skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alright, since this is not the first time I see this: what the deal about people from Austin trying to shoo people away? As if Austin was really that great and everybody wanted to come there? And isn't it the case that the more tech people go live in the Austin, the better the tech scene and thus benefit tech people like you (I assume you're in tech)?

I had lived in the Bay Area, moved to Austin just to move to another place within a year. Austin has many nice things, but definitely not one of the top US cities I would consider building a family in. I can list out tons of things about Austin that would be deal breakers for many people and there are better cities out there in many aspects.

I'm truly puzzled by this sentiment from Austin people.
> Monday probably should have just been declared to be a national holiday. No one is going to get anything done anyway.

I feel really sorry for people who can't just take a break to watch the eclipse. That ranges from people like emergency room surgeons and nurses, to subway train drivers, and to poor McDonald's employees who may not be in a position to risk their job to run outside.
I'd be interested in hearing what kind of autoscaling system they use for their Ruby pods.

We're running a few (legacy — we're moving to Go) Ruby apps in production on Kubernetes. We're using Puma, which is very similar to Unicorn, and it's unclear what the optimal strategy here is. I've not benchmarked this in any systematic way.

For example, in theory you could make a single deployment run a single Unicorn worker, then set resources:requests:cpu and resources:limits:cpu both to 1.0, and then add a horizontal pod autoscaler that's set to scale the deployment up on, say, 80% CPU.

But that gives you terrible request rates, and will be choking long before it's reaching 80% CPU. So it's better to give it, say, 4 workers. At the same time, it's counter-productive to allocate it 4 CPUs, because Ruby will generally not be able to utilize them fully. At the same time, more workers mean a lot more memory usage, obviously.

I did some quick benchmarking, and found I could give them 4 workers but still constrain to 1 CPU, and that would still give me a decent qps.
We tend to attract the SAS crowd, I've been trying to get more R in the company but it's not as prevalent as I'd like. That said, this is a useful link, thanks!
not sure if there's a transcript anywhere but he gave a lecture on his broad views in a Stanford lecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21EiKfQYZXc
Step upcall out white supremacy in tech
We all know one or more people in tech who sympathize with white supremacist, neo-nazi views. These people may not go out marching and lynching...but they make sure they give career/income advantages to one group and hold back all other groups. Call these people out. Send an anonymous email to your HR person or CEO. Stand up for what's right.
Yes, your answer is clear but isn't correct. It doesn't actually correct any biases, it doesn't create female talent out of thin air. It only moves them from other companies to one company.
Did you read the article ?
Is this a reliable source?
Check Warby Parker - their stores are giving away free pairs.
In the article:

> Back in March, some 40 percent of locals responded to an annual phone survey saying they want to live elsewhere. But that was a survey of all residents, not just renters alone.
The bay area, like most of the USA, needs to build up. It is sprawling enough as is. Build up, not out.
Yeah, the congress and senate might actually accomplish something (for good or evil), but the president is just a side show to keep people distracted and drum up ad revenue for news companies (and I use the term loosely).
macOS and iOS don't support OpenVPN with the built-in client. You can use strongSwan-based VPNs (e.g., as would be deployed through Algo) or Cisco, but for OpenVPN you'll need a custom client which, unfortunately, very likely brings along its own .kext.
"1 bed for every desk" would be a good mantra for growth in the Bay Area.
That is assuming the constant end up being in the realm of reasonable. `O(2^N)` and `O(N^1000)` are no different for any useful values of `N`.
“Alexa, I'm Ready to Walk.”
also Ethereum doesn't have an hardcoded cap limit.
We wrote an internal tool that wraps Helm and GPG. But we're really using Helm as a glorified templating system; since we deploy from git, Helm's release management is useless to us, and is even somewhat in the way. We might decide to drop Helm at some point, I think.
There is a certain irony in an article criticizing of Facebook as a data-retailer disguised as a free service being "free with exchange of an email address".
I read more and more articles and comments about things we've been saying for years. How come you wake up now and say that like it's a surprise ?
What have been the biggest types of problems you have seen in these non-tech companies?
And the primary advantage of China's AI push.
Changing the Standard of Phishing: Attack Trends,Tips and Tricks
Always a joy to watch some random idiot on the internet destroyed by someone who knows what they're talking about.

Cheers!

Edit: oh, he's actually 18. Come back round here in 10 years when you've had kids of your own (not that you ever will if you keep frequenting these parts. Go outside)
There’s less than 20% women in investment banking (https://www.wealthcoach.club/post/investment-banking-gender/), so I’d say it’s less than google’s 30%
(https://www.google.com/diversity/)
I've been forwarding all of my email from Gmail to ProtonMail, just to see how I like the ProtonMail interface. So far I'm liking it a lot. A little weirdness on getting timely notifications on Android. But I might switch completely.

Anybody make the switch?
It's not a competition you know ;)
> The accusation of sea-lioning is ridiculous. Alex wrote in his blog, he's not pestering someone on twitter.

OK, it's not quite sea-lioning, but it's similar in effect - and, I still strongly suspect, in spirit. The asymmetry of one person asking dozens of questions, without much context or any hint of their own answers (except where those are evident from the leading nature of the questions), is a poor basis for dialog. If you want to engage with someone, there has to be give as well as take. Anyone who has tried to find common ground on a contentious topic before is likely to realize that. I guess I should just assume Alex doesn't have such experience.

> Even if AlexRohde is not asking questions in good faith, you've got a chance to win over the audience.

Indeed, that's a good point. I do so all the time, here and elsewhere. It's important. However, the "please fill out form ABC" format is a terrible way to do that. When the best outcome is a very small increase in understanding and the more likely outcome is an exercise in goalpost-chasing, I'll pass. I'd rather save my energy to persuade people of the points I consider important, in a less biased frame, with some interactivity thrown in.
Trump's attacks on both Muslims and Hispanics have not been restricted to immigrants (though in the latter case the attack on non-immigrants has been based on their presumed alignment with immigrants of the same ethnicity.) Like Hitler's attacks on, among others, Jews they are treated as alien others even when not immigrants.
Trump isn't going after immigrants, he is going after brown people and more generally non-white people. It doesn't matter to him if they were born here or came here.
Cloudflare has been accused of actively supporting hate groups, not just being a dumb, neutral pipe for them:

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-cloudflare-helps-serv...

Excerpt (from May): Cloudflare, a prominent San Francisco outfit, provides services to neo-Nazi sites like The Daily Stormer, including giving them personal information on people who complain about their content.

EDIT: Also: In a post, the site’s [Daily Stormer's] architect, Andrew Auernheimer, said he had personal relationships with people at Cloudflare, and they had assured him the company would work to protect the site in a variety of ways — including by not turning over data to European courts. Cloudflare has data centers in European countries such as Germany, which have strict hate speech and privacy laws.

Company officials offered differing responses when asked about Auernheimer’s post. Kramer, Cloudflare’s general counsel, said he had no knowledge of employee conversations with Auernheimer. Later, in an email, the company said Auernheimer was a well-known hacker, and that as a result at least one senior company official “has chatted with him on occasion and has spoken to him about Cloudflare’s position on not censoring the internet.
AMP is terrible for the decentralized, open Web in general.
Sigh. "Virtue signaling" has become yet another formerly-useful concept now drained of all meaning because everyone uses it to mean "thing I don't like" (ironically, usually because they're virtue signaling).

Listen up: people, including CEOs, actually can have their own opinions on things. They can decide "hey, I don't want to support this guy who refuses to condemn neo-Nazis". That is hardly an unthinkable prospect.
You become very good at identifying ways in which to avoid writing error-prone loops. You also get a sense for how to use simple functions of various types rather than more abstract and purpose-built abstractions.

A neat example of the later: dependency injection is a massively more complicated concept than just passing functions that provide a value, while providing even greater flexibility and more obvious reuse.
We went down a similar path and ended up using helm-template [0] to render our helm charts without tiller.

We also use an internal tool that:

- maps applications to namespaces within clusters for different environments (since we have 1 cluster per environment)

- does some magic around secrets to make them easier to interface with

[0] https://github.com/technosophos/helm-template
>Fb comments:

>Yifu Diao, Software Engineer at Uber
I guess "head of developer product" is a fancier title than "Product Manager, API Partnerships"

>Kevin DeArmond, Software Engineer at Uber
Apparently Josh doesn't check his sources...

Maybe it's time for a blog AllthingsUber, with some blogger from Recode or some techblog, they can build their Uberish image like how John Gruber built. The amount of reckless coverage on this Uber makes me wonder, how much of these are Sponsored Stories
As a beginner in the software engineering realm, I cannot thank people who give these kind of write-ups enough.
It helps me explore patterns and beautiful pieces of engineering.
On a side note I wonder if the functions are really named like that or did the author rename some for clarity?
At least if you're late getting back, you miss work. If you're late getting there, you miss the eclipse.
This just seems weird given their previous stances, but it’s their network so it’sfine they did it, but they have lost all protections of an ISP and became a curator. I stopped using them, and I can’t pretend that I would’ve contributed anything to their bottom line, but I know my future clients won’t either.
This API is free, though somewhat incomplete:

int publish(const char *document, size_t doc_size, const char *type);
int obtain(char **document, size_t *doc_size, const char *doc_id);

HTH.
I want to believe.

It looks so attractive. And is right up my "theory of the firm" alleyway.

But there are two issues kind of intertwined. The current crop of businesses - both coin based and normal, are about allocation of scarce resource (bedrooms, taxis, hard drive space)

Now that is really all about ownership of scarce resource.

The fact that Airbnb users make money by selling rooms they don't actually have ownership of (i.e. They don't have full rights to sell, either cos it's their rented apartment or cos local law says hotel rooms need fire extinguishers) is kind of glossed over in this egalitarian rush. If the "real" owners got their full allocation this would be a boring story of more efficient returns to capital.

Almost all of the internet is like this - YouTube does not pay IP owners, Google does not pay me for my blog writing.

Perhaps coins will more accurately reward the owners of these resources - paid to blog, paid to drive taxis, paid to own IP rights - but this is just solidifying the status quo.

This leads to my second point - that those with nothing cannot grow in a world where rewards are efficiently returned to owners. Filecoin rewards those who are already rich enough to own a hard drive and electricity. And if the economics work those who own a data centre.

Without some egalitarian system built in, yes even government redistribution, then I can't see how tokens and coins can do anything but make Pikkety more right - more returns to the owners of capital.

If coins are just another currency, then they are just another way to measure capital - and I can't see how that is going to make the world into my utopia

But I do want to believe.

My fear I suppose is that for all their libertarian roots, coins are traceable and vastly favour the top billion humans right now - and we are solidifying the status quo - it's not as bad a world as it has been, but I don't want to be stuck with it.
I wonder if Stormer should push to e.g. ZeroNet. Which is a cool project I should check out more often. Unfortunately, there's not much content of any kind.
So..... who else do you think the Republicans are going to nominate for president in 2020?
My past experience with hiking in northern Georgia was that thunderstorms come up sort of randomly in the mountains in the afternoon. My hope is that even if they hit that day it may be after the eclipse passes through, or they'll be scattered enough that I'll get lucky
I actually think it would suffice to payout at random times with an insanely high number of bitcoin addresses (all autogenerated via a script) for high number of users (the more the better). It would be virtually impossible to know who got how much BTC out (may be in, but not out).

As for the hostile mixers, I'm afraid I can't offer any solution other than to rely on reputation. That said, it is rather telling that bitmixer.io is closing [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14843373]. It may not be safe to run a mixer; the feds may come after you.
In my case, all 5 phones are on the same plan and account.
Thanks for this tip! I've been achieving this by pointing a symlink at a subdirectory that only exists when the external drive is mounted, and having my backups target that symlink. But this seems cleaner.
What if it gets unmounted right after the mountpoint call :)
Most of NY state is amazing, beautiful, great outdoors and scenery, lakes, rivers, tons of nice little towns and smaller cities. And aside from NYC, it's also dirt cheap.
You had a big announcement about openshift.io. Everyone on HN signed up, but it's been months, but I'm still 'awaiting approval'

Have you let anyone in? What's the value in all the marketing hype if you then don't let people in.
Verizon Just Stood Up for Your Privacy
You can test this to see if you can adjust the settings to fix it by setting it up in a room at night and turning the lights on/off. Might not be anything you can do about it, but, it might allow you to adjust a setting to make the video come out!
This reminds me of the time (albeit my memory is hazy) of an issue of having to set `chattr -i` on .ssh files because even though I had the right chmod permissions SSH still would not read it. It was quite painful to figure out and I can't recall if I googled it or read it in the man pages.

I believe it was because I had done something funny with the home directory and the user didn't fully own it (I believe it was a home media server).

I guess apparently some SSH versions expect `chattr -i` or I guess the parent directory to be owned completely by the user (I have been meaning to look into this some day). Maybe it wasn't -i .. maybe it was +i?
No, this path will not work. If anything it should be /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
Wait - aren't you exactly describing identity politics?
O'Reilly Books Stops Selling Physical Books
> they have lost all protections of an ISP and became a curator

YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, etc. ban people without losing their safe harbor provisions. Not sure why you'd think it's any different in CloudFlare's situation.
SAP Analytics Cloud (which I work on), combines BI, Planning and Predictive.
Mechanical Computers for Computer Engineers: https://calculating.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/calculators-for...

The FIBIAC: http://www.chrisfenton.com/the-fibiac/

The Calculating Machines of Sir Samuel Morland: http://history-computer.com/MechanicalCalculators/Pioneers/M...
Wow, this got more replies than I expected. I was partly kidding, in that I don’t think it’s a huge concern for humans, but for example the tableau decision procedure[1] for modal logics such as epistemic logic is EXPTIME-complete[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_analytic_tableaux

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.4133
Indeed.

Any service online, where you do not explicitly pay money for goods/services rendered, you can rest assured that you are paying with data or influence (advertisement).

HN is no different. They control the news, and how the news is displayed. They run the YCombinator venture capital fund. You do not pay them, but they control influence (advertising). I would expect different if I paid YC for news access... But I dont.
Heroes of Deep Learning (Andrew Ng interview series)
Agreed. Physical privacy (gated communities, SFH's) have long been a higher class privilege. If you're elite enough you can buy part of a Hawaiian island.
> Our country could really use something like this to bring us together!

Yes! I'm also hoping many Americans come away with a newly discovered appreciation for our many parks, National Forests, and Bureau of Land Management wildernesses.
> The day of the lone wolf programmer is long past!

I wish this disastrous extrovert invasion were more clearly disclosed. It took me a long time to realize that my maddeningly arthritic big corp experience wasn't just an outlier.
Can you help with one of the existing API's that does the same thing instead of inventing a new one?
Is it actually possible to keep messenger without Facebook? Because Facebook is a complete time wasting, spam filled, mind dulling echo chamber platform that I keep going back to due to habit. If I log out or deactivate I completely don't care after a few days, but messenger is essential to me.
Agree: shut them down!

Edit: or maybe even better: log access and visit every contributor at home. Glorifying nationalsocialism isn't "wrongthink" - it is conspiracy to genocide.

I normally try to be civil.

And I'm normally defending free speak including - of course in my opinion - Trump supporters and gamergate even if I don’t like Trump and don’t care about GG.

However anyone who glorifies nazism obviously either should be imprisoned (if necessary you need to make the missing laws [0], some European countries have them already) or sent to mandatory psychological follow ups the next few years in case they are just very dumb and uninformed and not necessarily evil.

I guess everyone who cares about history knows we fought a world war to stop this cancer.

[0]: something about conspiracy to genocide or something.
Maybe not legally but obviously morally at least in my eyes. I think we should protect all content, but I’m not saying it’s illegal for them to drop Stormer.
I think YC was anticipating this. Creating StartupSchool and other programs increasingly targeted to contribute as consultants and educators rather than as investors. In addition, it is still necessary to have great and respectful names on the list of advisors of any ICO, if it is a long term plan, startups will still need people that could show the best way to create a company.
"Actively supporting" is an inaccurate characterization of that article. It alleges they were such a dumb, neutral pipe that their processes sent the personal contact information of complainants to the perpetrators.

Dumb, sure, but active support? No.
Ah, you're right, I mis-remembered:
"""
The `c', 's', and `u' attributes are not honored by the ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems as implemented in the current mainline Linux kernels.
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Does this active intervention based on site content put Cloudflare's DMCA safe harbor protection at risk?

Given the 9th Circuit's shenanigans I'm not sure the answer is a definite "no".

http://www.focusonthedata.com/2017/05/federal-appeals-court-...
It discards them as it lowers to bytecode, yes.
More details here: https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/...
Amazon does have 29 positions open in Minneapolis. On the other hand, they have 187 positions in Palo Alto plus 185 in San Francisco. And 7260 in Seattle.
I second oppslist.com and also would add indiehackers.com
Never trust a 3rd party VPN for anything sensitive ever, period. Words of assurance and "security audits" are completely meaningless. HTTPS interception and forwarding is a trivial thing to do. For the public who are unable to setup their own VPN, they will have to accept that everything they do is being monitored by a random internet company rather than their ISP now.

There can be some use for these services if you are very careful with everything you do while connected. But the risk of transmitting usernames, emails, passwords, and CC numbers accidentally while still connected is too great IMO.
The REAXX saw uses a completely different method to stop the blade so it is the electrical side of the patent that is being used to stop the only other example.

Also, the electrical side of the patent seems to be the most obvious.

Detecting touch on metal has been around for > 30 year. Seems like the obvious way to answer the question of how to tell if somebody is touching a metal blade.
Wow! Totally agree. The visualization makes it incredibly intuitive. It also makes me appreciate the importance and elegance of the floating point to int trick, which my brain had sort of elided over previously, as the "magic constant" seemed like the crux.
..if the biased media have their way.
It's hard to imagine anything more centralized than a satellite broadcasting service owned by a single company.
Cal Newport has been saying things like Facebook and other SM are engineered to be addictive and we've constantly seeing Youths falling for it. Adam Alter made a similar comment that when we've got a proper regulation for substances, why not for something like social media?

Fb is not just making us another node in a vast network graph but also ensuring a worst boring grown-ups who can't do anything worthy but post an Fb post condemning something and feeling great about their social responsibility.
Affine types are still too hard to use by regular users without CS background.

Simple exercise, imagine a GUI builder regardless of for web or native code, for pumping out plain CRUD frontends, dragging components from a toolbox into the UI designer.

Components, of course, have a property designer that allows setting properties like database connections or data grid paging.

Now try to fit affine types into this kind of workflow, without forcing people to manually create some kind of auxiliary types and deduction helper functions like described on the Idris book.
In the stats world, SAS users are like Mac toting hipsters that have enough spare money to pay extra for a product that "just works." R users are more like the Linux types that grumble about how enterprise products are ruining the world and you can get the exact same capability from free software. They never mention that the learning curve is more like climbing a sheer granite rock face.

If your analysts don't have scruffy beards and stains on their T-shirts then you should stay away from R.