skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How important is this? I'm guess these are just "it would be neat to see what is there", so that is what I will comment. If you have something that is important look for a professional service - disks this old often have problems and can be only read once. There is a lot of old live music on CD because someone put the cassette tape in an oven and then read it at ultra slow speeds: they got one try as the act of reading the tape destroyed it. Thus for anything important you want someone who knows all the tricks.

My first thought is start with an old pc (probably i486) with a floppy drive and a working harddrive, and a network card. Install linux (old kernel - don't give this access to the real internet). From there use networking (nfs or ftp) to copy the parts to a more modern system.

Goodwill and surplus stores might still have all the parts if you look around. Also hacker spaces, ask around what someone still has in the dark corners of their basement.
Better to ask for forgiveness than permission:

Hi Jane,

I'm focusing on feature 123 since XYZ is blocked by ABC.

-A
tl;dr much faster
Bad publicity does not mean much see for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Barry

"Barry was released from prison in 1992, and two months later filed papers to run for the Ward 8 city council seat in that year's election.[72] Barry ran under the slogan "He May Not Be Perfect, But He's Perfect for D.C." He defeated the four-term incumbent, Wilhelmina Rolark, in the Democratic primary, winning 70 percent of the vote, saying he was "not interested in being mayor",[73] and went on to win the general election easily."

On October 28, 2005, Barry pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charges stemming from an IRS investigation. The mandatory drug testing for the hearing showed Barry as being positive for cocaine and marijuana. On March 9, 2006, he was sentenced to three years probation for misdemeanor charges of failing to pay federal and local taxes, and underwent drug counseling.[97][98]

He was then reelected.
Inside Mirai the Infamous IoT Botnet: A Retrospective Analysis
> I SHOULD invite people over for dinner, except also have them help me prepare for dinner, maybe even clean for dinner.

This bit really resonated with me. I don't personally enjoy cooking. My girlfriend and I have started doing it reasonably often for simple, easy-to-prepare meals. We ended up hosting Thanksgiving at my place this year, and almost everyone showed up early, either bringing something to eat, or bringing some raw materials of things so we could prep and cook together. It was so much fun, and was a truly worthwhile and bonding collective experience. We'd done this in previous years, but this was the first time I hosted, and it actually felt really different from that perspective.

My friends and I haven't done this for random non-holiday occasions, but I'd really like to do this again.
It's kind of a foreign notion in the USA, but south of the border there are still a lot of subsistence farmers, who are basically just people who live off the land and they eat everything they can catch. See something moving? Catch it and bring it home for Mom to cook.

I assume the same is true in Asia.
The Internet Archive is actively looking for and archiving old floppies. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5153
Spain said it would veto only if Scotland unilaterally declares independence. Big difference to what you're saying.
I am working on comapreali.com, and I would like to have feedback
I'm sure many here are already aware, however I've found that https://securityheaders.io/ it's a great site for testing your security headers.
Oh well. I'll admit my sample group of Germans is probably not terribly representative, as it consists mainly of art students and design professionals.
Great explanations, makes perfect sense with a little more thought.
Man, that is incredibly refreshing.
Are we playing code golf with email?

TO: Jane

SUBJECT: Bug XYZ blocked. Feature ABC?

BODY:
I had the same idea too!
"Ban the box" laws have a pretty horrible track record. In practice, they unsurprisingly generally result in higher levels of discrimination against demographics with higher crime rates, especially low-skilled Blacks and Hispanics.

Here's a decent article on the topic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/consequ...
I am not sure if I wasn't clear.

I have never worked for FB, so I don't know how internally FB handles this. But my understanding is, FB uses Hg for its main repository. However, FB has developed open source projects which most of them are published on Github, so for those development teams they work with Git. The question is, how do they reconcile some dev teams are context switching between hg and git? How common is that?

Personally, I would allow one DVCS only, so my internal development platform doesn't have to support both Git and Hg (who knows, maybe FB also have teams using SVN for good reasons).
This kind of says more about your ability to judge businesses (and specifically ICOs). Not a big surprise, considering that judging businesses and valuating them is a a profession in itself, and it takes people many years to become proficient in it.

If you cannot get even a glimpse from this webpage, that this specific ICO is likely a scam, you should not invest in ICOs. You will likely not be able to tell which ones (the 1 out of 100) are likely legit, have serious people behind them, and on top of that have an actual sound idea that has a good chance of working.
But it's kinda the same with stocks.
The home lab is dead. With EC2 spot instances you can get machines for far cheaper than it costs to power them at home, unless you live in a place with super cheap power like less than $0.08/Kwh.
Potential forces: Destruction of the trades and apprentice relationships. Increase in divorce rate, so called feminism returning women to the work force leaving our children in the day care. Economic forces requiring 2 income to reach affluence. Project mackingbird and the MTV comedy centeral weponized media

Results: core values are no longer delivered from your elders per SE. Tight knit group of family and peers are more disbursed.

We must reunite family values. I mean loving accepting caring human love. Comedy Centeral and MTV is poisen.

Care for your family and your adopted family (neighbors, tight friends, peers.)
its an excellent piece of journalism. The author and his helpers have done alot of researching and produced a very informative article. How one can accuse this for propaganda I don't know. Are you a russian troll or something?
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> a protected class

I hate this effing phrase. I mean, I know that it's never been true that we don't have clearly-stratified "classes" of humanity in American society no matter what the founding fathers were aiming for, but this phrase just makes it all the more apparent.

So I guess I shouldn't hate it after all. At least it's honest.

Some animals are more equal than others.
Does anyone in industry religiously use scrum at their workplace?
I want to know if there are teams who religiously follow agile methodologies (story time, assigning story points, Sprint reviews etc) and have benefited from that or learnt that it's not for them. Please also mention the type of product that you used it for.
I think the point is that they can be useful formats even if they aren't adopted outside of Google simply because YouTube -> Chrome is a large portion of internet video. Most other video formats are seen as failures if not widely adopted.
I love how the toys beg for attention now. We have so many things that after a couple minutes of inactivity will shout out one last desperate "Play with me!"
Look at kryoflux. It can do a sector by sector copy of any type of disk, it is pretty cool.

https://www.kryoflux.com/
Thanks, that data is useful.

How are they determining race? Names? Is "ban the name" a sensible policy proposal? (Hold the name in escrow with someone who will contact references, do background checks, etc., until you're ready to make the offer.)
If interested, you can see their work-in-progress main.rs in the related code revision[0], which includes their Rust code calling down to the C function Py_Initialize() to spin up the now-embedded CPython interpreter that is living "inside" a Rust program:

unsafe {
Py_Initialize();
PySys_SetArgv(args.len() as c_int,
argv.as_ptr());
PyEval_InitThreads();
let _thread_state = PyEval_SaveThread();
}

----

[0] https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1581#change-t24aVkGEJ5Xh
This is an awesome idea. We have so many useless battery-powered chunks of plastic. My 7-year-old would LOVE deconstruction lessons.
Or goes on vacation for a week. I wonder if there's a time limit for their response?
What did you get your PhD in, from what quality school, and did you pursue a faculty position with the expectation of wealth?
I wish Amazon or Google would just make a simple key/value store to give minimal persistence for their serverless offerings. DynamoDB comes closest but it still overcomplicates things.
Perhaps it might help to deflate your expectations. I look at books, like I look at tv shows or movies. The long term usefulness of consuming might be questionable but that does not make the act of watching / reading any less worthwhile. I actually think that reading less is good if you were reading prodigious amounts. When I read A LOT it's usually an indication of a lack of balance in some aspects of my life that I try to correct. If you want to ease back into reading without taking it too seriously go for the fluffy page turners. There's tons of non-fiction books too which are engaging and quite readable. Anytime somebody tells me they don't read a lot, it's usually because they are not reading anything that interests them.
http://sci-hub.bz/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic...
Yes, this was my thought too. Rockets fired at Israel are generally cheap, short-range subsonic jobs, not substantially harder to shoot down than a World War 2-era V-1 buzz bomb. Medium-range and intercontinental ballistic missiles reach speeds of many thousands of miles per hour, making them much harder targets to intercept.
Yes, it's highly unusual. Doesn't mean that every time someone does something that others don't understand the cops should step in and take their property in what is essentially legalized armed robbery.

What if you were going to a casino and brought a few thousand dollars with you and got pulled over. People do that all the time. The cop notices a wad of cash in an envelope. Tells you you must be a drug dealer with all that cash and then just takes it. Any resistance to this results in you in cuffs and under arrest (or worse).
We just hide 90% of them in the basement, and cycle toys out as our kids get bored of the current selection. This will probably stop being a viable strategy once they are old enough :(
Kryoflux is amazing. I have found the best way to get good images is to get a few different old floppy drives (you can find them pretty cheap on amazon or ebay) and take images with a few of them. You will find that each drive has different bad sectors in the images. You can then patch together good sectors from the different drives to create a full, complete image.

I was able to get a lot of disk images from disks that were failing to read fully on ANY of the drives, but were failing in different sectors.
I read an article a few days ago (possibly posted here on HN) that was talking about a group that's been buying up properties in SF and turning them into (more or less) communal homes for middle-income people who make too much to qualify for affordable housing, but not enough to afford SF. They have small private bedrooms with semi-shared bathrooms, but with a large common kitchen and eating area where everyone can get together and cook and eat together.

I hope something like this takes off; it's interesting that it's coming about in SF because of housing costs.
Cloudflare has a plan to never censor again - until one of their customers says something their CEO doesn’t like. Just lol.
That's a fair point with regards to drug convictions.

However, I wish you hadn't insinuated that I could only hold the opinions I do because of a character deficiency. I wrote my comment in good faith, and am perfectly willing to change my mind if given reason to. I think it's worth reflecting on your part that there are people who don't share your views and that maybe we have reasons for doing so besides being bad people. Even if my reasons are misguided, I'm still capable of being reasoned with, but attacking people's character is a quick way to polarize people who might be sympathetic to your point of view if engaged with in a more civil manner.
I imagine something like that would be necessary. The techniques would probably be ones related to those used in SLAM [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_...
Why are they so damned expensive?
Show HN: The missing “upsert” command for Node.js mysql
I'm not super familiar with DynamoDB except as a strict key/value store. You set a partition key, you ignore your range key, and you go--what's particularly overcomplicated about that?
An example of when you might use this is when you're cutting over to a new service, and you want to validate that the new service behaves the same way as the old one before transitioning all the traffic to the new service. In order to build confidence in the new service, you can assert that the expected output is the same, and raise alerts when there is an inconsistency. This incremental rewrite approach allows you to slowly replace pieces of an application with a new service and helps prevent regressions in behaviour.

Or consider when you're performing a database migration (on large databases) with 0 downtime. Typically this involves something like:

1. Dual Writing: Create 2 tables and write to both and keep them in sync (by duplicating new data, and back-filling old data)

2. Update read paths: Change all code to read from the new table, and validate that the data being read is consistent with the old table. You can use a library like Scientist [0] to validate that the reads are the same.

3. Update write paths: Change all code to write to the new table (and raise alerts if the old path is exercised)

4. Deleting old data: Remove code and data that relies on the old data model

[0] https://github.com/github/scientist
unless I'm reading this wrong the obvious flaw is that a very populated city would potentially overrule the entire rest of the state just by having more people, that's exactly the reason the districts are used, so that the rural communities and less populated areas get a representative
Taking the time means killing people, though.
That's part of it. There's also a point where the kinetic energy of impact surpasses the chemical energy of explosives for equivalent mass. This is around Mach 10 as a huge ballpark figure. So with intercepting high mach and ablatively shielded targets like ballistic missiles, it might be better to budget your projectile mass to increasing likelihood of a hit vs attempting to damage via a proximity explosion.
That's fantastic! I'll have to do that with my kid.
Have you been following the Middle East news lately at all? Israel is clearly allied with Saudi camp, and there already have been plenty of almost official visits.
It's a statewide database
They are not talking about regulating regular cryptocurrencies, which are openly a risky investment.

ICOs like this are trying to defraud and scam people, making them believe that their token is something it's not.

I don't think any honest investor and/or developer wants the second case to be unregulated, nor gains anything from it being so.

If anything, regular cryptocurrency enthusiasts are loosing because of this, because the whole crypto space gains bad notoriety because of these ICOs, and people who cannot tell a difference between ICO, an ERC20 token, a private address, bitcoin, bcash, litecoin, etc, etc - people who think they are all the same - will just form a faulty opinion that since there are scam ICOs out there, that means that the whole crypto space is a scam.
Everyone would win if these scams were regulated and punished.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. If there's any kind of discussion we most don't want here, it must be that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Learning in a world where programming skills aren't that important
The Rolex does have a better bracelet than the SARBs. I bet the chapter ring on your SARB033 has inconsistent spacing between its marks.
Just another reminder that there is no rule of law in the USA; its judicial system is an arm of oppression, not service.

There's nothing we as individuals can do about it besides acknowledging the illegitimacy of laws and abiding by a basic empathetic moral code, but don't kid yourself about how that will be treated.

If you feel like a law is wrong, look at why it was passed. There might be reasoning you aren't thinking of, like environmental damages. If you still feel like it's wrong, look at how likely the action it forbids is to hurt someone else by intent or accident. If you feel like that's extremely unlikely, and don't think you'll get caught, break that law!

Part of civil disobedience is acknowledging that you may get caught and punished. But in doing so, you are riding on the fact that the punishment is arbitrary and offensive, which would rally people in support of you if it is carried out. At least, that's the idea. The real problem comes when your government is more than happy to simply arrest/beat/shoot people until they quiet down.
This was also the biggest news of re:Invent for me. Total game changer. No need to provision large R instance types to support the batch processing that happens a 3AM and sits idle most of the time. All environmental tiers can have 100% the same configuration.

I know of some projects burning millions a month in database costs because they like to replicate environments for testing branches. Switching to serverless Aurora would reduce that cost to probably low thousands.

Of course it all depends on how quickly it can scale up to meet the load and I reserve full judgement till I can try it out, but am very interested in this.
I think in Barry's case (as his slogan suggests) his "bad publicity" was actually a strength to his electorate. Some are popular enough that bad press doesn't sway opinion (ie, Trump supporters). I'd argue those are extreme outliers. I don't think Harvey Weinstein or Kevin Spacey will be working any time soon.
This is going to happen a lot methinks.
Can't speak to the microwave, but there are examples of this kind of UI such as https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck the trade off is the potential of ambiguity, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow;_frui...

Your microwave does sound badly designed though.
> I don't see why the "issues" with the <video> tag couldn't be fixed in the video tag?

You could make that argument for a lot of html tags. <address>, <section>, <figure>. Perhaps this is the safari teams opening argument for a new tag to be added to the spec.
I liked the linked document from the NCSC. They give practical advice on password expiry which I would love to adhere to...were I not having to follow PCIDSS that mandates that we set expiry to 90 days and has length and conplexity requirements. PCIDSS is a bad standard
They can kind-of sort-of somewhat buy some of the data but the data sources they can buy from have errors, don't account for stock compensation, often misaccount for money going into 401K's or stock purchase plans, healthcare and other payroll deductions. They sometimes mishandle bonuses as well. If the data you buy has these errors you might reject a candidate whose not lying because their total comp was half stock and they maximized their 401K and stock purchase plans making the bank underestimate their salary.
I think it's the opposite: it feels like this law might create an incentive for certain people to go first and thereby change the meaning of not going first for everyone else.

But I can't support it, so I'm probably wrong.
Why did you take the box away then?
A fair caveat here is a lot of this will depend upon what field you're buying from. A lot of what you've said is true. There are plenty of others where a "luxury" name carries far more weight with regards to reliability and longevity as opposed to a no-name brand.
Xamarin and Mono projects will now use GitHub issues instead of Bugzilla
I think it is because entropy of data is usually very high, and it is very hard to predict which architecture will work for your data the best without trying.
Oh, I feel he still needs to impress. I still see a little boy looking for respect.

As to his accomplishments; I'm sorry, but he made a good/devious business decision, and we all paid dearly for it.

I never thought I would give MS another penny, but was forced to this weekend, because a relative felt they needed Word on an Apple. It bothered me giving that company 99 dollars. Really bothered me.

And I don't like the way he, and Melinda spends our money in her 501c3. Why is his wife even involved in the nonprofit? Is she some non-profit guru because she married Billy?

Yes--I have not forgot. He's never been my favorite person. He just a business man, who copied an operating system, and licensed it out.
Ok, we've changed the url from https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171202/15391338726/judge... to the news article it points to.
but can a child ever have enough legos?
I think its the THAAD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_De...
I don't work at facebook. But there is stuff like this:

https://hg-git.github.io/

So in the end it doesn't really matter.
Isn't, however, this gandparental extended family just the previous gen nuclear family?

There is no reason to consider a nuclear family an island onto itself. Extended families are often times, but not always, the linking of multigenerational nuclear families. Now, one can have extended families that are not blood relatives.

But yeah, it is tricky sometimes. If you get shipped off to aunts and uncles or other relatives while mom and dad figs stay together because of issues beyond their control that may not be a nuclear family as it is disruptive to the kids.
Is deniability really good for public offices? Politicians surely need some degree confidentiality on certain documents and communications, but they also need be held accountable for their actions (while in office).
Show HN: Echo Podcasts – Goodreads for podcasts
Augh, damn these lawmakers and their heavy-handed efforts to prevent fools being separated from their money.
email, still very much the original internet killer app, is mostly crap these days not because it has changed, but because people are so so so bad at it
but to the extent that my posts have made you feel unwelcome, to the extent I have been a thorn in your side during the troubles you have experienced, I regret that.

You voice regret while doing nothing different.

Please stop bothering me. I consider it to be actively malicious behavior at this point. If you genuinely regret it, than at least leave me alone henceforth as the least worst thing you can personally do for me.
The idea is exciting, but the pricing looks too high for side projects. The docs state "Aurora Serverless can scale from a minimum of 1 ACU to a maximum of 256 ACUs." Unless I'm reading this incorrectly, you are paying for 1 ACU 24 hours a day.

$0.06 * 24 * 365 = $525.60 per year.

This is more expensive than a low-end RDS instance. It's a shame, I immediately thought this would be the perfect solution for side projects and prototypes, but the pricing killed it.
Exactly how much does Travis Kalanick cost #Uber?
Don't be so harsh. The Nazi-mindset does not have any support in the German society anymore.

The scepticism of taking in the refugees is certainly politically "right" but not Nazi-level at all and many people that voted for the AfD party just did that out of protest.

The integration of the Turkish immigrants is another topic entirely; don't forget that mostly the most uneducated, rural people came.