skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this such a common thing? Just about every bank I've used has had one of these issues on their website:

- Password can't be long

- Password can't be pasted

- Password must contain symbols

- Password can't contain symbols

I even locked myself out of my credit card (AMEX) account 3 times in less than 2 days because they have multiple different password reset forms, but one of them doesn't enforce their password length limit, so I successfully set my password to a password that was too long for the web/mobile login forms.
> In fact, there was a set price for a night with her: 2 million yuan, or $300,000. It said so in a booklet that supposedly lists the going rates of all other A-list actresses.

Anyone have a link of that booklet?
Ah, computerized highschool class elections.

I could have rigged the vote to win at my school too, except that I wasn't in the right cliques. It would have been very suspicious if I won, and everyone knew I was "good with computers".

Our program actually saved who voted for who in plaintext. At least I got to see who voted for me.
The long scale where "billion" means 1e12 is not that rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Long_sca...
The people who're trying to avoid being fingerprinted are probably thinking of Google when they decided to go down this path.

I'm willing to go through extensive captcha cycles if that's the cost of retaining some anonymity.

I installed uMatrix a while back to recover some anonymity and it worked at first, my Captcha load spiked significantly which was a great indication that I'd succeeded but it has dropped over time. I guess I'm gradually being fingerprinted again.

Google's captcha tests are my litmus paper test that what I'm doing is effective.
Is this the preview of the new W-4? Line 5...

[1] - https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-dft/fw4--dft.pdf

EDIT: Apparently not. Would have been nice if TFA could have shown up the draft form?
Interesting, since the dutch word for rabbit is 'Konijn', pronounced like 'konen'.
1.0 was the static web, 2.0 is basically HTML+JS+css, 3.0 includes a value exchange protocol layer.
I know but I worded that badly. "Codependent" seems to be used metaphorically and I'm not sure it's justified.
Anyone can buy a real estate property for $250,000 and get citizenship in Turkey. This includes Chinese nationals as well.

https://extraproperty.com/turkish-citizenship-buying-propert...
Ask HN: How did you build an audience for a consumer-focused SaaS or app?
A few weeks ago, I posted a Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19359979) for my news aggregator site, https://journali.sm. At the time, I got a huge amount of traffic from here -- and some other pickup from posts I shared on social media.

There are still a few people who come by regularly (if you are one of them, thank you!), but as I look to various means to boost audience, I am a little surprised about how little works. Facebook/Twitter advertising seems to estimate just over 1 click per $1 spent, which seems completely unsustainable for a site that doesn't sell anything.

So, HNers who have built a successful consumer SaaS or app, how did you build your audience?
My first thought was must be Yorkshire - wasnt disappointed -

"Robert Sheldon, a British engineer who’d been brought on to NAL to find “shortcuts and money-saving ideas,” suggested a ferret, equipped with a cleaning tool, could do the job, scampering through the vacuum tubes as if flushing rabbits out of a warren. “In his part of Yorkshire, hunters used ferrets,”"
Major java versions have been known to have different default settings/properties from previous versions, without any mention whatsoever in the release notes.

Any 'minor' change in a user application, font being a common example, can have a significant negative impact for an enterprise that has built workflows around that application.
The perpetrators should be punished by being made to give a presentation on how they automated the process, what poor security practices allowed them to pull it off, and recommendations for preventing a similar incident in the future.
I would bet that those businesses will tend to die at higher rates, whereas businesses who let technical people have input into technical decisions will survive at higher rates, reconstituting the market over time around companies that make better technical decisions. How quickly, I don't know, but it seems likely that that is not a winning long term strategy for technical decision making.
The Chappel Beer Festival, which is a beer festival in Chappel, Essex, is for some reason associated with a local ferret welfare charity, who turn up and run fundraising ferret events. There is a ferret tombola, where a ferret is put into a hexagonal hutch with pipes leading out of each side, and you bet on which one it will come out of, and ferret racing, where ferrets do two laps of a length corrugated pipe, and again, you bet on which will do it fastest:

https://thehalfpintgentleman.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/dsc...

It's remarkably entertaining, although of course having money riding on it always heightens the thrill.
Military is like 15% of federal spending, social security and healthcare is 50+% of federal spending.
I agree that there is military excess, but I'm skeptical that reducing it would make THAT much difference.
On the other hand, he managed to get Nate Silver so mad that he called Taleb a cuck. So who can tell who is actually right
I would just leave them as superscripts. Everyone knows what a footnote superscript means and that they are hyperlinks you click on.
It does run builds if you’re using Jekyll, though you’re restricted to a narrow set of whitelisted plugins.

There’s no such limitation with Netlify.
I think some of the sibling comments do a decent job of address the how, so I'll loop back to why.

Material science research can be expensive due to: material costs, specialized equipment, specialized knowledge, dealing with hazardous waste, facility requirements//specialization, competition over the said resources, etc.

A computational approach greatly reduces the barrier to entry and expands your reach at the same time.

Let's talk phase diagrams as an example. We have some pretty good models for calculating the phase diagrams of bulk materials, but they breakdown as we attempt to describe smaller (I.e. nano) particles. While some experimentation was/is needed to get enough raw data to model additional terms/changes that need to be applied to make the general CALPHAD approach validate at the nanoscale, we can now cheaply test theories about how size/shape/composition of nanoparticles would influence their phase diagrams.

This helps cheaply narrow and guide the search space, let's say for nanosolders, that researchers would want to follow up with physical experimentation.

This makes a loop, the resultant data is used to make better models which in turn helps point out potentially interesting systems to study.
The question asked for responses to be normalized based on experience level.
They both look kind of bad from this TBH...
Mailgun ~finally~ gets a visual update
They also included a runup where stone walls were built to corral the buffalo into a narrow point so they all ran off the cliff in roughly the same place. Without the walls the herd would turn unpredictably and avoid the cliff face.
"Since Silver’s forecasts begin with probability models, it’s safe to assume they obey all the rules, including Bayes’, and would be arbitrage-free."

I'll do the author the courtesy of assuming they've got a more expanded version of their argument in their head and just failed to express that, but I don't think that follows at all. I don't think there's a constraint on "Nate Silver has a probability model" that mathematically guarantees "Nate Silver's probability model" is correct, in any sense of that term. One could certainly provide evidence and/or proofs that Nate Silver's model follows those rules, but I don't think it just goes without saying. If nothing else the model could contain an straight-up error; goodness knows that's easy enough.

(If one wishes to add to the concept "probability model" that it must be correct by definition, than I can't accept the statement "Nate Silver has a probability model" with mathematical levels of confidence. He claims to have one, yes, but that's a long way from a proof.)
At eight figures a year, support has been outstanding.
The biggest AWS lock-in for enterprises is IAM, though. Will be interesting to see how they are planning to pull that off.
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This is really an unfair comparison. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (a UN member), is the second poorest country in the world.

The majority of people are poor, with the leaders in government much wealthier. This technically isn't 'unequal', because almost everyone is at the same level of poverty.
Github.io can build jeckyll for you, iirc. Netlify does the same thing, with more features.

One Netlify feature I like is that if you host a domain with them, you can deploy branches to subdomains via git naming. This is good way to set up dev/test/prod environments with very little hassle.

Something I see in a lot of threads like this is "What's so special about that? I can do all that stuff myself while self-hosting!" Yeah, but should you? Setting all this stuff up is a bunch of schlep that has no productive value, and I'm quite happy to outsource it to someone who makes it easy and obvious.
Integer multiplication in time O(n log n)
Yeah it's absolute garbage.

Reminds me of "Brazil" (1985), the Ministry of Information Retrieval (euphemism for torture) and their capital efficiency:

> I understand this concern on behalf of the taxpayers. People want value for money. That's why we always insist on the principal of Information Retrieval charges. It's absolutely right and fair that those found guilty should pay for their periods of detention and the Information Retrieval procedures used in their interrogations.

> Don't fight it son, confess quickly. If you hold out too long, you could jeopardize your credit rating.
It's pretty clear that the 2018 heat event was indeed an exceptional event, especially in Northern Europe. This is not "a dramatic situation that isn't".

Of course articles in the popular press are going to use different narrative techniques ("give them concrete examples!" is the usual advice to science writers) than scientific papers would. So if you want "thorough scientific methods", you'd have to look elsewhere.

This is the closest I've found to an attribution study of to what extent climate change is responsible for this heatwave event:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-07-27-heatwave-made-twice-like...

A gloss on the larger significance of the report in the growing area of "attribution" is here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05849-9
FaunaDB support is built into Netlify Dev and was shown in the Netlify CEO’s keynote at the JAMstack conf. Netlify also has one-click deploy support for including FaunaDB with your applications. For instance this sample app can be deployed almost automatically: https://github.com/sw-yx/netlify-fauna-todo (Disclaimer, I work for Fauna and helped with the one-click deploy integration.)
Linux Server Hardening Using Idempotency with Ansible: Part 1
Don't we already have something like this in the "What kind of website are you building?" joke, the one with the 2 very similar Bootstrap-y layouts?

The type of design discussed here isn't "predictive", it just skews closest to "best practices", which itself is an absurd constraint to place on something that's "creative".

Honestly, I see AI helping the design process by automating usability testing, converting user test videos into transcripts and flagging specific timestamps for human review. It won't go so far as to actually generate the design, because no designer wants to redo a machine's work once stakeholder feedback comes in.

The job of the designer has never been solely about developing the design. It's been about understanding the client's industry, needs and budget, and creating something that works with those constraints, that everyone can sign off on. That's a very human process, and humans aren't going to want to be taken out of the discussion by an "AI-powered" anything. See the earlier article about IBM Watson's overpromise on healthcare.
If the worst of what short sellers believe about Elon Musk & Tesla turns out to be true, the resulting backlash may set electric vehicles back many years instead.

At any rate, large individual EVs with zippy 0-60 times are a piss-poor solution to the problem of climate change.
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The heat wave lasted 25 days (using the above poster's dates). That's a run rate of almost exactly 1 million additional deaths per year.

Given the European population of 741 million, and an 80 year average life span, then they were able to attribute an additional 0.001686909582% of deaths to climate change.

That's roughly two out of one thousand signal to noise ratio. [0] According to one study medical examiners disagreed on cause of death in 12% (TWELVE PERCENT!!!) of cases. [1 & 2]

Either my math is bad (definitely possible), or I'm calling bullshit on the numbers.

[0] - my calculation was as follows: 70,000 deaths / 25 days * 365 days per year / 741,000,000 people in Europe / 80 year life expectancy * 100.00%

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29091542

[2] - https://www.thename.org/assets/2018Handouts/2.3%20-%20McGive...
Related meta-analysis from the last go-around: https://towardsdatascience.com/why-you-should-care-about-the...

(Implicitly endorsed by Taleb via retweet)
What's the probability that these guys are friends in real life who both mutually benefit from the popularity of their public feud?
That's not what they were studying. The title of the study linked in the article is, "Inactivation of airborne viruses using a packed bed non-thermal plasma reactor".
Having grown up near-ish Austin and now living in SF, I agree that SF is just ahead of the curve. There's nothing special about Texas that makes it immune to de facto segregation caused by history and NIMBYism. In fact, Texas government is significantly more dysfunctional than that of California. If Houston (or Chicago for that matter) had followed the same economic path as SF, it would have ended up with the same problems. The idea that rich people in Texas are somehow more virtuous is laughable; talk to people from Plano sometime.
I too had a problem while using the free plan and I too had an awesome and fast response from support that solved my problem!

Great company!
Tesla Has Been Giving Some of Its Most Loyal Customers the Runaround
I recently enjoyed reading Dr. Gerald Pollack's "The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor". I wonder...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0962689548/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_...
How about the hedonic trademill?
Yes. The early seventies is when we so tens to hundres of GeV and even the LHC has only reached 6.5 TeV (per direction), well short of the alternative interpretation of 200 TeV.
It's not the only example, there's also the Polygon DOOM video.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/4k4mt7/what_i...

How can there be anyone in the entire office of such a website who is that bad?
>They make it optional.

Mozilla? Optional protection? Don't trigger my memories.

They also made it optional to block unsigned extensions, which you could turn off if you wanted to tweak one to fix a bug because it wasn't being maintained fast enough.

Like, if you believed in the whole Open Source/tinkering philosophy, or something, which Mozilla may or may not care about.

Then, they started disallowing it in 2016.

And they turned off key remapping too.
Show HN: Angular 7 App UI Kit for Developers
I could never eat 1 meal per/weekday at 6:30pm. By noon, I'm usually starving and I can't really concentrate on anything until I eat lunch.
Utterly riveting for me, so many lessons to unpack here. No summary can do it justice-- if you are at all interested in the history behind the importance of portable software, read the whole thing. I did not realize the extent to which IBM essentially 'bet the farm' on this concept.

Fun fact I just learned: some of the software written for these machines can now run alongside Node.js on the same hardware. That's some impressive legacy support.
There's also Neocities as an acceptable replacement for Geocities. It's also free, unless you want to use your own domain, which requires a $5/mo "donation" to become a Neocities supporter and unlock that and a few other features.
So who's responsible for the poor execution of the military initiative in Iraq? Was it predetermined to be a failure or could there have been a more successful outcome?

Predicting events is one thing, but there are certainly better ways to predict the results of policies.
Well my background is engineering and they're are some nice quite schemes in the UK where they'll sponsor you during university. It works like this: They give you cash towards tuition fees and living expenses. In return you pick some pre-approved courses (relevant to their industry) do an internship over the summer each year, and then they have the option to employ you after you graduate (they can reject you, but if you reject them you repay something towards the scholarship). That sounds much more sensible - but it's not a private equity concept, it's a HR recruitment strategy.
Me too. Point is, if you look at those examples, that line is in danger.
Pretty low.
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I'm confused here. Seems to me that if you want these kind of features in a browser you want exactly what funds. Also, even if you paid for software with these features, it's likely a good portion of the money you pay will also go towards things you disagree with as well.
The official reason is to get people to live there. Most of the infrastructure is down south, so there's little benefits to living way up north except never seeing the sun. More and more people are moving away from the North, so the local government there wants that to change.
> Copyright protection is hardly "censorship"

It often is. Because by its nature, copyright is about restricting information flow, and therefore it naturally can conflict with free speech, especially when copyright maximalists go overboard with it (which they always do).

So any kind of abusive copyright initiative should always be a suspect as attack on free speech. And this case is a very obvious example.
Reliable backups. But this was a problem nanobox didn‘t solve it yet.
I have zero respect for election forecasters because I think they are not any better than astrologers. Nate silver has used the word probability in a way that is not consistent with mathematical definition of probability so often in this context.

Taleb despite being brilliant mathematician is actually pretty mediocre when it comes to real world. A lot of his "discoveries" such as "skin in the game" are well known to economists in the form of various theories.

I once exchanged few tweets with him about his criticism of Pinker's claim that we are probably living in one of the most peaceful times in human history. At no point Pinker makes a claim it was inevitable or it being the evidence that peace will continue to exist. Taleb wrote a length paper on the topic which I found to be totally incoherent. When I asked questions his retort was that I do not understand statistics.
can your running container instances mount a filestore nfs endpoint?
I would love to see any evidence that renewable energy is cost-effective on any relevant scale. The true cost of solar and wind both with regards to externalities and actual cost is much higher than the current politically and marketing driven claims.

The number of misleading claims when it comes to the current state of batteries the cost-effectiveness of wind and solar etc is staggering.

Don't forget calculating the price and consequences of ex CO2 of wind and solar does not include things like true cost of production (the entire vertical stack), decommission, the fact that it makes other energy types more expensive (like coal used ex at night when the sun don't shine), doesn't include the cost of digging for rare-earth materials etc.

Don't forget that solar and wind require huge areas to work because the density of wind and solar is so low compared to nuclear, oil or coal.

Sun and wind combined cover less than 1% of the worlds energy needs. The high percentages some claim like when Denmark claim 40% comes from wind are misleading as they only compare to electricity, only talks about the energy that's produced in the country (an excludes energy imported for ex when there is no wind)

There is so much disingenuous information out there it's quite astounding.
Idk, that “only $1b” is an annual bump to the bottom line. Net income only crossed into the B’s for the first time in 2018. Was significantly less in prior years. The question is how much growth would it take to add another B and how long would it take. At this point, is the market even that big?

Also, Netflix is a great example of a product that could be engineered anywhere with US based design/management (if you’re of the opinion that innovative ideas start here). Especially since they’re on AWS for infra.
IDK, I've got a suspicion OP has some other axe to grind with Kotaku.
I never heard about Pick Basic before. Apparently, Dick Pick (!) was news worthy back in the day...

"If you want the track record of Dick Pick, just hang upside down" [1]

1:
https://secure28.securewebsession.com/jes.com/gfx/people/csn...
Does well by global standards?! Yes, we should definitely be comparing our healthcare system to those found in places like the Congo. It has bad healthcare outcomes and costs a lot for them, that is bad, don't get hung up on the single word 'garbage', it's called hyperbole.
Well then, get your disassembler out and find the evidence of this backdoor nobody else has managed to find in the past two decades.

The whole NSAKEY story is a laughable fabrication, nobody has ever described the mechanism by which the backdoor is supposed to work. This should be a trivial exercise.
> Same exact thing for the HIPAA regulations; they're written by a 3rd party who owns the copyright to them.

That's not actually true: HIPAA regulations are adopted by the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services within the Department of Health and Human Services under statutory authority in HIPAA.

However, there are a large number of private IT and other standards that are directly mandated for certain uses under those regulations (and, in many cases, those standards themselves incorporate other private standards.) Some of these standards are free-of-charge, others are not.
And it looks like TokuDB is no longer developed?
To me that sounds like a great way to ensure the least amount of gnashing of teeth for your engineers, your sales team, and your customers.

Either do it right, or don't use us sounds very good.

And if their "doing it right" really is right they'll end up with better outcomes for customers who stick with them, which will drive them ending up with more customers.
Good point! I don't know what she uses :/
Because the free-priced government option will drive out the non-free commercial providers. Even if this only lasted a few years, it would put some of them out of business.

In other words, for the same reason we have laws against unfair competition.
What if the copy was AI-personalized to speak specifically to the Techcrunches and WIREDs of the world, who at least make the pretense of being excited about this stuff?
I worked on a project that was a clusterfuck of SalesForce, AWS AND Azure.

The company was making hand over fist. They didn't care about the quality so long as the payments were made and they weren't losing customers to competition due to tech choices.
I have a hard time believing Taleb can keep any friends. He thinks everyone is an idiot, and doesn't have any reservation about telling them.