skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given Twitch is owned by Amazon, do they have the same cost considerations as the rest of us? Or do they get steeper discounts on EC2?

It makes sense to autoscale as hard as you like, if your cloud fees go back into your own pocket.
Yes! Reducing the risk of losing control of the domain is a great reason to prefer gmail.com, outlook.com, or another similarly theft-hard mail domain. Otherwise, if an attacker can trick the registrar or nameserver, it's game-over for all accounts that use mail or mail-dependent factors for authentication.
Track What's Going on in Your Organization Using Key Data Governance Policies
You're catching on!
I don't know how much development went into it since it was abandoned by Mitro / adopted by Passopolis, but Passopolis is live and I'm using it very happily.

I truly hope the project will live on and improve even further, but it's already amazingly useful for our team and a pleasure to use.
Getting Stuck Crawling with Big Data
Prudent financial decisions. Not all-in on Tesla.
Computational law, contracts and AI ethics discussed by Stephen Wolfram
Multiple Houston suburban neighborhoods have been ruined by "integrative" public housing developments. The situation you're describing sounds rather different (more organic, in particular). We also can't expect uniform results across the board.

> "White flight" was an irrational

What's irrational about it? The suburbs created as a result of "white flight" are objectively vastly safer than the places the now middle-class suburbanites were fleeing from.
The problem is, the whole way licensing is conceived in this industry is not for any individual property to individually generate an income. That's not good enough for studios or networks. They perceive some tremendous added value in the portfolio of shows or movie properties they have to offer. Consumers, of course, don't give a shit about this, as evidenced by their willingness to jump out of cable-land for anything that offers a modicum of greater purchasing power.

Hulu or the network are likely not making any more money off of you watching Penn & Teller's show. Penn & Teller's show is probably less-profitable per-viewer to the network, because Penn & Teller are stars with great agency who can demand a large cut of the pie. Hulu's and the network's incentives are largely to get away with offering you the properties from their portfolio with the lowest market value, without you deciding to cancel entirely. While you and many other readers here are willing to re-evaluate and cancel your streaming subscriptions on a regular basis, I suspect their average consumer does not behave that way.
Alibaba's new payment system lets virtual reality shoppers pay by nodding
There's something here for everybody:
https://hbpms.blogspot.com/
It's nothing close to that.

My argument is that as a legal adult you should have the ability to make your own decisions. Children in mines do not apply. Kids working for McDonald's at 16 do not apply.

Grown adults should ABSOLUTELY be able to sign off on giving up any and all employment rights if they so choose, as long as they are free from duress when making that decision.

If you can agree to volunteer at a company you should be able to agree to any level of compensation above "volunteer". It is simply, your choice. Nobody is forcing you to do it.

Signing a contract under duress is voidable.
I think that's demonstrably false... if more traffic is using the side routes, it reroutes to other side routes... it distributes the load across the road system... my route is often different every day because of this...
It's basically writing an angular app and sticking it on someones phone. Unless you're making a game, you can build some pretty powerful web apps and throw them into ionic to make an indistinguishable mobile app.
Yeah and it was 500 per year per year of public housing. You might easily spend five or ten years there, for a very significant increase in income. (treating this as linear is reasonable since the number comes from comparing siblings and so should be an average of the effects per year over a wide range of years. Compared to a study that just investigated the first year they were there.)

On the other hand, that was only for girls. Which makes me worried that they were picking out outcomes that matched their end goal.
Very well said - agree completely. It's all supply and demand. Giving everyone more of something will drive up demand. Prices will rise until equilibrium is reached again.
This is a tricky topic, but I wouldn't call it a moral blind spot per se. I think that we would have a problem with certain forms of unfair competition. You can't hire a smarter kid to take the SAT for your kid and expect others to feel ok about it. On the other hand, you are welcome to hire a tutor to help your kid score better on his own(1).

I think that most people tend to think that parents have a responsibility to help their kids as much as they can within fairly wide constraints. Parent's loyalty to their children above the children of others is one of the fundamental building blocks of our society like it or not.

1. Though some studies seem to indicate this won't really help.
Maybe you could add this leak to your list as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12695451
Pay by Nodding? With Alibaba VR Update, Customers Don't Have to Take Off Goggles
Another kind of source of inspiration and a subtle form of knowledge that may be hard to gain from elsewhere is older physics books, for example Richtmyer and Kennard's Introduction to Modern Physics (4th ed., 1947). Often written in an impeccable style, these books contain information that is now considered of historical value only and yet may be invaluable in providing the exactly those - historical - details that are omitted or glossed over in more modern texts.
Yes they do, because that's the only patent rights this license is granting to you. All that happens if you sue Facebook for patent infringement is that you lose the patent license included with React—since unrelated patents were never included in that in the first place, it makes no difference if it's terminated.
Right. Since each "mysterious" X was equipped with a "US Army Corps of Engineers" brass plate, it was kind of obvious they were calibration targets for something military. The article says "focusing", but they were probably used to get more precise orbital elements for satellites. This was pre-GPS, and calibration across geography on a planetary scale was tough.
Too long for me! Just here to waste a minute and the TLDR does me a service.
There are people, even in Japan, that want a whole mess of children. That preference is heritable. Each generation has more of these people because they're the ones that reproduce.

Eventually those fertile and natal enthusiasts will dominate the population and exponential growth resumes. The current situation is a temporary response to an external shock, specifically to reliable contraception. But Malthusian conditions will return; Darwinism requires it.
Sure! We don't have any NFS infrastructure, so migrating to BitBucket means paying for the license + some kind of SAN + engineers to look after it.

We'd much prefer to use EFS but I understand that it's not supported, since there's no way to set `lookupcache=positive` (git push might update the ref to an object which may not be immediately available across all NFS clients & they would cache that the object doesn't exist unless this is set)[0]

[0]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/high_availability/...
Plug it in a Raspberry Pi that's not connected to a network. After you're done, destroy the Pi's SD card.
Haha, I like how you added just one porn tube site so that you can add NSFW in the title. Nice click baiting. lol
That was my thought as well.. no, it isn't instant gratification, but it does have value... I wonder how legal a dedicated feed rental system would be. Effectively, you rent a movie (as available) and someone puts it into a drive in a data center, that is then played for you directly, with the software interface controlling playback... you then click "return" when done watching... maybe a bonus for early returns (vs checked out for 24hrs).

It might take some custom hardware, but just a few larger central stores vs something like redbox for example.
It has clustering: https://nats.io/documentation/server/gnatsd-cluster/

What are you looking to do? Sharding for what? Data size? Throughput?
No, I was not referring to the article. I'm only referring to the poster I directly replied to.
I understand the appeal of self learning physics for the sake of knowledge, but is there a market for self taught physicists in the same way that there is for self taught web devs?

I feel like you'd have to go through the university system. If not, what would that pathway look like?
So would 5-point harnesses, but almost no one has those installed in their car.

Safety is usually about going after the lowest-hanging fruit: making improvements that have the biggest net benefit. In cycling, head injuries are common because of how the rider is exposed and how they frequently fall and what kind of surfaces they're likely to impact. In car driving, not so much; the biggest benefit in car driving is to keep the body anchored to the seat so that it doesn't fly into the dashboard or steering wheel or anything else, so that's why we wear seat belts. There's still problems with body parts hitting parts of the car, so then we added airbags. There's still problems with getting whiplash, so now we have seats and headrests designed to minimize whiplash injuries. It just isn't often that you hear about someone getting a head injury in a car wreck in a modern car; I can't think of ever hearing of such a thing in fact.

Also, the speeds people reach on city streets aren't as high as what race cars reach, and in most auto racing, helmets are indeed required. However, the helmets used in auto racing (full head-covering types) also negatively affect visibility, which is very important in city driving, and not that important in racing where the conditions are far more controlled and you don't have to worry about random pedestrians or bad drivers all around you.

It's not like we don't have safety devices in cars; we do, and in fact we have many of them and they tend to be rather expensive and highly-engineered. 3-point seat belts with pre-tensioners, multiple airbags (front, canopy, A-pillar, seat side), anti-whiplash head restraints and seat mountings, etc. They also tend to be passive in nature: only seat belts require you to do anything to make use of them, the others are just waiting there until they're needed. As a society we've put a lot of money and effort into reducing deaths and injuries in cars, and it's paid off well. We could go further with helmets and 5-point harnesses, but how much benefit would there be, and how many people would refuse to use them? (BTW, there's an argument against 5-point harnesses, that they shouldn't be used unless a car has a roll cage otherwise your head can get crushed in a rollover, whereas with a 3-point harness your torso just moves to the side towards the center if the roof caves in.) Oh yeah, don't forget what we do with kids these days: they have fairly elaborate child seats they're required to sit in, which they really are anchored into.
I just looked up those three movies at dvd.netflix.com and they are all available.
If you look closely there might be two issues with that. First the device that was used doesn't have the USB connector centered and second, the board sticks out the edge a little so I would guess that it would need a larger than normal case.
I'm probably totally off base here (neural networks/AI is not my wheelhouse), but is having "memory" in neural networks a new thing? Isn't this just a different application of a more typical 'feedback loop' in the network?
It's probably a matter of taste.

Once you understand the maths clearly, it becomes much easier to understand the failures of the past. For example, reading Newton and Leibniz on calculus makes it clear that it was epsilon/delta waiting to get out.
The number of clever high-IQ people and engineers will continue falling. It's only the nations and cultures that don't value learning and invention that are expanding.
Report on the Economic Well Being of U.S. Households [pdf]
The ‘Simpsons’ Character Who Predicted Silicon Valley Villainy
Do you have a cite? I've seen a lot of different sources take the perspective I describe on MC '02, and it's easy to support from the JFCOM final report (see e.g. pages 59-60).

I would be very interested in evaluating a substantive claim that, rather than van Riper's surprise attack being outside the scope of the wargame but entirely plausible and effective all the same, a retired general with no personal stake in the outcome of the game nonetheless cheated in order to try to make it come out the way he wanted, despite that it'd be trivially obvious he'd done so.
I'm in the same boat wrt hardware, but I've got lots of interesting ideas about things to do with all the devices, just epsilon time to do it in...
Most ICs can handle at least -3000V static discharge. You need to pump about -5000V to start doing real damage. Even LEDs are so robust now days as to take 3X-5X their rated forward voltage as reverse voltage regardless of what their spec sheet says; I make 120V rectifiers from strings of them all the time.
Ancient Greeks 'may Have Inspired China's Terracotta Army'
The Linux Foundation Drives Standardization of Open Source Software Supply Chain
I remember learning about nuclear power plants and VMS back when I was in university. I was told they were used for the nuclear sensor networks though.
I didn't downvote, but... well, honestly this is a bit of a strawman, if you consider that most of the internet using public is able to legally view the content in question.

That a small percentage of people can't... OK that's true. but bringing that up as a reason why piracy can be justified doesn't really seem conductive to a cross-discussion.
I don't like the sound of it, and it seems a name for a lifestyle / sports app.
The real clincher is that if we can set up HA NFS, then we might as well migrate our existing git solution to it and save ourselves the license cost…
Uh, yes? It is entirely reasonable to prioritize one's own children over the children of others. You're not required to be philanthropic all the time, especially not at the expense of your family.
I had that virus on Windows 98SE.
A friend of mine had an old Alpha years ago; was running NT4 on it. You'd watch the lights dim slightly when it turned on. I don't know the model, but the thing was huge.
10 years ago, this article would have been on The Onion.
I think that flexibility is what puts laws as they exist (imperfect, maybe even bad) right next to the "ideal" social contract (good) in their mandate. With both of those in the job description, yeah, they ought to be good. That flexibility in enforcement and the judiciary can have bad unintended consequences (leaving the door wide open for the same action being legal for people in power and illegal for everyone else, or for bias to creep in), but on the whole we need it. You're totally right. Thanks for the insight.
Ask HN: Taking a demotion to work at a better company?
Hi HN,

I am currently a director of data science at a very small division inside a megacorp. While I like my coworkers, have good pay and low stress, I am getting bored of the problems we work on and the impact we have on the world at large. I also have zero desire to work at any other divisions in the megacorp.

I have the opportunity to go work at a sexier "unicorn" as a data science manager. The problems and impact they have are far more interesting, though I would personally manage a slightly smaller team. The pay would be the same, however I would lose my end of year bonus (currently 15% of salary) and instead get equity (final amount still to be determined). They've had some press about potential IPO plans in the future, but that stuff is always up in the air.

Has anyone here ever done anything similar? How have the downstream job prospects gone after taking a demotion? Any general advice?

Thank you
I have to disagree somewhat. Efficient algorithms matter a lot, too.
Indeed.

Another trick is to change or settle for one very common user-agent across all browsers, and to run them with differently sized windows.
Ask HN: Code Editor for Macbook
While I am not really new to HN, I rarely comment. I have been using a Macbook for a few months, now, moving from Windows. On Windows, the code editor of choice is/was Notepad++. Now, I seem to be missing the same. I have read that Sublime is a much better alternative to Notepad++ on the Macbook. However, I seem to be so used to the bright background that I am having difficulties adjusting to the default dark themes. While I would gradually be forced to adapt to how the majority seemingly use their code editors, could I, in the meantime, get suggestions on how to get bright coloured themes that properly highlight code. For background, I am about 40 and learning how to code, now.

Edit: changed what to how.
As with most security-related projects, it takes very little to have the trust house of cards fumble.
+1 very interesting case - company never located on US soil is being sued in California for something of a peanut size comparing to what Facebook does.

I know a bit off topic but I can't find how this case ended. Anyone with better Google skills??
I don't think anyone is unschoolable. I do think that changing populations can mean changing how resources are allocated, and this can affect more than just the part of the population that has changed. For example, I've seen schools cut special needs education programs because populations have shifted and resources haven't.
This has been a major issue for me from the get go, it goes against open source culture but that's no surprise because that is what Facebook loves to do (which it has consistently proved).

They pick something upcoming, recreate it injecting their ideals while knocking the original. They then release it to a sea of "pseudo developers" that latch onto it with the "well it's good because Facebook" mentality which aggressively defend it giving them more leverage.

Then they rinse and repeat until they have replaced everything the community has created with their equivalent instead of contributing back to those projects like a true supporter of open source would.

Open source is much more than having code on a repo, it's a culture that Facebook is hell bent on "changing".
Their DVD service may still exist, but my DVD player does not.
I made something similar once, I heavily advise against using it in its current state, it was just experimental, but it's kinda fun to play around with.

It's basically a floating console window with added features. It has two main functions

1. Notify, call loggy.notify to display a message right in your browser (instead of in the console)
2. call loggy(name, value), which is meant to track real-time values. For example your mouse position, say you loggy('mouse pos', mousePosition) on every `mousemove` event, it will show you the last value of `mousePosition` in the floating console window. It's like an fps tracker you see in games, constantly updating

It has some other useful features too, it shows diffs between objects every loggy(..) call, and some really weird features I forgot about.

It's fun to play around with, paste the gist in your console and then run this code as an example

var count = 1;
setInterval(function () {
loggy('hello', 5);
count += 1;
loggy.notify('we've counted ' + count + ' times now!');
}, 1000);

https://gist.github.com/Azeirah/0e558c439bd59646863a31540aa2...
No doubt the vast majority of police departments have good intentions.

But when the group protesting police malfeasance is then monitored by those same police in order to keep what those police consider to be the peace over them. And then they must rely on those same police not to target individual participants after the protest for retaliation, then that monitoring is obviously a very serious problem if the protesters be correct.
Yeah, that would've been nice to know ahead of time. Why not, for example, trigger the test when someone clicks a button, rather than taking someone's page visit as permission to try lighting up their organization's content filter?
Writing a Pong game in JavaScript [video]
An abolitionist stealing a slave impedes on the rights of a law-abiding citizen to own another human being as chattel.

Is this really the hill you want to die on?

People turn to protest, violent, or otherwise, when other forms of petition have failed.
"intrinsically unschoolable" might be going to far, but I think it's generally agreed upon that children in poorly performing school districts are (on average) more difficult to teach. It's also generally agreed upon that students have an impact on their peers. This is the whole rationalization for better integrated schools in the first place.

We can certainly debate how many (as a % or raw number) challenging students a "good school" can import before overall quality begins to degrade. But I don't think that it's especially controversial to say that degradation will happen at some point.
Who is going to make an automated service that rents the DVD from dvds.netflix.com, loads the DVD up on their cloud rentable DVD players, and streams the result to your device?
Do they have a parallel set of stairs next to them? That usually seems to limit crowding, since the bigger the queue for the escalator gets, the more likely newcomers are to just take the stairs instead of join the escalator queue.
> It's a much newer technology than java

Strangely enough both Java and JavaScript were first released in May 1995. Server side JavaScript was released the same year just after the browser version.

Though I get that you are referring to the js eco systems (commonjs, npm) compared to the much more mature Java ecosystem.
http://imgur.com/a/d6ZTM
People tend to be very short-sighted about their children versus everyone else's. Tragedy of the commons readily results.
Sublime text -> Preferences -> color scheme
PuTTY may be illegal in the UK
Asgardia: proposal for a space nation
My girlfriend in college had her bike stolen. This was in a college town (in the US), so bike theft was not uncommon there. She had her helmet attached to the bike, or sitting on it, not sure which. The bike thief took the helmet off and threw it aside before grabbing the bike.

Stolen bikes can be resold. But who wants to buy a stolen bike helmet??

Most people don't really want to buy used items which are personal in nature. While a bike helmet isn't underwear, it's still in contact with your head and your hair, while you're sweating a lot, and probably never gets cleaned. I imagine that for the same reasons, no one would want to steal your jersey or gloves. I'm more surprised that your pump and tools never got stolen, but there again it probably has to do with the black market realities: people will buy stolen bikes, but how many people are looking to save money by buying a stolen tire pump?
Wow. I am surprised at how many different ways Firefox, Safari, and IE9/10/11 implement an API as simple as navigator.doNotTrack.
That is interesting. I'm pretty excellent at math concepts in general (750 SATs in math once upon a time) but can't do arithmetic in my head to save my life. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there's a relationship there, especially for processes like multiplication or long division where you have to hold an intermediate result.
UBIs are presumably funded by taxes though, which take at least as much money out of circulation as it puts back in. Given the prevailing climate of weak consumption and overinvestment/savings glut that's likely to continue as long as the process of automation and outsource to low-labor-cost countries does, increasing demand isn't a bad thing at all.
I guess my point is that, since most people find the math hard, writers put history in as what appears to be filler, which I find as mostly an obstacle.