skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone can make a cryptocurrency. They surely have to deal with the very clear and necessary risks associated with creating what will likely be an unregistered security. Adoption is another story entirely. The cryptocurrency scene has now gone through its 3rd or 4th wave of sh#tcoins and scams, so it's highly unlikely that there will be adoption at a level to be concerned about, unless the token provides real value. Existing tokens had to set their capital controls in the Genesis event, and those tokens that print money haphazardly, won't last. Token economics are delicate, and difficult to get right. In the case of Bitcoin, new tokens can only be minted according to the existing rules, which shift towards deflationary over time.
Debt isn’t being used to invest. It’s being used to fund current operations. Otherwise, yes, using debt to finance investment is a good thing. That isn’t what’s happening at Federal level.
If your software installer bundles crapware for any reason then you've completely lost the plot and nobody should trust your software ever again.
> In 2000, Yeager met actress Victoria Scott D'Angelo on a hiking trail in Nevada County. The pair started dating shortly thereafter, and married in August 2003. Subsequent to the commencement of their relationship, a bitter dispute arose between Yeager, his children and D'Angelo. The children contended that D'Angelo, 41 years Yeager's junior, had married him for his fortune. Yeager and D'Angelo both denied the charge. Litigation ensued, in which his children accused D'Angelo of "undue influence" on Yeager, and Yeager accused his children of diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars from his pension fund. In August 2008, the California Court of Appeal ruled for Yeager, finding that his daughter Susan had breached her duty as trustee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager#Personal_life
Still can't upload more than one file at a time using the web interface.
Not sure about the qualification for the term "serious", but we are making $1000 revenue each month serving hundreds of customers and all our backend is built completely on Google cloud functions.

https://aprl.la
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aprl-mens-clothing-network/i...

In fact, we had one of our API running in EC2 which recently migrated to cloud functions.
I like the standard library and (when necessary) the gorilla toolkit packages.
Yeah this quote sounds like something that someone would say when they don’t actually understand the underlying system.

It doesn’t follow that if you miss eight hours of sleep you’d need 16 to catch up - maybe some processes take a standard amount of time and don’t need to be repeated, it might be more efficient when you’re already asleep to fix things in an extra two hours than an entire extra eight.

Something is fishy with the quote’s assumptions. It strikes me as something probably untrue that we’d understand with more information about what sleep is actually doing.
I use these!
When DP came out in 2008 it already supported 4K and HDMI didn't.
How do these machines compare to trees? I understand those are good at removing CO2 from the atmosphere as well.
"The translation process is itself an art form."

Without question. I have also read books in several different translations and it is remarkable how different they can be from each other. In his notes, one translator said there is no such thing as "translating" a book from one language to another, what you are really doing is rewriting the book in another language.
The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen. Superbly written treatise.
Mars has half the escape velocity and a much thinner atmosphere. Just from the ideal rocket eqn the same reusable rocket flying from Mars can lift more than 4x the mass it can on Earth, and the comparison is even better when you look at drag and engine efficiency differences.

I don’t have the expertise to really compare asteroid mining to Mars, but I’m suspicious of the fixed infrastructure costs. Mining and refining takes a lot of mass. Replicating that mass for each object you want to mine or flying it from rock to rock both seem like significant costs. Perhaps we’ll find a big Goldilocks rock that’s near Earth, will stay near Earth for a long time without insanely expensive capture maneuvers, and contains all the materials we want, but I think Mars has a better shot.

Mars also has much friendlier conditions for propellant manufacturing, which is an important factor in these cheap launches.
If it counts, I read an introduction to the Fourier transformation and was blown away by its idea.
And you still don't remember that friends name?
For what it’s worth, I have a friend who is a native speaker of Japanese and a fluent English speaker of 40 years, who loves Murakami and has read a number of his books in both English and Japanese. She says the translations are spot on and extremely well done.
Thanks for caring. I asked UX to respond to the admin UX concerns. We're planning a first iteration for xunit in 11.2 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/17081#note_83...

GitLab now runs a copy of the rails stack under Gitaly because the git Go libraries don't support everything GitLab needs. So ironically moving to Go caused GitLab to use more memory. This will be fixed in Gitaly 1.1. There is no due date for that.
I don’t see how the Supreme Court can adjudicate cases without ideology. The entire point is that they are trying to interpret a 200-year-old document and apply it to modern situations. That generally requires having an operating philosophy of the founder’s intent, or of a more modern interpretation of how the meaning changes with the times.
Personally, I abandoned FileZilla after the prior incidents and would never consider installing it again.
Well, you'd hope the read-only functions like `every`, `map` etc don't mutate.

For the ones that do, it might be a good idea to provide examples of how to accomplish the same thing but without mutating. For example, show how to use `concat` where you'd use `push`.
Gibson was infuriated for a right reasons and the Mission Control was wrong. That's a good mission commander. Puts his crew's safety first. They should have allowed using uneencrypted transmission to send tile image for inspection.

STS-27 came really close to disintegrating while landing.

> STS-27 Atlantis was the most damaged launch-entry vehicle to return to Earth successfully.
Can you link to the issue? We're working on multiple things that might help monorepos.
Henry George: Progress and Poverty.

Explains how taxing land instead of labour is the path to a far better world. Versus now where progress means higher land prices which means poverty for those excluded from land.

Once nearly got to be mayor of New York. Sold 6 million copies (at the time only the bible outsold it).

https://www.aier.org/article/amazing-influence-henry-george-...

As recommended by Albert Einstein and many others.
What self-respecting literature enthusiast hasn't heard of Tolstoy?
Conversational guide to learn system design
Interesting would be the view of "How we sleep after consuming marihuana".
Admin of FileZilla,

Your reactions to this post deeply concern me. I do believe this is a serious problem you should at least entertain investigating whomever you have an agreement with in regards to bundling their stuff into your installer.

Those domains its communicating with have several hits on known malware/RATs reports. For instance, https://www.maltiverse.com/sample/a98b1 ... 38233c50b7.

Here is another that spawns the same type of .exe which turns out to be NJRAT malware -> https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/ ... mentId=120

Your defensive attitude is what alarms me the most. Almost as if you might care more about your bundle agreement profits than your users security/safety.

Hole in one. I wouldn’t trust those admins to make me a cup of tea, and I agree that their attitude reeks of deception for selfish reasons. Nobody should ever trust their software again, full stop.
Walking has never been feasible in the South US. It works in Cuba because Cuba is a small island with a lot of people. Density is forced, so you don’t need a car to get to everything — thus your walking trips are 10-20 minutes long.

Living in the south, it would take me 15 minutes walking just to leave my neighborhood. And most neighborhoods remotely outside the cities do not have sidewalks. So it’s a chicken-and-egg problem.

Just bear in mind most cities in the south (especially Texas) were very small prior to the mass adoption of automobiles and air conditioning. My hypothesis is that the car was required for large Texas cities to exist, and as a result the city has always been a sprawled mess.

So the real question is whether we should build cities this way in the first place? But it’s kind of an irrelevant question — we do and will continue to build cities this way regardless of it being a good idea or not.
Would be more amusing if they stayed, and OSHA inspectors and the local Hawaiian county's electrical code inspectors drove up there and knocked on the door.
AWS lambda running flask endpoints
Accepts a variety of geojson and json inputs and talks directly to both RDS and S3.

Used as a backend for 2 webapps , one is for viewing geospatial data and 1 for creating transport scenarios.
From yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17372773
I think that's the assumption people are making when they select the 130s range (which the original study apparently explained as "above average). More people aspire to socialise with their existing friends and family and be a bit smarter than them than aspire to trade their existing friends for what they perceive as a nerd clique (and the ability to solve really difficult mathematics problems isn't adequate compensation for that)
Sorry about that but hetzner are just chickens when it comes to dmca
I've read some of Tolstoy's stuff, but I'd not heard of this particular work. Wasn't that the question, about works, not authors?
Yeah, this is something I often associate with the SV bubble, but when I think back on it it's been ingrained in my upbringing from the beginning.
you better follow the convention then. just like with the ? methods.
It's hard to train someone not to do something that they already know they shouldn't do. Everyone knows they shouldn't touch bare wires, but unless you work with electrical circuits regularly, it's hard to develop the practices that keep you from accidentally brushing against an exposed wire.

And cutting over to the emergency generator is something that happens rarely.

It's unconscionable that they didn't have NEC compliant covers over all exposed wiring. And they shouldn't even be flipping breakers (unless interlocked) to transfer power, they should just be flipping a transfer switch.

If they really need to get to the wiring to fix something, it only takes a minute with a screwdriver to take off the cover.
Or you get two crops instead of one during the growing season. And you get more to eat. If protein is down 10%, but plant growth is up 15%, it would be possible to eat 10% more. For people getting barely enough food, that might be a good thing.
It's sad that FileZilla remains so popular long after the creator has chosen to monetize it with adware. I highly recommend any FileZilla user reading this should switch to WinSCP. It's free, open source, and not bundled with any crapware.
Well, damn. I didn't even know there were prior incidents. Ugh. I've used Filezilla within the last year.

What are good alternatives?
Suspicious?

Let’s call this what it really is: The FileZilla owners are actively encouraging users to install malware as a way to monetize. That is very clear.

Avoid FileZilla by all means.
> IRC is very much a centralised service even if you can host your own servers

IRC being an open protocol and having the option to run your own servers is what makes it decentralized. The various "major" IRC networks (EFnet, Freenode etc) are decentralized too, since they are isolated networks.

Slack offer neither of these - they own all servers, the protocol and controls the API (which is not the same as an open protocol).
From where I stand, Hispanic and Slavic literature is fairly unknown and underrated on the other side of the pond.

Ramón del Valle Inclán's "Lights of Bohemia": A great portrait of Madrid and the dirty guts of the Spain from 100 years ago, written in a gorgeously precise, dark and multifaceted range of vocabulary.

Ortega y Gasset's "Rebellion of the Masses". It is centered in the individual "I am me and my circumstances" and its evolution since the enlightenment.

Sapkowski's "Witcher". Look for a good translation, lots of Slavic mythology tidbits and wonderfully juicy curse words.

Stanislaw Lem's "The Star Diaries". Nice if you like to fantasize about buying pieces for your spaceship in a shopping centre or think about chair-like aliens with 11 different sexes (in the book).

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "A hundred years of solitude". The book is all about "realismo fantástico", joining the real and imaginary words in an unforgettable blend.
Well. I guess my firm isn't going to use filezilla anymore.

Too bad really.
You'd probably be surprised to find out how much it costs to replace one 2x4 in your house then. It's just a 2x4, right? How much could it cost?

Until you factor in the cost of tearing out the drywall, putting up a temporary support jack, tearing out the 2x4, putting the new one in (plus the cost of nails, of course), then running the electrical cables back through the new board, then replacing the drywall, and then of course painting the wall again.

But, you say, but you could save the extra cost and expense and labor by just not having drywall covering your 2x4s. That's certainly an option, and I'm sure some homeowners choose that.

But no, it's just a 2x4. It should be cheap, right? But when you add it all up, just another couple of dollars would buy an entire new wall!
Foreign:

* Life: a users manual by George s Perec.

* Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

* Auto-da-fe by Elias Canetti

Domestic:

These are harder because I feel like they’re all pretty well known, but maybe they’re not actually read. Like, known bc people have heard the name, but are not read as much anymore.

* Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

* Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

* Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Actually unknown (but super good) domestic:

* Stuff by Larry McMurtry (only famous for lonesome dove)
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17372773
Yep. This matches behavior I've seen many times before from other software companies.

In every circumstance I immediately ceased using anything made by them.
Nassim Taleb swears by this one too.
Basically everything by Buzzati is awesome and virtually unknown to foreigners.
I would suggest a short story collection though, like "sessanta racconti".

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessanta_racconti

It's up there with the best Asimov or Calvino or Borges: simple brilliant ideas, perfect execution.

And yes, CTM is awesome too!
I’ve started throwing a black t shirt over my eyes at night. Looks stupid, but it works.

1) I thought I had lost my ability to sleep in when needed because of my age. Turns out I’m just more sensitive to light.

2) It even helps in the middle of a dark night. It’s a little darker, a little quieter, a little warmer. There was a paper recently about how maybe REM sleep warms the brain. Maybe there was something to nightcaps as well.
I have an amibilight built around WS2812 LED strip and esp8266. I use it to display a colorful rotating gradient during a day and as a night light with red color.

Small Haskell program using reactive-banana-automation feeds simple nodemcu firmware every second with UDP packets. It's quite easy to build RGB light this way as only one signal wire is required.
You're right. The UX in GitLab's admin settings has lots of room for improvement. The good news here is that we now have a product manager devoted to this area, and have a number of improvements scheduled here that should help. A few I'm excited for that we're hoping to schedule for 11.2:

- Splitting the admin settings into multiple sub-pages to make it easier to visually parse (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/44998)

- Adding search for settings pages (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/41112)

- Prioritizing content on settings pages (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/47405)

The UX team has an epic on these improvements (https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/203), grateful for any feedback on specific issues. Thanks for pushing us here to improve.
The "Four Great Classic Novels" from 14th-18th century China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Chinese_Novels

Specifically:

Water Margin

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Journey to the West

Dream of the Red Chamber

They are referenced in everything in asian media and there a bajillion tv/movie adaptations of them but they are relatively unknown in the west.
I hope I don't come off as too glib but:

"Also bitcoin is issued by the consensus algorithm at will. And nobody else can create bitcoin."
In all kindness, the stream of thought without any structure in your comment suggests taking some time to lie back, relax, and let the world go by.

Chill out for 30 minutes by doing nothing.
Yes. This book is fantastic.
Jeff Raskin has a great essay on why “intuitive” usually means “familiar”, and while we think something like the mouse is intuitive, people were baffled by it when it was first employed. [1]

It’s a good read — one of my favorites on human computer interaction.

1: https://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html
My first thought is kill one, train a thousand

But this accident was caused by something that many people have already died from and has already been solved by common electrical code requirements.

If someone is going to die or be injured during one of these experiments, it shouldn't be from a well known risk that has simple mitigations.
CloudFlare Leaked Sensitive Data Across the Internet for Months (2017)
Jeff Raskin on “Intuitve Interfaces”
winscp has also previously bundled crapware (OpenCandy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinSCP#Advertisements_in_insta...
I don't see how that's in any way an argument against "the best standards don't always win".
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol

Written in 1030's by a Slovenian, it's a historical fiction novel set in the in 11th century what is now Iran. It tells the story of how a radical leader of an Islamic faction, based in the impenetrable mountain fortress "Alamut", manipulates young men into perfect obedience and turns them against his enemies through the use of drugs and a fake paradise full of women purporting to be heaven.

It is also one of the major inspirations for the Assassin's Creed series of games.
WinSCP is a great open alternative.

https://winscp.net/eng/index.php

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinSCP
Yeah, similar to how lodash makes it explicit in the docs. That would be great.
What factual information do you dispute from their responses?
I guess I meant circular reasoning.

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/34409/differe...
Four years ago, with no incidents since.
> I feel like I am supposed to care less with this fact.

It could be the author trying to make you care less, but there's little reason to assume that and it's counter to what journalism is about.

It could also be the author drawing attention to the fact that we're a society trying to solve letting rich people watch TV while their car drives before everyone else has basic needs. But this is also not their job outside of an editorial. (However, I'm free to bring it up here.)

Most likely it's neither. Journalists are descriptive. Being homeless stands out because it's dramatic and outside of most people's experience.
Yeah it's great

Plain text link: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=558058812
The problem is that the assumption of being in the top 2% is just above average is wrong.

If you are in the top 2% of anything in life you are quite exceptional.

For comparison being in the top 2% of any Olympic sport would land you a spot in most Olympic teams.

And to be clear this isn’t about if IQ is a good indicator of performance or not but rather about how people evaluate themselves.

If placing yourself in the top single digit percentiles is considered modest than I think we need to redefine modesty.
It really depends on the strain.
They're sorta on a sliding scale. I have a friend here in Texas who lost $900 a month in family benefits for finding a job that paid $4 an hour better.
Afaik Linux DEs treat gestures as hotkeys, hence the weirdness - you can't do them as gradually as with osx, it's all or nothing.a
It feels like you're trying to use snark to wiggle out of apologizing for the lynching of somebody who got uppity.

"There's near consensus you can't say a certain word if you're the wrong color. If you're the wrong color and you say the word you're not allowed to say, other people think it means something bad. Everybody knows it. Sometimes you might get away with being the wrong color and saying the special word. But you shouldn't push your luck too much! And this guy pushed his luck way too much! And they even gave him a chance to repent, and he just messed up again. So how much sympathy can we have for him?"
Note I said "in the US", which I believe is a geographical restriction that applies, not "Americans".
C2Rust: translate C into Rust code
The HN mods seem to have some form of issue with our disagreement and have downvoted and flagged this entire thread.
The same restrictions apply to the NSA, and we all know how much that mattered to them. Why do you think the CIA is different?
Candide by Voltairre , really short drama, funny with a really unique point of view of pestilence.
Confessions by Rousseau, superb biography of an amazing life.
Zeno's conscience, a psycho analysts novel with a different point of view.
Yes, I tried to acknowledge this by writing "Likewise for direct messages with one other user". I think the author of the original anti-TLS piece was too focused on "the common case of a large heterogeneous IRC channel" to the exclusion of other cases, which I agree are very real!
This one is removing CO2 from the atmosphere
Perhaps you are suffering from Blub? http://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox One reason for wanting to shift databases is testing. The unit tests might be running on the developers own sqlite instances because running them on the company-wide SQL Server installation is prohibitive.

A well-written ORM generally do not introduce much complexity. For example, C# Linq expressions (yes, I know they are used for many other tasks than db access) aren't more complex than the equivalent sql statements.
They also have a history of doing this crap:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinSCP#Advertisements_in_insta...
The Egyptian[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egyptian
Yes but 130 is already at the near top most successful professionals are well below that.

Half the population is below 100 IQ with over a third being between 85 and 100.

Top higher education institutions only score slightly above 115 on average 130 which is a whole bracket over that is exceptional even for places that are selectively biased towards higher IQ scores.
The question was "What are some great books that are relatively unknown in the United States?"

Although certain 1984 memes (like "Big Brother") are well-known, the book itself is not. Most Americans, if they've read any Orwell, have only read Animal Farm; and other concepts from 1984 (the memory hole, two minutes hate) are completely unheard of... again, because the book is not actually well-known.
You can connect Windows runners to the cloud. I made an example project here:

https://gitlab.com/allthethings/allthethings.gitlab.io
Making a Window Manager (hardware)
There is pretty much no freeware download site that doesn't bundle crapware. I guess all freeware is untrustworthy by your logic.

https://www.howtogeek.com/207692/yes-every-freeware-download...