skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've just had a simple idea while thinking about the conflict between privacy, freedom, law and democracy and its effect on the Internet. How about designing a new set of protocols that would be using the highest degree of available cryptography and obfuscation, minimizing leaking of traceable information, but having a democratic voting mechanism in its core (Paxos-style?) for "de-privacing" sources of information/traffic shall the majority of users decide (in cases clearly violating laws in grave matters etc.)? Direct democracy-style. How much of a pipe-dream would that be? What would be deficiencies of this approach and how could they be addressed? Is this even technically doable in a de-centralized fashion? Would apathy or malice of general population be the main risk?

The motivation is that nobody would like to have all their private matters out in the open (which is a fact nowadays), but we need an efficient way to enforce reasonable laws (like preventing child abuse, selling hard drugs, illegal arms etc).
It's referring to the Feynman Lectures on Physics http://www.feynmanlectures.info/, he was presumably involved in the presentation aspects of that (the books I mean, not the site).
That's definitely an advantage. People used to rag on me because I used a BASIC dialect for most of my development. One of main reasons: tens to hundreds of thousands of lines of code compiled and linked effortlessly. I later moved to LISP with its incremental, function-by-function compilation to get pause times down to tenth of a second.

Either way, the elimination of long compile cycles and other interruptions maintains the mental flow of the programmer. This results in a significant productivity boost. Also, the job feels better as interruptions and backtracking can be stressful.
For S3, which permits IAM authorisation, there's AWS Cognito as a role-based token vending machine.

For RDS, I suspect DocSavage is likely to soon learn that browsers don't speak RDBMS wire protocols; they'll need a CRUD wrapper at least. The canonical AWS "serverless" solution would be API Gateway + Lambda.
Cool! Are you a manufacturer or providing an IP enforcement service? Either way, feel free to reach out to me at derick@ip-shark.com. Would love to start any dialogue. We're new and just looking to help out anyone in need =)
Understandably, people would be upset if they had random articles from the new page inserted into the main feed on the front page. However, if the articles are in a separate box on top, and there are just 3-5 of them, they would have correct expectations. This way new articles get some exposure, but that exposure does not come with unreasonable expectations.
> For people nearing the end of high-school, please go to college.

Also, at that age you really don't know what you may want to do with your life. At 19 I seriously considered dropping out of college to go full-time at the startup I was working at. At 25 I decided I wanted to get into a different career entirely, one where a college degree was required (as is the case in pretty much every white collar profession besides programming).
I think it's also worth noting that I think there is a huge cultural difference when it comes to the value of a degree.

In IT in Australia, I've never had a problem with lack of degree, and I'm doing pretty well for myself - getting paid a decent amount of money in a place I love working in. I'm involved in a hiring process for new developers and I cannot remember the last time we've looked at or considered their educational background.
Yes. Yes it is.
Good point, I didn't knew that. Given how much trouble I'm having finding a relevant index for microwave range, I'm going to assume equal probabilities to the following statements: "microwaves in air indeed move slower than particles in LHC" and "the author just used n=1.0003 for microwaves in air".
It's a valid concern - that by training your employees and giving them experience, you make then so valuable that they can leave.

I fight this problem several ways:

I turn our services into a products so that I can onboard people quickly and drive down costs - for example instead of telling each employees to setup a backup on a server, I had one employee make a script that we can deploy on all new servers. By turning processed into an easy to deploy product - It also keeps boredom low.

I give raises quickly and early to match new skills, so that when they do go job hunting they don't see a tremendous pay increase.

I compartmentalize employees so that they get really really good at a smaller range of skills - this lets me charge the customer more, and lets me pay my employees more, but it also has the side effect of diminishing job prospects.
Are There Any Rules When It Comes to Playlists?
Ah, I had no idea that they cost so much. Thanks
I applaude this excellent trolling.
Nice idea, nice realisation.

It already got people offended because "a genetic filter for safe spaces for women is transphobic". Wow, just wow.
https://github.com/offapi/rbac-23andme-oauth2/issues/3

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Hey, just send an email to amaddox@amplitude.com - he can chat about SQL access!
The Internet Killed Meek Mill, Not Drake
I think a lot of these first to market social things just aren't going to get far. For me Uber is just a messy regulation dodge. Twitter makes no money. They just seem to be trying to establish a monopoly whilst making a loss and then using the (perceived) lock-in to try and monetize before dying in flames.

Where is this tight loop of venture capital funding first to market on services that are easily replicable taking society? My guess is nowhere.
How exactly does the economics of getting a job flipping burgers in the U.S. work out these days? Not a rhetorical question, I don't actually know the answer. Are employers willing to employ fifty-year-olds in such a capacity? How does the pay compare with cost of housing in any given area? How far would affordable housing be located from the place of work? After paying for housing, transport and health insurance as well as other living expenses, would outgoing still be less than income?
A lot of people are talking about Germany's and Japan's nuke programs being failed wastes of resources. In retrospect this is certainly true, but the massive benefit of a working bomb outweighed the slight chance of success. By late 1944 it was fairly clear that both countries were going to lose the war. Had they devoted the same resources to conventional weapons as they did the bomb, they would have lost anyway. But they didn't know how hard it was to build a bomb, and if it had worked, either country probably could have negotiated a ceasefire immediately. Furthermore, Japan could have theoretically held out a lot longer than August 1945 due to its extremely defensible position. The only reason the Pacific War ended when it did and not after a protracted siege or invasion of Japanese home islands was, of course, that the US built a bomb first.
I completely understand settlement and grasp how the blockchain can be used to make the paper work more efficient and transparent.

What I don't understand is how it reduced the counter party risk to the trade? The counter party risk isn't mitigated until cash has traded hands. This is the expensive part of being the CSD (and the reason big firms want to self clear).

How does an open ledger help this problem without someone to guarantee the step between block chain acceptance and "cash in my hand with which I can use at the club".
And my point is "common among whom?" If the same percentage of black people and white people define a word in the same way then it safe to say that definition does not carry racist connotations. But if "common sense" actually means "common sense among white people only" then I'm sure you can see how inherently racist the concept (and the definition you cite) may be, and why it's time for more up-to-date understanding.

Right now there's a lot of contention surrounding the definition of racism because the definitions in contemporary dictionaries does not reflect the understanding that racism is a structural problem. Focusing exclusively on behaviors and not on deeply rooted systems strikes victims of those unjust systems as a form of moral evasion. If you're not a committed to preserving and propagating racist systems, then you shouldn't have any problem changing the definition to one that everybody can agree on . And if you do have a problem with an insufficient definition…well, then maybe you're a part of the larger problem the people are now addressing.

One more thought on definitions; remember that the US Constitution used to define black people as 3/5th of a human being for purposes of calculating the size of congressional delegations and 0/5th for everything else. The point here is prevailing definitions encapsulate broader social conventions. When dealing with words that have become bones of contention, it's advisable to make sure you're aware of the conventions the are being included in the definitions you choose to defend.
Your readme doesn't really make it very clear what your project is, there's also no other documentation. You need to sell your project to the developer visitors and make it easy to participate.
Moving Opendoor's Data Science Stack from Heroku to Convox
Washington and Massachusetts (states with significant high-tech employee bases) are also very friendly to employers in enforcing non-competes. (IANAL)
> screenshots

What help. /s
Because of the .ly TLD. Many companies employed a play on words to have a single-word domain for any word ending in -ly. Bit.ly is probably the most well-known.

The problem is that .ly is managed by Libya, and they tend to have restrictive laws and government practices that many people take issue with. So, many companies just got the -ly.com versions of their domains and made the switch.
So what?

If I work for Tech Company A (that develops products in one market area), and leave to go to Tech Company B (that develops products in a completely separate market. ie. They don't compete in any way for market share), everything I do for Company B in the 12 months after leaving Company A, actually belongs to Company A?
Yeah I thought most tech jobs in Hawaii were contracting gigs for the Navy.
This is exactly what I've being saying for years of that project basis individual competition, it's a a popularity contest, albeit at high school level, defines today's most IT organization.
1) What's been your cost per customer? Maybe it's your expectations that are incorrect. That said from what I'll say below I doubt this.

2) Your website isn't appealing to sign-up to. Lack of information, or anything really. You need to rethink your landing experiences I cant see very good conversion happening.

3) You ask for a heap of personal information without establishing any trust - see above. Having a Gmail address as you contact really exacerbates that this is not a serious/legitimate business.

4) I feel this post is veiled attempt to bring exposure. I've offered some advice in the hope that im wrong.

5) I cant see this business working as is. But good luck.
La Mandragola is a very entertaining play, and can actually be read in translation without much fuss or ceremony.

I'd recommend it to anyone.
For comparison, [1] has full-resolution (14400x12001) imagery from the GOES [3] satellite that has a view of the US West Coast. And similarly, [2] for the East Coast.

[1] ftp://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/goeswest/fulldisk/fullres/vis/
[2] ftp://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/goeseast/fulldisk/fullres/vis/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_Operational_Envi...
Org 8.3 released
They're hard to enforce, but I can tell you from experience (current) that it doesn't matter - their existence and enforceability in ANY way in a given state is harmful in a big way. California has basically done the right thing and decided to ignore them, but my home state only has rendered them ALMOST entirely unenforceable. That almost leaves a lot of room for the casual observer to judge - and it stings.
One of my colleagues (a Paris Politechnique guy, so very much a mathematical purist) was recently going on and on about the beauty of lisp, and how much better it was than C (on a formal level, of course).

I think Go sits on the opposite end of the spectrum. It's a hacker's language, not a mathematician's language. It's ugly and very useful.
How to stress test your website in the cloud
image maps werent even a thing yet! Pretty neat little writeup - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/readme.html
of course you need a fitness function; why not pixel by pixel comparison of the rendered output?
seems a bit like they are punishing the loyal. id think that you could drop commercial percentage in an effort to lure viewers back and make up for the loss of revenue by time with an increase in viewership? or perhaps the commercial boat has already sailed and a new revenue model is needed.
A Downpour of Fish: Murakami on Stage
Technically, that'd be "float C2 = C + 0.5"? (And remember to treat C2 as a float, not an int!)
Why Bloom filters work the way they do
Depending on the state the rules are different. Generally if the work is the scope of your employment it is your companies IP. Scope of employment typical factors in the time it was created, the place it was created, and the similarity of the work.

The safe bet is to get approval from the company so it doesn't cause issues.
Usenet's term for this is "eternal September": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
'Self-taught' isn't exactly a drop in replacement for 'autodidact'. You'd have to say 'self-taught person' or something, which is more awkward as a phrase.
It would be nice if someone set up something like that in SV, although I suspect the land would be too expensive.
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Most (all?) open ledgers are marketing scams. The blockchain reduces counterparty risk because it escrows value, is immutable, etc. Private blockchains do none of this and are typically attempts by huckster Bitcoiners to sell software to decision makers at large companies who want to buy into a buzzword.
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I would argue that while information can't die, expertise and built up production capacity certainly can, and I think that's even more important. I could read all the books I wanted about how to build a plane, but I highly doubt that I'd have the first clue where to start.
Rolling Stone runs a lot of articles on difficult topics like the economy and climate change that those other rags should be publishing but don't because they won't risk offending their owners/advertisers. Matt Taibbi and his editors are journalistic rock stars.
yes, it sucks without ac.

in california, it's the older buildings that aren't fitted for it. most new buildings have it.

i live in an old building (built in 50s) and a year ago i finally couldn't stand it any longer and bought a floor standing unit that i vent out the window. it's nice.
Deja vu! Exactly the same comment was made about a similar "welcome to YC" post a few months back.
Is there any difference in the code completion for the professional and the community edition. I tried out both and it seemed like some of the code completions only work with the professional edition. Just want to know if this is a bug or a feature :)
Inspired by this `Planet Money` podcast:

Rocky Pipkin, Private Eye vs. The Raisin Outlaw
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/08/09/210550830/episo...
And they managed to botch it. It's gone wrong on two fronts.

The announcement states that:

> Today, in addition to applying Quarantines, we are banning a handful of communities that exist solely to annoy other redditors, prevent us from improving Reddit, and generally make Reddit worse for everyone else

Numerous commentators in the discussion of the new content policy pointed out that /r/coontown, loathsome as it was, does not seem to meet any of their criteria for banning.

Spez clarified:

> We didn't ban them for being racist. We banned them because we have to spend a disproportionate amount of time dealing with them. If we want to improve Reddit, we need more people, but CT's existence and popularity has also made recruiting here more difficult.

I couldn't find any further elaboration. In particular I'd like to know if "disproportionate amount of time dealing with them" actually meant dealing with things /r/coontown did, or dealing with people complaining about the existence of it.

It probably would have been a lot better if they had tried quarantining them first, to see if that worked. /r/coontown clearly met the conditions for quarantine: "We will Quarantine communities whose content would be considered extremely offensive to the average redditor".

The way they handled it left a lot of people thinking that yet again the published rules and the real rules do not match.

The second front on which this has gone wrong is /r/ShitRedditSays. Numerous people have pointed out that SRS exists solely to annoy other redditors. People posted numerous detailed documentation of SRS brigading, doxxing, and harassing people. As Spez tried to clarify the new policies, specifically to explain the justification for the bannings, many people pointed out most of his justifications applied to SRS. Spez has pretty much ignored those comments. I believe the last time he commented on SRS was in an earlier thread where he said they know about the brigading, but they want to stop it with technical means rather than banning.

Looks like there is still a lot of work ahead for Reddit.
> You can probably go to your RV to take an afternoon nap.

You don't need to go that far… Google has nap pods[1].

(Note: He mentions them in the article, "Those Google nap pods are a joke. It’s an awkward bench with a cone over your head."; but this is as a reference to nighttime sleeping, not afternoon napping.)

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=google+nap+pods
The Web Is Beautiful, Mobile Is Beautiful
It's a beautiful thing having the internet in my pocket where ever I go. I can access virtually any information I want by just pulling my mobile device out of my pocket.

It's a beautiful thing, the web. I can access a constantly growing network of information, and I can even add information to it. I can use and build systems that do amazing things with this information, without too much friction.

Why can't these two beautiful things work well together? Why is it that the state of mobile platforms doesn't take advantage of the power of the web platform? Sure, my phone has a web browser, but how often do I use the applications built on the mobile web vs native mobile? Not often. Why? because the mobile web is less capable (I think intentionally). Why must it be this way? What can we do to change it?

The desktop world enabled freedom to hack any app you want. Your computer is your tool. This isn't the same for my phones.

Why am I not seeing a mobile app that allows me to access a strong web platform that gives these web apps the power of the native platform (much like Chrome for the desktop). That way I as a developer could create an app and release it to the world much like a website is released into the world (without a walled garden–app store).

Will this ever be, or are we doomed to always have these mobile devices closed and controlled by big companies with their own interests?
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Why can't you just have those discussions in issues? Create a "future of the project" label.
A company I worked for recently had non-competes and non-solicit clauses. A new employees was negotiating their contract, and I told them to push back against the NC/CS clauses.

I spoke with the management and asked why they needed them, "to prevent problems" they said. I pointed out that they didn't have the non-competes for their employees in California and asked if they had problems there. They weren't aware of any problems in California, yet they thought it perfectly logical and needed to ask for them elsewhere.
Thanks for your European perspective. I live in Southern Australia, so about as far away from Europe as possible, so all of my knowledge on the issue is anecdotal.

In the EU, hasn't the net result (across Europe) been a positive one? I.e. the positive impacts on weaker economies have outweighed the negative impacts on the more developed, core, countries?

I think you're absolutely right that the difference between US and Haiti can't really be compared with the differences between EU member states.

I really hope the EU experiment does end up working. A world without borders would be amazing.
I made this as a really lightweight alternative to things like pusher and pubnub. It's basically just a bridge between SSE, WebSockets, Long-polling, web hooks, etc.
haha for the first few years on PLay store you could use KW density to game the internal search . I found this amazing given it was the app store from a search company. I had a product ranking next to Facebook for a couple years before they fixed this :)

These days it's more the standard quality stuff. Start with good naming criteria and description text. Then get lots of downloads, good reviews, continuous users etc. App quality will strongly reflect in your position.

Overall you've entered a very competitive area. Unless this app offers a distinct benefit so people clamor to it organically you're going to have to buy your exposure.

Do you know the expected financial value of a download? If not work this out. Then decide how much margin you need to make and then get spending if the numbers stack up. These days tricking you way to the top aint going to work in this category.
I disagree that the JVM is the only platform on which you could (or would) build such a system. I know because we built a similar system at Joyent called Manta, which provides a distributed, Unix-based, map-reduce environment. It's built almost entirely in Node.js. We use nginx for serving raw data from the storage tier and PostgreSQL for storing and querying metadata (as well as compute job state), but job supervision and actual execution are implemented in Node.js.
That seems like a rather inefficient and convoluted way to incentivize employees without families to have a "better" work-life balance. You implied that the company was providing dinner - maybe it should start promoting a better work-life balance by not doing that.
Haha, I told the real estate agent I wanted a 2 bedroom house with a 5 car garage :-)
No I'm not being obtuse, I am being very serious. Every employee is given the same benefits package, they can use it or not.

If someone elects not to use the 401k matching should they get the cash equviant? Your position is they should because they chose not to exercise the agreed upon package.

Or if someone gets into an accident and health insurance covers $100k of his medical bills, it's only fair that you, who was not in an accident, get $100k in cash because they got a benefit you didn't.

Every Microsoft employee gets the same benefits package. It is already fair. You personally may not hold parts of that package very important but that only influences how much weight that part of the compensation has when choosing other oportunities.

Also, Microsoft has a sabbatical policy, it's a separate thing. But you haven't let facts get in your way up until now, so why start.