skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about VPNs? As I understand, it's corporate lines to overseas that's allowed. That's what we use, we lease bandwidth on a major submarine cable that goes to California and sign a contract that says we won't be using it to break laws, and Vvv we tell our employees to only use it for work.
Their backend is partially inside, partially outside Anvil (eg I believe the campaign management backend runs in our hosted server modules, but the compute-intensive machine learning is offloaded). And it's all under their control - it's their code!

The wonderful thing about the Uplink is that the boundary between "inside Anvil" and "outside Anvil" can be very fuzzy, because you use the same APIs. (See my "escape hatch" post above)
My VPS, in Iceland, had a racist hostname on one of their servers; they had no idea and were quite embarrassed. Just wanted to be sure you weren't in the same boat, because the slur isn't exactly obvious.

Apologies for wrongfully flagging your comment. I wanted to hide it, in case you didn't know the context and were signed out for the day. I'm with you 100% on whitewashing and censorship, even though that seems to be exactly what I was doing.

Cheers for the friendly response. I'm going to have to check out that book.
Note that it does seem to work reasonably well for the "adult" industry. People are often reluctant to pay for recurring fees on those sites (social stigma plays a role there, probably). But "pay-as-you-go" or pay per view schemes seem to fare far better. And, it makes sense; why pay for a monthly thing when the moment of enjoyment is relatively short. A DRM free download for that thing you like is mentally easier to justify. The big hurdle is still sign-up and credit cards I think, I'd personally be much more inclined to use systems with more privacy conscious approaches: since micropayments give an opportunity to track /exactly/ what you're looking at. This might even be more relevant for news outlets that cover a wide range of topics and writing styles.
I recall some unease over Tom Cruise using an ultrasound machine at home when his then wife Katie Holmes was pregnant [1]. Do the concerns over the home use of such machines still hold in this case?

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10309963/ns/health-womens_health/t...
Maybe all political advertising needs to have a named publisher like in the UK get caught promoting a candidate without stating the publisher and their election agent will get you in the election court.
why not just add a "preload" flag to the style or link tag, this looks like a lot of extra work.
I have one idea that I will probably never have time to do (I have 3 childs and a fulltime job). It is an app to manage fuel consumption. The idea is that some people use a notebook to write each time they buy fuel (I did until I bought a Nissan Leaf). If the application is as handy as a notebook (maybe a simple picture of the gaz pump would be enough to fill in the data), some people will use it and you will start to collect the price and location of all gas stations. Once you have enough data, you can provide additional service to find the best gas station taking into account your position, current destination, remaining fuel, ... Gas stations may want to pay you some advertising, ... The application may grow further to take into account maintenance of the car. Maybe it is a silly idea, but if you build it, I would use it (for my second car).
It does waste electricity, yes, and that's, to get back to the topic, something that a well-designed Power API could help keep in check.

Still, I prefer giving a "mining" contribution to a website operator (who actually needs some kind of revenue to live) over watching obnoxious ads and having my every move end up in dozens of tracker databases, in addition to hackers distributing malware over ad networks.
I went to a talk by blue state and the main use of big data was identifying local affinity groups who could then go out and do traditional electoral work.
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You know, a great team with capital's a little like the mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it and danged if he knows how to use it!
I think his assertion is that as it is "allowed" by China's government that they somehow have access to the keys (or the VPN provider is keeping a buffer of the traffic and has an arrangement to provide it to relevant government agencies upon request).
So we've gone from filling out a form to either switching to a new tab and logging in to online banking to make the transfer, or even worse, leaving the building to go to an ATM?
How is it any different from “join the royal marine commandos” add before every movie in a UK theater?

I’ve seen advertisements for military service in most EU countries heck airfrance used to have panflets for friegn legion in their in flight magazine the only reason why I’m using past tense is because I haven’t use them for like 5 years so I don’t know if it’s stil the case or not.
Is there any UE4 docker container? I would like to use UE4 instead, Unity3D is a horrible choice for a game engine. Maybe it is good for enthusiasts and hobbyists, but it is definitely not good for us pros
Ask HN: Software to create and visualize social graphs for historical figures?
I'm looking for an app or website to create directed graphs that show
who worked on a particular topic and who learned from whom.
Vertices should show the names and edges the kind of relationship.
For example:

(Sokrates) --teacher-of--> (Platon) --teacher-of--> (Aristoteles)

Musts:

- Usable on my iPhone (app or responsive website)

- Easy data entry

- Automatic visualization of the resulting graph

- Free text on the edges (to show the kind of relationship)

Nice to haves:

- Data export

- Different styles for edges and vertices.

- Longer-form annotations (e.g. a pointer to the source of an info)

- Parallel edges (multigraph)

I expect my graphs to contain only a few dozen nodes at maximum.

Graphviz and a plain text editor feel too cumbersome for spontaneous use.
Instaviz comes close, but doesn't seem to allow any text on the edges.
Mental (by J.-Y. Vocisano) has no automatic layout.
SocNetV, OntoWiki and RDF seem too complicated for my purpose.
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It seems some other people had the idea http://appcrawlr.com/android-apps/best-apps-fuel-tracking. A couple of years ago (when I had the idea), there was nothing barely usable.
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How about the Mercury News?
Thats actually really affordable considering how often people have children. The teddy bear thing is a really cool idea.
Latest XKCD[1] looks like related

[1] http://xkcd.com/1909
This is trueish, but there is more to it than that.

It is true for sure that absolute performance on MNIST isn't the most interesting thing in the world.

But when introducing a new tool or technique being able to show competitive performance on MNIST is a good way to show that it isn't an entirely useless thing.

I'd note that recent Sabour, Frosst and Hinton paper[1] (where they finally got Hinton's capsules to work) spends most of the paper analyzing how it performs on MNIST, and only a short section on other datasets.

I assume I don't need to point out that Geoff Hinton does know a little about deep learning, and if he thinks submitting a NIPS paper on MNIST is acceptable in 2017 then I'm not going to argue too hard against it.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.09829.pdf
Shameless plug: if you are using autoscaling and have stateless/12factor components, you would like to try spot instances but don't feel like spending time and much effort with a migration to spot fleets, just give autospotting a try.

It will continuously replace your group's on-demand instances with the best priced compatible(at least as big and identically configured) spot instance types, with minimal configuration changes performed by simply tagging the group. The group configuration is unchanged so it would keep launching on demand when scaling out or when replacing outbid spot instances.

The tool is open source and available on github and can be set up in a few minutes: https://github.com/cristim/autospotting
Seems like we do have an UE4 container. https://hub.docker.com/r/wshearn/ue4editor/
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I don't really have any interest in bitcoin and various cryptocurrencies, but that sounds perfect for this sort of thing, no?
GiveCampus (YC S15) Hiring Ruby and Front-End Engineers in DC and SF
GiveCampus is a Y Combinator-backed company that builds fundraising software for educational institutions. We're tired of schools being stuck with crappy software that never changes, and we're working to bring actual innovation to the space, and solve the hair-on-fire problems fundraisers face. We're growing at an awesome pace, and now need more motivated engineers to help us build out the features and products schools want! Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, expects us to be a household name in the next few years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896296. We were also covered by the Washington Post last year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/1...), and we have grown the number of schools using us by more than 5x since the article was published.

We're still a small team, so if you're looking to join a fast-growing startup and have an immediate impact, we're looking for both full-stack (Ruby on Rails, Postgres) and front-end engineers with at least 2 years of professional experience. Our current team was previously with Facebook, Amazon, and Intel.

Please no recruiters or dev shops.

Reach out to careers@givecampus.com with a bit about why you're passionate about education, and a project you've working on that you're particularly proud of.
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Thanks. You're correct and I overplayed it. It's clear that he's quoting the author, but racial tensions and identity politics have me running in paranoid mode these days.

Forgot that this is Hacker News and not Tumblr; I don't even know where they keep the pitchforks and torches around here.
I can't think of a reason not to ship DWARF except that it is big. Is there any other reason?

CTF is obviously less capable than DWARF, but it is small enough to ship by default and in my experience it is Good Enough(tm) for most debugging needs.
Workflowy seems nice and easy to use. Will check it out!
No ads in my experience. You should check out the beta and see what you think, I still think it's running. You receive a few dollars in credit to try out the platform. Personally, I really love it.
BBC is especially depressing.
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Or gloves with magnets in the fingertips?
How could public libraries disrupt themselves?
I imagine they would have been talking about functions on the interval rather than our modern sense of functions on the reals. (Of course there are plenty of examples on the interval as well, but no obvious ones)
Yep, transcribing voice notes yourself sucks. Did that a few times - however I like recording voice notes so gotta find a solution here too.
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After looking at the screendumps of current apps, it seems they still are awful. IMHO, a good UX is to have one click to take the picture of the pump, then you can check the fields. The mileage field is automatically filled using your average consumption, you just need to fix the last digits if you want, then press OK. It should work fine even offline and synchronize latter.
Have you read much about the Brave browser and the token system it's trying to implement? It's very similar to your proposed solution.
i.e. only idempotent operations, such as GET. You should not perform a POST using the information obtained in these hints.

Perhaps an alternative analogy is branch prediction? Browser is permitted to run along a particular path of execution because it applies in most cases. But you end up throwing away your work in the case that the prediction turns out to be wrong.

In terms of practical application for this - most modern sites run their content over an additional layer of application logic that runs in the browser e.g. React, or Angular or something. These hints can tell the browser that such-and-such an application framework is required to display the content, and to go get it before the content is available.
I disagree, I think the keyword is $1, because at least for me as strictly a user (not a stakeholder or business owner) generating a meme is simply not worth that cost no matter how easy it is to pay it.
Yeah whatever you don't like is evil fearmongering. And they don't even say trying it will drive you nuts.
We tried to get rid of the Ubuntu bit years ago but failed. Ubuntu has an incentive to broadcast that users are using the Ubuntu-shipped Firefox.

Basically everyone who ships a browser wants to shout: “Look at me! I have market share!”

Many sites vary native-code downloads by platform, so removing OS/CPU would cause unhappiness there.
Make the technology for flying cars. Like the one in the movie Blade Runner.
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So a domain expert with vision. What would he need this team for apart from maybe their money, which out of the three is probably the easiest to acquire?
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Does Slack use WebRTC for it's call and screen sharing features? If yes, that might be one of the main reasons why it is written with Electron. It's very very hard to find people who can actually handle WebRTC C++ stack. On the contrary, Chrome has one of the best WebRTC support and screen sharing works out of the box.
Interesting, going to check it out - iOS only so far?
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From an economic point of view, wasting people's time in exchange for a free service is worse than either charging them what the market can bear, or providing a free service. If you charged them, you would benefit. If you didn't charge, the users would benefit. But if you make a demand on their time which doesn't have any benefit for you, both of you are worse off.
Are you building a browser extension for this or how can I imagine using your tool?
You need one more team member. Go out into the start-up community, go to pitch meetings events etc, and find that person.
The Web Payments API was actually created just a few months ago (or at least gained public notoriety).

https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/

It's already in Chrome and Edge, coming to Safari:

http://caniuse.com/#search=web%20payments
> I've never heard a successful founder say "I don't know, I just wanted to start a company with my friends and get rich."

I could not disagree more.
Companies are started by all sorts of people: some founders have a definite idea that is a perfect fit for the market(Stripe,Heroku), some go over many iterations of their original idea and may even end up abandoning it for something entirely unrelated(Reddit), the last type of founder simply wants to be in business and does not even know what his product is yet(Steve Jobs before he joined Pixar).
The only trait all founders share is drive and ambition.
Same can be said about the original comment. Nothing in there of value except some dubious extrapolations.
I would certainly disagree with that.

The privacy-by-design solutions have their problems at well (ex: speed). It would be better to use them over VPN IF AND ONLY IF their features would be strictly equal.

As they are not, one simply calculates the expected value of both, taking into account the probability of the VPN actually logging the traffic (which should be low for VPNs with good reputation).

For some use cases, even a VPN that logs traffic would be a good idea. For instance in many countries if you download a torrent they will log your IP and try to identify you. IF you have a VPN, they won't even bother asking the provider the IP because it is just not worth it for something like that. If you were exchanging child porn on the other hand they will ask for it and take time to find you.

Not everybody needs the same guarantee of privacy or has the same risk if the privacy was to fail.

Your statement is the same as saying one should never invest in shares because the return is not known in advance, so you should just buy government bonds which are safe.
the guy that was able to drink non-human milk and process lactose

Could you go further back? To the guy who first figured out you could cook meat?

This was a crucial development.

Cooking meat makes it more nutritionally available for our omnivorous digestive system. Effectively pre-digesting it in a way other animals can't match.

Being able to do this gave us the additional calories, and protein we needed to get the edge over other animal competitors.
What you described is what already is supposed to happen, although it doesn't always due to corruption of the system. You're not supposed to go to prison based on debts, especially civil debts. Instead, either have assets seized or you work off your debt, by having the court garnish your wages.
Mistakes can be made quite easily—doctors are only human. For example, once I was diagnosed with “mild scoliosis”, in part because I was slouching heavily when the doctor came in to the exam room for my physical—I was shy about having my shirt off and thought slouching made me look cool and aloof. I was wrong, and as it turned out, so was he.
Right now:

- Self hosted Gitlab CE

- Gitlab runners in pre-emptibles nodes with autoscaling

Future (almost done, still in testing phase):

- Phabricator (for git, code review and issues)

- Jenkins ("lightweight" CI, more details at the bottom)

- Google Cloud Container Builder ("Heavyweight" CI)

Our main repository is in Phabricator, but it has mirroring to Google Cloud Repository (for backup and faster heavyweight builds)

On commits, we run the lightweight CI in Jenkins. What I mean by lightweight is that, there's only a few runners and what it does is check what has changed. We have a mono-repository with over 30 microservices, rebuilding all of them is a waste of time and resources, so we have scripts and easy to use manifests that defines what to do. We also have a lot of small CI checks that is just not worth it to run externally, like linting.

Here's what our homegrown manifests looks like

build_graphql:
when_changed:
- graphql
- node_libraries/player-graphdb
- node_libraries/player-auth
- node_libraries/player-models
script_build: graphql/cloudbuild.yaml
script_skip: graphql/cloudbuild-skip.yaml

The script skip takes the last successful build and retag the docker images to the current one.
The build script sends the instructions to Google Cloud Container Builder to build the docker image, run the tests, and push it. We use Cloud Container Builder because managing those CI servers really sucks.

Let me know what else you want to know.
There are many programmers and programming teams for hire out there. Don't let that stop you
There's something important the article seems to be getting wrong: psychosis is a symptom, not a disease.

There are such things as psychotic depression and post-partum depression; psychosis is a symptom of severe bipolar mania, etc.

By the way, the concept of schizophrenia first comes up in Emil Kraepelin's realization that bipolar disorder (manic-depression) and schizophrenia ("precocious dementia") are distinct pathologies -- even though they may have similar presentations at times. With this, Kraepelin also inaugurates the idea of differential diagnosis.

Similar in spirit (but less compatible with our contemporary understanding) is Freud's distinction between neurosis and "psychosis", the former being amenable to analysis. I.e. schizophrenia has always been a diagnosis of exclusion.

If people are actually being able to open up schizophrenia into further detail -- well, that's good. But there will always be a diagnosis of exclusion, we'll just euphemize it as "psychotic disorder NOS" or some such.
Also, this makes me wonder what other things you can do with vectors. If you compute dot product between a verb or a noun with vector "singular"-"plural", will it give a positive value for plurals and a negative for singulars (or vice versa)?
Right up until you can't get into your hotel room 'cause you've wiped your swipe-card.
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I'm using inoreader.com, it's really good.
But (One of) the ambition(s) is usually to make money, thereby increasing inequality. I have yet to find a startup with the ambition to pay everyone median salary and donate the rest to low-income households. Nothing wrong with that, just a fact :)
Dokku has free SSL too, via the dokku-letsencrypt official plugin.
I don’t think Apple could sell transaction data:

> Apple Pay retains anonymous transaction information such as approximate purchase amount. This information can’t be tied back to the user and never includes what the user is buying.

https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf, page 38.

They don’t have much information that the issuing bank/card network do not have already.
All good, but it misses the elephant in the room: there can be no open Internet without absolute freedom of speech on the 'net. You can't advocate the open internet with one hand and advocate banning users and safe spaces with the other ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
> Tor is a solution for specific use cases. It does not address privacy on the internet in a general way. For example, if I use tor to browse facebook, I am logged into facebook and still just as trackable as I would be if I wasnt using tor.

No, at least now facebook may not know your exact location (especially if you use their onion service: https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/ ) and they can't track your activity outside of facebook. Of course, it doesn't solve - nor can any other anonymity system - the fact that you transmitted personally identifiable information with facebook.
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There are lot of scenario where F# can be used.

In some scenario support is more stable, other experimental, other are not supported.
like every technology.

Because budget is not infinite, you need to prioritize.

Just to show you things happened MS tech related to F# and .NET in the last two years:

- .net core

- .net standard (is not the same as .net core)

- new project system for VS

- new .net sdk (that mean work to support these on VS)

- portable pdb

- F# 4.1

- temporary stuff like project.json, who added work and was replaced

- new .net templating

- F# in VS now use roslyn workspaces (yes, that's big)

- integration of VisualF# powertools in default VS extension

- f# bundled in .net sdk and compiler in .net core sdk

- F# on azure notebooks

- F# on azure functions

- VS 2017

- VS 2017 installer (yes, that was annoying)

And that list is just some of MS technologies, who VF# team need to support/adapt too.

NOTE the list doesnt contains things created from community itself, like Fable. and some of these were added by community

Yes, and there is too:

- UWP

- .NET Native

- Corert

but you need to prioritize and choose your (moving) targets.

So ihmo while UWP can be nice to have (ihmo), was put in a lower priority than the others.

When you choose there are lot of factors:

- time to implement

- unknown

- other things open in parallel scenarios

- support needed to complete/make it usable

Community help a lot the F# development, and also a lot the VS VF# extension, see the repo.
Because F# has lot of OSS in the dna.

But that doesnt mean we cannot complain when things need improvements, in some important scenario.

And as a note, the MS VF# project manager was awarded the `F# community Hero award`, that mean the community like and support his work (the award is indipendent and run from community voting)
Right.

But how much do you have left? Is RAM in computers to sit there, or to be used?

I get it, but all the fuss seems exaggerated to me.
Mine was 5 sat/byte. 3 conf in 30min.