skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloudflare lost in the long run. Especially as a host of DDoS protections, which many websites with significant opposition and threats require. Next time a controversial site decides to find itself DDoS protection, I hope it will think twice before going to cloudflare. Because how will you tell if that when the next internet shitstorm comes and focus on your website, cloudflare will stand there for you. Internet is all about freedom of speech. Every one will have his stage, with or without your help. I would've somewhat tolerated cloudflare if they had never hosted TDS in the first place and just disagreed to do that. But this is just a disgusting populist U turn, led by the current internet trend.

I would write a disclaimer about how I think TDS is horrible, but I honestly have never opened that website once, and I feel like the need to apologize for defending freedom of speech is absurd.
I'd rather people walked or biked instead....
They saw Whitney (J author) threaded interpreter in C and they ran away.

http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
> That's my exact point, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but we all got so emotional we couldn't question.

Well, we could and we did but invading Iraq was something that was still on GWB's bucket list and so he did.

What people thought didn't really matter.

> If you look at the civilian deaths it really becomes a big "Wait... are we the baddies?" situation.

It was pretty bloody obvious. See Dr. Kelly.

> As for the holocaust, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

The point I'm trying to make, and I'll spell it out, just so that it is absolutely clear is that Neo Nazis are one step worse than the Nazis of old in that they are knowingly and willingly participating in a re-run of history that we should avoid at all costs, especially because we already know how that particular movie ends.

> My point is that allowing yourself to get emotional, even when you think you're right, is how all of the tragedies of the world happened

No, emotion has fuck all to do with this. It's simply logic. Nazis : bad.

> Those German soldiers thought they were doing the right thing, because they were swept up in emotion.

They were lied to and they were conscripted. Many of them would have backed out if that would not have led to a bullet to the head.

> Not because millions of evil people were all born at once in Germany in the 1900s.

No, but it only took a relatively small amount of those evil people to take over the country. Note how the GOP and all the other presidents men are standing by as Trump is destroying America as we know it and have come to cherish and respect it while we're watching.

How far it will be allowed to go down will be a big factor in how many casualties this round will bring. 10's, 1000's, millions? Who is to know as long as all the good little people are standing by the side it might go very far indeed.
Rasa, evaluated in the paper, can do entity extraction.

Other open source libraries that can do entity extraction: OpenNLP (https://opennlp.apache.org/docs/1.5.3/manual/opennlp.html#to...), Stanford NLP (https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/CRF-NER.shtml), MALLET (http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/),
That isn't built in to your OS?
Many years ago I was VP Development of a 100 person software company moving into new space. I demanded private offices for all engineers, so the best CFO ever sat down with me and we quantified the additional costs it would impose on us. We came up with less than $500 per year per engineer, who on average cost us close to $100k a year, including benefits/payroll tax/etc.

After that I never had an ounce of pushback.
From about 1983 onwards, home computers were commonplace in the UK. This was mainly the Sinclair Spectrum (a device that, perhaps, caused a mini industrial revolution in the UK by teaching a generation how to code (and how to hack hardware)), with a smattering of Acorns, BBC Micros (also an Acorn, really) and Commodore 64s.

I learned Z80 assembler and built some add-on boards on a Spectrum and never looked back.
I'm not complaining about having to pay taxes per se. I'm mainly just pointing out that rising house prices are not an unalloyed good even if you own. In fact, appreciating house prices ONLY help you if you sell and don't buy another house in the same market. In all other situations, rising house prices actually hurt you, at least in California.

Specifically: the house I own is too big for me. I'd like to downsize. If housing prices were flat I could sell my house, buy a smaller house for less, reduce my property taxes, and only pay the transaction costs. But because my house and all the others around have appreciated, I can't do that. The smaller house I want to move in to costs more than the house I'm in when I bought it, so if I downsize my property taxes go up. Also, I have to pay transaction costs on a much bigger transaction plus pay the capital gains tax on a gain which I don't get to realize. The only way I win is if I move out of the area. But I don't want to do that. I like it here.

None of this would be a problem if prices were flat. It costs me more (a LOT more!) to downsize because the market is up. Hence an appreciating market is not necessarily good for you even if you own.
Retail analytics are a potential use-case, but we've decided to focus on space-optimization for buildings because we believe it's an underserved market relative to the opportunity. There are a lot of established companies doing footfall analytics for retail (using things like WiFi, BLE, door-counters, thermal images, analytics on video surveillance data, etc.).

As for sensor coverage, we cover about 1k sqft per sensor (it'll vary a bit depending on mounting height - higher mounting equates to a wider area of coverage)
Do you like to swap things? Check out Stough - Algorithmic matching for swappers
Does reading HN at work count?
What about ISIS are they citizens of the US?
I'm not convinced either so we're in agreement there. I do believe that the Internet can be an accelerator.
See "The Black Jacobins" by C.L.R.James

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Jacobins
"From a high-level perspective, LUIS performed best with an F-score of 0.916, followed by RASA (0.821), Watson Conversation (0.752), and API.ai (0.687). LUIS also performed best on each individual dataset: chatbot, web apps, and ask ubuntu. Similarly, API.ai performed worst on every dataset, while the second place changes between RASA and Watson Conversation."
Ah, the old "when China does it it's suddenly a problem".
It pushed me off of Office completely. I used Office XP as long as I could, then 2007 when I could. I gave up on 2013 completely - it's just not worth using a proprietary program that clearly hates its users.

If I need to export to Office I use Google Docs, because Libre is still too frustrating. If I don't need a .doc output, it's Latex for pretty things and Textedit for the rest.

I agree that most of the Office-analogues out there aren't very usable, but I'm surprised at how rarely I need one.
> I hear the AWS argument quite a bit, but am not quite sure if the costs of AWS vs. independent infrastructure have been appropriately analyzed by the person making the accusation, in many cases.

I would pay around 8x times more if I would use AWS instead of dedicated servers.

> in many cases. Independent infrastructure ages and requires updating as time goes on.

That's why you use dedicated servers unless you are really huge (then you go with your hardware) or have specific requirements. In 99% other cases you use dedicated servers which are refreshed by data centers with newer hardware then you just switch (if you really need it...).
That and FTP. FTP Passive mode used to be an optional extension.
I find it interesting how different countries similar actions are viewed in headlines

China - "China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions"

Iceland - "Iceland close to becoming first country where no Down's syndrome children are born" (https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...)

Both countries are basically trying to eliminate genetic disease via testing embryos/fetuses, but the perception of their actions seems very different.
Mhm. I try to. Why?

Are you implying I prefer functional programming? I don't. I don't have a horse in this race.
Weebly (YC W07) Is Hiring Senior Infrastructure Engineers
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Qualifications include:
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Experience with HTTP/RPC/REST API development
Experience with Relational databases, such as MySQL or Postgres
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Experience with Message Queues
Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux systems

Ideally, you'll:
Have deployed and scaled high availability distributed services
Be comfortable helping lead the direction of our core infrastructure architecture
Have previous experience with Borg, Omega, Mesos or Kubernetes
Golang experience

Your responsibilities will include:
Work with geographically distributed backend systems
Design and build core backend software components and services
Instrumentation for monitoring the health and availability of services
Performance management including benchmarking and monitoring of vital metrics
Analyze and improve scalability and efficiency of system resources

Perks:
Competitive salary
Stock options
Employer-paid health care
Employer match of retirement contribution up to the maximum allowed by law
Company credit card
Multiple large monitors, Aeron chair
Electronically operated sit to stand desks
Free food, drinks & snacks at the office (including breakfast, lunch, and dinner prepared by our professional chef)
In-office gym, weekly yoga classes and massages
Fun, get-things-done work environment -- work whenever you want, take days off whenever you want, as long as you're getting things done

Company:

Weebly is a complete platform that allows anyone to start and grow an online business with curated website templates, powerful ecommerce and integrated marketing. More than 40 million entrepreneurs around the world use Weebly to grow their customer base, fuel sales and market their idea. Designed for any entrepreneur who wants to reach a global audience, Weebly gives everyone the freedom to create a high quality online presence that works brilliantly across any device. Over 325 million people a month visit a site or store made on Weebly.

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Works for well-adjusted, rational adults (hopefully). Not so much for children. It's moral pornography.

The idea that public utilities (e.g. public broadcast spectrums) must conform to a negotiated standard of decency is well-established even at the court level. It wouldn't necessarily be protected free speech, even if the publically-accessible internet were a public utility (which it isn't), especially if private alternatives exist (which they do, e.g. tor).
Misleading title. The firmware can be decrypted. Not the (user) data in the SEP.
You know I didn't even consider upload. A few years ago I remember going trough tons of hoops getting integrations setup so I could post to YouTube from my WiiU and PS4. It was a huge pain.

If Reddit can make video uploading easier for people without a YouTube account or who forgot their password or don't want to visit 3 sites to get it done.
Good accountants can amortize the costs of servers (etc.) just as well as AWS can.

> Keep in mind the costs of power, cooling, and bandwidth as well.

And it will still probably be cheaper to host your own, with one caveat: if you have wildly varying traffic loads, AWS' autoscaling is hard to beat. The reality is, though, most companies don't have traffic loads which vary enough to justify the extra costs.
> If I'm not mistaken she won't get informed if they get suspended.

Well if their profile was still available and they were updating it one could reasonably ascertain that their account wasn't suspended. I'm not sure what you're getting at.
Sounds like oneplus. 700 dollars (540 sterling) is bit steep actually.
The product I've been working on the last few months has all the things you listed, mostly: http://cwkanban.com/ . It's been a huge help to my own team's workflow.

But it's not general-purpose like Wekan or Trello; it's focused on workflow for managed IT and at the moment only pulls ticket data from ConnectWise, software for managed services providers.
You're looking in the wrong place: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450509/down-syndrome-i...
> Corporate IT - which is now it's own behemoth in most modern organizations. IMHO it's actively preventing any work getting done

I will co-sign to this every day of the week and twice on sundays. In our org chart, developers are not "IT" and getting nearly anything done that requires involvement from IT borders on impossible.

I honestly will probably never work for this sort of Microsoft/Oracle/IBM shop ever again unless I get a blood promise I can use a Mac or Linux workstation, get on-demand development VM creation, and have absolutely 0 Oracle product I'm required to integrate with.

The org I work at is so old that it still has groups with "Wintel" in their names, but the UNIX guys (the majority of our non-windoze stuff is AIX) aren't any better. It literally feels like I'm in a time warp back in the 1990s.

Some horror stories:

- having a systems engineer tell me to put in a ticket for the purpose of making a phone call to discuss something that had no pending action needed on his part

- having a DBA tell me the same thing

- having a DBA not know how to turn on query logging

- getting told we had to put together a hardware acquisition plan to do an in-place upgrade of database modules

- having a ticket to get log rotation turned on ignored for months and then told (when logs filled up the disk) that they'd have to turn off the service

- tediously going through change control to alter permissions, elevation rights, etc., only to have "implemented" changes mysteriously disappear the next time security patches were applied

- requesting and getting access to some very nice and expensive commercial applications only to be told that our use case was unsupported

- a half-dozen vendors' antivirus clients on windows machines

- unplanned outages during non-brownout/storm conditions corrupting databases

Ironically enough, some of the PMs (who are generally non-technical) we've talked to in IT literally complain about the exact same sort of problems.

The upside is I can take two or three hour lunch breaks whenever I have to wait on these guys, which is a couple times a week.
Physical keyboards died because manufacturers want to save money by selling a single device worldwide. With a physical keyboard they would need a different SKU for every language region. Plus physical keyboards have terrible UX for non-alphabetic languages like Chinese (where much of the market growth is happening now). It sucks for users like us who type a lot exclusively in English because even the best on-screen keyboards are so much shower and less accurate. But we're no longer driving the market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM

Jokes aside, it's odd that OP is lumping Cleveland in with other 'mid-west' cities. They all have their own very different characters.

Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh...all very different.

Also most of the top 30-40 American cities have similar minimum amenities. A theatre, downtown with restaurants, light rail. I don't think that should surprise anyone. It's just the breadth/depth of options they offer that differs.
Internal transaction costs. My company has dozens of different offices who each invoice each other, sometimes in circles. We need to make internal markets easier to operate
Probably just started using a different picture without permission either :/
This doesn't bode well for Apple's secure enclave. Apple's enclave environment has benefited from obscurity, though that was always destined to fail eventually.

Every other secure enclave has been hacked because the environments are far too complex. Engineers are recapitulating all the same mistakes that plague existing operating systems and software stacks. It's so bad that now secure enclave environments are adding mitigations like ASLR and stack canaries.

Maybe Apple was smart enough to keep things simple, and doesn't try to implement things like dynamic linking, processes, or multi-tasking in the enclave. Given their production and retail model, they're about the only company capable of doing this. But I doubt it.
He says it's a problem that can be tackled, it just hasn't been yet. Like you look at a square block, and you need to get it in a square hole, you just haven't gotten to it.

It's not the language of someone that isn't confident that there isn't a perfectly fine solution. I mean, it's likely that other people have already figured this out, just not him.
Columbus and Pittsburgh come to mind in the Great Lakes Region. Though Columbus home prices are at record highs they are still EASILY affordable for even a junior dev out of college (if you don't have crushing student debt). Nashville is another one on the radar as well. You could even probably swing something good in Detroit.
Remember the WTO?
I wonder how many people commit to moving to a city without actually knowing more then what their tourist board puts out.
Nobody is arguing that being anti-crime is a political stance. But Cook's letter goes way beyond that.
> And I don't need to call an account rep if I need to extend functionality.

Thank you for reminding that this special kind of hell exists.
Ironically, it sometimes seems the biggest inefficiency is the millions of incompatible never-finished initiatives to remove costly inefficiencies.
They talk repeatedly about how their phone is so much better while still being affordable. Well, 700$ for a phone isn't affordable, especially in an age where a solid phone, excellent for 95% of your daily tasks, sets you back no more than 150$.

I don't get it, what's the draw here? Is it the accessories? A couple other phones already did that shtick, and the result was the same: release 3 or 4 gimmicky products and forget about it. They talk about maintainability, but there is no replaceable battery, no expandable storage... I don't get it, what's the draw?
Even today that's not exactly a common feature. Usually you need to start a full desktop (RDP, VNC, etc...) to do anything similar.

I still use X display forwarding regularly. Often for something like sending a Firefox window back so I can look at a page on a test network without needing a direct route to it.
It can only never happen if you use a lock correctly. In separate threads, this can absolutely happen in imperative programming. As a reader-writer or dining philosopher problem will show, two actors can try to do the same thing at the same time unless you EXPLICITLY stop them by using locks.

In FP, you will have an immutable variable for state instead of a mutable variable wrapped in a lock. You will be passing a whole new immutable state variable to a pure side effect free function every time, and won't have to worry about getting a lock and releasing it explicitly (these would be side effects). As long as the state is immutable and synced across threads, actors in any thread can just plot their next actions using that state.

In imperative programming, like I said, you'll have to explicitly get and release locks to make sure two actors don't occupy the same spot.

So, if you use atomic immutable variables with pure functions, and the logic in your actors can be conflict free, you can have horizontal scalability across as many cores as you want pretty easily. If your actors cannot be conflict free, you will need to wrap a lock of your choice in a monad and use that, but you will still have gained better debugging, testing and maintainability by using FP.

Now if only every zero-cost OO abstraction had a straight forward FP alternative that was also zero-cost, we'd all be doing FP as of yesterday.
Ok, so he starts with a link to his 6 beliefs, I click it, read them then proceed to read the rest of the post, which contains the 6 beliefs again... I do like them though, except for the last one ;). Seems like a nice phone, but it doesn't seem particularly better then my OP3. They talk about freedom yet it's just Android right? Everything straight to Google right? What's so different from OP and the Nexus devices which also get updates and are minimal Android? That screen is nice, 128 GB is also nice. But other than that, I'm not really feeling it.
Meeting up in person (mostly-remote company)
Actually I do know people who are generally happy, and people who are generally unhappy. So there's a counterexample (since general happiness appears to be attainable). You may know people like that too.

Regarding the people who are generally happy, "rat race" would not apply to their experience of life.
Fifty years ago when bad parts of Manhattan started to gentrify the people moving there were seen as outre. Now moving to a loft in a converted warehouse is desired by the most straight-laced college graduates. Those early urban pioneers, even if they were motivated by nothing else than low prices, eventually came to be seen as ahead of their time.

Now, living in Cleveland is more outre than living in SoMa, for a certain college-educated set. However the opportunity is immense as world population keeps growing and cities like Cleveland have great bones. Sure you have to trade some insider status to get a piece of these cities, but that's a plus for me.
We detached this off-topic flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15038254.
They can barely get text search right, how in the hell are they going to manage an entire video platform?

Gotta hustle those investors somehow, I guess.
What do you think about cheap chinese phones, with good hardware specs? eg
http://www.elephonestore.com/elephone-p8-mini-octa-core-mobi...
New institutionalism
CoreOS Extends Kubernetes to Microsoft Azure
Most people abbreviate "economics" as "econ" why not "mathematics" as "math"?
Brown v Board of Education, Loving v Virginia, Jones v Mayer Co, Griggs v Duke Power Co, Roe v Wade, Lawrence v Texas, Obergefell v Hodges

That's the US judicial system. I could also pull examples from the legislative system.

Laws aren't just things that codify current practice, they can also be progressive in and of themselves.
Have you tried LeanKit[0]?

[0] https://leankit.com
Parsec supports controllers: https://faq.parsec.tv/articles/10080-setting-up-your-control...

I don't think VR is supported, and yeah, even a low ping would make it a vomit comet anyway.

Here's the pricing: https://www.paperspace.com/pricing
You have to sign up and then request access to the GPU instances (each instance type has to be requested individually, unfortunately. I found the GPU+ instance to be a little underpowered, and the P5000 has been performant enough that I haven't bothered to try the P6000). I can take up to 24 hours to get access. Once you have that though, you can create an instance with the parsec image and it comes with all the drivers, as well as steam and EA origin pre-installed. The parsec client by default starts up without admin mode, which crashes a lot in my experience, so I log in using the browser client and restart the parsec server as admin manually. It's basically ready to go out of the box and the longest part of the setup is just waiting for your steam games to install.