skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great comment. What you are talking about though is useful levels of abstraction.

When you are talking to 'the business' I find it helpful to remember you are their 'tool'. How you do what you do, or what you use to do it may be an unhelpful abstraction.

To use your painting analogy, it is like talking to the painter about the soil in which trees grow, which produce the wood used for the brushes. While the binding of the brushes, the making of the substrate or the production of paint may be useful, correct mulching may well be a step too far.
Makes me think of Haskell for some reason.
Also live outside Manhattan, KS. While there are plenty of areas of rural Kansas with poor options for Internet, some here might be surprised to know that there are a fair amount of local / rural telecoms in Kansas that have extensive fiber buildouts covering their entire service area including very small towns and rural areas.

WTC is a small local telcom in the Manhattan area with fiber built out in the nearby small cities and rural areas and they are now bringing affordable fiber with gigabit speeds into Manhattan for businesses to easily out compete expensive fiber costs and contracts from Cox and AT&T: https://www.mhk.business/trending//wtcfibermanhattan

Multiple coworking spaces have launched here in the last couple years: https://www.manhattech.com/spaces.html

Its been interesting to find out about some of the things other people are doing remotely from here.
You don't have to keep IP addresses in the log. You could encrypt them with a key that is regenerated every week for example. This way you can identify requests from the same visitor over a week but you cannot restore their IP address.

I think that soon there will be extensions for popular servers that implement something like this. I wish it were the default configuration.

Also I think if IPSs rotated IP addresses among their customers daily it would not be a problem at all.
Large open source projects on GitHub seem to suffer from this same issue, which was alluded to when GitHub added the ability to react to comments on issues/PRs [1].

[1] https://blog.github.com/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-req...
Articles I read when Facebook bought them said they were losing money. Most reports I just Googled were subscription only or plastered with ads but here's financial sheets:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680114...
There are some values more fundamental than others. One might be that inconsistency or hypocrisy is bad.

One might stipulate that whether marijuana should be illegal isn't an absolute that can never change.

But if it is in accordance with our values that it should be legal now, and this is our best attempt at instituting just laws, then leaving people in jail for reasons we don't currently think are valid is relatively worse than any arbitrary rule about drugs.

Just because you don't know for sure what is truly and absolutely right doesn't mean you can't stop doing things you know are truly and absolutely wrong.
The best would be to encrypt IP addresses with a key that is regenerated every week. This way you can identify unique visitors over a week but cannot restore their IP address. I hope it will be the default option for popular web server software.
Haskell. Obviously.
how do you manage multiple windows on a single huge monitor? some window manager? is the quality of screen resolution for 4k noticeably helpful towards productivity?
[Data Analysis] Women Engineers need to be perfect to work for Uber
> more or less anything goes for a study or a report

> pop-scientific studies that are more based on personal interpretation than any reproducible results

> They can often be studied on your own without need for guidance that can't be solved in a self study.

What are these claims based on? From my limited personal involvement and my more extensive reading, they are not at all true. They also conflate many very different fields, from comparative literature to behavioral psychology to ancient history to anthropology to archaeology to philosophy ...

A basic requirement, just to get your foot in the door of the lobby, is expert knowledge of prior research and in techniques, something that does require a PhD (which is rewarded for original research - so the parent is almost saying that you don't need a PhD to get a PhD) and years of study. The idea that someone can learn these things (or acquire real expertise in any field) on their own, without mentoring and guidance from existing experts, access to research libraries, communication with peers, access to resources like labs and lab assistants, is hard to fathom and at best extremely inefficient. And that's just the first step.

> In what way can we rely on those fields (rather than our own independent thinking)

These fields are 'independent thinking'. They are individuals who care to spend years reading deeply, consult with experts, master the literature, practice the techniques, etc. If someone on HN posted that they had done those things, you'd give them some credit. If they got a PhD out of it, perhaps the credit should be taken away.

> Most problems we have are solved (and created) by technology

That is true, if we overlook minor challenges like government, human rights, education, laws, war, peace, politics, international relations, religion, truth, knowledge, freedom ...
Just for perspective, these jobs are a bit different than regular contracting or hourly jobs. Although the hourly rate seems high, often we exclude the travel time. Also the uneven demand. For example- On a rainy day, there might be 10 calls but they can only take a few and on sunny days they'd be lucky to get a call.
Please see this comment for a possible solution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16964318
The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003
Telecommuting "succeeded" in the form of offshoring. A seemingly dissimilar form of work, offshore workers nonetheless provide talent at a lower cost, in a locale that's far removed from the home office, but managed closely by supervisors at the remote site. Widespread telecommuting -- in the sense of independent workers with no on-site supervision -- would lead to the same labor cost arbitrage. You wouldn't be working in Kansas. You'd be out of work, with a very smart guy in Romania or Belarus doing your job.
Because the FDA has very specific rules as to what constitutes medical advice and what doesn't. The claim of "helps you sleep" is not medical advice and not regulated.

It's the reason so many "nutrition" companies can get away with claiming all kinds of things such as "burn fat faster". That statement means something to you and I, but it's not a medical statement.
Chomsky's "Where AI went wrong" is often ignored by the mainstream AI community or dismissed. Peter Norvig's retort was poorly constructed, and showed that he didn't comprehend Chomsky's argument.

Machine Learning and AI are stuck in a rut and apparently these so called ML/AI experts know better. The Deep Learning (along with ML) craze is a hindrance to a true scientific theory of intelligence.
Recent HN threads debated whether IP addresses were personally-identifiable information (PII), including these 2 threads today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16956449#16958544

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16954306#16956503

Vendors like this one provide services that (try to) convert IP addresses to exact postal addresses. If you're thinking "How's that possible?", the answer is cross-site data sharing from contests and other user-submitted data. A user may enter a contest on site A, then data appending provider B may buy the user's form submission, including postal address and form submission source IP.

Obviously it's far from 100% coverage or accuracy, but it's enough to target typical home broadband users with direct mail campaigns.
The time blocking is so smart.
Some of the best entrepreneurs I follow, do this.
Tim Ferriss for example, sees people and does phone calls on Thursdays ONLY.
Ramit Sethi and Noah Kagan, both block off one full day for just reading articles and catching up on their industry.

And I feel the author when they say that they CAN NOT break away from their writing when they have a good rhythm going on. I've lost DAYS when I'm in my rhythm and nothing can pull me out until I'm done.
> once shared, are no longer under my control

GDPR attempts to fix that.
As someone working on a modernization contract, the problems are more complicated than just contractors standing on shovels.

Building an app to a complex and ever shifting spec is a much different process than the way that startups work. You can’t just release a half done app to friends and family. You need to do the whole thing at once, with 100% if the functionality and it has to be ready for everyone in the country to use it in day 1. And the federal government has fairly onerous requirements for getting stuff through security— you can’t just google for random shit from GitHub and expect to put it straight into production.

I can only speak to my particular project, but everyone on it is working hard at getting it done on time and on budget, using modern deployment and development practices, but there’s limits to how much you’re allowed to just move fast and break things.
Eh. Like Tox?

All this "secure" messengers forget about rubber hose decryption that is used in majority of the world.
A Singapore company, O-Bike, dumped several hundred of those bikes in Zurich.

If I've seen half a dozen of them in use that's probably aiming high. Granted, that was in the last half year, when it was winter, but still.

You just see them rot away with broken parts torn off, decaying.

The bikes are of such shitty quality (an expert on bikes estimated a price of $50, max, for the parts) and are so heinously ugly that people wouldn't take them for free. Let alone buy them at auction.
The legal repercussion for getting involved in selling Marijuana at industrial scale has diminished substantially within certain avenues. Nobody is preventing or encouraging anybody from a particular race to capitalize off of that opportunity.

There is nothing hypocritical at work whatsoever. The activity has become less and less criminal, so people with a lower threshold for criminal repercussion have become more involved as the threshold lowers. What is hypocritical about that?

It's like saying that it's hypocritical that people who drank when prohibition was active were in jail, and then people who drank after it was repealed were not in jail. I fail to see the hypocrisy. I also fail to see where race comes into play.
> Just going to point out that percona IMHO is potentially hugely underappreciated in the MySQL world...

Certainly not by MySQL users. Percona has run the yearly MySQL conference (now Percona Live) for years and has done excellent work on tools, DBMS distributions, and performance. Vadim's work in the cited article is pretty typical of the high standard of performance analysis.

(Nice work Vadim.)
In my view, at the present time, housing costs are the greatest burden for that 80%. The problem here is predation. The solution is small, sturdy, low-cost homes (common after WW2, don't mean trailers) with no-interest payments limited to 25-30% of net income. For a $20K income that's $5000 a year. For a $30,000 home, six years.

$30B would buy a million of these. Build a few less jets.
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Facebook is in a really low point. All the recent privacy events and the fact that a 19B accusation fonder does not want to stay with them are red flags. My feed has become empty at the past months, fewer people are liking/commenting on my posts and I check my account much less than I used to be.

I wonder how they gonna get out of this downward spiral before they become another Google+.
It's big enough that I manually tile things. The pixels per square cm (or ppi for americans) is about the same as 1920x1200, 16:10 aspect ratio, 24" display from 10 years ago. It's just a lot more real estate to work with. I'm using a fairly recent version of xfce4 and don't need to scale UI elements as would be necessary on a 28" or 30" size 4K display.
I think a lot of nasty laws we have are a consequence of voters not being able to distinguish between “I don’t like this” and “this should be illegal for everyone“
Blockstack
Verifying my Blockstack ID is secured with the address 1GX7Tqx2EqeKc4oCmWrLVi2qFLz63rjY81 https://explorer.blockstack.org/address/1GX7Tqx2EqeKc4oCmWrLVi2qFLz63rjY81
It’s interesting how even within companies a hard set social hierarchy has taken place between employees and contractors. The contractors tend to perform the exact same duties as employees, but are usually paid less, have worse future prospects (companies tend to like to hire from full time to full time), worse benefits and generally don’t get most of the perks of being an employee.

For coders, is this because they’re objectively somehow worse programmers? Given all the emphasis in hiring on avoiding “bad” hires at all costs, it seems like there’s a conflict between paying for people who are “worse” than a FTE but still accepting their contributions. I realize it’s a strategy that gives the companies more leeway to expand and retract their workforce, but then stigma that is attached throughout the industry around contract workers shouldn’t exist, right?
From my experience the government is excited about kubernetes and openshift and are slowly starting to use it for prod (security approval is tricky)
What if we make companies behave responsibly instead? There are less companies than people, and it is easier to go after them.

If I owned a site I would not have a problem to delete someone's personal data.

Also your sugguestion is that if you want to keep your data protected then you should not be using anything on the Internet or make any deals because once you have ordered something on Amazon it can sell your data to everyone else? Or when you rent an apartment, realty agency should be allowed to share your name, SSN, bank card number and address with everyone? No, I don't think it should be this way.
The DJs in Kenyan cinemas who tell you what is happening on-screen
> A cubic foot of Mars weighs, on average, 245 pounds, making it almost 30 percent less dense than Earth.

I'm not usually a stickler for units, but in this context I feel they should use better ones since it's very confusing to me. "weighs" 245 pounds... on mars? earth? then talking about density... clearly they should have used mass/volume (kg/m^3)
Favorite comment from previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13919274

> Kind of an out of left field question: Lamport appears in a little square of video occasionally overlaid on the slides and sometimes full screen. As far as I can tell, he never recycles an outfit and seems to switch head gear regularly. The switch is often between segments that are quite short.

> It feels almost like an intentional joke. Do you think that is the case? Or just even short segments were recorded on different days and Lamport like to wear all sorts of hats? That one where he's wearing a beanie and indoor sunglasses seems particularly intentional.

And the response:

> Haha yep, it's intentional. He has a sense of humor like that. Famously, he first presented his paper on the Paxos algorithm dressed like Indiana Jones with the fictional backstory of the algorithm being an archeological discovery of the ancient parliamentary systems of the Greek island of Paxos.

What a legend.
There are still tons of WebGL apps that make the mistake of loading OBJ, DAE (Collada) files or some similar editor-oriented 3D model format. This is like loading embedding Photoshop PSDs throughout your web page because you don't feel like exporting to PNG. I believe this is a major contributor to the "WebGL is slow to load" impression many users have.

glTF is the PNG of WebGL. It's compact, quick and easy to use. Distributing content in a some other format not optimized for distribution is a disservice to your users, your servers and the technology as a whole.
http://www.nomnoml.com/ is another good one.

https://github.com/skanaar/nomnoml
I own and operate several LLCs in Florida. One that files as a C Corp, which means it's subject to corporate tax in the state. FL is 3.2% lower than DE right now and that's something to consider. LLCs in Florida that are not filing as a corp are not required to pay corporate taxes (in most situations). For me, there was zero reason to use a DE LLC here. If I were still in Michigan there would have been A LOT of incentive to go with a DE LLC.
Remote software dev jobs definitely exist. Especially in SF/NYC/Austin/Seattle.

I live in Lincoln, NE, consult with SF startups.

Most companies are on Slack (or some sort of chat) and colleagues would rather Slack messages all day instead of walking over to someone's desk, making your case for remote work even more feasible.

If you find a job that seems interesting (even if remote isn't advertised), just ask.. Some companies may surprise you.

Here's my write-up on how to ask:

"How to Get a Remote Job, Even When Remote Isn’t Advertised"

https://medium.com/@aantix/how-to-get-a-remote-job-even-when...

A large list of job sites with Remote listings.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JfNAbUX_lN9K3MCNHO15...
Albertan changes gender to save 25% on car insurance
ISP that builds fiber here: FTTH can be pretty cheap if you have:

a) cooperative local government that lets you use the ROW (right-of-way) without a lot of hassle

b) 100% aerial plant, very little or no underground. Aerial is way cheaper.

c) relatively low cost labor for bucket truck construction crews to hang the aerial fiber.

I'd never heard of this WTC / Wamego before, not surprising since I do nothing facilities based near the midwest. But for those who are interested:

https://bgp.he.net/AS19504#_asinfo

Kind of surprising to find an ISP with that much v4 space that hasn't put effort into reaching a major IX point and actually peering with anybody yet... They have BGP sessions with Cox, and HE transit, and that's it.
Schedulers do.
Ruby's Rack Push: Decoupling the real-time web application from the web
For anyone interested in lighting techniques for "difficult" surfaces, including glass, I'd recommend the excellent "Light Science & Magic" by Paul Fuqua & Fill Hunter: https://www.amazon.com/Light-Science-Magic-Introduction-Phot...
I think there is a misunderstanding about what is surprising, I'd be just as surprised if he was an Ayn Rand card-carrying objectivist (is that what they call themselves?). My surprise was that I didn't think Haldane would have any political bias to cause doubt about the authenticity of the video.
Does this affect "contract to hire" positions, where companies "try before you buy"? Further, can companies still get contractors through a contractor agency, assuming the workers are employees of that agency?
> attorney and lawyer

Two different people? Aren't those words synonyms?
I’m surprised I don’t see reference cycles listed. Strictly speaking I suppose they’re a subset of “unreachable allocations”, but they have a different feel, particularly as they can occur even with GC.
I've been using search engines since Lycos and before, so I reflexively use what you call "search engine" language. However, due to the evolution of Google, I've started experimenting with more english-like queries, because Google is getting increasingly reluctant to search for what I tell it in a mechanistic way, often just throwing away words, and from what I've read it's increasingly trying to derive information from what used to be stopwords.

One thing that is very frustrating now is if there are two or three things out there related to a query, and Google prefers one of them, it's more difficult than ever to make small tweaks to the query to get the one you want. Of course, sometimes I don't know exactly what I want, but I do know I don't want the topic that Google is finding. The more "intelligent" it becomes, the harder it is to find things that diverge from its prejudices.
Gmail relatively recently changed to intercept images and cache them all for you, preventing the leak. But then, this is Google we’re talking about. I’m sure there’s still a leak, maybe via AMP for Email. (Of course, hyperlinks are also often used for tracking.)
That being said, insulin resistance / T2DM is associated with the thinning of cortical tissue [0] - insulin resistance being the typical cause of burgeoning fat storage. Additionally, the brain runs well on ketones [1], which are an abundant supply of fuel on the insulin-resistance-reversing ketogenic diet.

All I'm saying is there may be some benefit for the many fat smart people in taking up some kind of insulin-resistance-reversing diet; lo, for all the fat people (, as well as the thin-yet-still-insulin resistant people, too). But ketosis is not exactly the default path-of-least-resistance for most people, given the standard american diet, conventional nutritional 'wisdom', etc.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25439756

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15877199
When I was in Shanghai less than a year ago ofo was giving away so many free rides that I never paid or deposited a single RMB during my entire trip. My co-workers who work there said that they don't really pay for ofo either for light usage, they keep getting weekly coupons. So it seems now they've transitioned to burning VC money at least.
> could imagine us [doing]

Euphamism for "That's on the roadmap, but I'm not allowed to announce it yet." Probably.
AT&T dropped fiber in my front yard too. I ignored it for a few months because previously they only offered bundles with tv and telephone and crappy speeds to boot.

A coworker told me he was getting symmetric gigabit from AT&T for $70/month so I decided to check them out. I switched from Comcast and everything has been awesome except for the supplied wireless router. My iDevices will not work reliably on it so I added my own.

My bill dropped almost in half and I got away from Comcast's metered, expensive, less reliable crap.

I am in Atlanta so the 'threat' of Google Fiber may explain the great deal I got. Not affiliated with AT&T at all and am honestly surprised at how good the service has been. YMMV
>>No, you didn't. You gave a list of one-sided transactions where the user has no freedom or really consent at all in the matter.

I have difficulty responding to such an immature mischaracterization of what I listed.

I listed a set of contractual arrangements that are now illegal. All of them could be entered into completely consensually, and cannot be reduced to being categorically one sided, given we don't know what the value of the service the user gets in exchange for their personal data will be in every instance that said contract is used.

You're infantilizing people when you claim they're not capable of consenting to the sale of their personal data. In fact, no court of law would ever agree with you that these contracts are non-consensual ipso facto what the user offers, which is why the only way these kinds of contracts could be categorically disqualified is to circumvent the courts' purview of establishing consent, by resorting to statutory interventions like GDPR.

And you're vastly over-simplifying the world, and overestimating your understanding of it, when you claim that such contracts could never be in the interest of the user.

What you're doing is absolutely reckless.

>>I'm sorry, but I cannot take seriously the idea that "if you can't sell yourself into slavery, you aren't free".

Selling your personal data to someone is not slavery. Slavery is a permanent condition, affecting your future self.

Personal data sold at one point in time only covers the data generated to that point in time, and does not forfeit data that is generated by your future self.