skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment thread should be its own HN post.
It's n!, which is much bigger than 2^n.
This is due to a new business model. Where companies scrape ICANN data base for newly registered domains and then sell it to service providers.
Chat API's usually offer inline keyboards and regular custom keyboards. At least in Telegram you can even replace inline keyboards based on interactions, meaning you could trivially construct a pretty elaborate UI specifically for stuff like ordering pizza's.

And even better, the pizza joint can update the conversation with status updates, special deals if you so desire, and you automatically have a history of previous orders that you could simply repeat at a later time.

A chat bot strikes me as the perfect UI for these types of things, and at this point, with Messenger, Messages, and Telegram supporting all this, a large number of your users already have 'your' app installed!
How does one go about getting their token added to an exchange?
Really interesting documentary. I've heard good things about Adam Curtis's documentaries.

He works, or at the very least use to, at the BBC and I remember reading a post if his on his blog where he saved something like 50 terabytes of rare unedited video of Afghanistan that was decades old, before and during it's Marxist revolution starting in the late 70's.

Probably the most interesting of his documentaries that I've seen is on the rise of propaganda and the public relations industry in his documentary "Century of the Self".

Link here:
https://youtu.be/eJ3RzGoQC4s
Ask HN: Ways to deal with ADHD?
I really value here the interesting and intelligent perspectives of the HN readers which taught me a lot, maybe even now for dealing with ADHD.

About me:

Had a huge crisis doing my bachelor degree was almost dropping out (same in high school), was also dealing with anxiety and feeling depressed and thus tried a lot of experimental things to "cure" me. In the end I just barely managed to pass my bachelor degree in CS (with an extension-semester) and doing now my masters.

The experimental things that I did so far:
-Doing 3 10-day meditation retreats to make me feel less stressed and overwhelmed.
-Meditating at home(although it's often difficult to maintain this habit)
-2-3 times a year LSD to have a mental reset if I feel stuck(cleaning my turmoil, refocus on the important). Recently also two times mircodosed LSD on days where I'm stressed or depressed to have more energy.
-Doing an Ayahuasca retreat last year in Peru was somewhat helpful to learn stuff about me, but did not help me be more productive

I feel like all these things are just a patch on my ADHD problem. I feel thrilled and motivated for a few days or weeks and then my usual self creeps back with only slight improvements that remain.
I'm not really motivated and only get things done when I feel the guilt and pressure built up. I had several ideas to build my own little project but I never managed to make anything all these years on my own (motivation is gone after a few hours of work). I feel if I continue like this I will struggle through all my life: Always distract myself to hide from negative emotions(because I'm overwhelmed), always having trouble to have focus, always just do the minimum and as a result be miserable with myself because I won't satisfy my high ambitions and dreams.

An approach would be medication but prefer not to take this route or just as a last resort.

What were your approaches and experiences that helped you? (no matter how extreme or strange)
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You've both zoomed out in your browsers. Press CTRL+ a few times until you get back to 100%. Article takes up half the screen for me in Chrome+FF, 100%zoom @ 1440p.
Am I the only one here that would program their TI-83 in high school to run equations for me so I didn't have to solve them by hand?

I wasn't even that dev-savvy (and still am not), but it was super easy and was a huge time-saver on timed tests.

I obviously had to learn the concept in order to program the equation, but once I did - why should I have to go through everything manually every single time?
It should be very easy to automate RSS feed generation with any consistently laid out static site (even if it's hand written).

If you're using a SSG (I presume most are), there's things like jekyll-feed[0]

[0] https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed
No you'd expect people to be complaining about it somewhere at some frequencly...and it hasn't been established that isn't the case. However, if you search for "Google newsletter suddenly spam folder", you can easily find lots posts that are superficially similar-looking, from various time periods.
Oh, no. Hobby Lobby's customers are typically conservative suburban Christians. Liberals with any political awareness at all would know very well of their contraception case at the SCOTUS, and go to Michael's instead. There's no shortage of middle-class evangelical Christians in suburban areas who are perfectly happy to patronize Hobby Lobby and support their political efforts.
Yes, welcome to the world of Viperchill - the shadow king of get rich by teaching others how to get rich schemes. I wouldn't be surprised if Google personally targeted him, I would do :)
can you comment on why you suggest using a public route53 hosted zone? Using a public rather than a private zone always felt pretty dirty to me.
Had a TI-92+ myself. Best money I ever spent
"I'd rather a few false positives get filtered than the deluge that comes with inadequate (self-hosted) E-mail."

The main reason you need a spam-filter is because your address ends with @gmail.com. Man I've lost important mails due to gmail, I'd never use it for anything remotely serious. Works fine for interactions within google-services though.

But apart from that there is no decent client and their notification support is not reliable either, nor can you rely on their spam-filter. Why even bother with email if you are going to use gmail?
Wowee.
If you have the vehicles, why partner with someone who just wrote a platform you can replicate yourself? Uber has no value to those doing the actual self-driving work. They are the MBA in your startup to the CTO building the actual product.
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Other countries don't put as much emphasis on hw and seem to do just fine. In some of them hw isn't even graded, it's for you to practice. My high school for example gave out a book with the problem solutions. For some of them, it was only the final result, for some of them it was the whole process. Hw didn't affect your grade at all and it was up to you to decide if you want to do the hw or not.

The amount of hw students get in the us is astounding. It's not always productive either (more often that not it's not). And it seems like there's no pushback against it.
We had the calculators force reset before every test.
One of the hardest things to explain to anyone is burnout and the after effects. I've experienced it myself, along with plenty of people around me. But I also know many friends and family members who are committing themselves to their jobs beyond their ability to healthily sustain their lives. This includes working very long hours, essentially never turning work "off". It impacts their health, their relationships and their mental well-being.

Trying to warn people who have yet to deal with it seems impossible. I've had sit-down heart-to-heart conversations with people I love about commitment to work, expectation setting, work/life balances, etc. and I've never had a good outcome. I've watched people go through the inevitable physical sickness that never seems to go away, and then have that turn into emotional and mental sickness which also never seems to go away. In the end, I always wish there was something more I could do to help them head this off. But no matter how hard I've tried it still happens.
The red lines are the shortest paths between the corners of the rectangle, not lines of constant latitude (which would follow the latitude lines drawn on the globe).
Good thing everyone uses gmail right? Centralize everything under one company! Centralize all the things! I use gmail :(
If a computer can easily answer the question, it is not worth asking it to a human (this also applies in the real sense that it won't be valued by the marketplace and translate to higher wages).

How about challenging students with problems that are difficult even when modern technology is used to its fullest extend? Or teaching students how to build tools that solve their homework?
Depends on where you live. For example, in the UK I heard it's illegal again (has gone back and forth over the years).
You can appeal to DNSBLs to have your IP unlisted.
Then why should homework be factored into grades at all?
Are services offline or are you just locked from accessing the account?
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It's not a Gmail issue!

By using an ESP (like Aweber, Mailchimp, etc) means that you are sharing part of your "reputation" with thousands (or even millions) other senders. So even thou most of the ESP are quite efficient in cleaning-up their customer base from spammers, the more clients they have, the more it's difficult.

Here you can find an pretty accurate and updated analysis of ESP's clients "quality":
http://mainsleaze.spambouncer.org/may-2017-in-spamtraps-esps...
Aweber is #6, which is not a good signal.

That said, you may switch ESP by choosing one that provides a you custom "identity" such as dedicated IP, DKIM, PTR, SPF records (which usually means quite a lot of setup and costs) or choose an ESP that doesn't have tons and tons of clients, eventually with a free version.

http://www.emailvendorselection.com/ is an updated ESP directory. You are of course also welcomed to try mine: http://www.mailup.com
"I haven't thought it through"

I don't know the math of such things but did take a stab at it. My idea was doing something similar as we do for high or unlimited precision on digital computers. They usually emulate the higher precision using a series of lower-precision, primitive operations. My thought was that you could probably implement higher precision in analog if you could do a similar emulator with operations acting within the precision common in analog components. All I could guess at, though, since I'm in over my head here.

One other thing I always note is the brain seems to be mostly analog. Look what all it can do which includes memory and high-precision math. So, there's almost certainly some tricks we can use to do something similar with analog. Maybe an analog/digital hybrid. The wafer-scale project on NN's shows the potential esp if it was made 3D w/ a cooling system:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.325...
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I believe this is a duplicate - and in any case should be labeled with (2016).
This should be a good warning about what you can expect when relying on other companies for service.
Glad to see more graphics work being done in Go. This is built on `pinhole`, which is built on `gg`, a 2D rendering library that I wrote. How many layers deep can we get? :)

https://github.com/fogleman/gg
This is really a distorted generalization of "committed evangelical Christians."
There's a simple solution to this, which also has the advantage of creating better educational outcomes: have students do the reading at home, and the work in class.

Dry lectures aren't the best way to learn something: hand-on work is. Listening to a teacher read a powerpoint is a waste of time, because you could just read (or watch a video) on your own.

But having an expert on the material standing over your shoulder, helping you through tough spots while you're working through it? That's valuable.
Such a fun read, thanks for posting!
This is utterly ridiculous. Mark is often found on, for example, the react subreddit helping out folk with redux problems, and it's not at all an efficient or practical way to gain a following. If he were focused on fame and glory, he'd do much better simply writing Medium articles to a large audience and spamming social media links.

These kind of comments are disappointing to read, especially when directed at someone sacrificing an awful lot of time helping others.
> That's a hell of a bubble the author is in.

Agreed. The fact that countries need to establish laws to prohibit ICE vehicles suggests that "the market" isn't going to kill ICEs for economical reasons.
I did some googling to see how it worked out for them and found this:
https://blog.listia.com/2011/01/16/a-startup-turning-trash-i...

From that it looks like their domain isn't in use now so my assumption is they closed up shop. Does anyone know if they pivoted further out of refuse market or were acquired by someone?
Answering that would require speculation, since I own no company and have no current plans to "release something" of my own any time soon. I suppose, should I one day decide to hang my shingle out there and sell a product, I would aim to make it of sufficient quality and usefulness so as to not require scummy "link building" to sell it.
I learned this pretty quickly - I used Mathematica a bit too much for help on calculus homework and wound up paying dearly during the first few exams.
This is such a meaningless statement. What exactly are you trying to convey?
I use a slightly different trick in the same spirit. I prevent my browser from saving login credentials for Facebook. So, any time I want to check Facebook, I need to type my email address and long password. One can also set the password to be some message one wants to reinforce, eg: 'nomorethanfiveminutes'.
Oh my god colours. I'm an emacs user who uses shell mostly in shell-mode (i.e. a dumb shell, no curses), and dealing with these colourful commands is so annoying. Developers, please check what $TERM is like, and if it's "dumb", don't print coloured output. Main offenders for me: Ruby stuff, the new apt(8) on Ubuntu.

That aside, this is not my cup of tea (I prefer dired, and don't mind the lack of icons, tho they might've been a nice ornament), but yet it looks nice, kudos. But colour me not if [ x$TERM = xdumb ].
That's my feeling of Siri usage as well, that it's not reliable enough to just sort of take for granted.

But, what's really interesting to me is that Alexa has surpassed that level (at least in my household). So that for routine things, it's not a novelty to use it, but an actual improvement.

This is still obviously for non-essential services like music, games, weather, etc. but it's also reliable enough to handle things like turning on/off lights in awkward spots.
Generating the annoying-to-edit support files is the whole point of a static site generator, and many do generate RSS, Atom, and site maps [0].

Repurposing RSS in this way is clever, but a better solution would be to modify the static site generator to generate a single file with the entire sites content that the javascript could stream and search in one hit.

Of course, once a site reaches a certain size, client side solutions become impractical.

[0] https://sheep.horse/rss.xml for example
> where homework tends to be on the order of 75% of your grade

I think I found the problem.
Is your team ready for resource management software?
When I was 18, back in 1999, I had an internship at WRI (Wolfram Research) in Illinois. I'd applied armed only with a library copy of the Mathematica book, so they sent me a CD with Mathematica on it. I made some demo things and got a slot, and flew to Champaign.

I worked on polyhedra for a summer, writing code that could unroll a polyhedral model to its 2D net. Find the volume, the number of faces and all kinds of stuff. I met a bunch of interesting people and it was a blast.

I also fell asleep at my keyboard more than once. It was a beautiful summer, biking to work and working with what I still think is one of, if not the, best language ever.

Here's why all this is relevant - I came back to real life to study CompSci on these old Sparc machines. And it was like, here's the power button. What's an object in Java? What's a compiler? All reasonable stuff.

But: Wolfram Research and Mathematica had, in a sense, ruined my undergraduate life before it started. Why were we using all these bizarre tools? Can't we do this a million times faster? Why are we learning all these bizarre integrals?

It was similar to being denied graphing calculators in A-Level Mathematics (in the UK, think high school). I get it - we need to learn 'the basics' and survive without tools to some degree. But, it would have been nice to use them in some contexts and not just deny their existence.

There's an anecdote I think about Milton Friedman being shown people building a dam with shovels and not digging machines, to keep people employed in some God-forsaken country. He asked, why don't you use spoons instead? Then, more people would be employed.

Mathematica and Alpha are wonderful tools, and I highly recommend applying for an internship if you're of the right age or whatever the requirements are today.
Ah, yes I misread your comment. It's true; the picture is never static.
> it may help being able to just provide the answers, but homework made up a small percentage compared to the actual exams...

One of the easiest ways to inflate grades without explicitly lowering standards is to decrease the proportion of the final grade that depends on the midterm and final. Cut out the midterm for "more instruction time" and leave a 20% final. Homework is now worth an absurd 80% of the grade... that's no good. Throw in a project, participation, or auto-graded "e-labs" with infinite attempts. Suddenly it's really difficult to get anything less than a B unless you really just don't give a crap. But also kinda difficult to actually learn because So. Much. Busy. Work. And, on top of everything else, we're punishing the one student who's not cheating.

Any time I see a lower division syllabus where closed-book exams are worth less than 40% of the grade, I'm instantly suspicious.

> but ultimately they are failing themselves when it comes down to needing a fundamental understanding on the process itself.

Yup.

> It comes down to the students' willingness to learn, not how to thwart cheating on homework.

In fact, you can leverage the calculator or WA to teach the material at greater depth. No longer need lots of practice with trig identities or u substitution? Great. Maybe we can write a few proofs instead, or use the time to work through a large case study.
A friend of mine had a graphing CASIO calculator (we sat our exams in 1999) and he figured out a way of making text files persist across resets. This was the very epitome of unfair competitive advantage, but I figured that if he put in the effort to find the work-around, he deserved to benefit from it.
Another possibility is that the spammers have adapted and rolled out the next phase of their plans. After creating a million or three Gmail accounts (aged, so they're all months old, and staggered, so they're not all created at the same time, and with some amount of fake "organic" traffic such that they seem they're owned by real people), the obvious first phase, as a spammer, is to sign up for your own newsletters, and mark those as "not spam" from your three million fake accounts.

As a spammer, you've got to assume Google's going to catch onto your first three million fake accounts and mark both those accounts, the email servers' IPs you use to send, and the email list itself as spam. Consider your first three million gmail account burned by that point.

The less obvious second phase then, using your next three million fake, aged, but-with-fake-email-traffic-to-make-them-seem-real Gmail accounts, is to sign up for not-spam newsletters, but mark those as spam. The wishful-thinking hope is that with enough of those marked as spam, the wider public will see more articles like the linked article, and ever so barely push back on Google, who then have to figure out another way to distinguish signal from noise in a vastly complicated and ML-enchanted algorithm.
Today You Learned:

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If it's critical to your business, why not do your hosting elsewhere? Is it because you are locked in already? I am building a product that will help people migrate across cloud providers, so that's the context...
Your mind is localized to your brain. Your brain is apart of your body.
Events. If for no other reason, that would be more than enough reason.
Don't ever use services provided by a third party. That's why I cut my own hair, make my own toothpaste, and create my own electricity from coal I mine myself!
I've spent a solid amount of time reading docs and looking in to this. It sounds like this might not be an issue for you, but the major gotcha is k8s does not support rescheduling pods when new nodes join the cluster yet to re-balance things (there was some stuff in proposal phase to address it though).

So, if your workload is made up of lots of short lived ephemeral stuff you are good to go, but otherwise you may have to manually step into rebalance stuff to new nodes.

The autoscaler addon might have addressed some of this, but I'm not seeing anything obvious after a cursory overview of the docs.
Trying to have a conversation with Siri is about the same has trying to have one with a chatbot
After reading this I checked my spam folder. Found an email from one of my best friends from highschool, who I've sent 100s of emails back and forth with, letting me know he would be in town in my spam folder... Well guess I didn't want to see him over the holiday weekend. GAAHAHAHHAH.

See as how a lot of my friends use their own domains / hosting for email I guess I'll be spending a lot of time in my spam folder.
Might sound obvious in hindsight, but _always_ create separate AWS accounts for your different projects.
Ask HN: How was your experience with Amazon Mturk to label data?
Has anybody of you already used mturk to label data, how was the result and what kind of data did you use. Did you use any other service?

I'm needing some labeling done on text data
I don't know either Altman or McClure personally. I only know people who know both (founders, alumni, etc.)

I'm not assuming that my voice will rise above all others. I only hope that on a long enough timeline more people (including McClure) will read the letter.

Arrogance is a quality of having an inflated sense of self-importance. I wrote both posts because I thought it was important to write them. We took that stand (boycott) because we thought it was the only way to cut through the noise + we had to sever all ties to both accelerators.
This is what happens when you tie yourself to a single point of failure. Sure, AWS is usually pretty damn stable... But if there are issues with the company and access, a simple bit can be flipped to stop you cold in your tracks. And that's what seemed to happen here.

What's the answer? Well, there isn't one now, aside begging on twitter and HN (which is undoubtedly your last option). But prior to manufactured disaster, you should have had offsite backups of all critical data. And if you were to design a cluster that used AWS, Azure, and GCE, you would be relatively immune to "We don't like you" threats.

But alas, this does nothing now to ameliorate your data right now. But hopefully, you will consider a proper evaluation of SPOF, regardless if it's technical, or "arbitrary decision" based. Both lead to the same result: catastrophic downtime.
I'm well aware of this. I'm going from the Ontario high school curriculum where homework is 70% of the grade to University of Waterloo math faculty where assignments are 10% and the midterm and final combine for the other 90%. Wolfram Alpha should be used for nothing other than a sanity check afterwards.
Incentive to do it.
Yeah, it certainly looks rather sinister.