skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that a lot of this is actually being driven by new accounting standards (ASC 606 - Revenue Recognition), basically the new rules state that for subscription revenue to be recognized over time, the software must be materially disabled at the end of the period. This matters mainly b/c it has tax implications. If companies don't disable the software the entire value of the customer's contract must be recognized up front (as well as taxed upfront), this is true even if the payments are still made monthly. Paying taxes now on revenue that comes in later isn't good for cashflows and as such it creates a business problem that trickles down to consumers.
Egil's Saga
Thanks for this list and I'm full agreement.

Chrome developer tools will do all of these except

> * Record execution history and state so you can debug after the fact for hard non reproducible bugs.

^ Which would frankly be awesome. Various libraries provide their own userland support for this but it's all fragmented with hugely varying levels of quality and flexibility, but out of the box support would make me so happy (unless this already exists in which case, someone please enlighten me!).
If installing a rootkit looks the same as installing normal everyday software, I'd say there is at least some blame to be put on the OS.
Could you provide some evidence to back up your statement? As far as I am aware, antibiotics directly impact bacteria via impairing DNA, ribosomal, or cell wall synthesis. The human body does break down antibiotics via the liver, and it’s rate can be increased by numerous drugs (but not normally antibiotics) and this would not be seen as resistance.

I don’t think the concept of human resistance to antimicrobrials is consistent with conventional biological knowledge.
Bit.ly is a good example: .ly was the Libyan dns until the political changes there.
Bit.ly is now bitly.com

.ly is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Libya. In 2011, the bit.ly address was set to redirect to bitly.com.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly

Therefore relying on using convenient ccTLD suffixes from third word states as part of a western world url might not be a great idea longer term depending on political change and hostile actions.
Is it just me or are the conclusion recommendations in this article all completely reaching?

I would hate stores to implement half of the recommendations. Swiping my smartphone on entry?!

I'd prefer to shop at the distributor's warehouse.
The Mars Curiosity Rover Took a Selfie During an Epic Dust Storm
Not 50 milliseconds, 5 microseconds. Something like 10,000 cycles, or a few hundred to a thousand cycles per byte of source code (depending on average line length).
Shape conceptualization vs. shape recognition
BrowserStack's Open Source Program
>I would like to understand why drilling stopped at the depth it did. Was it something to do with the material at that depth, something to do with the drill, some other factor?

At that depth, pressure and temperature, the rock behaved like plastic and not solid and the drill was ineffective since the hole would immediately close as they pulled the drill. So they had to give up.
Holding Liberty accountable
I may just be an irritable old man, but I'd be delighted to see more campaigning for the public right to a quiet environment.
You're speaking as if there are only two models: pay a lot for everything or pay for individual channels or shows. I want neither of those things. I want the Spotify model, where I pay 9.99 per month and I get 80% of all music across genres. I'm willing to pay for 1-2 of such services but not 5-6.
Online Political Election Voting System Based on Blockchain Technology
I keep coming back this book and I think it's wonderful, but calling this a comfort book seems wrong somehow.

I think I would say Consider Phlebas. Flamboyant space opera.
Why the Finns don't want to be happy
Wait, fat is bad for you? All this time I thought women were running from me because of my money./s
AMD Seems do be doing well.
> A total ban on any agent's fees being charged to the tenant

I got around this by negotiating directly with the landlord to renew the tenancy without involving the agent. Just because the agent sends you a letter saying you owe them £90 doesn't make it true, they actually have very little power.
Yeah no problem, I had seen the Android TV box at WalMart and said to myself: if this thing is awesome I'm gifting one to my parents, now they want two more... They've been asking for it to replace cable and they're not extremely tech savvy or anything! It's also a 4K capable device, so it's pretty good, I've had it for almost 2 years now.

I otherwise would of had to use a Raspberry Pi with Kodi (and yes, the Android TV can run Kodi, much smoother).
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
The price is fixed by supply and demand. If you don’t want to rent it for anything less than X, what are you going to do if you don’t find anyone willing to pay that much?

Other people may want to rent their properties for less for multiple reasons, including that the sum of their expenses may be less than yours.

In any other business, it’s not necessarily the case that your revenue covers your costs. Unprofitable businesses exist (and may be even “expected” in cyclical sectors).
Used to be the Swallows and Amazon series (when I was much younger).

Then it was the 2 memoirs by Patrick Leigh Fermor: "A Time of Gifts" and "Between the Woods and the Water".

Lately it's the Aubrey-Maturin by Patrick O'Brian series which I have re-read multiple times.
Its more why their code was written that way.
Hybrid intelligence that manages and spends cryptoassets on your long-term goals
The Zhuangzi
Should an airline let a seat fly empty, or accept a price that’s less than the cost plus profit of the seat?
Pre-iOS 7 apps prove that non-boring design can work on smartphones too.
Currently Anatham. Couldn’t tell why exactly but there’s something about the society described in the novel that I find very comforting.
I mean, I general don't think you should write fuzzers for absolutely everything (most contained functions => doesn't touch a lot of other stuff and few parameters with a known parameter space)

The general solution is to use whatever testing methodology you are comfortable, that is very effective, very efficient and covers a lot of problem space. Of course no testing method does that so you'll have to constantly balance whatever works best (which is why I think pure TDD is overrated)
A broad overview of how modern Linux systems boot
I made an account just to answer this - ServiceNow.

Uuuugh.
The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson.
‘Like’ is an infix now, which is un-like-believably innovative
Pratchett discworld series. Started when I was young and I still enjoy rereading them all, still spot some new things in them now and again too.
Thanks for the input, the adage follow the jobs seems apt here, I'll have to get used to the scale and commute but it seems Scarborough/Toronto/Markham is the plan. At least I have a goal to aim for.
Not a single book, but The Dresden Files series is really good. The first few books are a little on the weak side, but the author gets better and better and the world building is very deep. There's gotta be a zillion characters interacting to a point where it feels real. Good arc going on too. It's a wizard detective series set in modern times.
It's more like "playing it hard to get". That can be considered "being a dick" depending on the point of view. But it's the same idea as "why aren't all paintings painted as realistically as they can"

Or why slang evolves in some contexts even when not need (though not the only reason).

So it's linguistic jazz playing an underlying story and decorating it on top. But it's definitely not for everybody.
To Stay Alive by Michel Houellebecq
I have a hard time believing the U.S. "cyberwarriors" were ever truly interested in defense. It seemed as though the U.S. government was interested in weakening encryption standards and encouraging backdoors that spies, law enforcement, and criminals could all exploit.

edit: didn't the NSA intentionally withheld zerodays to exploit them itself, putting everyone at risk?
I'm no geologist, but 180C doesn't sound hot enough to make rock behave like plastic.

Ninja-edit: It looks like the temperature / pressure isn't so problematic because of rock moving around, but instead to do with cooling the drill bit (which you can imagine gets quite hot). If temperatures increase, cooling the bit becomes difficult, and at high-pressures, pumping the coolant around becomes very difficult.

Source: https://geekswipe.net/research/engineering/how-deep-can-we-d...
The rent is higher but people will still take it for a lot of reasons. Inability to get approved for a mortgage, not wanting to deal with the sales process if you expect to move around a lot, etc.

I tried to sell my old house and despite being priced low just to get it sold, it sat on the market after we had already moved. We ended up deciding to see if we could rent it but weren’t sure how the process would go. In our area we didn’t see any home rentals listed except for a couple that were excessive (double what a mortgage would cost).

After months of not selling, we listed it for rent at a price I thought nobody would pay and it rented in 1 day, sight unseen. The renters insisted on paying a deposit as soon as possible because they didn’t want to lose the property.

For a first dip into the home rental market, I was shocked at how high the demand was.
For me it is Zodiac, Snow Crash and Diamond Age.
World Cup Calendar Blocker
Post-launch:

What's your goal? Do you want to test whether your update works correctly on many devices? Do you want to get ideas for new features? How many users do you have?

I have about 10,000 active users. I don't do much testing. I test myself on an Android device and an iPhone. Since my app is built with Ionic and based on Cordova, it works anyways and real crashes are not to expected.

Feedback is easy: I just wait until people write me an email. It's funny: Sometimes, you don't hear about a feature request or some issue for months. Then 2-3 people write you within a day. Then nothing again.

Back when I started, I implemented a lot of features. Now I basically reject almost every feature request, unless it comes up extremely often in emails. I sometimes take notes, but most of the time, I type a quick reply, thanking for the suggestion, archive the email and only try to get a feeling for what people want.

Obviously, this has its limits, but since I know my core users and what they want, it works for me.

If there's a serious bug, people will let you know soon enough.
In the UK, people are giving up on cash
ACID 2.0 – Associative, Commutative, Idempotent, Distributed
In other words, roll back the Thatcherite "assured shorthold tenancy".

The Scottish tenancy reform already changed the ability to evict to one of a list of specified reasons: https://rentingscotland.org/landlords/eviction-grounds-for-t...
The Gospel of Selfless Action
True, users actually installing software on their computers is extremely rare and well outside the scope of intended use for windows. It’s surprising even that Microsoft made it possible at all to do such a poweruser task on a regular computer.
the prophet by khalil gibran
XRP Is Not a Security, US Treasury Bureau FinCEN Classify XRP as a Currency
I care deeply about my craft. My code is as simple to understand as I can possibly make it. I spend almost zero time debugging. (OK, last week I had a WTF??? bug. The black screen turned out to be the lens cap still on.)

I feel no need to validate my achievements.

(This is a little bit trollish, forgive me.) You could use a matrix of pots, pans and knife work as a proxy for a chefs competency I suppose. Or, you know, you could taste the food he creates.
I've used UserTesting.com for previous tests. If your product affects a lowest-common-denominator user or you are testing mainly UX/interaction, I'd recommend it. At that time I paid around $20 per usability test (I bought a packet of multiple sessions). Testers recorded using my product for 5 to 10 minutes and it was great watching them stumble over what I had designed. They were also trained to be over-communicative and think aloud, which really helped. In total I did four or five of them before I had my first release (since it was still somewhat expensive, I tried to ration my tests by fixing all previous UX bugs before issuing another one). It's been a long time, but if I recall correctly, a few times the testers weren't tech-competent enough to actually do the test, but when I asked UserTesting for a credit or refund to re-do the test because the tester was "bad", they provided one without hassle.

You need to be make it as easy as possible to run your user test, because a tester will give up on roadblocks that take more than 60 seconds to solve.

I was developing a language learning product, and so needed testers who were interested in language X. In the end, the people I found using the filter [Interested in X language, native English] weren't actually interested in language X. Rather, they came across as people who had accepted the filter to make an extra buck.

However, it was good enough for a random internet trial. If I wanted better results I had to do it in person (which I also recommend).
Currently at 33rd book. Couldn't agree more.
F-Secure to buy MWR InfoSecurity for ~$106M+
The stuff he quoted seems to make a strong case that the behaviour they implement was the intended behaviour prior to Skylake, why else specifically call it out in the newer manuals?

Would be interested to know why you think the code was always broken. Perhaps Intel define a preferred algorithm they failed to implement?
Yes, and so does Xinhua and China daily...kind of.
> That's assuming you finance your property with debt and let someone else pay for your debt. If you either happen to own a property you don't use, or own the property you live in, it makes perfect sense.

If you happen to own a property, but not use it, then you can either:

a) rent it out, or

b) sell it, and invest your proceeds according to your preferred risk/reward preferences.

In an efficient free market, for similar risk you get similar reward; So, if the reward for real-estate is 3% with essentially no risk, you're generally able to get the same thing by selling and putting the money in bank / low risk stock portfolio.

Alternatively, if you can't get 3% in other places, everyone will look to buy houses and rent them out (as an investment) in order to get those 3%. That's why the risk/reward profile equalizes across asset classes.

What GP was describing is basic math and economics. The existing state of ownership only matters in the sense that changing it introduces economic friction (ownership deduction, property transfer taxes, title transfer, realtor and lawyer fees, etc). Other than that, it's just math.
Counterpoint: A recent Kurzgesagt video suggests that we may be able to deploy bacteriophages (bacteria-attacking viruses) to combat superbugs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3tsmFsrOg

Note: I'm not a doctor/biologist/etc., so I cannot comment on the details of this claim (e.g. how far away we are from a widely deployed phage-based treatment).
The Wiki claims the mud slurry they were pumping out was also 'bubbling with hydrogen.'

Potentially, some extra energy to go with your geothermal energy.
Sullivan's Cove was best whisky and one of the Limeburners best international whisky.

Despite this, you can't find the former at Sydney Airport's duty free (Heinemann) and only two NAS of the latter. These NAS are not even on sale on Limeburners' own website.

In comparison, both Kavalan and Amrut were widely, internationally distributed and marketed after their awards. I've seen both being aggressively pushed at whisky bars all around the world. The former is owned by a Taiwanese family group allegedly clearing half a billion a year in revenue, the latter by an Indian conglomerate specialising in the low end, high volume part of the market for half a century until they launched the eponymous single malt. And of course the Japanese names are all backed by giant keiretsus with the means to go big and global and even acquire the competition [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/13/japan-sunto...
It would be interesting to see the output on the back of firetrucks or the divider that didn't get detected.

Was it just not sure enough or did it not register at all?
Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_Hell_hoax
I usually hang out in the kitchen at our shared office space and ask people. If that's not enough, then I'll start visiting friends' offices for team breakfast or post-work beers and do the same.
1990s were also the times when Russians got very superstitious.
You could easily find examples of this - for example in any textbook threaded socket server design (thread pool contending on accept())
It depends on how the resistance works. Some forms of resistance require active effort by the bacterium (for example efflux pumps), and you would expect that in the absence of an antibiotic they would tend to be lost by natural selection. But other forms of resistance are just minor mutations stopping the antibiotic from binding or whatever, and these probably would remain at least in some fraction of the bacterial population as they are more or less neutral.
This is probably how the typical executive thinks in those retailers. “Hmm.. I need to use big data and personalization to create a better customer experience, I know a genius idea that will do that! Swipe their smartphones!”
I am an Asian. I am against systematic denial of anyone. I say let anyone attend the school of their choice, using online access to overcome space constraints.

As an Asian who've experienced discrimination first hand, I am saddened that necessary differences in the gravity of error correction, as applied to group discrimination, is not obvious to everyone. Correcting the effects of slavery is much more important because its effects are much more pervasive. Getting rejected by a top school is not as dire for a group as a while, especially for someone in a group that is not even a minority at those schools. But I could see how someone could say what you said (but hopefully with at least a bit of explanation to back it up?).

Although the "denial of opportunity" seem systematic in both cases - Asians applying to Ivy League schools and enslaved African Americans in my examples - the latter is not due to space constraints. In contrast, Asians have not been or are under-represented. To me, that fact justifies a top school's effort to make access fairer to historically under-represented groups, whose cultural tendencies have been shaped long-term by outright denial.
> So could we not "renew" some antibiotics by simply not using them for 5 to 10 years?

I'm fairly sure I've come across this idea before. Oh here's an example:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-antibiotic-rotation

Seems like the problem is how long it takes to lose the resistance. Probably a few decades rather than a few years. And you'd need all the world to stop, which just isn't going to happen in Asia, Africa, South America where you can just buy a couple of pills from the local pharmacist if that's all you can afford. Not an easy problem to deal with sadly.
The Princess Bride, by William Goldman.

I found the book after I saw the film, and it was a revelation that even the action sequences are better in the book.
I was curious about that too. It might just be too expensive to pump water down and back to extract power.
“False Identity” – (first part here) – unmasks ‘soft Jihad’ in America
YouTube Serves Putin
https://imgur.com/epRa9du
Please help disseminating information that Youtube serves Kremlin and tries to hide the fact that LGBTQ people are routinely persecuted in Russia simple because they have long hair or earrings.
"We, as professionals, should consider whiteboarding as an insult.

Just walk away."

Absolutely disagree.

There are tons of developers who have many years under their belt and have glaring holes in their skillsets, or have a complete skillset mismatch, or who are simply not very bright.

Conversely, there are some people who are absolutely brilliant, or deeply knowledgable in some areas, and this is one way to possibly determine this.

Though a whiteboard discussion is not always going to be entirely efficient, and can be used to test all the wrong things - it is an opportunity to talk with someone directly about the kinds of problems they will solve.

Any developer that won't do whiteboard work is displaying 'negative signals' and you should not hire them.

Of course, asking potential hires ridiculously difficult or specific questions which essentially tests their ability to memorize CS algorithms is futile as well ... but whiteboard chats are generally positive and it's why all the best companies use them.
180C sounds like a rock that somehow got into the oven and can be easily removed with mitts on, not something like 1,000C lava.

In other words I'm confused by why 180C stopped the drilling process.
I was expecting CPUs to become slower because of the Meltdown/Spectre problems, not this.
Ah, then what is your point if they call out American aggression anyways because that aligns with the power elite interest (as they did during the Iraq war)?
Poetry's always nice for familiarity and rereadability. Perhaps Shakespeare's Sonnets.
Ask HN: How would you convince highly paid engineers to join your startup
Music is, in the last 15 years, demonstrably homogenising though (in regards to what could be considered mainstream).

So at least in that regard it's arguably much worse than it was 15 years ago when many different genres were alive and well.
The bigger Cryptocurrencies get, the worse they perform: BIS
Hi, thanks for point this, I understand this now:). Thinking about renaming the repository, 'utfgraph' sounds good? or please suggest any other name.
In the past (when I was still a solo developer), after being 90% confident the code won't completely break the environment or do something screwy with user data, sticking the code in production and funneling 50% of the requests to it while watching NewRelic.

There are no better user testers than your users, and the risk is only moderate. I could always pull the server down and restore the previous version while trying to fix whatever I broke in the deployment.

But if you aren't doing SaaS, user testing as a solo developer is not really feasible. The best user testing I can think of that doesn't "cost" is a Beta/RC Program for your users to volunteer to get potentially broke software for a discount or just early feature releases. For this to work though, you have to have enough users.
iPhone SE 2 release date, news, price and leaks
That's not entirely true - "proper" detectors did detect a "tremor".

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/world/americas/mexico-soc...
Pretty sure plenty of things are objectively worse than they were before. Being able to afford a house in most western cities, for one.
To my knowledge influencers rarely travel to "cool" places. They travel to family friendly, safe places. And safe in multiple meanings in both "people are safe here" and "this place is safe for me as influencer since noone will be offended".

My family used to travel a lot and we went to a lot of family-unsafe places at times (like in-the-wilderniss campsites in southern africa where you can't leave the RV because there is snakes and wild animals outside or climbing up several vulcanoes in iceland and I mean 'climb' not 'walk up a slope')

Those are actually cool places.