skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how open source is a communist model, nobody is coerced to publish their code, they do because they want to, even several companies are making some of their source code public for improving the trust that their client has in their product and increase their sales.
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Every time an article about the (very important!) dangers of sitting makes the rounds, it always brings in people with a bad case of switcheroo fever, who come in and say something to the effect of "well actually, standing can cause injuries too!"

But that's never followed up with any clear conclusions about the relative dangers of standing vs. sitting. The conversation is left with a dangling implication that maybe standing is just as bad as sitting. Or worse, we're left with a vague, open ended exhortation about how the body is really complicated.

This always annoys the heck out of me. At a bare minimum, we should at least be able to come away from these articles with the conclusion that we shouldn't sit for substantial periods, and that we definitely should throw ourselves into some other alternative, whatever it's complications are.

The risk of injuries from standing should be mitigated however they have to be mitigated, but it we shouldn't let that complication muddy the waters on the more fundamental point about sedentary behavior still being bad even if the alternatives have problems too.
All problems are easy to solve if one has unlimited money and makes decisions single-handedly.
The architecture does indeed come from the late 80s/early 90s, but I think it's more relevant today than ever. Separation of services is, in my opinion, essential to security. By putting the authentication service off in its own machine, you restrict the attacks that can be made on it; the auth server only talks over a highly restricted protocol. On a standalone Unix system, users log in to the same machine that stores the passwords. They're only a privilege escalation exploit away from getting the hashes of everyone's password, and these days privilege escalations are a dime a dozen.

When this scheme was designed, it was frankly a little bit nutty. The CPU, auth, and file servers would be VAX or Sun systems, costing tens of thousands of dollars, and the terminals would be either slightly cheaper Suns or IBM PC-compatibles costing thousands of dollars themselves. Today, you could probably cobble together a passable network for a few hundred dollars, assuming you use cheap Atom boards for everything except the CPU server (which is meant to be a beefy compute box, but let's be honest nothing in Plan 9 uses a lot of cycles). This makes the architecture more sensible than ever.
True, but that worse processor and -2 USB-C ports that I would never use thanks to having to have a hub anyways saves $500. Enough to upgrade the processor to an i7.

> Plus it's still a little more expensive than the previous base model at launch, I think, despite being worse in quite a few ways.

Besides USB-C, what else is worse compared to the previous model? I had the model before, so not too familiar.
Sounds like you got yourself an expensive phone. Hope it was worth it!
It is a trade off. It isn't as nice as a wired system. My setup would have required multiple boxes and several extremely long difficult to get to runs.

I had 5 blink cameras setup and fully working in about an hour. So it was worth it to me. 24/7 recording would be better but this was reasonably priced and very easy to use.
The Adafruit ruler is open source (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-PCB-Ruler) - I suspect the eBay ones are clones of it.
Ask HN: How do these start up website get so much traffic so quickly?
All of these companies start up quickly and generate more traffic than they know what do with? How do they do it? They all say "it went viral"...
> Founders are already winning if they only get funded, but investors need an entirely different kind of success.

Aren't the board members supposed to make sure that the incentives are aligned so that all parties involved share the same goals and timeline?

Sure, a founder may manage to collect a salary, but I'd guess most founders could earn more being hired by someone else.
Triggering Video Playback with Bots and Crawlers
In general, transit as observed by an occasional visitor often traveling off-peak tends to a lot different from a daily commuter depending on it to get to work during rush hour. There are probably exceptions but most people with a daily commute find plenty to complain about in just about every city.
4th delusion, readers here who have 9-5 jobs are not slaves and it's cool to have no balls and to fulfill other people's dreams
> They should go after the guys who run the site, or other things.

They do. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=pirate+bay+arrests&oq=pirate...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=pirate+bay+raid&oq=pirate+ba...
The critical feature that turned me off theses games after crobots is the disconnect from real time.

There was some java version with distributed processing for battles so the results were the average over many battles on different machines. There was also the local graphical client which just ran on your own machine.

I coded up my own trig functions which were no more accurate than the arena could possibly use.
Locally my bots consistently won, remotely they lost badly.

My machine was very very slow.

It boils down to interruptibility and actually counting time slices (accurately) if you do not get that right you reward the physical machines not the code.
In this context I'm pretty sure it's all "stealing it." There may have been a guise of managing money, but it was a hoax.
Come'on..they are nothing compared to the massive volume of money the producers are earning with streaming services and cinema ticket prices. In 2017 we are seeing the average price of 10€ for a 2D film and of 14€ for a 3D one..that is robbery
It isn't like that had not occurred to me.

But Superbugs keep adapting to antibiotics etc. I am skeptical of the idea that dunking dead bodies in chemicals is anywhere near as effective as a living immune system.

Living microbes seem to adapt if all they are faced with is poison of some sort. In fact, petrochemical spills can be remediated with an injection of microbes that eat petrochemicals.
bitcoin was just overpriced a little. that is all.
That's doubly wrong. The sites cycled between subscriptions and ads, historically. None has been around for a full decade in the same form.
that someone is Brendan Gregg! He's awesome!
http://www.brendangregg.com/
Since the beginning, Coinbase has been kind of fishy... Every time Bitcoin would drop sharply in a short period of time, it would shut down all transactions (not sure if it happened today, I haven't been following closely)... In 2012 or 2013, they canceled an order I placed because the price of Bitcoins was too low.

I use GDAX to buy coins but I transfer them out right away.

Now they stopped BCH/BTC trading and it appears that they also freeze the prices to control drops (https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7lch2d/coin...).
The ELearning Industry Should Be Thankful for This Holiday Season
I find it crazy that it claims to run for 20 hours on 2 double A batteries. Is battery life a problem for these things?

Also it records in 5 second clips. I imagine that being somewhat painful to review.
As non-NYC resident the first thing I though was, "Huh, I wonder what's wrong with New York's subways?" But alas they went straight into solutions so I am still left to wonder what problems they are trying to fix and in what priority. Pretty webpage though.
Ledger Nano S took ~4 days to arrive from France to The Netherlands. During Black Friday mania. It has its pros and cons compared to Trezor so YMMV.
Make sure you also hook them up with a copy of Popper's essay on "The Paradox of Tolerance".
I fuckin' love that Patreon earns me more from drawing my comics than ads ever did. My stuff's all ad-free now. Which, yeah, it sure is nice to be able to have media that broke queer femmes can see themselves in as long as they have some kind of Internet connection. And other broke people who may not be seeing themselves in my protagonists but enjoy other aspects of my work.
1) Lecturing
- Every lecture should make only one main point
- Never run overtime
- Relate to your audience
- Give them something to take home

2) Blackboard Technique
- Make sure the blackboard is spotless.
- Start writing on the top left-hand corner

3) Publish the Same Result Several Times

4) You Are More Likely to Be Remembered by Your Expository Work

5) Every Mathematician Has Only a Few Tricks

6) Do Not Worry about Your Mistakes

7) Use the Feynman Method

8) Give Lavish Acknowledgments

9) Write Informative Introductions

10) Be Prepared for Old Age
I considered giving some examples, but I don't want my fellow colleagues to recognise themselves in the stories.
> because you can just put the right command into your login scripts, and you know that it'll execute, and never get deleted because a desktop environment decided to change its config file format.

You just lost 99% of the userbase.
> If the language of your account is set to something other than English, it unlocks subtitles and dubs for that language that you wouldn't normally have access to.

Thank you for the hint, but don't you think this is a way ridiculous? Why can't people that prefer English UI (e.g. I do, although it's neither my native language nor the official language of the country I've moved to, I am fluent in all the three but am interested in content in other languages too and I always strongly prefer all the apps UIs to be in English) access content in other languages?
Yes, I agree. See my other comment that is a sibling to yours.
You’d marry your girlfriend knowing she’d be a widow in a years time? Why make things more formal and irreversible, than less?

Genuinely curious to your reasoning.
great concept, definitely one of the best product to come out of StartupLab.no
To distill this to a single piece of advice: every mainstream brokerage, private wealth management, or broker asset custodian[1] firm provides a Web interface with at least read-only access to balance and holdings. If you’re using an asset manager who hasn’t provided access (on a well-known domain name), find out why and get access. There’s no need to trust printed or static PDF statements. You should be able to see exact holdings as reported directly to you by a recognized name.

[1]: Many smaller firms use Fidelity, Vanguard, Schwab, or another large firm as custodian: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=170678, https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/blog/how-pwm-really-works-pa...
If you are hosted by an employee, they are available for sale to visitors. It's super awesome indeed and bought one.
I would recommend this text book: Transport Phenomena. Bird, Steward and Lightfoot. The first part is related to the motion of fluids/transfer of momentum ( The one you are interested ). The second part is the transfer of energy and the third part is related to the transfer of mass.
>> Isn't cooperation key to a decentralized system?

Slightly off-topic, but cooperation is key to traditional currencies, too. If a majority of the United States determines that I suck and tries to stick it to me and anybody who does business with me, all of my US Dollars would have substantially less purchasing power.
I'm pretty sure that having to account for segfaults, keyboard interrupts, power outages, and other kinds of 'real world' exceptions that have to be caught means that the code might be deterministic but the computer is exposed to unexpected stimuli.

People probably act in a mostly deterministic when there are rules constraining them: sports, board games, social environments, lines. Maybe we are deterministic on a neurotransmitter level. But there's little control over external stimuli.
You're confusing actions taken by the executive branch with actions taken by the legislative branch. For a dictator like Lukashenko there is no difference. In democratic states they are quire different.
Yeah - as long as the crypto token has liquidity to settle into other currencies, there is a possibility of agreeing to ruin the chain and exchange the tokens while information asymmetry still exists. Essentially, if you don't care about the "store of value" part, a large enough group could do it.
Conversely: tons of people here in Vancouver complain about our equivalent systems (the Skytrain, usually), whereas people I know who've visited from New York are blown away by how clean, fast, and efficient it is. Trains that come every 90 seconds, no garbage on the tracks, bright, open, airy stations (most are above ground on that line).

NYC is a model of public transit from the perspective of ubiquity, feasibility, and ridership, though, and that's pretty key.

We also visited the SF Bay Area, and it was confusing as hell. The BART? The Muni? The buses? The cable cars? Who uses what? How do we get around? I need different passes? Oh, the tap card works? What's even going on?

I found the BART was very reminiscent in a lot of ways to Montreal's Metro system, but the MUNI (we took the J line? I kept calling it the JUnit, to my wife's annoyance) and it was 'fine', but only because we were a few blocks away. It felt very… rustic. Unmaintained. The raising/lowering stairs thing was a neat solution though.

In short, NYC being better than SF isn't a high bar, but I think we should all be happy that we live in cities that have such transit systems at all. Many large cities in the US don't even have public transit systems that can get people anywhere with any efficiency.
Yes, all of this.

It bears mentioning that prior to 2015 it was not this bad.

In the early 2000's it was common to easily get a seat. I recall the main lines that seemed crowded were the 456 line.

Around 2008 or 2010 they canceled a few lines, reduced bus service, and more. To me what smelled fishy was that the prior year, they had a budget surplus and gave everyone free trips on a Christmas weekend.

Add to that there were less homeless back then, and then complete the picture with the number of homeless people sprawled out in a heap on several seats on a crowded train, and you start to see how people are questioning why they live here.

What's interesting to see is sometimes during rush hour, and if you see a train car that seems less crowded you avoid it either because

a) it's summer and the A/C died in that train car
b) you have a homeless or crazy person harassing people or sprawled out, except exuding an unusually strong odor that day.
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Rule #2: stop bullshitting yourself, there are no rules.
I think I knew that templates were Turing complete, but so are java generics, it's just that to get dependent types in generics you have to reinvent the integers within the generic system. Not so for templates, which I didn't realize. That's pretty nifty!
Steam is localized for Russians, including the language, the payment options and the games are listed with a lower price.
Wasting all that space for the Home button was crazy.

Anyway, you're entitled to your opinion but please don't speak for everyone. My girlfriend and I love our X's. FaceID doesn't seem to work well when I'm in bed, but touch id was lot more painful. Now you can say "Hey Siri, open mail" without touching your phone.

My only real [iOS] complaint with Apple is that Siri isn't getting smarter. Amazon or Google is going to deliver the first voice UI:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/voice-as-a-user-inte...
You'd think with all those SV billions floating around, there would be enough tax dollars to improve the transit infrastructure.
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Not to mention the new avenues this discovery creates for researching the mechanics of the disease itself.
True, the SF public transit story is abhorrent, so I can see how NYC would seem much better to a SF local. But if you come from nearly ANY other developed country on the planet, the situation in NYC would seem abhorrent. I have been on roughly 40 transit systems across the world, and the NYC subway is hands-down the least reliable. This is including Soviet-era systems in eastern Europe.

In terms of ridership, London, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong, etc. are all comparable to NYC, some are just as old (e.g. London, Paris, Tokyo), and none are as broken.
This book is great and I thought really respectful and interesting given the subject matter.
This is often done to support SAML or other federated sign in
Yes! This is another one I've forgotten to mention. And there also are many old and exotic movies/songs/books/games that aren't legally available anywhere.
My memory of the event may be confused with another one, but I believe the guy who did this did it accidentally. He was as confused by the result as everyone else - in fact, he froze the account on his own, so that he wouldn't have access to it.
I am more talking about the long term. Total value of all currency is going to be +/- some % * k of GDP so over say 100 years you get minimal average inflation or deflation and the average keeps dropping as you increase to say 200 years etc.

But, even if it's value is stable in the long term that's arguably less important than month to month and year to year stability because you need to make loan payments today or buy food today etc.
Right, but my point is that there's really no tangible benefit to writing the type at all. In a language with good type inference (Haskell, ml, modern python), the string literal is known to be a string, and you don't need to do any extra work.
Ironic how this is being published right after nautil.us suffered a large reputational loss after not paying their writers. I wonder whether the author got paid for this yet or if they will get paid. Clearly, the reputational loss wasn't enough to deter them from writing this article.

Edit: "Reproduced with permission from Hachette Book Group.". So they likely got it for free to promote the book.
The blog post actually puts the blame on MS Office.
I think people are just holding on to their devices longer. The mobile market is hitting that maturation point where people aren't upgrading the high-end models every 1-2 years, it's turning into more like the PCs, they'll upgrade every 3-5 years.

I used to upgrade every two years but stopped that since I got my iPhone 5S, it's good enough for me. I didn't need anything until the battery life started to decline and when ATT had a good deal for two iPhones for price of one installment plan, I got an iPhone X. I would've stay on iPhone 5S for 5 years, no doubt. I suspect the same for X, I will be staying with it for 5 years.
My co-worker has bike peddles underneath his standing desk. So he either stands most of the day while working or sits down and peddle some. I was laughing at first, but it actually seems like a good idea. I am not sure if he is healthier or more productive but he is happy ;)
Who exactly is the target audience for this? A lot of developers I’ve met who hated math had the skills for it. If you can master a new programming paradigm in a few weeks than you can do math, it’s not the monster all theses writers make it out to be.
How does it solve the synchronization problems by the way? It's not always easy to find a subtitles file that will match the particular version of the movie second-by-second.
They don't even need to follow a normal distribution; the central limit theorem will apply to most naturally-occurring distributions.
I'd say yes, your impression is wrong, but you're not alone.

Productivity growth in the 50s and 60s was consistently higher than it is now. Then it did slow down while IT was taking off, which is known and studied as the productivity paradox [1]: "Academic studies of aggregate U.S. data from the 1970s and 1980s failed to find evidence that IT significantly increased overall productivity."

There are many attempts to explain it, including

* lag: productivity started to pick up in the 90's (which you can see in Hussman's graph, but it's fallen back now...)

* "hedonistic" improvements: IT makes many things better, but they do not show up in GDP measurements

Bottom line, though, that arguably earlier technical advances (electricity & machinery, assembly lines & mass production, etc.) had much bigger impact than yet another Tinder for dogs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
I run a network of a handful of sites that amass roughly 1MM hits per day. Over the last 14 days, my Ø CPM for pops is $2.74 across all countries, with the top CPMs being:

Country	CPM
US	$11.175
Nigeria	$5.519
Italy	$4.104
Iran $3.636
Japan	$3.596
Grenada	$3.591
Australia	$3.217
Canada	$3.198
Egypt	$2.459
Panama	$2.384
Germany	$2.244
France	$2.199
Israel	$2.146
UK	$2.109
South Africa	$2.035
Denmark	$1.733
Finland	$1.732
Sweden	$1.617
Portugal	$1.579
New Zealand	$1.545
UAE	$1.528
Korea	$1.480
Switzerland	$1.476
Norway	$1.354
Latvia	$1.233

EDIT: formatting
Across linux and OS X, I use a solution based on the this HN comment and it's follow-up discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754

Lot of other suggestions on the same HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070797
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How to Wake Up Early Like Tim Cook
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GoDaddy has an availability API at developers.godaddy.com. Works pretty much like you'd expect...
If you need a way to identify EU users then you can do so via our IP Geolocation API (ipdata.co) that returns an `is_eu` flag. Then do whatever you like.
As long as the traffic goes via the tor network, I don’t see any issue with this. All the provider sees is encrypted blurb.
Vega cards will be supported in Linux 4.15 onwards with mesa drivers. Linux 4.12, 4.13, and 4.14 do support Vega cards but not for display output. You'll have to use AMD's proprietary drivers for now.
That was one of the events, I think. There was another one. Perhaps that's the one being described here. I seem to recall that one had a bunch of whitehats who figured out the bug and rushed to exploit everyone just to prevent the bad actors, and so they could return the funds later.
As a non-US tourist I find the NYC subway dirty (there was trash on the lines that nobody picked up in weeks), and terribly undocumented (few or misplaced info panels and directions). It’s also very crowded at peak hours but that’s understandable I assume.
You can also download it from here:
https://coconut-flavour.com/downloads/coconutBattery_3.6.4.z...
>I was just pointing out that in the US, one might lose one's ability to get health insurance at all because of an injury (many conditions will cause most insurance company to refuse your application).

That is no longer true as a result of the ACA.
Their subtitle font CSS is pretty poor too. I have custom CSS injected to watch anything with subtitles because their default subtitle CSS gives a choice of a large box that blocks the content or provides no outlines around the text.