skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, that attitude seems awfully shortsighted to me. You could dismiss efforts to save the environment and combat climate change by the same logic: "Who knows, maybe our children will be just fine with us radically altering the ecosystem..."

I think the argument ignores that:

a) we can make some educated guesses about future generations - based on ourselves and our own ancestors;

b) the future might be here sooner than you think. To take climate change again as an analogy, first predictions have seen the deadline for CO2 adjustment somewhere around 2100. Over the years, the deadline has been moved further and further back. Similarly, 2050 is an estimate that might as well be wrong, given the current pace of technological innovation.
Well, given that the pointers are contained in the nodes themselves, if a piece of code is already looking at a node when deciding if an insertion is needed, then no additional scan is required.
Anonymizing a dataset is next to impossible, especially if you have the ability to combine it with other datasets.
It really depends on the terms of the acquisition. But I'd imagine they'd get paid out over several years.
Hollywood has an advertising budget which cannot be matched by any app developer save the game studios and Apple itself. How many app developers have anything but "word of mouth"?
Well I don't think the author advises to go all the way down with your code but rather shows how to do that if you want to. As usual - what will anyone do with that knowledge is up to them but you surely will not advise not using a tool because you can do bad things with it.
But you do lose the patience to keep using what amounts to the reinvention of the wheel and having the same problems over and over, and you do lose much of your free time to other responsibilities, which manifests itself in not having the time to play with every new tech under the sun.
It's funny, I had an immediate "I've seen these graphs before" reaction" with this article, and it turns out your first link is something I was working on last month for a leetcode question.

It was probably one of the more useful/understandable pages I found in that process.
You're limiting your options by insisting to have both app and email hosting with the same company. My suggestion is to investigate them separately.

For app hosting, fire and forget (Heroku, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk), shared hosting (like Webfaction and many others), VPS/dedicated server (like AWS EC2, Digital Ocean and many others).

Managed options will take a lot less effort and knowhow to keep a production app running, but cost more. Your own server (VPS) will get you more resources for the same price, but you'll have to configure and maintain everything yourself (app server, static files, database, load balancing, backups and recovery, monitoring, upgrades, security, performance, scaling, etc).

For company email, Office 365, Google G Suite, Rackspace Mail. Maybe Amazon WorkMail (I only know it exists).

Edit: I misunderstood that you're looking for email service. If you want to run your mail server yourself, you need 1) a computer you control (VPS/dedicated) and 2) to know what you're doing. Unless you have a good reason to do that, I suggest you outsource it and get on with your business.
> Air suspension?

Could be a reference to ground effect, and a mistaken belief that helicopter lift is driven by ground effect (ground effect does play into helicopter low-altitude behavior, but as you mention they are aerodynes.)
Well, not exactly, in the sense that many homeopathic preparations don't even contain any molecules of the substances they supposedly 'remember'[1] while the studies being discussed in the article are using doses of LSD about 1/10th what a typical full-strength dose might be.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy#Dilutions
> Shoparoo is trying to take grocery product collection programs, like General Mills Box Tops for Education, into the smartphone age. Our primary business is market research, specifically collecting item-level purchase data from households, said CEO Jared Schrieber in an interview. We developed an amazing technology that allows this data to be captured in just seconds via people simply snapping pictures of their receipts with their smartphones. However, this begged the question, how could we encourage a large number of people to spend a few seconds after each shopping trip taking pictures of their receipts? Our answer, Shoparoo, was inspired by the Box Tops for Education school fundraising program where parents spend a few moments of their time cutting out product labels from grocery products.

http://betakit.com/shoparoo-partners-with-unilever-to-turn-r...
Norway has a population about the same as Sydney's metropolitan area.

Place's like Norway can be fun demonstrator setups, but China will likely win the race by all other metrics.
The two co-founders attended Furman University and were fraternity brothers who met in a coding clsss.

Square probably doesn't need more brogrammers.
Don't combine the two; outsource your email hosting (Google, etc) to save a lot of pain, and select your Django hosting from a large range of options, from Digital Ocean to Heroku to AWS.

No technical reason these two need to be hosted together, and the market has definitely not favored putting all these eggs in one provider.
1) OpSec is hard

2) When you get away with something for long enough you get a sense of invulnerability

3) OpSec is hard
Wait..He got downvoted because he showed a lack of knowledge? HN is better than that. Is he trolling?
Gamers in Hawaii can’t compete… because of latency
Almost no hydrogen station infrastructure. 34 total stations nationwide (most are in California) http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/hydrogen_locations.html
> Is that a thing that ever happens?

Yes. If you acquire a company, you assume all their liabilities as well as the assets. You might want to just buy the assets and have the acquisition owners dissolve it themselves to keep the liabilities at bay.
Think of it as a write-back cache to sliw HDDs. You will be able to have very fast consistent DURABLE cache writes which will be written back async to slow HDDs. 32GB is more than enough for this case.

Or your filesystem caching often requested disk blocks which had to be removed because of memory pressure.
A checking account is money that the bank owes you. A credit card balance is money that you owe the bank. The bank cares a lot more about getting its money back than it does about getting your money back.
Yeah, and it's so common there's a phrase for it: "acquihire". When a company (or even just its team) is acquired for the engineers themselves, not for any existing code, product, or business.
This is likely part of how the speech-generating NNs are trained (ie. there's a generated-speech-detector and the network is trained to fool it, while it is also trained): https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661
Mismanaged landfills can have some unpleasant effects on the surrounding environment, like smell in the air or seeping pollutants into groundwater.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14185513.
international policy pissing contest: countries actually rank education internationaly by counting number of published articles. you can't make this up.
This is how I take it too. Sagan isn't saying that all human problems are insignificant or unimportant, but it's entirely true that many of the things we fight over and even kill each other over are, when put into perspective, pretty stupid. The whole point is to take a step back and carefully evaluate things as a first course of action and to try to save conflict and aggression for situations where it's meaningful and likely to make a positive impact in the bigger picture.
I'm 51, still codeing almost every day and I use SO a lot. I used to contribute more, when it started, but lately use it more as a reference.

Didn't know about the survey - would have probably filled it out, actually.

I feel it's pretty easy to keep up with new technologies when necessary, since I don't have to relearn the basics and almost always have a reference point as in "oh X is similar to what we used to call Y in Z".

One huge shift for me is distribution - as the browser is now almost capable as a general UI it's easier to not worry about OSes, installers, versioning, etc. This is true even for people who primarily don't work on web apps.
Reading over your response, I think we are talking about two different things. You appear to be talking about copyright protection. Remember that when you purchase a game, you don't purchase the copyright. You purchase a license to play a copyrighted game on a particular medium. (That part of the game instruction manual we all skipped past as kids.)

I don't have access to one of those licenses at the moment but if you happen to have one of them from one of the old NES games, I would be very interested in knowing if it has a section that states that the consumer has a right to backup the game onto another medium and play it there.

Again, you seem to be talking about copyright. I'm talking about the legal rights of the consumer when they purchased the license (game) from Nintendo. This is a good discussion, though.
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This may mean that they’ll decrease the commission charged to developers to as little as 10-15% this summer?
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Now they recommend I delete my last name from Facebook.

http://imgur.com/a/D8pmv
The RE engine here is only used as a fast VM; so the pathological cases from the article should still apply. So apart from the memory use issues there's also that.
Yik Yak destroyed itself by ignoring their users and making changes that undermined the reason people used their app in the first place. They're only "struggling" because of a series of self-inflicted wounds.
I wonder if he'd accept the same voice, but with a different accent?

Should be just as possible in the present or near future.
No, it's not. The average federal sentence for murder, which takes into account as many cases in which there are mitigating factors as ones where there are aggravating factors, is 20 years.

There are in this particular case no mitigating factors we can see, and several aggravating ones.
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In a small town my parents live in they opened a park with a large hill, originally landfill, and the kids tobaggon on it every year. One of the most popular destinations in the town during winter. So agreed it's not all bad and destructive.
$5/month droplets with Digital Ocean would be my vote. You have the freedom to use whatever email server you want.
Tangentially related and I expect a 50% chance to be punished for this but it is really interesting and I think it deserves some thought:

It always surprises me how a number of HNers worries about killing insects, even for science - all while supporting the killing of unborn children.
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Did you just write this now? Are you saying that the above parser is linear time worst case?
> If Apple drastically cuts this revenue stream, the company could end up alienating people writing for those sites.

Isn't this, in some ways, good for the consumer? While some legitimate review sites may be impacted, this would imaginably help cut down on the number of illegitimate spammy review sites that are pushing ad-ridden and malware-ish apps.
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46 this year and still happily coding.
If I had to pick an adjective to describe my (former) Chinese car* , it wouldn't be "unsafe". It ticked the right boxes for people who might not know a lot about cars, but it left a lot to be desired when it came to maintainable. Still, there was quite a bit of value for money, and if you can deal with the high maintenance requirements it wasn't a bad car.

*2011 Haval H5. Or, as I explained it to others, 4Runner knock-off with Mitsubishi engine and styling.
I don't know your experiences but the "performance optimizations" that I've seen lacked obvious technical support around it. Usually people thought "it will be faster" without using profiler (sin no 1) or did not properly isolate and control the performance critical part of the code (making performance tests part of the build etc.). But these are other issues separate from optimizing code.

The usual caveat of making code correct, readable and then fast in this order of course also applies :)
Subscription providers shoot themselves in the foot when they do unethical practices like forcing people to call in and sit on hold to cancel. Its even a violation of Visa's rules to not provide digital way to unsubscribe.
"Presuming that the result of this conviction is that the USG can effectively claw back much of the proceeds of the crimes, then 5 years would presumably have the same retributive and deterrent effects."

I can see a strong argument for same, or close to the same, deterrent effects -- it's a pretty straightforward marginal argument supported in the literature (i.e. the swiftness and sureness of a punishment has more of an influence on deterrence than the severity of the punishment).

But I don't see how you can make that argument for retributive effect. The worse the punishment the stronger the retributive effect. In order for the retributive effect to be about the same for five years and 27 years there'd have to be diminishing marginal disutility to offender for additional years of prison. I don't think that's empirically observed -- prisons use the threat of additional time, along with privileges, as a management tool inside prisons.

Whether or not we as a society should be satisfied with the disutility of five years worth of prison for this particular crime and whether retribitutivism is an appropriate measure of justice to begin with are different questions.
Atlassian HipChat hacked
This isn't chargeback-type fraud though, also not limited to card-not-present scenarios (the crooks actually print physical "copies" with stolen card info on the magstripe).

If someone buys goods/services with a stolen CC and money between the issuing and acquiring banks exchanges hands, unless there's something very specific there that can shift liability towards the merchant - it's not that easy for the banks to demand the funds from the merchant.
If by car functionality, you mean those 5 minutes trips you take in the car ... to the corner grocery store?

(At least this is what I understand the range to be.)
At home it was my Dad who told me to be nice to spiders. :-)
Why do people keep expecting Tesla to pay for crashes when the vehicles perform better than the average other vehicle on the road? I was involved in a crash, a drunk pulled in front of me, and the chassis bent a bit and i could open either front door, and had to crawl out the back... thats just a normal thing in car accidents, and it cant be avoided... and there is room to get out of the vehicle from the front.

Tesla has been proven safer in crashes, and less likely to be in a crash in the first place. The driver crashed into a stationary object, sue the driver, not the car company.
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It does fit the pattern. When in lack of product innovation, milk the existing reveneue stream harder.
I host my Django app on Heroku and use Amazon SES to send email. On Amazon, I use WorkMail, which is built on top of SES and works seamlessly with it.
48 here, programming since my early teens and I enjoy contributing to StackOverflow when I can and leaning on it in return for help keeping up with the explosion of 'modern' programming techniques. I'm not too proud to recognize it for the invaluable resource that it is.
Russ, while you're around, thanks for re2! RE2::Set especially! But why is RE2::Set so underdocumented and underpromoted? All regex libraries need this functionality.
I like the guys at Divio[1] (of Django CMS fame). They have a partner program if you are hosting for your clients.

[1] https://www.divio.com/en/
Write a fake or cookie cutter review about popular app X, link to app X in your article and then collect commissions on people who buy it through the link.
Tesla tripled its sales to china in 2016, which means it was about 1/4 of total Tesla sales https://electrek.co/2017/03/03/tesla-triple-sales-china-2016...

(Tesla represents about 4/7 of the total electric car market)
>You're limiting your options by insisting to have both app and email hosting with the same company. My suggestion is to investigate them separately.

Even if you do have them with the same company you should have them installed on separate VPS. Sounds like OP wants it all on one server, which I would advise against.
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Square has an Atlanta office in Atlantic Station, which is ~ 15 minutes from where Yik Yak is located in Buckhead. This same Square office previously picked up the Google Web Toolkit team after Google closed their local office.
Apps don't spread from being useful. Being useful might be a baseline requirement for them to spread, but massive marketing budgets, social media spamming, and shady deals with handset makers (if you can get them) are what cause most apps to truly be hits today. Long gone are the days when an independent developer writes a little app and, and much to his or her surprise, it goes viral and they make six or seven figures quickly. There are many reasons for this - fierce competition, terrible app store discovery models, etc.

The commission cut will only make the problem worse, by lowering the incentives to write about little-known but good apps. Instead, the only apps that get written about will be those where the app creator has a big budget and puts pay-per-install offers on affiliate networks. The competition and steep commissions on these netowrks is such that a typical install will cost a publisher $2-$4, making it unprofitable except possibly in the very long term, and even then only if the app has an extremely aggressive revenue model.
In this particular case, they are suing because the door wouldn't open, which is a pretty reasonable expectation of an undamaged door.
I bet 10$ that "errors" were reported by people who still run iexplore on Windows XD which doesn't support modern https.
To my knowledge, both of these particular projects are still a ways away from being used in any practical sense, let alone succeed at deceiving anyone.

You are right that we'll have to worry about this soon though. Likewise, verifying the identify of people we think we're talking to over video calls for example.
fake reviews on the affiliate site: more unique affiliate site links to more apps, more revenue

fake reviews on the app store: increase app profile and visibility, secondary feeder to your affiliate site via organic; Maybe affiliate site uses app store category top 20 lists to generate its links?
Killing things only when you have to is objectively the safer choice when it comes to not feeling bad about yourself in the future.
I am happy with cheap VPS from ovh
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So they want $1m because.. they have nightmares about what would have happened if they couldn't get out of the car? Tesla certainly isn't to blame for the crash, and it sounds like they're not to blame for it catching on fire either. In addition, the passengers didn't even try the emergency door release levers (presumably because they didn't know about them, even though they're documented in the physical owner's manual).

Honestly, this just sounds like a money grab to me.
The spammy review sites will always be more profitable than the ones that actually put in the work to do reviews. If they drive down profit the useful sites will be the first to die sadly :(
Can confirm, currently working for an IT firm in Oslo, but god i'll be lying if i said it's not an expensive city to leave in.
With all due respect, someone who got accepted to Yale would not write:

"I was accepted at Yale.
Julia of Mentr was amazingly helpful and guided me all along the way. I'm so thankful her who helped me with my essays and got me to this point."

Obviously fake testimonials and stock photos are major red flags. If you have to use fake testimonials, for the love of all that is holy, find a good writer.
The question is if this guy is merely monitoring police, or also actively trying to harass them or interfere with what they're doing.
This is why the plural of anecdote is not data.

It doesn't even matter if they get thousands or millions of survey responses - the methodology to collect the surveys doesn't avoid biases (random collection), nor is there a method to remove the bias.
>Don't combine the two

>No technical reason these two need to be hosted together

Sound advice. To me it sounds like maybe the OP wants both on the same VPS, which is a horrible idea. Even if you found one provider, still you should have separate VPS's for the email and Django app.
Despite the movies showing weird/scary trips, LSD is a very comforting, pleasant, and soft experience. You don't see things or talk to objects, at most you see some visual stimuli, like blending colors. People who say that they were hallucinating have never tried it or are lying.

It would definitely be a surprise though if it was unexpected. A possibly pleasant experience depending on the person though... Definitely the most memorable experiences I've ever had (I agree with Steve Jobs there).
>Any projects that attempted to do this sort of overlay for UUCP?

I have met only manual creation of SSH/stunnel tunnels. So did I for many years.
I've always been amazed that Shockley's discovery of the transistor was also by accident...

https://books.google.com/books?id=mykDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA80&lpg=P...
They faced legal trouble for the anonymity.
not sure why he's getting downvoted. even the tip of the iceberg that is known to us warrants all sorts of prosecution.
> Most of the work would be essentially quick and one-off:

Again, think about the complexity of what's generating that content. Do you really think they have a single index.html template floating around rather than the system described pulling blocks of content in from various sources, all of which need to be updated in various places? You could build a system to collapse whitespace runs after the content is generated but now you need to develop that and test it to make sure it doesn't trigger on something where the whitespace actually matters … and suddenly you're taking time away from changes which actually benefit people.

> given an almost certain quick small win + saving CPU time and bandwidth and a bit of planet while we're at it!

How much CPU time do you think you're talking about, anyway? Here's what doing this in a naive manner which will break things looks like:

cadams@jupiter:~ $ gzip -9 < bbc.html | wc -c
32259
cadams@jupiter:~ $ curl -s http://www.bbc.com | perl -pe 's/\s+/ /gs' | gzip -9 | wc -c
30859

So we're talking an extremely small amount of CPU time and one packet saved. That's might seem useful until you look at this in context of a page which loads a couple MB of content and uses multiple seconds of CPU time:

https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170424_NT_W4S/

Image compression, enabling gzip on the remaining resources which lack it, etc. are all going to save more data on individual files and have the nice property of not breaking anything else.
In my experience, common clothes moth[1] or its larvae is also capable of eating through a plastic bag enclosing dry foodstuffs or cereal. Not sure if they're actually digesting it or could survive on the polyethylene diet though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tineola_bisselliella
I have a pretty umm... interesting... history. MANY folks were a good influence in my life. My hope in my particular venue of volunteer work is to help affect some of the same change in the lives of others. It's most definitely rewarding.
I'll be programming until my head doesn't work anymore.
Thanks for mentioning that. I forgot to remove that link. There is no mirror on Github anymore.