skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure you can get some free stuff, but at what price? What if you took that time and invested it in bettering your skill sets, etc.?

This sort of sentence is extremely annoying to me. I'm good at several things, one of which is a video game that I've played for most of my life, so I've heard people say things like this for a good portion of my existence and it's up there with some of my biggest pet peeves. I've noticed that when people say this, it's usually a skillset that bothers them on some level, and usually for reasons that are unconscious to the person saying it.

No one says "you could spend more time developing a valuable skillset" to me regarding, say, fitness, because most people would enjoy having better bodies and the reasons for this are immediately apparent. But they'll say this regarding a few video games I am extremely good at, even though the results of having a better body and being really good at a video game are both satisfaction on my end. You might say that fitness leads to better health, but that's still using the assumption that health maximizes enjoyment in some way by extending the number of years you're alive -- because no one would be parading health as a virtue if every year alive were miserable.

I'm sure the reasons differ, but the mentality is always the same: this thing I derive obvious satisfaction from is objectively good ("bettering myself"), while this thing I can't see obvious satisfaction from (or are threatened by) is a waste of time, even if both, extended to their ultimate goal, just result in more satisfaction. It ignores that our skillsets have the same extensional goal: things we value. When you extend the purpose of your skillsets, you're always going to end up with some sense of "I value this thing."

Example: a lot of guys will improve their skillsets so they can get money so they can have lots of sex with women they find really attractive. But if you're already able to do that, and that's your primary motivation for doing that, then you're not going to have as much of an incentive to develop that skillset. Conversely, if the skillset is intrinsically satisfying to you, you'll eschew sex and develop it. But the goal is the same thing: maximizing your own utility from what you value.

You'd better a skillset, in other words, to derive more satisfaction. And since you don't know that they don't already have a developed skillset, since lots of people are good at many things, you don't know how much satisfaction they already derive from their existing skillsets. So you're just saying "you should better yourself" in a vacuum, which is effectively telling them that they could be deriving more satisfaction arbitrarily, even if they're already deriving lots of satisfaction.

So either this ignores that you'd do these things for more satisfaction anyway, or presumes that you can tell a person you've never met how much they're going to get (or should be getting) satisfaction from utilization of their skillsets, which is insanely presumptuous.
GP might be thinking of cases where the Nth iteration of the hash is only based on the salt and the result of the N-1st iteration, rather than on the original passphrase.

I'm not aware of any currently recommended algorithm that does this, though. The original passphrase usually goes into each and every iteration, not just the first round.
While not wanting to paint with too broad a brush, many nursing/assisted living facilities have as a first priority the avoidance or at least dilution of liability. For example, in one facility, the management, the building owner, and the nursing provider will likely be three separate business entities. I can easily imagine that "call 911" is start and end of their approach to emergencies. If the patient dies, well there are probably 10 more people on the waitlist for that room.
fired, replaced by fresh blood (cheaper)
> “Which pages are getting an unusual hit in the last 30 minutes?”

A good statistic for this is an exponentially weighted moving average, which can be computed online by a leaky integrator using a single accumulator register per counted entity.

It's not so much as counting, as estimating a rate.
Just wondering if this library provided keyboard access only manipulation, would you have expected it to provide mouse events?

I'm biased on the keyboarding should be required perspective: I deal with accessibility day in and day out, and a library such as this had to be ripped out and removed from the organization, simply because junior developers would prototype and ship without thinking about that required use-case of keyboard access.
We insure ourselves and our physicians.
Well they are trying to destabilize the regime - I didn't provide data on that. (Would you like some?)

The anthrax thing is reporting facts. I didn't say that the US IS organizing this. I didn't say NK was RIGHT about their worries. What I did say about anthrax is quite true.

No leg pulling sir.
wow this one looks very promising also Chip-and-pin enabled.
Thanks for sharing. I guess registering your own company e-verify counts that you are employed, so you don't need to worry about the 90 days unemployment limit? Also good luck with your start-up!
Optimism, I suppose.
I find circles very hard to understand compared to Facebook's "friendship model". If I add you as a friend and you accept, you can see my entire profile, and interact with it and I can the same with yours. Very straight forward.

If I add you to a circle, what happens? Are you now part of a known group? Are you just secretly tagged for my convenience? Can you see my profile in full because I added you? Can I see yours?
Yes a hack to stop someone spamming the same error from bringing the server down. Not the worst of Mongo hacks by far.
And yet your solution would produce the same ridiculous, hysterical response from the police. They would treat your robust independent review boards as Armageddon. Because of pride.
It's amazing what they've accomplished so far, and I hate to criticize anything this awesome from the comfort of my armchair. But it does seem rather ambitious to keep the 2017 date for manned flight...
UIColor Extension for iOS Swift Developers
Exactly, it's hacky, but Scrypt'ing your ancient MD5 databases is better than sitting on your ass and being caught with your pants down when your database gets dumped on pastebin or a Russian forum
“Cecile Ortlieb – A Fake and a Fraud”
I'm curious as to what the morality argument actually is, as this isn't the first comment to espouse that view.

What do you find morally questionable about churning? It's game in which banks and airlines write the rules and reserve the right to change them unilaterally.
Show HN: Valid.Ly – simple link status monitor API
My new personal site. What do you think?
The Health Cost of Upward Mobility
Founder Zen: Becoming One with Your Startup
The Big Chill in Seed
I was really hoping that the article would have in-depth reporting and fact checking. Tweets are not a very effective means of communication, and anyone can tweet anything without editorial review, so it's hard for an outsider like me to verify what she says.
And yet the federal government is the only entity so far that seems to have any effect on police brutality. States have a history of ignoring or actively disparaging civil rights. Occasionally federalism is a harmless relic, but a lot of times the people crying about the federal government babysitting them are the ones who are trying to act unconstitutionally.
It isn't remotely difficult for me to understand why people don't like HT and Ashley Madison. I don't like either of them myself.

However, millions and millions of people like Planned Parenthood even less than they like Hacking Team.
One consideration is formation of air plasma in the beam (dielectric breakdown) between the transmitting array and the vehicle. If that happens, the plasma will absorb power, blocking it from the launch vehicle. Kind of the microwave analog of LIBS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser-induced_breakdown_spectr...).

The breakdown field strength of gases decreases as pressure declines until a minimum of a few Torr (see Paschen's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschen%27s_law).

The power density in a beam focussed on a launch vehicle would be pretty high. Anybody know if air can sustain beam propagation at the E-field gradients that would be needed for this to work?
Clearly the disagreement here is that I do think people have a right to privacy w/r/t/ amorality.
Quora is down for me. Pretty surprising given their impressive uptime statistics.
Firefox patched.
If you can't detect the crime without building a pervasive surveillance state, it probably shouldn't be a crime and we're going to make it hard to detect and prosecute

This makes no sense to me at all. It is, for instance, incredibly difficult to track and prosecute child pornographers.
Well, in my experience with my CS degree:

* a minuscule portion of the population signs up for the first year of CS
* the vast majority drop out because they lack the fundamentals in maths and physics and lack the patience and persistence to learn them
* half of the remaining bunch drop out on second and third year where highly technical topics such as metaheuristics and OS internals are introduced, which assume that the student has complete and utter dedication to their studies (which is many times not the case since they have to support themselves financially)
* The remaining straggle for a while, most end up going straight to the private sector. Out of the graduates, a third go into the academia gauntlet, where half can expect to not get grants or funding or be forever thrown into shitty unpaid roles

Yes, at some point dropping out is not that big a deal and alternative paths emerge, but the idea of doing a business based on a fundamental piece of research becomes unrealistic too, which is where some of the best opportunities lie.

In the cases I've identified, almost all the people that go into academia, even in this public uni, come from professional families of homeowners who don't have issues supporting their children well into the mid-twenties.
If it were truly a simple concept, it might not need so many tutorials and explanations.
You probably need to work out a lot more than just this. Are you going to take outside funding? How does that dilute your equity? Are you going to take a salary first? before profits come out? are you going to give equity to early first employees? when do they become vested?
You can try it. Put on a wetsuit and a mask and sleep underwater.

Or use a Sensory deprivation tank, you can get access to them commercially. You can even use a heater and a bathtub to makeshift one.
It's down down under.
Introducing+50th+Gold+Party+Favors
Was there any reason why this wasn't timed for the summer months?

It seems like a lot of entrepreneurial college students would love to spend their summer working on their ideas. Perhaps it just came together at this time but in hindsight I wonder if summer is a more logical time since students have the free time anyway. The 12K would allow them to easily live/eat too.

I can even imagine involving college professors and students. Then it might disrupt entrepreneurship education in higher ed.
Also remember as soon as you add an employee and give them a little equity you both become minority owners. This means you and the other person control the company, but that also means if they decide to gang up on you your screwed instead.
I still don't know who this is writing this, but I thank you for the sentiments!

We've done our best to research the stats and present a thoughtful representation of the current state of EMS. We have many official and unofficial EMS advisors who have spent tireless hours to make sure this is true. I assure you, nothing on our site or in our advertising is meant to be misleading - the 911 system is antiquated and could benefit from an overhaul. Like many large systems, there are a lot of good, smart people involved, but change is difficult. We hope to work from the outside in, and save lives/improve outcomes in the process.

Research and academic integrity is important to me and my Call9 colleagues.
Agreed. The first part reminds me of my high school years as an atheist, when I knew that I was right and thought it was my job to enlighten everyone else.
From the article, it sounded like you had to manually transfer you pictures. Not so.

I just went to photos.google.com for the first time and the last ten years of my pictures were there in chronological order.
I enjoyed the anecdotes in here about the history of Silicon Valley. But, it read like 3 or 4 essays mixed up and crammed into one. What was the point?
> None are the result of plain wealth.

But they are a result of class.

You can have people hitting up wealth from very specific opportunities. But the knowledge that comes from being raised from class is how to maintain and further that wealth.

My parents are from the professional middle class, but they never taught me the value of networking, self-promotion, and corporate speak because they never found a use for it. I had to learn it from friends of mine from far more affluent backgrounds, who told me exactly what recruiters look for, what investors look for, how to dress the part and how to talk the part.

That knowledge, concentrated in just two years of meeting these people, has easily made a different of 50% in my income, if not more. And my ceiling is now essentially unlimited because of the access that has given me.

If I hadn't gone to an expensive private school I would have never acquired those social codes which are key to getting funding and interest in the larger public sphere. I am forever grateful for that knowledge, but I'd be naive to say it's something anyone can learn by themselves without prior exposure.
Does anyone else find this style of verbiage a bit too wordy? "the helium system integrity was breached" and "was no longer able to maintain its structural integrity" is overdoing it, IMHO.

I think there is a more succinct and straightforward, if not completely accurate, summary of events: A strut broke and smashed into the helium system, and released helium pressure blew the tank apart.
Beme's UX Sucks. Here's How I Would Fix It
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Wasn't terribly difficult, though not the shortest. What's the code golf answer?
Flying business class is less unpleasant than flying regular class. But it's not pleasant.

I get that some people might like this. I was speaking to my other half about it last night. People go on about how great first class is. I wondered if people had a choice between teleportation and first class which would they choose? I'd go for teleporting. I think most would.

So how great can first class be if I'd willingly exchange it for just the time back?
KeyBox – A web-based SSH console that centrally manages administrative access
A Startup Lawyer Is Not a Founder's Lawyer
The payoff comes from doing it to hit signup bonuses. If you needed to spend $5000 on a card, you could buy Visa gift cards and spend $59.50, but get 105,000 miles from the bonus.

Essentially a round-trip business class ticket from the US to Asia.
I love this guy. A true eccentric. I recommend his essay "Urne-Buriall" as an introduction to his writing. I suspect Tolkien, being a fellow Oxford eccentric, was at some level influenced by passages like this:

"In sundry Graves and Sepulchres, we meet with Rings, Coynes, and Chalices; Ancient frugality was so severe, that they allowed no gold to attend the Corps, but only that which served to fasten their teeth. Whether the Opaline stone in this Urne were burnt upon the finger of the dead, or cast into the fire by some affectionate friend, it will consist with either custome. But other incinerable substances were found so fresh, that they could feel no sindge from fire."

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/hydrionoframes/hydrion.html
> Word and JPEG are both examples of such "direct to memory" formats

I think you mean Word and PSD, not JPEG - otherwise spot on.
Ugh, not one of "these" comments again. Sorry to be blunt, but people are gonna keep thinking the modern web sucks. Get used to it already, it's been decades!
Sure, but since we don't have teleportation, first class is still arguably the more enjoyable way to cross an ocean right now (save for private jets).
BGP and the System of Trust That Runs the Internet
Like in Die Another Day, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year? Or like Casino Royale, where he's tortured to the point that he loses the ability to have children? Or Skyfall, where he's shot and falls from a bridge and is so injured and traumatized that he's rendered unfit for duty and only allowed to return to the field thanks to M's override?
If it's rated to 6000lbs, and you test it at 6000lbs, it certainly _shouldn't_ be destructive.
Tolkien and the Fairy Story (1963)
He stopped flying UA and switched to primarily AA.
This might actually be generalizable to any design pattern of sufficient utility.
Citizens of London would likely have felt the same way if they learned about Michael Faraday's experiments with electricity which were funded by the Royal Society, given that electricity was considered a party trick at the time. A government which spends public money on scientific exploration is doing its job to guard society against the cost of lost discoveries.
I'm in Chiang Mai, Thailand right now, and $12k would also go a lot further here. Maybe I'll look at Nepal next, and it would be interesting both for personal adventure and to help the local economy recover... but what puts me off is the internet speed - how fast is it out there?
> that is, it's better than nothing if it avoids harming the good guys too much

In theory there is an ideal rule with ideal enforcement that will cause less trouble than it prevents. But as Yogi Berra once said, in theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is.

Here's a example of a serious problem this actually causes. Suppose Nefaristan is on the list of places nobody can sell to. The evil government of Nefaristan will just send an operative to Jordan or Saudi Arabia or whatever nominally less nefarious place didn't make the list, and buy their exploits there. So either way the evil government of Nefaristan will have embargoed exploits to use against against their domestic dissidents. The dissidents need the embargoed patch right away or they'll be found out and executed. But now the stupid law prohibits anyone from giving it to them because they're in Nefaristan.

It's difficult to imagine how a law could fail harder than "helps bad guys send good guys to death camps" -- but here we are.

Causing serious harm is not better than doing nothing.
I went to Slidell High; the other Google intern went to Northshore. And now one more from Slidell. I love how the internet brought us all together even though we were previously so close but didn't know it.
FYI：Read part two here:

https://blog.opendns.com/2015/06/25/bgp-and-the-system-of-tr...
Published: July 20, 2015

Mine will applied after restart.
Same here. 240 $ chromebook and it runs great. Me likey.
You aren't "earning 12K" you are using that 12K to kick start your idea.
Yes, agreed. That said, I prefer to function from a mindset where I place fault in engineering first. What I mean by this is, I assume it is my responsibility to verify, as much as possible, that components and assemblies meet the required specifications. In other words, don't just engineer the parts. Take the time to engimeer a "failure is not an option" process as well.

I suspect SpaceX's costs are going to, over time, increase significantly as they continue to learn that playing it loose isn't always possible in that business. They are famous for going for COTS in order to save money.

This is NOT a put-down. I think what they are doing is fantastic. It is obviously redefining aerospace. At the same time I am astounded that critical structural components are not 100% tested. That said, metalurgy isn't my area of expertise, which means my opinion here could be complete nonsense. Perhaps this particular failure mode can only be tested through destructive methods (sectioning?) which means you can never be 100% certain to be flying good metal.
You seem to know your stuff and work in a great system.
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There's a lot here in these comments, and I'll do my best to sum up my thoughts succinctly:

We've done A LOT of user research including days of time on the back of ambulances, days of sitting in nursing homes and watching how a typical 911 call (not a Call9 call) works, countless conversations and late nights with world-leading experts in EMS care, and years of being an EM doc on the receiving end.
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Paramedics are NOT just ambulance drivers. They are some of the most valuable members of our society (and surely undervalued/underpaid). But THE reason I left my job to pursue Call9 with my team, is because I have felt if only a trained EM doc could have been in the field, than many of my patients with unfortunate outcomes could have decreased morbidity/mortality. With Call9, we can do that, and save patients who are not otherwise being saved.
I'd say you're now almost guilt-edged required to provide us with your simple explanation here. But i'll warn you, i've been nicely flummoxed by competing 'simple' explanations in this forum previously: "A Monad is an object whose methods return monads.", "They're simply a highly specific way of chaining operations together.", "You know how jQuery methods can string out multiple methods with periods? That's what monads are.", "Monads are merely an analogy to control flow what abstract data types are to data."
Can we correct the HN title to match the article's. "The mobile web sucks"
That's because Russ Cox (rsc) is the very person who has rewritten a decade-old software for OEIS, as seen in the OEIS foundation page:

> It took us over a year to resolve this problem. In the end, Russ Cox completely rewrote all the programs needed to maintain the database and answer queries - a huge task! NJAS's colleague David Applegate has also been of enormous help in getting the new system working.

(http://oeisf.org/index.html#HISTORY)
> When the conversation turns to Uber for "x," you can tell there we're out of ideas, that people are basically just trying to iterate and get lucky. I suppose some of them will be lucky.

This is true - but then where do you think ideas come from? They aren't woven from thin air, they come from experimenting with existing ideas. I see it as a positive that so many people are experimenting with dumb-on-the-face-of-it apps... maybe instead of the latest messaging app one of them will make a real innovation.
A new NASA-funded study lays out a plan to return humans to the Moon
This comes across a little like "get off my lawn", but you got to admit, the web has gotten pretty awful in the last few years.

I enjoy my time online less and less as more content is stuffed into single-page app walled gardens that load massive quantities of cruft, ads, and tracking code. I almost preferred the flash-era.

It seems that the goal of the web as being user-centric has taken the back seat to trying to convince the user that they're just a passive recipient of crafted experiences whose only purpose is to click ads or open their wallet.