skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows 95 was extremely secure by default. No TCP stack, no web browser.
There's a spectrum. It seems like the highest source of ambition external to genetics is growing up lower middle-class / poorer than many of your friends and neighbors, but with opportunity to succeed. Anecdotal, of course. My friends who grew up wealthy or upper middle class tend to dream much smaller, even if they are only first generation-wealthy / likely have some ambitious genes.
I often wonder how this approach to medicine came about.
Introducing Relay, by Republic Wireless
Good find. Saw the flags for that, it should be adjusted (depending on cache).
Another payout of writing a technical book is that it pretty much solidifies you as an expert in the topic and can be a springboard leading to great job opportunities and things like paid offers to speak or teach. If I ever write a technical book, it won't be for the immediate monetary payout, it will be to solidify expert status in a topic.
> Why we should all be using Windows 95

I use a Gtk2-derived desktop environment (Cinnamon/MATE/Xfce), which is heavily Windows 95-inspired in its UI, so I'd say I have the next best thing. Plus FLOSS.
Shameless plug: modern computers are fast enough you can run it in a web browser.

https://win95.ajf.me/
If you’re relying on reports that can be gamed.
The cabin in Concorde was smaller and more cramped. 17 hours with stops would have been challenging.

I think Concorde may have been the most beautiful plane ever built and an incredible achievement for the time. But long-haul really needs a new kind of hyperliner - preferably clean, if we're going to be writing a wish-list.

It was never going to be a popular option with Concorde technology.
That's the point: they don't want you because you cost them money to serve.
What compelling tech does Google have that Walmart needs? Google has no sought after experience in retail or ecommerce. What would they give the largest retailer in the world? They are a half a trillion dollar company moving physical products. They already know how to do supply chain.

It looks like play to stop Amazon’s growth more than technology.
be careful with airline motivation, they are looking into their profit margins, and one way to reduce fuel price is to increase the economy of scale, that means more passengers, more pollution, more fuel, but less fuel per passenger. That was the whole point of the A380, a giant gas guzzler, but per passenger it was more efficient, it only works if you destroy smaller planes or increase passenger traffic.

The second aspect of it is that economies of scale are on the last leg, most airline companies use smaller planes, with a hub and spoke model, and a highly energy inefficient system, because it's better in their overall profit making system.

They are there to make money first, carrying passengers is the hoops they have to go through to get people's money (but by cleverly worded passenger carrying contracts, they are more and more getting around the issue), and fuel price is a variable in the system.
I guess I'd say it this way... there was a very simple case for Windows 95 that allowed for a big launch. The innovations were obvious, and the product was clearly superior to what it was replacing (Windows 3.x).

As a thought experiment, how would you even do a big launch for Windows 10 or the latest MacOS? I like both products quite a bit, but I'm not even sure what you would launch? A big pile of marginally useful features?
Why you’ll want to read this article before joining a startup as employee 1–10
Running under Python no less.
I like how it scratches itself, implying that Sony has leapfrogged the competition in miniaturization and invented the Robot Flea.
I'm reading Code Complete right now, what other are your other gripes about the text?
For me the most interesting thing is to read the comments from different previous submissions to see if, or how, the responses of the HN community have changed.
> They’re most likely going to go down the same way Yahoo did.

Unlikely. Yahoo actually had to make a profit. In 12 years, Twitter has only reported 1 profitable quarter. And yet, somebody (or somebodies) keep forking over billions of dollars to keep twitter up and running. Whatever their goal is, making money isn't it.

My guess is their goal is the same as the major media outlets: to control the flow of information. It's a lot easier to do that without scrutiny if the tools appear to kick people off at random. The harder it is to discern a pattern, the less scrutiny they'll face when taking down accounts that say things they don't like. It also provides cover if there's a big stink and they have to reinstate an account.
Kubernetes Ingress 101: NodePort, Load Balancers, and Ingress Controllers
I miss BlackOrifice and the free internet access that came with it...
From email to Republic Wireless customers:

> Republic Wireless will soon be launching our new product, Relay, a device that gives families a safer way to stay in touch. It’s as simple to use as a walkie-talkie, but works wherever a cell phone works, includes location tracking, and will in the upcoming months have other fun features such as music, games, and voice assistant functionality.
Not a downvoter but the post feels off topic
They should actually put that report button to good use and take that into account when suspending users. A high number of tweeets seen by a lot of active followers and not being reported is actually a very good signal the account is not spamming.
At whom is this directed? The organization that posted this story, which appears to be a nonprofit civic hobby project?
We don't. We syndicate to Twitter. That's where we get the most new users.

All the data is on openbenches.org and GitHub.
If Ethereum Isn’t a Security Then Nothing Is
>> Giving you the ability to use a computer now is not the same as it was back then and that's why Windows 95 was so important.

This is only true if you lived in a vacuum. Windows 95 was important in terms of Windows/x86 users, but let's not forget that Macs existed at this time.

Windows 95 might have been prettier than Mac OS back at that time (at least that was the view of the Windows people I knew), but it was not leaps and bounds better.

I left Mac in the mid-90s for Windows 95 not because the the UX was better in any meaningful way, but because it was what I used at work. And while 95 in my opinion was still not as good as Mac OS, it met the threshold of being "good enough".
We don't get anywhere near that. On a good day we might get 100.
Using DeployBot with Docker: Getting Started Guide
This Is Not the Article Elon Musk Doesn’t Want Me to Write
The jokes write themselves.
That is still why Apple shines today. They have full control on the Hardware's supply chain, and a billionth fewer drivers to support.
Past discussion with >100 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4368858
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.

— Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Chapter 23.
I'm amazed it's taken this long for things like this to make a comeback, now that neural-net tech has progressed so far. Being able to develop a complex relationship with an ML system rather than just a handful of floating parameters sounds pretty interesting (yes, I know that's technically what neural nets are underneath, but the point holds).
Please read the story before commenting next time. They did not build a business on Twitter. It's not even a business, and they were using Twitter for publicity, exactly as intended. Having a major arm of your project's publicity platform wiped out arbitrarily is still shitty, and still Twitter's fault.
My guess would be that A380 is more taxing on airport infrastructure than small Concord.
I hope Intel will offer similar capability in the future without Azure (or any other cloud provider) lock-in, with lower latencies, because you don't need to send data to outside your facility.
Hold on, I've reported multiple extraordinarily obvious spam rings before, with accounts as old as 2013, and I've even kicked up a stink here when Twitter employees show up, and I was told "bots don't violate the TOS."

I just checked, it's still there https://mobile.twitter.com/ksfAKBARI check followers/following for a massive ring of obvious spam.
I posted it here for a few reasons. One of which that someone from Twitter might see it and fix it.

The other is to remind all the startups which frequent this site that their actions have consequences.
Before being acquired by Facebook, WhatsApp was supporting 900 million users with only 50 employees. So it can be done if you know what you're doing, run a robust tech stack, and don't worry about customer service (and to be clear, Twitter doesn't do customer service, either).
Just last month Krebs got told by Facebook report system carding is welcome content on Facebook: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/is-facebooks-anti-abuse-...

I've reported someone leaking Polish court documents of an ongoing case on Facebook - nothing happened.

I've reported a YouTube video praising Anders Breivik as an European hero defending whites from Marxists, Leftists and Muslims - it's still up.

I've created a Twitter account and it got instantly locked for being 'suspicious' or 'automated' (but of course giving them my phone number would fix it instantly) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014511

What are the nuances that I'm missing?
My bad - I totally misread that. Thanks for clarifying.
I find using emacs in the terminal less bothersome on osx because of osx's inane out of the box window management; I can replace it completely with managing emacs frames in screen and that experience doesn't change when I move between platforms.
There's a fair bit of criticism for relying too much on Twitter in this thread, but I think the article brings up a good point:

>Yes, I know. We should redecentralize and put our content on Mastodon, or the BlockChain, or some other convoluted platform which has no users. But that’s just not practical for a small project. We have limited technical resources and have to go to where the people are.

Despite there being better technical options, those options can't be considered just on their technical merits... User adoption is also crucial.
I would assume that this effect will bring 1 or 2 orders of magnitude more money over his career if correctly capitalized on.
Good point. On the other hand, PEBCAK was much worst back then, as people were still trying to understand what a computer was.
We are in agreement so long as those who get elected are not too selfish or too easily duped and there is balance in the system. But as far as I know all empires eventually fail. Some last much longer than others. Since the U.S. style republican form of governance is a recent thing it’s hard to conclude that it’s the best form. Why is it better than the British constitutional democracy? Or Canada’s system?

You also seem to be unaware of the U.S.’s role in genocide within its own borders and its role in genocide within other borders. We should keep in mind that it used to be the case that only white, land owning males could vote. That slavery existed for a long time in the U.S. and then we had Jim Crow.

The American Republic will last as long as there is balance in the system and only if those we elect are not knaves and fools. Populism based on fear or hatred is a dangerous thing in any system and can bring instability. The U.S. is not immune to forces that can destroy the essence of the country.
I see this argument brought up, a lot, but the problem with it is that it is unfalseifiable.

If UBI is so great, then similar "almost UBI" proposals should ALSO show good results.

I sincerely doubt that there is a magic line between "similar but not UBI" programs and "UBI" programs where the good stuff immediately appears.

If UBI is impossible to test, then we shouldn't do it.

It would be insanely risky to spend trillions of dollars on something that its proponents claim can't be tested. So we should just not implement it in the first place.
Is spam a problem for Twitter users?

It is bots and the algorithmic timeline (which Twitter spam with lots of people i don't follow) that ruined it for me. The bot issue seems simpler to solve than spam, (a Turing test?) and I can only think that Twitter feel the bots will one day make them profitable.
Windows 95 really made Windows better than MacOS at that time. I had to develop software for both at that time and the truth was, Windows was just better. People would defend Macs very strongly at that time, but in my experience it was because they had developed a preference.
yes and no, because now it's a pain in the butt when there is a takeoff issue. If there is a tail strike, an engine issue on take off, or a passenger emergency early in the flight, now they have to loop around in circles for hours with a damaged airplane before landing. Or they have to dump fuel, but they do it extremely rarely, because most planes can't even do it, and it's a pain in the butt and actually quite slow for the planes that can do it.

here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSq9r05lVTo
I wonder if we'll see non-pwr naval reactors anytime soon. A high temp reactor would allow using a supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle which would take up much less space.

On another note, what would happen if a MSR powered ship would sink and the fuel salt would come into contact with sea water? Would the salts dissolve into the water? Much as I like MSR's as a concept, if so this would make them a quite bad idea on a ship...
> Solving that particular problem is not hard: trash any reply to a celebrity or viral tweet that includes a link and gets reported x times.

That's trivial to abuse, given a group of accounts filing false reports.

That's not a hypothetical; as an example, Facebook's reporting functionality has been abused to attack people's accounts as part of various hate campaigns.
Assuming the microservices are stateless, this is basically dynamic functional programming. It's how I like to program after spending some time with Common Lisp.

It does pain me to think about the massive overhead of communicating via HTTP, though. Just think of the whole network stack that is being used when doing one simple call and compare that to calling a subroutine on the same computer. It's really nice for us programmers but it strikes me as being too easy. Imagine being a civil engineer but you can make everything out of titanium or any other expensive material.
Right these stories are "repetitive" because these companies continue to be shitty at what they do. That fact itself is something everyone reading this site should be keeping abreast of.
Solid recommendation of movie. I find this too, where a movie I might be interested in releases a trailer basically telling me what happens in the movie. It's definitely not limited to suspense/thrillers. When I see a trailer like that I'm always left wondering "why would I even bother watching this now - I already know what happens"
"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans." Douglas Adams https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/639593-far-out-in-the-uncha...
Discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17005686

Previous submissions, some with comments, here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17005472

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17005247 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17004639

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17004222 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17002396

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16999962 (3 comments)
I find most people are naive of the problem especially in the west coast states, unless they spend a lot of time outdoors either recreationally, or landscaping, gardening, ranching, farming, hunting, etc.

You certainly want to check yourself after going out, but for dogs and animals the difference is just very outwardly obvious as you will see them crawling on their fur, on their beds, or you feel the lumps on their skin once they embed if you are petting them. Anecdotally this was not something I ever found 15+ years ago in the exact same environments. But beyond anecdote, by all official recordings (often from deer hunting, they measure a small portion of the deer and count how many ticks are found in a square) the numbers are skyrocketing, largely in line with concurrent overpopulation of deer and rodents.
Multi-label classification with Keras
the sad thing about lyme disease is that we dont have a vaccine due to anti vaxxers: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lym...
>because I feel like that adds state dependent on t to the bandit scenario, which then feels more like MDP.

Yeah this was sort of exactly the issue I was running into. I can't justify it to myself without essentially saying "this is just an MDP in disguise", which maybe is the right way to do it. I'm pretty sure you can define a k-armed bandit as an MDP on a single state, where each action corresponds to a machine, and all actions return you to the single state.

So maybe that is the right motivation. But reversing that "an MDP is just a k-armed bandit problem where sometimes playing a machine breaks it and forces you to play other machines, which can impact how quickly the casino fixes your first machine..." feels forced.

All that said, its a good article :)
Not sure how one can imagine that SJW is a "dog-whistle term". Those of us that use it are pretty clear about what we mean.
I missed any more serious discussion on this. Was there another more active thread?
I was a software developer back then, and I don't remember seeing a single Mac. On the other hand, Windows 95 was everywhere.
The software dumbs the images down before displaying them, but the actual resolution of the scan is greater than what's shown on the screen.
Yes, that's correct. (And the US subs are 688 class.)
I happen to know how it's set up :)

It's a pelican static site but in git; then there is a tiny Python webserver that 'publishes' the bare git repo, not unlike a custom github pages.

And it's running on an absolute-cheapest VPS with no RAM or CPU to speak of.

The good thing about the host though is they limit bandwidth rather than total bytes, so sure it slows down - it's really being hammered right now! - but it won't die with a nasty message when it hits some total-bytes-per-month limit.
.. and along those lines cannot recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot enough
Unravelling a Cold War Mystery – Central Intelligence Agency
VSCode April 2018 (version 1.23)
Millennials 'have no qualms about GM crops' unlike older generation
User adoption on Mastodon can be pretty big depending on the project. Look at the number of followers F-Droid has on Mastodon compared to Twitter.

https://mastodon.technology/@fdroidorg

https://twitter.com/fdroidorg
> in net budgets weren't balanced in the Revolution to WWI period.

According to this, they were:

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/debt_deficit_history

> US didn't start as a subsistence farming economy

Yes, it did. A consistent food surplus did not appear until around 1800. Bone evidence from the colonists showed repeated episodes of starvation.
> Automated systems can and will be gamed as well.

Taking an user’s reputation, account lifetime, reputation of their followers, etc (so for example, a report from a new account has less weight than an established account with a good history) will sort that out.

And when everything else fails, a proper appeals system where you talk to humans will solve this problem once and for all. False positives and abuse are bound to happen eventually, but they’re tolerable as long as you have a proper appeals process to deal with them.
Regarding 2.

Good for the US based players but bad for India. But it is not limited to just this. Most of the big Indian startups are funded by VCs from outside India. So, even if these companies grow big there is a good chance that most of it won't be owned or controlled by Indians. For example, PayTM(wallet, mall, bank) is funded by Alibaba. Ola is funded by Softbank and this is true for almost all the big startups.
The display is a generic human outline, but the TSA still requires[1] that its scanners all save the full images and the images produced by millimeter wave scanners. Those images[2] are about as revealing as the backscatter ones. NB: check the source for that image- it comes from the TSA's own site about how the millimeter scanner works. It's not a backscatter image, it's from the machines they use currently. That page has since been taken down. In a previous version of the machine[3] some marshalls improperly saved over 35,000 images of naked people, which were then leaked.

So you aren't literally being seen naked by people 10 feet away any more, but you're still being photographed through your clothing and if the TSA has any reason to check their archives at the time you were passing through the passport (ie checking if someone snuck something onboard, or validating the machines by hand), people will be looking at you in your birthday suit.

And for the record, I am not a nut about this stuff. There's no health issue with them, or even with the backscatter machines. It seems slightly puritanical to be outraged over it, and I personally am only slightly more indignant than I am about having all of my stuff X-rayed. If it was actually justified I'd be less bothered by the scanners than I am by getting naked for my doctor. However the TSA is a ridiculous imposition and the leadership is every bit as insane as the leadership of MADD or the NRA. They actively believe they're entitled to this kind of thing and were actively trying to extend their domain to other kinds of transport, sports arenas, public buildings etc. The TSA is fucking awful and its often more practical to assume the worst about anything they're doing until proven otherwise.

[1]: https://epic.org/open_gov/foia/TSA_Procurement_Specs.pdf

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mmw_large.jpg

[3]: https://gizmodo.com/5690749/these-are-the-first-100-leaked-b...
Notes and Excel as apps were quite stable on Win95 in my experience.

On the other hand, I found anything made by Corel to be extremely fragile in the early days of Win95.
This was already known in the flash industry for a long time. They characterize the NAND to a great degree and know how the behavior changes as the flash cells wear down.
Boeing had a choice between a more fuel efficient, durable and quieter airplane design, or a trans-sonic airframe design. The trans-sonic design lost, we got the 787.

Since then Boeing refreshed all their other planes (some might call it "stapled new wings and engines on") and called them -8 and -9 models.

But the problem is that the more efficient the tech is, the more of it people use. An extra 500 miles of range opens up decentralization of routes, which means more planes flying.