skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a nice bit of observation and sleuthwork, but he kinda punts at the end with his conclusion. Who is paying $3000-$15000 for matchmaking in the era of internet dating?

I fully believe there are a lot of desperate low-info lonely people out there who would try a dating website from a random lawn sign. And I believe that there are a lot of desperate wealthy people out there that would pay 3-15k for a dating service. But I really doubt these sets intersect at a high enough rate to make this a profitable endeavor. And the people willing to pay 3-15k are not looking to pay a random lawn sign caliber company.

Most likely the majority of their revenue comes from reselling the info they acquire in various shady methods.
That article has a link to https://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx/. You can report the incident there. More people should know about this.
> But at the same time shutting out the poor from college unless they're also straight-A students and somehow

So, stop federally guaranteeing (and issuing) student loans (which mostly don't go to the poor) and increase need-based, and public-service-based, grants. Widely available no-need loans drive up prices but also insulate people from the immediate effects at a time when they are cognitively least able to appropriately assess long-term costs.
Another example then: college students forget a lot they learn inside of a few years. The only thing they hold for a significant amount of time is the prerequisite knowledge they needed to learn everything else they were taught. This applies especially to subjects largely unrelated to their degree / interests.
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When the difference between the two cars amounts to banal gadgetry of little utility, yes.
It bothers me immensely when people say `if you don't like it just open your own business`.

There's only so much demand to go around for a service and a huge amount of demand is taken up by already established businesses in that space.

So now these businesses need people to do the work but are unwilling to pay the people a fair portion of the profit.

It's fair to make a profit but when you have mostly captured a regional market and you're not willing to pay wages to spread the opportunity to people who could also fill the demand that you captured then that's not right.

A successful business is largely a part of having good connections, luck, or some sort of exceptional product/service beyond something a provider with a million dollars can offer.

Like 80% or more (I dont know the exact numbers)in ofmall business fail due to these reasons.
It mentions harming a native biosphere that may exist.
Searching for life robotically would take centuries not "years or decades." And the idea that human colonization will wait until we're sure we're not disturbing nature is a non-starter. We'll go to the moon when we are technically and financially able.

And nothing in the article indicates why terraforming is unfeasible, except the caveat of "with available technology."
For anyone interested in building one, one of our user's published the project as a complete kit including PCBs, parts and stencil.
See https://aisler.net/p/HVNNCYON

Disclaimer, co-founder of aisler here but not affiliate with the BASIC engine project
"As Memes Evolve, Journalists Are Struggling To Keep Up"
r/Javascript/PHP/g # 7 years ago

r/Javascript/Visual Basic/g # 14 years ago

r/Javascript/Basic/g # 21 years ago

Us old/wise/thoughtful folk have denigrated the tools that young/foolish/impetuous kids use since we were they.

We need both: yes, these young people made some mistakes, but I'm in awe at what they achieved. They built, triaged and fixed a massively successful campaign in the time I would have taken scoping out the requirements. Oh, and gladhandled Google into paying the tab... impressive!

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According to the Nall Report[0] for 2014 from the Airplane Owners and Pilots Association’s Air Safety Institute, “Pilot-related causes consistently account for about 75% of non-commercial fixed-wing [general-aviation] accidents.” Those causes are fuel management, weather, takeoff and climb, maneuvering, descent/approach, landing, and other (inadequate preflight inspection, accidents while taxiing, attempted go-arounds, loss of engine power due to failure to use carburetor heat, controlled flight into terrain [CFIT], unexplained loss of control in cruise, pilot impairment by alcohol and/or drugs, pilot incapacitation, in-flight suicide, midair collisions, collisions between airplanes and ground vehicles, and collision between a glider and tow plane). The top four categories by number of fatal and non-fatal accidents were, in order, landing, other pilot-related, takeoff and climb, and fuel management. Most weather accidents were flights conducted under visual flight rules that entered instrument meteorological conditions (VFR into IMC). Legally flying in IMC requires all of an instrument rating, a suitably equipped aircraft, a pilot with instrument currency (adequate recent experience in actual or simulated IMC), and an IFR flight plan.

[0]: https://www.aopa.org/-/media/files/aopa/home/training-and-sa...

All that said, the results above are likely not representative of a corporate jet flying the CEO of Apple around. Within the FAA’s jurisdiction, piloting an aircraft above 12,500 pounds max gross takeoff weight requires a type rating, i.e., certification that the pilot is qualified to fly that specific type of airplane. Many such airplanes will require two pilots, and jets commonly require the pilot in command at least to hold an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate. The G650 that Jobs owned[1] has a MGTOW of 20,000 pounds.

[1]: https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N2N

Whereas about half of the accidents described above involved pilots with a private certificate only — and insurance companies hate VFR-only pilots because of the accident rate — any pilot qualified to fly a corporate jet will have additional training, ratings, and thousands more flight hours compared to Joe Average Private Pilot smashing bugs in a Cessna single. The G650 will have two such highly trained pilots: a type-rated ATP PIC and a type-rated first officer (at least commercial, probably ATP). This makes the operation not twice as safe but thousands of times safer.
Depends on how you define children, how you define labor, and how you define good.
Why so complicated?

Just ask them to do i++ and never stop. That is also infinity.

(or in simpler words, imagine you have a table than you put one apple to it, then one again, amd again and again and never stop. And yes, they would also soon understand, that the table needs to be infinitly big)

edit: of course it is about the sum of the process. they should imagine the pile of things or the number if you never stop adding.
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It seems people want to be doing this on their phone - that's the problem.
> ...there are times when we are waiting for something, and there's nothing able to be done currently. Especially when the immediate tasks are already doled out and your leader doesn't want to pull more work into the current sprint. Subsequent tasks could be too large or complex to be pulled in. Current tasks could be unable to be broken up any further...

I find this concept very strange. Maybe it's just me, but aside from one time where the agency I worked for briefly had no ongoing client work, I don't think I've ever felt like there was no work for me to do. At all my past jobs we have always had a large list of small, low-priority tickets that people can pull from if they are blocked on their larger tasks. Is this not the case at some companies?
Any kind of wrist “support” will severely limit your movement range. If you don’t slouch it should be easy to just bring the keyboard closer to your body, to the edge of the desk. I’ve made a sketch in case it helps: http://svgur.com/s/7e6

Or see this piano posture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InqmH-o1cX0

Around 6:03–6:06 you can see the type of finger flexing chiclet keyboards and wrist pads encourage.
Apart from a few philosophical design decisions (e.g. packet manager, update cycles) the main point of distros is how they are preconfigured, which default tools are installed for what job, etc. Sure I can just deinstall a couple dozen apps and then reinstall new ones doing the same job, but why should I do that when another distro directly ships what I want?

Same about being up to date. always want bleeding edge stuff that might be unstable at times, or change its GUI ever so slightly all the time? Go for arch Linux. Don't mind running a somewhat older version of most tools for some time but have it more stable? Pick Debian. Etc ..
I notice a lot of Americans love referring to Canada as “Canadia”. I can’t make a bit of sense out of it, but by your logic we should update the maps already.
I always thought it was because of the air pressure as you try to smash them... that's why fly swatters are perforated?
I didn't even realize that. I guess that with hopes of finding new life at their highest ever, we wouldn't want to contaminate that (if that's the right way to say it).
including state owned companies, which is really just government assets themselves, isn't really relevant.
Your windows might be out of date. It fails for me too.
> but $2/package is average to above average. Amazon typically pays around $1.50 for Prime packages

That just means working for Amazon is even more abysmal. Last mile logistics is shitty to human beings period.
This is great. There is a huge opportunity to create an app to create modern-day memes. They all have certain aesthetics. Many of them follow templates that are correlated with the content. Some earn their cred from simply having a certain over-compressed JPEG vibe. I'll admit I am addicted to surfin memes. My wife and I will sit for hours in silence, passing them back and forth and just laughing constantly.

So, to all the folks here saying GIMP or MSPaint and call it a day ... you are missing the boat. The modern-day instagram/twitter memes are an entirely new vector of communication. The bar is getting lower, it will get lower, and there is a way to capitalize on this.

One day soon an app will exist that will allow you to make memes the same way instagram allows you to tap one finger and make a photo look like it was taken on a polaroid camera. If you do it right to where you can produce content like heckoffsupreme, sonny5ideup, tanksinatra, middleclassfancy, gayvapeshark, etc... with a few taps and some original verbage you'd make a killing.

Also super glad to see heckoffsupreme get an honorable mention. They are some of the best, no doubt.
The sort of people who make memes often only have a phone.
This is not about cellular automata? I feel misled.

Can it be renamed to something more indicative of virtualization?
We definitely don't want to discourage you from contributing. It also doesn't necessarily have to be money, you could stake reputation you've previously earned.

The dupes problem is super important, in my opinion, because it's currently an unpleasant experience for both sides. Not getting paid out for valid work that has simply been reported before (but not disclosed) can make doing this kind of research as a freelancer unfeasible, while triaging duplicate reports burns time for dev teams.

We've tried to build out in-scope/out-of-scope functionality that makes it super simple to keep your scopes current (could even update automatically via API). We definitely want to build out additional functionality that makes publicly acknowledging known, 'won't fix', and non-impactful issues super easy, perhaps by pulling most of the information from a duplicate report. Do you think that’d be useful?

The other thing we want to really focus on is the disclosure process, and encouraging companies to do it as often and soon as possible.
I thought there was one clear assertion in there:

1) Previously, terraforming was thought to be possible, given there being enough trapped greenhouse gasses to establish an atmosphere

2) Recently, it was shown that there is not enough trapped greenhouse gasses to establish an atmosphere

3) Therefore, terraforming Mars is seen as far less possible (or alternatively, would require much more advanced technology) than before.
I am a bit shocked because until now Lubuntu was awesome at serving the older devices.

Lubuntu was working great on one of the first netbooks from 2007 where other distributions out of the box were not.

If people want modular or super configurable then Arch Linux has that use case pretty well covered does it not?
I would pay good money for this for Nikon. I'm a wedding photographer and on the D750 the primary ISO button is right next to a "quality" button. Because of this, with one slip you can change from shooting raw + high quality jpeg to only basic quality jpeg. The button doesn't need to exist. Nobody ever needed to quickly change their quality settings. Most people would probably never change it. The only indication you've done this is the number of shots you can take on your current SD card will go up.

You can enable another button to be your ISO button, but it's a bit less handy to use and quite small.

Best of all, the predecessor to the D750 has the ISO and quality buttons next to each other but in a slightly different place. Fun stuff if you only upgraded one camera.
Ask HN: If history repeats itself, who were the software developers of the past?
By 'in the past' I mean prior to the last century.
Nitpicking: This article writes 2⋅ω where what's meant is ω⋅2.
> Those were never necessary for operational purposes. If you were selling your users to get Google's analytics, that's a different matter.

What about simple session cookies? You need to give end-users the information on how your service uses cookies, if I understand it correctly.

> Don't collect user's data, then you don't need privacy statements nor EULAs about that.

That would be optimal, of course – and I'm not even sure if it saves you from having a privacy statement – but if you have something like a login form, you'll need to collect email addresses (or something else users can use to reset their lost passwords). This is personal information, which is subject to GDPR.

> Are you Microsoft or Homebrew team that you steal users' data unless opted out?

GDPR mandates opt-in to almost everything. And you need to be explicit about what you are doing with the data, in order to be able to provide opt-in.

> Open source that doesn't steal users' data is already GDPR-compatible.

I don't think it's that simple.
> AAA games which barely seem to give Windows the time of day

This was briefly true in the mid-2000s, but this is no longer the case. PC is resurgent and pretty much every non-Japanese, non-first party Sony/Nintendo game comes to Windows now, and it usually plays pretty well. Even the Japanese publishers are starting to release more and more on PC (see Sega).
Mine fails.

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So it may be a bad idea? Seems a little premature to make an absolute statement without any support.
Not every company is that way. There are places (often in education or government work) where the organization has specifically drafted policies that restrain the ability of the organization to fire employees at-will, and that will give an under-performing employee guidance and a process to improve work before being fired, or will give laid off employees a right of preferential re-hire if a job that they are qualified for opens up. Those policies are sometimes bypassed in extreme cases, such as workplace sexual harassment, or the like, but they can provide some assurance to an employee that they aren't going to be fired for arbitrary or capricious reasons.
I think it's pretty neat that you have banned imports for md5, rc4, and des, but why not also add SHA1 to the list?
I think this is the correct way to do standups for most teams. It's asynchronous and non-intrusive, and there generally isn't any benefit from doing the standup in person anyway (aside from seeing people's faces if your team is remote).
The thing is, however, that GNOME and KDE are not indistinguishable - they each have very different goals, ideas on how the desktop should be, how to design applications and UI, what sort of technologies to use and develop, etc and all these end up making two very different desktop environments. As a result, they (and other DEs and WMs, of course) cater to different users and while there are some users that can use both (and all, or at least most of the other DEs/WMs) this sort of "competition" helps the users who align more with what each DE (and WM) provides. In other words, they provide options.

There are people who prefer GNOME over KDE, would you force those people to use KDE? There are people who prefer KDE over GNOME, would you force those people to use GNOME? There are people who prefer Window Maker over any desktop environment, would you force them to use KDE or GNOME? There are people who prefer i3 over any DE or WM that uses an overlapping window UI paradigm, would you force them to use KDE or GNOME or Window Maker?

If you did so, you'd be making their experience with their computers worse - you'd be acting against their choices. If people didn't value having options, they'd flock to a single desktop environment (or WM) and the rest would be a mere curiosity at most. But this doesn't happen.

And of course what Slashdot predicted didn't happen either: in addition to GNOME and KDE we also have MATE, XFCE, Budgie, Pantheon, Enlightenment, Cinnamon, LXDE/LXQt and a TON of standalone window managers to choose from - we even got the rising popularity of tiled window managers, which was certainly not a thing back when KDE and GNOME were new.
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I currently pay $68/month for 3Mbps down, 1Mbps up from Verizon DSL. They're my only option for internet except for satellite. Our local cable company would need to run half a mile of cable to our house to hook us up, so they refuse to serve us.

Downloading at 1GB/hr and paying the same price as our local cable company's gigabit is sad in 2018.
That's part of what I was getting at. But in addition to the math you're talking about, there are some pretty big psychological factors at play here, and I think we neglect them at our own or each other's peril.

If you ever want to be comfortable (nevermind wealthy for the moment), you must overcome the urge to spend money that you have 'lying around'. The forced austerity of paying off your loans as fast as you can is a different kind of discipline that is useful, but it avoids temptation. When you pay off your loans you make that money disappear, in a much more concrete way than for instance setting up automatic transfers.

Eventually, you have to learn to resist that temptation, and I think it's healthier and more efficient to exercise those muscles long before you hit a net worth of $1. You have to get comfortable having liquid assets, and still live below your means. To spend it when it's wise to do so instead of when you want to. If you can do that your wife can quit her job, or you can take a chance on that new job that is in a new town, or might explode in a fiery cataclysm. You can remodel your kitchen to make your house worth more than you spent on the remodel.

Even simple stuff like putting aside money for a new TV or laptop and then not buying it until there's a sale can make a huge difference in your spending money. Or bigger, like a car. Don't get the one without air conditioning because it's the color you like. Just wait.
So you're saying change the simplicity of their product and give their data away?

That's literally their entire business model.

They could make so much money with all that data but stay true to their original goals of providing a classifieds service.
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I don't think so. See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17675426 I'm on 10.0.17134.191 whereas it fails for people on both 10.0.17134.191 and 10.0.17134.167.
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I believe Import Resolvers[0] solve this issue.

[0] https://github.com/perlin-network/life#import-resolvers
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10^0.043429 ~= e^0.1

10^0.0043429 ~= e^0.01

10^0.00043429 ~= e^0.001

So that gives some insight into the algorithm that is being used
The part that I've been asking myself for years, is how do you create an atmosphere without (or almost without, can't remember) a magnetic field. Is it possible or we would have to generate one?
Build vs Buy has no universal answer.

Do you build? Or do you buy into the support level, the features, the bugs, the availability, the security, etc.
I think you should read again my comment, the "we" doesn't refer to anything you mentioned.

"We" as people in developed countries who have the luxury of having kids in high school with smartphone.

Let me rephrase that.

People in developed countries don't work the same way as a 100 years ago. (farming, manufacturing, etc.)

People in developed countries don't entertain the same way s a 100 years ago. (social media, TV, etc.)

Almost everything is different. So, why are we trying to teach the same way as a 100 years ago?
This article mentions Clarence "Kelly" Johnson. If you don't know who he is and care to learn more about one of the best engineers that ever lived (SR-71 is his work), check out his book: https://www.amazon.com/Kelly-More-Than-Share-All/dp/08747449...

His second in command at Lockheed, a man named Ben Rich also wrote a very good book: https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/...
If you remove everything that doesn't break the widget then everything left is functional. Pursing minimalism equals pursuing function. Therefore engineering equals applying minimalism to technology.
I see where you're coming from, but let's be honest, that's still way faster and easier than the BASIC Engine, unless the author offers a way to order pre-built sets.
"To save you scrolling"
Nice link. It is incredibly interesting that the Google founders were so outspoken against advertising.

I’d love a detailed account of the process which derailed these moral ideals. Anyone?
Like tides?

What Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides! | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwChk4S99i4
As I said in another reply: If you don't have the discipline to avoid dipping into your investments, you need to start addressing that problem.

Otherwise you'll still be stuck in the loop. You'll get a little breathing room but you'll never really be free of the worry.
What are the other implementation of the idea?
Half of the games you mentioned released in 2012, two in 2013, and one in 2016. I like playing recent games, too. This is mostly not possible on Linux.
This organization doesn't provide feedback so don't be surprised if you ask for it and don't hear anything.
Please explain in what way Apple is "a black hole that sucks everything around it".
Because mallory.com (who's impersonating valery.com by ripping off the site design, and has a valid certificate for mallory.com) is running a full-up copy of Chrome in a VM, and is clicking the signin link just like a user would do.

I assume what Duo is referring to, though, is that they send through the IP address that your push request is coming from.

So if a user is observant and knows their public IP, they should see the difference.
Yeah, I've been having trouble with LaserShip too, but another alternative is to ship to an Amazon locker if you have one nearby.
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