skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an easy way: the developer just writes her a check equivalent to whatever it takes to rent a garden patch somewhere for 50 years. Not that a developer should have to do that for the land they have rights on, but if they want to take away her argument that's one method.
There are clear benefits to both Amazon and the winning city were the transaction to occur, and no loss other than status quo were it not to. This is not bribery.
Neat for some use cases, however the fact that its only online will cause issues for some folks.

People process a lot of data in excel - sensitive, private data. Putting that data into the cloud with a startup (regardless of pedigree) will be a bit too much risk for some.
Thanks for the replies - we're working on smaller instances, though we don't have a date yet!
Have you tried Roll20.net? I've used it for Pathfinder, D&D, 13th Age, and Blades in the Dark to great effect. The platforms always getting better.
Agree, need more granularity than just "Javascript MVC framework". Thank you, we are on it.
Sweet! Would love to be able to do something like that on our site. For example: https://skylab.io/Alessandro/EchoSure/references

How do you deal with paywalls?
Edit distance (nee Levenshtein distance) is solved with dynamic programming, and is used by spell-checkers.

I agree reformulating the problem can be confusing. It wouldn't be worth it, but for the incredible efficiency gains (not always needed).
They could have gone with: "Sloppy scientists delude themselves about unlikely hypothesis"

People repeating the fiction that "low blood sugar puts one in a bad mood" puts people in a bad mood when they haven't had sugar in the last twenty minutes. We evolved in a low sugar world and did just fine: or was everyone moody from 200,000 years ago until about a century or two ago?
Oh, indeed. The interaction that probably cost them a few cents kept a very profitable customer coming back for more -- makes perfect sense.
bump - anyone else? invites / rejections?
So what do you do when you need to plug those headphones into a DAC with a stereo input? You need an adapter. What do you do when you need to plug them into a TV or game system? You need an adapter. You are definitely ok with it in other scenarios, just not this very specific one.
The two main ones that come to mind:

In first edition the Armor Class went from 10 downwards eg AC -2 was awesome. And you had to look up tables (before 2nd edition added the slightly simpler THAC0). That was changed such that numbers always go up and similarly, higher dice rolls are always better (in some circumstances in 1e you wanted lower numbers).

The concept of advantage or disadvantage. Sometimes you'd have to do a bunch of calculations eg -4 for being invisible, +2 for this, -1 for that, etc. Now, you just figure out whether someone has an advantage or disadvantage. If neither, it's a normal dice roll. If advantage, roll 2 dice and take the highest number. If disadvantage, roll 2 dice and take the lower.
Ask HN: What's your worst Uber Eats/Door dash experience?
I've just had an UberEats food order canceled after waiting for 1 1/2 hours. The food is actually at the restaurant and has been for 1h. Has anyone else seen this? Is that common?
I had good luck with a low carb (in my case Keto diet). Definitely check with your doc (or another doc) but you might try removing wheat and some dairy and seeing how you feel. I used to get stomach bloat and an upset stomaches but after starting Keto, I have been stomach issue freeing going on 4+ months. I'd start with a food diary and noting how you feel physically and energy wise after every meal since a doctor is going to ask for that anyways. It might help you spot some trends. The MyFirstnessPal app (free version) does a pretty good job of making this easy btw. Good luck!
FWIW I've had more Dungeon Masters/referees for Lamentations of the Flame Princess (a modern horror-themed retroclone of the 1983 Mentzer D&D Red Box) in my home city than any other edition of D&D or any other tabletop RPG.
On the other hand, having it always be a 2 step process kinda stinks. I haven't yet seen a way to just say "replay this request". The editing is nice, but I almost always have to just replay, quickly, and I can't do that in FF, but can in Chrome. Might be 20% of the time the 'edit and resend' is a handy/useful functionality - 'replay xhr' is handy the other 80% of the time.
There's a huge gap between an ereader and a smartphone.
A couple of people over at https://yc.metachat.com/ said they got a rejection letter not long after the first invites
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/announcin... shows the four regions we are currently available in.

On https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/pricing/, if you go to the "PostgreSQL Compatible" dropdown, you will see those same four regions.

We're working on making that page easier to parse, and the fact that you just ran into this confusion reinforces our committment to fix it - thank you!
I think the growth of social media (and consumer reviews such as Steam) is a simple explanation.

Gaming mass media is full of reviewers who often do not seem particularly interested in the titles they're reviewing, and are operating in a situation where there is always implicit (and sometimes explicit) coercion from big advertisers. Would gamers prefer that or would they prefer to listen to thousands of other gamers who presumably enjoy the a game's genre and almost certainly bought the game with positive expectations? I don't think there's any real competition there.

In a way it's the same problem that media at large is facing. The media had a monopoly on information for decades. The decentralization of information and access provided by the internet destroyed that shockingly quickly. And so they're left to create draws other than information itself.

And I would agree this will be a good thing. I don't see any particular benefits to the centralization of information. Like any centralized system it just creates a single point of failure.
I got an interview! 5th time is a charm! Don’t give up.
same here. any news? still waiting.
Should've made a bet with them that there'd be another one-in-a-million result the following week.
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I am wondering: How exactly are you getting this data? How do you make sure the data is accurate?
I don't doubt _this_ guy (and most HN-ers) could do a great job for $8.6M, but there are plenty of companies that couldn't. Govt contracts cost so much in part due to the number of legal hoops you have to jump through to get one. It's better to get something that works and is mostly supported even if it costs a lot than to get nothing for still a lot.
Annoyingly, AirDrop works directly over wifi, meaning that you can't use it to transfer files between an iPhone (connected to router Foo via wifi) and a Mac that's 1. Ethernet-wired to the same router Foo, and 2. has no wifi support.

I'm not sure if (Intel-era) Macs without wireless cards/chipsets exist outside of Hackintoshes, but they're pretty common as Hackintoshes.
Smart and malicious is always an option too.
It is probably just a product of Nathan Grayson being visibly dodgy over a long period of time.
Did you not read https://medium.com/@mkozlows/why-atom-cant-replace-vim-43385..., which applies to Sublime Text as well?

I've used Sublime Text; it's not a bad editor; but compared to using Vim, it’s like being in quicksand.

Sublime Text should be more modern and useful than Vim, an editor with roots going back to the 1970's. As the article describes:

>Vi is fundamentally built on command composability. It favors small, general-purpose commands that can be combined with objects to compose larger commands. By contrast, Emacs and its philosophical descendants (including Sublime Text and Atom) use monolithic, special-purpose commands.

You can't add enough special purpose commands to something like Sublime Text and have it be useable to approach what one can do with Vi/Vim and its composability.

Finally, Vim 8.0 was released just last year (2016), so it's not like it's not being updated with new features.

Last thing from the aforementioned article:

>A new, shiny, modern editor could one-up Vim by fixing some (or hopefully all) of these issues. But before an editor can replace Vim, it needs to learn everything that 1976 has to teach — not just the lesson of Emacs, but also the lesson of vi.
I'm not sure I'd call MIT 'hostile.'

I admit I'm heavily biased, but I'd say it is demanding. If universally demanding excellence is 'hostile,' then I guess I can agree with you.
Why you shouldn't charge your phone in your car
Wouldn't this require at least implicit acknowledgement that top tier schools are not diverse? Subsequently all existing people already at companies need to acknowledge this as well. (Since they are from those schools) It would require breaking the illusion that's it's those "others" who are the "real" problem, both by schools and companies.
Amazon is a real parasite on open source projects, it never gives back.
It looks as if this tool can do just that...
Honestly though, we should just switch to using "memorization". It's a less obscure word that communicates the intended meaning better, IMHO.
VC funding dilemma as average value of ICO climbs to $10m
This and many other points are left unaddressed by the authors. They fall at the first hurdle, so I hope this discussion can move on to some of the other interesting things people have mentioned.
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I don't see how it changes the situation. Even if the owner intentionally damaged the phone they would still be entitled to having it repaired for $parts + $labor.
This would take care of that use case as well. It's a webapp that saves only a single file that can only be downloaded once. The idea is that the URL is only known to you. Pretty neat idea for personal file sharing.
Despite what many Americans and foreigners think, there are many nice towns and cities in the Midwest with vibrant economies.
I'm not sure it's a good idea to take away local control of zoning and other planing just because the result is something that YIMBY groups don't like. There is something very undemocratic about doing that. More housing and more density doesn't always make communities better. The people who live in an area, are voting in local elections and are paying local taxes should have a say in how their communities develop. Shouldn't they? Isn't that how our system of government is supposed to work?

I mean I empathize with the YIMBY point of view -- I make about $56,00 a year as staff at a state university. That's right on the edge in the bay area. There will come a time when I can no longer afford to live here. I'm OK with that. That's how the market works. I don't think you have a right to live in San Francisco, or Malibu, or Los Gatos, etc. if you can't afford to live there. Everyone can't own a Ferrari. Everyone doesn't get to live where they want to.
It would be cool to have the computer show a series of QR codes with the encoded data, and an app on the phone that decodes them from the video.

Also, there was a 'modem' implementation in a browser posted a few days ago, that could be used to share URLs from phone to PC (if the PC has a mic).

Exfiltrating data can be non-nefarious.
When was the ethics at its peak?
> I'd say companies should not be allowed to actively prevent repair or modification, but doing so renders the warranty invalid.

I absolutely don't agree. Why should the fact that I use your product in ways that you didn't explicitly allow mean that you are not responsible for defects in your product? A really important aspect of ownership is that I can actually do with what I own whatever I want to do, and not just in the sense that it is legal to do so, but in the sense that it causes no disadvantage for me. Just because I install an additional wall socket in my house, does not mean that you can disclaim responsibility for all defects in the house that I paid you to build, and the same should apply to IT devices. You are obviously not responsible for any defects that I cause by modifying your product, but that's it, you should still be fully responsible for the quality of your product.
Just makes it cheaper to get started and automate. But compared to setting up a server and running something on it, modern cloud platforms are about as complex IMO (to do right at least).
>probably still has a family issue

Probably? That seems to be an expansive assumption, to be charitable.
There are plenty of other great big tech companies that don’t have as terrible of an interview process and comparable pay.

I don’t know if I’ll ever try applying to Google again, especially after landing at one of their largest competitors & the company investing heavily in the area I am working in.
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Where are you located? I wonder if it is a geography thing.
> (including costs)

How about at a rate of $parts + $labor? If the device was defective and broke then it would still be the manufacturer's responsibility to fix it. But if it breaks due to wear and tear, accidental damage, or intentional damage then the user should reasonably foot but bill (either out of pocket or with insurance).
> RMS really saw this coming a long time ago

And one of the reasons for GPLv3: the anti-tivoisation clause. You should be allowed to install modified software in your own devices.

People have misconstrued anti-tivoisation that to mean that Apple can't keep malware out of your iPhone by key signatures, but that's not what it means, nor was it the primary reason why Apple wanted to prevent their users from installing unsigned software. It's about giving control to users and giving them both the key and the lock and letting them decide what goes on their own machines. Trying to paternalistically tell users what they can and cannot install has culminated in a method of control for repairs and obsolescence.
Oh man, don't get me started on doing any repairs on the surface line. It took me FOREVER to safely replace the battery on my aunts old Surface RT because it bit the bullet, and the only choice for a replacement was an after market Chinese battery I don't fully trust. I warned her of the risks, but she didn't want to spend the money on a new device - so now I'm just hoping it doesn't catch fire before she finally replaces it.
> Is that really what happens at Harvard?

Yes.

> If the latter, they will have absolutely no problem getting hired.

The whole point of the article is they won't.
How to make a perfect user experience design? You need this
I was hoping for some application of Bayes' theorem.
This is very much a problem in many parts of Asia. Whether there should be a law against it is debatable, but I can absolutely understand why something like this would be on the books. I find spitting and blowing your nose onto the street pretty revolting personally, so I don't have a problem with laws like this.
Sure thing, feel free to reply to my email. \l+ shows 485 GB, and hitting temp_bytes from pg_stat_database is 0, but billable space is 1050G. I'd like to promote Aurora to production, but some of my system's 'legacy' queries which live behind an ORM are grinding against the Aurora instances. I haven't had need to really investigate/optimize the queries (or even try to pick apart what the ORM is doing) as the performance on the vanilla Postgres RDS instance wasn't was great, but wasn't problematic either, even on the db.t2.large's I'd use in lower environments vs db.r4.large's I'm using with Aurora. It may be that I am just missing something obvious.
Ask HN: Why are the 2:45 and 4:30 YC interview slots always pre-reserved?
I've noticed for a second time when I've gone to reserve a YC interview slot that the 2:45pm and 4:30pm slots are all reserved. Is this simply to add a buffer? Is there some secret?
Absolutely. That's why GPL is so important (in software). A more permissive license paradoxically results in less freedom since it does not protect those four freedoms from being denied.
The whole point of my comment is the article is wrong.
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Entire global financial system depends on GPS, and it’s vulnerable to attack
If you have tried getting your friends to play D&D and they say, "too many rules," try Dungeon World. It's designed to be in a similar setting but uses much simpler rules. It also allows you to be much more collaborative in story-building, requiring substantially less DM prep.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DungeonWorld/

http://www.dungeon-world.com/
There is no reason to suppose that making the battery easy to replace increases bulk and weight to a degree you are capable of detecting in a blind test given identical hardware.

Its about decreasing the lifespan of devices to sell more.
To me the bothersome things are the expansion of the proportional impact of individual influencers and also the shrinking of the number of channels required to deliver influence effectively.

In the lunchroom example, so long as lots of other folks are putting posters on the wall, and presumably some kids don't look at the lunchroom posters, I don't have a problem with either the college or the military changing behavior that way. There were many alternatives, and the poster wasn't forced on anyone. The influence we're seeing now is expensive (much higher proportional impact if you can pay), and effectively guaranteed (everyone is tuned to the same channel or two).

I hope we don't have to analyze individual interventions, I'd much rather just break up the channels, or increase the diversity of the programming. Mostly because I'm not sure how to (and I'm not sure we should) answer your question.
=> select aurora_version();
aurora_version
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1.0.7
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Maybe it was solved and I need to build a new instance from snapshot to reclaim the space as an engine upgrade might not have done it. shrug I'll wait for the team to get back to me.
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Ultimately the problem with reasoning like this is that it's so nonsensical that things get confusing. For example, I'm sure we can agree that 6 is in Z. If we remove 6 from Z, we are talking about another set: it's no longer Z but Z', and because 6 is in Z but not Z' Z' != Z. Sure we can define new operations and such on this set Z' but there is still only one Z.

That's different from asking about a world or a universe without 6 though. Z exists independently of this universe or any universe. In a physical universe with discrete elements, you'll probably want to count those discrete things, and for that you have to use Z. Basically the argument I was making before was that you're no longer counting things if you don't have 6, because you count things with N, and 6 is in N. If you count things in N' which doesn't have six, whatever number you use to count things after 5 is 6 or you're not counting. The main thing I'm saying is that you can make define a set that doesn't contain 6 and for which operations are defined differently, but then it's not Z, and there has to be a Z.

Also, note that we can derive/define the integers (and essentially all of what we call mathematics) from these axioms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo–Fraenkel_set_theory. If theres no number 6, we need to pick a different set of axioms. At that point you're arguably not even doing mathematics because these axioms are so ubiquitously general across all of math.
LetsEncrypt provide two reference implementations of an ACME server, in Pebble[0] (not production ready) and Boulder[1]

[0]: https://github.com/letsencrypt/pebble

[1]: https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder
>Activation lock caused something like a sustained 50% drop in phone thefts the year it was implemented

I'm extremely skeptical about that. Can you post sources?

And why do you say that these proposals are not compatible with Activation Lock-style schemes?
Why don't you think it will work? Their goal is 10,000 hours of speech, which doesn't seem like an unattainable goal to me.

The dataset is only going to grow as time goes on. They just need to get their website in order (a stats page to show where they're currently at and how far they need to go would help a lot) and throw a little advertising behind it. It's just a matter of time
So take it out, you end up with a set of previously-numbers objects you can't do much with. The question is answered.
That happened to me with Eat24. I was hoping it was the food that took a long time to make and not the driver taking forever, but by the time I got it the box the food was in had soaked through and was falling apart. The food looked disgusting. Ended up getting my money back after being on the phone with their support for an hour. I'm kind of over these delivery services as they tend to be overly expensive and kind of unreliable.
DRM has always represented an attempt on the part of content owners to seize more territory than the framers of US copyright law intended. Copyright was supposed to be a bargain between the creators and the commons. In return for the rightsholder's agreement to release the material into the public domain upon expiration, the government would grant a temporary legal monopoly.

Unfortunately the first part of the copyright bargain is implicit, not part of the law. With DRM, rightsholders get to have their cake -- our cake -- and eat it too. Not only is the protection granted by copyright now effectively perpetual, but they've purchased additional legislation such as the DMCA and endless copyright term extensions that punish people who are trying to claim their half of the bargain.

IMHO copyright should not apply to anything with DRM. Rightsholders should be forced to decide whether they want a temporary legal monopoly with no technical protection, or a permanent technical monopoly with no legal protection.
I went to a top 5 school.. sorry to say there is no secret sauce the school gave us, no interview prep classes, and not a lot of TA sessions either - at least not with small sizes.

Definitely nothing at all targeted towards interviews - even the algo courses were very theoretical and they expected us to get comfortable with the code on our own time. In fact they are all about teaching CS and not about teaching you how to get a job or trendy technologies.

What did help me and some of my friends more than anything was just grinding interview questions - going through CTCI 3-4 times until I could solve it in my head, doing random questions off glassdoor etc..

People love to paint rosy pictures of easy lives for top 5 candidates. The truth is college was insanely hard, many people were extremely stressed/depressed, we worked our asses off and sacrificed a lot. Ultimately to learn a lot more in 4 years than someone else, you have to put in a lot more time - there is no way around it.
So you were just trolling. Why bother?

A Modest Proposal was humorously highlighting a real problem.
My understanding is that the math professor interpreted the question to mean "what if our universe, rather than acting in so-far-seeming correspondence with ZFC set theory, was one that was best explained by a different axiomatic set theory—one that didn't entail the existence of "6" as a mathematical object? What universe would we be in, and what would it be like?"
How to build a billion dollar digital marketplace – e.g Uber, eBay, Craigslist
Where I work we currently run 2 RDS PostgreSQL Instances in production, one on T2.small and the other T2.medium.

We never run out of CPU credits. We are dying to move to Aurora but the current instance sizes prevent us :( until we fully move away from SQL Server where our load on PostgreSQL will increase, its a huge cost for 0 gain right now.