skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's harder to pull the trigger and launch once you've taken so long (years) to work on a project. You're a lot more invested in the success or failure, so you take a perfectionist view of the project which is a view that often leads to procrastination.

When you're only spending ~2 months developing a bare-bones MVP, it becomes easier to just launch the thing and be less attached to the ultimate outcome.

This is just my personal experience, I've worked on both types of projects and I vastly prefer the ones that take only 1-2 months to validate.
look , the EU has decided to change the ad-supported model of the web. doesn't matter what addicted users want
>Attacking a huge network like bitcoin would be an audacious and expensive act, but there are certainly organizations with the resources to do it, e.g. intelligence agencies, organized

How do you propose they would go about doing this? Would they jam up the whole worlds chip production to source the ASICs at above market rates? How could this be profitable?

Perhaps by taking over existing mining operations, but then you’d need to somehow perform the attack before you’re detected.
My fantasy is for Google to finally have to face anti-trust regulations.

But I think yours is more realistic. and depressing.
They are just as smart, with 20 more years of experience, and now also very large networks which can get them what they want much faster.

The key in almost every successful business is relationships, and those always take time to build.
See also the wonderful COST paper: https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/p...

But the article is kind of wrong. It depends on your data size and problem - you can even use commandline-tools with Hadoop Map/Reduce and the Streaming API and Hadoop is still useful if you have a few terabytes of data that you can tackle with map and reduce algorithms and in that case multiple machines do help quite a lot.

anything that fits on your local ssd/hdd probably does not need hadoop... however you can run the same unix commands from the article just fine on a 20tb dataset with Hadoop.

Hadoop MapReduce/HDFS is a tool for a specific purpose not magic fairy dust. Google did build it for indexing and storing the web and probably not to calculate some big excel sheets...
I'm not from around there but this sounds like a sense of place or a feeling of belonging, perhaps tribalism. From the outside this phenomenon looks a bit odd and will need some explanation from the locals.
>> This trait is now more commonly found in immigrants coming into the United States

This is so true. The immigrant friends I have have moved around so much in the time they have been here. While people I know who aren’t doing well have lived in town their whole lives, never finding a worthwhile job. Too many excuses not to move.
>>This trait is now more commonly found in immigrants coming into the United States.

Just want to point out that your ancestors were once immigrants coming into the USA.
That's exactly it. I'll always take a Bird (or Spin) over a Lime, but it's a judgement call (distance, battery, etc).

Compared to, say, Uber vs Lyft, in which I personally refuse to use Uber no matter what.
Because we have an entire legal framework with centuries of precedent. Just about every law and regulation gives just a maximum penalty without countless cases of those being used to hobble foreign competitors.

See also the answer to when you asked 17 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17005603
The second layer solutions such as Lightning Network don't require you letting other people hold your Bitcoin. They're still decentralized and trustless.
I'm 100% sure Nintendo became Disney-esque right after the Super Mario Bros movie came out. They were completely embarrassed publicly for that. Before that they were just greedy cartridge licensers.
Could it be trillions in debts?

Could it be they are aligned with developing countries all over the world with belt and road?

Could it be that they have arguably the single most intelligent population in the world?

Could it be that though Americans (that includes you canadians, continent-shamers) find their lack of democracy disturbing, Chinese citizens have generally not complained about the past several millennium of rather tyrannical, centralized governance?

What a head scratcher... Why, it's almost like they're different people!

Edit: oh by the way, there's literally a billion of them
> Where?

Here: "that must mean that Twitter banning people is also a violation of the first amendment"

That's... pretty darn clear.

> Can you help me to find the part of my original comment that made the above unclear?

The first two lines of your comment frame your response as counter to the position of the person you are replying to. That would be counter to you new claim that you agree it's not a 1st Amendment issue.

Disagreement with a claim followed by an argument is generally taken by readers as an argument as to why the claim is wrong, not right. Just so you know for future writing.
Netflix Open Connect
What is the best opensource OCR library?
Im looking to find the best opensource (or cheap) OCR tool/library preferably written in python. I have looked extensively on github and have found many options.
My first program was an auto talker for runescape 2. I never really played classic, but rip
But there is doe.

For a while China refused to prosecute these manufacturers unless they sold to Chinese citizens.

Thus China is DIRECTLY trying to get revenge from the 100 years of shame
My memory is from this: http://www.trustmeimascientist.com/2012/01/01/the-zen-art-of...

claiming that in the 1980s, Pepsi was sweeter than Coke, which had an effect in (pseudo-)scientific taste tests.

Note that (not) recognizing which is which, and label biasing, are different from being able to recognize that they are different.
Do you have a video link?
Have you found any (crazy / funny) outliers?
The tobacco industry and car industry are both counter examples to this.

There are real use cases for fentanyl (there's a report here locally of ambulance crews misappropriating fentanyl from the pain medication supplies.) I know there's media reports of "an opioid epidemic", but I'm suspicious about how much that's "real" and how much of it is "war on drugs" reporting pushed by law enforcement PR for the purposes of propping up the prison-industrial complex...

30,000 deaths per year in the US seems to be considered "acceptable" in the face of the benefits of 200-ish million people owning/driving cars. I wonder what the ratio of "people benefiting" vs "people dying" from opiates and fentanyl in particular is?
Wrt to vagueness i have to respectfully disagree. Perhaps an opinion poll would help, but from what i 've gathered from Q&A forums that are frequented by europeans in the past weeks, it's freaking vaguety vague. to the point where it's not clear how broad it is at times.

Maybe it reads fine if you are a "data subject" (i hate this term btw) , but if you actually need to comply its hard, even for the simple stuff that every website has. E.g. cookies, advertising, backups

I 'm not even sure if the data subject can figure out what to expect from GDPR. E.g. Is HN compliant? Can you tell if a website you visited today is compliant?
The numbers I've seen quoted for a double spend attach on Bitcoin Cash (assuming guaranteed block space) are that it would cost about 50K to double spend on a 0-conf transaction. So really, you can confidently accept 0-conf for <1K reasonably. More that that you can accept 1-conf or more which can take a minute or two. BTC rejects 0-conf transactions, but they are already in use around the world and are successful as far as I know.
I'm not in Toptal, but a friend is and he asks for around $5k a month. Here in Brazil it's insanely good. I don't personally know anyone else who receives more than him here, actually. In software dev or anything else. I don't go around asking how much people make, though.
I see. The user anigbrowl clarifies further below:

> Allowing the government to use your service [as its preferred way of communicating] does not thereby make it part of the government.
Or the fifth largest US company by market cap: Berkshire Hathaway.
The elephant in the room here is politics. A better chance of employment is a lot less appealing if it's in a city where you know nobody, there is no sense of community, most people are not at all like you and think people like you are backwards hicks.
> There are, in any case, processes for addressing failure of a party to respect a judgement, which Trump is no more immune to regarding this judgement than he is to the case resulting in the judgement.

And what are those? For regular people, the judge can have a person jailed for contempt of court. I doubt that the POTUS is worried about that.
So why is the Western media inaccurately portraying China?
I wonder as well. The main downside I have heard about IpV6 until now is that many softwares are not compatible.
a modal pop-up dialog asking for consent will be required?
You can profit from undermining the market. Futures volumes may currently be too low to find enough liquidity to use them for financing a major attack but this could change when BB’s start selling them in earnest to clients.
Cost of living due to rampant NIMBYism in the most economically dynamic cities, as well as the feeling of community that would disappear if they were to move.
Approach 1 doesn't give you a work permit. It's merely an explanation of how you can spend 90 days in the US as a EU citizen. But I don't think Yellow Incubator would dive that deep to see if you have the proper immigration papers.

Approach 2 makes sense for some. If you're just setting up a company to be in this incubator, then I 100% agree with you. But if you're working on something, and you think it'll have a better chance at succeeding if you're in the US, then it might very well make sense for you to get that kind of a visa. Many people (not involved with this incubator) do : )
And then it got bred out of us by 80 years of the Democratic Party saying that everyone needs to be on the government teet.
The NeXTStep years don't count?
This is actually reasonable. Without this, Snap would be asking for lawsuits from anyone that submits an idea that’s even close to an upcoming feature. At the end of the day, this incubator relies on trust, and founders should never take money from someone they distrust anyway.
It might not be new, but newspapers had to target the general public. Today's feeds are hyperfocused on individuals and their preferences.
The limes in sausalito and vista point are pretty good IMO.
Think of every wire that connects your outlets together, generally these are pretty long. Powerline Ethernet turns those wires into antennas so you get things like this[1].

When you're talking about radio waves there's two power measurements PEP and ERP. PEP is roughly what wattage a radio is spec'd at. ERP is PEP * Antenna Gain, so your long runs of wire make them a high gain antenna.

To use a poor car analogy PEP = horsepower, ERP = 0-60mph. Powerline is a motorcycle, not a lot of HP but still stupid quick(loud).

What makes this even worse is that since your wires are different length is means the noise is pretty wide-band(every frequency) and so it's not something that can be easily filtered.

[1] https://youtu.be/6IW3FVhHR58?t=91
Since we are beating dead horses, I will again repeat that nothing stated in the GDPR requires warnings or requires that fines not be very large. Is it, or is it not, legally possible for a regulator to seek fines against you under GDPR without first issuing a warning?

Please link to the specific law that exists outside the GDPR that requires such warnings. It has to be written somewhere...you (and other fans of GDPR) keep making this argument, so such a law must exist. The "answer" you linked to was just more of the same stuff you keep spouting, not a written law. If I can see such a law in the "old and large legal framework" you GDPR fans keep referring to that is somehow supposed to protect us from abuses, I'll happily admit that I'm wrong.
TruStory just raised $3M to identify ICO scams before they happen
I have a first-edition copy of "Compact Disc-Interactive: A Designer's Overview" as a result of a job interview in 1988 that didn't pan out. Looking through it now, one interesting tidbit is that the embedded "CD-RTOS" operating system was based on OS-9 for the 68000.

They also wanted to introduce a new buzzword: "hyper-media" (the hyphen is theirs, not mine). Choice quote: "The concept of hyper-media could have been invented to describe CD-I. Its origins lie in the notion of hyper-text, a term coined by computer guru Ted Nelson in 1965 as a method of linking related bodies of information to allow the user to browse through different databases randomly."
Sure, but then you just say that the atomic unit is not the line, but rather a list.
But the initial assumption was that of an efficient market for hash power, which means the cost to hash is equal to the block rewards. And so deploying some capital to secure the network is nets zero loss.
I would love to have some sort of L(onger)TS release. I'm perfectly happy with how my system is set up, everything just works, I don't need new features and I'm dreading the next upgrade forced on me by the loosely defined (or not at all really) and rather short EOL cycles.
its really hard. I imagine company hiring practices (their growing dependence on recruiting firms) also doesnt help.

For instance, the best way to go to a new geography would be to land a job there prior to moving there. Even in data science, supposedly hot job market, I wanted to get a job in san francisco or seattle, but I was living in philadelphia. you hear stories about people graduating from cali universities and companies jumping through windows to get to them, but even though I graduated with a masters in CIS from Upenn ... crickets. I think because most of them recruit through agencies which filter by geography. I had to reach out aggressively to the recruiters themselves, and bypass a lot of the blockers, which took 2 years. Had I not done that, my talent didn't mean as much as where I was.

Now, imagine a small towner trying to do the opposite, get a job after they make a move to say, one of the urban centers. most people dont have a lot of savings to begin with, and what would last them 6 months where they are would be depleted very quickly in one of the larger cities. even getting an apartment is harder, you dont have a job? reject.

its not impossible, its just really difficult.
This comment makes me sad. Lots of bad info.

All securities exchanges incur fees, varying based on wherher you’re eating or supplying liquidity. I forget what these are called, but companies like Interactive brokers pass those fees on. Robinhood eats the fees for you.

With coinbase, you pay a 0% fee as long as you use GDAX, which is a no brainer, and place limit orders that are not immediately executable e.g. sell $.01 above the current price or buy $.01 below.

I’m not the parent so I’m not gonna address the tokenization question, but my opinion is that tokenization helps the users (stockholders), but takes power away from centralized exchanges thus the NASDAQ would be kinda crazy to switch to decentralized assets
I feel the same way. Also, the integration between Apple hardware is great. I have Macs, an iPhone and an iPad and everything works ridiculously well together.

I’ve contemplated switching to Linux for a while, and keep a laptop with Fedora installed, but every time I seriously consider it I picture losing those key applications and the tight integration with my other devices and I can’t justify it.
I have to admit there is actually some. Luckily though, when we saw problems, recent updates (i.e. mosh, ping, etc.) actually fixed them.

However there is some really broken software out there that hard codes IPv4 addresses - which even breaks NAT64/DNS64!
Newsblur for great and flexible RSS experience. Fastmail for great email experience (does that count as a SaaS?). Sync (sync.com) for cloud backup and storage (switched after Dropbox faked OS X password prompt and didn't even blush). 1Password for passwords. MyNoise app for white noise / procedural music generation. Github is paid also for my own private projects. I also used to pay for Evernote, but lately, the quality of their service declined in China and I gave up.
Show HN: (Untwisted) an event driven framework in python
What it takes to be normal? I mean, I'm a human being who can type comment and send it online, does that makes me normal?

Anyways, I actually asked around about that topic on an domestic Chinese online forum that only had few dozens of visitors, the result that I've received showing that the most of those people who replied are actually ... let say ... not in the opposition of it.

Things are vastly different on another domestic website, where most of people are (implicitly) against it.

So, it's actually depends on who you asking. And remind you, we Chinese are also effected by echo chambers.
Who has Tether defrauded? I agree Tether may have just issued without backing, but they don't promise being able to withdraw. So who is actually being harmed? And why is it unfixable? What if Coinbase promised to completely cover any usdt shortfall?
WARNING MALWARE.

This domain seems to be trying to serve malware.
Canadians, continent-shamers?

Please elaborate.
Naturalized and 2nd generation immigrants overwhelmingly vote for Democrats across all income lines and ethnic backgrounds, so that clearly doesn't hold water.
I think there is an important difference between trade being forced open at gunpoint, vs. trade deals peacefully negotiated.

What's more interesting though is the inherent impedance mismatch between money and goods (which are highly mobile and flow everywhere) and people and laws (which are much less so).

The crux of the problem is Americans are negatively affected by things that China sells. But what is the remedy?

Should China's government take American citizens' interests directly into account when making its laws? Is that a reciprocal obligation? How far does it extend?

How is it different from the current scenario, where presumably the US State Department identifies the harm, brings it up with China, and negotiates a change to Chinese laws? Should there be a bureaucratic mechanism with quicker feedback? Would that lead to an inevitable loss of effective sovereignty for nations?
They're not getting something for nothing.

They're taking money from others.
I met the founder of Bitcoin Gold a few month before, I can not tell if there is any other reason he forked bitcoin than mere profit. He said he was going to fork ether as well. Given the speculative nature of the people involved in this network. could this be a inside job?
And you don’t get to decide that your laws apply to us just because your citizens are voluntarily sending us data. If you don’t want us to have the data, don’t send it. My server receiving a request from an EU citizen doesn’t give you jurisdiction over my business. I know you think it does, and I’m sure I’ll be downvoted, but you can pass whatever laws you want and if they don’t apply to me, I’ll continue to ignore them.
Fort Knox has an entire military base to secure it. That alone would use up a good chunk of your few hundred million dollar budget. I think you are vastly underestimating the cost in supporting our current financial system.
One of the things that is so fascinating about the gut's response is that it varies so dramatically from individual to individual. The current diagnostic and restorative tools we have are extremely blunt.
There are no issues with memory utilization of the MySQL databases other than once the working data set don’t fit in memory anymore it has to be fetched from disk on cache misses, which slows down fetches. Disk utilization of the Job databases increases over time because we don’t do any deletes to avoid extra write operations (a delete is basically a write). Once a database disk utilization reaches a defined threshold it is swapped for a spare, then drained, destroyed, and reinitialised to be reused later on.

I hope this gives some clarity, let me know if you have further questions.
I'd be interested in some of the math here - e.g. if you wanted to compare civ fitness - would you need to test every iteration of initial starting conditions? And then I wonder how that changes if the map is a hexagonal sphere...
Judging from the comments here, there is a real US ism which I find fascinating. It looks like one that is so obvious to the locals that it is err obvious.
Because shitcoin prices have no relation to any sort of reality. Some shitcoins are traded on exchanges even if no actual coin or code existed.
Ask HN: Why the infatuation with Mac Book for software engineering?
I use a dell and fedora for my hobby and work. I've noticed a lot of folks love macs but it doesn't seem like there is some productivity gain by paying double for a laptop. Why is this still a thing?
From the wikipedia page about the decision

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Reice_Buchwald#Knight_Fi...

>Buchwald declined, however, to issue an injunction against the President, and instead issued a declaration with the statement that "we must assume that the President and [Daniel] Scavino will remedy the blocking we have held to be unconstitutional."

So for now, Trump really doesn't have to change anything.
I thought OSRS was going away for a minute. Had me sweating.
So... you have multiple advertising routes, and each box has 5 public addresses, and the complaint is that the boxes can't magically decide how to handle all of the different routes?

When it comes to routing, you have two options, delegate or self-manage. In the case of self-management, yes, if you want complex route management, then you'll need software that handles complex route management.

Why not use Stateless DHCP, and configure a machine with short leases that can update the others as needed? It can handle the complex routing, and the clients just have to frequently ask if there are updates.
maybe Bitcoin Diamond will prove harder
http://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2016/04/liftport-lunar-teth...
I hate how awk gets so much praise for one liners when it's so good at building things like state machines too: https://two-wrongs.com/awk-state-machine-parser-pattern.html

I've got some similar ones for work that take data csv like data and output sql. A little bit of vim-foo on the csv (yy10000p) and I've got all the test data I need.
What? Not sure what point you’re trying to make here, but if it’s the point that the HN moderators are not accountable to me, it’s kind of a pointless one. Of course they’re not, but I’m free to leave. The EU is claiming jurisdiction over my business because of something their citizens have done, not anything I’ve done. If you don’t want me to have your citizens’ data, tell them to stop sending it to me.
They all get promised money. Look at those generations. Many stay on the government dole for generations.
It doesn't matter if that lookup is done in China or in the EU or elsewhere. To be compliant a company has to be able to list all third parties that get access to personal data it collects, and what they in turn do with it and further third parties that get access to it.

If a company uses a Chinese mega surveillance corp API, they still have to disclose it, and they can't just hide behind a "the computer says no" response if they use the results of that API call to make a business decision. The GDPR gives the data subject the right to know why and how the business decision was made, and gives the subject the right to appeal.
Nobody seriously wants equities on a blockchain. Securities need to be able to be split, merged, re-issued, forcibly transferred by courts, et cetera.
My understanding from a cursory read is that this happened a week ago, so perhaps the dump has already been priced in.