skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is super cool. I use a similar API to provide a client-side service called IP Request Mapper (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ip-request-mapper/...). Coming soon to a Show HN near you.

What it does is show where every asset on a web page is loaded from. It allows you to visualize how many different requests go into building just one web page. While it's gotten much better, the Houston Chronicle (https://chron.com) used to make about 500 individual requests to build its home page. It's down to about 125.

It's best to run it across two different monitors, with IP Request Mapper on one monitor and your "normal" browser window on another. Then enter any URL and watch the map start populating based on the geolocating every request made by the page.

But it's projects like ipinfo.io that make these other things possible. Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that...kudos to you, coderholic.
It's possible to create blockchains where all of the transactions are undiscoverable by third parties (unless disclosed). Not sure if there are any completely working in practice yet.
I've been running https://jsonip.com for years. Been serving millions of requests a day for most of that time. Doesn't really show up in searches well because it's just an API.
This is the first time I hear about animal detection in self driving cars. Do other brands also do this?

Most demo's only show human interaction.

Edit: and what about flying trash, leaves and so on? Thinking about it there are a lot of object types we interact with. Leaves for example mean nothing to us because they won't harm us. And we know crows will fly away. But pigeons on the other hand..
So, you have a speed rating, a dot rating, and a number indicating how many places there are, for each city.

What you don't explain for us is how these ratings and numbers are calculated, and whether it's better to have more dots with lower speeds, or higher speeds with lower dots.

The blog post helps somewhat, but this should be linked directly from the website, if not also summarized on the website.
Just come to Europe and work here man. People are normal here, both how men treat women in a professional environment, and how women perceive men in such an environment.
"WSJ thought it didn't need Facebook, then the ground shifted."

Google links to WSJ articles used to show them without the paywall. Now, only Facebook links do. That's a power shift.
This website doesn't seem to work on iOS.
alternate source: http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/06/28/how-nike-resi...
The NPR report was specifically about 2 or 3 locations if I recall. So anecdote does work the.
I do have a source, and I finally tracked it down:

https://nature.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7research/7calag...
Would you clarify why it's worse to use an email address than a username as an internal key/identifier? It seems to me in either case you suffer the problem of, if the email or username changes, needing to update all the "foreign key" references to the identifier throughout your database.
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When I learned t drive I was instructed not to mind smaller critters as the avoidance maneuver (steering away one way or the other or heavy breaking) is more likely to cause a serious accident than the collision with the small critter.
OTOH it is pretty easy to get a free email address if you don't have one already.

However getting a phone number can be more work and isn't usually free.

Remember also that people may want multiple accounts on your service, ie for work and personal. Or for special purposes. (eg I have a couple of twitter bots but I'm only allowed to attach my phone number to one account).
Problem with this is that you assume your users will either have a github, google, facebook login.

While that may cover most people, there are increasing numbers of online users choosing to delete their facebook or google accounts.

If you want to use a third party login, remember to also provide a more traditional login option as well (email/username).
70 job interviews in 17 days
You might like Preact:
https://github.com/developit/preact

It's a 3kb React alternative with the same API.
Yes, I regularly park there to access the beach. Very well kept secret
This is giving entirely too much credit to coursework. When the ethos of the entire culture is "f-you, I've got mine", adding a philosophy course in high school is going to be like pissing in the ocean.
I didn't quite get that. Will their books still be available DRM-free or not? If not, that's a major setback.
> This post is also an ideological action w.r.t arxiv publishing

Anyone else thought that this was very weird? The author appears to be complaining about the fact that reputable people/labs can post a PDF on arXiv and be taken seriously. How is this avoidable? Without arXiv, they could just post the PDF on their website or anywhere else.

The "risk" associated to publishing crap on arXiv is the same as always: have people notice it's crap and get a bad reputation. I'm not sure what ideology has to do with it.
The trick is, train isn't cheaper that planes. Ecologically, the French TGV isn't considered better than planes in terms of glasshouse gases (i.e. the ecological approach says a km travelled is bad, whether by flight or by train). Moneywise, it mostly depends on how you expropriate land owners. Europe is really good at citing the "public good" or "strategic interest of the nation" to reclaim private land, and I'm saying that because I've seen that the indemnification is way below the market value of the fields. Whereas in US, litigation is costly and land owners can be very powerful, making the costs soar for train infrastructure.

I'd like to see a study thay analyses whether tge whole train-in-Europe vs airports-in-USA might even be explained by this sole ability of US landowners to defend themselves.

However, remains one question: If Europeans can travel by train without being searched, isn't the USA violating the freedom of movement by using planes instead of trains, then imposing the TSA and other no-fly-list laws?
Ask HN: Is IndieHackers.com dead?
Some thoughts:

* Ever since the acquisition, the hustle is just not there. Courtland used to spend a lot of time reaching out to people to get them to do interviews, in a recent podcast he said something like "I used to send hundreds of emails to people... now I don't do that anymore". I sense complacency and a feeling of "I made it".

* Now that he does not depend on advertising to make a living, that hustle to keep trying new ideas and get at least a couple of stories to the hn front page have been lost.

* In multiple podcasts, to demonstrate that he built something complicated he mentions " I built the forum from scratch" and I think " cool, but building a basic forum is... not exactly hard". I'm trying to be polite here, but I hope my point is clear.

* The forum has peaked. He makes minimal effort to keep the community engaged, does not start many conversations or actively take part in discussions. If I ran IH, I would post at least 3 to 4 threads to keep the discussion flowing and personally invite individuals to join the conversation and bring in their friends. One of the goals of the stripe acquisition was to start a vibrant community, but i see no signs of life.

* He stopped blogging and removed the link to the blog. The blog used to be a form of accountability.

Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14101192

What do you guys think?
I feel I should point out that if you decrease soldier numbers and take their salaries and invest it in infrastructure, that's quite a lot of open jobs doing work that is potentially doing more to strengthen the country.

I don't know how many troops one needs to defend the country and fulfill our obligations abroad (though I wish it were zero), but a military job lost surely pays for a civilian job building infrastructure. Especially considering overhead for the two relatively, the civilian job could certainly even pay better.

I'm sure there is a balance in there, but I don't think jobs would be one -- rather readiness requirements alone. And god knows I'm not qualified to guess as to that one, but it does seem likely we're going a bit overboard at present.
From the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas movie:
http://www.upout.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Vintage-Nevada-...
I'm just going to be blunt here. John and I have decided that we need to be more marketing savvy after he's had trouble with several rounds pitching other floating point formats. Posits are just an intermediate step to try to build acceptance for valids, so there's a lot of effort put into branding.

A couple of points: 2-4x faster means 2x faster in dot product based simd and 4x faster in matrix simd, assuming that your bottleneck is memory throughput.

The sigmoid function realistically isn't a bottleneck in general, but you gotta admit it is pretty cool to have a ~zero clock cycle approximation. (I've tried to rein in John a bit on this one)
First of all, I'm sorry your experience was so terrible. Glad you escaped.

>... but to also have the boss read the idea proposals his students have as startup ideas and he would be the bridge to their funding. Except, he's the end of the bridge as an angel investor looking to own a huge chunk of their startup property before he prepares his elevator speeches to real angel investors.

So he's looking to steal ideas and/or "fund" his students who are just learning how to code. Wow.

Not that non-technical founders can't have good ideas, but on balance I'd say my dog could plan a more diabolical scheme than this dude. He sounds like he's just bad at being bad.

Lack of morals only gets one so far at being evil, solid strategy is still required.
That's the same motivation that started me to build https://urlscan.io. I wanted an easy way for everyone to visualise the amount, size and destinations of the various HTTP requests that a single page-load triggers. Incidentally I also created a tool that is being used by a lot of Security / Phishing researchers. If you ever want some inspiration for additional IP / domain annotation sources, check it out. I should really do a "Show HN" soon ;)

Meanwhile, this is a scan for a particularly noisy German newspaper website (faz.net): https://urlscan.io/result/f23e2e7e-e1eb-4591-9794-92f97957dd...

This website contacted 35 IPs in 7 countries across 24 domains to perform 302 HTTP transactions. Of those, 51 were HTTPS (17 %) and 35% were IPv6.
The main IP is 92.123.94.227, located in European Union and belongs to AKAMAI-ASN1.
In total, 4 MB of data was transfered, which is 9 MB uncompressed. It took 2.51 seconds to load this page. 16 cookies were set, and 42 messages to the console were logged.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, neuromorphic computing is a fun side research topic, but at this point, nothing more.

NOTE: All of this completely changes if neuromorphic chips would put up benchmark results, as of now, the neuromorphic flagship, "TrueNorth" takes a heavy accuracy hit on CIFAR compared to contemporary DL techniques (~5-8% IIRC), imagine how bad it will be on real world datasets!

The essence of my opposition to neuromorphic computing can be approximately distilled to the following exchange:

Neuromorphic architecture: "Here's this really efficient 1-bit/analog computer we made!"

Programmer/AI Researcher: "Cool, does it do anything useful? Have you tried it on benchmarks?"

Neuromorphic Architect: "Well, it doesn't work on benchmarks, but that's your problem, you just don't understand the genius!"

AI researcher: -_- So you made a very efficient chip that doesn't do any useful computation? So an inefficient heater?

Later sometime, neuromoprhic architect to media: "These people just don't understand the genius of neuromorphic, it's the future of chip design and will auto-magic away our problems!"

Media: "OMG Yes, stoopid programmers inhibiting adoption"
> I doubt if the real loss in revenue is even substantial.

I am not a fan of DRM. Less because of its restrictions, but more because of its low level of user experience (merely consequence of its restrictions, sure, but still), with publishers not making content available for this or that device, and with lack of smart features like lending/borrowing/transferring material.

That said, and being from Latin America myself (Brazil), as well with connections in Asia (friends), I've heard many stories already that give an idea of thousands of developers that are consuming "paid" content downloaded through torrents/forums/dropboxes/etc, and never made the "honorable" payment.

I am afraid you are underestimating the amount of developers in developing countries that consume books from O'Reilly and other publishers and are not paying at all for that, ultimately damaging investments on new material, both by publishers and authors. It is hardly the case of not being able to afford, but simply a cultural thing.

For any author that thinks their content should be DRM-free and available to anyone, I don't understand why they don't publish on GitHub, and drop a link to their PayPal account for contributions. If they did, my bet would be on repositories with huge traffic (easy to monitor), but low pay-rate.
ok, so how about the number of bases in other counties and the current number of military operations.
Considering the issues with IE11, Flexbox still has a few more years left if you have big enterprise customers (or the government)
This!

Dealing with the public, along with the occasional lefty PBS documentary, really opened my eyes. If it weren't for those experiences, I'd probably have ended up just as much of a whitebread, Breitbart, alt-right suburbanite as my coworkers.
Firebase.js is huge and what can we do about it
just wait until someone quotes someone and you have to scroll all the way over here ---->
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I had to take a few of those courses but I doubt they make much sense. I felt that you are mostly discussing "don't so bad things" all the time, captain obvious stuff... There's the one type of people who care about things anyway and the other type who don't. Can't imagine that the second type can be convinced by course blabla.
Hint: The loophole is in the word "best". Note how this is a 3 part test, yet one of the conditions is subjective.
Most people have no need for usd.
It also doesn't really have much along the lines of a "responsive layout" in the sense of one that changes (outside of scaling) with different browser sizes/shapes. (But the typical clean forum also doesn't really need one, so using "outdated" tech is fine. CSS Grid is nice because it allows to do things that weren't (easily) done before, but not everybody wants or needs them)
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If I sink one, I may be able to sink 11. If you leave the nukes out the US may not have the resources to mount full scale assault.
>it always feels like the other person started it

In this case, the other person said "Many people will just quietly write you off as a hopeless dweeb if you expose your laziness in this way."

Is that not a personal attack because it's hidden behind one layer of indirection?

>if we don't approach the problem this way, it's a downward spiral

I get that it's not easy moderating a site like this when there's only two of you to do the job, but once you've shown up in the thread, is it that much more work to call out everyone involved instead of just picking the last nasty comment?
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Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, not anywhere and especially not in flamewar threads. We ban accounts that do this, so please post civilly or not at all in the future.

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With respect, Puppet is push-based, not pull-based.

Chef is pull-based by default, but you can also use it in a push-oriented manner.

Having worked with both Chef and Puppet, it is my opinion that Chef is the more scalable of the two, and the one that makes more logical sense to me. YMMV.
While this might stop honest drone owners from flying in certain zones, it will eventually create an underground drones (bad choice of words - I know) that will fly "under the radar" or transmit fake ID. It's going to be interesting...
I thought the argument was that the research could not be reproduced because the studies were about one-time events that could not be repeated, not because they were simply not publicly available.

If the latter case is true, then I support disallowing these studies for policy decisions, since how can you use something for support if others can't even look at it to verify that it says what you say it does?
Practice your morning routine during the day to make getting up early easier
Infinite Series Tutorial(2009)
If it's there, I can't find it. I highly recommend https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s... to let you download and view the source of extensions.
Amazing Race and Data: do underdogs always win?
I'm not going to comment about that paper being published on arxiv and I don't generally care about the NLP vs DL debate, just wanted to say that those generated examples did look indeed all rubbish to me.

As do most of the Google Translate pieces, even though I get the feeling that automatic translation of texts is now seen almost as a solved problem (it's not): all that Google Translate does is change some text from some original language to a second one, which is not a real language, it's just a language that's sometimes very close (grammatically and lexical) to one which the agent/user knows.

The idea is that we should try to look harder and have fairer judgements about the actual results and not get stuck on the methodologies.
Seems to me that the benefit to non-riders is simply that the cars those riders would be using aren't on the roads that they are using.
Also people who do use one or more of those services, but don't like the idea of linking each and every account to them.
Thanks for the answer.

For myself, it is easy to forget this reality. Once your career is bootstrapped the story changes so much. I've changed employers only 4 times in 23 years, one of those was an acquisition, and the other three times I only interviewed with four companies (total, not each job change). Since getting my first job, I've never not gotten the phone screen/onsite interview/job offer.

Ok that all sounds very braggadocio. Sorry.

But when I consider my first job search: over a period of nine months I sent out over a hundred applications, received several hundred rejections (some companies like to reject you once for each internal department that doesn't like you), and finally scraped a handful of interviews, some mealy mouthed "maybe if" not-quite-offers, and finally a real job offer. I also had the unbelievable arrogance to walk out of an interview because they used a 4GL and I wanted a real programming job (I was polite about it, I waited until lunch and just said that I didn't feel that I would be a good fit)

Hone your craft, it gets better.
FB's policy is ridiculous. Show a breastfeeding woman and it's certainly gone in the next hours. But I've reported countless foreigners for gas chamber and teleheating crap postings and it was not considered inappropriate...what a BS. Still, the problem with law enfocement is always that "hate speech" is pretty fuzzy (obviously especially fuzzy for facebook)
I think the people in this thread saying things like "getting an email account is easy" need to spend more time observing some non-tech folks using a computer. Because actually that is a substantial barrier for ordinary people.

My service accepts both an email address and a membership number, and this helps enormously with account recovery in the astonishingly frequent case that someone changes job or ISP and loses access to their original mailbox. And it's amazing the number of people who mistype their email address.

For sign-in, we accept either and simply detect which one was used.

This also helps us to support multiple profiles per email address, which is a common case for families using our service.
I think the piece would have benefited from a section just going into how you identified the channels for profitability
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Thanks. I didn't knew that. Sorry for the confusion.
Actually, it's pretty easy for people in power to avoid the truth revealing effect that 'common knowledge'presents: simply label your less powerful adversary as a 'conspiracy theorist', and nobody will want to deal with that matter again. Nobody likes being labeled, or associated with, a loony.
Simple social dynamics tricks can mitigate the 'annoying' liberating effect that the internet poses.
Want an example? The content of this article by journalist Seymour Hersh will never become public knowledge. For reasons pertaining to simple social dynamics.
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165905578/Trump-s...
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Companies here value skills in specific programming languages/tech stacks over skills in core Computer Science. They are hiring bootcamp graduates (who are overall weaker), over stronger applicants, just because the bootcamp graduate will hit the ground running quicker.

It makes learning Computer Science in university less valuable, since university graduates lack knowledge in specific programming languages/tech stacks. It's like saying, "You know all that stuff you learned about memory management, virtual memory, I/O subsystems, CPU schedulers and so on? Yeah that doesn't matter if you don't know Angular X.0"

Does anyone else see a problem with this?
There was a post on /r/legaladvice where someone's neighbor sold a plot of land, causing them to effectively be landlocked, but there was a road through OP's land connected to the seller's property with a locked gate to which the seller was demanding access. Basically everyone was telling OP not to allow the seller access, even once, as that would set a precedent.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/2o3g9g/neighbo...
First update: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/2ooy1x/update_...
Final update: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/4dci57/update_...
Please don't make the thread even worse by posting like this.
I wonder how many use the terminal in the first place for such an ad to be actually profitable anyway.
Interestingly a private company is tying to build a high speed train from Dallas to Houston tx. The great thing is that it would be privately owned so if it's a flop taxpayers arent on the hook.
California? It says in the article that the decision is expected soon
How do you pay for it?