skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you do the math, you see that an 8TB drive can be found for $125 (granted, it's a special deal) at https://slickdeals.net/f/10919999-8tb-seagate-backup-plus-hu... - but it's quite common to find them around $200. Then the RPi 3 is under $50.

Without even talking about the difficulty of dealing with Glacier files in an incremental backup scheme, doing the initial sync, and checking the backup data regularly, we're talking about something that will probably cost $250 for a couple of years of backup (assuming the drive only lasts 2 years) vs $720 (glacier) or $2,400 (S3) if I use your numbers.

It seems like a significant difference to me, especially because the assumptions on how often my drive will fail are quite pessimistic.
Yes, being social is helpful and it's rational to do so.

Yet a lot of people don't recognize how huge energy spend is for introverts to actually write stuff (which is actually with most of the things because we, as humans, are very egocentric).

This expenditure is not a "point-in-time" purchase, especially - if it comes to social sharing. Pressing is one thing, but then one have to deal with feedback or even the lack of it. This is continuously expending the energy and can make a person severely unhappy even a weeks after piece had been shared. There are major internet personalities, with hundred thousands if not millions of followers on social networks that couldn't handle negative feedback from fraction of their fanbase, even though they decided they want to live such lifestyle. Imagine what negative feedback can do to a person that don't want (internally) do this in the first place.

I talk with a lot of people in IT field. Quite a bit of them don't really want to share but they feel pressurized by both common media and some of their extrovert peers. I always reassure them, that - while everything on the internet looks like you need to share or die - I know a lot of people who made stellar careers while dealing with social stuff only through hired PR teams or not at all.
Chrome does exactly what I want, the way I want it. Mozilla/Firefox OTOH has failed to respect me and my OS time and time again.

Honestly, I'd rather see Mozilla go away and stop making software completely because I don't like them, their politics, the way they turn people into ideologues who beg you to use their inferior product or the way they do just about anything.

If the pain of everybody using the same browser is real, people will get around to building a worthy competitor to Chrome. I suspect that the issue is a bit overblown though.
I suppose the more anonymous option would be to 'buy' mining or use something like localbitcoins? You could still get caught, of course, but it'd be a lot more difficult.
"Ordered" is accurate, as they mean it in the thermodynamic sense. It's not that precise because of the other meaning, though.
Economist Jim Rickards Bitcoin versus Gold Price Manipulation
Tech immigrant worker here. I find it embarrasing that being an immigrant is taboo in the country of immigrants... you can do better America!
That's OK price for 1 bedroom, but won't cut it for me, since I'd need a much bigger one :)
Yep. Same with Yahoo! and Marissa Mayer. Women get blamed more frequently than men when a company is failing [0]. They are also more likely to become CEOs when a company is already in trouble [1].

[0]https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/female-ceo-blame_us_581...

[1]https://www.glamour.com/story/women-ceos-company-trouble
Rent in SF is much higher & you get a lot less. The other day I met a lady looking at 1BR aparrments and she said in the newer buildings, it was $6500 to $7500. $3500 is the average price for a 1BR.

Rents are going slightly down in SF. You can rent a room for $1200-1500 and pay $300-400 month in parking. A friend was paying $1900 month to share a place with 5 people in Russian Hill.

In LA, you can live at the Ritz for $5500/month.
I don’t see a link to the actual text. Is there somewhere to read it?
> I live in a metro area with more than 1M people. Where's my fiber optics?

That's the question you need to ask:

1. Your city council - they are the ones who are blocking or making it very difficult for others to access city's ROW which are needed

2. Ask the old lady across the street. I'm sure at some point she was displeased at the idea of someone digging the street.

Source: Spent years in the telecom trenches trying to roll out fiber in 50 meter increments.
> "Otherwise the gov't could claim you're an enemy combatant every time they want to take your rights away, and then lock you up forever."

Which is exactly what the judge in this case is afraid of:

Judge Chutkan recognized how dangerous the government’s claims are.

“The government could snatch any U.S. citizen off the street and hold them as an enemy combatant… for as long as it took to come to some ‘final disposition,’” she posited. “That kind of unchecked power is, quite frankly, frightening.”
> I'm against initiatives that resist technological progress

I dispute the notion that the evolution of the web is at all progress. It has nice things, but so far the main effects are ever increasing bloat and centralisation. There are simpler ways to do this stuff, we're just too caught up in path dependence to see or invent possible alternatives.

> we should be working on efforts to increase the abilities of independent contributors

Unless you mean to make them less independent (say by providing common libraries and rendering engines), then the only way forward is to increase everyone's abilities. This is already an ongoing effort, just see how many programming languages and methodologies are popping up every year.

> the web as a platform today is unfathomably better today than it was in the 90s

The web wasn't even a platform the 90's, of course it's a better platform now. However, it only became a platform by accident. This reminds me of C++'s accidentally Turing complete templates, which later spawned template meta-programming madness.

If a platform was design from the ground up as a platform, it would all be much simpler, perhaps even more capable. But no, we had to piggy back on whatever the market favoured at the time.

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Here's what I think: a web-ish platform written today wouln't need more than 0.1% of Firefox's 35 million lines of code, or about 30 thousand lines. Or maybe 10 times that amount, to account for optimisation and long tail functionalities —that's still under 1%.

This even has been done. The STEPS projects at http://vpri.org is only 20K lines, including the compiler collection and editing tools. It even runs at acceptable speeds on a laptop.

That would be progress. That would spur the independence of contributors. Too bad the market just isn't ready for this. It probably never will be.
The major issue there is that "Mozilla is developing" means that whatever browser discussed after that really is only as independent as the current Firefox, which is basically not Firefox anymore. It's "looks like Chrome, works like Chrome, branded as Firefox". So yeah, for the moment I guess Pale Moon is the best out there for me.
Corporate websites, in particular, can be pathological cases. The closer to completion, the more "stakeholders" come out of the woodwork.
I think he’s referring to the idea of having fake users in your database whose passwords should never be used to sign in. Someone successfully signing in with one of those accounts indicates that your user account credentials have been compromised.
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A PM is responsible for coordinating disparate groups of people. So if one person says “A will take 3 days” and someone else says “I can do B in 3 days, which I can’t start until A is done, and C in 2 days” what’s the correct time estimate for all the work? The first person will probably have issues they didn’t anticipate, so now their work is really 1 week long. The second will start on C, hopefully, then either spend a bit of time following up to see if they can start on B, or miss the fact that A is finished by a few days. So while people may be only a few days off per individual task, for a PM this has a multiplicative effect. So the PM can either act like an engineer and say “well there were X Y and Z unexpected things which is why this is going to take 3x as long” or just assume 4 “days of work” across 4-5 people really means 5 weeks before all the work is done (because not everyone can devote 100% to that work, some dependencies are difficult to hand off and can’t be done in parallel, etc).
Who knows, maybe this guy's name is actually Achmed, and all of his uncles and cousins exist?
ChAP: Chaos Automation Platform
I added a check so it should be working now without localStorage.
While I understand the argument for keeping the library "untranspiled," you may want to reconsider using this version in the examples. Ideally, examples should work in the average browser. JMHO.
Hate to break it to you, but this very thing happening is proof of the grandparent.

Unless you have lots of guns and are willing to go to war with $government , you're going to have a very bad time. And even if you armed to the teeth, you still going to have a very bad time, but instead you're shot at.
How to Use Emergency SOS on iPhone in iOS 11
What Could Possibly for Wrong? The iPhone X's Face ID
Macie Analayzes a subset of CloudTrail, not all actions and is about historical behavior (though for high sev actions, it is more point in time)

GuardDuty is looking for specific threats/attacks and can combine multiple sources of telemetry for more advanced correlation. E.g. A combination of VPC Flows + CloudTrail + DNS that trigger an alert when formed together while a single CloudTrail event may not have.
I added a conversion so that you can enter the ID or the label.
The point of the conventions is sort of a mutual aid that encourages nations to abide by rules of war. It is not a right in any real sense, nor does it mean one side must always act ethically to the other side which ignores and flouts it. Essentially its a gentleman's agreement, and is as binding as one of those.

Once one side breaks it, I don't think treating them like they haven't is proper.
Speech input is not text input. I don't understand what you mean.
No Chrome sandboxing is still ahead of Firefox but FF is getting closer.
Very nice! Also... scary.
In defense of Flaky, the most common use case is for functional tests, since the browser can just run out of resources and crash for reasons that have nothing to do with your code.

If you own tests aren't idempotent then that's obviously a problem, but as test suites get better that's becoming less of an issue.
When possible, I give three numbers. A best case scenario, the nominal scenario and the worse case scenario.

Software Development is full of hidden pitfalls and I've found this can keep development and management teams both on the same page when unforeseen obstacles arise
Airports do this all the time: Wifi is free for 1 hour, after that it's $X/hour. It's simply putting a "timer" on the MAC address.
> We think the age of Mozart was particularly wonderful, because we have Mozart's music. But there was plenty of other music in that era, most of it bellowed by bad musicians in taverns. That's not so different from today's music scene.

That's easily disproven-- even musicologists tasked with cataloging Mozart's output erroneously attributed symphonies and other pieces to him that were written by lesser known composers.

The reason attribution is such a hard problem is because it's non-trivial to separate the stylistic characteristics of late 18th century courtly and sacred music from the characteristics of Mozart's music we wish to claim were inspired by his genius. (There's a great paper written I believe by Rifkin on Josquin scholarship having been circular in just this way.)

What your royal "we" finds "particularly wonderful" about the "age of Mozart" is the style, not the particular composer. And there is plenty of well-written, beautiful symphonic, choral, and chamber music written by all kinds of composers of that period.

The modern world does not strive to have a composer in each and every town who can competently write compelling tonal music with the constraints of late 18th century form, texture, and counterpoint. As misguided as it may be, the longing of your royal "we" for the age of Mozart is a valid longing, regardless of what drinking songs bad musicians were playing in biergartens.
With frameworks, the more they do for you, the more risk you will end up fighting against them if you need to do something they're not designed for.

Django isn't particular bad at this (it has some escape hatches to allow you to e.g. write custom SQL), but it is overal still quite a big framework and it's certainly harder to bend to your will than Flask.

So, you need to know the extra things it gives you and figure out if they will be helpful for your website.

Loosely, Django is: routing + HTML request parameter handling + HTML rendering + templating + user sessions + lots of database read/write help, assuming simple CRUD access patterns.

Flask is: routing + HTML request parameter handling + HTML rendering. Then, if you want any of the other things, you go and find a library for them.
Why are those names “slurs” or “examples of dishonesty”?

I actually do have cousins named Ahmad (Persian, not Arab) and I’ve met people named Mostafa. Are you claiming that makes their parents racists? Is it racist when a comedian uses John for a white name? And I’ve met a lot of Asian Steves - did their parents name them ethnic slurs?

The application itself is looks honestly written, much more so than most corporate applications that might use “affiliates” or “partners” instead of uncles and cousins. It is obviously a parady of the deeply flawed nature of certificate authorities.

I think you are letting your personal baggage bias your interpretation.
That's fine that there are four "major" engines. I'm looking for a minor one anyway, whose dev does not need nor want to become part of a major flagship product, or who at least isn't tied to Mozilla or Google. The lack of real development in the browser field is kind of appalling.
"Fixed scope, fixed price. Flexible scope, flexible price."
Ask HN: How old is the company/workplace you are working at now?
>This is a crime that violates the 5th and 6th amendments, and we should be arresting and prosecuting those who gave the order to violate this man's constitutional rights.

Funny. They can get in line behind John Yoo, J. Edgar Hoover, Henry Kissinger and thousands of others. They'll have to pull Yoo away from the prestigious appointment at UC Berkeley he got as a reward for his crimes, strip the name Hoover got to place on the FBI building for his, and take away the adoration and respect murderous war criminal Kissinger gets from politicians of all stripes first.

There has been an argument going on for some time about whether or not the domestic legal system is capable of handling terrorism cases -- cases have recently been prosecuted in civil courts like the Boston Bombing, etc. Perhaps it's time to think about whether or not the domestic legal system is capable of handling crimes committed by the powerful (rich, politically powerful, etc). The answer is obviously no, but what could we do to make it so? Would that be good?
A one year project is now a two decade project
> The conventions don't make any exception for traitors

Yes, but the basis of the conventions is treaties between states. Only a state that was party to that treaty would have standing to claim that the treaty had been violated.

Since a traitor would be a citizen of the state who would theoretically be violating the treaty then no other state would have standing to assert a violation.
Ther'e s a lot of misinformation floating around this discussion. The school that gave me a tuition waiver was owned by the State of Virginia and doesn't pay taxes. Almost all private US schools are charities and don't pay taxes for education-related activities.
COMODO seems to be the only CA that still offers them: https://www.comodo.com/home/email-security/free-email-certif...
> Why would I want some random no-name devleoper randomly spawning processes on my device killing my battery life?

Why do you want Apple to be in control of your device though? Wouldn't you rather be able to let an app do something that it needs to, when you need it to? Or, would you honestly prefer Apple to make all of your decisions for you?

If you really want Apple to be in control of your devices and not you, that's fine... but can you understand why other people might not want that?

Are there any Apple decisions that you disagree with?

Also, how about a replacement for the most important apps?

- Contacts
- Phone Dialer
- Messages
- Safari

Can you even uninstall those? Are other apps even allowed to receive phone calls or SMS text? (To replace Safari - I'd require that it never get launched from a hyperlink in an SMS text message.)

I'd like to replace these because Apple only gives you the most bare-bones features for them and they strong-arm you into using Apple Maps and Safari from them. I'm guessing you're fine with that though.

> [Apple is the] least likely to pull shenanigans or gotcha's on their users.

Pffft. Do you know the history of Apple? Their whole business model is a shenanigan on the users. I look forward to when their time is over.
The Hagia Sophia was completed in just 5 years and "Earthquakes in August 553 and on 14 December 557 caused cracks in the main dome and eastern half-dome. The main dome collapsed completely during a subsequent earthquake on 7 May 558,[21] destroying the ambon, altar, and ciborium. The collapse was due mainly to the unfeasibly high bearing load and to the enormous shear load of the dome, which was too flat.[18] These caused the deformation of the piers which sustained the dome.[18] The emperor ordered an immediate restoration. He entrusted it to Isidorus the Younger, nephew of Isidore of Miletus, who used lighter materials and elevated the dome by "30 feet"[18] (about 6.25 meters or 20.5 feet)[clarification needed] – giving the building its current interior height of 55.6 meters (182 ft).[22] Moreover, Isidorus changed the dome type, erecting a ribbed dome with pendentives, whose diameter lay between 32.7 and 33.5 m.[18] Under Justinian's orders, eight Corinthian columns were disassembled from Baalbek, Lebanon, and shipped to Constantinople around 560.[23] This reconstruction, giving the church its present 6th-century form, was completed in 562."
ROW/easement for telecom approvals should be taken away from municipalities all together. You would be amazed how quickly you would get competitors to VZ/Comcast.
Toughest creatures on earth
The rhetoric of the administration with respect to immigration might have rubbed you to the wrong way, but if you are considering moving back to your country due to it, note that there hasn't, so far, been any material change in any immigration policy for skilled workers.
Have you tried this one?

Hacker News (YC) by Dharmesh Patel https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435?m...

It’s worked fairly well for me as a light user.
I automatically closed the tab when the video started playing automatically.
I misunderstood your comment as saying that Mexico is some kind of socioeconomic hell.
TL;DR differential to sci-hub?
I use reeder and am very happy with it.
The problem with combining a laser with a print head to perform some kind of heat-ahead function is you cannot predict the vector direction the head will be traveling with current hobbyist firmware, like Marlin, without modifying it sufficiently enough to buffer the GCODE so it moves the focal point of the laser to the next vector direction while still extruding in the current vector.

You'd be effectively operating two independent print heads at the same time, otherwise if you're just focusing the laser at the extrusion nozzle, you're just heating already heated plastic, or worse, burning the current layer of plastic behind the traveling printhead.
I did a similar implementation in production using DigitalShadows. We basically created "honeywords" in the database at random, and then had DS monitor for those out in the wild. That included random lines in the source code that didn't do anything other than be used as IoCs.
I also was such kind of engineer for years, who had the desire to be a cathedral architect instead of a dusty, worn-out bazaar trader. But the truth is, the bazaar is more successful. It needs less system, less skill to join (more skill to master though), less luck.

Because there are 1200 libraries that basically do the same thing just with slight variation it means that if something is good in 500 of them a few of them will survive even a catastrophy like a bubble burst.

And really funny is that it is also more scalable. Without architecture and oversight many more of the integrations between these little, inexperienced silos fail. But because there are so many more who could start, again a few will make it because they were lucky enough to do the right experiment at the right time.

Surviving in such a jungle is of course harder, which is why we engineers, looking for a rather calm life, hate it so much. We want to focus on the code, not on survival. That's why we turn the facts and act like the Bazaar would be less successful where everything actually shows that it really is more successful.

If you are like me, and really want to become successful, even if it means leaving your assumptions behind and accepting that you might've been wrong, then look out for people who survive quite well in this jungle, and learn from them. It's learning by doing though, since what you write into a book today might already be irrelevant tomorrow. And there are books with the more abstract concepts out there, but without feeling and doing it, you can't even understand them (but will think you do anyways).

Real life feels more like learning Vim than learning Microsoft Word, but in a similar fashion it also offers rewards that are unexpected and come in sizes one wouldn't even dream about.
I have no idea, but it is a legitimate answer, honestly.
right. the only enforcement mechanism for international law is war (economic or military). So to enforce the laws of war requires more war, which limits their practical effect.
Interestingly, I copied and pasted the blurb in the newly released Amazon Comprehend and it detected a negative sentiment with 0.94 confidence (0.0 positive, 0.06 neutral)
> Installing fiber is damn expensive. It is a hugely capital-intensive business. A sword is constantly hanging over your head as the entrenched monopolies can cut prices to $10/month at any moment in any market where you are laying fiber (trivial when they are bringing in $100/mo per customer where they are the only choice).

That's not correct. Installing fiber is extremely cheap. DWDM prisms are cheap. Long range 10G optics is dirt cheap.

> Even though I have sonic fiber in SF it is actually a waste: on the poles in front of my house there are three completely duplicated pieces of communications infrastructure: copper phone lines, copper cable lines, and sonic fiber. If ATT ever bothers to install fiber then I'll have duplicate fiber lines. That is a deadweight loss for basically no benefit and only enables 2-3 competitors rather than potentially 20 or 30.

And this "we want perfection", ladies and gentlemen, is why you are not getting telecom competition.
ESR would rather use M16.