skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>My take on the demonetization controversy is that it is too coarse: the output is a boolean, is it advertiser friendly or not so, to say nothing of the preferences of individual advertisers.

Different metrics matter more/less to different advertisers/industries/audiences and the more niche it is the less it matches up with the global average that is a "general audience"

This. If there's a video of some guy laying in the mud welding some piece of heavy equipment back together in the middle of nowhere whether or not he's swearing like a sailor probably doesn't matter at all to Hobart or Lincoln or some other company that might be advertising their line of welding consumables with the video.

Likewise I'm sure some companies that sell products that make us less afraid of unlikely events (fire extinguishers, life insurance, etc) would have little problem with their ads appearing in conjunction with violent content.
US-centric perspective after 25 years on/off Wall Street often working ridiculous hours and now working for myself overseas for 2+ years. Be a mercenary, all the smarties and C-suiters (senior executives) do it. Companies in the US ask for their pound of flesh so be sure you are paid accordingly. Compensation schemes for elites in companies are heads I win huge, tails I lose and still walk away with a big pay package, enough to live on for years. So learn to play their game fast. Your loyalty is to provide for your family in the best manner possible and not kill yourself in the process. When downturns come due to the global economy, industry issues or company/strategic mis-steps, you can bet loyalty has zero value in the equation.
Seeing this comment on HN has to be some record level of irony.
> the $4,999 'starter' model ships with an 8-core Xeon processor, 32GB of RAM, 1TB of solid-state storage and a Radeon Vega Pro graphics chipset with 8GB of RAM
Pot calling the kettle black.
The graduation rate for those athletes tends to be quite low overall though, so not all of them get that benefit.
I feel so many data scientists are bullshit. I had the worse interviews, like someone telling me about how ARIMA is so good and why would I even use a LSTM network. Even worse is they cite some bullshit consulting article with skewed data to prove their point.
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Salaries are an operating cost and have nothing to do with the disbursement of profits. Some people at charities are very well paid but that has nothing to do with the charitable status.
> If Rentech has a strategy which generates decent returns only with massive and illegal levels of leverage, it does not have a viable strategy, period.

And in my previous comment to you, literally the one you replied to, I explained that this is not the case. Re-read my comment. Their strategies have alpha distinct from the leverage (because, again, leverage is not alpha), both historically before the tax maneuvering began, and since the conclusion of its use.
Not all IPs are equal. If facebook peers directly with your internet provider, your internet provider doesn't have to pay for that traffic.

Netflix allows internet provider to peer with them for free at exchange points.[1]

[1]: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
Huge fan of Georgia Tech's online masters program. It's in the top 10 graduate computer science programs in the world, and it's the same curriculum and same degree that you would get on campus. But the total cost of the program is around $7,000 dollars. Their reasoning? You don't pay for the stadium, the student fitness center, career advisers, etc. You only have to pay for the cost of the online program, professors, and TA's.
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They did a "Pro Mini" with expandability via Thunderbolt, the problem was they priced it at $3000+ and called it "Mac Pro"
> What happens if Comcast decides that Hulu Plus will be free with their broadband?

Right now Comcast cable TV is pretty close to free with their broadband, is that any different?

Overall Europe and NZ seem to have better broadband available at better prices than the USA. They also dont have net neutrality so you can't say that NN is definitely good.
Ajit Pai offers no data for latest claim that net neutrality hurt small ISPs
I do.

downvoted until invisible

>See, nobody wants it guys!
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I saw a dude with a ryzen hackintosh rig, it performed incredibly but... even among enthusiasts he mentioned 'This was not for the faint hearted. I don't recommend you actually do this- even though I got it to work with minimal quirks it took probably more than a month of my life".

Obviously not all hackintosh's are not as bad as that (AMD being a completely unsupported platform in Apple-land) but the /risk/ of it is a very large blocker for many people.

I bought my first mac precisely to avoid these kinds of issues.
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It's not that simple. When you're a party claiming to be a transparent pass-through then you should be just that. As soon as you start tampering with the signal on some of the connections you lose trust for all of the connections. After all, you shouldn't even have that capability to begin with.
In response to [2], these days MQ is deprecated and there's a big push to get people to use evolve, which avoids this mess and is much safer.
Which would be fine if all sites used the same rules. But I often find that I can only find the rules when I break them. Such as "password too long > 16 characters" or "cannot include a space character" (why not?)
Hi, I'm your product manager.

I'd like you to create a login page where a user can log in using their email address and a password.

We want our users to be made to feel as if we take security seriously, so let's use the following secure password requirements that I picked up from a blog post:

* Password must be AT LEAST 6 characters (but no more than 12, because who's going to remember more than 12 characters?)

* There must be at least one number.

* There most be at least one uppercase and at least one lowercase letter.

* There should be at least one special character, but not just any special character, because we don't want things to get crazy. Only these five: &$+#%

Okay, can you code that up for me?

Wait, it'll take how long?

Well, yes, I understand that you not only need to build in the validation logic but also need to build little error messages to let the user know what they've done wrong if their password doesn't meet all the requirements, plus allow time for writing tests, getting UX's rubberstamp, etc.

But I kind of need this by tomorrow afternoon. Is there anything we can consider out of scope?
Face ID is fantastic. It works more reliably than Touch ID did for me. Security wise, maybe not as secure. But more convenient? Absolutely.
So you are saying that your opinion changes if the user pays some token amount for the service? If they upgraded their plan to whatever the cheapest level is, then this would be no longer be a good thing for Cloudflare to do?

Let us not forget that these emails aren't even being sent by or through Cloudflare: Cloudflare is not an email provider. Their interest in this is simply that they provide DNS. I find the ways that cloudflare thinks about how we should stop Internet abuse--such as their plea that all ISPs turn on packet logging to help find the sources of denial of service attacks--extremely concerning from a surveillance perspective :/.
Maybe some HN reader who is more familiar with quantum computing can help me answer this question: how broadly applicable is quantum computing? I know that it breaks some forms of cryptography and reduces the security of others, but aside from that I haven't heard of many practical uses for it. Is it destined to remain a niche area of computing or is it more broadly applicable than I've been led to believe?
>There is no reason whatsoever why sending 10GB of data to one IP would be more expensive than sending it to another.

This statement is false. It most certainly is more expensive to send packets to places like Australia than to Europe (Australia has 20x higher transit pricing). You could claim the cost is pennies either way however that doesn't address the fact that some packets are more expensive than others.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world...
I am very curious to see how cooling holds after couple of months of use. I did use iMac and fan didn't work silently as soon as I actually used processor. Maybe it works better now, that's a lot of cores and a lot of heat.
I am French and I am very happy with the quasi-trademark rules.

This way, when I buy a product named "X", I know that it follows a standard without having to look at all the details. If I think "X" is overrated, I will buy the lesser known "Y" that I know is just as good, because it has its own standard. Same as with name brands, really.

Speaking about Champagne, fundamentally, it is just a sparkling wine. No one forces you to buy Champagne if you want sparkling wine. In France, we have alternatives that can be just as good: Cremant, Blanquette, Clairette,... or even generic "mousseux".

The only thing that makes Champagne Champagne is that it has to meet a certain standard, and part of it is that it has to be made in the Champagne region.

I mean, it's like buying a Swiss watch that has nothing to do with Switzerland. It may be a very good watch, but don't call it a Swiss watch unless it is Swiss.
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More importantly it also doesn't mean "charity" which I often see it equated to.
> I think 3D artists prefer windows (I know c4d and maya work on apple, I wonder if Houdini works on apple)

Apple's problem is that for 3D art you need a current, beefy graphics card with good drivers. Apple only supports up to OpenGL 4.1 (an old version) and recommends using Metal for fast 3D graphics (which is used nowhere else). Under Windows Direct3D 11.x (for legacy purposes), Direct3D 12, current OpenGL versions and Vulkan is supported by the drivers of current GPUs (why do I mention DirectX, even though it is proprietary to Microsoft? Because in the past the driver quality was much better for DirectX than for OpenGL).

With Vulkan support available under GNU/Linux I can imagine that in the future the situation will also improve under GNU/Linux (where in the past the quality of the OpenGL implementations was even worse than under Windows). But I see no plans of Apple on how they plan to improve the situation under OS X.
> I liked the style

Same here, still consuming it, gonna take a couple of days.

But then I'm sharing it with bossman and my mother.
> I'm pretty sure that anyone with millions of subscribers would be bankrupt instantly.

It would be interesting to see a napkin calculation on this, because I highly doubt this is true. Bandwidth cost and video compression are both a lot better these days than people think, and if you could cut the middle man out of advertising (which you might could if you have millions of viewers) I think the benefit would be significant.

Of course, YouTube does not only provide bandwidth and servers. They provide a "platform", not in the technical sense but in the broader sense. They have well working apps on all mobile platforms, they have a social network, they have editing tools and redundancy, they have so many benefits that you'd really have to think twice before taking them on.

Your idea of a strike is interesting, while I doubt it would happen I would love for content creators to team up and make common demands.
Jim Simons has given $27 million in political donations, all to Democrats. We'll see if the Republican IRS will get Rentech to pay taxes or if the clock has run out.

https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topindivs.php
> Because evidence has shown when you waste the time of people doing this, they move on.

I'm not convinced of this. At best, shadow-banning wastes a little bit of their time and delays slightly their inevitable creation of a new account.

> If you instantly ban them, its easy to spot, easy to automate and doesn't really solve the problem.

Shadowbanning only really works for unsophisticated users. If you know it's a possibility, it's easy to check for (just create another account and check with it). Phisher's are probably going to be fairly sophisticated, since they're working to make a profit, not to only disrupt or push a POV.
So, effectively the same thing, but slightly less pro-consumer?
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It's not about donors. Div I schools can make hundreds of millions of dollars from media rights.
> as long as people underestimate debt,

This is a little like saying "As long as people do bad stuff, they will go to prison".

Yeah, but that doesn't mean "people" will stop doing bad stuff.

I remember post-2008 financial crisis a lot of people were blaming consumers for going into debt to buy crap, like new TVs, cars, and whatnot on credit. And it was "their fault" doing it. I don't disagree that everyone has a personal responsibility for stuff like this, but I always think of issues like these in terms of "systems" and environments that set up the conditions for people to do that.

Central banks everywhere made interests dirt cheap, which led to banks offering credit for everything and easy credit to obtain, too. It's like they couldn't loan money fast enough. And yeah, a lot of people did fall for it, but the conditions were already created for them to do that.

It's no different than tobacco ads brainwashing people into thinking that smoking is cool and you will be a better version of yourself if you smoke, you will feel good, and all that.

So where I'm getting at is that in this case it's mainly the government guaranteeing loans and making it "easy" for students to pay for college with loans is what's really the problem here.

Make public college free (with what money? I don't know, maybe the $70 billion a year the military just received for no good reason, even before an audit was done of their expenses?), and then ban banks from offering college loans. You'll quickly see this problem solve itself.
I think this is a great question and would love to hear a thoughtful, measured, non-snarky response
there isn't a well understood optimum but it's easy to screw up and get a vitamin b12 deficiency for instance, or to put too much fiber or sulfur and constantly pass gas, etc.
Have you ever tried Chip's Challenge 2? Chuck finally got the rights back and released it recently[1]. I actually thought the second one had even more interesting computer-themed mechanics than the first one, it's a shame it was released so late. There's also a nostalgic tileset you can drop in for CC2 (depending on which version you consider nostalgic)[2].

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/348300/Chips_Challenge_2/

[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0klXLq7HW8sTzNhWTY3clo5Xzg...
pretty easy with Reactive Angular Forms.
some interviews ask me the stupidest questions "how large is your dataset?" , "have you ever worked with 100GB of data". fucking morons
Not on the same level - but may I highlight the Fun Press Bookshelf [1] (for Free Functional Programmings Book) in TXT and the Yuki & Moto Bookshelf [2] (for Free Ruby & Friends Programming Books) in TXT (using the Manuscripts format) [3].
[1]: http://funpress.github.io
[2]: http://yukimotopress.github.io
[3]: http://manuscripts.github.io
> The Daily Stormer army deserves little sympathy, and using them to invoke a slippery slope argument full of straw men is somewhat sloppy and escalates this discussion to a place where criminal actors are victims and a company trying to do something good is told they're lackeys of a police state.

I agree that The Daily Stormer deserves no sympathy, and will note I did not apologize for them (I even chose to call them "Nazis" instead of "neo-Nazis" or "alt-right": let's call a spade a spade, after all).

However, I also did not make a theoretical argument to which you can try to play your dismissive cards of "slippery slope" or "straw man": in fact, I pointed to an ongoing case playing out right now, in court.

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/10/11/cloudflare-ceo-n...

> If Cloudflare Can Block Neo-Nazi Sites, Why Can’t They Block Piracy Sites?

> In a recent filing, lawyers for the adult entertainment company demanded a 7-hour deposition. Using Prince’s own words against him, ALS Scan wrote,

> “By his own admissions, Mr. Prince’s decision to terminate certain users’ accounts was ‘arbitrary,’ the result of him waking up ‘in a bad mood,’ and a decision he made unilaterally as ‘CEO of a major Internet infrastructure corporation’.

> “Mr. Prince has made it clear that he is the one who determines the circumstances under which Cloudflare will terminate a user’s account.”

The reality is exactly as I claim it to be, and the stakes are just as high as I argue. If you disagree, I implore you to respond to the evidence, not simply dismiss the argument out of hand.
I understand that the ways that Debian developers make their decisions is not to your liking, but I disagree with your presentation of the facts, nor do I care for your passive-aggressive accusations.

Runit-init-the software was not removed from Debian. Only runit-init-the-package was removed and that was long before systemd-the-package (which, yes, was what I was referring to) appeared, and it was by a ROM from the author himself, after a bug report classified as RC (justifiably, in my opinion).

So I fail to see any changes in behavior by the Debian team, since I don't believe in this conspiracy theory that Debian Developers were finding bugs in other init systems just to push for systemd, despite not even caring enough to package it.

Could they be more open to other init systems? Probably. But that was never my question.
I totally agree with you. This whole thread sounds like an hysterical witch hunt, people condemning without understanding.

Ending Net Neutrality might be bad. But the deal offered by this Portuguese operator has none of the evils associated with it.
I think the hard part is how to tell if some site is "similar" to a sensitive site. Do you check just the owner ? (like in the example, but that would prevent any other company named stripe to own an EV certificate)

Or do you check if the domain is similar to another one?

This is a very hard problem. Maybe the similar name approach could work if it displayed just a warning to the user when he visited a site owned by someone with a similar name to a sensitive site.
Can you point to a specific ICO where the token contract allows for additional token issuance? The ERC20 reference code does not include functionality for this, nor for replacing the token code at a later date.
I think a lazy river is a sign that a school is trying too hard to attract students for the wrong reasons. I was looking at the schools with the best pools, and only some of the really big ones (UCLA UT) seem like good choices for education.

http://www.collegerank.net/best-college-pools/
Coworker who does 3d and video content here has an old Mac Pro tower with an aftermarket GPU (remember when you could upgrade those?), his next computer will be Windows.

Apple might have had an edge back in the day thanks to QuickTime, but Premier, After Effects, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, all these things are basically equivalent across platforms.

Except for the fact that on Windows they can run faster on cheaper hardware.
They're responsible for the success or failure of a whole lot of stuff that matters, even though that success or failure is difficult to measure. By contrast, the football coach is responsible for the success or failure of something that is easy to measure, but does not matter at all---at best, and at worst is harmful (at least to the bodies and minds of the players being exploited). That seems like a pretty good standard for "real job" to me.
This is a big misconception. In reality, only a small percentage of football programs are profitable [0]. Even from your link, you can see that many of the programs break even or lose money.

0. http://www.ethosreview.org/intellectual-spaces/is-college-fo...
Right, as Go is compiled into a static executable, you can't do code updates on the fly that easy. A small price to pay in a production environment. On the other side, you do have all compiler checks run while building.
https://www.voidtools.com 'Everything' Windows file name search utility is so fast it deserves a mention here (command line is available).

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=voidtools&type=comment
That's their own fault. If you're given a free/mostly free ride you should take advantage of it.
Another issue is that most password requirements change over time, without requiring existing passwords to be changed. There’s no way to tell what the requirements were the last time the user changed their password without breaching confidentiality. Having a list of all previous requirement schemes would be a mess.
Lots of countries (Canada,for one) have tuition that isn't free, but is reasonable priced, and gives subsidies to lower income individuals. Might be a better option than fully free tuition.
The rules should be, and in my experience often are, explained where you set/change you password. So on the account creation and change password pages.

The OP is talking about the login dialog.
Give me one example where humanity cured a social ill by everyone independently choosing to abstain, without organizing, starting a movement, or adopting some policy or technological solution. Show me one time where mass numbers of people said "i'm quitting smoking cold turkey" at the same time, or show me a country that cured obesity because everyone woke up one day and decided to eat less. You can't.
As if customers were too stupid to understand what the term "milk" means.

/drinks from his sunmilk
I recently used Python for a project and was again reminded why PHP is still the king of smallish web sites. With PHP I could rent a cheap service to host a few sites, no problem, take FTP and just upload scripts. That was possible 15+ years ago and still works today.

With Python - not so much. Sure, I can rent a whole VPS but I don't want to do server administration. And there are some options for hosting Django / Flask apps, but not many. Is it any wonder people still use PHP? I have used it for a long time and I hate the language - but it is hands down the best solution for small web pages where hosting is concerned.

EDIT: thank you for the downvotes. It was nice having a constructive conversation. But then again, I knew in advance it is unpopular to mention on HN that PHP, MongoDB and similar technologies have their use cases.
You can build a really really crazy machine for 4k USD. He made a good choice.
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But that's exactly how it undermines Net Neutrality. It gives an advantage to the entrenched businesses because either smaller/newer businesses won't get the same advantages, or they do, but people won't know that (or don't want to worry about it) so they still stick with the entrenched businesses.

How can there be competition on the internet if people are encouraged to only use "approved" websites and platforms?
We don't know what the strategies are so we are not in a position to evaluate the alpha. See the protasis of my statement, beginning with "if".
> I've got a beast of a rig that has been flawless.

Can you guarantee that ? Who is responsible if an upgrade doesn't work or bricks your machine ?