skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was going to cite you some research but the article does a pretty good job in going into detail why it's not just time.

No, it doesn't. It cites a single, very small, non-replicated study about, specifically, perfect pitch on an equal tempered scale (we'll get back to this in a minute). We know that detailed sound discrimination is one of the very specific things that closes off with neuroplasticity. We also know that it closes off REALLY early--much earlier than adolescence.

I would also suggest that you need to treat neuro studies with HUGE heaping servings of skepticism. Neuro is one of the worst offenders in the non-replicability crisis. In addition, the fMRI software bugs have invalidated a lot of neuro research.

Finally, with respect to testing "perfect pitch", AN EQUAL TEMPERED SCALE IS FAR FROM PERFECT. "Western" music converged on a 12-note, equal tempered scale where each note is slightly "wrong". Why would discriminating such an artificial construct have ANY relation to a biological system? Many cultures have very different musical scales, perhaps one of those scales is "easier to learn" as an adult.

And I won't even get into whether "perfect pitch" is actually a help or hindrance to a musician.

> I seriously hope if you have kids or plan to have kids, you do not assume they can catch up later on and that you give them to proper learning environment when they are young.

WTF? How did you make the leap from "the problem with adult learning is that adults don't have time" to "children should be deprived of a learning environment"? There seems to be a step missing.

Please read what people ACTUALLY wrote and not what you THINK they wrote.
But a hand-written parser accepting random input from the Internet is scary. (Okay, this does not apply to their internal language)
I think it's Slack's business to allow for realtime communication and file exchange between people that don't know how to operate a terminal, which is like 99% of everyone. If their only clients would be 'business market that uses IRC' they would have a hard time making money.
It is modern because it's not based on some 20 year old unmaintained Perl CGI script.
If you are running your own server why would you need OTR? Normally connections to a single server are all TLS and work transparently.
>It blows my mind that masses have not voted to do something about this to better their lot.

The media is very powerful here.
What YC recommended to read in this summer
Thanks.

OT: Where do you learn all this? I read a lot of foreign policy and I'm always interested in excellent new sources. The Jamestown Foundation provides in-depth coverage Russian and Caucuses issues like these, if long-winded a little partisan, but I haven't found much else.
I expect that not very many women will out themselves in response to your question, considering how much negative attention such an outing often results in.
But why this over another site generator? Metalsmith has total flexability, Lektor has a web UI for those who dislike writing in plain text, Jekyll has simplicity... Hugo doesn't really seem to have any advantages.
Προγνωστικά στοίχημα με Εθνικές Ομάδες
To some folks this may not seem like much of a benefit, but these improvements add up over time. I could only find this example, but in the last 40 years, the 5-year survival rate for breast cancer patients has gone from ~75% to 92%. All of that benefit was recognized at once, but rather incremental benefits added up over time.

I wish I could have the table I saw for colorectal cancer. Really amazing. We're talking average overall survival going from 6 months to 5 years in the span of a few decades. This isn't the one I was thinking of, but it's a great example.[1]

[1]https://www.bowelcanceraustralia.org/images/Bowel_Cancer_Aus...
Glad to hear it's working for you.

I hope that you know that your account, like all accounts at rsync.net, is on a ZFS filesystem.

This is important because it means that inside your account, in the .zfs directory, are 7 daily "snapshots" of your entire rsync.net account, free of charge.

Just browse right in and see your entire account as it existed on those days in the past. No configuration or setup necessary. Also, they are immutable/readonly so even if an attacker gains access to your rsync.net account and uses your credentials to delete your data, the snapshots will still be there.
> Honest question, what does Heroku offer over Elastic Beanstalk other than being more expensive? I switched to EB and it seems more flexible and a lot cheaper, and I haven't wasted hours on admin.

I said "something like Heroku" and Elastic Beanstalk is similar.
I have the exact opposite problem with Twitter. They need to get out of the business of trying to police speech. As you point out they completely failed to do it effectively but I think it is an impossible task for a global communications network in a still highly heterogeneous world.
>This statement seems a bit condescending, just saying..

It's usually a safer bet to dismiss the assumptions of some small group of people than think that the whole general population are idiots.
Evitar el camino hacía una agricultura tóxica y sintética – ROOSTERGNN
I was talking more in general.

You seem to talk about building a platform to replace Facebook, Snapchat, Google and others like them ? Good luck ;-)

Snapchat made it by offering easier photo options before Facebook did. Whatsapp did the same with messaging. Maybe some startup will make it with VR before the others do. But 'more power' and 'decentralized' will simply not do.
Yup. Sadly. The hassle to get a fully working setup is too much, even for technical people.
What is the main source of revenue for Indie Hackers? Congrats on hitting 1k/month.
I very much agree with this point of view. It seems to me that dry metaphysical debates (i.e. questioning the nature of these conversation models) are obscuring interesting practical questions that could be asked and tested empirically.

Given modern deep learning conversation models it is already possible to recreate some basic patterns of human dialogue with a recurrent neural network trained on a large corpus (see Google's "A Neural Conversational Model" paper and someone's implementation of it: https://github.com/macournoyer/neuralconvo ).

It would be interesting to experiment with it and see, just how far can we push this modeling approach? How much data is needed? Is it possible to train the model on a huge corpus of human dialogues, and then to finetune it on small amount of data from one specific person?
Glad to see I conform to the guide in most places, but one thing I have been doing for nearly all 35 years of my programming career is to prefix my SQL views with `vw` so that I can tell immediately in my queries when I am referencing a view that may be made up of other queries.
Duverger's Law Without Strategic Voting (2007) [pdf]
It's true that instance profile roles today supply credentials to the entire server. One benefit of virtualization is that it's reasonable to run small, single-purpose VMs. However if you do wish to restrict role credentials to certain processes, there are ways of doing it, such as using EC2 Container Service with task-level IAM Roles [1]:

> Credential Isolation: A container can only retrieve credentials for the IAM role that is defined in the task definition to which it belongs; a container never has access to credentials that are intended for another container that belongs to another task.

If you do firewall the instance metadata service and want to get credentials into individual processes, then you could do that using one of the credential providers in the AWS SDK. I haven't worked with every language SDK, but service clients in the SDK for Java take an AWSCredentialsProvider as input, and you can pick from a number of standard implementations [2] or define a custom one.

> An admin user could fetch these subsets of the metadata and leave a copy of them in the local filesystem.

So if you wanted to take this approach, an admin agent could periodically copy the role credentials as property files into the home directories of users that need them, and then applications could load them by configuring the SDK with ProfileCredentialsProvider (which can refresh credentials periodically). The admin agent could perhaps be a shell script run by cron that `curl`s from the instance metadata service and writes the output to designated files.

[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/t... [2] See ProfileCredentialsProvider and DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain
Most companies give cash bonuses to current employees if they successfully refer someone. I'm sure they'd be happy to have a shot at that money if nothing else.
Some of our customers have already recommended rsync.net to you - let me remind folks that there is a "HN Readers Discount" - just email us[1] and ask for it.

[1] info@rsync.net
>Not a native speaker, so maybe I got that wrong, but this is the definition Google gives: "having or showing an attitude of patronizing superiority.", and this is what I was referring to.

Well, who is patronized? Those decentralized groups that think that the masses "don't know what's best for them", or someone pointing out that such groups are out of touch with reality?

In the end, any critique can be though as "patronizing" -- it implies the one making it knows better than those he criticizes. But I think that's too low a barrier.
You put the softener at the inlet to the house because you don't want to have hard water flowing through the pipes in your house. Hard water precipitates minerals that ruin the piping, hence you put the softener at the main inlet.
I think it's the most exciting. I love seeing nature effectively defending itself.
Last company I was at in France, the average stay was 6-7 years.

It's a decent company, nothing particularly great or notable.

The numbers are similar for other regional companies from what I've heard of. It's higher for a few big old companies (usually in embedded, defence or aerospace).

We can assume that the stays are way shorter in SV/NY/London but please keep in mind that they are not representative of the rest of the world.
I know plenty of excellent developers who go home at 5pm and quite a few lousy ones who "work really hard"
Fossil is really cool. It never really caught on, which is kind of a shame.

OTOH, it's competing with git, a very well-designed piece of software with ungodly marketing (and a terrible UI, and it was so well designed because McVoy's various projects had already made many of the mistakes that Git didn't, although it avoided some of Git's mistakes, so Linus had something to work off of. But that's not the point).
There is an argument wherein you could say that those who merely sit on their wealth are causing economic stagnation. Taxing wealth becomes an incentive for the wealthy to have their money make more wealth, instead of just sitting on a mountain of gold coins and interests rates could again rise.
What are you talking about? Can you cite an example?
I don't buy that claim at all. No way you're building private infrastructure for 1/5 the cost of Azure or AWS. Or even 1/2.

If you're comparing some servers in a 4th tier colo with a poor SLA to AWS and pretending that devops time is free, then sure. But if you're actually building something with comparable reliability and availability, then no way. You're going to spend a lot more than you'd expect on extra capacity, a team of service engineers, load balancers, multiple locations, etc.
I've been remote working for the past 10 years or so.. with a large part of it for a mostly remote company.

However, When first got into remote working, I accepted a lower amount for the benefits outlined.. but then learned nobody else did... So I short-changed myself.

I wouldn't now.. either I take the rate I need with WFH provision, or I don't take the gig.
Your retire with 100K, that year you lose 20K in the stock market, you pay no taxes. Next year you make 20K in the stock market. Is it fair for that entire 20K to be taxed?
You could make that argument and I might even listen. It's in no sense fair even if it makes economic sense though.
I agree, The Diamond Age is my favorite book from Stephenson so far (I have the baroque cycle and pre-snowcrash books left to read), but something about Anathem makes me feel like it has staying power. Just my opinion though.
What sector would that be? 313M active users per month does not seem very "narrow". That's more than half the population of North America!
Ask HN: Favorite Reddit Sub-reddits?
I have tried becoming a regular to Reddit several times in the past, but I am so used to the content quality of HN that I get turned off by Reddit.
Maybe I am not looking in the right sub-reddits and hence wanted to ask here (I did find the photography sub-reddit ineresting).

Would you recommend any sub-reddits? Particularly non-tech ones (because HN covers tech pretty well I believe unless it's a niche).
I don't know where you got the idea that I think the world can be totally centralized or decentralized, honestly.

The bank analogy was about how there are upsides and downsides to everything, and the society is not as stupid as to have no clue what's going on. For things like this the world follows the collective intelligence.

Even the people who have no idea how a bank works still use bank with no problem because of the collective knowledge. We know that a bank is safe enough and provides more upsides than downsides.

But this is not always the case. In countries where people have low confidence in their government, even the "ignorant people" who have no idea how Bitcoin works learn about the benefits and move away to it. This is not a result of some intellects trying to convince the "uninformed" how the world should work. It's a result of the collective intelligence recognizing how the pendulum has swung and now there's more downsides than upsides.
ZNC is great. I run it on a Pi so I don't even really have to worry about reboots or anything on another machine.
The logo is an apple with bite out of it. The first mac sold for $666. The Luciferian symbolism is obvious.
there are at least 10+ good static site engines, why is Hugo better? I tried many of them and Hugo definitely has nothing to stand out in my experience.
API-First Cloud-Based CMS: Platform Tour
They do kill them so that they don't try to track the animal again in the future.
Arcade Manuals
I'm not the person you asked, but I share their opinion because JS and websockets do not appear to have any obvious relationship or applicability to IRC.
Nope, i am not. But good catch, since his comment on SO made me originally see the light. :)
I use Torguard which features exit nodes in +80 countries for ~ 60/year. I use it with openvpn[1].

That said, I'm not sure if it will work in case because I've noticed that some websites block at least 2/3 of the exit nodes. So I guess that there's an IP list of shared exit nodes for all if not most VPN providers. Even if it doesn't exist is really easy to create by creating one account per VPN provider.

Torguard supposedly doesn't track/keep logs and hides your IP in IPv4/6 when torrenting. There's a tool to check if you are leaking packets which show your real IP through torrents.

In your case (Turkey) I'd go for a single VPS instance and setup an OpenVPN server, it takes 10 minutes to do so... Chances are that the VPS will never get blocked, I can't say the same for VPN's exit nodes.

[1] https://www.convalesco.org/articles/2015/06/08/raspberry-pi-...
Possibly worth noting some other modules for general graph analysis:

https://graph-tool.skewed.de/

https://networkx.github.io/

http://igraph.org/python/

disclaimer: I haven't worked with igraph but these all certainly have more overhead involved in getting set up.
Do you mean the force feedback response on the controller or the flight model?
The "real protocol" sucks on ice nowadays. No conversation history, no offline message storing, no push notifications, absolutely none of the niceties we've learned since 1990.

The whole reason the Slacks and Hipchats and Discords of the world exist is that IRC is a terribly limited protocol that many people have tried to hang enhanced functionality on top of and none have succeeded.

Personally, I'm in favor of letting the better product win. IRC has been objectively superseded in nearly every way that matters.
Give me an idea for dictatorslist.com
They run their own data centers. https://blog.twitter.com/2016/the-infrastructure-behind-twit...
Definitely. Also, that would suffice and it would be good enough if I could accomplish that, but I definitely wouldn't say no to higher earnings...
Very little compensation has been delivered via equity since the IPO. The stock price is down 20% and the outlook is not good.
> And on a team, doesn't everyone have a vote?

No.

It would largely depend on the structure of the team as to what is optimal, however it is obvious that even though the h/w specialist should be involved in the discussion of the DB system we use on the device it is the data specialist who makes the decision.

Many decisions have many more involed parties than decisionmakers for good reason.
This is good, I wonder if it would be viable.
I think he means that the number of people using Meteor to build apps is decreasing.

I migrated my side project away from Meteor and write about why and how: http://stories.remotebase.io/post/rewriting-without-meteor/
While we're talking about technical solutions, I would like to tell you the story of the "Trolldrossel" (German for "troll throttle").

German hacker culture has a prominent pundit called Fefe [1], whose blog [2] is probably one of the most frequented blogs in Germany. He digs up interesting news items and offers light-hearted political and technological commentary, but he does not have a comment section.

A few years back, Linus Neumann [3] built a version of Fefe's Blog [4] with a comment section, originally as an April Fool's joke IIRC. There was no moderation at all, and naturally, all the worst commenters flocked to it. They left it running because, as it turned out, the comment sections on the blogs where Linus contributed were now much more civilised.

A few years into the project, they realized that they couldn't run the site without any moderation, but with no intent to monetize it in any way, they could not rely on manual moderation. Instead, Linus invented the "Trolldrossel": He modified the captcha such that it would randomly reject the correct solution, with the probability correlated to the badness of the comment. So if you wanted to post a civilized comment, you would only have to solve one captcha. But if your comment included racist keywords, you would have to retry 5-10 times. That method proved surprisingly successful in deterring the worst trolls, but the comment sections were still horrible.

At least, they got a nice talk [4] out of it, including the interesting finding that the quality of a comment can be predicted very well by its compression ratio.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Leitner
[2] https://blog.fefe.de/
[3] one of the speakers of the Chaos Computer Club; see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Neumann
[4] http::/blog.refefe.de (now defunct, but you can get a glimpse at http://realternativlos.org/31/; the site now contains background information about the project, unfortunately only in German)
Interesting to see how bad simulated annealing does, by not being able to step over so many hills.
LKH is a bit unfair, as this problem cries for a Travelling Salesman, but still SA doing so bad is astonishing. Given how often it is used for optimization problems. Maybe solvers should be used more often.
I learned Prolog back in 1997, so it may have existed in the implementations I used back then. Must see if I can find an implementation of HU Prolog from back then. I also used SWI Prolog from back then, and I'd expect that was more up to date.

Edit: mention SWI Prolog.
I'm hoping that at some point in the future, ML + drones will make poaching a thing of the past. Unfortunately, some African countries, such as Zimbabwe and South Africa, have restrictions on drone ownership.

Also if you want to help, you should consider donating to the International Anti-Poaching Foundation[0][1] which fights these poachers. The founder, Damien Mander[2], is an Australian ex spec-ops sniper who is using his military experience to train the park rangers since they, unlike the poachers, tend to be poorly equipped and trained as well as understaffed.
There is also the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust[3][4] which takes care of elephant and rhino orphans (most of them are orphans due to poaching). For $50 a year, you can become a sponsor of a particular orphan and they'll send you photos and updates about how your sponsored animal is doing. You can for example sponsor this little fella [5][6]. It's a great gift.

[0] http://www.iapf.org/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Anti-Poaching_Fo...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Mander

[3] http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sheldrick_Wildlife_Trust

[5] http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphan_profile.asp...

[6] http://instagram.com/p/sigT3IAUKb
Link to comparison: https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v...
> No I haven't, but there's no need to be rude about it.

I didn't intend to be rude, though I did intend to be snippy.

> More importantly, I'm obviously talking about the average. On average, developers will change jobs every few years.

First off, I didn't think it was obvious you were talking about the average. Generally when I see comments like that they are presented as some sort of near-universal truth (which is why I reacted the way I did).

Second, I don't agree that developers change jobs every few years on average. I only think that is true of a subset of developers that are overrepresented on HN. My entire career so far has been in Dallas, and non-contract developers who turn over jobs that fast are not typical here.
I understand that Twitter is an impressive piece of engineering given the scale and instantaneousness at which it operates. On the other hand, it does kind of boggle my mind that microblogging should be as difficult as it is.

UUCP or NNTP are really interesting suggestions. They are protocols of the old net that seemed to scale very well and long ago solved many of the kinds of issues I'd expect to see with something like a federated Twitter clone. Maybe I'm overestimating the scale of newsgroups during their heyday?
yep. and if we'd just clear up healthcare then the masses would be set and placated.
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only females lose them though
"They're also in many cases not really looking for a "quick ROI". More often than not they're actively avoiding a "quick ROI"..."

Every VC I've ever met is looking for an ROI within 1-2 years. Compared to the regular pace of a company where you could make a profit in 5 years, it's quick.

"Implicitly, I think it's likely that VCs /do/ care about race and gender."

Being called a 'sexist' or a 'racist' can mean the end of your company/career these days, so I seriously doubt a VC is going to have any bias towards women.

I also don't really like when people use the term 'implicit racism' because it means you will never be able to prove it one way or another. You are trying to read the mind of a person and finding them guilty in the court of public opinion.