skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia's source says that the "12" hours was simply derived from the 36 (12*3) already in use in the annum calendar (36 10-day weeks in a year).

https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xKKPUpDOTKAC&printsec=f...

It's a bit strange to argue which use-case came first, as there are many use-cases of varying important to varying people, that all have the same natural solution.
To some extend I sympathize with GP because your post is exactly why I'm currently not using nix or guix.

While it's neat that I can do introspection on my package graph, I don't immediately see any benefit for me when I startup my containers.

I would love to see a full guix/nix script of what GP asked to see a comparison, I like to see hands-on stuff not theoretical.
The 18th-Century Lady Mathematician Who Loved Calculus and God
If anyone is curious about her life and contributions to science, I'd pick up a copy of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (https://amzn.to/2rLLIHU). It touches on some pretty heavy sociological issues as well.
I should have been clearer: One way pagers seem to still exist. They do not transmit.
5-10 years.
There are lots of forensics tools which block USB writes to prevent modification of data on drives under analysis.

However, the solution is to create tools that are easier to use and get the job done better than USB pen-drives. IBM seems to be all about the stick, no carrot. If they really enforce this (and as a former IBMer, I can tell you they are really long on pronouncements and very short on actual follow-through) I just foresee people bringing more laptops and multiple laptops around into places they previously would have brought a USB drive. E.g. if you can't easily move that Powerpoint from Laptop A to Laptop B because you're in some low-bandwidth hellhole, well, guess you're bringing both laptops along for the ride.
They might know how fast you're traveling, but they don't know who's driving.
Then you clearly don't know what Salesforce DMP is (the product I referenced in my OP) or what a DMP is. Research it and I think you'll have a better understanding of my comment.
> Mining crypto currencies is morally corrupt and hurts our environment more than anything ever before without generating any value.

Seems like a bold claim. Is running an electric space heater morally corrupt? Is mining while using the heat morally corrupt?

Do you think crypto currency mining is worse than meat farming, actual raw material mining and all uses of the combustion engine?

As for value, right or wrong, the markets disagree.
I use Namecheap and I generally like them. However I was having a repeat issue for several months using them for DNS with DNSSEC enabled. Basically, validation would fail because they'd let their records expire and "forget" to resign them. I'd notice my domains failing to resolve, and had to manually create a new record and delete it to force all my records to be resigned. Support seemed clueless, and I stumbled across this workaround by accident.

I opened multiple support tickets with them, and each time the issue would re-appear in 1-3 months. Went on for probably a year or so and I was just about to move to a different DNS provider when it stopped happening.
Previous discussion from last time the same OP made a tweet with the same content.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15888591
Without being too reductive, a JS implementation of anything represents new possibilities (running in the web browser or other environments), whereas a rust port doesn't expand the surface area. To give a comparison, critiques of rust ports are similar to the critiques of porting everything to node.js a few years ago -- most of the benefit comes from rewriting and applying lessons learned from the existing implementations.
or unplug a mouse for 5 seconds
We should arguably guarantee a right to privacy in the Constitution first, as we should have the same protections from government as well. (As our other human rights are generally protected via the Constitution.) Then, if it is viewed as improper to do so via Amendment, additional laws can be passed to apply it to private entities as well, much as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 builds on the 14th Amendment.
It's just how a lot of people feel about the issue.

I'm not sure why you would jump to concluding that it's a sustained campaign or some kind of reaction to guilt.
Maybe that tell you something if even domain squatters avoid .io
I didn't even click the link in the article because I was sure it would be this!
How do you connect a keyboard or mouse?
Actually Bitcoin isn't anonymous. It is very similar to physical property.
No? That would raise all the same interstate commerce issues that led the judge to block the export ban in this case.
I recall UnitedDomains (German provider) who wanted me in 2016 to fax the request to update the contact information. Fax it.

Times are mature for the equivalent of Letsencrypt for registering domains, something like Letsregistrar.
We need to have this inefficient industry wiped away since it's really too much manual and too much in the way.

If somebody wants to found a noprofit to create a free registrar, I'm 100% in.
I know how WHOIS works. The letters were sent to my academic address, not the professional address I disclosed to WHOIS.
The SEC created a fake ICO website
I assumed that it was intentional
You can throw away the As or Ks to get a lovely (2^4 * 3)-card deck.
Data breaches are climbing in cost to organizations. Here's a claim, that in 2017, the average breach costs $3.62 million. https://www.scrypt.com/blog/average-cost-data-breach-2017-3-...

(I've seen similar claims in different ranges. Costs of breaches in the US are pretty high - over $7 million.)

Even Equifax probably wants the 3-4 billion in valuation it's lost since the breach.

The solution appears to be buying tools to avoid and respond to breaches quickly, instead of engaging and building in security awareness. (Microsoft's security development lifecycle comes to mind.)

IMO, both approaches are likely cost effective, though I have no numbers or research to back that up.
Aren't import taxes one of the few clear privileges in the Constitution that the Federal Government is supposed to have over the States?
One of the reasons I joined was that my grandfather (not by blood, but he married my grandmother after my real gramps passed) was a fine outstanding man, a 32nd degree Mason, and well regarded in his community. He provided for my college education, etc.

He had wanted me to get involved with Demolay (the "under-18" boys club that's sort of a Junior Masons) but I'd never had time - and I worked 36 hours a week after school during high school.

I finally started looking into Masonry in 2008, and had a few friends who were members. They helped me with pointers, I joined a lodge here in Houston, and on my birthday in 2009 was finally Raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason. It was a proud moment - and afterwards I was able to put on one of my grandfather's Masonic rings with a tear in my eye. I know he would have been proud.

I'm happy to have been able to be that "helpful friend" for a couple more people I know who have since joined the fraternity.
> But from 2000-2002 there was a 3 year run of negative returns totaling -43.4% (-9.1%, -12.0%, -22.3%).

You can't add returns like that. Each year is cumulative/compounding. At the end of the three years, your investment is down to 0.909 * 0.88 * 0.777 ~= 0.6215, so you've actually lost 48%, not 43%.

Lookup arithmetic vs geometric investment returns for more info.

To really drive the point home, consider the following thought experiment: let's say you have a catastrophic -99.99% return the first year, then a solid 9.74%[1] return for each of the next 99 years. The arithmetic average return is (-0.9999 + 99*0.0974)/100, or about 8.6%, which sounds pretty good. But the geometric (i.e. actual) trajectory of your money is that you started with $1000, went down to $1, and then slowly grew back to exactly $1000! So your actual 100-year return was 0%.

[1] Use the 99th root of 10000 for the exact value needed to make this example work.
Been working since 86 in this industry.

You lose and gain and you should always be
mindful of what is coming. Humility is good.
I love you young guys, your ideas keep coming and
they are mostly good.
Towards IPv6 only: A large scale RFC 7596 lw4o6 deployment for broadband users [pdf]
Sorry but I believe you are wrong in basic presumptions. If they will do it properly, in c++ compiled to webassembly scenario, there will be no need for parsing (except some headers). Browser code (V8 in chrome?) will just take the opcodes and execute them, similar as CPU execute machine code in native applications. But normally, if this is a scripting language like, lets say python, that webassembly compiled python "runtime" will need to parse python source code (or not, there are pycs if I remember correctly) and there will be parsing overhead. But for compiled languages there will be "no" overhead (browser on its own is overhead) and in any case far less than for javascript (that really needs to be parsed).

Anyway, if you remeber flash, there was one runtime for all flash apps and once you had it, this was it (until next security update :D), and with todays CDNs, it will be no different than, for example, angular. Downloaded once, cached forever.
Thanks for the insight!

> In fact, we all use the same set of contracts. They tend to get passed around founders.

Care to share? ;)
I've worked remotely for Parse.ly (https://www.parse.ly/) for the last 6 years and am also a Canadian, living in Toronto.

To answer some of your questions:

Q: Where should I start?

Job boards like https://remoteok.io/ and https://weworkremotely.com/ are great places to look for remote work (Parse.ly has posted jobs and hired candidates from We Work Remotely before).

For companies that you see on those boards, follow their social accounts and maybe the accounts of their founders/leadership. They'll often tweet about postings prior to them even going up on a job board.

Q: How do I make my resume attractive?

One of the most critical parts of remote cultures is being an effective communicator. Since you won't be in an office to bounce ideas around, you need to show that you can express your thoughts. Your resume itself will convey some of this, but if you have links to blog posts/essays that's great to see as well.

Aside from that, always good to see examples of work that you're proud of.

Q: Will I need a Visa if employed by a US company?

Not necessarily. If the company has a Canadian office, they'll likely take you on as a full time employee and pay all the regular benefits and payroll taxes for you. If they don't, you'll likely work as a contractor and will have to decide if you want to incorporate or be a sole proprietor. You do not require a Visa to be a Canadian working for a US company as a contractor.

You are correct that contractors have no insurance/benefits, but that's usually OK because you can negotiate higher wages as a contractor and pay for benefits yourself via something like Blue Cross (https://on.bluecross.ca/health-insurance/health-insurance-so...).

If you have a spouse, it's also possible you're covered under their plan so that's a good thing to check.

Regarding holidays/vacation, it's just something to negotiate as part of your arrangement. If you're "consulting" for one company, you're effectively a full-time employee and will likely have some level of vacation time built in to your contract.

Parse.ly has amazing holiday and parental leave policies and we're hiring https://www.parse.ly/jobs/#frontend-engineer :).

You can also learn more about the how and why of our distributed team here https://blog.parse.ly/post/3203/the-how-and-why-of-parse-lys....
An interesting article which has been getting lots of attention recently (among humanoids at least). But wouldn't the original title be better?
On second thought, it looks like it's meant to be a plug-in for an IDE that's implemented in JavaScript.

I suppose that makes sense, kinda...
You can build random access around tarballs, just need to index the header data.

Shameless plug, this is what https://github.com/cpuguy83/tarfs does.

Granted, you do have to traverse the entire tarball.
This is also something very common in banking.
More details here: https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2018/e...

>”Site Streams, User Streams, and legacy Direct Message endpoints, originally slated for retirement on June 19th 2018, will be deprecated on Wednesday August 16, 2018 which provides 3 months from today’s release of the Account Activity API for migration.”

This is a huge “fuck you developers” from Twitter. They should have offered a year from the GA date to port applications. They should be sending emails to all applications using streaming APIs.

I like the webhook model, I think it’s great. I think the beta they had was effectively useless - for instance, the Docs were (still are?) entirely incorrect and basically told you completely wrong information with copy/paste errors everywhere. 0 QA. https://twittercommunity.com/t/account-activity-api-all-acti... you couldn’t register more than one webhook and were locked into a “env-beta” URL. Again, the Docs were wrong here.

I haven’t had a chance to review this since GA but I will now. I’m not hopeful that it’s any better given the track record of Twitter to deliver. If they did knock it out of the park I’ll be the first to praise them... but 3 months is still not enough time.
The role of time in ranking is not relevant to the concerns of the article but is very relevant to the submission.
> I thought it was commonly accepted that operating the Port of Oakland has health impacts on the surrounding communities.

Clearly that's not related to the question at hand here - the question is will allowing coal shipments cause more health risk than shipping anything else from the port. The port of Oakland is important enough to the state and national economy that it will pretty much be at or near full capacity at all times, so coal would mostly displace other shipments, making your edit-linked article moot (oh, and it would mostly be rail anyway).

Ports are a necessary fact of a global economy, and the fact is they tenhave historically had large cities develop around them due to the jobs and opportunities they created. It sounds like you'd prefer that the port get completely shut down. That's an opinion, but it's unrelated to this case - and unlikley to get anywhere. You'd be much better off moving away from the port and teh city that grew up around it.
Why I'm Joining Cloudflare - Joe Sullivan
"You know ... I make a lot of money from grazing my sheep on the commons[1], but it's really not sustainable to have this free-for-all. If everyone can just graze the grass with no restriction, the roots will get eaten up and there won't be a future stock to use. I propose that we segment it out so all the plots have an owner, who will have an incentive to limit grazing, and then compensate the people who lose their right to graze..."

'This is absolutely hilarious. This dude has a huge herd and makes a fortune selling sheep that were fattened from grazing the commons.'

[1] Yes, I know that the story that the "tragedy of the commons" parable is based on is fake, and they actually had sensible customs to prevent the free-for-all; this is just for illustrative purposes.
> an “attack” as any attempt to compromise the central function of a public ledger, which is the immutable public record of settled transactions. It makes no difference how wealthy, well-connected, or powerful a disputant may be — once the exchange is recorded on the blockchain’s public ledger, it is permanent.

This is untrue for Ethereum since they proved they will mutate their chain for specific wallets/contracts (See the DAO scandal)
How will they work with no phones?
HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud
> I'm not questioning that Facebook sells ads, I am questioning their effectiveness and whether the OP is overselling it.

If Facebook ads weren't effective; would advertisers continue to buy them? My direct experience using facebook ads is that they are exceptionally effective at targeting people.

> For example, the only Facebook ads I've seen recently are for riding lawnmowers. I live in the city.

That's not enough information to make a judgement on the efficacy of facebook's ad platform. Perhaps you're correct, and you were miss targeted by Facebook's algorithms. Or perhaps the advertiser didn't properly target their ad. Or perhaps the advertiser WANTED to target people living in cities, hoping to get in front of the eyes of any potential future customers who are thinking of moving out to the country.

If nothing else, you at least remember you saw an ad for a Riding Lawnmower.
Then it's going to get very costly for them when the EU goes after some more of that sweet sweet penalty money.
How Ceiling Fans Helped Slaves Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners
Also docker containers are just tarballs of tarballs (one per layer)
The Curse of Cortés
The SIM card is a separate OS that gets underneath the SOC's OS. It can run its own applets without the knowledge or permission of the SOC OS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31D94QOo2gY

The baseband is a completely different RTOS as well. And then there's also TrustZone running in the SOC as well.
One of those freaks is called Microsoft.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/02/06/blazor-ex...
Berkeley can tax Soda but Oakland can't tax Coal?
True, but at least you'd have somewhat more granular control and be able to do things like put a hardware switch on the transceiver. Crude, but it would at least work for when you're not actively using it.

I guess that's no different than a faraday pouch though.
That was a justification used, but looking at the groups who pushed for the ban it was clearly an attempt to punish/attack the coal industry.
pinboard does this by default when you save a link and its awesome.
Microservices First
There is a reason that pagers are popular with drug dealers...

Assuming that you can actually get pager service where you are... Then you only get tracked when your phone goes hot and you access the network to return a call.
Sadly MS having been hiding those tweaks in Win10 for some reason. The registry keys are still present though, so with the right third party tool i can still crank them up to make using explorer with a touch screen that much better.
I always wonder how people care about "good prices" if they choose a registrar. Quite often the domain name is the most valuable asset of your company. As long as you are not a domain squatter you shouldn't care about if you pay $10 or $1000 per year. And if possible register the name for the next 10 years in advance.
The solution HN implemented for the problem of crowdsourcing front-page curation is to allow a short window of time for all submissions to be on the front page in order to gather points. Wouldn't work for Reddit, but works rather well for HN.

I have noticed that when I use a mobile app to browse HN, I'm far more willing to keep going past the front page, if only because it doesn't require clicks to do so.

I'd suggest an option for forever-scroll presentation for the article list.

EDIT: A quick Google search turned up this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4484616

EDIT2: Sadly broken, scrolls once then I get an error in the console. I may end up fixing it and forking.
Working at sea; an Antarctic base; Mars; etc. is very much a niche for which specific exceptions can be made, but is irrelevant to almost all employers. In most cases security is the greater concern.
I was asking a coworker the other day about using containers with a "shared" mapped filesystem subdirectory for UNIX file socket communication versus encapsulating everything in a TCP/IP network stack, but my coworker was concerned about the security risks of a mapped filesystem on the containers.

I sometimes feel like a crazy person.
They didn’t. The engines started working again once the aircraft clears the volcanic ash cloud.
You do realize that the act of encrypting your hard drive and demanding ransom for it is illegal, right? So requiring illegal crypto for the ransom is no obstacle.
So, you’re saying that europe is about to switch away from meters to “ikeas” as the canonical unit?

With brexit, it should be easy for the brits to lead the charge.

I for one welcome the day when all the dimensions of all manmade objects are either products of numbers in the set {5, 3, 2, 1} or the set {1/2, 1/3, 1/5}. It will drastically simplify real world long division and factoring, and also lead to tighter packing of shipping containers.

Knowing apple, they’ll screw it all up when they drop some port and shrink some device from 1/6000 to 1/6001 thick.
This is probably the first of many sports gambling related moves.
Yes, it gives you flexibility in using UTF-8 and UTF-16 (which despite being a shitty format, you WILL have to support UTF-16), and also overlong sequences don't matter.
I don't think that's very verbose. The dockerfile I was using to build the app basically grabbed a specific version of all the deps and ./configure && make install'ed each one.

I'm completely onboard with the idea of reproducible builds.

> The thing is docker is huge and bloated; is far from secure, and will probably stay that way for the foreseeable future

It would be a mistake to fully associate container workflows with docker itself.

https://github.com/genuinetools/img + https://github.com/opencontainers/runc can be used to provide almost the same workflow as docker, without using docker itself.

You could also use the '-f docker' option the post talks about with runc to run the resulting image in an unprivileged container.
"the whole IoT thing" was ever Stallman's responsibility to stop in the first place?

he wants to champion free software, not every just cause under the sun.

IoT devices shipping with insecure configurations is a "failure" of an infosec champion/thought-leader to step up and save us.

On the free software front, RMS contribution are mind blowing to me. I'd be proud if I can ever contribute a fraction of what he did.
I can confirm that it doesn't, at least on the iPhone 7. I recently took one on an overseas trip and left it in airplane mode the whole time. The photos I took during the trip were all properly geotagged.
A hybrid structure, that is, allowing the transfer of files through portable drives however only allowing it to be saved/read encrypted to approved devices through encryption keys managed on devices or through the network (Group Policy/etc) could work.
Is it rational to trust your gut feelings? A neuroscientist explains
Augmented reality – the next wave of reporting
And yet millions of people lived and worked there. Agricultural work is backbreaking.

The South didn't even have a shoe factory.

Really, how productive can a workforce be that can't read, that have to be forced to do anything, that will not contribute any improvements, that have to be guarded at all times, that will sabotage the work if they can get away with it, etc.?

How productive would you be if you were a slave?

Slavery is a terrible economic system when compared with free labor. It isn't remotely a surprise that free economies economically bury slave economies.
The tracker already knows how many seeders there are, doesn't need anything in the torrent clients.
Can you explain the LCD thing a bit more? I've not seen a physical separate GPS unit before.