skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recent IETF BGP work addressing operational challenges [pdf]
hm... but wouldn't they still fear death-experience? also, mind-on-usb != my-mind imho... (it could be a ctrl-c,v of my mind, but can be said as someone else with my thoughts?)
Why isn't Nomad List free?
Sounds like a job for Milk Chute!

http://www.eureka4you.com/home/MilkChute.htm
How I would explain a decade of web development to a time traveler from 2007
Do you have a source on that clock speed? I've been trying to dig up info on pocket calculators for a while.

(The last time I brushed-but-didn't-quite-hit some interesting info was in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15136939, which I quoted (very tangentially, as a footnote) in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15153262.)
Compared to NYC public schools? You’d probably do quite well unless your kid got into one of the especially good ones in NYC. Schools are a big part of why families move out of the city.
Google mines that data by other people searching for that, not (only) by scraping it off sites. Yes, they also do that, but AFAIK search trends have a higher relevance than scraped suggestions.

As long as people want to know how their existing product stacks up against another product they have heard of before, "<existing product> vs <other products>", will be searched and appear in the autocomplete.

This approach breaks down tough for newer products, ot if you want to find the best product by quality, not just popularity.
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Specifically: User-installed TLS certificates are now in a separate keystore from system CAs, users can not disable system CAs, and apps can choose which keystore to trust, but the default is that user CAs are not trusted unless apps explicitly opt-in.

This is extremely user-hostile.
Take an algorithms course on one of the MOOC platforms. Formal training is a good way of teaching formal concepts like algorithms.

Good luck.
Yeah, to be fair, half the stuff posted (and often voted up) on HN is blog posts that are thinly veiled content marketing.

Plus, it can get exhausting to write the same argument over and over again. Half the reason I write on my blog or on medium is because I find myself repeating a certain argument and I decide to just write it once and for all.

But of course, you could always copy and paste with some small edits rather than linking. And I agree that it would be better to at least summarize the content of the post for us rather than just dumping the link.
PHP is supposedly faster than Python, nowadays. Not at the JS or LuaJIT level, but it eats CPython and CRuby for breakfast.
IETF mulls adding geoblock info to 'Bradbury's code'
More like "Ooh we had no idea but when FB approached us it suddenly became clear we had soooo many shared values, it just made sense that FB would buy us."
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Amazon Key opens your home for indoor delivery
You'd imagine that most everyone with marketable IP would insist on self-hosting on an air-gapped network. Uploading confidential and potentially valuable data to a cloud run by an unaccountable individual with no serviceable address would be a no-no for many.
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And a trip to a pickup point for me is about an hour of travel time and having to find a parking spot in a crowded street.

Isn't it nice that they offer multiple options for multiple different people with multiple use cases?
>How many wars do you think anyone would want to fight if we didn't have an endless streams of the young who are willing to die on the battlefield?

We've got killer robots for that now.

>How many murders are committed by people over 30 vs under?

I'd guess the majority of murders have been caused by people over 30 declaring war.

>How many people die in car accidents after 30?

Self-driving cars sounds like a good solution

>There's something to be said for having a world dominated by people who are mature and understand the value of their own lives.

Yes, of course the elderly possess great wisdom, but they are also highly inflexible when it comes to thinking of new solutions to new problems. The imaginative power of the child is something highly undervalued and suppressed in our society.
The Portuguese first sailed and reached India in 1498 (Vasco da Gama). This ship (nau in Portuguese) left Lisbon in 1502. It was part of the second voyage of exploration from Portugal to India.
Article specifically says this is restricted to Amazon Logistics delivery. No subcontractors.
I did not know gawk had networking support I wonder if it could be used on network traffic on the fly. Sort of like irules on an f5. Thank you for sharing!
Honolulu fines pedestrians for viewing phone while crossing street
Depending on where you live, a person breaking into your house could press charges if your dog bit them.
In comments?
Yeah, people on here are talking like their front door is Fort Knox. For most it is not, and as mentioned in other comments, a window is much easier to get through.
If they didn't document it, and aren't handling input for an ID that may be passed as an integer, then your problem is with the API, not the language.
What is your monetization model? Is the goal to get big enough to have Facebook, Google, LinkedIn buy you out? Or will there be advertisements?

Might you consider a monthly fee and organize as a self-sustaining cooperative of researchers (https://platform.coop/)? For example, Stocksy is a cooperative owned by artists (https://www.stocksy.com/service/about/) and is profitable.
> They are meant for situations where many indiviuals are harmed, but each harm is too small to justify the cost of a court case.

Don't they also get used for cases where (spitballing here) half a town gets cancer because the chemical plant in the area has been illegal dumping their effluents next door?
Leaving a camera inside my house connected to amazon servers, and allow entrey of works while I'm not home?

No Thanks. I still preer 2 big locks and a big dog taking care of my home while I'm not there.
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Currently you can use Magisk to get around this, which roots without changing the filesystem.

But Google is moving towards reading hardware fuses, and has been working together with OEMs to use secure enclaves to securely attest the status of the system in the future.

By requiring the attestation results to be signed by a key burnt into the CPU, they also prevent virtualisation.
Your insurance is going to go through the roof.
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> Amazon could certainly be coerced into unlocking the door

This is an extremely worrisome statement. Is there any precedent for this type of coercion from the FBI to businesses who have access to a home? My justice-sense is tingling to think that the FBI could get into my home by coercing any party that I give access (hypothetical maids, pool guy, cat sitter, etc)
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As tbh fades in popularity, they will roll this into FB (and Instagram and WhatsApp and......) as a feature and hook these users that are less FB addicted into their ecosystem.

Also, Facebook is an advertising company. They now can push a lot more teen and tween brands to advertise bigger campaigns.
>The 'boring' things (i.e. the enterprise market) is also 'harder' most of the time because they require a broader range of skills and greater perseverance.

Please tell that to my boss/company owner. He sees news articles about how such-and-such social startup created an app in X days and wonders why we can't do the same just as quickly.

Sure, if you want me to write a Twitter clone I can do that in an afternoon. If you want me to write an app for a very specific enterprise sector filled with regulations, while making sure it integrates with our existing desktop software (that was originally written without internet connectivity in mind at all), that'll take an order of magnitude more days.
Because virtually nothing is bound to anything until we get to this line of code, Python is the ultimate dynamic language.

I find that the vast majority of Python code that I write is not processor-bound or memory-bound. It's disk or network bound (and still would be if I wrote it in C). It's also much simpler to teach programming in than alternatives.
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I'm considering creating the content as short video lectures. But they'd be plenty of notes to go with the videos as well.
Not on manhattan. There are a lot of issues in older building complexes as they werent build for the amount of deliveries we see today.
A Google search will generally turn up sites like Siftery, among others ('A vs B' is one of our very top organic search traffic drivers).

Hope you'll take a look at the substitutes data specifically though. We're showing companies that are actually switching from one product to another, and then rolling that up to showcase some trends and insights.
Reminds me of how AT&T used to basically own your telephone and wouldn't allow other companies to make things you could attach to the phone to improve or augment it.
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Let's hope they only transfer at USB 1.0 speeds.
What about the mentioned IP address?
> Build Your Own Minimal Terminal

> we’ll be installing qtermwidget

I'm guessing the author meant visually minimal, rather than minimal footprint.
Or Bluetooth connections if you can use it as a speaker. Or the presence of other devices on the WIFI. There's a few ways you can passively detect human presence, I think.
USPS carrier bring biscuits with them for dogs.

Probably similar reasons.

Then again, if you have a "guard dog" I'd recommend not letting someone in your house willingly knowing their face will be ripped off.

Court fees, you know.
It's much more a sign of their failed mobile strategy, which hinged on UI convergence between the desktop and mobile versions of Ubuntu. With all that gone, pooling their efforts with the rest of the Gnome-using world only makes sense (much of the Unity desktop also consisted of appropriated Gnome components).
> fuck WP's nagwall

Funny how "Fuck you, pay me" is an acceptable sentiment when you're a freelance software dev, but now when you're a journalistic institution.
Fuck this is VERY CREEPY. Giving a company the power to enter your home. Why is this even considered normal.
Sorry, my compassion for the tax problems of millionaires is somewhat low.
No examples, no way to try it out. This feels like an advert.
I have my amazon safe space set to my greenhouse, imagine my surprise when I found their delivery person had put my item in my green bin instead. Not a chance would let them have access to my locks to my house.
There are a few on my route that would embrace this. They are Amazon addicts. Over 550 parcel deliveries a year. Trust has been won by Amazon.
Ruby supports that too. Here's a snippet that shows named arguments, and unpacking a Hash into named arguments.

It can do multiple assignment and unpacking collections into them too, though unlike with named arguments, that will treat the collection as an Array:

def foo bar:, baz:
p [bar, baz]
end

h = {bar: 1, baz: 2}

foo(h)
I would also recommend the good awk blog post series of Jonathan Palardy:

* http://blog.jpalardy.com/posts/why-learn-awk/
* http://blog.jpalardy.com/posts/awk-tutorial-part-1/
* http://blog.jpalardy.com/posts/awk-tutorial-part-2/
* http://blog.jpalardy.com/posts/awk-tutorial-part-3/
Well, Kansas ranks higher than NY but lower than NJ in Pre-K - 12 and higher than either in Higher Education acording to USNews.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education
(note the sortable columns in the table)

Of course I'm happy to point out that Nebraska ranks higher than Kansas on either scale.
WotC is not exactly known for having overly usable digital services. Not to mention there are thousands of other RPGs you can make headway in
As far as I'm aware, he's free to submit his blog post as a separate story (assuming he doesn't over-submit his own work or otherwise produce spam).
https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html
> What is the definitive tool to process text? Perl? Haskell? Some Lisp dialect?

Definitive? Being snarky, the one you have already installed and are familiar with. Like most I use Awk for one-liners, Perl if I need a little more or better regexes in a one- or two-liner. For the last several years I've been using TXR[1] if it gets complex. Lately I've been doing more fiddling with JSON than text and I'm using Ruby/pry and jq[2].

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/txr/

[2] https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
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Biased because I've used Perl for over 20 years, but yeah, that's clearly one of its core reasons to exist. Regular expressions built into the language syntax instead of as a library makes a big difference.
I'm not sure I like hardcoded URL's that fetches stuff every time I run a program without good reason. Also, I wouldn't ever trust the program itself to check its integrity. But I digress, it's definitely an interesting project.

What are the pro's and con's of using it instead of the win32 version of OpenSSH? [0]

[0] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH
Predictive marketing startup Reflektion raises $12M for international expansion
Yes, divide-and-conquer where subproblems overlap.
> Technically Python is now an optionally-typed language, as of version 3.5

Well no, since the compiler isn't checking types and you need a third party tool for that. So it's not optional typing.

PHP does have run-time optional typing and was successful at retrofitting a static type system in a completely dynamic language.

Mypy is just a static analysis tool.
Unless you're using order of magnitude to mean 2x, it's not the case that Java/Go/Haskell are an order of magnitude slower than C/C++/Rust. You can see that on the benchmarks game, the techempower benchmarks, or this lovely paper on optimizing Haskell and C: http://www.leafpetersen.com/leaf/publications/ifl2013/haskel....
The tooling and ecosystem around it are pretty much unrivalled
with crypto like eth and setting up a smart contract, a company can pay its employee down to the second they work.
Why does the postal service leave all Amazon packages on front stoops? They do in Baltimore, anyway, as a matter of policy. The USPS packages they bring back to their facility for you to pick up. This key service seems kind of like an intentional workaround for that problem.
It's more powerful than sed while being much easier and quicker to use than perl or python, so yes. I use it quite often just as a filter. sed is still good for some things.
I feel like that's more a case of throwing resources at the problem until it improves than the language making life easier for optimizers.
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> One interesting voice in signing all commits by Linus:

>> Signing each commit is totally stupid. It just means that you automate it, and you make the signature worth less.

I've never bought that argument.[0] You should use whatever method actually addresses your threat model. If you're going to sign every commit (I do), then commit (no pun intended) to doing so properly. I use `git add -p` for every commit and review my changes, and enter my smartcard PIN for every single commit. I use it to assert my identity on those commits. If you automate signing past commits, then you open yourself up to attack. Saying "this idea is stupid because everyone is going to do it wrong" is not the basis of a strong argument.

The other part of his argument is that the DAG itself allows you to just sign a single commit to verify the entire history. Firstly: that's different than signing each commit, which asserts identity of the author. Secondly, which has always been my argument, is that it rests on the security of SHA-1, which has been under question for quite a while, and has since been demonstrably broken. Are second preimage attacks unlikely with SHA-1? At least today, yes. Consider your threat model. Linus didn't even do that. He said long ago that SHA-1 was intended for integrity, not security, so retrofitting it in an argument is also not useful.

[0]: https://mikegerwitz.com/papers/git-horror-story#merge-3

([0] from 2012 doesn't address the issue in this thread---expired or revoked keys.)
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I make roughly 80% of what I did as a software engineer in Oklahoma that I did in San Francisco.

My life is exponentially better. I hate the politics here but I hated them in SF as well. Seems there's no middle ground for someone that's moderate, just extremes on both sides.

My mortgage is roughly the same as a parking space in SF, and yes I have to live in Oklahoma. I'll cry myself to sleep on my yearly european vacations, rental properties, retirement accounts and working every other year at most while doing my own self funded startups.
Perhaps the article says more about the publisher — and journalistic practices generally — than it says about the Great Americans Drinking Public.

A quick look finds this throughly unscientific statistic:

> In 1790, United States government figures showed that annual per-capita alcohol consumption for everybody over fifteen amounted to thirty-four gallons of beer and cider, five gallons of distilled spirits, and one gallon of wine.

http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Holiday07/drink.cf...

People who keep yelling “Scary Monsters Under the Bed” can be ignored.
If there are "secret courts" and the FBI really wants to get into your house, they don't need Alexa. A battering ram works just fine.
I actually heard that D&D 4 was even more rule-based/tactics ... so maybe even ADA? :D
I can handle a bit of rough and tumble no-nonsense language, personally. I'd like to think most folks attempting to build/repair/maintain systems built by other people can too. Disregarding this document because it's not hand-holding enough would be, IMHO, throwing the baby out with the bath-water.
I think your conclusion falls under the term non sequitur. It does not show anything about Canonical's financial incentives or their strategy, your statement is basically stating an assumption what the reason is.

Further I would argue it is irrelevant to the initial argument.

What has Canonical to do with it? Neither "Linux", "Linux Desktop", "Linux Gaming" or "AMD graphics under Linux" are in any way tied solely to Canonical or what Canonical does. Again, am I missing something?
Why would you? To get $10 and a year of free credit monitoring, and thus indemnify them for any further damage resulting from the breach? Better to opt out and wait until/if you actually suffer identity theft. Even if you're forced into arbitration you'll probably get more for your individual damages.
Brands are more valuable than products - see Nike, Coca-Cola etc. - read 'No Logo' by Naomi Klein
Over my cold, dead body.
21.9% of Canadians are immigrants, the highest share in 85 years
My 11yo plays Minecraft and one of her activities is roleplay, which is 90% text based since graphical character actions are so limited. I think there's a potential for a resurgence of things like MUDs.

I also have a 17yo who's into writing, and I plan on working with her to put together some interactive fiction that resembles MUDs.
I've pretty much given up on pip/pip-env on Windows. Anaconda has given me zero problems (even outside of scientific computing) and does everything that I wanted pip/pip-env to do, so I see no reason to switch back.
I always put my phone down to my side if I was looking at it before crossing a street. But I'm also one of those people who have to slow down if I look at my phone while walking; I can't really do both effectively at the same time just because I want to be aware of where I'm going.

However I don't think fines are the right way to go. Signs and advertising campaigns would be better. Fines just violate the social contract. You're also not really hurting anyone else but yourself. In the fight or car vs person, the car is going to win .. I mean, unless you get hit by a cyclist.
...And what about people who use their garage door for main entry/exit?
3. To keep the customers honest
Perl. It was designed for doing just that :)
I thought this was pretty neat

# WARNNG: never do this!
id113 = id(113)
iptr = IntStruct.from_address(id113)
iptr.ob_digit = 4 # now Python's 113 contains a 4!

113 == 4

And now since the proper value 113 doesn't exist you have to resort to the binary representation on your system to revert back to normal behavior

ctypes.cast(id113, ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_char))[3 * 8] = b'\x71'
Wait, 550 to one house? That's... amazing. I had 43 this year and I thought I was a hopeless case.
Zucchini lady moved into a suburb of one the regions growing the fastest, 20 minutes by rail from a growing employment center. She could have moved to North Bumfuck if she wanted to make sure nothing would ever change, and decided not to. When she moved in she knew houses could be built that would cast shade on her backyard. Why should society accommodate her wishes and not the need for more housing? Most countries don't have single family zoning in urban areas.
Just want to point out that as a user reading that blog on a 12" laptop screen, that page is a UI disgrace. The suggested articles popped up covering the lower 1/3 of the screen and the top bar popped down to cover the top 1/3 of the screen any time I hinted at an up scroll which on a laptop trackpad is extremely common. This left me with 1/3 of the screen to actually read the content of this post. Terrible design google, you can do much better than that.
I got into DnD in 3rd edition and played it every weekend throughout high school.

However, once I started teaching this game to other people, even with the "fixed 3.5" Pathfinder, I realized it was super complicated. It requires such a big time investment from the players to figure out what they're doing, especially if they come from a video game background where they want to have "the best".

Now, I use Savage Worlds since it's much quicker, less complicated and you can pick your theme. Only problem is that it requires a more invested GM if you want the same texture as in DnD.
Ask HN: Managed VPS or shared hosting?
For a non-server guy, I'm quite comfortable with cPanel on shared hosting (I can add domains, set up an email and SSL). So I want to ask you if a managed VPS with free cPanel included can be also easy to handle for a simple designer?

I don't even know what is LAMP is, and it seems to me this one is not installed...

Can I make this move, as I need more resources for my site? Thank you for advance.
Not a Californian I take it. Because Granny's grandkids inherit the Prop 13 valuation.
At a past apartment in the city, I gave a key to the front mud-room area to my UPS guy. It was the best thing ever.

That said, Amazon subcontractors routinely leave packages on my front stoop in the city in spite of the sign I have the asks for packages to be dropped over the side fence. A number have been taken -- and I wouldn't say it's not their fault packages get stolen in cities, but it's common sense leaving something on a stoop probably isn't a great idea.

UPS/Fedex seem to always drop over my fence.

No way I'd trust amazon to execute this well in the first few years.
There is so much wrong with this...

> Safety: Each data carries it's type at run-time

With a statically typed language, this is not necessary for safety, since the compiler has already checked that the types are correct.

> there are no overflow

Do you mean integer overflow? This is completely orthogonal to the static/dynamic typing distinction.

> or NULL ptr problems as in statically typed languages

This is also completely orthogonal to the static/dynamic typing distinction. Remember that C and C++ do not constitute the entirety of statically typed languages.

> E.g. arithmetic is exact

What does this even mean?

> Memory Safety.

Again, C and C++ do not constitute the entirety of statically typed languages.
I'm skeptical of this idea that the porn industry is discriminatory. Do you have any stats to back that up?