skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time I read an article about attempts at non-hierarchical filesystems, I try to figure out how I'd take the huge piles of stuff I generate when I'm drawing (and publishing) a graphic novel and reorganize it under tags. It's never pretty.

Like, okay, sure, I tag everything with the name of the project, that's a no-brainer. But if I just do that then I get the hundreds of files I generate (one per page) mixed up with everything else - web-res renderings of each page, model sheets (and their source files), promotional material, stuff sent to publishers to try and convince them to deal with that part of the process, and the huge mass of files I generate for each book I print (which can be more than one for a single multi-year project): source files tweaked for print, print-res renderings thereof, files for the kickstarter for each book... So I tag all of these attributes too, and imagining putting all these tags on a file as I save it sure is a lot of fun, even if I imagine some sort of save requestor that keeps a list of all my previously-used tags, including ways to filter those - I don't care about any of the tags attached to my music collection or my collection of cartoon porn or my programming projects when I'm working on my comics projects, for instance, so I'd want to quickly narrow it down to just tags found in my art projects, and...

Ultimately it just starts to look like a hierarchical structure in my mind, except for the fact that I'm interacting with it by some kind of tag-filtering file browser on top of a huge filesystem that mixes everything together in a non-human-browseable structure.
How would you build an internet scale web crawler?
What techniques would you use to build an internet scale web crawler/search engine.

* How would you schedule and manage the crawlers?

* How would you collect and parse incoming data?

* What would you use to store the data?

* How would you process and draw meaning from the data?

* What information would be important to build a pagerank system for searching?

* What other major components are missing?
This is more of a UI/UX question, but I thought about it on and off for months and have a partial answer. Look at how Gmail works - you have All Mail, but you also have Inbox, Sent, and your own custom labels (tags). Every message can always be found in All Mail, and you can restrict your search by date range. Similarly on an image board like Danbooru, even if you don't tag an image, it will appear on the chronological stream of every image ever uploaded to the system. So, I'm hoping the design will end up something like these two examples. You should be able to list every file, preferably in chronological order; you should also be able to exclude files that have at least one tag; and the software might have a special nag section showing you all the files that you left uncategorized.
English is a lot like x86: yeah it's got a lot of warts but it's ubiquitous and fairly simple to learn the basics.
Im still hoping a constructed language like esperanto takes the mantel but that is such a pipe dream.
“Very good UX” doesn’t really describe interacting with public cryptocurency networks for me between the security concerns, transaction times, and obscure address names. Is there a particular use case that you have in mind where that’s an improvement on the status quo from a UX perspective?
Ha! That is actually the kind Of technical quirk I can believe. Maybe because I so rarely use the block feature myself that I assume others must also unused it very rarely, and that few users are ever blocked (since the previous paradigm was opt-in following).
In other words, let's "define" god so imprecisely that it becomes impossible to refute its existence...
I've seen some of the papers where people look at big chunks of unused address space and watch the probes etc. It is really quite amazing. Once I screwed myself royally by accidentally turning RIP on for the upstream side of my router (connected to the cable modem) and it advertised 192.168/16 which Comcast accepted and started routing random stuff from the local exchange to my router. It was pretty funny talking to their NOC staff who was mad at me for advertising the route but I pointed out it was pretty stupid of them to accept routes like that from their edge nodes. What if I had sent them a BGP route for China, then what would they have done? (Don't try that at home kids unless you don't want to use your network for a while)
> The best the Chinese can probably hope for is the emergence of some kind of Pidgin that is easier to pronounce for them and contains more Chinese loanwords

I could really see Mandarin take off if they would adopt a writing system similar to Vietnamese.
ABC Airlines transports a record number of va-Q-tainers on a single flight
He started the company, without the internet, so it is his.

That bit about the company being yours some day might well be true, assuming the company outlives your father. I take that to be the meaning of the promise. If he sells the company, there is still the money from that. The promise is only truly broken if he has a will that excludes you.

So, not really a problem there... but you are an adult now and may decide to go elsewhere for better pay or any other reason.
Java is FOSS.

Oracle used excuse, that it's current OpenJDK license (GPLv2) is incompatible with license, used by Google's runtime (Apache 2). If Google re-licensed it's Java implementation under GPL, some of arguments, used by Oracle lawyers (code reuse and patent (?) violations), would have been void, and arguing about reuse of APIs would have been a lot harder.

Of course, this does not really matter, because the whole lawsuit is just excuse for power games between corporations. Oracle's goal wasn't about Java licensing, it was about gaining some degree of control over emerging Android ecosystem.
Thanks so much! :) Also for anybody reading this - I'd really appreciate if you could upvote my comment so more people can see it!
Space Industry Panel in Berkeley
> Scientist for Python? https://github.com/github/scientist

Indeed; from README:

> Python library that makes testing refactored code super simple. Inspired by scientist from github.
Maybe US poors are somehow special and different from poors in other countries?

In my country lots of people make ~ $500. Or even less. With prices similar (or even in many cases higher) to flyover USA. Living paycheck to paycheck is the norm here. What people do, after getting paycheck(s) they put together a budget for the next month. And $30 once a month for essentials is definitely a better deal than paying $15 weekly for the same thing. As you said, they don't have much money left. Thus they take every possible bulk or coupon deal to save money.

Yes, poor people are having a harder time than your average HN folk. But vast majority of them are not dumb and can do math pretty well. I hate how US media is portraying poor people as unintelligible who can't think ahead. Yes they can. Unless US poor are somehow different?

What they need is more job security, better paying entry level jobs and more education opportunities (wether vocational or after-hours college). And better pay for infamous but educated jobs like librarian or teacher. Which are borderline minimal wage and borderline poor over there.
Not only that, but glog authors observed the overhead of frequent fadvise and added rate limiting almost a year and half ago. https://github.com/google/glog/commit/dacd29679633c9b845708e...

+1 perf. -1 stale library use. -1 misdirected learning
Haha,I'll confess that as a Vim user I was a bit jealous when I saw that. The Vimscript implementations are subpar.
> We can observe God because we are God.

This is the god of Spinoza. A god that is everything and everywhere is, at the same time, nothing. It is nothing more than the worshiping of the universe.
Older Americans Are Hooked on Vitamins Despite Scarce Evidence They Work
I suspect a laser would melt and cut up debris. Void is an insulator and the only way to dissipate heat is through radiation.

Smaller pieces are worse because they're more numerous if you break up a bigger piece and harder to spot and avoid. Also the probability of a crash increases with the number of debris.
My favorite recently was the model explained to me where instead of receiving civil services from a single government without a choice, there are multiple corporatist organizations that run business and provide protection/security, a judicial system, enforcers, an executive system, so on and so forth, and you can pick and choose which one you want to be part of, swearing into their system and agreeing to pay your share into their system.

Then it hit me- this form of government already exists, and it is called the Mafia.
No worries. My email is eric@tsi.io or client4 via keybase.
The author makes the argument that automatic translation could prevent the rise of a new lingua franca: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Lingua-Franca-English-Return/dp/...
> I feel like the author missed the dip caused by the April Fools joke

The slide from $310 to $250 happened in the 10 days prior to April 1, after it became clear autopilot was turned on in the recent California Model X accident, which is exactly what the author says.

Presumably banks have propped the stock back up to the current $298 and are running PR cover in an attempt to make back some of what are inevitable losses. I can't imagine anyone on r/teslamotors buying more right now. The general consensus is AP is not up to snuff. Only people investing other people's money would try to save TSLA right now.

I think Tesla would've been fine with robotic manufacturing and electric vehicles. With autopilot, they've entered risky territory in order to earn investment dollars. It's not clear whether or not that risk will pay off. It seems clear now that full self-driving isn't happening any time soon without lidar.

EDIT: Please explain your downvotes, thanks!
Great visualization!

I must say, I love the "Find all objects from this launch..." option. You can learn so much.

For instance, I've clicked on some random satellite in the GEO band, and viewed all objects from its launch:

https://i.imgur.com/tknQtDk.png

The closest object to Earth is a tank, which suggests a high-inclination launch. I guess Baikonur?

Next, you see a band of debris on less-inclined orbits. Those are close together, suggesting maybe fairings, or remnants of explosive stage separation? Stuff in space will drift apart like that, if you give it a slight push.

And lastly, in GEO band, is the satellite itself.
> surely it's a widely accepted (and beneficial) practice that employees have special privileges in the apps they build

But it's more specific than that. Imagine using this technique to respond to someone who points out that you have toilet paper stuck to your shoe that it's agreed upon that the existence of toilet paper is a good thing, and that surely they wouldn't prefer the alternative.
You're wrong about all of these: Tesla was clear that the more expensive Model 3's would ship first, and S and X both shipped the most expensive ones first.
I used to play a game where each kingdom had an address (kingdom:island) if you where on kingdom one on island one (1:1) you would get attacked all the time no matter how much defense you had. If you landed on 1:1 you where basically doomed.
Yes, and the queue tool has given you a time estimate for 2 other options the entire time you've been in the queue.

For me, it currently reads:

First Production: available now (for me)

Standard Battery: Early 2019

Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive: Late 2018
Wondering what form of payment Sandberg wants. It's not like they give us the option to pay in money.
That’s exactly right.
Nerd me wants to yell, "Walt, drive all the planes with stepper motors and you can record/playback sequences from a computer!"

Or better still, "Digitize all the artwork for each plane and composite them in a computer!"

Seriously though, it is amazing what patience and ingenuity can accomplish.
I would argue that my 40% tax rate already qualifies as "some level of redistribution".

Like I said, I'd be happy to discuss some kind of social contract, but I get nervous about people saying "well he makes a lot of money, let's take it from him". That's too simplistic.
I’m really interested in how you see NASA being replaced by SpaceX, though my initial feeling is that you have might have a very limited idea of what NASA does.
Elon is a fundamentals kind of guy and that drives his strategy. The fundamentals with respect to electric cars from the time he started were:
a)electric is a much better technology than ICE for automobiles. Electric is way simpler, lower center of gravity means better handling, smaller and lighter motors mean more interior space and better performance. Battery tech is a pain point but no CO2 is essential for everyone.

b)Large automakers know this but simpler for them translates into less maintenance which means lower profits. Automakers therefore will pay lip service to electrics, drag their feet and kill off any real electric competition if they can. The world's environment is not a shareholder in the large automakers.

So his "master plan", (the Truth but not the whole truth) he published in 2006. What he left out was that he knew as he moved to a high volume model that's when the large automakers would try to cut Tesla off at the knees and then go back to resting on their laurels.

If his high volume model was mediocre and expensive to build Tesla would be dead in the water. He needed an excellent car but even more than that he needed Tesla's cost to be much lower than the majors could match so they couldn't low ball the market long enough to cut off Tesla's oxygen.

When Tesla got 400k Model3 pre-orders that's when he decided to double down on the 'low unit cost/large production investment' strategy for the model3. Making this work is critical to Tesla's strategy. You can be sure Musk and his team put a lot of effort into the production tech knowing it was make or break for Tesla.

The Economist is under estimating Musk and they should give him a little more credit given his track record. Telsa is not a slam dunk but it's also nowhere near as fragile as they make out. Musk also has a bit of equity in SpaceX he could lean on if the markets demur at the end of 2019.
Currently in this Data Science Program. Happy to answer any questions anyone has if they're considering it.
I see language adoption similar to currency adoption. Mainly through fiat power and leverage of network effects.
Just say you live in SF.

Use this: https://www.earthclassmail.com/addresses/ca/san-francisco

Bad thing is that you have to pay California state taxes and abide by California laws. If you like weed but hate guns you'll have a good time. If you like guns and don't use weed, you'll find some firearm laws restricting. Also, to keep up the charade it'd be good to visit once in a while and visit the DMV after you get a couple of utility bills and a lease so you can get a California driver's license.

The authorities probably won't check too hard cause you aren't causing any troubles. You are paying Cali state income tax and not using any services, where you actually live doesn't matter that much.
I use most of these without the force touch :)

Some of them are not even force touch, but a long press :)

And funnily enough the most useful feature for the control center, turning Wi-Fi and Bluetooth off, are not even available there.

So all in all force touch is next to useless (and it's nearly impossible to discover what it will do or not do in different situations)
So, the traffic is being sniffed and analyzed, and that service was advertised as privacy-oriented?
I used to think the writing system was horrible as well, but it actually has a ton of advantages as well. Pros and cons, like anything else.
> Because it contains no data that can directly identify an individual, pseudonymous data may represent a lower risk of privacy impact in the event of an unintended disclosure..

This is playing with fire when it comes to GDPR. 'PII' for GDPR is interpreted much more broadly, and includes any information that could feasibly be used to identify an individual (even IP addresses!). Swapping out the names alone probably wouldn't cover you, and anyway isn't in the spirit of the legislation, which is to give customers more control over their data [1].

While no doubt this would be a boon to AdTech brands that by and large don't care about the name of a customer, but very much want to be able to sync data without customer consent, this seems a little too cute.

https://www.gigya.com/blog/gdpr-difference-between-personal-...
VM certainly does "call underlying host kernel operation", it just does so indirectly — the guest userspace calls fadvise(), kernel implementation of fadvise() asks the virtio disk driver to perform particular read/writes, the virtio driver asks underlying kernel disk driver to read/write individual disk sectors (without knowing, that they are related to specific file in guest filesystem).

This specific bug was caused by putting high load on "kernel dentry cache", e.g. a contention for memory structure, present in kernel memory. Guests normally don't share memory, so contending for it was avoided.

Incidentally, there are situations, when different guests can compete for same memory — when VM uses so-called "memory deduplication" techniques. Which is why enabling that stuff on production systems may be a bad idea.
I'm only stress-testing, I promise. :)
Thank you for the response. How helpful would it be to have some kind of standard that indicates a building has braille signage? I'm thinking it could be somewhere you would always know where to inspect first, so you dont waste time checking around. I think a good place would be a door handle into the building that simply idicates right or left. Then just inside the door to the right or left there would be braille instructions like - "all rooms have braille signs 5 feet from ground. The floorplan is such. Here is where you can find room x y z."
Clinton may spent most money on traditional media channels and wasted her money as described in the article.
Swarm isn't going away, and in fact, Docker has stated it publicly multiple times on their blog since K8s announcement, and has continued to add new features and fix bugs. Their Kubernetes integrations in Docker EE takes advantage of Swarm's built-in security for node setup. Lots of improvement in the last 6-9 months on Overlay and zero-downtime updates, but true, compared to the first year of SwarmKit, this last 6 months has slowed down in terms of PR's for new features, likely due to focus on K8s integration. Your rolling update issues were likely related to bugs that are (hopefully) now fixed.
That was in the 80s. These days one would think fertility doctors would know better than getting themselves on the hook for child support.
Carbon: IBM design system for web
Too bad you can't read any of it with the garbled ^M rendering on GitHub.
Visual Studio Code March 2018
I don’t think Woz should be seen as a particularly relecant commentator on Tesla (Tim Cook, despite not being an Apple co-founder, would be far more interesting). But as usual, I find myself nodding in agreement with Woz’s worldview.
Facebook exists for one reason only, Mark's desire to be rich. Everything else is completely opportunistic. If you see it through that lens, everything they've ever done makes complete sense.
Swarm isn't going away, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16771118
Except that most people don't use Braille letter by letter - they use grade 2 Braille which combines multiple letters into a single character - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Braille
Working on it, but no real news yet. Have you signed up at https://stripe.com/global#IL yet?
At the moment, the kind of Chinese you would want to talk to, almost always speaks English.(Except when you are sourcing parts in Shenzhen)
> I disagree that specific regulatory oversight is needed.
- and -
> If we want privacy to be respected we need a right to privacy law.

You're almost disagreeing with yourself unless you see a significant difference between regulatory oversight and privacy laws. Both reflect government authority over Facebook (etc.) to protect its citizens.

Myself, I would be happy with either option. We have neither now.
Didn't gmail do this then backtracked into a hybrid. Tagging is good for semantic searching and computer categorising, but it seems us fleshsacks are wed to our physical metaphors and groupings.
It's elementary: just eliminate the improbables, and whosoever remains must be the owner/landlord.
At $400k, you would likely be one of, if not the highest paid remote developer in existence. You must have a very esoteric skill set. And making twice that in the valley would be pretty much unheard of as well unless you are in a big management position or someone with a lot of history, seniority, and/or specific knowledge that is deemed critical to the company and undesirable that you might be hired by a competitor.
The answer, for your queue position, is:

https://3.tesla.com/model3/delivery-estimate
Stripe received seed funding from Y Combinator.

http://www.ycombinator.com/ - second quote, at the bottom

This website, Hacker News, is essentially the community site for companies emerging from Y Combinator. (Hence the Y icon in the upper left corner of the page.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

if it helps, all YC graduates are hyped... on the YC 'news' site.
I worked with my ISP, htcinc.net to fix routing to 1.1.1.1 this week -- Not sure how they had their core router mis-configured, but it was dropping the traffic.
Do you mean (a) you convinced your bank to not issue you one, (b) you shredded the card, or (c) you don't have a savings / checking account?
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it. Don't worry it didn't, I made this list so newbies will know what traits they should avoid, and if you’re already skilled one to look at yourself from another perspective. So if you see that you share some bad habits with types from the list you’ll know that you have a problem which could end up badly in future.
I'd like to, but what is a reasonable alternative? I mainly want a social place to share and connect with friends, many of whom are not technical people. If they were, things would be much easier...
> Two months ... Good luck

Well, it needs to be 2 months so Musk can transfer this learning to Autopilot... /s, I think
Our computer security course at Berkeley regularly attracts 600+ students. Berkeley is doing fine in terms of traditional course offerings.
The Shape of a Problem Doesn't Start Anywhere: Jonathan Blow on Development
61A also uses Python.
Its an article about how expensive diapers are and the plight it causes to those with low income. Why are we talking about anything BUT a much cheaper diaper from a budget retailer?
So... "Subscriptions" is now 3.3% + 30c for new clients, for a bunch of features that used to be 2.9% + 30c, along with different billing models, "smart recovery," and automatic card updater (which I swear was already a feature they'd implemented.)

This feels like a very backdoor way to raise their rates for their subscription service because they felt like they were undercharging and they need more margin, and masking it with a couple of features that they're claiming can help make it worth it. (And sure, first $1M free, but still.)

I kind of wish there was a "standard" tier that kept it at the normal rate and maintained parity with the features we had yesterday for 2.9%...
> "Under the terms of a cooperative agreement, APNIC will have limited access to query the transaction data for the purpose of conducting research related to the operation of the DNS system."

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-priv...
It’s not that simple. There are quite a few definitions of an epithet. ;)

https://youtu.be/RAGcDi0DRtU
Because people aren't paid what they are "worth". You are paid what you are willing to accept. It's much easier to find employees willing to accept lower salaries outside of SF or young people with no family.