skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not seeing any mention of using something like Memcached (or anything similar) in front of PG for caching.

Is that because it's already been done and not in scope?

Asking because for (at least) web applications, using Memcached (or similar) can significantly reduce the load on the backend database. :)
Be cautious of the potential legal headaches, register it as a limited liability company, and host away from your place of residence (so police don't raid your home).

Even if you're entirely above board your users may not. Child porn, illegal substances, gambling, stalking/bullying, fake emergency calls, bomb threats, and so on. Your users are just waiting in the wings to place you into law enforcement's crosshairs.

If I opened a VPN I'd spend 10% on equipment and the other 90% on lawyers, fraud prevention, and liability insurance.
OpenVPN protocol is sorta weird (I wrote a clean room client and server impl). But IPSec stuff is such a pain to deal with that it is not worth it despite it having better OS integration.
"Stable, prosperous" stands in for "democracy" in most discussions, this one included. Things that look like democracy (peaceful succession, generally non-violent political competition, an electorate too vast to bribe outside policy channels, checks and balances, et cetera) simply have the best track record in achieving this aim.
I keep encountering what I think is a misunderstanding of Rice's Theorem. Rice's Theorem says no program can correctly decide any nontrivial property for every program. However, there are programs that can correctly decide nontrivial properties for many programs! To avoid the Rice's Theorem issue, you just need to be able to say "Don't know"/"Couldn't decide".
I don't read wired, so not sure if my story is similar, but I have a damage hard drive with 30+ coins on it. It may be worth trying a little harder to restore it...
Why are you attributing it all to the lack of gravity? Losing muscle mass is one thing, but what about the increased high frequency deionizing radiation that astronauts face?
One low maintenance way of doing this would be to setup a SSH server at home (and configure your home NAT/Router to forward traffic to that machine)

Once you have SSH access to home there are a number of ways to tunnel your traffic (on desktop platforms, not sure about mobile). Sshuttle works pretty nice. You can also optionally just tunnel traffic for certain apps or browser profiles by using ssh -D (SOCKS5 proxy)
What I love about all this is that it is almost entirely developed by the community, without any central authority preventing it from going in any particular direction. (There might be powerful players incentivizing certain branches, but that has limited effect for a thing like this.) So despite what critics say (and I admit to agreeing with them on some points), it just feels like this whole thing has such a momentum and enthusiasm behind it that something really cool will come out of it within 5-10 years, no matter what problems people point out about it at the moment.
Exactly my thoughts;

One way to further "secure" this would be to run the VPN client on a hardware router like pfSense (instead of directly on your laptop) and block all incoming connections on the vpn client tunnel interface?

A disadvantage of this method would be that the WIFI signal from your Laptop to the router is no longer secured by the Vpn...
Video showing the ATC impact of an unexpected drone on major airport operations
I run a small software development company. I can understand your hesitation about not open sourcing the tool.

Don't do it until you are comfortable.

My only suggestion is if you are closing the product for any reason, then open source the core as much as possible.
To some a rewrite sounds like fun. A way to do things better. What kind of product is it?
Unlike indoor arenas, it doesn't look like this is much of a revenue stream for most football stadiums. For instance, I checked Arrowhead Stadium (Chiefs) has 2 non-football events scheduled in the next year. Heinz Field (Steelers) has 1. Despite being in Nashville, Nissan Stadium (Titans) has 3.
You're talking about two different things. He's talking about the NFL and you're talking about ESPN. Definitely the politics has hurt the NFL, though there's a lot of disagreement over just how much, but football is only a small part of ESPN's offerings.

I'd be shocked if politics haven't hurt ESPN, too, but the effect is probably completely swamped by changes in viewing habits and a reduction in Disney's clout with cable companies.
Is phosphorus running out and why does it matter?
Moreover, the words from Joshua 10:12-13 in Young's Literal Translation (YLT) are:

"Then speaketh Joshua to Jehovah in the day of Jehovah's giving up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he saith, before the eyes of Israel, `Sun -- in Gibeon stand still; and moon -- in the valley of Ajalon;'

and the sun standeth still, and the moon hath stood -- till the nation taketh vengeance [on] its enemies; is it not written on the Book of the Upright, `and the sun standeth in the midst of the heavens, and hath not hasted to go in -- as a perfect day?'"

The literal translation is important to see what is actually written in the Hebrew original. It's definitely not the same as the new (too convenient) translation that the paper used:

“And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stopped [Hebrew 'amad], until the nation took vengeance on their enemies,” (Joshua 10:12–13, New Revised Standard Version [NRSV]).

Note that the literal translation gives the positions of the Sun and Moon and they are not on the same place when the event happens. Also note that no eclipse can last "till the nation taketh vengeance [on] its enemies."

Still, it seems to be a one day event, the Ortodox Jewish Bible translates 10:13 as:

"And the shemesh stood still, the yarei’ach stopped, until the Goy had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the Sefer HaYasher? So the shemesh stood still in the middle of Shomayim, and hastened not to go down about a yom tamim (whole day)."

Yom is "day." תָּמִים is indeed elsewhere translated as "perfect" but the meaning of "whole" (complete) in this case really has sense: http://biblehub.com/hebrew/8549.htm

Still doesn't match a description of an eclipse.
Eh, don't entirely agree with this. Part of the allure of starting a startup is having no boss and being the master of your own destiny. (In reality, of course, you'll have investors and a board to answer to, but it's still very different and more appealing for some people than being a 'regular' employee.) I think it's understandable and reasonable to be a proto-company in search of ideas.
I have to wonder how many national/political entities around the planet right now are devoting resources to try something similar.

At the end of the day, it's the people at the bottom of the food chain that are going to be taken advantage off the most from all this bullshit. And coming from an under-developed country with enough day-to-day survival issues to deal with, all this extra unnecessary manufactured chaos just pisses me off.
Seems you have everything beside idea. I have a file on my laptop that I keep collecting all ideas I believe might be of a value eventually once I get to your comfortable situation (team + financials). The one idea I like especially is Uber-style but nothing to do with taxis. Huge potential. But I don't want to share it with everybody here. Too bad you removed contact email address from your profile; I could just send it to you.
> Faster speed to market. Basically, front running

No, this is not basically front running. Front running has a very specific meaning. High frequency trading is not front running.
When that happened to me as a freelancer, I subcontracted to other freelancers. Gives you much more flexibility and less overhead. I found them through the same freelancer sites I used to seek work through - though I understand the race to the bottom on those has accelerated.

In terms of billing, just look for someone who charges a lower rate than you do - whether it's because they're less skilled (in which case, account for the extra time they'll need to get things right) or they're in a location with lower costs but less opportunity to network with high-paying clients.

I also recommend raising your own rates. If you have too much work, that means you're in enough demand that you can afford to let some contracts go, especially if it means you'll be paid more for the remaining ones. It also gives you more room to work with in hiring subcontractors.

You can appease your existing clients a bit by announcing a significantly higher rate for new clients and then reassuring the old ones that they're grandfathered in for the next N months at current rates and then you're only subjecting them to half the rate raise that applies to new clients, or something to that effect.
Math’s Beautiful Monsters
The results are income do not reflect the location, which is really important in US.
Are there no problems in any of your personal lives? No healthcare issues or financial needs?
Well, except the supply of bitcoin goes is massively inflationary (miner's fees), and it is unclear the network can function without miner's fees.

My personal suspision is at some point the miners will convince everyone to make a fork which keeps miner's fees forever.
I know you are joking, but it's not that far fetched
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/30/us-army-...
Send an email to justin@nugget.one

I'll give you free access to nugget. We have over 500 SaaS startup ideas in there.

You probably won't find your final idea but it's very inspiring stuff.

Skimming through that much stuff can help spark or grow ideas you were previously thinking about or you can think through the ideas in another business domain.

Of course, there are just some great ideas in their own right and you might pick one of those.
He may have been paid for it.
Cheap VM and public IP? Yes. But applies to everyone else as well. That in turn creates plenty of clutter/noise. Which then create the need for an even better idea.

True most ideas are going to fail. But (e.g.) even FB was born in an era where there was a chance of success. I'm not so sure that's the case now. That is, you're like to be stuck in mediocrity, and that can be stifling.

Failure is one thing. Average is another. These seem to be the nature of the beast of our current times.
> Why aren't there more of these things out there?

There are a few - I did like the MS PowerApps recently. But these things work well in an enterprise environment where "works" is important, but "users don't want to kill themselves during interaction" is not. These tools are usually great at putting together a quick CRUD app that fits requirements. But they're typically not flexible enough to give you that finished and polished for users product. If you want to do that rather than a flow of basic forms and tables, you'll start fighting the framework at some point and then think "maybe I should've just used X from the start".

Maybe it doesn't have to be that way, but I did see this a lot.
Nothing to learn here but a good laugh for any user.
I disagree w/ this comment. The types of problems where it disallows using built-ins are typically those that have you re-implementing a function for purposes of learning. The implementation of that function, in my experience, is still fairly idiomatic if you are following the right users. Particularly those functions that force you to build a lazy implementation. I found the exercises (and more importantly comparing to more experienced user's solutions) incredibly helpful not just for clojure but FP concepts generally.
I want to upvote this 30 more times.
I know a lot of people hate JavaScript, but is HTML+CSS really a more pleasant programming approach? The "solution" seems worse than the problem.
My search results for "cola subscription service" is still disappointing.

You can get a beer of the month and a wine of the month subscription, how about colas from around the world?

Less regulatory mess too.
Your brain is really, really good at filling in blind spots. There is a big one where your optic nerve connects to the back of your eye, you can even see it yourself. http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/blindspot.html

In order to keep from overwhelming the brain with irrelevant optical data, there is a lot of processing going on, and one of the things that happens is a filling in of places where there's no stimulus coming from that part of the eye. It's possible you have blind spots and don't know it. Also, only UV-blocking sunglasses will keep you from getting cataracts.
Got a number of quite specific ideas and capital, but not a team to work on them yet. You should provide a throwaway email address and we can connect, or just email me at temporarythrowaway930@gmail.com. Couple of ideas regarding decentralization ( where it makes sense and not just as a buzzword ).
One of the better comments in this thread
Based on your team I would build an AI driven contact manager to send email/reminders/calender/schduler that hooked into slack and facebook using bots to issue commands.
Are you sure it is a matter of local versus global optima? Isn't it rather that what you refer to as the global optimum isn't the optimum for the individual actors, and that each individual benefits from deviating from it (at the expense of everyone else)?
Hie might have tried but your information has been redacted :)
Good luck! Even within recruitment there are many subfields, e.g. hiring developers has almost nothing whatsoever to do with hiring baristas to work in your cafe.

So much goodness waiting to be tapped!
>I'm sure it has happened, but it is vanishingly rare, you citation is about 1 person.

Yes. I found a single link to to illustrate that it does happen, not to quantify how much it happens. Several people have replied saying that it doesn't happen at all. When I link to sources showing it does they switch to saying it doesn't happen enough to matter. Well, a group in Virginia found that 1852 ballots cast by non-citizen voters between 2011 and 2017. Does that matter? Maybe, maybe not. But it's on the same scale as people who would be inconvenienced to have to procure an ID to satisfy voter ID requirements.

Two different surveys have found that ~13% of illegal immigrants from Mexico have registered to vote. Given the impact doing so will have on having their immigration status normalized it doesn't make sense that they would register, but by their own admission they have. Rational or not, it happens.

It seems in every election cycle in King County, Washington people mail in ballots of recently deceased relatives. Again, it makes no sense because it's a deeply blue county and one extra ballot isn't going to swing the election. But they do it.

>There is literally no evidence that in person voter fraud poses a threat to the integrity of US elections either local or national. It is a red herring.

By definition even a single ineligible voter destroys the integrity of an election.
U.S. regulator wants to loosen leash on Wells Fargo
doesn't feel simple :|
Would you be willing to convince Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, to relocate Zappos (and all employees at their HQ in Las Vegas) to Arcosanti?
My thoughts exactly. Their problem is that cable TV as a whole has increasingly viable substitute goods. But there's no reason ESPN can't play that same game. I imagine it's only a matter of time before they put together streaming packages they sell direct to consumer. But they'll ride the value revenue till the wheels fall off first.
I found 4clojure great when starting out as well. I am definitely more of a 'hands on' learner, so these exercises were great for me. However my absolute favorite language agnostic tool for learning, like you, is Advent of Code. I try to go through all 25 whenever I'm learning a new language, and sure enough by the time I get to the last one, I pretty much know what I need to know.
I like it, I like it (2007)
> Are they tossed because of malicious intent, or because they can't change the outcome of the election?

Highly variable, but I'm pretty sure it's a lot more to do with the laws of the states than with whether there are enough provisional votes to matter. In looking up some things for an earlier comment I saw one mention of persons casting a provisional ballot then having 3 days to bring proof of eligibility to the county Board of Elections and a separate mention (for another state) of the Board of Elections investigating provisional ballots and informing voters if their ballot was discarded instead.

I'd be surprised if anyplace had a law of "you don't have to count them if there aren't enough to change the outcome," but I've been surprised before.
It's about ratios.

There are about 220 million White Americans. Your data claims 392 White Americans have been killed police in 2017 so far.

There are about 35 million Black Americans. Your data claims 190 Black Americans have been killed by police in 2017 so far.

If Black Americans were killed by police hypothetically at the same rate as White Americans, 62 Black Americans would be dead.

Do you see the huge disparity there?
So are the true daredevils (if you will) just getting bored? That given how "acceptable" things are now too many just don't find it exciting? If so, what are those (young?) entrepreneurial-minded dumping their time and effort in to?
Basically it comes down to this: What you don't want people to know, you don't tell them. So if you don't want personal data floating around everywhere, don't tell them personal data.

Or just be a nice happy good citizen in the normal world. What you do in other worlds should then not be mixed with the normal word.
As a former high-frequency (HF) equity derivatives trader, I'm skeptical of HF cryptocurrency trading. There's a reason few modern markets have HF trading, an activity which could be described as vacuuming up nickels in front of bulldozers. HF needs a stable, predictable environment to make the nickels worth collecting.

Risk management in HF is less about predicting what might go down than avoiding trading when liquidity dries up. This is why when markets get weird HF algos pull out: an unexpected one-minute trading stall can wipe out a quarter's profits.

In crypto, where the market is still learning lessons from the 1930s, the nickels are quarters but the bulldozers are tanks.
If the electoral college did go away, I wonder if it would end up actually increasing the animosity between the coasts and 'fly over country'. Fair or not, the current system does appear to serve as a bit of a pressure relief valve. Allowing things to escalate to the level where the urban/rural divide becomes so great that one or both sides decides it's time to break the country apart is unlikely to have a better outcome than the last time we arrived at this point, even if on a different path and for different reasons.
Yeah, that would be a pretty basic feature.
I get that he is just showing of some ´out-of-the-box' thinking. But really, it is not something practical.

In the end, he made a TODO-Layout, not a TODO-App. Interesting experiment I suppose, if you are into frontend stuff
"But to get them to show up the same"

That shouldn't be the goal. Linux and Windows have different norms when it comes to UI design, and (usually) have completely different widget appearances. You can save yourself a lot of headaches by just specifying the bare minimum (i.e. the widgets themselves) and letting the user/system remain in control of exactly how they appear.

In other words, if you're treating desktop GUI design as equivalent to web GUI design and expecting your app to look the same across all platforms, you're going to have a bad time.
Look for people with their hair on fire. Figure out how to put out the fire. Check this out. http://oppsdaily.com/

Don't overthink it. Good luck.
I played with Anvil for the first time at PyConUK last weekend, and I was really impressed.

Specifically on the point of accessing your code:

- if you Architect your code well enough you can keep reasonable separation between generic Python code and code that is tightly-coupled to Anvil (I.e. keep it modular)

- and Anvil does actually provide a means for you to directly clone your Anvil app code locally from their servers using Git. This would give you a copy of all your code including front end templates etc.

I think tie-in is always a consideration but we are increasingly getting into that situation with things like AWS, and so we really must balance the pros and cons. I’d rather by tied in and profitable if I’m trying to get something off the ground...
There are thousands of threads on search ranking forums of folks reporting traffic rising or falling significantly, right after making change X on their site, for myriad values of X, many of which make zero sense as a ranking factor.

Search ranking is complex, and sites move in search referrals by ~30% on a daily basis without making any changes. Perhaps a different major site removed pages. Perhaps a few important links were added to your site (or to a site linking to your site).
> I think they've been losing their audience for a while; the politics is just the latest (and possibly biggest) factor in their decline

Yeah, politics has been an issue, but you are correct, this isn't their first time they've offended viewers. Some people are ticked about the money grab around stadiums, the rule change to protect the QB, the concussion coverup, the various sex scandals locally (e.g. Vikings boat trip), wife beating, and (a really big factor) cannot afford to go to the games anymore. There has been a long line of things that are whittling away the fans. Never mind the problem of replacing fans who died with new young fans when entertainment options are vast.

NFL is not the only sport having problems. They are just the biggest in the US, and are showing the largest number loss. The general decline of ESPN, with all of the reasons to stop watching them, is also a factor. If you don't go home and watch Sports Center then maybe you won't be fired up for the NFL either.

At the end of the day, every decision is going to offend someone, just make sure the offended don't outnumber the people you attract to the sport.
I didn't see this one mentioned.

Use VPC end points for S3 to save cost.

If you are using NAT gateways and S3 (probably applies to Dynamo as well) and your app is using S3 then you could be saving $$ by having that traffic run through a VPC endpoint which is free bandwidth and not using the NAT gateway which is paid.
>When we're talking about voter disenfranchisement, though, we're not talking about mail-in ballots. We're talking about people showing up at polling stations, and being unable to vote.

A counted ballot cast by an ineligible voter disenfranchises a eligible voter. How is that less of an issue than preventing someone from casting a ballot in the first place? If the second is a concern then the first should be also.
Why Crowdfunding Is Booming for Chinese Tech Companies
The irony here is that this also characterizes the OP. They have a team and finding, but need a task. My own thought would be "get a job" but it seems unhelpful.
A quick glance at the view hierarchy (Accessibility Inspector.app can do this) shows that the chat view is just a web view.
Ask HN: Are there cheap ways to make websites multi-lingual?
I run a informational website as a hobby to try and help people.

The site has a large number of US visitors. I know the content is relevant to a number of other countries/foreign language speakers.

I realize these users can use google translate, but that doesn't seem to address the fact that my site won't rank highly for searches in other languages, like it does for english searches.

I've had a number of volunteers offer to translate the site, however the issue with that is that when I update the content, the translation would need to be re-done.

Are there any good ways to make my site available that don't require large amounts of $ or time? (and therefore able to rank on foreign language google searches)