skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great growth hack my grandfather did, inspires me still: He opens a restaurant, on a bet, against a competing restaurateur, that he can succeed in an awful location with no signage or parking. On opening night, he hands a wad of money to my Dad and his adorable girlfriend, instructs them to dress nice, take a cab to the airport, tip, and rave about the dinner. upon arriving at the airport, get another taxi, tip, inform them that you've just flown in from SanFran and have heard the food at the 13 Coins is divine and to take them there post haste :) He won the bet.
Qualcomm preparing to give up its push to develop ARM processors for servers
...and you don’t think that those two events are related?
Thanks for explaining.

Cuba & Venezuela are not within the normalcy of LatAm - different economic models, different politics. Mexico has good abortion laws - at least in the capital.

There are awful abortion rights records. Agreed - even in my own country, where we're fighting to have it allowed at least for extreme cases (nonviable fetus, or situations that put the mother at big risk, like ectopic pregnancies). Most LatAm countries at least allow abortion to save the mother's life.

Agreed that there's not been enough support to effect changes to the laws. It's an uphill battle; most of America is historically very right-leaning; military dictatorships and rights infringement were the norm for most of the 20th century in much of the subcontinent, and people who lived - but mostly those who _grew up_ - through that have the lingering effects of those predispositions.

But - yeah, the left is generally out of the circles of power in LatAm, and the laws - in particular abortion and other religion-endorsed observations - are very right leaning.
At the age of 30, you are not worried about your kids leaving the nest (you may not have kids yet), your social circle can still be lively with colleagues, family, and past friends that are slowly going out of your lives. You may not have any assets to share with others. Your lifestyle may be still in transition from a young adult mindset to a breadwinner. You may be moving around a lot or moving companies frequently.

I'd understand the argument if 50 year olds should be making more friends. They have assets, they have a stable lifestyle, and maybe it's precisely because they didn't invest in making friends earlier that they don't have anyone to share their assets with.

But I'll double down and say that for 30 year olds there are so many other things they can be doing and the environment for making friends is so harsh, that it's simply not worth it. For most young adults, their social circle is extremely mobile. Everyone gets more responsibilities and other priorities that take their time. Most aren't in a position to take care of others (from a combination of money, time, and responsibility) - the simplest of friend making activities, like inviting someone over for a meal, can be very much out of your reach as a 30 year old.

For myself, I'm collecting assets because I want to build a responsible safety net of protection for your family & future. I'm developing my lifestyle to build a nice environment for my kids to grow up in. Not everyone has those things handed to them, and building up those things are not trivial in the modern world. These goals really are multi-decade goals.

I'll acquiesce that they are not lifetime goals. After they are accomplished, there's still a lot of life to live, and values and priorities can change after the underlying needs that the previous goals are built on are fulfilled.
I guess I understand the downvotes here, but I really do think you've hit on at least an issue. Maybe not the issue, but it's a pretty big problem.

RMS's conduct here is just... pretty inappropriate. Jokes about abortion, rape, race, sexual orientation, etc, etc, are not something you should be touching as the maintainer of a public project, no matter what your opinions are or how strongly you hold them. The glibc maintainers (completely reasonably) decided that the man pages weren't a good place for potentially-charged jokes like this, and removed it. RMS overruled them in a pretty childlike and insensitive fashion, and that's not appropriate when you're the public face of anything.

I don't give a shit about the politics of glibc - but I do care that someone who is a role model and a public figure acts like this.
Yes, I love CarPlay in my car and the rentals I’ve used it in
The problem is that HOLDers won't sell.
I understand the claims of proof-of-work. What I'm asking for is evidence. Do you have any scientific research indicating that Bitcoin will ultimately be an efficiency? Or is it a hunch? How much energy does Bitcoin need to consume before you demand evidence that it does as you claim?
The U.S. Intelligence Community does quite a bit of research in this space that we're involved in, we're also working with pharma, energy, large manufacturing. The profile (in the commercial space) tends to be very capital intensive orgs/projects, where if you can use a prediction market as an "early warning system" by surfacing what people actually know, you can potentially save them a lot of heartache (and money and pissed off/laid off employees, etc.)
> We even have mixtures of US and metric in some products!

In North America, tire sizes are given in millimeter width, but imperial mounting diameter. E.g. 175-65R14: 175mm width, 65% aspect ratio (sidewall height to width or something like that), for a 14" wheel.
Don't refer to the Digiconomist BECI for electricity consumption figures. The author makes fundamentally flawed assumptions, causing him to overestimate the consumption by 1.5× to 2.8×, and likely by 2.2×.

BECI starts with calculating average mining revenues based on a 439-day (variable) moving average of the Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash prices. Then BECI assumes a fixed 60% share of these revenues are spent on electricity costing $0.05/kWh. That is it. There is nothing sophisticated about his model. His first error is that 60% is not representative of current hardware; real-world data shows the lifetime average percentage is between 6.3% and 38.6%. His second error is that the averaging period is excessively variable and poorly justified: it has increased from 60 and 439 days and changed by twofold his electricity consumption figures.

For more info, see: http://blog.zorinaq.com/serious-faults-in-beci/

In reality, Bitcoin's consumption is only a third of the power generated by the Three Gorges Dam as of 4 months ago: http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/
> I'm personally more interested in an API-focused answer

OSSEC [1] is my go-tool for this type of tasks, it offers a language-agnostic interface to monitor any type of events. I used it along with my team to power the early version of the Sucuri Firewall, which later became the GoDaddy's security system. The project has matured a lot and is heavily tested using millions of HTTP requests every day. We also implemented a behavior-based algorithm to detect malicious requests, this part is not open-source but I can tell you that it was relatively easy to integrate it with the core interface.

Splunk [2] is also a good option, slightly more difficult to configure though. I have had the opportunity to meet some of the developers working in this company during a short visit to their Vancouver office and was genuinely surprised with the level of engineering that goes around this product. Definitely, worth checking it.

NewRelic [3] while the purpose has nothing to do with security, it also offers an easy-to-use interface to monitor events in the system. With some extra configuration you can make it work as a rudimentary firewall and benefit from all the great features that the product provides.

Disclaimer: I am an active contributor to the core features, but I am neutral on my recommendation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSSEC

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splunk

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Relic
How a Guy from a Montana Trailer Park Overturned 150 Years of Biology (2016)
1) fail2ban
2) log everything to an ELK stack (or your preferred alternative) and set up dashboards and reports to feed you malicious crafted URLs
3) Reject traffic in your web proxy based on a maintained list of hostile URLs. Ban the source of this traffic. Don't send back 500s, just slow down and eventually stop answering the requests. HAproxy lets you do this easily with a few simple rules and a stick table.
> They complain about their subs not getting their notifications and ask their subs to hit the "notification bell" as if that is going to do anything

But that's the whole point of the notification bell. If you're subscribed, but haven't rang the bell, the videos will be in your sub feed, and you might get a notification. When you ring the bell and say you want notifications, you'll get notifications for all videos.

They ask you to turn on notifications because that means you're more likely to watch their video earlier than waiting to see it in your sub feed.
What you are reporting is correct and I can understand a customer's frustration due to it.

But what you are saying is not the opposite of what I am saying.

You are saying: Flipkart is weak at delivering small items to small towns. I agree with this.

I am saying: Flipkart is strong at delivering large items to small towns and Amazon is weak at that.

Do you have examples where Flipkart did not deliver a large item (certainly much larger than your home router) such as a fridge or table to your small town? That would be an interesting example that would contradict what I am saying.
I'm intrigued. Any video of this method?
Thanks -- yes it was the Michael Wood documentary I was thinking of. I was always a bit skeptical about that claim; this is some great background. I appreciated the candid explanation by Wood - there is definitely something curious/mysterious about those hymns, regardless of origin.
I have a series of programming assignments in my introductory course that has students write simple functions in Python. One of those functions is to consume nothing and returns their (the programmer's) current age. So for example, you might write

def get_my_age():
return 21

The students' reaction to this in office hours can be... interesting. I am curious how many of them actually follow the comment at the bottom of the question, and what they think:

> Reflect on the difference between creating a variable with a constant value and creating a function with no arguments and a constant return value.

Up to you to decide if this has any pedagogical value. The real learning objective was to "write a function that has no arguments but returns a constant value", so getting them to draw big conclusions about the nature of functions and values and so on is outside the scope of this little activity.
Einstein never said that, though: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8742/did-einste....
That has a name, too-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke
Zero day detection software
It's a story because Stallman has played the "I'm the boss, you can't outvote me" card, not because anyone's in a tizzy over the politics.

If you're going to pull the "I'm the boss, you can't outvote me" card, the best place to do it is somewhere trivial. Especially when you added it yourself a long time ago. Even though I would prefer some sort of vote for these things.

there's no "political correctness" here at all.

Of course there is, Is anyone trying to remove apt-get moo?
Don't feel bad about that! My dad didn't know what the hell I was talking about when I was learning C++ as a teenager, but he asked anyway because he saw I got excited about it.
Ideally. But if you're living on your investments, you tend to attend to them more. The solution to that is to have such a substantial investment income that you don't need to worry about it, at all - which means that much more effort in getting there.
"but this joke is out-of-date"

It isn't out of date, it's entirely relevant today.
You can add Romania to that list even if it's not part of Catholic Europe. It's part of Orthodox Europe. Abortion was outlawed under communism, but after the fall of Iron Curtain it was immediately legalized.
Perhaps Qualcomm is pulling out due to a revitalized AMD, who is promising massively paralell x86 processors at reasonable prices and generally abysmal preformance levels of ARM chips both per clock, and max clock speeds compared to x86?
It is mentioned in later patents, and regardless it is a specific part of the tool's behavior. Its continued use is based upon this fact.
Better: it was never really found that cholesterol in food was correlated with blood cholesterol, it was just a belief.

What we are finding today is that it was never really found that high blood cholesterol causes cardio vascular disease.
I do care that someone who is a role model and a public figure acts like this.

Why? It's fine to be offended. It's his project. Just fork and move on, if necessary.
> I guess I understand the downvotes here

You’d be surprised. It bottomed out at -3 and is now oscillating around 0 and -1. That’s a surprisingly encouraging sign.

I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of a problem. I think the industry’s reaction to it is an even bigger one and it’s right here, in this thread. Or lack thereof.
Not sure how the joke is "tasteless". Michelle Wolf's "knock em out of there" abortion joke was tasteless. This is just a joke about government censorship and overreach.
> If property values were sinking because of the issue ..., the city would be more well incentivized to come up with solutions. But, outside of just citizen complaints, city hall doesn't really have any skin in the game.

There's something missing here. Politicians are vote-seekers by selection; whereas city tax revenues are not theirs to enjoy personally. So why do you think there is an incentive to make (public) money rather than keep voters happy?

It's not that you are necessarily wrong. I can imagine various ways governance can get twisted to produce an incentive to maximise revenue. But how do you think it happened in LA specifically.
English is the default language if you want to reach a maximum number of Indians. Hindi would probably be second, but why bother? Personally I like our migration to a common language. I feel that our different languages divide us.
What makes you say that? I would be surprised if anyone who has sat on more than $10 million USD of crypto at any point in the past few years didn't cash out a substantial portion of it.
This part has a morale, too, and it is almost the same: don't trust
this person. Read the licenses carefully and rip out parts which give
Stallman any possibility to influence your future. Phrases like

[...] GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.

just invites him to screw you when it pleases him. Rip out the "any
later version" part and make your own decisions when to use a
different license since otherwise he can potentially do you or your
work harm.

I never noticed this before. Whether it was intentionally conspiratorial or not, it's certainly an important legal and organizational consideration.
The original is correct, it says "apples" not "apple(s)".
This touches on what you're talking about. If you have the time the entire video's a gem of history screw history touching on Nails going into screw coatings, drives, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3jG5xtSQAo#t=5m05s
Phillips is incompatible with thread lock assuming you want to take them out. If threadlock is not used the removal torque is actually less than the insertion and it shouldn't be a problem in this case.
I like Fail2Ban, but as I remember it, my learning process looked a lot like this:

1.) Read through the documentation.

2.) Pour myself a scotch.

3.) Read through more documentation.

4.) Start drinking right out of the bottle.

5.) Try something.

6.) Get an error or experience a spectacular failure.

7.) Use StackOverflow.

8.) GOTO 5.

-------------

In good news, it worked - the light went on and now I'm confident that I could adapt Fail2Ban to suit any use. But, in bad news, honestly, I feel your pain and understand where/why you are getting stuck. Fail2Ban is a very complicated, yet extremely useful piece of software.
Interestingly, yellow light laws are different in different states — so in some places people are very respectful of yellow lights.

Most states say it's OK if you enter the intersection on yellow, but a handful (not including WA, but including neighboring OR) require that you clear the intersection before the red appears.

I've sometimes wondered if "entering the intersection" includes entering the crosswalk adjacent to the intersection.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/57ajjq/til_w...
>It's literally the C library reference manual. That's true of the whole thing!

You have to know about the global gag rule prohibiting health providers that receive federal funds from discussing abortion with their patients to understand the entire C library reference manual? News to me.
Proof of Stake is the answer.
> How many nice things have Amazon open sourced?

Good research need not always be open sourced. That is irrelevant to it's quality.
Can we really say we agree with the way the rules are written?
And a DRM for website instead of only video DRM that exists, so that user cannot view source code, and no extension can block the ads. Other publishers are doing the same thing. Expect new DRM for HTML5 too.

This is where I fear EME is going.

Getting it in at all was the first step -- the sharp end of the lever.

My concerns regarding "locking up" the Web:

- Security. Ad networks continue to shovel exploits as well as a panopticon of data mining that gets sold off to dark patterns, commercial and governmental.

- History. We already have disappearing news and other content that is leaving increasing holes in the historical record. Who would have thought with this ever-increasing capacity to record and store "everything", we are becoming more blinded to recent events and public conversation.

(This goes for commercial media, as well. Seminal TV shows no longer available in their original format (music "rights"). Movies no longer so available (just leave it the fuck alone, Lucas). What happens when all you consume comes from central, centrally-controlled servers that can be "revised" at the behest of central authorities?)

- Usability. The other problem I have with ads et al., is that they do their utmost to grab all the attention. I find them too distracting to actually or effectively consume the content.

I remember back the the "early days" of the Web, most ads were static in appearance, and I actually clicked on a fair amount of them. Yes, given the nature of the Web, then, they were more technical. They also described things I was actually interested in. I'd read the article, notice an interesting ad along the way, and click it when I was done -- or maybe immediately, if it was of higher interest than what I was reading.

Now, ads do everything they can to make me look a them. I can't even pay adequate attention to the page, until I scroll them out of the viewport or otherwise obscure them.

That makes for a miserable user experience.

(And all too often, they play a game to "intrigue" me, instead of just telling me what they're about and why I'd be interested in that.)
> If I don't see your eyes

I think you really mean if you don't make eye contact.

Eye contact is a two-person activity. How does an autonomous car make eye contact with a person?
If my friends knew I was called a rationalist they'd be shocked and would applaud my growth.

I'm not a min/maxing person, but I do find value out of min/maxing, especially with local optima.

Min/maxing is a great tool in combination with strong personalized value systems, feelings, and a determined will to make your life your own.

I see no problem with trying to min/max life, unless you're philosophically opposed to the systemic issues that a min/maxing society generates.
Last time I checked, musl didn't support random important things. Consider dlclose: unsupported due to an unfounded (IMHO) assertion that it's not possible to implement such a thing safely. Nevertheless, people _have_ been unloading shared libraries for decades, so musl asserting that it's impossible makes me question musl's other technical decisions.
It's recognizable, but why require a click to see subcategories? It's an unnecessary interaction.
The politics of GNU is not only completely separate from the politics of abortion debate, but we're also talking about technical documentation here, which is an apolitical thing. Someone reading technical documentation is not doing so because they're trying to be involved in the politics, they're doing so because they're looking for, you guessed it, technical documentation.
Even today, the Windows source code contains quite a few long, narrative comments that are both historically educational and entertaining to read.
13 coins in Seattle?
Catsters guide: Videos on category theory
I wrote a book for O'Reilly: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920043027.do

This post is so accurate. I have nothing but good things to say about the O'Reilly staff. It didn't make a dent in my finances but was a good experience to understand the challenges in writing something like that.

The most meaningful experience for me was when someone reading the early access version found me on the internet and sent excited questions to me out of the blue: https://medium.com/@xrd/sending-two-signed-copies-of-my-book...
Cherkashin does talk about that. KGB had no problem coming up with dollars and had a specific method for getting the money to the right place: diplomatic pouches I believe and through Aeroflot, the state run airline.
Ask HN: Those who left Gmail behind, how do you live without bundling?
I switched from Gmail to FastMail last year and loved it, but fell way behind on my email. I've realized that the way Gmail separates promotional, social, updates, and forums has a _huge_ impact on my ability to stay on top of my inbox. I'm really surprised it doesn't come up more often when discussing FastMail/ProtonMail etc. Am I missing something? How do you live without that feature? Do I just get more email than most, or is there some other workflow I don't know about?
I find your line of reasoning vague and...I don't know the word, it seems very one-sided.

what do you mean by the "C library reference manual"? The glibc man or something else? Cause to me glibc is just GNU's implementation of the C standard.

RMS can decide what goes in the GNU manual, sure. But you didn't even address the fact that the joke is not understandable unless you're from a very specific background (how many people are familiar with US imperialistic politics and the global gag rule?)
"talking about technical documentation here, which is an apolitical thing"

There's no requirement of that, just like there's no requirement that technical documentation be stab-your-eyes-out dry and boring rather than having an occasional bit of humor.

Apolitical technical documentation is a style choice, saying that you want to emulate a certain style of documentation.
Protip: All Ikea furniture with screws use Pozidriv heads. (Everything with bolts using Allen heads, of course.)
But this law is all about calories. And counting calories works. If you’re unable to count calories then of course you need some remedial help. But pretending that it’s about “eating the right foods” is lying to yourself.