skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two groups are headed in different directions, they are just selling the same product now. I'd be annoyed as a customer if I needed to figure out the difference between two companies products and it wasn't clear. They need some way to make the distinction.
Yes, apart from the long pamphlets.
Also, they don't give any feedback on interview and claim that they provide "equal opportunity" regardless of race, ethnicity.
El Chapo and the History of the Heroin Crisis
If you ever want/have to move off GitHub, it's easier if people link to a domain you own instead of GitHub. Or if you want to establish a site later, e.g. with more detailed information.
I'm the founder of Complice, one of the sites featured. It took me a bit under 2 years to reach my "poverty threshold" target, working an estimate of 20h/week on average. To break it down further, it was more like 5-15 hours/week for the first 7 months, then 30-50h/week that summer when I was off from school, and other similar fluctuations.

These are all total ballpark estimates that I made a couple weeks ago: I've used various time-tracking systems but none that give accurate overall time spent. Based on my within-Complice stats though, I can tell you that I've done 2800 tasks towards Complice. That's not very specific, but still kind of a neat figure.

I don't have a good breakdown between programming and marketing time, but I would estimate that 80-90% of my time was spent on things more product-development related. Only 75% of Complice tasks, but the programming tasks are more likely to have been eg 8h working on a single feature.
I looked through the paper and couldn't find it, so I'll ask here: what is the motivation behind this? I don't understand the purpose of this system. I understand that some people are paid to perform DDoS attacks against specific targets. I don't understand how a special crypto currency changes this.

> Miners are incentivized to send and receive
> large amounts of network traffic to and from the
> target in order to produce a valid proof-of-work.

No they are not. Just because you create a "crypto currency", which rewards some activity, does not mean people will start performing this activity. Unless they mistakenly believe the tokens they earn somehow have value. A mined crypto currency needs to have value before miners are incentivized to do what it takes to mine coins.

It seems like any paper with the word "Blockchain" in it gets votes to the top regardless of whether or not the system actually provides any additional value. Designing useless systems is not hard.

> In order to allow victims to be (temporarily) selected for
> DoS, DDoSCoin allows “bounties” for targeting specific servers. To accomplish this, DDoSCoin
> introduces a new payment opcode, PAY_TO_DDOS,
> that can be used in transactions subject to
> certain constraints.

So miners perform DDoS attacks to earn coins, and then send these coins in a transaction which incentivizes others to perform DDoS attacks? This makes no sense. A group of supposed DDoS attackers "incentivizing" each other to perform attacks to earn tokens they themselves have created.
The word 'infinity' refers to a few different concepts in different branches of mathematics. Some of them have been well-defined and well-understood for a long time. The point named "Infinity" as a limit in analysis/topology (which I think is what renormalization is related to) is very un-mysterious.

Cantor's work in the early 20th century was on infinite objects in the context of set theory. That work is also fairly well-understood but starts to get a bit esoteric. More recent research goes further in the same direction, and then you start getting the point where you can't prove whether a certain type of infinity exists or not, because the existence of an infinity that large would prove that set theory is consistent.

So yes, research is still ongoing into the nature of infinity, but it's the nature of a different infinity.
Getting Started with VMware Photon Platform and Cloud Native Applications
Linux vulnerability leaves top sites wide open to attackers
These new features are cool... but they still pale in comparison to something like HAProxy.

I guess the tradeoff is that with ELB/ALB, like most PaaS, you don't have to "manage" your load balancer hosts. And it's probably cheaper than running an HAProxy cluster on EC2.

But for the power you get with HAProxy, is it worth it?

Does anyone have experience running HAProxy on EC2 at large scale?
I see a bunch of failed attempts in console to connect to slack websocket. Is everything looking ok for you?

After blocking 2 iframes with adblocker I could finally inspect what was going on :)

Anyway, I can definitely feel that is fast and seamless and worth to give a deeper look! In the meantime, prefetching all the content in docs or source views upon load generates quite a few requests and might explain your scaling issues. Would you mind sharing statistics for number of users and hardware behind ?
If GNU/Linux never happened, are you sure *BSD would have taken over HP-UX, Solaris, DG/UX, Tru64, Aix like GNU/Linux did?
It goes before that, the 1849 Gold Rush was the "first boom" well before anything dotcom and its poignant parallels.
While there are certainly nuances and specifics to marketing independent software, the truth is that market research, market validation, business plans, customer service, etc. are skills that are independent and not tightly coupled with software. Reading entrepreneur / business / marketing books can be very useful. You can take lessons learned from one business and apply it to your software business.

But yes, I've been looking for a a place where sharp solo tech entrepreneurs can talk, and even created a failed slack channel once, but I have yet to find it.
How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days (2005)
> a simple TCP echo server;

How convenient. I've been exploring/learning Rust, and writing a simple echo server and comparing it to a reference version I've written in Perl is my first semi-trivial program I wanted to do to compare.
Speaking English is not a requirement.

I mean, it should use some english words, sure... The words will come from the KB though.
I was just randomly zooming in and found a city called Auflington (http://www.opengeofiction.net/node/19913404) --- that's a work of art!!

Update: And there are so many like that --- incredibly detailed, ordered and organic!
Kind of useful for business purposes too. I was in this city, I took some cabs and photographed the receipts, I met with these people, I wrote these entries in my notebook (and snapped a picture of the pages) etc. Recap a business trip or even a busy week, get your expenses in order, associate handwritten notes both spatially and temporally with people and projects.
Ditto. I went to grad school for physics, and pretty much all the code there is written by self-taught programmers. I was, too, to some extent, though I did take a grad level algorithms class. A lot of the code was pretty rough.

Indicative example. I was writing code to characterize the datastream from an instrument. It was a compiler of sorts: the end user could write some domain-specific language file to specify certain metadata to observe, e.g. power spectrum in a certain band, etc. These could be reused by other users so one could have a global standard for some state of the instrument. So, I decided on a hash table to store these user-written rules since it was a constant time lookup, and the characterization program ran real time while the instrument was running. Talking with a senior physicist who only wrote Fortran 77, he asked me why I didn't just use an array since "everything ends up being an array, anyway."

There are some things that one may not pick up just from practical experience.
Tragedy of the commons. It definitely benefits everyone if some people stood up, but it's in no one's specific personal interests to be at a comparative disadvantage due to this.
Indeed, look at the Millennial Tower -- you can't draw any correlations there. I'll never buy property in the Marina, even if I could afford it.
The title of this post shows such amazing self-confidence from Netflix in its own culture and tone of voice.

At 90% of companies the size of Netflix (and even some self-important, bloviated startups) an equivalent title would have been an absolute non-starter. As a result you get websites that all look the same and sound the same.

Kudos to Netflix, even in quite a small way, for having the confidence to do things differently.
Founder of Complice (https://complice.co/) here, one of the sites featured (https://indiehackers.com/businesses/complice).

I'm game to answer questions that people have that weren't answered in the interview!
I meant the former...
Good opening for a question: what kind of servers were you using and how much traffic did it take to give them problems? (In other words, what's the performance of react like on the server?)
It's neat to have a nice, easily controllable small board, but yeah - I went to a Maker Fair last year and one stand was showing off an "Arduino-powered doorbell". It's possible to take it too far.
Please don't redefine terrorism. Terrorists don't give fair warning. Terrorists don't primarily target military installations. Terrorists don't accept surrender. As abhorrent and terrifying as war is, nothing can excuse the deliberate targeting of civilians. Yeah, it was disgusting, but the whole world watched because the whole world's media decided to broadcast it. Without the terror of Saddam's reign coupled with the "shock and awe" of 9/11, none of this would have ever happened.
MailChimp has all of their email templates licensed under Creative Commons on their github: https://github.com/mailchimp/email-blueprints

(if you're looking for a free, open source alternative)
I don't think you understand how IPv6 works.
Netflix is cool enough to be in on the joke, but not cool enough to know that it's lame when a corporate entity has self-realization of the joke.
The NodeMCU is absolutely no different than an arduino. The ESP chips are the equivalent of the AVR chips that are on an arduino. When people say "use an ESP chip" they really mean one of the many ESP based boards.
You could solve the moral issues by letting people just go get the birth control applied when they want to.

Why force them to partake, and open up the easiest route for a government to screw with probably our most basic right.
Fair enough. Looks like the OED has a paywall, but Webster covers the definition adequately:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saturate
Ahh - thanks. I'm not a spacemacs user. In my mind I had that associated with one of those OSX specific builds for some reason.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Secretly Censored Abusive Responses to President Obama
Some creditor took advantage of her naivete and tricked her into taking on her late mother's debt. Probably illegally.

Either that or she was a cosigner and her mom probably was not straightforward with her about what she was getting into when she cosigned. Shitty parents do that sometimes.
I usually use Darktable. RawTherapee, Lightroom and even the in camera processing seem to have color issues with certain photos. Maybe it is not xtrans but my old Nikon DSLR and my new d750 don't have these issues.
> Our usage often involves browsing the recommendations on the home page and picking something.

FWIW, my usage is quite different. I do browse the popular/recommended/etc., but only to add things to my list. When I want to watch something I usually select it from "my list".
On very rare occasions, there's a post on HN that I wish I could upvote so much it would pin at the top of the home page until everyone had a chance to see it. This is one of those rare posts: fascinating, well presented, and I can see it being practically useful for a lot of people who aren't there yet as well.
Are libmill and Go's approach the same? I.e. Holding concurrent state in multiple stack frames? What causes that to have degraded performance?

Is this new approach different because instead of stack frames you just have dynamically allocated callback state?
WW3 TYPHOONS SCRAMBLED TO INTERCEPT RUSSIAN BOMBERS FOR LAST 3 DAYS
GDP per capita for those remaining indivuduals would only go up if those who disappeard were somehow destroying GDP per capita for those who remained. How is that possible in any reasonable state of the world ? As long as those who disappeared where on average non zero marginal product, then their disappearance would lower GDP per capita for the remaining ones
> It's quite likely we will find exceptions.

That's obviously some definition of "likely" other than the one I am familiar with.
Probably similar justification as for veggie libel laws and gun owners privacy laws.
I find it amazing that the primary method of communication across many businesses is still mired in a world of compromise and hacks.

Surely the use tables to create presentable emails, rather than simple HTML and CSS bumps up the size of these emails that it would be in their interest to base their rendering on modern standards.
>and onto irrelevant metaphysical tangents.

For those with some time to spare, you might enjoy:

Clearing Up Mysteries -- The Original Goal

http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/cmystery.pdf

"Put most briefly, Einstein held that the QM formalism is incomplete and that it is the job of theoretical physics to supply the missing parts; Bohr claimed that there are no missing parts. To most, their positions seemed diametrically opposed; however, if we can understand better what Bohr was trying to say, it is possible to reconcile their positions and believe them both. Each had an important truth to tell us. But Bohr and Einstein could never understand each other because they were thinking on different levels. When Einstein says QM is incomplete, he means it in the ontological sense; when Bohr says QM is complete, he means it in the epistemological sense. Recognizing this, their statements are no longer contradictory. Indeed, Bohr's vague, puzzling sentences -- always groping for the right word, never finding it -- emerge from the fog and we see their underlying sense, if we keep in mind that Bohr's thinking is never on the ontological level traditional in physics. Always
he is discussing not Nature, but our information about Nature. But physics did not have the vocabulary for expressing ideas on that level, hence the groping."

>we understand "infinity" just fine.

I enjoyed "Meta Math" by Gregory Chaitin:

http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404335

"So the set of real numbers, while natural—indeed, immediately given— geometrically, nevertheless remains quite elusive: Why should I believe in a real number if I can’t calculate it, if I can’t prove what its bits are, and if I can’t even refer to it? And each of these things happens with probability one! The real line from 0 to 1 looks more and more like a Swiss cheese, more and more like a stunningly black high-mountain sky studded with pin-pricks of light."
> Regardless! of which license that code is released under, that function is now open source, for the entire world to see and use.

Only if you disregard the law. Copyright law says that no, that is not freely available to the world. It's owned lock, stock, and barrel by the person who wrote it. If you choose not to attach a license to the code, nobody else may legally use it (barring fair use).

What license you attach to it defines how others may legally use it, and with what restrictions.

The law is why you can obtain the source code to Microsoft Windows from Microsoft themselves, but you can't re-release it in any form.
Based on the documentation and the design principles this seems like a really promising framework.

The data hydration, incremental HTML delivery and incremental code loading are really, really important for creating web apps that aren't load time hogs. Great to see that they were unopinionated about data fetching, too. That's one of the things that has made it difficult to drop Relay into existing applications.

Is this used in production? Are there any performance numbers that you can share.
Also, the use of "by" in "Wisconsinese" seems inspired by German "bei" (at) -- as in "I'll meet you by the club tonight" meaning at the club, not nearby as the sentence would suggest.
Yeah, and sadly it wasnt.
You'd need something akin to Minority Report to get to the point where your premium is what you'll claim.

And that would be excellent. Peppercorn insurance for drivers who won't have an accident.

Killers will effectively be banned from driving. Zero traffic deaths.
You do realize your slang was seen the same way by your parents and their slang was seen the same way by your grandparents right?

Time changes, people don't.
Scam? Are you serious? It doesn't appear that the site is selling anything. What could the scam possibly be?
Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)
That's a result of the Slack badge at the bottom of the page trying to use a WebSocket to update its counts. We discovered getting WebSockets working through ELB was not trivial and have decided instead to disable the real-time updates to the badge. The changes have been made for that, but sadly, not deployed in time for your visit.

Anyway, the errors in the console aren't impacting the behavior of the site (the badge is falling back to polling to get updates, for instance). They are ugly, though, and will be gone in a future deployment.
Is Big Data Cheap?
Not sure what dmd is implying here. But I will say that the committee was looking at using either X.500 or CSO protocols instead. Thus it would rely on a centralized authority and a publishing model that would not allow for individuals to run their own servers.

Also remember that this was the old internet where we didn't have NAT or really any firewalling. Most of the University of Minnesota's class B was open to the world at the time. In fact I used to send email directly to my workstation instead of the central mail host to avoid delays..
A recent NY Times article argues that NAFTA may have saved some American jobs in the auto industry: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/business/economy/nafta-may...

The argument is that NAFTA caused low-wage jobs to move to Mexico instead of to Asia. Suppliers in Mexico work closely with US suppliers, because they are geographically close to one another -- therefore, the supply chain stayed in North America. If the jobs had gone to Asia, the Asian suppliers would probably have worked with other suppliers close to them, rather than US suppliers. So the US suppliers would have lost their business partners, and many would have gone out of business.

I think we should also keep in mind that trade happens whether you have free-trade deals or not. Even with US tariffs of 2.5% on cars and 25% on trucks, Japanese car companies did very well in the US and took a substantial amount of market share away from domestic automakers in the 1970s and 1980s, back when all of their cars were imported from Japan (they build many in the US now, though). The Japanese cars were so competitive that Americans chose to buy them even though they cost more than American cars, due to both the tariffs and shortages -- Hondas sold substantially above MSRP for a while due to demand, for example. So, unless you prevent imports from coming into the country at all, you still have to compete whether you have free trade or tariffs.
So right now I have a simple 302 redirect from a domain I own. I guess my question is more about the benefits of having a "site with more detailed information" vs readme + docs in markdown format in the repo itself?
I think period should be a third parameter:

sideProject.generate(8500,'USD','monthly');
At age 35? I know you were just throwing a number out, but at age 35, about 10% of women are completely infertile, and the odds of successfully conceiving are significantly decreased, meaning that even in that 90% who are fertile, they may not be able to get pregnant quickly enough to take advantage of their fertility before becoming infertile, even if they're ready to go and start reproducing right on their 35th birthday. And, on top of THAT, the rate of birth defects and chromosomal abnormalities dramatically increases after 35 (with another inflection point after roughly 40).

So, yes, while it would significantly decrease the population, you'd be dramatically increasing the number of people, mostly women, who simply aren't able to have children at all.
>Witness how computer scientists think of the social scientists in general. Not much love being exchanged there

A lot of that is because social sciences are often genuinely non-rigorous, hand-wavey, and opinionated.

I was required to take a sociology class once. Some of what was presented was solid, like the observed stages of childhood development with respect to self-awareness and the issues with the poverty cycle, but in other areas a lot of theories were presented as the "right" thing to believe that had some combination of being unverifiable, having insufficient sample sizes in their foundational studies, having glaring methodological problems, contradicting other things also presented as factual, or having reaching conclusions.

There was an assignment to make a food plan based on an average food stamp allocation, that let you eat 2000 calories per day along with some other requirements that I don't remember. The professor claimed only one person had ever been able to do it. You weren't expected to be able to do it, but if you couldn't, you had to write an explanation of it and how the experience made you feel - assumedly an "eye opening experience" was expected. It was conveniently not mentioned that food stamps are intended to be supplemental, not for all of your food. The program even has the word supplemental in the title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assista...

Regardless, even with unrealistic restrictions, I was able to do it without any trouble. Taking the high values of what the food prices ranged at the local budget food store, I had a result that was well-balanced and below-budget. Of course, the professor had to make some snide comment about "sodium poisoning" to the class about it, which this diet certainly cannot cause.

Here's a paste of it: http://pastebin.com/QnmnHXbA

Not everybody has access to as good of a budget store as ALDI, so results can vary, but this particular ALDI is located in a low-income area, and there's clearly no epidemic of malnourished low-income individuals nationwide given that poverty is correlated with obesity. This was just one example of the many problems in that curriculum. For another example, the wage gap was simply stated to be indisputably the common 77 cents per dollar figure, which carries certain implications of it being entirely discrimination when stated without any qualifiers; however, when just looking at the Wikipedia article, it can be seen that the problem has more subtleties to it, including which portions are "explained" vs "unexplained," and that widely varying figures have been reported. Motivating more women to participate in male-majority fields is a good thing, along with other proposed solutions to help the problem, but none of that was mentioned in the class.

Aside from this one biased professor, I've read from others that these problems are very common in social science classes. It would be nice if there were some data available on how students rate their professors' bias in this field.
> We’ve developed a world-first low latency streaming protocol built on top of WebRTC and VP8 to do stream delivery with sub-second latency to power the core of our platform.

Nice. Worked on something kinda like that a couple years ago.

> Would you rather have Gates, Zuckerberg or Bezos in your corner: “Zuckerberg, hands down. He has a unique global perspective on human interaction and communities. We function as an indirect social network for gamers, and Zuckerberg is the king of social.”

interesting.

I'd rank him 3rd. Course this guy grew up with Zuckerberg as king and gates running charities.