skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A minor addition to your hypothesis is that most cars in London are manual (stick shift) - even if they could find somewhere to park, pay the congestion charge, etc they might well be less able to operate the vehicle too.
Companies that collect your data will sell it, or sell services based on that data.

Governments can act like just another customer.
They have ported the main software to HTML5 quite a while ago, but a lot of smaller things (like demos in the blog post series in the original posts) are lost in Flash, unfortunately.
> the defining characteristic of a felony

I thought the defining characteristic was the extent to which it is pursued and punished by the law. Off the top of my head I can think of one or two felonious charges that at least "arguably" don't satisfy your definition.

Law often follows morality but one should be wary of mistaking them for the same thing.

EDIT sorry I read through your comment again and realised you pretty much end up in agreement, though we perhaps start at different points.
Definitely relative to a hard drive.

Relative to each other what really matters are your 4K random read/write IOPS and some measure of reliability. Back in the day there were in fact huge differences between certain SSDs (Samsung controllers vs. Indilinx Barefoot [1] back in the early '10s). Today it's a non-issue.

SSDs years ago saturated the SATA III bus with respect to peak transfers. We're talking an order of magnitude these days, with SATA capping out at 550-600MB/s burst (my MX500) vs NVMe's 3GB/sec (970 PRO). That doesn't paint the real picture to a large extent because 4K random IO is still <<100MB/s in either case.

Large DRAM buffers vs. unbuffered can make a big difference too. Reliability these days from any of the big players is usually very good, since their NAND only comes from a handful of big players -- ditto for the controllers. I guess if you buy shady "Kingston" knockoff SSDs with recycled NAND that's a different matter.

tl:dr; yep, you're right. Any modern SSD from a big player is a good bet, beyond that it's just gamesmanship.
> Guess which kinds of states have massive surveillance powers?

The United States?

Last that I checked, it wasn't the socialist states trying to surveil everyone in the known world, with their own citizens chirping, "You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide."
I have to say, for someone who doesn't really know how those kind of things work (i usually work on web stuff) I tried to help a friend who had a radio already setup, and I couldn't wrap my head around how anything works.

The documentation is extremely poor (when any) and I'm still confused at the difference between icecast and ezstream, which does what and such.

It's too bad, because as another comment mentions, it does seem pretty simple and powerful once you know how it works, but the lack of documentation (official or not, yes I tried googling stuff) makes it almost impossible to do anything if you don't know how it works already.
That's exactly the problem. You pass an invisible line somewhere that TfL stops existing and you're getting mugged straight up in redneck country.

Lakeside is indeed crap.
The funny thing about development is what's say 90% of the time you are convinced everything is correct and should be working and it's immensely frustrating because it's not, so you know you are wrong but are unable to offer yourself a more convincing theory and just get stuck until something clicks. But then there's that 10% of the time where you're actually right. And you don't know which one it's going to be. So you have to calm yourself down like "I know I think Im right about this but clearly Im not" but at the same time you have to hold onto that conviction because you're right damnit. Haha.
Among older folks it is perhaps also related to nutrition - unlike the US, we had rationing through the war and well into the 50s so many people will have grown up with a barely adequate diet.
Note that many businesses, and some circuits in residential homes, are wired for 20 amps. The sockets that definitely support 20 amps have an additional slot for 20 amp connectors. See: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/El...
GoDaddy says they will stop injecting tracking code into websites
I mean, regular expressions have existed in discrete maths for decades right?
To be fair, it’s an oddity from an American perspective. Our highways are numbered, some streets are numbered but most are named, and it’s vanishingly rare that a street will have both a number and a name.
Heetch [1] is based in Paris, France and is super remote friendly (~95% of the engineering team is remote) :)

[1] https://www.heetch.com/fr/jobs
Predator Prey Cycle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYq2078_xqc

It seems likely there are at least some insects that can adapt to the slightly higher temperatures in the rain forest. If now their predators (birds) have gone down, these insects can multiply, becoming a food source for birds, whose population can then recover.

I love insects like the next guy, but we need to stop believing everything besides completely static environments are a catastrophe.
Slightly off topic, but there is an internet radio station I have set as my morning alarm, when my radio turns on or I switch to that station it always plays their intro track, then a song.

The intro is just a short ~3 second "Welcome to...".

It's the only station I've witnessed that does this but I like it, I wonder if icecast has a feature like that.
thanks for the link edit!
>seek the best form of the opposing viewpoint

Strongly agree with this. Let's try a specific example on HN:

Seek the best form of the view that the anti-vaccine people may have a point.
You can't include it in your code and sell your software without distributing the source.
Great book shop in the basement of that building (Skoob). Coram's Fields round the corner is brilliant if you have children.
She got a train from Manchester to London. I'm surprised that the price of this ticket wasn't mentioned (when the £4.90 one in London was). Manchester to London can typically cost anywhere between £40 to £90.
This is a lesson learned well from open-ended systems. An open-ended system is one where input is received to process, but the input is not well defined. The more accepted unknown input becomes the more open the system must be in its rules to process it. The results of processing are:

* expected output from a known input (intention)

* unexpected output from a known input (defect)

* expected output from an unknown input (serendipity)

* unexpected output from an unknown input (unintentional)

For example I maintain a parser and beautifier for many different languages and many different grammars of those languages. In some cases these languages are really multiple languages (or grammars) imposed upon each other and so the application code must recursively switch to different parsing schemes in the middle of the given input.

The more decisions you make in your application code the more complex it becomes and predicting complexity is hard. Since you cannot know of every combination of decisions necessary for every combination of input you do your best to impose super-isolation of tiny internal algorithms. This means you attempt to isolate decision criteria into separated atomic units and those separated atomic units must impose their decision criteria without regard for the various other atomic decision units. Provided well reasoned data structures this is less challenging than it sounds.

The goal in all of this is to eliminate unintentional results (see forth bullet point above). It is okay to be wrong, as wrong is a subjective quality, provided each of the atomic decision units are each operating correctly. When that is not enough you add further logic to reduce the interference of the various decision units upon each other. In the case of various external factors imposing interference you must ensure your application is isolated and testable apart from those external factors so that when such defects arise you can eliminate as much known criteria as rapidly as possible.

You will never be sure your open-ended system works as intended 100% of the time, but with enough test samples you can build confidence against a variety of unknown combinations.
My take is: start with Burke, which is the first skeptical take on the French Revolution.
Ask HN: Using .org domain for an educational but for-profit startup?
I'm building an educational startup that, for various reasons, works better as a for-profit corporation than a nonprofit.

I own DOMAIN.com and DOMAIN.org. For branding reasons, I'm considering using the .org and just having the .com redirect to it. The .org seems more authoritative and trustworthy to me, especially for an educational startup.

Are there any long-term downsides to doing this?
This is surprising.

Russian geometry problems, as I remember them, required creative thinking, which seem to be exactly the opposite to what you are describing.
Looking at that clip, it's remarkable that Forest Gump isn't just a nostalgia flick but a special effects tour de force... there's very definitely some showboating going on at the start with Lennon ducking in and around Forest. Perhaps the trained eye can discern subtle lighting glitches that give the game away but in the 90s this was mind-blowing.
It's funny we think we are an "advanced" civilization, yet we have no real time diagnostics of the status of our biosphere. It's really creepy how little basic research apparently is going on into "boring" ecological factors.

This insect apocalypse is like you suddenly notice you are missing an arm and a leg and have no idea what happened to them.

Any professionals in um... ecological metrics here? To an outsider it seems there are like three people on the planet who are concerned about the quantifiable properties of our biosphere and only one of them got part time funding.
Yeah but it's golang, so it's kinda like java, so I see no pros in it TBH.
Until relatively recently, most of the tourist postcards of London you could buy in the tat shops in town had old photos where the buildings were all blackened. I'm not sure when they were cleaned, some time in the late 70s or early 80s perhaps. A dramatic difference!
> You know less than you think you do.

Not clear how this ad-hominem enhances your argument.

>If you don’t know how they did the measurement, why are you so sure it is wrong?

I'm not "so sure", I'm just skeptical. I find it hard to believe that one can estimate the net ice loss over a huge and dynamic body of ice with an accuracy better than 0.001%, using any type of measurements conceivable.

You are saying that somehow the whole mass of Antarctica is irrelevant as a base mass to calculate accuracy? Why so? The ice naturally compresses and flows and this happens at continental scale. A large iceberg calving on the western coast of the continent may be offset by a relatively modest ice accumulation on the much larger eastern side. However, that accumulation on the eastern side will be conflated by the general compression that will lead to some ice being pushed towards the edges, etc, etc. There's no natural way to take a part of the continent out of the equation and say "well, we are interested only in this subset".
Let’s build a Node.js micro framework (Part II)
Why use Oyster over contactless? I don’t want to carry yet another card.
however, you are (maybe) being more anonymous, if you use a normal oyster(if you haven't added personal info to it)
That's right. The system isn't a lossless compression algorithm. It's designed to give your brain a bunch of hooks to hang interesting snippets onto, which you can use to reconstruct the short story that unravels into a phone number or whatever. For this reason a misspelling or impossibility is just as a good as any other notable attribute, because it makes the story element more memorable.

Taking the article's examples, you might construct a story like "toilet paper is used as socks in Minnesota." It doesn't matter whether that's true. It only matters that it makes it incredibly easy to reconstruct the number 190732.
They reduce lift and make the drone less efficient.
Is there a storage medium that would last even a thousand years? The song must be stored somewhere to be played. Any sort of storage that won't be subject to bit rot at this timescale would be prohibitively large.
But why should you have a 100% complete industry, a colony can trade with Earth like countries trade with each other, a colony could trade some rare resources and buy high tech stuff.

The main obstacle a colony will have is the initial buildings/bunker with all the life support and safety tech, plus extra redundancy and a backup plan if something bad happens there or on Earth .

If the colony would manage to generate enough oxygen,food, water and energy for itself that is the important first step. Next step would probably be producing the heavy parts they need for expansions like metal or similar solid materials for walls and machinery, the lighter parts could be sent from Earth.
Sure, if I can find a company willing to pay that much. It is going to be difficult in global market. By going remote, you are competing with people around the world.

If think you are that really really special programmer who are better than most people worldwide in what you do, then yeah you can demand whatever you want.

I knew I'm not that special. By living let say in Vietnam, I'm still happy with the 1/2 amount I got and companies has incentive to hire me instead.
We will reintroduce this program in the future,
so that it is on an opt-in only basis.

If think they should not have a way to tamper with websites at all. The sheer existance of such technology is a reason I would not trust them. It shows an attitude I am not compatible with.

Just like when Ubuntu started to send local searches across the net and to other companies. I never used them since.
But sometimes people see an attack on the license fee as an attack on the BBC, which is also treated as a beloved institution by much of the UK.
> When do we do something?

When it significantly impacts the daily lives of a majority of people, and not a second earlier.
Do you have a list of common errors that TypeScript usually will detect ?
Your ISP is usually in the same legal jurisdiction as you are, VPN might not be.
Top of the Mac App Store
And the IWM, the Old Vic and the Young Vic, and Elephant and Castle, and Lambeth Palace and Clapham Common, and Blackheath and the Peckhamplex. There's loads going on in South London.
I think it depends on the area - I've seen it happen twice in broad daylight on Clerkenwell Road near Farringdon station over the last couple of years and it's happened to a friend of mine near Waterloo.
I would go with the com. It conveys more authority.
> So it's analogous to a passcode because you're divulging something stored by your body, as opposed to e.g. a metal key which is artificial.

Also, shouldn't the act of entering someone's phone be analogous to entering someone's house? I.e., wouldn't a search warrant/court order be required?
And that's how 2FA is supposed to be, if you put eggs into boxes and those boxes into one basket you still technically have all your eggs in one basket, which was what 2FA tries/d to fix.
> When it significantly impacts the daily lives of a majority of relatively economically comfortable people, and not a second earlier.
In my honest opinion, delegating the trust model down to the user to figure out which host key is trusted or not is the broken model. I always blindly accept the key because I have no way of knowing what is good or bad by looking at the prompt with random letters telling me it could be bad and in my life 100% of those alerts are false positives and I got used to accepting those alerts.
Marburg Virus Found in Bats in West Africa
A few years back, there was an interesting Chuck Klosterman article about cultural memory: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/magazine/which-rock-star-...

> I imagine a college classroom in 300 years, in which a hip instructor is leading a tutorial filled with students. These students relate to rock music with no more fluency than they do the music of Mesopotamia: It’s a style they’ve learned to recognize, but just barely (and only because they’ve taken this specific class). Nobody in the room can name more than two rock songs, except the professor. He explains the sonic structure of rock, its origins, the way it served as cultural currency and how it shaped and defined three generations of a global superpower. He shows the class a photo, or perhaps a hologram, of an artist who has been intentionally selected to epitomize the entire concept. For these future students, that singular image defines what rock was.

> So what’s the image?
Honestly, I revisited my old sdf.org shell account last night - this could have got a lot of people on shell providers and similar down the years. Keys wouldn't need to change in the event of a compromise.
Why not just phase out the paper tickets? They disappeared in Korea after just a couple years of the electronic cards being on market, it seems like.
and if she'd told you it was all the fault of blacks / gays whatever ?
Weekend Project: Simulating SQL Server Loads with ChaosLoad
Hey latch, I've been working on the Algolia-based HN search and would love to improve it to provide you with a better search experience.

Do you think about any specific improvements? Would you mind sharing with us some non-working queries? We can follow-up here and you can also open issues on https://github.com/algolia/hn-search
I didn't know about Bear. Just had a look on their website and the application and user experience looks pretty stunning.

However, I am not quite sure it justifies paying for this service when Apple Notes has got a lot better in the past few years (I also feel confident in the privacy approach of Apple).

Out of curiosity, what features make you use Bear and not Notes? I take a lot of notes, and if something can make my life easier, I would seriously consider making the move.
In the B2B world there is a perhaps surprising amount of ad hoc data transfer (transactions, statements) between separate entities using scp/sftp from a cron'ed ksh script written by a junior sysadmin 8 years ago.

Throw a Tectia server in the DMZ, fix the firewall, manage some keys (never change them) and you're good to go! Data at rest security via Zip or PGP for the ambitious.

Occasionally a big enough entity will mandate "everyone will use our data xfer spec" (and it's typically some gnarly XML-infested SOAPy animal). But there's a whole lot of automated business processes doing CSV-over-scp both intra- and inter-company.

Don't even get me started on FTP.
> This is completely opaque to the operating system; as far as it knows its underlying storage works exactly the same (until there are so many bad blocks that the drive can't keep up this convenient deception).

Is there a way for the drive to tell the fs that a block is bad? Or does the drive simply keep a bunch of blocks apart just in case?
Point 4 is an import one for me in many discussions:

- we are not talking about a blank slate, we are talking specifically about position X in this very specific path from an animal to.... something

we cannot judge others without remembering their entire upbringing and the fact that to operate we need to use rules of thumb as there is not enough processing power in the universe to do it any other way.

Really trying to accept this helps me take number 4 there to a very real place where i absolve myself of being "right" and focus on "trying to improve things and give an honest account of the results to help us all move forward".

Thinking of this in terms of others ideologies - we cannot logically think through what is right or wrong, so we NEED people to believe "wrong" things as we develop / evolve to ensure we are correct. negative testing is tedious but very very important.

I this value in trying "provably" wrong things is a real part of what causes us to be who we are (e.g. it could be partially responsible for stubbornness and counter culture for example)
Write a diary every day. Serves as a compass. It's far more easy to write down a few lines of thoughts and it's fun to look back.
AndOTP is also a nice alternative, providing encrypted key backups.
Yeah, a pity
If you have incredibly poor credit, you can’t even get a contactless debit card from many banks.

A transport network needs to be designed so that everybody can use it - that means being able to access it with cash.

Even Oyster’s £5 deposit per card can be an issue for some people.
Strictly, English (and Welsh), not "British".

The UK is a collection of countries (like Austria-Hungary) and Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own legal systems and different rules.
> I think the reason for this is that our brains just generally don't operate on a rational basis because it's not practical for humans. We have to rely on preformed perspectives when it comes to certain broad perspectives.

I think there is a more fundamental reason, ie, that there is no complete rational explanation of reality. What we do have is partial rational explanations which work well in some specific contexts, but are not absolute: they break down if you change context. See for example relativity/quantum mechanics; even the hardest of hard sciences doesn't have a unified, complete theory.

That's why AI based on logical reasoning didn't work, and will never work IMHO. Rationality is a tool that intelligent creatures can use - the most advanced tool, probably - but it's not enough to live in the real world. Some of the cognitive shortcuts we use are "only" necessary to cut decision time, but many are fundamentally necessary for adaptation to our environment.
Probably the fact that:

1. Every major road has a name, like "High Street"

2. In London, some street names are ambiguous. So in some parts of London, every street sign includes the postcode district in red. For example, a street might be signposted "High Street W3" [1]

3. Some of these streets will also have a numeric code, like "A4020"

4. Addresses on these streets will also have a full postcode, like W3 6LE

5. Google also shows "plus codes" like "GP4M+P7 Acton, London" which no-one else uses (I think they're useful in other countries, that don't have high-precision postcode systems)

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/MvhNRytmDpN2
Ideally they set up SSHFP dns records with the hostkey fingerprints

Haven't yet encountered it in the wild though
Manual cars are more popular but automatics are still easy enough to find. Also if you're registered disabled you may qualify for a specially adapted Motability car.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/23/met-police-s...
Prince Rupert's drops
The .com seems less misleading to me, because I'd suppose there is a non-for-profit organisation behind a .org domain.
What challenges did you encounter implementing this in bash that you wouldn't expect from a conventional programming language?
I see that you are considering only the light, but there is more than that. Time dilatation around gravitational fields is real (we have it on Earth too). Given the extreme setting in this regard around a black hole, it may be possible that, even if the falling object has not yet arrived at the event horizon, there to be a significant and increasing time frame difference between that of a distant observer and that of the object moving closer to gravitational center, which lets the observer see a progressively slower fall. I find this to be more likely the reasoning behind the novel's depiction.
I had another question regarding encryption of secrets. The reason you've mentioned is to prevent secrets from remaining in plain-text either during transmission to/from etcd or within etcd at rest.

Did you consider using https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/encrypt-... instead? It has been there for quite some time (1.10 I think) and fixes all your concerns.

(We had similar issues with storing secrets in etcd, and went with k8s encryption instead).