skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
disclaimer: I've read (but am aware of the premises of) none of the books the article mentions, so I might have misunderstood the message/tone of the article.

> Like all real literature, it aims above all to tell a truth, however roughly it goes down.

I wish this statement and its ilk were less common; in my opinion it's either a platitude or false. For example, another plausible raison d'etre: to share an observation. It's not hard to think of others. Now you could say there's necessarily some higher truth encoded in any meaningful observation. But, in my opinion, that line of reasoning ends with the quoted statement being a platitude.

This point could be pedantry, but I make it because I get the feeling the article's author would say Pausch's "the Last Lecture" is not "real literature" because it's purpose is mostly to make people feel good.
I live in the DC area and I live very comfortably on a similar salary
Weeds as the westerner farmer understands them to be are often transplanted from other parts of the world and without a natural predator, and can take over fields pushing out the crop.

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/14/532879755/a-pesticide-a-pigwee...

Mom fights a never ending battle with foreign weeds like knapweed (from eastern Europe) and Canadian thistle (from southeast Europe and Asia) that was introduced thru contaminated seeds. Every year she sprays and manually digs the weeds out of the ground.

Edit: also should point out that what we call weeds push out the local plantlife too. I also forgot kudzu, the weed that (or didn't? depends who you ask) ate the south.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/04/the-vine-that-ate-...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudz...
The Instant Pot also comes to mind, though I have no idea how they are funded...
I think the interface was way more important. Archos beat Apple to market with little harddrives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archos_Jukebox_series#Jukebox_... ) but the player is pretty something or other looking and has a bunch of chincy buttons. Even the mechanical clickwheel was vastly better than pressing a little button a couple dozen times.
Living the high life
Please. "Hell online" is going to be trivial compared to the thousands who will die in the first hours of the conventional artillery shelling of Seoul. Let's not pretend that some leaked emails are in any way going to be as bad as that.

And frankly, hacking into Sony is not that hard to do.
I believe that lack of access to mental health care is one of the fundamental problems with modern society.
interpreting that charitably as "you need to be realistic about your career choice, and that means looking at how much people in the field make" ...its easy for me to agree with that. im suggesting that you add to that some consideration of the content of the work beyond how much you get paid.
Exactly, lets say my data structure stretches the clients memory, adding immutability ontop of it doesnt cut the mustard because its not baked into the language. Thats my point, "redux" doesnt scale. "Time-travel debugging" doesnt scale either (as implemented by popular middleware), because serialising my state on every transition is 5MB + 5.0001MB + 5.00012MB etc etc operation. Immutability is great for parallel applications, in browser JS is not one such app. Not yet anyway.

Additionally, i question the logic of "normalising" my data structure for the client --> just so i can update my UI efficiently. Whats the point of using universal JS?

What i am saying is redux NEEDS immutability to deliver on its promise "out of the box" - lets face is, sure u can extend redux to mute this requirement, but then whats the point of all that boilerplate? So u can use devtools? So u can use off-the-shelf middleware to speed up ur dev? RAPID app development? Cause in a few years those tools wont be supported, and u will be stuck with a legacy boilerplate mess.

i argue that a FULLY event-sourced model would negative all this and make everything scale without any tricks. The diciple of event-sourcing will negate the need of immutability in every case. Additionally the cognitive load of "events, reducers and reference equality" is very different from "events, reducers and events".

Go all with event sourced domain models and get all the benifits. Represent the way your domain does. Represent ur state changes to your domain with events. Make an event heirarchy so u can preciesesly update ur UI around its state transitions.

If redux persisted events INSTEAD of the composed state, none of these problems would exist AND you would get time-travel. Then u can snap-shot ur state periodically to reduce load times.

Instead redux uses events to trigger state changes, and snapshot diff'ing to trigger ui changes.
AirPods, Gear IconX, etc are the new Bluetooth earpieces
> i really disagree that marketing creates value

Have you never found a product you wouldn't have heard about had it not been for an ad or something like it?
But the iPod Touch didn’t crush Archos, diamond, and Rio. It came about after the iPhone was in the market...
Is anyone here running k8s in production with kops? Are there any missing pieces that require "manual" work, like rotating certificates? How feasible is it to run, say, 30 clusters out of the box with a 2-person team?
Aren't hackers always targetting Homeland Security and nuclear facilities? Hasn't this been the plot of 24 for over a decade now?
Good point, I didn't really consider that aspect. I truly do wonder now if it matters at all!
They're not insane; they're just lying. 15 years ago it was believable that control networks were airgapped from the Internet. But today, the likelihood that some low-level tech has plugged a wifi router into the control network for his own convenience approaches 100%.
Because they will probably be purchased by the thousand, if not 10 thousand. Furthermore, they will be exposed to rugged environments where every extra component that can fail is a huge liability.
Wait, wait, wait. She was married and a mother when she had consensual sex with this investor, and explicitly one who would not be investing in her company? And her husband didn't leave her? Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I was too distracted by that to pay attention to the rest of the article.

Bottom line is if you don't want to cheat on your spouse, don't hang out with the opposite sex one on one--especially if there's alcohol in the mix.
Yep, that's true about the separate client.
We could keep NNTP behind the scenes (for site-to-site communication / federation...) End users would never have to deal with it.
Is it not possible to fetch them as part of the same request that looks up the IP address?
For people inclined to upvote this comment that is in violation of the guidelines (basically "Please don't say you are going to flag something." and "Please leave civil, substantive remarks."), please note that this same person is being ugly to me elsewhere as well ("me" being both the author of this piece and the person who posted it to HN):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14715464

And this on the heels of this same person pretending to care in an obnoxious manner a few days ago when I mentioned being suicidal and their follow up remark made it clear that my feelings and welfare were not at all their actual priority:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14681395

For the record, I consider this person to be engaging in an ugly campaign of harassment and hounding me, for reasons I cannot fathom.
The Night Watch – James Mickens [pdf]
This is like, make the product and they will come. Making the product is only a small part of the equation.
The other aspects (promotion, choosing right niche etc) are most overlooked...
Thanks. Our monitoring says it started at 4pm pacific. So the incident lasted 2.5 hours.
i dont dispute that theres value in clearly identifying what your selling. im saying that we are past that point and into lying and manipulative advertising in lots of cases. to put it another way, im fairly sure that "marketing" is making it harder for me to find the things i want rather than easier.
Could you elaborate on why it doesn't work with dynamic content beyond CGI? Is this some kind of insurmountable limit, or is it just the web frameworks don't care to support it?
Thanks for posting this. Reminding us of correlations like this is important. Sometimes we can't see the forest for the trees. Thank you.
Sendwithus (YC W14) Is Hiring Senior Platform Engineers in BC
The core tenant of getting ahead massively in a capitalist society -- arbitrage. Exploitation of inequality of knowledge and/or opportunity is always a faster ticket to success than actually producing anything of value.
The comment was not meant for researchers but instead for those DIY people who were trying to figure out by pouring ping pong balls.
I passed over this thinking, "I don't really care what football will look like in the future." But, it is among the best scifi short stories (or episodic novels, I dunno how long it'll be) I've read in years. This is one of those things where I think, "Yeah, the internet should be more like this all the time."
I'm one of the kops authors, and I will say that a lot of people run k8s clusters created by kops in production - I don't want to name others, but feel free to join sig-aws or kops channels in the kubernetes slack and ask there and I'm sure you'll get lots of reports. In general kops makes it very easy to get a production-suitable cluster; there shouldn't be any manual work required other than occasionally updating kops & kubernetes (which kops makes an easy process).

But: we don't currently support rotating certificates. There used to be a bug in kubernetes which made "live" certificate rotation impossible, but that bug has now been fixed so it's probably time to revisit it. We create 10 year CA certificates, so it isn't something that you have to do other than just good security practice though.

If you file an issue (https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/issues) for certificate rotation and any other gaps / questions we'll get to them!
From what I've heard, illumos has quite a strong community now. The events surrounding OpenSolaris caused an exodus from Oracle, and everyone landed either in illumos or in FreeBSD.

These days development of ZFS is done as OpenZFS with members of FreeBSD, illumos and ZoL. DTrace development mostly happens in illumos.

All of the above comes from second-hand experience based on what I've heard from the folks at Joyent (now part of Samsung) such as bcantrill. I have only played with FreeBSD and illumos and read through some of the code.
I made $600 with some friends on Amazon's affiliate program with a couple weeks worth of Facebook advertising, but I personally wouldn't recommend it as more than a side business. It doesn't scale very well due to the massive number of conversions you need, it's hard to track performance since you can't cookie the potential buyer, any sales outside of your country is usually lost (you have to sign up for separate affiliate programs for each country to make money abroad) and of course you're at the mercy of Amazon's business decisions.

It's better in the long term to set up your own store and build up lifetime value around your own brand, which is what I'm currently doing. You can start out that way dropshipping from AliExpress or with print on demand products. It's more work, but it's also more stable and of course scales a lot better.

But an even better suggestion is to build SaaS products. It scales even more and not many people know how to do it.
we had a global redirect (from the gui - not sure what the screen name is) which was interfering. Removing that, things seemed to work.

i suspect if you set up some defaults, most virtualmin users would adapt around those.

(and thanks again)
Have you read Scott Aaronson's NP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality [1] ? He goes into some detail about why analog computing is not thought to be physically realizable (Section 6).

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf
ARM CEO Segars and VC Lanza Talk Future of IoT and Machine Learning
why then did no one copy the iPod

Apple had complete control of the small form factor harddrives. Noone else could get their hands on them. There were other MP3 players before iPod, but they were either too big, or couldn't hold enough music.

By the time flash storage caught up, it was more about fashion.
A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) [pdf]
I think you're missing my point. Although the "little squares" are used as a justification for the algorithm, the application of it is not dependent on that view. You're doing a convolution of points against a filter formula, just as you would with bicubic or Lanczos.

The stretch factor along diagonals will be the same for any separable filter will it not?
South Australia to announce Tesla as backer of world's largest battery
I was in the same boat - the headsets were never really good enough, but they were way better than any other option out there. Until the AirPods...
Yes, but it becomes a much higher media priority when the entire intelligence community begins to agitate for WW3 with Russia.

I knew before clicking that there would be a baseless nod to *Bear attribution in this article, and it certainly didn't disappoint.
What's the advantages of Sukhoi compared to the following.

Scrapy: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy
PySpider: https://github.com/binux/pyspider
Gain: https://github.com/gaojiuli/gain
I get the impression Coraline was confrontational. Folks like this are really hard to work with. They're also really easy to dislike.

I found this interesting:

> I wrote an impassioned piece talking about how this feature closed a security gap that had directly affected and provided an abuse vector against me

I see this "impassioned piece" as a public shaming of the company who employs her. Since her team's product manager encouraged her to write this, it makes the product manager look like a fool.

She probably caused a lot of friction among several of her co-workers and her manager just couldn't help her anymore.
This document stretches a little over 200 pages and it would be helpful if it included a table of contents so we can get a feel for what it's all about.
I approve of the dollar prefixed variable names.
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As long as the systems controlling infrastructure (of any kind) are network accessible, they are internet accessible. Hence, they will be attacked.

Convenience always works to the attackers gain, and convenience is the name of the game for engineers and managers and support staff. Unless the system is physically isolated and protected and there is no kind of networking available, it is effectively crackable. Even if physically isolated, staff can still be bought.
I vastly prefer the Anker audio quality, but I ran into a situation recently where the Jambox was the only speaker that would work adequately. I purchased a Bluetooth transmitter (the model is not relevant -- all devices I tried behaved the same) that I connected to a streaming audio source (i.e., it can only send data as fast as the audio input is received). Not one modern Bluetooth speaker that I tried, Anker included, was able to play the audio without interruption. Only the Jambox was.

My working theory based on my observations of multiple speakers, most of which I returned for refund, is that an internal buffer accounts for the varying perceived connection reliability. The newer speakers were significantly quicker at beginning playing audio after establishing a Bluetooth connection (as observed unscientifically by watching the indicator on the transmitter — all connect using the same audio codec). The Jambox was the slowest by at least a factor of 4-5x. In my theory, this delay was a direct result of a larger audio buffer.

In my environment, I believe that 2.4 Ghz interference is a probable culprit. This is a fairly typical suburban neighborhood with most homes containing a dual-band Comcast wireless router. As a result, the 2.4 Ghz spectrum is very crowded, but since I cannot control the channels in use by other people and the fact that Bluetooth is frequency hopping, I can’t work around it.
the not get into trouble thing is easy, if you want to be an Amazon affiliate, just follow their terms of service to the letter of the law.

here is how you make money with amazon. find a niche you are passionate about, it helps if it is something with relevant amazon products. start blogging until you find you are getting inbound backlinks, comments, or other "social proof."

once that happens you can start writign guides, roundups, etc and placing product links. from there its all about getting links, and promoting yourself any way you can.
My company makes a profit because it pays me less than the value my labor creates.
There will be farmers who will want to perpetuate a distinction just as you have microbrew vs craft vs "commercial" brewers.

Once a majority of produce and fruit can be classified as organic from a chemicals PoV labor intensity may become a point of distinction in order to fetch a better price in the marketplace (I say that as someone who typically supports /buys/ organics).
> I wonder sometimes if you could make a religion out of all this

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Re...
I think it is an interesting reminder that the world we live in is wholly analog, and while this includes systems with discrete sets of equilibrium states, using digital devices to perform analog functions looks like hacking rather than as something that one would normally be advised to do. The reason for that is that while such devices may all behave as designed, identically, in the digital domain, their analog characteristics may vary so wildly between versions and even different specimens, as well as with, say, temperature, and do it in a completely unspecified way, that any attempt to do a serious analog design based on them would seem impractical.
I really hope we get there soon. Not only could this eliminate usage of herbicides, but many smaller autonomous robots vs one really big John Deere could also remove the need for monocultures. And that would really be a major improvement for both crop yields and the environment
>dear younger people than me: strive to do something that you would be proud of even if you weren't getting paid. and if you do end up making a bunch of money without a lot of work, give it away! thats my feeling anyway.

Don't be stupid, invest the money and give away some of the fat from your market returns, put the rest back in. Charitable causes need consistent, long term donation more than they need one time cash bonanzas.

As a bonus, if you're ever in financial trouble you have a safety net.
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As for Motor Oil, most auto parts stores will take it, also, many mechanics will.
Definitely keen on listening to this podcast, especially after hearing so many people in the (Amazon) office keep shouting over the cubicles, "Did you hear we hired James Gosling?!"
I had the same thought, but then I reminded myself that there have been several years between 2011 and today. She's married now (for less than a year), not when the events described take place.
These types of sites have a history of getting virtually killed in a Google change.
Could you add supporting for json, xml, excel, etc.
o/

I'm one of those schmucks hired to generate content for $600/pop. My thing is React Native. (http://reactnative.school)

But it's fun and it helps my own brand too. Plus it's an excuse to learn cool shit. Building a new app every 2 weeks is fun :)
But the same conversation could be had with a synthetic brain. It's no more important than any other feature of brain functionality. What I don't understand is how this concern about subjectivity limits us in understanding consciousness and brain functionality.

It doesn't mean we can experience the subjective states of a synthetic brain or another human, but we can definitely replicate the physical aspects of the brain that produce them.
We don't know what his day job is. In that situation, I would quit a job at McDonald's, but I would not quit a job at a law firm.
> Currently I’m thinking that cameras connected to deep learning networks is the technology with the most promise to enable a new wave of low-cost robotic applications.

After his earlier comments about fancy sensors being too expensive I was surprised to read this. But I agree. Once some cheap neural net ASICs come out I expect a revolution in robotics will follow soon after.
Interesting, can you point to previous examples of this phenomenon? Would love to see the correlation.
I use this for a "full cluster"

https://github.com/pires/kubernetes-vagrant-coreos-cluster

If you want bare metal, there's a few good ways to roll your own.
>Are you always one algorithm / policy change away from disaster?

Yes. I saw a peak of around $5k a month in AdSense around 2008 with a similar model as the story described. Personal finance articles. That got cut in half a few times by algorithm changes. Then I quit working on it altogether, and it slid more slowly. Though it still makes around $300/month with the current stale content and no updates for years.

It's not easy...basically a ton of outreach to get links, with few takers.
Did you also win the putnam ?
You may want to edit your original comment.
I'd love a more passive version of Pokemon Go. I very quickly got tired of walking around with my face buried in my phone, or having to leave it open and unlocked when walking to hatch eggs.

I'd love an AR game which gathered your real-life location data but allowed you to do the actual playing when you're back at home.
I agree up to a point but don't think that lines up well with this affiliate business model. Producing what you are passionate about, sure, following an ever changing SEO landscape and constantly tweaking in search of conversions, much less likely to overlap with the hobby as job passion model.
South Australia teams with Tesla, Neoen to build world's biggest Li-ion battery
I seem to recall there were clever but well-known techniques in analog to get higher accuracy than that of your actual components, through negative feedback IIRC. So why is it correct to say that the precision of the components is what limits output precision? Wouldn't the technique potentially make a difference? (and yeah I know accuracy != precision but I'm using them loosely... the distinction doesn't seem relevant here)
I'm waiting for the precision laser targeting for pest control!

Of course, with sufficiently liberated AI, you might find the definition of "pest" drifting... ;-)
agree, didnt mean to imply right away...
I can think of lots of reasons. The main one is you should have a buffer to cover living costs before quitting for something that'll have variable income.
>"what exactly do you find disgusting."

Disgust isn't usually that easy to pin down with precision.

Do you find a soiled diaper disgusting? If so, "What exactly do you find disgusting?" Do you find a it disgusting if a person is plucking out their eyebrows and eating them? Probably, but what exactly about it is disgusting?

Many if not most people would struggle to pin it down "exactly". In the case of this particular affiliate site, I'd say the general incentive structure that leads to this entire category of business is disgusting but it's somewhat difficult to pin it on any one specific actor. The site builder may have the best of motives and simply be rationally exploiting an opportunity that would undoubtedly be done by someone else otherwise.
I translate that into contractors aren't required to warranty their embedded components. Rewrite the contracts.
I've sure seen a lot of PR statements regarding cyber security that read: "We can't comment on X. That being said, here's a vauge comment on X that sounds reassuring and highlights our competency!"
The same friend kept buying the Jawbone and telling me how great they were! I've now converted him to AirPods as well.
i totally agree on this.