skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work at Google and I use uBlock... why shouldn't you?
You're right - farmers generally didn't just let the fields lie fallow and become forested. Piece by piece, farmers sold their most marginal lands to housing developers, commercial ventures, etc.
RacerD: Fast static race detection at scale
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It's no Lokasenna [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokasenna].
The incentives are completely backwards on why anyone would want to. All the value is trapped in the blockstream bitcoin core client - deviating from that sets the value of all those coins, all of which were already mined and are already owned by wallets that may never even come on the fork.

Thats 80% of all coins. Yeah, your fork can kind of start from scratch, act like the 16.6m coins that came before never happened, that most of them will be dead forever, and start mining from there and treating all the new coins mined (of the remaining 4.4m let) as the monetary base. But then you get any momentum and suddenly "dead" money is flooding the market from legacy wallets. Wallets that didn't contribute to the growth of the fork, that didn't harden the blockchains integrity on the fork, that simply installed a program and had a fortune ready to go with no effort and no commitment to that currency at all.

There is already the problem that vast amounts of bitcoins blockchain hasn't moved in years. Millions of coins that are being treated as dead that could come back to life at any time. But there is no way to know what wallets are actually gone - dat files lost, passwords forgotten, etc - and which ones are just waiting to cash out.

Fundamentally the problem is there are two groups of people here - futurists that want to overturn fiat, and investors that want to make (fiat) money. It is why we have not seen a cryptocurrency that can behave like real money yet - the closest we have gotten was dogecoin, which started as a joke and was completely abandoned by its original developers and left to rot.

To make a cash replacement, it would need enough minting of coins to cause inflation enough to keep people from stockpiling coins. But who wants to mine your cryptocurrency or hold it early on in its life if its depreciating in value from its own algorithms? The whole point of why people adopt early into cryptocurrencies is that if they blow up they just made millions from trivial amounts of effort by just being there first. Classic pyramid scheme.

But all crypto today has to be a pyramid scheme to get the adoption to start having momentum to operate as it is intended. Without the gamble of making a fortune how many people would have early on started bitcoin startups or invested in mining? If the promise was that a coin worth a dollar today would be worth a dollar ten years from now because the blockchain itself would generate enough coins to peg the exchange rate, the only first mover advantage you get is in how much less electricity it costs to mine early on assuming the coin takes off and becomes popular.

That can still be an incentive. It is still a gamble of course, but it is also an incentive. The problem is when you are one of those investor types with some large cash in a small neighborhood shopping for your next get rich quick scheme the humble coin trying to push the future is a lot less interesting than the pyramid scheme promising ludicrous returns if it can get enough fools to buy into it.
But in that case, wouldn't “unknown“ be even better? I'm not a native english speaker, though, so I may miss some fine nuances in the meaning of “none“.
Functional programming with C++
S3 + cloudfront ftw!
Also you can use compression with cloudfront, which makes it that much better.
A new Mirai-Like IoT Botnet is growing in a new mysterious campaign
What do you suggest? ¤ is really the only other option, but $ seems much more universal, if you can choose only one.
Common, but in somewhat limited quantities.

"Anecdotal sources describe coconut water is used in India for the senicide of elderly people, a procedure known as thalaikoothal.[13] In this custom, the elderly person is made to drink an excessive amount of coconut water, eventually resulting in fever and death, the exact causes of which have not been determined.[13]"
I currently use it for java and c++ builds inside a largish tech company. Build systems are definitely not one size fits all though so I would encourage you to pick one that meets needs of your project. If you want to build for different platforms like unix, windows, iOS, android and have a big complicated build then I'd encourage you to check out bazel. If your project needs are pretty simple I'd say just start off with a simple makefile.
>Very few people, in my experience, apply any formatting to their personal emails whatsoever

Outside of technical circles, this isn't really true IME.

I mean, I fought the plaintext good fight for years, but now in the year of our lord 2017, I frequently send emails that include boldfaced headings, indented paragraphs, true bulleted lists, etc., because it improves readability vs. "ocean of plain text" for most people.
oh_sigh is correct, humans are a dead end host for lyme. It's primarily maintained in a mouse reservoir - the larval and nymph ticks feed on infected mice, and then the nymph and adult ticks can expose humans and deer. Deer are not really a big reservoir either, since mostly adult ticks feed on them, but they do move ticks around.

Edit: you can actually try to vaccinate the reservoir, however: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24523510
TL;DR: Previous sociology research had suggested that filming people makes them more civil. New research on fails to replicate this result in the context of police body cameras.

Doesn't seem like a very interesting result to me; I hadn't previously heard of the "calming effect" as a reason to use body cameras.

The primary reason to use cameras is to increase accountability, so that police officers are less able to get away with murder, planting evidence, being overtly racist, etc.
Away from the coasts there's plenty of space. If it was low yield farmland far from a population centre abandoning it makes sense.
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11Mbps is less than half the FCC's definition of broadband: 25Mbps down.
> Yeah, I really want to write a hobbyist OS atop UEFI & amd64, but … the learning curve is daunting. BIOS is too simple, but UEFI is hyper-complex.

That doesn't really seem very representative of reality. UEFI basically takes care of all the terrible legacy stuff for you, so you don't have to.

You can just focus on the OS, built on a modern architecture.

See my other comment regarding BIOS vs UEFI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15517300

If you also try to compare UEFI vs BIOS on a deeper technical level, UEFI also seems to come out in a favourable way: https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-...

The only "complex" part about it, is that you already know and have come to terms with all those terrible & complex things which booting a OS from legacy BIOS-mode entails, but UEFI while simplifying a million things is still different and something you haven't learned yet.
There are tons of coyotes in suburban environments though. I live smack dab in the middle of the suburbs and we have see coyotes all the time.
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That actually doesn't look too bad.

I do wish they'd just adopted the PF syntax tho. It really is the gold standard for stateful firewall definition

Was anyone involved in the discussions around the creation of nftables that can comment on whether this was considered?
Started using just out of curiosity, about it being a federated system (just like email), I also knew about the interoperability with Gnu Social and OStatus networks, so I gave it a shot.

I launched my private instance and started from there. I can say I'm very surprised, the system works very well, never had major problems and the communication with people with accounts on other instances (since I'm the only one in mine) works flawlessly.

This is how the Internet was supposed to work (not full of walled gardens). The good thing is that we're seeing some great decentralized applications and tools appearing recently and a renewed interest in this area, which is great.
And if people are buying them for $5000 last month and $6000 this month...?
Since you are using Postgres: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/populate.html

Get familiar with the COPY command (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-copy.html) for importing your data as it will save you a ton of time compared to doing single or even bulk inserts from a Python script. You can use COPY to either import directly from a CSV file, or you can use it to load Python tuples in memory w/ the Psycopg2 client and copy_expert(). For example:

buffer = cStringIO.StringIO()
csv_writer = csv.writer(buffer)
csv_writer.writerow((col1_data_field, col2_data_field, col3_data_field))
# [write more rows to a buffer, probably in a loop]
buffer.seek(0)
curr.copy_expert('COPY table_name (col1, col2, col3) FROM STDIN CSV', buffer)

For things too big for memory, transform your data to a secondary CSV file, then feed a fd to copy_expert()

csv_file = open(csv_path, 'r')
curr.copy_expert("COPY %s from STDIN DELIMITER ',' CSV" % table_name, csv_file)

Import your data into tables with no indexes, and then create the indexes after the import.

In your postgresql.conf consider the following options to help w/ write throughput:

synchronous_commit = off

Once your initial data is loaded into PG, consider doing some transformations on your data with materialized views (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-creatematerial...) as oppose to doing the transforms with a Python script. PG will be able to create the views much faster than you can import data into a new table.
In fairness, it started back when Sony shipped their first piece of hardware with technical measures to prevent users from consuming the media of their choice :)
It's not, and that's a bullshit response.

No woman is saying "a man glanced at me and I felt harassed".

They're asking not to be groped, not to have kisses forced on them, not to be raped.

This "simply looking" comment is fucking garbage, and you need to readjust your perspective and attitudes.
Developing countries (PL, CZ, RO) - dominance of low cost and outsourcing centers. Developed countries - software and internet are perceived as some quirks and working on them professionally as undemanding "sitting by the computer", in Germany they value obedience and compliance the most and perceive these professions as bricklaying even (tons and tons of brain numbing corporate Java projects).
Thanks for the input. The idiograms were found based on the Ren name and meaning, but I'm not a native Chinese speaker, so will defer to those who know, and make things clear.
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By the way, the curious origin of the name:

"I call it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have."

The full speech in which it appears is interesting: https://web.archive.org/web/20060827111102/http://www.michae...
When the recent Netflix FreeBSD kernel optimization article was posted, all I could think of was why they didn't use a POWER machine for its higher memory throughput. Same would be true for SPARC, but that hardware is even less available and I wouldn't trust Oracle with my money or engineering effort.

Then I checked to see FreeBSD's POWER port and it didn't look as readily supported as Linux is, so I assumed that's one reason. Contrary to SPARC, POWER servers can be had from more than the main vendor and it's the only high performance server where you have a chance to get the source code for the microcode and firmware in auxiliary mainboard chips, leaving just the GPU and NIC. This alone I would think would be a reason for safety-conscious users to consider and buy it instead of trying to disable Intel ME.

I still think Netflix ought to evaluate POWER9 (POWER10) and possibly improve the FreeBSD port, and would love more industry support so that little teams like mine stand a chance to get reasonably priced POWER9+ servers.

The completely free aspect is one reason I believe Kollab is using it for their servers.
I miss the DC-8. Always my favorite jet in my younger days. Those things felt like rockets taking off.
That is the hard part, isn't it? The previous statements were a bit tongue-in-cheek, but also serious.
Why was the title edited on this? There is nothing wrong with the title assigned by ProPublica, and in fact it's far better than the one above. Submitters, please stop doing this.
Coconut water, when it's actually fresh (I don't know about after packing/processing), is actually pretty good for drinking, especially since it has various nutrients you don't get out of regular water. Fresh, it isn't something I'd call a "waste byproduct".
Before people start wildly speculating, it's worth considering the many good explanations and interpretations suggested in the article:

One hypothesis is that officers got used to the cameras and became desensitized to them. But the researchers saw no difference in behavior during the initial phase, when the cameras were new. (The researchers also checked the data to make sure officers were turning their cameras on when they were supposed to, and found a very high level of compliance.) Another possibility is that officers without cameras were acting like officers with cameras, simply because they knew other officers had the devices.

An equally plausible explanation has to do with fear: In Washington, police officers are instructed to turn on their cameras whenever they answer a call or encounter the public in a law-enforcement context. The kinds of situations that might lead to civilian complaints or use-of-force incidents are high-stress encounters. When frightened, humans tend to act on automatic fear responses (or, in the case of good police officers in an ideal world, training).

“It’s a lot to ask, psychologically speaking, to not only remember the camera is on but to moderate your behavior,” said Mr. Yokum, the head of the Lab @ DC.

Finally, cameras may have had less impact in Washington, D.C., because the police department there has already had to confront excessive-force problems. After a devastating 1998 Washington Post series revealed that the city’s police department had shot and killed more people per resident in the 1990s than any other police force in a large American city, the Department of Justice entered into a memorandum of agreement with D.C. to reform its policing.

“We went through a transformation with regard to use of force when Justice came in here,” Chief Newsham said.

Cities that lack such accountability in their police culture may find cameras more effective, under this theory. (The Rialto Police Department had been reeling from a series of scandals when the Rialto study showed a large impact from cameras.)

Even if cameras do not reduce violent encounters, they can still offer other kinds of benefits: for training, or to hold a rogue officer accountable after the fact.

To Chief Newsham, the cameras’ primary benefit is to improve relations with the community. “The transparency and trust that the community has, knowing your department is recording the interactions, I don’t think you can undervalue that,” he said.
Awesome news! I hope this rapidly growing network of graduate unions somehow jumps over to infect the tech world. Strong unions in tech could really make big changes in US politics.
I agree, what I see in the midwest is that experienced, senior developers are in hot demand. The only companies that skew young are the Big Dumb Corps with horrible cultures (overtime, low pay, atrocious legacy code). There are a lot of second or third tier universities graduating cs (or whatever) majors who don't go to silicon valley. One company here, in particular, vacuums these people up. Senior developers won't put up with that. Me and a lot of my peers have done stints there, and consider ever going back to be a last resort. Hence this particular company pays outlandish prices for contractors, even flying people in from out of state, weekly.
Apologies for that. A lot were just for fun/future ideas. Many links to existing resources on other formats do work.
>>I think the thing is, if the admin of your instance de-federates with another instance, you don't have much in the way of options if you want to follow someone on that instance.

This doesn't happen often in practice, especially once they added a way for users to block instances on an individual level.

Early on, some instances just weren't a good mesh for a lot of the early users, and their aggressive, boisterous ways tended to push out and silence those early users. Blocking was the only way to keep the community from being overrun, but someone who enjoyed being screamed at by strangers didn't have a say in it without moving to another instance. Now that's not the case.

>> You can't take your account elsewhere. You're pretty much limited to creating a new account on a new instance, and then you have to communicate to all your followers that you've moved.

You can export a list of people you follow and import it on the new one. Most people will refollow you. People move to new instances all the time and don't seem to have trouble recovering their following.
Having worked with law enforcement I can expand on this - car dash cam footage takes an impressive amount of storage as well. Given how the cameras are triggered, sometimes the footage is not needed or useful and therefore can be deleted. In other instances, depending on case charges and footage, the video has to be kept until further notice - the word 'indefinitely' is rarely used but that is the implication. Of course the body cams adds to this.
I know fees are higher now, but a big use case could potentially be people sending money to friends/family overseas. They're much lower fees comparing them to Western Union. Saw that in the Banking on Bitcoin documentary on Netflix, I recommend watching!
As someone who recently moved to Clojure, REPL based programming is a completely different experience. It isn't like using python's REPL.
Inflation encourages spending and investing while deflation encourages saving and hoarding. It isn't a surprise that people who want to see the economic activity want inflation over deflation. It also isn't a surprise why the general population would prefer deflation over inflation. I can understand how someone can make an ethical or moral argument for deflation, but I don't know how you make a economic argument that deflation is better for the future of the country than inflation.
I agree. The author's claim on the video that it's "common" now to use the term more widely is strange to me. I've never heard of it used in the more wide sense since the term became widespread, and I've worked in computer science research since the '90s. No citation given ...
The landscape was largely unsuitable for large scale farming (tiny fields with thin soils among rough terrain), and most farming areas aren't near cities.
There used to be remote access offered by IBM and Uni of Oregon for open source developers to do porting work.
You can print voids then flow mill it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrasive_flow_machining
Is this a pun? For puns I go to Reddit, for substance to HN.
Ask HN: Building a SaaS by connecting services instead of custom-dev everything?
I've been reading a lot on Indie Hackers lately about SaaS businesses, typically smaller "micro-saas" which serve some hyper-specific features/business model until there are opportunities to expand. Is it possible to piece a SaaS together by combining a website framework such as Wordpress with payment processing from Stripe, and maybe a few other services, without having to re-invent the wheel or learn full-on development?

To be honest I haven't even come up with an idea yet, so I'm not ready to start, but I'm doing a weekend of research to determine feasibility of getting the barebones of a SaaS started while leaving me with an opportunity to seek contracted/outsourced help for small tasks as opposed to developing everything myself. Any experience in this area? I'll also be digging through IndieHackers interviews to see if I can find others who have shared similar experiences with little custom development work (until it was needed).
I don't know, I mean, programmers spend so much money and little value hardware just for brand value and such, so the money is there. But those that spend that amount of money on computers are seldom in the group of those who have an interested in a POWER machine.
If you are driving thru New England and pull over to any forest you can start walking and eventually you will find a short stone wall. These stone walls used to mark the borders of farm land but now they are in the middle of the forest. They are everywhere! Really gives you an idea of how much farming used to go on there.

Of course, that is anecdotal, you can read more here:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/08/31/new-england-see...
you're not reading it because you're looking to justify your own position and don't want to see it.

when someone CHOOSES to give money towards a cause, it IS speech. (granted, most don't agree the citizens united ruling, but mainly because it allows a corporation to have "more" speech than you or I). This is not a problem with the law, this is a problem with money in politics. Solve that problem (like only money from companies/people from within the district is allowed or something), and you solve the 'citizens united' problem.

Just because life isn't fair doesn't mean I GIVE You my money. I should have every right to keep it without being robbed at gunpoint (IRS) - by lazy socialists who don't understand how business works, have never run a business or "democratic-mob-rules-socialists-who-abuse-government-to-do-their-dirty-work".
> that he should protect those being bullied

Do you think he should do that even if at personal harm to himself (physical or otherwise but mainly physical)?
There will be footage recorded by those cameras that will drastically impinge on the privacy of civilians should it be shared publicly.

It's a nice idea, but I think it has some pretty significant potential for downsides.
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Also less false allegations against them
BTW, the new POWER chips can run in a new endiannes mode and therefore lift the big-endian requirement, if that's a concern of any code base.
I recommend people interested in alternative social structures for a post-scarcity world to look into Murray Bookchin
I made this ironic remark flippantly, but in all seriousness, regardless of one's personal opinion on religion, it has provided social structures and conventions that secular society has struggled to duplicate. Case in point, the Pope made the statement last year that loneliness and isolation are one of the greatest challenges facing society today. Even as an atheist, I agree with him - for example, this article about basement dweller type men (you know who you are): https://hazlitt.net/longreads/legion-lonely. Point being, once upon a time, places of worship provided community that has begun to fade. Certainly government continues to look to places of worship as a partner in solving hunger and homelessness, both of which are problems that neither the religious nor secular worlds seem able to fully combat.
I will echo what has been said earlier- "start?"

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