skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you add an option to remove the links?

E.g. [publication by the New York
Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/politics/trump-russia-...) -> publication by the New York
Times
All 3rd party vendors have to include code for many features, websites, browsers and devices. They will always contain unused code. GA does a lot and it's doubtful you're using much of it.
Interesting. At least on Twitter everything's above board when I shout into the void.
I like the idea of "embargo from group for n days".
Has the issue of a VPS operator being able to MITM your TLS connections been fixed?

https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/808355117011521537
Bitcoin? I thought there are lots of free stuff for that.
Kind of fascinating.
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There is plenty of research that holding kids back isn't actually an effective intervention, for example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022440506...

Retained students (the current terminology for "held back") are much more likely to stop attending school early, and on average do not see larger academic gains in their year retained than their equivalent peers who are not retained.

The ONLY effective intervention is dramatically increased services for that student, delivered rapidly once the deficiency is detected. Many high performing charter school networks actually use this systematically, but only by overworking their teachers and generally burning them out within 5 years (retention rates at 5 years are frequently <10%, compared to 50% in the broader profession). Most teachers in mainstream district schools are covered by union contracts that limit their required working hours, so for the vast majority of schools even this isn't an option. Actually delivering these services in a sustainable manner is a financial burden American taxpayers appear largely unwilling to shoulder.
>For the longest Unity required you to use 3rd party modules for a camera.

What do you mean? How can there not be cameras? How then can you view a scene without that 3rd party module?
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First the apology, then the walkback, then “fake news”
Do you understand enough about how the algorithm is working to be sure this solution is effective? Even if your Mom still immediately 'likes' it? What if she 'likes' your brand too, then sees all brand posts on her timeline, and still immediately likes them?
Semi-tangent: about 2 months ago someone posted a site that listed potential SaaS eligible services requested and suggested price points, does anyone recall that url?
The latter. My daughter actually learned it because we mixed different learning methods early on (we don't anymore, it confused her), but you have to admit that writing numbers greater than 10 kinda involves multiplication (by powers of ten, but still), so it makes sense to learn multiplication first. Negative numbers were seen while learning addition / subtraction (the concept was basically adding a negative number), which made a lot of sense too.
If you're interested in staying up to date with Chrome DevTools, I run this project called Dev Tips: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/

It contains around 150 tips which I display as short, animated gifs, so you don't have to read much text to learn how a particular feature works.
Yeah, that does exactly the thing I was describing from a quick skim. https://github.com/uber/react-vis does it as well. I've found that attempting to wrangle one of these chart libs takes more time than a quick `myData.map(d => <line path={linefunc(d)}/>)` or similar.
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- Is it the DNS? 90% of my wifi problems at work and in hotels are solved with DNS 8.8.8.8., which is sad because clients have full access to internet, except it doesn't work.
This can be said about plenty of things. Encryption is probably the most obvious; there's a lot of benefit from reading about and implementing various encryption methods, and absolutely foolish to use any of that work in a setting where it might actually be attacked.

The article is pointing out something that should be obvious; if you're making a widget as part of a larger task, your implementation will probably be lacking compared to one developed by a team solely focused on making the best widget they can. I could write an HTTP server or a threadpool or a database connection layer if I really wanted to, but thousands of talented people have invested millions of hours in those tasks already, and I'm not likely to do better than them on my own.

Getting over the "not invented here" mentality allows us to focus on doing things that are novel, or things that are custom. In my day job, I'm working on a (relatively) trivial problem that's never been done before, because there are about ten people in the world that need it. As a hobby I work on a text editor that is completely customized to my personal workflow, and which will probably never be used by anyone else.
Interestingly enough, I have had this same exact idea for an app, also being one of those commuters who rely on LIRR trains, also being someone who noticed that my peak train home arrives almost always on the same track, and also being one of the (few) commuters who go down to the platform before the train is called.

It is a shame that this had to happen to OP. I personally don't see the app as an issue, because the amount of commuters that would actually use such a thing is rather low (seriously, stand in the concourse and look around at people, a large amount of them are not using their phones).

My original idea was to scrape the data from their webpage, or see if there was a way to get the data from the Train Time app's Arrival Countdown page, but according to the post, it has been removed from their website, so there goes that idea.

The lesson to me is clear though: don't try to make an app that would make commuter's lives easier. The MTA does not seem to want that, especially during the track repairs. I find it interesting that it was shut down so close to the start of the Penn Station track repairs...
> As you can see, the calculations are absolutely fair and transparent.

...if you can grant them the premise that the 3.3% sampled represents the project as a whole so that the ratio will project out to 27k overall.
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Would be cool if it could run GUI programs!
I'm pretty sure this description is wrong. My impression is facebook shows your content to a subset of friends and then classifies it based on likes received. If your mom 'like's 9/10 posts and your other friends like 3/10 posts, then 60% of your posts /are/ family content. Even if they're about mathematical theories.
Clearly written by someone who has never tried to browse the internet from an AWS instance. A lot sites block you thinking you're a bot.
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Try posting your scenario to http://visajourney.com/ . They mostly focus on family class immigration, but you'll probably get more targeted replies there.
It must be my poor English. I've never said that bikes are bad for environment.
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It uses IPSEC, so depending on the Chinese authorities, maybe or maybe not. Keep in mind it's the same protocol that is used by foreigners to VPN back into their offices, so if they're willing to annoy them, it probably won't work.
Two thumbs up for @umaar work - absolutely love the bits of knowledge and the GIF format. Thank you for discovering & sharing actually useful tips.
Is it too late to consider killing software patents? I guess the battle is over and we just have to bite the bullet and be happy with these half-assed "countermeasures".

I'm probably biased because I mostly read about software patent stories on HN and other similar outlets, but it seems like 99.9% of the time they're only used for patent trolling or killing the competition.

Patents are supposed to protect the inventors by giving them the time to license and market them before the competition can swoop in and create a similar product without having to pay for the R&D.

So do people around here have "success stories" regarding the use of software patents to actually reward creativity instead of just playing the "patent cold war" game?
Most of us aren't John Carmack, though. When you're the guy that basically invented the genre of code you're talking about, there's a very good chance that your next project will advance the state of the art. When you're basically a hobby coder looking to get an game in the app store, it's a slightly different story.
I ruefully sort of wish CSS was 100% client side so that all sites would be delivered as plain, unstyled HTML and it would be entirely up to the user how they prefer to see content. Obviously not at all practical, but would make it so much cleaner and easier to read when browsing 90% of sites out there.
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The mail is sent with pneumatic dispatch from a universal central? There is a universal garage and everyone has some smart way of transport to there? There is beer in addition to water pipes?

It should be realistic but not conservative. 'Biggest' fulfilled length requirement, better would been 'most interesting'.
I was talking about a different scenario: I buy the same kind of light bulb you own, extract its private key and use it to either:

1. impersonate your light bulb, because they both have the same key

2. impersonate my light bulb, because you and your browser can't tell the difference

To prevent such attacks, each device needs its own certificate and key and then furthermore you need one of the following:

1. each certificate is signed by a unique CA which you add to your browser's list of trusted CAs so that it doesn't trust other devices' certs because they are signed by different CAs

2. each device has a globally unique domain and you type this domain into the browser

3. maybe some other equally cumbersome solution
Child births are down in rich countries. However, to compensate those rich countries import people and those people end up living like Americans or Europeans. There is also the fact that wealth increasing worldwide and consumption correspondingly is increasing. My statement about having fewer kids was meant to apply to the whole world.

Great, we have enough food. There is more to life than just food. In addition to having enough food we have plenty of pollution too. We are toxifying our environment. This is not abating.
This is good knowledge for whatever your field is. I've created a few ORMs. I don't use any of the ones I wrote, but I learned a lot in doing so. I've created a few web routing systems. Again, you can learn a lot, but unless you actually want to spend a lot of time writing and extending one, just use what you learned to help you pick a good one.
tl;dr, as I understand it: when family members Like your Facebook content in relative quick succession, FB apparently interprets it as a signal that it is family-specific content. I didn't see any metrics but this seems plausible.

I think I'm more of a fan of FB than the average web geek, probably because I used it at its phase of peak innocence (college years) and have since weaned myself off to the point of checking it on a less-than-weekly basis. I also almost never post professional work there, nor "friend" current colleagues. Moreover, I've actively avoided declaring familial relationships (though I have listed a few fake relationships just to screw with the algorithm). But wasn't the feature of making yourself a "brand page" and/or having "subscribers" (which don't count toward the 5,000 friend limit) supposed to mitigate this a bit? I guess I'm so used to keeping Facebook solely for personal content (and using Twitter for public-facing content) that I'm out of touch with the sharing mechanics. That, and anecdotal experience of how baby/wedding pics seems to be the most Liked/Shared content in my friend network.
How people will find your product
They might be just doing GPU mining.
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Can someone please summarize the patent?
Is there any reason not to do this and use a provider instead?

I have been shopping for a VPN service the last month, and this looks like the most appealing.
From an experiential view, I say "crowded spectrum" My bluetooth keyboard takes ages to associate at work (which is close to a mainline rail station), but at home in the relative country, it works smoothly.
I'd like Facebook to have an option to see all posts, without filtering, just as they're posted. It's not hard, it's a simple UX, but it's just not there.
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Where can you mine for GPUs? Sounds fun
False dichotomy. When last measured, the ninth most prolific systemd developer, out of just under 600, was Martin Pitt, of Canonical.
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their webgl is completely broken and unusable. do not use it for webgl at all, use other libraries like threejs.
I would like to know this as well. Why is OpenVPN risky?
>Who cares about year of Linux?

Apparently tons of people -- at least did.

>No more fighting xcode or using outdated core tools.

Well, if you don't need to use Swift/Obj-C or develop for Mac/iOS (which apparently you don't) then why use XCode at all in the first place?
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Also remember that id Software wrote an engine specific to the game they were creating (it's debatable whether you can call them engines at all, really). Things are a lot more streamlined if you take this approach because you rarely, if ever, have to answer the question "would this work for some other title?". Or worse, "would this work for any future title that may not even be in the same genre?"!

That, I think, is the mistake many game devs (who write their own engines) make. They make an engine for all possible games, then try to use it for their 2D match-3 puzzler, which uses about 5% of the code they've written, and even then they have to cludge some bits.
I've written a few small no-dependency things like this for Windows. Some random notes on writing them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11011857

These are all no-dependency, and all <100KBytes:

Keyboard layout switcher for Windows: https://github.com/tom-seddon/kbswitch

Windows window manipulation tools, for use with AutoHotKey: https://github.com/tom-seddon/align_window2, https://github.com/tom-seddon/align_window3, https://github.com/tom-seddon/dispswitch

Snack-size Windows clock: https://github.com/tom-seddon/NotifyClock

I think the large ones are only as large as they are because they statically link with the CRT. I used to do the full /NODEFAULTLIB /OPT:NOWIN98 thing, and leave out the CRT entirely, so the EXEs were tiny and had no dependencies - but this was a bit of a pain to work with. And dynamically linking with the CRT caused me a couple of deployment problems here and there, since I used to share my binaries folder between several PCs in the past. So eventually I settled on the purely no-dependency option: statically linking with the CRT, and ignoring the EXE size. The average app just isn't made meaningfully larger in the grand scheme of things by this, and by modern standards it barely even counts as measurable. Even if it's a tiny app, and now 10x larger, it might still be only 90KBytes...
Can you provide some context or links?

This seems to contradict directly with what user SquareWheel writes in another comment and who now seems to have deleted that comment.
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(I think there was an edit in there). The original forum question, asked a few times:

6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14708201

9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12670731

2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9423592
With javascript disabled, the site shows the content for a split second before hiding it. I don't like the proliferation of such user-hostile pages one bit.
Same. I have a Baikal miner and a number of RX 580's and GTX 1070's.
I suspect that the algorithm for familial relationship boosts is no longer a factor once the content is posted under a separate Brand.

For all we know, the "mom" factor isn't weighted for things like external links. The OP is making that suggestion, but perhaps Facebook thought of that and discounts the relationship if it's (a) an external link or (b) the family member likes more than X% of posts.
A decent primer which wisely handles the important things first: namely, misconceptions around what it is & what's required.

"Application" in PWA is best thought of as indicating the user experience on a mobile, with the ability to add to homescreen without downloading via an app store, and offline capabilities. Where PWA shines is website > AMP > PWA. See https://www.google.com/search?q=myntra+kurtis on your mobile for a great example of this transition.
That's exactly what I did, but I can't point you to a howto or something like that. I just bought a vlan capable switch and a pfsense router and set everything up.
https://www.demandrush.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14552615
I'm not sure why you're attributing that argument to me, but please don't fall into the habit of merging all the people who disagree with you in a thread into some kind of intellectual chimera.

I've even said above I agree with criticisms that systemd didn't plan and was deployed too early and too fast.
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The population of the world needs to decrease substantially. I'm talking by hundreds of millions and even billions. I know lots of first world people who care about the environment. They drive cars, fly in planes, buy iPhones, buy computers, buy large amounts of plastic wrapped food items. But they care!

As poverty declines hundreds of millions of more people join the ranks of super consumers. The environment can't sustain the damage done to satiate the current level of consumption. Fewer people is what is needed.
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http://indiehackers.com is a great resource for learning about profitable side projects
This is a good point. Those moments where you are ambivalent about a course of action are self-defining moments. If you want to quit smoking, you need to become a person who chooses not to smoke when they have the opportunity to. The problem with habit is that you're no longer choosing. By keeping your cigarettes close, you gave yourself many ambivalent moments in which to build the self that you wanted to become.
Samsung doesn't have a brilliant track record for security...
nothing to contribute on my own, but this may interest you: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses - probably something worth reading as it goes in to ideas and their implementation. interesting to note that there is a weather app chrome extension there that seems to make 2.5k per month.
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Quoting Douglas hofstader to begin a deep learning article is akin to quoting Einstein to begin an article on quantum mechanics...

Douglas Hofstader is against the currrent direction that artifice intelligence is headed .
How do I exclude "chrome-extension://" and "extensions::" from the list? I can't do anything with them anyway, so it's just clutter.
Beyond that, it's not the 90s anymore; what novel feature are you going to implement that is going to wow anyone in the way that Carmack's engines did?
Illustrated with an image that includes a giant bar with "ADD TO HOME SCREEN" on it. I already know how to do that on my phone. If I go to a page with a bar like that, I'm closing the page. I'm sure I'm not alone.
While this is true, I have the feel that third party VPN companies would be more interesting targets for intrusions, both from private and state-backed actors. Also, VPN-company traffic logs could be a tempting asset to sell or steal.

On the other hand, your lonely AWS instance is a drop in the sea of Amazon vast traffic. Amazon has plenty of other valuable assets and revenue streams that would be more interesting than traffic logs. Nor has Amazon a reason to analyze outbound traffic for each of their millions and millions of instances.

Of course, if someone is actually tracking you, identifies your instance and has the capability to collect and filter outbound AWS traffic leaving your instance, this approach is not valid.

Then again, if someone like this is tracking you, VPNs are probably the least of your worries...
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I believe that option already exists[0].

[0] http://imgur.com/a/gg2DH
"but I know they won’t sell my hosting data to third-party advertisers and scammers"

How do you know this for a fact?
Try it. The downside risk is usually much smaller than that little voice at the back of your mind thinks.
Depends if you need a VPN Service integrated into your own AS or not.
What if they ban Digital Ocean etc.? I won't even be able to setup the VPN, right?
GPU's aren't used for mining Bitcoin. Bitcoin's algorithm is CPU-intensive, and is nearly exclusively done on from-the-Silicon-up purpose-built chips like Avalon and Antminer.

GPU's are used for mining other cryptocurrencies like Litecoin and Ethereum. These can be traded for Bitcoin or fiat currencies.
Because it's not as popular as WiFi or Ethernet or USB. It hasn't had the decades of hard core, hard knocks field usage of WiFi/Ethernet/USB. So the chipsets are less robust to errors, are less sensitive to highly noisy environments. The drivers aren't as battle tested as the other connectivity.

WiFi in its initial days (802.11b) reminds me of bluetooth right now. Quirky, bad tools, weird errors. But WiFi caught on and manufacturers started throwing $B at R&D for better chips and better drivers for those chips.

Bluetooth just has a problem with scale.