skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, it's worth noting that if you lose power or your computer is torn asunder by an act of God, then of course your exit trap will also not execute. Point of mentioning that, is to drive home the point that you can't ever fully rely on exit traps or mechanisms like exit traps (i.e. Go's defer, Python's try/finally...) so you must always still consider failure modes beyond that.

Mitigating failure modes beyond that can be challenging, but usually there's something you could do that will go further. For example with EC2 boxes you could find some mechanism to make the box 'temporary,' perhaps tag it as such, then have a program on another machine somewhere that reaps these boxes after 24 hours. (edit: Honestly, rereading the parent post, this is pretty much the same thing they recommended, but I didn't really realize it when I wrote this.)

It's still useful to use exit traps and friends, but as you mentioned, it's not a silver bullet, and you can make a lot more robust systems if you try to handle a layer or two more of failures.
I dunno, it seems fairly sane to stand first in places you are guaranteed not to win, if you want to get started in politics. Lowest risk method of getting experience and people are impressed if you poll anything at all.
Blackwallet.co hacked
An interesting variation to this thought is:

When is appropriate to fire someone for making a mistake?

Some ideas:

- gross negligence / malice

- ethics

- publicity damage / internet pitchforks

Additionally, it doesn't seem like the forgive mistakes approach meshes well with the startup advice of "it's never too early to fire."
Love that this could start becoming a thing. There's a very similar incubator[1] in Chile with the same hypothesis, poor people also have problems that can be resolved through tech/startups and there are plenty of good business opportunities there.

[1]: http://www.socialab.com
In Germany, online hate speech has real world consequences
Swimming with US masters swimming.

Running ~30 miles/week (not recommended).

Yoga/core/mobility work.
I was thinking that as I read it. Maybe their outer cells are just getting use to something and an evolutionary fitness mechanism keeps those other cells seeking whatever provides it nutrients.

I mean it get into the definition of what _memory_ is. When humans talk about muscle memory, we're not actually talking about memories actually being held in those muscles. We're just training our brain an nervous system to be faster and more precise at a given task.

When we train certain animals, their learning may have nothing to do with a central nervous system at all. And even the concept of "learning" could be a human personification we apply to an animals when really it is simply adapting or has some type of evolutionary fitness or propensity to repeat certain tasks that bring it food or warmth.

On a side node, I really dislike it when people say "our feet were designed to" or "this animal's webbed feet are designed to." I always try to say they "evolved to" or "adapted to." It's similar to when people say "It's suppose to rain all well," when you should really say, "They're predicting rain all week."
or a product which is entirely closed from a company that makes all of its revenue from selling products directly to their customers.

How is Apple entirely closed?

https://opensource.apple.com
> "People fail to see the point of a "costly" pizza when 2-3 meals can be had for same price. But, if there is a grand occasion like birthday, anniversaries people still land up there."

Ok. But isn't disposal income one of the properties of Middle Class? The purchase of costly things only for special occasions is a lower (?) tier than middle class.

Perhaps the average income appears sufficient. But without that money changing hands the broader economy remains constricted. That is, if ya wanna have a Middle Class ya gotta act like a Middle Class.
Ask HN: Graphics Cards supply
Wanted to get a simple 1050 4GB looks like 1050, 1060 etc. are out of stock everywhere. Can't Nvidia ramp up production I understand there is demand from crypto but (1050?).
At first blush it would seem that coordinating or collaborating with cooperative government agencies might be of benefit as many of these apps seem to streamline and make processes more effective for the ultimate beneficiary of the programs. Obviously this is a benefit for both the recipient and the government organization which wants to serve its pop as well as possible.

As someone mentioned in the thread, efficiency could lead to either better benefits to the recipients of the government benefits or they could result in contraction of the government workforce.

To that latter concern we must figure out whether people are employed by the government (or companies in general) to do a job or they're there also equally as a part of a social contract to keep the most people possible in gainful employment --which if the latter is true, SV startups are an anathema by design. People for the most part aren't building startups in order to require more people to keep things running --they tend to be in business to save their customers money.
When the entire laptop is $300, the difference between those two is 10% of the consumer facing cost. And somebody buying a $300 computer clearly doesn't think (or doesn't know) they need 1 TB of storage.
If you're still using Windows PowerShell proper instead of PowerShell Core, you still need to delete the curl alias or call curl explicitly as curl.exe in order to use it.

Also, take a look at Chocolatey for package management. Yeah it's not a built-in thing, but it's pretty decent.
Cool. I've been installing wget on every Windows PC in my authority since the days of Windows 98SE. Every net-enabled operating system is to have such a tool installed by default.
Plus, it's easy to forget that httpie is SLOW. Sometimes when testing an API the timings are worrying, until you remember and switch over to cURL to confirm everything is right with the world.
For that matter, app stores could profile apps. Apple already has an on-device list of apps which consume the most battery. They could normalize the metrics to account for variables like display time and network traffic.
People always say lottery tickets have low expected return and aren't worth buying, and then use that to conclude that people are stupid.

Instead of concluding that people do buy lottery tickets, so their model doesn't accurately model "value".
> In West eating out is the default choice, even those who can't afford it will choose to eat out.

In my experience this is not true at all. I live in Australia, I host a lot of travellers from around the world: Western Europeans (English, French, Italians, Germans), Asians (Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Chinese), North Americans (US, Canada), South Americans (Chilean, Argentinian). None of these people eat out be default.
How did the "more eyes" help discover the HeartBleed bug that was in open source code for two years?
My apologies, am I not allowed to share links to my posts?
Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe. I'm four years in, and still getting stronger (albeit, at a much slower rate than when I first started). Some people need variety to keep their interest in exercise, but I like measuring my progress with the same 5 lifts year after year.

I bought fractional Olympic weight plates to help me when I plateaued. Recently tried creatine, and that was a nice boost (10% increase in most lifts), but the side effects weren't worth it.
Isn't the weight problem almost completely solved by a tree-shaking module bundler?
>This app has some short-term benefits, but it’s hard to see long-term benefits. What if every government aid program was super easy to sign-up for and instantly check whatever you need. What would change? Less taxes from all the gov workers we’d no longer need?

A lot of people who could receive aid but don't have the time / ability / don't know that they could receive aid would get help? How is that not a good result?

And yes, it'd also mean that there's less effort required to find people who need help and verify them, and thus the overhead is reduced.
Is it rational to have laws that rationalize irrational artificially?
I've recently picked up a e ink display with a simple passive interface board (bc Im not used to working with flex cable yet) and realized that a popular way to build the frame in the mcu memory then dump it to the board. Most hobby mcus like the atemga328p have enough static memory to store whole frames of images and then push the whole image to the display, but don't have enough dynamic memory of you want to dynamicly render whole frames and then dump them. So I think that's what you are referring to when you said your trying to figure out how render the frames without running out of memory. My screen had example code that would draw frames an push small windows of image data to the screen to draw the different parts of a complete image.

The reason I bring this up is because I recently had the idea of using small SPI flash memory chips to render the whoel.inage frame dynamicly. The SPI memory chips look like a neat way to easily do this by hooking one up to a small mcu and drawing the frame using the spi memory chop then dumping the whole frame from the memory chip to the screen. I hope to oder some small DIPs soon to experiment with and I thought it also might interest you as well.
It should be noted that 186's aren't even remotely compatible with 286's and 386's. And implementing a 286/386/486 is actually much harder and more complex than say, an 8086. That's why most people stop their hobby project at 8086 or 286. Because it becomes much more work to accomplish and the fun/novelty dries up.
Again, source? Xcodeghost was one instance of limited impact.

> Compare to Google and Amazon, which run static and dynamic analysis of apps uploaded to their stores and allow third party security research on their stores, enabling both earlier detection of malware and faster takedown of all apps that share the same malware.

You're assuming that Apple doesn't do this?
Non-profits can be startups too, if they're attempting to build new business models.
There is another conclusion: chicken read the mind of humans :) The original article: http://cogprints.org/5272/1/ghirlanda_jansson_enquist2002.pd...
Hey, they figured it out with fire extinguishers!
#blackmirror
But the point is you don't get the money you spent on the tokens. It's locked into the contract - all you can withdraw is the eth/s defined in the contract, and that only after the purchase period is closed.
In a theoretical world of 2 people, sure. The assumption here is that we avoid it collectively, not individually. There's a non-technical, non-material, cultural component; the civil in civilization, the social in society. There's an underlying assumption that just as we strive for say better technology and transport, we strive for better civil and social relationships collectively.

Our ability to structure our relationships, cities, and fundamental interactions in non-destructive ways that avoid disaster is just as much a technology and science of an advanced people as a mastery of metallurgy or physics.

This was fundamentally understood after WW2 by baby boomers parents but we've somehow collectively forgotten the pursuit. I really hope we don't need to have planetary catastrophe in order to reacquaint ourselves with merits of such projects.
> They claimed it was impossible for them to help the government obtain data off the devices.

Are you sure that's exactly what they said? Like you said, this could be construed as a lie and open them up to legal liability.

> Also, there was no backdoor requested

I'm pretty sure that's what the whole FBI thing was about. Write a version of iOS that we can install on this phone to gain access to it without the password.
"Prepping" (colloquial) and "being prepared for a (common/realistic/reasonable) emergency" are two very, very different things.

One is entirely realistic and logical and one in crazy pants.

Yes, one should be reasonable, but that's not how "prepping" is use colloquially, and words have meaning.
The concept of machine learning is pretty misleading, because it's founded upon billions of man-years of human learning
Maxi Climber, sorry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvS4KnC8BcM
Did all of these offers come from one of Seattle, SF, or NYC?
Awesome; can't wait for better e-ink displays.

Anyone aware of reasonably affordable greyscale E-ink displays at or larger than a piece of letter-paper?

There's an interesting thread from a year ago, but would love to know if prices have dropped/availability increased.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13771203
A better example might be 肉骨茶 (pork bone broth) which isn't even a beverage.
I mean presumably if you’re “tricking the arb bots” you’ve just found some additional arb of your own, which should make the market more efficient, and apparently in this case (I don’t know if this is correct, but this is the claim made by TFA), drive the price towards dollar parity because of this thing’s built in incentives. Or the arb isn’t from dollar parity mismatch but from the bots themselves, in which case it doesn’t matter to the market because it was dumb and you made it go away.
Fighting poverty is a social and political problem. It is simply a question of will. We have enough wealth on earth to provide food, clothing, and housing to every single human being. Why don't we do it? That's a political question. The technology is trivial.

>“One of my ambitions is to help our users put more food on the table,” says Jimmy Chen, the founder of Propel. His company makes a mobile app called FreshEBT that helps people among the U.S.’s 43 million recipients of the electronic benefit transfer (EBT) service to stretch their food-stamp benefits as far as possible.

I read "we're here to somehow insert fees between you and your food stamp money". The self delusion of these people is incredible.
> If blockchain based currencies prove themselves to be a significant improvement on current monetary systems then state currencies, such as the US dollar, will adopt the new technology, as they have done with all other previous developments in money.

The US dollar, as such, often hasn't adopted new developments in money transmission directly (at least, not at the consumer level); the circle of businesses facilitating USD transactions has, but a dollar-pegged cryptocurrency is essentially just a new part of that ecosystem.

OTOH, the dollar has adopted, directly, new tools in money supply management, several times in its history.
I'm not from Silicon Valley, so the only sampling I have of SV culture comes from this site[0]. From what I see, the article has a refrain that being anti-libertarian goes against the SV gain, but I see political opinions from across the political spectrum here, and my leftist opinions are often upvoted. So, while I can see investors being skeptical, would the tech community as a whole be anti-welfare? I don't necessarily think so.

Regardless, that's just a nitpick about the article. I'm happy that these businesses are doing what they are doing.

[0] FWIW, the article cited a comment from here, so this place must be important enough to cite as an example of SV attitudes
Fighting islamic terrorists afair
I think this keeps getting reposted. Anyway, It's worth the read just for Coin Daddy.
And the canonical case of the tech crowd getting it wrong....

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...

And just for fun...

http://fortune.com/1997/02/03/apples-next-move-misses-the-ma...
You can get 800x600 6" displays for that price, intended as eBook reader replacement parts; a while ago someone figured out how to drive them without the official controller:

http://essentialscrap.com/eink/

That's the same model/family of panel as the one showing 32 shades of gray in this article, and the author has done some other stuff with it:

https://hackaday.io/project/11537-nekocal-an-e-ink-calendar

Unfortunately my device has only "black & white", no shades of gray at all

That's because it's a module with its own controller for producing the display driving waveforms from the 1bpp data that you feed it --- but if you disassemble the module and figure out how to drive the display itself (it's probably not unlike the link above), you could get grayscale too. In addition, you could probably stream from network to display with almost no buffering, by clocking the data directly into the display as it's received over the network (although you'd have to clear each line before drawing it; unlikely to be very difficult, in any case.) Also, refresh as fast or slow as you want.
I think it would do a lot more good for the other employees to see that their superiors will have their backs even when things are going very badly.
Saying nothing qualifies for British. Legit.
For long lasting effect you might want to stay away from excessive cardio. One mile a day? Getting ready for a race? All you need is to Lift Weights and follow Dan John's advice. If you are not an athlete then running has no benefits. Sprinting on your toes on the other hand is great. One kind of effective cardio is walking like a madman(Chad Waterbury) meaning that the gait and pattern is so confusing to your body that it won't ever get efficient. Personal experience with above suggestions.
Bad detection with https anywhere or similar browser extension is what i'd expect
“Front-End Job Interview Questions” Answered
Flu stomps the nation, overwhelming ERs and leaving 20 children dead
You can program efficiently in js. Just maybe drop the fat framework that dynamically checks each and every of your assigned variables to update other hidden functions (and maybe the dom) and avoid dragging things through N functions for "encapsulation" reasons and other inefficient OOP principle application.

what I want to say is:
cough javascript developers cough

(for reference: I am a js "fullstack" dev)
Would you want to work in the same building as a convicted arsonist?
We're talking about a missile incoming. I think they move fairly rapidly; the response system ought to be rapid as well.
Conceivably, but I'm not sure what regulations such a company would have to comply with or even if they can incorporate in the US at all. Eg would they need to be responsible for not letting North Koreans redeem? (probably.) What else?

I do remember tethers parent company basically couldn't get any US bank accounts
>We're going to make procedure and technical changes to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Must be reading some DevOps blogs about blameless post-mortems.
I don't see why a company has to be profit-seeking to be considered a "startup". But Propel is indeed for-profit.
tl;dr: someone who needs something that is becoming scarce will loosen their standards. Film at 11.
there's a good null control for that experiment which i presume they did.
"Deep space" is clickbaity; it never left the inner solar system.

They ripped the GIF[0] (without credit); if you want to avoid the adware-laden site, here it is:

[0] https://imgur.com/gallery/PC70pWZ
She apparently resigned after Trump won. That she wasn't run out of office is a tragedy.
Not for beginners first of all. Just like all fads it will eventually fade. Be aware of the basic principles before blindly joining such a lifting cult. Reminds me of the HIT cult. I don't recommend this stuff to anyone since most folks won't ever compete not have the dedication to stick with it since it's consider a religion. Another capitalistic venture banking on people's ignorance. Sports and fitness are different things
This is really hit-or-miss. My initial test gave me a 93% British (rather accurate considering I'm from a former British colony), but subsequently the results varied a lot, including a few cases where it claimed my accent is 74% American.

The way I pronounce "ask", "plastic" and "Bob" should be dead giveaways that my accent is not American...
Actually, the best board game of 2017 was Kingdomino.[0] It's a good lightweight euro, easy to learn but decent strategy for those who want it.

Arranging dominos in a 5x5 grid is harder than it should be, when you're trying to maximize points one domino at a time. I start off with a great plan, but by the end: d'oh, last one won't fit!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiel_des_Jahres#2017_awards
Yes, and no. For definitions relevant to the comment I was replying to, none of your points make Uber a new type of labor.
>Fighting poverty is a social and political problem. It is simply a question of will. We have enough wealth on earth to provide food, clothing, and housing to every single human being. Why don't we do it? That's a political question. The technology is trivial.

Because there is a huge and complex domain of human motivation, appreciation for hard-earned things vs. taking them for granted and so on. USSR tried doing exactly that with the planned economy and trying to distribute the wealth more or less evenly and failed miserably. Mostly because people lost motivation for achievement and started blatantly faking numbers and statistics since the connection between the results of their work and their life quality was completely lost. As someone who survived that crash, I would really hope that SV can learn from others' mistakes rather than repeating them.
This isn't very accurate. I'm Canadian (I sound American) but this thing is claiming my accent is 80% British.
> Importantly, to become relaxed and happy again without the feeling to have to become more and more productive or create legacy for ourselves or the ones we love is yet another even more difficult step.

I still deal with this problem daily, I never feel that I'm good enough for my family to be happy for me.
I searched yesterday but wasn't able to find the reference.
Think the parent might have meant "good cause."

I'm not sure if Aaron really took his own life or not, and I don't want to say anything insensitive, but I'll share a thought I remember having around the time of his death, which was that if he did kill himself, he was acting out of concern for the greater good -- in that by killing himself, he escaped being "made an example of" by the prosecution, and instead made the prosecution look extremely heavy-handed, and even guilty themselves. The hope would have been that for other folks facing similar circumstances in the future, his case would be remembered and other prosecutors would therefore choose not to go down that same road of trying to make an example out of someone with extreme punishment, for fear of creating another martyr.
Fundamentally, I do think that focusing on the technology end of the problem, making solving the problem cheaper, is a totally valid way to try to help, especially if you are better at technology than politics.

But I toatally agree that for-profit companies have incentives that can become problematic when their customer base doesn't have anywhere else to turn.
profitable in the first week? I almost lol'ed until I saw "in the cryptospace". You'll probably make 8+figs
Not reliably, as only power users will ever even consider opting into telemetry (or changing pretty much any setting for that matter). And power users generally have a much clearer layout of the tabs in their mind and will always go straight up and click, rather than ruffling through the tabs for a second. Or something like that. You get the idea, behavior here is simply different for power users and those are who you'll reach with opt-in telemetry.

Also has to be asked, though, what's the point in making this opt-in? Is it in any way sensitive information whether you click after hovering a tab? I also prefer being more cautious than is necessary, because sometimes there just is some privacy implication you didn't think of, but with this the risk seems incredibly low and they do have a clearly defined use for the telemetry.