skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from a small number of general site-wide rules, reddit is based around the idea of "your subreddit (meaning, you're a mod of it), your rules". And nothing about it requires that every single rule be exhaustively defined up-front; moderator discretion is ultimately the sole definition of a subreddit's rules.

If you don't like a subreddit's rules, you're free to create a competing subreddit on the same topic but with different rules, and try to attract people to it.

I moderate a medium-sized (200k-ish subscribers) subreddit, though, so I know how unpopular this idea is with some people.
Brute Force 900k and Attempts on a New Server
For enabling HTTPS, you can put CloudFront in front of it. That'll make it faster, too, and cost almost nothing.

For my static sites, I'm usually doing some form of fancy JavaScript npm / gulp / bower, but then ultimately just uploading those files to S3.

You could probably do it a little faster using the AWS CLI. It can upload a directory to a bucket in one command (while skipping unchanged files).
As a new customer of Fastmail, that was the exact reason I went to you. I like that Fastmail cares about my privacy and doesn't track me, fully supports open standards, interoperates with other services seamlessly (so I can decide what features I want and do not want to use) and I can fully download and delete my data if I want to. It is well worth the premium, please keep up what you do!
That's not true. Actual poor people pay very little, if any, income tax. As the article pointed out, this is most damaging to the upper-middle class.
Morning coffee with the OpenFaaS CLI
That is not without a server... it's not your server, but it does have a server side.
If you had a list of all the corner cases from the start, wouldn't it be easy to just cover them in the new code? I thought the point of corner cases was that they introduce bugs because we don't think of them when we design the system.
That's to encourage money to be invested and also to compensate for the risks.
I keep expecting companies to suffer from this "hit your numbers" approach, and it seems like they're starting to.

Every A/B test makes your site less predictable and straightforward for your users. Every push notification dilutes the value of every other notification sent. Every 'fake' event undermines the thrill of real engagement with other users.

At a certain point you're burning real value to create better metrics, and that's not sustainable for a company that actually wants to endure.
"Edit 2: I don't generally care where a post is but this went from -2 to +6 pretty quickly. Weird?"

Probably I can answer that :) I noticed that when one of my posts get down voted even when having a neutral comment, it swings back to positive fast when touching -1 or -2. I guess that the gray comment takes a while for HN'ers to notice as down voted. And when they find that there is nothing wrong with it or they actually like it, many people simultaneously click the upvote swinging it back wildly to positive zone. It is HN's own version of 'universe making right what it deems as correct' :D
I suppose all 2 users with js disabled frequent hn.

;)
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the rich inoculate themselves against criticism through their superficial support for liberal social issues
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My personal problem is that I'm way too deeply engaged with Google now. I was fortunate enough to get a Google Apps account back when it was a free service, and I have been providing all the Google services for me and all my family for free for several years.

Fastmail looks absolutely incredible and I've never heard the slightest bad thing about them, but it'd cost me $250/month to get the same level of service I get now for free. :/
> It also means we have no secret customer. Our paying customers are our actual customers, not the product we're using to pump up the valuation or collect data from.

As an actual, paying customer I just want to express just how much I appreciate that someone is actually doing this.

The internet has lots of creepy companies spying on your every move. Actually paying for a service and knowing that there's nobody looking over your shoulder feels really good. I wish there were more companies like that.
If capital gains taxes are raised, then someone who invests outside of a 401k or IRA gets double screwed.
i3 not only has the hybrid trim (called REx, range extender with a motorcycle engine to recharge), but also has a BEV (battery EV, 100% electric) trim. I owned one of the i3 BEV for 2 years.

And yes, the 2009 Mini-E (based on a modified Mini Cooper) was a limited production trial, as well as the 2011 BMW ActiveE (based on a modified 1-series). Both were predecessors of BMW i3.
If you want to distinguish between the creation of wealth vs. the appropriation of wealth it makes sense to distinguish between earned and unearned income.
"Apple encrypts End-to-end all iMessage chats, as well as FaceTime (VoIP) calls."

End-to-end encryption does not guarantee that Apple keeps your data encrypted, or that they don't process it for 3rd parties (NSA would fit as a 3rd party, where Apple would be for them a content provider, as the slide shows).

"You can bet your ass their arm was twisted by the government or they were taken into the program unknowingly (datacenter ISP taps, etc)."

Can you back that up ? How can you be so sure ?
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Then why not try to structure our economy so that the lower and middle classes have more money to spend? It seems like that would be a pretty good way to get the economy moving more since giving poorer people money increases the velocity of money considerably[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
I've noticed a few (2-3 per month) getting through with names of people in my address book, but not the email address, so it seems to be doing some type whitelisting there, other than that, its catching everything.
I agree to a certain extent. I think there is an interesting gap between "independent blogger" and "traditional newspaper" that is starting to pop up in sports media and may be able to be successful in typical journalism. This site would be hyper-focused on a specific niche and would have paying customers to access content. Essentially, I think what we see in a traditional city-based newspaper will splinter into 3-5 related sites (one for a state or region that does general news and these types of investigations with smaller local arms for local news) that have paid access (either subscription or per-article pricing) of some sort. I do see some problems with that with non-sports information though.

As an aside, I'm not terribly familiar with bitcoin, but I often wondered if something like reddit's bitcoin bot was the solution to pay per article access. A system where you simply paste your wallet key into the article to unlock the rest of it for a nominal fee ($0.03-$0.08 per article) would seem to be a way to pay for things without a zillion accounts or transactions on your card. I say bitcoin, but, realistically, any universal pool of money that can be quickly withdrawn from without an account on a specific site would be neat. There have been times I wanted to read investigative articles from WSJ or other subscription sites, but I don't want to subscribe or have yet another login. If I could just paste in a code or click Apple Pay for that one article, I gladly would. The counter to that is I don't want every sub $0.50 transaction popping up on my credit card, which is why a universal pool of money like Bitcoin would be best.

I do think the idea of having time and a strong legal team behind you is important for this kind of story. Currently, the best way to access that is a traditional newspaper. Small operations definitely can't take on the legal risks for something like this, which is why an Atlantic model is difficult for hard journalism. I do wonder if independent places would start pooling resources for things like this.
US “explodes” after Kaspersky closes “CIA Backdoor” embedded in all MS Software
Dressing up a bad argument in the rhetoric of a derelict academic philosophy does not make it interesting or correct. Especially when all you are doing is describing a concept rather than telling us why it applies in this case.

Besides, if there is a fallacy in the OP's statement surely it is not the assertion that teachers don't prioritize money so much as the assertion that engineers do. At least among the software engineers I know (and I suspect the same holds for most people on HN), engineers are as multifaceted in their approach to work as anyone else. Most people would happily trade off non-trivial amounts of wealth for other social values such as work-life balance or work on projects that have personal meaning. The most unhappy workers anywhere are those who can only choose between jobs based on their salary.
It sounds like it would be helpful if the symbols we use for writing were unambiguous even if rotated or reversed?

Do you use some special fonts that help with symbols such as > and <, b and d and so on?
It's pretty funny to use the dom inspector in Chrome, since the effect works on the script source code as well.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11218677 (1.5 years ago, 200 comments)
They're currently trying to close a couple of those loopholes here in Canada, and it's surprising how much traction the complaints against the reforms are getting. The opponents are claiming that the reforms are going to devastate family doctors and family farms. The complaints are mostly bogus, but people don't understand tax law so are vulnerable to an emotional plea.
I like the 'Stylish' chrome extension. User created (or custom) styles for any website you use regularly. I use dark themes for practically everything.

My Hacker News style is a user stylesheet "Hacker News Dark" and 1 line of additional CSS I added to reduce the lane width of the text:

.comment-tree {
max-width: 600px;
}

Of course you can go to town and add comic sans, etc.
I'd have thought MPI-IO is the relevant standard for HPC i/o (perhaps under something like HDF5). I'd expect HPC applications with serious i/o requirements to be using that anyway.
In addition to account compromise, there's also the risk of bugs/compromise of GitHub itself:

https://github.com/blog/1068-public-key-security-vulnerabili...

Commit signing can help to mitigate that.[0] Note that GitHub now offers the ability to add your GPG public key to your profile and show whether a commit is signed with that key or not. I find this more dangerous than useful: if an attacker compromises the account and adds his/her key, and adds a malicious commit, GitHub would show it as verified.

[0]: https://mikegerwitz.com/papers/git-horror-story
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Operational Limits Played Key Role in Tesla Crash on Autopilot: NTSB
It's actually a good* guide, but the wording of the title seems to me to imply that this is a simple process. It's dizzying complex.

* by "good", I mean the following:

- prose is engaging

- very comprehensive, no hidden steps missed

- covers a lot of things that while not strictly necessary, will make an experienced git user's website updating workflow much easier in the long run

- covers some small details that are new to me that look nice

It's very much complexity up front in exchange for automated ease later though.
What is an alternative to unions that gives workers some power in the relationship between worker and employer?
As (yet another) paying customer, I greatly appreciate what you do and how you do it. Charge me more, if you need to!
Granted, in part. Especially on interior manufacturing, where Tesla's flagship Model-S luxury sedan could stand to learn a thing or two from Mercedes, and in sheet metal stamping/carbon fiber fabrication, where OEMs do invest a lot of attention.

But I maintain that the primary focus of an automotive manufacturer is their powertrain. This is evidenced by the outsourcing of many of those other components, and by the relative budgets given to those different R&D departments. Furthermore, the other departments have become tightly coupled to the powertrain: The chassis is largely designed around the engine bay, not a large battery and electric motor. Engine braking is barely an afterthought in the design of the brakes, and regenerative braking changes a lot of that design. Auxiliary systems like entertainment, power steering, air conditioning, etc. have the existence of an alternator and serpentine belt as a fundamental principle.

Whether it's 180 or 90 degrees, it's still a difficult change for a big company.
> You might get a return, you might not and therefore the taxation rules should reflect that.

So... you take a loss on your taxes, probably spreading it out in some way so you don't pay taxes for a few years, if it's a serious enough loss. Right? Why does the rate need to be different?
>you cant switch off CPU Virtulisation

OK, makes sense

>looks and feels like the real thing

Not really, because you can't turn off virtualization
I'm saying there are plenty of people making $200k post-tax. Also, 7% annual returns combined with an additional $150k/yr would lead to having $6.5 million like I said.
I made this new service called Thread Reader that given a first tweet from a twitter thread will return a carefully designed web page with the full Tweetstorm unrolled.

It comes with two "bots"
- one that answer people who mention "@tttthreads unroll" replying to the first tweet of a threads and give them a link to the unrolled story
- the second that search twitter for "#threads" and check if it is a valid thread (> 5 tweets) and if so post a unrolled version back to the author (limited to a few post per hour to avoid to be too spammy)

The stack is good old LAMP using the PHP silex micro framework and of course Twitter API
Imapfilter [1] would work.

It also uses regexes so it would be easy to convert mike-cardwell's rules.

[1]: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
Cost of Living – Escaping the Maze of Medical Debt (2016)
As I said, Gmail is opaque with regard to its spam detection.

As for your help offer, thank you, but I'm good. It's usually other people who
want to contact me, I rarely send the first message ever.
> End-to-end encryption does not guarantee that Apple keeps your data encrypted

I'm probably misunderstanding something here but doesn't "end-to-end encryption" mean that A encrypts it with B's key and [whoever is in the middle passing it along] can't decrypt it because they don't have B's key?
Yeah. You are right. Should have use a different terminology.
> Surely very high intermarriage rates between different European ethnicities complicate that

Very high intermarriage rates? Wherever did you pick up such an idea?

> In that case, wouldn't the opposite behavior be expected? If the goal were to have as little genetic variation as possible humans would be better off reproducing asexually

There is no 'goal'. And too little variation seems to be a universally bad idea.
It is a simple, observablke fact that most of us stick to partners reminiscent of ourselves. We may argue about the reasons, but the thing itself is clear and obvious.
That's seriously not true for folks with mild dyslexia. That's why folks don't necessarily find out until adults: no actual difficulty learning to read, but sometimes it results in weird things that weren't picked up on when we were kids. Spelling, for example. Getting left and right mixed up. Certain behavioral traits. More trouble with reading as one gets older and has more to read and/or difficult texts.
I also used Hugo for my site - https://testloop.co.uk
It's so simple.. and FAST. It's hosted on AWS S3 with CloudFront & Route53 so it's not free, but at a cost of around $1.20 per month, it's not far off.
I don't get what is this fuss all about. Just turn off ALL the email notifications in Facebook and Bob's your uncle - you won't be bothered anymore.
Why Good Social Media Content Fails – And How to Fix IT
>we would know

We do know. Just most people refuse to believe until it happens to them, so Yelp continues to get away with it.
Both Boeing and Airbus make good airplanes. Nevertheless, they hire expensive salespeople and pay them massive commissions. They don't just tell the airlines to download a pdf brochure of the planes' specifications and call them when they're ready to place an order.

People making statements such as "good products sell themselves" are probably thinking about gadgets like iPhones that don't require "greasy used car salesmen" with high-pressure tactics to close a sale. Yes, the Apple employees at stores are more like order takers than salespeople.

However, many well-engineered products absolutely require salespeople to close the deal. I was recently researching $100k CNC milling machines -- there are several brands with quality engineering and yet they all have salespeople to guide prospective customers about configurations and persuade me to buy. Trying to decide purely based on information posted at the manufacturers website and printed brochures would be unwise. Yes, the general "concept of a CNC machine" sells itself but a particular brand & particular model of CNC does not.
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> Why don't we just use lat long coordinates or geohashes for addresses?

Primarily because they're not very people-friendly.

- It's only recently that we have the means to look up alternate representations from coordinates (such as directions between two coordinate points).

- Street addresses partially encode path (as opposed to only point) information. If you know where a street is and how to get to it, it's more likely you can find the address you're looking for.

- It's easier for people to remember and relay. Similar to how people don't refer to each other by some unique numeric identifier, it's easier for people to remember and relay street addresses than numeric ids.

* I'm using street addresses as a proxy for "non-point address". Address encodings around the world are different.

Perhaps postal addressing will change now that we have easier lookup. I believe Fedex and UPS already encode different information in their printed address labels. I suspect something similar to street addresses will persist for quite a while given their human interface strengths.
I know my local market fairly well - it's a major metropolitan area that's not on the west coast . I'm still an in the trenches developer, I just have more team lead responsibility.

Yes "top of the market" is $85 an hour as a W2 contractor. Using my rule of thumb - 1800 hour work year when contracting taking into account unpaid holidays, unpaid vacation and sick time, and gap between employment - that's a base pay rate of $153,000. More often than not, there will be more than 40 hours worth of billable work.

I am fairly aggressive about my contract rate when I am contracting, and I would take that in a heartbeat.

So yeah, all of the contractors that report to me make more than I do. For some strange reason, I'm okay with that.
They would benefit from a funded government. Schools and other public services cost money.
You're right - people who don't see that value won't be our customers, and I should have said "quite reasonable for the product that we provide" or similar instead.

We have made a conscious choice that we aren't going to chase after the really price sensitive customer.

We're OK with not having those customers. If price is your ONLY deciding factor, then FastMail isn't for you, because we'll never be the cheapest option. You can't compete with free if you don't have another funding source to subsidise the product.

And we don't: all our income comes from selling our service, so we can't compete on price alone. We have to compete on quality, features and execution.

I wound up moving this paragraph deep into the blog post because it wasn't the point of the post - but it is one of my key driving principles:

"Our goal is to solve your email needs as quickly as possible so you can get on with everything else in your life."

We don't want to keep our customers' eyeballs on our site longer than the minimum required to achieve their goals.
Into the Eye (2016)
China has over half the marketshare for lithium-ion battery production and that is expected to grow.

Tesla might be a single large producer but it is a fraction of the overall world production. Is he even planning to have that much excess capacity after powerwall/teslas?
You should write an article on the subject. Seems there are a lot of interested people in the process and you've got some domain specific knowledge to lay it out nicely.
This is one of the reasons why a more thoroughly electrified car, which uses a compressor driven by an electric motor rather than by a pulley off a serpentine belt, will be more efficient. Baby steps!
You can still run mail servers on them though. You might have to compile stuff up for yourself if your distro doesn't support it but I've found Arch to be pretty good in this respect.
"The only risk you take is that you might select a bad company." - that's the same risk an investor takes no? Except the investor can diversify across many companies, while the employee can rely on only one. Yours seems like an argument for investors to pay a higher rate than an employee, because they can diversify their risk.

Personally, I don't think taxes should be based on risk assessment.
Selecting a bad company is a pretty big risk. It may do a lot of damage to your career from which you potentially never can come back. The opportunity cost is pretty high.

I don't believe capitalists take more risk or should get preferential tax treatment.
My attic at least has several layers of plywood between the airspace and the felt. Probably why you see footage of rescue teams trying to get to the attic from the outside... with axes.
What does "aggressive" mean in this context, and why is it in quotes?
Different but related, and something I ran into trouble with over the weekend:

My grandparents live at 297 <Road B>, and to get there you have to take <Road A> off the main road in town. Well, the house immediately before you turn onto <Road B> is 297 <Road A>, but they have their driveway _and mailbox_ physically located on <Road B>. This means that it appears there are two 297 <Road B> even though the other house is on a different road!

This weekend was just the pizza guy going to the wrong house, but a few months ago it was the cops when my grandfather fell and got hurt. Not a great situation!
It's the same as the old cable company model. Slicing the list of available concerns up just perfectly enough that you can't get what you want without a bunch of shit you don't.
More importantly, why don't strong unions do something about it? The mid-1980s saw the strongest unionization period for Canada – with nearly a 40% unionization rate – but all the of same declines mentioned by the parent were quite visible then. Wages, for instance, have been stagnant since the late 1960s. There was plenty of opportunity to fix the problems during those best union years.

Unionization has declined somewhat since that time, but is still fairly strong in Canada today, with about 30% unionization. The six strongest unionized country in the world. That matches the peak unionization rate for the USA (down to about 10% today), which is heralded for bringing great working improvements for the American worker. There really should be no reason why the current unions in Canada cannot improve on these things. History has shown that 30% unionization is enough to change the world.

I expect that unionization is declining, rather than strengthening, because the potential members are feeling like the unions have become self-serving or are resting on their laurels.