skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some honest advice:

For lots of companies and businesses SEO at the level your talking about just isn't worth it. There are simply more effective ways to spend the capital and get the results you want.

Organic is great but it isn't the only game in town.

What does your company do (the vaguest of terms will do... Sells clothing, software as a service)

What does the rest of your marketing look like? Ad buys, email, product distribution for review or placement, and PR...
Pricing seems to be about 48 USD for setup and 31 USD per month for the service [1]. Is that correct?

Edit: The currency, the naira, lost quite a bit of its value last June [2] when the central bank allowed for it to become (more) market-driven [3].

[1] http://wifi.com.ng/pricing/

[2] http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=NGN&to=USD&view=1Y

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-14/nigeria-c...
What costs do they have that would be one billion a year? I can understand servers and salary for the researchers but not to the scale of 9 figures a year.
People who don't like ISIS, ghaddafi, ISIS/AQ, the taliban, ibid, pirates, and AQAP respectively.
It could also be run headlessly and combined with a Pi. The Edison running an X client (server) or RDP server, the Pi connecting into it.
Rob Pike and Ken Thompson are the authors of, among many other things: the original Unix, Plan 9, B (the predecessor of C), Inferno (a successor of Plan 9), UTF-8. They definitely are experts in language design.
No. A project lead doesn't (usually) do all of something personally, so outside of large personal favors you'd be asking someone to have people under them do a ton of work to replicate something for no tangible benefit. At most you get a special mention, or very rarely are added to the author list.

Replicating experiments requires extremely expensive equipment, materials, expertise and time. You can't bang out most experiments in a few afternoons. If you want to have your results replicated you do them again, because you're gonna be fastest and you're the only person you know 100% will follow the same steps.
Gotcha. I still don't see any evidence for what you're saying, though. What was David Rockefeller's income during the period he worked and gave money to charitable causes? If you want to look at it mathematically:

income * (tax rate + giving rate) = "total given"

Obviously you have two important variables there that determine what the total percent of income ends up being. I don't see any evidence that the parenthetical totals above are less or greater than each other when you consider your average European vs. Rockefeller, so you can't really say anything about how much he gave out of his income in comparison to your average European. Maybe it's more, maybe it's less, but you automatically assuming it's less is a bit disingenuous.

There's also the question of required vs. optional. If your average European had a tax rate similar to an American, would they then (on average) give the "savings" away as philanthropy? My guess would be it'd end up somewhere in the middle. Philanthropy is only philanthropy if it's voluntary and isn't forced by your government. That's pretty much its definition.
You're conflating 'art' with 'artful'. There's all sorts of artless trash adorning the walls of galleries, but it's still 'art'.

'art' has a really low bar for entry. A doodle you make whilst on the phone is 'art'. All video games are art. Not all video games are artful.
One of the primary design principles behind Go is that it be designed to incorporate the best available features of other languages, as much as it is able while remaining simple and easy to learn and use.

If there is a way to incorporate the best features of Haskell and Rust while maintaining Go's current simplicity and ease of use, then it should be incorporated. To that end, the Go core developers have expressed an intent to implement Generics, however they want to do so in a way that does not (significantly) negatively effect the language's simplicity or compile times.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292
> Note that some airlines, like Delta, do not allow computers or lithium batteries in checked luggage [...] so this essentially means that other than phones, these things are completely banned and will have to be shipped separately or not shipped at all.

This is incorrect, only spare batteries aren't allowed in checked baggage, computers are fine. From your second link [1]:

> Lithium ion batteries installed in a personal electronic device can be transported as checked or carry on baggage. Lithium ion batteries not installed in a device (spares) must be in carry-on baggage and no more than two (2) spares between 100 and 160 watt hours are allowed.

[1] https://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/traveling-with-us/ba...
The appendix seems to be a counterexample to this philosophy of evolution. Useless body parts exist. What are the chances there are no useless behaviors? (By "useless" I mean "no fitness advantage.")
Neither do the external power packs that are currently banned in checked luggage
I don't see much sense in claiming that a mere 2 digit increase would be the crux of the problem. Sure, nowadays since most websites enforce a 8-digit limit, most cracked passwords are 8-digit long. So what? If everybody goes to 10-digit passwords, then aren't we back to the status quo and most cracked passwords are going to be 10-digit long as well? Also, how much does a 2-digit increase make the brute-force computation much harder anyways? By dropping those requirements the cracker's job can literally get much easier instead of harder even with the length increase.

I don't think the point about random password generation is much valid either. Since most websites just have such password requirements in place, why wouldn't those generators just remember to put the upper case and special characters into the final result? They might try to generate them separately and insert them at a random position. That shouldn't compromise the password's security right?

As a side note, I also don't get why for Chinese websites a limit of 6 characters would be a good idea, as he spends the whole article talking about length... Surely many Chinese don't use English words (though many still do actually), but they use pinyin, which is a way to write Chinese characters with Latin alphabet. Literally nobody uses real Chinese characters as passwords, and most websites just downright don't support them. Clearly he doesn't know much about Chinese websites anyways...

In all, I think most of his articles are excellent but this one is really a bit off the mark IMO.
...I feel like no one here read the article. Based on these comments, one might think that A) this had never happened before (it has), or B) it was permanent (it's a 96 hour ban).
>every language is unique

>every language is equivalently powerful

>therefore, we should neither look to one language to improve another

We seem to have made a mistake somewhere.
2. error checking... I've admittedly bitten myself with the 'err' shadowing that happens sometimes.

This is indeed a problem. It's the same problem with people writing a catch-all exception in Java, then forgetting to write the correct handler later. Considering the Go team's priorities, it's one they should fix!
I'm chilled, but what do you mean? Can you link me to the chatter about the credible threat?

What if they wait more than 96 hours? What does checking electronics into bags do to keep us safer?
Exactly why Google is aggressively monetizing the search results by reducing the number of organic listings, in favor of AdWords, Knowledge Box, Featured Answers and direct response plays such as Google Guarantee.
Vacuuming the living room rug with a broken vacuum twice isn't going to make it significantly cleaner.
It seems strange to market a scientific calculator as "fast" when processing power hasn't been a limitation since the 1980s. The way to make a scientific calculator faster in a meaningful way is to make the user interface more efficient. Insect doesn't appear to have any innovations in that field.
Even at official rate, $30 is ₦9307.50. At actual rate, $30 is ₦12,000
This is exactly what Nix expressions consist of, expect actually reproducible.

Wait, really? You run "apt-get install X Y Z" in a Nix expression? Or are you saying they're equivalent? Because my point is that Docker runs the exact same commands.

Isn't this exactly what Docker and friends require...?

Sort of, but not really. Dockerfiles are extremely basic, and most of the work is done by shell commands, which developers are know and use.
As for packaging all the dependencies, well, yes, but as a big ball of mud. Nix & Guix encourage you to use different packages and connect them. Dockerfiles are literally just dumb container in which you shove everything (using the same commands you already knew).

It wouldn't be new if it was standard as it should be.

And if my grandmother... well, you know the rest.

=================

Don't get me wrong, I'm not praising Docker, on the contrary. I'm just explaining why I think it's more popular than Nix/Guix.
because the miscreants are too stupid to wait 96 hours.
Not blocked on BT (infinity), O2 or Vodaphone here.
Alternative premise, tech interviews continue to become increasingly competitive, and if you want to be a true dev hirable by Google, etc. this is the output you need.
The US government pays more for healthcare than average.

http://visual.ons.gov.uk/how-does-uk-healthcare-spending-com...
...this is absurd. It's a 96 hour ban, this has absolutely nothing to do with the travel ban.
> Ebert said that games aren't art because they give you choices

That has to be the dumbest requirement for 'art' I've ever heard. Especially coming from a professional critic, who earns his paycheck by interpreting art for others (ie: making choices about what it means).

Or, on a simpler level, there can be no such thing as interactive art with that definition.
It can be an issue even when there is plenty of space. I recall quite a bit of drama around Doom 4: https://steamcommunity.com/app/379720/discussions/0/35728611...

But besides annoyance to customers, remember that bandwidth costs are quite large for popular products. Something like a browser or MS Office update is going to get downloaded billions of times.
The voltage changes in that case. In this case, a voltage difference exists between two materials with the same voltage relative to reference. It is as if you got pure gasoline out of a cars tailpipe.
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Did you read and understand the second & third paragraph at all?

If yes, please name the type of effective exercise that you can complete in 30min, including preparations and clean-up afterwards. Really curious.

(Commuting and hobbies that are not for the sake of doing exercise don't count because they were already mentioned.)
In 1997, congress lowered the tax on capital gains making non-dividend-paying stocks cheaper than dividend-paying stocks. It made it very attractive to invest in companies that didn't pay dividends like tech company IPOs which were popular at the time because of the growth of computers and the internet. There was a boom of personal investing as average people were quitting their jobs to become day traders. Stocks were rising uncorrelated with business fundamentals but because of the speculation of them increasing even more in the future.

The "crash" happened when some large companies became too nervous with the overvaluation and put in large sell orders for their own stock. This caused everyone else to panic worried that the stocks they owned were worthless and that they would lose everything if they continued to hold onto them.

The bubble "burst" in 2003 when congress changed the tax laws so that capital gains was taxed at the same rate again.
I agree with you, but isn't this directly from the administration? Surely a rogue bureaucrat wouldn't do this on their own.

And if Trump admin disagreed with it, they wouldn't implement it.
universities are close to 100% full and have no more space. A country like US is not even 3% filled.
Is that cheap for the country, though?
> The main reasons for choosing Hadoop were scale, a desire to unify data, and technical curiosity on the part of Blackboard engineers.

> Blackboard was moving JSON data exhaust from a relational database into Hadoop and then back out into a Postgres database, where it could be analyze using SQL.

Looks like the wrong tool for the job. I like this quote at the end:

> It’s free like a puppy, not free like a beer.
Are the listed airlines the only ones that have direct flights to the US?
They're doing a decent job of making RI purchases less terrifying.

Unfortunately, it's still in the CapEx mindset of "predict what your spend is going to look like for 1 or 3 years." If you can do that perfectly, AWS's elasticity stops having value to you...
Also this reddit thread is interesting; looks like someone already dropped their user table. Which may have been for the best considering it appears that they stored passwords in plain text (then again I'm sure someone dumped it before dropping it).

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/60jc69/company...
Well, in fairness at least one of them contributed significantly to the work that generated the design of the language that has powered almost all of computing one way or another for decades (in spite of its many and varied howling and inexcusable flaws, as you'd call them). I'd say that in-practice that beats any aesthetic view of 'design' you have in mind.
Look at Armin van Buuren, Darude, Jean Michel Jarre etc. For some reason there are many music producers/DJs in their 30s-60s that look way younger than they should ;-) I don't remember who was that but one DJ that was ~42 looked like 18 (non-asian) and everybody was freaking out (I'll try to find that pic somewhere). Maybe this type of music energy activates something in the brain, who knows?
I think go would actually be a pretty bad match for software that is modeling some sort of business domain. The type system is just not robust enough for it.

What it is good for is software that is about moving bytes around from place to place. Network daemons, web servers, cli tools that interact with JSON/Xml in simple ways.
How do you plan on generating revenue to keep something like this running? I can't imagine anybody would be that interested in free hosting if they can't even be confident it will be around in 6 months. What makes your service worth the risk?
Funny my nephrologist hasn't mentioned it I have kidney failure and take 4x250ng D 3 times a week,
Apple sold $4.2B of product in New Zealand, paid $0 local taxes
I would urge folks writing these deals to make sure to separate the rights assigned to 1) algorithms, 2) data, and 3) the models they generate. There is a clear joint interest in the models, and that seems to get missed in most of these articles.
> One of the primary design principles behind Go is that it be designed to incorporate the best available features of other languages

Is that documented somewhere?
Nice site, the gears and engineering stuff is cool.
Ask HN: Themes for a M.Sc. Thesis in Machine Learning/Big Data
Hi, it is wonderful that so many curious and smart people read and share in HN, so I am going to ask for your help.

What would be an interesting & feasible research project for a M.Sc. thesis in Computer Science in Machine Learning or Big Data?

I see two main paths: pursuing a theoretical theme (e.g. a new model or optimization technique) vs. applying existing technique to a new business problem. What other paths are there?

I'd really like to do something related to software engineering / programming languages, since there is so much data on open source projects on GitHub.
I can't believe you can look at that ugly colorscheme whole day working in even uglier language which rust really is.
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Your fear is not unfounded. I am very familiar with the legal/court system in a south american country and I can pretty much assure you that any attempts to sue / enforce the terms of your contract to someone who is willing to break the law would be expensive and futile. That said, I personally know many top notch developers working remotely for US companies that would never dare to put their reletionships/reputation at risk by being careless/malicious with code. It is just to good a gig to risk.

* I guess if your code was sooo valuable someone could be tempted into cheating it could happen.. but if that is the case, a US developer would behave no different.
I would think you could use dup (or dup2/ioctl) to de-register (assuming nothing grabbed that FD)?
Good things happen when you’re helpful
I'm drawn to this kind of setup, but I'm aware that there is an element of techno-machoism to it. It can seem more aspirational than useful.
Looking for SRE and devops to join RankScience – Build a CDN (remote welcome)
RankScience sells a CDN solution to SEO automation. Companies use RankScience to increase their search traffic without having to think about SEO.

We're in the latest YC batch (W17). Our engineering team is growing, and we're looking for SRE & devops help. We want to scale up our product to be able to handle 2 billion requests per day, and we want help building our engineering culture and infrastructure.

Why this job matters:

You’ll get to build a CDN! How often does that happen? Our product has high demands for scalability, reliability, and security, and this role will play a critical role in delivering these benefits to our customers.

What you’ll learn at RankScience:

Learn about building a startup, a product, and an engineering team from an early stage. We’re sure there are lots of learnings within ops and automation, but we have plenty of opportunities to be involved in other areas of the company too.

What you’ll do:

- Build a highly-available, low-latency reverse-proxy CDN and manage its deployment and infrastructure

- Automate deployments to AWS: EC2, ELB, Route 53, DynamoDB; you’ll have an opportunity to build deployment automation over CloudFormation; we like troposphere

- Identify and fix performance problems; latency is a concern for our customers

- Secure deployment environments via dedicated instances and VPCs; security is a critical aspect of our business and your contributions here will be crucial

- Ensure 24/7 uptime; our customers rely on us to proxy their traffic and our first concern is delivering their traffic
Design and use instrumentation to help identify and fix performance problems

Bonus points:

- NodeJS

- Functional programming (Clojure, PureScript, TypeScript)

- Securing AWS infrastructure

Cool fact about RS #1: We’re bringing tech into the SEO industry, which is a highly technical industry but doesn’t really leverage tech that well.

Cool fact about RS #2: We’re growing fast! All aspects of our company are growing, and we’re looking for people who want a dynamic work environment to grow with us as well.

Cool fact about RS #3: Lots of infrastructure scaling problems!

If interested or if you have any questions, email max@rankscience.com with a brief blurb about yourself.
I hear what you are saying. But it is also a mistake to simply assume that there is nothing that is unique to human psychology. In particular, we need to explain why humans have been so remarkably successful, including at dominating other species.

For instance, in all other social mammals, as far as I know, the social group consists of only the group you directly belong to and are in immediate contact with, and this group is in competition with all other social groups of your species.

But in human foraging groups, you band is a member of a larger tribe of many bands that you cooperate with, even though the bands are in no immediate contact most of the time. Now think of all the behaviors and cognitive mechanisms required to make that happen.
A multi-ISP web blocking look-up tool, with a reporting page if you feel it is incorrectly blocked.

https://www.blocked.org.uk/results?url=http://www.blurofinsa...
That's the trouble with definitions.

The way I look at it is the spin-down of planets and the heat death of the universe are reduction to extremes arguments about why perpetual motion machines won't work.

That's the very best you could do, in practice any 'perpetual' motion machine that is actually built will do enormously worse, so much worse in fact that I feel pretty confident placing the word between quotes.

The problem with this subject matter is that it brings the kooks out of the woodworks like not much else does (oh, maybe 'over unity energy', en even more absurd concept).

Of course any practical failures are due to insufficient funds or skill, and any theoretical limitations are just that: theoretical.

But so far in spite of there being in excess of a million dollars of prize money awarded for the first perpetual motion machine nothing seems to have passed the first level of testing.
As I often do, I'll be a bit of a contrarian and take a different angle.

People believed the dot com bullshit because amazing technology gains were being made by technology. In 1990 you still had typing pools and paper and manual processes.

The mid 90s were when everything got computerized. People were making millions rolling out PCs and email. Lotus Notes was transforming business.

People saw the internet as the next big thing, which it was. But the technology wasn't there yet and the ability to conduct meaningful commerce was undermined by encryption policy.
Is anger the only thing of substance that you have to contribute?
I haven't head that as far as I know you can still get a manual penalty for a number of issues.

I have had to help clean up one or two sites.
Thanks! We have been at this at a while and hope to solve the connectivity issue in Africa.
To follow your boulder/hill metaphor, the lithium boulder rolls down the hill (crosses the electrolyte), settles at the bottom of the valley (bonds sulfur)... And then somehow as more lithium rolls down the hill, it continues to pile up at the bottom until it forms another hill, the same size as the first (lithium plates onto the anode). That's what they claim happens- that the sulfur acts as a redox center and sets the voltage for an unlimited amount of lithium. But a redox center cannot just lower the voltage of an arbitrary amount of metal. The metal is an entirely normal bond and can be cut with an energy proportional to mass^(2/3), while the energy stored increases linearly.
Webforms is the newest thing. Most is far older
The Pi 2 isn't current, the Pi 3 is available in standard and module (inc a Lite variant without on-board flash).
Could you link or explain where you are getting further info?

Neither Bloomberg nor this Reuters article mention the period it will be in effect.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-airlines-electronics-i...
Subjecting a targeted group to repeated fear and uncertainty through changing rules seems to be more of the plan than an absurdity. A rule like this establishes precedent, even.

You put up this headline without any of the other political context and I am right there with you. But there is no shortage of context.
seconded disavow is a powerful tool but not to be used lightly
I agree that science can't explain everything. But I think that for every individual case, you need to make a sincere attempt to come up with a scientific explanation and then fail, before you can decide it is a mystery.