skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! My side project turned into my day job several years ago but to this day one of the largest source of income it brings in is from ads. I now use more of a niche ad network provider to serve our ads but at the beginning everything was google adsense. While its true that day 1 ads didn't generate enough to cover costs but since I self hosted and worked hard to optimize everything I didn't have huge AWS bills to pay and costs were really low anyway. It was only six month ago that we finally made the jump to the cloud.

Anyway the point is, at least if you're not targeting an user base that has ad block enabled, ads, and I'm not talking about annoying ads, still can work just fine. What we do is offer our users a fairly cheap subscription option to disable the ads too along with getting some extra features so a lot of people jumped on that too... but I love being able to offer most of our services to everyone without any cost so thank you advertisers!
In French the written language can be quite stilted, with a lot of set phrases and expressions you are supposed to know especially if you are penning administrative requests. I wonder if it's the same in Portuguese and other romance languages.
Or Bayesian inference trades certainty for speed ie how we work in real life.
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I'm that person in our marriage. I have noticed that my snoring is really bad when I'm exhausted by life (kids aren't letting us sleep, stressed out, etc). We have an arrangement where my wife kicks me out if she can't sleep and I spend the night on the couch. By definition, if I'm so tired that I'm snoring like that, sleeping on the couch is no big deal.

As far as vibrating alarms go: I use my Apple Watch as my alarm. It's set to silent, so it just vibrates when it's time for me to wake up. For the most part, my wife is never aware of it going off. It's been a total game changer for me.
I'm pretty sure it died because they started adding accounts and identities and stuff, which people didn't want. When it was fully anonymous it was popular, but once they tried to remove the anonymity, it started to die. It got a bit more popular when they started bringing back the anonymity, but it was too late by then.
If you increased the number of murderers in Norway by 6.5x, you would not increase the number of prisoners in Norway by 6.5x.
i think everyone is just trying to fit it to their narrative of harassment or free speech when in reality it just wasn't that compelling of a product after a while. At my school it devolved into horny guys trying to get laid and shit talking about professors.
Anonymously on the internet? Sure, whatever.

If we live in a culture where people understand the concept of "people on the internet could be lying", especially with regards to specific, highly serious, allegations against specific people, then someone posting something like that about me wouldn't be a big deal, because nobody would believe them.

There certainly could be "harm", but I'd argue that on average, the harm would have a very low chance of mattering, and I'd rather live in an open society.

The more people are able to talk, the more they are able to get to the actual truth of the matter.
Until you move, you're doing business in California. Once you move, that'll be a different story.

My guess is you're not going to move to a state based on the minimum corporate tax rate :) So, once you move, it'll be easier to make recommendations as to which state is best for your LLC.

Until then, I'm sorry to say you're stuck with the California franchise tax...
That distinction is very familiar to me. Forgeries are pastiches. Leaving behind the business of painting, a lot of art these days -- performance, conceptual --would be equally difficult (or easy) to forge because it communicates a particular attitude or state of affairs, truthful or phony. Graphic designers ("commercial artists") or advertising art directors know that their business is communicating a particular desired state of affairs, regardless of whether it actually "obtains" as they say in philosophy.

If you accept that all the things we call art are very broadly and fundamentally concerned with that (making a convincing statement, not necessarily a likeness of reality) then it's really clear how a class of skilled imitators can exist who can't come up with the "opinions" themselves. Why anyone should care whether a particular work is a product of original thought or not is the big, dangerous issue that forgery raises.
So the obvious conclusion is that YikYak caused her to be murdered?
This. We moved all of our babies into separate rooms ASAP because hearing all of their sleep noises was killing our ability to sleep. Major win for us.
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The "stuff" you are asking about is the original win32 API, which as far as I know is still the bread and butter for everything running on top of a windows install. .NET and its various frameworks like WPF or WinForms or GDI+ may be reimplementations of GUI components instead of reusing existing GDI (part of Win32) components but certainly Win32 is the gateway to anything getting done still.
A linked list is a special case of a tree structure, but a blockchain is not a special case of a Merkle tree. If you considered the special case of a Merkle tree that was just a list it would be both useless, and not a blockchain.

Edit: Its worth pointing out that the main innovation of the 2008 paper by Nakamoto introducing the concept of blockchain's wasn't just storing things in a linked list based on hashes. It was the Sybil tolerant distributed consensus algorithm. Most people include that in the definition of a blockchain.
Provenance is important to some people.
no other changes, working out and water have been the same before and after (always worked out quite a bit, always drank quite a bit) same as appetite: I did not restrict sodium for blood pressure reasons, I was definitely surprised when I saw it that low and remain low since as all my life prior I've always been around the same higher but still normal bp, the sodium intake was the only change I made (of course this also implied some dietary changes, like no bread anymore due to sodium contents, but nothing else really major)

Would definitely be interested in finding more studies on extremely low sodium diets (especially on possible long term side effects), but finding information has been quite difficult.
The wonderful thing about HyperLogLogs is that you can split the counter in N servers and "merge" the registers later, in case you want an architecture that shards the same counter in multiple servers. But sharding directly by resource looks simpler actually...
Congratulations on shipping! I rather like the UI.

Few quick thoughts

1. I don't like navigating back to the main page to search

* Example: http://imgur.com/XuZSrSR (no search bar here)

2. If a field is not populated, consider not displaying it

* Example: http://imgur.com/9b6UIUv

3. Some pages don't go anywhere meaningful

* http://visaok.in/press

* Sign in / register

* http://visaok.in/not_a_real_page (=> http://imgur.com/Qhue840)

4. Search doesn't handle some input; I get an error page

* Example: http://visaok.in/jobs/search?q=%3Ch1%3Etest%3C%2Fh1%3E
> If we live in a culture where people understand the concept of "people on the internet could be lying", especially with regards to specific, highly serious, allegations against specific people, then someone posting something like that about me wouldn't be a big deal, because nobody would believe them.

We don't live in that culture. We live in a culture where paediatricians are attacked because a group of people was too fucking stupid to know the difference between paediatrician and paedophile.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/30/childprotection.s...
> Why shouldn't the university offer some form of protection? Even if it's the form of blocking the app?

Why should the University be in charge of controlling what apps you use? If you don't like the app, don't use it, it's not difficult. Some people liked using it, and it had genuine uses, so blocking it is pretty extreme and pointless. And set's bad precident.
I'm likely mildly dyslexic. I get my left and right mixed up. I am horrible at spelling, even after practice. I'm nearly 39. I share much of the same habits as the poster - reading is much better if I've gotten the basics introduced orally. Reading in a quiet library? I hear every paper shuffle and I have to start the paragraph or page over again. I already have to read some texts a few times to get a bit of substance from it. Some things, I simply can't learn by myself from reading, even if I'm interested in the subject.

And I actually enjoy reading. It just goes slowly and takes a lot of mental effort especially if it is something long or involved.

Learning to focus attention correctly is only part of the issue for some of us. For myself, I wish they would have caught my stuff when I was a kid instead of figuring this stuff out trying to learn the language of a country I moved to.
I honestly think Apple maps will always stay just "good enough" and that they have no current intentions on furthering it as a product.
It's really hard. Our second came while the first was still under 2 years old. Like you, we live far from family. We were fortunate enough to be in a multi-bedroom house, though. Still, our marriage almost fell apart.

Maybe just space them out? We had 2.5 years between the 2nd and 3rd and those extra 8 months made a world of difference. Not sure how old yours is now, but the difficulty of raising kids is an exponential backoff kind of a thing. Our oldest is 4.5 and, honestly, hardly requires any work. We basically just make her meals, but we could probably even teach her how to do that...
Its not about bringing down white males. Its about bringing women and minorities to the same level. The comment is in poor taste
disagree, I went for a 5 hour fairly hard (~2000m of climbing) bike ride last summer in hot weather with no food and drinking only plain water (and not that much water at that, around 1l during the ride, of course I had a very large breakfast beforehand) without any issues whatsoever.

I am not sure about the whole "working out requires eating salt tabs", when I was doing triathlons a lot of people took them and it was amazing seeing all the salt that ended up on their clothing due to sweat/evaporation. I've always thought that if you really needed the electrolytes your body wouldn't immediately try to get rid of them via sweat.

Again of course this is n=1, I think maybe my n=1 is different because I am used to an extremely low sodium diet, but goes to show that when it comes to diet it's all a big YMMV...
Uber CEO's mother dies in boating accident: 'Unspeakable tragedy'
Sorry, I can't seem to edit it to remove. But will keep this in mind in future. Best,
This was posted here some time ago; in that thread there are links to other tools that you may find interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10787226
Yes, always be polite. I find if you give some reasonable alternatives, they often take one of them. Sometimes you need to let them talk a little more to find out really what they are trying to accomplish and what the priorities are.

I have incorrectly assumed that time or money were the priorities, but with a little more information found out something else was really driving the request.
All: there have already been perhaps a dozen submissions of this story, but not everything community members want to discuss is on topic. HN's mandate is to gratify intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Does this story do that? or is it rather some other form of curiosity that it gratifies? Surely the latter, so this is an opportunity for us all to distinguish what kind of site HN is.

There is a second reason. Uber has become so controversial that it is impossible for it to be mentioned on HN without the thread filling up with angry comments against both it and its CEO. The idea of that happening in a thread about someone's mother's death is pretty nauseating. Yet it would happen, not because any HN user is so bad that they'd do such a thing intentionally (in person, say), but because internet forum threads are a crude instrument that cannot be guided with any delicacy.

Therefore the users flagging this story are right to do so and it should not have a place here.
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I found this very clear and accessible
It surprises me that a community so reliant wouldn't have at least pushed for some studies until the FDA stepped in, and even then, it wasn't enough.
So reliant in science that is.
That be easy to test though if you were bot was effective or not, just post to unpopular subreddits, make bot votes on those submissions, then check back the next day. If votes not counted, then your bot is being ignored and you'd move on to changing your IP address or building your next bot or such.
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I've found this a really clear and helpful explanation of blockchain concepts in the past: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a...
dang: It's a bit shocking to read this, and it's disappointing too.

I hadn't heard of this policy until now. I've seen very many comments make similar claims in many discussions and I didn't see this response. I just checked the Guidelines and it's not discussed there. Please consider how a user would learn about it - I'm pretty active and I haven't seen it. One possible source of miscommunication: Users probably see only a tiny fraction of what you do, and you could make this comment 100 times and maybe only a fraction of users would come across it at all.

But it's especially disappointing to read the accusation, which has no basis as far as I know. I've always been respectful of the mods, other users, the forum, and its rules, even when I think they aren't great ideas (inevitably, nobody will agree with everything). If I had known about this policy, I would have respected it too. I don't know how I was cast into the role of an antagonist. Like anyone, I don't appreciate loose allegations about me.

...

> You can't make insinuations of astroturfing or shillage on HN without evidence

I don't quite understand the policy as stated. I understand not accusing individuals without evidence, but I certainly didn't do that even by implication. Half my comment was a question asking if there was evidence that it happens in other places, not HN. I also raised the possibility of it happening here, but clearly was unsure and 'insinuated' nothing; I meant simply what I said. If not even that is allowed ...

But to be clear, my concerns don't mean I won't respect your forum's rules. (However, uncertainties will make it more likely that it will happen unintentionally)

EDIT: Moved paragraph with questions of general interest to your post at the top of the discussion.
I would welcome the chance to play you in poker.
https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/3246303?hl=en
A lot of the focus of VPN discussion centers around logging, and around whether their provider is prepared to hole themselves up in their compounds like Branch Davidians to protect their info.

That misses the point. If the government wants to hack you, steal your traffic, etc, they can, VPN or not, 'no-log' VPN or not.

The point behind consumer-level VPNs is more to prevent the ISP-level tracking, the ad-targeting, etc, and to keep out hackers and get around government/institution blockers. For this, whatever well-reviewed service will do.
For outliers by random chance, lucasschm's reply explains.

The usual trick for preventing folks _maliciously_ sending in outliers is to use a hash with a secret key such as SipHash so that folks on the outside can't trivially figure out what inputs will lead to hashes with a lot of leading zeroes.
Have you looked on UpWork?

I don't have any experience hiring there but it may be worth a shot.
Well, my judgement for "easy" is how hard it is to find video of it. From a quick google, telling someone your father is dead is pretty easy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-y2uX2QI6k
The problem there is doing it sincerely, which seems a little harder, but still within reach. Again, though, this is just the article's prescription: write the script, follow the script.

R.e. your second question, the answer there is no. Generally I don't hold opinions, I hold perspective, generally the perspective of whatever I just read. Trying to hold an opinion is the second-easiest way to be wrong. http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
What's it all about. Assume I know nothing about what twitch is...
Earplugs have been a game changer for me in this department. As an extremely light sleeper I've been struggling all my life with other people snoring or even semi-loud breathing.

After I started using earplugs I'm now sleeping through the night even better than when I slept by myself. I feel like when I wear them I'm in an isolation chamber :)

The trick was finding earplugs that don't hurt after wearing them for 8 hours, but after having tried a few I landed on some acceptable ones (I can still feel them but they're not uncomfortable if inserted properly)
I would argue that memory is even more important now since it allows you to think of new things and connect things in your head. Even if we had a neural chip that gave us all of Wikipedia, it would not be the same as intentionally studying something and memorizing it.

While it's a lot easier to get superficial knowledge, the ability to do something deeply is an incredibly valuable skill that is powered by memory. Heck even Euler, one of the greatest mathemeticians of all time had a phenomenal memory and could recite any verse from the Aeneid at will - I don't doubt that memory was a critical component of his success.
The low wage isn’t surprising given the typical take-home pay in the Philippines. But it’s a force multiplier in depressing work when they have to filter through a lot of material that’s potentially traumatizing to a moderate Filipino that’s probably not mentally fit to handle this.
Since the cost is your main issue: you don't need LLC. You can register a name as DBA, no hassle, no fees.

The most common reason people give for LLC is that it shields you from personal liability so that if you get sued, it's your company that goes bankrupt, not you. Personally I consider that a scare tactic as in: I've yet have to read a single story of a small software business where that actually happened.
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Just curious if this is a stab at Cassandra, or whether use of Cassandra would automatically imply eventual consistency or something else that would appear in this way?
but the preferred way, as shown to us by the prophets Kernighan and Ritchie, is to put the opening brace last on the line, and put the closing brace first, thusly:

So much for the idea that kernel developers are super-smart programming "gods". Formatting code that way is brain-dead and Kernighan and Ritchie are false prophets. The real prophet, Allman, tells us the Truth - curly braces go on a line by themselves, aligned vertically and indented to the same level as their corresponding control structure.
> but a better way to think about it is that airplanes are so safe that an accident' can't occur unless a whole series of things go very specifically wrong.

As an aside, I met someone who was working on a graph theory problem as their research project, and the application was that you could model the entire process of aircraft control through a state machine using that graph. Effectively they are working on making it mathematically impossible for a crash to occur assuming that a certain process is followed (with safety measures ofc).
Suppose there's a comment with 12 upvotes and 207 downvotes. Now suppose you're reddit and you want to make this comment seem more popular than it actually is.

You could slowly remove the downvotes, but attentive people refreshing the page will see the number shrinking and become suspicious, because real users never suddenly do a mass retraction of their votes.

You could slowly add a bunch of upvotes, but then people will wonder why this comment with a consistent 12/207 popularity ratio for the past hour suddenly overcame it and became the most popular comment in the thread. People will suspect a coordinated raid took place.

Both approaches raise too much suspicion. The safest approach is to turn off the ability to view the separate upvote/downvote values altogether and use a simple easing function to artificially increase the comment's total score over time. When no one can see the upvote/downvote ratio or the volume of vote activity over time, they lose the ability to judge whether manipulation is taking place.

You need an excuse for the change, so don't forget to also come up with a spurious narrative about how it was supposedly done to fight bots.
Jordan Peterson: Creativity vs. Conscientiousness
It's not clear how you can say "no other changes" and follow on with "of course this also implied some dietary changes, like no bread anymore due to sodium contents".

That seems like a potentially significant change you're ignoring.
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+1 and then I feel the same and sometimes even worse when it comes to programming language design.
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I didn't mean "what they have" in an exclusive sense. Tropical regions have access to spices and a reason to use them, as you said, so the people get to like them more than people elsewhere. Of course they also have foods that are not spicy.
For what it's worth, from a father of three... my ex coddled the kids in this regard. She _demanded_ absolute silence when they went to sleep. The problem is, that _trains_ the kids to need absolute silence, rather than getting accustomed to hearing the occasional sound and putting themselves back to sleep. The best things you can do, for your own well-being and theirs, is let them cry it out a bit and go about your normal routine.
Which kind of earplugs did you settle on?