skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would one use this with pages that have dynamic ads on them?

Every production site should have content (at least for any page that gets more than 5% total traffic), uptime / load time, application performance, server health, and security monitoring.

Can't count the number of times content monitoring bailed me out... a CMS change went live to early, or someone released the wrong branch to prod, or a DNS subscription I didn't control expired... I usually just string-check the Title or H1 on the page but would be great to have more advanced tools.
I've only ever used Azure, and I've been pretty pleased with it. Care to elaborate and let me know what I've been missing out on?
Slavery was already occurring, so NOT splitting from Britain was ALSO a decision to allow it to occur.

Many wanted the split from Britain to cause slavery to end. Nobody was proposing that it begin. Southern colonies insisted that they were going to continue slavery. If the north agreed to leave slavery unchanged, they would go along with the split, allowing other changes, and they would keep slavery. If not, they would not cooperate, there would be no split, no other changes, and they would keep slavery. Either way, slavery would remain unchanged.

The decision to leave slavery unchanged did not "allow slavery to occur".
Wine Mogul Peter Deutsch Says Fidelity Cheated Him Out of Millions
Which is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619401
> HN is frustratingly pedantic sometimes.

I don't disagree, but the parent was being just as pedantic as I was. Perhaps my snark was an attempt to end the petty discussion (apparently, improperly so). Read these two statements in the context of the discussion:

> burning it down and starting from scratch.

> started afresh

15.7% is a major overhaul, but IMO in no way insinuates "burning something down" or "starting afresh". Do you think either of those statements is consistent with a 15% cut in workforce?

PS - 12,500 of those 18,000 came from Nokia[0].

> with 12,500 of those coming out of the streamlining of Microsoft’s acquired Nokia assets.

[0] - https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/17/microsoft-to-cut-workforce...
rebuilding cities with new housing is the opposite of low cost.
The idea that drones carrying missiles will always defeat humans carrying missiles is yet to be conclusively proven.

Yes, a drone has its advantages, but there are certain other undeniable advantages to using a human pilot for military operations where decentralized decision-making is valued.
Good points, but also consider the question of survivability in a world with increasingly sophisticated anti-aircraft threats. One F-35 might be inferior to four F-16s militarily speaking, and more expensive to boot, but are you willing to lose pilots in the latter scenario to accomplish the mission?

Additionally, are you factoring in the cost in training, maintenance and fuel for the larger force?
This Hacktivist Is Making Airbnb's Life Hell
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I have always wanted a program/script to check for changes in the NIH era commons site, specifically a page that indicates for a particular grant application, what its score is. Problem is, to get to this magic page (which is, I think, dynamically created), you have to:

(1) log into the main era commons site with a username and pw

(2) then a new page opens up, on which you have to click on a particular link to get a list of your grants

(3) then click on the grant of interest

(4) then click on the competition date

(5) then the magic page opens up. It's this page I want to check for changes

I've done the requisite google searching and found lots of generics suggestions about cookies, etc, but I don't have the skills, obviously.

Is there a tool whereby I can click "record" and go through my various steps, and then the tool will keep track of the programmatic aspects of this surf-and-click dance, such that I can execute that script later (e.g. as a cron job)?

Thanks!
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"oriented around" != "sole pursuit". You're making a strawman by inserting an overly-high bar.

However, the USA in the 50s and 60s matches your demand. An incredibly wealthy time, it was also a golden age of modern art and a golden age of science in so many fields. The moon shot itself cost 4% of the USA's GDP. How well did these advances survive? The cultural waves turned out to be the origin of the USA's soft power, with movies, music, and fashion spreading out throughout the world like nothing before. And much of the science continues to be the bedrock of science, engineering, and manufacturing today.
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I live in Austin, and the traffic is ridiculous. just this week a co-worker quit because he can't stand the traffic from Round Rock to Downtown
I will never live further than 10 minutes from work again. Traffic is such a waste of life.
> I said Karthick why do a good portion of Indian developers suck

If you peanuts you get monkeys. The Indian developers who dont suck are not working in your company because they are getting a good salary somewhere else.
The newest machine has an I7 6700k.

Every machine has a raid 1 of "high performance" SSDs. Most have Corsair force3 GTs. The 4th gen is an untrabook with room for only one SATA3 ssd, so I put a Mushkin M3 drive in in for the raid. The Newest machine some other SSD that is just slightly faster. The read speeds are something like this 1st gen -> 1.2GB/s, 2nd gen -> 1.2GB/s, 4th gen -> 1.1GB/s (the M3 drive slows it slightly), 6th gen -> 1.3GB/s.

Each machine is faster than the previous by a wide margin, far more than the proportional speed difference from the slowest to the fastest. There is almost a whole minute between (3m to 2m) from the 4th to 6th.

The first gen has 2 cores with hyperthreading (looks like 4 in gnome system monitor), the quad cores with hyperthreading where far out of my price range. All the rest, the 2nd, 4th and 6th gen have 4 cores and hyperthreading (looks like 8 in gnome system monitor).

For reference each of these was around $1,600 plus or minus $200, except the 6th gen. The 6th also has an nVidia 980 (not the normal mobile version) and 4 total hard drives. The other two drives are large mechanical disks that I only mount when I am doing stuff with movies or other large offline data, I do not believe they have any impact on the benchmark. This machine cost $3,200 after all the crap I did to it.
"Dark header has arrived on http://GitHub.com for desktop and mobile! First of many iterative design changes coming"

https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830138373230653440
Good point. Added error checking.
Sounds like a Strogatz kind of thing. I seem to remember him talking about it somewhere, but can't find it either.
Here's a recent Thinktank summary of the encryption and what access is difficult for the government.

https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/1...

You will find that the following summary is correct: The federal government does not have an issue getting the plaintexts it desires today.

This is because of a large number of capabilities come together: first most communications does not have unrecoverable encryption. Strong encryption is extremely rare, composing very small percentages of the communications available. Then, where encryption is available it isn't applied by default. Then, where encryption is available and applied by default, there are key escrow mechanisms for most of these cases. Then, there is a legal mechanism that requires communication service providers to provide decryption for any of the encryption that they provide. Then, what encryption can is build over the mechanisms for providers and services offer, most of it can be defeated. Then, what can not be defeated mathematically, access can be gained from other types of law enforcement activity, including lawful hacking exercises and capture of unlocked target devices. Then, what can't be gained by any of this can be inferred from metadata that is almost always available in plaintext, provided by mass surveillance collections.

I encourage you to read the associated literature, both reports like the above, and the contents of the Snowden Disclosures.

Namely: both law enforcement and intelligence operations are able to thwart the very vast majority of communications among Americans as well as those abroad. There do exist some systems that lead to unrecoverable encryption - they are in the very vast majority and can and are thwarted using other types of operations (if the cost-benefit analysis deems it necessary). And so it is not a reasonable position to remain skeptical in the face of overwhelming evidence.

It should also be noted that a number of "Hollywood scenarios" have been disclosed and have been seriously debated on a national level: before the 90s all cryptography in the United States was mandated to be weak to government interception (this isn't that long ago) and can we go without mentioning DRGB? Apparently we can't.

The sum total of all of this is that by and large, as a rule, federal intelligence and usually even regional law enforcement are able to access almost all civilian communications (in Seattle, for example, all of the cities communications including social media posts are hoovered up by our city police).
The problem is zoning. If zoning didn't outlaw the type of cities they are describing, then perhaps it would happen.

This is why people are now becoming skeptical of new construction, new neighborhoods in the Bay Area. For a San Francisco example, check out the new mission bay developments. The area still feels dangerous and empty. Not enough realistic businesses - there is no legitimate reason to be on the street, other than wanting to 'hang out' in public spaces.

Once Mission Bay becomes a nightlife draw, with a mix of uses - like the Castro or Polk for example - then it will be an example of something done well. Until then, nope.
Project wise: it's neat that something like this was built. I always think it's cool that people transform something they may use every day to represent something/learn about something.

Usability wise: After using HN for so long, this just hurts to use and wait for the JS to render ):
An incredibly crude solution: http://sikulix.com/
I think it might even depend on the build complexity. It is possible to write code that requires insane amount of CPU time with the write (wrong?!) kind of C++ template metaprogramming.
I'm assuming this might also mean they can leverage their legacy fabs to a greater degree for non-critical components in competitive spaces? That seems like a huge advantage.

It sounds like a move from "Do we assume the next node will be ready for our most important chip in X years?" to "What parts of chips is the next node currently ready for?"

Fabbing smaller dies on lower-yield, leading edge processes would also be nice. Curious what the trade-offs will look like in terms of power/thermal vs a monolithic die design.
On Mobile Safari www.nx-framework.com shows up as a blank page.
Yah cuz we were all such paragons of responsiblity in our teen years. I got in trouble for hacking as a kid too. Now I coach VP's on how to manage app dev.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Eating Toward Immortality
Ford is investing $1B into a self-driving car startup argo.ai
Tangent: why is the Go mascot always so deformed[1]? It makes me sad because I do love Go but having such an awkward mascot makes me feel like the language is deformed, too (which some people would say is true, I admit)

[1] Yes, I'm familiar with the history of its creation, I just wish it weren't so
Take it in the sense of "[Color] is the new black". Obviously, it's not literally true. But (going back to xapata's statement) computer programming could come to occupy the same role in society that manufacturing jobs used to. That's how I would've read the comment.
I believe if you cheat at a casino, you are just banned and kicked out.

Also, perhaps there is a differentiation between working within the mechanics of a system to cheat, and going around a system to cheat. An example from the esports league would be the difference between using a corner case to shoot through a wall, versus hacking into the server and modifying the code.
Since this journal is called Governing after all I imagine it has something to do with policy.

You know, the free stuff, no parking space minimums for new developments, rezoning city areas to allow for shops, enabling actual new developments in the first place instead of NIMBYism.
Yes but this time it's different. Throughout history, until the past 50 years or so, the new technology has typically replaced a mechanical function humans were performing. The coming evolution of software and robotics will start performing the mental work humans, until very recently, were the ONLY thing on the planet capable of doing.

For the past 3000 years of "modern humans", we have had a monopoly on the human brain and creative intelligence. That monopoly is coming to an end. What will the average worker do when a robot that can out-wit them? You cannot just handwave this problem away saying "it always creates new jobs!!11".

This problem is well-summarized by this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
We had friends who moved to mission bay because they wanted to live in a place that wasn't built in the 20s. They moved out after a year for the reason you mentioned.
Uh, you didn't miss anything. It's a very brief post mentioning an Idea for a Concept. So it's not even close to describing an actual, um, anything.

It's the literary equivalent of me saying "Hey, Humans are over-fishing the oceans, somebody should come up with a way to stop that."
At work my compile times went down by 70% on switching to a SSD.
Right, other paradigms in its place. Exactly.
The rise of MEMS microphone arrays
You're saying that there cannot possibly be large enough margins in anything to risk federal prison, which is self-evidently false. Your whole argument relies on declaring crypto currency as contraband, but contraband items are popular because they have inherent value to the consumers rather than simply being a medium of exchange.

It's much easier to proscribe the possession of child porn, hand grenades, or heroin because it's easy to demonstrate the harm of allowing free traffic in such items. Prohibiting voluntary arrangements that don't inherently have first-order harm effects is more difficult. Thus there isn't much opposition to heroin remaining a controlled substance - junkie life sucks - but prohibitions on cannabis use are collapsing left and right because people can see that smoking weed is unlikely to wreck your life.

Of course I don't expect you to get familiar with my comment history, but I'm heard all these basic roadblocks to crypto currencies because I've made many of these same arguments myself in the past. The existence of unsolved problems does not mean that the problems are insoluble.
What is the best way known to implement the semantics of a language? Generating an abstract syntax tree is nice, but what is the state of the art in abstract semantics ?
New Study Shows That Zinc Is Essential in Preserving Life
About a gallon of coke zero so that's roughly 4 classic cups in terms of caffeine content. Never tried actual coffee, though.
My tip? Make your to-do list your twitter. I.e., when you get that ping of dopamine depletion that makes you want to pop open a social network or similar, open your to-do list instead. Start out by just scrolling through it, then maybe go do whatever you were going to do. Ideally you'll have some small, easily completable tasks on the list along with the larger more annoying ones. If so, maybe sometime you’ll spot one you can get done really fast. Make sure you check off the item when you’re done. Do it enough & the goal is to rewire your reward drive towards productivity, eventually building up a chemical response to checking off items that’s greater than dipping into the infostream.
Quick question: Since Go's html parsing requires utf-8 encoding is there a way to convert the response to utf-8 without ioutil.ReadAll()? (Still pretty new to Go).
I'm not against Universal Basic Income, but there are some things about it which worry me, and which don't seem to come up very much in these discussions.

leverage

If we're all on basic income, we no longer have any leverage if our "wages" are reduced. The ruling classes can decide to drop the amount we earn, and there's not much we can do about it. Sure, we can "vote", but we can't strike, which is a far more powerful way to fight against pay decreases.

education

the main driving force behind education is the need for employment. of course plenty of people seek education purely for their own fulfilment, and we imagine with the free time that will come with joblessness, more people will do this. but we'll almost certainly see a drop in the number of young people attending college, since there's no "need". with less people in college, the overall level of education around the world will drop.
It still is the world record for Any%, yes. I'm surprised that a speedrun on an emulator is accepted though, but it seems most of the GBC runs are ran on an emulator.
The simplest hack for the traffic issue I've heard is to just change work schedules. Either run cities in 2 general shifts, or do several days of longer hours and then take a day off.

Certainly in London there seems to be a slip towards more of the working from home 1 day a week. It definitely feels like there are more working parents doing flexible hours out of necessity but there's a a fair amount of bias in that I've seen a lot more of that struggle from living it myself for the last 5 years.

I take the train from a commuter area and there's no real financial incentive to do 4 days commuting with 1 day off. Which I find sad - I think Train lines should _have_ to include discounted 4 day per week season tickets. Then again, I'm in a southern trains area so the trains aren't running half the time anyway....
The article I linked was written by a Russian who never set foot in America.
If the point is to find the great games Steam should make it free to publish, doesn't matter how many bad games there are except they are a factor in how many great games there are.

Bad games don't make much money before it's discovered and Steam has a 14 day-ish refund policy. It might force them to automate it, like Google Play does for 2 hours after purchases.
Completely agree. I wrote code in Delphi 20 years ago, and I was far more productive than I am today.

The secret was to have self-contained components that fit within a rigid layout system. It wasn't easy to make things pretty, but it worked. To write code, you clicked on the component, clicked on an event, and wrote your logic in a little snippet editor. It was all event-driven.

Would love to have something like that for web design today. An opinionated system that forced you to use a limited subset of html and css might be able to pull it off.

(Delphi was a VB-like environment for Borland Pascal. It's still around: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi)
Or in other words, the market for single-chip performance is shrinking.

The hyperscale folks care about how much physical space given performance takes, but that's likely more energy/performance than chipcount/performance constrained.
Do you disagree that subsidized loans would increase demand, or do you disagree that increased demand would raise prices?
It wasn't an a or b proposition, and the notion that it was is revisionist bunk.

Slavery was more important to the southern economy, but slavery existed in New York as fully legal until phaseout began in 1799. It wasn't eliminated until the 1820s.

Monied interests in most states/colonies would have have permitted the loss of their property without compensation.
They might have significant others depending on UBI - parents, children, friends. So they would not like cutting basic income, even if it recovers slightly more money for them.

Compare this to situation with poor: Most of middle class don'r really have poor significant others in their life, making cutting benefit programs easier.
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I've noticed this principle come up in the pomodoro technique and the "Learning How to Learn" course on Coursera.

Not sure how applicable it is outside of just-do-it work (paperwork, emails, etc) though. I've used it in my design work, for example, but I'm concerned I'll spend too many cycles on spinning my wheels on rather than thinking deeply about the problem and solving it simply.
I agree that we do need to give ourselves permission to turn off sometimes; and culturally we need to stop being so damn masochistic about work and such. It would be good if we all put more of a priority on LIVING. Work, no matter how inspiring, is still work.

That said, I think a lot of procrastinators could use this intentional strategy to get more done when we are working. For instance, I can see how this might help me out. And hey, I'm a big believer in doing whatever works, even if it seems silly on the surface.
Tesla employee who spoke out about working conditions: ‘Musk is a visionary’
Also the T is the least well served line. Shadows of racism because of where it ends up, but still.

The neighborhood ends up being filled with people rushing home after work, and since it isnt a mixed area, ie: not many families, the after-dark streets seem dangerous.

I used to live right near Laguna and Market, and the amount of how much traffic meant I always felt safe no matter the day or night. Lots of businesses open late too.
I agree that it's quite impressive.

It's definitely possible that Crunchbase is out of date but companies are also generally pretty incomplete in listing investors past the leads for each round. People don't list so and so's dad that put $50k in, etc. I'm thinking the dollar amount is right since the lead for the A matches what Joel wrote.
I didn't know i wanted this.

How do you scrap all that data?
Odin? That rings a bell. Aha -- here it is, an essay defending the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles as a genealogical record compatible with the Genesis table of nations. It rang a bell because Odin is one of the persons in the tree.

http://www.ldolphin.org/cooper/ch6.html
Iwanna hacked version: phase-array real time acoustic camera, with audio Hz displayed as colors. Also perhaps tweet the azimuths of all distant gunshots.
In other words, Eth and Aragon would work great, as soon as someone figures out how to build a strong AI that can arbitrate and enforce contracts?

We already have an inscrutable, unaccountable, super-intelligent system that can do that - the courts, the police...
Do you judge a product from its logo/mascot ?
I've got an incredibly cheap solution to your problem!

Step 1. Tear down your city
Step 2. Rebuild a completely new city in its place.

How expensive could it be?
This site has some interesting proposals:

http://www.carfree.com/

http://www.carfree.com/intro_cfc.html
html.Parse takes a io.Reader https://github.com/golang/net/blob/master/html/parse.go#L201...

an http Response.Body is a io.ReadCloser so you can pass it directly with `html.Parse(response.Body)`

But don't forget to defer io.Close the body.
How is the public transit in Austin?
The key to making cities awesome for residents is to shrink the max footage any business gets on the block. Small store fronts increase variety in a given distance and allow for much shorter walking distances to far more stuff.

It also benefits the city because there are more people in general.
Ask HN: Looking for cofounder to handle sales/business side of SaaS product
Hi HN,

I've recently finished building a SaaS platform targeting non-profits and looking for someone based in the U.S to handle the sales and business aspect of the business. If you're interested and want to know more, send over your resume and a little about yourself. throwawayacc010@gmail.com

Cheers
Yea that's why building the warriors stadium there was a great idea, it will bring the much needed foot traffic during games or concerts for more business to open up.
I totally agree, but also recognized how amazingly lucky we are to even consider making such a commitment. Most folks don't have options like that.