skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've organized both technology and social justice conventions. To answer your questions:

1.) Is it possible to accomplish without significant funding in advance?

Yes, but it's one hell of a lot of extra legwork. When I was in University, I pulled one off without any money at all. It worked, but everything took at least twice the time it would have taken with funding in advance. I struggled with a venue up until the very end and simply cannot describe the stress of losing a venue ten days before an event. It's only 9am where I'm from, but just thinking about this makes me want to break out the hard alcohol...

2.) Profit?

I don't want to seem overly negative, but you may occasionally show a profit, particularly if you're lucky enough to score some good (ie - cash paying) donours/sponsors. However, when you throw an event the expected result is for things to get fucked up in unpredictable ways. And, under the law of throwing big events, the chances are good that the one thing you relied upon the most and considered the most foolproof will end up getting the most fucked up.

Therefore, you may see a profit (and if you do, for the love of all that is holy, share with your army of volunteers). But, the expected profit should always be zero or even a loss.

Here's a tip from the trenches. Make sure that you can personally afford to pay for the venue after the event, even if you don't make a single penny of revenue. Venue managers seem to be a fairly tight knit group and if you get a reputation for screwing one, you'll never book another...
There are only ~5,000 publicly traded companies in the U.S. There are about 25 Million small businesses in the U.S. The stock market cap represents a tiny portion of the entire U.S. economy.
The future of how Google ranks websites: more people but less human
Where is your information coming from?
A median salary for an experienced Ruby/Rails dev in Lviv, Ukraine is $45,000-50,000
Adding an option would not affect TVs that use the old players, only TVs that would update the Netflix app would get this DRM free option and users would have to enable it, if it is not working they can disable it and complain.
I understand your point but this is not a good excuse why people on PCs that don't have the right CPU,cables and monitor can't watch 4k videos that they paid for (..because Netflix wants to give you DRM free video but because some old TVs may not work then you can't get it so please watch low quality stream)
This applies to undergrads, so I'm assuming they are already in debt from student loans. What's another 10-15 grand? Doesn't seem like they are really helping anyone here.
This may explain:
https://ark-guide.readme.io/v1.0/docs/what-are-delegates

There are a few currencies doing delegate so I may have confused "super delegates" with another currency.
To me it's simple. A lot of web developers pretentiously covet complexity because it makes them feel smart to wield it. Plus, they never really learned that engineering is the divination of simplicity from complexity. They don't get over-engineering, because isn't that just more of a good thing?
This is basically original Twitter. Nice work.
Except that the cost of circumventing DRM has nothing to do with the cost of pirating movies. People pirate movies by downloading them with the DRM already removed. The DRM only affects the source, and by all evidence it doesn't affect them enough to prevent the first copy from happening, which is the only useful thing it could possibly do since it isn't present on any of the subsequent copies.

It's like arguing that all citizens should wear shackles because it will keep prison inmates from escaping. It doesn't work that way and the people insisting it does have ulterior motives.
It doesn't mean BTC is overvalued either. But BTC could well prove to be cyrptocurrency's Friends Reunited or Bebo.
You don't exactly need fresh ingredients for that.
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Would love to chat but I don't see your email in profile. Put it in your profile description as emails are not shown publicly or email me if don't mind (in my profile)
thanks! We appreciate it. Yeah mainly not open source and AFAIK, it's authoritative only.
Related, Brown's current endowment is appx $3B.
Noticed a weird shadow on the heli landing pad. And lo, there's a cloud up there!
That's trivial to us (hypothetically), not to the average consumer who is, quite frankly, well-advised not to risk getting 'fined' in an out-of-court settlement for infringing copyright. And how do they even know if they're on the real Piratebay? The original domains are blocked in many countries. TOR? VPN? These require knowledge or guidance; doable, but not zero investment.
How does this compare to Chrome Developer Tools?
Have you ever heard of gold?

Are people buying gold "greater fools"?

If so, why?
I've adapted to this team anti-pattern by becoming relentlessly skeptical and cynical in my work. I don't let anyone tell me something is "trivial" or "easy" in programming unless I've actually seen it (meaning, with my own eyes, not reading about it on a blog), and protest untested ideas from coworkers vigorously, even if that person is a developer on my team whom I respect. I kind of hate this solution because it makes me automatically resistant to anything new whatsoever, but I hate it less than some of the code I've been forced to write to fill in gaps left by some flavor-of-the-month tech.
It's not just the OS.

Any closed-source, non-free software - drivers, productivity tools, games - all pose the same danger.

And it's not just software - binary firmware blobs (including ones found in most ARM-based SBC, such as Raspberry Pi) should be seen as potentially dangerous. Not to mention Intel's Management Engine and such.
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Just like on all Apple and Google OSes, not to mention hardware.

Either you control everything, including hardware, or need to compromise at some level.
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It works great in Firefox 58.0b6 at a solid 60 FPS.
Why Tor browser?
Rory MacDonald Wants His Massive Bellator Fight Purse Paid in Bitcoin
And a lot of the firms that use it also tend to be large and have very deep pockets. You pretty much have to cater to their every need, because they pay well.
Of course they can:

they (a) lie on their attestation and (b) waive their right to sue
There's a local employer here that is a household name. They have a history of doing things like offering positions to entire teams of people and then laying them off before their first day at work. In spite of the fact that they are one of the largest employers in the area I refuse to work with them because of their unethical behavior. Just because there are not laws which ban unethical behavior does not mean there are no consequences. I'd generally rather not work with someone who has shown a history of quitting after 3 weeks.
So this model lock mechanism is based on distance only ? no human action required ?
You still have to pay market rate for professors, executives, maintenance, etc, if you want to stay relevant.

You can't just decide to reduce your income and expect nothing else to change. They're changing where their getting the income from, probably with the idea that former students of Brown who are now doing very well, will be willing to pay it forward to a new student who is in a similar position as they used to be.
AFAIK they both use the same miekg/dns library. I am not sure the assembly optimizations have been merged into the library itself.
How about breakpoints on mutation or deletion of node or changed attributes? Like Chrome.
Microsoft itself does it, too, possibly more than OEMs do. Even if you block some of the telemetry with your firewall, they now seem to be opening new channels to send the data to Microsoft's servers. Their behavior is quite malware-like.
I find the exact opposite. Over the past year there's been way too much politics, too much anti-business hoopla, too much general news that you can find anywhere, too much negativity, and generally less focus on interesting hacker oriented stuff. This site really as become "Hacker" News in name only. It's now heavily populated by a lot of people who didn't grow up immersed in the hacker ethos, and who don't share the values, traits and attitudes that have defined that community over the years.
If you can google, you can find a mirror or a clone.

Whether it is the real pirate bay or not doesn’t matter, you could never trust TPB.
> Bad advise...

That is exactly the reason I wrote the post! Those advice are based on specific use case, bug or outdated kernel. The jemalloc (Digital Ocean post) case is a good example, it just doesn't (didn't) know about THP https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/issues/243

I can only repeat it: "Measure, measure and measure again!"
He could actually implement these ideas if he was serious.
Did nvidia get permission when installing telemetry for their drivers?
> the more I respect them and think stallman's brand of insanity

It baffles me that anyone thinks he's insane at this point. For every point he's ever made, you can now easily find 10 real world examples of his fears coming true over the past few decades.
ah, in some cases VPN providers push DNS options too, in which case your system DNS will be overridden. Can you check whether that's the case?
Haha, we never thought about is this way ;) TeamTab is restricted to collaboration within a team and has no feed feature (the main view is a compact user list).
From the article:

"One hacker holds a device a few feet from the victim's key, while a thief holds the other near the target car."

While this isn't awesome, it certainly limits the effectiveness. You would have to have someone waiting in a parking lot to follow the person, then another person waiting by their car.

I do have a question though...I assume these things work on challenge/response schemes. That means that even if the car is started and stolen, it could never be started again without someone tailing the owner 24/7, which makes this a neat but nearly useless hack. Am I wrong in assuming this?
Why? Those people are not valuable customers.
Jupyter Notebooks as plain Python code with embedded Markdown text
Google "my stocks" and click the star to unfollow them.
> being in a startup was something great, nowadays it's frowned upon

I've noticed this change, and it's one of my favorite things about HN. There are fewer naive people trumpeting the "accomplishment" of raising money. There are more people advising young devs not to work for equity.

Why should we worship the idea of a startup? Startups are not noble in and of themselves. The vast majority are just a form of gambling that only wealthy people can safely afford[1][2].

As Peter Lynch said, "An investment is simply a gamble in which you've managed to tilt the odds in your favor." But a startup is never in your favor -- even if you're convinced they are[3][4]. There's still a huge amount of luck and social capital that's required, beyond just having the right product and market. Even hyper-successful founders like Biz Stone have gone on to start failures.

To prove that startups are a gamble, look at VC firms. All but a few are money-losing operations because even they can't predict who will succeed -- and it's all they're supposed to be good at![5]

I think the US is changing (for the better) in the sense that capitalist ideals, like startups, aren't blindly worshiped anymore. People ask whether we actually need another to-do app to raise $10M. To me, that's a very welcome change.

1. https://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene...

2. https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/08/startups-a-rich-mans-game/

3. https://smallbiztrends.com/2016/11/startup-statistics-small-...

4. "A company accepted by Y Combinator, therefore, has less than a 1-in-10 chance of being a big success." http://www.businessinsider.com/startup-odds-of-success-2013-...

5. https://hbr.org/2014/08/venture-capitalists-get-paid-well-to...

> I saw a huge decline not only in the quality

This is pretty subjective. I still see lots of amazing, fascinating comments from domain experts and people who are close to stories.

> claiming there's censorship around

There have been moderation experiments, like banning politics for a short time, but I don't know what else you're talking about. I haven't seen anyone claim they're being censored, except a few people who are posting truly awful stuff.
If you click around on youtube you can find multiple versions of this talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0fEA0MsiV8 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X-LlwupIqc which are almost identical, though in the google version there is a part about him "being" a doctor missing which is in some other versions i have found.
Even the answers to some off the questions are almost identical
Why does a company have value? Why does a currency have value? It's always just a bet that someone will buy it from you in the future. Yes, you get a share of the company, but if nobody wants to buy the company or its stock, then you have a share of something that nobody will buy.
That should be PATH || NJT as you can take NJT directly to the tram.
Strategic law avoidance using the Internet: A Short History [pdf]
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Well, everyone using web apps don't seem to mind having their life exposed to the whole internet.
The actual problem is not Facebook censoring content. It's actually people trusting them not to, and relying on that. "Oh then it has to be regulated", yeah sure lets trust government to not censor what they don't like, what can go wrong.
It is not hard to find a illegal copy of a movie, you just need to know how to google, eventually you will find a website that embeds the video, no need for torrent application, downloading and running software.
I think this post might have reached more people if the author's name had been included in title.
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I'm commenting because I can't downvote.

I don't want to downvote because I dislike what it says. I want to downvote because its poorly researched and full of hyperbole.
> When we invest, we make assertions about the future value of the stock.

Which is exactly how you described people "speculating" with Bitcoin. There is no difference.
I don't think any serious bitcoin developer considers that a reasonable option. Most very strongly believe that PoS is fundamentally less secure.
> Bitcoin isn't just popular among libertarians, it's popular among folks with green frog/Kek user icons and anti-semitic views. ("Are you a Jew?" asked one egg.)

You have got to be kidding me. After druglord/pedo/(eco-)terrorist money, now it's the Nazi currency.

Is there a Bitcoin smear left that we haven't used yet?

Edit: Somebody also alert Olaoluwa Osuntokun to what he's getting involved in. He promptly should go back to `foo/bar` instead of `kek/kek`.
Remote Python jobs
This kind of thing is hardly new. PC makers have been preloading software for a fee at least since the 90s. It should come as no surprise that such software doesn't always align with the user's best interests.

It's common with phones too. My new Sony phone came with several Sony apps as well as Facebook installed as non-removable system apps. None of these are necessary for proper function, as it can run a third-party build of Android that doesn't include any of them.

Facebook in particular is an odd one. I can understand preloading it since it's very popular, but why the hell is it a system app?
This paper has a good term to refer Uber, Airbnb etc - "too big to ban".
Dystopic fiction where everybody is dead. YA cherish triangle described completely in the subjunctive. No characters, despite the fact that there unquestionably could have been.
That's the old Google Finance, which behaves as in your screenshot for me, too. This is what it looks like for me in the new version: https://i.imgur.com/BO5gY3B.png
It's informative as to whom others should contact in the future.
Depends on your time frame- there's a big difference between optimizing for year over year gains vs. 25+ years.
If we're already at it comparing different implementations, how's your story versus Knot (https://www.knot-dns.cz/)? Probably a different focus: Knot is authoritative-only, while your implementation mostly seems to focus on the recursive resolver, correct? Are there any reasons to use Tenta DNS over Knot as authoritative nameserver with DNSSEC support?
For those wondering why this is possible, a lot of new cars unlock if your key fob is in your pocket and you simply put your hand inside of the handle to open your door. And then you sit down and press the start button and you're off. It's really a rather nice feature, although it's also something that seems silly until you get a vehicle with it.

The range with normal usage is very short though. If I'm on the driver side of the car, it doesn't work on the passenger door, and vice versa.
Nah, let's go back to arguing like Facebook owes us some fundamental rights and so on.
Credit cycle is one reason. Low interest rates mean higher bond prices (this is an inherent attribute of debt pricing, look at pricing of high yield debt the last few years vs fed funds rate as an example), lower interest rates also lead to lower expected return / higher stock prices (CAPM), and higher interest rates lead to falls in those prices

When interest rates are low and money is cheap, people take on more debt. Investors also invest in riskier assets because more money is available and competition for assets is greater. Eventually, default rates rise as there are more bad credits, and equity markets build up a lot of negative "potential energy" as prices rise based on increasing money supply. When interest rates rise, the reverse happens

This is probably not exactly what you were looking for, but it's one reason why we have cycles
Why not eliminate global consensus altogether:

https://intercoin.org/technology.pdf
If this is a work context, they should probably be actually working instead.
PG's excellent essays and the attached discussions were a huge positive. They drew a good audience and helped elevate the discourse.

The new leadership is less intellectual, less inspiring, more inclined to politics. O tempora, o mores.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I rarely have issues with it
Uh Vitalik of ethereum released his white paper on Casper PoS protocol and publicly announced his intentions to switch. What makes you think "No" developer believes it's viable?
Gold is only a store of value, even less so than Bitcoin. With Bitcoin I can actually buy things, both via e-commerce and locally if I am motivated enough to.

If I walked around with a bunch of gold coins I would have a harder time.

Cashing out is even more difficult (as someone who grew up in California's gold country and knew many a gold bug, it involves humans and haggling).

The difference, of course, is that gold used to be currency, then was the backing for currency, but then that was abstracted away. Bitcoin essentially replaces rare-earth mining with it's own, in theory "repairing" this abstraction with cryptography.

The total value of gold ever mined is about $8 Trillion, something like 50 times more than Bitcoin. There's probably a lot more value just stored in gold that isn't being exchanged every day for goods and services than the total market cap of Bitcoin.
You should also check out Vultr's dedicated core plans [1]. I have ~50 instances running on Vultr and CPU performance / unixbench scores are significantly better than DO and Lightsail's similar sized instances.

[1] https://www.vultr.com/pricing/dedicatedcloud/
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No, but it prevents ISPs from blocking upstart competitors. Without NN an ISP can slow down a competitor's site or prevent access to a competitor's website or any website that advertises them or any advertisement they might run. Will they do that? I don't know. It would be easy to hide under a cable package model, and I certainly don't trust ISPs to offer any consumer protection.
> f1 used to be about the best maker, not the best driver. quite a philosophical difference there.

In terms of prize money, F1 still cares a lot about the constructor contest. It's not something fans are conscious of, necessarily. For example, sixth place in the constructor contest was decided on the last race, and there were three teams that could have taken it. It doesn't sound like much but it's worth twelve million dollars...
I think the author's point rests on a subtle equivocation. It's true that realized intelligence requires an environment and a sufficient dataset. And so in this sense, the author's point that there will be no realized intelligence that is unspecific to training environment is probably correct.

But there is another sense in which intelligence can be cashed out. It's the sense in which a single learning algorithm can be trained to "behave intelligently" in a wide array of environments. It is generally this kind of intelligence that people speak of when they talk about general AI. There is no reason to think this kind of general AI is inherently impossible. For it to be impossible would mean that different kinds of optimization/learning problems are completely independent, i.e. there is no similarity or underlying regularity to be exploited that cuts across the entire class of optimization/learning problems. I think this is very probably false.
The algorithm was implemented in a big data framework that handles the allocations, so I would have needed to significantly adapt its memory subsystem to change this. I've talked to the authors, though, and it's not easy to change. Easier to disable transparent hugepage defrag, especially when there's a paper deadline to meet :)
Salient quote:

> To pick a specific example: the problem with an over-engineered form is that the amount of code required to replace no engineering (i.e. native form controls with basic styling) is enormous and almost always only partially successful (i.e. under-engineered).

> They are under-engineered because they are over-engineered—tried to replace native controls.

> This is the basic argument against most forms of website over-engineering: scroll-jacking, manipulating history with pushState, completely customised form controls, etc.

> Recreating browser features will almost always be both under- and over-engineered.
The End of Net Neutrality Means ISPs Could Crack Down on Cryptocurrencies
I don’t know. I have experienced Amazon and think it is a plague of a company. If it is not the worst company culture in the world, I shudder to think what could possibly supersede it. With that said, I still have a pretty high opinion of Bezos. I just think he made a handful of mistakes that may have accelerated his success at the expense of some long term stability (yes I think Amazon will eventually see a fiery implosion). Intelligent people still make mistakes.
The most damaging effect of predatory pricing is the squeezing of the labor force providing the underlying goods or services. Amazon, Uber and their customers win, and the low income people working the textiles, assembling the electronics, or driving the cars, lose.
No bitcoin (presumably bitcoin-core) developer thinks it's viable.
I cannot as the market can remain irrational for a far longer time than I can remain solvent.
Opinions differ here. It's said that onions were added to deflect the salty taste, as much salt was used in the old days for preservation. As we now have deep freezers and shipments on ice, there is no or less salt used, so no need for onions.
I've also heard stories that onions where added to deflect the smell and taste of old herring in the olden days.

Some people still like it with onions though, but I'd prefer without (and also without pickle)
The actual problem is people getting into debt without reasonable expectation of paying it, just wishful thinking.