skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems really annoying to get setup with Sia though. You need to have at least 50,000 SC to begin hosting, and you can't earn SC until you start hosting. You even need SC to announce your host (15 SC), and the apps don't explain if the software deals with dynamic IPs or if it supports hostnames instead of just IPv4 addresses. Also, it seems like it is only using IPv4 addresses, kind of short minded for modern technology.

How are you even supposed to get started using Sia if there's no way to do it except to go and spend money. The point of being able to host files is that I'll offer up some storage on my NAS, earn coins, then be able to backup some of my own important documents on the network. Seems like if I have to dish out money to get started I doubt I'd ever be able to maintain the service without continuously spending money. So many other syncing technologies seem easier than this.
Gezondste noten die je dagelijks zou moeten eten om gezond te blijven
Based on public talks by GCP engineers, it's very unlikely. Maybe SEV (encrypted VMs) might change that. However, the small glimpse into GCP that you get from looking at their work on KVM would suggest no.
That's an interesting definition of socialism; I didn't intend it in that way. Open source seems "socialist" to me by virtue of the pretty much the same attributes that you're (I think correctly) describing as anarchic. It's a broad term, I think we're saying the same thing :)
There's a difference between formal and conversational grammar
If you're blindly submitting your application to a large company, I think you're doing it wrong.

I don't think I've ever (20 years) applied to a job without either going through a recruiter or an inside source.

The one time I did speak to a company based on a reference, during the HR/internal recruiter phone screen, they asked me did I have any questions

One of the questions I asked was what the salary range they said it depends on experience. I told them my experience is on my resume and we had talked for 30 minutes so they know my experience, so what was the salary range based on my experience?

I told them that we didn't need to waste each other's time with scheduling an in person interview unless they can give me the information. She said she would email me. She did, I told her that was too low. I never heard back.
I'd imagine that they'd be willing to license the technology to a startup for a stake in the company or something like that.
> Your argument essentially revolves around "what are the chances I'll be compromised!?" ...

You misunderstand. My argument is explicitly around "What is the potential effect?" That's why I listed changing financial passwords is on my list of things that I might do. (Though see below for why I won't.)

If I only change passwords where someone can do real damage (my primary social media accounts, my accounts that have a current, saved credit card, and any hosting-related accounts) then I've already hit the 98th percentile in damage avoidance. And as I pointed out above, most (all?) of those accounts are unaffected because they don't use CloudFlare at all.

If someone has stolen my password to the Woodworking Forums, and they ... what, post rabid alt-right spam in my name and get me banned? Oh well, either tell them that it was hacked, or if they don't believe me, let that account die and create a new one, if I ever decide to go back and post something again. No big deal. I haven't used it in years anyway, and I can create unlimited new (wildcard-based) email addresses on any of several domains I own.

Aside from the top 10-15 sites I use, I rarely have logins that are that important, anyway. So I'm totally basing this on worst-case damage assessment, not on "how likely it is I'm attacked."

AND...I just looked through all of the top sites I use, and according to the HTTP header, none of them is served using CloudFlare at all (I only checked the index page of each, but none have the telltale CF-Cache-Status headers). No financial sites, no shopping sites that have my credit card, no social media sites. So where's the fire exactly?
One thing about git versus svn is that svn tends to be used more behind walls than outside of them and git is used both inside and outside.
Not the commenter above, but as a kid I knew about slavery, and about "people owning other people". I even knew about how long it had gone on for, and that slaves were transported in ships around the Mediterranean.

That said, I was wholly unprepared for the brutality of the Atlantic slave trade. Due to the higher round trip times, and lack of mid-trip provisioning, there was a requirement to be more "efficient" than the slave trade across land or sea previously.
I'd been a hardcore Mac user since '04.

The best thing Microsoft and Dell have going for them in the laptop space... the 2016 MacBook Pro w/Touch Bar. It was a dud. The GPU issues were the final straw for me.

I thought that switching back to Windows would be a HUGE hassle. The Windows Subsystem for Linux took the pain out of it. That, and I no longer have to fight the we-don't-have-a-macOS-version of $APP issues.

If Apple doesn't care about their computers, why should their users? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have worked both for AMD and for AMD's one-time largest customer. I know exactly what I am talking about. You, on the other hand, are talking out of your butthole.
In my mind, nothing like that should ever get vetted - only vetted accounts would be able to approve other accounts to get vetted. And with multiple layers of vetting, even if mistakes happen, it just won't go very high. Worst case scenario, if a group does infiltrate a layer, you just demote the whole layer. It might be a temporary frustration for real people, but that is better than perpetuating shills.

People who are picturing crowds coming in and messing up such a system aren't really getting the idea -- it is a closed system. Above the lowest layer, it is read-only to the public, unless you are given permission to contribute. The other commenter who said people don't want a system like this may be correct... but that might be a good thing. Catering to the crowds isn't the goal here. Finding the much smaller groups that are willing to put in more work to manage themselves, and engage in meaningful dialogue is exactly what might make places like /r/politics meaningful.
In Susan Fowler vs. 5.5 billion dollar company, why on earth would you suspect that Susan is the one contracting with reputation management firms?
you dont need to learn "grammar" in school/lessons to know how to speak a language.
SMS is better than nothing though?
The hard way is still the easy way though. Python is simple to learn :)
Show HN: QKast, broadcast internet content
https://qkast.com

Iv'e always wondered what a web page that acted more like a television broadcast would actually look like. That is what Iv'e created with qKast. Developers can add abilities. Users can control their own channel. Freely changing the experience from moment to moment.
Quick Intro Notes on the Smalltalk Language
This is a typical outcome. You worry about some hypothetical threat, spend countless hours mitigating the threat instead of working on useful features, money goes down the drain, and then the project gets canceled. Security is just one of the features of a product. It's not more special that other features. You prioritize it like the rest of product features.
Insane. 15 years ago I got my first job in Austin making 70k/year as comp sci 4th year dropout. At that time I could have bought a house just about anywhere in the city with that salary.
Report: Federal tech start-up falls down on rules, procedures
By Joe Davidson | Columnist February 22

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/02/22/...

“This report is not about security. It’s about compliance”. Nothing more than DC turf wars.

https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/834756913229361152
E3 is not a server SKU, it's meant for workstations and it's more similar to i7 than E5. It lacks various features including ECC RAM which, I suppose, is a no-starter for cloud hosting. Also some virtualization capabilities are missing, notably accelerated interrupt injection (APICv+posted interrupts).
He seems to have changed his tune now that he can't behind the "that's only an imaginary possibility" cover: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=148787047422954

> Do we want to migrate to another hash? Yes.
Illustrations: They are indeed. These are the colorful demigods of Hinduism. More: https://www.google.com/search?q=mahishasura
Similarly, I don't want ads for iCloud, Siri or Safari on my desktop. I don't even know if it this is possible.
Instead of just migrating everything to a new hashing function when something gets bad, why not migrate to something that would be future-proof and easy to switch out? Multihash[0] is one solution, where a hash contains information about what hash-function was used when generating the hash, so you can have the same input, multiple hashes.

- [0] https://github.com/multiformats/multihash
Sure, but according to many on HN, being a .NET, Java, JavaScript, C++, Swift, Objective-C, Android, PL/SQL, Transact-SQL, PG/SQL, PS3, PS4, WiiU, XBox 360, XBox ONE, Swift, Cobol, RPG,... isn't being a developer, as it implies for whatever magical reason to use POSIX and a UNIX CLI.
> It is a person who almost certainly has no indication that he will suffer any negative consequences from essentially telling the very few women in his group — something that in and of itself should have been a prime concern to him — that they are not welcome in his organization.

Also, keep in mind that Fowler's original story noted that when she started 25% of the organization was women, and when she left it was 6%. Have so few women should be a concern, having so few and that's partially because 75% of them have left in roughly a year's time should have been an "all hands on deck, company emergency, we're likely to be sued by multiple parties!" situation.

Unless you have a really good explanation for why that is, chances are you've created an extremely hostile work environment. Even if you do have a good explanation, it's probably in your best interest to look at it with a more critical eye, because the stakes are so high.

I mean, nobody want's to be stuck with such a bad PR nightmare that they feel the need to hire a former attorney general to signal how serious you're taking it. At that point, you're already screwed.
> I would describe the command line support in OSX to be sub-par to what is offered in Windows. The terminal itself feels like a toy compared to the Windows 10 command prompt.

Pretty much anyone I know on a Mac uses iTerm, which is definitely more capable than the Windows 10 command prompt.

> And posix doesn't seem to hold a candle to Powershell.

In what specific ways? It seems way more intuitive to me and powerful enough for any task that it's not worth bringing a language like Python/Ruby/Go etc. for.
What if I launch a new fast food franchise that uses automation from the start?

I never had employees so nobody is being let go. Your proposal would give me a massive advantage against incumbents like McDonalds, since they'd be trapped with either high labor or high tax costs.
They would buy because they believe they can sell it later at a higher price, based on the belief that other people want to buy $SNAP and will drive the price up.

I'm not avoiding your question—I agree that it should be based on underlying value—but that seems to be the only reason to buy $SNAP
interesting. I didn't get that. I think it could have delved deeper but on the surface I found it insightful
I work in a video production facility. We hate the trash cans. 3rd party chassis for them all fall short of an "all in one solution". These are our last Macs for production. We'll be on Windows boxes by this time next year. As a lifelong Apple user (Starting with the Apple II) this makes me sad, but Apple has done this to themselves.
Highlighting Postgres 10 Upcoming Features:Logical Replication and Partitioning
Interesting article, i had the same thoughts on MD vs RST when building commenting on RhodeCode. That's why it supports both, and i find it the most flexible solution
What a shallow bullshit article. Of course thinking how to get around the system correlates well with high wealth. But that's easy to do if you have high wealth. How do you do so when you don't have leverage the leverage that capital provides? It would have been much more interesting to hear how these ultra-wealthy individuals applied that mindset when they were just getting started.
Link to this post in three years and ponder in its prescients... Web 3.0 will be born in the death of the heavily botted social networks. Reddit, Facebook & Instagram, Twitter... are all basically pay-to-win schemes at this point, benefiting greatly in terms of adoption from the grey market pay-for-likes botnets, where marketers and propagandists know they can make their content highly visible if they're willing to pay.

People pay very little attention to the fragility that has arisen in the Web 2.0 economy. Once there is widespread understanding of the gaming, cheating, and botting, these social network institutions will crumble. There will be piecemeal attempts to reduce botting, but they will annoy end users, and annoy investors and shareholders as they come to realize XX% of their user base never existed.

Web 3.0 will be the death of anonymity, with social networks and APIs that are, by design, hard to automate, and even harder to hide your true identity from. There will be CAPTCHA-like systems (possibly tied to hardware) that facilitate this. This will of course promise to fix the problem of botting, while heavily benefiting surveillance, for state, and for advertisement. There will be a new breed of social networks built around ensuring the content you are seeing is genuine or "organic", and yet the incentives will be much more perverse, and their networks, much more invasive.
Same can be said for sports communities, especially the racing subreddits :)
Sadly the surveillance ship has long since sailed :(

I'd trade a federal ID for dismantling all the domestic spying.
I saw an ad too. Great way to get such clients.
Yet the people who report using it frequently have the most positive assessment of it. Shouldn't those people have the most relevant observations?

Yes, Android Studio requires a lot of memory, but welcome to 2017 where entry computers have 8GB. Beyond that, their complaints are whiny "this is strange and unfamiliar and threatening to me" bullshit.
Like others have pointed out you should have used recursion. Although, if you really wanted to you can make one similar to yours that doesn't (explicitely) use recursion. That results in the following:

flatten = (lambda f: lambda *args:
(lambda x: lambda *args2: f(x(x))(*args2))
(lambda x: lambda *args2: f(x(x))(*args2))(*args))(
lambda f: lambda l: [item for sublist in l for item in f(sublist)] if isIterable(l) else [l]
)
Can't possibly be true if you hear all the shade Andy Jassy throws towards Oracle.
I wonder if Skylake would offer a material improvement for our workload. We don't necessarily use AVX-512, but we do use a heck of a lot of CPU resources on the current architecture. We are a python/elixir shop.

Great job GCP team!
the spelling errors are deliberate, it adds authenticity.
Spending on GCP is more predictable than on AWS. Also the general behavior is more predictable. For instance all pre-emptible instances are terminated in 24 hours. On AWS based on when they need the resources.

I believe that whatever GCP does, does better. Faster network, faster spinning and turning off servers, simpler quotas, etc. GCP doesn't offer that many services as AWS and most of those are not very compatible with Apache tools (although they're doing their best, e.g. BigTable looks like Hbase from outside).

In our case, we're running ~28,000 servers on GCE and utilizing many services, especially PubSub, BigQuery, etc. The price we're paying for our setup is roughly 1/4 of a similar setup on AWS.
Apple seems more interested in getting the higher margin from using AMD GPUs in at least some generations.
I wonder, why the Reddit's owner Conde Nast does not step in into this mess. These advertising agencies completely sidestep Reddit's official ad channels, thereby robbing the company of profit. Logically Conde Nast would be pretty upset with it, unless they are using the same channels and means to manipulate collective opinion themselves. Given their notorious left-leaning position and more recent anti-trump campaign that seems pretty likely.
But how does it compares with the cost of living? In Canada, I make around 60k USD with 6 years of experience and I'm living a good life.
Wouldn't you need to decap every individual chip you want to compromise?
Well, their business won't survive, but yes, probably not for this reason.
> Meditating your way out of your head is akin to drinking venom to kill the flu.

Completely disagree. Not being a panacea doesn't make it bad medicine. It's not going to solve your problems, it just helps you get a little distance from them.
I would love to play games still. I certainly enjoyed it in my teens and in periods in my 20s where I had more free time than I do now. They can be a real time sink though, so I don't allow myself to buy a console. I barely find time for the pursuits I want to enjoy as it is.
I don't think you're "just wrong," there's definitely some ambiguity. You can use "trillions" to denote the scale or magnitude of a value and also to denote a denomination.
You, on the other hand, are talking out of your butthole.

No matter how ignorant someone else may be, it's never okay on HN to use uncivil language like this. Your comment stands just fine without it.
This is not a Markdown or reStructuredText tutorial, it's a comparison on some higher-level technical grounds. It's pretty easy to find syntax examples for both Markdown and reStructuredText, and very simple googling will lead to docutils documentation on extending reST.
The title is incorrect. HN does have a rule that says click-bait or clearly incorrect titles can be modified to be more representative of the actual article.
Would it be remedied if the company offered to provide the same number of calories to each person (regardless of gender), with the obvious implication that women would be more satiated than men? What if Uber offered to provide the men their required calories at some additional charge?

My questions don't directly address what happened at Uber, but I'm trying to figure out where the boundaries lie.
Unless you're buying "one-size-fits-all" jackets, "gender" is usually included in "size". "Men's size 30" is different than "women's size 30".
... this is a former Navy Seal who oversaw the operation that lead to the killing of Osama Bin Laden AND he said that Trump's sentiment about the media being the enemy of the people is the greatest threat to democracy in his lifetime. The article backs it up with video footage of a portion of his speech.

Every single part of the title is true.
> I have worked both for AMD and for AMD's one-time largest customer. I know exactly what I am talking about.

Man, if you had said this along with your previous comment, we wouldn't be having this argument. Remember, this is the internet, where everyone is a self-made expert. I guess that I've grown accustomed to the "guilty until proven innocent" approach.

So you are saying that AMD doesn't verify its designs in-house? Is your information recent, or has it been some time since you worked there? Because I looked up verification jobs after I read your other comment, and it seems like they are actively hiring testing and verification engineers.

> You, on the other hand, are talking out of your butthole.

Nah, I'm typing on my keyboard.
It should be feasible to write a slap-drone (nod to Iain Banks) style Reddit bot that trawls all comments in the major subreddits and minor subreddits which their mods request, and performs a fuzzy match on the comment contents. Any comments found with substantively the same content gets the account followed around. Every comment from that account for a period of time gets an immediate reply citing the findings, and a warning to others that the account is possibly a commercial astroturfing account. Monetize by offering a paid opt-in subscription where subscribers who post comments with an appropriate disclaimer don't get slap droned.

This has the advantage that even posting much the same comment into different subreddits using different accounts in each subreddit is detected.
Show HN: Binary Sync
Aren't most of the states that have legal marijuana, Democratic?
Is it open source ?
Show HN: A mailing list that sends a short story to your inbox every week
In ‘Walden’ Video Game, the Challenge Is Stillness
Yes, in the same way it would be a bad idea to require employees needing larger sizes to pay for any extra cost. When you buy a lunch for employees, you don't charge people who might eat more an extra fee either. The whole point of these is to build community within the organization or team. Excluding certain groups is a horrible idea. Doing it based on sex, religion, or ethnicity is a whole extra level of bad and stupid rolled into one.
That's why we have Wayland, (and yes you can use it today, just install Fedora 25 or Arch with GNOME).
I'd noticed something like this on HN a few years ago. A negative comment about Apple might be voted up at first. Then, about an hour after posting, there would be many negative votes. The timing on this was consistent. After that, no more negative votes, and the rating would float up again.
This might just be a reflection of the media echo chamber?

Reddit is largely regurgitated news stories. The news entities are all famously easy to manipulate and care more about speed and quantity over quality. A lot of news organizations are shamelessly partisan too, more so than ever.

I avoid the political subreddits even when they align with my political ideology because they are mostly filled with controversy driven stories rather than any useful political debate. You can't fill 24hr news cycles without filling it up with useless drama, so it's better to not get caught in that trap and just wait for the actually good stories float to the top.
Yeah, the title's misleading. It sounds as if the govt is wielding a heavy hand, but it's actually a money-making scheme citizens are using during a time of negative interest rates. The govt has to return the overpayment, with interest.
The very large Donald Trump subreddit.

(I dare not link to it. It is quite toxic.)
I had no idea about the details of Tricare, that's pretty interesting. I suppose it makes sense for a government to be very invested in the healthcare of its armed forces.I was thinking more about the United States army's particular global role as the primary means of the violent perpetuation of capitalism and Western hegemony. You make a great point; I think the main difference in our perspectives could be approaching the question domestically versus globally.
It also rhymes with "Basura" which means "Trash" in Spanish. ;-)
I did a senior research project with a DoD contractor at my university in my last semester. It was a lot of fun, and we got to get exposed to a handful of tools and practices these parties use. I'm very excited at the prospect that maybe some of them will become free. Kudos DoD!
I'm jealous. Every time I try a game, I totally suck at it. Even the easy difficulty is not easy enough anymore. Nowadays, I only enjoy puzzle games if anything at all.
Clearly, I cannot choose the wine in front of me.

But you would have counted on this, so I cannot choose the wine in front of you.
I am trying to ask what the 'courtesy' is; is it the value of the jacket, the sense of belonging, or the protection from the weather?
Previously, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12410798
Yes you are right. Redux or react router have nothing to do with build config. They are parts of the app