skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point; but perhaps we need to think a little more "meta" about the situation. In our era of late stage capitalism Finance dictates production - this is an inherently cannibalistic model of economics and it's not surprise that the U.S. labor market continues to degrade into a more "gig" (Considering a "tour of duty" a gig for arguments sake) economy that hurts the laborers the most.

We should question if this is the system we want to continue to perpetuate, or on the flip side do we want more regulations and restructuring of our market economy? The question is not "More or less market?" but rather "What kind of market?"
At the same time, requiring better passwords is an anti-spam mechanism for the platform.

I once registered a Reddit account that had the same password as its username. After my first post, the account's password was changed and it started posting spam.

The only explanation I have is that someone was crawling the latest posts and trying to crack new accounts so that they have a legit first post and registration IP address to avoid auto-moderation.

Or, for example, a forum that drops all rate-limits once you are 1 year old with 1,000 posts. It now may be attractive to crack trusted accounts so that you can send mass PM spam. Or imagine if a moderator gets their password cracked.

So it's not necessarily just in the best interest of the platform, but also everyone that uses the platform. Though that's no excuse for particularly annoying password requirements.
i used raspberry pi 2 in order to build 2d mapping robot(i installed ROS on top of ubuntu on pi2). i also tried to make it autonomus but lack of some hardware such as motor encoder made it quite hard to accomplish so i did not go for it. See snippets of video diary at https://robot.birkankolcu.com
I have one running a few home automation type tasks (an IP->serial gateway for my whole-house audio, SDR radio to monitor 4 utility meters [only 2 meters are currently reporting data as my 2 water meters are not reporting usage via radio to me or to the utility], and controlling relays for the sprinkler system). Next steps are I plan to create an Alexa skill that will control the whole-house audio and let me "pause" the sprinklers as needed and integrate with weather forecasting to predict near-future rainfall so I can save water/increase plant health if rain is expected.

I'll be honest: it's a lot of fun, but if I lived 100 lifetimes, it would never save me time on balance. ;)

I also use one to run stratux as another poster mentions. That one saved ~$650 vs buying the COTS solution.
I have a Steelcase Airtouch at home that I love, but honestly I don't stand that frequently. I find standing much better for collaboration (but I code alone at home). The Airtouch along with an adjustable monitor arm is a great combination. I end up wanting my screen slightly higher off the desk when I'm standing. One annoying thing for my setup and almost all desk setups that I see is vibrations translating to the monitor. I find a monitor that vibrates while I type very distracting. I use mechanical keyboards so that might accentuate the vibrations. I'm thinking of mounting my monitor on a separate stand like http://www.tvstandsonly.com/P-24273/TV-Stands-for-Expos-with... to completely isolate it from the typing surface

For cramping legs, I have an officemate who uses this:
https://www.roguefitness.com/rogue-fidget-bar.

My final recommendation for office workers is to hit the gym with a qualified personal trainer who understands flexibility and range of motion. If you spend most of your day at a desk I will almost guarantee that you have http://www.physio-pedia.com/Low_Back_Pain_Related_to_Hyperlo... caused by your quads spending most of the day contracted leading them to be tight. Working to extend your hip range of motion and core strength will pay dividends in everything you want to do.
150,000 views a month is 150000/30/24/60/60 = 0.0578 qps. If there's no heavy processing you shouldn't need to be doing any optimization for the machine's sake at that rate. Slow queries / frontend code is a different story :)
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I am a twitchy/boderline-ADHD type of guy. When I don't get (a lot) of exercice because of lack of time or whatever other reason I simply cannot concentrate and spend my day changing position in my chair and losing focus.

My sit/stand desk solved that issue and when I'm standing I feel a lot more focused. Even if in the end I'm not moving that much more than while seated, it feels like a world of difference to just be able to step around and move my legs a bit.
Is it worth it to get bike snow tires, the ones with knobby studs, for the snowy months, or do you simply get used to the unsteady ground after a while?
it seems the foreign sponsored free services are anti competitive.
I have an ergotron sit-stand desk, and a high-quality foam pad to stand on.

I started my standing experiment with an ikea hack (just a small lack table with a shelf attached for a keyboard). I liked it enough that i invested in an ergotron (I work from home, so my bought my desk setup). I made the decision to invest when I realized I had switched from "okay let me sit down and get to work" to "okay, time to work, let me stand up and get to it".

I still sit during the day, whenever I get tired or something, and when I am not at home I am unable to stand for as long - I think the foam pad makes a huge difference.
Very cool. What were you using for your Google Photos uploader on Linux?
If you're talking about the US, no kids are getting the support and role models they need in the schools.
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Visceral manipulation may help fix the leaning issue. http://www.barralinstitute.com/
Standing hurts my lower back within 10 minutes.

Probably a mobility issue. The pain is similar as if I try to do an overhead press.

I have been squatting for 60 seconds twice a day. I should probably try hanging too. Any other ideas ?
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I built a spaceship for my kids:
http://www.duncanjauncey.com/blog/archives/377
(please excuse the tabloid headline of the article)
OK, what happens when your power goes out? What happens when a system goes down? Are you including the cost of your infra/ ops team in your server costs?

What about the larger upfront investment for hardware, especially over provisioned, relative to a spread out payment? What about the 5000 credits you get upfront from aws for startups, and the free tier?

As for vendor lock in, this isn't a problem most companies face - they're fine buying into AWS, and you're underselling the many, many other services they provide beyond EC2.
For those more inexperienced, it can really hurt after a while to sit like that, and even for those experienced it's probably not recommended to stay in such a position for a long time.

I think all of these solutions miss one of the problems with working at a desk: you're sedentary, and that's ultimately bad for the heart. I can't find a source at the moment, but I read an article here a while ago by the AMA which did an investigation into the effects of sitting/being still. They said that it's better to just move more (and spend a much reduced time sitting) than it is to sit slightly less and engage in intensive exercise.

Humans haven't evolved to be spending eight hours a day sitting in roughly the same place with breaks for coffee. Just like lack of exercise, it's poisoning.
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I'm not an expert, but I think you're right for POSIX.

Windows does apparently offer the necessary building blocks; this is the most relevant HN sub-discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9584269
Good question.

I drilled down into top 3 search terms from the last month an updated the article.

Results are:

- Git Tips – Average position declined from 2.4 to 2.9

- Angular Performance – Average position improved from 2.4 to 2.3

- Node JS Memory Leak – Average position improved from 3.4 to 2.9

Based on that, in comparison with other observations I am pretty sure that my site did not get penalized. Please let me know if you disagree or if you think I should pull some other stats.

Edit.

Also this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14857006
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Yes, and being passionate about your work — such as wanting to work with new developments in your chosen field or changing jobs for an opportunity where you'll be better able to apply your talents to your field of interest — is just a capitalist ploy.
Lol, what you are saying is true, but I actually do find some content about coding here!

Also I appreciate the discussions. Instead of one agenda rammed down mu throats, I get to see the honest opinions of a lot of people.
No. Do I need to in order to crack a half-joke? :)
As an [outside] investor in the company, I'm more than happy to vote for compensation packages that are driven by stock price (management wins iff shareholders win). I'm unlikely to vote for a compensation system where management can win big without shareholders gaining.

It's not accidental that the tie between share price and executive comp came into being.
You can implement a basic level of this just by storing some information about users and then comparing it on login. Some relatively simple examples

- Inform users of unsuccessful login attempts since their last sign-in. This can let them know if someone is trying to attack their account.

- Notify the user if they login from a new browser. You can record information about the client (user agent plus other identifiers that are visible server-side) and then notify the user when connections are made from new systems that haven't been seen before.

- For GeoIP there are basic datasets that cover things like country of origin that are generally available for free. You could use one of those to note the customers general country of origin and then notify when that changes.

None of these are flawless of course, but they could provide some basic means to help users protect their accounts.
Tyres with spikes are pretty much mandatory if you're using a touring bike (mountain bikes with balloon tyres may cope fairly well with snow, I guess) on snow and ice. IMHO they're not optional. And you don't tend to get used to slipping on ice.

(Edit: I'm in Germany; we tend to get snow and ice in winter and the cycle paths are not always cleared immediately.)
> 10 different ways of doing the same thing

Mostly an urban myth. Where it isn't, at least 8 of those ways are actually important.

Exercise: write a python program that prints Python's quoting documentation, without external files, without editing the documentation. Spoiler alert: it's impossible.
I'm always ready to quit any position in about 5 seconds.

That is the value and importance of not having debt.

A mortgage is a noose around your neck.

Unless that mortgage is for a rental property that earns more than PITI (principle, interest, taxes, insurance) then you're enslaved.

Make sure your first home is at least a triplex or fourplex. There's nothing like the feeling of knowing you will not be homeless and starve if you quit your job or get fired.
Almost every argument that you are making here could be exactly applied to developers and contractors. Hope that they can out-value a contractor. They're expensive. Some larger businesses have terrible dev teams and a team of contractors could out-perform them all.

> Good ops people can cost as much as good developers.

And this is a surprise? They bring a ton of domain specific expertise, good automation experience, and they lift the burden of managing your systems from your developers, so they can work on features and not scaling.
Having commuted by bicycle for a number of years (~25 mile round trip) I found high winds to be far riskier and more unpleasant than snow or cold (mind you - being in Scotland its not getting that cold and snow would at most be for a few weeks at a time). I was almost blown off my bike onto a truck once - which gave me a bad scare.

Mind you black ice could be nasty.
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Something related to the news[1] couple of days ago about Bitmixer.io closing down?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14843373
Not really - no :N (green threads/co-operative multitasking) needed here. It's one task that wants to use multiple real CPUs, instead of multiple tasks that want to use one CPU.
It's both. From the legal point of view, it's good that drugs are removed from the market, and from a violence point of view, it's good that it's all on the darknet. By clamping down on a marketplace you're basically just attracting attention to it and more people will start using it for buying drugs, thus, there will be less violence as everything is moved online. Also, the police did their job in a much more efficient manner like this. So it's bad for the dealers involved, but ultimately good for society.
I really think trying to reason about labour markets using pure theory in a Hayek-Friedman-esque way is a dead end.

It's the 2nd time in two days I made the recommendation, but throwing Ronald Coase into the Neoliberal canon would help a lot. He was a "chicago school" academic from the same intellectual family, so it shouldn't be too much of a culture shock.

He wan't like "progressives" in the "evidence based" sense but he also objected to first principles theory like Friedman. Instead, he tried to find persistent phenomenon and theorized about why they exist.There was always a link to the real world.

Anyway, the pure theory approach leads to a general conclusion/assumption that markets are the same. The market for labour, barbie dolls, whatever.

IRL, labour markets are obviously very different than most other markets. It's inflexible. People stay in jobs a long time and most employers actively try to lower their average turnover. Why?

If flexibility is so wonderfully efficient, why do almost all companies have such a big inflexible workforce? Why is the market for labour so different in practice than the market for oral hygiene products and services.

Why isn't Wall street staffed by day labourers or SV products built by quarterly contractors? You have to look past pure theory to answer these questions. I think you probably have to look beyond economics, or at least to its fringes (like behavioral economics).
Thanks for the link, it's definitely interesting. Unfortunately it seems that most of the open source Flash projects died out around 2011-2012.

What I had in mind was more about converting the programs (SWF files) instead of fixing the VM. I know that there were some open source VMs, but were there some successful attempts at converting SWF files to a different format?
If we incompletely define addiction as a cycle of compulsions with negative consequences, it's already an unsustainable process at the individual level. We can predict (and statistics confirm this) lifespans of addicts to be lower than those of comparable non-addicts.

If a business intentionally develops a userbase of addicts, they are choosing customers who will live shorter lives than others. They'll need to get more people addicted over time in order to maintain the biz or grow it. As their impact on customers rises, so does their visibility. At some point, the public will become aware of the effects and push back, making it harder to cultivate new addicts. The company will likely have to start covertly converting addicts to keep up the game, adopting addiction patterns at an organizational level. Governments will have to step in before their tax bases are affected.

Is that clearer?
Very cool. I'd love to use it, but...

Any plans to release source code? I can't trust any privacy claims without seeing it.
Winter tyres are totally worth the money.
You know, the words "zero-trust" and "money" don't go along well with each other.

The current value of BTC comes from trust. It's just not the kind you were expecting it to be.
In my experience, ice is the most tricky part. Normal tires have no grip on ice.
I recently used a Pi to replace the game controller on an arcade style basketball game we have in our office (like this: http://imgur.com/a/B7YBq). It's running Android Things and has a couple of fun new game modes, better sound effects, and a whole bunch of LEDs for added awesomeness.
Why? IPv6 firewalls exist, and scanning a single IPv6 /64 would take 2^32 times longer than the entirety of IPv4.
That's kind of the problem when the author uses meaningless words like "WEB SCALE", we don't really know what it means exactly.

If it's about serving a great number of concurrent connections, I'm not sure why M:N is the only way to go.
Will this have the ability to replace an Alexa in terms of smart home integration/automation?
Yes, sadly a lot of wholesale is done at street level and supplied using the darknet, but at the same time, I see more end consumers purchasing online.
FWIW, I, too, have tried learning Haskell and ended up banging my head against the wall over and over. With Lisp, I eventually "got it", but Haskell has evaded my attempts at understanding it with impressive stubbornness[1].

Disclaimer: I do not hate Haskell, I just don't "get it". If you love the language, fine, have as much fun with it as you possibly can. I for one have given up, at least for now. Maybe I'll try again next year.

[1] NB that the word "stubbornness" has three pairs of double consonants. How fun is that?
There should be a financial penalty for a sale price where its well above a multiple of the median income. That coulld potentially cool the property bubblers down.
I will check that out. I just ordered Kelly Starret's The Supple Leopard which comes highly recommended.
I've used it a while and can confirm its great featureset (backgrounding, no ads, downloading) ... one issue is no subscription feature in-app. I don't want to play around with RSS
Yes, as well as excellent abstractions for putting those threads to work. See [parallel](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/parallel), [async](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/async), and [monad-par](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/monad-par) for a few examples. If you just need a web server [Warp](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/warp) is extremely competitive.
On that note, I wonder if we'll ever see type="text/typescript" in the browser due to how much traction it's gaining so quickly, and considering it's basically always ESNext but with types.
Presto is the in house 3d software used by Pixar. I came here and was very confused. Do we not Google search our software's name before assigning it?
How sturdy are those? I tried using an ikea standing desk at my old office and it wobbled way too much.

Also do you think it will last 3-5 years?
> All the schools I know of have an iPad per child these days.

This might shock you, but that's not exactly common. Also, an iPad has a lot more potential uses than a Minecraft license.
This is all fine for a personal project. The amount that the time you spent optimizing would cost a company is very likely to outweight the cost of scaling hardware.
you might want to try a balance board. i've been meaning to get one myself - they apparently are good for low-back pains.
I'm also in the process of building a photobooth. Using the standard Pi Camera module + a Pimoroni Unicorn Hat HD to give people a prompt when the photo is about to be taken. It'll then publish the photos on it's own internal webserver that'll be visible on another Pi for easy emailing / browsing and tweeting! Going to pack it all in an transparent enclosure that looks like the approximate shape of an oversized DSLR.
Not really. As a tax paying citizen I like to see good use of my tax money, and I think this is actually an efficient way of policing.
Time, not material goods, 'raises happiness'
By that logic the gamma knife that has saved many people with cancer would not exist - before practical applications comes laying the basic foundation, and once that foundation is down, the genie is out of the bottle - I'm working on an autonomous drone, I am of course deeply opposed to weaponizing what I know is a ridiculously stupid system, but I know that it will happen - implication is not action, and knowledge is mostly neutral, it's the application of that knowledge that might be problematic - whichever way you slice it, it's a really complex issue, and anything worth having is often capable of both great and terrible things, depending on the application. AI is way too primitive to be malicious on it's own and will remain that way for years - now, as for abhorrent malicious uses of what we have now, here's a great example -- https://goo.gl/HmBY9k
Try running 'ip addr' in Linux or 'ipconfig' in Windows. Do you even have a IPv6 address assigned to any interface? If not, it is your router or ISP, most likely.
> The idea was laudable but it would have required buy-in from the other communities

But imagine how cool it would have been - write a class in Python, sub-class it from Ruby, use that subclass in a function written in Perl, call that function from Lua code...

Okay, I see it now. It was just too awesome for its time. Maybe in a hundred years or so...
I use it as a GopiGo, Timelapse camera which i mount on my car dashboard to record my road trips.
I've done a little reading into making something along these lines using a Pi, Snowboy hotword detection, and one of the cloud APIs.

Two things I'm curious about...

1) What are you using for hardware with the Pi? It seems a high quality microphone is important to this application and the only array microphone I've been able to find is the MATRIX creator which seems steep in price if I could just buy an Amazon Dot.

2) Your numbers indicate significantly better performance than Google. How are you able to achieve that? Where does your training data come from if nothing is supposedly leaving my device?

I really strongly desire a system that wouldn't require relying on the cloud but I just don't know how you can get enough training data to be anywhere near as accurate as a cloud provider. That led me to thinking the next best thing would be a setup with Snowboy hotword detection where I know nothing is leaving my device until my own programmed hotword is spoken.
The gender-specificity of 'cunt' seems to be exclusively a US thing.
Mastering various cake mixes in a dutch oven is already part of camping with boy scouts, at least in the midwest.
The timeframe I'm using is the timeframe where you stop seeing servers mangle 8-bit email. 8BITMIME technically requires converting 8-bit bodies to QP and base64, which is generally not necessary nowadays, and some would argue that software that chooses not to implement that shouldn't advertise 8BITMIME.
I for one still like AMP pages, especially for sites like BBC/verge/arstechnica when browsing from mobile. Sorry I do not want to use all my precious data for your tracking+analytics. A typical cdn.ampproject(google hosted) page for bbc transfers about 500kB whereas the same bbc mobile page 900kB. I made an android app that requests and loads the CDN version of the current page if possible, based on https://gist.githubusercontent.com/adewale/125f0cb2cb46b6af9...
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That's interesting. Any good book on that topic that you would recommend?
I have a feeling that the informed, consenting adults who have funds in that exchange will soon discover exactly why dealing with an unregulated, secretive foreign financial company (Whose owners keep their identities secret, so that they won't be arrested) is a bad idea.

HSBC has none of these properties (Which are more important to their legitimate users.)
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