skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This drives me crazy in my mathematics courses. Sometimes I just do not recognize the pattern, and tools like Mathway or Wolfram Alpha can say "right here dummy" and give me the first step. It is not always about cheating, but seeing the steps for solving the problem logically outlined. I often back myself into a corner working out a difficult problem and need a lifeline.
NearlyFreeSpeech seems to have pretty comprehensive account recovery procedures, though I can't say I've ever used them.

https://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/section/login/losteverythin...
This is the kind of software one expects from a team who has never seen how it's supposed to work in real life.
I created a library that helped developers. It made a few hundred $ in revenue but nothing like I hoped.

Its an experience I've seen a lot. You think if you create a great product and advertise a little it will go viral - but in reality getting people to use it in the beginning is the hard part.

Next time I'll try to build the community before the product. Spend more time on marketing and less on coding.

Plus I think selling to developers sucks, esp now so much free and open source stuff around. Non-tech Users are probably better customers.
> Not to mention after some time passes you may forget what the special bit was and have to fall back to searching your email

A password manager solves this problem
I can understand how my comment might have come off as somewhat judgmental (to either side) but that was not my intention. The idea was to [without derailing the thread too much] give people interested in certificate issues a relatively quick summary on what has happened and my concern about it.
yea- this is a subtly hypocritical behavior i think. i totally dont fault anyone for doing it, and i do it too. but i get a kind of vague sense that holding on to your money to make sure you are totally protected, and then giving it to charity when you are sure you dont need it, is not really that charitable.
The DOJ makes it clear that they broke laws. I'm not disputing that. Clearly they did something wrong, and are paying a pretty penny for it (pocket change for the CEO, but almost twice what they paid overall).

And as I said, I'd like to think I'd have acted better. People are making good points in this thread. I'm not blindly trying to defend a company I know very little about; just trying to poke some holes in the groupthink here.

A few more points:

1. The BBC article says that they purchased 5,500 artifacts, and the original article says that they forfeited 144 items. So what's the story here - they took some calculated risks and ended up functionally paying 4.6 million for 5,356 items? Or, they were actually careful but unfortunately a little under 3% of the items were bad? Could be either, or neither.

2. Are there any comparable companies/cases? I have no reference point for this story. When someone else bought a bunch of history, what did their buying practices look like, and have they ever been in trouble?

3. Does anyone here know what it's like to buy antiquities? I'd imagine most people who do it legally will have a more rigorous process, but I have to believe that in some cases it's not as clean as going to a Sotheby's auction.

4. Do we know who was responsible for what here? Obviously the buck stops with the CEO so he deserves to be the face of the criticism here, but is it possible that, since this was a process that probably spanned multiple transactions and weeks, he had some help that was less than competent? Doesn't absolve him of anything, and it didn't! His company was fined. But it pokes a hole in the "mustache-twirling" narrative.
For more accurate browser-like results, you might want to add "-servername somewhere" so that you get the response associated with the "somewhere" virtual host rather than the default response.
Yes, this is actually how scientific publishing works.
I've worked phone support for a major cell carrier. Among the things I was told there by a manager.

- That people that spam zero should be hung up.

- We could do a fake accent if we could maintain it through the whole call.

- After they had deleted the feature for support to activate your new device as a cost saving measure we were to point users to the proper procedure to do it themselves on the web and tell them that feature was broken despite the fact that leads could still do this.

- To make up fake things we had in common to establish a relationship with the customer so they would give us better surveys.

Customer service is not their strong point.
Cruise had lane following and smart cruise control, which everybody in the industry has and can be bought as an option on many high-end cars right now. They hyped this heavily and GM bought it.

That was surprising, because GM had a good self-driving effort with CMU, and had progressed to driving in Washington DC traffic autonomously.[1] That was way ahead of Cruise, and working in 2013. Then, somehow, GM totally blew it and lost that project, with the people going elsewhere.

[1] https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2013/september/sep...
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Thank you. You just helped me see a use case I didn't see before.

To paraphrase. Hiding the bulk of the business logic from the client since with Javascript all your source is exposed.
There is no generic answer to that question. It depends on the program in question, and how deeply you're willing to get hacky.
that sounds like me a lot :)
It doesn't sound like ADHD but rather a common procrastination habit (my apologize if you are actually medically diagnosed though).

I have problem focusing on things that I'm not interested in as well, but I've learnt to accept that and not feel too guilty about it. Especially since sometime procrastination has some pretty nifty benefits: https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_o...

What I've found really helpful for things I need to get done but have trouble doing is to make a to do list (highly recommend the Todoist app). And put in things to do in the list for each day. For example, do assignment A for 20 minutes, do assignment B for 20 minutes, exercise for 30 minutes etc. Make sure you make it simple enough such that it feels achievable (don't put things like finish an entire assignment as a task unless you know it's a short one). This helps me put myself in short burst focus mode and actual be productive instead of trying to be productive and totally failing at it. Not everyone can handle the 12 hour work day and I don't think you should force yourself to. I myself can only work for 3 hours most before getting exhausted (with plenty of rest in between), but I can do these 3 hours at hyper-focus mode and get more done than what other people can do in 8 hours.

The core things to do are:
- accept the fact that not everything interest you and you'll be able to do it with focus. There's a myth in society that the longer you work the harder you work. Totally not true.
- don't overwhelm yourself with tons of tasks, the key is to make it seem like it's really easy to do to get things done. The more overwhelmed you feel the less motivated you are to get started.
- take a walk if you are getting depressed or overwhelmed, it helps A LOT!
- And don't be afraid to try different things! Maybe you are just stuck in a bad career :)
I built a corporate 360 degree employee feedback system. It is basically google-page-rank-algorithm applied to feedback system and few other mathematical tricks to auto-normalize. Not sure though so many HR heads liked the idea but i could not make them write a cheque. You can look at the first video on this page:http://www.groupraisal.com/ to know the details.
On one hand, I feel you. Actually, I think a "weeding robot", programmed well, is a much better alternative to the chemical/GMO program.

But weeding as an act of moderate human selection isn't what irritates me. It's peoples' blind acceptance of an entire false taxonomy of "good" vs "bad" plants/organisms. It's dualistic and dangerous in the long run. It's stupidity posed as common sense. It's a kind of eugenics that's directed not just at humans but at entire ecologies.

Right now what Monsanto is doing with chemical resistant plants is unconscionable. The glyphosate scheme is obscene. It's worse than some skynet extermination program. In the midst of a massive loss of the earth's sustaining biodiversity, we have unchecked corporate powers playing out obscene world domination plans. The stakes are too high. Why do people feel so nonchalant about the Roundup scheme? Why do we eat their corn? Cause they're only killing weeds.

There's a massive extinction happening right now. What are we doing? Programming robots to decrease biodiversity.
Let's just add this to the pile of generic unhelpful responses:

* Security vulnerability: Have you tried rewriting in Rust?

* Hard problem: Have you tried machine learning?

* Need funding: Have you tried an ICO?
I built http://bustaprice.com as a shopping price comparison search tool.

It searches several APIs like Amazon and BestBuy and and also scrapes product prices from various shopping websites. The results are presented ordered by price.

The Amazon access has been revoked for lack of original content and a few of the scraping rules are now stale, but it wouldn't be too difficult to update those. It still works though!

Initially I planned on sending affiliate traffic to sites to earn a small side income as well as possibly some display advertising.

After getting rejected from the Amazon program, I lost a bit of steam (although I believe I could flesh out the site some more and still be accepted into the program).

If I were to put some time into it again, I would add many more sites to scrape and integrate with a couple more larger store APIs. Then I would add a "price drop notification" feature to try to get visitors to return to the site.

I spent a couple months building it in evenings and weekends, plus many months thinking about it before that. The only money I spend on it is $7/mo for heroku costs.

I still think it has some untapped potential but I don't have much spare time to think about it right now.
I use alpha quite frequently. I have these big formulae that need differentiating/integrating (non-linear solvers, jacobian matrices, etc.) for a paper I'm looking to publish. Now, the algebra kind of gets seriously tedious and error prone. Here alpha comes to the rescue. I don't have the budget for a complete mathematica package. So, in the end I take the results and use scipy/numpy to write the code to use them in numerical computation.

So, to that end I agree here. They are absolutely wonderful tools if you know what you're applying them for. However, they can be pretty bad if you're trying to use them to cheat (just like everything else).
That's a bit simplistic. For example, you at the very least want to have a "-servername" there to account for SNI-only hosts. You'll then need to worry about prefixed and non-prefixed hosts (e.g., www.example.com and example.com). Then, what do you do if your web site relies on a third-party sites that uses WoSign? Yes, now you have to parse the HTML response, extract all links, and check those too.

Then there's also a question of servers other than HTTP, so you need to throw in a port scanner in there. And a tool to actively follow protocols, to discover MX hosts, maybe even look at SRV records, and so on.
I checked the IP and the domain before I went with either of them, and their reputations are both clean, so I don't think that's it. I've definitely had that kind of trouble in the past, though.
The "free-energy principle" in this case isn't just variational inference via a free-energy cost derived from the KL divergence. It involves treating action (control signals) as a variational parameter to the recognition density. The agent thus treats their likelihood function as a descriptive model of the world, and their prior as a prescriptive model: they update their beliefs (recognition density) to be accurate Bayesian inferences, but then act so as to reduce prior improbability (despite accumulation of likelihood data).
The big issue to me is things that matter take effort.

So many things (like math answers) are made so available with no effort.
And appeal to tradition is a logical fallacy
Ryan Bates is getting married. Anything you'd like to share at the reception?
We have a patch for gitlab in nixos that fixes a lot of our problems. I don't know why we never tried to upstream it, but I guess it's just that nobody bothered. I'll try cleaning it up and upstreaming it when I have some time.

For the omnibus, I'll try looking at how it works, see if it fits our needs better. But I suppose gitaly, which is written in go, still has its own configuration elsewhere, in which you have to replicate the storage list ? That's the sort of thing that I find sort of annoying. It's not a huge issue, but having to manage a bunch of configs, making sure they're all synchronized and up to date sucks as a user experience.

I do have to say, your upgrade guides are very nice and have been helpful when upgrading our instance :).

As far as docker and other things go, I considered it while fighting to get gitlab 9 to work on bare nixos. But the thing is, I manage all my services through nixos, having a central place for all my configuration. This[0] is my configuration (well, a very old one). Everything is in one place, and everything can cross-reference each-other. See my firewall for instance[1], that cross-references various other service's configuration to get their port.

With docker, this is much harder to achieve.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/roblabla/8d1555ceb202eddb1b77

[1]: https://gist.github.com/roblabla/8d1555ceb202eddb1b77#file-c...
Being happy is more of a serotonin/oxytocin thing. Or, it's not a chemical thing at all and happiness is self-determined.
Some words from and about Bob at the end of this chapter:

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch07.html
I saw that and was confused, I thought that would work out of the box with k8s since (I think?) it continually tries to keep scheduling pods; I must be wrong though.

If balancing gets implemented, am I correct that it would probably happen in k8s core?
Good luck getting the cards right now.
That squares with what I'm seeing, yeah - a lot of cheaply automated nonsense trolling for a few suckers.

Is there anywhere I can look for more information on how this model works in detail, and how to avoid the same problem in future? It's a real pain in the neck. Thanks!
In the ideal world? With a copy of the full schematic, a datasheet for the SoC, and source code to the kernel and drivers. Its harder with RasPi because various bits are obscured but many of the drivers are open enough to figure much of it out.
maybe your test cases are your rules. as long as you're recording things over time you have data to feed back to
and learn from. also, each level of abstraction you could store less data to potential learn from. instead of storing every pixel just store edges and other low level features from the first layer.
One other thing that helps.
Try to figure out your personality style and see what you are like: https://www.16personalities.com/
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I did the same thing to help me get my head around it. For anyone else finding it difficult to imagine the probabilities in Monty Hall intuitively, consider replacing the 3 doors with 100 doors. After you choose the first door, the host opens 98 of the remaining 99 doors. That generalization, at least for me, helps to show that the problem can be reduced to the choice of 1 door vs all unchosen doors.
It's not blackmail. He locked himself out of his account, and Amazon is erring on the side of caution before turning off services and shutting down accounts.

While it might be a nuisance to get a document notarized, it's not some extraordinary hardship. The policy is there to prevent abuse. If he prefers to let his bill go unpaid as a result of locking himself out of his account, that's his choice.
choosejarvis.com -- not really a side project, but doesn't make much money. has revenue of a few hundred dollars per month. Would sell it instantly for $15,000 even though we invested $100k in development.

converthero.com -- would sell this for $10-15k. It's a opt-in popup maker.

> Why do you think it hasn't been as successful as you thought it would be?

Marketing is hard.
> And before anybody suggests it, Meetup isn't a good alternative.

I agree. And Meetup in general is starting to go downhill here in Seattle. More and more, I'm seeing more "meetups" that are actually more on the lines of suburban "mortgage seminars" but for tech.

Example: Company XYZ launches a new API, so they host a "meetup" with free beer at their HQ where 2/3 of the time is spent by a "developer relations manager" advertising the new API. In the other 1/3 of the meetup, the atmosphere is noticeably awkward and nobody really talks to anyone beyond a friendly hello.
Marketplace for painters and those looking to hire them
http://ehirepainter.com/
Inspite of investing ~$50k in marketing efforts, could not get enough customers to list their projects.
And his follow-up statement:

> It's obviously not a distorted generalization of the Hobby Lobby owners themselves, and I think they're very representative of that sub-group of Christians. Not to say that all Christians are like this, not by a long shot; evangelicals are only a fraction, and the far-right-wing politically-active ones like the HL owners are a fraction of that, but they're a really awful fraction.

Is very accurate. Sure, not all evangelicals think that way. We can argue over who has the better scottsman all day long, but I've definitely seen many evangelicals who don't care as long as we "those brown people keep shooting each other".

Obviously experiences vary. I don't see why that's hard to grasp.
I spent two years building an automated system for building resident block schedules. I made it to a beta with a very large residency, but for a combination of technical and incentive reasons it was impractical to grow. I actually revisited the concept recently with a revised business model that might have addressed some of the growth challenges. I did a kickstarter, but didn't generate enough interest to pursue it again.

I also spent maybe 1 year prototyping a system meant to analyze the performance of wealth managers. I used financial statements from friends and family to see whether I could produce anything useful. But, the more I got into it, the more I realized it was difficult to produce a compelling automated analysis, even given a complete history of all the manager's transactions. It was too easy to swing the result by subtly changing the assumptions.

I also investigated an all-inclusive management system to help foundations for public high schools manage fund raising, etc. Again, I did a kickstarter-like campaign for it, and found inadequate demand.
In fact, answering the question about SEO's death, every SEO specialist should ask in return: "What are you waiting for from SEO?", "Do you know and understand the SEO competitiveness in your niche", "How much are you ready to invest in long-term SEO startegy" and "How long are you ready to wait for the first results?".
Thx for the hint, I didn't know about this ! Just added my domain details to it, hopefully it helps a little.
Yes I know.

I was hoping they reformed or something when I saw the title.
It's odd how much utter nonsense you must embrace (at least publicly) to survive in so many companies in this world.
For what it's worth, SSL Labs also has a command-line tool that enables you to scan in bulk https://github.com/ssllabs/ssllabs-scan

However, although they don't trust WoSign and StartCom any more, it's possible that there is a cross-signed certificate to another CA, in which case the problem is not going to be detected. I seem to recollect that such cross-signed certs exist, but I haven't looked for them recently. Will do.
This is unlikely to happen. Big sites spend effort to avoid confusion or surprise on login pages. They could add a new password-manager login page, but all the major password managers already have logic to do the two pastes into the two fields, so what would be the point?
As a competitor (or "competitor," I don't think decentralized services actually compete with each other in the traditional sense), I just want to say:

Matrix is an amazing project with an incredibly hard-working team. If you can afford to, please stop what you're doing right now and give them money. Or code. Or both. We can win this thing!

-- Urbit
The studio is awesome, but that mac mansion though...
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As someone who actually wants to (correction: wanted to, since I can't, not any more) buy a graphics card for something other than this mining shit, I find this entire gold rush craze rather annoying. Apart from that, I don't really like it when someone registers a HN account and literally one second later submits a ShowHN to an affiliate article (without the Show HN tag, of course). And even further, mining gold rushes run counter to actually establishing crypto currencies for use as a, you know, currency — though I personally have no opinion one way or the other there.

(On the other hand, chances seem fairly good that this gold rush will collapse as well, and then miners will have to dump their cards quickly on eBay or whatever).

> The risers that we are going to use are probably some of the highest quality in the industry:

Actual quality is supplied by folks like amfeltec.
I created https://CoWriteStory.com/ last year, it is a platform for people to cooperatively write stories.

I was sending lots of private messages to r/WritingPrompts/ users, and got tons of positive feedback but reddit blocked my account and keep blocking my new accounts.

it is a good product but like lots of developers I failed at marketing and attracting users!
'Ideas are like frightened little birds. If you scare them away they will stop coming around. When you have an idea, feed it a little. Invalidate it as quickly as you can, but from data not from a lack of self-esteem.'

This.
> "There should not be a resolution possible"

This guy works in customer service. LOL

If you're sending me a bill, you need to provide a way for me to resolve an issue such as this. "There is not a resolution possible, we will continue billing you in perpetuity thank you good day" is not acceptable. (It's AWS and they do, so maybe it is, but... try building a new service that isn't AWS with that attitude, and see how far it gets you!)
I'm sorry for what you have to deal with, and I think as an industry we have definitely not thought through on the 2FA-over-phone system.

But I feel like asking for a notorized letter confirming you are actually "you" is quite reasonable. Otherwise it'll be all too easy for malicious social engineering.
yes. This enables thin client also. You can purchase a very cheap hardware, a chrome book, for example, to use professional 3D software or other power hungry software that need performant hardware.
I'm not US based, but can you offset capital gains against income tax in the US? Most jurisdictions don't allow this. But perhaps there are income tax deductions for donations to a charity.

Honestly, not a bad idea, but perhaps worth getting an IRS tax ruling for, since we're talking tens of millions (paper gains). However, you'd be set for life then, and the IRS wouldn't be able to challenge that decision in the future.

Alternatively, have you tried selling part of your stake to the new investors in the round, at a discount? If you could sell 10% of your stake, discounted, you just figured out the entire (actual) value of your equity stake.
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