skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet self-checkouts have not replaced cashiers. I often see more people waiting for cashiers than in the self-checkout line at the stores I visit. When I use the self-checkout I'm giving the cashiers an opportunity to have more time to serve those who choose them instead.

Lastly, every time I walk somewhere I don't fret about costing a taxi driver their job.

I'd rather just give someone money to live and let them find something productive they'd like to do with their time than shoehorn them into menial jobs that don't need to be done for the sake of having a job.
I would add Peter Linebaugh's "The London Hanged". Using the court records of capital offences at the Old Bailey (which included a mass of prosopographical detail) he works outwards to examine the composition of English society just as mercantile capitalism was taking flight. https://www.amazon.com/London-Hanged-Eighteenth-Linebaugh-Pa...
It still loads the ads and the things they link to, so it spends your bandwidth and CPU power on creating noise/fake signals for the ad networks.
I'll try to very politely disagree :)

We tried charging for services: donations, paid feature development, and paying for support. None of them scaled and we moved to open core which allowed us to spend much more time on performance, security, installation, and dependency upgrades.

We want to make sure that the open source version of GitLab is just as performant and has an equally good UX as the enterprise version. There is no difference in the UX and there are no proprietary performance optimizations in the enterprise version.

There are some things that we see as a feature but that you could see as a performance item. An example is the SSH lookup in a database that used to be in enterprise and landed in the open source version in this release.
This is really interesting. Sounds very promising.
How about the one who happens to be looking at it the "closest" (according to the algorithms)? That would pretty much immediately turn into a "I see you can buy it for a lower price, how about I pay you to buy it for me instead" situation...
When I saw the title and saw it was cbc.ca I thought the article would be about the maddening state of city by-laws. That was personally a more pressing issue for me when I lived in Canada than potential issues around smart city privacy.
One of the advantages of DDG over other search engines is that with only a few keystrokes you can search anywhere you like.

!g blah will search google, !gi will search google images, !rdoc will search the Ruby documentation.
Better than Java or VB by a long way. You can do most stuff just not as cryptically.
If you have a big supply chain, like Amazon does, then managing the complexity of that chain is a tough problem. I happen to agree with IBM that a distributed ledger like technology can help with that. Not a public one, obviously as that would just be silly, but it would make sense for Amazon to run one. We're doing a variant of this in my field.

But it doesn't make any sense to use smart contracts to manage the supply chain complexity of a business that, by definition, doesn't have a complex supply chain i.e. a direct to customer seller. Especially a seller of digital assets.

> Expensive digital assets will always require a mediation fee

Why? Most mediating supplies an overt service for those fees as well as the mediation. For example, producers at studios, editors at publishers, rights management and marketing/discovery at Netflix etc. Remove the value add and you're left with a commodity.

In that scenario you might have very small margin services but, just as likely, would be ad led services for free. I mean, they have useful financial information. There'll be a group that doesn't want that but there's no clear evidence it'll ever be more than niche.

So yes, there's value there but I just can't see any reason, for any of the examples you cite, to believe that incumbents will be challenged. If anything it may help entrenchment.
I guess that decision was made because you can use Google Search with DDG. Just add "!g " in front of your search query.
I'd like to see a sentiment for each article as well. If you add that, then add a green/red indicator on the price chart as well for when the news came out.
> I'm not really understanding the lack of love for Perl 6 unless it's from folks that have invested careers in Perl 5 and are miffed by the compatibility story.

I think far more likely is the people that have decided to dislike "Perl" are letting their prejudice leak.

Perl 5 is one of those languages that is hides complexity, partially by accident. I'm sure a lot of people have looked at Perl and been unable to figure out what's going on, and why the same function returns different values sometimes when called with the same arguments[1], and not known what to make of it because many things work exactly as expected, especially for people familiar with C. This can be confusing to people that thought they were getting a handle on the language. The conclusion then is either they are failing to understand the language, or the language sucks. I imagine one choice is easier on the ego than the other.

1: Context. People skimp on the reading or targeted learning and context bites them in the ass, even if it's fairly simple once known.
Duckduckgo improved drastically over the last 6-7 years. I have no idea how they did it, but they did a great job.
Guaranteed that there was a licensing issue or trademark issue that prevented that.
One big thing that we would love to do is moving to a multithreaded application server https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3592 That would save a ton of memory but last time we tried we got burned because the ecosystem wasn't ready.
This is how Amazon Books stores work. Prices aren't displayed on the shelf, but using an app. The price is different for Prime members vs. non-Prime members.
Why do you need a load balancer if you don't have enough traffic to justify a beefier dedicated box with a few tb data included and a proper gb uplink? Are you streaming game/3d data or something where each request is really compute heavy, but data is less than 100mbs?

[ed: never mind - 20tb included for the cheapest box. That's a bit of a departure from earlier. That's 60 mbps sustained 24/7 for a month. That's probably hard to meet with a full regular web stack running on a single tiny vm..

Oth, should be able to just ha proxy on one of those - or two-three w heartbeat...]
Nice. Rise of the security tokens!
> Perl 5 and 6 are still tied together as if they are the same language

P5 and P6 have been explicitly different languages since day one[1]. As Larry Wall said, "We had to make almost everything [in Perl 5] ... backward compatible [with previous Perls] ... But now it’s the first chance to [break bug-for-bug syntactic and semantic compatibility] and ... I think we should [take the chance]."

> There’s no compatibility between the two.

None?

With an appropriately compiled perl 5 binary installed one can install regular Perl 5 modules from CPAN and use them as if they were Perl 6 modules:

use Some:Perl5::Module:from<Perl5> ;

How is this not compatible?

> You can’t write a library that works in both versions

Even the large complex Perl 5 package Catalyst works in both Perl 5 and Perl 6 per the above.

> so you lose CPAN and the thousands of packages that make Perl so powerful

Per the above, the majority of CPAN just works 100% correctly out of the box.

> If Perl 6 wanted backwards compatibility, they needed to have thought about it a long time ago.

P6ers thought about backward compatibility with Perl 5 from day one[1].

[1] https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/23/soto2000.html/
The new physicians making $90k a year after residency are not the ones with $400,000 in student loans, and $800k in total student interest load is... atypical, to say the least. $300-400k total load post-residency is much more - I refuse to say "reasonable," but much more realistic. And the folks who have $400k total load are on a fast track to make $250-300k/yr just a few years after residency. A huge part of why doctors are paid as well as they are is because of the risk and the massive opportunity cost of getting an MD and going into practice.

Yes, it takes planning and dedication to set yourself up on solid financial footing post-medical school, and it's entirely conceivable to be in your early thirties before you're debt free. But it's pretty damn hard to be struggling financially as a physician in any field.
From a video [0] of the area, it seems to me that mining activities between the ridge and the river may be partly responsible for the slide.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DATFoizswY&feature=youtu.be
Thanks. We do think it got a lot better last year https://about.gitlab.com/2017/07/17/redesigning-gitlabs-navi...
How Much for That Pepe? Scenes from the First Rare Digital Art Auction
Honestly, I'm bearish on space mining. The Earth has a lot of unexplored volume left. The oceans' floors are relatively unexplored in terms of mineral wealth, even just 100 miles offshore. Antarctica is also a giant mystery, with many potentially rich mountain ranges sitting under 1/2 mile of ice. Heck, in Australia people will buy land, walk around, and just find nuggets of gold sitting on the dirt, it's something of a 'thing' there [0] So, 10k/lbs flight costs aren't cheap enough yet to justify the very hazardous environment and delta-V costs. Maybe in a century, but for now it's a ways off.

[0] http://www.mining.com/this-australian-man-just-found-a-massi...
Side note, I find the font very hard to read. The letters are too thin and grey. Removing the "font-weight: 300;" style from the body makes it infinitely more readable.
Are the apps and browser extensions 100% open source? I didn't notice anything in the text, but _maybe_ https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-privacy-extension https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android https://github.com/duckduckgo/iOS have the complete source code?
I think the games I played most in addition to those two is T.E.O.S. (The exploration of space) :)
I ran my own on MBBS (Mike's BBS, Norwegian specific software) and later PCBoard. I still have images of the MS-DOS 6.22 floppies and PCBoard 15.3.. Maybe I'll have a go at them again on my old pentium pro.

I'd like to have Desqview though for more than one node and that is one piece of software I have not been able to keep.
6 brands killing it with co-marketing campaigns
Yes, DDG does it too. The other significant difference I've noticed, in my admittedly short-but-intense periods of DDG use, is that unlike Google, it won't block you with a CAPTCHA for "searching too hard"; but sometimes it just runs out of results.

Looking through too many search pages, or using queries containing quotes and other "advanced" things like site: or intext: or intitle: operators tends to get you blocked by Google pretty quickly, which is extremely infuriating --- and the point at which I switch to DDG or something else for a while.
>Govt buys shitty software

REEE MUST BE THE PRIVATE ENTERPRISES FAULT! WE NEED MORE GOVT!
The cloud servers can be booted into a rescue system.

https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Hetzner_Rescue-System/en

From there you can do pretty much what you desire.
Pokémon Go's public health impact: 144 billion steps
So how much of my personal life do I need to hand over to a faceless corporation so it can decide how much I ought to have to pay for milk?

Just my annual income, or should it also take into account if I've had an expensive medical procedure recently? Or my number of dependents? The value of my stocks? Or if my breadwinning spouse just threw me out of the house?

What a treat this info would be for the ad department.
The terms of service would (potentially) only apply to Hetzner, not to users of Hetzner's services.
Scaleway is using Intel Atom cores.
> they were murdered or locked up for life. Look up the MOVE bombing, black panthers, and basically any radical black nationalist group.

Well, that's what happens when you engage in crime, violently resist, and engage in the actual act of insurrection ;)

As it were, the Blacks are not the only ethnicity that have ethnic separatist movements that have been violently squashed, or did you forget the militia movements and subsequent Federal suppressions of the 90s? I suppose that might hurt your narrative, however.
This is A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News.

Reading the HN title, and looking at the site name listed on HN, I had expected there to be information relating to cryptography, which there is not.
MS/MBA – School of Engineering and Applied Sciences – Harvard Business School
Interesting. If you want to integrate it there are instructions in the docs https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/dast.... (use gl-dast-report.json to send results back).

If your product is as cool as you say it is we would love to add it to GitLab by default and run both ZAProxy and yours by default.
Did somebody say tariffs and trade wars? http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42784380

Not to mention which the post-world-war-II international order is falling apart politically which suggests there will be a monetary realignment in the not too distant future.

This isn't a big deal because of the relative size of the flow; it's a big deal in the way that a dam suddenly spouting water around the edges is a big deal.
I setup my mail server manually from scratch with my own scripts. I never had such experience before, so it was total pain and I spent about 2 weeks to get fully working healthy server. Now I know what is behind curtains and how complex mail serving nowadays. At the moment I'm deciding: stay with my own server or trow this headache and buy a service like Migadu or fastmail.
Instead of thinking in money you should think in widgets.

Do you want more money but the same amount of widgets or do you want the same money but more widgets?
The ultimate reason for why you should reward your dog with praise
Most of the serious ICO's (i.e from companies with product, employees, etc.) only take money from accredited investors to avoid falling foul of the SEC.

There's also established equity crowd-funding sites (like WeFunder) who've failed to take-off because individuals generally aren't very good at picking winners (even most angels don't have great returns).
There are some people who are really only capable of doing these "boring, low paid jobs". Not everyone is capable of being an information worker or a hard physical laborer.
Once a basic income or solid safety net has been established, we can consider whether it makes sense to take actions in order to not obsolete low paid jobs.
Why did Mark Zuckerberg take a moral stance about how people present themselves online? And why did he feel the need to enforce that stance? I thought Silicon Valley's mantra was, "We just build tools for people to express themselves how they want," but it seems more and more that they use the tools to enforce behavioral norms.
The last update to the members-only clock blog was three years ago. It mentions that the tapering spiral staircase around the main shaft had been cut. and the 80 foot high chime generator mechanism was completed.
1. I don't like the thought of contributing to a system that costs people (cashiers) their jobs.

So only when you need customer service you care about their jobs?

Come on think about your statement for a moment and realize what the internet has done. You are part of that.
Try to give scala a whirl. It's pretty nice.
I agree, this is extremely annoying, Google should add an option - for their users who know what they are doing - to always do a verbatim search.
I also still detest their mobile first format on iPad, again why on earth don’t they let their users choose Desktop format, if they prefer this. I have to use slower than Safari iCab Browser to get around this.
However, there can be situations where it gives you malicious results instead.

Some months back a client of mine was searching for some insurance forms and included the year. The actual forms don't change often and the insurance company website did not include a year, so what she got instead was a bunch of malicious results for pages that included all of her terms plus a year. She was using either Bing (because it was the search engine on her browser on Windows....) or Yahoo, but a very similar set of results came up on DuckDuckGo when I checked there. Google's results were clean.

I did report the issue to both Bing and DDG, but I haven't gone back and tested whether results have improved.
This would send me back to the traditional grocery store.
Absolutely this. The amount of RAM that I need in order to run Gitlab is greater than the RAM requirements of all of the projects that I would host in a Gitlab instance combined.

Fortunately, gogs is a thing.
> or big trouble will be coming

The implication here is that the trouble isn't already on it's way. Those jobs are operating on borrowed time at this point and I think they'll be gone sooner than most people think. This is a problem that we should have started addressing several years ago at least.
> two vCPUs (not one)

A vCPU means nothing without considering the underlying CPU being used, and whether or not it's a dedicated core or not.
You must be lucky to live where you do. I’ve definitely timed visits to Costco, Trader Joe’s, and Wal-Mart to avoid long lines at checkout.

The self checkout doesn’t help, it actually takes longer than a good cashier.
It makes sense in that it likely helps reduce the likelihood of employees making desperate decisions based on financial hardship. If for example an employee is heavily invested in crypto and is about to use his earnings to buy a house and the market tanks 50% they are more susceptible to accepting bribes or commiting fraud or theft. It's similar to how risk analysis is done on those seeking secret clearance. Certain behaviors regardless of intent make you vulnerable.

I'm pretty bullish on crypto and have no problem with this, especially in an industry with easy access to so much money and personal information.
Drove through there last week. The state has 40ft containers at the bottom of the hill as barricades, plus there is a low spot below the area that is cracking. That stated, there isn’t that much room there for all the dirt that is likely to come down and even to a lay person it looks very reasonable to assume the highway will be unavailable for some time after it finally gives way.
I was at this event. Saw some really interesting uses of blockchain.
I agree wholeheartedly that it is not a good way to live. I don't enjoy it.

> I've worked at a lot of places where engineer got into heated shouting matches. It's is not a way to increase the probability of zeroing in on a problem, or reaching agreement faster.

That hasn't been my experience. A boss at a previous job and I often had heated discussions about technologies and direction. It worked for us. We came to great solutions that neither of us started advocating. Years after I left, we are still good friends.

One lady we worked with started keeping a nerf gun on her desk if we got too close to her while arguing. This was the problem for me.

It wasn't good for us to fall back on raised voices to accomplish discussion. It accomplished the goals, but it did it in a way that was bad for our psyche. Even if we are both willing participants in that, we were effecting others who were both not willing participants AND unwilling to speak up because we were both her senior.

So I say fuck that. There is a way to say what needs to be said without being an asshole or spending time trying to make it politically correct. You just have to say the core of what you are trying to say, without the asshole flair attached to it.
would tsunami be a concern for Californians when a big earthquake happens in California?
Hmm, can't speak for other people, but I seldom whitelist anything. I just leave or avoid the site. I also has Safari configured to go into Reader Mode automatically. Makes for a very clean web.

Have DDG written anything about how you make money?
I wouldn't mind paying a modest yearly fee. And I also wouldn't mind getting to vote on feature-requests such as "Better support for presenting stackoverflow results".
From the point of view of a guy who skipped the React, Angular, Vue hypes until today:

- Where are we going to?

- What is the sense behind this syntax?

- Can we go back to HTML/CSS/JS when the hype's over?
Bitcoin Cash added new utility that SegWit lacked: 8 MB blocks, higher capacity, lower on-chain fees. That new utility is new value for Bitcoin holders.

Another fork will add ZKP privacy, new utility and new value.
This is not crypto news, but cryptocurrency news.
In the history of economics and politics, that has never happened. Tumult creates unacceptable carnage, and the solutions fall out of the carnage. Furthermore, we don't always correctly predict the form that carnage will take, so it's not even as if we know what acceptable solutions might be until things are already in freefall.

So although it's a nice sentiment, I'm not so sure it's realistic.
As a Sonic fiber customer in the Richmond, my only complaint is that phone service is not optional. It adds ~10 line items to my bill for regulatory fees at every level of the government from the city, county, state, and federal. I could happily do entirely without the phone service. I don't even have a home phone, who does?
And what is the typical salary range on what someone will pay me?
Like, I want to believe you that such a thing is easy. But I'm not really convinced by the assertion that it is followed by a non-descriptive blurb. I mean I get what you're saying, "Find what they care about and try to apply statistics to it." However, I don't believe that this process is easy.

Sports is a good example of why I don't think this is easy. What exactly is the point of statistics in sports? Predicting what teams are going to win or what strategies are superior. Most children in school are not interested in sports because they're into strategy or because they're predicting who's going to win. They're interested in it for social reasons. Which team do their parents or friends want to win. Telling everyone at thanksgiving that the family team is going to lose the game will probably not go well for them. And as far as strategy goes ... I thought the statistical analysis of the extra point kick in football indicates that you should never do it. Teams rarely make use of this at the professional level. Also didn't they make a movie about how nobody pays attention to the math in baseball (Moneyball?). Anyway, if adults who have money and fame on the line can't be bothered to care about statistics in sports, then I don't see how children are going to be much different.

Of course that's where you come in. You say it's easy. Personally, I would love to see why you think this because it looks hard to me. I look forward to a more in depth response from you.
I want in! It would be great if YC companies can do the same and give the wider access to deal flow for a wider audience. I guess 500 Startup alumni is leading the charge on that and the seed stage investment is being re-engineered, who knew!
Re people how downvoted me. I appreciate this is an opinion so others will differ but it would be nice to have a counterargument so I can understand why you disagree
Measuring Percentile Latency
Then again we have cases like the Volkswagen diesel scandal which managed to go past (I guess?) similar processes and make it into full car production.