skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that most affiliate link systems are abused and lead to a mess.

> Wirecutter just happens to be really good at what they do

By having automated software to block the bullshit, we might end up with an Internet where the people who are "really good at what they do" get more attention.
This was really fun but the cannon ball needs more reach and you could increase the cool down (add a graphic bar) so it's more about skillful aim shots instead of masses of balls. Which would help performance and make it more challenging!
Stormfront has 100 murders credited to its users. It's not a joke.
Even better than a replica, is using a strongly-consistent metadata store to drive the S3 metadata--use the metadata store to acquire unique S3 keys, write to S3, then transact the S3 manifest back to the metadata store. Then you do not have to deal with the problem of replication.
> If you only own the devices that you use to work, does everything belong to your employer and how can you draw a line?

I would say: don't do that. If you do, you should probably have a contract leasing your equipment to the company. Generally, if you need to use your own equipment for work, then you should probably have an agreement that falls under the "contracting" (or B2B or consulting) umbrella.
> A bit sleezy tbh.

Care to explain yourself? Are you confusing Levchin with Thiel? Granted they co-founded Paypal, but if you see Levchin's public talks (at SXSW, YC School etc), you'll see he's a very honest individual.

Affirm itself was formed because Max felt it wrong that Big Banks makes a majority of Profits on hidden, sleezy, fine-print fees. He says this so himself at the SXSW Talk (search in youtube).

Affirm touts itself as being honest and upfront about each and every charge or fee for their service.You can see it on their website.
I like uBlock Origin, but I find that it breaks functionality on a lot of sites. Case in point, go to:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-A-9.7-Tablet-1...

With uBlock Origin the "Customers also considered" section is hidden and the Read More link doesn't work. But they show up and work in Adblock Plus just fine.
From the site:

However, we want to be clear that this edition is only free to read online, and this posting does not transfer any right to download all or any portion of The Feynman Lectures on Physics for any purpose. [1]

Do the content creators understand the basic mechanics of how web browsers work? If someone was to watch the cached video on their drive are they then breaking the policy stated?

[1] http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
glad to hear you had fun! :D
>> Peter Thief

Not sure whether intentional or not
That would be something I would test. I don't know Ceph, so I would be taking a shot in the dark. I would guess it would not make much of a difference as everything is block level. I, personally, would do 1x PCIe SSD for cache, 1x 2/4TB SSD, and 2x 4TB HDD for each storage node.

Edit. If Ceph is smart enough, it would be aware of the tiers present on the node, and would tier blocks on that node. So a Block on node A will stay on node A.
I think a good alternative to ad driven sites like Facebook and Twitter would be to not have those sites.

The parts of the Internet which are paid for by ads have a net negative impact on humanity.
> torment the reader because they suggest the possibility of meaning

The first time I experienced this in art (was it Blue Velvet, Un Chien Andalou, or Ohio Impromptu?), it seemed exceedingly novel.

Unfortunately, every subsequent experience has given less and less. Surrealism, after sufficient exposure, became as dull as the most formulaic blockbuster.

Maybe I'm just not appreciating it enough. Maybe narrative and convention are arbitrary and overrated, and that principle is so profound that it has become the only thing worth discussing in art.

Perhaps...
“Inexplicable, Terrible, and Capricious”: A history of scurvy
There's a difference between not allowing dissent and promoting wrong answers.
I was attempting to confirm that these are all points are important. Being too arrogant to learn and being in incompetent are two entirely different things.
You can turn off syncing to specific machines. You may want to consider doing that.
Which in turn reafirms, recursevely, the author's assertion of gamed Google algorithms.

I think web search is still flawed, like it was 15 years ago when Google came along. The problem is that now the flaws are more subtle, hence more dangerous since search (and feed) ordering, interactions and suggestions are capable of influencing people in an almost subconscious level. It will take years to understand its implications.
Facebook products?
- no thanks.

Vue and Riot roooocks!
You should offer chill pills as part of the property deal. :) like your style
>> both sides of the story

That there is part of the problem. That is a very western phrase that reflects an ingrained system at the root of the problem. Binary is for silicon. There are multiple sides, or there is one. There is almost never exactly two. But we are trained to expect equal time for "both sides". It makes people think they are well-informed, when in reality if you are hearing exactly two stories you are almost certainly being hoodwinked.

This isn't Hotelling. Hotelling occurs where the proponents choose their sides, their stances in a debate. When a news organization wants to inform people that a meteor is heading to earth, picking a pro and con pundit isn't hotelling. That's just manufacturing a controversy where none exists. Note that weather forecasts rarely give "both sides" ... until one wants estimates beyond next month. Then they have to bring in the pro/con people in that manufactured controversy.

A careful citizen should dismiss two-sided debates, or at least realize that "both sides" is a marketing trick. Read the research. Read, and understand, the statistics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law
Worked for me.

Chrome 55 and UBlock 1.10
I probably made a mistake here. I assumed that since the management network was never congested we could run the heartbeats there. But it might be that the server can't address the management port from the operating system.
It can also be problematic if you want to author extensions on it... Google requires a $5 payment to be able to publish extensions. Reasonable, but what if you have issues making the payment? My 100% valid CC gets rejected though it obviously works everywhere else. Now, try to get support from Google for that...
I went to check, you're right, on my Chrome 55, Windows 10 and uBlock 1.10.0.
Obviously Doom->Q1 was a much bigger step. It was just that I saw that the birthdays coincided and were 4 years apart. Also, it's perhaps more significant in this case how small the step was between Q1 and Q2, so that kind of showed that the golden years were over, and since then we have seen 19 years of incremental invention.
Microsoft's Xax is closest thing to it. Such architectures could in theory be made for solving problems like we're discussing. They're applying it to plugins, esp reusing legacy code.

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi08/tech/full_papers/...
College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage, by David Gale and Lloyd Shapley [pdf]
Microsoft is the third biggest internet company in the world by ad revenue. Why would they ever do this?
It likely not be 64 servers for long.
The dynamic dispatch is not a hard thing.

For C, in fact, you get "whatever", and that's even legal.
For C++, the problem is templates, etc, are linkonce, and you can't choose which it's going to pick (ie the problem described in the article).

You also can get screwed by inlining, etc.

Function multi-versioning alone does not solve this well, you really need a way to make the ABI part of the template arguments or something to do it well.

There are other issues.
The bottom line is that my security is more important than your ad revenue. On this issue, there can be no debate.

The fact that viewing the vast majority of ads involves running completely unaudited, often heavily obfuscated JavaScript, written, published and served by companies who don't give the slightest of shits about (or in some cases, actively seek to harm) the security of the people who view them, makes them a complete non-starter for me.

Any ‘immorality’ involved in blocking ads doesn't even begin to compare to that of the ad industry's disregard for security (let alone privacy).
In addition to all the points people brought up there is the problem of having a browser block ads without getting banned ("This site will not work with Edge") by the vast majority sites that rely on ads.

Edge doesn't have enough marketshare to deter retaliation and they are easy to detect because they are the only ones to use EdgeHTML so it would be hard to counteract that via spoofing.
Google's job is to give you relevant search results to queries. Putting misinformation at the top of the page is irrelevant and damaging to the goal of informing. For example questions like, "does global warming exist?" Notice link number 2. for that query. It's from a source townhall, this source is irrelevant, just as my opinion would be irrelevant on the matter of global warming. Whether a page has backlinks is irrelevant if it's full of lies. So push them down the page some, flagged as spam.
We'll have a Ceph expert review our configuration.
I think "over promise and under deliver" has been part of business for far before any of us were around :)

Sorry but isn't it 'under-promise and over-deliver'? Just double-checking...
So you're relying on others (who are watching the news that you don't want to get contaminated with) to tell you the news? How is that any better than just listening to it yourself? It sounds remarkably worse to me: telephone, but with real events.
It's infinitely worse with AVX512, where there are cpu's that support bits and pieces.
If you enable Developer Mode and load unpacked extensions on Windows, it complains about it every time you start Chrome. I'd call that a (major) inconvenience.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13153354
Here are a few reasons

* It puts the burden of collecting and summarizing relevant news on others

* You are at the mercy of the grapevine effect, which only gets worse as more and more people take up this solution so your news takes more hops before you receive it

* And, most importantly, your sources are also not getting their news first hand; their sources the very same crappy news outlets that you yourself rejected.
Review of DBDEBUNK GUIDE TO MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT DATA FUNDAMENTALS
A book arguing that the Holocaust has been exploited is not justification for denying the Holocaust happened, and it's insidious to insinuate such.

Its disgusting to say that if Google is leading people to believe that the Holocaust didn't happen, the people who profit from it happening should just invest in better SEO.
Works for me as well.
Firefox 50.0.2, uBlock 1.10.0, Windows 10
I stopped regularly watching the news a while ago. I read the news from a few online sources. The consequence of this is that most TV news looks like breathless hysteria and fear-mongering when I do happen to watch it.
Instead of relying on the fallacy fallacy could you try to back up your point of view somehow? Share your differing experiences and give us some examples.

The idea of using a DGA to hide your C&C simply isn't a very good one. It's not going to work, anyone running a packet capture will still see where your bot connects.

Using a DGA to protect your C&C from being taken down? You can easily make it impossible for any domain registry to shut you down. It'll also protect you from server suspensions as you'll just be able to update your DNS records.

One of these actually works, one doesn't. For hiding your C&C you'd want to use tor hidden services instead. Generally C&Cs are disposable though, so there's no need to hide them in the first place.

>In my experience, malware authors care about beating the defense more than they do about having their domains taken down by some "whitehat".

I don't really understand what you mean here. "beating the defense"? Are you suggesting that whoever did this mirai edit was trying to evade antiviruses or any sort of "defense" in that matter? On iot devices and routers?

I'm sure they weren't hoping that whatever analyst finds their binary isn't going to find their C&C... Which seems to be what you're suggesting.

But if they aren't worried about their C&C being taken down by some "whitehat" then why on earth would they want to hide it in the first place?
Google News for iOS has a "week in review" option. Being an aggregation of sources, it doesn't have any particular bias (except maybe to showcase only the largest stories of the week).
Yeah, I was trying to figure out why they bothered showing him this, too.
Oh give me a break. It's free speech to be rude to other people. Being rude to customers and coworkers will get you fired. Censorship! Being in the news for being a huge dick outside of work, like the ESPN reporter was (she was caught on camera berating a clerk) will get you fired. You cannot have some sort of meaningful distinction. You MUST own up and take responsibility for your actions. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from responsibility and accountability. It doesn't mean freedom from any and all consequences.

This entitlement BS really annoys me.
This also reinforces my view that most people don't have good critical thinking skills. I've taught college students who would believe pretty much anything they read online. Nobody ever taught them that they should verify what they read before they believe it.

My favourite recent example of this was some bullshit article being shared on Facebook, making the claim that "this December has 5 Saturdays, 5 Sundays and 5 Mondays, something that only happens every 823 years" and going on to make some numeralogical claims on this basis.

OK, so the "every 823 years" bit false, but I can see that you might need more than the average amount of mathematical intuition to see that right away - but the claim that this December has 5 Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays is easily disproved by glancing at a calendar! Yet this was repeatedly re-shared by people who didn't even do this tiny amount of fact-checking that they were easily equipped to do (the device that they were reading Facebook with certainly had a calendar function!).
Well...he helped steal the election right? ;)

Jokes aside, seems his popularity on HN did drop with his endorsement of Trump.
No thank you. This isn't of interest to me.
I thought that "quitting the news" meant not consuming news, not simply abstaining from watching TV. At this point I feel like watching news programs is more unusual than not.
Mainstream news, Google and Facebook's agenda is:
Bad russia hackers,
Bad Julian Assange and wikileaks,
Bad Alex Jones,
Good Obama, more Nobel prices to Obama, Recount of votes ???

Mainstream news ?
Big no thanks! They are full of lies!
Doom was great for LAN parties; Q1 let you log onto Quake World and blow up complete strangers any time of the day or night. I never really got into Quake II, as it didn't seem to offer anything fundamentally new compared to Quake, which had full 3D physics and internet deathmatch.

I still have fond memories of wasted hours rampaging around with a quad damage rocket launcher, hacking away at noobs with the axe, watching people (sometimes myself) electrocute themselves with the lightning gun by mistake, and trying to retrieve good backpacks from the lava in House of Chthon...
Of course some funds beat the market. The problem is, there is no reliable way to know what those funds are until after they have done so.
It abnormally restricts my ability to write software.
You need to distinguish "remaining skeptical" from bring "willfully ignorant".

You should be skeptical of people who questions widely agreed historical facts as well.
Absolutely. Being able to instantly recall concepts, definitions, syntax, etc. is incredibly empowering when solving problems, regardless of the subject (mathematics, programming, writing, etc.).

Nobody would suggest that you try to learn a new language without memorizing words, phrases, idioms, etc. Communication is the foundation of any field of interest, so why do we think we can get away with "learning" them without memorizing the sub-language of the field?

Just as memorization is only part of process of learning a new language, so it is for learning in other areas.
uBlock Origin uses less resources than AdBlock Plus, so it's not an issue for me.
> mobile (where Samsung/Apple with ARM are in the lead). I haven't seen any performant Intel or NVIDIA mobile SoC solution yet.

Nvidia does have the Tegra, for the Android tablet market.

Interesting that they've ceded Windows on ARM (aka the rumoured Surface Phone) to Qualcomm - I would have thought Denver's code-morphing architecture would be better suited to emulating x86 instructions than a Snapdragon 835.
Well, isn't advertising invasive by essence? The point of advertising being to enter and occupy a part of your mind in order to persuade you.
Content Eligible for Youtube Content ID
We mostly live with less barbarism and physical danger than any cohort of humans who have ever lived. Obviously, the people in Aleppo drew the short straw there.

I'd just prefer to see no sacrifice of any kind, especially on my account.
Tips and Tricks Express Error Handling
Anyone who thinks they can disconnect from "the news" is kidding themselves. Unless you do the whole hermit thing, you are influences. Not watching CNN won't prevent other CNN-watchers from talking to you. Reading only paperback novels won't stop their authors, who also read newspapers, from influencing you.

Politics is everywhere. Take star trek. We all know the basic stories, and the thematic changes over the years. They map to changes in US politics. Even at home watching DVDs, you are engaged and influenced.
Also whatever you do, don't buy all one kind of disk. That'll be the thing that dies first and most frequently. Buy from different manufacturers and through different vendors to try and get disks from at least a few different batches. That way you don't get hit by some batch of parts being out of spec by 5% instead of 2% and them all failing within a year, all at the same time.

If you do somehow manage to pick the perfect disk sure having everything from a single batch would be the best since that'll ensure you have the longest MTBF. But how sure are you that you'll be picking the perfect batch simply by blind luck?
The way I answered that question...

Was told to assume all expenses, repairs, and supplies had been paid for... and that there were no casualties to account for.

The first half of the gold... divide it evenly among the pirates. This way everyone is guaranteed an equitable base cut of the booty.

The second half of the gold... have all the pirates line up in order of how long they've been on the ship... each can then carve out as much gold as they want from the pile when it's their turn to do so. If the crew agrees (51%+ vote) with the amount taken -- cool, that's what that person gets. If the crew disagrees, then it's off to Davy Jone's Locker for the greedy pirate.

I didn't get the job.
Latency is an issue. Especially when traversing history in operations like log or blame, it is important to have an extremely low latency object store. Usually this means a local disk.
NodeJS is generally not an appropriate backend choice given the dynamic nature of the language. I would not be interested and would hope that it comes with warnings that such development stacks are usually only appropriate for small projects if at all.
Prints – A minimal and invasive tracking library
I think this started before 9/11. OJ's white Bronco was before 9/11.
The Wage Gap
Any developer with some decent skill will look at time of last commit and/or number of unanswered issues.

No. We don't need a more prominent way to express negative feelings about a repo.
http://graphific.github.io/posts/building-a-deep-learning-dr...

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/06/build-deep-learning-box.htm...
> Whether a page has backlinks is irrelevant if it's full of lies. So push them down the page some, flagged as spam.

Who would have the authority to do this, and why should they be trusted? How could we get rid of them when they start hiding true things they don't want people to know about? What would their job title be? Minister of Truth? (I suppose you'd need to get permission from Orwell's estate to use that title, which is probably a sign that you should think twice about what you're doing.)
If you truly believe this leverage will force the company in to bankruptcy, you should short Hostess stock (TWNK). It's currently trading at ~$12.50 per share.

Furthermore, if you believe it is possible to save a distressed company like Hostess and generate superior returns without dividend recapitalization, perhaps you should start a competing private equity firm.
I'm surprised this doesn't cause a multiple definitions error. Is the msvc linker really that broken?
Downvotes are toxic. Let's not Reddit-ify the internet any more than it has been. Stars, and clones are good enough to see if a repo is any good. Now... arguably we should have more insight into how many people have "liked" the repo in the last month... that'd be useful.

Check the issue log... see what activity has been going on lately. Lots of issues, and lots of issues closed... that's probably a good thing. Lots of issues, and no issues closed... that's not great. No issues created recently... forget it, it's dead.
Not sure if indirect Freudian slip or typo. Corrected. In any case, Peter is a brilliant guy. No doubt about that.
If you're looking to learn an HDL on an FPGA, it's probably still cheaper and easier to just buy your own, maybe something like http://store.digilentinc.com/arty-board-artix-7-fpga-develop... ($99). And for that matter, you can also get started by just using a sim and no FPGA for free
The main result is hardly surprising. https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/vee05/full_papers/p153-... (2005) measured the speed difference at 26.5-32.3%. Given the subject, that's not significantly different from the 20.39% reported here (and why do they even report this with two decimals? I'm sure that last digit will change if they do so much as sneeze at their code)
Is that these?
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLzGzdSNup63lMYeOpU9Hax...
celebrities, not OK.
That's because SV is so knee-deep in their own world / bubble, clarity and perspective is something many simply do not posses. It's a shame really.
No reforms are possible while the US has privatised prisons. Financial incentives to maintain prison head-counts is a crime against humanity.
I know Stackoverflow and all their related services are running bare-metal and has done so for a long time. They have written a very detailed series of blog posts about their whole infrastructure and hardware which I really recommend that you read if you haven't already.

Here's Part 1 of the series: http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-arc... (the other parts are linked from there)
Why TDD Should Not Be Controversial