skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in bear, mountain lion, wolf country, and I can see both points of view. SOP for a mountain lion is stand up tall, open your jacket or shirt (to make yourself look bigger) but do not yell, speak calmly. Throw rocks and fight back if necessary. This mostly works. The main incidents of mountain lion attacks are in places where their habitat buts up against a dense human area where they get lazy and stalk trail runners, bikers, etc.

A grizzly though. Make yourself look big... and don't run... but everything else is pretty much what to do once you are already on the ground getting chomped.

Black bears are fucking pussies most of the time.

That said, it's important to distinguish between the type of encounter, between a surprise and stalking. Stalking (repeated sightings, etc) means the animal is already considering you as prey.

You are right that if a big cat comes for you, you won't see it coming until the last few seconds (read up on non-dog big cat hunts...) but honestly a big cat is normally just warning you off it's territory. A grizzly is much more likely to decide you look like a threat that needs dealing with or eating...

So I agree with Rabinowitz in general.

Story time, I recently was going up a canyon in a very remote area and came across a track in the creek bed that froze me in place... because at a glance I thought it was a mountain lion (remote canyons are a favorite for their dens). My heart raced until further inspection indicated it was a black bear track and was at least 2-3 days old... and I breathed a sigh of relief. (sometimes its hard to tell what made traks, other times not)

Here, I found the pic I took for those curious.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BlackBearTracks.jpeg
Very US-centric. Elsewhere in the world "wire transfers" - transferring money from one bank to another happens more or less instantly.

When I pay myself from my business account and it happens just about instantly. Max I've ever waited was like 15 minutes.

Using Transferwise, a friend from Australia paid me back in the UK and it went through in like 1 hour.
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Also check out U2F Zero

https://www.u2fzero.com/
Hm, interesting. I think this isn't possible without integer generics.
This reminds me of I, Robot:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
You haven't specified a delimiter.
I know this is considered one of his best but to be honest I can hardly remember what was going on in there.

Well, except for that bit with the chair. Brrr.
That's subjective though, I think we can all agree.

I have a pretty decent Philips 58" TV and to be fair, watching it from the bed (2.5 - 3.0 meters) it does seem small to me.

However, if I am to buy a gaming console and sit like 1.5 meters away from the TV then it seems to be plenty enough, even a bit bigger than needed.

I will probably settle for 65" in the next 1-2 years or, if I want to spend a lot of money, 75". But that's because I plan on having a 40+ square meters (131 sq. ft.) living room.
What about a two-chute fail?
Thanks, I will fix the broken links :-)

The tech is completely hosted on AWS, and it is entirely "serverless". So the core is using the API Gateway + Lambda + DynamoDB. Additionally, I use Kinesis Firehose + S3 to process internally generated data such as billing events. Athena helps me to query the data if needed.

Basically, the scalability & high availability is entirely provided by AWS and the pricing model matches almost 1-to-1 the pricing by AWS.

If you have any specific questions about the tech, I can answer them.
The Vehicle of the Future Has Two Wheels, Handlebars, and Is a Bike
> There's also a chance you will get some of this wrong and then there will be a manual hassle to sort things out.

Good thing for bitcoin if you fuck up the address your transaction and all its money goes right off into the ether.
strftime has had this forever (my man page implies since C89), it's %c. of course, man pages being man pages, the recommendation to actually use it is neither at the top, nor the bottom, but hidden in the BUGS section.

date parsing is available in strptime. you have to write "%Y-%m-%d %T" (since for some reason only strftime supports %F), but that's not too bad. the major pain is handling locales in a thread-safe manner, which is unnecessarily painful in C.
Reminds me of a joke.

A young couple are about to go trekking through some woods but first have to listen to a talk from the ranger on the danger of bears. The ranger gives them each a little bell and some pepper spray and says "bears tend to avoid humans mostly and are most dangerous when surprised, so ring the bell at intervals so the bears will know humans are around and can avoid you".

He continues "if a bear does attack you, spray it in the face with the pepper spray and it should run away".

Finally he says "it's best to avoid areas containing bears completely if at all possible, so look out for bear dropping and if you see them you will know a bear is somewhere about and should change direction".

The young man say "how will we recognise the bear dropping sir?" and the ranger says "that's easy, it has little bells in it and smells of pepper"
I work in tech and rent out rooms in my home
And slow?

https://x-team.com/blog/rollup-webpack-parcel-comparison/
How to Damage a FLASH Storage Device
My opinion is exactly the opposite. So, clearly, it depends on individual taste.
You (sir|madam), are a feature creep. If it weren’t for people like you and their “real requirements” software would be easy.

By the time you say “unicode” and “collation” the programmer is going to be in serious trouble.

Fortunately the programmer can lawyer the problem. The original requirements don’t specify what the strings are sorted by. I choose “position in original source” file and complete the task with a NOP.
Another solution would be to have the docs explicitly warm against it.

Something like, "The ISO 8601 week-based year (see NOTES) with century as a decimal number. Warning: most people want %Y rather than %G; do not use unless you want week-based years. ..."
A great summary.

Trauma is real. Our society doesn't place enough emphasis in recognizing mental health issues other than depression. There are many other events that cause trauma and people deal with it in many different ways.

This is why you no matter the number of facts you present in online discussions will ever dissuade these individuals from their positions.
Could you please expand on that with an example? I am yet to read anything on hidden SSIDs, I'll appreciate the human explanation.
> Cryptos network doesnt share this goal

Of course they do. There is an inherent transaction fee built into networks like Bitcoin, plus the fees exchanges charge.
I need to do this too. It's not polite to waste everyone's time, including mine.

Thanks,
>> That limited the upside for the cable network, making live and linear viewership imperative.

I have no idea what all that means. Could someone please translate?
> The quality (from a narrative and acting viewpoint primarily) is so low that I think it drives people away from the topic.

ive seen a couple people express this opinion in the thread, and i am wondering where it comes from. imo the plot and acting in the expanse is on par with all but the best currently airing shows. shows like the chi and fargo are certainly more sophisticated and have much more emotional depth, but the expanse easily equals the big action-oriented series (GoT, walking dead, homeland, all the super hero series), and only maybe GoT or westworld comes close to the world-building aspect. maybe it's just my hard sci-fi fanboyism showing.
They never said it was, they said that's why IE11 remains popular.
That is the kernel debugger that is entered when the system panics. Userland debugger is still gdb.
Here you go: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xaml-platform/x...
They only got defrauded because they couldn't flip their stake to the next fool..
It's fine and even fun to entertain a different counter idea, but that is not what these flat earthers and the like do. I know a man that subscribes to these kinds of ideas, although not flat eartherism, and it is definitely seems to stem from a need to find an alternative order to the world because the existing order and/or understanding provides little comfort, hope, and meaning, because they are driven by a need to be special and smarter . These ppl are often also frequently 'inventors' of 'free energy' motors, using mmethods they will say are 'obvious once you think about it but for some reason no one has'. In fact these ppl can be very clever and ingenuous, but have certain mental illnes (depression) and lack education, but perhaps the everyday flat earther prostlesthized on youtube are driven mostly by ignorance and poverty in a hard life needing something, anything, to not be as it seems.
I have to agree with this. The current season is by far the most interesting ones. Things are finally starting to happen and we're getting to find out more about the protomolecule.
It's always team dependent. Do your work well and make your manager happy. Eventually start your own thing.
LN, aside from being complete vaporware, is most certainly not free. Or, it’s as free as bitcoin was promised to be “free”, in that it isn’t free at all.

Not to mention that, should it ever prove to work at any reasonable scale, LN is basically adding a layer on top of Bitcoin that gives up almost all of the things that were supposed to be core values.
Costco needs to expand if they want to dominate anything, I've lived in the different cities and haven't had a Costco within 100 miles in all three.
answer is right there in the article: Operating System
Oh, right, yes.

Inefficient data breakpoints still seems like a dealbraker for an OS aiming to be as popular as Windows or Linux, but I can see how OpenBSD can avoid it and still have a good number of users.
>> That's one of the reasons I don't intend to watch the new Star Trek serial.

You're not missing anything for it is a steaming pile of horse manure. Even Enterprise wasn't as bad.
Wouldn't that apply to the final technology as well?
The only investment of a VC style I've seen in the last few decades that surpasses Softbank's return on Alibaba, is Naspers with Tencent. Until their recent $10b sale of some shares, they owned 1/3 of Tencent.

"The stake Naspers bought for just $32 million in 2001 -- when Tencent was an obscure Web firm in a nation where few people used the Internet -- is now worth $175 billion."

"While the investment has made Naspers the most valuable company in Africa, its market capitalization of about $122 billion lags well behind the value of the Tencent holding, suggesting investors assign no value to its other businesses."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-22/naspers-s...

There have been a few massive percentage returns that have been similarly outsized over the years, not equal to the top line scale however. Peter Thiel's investment into Facebook produced something like a 5,000 fold return.

The parents of Jeff Bezos put $50,000 into Amazon in its initial $1m round, which has produced something around a $2b to $3b fortune for them (a ~40,000+ fold return).

There have also been some infamous misses that would have produced comparably extreme returns. Paul Allen owned 25% of AOL right before it become a giant; he sold his position for a few hundred million dollars in a fit, because they wouldn't allow him to buy a larger position in it; that stake would have solidly been worth $40 billion at the peak. [1]

Larry Ellison wanted to buy a very large position in Apple, in the process of returning Jobs to the CEO role. Jobs talked him out of it on a moral high ground basis. [2] It's hard to speculate what that might be worth today or if Ellison would have screwed everything up instead, could have been a couple hundred billion dollar miss.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/1115/6412186a.html

[2] https://www.cultofmac.com/428587/larry-ellison-steve-jobs-sh...
Pretty valuable feedback! I will just make sure to use an HDMI cable supporting older version of the standard. That should do the trick.
Show HN: A website I created to visualize hurricane track and learn Vue.js
Holden seems either miscast, misdirected, or something. In the books he's super charismatic, and in the show he's super whiney.
John Carreyrou's book is coming out end of May. Already pre-ordered. Can't wait.
Their original decision to only buy the particular rights they bought was also focused on cost. Maybe not so much on revenue...

Syfy specializes in lcd barely-watchable crap. They get nervous when purchasing shows outside their specialty.
Speed is not the issue for embedded development.

The problem with C++ is it has a few language features that are not deterministic making standard C++ not ideal for real time code. Most of the stl uses these features, so most vanilla C++ is disabled for many embedded environments.

Also, there is a push for C++23 to have deterministic exception handling. If this passes (and it likely will) most of the stl will become available for embedded, and when that time comes C++ is going to become far more of a viable option than it currently is.

If you're curious you can read about it here: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p070...
Read the comment again.

Exchanges like Transferwise work by not actually transferring your money internationally. Once Transferwise receives my money in their UK account, they just instantly transfer the money from their Aus account to the recipient. It doesn't take several days because my money never actually went overseas
I believe the e-Privacy directive makes it illegal in the EU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_and_Electronic_Communi...
I read once 'the most important language for a progammer to learn isn't a programming language, but English'.

Easy for me to say being born in the US, but it's just kinda how it is. Especially if you want to contribute to open source, etc
There are many companies out there that work with weekly schedules (e.g., in production). In some of those cases you're not necessarily interested in using months and days of the month. Instead, you want to use week numbers.

These flags are part of strftime(), so you can generate ISO 8601 week-based dates:

strftime(..., "%G-W%V-%u", ...)

This will generate output along the lines of "2018-W19-7"
I'm still not convinced fraud accured at theranos. I think it might be the sec and wsj not understanding how r&d works plus a little bit of bubble think inside the company. I think they went to work every day and worked on blood testing tech. I don't think they went to work every day and plotted a ponzi scheme.
There was definitely some "hokey" acting in season 1&2, occasionally almost on the verge of self-parody. But at other times it was really good. A little choppy and inconsistent would probably be a better description?

But if you look back at shows like BSG or Firefly, they certainly weren't any better in terms of acting - I think we just have higher standards these days!

(By the way, if you didn't enjoy Season 1 (I did!), then you won't like Season 2 any better.)
i love the show, but i will say i found the tension between naomi and the crew this season to be a bit disappointing. the conflict felt a bit manufactured.

i know some people criticize holden's somewhat bland character, which is not entirely unfair. if perhaps unintentional, i think this still serves a purpose. the world of the expanse is very unfamiliar and, basically being a normal dude from earth, he gives the viewer a character to anchor themselves with, or even substitute themselves for. it's kinda like how gordon freeman never talks.
> Name one other thing recently on air that’s realistic about space while also being interesting to general audience.

Person of Interest is on WP’s list of hard sci-fi, but isn’t about space. (This surprises me a little, it never struck me as accurate and I lost interest in the show fairly quickly.)

I mention that in part to call out that this thread is equating sci-fi with outer space. There are plenty of non-space scientific topics on earth that are covered in movies and TV. Making hard sci-fi only about space might be missing a general trend toward more rigor about science in general.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction#Televis...

Worth noting that Expanse is not on WP’s list. Nor are Gravity, Interstellar or The Martian. Gravity is a good example of the story intentionally breaking whatever hard science might have been there.

What I do see across all the genres is a peak of interest in space between maybe 1965 and 1995. Perhaps most important is writing, short stories and novels, since those often fuel TV & films.

If I look at the trend based only on this WP page, it does look like 1990-2010 was a trough and that space is trending again.
OpenBSD just chose not to implement x86 debug register access from userspace.

FYI, Joyent SmartOS/illumos is also similarly not vulnerable, at least by default.

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/631579
So your proposal is basically the status quo? Personally I don’t think the status quo has much value compared to her solution. Having a few blessed date formats and an escape hatch is a better way. (That’s how we do it where I work. There is basically a “format time for logging” function that everything uses. And it works just fine.)
Extending Tcl
What a nonsense headline.
Tim clearly has some screws loose. I just learned today that he has a fabulously wealthy father; that explains a lot.
recent discussion of a guardian article covering this (175 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17027834
Player of Games gets fantastically meta at one point too, but it's also totally justified later.
Said secondary source however is written by a lawyer. A lawyer specialized in IT even.
"Implied"? That's not how opt-in works, sorry.
The article could do without any references to C++. Surely writing long, imperative lists of register writes makes the reader's mind boggle. C has more than enough tools to encode all that into something that is maintainable and readable. Because if you just take C++ to implement some handy, convenient constructs you also invite the closet full of demons that come with the language.

And quite frankly the abstractions given in the article are quite trivial. Any decent programmer would create similar abstractions as a part of normal course of work because decent programmers know they are forgetful and they want to spend their modest number of brain cycles on the higher levels of thinking instead.
Apple's Mac mini now inexcusably getting trounced by cheap Intel hardware
> Instead of a nice friendly “campus” we see a Google farm for harvesting Kreuzberg’s brains and talents, or a Google mine in which ideas and data will be extracted out of Berlin

It's simply not a zero sum game. Google will bring culture and resources with it that could enhance Berlin.
Many of the worst Edge bugs are actually due to some backwards compatibility with IE.
That's a nice Material Design on that page that's saying Google is Evil!
Those chapters and sections are logical and clearly written. It's very easy to figure out which provisions apply to your business and what action you need to take. The ICO have provided extensive guidance and a toolkit for assessing your GDPR compliance.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

If you're making a hardware product for the US market, you need to comply with FCC Title 47 Part 15. If you've never been involved in this process, I'd encourage you to read it. The rules governing a bluetooth speaker are at least as complex as the rules governing Facebook and Google's hoard of personal information.

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=91a501119ab6978f87...
Analysing the Complexity of Angular Apps
On the later subject: I have a catch-all on a subdomain, so I do that on a regular basis with zero time effort (amortized). Just enter "${websitename}@antispam.[...].com" during registration.
I'm actually surprised that only a handful of these addresses receive spam; but misconduct as described here never happened to me.

(Website and service operators claiming they were not pwned, however, is pretty usual).
I'm sure you can make an argument against gentrification without making it look like some anarchist bs
Google refused to do business in China due to censorship. Calling Google evil sets an extremely low bar for evil. Especially coming from Germany. They're still a bunch of companies in operation that worked with Hitler.
I hope Netflix picks this up. I really enjoy the Expanse.
I am not a lawyer myself, it is not very useful to ask me to reference a text in the GDPR. It is far more useful to consult a lawyer. The information I posted is from a lawyer's book, translated almost literally from Dutch to English.
>Pax americana will come to an end like all "pax" in the past. Instead of clinging to silly utopian transnationalism, we should be preparing ourselves for a multipolar nationalistic world.

What if most hegemonic powers in a "pax" period tend toward your pragmatic attitude and as a result create a societal gestalt which becomes a self fufilling prophecy of paralyzed stagnation? Why should we assume that just because a "silly utopian transnationalism" hasn't happened yet it can't possibly happen at all? The technology available to a hegemon in the 21st century is unlike anything a previous hegemon has ever known. Betting the future will follow the patterns of the past is a safe bet until it isn't.
I saw this as part of https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/cpp-and-winrt-a... (and the previous cppwinrt github project) but I haven't dug too deeply. I wonder if the restrictions are too limiting. Any bare-bones win32 example of using it in a simple cpp file? I plan on doing a poc myself soon.
Listen to the full interview here: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/10/early-theranos-investor-tim-...

As the founder of a healthcare company, Tim's statement here is the one that I found the most dangerous

"If all she had to do was say this was a beta or whatever and all of us would be using it, would be loving it."

When it comes to people's health you must have concrete evidence that your product works and is robust. Blood testing is not a field where people accept mistakes. Anyone working in this field is used to scrutiny, it is your burden to prove that what you are working on is safe and useful.

There are a lot of quacks, hucksters, and fakes out there proceed with caution.
Thanks for the questions!

1. I wanted to build an embedded comment system which is not monetized by selling user data or serving ads and which has a fair pricing model. By "fair" I mean that you pay what you consume without non-transparent pricing plans where some features are only available for certain plans. I have found no such system myself, so I started building it.

2. It's unlikely that I will run out of the money and the service will cease to exist because it's a side project for me and it is self-funding. You buy credits upfront, and this pays the bills for the service. It's hosted by AWS and has no fixed recurring costs for me.

3. The minimal amount of credits you can purchase is 500k or $7.5. The transaction fees are already included in the price.

4. There is no moderation interface at the moment. As an administrator, you get email notifications for every comment you receive. The email contains a link where you can hide the comment if you don't like it.

5. Regarding the stack, I have answered below. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask.

Could you share the project you are working on? And what's your vision?
> And seriously why would you pick python? Why not perl? Why not ruby?

FWIW, Python is the 4th most popular language on the TIOBE index (after C, C++, Java). It's not likely that $COMPANY is already using Python than Ruby or Perl.
Does it matter what programming language we teach in high school?
Here is another, Finnish word: sisu
SoftBank VC investments have been discussed on HN for 9 years now: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=SoftBank&sort=byDate&prefix&pa...