skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it would be a good opportunity to learn the web, for those people.
I was wondering about the interesting choice of an obscure language as the first language to roll out with luxe, but it seems really interesting [1]

I am definitely biased once I realized the primary author of the language (Wren) is Bob Nystrom, someone with professional experience in both game and language development [2]

[1] http://wren.io/

[2] https://github.com/munificent
Your network isn't referring to /your personal/ network. The filtering is more likely ASN wide (i.e: targets entire netblocks / ISPs).

There sadly are a lot of ISPs who are known to ignore abuse reports completely leading to issues like these.
How does this compare to Unity?
> Realistically, security audits or bug bounty are not doable in seed startups - where most of the time no one has any security knowledge, and no money

Ehhhhhhh...I disagree.

1. Most of my clients tend closer to seed stage than to well-funded.

2. You don’t need security expertise or money to run a good bug bounty program. You can start one immediately. There are enough high quality resources available for free on the internet (that are not content marketing) that you can learn most of the important unknown unknowns.

For example, I think this is excellent reading for any young company thinking about security: https://medium.com/starting-up-security/starting-up-security...
‘roughly the equivalent of simultaneously streaming 5.76 million ultra-high definition videos per second.’

What’s that ‘per second’ doing at the end?
> Does that satisfactorily answer your question?

No, not really.

> Having said that, I don’t believe that I’ve ever met an actual Communist, so I couldn’t say.

Goalpost moving. What does meeting them have to do with it? I strongly doubt you've ever met any actual Nazis, either, since there haven't been any of those for about seventy years.

Dude, there are Marxists everywhere, primarily because it's somehow still socially acceptable to be a Communist -- which is the issue I'm trying get you to address.

> I’m not a fan of the ideology, not in the least because it always seems to fail in spectacularly ugly ways, such as Stalinism, Maoism, or that tragicomic Juche shit in North Korea

But not enough of a non-fan that you'd advocate that Marxist material be banned from, say, YouTube?

Communists have murdered far more people than the Nazis ever did.

Also, communists still control entire countries, with standing armies and nuclear weapons.

By contrast, the "Nazis" of today are mostly small groups of rednecks who can barely make the payments on their mobile homes.

Why is one worse/more of a danger than the other, to the extent that one group should have its material banned, but the other not?
Windows 95 and NT 4 didn't even ship with Active Desktop-- it (along with IE integration into Windows Explorer) was added as part of the Windows Desktop Update that shipped with IE4, and didn't become part of the OS out of the box until Windows 98 (and 2000 on the NT series).

GDI in the kernel (win32k.sys) was a performance optimization.
10 Foods to Loose Weight
It was released 3 weeks ago: https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-4-released-today-6cdb9947...
May I ask for full name of Yeager & the books he wrote?

I've been studying about Stealth & Aerodynamics on my own for a few years now. So I don't read them just for pop appeal. Went through a few parts of "Have Blue & the F117A" yesterday, and I'm okay with it. Actually I'm excited to read it in it's entirety.

Thanks a lot for the detailed elaboration though. Gonna take a look at these books.
Interesting, thanks for replying with the details.

What would happen if people fully quantified other activities. For example, the full cost of drinking, while watching your favorite sport, with friends.

You initially think, “so what, it’s just 3 hours, plus $25 in beer and food.”

Most don’t account for the missed opportunity cost.
We do math. Math is immaterial. How then can we do math if we are only material? Matter has no insight into the immaterial world.
I had no idea lead was so bad for you. It’s terrible.
This is silly. We do not know that the overall construction methodology had anything to do with the bridge's collapse. Does the Nipigon River Bridge's collapse show how cable-stayed bridges can go wrong?

The author is a history professor, not an engineer, and it shows with the faffery about metonyms of ecological development in South Florida near the end. If the issue here was with the ABC methodology (as opposed to a misapplication of it), we'll soon learn, but I doubt it. In the mean time, the only person who stands to gain from this FUD is the author.
Yes you can. Stop farming corn. Start farming grass. If we committed to it, it'd be possible. But it isn't BECAUSE of the government. And no this isn't about greenhouse gas production. If they cared, they would stop fracking for gas, releasing enormous amounts of methane and pollution a 1000 times worse.

They just don't care about cows. Or health. Or the environment. Or even science. We've already figured out how to solve this issue. This isn't it. All they've figured out is how to get more taxes.

These are morality taxes based on nonsense that would solve nothing. It blinds us to how we're farming wrong.
Well, when there isn't enough documentation, yet so many breaking changes are introduced, then I don't really see how exactly people should have managed to get it to work to test it on real projects.
Set up a “SQL-in-charts-out” tool. There’s a number of open source ones now. Apache Superset is one example, thought I don’t necessarily recommend it specifically. This is very low cost to do and it solves this problem exactly.

The next layer of the cake is more complex and costly - setting up a SaaS BI tool like Periscope or Chartio or Looker. This only really becomes useful when you need dynamic pivoting and grouping.
Identity politics beget identity politics, and it's always bad, period. The amount of comments in this thread alone talking about what "white people" are and aren't entitled to feel based off of their own privileges is representative of the wider left's own brand of identity politics, and quite frankly, racism.

If you're a white person hearing day in an day out about your inherent power in society, and how much you've benefited from "your people's" exploitation of others, the first thing I can guarantee is that you're much more likely to be defensively thinking along these terms of group identity. Regardless of whether or not those perceptions of privilege hold true for your specific situation, a part of you gains awareness that a non-negligible faction is making these categorizations on your behalf.

Where the identitarian reaction kicks in fully, though, is among the people for whom these tales of privilege and power quite clearly do not hold true. If you're born to two alcoholic parents who beat you and got you working in the coal mines as soon as you possibly could, it's not difficult to see why the prevailing narrative doesn't sound appealing. The absolute baseline human response to feeling attacked along these hard group lines is an identitarian outcry taking various forms, the mildest of which could be classified as "rising anxiety." I'm not saying that this is a good thing, I think it's a terrible thing, I just also happen to think it is an obvious result of the economic and political climate. Trump and his supporters are not a disease, they're an ill-conceived, but expected reactionary symptom.
Edward Snowden: Facebook is a surveillance company rebranded as 'social media'
> Usually in cable-stayed bridges, the towers are built first, and deck slabs incrementally hooked up to the shortest cables. But at FIU, the reverse seems to have happened. Part of the prefabricated concrete deck went up first, and the tower had yet to be added when the collapse occurred.

I had to read that a few times. Is that really what happened. So this is a design where the load is held mostly by the tower(s) and they just laid the bridge down first without the tower and were going to add the tower later.
Only according to some bureaucracy that had part of its mission not to raise costs too much for manufacturers.

Not according to human physiology/medicine.
Did you read the supporting arguments for why the rates have historically not gone back up?
Ah. Didn’t know that
I agree the author is being much too hasty to jump to conclusions. At its core this is essentially a fear piece for something that hasn’t been proven to have done anything yet.
This article's premise seems to be jumping the gun — and I question the author's thoroughness in researching it. He links to an article[0] clearly stating that while the design appeared to be a cable-stayed bridge, the tower and cables were in fact cosmetic and the bridge was engineered as a truss bridge. A mere three paragraphs later, he says:

>If a design flaw was responsible, it would be a relatively rare failure of a highly reliable technology. The FIU bridge was to have been cable-stayed, a technology that has been around since at least the 16th century.

I have no evidence that the cause wasn't accelerated bridge construction. But it would be a shame for a promising new technology/philosophy with obvious benefits to become a casualty of this tragedy simply because some commentators couldn't resist rubbing salt in FIU's wound for the irony vaue. It's irresponsible and downright unethical for Slate to publish that claim on pure conjecture.

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/16/miami-bridge-...
Sure, but eating the ash, which contains much of the opium, is pretty common.
I would say more than color. Here is an example:

https://files.mtstatic.com/site_5921/2761/0?Expires=15214353...

But the way they organize data is similar.
Feedback: The section on password policy recommends requiring special characters and mixed case, then as a reference links Troy Hunt's article specifically recommending against that.

To be fair, I zeroed in on this because a mega corp did the same thing this morning.
How to Copy DVDs to Hard Drive or Computer
She Was My World, but We Couldn’t Marry
> As security professionals, we need to help entrepreneurs and educate developers find a good balance between building a business and building good security practices. This is the goal of this checklist.

No offense, but that’s not an answer to tptacek’s point. I can’t speak for him, but he probably agrees with this point. But that’s a soundbite - everyone would agree with that “we security professionals need to help entrepreneurs help themselves”, etc. The devil is in the details. He is critiquing the checklist’s content, not the checklist.

To make this comment constructive, I’m going to provide a link to what I personally consider very high quality advice for companies, written on the blog of Facebook and Coinbase’s former director of security:

https://medium.com/starting-up-security/starting-up-security...

Beyond that, having worked directly with many founders of early stage companies for security, I have to say I disagree that they can’t think about security early on. Resources like the series of articles I’ve linked to show how to navigate that compromise effectively.
Quantum-assisted cluster analysis [pdf]
The word "alone" in "The population of Nigeria alone" implies that the conversation involves other countries. Are you sure you're not confused because the names are similar?
> Assuming too much retweeting will clog my followers’ feeds, and make them more likely to mute or unfollow me.

If there's one thing I've learned about social media, it's that this totally considerate, natural thought pattern is anathema to the platform vendors.

In the real world, you expect a high Signal-to-Noise ratio, and want to reward people who speak less often because their words become more weighty/significant. Social platforms work on the exact inverse of this principle! They reward high Noise-to-Signal accounts because that keeps the psychological engagement hooks going. The platforms actively punish accounts that aren't continuously, repetitively pushing those buttons. If you ever wonder why the spammiest crap floats to the top, this is why.

We're all just flashing bulbs in the social media slot machine. If we're not frantically flashing, blinking, or otherwise making it difficult for the consumer-gambler to look away, we're not serving the platform's purpose, and we'll be replaced with a bulb that does.
Perhaps not quite exactly on topic, but the multicolored red-yellow-white-blue diamond to the right of the front entrance caught my eye. It can be seen in here:

https://i.imgur.com/naOuD3M.jpg

This picture is not clear enough to make out what it is. I'm very curious what it could be.

(Image source: https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ifII5w8OiDb...)
Swarm AI: Shaping the Conscience of Tomorrow's Artificial Intelligence
This is the old 'alpha' engine written in Haxe. The new 1.0 is written in Wren and not released yet.
AI at SXSW 2018: Of Hives, Ethics, Morals, and the Singularity
The 10 Best Netflix Original TV Series for Geeks
Adrian Lamo, ‘Homeless Hacker’ Who Turned in Chelsea Manning, Dead at 37
OK fine - the consumer pays VAT. In that case I would say that Google performs a certain amount of work and as a result consumers end up paying more VAT. I'm pretty sure that if Google stopped displaying ads in the UK then the total VAT collected by the UK government would shrink.
A close friend has used oxycodone for back pain, for many years. But this is under a doctor's care. So are they an addict? I don't know. It has been years since they went without it, however.
In her study of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, the
sociologist Diane Vaughan noted a phenomenon she called the
normalization of deviance, an acceptance of assumptions and
shortcuts that over time incrementally piles on risk until,
like compounding interest on debt, a kind of technological
bill suddenly becomes due.

"Normalization of deviance" is such an amazing turn of phrase to express what it feels like to be involved in accumulating tech debt.
C# wrapper? :D
Thank you to you and jhbadger for these great links.
Pinterest. Not that spelling is important or anything.
Looks like a hazmat diamond sign
Googlers with the power to change things; if you're reading this you will make many people happy and return utility to google searches that currently end up with captive images and no context.
Clearly you haven't read the kids book "Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type". Rather good, in my opinion, and actually touches on organized labor of all things.
Sometimes, people addicted to prescribed opiates get cut off by programs to fight opiate addiction. And some of them eventually turn to illegal drugs, and have no clue how to use them safely.
I think it’s a NFPA Hazardous materials sign:

https://www.homelandsecurity.iowa.gov/programs/NFPA_704.html
As someone who has made a similar, internal checklist, I find this to be well-done. A good primer for someone who is starting their own Saas company, and is interested in understanding the scope of what it takes to implement best practices as a CTO.
That's a standard safety diamond, NFPA 704 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFPA_704

tells you what kind of hazardous materials are inside basically.
I am staying with webpack ~2 for now, it does everything I need it to do
From the Reddit comments:

This extension can block domains from Google search and it's made by Google. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook
I second the vast community differences across the StackExchange network. I like the mechanics one, the photography one, and the gardening one. They've been super helpful chill folks like you say. I've spent a little bit of time in the Bicycling one, and there may be some snobbery there but that's based on limited experience but the first impressions were a little tainted. The music one was a really warm receiving group.

I think within SO there's sub-communities too just by tech stack. Some of the deep esoteric stuff might attract some snobbery.
This article is crap. It was not a cable stayed bridge, and the tower and pipes (not cables) to be installed later were purely cosmetic and providing only minor stability.
> The reality is just a few short years ago the UN updated its population estimates for the end of the century from less than 9 billion to a more likely 11 billion, and as many as 13 billion people.

The surface area of the Earth is about 510072000 km^2. 13 billion people gives a population density of about 25 people per km^2. By comparison, the U.S. has a population density of about 33 people per km^2. The U.K has a population density of about 255. So, there's plenty of room (heck, much of the U.S. is still essentially unpopulated, particularly in the western states).

> resource depletion

What "resource" is being "depleted"? Not energy, that's for sure. There's enough uranium to keep our civilization going at the current level for millions of years, assuming breeder reactors are used. That's without requiring any new technology. If we get fusion, then you can up the millions to billions.

We're not actually running out of anything vital. Sorry.

> history of optimistic mistakes

Not to be confused with the history of pessimistic mistakes, running from Malthus, down through the "population bomb" scare of the 1970s, right up to the present day.
Show HN: What is your public, private or local IP Address?
The ARM Scalable Vector Extension
Why is this being downvoted?

To elaborate: if, hypothetically, one's parent's income was a huge determining factor in one's education, and in turn one's education was the only relevant factor to one's income, then there would be a 100% correlation between one's education and one's income, and a statistically much smaller one between one's parent's income and one's education.

Although we see that strong correlation between education and income, we should evaluate the previous step through analyzing the correlation of parent's income to your education, not the correlation of parent's income to your income as that would be more indirect.

Please correct me if I'm missing something.
I don't think this is very surprising for apple. The current screens are made by competitors (LG & Samsung), the screen is the main interface for most of Apple products, and Apple likes to have end-to-end control over their hardware.

They're going to want to do custom design without the catching the attention of their competitors, or working directly with them.
I am confused at how your engineers learned to manage such a system if your take on this is that engineers should forego a learning opportunity and instead take an opportunity to give you their money.

I'm confused why you're angry at me exploring a subject and giving my learnings away for free to anyone who is interested.

I am also confused why you assume knowledge of how I use the things created in this article or the technical needs of projects I work on, when I have not described those needs nor described the data I work with.

Ah - You own a company that sells the thing I'm trying to help people do for free and with open-source tools. Never mind. Not confused.

In all seriousness - If I'm leading people in the wrong direction, I definitely would like to know a better direction to lead them. But that direction won't be to deposit money into your wallet. It will be to help them learn (hopefully) useful techniques to deal with their problems.
I'm doing research on the GRiD compass and ibm leapfrog and pintrest completely (and uselessly) saturates my search results.
Could be! Poe's Law has come up pretty often on Hacker News recently; maybe I'm the latest "victim". :-)
So I found this gist as I was googling for my webpack error. Originally was trying to get the uglify plugin to work. Then I said screw uglify and STILL couldn't get it work.

I gave up and ended up using Rollbar.
ditto for the new language thing, I often see my rep growing because I'm learning a new language and go crashing into a bunch of stuff. It's nice to find those 888 point questions that get asked over and over again for a language's basic features that come out very easily in QA format than drilling through documentation.
The FIU bridge is truss bridge, not a cable-stayed bridge, see this NTSB update [1]. The bridge collapsed because it relied on a single truss with no backup to support the weight if it failed. This created a single point of failure where the collapse of any member (diagonal segment) would collapse the entire bridge.

There is no indication that ACB contributed to this collapse, rather, this was a faulty design that would have also posed a risk using traditional construction techniques.

[1] https://youtu.be/u3Gj1Nu_kjo?t=5m8s
They've often been leading in terms of build quality so it will be great to see if there's more progress to be made beyond retina displays.
They don't bother, it's not worth trying to target people who actually check things. The scam tweet usually links to what amounts to a phishing page for crypto transaction tracking sites. It looks very real.
You don't need all of that shit, though. You absolutely can just throw a golang binary into a super minimal alpine image and run it wherever you've got a Docker daemon installed. You literally don't need any of the things you listed! Plus, it is simply untrue that "everything else is taken care of" in Lambda. There is plenty of one-off configuration to do ("toil").
I just hope something similar to a follow graph/follow range comes up as a solution. It gives _way_ more control to individuals to limit the reach of bad actors.

For example: https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/#follow-gr...
I would like to see each particular item tagged not as "Seed", "Series A", "Post Series A" but with more tangible events or metrics that would trigger needing to take those things seriously.

For instance:

---

"Follow an onboarding / offboarding checklist"

Do this when...

- you have ten or more employees,

- you have at least ten thousand user accounts, OR

- you have at least ten thousand dollars MRR

---

"Protect your application from DDoS attacks"

Do this when...

- you have publicly announced funding, put a major product launch or milestone in commercial press, or have publicized a key strategic hire

- a prolonged period of downtime (N minutes/breaking 3 or 4 nine availability) would have a materially adverse effect on your business

---

"Use SSL certificates to secure people using your website"

Do this when...

- you are collecting any information from visitors to your website (logins, email addresses, phone numbers)

- you would not want the traffic from sessions browsing your website to be intercepted by third parties.

Of course, a lot of these things would be obvious, but there's a chance here to make this really accessible to the security ignorant or security illiterate.
That's nice & all. But you are not being very efficient :)
Hi Sean.

I certainly didn't mean to bring you down or disparage the work of the webpack team/project in anyway. For me, the way the gist itself was written was just too funny.

Anyways, thank you for all your hard work.
So, in the next 30 years, we’re adding about 2 billion more people (net) to the planet.

The odds that it goes smoothly is small. First, 30 years is a long time to not have a big population event. Second, 2 billion people will strain resources considerably (its a 25% increase over today).

The impacts on disease, pollution, war, etc., are significant even if food supply can handle it. And what about climate change, or increasing algae blooms (due to pesticide use)?

There are so many things that’s ave to work to not have a population event, that it’s a pretty scary proposition. Sure, the birth rate has declined dramatically, but Malthus may yet be proven correct.
it has happened to me once or twice as well :(