skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's not possible to claim that defectors, paid for their stories, represent an unbiased sample of the population honestly. From a historical perspective, it's a poor source. It is now and it will be in 100 years. Unfortunately due to the secrecy in the DPRK we don't really have a way to objectively know how it is now short of living there.

So you have determined that every single defector who is interviewed by a journalist, historian, or human rights activist was paid for his story?

You know, the broader question is the relationship between a countries form of government and how good life is for its citizens. You seem to believe that it is possible for an authoritarian government like that of North Korea to be good. And as a consequence there is no reason to chose liberal democracy over totalitarianism. Have I got you right?
As stated in the article:

> Here at ViaRezo, our job is to offer a high-speed, affordable and reliable Internet connection to the students of CentraleSupélec at Paris-Saclay.

Telling student's they can't BYOD is not acceptable solution to the problem.
There is no need to go back to that mindset. The goal is to transition everyone to a new, different mindset. This is how a business evolves.
There's not much point in trying to hide what your doing, if what your doing is holding a public vote.
If this was actually a problem, it would be trivial for network operators to prioritize TCP packets over UDP packets.

QUIC builds modern congestion control on top of UDP.
I just have to say, that's a beautiful name for a shell.
It feels like they want to move towards being more "useful", a la WeChat:

http://blog.ycombinator.com/lessons-from-wechat/
Easing Gradients – making better linear gradients with CSS
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The relevant keyword fu is 'congestion collapse', and it seems I may be misremembering what you can read about in the opening of Van Jacobsen's paper on congestion control ( http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf ) and some new algorithms that were introduced in the early-mid 90s, but perhaps someone with more clue knows what I was thinking of

Finally it's not the first time Google did something foul like that in the protocols department. IIRC they deploy a modified TCP slow start which also doesn't play fair in the face of contention
Neither GIMP nor Photoshop are libraries ("just sayin'"). It sounds like there were other previous libraries: that would be more relevant of a callback.

http://liblqr.wikidot.com/
New source of income for spammers: forget about Nigerian scams or fishing emails trying to install malware: just use stolen porn databases and blackmail users directly.

It's incredible that UK government really thought this was a good idea.
Interesting idea. Do you know what is the current overhead for Amazon in terms of $$$?
I wasn't aware that people were blaming Strava for this. I think it's pretty clear that the purpose of strava as a social network for runners is to share your run data with others, or at least to benefit from others data. I'd need these answers before I could judge how culpable they are:

1) Does Strava present the user with privacy settings and properly explain what they do? (i.e. they don't have to dig in settings to even know that they exist)

2) Is data set to 'private' omitted from anonymized aggregate statistics like the heatmap?

If the answer to both is 'yes', then I don't understand what the fuss is about.
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Thanks for the comments. I don't think it's quite like any other VPN service, at least not that I'm aware of. Fortressa provisions a distinct server, with its own OS, and sets it up as a VPN for you -- and only you.

I anticipated questions like those you raised and tried to answer them ahead of time in the FAQ, which admittedly isn't very easy to find at the moment. Having a look at it, does it help answer some of the questions you asked? https://fortressa.com/faq/
This is pretty much the same as Ruckus wireless provide out the box, expect that they use a combo of unique PSK and MAC address for each device

Great article, wonderful to read how you came to your final configuration. Having wired support is a bonus.
FWIW I have your project on my wiki page :)

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/ExternalResources

I guess what you mean by embedded is that it should be an embedded DSL in a full-fledged programming language? I don't quite agree, since there are at least 20 projects like that on the wiki page, none of which is popular.

Probably the most popular one is eshell, in Emacs Lisp?

But if there's something I don't know about I'd be interested in hearing it. This idea goes back at least 20 years, e.g. to scsh. And it hasn't taken off.

But certainly I don't begrudge anyone if their favorite environment is Racket and they want to stay in Racket. That's a perfectly reasonable thing. It's just not what I would expect anyone besides racket users to use.

One reason I'm interested in shell because it's the lowest common denominator between different groups of programmers. C/C++ programmers, use it heavily, Python, Ruby, JS programmers, Go, etc. Everybody uses it.
Abusing public bike racks to hold private rental inventory.

The best bike shares build and operate their own racks with permission from the city. Others allow leaving the bike in any location. It figures Uber would attempt to get the benefits of a rack without paying for it.
It’s easier to get through the day if we make up lies to tell ourselves.
Also, don't build your own game engine(unless you have plans to never ship). Learn to use Unity/UE4/GameMaker/etc.

Writing game engines is a blast, but they're the ultimate in feature creep/nerd sniping. You'll spend all your time building the engine rather than focusing on gameplay.
I get what you mean. I definitely wouldn't say Shenzhen is a modern city as such, despite the skyscrapers and greenery. That is part of the charm though. It is, or used to be, an order of magnitude cheaper to live in SZ than HK. There is of course also absurd levels of inequality, which is less charming but reality.
Exactly. It talks about integrations but then doesn't seem to have any?

Is there even a polished design? Masking the screenshots suggests maybe not?
That's more a reflection on the terrible quality of Obikes bicycles. Mobike and Ofo, while not perfect, have way fewer issues in that regard. So much so that I stopped using Obike altogether.
Then you're confusing the mission of a public library and a research library, it seems like you're describing and desiring the latter.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16277734
Opinion: Bike sharing will never be more than barely above break even.

I am a big bike advocate. I have 12 bikes downstairs, I've raced, and nearly every vacation I've taken in the last 15 years has been bike related. I don't even mind the e-bike trend as much as some people, and I am an uber user occasionally.

I still can't see this working. People like me, who absolutely love bike commuting, we can't stop our bikes from getting stolen. With our 100 dollar locks that are better security than what most people use on the front door of their homes, they still get stolen. I have hope for humanity in general, but my experience has been that people in America just don't consider a bicycle worth any more than paper and ink in the office printer.

They will get treated with disregard, and even more so with an uber logo on them.
Could we be the problem? No, it's the users.
QUIC still works better than TCP on these networks, but the benefits are not as dramatic.
So you know, only one in competition (Mevoli). I'm very well aware than many die in less well catered environments. I've lost spearfishing friends, and I've been part of search and rescue operations more than once unfortunately. I've also rescued people during freediving training sessions where they felt that they could push their limits because there was adequate safety. But that was always the same story: a little bit deeper, a little longer...

I stand by my point that if you use well known safety measures you reduce the risk level a lot. Specifically from your list: Mestre did not have proper safety (a total shit show from Pipin), Musimu was training alone, Leferme has a inadequate setup for what he was doing, Molchanova was diving alone in >30m (should have been a joke for her, but anything can happen). We'll never know for Adel Abu Haliqa.

I'm not even sure why I argue about that on the internet. I should go diving...
Why Discovering Martians Could Be Disappointing (2015)
Absolutely it is possible, and I imagine that is exactly what they will do.
Finally? You don’t need a new shell. Write select(1). Job done.
They are if a brand is paying you to endorse their products.
LOL Something Matters
It's not unreasonable to expect people who are using a product to take some responsibility for their own use of it. Strava is expressly designed to use your location, and that is obvious due to the nature of the app, and the fact that it requires the location on the device to be turned on.
A mutational timer is built into the chemistry of DNA
If it's neither pushing an agenda nor trying to manipulate nor influence, why is it that submissions to libertarianism.org are being made mostly from two accounts that do not seem to otherwise engage in this community?

No comments, no other posts, just posts to libertarianism.org.

Whilst there's nothing specifically in the guidelines against the practice of accounts that just post to one website, the articles do tend to be inherently political and are at least pushing the guidelines in that respect. Even if we assume the accuracy of the information is unquestionable, a very high bar that even the most respected of sources do not meet, the behaviour seems shady and makes me deeply suspicious that they will be pulling at least some of the other tactics that can be employed to mislead.

Does it not occur as strange to you that the majority of content on that site that gets posted here as stories is being posted by people who have no engagement with this community other than to post links to that website?
Falcon 9 Users Guide [pdf]
It's about $19K for employer-provided family-coverage.

Considering the three companies have about 1M stuff in total, that represents ~$20B in annual recurring costs.

This effort combined with accelerating automation will lead to a much better capital:labor cost ratio (and, depending on who you ask, reduction in labor costs is massively bad for wealth equality).
> An alternative to an acoustic-optic modulator is the electroptic deflector. There are a few types but the readily available type uses a quadrupole electric field on a lithium niobate crystal. This generates a linear refractive index gradient in one plane that can be adjusted on a ultra fast time scale. This gives the ability to change the deflection angle of a suitably polarised beam propagating down the quadrupole axis. With fast pulse generators the deflection speed can be good enough to achieve deflection by several diffraction angles in perhaps 10 ps.

This sounds like something Geordi LaForge would say.
I am not sure I could even sell what I realistically have very well. My previous career and education are so long ago nothing is relevant now and my CV is dead.

As far as tech skills I am above average compared to my general age group/cohort, but likely nothing compared to HN types. I use Linux but not well. Very minor command line knowledge I don't know any programming languages and attempts to learn them have not gone well. I have LineageOS on my phone so can at least follow directions to install ROMs. Not a complete idiot, but not at all an expert.

I am interested in privacy and use encryption when possible. I gravitate toward underdogs and people in need and if I won the Powerball (unlikely as I don't play) I would spend my life as a philanthropist helping those in need. I like SciFi and Space stuff, read a lot, love maps. Something beneficial like the tanker monitoring online I mentioned above would suit me. I have often joked being a professional Wikipedia or Memory Alpha reader would be perfect for me. I like clean, organized and minimal environments in general irl and online. There are a number of THINGS I could imagine myself being able to do and also enjoying...but I don't see any realistic path to doing so for a paycheck within my limits.

I don't know if there is anything out there I am just not aware of that could work as well. Maybe I COULD learn to code with time and help but at first glance it's not something I find passion for. I would never make it in a normal high paced startup etc. I need stability but flexibility in anything I would do. I don't have the strength or energy to be in a "dynamic environment". I have hand issues along with many other broken bits so am not a very fast typist. Sorry for the scatter. Trying to think of relevant things to remote or tech work. I really don't know at this point...and this post itself is on the 3rd or 4th page by now so not likely many would even see my comment if there WAS someone out there with a good plan.
> Could you expand on what do you mean conservative here?

Someone who believes or acts towards (either consciously or not) the preservation of the current distribution of power in society and against changing it. Often extreme conservatives (though not Pinker) even desire to return the social order to some (almost always imagined) past.

> Also, could you recommend some public minds whom you consider strong?

Max Weber, Marc Bloch, Clifford Geertz, Erving Goffman. Strong does not necessarily mean "right". It means either having truly profound and interesting insight and/or the ability to apply critical thinking to yourself.
Why are you worries about losing compatibility? You can run bash within zsh.
Am I shadowbanned? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16273567
GDC cancels achievement award for Atari founder after outcry
A Laundry Files rpg might be fun. Bonus points if the bureaucracy encounters are scarier than the eldritch monsters.
No, OP said that it would be a waste to not use the meat from such animals. To the child of that person's comment, there is a presumption that a non-poisonous method was used such as hammer or bolt-gun.
I've been hearing about Emacs X Window Manager but haven't given it a shot yet https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm
Yeah sorry, I just assume people click profiles :).
Does this affect `SERIALIZABLE` isolation level? It seems like it might not change anything because roughly the same number of pages get marked for predicate locks.
If you want to build interactive terminal interfaces, check out blessed [0]. Even better, you can use react-blessed [1] to write declarative UI code! You can also find additional widgets in blessed-contrib [2].

For actually shipping the code around, you could use pkg [3] to generate a single binary. That lets you avoid having to install node or any supporting libraries.

[0] https://github.com/chjj/blessed

[1] https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed

[2] https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib

[3] https://github.com/zeit/pkg
People didn’t expect to be humbled by a machine at the game of Go either. Yet here we are.
Totally dependent on the locale. If I recall correctly there are coverage laws in certain places which state that you cannot do business as an insurer in an area unless you provide physician and hospital access to people within a certain proximity. If you're a big hospital system or even a small place without much competition, you can tell Amazon to shove their TOS because they literally can't do business legally there without you.
It would seem not. You got 4 points on the other one.
Looks cool, will check out soon. I remember I created an image resize web application using seam carving during college for my software engineering project as I was fascinated by the algorithm. Not sure if in working state currently. https://github.com/pixation/pixation
* the VPN is yours, and only yours -- not shared with thousands of other users

* VPN detection is becoming a problem, and Fortressa is harder to detect as a VPN (unlike other providers)

* uses stronger, more trusted protocols than OpenVPN and others commonly used by most providers

* no software to install, so no apps are necessary

The VPN service itself is not limited to Mac/iOS in any way. The configuration steps on Android, Linux Desktop, and Windows are a bit more involved, so I simply haven't had time to properly document those steps. Thank you for reminding me that I need to add that to the FAQ, which is here: https://fortressa.com/faq/
Don't blame the rest of the world for PHP's brain damage.
I think you're confusing or at least clumsily terming a number of different concepts here and the confidence with which such miscomprehension is expressed is a great example of the kind of value created by juxtaposing a difficult problem with highly dubious pontification.
Their solution is based on per-subscriber VLANs. VLANs have a 12-bit ID, so 4096 maximum. In practice there are usually fewer available, some ranges being reserved by network infrastructure.

And indeed:
NB: Per the spec, the maximum number of VLANs on a network is 4094. In our case, it is not an issue, as our subscriber count should not exceed 3500 in the foreseeable future. If we were to exceed it, we would need to look at other solutions.

That's one hell of a caveat. It works well for them because French universities (this is deployed at SupElec, one of them) are usually small, but wouldn't pass muster in most US situations.
Some might call that money "enabling."
I had the good fortune to take the AT&SF El Capitan between Los Angeles and Dodge City at Christmas 1956 (when I was 7). The elegant dining car (run by Fred Harvey) was just one part of an experience I've never forgotten.
They've probably done testing and found that for some significant percentage of married couples, seeing their spouse's posts caused them to reduce their Facebook usage. So unhappy marriages are ruining it for everyone.

I feel like the general trend of UI simplification and a/b testing everything has companies chasing after anything that will push their general metrics up in the short term, at the expense of slowly disenfranchising a large portion of their users.

I interviewed at Netflix recently for a position on their UI team, and I questioned the interviewer about a lot of annoying aspects of the Netflix interface. He was aware of every complaint, and his explanation for every one of them was he wishes he could change it but the a/b testing shows they get higher engagement with it the way it is. So, for example, they show you movies you have already said you don't like, because enough people give a thumbs down and then later watch the movie. In the short term very few people are going to cancel Netflix because of this, but enough of these decisions in succession is erosive to customer goodwill.

Personally, these kind of decisions wouldn't bother me that much if apps and websites made it easy to customize your experience. Facebook makes it difficult by opaquely shaping your newsfeed and giving you what seems like hundreds of options across a half dozen settings pages. Netflix makes it difficult by just giving you practically no options, but there's enough demand that's there a tiny industry in just making websites and plugins to make Netflix usable.
CIPA[0], however, was signed into law by Clinton and upheld by SCOTUS.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Internet_Protecti...
When my kid dislocated his hip, I took him to an urgent care clinic, and the process was similar.

They did refer me to an orthopedist and I ended up being out about $450 dollars after they looked at an some imaging and decided it was a growing pain.

That was with insurance, but hey, not wholly unpredictable and because there was nothing treatable I wasn't bankrupted.
Very hard to do. You've got a form of utilitarian calculus going on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicific_calculus
I'd also say Path of Exile does the [PC] free-to-play thing right. They offer an extremely good product up front for free, they don't have any of the time counters or other F2P bullshit from mobile, and they don't put up arbitrary gates to any of the gameplay. They just sell cosmetic stuff for your in-game avatar. And the game is so good, and they know their fanbase so well, that they have apparently been doing well with that model considering the game has been around for a good while now and they keep putting out expansion packs and such.
I think your post just helped me understand why I never was interested in sports. I cannot get excited watching other humans doing heroic stuff.

This would not change for me if it were AI's with identifiable characteristics doing the activities (driving). With suitable marketing maybe real sportsfans could get behind (hypotheically) Team Waymo's AlphaRomeo Zero. Especially with an e-sports tie-in. Imagine racing, and thereby helping to train your (AI) hero on a simulator.
How many engineers have spent how many hours trying to hack solutions for exactly this problem for their corporate/academic network over, and over, and...?

And when they hit 4096 user accounts?

It's actually depressing how hard they had to work to enable a basic BYOD network-layer authentication use case. Particularly since network-level device authentication is basically "securing your network 101" which any network in the world practicing good security hygiene should be implementing.
This is how you build a self-documented system
Three national corporations control nearly all of San Francisco's live music
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_argument. You kind of have it backwards, he first concluded that he existed (I think therefore I am). Then because of that (and other arguments), he believed god exists and is good, so he wouldn’t deceive his senses.
Meet the New Dialog Element
Muming Poo's Letter to His Students (2002)
As to the circularity of my first point, without a PCP and no proximate cause, the wait time and cost is.... difficult to predict. With a PCP it is better, but because I don't go to the doctor I don't have a PCP.
This has been status quo stuff for basically the last ten years. This will be fine.
ha! I’m glad you find it useful. I’ll never say no to paypal.me/mrcoles ;P
How to Not Die in America
I love Craig’s posts. I wish we had more interactions @ Heroku! ️
After 4 years of this back and forth Chinese crypto news, I'm starting to think China is shorting and buying based on their announcements.
> the defaults are crap

As someone who has recently joined the 1k LOC Emacs configuration file club, I have to disagree. The default settings are a well thought out starting point that needs minimal tweaking to get to exactly where you want. I try out a lot of packages on ELPA, and many that purport to provide alternatives for defaults end up being inferior to using the defaults with some small tweaks. The convenient thing is that you can customize the third-party packages in the same way and just use the parts you like from them.

The other good thing about Emacs is that you don't need a separate window manager[1], and you don't need to use a separate command shell (Emacs comes with eshell), or to use a terminal emulator for SSHing into remote machines (eshell over TRAMP is absolutely amazing), or a file manager (Emacs comes with dired, which works over TRAMP which is amazing), or a...

[1] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm
Lots of technical papers. Pre print servers such as Bioarxiv and PeerJ are great. As are traditional journals such as Nature, Cell and Science Advances. And MIT Tech Review, Quanta Mag, NYT Science, etc for longform pieces.

The future of this sort of "feed" may lie in short form, digestible video bites. Which can be distributed via compact html5 video. Bloomberg's TicToc is a good example of this for financial and business news. In 5 minutes, you should be able to get caught up on all the stories of the day.

And there is certainly an opportunity to generate video summaries via machine learning ;)

https://twitter.com/tictoc