skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious that they used Hover as a domain registrar, and Heroku to host the site. I have to wonder how much hell someone had to go through to get those two as approved vendors.
Do you mind sharing which winery is it?
I'm surprised you've had conversations with tech laymen that understand what Cambridge Analytica is guilty of. Everyone I talk to, even reasonably tech-literate people, still don't understand the repercussions. I even point out the possibility of throwing a presidential election, and my mother said, "so what, isn't that just people pushing for the guy they want?"
Slack instead of email?

That's hilarious.
Is this satire? This isn't tactful at all. It comes across as a completely passive aggressive.

Communication is more than just the literal meaning of the words you write. Most people reading this are going to interpret is a "Do not hire this guy under any circumstances, he is terrible"

I think complete honesty--"Terrible attitude, but competent"--would have actually been more tactful than what you wrote.
If it's a joke, okay, 70% might hurt.

.sexy is about 60-100$ per year. If you've build a business on it, paying double the amount should not hurt.

For me the most important thing about this new gTLDs is more about reputation of the gTLD registry. What if these go out of service? I'm pretty sure that there exist a protocol for that case, but I'm also sure that domains in a less popular new gTLD space might get far less protection from ICANN than any non-sponsored gTLD.
Thats an excellent question, and one that we don't take lightly. We have undertaken quite a bit of research to validate this idea by looking at the current link economy between media organizations and running our proposed algorithm on the resulting network, minus the negative link portion.

Our algorithm works by first identifying a set of powernodes (right now, about 1% of the total nodes). Each of these powernodes is then given the ability to "vote" on whether content is trustworthy or not.

Using the MIT Media labs tags I can then quantify what % of the total trust is held by the liberals and the conservatives. Currently, there amount of trust between both sides is roughly equal, though on the liberal side most of the trust tends to be in the "left-center", while on the conservative side it is mostly held by more extremist outlets such as fox news, breitbart, and the daily caller.

Interestingly, the most trusted content is often linked to by both parties, and through the classifications its very easy to identify which articles are partisan/are only being linked to by one side.

The conservative outlets don't appear to often support each other through collectively linking to bad content. Totaling up all of the conservative votes - the number one trusted source is unsurprisingly fox news, but the number 2 and number 3 sources are the Washington Post and the Times.

https://imgur.com/O05eHfX (Most trusted overall)

https://imgur.com/FCoJrWd (Most trusted conservative)

https://imgur.com/SotcwD0 (Most trusted center)

https://imgur.com/kg9dmou (Most trusted liberal)

Its interesting that even with several hyperpartisan conservative outlets given a "seat" at the voting table, these sources still bubble to the top. Compare this to the results from Facebook's recent attempt to start ranking publisher trust, using users' ratings: https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/993502674233577479
I'm confused, how is it over-engineered?
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You don’t even have to pay. Just disassemble one of the official apps, snatch the private keys and use them to connect to the API. Enjoy having access to everything with (almost) no rate limiting.
> Or long rope, a balloon, and a heat source ;)

Good luck if a storm hits.
That attitude is a reflection of your internal perceptions. I got into all the companies mentioned and I chose Amazon as my first choice.
I had similar beef with a .io domain name many years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1973704
Isn't it a gnu? I like the logo/art.
The term wage-slave doesn't appear to be in your lexicon. Child labor, too. Never mind slavery was officially abolished only half a century after the industrial evolution had started, which didn't even count for e.g. India. Never mind they owned India. I am sure the Irish will have a thing or two to say about the matter, anyway.
I've been a contractor on and off for years (and I still do it on the side...$100/hr for Linux kernel/driver and systems programming with emphasis on digital video ). I know why you charge more as an IC.

$120/hr is on the high side of what I've seen fellow ICs make in this town. $120k/yr is on the low side of what I've seen senior devs make in this town. 2x is suprising.
sadly pg left some years back.
It doesn't help.

Your next car will support telemetrics. Your insurer will know how fast and how often you drive. Your wife will know where you've been going after work. The cloud will gather and retain everything else of non-obvious value, up to the point where it all magically disappears when your self-piloting car drives itself through a schoolyard at recess and the company claims they don't have enough data to determine their responsibility, and insinuates that perhaps it was your fault.

All your future appliances will be factory-bugged so Amazon can listen to you arguing with your wife and sell you marital counseling books. Or they sell you imported counterfeit electronic shit, leaving bored interns with unchecked privilege (or strangers poking around on SHODAN) to activate those products' extraneous cameras to spy on your daughter undressing.

The ubiquity of cellphones in the hands of the masses mindlessly recording every droll moment of their lives in public for a chance at YouTube fame, combined with better and better facial|licenseplate|whatever-recognition algorithms means you're always on a camera somewhere, your movements being tracked and your identity easily annotated. Your wife's divorce lawyer will have a field day with this.

Don't want to be tracked? Hoard cash and modify the serial numbers. Throw away everything with a network interface or bidirectional antennas of any kind. Don't leave the house. Slap tinfoil on your windows. Make yourself a nifty pirate hat with the remainder. Your friends and neighbors will think it's endearing for a while, then they'll stop coming around for some reason.

Just don't take a selfie of yourself in your fortress of solitude without scrubbing the geolocation data from the EXIF tags!
How do targeted online ads fit with that? What does a 'slot' mean now that we don't have literal slots between TV shows in a handful of stations?
I love your post. It's really nice to watch somebody go through an honest and curious appraisal of a position.
I don't think I'm arguing the perfect language exists, nor do I think a complete education reform is needed.

I'm arguing that "Python is easier" is false, simple as that.
Heyo. Would you look at that! That must be pretty new?

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This is great. That was my only complaint with Ghost so far.
.io has particularly long lead times for renewals with third party registrars. I ran into a similar issue 8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1973704
I would say speech synthesis is governed by very clear mechanics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...

As for style transfer, that is a very specific skill of making the patterns of one style map to the patterns of another. I am not particularly well versed with art, but that process seems well defined to me.

Perhaps your issue is with my more generalized definition of "clear" and "well-defined". I meant to use these terms to distinguish between autonomous driving and being a successful human. I really don't think there is anywhere close to a consensus on the latter. To the extent that there is, then yes, AI should be able to do it.
Are any of those platforms suitable for running deep learning algorithms?

I think Golem is closer https://golem.network/ And some others: https://www.investinblockchain.com/distributed-computing-blo...

But I'm skeptical of distributed computing blockchains. I think a) it's unlikely a distributed compute network can compete with highly optimized datacenters running TPUs or whatever, b) people are unlikely to trust distributed compute networks with their proprietary data (maybe acceptable for CGI rendering and some other specific use-cases)
«this is a standard economic assumption.»

Yes, but given this convergence hasn't happened in years, it is unreasonable for de Vries to suggest it might happen in 7 months.

For the second point, he definitely assumes 100% of the production ends up in Bitcoin mining machine. His source says "cryptocurrency" chips, but de Vries assumes "Bitcoin" chips.
On the bright side, you know what you want to do (be a ski instructor), so you should use whatever means necessary to make that happen—even accept a short
term coding job to save money.

Many people have no idea what they want to be and put no thought into it, so kudos to you. That’s huge!
Such reasoning is detrimental to a free society. It's not a house, it's a port. And a major one at that.

Should ISPs be free to discriminate and ban anything they don't like too?
Wow, that's interesting, thanks for sharing. I've always wondered why date, time and even other units of measure were not calibrated in the decimal system from the beginning. I had read about the controversy when Britain adopted the metric system, that may have been when I started thinking about this.
There's a group of wealthy people in Austin proposing a Heathrow Pod-like system. I'm skeptical that it can handle the large surge of passengers from a large music venue or Circuit of the Americas.
Related: PonzICO
https://ponzico.win/
I've set it up before to have 10y which is the max, and renew for 1 year every year. So the domain always has a lead time of 9-10 years but it is still renewed once a year for practice. for most domains thats like 100 bucks to lock it down for 10 years. You can also monitor the domain expiry in your monitoring system i.e. nagios or whatever you are using.
You'll have to elaborate how reaching out to tenant candidates directly gets around the Fair Housing Act and what that act attempts to address.
> That's the reason, for example, why Cassandra doesn't even offer range reads

This is not true. The reason why Cassandra doesn't support that is because of hashing of keys across the cluster -- you'd have to query all shards and merge the results. That has nothing to do with the LSM storage.
No problem. I usually learn a new language by picking a very challenging idea and then implementing it; that way I can see how the language performs "under stress", though I might have skewed view for normal use cases. Still, companies seem to be more interested in the weird cases I am forced to explore (much to detriment of my happiness), and JavaScript was making me quite grumpy at times.

Right, with TensorFlow.js (or even better Keras.js) you can write a simple CNN in a few hours that given a good dataset of facial keypoints can allow you to build a fairly accurate (80-90%) emotion detection framework, and it's pretty fast. I am past this stage though; right now I have e.g. a working state-of-art model for detecting offensive visual content on the web based on very deep DenseNet, which might be difficult to fit into a browser implementation and the more Titan Vs you throw at it, the better; Python only then.

I agree, with functional approach, especially with the recent additions to ES, it seems like JS is becoming a quite OK language, though the issue of having somebody using ugly old hacks is not going away, unfortunately.

Usually in teams I worked before for anything more complex we used transpilers from one language to JavaScript and relied heavily on our IDEs to allow us debugging. Kotlin seems to be pretty popular in that space right now; if I haven't had some personal gripe with its authors I'd have probably used it as well ;-)

Good luck with your company, keep your eyes open for things to come! :)
Article and “meta-research” distinctly not related to genius.

Genius is a distinctly one-in-a-million phenomenon, this is about people of above average creativity and how they relate to those of below average creativity. And very dubious categorization at that.
I really want to meet the team at the SEC who put this together. The level of trolling the ICO community is incredible.

Not sure if anyone else opened the white paper, but it is acutally better than most of the ICO papers I read in general.

There are gems like:

> "Upon a successful ICO, the nondisclosure agreements terminate and we will be able to disclose the largest
network of travel partners"

> "we expect a bidding war to increase HoweyCoins valuations by severalfold."
I hope employees don't use sonoff wifi plugs :)
To be fair, I never had trouble with that either. It was just an example of something I've occasionally read about some people approaching programming languages for the first time.
They are reporting only on a few well known papers. They don't know what people are doing in secret.
I have to wonder if these kind of historical comparisons are useful. The market seems so much different than it did prior to 1940 (in my totally naive bystander opinion). 100 years ago you didn't have:

- A diverse economy with many different verticals.

- Globalization of trade

- Massive pension funds with long term holdings

- Average citizens investing capital in other's people production.

- Easy access to trading/information and safer investments like mutual funds and ETFs.

- A giant swath of humans employed in finance all trying to make money and help the market self correct.

- Automated trading that benefits from (and probably creates) minor turbulence to constantly skim money.

What hasn't changed:

- Human psychology

- Economic feedback cycles and interdependence

The market will crash again, but I don't think you can infer too much from the market 100 years ago even as an average.
Whois is going dark shortly for at least six months, and maybe forever, due to GDPR. So much for the public Whois.
> Essentially, the Docker approach boils down to downloading an unsigned binary, running it, and hoping it doesn’t contain any backdoor into your companies network.

I don't get why people still claim that this is "the Docker approach". This is not the docker approach, everyone hopefully knows this is an anti-pattern by now.
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Not a FUD tactic on my part, so please don't put "woe is me" on me.

For what it's worth, FATCA, DCMA , et al really suck too, and I think those have terrible unintended consequences. But this post was about GDPR because that's what the topic of the oringinal post is.

And no, I'm not complaining about it - I'm saying it's poorly implemented.

And before you go off on Americans having to comply with a law OUTSIDE OUR JURISDICTION, how about we hold all of our crappy laws over your head. And fine you 4% of revenues for one of our bullshit laws? You wouldn't like it either, WHICH IS MY POINT - it's a poorly implemented law.

My company has a (damn good) privacy policy. We take privacy very seriously. But fuck all if some other country wants to put a regulation on MY interaction with someone from their country in my hometown. (And I have the same opinion if the US wants to regulate some American doing something in another country - the US should fuck-off then as well).

You seem super supportive of this law, but what will your position be when China "improves" their Social Credit system to require anybody in any country who deals with a Chinese national to report their information/conversation/etc to the Chinese govt within 24 hours of gathering the data? Will you support that because the Chinese have the noble goal of social stability? Or will you decide that in this particular case, and because you don't like their extra-territorial law, that "they can't do it." ?

I have no intention of reading the GDPR because IT'S NOT MY LAW ! Does that not resonate with you? I don't expect you to read the DMCA, FATCA, Patriot Act, etc, so why do you expect me to read yours? It has nothing to do with me (except for those unintended consequences that I'm trying to explain above).
When's the ICO? I want it!
Them: "What level are you at with Javascript?"
Me: "Intermediate to advanced."
Reality: Hadn't written a single line of Javascript at the time
Reality 1 week after hire: Best JS programmer there (to be fair, standards were intentionally very low and 2 weeks is plenty of time to pick up a new language)
Reality After a Year: Employee of the year
I first heard of Puppet first and so I'm assuming it was first on scene?

CFEngine was first, it's based on a kind of maths called "promise theory" and it solved the problem of you had many different kinds of Unix owned by many different groups and had to have a consistent way of saying "all machines belonging to group X need to have user Y and package Z" and it would abstract away the slightly differing syntax between Solaris, SunOS, IRIX, OSF/1, Ultrix, yadda yadda. This is a problem that doesn't really exist anymore.

Chef I think came next, it was written by people who knew Ruby but didn't know maths so they used CFEngine terminology like "converging" but Chef doesn't really do that, it just runs Ruby scripts. If CFEngine was a scalpel, Chef is a mallet. Chef and Puppet are related somehow, same group of devs had a falling out and went their own ways, something like that. They are much of a muchness.

Ansible is cool because it recognises the reality of why CFEngine isn't relevant nowadays: most organisations are running just one particular Linux distro so you can do away with the abstraction and get all the benefits without the complexity.
It should be Proof or Waste, or Proof of Heat/Entropy. The work being done is difficult, yet trivial and only valuable because it yields coins. Miners convert free energy into heat, for funny money, and it doesn’t scale well. Sure, maybe PoS could work (I doubt it) and maybe renewables could be the future of mining. Unfortunately we’re stuck with a majority of miners burning coal in China to show off the required volume of entropy to cash in.

When this fad dies, it will have been historically significant in terms of pure waste.
It's really strange to me that nowadays source control seems to be, largely, a monoculture. Back in the day I either used, or knew plenty of people using any of CVS, Subversion, Sourcesafe, Sourcegear Vault, Perforce, AccuRev, ClearCase, along with a few others.

Whilst distributed version control is a huge leap forward over many of those older systems, it's odd that nowadays it seems to be git or, well, nothing. I'm surprised Mercurial hasn't made more headway than it has.

But maybe git is just "good enough" for most people? I suppose that's where I land on it. It has it's frustrations, like anything else, but I can live with them.
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https://exosear.ch - Created this site to see results from multiple search engines.. what do you guys think? currently I've limited the searches to 100 per day.
Defense contractors have been using this capability for competitive intelligence for the last few years. Namely performing surveillance of contractors both internal and external to their company. Private investigators are using the same capability for similar purposes, especially for litigation support. “How” is never required to be revealed in court because the primary purpose is to find information that will “encourage” the other party to not go to court. If there was a way to audit queries/lookups performed against specific telephone numbers I think a lot of people would be shocked.
thanks, your right, my mistake. i was just surprised that the most negative return years in a row during the entire history of the S&P 500 was only 4 years, and typically it is only 1.4 years.
Interesting! The trick that Exodus uses (invoking ld-linux.so directly) is very smart. Perhaps an option to add to 'guix pack' in the future. :-)
This could help new innovative companies compete, at least in the short term, against these established behemoths.

Again, most “new innovative” companies can’t afford to comply with laws like GDPR.
Certainly. It's a risk/reward judgment call by the distillery. They risk their brand getting labeled a poor or bottom-shelf brand, though, if they aren't careful and they misjudge demand.

That's not a hypothetical, similar whisky culture cycles in history have shown once good/strong/trusted brands in the heat of a shortage/high-demand period make short term gains and long term folly.

Four Roses is a fun immediate example I already mentioned. Before Kirin bought Four Roses it was a struggling "bottom shelf" bourbon that had made some poor choices (by former Canadian alcohol conglomerate Seagram) in the whisky boom of the 50s/60s and subsequent whisky bust in the 70s/80s that busted many brands. [1] Kirin spent a lot of marketing money bringing Four Roses back up the shelves.

The obvious counterpoints are products like Pappy van Winkle that are keeping the age statements, keeping to those age commitments, and riding the shortage to seem more exclusive/exotic.

[1] One article mentioning it: http://fortune.com/2014/02/06/the-billion-dollar-bourbon-boo...
Great sysadmins get fired unless they learn to pretend to look busy. They automate everything till they have nothing to do.
Then what about routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, etc? I'm sorry, but I don't know what quotes you're referring to.
To elaborate on that: There's receive.denyNonFastForwards=true on the server which will deny --force no matter what the client says, and major hosting sites like GitHub and GitLab have "protected branches" which allows protecting say "master" against this, while allowing it on topic branches.

What you ran into is that there's nothing in the protocol itself that makes the client say "this is a forced push". The client just says "update this ref from A->B", and it's expected that it's already read the ref advertisement to see what A is, and whether it can move to A to B with --force or not.
I'm not sure if it would matter, if you were just doing this as an individual once or twice, but it's worth noting that in New York State, at least, this would be an illegal transaction, unless the tenant referring you to their landlord happened to be a licensed real estate agent. The definition of brokering a transaction according to state law, for which you must be licensed is that you're facilitating the transaction "for another" and "for a fee". The $250 dollar reward, therefore makes this an illegal act on the part of the existing tenant. Laws might well be different in other states obviously.
For those wanting the extra context around this decision:

There's a really important reason for not sending the Via header in the request: it disables compression, by default, in most major web-servers!

· nginx defaults gzip_proxied to "off", where 'proxied' is determined by the presence of the Via header: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_gzip_module.html#gzip...

· The same goes for IIS 7 & IIS 8 via noCompressionForProxies defaulting to "true" - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/configuration/system.we...

· Apache's mod_deflate doesn't do this (thankfully).

This has an immediately negative impact on performance and, in many cases, cost: the origin server is sending more bytes over the wire, and network transit is often a non-trivial cost for those on AWS, Azure, et. al.

Akamai also has a post on this: https://community.akamai.com/community/web-performance/blog/...

Note: I used to work at Cloudflare, and believe they (we!) made the right decision here. There are other mechanisms that can be used to detect proxy loops, and there are also cases where customers may "stack" edge network vendors (migration, specific feature needs, application complexity).

PS: Hi David! :)