skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget those logging towns in the Pacific Northwest were able to luckily benefit from global trade expansion. Many of those cities became port towns creating a lot of opportunity and wealth where many other places suffered. Factor in they haven't had to deal with the USA's past like places in the Midwest and Appalachia. They're living high on the hog today by simple luck.

You don't just reinvent the economy and deal with the baggage of your past (due to ancestors and norms of the time but have effects today) overnight. I mean, what can they do? They won't fall into the lap of becoming a port town with extreme growth due to the proliferation of global trade.
If anyone doesn't know Eager was the company Adam Schwartz and I founded in 2014 which became the current version of Cloudflare Apps.

The challenges are probably pretty obvious, you have to take this codebase and application which were meant to live on its own and conform it to the way another system works. In the process you have to adapt your deployment, auth, style, etc. to work in this alternative reality. At times it can seem like you spend months working just to get back to the feature set you started with. At others you get to see the vision of an integration you sketched on a whiteboard six months ago become reality and you're blown away that this crazy idea could ever actually work. The definition of 'you' also changed a lot in that process, we went from being a small team to getting support and assistance from dozens of passionate people. It's a very different world where your resources can scale to your vision, instead of having to compromise what you want to build at every turn.

Particularly when you work at a company with as sweeping a vision as Cloudflare, you also get a chance to expand your vision itself. At Eager it was a romantic dream to think we would get on a hundred thousand sites. With our launch today we reach six million. The idea of a $100mm apps fund, or having 60 apps in the store before we even launched, were not things which startup-Eager could have pulled off.

My biggest surprise is gonna be a little silly but it's it's when someone builds a really great app without any help or guidance. As much work as you put into the API or docs it's always a little shocking when someone builds something from scratch on the platform you work on every day, and it works well, out of the box.
Been to a Wholefoods lately?... seen the prepared foods section or any grocery store prepared foods lately.... seen how many people buy prepared foods?

Ever see a family eat the same thing. I mean a family of say five and not DINKs.

Amazon acquiring WFM will just make it worse if instacart wasn't already.
I have no idea why this is the top most upvoted comment. I know of many companies doing nothing near the level of cutting edge R&D work that the poster claims is necessary, but have gotten substantial tax breaks from this application.

cde-v is spreading categorically false information to the potential detriment of many entrepreneurs. This comment should be downvoted or flagged.
Yep! I was aware of that but didn't mention it.

I wonder if WoW64 had to be modified to support having two architectures.

Though they maybe planned ahead: it's "Program Files (x86)", not "Program Files (32-bit)" :)
The general trend since the early 2000s has been to use any change in architecture, technology, or form factor to push customer-hostile changes: total device lock-down, deep integration of surveillance, de-prioritization of creation use cases in favor of consumption use cases, use of DRM and DMCA-type restrictions to prohibit repair and customer modification, etc.

I'm not optimistic here either. If recent history is any guide any architectural shift will bring lock-down.

Edit: seems to resonate in with the general political trend. Since around 2001 or so the global trend has been toward various forms of authoritarianism. Tech trends reflect social trends.
Pre-cut & pre-measured ingredients, though, right? At least, that's what I remember their service being like, unless I'm confusing it with another delivery startup.

I don't personally get the timesavings of not going to the store, either - my wife or I will go after work, we have a list, it'll take half an hour and then we'll be done for the week. But then I realized that the target market for these services probably doesn't have a car and/or doesn't have a produce market a mile away. It makes a lot more sense if getting groceries is a half-hour trek just to get there and then you need to carry the bags back.
>companies do have a right to exist.

I hate to split hairs, but no, they don't. Companies are just an arbitrary legal entity.
https://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs was the initial idea and base for my code. I see now he's updated his page considerably - IIRC - from what was there before.

My normal medium is clay so I'd rely on his stuff rather than mine (linked below).

* https://gist.github.com/pbhj/6636d0908d0d11885809a2545b13869... main script

* https://gist.github.com/pbhj/4dedca1e980d6a102433403c0f43552... filter script
I appreciate the inclusion of random meowing.
Not sure how hobby or volunteer work has anything to do with that. A bit strawman-y.

That said - where I live it's also not allowed to volunteer at e.g. a home for the elderly, because the union would feel you are taking their work.

So it's not all positive.
More to the point the Microsoft t+c explicitly say not to use Windows for any real time control action where safety of humans is involved.

Hopefully it is just used for presentation of information from other sub-systems running their own OS or proprietary software that meets Lloyds survey requirements.

Article is very low on useful information.
I think its because coastal BC is very resource heavy. It use to be fishing and logging (think bumper stickers with the slogan timber dollars feed my family). Both of those industries pay well but have been in decline for the last few decades.
I think most people here are basically saying "its a grey area and it would be stupid not to take advantage of the credits even if you feel you don't 100% qualify".
While it seems fun to cut Congressional salary doing so effectively only means that rich people (richer than they already are) can be in Congress.
The creepiness factor aside, I'm trying to imagine how you'd implement a system to keep track of 1.3 billion people via face recognition. The hardware demands alone are mind boggling.
That's indeed concise, but it doesn't work. I think you need -naE
Balloons work well if you're travelling with the wind. It's a lot of drag if you're fighting the wind.

But suppose you change altitude to find favorable winds? That's what Project Loon is doing:
https://x.company/loon/
Japan’s SNES Classic gets Famicom look and tweaked game selection
I would consider moderate drinking to be 4-5 drinks a week (drinking socially weekends). 2 drinks/night is practically getting drunk/tipsy every night. In what world is that moderate?
Hi Zack,

This headline made me think that Cloudflare had finally done what I first assumed Akamai did back in the noughties, before I learned they didn't really have magic tech. :/

Anyway: here's some indirect feedback. It doesn't really apply to your project
(which I'm sure will be super useful to other people). I would expect Cloudflare to take the lead in... let's call it widely-distributed-computation. All I want is my code running on your nodes all around the world with an end-to-end ping that is less than 10 ms to the average client.
Code is here: https://github.com/hoburg/jho
the motivations are great:

"Moving a file to a friend's machine, when the humans can speak to each other (directly) but the computers cannot

Delivering a properly-random password to a new user via the phone

Supplying an SSH public key for future login use"

i had never even thought about those, and this is a great solution afaik
GroupMe Desktop Client for Mac
sure. however meal kits are inferior to just going to the grocery store in most ways.
Perhaps San Francisco can be a perfect test case for UBI: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/finland-univ...
Maybe only on mobile. When I tell Firefox to load the desktop version, it goes directly to the image. Normally I would say that loading a HTML page plus an image instead of just an image seems like a strange choice for mobile. However, it does seem that the HTML version pulls a resized image. The source URL has a "maxwidth" parameter, so there's probably some bandwidth savings in there.
Somewhat related, perhaps the most spectacular story of a late coder I've ever heard is that of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pruteanu (somewhat controversial Romanian literary critic and politician).

Basically, despite having a major in Romanian literature and spending a lifetime as a literary critic, with almost 0 contact with computers, he decided in his late 40s and early 50s to understand the things behind the internet.

So he picked up on his own: PC usage, internet browsing, PHP and MySQL coding, enough to make his own website and a few apps. That, starting from a point where he could barely use a mouse.

When asked during a TV show how he did it, he replied:

Like I did things for my literary criticism: I read an 1 meter [high stack] of books about the subject.

Every time I need motivation I think about that quote :)
I used to live in SF near a camp at 10th and mission. I saw the homeless daily; it's very sad to see and people just walk around them. I moved out of SF because it is so damn expensive and I didn't have to be there.

$275 million is a lot of money. Instead of trying to help the homeless survive in SF, why not help them relocate somewhere more affordable. There's lots of space in the country and almost all of them are cheaper than SF. 275 million goes a very long way to help people resettle and their quality of life would surely go up.

Disclosure: To be clear, I did just what I'm suggesting: I relocated due to the high cost to somewhere more affordable for me. I've met many others over the years that have as well.
I don't think he means 3d models so much as digital paintings - fantasy art for background wallpaper
This is interesting to think about.

The benefits you listed are huge - buy local, decreased packaging, fresher food. That alone is compelling enough for me to choose a local competitor given all else equal. I can see cost savings for local competitors with shipping and packaging. Food costs will be higher, i'm assuming, since volume will be much-much lower than BA.

Devils-advocate: how can a local meal-kit delivery business compete with Blue Apron on user-acquisition and tech? It's very easy to waste ad dollars on FB and taboola, which will drive up your CACs to a point where any cost savings from packaging and shipping will be minor at best. Hiring outside help for user-acq is prohibitively expensive for most small businesses, and fraught with scammers and "local SEO expert" types.

On the tech side, if you've ever used a local CSA, that's what I imagine most small business meal-kit software will look like unless some SaaS steps in and makes a killer, Shopify-like product for managing these businesses. Maybe this exists, I don't know.
This is great advice for someone learning to break into the coding world.
Adventures in Nerdsnipery
There's different levels of penetration testing too. I worked at a SaaS startup and when we got our first big customer they demanded we get a third party to run a pen test on us. They basically ran their script and gave us a report. There might have been some minimal going back and forth about some false positives, but that was about it. That's better than nothing, but may not be what some of the more technically/security minded folks here at would consider a real pen test.
Jules Verne was an advocate of heavier-than-air flying machines though.
What i always tell people if you find yourself naturally drawn to it then you will eventually find some level of success. If your in for just the money then you will not stick with it and it probably won't happen.

Same is true for just about most things in life.

This guy found he was naturally drawn to it. End of story.
sure but these aren't really weather balloons. the last two are basically tethered dirigibles. the first one is the closest and it's more like what project loon is doing. Yes, it's true, balloons can stay up for long periods of time, but this is not how weather balloons are made or what they are designed for. Weather balloons are designed to pop at a specific pressure and fall. As the balloon rises, the volume of gas expands due to there being less atmospheric pressure. At a point the balloon pops and it falls back to earth. The loon and the balloon in your first link probably use a system that adjusts the pressure in the balloon by compressing it into a storage container. This allows it to "hold" an altitude and keep the balloon from ascending until it bursts. Also, at least in loon's case, it uses a different material than a standard weather balloon. This probably also plays a roll in it's expandability, resistance to long term UV and keeping itself from popping.
Because at some point you actually have to DI, and then you have to choose a W.
A/B testing rarely has anything to do with matching the product to customer's stated preferences or looking out for their best interests.

Bull, it's explicitly about figuring out what people want to do. You can argue all day long that this can be exploited, but in the end you aren't going to take an action you don't want to without coercion. If I show you a delivery donut ad a 1AM, because you've proven 90% more likely to impulse buy a donut at 1AM and then you do it, how is that not directly correlating to your interests? Conversely if I show you a gym ad at 8AM on Tuesday because I know that's when you get out of the meeting with the fit [insert gender] person at work you've always wanted to ask out on a date, how is that not directly in your interests?

businesses follow revealed preference

Yes exactly, stated preferences are worthless. Revealed preferences are priceless. The amount of people who say one thing and do another approaches 100%.

That's what I mean when I say there's no empirical footing for the claim that businesses can be trusted to look out for my interests.

You decide what your interests are by your actions. If I see your actions and then give you more of those, by definition I am looking out for your interests.

I think what you are trying to say is:

"People make terrible decisions and it's up to the government to prevent companies from letting you make those terrible decisions."

In which case, you're implicitly arguing that people make better voting decisions than purchasing decisions and that voting decisions better reflect their true preferences. A silly idea if there ever was one. I don't think this needs a reference in 2017.
I'm not sure what you mean. You think it is unimportant if people do not understand the tools they use to draw conclusions from their data? The presence of the misunderstood p-value is just the easiest, most obvious heuristic for "authors and/or reviewers do not know how to analyze their data".
My current employer does this.

You're sat in the conference room, given a machine that has a screen monitor program running, and a set of tasks to perform on the code. You are told where to find the code in the introduction on the sheet of instructions. You are allowed to use any resource via the computer (so nothing you've brought in like a phone or laptop is allowed; basically, all work has to be "shown"). Then...go.

Outside the room, the dev team watches the process. We want to see how you go about each problem, what resources you use, etc.

It's always surprising the number of people who go for an hour or more and do nothing. Just sit there (or seemingly sit there - there's no keyboard or mouse activity).

When I interviewed, they actually gave me an online test; the job was supposed to be for javascript, but the online was in PHP (which my prior position used, and I had been using for years). Passed that, and came in for the on-site part. I thought it was odd that they first tested me for PHP. Did a bit of face-to-face interview, then they wanted me to do the watched javascript portion (single page app).

I first sat and read the problems, formulated some possibilities in my head, then jumped in. 30 minutes later I was done, and popped open a new file to write something to that effect (figuring if they were watching, they'd come back in). I sat for several more minutes, then they came back.

"How's it going?"

"Alright...umm, hey, I'm done."

"No way! Are you serious? Are you sure?"

Odd...

"Yes."

Apparently they had never had anyone finish the test that quickly, and get it completely right - especially someone who also had PHP skills, and had already demo'd them in the first test, which was also done correctly. I found this rather odd, as neither test was that particularly difficult.

Apparently, though, it's not uncommon in our industry. I'm not sure what to make of that...
Some great stuff on DA but you have to wade through an awful lot of muck to find it
That was part of the content of the article, not an ad slot.
This is generally a decent article about the balancing non-technical skills, and exerting effort in learning.

I found it noteworthy that the "hook" in the title is that the person started in (gasp) their 30s. Why should that be noteworthy? Why wouldn't someone start coding in their 30s, 40s or 50s?

Now it is true that starting a new profession late in life may not always make sense because, presumably, you have to little time left you might as well "ride it out" contributing what you know.

So, yes, it is unusual for a doctor to start learning mathematics in their 40s (though not unheard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endre_Szemer%C3%A9di), but it isn't less strange to make such a change in computer science than any other field.
It's not unreasonable to say that people get labeled as having mental issues because of not having a job, which causes a feedback loop, etc.
Beast has a Page, not a Profile. Pages don't count as people :)
-a implies -n since v5.19.3.
I'm aware, I agree that solar aircraft is not an easy technology. I'm mostly pointing out how inane this gasoline drone project is when there are real problems to solve. To put it in perspective, the Helios project was 18 years ago and the Solar Impulse project improved upon the tech significantly.

Edit: just got a chance to look at the report. Thanks for the link, there are some really interesting findings in there.
These things do happen albeit fairly targeted https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/information/gps-jamming-ex...
AMD Launches Radeon Vega GPU Frontier Edition ($999)
And Norway was basically warned about the problem by an Iraqi that had experienced it once before.

Not that the oil fund is perfect. Using it can drive the currency haywire.
It supports it, but DHCP and the firewall are much less configurable. Things are exacerbated by my being behind 2 routers.

A router that fixes all this is at least 120. That is too much for me. I tried dd-wrt, but that doesn't fix the first router on the chain.
Unless you mean their foray into ARM chips, their x86 parts have just as much an untrustable control coprocessor that nobody can audit or disable in their PSP, and are unlikely to support open firmware like coreboot either.
Wow. 3.5% beer...is almost unheard of in the USA, especially in the face of the overwhelming popularity of “craft” and “micro” brews which often click in above the 6% mark
All I want is my code running on your nodes all around the world with an end-to-end ping that is less than 10 ms to the average client.

Interesting idea. jgc AT cloudflare to tell me more.
Is it also possible to go without a definition? TS allows that and it's quite useful.
> Pre-cut & pre-measured ingredients, though, right?

At least when I had BA (and judging by their current recipes, still now) measured, but not cut for the most part. You still prep the ingredients.

> I don't personally get the timesavings of not going to the store, either - my wife or I will go after work, we have a list, it'll take half an hour and then we'll be done for the week.

Meal kits means you aren't planning those meals, aren't making a shopping list for what is needed for those meals, and aren't shopping for those meals.
They seem more likely than others -- see the recent Homebrew author grousing about getting rejected by Google, only to land at Apple, for instance.
1. All devices running Android N and above have Vulkan. Although, I still fail to see why OpenGL ES could not be used as a fallback.

2. Android being open source does not make it unsuitable for safeguarding patient data. I'm surprised you would even mention this as it undermines your entire argument. The open source nature of Android actually makes it more secure because you have more eyes on the code. Security through obscurity is always less secure.

3.Google could also provide a variation of the Tango SDK to support normal devices.
Good point.

I know folks on the right screamed about the 'welfare queens' living on the tax payers' dime in the inner cities for generation after generation. In reality, this was a coded attack against blacks, and the majority of the claims were hyperbole.

But now the left has begun making the same mean-spirited attacks on uneducated whites from Appalachia, the Midwest, and the south.

Both types of stereotypes are annoying to hear repeated again and again.
It's already a hotbed of basic income for the rich: VCs earn huge capital gains :p
Show HN: Chronicle – Auditable, immutable, append-only data microservice
Moderation is contextual.
Desktoppr is a nice wallpaper app that puts images in your dropbox. A lot of fantasy and sf art in the mix but not exclusively

Are you thinking of building something? I'd say there's a market for it (though no obvious monetization strategy I can think of)
> Most likely relying on second-hand info that was just wrong.

I would have been happy to give him the benefit of the doubt and still would. To me it seems to me he continually repeated these claims over the whole incident and ignored people who pointed out that what he was saying was obviously false. I only pointed to the most egregious example.

To be clear, I'm not super worried about companies just screwing up, shit happens. However, I have a personal bias against dealing with people who are dishonest when that happens.
> awk doesn't offer that much more than sed

Not much; just, oh, stuff like floating-point math and trig functions; integer math, associative arrays, access to environment variables, named functions with arguments and full recursion; control and looping structures like if, for and while, file I/O and redirection, string literals with C escapes, ...

$ awk '$0=sin($1) + cos($2)'
0 1
0.540302
1 0
1.84147

How about sed?

Just kidding ...
We can in principle. But so far the energy to operate their harness matrix exceeds their work output.
And what's "quorum" in a system where nodes are free to join and leave?
Language Translation with Python
Also, Piknik: https://github.com/jedisct1/piknik
I've read that comment 3 times now. I think his/her point just didn't come across.
Uhh, bad. It feels bad.
“Lots of beer in excess of 10%” is a bit of a stretch. I think it’s more common to see the 6-7% range represented with something pushing 10% being the outlier.
There isn't much money in writing libraries like NumPy. Why would a company hire a bunch of expensive devs to write some software to compete with Matlab? The market just isn't big enough to justify the cost.
This is very good advice. I am a PhD student in mathematics, and every time I try to learn a new area of math, I'm grateful when I stumble upon PhD theses about that topic. They actually include their calculations.
Perhaps you could research these a little deeper ...
This reminds me of the great tool http://www.fefe.de/ncp/, which seems like the same thing only without the cryptographic authentication!