skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think we’ll ever hear about other life forms nor will they hear about us. It looks like the time between a society building advanced technology and it self-destructing from overuse of that technology may be only a very small window. I don’t think humans will go extinct, but there will certainly be a mass wipeout where only the most “primitive” aboriginals remain.
> Only by way of religious context would a word that meant "suffering"

Not true. The original meaning of the word passion was suffering, derived from Latin pati, the same root of patience. A passion in the emotional sense was suffering caused by love. This exactly shows that what was considered love in the old times was closely connected with suffering, a selfless feeling. Of course, religion had a lot to do with that. The happy feelings that we now assign to love are a conception of more modern times.
It's not immune to explicit consent. You have to clearly state it why you (or your data processor) does email tracking. This can be included and described when the user subscribe to your blog post.
Oh I didn't know that. I thought Apple recently shifted the MacBook so that it was more "pro" and the MacBook Pro so that it was less "pro", making them a lot closer to each other, almost identical. I thought I remembered a lot of criticism over that move too, here on HN.
>P3P is a curious animal.

This was a requirement to have IE6 accept third party cookies from your site.
Wouldn't the lead levels also be affected by variations in each year's winds?
The link isn't to Facebook, it's to newsroom.fb.com (which is a WordPress-hosted site.)
Solidity as a language is not that bad. It wouldn't be my first choice but it wouldn't be my last.

Most of the challenges are not at the language level, they're at the EVM level. Any languages on top of the EVM are hamstrung by the EVMs limitations. If it were as easy as "just throw Rust/Go/Java on top of it", that would have already been done.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=14673...
Ask HN: Pros and cons of building cryptocurrency with or without ICO atm?
Non-registered securities are those that are issued by any company not worth over something on the order of $100 million, since any company smaller than that cannot afford to get their securities registered.

Anyway, this distinction doesn't change my point: offers of such securities to unaccredited investors are not categorically "scams". This kind of critical reductionism is reckless to individual rights and liberty.
Central owncloud servers hacked
Yep. Those look almost identical.
There's an argument to be made that football helps a lot more than just the football players. At most big football schools, the money they make from football pays for all of the athletes in all sports, men and women (along with the basketball profits to some extent).

That's a lot of student athletes getting scholarships, and most of them don't continue in their sport after graduation.
> the argument that if you reduce the human cost of wars, you make wars more likely

Very good point! Drone attacks make the operators into drones themselves, detached from feeling the consequences of their actions.
It’s not my solution, just a direct quote from PEP.
The team say that distributed denial-of-service attacks using a network of 30,000 bots can generate around $26,000 a month. Spam advertising with 10,000 bots generates around $300,000 a month, and bank fraud with 30,000 bots can generate over $18 million per month. But the most profitable undertaking is click fraud, which generates well over $20 million a month of profit.

Does anyone know how those hacks can generate revenues? I mean how can a DDOS generate revenue? What kind of bank fraud can a botnet do? How can click fraud generate profit (I guess if you suddenly receive $20 million on your adsense account google will immediately ban you)?
Video calls from a conference room with a dedicated below-screen camera are far better than from a laptop, IME.

Any given person in the other room is generally small enough on the screen that them looking at the screen instead of the camera is fine. But I'm not sure if a more overhead angle would be as good.
What did you find farcical about sommelier training?
And yet, amongst all of the privacy policy update emails I've received of late, I haven't been explicitly asked to consent to email tracking.
Totally unthinkable in Europe.
I'd actually be moderately surprised if there were no extant hotel companies that have commissioned a typeface. They might not have bragged about it, and you might not have heard about it, but it's not like it's an unthinkable thing to do.
Recently build a (close to) NUC size box for an arcade cabinet:

- Morex 557 Universal Mini-ITX Case

- Mini Box PicoPSU-150-XT 12V

- ASRock Mini-ITX Motherboard - AB350 GAMING-ITX/AC

- AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

- Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 low-profile

- 12V/10A power supply with a 5mmx2.5mm plug

- your choice of DDR4 and M.2 SSD

Amazing performance to say the least, the GPU makes a huge difference.
Schaum's Calculus was invaluable to refresh my memory of some of the details of "Calc 2" so I could be sure of passing a waiver exam (most schools would have waived it automatically on account of my AP credits but my school limited me to how many I could waive that way...) and get on with Calc 3. The book covered some Calc 3 too so continued being useful. I have a few others in the series, very handy.

"The reader who has read the book but cannot do the exercises has learned nothing." -- J.J. Sakurai

(Incidentally, I tried reading Sakurai's Modern Quantum Mechanics on my own once and was immediately curb stomped. Lots of prep work required for that one...)
they actually will have to, because they're going to take outside money to fund the acquiring entity. they have an obligation to those shareholders to price the shares properly as well. i assume the partner who is running the second fund was removed from the first fund in order to resolve that conflict of interest.
The 68K was such a glorious processor to program, especially after coming from the 6502. Hardware multiply and divide? Sign me up! :D

The assembly code looked like poetry.
If you put a fish in some heated moon water on the moon, could it swim in it and live?
If they crack down, players will just find new ways to cheat. It's whack-a-mole, and none of the fans actually care, so why bother?
Signing away trial, is the signing away trial. Criminal vs civil is irrelevant.
I use a Dell Latitude 7370 which is completely silent. It's not the fastest machine, but works fine for running several VMs, Visual Studio, etc.
I've had the same thoughts about (re-)learning some math. I ran across this a while back, anyone know if these are good?

https://openstax.org/subjects/math
“Long live the GNU/Linux hegemony and monoculture, the only truth and true religion”.

Lovely.
As a younger person (finishing up a Math BS) this resonates with my perspective.

IMHO, it comes down to individual beliefs about mathematical realism. Is there anything inherently real about math, or is it just a man-made, arbitrary set of cognitive tools? Is it valid to presume the existence of a Grand Mathematical Framework that can solve any problem a priori? Or, is every problem unique and independent of mathematical developments?

From the little I've read about Math history, it seems pretty clear that the Problems came first, and the Mathematics followed. Infintesimal calculus, game theory, etc. were mathematical ideas developed primarily to solve real problems. Then 20th century formalism came along and rebranded much of mathematics under a "clean" framework, while giving little attention to the human environment in which much of it was developed.

To me, it is a great shame that abstract mathematical concepts are made further abstract (e.g. in math education) by distancing them from their human roots. Instead of forcing oneself to understand this mathematical "new testament", I think it's far more productive to adopt this sort of irreverent attitude towards math as you describe.

Einstein:

>"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
You are not alone. I don't just hope, but more like depend on it. I probably will fall back to an old-style phone if my Lumia 950 dies out. It will be hard for me to get used to the underutilized screen estate iOS and Android offers.
Oh, is that what it is? I'm not used to a couple of glasses of wine putting me on the floor, but I've learned to be wary of some of the 14%+ California reds.
Sage2 [0] is one open source option with support for both the remote collaboration and whiteboard components, although it's more focused on larger arrays of average resolution screens. I've used it and it's quite functional, even if not as polished as Microsoft's offering.

[0] http://sage2.sagecommons.org/
Can anyone offer some context? Redox is great, but why is it a pro for cloudflare?
My answer is always this: if you live in it, it isn't an investment. Stop worrying about price appreciation, and focus on cost/benefit.

It doesn't matter how underwater your mortgage is unless you need to sell out of it. If you don't think you're going to live somewhere for 10+ years, or if it's more expensive to buy then rent on your preferred timescale, then don't get a mortgage.
Somehow, I know exactly what you smell like
Hmm, I guess. I think my MacBook Pro strikes a nice balance: it's silent 95% of the time, and I get some fans up when I run builds or something hangs in the background.
Yes, work history is almost always materially important, however, if you're using it as a gatekeeper, you're going to have a hard time hiring; especially if it's work history at a specific company.

I would have a hard time believing this candidate was the only one who wasn't entry level. The fact that the catfish progressed so far with that specific fake reference had to be materially important, especially when complaining about difficulty hiring prior to this candidate.
These questions aren't my own but rather examples of questions small business owners have been routinely - and legitimately - asking in discussion forums for months now. For the most part, these aren't tech-savvy people but entrepreneurs who maybe run a brick-and-mortar shop or a food truck business.

If GDPR was that simple and clear these questions shouldn't even come up. There are a lot of people like yourself who try to help others but there's only so much we can do.

I agree with everything you said on the matter. However, even lawyers, data protection experts as well as officials and high-ranking civil servants seem to disagree on at least some of these points, which doesn't really help with reassuring people.
Did not you imply that smart people cannot possibly be in the other tribe so there has to be some reason why your tribe members are not quitting the enemy tribe cause?
Wow - great paper! Very readable / accessible. I'm working on some stuff for NLP in materials science academic literature, but we haven't tried anything beyond the usual word embedding -> supervised classifier approach. I'll have to give this a try!
I just mean that if you're opposed to something then there aren't any times it's also a necessity. You may do it, but ultimately you view it as unnecessary. War happens, but it's unnecessary every time, even when one side initiates, it doesn't make it necessary.
Huh. This is great! Might be a NameCheap (my registrar) limitation. The way it's worded in the management page on NameCheap is that DNSSEC is not supported for .ca period. Definitely something I'll look into. Thanks!
Either that or we reach the Singularity, and if that's the case in most civilizations, then maybe we should be searching for AIs
Did anyone else get into ASM coding through the TI-89 (M68K) and TI-83 (Z80)? I had so much fun drawing sprites on graph paper and working on random projects and games I was thinking about.

Sharing them with my friends through the cable that went into the headphone jacks. The fun of seeing somebody at my school I didn't really know getting a kick out of something I made.
Congrats to your team on creating what looks like a very versatile font. I can appreciate the benefits that creating a custom font will have.

One of the other commenters mentioned that AirBnB's Cereal and Netflix Sans (both overseen by Dalton Maag) are almost identical. Could you speak to the differences, technical or otherwise between the results and how that relates to differentiating the brand aesthetic?
Oh - OK. Then we’re of the same understanding. And yet I don’t see anyone do this. But I seriously doubt everyone is disabling their email tracking en masse. Which is why I asked my original question. :)
What is this $15 bottle of whiskey? I'd love to know what cheap bourbons are good.
Rail Europe North America (#RENA) hit by payment card #databreach
https://gizmodo.com/5899502/the-quietest-place-on-earth-will...
If the US army had or was easily able to build this they would probably not pay large sums of money to Google.
There are still many challenges in creating scalable robust solutions using machine learning in computer vision, especially when high degrees of response time and robustness is needed.
It's listed under the Why rust (for me) slide. I.e. it's the authors own reasons/pros.
> A $1000 bottle of wine costs that much for one reason

Two reasons I think then. Expensive wines are also made the expensive way. Hand picked grapes off ancient low yield vines. Some even work the ground with horses rather than tractors to reduce soil compacting. Wooden barrels, wooden boxes etc all contribute to make the cost of production much higher...whether you like the taste or not
It is often said that people don't leave jobs, they leave managers. I've seen it be true much more often than not.
For instance, on IMDb sentiment our method is about twice as accurate as fasttext.

Seeing as fasttext accuracy is 90%+, does this mean your method achieves 180%?

I'm nitpicking of course, but lately I've seen claims like "20% improvement in accuracy", where on closer inspection, the authors mean error rate dropped from 5% to 4%.

Which is not bad of course, but in the grand of scheme of things, 1% absolute improvement may not be such game-changer, especially if it comes at the cost of other relevant metrics like model complexity, developer sanity or performance.

(haven't read your paper yet, just a general sigh/rant)
It's also important to remember just how far Git was ahead of most competitors in performance. I was using monotone quite a bit around this time, and while its UI was frankly not much better than git's, it at least worked acceptably quickly. Darcs was mostly defined in the public eye by the exponential merge issue. Hg was fine, for some definition of fine, but it was enough slower than git to be annoying -- maybe not deal-breaking, but noticeable on pretty much any task.

I remember installing cogito to act as a front-end for git because very early on it seemed obvious that (a) git was going to win, and (b) it was going to win in spite of its UI, which was saying something.
Healthchecks.io (Cron monitoring) standard plan is free for open-source projects
When you buy a house, your name and the purchase price are public information. Any one at any time can look up who owns a house, how much they paid for it, and how much they pay in property tax every year.

I get a ton of spam because of this. However, I'd rather have this system than one in which all the owners are secret. I've had to look up owner information before to contact owners of various properties, and having that hidden would have made that task impossible.

You can hide the ownership information of a house, if you pay extra money, by hiring a lawyer to create an entity and put the entity on the property, but then the lawyer has to put their address, and forward any requests on to you, just like the whois privacy folks.

I think it is a good thing that every domain has valid contact info.
I wonder if the likes of nextdoor can take on journalism. They have a captive audience with pretty good engamemt, maybe they could add local news through local journalists, but who knows...
> By raising prices and lowering quality, a stagnant business can rely on its most loyal customers to continue to buy the product, allowing it to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze its customers as they croak. This slow liquidation of an asset’s value, destroying even its reputation in the process, kills the product. Wherever newspapers can be found reducing page size, cutting news pages, narrowing coverage area, reducing staff, shrinking circulation area, postponing the purchase of new equipment and raising subscription prices, they are harvesting market position.

Attention anyone sill subscribed to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the San Jose Mercury News and the Orange County Register: it's time to quit.

If those papers have any local competitors left, they should get the money instead.
Were they directly involved? Did they know what they were working on?
I'm the Engineering Manager @ Cloudflare for the "Wireshark but at the Edge" thing. Happy to answer any questions, though I'll be clear... this isn't something you can play with yet and we're in early days with this feature.

The goal is "customers should be able to create filters that target traffic passing through our system and then do things" so this is definitely a thing we wish to give to customers rather than an internal toy.
I went to see one of the championship finals a few years ago, and it is excellent fun. There are two built-in moments which are bound to be awesome: (1) when the box round is over, tension is through the roof, and the boxers are sat down around a chess board with classical music on, and (2) when two steps before a chess mate, the about-to-lose guy has three minutes to beat out all the smart from the opponent.
Best spectator sport I can imagine, can only recommend to see one.
Funnily enough, my MacBook Air 2013 produces a buzzing sound on SSD access. It's barely audible, but it's there.
I suspect getting ~10k from ~2 thousand accounts spread across several advertising networks probably is much easier to hide.

Alternatively splitting an extra 200k/month with a few large websites under the table probably works very well as there is less to distinguish bots from the overall noise. Another apraoch is probably setting up the equivalent of advertising re-sellers where you spend X$ advertising and get slightly more than X$ in revenue and then boost those results with click fraud.
i agree.

and i think one must consider the tradeoffs on both sides.

on one hand, there's the effort required to create a hackintosh in the first place and the challenge to keep it running as software updates arrive.

on the other hand, the time, effort and cost to repair a recent, flaky Mac can be considerable: multiple trips to the Apple store to convince the geniuses that there really is something wrong with the hardware that cannot be fixed with an OS reinstall. multiple days of lost productivity waiting for geniuses to take a look at it and (maybe) try to fix it. the high costs of scarce Mac replacement parts in the after market. the ultimate trip to an independent Mac repair shop that actually knows how to fix the thing.
The MMR scare, which is the origin of a lot of the modern antivax movement, was something that was largely created by (UK) newspapers[1]. This was back in the 90s before the subsequent decline in revenue from advertising and competition from online news; it wasn't something that happened due to lack of resources to do fact checking- papers took an active decision to 'campaign' in support of Wakefield and dedicated huge amounts of resources and column inches to the topic. It wan't just a tabloid thing either, most of the media gorged themselves on a festival of misinformation and emotive scare stories for years after the original article had been retracted by most of the authors.

You really couldn't have picked a worse example.

Brexit is a more complicated topic, but it's worth pointing out that it occurs after a decades long smear campaign by much of the UK media against the EU.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy#Media_...
> In both areas, spending more money makes it more likely you avoid the absolute disasters, but it doesn't guarantee you get something more than mediocre.

I agree very much. With whiskey I can generally say, I like the more expensive ones (to a limit) better, but then I also like the cheap 10yo (~$35) Laphroaig better than their more expensive 15yo (~$118) one.
> Wine tastings will often give you just the barest splash of liquid.

You need to find a better wine merchant. You need at least enough to fill your mouth twice over...
1) torrents mean free stuff therefore nobody wants to pay 2) service cost of processing $1 payment would consume (most of) it probably 3) low trust

It still amazes me why BitTorrent hasn't got standarized distributed index yet. But there is a hope in Tribler research project: https://torrentfreak.com/researchers-use-a-blockchain-to-boo...
The latest MacBook is essentially mobile hardware with desktop peripherals and software. Seems like the right way to go rather than bloating a smartphone with desktop software given that the amount of people who want their smartphone to be their only interface to everything is likely a very small minority.
There are a fair number of self-proclaimed "natural" producers who are using fruit from vineyards sprayed with Roundup and other industrial pesticides.
Hilton's: https://befonts.com/hilton-typeface.html
Wow, that's absolutely fantastic.
It's cool to see CloudFlare using Rust but I wish they went into a little more detail on the slides. I hope to see follow up blog posts or some of the code open sourced soon.
http://manpag.es/RHEL6/1p+env

Mentions that the env command is POSIX, but it doesn't mention the absolute path. Are you saying that /use/bin/env is not POSIX because there is no guarantee that it will be available at that particular path?
> I think this due to the fact that it’s creators are very much of the old 1970s and 1980s Unix mindset

The Bourne Again shell was created in 1989.

That said, the 1980s Unix mindset was not what you clearly think it to be. It was full of Sun workstations, NextStep, Orthodox File Manager clones, Terminals with graphics, GNU Screen, Threaded ReadNews, ...
Yeah, if you commit thoughtcrime by not staying in sync with the zeitgeist you will be kicked out of the tribe, kind of like a bad fork on a blockchain.
I like this idea and I think you've done a nice job with the site. Kudos.

My question/concern is: most of the time when I see "seeking cofounder" posts, sites or apps it's a non-technical person seeking a technical person. Only they dont have the budget to pay full wage so the offer is as cofounder. I'm not knocking it, you go with what you've got.

But aren't most technical folks in this arena working on their own idea(s)? Will you have technical folks as featured who are looking for sales or marketing etc? My business is 100% B2B lead gen and biz dev for SAAS and digital companies and its never occurred to me to confound even the best idea; I'm working on (and getting paid plenty) for my own. Good luck to Travis finding someone, will be interested to see if he has success here.

As to his idea, I would pay for this right now. I love podcasts but the experience on android is garbage (or maybe I'm just used to apple). I have no idea how to download my favorite pods and play them later and find discovery to suck compared to iTunes.

That said, I dont know how viable this is as a business. Music is evergreen whereas many (most?) Podcasts are not. People can also consume a lot more individual pieces/tracks of music than individual podcasts due to duration. You'd learn more about me by seeing an hours worth of my spotify plays compared to seeing that i listened to a one hour podcast about basketball. Best of luck.
Maybe for a brief time, until the water turned to vapor or if it were in a hermetically sealed container, until the water ran out of dissolved oxygen for the fish to breathe.