skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel confident that layering more technology layers on top of the already flawed design isn't going to fix this.

Making car keys an IoT endpoint on a cell network strikes me as one of the worst ideas ever. It is begging for exploits and failures.

Imagine the joy the first time the owner drives outside of cell tower data range and tries to re-start the car.
Hello, PowerDNS developer here! Not trying to steal Tenta's thunder here, but you should know that the PowerDNS GeoIP backend can be used without a GeoIP database, in which case it might better be called the 'YAML backend'.

Additionally, if you file a feature request for JSON support in the bindbackend, we might consider it!
This is by far the best way to stretch your marketing dollar on reddit, but (aside from AMAs) seems difficult for reddit themselves to monetize.
If their Humanities Dean gets paid that much, their football coach must be a billionaire from salary alone.
The highest class differences ever in America, save the present day. What's your point?
Thank you for the kind words! - Peter van Dijk, PowerDNS
Cocaine isn't that addictive, at least not for everyone.

It's more like cocaine is "obviously good" because millions of people around the world use it. I think that's a more apt usage of cocaine in the OP's estimation of popularity === "good."
I use floats because it's most natural to represent duration in time. Nanoseconds are going to be about as lossy as floats too, I guess (although for a different reason). If you're going for maximum accuracy, you'd need to represent the duration as the number of samples.

I wonder if floats are going to be a significant problem, hmm.
Seems like you have a good relationship, and likely a good starting offer.

A couple thoughts about the equity:
1. You say you'll be taking a salary. That means, I assume, the other guy is capitalizing the company?
2. Figure out how much he's investing into the company. If he's paying monthly expenses out of pocket, figure out how deep into the hole he's willing to go. Ask him what happens when you guys hit that number.
3. It would be much better for him to commit to investing $x amount into the company up front. He should then invest that money at Y agreed upon valuation. You should split the equity 50/50 first, and then he would get whatever equity he invests for.

Lastly, be very clear about the vision of the company, how it will make money, if other investors will be brought in, etc. It's all very new to you now, but in 18 months when you've invested everything in it, you'll want a solid foundation of communicated expectations.

Get everything in writing. And good luck.
Fair enough, modern libertarian ideas about social safety nets may be more progressive than I realized. I'm surprised a Guaranteed Basic Income is advocated for by libertarians, but it's an idea I would like to see tested, I think it would cut down on a lot of the anger and other negative emotions associated with poverty that tend to keep people impoverished.

On the second point, that's true. The same or similar outcomes can be achieved with different policies/incentives.
Company to Freeze Your Body Before Death: Pay in Blockchain Based Cryptocurrency
Holding cash is part of the risk/return/liquidity triangle. All investment functions against this triangle - cash is extremely low risk, and maximally liquid, at the cost of a slight negative return. (Contrast this to, say, angel investment, which has near-maximum potential returns, but very high risk and near-zero liquidity.)

And contrast the low risk / high liquidity / near zero return behavior of cash with bitcoin. With bitcoin, you have very high risk (speculative bubble) / limited liquidity (can't be used for most transactions, must exchange) / absurdly high returns. It is in no way like cash. It's pure speculation.

A medium of exchange needs to behave like cash. It needs to be highly stable and highly liquid. Bitcoin is neither. So if the intent of bitcoin is to replace cash (and cash-equivalents like credit cards), it's doing an absolutely shitty job of it, and will continue to do so until the price stabilizes.

As for inflation's impact on investment... read the WSJ or Forbes regularly for what the mainstream financial industry thinks about that. They're absolutely inflation-phobic. I'm old enough to remember late-1970s stagflation, which made basic investments like real estate totally absurd and nearly wrecked the economy. No one wants to go back to that. But if there's one thing worse than high inflation, it's deflation - when cash actually increases in value. It radically disincentivizes investment, when you can just stuff cash in a mattress and make a real return doing so. Why take a risk if you can make money without it?
"Which is exactly how you described people "speculating" with Bitcoin. There is no difference."

No - utterly not the same thing.

When we make assertions about the 'future' of Apple, we are making rational assumptions about demand, value chains, tax codes.

When you see the various predictions or valuations for Apple stock price - there is some 'consensus'. We reward those with better predictive capability - and this enhances civilization at least a little bit.

For BTC - there is no 'valuation'. There is no 'prediction'.

It's predicting BTC is like predicting the flip of a coin - or rather, it's just a game of trying to predict how average joe's across the street will value it. There is no objective means to value it - so it's a total crap shoot. BTC is just a meme.

Analysts doing industrial forecasts add some value to society in the end.

Predicting the value of BTC ads zero value.
^ This

I'm wondering if I'll be able to pick my nose and dig in my ass in the future without offending someone...
Weaponized Information and Psychological Warfare in the 21st Century
After doing a cursory image search on Google for "VHS Tape" leads to a high res image that is in the public domain on Wikipedia [1]. Why the designer didn't use that stock image to begin with doesn't make any sense to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VHS-Video-Tape-Top-Flat.j...
words have meaning. "pegged" is a wrong and highly misleading term because it implies a level of safety that is not there. Whether it's fraudulently so is indeed a question for the courts and the SEC.
I think this is a really cool idea.

Is there a way for one to limit the amount of data that could go through your device so that your data caps don't suffer from sending too much of somebody else's data?

Edit: I see the "User control" feature, but it's not too specific about what exactly publishing and subscribing means for you vs strangers on the same mesh.
You can certainly make two configs, an authoritative only and a recursive only and just run two copies. However, while we cannot strictly control how goroutines are allocated, each module (recursor, resolver, nsnitch) run as their own little kingdom and primarily communicate with shared plumbing (geoip, for instance) through channels.
The thing I'd like to see is the ability to remove/edit cookies.
Yeah, but Bezos is worth 100 billion.
Specifying AI safety problems in simple environments
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If I initiate one now for $10,000 and send it to you, you'll be able to walk into your bank and withdraw $10,000 in 15 seconds?

Would you be able to re-send that $10,000 to someone else after that 15 seconds?

I'm no expert on SEPA, but it looks to me like (as a practical matter) we are not talking about 15 seconds for normal people [1].

[1] https://ingpcm.com/en/payments-collections/sepa/sepa-credit-...
I assume it was so that they could make things look less unhealthy. "There is HOW MUCH salt in this?" "Yeah, but that's for four servings, the per serving amount is a measly X".
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Ya, i'm holding on to my 2013 Macbook Air. Hoping there will be a new version of it soon. I'm going to wait one more year before jumping ship to a Linux ultrabook.
Oh I know they're still out there. But as you've noticed, the price makes them totally impractical. The lack of selection also means you're less likely to find the exact monitor to make you happy.
It's much better for advertisers to astroturf on reddit.
This! Always wipe and reload a commercial PC when you receive it. There's nothing they did that you want.
Yes. If advertisers aren't ready for the whole spectrum of what humanity has to offer, they aren't ready for life and should probably stay at home, lock their doors, bar their windows, and cease all contact with the outside world.

Also what Tuff said applies more readily to various chans, less to reddit, which usually has more civilized discussions - A natural by-product of trying to piss off preferably less than 50% of the userbase with each post.
It is a cost savings move. If you have power locks and a transponder system anyway, the lock cylinders are effectively redundant (minus security concerns) and can be eliminated for more profit.
Market forces are the only way to reduce starvation and homelessness.
I'm thinking (just as an example) of pre-buffering software that temporarily stores the files unencrypted. Perhaps simply because they hadn't thought about the implications for copyright infringement. Would that still be incitement?
yes. and pay bus drivers to be monitors - they could read a book to the kids or actually teach a class
If you think of it in terms of expense and recompense it makes sense. I spent £5k making this photo vs. it cost me nothing beyond sunk costs to make.
Do you compare assembler with SQL?
> This is the end of Reddit.

People have been proclaiming the end of Reddit since before Digg's downfall.
"There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world." -- John Maynard Keynes
>training and best practices <...> the problem of over-under-engineering

That’s what you have to have once you throw a bunch of tools, planks and screws at first graders and let them go. In my 20s I used few local enterprise solutions to help local micro-businesses do their accounting. The base system was obviously dumb and too restrictive to create “apps (tm)”, but it did its job very well. One specific thing about it was that it was infinitely hard (read: know C++/COM and be able to investigate platform issues) to create extensions for it and/or manipulate basic blocks like you can do with web trinity. The result is that no one went that long route of dominating the market with shady solutions that have value from non-tech faces, but are technically crap.

Seeing what some devs could do even in these conditions, I can tell that it was a good state of things for the tasks that platform meant to solve.

I may seem jump on topics on this one, but to not write a poem, look: Perl’s tmtowtdi is highly criticized, but what web allows is a “there are infinite ways to do it” paradigm with no basic blocks or “best practices” like you name it.

Summed up: if you’re writing apps that do edit objects, there is no room for custom element offsets, scroll handlers, sql statements (except select for few cases) and knowledge of http cookies, headers, urls, etc. If you can’t define a datascheme with two clicks, draw a form layout by hand and write final logic after 5 minutes, deploying in half a hour, without caring what platforms/databases/browsers/ languages/frameworks/backups/ maintenance/ides do you choose, then there is no room for business or app logic in your head.

>the latest HTML, CSS, and plain Javascript

Today it is like chasing specifics of plain 80386 assembly — the knowledge that ages faster than you can read on it from zero to top professional experience. If things didn’t get better in a decade, then it is a dead end. Plank, screw and hammer problem never gets old.
This is a complete misunderstanding of what is happening in higher education. The increase in tuitions for need-blind schools like Brown is essentially forced donations for the families that can afford to pay. Everyone is already given financial aid to meet whatever their need is. Now, however, some of that is in the form of loans.

Alongside the increase in tuitions has been a massive increase in financial aid. Princeton really kicked this off around 2000 when they started drastically reducing loans and increasing grants, essentially competing for the top talent among lower income students.
I distantly remember that there is (or used to be?) a tiling-window-management extension for KWin. Google might help finding it.
Prisoners of Prisoner's Dilemma
windows, aptly named for the thing you should be chucking it out of :D as for vendors installing vendor software... whats new? really people are mad about this? what about their smart phones... they must have blood pressure issues throwing a fit over this nonsense. if you want a good running laptop where you are in control of the software chose linux, or if you prefer windows, atleast install and manage it yourself... don't need to have all this vendor nonsense if you dont want it. just re-install it clean!
I use a Dell XPS with Ubuntu. I didn't have to deal with any of the bullshit.

Why do people continue to purchase products from companies that blatantly want to spy on them? Vote with your wallet and never go through a bizarre multi-step anti-spyware setup again.
I'm no fan of coaches being the most highly paid public employees in most states by any stretch (especially with the athletes earning at most a free ride and a rubber-stamped business degree), but at least the sports teams are bringing in revenue, and people willingly donate to build a new stadium, etc.

The Humanities Dean isn't a revenue center for the college, and nobody is (knowingly) donating so s/he can get a new office.
Using Python for Mobile Development: Kivy vs. BeeWare
Become a minimalist and learn to be happy with less.
The birthplace of the Illuminati
I tried advertising on Reddit earlier this year. I picked a few subreddits, whipped out my credit card, picked a few key phrases, and figured I was ready to go.

The advertising UI left a lot to be desired. I was hoping to run multiple versions of the same ad to test CTR, no dice. I could set up multiple ads, wait for them each to be approved, then manually make changes through molasses, possibly with additional approvals after each one.

I've used Google Ads, Bing, and some of those "curated" networks before. All of them felt like they wanted to help me succeed (so I'd give them more money). Using the Reddit system felt like a fight I was losing the whole time.

(at the time they were segregating advertisers into the like 10K+ spenders, and others. we were in the others category)
Can you explain the math behind the "Reserve Deficit Sell Penalty" example ?

If 1M loses 50k in value (5% loss), then surely someone holding $320 would face a $16 haircut ? The example shows $2.
As long as the device is safe, yes. As long as a device is statistically safer than a human, yes.

Would I let 20 kids sit in a room for two hours unsupervised? No. Should a school bus full of kids be supervised by someone who is supposed to be driving? No. Should the school bus driver be sending texts while driving, and while supervising 30 kids? No.
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https://github.com/bmrf/tron
I think this change would be for the better. What about something even easier to see, than +2 or -2 and hovering with the mouse? Most people aren't going to mouse-hover ... And it can be good to know if something has 103 upvotes and 100 downvotes, because then it's probably a rather dangerous comment/advice.

Maybe showing the text "Some disagree with this", if some people disagree? Or "Many people", if many. I linked to a demo about how that can look, in another comment here — search for "Look, a demo" on this page.
Great self driving so the steward has 100% focus on the kids.
Exactly this.

You have to have some level of trust. That trust should have a pretty high barrier, though.

FOR ME, one of the biggest things I look at is motivation. This often means looking at business models. We've seen where the race to the bottom for laptop prices gets us. I'd rather buy a laptop from a company that makes money off of selling the hardware, itself.
And that was the end of Digg.
Wish I didn't have to open Chrome to view websocket frames though. Firefox does detect that a WS connection was made, it just can't inspect it.
It's very obvious that advertisers discovered reddit for viral marketing some time ago. In the last few years the number of highly upvoted posts on /r/all that include logos and company names increased dramatically.

It's common to find top posts titled along the lines of "My SO and I recreated our first date at <fastfood joint>" or "The store where I work wanted to burn these clothes but I saved them: <link to image with cloths from a specific designer>".

Sometimes top comments were obviously made by advertisers where someone asks for a better alternative of a product depicted in the post and another one answers only 1 minute later with high praise for another product.

I don't believe that every mention of a product is directly advertising but I noticed a steep increase of users mentioning products directly by name and model number over the time.
Servers are located in Amsterdam, Miami, Seattle and Singapore. Since the resolvers are new, there's a lot of global cache to fill up.

In addition, if you'd be willing to share, visit https://nstoro.com/api/v1/geolookup and shoot us the results to hello@tenta.com. That API will pull your IP and the physical location of the box you connected to. If that location isn't Amsterdam, then we'll need to take a look at our routing.
Selling upvotes without marking posts as 'promoted' is an option if they badly need a way to sustain. But I'm pretty sure most of the userbase (including me) would leave if this was made public.
How many marketers do you know? I'm glad to see you edited "99% of marketers" to "vast majority of marketers," but that still reeks of a generalization based on personal opinion and not fact.
It appears relatively easy to get a majority to vote against their best interest. Case in point: Trump getting elected. If all that's needed to win a vote is populism and ad money, then you can be damn sure that people will vote not just against unalienable rights of minorities but will also against sell out their best long-term interests to short-term ones or to "principles" that sound good because they've been constantly repeated on Fox News or CNN.

Even without demographics taken into account, a country that's not accountable to a base set of unchangeable rules is a scary thing.
I spend a lot of money advertising on Reddit. It does great. I’m extremely happy.
Sure, if you trust the OS. But what if the OS itself forces spyware and adware into your machine without your permission and it is not removable, like Windows 10 does...

The ability to control your machine is always good for users in the long run, though you're right it's important to make stupid changes very difficult for less sophisticated users.

Perhaps your bank should control your money so that you don't spend it unwisely? Users are stupid, after all.
I'm using Sway on my notebook, but I still have Plasma as a fallback. General window management works reasonably well, but some particular Wayland protocol extensions are missing (for example, relative pointer motion, without which games like Minecraft don't work).
India is miles ahead of the US with its ironclad net neutrality rules
Seems like a simple fix would be to put an accelerometer into the key fob and turn off the radio if it hasn't moved in a minute or two.
"... take the most critical, bullying group of individuals on the internet and throw them into one community; that is Reddit,” said Tuff.

Lol.
the best way to weather a recession is to have cash. The emergency fund is the most important tool. IF you don't have cash, you can't spend time transitioning from one area of work to another. You also need a low burn rate when switching areas. Low debt enables this.
Why this scaremongering? It's just an amazon affliate link.

A misguided attempt to make some revenue by canonical, who are broke and recently had to lay off a significant portion of employees.
> What's the answer? It would be nice if I could ask about this when I get a new car in a couple of years.

http://www.disklokuk.co.uk/shop/disklok
Express gratitude for things/people that are already in your life. Become truly grateful for the life you live. External validation can only do so much.
Google are commercially benefitting from having copied works in their entirety. It's not so different.
You say that like those are impossible obstacles. It's been a while since I rode a school bus, but the driver wasn't exactly adult supervision, and there was plenty of vandalism already. If anything, a self-driving school bus would be a positive as it would then allow the former driver to actually focus on the kids.

Not sure I agree with the idea that others could be fooled by where it's going in traffic, given that it's programmed to obey traffic laws.
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Don't know how many people on HN have ever driven a school bus full of kids, but its a lot more than "Point A to Point B". Its fairly common for kids in K-6 to not know:

- Home Address

- Home/Parents Phone Number

- Last Name (you'd be surprised at how common this was)

Thats not to mention what to do in the event of an emergency. Just play out the follow events in your mind with a bus full of kids and no trained adults:

- Fire

- Break down on a major highway

- Collision with another vehicle

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HN is more critical but less bullying. It rarely tolerates open crude abuse, but has a huge blind spot around "intellectual" bullying such as ""scientific"" racism.
No steward in the plan? The plan is, cheaper than busses. Hiring an adult for every 5 kids (only 6 seats) is prohibitively more expensive than 1 for 60 in a regular bus.

And volunteers don't work either - if they drove to school to ride along with the kids, why didn't they just drive them home themselves?
Ah. My personal goals are fully aligned with my company goals.
I'm not claiming to be an expert.
Migration is hard, but I fail to see how something like MongoDB makes this easier.

Either you kick the can to the code, or do a migration script. Is there some magic style of coding that allows me to use the old data structures with the new code without having to do any special checks?
Lol. That schoolbus is is going to be in flames on the side of the road with 20 kids on it with no supervision.
I think they were suggesting an improvement to the hacking tool.
> their users are sophisticated enough to use ad blockers

Do you have a source for that? I don't find it impossible to believe, but that's a pretty bold claim. I'm sure a lot of people use ad blockers, but how does that number compare to total user volume? And how does it break down (engaged users, infrequent visitors, etc.)?
> When you're poor these honor systems may be all you have

I think you're on to something there. I recall something from Steven Pinker's book on violence.

"
if I do something stupid when I'm driving, and someone gives me the finger and calls me an asshole, it's not the end of the world: I think to myself, I’m a tenured professor at Harvard. On the other hand, if status among men in the street was my only source of worth in life, I might have road rage and pull out a gun.
"
I'm using Plasma 5 and I cannot confirm any of this. Things have been very stable ever since I switched to it (from Plasma 4) about three years ago. Much stabler than Plasma 4 in its early days (that was, admittedly, a huge crash-fest). And S3 sleep is causing literally zero problems.
So did the review say "they wouldn't let me try it, presumably because its terrible. 0/10"?