skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure that a lot of suitably ancient theft is shrugged off—I guess even that suitably ancient theft eventually becomes synonymous with possession—but the example of the Elgin marbles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles) shows that it's not always so.
There's a pretty hard cap on the level of redundancy you can do with a two-man company, as I assume a two-man company does not bring in a lot of money.
Not everyone needs to go to college and a student thinking about enrolling really should look at the likelihood of being able to get a job that pays well enough to pay off the student loan.

I know so many history, art, English, and various other liberal arts majors that have $50k+ in debt and are still scraping by. They can't find a job, can't pay off their debt, and are barely surviving.

College is an investment in your education. I don't think this is taught enough in school.

The Federal loan system is also the problem. Universities get their money up-front and don't care if the student can pay it back. They can continue to increase 'administrative' costs and the students get stuck with the bills and have virtually no risk.

The risk needs to be shifted to the University. Shitty, useless, majors would be gone pretty quickly.
The Fukushima exclusion zone should never have existed in the first place. More people died in the evacuation than if everyone had just stayed put.

And the waste is a political issue, not a scientific one. Reprocess it to recover the fuel and useful isotopes. What's left decays to ambient in 10,000 years--and even if we used nuclear power forever it would never amount to more than one year's worth of fly ash from coal plants. And that fly ash is nasty stuff. A nuclear plant that emitted radiation like a coal plant would be shut down pronto.
I'm not a native English speaker. Half of the team I manage are native English speakers,the rest are not. The recent project they did on communication templates was checked by the French colleague,while I no longer forward some of the files to English native speakers because they can't form sentences thst are clear enough to understand by others. It is not easy for a lot of people.
Depends on the brain doesn't it? Kim Peek and Srinivasa Ramanujan would indicate there is no fundamental limitation to the architecture of the human brain that prevents "fast math".

Should we measure CMOS and silicon's overall usefulness as a medium of CPU design based on the performance of a Z80?
If Bitcoin mining power continues to increase exponentially, it will eventually get to the point that it will brute force the output space of the SHA-256. This won't actually happen because 2^256 is a very^256 big number.
Bitcoin trades on open markets. If it was worth nothing and nobody wanted it, it would trade at $0. Instead, 1 Bitcoin is currently trading at $8,400 USD. Tens of billions of dollars are tied up in it, and it's impossible to trivially create new Bitcoin.

So... pretty much exactly the opposite of what you're arguing.
I’m also interested in exploring exchanges.
I think you should work to make your current employer the best match for your interests. That probably involves socializing with different teams (marketing, support, etc.) meeting with clients and users to understand what their needs are. If the company is only focused two weeks out then it sounds like they have a leadership gap. Find the person who is responsible for the longer time frame and find out what their long term concerns are.
I look forward to hordes of teenagers pushing back against this - wearing hats, burkas, sunglasses, excessive makeup etc. etc.

At least, I sure hope they will.
Yes, history, bookmarks and extensions are separate. I have one profile for "me in my personal life" and "me at work", and a few for testing logins to different interfaces at work. So this degree of separation is mostly what I want, although it can be a little annoying to maintain the extensions you want under both profiles.

Keeping history separate in particular is very valuable since nowadays the fastest / least hassle way to bring up a site is to start typing the beginning of the URL in the navigation bar, so you wouldn't want work URLs mixed in with non-work URLs.
that last response from them is pretty damning. it's like what happens when your customer success turns off their brain and just applies blanket rules to everything.

yikes, just when i thought their kubernetes and managed db's were looking attractive...
There was a story on the BBC site about accuntane recently.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47952076?intlink_from_url=ht...

I approached my GP after suffering with acne who put me on tetracycline which has some horrible side-effects such as staining your teeth and it didn't work for me at all.

I bypassed my GP and bought accutane online. The side-effects are some of the worst I've had from a medicine, dry skin and eyes, regular nose bleeds, sensitivity to the sun etc. Nothing mental though. That said. It works.

Before I used accutane I had several acne spots turn into keloid scars which I have been treating over the last decade with corticosteroid injections.
Steamplay has been a huge influence in my household. Dunno about the bigger picture. It's much less hassle than the Wine wrappers of old and for the most part just works.
Horoscope for June 2019 – With All Women
It's right next to the entrance to the tracks, and was pretty clearly made to be part of that station.
ISPs use a variety of techniques, such as deep packet inspection.

Many ISP support centers use commercial software [1] to display a detailed analysis of website usage whenever a customer calls in for support.

This includes the top websites visited, how much data was transferred for each site (yes, including those of a more salacious nature), the number and type of devices inside a home, nearby Wi-Fi networks, etc. [1]

This information can then be queried and used used for marketing purposes at the subscriber level (or to individuals within a dwelling).

[1] https://www.calix.com/content/calix/en/site-prod/library-htm...

[2] https://www.calix.com/compass/access-analyze.html

[3] https://www.calix.com/compass/consumer-connect-plus.html
Well if anything else this case just made that abundantly clear. Locking a customer resources without warning, and not allowing access to their data, is unacceptable, I'd argue even for hobby services. There's a lot of VPS providers cheaper than DigitalOcean, I don't believe they have room to act like this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20053188
The number of employees shouldn't be the deciding factor when you are a tech company that apparently has fortune 500 companies as customers.

I'm not talking 5 9's redundancy. I'm talking grab a backup once a week or something, anything, to help mitigate a scenario like this. According to the thread, they lost ~1 year of data. That should be unfeasible to a company serving customers, let alone Fortune 500 customers.

Disaster recovery planning is key for a technical company to succeed. It is clear they never considered a scenario where there DO account would be closed/compromised/down.
Bugatti’s Strategy of One-Off Supercars
The phrasing makes it seems the scientists dismiss unleaded fuel for "possibly had some effect" while their phone theory accounts for "19 to 29 percent". I got good feelings from the theory that unleaded fuel prevented brain damage and reversed climb of violence and Thomas Midgley, credited with both leaded fuel and CFC crisises was strangled by one of his inventions before he could harm Earth a third time.
It is a strange and sad feeling to come to the realization that everything is finite.
The saying "2 is one, and 1 is none" applies to hosting providers as well.
IN MICE.
This type of radical body-plan modification is typically accomplished by illuminating a handwavium target with a strong flimflammon source, such that the genetic material to be modified is coated with crispy frionized handwavium.

You know... the same way we're going to genetically modify humans to be smarter, faster, and more attractive?
It's a great idea, but the random-characters urls completely spoil ff send.
Regardless of positions on the issue, it's important to recognize that the UN has essentially no power. The only time it does is when certain powerful member states (mostly security council) agree to back a measure. In other words, half the UN's member states voting to back a measure does not matter if said member states are small ones. Same is true of enforcement: there has to be consensus, which is unlikely to happen against America.
Extreme weather is pummeling the midwest US and farmers are in deep trouble
Would it be feasible to build something like that?
They can't write, but they can read!

In all seriousness, it seems that people still do value the ability to write characters beautifully - much more than people value handwriting skills in the United States, at least.
If Oracle wins this lawsuits does that mean it’s the death kneel for AWS cloning open source wire protocols like MongoDB ?
right, my point is that poor us cities will still act like the rich cities because they are not really poor.
>It is clear they never considered a scenario where there DO account would be closed/compromised/down.

I don't think the chance of DigitalOcean automatically freezing your account to a point where only a co-founder can do something about it has been well publicised.
I'm a software engineer who does not practice "tech veganism." I use an iPhone, iMessage, Gmail, Google, Google Docs, etc. I'm interested in understanding why people who do practice this feel so strongly that using these products and services is bad. So what if Google reads your emails? Why is it bad if they correlate those and your search results to offer a more personalized service -- even more personalized advertisements -- for things you might actually be interested in buying some day? Is it fear of public embarrassment? Of being blackmailed? Of being discovered doing less than legal things? Have you been slighted by the company before so it's a matter of never doing business with them again out of principle?

No need to worry about explaining it kindly and plainly to me :)
you've never told someone something in confidence?
I'm just grimly amused that this is the third completely different "real cause of autism" post on the front page in about the last week.
The article should be called "I killed my company by having all my backups in one spot."
Your "established operations" are more expensive and GCP is newer than DO. Plus, getting the attention of someone to restore your account is probably easier in DO than in a faceless giant company like Amazon, Microsoft or Google.
What other business shuts their customers out if they use too much of their product?
“poorly educated populace” applies to most people responding irrationally to incitement on social media, not just in South Africa. Yet I somehow don’t remember seeing this stated when white supremacy and other hate crimes are committed by neo-nazis inviting violence, I.e. Paul Nehlen... this is when we’re somehow asked to consider the limits of free speech, not his IQ.
Why is this post still here? The original author of the email - Quincy Larson - said it was a private email. Sure the tweet is already available at archived links. That doesn't mean we can't be respectful of the wishes of the original author of a leaked private email. Especially someone who has put so much time and hard work into running a small non-profit helping people learn to code.
Ask HN: Who at a company gets to decide if a team is moving fast enough?
Make the schools pay for it.
Right? I hate that justice in these cases relies on the person tweeting and then that tweet hooking on and getting popular on Hacker News. So depressing.
Thank you, that's well-put. I also share that value.

Another value that I hold is that the cost of bad actors shouldn't be externalized to innocent people, i.e. that it's unfair for me to pay the cost of completing a captcha just because somebody somewhere else is misbehaving.

I'm not sure how to reconcile those.
Writing is not a skill asked for but it can help you standout when first approaching vcs.
The FCC passed a regulation to stop the practice and Congress voted to overturn that regulation.
We documented this here: https://audiusproject.github.io/hedgehog-docs/#security-cons...

This is why we recommend that you audit all 3rd-party Javascript in your app for accesses to localstorage, and avoid sourcing 3rd-party javascript from uncontrolled origins (the code could be switched out from under you if it is not baked into your application)

The post message model is an interesting one - we looked into designing Hedgehog in that way, but decided it ultimately did not help solve this issue and created unnecessary complexity. If you include Javascript from libraries or other origins on your page, eg. Google Analytics, that Javascript could still post-message into your iframe.

Perhaps we are wrong here though! Is FinneyFor open-source? Would love to see how this is implemented.
An incredibly simple solution to plastic packaging waste
So, no mini-bar in the basement? That stinks. It's fairly common for larger homes in DC to have a wet bar in the basement. Sink, small fridge, and maybe a microwave.
I'm surprised that people put significantly more faith into GCP, AWS, Azure etc... similar things have happened in lots of scenarios. Not to mention when registrars have taken down sites.

This is a shame, and imho it sucks a lot. One of my biggest points of paranoia are with backups and scripting a return of a site on another provider should the worst happen.

Getting ready to launch something barely more than a hobby and was planning on DO because the hosted Postgres and a small K8s cluster is significantly less for what's there than the alternatives. Frankly, I don't want to go from ~$100/month to over $200 for another provider for something that likely won't lead anywhere.

Goosfrabah... goosfrabah...
A political ballot doesn't carry enough bits of information for you to express how you would like to see student loans administered, and every other thing you'd like to influence.

In the first place, a government like that of the US is a massive bureaucracy, only a tiny fraction of which is actually elected. No matter who is elected, pretty much the same people will be administering student loans.
To add to your post. I was part of an effort to develop several remote controls for a company. The micro USB was always the first thing that died. Like you, I had a graveyard of broken remotes. Dozens.
Firefox with uBlock Origin and JavaScript disabled: 9.81 bits, one in 900.21 browsers.
Google Chrome with uBlock Origin: at least 17.68 bits, unique among the 209,744.
iPhone 8, Safari, some adblocker: the same (unique). Probably I should update OS, I'm using pretty old version.
In all practicality, DO freezing your account has the same effect of DO being down (or closing, etc.), or your account being compromised and you being locked out of it.

A contingency plan should ideally have been in place for a scenario where, regardless of root cause, you have lost access to your DO account.
DigitalOcean is operating worse than a fly by night host (like AlphaRacks, GreenValueHost, etc). The reasonable course of action would've been to email the customer and throttle their API access to prevent load spikes, but DO instead locked their entire account (not just the service that DO felt was being abused).

A fly by night will often only suspend the VM or database that is in question, not other services on the account (having been in that position before).
They are, just don't rely one _one_ service. You need to be cloud agnostic and this is why.
Yeah I didn't have the dry eyes, but I did have some nosebleeds 2-3 times a week for a while. The dry skin was the worst part for me, and I kept having to moisturize my face here at work.

I also wasn't used to chap stick before, but now I carry it all the time.
U.S. Inflation Shows Signs of Life in April
There are kinda two disciplines here, writing something that tries to convey a complex concept is important, but it's also important to be able to tersely describe a problem, and use correct, agreed upon language to do it.

Compare:

Wrong error message shows on Xm-z pages username input.

Xm-z page, username input, Error message incorrect.

I would argue that having agreed upon naming, and explicit syntax for how to describe issues/improvements in-between your team members is almost more important than being a good writer. The bottom sentence isn't even grammatically correct.
Bars.
Modifying a Shotgun Barrel
That said, Qualcomm's bad behavior has harmed the rest of us far, far more than just costing us a little extra for each phone. That Intel and Samsung have not been able to enter the market means that Qualcomm gets to dictate not just prices, but what you can buy. As the only implementer of many standards, they get to say what will be in standards, so the standards are ruinously complex to keep anybody smaller from being able to implement them. They get to dictate what RF engineers are paid. And so on. Monopoly power is poison wherever it operates.
Which is why spammers will have humans in the backroom for the foreseeable future. If google tries something different they go to humans to figure it out, it google keeps doing it they automate it.

The game is more expensive for google because google needs expensive people to create the scheme, they can hire cheap people to figure it out. (if cheap people can't figure it out google has failed) They only need expensive people only if/when they decide to automate the scheme.
> ...the ways in which the male and female brains differ may have remained under-investigated due to a backlash against the idea of there being meaningful differences between the male and female brain.

This is bad.
Contemporary views affecting scientific research is not a good direction to go. The religious, dark-ageesque nature of the above statement is obvious: It's a fight against attempts to undermine a comfortable preconceived idea.

I believe, similar to the famous quote about free-speech[0], that we must fight for science to have free-reigns in it's research directions even if we don't like the premise or the possible outcomes. Nothing should be off-limits in the pursuit of (a close approximation of) the truth.

Besides, science is not sensational, it's actually rather boring (in a good way), especially when considering single studies. It is the far-fetched interpretations of the results that are sensational, and therefor problematic. And these are usually done by attention-seeking media outlets.

It shouldn't be the scientist's responsibility to steer clear of research that might be interpreted sensationally, and the universities shouldn't discourage such research for fear of "bad press" but rather champion it in the name science-above-politics.

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[0] "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Evelyn Beatrice Hall
What. No picture of the shirt?

How can we assess the circumstance without the shirt?

If the shirt was weak it would be unsurprising that it failed to sell. If her audience is girls, it would need to be a girl's shirt that aligns with the her style, presuming it's one her followers would seek to emulate. If her audience is guys, it needs to appeal to guys, such that they'll probably wear it in a working rotation of commodity utility t-shirts.

Providing that she's attractive and offering a certain type of appeal, her followers are probably guys cruising Instagram for the bikini shots. Quick guess: her audience would only want t-shirts that appeal to a form masculinity that speaks nothing to whether they're there to beat off to her pictures. She'd need to dance around that, in order to craft a product that she can move into their hands, such that they'll understand they're funding more bikini photo shoots.
> including being entirely user-supported with no investors or ads

What are your plans when user-supported revenue is not enough to keep the servers running?
Yea the article is fine, replacing non-visible materials with improved modern materials is great I think.
I assume you meant type B, not type A, but anyway, lol. I had a somewhat similar "bad advice that always used to work" experience recently with someone, except this case was a proprietary USB-to-10P10C cable for APC UPS control, and they thought it was a USB/Ethernet adapter. Of course 10P10C and 8P8C modular connectors are exactly the same size and shape.
The principle is more general.

According to copyright law, you can copyright creative expression but not anything that is necessary to the functionality of what you're building. However those might be protected under patents, trademark, or trade secrets laws.

Previous to this case, the code that implements the API can be copyrighted, since it is possible to implement the functionality with different code. But the code that specifies the API interface is absolutely required for compatibility if you want code that is written for one system to be compiled against the other.

However a national precedent put down by the Federal Circuit (the same court that caused software patents to blossom out of control) decided that there is enough creative expression in API interfaces for them to be copyrighted, despite them being necessary for compatibility.

Most people in software think that the previous precedent was better. Hopefully the Supreme Court will agree. (They overturn the Federal Circuit more often than not.)

Going to your fast food example, I'm pretty sure that trademark law applies, which is quite a bit different. But you can't copyright or trademark the act of making the meal larger. (You could patent it..but McDonald's didn't. And even if they had, the patent would now be expired.) But you can trademark the term used to ask for it. And so Wendy's is not allowed to use that term. They can understand it, but not use it. However at some point if "supersize" falls into common use, Wendy's could file a lawsuit saying that it is generic, and THEN they could use it. (Losing trademark due to a term becoming generic is one of the differences between trademark law and copyright law.)
That's absolutely ridiculous. With this logic, any time I implement an interface that I didn't myself make, it's a copyright violation. I shouldn't even consider making something iterable because then Oracle could take me to court for violating their copyright. All I'm doing is implementing an API they laid out. In this case, it's clearly intended to be copied, but they can't have it both ways. It's either ok, or it isn't.
Second time I’ve seen this article, what I fail to understand why this person receives so much attention for this. My gut instinct was that this was just a marketing campaign. Everyone wants to see a person with that many followers fail. Seeing them fail makes us feel like we are more similar. Same as articles/memes that talk about bill gates standing in line for something. In Dutch we say as reaction to that, “Hij is zo lekker gewoon gebleven”. It translates to something like that he didn’t let the fame get into his head. But the Dutch version is more often then not used as sarcasm.

I sometimes worry a bit when reading these kind of articles, is there an agenda behind it? Is it actually true? Can recommend the podcast: Benjamin walkers theory of everything.

Anyway it’s hard to understand what kind of influence influencers have. Perhaps you are better off with 100 followers that really are invested then 2 million followers that mindlessly like your grams to forget about their own lives for half a second. I think it’s similar to buying a lottery ticket, you buy the ability to wonder what kind of person you would be if you win. Or in the case of influencers, what it would be like to have their lifestyle.
The Case Against GraphQL
Aren’t retinol creams just as effective and much safer? They worked well for me from in my late teenage years.