skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My random intenet advice:

Use the thirty day license. Then write back and ask for an extension as it draws to its end. Your situation is not uncommon and keeping contact every thirty days keeps you as an active lead in their sales funnel and makes it easier to keep tabs on licenses that are out in the wild. It also separates serious tire kickers and hobbyists from those who will lose interest in a six month license after two days. Basically, the company wants to know what someone is doing with their software when they grant more than thirty days of license.

The good news is that you already have contact with the company and so when you ask for a renewal/extension there's already a basis for granting it. That basis can be strengthened by writing back to the person who responded to your request to thank them and let them know that you downloaded the thirty day version. Then you can ask that person for an extension in a few weeks.

None of which is guaranteed to produce an extension, but at least you got thirty days worth of learning out of it.

Good luck.
HSTS Preload lists cause Chromium to think http://google/ is a valid domain
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I have a few side projects that are picking up a bit of traction, and now I'm afraid to make any changes because users have entrusted me with their data. There are plenty of resources that teach you how to build and deploy an application, but I haven't found anything about the best ways to maintain a running app with active users (bug fixes, new features, migrations, etc). Any recommendations?
It's quite a clever and elaborate social engineering scam, especially using the stolen data to use as a tool to get the mark to believe the call is genuine.
North Korea launches more missiles; 3 land in Japanese waters
Why make this instead of contributing to DDG?
This causes funny behavior like https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6L3IvsUsAABuyS.jpg:large

Chrom(e|ium) will suggest to navigate to http://google if you're opening google.com
Poor writing, I meant that Patterns of Software was fascinating. I'd be interested to give a glance to the above though, precisely for insights like that which you highlighted.

I'm not surprised at all. Java has the same kind of situation going on, and its performance depends on the ability of the JIT compiler to kick in and perform inlining. When this is not possible (e.g. calls sites where you call a virtual method with many implementations), performance degrades a lot. This is especially bad with interfaces, which have intrinsically higher costs.

As for Lisp, it can be even worse if you take things like multimethods into account.
yes, but no
I'm still brushing up on Calc, but may have to learn discrete math on my own, since Harvard Extension School offers discrete and algorithms during the same semester, and I don't want to wait 2 years before I can take algorithms.

To that end, I bought a copy of the 1995 "C Edition" of Foundations of Computer Science by Aho and Ullman. It combines data structures and discrete math into one massive text.

Does anyone have an assessment of that book? Is the combined data structures and discrete math a good approach? Does the book hold up well against more "modern" ones?
You said a lot. But after opening the link It kinda got scary
What are the best reports about startup strategy?(similar to stratechery.com)
Thanks in advance for your replies!
I don't think React has a big enough API to warrant a book. That said grokking the concepts behind Redux does require a bit of assistance.

Dan Abramov's screencasts on EggHead.io do that: https://egghead.io/courses/getting-started-with-redux
I do. I planned to do a blog post about them, but here they are in raw form: https://1drv.ms/o/s!AvgzOToZAoXyg3ZaoL3_NtU0PMyG
It's a lot easier to pull this off when you have customer records to do it with. That raises the chances that you can convince them you are legitimate.
Grouping by decimal point or apostrophe would be just as confusing in the UK (where grouping by comma is the norm).

In an ideal world, numbers would be formatted based on the user’s locale.
A simple Slack-like web app to help make plans in a group or collaborate easily
You mention the inaccurate exercise calorie burn calculators, but then state that jogging one mile burns 100 kcal. For most people, jogging one mile does not burn anywhere close to 100 kcal.

Calorie burn rates for untrained to semi-trained people fall in the 1-4 kcal/minute range. For trained individuals, burn rates can go as high as 15-20 kcal/minute during interval training. For reference, elite-level long-distance endurance racers (marathoners, long-course triathletes) typically burn about 3 kcal/minute.
If they had been TalkTalk employees, in India, it could still have happened.

If they had been TalkTalk employees, in the UK or any other country, it could still have happened.

It doesn't seem that its because they outsourced a call centre to India, or even because they outsourced a call centre, but rather because three call centre employees were corrupt.

Anyone following the UK news knows there are plenty of insider-jobs happening on-shore too.
Seems like a good opportunity to deploy some honeypots.
>> "All rights reserved."

Really, is this the best YC is able to do?

Truly interested in knowingly why the course is not released under something like one of the Creative Commons licenses:

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-types-...
Yeah, and then stamping a never ending copyright on it.
The Effect of Encryption on Lawful Access to Communications and Data [pdf]
I bought a $199 Wii U refurb direct from Nintendo about a year and a half ago. Surely you can find a cheaper Wii U on craigslist or something..
Dell support has a similar issue. Relatives of mine have been contacted by people claiming to be from Dell support soon after the person actually opened a case with support (so someone has ongoing access to the Dell database). The scammer had the tag of the computer, which I confirmed was correct.

They basically said to check the error log of Windows with instructions. There are always some benign errors, which they'll tell you are proof there's something wrong, and then try to get you to download software to fix it.

Edit: see https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/latest-tech-support... and https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/02/dell-to-customers-report...
That's the point: it's incorrect to dismiss status seeking as something only aspiring elites do. There's status in every group.
I'm not talking about global. If you read carefully, I scoped that statement to "big US metro" areas.

There are plenty of reasons that clustering like industries is useful. IMO, it's been taken to an extreme and the reasons for doing it in technology are mostly convenience for investment management types.

The case has already been made by the large companies. How many of JP Morgan's 30,000+ developers are in the NY metro area? If you pick 6 mid-sized tech companies at random, and try to justify why they need to be in SFO, you'll have a tough time. Most of the engineers could be in Omaha for half the price.
It could go even further then that. If the TalkTalk data included normal company data you would have the names of previous support members, and from there social media accounts and so forth.
WHAT? It is exactly opposite, no Google services that accumulate enough data don't use machine learning these days. For god sake, they even use deep learning to save electricity bill for their data center! Search, recommendation, knowledge graph, ads, photos, translate, even youtube thumbnails have some parts powered by ML.
People need to stop telling Apple what to do, they are not going to listen. They got to where they are by themselves, and they are either going to dig a hole or do something better by themselves.

As for Google, good, that doesn't harm Apple. It means we can still access it on Apple platforms as Google still develop their services on both Android and iOS.

If not, there is still Vue, Sling, and other similar ones.

Apple might benefit from an open-minded media content providers seeing the success of the streaming services and they might ease up on the deals that Apple want.
Perhaps those of us who seek to make money from entrepreneurial activities should instead wonder at the business skills of people who are able to extract $300 from their customers for a book?
You can select the separator when opening the file in LibreOffice Calc (don't have Excel on this machine but I know it's possible as well). Setting it to ";" fixes this for all European data sets I have worked with that use "," where "." would be used in the U.S. You can also specify the separator in pretty much every other tool that imports CSV (for example in R).
South Korean prosecutors say president colluded in corruption scandal
One might upvote for different reasons rather than agreement. I've upvoted submissions because I disagreed but still found an interesting argument, or because it generated a good discussion in the comments.
And oh look, all that speculation and it turns out it was a spammer backup archive. Definitely high quality reporting from el reg.

http://www.csoonline.com/article/3176433/security/spammers-e...
I miss the 1996-1997 type web sites. Ads and money has changed the web so much.

I recently had the idea to start a like 1994-style Yahoo-style web site that only links to sites which fulfill these conditions:

a) they have a lot of quality content

b) they only have minimal or no ads (absolutely no signups, freemium sites, 14-day trials etc).

c) no obnoxious self-advertising of a company's own brand (e.g. "Will It Blend? | Presented by Blendtec").

d) (this one is hard to quantify, but it's a kind of "I know it when I see it" thing) they were made with love and a desire to spread thoughts and creations.. rather than a desire for making money.

Obviously this directory site would not be a vehicle for making money. I also don't want this to be a hipster coolness thing. It's not the retro-ugly layouts I'm after, it's the content.

Stupid? Does it already exist?

The site that I came across that triggered this thought was http://www.americanradiohistory.com/ .
It strikes me not so much as irrational as that it's the sort of thing an evil mustache twirling bureaucrat would say in a Hollywood movie.
My ranking is the reverse; I prefer this film to the Godfathers, but only by a hair. Goodfellas is third. This is definitely Leone's best, though, followed closely by Once Upon a Time in the West.
Has our knowledge of quantum computers changed much in the last 9 years since that Scientific American article was written? ie. Is there anything more recent worth reading? Or it's all still completely valid?
Spammer expose entire operation, and details of 1.3bn through bad backups
Every small business owner I've talked to in the US is either indifferent or prefers cash.
My father fell for this scam. As you get older, you lose patience with computers, so he developed a tendency to click on anything to get browser popups to just go away. One of them was a "Your computer is infected and we have the cure" scam. His info was passed to their "customer care desk" which took him for $300 to supposedly clean his PC. They would regularly call back for subscription renewals (more $$$).

I didn't find out until it had been going on for a few years, because dad didn't want to bother me with his computer problems. Make sure you inform your parents about this - they're easy marks for these assholes.
Exactly what I was thinking.

Side note, anyone available to go on a poacher hunt?
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did you have to request the /64?

unless it has changed or varies by datacenter, DO issues a /124 by default -- I've confirmed this on my own droplets just now. issuing a /64 is "proper" because it is RFC[1].

1. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3177
And what about an artificial moon instead?
Sorry, that was a weird autocorrect, I meant VPS, not CPA lol.

I see what you're saying now. Choose a VPS provider who does not store your information or is not cooperative with legal requests.

In terms of privacy, what's the difference between trusting a VPN service (i.e. iVPN) versus trusting a VPS service? Or are we talking the benefit is solely in the decreased cost of runing a VPN on a VPS?
Maybe spend some of your talent and time helping out Open Source initiatives? This way you stay active and it might help get the creative juices flowing.
I was going to share this story on facebook but when I pasted in the URL, the headline that came up was "Why does google think Obama is planning a coup d'etat?" (screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/keXTz ) I'm assuming that it is theoutline.com that is feeding facebook this headline. I think twice about sharing a story with such a linkbait headline - especially when the actual site doesn't have that headline.
Sub penny bidding.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-01-15/ubss-dark...

Sorry if this isn't the best article on the topic, it was a quick google search.

My friend got bit hard by this. He had a HFT algorithm that was essentially guaranteed to at least break even by providing liquidity in the market by doing some fancy tricks that he's used for embedded digital signal processing. Problem was, his bids weren't being fulfilled even though he'd made them hours, sometimes days, previously. Given the amount of information available to him it looked like his orders were first in line at a given strike price to have his orders filled once the price moved to him. The only thing he could figure out was that someone was able to submit subpenny orders that would fill before his.

I was skeptical initially, then some weeks later it started making the news that dark pools were managing to make subpenny bids on various digital exchanges. Far as I know the SEC turned a blind eye since the dark pools already had special privelidge in exchange for being market makers and liquidity providers.
I hope that there is some kind of 1:1 they can do here. We're part of a startup in a non-techy city. We're a service business and although our immediate future is bright, I have major questions about how to scale our business outside of acquiring similar companies doing stuff close to what we're doing and changing their strategy. Sure, there are mentors here who have grown a business...but I want YC-enabled growth...
Technically that's a limitation of the price point, though. There is no physical reason medium- and large-format DSLR's couldn't be made with higher resolution and sensitivity than film.
Certainly you agree that its easier to get something like this done in India though? Roughly half of the population[0] there has paid a bribe at some point in time.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_India
Frustrated by trompe oeils, defiant HN nerd uses concentration and focus tricks to hack his biological GPU to dump raw eye input. Optical illusions disappear. But to his horror, the rest of the world actually naturally blurry. Moral of the story: don't hack on production.
I've been called by some "Windows support" three times during last month. The first time I didn't have the time to talk to them but the second time I took the time to do so.

Somehow, even though I don't have a windows computer, I was able to fake it for about 10 minutes that I am following his instructions and doing what he tells me. First I had to press Win+r, which I didn't really know what it did, but I suspected it opened the CMD, so I told him that a new window opened, a black one. Then he spelled to me what I should write (I don't remember what, I didn't have anything to write with me).

Then he asked me if I had Chrome installed, I said yes and he spelled a website url to me. I told him that it loaded and there was a "Download" button and asked if I should click it. He said yes. Then he talked me through how to install it, from his description I got that it was TeamViewer.

He told me to start it, bare in mind that this was painfully slow for both of us because I had to come up with plausible mistake to make and had to think of some plausible but generic answers on the way because he always asked me what I'm seeing on the streen now. After I "started" it I had to tell him that in fact I didn't have a computer in front of me, but I only was playing along with his script.

He stopped for a couple of seconds and then he asked me:

"How is this possible ...? Why are you waisting my time??"
It depends. Organizations have different data, so you need a lot of abstractions in order to fit into a certain search pattern (meaning, what are the users looking for).

For example, current solutions implies there is a "document" with some metadata. But what is a document in wikipedia or SO context? So is quite hard to get a an answer which satisfies both cases and you end up with cramming all kind of data together just to make a fit. So in the end, you still have to use the google model, of using the URL as a key for (data, metadata). So in this case, just let google/bing/yandex do it's job.

On the other side, I saw Google Search Appliance fail spectacularly in enterprise, because the google model couldn't fit and you end using real custom search solutions. There are quite a lot of companies filling this niche at this moment and so I think Mozilla wouldn't make a dent, if decides to enter this market.
Some things are not parallel enough. GPUs don’t feature thousands of independent cores, instead they have group of cores executing same instructions on different data, in lockstep. Some algorithms, e.g. shading those triangles or raytracing or teaching neural networks, work awesome on GPUs. Other are very tricky to port to that model.

Other things are not suitable for GPUs performance wise. For example, if you have octree data structure and you query a lot, a CPU will perform better, because cache hierarchy (on CPU, the top level[s] of the tree will be in L1, the levels below in L2, etc., GPUs don’t have that), and because branch prediction.

Finally, not everything is computation bound. If your CPU code is fast enough to saturate IO bandwidth, be it HDD or network, you’re fine unless you have a million of servers. If you have a million of them, GPUs might still be worse they because might be more power efficient slightly decreasing your huge electricity bills.
Or alternatively one that if you click a tile with the best chance in a unsolvable situation always solves in your favor, adjusting bomb locations as necessary.
Well put. The author of the piece seems to errantly assume that because there are local maxima, it eliminates the idea of a global maximum.

Unfortunately this concept holds neither in mathematics, nor within the psyche.
Its sad how many news outlets grapple to find some excuse for Trump's meteoric rise to power besides the obvious one; a massive voter-base of disenfranchised American workers, nearly completely ignored by the administrations of the past 25 years. And they're still being ignored by the press, if this article is any indication.

Wait. Sorry, I'm the crazy one. Its the memes. The dank pepe memes are what helped him win. How could Hillary have been so blind?
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Ask HN: Web-based GUI to visualize multivariable calc?
Carboncopies: making whole brain emulation possible
I tested FB messenger bots from different companies...They are very intrusive. They need to limit the messages somehow and also make a clear difference between messages from bots and friends, like gmail does with promotional messages.
For me, I prefer to niche down to avoid the posts on politics and post AI future. I look at the Ask section or the Show section. I also like to check the new section as I frequently find very interesting posts that never make it to the front page.

I also frequent related sites like indiehackers.com where there is a different vibe and focus.
New kind of RNN connects every step with recurrent weighted average
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Yeah, that was my intended meaning.

There probably is an argument to be made that in most English speaking countries "Easter" refers to the date calculated using the Gregorian calender, with some qualifier being used to specify the other date (Google answers searches for "eastern easter 2018" and "orthodox easter 2018" with the correct information).
i didnt buy them personally, i mined my coins way back in the day but the simplest way is to find someone local who can just sell you some or head to your closest bitcoin ATM to get coins instantly. local bitcoins is an option but im not a fan of it, prices are usually high and its generally a pain.

the other way is via an exchange like kraken or coinbase, you will need to verify your ID with them before you can use the service (usually a photo of your passport and a photo of you holding your bank card) one you are authorised you can link your bank account and transfer funds to the exchange, once the funds clear in just buy as many coins as you want and move them out to a safe wallet

if you just want to grab some coins quickly and with the minimum of fuss a bitcoin ATM is probably your best bet
I've had them curse and scream at me for wasting their time.

One time after a few minutes on a call he asked me what I saw on the screen and I just said "My wallpaper, with the word Ubuntu across the back" and he started shouting "fucking kill yourself" and hung up!
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Been awhile since I watched it, but I distinctly recall an intermission card about 2.5hrs in (right after Noodles tries to see Deborah off at the station). Still a long time in.
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A good example of this is mailing list archives. Pages and pages of google links searching for mailing list posts are filled with maximum ad-cram (often dressed up like a fake forum) garbage, meanwhile the clean, no bullshit mailing list achive everyone links to (marc.info) is nowhere to be found at all.

This is likely because marc.info isn't playing the SEO game, and spamsite #43254 is.
Plus, of course, it depends on which year you're talking about, in a very nontrivial fashion. Googling "when is easter" gives the date of the current year's Easter, which is reasonable, but might lead to an incorrect assumption that the date of Easter is fixed.
No, Phones are TVs, books, consoles etc. A typical computer usage at a guess is an Excel file. I would wager that majority of business usage is some kind of document editing stuff and Phone by design will never ever be able to do this.
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I'd love to do this, but they have my phone number. I really don't want to have to get a new one if they get pissed enough to make it unusable.
I think there are two things at play here.

This first is that you were probably a power user back when good search results required you to be good at search syntax. Back when Google wasn't the only search engine on the web, you could ask Google questions. Your results would be limited in relevance. If you tailored your searches by ensuring specific words or phrases were included, excluded irrelevant phrases, and added wildcards where necessary, you'd get pages and pages of great results. Google takes your search history and tries to predict what you're actually looking for.

The second is how Google filters your results to try to tailor what is relevant to you. Most people who hang out here on HN or StackOverflow would probably get results for the software framework filtered to the top when searching for "electron". Chemists, physicists, and other scientists of the like are probably going to get results for the particle filtered to the top. Adding this type of customization probably has ramifications beyond simple terms like electron. I don't have any evidence whatsoever, but I imagine that this customization would give biased results when searching political, economic, or social topics based on the sites that are visited.
Uber employees lose faith and explore exit
Thanks. Will play around with it.. Heard similar things about Rust, F#, etc. Will spend some time on them all.