skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is much less interesting than the rust belt decline or any other number of dying communities. Kansas used to need a lot more people to support farming and thus had enough people around for small towns to have a little life to them. Now they don't. It's a good thing that we can make so much food with fewer people, but it does mean even fewer people will live in rural agricultural communities.

We love to romanticize the small farmer, but I don't know why we'd expect vast areas of farm land to support vibrant small towns.
> They brought in something like 10M on 0.5B users, hardly sustainable.

Why not? Their team was tiny and they spent next to nothing on advertising (nor needed to). $10m seems like a pretty decent amount of money to be spending on servers in a year. (I'm not saying it definitely was fine, just that I wouldn't assume it wasn't)
Any size company has economies and diseconomies of scale. Very large companies tend to be very robust -- they can withstand a very wide range of conditions and pressures. But the cost of robustness is sustained complexity, to carry around many systems in case you might need them, whether you wind up actually needing them or not.

This is not unique to businesses. It's true of any self-sustaining system. Bacteria are vastly more efficient forms of life than humans on many criteria, but an individual bacterium is much, much less robust to varied conditions than an individual human is.
Additionally, what "life" are we talking about? We know about certain lifeforms existing in hostile environments, but can we talk about humans?
As far as I'm aware, there's no procedure or help for the orderly shutdown of a locality that is no longer necessary for the greater community of any level of government. I'm not even aware of there being such procedures in place in other countries, let alone the US where this has context.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16681073
and it's not like youtube pays out very well - it's 90% towards google at the minimum.
It does now, it did not when it was aquired.
>>Microsoft seems to claim that the original license disappears when the original media

Citation from MS Legal (or exec Level) making this claim, I have never heard that in my 20+ years in IT

OEM License, legally, is tied to the Mainboard of the system (and some components of the MainBoard), that is the HardwareID MS uses to activate and record the activation.

the OEM SLIC is embedded in the BIOS/UEFI of major systems since Vista days, and I believe it was mandated for all OEM since Windows 8

There are virtually no systems today that ship with a physical restore media, and consumers are advised to make one themselves

So I would love to see someone from MS legal making this claim (which has no legal foundation)
Well it's not like you have awesome urban living around corn fields either. Huge fields and few people kind of get in the way of vibrant towns.
Why can't it? End-to-end encryption means you don't need to hold on to pictures for lengthy periods of time, and video calling can be done without a centralized service.
> Also, if you five away what a strong password consists of (case, length, characters, symbols) then doesn't that make it weaker because you give bots/attackers a pattern to follow?

I don't think it changes anything at all. Attackers won't ignore "dolphins" just because a meter says it's weak.

Unless it's an actual limitation of the site where you're signing up, in which case the culprit for the reduced search space would be the website for such password limitations, not because the password strength meter.
This is my most down-voted comment ever and I have no idea why.
Also makes you wonder whether [fill-in-the-blank]-sharing is really a good idea in a world that thrives on planned obsolescence.
> this amounts to a tax on revenue.

Corporations wanted to be people. People pay income taxes on their revenue, not their profits.
This doesn't seem entirely accurate - Minnesota and Iowa, for example, are crawling with well-respected private liberal arts colleges. The problem historically hasn't been producing an educated population, it has been keeping them there.
How does Signal plan to be long term financially viable?
If they can't find a model that works why won't they go the way of whatsapp or the dodo?
Given that:

Nixon advisor John Ehrlichman told a journalist that the main purpose of the War on Drugs was to attack Nixon's "enemies" and that they knew the WOD was based on lies about drugs:
> "You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/the-war-on...

I think those people should not only be exonerated, but also treated as victims of Nixon corrupt politics and given hefty compensation.

Advocating for the War on drugs should be a criminal offence.
I have often cited the NYT Interactive team for creatively designed articles, but this one has serious problems.

On a modern Android phone, I can't see all of the article text, with an undetermined amount being cut off at the bottom. Swipe back doesn't work if you don't start the swipe from the center of the page (which is unnatural and not the same for swiping forward). There are no obvious affordances to indicate that tapping on the left brings me back. And an un-dismissible subscription dialog appears, obscuring
almost all remaining text.

I'm just assuming that it renders perfectly for iPhones. Serious question: is testing for Android just not done?
Or you're more sensitive to the specifics being that is the bubble you exist in

It's not hard to see the entire "ecosystem" as a "system" generically.

I am really wondering what this low-hanging pedantry is accomplishing? Has it educated anyone outside the HN community?

It seems clear you don't entirely understand what you're talking about; headlines are not for tech they're for general consumption.

"I wish everyone did a better job of understanding the world on my terms, regardless of whether the effort is entirely worth it for them or not."
SESTA FOSTA is heavily criticized because people are worried about keyword based censorship. The Recognant API doesn't use keywords, it use NLU, and so it is much less likely to flag a post that is about the sex of a litter of puppies for sale, and much more likely to flag an ad looking to trade rent money for a hand job.
wow, a link to my blog (that second link) made hackernews? that's exciting!

Anyway, yeah, workbooks in appinsights is almost like notebooks for non-programmers? kinda? you string together markdown, parameters, and analytics queries (and very soon metrics across more of azure) into reports. But the parameters stuff lets you do more interactive things to hide/show sections now. i really need to do a new blog post about all the new stuff that's in there that wasn't last june!

i've prototyped some stuff to export an AI workbook to an azure/jupyter notebook, as there's some support for querying analytics already from a python package. there just hasn't been enough demand for it so far (not as much as we expected, anyway?)
You can offload a lot of the work to client devices themselves.
I feel like they've moved on from their lies about Watson's capabilities to lies about their capabilities with blockchain technology.
There were programs that would run up the 40 hour weekly limit in seconds. I'm assuming AllAdvantage had no real sanity checking when receiving data, which to my eyes means they deserved to go out the way they did.
it didn't have VoIP when it was aquired, and back then sending media was way less common.
I am implying that insurance is awful, the actual care if money is not an issue is the best in the world in the US.
Only if it is ingested.
YouTube has a monopoly on free online video and this is what monopoly looks like.

When Google bought out YouTube, as those that were online back then can attest, there were dozens of not hundreds of competing sites. None of those could hold a candle to the resources Google’s cash could buy, and they quickly dropped out of the running. The only site still around is probably vimeo, and only because they were smart enough to not target the masses and instead pick a niche to serve.
I believe they generate Latex fromh html and pdf from latex.
You may be confusing the distribution of the means of the samples (which will be normally distributed if the Central Limit Theorem holds) with the sample itself (which will not generally be normally distributed).
Massachusetts will give priority in getting licenses to marijuana retailers that employ people with prior drug convictions. additionally, if the owners (or immediate family members) themselves have drug convictions there is assistance with taxes, accounting, and so on along with help soliciting investment.

a lot of this also applies, with slight differences, to people regardless of conviction history who have lived for a long time in "areas of disproportionate impact".

i hope these provisions succeed in their goals and become the norm for other states that want to legalize cannabis.

see here: https://www.mass.gov/news/press-release-12122017-cannabis-co...
What happens in the case of a fallout? It can contain radiation, but how effectively?
So it goes out of business then

Oh but we can't have that, everything must be a success!

Our culture is incredibly intolerant of anything but growth and next quarter gainzzzzz
They used to charge €1/year. It seemed extremely little, but I did the math once and it worked out (around 2015, when they already had about as much market share as they do now in the Netherlands), including things like wages. There was even money left for a Ferrari for every employee. This is assuming that they actually charge everyone by the way, which they weren't (I don't understand why -- it seems cheap enough that even people in a developing countries could afford it).

I too would gladly pay (anything reasonable) if it meant they'd split off from Facebook and become in dependent again.
Well I know a couple of pets I’ve had have been ran over by drivers. Possibly that is what he is implying.
PacketFence: Open Source network access control (NAC) solution
I've been running Mikrotik routers at home for a couple of years, and I have been at least as happy with them as anything else I've used. Yes, they can be a little more awkward to configure (some of which comes down to offering multiple different tools with slightly different capabilities - command line, Webfig[1], Winbox[2], and The Dude[3]). If anyone wants to experiment with them cheaply, they do make a bargain travel router[4].

1: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Webfig

2: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Winbox

3: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:The_Dude

4: https://mikrotik.com/product/RBmAPL-2nD
It isn't accurate at all. The main reason is farming and agriculture, and the economics thereof. Kansas is dying because its biggest industry is failing.
With recent regulation, it might be better in some scenarios to not push advertising on some platforms, or at least have some sort of pushback before it's implemented so that it's done in a way that doesn't open them up to fines.
So it would be fine by you if YouTube removed a video titled "Python is the best programming language in the world" because it is misleading.
Not quite how healthcare works in the US. Unless you consider having the money to cover your max out-of-pocket (between 1000-4500usd, depending on insurance plan) and copays (50-125usd) as "wealthy".

The situation you're referring to applies to the 11-12% of Americans who have no health insurance. An unfortunate situation that the US should work to rectify (ideally with a universal option), but hardly the third-world situation most Europeans envision.
I mean, even base on .70 genetic (which is on the high end, I think), .30 is still a good bit...
I enjoyed this book about modern-day 'frontier America':

http://davids-book-reviews.blogspot.com/2016/10/miles-from-n...

It's pretty insightful regarding the rise and fall of those places.
E.g. France has .gouv.fr which is equivalent of .gov. All countries have their respective replacements, if needed.
I'd love to see a dog detect the odor of an undoped polycrystalline silicon wafer.
Yeah, this is a case where it matters. But you can also see the workaround is pretty straightforward here.
I’m very sorry about this. It’s not how I would do things — but it’s also not me doing things anymore.
Apparently Stripe Atlas is being used by and tailored for US residents only, which is odd.
Not if the law is corrupt. Would you call people who "committed" same sex intercourse criminals if the place they did it had such laws that it was a "crime" to do so? What about people of which presence was declared unlawful because of their race and administered death penalty on the spot?
But it doesn't matter if you lose money on those people. The $10/month easily carries all costs even if 0.1% of users pay and the rest gains them zero. (At least, back when I did the math in ~2015, when they were probably a bit smaller than they are now.)
Is the LLC anonymous by default? For privacy reasons, not legal. I know I can still get subpoenaed. I just don't want my name/address associated with the company on anything public.

It seems to do this I will need a lawyer to be my registered agent for mail forwarding (a regular mail forwarding service such as https://www.virtualpostmail.com/services/registered-agent/ was apparently not enough since it doesn't have attorney-client protection). That was as far as I got when I last tried to start a LLC for my side project.
Yea well, tell that to the guy(s) who got pulled aside in-front of me for further searching at concerts and festivals.
They talk about it, but they never leave. There is NO true alternative, that can make real money other than YouTube
AllAdvantage was great while it lasted. My method as a highschooler was a free mouse trembler app, coupled with 4 rotating Geocities sites I made to auto-forwarded to each other in a loop every 45 seconds.
This is why I'm a big advocate (but not affiliate) of the "mikeroweWORKS" foundation. Mike Rowe, from the TV show "Dirty Jobs", is using his foundation to revive interest in trade schools and jobs. There are a lot of people who could be great machinists, electricians, plumbers, etc., but due to social pressures, they start college and soon drop out, then work for peanuts (if they can find any job at all). We need to eliminate the stigma against trade schools and encourage people to work with their hands if that's their passion.

http://profoundlydisconnected.com/foundation/
Why don't they just give a discount for not being overweight or obese? They can check that with a scale and a tape meausure (are your hips wider than the widest part of your gut, etc?)
The $1700 labor cost isn't really labor, it also includes overhead like rent, utilities, general supplies, insurance, etc. Some of those costs are also covered by the markup in parts, but not when parts only cost $300.

If it took a full 3 days that's 24 hours of work, or around $70/hour, probably half of that went to the employee which gives him around $70K/year salary, not much in the bay area.
It is not. They have not made progress.
There is nowhere to go, no platform wants to host polarizing videos, which will alternatively be attacked by both the far left and the far right (mostly by the left today since tech companies employees mostly sympathize with them thus they get more favorable outcomes)
I rarely bike because I don't trust drivers, and you can't bike on the sidewalk.
The problem is quite direct: people do not wish to live there.

Getting 100 people to decide that town X is going to be their telecommute hub and doing it is simply not that hard to organize nowadays--if people actually wanted to do it.

The fact that nobody wants to do this says more than any amount of development initiatives.
Ex post facto applies both ways - you can do something legal today and be punished in the future if it becomes illegal (UK tax law has some good examples of this).

It would be inconsistent to say past crimes should be revoked if the law changes, but present legal acts cannot be retrospectively classed as illegal if the law changes in the future. That's a contradiction I'm sure many people operate under however (myself included).

I am also not a lawyer :)
works for comments too, although it’s pretty much hunting for long-tail keywords

“pm me”

“opportunity”

“pent up demand”

“I’d pay”

“I miss”

etc
People are willing to go quite far sometimes: https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/8fu7wi/albertan_cha...
My Dad used to say: "The Economist "(magazine)"sounds authoritative until you read an article about something you are an expert in."
The Ogallala aquifer is only mentioned once in passing, but that's the real reason rural Kansas is dying. With the aquifer being completely depleted in some areas, conventional farming of the usual cash crops won't be an option for much longer. See http://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article28640722....
Strap your phone to your ankle
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What else should he do? He took billions of $ along with a promise that he'll keep control. FB lied, so now he's leaving. I can't blame him here. Money can easily buy a bit of naïvety.
Kansas has more per capita college students than California.
What are the most important documents in the history of the world? Why?
> Facebook said that the overall revenue from it was insignificant enough they they were just making it free

Have you considered that Facebook might not be telling the whole truth?

"insignificant" compared to what, how much money Facebook makes off of every extra user (who wouldn't want to pay) on their platform? Making it free can only be a profitable move because of what Facebook could do with the data, not because a few million dollars a year is truly "insignificant".
It's the Pareto principle. People go where they feel they will have more opportunities, and they take their economic activity with them.

Intra-national economic migrants are able to take their families with them, so they don't have the need to "send money home" the way so many international economic migrants do.
I abbhor cigarette smoke, so not gonna do that... but my mind can't function without Caffeine, but I find Xenadrine's thermo/caffeine blend works way better than coffee(gives me the runs) and soda(I still drink a shit ton...but probably shouldn't....)... Xenadrine also has l-theanine which I think also might aid in focus some..
Had one for a few years. I now have/prefer pcengines apu2 + pfSense. Rock solid, performant and has everything I need and more.
You mean in terms of governance, or the physical presence itself? For the presence, there are precedents. For example where small communities in e.g. Alaska get government assistance to move and merge into other communities nearby.

However those approaches seem to be taken very rarely, and you can imagine the attitudes of those residents who hold out.
Meanwhile MontrealHealthyGirls' YouTube channel is far worse. Her cancer and diabetes "cures" she's downright dangerous, and nuts.
Am I the only one using Nix (the package manager) for this? It's lovely and works for other languages and binary package management as well.

I encourage people to try it out, interactive usage looks something like
`nix-shell -p python36Packages.pyaml -p python36Packages.aiohttp --run "python some-script-with-dependencies.py"
`.
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> Why multiple hubs?

A few reasons for this, most of which are related to points you mentioned:

1. Having multiple hubs makes it much easier to do zero-downtime deploys.

2. Having multiple hubs makes us more resilient to transient machine failures.

3. We were worried that having a single proxy for all our notebook traffic might become a system-wide bottleneck. Notebooks with a lot of images can get pretty large, and at the time we were rolling this out JupyterHub was pretty new. We weren't sure how well it was going to scale (the target audience for the JupyterHub team at the time was small labs and research teams), so it seemed safest to aim for horizontal scalability from the start. The JupyterHub team has since done a lot of awesome performance work to support the huge data science classes being taught at UC Berkeley, so it's possible that a single hub with the kubernetes spawner could handle our traffic today, but given points (1) and (2) plus the fact that we already have a working system, I don't have much incentive to find out :).
Mikrotik sometimes do things differntly to how you might expect[0]… though that was how I found out about them, and have been happily managing a hEX lite for a while now.

0: https://dyn.com/blog/longer-is-not-better/, previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490924
I really like the Unifi gear for home use; it’s industrial-grade without completely breaking the bank (can get a good 2 AP setup for $400). PoE is a nice touch that makes it really easy to just snake a cable from a closet and leave a full-power AP in the attic.

The remote management tools are really nice if you have multiple sites (parents house, vacation home, etc) to manage. 1% problem for sure, but for a little bit more than a crapbox integrated router you can get an enterprise-grade modular managed solution.
I don't know what plan you have, but my $400 a month plan max out of pocket is <strike>$10,000</strike> $7,350 annual (resets each and every year).
No, I don't believe it because it sounds like a really stupid idea. YouTube isn't going to have much less variety, because YouTube makes money by selling ads to viewers, and they're going to have a significant number fewer viewers if they try to do that.

And I suspect that they want to make money even more than they want to reshape the culture into the image of what they think it should be...
If you sank it before containment was breached nothing would escape into the atmosphere and therefore there would be no fallout. There would be leakage in the ocean itself but its effect is more localized due to water attenuating the radiation.

While research is pretty scant, there have been containment failures at sea. Currently 8 submarines nuclear subs have sank. In general their effects have been much less than Chernobyl the only land equivalent.
> (b) buy a new license, for $20

There is no way for a consumer, buy a new license for $20. Their is program for Register Referbishers that allows a MRR to get a replacement COA, Create Restore Media, etc for $25. (note this is NOT a new license, in order to quality for this the PC has to have a OEM License) and requires a 14 page contract with MS that has all kinds of conditions and requirements on the person

https://www.msregrefurb.com/RRPSite/Templates/RR_ProgramAgre...

>Assuming that's correct,

I believe this to be a false assumption on your part. The License does not magically disappear if the Restore CD was lost, especially given the fact that I am not aware of any system on the market today that actually comes with a physical Restore CD anymore
I agree that what they did with server utilization was impressive. However the blast radius was pretty huge if something went down. Also wouldn’t scale to images/video very well.