skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A truly unique character. He's not kidding about making the Klein bottles either: http://kleinbottle.com/
I've got one on my shelf at home.
And LDAP is pretty popular as well.
> Assuming mobile data is $10/GB

That is incredibly steep though. I pay around $1/GB in the UK, which gives the publisher a nice margin, no?
Why is this comment string so far down the thread? You and rhapsodic are both hitting the nail on the head.

I say this as another midwesterner born and raised in a blue collar area. I loved where I grew up, and (most) of the people I grew up with!

Like you implied, I haven't seen ANYONE speaking to this issue, let alone any kind of solution to it.
I don't want to derail this into a big theological discussion, but yes, certainly there are mainstream Christians who take their beliefs seriously and seek to practice them. It was not my intention to mean that there aren't.

I was specifically referring to the Calvinist belief that Christ's grace alone provides salvation to the pre-destined, whom are "unconditionally elected", i.e., chosen for a fixed salvation regardless of their past or future conduct. While stating this theological difference, I recognize that many Calvinists believe that living a conforming Christian life is a necessary signal of this election.

As it pertains to the topic at hand, the point was to illustrate that mainstream Christians are less likely to be concerned over changes in affiliation, or even some changes in conduct, due to this doctrine that the "priesthood of all believers" is active and allows good people to re-affiliate freely. Combined with the Calvinist doctrine of unconditional election, which is widely but not universally accepted in mainstream Protestantism, specific religious distinctions are of little concern to many Protestants.
Reminds me of George Orwell:

>I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think.

The desire to keep people employed is driven by fear, as its known that idle hands are the Devil's workshop.
Week 13 in Information Security, 2017
Algolia is a fantastic product and this article helped me peek behind the curtain as to what makes it tick.
Not having been through the experience, I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate?

FTR, my sentiment was really just about reminding people you care about that they are, in fact, appreciated.

EDIT: ... and there's hardly enough vomit in the world, is there? I'm sorry, that sounded absurdly cheesy, but it actually does matter.
That was real hard to read. I can kind of relate to how Alex felt.
Minor correction: Google was summoned to appear before a committee of the UK Parliament, not the Government.

A link to the meeting: http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/ecd59f92-64b6-4450-96b6...
the issue is as soon as you introduce a scripting language in a solution, people will write monstrosities with that. A configuration format guarantees that configuration will stay simple and "readable". I agree that LISP should be used more often though.
There aren't any ideologies in USA politics, only interests.

* Democratic party's actual donors, have the economic interest of having immigration legal or illegal, continue. * If you have unfortunately bought into the meme of Dems being kinder, examine how much wealthy Dem politicians actually donate to charity each year. I bet, as a percentage of income, it is less than you (HN reader) give.

Republican party donors are split on the issue, while Trump's stated interest was on limiting it - thus the R political in-fighting going on and the relative Dem solidarity.
Cooking Lessons
Because work ethic is not taught in high school or university (or in American families/society). And many 3rd (or higher) generation Americans have an unhealthy sense of entitlement.

Many American teens are told that they are able to become and do whatever they want and that money, knowledge, education and job stability have very little utility for happiness.

At age 18, "whatever they want" means partying while gaining large amounts of debt and barely passing through a ridiculously easy, but useless liberal arts major.
I don't think that adtech is offering anything more than a lateral move. Instead of hand-waving and tarot cards, now it's lying spreadsheets and "targeted" ads that we all joke about because they're about as targeted as a SCUD. It's just another way to get ad money out of people who aren't ready to accept that advertising is dying. Sure, for a while you can "sponsor content" and all of the other tricks, but eventually people get used to it, and they block everything else.

Basically the issue is that the argument, "You don't want everything to be a subscription/walled garden do you?!" turns out to have, "Actually yes, given the other options, yes we do!" as an answer. Especially when it turns out that the price of a subscription is highly negotiable when everyone is negotiating, and piracy exists.
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> Brands are bailing from adtech

No, not even close. Some ads were mishandled and with the current political climate, brand safety is now a big topic. This cycle happens every few years when the marketing/agency/media buying talent turns over and as new tech develops. At the end of the day, it's just tech. You can use it well or use it poorly.

> Let's be clear about all the differences between adtech and real advertising.

What? Adtech is obviously not advertising. It's a name of an industry sector that provides technology to do digital advertising (which itself is a smaller subset of the marketing technology sector). There's also no such thing as "real" advertising unless we're now going to call certain types fake.

> Adtech is magic in this literal sense: it’s all about misdirection.

More nonsense. Generalizing a 12-figure industry that powers a large part of the economy because of one specific platform, type of ad buying and news event is not useful.

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Here's the reality:

Advertising (and moreso marketing) is all about finding the right consumers, capturing their attention, and converting that into some kind of action. Modern Adtech is primarily about that middle piece, capturing attention by distributing messaging to the right users at the right time and place. It's just plumbing. Technology that can be used for good or bad.

Also, all advertising is targeted whether it's a billboard or a banner on a website. Technology has allowed us to become much more specific through data and tracking but there are both good and bad examples of this.

When netflix shows you a recommendation for a show that you end up loving, that was a good ad. When you see an ad for shoes you've already bought, that's not so good. Either way it's technology that's being used with 1000s of other factors that produce that end result.

Does adtech have issues? Absolutely. 99% are because it's a global industry without any oversight or regulation. There is nothing that stops companies from running knowing fake ads, there are no fines when they run malware, there are no pushbacks when their JS tags ruin performance, and there is a fundamental mismatch in how media is bought through politics and personal connections compared to the sales and performance oriented outcome on which it is judged upon. These are human and business and industry problems that are neither created by nor will be solved through technology.
I can probably have a program running to edit the app config file, but if I cannot edit the system config file in a text editor (particularly if it gets bad enough I'm booting in single user mode) I am really hosed.
Ductapemaster, I have done designs in networking (e.g. packet processing and 10 Gb Ethernet), wireless (e.g. baseband part of a modem), glue logic, and other more specialized areas. FPGAs have a wide variety of uses other than ASIC prototyping and small glue logic.
Augmented Reality Soundwalks
> education creates people who are capable of either create businesses or be useful for businesses

And in the US, it has also created a lot of people who are capable of neither, but are saddled with crushing student loan debt.
Perhaps not to compensate, but to validate. You would never feel compelled to act in a certain way because the sky is blue, or because water is wet. But if you have a political or religious belief, however absurd, you feel a compulsion to act.
Our Dishonest President
Mods: please change the title to something like "Signal leaks your phone number to everyone in your contacts" or "Signal leaks your number to your contacts"
I like modems. How feasible is it to run actual, real modems over IP-based network? Sampling audio at one end and playing it back on the other. We could have the old BBSs back. That would be great.
Do remember that current CPUs can dynamically run cores/hyper-threads at different clock speeds at the same time. Not to mention significantly mismatched performance ones (eg ARM big.LITTLE).

If you didn't have fairness, and the developer hadn't carefully assigned threads to cpus based on performance / priority of the work the thread is doing (and locked the CPU clock speeds), then the higher performing ones will starve out the others.

Fairness at least ensures that the developers writing simple straightforward code would get simple straightforward behaviour.
I had the same assumption that the article was going to be about psychedelic mushrooms but the article had not a peep about that topic, solely mushrooms as a macronutrient food.

Some mythology, some of which might even be scientific, is that below a certain IQ, generally representing homo sapiens, neither (serious) fishing nor mushroom gathering is possible or safe or sustainable but above a certain IQ those two technologies are incredibly useful. I suppose a good analogy is uranium is pretty useless until at least one culture reaches a certain industrial threshold and then it becomes quite influential in technology and geopolitics.

I wonder how smart neanderthals were, and how long they live if they eat random mushrooms. At some point it becomes evolutionary cheaper to evolve a smarter brain than to have stronger stomachs and livers.

Psilocybin must have been a very interesting experience for pre-historic cultures.
How to Be Happy: Are Other People More Succesful Than You?
Yesterday : how can messed up glass deliver any kind of respectable observations?

Today : how can messed up <foo> deliver any kind of respectable observations?
I had to build a custom billing system for Cachoid too ( https://www.cachoid.com/ ). You definitely need the upfront time to build it from the ground up but it's worth it in the long run. I'm doing monthly recurring with Stripe and one-time also with Stripe and Paypal. And Bitcoin through Stripe.

I found that charging per server/FQDN (one FQDN === one service === one billing item) rather than per user provides more flexibility. But I'm not comfortable with single-homed APIs like Spreedly. What if it gets acquired tomorrow? It isn't something you can replace overnight.

I'd rather have a multi-homed setup with direct relationship with multiple gateways
https://www.theranos.com/ ;)
Spoiler: People don't want to talk to chat bots to interact with a company. Same reason they get frustrated at IVRs.
> just how in blazes do these actually make money?!

I'm guessing they expect to make it back on the occasional whale who can't control their spending on these types of games.
Hard to combat weather and geography. The inversions in SLC are pretty powerful effects.
Sounds fair. Most of the time people say "i don't like the parens" the closest they came to actually using a lisp was JavaScript.
Arachni scanner: new engine
I pay 10$/300MB in Canada on a major carrier.
Please don't do this. It may sound reasonable at first but 'simple structures' don't define strings, variable length ints nor any kind of list type.
Eventually you'll need some of that and your protocol will become a mess of implicit padding and implicit stride rules, where every list is handled in a different way.
Not to mention all the deserialization security holes you are going to have.
If you don't believe me take a look at X11.
the poor guy who's kid spends $300 on in purchases ends up subsidizing 10,000s of users.
Make sure to give yourself plenty of time to go through the WWII Museum there. It is huge and extremely well put together, with tons of artifacts (including entire airplanes) and some of the best exhibit design I've ever seen.
Agreed. We should be investing in our own people and figuring out why our system isn't producing especially in light of the fact that we spend more than most countries on education. I'm guessing it's a combination of things:

- Recent grads from other countries are hungrier so they are constantly learning and have a plan. Many here get a sense of entitlement from graduating college because their parents came from an era where going to college was a near guarantee of a good job. Now it means very little as it's a requirement for most people.

- Our universities leave our students with a lot of debt which can be overwhelming. Rather than take a good opportunity with an internship, they're wanting high salaries straight out of college. They're very short-sighted and entitled. When I hire - I'm not going to overpay because you took on a lot of debt. Most small businesses can't afford to hire at what these grads want. I'm personally hiring people with no formal experience in technology with good personalities and a hunger to learn and teaching them.

- Universities are failing because most don't have the professors and curriculum yet to handle the needs of our evolving economy. I've always been interested in the web but they didn't teach any web development or technology when I was at school, so I taught myself instead of going to classes and ran an ecommerce store in 01 when margins online still existed. My brother is much younger than me and his school has these programs so that's a good thing.

A college education is definitely oversold and has been for some time. It used to be an incredible value. As with most things, I think we'll see a return to the older times and apprenticeships will emerge as a competing alternative. I know General Assembly offers apprenticeships where you pay something like $3500/mo for a boot camp graduate and they work on-site for 4 days and spend Friday learning at GA. I haven't tried it yet because I've been hiring in-network but I think that's a pretty compelling offering for both the student and the company hiring.
You're not being offensive. It's an important, non-obvious, under taught engineering principle. I understand the phenomenon he's describing and it's unfortunate he can't tell the difference.
I live in a racially homogeneous (Euro-American), neoliberal, resolutely secular, generally well-off small city in Massachusetts. I think it's fair to call the city's culture a post-Calvinist post-Christian monoculture of striving upper middle class white people. Most of our kiddos have two married parents. The majority can expect middle class economic success in their lives.

I volunteer in a drop-in center for kiddos in the public housing project for families, where our Euro upper middle class monoculture isn't visible. People come from other parts of MA to live in our public housing project for all kinds of reasons. Many households contain just one parent. Many are disfunctional. Many kids don't have enough structure in their home lives to get their schoolwork done. Lots of the poverty is multigenerational.

The purpose of our drop-in center is to try to give these kiddos a vision of what it would be like to get out of housing -- to be socially mobile. Statistically, I suppose the phrase "get out of housing" means "move from the bottom quintile to some other stratum." But "get out of housing" is more tangible. And it's very difficult in my city. Why? Because we antipoverty activists get a lot of positive liberal lip-service but not much tangible support from the majority. Most of the kids in town are insanely busy -- music, dance, rock-climbing gym, sports. But, the kids in housing have very little to do; they don't feel like they fit in.

It would be GREAT to have a bishop or two cracking the whip and saying, "Look, suck it up. Welcome these neighbors into your lives, and treat them like neighbors." "You're going to Cambridge to check out Harvard and MIT? Take a friend along." etc.

We have some small victories: a few families a year stabilize, get jobs, and move out. But we have some defeats too. It's all about keeping at it. But to me the metaphorical grass in SLC sounds pretty green from this article.
> ...conservatives tend to regard poverty as a self-inflicted state...

Conservatives see poverty as being at least partly a social problem. They just don't see bureaucratization as a healthy solution to the problem.

It's common to refer to conservatives who have a more liberal view of poverty as "compassionate", but it's just a word, not a judgement.

> It's common to refer to conservatives who have a more liberal view of poverty as "compassionate", but it's just a word, not a judgement.

Let's flip this around and see how it sounds: "It's common to refer to liberals who have a more conservative view of poverty as 'intelligent liberals'". Point being, "compassionate conservative" comes across judgy, no matter how it was meant. George W. Bush coined that line during the 2000 presidential campaign and was criticized along these lines back then, too.
A church is not a government. Governments have special powers that churches do not.

Because it has those powers, government has an incredible burden to be fair. That doesn't sound so bad, but really limits how effective it can be at many things.
To me property based testing is just checking that a function obeys a certain law by throwing lots of random data at it.

That means you have to define the law in terms of the input and output. Rather than fix the input like you'd do on a regular test and just assert the output.

The hard part is trying to figure out what laws you should expect from your functions.
Relax, advertising is not going away. This is silly FUD article.
Even the standards got it wrong. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1624
Adtech has issues but the idea that traditional advertising which has zero feedback from users is gonna make a comeback seems silly. Paying marketers millions to launch campaigns in magazines or TV when you have no clue how it lands seems more fraudulent to me than Adtech where you can measure user impressions/clicks. This reads to me like a guy in a shrinking market lashing out at an existential threat.

Disc: I work for an adtech business
Really? The NYT says that claim is based on flawed studies. [0] It also seems pretty dumb to take medication advice from random people on the Internet esp. when there are a lot of things you could try before illegal drugs like getting more sleep or more exercise.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/opinion/lsd-to-cure-depre...
nit: SSH != Telnet
> I don't know what this means...

I mean: under the stated assumption that the data is given by a sum of independent Gaussian variables, would the Pearson correlation of the Gaussian data be equal to the Spearman rank correlation of the corresponding ranked data.

One can check from the definition that the answer is "yes".

> Hmmm. I think that it is the r-squared that is the proportion of variance in Y that is accounted for by X.

Yes, you're right, I needed to square this number. So, assuming Gaussian independent variables, 37% of the variance in mobility is explained by percentage foreign born. It would be pretty surprising if there were even an larger effect independent than this, so I'll self-grade my conjecture as "plausible".
Interactive voice response (IVR) is a technology that allows a computer to interact with humans through the use of voice and DTMF tones input via keypad.
Exactly. They extract money by addicting people and taking advantage of them. It should be criminal.
Reddit doesn't like The Black List because it's a bit pay to play and exclusive, like the industry it serves. Sounds like the author let that transfer to him a bit, because it's one of the most powerful channels for a promising screenplay (especially if it makes it to the List itself), and I too found the criticism awfully misguided, particularly with how personal it is.

If I put it harshly, I think that bit about the List is a subtle clue about the author holding himself back and burning bridges before he ever gets to them.
Why do you assume what you personally like is what your readers will like?

But relevancy to your sites and readers is what adtech is all about. It doesn't help anyone to have irrelevant ads, they do care about making sure the fit is as good as possible.

Stay away from the crappy "recommended links" widgets and popup videos and you'll find plenty of ad networks that can help.
Source? AFAIK the ones that get people in trouble are "gravity knives" (folding knives that can be flicked open)
> I wonder how smart neanderthals were, and how long they live if they eat random mushrooms.

A lot longer than if they were eating random plants. E.g. of the 2,000 or so species of mushrooms in North America, there are maybe 10 or 20 that will kill you. And almost all of those are in the same three or four genuses, so you don't need to be able to identify a single poisonous mushroom to species to avoid being poisoned. There are few more in Europe, but not that many more.
Nothing about it would apply to this case
For anyone interested in this, I recommend the Bosnian Bill YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/bosnianbill

He picks a ton of locks and has a few recommendation videos if you're looking to buy.
That's Google. Your example weather query works today.
The Trauma of Facing Deportation
I think I re-implemented rpcgen a couple of times in Ye Olde Days, so it can't be hard. Then DCE came by and then I lost track of serialization protocols that are essentially rehashes of SunRPC/XDR. So yeah, I've been thinking along the same lines as Scott - why?

These days, I've mostly thrown the towel and plunk in JSON everywhere. At least it's hip, and if I ever find a piece of code where the serialization is the bottleneck, early enough to start pushing XDR (not ASN.1 - I once tried to write a parser for _that_ and ended up with some extra grey hairs ;-)).
That's rather obvious when you consider that no one has ever been afraid of rich people having leisure.
You don't need to push LSD in every single thread that mentions depression. Especially in a thread about Zimbabwe, which has the death penalty for some drug offences.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:benevol%20lsd&sort=byPo...
The community edition works with a single gpu and does not allow horizontal scaling.