skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been involved in the publishing industry as both a freelance writer and a publisher who has hired freelance writers. If you have a modicum of experience and relatively good financial records, it's quite easy to estimate your publication's cash flow.

In this case, by his own words, John Steele is either completely unqualified to run a publication or he is completely full of shit. Grants don't just magically disappear...you know one will expire for several months before it does. Subscribers don't just magically stop subscribing...a qualified publisher will see complaints build and will recognize a groundswell of frustration for what it is.

And, seriously, who keeps commissioning work because they're convinced a merger is right around the corner??
Hey Esnard! I'm one of the people who worked on the wiki at NetSPI. We're planning on adding more DBMSs in the near future. Was there anything specific you're looking for about PostgreSQL?
Literally laughed out loud. So many times, I've sat on requirements or even projects waiting for the inevitable "change of priorities" making the projects no longer relevant. "Forget X, Y is the new priority", it's very reliable in big dumb corporations.
Do you need Sia to start hosting? I think you can just go for it.

Yes, you need to put up collateral to start accepting storage contracts.

https://support.sia.tech/knowledge_base/topics/how-do-i-star...
You should not be able to hold whatever views you like and participate in the community. There is no form of bigotry that belongs in software.

The problem is not that these are just controversial topics - They're beliefs and actions that directly infringe on others ability to lead their best and healthy life. Tolerating hatred by disguising it as 'diversity of thought' is just a way of masking and shielding people who need to be brought into reality. You cannot be an moral participant in our profession while believing that others lifestyles don't belong.
Have you checked kaggle for relevant datasets?
> The other key component of serverless is the pricing scheme: pay for what you use; don’t pay for provisioned capacity.

There is another way of looking at it: Pay for a percentage of the traffic, irrespective of how fast your application runs or what your budget is. If you reach your monthly budget because of one hacker news trending article, yeah, then no more traffic for you. It can be insane.

If I have autoscaling with an upper bound, I can stay within a fixed budget per month. If I reach my budget, yeah no more new servers, but whatever running keeps running. My business doesn't disappear, I get business continuity. Paying based on % of traffic sounds insane. How will I plan for business continuity if my monthly budget is reached with this kind of model? (without any "minimum xx requests" kind of crap free tier, business continuity means fixed upper bound AND continuing service, not OR)
cool - thanks.
I don't think this is really about differences of opinion, but rather the social aesthetics of the kind of space you're building. A laid-back little pub is a different kind of space than Central Park, which is a different kind of space than your living room. If some jerk barged into that bar and started shouting offensive slogans or trying to start a fight, I'd fully expect them to be kicked out (perhaps literally). Even considering less blatantly offensive conduct, I don't think every place on the internet needs to be open to every drive-by "devil's advocate" or concern troll who thinks they're being so goddamn clever by clumsily trying to bait the regulars into making a bad argument.
If the article was that bad, how come he went through the trouble of hiring attorneys to draft letters accusing the author of defamation, threaten action, and never took it any further?

There was never any apology or retraction seeming to remove settlement an a possible result.

I have no reason to doubt the claims against the article, at first glance there are a significant number of credible sources supporting the idea the article was flawed, yet the claims were ineffective legally.

Of course it’s not easy or cheap to pursue a case of defamation, however, I think it money was the issue he could have rallied some public support. If I were asked, it’s certainly an issue I would do the due diligence on and contribute something to if it made sense.

edit: btw why is no one making a movie about this? There are so many fascinating aspects, the grand challenge, the controversy, the mathematician who declined a million dollar prize. I’d love to do even a documentary on it, or watch one if it’s been done.
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Let me give an example: Justine Sacco is one famous case of a person that was fired from InterActive Corp. for a completely-not-work-related tweet.

Setting aside the question of "should Internet have reacted like it did" - the reality is that her employer had little choice, given the circumstances. Yes, it was "outside-the-community behaviour", but the business impact was immediate & considerable, I argue that for the employer there was only one reasonable/rational way to handle the crisis.

[edit] Or to take a somewhat extreme hypothetical example - I presume that if you found out that, for whatever reason, a prominent Mozilla exec was secretly funding anti-Net-Neutrality lobby (i.e "out of the community behaviour"), you would expect Mozilla to talk about it and "handle the issue", not just say that "sorry, his own money, his own personal time, he can do whatever he wants to".
Yes, Portland is both growing very fast (high rise condos are popping up everywhere) and descending into a hell hole (Google springwater corridor) at the same time.

Portland has established itself as a safe haven for homeless and down trodden folks due to it's mild weather, abundance of services, and general lack of enforcement. I've lived here under two mayor's and both have been horribly ineffective at tackling this issue. I'm not sure there is another downtown metro area as bad as Portland when it comes to homelessness.
The nightmare becomes reality and people go into panic with Bitcoin drop down
There is a range of research to suggest that Alzheimer's is a metabolic disorder with high level similarities to type 2 diabetes. You might look up "type 3 diabetes" - which is not an official designation, but sufficiently discussed in the research community and associated with Alzheimer's disease that when a different form of (definitely) age-related diabetes was discovered recently, it had to be called type 4.

Equally, don't look for single causes. There are multiple contributing factors, all of which interact with one another, and many of which have multiple causes. E.g. amyloid buildup can be in part failure of clearance by immune cells, in part failure of drainage of cerebrospinal fluid through the cribiform plate, in part generation by lingering spirochete infection, etc.
I think there is a big difference between self-curating the sort of people you want to interact with, and being subjected to algorithmic feed shaping and advertising that surreptitiously pushes only the voices that it thinks you'd be happy hearing.

Or, as it turns out more often, the voices it thinks you'd be most unhappy to hear. Negative emotions are more sticky than positive emotions, and Facebook, et. al., optimize for engagement, not user happiness.
Is the author aware that by cracking down on homelessness, all you're doing is spending taxpayer resources to move them somewhere else?

It's not like you enact some anti-homeless policy and the homeless throw their hands up in disgust, defeated by the swift arm of the law, then pull a resumes out of their back pocket, and then land some middle-class job.
It's easy, just use a clipper on the lowest setting instead of an actual shaver
>Honestly, this is pretty straight-forward stuff, and I'm surprised you're getting any argument.

I'm not. Our industry is full of academics who've been told "this is the right way to do it, everything else is stupid" for the entirety of their education. They're academics, trained by other academics, ignoring the broader reality of why we do these things at all.
You might believe he did that. Brendan Eich likely doesn’t believe that, or he doesn’t believe those specific rights are fundamental, or he has a different interpretation of those rights.

When you frame his behavior the way you just did, you immediately position your perspective as right and the other perspective as wrong, but the parent’s point is that this isn’t relevant either way. His behavior was not expressed in the workplace, and he was not pushing a violent agenda. He doesn’t need to be correct in all of his personal views, he just needs to be capable of working with people of differing lifestyles, and he needs to segregate his own beliefs from the workplace.
The noncompliance is not about taxation, its about not reporting income. Every year carries a penalty of 10k. All of this can be reset to 0 by bringing myself into compliance and then it will be pardoned, but from that point on i must comply every year. For now i have a "void all your debt card" which i'd rather keep in my sleeve until i really need it.
Yes, but when I started putting this together it was very immature, as in: it crashed a lot. I didn't really want to lock myself in to an immature product either, and I also didn't really like having to run specific commands to get to a certain setup, rather than describing the layout of my desired infrastructure.
Wow, you were right!
I was in a very popular bar with a group of friends one rather busy Friday / Saturday night. They were playing all kinds of great music and the crowd was thoroughly enjoying it until somebody* played Wham - Careless Whisper. I have vivid memory of one drunk guy about to smash the jukebox and swearing while the mood in the bar was destroyed for almost 8 minutes.
Someone should invent GitCoin. A system in which developers who contribute to open source software are paid for their contributions. The users of the free software would agree to let it mine GitCoin for a few moments before the program launches. Or somesuch
Othniel Ebenezer Hummus, Manchester, England, in 1873.

There was a shortage of cheap protein, needed to fuel the British Empire's expansion. Hummus (later Lord Hummus) developed a nurishing paste made of cooked dried chick peas, water, and salt. It was not widely liked by soldiers in the British Army, but ample supplies of hummus are created with letting the British survive the Siege of Makeking during the Boer War.
And, seriously, who keeps commissioning work because they're convinced a merger is right around the corner??

I think almost every founder of a new enterprise makes promises like this.
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I get this from your site:

Security risk detected: Trojan.Gen.NPE
Looks like it. I mean, the new website is only a day old, hosted with "Hostgator", uses a free theme (http://websites.simplesphere.net/piupiu/) and NGINX has directory listing switched on!

That and all the news reports are syndicated from the same place, so its just propagating all over the place.

That - or I am mistaken, in which case - "All Hail our new Blockchain overlords" :)
Blackberry and Nokia also deserve mention wrt smartphone. This is the smartphone I've ever used: Nokia Communicator [1]. Though I didn't own one smile

Need to see products in their zeitgeist. Not easy for everyone. Nostalgia comes into play, some people just weren't there or were too young (or have passed away).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Communicator
Unless ingested, iron should be fine. It is also low maintenance.
If you need to make a disclosure, please could you do it at the start of your statement. That way the user has context on what you write :)
Well, apart from the bits of human history where people have decided that, for example, gay people should be exterminated.
That "magic" threshold that fiat operates on is a group of people(fed gov) with guns that force it onto people, and will literally imprison you if you don't. Some people consider this oppressive and would like for it to change.
I mostly share your view, and hoped not to overstate it: it's clearly a drawback, but in all, not enough to turn me away from it. By being aware of this drawback and keeping an eye on where the lock-in is, it would not be _that_ much work to rewrite the pain points to work with another provider. That said, it's still a good idea to be aware of the drawback.

Unfortunately I can't edit my post anymore, but I should've noted that I'm overall happy with my serverless setup.
$24M iced tea stock jumps more than 200% after blockchain announcement
uhhh. wow, maybe they did. https://gitcoin.co/ Great minds
It's a waste of the information stolen to use it while people are still on high alert.
Reddcoin, the Social Currency, is up 400% since yesterday
What's the likelihood of multiple ads targeting multiple groups, probably with different photos? Did they investigate that, or just draw conclusions from one 25-36 y.o.'s Facebook account?
I've realised a while ago that the fact that OSX is Unix-based and fairly open - and therefore used by many developers for non-Apple development -- happened purely by accident, because Apple needed a better replacement for the old MacOS 9 and NExTSTEP was readily available. When developing iOS they made it more controlled and closed, and they're now following that strategy to the desktop.
> The CEO is meant to represent the organisation. Denying rights to individuals goes against Mozilla's ethos and detracts from its campaign goals.

This implies Mozilla is intrinsically a political organization, because that’s an explicit stance on a political topic. I can buy your argument here about a CEO’s personal views being incompatible with their position, but it means we need to accept that the reason for that incompatibility is the organization must have political opinions.

Does Mozilla describe itself as a political organization anywhere? I can’t immediately find a statement of its principles/values.
A business guide (ebook), leading to a more in-depth online course, leading to my SaaS offering which automates what the course entails.
See, when ever some reasonable proposal is raised, someone with absolutely the strongest push back jumps out.

Who defines essential? The cost of overnight running, does it justify the value?

The biggest cities in the world does not have overnight sub, and they carry far more people around the city, is that a problem? No, of course not.
Shameless(-ish) plug: https://github.com/piscisaureus/wepoll is not a fat abstraction layer but it could help with windows support.
If you want to use Serverless (the package, not the architecture) and are converting an existing Express app, that might indeed be a good idea. I was greenfielding, and neither of these conditions were true for me.
Sounds fun, are course materials available anywhere?
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i think the problem is people aren't wired correctly for this option, which wasn't available in a high-bandwidth edition even 20 years ago, to be safe for societies in the long run. the dopamine-driven positive feedback loop that happens in such echo chambers cause a runaway reaction of radicalizing the opinion of the whole bubble to the point where it's a religious issue when confronted about it. you almost admit it yourself and correctly diagnose that HN is also like that.

no idea about that psychology stuff. i heard those words before :)
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but would we look at a photograph taken in another part of the world and suspect it of being computer generated?
Why Western diet? Cultures other than western eat meat
definitely not a bubble
Well, it is rather annoying to be crabbed at like I was on a witch hunt. I also wrote this comment which was downvoted into the negatives and remains at zero:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15971899

The witch-hunt atmosphere in this thread is not my doing. Other people chose to upvote comments that agreed with the one sided smear campaign and downvote anything arguing for a more evenhanded approach.

Please note the final paragraph of that comment was added after it was downvoted into the negatives and initially was prefaced with "I have no idea why this is being downvoted, but... "

So I feel rather aggravated with my entire experience of this discussion. Get downvoted for an evenhanded comment, then later get lectured for a different one that could be framed as agreement with the smear campaign.

Not to self: Maybe I need to just avoid mudslinging discussions on HN lest I get mud slung all over me, no matter what I do. Trying to be a voice of reason in the face of this crap apparently does not do any good at all.
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I can't even imagine what the purpose of this sort of honeypot would be. What a waste of money that would be. It's so absurd an idea that I would laugh at it if I didn't know how much money was spent and wasted by the federal government. Really the only way to explain it is this sort of thing.

"Let's set up a whole fake parking lot, hire people to come and go in it, get a bunch of fake license plates, buy a bunch of cars, setup a camera surveillance system and feed it out onto the internet and see if anybody finds it!"

"APPROVED! I don't care how much it costs!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropper_(malware)
It's too bad I can't edit my post anymore, as I should've added that overall, the drawbacks are not enough to draw me away from the advantages. I also should've noted that I'm not using Serverless (the software).
I was curious about it, so I looked at the underlying data and fixed the numbers on the wikipedia page based on the latest UN data available. Based on that, the number of police per capita is actually considerably lower.
Basically, no. There simply is no such thing as an open GPU. It's a shame too, because I'm at a point in my life when I'd really like to embrace a completely open hardware platform as my primary desktop, even if it isn't all that powerful by modern standards.
> Executives (VP and above)

Aren't you being overly restrictive in scope here? Many executives are MBAs, but most MBAs are not executives.
This only matters if you assume malicious intent. I'm not saying it isn't ever there, but let's not pretend it's proven to be statistically significant.
My guess is that human enhancement for military use will be subject to international negotiations in the coming decades, but will probably not be considered under the Biological Weapons Convention.

For further reading, the Atlantic published an article a few years ago on this topic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/could...
Here's a link to the graphical explanation listed: http://www.swirlds.com/downloads/SWIRLDS-TR-2016-02.pdf
Then they should briefly go off duty... I fail to see an issue here.
Yeah, like an accountant that writes contracts, sets up a website to take payments and arrange consults and has a brand that large corporate purchasing departments feel happy doing business with.

So basically, yeah, just Joe the accountant from your local strip mall.
Probably. I replaced the battery in my iPhone 4S and iPhone 6 a little after a year. I did it mostly for more battery life, but I haven't noticed significant performance degradation.
Because they're convinced a merger is right around the corner?? I'd agree if you said they were convinced a big accounts receivable was sending a cheque, but counting on a merger to pay all your debt to contributors is naive at best.
Could you elaborate on how the given postulate of "very disparate cultural backgrounds" correlates with the assumed authoritarian outcome of convert to a set of religious purity laws and rituals and (very long) list of groups and opinions that must be hated and shunned, at the point of a sword, or die? Am I missing the chronological component, perhaps today's revealed truth is permitted goodthink, but converts from historically variable backgrounds are permitted as long as there is absolutely no variation in current opinion, sorta a sinners redemption argument?

"very disparate cultural backgrounds" should mean more than "how many angels dance on the head of a pin" level of disagreement between authoritarian fundamentalist sects, or in the context of the actual demographics of software development, which ivy league school a young wealthy urban coastal left wing white male attended. In a field suffering from a demographic crisis of non-diversity, it seems weird to propose a religious purity test to kick out the non-believers as some kind of inherent good, because the result of implementing a religious purity test can't possibly be good for diversity. The argument seems to be "If we just get rid of everyone who thinks differently than us using ever more elaborate formalized and authoritarian religious purity tests, then we'll have all the benefits of diversity with none of the costs" but I don't think the real world works that way.

Historically trying to strengthen a dying movement by radicalizing it even further from mainstream has generally failed to revive the movement. Its an interesting chicken vs egg problem where dying ideologies and radicalization usually correlate, and the question is causation, which causes the other? I'm assuming, given your support for radicalization, you're on the team that sees dying ideology as a cause of radicalization. I realize using logic in a discussion about religion is irrational in and of itself, but thinking purely logically, if you see the legacy ideology as dying, then why not "switch over" ahead of time and be ahead of the pack if the legacy view is going to die out and be replaced anyway? Or do you see it as, yes 99% of the time, historically radicalization has destroyed the movement, but this time radicalization is the occasional rare situation where it'll work? And if so, why this time with this movement? There doesn't appear to be any observable reason to think today's movement is unusual.
My comment from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15978994

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Looks like it [is a joke!]. I mean, the new website is only a day old, hosted with "Hostgator", uses a free theme (http://websites.simplesphere.net/piupiu/) and NGINX has directory listing switched on!
That and all the news reports are syndicated from the same place, so its just propagating all over the place.

That - or I am mistaken, in which case - "All Hail our new Blockchain overlords" :)
"what the market will bear" isn't necessarily appropriate for a public good, though.

It might maximize ticket revenue if they priced some people out of taking the train. Doesn't maximize good for the city, or even revenue for the city if some marginal person decides to stay home instead of going to work.
Sounds like a way of justifying the fact that his results are totally silo'd off from the rest of the mathematical cannon
I think this might be block chain's pets.com moment. If this weren't from Bloomberg, I would honestly think this was satire.
Hi Rayalez,

Nulis seems very interesting. I just played with it a bit. I certainly like your approach on creating an outline.

I'm also working on an app for writers: https://mediatag.io. It is more general for all creatives and filmmakers, but I wrote a use case for screenwriters: https://mediatag.io/use_cases/filmmaking/screenwriting
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Your comment assumes that relocation 1) is bad, and 2) is the only step being taken to fight homelessness.

In response to the second one, the city may be taking a number of steps to fight homelessness. Shelters, mental health facilities, drug rehab programs, and counseling can all help the issue without relocation.

Also, I'm just not sure relocation is completely a bad thing. Portland is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in, with rent being prohibitively expensive to the lower class unless several people congeal in a single apartment. Not everyone can do that. How is it bad if they are relocated to a cheaper part of the country?