skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, the pricing on a service like that is crazy. If you have 50,000 customers (which is nothing in terms of online services), MailChimp is incredibly expensive.

With a one-time purchase of mailing list software like InterSpire you can send as many as you want using a VPS. You'll want to monitor the logs and every couple weeks request being removed from Yahoo or AT&T's blacklists, but it costs virtually nothing to run.
I look at this in the same way that I used to look at creating Diablo 2 characters when I was a kid.

You're building a skill tree. The first thing you need to take into consideration is whether you're playing with other people or solo.

If you're playing solo, you need to be more of a generalist. You need to pick just the right skills so that you're able to handle an scenario that the game will throw at you. You need to be able to deal at least two types of damages, for when you're facing monsters that are immune to some types of damage. You also need decent defence. And preferably a way of travelling over obstacles.

When you're playing with other players, you can go for only one type of damage, and pick other skills that amplifies or synergises with this skill. You actually don't have to focus on damage much, if you can tank and take damage well to protect other fragile players who do lots of damage. Or if you focus on doing lots of damage but you're a bit of a glass canon, you just need to make sure that you're playing with another player than can pull the attention of dangerous monsters.

In both scenarios you need to pay attention to how you build your skill tree. Just the considerations are a bit different.

I tend to pick skills and technologies to learn that are on different parts of the stack, because I often work alone or in small teams. I need to be able to create a whole app with front-end and back-end and manage the infrastructure. So I only pick one front-end framework, one back-end framework, and one or two infrastructure tools.

It's a tall order, but you can do it if you don't spend time learning things you don't need to.

On the other hand, people who work in large teams are usually better off focusing on their niches. So if you're a front-end dev, you can learn 2 or 3 different front-end frameworks, and it will make you a more effective front-end developer in both. It's just that you get diminishing returns with each new front-end technology that you learn. But this is work it if you're in a position where the other parts of the stack are handled by people who focus all their efforts to be exceptionally competent there.
Are the ASICs made for Bitcoin mining also useful for deep learning? Or do they need to be purpose-built to the computation?
It depends on the art unit processing the application[0]. If your application is classified as a 'software-related business method', your chances drop dramatically.

[0] http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2015/05/21/hardest-easiest-art-uni...
It's really for a marketing list and not something like reminder emails or updates if you are running a software product (email user x every time event y happens type of thing)
>rich white kid

This is incredibly fatiguing. This isn't Reddit, or tumblr. Strive to be better.
I also think he is talking about a different type of SEO than the rest of the audience here.

For most people, they run a business, and their web presence is a tool to improve that business, and SEO is a tool to improve its effectiveness.

But cookiecaper seems to be talking about a totally different kind of SEO, in which the base goal is to generate traffic and monetize it, so SEO becomes the primary tool by which you look for easy keywords to target, and write content specifically for the search engines, not for a human audience supporting a pre-existing business.

That entire scenario is fundamentally based on gaming SEO. It is a short-term play for cash, and some people do well with it. But we're comparing apples to oranges when trying to match that up with the way an actual business would approach SEO.
Never heard of Nkon. If you mean in the almost literal sense then I think you might be conflating Norway and the Netherlands? But if you just mean that they are next door in terms of being in Europe then yes so it seems. I’ll have a look at them thanks, along with the others people have mentioned.
So I had something similar happen to me. I started out at the _ sign in _ page, I attempted to sign in with google, it remarked that I don't have an account and sent me to the _ sign up _ page that looked very similar to the sign in page, and from there, I was able to create an account via my google account.
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Yes, but only momentarily. These big consolidated miners will keep investing in their highly efficient hardware and mining power will keep going up.
Really? Isn't there an upper limit in terms of transactions per time period?
> Could be argued, if his family weren't rich, he probably wouldn't live close to a private university to begin with.

That's a bizarre claim. College towns nearly universally offer some of the most affordable housing and high quality standards of living in the US. They tend to have far lower crime rates than US cities, and radically cheaper housing.

Paul Allen came from a middle-class background and went to the same Lakeside private school that Gates did.
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In other words "this is good for Bitcoin"?
Ghostery has a shady history of selling data it collects on you to advertising companies. The data collection feature was previously called Ghostrank, and now it's called Human Web. I'm not sure what Ghostery does with the data since it got acquired by Cliqz in 2017, but I'd be careful.
I don't understand the furor. If you go to a cafe, you are expected to order something. When the manager asked the two men to leave, they should have either spent a few dollars or left. If they were planning to meet someone, they could have waited outside.
You can make things with gold.
Thanks! We do have some instructions on how to integrate once you've generated your embed code on sign up however I agree this should also be available without sign up. Privacy/security have been questions we get from almost everyone so we're actively working on better documentation around this. I'll make sure to include info about XSS.
100% renewable as in "100% likely to be stolen or heavily subsidized with taxpayers' money".
Squandered electricity is like burning cash. It's obvious waste. Hesitate all you want.

Note that chemical batteries and pumped storage hydroelectric both store large amounts of electricity very effectively (there lots and lots of deployments that were done by commercial interests seeking to improve the economics of their operations, some going back decades).
You are not aware of this certain concept called 'Social Capital', if you have disproportionately high successful people in your community, you are likely to succeed due to sheer community inertia.

You also get to enjoy a lot of otherwise impossible social biases in your favor. People tend to perceive your success to come naturally and hence set you up for it.

Other benefits include access to a network of successful people all over the economic ecosystem. That in itself is a huge boost to anything you would do.
Huh, that's an interesting result, though perhaps not entirely unexpected. Another aggregate study can be found at [1].

I still suspect that the difference in risk between biking without a helmet and with a helmet is significant, and that the studies aggregated likely had a majority of riders using helmets (this is entirely based on subjective experience of US cyclist helmet-wearing probabilities, so let me know if that's wrong).
Does it need to be? Can only one be wasteful?

This sounds very close to whataboutism.
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Even if it was "renewable energy sources" (lol), that's still energy consumed which could be doing things like supplying light, refrigeration, or, you know, useful computation.
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You should really not cater to recruiters only looking for x years of experience in keywords y and z

Working on many different technologies is daunting at the beginning but in time you’ll see that even if the specific invocations change, the core concepts of programming from responding to events to handling data changes are quite stable and comparable moving from one environment to another.

Sure it’ll be harder then to find work than the generic guy who lucked out on the resume keyword lottery, but wast domain knowledge will open up quite many doors outside basic programmariate

The real issue then becomes how to put broad knowledge into the resume and how to estabilish oneself as knowledgeable of many instead of expert of one, the latter being far easier via blogs, articles etc.
There are major cultural difference between America and Japanese corporate life. Among them are uniforms for workers, and not just factory workers; many companies have standard-issue uniforms for every employee from janitor to CEO.

Not sure that's the case here, but it's got to be much more common in Japan than the US.
I have my doubts about it as well. They incorrectly ranked Crystal higher than it should have been because there is this phenomenon known as "crystal programming" which clashes with the Crystal programming language[1]. To their credit, they fixed it when I emailed them about it, but who knows what other misrankings exist.

1 - https://meanings.crystalsandjewelry.com/how-to-program-cryst...
This electricity is used to verify transactions. I dont know how much electricity is used at Visa or the federal reserve to print money.

But everything requires resources.
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But do you really want to be the developer who has to debug 'creative' code after the original dev has left? It may not be as much fun, but I don't think that assembly-line development is entirely a bad thing. Even something minor like style conventions: far better to fit into the assembly line of your team's style guide than produce a project where every file is written in a slightly different way. Is this particular variable supposed to be const b/c it is all caps, or not? The last class followed that standard, but who knows? Small example, but can be applied to larger things as well. Last month I had to 'maintain' an application for a small business that had seen too much creativity from contractors over the years, and it seemed like every single one chose a different language.

Or we can just abandon practice of referring to development as engineering, and treat every project like artisinal craft work.
As Lightning Network ramps up, and if it is able to get a significant amount of usage, the upper limit in terms of transactions per time period is basically infinite.

Without Lightning then yes the amount of transactions-per-time-period is very limited.
coffee shops exist for this. rent a 5x5 desk in a coworking space. there are alternatives to home office for remote work.
Reading from clipboard without explicit permissions would be a severe security issue.
If the device has a 1% chance of eating the user’s brain, that’s probably unacceptably high, but such a study would be unlikely to discover it.
The explanation is that you need to balance out centrifugal force F=mv^2/r.

"Sharp turn" has smaller radius, therefore much larger the force. By turning in the opposite direction first, you're making the turn much less sharp, increasing the radius and thus reducing the force.
ETH is going POS, I would be very skeptical as an ETH miner to buy something new.
It is perfectly permissible to not defend a trademark. A lawyer is not obligated, and cannot, make a trademark owner defend it. A lawyer is obligated to provide legal advice to their customers regarding their trademarks. But defending a trademark is a business decision, and the law does not require it -- you are allowed to let a trademark become generic. Lawyers should not make their customers' business decisions. Business executives should not allow their corporate lawyers to make business decisions on their behalf.

How to defend a trademark is also a business decision. Dollars to donuts says that Oracle's corporate lawyers have "defend Oracle IP" as a generic goal, and that they know that suing a big player over infringement of their JavaScript (tm) mark would be the sort of business decision that requires senior executive approval, but sending out cease&desist letters to nobodies almost certainly requires no executive approval. This is standard corporate organization and operation. But this too is how you get into PR problems, for example, and corporate lawyers don't really think about that.

Now, whether Oracle should or should not be taking these actions to defend the JavaScript (tm) mark -- I don't know. That's their business, and it's a business decision. That the law and courts don't look askance at small-scale enforcement of rapidly-becoming-generic marks is a completely separate problem for some other day. Corporate lawyers should make sure that this is what the business wants. If Oracle as a business has decided that this is what it wants, fine, and I'm ready to believe that they have, but I find it a lot easier to believe that this is just a small decision made by their legal department in something of a vacuum.
You can buy gold with bitcoins. We should be aware of any unstable direct effect caused by bitcoins/gold no matter how useful the end product is.
Seems like a false equivalence. What were the negative consequences of him being rich? OP laid out what he would have experienced as a minority. If the only negative consequence of being rich is every once in a while you are called on it, how is that at all equivalent to the experience described by OP?
True for .us. however: There is currently (as far as I understand) no way to hide whois data for .de (German) domains. So that might get interesting.
No, you're not expected to buy anything at Starbucks. Other customers in that store had been waiting and hadn't bought anything, and they hadn't been asked to leave.

It is very common for people to meet at Starbucks, and it's totally normal for people to wait until everyone is there before they buy drinks.

That's all behaviour that has been encouraged by Starbucks.
> I don't know how you can sustainably make a laptop and sell it for $100

I assume that this product was able to source laptop parts from a factory that already had production set up for generic android notebooks or something like that, which would help keeping the prices down.
Really f* open office and scabies on the ones who thought of them
No, the difficulty adjusts every 2016 blocks (so about every 14 days). So when miners stop and blocks take longer to mine then the supply of new bitcoins is only reduced for a short amount of time.
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Heck, you might turn slowly if you just rode around tilted, due to the way the tires deform - although I've nowhere near enough familiarity with tire physics to know which direction.
More like "nothing extraordinary"
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Yes, I meant that-end-of-EU, sorry for coming off cheeky. Winning the great EU customs roulette with batteries is not worth it if there is an OKish intraEU seller. Plus, a lot of discussions about it's batteries in .ru (!) internets.
He called MITS' president from his dorm room and got taken seriously. To achieve that requires a certain amount of salesmanship, but also a particular set of manners and polish.

Think a black kid - even a wealthy black kid - with a thick alabama accent would have had the same chance?
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Yeah, as osteele points out, it moves the needle from unknowing infringement to willful infringement. And willful infringement carries triple damages.

When people have asked “how would they even know?”, there are usually two answers: 1) don’t underestimate what can come out in discovery, and 2) no lawyer is going to advise perjuring yourself
This comment would be more appropriate for Reddit.
> how much is because of the breed

The genetics of the "iberian black pig" are different in a surpsiging way. Studies have shown that their meet contains a lot more monounsaturated fats (The good oil, like olive oil) than other pigs. When raised on acorn and free-roaming, their bodies carry out more endogenous lipolysis. So it's considered a healthy meat to consume (and is raised sustainably to boot).

[0] https://www.uco.es/dptos/prod-animal/economia/dehesa/salud.h...
[1] http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/19/1/22/pdf
> they are calling the article out for pretending he’s some kind of special snowflake, when in reality he had been dealt an ideal hand in life.

How are those things mutually exclusive? Gates can be both a special snowflake, which he blatantly is, and have been dealt a great hand. That's the exact sort of combination you might expect to begin with if one were going to have a shot at yielding ~$140 billion in lifetime wealth generation.

Warren Buffett is also a special snowflake that was born into a similarly beneficial scenario.

I don't think I've ever read about a dullard, born into beneficial circumstances, getting to such extraordinary outcomes from something they built.
The scalabity problem was partly solved by the introduction of the Lightning Network in the ecosystem https://lightning.network/
Replace "black men from rich families" with "second-generation Italian-Americans from rich families" and you get the same result.

This is not about race, this is about belonging to a small network of Brahmin aristocracy in the US. For example, some people in New England will never invest in your startup (no matter how good it is), if your name does not look like "Landon Jefferson Bayard, III", or some such.

Even if you are white.
I don't use 2FA with Twitter, but I have no issues logging in with Containers and Cookie AutoDelete. Just a data point that something else may be amiss on your end. Disabling other extensions and trying it could possibly help narrow down on the cause.
So my counter to that is that Givewell only recommends causes which have published evidence demonstrating their efficacy. It completely misses these more speculative “fat tail” causes, such as life extension or existential risk reduction.
I believe Incognito disables (some?) addons, and it has a collection of settings which may mean it acts differently from regular browsing (Tracking Protection is probably the biggest, although I turned that on for normal browsing too).

It's also unclear to me where one Incognito session stops and the next starts, although I'd assume they live and die with their window.

More importantly, Incognito opens a new window while Temporary Containers open in the same window with coloured tabs. So you can have _lots_ in the same window if you want.
Problem is there doesn't seem to be much documentation at a quick glance. At least for Zulip.
It's often not easy, either. It very much depends on the battery and the used controller. Make sure to always have enough voltage on the controller, since it might shutdown on power loss, leaving you with a battery with '0.0Wh capacity', regardless of the new cells. Also, some battery packs might require you to solder the cells, which is not for the faint of heart.
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It's still better to link directly than to "tech gadget news" websites (that are so popular on HN): their writers understand even less.
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Because I find it rather hard to believe USB group actually design the plug that is reversible.
Your statement seems to reasonate with me: 2nd generation : wealthy.

Wealthy =/= rich, it doesn't exclude rich people also. He could start a software business without a lot of parents money. Elon earned 22 million with Zip2 and they started it with angel investors. It's claimed that his father also provided $28,000 for starting it. ( that's peanuts)

I said: You need the stablility from the 2nd generation to get to the 3rd ( getting investment loans, contacts, ...) and the opportunity to "hit for the stars" multiple times.

Getting money from angel investors is summarized under: "getting investment loans".

You probably didn't read what i was saying: From poor to wealthy to rich. Elon did this. I never claimed that he went from poor to rich.

I think my ability to think is better than your ability to read.
I've noticed that. It seems rather blunt and unfeeling to me.
Thats what I like about oblivious transfer and/or private information retrieval, the server is oblivious to what information is being requested.

The problem with oblivious transfer is the computational time and resources to do it would make it pretty slow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivious_transfer
Personally either of those options would be better for me than working out of my home. But it's a curious alternative to working in an office. You're still surrounded by people and get the downsides of you're sensitive to them (I'm not) but you don't get the social benefits.
I've banged on this before in HN, but SSL certificates do not mean what many (if not most) people here seem to think they do. They do not mean that you are communicating directly with a person, or even that some person approved the communication, or the same for a company. It may sound silly when I say it, because obviously we aren't actually getting webpages from a person, but it's important to internalize.

They mean something much more like "you are communicating with a machine authorized to respond on this domain by the owner of that domain". There is no obligation that the machine in question belongs to the domain owner. So when you delegated the (sub-)domain to GitHub, you also delegated the ability to generate at least low-class SSL certs to verify that delegation is correct and authorized and that HTTPS is legal.

What's important is that nobody can get that authorization without your delegation. And even with Let's Encrypt, you should find you can't just stroll out and get a certificate for any domain you choose. At some point you have to have control of the domain itself to get a cert.

(This is also why I have no problem with anything Cloudflare does with a certificate. There is no reason that they can't be shared with an authorized delegate by the domain owner. What matters is that CloudFlare can't do it without authorization, and if the owner wishes to revoke that delegation they have a clear path and CloudFlare can't do anything about it.[1] Cert delegation happens all the time, though; everyone running their HTTPS website off a hosted VM image is delegating the actual HTTPS-ing to the VM host, for instance.)

The tricky bit here is that you did not fully understand what you were authorizing when you delegated the domain to GitHub. No criticism intended, this is complicated business. It somehow needs to be fixed but heck if I know how.

[1]: In this case, note that CloudFlare may have a valid cert for your domain for a while after you leave, but when people check DNS to find where your domain is, they'll connect to you rather than CloudFlare. This is not a CloudFlare-specific issue, it would apply to GitHub here or any other delegate. The fundamental gap here is that domain delegation has no temporal component and SSL certificates do; an impedance mismatch is inevitable. In theory you ought to be able to revoke their certificate but that's a shipping container loaded with cans of worms.
The thread you are in began with a question about him being 'white' and not just rich.

I never stated pure equivalence but I do believe both are examples of racism.