skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I really hate about the adhoc servers and how people keep using them is that alternatives are seen as spending lots of time on the deployment itself. But actually it's so much more - scripting your setup gives you your first disaster recovery scenario. Gives you a way to keep a list of "incidental dependencies" (things your apps don't import, but you need within some process). Gives you an audit trail of "things that changed" if you keep scripts in a repository. It's not only things you should have, it's things that you'll rarely add later on, but may save your ass at any point.
From (2): > We all hate paywalls, but an HN without NYT, WSJ, The Economist, The New Yorker etc. would obviously suck so much worse that anyone who doesn't get that doesn't get HN.

This statement is up for debate. I don't get why you continue to declare this like it is settled. Paywalls do limit access to content, no matter how easy or numerous the workarounds. In my opinion, the site suffers when paywalled links are posted. I don't think it's a just-so story that NYT/Economist/WSJ links are so important to HN that we simply must suffer their existence.

Declaring discussion of paywalls thoughtcrime is not good for the community. Suggesting people who can flag should not flag because they should figure out which of the 18 different workarounds they can use to read content is also not appropriate.

> Just so it's clear: this is a sure way to lose your flagging privileges on HN

Wow. So flagging an article that you can't read (by design), is a way to lose the ability to flag. What exactly are you supposed to flag, then? If you can't flag "this page just asks me for a credit card", then what exactly can you flag?
If you need to trust the provider, you're probably hosed already. (Depending,of course, on who your adversary is. Random untrustworthy VPN services are probably OK if you're just trying to protect against corporate network snooping or WiFi Pineapples at Starbucks. I'd be a little less sure about whether they'd protect you against a determined MPAA rights holder lawyer. If your adversary is a nation state, you need better advice about opsec than you'll get from a random like me on a website...)
You missed that she's not talking about California's The Strikes laws - she's in Louisiana.

"In Louisiana, people with as few as two prior nonviolent felony convictions can face mandatory life imprisonment on charges as minor as possession of a syringe containing heroin residue or, until recently, possession of a single joint."
> "It's so obvious it's amazing this hasn't already been a thing since the beginning of the obesity epidemic."

Why is that obvious? Because you think there's a link between being overweight and exercise?

Exercise does not promote weight loss. (You can do a quick google search if you don't believe it.)

The most important thing to influence weight loss is the nutrition.

On a related note, I find it borderline sadistic that we make fat people believe they are fat because they are lazy and don't exercise enough.
I went from the article directly to the HN comments to learn the acronyms and lo, there an author had posted them for an intended technical audience of HN'ers analogously to the blog's author writing for their intended audience. Alas, the comments to the comment had devolved from informing a technical audience to non-denominational internet argument for argument's sake. The mere possibility of a slight slight doesn't justify provoking a pissing contest.

The present pop psychology pathologizing of parent poster's purpose hardly makes the proposed proposition of "you"'s previous use as primarily a literary device particularly plausible. But at least there is no pretence that it was primarily a charitable or polite reading.
We wouldn't bother bringing this up if it weren't a major and increasing problem in the threads, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178012.

It's also easily derived from the values of this site, which are no secret (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10179248) and have not changed.
(as of right now, this post is 2 hours old and has 102 comments on a Sunday evening. What's wrong with us?)
I don't get why you continue to declare this like it is settled.

It's good to be the king.
If it has bad consequences we'll reconsider it, like any decision.
What bugs me is not so much caching as redundant caching.

I've seen applications that have 5 redundant caches, if not more (on-disk cache, OS cache, VM OS cache, stdlib cache, programmer-visible cache). And then you end up killing the actually-important caches (CPU caches, etc) from the amount of redundant copying required...
A system that needs to have no filtering so that kids don't get filtered out is unnecessarily broad. If it hits this one comic book false negative, too bad.
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That's partly why my "go to" fake US address is 1060 W Addision, Chicago, IL, 60613.

There's still real people working there, but they've been dealing with this for 35 years now I suspect: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455/quotes?item=qt0320055
I was worried someone might ask -- would have to dig it up from backup CDs :)
Oh, I see now. Sorry about that. Normally I'd delete it, but in this case I suppose I'd better leave it in.

I still don't see any ad hominem, and as a statement of HN's very specific values it seems obvious to me, but you're right that I shouldn't have said it in a dismissive way.
And don't forget the Net Yaroze[0]! Sony was embracing tinkerers all the way back in 1997

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze
> Pay for the publication/article, don't pay for it, but why should anyone's opinion about paywall's dictate link etiquette/form, etc.

Because it directly affects this community. It's a link aggregator site for heaven's sake.

> If you run into a link and discover it's to pay-walled content simply move on, you've only wasted like 3 seconds of your life.

I could take this argument ad infinitum. Why didn't you just move on instead of posting a comment here? Why does anyone say anything critical ever instead of just moving on?

> Also, I'll be creating a scraper that analyzes users' comment histories to determine when they complain about paywalls if they've ever complained about the state of journalism or scientific funding. If they have, I will link to the evidence so they can be duly down-voted, ridiculed, and shamed.

Great, vigilante justice and public ridicule over a topic you supposedly don't care one whit about.
Such a proposal assumes that the only purpose of education is to maximize ones lifetime earning potential. Education provided under such an assumption is likely to be worthless.
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Doesn't the US Census Tiger data contain everything you'd need to create "actual" US addresses?
"I don't get why you continue to declare this like it is settled."

Because they run the site and, I imagine, are representing the broader group who ultimately make decisions about it?
My interpretation isn't that no one can talk about the rules, just that the comments on an article should be about the article content. You could still post your own Ask HN to discuss the rules.
I've been thinking it over. Dang left an agreement, so the premise is worth reconsidering. It seems like the problem was that billboards were a remarkably bad example.

A better example might be alternative medicine. It's bullshit because it's mistaken. It's a negative externality because it costs nothing to imply that it works. And it's harmful because it can kill you.

Most cases of bullshit aren't as extreme, and I'm trying to think of some better examples of bullshit that won't kill you but will degrade your life. TV comes to mind.
Does Web Host server location matter if using CloudFlare?
I currently have an account with 97cents.net and am puchasing a second as their service to date has been exactly what I require.

They have just started offering EU hosting in Luxembourg which they claim is not subject to DMCA takedown enforcement and is better suited to freedom of speech and customer privacy.

As I am not in the EU, I don't really want to host there, but if I use CloudFlare, will than mean that I get the benefit of locally hosted content with the protection of Luxembourg Privacy?
It's pretty common for Germans to start working in their late 20s or early 30s if they went to university.
Meta discussions, such as this thread, are ok from time to time. But they don't really make anyone smarter. HN exists for YC's purposes, if those don't align with mine, then I am free to vote with my metaphorical feet and literal clicks [or rather non-clicks]. Standards are what makes a community and there are many others with different standards and precedents.
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Show HN: LeadStage emaildomaindb – Flag email address as webmail, disposable etc.
Not really. For example it was maybe possible to reliably warn other Jews. Or maybe help other Jews in countries that might in the future be aimed by Hitler find refuge.

Potentially they could have saved many.
you're right about that.

In my experience eating together is best done at lunch.

I've really love it, especially as I end up being more of a manager/leader : we hardly ever talk about work, its breaks up the day nicely and you get to chat about philosophy and general bullshit with people.

one of my former bosses made a habit of taking people out to lunch on Fridays and paid out of his own pocket. It was a small token of his personal appreciation for the team.
Considering all the problems the Quebec medical industry has at the moment, I still wouldn't trust Quebec with the care of myself or my family. It's such an abusive system.
So many gyms are predatory and it just plainly irks me that they ask for such a high price or a long period of membership. It is valuable but I don't think their costs are so high.

I would definitely join a gym if it was deductible or even paid for or had state run facilities. But I guess that's a little too much to ask.
You also need to purchase food, housing and clothes to perform your job but those expenses aren't usually deductible so I would say there's a double standard.
This would be perfect. Anyone else remember those "[scribd]" links that used to be next to PDF submissions? There could be a "[google]" link to the Google redirect page (google.com/url?…).
I use kubernetes in production at work for a large website and at home for very small projects. It is awesome for both.
Not sure what happened in this thread and how it became about Islamophobia, racism or Sweden being a modern DDR.
I think it is a subject that should be brought up. I do not think that a flat-out "stop complaining about it" is the proper response - and, to be frank, it disappoints me that that is the approach you seem to have decided to take.

It very much reminds me of an ostrich sticking its head in the sand - namely, that the response of a link aggregator to more and more of the links it aggregates disappearing is to say "no it's not, there are <insert increasingly complex and increasingly quasi-legal workarounds here>, now stop complaining".

It's not just now that should be worrying, it's the continuation of the trend. And a website as major as this within its domain is one of the few that has more than a snowball's chance in Hell to divert said trend, assuming it acts in a timely fashion. But this is just waiting around like a lobster in a pot of water being slowly heated.
This would be my preferred option.

I've got a specific use case that's not applicable to most HN readers - here in .au Popular Science links are useless - they do a geo redirect based on your ip address, which redirects me to the homepage of the .com.au version of their site, which in general doesn't even have the original article available...
Kinesis isn't a good idea for low-latency queueing. It can handle high throughput, but it can often take anywhere from one to ten seconds for a message to make it through the queue.

Given that DynamoDB can reliably write in the 4-5ms range, a kinesis queue may not be necessary. Unless the point of the Kinesis layer is to keep the cost of DynamoDB provisioning low?
> So I got my start in ad based websites. If it wasn't for ads, I would have never really gotten into what we do.

I got my start in computer crime (chasing the crimes that others committed) and if it wasn't for others committing computer crime, I would never have gotten into what we do.

Should I be in favor of other people committing computer crime?
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Long ago in the mists of time, some Usenet groups had a wonderful policy of self-moderation. If you wanted to post something, you had to figure out how to add an "Approved" header to your own post. A hassle the first couple times you had to do it, but great for overall signal-to-noise after that: http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/AltHackers

I'm occasionally tempted to think that HN should in the same direction: no links whatsoever, everything is plain text. You want to read the article, you cut-and-paste. Or write your own browser extension, or whistle it into a cell-phone or something. Terrible for rapid reading, but would definitely cut down on the complaining about paywall tags. One-click links probably violate some Amazon patent anyway.

Taking it a step farther, all submissions must be done rot13. If you can't figure out how to translate a link to rot13 (or install an appropriate browser extension), maybe you shouldn't be posting here. Not because you are inherently unworthy, but because you haven't bothered to read and follow the instructions. The instructions could be given on the bottom of the guidelines page, and all improperly formatted submissions could redirect to the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I feel like it's either that, or more all-Erlang days:

You can help the spike subside by making HN look extra
boring. For the next couple days it would be better to have
posts about the innards of Erlang than women who create
sites to get hired by Twitter.

pg, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145

And while you are at it, get off my lawn. :)
Well, you wouldn't want to disappoint them.
After all, most Swedes are mentally handicapped and och indoctrinated.[0]

Not my words, but our former Prime-ministers, aaaand I sorta agree with him after growing up here in several suburbs and living abroad as well.

[0]: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_sovande_folket#cite_note-:...
Generally, Ask HN topics shouldn't be meta discussions [nevermind meta complaints]. There's a feature request policy, and it's a potential conduit for bright solutions to policy problems that bypass debate.
A 5000 sq foot house IS optional. Nothing wrong with a 2000 sq foot place - the rest of the world has to "do" with sub-1000 sq foot apartments.
Sweden is very polarised at this moment.
The @Sweden has been hijacked by left-wing extremists - which is mainstream these days enough to warrant 7 political parties to become one giant block.

So... in an essence... we're becoming Americans. We have two parties.
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'What happened is that the gene construct seems to have jumped from Brassica to charlock in a single plant, which wasn't able to produce seed.'

"The new form of charlock was growing among many others in a field which had been used to grow GM rape. When scientists treated it with lethal herbicide it showed no ill-effects."

Brian Johnson isn't mentioned in the linked to article ..
Different person, but I'd prefer per-request with N requests packaged for free and (N+1)th request charged if charging is enabled, or returning error if I want to stay free. (so there are no surprise charges for service spamming)
It's very real. People nowadays increasingly use their smartphones as rolodexes. QR code is a quick way to enter contact details into one's address book. On the other hand, you can't expect everyone to have a mobile connection. Some people don't have a data plan at all, others may be saving their batteries at the moment. Often there may be no reception at the place where cards are exchanged (think of conferences that are in underground venues).

Not to mention that giving someone a business card with a link to download contact data is just wrong on many different levels. It's using a very wrong tool for the job. To put a contact file on-line you have to host it somewhere. Then the person you gave the card to has to retype the URL. URL that, like with most of the Internet, will probably be dead in six months.

Generally, the solution to the problem of digitizing the data you have physically in your hand should not involve sending packets around half of the globe.
Exactly this.

Fat people are generally fat because of excess caloric intake. The amount of physical (aerobic) exercise needed to even burn off a can of Coke is incredible.
It's because the local politics are rather intense in Sweden right now. The whole country is rather emotional at the moment, has been for the last couple of days.

For a while now the racist parts of the population has been rather outspoken. I guess feeling that their opinions has finally been legitimized with a far-right party winning seats in parliament and all that.

At the same time the rest of the population has been rather quiet. I guess not knowing exactly what to make of it. No one seems to have been prepared for it. After all, the official, and somewhat internalized, image of Swedish culture and identity has been that those opinions had no place in civilized society, and thus shouldn't be dignified with actual response.

The last few days, the refugee situation seems to have been a rallying point around taking back this identity. Resulting in a few days with more then usual activity of emotional manifestations.

That said, I was rather surprised to have to witness this on HN and must say I feel rather ashamed my self.

On behalf of Sweden: I'm sorry you had to witness that.

Edit: Down vote? Guess I should expect that for letting my own opinions on the matter shine through. But really, I was just trying to provide some context for interpreting the other posts in this thread.
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Can I suggest that if you've got problems including "stalls for tens of seconds on disk reads" you are almost certainly better off directing available resources towards fixing your hosting problems, rather than going down the cache rabbit hole on a hosting platform that's not really suitable for production use?

(With caveats for zero resource projects of course, but even for those I strongly suspect for many people paying $5 or $10 per month for "less crap hosting" is probably a better solution that prematurely optimising by adding caching and all it's inherent complexity to a fundamentally broken platform)
According to this[1], that would be Finland, Sweden, Germany, and UK.

I remember they used to provide the full list too, but now that seems to be behind a registration process, which I don't wish to go through.

[1] https://www.henleyglobal.com/international-visa-restrictions...
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> Getting past the hump is tough.

So... it's not a solved problem after all? :)
Great move, in my opinion. I always found the complaining to be tedious, since bypassing these this is so easy for people who are good with computers. Which people on this site ought to be.
Google seems to be using CryptDB and (partial) homomorphic encryption
Most people don't use adblock and the ones that do weren't clicking on ads to start with.
I once* wrote a whitepaper that was horrible. My boss at the time urged me to get a copy of elements of style, skim it, then try to fix the paper.

Section II (looking at my copy in front of me), which discusses composition, was most useful as my paper was chock-full of techno babble, needless words and lacked consistent design from section to section and paragraph to paragraph.

* (this is an exaggeration on the extreme low end :) )
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It's been pointed out to me that I shouldn't have said "anyone who doesn't get that doesn't get HN" because it sounds dismissive. So I'd word that differently now. The underlying point stands: many of the best articles posted to HN come from these publications. Wiping all that out—which a strong anti-paywall rule would do—would be disastrous to the intellectual curiosity that is core to HN.

> they should figure out which of the 18 different workarounds they can use

Workarounds are a nuisance but this exaggerates it. Overwhelmingly these articles come from a small number of sites that have the same few workarounds. Most people have internalized them long ago (or installed software to do so), and for anyone who hasn't, it's fine to share info like "open an incognito window" or "google the article title" in the threads. What's not fine is to turn every thread into the same old argument about paywalls.

> what exactly can you flag

You should flag things that shouldn't be on HN in the first place. But a New Yorker article on, say, Nabokov and butterflies obviously should be on HN. (Obviously, that is, given the mandate and history of the site.) Articles on offbeat topics that lead outside HN's core grooves are the most endangered species here. We need more of those. Flagging them is an abuse of flagging. Sometimes people do that because of paywalls, even when the paywall has a trivial workaround like an incognito window. That's what I was referring to.

Intellectual diversity is the founding value of this site: https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html. That's what I meant re "getting" HN. But I'll try to be more helpful than dismissive when communicating it.
As a couple other posters mentioned, be sure to try out the understated "Turn bullshit on?" link on the upper right of the page. It really sells the point.

I sort of hoped that after clicking "I am a racist" to dismiss the "Like us on Facebook" page, that the popup chiding my brazen admission would have hijacked the OK button to post my admission to all logged in social media sites.

But unfortunately Brad seems to be to honorable for that, even after people doubly-confirm that they want the bullshit. And counter-to-reality, the pulsing read "Turn this bullshit off" link works as advertised.
Is it though? They are allowing use if you have a Google refer, the "circumvention" is just linking to a Google search endpoint that redirects you to their website. You entered in the prescribed way which they made an explicit method for.
The US went the "college only" route to the point of defunding a lot of vocational programs in high school. This causes some serious problems with infrastructure. We just don't have the people ready. The oil fields in NoDak were recruiting people from Canada who knew how to weld. Because of the shortages, projects in the eastern half of the state had to be delayed. This story repeats itself in the rest of the US.
Yes, the ideas are applied to CS in very practical way. For example, in order to have a fault-tolerant web service you have to assume every component and server in your stack can fail at any time so you have to design automated failover into each layer ... You assume the parts are unreliable but the whole system is designed to be reliable despite its parts being unreliable.
Definitely. I used to work with the people making fakenamegenerator.com, and I never realized how much it really tells you until getting a bit into the code. A fantastic site, to say the least.
How is "back up you claims and nobody on HN will harm you" not an implied threat?
If they didn't, Google would ban them for showing different content to the Google crawler and to users. They wouldn't get much traffic if they had a paywall that didn't allow this.