skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a mirror of the page could be found here...

view-source:https://web.archive.org/web/20180117063656/https://iabem97.github.io/chaiOS/

google chrome browser seems to have disabled the display of the content but other browsers may still be fine with it...
Two points on this:

1. I'm not sure how that affects my point.

2. In my experience the price difference for last minute on Amtrak has been at most about 20% (though I'm not a frequent Amtrak traveler).
Oh, I definitely have.
No, not at this time. I'm going to make sure the two tech bros get what they deserve, extreme public shaming.
On the whole, I've probably learned more at conferences from talking shop over drinks than from the talks. Many talks are hastily put together and poorly presented. And many are simply above or below whatever my skill level for that thing might then be (which isn't too say they don't have value, but compared to actual conversations with new and knowledgable individuals...). Maybe "industry" conferences are different from academic ones though.

But don't worry, I've never actually went to a tech conference, exactly because of the huge cost combined with not usually wanting to go to most talks. So I'm not going to be that guy on your team! :)
Same for the northern Dallas suburb area, we don't need more people and company HQs. Now Fort Worth? That's another story...
Authoritarianism in practice. There's no reason why socialism would need to have such insane monetary policies.
> The problem with the patent system is not the concept of patents, but what they've been allowed to apply to and how long the terms have increased.

Patents aren't copyrights. The term for patents is only about 20 years.
Hasn't it been so for like a year now? At least half a year?
Hasn't Google been telling everyone for years that they want users to have information at their fingertips? They've built their platform around this. Google wants to do things like set a calendar reminder when it sees that you got emailed a receipt for plane tickets. When they see you just ate a restaurant they want to suggests things to do after (movie, play, concert, etc). They've been telling everyone this is what they want to do.

So, if someone is using Google products, why are they freaked out about this?
I'll try resubmit my bug here and see how it goes. thanks!
To clarify, currencies can be based on physical reality (paper gold) and you can extend this logic to include a government's GDP of physical goods and management of that GDP. However, that maintains the majority of value for government currencies is tied more to intangible concepts like management and policy rather than goods.
why is HN so against socialism?
Dark Caracal: Cyber-Espionage at a Global Scale [pdf]
Pedantically, the state of any material object is just information and should be transferable over a network?
Ask HN: What do you look for when choosing a Digital Marketing/Growth Agency?
I am currently in the process of launching my own Digital Marketing/Growth Agency. Our main areas of work will be across SEO, PPC, & Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) - With our main service being full management of all three areas to drive business growth.

Before I make a big push to attract clients I wanted to get some feedback from people on HN that have hired agencies in the past to find out what you look for in an agency and what would make you more or less likely to choose one?

With this information I hope to better structure my business and our market positioning and ensure our website content and marketing addresses key concern areas to help us bring in clients.

Thanks in advance for all your help and advice!
I think a big difference is that Datomic can scale out reads in a distributed way. While also keeping writes consistent and transactional.

So its specifically designed for such case where you need consistent transactional writes, while needing high scale reads.
Ah, gz-decompress the stylesheet itself, ok.

For what it's worth, in my profiles of pageloads in at least Firefox I haven't seen gz-decompression of stylesheets show up in any noticeable way, but I can believe that it could be a problem if you have a lot of data: images in the sheet...
Site is down, as ironic as it might sound, here is the Google Cache of it:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bradfro...
This is probably the single best STEM education tool I have seen created in a long time.
>Unless the government is apt to expropriate

...how do you think Venezuela got here?
shouldn't Venezuela be one the richest country in the world? As far as I know they have the biggest oil reserves in the world.
Yes, there's the one example everyone loves to trot out. Japan is different from the US in a lot of ways and we can't just wave a wand and turn New York into Tokyo (or Cleveland into Sapporo, for that matter).
For Paris, you can also find ugly parts of urban environments, with the worst in the urban sprawl around the city.
Too much density decreases the quality of life. Overcrowdedness, very long waiting times at every establishment or government office, increased ease of pickpockets etc. to "disappear into the crowd", higher prices. You already see all this in many existing cities; you want that, but worse? I'll take malls connected by highways over that any day. Malls are nice and cars are a better experience than transit/walking in every facet besides the fact of not being able to web browse on a phone while doing it.
Even earlier. There are historic reports from rome during the time of the senate, banning carts in some streets and areas of the cities during certain times of the day.
Sure, one of the reasons I liked it, was because of the chaos that still was writing portable C or C++ code back then.

But when focusing on the PC market, it felt a step backwards being interpreted, the JIT only came in 1.3 and AOT compilation has only been available in commercial JDKs (gjc was never that good).

Let alone the whole story with value types.

Thankfully, I have been able to avoid Node thus far.
People also insulate with cellulose -- ground up newspaper. It is treated with boron to make it flame retardant.
> Nice to see Toronto on the list, though game theory suggest

My bet is on Toronto because they can pick up all the staff they need worldwide without the problems of trying to get US visas.
Unfortunately, iptables can't protect against all forms of DDOS attacks. Even just getting flooded by packets being routed to a particular IP can cause a datacenter's network to be affected. Something like CloudFlare Warp is the only way to truly prevent packets from being routed to your servers in the first place (I don't work for CloudFlare).
So what's left? Moving to a commodity-backed currency? Pinning it to another major currency? Bloomberg states the problem but doesn't even talk about whether Zimbabwe fixed their problem and if so how so, much less what options are available to Venezuela. I mean sure I can Google it but it's surprising for Bloomberg to publish such a weak article. It's what I'd expect from USA Today.
I'm betting it will be Miami. Short flight to both of their HQ's, great weather, a lot of space, and tons of new developments.
Wow, so all we have to do is accept totalitarian rule? Where do I sign?
Hm. I find google map reviews fairly useful, and so don't mind contributing. I don't know why my phone figuring out if I'm near a restaurant I would like is creepy?

It's nowhere near as creepy as find my device, which everyone seems OK with.
> In general there is plenty of good FOSS software, but there is also plenty of bad FOSS software

Yes. That's very different than saying there's 10 bad choices, though. IMO, the good outweighs the bad, but you won't get an argument from me about there being examples of bad FOSS.

> if you spread what people you have between different projects you're not going to get the resources you need

Personally, I'm very happy that I have the option to run XMonad. What @detaro wrote is spot on here: "You can not assume that all the people working on 10 alternatives otherwise would work on one project together. That might work with your employees and work projects, but not with volunteers" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16177915). I highly doubt the XMonad developers would even be interested in working on the WM that you're envisioning, so there's no loss in having them spend their efforts on a WM that does interest them. It's definitely made my life richer.

> Case in point - every company that's tried seriously to build consumer-friendly linux products has basically had to re-build the interface themselves (Nokia/Jolla, Samsing Tizen, PalmOS, Google).

That seems like an odd example to me, since you're arguing desktop interfaces but those are all examples of mobile interfaces. Are you sure there was even a FOSS mobile interface available for those companies to use if they wanted? I think that also overlooks that companies may choose to make a new interface to differentiate their product.
Great to see a novel approach to handle deep discussion trees. Reddit obviously benefits from this approach, HN not so much. HN discussion trees tend to be shallow, in my experience. It is also not clear to me how this UX translate to mobile. Cool demo though. Keep up the good work.
How have you not? Its one of the top 5 arguments against.
Not just simple text, it's UTF-8. Rendering these UTF-8 "text bombs" seems to DoS several applications. This particular one crashes the messages app in iOS, crashes the tab in Chrome, and locks up FireFox. It also crashes several text editors which support UTF-8. Opens quickly in notepad, but takes several minutes in wordpad and it very laggy when scrolling.
and yet they so often end up there. I think its desperation, trying to convince a whole population to do things differently all at once which never goes well. They end up trying to make change by fiat, instead of working with what they have. So authoritarianism.
It's also possible to bypass Cloudflare if the target allows remote / external file upload (e.g avatar upload on forums, host the the relevant avatar on your own server and check your webserver access logs).
There's minimal car access during business hours to the walled part of York: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York#Transport
Uber ex-CEO Travis Kalanick will officially be a billionaire Thursday
My only experience with the company was a mutual strong no after the rudest phone screen of my life. I was trying to describe how a toy function like the prompt I had just written would be perfect for property checking (a la quickcheck) and the phone screener stopped me partway and berated me for not “getting” unit tests.
A very small percentage of venezuela's economy is controlled by government.
That's true in Seattle right now too.

The city has been building bicycle lanes all around the city -- and yet cycling is down as a percent of commuters for the fifth straight year in a row.

We could have dedicated that space to larger sidewalks and greener boulevards, instead of sparsely populated bicycle lanes. (Like London, we don't have great weather -- and we also have lots of steep hills. But city planners keep looking to cycling as our transportation panacea.)
And also to demonstrate that the urban environment is directly subsidizing the suburban neighborhoods.

If you ever get the chance to see a talk by Joe Minicozzi from Urban3, I highly recommend it.

He covers this in detail, and his work has been used in a number of Strong Towns posts, like this one:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...
In Atlanta, we now (because of the Amazon rfp) have a hope of the state funding our mass transit system (currently only funded by 3 counties and 1 city).
A few years ago socialists did talk up Venezuela as a great socialist example, so it's not unfair to follow up on how it turned out.

It's easy to google up the quotes from Sanders, Corbyn and perhaps your local socialist firebrand.
Two things that happened to me:

A) I walk into a store, get a notification from google photos asking me "I see you're at store X, wouldn't you like to take some pictures?". Possibly to use as part of google maps. Thinking back I think this is when I started de-googlifying my life.

B) I get a notification from google maps asking me "you're travelling to place X soon, wouldn't you like to download an offline map, just in case you don't have connection there?" Google must have learned that because I had the plane ticket on gmail.
This. You also have Pitt which has a pretty decent CS degree. People are friendly. Sports is great. I believe Apple and Google already have fairly significant offices in Pittsburgh.

If I was more liquid I'd be buying property in Pittsburgh.
The plot of land they are offering in Boston is Suffolk downs. So its outside of Boston proper, has a ton of space, is right on the T, and has easy access to Logan airport. Plus its proximity to schools you pointed out and its tech scene make it appealing.

I actually think Boston has a decent chance, along with Denver, Atlanta, and DC.
What fidget spinners teach about making hit products
> Almost all real numbers have this property

> Almost all

I love this comment because it brings back memories of school.

In a layman's terms, I think almost all in this case means all but a finite amount

can we say almost all real numbers are irrational?

1 1/1 2/1 3/1 4/1 5/1 ...
2 1/2 2/2 3/2 4/2 5/2 ...
3 ...

so clearly we can count all the rational numbers but how many irrational numbers are there? are there (many) more irrational numbers than there are rational numbers?
The current administration in the US is actively anti-amazon. Primarily due to Bezos' ownership of the washington Post and its unflattering portrayal of Trump. If Amazon chose a Canadian city, the administration would likely go all in on attacking them. A hostile government is a tough thing to overcome even for a company as wealthy as Amazon.
Ironically lighting cash on fire is deflationary.
I think I'd feel subconsciously, irrationally wary of working in what could be argued is a bit terrorist bait like that
More to do with Dutch Disease than socialism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse#Dutch_disease
I'll just say this: there is a systemic behavior of tech bros treating everyone like they are the king of the hill and everyone else are peasants.

The only way to solve THAT problem is purging the tech bros. Sorry, a big name new hire won't address the situation I experienced. Period.
Press and hold on the notification itself. Alternatively, press and hold on the notification and start to slide left/right (still holding) to reveal a gears icon. It should be a shortcut that takes you to the notification settings for that app with the option to toggle them on/off.
Reasons why decentralized marketplaces are inevitable
Bay Area police unlikely to help ICE on immigration sweeps
One of the big problems with Lambda cold starts is the concurrency issue, especially if your Lambdas are running inside a VPC: https://hackernoon.com/im-afraid-you-re-thinking-about-aws-l...
I haven't owned an iPhone in over 5 years, and I feel the same way. No company should be romanticized, and I'm sure Apple's (very public) decision to take user privacy seriously can be viewed cynically - but at the end of the day that's the kind of stuff I care about as a consumer, and will choose my next phone accordingly.
What are these "Google" notifications? Is that a "Google" app generating them? If so, can't it be disabled or uninstalled? I don't have this on my Android phone but I've uninstalled or disabled everything Google related. And if you don't want to be tracked, you can also switch off Location History.
Not just money, the entire economy breaks down. Why bother working at last week's living wage won't buy a loaf of bread today?
Yeah I see no problem with more choices if they make sense. My reply was in refutation to the point that flying is not faster than high speed rail because of time needed at airport, which is not my experience. Since travel time to/from the station/airport depends on the situation, it doesn't make sense to include it in a general statement (to which I was replying).
>You _reduce_ it by making it illegal.

Eliminate. Think about it for a second. How exactly is a public figure supposed to advertise to a large number of people in complete secrecy that they are willing to purchase your vote? Both conditions need to be met for voters to sell their vote and the candidate to get away with it.

No seriously, what's your threat model here? Just a quick example of one plausible threat of more than a thousand votes sold that you can't eliminate even with a semi-motivated police force.

>You say it's a terrible reason, but preventing voter fraud is the only reason that voting is complicated. This sort of voter fraud (vote buying and vote bullying) hasn't been an issue for a long time because we've evolved the system of voting to make it more structurally difficult, rather than just legally difficult.

In the UK it ended with the British Anti-Corrupt Practices Act of 1883. The US essentially copied that.

The hard part wasn't making it structurally difficult, the hard part was getting that law passed and enforcing it and getting the courts to prosecute people for it.

Other forms of voter fraud are a risk even after you make them illegal and crack down on it (e.g. ballot stuffing). This one is not.
More density allows more establishments and offices to exist, and of more different kinds.

In a city with 10x the people, you can have 10x more shops, restaurants, etc, and you’ll as result also get 10x more variation.
I've always found it kind of alarming in Waze that when you stop at an intersection where there's a gas station they prompt you to enter an updated gas price...even when the app presumes you are the driver.

I get that they're trying to get everyone to chip in for the common good but not while I'm literally driving, please.
As an alternative, you can try Anafora https://github.com/weitechen/anafora
I work in downtown Boston, one of the fancier parts of one of the country's most expensive cities. There are tons of panhandlers, you encounter the smell of urine quite often, litter is everywhere, the city is served by filthy trains, etc. The stuff about high prices is definitely true (hell, this article touts it as a benefit!) and there are plenty of other parts of the city that are considerably more run-down. I don't see what the guy is saying that's wrong.
The idea that you'd have any location privacy while carrying around a cell phone is absurd. Both iPhone and Android devices record location history, and your network provider always has a rough guess of where you are. It may be annoying that Google is very persistent about trying to build its maps dataset, but the suggestion that it's not happening on other devices is crazy.
Given IT salaries in Canada, it would also be easier to attract Canadian engineers who don't want to move to the US.
> We need some human help

So pay me.
In a lot of Americans cities jobs are spread out in the suburbs. In my southeastern US, a bank recently located a large office presence from downtown to a suburban area right off the interstate. I understand a lot of it was to do with a lack of space. However, in the past an employee had the option of living and working downtown at this bank. With the new office location, that option is non-existent.
Neopets was where I first discovered hacking.

There was a user named "blueyoshi82" or something, I wanted to see if I could get into their account (I don't remember why). So I tried guessing their password, and lo and behold, it was just "yoshi"!

Being the white-hat that I was, I tried to PM them a message saying "hey you really need to change your password, it's too easy to guess", but the word "password" was blacklisted so I couldn't tell them.
It wouldn't have made sense to release Goobuntu publicly, since it was simply Ubuntu with central management and logging, integration with internal account systems, maybe some hacky bits specific to their environment, etc. They've said roughly this much in past public talks about Goobuntu.

All of that makes sense for an internal corporate distro at a place like Google. It doesn't add meaningful value over Ubuntu for external users, except for state-sponsored attackers who want a more precise understanding of the vulnerabilities in Google's corporate workstations.

It seems like gLinux would have the same tradeoffs, except that they're going to push more of the broadly useful changes upstream.

(Disclosure: I worked at Google in the past, used Goobuntu, and am a Debian developer. But I was not on the Goobuntu team or involved with the decision to switch to a direct Debian base.)
They are very apt to expropiate. They've notoriously fucked up most industries that way.

They also encourage "invasions" of unoccupied properties.

Furthermore, credit is a joke now. The average venezuelan credit card now issues somewhere around $5 of credit. Buying real estate through credit is similarly ridiculous.

(Source: I live here)
It may push down retail rents but it will push up other rents, as now developers have to set aside retail space that there may be no demand for, when it could otherwise go to increased supply (lower rents) for residential or office or whatever.
This reads to me like: "globalization hasn't solved the problem of economic jealousy". That it sucks to see someone become 200X richer whereas you have only become 40% richer. (But richer nonetheless).

I mean, sure. It hasn't fixed sexual jealousy either. Witness the impressive phenomenon of "incel rage" on the internet: not rage at pressing personal need unmet, but at the relative sexual deprivation that results from the fact that attractive women will usually prefer attractive men.

This is what you find at the bottom of Pikettyism: economic incel rage.
If not for massive government bailouts GM and other "BigCo" companies would likely already be dead. In 2009 the US government dumped $50 billion into GM alone just to keep it afloat, taking a $10 billion loss when divesting.

The self driving battle is going to be complex, unprecedented, unpredictable, rapid, and probably dirty given the stakes. These are not generally the sort of conditions where old behemoths tend to shine.
There's not much difference between an inflation rate of 440000% and 880000%, it just means that the bolivar doesn't work anymore.

Money is a purely social construct. It's only worth something when people collectively believe and trust that it's worth something.

It's a popular idea that dollars and euros derive their value because taxes are paid in that currency, or because it's backed by the state's military power.

Venezuela shows that neither of these are the source of the currency's value.

Collective belief is a pretty fragile foundation to build an economy on, hard to build and easy to destroy.

Another term for "collective belief" is "consensus". We're witnessing a disintegration of political and economic consensus not only in Venezuela, but also in the US.

What happens to the dollar when public consensus, trust and collective belief is weakened?

This is why I find the decentralized, trustless consensus of cryptocurrencies to be especially attractive at this moment in history.
Disregarding the privacy issues, I find this to also be insanely annoying. I want notifications to be important. Not a bunch of spam that ultimately equates to advertising.
How to survive an atomic bomb
In many places the NIMBY lobby is trying to prevent ADUs. In response, last year California outlawed the practice of municipalities summarily banning ADUs.

http://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/AccessoryDwellingUnits...
There is also Ditto for Windows and Parcittox for Linux which are compatibles:
http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net
https://app.assembla.com/spaces/dittox/wiki