skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you share some resources on arguments against the book's points? I just looked it up on Amazon and plan on reading it.
I see your point, but I have a slight correction:
The EU has regulated the interchange fee, which is since then capped at "0.2% of the transaction value for Visa and Mastercard consumer debit cards" and "0.3% of the transaction value for Visa and Mastercard consumer credit cards." (https://www.adyen.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-eu...)

However, I am not a payment expert, so there might be an additional fee imposed by the credit card networks which I am not aware of?

This percentage does seem a bit more reasonable for the services offered by Visa and Mastercard, in my eyes.
No, the article is incorrect. He wasn't a creator; he was in an early batch (the first I believe), and then became president some time after his company was acquired.
(I'm a MapD employee)

The limitation of 100 million rows is just for 14-day trial purposes; for the paid versions, the lower volumes are quoted as 'Getting Started' prices. For enterprise scale, people can contact MapD to get customized pricing.

As far as the scaling question goes, MapD has a public demo on the website with 11 billion records (and product performance scales somewhat linearly as more GPUs added):
https://www.mapd.com/demos/ships/
I observe that for me, as a subscriber, it works really well. I leads to the observation that getting articles from news sites and media sites for 'free' is being made progressively more annoying. At which point people unwilling to subscribe will stop visiting the web site.

I would hope that once publications have normalized into subscriber supported services they will no longer be compelled to play these games. But my expectations are low.
It dispels all the magic around programming, by helping you build a knowledge of computer programming agnostic to any programming language. Dan Grossman is a superb teacher and the way he ties concepts together is awesome. I'll be forever glad for this MOOC.
Every instance can talk to every other one seamlessly. You just follow the people you want or even mention them directly and it'll work.
This is roughly the youtube model now, isn't it? Some grass-roots promotion will get content fed into a recommendation engine of sorts.
Assuming the audio happens after user interaction within what iOS consiters "one event" and/or the camera is used within a safari tab and NOT "added to home screen" (once you do that getUserMedia does not work any more).

Until iOS gets their shit together and makes it so that adding a glorified bookmark doesn't remove features, it's not a real viable option.
I think it totally comes down to your learning style. If you learn best by tinkering with a running system and seeing how your changes affect it and piecing together its foundations that way (like I do), fast.ai is for you. Deeplearning.ai I think appeals more to people who do better with understanding the theoretical foundations before trying to implement something.
Managers are usually terrible at knowing who is contributing on a software team and they're the ones who set pay.

This is 100% a red herring as far as pay transparency is concerned anyway. If you're not being unfair you have no reason to hide anything.
Solution Architecture is where I would go if I wanted to credential IT folks like engineers or CPAs. Require the license if you are accountable for implementing a solution that hits various thresholds.

Infosec is an area where there is already a problem with credential collectors, and in many places it is just a dressed up audit/compliance function. It’s not a standalone vertical imo.
been in this movie before with ocaml for bootstrap. it will die
I was one of the many millions that got introduced to the internet via AOL. In the days of MySpace I just entered stuff on Google, and found many different forums related to my topics of interest. Or before that time, it was HotBot, Altavista and Lycos in that order.

The most social things I could think of in the late 90s, besides chatrooms and IM, were simple bulletin board systems (with the branched hierarchy style of posts like Reddit or HN), guestbooks (one-way shoutboxes, easy to spam links), or webrings.

Webrings were a cool concept because it ties in people with a common interest, but without being tightly dependent on where your site is hosted on. Your site or blog could be hosted anywhere, you'd just have to copy and paste some code for the link and button to lead you to the directory.

Similar ideas propped up in other communities, like fandoms of a fictional work, where they linked other websites of the same fandom via buttons with a unique design.
This is a cool name, I think people should use it more widely instead of AI.
Show HN: Kweb – a Kotlin web framework that eliminates the server-browser divide
> law against advertising online

OK, now define advertising.

(Also, just get an ad blocker and pay for the media you consume, but that's another issue.)
She doesn't want to lean in too far.
Spotify is a music company, they care about it in a way that I don't think Google or Apple cares, this reflects on the dedication to the core of their product.
Some of the startups in SF are pretty small, just ramping up in terms of head counts and may not have someone in charge to deal with travel logistics (you could be the first remote dev ever).

If you're trying to get a signal regarding whether the company is going to pay you and pay on time, request a tighter payment schedule, e.g. net 10. That reduces the risk a bit on your side (you won't end up working for two months for free) and isn't much different on their end.
I've also received warnings....birds of a feather flock together they say! :)

Personally, I strongly disagree with this policy, or at the very least believe they are going to need to revisit it soon due to the bizarre nature of discourse on recent topics - so many people refuse to engage in intellectually honest, non-deceptive discussion.

Unsurprisingly (based on the somewhat snarky tone of my comment, but absolutely and objectively justified imho), I am of the opinion that you were yet another of these people. Disagreeing on politics is one thing, refusing to engage on points of contention but instead moving the topic back to a preferred talking point, as politicians are famous for, to me is a depressing change in the level of discourse on HN.

Perhaps I've done this myself to a degree? Maybe, but it wouldn't be out of malicious intent, it is out of frustration.

Thanks for "a" reply at all, my spirits are lifted. But, I would be curious to know the perspective from your side of the political aisle, not about the topic we're disagreeing on, but whether HN has changed in the ways I'm describing. It may be less easy to notice if you don't hold opinions contrary to the norm, but no harm in asking.

EDIT: Ah yes, nice to see I got my obligatory downvote.
Looks like most people in this comments section are afraid to pass for a luddite if they don't support cashless transactions. But the argument about centralized system watching every payment you make is still valid. Why are people so eager to jump off something and irreversibly lose its good properties (anonymity, decentralization and reliability in case of analogue money) and that just for the sake of minor comfort? The idea of all that data about my shopping habits and credit history being held and possibly judged by someone makes me cringe. Apparently all this recent Facebook business and all similar cases teach people nothing. They hope that being a good boy/gal and having nothing to hide is all they and subsequent generations need, forever.
Apple Is Dropping Intel
I still think the saddest thing I ever saw in the wild was a Smalltalk shop using CORBA. Doing IDL for Smalltalk VM to Smalltalk VM communications is just wrong.
It very much scales! For example, see here for a demo of MapD on 11.6B rows of ship location data. https://www.mapd.com/demos/ships/#/dashboard?_k=8de1f8

We are offering a enterprise Cloud X plan with greater scalability (i.e. billions of rows across multiple GPUs) that you can sign up for today. As for self-service plans, we will likely offer plans with higher scaling limits in the near future. However, we feel that the existing plans do cover much of the market for individual users (i.e. not teams), at least based on early feedback we received. Of course, if people want more, we will fast-track that as its not difficult technically!
Spotify "Over 35M" [1]

Google Music 40M [2]

Apple Music 45M [3]

[1]https://press.spotify.com/us/about/
[2]https://play.google.com/music/listen#/sulp
[3]https://www.apple.com/apple-music/
Could it be that the birds that successfully avoided the collisions were the most fit to survive? Just a theory.
To be fair, it's unclear whether Linnarsson was saying that brain uploading would never be possible (which is a step too far), or that this company would never people to revive people who paid today using brain-uploading techniques available within the near future (which is quite reasonable).
The only major difficulty in my experience doing EPEL/Fedora builds from the same source has normally been the prohibition on using SCLs in EPEL, which at least has been relaxed recently to allow devtoolset on EPEL. You can build for EPEL6 just fine on RHEL7, assuming you have the privilege to run mock. (EPEL packages are currently built on Fedora 27.)
It's less work to disable them. There's likely already an API access control system in place, for internal-only APIs, testing, etc.
Such beauty, such aery reduction to the basics...
Yes... I wonder how Nature implemented that...
It all depends on your work/life schedule, but for me, I have been successful at meeting my learning goals when I do two things:

- Set aside a discrete amount of time for coursework, and stick to it as much as possible

- Do SOMETHING in the course at least once per week, even if it's just watching one video

For the last course (or Udacity Nanodegree in my case) that I completed, I set up this schedule to fit my work/life (I have an infant):

- Watch course videos/do in-class exercises for 2 hrs on 1-2 days after work or during lunch break each week. My goal was to complete all the course videos that went with a project, so that I would be able to do 1 project per weekend. For longer/more complex topics, I would have to stretch this to one project per 2 weeks.

- Complete 1 project every weekend while my baby napped (total 3hrs per weekend day). I usually was able to complete the project during this allotted time, but sometimes had to work at night after putting baby down.

With the above schedule, I was able to complete my program within 3 months, which was slightly ahead of the program's recommended schedule.

You may need to adjust the schedule as you go (life happens) but the main thing is to KEEP GOING, and do your best to visit the classroom and do something - anything - at least once per week.
It is weirdly hard to steal Mark Zuckerberg's trash
My understanding is that things actually went the other way. Private browsing came first, then the same approach was used to create more labels than just "private" and not "private". I think more features may be turned off in private browsing mode though.
I think the reaction here is harsh. The email did read like a pitch.
Hear hear! Clearly a significant amount of effort has went into figuring out this design, and it's interesting to read about it.

EDIT: And you're the author -- thanks!
We really have seen many successful, large scale attacks on digital infrastructure. The 1980s superhacker never took control of traffic lights and caused nationwide havoc.

All the security people I know think that it is possible though, and likely to happen sometime. I feel like the longer it takes, the worse. We need something to shake us out of complacency.
One datapoint: I've started seeing small dev shops who offer to their clients that they can do things "on the blockchain". "Bitcoin is hype, but blockchain is the underlying technology."

Seems like MySQL could solve the problem just as well.
I think you could do this by pushing to users who tend to look for new artists already. There's a large set of folks that love to discover new music, and actively do so, and adding one or two new artists to promote here would be an easy way to start the network effect to other users.
If the acquisition goes well, it could keep Disney ahead of Netflix's scale for another three or four years (on an apples to apples basis). The Fox assets they're acquiring are substantial, however there's zero organic growth in the Fox business (it's closer to a contracting business with 2017 sales below 2015 sales).

An acquisition like that might be as likely to throw Disney into chaos as anything and give Netflix a leg up on stealing market share, given the corporate history of very large acquisitions.

That also of course depends on what the Netflix growth profile looks like over time as well.

For example, does Netflix routinely still generate 15%-20% annual growth after they're up over $20 billion in sales? If so, there's nothing Disney can do to stay with them short of continuing to buy up the rest of the entertainment universe.

The global subscriber momentum Netflix has now is incredible. By the time Disney figures out exactly how all of their streaming pieces are going to fit together, Netflix might be up to 250 million global subscribers.
Frankfurt has the best peering overall, if you also consider Eastern Europe in the equation.
Multiamory (ep.147) - Relationship R.A.D.A.R (I actually use this at work now too. There's also ep.97 which is their first iteration of the idea)

Tim Ferris Show (Oct 8 2017) - Interview with Esther Perel

Reply All (ep.102-103) - Long Distance (Investigating a telephone scammer)

How I Built This (Feb 13 2017) - Lyft: John Zimmer

The Greater Good Podcast (Mar 30 2011) - Srikumar Rao on Happiness at work

Its really hard to try to recall specific episodes, but these are the ones that came to mind and that I could track down the info for ️
Even if it fails, if the promise of a chance to be revived at some point allows you or your loved ones to be more at peace with your mortality it seems worth it for the relatively minor cost.
I think Firefox for Android will remember the "request desktop site" preference, but it has been a while since I've used that feature.
You're not wrong, but I see this becoming a smaller issue as time progresses. Browsers are adding features all the time and I can see this one being resolved soon as lots of devs are asking for it!
If they could do it and reduce costs that way, they would have done it already. In the Netflix case, licensing third party content was cheaper than creating their own and probably still is. Creating their own content acts as a differentiator for their service with the potential for future cost savings
raptitude.com is a great source of articles to remind you of the things that were compelling to you at any point about mindfulness and/or meditation. I also recommend the spin off http://campcalm.com if you're interested in meditation in particular.

If you're after books specifically, "Wherever you go, there you are" by Jon Kabat-Zinn is also good.
You are absolutely correct about the need for people to be making decisions. A small number of people have already averted what could have been global nuclear war (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/27/vasili-arkhi... and other similar articles and especially item #8 on this list http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/18/13-times-the-world-came-close-...)
It's really tough for me to set aside time for a MOOC, even if if it's absolutely critical-path subject material. So, the one or two I actually spend time with each year teaches something that is of a true investment.

If you are already time-strapped, don't stress yourself over things you don't have the time for, but make time if it will benefit you.
Interesting - hardcore in what sense?
I miss the old processor wars; is this a reboot?
An issue I hit: while the geolocation correctly located me in Berlin, the first suggestion for a trip will be Berlin itself, which is kind of not what I expected.
I hope this works out, and I hope it fixes some of the grief that Cordova causes. We've ended up with some legacy apps built with Ionic, and have had so many problems that trace directly back to Cordova that we're looking very seriously at complete rewrites.

Integrating with some third-party like Auth0 goes smoothly for our projects until we get to Cordova, at which point we start chasing absurd bugs and explaining to their support that we do actually need Cordova support. We've been told more than once that Cordova is the "problem child" in terms of supported platforms.
I was describing more of a multi person chat (not p2p) for company internal use , such as an irc channel with ten or fifteen people. Much harder to do proper forward-secure crypto for one-to-many messages.

If you run and control your own ircd the risks of snooping by the ircd admin are about the same as if you unknowingly have a rootkit/advanced peristent threat installed on your end point client workstation.
This is a problem with a lot of sites that use too much JavaScript. The new user profiles are unusable.
Norway sidestepped this with nationwide BankAxept piggybacking on Visa, wonder why Sweden didn't.
ugh I get legitimately sad thinking about how what.cd slammed its doors shut unexpectedly, never to be seen again.
There are definitely a lot of factors at play (education, etc. etc.), including a preferential attachment model where cities with established startups and funding opportunities will attract new startups.

You've really hit the nail on the head, however, as that no-compete clause is, while perhaps even enticing to large companies, very restrictive to new startups. We seem to disproportionately have ideas about and go on some entrepreneurial mission in an area we already know intimately, usually related to our current employment. No-compete clauses destroy that entire basket of opportunities.
The Scary Story of Facebook's Unremarkable 'AI Invented Language'
Definitely would necessitate something resembling in-house positions but I just don't see how you maintain any sort of consistency if you have a group of people reviewing thousands of tracks. And then at that point aren't they just functioning as a label?

Blogs, don't know how they're going to discover stuff if it's all published on Spotify initially.
I'd never heard it before either. It's just "online course". guess they wanted to feel cooler with an acronym?
Does the webapp still not work if your phone is off (perhaps runs out of battery)?
US suspects listening devices in Washington
Homeopathy is a false analogy as it is outright dangerous, where cryonics is not.

I don't think it is 'preying' on the fear of death. A <.1% chance at eternal life is more or less what they offer and is a more reasonable investment than how many wealthy people spend their money. I could spend that money on a marginally nicer apartment for $100/mo and no one would bat an eye even though the expected value is almost certainly lower.

It seems appealing to me to come to terms with mortality while also being able to have some small hope that you will get lucky and have another chance at life.
Don't you think that as long as it's good users won't care? Netflix would likely have succeeded without originals but would have been nowhere near as pervasive. People were tired of the network crap and wanted content accessible everywhere. They delivered on those.

Good content is good content. For music - it's even better if it's not yet well known because for some reason people think more highly of themselves for being an early fan. Early discovery favors audio moreso than video. So pushing originals (newly signed artists) is a great strategy for Spotify. So long as it's good music.
It is pretty amazing how few controversies of this scale have surfaced given how controversial the company has always been ( I recall seeing survey results on how little the public trusted FB compared to other tech cos years ago). I guess people don't ask too many hard questions when the story has been about the skyrocketing stock price over last few years.
Okay, yeah, doesn't seem to be too many out there. So no real way to do this now, except what you described. You can follow specific people, but no local timelines of instances.
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It sounds like people are essentially donating their brains to (private) science, with the off-chance that they may come back.

The marketing thereof as something else doesn't sound quite ethical to me. It's downright ghastly if people are dying earlier because of this.
That's why I said it may or may not qualify. What's the threat model? What's the usage environment? (It's "encrypted p2p" between two users if one of the users is also the admin.)

For example, if the purpose of this requirement is to keep a business team's communications out of the hands of other businesses, then local IRC+SSL accomplishes that, even though the local administrator can still snoop on it. Being able to say that company secrets never left the company was a big hit with our investors, and it didn't matter that it was technically possible for our sysadmin to snoop on them because he had physical access to all our workstations anyway.

If you don't have a trusted administrator, all is not lost. Each user can run their own ircd on the same VPN. It's less convenient to set up but any IRC client can handle multiple servers. Again, it depends on your requirements. (Are there 5 users, or 5000?)

Like any other technology, IRC can be used as part of a secure system. It has the advantage that it's free and easy to run yourself. Without knowing more context, though, it may or may not be practical.
What is up with web redesigners? They always seem to make things worse, less performant, seem to have egos that shine brighter than the sun. In the end, just shove their perfect child into your face (looking at you youtube).
I enjoyed the lectures quite a bit, but ran into a lot of trouble with the problem sets. I'm wondering if anyone else had a similar experience, or if I should give it another chance and try some different approach?

The problem I had was that he gave you a mostly finished program which utilizes the percolation algorithm, but then asks you to fill in some data structures and functions to make it work, and finally a test suite should let you know if you've completed that successfully. The issue I had was that there was basically no feedback, or incremental progress that you could make towards a solution. You either understand the full requirements and are able to implement them, or your tests fail and you have to scratch your head some more wondering if you misunderstood the problem or what.

I loved the approach that Tim Roughgarden's stanford algorithms class took on Coursera, where you're actually implementing the full algorithm and are given some data sets to test them on. You could even write it in whatever language you choose.

I really wanted to do professor Sedgewick's course but I felt like I couldn't do the assignment even if I understood the algorithm perfectly. Would love some advice if anyone has any suggestions, or even if someone can confirm that I'm not crazy for having a bad time with it.
At least in the pass, one couldn't easily (if at all) run whatsapp on multiple devices. Even if one would run it in bluestacks, it be only a desktop solution.
Half of European flights delayed due to system failure
ah, thanks for the correction. so when is it expected, if not in 18 months? I've been waiting for > 16 gig for literally 2+ yaers.
Dumb luck? What is dumb luck? So the wealth differences between a high school drop out and a college grad can largely be attributed to this "dumb luck"?
Yes although this mostly just applies to consumer tech companies.