skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've been holding onto a LOT, it's possible to spend the entire length of the experience processing everything you've lived up to that point. I've seen it in first-time MDMA experiences, notably a friend in his late 20s who'd only recently 'come out of his shell' so to speak.

I think even in that case, his experience was probably wildly useful, despite bearing little to no resemblance to the happy empathic presentation that's commonly associated with MDMA.

My answer is 'yeah, probably.' But ideally this hypothetical couple should ask someone experienced who knows them better.
Icon and menu design are definitely improved. But there is something to be said for the simple colors and low-res detailing of Win 95 and Mac OS 9.
I cross solid yellow lines to give them more room than the law asks you to.
Can we just be done with passwords?
I am a developer, and I've been doing this for living for the past 6 years.

I am tired of having to write authentication models where you take in UN + PW, then send them a TXT with a 6-digit code, to issue a session. And every password needs to be salted and encrypted. And every time someone logs in, I have to do this expensive hash to matching check.

Why can't we just take out the password?

Want to login... Great!
Step 1) Put in your Email/Username
Step 2) Click continue
Step 3) We just sent you a 6-digit alphanumeric code (that expires in 1 min), enter it.

As a user, why should I have to remember (or in my case use 1Password for) every password? I know people that write it in TXT docs or on pieces of paper because it's too much for them.
And as a developer, why should I worry about handing this VERY sensitive information about my client.

There are some security concerns here, in form of brute forcing. Here is quick solution, allow each code to be entered twice, then force a re-send of the code. Exponentially throttle after 1st resend.

And here is some quick, back of the napkin math (so correct me if I'm wrong), but given [a-Z] and [0-9], we have 26 + 10 possible choices (I'm making this case insensitive).
Probability that someone can brute force it will be:

1/36^6 + 1/(36^6-1) = 1/2176782336 + 1/2176782335 = 9.1878732e-10

Am I crazy for thinking this?
Is there a reason why devs don't do this?
Is there something I'm missing about this model's security?
What can we do to help?
Captive Portal architecture standardization, apparently.

It SHALL be IP layer or higher, so it can work with any physical medium.
Sometimes this discussion arises, and as I remember it, there are two kind of "Helium" that should be discussed.

The first case is the common helium, used to fill up baloons and so on. It is mixed with many others gases, it is common, the price is very low, and despite being used to many things, it isn't running out, supplies aren't getting empty.

The second case is the "helium" as a pure gas, composed by helium and nothing else (except for traces of other gases). This is rare, this is expansive, this is hard to get (and it costs a lot to extract pure helium from the atmosphere). This is the helium that we are "running out", despite being able to extract it from sources, as the price might and will increase.
Big oil asks government to protect its Texas facilities from climate change
Stanford is not Ivy League.
Entirely agree that many of our opinions are often not based on much in the way of facts.

But to try to do do better: what's your source on fires?
https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow#who-uses-airflow

:)
It's "cojones" :-)
gw I think you replied to wrong thread.
Yeah that is great and you should say it, when it matters. It's just that none of you are journalists who are write regularly and are expected by their audience to be reasonably neutral and who then disclose potential random conflicts in a standardized parenthetical.

You can just say 'I work at Google on whatnot and here is what I know/think/etc'. Lighthearted Suggestion: There's no need at all to write like HK-47 or Dwight Schrute.
Intel Launches Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake CPUs for Laptops
I think you're right - all generic advice, __by definition__ is not going to be specific and its utility is questionable.

The problem doesn't just lie in the answer, but the question itself. When you ask a question such as "How can I do well in life?", that lends itself to generic bullshit advice.

My problem with Sam Altman is that he keeps perpetuating these kinds of questions as if he is going to help people. I am disagreeing with both what he is trying to appoint as a question, i.e. "How to success with a startup?" and his generic answers to his generic questions.

It helps nobody. Stop asking these questions.
> Tape is the purest implementation of magnetic storage concepts. As such it is going to improve faster than HDDs

I agree with the former, but I think your conclusion misses a critical piece of technology development: volume (which drives funding).

Of course, HDD volume is going down, while SSD volume is going up. That may well give tape enough of a comparitive advantage, if it hasn't already.

> The only threat to tape is public perception of it being "old"

For a definition of "public" narrowed a bit to include only/mostly computer professionals, I'd add "slow" as a mis-perception.

Other perceptions I, personally, have is that it's expensive and inflexible, mostly in the context of startup companies. I don't believe that's any kind of threat to tape, however, since it's likely these same companies will gladly over-pay for a cloud version of tape.
I'm pretty sure Caterina Fake[1] has talked about problems with signing up for everything from Facebook to buying plane tickets.

These names need to be on those "things programmers believe about names that are false" lists closer to the top[2].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterina_Fake
[2] - https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
I believe this is a dying problem. The next social media will be based around a real life user.

First name, last name, photo, home address(or similar). Everything verified or at least enough for people to feel like they are talking to real people.

Given how easily reddit is astroturfed by Aldi, Tmobile, Samsung, Tesla, Donald Trump, and more, the next gen social media will revolve around real people rather than usernames and corporate accounts.
Prison Strike 2018: Tipping the Scale of the Conversation
I wish more teams considered it important to expose the tests as a module or subpackage that is included in distribution, such as what numpy does with numpy.test(‘full’) [0].

When you are knee deep in some long-running docker container with some data analysis going on in an interactive console and get hit by a weird bug, it can be so, so helpful to easily run unit tests post-installation to verify everything is setup correctly.

It can also be a good step in CI if you build minimal docker containers that should house an installation of the package at the given commit, and have e.g. Jenkins build the container with the package installed from that commit and then launch the container with a simple command like

python -c “import mymodule; mymodule.test()”

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9200727/is-there-a-test-...
Non-discrimination is a core value of Open Source
Please don't bring the brutalist style of internet political battle onto this site. It's guaranteed to lead to the flaming shit we see below.

There are lots of other places on the web where you can practice this craft, but on HN we're trying to avoid the systemic effects it produces.
There's only 69,000 commits in the main repo. About 68,000 message threads, so a million messages is likely.
No it doesn't, which seems to eliminate a lot of use cases. Merging is listed in the nice-to-have-in-the-future section.
Im only familiar with Java and python, do CLU or Modula-3 do much differently? I heard C++ engineers generally hate exceptions, partially because they're unchecked.
Huh, so is it just a rhyme? The translation definitely makes it sound like it was originally a euphemism, if only because it seems such a strange thing to write :)
Obligatory link to Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Names:
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Intel Launches Whiskey Lake-U and Amber Lake-Y: New MacBook CPUs?
this thing is great. don't have time to listen to it right now and see if it's changed at all, but when i listened to it last summer, i loved it. feels all too real.

i opened a radio show with 5 minutes of it once. then i sent it to some friends and half of them thought my email had been hacked and used to send out a phishing link (i felt bad after the fact for making it seem a little more ok to click on sketchy links).
The car still starts without auto insurance. There are still states where auto insurance isn’t even compulsory.

You can’t legislate civility. Attempting to force it with technology is even less effective.
If you post ideological trolling like this again we will ban you.

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow those rules when posting here.
Could the helium shortage spurt a race to mining on the Moon?
Can we not let the market sort it out? If we don't interfere in the free trade of helium and plausibly commit to never do so, the current price will always be the best estimate of the future price that we have, discounted by the expected interest rate. And thus if we are going to be running out and that is going to cause a shortage, the price will go up now and incentivize conservation.
Sure we can. It's the "A" in AR-15.

What you're probably thinking of is "automatic".
Companies aren't paying just to show you ads. They are almost always paying for clicks on those ads that lead users to their website.

That tracking allows them to build more accurate models on what ads a user will click on and then tailor ads to the user causing increased ad click rates which results in more revenue.

And I'm not really concerned about the big companies. I'm concerned about all the news agencies that are barely scraping by with targeted advertising revenue. Remove the targeting and web journalism will get even worse as they have to layoff more people and resort to even more clickbaity news.
on the other hand, they would be learning in a less realistic environment...
Is there a market for helium futures?
By and large, most of the "ecstasy"/"MDMA" sold at the street level is a mix of cheap research chemicals and amphetamines. I volunteered at a tent that tested drugs at festivals, and for every 10 people that thought they had pure MDMA maybe 1-2 in 10 tested positive for containing any MDMA
If you post personal attacks like these again we will ban you.

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> yet-dreamed-up branch of science

Neuroscience
Yes, I replied to Tim. I'm suggesting it's a dumb, apish standard practice. Write like the human beings that you are! "I work at Google, such and such happened".
An interesting thing I learned a few years ago, don't remember where exactly, is that when people say things like, "We only have x years of material y left", what they are actually saying is that the known sources of that material will last for the next `y` years.

There is almost always another way to get the raw materials, it just doesn't currently make sense to look for them because there are existing sources that are already available and meeting demand.
I run an Airflow instance that does millions of tasks per month across dozens of DAGs. There's some performance tuning involved in the configuration file and of course you need the underlying resources available but Airflow has scaled to this level well for us.

If you are able to reproduce and can post to the dev mailing list, we are happy to help... especially so if it gets you off of a proprietary tool written in Perl ;).

1.10 was just released and adds a ton of commits. I'd really encourage you to give Airflow another shot if you have the time.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker (South Park, The Book of Mormon) briefly discussing how bad the system is: https://youtu.be/nDzblNKjsO0 [3m24s]
This talk is worth more than 2 Millions Medium Articles.
If only there was some theory of government that limited the government's power.

Something that specifically granted powers to the government, and no other powers, so we wouldn't have to worry about this kind of stuff in the future when an ill-informed majority wants to make decisions for the rest of us.
I'd give time for a tiny bsd/linux/rtos with a minuscule gui layer with bit of macos and windows. A secure, a bit modern reincarnation of the old T.Rexes
Number 4 is exceedingly important and it's counter to popular thought. Bootstrapping is painful but if you start growing fast you won't have to seek them out the VC's will find you.
As a scuba diver I often use >2000 liters of helium on a single open circuit deep dive. I feel kind of bad about wasting a (mostly) non-renewable resource but with rebreathers still being expensive and dangerous there isn't any good alternative.
Anyone interested in RPGs owes it to themselves to apply for a character on Arm. One of the best and most seriously-undertaken computer games of all time.
OP could move from AWS to bare metal, and trade some resiliency for runway.
The upcoming videos in this series are mostly presented by startup founders, employees, and investors speaking from their personal experience. To your point about generic advice not working for startups, his advice seems distilled down to the most general advice that does work for startups. Given the number YC has incubated he probably has a good grasp on that. To me these videos are like candy, intuitive but great reminders nonetheless.
Ask HN: Why is the discussion of Lerna and ICE being censored?
This morning there has been discussion of a very interesting case of attempted open source activism, but the article is now flagged on HN. Why??
I think whether the cat genie works for you or not depends on if your cats primarily eat wet food or dry food. The more liquid in their excretions, the less likely I suspect it is to work properly.
Haven't been able to verify your claim "all nuclear reactors also produce Helium as a by product". While Helium manufacture is a given for about all forms of fusion (if fusion ever takes off we'll barely be able to supply our party balloon demand since there's so little material needed for fusion).

Fission (as one would find in a nuclear power reactor) does not appear to generate helium. Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 appear to be the major products, the former eventually turning into Barium-137 (no alpha decay), and the latter eventually to Zirconium-90 (no alpha decay).
I think you just leave if theyre gone two weeks. It's not like you didn't give notice.
For some reason the desktop version has some background music (mobile does not it seems?) which makes it so much more relaxing.
I don't think that accounts for lazy or ignorant programmers trying to limit joke/abusive accounts, though. And that's what the problem has always been.
> The use case for Julia (scripting language for number crunchers) is a tiny fraction of what PLs are used for.

Julia is a pretty awesome general purpose PL; it's motivating use may have been for number crunchers, but the result is strength in a number of areas of much broader application.
bummer (but still cool), thought it is about the program sketch. Is there something good which is doing that from mac program "sketch"->"code" ?
Russia's Putin softens pension reforms after outcry
We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It
SciAm recently had a good article about these policies and the challenges they face:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/surrendering-to-r...
> far more exciting party balloons filled with hydrogen gas instead.

Far more exciting, of course, because the balloons will explode. My kind of party!
> And the appropriate entity to ensure that parents have the ability to police their children's behaviour is the government.

Parents already have the ability to police their children's behavior. Just because people make decisions about their children that you disagree with doesn't mean there needs to be a law.
That's because your interpretation of the idea is wrong. The algorithm will be only taking social graph into account.. while you (end user) will have full control on how. It's not much different from undervaluing a comment on HN.
Or Christopher Null: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/
U.S. government loses landmark vaccine lawsuit
My obligatory Coltrane comment. I actually didn't hear any Coltrane or even jazz at least a decade into seriously learning/practicing music. My first introduction to legato-based guitar playing was Allan Holdsworth, who used to play these beautiful monstrous never-ending buttery lines with luscious and unusual chords in harmony. I spent a while imitating that style of playing. Holdsworth had put some really great instructional material and in one interview he mentions how he never really wanted to play the guitar, but he couldn't really afford a saxophone to play like Coltrane.

It's kinda funny because Coltrane and Holdsworth are possibly at the opposite end of a spectrum when it comes to the way they approach harmony and rhythm, and while they play completely different instruments(one being a sax and the other being an electric guitar) their melodic lines through heavy legato use might as well be played by the same person.

I think I'll go listen to 'A Love Supreme' now, followed by Holdsworth's 'Secrets'.
Why spend money in air purifiers when you can invest in things that reduce the emissions of pollutants at the source?

Doesn't the production and usage of air purifiers contribute to air pollution over its entire product life cycle?
Markets aren't perfect in situations like this.
Appreciate the feedback. From my end, I have been both accused of name-dropping (ooh, look at Mr special, he works at Google!) and of having an unstated agenda (hey, he's a phony, he works there!).

I found that simply stating is the compromise. I am not using my employer.ent to justify my opinion, just making my alignment clear.

And in fact, I align with Google AND with Kubernetes.
Migration policy really has nothing to do with this surveillance law.
A similar problem happens when the name itself is only considered offensive in certain cultures, but is completely benign in the culture of the person with the name. I remember two gaming related incidents where people were blocked from making accounts; one was a south american using "negro" as his username being prevented from creating an account, even though english speakers with the username "black" are fine; the other was a muslim with the first name "Jihad" who couldn't create a playstation account. A muslim coworker told me that "jihad" being synonymous with "holy war" is pretty much just a western thing, it could also be referring to an internal struggle, so it's similar to christians naming a child "Chastity".
Bismuth selenide could improve efficiency of computer processing and memory
Perhaps they should use this to rebuild the UI for Azure. It might be better.
Why spend money in air purifiers when you can invest in things that reduce the emissions of pollutants at the source?

Don't production, usage and waste treatment of air purifiers contribute to air pollution over their entire product life cycle?
Craftsmanship: The Alternative to the Four Hour Work Week Mindset
This is a little too real.
Picture this: Camera with no lens
Even accepting your premise as as true (which I don't necessarily), social media isn't the only space in which this problem appears.

The article itself mentions "members of British Parliament [being] blocked from viewing the Sexual Offences Bill they had proposed by a government spam filter"[0] and "the London Horniman museum’s emails [being] flagged because systems thought they meant 'horny man'"[1].

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_politics/2723851.stm
[1] http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/533121.Name_of_museum_is_c...
Synesthesia: The Sound of Style
Right? I feel like we'd do a lot of service to the arguments here if we could just get people to stop saying "the US" like it is some monolithic entity
MeWe: Next-Gen Social Networking
No, it didn't. Even Obama said he was anti-gay marriage in 2008.and California, one of the most liberal states, banned gay marriage in 2008 with prop 8: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(20.... Gay marriage divided people on both sides of the aisle. Conservatives were slower to move in favor of it...but that's sort of the definition of conservative (keep things status quo). It wasn't a major platform for Trump, who chose to make immigration a much bigger issue.

Alex Jones is a conspiracy theorist shock jock. He's no more representative of conservatism than Howard Stern is of liberalism. He is not representative of the kind of conservatism that wins elections. Trump being an anomaly (and I wouldn't say Trump is nearly as batty as Jones), you've got a history of folks like Romney, McCain, Bush 1 & Jr, Dole, and Reagan in recent history carrying the election. Even those names though, don't encompass the nuance of the range of views of tens of millions of people in this country.
I think it's more likely that the next social media will use social graphs more effectively for excluding poor content.

'Retweeting' needs to carry social risk to be high quality. Right now all social media is just a mad scramble for short-term attention metrics.
You might be aware already (I see that you're an attorney), but at least in California, honking is illegal except for safety purposes.

> (a) The driver of a motor vehicle when reasonably necessary to insure safe operation shall give audible warning with his horn.

> (b) The horn shall not otherwise be used, except as a theft alarm system which operates as specified in Article 13 (commencing with Section 28085) of this chapter.

Honking when someone doesn't notice a green light seems perfectly reasonable, if technically illegal. But I'm glad we have that law (albeit not much enforcement), since most honking just conveys impatience and increases stress for everyone without communicating anything useful.
Semantics aside, I think it serves nearly the same purpose to immediately exclude 99.999999% of the population.
At the moment I haven't found any other OSS alternatives. Maybe Chef or ansible. I'll ask my friend Warren.
Detecting Print Requests with JavaScript
> I agree with you, but I also think it's a legitimate complaint that crud apps take so much time to build.

I'm not sure it is; no one really wants pure CRUD apps, they want CRUD + some useful processing; optimizing for the efficiency of making pure CRUD apps would probably be a net loss for real-world apps, which is why even though people keep making tools that make pure CRUD near zero effort, they don't become dominant tools (or, at least, that function of the tool isn't dominant.)
Is your relationship with your cofounder healthy? Read my post and find out
Kinda falls off that moral high horse when it's stored on the Microsoft-owned GitHub.
Ah, I may have completely missed that earlier. Whoops.
> Take the case of Jennifer Null, for instance, whose name was frequently rejected in input fields because the program treated her last name as a form of code, rather than text

For all those who say javascript the language is fine: ^^
I don't; in fact, I very much appreciate it. This is a kind of thing I'd pursue if I didn't already have higher-priority work and personal projects, so I'd love if someone else could try this out.
That ignores storm surges, which can be massive.
'Mr. Robot' to End with Season 4 on USA Network (Exclusive)
i believe it is the flame potential and the disregard for freedom of association that are unsanguine...
Why Apple Might Make a Dual-SIM iPhone – The Verge
Hit too close to home.