skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm excited about this, Levar has a great voice for podcasting.

On a website related note, the art19 website is bad in one big way. Their homepage is very "investor focused" and not listener focused. If they want to sell ads, they need to get people to listen to their shows! I can't find a link to other podcasts (googling "art19 shows" finds several). I know they have more, but if they want listeners, they need to have their homepage be a directory or recommendation engine so I can find other shows. The investor pitch needs to be secondary. I'm sure the people buying ads will appreciate that as well.
Exercising judgement is not oppression.
My main gripe with Chrome is it takes too much time to load for me even if it has to load no tabs on opening. Comparing this with firefox, FF always beats chrome (and note that firefox will always have around 60+ tabs to load, it probably doesn't matter). I have had 3-4 machines (without SSDs) and this difference is always there.

I didn't even used to keep Chrome installed a couple years back , it took an astonishing ~60 seconds or so to start.
The source for this book is freely available from the author at https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook
> We need to take into account that Facebook not only has double the users but also more data created per person - photos, videos, live streams etc. Plus it now hosts Instagram. So let’s double the number.

... but apparently no efficiency gains in 5 years to reduce the number again? Faster processes, more cores, more ram, better storage, more senior-developer-hours, bespoke datacentres... ?
That's some "defensive coding" right there.
It's not one-time; Go will always have an ongoing time cost in reading and writing tedious boilerplate to reimplement features Hack already had built in.
Interesting; I always assumed faster performance was going to mean (lots) more conversions. Makes me wonder if AMP on google serps actually increases bounce rate due to lack of investment in a page load. There’s probably loads of stuff going on here and this area still needs more research. YC must have internal info on the tests companies have done to increase conversion/engagement? If not it’d be good to try to collate different experiences and do some meta-analysis.
Bombings in Pakistan Kill Dozens
I'm reading a lot of these answers and they could be describing companies that are hugely profitable and growing. Profitable companies cut back on coffee, have high turnover, cynical employees etc.

It really doesn't matter. Any company can blow up at any time due to fraud or mergers or whatever. You might get fired because your boss might want to replace you with their old college roommate. Or the CEO decides to kill your whole division because they're chasing some dumb fad.
They're often needlessly complicated because, if they did a Rozanne Gold 3 ingredient thing, you'd be left wondering why you paid a premium to have this meal assembled and delivered.

In all fairness, one approach seems to be to pre-make spice blends and the like which aren't pantry staples. This simplifies recipes but but not necessarily in a way you could do on your own.
>"Depending on what you're doing you might run into issues in various networking limits (somaxconns comes to mind, as does what's left of the route cache)"

I'm curious what issue(s) you might be referring to here with the route cache? Could you elaborate?
> I could wipe out 95% of these skills from my memory and get paid the same.

A typical rockstar could probably wipe 95% of the songs from their mind and still get paid the same, but they never would have made it to that point if they had only ever played the ten songs that are actually on their set list.

There are a lot of general skills that you pick up along the way while you are learning the more specific things that end up mattering more long-term.
New BEOL/MOL Breakthroughs for 7/5nm
By that definition you are free to do anything you want. Which ofcourse is true, but not really useful.
Maybe you're very well-situated, 'cause I've never seen prices in that ballpark. I live outside of Boston (at a T stop, but in the city itself) and there's nowhere I'm getting sirloin for $6 except on sale and nowhere I'm getting chicken for fifty cents a pound.
Okay. I love this and everything about this.

> This notation works in two stages: reading, and parsing (just as in Racket in general). The reading stage converts anything that begins with #2d into a parenthesized expression (possibly signaling errors if the ═ and ║ and ╬ characters do not line up in the right places).

I'm cracking up, oh my god.
He doesn't. That dude is a farce, I have no idea how he has convinced so many smart people to be on his show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etheric_body
I mostly use a mix of TV shows, youtube pages, and regular blog sites.

Food Wishes, Serious Eats, Cooking With Dog, America's Test Kitchen, Maangchi, the forums of pizzamaking.com

Bon Appetit recipes tend to be good when I make them, but they publish a lot of recipes and often times they aren't for food I actually want to make. Good Eats was nice when I was initially learning how to cook, but he sometimes goes over board, especially his weird unitasker rule. The correct rule should be to always critically evaluate bringing a new tool into kitchen, don't clutter it up with a lot of items you will rarely use, and make sure the tool is as easy as possible to keep clean.
Then, what are the advantages to the firm?
That doesn't mean the upnp listener needs to listen on the WAN interface.
How sane were the non-programmers creations? I've sometimes wondered, if we did have an effective way to visualize code, how would people react when they see the horrors we sometimes create - or they make us create ;) ?
Isn't there any software that would let you run your own social network like facebook on that hardware?
To me, the most important part of Netflix isn't the encoding or compute parts, ( AWS ), but the delivery. And all of their delivery, networks are already done by themselves through Open Connect and OP Server.

So they already have their own system. As as some below have mentioned, they could simply move to Azure if they wanted without much trouble.
Should AI worker-robots pay taxes into social security and medicare for humans?
Yeah, I agree with you. I dislike that aspect of the service.

My favorite approach is when the author makes the book available online, but still sells the PDF and physical book. An example of this is Exploring ES6 [0]. As a user, it has tons of benefits.

Before Amazon dominated the book space, it used to be that you could go to a book store and browser through a book before you bought it. That way you could do a quick check to confirm it has what you're looking for. But with paywalled digital books you can't do that. For technical books this can be very frustrating, since you might be looking for something more advanced, while the book barely touches on the subject. Having the book available online means you can browse first.

Heck, I wouldn't even mind paying first, if online companies had better return policies. If I get a book and a few minutes in I realize it wasn't what I was looking for, I want to be able to get a refund without having to send 20 back-and-forth emails with customer support. In some cases I just pirate the book, and after giving it a browse, I'll decide to either buy or trash it. Whenever a book is good or helpful, I'm happy to pay because I understand people need to survive. On top of that, it's also in my best interest as a reader that the author continue producing amazing content.

Last perk of having the book freely available online is you can access it anywhere without having to install or login to anything. If you lose your copy, or you're at work you wanna check something... It's really easy to pull up the browser. In addition to that, you can also link coworkers to references in the book, which might get them to buy the book as well.

[0] http://exploringjs.com/es6.html
It's finally launching
Music and film (a.k.a. Spotify & Netflix) are entertainment means. Books are not - especially the technical ones. You can buy a Netflix and Spotify subscription and stream them 24/7 without the need for paying attention. How could they expect people to buy a subscription for $399 and be happy/ok/cool about it? You cannot "stream" books. I'd feel I have done a dead investment. I doubt it will be a successful strategy even for half of the current subscription cost.
> Nodes define consensus in bitcoin, not miners.

Again with the kool-aid. Why does the Bitcoin protocol have a POW function and miners? Consensus is defined by the chain with the most work. If you fork and change the POW, you will not have the mining power to secure it. So, it will just be another shitty alt-coin. If you can somehow get the majority of people using Bitcoin to switch over, and somehow get enough mining power to make it secure, then you have something. Thinking that the echo chamber that is r/bitcoin represents the majority of users is laughable though. And thinking that current Bitcoin with the current POW will not continue to exist, have value, have mining power behind it is just silly.
No limit to how long people can live: study
All of this time, I guess, people have just mistaken Oprah's value and you have finally figured it out. Go tell them! Then they can reallocate their money towards more garbage workers!

While you are at it make sure to let these fools know to sell all their diamonds and trade them for water. After all, water is necessary for life and diamonds are useless. They simply don't understand that the water has more value!

How lucky we are to have you, the ultimate judge of value, to run around and tell everyone how goods and services and peoples time should be allocated.

To put this another way, you are a fucking moron.
It feels as though everyone is focusing too much on the specifics and not considering that there might be a bigger picture. If this person has a spouse to support, kids to feed and cloth and a mortgage to pay then the also have an ethical responsibility to not risk their income by coming clean. Even if it's just themselves there is an ethical responsibility to provide for themselves.

I think it's probably unethical behavior, but probably for entirely ethical reasons.
That's actually really interesting. I'd love to know more!
I began working in a large Scala codebase and the IDE support made quickly navigating the code very easy.

I still use vim or emacs whenever I need to do some serious text editing or I'm in a console.
Same boat. As are most of my foodie friends. Some nights you go out, some nights you hire a cook and some nights you Blue Apron. They've certainly captured a market with upsell and aspirational potential.
Node.js security updates
Show HN: Docker Compose to AWS Batch Converter
Getting rid of DOM would made things a lot better. DOM is designed for documents but over time it is patched to build applications and that is the reason for the mess that frontend development is in.
People here seem to be generally in favour of the OP, unlike the top-contributors on stackexchange. I too think that employers "naturally have the advantage of a power imbalance" (by keinos) and in my opinion they often take that advantage.

As OP I would think about two options in that situation - although I'm not sure if I can judge that well, since I don't have a child. In both cases though I would stop faking bugs.
1) Once OP stops pretending to work a full time job the employer might be smart enough to realize that said OP has more capacities and thus might provide him with more work. From my point of view it's not the employees fault that the employer does not know what's going on with the capacities. They don't give you enough work, why should you pretend to work?
2) OP could be pro-active and inform employer of his increasing capacities. Maybe they provide OP with new work.

It might be that the employer requests the automation-tool later on, but maybe it could be that the employer overlooks the free capacity aswell.
I feel that the manager of Team B has some responsibility in this story
Lee-Gardner Amendment would reduce supersonic fuel burn
In 2012 Facebook had 1BN users and 180K servers.
1,000,000 users / 180,000 servers = 5,556 users per server
In 2017 Facebook has close to 2BN users.
2,000,000 users / 5556 users per server = 360,000 servers

Notice how the 1B has only 6 zeros. The awesome part is that this mistake evens itself out later, yielding a correct number for "The of servers".
Rails isn't for beginners anymore
Are groups of men in suits ever up to anything good?
> I'm still waiting for the 4 ingredients or less service -- even if they are processed first

This is frozen food. I don't believe there's much profit between grocery stores and restaurants for people who don't care for culinary quality.
Right. There is no GPS sync'd atomic clock in Cockroach so I imagine lock requests for a distributed object must use some consensus protocol, and that's overhead. Am I off by a lot?
I feel like most of these complicated if else statements can generally be written much better for example.

SUPERTYPES = {'Real': ['Integer'],
'Complex': ['Real'],
'Integer': []}

def is_subtype(a, b):
if a == b:
return True
return any(is_subtype(x, b) for x in SUPERTYPES[a])

Which better expresses the intention of the code and is more flexible.
Wow! I had no idea this was a thing. I thought it was my a/c doing it. I must confess, though that the sentence: "nearby phase front distortions of an optical wave are more severe than remote distortions of the same amplitude" has me completely confused. Can someone please explain it to me like I'm 12?
What a perverse lens you are looking through...

He was refused and detained at the border and not criminally charged. He has no right to enter Canada and can be turned away for any reason, but right-wing extremism is as good as any. There any many first hand accounts of Canadians trying to cross into the US for the inauguration and being rejected because their political views.

The thing about 'misgendering' now being a crime is an absurd farce. The law amends the criminal code so that gender identity is protected from discrimination in the same way as birth gender, race, age and other traits with the same penalties applying. Again, did you read bill C-16 or read a blog post about it?

What do you think happens in Canada if someone says a joke in poor taste? The Canadian stasi/krypteia hops out of a van and whisks them away in the middle of the night for re-education?

I'm glad that you enjoy the political and social climate as much as you do, but we're fine over here. If you want to visit I suggest you show respect and tolerance or you may find Canadians aren't always friendly.
Yes, problem is the i7 doesn't have iris graphics (like the previous i7) and forces the choice of the power sucking glossy touch screen. Just about halves your battery life as well (20 to 12 hours).

If you want to play CSG see if you can find the previous generation with the i7+iris graphics. Not sure it will do 60fps, but it's about twice as fast as this years (with the HD620 graphics).
Area 120 – A workshop for Google's experimental products
I cook most of my meals also but find recipes too troublesome. Meat, veggies, some oil in a hot pan. 10 minutes, done. Sometimes a roast if I have the time.
Maybe ads. Perhaps a distributed ledger about who has see what ads. That's worth money, and I'm sure marketers would love traceability. So if ad-coin takes over that would be like injecting advertising code into the "CPU registers" of the internet. I can't wait.
Yes, if you get the i5, 8GB ram, and no touch screen.

Sad that they don't allow you to choose.

On the up side the battery life is almost doubly the i7, high resolution, and touch screen version.
> do calculus

What? I have university-level calculus (up to multi-variable integration etc), and can't think of the last time I needed it for coding.
Keep in mind, you can bet your ass that prices would be drastically lower than the public prices posted.

Large enterprises of any significance, and especially flagship/strategic customers, don't pay list prices.

Every cloud provider has private pricing and enterprise discount programs. That goes for all hardware vendors (e.g. Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Oracle, etc selling to any company) as well.

I'm sure Netflix pays nowhere near public pricing on AWS and I'm sure AWS pays less than anyone in the world for an Intel CPU.
In case anybody here finds this useful, I made a screencast following the blog for setting up and loading the data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSFC24FMxy4&feature=youtu.be
The unfortunate part of that test appears to be that the private party can request the moon. A reasonable person might expect a court that is required "judge what's in front of them" to not apply their judgement to foreign jurisdictions.

I wonder how this would be applied to a physical storefront from a global retailer that happened to have presence in Canada...I suppose they'd be forced to remove physical non-Canadian products from even their non-Canadian stores. Because hey, retailer, show us where it's illegal for you to remove this product. You can't? Then apply our ruling worldwide.

Is my analogy off? Or is it, as I suspect, the fact that the decision is easier to accept digitally part of the reason why it's being levied?
The RJR MacDonald test appears incredibly subjective.

This test, if in fact it is narrowly construed as show-us-where-you-can't, is a scary defendant test to counter decisions. Or if the test is being vaguely construed for these means, it is equally scary.
Does anyone have an opinion if new tokens (aka altcoins) created by ERC20[1] are exacerbating Ethereum's network congestion ? My initial reaction is that ERC20 is a parasite vector that will cause long term harm to the value of ETH.

Altcoins, to some extent, all compete for speculative dollars. For all I know 80%[2] of the top 800 coins on coinmarketcap.com are ERC20 issued tokens. That means a lower price for ETH due to competition and therefore a lower incentive for the miners who can instantly start mining another currency. Which leads to further latency, less liquidity, and further price depression.

[1] ERC20 is a protocol for issuing new tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.

[2] Does anyone have a source ? This was a wild guess.
Is the latter dangerous because it is dissent? It sounds like we are now defining a framework for what dissent is acceptable and it seems to align to a dominant political ideology. Sort of defeats the point of dissent.
Massive GoldenEye ransomware campaign slams worldwide users
Counting website users isn't a great metric for Amazon because a lot of the traffic is from AWS. But Amazon has been successfully running on a service oriented architecture for about 15 years now.
In your first example, I doubt mail would be delivered to literally any remote location in the country, and only if there was some services delivered there sporadically would mail tag along for the ride. Back then they didn't entertain such ludicrous ideas as we do now.

Shipping a container from Shanghai to NY is not the issue, it is that China pays less for shipping along the same route in the US and other western countries. They are paying less than others, on top of the fact that mail is largely unidirectional - so they're kind of cheating twice. If the shoe was on the other foot they'd be on top of it because they have more intelligent leadership than Western nations.
That story - Wow! Did anything ever happen to the author?

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13435742

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13428824

Supposed Reddit comment from the author: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5nqq3c/serious_p...
Yes. If we do, so shall our new overlords. If not how will the masses of unemployed keep getting the dole?
There can only be so many people at the top.
500TB/mo is nothing for FB or AWS.

Hope you don't work with any anything to do with scale at AWS.

You're looking more towards 1 Exabyte a month...
$80 isn't cheap and isn't a particularly good value relative to RetroPie or the like, but it's great for the casual consumer. Final Fantasy VI is probably worth the asking price alone. Many of the games in the package feature more content by themselves than the entire combined library of the NES Classic.
Thanks for the context. That's a tough one. Of course there is no stopping Americans from doing what they want in this case, especially pursuing information.

I honestly have no immediate answers for situations like this. Our current frameworks don't allow for it.

Frankly, I support the idea of global democratic bodies working on issues like this for willing members. But I'm a natural born humanist, so I'm extremely biased!
RE "....many libraries pay for a subscription to safari books....." It is only a subset of the Oreilly ebooks. NOt all of them ....
Agree with you, but your comment could be more constructive.
I confess. But the visor lets him see more than the human eye can. He can even read between the lines.
>aided and abetted

I'm not sure that phrase means what you think it does... Or perhaps you simply misunderstand what Google does?
This second paragraph resonates with me and how I run my business. I was prospected for years that I should use a “said” managed DNS provider because my business would be doomed if DNS lookups for my web properties were under a certain ms timeframe.

Never mind trying to convince improper behaving resolvers out there to honor a TTL.

There are so many other things we need to focus on to convert users to paying subscribers. A 50ms DNS lookup, outside of what could be delivered by a zillion caches, is not on my list. Sorry,
That's really fascinating! What about things like Google ranking that's supposedly also affected by page speed? (Or maybe it's not? I have a very limited SEO knowledge)
Hmm, do you think there are some things you can say that would classify as an action you could be arrested for rather than an idea?

For example, yelling "Fire!" in a crowded building, offering a bribe, and threatening someone all seem like actions you could be arrested for in the USA where the only evidence is your speech (or a recording of it). Would these qualify as thought crimes to you and if so do you think there is a developed nation with free speech where they are accepted?
What about not replying to unicast responses? Or rate limiting by default?
Censorship is always a framework for defining acceptable dissent (or deviance, if you prefer).
RE " .... $399/yr for Safari subscription ..." I only pay $199/yr After the 1st year they sent me this offer ....
MathPages
Of course there should be. Scientists can't publish and format their own journal articles for printing.

Having dedicated reviewers to decide what enters the journal is also great.

You also need someone to coordinate the peer-review so it's as painless for the involved scientists as possible.

The question is whether those things are worth the exorbitant cost that's currently being charged.
That isn't decentralized
Internet Mathematics Library
Blurring the line between internal and external discussion in this is silly. You should be free to speak up internally and having fear there is detrimental.

But hanging internal disagreements out for the competition? Stupid. There's no upsides.

there's never been any particular ethical reason why an employee shouldn't publicly speak their mind short of spilling trade secrets

It's not about ethics. The public perception of a company matters. Hanging internal disagreements out there does not help so you're just hurting yourself.