skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I realized after I posted that this is a good first step to that goal; a way to gather a bunch of user search and tagging. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder how many of these comments are made by Apple's legal or PR team posing as normal people... Certainly they have the reach and resources for this kind of thing too. Rarely do we get to have a real public discussion on such topics without adulteration by these parties with personal motivations and associated power.
I remember seeing a chart that correlated botcoins price with it's Google search volume.
They don't show up there. I've deleted them and re-paired, but they never have. I also have Beats with the W1 chip, and they don't show up there either.
Both wget and it’s python spiritual successor wpull support WARC creation natively.
Let's explore redesigning an application – from the bottom up
China's Race to Find Aliens First
This passed in Boulder county as well, pretty overwhelmingly.
Can anyone who has done it both ways characterize the tradeoffs vs. using amqp (say, rabbit) as the bus? I've been excited about this feature in redis, and this is a very interesting use case for it, but when I read the part toward the end regarding consumer checkpointing to prevent premature log truncation I was thinking message queuing acknowledgement semantics basically deal with that for you. I'm sure its more costly, but if you need to know whether something's been consumed then you need to know.
Facebook teams up with an Australian govt agency to fight against revenge porn
Going serverless would increase your costs significantly. Have you seen how much AWS charges for Lambda use? Where did this myth of serverless saving you money come from?
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That's pretty rich from a guy who wants to put people who disagree with him on reservations.
I'm very satisfied, too. Servers are ready in minutes, not hours, after ordering.
We currently run ~30 servers there (dedi) and over the last ~7 years roughly had 1 HDD fail per year. Each time the replacement was done on our chosen time and quickly in about 5 - 20 minutes (the installabled images come with pre-configured software RAID 1).
We recently tried a AX60 (Ryzen 7 1700X Octa-Core) and had some sporadic crashes, support changed some BIOS settings, no problems since.
Service and prices are unbeatable, imho.
"No. The convenience of me parking my car 20feet from my door, being able to hop in and out of it without planning, is far more convenient than having to call a car via an app on my phone. The knowledge that I have a car available 24/7 cannot be replaced by a promised car delivered via a cellphone."

Nothing in the article or in my reply said you cannot have that. You'll still be able to buy self-driving cars. They'll cost tens of thousands of dollars, just like cars do today.
Oh yeah, I missed an edit I never meant to say it was out of pure altruism. But it was a new kind of move at the time.
I love that site! When someone completes the simulation and gets their PR merged, I link to it in the "What's next?" comment.
Literally anything you do at scale will kill people unless your factories are 100% in equilibrium with nature.
If the concern is regarding real-world performance and not DoS attacks, then why can't they just adopt the conflict-driven clause learning techniques of practical SAT solvers? The corresponding SAT instances are quite small, so the problems should be handled quickly by even a relatively naive CDCL implementation.
I'm content where I am. I earn enough now to generally not have to worry about ordinary day to day expenses. But I've got young kids, college funds to grow, and a future I'm planning for.

I see myself going at it alone eventually, but the safety of a job, even if only short-term, is comforting.
The idea of “consensus” in the bitcoin network is interesting to me. The code expresses “consensus” mathematically, and there exists a binary truth of whether a consensus has been “reached.” That’s simple and straightforward. It’s easy to reason about what happens once a consensus has been tautologically reached.

However, answering the question of “do we have a consensus yet?” is far less precise. Answering “what compromises can we make to achieve consensus,” even less so. All deliberation and conversation must happen offline, in “meatspace” amongst humans and operating outside mathematical principles. For example with the segwit2x fork, there was the New York Agreement, discussion all over the internet, etc. But does anyone have a precise number for the “theoretical consensus” or is all discussion based entirely on estimates?

I’ve always thought the “51% consensus” and the “hard fork” idea were hand-wavy solutions to a problem that can fundamentally only be solved by human cooperation. I also think Satoshi never expected this kind of discontent to be such a common occurrence.

Bitcoin should include a consensus building layer of code that acts as an arbiter for building consensus. It could execute polls, enforce rules of deliberation, etc. This is basically decentralized voting, which is generally seen as a distinct topic from bitcoin. But it seems bitcoin, one of the biggest decentralized networks, could benefit from a consensus building protocol.

The problem of decentralized governance is not going away. Solving it will be a massive technological step forward.
I think that you still need capacity planning for "serverless" architectures as well. You need to forecast growth of usage and costs for accounting and budgeting purposes. Does your serverless usage scale linearly with new customers? Or new widgets on the platform? Great, if we're planning on adding 10,000 widgets to the platform next quarter how much will our serverless bill go up? We still need to think about these things.

Also, and this may be my lack of experience, there seems to still be a big requirement for more traditional cloud hosting for databases in a serverless architecture. You have to store that state somewhere.
Yes you are free to do things you want like smoke, drink, or drive a car manually. But you should also have to pay for the externalities you create. Hence why it makes sense that cigarettes are taxed so heavily.

If you want the "freedom" to drive yourself, you should pay for the extra cost you cause society (i.e. roads that wouldn't otherwise have to exist, hefty insurance premiums for accidents you may cause, etc.).
>If someone asked you to draw a picture of an engineer, who would you draw? As you draw the figure, the gender assigned is a reflection of your mental prototype of an engineer – your own prototype bias. Most will draw a male figure.

How about it being a reflection of status quo?

If one sees more male engineers, they are more likely to draw a male one than a female one.

Ever more so if their goal is to draw a representative or "median" engineer, and not an activist one (to help increase the number women in engineering roles) when doing the drawing.
I will love to see how these "smart" vehicles handle kids on top of overpasses dropping rocks and nails on them (which already happens way too frequently around here)
I'm with you. I think they don't want that feature used, and having to explain it to the common user is frightening. This is one of the few things on my whiteboard that never gets erased.

I can't guarantee it still works, either.
That's why they test them.
>Retail is mostly about entertainment now

Yeah, I can see that.

>weird outdated stereotypes and condescending tone

Please don't.
DOJ demands CNN to be sold as condition for AT&T, Time Warner deal approval
Yeah, reading this article I get the feeling the author was raised in, and has only resided in, a major metropolitan era.

Sounds like they're just starting to work on inclement weather on pavement while I'm wondering how they're going to handle the farmer who wants to drive through that ditch with tall grass that will obscure the camera and 3d point mapping. Not to mention straddling that rock they know is there so it doesn't hit the pumpkin under the truck. Then backing up to the trailer of firewood which needs to be maneuvered slowly with one wheel going over a rock to narrowly avoid that tree on the other side.

Anyone who thinks manual driving is completely going away in the next 15 to 20 years either has poor grasp on the technical issues or is just failing to think of all the edge cases.
> It looks like it leaves the grantors, universities, PIs, and graduate students in the same financial positions

Because the grantors, universities, PIs, and graduate students are not in the same decision-making positions. PIs and graduate students are absolutely powerless. Grantors may impose rules to give preference to projects from low-overhead institutions, but that's difficult to implement, as the grantors would mostly prefer high impact projects rather than seeking out which school is cheaper. The result would be just higher administrative overhead, and less $ for actual research.

I do realize that many commentators on HN believe that university research is a scam, does not create value, or that graduate students who choose to do a PhD are naively making irresponsible financial decisions, or that grant funding should be reduced in order to weed out the less-capable PIs and RAs/TAs. If I were to take on a perspective from this philosophy, then I would agree that zeroing out graduate tuition is good, as it disincentivizes people from considering a career in academia and imposes a self-limiting mechanism to the academic Ponzi scheme. Personally, I do not believe that defunding academic research is good for society---but restricting university administrative cost would do tremendous good to solve the educational cost problem.
You guessed right. At one point I lost my motivation and took the offer to get paid for the work I've since the beginning put in, for my shares. They tried to do the growth hacking stuff but for them it was a thing they read a few blog posts about, so it didn't help. The whole thing just shut down after a few months.
This is great news for DDOSers! </end_irony>

80% of threats and DDOS attacks we receive come from Hetzner IPs! We stopped wasting time reporting this to Hetzner and simply block whole IP ranges in Cloudflare. Sad but true.
Who would trust that Facebook would actually delete that data after NN training though... and if it might be possible to get images from a trained network (was done before... )
Facebook might be able to do what they want with only a face picture instead.
A symptom of sick society (podcast)
> help with

Not gp, but maybe because without book-keeping you lose information in a CRUD style app? The append-only (until/unless you truncate it) log gives you a lot of durability and insight into the system via replaying events from a snapshot + log combination. At least, that's my understanding
But if you're heavily invested in bonds then you can't "liquidate your assets at any time" like the commenter above you said. It sounds like you're talking about different investing goals, not really refuting their claim.
Not ethereum, but one of the contracts written on top of it had a bug that some newbie triggered by mistake and locked something like $160M worth of moneys.
http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/WARC

Never heard of this until now, it sounds exceptionally pragmatic and good!

I also found these WARC tools made by the folks at Internet Archive, certainly interesting:

https://github.com/internetarchive/warctools
I don't think it's getting downvoted because WARC is actually easy, I think it's because the creator says they can't be bothered to figure out the web archiving standard before asking people to start giving them money for their web archiving product.

The fact that WARC tooling is terrible is the opportunity this person should be leveraging to create value, imo.
Podcast from LinkedIn's WorkInProgress with Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson about sick working hours and work/life balance.
I'm mostly just upset that this blogpost / comments don't seem to have anything to do with Dale/Naomi's specific case and more to do with people's pre-existing opinions about "women in tech" or whatever.

One pernicious thing that happens in these conversations. I've spent about 10 minutes total reading some Discord/DM messages about this controversy, and quickly found the above information. I fear that, if I spent more time "digging up evidence" to make a lengthy/nerdy case about this, I could be accurately accused of "Well why are you spending so much time arguing about prominent female tech leaders? Do you have some sort of ulterior motive?". I recognized this internally, stopped writing my comment, and moved on.
Generally most people regard it as unjust to charge income tax on money that is never made as income.
how to encourage other cities to do the same? can colorado guide the rest of the cities and states to through similar initiatives?
What percentage of millennials even understand Bitcoin? How many of us on HN are frequently asked about investing in cryptocurrencies by people who have no business approaching the topic.
Presumably you have to pay the tax due to capital gains on assets you own, so the solution is pretty simple: sell a fraction of those assets to cover the tax. This really isn't rocket science.
It comes from the "BFG" from the original Doom games.

Edit: fixed... was Doom not Quake :P
They are hyping AR and the ARkit, but thus far no recent AR apps for the iPhone have blown me away. The majority of the apps just overlay info thru your camera view though those Measuring Tape apps are innovative in concept.

AR Glasses if they are not bulky and feel/look like sunglasses I can see them being adopted. Then the whole overlay of info in your real world view makes the best sense/UX.

Overall I want to see innovation like using AR Glasses to change your view like view how things looked at this spot 50 to 100 years ago. Being able to see a daylight view when it’s nighttime.
What are things about GitHub culture that you had trouble understanding when you started out?
I live near an elementary school and I seldom see school buses on the road in the morning, even if I drive in front of the school. I do see fleets of SUVs. The question is, are these cars dropping off kids because the kids like it or because the parents like it? Is it because of class/status or stranger danger? If it is stranger danger, is the parent going to entrust their kids to multi-passenger Lyfts? Or even to single-passenger Lyfts?

If it is class/status, what is the view of a public conveyence like Lyft vs the personal car?
This was all about 10 years ago, the market has moved since then, and now it seems you can slip under the PHD radar and do similar work if you classify yourself as a "data scientist." Some of the mythos around quants and technology has been uncovered, 10 years ago quantitative and electronic trading was still a newish thing and at a backseat to traditional traders and PMs. Many firms these days are technology first, though there are often still walls between those who write "models" and those who write "infrastructure."

Anyway, its still largely true that for "quant" roles you need a PHD. It doesn't need to be in anything particular, but Physics/Math/Statistics are strongly preferred. This is just a hiring screen thing. Its not impossible, but quant types tend to have a big head and be elitist, and I personally found them to just be real jerks in the hiring process, and there were plenty of opportunities opening up in the then lucrative algorithmic/HFT space so I went down that road. By jerks, there were just several opportunities where you could just tell they didn't like my lack of credentials and that I went to a state school (on a scholarship, but still they can't have non ivy leaguers stinking the place up), and it was also fairly easy for them to just throw advanced math problems at me and knock me out of the running- regardless if this was something that was ever used in their actual work.

I don't really regret it, but it would have been nice to be more heavily involved in pure finance stuff- I find the markets fascinating, I was very happy when I wrote some of the first TWAP and VWAP strategies out there, and then later (surprise!) started getting edged out of that space by "quants" with PHDs.
Well no, because you paid tax when you paid your insurance.

But some people would argue that health benefits should be taxed. We debated taxing employee benefits in Canada briefly. When an executive gets a $500k salary and $500k in benefits, should they be taxed as earning 1mil?
Presumably Hipp doesn't sign a 35 year support contract with his own company?
archived version http://archive.is/CrtmX
BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin competitor Chia
> The rich already pay the lions share of income tax. How much more of their money needs to be taken from them to make it fair?

To make it fair, we take the means of production: ownership over companies, facilities, land.
Correlation doesn't imply causation, or ave you got any supporting evidence of that?
MongoDB 3.6.0-rc3 is released
This is how answered to that same comment a few months ago:

And if I promote myself as a Star Trek fan to bring attention to my engineering work, nerd-shaming is also in scope. Or a body-builder programmer shamed for being a "bro" by us nerds. Why do we need to shame each other about our quirks? (as long as those quirks do no harm, but as far as I know, Sexy Cyborg does not flaunt herself around kindergartens)
> You didn't read the article, because just assuming X amount of money can work for anyone is not even remotely realistic

But we’re talking about the public safety net here, and that’s exactly the assumption you have to make.

She doesn’t need to pay her credit card debt. She can just declare bankruptcy. That’s the point of bankruptcy. She also doesn’t need a vehicle that costs as much as rent in small town America.
> The cost will be the same, and the travel time will be half or less.

Is this a guess or is there data/papers on this somewhere? Genuinely curios if there are any sources.
personally, i feel that "X is cancer" is a gross and callous sort of language to use.

i agree that electron is a suboptimal choice for a variety of reasons. however, one should probably ask a) why aren't these electron-based tools written with another technology and b) would they even exist at all were it not for electron?

perhaps the answer to the "electron crisis" isn't whining, but developing a new and better option (or renovating an existing one) that developers will actually want to use.
So it's one order of magnitude difference compared to two? That's still not pretty.
Bean machine
Yes, I see the same.
Based on the article it sounds like they have backup capacity that can keep them on track...and the reality is that in space flight these things happen. Better for it to happen on a test stand than in a rocket. I just Wonder if they will try and blame a sniper this time[0].

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/implication-...
how to encourage other cities to get such alternate broadband options? can colorado guide the rest of the cities and states to go through similar initiatives?
I was a long time Firefox user (since 2005) and I switched to Chrome 6 months back, because I have a 32 GB laptop and the first thing I noticed was my browser was FAST! But giving openness a thought, the thing that prevents me from going back to Firefox is "Dark Reader" extension[1]. It is just fantastic on Chrome.

It would be interesting to see if Firefox gains it's lost trust from the Addon developers like Downthemall.

Also Firefox's default black theme doesn't even come close to FT DeepDark addon[2].

[1] https://github.com/alexanderby/darkreader

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ft-deepdark/
It's up there with the best of them. Google, Snapchat, Insta, Microsoft Word
Yep. In September Business Insider reported a 91% correlation between the price of Bitcoin and searches for Bitcoin on Google: http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-correlation-goo...
What would be analogous? A guy looking cool or a guy making sex jokes (sex analogies are common in electrotechnics)? Overly mascline dude? Is there even analogous outfit for a guy?

My guess is that not really, this is not symmetric situation.
The middle class in America today is wildly, wildly better off than 100, 50, 25, or 10 years ago, IMO.

100 years ago, they didn't have phase-change refrigeration, instead relying on ice. (That's why your grandmother might still call it an "ice box".)

50 years ago, they didn't have air conditioning.

25 years ago, they didn't have cars that would reliably run for 250K miles with airbags, anti-lock brakes, traction control, and which required very regular servicing to keep running.

10 years ago they probably didn't have a smart phone with the world's information in their back pocket.

All of those things are now readily affordable and very commonplace in the middle class.
> To be fair, mutating props was frowned upon pretty early on.

Yeah that’s what I’m saying :)
Why You Should Be Building AR Apps Now
In the United States, even the most basic medical insurance is an "employee benefit", even if in Canada it would be covered by the provincial system out of taxes.
If your town / city is less than 10k people simply going to city council open forum meetings (most places host those monthly or quarterly, some even weekly) and constantly hounding representatives about it being a problem with a straightforward solution (taxpayer funded public telecom operation in the city).

Probably the #1 problem is the ignorance of how bad the telecom monopoly is in the US, that there even are alternatives, and that this is the problem domain government needs to approach in the same way they approach electric access or roads.
45% of households pay no or negative income tax at all. Remember some of them get more back than they would have paid, so negative taxes paid.

in 2014 the top 1% of income earners earned 20.6% of all income and paid 39.5% of income taxes collected.

the bottom 50% earned 11.2% of income and paid 3.45% of income taxes.

https://files.taxfoundation.org/20170201091804/TaxFoundation...
There was a spate of articles calling Bitcoin forks "dividends" and other such nonsense which I'm sure a lot of people bought into.
Articles like this are starting to ring little bells for me. There's an argument that the government's reaction to the 1999 financial crisis (and the 1998 Russian bond crisis, which figures in) is what inflated the housing bubble [1], which started to show cracks in 2006 and 2007 (with the Bear Stearns fund collapses) and then went full-bore once things started unwinding in 2008 as home prices started to fall, and the hugely leveraged positions started to unwind.

Since the Fed stopped the liquidation of bad assets and refused to allow pricing to adjust, the question is what new bubble we funneled capital into. There's a lot of evidence that banks have been reluctant to make loans to consumers, both because of real risks around modeling of real estate pricing, and also because of changes in the regulatory regime.

It seems like it's possible that we're starting to see where all the credit has been going -- rampant investment into retail. The article mostly ignores restaurants and grocery stores (explicitly so) but we've seen other articles [2] talking about those sectors starting to show weakness as well.

[1] Not a source that I'd usually cite, but here's Krugman in 2005: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/29/opinion/greenspan-and-the-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15593880