skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
irony: combing through this list for one that is actually useful is a serious time sink.
Having bandwidth is paramount.

I've long opined network routers should have an "ad-hoc" mode (preferably on by default) whereby users can create a decentralized network, leveraging whatever long-range/high-bandwidth connection that can be accessed. With enough market penetration, the need for a direct service provider drops (from per-endpoint to per-region or even per-backbone; poor description of intent noted).
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I'm not saying it's OK to go in arbitrary people's houses without permission. I'm saying it should be OK to go in arbitrary public places without permission.
They're not "censoring people for discussing a perfectly legal technology"; read their policy carefully:

>>> It’s important to note that this update to our policy does not prevent the discussion of related topics in messages sent through our platform. For example, journalists and publications may send cryptocurrency-related information as long as they’re not involved in the production, sale, exchange, storage, or marketing of cryptocurrencies. <<<

Unfortunately, the reality is: there's a LOT of fraud associated with the production, promotion and sale of ICOs, and it's no doubt creating expense, risk, and overhead for Mailchimp.

As a private company, it's entirely proper and reasonable for them to prohibit activities that directly affect their business.
This really depends on the firm. If important aspects of the business take place early, then sure you have to be there early. If not, you might have to be there early anyway because reasons, but then again you might not.
With such a high rate of ICO fraud, how can you blame them? They don’t want to be held liable in the numerous lawsuits that are to come. They also shouldn’t be burdened with doing due diligence for every ICO to dertermine if they might be aiding and abetting fraud.

It’s probably temporary until there is some regulatory guidance in place.
Linux users: there is light on the horizon
Forward-thinking?? They basically deliver spam on a large scale.
Worshiping money is more a symptom of materialism than anything else. That's why people go into debt to buy things they don't need instead of saving their money. I also believe it's the cause of worshiping the uber-rich and get rich quick schemes.

Most people who are daydreaming about a get rich quick scheme probably aren't thinking about putting the money they earn in safe investments and living the rest of their life on the $80,000 a year they can get from the returns. They're thinking about the mansion, sports car, exotic vacations, etc.
Specifically thought to be caused by the Maillard reaction, which includes grilled / seared foods
Absolutely correct. The superintendent didn’t have the clout necessary to pull it off. What I think she underestimated was the sheer volume of discussion which would ensure which basically made it impossible to get any other policy changes done last year.
All of the creators I follow either do it for free and fun, or some combination of patreon plugs and trinkets you can buy from them. Ads are not the only way for creators to find value in creating.

Youtube became a crap platform in the search for the $$. Things like recommended videos used to be related to the video you just watched but now its whatever fail army is. I would like to see a new platform where monetization via ads and UX abuse doesn't exist because the experience is just awful now.
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My 24 year old daughter, a recently published novelist, had a pretty decent day job as Software Systems Tester - (some hardware testing and firmware updating as well). The job also included some editing and writing new documentation and various other grunt stuff that the engineers didn't want to do. Her job moved away due to acquisition. Any suggestions from HN for day jobs (Minneapolis or preferably remote) that are reasonably challenging without becoming consuming? She needs to have time and mental energy to write when she is done with work for the day. She has a BS in Scientific & Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota.
Steaming or even pressure-cooking potatoes (or any other food) at <121C/250F doesn't produce substantial amounts of acrylamide. It's only higher-temp cooking (frying, baking) that's bad.

If you like bread, sucks to be you. Bread is a filler for when better foods are scarce or too expensive. The kinds of bread that are affordable on a tight budget are awful; good bread (still not that good for you, but at least whole grain, low sugar, maybe some added seeds and nuts) is expensive. The added cost for "good" bread comes from the expensive healthy additions, so the healthier the bread is, the more it approximates the cost of the seeds/nuts/fruits/etc with only a token amount of bread dough to hold everything together, and you're not saving any money compared to eating those nutritional foods raw or lightly cooked. Baking also reduces the amounts of most nutrients, so even the good additions to good bread aren't as healthy as eating them separately.

ETA: I'm not talking about how bread tastes. I don't dispute that bread tastes good. That's why people eat it. Like most carbs, if all you have is bread you will keep eating it until you get sick or you force yourself to quit still feeling hungry... that's the curse of carbs. Tasting good and being temporarily addictive is not the same as being good for you. Adding bread to other stuff as part of a sandwich does not make the bread magically better for you.
Imagine the horror if we gave other things equal priority with work when we made decisions about how to organize our society.

Oh well.
I dunno. Can it carry 3 months worth of rain at once?
Europe has higher gas prices which are another way of regulation. If the US had the same gas prices American cars would be much smaller and more efficient.
If other companies do it then why would they be doing it for press? I think it's more likely that this is getting an article because there's been such obscene amounts of hype around Magic Leap.
As others have said, Bottle is great, and I use it in almost every side project that uses Python.

However, it should be noted that TCL is famous for being a language that can be described in 12 rules:

http://wiki.tcl.tk/10259

And the tutorial is really good:

https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/tcltutorial.html

Obviously, there's a lot more online reference material and a bigger community for Python, but if you are interested in learning TCL, don't be afraid to go for it.
Why is Facebook's decision okay but Mailchimp's is evil? If anything Facebook has a social network monopoly while Mailchimp is one of dozens of mailing providers.

Authorities are cracking down on all the blockchain scams and now companies don't want to be associated with them. It's easier to ban all blockchain-related businesses than to look for the few select legitimate ones.
Open source allows for the possibility of 'many eyes making all bugs shallow', but I think the open source community assumed that was a guarantee, at least in the case of mission critical software - it's important so obviously it's being scrutinized, right?

On the other hand, with closed source, people are presumably being paid to study the code, potentially fewer but a still fixed number of eyes on the code, as it were. But then, since it's closed source, no one really knows what's going on outside the company.

Moral arguments aside, neither system is perfect.
Gerontological Nursing
Oh please. https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/vienna - it's just as expensive as other European capitals, <10k/y is barely above poverty level - not to mention with kids. Please define 'comfortable' - because to most people, that includes living in a good area in a city or a detached house outside of that, not having to thrift shop for clothes and not having to grow your own food unless you like to. And most likely a car too, even if it's only an old and small one. And not having to worry about whether you have money to get a new washing machine when yours breaks. No way that's possible on e833 a month (assuming e here - $ is even more ridiculous).
Of course none of the debate actually addressed if students would possible learn better from it.

Is that important if there is no way to make a different schedule work from a practical perspective?
Python 3.6 has typing/type annotations. It's opt in but seems to work fairly sanely.

https://medium.com/@ageitgey/learn-how-to-use-static-type-ch...
I think those are two separate issues: Google has positioned itself to be the lifeline of the open internet and have profited tremendously from it. With that comes a responsibility to not censor content. Otherwise it stops being the "open" internet and becomes another walled garden with dubious rules that can change at any moment (e.g. Facebook).

Mailchimp can do whatever they want, I agree, but as their customer I wouldn't expect them to censor me in any way. They have built a very profitable business on top of a free protocol. Deciding to censor how people communicate through that protocol seems unfair.
[cockroach employee here] Have you hit us up on Gitter or Stack Overflow to help debug and tune? We'd also love to learn more about how you're using K8s, what your setup looks like, surprises you're running into with it, etc.
There's a difference between the occasional early start to prepare for a meeting and a default schedule that is just stupid.
With Entangled Particles, Can You Tell When/How the Other Particle Is Measuree?
Soon companies will be trying to get these labels as a sign that their product is delicious. A bit like "Parental Advisory" stickers on CDs.
Isn’t your chronotype fairly mutable though? With some dedication and a couple weeks you can adjust to waking up whenever. Especially at college age.

Obviously lifestyle could be limiting if you’re trying to start waking up at 6am, but if you’re optimizing for GPA, then you’re gonna have to make lifestyle sacrifices anyway
>Having said that, can't Mailchimp do whatever they want?

Sure, in the same sense we can be appalled by anything we want and boycott things for any or no reason.

There is no legal question here, but the moral question is far less clear cut.
> 2. You don't let us share your date in return for paid service

Personally, I think that might be a good option, but you can't claim to have made it explicit before so your "count to 2" insult is misplaced. I know that the only thing you've ever done since your account was created is bash Facebook (how nice that anyone can check that for themselves BTW), but even in that light such childishness is counterproductive.

> if FB rolls over and dies tomorrow, does it mean innovation will come to a complete halt

Total strawman. Nobody said or implied that. There's plenty of knowledge and innovation everywhere, but the amount that can come from Facebook only has to be non-zero to support my point. Several hundred developers who have collectively worked on almost every distributed system you've ever heard of might have an idea or two worth discussing. They might even have a perspective on scaling issues that's highly relevant to the problem at hand but not widely known outside of Facebook and maybe three other companies. Why do you try so hard to throw cold water on any such conversations?
If you proposed this it would just become a tool of partisan bickering anyway. This department would spend the first month when a new government is in office declaring everything they ideologically oppose from the previous government as stupid.
Anything can be a carcinogen if ground finely enough and inhaled.
Counterpoint: there's a LOT of fraud associated with the production and sale of handbags, but I don't see Mailchimp blocking that any time soon.

I agree that as a private company they can do what they want, but I wonder if they're setting themselves a difficult precedent here.
I’m the one who is responsible for the vehicle at all times, not an Uber safety driver who isn’t paying attention, and I take that responsibility seriously.
The list of warned substances includes hormones naturally produced by the body.

WARNING: This human being contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.
It's funny; Netflix is one provider that doesn't need low latency so they would be fine with more traditional satellite orbits.
I can think of examples along the lines of dead media formats. Floppy disks and instant film, for two examples. Floppy disks declined in quality and were extremely unreliable in the early 2000s. Floppy disks from the 90s and 80s were more reliable. Instant film has also declined in quality, with film from the Impossible Project (or Polaroid Originals) being inferior to Polaroid film from previous decades, despite being made with the same production equipment.
I high end brand going on a retro binge...
> If you like bread, sucks to be you. Bread is a filler for when better foods are scarce or too expensive; I would say it's not part of a good diet.

If you think that then it sucks to be you. Good bread is a joy.
If they ever do, they will be people trying to weaponize it. It reminds me of old email spam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job
Hardly; I personally settled with Arch and am pretty pleased with it, but I understand that it's far from everyone's cup of tea. Their documentation is excellent though, and can be a great help with problems on other distros, too. You just have to be aware that your distro might not do everything the same way when you use it.

I've heard good things about OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, but I have never tried it, so I can't vouch for it.

If you have the time and energy, I'd recommend you to look at a couple of distros yourself and see how much of the "dirty hands" part you can grasp yourself from the documentation. Can you fix GRUB or their equivalent yourself? Is there documentation on how to do things without a GUI? I'd say those are certainly a good sign.

As a bad example, I wasted a whole afternoon once trying to uninstall a botched Radeon driver in the TTY on Fedora (since it screwed up Xorg beyond repair). Their documentation was abysmal[1]. That's the stuff you want to avoid.

[1]: In fact, in the end, it turned out I had to set a magical environment variable that was never mentioned in the small paragraph there was in the docs. Oh, and of course, the driver was botched because of a system upgrade I couldn't revert.

Edit: OTOH, if you're more patient than me (and don't screw around with e.g. PPAs because you want a new-ish version of certain libraries), you might find using ZFS for your main drive to be a good idea. Make a snapshot, upgrade and if something breaks: revert and wait for a fix.

Edit2: Also, if you're going to try a rolling release: Don't wait too long for updates and find the news channel where breaking changes (and the necessary upgrade steps) are communicated. It's important to know about those, and it simultaneously helps you in guessing how often they're about to happen. Arch's feed is on their landing page, for example.
I had IPv6 enabled for a few months but eventually turned it off since I wasn't confident I had configured my home network securely. When I tried asking for help, I was criticized and told that I should just read the RFCs...

Does anyone have suggestions for a beginner friendly home networking guide? How are others setting up their home network?

It's also a bit frustrating to me that routers provide so many options, yet it seems nigh impossible to find clear explanations of what different features mean, along with clear examples of use-cases of when I might want to enable or disable said features. I'll typically keep the defaults if I'm not as familiarized with a subject matter, but if experience has shown anything it's that most system's defaults are typically not designed with security as the top priority.

Can't say I saw any benefits during my brief IPv6 trial. First of all, typing out an IPv6 address is rather tedious. Second, I wasn't able to get a URL with an IPv6 address as the host to work with my browser. Maybe I had to include a scope, or perhaps I screwed something else up. I have no clue.
> Bread is a filler for when better foods are scarce or too expensive

Or, you know, the key ingredient in a class of highly popular and convenient foods called sandwiches.
1% is what the bank gives you on a standard savings account, investment saving accounts would yield higher returns 5-8% yearly is not unheard off.

And yes taxation in Europe makes accumulating wealth nearly impossible which is why almost all the money in Europe is old money.
My campus had a rolling start of day, depending on the university that's attended.

I don't know when it was enacted but it certainly helped with congestion in the transports in the morning and in the cafeteria for lunch.

Students are autonomous though. I can imagine that school pupils are not and they cause troubles for parents.
With some email providers you can add something after your email address like this:

realemailaddress+myfitnesspal@example.com

Or:

realemailaddress+0f3eda@example.com

The assumption here is that you have something to keep track of what code you've assigned to what service.

Of course, some services don't allow a + in the email address so this only goes so far.

If you want to get slightly fancier, you could use your own domain and a catchall alias that sends everything to your real mailbox. That lets you use an address that doesn't have any obvious relationship to your real email address, apart from the domain name.

If you want to get ultra fancy, you could run your own mail server and set up a process to generate unique email addresses on the fly and keep track of which service was given which address. This is really just attaching some automation to the previous example, possibly using 'real' mailboxes for the incoming email.
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As a sibling comment pointed out, Apple UIs being 'intuitive' is pretty subjective. As an android user whenever I do something on an iOS phone I have trouble going 'back' because there's no consistent back button.
I don't agree that that is a rational reaction, but it explains the reaction. Thanks for the explanation. Allows me to know i didn't do anything wrong.
And if 30,000 camouflaged, balaclava-clad Russian speakers happen to cross the border from Russia to Ukraine, they're just exercising their right as free people :)

Seriously though, it depends on what responsibilities you think the government has towards the people. If a country with high taxes and generous public services bordered a country with low taxes and minimal public services, you can see why problems could arise if people could cross between at will.
> I don't know how YouTube deals with generating a representative preview image

After uploading a video, YouTube will present you with 3 choices for the thumbnail. These are single frames, chosen with some randomness from the video (to prevent people intentionally inserting click-bait frames at some fixed position).

However, some people are considered Trust Worthy by the Algorithm. Those can upload arbitrary click-baity images to be used as thumbnails for their videos.
One reason i actually liked resistive screens, because i could rest my fingers on it without triggering anything.
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Love to hear accounts of people who connected here and ended up building products together.
Slightly off topic: Is there a way to scrape info about who visits a shared google doc? Could a post like this be used to gather email addresses of people looking for productivity software?
> We asked a few more questions about how MailChimp can actually delineate between emails from people involved in the shilling and profiteering of blockchain and ICOs versus people having news-related discussions of blockchain and ICOs (because, LOL, in the current moment, most non-algorithmic humans have a justifiably tough time distinguishing between the two)

The fact they can't is of course the most obvious justification for a blanket ban on hosting mailing lists focused on a topic which frequently involves securities marketing campaigns of questionable legality even when not outright scams.

Their AUP policy also discriminates against "work from home" and credit repair services for the much the same reasons; it's really not worth their effort trying to scrutinise which services aren't shady when so many of them are for a few bucks a month in mailing list fees. That's especially the case for a business like MailChimp whose continued existence also depends on staying on the right side of spam filtering services.
Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner
It's a cultural thing. Fighter pilots play several games with each other, usually violating a rule means you have to pay money (the dead bug game and fixation on the number 69 are also interesting). They claim the games increase situational awareness, but it's really just an excuse to create a very tight culture (some would say exclusionary).
In our case they did not.
But our management strictly forbidden us to talk to outsiders about devkits or sdk, or take photos of devkits.

I think that's enough in practice, and in our case an audit would be quite expensive because international flights.
The person who’s best at lying to you is you
It's a great way to waste time ;)
One of the best productivity tools is not looking for a tool to make you more productive.

Productive people create productivity tools to make them more productive. Unproductive people think those same productivity tools will magically make them work better, but most of the problem lies in a lack of self-discipline, rather than lack of a magic tool.
> you don't have the courage (what an ironic handle) to discuss shadow profiles

At least I have the courage not to hide my identity and affiliations behind a throwaway account. Take your concern trolling elsewhere.
The way most people do this is with plus addressing. If your mail provider supports it (e.g. Gmail does), you can send email to someuser+somewebsite@example.com and it will be delivered to someuser@example.com. There are a minority of websites and apps that reject emails like that, but they are quite rare and the vast majority don't have any issue with it.

If you have your own domain name, you can set up a catch-all address, so if you own example.com, then you can register on websites and in apps with somewebsite@example.com instead. This works everywhere.

You can then look at what email address an email was addressed to to see how the sender got hold of your email address, and you can filter and block future emails based on that address as well. So if, for instance, you've registered with MyFitnessPal with myfitnesspal@example.com, then you can cut off everybody who's got hold of your email address via the MyFitnessPal breach with 100% effectiveness using one spam rule.
> Try driving a car designed for power steering with a failed pump

I do this fairly regularly - I race an early 90s Honda Civic in a wheel-to-wheel series where the power steering pump has been closed-looped on purpose (weight savings, one less thing to fail during an 8-24 hour endurance race, etc.)
+ :

- "Here, i present you my simple mobile app that adds value" : URL => exchange of value

vs

- submit to OS verification => "Here, i present you my simple mobile app that adds value" : URL to OS app/play store => explicit download + build => exchange of value