skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.overseer.tv

I built a show tracker just for me (it's not nearly where I want it to be, so I don't share it anywhere, eg. currently my show database is out of date I need to see what broke my cron tonight. no ssl cert, no optimization at all I don't even know if my js is minified tbh, etc).

I am the only active user http://www.overseer.tv/user/smt and I built this because I watch a shit ton of shows and I often forget when premieres come, or what episode I left off on. My site is basically one click to mark a show/season/episode "watched" and I have a calendar and upcoming section, which is all I wanted from many other sites I tried before creating my own.

I host this on an EC2 instance for 29$ a month, and my own usage alone makes it worth it to me haha.
For the record, "go/pc-considered-harmful" is not a message board but is rather an internal URL convenience link that the author (or someone else) created specifically for this document. Anyone can create one of these for anything they like (as long as it's not already taken) but these links only resolve inside the corporate network.
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I'm all for giving Amazon flack where it's deserved. This tax witch-hunt isn't one of those cases.

2016 pre-tax income: $3.89 billion

2016 income tax: $1.43 billion

2016 income tax rate: 36.7%

That's one of the highest rates on earth.

2015: $1.57b pre-tax income. $950m income taxes. That's a 60% rate.

They don't generate much taxable income. What exactly are they supposed to be paying substantial taxes on other than that?

Should they be paying £30m (£50m?) in taxes on that £19.5 billion in European revenue instead? Ok, let's go with that, they're both meaningless figures. How is that a substantial matter to nail Amazon for (of all things) given the epic scale of tax schemes throughout Europe?
They are probably still getting full salary and benefits until the next scheduled payday.
That's how companies in CA get around the rule that employees must be paid in full on their last day.
The main issue here is the budget notification emails aren't an adequate mechanism to catch infinite loops. They are too slow and you've already racked up big overages by the time you see it.

Idea: use API Gateway to configure a quota to match your budget projections. That will force a hard stop. Would be nice if AWS made this easier.
I'm having a hard time making sense of your first paragraph.

As for the second, which published numbers are you referring to ?
Can you share more info about the queries that "went wild" on GitHub, so that we can reproduce? Thx
I know you're being sarcastic but I feel it's partly true. They announce so many different services, each month something new appears, but this very basic feature - bill capping - asked by users from the very beginning, has never been implemented. It's hard to believe they lack the skill or that it would be much more complicated than the current alert system.
I built + maintain todolist[1] which is a GTD-style task management app for the command line. It's getting a bit of traction now which is pretty fun. It got a ton of upvotes on Product Hunt which was really cool to see[2].

I have very loose plans to monetize via a paid subscription for syncing with other devices / phones, but there will always bee a free / open source version as well.

[1]: http://todolist.site

[2]: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/todolist
The beauty in Linux is also the freedom to simplify your workflow as much as you want, and not use the tools you don't need.

I've decided to only use a tiling WM for all window/pane management, and stop using anything else, as much as possible.

So I abandoned Gnome3->Terminator->tmux in favor of bspwm->urxvt. I don't lose the functionality that I had before (tiling terminals), and I'm using much lighter-weight tools and less of them. I love it.

Oh, and as for editor tiling... Yeah, I still have to tile buffers in Vim/Emacs, but only because I prefer the editing workflow in that case (all my context / session / environment remains the same). I suppose I could have lightweight clients, but I haven't really looked into it.
from the article you are replying to

>This is because existing systems were designed to function—and to achieve consensus—in public scenarios amongst anonymous, untrusted actors with maximum transparency. Because of this, transactions are posted “in the clear” for all to see, every node in the network executes every transaction, and computationally intensive consensus algorithms must be employed. These safeguards, while necessary to ensure the integrity of public blockchain networks, require tradeoffs in terms of key enterprise requirements such as scalability and confidentiality.

..

>Coco achieves this by designing specifically for confidential consortiums, where nodes and actors are explicitly declared and controlled. Based on these requirements, Coco presents an alternative approach to ledger construction, giving enterprises the scalability, distributed governance and enhanced confidentiality they need without sacrificing the inherent security and immutability they expect.
Jordan Peterson is great. He's a thoughtful, honest person who is delightfully transparent in his efforts to make sense of the universe. He publicly spoke up in support of free speech, and therefore become a target to be intimidated and harassed by - well, the usual suspects. When he refused to back down, he became a minor celebrity among those who value free speech and who are concerned by the recent rise of totalitarian ideology on the left.
Action on CFCs and ozone depletion was a lot easier with a lot less economic/industrial impact. Work on CO2 emissions is much more difficult and much more costly. It also is more of a direct challenge to the implicit value assumptions of a huge group of people (that humans have "dominion" over the Earth, and it is theirs to subject rather than theirs to responsibly steward). It's an instance of the "boomerang effect" writ large.
Buy and sell limits prevent using coinbase to trade BTC like a stock unless you're talking extremely low limits or extremely long term (like a retirement fund, which I wouldn't recommend)

So the liquidity is weird, I can turn less than $15K into USD in a few moments, but $15001 will take me two weeks and is scary given volatility. I would argue this intentional as in this is why coinbase isn't very useful for drug money laundering.

I once bought a commemorative Swiss Army knife with Debian Linux branding and spent like $200 on nickel and time fees to buy a $100 knife. The numbers are only slightly exaggerated. Transferring money is incredibly expensive.
Since they started trying to stamp out "fake news".
Sales tax?
You think so?

https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2014/08/27/gnome-design-saving-...
There exists a jupyter kernel for cling, which allows this (also this is C++ not C)
> Imagine if your bank suddenly had millions of new clients join in a 2 month period. I think they would stop answering the phone too.

This is utterly delusional.

You can't handle new clients, you STOP ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS.
Of course we are all thinking (hmm should we do a clone) and believe me I am not going to deny it's tempting, hell I might even be pushing for something like that.

But the reality is most likely that someone is going to buy them for no money and then continue the platform trying to beat the dead horse alive.

The reality is that you don't make any money on streaming services if you don't hold the rights. Netflix and Spotify should be a good inspiration for how to do it and they aren't even doing as well as one might think.

But there is a very simple way to make a good (non funded) business out of soundcloud and that is to turn it into a paid platform for artists who want to push things up there.
Also full of dramatic, unsubstantiated claims such as:

> Now staff morale is in the toilet, the user experience is a mess, the subscription models are unappealing, competitors are growing rapidly and musicians are fleeing to other upload platform.

I really thought TechCrunch was getting better, but man this is bad journalism. It's like a hit piece in a high school newspaper.
Well, technically I'm facing 8th floor windows, but my blind is down. Others are partially open though so I can glance to the side and see the outdoors, which is nice. So it's not quite as bad as facing a wall, but it is true that anyone can walk up behind me unnoticed. Because it's a standing desk (though I use a high chair) that somehow doesn't seem as bad because they can't loom over you.
I don't like being rude in comments sections but that's a pretty dumb comment to make, to be honest. I don't think the writer needs any help understanding how tax bills are formulated, it's just meant to state a point. (Which you would understand if you read the article before commenting)
The Wired article is at https://www.wired.com/story/great-elon-musk-building-hyperlo... . The Bloomberg report appears to be https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-04/elon-musk... .

I see a distinct lack of information, like, which government organizations have authorized such tunneling, what is the route, who is funding it.
Weird question. Can we make Earth a spaceship by somehow manipulating the orbit of the moon?
I don't really see how Promises leads to that... do you mean the fact that not all libraries support them out of the box?

Bluebird (probably my favorite Promises implementation) has nice features to interface pretty easily between callbacks and Promises.
It'll be interesting to see what they come up with to decrease rendering latency. From what I can see, that's one of the bigger challenges recently with GPUs; instead of focusing on raw throughput (to improve image quality), latency is now more of an issue.

I personally would welcome a AR HMD that sacrifices whatever is necessary to get a low-latency system that very smoothly tracks the user's movements.
Do we seriously spend 1 thousand billion dollars per year personally getting our asses around with cars after it's all said and done?

Holy crap. That's more than 5% of GDP.
Lyft Acquires YesGraph
If you are big enough and want serverless no-ops yet don't want to pay per burger when you already breed cows then consider kubeless.io
Why Common Core math problems look so weird [video]
You don't really need to administer it, there are plenty of hosting options, not just bare metal. And you can always add Cloudlflare anyway.
> Poland didn't captured any USSR territories before that,

Keep telling yourself that. With a sufficient twist, you can rationalize anything!
Apple's Kernel Programming Guide
I feel like they had the opposite problem. They only focused on fan-service, at the expense of profitability. The reason the music industry hates it is because it removes them as gatekeepers. Soundcloud gave a platform to musicians that allowed them to gain exposure to audiences without having to bend the knee to LA or NY.
it's better to have an ability to cap $. With something like DO it'a way easier to control costs compared to AWS.
Definitely late to the game, but finally bought bitcoin this week. I've followed bitcoin since ~2010, but it's volatility and financial constraints had prevented any real action. Here are some notes if there are any other holdouts out there: I used Coinbase and Gemini. It was surprisingly difficult to get money into these places, which was a bit frustrating, but in the same sense reassuring that they are playing by the rules. I actually setup on Gemini because Coinbase kept cancelling orders on my debit card (Schwab), and I was able to setup wire transfer with Gemini, and then transfer that to Coinbase to fund the GDAX account. I set out Saturday morning to buy bitcoin and didn't ultimately have any until Monday afternoon when the wire transfer reached Gemini (standard account for ACH transfer is now approved on both platforms, Gemini took 2 days, Coinbase 4). Coinbase has a nice app to monitor accounts and price charts, but it doesn't seem to link to GDAX (their exchange), so you can't get a unified view of holdings in one spot. Gemini doesn't have an app, but has a web application which is annoyingly secure. It remembers a device for 24 hours, after which it requires 2 Factor SMS verification. Security is great, but it's a bit annoying when all you want to do is check account value once a day. Gemini trading volume seemed a bit low, and their API didn't offer any compelling features over GDAX, which is why I've transferred from Gemini to Coinbase (took about 1.5 hours to go through) and then GDAX (Coinbase to GDAX is instantaneous). Both offer websocket feeds and the APIs are well documented. The C# GDAX sample application was last updated in 2015 interestingly, but it still has many useful pieces. Another bonus for GDAX is their fee structure, which is simpler (and cheaper) than Gemini's, maker orders are 0% fees. I've always been intrigued by automated trading systems, but the barriers to entry are so high in the stock markets (data, platforms, high fees, account minimums, day trading rules), to the point where you can't really just 'try it out.' 6 days into this adventure and I'm maintaining my own order book and programmatically making trades with tiny amounts of money. Next step is to work on strategy.
Currently Bitcoins can be divided to 8 decimal places, and if eventually that's not enough the protocol can be upgraded.
Interestingly, my tinnitus IS that sound. I can hear up to about 17 kHz and it is still higher than that. Which sucks, since all the available retraining and masking techniques assume you must be able to hear within the range of your T.
> Metallic Glass Gears Make for Graceful Robots Space Gears Harmonic drive Bulk metallic glass, a metal alloy, doesn’t get brittle in extreme cold.

What kind of sentence is that?
I'm grumpy, i dont like christmas: http://whychristmasisbullshit.com/
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Unless something drastic happened in this release, I think it's premature to enable autoindent by default. The implementation in 1.14 has been atrociously buggy, and plays badly with undo. (Pasting will add an additional undo entry, so to undo a paste requires two undos.)

In my experience, the autoindenting usually wrong, and my hypothesis is that it's because it uses regexps to determine indentation level, not the AST, which is introducing lots of false positives as well as negatives.
> why not have a Patreon-esque system

You've lost me there.

You can't, because people don't pay and don't want to pay, unless they are forced to, as in there's actual scarcity (i.e. no way to easily get that content from anywhere else).
> You just (are told you) don't have to worry about the server

...until you receive the $206 bill for the work done by the server.
Why the downvotes? He is right.

The reason Germany, England, and France (Spain didn't catch up because they had no reason to as a negative consequence of their enormous wealth at the time) excelled to such extent that this particular period appears like a very special and wonderful intellectual age, is that the rest of the world was for the most part severely under-developed. Germany didn't become less "wise".

Today the contrast is much smaller, but Germany continues to be a scientific powerhouse even if it isn't as evident.
The trick to cutting solo car commutes: Charge for parking by the day
You don't measure inches in miles. You use a unit suitable to your needs.
You're right; I'm commenting the negative examples that constitute developments I've seen. I'm sure that it's possible to enjoy them. After all, people love cruise ships.
> That must be a really high end air cooler.

Good that Noctua will release their Threadripper coolers like the NH-14S next week. I wonder why they didn't release their NH-D15 (which beats many AIOs) for Threadripper as well, since it's even better than the NH-14S.
They link this article, which says that it almost happened to the R. Kelly "cult" story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/that-r-kelly-...
The math is actually quite simple to do yourself, your dilation factor is just 1 / sqrt(1-x^2), where x is a percentage of c from 0 to 1. So at 0c, your factor is 1 (obviously), at .5c it's 1.15, and at .9c it's 2.294.

Divide the elapsed time in the stationary reference frame by the dilation factor and you get values that roughly agree with yours.
What does that have to do with Amazon? Their financials are public information, show me where they're hiding the massive cash production, because they must be hiding it from shareholders as well.

Amazon is still primarily a retailer, one with historically horrific margins. The segment has notoriously bad margins in general (Costco & Walmart: typical ~2% net income margins, with very high income tax rates). Then there's Amazon, spending like crazy since its inception to fund growth.

It makes perfect sense that they wouldn't be generating much in the way of profit versus their revenue.
Is there an open source NLP engine out there? I've been trying to learn this area and there are so many "pot holes" and wrong paths ... I've looked at OWL/Sparql, Graph DBs, logic programming, rule based systems. I feel like I'm dancing around the real topic and I don't know what "it" is :'(
You seem to have taken this post very personally instead of analytically. I suggested some reasons that would explain why companies that hire younger tend to be beating companies that hire older, i.e. that there clearly is an economic advantage. What's your explanation for the phenomenon?

The secondary point I've brought up on this thread is that private employment discrimination is "absolute twaddle" to regulate in the first place, because it introduces the concept of a thought crime, which is quite Orwellian. That is, the employment decision (the action) is only a crime contingent on what the "perpetrator" was thinking while making the decision. This is completely different than normal laws, where the action is unequivocally a crime and it's a matter of whether it was committed by the defendant, with state of mind only taken into account as to alter the severity of the sentence. Even "conspiracy to commit" laws are in reference to actions which are crimes in and of themselves.
Really hoping that Mozilla reconsiders: https://www.change.org/p/mozilla-save-mozilla-firefox-s-best....

The full-stop disabling of legacy extensions will absolutely wreck my current workflow (Tab Groups, Vertical Tabs, Tile Tabs, etc.), to the point where I may need to explore alternatives. I don't like that thought, but I also don't see Mozilla giving power users like me much choice.
In my experience flexible starts north of few mil. per month spend so why all the startups are running on AWS is a mystery to me.
That's why it's full of low quality content and spam :)
But that works on the VPS level too. We're just talking about higher levels of abstraction on top of hardware. Which one stops being a "server"? I'd argue that once you lose the OS, it's no longer a "server".
Brief history of foreign buying of Vancouver real estate
Do the customers have to run their own mining network to ensure the producer can't pull a 51% attack?
Lots of weird half baked recollections today. The U.S. political system moved effectively on acid rain, Congress (not regulators) passed NO2 legislation by a 401-21 vote that was signed by a Republican president. It created a market for pollution that largely solved the issue and is a legislative model for dealing with other pollutants.
To be clear, I try to make sure it's in no way an 'open' challenge. Usually it's an entirely innocuous question that at least for me is a 'tell'. And usually at least a few more of those to make sure.

It's not about tearing down someone else, it's about assessing the validity of someone's statements.

I might have presented it as more suspicious/antagonistic than I meant. My actual approach is pretty much as you describe in your last paragraph.

Basically, my approach to 'new humans' is the biblical adage: "be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves", because I do believe, as in the biblical context, that good people are sheep among wolves. I try to be a good sheep, but I know for a fact that I can't handle wolves without being clever.

So far it works pretty well for me, but I've found it difficult sometimes to explain how I try to be both a sheep but shrewd, calculation but not shrewd or manipulative.
16 KHz clear but annoying. Nothing at 17 kHz.
wouldn't these tokens be securities?
Snapchat definitely underestimated what a lack of discoverability would cost them later on. Of course, they didn't foresee Instagram to copy and paste their app into theirs. Personally, I think their challenge isn't revenue-based, it's how to keep people on their platform. If they can do that, revenue will naturally follow.
What Are the Key Point to Consider Before Building Mobile App for Your Business?
> Oh, I see. So you never played competitively?

Almost only in LANs, not un-competitively, but not "professionally" and not in ladders. I was more of a Counter-Strike dude when it came to competitive play.

I find the characters of the games very different, and the difference might be LAN vs BattleNet rather than SC1/BW vs SC2 (although Blizzard did emphasize certain aspects more in SC2).

I never played SC1 with contorted arms, frantically hitting the keyboard, nervously checking my production buildings. It was more like, lets build a pretty base, and then settle the age old question: Battlecruisers or Carriers?

I don't think I've even seen a wall-off. We probably would have laughed at how ridiculous it was to misuse a building like that, especially since you couldn't lower your supply depots.

Sometimes we would have ridiculous battles over secondary bases - in modern play, you would punish a player who overextends and go to their base, but back then that would have killed the fun. While you might have won, you would have been considered a spoilsport.
I think it's also important to mention 5) decades of political propaganda painting climate science as a political issue, because Republicans found it advantageous to use as a wedge issue.

I think just about everyone I've talked to who doesn't believe in climate change arrived at that position from spending lots and lots of time listening to Rush Limbaugh or similar.
People listen to a lot more than a couple artists. No one is going to Patreon fifty bands.
Why we’re switching Ulysses to Subscription
That sounds really cool.

Is it open source?
Everything to do with cryptocurrency! I wrote trading bot that was actually making a small profit - and then the exchange got hacked and took all of my coins & dollars with it :(

I've started to get into Ethereum and Solidity recently, but mining even a few coins just to have gas money costs more in electricity than they're worth. I'm letting my desktop mine anyways, but when I reach my pools payout threshold in a week or two (it's got a 3-year-old GPU), I'll probably kill the mining. (I know I could just buy some ETH with USD, but that's probably even more expensive and somehow feels different.)

(To be fair it hasn't been all negative - I bought a copy of the game Portal with the first bitcoin I ever earned, and a Kindle with the second bitcoin. But looking at it from a strictly money perspective, I'm definitely in the hole. In theory, it will be positive eventually.. but I'm still not sure exactly how.)
I pretty much saw this coming. Posted to a IPFS group last year about using IPFS to make a decentralized soundcloud clone. I was lucky enough to get a response from Juan, the creator of IPFS.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ipfs-users/1Mu2Vh8sh...
Products that are not Laptop, Desktop or Server x64 CPUs at Intel are cut with extreme prejudice when the bean counters look at them roughly 6 months to 1 year after initial announcement and realize "hey these are not i7 margins".

It's incredibly damaging to everything they do. You can't cut a chip platform that your customers literally solder into embedded products with an announcement 3 months before last order.