skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to seem like an old-timer telling the young whipersnappers soda pop used to be a nickel but I was involved in the internet before there was a web. So, I've sort of seen the growth over time and believe it or not there was a time before advertising. Most websites didn't have advertising. Nowadays your strange uncle has ads on his personal blog because someone told him about AdSense. Forget that fact that he earns $0.15 a year, he's a professional blogger.

For awhile, most of the content on the internet was non-commercial. People, myself included, posted stuff online because we wanted to share information. We had no expectation of ever receiving compensation for it.

Nowadays way too many people want to thumb their nose at boring jobs and travel the world writing blog posts and getting paid for it. Or they want to become Instagram stars so they pimp products for money.

I'm not saying that as a cranky old man. What I'm getting at is everybody is trying to monetize everybody else. It's not that you get annoying ads on CNN, it's that your cousin is trying to get you to watch his YouTube channel so he can quit the rat race and live in Thailand for $500 a month.

I know this is unrealistic but I would like to see things move back more towards how they used to be. Ad platforms used to actually have standards. You had to be doing pretty decent traffic to even be considered. The bar was set high enough that it limited the number of people who created websites as commercial ventures.

People used to create websites because they were passionate about a topic, not because they figured out that there was an SEO niche where they could rank #1 for a keyword and then slap ads all over the site.

And the way this relates back to services that could not exist otherwise, if they're valuable enough people will either pay to use them or advertisers will bid up the price for the limited advertising inventory and the provider can make a decent return.

Because the real problem is that the supply of content is virtually infinite while the money going into the advertising space is finite. Thus, supply of space to advertise exceeds demand willing to pay to advertise on it.
TTW I asked Eric Schmidt if he had seen Gattaca:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXk8MJGHaEg

For context, he was talking about letting algorithms run wild on our genome to reduce risk of health problems and genetic disease, then using CRISPR to reintroduce these benefits into our genes.

I ultimately wish I had asked the question more directly, but I feel like the response was ultimately "we won't do that because society won't let us", when what I wanted to hear was "one would need to be incredibly mindful about ethical dilemmas surrounding the proxy of algorithms tell us what's best for us".
From what I understand, there is the concern that potential new technologies wouldn't be allowed under a strict interpretation of net neutrality. For a hypothetical example: go back in time when voice over IP first came on the scene. At that time there wasn't enough excess bandwidth to guarantee voice packets would arrive on time. Now you could prioritize voice traffic, but you'd have to either charge a fee, or find a way to positively identify voice data (otherwise everyone would turn on the voice QOS flag in all their apps even if they didn't need it). This would then not be net neutral.

Of course, today there is enough excessive bandwidth that voice traffic doesn't need to be prioritized. But what about an application where an expert doctor is controlling a robotic surgical instrument from cross country? Would a special service class for those packets be allowed under net neutrality laws?

But the real reason, is that as soon as there is additional bandwidth available, technology finds a way to consume all of it and then some. So the ISPs want to be able to de-prioritize some heavy bandwidth users (such as bittorrent), and/or give higher priority to traffic with paying users like Netflix (for a toll fee, of course), or their own video services.
How much did they spend on acquiring movie studios, television stations, etc. etc. unrelated from the core utility business? My internet connection fees shouldn't be subsidizing media conglomeration.
I came up with a variant of this idea in an interview once. It did not go over too well. :)
There's also an updated version of the episode that they aired this year.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/update-crispr/
So what? That doesn't obviate the possibility that their profits are maintained through corruption.
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I never thought that I would miss writing C, but writing Python in a fairly large system, I miss the type checking.

Some of the ease of use of dynamicity is paid back in the added costs of writing more tests.

In my experience a big downside of highly dynamic languages that let you hack the language itself, including Python and Lisp, is that they give programmers quite a bit of room to shoot themselves in the foot by designing language-altering atrocities. On the Python system I currently work on, I've found atrocious uses of metaclasses that make classes behave in unintuitive ways.

Don't get me wrong, I love using Python and Lisp for my own projects, and I don't like Java very much, but I've come to appreciate its one big advantage for large software systems: it limits the damage that can be done by mediocre programmers.
"SICP uses Scheme, which is not Lisp." --- is that a "no true Scotsman" argument or do you just mean "Scheme is not Common Lisp"?
It's any animal (mice, in this case) with a set of characteristics you keep constant between trials. It could be mice of the same age or weight or that have a specific gene or have the same diet.
The model supported by coreboot is the first generation X1 Carbon, which is 4-5 years old now. I'm talking about the 5th generation, which has only been available for a few months.
Yea, the design & UX could both use a bit more work. Give me another couple of weekends and I'll improve things a bit further.

Thanks for the feedback!
To which sentence?
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interesting, and a very recent trend. the population of 1st generation Chinese immigrants in Chinatown have not developed a taste for sushi though.
Are those 100 fish in the market all local and fresh? I live on the coast in 'Capitalist America', and usually only eat fish that is fresh (thus typically local). Most of the markets only stock said types of fish/shrimp/oysters because I have always assumed it is what people want. I have noticed more non-local fish show up as mid-westerners have moved to my coastal city though.
They look great except for the battery, it sucks.
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In academia you would be competing the rest of your career with coworkers who spent their sabbatical teaching in a foreign country or being a principle organizer administrator of a conference or writing a very important paper or book or otherwise adding self directed value to their resume.

So technically you can spend it on the beach, but don't be surprised when your coworker who learned "language or framework of the week" is going to get the choice assignment or promotion you really wanted. Of course if you edit your book or learn a new language while sitting at a beach, or you are the primary organizer of a tech conference that happens to be on a tropical island or other vacation spot ...
When you go to many of the parks with noted wildlife, you'll see a fair bit of people traveling around with big telephoto lenses. They never need to pester any wild animals at all.

The only time I've seen people pester wildlife in the national parks, was when they wanted to get a close up using their limited-zoom-ability cell phone. (Nothing happened in this case, others haven't been as lucky -- see pg. 293 of this: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/pdfs/mm6511.pdf)
Depends on what you mean and where you are. If you are talking the US and exclude national parks then you cut the number of animals living in the wild way down. I've seen a wild mountain lion and the only buffalo I ever saw wild wasn't supposed to be (and I'm pretty sure they are confined to ranches and parks for some fairly obvious reasons). There are enough wild hogs that they are a noticeable problem in some areas.

Obviously, the animals inhabiting the oceans and seas have a totally different answer along with birds.
Born where? I believe west coast Chinatowns were built by Cantonese and separated by 100+ years. See the recent post about american chinese food.
I don't disagree, but I also don't think that's indicative that paying the most money is the optimal strategy. I'd much rather play for a team that does win rather than one that "should" but doesn't. My point, which I alluded to in the last paragraph, was not that teams shouldn't spend a lot of money, but that spending a lot of money is not a good substitute for spending money intelligently.
And taste. And freshness. I find a much better selection of flavors at my local Asian mart, and produce is usually a lot fresher since it moves off the shelves fast. Contrast with my local supermarket which sees that same bunch of brussel sprouts stay out all week, until it shrivels up and end up tossing half in the trash.
Right, that's the kind of subtleties I wanted to understand.
Right, "Computed Columns" are "view-like" columns added to normal tables. So you define your table with a few normal columns, and a few generated columns (which are each expressions over the normal columns, or over other generated columns).

On those "generated columns" you can create indexes, reference other tables (foreign keys) or be referenced by other tables (foreign keys).

MySQL has a binary JSON data type (like most databases) and also expressions to extract data from those JSON fields.

MySQL has a lot of disadvantages vs PostgreSQL, but having foreign keys on elements within JSON (via this mechanism) is a thing MySQL can do that PostgreSQL can't :) (Unless I'm mistaken?)
Why would being in the store be the differentiator. The biggest battery killer on my laptop is Slack. And that's available through the App Store.
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Seems like people haven't used openshift. It is fun, it is easy, and it is free stuff. Pretty much a replacement of aws do azure gc etc. Atleast for poc and mvp. And if u r smart enough then u can process millions of request per second for free in ur choosen stack.
It's not just fish. A staple of graduate student conversation is "Food X was a favorite of mine at home, but" "I can't find it in Boston" or "the American version is a bad tasteless joke".

One issue is lag - the American general food supply diversifies more slowly than the population.

Another issue is corporate consolidation of the food supply chain. For example, New England used to have a lot of small confectionery manufacturers, from big factories to mom&pops, which over the last three decades have most all been crushed out by Nabisco. Which is much lower quality. So "why doesn't Boston have good confectionery like", err, Castile? Well, we used to be a lot closer, but Nabisco et al.
Who would ever think Google will release a headless browser. Stunning.
Entertainingly, the size for naver.com and youtube.com are the same for me, both reaching 1.6MB (without caching). As far as I can see, the only difference is that for naver.com, 1.3MB are for images with 0.3MB for the page whereas with youtube.com only 0.6MB are for images and 1MB is for the page.
I agree it is possible, but it does make it harder to excel.
Outside of the startup world, "making money" generally is understood to mean PROFITS not "revenue".
I'm guessing the latter.
Fortunately in the late 19th century so did the prospect of Moon exploration and arrogated human knowledge in our pockets. But it's pretty standard now
Yeah, how can you do anything just that little amount? /s

The could give their shareholders billions and still have plenty left over to do anything.
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Yeah all these people talking about Americans not having good taste in food are entirely missing the point. It has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with economics.

There's no reason to eat fish when in almost all cases chicken, pork, and beef provide much cheaper and filling sources of protein. I mean, I love the taste of fish, but even I rarely eat it because it's just that much more efficient to feed myself with chicken and red meat.
"Quine" is a great name for a girl because after all, she can produce a daughter. Although sans parthenogenesis, the daughter's not an exact copy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
I agree; basically if you want to get the full compensation out of your employment (because perks are part of compensation) you have to participate in weird stuff like this.
> I've never seen billions of dollars in profits dismissed so casually.

Comcast has around 25 million customers [0], so that's around $65/year/customer. So if you cut that profit to $0, you can return $5/month on combined TV and internet to each customer. When people say "cable and internet are so expensive," they don't generally mean "if I got a $5 price cut I would be happy."

[0]: http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/comcast-statistics/
I posted this because the submission with Facebook Female Engineers Claim Gender Bias was removed by mods very promptly.

I think it's pretty clear that we now have active censorship perpetrated by HN mods.
Do you also feel that regulation of water quality is a bad thing?

Do you also feel that I should pay extra for the electricity used by my Air Conditioning unit or computer than I do for lights?
The issue in the U.S. is (and has historically been) that neither side wants to invest in telecom infrastructure--both want private companies to foot the bill. When you start from that premise, all your options are limited by the overriding need to ensure adequate incentives to invest.

As a matter of personal ideology, I'd say: let's build a nationwide public system with a federal/state partnership, and import regulators from Scandinavia to run it. But that's not one of the choices.
To be fair, they probably said the same about penicillin when it was discovered.
Fresh water fish strikes me as likely very labor intensive, and labor is searched for and destroyed in this country, in favor of industrial sized processes and yields.

I see big fillets of salmon and other large fish in Krogers, from the large industrial supply chain, next to the occasional little trouts and whatevers, and I often wonder "where do those little guys come from? How is it possible for them to get into this case?"

I'm not at all aware of any fresh water/river fishing companies, it strikes me as unsustainable except on a semi-recreational basis.
Whether Paulson (or anyone else) stands to profit from this is kinda besides the point. The critical thing is that Frannie not return to the status they had before: somewhat privately-owned but with strongly implied Federal government bailout guarantees. That had a lot to do with the real estate bubble (and its inevitable crash). We don't need a re-run of that movie.

A privatization of Frannie that involves removing the conditions that led to the bubble, including removing the bailout guarantees, would be a fair policy. However, I believe this will require legislation that Congress will have no appetite for, and which may not be able to pass in the Senate due to filibustering. We should definitely oppose half-measures in this respect; 2008 was too painful to replay.
This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but it is a valid question.

If Facebook is attempting to meet diversity quotas, which certainly exist, by pulling from a limited pool of qualifying candidates, in some scenarios, they will necessarily need to employ lower qualified candidates.

I'm NOT NOT NOT saying that women in general cannot code, or produce lower quality code, or anything of the like.

I AM saying that there are fewer female developers than male developers and, assuming an equal distribution of skill level between the two groups, there will necessarily be fewer highly qualified female coders than highly qualified male coders.

Thus, if Facebook wants a 50:50 male-to-female ratio, they will necessarily have fewer highly qualified female developers IF the number of positions to be filled by females exceeds the number of highly qualified female applicants, but the number of positions to be filled by males does not exceed the number of highly qualified male candidates.
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Back in 2011, there was an announcement from MIT about a new approach to a broad-spectrum antiviral that appeared to work.[1] This goes way beyond an AIDS-specific cure.
But it was at MIT Lincoln Labs, which doesn't usually do bio. So the researcher moved to Draper Labs, but didn't get much funding. Then that funding ran out. Now the guy behind this is trying to get funding on Indiegogo.[3] The problem seems to be that it's too far along for small-scale YC-sized funding, but not far enough along to sell to Big Pharma. The guy behind it clearly doesn't know how to get funded. He has a web site [4] and keeps trying for crowd funding.

Some VC needs to talk to this guy. This might or might not work, but the upside is good and the costs aren't that high.

[1] https://www.ll.mit.edu/news/DRACO.html
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/todd-rider-draco-crowdfunding...
[3] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dracos-may-be-effective-a...
[4] https://riderinstitute.org/
Jean-Yves Girard, a great logician, also has a lot of quarrels to pick with analytic philosophy. His prose is idiosyncratic, lyrical and definitely at odds with the dryness of "logic of the 20th century". If you like the idea of an energetic approach to reconceptualize philosophy, in particular the philosophy of logic, I recommend reading Girard's work. The Blind Spot: Lectures on Logic is an organized survey of logic starting with Hilbert's formalism and ending up in the operator algebras of Geometry of Interaction. Along the way, Girard's combative, highly opinionated and witty commentary ceaselessly entertains and engages.

Perhaps what is most striking about Girard in contrast to Nozick is how he manages to be very rigorous and artful simultaneously. Something as abstract of logic becomes a living creature when Girard talks about it. To see logic this way is to expect it to flourish in subordination to the rest of human experience, not languish in its own obscure enclave, ceaselessly chasing its own tail, reducing the alluring to the banal.
Until you loose internet connectivity (happens from time to time), or go abroad and don't want to pay high fees for net access.

Or when Google decides that you broke some of their rules (frequently happens in AdSense) and blocks all of your accounts.
I have seen similar dynamic happen too and would put blame for the situation on the supposed 10x developer.

The result is more likely a conswquence of missing communication about changes being done and badly split tasks/responsibilities. Good senior developer should know not to pull rugs from junior. He should not be rewriting juniors work that often.

I mean seriously, demotivation happening this way means that the 10x dude should not work in team at all - he should have work individually.
Here's a silly trick we used for a similar problem: use zlib with a custom compression dictionary. Our application had tons of interlinks (think linked data) that we wanted to expose to the end user, but putting urls in urls is kinda ugly. So we ended up with our own custom compression dictionary and pushing them through zlib. Works like a charm.
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Nice! By making it algorithmic and serverless the client could even expand it in situ when the mouse hovers over the link.
Your claim is bullshit. There's a whole thread here with discussions in varying levels of detail about the market for internet services, and HN is a community with a lot of technical expertise, experience, and economic knowledge.

When you make cliche ideological claims with zero supporting evidence that ignore all that pre-existing context, then I'm going to call bullshit every single time I see them. I do not think you're arguing in good faith here.
You could buy one from a store like gearbest or else buy from a reseller in your country and pay a small premium for warranty etc.
BUT DOES IT SCALE ON THE CLOUD
What is ShipShape @ Basecamp that is mentioned in the getting started guide regarding security protocol monitoring?
That's an advantage that's being eroded day by day. At some point they have to give up on trying to capitalize on that advantage and compete with those who have been chipping away at their market share.
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I dunno, that seems a little parental. To quote the article: "at the end of the day it's a job." I'm not wild about the company trying to influence aspects of my personal life that don't directly affect the company.
Intels "real clock" is `TSC`. This counts processor cycles. SandyBridge (and up, I think) ensure the `TSC` value never fluctuates but remains constant (at CPUID quoted clock speedish). Generally this _real clock_ is called `RDTSC` even tho its still `TSC` instruction.

Some rumblings from Intel suggest they may discontinue this. Either way this is addressed

`APERF` seems to be AMD's version of `RDTSC` but that requires the code execute in Ring-0. So it sounds like Agner was building a kernel module to wrap the existing test suite.
Speaking from experience: try this for a few months before you commit to it! I worked from home for 2 years, but 6 months after my son was born I chose to switch to a job with an office. It was impossible to get anything done at home with the constant interruptions (even though I wasn't the primary caregiver). My work and family lives are both loads better now that I have proper separation between the two.
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