skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cal Newport “Deep work” - unique mind map that's totally worth checking out
I really wish I could find a good solution for generic wildcard forwarding of email my registrar provides

I'd move everything to CloudFlare instantly if I could find a way to get *@mydomain.com for all mess of domains without having to run my own email server or pay a bunch of money per domain.
SSL/TLS downgrade attack when HSTS is not enabled.
The only direction that benefits miners is the direction where they have the maximum potential for profit by selling the coins they earn through transaction fees.

This will inevitably be the network which most people are transacting on.

The actual incentives are a bit skewed currently because transaction fees are dwarfed by the block subsidy.
I worry terrorists will potentially discover the properties of the Higgs' boson first and create a false-vacuum bubble nucleation bomb. ;)

Registering RC planes and drones is security theater because the pinheads can't defend against a, surprise-surprise, unregistered flying whatever used as a bomb. Newsflash: terrorists aren't going to register their flying machine, and will probably steal it and put some unsuspecting honest owner in jeopardy.

It's curious Republicans are so eager to sell-out Americans' rights and their supposed "core values" by bringing government into a hobby as pointless to regulate or enforce as crochet needles. Don't they have better things to do, like kill some poor people by kicking them off MedicAid?
On the contrary, it works for substantial jobs. I used it for hiring security engineers with great success. I then used it for project manager and manager of compliance, and it worked with astonishing success. In particular, the compliance manager job is _mostly_ about getting results from people across the organization that do not report to them.

Folks have built highly specialized company teams with this and little or no interviews.
Alphabet’s Chronicle launches an enterprise version of VirusTotal
Only had problems when a classmate was running routed.

Oh, and all authorized IPs were in a public address space.
One of the neat things of instances w/ this scale of memory is that we can once again start avoiding the perils of distributed computation. Because you have immense data locality, a lot of computations can be parallelized much more efficiently if they involve large sequences of trivially parallelizable tasks that are short-lived.
FWIW, Interval Research had William Bricken as a consultant from 1993-2000 on Losp Deductive Engine, logic circuit design based on Laws of Form.

http://iconicmath.com/logic/semiconductors/

http://iconicmath.com/mypdfs/15p-bricken.120903.pdf

Bricken is the fellow who discovered the "Bricken Basis":

A((B)) = AB
A() = ()
A(AB) = A(B)

This is the most parsimonious symbolic representation of Logic (yet found.) LoF with the Bricken basis is a more efficient notation than the standard ones. For example, it permits writing a SAT solver that does not require its inputs to be in normal form.[1] A proof in LoF notation is typically one or two orders of magnitude shorter than one using standard notation.

I'm pretty sure this stuff is the future of digital hardware.

[1] http://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Correcet_Programming.html
> The professional across the street with access to the 5 foot wide 150 pound hexacopter with the gyrostabilized 4k camera mount and an effective range measured in miles probably should have some kind of license.

1) that category of person already had to have a license (a license I hold) before this new bill and does require testing.

2) that size drone weighs nothing near 150lb. I have a commercial grade 5 foot octocopter with advanced gyro and a professional grade dSLR and fully loaded (drone, battery, comms, gyro, camera and lens) it’s under 25lbs.
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To flip the scenario: How would you feel if Jack Ma had bought Yosemite in 1991, set up the valley as a private retreat, lived down in the Ahwahnee until his death, and had his widow donate it to the federal government?

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If the government had never set aside Yosemite as a park, and it had been private land that Jack Ma bought, I would be thankful for him to donate it.

It would be terrible conservation policy to rely on private individuals to donate land. But if people do, I would be thankful.

The fact that Jack Ma is a Chinese national feels like an irrelevant distraction. Why would that affect my gratitude?
He wanted to work on super capacitors in his PhD, but he realized that somebody would work on it anyways, and it's better for him to work on Paypal.

Watch the video of Sal Khan(fron Khan Academy) interviewing Elon musk.
I think I know my reason.

I used RSS to follow some of very niche amateur literary/diary/essays blogs in my native tongue Hindi. Some stopped, some moved to social media, and some “upgraded” to English. That was about it.
Me.com launch? That happened under Jobs' watch...
Fewer spam texts (I hope).
You mean there is no loss of valuable contributions when people get Brendon Eiche'd for reasons unrelated to open source project?
https://youtu.be/sQ3g2zS6Tuk?t=3m14s
> To flip the scenario: How would you feel if Jack Ma had bought Yosemite in 1991, set up the valley as a private retreat, lived down in the Ahwahnee until his death, and had his widow donate it to the federal government?

"The park system benefited from private contributions even before Congress created the National Park Service on August 25, 1916. In 1907 Mr. and Mrs. William Kent donated what became Muir Woods National Monument, California; and in June 1916 a group formed by George B. Dorr, Charles W. Eliot, and others gave the land for Sieur de Monts National Monument in Maine, the forerunner of Acadia National Park. These were the first of many parks created or enlarged by philanthropy." https://www.nps.gov/articles/philanthropy-and-the-national-p...

The heirs of a forest of old growth Red Woods in California--preserved for generations by a family who refused to clear cut, instead judicially harvesting timber--recently executed a land swap with a conservation organization. The forest is one of the most pristine in the state, with trees rivaling those of famous Muir Woods. https://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/Family-s-legenda...

I presume Chile has a concept of eminent domain? Perhaps the issue isn't with the people who bought up that land, it's with the government (and the people who supported it) who failed to acquire it. Or perhaps there was no issue at all, exclusion being the price a single generation paid so countless subsequent generations could enjoy that environment.
This depends a lot where you live. Possibly in the US this is true but currently here in Australia to get an MBP that matches the top spec Dell XPS15 would cost at least $1k aud more. And still not have the touchscreen the dell has.

That didn't always used to be the case. Previously at launch an MBP was often quite keenly priced for the specs. But the last couple of generations have been badly overpriced.
You failed to mention that the decision to drop them was made unilaterally by the CEO, and he said it was because he woke up in a bad mood that day. That was why people were talking about it; all you have to do is get on the bad side of someone at the company and they'll try to effectively erase you from the internet, and people will defend it by saying "it's a private business, they can't be forced to host anyone". It was a very visible case of a gatekeeper to a large portion of the internet showing that they're willing to decide what information people can see.
I agree with his ideas but I still think I'd rather have his old page back [1].

I think my main issue is the monospaced font which is good for code but it's not very pleasant in the eyes when we're talking about a blog post or any paragraphs.

[1] http://fabiensanglard.net/Compile_Like_Its_1992/index.php
And he didn’t even provide an affiliate link! I’m impressed.
In the USA, this is how it typically works. People who are enrolled in PhD programs are called "PhD students." Once they pass their advancement to candidacy exam, they are called "PhD Candidates." In both cases, they are enrolled in a PhD program. Typically people are accepted directly to PhD programs and they are not just admitted as generic graduate students.
Bay Area home sales tank 10 percent in August – slowest pace in 7 years
As a good example of getting a discount, I've made several purchases through purse.io and saved plenty of money. A proper immediate and legal use-case, that people can exchange their otherwise illiquid Amazon credits for Bitcoin by taking a small loss.
Check this real-world example out: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/

and CISO of LinkedIn, Cory Scott: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/evaluating-technical-talent-t...
Dreamhost is a gamble. Be careful, there are far better hosts.
Please don't break the site guidelines by going on about downvoting. As they say, it does no good and makes boring reading. And once the unfairly downvoted comment has been corrected by other users, your comment lingers on inaccurately.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18087888

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yep, I do that often. It's apparently a very underrated tool because it can pretty much download most of the video content out there on the internet at large. But many people have no idea about it, even technical people.
There's nothing wrong with layer 2 as long as they aren't try to pass it off as a scaling solution. If it isn't on-chain, it's not Bitcoin.

> Maybe so do bigger blocks, for now, but certainly at the cost of decentralization

You seem to think that BTC, a coin with a single client implementation controlled by a handful of devs, some of which are employed by a company who's value proposition is in direct conflict with Bitcoin's success, is decentralized. It is not. It couldn't be further from it.

There is a reason Bitcoin Cash is still around and surrounded by drama in the same ways Bitcoin used to be. It's because everyone who was fighting to make Bitcoin "magic internet money" got tired of being censored and forked off in an attempt to fire those few core devs getting in the way of progress. I would recommend you start by reading about the censorship. The censorship is the only reason Bitcoin Cash exists today.
Generally because the folks attacking don’t have the first clue anything what they are talking about. Those opposed are buying into pure FUD. Just read through the comments here alone, we have folks talking about regulations didn’t exist (they do), that licensing/testing isn’t required (it is, for the categories generally needing it), thinking a palm sized drone endangers their life (it doesn’t, unless they were being stupid), that commercials drones weigh 150lbs (almost none are remotely even close, 99% are under 25lbs, 99.9% are under 50lbs), etc etc.
You could probably use Mailgun with a routing rule to map *@yourdomain.com to a single email address.
Yes, my mistake! Thanks for the correction.
I've used it to differentiate between uninitialized (undefined), and a new record (null, not set yet) in my routing... navigation triggers a reducer action that will "reset" the underlying state if the id doesn't match the loaded record. In the case of a "/type/create" the "id" is null. In the case of "/type/:id/edit" the "id" is ":id" from the route. I can then reset to an object with an undefined Id, and the component can call an action to dispatch a load.

Probably a convoluted example, however there are distinctions that can be used between the two. Similar to how I've used null + boolean as a tristate with default, true, false where null is default. Undefinied or uninitialized is useful beyond simply null.
Sometimes.

I studied physics at a well respected, internationally recognized university, and had made all the right connections to get into a masters/PhD programme for particle physics. I ended up not pursuing that path because at the time I found programming & software development more interesting, and more lucrative (this latter is still true - there's no money in physics).

But, at times, I wish I could go back and do it all differently. I often lament the knowledge I've essentially forgotten, and leaf through some old textbooks and papers nostalgically.
And yet it is a way of attrition that they are winning
It's amazing how many people forget that Raspbian is still Linux under all the Wolfram and Raspberry Pi stuff. So you essentially have a tiny computer that can be plugged into almost anything you can program for.
Well, Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin is so far behind that they haven't launched anything to the Low Earth Orbit yet, and as far as I know they don't have plans to launch to LEO for the next few years.
So wrg to reusable launch vehicles, so far SpaceX is the only game in town.
OTOH, Jeff Bezos has more money and can speed things up if he wants.
Please avoid classic flamewar topics on HN. Such discussions are endlessly repetitive and, perhaps because people get bored otherwise, lead to nastiness.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18086490 and marked it off-topic.
Dogecoin is priced in Bitcoin though.

Everything will eventually be priced in Bitcoin.

And Chrisbucks are the reason why altcoins have no long-term value. If anyone can create coins then there's an infinite supply and their value will go to zero. Bitcoin is the only system which has not attempted to inflate the supply beyond the originally programmed supply. The original supply was necessary because it was the first asset of its kind.

Everything else misses the point.
USB sticks are still pretty common.
SpaceX is an extremely desirable company to work at, it's more NASA than NASA. Even without Musk that would remain the case. Talent squeeze is not a risk IMO.
You realize orders of magnitude more explosives have been delivered via car/truck by terrorists than by any flying vehicle (not just hobby drones, but anything flying in the air). Should we heavily regulate land vehicles to, because ”stopping the terrorists is all that matters?”
Please don't be uncivil in comments here, regardless of how wrong another comment is or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
While I think many of the provisions for drones are too restrictive, one provision is crucial:

The law also weighs into the controversial issue of whether drones should have radio beacons that identify their position and registered owner. It would grant the Federal Aviation Administration the authority to require that. The agency is drafting such a regulation at the request of homeland security and law enforcement agencies and has signaled it may require retrofitting millions of drones already in use.

Autonomous drones are far cheaper to produce than automobiles. And what if an autonomous drone drops grenades in a public area? Who do you blame? How does the law prevent further issues?

We better crack down on unidentified drones.
This is why, as much as I hate it most of the time, it's a good idea not to have your devs with access to your network setup. If your a small shop, limit the access as much as reasonably possible.
Yea he’ll join all the other billionaires in jail. I would say he looks pretty guilty of fraud but agree he will never see a cell, just heavy fines. And spaceX may survive without him but losing musk would suck a ton of wind out of their sails.
The first returns a callable, the second a value.
I thought his tweet was legal, assuming he wasn't lying about any of it, which indications are he wasn't.

Maybe I don't understand...
Too risky. The hardware should assume to be totally compromised.

Smash it to pieces. Or, if you can, shoot it.
Any chance of allowing more TLDs for the registration process? My TLD of choice for e-mail (.Industries) is considered illegitimate when attempting to register for Cloudflare.
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Wondered that many times myself. I see several reasons:

(1) Their current tech still works on most users so it's not economically justified to invest several times more just to catch a few extra percent of the users (the tech-savvy) in their net.

(2) They are not technically savvy enough to figure it out (thank Cthulhu if that's true!).

(3) They do not want to pay for the extra bandwidth costs and to upgrade their servers. And they will have to do both because looking at any ad inspection article reveals that the ad/tracking bandwidth can be easily anywhere from 3x to 20x the bandwidth needed to serve the content itself. Furthermore, the ad/tracking tech uses elaborate scripting techniques to avoid part of the automated defenses of browsers or network devices. Running those scripts 24/7 increases your electricity bill significantly.

Overall I believe it's a case of "we could probably do better but we get a hell of a deal for the minimal investment we made". Which is really good for us the techies -- because they leave us alone -- but seriously sucks for everybody else.
Wayne Huizenga - Blockbuster, AutoNation, Waste Management.
If you're at the level of spend where paying almost a million dollars for an instance, contacting them isn't too hard. You usually have the email address and phone number of a bunch of people who can get it done in a minute or two. And they don't usually provision it -- they just flip a bit to allow you to use the API to provision it yourself.

I think they want the phone call in case you want 10 of them.
SpaceX could be affected by him losing his security clearance for illegal drug use though.
NPR interview about the book.
https://the1a.org/shows/2018-09-26/sell-by-date
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Let's be real here. In the grand scheme of things Tesla's selling luxury toys and is bound to be something similar to cars as what Apple is to general computing. Overly expensive status symbols.

Both in number of vehicles sold[1] and in distance driven[2] Tesla vehicles are handily beat by the likes of the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf. Those are the sorts of vehicles that are going to change the game and make a dent in climate change, not luxury cars.

1. https://insideevs.com/plug-in-electric-car-sales-ranked-by-o...

2. https://insideevs.com/us-crosses-10-billion-e-miles-driven-f...
The SEC complaint claims that "Musk knew or was reckless in not knowing that each of these statements was false
and/or misleading because he did not have an adequate basis in fact for his assertions."
Iotz – compile things (IoT devices) easy
We just call those "lies" and "truth", and that shows us nothing because it was never in doubt that truth and politeness are often not in conflict.

On the other hand the idioms identified point to a long-standing understanding that sometimes, they are in conflict; a corollary of which is that one who always chooses complete honesty has likely failed to be polite from time to time, and one who is unfailingly polite has, like the curate describing his egg, likely given less than the total truth.

Most of us tend towards the politeness side of the tradeoff - we might, for example, describe a potential process failure when a more honest appraisal is that carelessness was the root cause.
> By eye, yes. By digital camera? That would have to be pretty high. At least on clear days.

Have you ever seen a hobby drone flown? I challenge you to see a typical model flying at 250ft feet with anything not using a telephoto lens, even on a clear day, unless you already knew where it was (aka saw it from a lower altitude and followed it up).
This is about Tesla, not SpaceX.
Biggest problem with them is the 2FA. I had to let my domains expire with them after I lost my phone and couldn’t login back. I just want to use freeOTP to get my 2FA codes and nothing else.
> Bitcoin does not need governance. That's your problem.

Is that you Theymos?

> ...and has the volition to choose the software they wish to run to interact with the economy they wish to participate in.

How many software choices do BTC users have? I know the answer to this. It's one. You've got one choice to choose from.

> Governance inherently means you want some people to tell other people how to behave.

Governance means if people are willing to talk to each other (and listen), they'll find they have common ground and can make progress and move forward together.
They can do quite a lot with your phone number and contacts: https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to...
Yep. Musk is looking at possible insider trading charges. The DOJ will absolutely throw a rich guy in federal prison for that since the damage to the economy can be enormous.
But until the government starts breaking them up, "too big to fail" will be the goal of every large financial firm.
> I'm not going to be writing 3D games or real-time audio apps in it, but for what I've been trying to do (solve real-world problems)

TIL 3D games and real-time audio apps are not "real-world problems".
At a previous employer (Fortune 500, not a software co.) the IT security team would sometimes seed the parking lots with thumb drives that were "infected" with a program that would phone home to them if plugged into a PC on the corporate network. IIRC there was a depressingly high (> 50%) rate of them being plugged in.
With GDPR in effect, it seems a lot of registrars are giving private Whois away for free now, and Let’s Encrypt is cannibalizing SSL certs, not leaving a lot of opportunity for upselling high margin services to offset razor thin domain margins.

I anticipate consolidation, most likely around providers like Cloudflare, Google, and Amazon, where their costs are minimal and it’s a loss leader.
Why should the SEC be prosecuting short sellers writing slander about TSLA any more than they should be prosecuting the people who are long on TSLA writing literal or figurative press releases praising the company?

Both parties have an interest in the stock going one way or the other. Regulators need to get involved when something like insider manipulation of the stock happens, say when the CEO uses Twitter the way Elon Musk does.
Impossible to tell without directly interfacing with them, but more likely what they're talking about is a dissociative mechanism to deal with situational trauma.
It's free to say things, doesn't make it true

Well, when the requirement was in big bold writing as one of the key features on a PowerPoint slide...

I need a diverse group of people that I can collaborate with to get things done. If they can't keep their wits about, it's my job to deal with that issue and get them back on

That’s not a luxury you have as you move up the ladder - even if moving up the ladder is just being a real senior developer/architect (by knowledge if not by title).

My first job at 22 was as a computer operator trying to get my foot in the door was within 6 months build a custom, networked data entry system used to support a completely new department and a new line of business. Working at small companies, you don’t get the luxury of hiding within the bureaucracy. The one time that I did work at a large company, it was suffocating.