skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FTP Linux Server Configuration and Securing and Chrooting and Important Commands
+1 for the Max Cantor presentation - I mostly use stock vim now because of that video... also you can get a lot of mileage from combining :read with shell commands. I like this approach as it forces me to level up my bash.
> there are limitations on the amount of "non speech" that aeneas can tolerate

couldn't you have as part of the input also a very simple map where users could define times that should be ignored to help with that? Might also be possible to look at the spectrum at any time to possibly identify areas of the file to skip.

And speaking about spectrum, just wondering, are you doing any pre-processing in terms of EQ (narrow band-pass on spoken frequencies), compression to not deal with volume, etc. to help with this also?
Republicans have got "My best friend is X, I can't be X-ist" on lock.
Ah, MathJax
The response of abusers to the reduction of everyone's
access to medication does not depend on where you
stand on the war on drugs; it is, or will be, a matter of fact.

Sure. But your willingness to WANT this outcome will depend on your stance on the war of drugs. A blanket ban of all opioids with a harsh prison sentence (say, crack-cocaine level) would both decrease opioid addiction, and increase prison population. Your stance on the war of drugs will point to if you think this is a good trade off or not.

Maybe more evidence is needed, but pseudo-quantitative
arguments with made-up statistics that support your
view on the war on drugs are not evidence.

My view on the war of drugs has little to this argument. However as mentioned above, your feelings on it may influence how you feel about the broader opioid epidemic and how you want to react to it.
The less well-off people in rural areas don't want to be given money, they want an opportunity to earn it; that is the main part of what the left doesn't get, anymore (if you really want to help them, restart the civil conservation corps). The rural people have worked all their lives, they know humans need something to do, or they will waste away.
99% addiction rate? Source please.
The housing code was there before she was. The Me generation is alive and well.
> Research shows that this demand creates more jobs than the immigrants "consume".

This seems a bit counter-intuitive to me, could you point me to any research?
Rural is, by definition, constrained to a few economic activities such as farming and logistics. You mentioned a Tesla factory, but if you look at the "Gigafactory" you will see it is in a rather rural place. But it is reasonably close to materials and logistics.

As far back as the 1800's towns have "died" when the rail road went a different way. That isn't a new phenomena.

But looking at what works historically and what doesn't, the 'new' thing now is the Internet which makes a lot of things possible that weren't before. If you can get 40 gbits of capacity pulled into a 'rural town' then you can build an office building where everyone can connect pretty seemlessly to an office anywhere else. You can build customer support there, you can build logistics tracking systems, you can build R&D facilities. If you do this a there will be a complaint that you are 'ruining' the town.

A complaint I hear often is people want to work in tech but they want a place where they can buy a house and raise a family. That could be the lure of rural America if the state would fund fiber infrastructure to the town.
I was thinking of Apple vs. Amazon Music, whose playlists are sometimes laughably bad. Amazon is trying hard to be a contender in this space with low-cost plans but if they don't figure out playlists it will be an uphill battle against Spotify, Apple and other services that do better.
> Most useful typesystems with generics are Turing-complete.

The easy solution for that is to put parametric polymorphism in the module language, not the type system. ML, Ada, Modula-3 all did it successfully.
Rural America has 15% of the country's population: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_America
An acre is not a farm.
Why doesn't he put wrought iron fence along the sidewalk and a small sign next the gate thats says "Smith's Flower Garden" and tell the local officials to shove it and admire his beautiful garden.
Hi! Nathaniel and John from Mapzen here.

We thought a lot about the colors for the new bike map. Green is pretty universal for trails and paths where bicycles are protected from cars. But colors are less standardized for places where bicycles share the road with cars – bike lanes, streets with "sharrows", and signed bike routes.

For this first version of the bike map we focused on creating a "warm" map that complements the basemap and invites the reader to spring into exploring the bike-friendly ways tagged in OpenStreetMap, the community mapping wiki.

While red draws the eye and is a warning color, we found that it overwhelmed the map in most cities when used for the least safe routes. If you want to experiment with colors, you can do so in Tangram! Instructions are at the bottom of the post. Please let us know what you come up with.

While OpenStreetMap's tags are a great starting point, they aren't a perfect proxy for safety. We're working on ways to effectively mark greenways, green waves (timed lights), `living streets`, or even buffered bike lanes.

Seattle is quite well tagged in this regard, and we're working to improve San Francisco. What will help most is tagging important streets into a `route relation` in OpenStreetMap (and of course getting your city and state government to build more protected bike lanes and neighbourhood bike routes).

This map is a first step, and your feedback will help make the next version even better. Thanks!
>I disagree.

You don't seem to actually disagree.

You said:
>Sure, if you never programmed a small device, by all means, start with an Arduino.

And the OP said advice "for real beginners", i.e., people who have never programmed a small device. I didn't read anything that hinted that the OP was suggesting people never advance beyond Arduino.

Again your disagreeing with things the OP never said.

You:
>As for RPI, it's neither a production device, nor a learning tool for embedded programming.

OP:
>you really just want a small computer running Linux but with GPIO-Pins?=> Raspberry PI
@platz :
The time component is missing in the analysis to make comparisons meaningful to me - so in comes a cubic meter of salt.
15% not 40%. And as others have commented, already grossly subsidized and over-represented politically.
Perl is still cool. Lots of new improvements happening. Perl 5 has yearly releases in case you did not know.

Sounds like you could do well in devops if you still have your Perl and automation skills.
Why would you want to decrease desirability?

Basically your argument is that skyscrapers make cities TOO AWESOME.

I don't care if you don't like concrete jungles. If prices go up because of skyscrapers, you are being outvoted! Let the market decide.

Skyscrapers are a double benefit. They make the city more awesome AND allow more people to share in that awesomeness, via density.
I sell productivity tools - Chrome Extensions and a SaaS - that solve my own problems in a niche. I've avoided ads: they wouldn't be worth it with such small install numbers.

For business-focused products I usually do a free time-limited full-access trial + paid subscription. For consumer-focused products I usually do freemium (limited version for indefinite use + paid subscription to remove limits).
Depends on what you mean by high profile.
I would not say there are high profile projects but that's only because it's quite a new project. The latest version which imo is the first one to be a truly powerful one is only a month old.
But there are people using in production for close to a year now.

Oh, and i've seen someone on HN saying it's used in something like the upcoming Kosovo land property tax system or something like that but i am not directly aware of that.
Haskell always makes me sad. In real-world apps you always need hacks. I do anyway. In an imperative language I can be proud when my code only has a couple hacks in it. With Haskell I just end up feeling nasty about my code if there's even one hack there, and it makes me like coding less. (For toy apps with no deadline Haskell is great; the above regards Haskell-at-work, as a freelancer).
> Take Kratom every day for two weeks and get back to me

I've been taking it almost every day for over a year.

There is no respiratory depression, and no build up of tolerance - the dose that was originally effective still is. I am not addicted; there is no compulsion to take it other than to reduce my pain.

I also stop taking it every now and then, just to check if the condition I have is showing any signs of going away - I get a very mild cold-like feeling, nothing more. Honestly, when I've stopped caffeine before, that was harder.
Sounds like a great YC pitch - engineer a more "lush" crabgrass that looks 99% as good but uses half the water, less fertilizer, and less care.
I cannot speak to this case, but when our neighbor stopped mowing (out of laziness and absence not some sort of viewpoint), it seems that the number of mosquitos increased to nuisance level.
>Throwing money into unemployment and welfare won't solve the problem at all. [my emphasis.]

That's not what loeg wrote. There are other ways of spending money, such as infrastructure projects - when I visited Oregon, I noticed how much of the infrastructure was from New Deal projects, which, of course, is the epitome of everything that fiscal conservatives are fighting against. If you are opposed things like that, and you don't have an alternative solution to offer, get off your high horse about other peoples' lack of empathy.
Ask HN: What back end skills do I need to become 'fullstack'?
Hi HN,
I'm a 'frontend' web developer. I've been working with web apps for the last 3 years and I'm fairly proficient with my stack. I have a good understanding of how the backend works in a general sense too. I've worked as a freelancer and am currently working with a team building a product with react.

I want to become a fullstack developer, at least enough to be valued in a backend role as well. I'm trying to come up with a list of concept/skill checkpoints based on what I would need to typically do as a 'backend' developer.

Here's what I've put together so far, in no particular order:

> Data modelling and using a database: simple e-commerce site on Postgres

> Building an authentication system: implementing a server-side google oauth2 login

> Building & deploying an API service of 3 different types: db interaction, using auth, using 3rd party APIs (nodejs/python)

> Serving static files (nginx)

> Deploying and putting a simple CMS site together (wordpress)

> Deploying a full app with a domain name

> Building and deploying a batch job to create reports from the database

> Migrating app + data from one VM to another

What do you all think? Something I should add/remove? Should I take a completely different approach?
> I was afraid of what people would think, because Americans have been deeply conditioned to see their manicured lawns as status symbols.

I don't think insulting people who mow their lawns helps get her point across. I mow my lawn for obvious reasons: I like the way it looks, I like my neighbors, I don't like rats or hornet nests, etc. She'd be better served by trying to persuade me to reexamine the values that lead to not wanting big honking rats in my yard but she lost that chance when she implied I'm a zapped cow.
Upcall is actually supplementing existing sales team by qualifying leads and setting up appointment (sales enablement). Hiring and training a SDR/BDR takes a lot of time and money and that's why Upcall makes it easier for smaller companies to scale. With the API, companies can easily qualify interest before using internal team to close deals.
I've had similar experiences with overly speculative opioid prescriptions, and I have to wonder, do the doctors think they're doing you a favor by being generous??
Historically, in the past, there was a wave of automation from the 1900s-1920s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture_in_the_...) that arguably affected rural America to a much greater extent than this current wave: the mechanization of agriculture.

Back then, the solutions provided were roughly:

A) An emphasis in education. This doesn't help folks ingrained, but a strong rural education system did help the children move to the cities where the opportunities were. (This describes one of my grandfathers: our family still owns a farm, but only one person is needed to maintain it these days. He got a college education and moved.) From my perspective, this is one of the better options even for the modern automation problem.

B) Some forms of subsidies and quotas, as tried in the 1930s. I would personally prefer options more on the lines of improving health, resettlement help, and public works. Handouts for nothing create stagnation, and handouts in the wrong direction (eg agriculture subsidies, which tend to benefit farmers, who often may be prosperous already) may create distorted markets. Later World War II also provided an escape valve (another option I don't see terribly appealing).

It's tough for me to see anything else working. If companies start becoming more remote friendly, we'll need less of option B perhaps. But I can't see escaping option A.

The politics of Donald Trump can be explained to some extent as an exploitation of the long-running "Southern Strategy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy), which in contrast to the name is actually national in nature. I do not believe that rural voters are rejecting the idea of the safety net per se. It's more that in the current American political scene, identity / tribe politics often far overshadows economic politics. I believe that Bernie Sanders showed that a safety net oriented campaign with less emphasis on identity / tribe type politics can be quite popular with rural voters.
Interesting, I always thought the incentive to grow grapes was rapid production compared to other crops.

Are you in Sonoma or somewhere land is cost prohibitive?
- up-front payment: one of the most simplest and sane things you can do, which allow you to keep focused on your core product and customers (if you have ads, your customers are the advertisers)

- free download with unlock IAP: just a hack to provide a "try it" demo. really a derivative of up-front payment

- subscription based: most sustainable model, but difficult to push depending on the niche. it is, however, the most sustainable model. an app requires ongoing work, so at some point up-front single payment model caps your revenue unless you manage to grow your customer base forever

these are the only strategies I consider seriously. I regularly think about IAP (consumables for games, sounds for music apps, etc…) but it's not clear yet how/if I can do that effectively and without compromising my integrity.
If you voted for Trump then you've made those lives you care so much about worse, not better. Trump is someone who makes a lot of noise but who has absolutely no idea on how to actually implement any solutions and in the meantime he will remove the last little bits of the structures that keep those people alive. So congratulations on doing the wrong thing for the right reasons.
AdMob has some sort of direct sales feature but the billing is not handled by them so I guess there's no interest for them there.

I think that for app publishers being featured on the TinyAds network will increase your exposure to advertisers and help you find new monetisation opportunities.

Also - the advertisers can get access to a loyal and passionate audience that this high-quality apps have. I think it's easier to target this type of audience since you know exactly on what app your ads are running.

Running an ad on Facebook or Google is too opaque to know exactly where your ad was displayed and if it's of any relevance for your product.

I don't think that a big number of users is the only answer for advertisers.
> [D]o you think that having this... more human approach... when selling/buying ads is obsolete?

My understanding is that larger companies with bigger ad spend don't have time to hand-pick each app or web page. (Using human labor to pick apps and pages can significantly raise the cost I presume.) Perhaps there is a marketplace for smaller advertisers here.
I disagree with the redis quickstart guide - making the user download a tarball, compile source and install systemd service scripts is ridiculous. As long as the Redis version is somewhat recent, they should install straight from the distro. That should replace your first two sections with `apt-get install redis-server`.
A 40-year 'conspiracy' at the VA
This describes an increasingly common practice among online businesses -- aggressively monetize visitors, turn them into clients and corporate assets.

When you visit a typical modern website, within 15 seconds an overlay appears encouraging you to sign up, give away your email address, and become part of what's really happening.

In a hypothetical parallel universe where telling the truth is mandatory, you would visit a website and ask, "So, what are you selling, what is your product?" The website will be forced to reply, "You."

All this apart from the present state of the scientific-technical publishing business (also discussed in the linked article), which uses different methods to obtain the same result: monetize people's wish to communicate with each other.
In this case would it work similarly to having single big mmap and counting on kernel allocating pages on first write? So for most cases you would only have a single mmap call and multiple page faults (as it would always be the case). I assume that most allocators do mmap for big allocations so it does not need to be called directly.

I lately tried very naive synthetic test to check when realloc will return different address (meaning that it had to copy). My system started swapping, but it did not return different address. I did not know that realloc works like that, but why wouldn't it.
Smart does not mean experienced. I don't say this often on HN, but you really have no clue with what you are talking about here.
> Luckily I'm in the German insurance system... I'm using an NFC chip in my arm giving results to my phone

Poor you. If you were lucky enough to use the greatest health care system in the world, USA, you could also get the Freestyle Libre CGM but would be protected from the NFC data. In the US those data can only be read by a physician; patients do not have access to the readers. Oh I notice the disposable pucks that go on the arm cost more here on Blue Shield than I would have been paying with DKV in Germany.

(Fortunately you can buy the readers OTC in France if you have a friend with a French address and can speak French. Even in Germany you can only the hardware by prescription).
There are the two meanings of IT, either designating kinda any jobs in technology OR only the low income jobs in technology (e.g. support monkey).

However, it's not about British vs American English at all. It's only a very few people who make that nuance, most of which are devs because they are the only one to actually understand it :D

Truth is, you really don't want to be assimilated to IT anywhere in the world. Most people will think of you as the guy called when the computer breaks.
The large quantity of very profitable and very poorly done software is a counter to your last sentiment.

Here's the thing: most consumers don't know enough about what "great software" means to care much about it. They just want software that works to solve a problem they have. They don't care if it never crashes or is written in language X or written by a process with rigorous QA and design, etc.
"Audio is assumed to be spoken: not suitable for song captioning"

Can anyone recommend alternative approaches for music lyrics alignment?
No, all assets are valued on future cash flows. The fact that some assets have future cash flows that are extremely difficult to predict does not mean they aren't be valued on someones crazy estimate of them.

A company with negative growth rates still has a value (not sure what negative interest means in this context). An example is liquidations, which can be very profitable investments.

"A stock's present value is also based on it's likely future value, which is in turn based on market forces and geopolitic". The more I read your post the more I think you confuse price and value.

Lets say I find a stock trading at 5x earnings, with a good moat, and earnings growing at only 5% a year, so it obviously looks like a bargain.

But lets also assume I have a magic ball that can tell me a stocks future, and it says this company will never trade for anything but 5x earnings. I'm still buying it, not only am I getting a 20% a year return on my investment (as my imputed share of profits), but that return is going to grow over time. At some point they will either buy back stock, increasing my share of their profits, or pay me my profits in dividends.

In the meantime I can let the value grow, even in this "slow growth" business.
> Right now in this case is an untended yard.

The article mentions that non-native species are removed. In other words, the yard is tended to. It simply is not tended to in a way approved by the township.
Operation of ancient biological clock uncovered
It's all about the data.

The only game in consumer tech is (assuming supply) being able to predict, more accurately than your rivals, what users want. As soon as Spotify are no longer cut off from supply, then the organization with the best data and best machine learning will win.
Article is from [2015].

When my friend found a baby bunny and decided to keep him, we found out it's illegal to do so. Which was shocking. But looking further into it, it made sense. These kind rabbits are nothing like the domesticated ones and almost always dies in captivity. An article I read said it happened 4-6 weeks after captivity and this one died in 7.

It's unfortunate the article doesn't explain what the 'nuisance' is in this case. But what was the reason to have such strict laws in the first place? I ask not because I don't like nature but one sided stories often appear shocking but aren't that extreme when both sides are figured out.
The left solution is not simply throw money at the problem and ignore if it solves it.

The basic income movement beneath a lot of this is meant to, over generations, migrate the culture from one where your work defines your value as a human being to one where you are valued for your non-monetary contributions to society as well.
And the DNC ruined him for it.
So are you vetting apps, or are you giving the publishers full control? You can't eat both sides of this cake.

If you're curating for your idea of quality, you're controlling which ads publishers can display where. This isn't a bad thing; it's how virtually every ad network operates. But then what's different about this approach?

The risk factor is that with a traditional ad network, I know I'm buying a certain number of impressions in a certain period of time, with analytics. But if inventory is doled out whenever my publisher partner (or their algorithm) feels like it, then my holiday promo campaign is a crapshoot and I might have wasted both money and (worse) time. I'd pay a premium to get rid of this risk.
HOAs are the height of absurdity pertaining to land ownership, I will never understand why someone would volunteer to pay a monthly fee (basically a tax) to have a group of bozos tell you what you can and can't do with your own property.

If the rules imposed by even a mild HOA were put in place by a local government there would be protests 24/7.
I don't recall that it was quite ASAP, but yes, it did get removed.

The worst aspect, though, was that they made Amazon search the default, and provided no opportunity to opt out during installation.
How my supervisor saved my PhD – the Goldilocks principle for maths