skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s no debate. I use ad supported services (like Facebook) and I block ads. End of story. If these services go away because of some ad revenue problem (unlikely) I just don’t care. Right now there is no ad supported service that I believe I would pay anything for other than google search itself. I don’t have to right now so the issue is moot. I had a pretty rich life before Facebook and MySpace, somehow I’ll survive and I think I speak for a sizable chunk of people. Some people might value fb enough to pay for it like compuserve in the 80s. Good on them.

I can possibly see how these issues might matter to you if you make a living at google or a large content company, but I, like the vast majority of people do not. It is not my concern. I don’t get why this is so hard to understand.
and f. databases.

ha, just kidding.
Privacy Badger is not an adblocker. It block sites that track you by some magic heuristic. It just happen to be that ads are really intrusive. Every time I see a "please whitelist or page in your ad blocker", I get a smug smile on my face, because I do not have one
Bullshit. Lock down your work desktops properly and use a separate work only phone with MDM
Q-learning – Maze Problem
No. They employed plenty locals.
You're right, although anecdotally speaking... every time I've turned on my Samsung TV for the past 10 months, it lists the USB port as the most recently used source on my TV. It never did this before.

That is extra strange since I've never used the USB port on my TV, and the TV has been installed rather high on a wall behind my desk since the day it arrived so it would be nearly impossible for my wife or small children to get at the USB port, let alone plug in a valid source... unless it was being used as an exploit by some software in the TV.

I'm not suggesting that is what is happening, however, it is suspicious as hell.
The analogy to the army isn’t a very good one. It’s not a zero sum situation. A country can only devote so much of its GDP to the army, so the country with the biggest economy ends up with the biggest army. You don’t end up with 195 armies of equal size. The other thing that it misses is that the army is intentionally a vehicle for social mobility, and perhaps the most efficient one at that. The army is available to most people, where they can make a good career for themselves, or learn skills to take to the private sector, or move onto highly subsidized college. Dismissing it as bullshit is pretty narrow minded.
Probably maxed out in the USA and have 20+ years green card backlog.

Why not move to Canada for a few years, get citizenship and go back to the USA?
Jesus. They're criminals not slaves. Don't do the crime, don't do the time.

Look, I too watched 13th on Netflix. Black people are over-represented in violent crime like assault, murder and rape, and so are over-represented in prisons.
This exists.

I run an ad network that offers this kind of server-to-server request of ads.

My publishers pull an XML or JSON URL from their server, then render the ads however they want.
One example is Open-Xchange [https://www.open-xchange.com]

They make an open source webmail + drive + docs suite, and sell a commercial version (e.g. to ISPs). The software is great and they're still around, so it must be working out for them.
I'm a second-generation immigrant born and raised in Montreal.

Quebec's language is French and historically speaking it has every reason to attempt to protect it. Should immigration be more accommodating towards people willing to learn French? Probably. In my lifetime though I've mostly encountered anglophones who chose Quebec out of all provinces but then refused to speak the language, so shrug.

And yeah there are stupid politicians who say stupid things, just like in the States where some promise to throw out Mexicans and Muslims.
Plenty of companies spend money on things that provide no value - which is why msrketing is a thing.

I’ve sometimes wondered - not entirely ironically - if development teams would be understood as a revenue source instead of a cost if they hired their own micro-marketing sub-team to do internal marketing to management.
Facebook serve their own ads inline. Adblock engaged in a cat and mouse game trying to block their ads whilst simultaneously attempting to get them to sign up to the acceptable ads program.

Adblock does nothing to incentivise publishers to behave (rewarding relevant, low bandwidth, visually appealing ads). They only care about using their user base as a weapon so they can extort 30% of profits.
You say it like it’s a bad thing.

I’m betting on Amazon being in business at least as long as IBM. The benefits far outweigh the costs of having to port my code in 100+ years. If the machines aren’t sentient by then...
Syncthing has recently gotten inotify support for lower latencies. These days I barely even notice any latency, actually. (Where previously it would depend on your scan interval, default 60 s.)
You've posted countless comments like this to promote your database. Often you include a lot of low-substance, barely relevant verbiage as packing, if not camouflage, for the promotion. That doesn't help.

I don't say it lightly, but you're basically spamming HN, as users have been complaining for a long time (e.g. [1], [2]). Even when you don't appear to be doing it, you're doing it [3]. It's past time for this to stop; please stop.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16893429

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16677493

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16749503
FANG engineers pull $400k WITH RSUs. Base+Bonus won't be that high.

And ... guess what... Bank uses Base (no bonus, no RSUs) to calculate your mortgage.
They are common in Sweden for slower roads and streets. I’m quite certain they don’t count the cars, instead just leaving enough time even for slow cars to pass through.
The creepy genetics behind the Golden State killer case
They are almost exclusively female Irish backpackers here in Australia from what I hear. Usually the only females on a crew.
all the Netflix engineer salaries i know about are larger than $400K. And it may give you nightmares when/if you hear what Netflix offers when it gets into an offer bidding war with a compensation-comparable company :)

To GP questions - there is a lot of info available around about FANG compensation. Wrt. other companies - several guys around have recently landed new jobs - between 250K by a junior guy with 12 years experience and 0.5M by the guy with 20+. Only one went to FANG, a junior with about 10years and he got close to 300K.
Wish you were here to tell you that the Pink Floyd reference doesn't quite fit.
> There is no such thing like one codebase for all your devices

Basecamp reuses a lot of their rails code when rendering across mobile, web and desktop. They pepper in JS/CSS to suit device specifics, but otherwise everything is the same.
This overview helps. Thanks much. More to think about...
Last time i checked c++ debugger still used 16 bit line numbers. My attempts to make a plugin for vs also left an impression that it contains large amount of modules glued together using various technologies. Things like 5 layers of c# API wrappers named api10, api20, api30 on top of some c code communicating using COM objects. I wouldn't be surprised if they still had some third party libraries for which they only have a binaries and vendor doesn't exist anymore.
I store the binary; it's small. But of course you could use a filter, e.g. https://github.com/DataWraith/gitfilters
Yes, paying a few % on every transaction to move kilobytes of information over a network is absurd. The true cost is less than pennies but the EMV cartel led by VISA has successfully kept the price many orders of magnitude higher, employing anti-competitive tricks like: hiding the cost to consumers by contracually preventing retailers from increasing prices for VISA payments.
As long as my browser doesn't load anything from different domains other than the website's domain I don't mind. If that exists, every single website needs to adapt such practice. Anything else is a waste of breath.
SpaceX will possibly make that, more or less. Boeing might, less or more.

I don’t think anyone seriously expects NASA’s schedule to happen.
I recommend trying CBT type stuff which I've done myself for depression with some success. My take on it is your brain is mostly a parallel processor where events trigger ideas which trigger the lower level fear, hunger type stuff often without conscious awareness. But you can fight it by, when you get a bad feeling, analysing it and arguing against - eg for lack of worth, figure out the I'm useless thought and argue - no you actually did better than most people at that or whatever. Keep going for a few days and in my experience you'll feel better. Exercise also is surprisingly effective at times - as much as anti-depressants in studies with positive rather than negative side effects.
Thank you gorhill. Seriously, all the work you have done with uBlock Origin has made the world (wide web) a better place. And first recognizing the oft thankless blocklist maintainers here without a hint of name dropping yourself is truly honorable.
Marijuana is illegal in every state, because it's illegal under federal law. No province could decriminalize marijuana because no province had criminalized marijuana in the first place. We never had the redundant laws that the US states had.
If the attendant is to my left, I rotate clockwise towards the door after I finish washing. Then it looks like I didn’t see him.
IMHO the missing information is how much revenue you are generating with that 10k expense. If you are generating 100k+ / month revenue, then 10% of that for storage is just the cost of doing business.

If you have to hire somebody at 100k p.a. to manage your bare-metal based infrastructure, then, again, it doesn't make good business sense. And there always are costs and lots of debugging in switching as well.

Although there are technical considerations in switching, I would be inclined to understand such decisions from a business point of view. Of course, I'm assuming that you are not flush with cash, otherwise you wouldn't be concerned with your burn rate.
>And ... guess what... Bank uses Base (no bonus, no RSUs) to calculate your mortgage.

you have obviously never taken a mortgage in US. What bank typically uses is 2 last W-2s. In case if you don't know what W-2 is - it includes base + bonus + FMV of the vested RSUs as of the vest date.
Waymo video footage: May 4th, 2018 – Chandler, Arizona
These days you also need a crypto miner blocker.
Unless you have a big training corpus of terrorist conversations anything more than flagging "unnatural" phrases seems very far-fetched. And considering ratio of targets to civilians even that would be flooded with false positives.
But it's neither the willingness to die or the bloodshed itself. Thích Quảng Đức had the willingness and courage to die for a cause, but you'll have a great difficulty recruiting many to do what he did.
Try using Ethernet instead of wireless, and make sure you have a decent router.
We recently began migrating a 4 year old and constantly growing angularjs 1.4 app to react. With angular2react and ngreact we don't face a lot of hard decisions, because we may use angular comps in react and vice versa. We have bootstrapped a angular 4/5 app at the same time, but react just feels right.
Debtors in China Shamed on Highway Billboard Featuring Their Faces and Names
You're committing exactly the same logical fallacy.

You think just because it sometimes helps against bad actors that the NSA is a net force for good.
Yeah I find the language laws thing funny. I've worked with a crapton of people who never had to learn a word of French, and if they ever have to, then so what? French is the language here. That's like complaining about Italian in Italy.
To give a counterpoint, I absolutely love the new keyboard and think it's objectively one of the best I've ever typed on (sans the arrow keys, which are a horrible step backward).

That said, I already replaced a machine with this keyboard due to failing keys and now have a silicone cover over the keyboard of the new one, which inarguably degrades that experience. I'd rather have an okay keyboard that works than a fantastic one that doesn't.
this is stupid statement, equivalent to saying everyone can make their facebook, yes, so? social site like money needs mass adoption to be functional, not anyone can release cryptocurrency that will be mass adopted instantly..
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Yes Nvidia is on the lead very strongly right now. So tell me again why do they need to depend on ASUS and other brands to highlight their product and remove those branding from competition? That is doubly morally repugnant to me.

Nvidia has some fascinating technology, it's fun to read about the architectural differences/choices between them and AMD and inspiration each take from the other. But NVidia has always played the bully with it's position. It could very well be AMD would have done the same if they had the lead. But that doesn't mean one has to excuse NVidia bullying just because they have good technology.
> As long as my browser doesn't load anything from different domains other than the website's domain I don't mind

So you don't care about the content, only the source? There's nothing stopping the website from simply routing malicious JS from the ad network. Even worse, it would be much harder to block it this way.
YC seemed to have reported a different outcome. One factor could be that second/third time entrepreneurs may be more willing to go it alone with easier access to capital whereas younger teams may have more cofounders and without the track record, a harder time raising capital. I also wonder if that would hold here in SV.
There's a ways to go, sure - but there's no prizes for coming second in the doomsayers category.
Well written, this is also had profound effect on me https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html
What is the mental gymnastics inherent in NOT GIVING A SHIT? Like I don’t fucking care. It’s my computer I control the software that runs on it as much as I am able.

What I am sincerely curious about is what mental process you people go through to not only think it is ok to run a bitcoin miner in my browser unasked.... but that you have some moral or ethical mandate to do so.
Hey! This is what we are building at Asyncy.com - we are inviting users into our private Alpha release in about a month. I highly recommend you inquire and check it out. 100% OSS, full stack app out of the box using microservices.
> That's why the connection between organized crime and intelligence agencies has always been solid.

What do you mean by this?
You are underestimating the cost of maintaining such a network and underwriting the risk of fraud. Before anyone chimes in here with a neckbeard and a “but [libertarian blockchain drivel]” I do not think the effective monopoly that visa has on transactions is a good thing nor do I think it’s the best system.
>but a man can get used to anything.

If this were true PSTD would not actually happen. Wouldn't the cure just be more exposure, if you could get used to it?

>War is a call to power and a purpose.

We're a long time past when the raiding hordes would actually be profiting from their own raiding. Like it or not we live in a country so rich that we have essentially nothing significant to gain by pillaging: the cost for us to conduct warfare is greater than the entire productivity of the nations we invade, even before the bombs start lowering their GDP. As a result it's starting to get close to a century since the last time the US or an allied country fought a war with a purpose stronger than tenuous political chessplaying. Evidence for this: what fraction of our currently deployed armed forces have a lot to say about the political situation where they are fighting? Apparently the answer is almost none, because they're not there to talk about geopolitics. As a result the sense of purpose is isolated in nicely lit rooms while the direct costs are allocated to people who don't focus on the broader goals.

It seems that Futurism is back in vouge, but we'd better remember that the reason it fell out the first time was the fact that an actual war got started. The only two environments where that view can sustain itself are rooms full of warlords who profit and loose in actual war, and rooms full of intellectuals who profit and loose from nothing and who expect to survive in any case.
Legacy project?
Migrating from AngularJS to Angular >= 2.x is not that easy if you build a framework arond AngularJS.

E.g. in my company we use AngularJS because of that.
Previous - 166 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12371146

Also Stop Looking for a Cofounder (dontscale.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10060935

is interesting for the comments.

(The article is now at https://web.archive.org/web/20160225043230/http://dontscale.... as dontscale.com seems to have overdone don't scaling.)
It's hard to draw a conclusion from the data unless you have a ratio. If 10x as many companies have a single founder, and 1/2 of exits are single founder exits, then the lack of multiple founders could be a negative signal.

That being said, I agree with the premise of the article and think that people should stop pushing collaboration so much (like open offices, pair programming). A lot of the time collaboration just makes you comfortable while adding lots of communication overhead.
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Instead of looking at the proportion of exited companies compared to all founder buckets, a better statistical approach would be to look at the proportion of successful exits within each bucket to see if to see if a founder bucket has a better "chance" of success.

You can kinda extrapolate the ratio of successful startups / total startups for each founder buckets by looking at the y-axis counts...but in that case, the ratio of successful startups given the startup raised $10M is 80%-90%, which doesn't make any sense. Is this data correct or am I misinterpreting it?
“Waymo car hit by a vehicle in Chandler”.

But hey, you gotta spin that title as much as you can waiting for the third paragraph to reveal the self-driving car was not at fault.
It sends a message, which my brain's social apparatus parses as a status-symbol brag (and finds very distasteful).
There used to be more emphasis placed on technical drawing. I came in at the tail end but I still worked with a lot of blueprints for a number of years.
Universities are filled with this kind of pointlessness. The result is a massive amount of friction between those on the "edge" of the university doing useful work in research, teaching, building things, and the people in the "core" who routinely fire and re-hire whole departments and replace perfectly functional buildings in order to justify their paycheck.

It's not that the beaucracy running a University isn't needed (it definitely is), but it has got out of control and is consuming valuable resources better used elsewhere.
the catholic church has literally said "we're sorry" for their history a bunch of times, for example for anti-semitism, the inquisition, behaviour against non catholics and religious wars.

If anything, the problem is they're very vague about stuff, and only admit guilt for their history, and not for present misbehaviour.
> Ehrsam, Meyer, Smith and Tuchman invented the Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode of operation in 1976

Seriously, even the term was coined back then and the concept is actually pretty identical if you think about it.
I think you have it backwards from the cursory research I did by scanning over the datasheets for various sensors. VOC are easier to measure than CO2 and for rooms occupied by people their is a strong correlation between VOC and CO2. VOC sensors qty 1 are 5-12 where CO2 is 40-120. These are sensors themselves, not full devices.
A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement [pdf]
I meant impossible under the Charter of Rights, which could change, but isn't going to. You're right that that's for political and not legal reasons, so "politically and legally impossible" is in a way redundant. In another way it isn't, though, since constitutions do constrain politicians.
Bitcoin, Banks and a Whole Lot of FUD
> Don't do the crime, don't do the time.

Isn't this materially the same as, "if you are black, and especially black and male, choose your diet according to what the government says you can put in your body?"

If "the crime" is ingesting cannabis, I do the crime all the freakin' time and I have never, ever imagined that I might suffer any consequence of it.

Is "Don't do the crime, don't do the time" a reasonable thing to say in an environment of such intense selective enforcement?
> as a white, heterosexual, cisgender man in America, I live life on the lowest difficulty setting

Seriously, what is this shit? Is there a grant I'm not aware of that's given to straight white men? Free housing somewhere? I'm white and straight and American and I'm pretty sure my children's education is paid for by my near constant work (and my wife's) not by the magical fairy dust that was sprinkled on me at birth.

In no way am I saying Wil does not suffer from depression, but the "my life is perfect, how could I possibly be depressed?" spin rings false. Child stars that go on to find middling success and depression (and substance abuse) later in life is more the norm than the exception isn't it?

As far as I know he never almost died because of drugs, never had a public meltdown and is still gainfully employed, so I'd say he navigated things better than most. I can't speak from experience, but in no way would I say that the life of a child star is easy. It's probably one of the hardest things you could ask a young person to do.

But I have no sympathy for someone who gives in to prevailing rhetoric about "privilege". That is just as moronic as saying "women can't program" or "black people are good at sports".
If only they could use that data to find out who these telemarketing scammers who constantly offer to sell me health insurance are.
A real life example - client discovers that users cannot actually get into the system. Contractor says: "Ah, you wanted a login screen? This wasn't in the specs! You need to pay me more to implement a login screen."
Another clickbait piece. Reading through the byline:

If cryptocurrency and blockchain technology really are the future of money, the world’s central banks need to get involved, a former Fed governor argues.

Isn't that a big "if"? And in that case, the real headline should be - "If Cyrptocurrency is the future Feds should build a Fedcoin says a former Fed Governor".

And I think people who talk about how banks/Visa might be affected by cyrpotcurrency should take some time to read this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2018/04/21/bitco...

HN link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17000721
Blockchain coordinates databases over different legal entities. That's the magic. It's still your DB in your Datacenter when you run your own node. You have autonomy over your own records with your keys. And you have visibility of all other records. A big central DB is under the control of a central body. With a blockchain the central control is / could be limited.
My first job involved installing SCO (a bit later than Xenix, SCO System V) at customer sites from a huge pile of floppies. You had to pay a few grand extra for the compiler. GCC was a revelation and a life changing discovery just a bit later, and the beginning of the end for SCO. I have fond memories of it though, proper multi-user Unix on a 386/486 otherwise only fit for word processing. Shame its name was later dragged through the mud by intellectual property scavangers, and it's great to see this stuff being liberated.