skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can totally relate. For me, it "clicked" when I saw a TV show where one of the moderators went to a tasting session and tried to learn how to taste wine. They showed an aroma wheel similar to this one: http://www.regalwineco.com/sites/all/themes/newregalwineco/e... The aroma wheel helps to categorize the different tastes, and to give them names.

It's really hard to describe what you're tasting if you're not experienced. I'm not experienced at all, I just know whether I like a wine or not, and I can describe it as "heavy", "fruity", "dry" or "light". But the aroma wheel and the vocabulary helps when trying to taste lighter nuances. And sometimes you take a sip, and are instantly reminded of berries, or of oak wood :)

Does it matter? I don't know. In the end, I either like a wine or not. But if you're interested in a topic it helps to share a vocabulary to describe your experiences.
No, the problem isn't auto renew, the problem is using unmonitored automation.
Yes, as an everyday user of OpenVPN for years, I find the above "death chants" extremely off-putting and amateurish. It implies the author of the post has little elementary common sense to resist not to foul-mouth existing projects that are serving a useful purpose.

Speaking of WireGuard ... FWIW, we made a QEMU Advent Calendar[1] disk image[2] for it in 2016 December. Check that out if you want to give it a spin in a virtual machine.

Reading this thread reminds me to give it a try again now.

(I recall listening to the Wireguard talk at FOSDEM 2017, and a long-time Linux kernel developer, who works on memory management, was sitting next to me and remarked that he was not convinced of some details -- but unfortunately I don't remember the technical reason he mentioned as to why he thought so. Sorry :-( )

[1] http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/#about

[2] http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/#day-21
I have wireguard setup on a DO instance of <wherever region I need>. It is very fast and easy to setup for technically inclined : https://www.wireguard.com/
Is it different in German? Just curious.
Sorry - Safari here. If you get to the point of a Safari version, I'd definitely try it out.
Perhaps the astrophysicists are getting on the data bandwagon, going back through collected data and applying the latest techniques on them. Are there any papers on this not behind paywalls?
I think saying I want to "spin" something implies I have some sort of ulterior motive for doing so and only care about projecting am image, not about the truth. I can assure you, that is not so, I simply think Google, overall, has managed to be a good influence on the world. I might be wrong, but my opinion comes from honest belief. Assuming otherwise poisons the conversation.

What I was trying to highlight is that the rapport between the involvement in military research and the amount of revolt stemming from it is quite small, ergo the reaction is not quite a drop in the bucket but quite strong, looking at what prompted it.
I disabled all notifications (except for phone and text) on my smartphone and enabled the power saving mode and now my battery can easily last 3 days...
I have a Nokia 130. As well as the features you list it will also play MP3 files, lasts several weeks on standby.
It's that kind of thinking that makes bad security.

Time and time again it's been shown that if you design systems that are hard to correctly secure or make significant compromises in the name of "security", they end up being insecure because people just won't use them or will actively seek ways around them.

You can't just handwave away issues like usability and pretend that you've designed the "perfect" system or something.

If you design a good/secure keypad lock but it doesn't give people an easy way to let their family member in the house when they are away, they are just going to give out the code, leading to less security overall. If you design a secure keypad lock without a tumbler, the first time the batteries die and the user is locked out of their house they are going to replace it with something that won't lock them out.

Usability needs to be a core aspect of secure engineering. And oftentimes a "technically less secure" option is better, because it's actually usable by normal people in most cases.

A 5-point harness is safer than your average seatbelt, but we don't use them because forcing every car to have a 5-point harness would just end up with fewer people using them.
Private train cars are the most interesting part. I wonder how signaling works? Does each house/"station" have its own fork in the tracks for getting their private train car home?
Eighteen favourite financial rules of thumb (and some useful money guidelines)
It also varies a lot by state. Florida, for example, has enacted a series of laws over the last 30 years under the umbrella of "sunshine laws" [0] — letting the "sun shine" on government to keep it honest.

The unintended side effect is that all arrests are public the day of arrest even if charges are never filed or are dropped.

This was the birth of the "Florida Man" meme in the press.

[0] https://ballotpedia.org/Florida_Sunshine_Law
I don't really think so - I think China built dams in places with too much capacity and it's cheap because it's not in high demand.
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Yeah you're right, above is a bit sensationalized. I think it still probably had a (positive) impact on pricing and time to market though
We receive up to six figures in cryptocurrency payments every week for multiple perfectly legal products.

If that’s not a “legal use case”, I don’t know what is.

Are we going to argue next that credit cards have no use case because other forms of payment exist?

Another example: I just bought a watch off of a guy on a forum using bitcoin, bank transfers or WU would have been a far bigger pain in the ass.
we tried wildcat banknotes and it didn't exactly revolutionize anything

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking
I abandoned Windows 15 years ago; I switched over to Linux for about 7 years and then OS/X for 8 after that. I only returned to Windows this year, as it was required for a new job. Trust me: no, Windows is still as awful as it ever was.
This is awesome! I definitely recommend reading through Jon's thesis (link on GitHub). It's well written and very readable even if you know nothing of Rust or compilers.
> US Air marshals (armed cops who sit on every aircraft secretly with plain-clothes)

Do they really sit on every flight?
> there are high recitivism rates

Only murderers have a lower recidivism rate.
People would be better off if they turned off the notifications. Even better would be if notifications were at first off, rather than on. Your phone should ring for calls and beep for text messages, and that's about it. Well, it should buzz if you set an alarm. But it should not interrupt you for an email or post on Facebook. Each app you install has all notifications on at first too. I think it would be healthier for all to be off. On first launch, the new app pops up a screen with checkboxes for each kind of notice, with all unchecked. You have to put a check in each one yourself.

Other than that, the only problem I have is that the average screen is too big. The right balance is about 4".

I like having all these things in one device: map, flashlight, camera, calculator, walkman, encyclopedia, newspaper. Then again I am not tempted to open it while driving.
Strange, it is indeed now paywalled. Earlier it wasn't. Sorry about that.
Yes, all nouns are capitalized.
In deep trance states, the body progressively fades away and you perceive what would ordinarily feel like body sensations as other things, as the mind loses its frame of reference to cause and effect. All experience thus gets created by mind.

I imagine with practice anything is possible regarding VR. The mind can make anything believable if you just relax and let it happen.
Hence the ongoing debate around whether verification should be less computationally costly than computation (BTC) or whether a system can be architected to successfully scale even when verification == computation (ETH).
The solution is for Let's Encrypt or a similar CA to start issuing certificates for direct IP addresses.
Not sure why you're downvoted. But in general that's probably the attitude.

Can't say if it is just cheaper, but it is more efficient. It has a high boiling point, so you don't need as high of a pressure. That means can design the installation with less tolerances, not as powerful of a compressor etc.

Moreover if you already have setup that works, you don't have to spend money to retrofit it.
At Ivies and other top 20 schools, I'd agree. Maybe even the top 50. Beyond that, I think the American Pie stereotypes are closer to the norm than you might think.
And now none of us will be allowed to travel with drones in our carry-on, all because of one bad actor
If you have knowledge of an unreported event that could affect a company's stock price, then you can short the stock and do your best to promote the story through social media, hoping it makes the stock dip long enough for you to make some money.
This happens in any field during growth. Blockchain is a tool which you can blame all you want, but will not change the outcome.

Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technology or whatever the name is of late has shown the possibility of standardizing identity, time-stamping and other forms of data with almost no trust involved. These systems are herding cats successfully, the only question is which will be settled upon as global infrastructure, much like IPX/SPX vs TCP/IP.

The greater danger than fraud is when governments and other institutions get involved to use these systems as control and tracking tools. Snowden's revelations showed laughable secrets compared to what will be done with blockchain as infrastructure.

People looking to blockchain as salvation are simply misguided. The reality is much more complex than such hopes, and sadly more destructive as well.
What are the economic ramifications of fertility rate being below the replacement level?
The new design fundamentally feels worse to use. It feels slower for sure. I don't mind the cleaner aesthetics, but the animations, layout, and general feel of using the site makes me feel like I'm one one of those blogs that has the "dickbars" and other UI elements that feel more annoying than useful. The mobile site is frustrating as well (but using apps gets around this easily).

I've gone back to using the old.reddit.com for now, but who knows how long that will remain
I almost forgot, I added our friends from Saudi. Contrarily, I would love for your friends to come stay with me so that I can take their money; despite house self-righteous you make them sound.
Not primarily a popular uprising, but definitively a revolution and not a mere palace coup. The wars went on for many years, large numbers fought on both sides and there were significant social and political changes as a result.

And yes, Cromwell as Lord Protector was not popular at the end. But then, neither was Charles I.

We definitely avoided a ground -up rebuilding after the enlightenment, but I'm not entirely sure one is necessary, if you are willing to move incrementally rather than to try to enforce an ancien regime. In almost all senses Britain is an ordinary modern democracy, even if a new liberal order has been built on the back of the old.
Is not it better to block access to porn sites by parents' request? So that people without children don't have to bother.

Also there are many things that affect children much worse than online porn. For example, if a single woman is raising a child there is high probability that every weekend she comes home drunk with some unfamiliar poorly educated low cultured drunk man. The child has to listen to their drunk talking. This kid will probably soon become alcohol or drug addict or even a criminal. Porn obviously won't do so much harm.

So my suggestion is to ban drinking and inviting men home for single mothers before you ban porn. Or maybe ban alcohol for everyone who has children.
Ayahuasca should be considered first before you try anything super dramatic. (Divorce, Moving...etc)

It's not as big a deal as its made out to be. It like a very therapeutic yoga retreat where you puke a lot.

Also I wouldn't put quitting in that dramatic move bucket. I quit a job after 3 months and just said (I like everyone here, but I'm not using my full skill set and I could be making a bigger impact somewhere else.)

Honestly I think it made my resume BETTER. And when the company is called as a reference, they actually parrot my line word for word.
Sample of one (well, two) here but my wife and I decided it was now or never as we hit our mid thirties and decided to have a kid. She still has mountains of student debt precluding homeownership though which means it's unlikely we'll have two.

We also waited until the kid could be something other than American though, so we're outliers.
See Japan and Italy....
Awesome visualization research
Student loans, housing costs, job prospects, healthcare, childcare. People are making a rational decision to avoid children they can’t afford. We as a society need to re-examine the causes of rising costs of essentials so reproduction is no longer financially infeasible.
Then again, the lower the birthrate of wealthy high-emission folks, the greater the chance civilization survives another century,
Browsing a marketing website for a missile system is a bit surreal.
Instead of an exception you could fall back to a generic version of the function/block, like deoptimization in JITs.
Your project looks interesting, but what are your plans to solve the "exit node problem", e.g. one end user downloads child pornography and two weeks later the Uplink node is swatted by the FBI?
No tu quoque intended, but I find the history behind the original iPhone introduction fascinating: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-s... (spoiler: it required some fakery and even a violation of FCC frequency rules)
Those situations are not at all close. It's pretty simple: MugShots has inserted itself into the legal system, making what is already public still public is fine, levying a fee to remove the data is not because they have not been sanctioned to do so. If they were part of the government it would be a different matter but they have no business determining what the fee should be. That being the case the only reasonable fee they could arrive at is $0.

Keep in mind that in America lots of people are arrested at least once during their lifetime and that even if the charges are dropped or not substantiated that your mugshot remains.

This should not be a source of further cost to the subjects of the mugshots. After all, what would stop a few thousand of these sites from doing the same? The only party that should be allowed to levy a fee is the same party that maintains the original register.

Finally, I don't think there should even be such a thing as a public mugshot database.
Care to say what kind of product you are selling, and to which kinds of customer?
I 100% agree with this advice. I think one challenge is that now that the military has essentially become a soldierly caste in American culture, and one that's heavily concentrated in specific geographies, many don't know about what's involved with a career in the armed forces. It's not for everyone, but it would likely be a better decision for some major chunk of the population who'd otherwise flail in a college environment.
Contribution to Wikileaks: the US pressures financial intermediaries not to process donations to WL, even though it's legal.
I was thinking how awesome it is when developers think of all sorts of players from the very start by ensuring that their entire game, game system, and controller systems are configured for full customization from the start.

It's something that I think every dev, that is capable, should be striving to do in everything they can (even outside of gaming specifically) but as you indicated above it's really awesome for EVERY kind of person, even if I'm not differently abled at all and all I want to do is swap shoot and reload's buttons because of my own personal (even it it's stupid and/or annoying) preference.
No, just on the basic numbers we have available, it would not be possible.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/13264/are-air-m...
Can't this inspire the future of automated driving? Paint strips on the freeway optimized for visual-recognition systems, to serve as super cheap railway tracks. Super cheap because painted strips are far cheaper than laying tracks, and they would lower the cost of the visual recognition systems in cars. These automated driving sections would satisfy my principal pain point with driving, which is long commutes or drives on the freeway.
It stops rich kids monopolizing the desirable internships which are a pathway to high status/paying jobs - which is a start.
Alphabet’s Verily has a “smart diaper“ design that distinguishes pee from poo
Rarely use the phone, often use it to check emails, reply to customers, create shipping orders, manage bank accounts and credit cards, view Reddit and Slacker News.

Yeah, you're right. I wish the Android hosts file would fucking block hotspot traffic, as well.
If you think that, I've got a Zaurus to sell you.
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Reinventing Geocities for the Mobile Web
I’ve been thinking a lot about why personal webpages need to make a comeback (anonymous, interesting, bring back creative output, independence).

I’d love to make this for the mobile web, so a rethink not just a reinvention.

Would love to hear if anyone else has considered this? Very open to collaborating on it.
There will be a lot more older folks, who expected to retire and collect social security, still in the workforce as a result of diminishing payments by youngsters into that program. Demand for medical care will continue grow as the majority of the population gets older.

I believe Japan is experiencing this right now at a large scale.
That's a great question and I think many of us can relate. I can only speak from personal experience in dealing with similar life crises.

I looked at mid-life as a waking up. A realization that this is my life and it is finite.

I would suggest approaching this systematically and applying problem solving skills that we often use day-to-day in other areas. I think the decision tree is not all that complex, even if the emotional burdens and stress make it feel that way. Perhaps identifying and categorizing the issues, and then creating a plan, might help in moving to a better place.

- What issues are perceived problems that have internal solutions? Issues where the problem is ourselves... (Stress, anxiety, depression, perception, coping, etc.)

- What issues are external and we can effect change and address them (Marriage improvements like communication, couples counseling, making changes to our work environment)

- What issues are external but unsolvable and require radical changes (Divorce, Resignation from current job, Career change)

- What can I change and what do I have to learn to accept?

+1 on getting some objective professional counseling. This will help identify where the problems lie, and start a plan of action. It will also help to feel you have some support, that you aren't alone in dealing with these issues.

It might also help to look at changes incrementally rather than all or nothing. Today is better than yesterday...

And it might help to look at addressing issues iteratively. Making one thing better might change the way other issues impact us.
A ring is a set. So is a group. At least this is how almost every working commutative algebraist views things. Category theory and its like are gaining traction but the objects are still viewed as sets.
Kind of not understanding the “why” here.

If they’re going to change a status indicator during form entry, the indicator needs to be right in the user’s face (i.e. floating over the cursor). Anything else might be missed. Even so, pointless dynamics; mark the page red always, and stop trying not to offend those implementing blatantly-unsafe forms.

Also, a minimum of a green default checkmark seems in order, even in this wonderful secure-by-default future. Continue to train people to demand better security and look for safer-web indicators.
Has wine gone bad?

Yeah, some assholes are selling wine from concentrate as real wine. It has gone really bad.
Sniffers only detect tagged explosives that are carelessly handled.
For decades, the US birth rate has been held up by immigration. American values have been to regard the country as a nation of immigrants, who not only act as a source of youthful workers, but also have more kids than Americans who have been here longer. So the US has avoided workforce aging, as has happened in parts of Europe and especially Japan, through immigration.

With the recent reduction in immigration, accelerated by the party in power now, the US is going to face the same low birth rate problems as other advanced economies.

And the people leading immigration suppression in the US know this.

Paul Ryan in December:
This is going to be the new economic challenge for America: people. Baby boomers are retiring—I did my part, but we need to have higher birth rates in this country,” Ryan told reporters on Thursday. Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican and current Speaker of the House, “did [his] part” by having three children.
http://www.newsweek.com/paul-ryan-wants-you-have-more-kids-7...

It's also worth adding: the political environment in the US for decades means that one party wants to make it hard for two-parent working families to have more kids (because those two-parent families tend to vote for the other party, and one-earner families have kids that vote for their party). That's a big part of the reason the US has poor child care and maternity leave support -- because those policies are a political football in the US.
All these security checks are mostly a show to calm down people who are obsessed with terrorism. I don’t think that in the history of aviation, a single terrorist attack has ever been prevented by an airport passenger security check.
There was definitely a substantial influx of new (often clueless) investors in the past 12-18 months.
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What is it about guys and trains? I reflexively upvoted before even reading the article, and after reading the article, I realize it is a pretty standard narrow gauge railroad. Don’t care! Would vote again if I could!
Ask HN: How to recruit PhD students in software engineering?
I'll be starting as a professor in a few months where I'll be doing research on developer tools. I have seen that it is extremely difficult to recruit good PhD students in this topic area (even at elite schools), since most of them are heavily recruited by industry.

Any advice on attracting talented grad students in a topic area that has to compete with high paying companies? I do have funding for these students but it isn't anything like industry.
The parent was talking about a device on a home network, I definitely do not want a CA issuing a trusted cert for 192.168.0.1
This makes me super happy and super scared.

Happy because we have plenty of people on Earth and in the US. We don't need more people.

Scared because so many of our economic structures assume infinite population growth.
Interesting...

How many people here would say that they have actively decided not to have children? I am just curious.