skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I call that social pollution. It's no different than a resource boom decimating a landscape then moving on and leaving the place in a really bad situation.

It's almost as though people don't realize that lots of small things (like local zoning for example) add up to all the big differences that made the place so attractive that they moved there.

Specifically with regards to a bunch of retirees moving in, I'd take that over young couples any day of the week. People raising family will have much more impact than people who just want to enjoy retirement.
Ask HN: Has anyone built a platform for sharing stuff online (curating)
For several years, since getting into publishing online and working on blogs and a lot of other projects, I haven't found something quite simple yet unavailable.

I want to be able to curate and share the good things I find online. For example, I want to collect the cool podcasts I find every half year, organize the news stories I find several of daily in a few categories of interest, share interesting websites I find.

I've used WordPress a ton, and all the big social media platforms, but none of these do it.

I want basically to be able to search the web as usual, and when I find a story I want to include, click something, have it fetch the post info, edit the title / description / image if I want, or not, and pick the category I want to include it in on my page, or the section of my page I want to send it to, and that's it. I also want to be able to fine-tune it from its own back-end / admin, and give others access.

To the user, it would appear like a news front page, with categories and the most recent articles I've sent there, as well as sections for podcasts, music, film, blogs, nice websites to check out, etc.

If there were a platform like this, I think a lot of people could use it to curate web content, and it would be easier to find people who's tastes were like your own and follow their interests on their page.

Anyone built one already / one in the works?
So relevant:

https://guacamole.apache.org/

Back ~4 years ago I did a similar web application as a way to bring a legacy Windows desktop to the web...I used the Guacamole project before it was brought into the ASF. It was remarkably easy to use and even modify for our business use case.
to be closer to immediate family so that they can also be a more involved part of our son's life.

This is so huge, not only so your kids know their extended family, but also to have some basic help. We've found that even my sister who lives 45 minutes away is just a bit too far to see them as frequently as we'd like, with her busy family and all. My advice is to move closer than you think you ought to!
No, but I've got one that abruptly went from several days of charge to about 4 hours, at the same time that the TouchID sensor failed. Reboot was the first thing I tried. Wipe-and-reload was the next.
if there ever was a chance for a hardware start-up to become the next big thing it's entering this space. unfortunately Nervana sold out to intel.
I am saying there is no connection between the two. You don't need a single complete formal system for a useful model of what is occurring. Godel was saying there can't be one true complete set of axioms for mathematics. This does not mean all mathematical models, theories are suddenly impossible.
Those same companies are responsive to where their workforce wants to live.
Why would being surrounded matter in this case? It’s not like the Romans ran out of food or weaponry.

Actually, if infantry groups large enough to maintain a front meet hand to hand on flat terrain, and the soldiers are of similar strength, losses should be about 1:1 and proportional to the length of the front because the larger party can’t put more soldiers near the front than the smaller one (if anything, the larger party would be able to give its soldiers more rest)

(If the smaller group gets too small to easily keep up a closed front, this changes; it gets torn apart fast because each defender would be needed almost all the time to prevent the front from breaking, and also would face >1 enemy. Guns, spears, or artillery change things even more, as they allow the larger group to land more blows per enemy head than the smaller group _above_ the proportion of the sizes of the armies)

So, all else being equal, the much larger Roman army should have been able to break that encirclement.

⇒ either things weren’t equal (were the hastily created Roman legions less experienced or less well trained?) or was panicking the important factor?
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That's what I was thinking too. I've been off the job market for a bit, so I guess it surprised me to get such a high offer.

That's also part of the frustration though. The business is just starting to take off, but I'm fucked financially if I can't figure out something soon. This AWS bill really messed me up...
>2) Economic downturn: Will people still order groceries at a premium?

My wife and I have found that online ordering saves us money. Delivery from one of the local stores (Save-on-foods) costs $8-15. Instead of grabbing random items off the shelves because we're hungry or the store put up an enticing display of sugary cereal, we plan out our meals for the week and only buy what we need. That easily offsets the cost of delivery, while also giving us extra leisure time and saving on gas/vehicle wear & tear.
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This might be parody or a game to you, but for people feeling opressed this is no joke. If you think this is "genius", that provoking people is a game, if you feel a rush when saying or implying taboos, then you're part of the problem.
The tech part is the easiest here.
Marketing a website monitoring service is really hard.
That is why there are more than 70 providers known to have shut down: https://www.supermonitoring.com/blog/website-monitoring-serv...
I would question why the Mexican war and westward expansion, and Alaska and Hawaii don't count as empire-building. They are states now, but not at the time.
It's all in the RFCs. Start here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4007
I think another factor is also that the internet has lost some of its novelty and innocence that it had back then.

In those early days people were still used to web pages being static lifeless documents. It was magical to be able to interact with it.

It was some time after and in the middle of the Web 2.0 hype and the rush for "web based everything".

Now people have app and internet fatigue. It has become a chore.
I understand, however my whole point is that these different other qualities change the shape of the problem (and necessary solutions or impossibilities) completely, often in ways that make it unrealistic for the real-world problems that the paper appeals to in its abstract as motivation. The word "byzantine" is so over-used as well as abused in this field of research, that for a random paper that mentions that word I can't really tell what actual problem it's solving unless I read through it fully in detail. I suggest that a wider more systematic set of terms would help to avoid this problem. e.g. instead of saying "secure" say "unforgeable against a chosen-message adversary" etc.

Lamport's original paper does seem to treat adversaries appropriately, but I've seen many worse papers from recently failing to consider what happens if a malicious peer specifically tries to exploit your "defence" mechanism.
>I have yet to see anyone put forth and truly plausible triggers for another large global recession - there are no debt and enforcement chains I can see that would drag the system under again

that's not an indication of anything. has there been anyone who were able to predict the last few recessions with reasonable accuracy?
eMarketer has been taking this kind of angle for years to get some audience: https://www.recode.net/2017/8/21/16181348/teenagers-millenni...

The thing is that FB is actively tranferring the teens to Instagram and the overall audience is growing so...
For all of those people saying that FB is dead, perhaps their core product is in decline among younger users, but that does not seem to be true for Instagram or Whatsapp. Those acquisitions seem to extend FB's fingers to the demographics that their core product is losing.
Yes, as mentioned in my other post, ChargeBee does this really well. We, as a German company, use it for our SaaS offering.
Could this be in any way related to the roll out of HQ2? Using that expansion to trim perceived dead-wood?

If so, this might be the first of a few re-orgs.
A blockchain certainly change that. If a bank does something for non-technological reasons, it's possible that a blockchain does something else.
They're major sponsors of both parties. According to http://fortune.com/2017/03/08/wall-street-2016-election-spen... their donations in 2016 split about 45-55 Democrat-Republican. In 2012, according to http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-responsible-for-o... they contributed significantly to Obama's re-election campaign.

If you really think the "finance industry" as a whole is what's pushing for the Equifax investigation to be shelved, then I expect the same would have happened under Democratic leadership.
as an engineer at instacart, it's very disheartening for me to see the top-rated comment on HN is "I can’t wait for instacart to go out of business."

even if we did not provide value to you (which i apologize for -- it is a priority of ours to improve the replacement experience in particular as it is very frustrating to customers), i am not sure why that implies that we do not provide a valuable service for others and why you would wish ill on us.

perhaps it is because you think of us as an overall unscrupulous company ("shady fees", "mark up everything you buy"), which i would contest -- we strive for transparency when possible (see [1] for screenshots around how we describe the pricing of our service). but the larger point remains -- why do you think that there can only be one victor here, and that is has to be amazon? (or "amazing" as you put it).

right now, amazon is very explicitly coming for the grocery industry -- an $800+ billion industry that is almost 100% offline -- and we are attempting to be one of the (hopefully many) independent companies that enables it online. grocery companies have built amazing fulfillment pipelines and relationships with both farms & customers that we are building a front-end and logistics system for.

anyways, i do not speak for instacart as a company, just for myself as an employee who usually enjoys HN.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/j47ls
>I don't want to be condescending, so if you have a better suggestion, I'd love to hear it.

Almost every interviewee has a git(hub/lab) account with code they're written, that should suffice to determine if they can FizzBuzz. You could also ask them for a coding sample prior to the interview if they have no public code.

The solution is simple, nobody does it because it asks the interviewer to do more than skim the resume before walking into the room. I think this comes from the perception that the interviewee's time is cheap compared to that of the interviewer's.
SQLite only allows one writer at a time, so depending on your access pattern that might be an issue, but if your site is getting a million requests a day then your only processing an average of 11.5 requests per second, and what percentage of them are writes? Front your app with varnish, nginx (w/cache), or cloudflare and absorb some additional load. Though as far as I can tell www.sqlite.com is running on a single linode instance with no fancy hacks.
> SQLite is absolutely useless for multiple writers.

I don't really quite agree with this, but would say that with SQLite it's more important be be aware of how concurrency is being used with regards to the database, in comparison to something like MySQL or PostgreSQL. As far as IRC logs, I think the important thing (that would almost certainly hamstring any SQL database that's actually being ACID) is to not use autocommit on inserts, and to not use a transaction for every single insert (which is possibly what's happening). I wrote a plugin for ZNC to do exactly what you're doing above, and by batching my writes (either waiting 15 seconds or until n (where n is maybe 1000 or more) messages are queued), I've gotten superb performance out of SQLite3 running with a WAL journal, with the trade off being a little bit of data might be lost if your bouncer happens to fall down in an unhandled way. I was also able to get really good read performance without hurting raw write performance by leveraging partial indices, which something like MySQL doesn't give you.
It would be helpful if you (or anyone) would send links to us at hn@ycombinator.com when you notice comments that break the site guidelines and don't seem to have been moderated. Examples would be comments that are generically ideological or unsubstantive or uncivil.

Whatever our biases are, they're not strongly ideological. I know this won't persuade anyone, but the reason is that after slogging through hundreds of thousands of internet comments, one's only response to what people call their "opinions" is exhaustion. It's as if someone has sandblasted the inside of your brain. The result is tedium, except that word doesn't convey how deep it goes. Imagine an existential void of pure tedium, tedium all around, nothing but tedium—then repeat that phrase a thousand times, and that'll be how we feel about these arguments.

HN moderation isn't about suppressing opinions, though commenters who get moderated sometimes feel like it must be. It's about damping repetition in the faint hope of mitigating tedium. I believe that serves the community, because most people don't come here for rehashes of flamewars. They come for something less predictable.
The one news I'm hoping to hear from AMD is that they produce a deep learning TPU.
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Luxury ski resort cities aside, there are cities where a teacher at a public school downtown, who is a civil servant serving the community, cannot live in the very community they serve. That is problematic. It is not particularly healthy to have major service workers forced out of the communities they serve.

Your ignorance within the space shows with some of your suggested 'solutions.' You do realize some people are too poor to move, right? You do realize some cities were designed around cars and lack decent public transit, right? And downsizing? The people who are affected by housing crises spend their months in shelters and being evicted from apartments.

Your lack of care for fellow members of your community aside, you could at least recommend equally outlandish solutions that align more with your view of the people affected like, 'just give the serfs a shack and stop the whining.'
Considering they don't release metrics such as average/median time spent, there is no way to know what degree those users are actually engaging vs simply clicking on some spammy push notification at some point in the last month (which get increasingly spammy the longer you haven't been engaged).
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And their stock is up a a couple bucks today. Go figure.
Kind of ironic that they are using the law to enforce bad behavior.
I'd gladly pay for a "Better Legitimate alternative" if there was one. Executing proprietary software and DRM are deal-breakers for me.
I feel like even Amazon doesn’t have enough internal talent to execute on all the projects they want. Grocery stores don’t stand a chance.
Huh? Whether they were doing what?
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I would encourage folks to apply for these boards (look for "Planning Commission" on your city website). They are appointed commissions usually looking for volunteers. I applied. I think it's the best way to change things.
Imagine that Netflix launched as a courier service that would take your order and then go to the video store and try to get it and bring it to you. That seems kind of crazy even with the knowledge (in hindsight) that videos would later be digitized and Netflix would be in a position to move from middleman to market-maker.

But I just don't see any opportunity for Instacart to get out of the middleman role. Maybe they can make a lot of money helping grocery conglomerates try to spend their way out of a technology deficit vis-a-vis Amazon. But if that were true they would they need hundreds of millions of VC dollars?
You mean, during pregnancy? Those are really dirt cheap. We opted for a more expensive multivitamin that also had a bit of fish oil in it, but that’s optional. It cost €20 per month.
Heh, that's actually funny. I'll be that is a technology issue and not a rights issue. The again, how do you indicate that you understand both languages? For a standard movie, the "foreign" language is always subtitled (unless the director specifically sats not to), even with subs off.
What valuation are these potential investors giving you?

You have to consider missed salary as an investment in the company. Assuming you could have gotten a somewhat similar salary 2 years ago, that means you have a bit under 1 million "invested" in the company. Each year you're putting in another 400k.

IMHO, unless you are really about to blow up and start making half a mil in profit a year, take the job. Save your money and in 5-7 years you will have enough to more or less retire. Then start another company and do it without being totally broke.
"Black Lives Matter" is short for "Black Lives Also Matter, But You Wouldn't Know It Because Many People Behave As If They Do Not Matter As Much As The Lives of White People"

That is why "all lives matter" is a sarcastic, stupid thing to say in reply.
> i agree that for patents, monopolising an invention forever allows innovation too much.

patents are largely unrelated to discussion of copyright. the durations are separate, and in fact, patent durations are largely harmonized to be 20 years, now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_of_patent
that's nothing compared to the ~75 years of copyright.
> The cost of college is another one that every parent should consider as early as possible. It's certainly optional (you may be comfortable letting your kids go it alone for college tuition), but definitely worth making an intentional decision on and planning for as soon as you're able.

Any parent planning on saving for college needs to have their retirement savings locked in and fully funded first. You can borrow money to go to school, but you can't borrow money to retire.
I still enjoy the integrated verification of bittorrent very much. No need for post download md5 check and retries.. just coast along comfortably.
Thanks for updating with these SaaS providers. We are on the Microsoft stack and have been using AspNet Zero[1]. It would be interesting to see a more comprehensive list on here of SaaS providers and which languages they are built-on.

[1] https://aspnetzero.com/
I deleted my FB a few years ago too. I ended up getting back on and only connecting with close family that live out of state. I don't follow any brands or watch any corporate content either. I still find value in it because I can see the cool pictures my sister posts and quickly send out family updates. I'd never connect with casual friends from college or co-workers though.
hello, victoria fierce here. CaRLA is collecting data on small projects like this so we know what parts of the state are friendlier to small homebuilders and not. If you've got a few minutes, can you submit your project here?

http://www.carlaef.org/submit/

we'd be happy to look over it and track your city council's actions on this as it moves along.

in particular, it sounds like your project is zoning compliant and follows all the objective standards. at this point there is pretty much no legal reason for the city to hold up your project in design review or even deny it for arbitrary things like "too much glazing" unless they've already sent you a letter explaining--with quantifiable numbers--how much glazing is "too much".
Don’t forget the topic of revenue recognition in SaaS. Basically, you need to allocate your revenues per month if you accept yearly payments. Also, you need to consider up/cross-sells and cancellations, that drive up complexity. I have seen SaaS companies using excel for this...
Feature richness comparable to oracle, mysql, postgres, comes at a price.

Another perspective; embeddable py 10MB, electron app 50MB[0], free pascal exe 1.5MB.

So 7MB for a RDBMS seems reasonable, but not comparable to SQLite as you pointed out.

[0]: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/2003#issuecommen...
That's sort of the point though! We're actually selling these as the "board". So the right way to compare things is sort of DGX-1 style "deep learning rig" versus a board of four TPU units (or several connected). The on-chip network is a big part of its overall efficiency.

I don't recall what (if anything) we've said about how we link up the boards across racks, but the folks at Next Platform looked pretty carefully at the pictures: https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/05/22/hood-googles-tpu2-ma...
I use https://www.chargebee.com, they've been incredible
It seems like the point of HQ2 is to appease the current administration for tax cuts, allow for them to cut back on the fact they overexpanded their teams, get even more tax breaks from the local government where they expand, and get a bunch new fresh talent that can be worked to death.
Optimising for revenue at the expense of everything else. They knew what they were doing, they just didn't care.
One thing I dislike about wire transfers in Finland (and I would assume similar regulation applies in EU) is that banks will ask the purpose of transactions over certain amount, or the origin of cash when depositing it. I want to use my money however I see fit and I shouldn't need to disclose anything to the bank. This is something that a blockchain could offer me.
This is in comparison to 900gb/s for V100.
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I've had mine frozen for years. Unfrozen it once to buy a house and a second time to buy a car. Not a problem. As a side benefit, it keeps me from applying for random credit cards.

I don't know if it denies the agencies the value of your data, but maybe so, because they clearly don't want you to do it.
I was referring to Ruby and based on the first sentence I quoted:

> Ruby provides built-in support for arbitrary precision integer arithmetic.

[I'm also assuming that it's really arbitrary precision and not just 'really big but limited' precision.]
Hey same here. The portal feature is incredible
The energy and other utilities for 1 meal will be like $0.30.

So that barely registers compared to time and ingredients.
This seems a bit pricey compared to other offerings. Wouldn't an ASIC make things more economical?

Seems like in terms of cost per performance, both AWS P3 spot instances and Paperspace v100 offerings are more economical.

Are these prices expected to become more competitive once it is out of beta?
It's only a problem in countries that enforce copyright laws fiercely, e.g. USA.
It's easy to be persuaded by answering services when you're dealing with what's arguably the thing you will ever be most responsible for.

Plenty of people/businesses take advantage of that.
Is there a browser extension that blocks anything which contains variations of the phrase 'XX year old wunderkind' in a headline?
An artistic work that came from thin air? That didn't derive partially from the society in which it was created or take inspiration from preceding works? I don't think such a thing exists.
I really like how Favor includes the receipt from the restaurant with your order. So it's crystal clear how much extra you are paying.
There is a Google Chrome extension[1], which allows you to do this. It basically replaces the site's player with its own and you can even search for subtitles from within the player itself.

1. https://www.google.co.in/url?q=https://chrome.google.com/web...