skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you haven't read them yet. I very highly recommend those two books:

— The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, by Bruce Sterling.

— The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking A Spy Through The Maze Of Computer Espionage, by Cliff Stoll.

Both are excellent reads, and if you like old Usenet and BBS stories, you'll be served.

EDIT: By the way, the first one is freely available here: http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html. I have it in paper myself, but surely it is possible to make a good ePub from these HTML pages.
I found out about wagon 2 hours ago and was playing with it a bit today.

For me, that was very short lived, but their application did actually seem nice. What a bummer.
Show HN: Theme Juice – A desktop app for local WordPress development
This whole product really is a labor of love to the WordPress community from myself. I've always wanted to somehow be a part of pushing the WordPress community towards using modern build tools, package management, version control and of course, proper deployments.

What started as a tiny command line script that automated my own personal local dev workflow and has since grown into a rather robust WordPress development toolkit, handling everything from configuring a dev environment, wrangling build tools, all the way to painless SSH deployments.

Though it hasn't gained much traction, I believe this project has the chops to become a powerful stable in any WP developer's tool belt.

The desktop application is built on top of our open source command line utility, tj, as well as our open source Graft virtual machine (loosely based off of VVV). Together, these tools allow you to easily create, manage and deploy local WordPress development sites, regardless of your comfort with the command line.

The Theme Juice desktop app aims to simplify the convoluted and rather unenjoyable process of developing WordPress projects locally by wrapping everything up into a beautiful soon-to-be-cross-platform desktop app (MacOS only for our initial v1.0 release).

I'd love to hear any feedback you have.

Link: https://www.themejuice.it
In your edit nothing suggests there is even 10% alignment on net. Remember, many charities have negative alignment by acting counter to the governments intent.

Even in areas where it looks like things align say non religious textbooks failing to teach evolution has very real and very negative results, just look at antibiotic resistance. The long term impacts of that may very well outweigh all positive effects of charitable giving in the US.

And it's not just education. Handing out AIDS medications in poor counties sounds great! Doing so poorly may quickly make those same medications useless.
Surely HN knows how to host a static site without needing advice from the blogosphere..
Pretty neat. I wrote a couple of scripts for Pandoc to do something similar: "panpipe" allows codeblock contents to be piped through arbitrary commands, and "panhandle" allows codeblocks containing Pandoc ASTs to be spliced into the document.

This simple setup is enough to access any programming language or other tool which handles stdio (including the shell, where we can invoke more complicated build tools, etc.)

http://chriswarbo.net/projects/activecode/index.html
It feels weird to me to talk into my phone even in private.
Federico Faggin went to the University of Padova. I guess that's not of interest to most people, but having spent much of the past 15 years there, I always thought it was kind of cool.
It does predate capacitive touchscreen keyboards. However it wasn't made explicitly for full size physical keyboards. They explicitly had soft keyboards in mind. Here is the paper that introduced the phrase set [1] at it refers to this soft keyboard they made previously [2].

[1] http://www.yorku.ca/mack/chi03b.html
[2] http://www.yorku.ca/mack/p25-mackenzie.pdf
4M users and cash-flow positive in a month: The story of Pokecrew
One word for you: Investors

They could never do that and expect to survive as a company as it would be "giving away" money on the table so to speak.
This whole things feels like an ad.
This is great additional detail on the WoSign fiasco. Also discussed yesterday here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12389573
> cannot find the article at the moment, but there was one discussed on hacker news recently that mentioned a privacy device for telephones before the 1950s that achieved the same effect as cupping your hands over the receiver so that others in the room could not hear what you were saying into it. If programming by voice takes off, I imagine such a thing would be a necessity to keep office environments sane.

Or maybe we'd all get private offices with decent sound-proofing.

Hmmm … that's not going to happen.
Here is a quote from an article about consciousness

"One of the processes important in perception is the comparing of current input with similar past experience.
When we see a friend, a memory image of his face is presented to our consciousness along with the
sensation of his actual present appearance.
This memory image (which can be called a schema) blends with the current sensation, so that the
perception is a combination of the two. The relative strengths of each source of information probably
vary from person to person."

It not scientific or proven true. It does however work as a model for a part of peoples perception that fits quite well to peoples behavior.
Strangling your systems-of-record with Microservices
Those are ages-old issues that have had solutions before the creation of all this fancy tooling.

You can invalidate cache with fake (ignored) URL parameters (http://foo.html?hello) or HEAD section declarations.

CDNs are no different, your links simply point elsewhere. Presumably some finishing script could capture your CDN'd data and copy everything to the appropriate place.

How does continuous delivery integration even have anything to do with transferring files to a hosting drop? How is it that an FTP drop is insufficient for integration testing?

A static site host is simply a webserver returning the HTML file you requested, nothing more and nothing less. Everything relevant that the server returns is under the control of the developer who made the page. The things you describe are value-adds; or, as I like to call them: crutches.
Yep, we work with a few players now, and have several others in development. Ultimately, we'll work with every major web player and mobile/OTT device. You can also roll your own integration if you have a custom player, though if it's HTML5-based, the HTML5 integration might have you covered.

Today, we're focused on the performance side of things: errors, startup time, rebuffering, and video quality. Over time, we'll go more places.

As for the most impressive features: we're still early (just coming out of beta), and so some of the things we're most excited about are coming down the pipe. As a preview, though, one of the challenges we're tackling is extracting meaning out of streams of data, and so we're working hard on things like alerting and dashboards that surface the most important information (while also making it easy to do your own explorations). That's also why we've spent a lot of time on our interface; we think a good UX is really important to a product like this.
> Our investigation revealed that in case of frequent insertions and deletions Tarantool initiated a complex process of tree rebalancing (all our indexes were of TREE type).

It's all about 1.5. New version (1.6) uses brand new bps-tree, not sg/avl-tree. It behaves better on all workloads.

AVLTree was "temporary" hack. Our implementation works better, for their needs. BTW - AVL is not bad, but it's hard to implement a good one (believe me :) ).
btw, we also have native uncurried calling convention support to make callback even more efficient
6 Value Priorities That Attract All Serious Investors
Elon, you are known for taking over projects within your companies when you feel they are not executing well enough (autopilot, manufacturing process, etc).

There are often several broken projects in a startup; how do you decide when to take over a project and fix it personally?
That's like saying a shovel is better than an excavator because the shovel is cheaper.

In some cases the shovel is better, but you can't effectively compare the two of them.
Actually, the previous poster's claim is worse than that. This journalist does have notes and so if it mattered enough, those could be subjected to forensic examination to see if they're consistent with the time period of the interview. The poster is basically denying something for which there is almost certainly actual physical evidence corroborating Baum's story, as well as apparently defaming a professional journalist.
s3_website is just about the easiest blog deployment system ever.
>> Is low energy significantly different from high performance code?

It can be. Certain operations are more power efficient than others - subtraction and then a check for negative value instead of comparison, certain vector operations, loop unrolling, using less memory/bus traffic...

>> Are there cases where an algorithm takes 10x the wall clock time to execute, but actually uses less energy on the same chip?

Slower code can be more power efficent. You're just tuning for different results.
>Would that time and money pay off in any way? I really believe it wouldn't. To save a few hundred mb of RAM, you are looking at triple or quadruple your development and maintenance costs, not to mention making it that much more costly to add new features. That doesn't seem like a good payoff.

I don't think writing native apps is so much more difficult that a web app like Slack. If anything, it's probably the opposite.

There are cross-platform (native) apps with custom UIs, like DAWs and NLEs that are an order of magnitude more complex in both their UI and their logic code, and yet are done with teams and by companies that have an order of magnitude less funding than a company like Slack.
Nice guide. I have my personal site on the same AWS S3/Cloudfront combo and I effectively only pay for the domain name ($12/yr) and certificate (~$35 for a 2 year?). AWS invoices me monthly for ~$0.05/month in fees with a credit that erases the charge, so I'm not actually paying for hosting. If you're unfamiliar with AWS it can be daunting, but it's mostly initial setup to get it working then uploading changed files whenever you update the site, which was a better choice for me than $5/$10/whatever each month for little or no additional benefit. I'd recommend it for anyone with a static site. I think you'd need a lot of traffic and/or updates to the site to incur $10/month in fees on AWS.
>"Carbon dating only works on very recent things"

Ironically, it doesn't work well at all for dating very recent objects though, at least without a huge fudge factor that could only be applied if very specific info is available:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Radiocarbon_bomb_spike.sv...
Their policy page at http://www.wosign.com/policy/ currently renders backend source code in plain text...
yes, it is actually easier to optimize since you have more herusitics.
both compiled to js, so yes, it can work together : )
How, exactly, does not tipping result in someone not being paid. A bit hyperbolic.
http://www.wosign.com/policy/cps_e.htm if you parse the source :p
How are you saving for retirement then?
What about Neocities? They provide HTTPS for every site, even without paying. I don't need it because I have my own servers, but I really think what they do is great. For example, each website they host is archived on IPFS :).

https://neocities.org/
yep, the cloud is overrated. I have my static site running on a raspberry pi, works great. BTW google domains has great ddns.
you should checkout reason, they are working on bindings using bucklescript. So it is not a dream, people probably can write react app using ocaml very soon
As you said 'good professor'. It seems prestigious != good these days, even though prestigious does bring in money and can simplify a number of problems. From what I have seen in STEM at 'top' research institutions the true delineating factor is the professor/group you work in, money/grants is a second and project is 3rd.
There are other dating techniques that use trace radioactive elements from nuclear bomb testing that have accumulated in living organisms.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867405...
Yes,
speech recognition and auto-correct have been more of nuisance than improvement for me.

Speech recognition works most of the time, but I often end up with one word that Siri just doesn't understand and then you end up spending more time trying to figure out how the device wants you to pronounce the word than it helps you saving time by using it instead of just typing it out. There are also some funny videos of foreign speakers trying to use Siri when it first came out - that has been exactly my experience with it as well.

Auto-correct is the other annoying one, which can wreak havoc when you're texting in multiple languages. Even if you manage to setup your device properly with all the different languages, it can still cause some problems whenever you mix the languages within a single message.
However, the biggest problem I've experienced so far is when you send messages between parties where one of them doesn't have the foreign (latin based) language installed/configured yet. The replies I've received from people on their new phones often ranged from funny to cryptic, where you have no idea what they were trying to tell you. They just typed in the foreign text and hit send without checking only to have auto-correct send you something intangible.
I agree with you, $10 in AWS fees sounds like a lot of traffic. That's also why Netlify has a free tier. We leave paid plans for people with more traffic. We event have a redundant DNS service for people that really really need it. For your needs is completely free of charge and hassle :)

PS: As I pointed below, I'm the CTO of Netlify.
What's the suicide attempt rate, though? The argument is that men are more successful at going through with suicide than women, due to chosen methods.
Was a great product and team
Thanks for your response. I think everyone can agree that your situation sounds much better than working a 9 - 5 job :). I'm a bit more interested in the year or so that sucked, though. My main concern is for the few people I know who are thinking of quitting their day jobs to start a business, but whom I feel are not going in to it with their eyes open (in their view, everything about starting a business is better than working 9 - 5, whereas in my view you're giving up quite a bit in the short term in hopes to gain in the long term).
https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/ also provides a free tier of static assets hosting
Check out "cache-oblivious algorithms" for code that is designed to work well with memory hierarchies but which does not need to be tuned for the specifics of any particular architecture.
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Spaces are strongly preferred in the official style guide: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces. I've been programming Python for 11 years now and have never seen a file with tab indentation.
You mean, you want someone to explain to you a recent scientific paper about something? "Vulgarization as a service" or "crowd sourcing vulgarization", that might be an idea.
I like it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache-oblivious_algorithm

It gives a name to a good default way of writing code.
"Hey guys, how can we make the whole tabs vs. spaces thing even worse?

"How about we promote mixing the two?"
Inception-V4, Inception-ResNet and Impact of Residual Connections on Learning
I think we put a little bit too much faith in the scientific process for dealing with cognitive processes (note: I have little background in cogsci or related fields, just books I've read). There's so much happening in our unconscious minds that is difficult or impossible to scientifically dissect. This applies to physical, quantitative methods (measuring the possibly quantum coherent electron transfer inside our brains, or actually getting a grip on the LFP of every neuron in a brain, etc.) as well as more qualitative approaches in psychology/cogsci (language limits this). Neuroscience is making leaps (I'm currently reading "The Neural Basis of Free Will" by Tse [0], it's tough as I've not take a neuro course but it's fascinating) but lacking a "reflective" ability outside of our experience will limit what we can truly know about our experience. It seems waxing philosophically is our only option, barring some kind of breakthrough.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Neural-Basis-Free-Will-Criterial/dp/0...
It is. I've been covering some histories of the period.

There's James Burke's Connections and The Day the Universe Changed, which cover technology and philosophy generally, but focus a great deal on the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution.

More recently, there is Vaclav Smil's Energy in World History (1994), and Manfred Weissenbacher's Sources of Power (2009). Both look at history through the lens of energy sources. Weissenbacher divides history into five eras: 1) Hunter-gatherers, 2) Agriculture, 3) Coal, 4) Oil, and 5) Post-oil. The first three comprise one volume, the 4th is most of the 2nd. History in many regards begins with oil.

It's useful to realise just how primitive steam power was at the time. Savery's pistonless suction pump deliverd 750 watts. Newcomen's 1712 engine, 3.75 kW. The power stroke wasn't from the pressurised steam, but the vacuum of condensation. Watt's engine operated similarly but more efficiently with an external condenser, delivered 20 kW, about 5x the output of typical waterwheels and 3x the output of a median windmill of the time. Both water and wind competed with steam for much the first half of the 19th century.

Watt's patent, granted in 1769, was extended for 25 years by the Steam Engine Act of 1775, which had the effect of stalling further development of steam technology by a quarter century. Weissenbacher dates the start of the Industrial Revolution to 1800 on that basis -- it's when Watt's patents expired and true innovation could begin: smaller engines, high-pressure engines, and mobile engines, all of which Watt opposed and quashed whilst he had the power to.

Watt had produced about 500 engines by 1800, which if 20 kW each, meant that the total steam capacity of England was about 10 MW. That's the electricity usage of about 8,000 present US homes.

You're a bit optimistic with steamships -- yes, there were some early boats (Fitch, Rumsey) on the Delaware and Potomac rivers (1791, 1802), but Robert Fulton's Clermont was only established in 1807, and his Mississippi river boats began the same year this flying car treatise was published, in 1814. So this was pretty much in the thick of all that.

Crossings of the Atlantic under steam didn't occur until 1833, and a westward crossing not until 1838. Things really were just starting to take off.

The latter half of the 19th century, and particularly from about 1875 onward, is when things really exploded. Vaclav Smil considers the single decade of the 1880s as the most transformative of all history.
"Silent" here means in part "a lack of public awareness, a paucity of explanatory research, and the reluctance of men to seek help for suicide-related concerns".

The assertion is that the low ranking you mention is made through general societal ignorance.

Compare, for example, to the high number of deaths caused by driving. Those risks are well known, taught in schools, and discussed often. This is a much more informed ranking.
I agree, although I think that's always been true to some extent, so I don't know if I'd add "these days". There are stories going back centuries of famous professors who were also famously jerks and horrible mentors. Some people are great at advancing math or chemistry (or [insert subject]) but really bad at mentoring new students. Other people are great at teaching the current knowledge and mentoring but not particularly amazing at advancing it. Others are great at one-on-one mentoring and research but kind of meh at teaching in a big lecture-hall setting. Still others can give great, engaging lectures to large audiences but are not so good at one-on-one mentorship. Top universities of course want to claim they're full of the unicorns, professors who are top-5% in all of: disciplinary research and interpersonal kindness and large-classroom teaching and 1-on-1 mentorship. But the odds are any individual will not be equally good at all of those tasks.
I was just about to say the same! I've been VERY happy with my AWS static hosting via cloudfront. It's cheap, fast, and reliable. I can even deploy my site from the command line with this [1]!

It's very fast because it only pushes diffs. I use a bit of command line scripting to create an zip archival copy (for historical reasons) and to push the site to AWS just by doing:

$./deploy.sh

[1] https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s3_website
Very happy to see continuing innovation on MySQL and contribution to open source from Facebook. I wonder if there is potential to get more than 2x less space usage than InnoDB + compression. It seems like a no brainer to build a new storage engine for 10x but it's a lot of work to deploy and "harden" this for 2x. EDIT: I'm guessing the value is more about solving the write amplification problem, where it looks like it's about 10-12x reduced over Inno+compression. Nice work! Replacing petabytes of SSDs isn't cheap.
What do you think about:

* As space access becomes cheaper, which economic opportunities will open, at which price point?

* Mining asteroids and Moon

* Space manufacturing. Any manufacturing more feasible in space than on Earth?

* Space power plants (solar?)

* Beamed propulsion. Lasers or microwaves?
>I am quite convinced that invention of computers and the internet marks the beginning of the revolution on the same scale. Why should it be different then?

However, a criticism of induction is that the past cannot always help predict the future. We were given an example of the turkey that learns if he sticks his neck out the farmer will feed him. He keeps sticking his neck out and being fed every day, until one day he sticks his neck out, and where the past has told him to expect food, the farmer instead chops his head off and before he knows it he’s on the Christmas table.

From here: https://benwebb94.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/empiricism-locke-... but I just searched for "empiricist turkey", which is an often repeated example for over a century.
You mentioned that you work over 80 hours a week. Going between SpaceX and Tesla and having a family, how do you not burn-out?
FWIW, we feel pretty good about the market size we're tackling. YouTube and Netflix are massive, but you might be surprised how much video is delivered by media companies and non-video technology companies on their own platforms, and the whole thing is growing.
In my case, Mac El Cap, FireFox will briefly load a topic and immediate reset the page. Safari appears as a giant no-op.
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