skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can’t say I blame them for not promoting it through the only way any current user would see it: inside the brew command line tool. I can see the angry commenters now:

“How dare they inject advertising into a critical command line tool that I use to get paid money!”

“It’s inexcusable to promote your own financial success when someone types brew upgrade”

“No doubt they’re blowing the money on burrito delivery in SOMA”

“I’ve been a $1 Patreon since they launched three months ago and they haven’t implemented my favorite wishlist feature!”

“If they can’t do it for free, they should give up and shut down and let someone fork it.”
Yea I read the article >.>

I still read it as him trying to suggest what better practices you can adopt specifically pertaining to UE4 that would "prevent the need for that call"
The web has and never will be anonymous, things might disappear due to lack of interest. But you just can't unring the bell either.
AKA the difference between Google and Facebook disclosure of private information (none vs a lot).
maybe, but even with those, unless it's because you really want to look at I2C / SPI, mostly that just works.

I'm not sure what people mean when they say they want to learn electronics, whether they are talking about getting a micro based kit and hooking things up to it and programming it or whether they want to understand circuits and components and how they work. If it's the latter, then go with a scope.
I would agree, but with the caveat that the math sections of this book should only be skimmed (i.e. just plug numbers into the given formulas). The derivations & explanations are brief enough they will just be more confusing, but that is what art of electronics is better at. Although both books are excellent repositories of building block circuits, but I think for a hobbyist practical electronics for inventors is more approachable and easier to stick with.
As a non-native speaker, I spent some time obsessing over the "correct" pronunciation of words, until I found this chart: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alpha...

Then I decided to just give up and adapt my pronunciation to that of whomever I'm speaking to.
I think most people with UE4 experience or running a studio know that you need solid programmers working on your project. The author is saying that even with that, project ambitions still exceed team bandwidth/capability.
The other 8000 are going to be orbiting so low that they'll have to constantly raise their orbit to avoid re-entry.
The RPi is more then likely the limiting factor... kind of makes the tests useless if you want to figure out which cards are faster
If she is using Windows 10 (or similar), I've found http://tabbles.net/ is a pretty cool solution.
Also plain bugs. If your database changes less rapidly than the client code it’s a great way to avoid simple mistakes taking a ton of work to repair. This is especially important if you have a large team and your best developers don’t work on the “boring” parts.
This is a huge unsolved problem in journalism: reporting whether a company was wildly negligible and deserved to be punished, or did the right things and fell victim to “no org can be bulletproof”

Some standards like PCI attempt to do this, but to date they have no real teeth. GDPR may be the change we need.

I have deep concern that C-levels will learn that breaches don’t matter, just have a CISO you can behead and replace when it does.
Is there a guide to this which is easily accessible to developers? Are there some quick pointers to make a basic HTML site more friendly to differently-accessing users?
I'd rather live in a society that is capable of forgetting, accepting that people can change and thus don't condemn others for their past. If we eliminate skeletons in our wardrobes, any little speckle on one's past will be devastating.
That is proof that Apple follows local laws. Just like every other American company doing business in China.

For instance, Microsoft.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/china/china-overview-...
Something like a default Ubuntu install (which might be somewhat "mainstream") actually has a surprising amount of stuff running in the background. Of course it's all open-source or otherwise completely documented, so it's still easier to figure out what's what than with Windows or macOS.
Short sighted. How will Eth survive without Vitalik? Bitcoin has already passed that test.
The internet as we use it today is far beyond what anyone originally envisioned. No one thought we would be using it for e-commerce or social networks or in fact anything other than for a few geeky scientists to occasionally collaborate
Very true that it is a typo, which I had noticed, and thanks for calling out. Still doesn’t invalidate my point though. My theory is that a lot of that traffic is likely coming from spoofed IPs as I doubt there would be substantial sustained legitimate, but improperly directed, traffic. My guess is a lot of it is shoddily written malicious traffic.
Consider e.g.:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
"Usually an outstanding problem or issue is already known by your staff, and often they have tried to make you aware of this problem, but usually it gets prioritized into nothingness, or filtered into white noise by your chain of command where no action gets done."

This is the same as being a consultant. You come on site, you listen to everyone and make notes of it, and then you make a presentation and plan for direction.

They pay you way more than their own people, to tell you what your own people are telling you. It's quite crazy.
From my own experience and what I have observed in others people start worrying less about death once they know it's getting closer.
It's about aligning your expectations. Do you know how the Bitcoin Core operates? They are extremely conservative. If you want Move fast and break things, then Bitcoin is not for you.
Delayed, not backed off completely
> But it is highly decentralized

Isn’t that the entire point of a CDN, to have decentralized POPs scattered globally?

Yes, they may max out at 100gb per public IX in most cases, but they still have lots of 100gb peers all over the globe.
At least for me, the failure mode in most cases had the card simply erroring out on accesses (even writes!) to particular sectors. Other sectors would allow to write, so it wasn't that the card had run out of sectors with write lifetimes. When you're not given anything to work with, even corrupted data, extra ECC isn't going to do you any good. My conjecture (with no data) is that the card's FTL was itself corrupted.

EDIT: and in no cases I saw did the cards I was testing give me truly 'corrupt' data. Just either error codes, or stale data, or occasionally data from another sector entirely. They've got metric shittonnes of ECC internally (to make up for the crappy NANDs), and will do a better job than you can at detecting errors.
Chomsky left MIT for U of Arizona, it's speculated, for the warmer weather. But might not this be part of the reason?
And SpaceX isn't trying to go for the mobile market. Fixed broadband only.
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Ah yes, got that mixed up, thank you for the correction.
the difference is: with facebook sdk, facebook has all the user data. with google sdk, google has all the user data. with apple new sdk, apple has all the data.

besides that, with the 2 previous sdk, advertisers know if the install was from a good user vs a abandoned user/bot that installed it once and vanished. the new apple sdk conveniently will not let advertisers make that distinction.
Then a single-bit error (even if the controller moves a block around within the disk without telling you) can be corrected by the filesystem driver, and the correct data re-written.

In my experience, flash corruption of the type found in SD cards are completely blank (00) or erased (FF) blocks, not single-bit errors. Remember that SD already has a layer of error correction to handle those from the raw flash.
Everyone who's decrying the demise of backpage as a safe and beneficial place, please take a moment and read the first two pages of the Senate Report.

Backpage had a system in place to detect ads offering e.g. child sex and... edit those ads to conceal their criminal nature from detection by rephrasing the give-away words with less obvious ones. You would think they would report those ads, but no - they concealed.

[1] https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...
ps aux | wc

Linux:

177

Mac OS X:

44

macOS?
I wouldn't say losing. Pragmatism is making progress; obedience to arbitrary rules, while still powerful, is declining slowly.
Just wondering, what makes you trust your VPN provider more than your ISP?
I'd like to offer you my services as a prostitute, and also as a trafficker of humans.
MIT's AlterEgo headset can read words you say in your head
I don't want bitcoin to go up, because it attracts the wrong type of people.

Bitcoin should go up when the technology is ready to handle the increase in demand. As it stands right now it's not ready yet.

If people want to store their investments into a much more centralised crypto currency like Eth then they can go ahead. not my problem. I also hear Ripple is pretty good at handling massive scale, same with Doge coin.
One of my ex-girlfriends switched to Ubuntu on my suggestion. Hilariously, the guy she cheated on me with and left me for bonded with her over it originally!
The NYS Office of Mental Health appears to have been breached.
The DAO
I didnt know this. thanks
Geostationary orbit is just really really far away.
DNP is really nasty shit. It's very popular for bodybuilding because it really does work great but you can get yourself into serious trouble if you aren't careful.

Also running dnp in the summer is not something you want to do. Your body heat goes up like crazy and it's miserable in the summer.

The drug itself is just a dye basically and it will ruin everything it touches.

If you want to know more about DNP search /r/steroids for it. There's endless threds and posts about it's use.

I'll take a lot of stuff, but DNP is the one I won't touch.
He's a "useful idiot."

The White House is being run like a reality TV show. The news outlets are all fixated on its theatrics-- "you'll never guess who Trump fired this week!" in between meaningless gossip and muckraking affairs with washed-up porn stars. It's a hit parade of scandal.

Neutering net neutrality was a big, dramatic deal that upset a lot of people and drew a lot of attention. Putting this offensive moron out there is just another sideshow that soaked up a lot of energy and made us all feel helpless about the outcome of something many cared about. Like Shkreli's antics, stunts like his get us emotionally invested in hating him because he's baiting and trolling us all the while.

Meanwhile submarines like the CLOUD act get passed with no fanfare. Trade wars with China are begun. Nobody notices, because we're all busy throwing rotten tomatoes at the dancing fool.
The path taken by fiber optic cables is at least as bad, though. Even before you count the slower speed of light in glass.
Selection bias?
DanBC kind of ticked me off with his repeated posts too, but then I read the link he posted. It's quite bad. Read the first two pages, and you will start re-posting that link too.
The article has additions up to 2018 as additional sections.
That's even sadder....
The gist contains a 2018 update section at the bottom...
They deserve a pile on. I don't want any social media company having any access to my health data, especially if I haven't authorized it.

(1) There is no guarantee they will accurately associate that "anonymized" data with my profile.

(2) There is no guarantee they will "do no harm" with that data. It's a way to run-around existing HIPAA protection and something a lot of organizations would pay for if they could.
> The idea that men have a right to sex is absurd.

All people have a right to sex, so long as it is consensual.
The industry seems to finally be warming up to Postgres and I find that really exciting. I think MySQL popularity had a lot to do with it's willingness to say "yes". It's really easy to ship something on a database that never warns you or refuses to do the wrong thing.

Postgres is "harder" to use because when you make a dumb mistake it tells you about it.

This post is an oversimplification but summarizes my general impression.
Probably not. I rolled my truck a few years ago, and my numbness persisted even while windshields were shattering and up became down, then up and then down over and over again. I wondered if I was going to die, and just surrendered myself to physics.

If I ever fall feet first into a wood-chipper, I'll probably panic and try to find a way out. The instinct to survive is still there. The existential dread is just gone.
It depends on if you gain that 'freedom' by choice or not. The latter, if especially unexpected, can be troublesome. Even more so if you have those that depend on you.
This is a beautiful article, and made me smile. I was greatly inspired by the subjects’ attitudes. However it seems this tiny sample of people are happy in spite of their old age, and not necessarily because of it.

What I got from the piece was: if you want to be happy, have a caring circle of friends, family who visit you once a week, a supportive lover, and impactful projects your are passionate about. These folks live quite excellent lives (health issues notwithstanding) compared to anyone of any age. Age has certainly given them more perspective, but I think it’s secondary here.
There are at least 2 other serious players in LEO satellite constellations who have launched prototypes or will shortly. Oneweb (which doesn't do sat-to-sat comms, so is just a "last mile" provider, like Globalstar is for sat phone) and Telesat (following an Iridium-like sat-to-sat approach, just like SpaceX is), which launched a bunch of prototypes even earlier than SpaceX did.

...and a whole bunch of other players. So competition is definitely a thing.
Didn't the FCC just stomp on "SpaceBee" for trying to bootstrap something similar?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.fastcompany.com/40542629/re...
Ten seconds?

People who dedicate their lives to researching proposed policies still don't agree about their effects.

A quick search will find the leading arguments pro and con, but no way to know which arguments are right.
...or 70 satellites every tenth launch.

Another poster said their test satellites were 400kg, and the falcon 9 can hoist 22,800kg to LEO according to Wikipedia. That gives a ratio of 57 satellites per Falcon 9. The final satellite design might be heavier or lighter, the desired orbit may require more fuel and less payload, the satellites may require some additional hardware for securely storing and deploying them, and the current F9 may be superseded by bigger or more efficient or cheaper per payload kg rockets over the course of the next few years, so 70 per launch is probably a good guess to within an order of magnitude.

If they wait for the BFR, that (also according to Wikipedia) has a projected payload to LEO of 150,000kg or 375 test-satellite-equivalent masses. If it's cheaper per kg, they might just use that.
This is the thing. HIPAA is really a gold standard in data security legislation. As terrible as it is (e.g. the fax machine loophole, which is surely put there for lawyers), at least there's something punitive. And other things can be tied to it: grants, FDA can disbar them from collaborating in drug development, etc.

Imagine breach notifications for a company like Facebook. FCC could disbar you from transmitting data over mobile networks.
from downvotes on this, gotta love the fanboys take on those issues.

> > app steals user data

> jusy deny gps access or never install it

and then

> > apple throws chinese reporters under the bus

> they are just complying with local law.

like they didn't have an option of not doing business there.
I recommend reading the developers post http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html which is a balanced overview of sbt shortcomings.
Half of those items are already in MySQL 5.7 or 5.8.

What's terrible to you is a plus for Web 2.0 data storage - not everybody wants B&D just to insert a row or to select a timestamp.

I happen to use both databases, but I recommend MySQL first for startups.
I think there is always a market for someone with demonstrated competency an an in-demand skill.

I've never had a problem getting a job in tech. Last time I was hired was in my late 40s; I'm now early 50s.

I don't work the 50, 60 hour weeks that I used to when I was younger. So if that is what someone is looking for in a candidate I can see why an older person might get passed over.

But I accomplish more in 20 hours now than I did in 60 hours when I was 25.

The kind of jobs I would want, would not hesitate to hire a 50 year old. At least in my experience.
One possibility could be that they store only the first four characters plaintext, and keep a hash of the whole password (which is also bad).

I wonder how this feature came to be? What were those meetings like?
Be the change you want to see in the world. Downvote bad answers. Upvote good ones.
Artificial sweetener usage thought to facilitate C difficile virulence
You see this on GitHub a bit now.
The high altitude constellation is still definitely in LEO (extends to 2000km), not MEO. The second constellation is in LEO, too, but SpaceX calls it "VLEO" because it's so low that atmospheric drag would pull down an unpowered satellite within weeks.
I was hoping to read through the comments and find someone would correct you, but it seems everyone is under the same false belief.

Encryption doesn't matter.

Automated deep packet and encrypted packet inspection is burgeoning with advances that put the single-actor work-arounds to shame.

1). Your ISP knows your traffic is encrypted. It knows what cipher and protocol you're using, and its routing is not protocol-agnostic.

2). Your ISP knows beyond "mostly confident" the type of files your packets contain. If you don't keep your connection open and use any of the public encryption methods, your ISP will know exactly what you've downloaded to a reasonable degree.

3). HTTPS is only as good as all the different pieces combined (browser, root CA, server, site, client). And if one of those goes bad, it's worthless.

4). If you use encryption heavily, you're already flagged.

5). If you don't use your ISP's CDN, you're already flagged.

6). If you connect to any other site besides Google, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, or Instagram your aggregate data will be quickly analyzed and compared with a threat table, and appropriately flagged.

7). Traffic analysis is trivial when you're the one routing the traffic.

Google is Dunning Kruger evil. ISPs are "pick up that can" evil. The lack of serious developments in HTTPS are "see no evil" stupid. The thought that HTTPS is anything but a red hearing is "Ivan the Fool" stupid.
Clickbait title. The only germs loving diet soda would be the potential shifts in gut biome as a result of saccharine consumption, which would only apply to Tab.

"The scientists also fed a small group of healthy people saccharin-sweetened drinks for a week. In a subset of volunteers, microbial shifts occurred, accompanied by mounting glucose intolerance. So for some people, diet sodas may not be any healthier than regular sodas."

The Nature study has a better title:

"Dietary trehalose enhances virulence of epidemic Clostridium difficile"

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25178.epdf
You are talking about incognito mode / private browsing right?

When I open an incognito tab and search for “latex”, the entire first page of results is still all about LaTeX for me and I would bet my left hand that this is not universally true.

In other words, you are still seeing personalized results.
Zuck is a dumb fuck
They've gotten the hell sued out of them too by banks and customers.

HomeDepot:
https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/court-clears-way-for-banks-...

Target:
https://consumerist.com/2017/02/03/court-to-review-targets-1...
Orange Pi and ODROID-C2, and there are a few slightly more expensive but vastly faster and higher specced options (like the Tinker Board). But the onboarding experience and ongoing support is usually far worse than with the Pi.
Tell HN: Have to quit Quora because of mobile get app screen
I enjoy Quora but now it is unusable on mobile.

Why do companies do this?
The term you're looking for is bus bunching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_bunching

Anecdotally, it seems to happen more on longer routes into a city center, and gets worse if there's traffic / bridge opens / etc. along the route.
I can think of at least 2 promising areas: 1.Micropayments- currently it's very hard to charge for anything on the internet so we get ads, which everyone hates or paywalls which people hate even more. Internet money doesn't need to be decentralized but then who will issue or build it -google, facebook? So far this is the most promising. 2. Data privacy - everyone's complaining about Facebook now. So far public decentralized blockchains have offered the most promising way to build truly decentralized apps (while still providing an incentive/payment to developers). I'm pretty sure even more uses we can't think of now will open up as the technology matures
I got into amateur radio recently and felt that my fundamental knowledge of electronics was lacking, so I picked up the Handbook for Radio Communications textbook and read through the first few chapters to solidify my understanding. Learning electronics without context for me is quite boring, and it's better to have something more concrete that you can use the electronics for that will motivate you to want to push yourself to learn more as the applicability of your understanding shows some real results.

One downside to this is that your electronics understanding will only be focused on a concrete usage of it, so you might not get the depth on certain areas of electronics that the application doesn't cover, e.g. you won't learn how a solid-state drive works in the context of electronics if you focus on radio technology.
Though it's a problem, theres a solution: VPN. Openvpn and outline are 2 good options you can use to roll-you-own gigabit on a vps for $5/mo.
The fastest cards in these tests were also fastest when writing the entire image on my USB 3.0 UHS-II card reader on my Mac. Large file writes are where most of these cards shine, and some can do 40+ MB/s when writing larger blocks of data.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 out-launched every other rocket on the planet last year, with 18 launches, which is double their domestic arch-rival ULA (only 9 launches total among ULA's three rockets: Atlas V and Delta II and Delta IV). This year, SpaceX are on-track for 25 to 30 launches.

Also, not only has SpaceX demonstrated reuse, but they've done so ~10 times with Falcon 9 in just over a year.

Some vaporware!
That link just says they make satellites, not a global satellite based internet.
Google doesn't need to break encryption for other reasons too. It has JavaScript execution access and thus access to all the client side data on at least the half of the top 1mil. websites on the internet.

It's easily blockable for people who care, but still many don't, and for those people it makes all the pretty transport encrytpion a sham.

Seriously, companies afford third parties JavaScript execution on pages where they expect me to enter CC or other sensitive info. Half of the web at this point is a joke when it comes to security and privacy.