skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I submitted my Acid Machine site in 2015, it's a web based synth and drum machine app. I didn't expect much to happen, just wanted to get a bit of feedback. It ended up featuring on a few high profile music sites and for the next week it got 70,000 users a day. I didn't post it anywhere else so it all originated from HN in some way.

Since then I have released version 2 which has the ability to add fx to the instruments, use MIDI devices and lots more. It gets a few sales a week with traffic still coming from those music sites.

http://errozero.co.uk/acid-machine
What does this first sentence even mean?
Currently many Bay Area cities, including ones that are a solid 90 minute drive, have median household incomes in the 75-$125K range. But the payment on a median house is 100% or more of that income. The situation is not yet literally Dickensian, but I don't know it's that far off.
After engineer pressure a few years ago Google opened their cafes and some other amenities to many of their contract staff; they used to be more restricted.
Yup, was thinking the same. Vimwiki in markdown format and can render the entire wiki to html.
So, how much were you paying your employees? Were you giving them enough hours? Were they getting tipped-out appropriately?

People aren't shitty just to be shitty--there's usually a reason they find themselves taking advantage of a system.
Wouldn't the system kind of design itself?

https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/the-alien-look-of-deep-l...
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Sure likewise. I mean, no hard feelings but go all the way up the chain to parent. He suggests Brave browser shouldn't get funding (and people shouldn't use it?) because at one point Eich gave a couple thousand bucks to a (failed) campaign to prevent gay marriage from becoming legal.

And who cares? The question should be is the browser any good.

Do you think people should call his place of employment and claim they aren't going to use the product unless they "fire the pervert"? It's ridiculous. It really is. And I'd be saying exactly the same thing if the relationship were switched.
I think they observed the wrong people.

AirBnB's supply comes from property owners, not hospitality employees(i.e. hotel workers).

Uber, Lyft, Postmates and similar supply comes from driver and courier time spent on the platform, not cars, cars/bikes are suppliers tools, unlike Airbnb renters, the suppliers of cars are not necessarily the Uber drivers here, the comparison would be fairer if they compared fleet managers revenue to Airbnb property owners'.
Just wanted to let you know that your website is shown to me in very badly translated Dutch, personally I'd rather have correct English than bad Dutch, but I don't see a way to change it.
They don't touch it in this tutorial but typically you don't check just whats in your dictionary. You also use a set of rules to manipulate your dictionary that massively increases the number of hashes to perform. Those 5 million entries quickly passes tens of billions hashes that need to be run. These initial entries might be too short like OP pointed out, but after the rules are applied it might generate many entries that will be long enough to spend time hashing.

The keyspace for WPA is huge and the hash speed is still relatively slow, even with an extremely high end system like you linked to the quality of the initial dictionary is really important.
That's amazing. I would love to connect with you on Twitter if you would have the time. But since we are not following each other, I cannot send any messages. I am growing my blog similar to yours, but it is an personal blog though.
I'm not saying any democrats at the time were willing to go all in on it, but the two statements would only be two ways to frame the same reality if democrats had the ability to make unilateral decisions in the senate. They never did.
I had about five of my submissions hit the front page. All of them were mostly projects on github and articles on my blog. For how they helped me:

- They got me around ~3000 subscribers for hugobots.com which I have been promoting through my repositories (it would have been much more; unfortunately, I forgot to put the link on the first day while the repository was on the first page. I put it on the third day and the emails that I got were mostly from the traffic from the people sharing the post on twitter/facebook/reddit etc)

- One of the project (developer roadmap) got me two sponsors paying me around ~1000$ each every 6 months for just putting their links in the project readme.

- Follower count on my github profile was around ~100 at that time; now it is about 2.3k

- Had been approached for freelancing gigs and was able to make connections.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13970781

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13664127

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12282264

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13927262

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14568050
A wiki would require a backing database and server process (I think). This platform is flat files.
In both cases the government regulation is making you an indentured servant to incumbent wealth. In one case you're a slave to financiers and the education incumbents and in the other case you're a slave to the labor union who doesn't want you coming in and undercutting them. I'm not interested in debating which one is worse, they're both very similar problems. And neither is necessary.
Which makes you wonder how much control they're giving away to Wikipedia over the contents of the article. Endorsing it with a link from their own site, without any curation, sounds unlikely. I'm reminded of the Whopper article controversy after that Google Home ad [0]. Obviously there's no reason to believe companies aren't doing this already.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Whopper/Archive_2#Request...
> Poor people's number one pasttime is abusing the system for personal gain.

Wow. Just wow.
> but from the other side, there's plenty of things that could be automated that aren't because salaries are too high, hence a shortage.

That just means there's a market opportunity out there to build a tool that helps accomplish this. The majority of companies in the world could not afford to write and in-house version of Quicken, but they have no problem paying a few grand a year in licensing fees for it.
I remember John "Maddog" Hall speaking about it in Brazil. I was just a kid at the time.
> Distributed means that Wild Duck uses a distributed database (sharded + replicated MongoDB) as a backend for storing all data

ok bye
Dokuwiki is flat files only.
Meanwhile, the Internet Archive's trove of old Mac software that runs in your browser is growing by the week. Lots of Hypercard stacks already in there, e.g. https://archive.org/details/TheManholeMacintosh
In The Netherlands too, cant wait till i can shout at my co-worker to convert some image to it.
They still do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRM31VRNQw0
I'm not going to tell you how to live your life, but maybe you should have some sort of disclaimer: "not responsible for accidentally identifying death caps as chantarelles."
Would you perhaps be referring to such things as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone ?

Because that's some bullshit.
FWIW, it failed at identifying my winecaps. It was a pretty easy picture too, albeit there were multiple in the shot.
HyperCard was created by Bill Atkinson following an lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) trip.[10]
Amazon's Whole Foods deal under scrutiny
Nice name ;-) For those not speaking familiar french, pignouf is something like dumb-ass (and champi is champignon, mushroom)
> Are you really saying you'd prefer to work for a company that doesn't think about what its internal culture

maybe.... kidding. culture is really hard to define. But yes your point is taken but my point is by defining concrete things you can create a culture.

For example one concrete thing could be a company that says our top level executives or performers are only paid 3x than the lowest paid employee. That would indicate a lot more to me than the fluff that Stripe wrote.

> and values should be?

I absolutely care about this. This IMO is different than culture (or maybe they overlap). You can have intense high work ethic culture that have many of the big picture same values as one that does not (one example would be school systems).

You can also have very similar companies in goals and values in completely different areas of the world that have completely different culture because naturally that region has
a different culture.

That being said you make valid points.
Are you working with or have you considered working with the folk at mushroomobserver.org? They have an absolutely enormous dataset. Hundreds of thousands of cataloged observations!
2/3 of prostate cancer occurs in men over 65. That's the results of being on Medicare, the largest single payer health care system in the world.
There are loads of options for static site generators (here[0] is a good list of ~200), but it doesn't solve all problems. One question, for example, is how to get search functionality.

[0] https://www.staticgen.com/
interesting project, may I ask what is the vision to create a Billion Dollar company?
Billing abuse (care provider) and billing fraud (bad agents) are two aspects of the system that need some serious time devoted to them.

My thought experiment for some of this. Suppose the US government had a rider on every insurance policy in the US that said the government would pick up the tab for any amount over say $100,000 (think catastrophe insurance). Now, you would make the assumption that looking at the actuarial tables this would reduce the cost of health insurance because no insurance company is on the hook over $100,000 (thus no need to worry about the million $ payout).

I am more and more convinced that hospitals would screw this up with over billing for every damn thing and every visit requiring a stay would get jacked to > $100,000.
can you make this for hot dogs please? id like to know if the pic has a hot dog or a not hot dog.
From rookie programmer to building an app with over 100k downloads in 6 months
It doesn't give you a hash to crack. It reduces your speed of guessing passwords from "how quick can you hash X", which is millions of times per second, to "how many times can I attempt to get in before the access point blocks me".

This major issue with WPA password cracking today is that it can be done "offline". You can pull the handshake out of the air and bang on it as long as you want. It's pretty much the same thing as trying to guess a password from some leaked hashes vs trying to guess a password using the gmail interface.
Or maybe Google should avoid confusion and stop putting unofficial projects under github.com/google.
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I get the feeling that the author misses the point: many of those tests can probably be automated. Yes, their knowledge of what needs to be tested is absolutely critical, but they should be using it to constantly make their own job more efficient via automation.
I'm not sure what way that sarcasm is cutting. I'll say the "design the problem away" impulse is partly what causes corporatism and monopolies. For example, regulatory capture in which the regulated industries more or less control the regulators.

So I'll say the regulate-the-problem-away impulse is a pipe dream in the long run.
What's your take on model accuracy? I ask because my startup has developed a high-order accurate CEM solver (think MoM full-wave type solvers but every time you double the mesh density you get a 100x accuracy improvement thanks to a bunch of algorithmic breakthroughs). But we've also been putting in a lot of work to make CAD import fast and easy and it's not clear to me what's going to get people more interested - the technical performance of the solver or the usability of the GUI. I'd be interested in thoughts on that. Or anyone interested in getting hands-on, send me an email (see my profile).
When every city in the bay thinks that way we get a situation where only the lucky get to live here.
Doesn't do anything for me. Running the creator's update without OneNote or Office installed.
Did you use a CNN to identify the mushrooms? (I assume so). Did you run into problems deploying the CNN to production? How do you intend to update it given feedback from your users, and the photos they submit?
I don't personally see a difference other than the average wage for what I do.

There's this "respect" part, which is one of the major points of the article. And the fact that you apparently don't even see it as an issue -- while those on the other side of the coin insist that it is, in fact, quite a huge issue -- is a great part of what makes it such a huge issue.

If there's a wage issue in this case, it's not Facebook's issue to sort it out.

Right -- it's a matter for the legislators and the courts.

And if Facebook can't, or won't do the right thing for their workers, on this front -- they'll be made to do it.
Turn the lights off?
Incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Emerson_Good_Samaritan_Ac...
Yeah, I meant in the same way as Mayo (NP -> FP). Not enough coffee, thanks.
Anecdotally, most non-technical Mac users seem to have better habits than Windows users. Updates get installed and shady software gets loaded up less frequently.
I'd agree with this. We can all agree Windows is infinitely better than Linux because people pay for it.

Also Internet Explorer is infinitely better than Chrome and Firefox.
Yes, but a decade or more ago. The security landscape and perceptions around it have changed.

Also, back then the difference between MacOS and Windows was pretty stark so this was a valid marketing point. Not that the ads didn't oversell it, of course.
I love that while we discuss this awful attitude by the corporate giants like Facebook and Google, internally in "our own" (HN really isn't the community's, get a grip) we are CONSTANTLY worrying about getting downvoted for asking what we see as a genuine question.

There's a larger problem here, and I feel it comes down to our collective attitudes.
This really sucks. I don't even see how an overhaul could be done.
I agree that you would expect more from a $3000 computer, but that is not what hololens is. Considering all of novel sensors and capabilities with the hololens, it is pretty amazing to me that the hololens is only $3000.
I think the way to fix domain squatting is just to enforce a larger annual ICANN* fee. I would set it just above what someone can likely make a year via a link farm. Say for instance $500. If you really want a domain for your business, etc. that isn't an unreasonable amount. If you want it as a link farm, you are de-incentivized. If you have the next twitter.com, then speculate if you'll get your $100K or more.

I would then take this extra money would get used to support research and development for internet related things like protocols, exploits, etc. so it is a net win for everyone. Also, we then have less companies with names made up of bad spellings.
Lobbying.

Seriously, though, could someone do a traceroute and tells me who pays for each hop?
For the curious: https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/02/23/this-mushroom-starts... This happens, and it's bad.
Insert "cash" for "real-estate" and we have a very ironic statement.
Because more often then not, VPN is used to circumvent something they shouldn't be accessing. Just like torrents are essentially used to download pirated software. I bet you side with pirates, because they are only trying to "test" the software first.
I remember 2007, when I started my bachelors degree some senior students had one and were so proud.

Half a year later, nobody talked about it anymore and it was iPhone all the way.
I don't, but it's certainly possible.

Most employers have no desire to sue employees, so most of these settle or get ignored, AFAIK.

At least in the case of Google (literally, i have no concept of other Alphabet companies), the only cases i'm aware of where Google has claimed it owned something was when the employee sued Google first.

example: A former employee suing Google over a patent developed while employed by Google, google counterclaims it owns that patent under the IP agreement.
I guess my point is that the profit status might not be the most important thing to determine what values your organization has.
Time taken to crack WEP depended on if it was a 64 or 128 bit key

I did a study using an Atom netbook - a 64 bit key (10 digits long) took 8 mins to find, 128 (26 digits) took 30 mins
Ask HN: Give Me Your Advice, CS50 (edx.org) or IntroCS (By Robert Sedgewick)
Hi there, which course will you recommend for a self taught (Java) programmer who wants a more formal introduction to Computer Science? I don't mind learning a new programming language.

a). CS50 at edX (C programming language).

b). Computer Science: An interdisciplinary approach. Book and Video Lectures by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne.

Will it bring more benefit to tackle that field of study with the C programming language instead of Java? Also, do you think I should first need to take a Discrete Mathematics course first?
Thanks a lot for your insights.
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I did say "when used the right way".

For various activities it allows you to mask your identity while making purchases online far better than the alternative of using your credit card or PayPal or something.
Does anyone know what's the reason for such redirect? Does it mean, they don't want to maintain web page of discontinued product and do this to avoid 404 or redirect to homepage?
Uhm, you do know that CA housing supply has not grown nearly as fast as in other states? We are not keeping up with population growth. That's why CoL is high. What should be an easy deal of more tax dollars from the rich and services for the poor has become more money for landlords and evicting the poor.
I'm embarrassed to say it took me a full year of mac use (I came from linux originally) to learn that preview app could edit as well you can insert your own signature!
995 Days Ago - Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8547351)

It was on the homepage for around 24 hours I think. We had ~500,000 unique sessions during the first month after the launch. Hacker News played a big part in that.

We stopped actively working on the project, but it's still being used by more than 100,000 people every month.

I wrote a little case study about the whole thing here -
http://codetree.co/case-studies/movieo
B should just respond with "those aren't my wife's parents, don't know who they are".
>People aren't shitty just to be shitty

Eh, especially in the service industry I have found this untrue. Nowhere near a majority of people are shitty just to be shitty, but it really only takes a few.
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I would use a similar app for something inconsequential, like bird voices. However, mushrooms are often identified to determine whether they can be eaten. The penalty for mistake may be death. So I think I'll pass.

For the record, I've uploaded a picture of an aardvark:
"""I think it's: Panaeolus acuminatus
Or perhaps Psilocybe zapotecorum , Coprinopsis variegata , Hygrocybe singeri , or coprinellus sect micacei
or something totally different!"""

I think it's trying too hard.
Piling housing on top is exactly what is illegal.
Peering disputes have always been when the party wanting to peer had an unbalanced traffic ratio, and the other party didn't want to peer (possibly for other reasons), and they started much earlier than the network neutrality debates.

The recent changes are more around who is involved in the peering disputes. It used to be smaller ISPs trying to get peering with larger ISPs, such as Cogent trying to get peering with [name your favorite, or PSINet vs Cable and Wireless; and most often the ISP refusing to peer didn't have residential customers themselves. Now it's more often the content providers themselves trying to peer with the residential isps directly. A major factor here is the huge consolidation of residential ISPs, but also the consolidation of content providers.

Consolidation of residential ISPs means each ISP is big enough to run their own backbone, and as a result they can credibly have strict peering requirements. Smaller, regional ISPs will tend to want to peer, because otherwise the traffic will come through on paid transit connections. Large ISPs may not care; because of their size, they may not be paying anyone for transit, and because of the common asymmetric nature of residential connections, there's not likely to be many networks where the large ISP is on the wrong side of the ratio.

If I were one of these content providers, I would spend a lot more time messing with the large ISPs. Figure out how to make the traffic cost them money, so they'll want to peer. Provide transit to data backup services to try to make the ratios less unbalanced. Run campaigns suggesting that residential ISPs should be paying their customers, given that the traffic is unbalanced. Etc.
Porting is always a pain in the ass, it's one of those things where you're much better off compiling to all the platforms that you think you care about as you go, and make sure it's part of your continuous integration process, as well as your regression testing. If you do this for enough platforms, there's a good chance that when you want to port to a new device the code will be agnostic enough to work with much less tweaking.

This is also why people tend to use a framework like Unity, or a language like Haxe both of which allow you to write once, compile lots of places. I don't have much personal experience with either, but Haxe pops up in a lot of threads where indie developers hangout, and even AAA game devs seem to use Unity.

I suspect it's sort of the same problem that Java has, where it's write once, debug everywhere, but there are people who swear by them, and I suspect that once you get some experience you tend to avoid writing code that causes cross platform debugging headaches in the first place.
how would you add a new post (for a blog) edit a file, and upload it to the site?
There was an XKCD that demonstrated how crypto fails in the real world--if a state wants something, they either beat it out of you or threaten to harm your family members, friends, your dog, destroy your ability to earn income, etc. Cryptocurrency does not solve the problem of monopoly of violence. The math may not permit it, but the math has no say.
My grandparents retired on the eastern shore of the Leelanau peninsula, very near the town where the recently discovered 93 pound stone was found. We would walk the shoreline after a fresh rain to find these. They kept buckets full of them that they would give away to whomever wanted them.

I never realized how unique the stones were until I was in my 20s and discovered most people know nothing about them. The buckets are long gone and one of my biggest regrets is not having claimed any before my grandparents moved back down to southeast MI.
On the flip side, I don't have as much trouble remembering if I left something open in Reader or IE11 as I did in Windows 8.1 with everything merged in Edge. It's an interesting trade-off, and while it does add more tabs to a place where I already keep too many tabs it is somewhat nice to be able to scroll through all of it in one place.

Maybe some of the new tab management tools in Edge since the Creators Update help? (I'll be honest, I'm not yet using them as much as I thought I would.)
That last line seems like something that mostly still applies to YC startups.
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