skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just looked and there's an add content option in the bottom left corner that if you click on that and select Publications and Blogs gives you an option to add a URL.

I've not really seen any sponsored content other than the occasional banner message up the top which is easily dismissed.

edit: I have by default feedly set to my "all" feed and in that respect it works much like google reader used to.
I find this video really confusing. It presents the "simplest" functional solution [19:00] then shows us a bunch of complicated solutions and argues against them.

But most of these complicated solutions (Kleisi) I imagine most viewers didn't even know about to begin with.
Julia: A Modern Language for Modern ML [video]
the thing amazed me is that the way they deal with the high traffic,in real time, for money transactions, not many companies can do that level of technical stack.
Deals in the US vary in direct proportion to the state of the economy (or a given retailer's plight). In 2009-2011 for example, the deals were frequently tremendous due to bad economic condition of consumers.

Now the US has a U6 unemployment rate near 20 year lows and has added $45 trillion to its household wealth number in the last seven years, while incomes have also been rising modestly well the last several years. The need for substantial deals to move most merchandise is vastly reduced accordingly.
Data Detox Kit
Fair enough. This is the old implicit vs explicit argument.
Oh man, it’s the HN link I was born to read.

The way people throw around Dunning-Kruger in particular is so aggravating. You can pretty much always tell they never got anywhere even close to reading the research.
There's been so many times that old results have saved my bacon. I like that they give me everything and allow me to make the decision to narrow it down as needed. Sure, it can be annoying when you're searching for results that are relevant for recent versions of software or libraries but even in those situations old results can be great because they lead to solutions that are still applicable or relevant GitHub issues that lead you where you want to go.

That said, it would be nice if it wasn't buried and was exposed as a slider but I'll take what they're giving.
The human brain is the best pattern matcher in existence and we continue to learn from it. Think about that.
Ask HN: Got any book recommendations on knowledge management systems?
Depends on the model. On the non-TouchBar models WiFi works fine, on the TouchBar models it doesn't. For more details check: https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux
Almost all of those jobs are jobs (other than e-celebrities, but you can't call that a job) that are outsourced to extremely low wage off shore workers.

Not exactly a bright future.
Apparently Intel ME can be killed by setting an undocumented flag discovered by the same group?

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3220476/security/researche...

Anybody can shed light on this tool and whether it can mitigate the attack mentioned in the tweet?
It’s Like the NFL. But with Horses and a Headless Calf
In Search of Distraction
From 2015, but the answer is from a DDG employee: https://www.quora.com/What-search-algorithm-does-DuckDuckGo-...

Older still (2013), but more detail: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/1/28/duckduckgo-archite...
NFL Players Association Is Getting into the Tech Startup Business
Oh, w3schools. I hate that they are always near the top of Google searches for anything even remotely web related, when what I really want is the official spec or MDN.

Just tried it right now - the top three search results for "html canvas" are all w3schools on google. They're still the top in DDG, but there's only one entry as opposed to three. Bing also only has one, but they also steal the "here's your answer" type card text from w3schools.

Congratulations on your SEO, but f' you for polluting search results.
> Facebook is kinda left out as most of their content is walled off, but then they're too evil to even consider going there anyways.

Can't we have RSS scrapers that are operated by people, generating RSS streams of "inaccessible/paywalled/grey area" content in a collaborative effort? Something like bittorrent but for ASCII text.
However, as krapp pointed out, the main argument against limiting to subscribed content would be that it undermines youtube's business model. If such project got a lot of users youtube might start to work against it.
Chemistry Preparation gets easy by use of such Books
Counters is the achilles' heel of immutable log based dbs.
Pretty good listing.
> That would undermine their revenue model

That makes sense of course. In my mind I thought that doing this wouldn't stop them from running advertisements. But I guess it would undermine recruitment of new content creators.
Nowadays everything is made in China. A lot of things we buy are just repackaged stuff that sells for 3x the original price. I've bought decent stuff like a manual coffe grinder, or glass bottles, usb cables, or cheap gopro accessories. You are just cutting the middle man.
Solely addition on integers, currently. I’m having a lot of fun exploring pattern matching with semi-homomorphic encryption for the larger project, though I have my reservations, but it’s hopefully possible.

One of the more interesting bits of the project is that soft-real-time is not a requirement, so some simpler, slower and older algorithms become feasible (interactive ZKPs, even fully-HE systems perhaps). A very specific use case has allowed for the possibility. But it’s amazing to work on :)
A growing number of early Facebook employees regret the world they created
From the Valve employee handbook (http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...):

> Why does your desk have wheels? Think of those wheels as a symbolic reminder that you should always be considering where you could move yourself to be more valuable. But also think of those wheels as literal wheels, because that’s what they are, and you’ll be able to actually move your desk with them.

> You’ll notice people moving frequently; often whole teams will move their desks to be closer to each other. There is no organizational structure keeping you from being in close proximity to the people who you’d help or be helped by most.

> The fact that everyone is always moving around within the company makes people hard to find. That’s why we have http://user — check it out. We know where you are based on where your machine is plugged in, so use this site to see a map of where everyone is right now.
Shipping via regular post from AliExpress is often free or very cheap while the same items on Amazon cost 3-5 times more and shipping to my country is $10-15. The downside is 1-2 months waiting times vs. a week from Amazon but I can wait.
Scala just seems like a nightmare, sorry.
If we expand that, however, to non-technical users; no, they don't always just type the address. They type "github" into the address bar, and click on the search result for the actual site.

This behavior completely derailed my mom when her search bar was hijaacked by some just-barely-not-malware addon installed in the browser. Suddenly, she couldn't reach any of her sites.

Frustrating as hell, but at this point there's nothing I can do to change her behavior.
Since Fall 2013 I've been reading HN twice a day -- over coffee in the morning and in the evening after dinner. I am a nomadic contractor who works in the blue-collar basement of the IT industry, with several years experience in Silicon Valley, Portland and Austin as a datacenter technician, service reliability engineer, and general-purpose nuts-&-bolts computer guy. For me, HN opened a window on an entirely new dimension of the industry: the world-view of the elite class in venture capital and entrepreneurship. It's fascinating to read the same articles they read, to see the world through their eyes. I don't always agree with the ultra-capitalist weltanschauung on HN, but I think I understand it better, to a certain extent.

Aside from the politics, I have learned a great deal from HN about my own technical domain: the hegemony of the Linux operating system, advantages/limitations of RESTful APIs, python as the (arguably) preferred scripting language, and much more. But the best aspect of HN is, in my opinion, the continuous stream of commentary and discussion about books on a variety of topics. It was here that I discovered Joseph Frank's magisterial biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, which alone was worth the price of admission.

Overall, I consider HN to be an intellectual oasis in the chaotic desert known as the Internet. Many thanks to the women and men who develop and maintain this remarkable web site. Bon courage.
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What did you learn about #3 Serial vs ??? at LA Podcast Fest?
Ah, I have looked into Datomic a bit but didn't realize this, though it makes sense in retrospect.
I have some VPSes there. All of them run independent services, no redundancy.

They can restart all the servers they want if they manage not to kill any of my processes, break network connections, change IP addresses. If they can't (it's probably hard) it's up to me to implement a reduntant architecture. Then maybe I'll also implement some random kill switch to proof that the system is resilient to failures.
Yes, and guess who will be profiting most? Companies such as Google and Facebook.
My username => amorphid

I want 'amorphid', not 'amorphis'.
So What the Hell Is Doxxing?
It's a pity that law was passed that forced people to buy Apple products.
Irritating that you have to do it, but:

html canvas -site:w3schools.com

Probably returns what you wanted.
How to Sell Your Soul on the Ethereum Blockchain
I also use NewsBlur as my RSS reader of choice. It's great!

Truncated articles are a big problem with RSS I think. Sites are trying to get you to jump to their page so you can consume their advertisements. Unfortunately, this has the opposite effect as I stop consuming the site's news and rarely click the links to the page. The small blurb for the feed doesn't give me enough information to want to jump to the page. Often, inline photos won't show up either, so I am less likely to find the article worth a visit to the page.
I wonder how easy it is to really test these failover systems. Even if you disconnect the external power (which is risky, since you lose redundancy), it will be a "clean" disconnection, with the power going neatly to zero. I've found a few post-mortems of high-voltage faults, and the waveforms go crazy during the fault, which could lead to failure modes in the transfer switch which wouldn't be found on a "clean" disconnection.
Man Uses DDoS-For-Hire Services to Attack Former Employer, Taunts Firm via Email
If you know how to shop with taobao/tmall with alipay and tao consolidate shipping. It's way cheaper to buy there.
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/criminal-justice/th...
amazing article, wow was that nostalgic.

i was unpuntable on aol (still am!) and will never give away my secret! ;)
I suspect transform invariance is what is meant, although we find some transforms much harder than others which may hint at a more descrete process than a transform matrix in human visual systems.
I use RSS for following YouTube channels, but the only problem I have is that I have to click on each video, I'd like a RSS client to create a custom playlist, at least for all the music videos.

I used to use YouTube's email notifications, but they would skip some videos randomly, and I'd be left wondering what videos I missed.
Yes, it's an experiment I'm running in advertising-alternative monetisation. Importantly, all mining is consensual -- the miner will only run if you open the accordion and hit Play. Not sure if I made that clear enough in the blurb itself, but it's outlined in the linked post:

https://davidyat.es/2017/10/01/js-crypto-mining/

I know these things have gotten a bad rap from various shenanigans with Showtime and TPB, but on my site mining is only done with user knowledge and permission.
AI, Cloud, Robotics. Will continue to dominate the narrative in the four year time frame.

I've heard something like a quarter of venture capital is being allocated to consumer robotics. And it feels like society is reaching a tipping point. Where the hardware is becoming dependable enough that mainstream America is ready to allow robots in their homes en masse.

One interesting way to enter if you are a startup is to design a crucial component of the consumer robotics supply chain. Perhaps a remote sensing kit. Or modular battery system. But beyond the hype. There is enough substance here to get excited about this space and its transformative power.
Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society by Peter McWilliams

Humorous, comprehensive, and, sadly, still as needed today as it was 20 years ago.
Well, I certainly didn't expect that but then again, the business slant of HN is part of its nature.

This was as much about the process as the result. I practice calligraphy as a hobby and spend time and energy to get better at it. Getting faster, cheaper, and better results by outsourcing would rob me of the process and that's killing the project as far as I'm concerned.

(P.S. I wrote the post).
Fair enough, but I think we should be careful not to encourage the replacement of this perspective with one that says Equifax (and other collectors of sensitive data) could not be expected to do / have done better. I was quite surprised (though I probably should not have been) by the number of IT people advocating that position.
I have no scientific basis for this idea but I believe, from personal, practical experience that there are different body types and metabolisms and that carbs effect certain folks more adversely than others.
Is it just me, or is GearBest carrying fewer items by far than they were a year ago?
Crashes on Safari Nightly and Firefox Nightly, but very neat when it works! :)
Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack (2014)
it's not just you, I have been having a similar experience. In fact I see goggle often turning up results in those answer boxes that come from unqualified sources. What's worse, when you click through them you get video autoplay ads.
I've had a good experience running Windows 10 on Azure DevLabs VMs accessed via Remote Desktop from Mac and PC. Even with the VMs running in Ireland (I'm in London), they're very snappy and can happily use Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc. Even video and light 3D works well. I wrote up a blog post on it: https://www.mcleodmoores.com/blog
3 days does not seem nearly enough to visit Rome, I'm curious, what did you see exactly?

I'd consider 3 days a reasonable time to visit Budapest, Vienna and Barcelona, for comparison.
How much $$$ can you gain by exploiting visitor's CPUs?
Try using pip to install multiple versions of the same library at the same time, or the same library running under different versions of Python.
Did they change things? Because when the great reader explosion happened after Google Reader died I evaluated tons of readers and decided on a newsblur.com subscription in the end. I remember Feedly catering to the "images are great"-Pinterest crowd.
GPU support coming to MachineLabs
And in any case, youtube isn't a job creator. it's a lottery. It's pretty simple: if it was a large job creator, Google would have told everybody about that. But when trying to search about the subject, the most you'll find is stories about stars.
It's true! I just made a colab notebook to visualize the effect:
https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=1znFHwemxa...

(seems to require a Google account, sorry in advance)
Signing HTTP Messages
> it feels like a drug somehow to watch autogenerated content at all.

I'm a child of the 80's, and many of the cartoons I watched still hadn't been censored of their racist imagery.

I don't believe it harmed me, though oddly enough when I play Cuphead, I do occasionally expect a caricature of someone in blackface or stereotypical japanese to show up, simply because the game shares it's art style with Max Fleischer era cartoons.
Never listened to these guys but what's described sounds like your typical NBA podcast nowadays. NBA discussion on message boards and forums has changed a lot in recent years with fans being very knowledgeable about the salary cap, trade provisions, and other general management intricacies. in fact there is a derogatory term for fans who don't know about the nuances of the CBA or how to calculate effective field goal percentage...we call them "casuals". The NBA has done a good job developing an intelligent involved fan base which remains engaged even when games aren't being played
> If you'd like to be unbanned

I don't nazis 'mmuriccans
$4 million is a lot of money but nothing in comparison with what an “old world” celebrity earns for a fraction of work. Earning money on YouTube is very hard because the ad Payments are ridiculously low.

PewDiePie happens to be one of the first to tap into the most popular genre on YouTube, hence the volume. But if you dig into some very specific channels with high production values you can see that the potential is huge.
I was hoping for a more technical article though.
I cannot use Google without the Google Search Filter extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-search-filt...

Having the results you are most interested in highlighted and the bad ones removed seriously upgrades the search experience. Would be nice if Google had this functionality built in. I know they had the remove results thing builtin back in the day, but I find highlighting trusted sites even more important.
YouTube is a huge opportunity creator. The lottery aspect comes from the fact that the offer is enormous.

Before YouTube, if you wanted to make your life talking about some niche subject you were out of lack. It is now possible because the barriers for entry have fallen.
> Investors are expecting to see that gap grow at the same, or higher pace.

It's sad to see Google obey to these Wall Street expectations. I remember reading about the stock structure Larry and Sergey set up before their IPO. They wanted to have control about Google and do good (Remember Don't be evil?). Nowadays they seem to just cater to the shareholders. Products get less great by the day and it really looks like they stopped listening to the users.
Restarting a whole datacenter from scratch is different from restarting individual servers. If a service needs another service running on another server, it may fail to start. For example, many servers may need the DHCP server. Some servers may need the DNS. Some others may need Kafka to be up and running, etc. You may have some documentation on which servers to start first, but things are moving so fast that it's not unlikely you'll need to rely on supervision to know which service was able to start correctly.
It is a ridiculous and overly broad statement to say that of the tens or hundreds of thousands of companies selling on these sites, none have a QC process in place.
FitBit Selected for NIH's Precision Medicine Research Program
The power grid in and of itself is a highly interconnected and redundant system. The fact that a substation fire didn't bring down your datacenter doesn't necessarily mean that the "redundant" setup was responsible.

Unless the two grids are fully isolated (e.g., from two different countries), there is always going to be some overlap in the two power sources.
I feel like there's money in some lower end cloud.

At the moment, AWS/GCP/Azure just kill you with network egress charges. Consider that the cheap dedicated server companies (Hetzner, OVH) typically include about $4k/month or more of "free bandwidth" as compared to the big three.

I imagine Digital Ocean, Linode, OVH, and the like will add the cloud features that are missing (VPC, object storage, load balancing, DB as a service, SQS, Cloudwatch-like, etc) and start picking away at them. Or perhaps some newcomer.

Basically, I feel like a commodity cloud rush is coming.
I'm so in-the-bag for RSS that I've written scrapers to create feeds for sites that don't support RSS...
Content creators can choose to disable notifications on specific videos.

Creators sometimes do this if they publish more videos than usual, or of the video is different from their normal content.

Also when you subscribe you now also have to click the bell next to the subscribe button to get all notifications.

YouTube itself also has a built in subscription feed that lists all videos published by channels you subscribe to. It also lists the channels with an icon next to each if they have unwatched video.
I used to mirror warez on an FTP server I ran on my PC on the university network. There are so many ways that wouldn’t happen today (it was dumb then, too).

I remember when Napster came around; that was the beginning of the end of “anything goes” on a university residential network.
> Four million dollars for reviewing video games and making lame jokes...!

I used to think a similar thing, however as I learn more about him the more I think it's unfair to think he makes millions of dollars for (almost) nothing.[1]

He appears to be very astute when it comes to his business and produces a large amount of content which must be hard and time consuming work, even considering he has people working for him. He entertains millions of people on a daily basis and, even if it isn't content I enjoy, he deserved to be compensated.

[1] I'm not in a position to assess the various controversies around PewDiePie and I don't think they're relevant to this point as most of his content is unrelated.
Django for example has a lot of magic.

A lot of the development process consists of adding fields with particular names to classes that have a long inheritance chain of their own, and it's not trivial at all to understand what all of your options are and how they work behind the scenes.
I can't believe Odersky still uses the grammar line count as proof that Scala is not complex. By that criterion, Brainfuck is the simplest language in existence.

As for the implicit aspect, we already have a way to pass implicit parameters to functions: fields. These have the advantage to actually be visible, injectable, and their semantics can't change just because you modified one import line.
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Feed" href="http://feeds.abcnews.com/abcnews/topstories" />
It's not just raw input speed - writing on paper allows you to quickly jump around the text, making small corrections, adding notes/symbols/drawings, etc.
There are a couple of esoteric languages explicitly designed with terseness in mind: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Category:Golfing_language
I've tried the Go cubes. I wouldn't really think of them as a replacement for a nice cup of coffee. They're more "I need this caffeinated burst and I don't want to deal with going to a coffee shop or grinding/brewing/etc". More like a way to get effects of coffee or an energy drink without coffee.

It's sort of like how Soylent Coffiest is a coffee alternative with other things that reduce the downsides of coffee, but it's "meta coffee", not exactly coffee.

By the way, another alternative to preparing your own coffee by hand that's good is Sudden Coffee. It's an instant coffee that's like a freeze dried pour over.
Man, can you share some more of your shopping list for those of us with similar interests?
Did it just straight-up crash on Firefox for you? It seems to work well on my Nightly.
I find the key to RSS is that you need to subscribe to actual content, rather than just a feed. A lot of the stuff on the internet is, frankly, just a barely curated feed of information pushed out a firehose. Unless you feel like you need to, don't subscribe to feeds from news organizations unless you're willing to skim and blast away lots of unread stuff. Most of that you simply won't read.

With RSS, I like subscribing to journals and organizations that publish substantial content (lots of text rather than ads) at steady but not explosive rates. RSS is pure consumption, so if you're using it to "follow a feed" I think you're doing it wrong. Though YMMV, of course.