skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Different professional wine tasters will rate a given wine extremely differently.

My wife likes strawberries. I don't care for them. Professional wine tasters are just people with their own preferences.

> aging a particular bottle actually makes it taste better in a measurable way.

So Bordeaux 2017 is on sale now En Primuer, which means it is still in big casks in the vineyard. Buy it now and your wine merchant will ship it to you in 18 months when it is bottled. The wine experts have all been to Bordeaux and tasted those wines, and I can tell you you need to be an expert....because this young they are very tannic (like sucking a tea bag!). The skill they display in knowing how good a wine will be in a few years when it is ready is pretty impressive. These wines will all taste very tannic in 5 years time, but in 10 years may soften. So no they don't get better with age, it just takes years for them to be ready to drink. I guarantee you could tell the difference between a 2017 claret and a 2009 claret.... because one is ready, one is disgusting. So sorry I think you have missed the point of ageing.
Most of the suggestions in this post are great, but as always, especially when security is involved, you need to assess your business needs yourself.

The suggestion to use Content-Security-Policy over X-Frame-Options is great -- if you don't expect many of your users to be using IE-based browsers. If you're primarily serving large enterprises or government customers though, it's likely that most of your users will still be coming from a browser that doesn't support Content-Security-Policy.
The article specifically makes the point that both pragma and expires have long since been replaced by Cache-Control in anything even vaguely modern.
So it's okay to lose an arm if you've already lost a leg?

Because honesty is better than dishonesty?
Well you can always add absurd amounts of surface area and mass to the heat sinks to take advantage of thermal inertia, or possibly change components to simply raise your safe operating temperatures to absurd levels. But that's pretty involved. Spacecraft take care of huge temperatures with no fans or even conductive or convective cooling. But that requires enormous, sail-sized surfaces to take advantage of extremely slow radiative cooling.

It would be an exotic option for sure. And not something you'll find pre-built.
It'll be fun to learn about shared consciousness, archetypes, etc. If any.

Edit: I'm guessing downvoters are low-openness types. But this is a speculative discussion, _that's the point_. In particular this is a question of the level of universality of what we on Earth consider universally-human principles, but we see consciousness outside of humanity as well. So where does it stop?
EFNet is still running strong! Plenty of good chats and communities around if you look for them. Freenode operator abuse is antithetical to community chats.
Only if it is strictly necessary in order to conduct business, and no longer than that. E.g. using cookies for managing a session’s shopping cart. Obviously tracking emails for marketing purposes is not allowed.
When I saw the title I immediately thought "The game of chess is like a sword-fight, you must think first before you move." ; )
As usual, "it depends." If you have complex logic, it's generally much cleaner to implement in python.

(If you told me I had to rewrite a working Python script in shell, I'd probably think you were joking. Talk about nonsense.)
My apps add a second "outer" progress bar for that use-case.
Pro-tip right here.
No I don't know what that is
I quit drinking "non-natural" wines 3 years ago and have not looked back. They are more interesting and give you less of a hangover (less sulfur). Robert Parker needs to be against natural wines because he put alochol-bomb Bordeauxs on the map in 1982. Responsible people (that can afford to) prefer to eat organic vegetables and cage free chicken + beef - why not take it full circle with your beverage also
Interesting contrast to the world of biotech VC where the IPO and M&A environment has been strong since 2013. More IPOs and big M&A deals than tech despite only getting 1/5 of funding

Seems this startup bull cycle has been driven by M&A where the late 1990s was driven by retail investors. However the tech acquirers seemed to have slowed down since 2010-2014 while biotech acquirers have been doing a steady number of billion dollar plus buyouts
Are new M68K chips still produced? I looked a while ago, but couldn't find any.
> A computer with no input mechanism or output mechanism would be secure.

Information can be extracted from airgapped computers by measuring magnetic fluctuations, so this isn't quite true!
Your stance is that they should have hired the guy who blatantly misrepresented himself to them?

Hard disagree, even if this guy is the best that ever was, he's shown his true colors. The second it's beneficial to him, he'll lie again.
Rust at CloudFlare
These types of pipelines are why bash and the traditional
tools are so maligned. Expert knowledge of sed|(g)awk|bash tools is necessary otherwise you end up with companies telling you that you can't use them.

some_command | gawk ' /some.*regex$/ {gsub(erase_text,"");gsub(erase_more,"");split($2,a,":"); print (length(a[1]) ? a[1] : "STRING ERROR")}'
> It may change in the future, but bash is so entrenched, it's going to take an extraordinary use case for people to move from bash.

You don't know your history. Exactly such a move has already happened once, a decade ago. And it was a success.

* https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2007/07/msg00027.htm...

* http://initscripts-ng.alioth.debian.org/soc2006-bootsystem/b...

* https://wiki.debian.org/BootProcessSpeedup#Using_a_faster_sy...
It beats it easily. See the paper and citations for comparison
My bad. Thanks for the info!
Crypto Facts: Decentralize Payments – Efficient, Low Cost, Fair – True or False?
Homebuying today: Fewer homes, higher prices, and faster deals
# Not this:
if [[ "${my_var}X" = "some_stringX" ]]; then
do_something
fi

Why would anybody write this?
If we only had a good definition of what life is. The border between organic and inorganic gets kinda blurry with time.
I have a completely silent PC from Cirrus7. I'm pretty happy with it. But it does not have dedicated GPU like the one in the article.

https://www.cirrus7.com
i got nothing... "Loading from peers......."
Do people actually give their real info on the WHOIS lookup? I've always given pseudonyms like Steven Stromboli or Paul Penne and fake addresses
Whenever this comes up I bring up the documentary Somm. It follows a couple guys training for the master sommelier test. To me it hilariously shines a light on the farce of the whole thing.

But people are often taken aback when I suggest that there might be a lot of bullshit in wine. Even generally rational/skeptical people that don't have that strong of an attachment to it. They all say, "yeah, but you can definitely tell, like when it's good wine or bad wine." And yet virtually any time a blind test is done the results say differently (precipitating some serious schadenfreude in the movie).

It's the same thing with music. So many people think they need lossless quality when effectively zero people can successfully pick it out in an ABX test with an MP3 @ 320.
You're wrong, and I don't get the impression that you care as much about beautiful typography as much as the next web designer / marketer / start up-whatever. Design is about solving problems. I'd offer up the analogy of Starbucks where I happen to be sitting and working. They create much of their own everything as part of creating a consistent environment for an innumerable amount of possible circumstances in which their stores need to be successful. If it's not bespoke, it's selected which is perfectly fine to do. Sometimes that doesn't work, sometimes it does. Sometimes you want that as your constraint so the object you're making is more easily repairable with commodity parts. Sometimes you're in the market of building the most popular gadgets in the world and you're the only one maintaining them.
Embark now supports both Vyper and Bamboo:

https://embark.status.im/news/2018/05/03/embark-3-0-released...
egos set aside, once you know the person youre looking to hire has been lying about most of his past to the point of making up email addresses and getting his buddy to speak on the phone for him as a reference, i dont see how you can look past that and actually still hire them.
I work for a popular hosting company and WHOIS data is causing constants issues - mostly for non-technical customers, but on one occasion, I accidentally used my work mail address during testing. The WHOIS database for, say, the .net zone is extensively mined by spammers and telemarketers.

I received a torrent of marketing mails for months even though I immediately changed it to a noreply mail address. We receive numerous complaints from customers who ignored our warnings.
Programming as a career change?
My sister-in-law has asked for my help about a possible career change.

Her current field is social science, and has a masters degree in politcal science, she's worked at NGOs and in acedemia and has recently moved into a marketing/communications company where she isn't overly happy.

She asked me for advice on how to retrain as a programmer, she likes the idea of one day being a "digital nomad" (as she is in her early 30s and has no real ties to the place where she lives).

As she speaks multiple languages and has a good eye for design I think she'd be good as a technical person who can interact with customers and use her social science background to her advantage.

She is interested in web-development (but has no experience at all) so I suggested that she should first participate in some sort of self-study UNIX course, and then move on to a scripting language of some sort.

Does anyone else have any good advice that may help her?
You are being very confrontative for no apparent reason. Arguing that mail clients should not hide decryption errors from users is not "in fact" arguing that gpg should keep leaving plaintext fragments around on errors. Far from it.

But it does not matter how perfect encryption tool you can design if your mail client displays a signature as valid when it is in fact not valid.

If you have constructive opinions on how gpg implements AEAD constructs then why not take them to the mailing list? There are plenty of know-it-all personalities in the open source community, but Werner is not one of them.
Digitizing a Startup and Making $170,000/Month
No, they made it a federal crime to offer non-registered securities to non-wealthy people.

Registered securities (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc.) are widely available to non-wealthy people and are probably a better investment for most of them, frankly, because of the concentration of risk inherent in a small dollar portfolio of non-registered securities and the idea that registered securities will have some standardized reporting requirements and that one could rely on the market to do a certain amount of due diligence and price discovery.
Never heard coil whine for years and years decades infact of PC building. Until last year I got my shiny new fancy pants blast furnace, (aka GTX 1080 TI), which has near dead silent fans at idle/light loads. The minute that bad boy starts working an obnoxious screeching/whine starts.

Super annoying compared to the rest of the build being a beast of a machine and watercooled that's so quiet I'm more likely to hear the noise floor on speakers than the PC (which is on the desk, next to said speakers).
I used the 68K back in college for a couple of hardware/software codesign classes. It was a lot of fun and easy to work with. The boards we used were all wire-wrapped. No where near as clean as the kit you linked to. Still, was pretty easy to work with and fairly forgiving (I don't remember any of them burning up despite all of the crazy lab circuits we connected). Still have my Programmer's Reference Manual sitting on my shelf, sadly just collecting dust.
Going back further, the original impactor was Ranger, I think. Video just prior to impact:

https://youtu.be/dE8pe2EYlZA
It can be cheaper than licensing other fonts

Can it? How many people-hours went into this, and which fonts have higher licensing costs than that?
No, they are getting too many small customers and too many small customers ( see the part where now with $500/mo commit you can get 20-30% discount of the list without squeezing them hard) vary on too many headers which means it is blowing holes in their caches, which is making their Varnish-as-a-Service not work as well as it used to.

So it seems they are starting to fall into the propaganda mode to paint over the issue rather than admit that it is time for them to start innovating again.

Surrogate keys and quite cache busting used to be Fastly special sauce but since 2014 it is rather standard.
It does mean things run warmer, but generally moderately specc'ed pcs don't generate enough heat and have enough reliability margin that it is not a problem. If you were some game enthusiast or crypto miner running multiple flagship GPUs on an 850W power supply, then I probably would not recommend this approach.
A lot of watching, and my claim is only about the fans, not the players, so I’m not sure how any playing experience would help me here. I know that millions of people have watched Lawrence Taylor’s career ending tackle of Joe Thiesmann while Lawrence Taylor has himself never watched it.
many companies have made much money from the free work of volunteers, yet those exploiting companies are blameless, while proponents of a useful and stable technology are glibly mocked?
I like how people responsible for .pl (Poland) domain handle this. First of all, they list only very basic data, with no names, addresses, etc. when you query their whois. To see the full data, you have to go to their website and type the captcha, which filters out at least some of the bots. But even there they display the data if it belongs to a company, they won't show any details if it's registered to a private person.
That is why I am so glad that Solvadi the Hepatitis C cure is making so much money.
Can you tell me who makes the barrel-aged grapefruit sour? That sounds good!
same with Expires, if you serve really really old clients you might still need it.
Ask HN: Free VPS trial, how to prevent fraud accounts?
I am interested in offering a free 30 days trial for Virtual Private Servers (VPS). I am wondering what security measures work best to prevent fraud or multiple accounts signing up?

I notice cloud providers offering various methods such as credit card verification, SMS code to mobile phone, telephone number verification, email verification (not allowing gmail or free email domains), etc.

Does anyone have experience in this area? What kind of verification method worked best for you? Do you have any other thoughts or advice on this business venture?
That's what fastly does, not their customers.
And a special key binding to make the screen briefly distort with an audible "THUNK! bzzzz...."
I think what you'll see with a lot of competing EVs is the same thing that happened with GM's Bolt. Decent enough car. But that's about it. The problem is that it's not enough to just make an EV. Wait until lower-priced variants of the Model 3 are being produced to see how outclassed the Bolt is, and wait until Jaguar and Audi's SUVs are out to see how they really compare. Chances are it won't be favorable for Jaguar or Audi, but I'm open to being surprised.

The first genuinely serious EV from another automaker in my opinion will be Porsche's Mission E, but take note of how well it can match the characteristics of a Model S, a family sedan, you can already buy today. Still, just the idea of an all-electric Porsche is badass.

> These may not all be sexy cars with ridiculous modes, but if they help save our planet, I'm all for it.

We're in agreement that any measure of EVing is good. Many of the challenges facing automakers are systemic, so they are in a tough spot even if they genuinely believe EVs are the future.
To me, a self-study UNIX course does not look like the ideal starting point for a journey to web development...

(I don't know what alternative to suggest, because I don't do web development. But UNIX seems pretty far away.)
I built a fanless (technically had fans, but only turned on if needed), semi-high-performance open bench-style system several years ago.

It's really pretty nice in theory. The reality is that some components still emit a good bit of noise, and unlike fans, the noise they tend to emit isn't very pleasant. Power-hungry graphics cards are by far some of the worst offenders; without being masked by fan noise, they can be incredibly loud and irritating. An open bench PC is definitely cool, but was kind of a mistake in my case.

Fan tech has improved to the point that I think, more often than not, you really want to have them. Otherwise it's time spent trying to eliminate other noise sources that would otherwise be conveniently and usually pleasantly masked by a little wooshing.
I don't think the variety in flavor is as obvious in wine as in beer. For someone with practice, the difference (and ability to describe the difference) between a Sauvingon Blanc and Chardonnay isn't difficult. I think anyone off the street can taste the difference between a chocolate stout, a hefeweizen and a pale lager.

Sometimes I think wine could be dumbed down. My best example: Sauv Blanc tastes like grass and bell pepper. Is that universal? No. Does that capture every subtlety? No. But it is the defining characteristic.
Now you’re just nitpicking. So far every single process we have analysed occurring in living things has worked exactly as we expect from our understanding of chemistry. There just isn’t any reason to expect we will find anything chemistry can’t explain, and you haven’t given us any reason to do so or a way to test for such a thing.

To put it another way, what leads you to your conclusion? What evidence is it based on? What phenomena that we currently observe might such a thing explain, and how?
Some of this demographic will meet the other (income) test:

a natural person with income exceeding $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with a spouse exceeding $300,000 for those years and a reasonable expectation of the same income level in the current year
There is a paradox in it: if it was easy to tell them apart - there would be no place for the connoisseurs - but if you cannot tell the difference - then it does not matter which you are drinking.
Because it's outside the scope of how you interface with the language.

Calling these side affects is like calling Python a low level language because programs you write still use registers and raw memory access.
Why not just put the computer in the adjacent different room and install a DisplayPort and USB patch panel on each side of the wall? Monitor and peripherals in one room and the computer on the other side. It’s what I would do if I owned a house.
Current stats sure - the arbitration industry realizes it's still on shaky ground (hence regrouping with 30 day opt out clauses etc). The incentives are still aligned the way I've described, so that's how we'd expect things to progress once its desired regime is more established.
The special thing about water on Earth is that it's liquid and has been for a very long time.
Elementary CSS – A powerful reset style sheet
Sounds like a useful product in theory, but chose not to use it because it immediately asked for a location and authentication with Google or Facebook. Why would you need that information right off the bat? I have no incentive to create a profile on your product without getting to try it out first.
You would still need to ask specifically for opt-in for that tracking, because it is not essential to the "service" (the newsletter).
I suppose that would count as an output mechanism then, wouldn't it?

Perhaps it is impossible to build a computer without an output mechanism.
Good point. I guess few people use those since phone OSes don't scale well for desktop use.
I legitimately don't understand what distinction you're trying to make here. Typically a "nit" clarifies something, but you're just muddying the discussion for seemingly no real benefit.
Standard in the US maybe, but I've never even heard of anything like this in the UK. I'm sure it happens, but I will eat my hat if it's fairly standard.
Yeah, just look at those shipment volumes. It's not hard to see how a reasonable journalist might not be that excited about the Bolt or new Leaf. Or vice versa.
Admittedly, I haven't read the article yet but still wanted to make a small point: In both conventional and 'ecological' wine production, wineries have to use different sprays to keep off fungis that destroy the wines. Convetional wineries use fungicides while ecolgical ones have to spray much more often, mostly using materials like copper. This is at least true for Europe after certain fungi were imported from Asia and America during the Renaissance where the local grape varieties are naturally resistant. There are fungi-resistant varieties which are crossings between European and Asian/American varieties that try to keep the taste but (mostly) eliminate the need for spraying. Had the chance to taste some local varitieties, and they were (for my amateur taste buds) wondeful.

https://www.piwi-international.de/en/information-en.html
Barely. The 68SEC000 is still in production, but is NRND.
If they're discreetly seeking other employment, you have now blown their cover. A couple of things about that:

1. "If they're looking for another job, they can have no guarantee of secrecy." -- Sure, but is it your job to out someone?

2. "I need a second opinion on their references, just in case they're giving me bad ones." -- So.... what exactly is your threat model, here? "Catfished by a candidate" stories are interesting because they're rare.

3. "If I tell other people they're looking, I can reduce their leverage by making things awkward for them at their current job." -- Hey look! I found the sociopath!

Bonus Thing: It's a small industry, and people don't go away. You've now marked yourself as someone who can't be trusted with knowledge about someone's else career choices.
But then a silent build wouldn’t be interesting to you at all. The garage idea is good for someone who does want Silent computing.
Nuclear Bomb Test Moved North Korea Mountain
Python 2.7 is stable and useful now.. it is a lot of C code implementing a scripting language. There are a lot of libraries that work well right now, that took hundreds of skilled years of work to build.
Someone started a fire with their cryptocurrency mining rig in an apartment somewhere near Vladivostok this past February. All it takes a little dedication!
>Walk into any liquor store and half the store is filled with wine labels that most people can't differentiate. Compare this to the beer aisle: A wild yeast lambic is only similar to a Bud Light in that they are both beers. I'd be hard pressed to ever debate drinking one or the other because they are so distinct.

I would argue that this says more about you and the “canonical consumer” than it does about wine. If you don’t find anything distinct about an Australian Shiraz versus a German Riesling, then I don’t know what to tell you.
I'm good with this. I don't like the fact that some yahoo can look me up and come after me just because he might not like what is on my website.
I enjoy the section of the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide which explains how Bash has sparse arrays which "are useful in spreadsheet-processing software".[0] Because someone out there is apparently writing spreadsheet-processing software in Bash?

[0] http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/arrays.html