skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a fat enough pipe, get a Peakflow-like device. They can usually support a few terabit of traffic (depending on if you're doing simple white/blacklists, or layer 7 mitigation). Might not work against the IoT bots or a sufficiently sophisticated attack as we all saw with the Dyn DDoS, but if you have a good peering agreement they should allow you to announce /32 (IPv4) nullroutes over BGP, which will take care of anything that saturates your uplink, and you can scrub the rest.

If you don't have your own datacenter space, your options are limited. You can use Cloudflare, or serve your content over CDN.
> Ignore syncing

Try building a password manager that doesn’t sync and let me know how sales go. :)

> Cloud password systems are like running all your security-sensitive code in an Electron app - an impossibly large attack surface with many significant flaws in some of your most-sensitive use. It doesn't make sense if you care about security at all. At least extensions are moderately well sandboxed compared to websites (since it'd be trivial to ship new javascript from their site).

You are correct in that the web browser is a very hostile environment. We're working to minimize what tasks need a web browser, and have already got it such that the entire sign-up flow can be completed in-app at least on iOS.

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Same author actually. But yes, Medicare fraud is all too common. I honestly don’t understand why — Medicare fraud is very easy to catch with modern analytics and the penalties are stiff. But it persists...

CMS is moving to outcome-based payments for this reason. Too many relapses coming from your treatment center? You get less per patient until your results improve. That should eventually help reduce this kind of behavior.
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I'm going to stand by my statement of "not really a vm." Calling it a plain vm when the goal is to run as much AOT code as possible is too misleading.
Map: The Loss of Native American Lands Within the US Every Year
It hasn't changed, it's just that there's misinformation abound.

The standard recommendation is every 3000 miles for non-synthetic, which is very very wrong (too frequent) and serves to enrich quick lube shops at the cost of the environment. Folks with newer cars should NOT follow this recommendation [1], but instead refer to their car owner's manual.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/oil-change-truths...
You assume Soviet arms were /ever/ tracked, military assets or not. The Soviet military has a long history of misplacing weaponry...
I have access to most papers through my university, but every now and then a pubmed or google scholar search leads me to a paper I cannot access easily. For those, instead of waiting for interlibrary loan I can easily just grab the article through SciHub.

Is it right? I don't know. But it makes my life so much easier when looking for something specific.
London hospitals to replace doctors and nurses with AI for some tasks
Ask HN: Why Is the Resolution Inside Any VR So Poor?
Revisiting the Dig (2014)
If all he did was multi-login without otherwise doing anything inappropriate, and the company generally allows signing in to personal accounts, I hope nothing happened to him. That's no reason to discipline or fire someone, even if that was what triggered Google's algorithms.
Torrents are very inconvenient compared to many streaming services.

Therefore, you would expect most people to opt for Netflix. (And by and large I'd expect Netflix to be more popular in mass than tormenting at this point for places where it's available.)

But what if it's not available where you live (That's inconvenient), doesn't have the content you want (That's inconvenient), or you want a file you can play offline that isn't allowed to be downloaded on the Netflix app?

Convenience wins almost every time, but not having the option to do something (be it for lack of $$$ or availability) isn't convenient so that's when
more people turn to piracy.
> 'profit above all else' that America espouses.

It's more about working with human nature instead of against it. Doubting virtuous intent seems important too, but maybe that's just me (and not you credulous folks).
The Movement to Break Up Facebook Has Begun
> the lowest I've seen anyone's insurance payment in this state is $89/month [...] They still had a car payment ($400/mo. IIRC) though.

Again: liability insurance is a different thing. When you don't own your car (aka when you take a car loan), you are required to have insurance that can cover the cost of the car. When you own your car, you only need to pay for liability insurance, which is much cheaper.

Your story is all too common in the U.S. It's expensive being poor here. The frugal solution is to have money to buy a car outright. It's tough getting out from under that dilemma.
Exaclty. I just made a similar comment down below saying that some people choose a car with their heart not their head.
I pay almost $1000 in health care premium for a family of 3. In what universe is it fair for illegal immigrants in my state to get free health Care, while I pay $1000 and further pay income taxes, that in turn subsidize their health Care?

The system seems to punish law abiding residents
The article said DECODE is an EU-funded project.

Reminded me that there's a cool monthly magazine [1] on other such projects, called Research EU. All 71 past editions are available in multiple languages, and downloadable.

The magazine "features highlights from the latest Results in Brief and project news from the world of European research and innovation" ... "where each issue covers a specific topic of interest to researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders in the research field."

1 - https://cordis.europa.eu/research-eu/home_en.html
The daily trade volume on the Ugandan exchange is ~$18,000. Companies may be “listed”, but good luck actually buying any stock
Many plantations were run without mistreating slaves. And many plantation owners had no choice but to use slaves as they couldn’t afford paid labor, or needed to keep profits up to stay competitive. It’s like holding a wolf by the ears: not a situation you want to be in, but not something you dare to let go.

Today’s equivalent might be H1B Visas, which many companies in the valley make ample use (and even abuse) of.
I went carless about a year and a half ago in Los Angeles (wife still has a car) and it’s been awesome.

I had a ratty 2006 liberty. Going through my bank history and tabbing up costs for the previous years I figured if I spent $25 bucks a day on Uber I’d be saving money. (Actually I spend about $18 / day)

Things I took into account were:

- insurance

- gas

- parking tickets, garages and meters

- maintenance (something expensive broke every few months)

- Amex platinum gives a $200 credit / year for Uber

Qualitative-ish things:

- time saved not parking (some days I’d spend 45 minutes trying to find a spot in Venice)

- time saved not forgetting where my car was parked or walking a mile to it

- I do all of my emailing during my rides

- credit card points

I’ll hopefully never own a car again.

Edit: also, zero road rage
LISP is still superior, however.

I just wish I could get a job writing LISP! I came pretty close with Clojure. I used Clojure on a (albeit throwaway) project that needed some batch processing at one job I had circa 2013. I was on my way! Then interest in Clojure died out. Groovy was #2 for me, but even that is dying out. I am doing Java 8 right now and not really enjoying it. Python would be better for me.
You probably know it by some other name. It is so classical its unlikely that one hasn't run into it in some form or the other. If you assume a hidden Markov model with Gaussian state transition and Gaussian output and work out the recursive update equation KF is what you will get. It might not have been call a Kalman filter. May be Weiner filter will ring a bell, under certain assumptions they become the same thing. If not Weiner filter, recursive least squares would surely ring a bell.
Python Concurrency from the Ground Up
Music live coding in the browser with Ruby
I hate IVRs and phone trees too. I probably want the interaction to be a self-service website, depending on the context (making a restaurant reservation, delivery order, etc... are absolutely good fits for this).

For actually resolving a customer service issue, sure I'd rather talk to a human. I do try to be nice to them, and it does, indeed often result in better service.

For getting an update on what's going on with the request I made three months ago, I want a website, or push notifications by email.
Sing it along with me:

If you are told the percentage increase, check the absolute increase;

Aaaaand if you are told the absolute increase, check the percentage increase!
There is value in learning history, makes an excellent crib sheet.
Yeah, that line of thinking came up a lot at the Nuremburg trials.
I were looking at Vue NativeScript. Anybody on why should I not?
You're pretending like 90% of people don't interface with the network by just using google. The few people who don't do that just search social networks instead.

I'm old enough to type in a URL, I rarely see anyone else who does that anymore.
If you’re referring to 1Password here we’ve never advertised included upgrades forever. Licenses have always been sold per-person, per-platform, for a version of 1Password (e.x. 1Password 6).

Including perpetual upgrades for a one-time fee wouldn’t be a sustainable business model for us.

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AgileBits
Or the famines of British India.
1Password service has completed SOC 2 type 1 and 2 certification as well. It is more about internal company processes and how they are followed than encryption.

"Hey your data is safe just because we have SOC 2 certification" -- that's not want you want to hear.

About vault being encrypted locally: https://hackernoon.com/psa-lastpass-does-not-encrypt-everyth...
That sounds so impractical and difficult (even impossible...). It is hilarious though to imagine what sort of reaction the drone pilot would have.
The biggest problems with the whole "Church vs. Galileo" had to do with politics, and the fact that Galileo was an arrogant jerk (despite being essentially right).

The Church was in the wrong, but not the way most people think, and Galileo did everything he could to make the situation worse. It's kind of like the sack of Constantinople... it was entirely wrong and is in no way justified, but the Byzantines went out of their way to make the situation worse.
There's also potential trouble brewing wih Egypt over Ethiopia damming the Nile, on which Egypt is completely dependent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Da...
No experiment is worth doing without your production system at stake
Goats yelling like humans in G major.
Totally agree. For folks not wanting to listen to the whole episode (although you should!) the basic synopsis is:

Obamacare mandated that all insurance should cover rehab costs. Several rehabilitation companies opened an enormous amount of "clinics" in Florida. "Rehab SEO" companies then offered services to these clinics to funnel patients to them. Clinics could charge upwards of $5,000 per urine test from the insurance companies.

It became so profitable, that rehab companies would pay to fly patients down to Florida, pay $1,500 commissions to the SEO companies, and more.

This system of misaligned incentives resulted in the "rehab" companies to buy drugs for their patients, so that they would fail a drug test. This would allow them to "reset" billing for that patient. There is an anecdote from a patient describing one such clinic directly next to a crackhouse with prostitutes. Apparently many patients spent years rotating through these clinics because they had no other options (except maybe homelessness, due to their addictions).

Florida eventually legislated rules that prevented this behavior, which resulted in many of these "rehab" clinics moving to California.

More reporting on this system:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/27/business/addi...

https://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/sober-homes/
You can exchange btc for currency though... Reddit karma can only be bought and accumulated.
There's statues of him for you to judge for yourself. He looked alright in my opinion. Notably, however, he was self-conscious about his baldness. According to Suetonius, combed his remaining hair all the way forwards sometimes, perhaps the original "combover."

He also wrote a book called "The Conquest of Gaul" which should give a good idea about his character.
Namecheap quietly raises .com renewal prices to $12.98/yr
There is a great recent Reply All podcast episode called Pain Funnel on shady rehabs. Diabolical, perverse-incentive capitalism at its finest. For example, giving drugs to teens kicked out of one rehab so that they can “piss dirty” to get accepted to a new detox/rehab. On top of the drugs, they give them a cash bonus for doing it. The rehabs then do stuff like urine screens three times per day which they can bill insurance at $5000 per screen. Insane!
Which corporations are as transparent, responsible, accountable, law abiding as the government of Denmark?
Sometimes the most effective way to get the attention of influential people is by selling your willingness of wanting to learn from them at any cost, even if that means working for free or for very little money.

Nope. Giving terrible advice, couching it in "my unpopular opinion", then backpedaling through "maybe this could work for you, who knows" is lazy writing and lazier thinking.
Calling on the phone to reserve a table is not a meaningful or valuable human interaction to me. I doubt it is for the person whose job it is to take that call.
Everyone here is afraid of hosting PII/HIPAA/etc data in the cloud on "someone else's" servers.

It's a very uphill battle.
cunning surely
A very small handful of cars on the market are competing to be a transportation appliance. The rest exist because people are willing to buy driving enjoyment, subjective quality, lifestyle projection, etc. above and beyond point A to point B transport.
I’m generally loathe to make blanket statements about organizations, because they are made up of many people with many motives...

But I’m pretty sure this is the entire purpose of the World Bank. Scam weak nations out of their resources and give them to extranational corporations.

I think they have a “do good” arm but the “extricate resources” arm has final say. If the do good arm ever, say, started returning large amounts of productive land to indigenous farmers, that program would be quietly killed.

The net effect of the do good arm is then just PR for the extricating of resources.
"thread for following an unverified reddit thread on something supposedly developing in real time" seems like a really bad fit for HN.
lycos!

No, really. even though free accounts ending. Actually not even sure if you can sign up at the moment. Has basically 'just worked' for years though, hopefully they stay in business. :/
see https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook and https://github.com/containers-everywhere/contain-google
Did you find any unexploded ordinance?
take a breath man
>including, actually just hosting Nextcloud or ownCloud on it.

But that's not an alternative anymore, just the same.
Replying to myself: Think about how many transactions--i.e., in legal terms, a contract--you participate in every day. Now imagine that every one of those contracts forced on you to essentially give up your access to the court system for resolving grievances with private companies. That's where I believe we're heading, especially now that it seems like the issue has been officially resolved (at least for jobs). It's really scary.
I didn't get a notification of the price increase, just saw my credit card was charged the increased amount on May 21st. I don't see anything on their site about an increase, just that "Renewal Price $12.98" now shows on their Transfer Domain Page. From another post I saw from a UK user it appears maybe this is a new policy from May 11, 2018?

I'm not a big fan of this behavior, and since Namecheap also doesn't support true 2FA I'm thinking of moving over to Namesilo or Porkbun, which also give free whois privacy, but I'd love other (cheap) suggestions!
In what sense is Chrome a monopoly?
And the list go on here https://www.coingecko.com/en/ico
As someone that tried to write a scraper against yelp for their reviews. (I wanted to do a recommendation engine to recommend new places based on what/who others liked and what I may liked, but haven't checked out yet).

They're VERY aggressive about banning/catching bots. They intentionally inflate their search rankings and will throw a 404 against requests for what they list. (I.e. they'll say that they've found 15 pages of results, but if you hit the 14/15th .. they'll throw a 404)

On the other side: You can't pull all of the reviews for a place via their api. You're limited to 3 per business.
Young men get hit pretty hard on insurance prices. It was looking like 100$ per month for me and was enough to push a car payment into the monthly expense range I didn't care to have. I work from home though, so I don't drive a lot and have the luxury of not owning a vehicle. I could take Lyfts everywhere I go and definitely come out ahead of a car payment + insurance.
"20mm round unsuccessful in penetrating concrete server building. Will repeat test with 150mm round."
Please don’t conflate competition with incentives.
What’s So Good About Original Sin?
Bubble sort is perfectly acceptable when you can only swap adjacent elements, which occasionally comes up in memory management.
I’m sorry we’ve made you feel that way. What is it that causes these feelings for you? I certainly won’t deny that we feel strongly that for the vast majority of customers membership is going to provide the best experience, and so that is primarily what we talk about. But we’ve done a fair bit of work to keep standalone vaults and licensing.

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AgileBits
For upgrades, patching, P1 issues, anything high-stress I prefer classical - Corelli, Locatelli, Handel.

For coding I usually like electronica. I go back and forth between ambient stuff, like Koan or H.U.V.A Network, and vocal trance which has a pleasing, hypnotic aspect.

I've tried binaural beats as well, they're not awful but they're not my go-to. Spotify has a ton of these kind of 2-hour tracks. Rainstorms can be nice as well.
That a lot of them are not run in good faith, and frankly most of them have zero evidence backing them up in terms of their effectiveness, all the while preying on some of the most vulnerable in the population.
My experience with Microsoft was different. Back in the day, I installed IIS server ( MS official web server) and it wiped my system. I called customer support and they said that I needed to reinstall to fix it. I re-installed everything. Installed IIS and everything was wiped again. Customer Support said that they could not help and I should wait for the next patch.
It's good to see Topolsky's new site gain attention. I really enjoy the work he's done the past decade.
This describes customers' relationships with most large technology companies.
The terms first, second and third world were coined during the cold war, during which those countries did exist.

First world were countries allied with the US.
Second world were countries allied with the USSR.
Third world were neutral countries.

So Switzerland, Ireland, and Sweden are third world countries.
Not-connecting on FB might not be enough, since FB can and will connect the dots and suggest attendees as friends based on them being at the same place at the same time (thanks to location tracking from apps and whatnot).
Cute base amount, $31337... :)
Can you give more examples :-p ?
Not only is free public transport unheard of, it's also pretty expensive. A ride in Barcelona is like 2€+ now!
> or build your own native web view shell and load your web code manually

After a few Cordova and Electron projects I'm going to try this approach in my next project.

I need to support 5 OS (Android, Chrome OS, iOS, macOS, Windows) and having a native UI for each platform is completely out of the question.

I think a web UI is a valid approach. Not only it reduces dev time, but it also adds responsive features not available anywhere else.

This is a great example of a web iOS done right:
https://medium.com/missive-app/our-dirty-little-secret-cross...
Agree. I like how it starts "if you had 2 sensors, here is how you could combine the measurements". Then goes on to say what if you only had 1 sensor, but you know the system evolves in a linear way, you can use that to make a prediction and treat it as the input from a second sensor.

That finally made me understand it better, and it's much shorter than most explanations without losing necessary details.

Also even though I took both ML and probability and statistics courses saying "it's just Bayesian inference to update the posterior" makes it more confusing for me.
My take on this is that React Native works fine for content-dominant (media, text) apps but maybe not for UI interaction-dominant (arcade games, heavy animations, gestures) ones. You share a very similar API (React) and possibly the business logic between web and mobile. Your project could get bogged down by many little details and idiosyncrasies of React Native so a clear scope and discipline is important.

One example is a Bluetooth-enabled iOS/Android app that I made (but did not publish to app stores). I was able to use a RN library for Bluetooth communication and interact with another device (a bathroom scale) in JavaScript. It was one of those "Wow, this is cool!" and "Man, this is pain!" moments. Note that I did not use create-react-native-app/Expo for this.

Another app, also iOS and Android, simply renders the content of my wife's Etsy store, including the pictures (published to both Apple and Google Play stores). It was done using create-react-native-app/Expo. I didn't like the dependence on the Expo site for building app packages. It's free and there for now but I'll have to "eject" the app in the future if the something were to happen to the site. I used an open-source RN components library which does a good job selecting default typefaces and sizes. There were still fiddly bits I had to poke at to make it look decent, but it was alright for something that I whipped up as quickly as I could. The documentation for the component library was not keeping up with the continuous changes React / React Native / the library itself so that was a pain.

Note that it can get a bit confusing keeping track of what you can and cannot do with create-react-native-app/Expo. You might have to scope the app appropriately until you feel ready to "eject" it from Expo and access the more lower-level RN APIs.

On the web side, I find that I can grok the React API more easily than most other SPA libs. So there's natural affinity for me to keep the API complexity down in the projects that I choose to do by preferring the React-* APIs in general.

I agree with @jqbx_jason's comment and RN was the only sensible (sane?) choice in my case for the 1-man projects. Some background: I have professional experience in Java, C#, C, JavaScript/ES6/TypeScript and few others, but no experience doing fully-native iOS and Android apps.

FWIW, Pinterest seems to be liking RN for their mobile apps: https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/supporting-react-n...
Also curious if someone has anything to say about Vue/Nativescript. That would be my choice as well. I'm constantly wondering why React Native gets all the attention when Nativescript seems to have so much going for it.
Oh, I didn't see that but looks like a great thread already! Many thanks!
They were 30 years ago. The term “1st world” and “2nd world” came to existence in the second half of the 20th century.

I’m only mentioning this as people usually attribute it to only economic power.
Not to be too meta, but the hardcover is $10 off right now if you get it from Amazon Prime. Great impulse buy.