skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to be blunt, but this is just incorrect.

The problem with "Slashdotting" was the number of concurrent connections. Heck a fair portion of the time it was the database that keeled over first, not Apache.

Slowloris attacks send purposefully incomplete requests and hold them open with additional headers. Even with dial-up modems, connections were never slow enough for this to be a problem with actual requests, which are lightweight.

Responses are heavy and can tie up slow connections, especially if they have to go get stuff out of the database. But in that case it's no longer a Slowloris type attack. It's just too many concurrent connections.

The Slashdot effect was solved with static HTML caching, simply because caches are faster and don't touch the DB. Cloudflare is a simple, free example of such a cache, although certainly not the only one.
I didn't come up with the $20 number, I'm quoting tabeth.
How do you assure quality? How much total budget are you interested in using for this? How will you update the videos when you have the captioning?

It's harder than it sounds.
Note that on Robinhood you're only entering a "pre-ipo" bid but are not participating in the ipo -- i.e., you aren't guaranteed that your order will fill at any point

Source: https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000902306...
This is the honey pot ..or honey page
If you want to bet against Snap but think shorting is too risky you can buy put options.
You do that by making one person the CEO. :)

If co-founders are ganging up against each other then that may not be a stable founding team.
I still think a lot of this depends on your availability requirements.

I don't think I could run an S3 service at the scale AWS does with higher reliability, but I do believe I can run a pool of redundant HAProxies with higher reliability, and in fact we already run pools of HAProxies for other reasons so we have quite a bit of operational experience with it.

If my company had three engineers I certainly would not go this route, but if you are big enough to have a dedicated ops team that already has experience with this sort of thing, you can architect something that is more reliable than just relying on S3 alone.
My one crumb of comfort will be seeing the expensive coastal houses of property investors be destroyed.

I really should get some land high above sea level while it's still cheap and undesirable.
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The headline oversells the story in a way that makes its overselling of the story completely deniable. Reminds me of something… Oh yeah—of the actual behavior the story describes. Is this a postmodern meta-storytelling piece?
Yes. Sockets are available in Insider releases though but I/O still remains a pain.
I got my dog for $300 bucks at the humane society (less actually, that was with leash/harness/bowls/etc...). She's awesome.

I got really lucky though, I was the first person to see her as she came in from the vet that morning. A family was literally there waiting if I didn't take her.

The humane society was kind of depressing. They had so many little Chihuahuas that they brought up from California. Loads of people buy them and then realize they don't want them later. At least the humane society doesn't put them to sleep.
It might be truly that Lua is simpler but also keep in mind that LuaJIT was entirely created by a single person.

So it can be done.

And to quote Mike Pall again

"" tl;dr: The reason why X is slow, is because X's implementation is slow, unoptimized or untuned. Language design just influences how hard it is to make up for it. There are no excuses. "
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Wrong! We want data from offshore so we can model what happens when the system moves over land. Also, shipping is valuable and has humans who can drown.
"Automatically generated captions were inaccurate and incomplete"

Sigh. No good deed goes unpunished.

Reminds me of this Louis CK bit: https://vimeo.com/69662330#t=4m39s

"How does the world owe you something you didn't even know existed 30 seconds ago?"
> The fact that even after twenty seven years organisations chose to ignore the law shows the contempt that organisations have for people with disabilities.

It costs roughly $1 for a professor to prop his camera up at the back of a room and record himself speaking for an hour, then post it online (11GB @ 3¢/GB = 33¢; we'll add double that for bandwidth &c.); it costs $180-$600 to close-caption that video. The ADA turns lecture videos from something anyone can do to something basically no-one will do.

Yes, life sucks when one's deaf. Yes, it'd be awesome for every organisation to have the resources to close-caption every recorded lecture. But requiring every recorded lecture to be close-captioned merely ensures that to a first order of approximation no lecture will be close-captioned.
>> who buys anything Russian except oil and weapons?

US government, businesses and individuals buy tickets to the ISS, rocket engines, exploits, botnets, mail bribes, etc :)

Other countries buy Russian nuclear reactors.
I was experimenting running stuff like PyCharm, VS Code, Sublime etc. in WSl through X11 Forwarding. Eventually I gave up and just run it properly in VirtualBox with seamless mode.
A century ago, a recording of “Livery Stable Blues” helped launch a new genre
> or even Mandarin? Really not so much

Not right now, I can easily see that being different within the next century though. Probably too late for us, but not for our children and grand children.
I speak 3 languages (English, Hindi, Tamil) and know what you mean. May I ask how you picked up Lao, and how similar/dissimilar it is to say Hindi or Bengali?
I'd highly suggest reading this discussion from 2000 between Miyamoto, Itoi, and Iwata. It pertains to the cancellation of MOTHER 3 on the N64, which was probably their most ambitious project at the time. It's an enlightening read.
(https://yomuka.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/earthbound-64-cancel...)

It's long, so I'll throw in a few quotes.

>Miyamoto: Game quality was at a point when it caught up with top-tier entertainment, with visuals that had come so far that all we had left was coming up with new ideas for us to express. It was like we gained incredible calvarymen to make an unstoppable army. […] We came in right during that time period. I think we got distracted by the prospect of building up that powerful army and lost sight of how we were going to form our battle strategies.

The following snippet is the highlight. Note that Iwata became the president of Nintendo shortly after, in 2002.

>Iwata: There’s this really strange common sense now that says it takes a huge team of people working with a large scale and a lot of time to create a good game. A good game is supposed to be based on a good idea that’s very fun, even if it’s small. That notion disappeared somewhere along the way, and it’s turned into a battle of who can spend the most time and utilize the most manpower. You could even say that Nintendo needs to take a stand against this.

The result: the adoption of the Blue Ocean strategy.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-10-10-nintendos-i...

I'm reminded of a Twitter thread in 2013 by CliffyB, where he talks about the game industry's obsession with inflated budgets (http://www.igameresponsibly.com/2013/06/13/cliff-bleszinski-...). This is what Nintendo sought to avoid with a slower adoption of raw power and instead making more focused games.
There's an observable soft spot for Nintendo consoles in a lot of "PC master race" types. I'm definitely not a part of that community, but I agree a higher powered PC plus whatever Nintendo's newest console is brings something very special to the table. It also helps when my little cousins come over and I have games like Overwatch on the PC and Super Mario 3D World on the Wii U for them to enjoy
I think it absokutely amazing that life has been around on our tiny planet for 1/3–1/4 the existence of the universe. Wow, what a feat!

Maybe we're the 3rd 4th "generation" of intelligent life, or even earlier! What a lonely feat.
You are conflating ownership and the role of a CEO. Technically the CEO does not have to hold equity at all (and this is in fact common in many older family owned companies).

Decision paralysis is more a function of not having a clear path forward or having founders without aligned goals than anything else and those are serious problems that need to be dealt with but they do not need to be dealt with on an equity level.

It's much more to do with knowing which role fits you best.

Keep in mind that the CEO functions at the pleasure of the board if you have one and the stockholders if you do not and unless you plan on doing stuff that will go directly against the interest of other shareholders having control is rarely if ever important.

Far more important than the CEO having a controlling percentage of the equity is that the founders have a controlling percentage (and if possible, a supermajority depending on your articles of incorporation and shareholder agreements and whether or not you have more than one class of stock).
I'm curious how much this phenomenon might affect CO2 levels compared to the deforestation of the Amazon, which I have read in the past is the single most disastrous human action when it comes to climate. The Amazon forest is vast and produces a significant percentage of the world's oxygen. The balance we have seen the past few thousand years is being upset not only by industrial pollution but by depriving the world of its CO2-to-O2 conversion machinery in Amazon as well as the ocean algae. A reduction in algae, which seems to be happening and is possibly due to pollution, will be catastrophic. There is also the methane deposits on the ocean floor that are being released because of increased acidity caused by CO2. This is creating a deadly cycle that may be accelerating the greenhouse effect.

I doubt that there's anything we humans can do at this point other than preserve and restore the Amazon, stop polluting as much as possible, and pray.

Earth by David Brin is a very good novel that describes a grim future some 40 years hence. It goes off into pure sci-fi regarding black holes bouncing around the earth's core, but the predictions in the novel seem pretty realistic. He speculates that as the Northern Territories and the Siberian tundra thaw, people will move north and build towns to get away from the increasingly tropical conditions in previously moderate latitudes.

Something not touched upon in that novel but which we are seeing today is the spread of tropical diseases like zika into new areas. This is one of the scariest prospects, actually; the next great plague will probably come from a previously unknown tropical virus or bacterium.

I hope the Mars colonization project proceeds apace.
Sad, yes, but that's the world we live in. There's really no such thing as a "safe, modest bet" - that lifestyle business that provides you a good living now will cease to provide you a good living soon after a big competitor decides to move into your space. Similarly, even working for the big competitor isn't all that safe: you could be laid off because your manager doesn't like you, or because your manager's manager doesn't like your manager, or because product priorities shifted around, or because you're suddenly the scapegoat for your company's sexual harassment culture, or because your company hit a revenue speedbump, or simply because shareholders & upper management get greedy.

Binary success ultimately comes from the customer: from their perspective, either the product satisfies their need or it doesn't. As soon as some other product satisfies their need better, they'll switch. And since customers talk to one another and largely like the same things, they tend to do so en-masse, and even $multi-billion giants can find their market evaporates in the span of a couple years.
what kind of format does the public record give you?

Is it reasonable or do you have to scrape through and make your own JSON?
No Real Genius? Shame.
I didn't get that from the article, but it would make sense. The NRA has long-standing and well-funded firearms safety programs, ranging from training for adults to the "Eddie Eagle" program for kids.

Everytown's budget for political contributions last year was about 1/3 of the NRAs, but the the overall organization budgets are vast different - Wikipedia shows the NRA having $348m in revenue in 2013, while Everytown brought in $4.9m in 2012.

From a purely financial perspective, Snap should be prioritizing the NRA's business over Everytown's.
Rust plugin for IntelliJ is very strong
Ask HN: Is it significant the Who's hiring thread has lower volume this month?
Could it be an early indicator of a recession starting? What other causes might there be?
> raise $5 million on a $10 million pre-money valuation (selling 33% of the company to investors)

How do these calculations work?
Your stats are off. The Chinese-language internet is far larger than the Russian-language internet.

Take a quick look at the Alexa top 500 sites.
I remember when it was a big deal to get on DMOZ because it seemed to have a lot of SEO clout. It took me awhile to become an editor and then there were a lot of politics in making edits.

Without having influence on search and no consumers ever using it, it stopped serving any function.
People are always happier being grumpy and ignorant than informed and accepting.
On the other hand, there are services that provide captioning at extremely low costs. The university could write a relatively small check to comply.

ADA imposes much more expensive mandates to much smaller businesses, and I'm under the impression that most people consider that to be acceptable.
I bet RMS will now ask people to start calling it GNU/Windows :)
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Being deaf/disabled is a liberal issue now?
I am working on a project processing public data and reselling it, similar to you. Is it legal to resell public information? What rationale did you use to defend paying for it? Also how did you arrive at/figure out your pricing?
A musical instrument.
Arctic tern
Good ending now.

I wonder after reading, is Wikipedia the new "Who's who in America?"

>[His] Wikipedia page.
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It would be nice to include Black Mirror as most of the show's plots revolve around the social influence of advanced technology.

Not a movie but definitely required viewing.
Want to disrupt the heart attack market?

Make a small home machine that can take an EKG and tell you if everything is fine, or if you should go get checked.

Adjust it to give some false positives, but no false negatives.

Make it cost around $50, and make sure it's fully reusable (i.e. you can borrow one from a friend for a quick check).

If machine learning is not up to the task, then send the EKG to a doctor, I believe they can read them in just seconds (correct me if I'm wrong), so it should not be expensive per-person.

To simplify it, have it connect via bluetooth to a phone, so you don't need to worry about WiFi, or a display. For reliability have it store the last 10 readings, even if not connected, so it should have a start button and indicator lights.
Do these accessibility requirements only concern public institutions? Stanford has been taking down course videos (notably, CS231n) for the same reason, which just does not make sense to me. I understand the argument that an institution is obligated to provide accessible materials if the consumer is /paying/ for them, either directly or as a taxpayer. But imposing these requirements on those providing content for free seems a little ridiculous.
No Mr. Robot?
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Just reading the list of disadvantages, the format sounds interesting but not that practical in a world where massive numbers of FPUs operating within a thermal limit is a primary design concern.
$20 will pay for a days work somewhere in the world. Surely a 15min video can be transcribed in 6hrs, charts included.
Yes, but not everything. They do not implement everything 1:1 so not everything may work. For example, they implemented inotify, but they left away a few things and certain applications crash because they expect certain functionality.
It was my understanding that the ADA requires 'reasonable' accommodations? If that is the case, how does removing the videos from access to anyone qualify as reasonable?
The lease program seems predatory....
Is there anything saying that the captions have to be correct? Could they just use e.g. Youtube's (horrible) auto-captioning algorithm?
https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_language/a...

This is where I got it from. If you have a better source I'd like to see it.
Welcome to the unintended consequences of government regulations. This is exactly what many "anti-regulation" people rail against, but examples like this are rarely brought up by "pro-regulation" arguments.
The listener is a pretty much off the shelf Tweepy listener writing into a Redis queue. For the recommendation is comes via an API where I can't share the code.
http://www.wrf-model.org

You can run a version of it yourself.
Also check out the AI / Cognitive Science Movie Index by Indiana University:

https://www.indiana.edu/~cogfilms/index.php

Black Mirror is missing here too, unfortunately. Several episodes revolve quite intelligently around AI, dystopian technological future, cognitive science.
Because being able to awesome electric engine and awesome petrol engine and the same time (and not having to choose between them) is awesome!
They were complying with (a reasonable reading of) the ADA: if you were accepted to Berkeley (via an ADA-compliant process), and then enrolled in one of these classes, they would ensure that any required course materials were translated to accommodate any covered disability you had.

What Berkeley was doing afterward was saying "well, we've provided this class in compliance with the law, might as well open up access to the materials to anyone who could benefit from them".

The court's interpretation would be like saying, "If a store gives away unused, edible meat at the end of the day, they must provide an equal amount of vegetarian food."

I can understand "equal access" arguments for "if you sell meals, you must provide a vegetarian option" (which Berkeley did the analog of). But why would they be expected to do the same for "byproduct" giveaways?
They say that in the US as well.
Why not? Even assuming that the runaway is unstoppable, that's a fixed quantity. The final outcome will be

runaway CO2 + everyone else's CO2 + our CO2

and we've got control over one of these terms.
You know the saw about software development; if the features are fixed, flex the deadline. We're the opposite: We can't move a general election or we might have to respond to breaking news. We value your ability to make decisions about how to get a piece of software working quickly but without making it impossible to maintain. It requires creativity, and we think of it more of an art than a science.
Pointing to another comment ITT. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768580
> But requiring every recorded lecture to be close-captioned merely ensures that to a first order of approximation no lecture will be close-captioned.

Huh? I do not follow
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I'm not sure Snapchat would have egg on its face in the scenario you propose.

Maybe there shouldn't be ad space in these types of campaigns, but if they have do have ad slots, anyone can buy them, and I can totally see the NRA doing that.
Seeing this list inspired me to write about the list I keep for the books I read, many of them cyberpunk/scifi. After reading so many of these types of books, you can't help notice their elements in other media.

It's interesting in seeing the print inspirations for many of these movies. The term "The Matrix" was first coined in William Gibson's Neuromancer and considered to be the seminal Cyberpunk novel, even predating Ghost in the Shell.

Definitely a must read for any Cyberpunk fan!
No, that's not considered sufficient.

The Department found that [...] many had automatic captioning
generated by YouTube’s speech recognition technology. In March 2015, the Department
selected 30 videos. [..] for review. Automatically generated captions were inaccurate and incomplete, making the
content inaccessible to individuals with hearing disabilities.
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I would ask those downvoting this comment to provide a counter argument.

This is absolutely ridiculous. A university was providing something, for free, to everyone who wanted it. And because someone complained that their personal circumstances made it impossible to enjoy this free thing, now no one is allowed to get this content.

It's as if I threatened to sue Costco because one of their free samples had nuts in it and I couldn't eat it, resulting in them canceling the program.
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