EXTRA money, not money taken from the populace and then given back to them as UBI would be.

Interestingly, "Alaska has more residents on welfare, per capita, than any other state in the nation" according to the Alaska Dispatch News.

And, yes, not many rich people live in Alaska. Maybe the climate is a reason. Maybe it's the lack of big cities.
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I wrote a book describing my experience in detail and how I overcame particulars, but every time I think about publishing, I back down. The last few years, I'm finally rid of that "black spot" over my head that I'm not ready to bring it back quite yet. Not to mention, I need to focus on running my company at the moment.

I never ask if a person has been arrested/convicted of a felony during the hiring process. People can do great work regardless if they're black, white, male, female, immigrant, or felon.
An analogy? That my concrete examples seem analogorical, perhaps shows how much perspectives have changed? Or maybe I've just read too much into word choice.

Apropos change: Two decades ago, US inter-city air travel could be done anonymously - now it can't. US inter-city rail could be done anonymously - now it can't. US inter-city bus still can (though given credit cards, it's much less common), but I've seen "everyone must show identification to state/federal police to get on the bus" drills at bus depots. On intra-city subway and light-rail, it's been the (very infrequently exercised, except during a Democratic party convention) policy that state and federal officers with dogs can do random ID checks and bag inspections, or if someone refuses, require them to leave the train. Years ago, that was unimaginable. Around Boston and Manhattan, office buildings often had no ground floor security at all, or it was concierge - you'd just wander in and up to some office, and talk first with some receptionist, or if they weren't there, maybe hit a desk bell, or maybe wander around the office asking for directions. Now you usually hit security just inside the building door, and often have to present state identification, which is sometimes scanned or typed in. And get buzzed into offices. Office workers badge themselves through turnstiles and doors. Locked doors are more of a thing than they used to be. Before laptops, what is someone going to steal? Office supplies? A heavy typewriter? Large CRTs? MIT used to emphasize it was an "open campus", and students felt guilty about not doing enough wandering around in the evening/night, visiting labs and talking with people. Now that seems no longer a thing - lab doors and even whole buildings are locked to them, even with cards, even during the day. If you walk by a bar in Boston on a busy night, you will see someone standing there, checking government-issued identification. A few decades back, pre-MADD, that wasn't a thing.

We become used to "the way things are" so very rapidly, that it's easy to forget that the same familiar place, a few decades offset in time, could have had startlingly different attitudes and practices. As much as living in a foreign culture today.
Surely it is a parody, right? This can't possibly be a post by an actual serious person. I mean, if you want to hear the same music on your stereo as your headphones, find a radio station you like and leave the stereo on while you go for a run. But really, if you can't stand exercising without your music, maybe you don't actually like exercise and you should stop.
Ask HN: Should we block non-gzip HTTP bots to reduce bandwidth costs?
We run web servers on EC2 (behind ELB) and are dealing with high bandwidth charges.

The bulk of the bandwidth charges are due to bots scraping/crawling/pinging without gzip.

Is it safe to block requests made without the accept-encoding header? (and what HTTP status code should be used? 400?) Naively it seems it would only be inconveniencing poorly written and uninvited bots (SEO spam, bots trying to find exploits etc.)

Or should we respond with gzip compression, no matter what?

Or should we stop using AWS since the bandwidth is too expensive because of situations like this?
In the United States at least, it's going to be devastating. I don't see a bunch of individual owner-operators banding together to protect their livelihoods. As soon as it's cheaper to run automated trucks, they'll get picked off one by one. Probably the best than can be hoped for is laws mandating a person as co-operator in case of emergency. There's also some version of the last mile problem, where people need to be present.

For fully automated trucking, I imagine no one has explored the security implications yet. These vehicles seem far too easy to hijack, redirect, or delay and steal the cargo. Take out the human factor and long-haul trucks are autonomous warehouses roaming the countryside.
Forensic acoustic proof of second shooter in the Las Vegas massacre [video]
The flip side to the story..

what if he messed up the restore, and instead of restoring from the only known backup, he wiped our the only known backup?

Would be epic fired story.

I vote for admit when you mess up, and ask for help. Don't be too proud, we all mess up.
Because it's a rampant problem not limited to them, and not obvious, and nobody seems to care? This is a good example for getting the target market to understand the dangers of just dropping in the latest js tool that marketing wants.

I used to be in ad tech, it always baffled me that we had first party js on every single customer page. Conceivable if we were breached, someone could inject code to read every login token or cc# or anything and send it to their servers.
Show HN: Recite Social – see how social media is quoted across the web
We are very afraid of spreading ourselves too thin too. Recently we've been encouraged by how GitLab CI is doing, it is winning developers gitlab-ci-is-the-most-popular-next-generation-ci-system and industry analysts over https://about.gitlab.com/2017/09/27/gitlab-leader-continuous...

I think what makes GitLab different is that more than 1800 people contributed to it to increase the depth. Our team members are focussed on increasing the breath. From https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/

"We realize our competitors have started earlier and have more capital. Because we started later we need a more compelling product that covers the complete scope, that is integrated out of the box, and that is cloud native. Because we have less capital, we need to build that as a community. Therefore it is important to share and ship our vision for the product. The people that have the most knowledge have to prioritize breadth over depth since only they can add new functionality. Making the functionality more comprehensive requires less coordination than making the initial minimal feature. Shipping functionality that is incomplete to expand the scope sometimes goes against our instincts. However leading the way is needed to allow others to see our path and contribute. With others contributing, we'll iterate faster to improve and polish functionality over time. So when in doubt, the rule of thumb is breadth over depth, so everyone can contribute."
The title isn't just clickbate, it is a lie. There is no way to construe this research as being a form of power storage.
just FYI, I never see ads on Messenger app
I think the bigger safety against this isn't that Apple reviews apps, but that submitting an app to the store requires money up front and some way for Apple to identify the person behind the account. It's by no means foolproof, but I imagine it redirects a lot of bad actors to easier attacks.
It's not free association if you are telling me to think of a skin color while listing stereotypes.
Not all of the companies you listed are analytics company, just FYI.
But again, do we? Is that an absolute need?
I disagree, and we'll just have to leave it at that. Anyone who knows how to construct an AJAX request and look at the Network tab can figure this out.
Two terms was such a common source of mistakes: I shut down a server parked in a nearby country and we had to drive there to turn it on.

Since then I’ve adopted custom prompt and color scheme for production.

I really wish there was some practical information course at compsci with these kind of tips to prevent the most common slippages
You have to back it into your profile. That way ANYONE that SSHes into that box gets the funny text colors... or at least a funny colored prompt.

Good way to save your bacon.
FTFY - Mapbox guys + gals + non-binary folks + dogs
Playing APK Golf: Reducing an Android APK's Size by 99.99%
I think OAuth and single sign on is great but I always thought OAuth had a similar issue to this. You're on a random website, you click to login via e.g. Google and then enter your Google password into the login dialog that appears. It's asking wayyy too much from regular users to be able to tell if this is safe or not. I'm really surprised there haven't been more phishing attempts where a fake login is shown which saves your password.

It's an even worse issue in e.g. Android apps that use Google or Facebook for logins as you can't tell what domain is serving the login prompt like you can in a desktop browser.
My girlfriend and I broke up a 15 year long relationship approximately one year ago and while I did enjoy having time alone back when we were together, after so much time I still can't stand being alone as the default. I miss the sharing, the laughs, the little moments (good or bad!) that seem insignificant but that turn out to be core to the relationship, that no friend seem to be able to replace. While I do enjoy some activities briefly, everything I do retrospectively seems like an attempt to escape and drown out the drone of loneliness. Being able to share is such a catalyst to any experience that things feel sort of pointless: does a falling tree make a sound if no one's around to hear it? Maybe I'm still getting over that break up, maybe I should just fake it till I make it. Really, I don't know.
Speaking of backups :)
We had a very large mission-critical system that we developed and hosted for a fortune 50 client.
Long story short - prod DB with tons of records took a crap, proper RCA was never done I suspected HW failure of some sort.

The kicker was - the client grudgingly OKd the restore understanding that they will loose few hours worth of data. BUT. When a DBA attempted to restore - the backup was corrupt lol. They went back day by day - all of the recent backups were corrupt, the "freshest" working backup was about a month old. Some heads rolled as a result.
Sorry but, "millionaire" in USD is not rich. Might make you upper middle class, but that's it. Maybe $10M and up?
I'm sorry.

I should have said that NPM is fundamentally and essentially flawed, and that HN readers should not use it, favoring alternatives like Yarn instead.
The point is the OS manages your fingerprint, and even if you have it, you can't easily send a stolen fingerprint to the OS.

If you have access to the hardware, that's a whole different attack vector.
There are a few approaches, but yes, one thing I hope to do by publishing this is to draw attention to the problem of third party Javacript scripts running in a privileged environment and not on e.g the marketing page.
Passwords should be secondary authentication. The primary authentication method should be the “something you have” in 2FA not the other way around.
The headline is misleading. They aren't proposing using the buildings as batteries. They are proposing that a large number of commercial buildings would switch on/off their HVAC systems for short periods of grid surplus/shortfall to help balance grid demand.

The only "battery like" thing is that short durations of turning off/on a large building's HVAC shouldn't change the internal temperature much. And that's stretching "battery like".
Also doable with desktops for those occasions where it is a remote screen share.

For UAT / Test environments that are different than dev, I use a yellow background.
AFAIK, it's not possible for a sandboxed app to take a screenshot without user consent.
And let us not forget the endless string of assassinations carried out by foreign intelligence agencies against Iranian nuclear scientists [0][1][2][3][4], indiscriminately killing civilians – women and children.

Of course, we as a nation are so overwhelmingly vilified by US media that such tragedies happening to us don't get awarded the label of "Terrorism."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majid_Shahriari
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fereydoon_Abbasi
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoud_Alimohammadi
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darioush_Rezaeinejad
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostafa_Ahmadi-Roshan
The only way universal basic income even approaches making sense is if it replaces _everything_ else. No housing benefits, education benefits, welfare, unemployment or social security. Dump it all.

Yes, instead of living in large urban centers, unemployed poor people would have to move to smaller places with low costs of living. This is a good thing, really.

And without price supports through unlimited government loans, schools will have to become cheaper. Those associate professors of English lit who are so abused by the current system can live on BI plus cheap tuition in addition to online classes.

But of course it's all politics and I'm sure it will be impossible to pass a reasonable, cost neutral plan. Instead people will find ways to pile on the bureaucracy until it is less annoying to just go to work and get paid than it is to fill out all of the BI paperwork and file it with six different agencies.

The easy idea of just creating a virtual bank account at birth linked to a SS number or equivalent is so simple it's just a non-starter. And I've tried to convince people that means-testing and such is a waste of money and time but no, plenty of people see BI as welfare and want drug testing and means testing for it. Bah! Give Bill Gates his $20K per year. Who cares if he doesn't need it!?
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What's gendered about Jewelbots?
Go onto Amazon and get the TOC. Take that to Google Scholar.
Why robots should format our code for us
Navigating the new Gilded Age [pdf]
It's a fact that people sometimes choose to act stupid. I have chosen to act stupid in the past; and when I was reprimanded, I knew exactly why, and how I could've avoided it.
I'm not talking about people who are less capable in their mental faculties. Of course nobody should blame someone who is actually mentally handicapped for "stupid actions", or for "acting stupid". That's exactly the difference I was talking about.
Forest Gardens Are Ending Hunger and Poverty (Video Documentary)
Doesn't it have a password/pin fallback though?
The author should try a couple more guided breathing exercises. He must be out of breath from all this unchecked rage over whether Spotify works on his new watch while he runs.
Until some prison warden decides to cripple as many prisoners as possible to ensure they can't reoffend.
I agree too. When reading about CircleCI my first thought is, "wonder why my CI is doing?". Now gotta check the requests to validate their claim.
The same way we decode any phrase that has a coded meaning. I assume you can understand irony, jokes, and satire, dog whistle phrases are no different.
If you have never screwed up anything in production, no one at your org trusts you enough to give you production access. Which is ok and great for you, but at the end of the day SOMEONE has to have production access. You can write a devops template that wipes out data just as easy as you can sudo rm -rf /
It's rather sad that Google needs to pay Android makers a fee for installing it's apps, given how Google gives away source code that makes Android exist in the first place.

On the contrary, Apple's ecosystem is completely closed, app cut fairly high and non-negotiable at 30% and app store rejections arbitrary at best and blatantly anti competitive at worst. In the name of user centricity, their platform places arbitrary restrictions on code execution and access.

Who'd you think the EU would investigate for monopolistic practices?
Also this is a nicely thought out post. I don't see what the problem is.
Account created an hour ago, and the only comment from this account is this one you’re looking at (which seems fine by my standards), and it’s insta-dead? I vouched for the comment, but am I missing something or is HN’s juvenile shadow ban broken again? (IP ban, maybe?)
If the author of this post had spent a few minutes looking into what functionality the Watch had before purchasing it, he could've had a much different experience. This reads like the complaints of someone who didn't quite know what they were buying.

>I bought the Apple Watch yesterday, and yesterday is the keyword. How come I didn’t run yesterday? Thanks for asking, in fact I did run, but yesterday I couldn’t stream music because I had no apps.

The exact feature is described as "Stream 40 million songs with Apple Music right from your wrist". It's also clearly described on Apple's home page as "Coming Soon". Of course there are no streaming music apps like Spotify or Soundcloud yet. Apple's own music platform isn't even ready. I don't agree with Apple's approach of releasing a watch and announcing software or features that aren't readily available at launch, but I'm not going to then say "wait where is music streaming?" if I buy one before the feature is released.

What he could've done, given some patience, was sync a playlist of songs to the watch. It's had that functionality since day one.

>In summary, $432.92 for the Apple Watch Series 3 GPS + Cellular, $99 for the Apple Developer Program, $10/mo for Verizon, and $9.99/mo for Apple Music. I feel it’s a bit too much for just streaming music while I run, I’m happy to just go with a non-cellular watch and some music pre-downloaded.

The author is being misleading. The developer program isn't required, this is the price the author paid for being impatient. The rest of the costs are required for music, but cellular functionality != music streaming. It has other uses.

>I have to unlock the door, climb like 20 steps — it’s plenty of time to connect to the wifi. Then I have to take off my headphones before my sweaty t-shirt, so it would be great to just switch the current song to the living room airplay system, so that there’d be no interruption. I couldn’t do it, and don’t understand why switching between bluetooth and wifi shouldn’t just work

Wearable tech is hard. I'm sure a device with a bigger battery and more powerful hardware could do this, but it's a small piece of wearable tech on your wrist. Give it time. (I can see why this wouldn't be a feature right now since AirPlay is direct streaming and it'd likely mean users burn through their battery as they stream music to their speakers from their watch).

>On the bright side, earlier today I went grocery shopping, turned my iPhone in airplane mode, and paid with just the watch. For spending more money, the Apple Watch works great.

Apple Pay is great on the watch. It also doesn't need cellular data, you can use Apple Pay without an iPhone present on any Apple Watch.[1]

I personally have a Series 1 that I use when I go for a run, I leave my iPhone at home. I have a playlist of music synced. I'm happy with my watch and don't have any need for GPS or cellular for the time being. Syncing a playlist of music works fine for me.

[1] https://www.macworld.com/article/2916821/what-can-your-apple...
There are a lot of companies that work in research. Look into the National Labs. Look into DARPA and NSF funded groups. Also most research universities hire non students as well. This can double is a way to bootstrap yourself into grad school
For a counter theory, try reading Sex at Dawn. It's far from perfect

It's worse than far from perfect; the authors misread, misconstrue, or make up evidence, and they ignore countervailing evidence: https://jakeseliger.com/2010/07/21/sex-at-dawn-christopher-r...
Each individual video is also on the individual speaker's page:

https://pwlconf.org/2017/kenichi-asai/
https://pwlconf.org/2017/elaine-chew/
https://pwlconf.org/2017/chas-emerick/
https://pwlconf.org/2017/ron-garcia/
https://pwlconf.org/2017/james-long/
https://pwlconf.org/2017/heather-miller/
https://pwlconf.org/2017/fabienne-serriere/
Fine, I'll Download It for You
We should start a club, one where none of us meet up in person :)
The Google Maps API is also more expensive than Mapbox.
This is why I do a "mv" to "tmp" instead of using "rm" when I can. Having special messages or colours to differentiate between production and other environments is a great idea as well. Generally if I'm about to do something on production, I'll close everything else to do with other environments as it's just too easy to slip up.
What if my fake popup just doesn't include the warning message. The user just forgets that it's supposed to be there at all.
Can one use this method to uninstall other "uninstall able" apps from their phone? I fucking want to get rid of samsung pay.
What responsibilities does an "Agile Technical Coach" have and what did you do for the business? (I'm curious because in most of the industries I've worked in, the teams have been extremely skeptical of Agile coaches/consultants)
ML Framework Design: Reliability, Composition and Flexibility
I used to setup my shell so that the text on the production servers was red and local it was white. Made it easy to know which machine I was tying into :)
That's fine if you're in a regulated profession like engineering or medicine or law, where management need appropriate professional sign-offs before going ahead, and it's a matter of professional ethics.

Unfortunately, in a field like software that isn't regulated (and IMHO isn't ready to be), you can say "no" up to a point, but if you continue to do that once management has determined that the answer should be "yes", you may simply get yourself fired and replaced by someone else who will give the desired answer. Unless it's a matter of moral judgement and you are willing to give up your job because you don't want to make what the boss wants you to make, software developers saying "no" rarely achieves much if management aren't listening.
Not 2.5% of the missing matter. 2.5% of the matter.
SC 2 has ~100's of viable strategy's per race as openers, but like chess openers are just that. As the game evolves you get complex iterations and risk reward situations. Bluffing research is very much a part of high level play as min maxing requires you to force the other player to waste resources in any way possible.

For example larva are one of Zerg's most valuable resource and there are several ways of attacking that resource by killing units or simply forcing them to go more defensive.
> So, not only did they find some of the missing matter, they found some of the missing energy, too.

Nope, this has nothing to do with dark energy.

> This does, however, screw some of the more classical cosmologists.

Not sure who you're referring to. These results are completely consistent with the standard model of cosmology.
> It's stuff like this that really annoys me, and I feel gives academics a bad name.

TFA's author bio: "Shai Shapira is a computer programmer and writer."

Poli-sci academics usually don't construct their premises so obviously poorly and proceed to build a castle on sand like this article does. Typically they're at least good enough that any, "wait, what?"s aren't apparent at first glance.