skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It matters if the local ISP DNS relay uses unreasonable cache times that you can't purge. This interfered more than one time with my development process on remote servers. I had to tunnel through another of my servers to circumvent this.
Yeah thanks. John's account of Jesus still matches the other three. However, his wasn't chronological as He clearly had an agenda.
I have AT&T U-verse and have my network adapter set to use 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (since the U-verse modem doesn't allow custom DNS servers). The site reported that my DNS requests came from Google. Perhaps it's different for different service levels?
I got the impression "hardware dogma" still happens when I was planning our infrastructure. The datacenter world is still a place where you can spend $36k for something you can get for $1000 if you're not careful. I didn't use Cisco for our switches and some IT guys I talked to acted like I was a heretic. But the decision saved us several thousand dollars and we ended up with a design that was IMHO more reliable than stacking proprietary switches.

The big trick is to make everything redundant (redundant power, network bonding, Ceph instead of a NAS) and not have a SPOF. Then it matters a lot less if anything fails, and you can use cheaper hardware if you need to. That said, I still prefer server grade hardware - just not always the newest or the most brand name.
Web dev here, 60% server side and 40% front end most of the time.

- Windows 10 + Ubuntu (but never really use Ubuntu any more)
- 2600k CPU
- 16GB RAM
- GTX 970
- two 27" monitors

I used to have a Macbook Pro and a beefy iMac until this spring, grew to hate them, then the iMac was stolen from the office and the MBP I swapped for a 9550 Dell XPS 15" laptop which is better than the MBP but not something I want to work on really, it's just for excursions.

I can't ever go back to a single screen for dev any more. REALLY working on a simple laptop with one screen has become this phobia I now have.
> replacing the content with content against the rules of the subreddit. Thus when subreddit mods saw content that was against the rules, they banned the victims' accounts

Got a source for this? From what I've read about what happened (not a whole lot), this seems like it's been passed through multiple rounds of the telephone game.

All solid information I've heard, and seen directly admitted, is that he edited mentions of /u/spez to mentions of /u/<random-moderator-of-the-subreddit> in a single thread in a single subreddit.
Interesting, what volume do you need to get to 2.2%?
Nice try, but regulation in the context of mstodd's post (regulation takes away freedom) is:

the action or process of regulating or being regulated

It's a gerund of regulate.

Your misreading would allow that regulation(s) take away freedom but laws and Constitutional Amendments don't. And that's just gibberish.
Don't be fooled by a few utterances of the word "Blockchain". This could still be exploited by the game owners, who have control of the drop rates and enemy interactions (i.e. there are still centralized aspects of this environment). There are several elementary typos in that article -- so it makes me trust the game creators even less. This reeks of typical MMORPG developer greed.
Someone buying a $1.5m condo only has to put up $300k for the mortgage, so it's not correct to say that the alternative is to just put $1.5m into the stock market: the buyer often doesn't have that much.

Also, it's more precise to use the S&P dividend yield (2%) or 10-year Treasury yield (2.4%) to gauge how much someone with $1.5m could spend in rent, assuming they put all their interest into rent. They'd be renting something at more like $3k/month.

Now take the fact that home prices are, at the higher end, about 25x the yearly rent of the same place. So this person with $1.5m is essentially renting a place worth $900k, whereas the buyer (who perhaps only has $500k) is living in a nicer place that cost $1.5m. And that's not considering the fact that rents could rise further.

There are taxes and maintenance to consider, the risk of putting a lot of money into a volatile asset, and being tied to one place. Financial leverage in general is risky. But it's not a clear-cut decision like most people try to make it.
“OAXACA de mis amores”
"Singular they" is just as valid English as "singular you".
The power has always been there. The fact that it's taken until now for the CEO to use it suggests that it's not actually ripe for abuse. And the fact that the CEO immediately reverted it, apologized, and is watching the community blow up, serves as even further motivation for not abusing this power again.
Yeah, that is phrased poorly and I don't quite know how to put what I'm trying to say. But still I believe we know on some level when we are lying to ourselves. The tricky part is to work out why, and what we are attempting to protect ourselves from when we do it.

I say all this because I deal with these issues to some extent too. But I don't give myself the out of "well I have depression". I'm responsible for my actions and I only have my one life. If something I do or refuse to do doesn't make sense and is making my life worse, I think about why and how I can stop it. I've gotten a lot of help and therapy over the years. It's not easy but the alternative is a lot worse.
Some ISP's also hijack NXDOMAIN requests to serve ads, see for example https://hackercodex.com/guide/how-to-stop-isp-dns-server-hij....
> I used to regard the "ships from Amazon" or "Prime" logo as markers for quality

You need to look for (or limit your search to ) "Sold by Amazon". Not so say that Amazon doesn't sell some duff products, and they have some "private label" products of their own (Amazon Basics), but all of those will have had some degree of vetting.
Please show me how we are toxic. As far as I'm concerned, it's not true at all.
That sounds like a good idea in principle. I'd be surprised if our perceptions were seriously off, because it literally is the first rule of HN moderation and something we practice consciously nearly every day, but you're right that we're not immune, any more than anybody else is.
I've stopped getting any expiedated deliveries from Amazon via OnTrac sometime in the last year in SF proper. I think they've shifted it to in-house logistics (I think via Prime Now ICs or via Prime Fresh trucks).
An interesting data point. It seems that non satisfied potential employees are far more likely to vocalize their experience than satisfied ones.

The ones who castigate the process the most either failed the process or chose not to enter it, and ultimately failed to get an offer.

Whereas I know plenty of people who were able to get an offer with a minimally invasive interview process. Having somebody able to refer you in is key, skips a lot of the BS.
You are just saying that MSM way of handling fake news is more professional than alt right fake news. I think it only makes the matter worse.
> for logged‑in members of a social network.

I was talking about non-logged in users. The shadow profiles.

> The law is not simple. 100 words sentences of law jargon are not simple. Many, many pages of such sentences is the opposite of simple.

The German version of the law is just as simple to read as any newspaper or book you read in German high school, so at least I haven't had an issue before.
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I am watching AI papers and YouTube demonstrations of robotics and it seems they stagnate. It's frustrating to see it takes 2 minutes for a robotic hand to open a door in this day. What happened to fast vision systems?

Here's a 2009 video of a high speed robotic hand and vision system. It does 1000fps:

https://youtu.be/-KxjVlaLBmk?t=159

Why hasn't anyone surpassed it since 2009?
I hope the employees got to sell in this round.
VS is 32-bit so it will never use more than 3.5GB. However that limitation is super annoying when you have > 3GB in symbols trying to load.
Show HN: Straw Poll – a basic, real-time polling app, for thumbing up or down
King of Mars. Called it.
There's also jet neutral ISPs in Germany. But they're usually local only. TNG/ennit, for example.
Although this is hilarious, it seems to be sourced to a single Twitter user. I wonder if it's actually true or just another example of fake news making it onto real news sites?
The FEE argument, if assumed to be self-consistent, works even better as an argument against a status quo that systematically favors a minority party over a (popular) majority party.

If the goal is balancing power between political parties, then the presidency should certainly be a popular vote or else the house and senate should be substantially reformed.
I just read Motherless Brooklyn and thought it did a good job of explaining the compulsion.
From what I've read, Trump didn't actually get any more votes than republicans in the past few presidential races, it's just the democratic turnout was a lot lower than expected, i.e. fewer people overall voted (or more voted for the third-parties).
People who buy $1.5m condos in cash usually don't care that much about rate of return. Or are you implying borrowing $1.5m at mortgage rates and investing that? Not happening.
You're ignoring the Citizens United decision, we don't have real figures on campaign spending with superpacs and third party campaign vehicles. Additionally no one is taking into account the resources the Russian government poured into the Trump campaign, their state news channel was repeating the republican/trump message ad verbatim. [1]

[1] http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/underst...
>One piece of advice I have for you is to not take on the role of mental health professional in your relationship. This isn't your problem and you can quickly tire yourself out.

This is precisely the opposite of what happened in the post in question. Cause of anxiety was wanting to live a lifestyle and not wanting to work a stressful job. Marriage and "permission" to quit solved the issue immediately. None of the therapy stuff did them any good, she didn't need therapy as soon as the underlying problem was identified and solved by them. No amount of sleeping, exercising or eating kale would have solved that.
Probably go down to a local college with a bag of popcorn. And maybe something to record it.
I have a Dell UltraSharp Monitor [1] attached to my Air when I use it, the monitors come with the correct display port cables to connect to a Mac. You can also daisy-chain (MST) these monitors so technically if you'd use two you only have to use one port on your Air. However, the Air doesn't support more than one monitor at the time, at least I can't get it to work on my Air (I think it has to do with the bandwidth in pixels that the GPU can process, or something like that). I think the Pro is capable of supporting more than one display at once. The screens are pretty good for the price charged.

http://accessories.ap.dell.com/sna/sna.aspx?c=au&cs=aubsd1&l...
He tweeted that four days after the election. Again, I was correct to say that removing net neutrality was not part of his election platform.
This.

RS and Farnell in the UK use parcel force and UPS respectively. The success rate for me is higher on stuff shipped from China.

I've had some stuff from Leeds to London end up in Belgium for two days.
Well, I also know people who think they have fibromyalgie. I believe in tourettes, but I can understand why people don't believe in some illness.
Sorry I was late to seeing this.

That's still sample bias: plenty of such comments also get downvoted, and plenty of opposite comments also get upvoted. Drawing general conclusions about the community in this way is projection.
I'm in a similar line of work and don't fully agree with this. Yes everything he's said is true, but to an extent, and having these rates of settlement per year is very troubling for a structure designed to live 60-100+ years. If the issue is not groundwater related (which seems unlikely with surrounding structures largely OK) then expensive remedial work (underpinning / grouting / similar) is going to be required in the immediate future before this causes serious issues.

Admittedly I don't work in an seismically active region but I design for max settlements of ~50mm over a building's lifetime, and the Millennium Tower is experiencing that every year.
let's at least be honest here, very few people think "I believe I've done a lot of bad for the world..."

It's how our brains are wired to work. It's how we sleep at night.

edited to add: which is to say, you may have; I don't know you or what you do. But I think the point I made is important when discussing such things.
Go into the activity monitor, and in the energy tab make sure there is nothing that is keeping the GPU on. (Look in the Requires High Performance column.)

Just browsing the web battery life is really good, but unfortunately there are a couple apps I use all the time that use the GPU for no reason. And when this happens the battery life instantly goes from 10+ hours to three.

With Java apps you can theoretically pass them a command line parameter to prevent them from being able to use the GPU, although I haven't been successful with this yet.
> When people are anonymous, they tend to be more candid about what's really deep down inside.

Actually no, there was a study about hateposting against immigrants conducted on German social media posts, the result was IIRC that most hateposts were actually released under a real name, and not pseudo- or anonymous.
NY explorers find 1872 shipwreck of rare Great Lakes vessel
I like to use that analogy but replace sneeze with "itch" - the more you think about it, the more you need to scratch it. (In this case "thinking about the itch" is "thinking about not ticing")
> No, they would try to run up the numbers in big cities and large media markets, and ignore the rest.

But they do ignore the rest. How much campaigning was done in rural Texas or California? Or Wyoming or Montana for that matter?

It's silly to pretend that Michigan and Florida somehow represent the country folk of America.
At this point you'd be looking to take %50 of the company just by having an idea. The rest (%99 of the job at that point) will have to be handled by your tech co-founder. Plus, you'd be in charge of telling him/her when to deliver and how.

My best recommendation is to start your "CEO" job earlier and to land an appointment with an investor willing to invest in your idea and to include your potential co-founder in that meeting. That would make you worth %50 easily.
Type Systems Aren’t Magic
"A Startup Is Trying to Farm the Elusive Truffle" would have been a perfectly acceptable headline.

The way I see it, the title of an article should provide the key information. The title as is tells us nothing.
I'm currently switching to a MLVPN bonded connection using a dedicated HLKomm and T-Online Fibre connection. Egress is also Germany, but a neutral backbone in a data centre. I just noticed that TO still uses their old DNS caches.
It is a problem and it is difficult to fix, but the short term solution is not to do nothing, which is all anyone seems to propose (if they propose anything at all) when this topic comes up.

In general I disagree that toxic/hateful tweets are a symptom of frustration in society- they're mostly just a symptom of many humans being hateful jerks, plain and simple. I don't like echo chambers either, but I really don't think that there's any crucial intellectual gold hiding amongst the masses of toxic garbage out there. To a lot of people, posting on the Internet is akin to writing random garbage on a bathroom wall.
They're talking cognitive behavioural therapy.
You Can’t Achieve Great Success in Life/Business If You’re Doing These 6 Things
Axler's book was free for me from my university's SpringerLink thingy.
Yes, but it's not Cocoa's problem.
Wouldn't be a MacBook Pro if it didn't have some kind of GPU problem.
I've almost never co-op. So I don't care. (especially don't care co-op with non-human)
You are correct that I don't understand the definition of zero-sum that you propose. Can you break this down a bit?

Your definition is "A transaction is zero-sum if it doesn't change the amount of value." And I'm having trouble with that because I can't see the linkage between 'transaction' and 'value'. And then you state "The stock market
is mostly zero-sum." which I don't understand at all, how can a system be fractionally zero sum by your definition?

This is the way I see it, a zero-sum system (note that I think of it as a system and not a single transaction) is one where the sum across the system of all events is zero. So for example if you have have a series of financial transactions across an expense account there are a list of expenses journaled as negative amounts and a list of re-imbursements journaled as positive amounts and when you add them all together the answer is zero. (And when it isn't zero then you either have unpaid expenses (negative) or have been over reimbursed (positive)). Another example might be in chemistry when you are balancing a chemical equation and all of the electrons and molar weights of different elements have to be the same before and after the reaction.

And that is the reasoning I use for my definition of a zero sum system. A system is zero-sum when all inputs and outputs across all transactions are balanced, resulting in no net change.

The GP comment was short, it asserted "Yes it [stock trading] is [zero sum] when you don't create wealth" and that was a follow up to an assertion that these funds were "taking wealth". Both of the original and the follow up used the concept 'wealth' to express as a proxy for 'value' in a series of transactions which are measured in 'currency'.

One could argue that on the basis of number of shares in existence, trading on the stock market is "zero sum." I would agree with that. I don't find that a particularly useful abstraction but recognize it would be one way to look at it. If on the other hand you are talking about wealth creation, the stock market is very much not a zero sum system. That is because the at one level the stock market is a reflection of the economic GDP of the companies that compose the market, and as economic GDP grows, so does the value of those companies. It is by that basis that an individual investor can buy stocks (equity) in a company, hold it for a long time, and "gain wealth" simply by having partial ownership of an asset which is growing in value. Nobody was made "less wealthy" by that growth and that person holding on to their stock. It was not a zero sum system.
To put a more fine point on it, generally speaking, an action that is subject to an adversarial system, is debated upon in plain view, is subject to pressure by consistuents, and is voted upon by the body populace, especially where the bar is as high as a constitutional amendment, tends to be less restrictive than a rule imposed by a regulatory agency that carries the effective force of law. Naturally, there are exceptions to every rule, but the trend tends to be pretty well defined.

But, if your assertion is that they're the same thing now, then that's cool too, I guess.
Missed the point entirely.

It doesn't matter if it's trump.

Or Hillary.

Or global warming or vaccines or JS or Modi or Putin or any number of things.

Most human beings don't tend to change their opinions when directly engaging in discussions.

The only people who change their positions are people actively trying to change their views.

The real trick to changing an opinions is to stop trying and start listening.

That's anathema to most people.
Uriel did. Unfortunately we can't ask him about his opinion anymore.
apples & oranges my friend....
There's a lot of objective evidence that Google is successful in being a good place to work. I assumed it wasn't necessary or productive to re-hash it. They're consistently ranked at the top of various "best companies to work for" lists, blah blah -- and while we all know those are partly a PR game, there's also some truth behind it.

The note to which I responded was by someone who had never worked at Google, and was making a large assumption based upon their experience at an unrelated company ("a large health care company in the midwest"). Many of the things in that note are factually incorrect as a basis for comparison ("mediocre benefits, and mediocre pay", said no Google or Facebook engineer, ever).

The point raised by hga has more to go on -- I don't know how common it is to be stuck doing things like that -- which is why I gave a more careful response to it.

(As an aside, I don't think it adds much to the discussion to make a personal attack or a categorical attack against people based upon their education. I welcome criticism, but it's certainly not fair to judge all Ph.D.s based upon my response, as much as it's not fair to assume that everyone in Kansas City misuses apostrophes based upon yours. :)
there's no actual evidence for this. the only upside is your historical bias, but thanks anyway.
Fake news started spiking in Google Trends around the election because that is when fake news became profitable.

We are talking about blatant spam sites in which the owners openly admitted to making up stories out of whole cloth.
A Startup Trying to Help Its Workers While Fighting Regulations
Do you believe that the Bible is the true, unerring word of God, and if it contains apparent contradictions, that's due to mistaken interpretation? Just want to know what the ground rules are before deciding to participate.
If there are 25,000 users in a community, then it's not "your" community.
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I feel like this movement would be more noticeable and eventually disruptive if it were... I don't know? Any other day of the year!
I truly believe Bridge is certainly life-changing for their pupils, and I think it's a travesty that the Ugandan government fears that which it does not know..
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13037590 and marked it off-topic.
This is something I'm personally very interested in. I'm planning to add one or both of DNS over TLS (https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns/issues/38) or DNSCrypt (https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns/issues/4).

Currently I'm planning to do just DNS over TLS. I'd love feedback on this if people are interested. Both of these address this issue pretty well.
That's good that you've reached out. I hope you work through it all for the better. I know it's easier said than done, but just remember to take care of yourself in whatever way that you can. Your wellbeing is always worth fighting for.
Yeah, given a sizable power budget and the right benchmarks, Nvidia can outperform Radeon cards, but Apple has an exisistung relationship with AMD and there is not a compelling performance case to switch to Nvidia.

Plus with Supercomputing Clusters eating up most of Nvidia's production, Apple is not guaranteed to get the quantity & bin of GPUs they need on their schedule. This is the same reason why Apple didn't release any fusion based Macbooks, the bin of chip they wanted was not available in the quantity Apple needed by launch.
> I suppose there'd be a danger of alert fatigue...

But that's happening with the current solution as well (not to mention all those crappy sites with their modal popups that teach you to close anything opening asap anyway)