skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I would probably me more willing to give your bot a try than respond to the hundreds to thousands of emails from SEO companies I receive telling me that my website needs this or that... lacking traffic, ranking for the wrong keywords, despite the fact that they send me this PDF document with keywords that have nothing to do with my website.

The bot would certainly have to do more than send me those generated pdfs that the SEO companies think they can sell me on. But depending on its usefulness, I may willing to pay at least $5 a month. Although I admit, I am a hard sell.

But an assistant bot keeping me up to date on all things happening on my website? I've got over 1500 posts on one of my popular websites, so if the bot certainly kept tabs on everything and gave me all sorts of data.. whether via email or just an open chat channel, I'd say it'd be well worth it!

Some things I would definitely like:

1. how long does it take Google to index a new published post of mine?

2. are any of my current posts listed in google and if so, where? (page number, position number, search query, keywords, etc.)

3. what about other search engines?

4. suggestions about new articles to write based on current ones -- just new ideas from what it scanned

5. take an article and summarize it into like 5 bullet points for me (I'm big on summarizing blog posts for my readers)

6. I'd love to know what articles on my site are currently being shared on social media-twitter,pinterest,facebook,linkedin,etc.

7. I'm far too busy to engage in social media interactions, so if I had a bot to kind of do that for me, whether it sent out a post across all social media, and then checked, and even possibly replied, that'd be cool

And yeah? That last one... take my $10 :P

I seriously lack social media engagement... and I know it.

I know that is probably asking for a lot, but just throwing out some ideas and suggestions. Lots of potential!
Exactly what are you talking about? To me your comment reads like infowars compressed into four lines.
Yes he is. TempleOs is his literal third temple of god. He is a very skilled guy though. Own operating system, own programming language, own terminal, made first person shooter and flight simulator from scratch.
Just to show you what a skilled guy in different mindset can do.
This I did not understand either. I did try Uber few times in Copenhagen and instead of new Mercedes that I usually get as taxi I was picked up by some small hatchback and still end up paying pretty much the same. Also, taxi apps are good here.
Looks cool. But everybody who thinks of building a webapp, try todo it without react if you don't need it. For example https://next-news.now.sh/ is MUCH MUCH slower than normal hacker news. And its also much more difficult to maintain, and less future proof.

Greetings
I'd happily wait until all who keep believing that die of old age.
On a deeper level, economists generally don't know what they're talking about. They create linear models of nonlinear systems, they assume Gaussian distribution when fat tails are common and their assumptions about rationality don't align with people's actual behavior. Trusting the models of economists to manage economies gives us the ability to trade a little bit of efficiency for a large amount of risk.
Just checked, sed isn't on that list.

And lisp sounds a bit simpler than sedtris - tetris in sed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430171, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430171) - so that could be an interesting challenge.... hmm...
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." (JFK) [1]

Probably my favorite quote of all time. Those were the times.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFvJog2dMw
Hosting a Website on a Raspberry Pi with IPv6 and SSL
Thank you for being one of the only people to bring up the point of the article. It means the actual citations not the work being cited.

However, as the article points out, it is possible (perhaps even easy) to hunt down updated links to the research. Instead they were deleted.

If that was done to a Wikipedia article the article would be flagged and either the text deleted or the link fixed. So in a sense Wikipedia has much higher standards.

If anything this is a fable of SEO. Why you should always make sure your legacy URLs provide proper 301 redirects.
Why do they need competition, if even the competition didn't manage to be better? What's the new company going to do differently?
I paid 90 euro for a taxi ride from the airport to downtown Munich. It should have been 50 euro. I am pretty sure that wouldn't have happened with Uber or Lyft.
What books can you advise on time management? That's the second topic for my presentation and I have only 2 points in it. Those were given by http://essayforcollege.org/ online as a free bonus for the forum participation. Please help.
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It's always 'later', and 'later' it never happens as promised.

Look at Uruguay. It is legalized - but no pharmacy sells, it's incredibly hard to find legal marijuana, and so the illegal market still thrives.

The medicinal model of the USA is still probably the most successful legalizaton case worldwide.
For what it's worth I find cigarette smokers to smell as equally awful as someone who reeks of weed. In cold weather, for some reason, they smell particularly worse. Sitting next to someone who's just smoked on the train is downright disgusting. I share your dilemma but I already deal with it everyday today. There's one reason I'm glad for vaping: it smells way better than cigarettes.

My wife has it worse: cigarette smoke is a migraine trigger for her if she has to be around it for a while.
Oh noes! Newspapers are talking about him!

You know the WSJ has absolutely no power over advertisers, aside from the SAME freedom of speech powers that PDP has.
>Actually alcohol monopolies keep prices low. Take what happened in Alberta, for example, when they got rid of the monopoly: prices skyrocketed.

Dig a bit deeper. Alberta's situation was/is because of taxes, which remain imposed regardless of who is doing the selling.

>Plus government store generally carry a wider variety of goods

I suspect you've never been outside of the country, to make that claim.

>Really only Ontario has managed to mess up the government distribution of alcohol; most provinces haven't had the same experience.

Ontario isn't even the worst, just the biggest.

>Really? Where? Yes there are some issues in Eastern Canada (mainly southern ON). But for the most part this just isn't the case.

That market is worth billions of dollars, in Quebec and Ontario. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/illegal-cigarettes
Ask HN: How to scale?
I'm starting a new project, a mobile app. I created a db in postgres, used Node for the backend, and I'm currently hosting everything in heroku.

I was just wondering if this setup is able to scale, or if only a few users (maybe a couple hundreds) will be enough to take down the service.
Is there a similar article for analyzing stock fundamentals? (P/e, revenue, etc)
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Myself and many of my former coworkers got LASIK last year. Use or lose HRA = cheap LASIK.

Everyone seemed very happy, myself included. Halos are no worse than with contacts (maybe better). After recovery use of eye drops for dryness is no more frequent than with contacts.

If you live in the northeast US consider getting it done in Canada. I knew a few people who went to Toronto to have it done for half the price.
The idea is that assert is for helping developers catch mistakes, not as a way of dealing with errors when users run the program. Malloc failing or input being invalid are not (necessarily) signs of bugs in the program, and so should not be handled using assertions. Even if the handling is just ending the program, that should be done using exceptions or "return -1", not by asserting false.

Asserts and other error handling (exceptions) have different semantics. Disabling asserts says "I believe this code has no bugs", not so unreasonable for a stable release. Disabling exceptions says "I believe nothing unexpected will ever happen", which is several notches crazier.
> The cost of the extension was prohibitively expensive because of unions. Europe is able to build subways with much less cost per mile than NYC

You mean the same Europe that has incredibly powerful public sector unions?

Maybe a thing they don't have is a political system run by a group of mindless plutocratic politicians that shout "free markets" as the solution to social problems while practicing crony capitalism. They also don't have the Cuomo family.
Is it possible to self-host the server and point the client to it (straight from Play store, without rebuilding it?)
>I can never find sympathy for people who complain about high alcohol tax in Canada.

Likewise, I have little sympathy for those who want to tax everything I do. We're on opposite sites of an unbridgeable chasm, perhaps.
The US is facing a choice between the ISS and a new deep space rocket
Functional programming, especially a language focusing on purity such as Haskell.
It also seems plausible that they simply couldn't afford to pay the requisite legal fees and any associated penalties (e.g. not being able to sell, get new contracts, etc.) to fend off the law suit.
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Replying to you to clarify the article since you are the top voted comment and I think it might lend itself to other people making conclusions they shouldn't without reading the article.

While I agree with you, I'm not sure that is the case here. The research is not deleted in this case, just literally the citations. Here it sounds more like:

Either

A. People editing citations in articles need to be less lazy and relocate missing sources

or

B. Research sites need to follow proper SEO best practice and use 301 redirects when they move files
So good article on Raspberry Pi with IPv6. It is explained very well step by step !
Here’s why the imminent test of Jeff Bezos’ BE-4 rocket engine is a huge deal
> It seems pretty clear that the whole vector of humanity is to functionally merge with our engineered system in a symbiotic way and then probably see the extinction of the human species in (relatively) short order

As a transhumanist myself, I don't think that either of these things is obvious.

Your focus on the "vector of humanity" is where you err. What we can see when we view the history of life - complexity - on Earth is the evolution not of humanity but of intelligence.

This entails two questions:

Are humans the endpoint of that evolution process? There is no rational reason why the answer should be yes.

What, then. would be the next evolutionary step in intelligence? Two answers - genetically-enhanced humans, and machine-based intelligent actors.

The fascinating - and distinguishing - thing about humans is that we will be the first organism in the history of the process (at least on Earth) to consciously create our evolutionary successors.
Two things that stood out for me when reading your question:

1. I'm quite bothered by the fact that I can't fix churn
Maybe you have already done, but I would suggest that you can be more transparent with your employees, who may have some ideas on how to resuscitate the business and make good returns again. This statement seems to imply that you are solely trying to fix whatever is broken with your current business model.

2. My broker believes we can get a good payout for the business
Do you believe that your broker is acting on your best interest or the interest of the company? There's a fine line between those two. A payout at this stage of the company seems to be a scenario where you are simply abandoning ship while the rest of the crew is still paddling towards shore.

Hope you find what's best for you, the company and everyone that may be affected.
The article isn't loading for me, but SemiAccurate isn't a totally unknown site. They're a bit like The Register for hardware, with an overblown writing style, but their analysis is decent.
Yes, but are you going to install a VPN for everyone? I think people should have a reasonable expectation of privacy, even when they are non-technical.
I think you meant "... will never be false", that's what makes the assert(false) so silly.

I feel that some programmers don't understand the actual semantic meaning of the word "assert", they just use it as an opaque key word meaning "check this", or something.

To me, it should be possible to read an assert almost like English, i.e.

assert(handle != INVALID_HANDLE);

can be read like "assert that the handle isn't invalid", i.e. is valid. Hm. I'm not stating this very clearly, sorry.
Isn't the inventor of K+/Q currently writing his own operating system? Haven't heard any progress about that in a long time, hope it actually gets some use. Sure, won't be the next Linux, but maybe more than the next ColorForth.
Citation needed.

If anything, most pop/rock musicians do their best work on their first records, when there's not any audience yet. It's the rarer beasts, like Beatles, etc that improve with later releases (this doesn't usually apply to jazz and classical, where maturity and experience matters more).

Besides, the idea of an artists having a writer's block because they have to follow a large hit, or feel pressured by their huge audience and the demands that entails, is so common it's almost a cliche.
So, the usual, then?
If that 1% is essential to the purpose of the app, it seems reasonable no matter what % of the code of the app it represents.
'cultured' as in 'cell culture' or as 'embraced by the Culture' (where the 'neural lace' comes from)?

have an upvote.

/dontexplainthejoke
>"The difference between vaccines and climate change is that we have hard evidence on vaccines. You can create a hypothesis and do a randomized double blind experiment. The results are conclusive."

I tried to find this a few years ago in the case of measles and it turned out to seem no such studies existed. Have you seen one?
Politickz iz amazing rite?! :)
Telecommuting doesn't make you less productive
>The OP is more guilty of generalizing from ON to the rest of the country when it comes to public distribution channels.

Am I? You realize that most provinces have monopoly retail system, right? Even here in Quebec, while we can purchase beer at grocery stores (something Ontario only recently allowed, from my understanding, and then only in limited amounts), we still can't buy good wine or any spirits anywhere but the SAQ.
I get your point - but to me it's a bit like "is there room for another voice operator" in 1983... we could artificially make them, then watch as they consolidate and then note that the real action is in something else which it would have been good to think about first.
Taking a cut from where? I don't think Uber's costs are 60% and the drivers' are 40%.
Yup, I'm quite familiar with what modern economics research looks like. My problem with them start when I get to "We now use formal econometric techniques", when they get very limited model with huge amount of assumptions and then draw some conclusions from that.

Math checks out. No questions about that (Although there's always stories about reproducibility of results). But after that there's huge gap, when you try to extrapolate the conclusions of the model to the real world precisely due to assumptions/limitations of the model.

I am rather sceptical about this approach - it's formal to the point where "my model of my virtual world totally works due to ideal nature of this world and mathematical logic", or "we managed to fit our model to carefully selected dataset". Yes, it's formal 'scientific methodology', yes small scope research is the practical way to publish paper after paper (the only real 'currency' in scientific world), but again it seems just to be 'safe haven' for economists, when they are abstracted from real world enough to not interfere with real politics. As with biology in Darwin times, when it was fine to be clergyman and study biology (but mainly in taxonomy sense - listing all 'god creatures' and not thinking about origin of species)

Also, "The people who say economics "became religion" are usually those whose only exposure to economics is through secondhand knowledge (ie. they read about it in media) or took a handful of undergraduate classes." - yup, the same as some nobel laureates like Krugman or Hayek.

Can we agree that the state of the scientific field is as good as a decisions taken based on the achievements in this field?
It's also possible to defeat some facial recognition algorithms without concealing your face from other humans: https://cvdazzle.com/

I, for one, welcome the oncoming privacy-enhancing cyberpunk fashion.
It's all subjective. In the nice summer weather I can't open my windows because all my neighbors smoke so my home just ends up reeking of disgusting cigarette smoke. It'd be equally as gross if it was weed.
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To my very limited understanding, no.

Basic example, puring cream into a cup of coffee. At first low entropy, low complexity (cream at top, coffee at bottom). Then higher entropy, high complexity (cream and coffee mix according to laws of physics, different concentrations at different locations in the cup, streams and such). At last, highest entropy but again low complexity (everything is homogenous).
First part of your message seem to be in contradiction with the second one, but anyways -- keeping asserts in the release image and incurring the penalty of added checks (execution speed + all these text strings stored in the read-only segment) does not make sense without the release-approving validation providing the exact coverage of all tested code. That can be tough to obtain.
I spent my first 5 years after university as an employee because "everybody has a job" and it never occurred to me that I might freelance or start my own business.

Doubly pitiful because I didn't need that much income back then, and later it became much more complicated to stop being employee due to higher cost of living in a place I moved to and due to need to support the family.
Natural selection is weeding out our drive to go to school
Too late, suckers.

Just on a lark, I looked up whois records for hideyourface.com etc and found it is registered to Amazon.com [1].

[1] http://whois.domaintools.com/hideyourface.com
some people ITT have said incorporating in Ireland (etc) will prevent you from getting sued. I'm not sure that I buy that. AFAICT, It may make it a little bit harder, but if you refuse to defend your company in the US the default judgement means that you'd be unable to sell your product in the US.
Commerical rights to your own personality and likeness are protected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights

Not sure of the implications of that for non-government applications of facial recognition technology, though. Sounds like an interesting potential test case.
>If you can give a general introduction to AI or the latest update, you can write for thousands of online outlets, each of which attracts some views and therefore money.

Oh really? Where?
How Hedge Funds are using neural networks to try and curve the stock market
> we don't need Uber

I hope that one day we won't need Uber, but here in Boston, Uber has been a blessing and a much needed catalyst of change for the corrupt, low quality, monopolistic and expensive taxi service. The licensed Taxi system here was basically a govt protected racket that needed a shakeup. Uber is the company that started the shaking.
Maybe some day they'll even be able to drive 5000 different miles instead of driving the same 5 miles 1000 times.
Strange Beasts
Oculus Rift has a new rival in China
Honestly I think trying to top down design general intelligence is a mistake. The only model of intelligence we have resulted from the gradual agglomeration and integration of narrow intelligences. Not only is it a demonstrated path, but at every point along the way it is useful. Nature has given us a great roadmap, all we have to do is follow it.
There is no point in speculating whether it will scale or not, take a data driven approach and load test your setup to find out.
Square launches in the UK
Thats what refunds are for. If an appropriate accommodation can't be made, I see no problem with management issuing a refund. (I would come back and try again, but if the establishment has a chronic problem, I would probably give up after a couple of tries. That would be a management problem for them to deal with.)
decision making through empirical research
Ditto, fast running meter and surcharges that should not have applied, a kick in the teeth after using official service desk and avoiding the touts. I complained to SPAD with took about 5 minutes, with receipt, taxi number, times, etc.. and 28 days later I got:

--

I wish to refer to your complaint above.

2. The permit holder and driver of the vehicle were summoned to our office for an investigation regarding the complaint that your good self has lodged.

3. We wish to inform, the driver and the permit holder have been issued a warning letter and reprimanded not to repeat the offence again. If we receive another complaint about the same vehicle, a heavier penalty will be given to the permit holder and the driver.

4. We have also advised the owner of the vehicle to take the necessary disciplinary action on the driver regarding this complaint.

Thank You.

Yours Faithfully,

SHAHRIDAN ABDUL AZIZ
--

Could just be a template who knows...
Yes, provided you are prepared to pay for one, know why you should want one in the first place, can put up with the increased latency, and are competent enough to set up your computer to use it. Most people are some combination of aren't/don't/can't/aren't.
The human factor in consensus on blockchain systems
From Wikipedia [1]:

> Landing men on the Moon by the end of 1969 required the most sudden burst of technological creativity, and the largest commitment of resources ($24 billion) ever made by any nation in peacetime. At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities.

I don't think that effort would have been considered sustainable. Although it's a bit of a shame that we seem able to find the cash for perpetual war instead.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program
I've always wanted to carry around a jar of rotting fish because "it's a habit I enjoy." Everyone around just has to deal with it because it's my right. I'll stand with my rotting fish jar in the smoking area if I have to. Yes, that's how I feel about smoking in public.
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AI to become main way banks interact with customers within three years
Ahhh well then I am way off.
Wrap any command in a status socket
The intention is to use the Docker image as a developer SDK rather than downloading and installing the relevant SDKs locally.

For running unikernels -- that is a task left to the user. There is a plethora of information publicly available for working with hypervisors (eg: Hyper-V, Xen, etc), and, as mentioned by other commenters, Docker does not run unikernels.
Finite State Automata for Autonomous Driving
Square UK Launches
You're reading that incorrectly. That's just where it's hosted (AWS)
I learn languages best side-by-side. My basis for programming is Visual Basic, PHP, and JavaScript. A little Python in the mix too, but I can get an idea of how a programming language works by seeing what they look like side by side. They are all pretty much the same, with different syntax, and if you know one, you can pretty much grasp them all.

Of course I do stick to my preferences, but seeing how they compare is interesting.

Anyways, try Rosetta code: https://rosetta.alhur.es/

I'm pretty sure with a little training, it will just click for you.
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