skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A government created by the people for the people must limit the influence of corporations on the fabric of society and itself. As for-profit corporations necessarily do whatever possible to increase shareholder value the only limiting factor remains the threat of violence by social mandate. In other words The Government. Without this limiting factor we will witness an increasing scale of abuses and tragedies of the commons in the pursuit of ever-higher shareholder value.
Apple takes advantage of no loopholes. By law profits in international subsidiaries aren't taxed in the US until they are paid to the US company. Apple is simply keeping the already taxed profits overseas in the lowest tax jurisdiction until the US gives them a repatriation discount.
CNN is just entertainment. Has nothing to do with ISP monopoly.
Wouldn't cloudflare block these attacks automatically for you? I used cloudflare on a server that used to get dossed often and the attacks are now almost non existent when we got cloudflare in-front of us.

Range blocking is a really silly thing to do don't you think? Hope you guys find a better way that that. Something tells me your application might be leaking your site's IP?
> tech related Slack communities

Any particular ones? So far, Reactiflux is the only one I've found that seems to have a reasonably active and quality job channel.
I don't think I've experienced this rarefied field where people were valued purely by their technical ability. I would love to be in that field!

In my opinion, no one should be penalized for their attractiveness or lack thereof and no one should be penalized for the clothes they decide to wear. Any shame you may feel over being attracted to someone is kind of your own thing and, surely, doesn't impact that person's ability to do their work, technical or otherwise.

For sure, many workplaces have certain dress requirements. This is someone blogging on their own time, from their own home or workshop. They can wear whatever they like.
> In quant finance, if you're not the smartest guy in the space you're playing in, you're just another sucker.

That's one attractive advertisement. :-) It makes me want to play that game.
> The government can't give you two married parents that love you in a stable household, the best education money can buy, or social connections with powerful people.

It can do the second, and it can create opportunities for the third. And it can help (or hinder) the first. (As a purely hypothetical illustration of that, it could implement a systematically racially biased criminal justice system and engage in a pattern of racially-suitable violence against a specific segment of the adult population, decreasing the number of two-parent present families in that segment.)
Hate the iPhone X notch? There’s an app for that
Not all trips are to and from locations on specific timetables, such as work. Sometimes you want to go from your house downtown, or some other location. There's still an average wait of half the train interval time. You can wait at the train station, or wait at home and travel closer to the arrival time (and hope you don't miss it), but there's still a wait involved. Sometimes you can effectively use this time, sometimes you can't. Acting like it doesn't exist isn't useful though.
NPR seems to prioritize quality over quantity and clickbaiting.
I just gave some examples of what can be done at similar speed on dirt cheap hardware.

I my view it helps to understand scale.

More real world example an API at my work logs routinely more then 20M+ events per day, all indexed for NRT search. It’s just a byproduct of the actual work though.

It’s considered business as usual, nobody counts how it adds up half a billion per month.

I assume they index it in some search engine as well. Yeah the scale is x20 bigger, but it’s their _primary_ task.
They are the largest US taxpayer. They are the worlds largest taxpayer. They absolutely pay taxes where they are based, and where they aren't based. Their worldwide tax rate is 24.6%, one of the highest in the world.
> (like, is there some bizarro mirror world /r/the_donald in Russian with posts pushing some kind of US agenda?)

Probably nothing like that at all. Remember, the Russian ads everyone is going on about were basically clones of the ones domestic groups had created related to various social issues (BLM, gun violence, etc.). So really US propaganda in other parts of the world would just be cloning and amplifying social commentary...
It's an embarrassment for the industry as a whole.

The "New York Agreement" was a blog post, it was never a legally binding and enforceable contract.

There's a strong argument that the "agreement" was designed to fail, as it's hardly a compromise when party A gets what they want immediately, but party B has to wait.

In future, all "agreements" should be ignored.
Yes. (Among a million other things. ALL the rules that determine who is a billionaire and who is a beggar are social choices, because wealth is a social relation. The fact that there even are these particular different possible ways for people to be treated is a social choice.)
Sorry for my ignorance, but how likely it is that customer traffic originates from Hetzner servers?

Maybe someone runs VPN's trough them?
Glad to see that my vote counted!
Because that's their business model.
Yeah, it's kind of annoying.

And the screen really wants to be on despite me turning it off. IMO once I turn it off it should stay off until I tell it to go back on, or I touch it, or something. I'm light-sensitive when I sleep and really don't want it on until I tell it to be on >:|
Yeah, I understand that, but property managers can really only do so much, right? They can take care of handling tenant inquiries, handling some repairs, probably collect rent.

But they can't handle stuff like evictions and lawsuits, right?

The other question I have about property managers is do they usually handle routine stuff? Stuff like landscaping, making sure snow is removed each time it snowed, scheduling chimney cleaning, boiler servicing, gutter cleaning? What about routine deck maintenance? Fence maintenance? Making sure the window trim paint isn't peeling? How involved would an investor have to be to keep up with that sort of routine stuff that the tenant doesn't necessarily tell you to do? I mean, tenants might not even know some of that sort of stuff needs to be taken care of. Is your tenant going to let you know your driveway needs to be sealed?

What happens if you need a major repair, say, like new siding? Do you find contractors, get quotes, etc.
They could spin it off as an independent entity.
My obnoxious solution to this after restoring a backup multiple times: delete all your apps, and reinstall them. This ALMOST fixed it.

It's a pathetic solution, but it worked when nothing else would including "set up as a new phone". The apps had to break, then be deleted and reinstalled a second time, to finally work.

The other issues with 11 remain however.
Microservices need to be divided up very carefully, with full knowledge of the latency trade-off of moving functionality across a network gap. A same-datacenter round-trip takes 5,000 times longer than a main memory access, and 1,000,000 times longer than an L1 cache access. There's no silver bullet in performance or scalability. Each solution will require trading off advantages that matter less to achieve business goals.

Here are a few references that leap to mind (I keep the first printed out and pinned right next to my monitor).

https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-mind-blowing-facts-about...
40 percent of the more than 42,000 employers surveyed indicated they were having a difficult time filling positions

...

top reasons driving the frustration included:
Seeking more pay than is offered

CAPITALISM MOTHERFUCKERS, DO YOU SPEAK IT?
The total wealth of world’s billionaires grew another 17% in 2016: https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/industries/financial-services/publ...
Your consulting advice will give you cold looks from those whose living depends on selling people complex server/"cloud" configurations under fancy names.
Netflix serves data from its OpenConnect rack-mounted servers, of which are deployed to every major ISP/IXP. Previously they were using mainstream CDNs but there were growing pains and cost concerns.

To sum it up, everything outside of "the play button" is on AWS. This includes billing, account management, et al.
> Who is the person you're trying to convince with this thought?

Anyone who reads the article, and thinks "this is outrageous!" instead of treating it as a chess move by an opponent.
It's actually 8 memory channels per socket (4 times dual-channel)
The statement that CUPS was developed by Apple is disingenuous at best. Engineers who know the full history of CUPS should speak up and ask the cups.org site to remove this false claim.
I would ask, what courts, tax laws, civil laws, etc are you referring to? Of course they impact the outcome, but which of those do you think is unfair or antithetical to my point about the free market?

I think the tax thing is a huge misconception that just isn't backed up by reality. The US still has a progressive tax system, even after taking into account the many rules (or the mysterious and nefarious "tax breaks" that everyone alludes to).

The top 1% have around 20% of the income, but pay 40% of the federal income taxes!

Real federal income tax rate paid:

Top 1% - 27%

Top 5% - 23%

Top 10% - 21%

Top 25% - 18%

Top 50% - 16%

Bottom 50% - 3.45%

https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
You're prejudiced across two genders? Yes, that's much better.
They're only thus bound if increasing stakeholder returns over time is an explicit condition of their contract (which I imagine is the case for executive contracts in many if not most public companies, though I don't know - can anyone confirm?)

But there's nothing in the (US, at least) legal definition of a fiduciary that proscribes increasing share holder profits by any means necessary. That's simply a convenient myth spread to normalize cutthroat, profit-seeking behavior at all levels of business.
Isn't that an overly broad statement? I believe hunting in Norway, Finland and Sweden is often if not mostly done on land not owned by gentry.

Probably other countries as well. (I found that hunting is popular in France, Germany, and Austria, but I wasn't able to figure out if the landowners were mostly gentry or not. I got the strong sense that they were not.)
Competing in an open market would mean they actually need to be competitive. Why be competitive when you can shell out cash to the vending machine, get guaranteed business, and not break a sweat doing it?
CNN used to be great under the leadership of Ted Turner. Ted can Make CNN Great Again!
If you have the data, that's great. Is there really value in that though? Markets have changed so much, especially with the rise of index funds and etfs and such. I couldn't imagine much value going back to pre WWII, or even before 1970. I would be satisfied if Q went back to the early 80s
My money is on electric motors proximally mounted to the wheels which are in turn connected with constant velocity joints. This also opens up the avenue for four wheel steering and increased maneuverability if all four wheels could be turned arbitrarily while power is modulated to each wheel individually.
You comment is very interesting to me, because I'm totally the opposite. Mind if I ask you a couple of things? I don't mean to critique, I'm just very curious because... well, it's literally the opposite of what I'm doing.

> I have one master account, which I almost never use but which can be used to reset the others

Do you get security notifications? I personally made sure to use my primary account as a reset for everything exactly because I don't want to miss important notifications.

> I never, ever access a personal account from a work machine; I never, ever access a work account from a personal account.

Do you travel relatively often and what do you do in those cases? Like can you completely turn off working?
that's an econ 101 concept that so badly misses the point, i'm not even sure it knows what the target is. and then a false dichotomy is tacked on to boot.

yes, if you are playing an ideal, rational, competitive economic game, one strategy is to "grow the pie" and as a result capture larger economic gains even if your proportion of the market remains the same (or even shrinks).

but when it comes to the real world, with all its complexity, we consider many more consequences than just the economic one (the profit motive).

to answer the false dichotomy (the last question), we care about both. we want fairness (not perfect equality) and we want less poverty. and yes, that's entirely possible and should be pursued rigorously and with singular focus.
Uber in deal with NASA to build flying taxi air control software
> Now go and post some comments, get other accounts to post comments

Yeah that's the problem, I don't want to spend my time doing that.
Ha! I'm pretty sure deusofnull was being sarcastic here.
Curious - why did you move from Clojure/Datomic to Node/Postgres?
Sure, but you could even e.g. dynamically change the number of lanes and their direction, which would be much harder to do smoothly with physical signs and lane markings. Roads could become wide unmarked surfaces of pavement where everything is dynamic.

When smartphones went from having small screens and physical buttons to iPhone-style blank slates for any content, they got a lot more powerful and people came up with lots of innovative uses for them. You could imagine the same thing happening with my example of roads when it becomes essentially free to test new ideas for how traffic should flow, etc.

But again, this is all just a thought experiment. I don't expect it to actually happen.
Who is that a problem for?
There's no way the returns on investing in making the mall a pleasurable place to hang out in the short term outweigh the costs, but if people depended on malls as part of their area's social fabric, I doubt they would be facing this kind of longer-term decline.
I've been running the side-bar version of tab center with this userChrome.css fix but the best I can say about it is that it's "alright". The window close/max/min buttons are just not positioned very well on macOS.

Also, if you hide the sidebar header I think you run the risk of accidentally opening the bookmarks sidebar and being unable to get back to your tabs.
>80% of threats and DDOS attacks we receive come from Hetzner IPs!

Sorry, this doesn't sound believable in the slightest.
Can you elaborate on what's private vs public for you, and what kind of separation are you trying/thinking to achieve?
Over-interpreting climate news
Don't forget corporations are people too! /s
I’m failing to think of a single reason why it would ever be legally acceptable for a government to ban municipal broadband. I understand the whole corporate shill stuff, I’m speaking literally from the arguments FOR the ban...how is it justified at all?
The response wasn't:

"I was planing to support WARC, but felt that it was far too complicated to put off the launch of this MVP. If it's an essential feature to make this product valuable then I will definitely make it a priority."

If it was "I felt overwhelmed...", "...maybe..." and "...no promises".

I appreciate the honesty, but it doesn't inspire confidence and I think the flak is more a reaction to the response regarding WARC than the lack of WARC itself.
How does the GOP tax plan affect Ph.D. students?
Bitcoin price matches the Google trends search graph for Bitcoin.
This looks pretty reasonable! I would love to see a Cloud Storage backend. A minor quibble is that I think that managing your own metrics in Redis is probably not the simplest or most flexible approach - instead, you should consider exposing a /metrics endpoint that can be ingested by the user's monitoring tool of choice (Prometheus/InfluxDB/etc).
Ask HN: What's the best landing page service, fast, easy and well designed?
This is coming from someone who is proficient with web design, but just doesn't want to put the effort into a landing page. Need the best solution I can set up in an hour or so.
> Up to 80 malls across the United States enforce a curfew or escort policy for teenagers

If you follow the link, the more accurate quote is [1]

> Close to 80 malls in the U.S. have some type of curfew or escort policy regarding teenagers

Having a policy is different from enforcing it, and a curfew policy is quite different from an escort policy, so who knows what this really means?

Time writes, citing Credit Suisse, that there are about 1100 malls in the US today [2], so this might still be fairly rare.

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/teens-are-getting-banned-from-mal...
[2] http://time.com/4865957/death-and-life-shopping-mall/
Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/
"Possession is nine tenths of the law."

(Though Wikipedia tells me it means something else:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_is_nine-tenths_of_t...

My assumption has always been that the phrase meant that 90% of law is related to who owns what, basically.)
I’m not so sure—propaganda can be both ethical and useful. The question is, can groups be ethical at the scale of government? If it’s about spreading information about freedom of speech, evading censorship, etc, it’s hard to see how this could hurt humanity. If it’s spreading “freedom”, that seems to be a dogwhistle for protecting domains of influence—pure imperialism.

I mean, i think it comes down to whether or not you can sleep at night knowing what you’re doing. Much of the “voice of america” actions of the last century do not pass this sleep test.
Who's Afraid of the Bitcoin Hard Fork?
Author of the post here - that really does sound like a good idea.
I think they probably banned Facebook about 20 milliseconds after they realized it could be used as a weapon like this.
I've been using this Chrome extension for that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lovely-forks/ialbp...

Really simple, and it actually works surprisingly well.
I think it's perfectly fair to ask companies like Disney and Nestle [1] why they're getting sweetheart deals from local governments where they're going to make millions or billions out of that property.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nestle-water-lawsuit-2...
I think it would be cool to own a plot of area inside of a vertical farm.
Mall security is what is unsustainable. I'm old by HN standards gen-X and I grew up with mall security hating me. Now mall security has under 18 kids arrested, which is worse. The point is for decades of formative years "the mall is that place where they hate me because of who I am". So its understandable that now that I'm in their prime demographic (older, financially well off) that I have no interest in going there.

You'd have to be older than gen-x to remember malls favorably as a teen. The place to socialize is/was high school sports in (ahem, under) the stands, and darkly lit movie theaters. Since the 80s, which is a long time ago, trying to hang out at the mall will get you kicked out by rentacops or arrested.

Another problem is the dead mall death spiral has no backwards movement, can only ratchet toward death. The closest mall to me went 95% womens clothing stores a long time ago and is now on the march toward having its sixth athletic shoe store. Its a one way path to foreclosure, like a diode action only moving one way. I don't buy womens clothes, so other than taking my wife or daughter there, its already dead to me...

Its interesting that when I was a kid the mall provided the novelty of everything under one roof. Then big box stores happened and there is no appeal to lots of little box stores under one roof when I can just go to Target or Walmart. Walmart today is the early 80s mall of my youth.
There are a few ways of interpreting that term. Isaiah Berlin has an article called "The Concept of Scientific History" that takes a very broad view of what that could mean:

http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/cc/scihist.pdf

But I think in this case he probably has in mind people like the Annales school (mentioned in another comment here) - not so much Fernand Braudel, who wasn't particularly scientific although he was dabbled in economic theories like Kondratiev waves. But more the followers of Braudel who became very focused on crunching numbers relating to land usage patterns, trade, and other socioeconomic data from early modern Europe, to the point that they ended up a bit detached from reality, in much the way that some economists seem to be working in an ideal world rather than a real one. There's also Lawrence Stone who as far back as the 1960s was using mainframes and punch cards to figure out trends relating to the decline of the English aristocracy and the rise of the middle class.

I figured the HN crowd might be interested in what Stone had to say about this, so I looked up an old article of his from the 70s on his methods:

"'the 'new' historians have also borrowed from the social scientrists a series of new techniques...: quantification, conscious theoretical models, explicit definition of terms, and a willingness to deal in abstract ideal types as well as in particular realities. The one new tool they have borrowed is the computer... about 1960 historians suddenly gained free access to this immensely powerful but very obtuse machine, which can produce enormous quantities of data at fabulous speed but only if they are presented to it in limited, often rather artificial, categories, and if the questions are extremely clearly, precisely, and logically framed. Fifteen years of varied experience with the machine has led to a greater appreciation among historians both of its potential uses and its real defects... The computer is a machine in the elementary use of which most professional research historians should henceforth be trained -- a six-week course is ample for the purpose -- but it is one which should only be employed as the choice of last resort. Wherever possible, quantitative historians are well advised to work with smaller samples and to use a hand calculator."
It's actually more complicated. With previous bubble spikes bitcoin price starts rising first then search term follows but search term then peaks before the price peaks.
I think there is a growing problem in our society, or at least what appears in media, wherein any systematic discrepancy is blamed automatically on some kind of discrimination, without consideration of the possibility for consistent differences in merit between subpopulations.
Z1FFER – an open source hardware random number generator
I'm in ECE, but I don't think CS is different. From what I know, TAs are per-semester and not hourly contracts.
Ah, okay. Just seems wasteful to send the whole stack trace, local vars, etc, for that. But, yes, I can see people doing what you're describing.
I hear you, at the same time you have embarassingly parallel problem that can be easily sharded per customer. (Do I understand your service correctly?)

Processing 8k * 40k is a feat but I’d think you have more then a few dozens of nodes.

Then it gets into ~100s ev/s per node territory. Quite manageable even for e.g. complex search engines to ingress.

Of course, it all depends on where your bottlenecks are.
Chess moves that have implications, and the OP might have a vested interest in an outcome that is favorable to his human rights and the economic stability of his country.
“New York Times Spreads Propaganda to U.S. as it Realizes Their Monopoly on U.S. Propaganda is Coming to and End”
Engine failed during qualification testing, not acceptance testing - so it's a new design.

If you don't occasionally blow an engine up on the stand you are either not testing hard enough or not pushing the limits hard enough.