skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a guess, but I've noticed that HN scrubs the front page of all kinds of stuff pretty quickly -- not just hot button issues (e.g. political stuff or the like).
Yeah but would be cool to have an area to share "stories," text messages, video calls, grocery lists, etc. Maybe there is money in integration wherein if my partner likes a Chanel purse on FB or Pinterest the partner app let's me know so I can buy it dir her.
Ours isn’t even very large, I’d call it “medium”. The svn working copy is around 2GB and the entire 100krev history is about 80Gb. This is easy to handle centralized but we obviously need LFS or GVFS for it to be feasible in Git (keeping all the binary assets AND the 100k rev history is a requirement).

Migrating it using git svn is a couple of days (and annoying when it stops half way because of some issue)
At least with svn2git we can test-convert including lfs migration in just a couple of hours.
>How do I avoid wanting to learn a new framework and actually finish my project?
This is a dangerous idea and a dangerous trend. I’m not a blockchains obsessed federate/decentralize everything person either but putting increasingly large amounts of the internet in increasingly fewer buckets is dangerous to the internet as a whole.
No one is perfect and no one is immune. We should haver fewer single points of failure, not more.
That also says nothing about how notoriously petty big tech companies get in areas they compete.

So you mean you shouldn’t depend on a central location to keep your source control and move to a more distributed system where every committer has the entire source control history?

As you can see, that opinion is getting downvoted a lot....

But back to the point. You can have the best of both worlds if you don’t completely trust AWS and you still want to take advantage of their infrastructure - use an AWS volume gateway in stored mode. You then have a local copy on prem and it’s automatically backed up redundantly to AWS.

And if your data center goes down. Bring up a VM and reattach the AWS hosted volume in cached mode and you’re in business.

I don’t see what the controversy is about. Sourceforge just proved that both trusting SVN for your source code in 2018 isn’t the best approach and that they aren’t competent enough to be trusted running their own infrastructure. When have you heard a story about AWS losing data if you went with their recommended best practices?
There was a time when Oracle's database product was kind of like IBM mainframes. If you could afford it, and really needed its capabilities, there was no substitute.

As a result, their sales and business practices focus on selling huge deployments to Big Enterprise and large government contracts.

Not surprising they never really made inroads with small developers and startups, and why they have the reputation they do in that community.
That’s great that reddit is so good for lgbtq communities.

How do you end up making friends in places like Reddit? Does it get started from noticing a person and then a PM being sent and talking through there?
That doesn’t sound even remotely correct given the nature of the “offense” in this case, for which the remedy is a fine. Can you cite this “jail the moment you step into its territory” thing?
You wrote:

This means that we have proven that x=0.

Later you have x=2i or x=-2i. Persisting with the idea that you can view x as an element in the base ring and at the same time allowing its value to change or vary indicates you don’t really understand these issues. If x is in R it is a single value. If you want to vary it you need to expand R to include x and add the approroate algebraic structure.

It’s shocking that you think x^3+4x is not a polynomial. The whole discussion I started originally was that math language, like all other human languages, is nuanced and there are lots of abuse of notations. This is ok because math is written for humans by humans. The standard interpretation of x^3+4x is that it’s a polynomial. This is not disputable.
I feel for you. I understand your concerns about the medications. Some of the treatments I have taken have basically prevented me from functioning normally. It is hard at times, because I haven't been able to find a solution. I think best hope is an improved ability to cope with the symptoms as they become more recognizable
For the most part, they don't know how to do it, and people who are good at it have better opportunities than government jobs
Prior to 1994, the SAT could serve as an IQ test. Scores could be used for admission into high-IQ clubs.

The 1994 changes slightly broke that, particularly at the high end. Subsequent changes, for example the removal of analogies, have moved to test away from measuring IQ. Today it really isn't an IQ test at all. It's an achievement test.
I've found that casual chatrooms with a small group of friends is pretty effective at keeping in touch without the noise.

There are many common options like Slack, IRC, Keybase, and others. The hardest choice is finding a technology folks can agree upon; convenience and inertia go a long way towards maintaining a successful chatroom.
It's only 88KB, but I should not display the video on mobile indeed. I'm removing it right now.
Here's some interesting pushback on Coase's work - in particular how it's been used to justify some sloppy business practices over the past few decades:

http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2018/01/31/in-the-eternal-i...
Or... you could just have a conversation like normal people.
beside the nostaligia alan kay talks about sketchpad, sutherland and all that;

one of my top talks is dan friedman + will byrd doing evalo in minikanren.

similarly there's an old talk by sean parent about reversible computing while he was at Adobe R&D (kinda like relational programming of friedman and byrd, except, in cpp)

I also greatly enjoy anything chuck moore on forth / ga144

And recently the talk about the values of APL

Oh and Gary Bernhardt. Wat and the unix chainsaw. beautiful.
It is telling that the generated HTML for the example document ends up being almost 2x the size of the input, in terms of markup overhead the generated HTML is almost 3x worse than this TextMock (by a very crude estimate).
Thank you!! I have been looking for this book in my own sci-fi bookcase a number of times having forgotten both author + title. Got it now :)

This is a great book!
...in the area we now call China...

Which was part of the supercontinent Pangea only 250mya, and yeast is probably nearly a billion years old. We’re not even talking about the same crustal surfaces. Given how yeast spreads, what’s the theory for how it was constrained to one small part of a supercontinent?

The article is just awful, and title aside is clearly talking about Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or is just full of shit. The claims of the article make perfect sense for Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which could plausibly have been traced through genetic studies to China. All yeast though? How do you get genetic info from a good sample size over hundreds of millions of years?!
> So they go anti-the-other-guy instead of making sure they have the better deal?

How can you make sure you have a better deal... when the process is not open to you? The article says open Amazon are being allowed to bid and the first aim of Oracle is to just be allowed to bid.

> Their goal is to make sure that the award process is opened up to more than one company and unseat Amazon as the front-runner for the multibillion-dollar deal.
44% of income? Wow. I think total online sales in the US are something like 7%
> 1280 Companies[1] — 1 IPO

> Kingmakers... hardly.

An IPO is not the only measure of success. Some successful YC companies are opting to remain private longer e.g. AirBnB, Coinbase and some have been acquired e.g. Heroku, Reddit.
For 99% of the workflow, teaching someone how to use something like tortoise git will get them where they need to go. I taught developers how to use tortoise git who had never used source control in their life.
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Nope, I definitely meant "client-side solution".

I wrote this library to work as part of an online service to help lawyers assemble Exhibits (www.magicexhibits.com).

The first version of that site uploaded everything to a server, where I used QPDF and Hummus to put everything together into a big .pdf, then downloaded the result. It worked, but it was slow.

The second version used an Emscripten encoded version of qpdf[0] to move part of the processing client-side (meaning into the browser), which made the processing faster. But even after compressing as much as possible, the Emscripten qpdf.js was 4mb, which made the site load time much slower.

So, finally, I wrote PDF Assembler, which loads fast and does almost all of what I need. If someone loads a document I can't process with JavaScript alone, like a .docx file, I still have to send that to a server to convert to a .pdf. But PDF Assembler does the majority of the processing right in the browser, which makes the site a LOT faster. And, as a nice side effect, our users like the improved privacy protection, because as long as all their input files are .pdfs, those files never leave their computer.

Personally, I use QPDF on the command line (in OS X) quite a bit, and I've also used PDFTk and Hummus on my local computer. But our users aren't as computer savvy, so it was important to make a solution for them that was as simple as possible - meaning one that didn't involve downloading and installing any software. So an SPA is an ideal solution for them, and an SPA that uploads as little as possible to the server is even better.

[0] https://github.com/jrmuizel/qpdf.js
I have read supercasters and also unmaking the west i think you are either projecting and extrapolating way too much from them.

You are also ignoring the IO that russia is been running which is essentially a carbon copy what they used to run during the cold war, only considerably more amplified and effective these days.

I'm actually frightened by the fact that there are now links here to what is an unquestionably a new breed of academic UIC's now I thought the last of these died shortly after the wall fell.
can you let us know where you were able to generate that tod and privscy policy? thank you
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Blessed be
No, it's not OOS, but I'm thinking about it. Why not?

I saw that as a useful to quickly prototype an idea. But I'm not yet sure frankly.
Fossil has a debian repo, so for lazy debian users like me:

sudo apt-get install fossil
fossil init test
fossil open test
fossil ui

Then, as the command-line message says, you can navigate with your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8080 to try out the web UI.
Last I worked with fossil, their main UI for issues/wikis was all through the web-ui. It works, but it's not as streamlined as you might like. If you're looking into fossil and want an alternative interface then it's mostly up to you to either build something out of command or more easily build something out of direct queries to the sqlite database that info is stored in. I didn't see many examples of either out there when I was looking last, though I did try building something along those lines ( https://github.com/fundamental/fs-tickets ).
Seems pretty obvious that you have neither ever lived in USSR nor experienced the Soviet economics first-hand.

Although I would like to see a sample of a single lean and mean organization in USSR...
It would also help if Facebook let you hide shit content - shared posts, tags, memories etc. But noooo you can only "see less of this" which doesn't really do anything.

I just ruthlessly unfollow people now. And ignore Facebook - WhatsApp has effectively replaced it.
while we're at it:

chicken chicken chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk
Its true. I have no friends on hn and hn is my best "social media"
I'm not too fond of that "stay up to date" modal, which tries to mimic system native UI.
Where do Newton’s study and formulations of optics and celestial motion place him in your taxonomy?

I suspect Keynes’s desire to discredit Newton was motivated more by the former’s irrational, perhaps as the first postmodernist, impulse to deny the value of gold.
I hate that people think you can't find a place walking distance from work in London for a (for London) decent price. It's totally possible anywhere in London, but as most people aren't originally from the area and there is this stereotype, they don't even try!
This is completely off-topic, but McDonald's is mostly processed foods high in trans fats, all kinds of chemistry, and filled with sugar. There's indeed "some" meat, however it's everything but healthy.
Like a 3D printed model?
First, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of Vue.js. I've used it for a few production apps.

> Enjoy the dev experience of Vue + webpack

I just find this confusing. The only reason I tolerate webpack is because of how convoluted the front end web build chain has become.

I honestly think you must be a sadist to use something like this. It sounds like it might get around the SEO problems SPAs suffer from somehow, but seriously, just use Hugo or Jekyll!
"Its recommendations, now powered by algorithms, were curated by staffers then. Collections of movies grouped by common themes included Complicated Couples, Serious Spy Action, High-Tech Horrors, and Bad People, Great Movies—precursors to the remarkably specific personalized rows of categories now featured on Netflix. "

I for one pine for the days where I could find an individual with similar sensibilities - or better yet NEW sensibilities that I did not know shared, and follow their curation...rather than having some engineered algorithm suggest music and movies to me.

Thankfully there are many wonderful radio stations and bloggers who still exist. I find SV has done a terrible job replacing them and for that I am grateful.
Do you not agree that Bezos being called to the stand for selling huge numbers of counterfeit goods would be "a major problem for Amazon" ? I thought that's what we were talking about...
Oh my god. Facebook did not sell data to Cambridge Analytica. Can we just all learn that please?
Except the title is absurd, because “all yeast” predates any conceivable ability to trace its precise origin, and has existed at least as long ago as a time when Asia the continent didn’t exist, but was part of Pangaea. Either it’s talking about Saccharomyces cerevisiae or it’s a joke.
I can’t say this often, but I want Amazon to win this deal now.
It just takes a lot of people and experience to do that. There are a few companies out there that can are already set up well for that. I don't know if I'd put Oracle in that list but Amazon isn't the only one with the experience.
Clubhouse is an excellent example of site and web app and their approach and integration with both has clearly had a LOT of thought put into it:
https://clubhouse.io

Probably use it more than any other SaaS and am glad it’s so good.
Not yet. That's been on my to-do list, but I didn't know how important it was. I'll move it to the top of my list and post agin once it's fixed.

Thanks for the feedback!
>SPAs

Single page applications?
And trusting Russian intelligence sources and the new breed of academic 'useful idiot' cooperatives is any better?

Russian run IO social media accounts have started spreading news about an "eminent false flag" attack in Syria 3 weeks ago this is exactly the same pattern that we've seen on several of the attacks before specifically to all attacks that were eventually attributed to the Syrian government.

And while you may say that "shouting conspiracy" isn't fruitful neither does spreading it without anything that could be considered even remotely as a shred of any proof.
Oracle, I have a proposition for you. Why don't you release Java and then curl up and die? There is not a reason for you to exist. Your mojo was 20 years ago, why prolong the agony. Save us all trouble and go home.
False assertion.

I once operated a free service with 10Ks of users. When I sold it I refused to sell the user data. This dropped the value of the transaction to a fraction of the original offer.

So, maybe a lot of, but not every.
Google introduces natural language search of books
I don’t know the precise definition of overloaded. I was merely claiming that the use of = in an equation, like a polynomial equation, is very much different than the use of = in something like the statement of the distributive property of the real numbers.

I’m a mathematician so it’s something my teacher said as such but something that I noticed consciously when I started doing some programming.
There is a TPROXY mailing list where you can easily get questions answered by the community if not the original author of the patch.

This Python example sets up a transparent HTTP proxy which will show you the basic socket stuff you need to get going.

https://github.com/erijo/transparent-proxy/blob/master/READM...
Ah yeah, repos with (a large number of) large binary files are a different story. I'm usually dealing with code only (and maybe some bitmaps for UIs).
> It's an achievement test.

what's that?
Vue-powered static site generator released by the creator of Vue.js
And:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-cruises-bumpy...
Git is not a good fit for projects which include large versioned binaries. Projects that involve a lot of artistic work -- like video games, movies, and music -- are hit particularly hard.
He's saying more along the lines of having a social media profile (like Facebook) that represents 2 people.
Yes, from the front page:

> VuePress generates pre-rendered static HTML for each page, and runs as an SPA once a page is loaded.
Um... if there's a social network based on Ethereum you can just scrape all their user data and not need an equivalent of the Facebook third-party developer platform at all.
Many tech people want a better social network plan.

I'm asking for opinions and advice here:

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/social_network_plan

The repo looks at issues of purpose, funding, audience, identity, topology, implementation, a MVP, and more.
This is actually an interesting idea. What if the city of SF created an Uber/Lyft-like app, and required that all registered taxis be listed on it and have the driver app running and active on their phone while on duty? Obviously taxis could still accept manual street-side hails and line up in hotel taxi lines if/when they want to. But they otherwise could accept fares on the app, and riders could still pay seamlessly through the app, and have the option to rate drivers and submit feedback.

They wouldn't be able to charge the rock-bottom prices Uber and Lyft do in order to gain market share, of course. But with Uber (and to a much smaller extent Lyft) suffering some backlash wrt their business practices and tendency to increase traffic congestion, such an app might have a chance at pulling at least some market share back toward traditional taxis.

If I could order a taxi using an Uber/Lyft-like experience[0], and get decent wait times, I wouldn't mind spending more in order to support a local alternative, if that local alternative was actually showing signs that it wanted to innovate and adopt a customer-first attitude.

[0] Yes, I know Uber had UberTAXI for a while, but in practice the wait times were huge and most of the times I checked the option, it said there were no taxis available at all. Obviously Uber had little incentive to make the taxi part of their service attractive, and plenty of incentive to make it unattractive, so I don't really blame the taxi services themselves for this deficiency.
For the same reason any consumer of cloud services would.

Building data centers is expensive and on-demand compute is nice
At US government scale, they’d come out ahead if executed by the US Digital Service (no politics, executed rapidly). Amazon has outrageous margins on AWS, margins that could be better spent by the government on equipment and technical talent.

Ideally, they’d contribute to OpenStack through such an initiative, ensuring an open source alternative to commercial closed cloud providers.

I don’t want my tax dollars going towards Bezo’s attempts at a retail and cloud computing monopoly, but that’s just me. Maybe there’s an opportunity here for Trump considering his disdain for Bezos and the USDS being part of the Executive Office of the President.
Thank you. I was not aware of this. I plan to add them into searchcode once I figure out how to integrate with fossil.
"But it breaks the financial model of running targeted ads so it won't work."

By "it", do you mean the software won't work?

What if someone wrote the software to do this, it worked and he distributed it for free?

To the entrepreneur, this perhaps is not interesting.

Is it interesting to the user?
I'd often be perfectly happy to take earlier or later flights on the same day, and potentially even change routing (OAK vs. SFO, or even something crazier like MIA vs. FLL). Wouldn't even necessarily need to offer cash; frequent flyer miles or upgrade to C or F or even lounge access while waiting would be fine.

Rare other times, I'd probably want >$5-10k to change my flight (missing a speaking slot at a conference or a customer meeting or something when booked close).

Being able to surface customer preferences like this seems valuable. I've had Alaska/Virgin call to offer compensation to change (or cancel) flights before, either due to overbooking or downgauging, and I've had international flights change and offer free rebook/cancel as a result, but nothing has really been technically efficient or easy to use yet.
We might stretch that to

The secret to better politics : fewer citizens.

Which is a little bleak.
There's a difference between selling user data and using user data to target ads to specific user groups.

It's not like I get an Excel file with user data if I advertise on FB. All I can do is use FB's interface to select interests, age or an array of other information to target my ads.

The ones selling user data are Equifax and friends.
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Or they offer their service for free until they hit a critical mass of users, then start charging knowing x% will stick around
If the insurance company wasn't getting the data, wouldn't they have chosen a cheaper, simpler model of toothbrush?

Edit: this is from the official site: "The Beam Brush tracks usage to encourage better brushing habits amongst our members. Then, we collect that data in the aggregate so that groups receive the best possible rates on insurance premiums.

Better brushing leads to better plans and premiums for your group!"

Also, the company is pretty upfront. "Floss, toothpaste, and a beam® brush ships with all our plans directly to your doorstep." is on the homepage. You choose the toothbrush color on their website. I'm not sure what caused the second package to send, though.
Today I learned. Thanks very much!
I have spent the last 2 hours trying to work out if there was an alternative to vue-markdown for Nuxt. 500kb to parse my markdown seemed insane.
Wonder if for certain requests that are guaranteed to return smallish data sizes, having Redis support UDP would make sense and remove the TCP issues ...
>> Obama promised "if you like your insurance you can keep it".

And, of course, this was a massive lie. Personally, I loved my previous insurance but after ObamaCare, it went away and my replacements were far more expensive.

It was the 2013 Lie of the Year by Politifact, even.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/dec/12/...
I don’t know where you’re getting imaginary downvotes from but okay.

This is less about data loss and more about uptime. There have been multiple high profile AWS failures.
Pakistan has nuclear weapons and a large army. They don't need aid they need better leaders.
What about the rovers, plaques, and flags on the moon?
Both of those points are excellent and easy to do!

I always think about a music DAW where a user composes music by selecting from a series of constantly adapting choices generated by ML.