skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really annoyed, though, when they released version 1.0 and removed access to all previous downloads. Turns out, 1.0 (on Debian) was broken and I could no longer FF on my Roku. The forums were filled with people complaining, but they would not make the older, good release available. After a week or two someone provided it to me via dropbox.

You might ask why I didn't have the previous download? Because the way I was building my plex docker container would download the latest one, directly. I removed the previous container before I verified all features were working. And, at that point, I wasn't backing up containers (they are stateless, so why bother?), so I was royally screwed for 2 weeks (in terms of FF).

The fact that they are closed source, and behaved this way. It really soured me on them.
> He's legitimately happy now spending almost nothing

I don't see the downside. Happy, and has a cushion if circumstances change? Awesome.
If you're willing to convert a parking spot in an underground parking garage into a "bedroom", maybe you can swing that.
This looks awesome, I just sent them an email. Thanks!
The submitted title is clickbait; this is just an analytical blog post.
For example, for europeans in general it's quite difficult to get to the USA. Sure, you can try the H1B visa, but I must remark the TRY part, as even though the company might want to hire me, they have to fight the visa process as there is a limited number of visas per year... and it also takes a lot of time. And when you get there, you still are not considered a citizen. For decades.
Why China's internet reveals where we are headed ourselves
This looks exactly like YourMechanic (also YC company), with a far less refined product. Actually there is no product. It is just a chat interface. Also, your pages seem to be broken; for example: https://www.fiix.io/estimates/Audi/A4/Coolant-Flush-cost shows estimate of $0. In fact almost all the Audi A4 estimate pages have $0 (at least all the ones i opened).

What exactly would you say is the differentiating factor, other than the fact that they don't service Canada?
I figured it would be too slow for daily use for my own needs, based on my current setup. I have a Nvidia Shield TV as the Plex server and living room Plex client, with a home-built NAS running OpenMediaVault for media storage. The Shield and NAS are both connected to Gigabit Ethernet, and I occasionally run into slowdowns if I'm trying to watch in the living room, my wife is watching in the bedroom via Roku, and my sister-in-law across the city is watching via her Roku. I've narrowed it down to a saturated network, the Shield was barely breaking a sweat transcoding the files.

With that said, using the Shield as the server greatly improved our previous streaming situation. Before using the Shield, we'd struggle to maintain two good quality streams at once, whether both were local or one was local and one remote. The previous server was no slouch: Core2 Quad with 8GB of DDR3 RAM, but it seems the Shield is well qualified to handle server duties.
People actually review. Otherwise you won't be able to see what the other person wrote about you.
And, I'm not saying this is wrong, but it appears to me that most people living here have voted with their wallet.

If you compare food prices in nordic countries where labor is more fairly priced, you'll see how dramatically more expensive everything is.
Bonds can be considered cash equivalents if they have short maturity.

Gold is highly liquid, and from what I've read, it can be considered (in bullion) cash equivalents, except for banks, that due to Base 3 regulations can only consider part of their gold holdings as cash equivalent for liquidity purposes.
That is good to know, thanks.
Anyone Hiring Interns to Work on Distributed Databases and Cloud Services?
Hi,

I am a first year graduate student looking to intern at a company that would allow me to work on building Distributed systems over the cloud. It would be great if you can ping me and I can get back to you over email with my profile !

Thanks !

Edit : Looking for a summer internship
Meta question, what did this article do to get driven off of the front page so mercilessly? It's in free fall at this point!
No capital gains tax? Wow. So rich people in The Netherlands pay no taxes? Or is there a wealth tax?
It might not mean war if the country itself has given up on sticking it out. Maybe it'll be an ugly divorce instead.
Can confirm. The Firebase team is monitoring StackOverflow constantly. I've had answers in as short as a few minutes.
That's not the case, and it would be utterly unusable for 90% of users.
I'm sorry for littering this thread, but I wanted to ask Analemma_ a question and didn't know how else to communicate with him/her.

23 days ago, you made a comment: "Put down the Ayn Rand and go outside." in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13645996

I've been reading about objectivism, and wanted to ask what you meant by this comment.

Again, really sorry to be off-topic, but the question is burning.
Thanks, a lot has probably changed but I'm sure a lot is similar.
People exaggerate advantages to justify decisions.
> they gave me solid feedback on my strengths and what concrete actions I should take if I choose to reapply in the future.

I applied through their project track. It was described as a low-pressure way to write your code ahead of time and talk about it in the interview.

The interview was, instead, about making changes to my project while Ammon watched. (Also, there was a request to derive a formal proof while Ammon watched. I didn't get it.) After which I got a rejection saying that my project was great but my interview performance was so poor that they wouldn't move forward.

I complained that this wasn't actionable feedback, but the only way they ever responded to that complaint was "I stand by that", from someone other than my interviewer. Am I wrong to consider "you do poorly in interviews" hopelessly vague?

They contacted me, much later, to ask me to be a test subject for a new interview. New interviewer asked me about hash tables, and I responded to his questions with this information:

- Hash tables are the generalization of an array to being indexed by "whatever you want" rather than an integer; they have similar performance characteristics to arrays.

- If a hash code is larger than the size of your hash table's backing array, you would generally handle that by storing the item at index (hash_code % array_size).

- When two objects have the same hash, one strategy is to store them in "buckets", linked lists of everything present in the table at that hash key; another strategy is quadratic probing (where when the index you want is full, you repeatedly square the index until the space you're looking in is empty). Quadratic probing has the downside that when you delete an entry from the table, you have to leave a placeholder in the backing array saying "something used to be here".

- If a hash table gets too full, you generally create a new backing array of double the size and rehash everything into the new backing array. The size doubles rather than increasing by some constant amount so that the amortized time requirement for inserts will be constant.

- Amortized time complexity for a set of operations is the average time complexity per operation (not in expectation, but as measured after the operations have happened).

He also asked me about red-black trees. I could say that red-black trees were a self-balancing binary tree with the property that the length of any path root-to-leaf in the tree was within a factor of two of any other path, and that I wouldn't be able to write a red-black tree off the top of my head.

New interviewer, believing that I would be interested in reapplying to triplebyte, did give me feedback on what concrete actions I should take in order to do so. Specifically, he said I should focus on studying red-black trees (OK, fair enough, I guess) and hash tables. I thought I had pretty good coverage, purely within the interview, of hash tables. Is that wrong?
>I outlined the mechanism that I think these 'counters' are actually achieving results by in spite of their atrocious data collection.

The mechanism is simple: they reduce their caloric intake, because they can track how much they eat. More or less: it doesn't have to be perfect, nor is it "atrocious" if it isn't. And you can easily just round the numbers up ("I calculated 500 for this thing, but let's say it's 600 just to be safe").

You seem to believe that any kind of "back of the envelope" / "ballpark" calculation is useless. Or that people only eat complex multi-part meals with no nutricion information, and have to gauge everything from zero all the time.
How does this compare/relate with LastPass?
This looks fantastic, I'm going to start reading through this. Thanks!
The Top Services Google Has Killed
so this free* f1-micro instance of GCE, with the most basic usage of say, running a slack bot/nginx/random test projects, without the need for dynamic scaling, would be functionally identical to a VM anywhere else? can I keep it on 24/7? can I ssh to it, or do I need to use this cloud shell thing? can I have one of every free tier thing or does free tier mean choose one from the set

*subject to change
Have it execute a shell script that sets a cron job?
These actually do exist! Do a Google search for "self service garage" or "DIY garage" to see if there's one near your location. You may have to hunt around a bit as some of these places may not have websites. The one in my town [0], for instance, only has a Facebook page.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/pg/The-Pit-Stop-DIY-Garage-45343608...
Lots of business is done in places where weather not up to Bay Area standards, such as New York, London, Tokyo, Beijing, etc.
How is this different from life insurance in general?
And yet fasting diets do not consistently work, and it's the fattest countries of the world that have supermarket shelves full of low-calorie products (finding a low-calorie yogurt or low-fat cheese in a French supermarket would be a challenge)

http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(96)00456-1/abstract

"In the adult US population the prevalence of overweight rose from 25.4% from 1976 to 1980 to 33.3% from 1988 to 1991, a 31% increase. During the same period, average fat intake, adjusted for total calories, dropped from 41.0% to 36.6%, an 11% decrease. Average total daily calorie intake also tended to decrease, from 1,854 kcal to 1,785 kcal (−4%). Men and women had similar trends. Concurrently, there was a dramatic rise in the percentage of the US population consuming low-calorie products, from 19% of the population in 1978 to 76% in 1991. From 1986 to 1991 the prevalence of sedentary lifestyle represented almost 60% of the US population, with no change over time."
Most of this risk is mitigated with finger print auth like Touch ID. Though, nothing is perfect.
i think airdroid is free or one time as well.

https://www.airdroid.com/
Is there any protection for not spending fortune if your cloud function endpoint is DDoS attacked?
When is google adding missing useful functionality such as "schedule email send"?
We managed to survive and create functional websites for years without a "routing library" and without creating our own custom routing library.

But that's the beauty of using Handlebars. If at a later date you do need a full fledge framework, you can use Ember - that uses a superset of Handlebars.
Oh I was looking for something like this!
I always wanted something like `grep --color` but without the `grep` functionality, and with multi color support!

Thanks!
let's try and see :) - thanks!
Winters are mild in Vancouver. What kills anyone who wasn't born there is the nearly yearlong overcast gloom... Sunshine is a necessary ingredient to feeling good. Coffee is just a temp fix.
Quick fact check returned this: "In all, 745 detached homes sold in Metro Vancouver last month, a massive 58.1 per cent drop from February 2016. The benchmark price for detached homes was $1,474,200, unchanged from the previous month but down 6.5 per cent from the past six months."[1]. Also [2].

And that's CAD, not USD. In USD it's $1,092,000. Still very expensive but not $1.76mln.

[1] http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2017/03/metro-vancouver-home-li...
[2] http://www.vancourier.com/news/sales-average-detached-home-p...
Are we just pretending that Rudy Giuliani didn't outright say this was what it was?
>Think about how many hotels you've stayed at that were less than stellar?

Very often. I'm counting motels, because I'm comparing the same price points.

My experience with AirBnB has been both positive and negative. For the negatives, I never felt I got less than what I paid, and motels would have been more expensive. For the positive, it has always been cheaper than a motel.

I got to stay in downtown San Diego, renting a whole apartment, for a really good deal. No hotel would have been that cheap.

It was a nice apartment, not a super cheap-o place. And free parking.

I will say I don't demand too much. I'm not the type of person who wants fancy service. Just make it clean. And offer basic stuff (tissues, soap, etc).
Hi Kyle! Gatsby is awesome! Thanks so much for your work on it :) Just wanted to give my 2 cents as someone new to javascript/react who recently took it up for a side project. I found it very easy to stay on the 'gatsby rails' so to speak, but once I tried doing some things that probably were not as standard, I had to spin my wheels for a bit to figure out how to get things to work. For example, figuring out how the metadata flows, and figuring out how the folder structures get populated in the public directory were places that I had(and still have) some trouble with. But then again, the fact that someone with no web dev experience such as myself was able to do anything at all is a testament to how great this framework is. Looking forward to the next few releases :)
An Android was my first smartphone. Later on, I got pretty crazy with my tinkering, but for a long time, I just kept it the way that I purchased it.

It wasn't hard to learn, just miserably slow.
Depending on the institution you're attending, they may consider "Physics I" an adequate prerequisite for whatever you needed "Physics I for engineering" for.
All of these have more sunny days than Vancouver. :)
Buying and selling over $1B in home is not impressive when done by a computer. If someone did it single handedly maybe. I hate when people quote numbers to impress and confuse others. At $100,000 that's 10,000 homes. Selling 10,000 items is not impressive. So why should I care what stack you used?
> They're buying servers or VPN connections on public providers. The notion of "strong attribution" in and of itself is basically impossible in the field of malware unless someone steps up and shows you the source. Those are things anyone can do. They're only doing a probabilistic analysis assuming no one else knows them, which makes many very large assumptions - like no one else wanting to fake Russian malware.

Strong Attribution is definitely a difficult task and unless someone admits guilt, you'll have to rely on probabilities but the combined CrowdStrike, SecureWorks, and ThreatConnect reports give a fairly strong basis of where to place blame for the DNC servers. I'd imagine our intelligence agencies have their own methods of attribution that we won't learn of for a long time.

As for Rob, this feels like a pretty balanced opinion:

> The DNC hacks have strong evidence pointing to Russia. Not only does all the malware check out, but also other, harder to "false flag" bits, like active command-and-control servers. A serious operator could still false-flag this in theory, if only by bribing people in Russia, but nothing in the CIA dump hints at this.

> The Sony hacks have weak evidence pointing to North Korea. One of the items was the use of the RawDisk driver, used both in malware attributed to North Korea and the Sony attacks. This was described as "flimsy" at the time []. The CIA dump [] demonstrates that indeed it's flimsy -- as apparently CIA malware also uses the RawDisk code.

> In the coming days, biased partisans are going to seize on the CIA leaks as proof of "false flag" operations, calling into question Russian hacks. No, this isn't valid. We experts in the industry criticized "malware techniques" as flimsy attribution, long before the Sony attack, and long before the DNC hacks. All the CIA leaks do is prove we were right. On the other hand, the DNC hack attribution is based on more than just this, so nothing in the CIA leaks calls into question that attribution.

https://www.threatconnect.com/blog/tapping-into-democratic-n...

https://www.secureworks.com/research/threat-group-4127-targe...

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...
I assumed they were referring to the part of the state with decent weather, not the bay area.
Also proximity to Asia and Europe flying over the top of the world makes Europe surprisingly close.
The golf course flag equals one obviously because at a hole-in-one. :)
Best bet is to report it to the condo association or property management company. AirBNB will basically turn a blind eye to those kind of rentals.
Very cool - any thoughts on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the FLIR vs Seek models?
Can anyone recommend this?

https://github.com/bitly/oauth2_proxy
I'm not clear on the status of PEP 509, but it could/should make LOAD_NAME and LOAD_GLOBAL approach the speed of LOAD_FAST. It'll set a flag on the globals dict (or any dict?) that trips when the dict is mutated. Non-mutated dicts can have fast repeated lookups.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0509/

Dictionaries got some sweet upgrades for v3.6.
Any application code that includes logging of any sort is going to grab time. All of my code (quite a private set and scientific in nature) calls time() at critical points with identifiers so I can easily investigate issues.
Author here. That list wasn't really ordered in any way.

And btw I've removed point 6 from that list.
Lowe's Unveils VR Clinic for DIY Home Improvement
What on earth does that have to do with the quality of their support?
Dropbox is $100/year for 1TB but $20/month for unlimited. That's more than double.
We got so much rain in CA this year, the drought is nearly gone now. You can import water, but you can't import sunshine :)
nyt.com does not mean anything, newyorktimes.com too long, nytimes just perfect, everybody knows what ny means.
1. Require each person to answer one specific question per listing. Yes/no/almost

2. Ask each person a different objective question, intentionally filling in the gaps.

3. After a few people, you have an objective, relatively thorough view of the house, but you've not burdened any of your users with more than one question per stay.
Harvard Scientists Theorize That Fast Radio Bursts Come from Alien Space Travel
It isn't "supporting only one video" that mean the target is consumer. Allo & Duo have no enterprise features, and are publicly marketed to consumers. Hangouts is marketed & sold as part of GSuite, the enterprise productivity suite from Google.

Targeting determines features, not the other way around.
Indeed, it is a tradeoff, and our solution doesn't require consistency across multiple keys.

More generally, any solution that doesn't require transactions across multiple keys, can use Bizur instead of classical Paxos, and achieve the same benefits (faster recovery from failures, higher concurrency, etc.)
Some one has to post the classic jasper carrot sketch "Iv'e got this mole"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93mgyE2ctwg

no subtitles unfortunately
nmon is nice too
Crapulent and without merit.
the business model is fascinating. the capital requirements make opendoor seem crazy on the surface, but it is not at all insane if you dig deeper.

the short term model is predicated on managing inventory like a retailer and diversifying holdings like a trader. mastering both functions, let alone one, is very challenging, but far from impossible. if opendoor can acquire data and predict transactions better than competitors, the mountain top becomes eminently more climbable. from a portfolio perspective, the early stages are actually the least risky because opendoor can cherrypick the best real estate markets, and within those markets, cherrypick the best homes, where "best" means the properties most likely to sell quickly and profitably.

the long term vision has not been articulated, but it seems like opendoor could grow into a platform for homes much like amazon is a platform for consumer goods. opendoor would provide the buyers, product guarantees (e.g., home inspections passed), the open house experience, and predictive analytics (e.g., home X has a 80% chance of turning over in 30 days if priced at $1M) while others manage financing and inventory risk. if this conjecture is right, look for opendoor to (a) lower prices and (b) streamline real estate transactions with automation where possible and where not possible, to empower untrained (i.e., cheap) individuals with computer vision and smart software to perform tasks like certified professionals. if neither happens, consider the conjecture wrong. :)
Rights to Repair Live Stream, Louis Rossmann
Oculus CTO John Carmack Sues ZeniMax for $22.5M
I am in a community college. But this is a little embarrassing. I might just suck it up and go talk to my advisory. I'm trying to go into math major. The later class is more of a mechanics with derivatives while mine doesn't use any calculus.
I've used it for an internal project and it worked really well. Simple and easy to follow instructions.
A Chinese friend of mine brought me what he said was very high quality tea when he went back to China to visit his parents. I like tea, but I honestly couldn't tell the difference between it and the stuff I get at the supermarket.
I've done it. In slight self defense, though, I didn't presume that she didn't know her stuff because she was female. I presumed it because she was a manager.

But, yeah, not my best moment. I can't undo it, but I can sure try to never do it again...
The price point of a particular product is a key part of its market positioning and viability.

Functionality X at $500 has a very different market than the same functionality X at $1500; if a startup is aiming to check for product-market fit, then the expensive manual domestic builds would be aimed at a different target market that also requires and uses different features, requires different marketing and sales channels, etc with requirements and preferences that often are entirely opposite of what the "real" product should have.

Such an iteration would help in handling the actual manufacturing, but would not help in building all the other parts of the business as intended as it would drive all of them in a wrong direction.

Furthermore, who funds the very large fixed costs of design and development? If they had chosen "more manual domestic builds in the low hundreds of units" then they would have saved money/scale in manufacturing but would not have the funding needed for the engineering team to make the actual product, whatever they had was funded essentially by pre-sales.

It's also reasonable to have products that are totally unviable if the volumes are low, because to get an adequate price you need economies of scale. A business plan that clearly states "we either go big or go bust" can be a valid business plan; many real industries have a situation where selling just 1000 units is worse than selling 0 units, you either manufacture at scale or close up the shop.
Have you done it?
Don't worry, off by one errors are a right of passage of engineers.
>As a guest, it'd be great to know what I'm walking into. As a host, having guests that understand they are staying in my home and NOT a hotel would be great.

Usually, the description and previous reviews gives you all you need. When it doesn't, I simply ask the host. It's never been a problem.
When adjusting for average income, Beijing is the most expensive city in the world.
Prices are set on the margins. Any illegals in the system will drive wages down.
Why not switch to a .nyt TLD? Or .times?