skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why ads must die. We've always been subjected to crap but now that they're a primary malware vector and source of update friction it's really obvious how user-hostile the whole industry is.
Some NES games used some crafty hacks to get more sprites on screen then allowed by the GPU and Video Ram, I am curious if they will every be able to render that without having to make many custom rules for each game.
Frankly the knife cuts both ways.

Microsoft has a long way to go before they get the benefit of the doubt from me due to their decades of Embracing Extending and Extinguishing.
"Root the car" man what an amazing time we live in.
I know that a bit more recently (~4 years ago) WhatsApp emphasized that FreeBSD's networking stack was part of what allowed them to scale so cheaply. I'm sure there was a good amount of benchmarking and profiling involved in that choice, using their production workloads.
Is your target audience on FB? That's question number one. Number two is whether there's anything relevant you could put in front of them that would stick or get some engagement.

Also, for most paid social efforts you need the ability to look at attribution across channels. Oftentimes paid social plays more of an awareness role that makes it look like it doesn't perform worth a damn if you are comparing it on a last click basis to say, paid search.
Is she going to run again? She's up for re-election in 2018, but she'll be 85!! If she does run, now is the time to start building a strategy to try to stop that.
This is plainly wrong. Free markets allow for testing and approval agencies which do not need to be run by the government. Think of companies like UL which test products before they go to market, and companies like Consumer Reports which test them afterwards. These companies and more can operate to ensure safe goods and services, probably at a much lower cost, and with higher quality than the government. Do not forget that there have been drug and food safety issues under the FDA's watch, and each time, there has been little to no accountability.

An interesting related question would be whether people prefer to err on the side of type 1 statistical errors or type 2 errors, and whether the balance of errors would change under a more free-market structure.
I always use these guys to find torrents and after trying other alternatives, I now realize how spammy and deceiving they all are. With download buttons that lead to malware sites.
Database servers do much better with 4 cores than 4 VMs. In fact they do even better without any VMs at all.
Re IPv6: It was over-promoted far too early, but the fact is that its time has finally come.

You can't argue with 10% of Google users:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

Or with APNIC's measure of 30% for the USA:
http://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/US
> it used to speculate that the supposed linux distro would be MIT licensed

That doesn't sound very credible of them. The kernel is stuck as GPL; that won't change anytime soon.
From what I've seen the challenge ARM faces in the datacenter is support for ECC ram.
99Design's expansion
Even the better OS that ran on it ditched it for Alphas. It's about time OpenBSD followed OpenVMS's lead again. ;)
Either the older he gets, or the older I get, I seem to like him more and more
where does it say that? Are you inferring that from his tweet?
Carlos, super buen trabajo, felicitaciones!!
Llevo tiempo estudiando temas relacionados a tecnología vs. corrupción desde acá en Berkeley. Tengo testimonios interesantes de contactos que han vivido el cambio post-tecnología en el gobierno. Perú tiene harto potencial en esta área. Si necesitas ayuda en cualquier momento feliz de apoyarte!
It doesn't really matter if it's trivial. It's in Google's interest to do it so it tends to happen.

McDonalds isn't really uniquely bad. Burger King, Jack in the Box, et al are basically the same. They are a perfect example of what I described: a class of actors to whom there is benefit to acting in concert against the best interests of consumers.
This. Absolutely made my day! Thanks.
There are a decent number of video game companies as well. Rockstar, Sony, Activation, DayBreak, Zygna. I think 25-30 in total.
Do you know your company's runway or burn rate?
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All projects look like this for a while as you discover the full scope of what you are building.

One day it will actually start to burn down, and you will look at your task list and it will be empty. You will not believe it for several days.

But, yes, it will happen. Just keep going, but expect it will take 2-3x whatever you thought it would.
Until self-driving cars can drive this well, the streets aren't safe for them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzkWTcDZFH0
And Spotify moved to Google Cloud. However, these are isolated cases that don't reflect on the average experience. For one, they most likely got a much, much better deal because of sheer volume. It still doesn't change the reality for companies with a handful, or even a few tens or hundreds of servers.
Please provide evidence I can sue the US government as a purely domestic entity under NAFTA arbitration.

Commerce has to cross the border for what you are saying to be true.
That's N404KR, which over the past year has flown over Los Angeles on average one day in five. It's one of the top 10 planes I receive transponder pings from, in frequency.
And I think this is insane. We've gone through a series of "obvious, pragmatic" next steps to arrive at a model that seems sane and normal on the surface, but which results in...wat!?

http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/false-sharin...

Writing highly concurrent and parallel stuff in Erlang to run on top of multi core systems seems sane to me. In most other languages? Maybe half-sane at best.
10M Concurrent Websockets with Golang
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I ask such questions at the end of an interview, but mostly to see the sanity/reaction or thinking process - wrong answer would do, rolling eyes - would not :)
$1700 for a tiny studio would be a steal here in SF.
If Google highlighted that these synonyms appeared in the article, that'd be great. They don't. Thus I, the user, am forced to conclude that the relevancy of the result is pertinent to the other words i.e. the more general search I was trying to avoid by adding in the other word! It's madness I tell you.
Do we even know if grandma has a smartphone?
"The point of funding should really be to enable faster growth"

The point of funding is to generate a return.

Hopefully more than you can get from CDs.

Good investments are often a very long term proposition.
Really great explanation, thank you!
Carlypso is looking for help with some quick-turnaround JS (MEAN stack) projects
We're looking for some help in developing some short-term, quick turnaround JS (MEAN stack) projects.

To provide some context: we're YC S14 and are building the Amazon for used cars. We have a very strong engineering team of 6 folks, who are working on production code in Node.JS, Angular.JS (MEAN stack or Coffeescript).

Beyond that, we have some need for very quick iteration, short turn-time projects including but not limited to:

- Web scraping or web manipulation work (Selenium, Scrapy, PhantomJS other tools will be useful here)

- Data structuring and storage (categorizing photos, scraped data, mySQL etc)

- The ability to interpret/update based on uploaded .csv format files

- Server side hosted scripts (AWS S3, or a separate standalone server)

Generally, we expect to use between 5-15 hours weekly for ongoing development work and / or the opportunity for a fulltime role if you crush it! :)

Please email me at chris@carlypso.com by answering the following questions:

1) Does the above sound interesting to you?
2) In which time-zone are you?
3) Link to your GitHub profile?
4) Can you point at any (ideally Y-Combinator) or other references?
5) Can you describe a few similar past projects in a few words or show examples?
6) What are your comp expectations?
7) How do you measure your own success?
8) If you had to wear any historical figures hat, who's hat would it be and why wear it?

Look forward to hearing back from you! Hoping to kick some projects before the weekend :)

Chris (chris@carlypso.com)
I was actually surprised the article didn't mention the Ghost in the Shell series. A big part of that universe was the idea that even without concerted manipulation, the simple fact that the information consumed by the public is too homogeneous could cause problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Ghost_in_the_She...
There's an open house coming up. Let me know if you'd like to come (if you're in the bay area) zgtjyizv@abyssmail.com
Sounds like the Cumulus Linux approach (they use some daemon called switchd iirc)
Your definition of burn rate is confusing. Burn rate is just negative cash flow. Not just expenses.
So we'll all be happy to do our searches through NSA.gov? Or would you prefer the alternative, google.nsa.gov?

We can even make searches like FOIA requests, where if you search something they don't like, they redact the results you wanted, and if you don't phrase the search correctly, they just give you nothing.
Ask HN: What 3rd party library do you wish existed?
What is some piece of functionality that you wish existed as open source?

* An iOS calendar plugin

* An Android port of UIActionSheet

* A serialization library

* Etc.
Ask HN: Is it better to promote on a network in periods of high or low activity?
For example, I'm thinking showing something to HN via 'Show HN'. Keeping in mind, that I only get one shot (as discussed in another question), what would be the best time to promote?

The dilemma: periods of high activity also entail high frequency of 'Show HN' posts.

'Best' is defined as that, which will result in the most views. Ultimately, I'd go for user retention, but determining when is the highest saturation of my target audience on a given network is next to impossible, so I'm going with best = biggest number of views.

With this, a simplified approach would be something like: bestTime = fn(currentNumberOfUsers, probOfSeeingPost). probOfSeeingPost in turn would be dependent on the frequency of similar posts, which itself is dependent on the currentNumberOfUsers. So, when one argument (currentNumberOfUsers) is increased, the other (probOfSeeingPost) gets decreased.

Or are there more important factors I'm missing.
Verk – An Elixir job processing system backed by Redis
Force push with care
Minor note of you can't use them to do any work past keepalive pings :)
Exactly-once in a distributed system doesn't exist, and we need to get past that. It can be approximated with replay (at-least-once) and de-dupe/idempotency.

Trying to ensure true exactly-once is a fools errand. In a distributed system it required guarantees (down to the magnetic material level) that are very hard to get right. If any of those guarantees fail, you don't have it. What you have is a close approximation.

Real world applications usually involve a lot more than counting words in memory.

At-least-once is relatively easy. Combine it with idempotent operations and your work is done.

Storm is fairly explicit in documenting what it takes to achieve this, but it's not trivial, and every system involved has to support certain guarantees.

Spark (streaming) made some pretty big claims about exactly-once guarantees, but it turned out that claim was riddled with holes.

In my opinion, "exactly-once" doesn't imply that there are exceptions to that rule.

Guard against dupes and you'll be fine (easier said than done, obviously), but also know the limitations of the systems and frameworks you are working with.

EDIT: Disclaimer: I am an Apache Storm PMC Member
> unless it's a "network effect" situation like a social network, you probably don't need to grow fast.

Uber seems like a weird example of this. It was said (and remains said) that they're operating in a winner-take-all space, and they expanded as if they were a social network.

Despite the aggressive expansion and marketing, a majority of people I know in the Bay Area now use Lyft exculsively. The last few times I've said "I'll get an Uber," somebody's actually paused and said "Wait, why don't we take Lyft?" I'm not even sure why. When asked, they just reply that they don't like Uber for some non-specific reason.

They're expanding around the world and into new products and concepts, but haven't even seemed to nail down a loyal customer base on their home turf. Anecdotally speaking.
Jenkins DSL plugin and/or configuration management (chef/puppet) is necessary.
I feel like this article focused exclusively on the African-American community. I would really love to see the same type of article for Hispanic, Asian, and white communities. I would love to just see the cultural differences.
Baptism by fire, huh? :) I guess I was one of the unlucky ones, but it hasn't put me off. Hoping you guys expand to the UK (datacenter-wise) eventually!
Did you mean garbage plates ;-)
It has been co-opted from its original purpose to allow the more efficient organization and deployment of violent force. Discussion of possible alternatives is fine, but that discussion should be aware of the internet's history as an ARPA project.
We (Cumulus) have been involved in switchdev since the beginning. Over the long term, it will replace switchd in our products, but that is at least a year out, maybe two.

- nolan
co-founder, CTO @Cumulus
I haven't read this book, but from what I've read about it, the ideas in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent would show that a manipulated population might still be having lots of discussion. The discussion will just not be complete.
I heard back in January that amazon was hiring up ups managers like crazy and forming a partnership with ATSG. Would have been a good time to buy ATSG, which has jumped quite a bit on the news.
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I'm not comparing it to Rackspace. I'm telling you I've run the numbers, and I can do it cheaper on prem with HP + EMC or Cisco + NetApp than I can in AWS. Unless I'm running compute at less than 50% capacity and storage at less than 60% capacity, it's far cheaper to do it on prem.
Well done - thank you!
Sorry--missed your response and maybe you'll never see this but I typically look for a word that matches what I am trying to do with my project and then use a thesaurus.
I don't think you'd even need anything fancy. Here's the list of things that are true of most of the surveillance aircraft I've found:

Flies in circles
Flies over one region for hours
Flies at around 5000 feet altitude
Squawks 4414 or 4415
Uses a callsign that starts with JENA or JENNA
Registered owner in Bristow VA, Greenville DE, Wilmington DE, or Manassas VA

I have some simple code that highlights planes that are flying in circles so that I can take a closer look at them.
A hacker appears to have leaked Elon Musk’s next big upgrade for the Model S
HashiCorp also has a pretty complete solution called Atlas : https://www.hashicorp.com/ ( different from the Netflix Atlas http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/12/introducing-atlas-netfli... )

Joyent's Triton looks cool: https://www.joyent.com/ as does CoreOS's Tectonic (built on top of k8s): https://tectonic.com/
It's been down for weeks. This is news because......
Watson now powers a Hilton hotel robot concierge
A good IRC server, not client library - I want something where I can basically register channels and react to events in those channels. There's things like Twisted but it's very low level.

I've got a few applications I'd like to use it for, things like voip.ms's SMS. There are some extremely good IRC client and bot libraries, but nothing quite like I'd want on the server side.

I've been considering implementing it myself, but I keep bouncing back and forth about learning Rust first or just doing it in Python and calling it a day... Then I get big lofty ideas about a common IRC server being run by a daemon where other processes would connect to it via some IPC and have a nice client library where they could register channels and have control over just those channels.
Given your background, I think you'll enjoy C. The standard Python interpreter is written in C, and the Sun JVM runtime is C. So if you learn C, you'll start to understand the building blocks that came together to make those higher-level languages.

After you get the fundamentals down, take a look at the source code behind those runtimes, and it'll make you a much stronger programmer in all the languages you know.
I agree, this is definitely a solved problem!

If you need to build a solid web scraping stack which is going to be maintained by many people and is critical to your business, you have two options… to use Scrapy or to build something yourself.

Scrapy has been tried and tested over 6-7 years of community development, as well as being the base infrastructure for a number of >$1B businesses. Not only this, but there is a suite of tools which you have been built around it – Portia for one, but also other lots of useful open source libraries: http://scrapinghub.com/opensource/).

Right now most people still have the issue of having to use xpath or css selectors to run your crawl or get the data, but not for too long.

There's more and more ways of skipping this step and getting at data automatically:
https://github.com/redapple/parslepy/wiki/Use-parslepy-with-...
https://speakerdeck.com/amontalenti/web-crawling-and-metadat...
https://github.com/scrapy/loginform
https://github.com/TeamHG-Memex/Formasaurus
https://github.com/scrapy/scrapely
https://github.com/scrapinghub/webpager
https://moz.com/devblog/benchmarking-python-content-extracti...

Scrapy (and also lots of python tools, likely a majority of them created by people using it and BeautifulSoup) have lowered the cost of building web data harvesting systems to the point where one guy can build crawlers for an entire industry in a couple of months.
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Why do people find this interesting? Is there more to it than the insight that one can define a function that maps image-dimensions to an image?
There's a fairly good analogy between SF and music. 70s music (and SF) was fat and bloated and slow. High concept stuff about galactic empires and gatefold sleeves and Serious Issues - Vietnam and the nature of reality.

And suddenly this fast, spiky thing appears, that's all nihilism and dystopia and edge and noir and anti-heroes and technology abuse, and instead of looking ahead a billion years it's looking ahead about 15 minutes, and instead of sounding like an orchestra it sounds like the wind over tensioned steel cables, and it wears sunglasses at night and it thinks technology is power and its just so gosh-darned cool...

Yeah, that's pretty much what it was like. Ok, it's all cliches now, but so's a modern punk band.
Netflix is also scaling up and down capacity based on time of day. Not to mention what they're paying isn't anything close to what you're going to pay. They negotiated pricing that would be cost effective for them, and I guarantee Amazon isn't making anywhere near the margin - they just want the brand recognition.
What is Microsoft becoming?
Megacorporations are bad for the internet for certain, but I don't feel very mind controlled by Google, as I almost always use Duckduckgo or Yandex. They produce fairly similar results, and I have the satisfaction of not shoveling the tiniest bit of money at a company I have likened to fat Vegas era Elvis.

I also doubt the results of their research. Nobody is going to vote for Donald Trump because he happens to appear first in a google search; that's just retarded. I think the fact that outsider candidates are locked out of legacy media megaphones and party power structures seems more harmful to democracy, and this has been accepted as "just how it is" for decades.
Makes sense to me. Guy messes around with highly proprietary computer system, computer system does something weird. I also didn't read the forum, but nothing in the article suggests anything retaliatory. Or maybe the computer noticed something weird, and reverted to a known stable configuration.
I second this. Best website I've seen for something like this. This is exactly how I learn.
As I recall, it was mostly that backwards-compatibility with 8086 was so required that they put every useful performance enhancement except raw MHz in a separate protected mode... and then you couldn't switch between protected and real mode without (I am not making this up) asking the 8042 processor controlling the keyboard to hold your beer and reset you, which could take an agonizingly long time.
I think you should re read what you commented on.
It looks like Hillary wins most # of activity trackers at 7 distinct services. Yay!
All of this is true. The word "close" was chosen very, very deliberately.

Though the Game of Life is surely simpler than the Reality of Life... if one were to flat out name the core concept as "godel numbers for chemical formations", it's certainly possible, don't you think? InChI isn't it, I agree; just wanted to toss the seed of the idea out there, with an example that's a lot "closer" to the target semiotics than a bunch of unnormalized floating point coordinates drifting around in xml.

"good enough is the enemy of good" can apply in spades here, so I appreciate your thorough analysis of specific weak points in InChI.
The purpose of porting alternative UI toolkits is to let developers use their preferred programming language. Users don't want to see UI widgets that look out of place. Ideally there should be no perceivable difference in the end result.
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> I bought an Echo a couple of weeks ago, and I love controlling my Philips Hue lights with it. If I'm on the couch watching a movie, I can just tell Alexa in the kitchen to dim or turn off the living room lights. Setting a timer and having the lights blink when it goes off is neat too. My kids love asking it questions and playing music.

Every time I hear about the Echo I can't help but think it's a solution looking for a problem. A light switch costs $0 and really isn't any effort to use. If I'm sitting on the cough, I'll... get up, turn the lights off, and sit back down. I can't imagine spending $180 on a glorified light switch, weather app, and a kitchen timer. To each their own, I suppose.
Agreed. On another note, some of the research they referenced here is that of O'Keefe, Moser & Moser [0] which was absolutely groundbreaking. It dealt with decoding the neural signatures rats produce when navigating rooms -- allowing us to peek into their "inner coordinate system," in a way. Perhaps there are interesting questions to be asked about augmented intelligence when approaching spatial tasks from this kind of perspective.

[0]: http://www.nature.com/news/nobel-prize-for-decoding-brain-s-...
You can have C without relativity. There are no relative reference frames in GoL. Reactions only work at specific absolute speeds, and most of them only work at absolute speed 0.
It just seems like Google was incentivised to have a relationship with SEO firms to make page rank work.
Postdoc's Trump Twitterbot uses AI to train on transcripts from Trump speeches