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yes already in January. Deleted twitter last month. Next up will be Linkedin (before the year ends). As of Jan 2019 I've decided to no longer carry a mobile phone (it will be switched off with batteries removed in a drawer for at least 1 year then I'll decide if I want to keep using it or not). Babysteps ...
Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (2008)
The packaging instructions are a bit manual. Here's a script which automates the process on MacOS: https://gist.github.com/nhynes/46a01eadf7af747a1915f9a964337...
I don't own that quote – I wish I could claim to have known that innately rather than having to hear and learn it in times of pain.

The thing you said about happy life not being good life is dead on IMO. Happiness != comfort != meaning. Optimize for meaning.

I didn't attribute this quote because hackernews relentlessly downvotes him, but I learned all of this from Jordan Peterson, who has done more than most other people for helping me unfuck my life and be a better man.

He's a problematic dude sometimes, including his takes on climate science, but his youtube courses Maps of Meaning are immensely insightful if you're willing to suspend disbelief and listen abstractly and in good faith.
"All those BLM protestors and such griping about how they act are too scurred to put on a uniform even with large salary policing those same neighborhoods. So hard to recruit cops that they're bringing in felons."

Isn't the message of BLM that the cops in many cases are basically another criminal gang? So the messenger is to blame when that becomes literally true?
There is a simple way to have both. Give people the right to anonymity and also give them personally the right to wave that right. This protects people both ways.
Yes, and just organized our first NYE party via email (evite).
The right answer (in practice, though I admit the question is fun) is to "use your debit/credit card" (on the Tube, for instance) for the train or "set up auto-load if your transit system doesn't accept credit/debit cards" (on BART, for instance).
As a next step I would love to see an exploration of a legal system where a change of a law or regulation is backed by both data (data and methodology directly referenced by the law) and a description of the expected impact. Something such as:

> By changing law A related to B, we expect the increase of C to be at least D in the next E months.

If not achieved, the change is reversed/reduced. Hopefully that would allow experimentation without taking the risk of creating a system too bad in case the implementation or policy isn’t good enough.

Just dreaming here :)
I'm surprised to see this here, I actually just stumbled on this video a little earlier on YouTube. It's actually a series with multiple entries. Here's the playlist [0] if anyone is interested in checking out the others videos.

Getting an inside look at game development is always fascinating. I wish more developers would talk about their experiences. You can usually take away incredibly valuable lessons from videos like these. For example, from this Ultima Online thing you'd learn about the importance of user-testing.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBPwuu3eCYkScmqpD9xE...
Peter Norvig's approach seems like the textbook way to TDD:

1. Find a large body of known good input/output pairs
2. create tests around that known good data
3. create an implementation that produces the desired output from the given input

There's no reason Peter couldn't or shouldn't have started with the tests.
> at least if the prisoner himself so chooses

This is the key.
No, as sometimes I dip back in to see what some of my friends who refuse to quit it are up to, as they don't post elsewhere. I don't post, and my profile has been purged of all posts and content[1]. For now this will have to be good enough.

I did find out recently that you can now delete your 'Facebook profile' but keep your login just for Messenger' though.

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[1] https://github.com/Jaruzel/DeleteFacebookActivity
Yes, I did. Second time. Hopefully I can resist to join a third time.
So finally we've come full cycle. The wannabe "influencer" with his fake "followers" bought 1$ a pound on fiverr, is posting fake "sponsored content", so social media "marketers" would perceive him as valuable enough to (fakely) promote their (probably faked) product. I ran out of double-quotes, you could legitly double-quote any other word up there.
The various miracles in the gospel narratives are obviously not given credence by secular historians. The existence and crucifixion of Jesus, on the other hand, is, primarily since there are non‐gospel and non‐Christian references to it within a few decades of the event in question.
Clearly, the solution is to develop a machine learning framework in Rust - Rust is 100% immune to data races!
Great. It seems like gmail treats confirmation email as a spam though.
>As a side effect it also meant that the functions I was writing became smaller (easier to test) and it became easier to see what the end solution might look like because I could understand the intermediary steps more easily.

I definitely use "it's hard to test this code" as a smell indicating refactoring is in order.

I've never tried TDD, but I suspect most of the value is that it forces people into practicing separation of concerns and other basic anti-ball-of-mud practices.
I owe my career to this game.

I was totally obsessed with UO from the moment I logged in for the first time and created my character, a crafter who was primarily a miner/blacksmith.

That’s the thing about UO... nobody was the hero, everyone was just trying to survive and thrive in their own way; whether that meant crawling the dungeons as a warrior, bard, tamed, or caster; terrorizing those same dungeons as a player-killer out to strip the dungeon crawlers of all their loot and gear; or, spending your days baking bread or running your own player shopping mall, your only limitation was your effort and imagination. The idea that you could stake out your own small part of this vibrant world, right down to building a house in the limited land space available; or making your name as an accomplished crafter who people sought out for their superior crafted equipment, it was so fascinating to me.

After a few years I found out about a project called the Ultima Offline eXperiment, they were working on a server emulator that would let you run your own worlds, with your own rules! (Their scripting engine was JavaScript, running on the server... 19 years ago) As a teenager with no prior software experience, this was incredible to me. I scoured the internet for anything I could find to learn C++ and JavaScript and started screwing around with the emulator. It was slow going at first, given the somewhat limited resources available on the internet at the time, but I stuck with it and from that point on I knew exactly what I wanted to spend my life doing. After that I moved to would become the de-facto emulator for nearly 2 decades, RunUO. Through that community I found contract work on projects that were unrelated to UO, and from that experience transitioned to a full-time career in software about 10 years ago.

This game was hugely important to me and who I became because of it, and it makes me so happy that stories about UO pop up every few years as a reminder of that.
Picked up some Go. Still cannot for the life of me figure out why it's so popular (please don't reply with statically linked binaries)[1]. In the infrastructure and ops space it seems to be slowly eating Python (sadness). When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

[1] Such a benefit doesn't matter in a containerized world.
What youre saying has nothing to do with my comment.
Could you please not post uncivil or unsubstantive comments to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
PS: one of the projects on my mind is a small faraday cage at the entrance of my home right next to the wardrobe. It will be a "feature" I offer for visiting friends to show them what it's like to unplug for an evening. It will be non optional for anyone spending time at my house. Any visitors (guests or otherwise) entering my home will have to use it.
Smalltalk, which distributes code as a vm.

Java jars aren't far off from having their own rootfs included along with the compiled class files.
Ask HN: Should we allow one of our devs to work remotely from China?
One of our devs will be going back home to China for a few weeks. Is it an unacceptable security risk for him to work remotely while he’s away?

There are two parts to my question: (1) is this even possible? (2) Is this a good idea?

(1) Is this possible?

We use google suite, and many key pieces of our infrastructure (Jira, bitbucket) use Google for SSO authentication and login. My understanding is that these services will be blocked by the Great Wall. Does anyone have any direct experience with this kind of situation?

(2) Is this a good idea?

I understand the Chinese government has something of a reputation for snarfing down content from laptops brought into the country. Our dev’s laptop has source code, private keys, and (likely) personally identifiable information from our customers. I’m not worried about the Chinese government stealing our source code (we’re so early and our code changes so rapidly that, meh, whatever). Credentials (especially to access our AWS services) seems like a bigger deal.

Am I being too paranoid? Is there any official guidance or best practices about this? Has anyone been in a similar scenario who can share insights?
Crash blossom alert!

I read the headline to mean it was an article about the failure if a Subreddit about Siri that failed or was otherwise removed by Reddit.
No but it's just totally irrelevant for me now. Its been almost a month and I didn't even think about it until now, so it's like dozens of accounts that I have (like yahoo mail) which even though I have in theory are completely useless and irrelevant to me.

But I don't plan on deleting it since I may have a use for it some day and I would like to have that option just in case.
Linus cares about security, after all he includes things like seccomp and selinux which are features only intended for security, and he supports the hardening project etc.

He has spoken out against the modern security industry and security theatre, both of which are distinct from security.
Ah thank you for the warning, can you write a test e-mail so i can check everythign works? :D
I haven't gotten a chance to read through that yet, but even if a Prius is the best ridesharing car, i doubt the best car for an Uber driver and the best car for someone driving 10 miles to and from work five days a week are going to be the same. You'd have to drive a real lot to have the increase in gas mileage cancel out the higher purchase price and higher insurance costs vs a basic econocar.
Maximum non-commercial penalty for copyright infringement in Canada is $5000 (about $3700 USD today).

I don't think taking people to court has a great cost-benefit ratio.
I did delete my Facebook account (this past week). I forgot to download all the data they had on me but I had a download from earlier in the year (maybe a few months ago) and that's sufficient enough for me since I made very few posts to Facebook this year.

In the lead up to deleting facebook, I deleted many "friends," removed all my likes, and deleted every single picture I could.

Unfortunately I can still be seen in pictures others have posted to Facebook.

I will admit that I still have Instagram installed on my phone. I could probably delete it and not miss anything but there are some interesting people I follow.
Yes but I still have my Instagram account. Deleting my account was a cross between protest and lack of use.
Yes. I deleted everything except LinkedIn this year. I will delete that soon. I wish I could delete everything including this site...
Storing electricity isn’t that difficult if you have a known route and capacity.
I guess ppl in the US still download content?

There are so many paid and non-paid streaming options to choose from it makes me wonder why download content?
OrbitDB – serverless, peer-to-peer database on top of IPFS
I’d be interested to know how the test we carried out. Eg how randomly was the die shaken? Was the die placed on the same side each time prior to shaking? Etc

However, even as it stands, this is an interesting test.
Oops, my wires got crossed or something. Fixed.
I’ve been advocating similar feature before, while I was in and since I left the company and I’m happy that Facebook is trying (because it wasn’t always the case, even when the problem was clearly identified internally). My version was “the smartest person who disagree with this” (which was essentially my way of having a permanent link to remind me of George Will’s name; can’t get it to stick somehow).

A leak to the WSJ is interesting: I can’t imagine that who opposed what feature could possibly come from anyone not inside (and high up) the company. Even internally, those arguments rarely leave the product review, and that’s at most a third of the executive committee, the product owner, maybe a couple of members of the team and some directors in between. Leaking features before release, or worst, cancelled features, that was extremely frowned upon years ago. With the current tone in the media, I can’t imagine it’s imaginable. Either someone committed career suicide, or it came from higher up. I don’t know how to read the media to understand if that could help Facebook within an “us Facebook vs. Kaplan” narrative.

On the merit of the case, Joel Kaplan probably had a reasonable point: if the feature mostly flags conservative sources and not the NYTimes, it could incense the current pro-Trump movement further — even if one source is factual and the Daily Stormer is… well, far less so. I can’t imagine there were no ways around that, always offering a “correction” that might not contradict one but would clearly challenge far more point in the other, trigger it progressively, trying to understand the impact on far-right and more reasonable people etc. (Facebook recently published paper able to detect and automatically adapt a model to subtle controls like that.) A product like that would not be scrapped, not after the first product review, but asked to tweak some aspects. Either Kaplan has been consistently pushing against any version of it (and that would be mentioned more clearly) or there’s more to it.
Except she didn't use drones at all, and he wasn't really interested anymore.

So, does that now make them perfect suspects?

For me a "perfect suspects" is a hard core hobbyist or someone who does it for a living.

What's the next step after perfecting a hobby or being bored because it's a forced job other than taking it to the next level?

Given the limited info it wasn't just a kid popping a drone over given how hard it seemed to be to catch them so that leaves someone who knows what they are doing.

Who cares about "social death" over prison time? If anything it makes them heroes to many/most people, a good FU to the system.
> No one expect it.

There are people in this thread who seem to.

> But that doesn't mean the opposite; that there is nothing about Jesus doesn't become somehow a proof of his existence.

And nobody has argued otherwise, merely that we have the exact level of proof that we would expect of someone of Jesus’ position in Jesus’ geographic location and time period. In fact, we have non‐Christian sources from around the turn of the century, which is why the consensus of historians is that Jesus lived and was executed in that time period.

> Nothing in the new testament about Jesus can be said to have happened except that he was born, that he was poor, and that he was crucified.

Obviously, at least according to any scientific historic standard. But there are people who would deny even that, and can’t seem to accept the scholarly consensus that the man lived and died at all.
Are you suggesting some law preventing individuals from commenting on products and services unless they're being paid to do so?

Or only if the company providing those goods/services doesn't like what is being said, or who is saying it?
Yeah this is actually a major reason everyone should at least know or use some perl. macOS is a popular dev environment but the quirky macOS/BSD versions of grep and sed are super annoying for portable build scripts.
Agreed! I moved to HN and SO after two forums slowly died. I have some friends from those forums, but a chat group is different from a forum with dozens or sometimes hundreds of active topics every day. Not just in activity, but also the kind of things you can talk about.

I'm not quite sure what is going to fill this gap. I don't always have a place to post things. Blogging doesn't exactly work without an audience. The mainstream things these days appear to be just chats. There are still forums, mailing lists... heck, there are BBSes but it's niche and hard to find anything that isn't already on the decline.
Why would you bother with such difficult and fragile hacks when you could instead simply have the kernel itself remap those file-related calls with a mount namespace or chroot?
Please keep nationalistic or ethnic or whatever-this-is slurs off HN. We're trying for better than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If people aren't moving, how do they get bunched together? My theory is that if people who are spread apart stand still, even on an escalator, they will remain spread apart.

After RTFA, I still don't see what the explanation is supposed to be for the claimed increase in throughput.
Why give them (and their industry) the respect they so desperately crave by calling them influences and brand ambassadors when the English language already has an entire cornucopia of applicable organic words describing this phenomenon.

Shill, plant, phoney, stooge, wannabe, peddler.

Don't let the marketers win :p
Wow. I’ve always been so baffled by this mentality.

The number of people who are otherwise healthy but refuse to walk up stairs just shocks me. I’ve never felt like walking up an escalator carried any significant risk for the able bodied...

I don’t know how to explain it except that people are shockingly lazy and just overall have really screwed up risk assessment
Requires set-uid, it's not fully unprivileged containers.
So it will be truely mine.
As a woman, this is completely false. "Creepy" doesn't mean "ugly," it means makes me feel unsafe or threatened. I don't care how hot you are, if you give off rapist/murderer vibes, you're a creep. I have met hot guys who were creepy.

He isn't only talking about physical attraction but attraction as in having a crush on someone or finding them lot attractive.

Think about it, if you get a date with your crush, would you think like, oh he might rape me? No such thought doesn't come to us when we are attracted to someone.

I can show you screenshot of conversations in which women enjoy my obscene messages.

It differs for every girl but what you are saying is not more "normal" than what Ryandrake is saying.

What's creepy is a subjective thing.

There is no thing Universally Creepy.

If a send a dick pic to a girl who had crush on me, is it creepy? She might not agree with you, I've tried :)

The girls who are interested in me. I do ask them if they want my nude pics? After realising that i am non judgemental open minded guy, they do tell me that they want nudes.

Yea, a few also got offended but i considered them to be feminist kind.

I believe sexual desires are nothing to hide. It's better to display your desire for others with all honesty.

If they say no, swiftly go back. No need to pester anyone.
Didn't read the Youtube comments (using `youtube-dl`), so thanks for posting those.

> and he knows he is lonely and he knows he is sad then for 4Chan to take advantage of him

> Some fans helped him by bringing him supplies, but he refused their housing offers.

At least it was not all trolls, and some fans managed to meet up with him, and do a fundraiser for his bail. Also the Vice journalist writing an article about him comes across as very understanding.
Streaming is a huge pain compared to playing files on disk. Pick a service, navigate its messy UI, hope it has what you want, use the poor in-browser video player (or terrible, slow, buggy app)... Or search through a folder, double-click, done.
I'm curious: why didn't proof-of-work get adopted into some email protocol? It seems like a reasonable solution to the junk mail problem. Things like mailing lists would be disadvantaged in this case, but you could reasonably disable the PoW requirement for lists you subscribe to.
yes, and i blocked all of their ips in my /etc/host file also. i still use whatapp to talk to people in other parts of the world, but not too often.

my advice to people that say they need it to keep in contact with family - try something like groupme, you do not need facebook
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Actual legal process? The horror.
Making rank visible near picture. And if low, some example quotations.
God you are outrageously good at your job.
not sure how this is a analysis framework itself. Could be a very helpful component in a complete analysis framework.

Academically, I do think the functionality that this application provides is rather weakly positioned, i.e., what is the related work? The thesis provides a lot of info but omits how this tool is actually warranted as a whole. The state of the art discussion in 3.4 of the thesis document is missing fundamental rationale, and at times it feels as if it is written after Netcap was already done. The state of the art tools are related, but are sometimes not comparable to Netcap itself; some tools are complete intrusion detection systems, whereas others are merely tools following the Unix philosophy of doing 1 thing.
That said, very impressive for "just" a bachelor's thesis.
Rkt is pretty much dead as a standalone technology. It was influential in a number of ways though (for example, it forced the CRI to come into existence in Kubernetes).
So you also can possibly enjoy having 2FA demolish by a simple smartphones vulnerabilities that perhaps grab both passwords and token in a single action...

We can't trust smartphones/connected devices in general, that's why IMO is better, for safe auth only, use offline stuff.
TDD (I lump together lots of extended practices here) is hard.

It's hard to learn from a book or blog post.

It's often hard to solve the many problems of "how do we test <behaviour X>?".

It's hard to know when to stop spiking and start test-driving.

It's hard to stick to it when you solo and you think "oh I can just skip a few steps here and come back afterwards".

It's hard to learn mockist style and statist style. Hard to go all-in on one style, then all-in on the other style, and then afterwards often hard to strike the right balance between them.

It's hard to deal with the vast universe of technologies which, having not been developed in a TDD fashion, are hard to test.

It's also hard being told your years of practicing amongst practitioners aren't real experiences. That you didn't see the remarkable speed and confidence it granted on massive codebases with hundreds of engineers in dozens of teams working for multiple companies on several continents for years on end.
Are you using Scala, Kafka and Spark for Machine/Deep Learning? I've been wanting to learn Spark, I only have have a vague idea if it. What's the best way to start and can you explain how Kafka ties in with Scala and Spark?
Before the change, I sometimes got responses and even a first message or two on OKCupid (!). Since the change, nothing, zilch on the site.
I did not, but I most certainly do not "use" it anymore, aside from the very occasional checkup on old friends (who still use Facebook and no other platforms), and the occasional laugh when an older relative posts "Happy birthay!" on their own wall unintentionally.

I have also made sure that I no longer use Facebook authentication on any other sites.
It took me a while to realize I wasn't just watching a static video and that I could actually interact with the code! Very well done and nice pacing/voiceover.