skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be build as a browser extension. Match URL against a list of publications, if the user clicks a button redirect to blendle to check if the specific page is available. (2 stages/manual step to avoid sending every URL you visit to blendle)
I'm fairly confident they did evaluate their priorities.

"Free" lunches are provided by the state, so they don't need to budget for that expense. Lunch @ $3/day, 20 days/month in school, school year runs 10 months/year. Those "free" lunches just paid for the iPhone.
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I mean, you mentioned "take over the IP" and "move the original IP from one party to another", but I don't see why you're asking that, as NPM hasn't taken over any IP (nor has the new user), they simply redistributed the code.
Huh. I really should have talked to you before I exercised my options last year. Clearly I didn't understand the tax laws as well as I thought I did.
Personally, what caught my attention was that it's a systems language with a lot of inspiration from ML.
Not to mention even if you have every lined up you can still get rejected by the co-op board and they don't have to give a reason. They go through all your personal details and it's a bit odd living with a bunch of people who know everything about you but you're not able to learn anything about them.

20% down is usually the bottom. A lot of places want 25% or 30% down and there's also a chance you're going against someone with 100% cash and the board will pick them nearly every time.

Lastly, if you're using every dime you have so you get a mortgage well over 500k that may be a bad choice. The opportunity cost of tying that much cash up into a mortgage is a lot of risk (all your net worth in 1 investment) and you're unable to use that cash to make other investments and leverage them if need be.
The sanctimoniousness in here is especially ironic given the general attitude of HN and YC about money and technology. It's hard to take you seriously.
But with new OS versions, older phones quickly start to show their age. An iphone 4 or iphone 4s on the latest version of iOS it supports is really sluggish and slow (and no easy way to put iOS6/7 back on it)
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The phrase "reduce reuse recycle" is actually a pyramid of effectiveness. The best thing is to reduce your consumption entirely, which in this case translates to not producing or buying new hardware you don't need.
I find it quite annoying when people equate owning a smartphone to not being poor. Phones are regularly sold on 18 month contracts, so there are tons of 2 year old perfectly usable smartphones kicking around and probably given to the ex-owners poorer friends.
TrueCaller claims to help with this, but their app seems risky to me in terms of permissions/privacy. Google Voice does help with this, but I don't know that you could port your number at this point.
Resale value would have been a better approach (perhaps not from new though).
From a couple of years back, an article on using a VT220 with OS X: http://jstn.cc/post/8692501831
A mechanic in his 20's who also drives an Uber? Sounds like exactly the sort of person who would probably be able to afford, and get tremendous value from, an iPhone 6s Plus.

Mechanics make good money, and having a side income is all just extra cash for a guy in his 20's that probably doesn't have a lot in the way of bills. Super fast processor, latest GPS chip and assisted GPS software, extra large screen to view the map at a glance while driving... Most of the bad experiences I've had with Uber have been caused by problems with the driver's phone or GPS, not their car. Investing in good (and relatively cheap, all things considered) equipment is probably a wise move here.

And I would't say Urban Outfitters looks "cheap" It looks like Urban Outfitters. The point of a brand new Joy Division "concert" shirt and torn jeans isn't to fool people. Jeans with a pattern of distress marks in front upper thigh and "patch" machine stitching on the back? Expensive (tacky, but expensive). Jeans where both knees have a horizontal split that's threatening to extend to the side seams? Cheap. I would argue that people with "wealth" haven't really been a big demographic at Urban Outfitters lately, anyway. "Understated" clothing brands like Everlane, Calvin Klein seem to be more popular in the US.
Machiavelli said, the man forgets the loss of a father sooner than the loss of property. Imagine you worked 5 years to buy something and it is robbed. Isn't it emotional damage? Human rights people tend to separate rights in boxes, while in fact most rights are indeed human rights.
From their FAQ

>Shypmate does not process requested items until it has been paid for. Once payment is confirmed, Shypmate will purchase item(s) within 24 hours and have it mailed directly to a Shypmate Traveler.

So it looks like the products come from established online retailers and not from "my buddy is going to drop off a package to your house, don't open it, just deliver it".
Isn't that already happening? Wasn't DoorDash's latest round a down round?
You got any proof of that?

I don't think there's anything malicious here. The file x is simply a list of the modules that were 'given up', and x.sh is used to loop through that list and republish them as placeholders, meaning other people can't use it for malicious purposes. The author seems to be in good standing and has even republished the original code to a few modules
This makes sense. Almost everyone needs transportation at least once a week. If you don't have a car and use uber to fill the gaps then it's a great service. But if you do have a car and some free time then it doesn't often make sense to spend extra for convenience services like Instacart.

Yes there are people to whom every minute is a lot of money, but they are a very small market of all humans. Uber (with its scale and cash reserves) could make spin offs that can handle those needs more than a dedicated startup could.

Another issue is that it's pretty common to have an uber drive you to and from work, and if you like your driver, you two can negotiate on the side, saving money for both. I imagine this kind of thing would happen for personal services like housekeeping. If I'm giving someone keys to my house, I want them to be someone I know and trust. Turning gig economy work into an under-the-table job can be absorbed by uber, but it's harder for unprofitable niche competitors.
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I've been using a T410 for almost 6 years now. It's got 8GB of RAM, an SSD and the hard drive that it shipped with is now in the ultrabay. With the 9 cell battery I get almost 5 hours of battery life with normal use. I see no reason to upgrade. Sure a newer laptop might be a little thinner or a little faster, but for what I do I'd never notice. It's not like an ultrabook is going to fit in my pocket. I'd still need to carry it in a bag.
As soon as they divulged exact numbers concerning search terms and emoji usage.
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I'd love to see a new Full Throttle, but it would be sad to hear a new voice for Ben, who died not long after the original was released.
I, too, am shocked that a computer company would communicate that their new computing devices are better than the old ones people already own.

Shocked.
Stop calling it poaching
The elephant in the room here is that Apple support their products for longer than anyone in the industry.

Support for legacy iOS devices and macs is very impressive.
Your response could be taken as a joke (made me laugh anyway!), but also seriously too. If it was serious, what do you use as garlic and why?
BTDT. Got the t-shirt. Early in my career...

* Multiple logins to the conserver, down the wrong system.

* rm -rf in the wrong directory as root on a dev box, get that sick feeling when it's taking too long.

* Sitting at the console before replacing multiple failed drives in a Sun A5200 storage array under a production Oracle DB, a more senior colleague walks up and says "Just pull it, we've got hot spares" and before I can reply yanks a blinking drive. Except we have only two remaining hot spares left and now we have three failed. Under a RAID5. Legato only took eight hours to restore it.

* Another SA hoses config on one side of a core router pair after hours doing who knows what and leaves telling me to fix it. We've got backups on CF cards, so restore to last good state. Nope, he's managed to trash the backups. Okay, pull config from other side's backup. Nope, he told me the wrong side and now I've copied the bad config. Restore? Nope, that backup was trashed by some other admin. Spent the night going through change logs to rebuild config.

There were a few others over the years, but all had in common not having/knowing/following procedure, lacking tooling, and good old human error.
If this would've been posted to medium.com instead of facebook.com it would've taken me much longer to figure out that this is just a story of fiction. If this somehow would've been true then Facebook most likely would have deleted it within a short time.
Yep. The problem they may start running into with putting all the eggs in one basket with the team approach, is it can lead to a potential misconception about the program as a whole. Investors have favored YC companies because of the quality of the program and companies it is able to product. If the quality starts to go down with products, it hsa the potential to hurt better companies coming out of a cohort.
I once accidentally moved the cgi-bin (long time ago) on one of Swedens biggest websites. moved it back pretty quick so it was "only" down for a couple of seconds.
We’re more honest with our phones than with our doctors
They have woken up to this before. We've seen the bubble start to pop lately, as many unicorns have taken massive hits to their valuations.

Eventually, the bubble will rise again because this is a cycle. False sense of security -> bubble -> correction -> caution -> false sense of security ... etc. etc.
No problem :)

Aside from the two point mentioned—looks a useful resource, thanks for sharing :)
You mean the response that says, verbatim: "I'm thinking about the points that have been made, and I'm sure that we as a team will consider them going forward" ? Sure, he also says for now the behavior won't change, but that's the sane thing to do with the errors are rare, as changing something too quickly may introduce new bugs or unforeseen problems. Honestly, your interpretation of that comment is the exact reason why it's good to shut it down for a little while. The conversation gets so charged that even a "we need time to think about it" response is viewed negatively.
would this work with inspectlet?
CloudScrape works
That's a good perspective for those of us living comfortable middle-class lives in the developed world currently.

But having seen the other side of the coin in the not-so-developed world, I'm sure the author could (and should) add the words "in America" to that essay's title. Being poor elsewhere is far far worse than what he describes here.
That's if you use insider information. That's only one kind of signal that Facebook has access to. There are signals that aren't based on insider information that FB could legally trade on.

Information that other people don't have access to isn't by definition insider information. It's just stuff others can't or haven't figured out.
I forgot how impressive http://noosphere.princeton.edu is, quite a bit of work. Science or quackery, it gives me an xfiles "i want to believe" feeling.

it is still running, here is the data chart from monday http://noosphere.princeton.edu/data/eggsummary/2016/summary-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Consciousness_Project
I didn't look at the site but the idea does seem pretty cool (this coming from a guy with short hair and a no name shampoo bottle that last 4 months).

Are they teaming up with hair salon's at all? Those are where customers that want to spend $30 on a bottle of shampoo are located. Partner with the salons and give them a cut. They could even provide a "training session" with stylists that can then work through the profile with their customer. The stylist becomes a brand ambassador.
I would really really like to pay per article for content from the New York Times, the Wall St Journal and a few other news sites with annoying paywalls. Whenever I go to subscribe I think, "This isn't worth it because I don't read publication X frequently enough to justify a bill of any size on my credit card". But if this lets me just pay $20/mo to this service and get access to N articles from a number of subscription based publications, then this is a good deal. Sign me up.

But I'm just not clear on how this works from looking at the home page. Is this all paywalled content? Or will I be paying $0.25 for something I could have read for free, like a sucker?

And also, is the NYT coming out ahead here? Does it make sense to split ~$0.30 per article with blendle instead of getting a $1/week or whatever from a regular subscription? Because I would hate to get used to using this and then have it disappear in six months because the basic economics of the business don't make sense.

If it works out I think it does, this is great. If not, hopefully it can get there soon.
This has all been pretty obvious for awhile.

Take Instacart: I pay $100/year for unlimited grocery delivery? Which I'm doing once per week, so that's < $2 per delivery. To deliver this service takes the Instacart shopper/driver at least 30 minutes, probably closer to 60. Assuming a $15/hour wage to the driver, that's $13 of loss per order. Which, again, I'm doing 50+ times per year.

And, at the store I order from, prices are exactly the same as in-store so there's not much (if any?) profit they could be extracting on that side.

Let's all just enjoy the VC money subsidizing our lives for this (second) brief moment. Just like Kozmo.com back in the day.
The current CT draft spec permits the CA to generate a precertificate containing "?.example.com" instead of "secretproject.example.com", for exactly this reason:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis-13#...
It would also be nice if there was no battery in the device so you didn't have to worry about replacing that overtime.
Apple is damned if they do and damned if they don't. Now there will be an exploit that they had the chance to control but no longer can. And the phone will still be cracked (I assume).
There is also http://www.duplicati.com/
If messages come from one known-good source (e.g. firmware updates), a digital signature is a valid message authenticator. Where this falls down is in multi-user settings (e.g. iMessage), where secret-key authentication via MAC becomes a necessity.

I'd still recommend always to use an authenticated cipher, since the above distinction can be very fine.
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It is a fun story and one that comes at the question of "how much data is too much data and is too hard to resist?" Something that anyone who has worked in a popular Internet facing application has to come terms with. I found 'Manna'[1] a more compelling emergent AI story, but the data as predictor aspects of this story have their own particular flavor.

One of the things that immediately flashed it as fiction for me was that the graphs had all the same shape, which if you've ever looked at trend graphs you will see they might all have a similar outlier quality to them but they build and sustain in different ways.

At Blekko (a search engine company) we did an interesting study on query traffic to see if you could "predict" the "hallmark" holidays based on search queries. The idea was that holidays like Valentines Day come up, people start thinking about plans or gifts before that, could we advise an advertiser when the "peak" planning session was so that they could maximize the impact of their advertising spend by focusing it during the peak? And if so what sorts of queries were people making that indicated they were doing holiday planning? The results were mixed. For things like Valentines it was easy, flowers, chocolates, bed & breakfast reservations sort of rose out of the general query stream, St. Patrick's Day? Not so much. But the data peaks all had different shapes appropriate for different levels of impact (Christmas shopping really starts in August among the back to school traffic for the really prepared). So looking at (and for) "interest spikes" like the ones in the story had a bunch of different shapes, some with slow onset and rapid decline, some with rapid onset and rapid decline, and some which were like soft swells on a breezy afternoon at the beach.

That said, the dataset made possible by Facebook's chat stream would be even better for those sorts of investigations.

[1] http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
TLS Cert Optimization: The Technical Details Behind “No Browser Left Behind”
Probably not overly controversial, but still a conjecture. That is, nobody has shown how exactly classical physics emerges from quantum mechanics (specifically, the measurement problem). Note that this is a separate and more fundamental issue from how simple quantum systems under certain conditions can show quasi-classical behavior, e.g. the "coherent state" of a quantum oscillator, or the common "let h-bar go to zero"
Sorry for those that lost information, personally glad it didn't involve Atlassian Confluence-hosted Gliffy illustrations ... I have a lot of those and the tool is great for quick shareable embedded engineering sketches.
I'm interested, thanks for posting! I have no background in logic programming, but I have a problem at work that seems to be screaming for it. I tried Prolog but ran into some limitations. I couldn't tell whether they were with the language or whether I was just holding it wrong.
Does anyone have any good experiences with any anti-virus software?
> "Contributions beyond the level of a bug fix are reserved for Microsoft PPT members or they will be declined." [2

What's so wrong about that?
Oh right, yeah. I'm pretty sure every company violates that particular rule :P
It's definitely interesting! ;-)
Oh thank God they didn't waste this story on that.
Just for future reference, something like "Do we know exactly what the bug in VMWare is, and whether they're going to fix it?" would be way more effective at getting the answer you're looking for here. "Uh... but why?!?" sounds like cursing at the sky, and gets a response appropriate for that.
4K monitors are a little marginal. 27" is really too small, most people need some DPI enlargement to feel comfortable. The bigger panels increase significantly in price, but I think 32-36" would probably be about right in terms of ppi.

27" 1440P monitors are fantastic though, they strike the perfect balance between resolution, size, and price. If you're used to 22-24" monitors I really encourage you to give it a try, it's very nice for productivity. You can get a cheap Korean VA/IPS monitor for $200 on eBay or a very nice one for $300 or so (the nicer ones have DC backlights which help prevent eyestrain from PWM flickering). Definitely worth it.
Fantastic, a whole post with useful advice from minority founders and no mention of their (supposedly) disadvantage status. We need more of this and less of the bullshit about how badly minorities have it in SV.
Most SCTP use (WebRTC) is UDP-encapsulated, needs no kernel support, and works just fine with NAT. The UDP encapsulation doesn't add any "trouble" compared to your own ad-hoc UDP-encapsulated protocol, but you still get the advantages of a properly engineered IETF designed standard protocol.
> Why? Because they don't want to look poor or be thought of as such.

This is not necessarily correct.

A lot of people still regard iPhones and other high-end smartphones as being something of a luxury. They are a luxury when you compare them to what we need for survival (food, water, shelter), but there is something to be said about a small rectangular device that, once purchased, can provide nearly free:

1. entertainment

2. education (Wikipedia, etc.)

3. news

4. photography

5. social connection

6. documentation of events (note taking, video, etc.)

7. voice recording

8. calculator

9. more complex tools (graphing calculator, 12C, etc.)

10. flash light

11. access to e-commerce (save money on things you need)

12. e-readers (text books that might otherwise be cost-prohibitive)

The list goes on, but, for all of its negatives, the value of a high-quality smartphone like an iPhone can't be over-stated.

In fact, when you consider all the things it replaces, including entertainment, poor people almost cannot afford to not have a smartphone.

Whether the additional value of an iPhone or other high-end device (Galaxy, etc.), compared to a low-end smartphone, pays for the increase in cost, is definitely debatable.
>and only the legitimate administrator needs to know the true IP address for ssh

Again this is a blanket statement. I recently integrated with a service that required sftp access to function. Is this ideal? No, but if I could recreate the service efficiently I wouldn't be paying for it in the first place.

This and the websockets scenario were just two examples I can come up with from personal experience, I'm sure there are many other situations that I've never come across.

My point is that the above commenter was acting like cloudflare is a panacea for DDOS attacks.

>"A properly configured CF setup will mean your real server IP never gets revealed ever."

This makes it sound like only engineers who are inept with cloudflare are vulnerable to origin ip leaks which simply isn't true.

> Plenty of websites can be perfectly hidden behind CloudFlare as long as they don't have an MX record or unused subdomain that points to the same server.

I agree with you here 100%.
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You would think this is part of security 101 for these things...

And people wonder why big enterprises are scared of touching open source stuff.
Note: This is tagged "humor". I suppose some people will find it funny.
Google wins when you upgrade Android, Apple wins when you buy a new iDevice. The different priorities shouldn't be surprising at all.
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> that isn't Windows firewall

What's wrong with Windows firewall/defender/anti-virus/whatever it's called these days? It's free, it doesn't try to market itself to you, it doesn't smell like malware, and it doesn't seem to show up in these regular sweeps of disastrous security bugs in the third-party solutions.
TSMC?
Added hardware instructions for common software instruction combinations taking load of the CPU itself and offloading it into a mini-ASIC.

Like AES, Floating point, h.264 etc;
Post is fiction. Spoilers follow.

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When I started reading this, I didn't realize it was fiction. When I got to the point where the protagonist left the end-date off a query and saw a spike, I thought it was going to be explained by falsified data and lead into a (real) accusation of providing fraudulent metrics to advertisers. It wouldn't be the first such accusation. But it turned out to be a science-fiction story with unexplained time travel in it. Oh well.
Well, okay, so your process crashes, you restart it, it crashes a few more times, then you kill it. What's the advantage there? How does this increase availability, beyond killing it the first time it crashes?

It seems actively worse to allow users to retry requests that are doomed to failure than to put up a fail-whale or similar while the ops team is being paged.
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On the plus side, the last time this happened to me, I discovered that someone had posted a really useful answer to my question which helped solve me problem.

The person who had posted the answer was, of course, also me.
Here you go: https://blog.cloudflare.com/tls-certificate-optimization-tec...
I had the same interpretation. "I'm gonna take my ball and go home"
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