skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a middle ground, which I have done for hobby sites that sometimes get popular by mistake.

I set up dozens of caching reverse proxies, distributed on a few VPS providers. Each VM then uses strongswan to route to my primary origin servers. In some cases, there is no extra bandwidth cost, if the caching VM's happen to be in the same datacenter as the origin servers, as I can use the private interfaces for my strongswan traffic.

If I want to poorly mimic the geographic DNS behavior of CDN's, I can use split views in DNS to very roughly send people to a closer caching proxy. It isn't perfect, but then neither are CDN's.

To take this a step further, I can use multiple domains with TLS SNI from different registrars to provide some take-down resistance.

The advantage to this model is that one CDN or VPS provider does not have control over my content.

The drawback is that I have to manage these nodes myself. Nowadays that isn't too bad, because each VPS allows for making API calls to spin up VM's with pre-built images. Ansible also allows for adding new nodes dynamically. There are community playbooks for most VPS providers.
Supporting independent academic research like https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/03/google-faculty-research-aw...?
That's what I don't get. People with high rent are typically living in one of the most expensive areas of the country. They are still wealthy, they are just spending it on living there.
The best place to look for cool and innovative (and free!) IF games is the Interactive Fiction Competition [0].

Anything by Andrew Plotkin [1] (aka Zarf) is guaranteed to be interesting. Other indie authors of renown to look for are Emily Short and Adam Cadre. But also look for new authors! Mind you, modern IF focuses less in puzzles and more in narrative or exploring the boundaries of the medium.

One of my personal favorites is "Spider and Web" by Zarf, because I love its Cold War-esque setting. Mind you, it can be difficult! The best IF games also explore the console interface itself, such as in "Fail Safe".

An example of a particularly innovative game is "Rematch" [2]: it's a single move game (i.e. you win or fail in a single input, which can be quite complicated and shows off what modern parsers can do). It's sort of a "Groundhog Day" where you must prevent a disaster in a single move, and if you lose you replay it again, and again, and again, till you get it right.

Many of these games can be played in a browser, without installing anything.

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[0] https://ifcomp.org/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Plotkin

[2] http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=22oqimzgf8snv002
Every time I'm on a night flight, everyone just puts their blinds down and goes to sleep. There's no mass hysteria. If you're in the economy section and not in the minority by a window you can't see anyway even when it's daylight.

I don't think this is any kind of issue.
I was never that good at writing but just putting some effort and caring about what you write down makes a huge difference. After you write an email or a document, read through the whole thing and edit. Is it obvious what I want to happen? Do I sound like a dick?
The biggest improvement for me was to give more concrete answers. Like when someone asks you for a meeting, don't just say "yeah any time's fine", actually give a few dates and times that work for you. It also cuts down on the annoying back and forth of scheduling via email.
> AVX-512 itself isn't really an innovation. It's just making vector units bigger again.

No, AVX-512 is not only about doubling everything and calling it a day. I think the main innovation in AVX-512 is making it an easier vectorization target for compilers.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/the-intel-advanced...
It's a motto meant as internal guidance, as befits something a code of conduct. Not something meant for marketing purposes.

And yes, I'd like a restaurant to encourage its workers to take steps to ensure the food is safe.
Um, the article explicitly describes race. Just staying on topic.
Some Signal Disappearing Messages Are Not Disappearing
I never thought Uber nor Airbnb would be successful. Who invites strangers in their home or car. I was told as a kid to never get in a stranger's car ... now, as an adult, I am riding with strangers all the time.
I couldn‘t care less about cross Platform honestly, and yeah the most of the mobile market use Andoird, well, the android user (average) don‘t download apps, do not spend money in apps, so... is out of my target.
You'd first call insurance the moment you caught someone in the act?

So, let's get this straight: it would be an improvement for the scooters to blast: "Don't steal me, or else I will call the insurance company to be replaced".
So true. Our minds don't just influence how we see the world around us - they create the subjective realities which we all inhabit. If you keep telling yourself 'there is no way I can do X', it becomes reality.

Empirical evidence has indeed proven that there are many cases of depression which are rooted in chemical imbalances or physical abnormalities and can't be cured by shifting one's thinking patterns. But that represents a portion, not a rule or even a majority of cases.

It's frustrating and saddening to try and help someone when they deeply believe that they can't be helped.
I think that did happen. Banks and utility companies started to offer chat-like interfaces (without a human responder) for services and help. The number of end-users could probably have been graphed as a steeply rising curve for a while. It just didn't justify the breathless expectations of the companies trying to sell chat interfaces at the time.
That is a warning for people who live in the US, and are not moderately wealthy caucasians. Sadly yes it is bitterly true.
> Everybody you meet has a secret smile, and a secret pain.

Star Trek V!

Sybok: Let us explore it together. Each man hides a secret pain. It must be exposed and reckoned with. It must be dragged from the darkness and forced into the light. Share your pain. Share your pain with me, and gain strength from the sharing.
I would love to see some videos of the Robots in action.
$3500 if you want to live in a new building. I've been looking at 1 bedrooms and rent has come down in SF. Not hard to find one for less than $2500 now (in a good neighborhood).
I'm not a fan of crypto$, but it is out of the control of the State. I can imagine a campaign to delegitimize crypto$ by raw association with the underworld.
> the purchasing power that you had in your unit of currency isn't 'lost', it is actually transferred to the institutions creating the money.

I wish I could upvote this more. If only the majority of people understood this basic fact.
Of a foreign country?? Try again...
Depends how you look at it, Siri, Cortana, Alexa,.. all are chatbots and they all are doing pretty well.
What about a camera pointed straight ahead (maybe slightly downward) on each wingtip, and VR (binocular) headsets?
> like all people in the civilized Web

Friend, I use DDG and Firefox exclusively and still feel like this is not a useful thing to say
Correlation does imply causation. It just doesn't prove it.
NTSB preliminary report describes events of Tesla Model X crash
Well... you can be in the stock market for the next two years. During those two years (under normal circumstances), interest rates should be rising. Two years from now, when the stock market is at its peak, sell stocks and buy long duration bonds. Hold those while the stock market tanks and interest rates go down. (Bonds increase in price as the interest rate declines; the longer term the bond, the bigger the price change.)

All that's assuming that Bernanke is right both in direction and in timing. It also assumes that interest rates will do the usual thing this cycle which, given the strange stuff that the government is doing to intervene, may not be a good assumption.

Note well: I am not a financial advisor, and this is not investment advice.
The title is misleading. It should be “How to Get Your First Users”.
But "full employment" is widely considered to be a sub 5.0% unemployment rate.

> at least if we take "full employment" to represent a situation where lack of available labor represents a threat to the economy, vis-a-vis other policy issues.

I believe that there are officially fewer unemployed people than there are open jobs in the US [1]. Not sure if that's the kind of "threat" you're looking for, but it qualifies, as a risk at least.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/06/news/economy/us-job-openings...
Personally I'd avoid them at all costs due to the loss of control. You can't just decide "I'm done" or "I don't like it here", you getting released is at the discretion of people that you don't even know.
It's because package management is a bad paradigm for application management.

MacOS descended from NeXT, which had Application Bundles, but even before that MacOS Classic did the sensible thing and just used folders. You want to install an application, you just put the folder somewhere on your disk. No library conflicts, no web of dependencies to break, and it integrates easily with the file management metaphor personal computers have had since forever. Want two copies of the same application, but different versions? No problem. Want to move the application to another disk? No problem. Uninstallation is one delete away. Want to put it on a floppy and take it to a friend's computer and run it? You get the idea.

Turns out you don't need a package manager unless you intend to over-engineer application management to the insane level that the open source community has.
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/boeings-washington-tax-break-...

Tax breaks for companies are a subsidy. (Aside from the military cross-subsidisation.)
I wonder how the examiners will treat all of the papers cited by the DeepMind papers that underly the applications. Historically, US examiners have had a tendency to discount non-patented prior art.
Show HN: Format Indian money and convert to words
Just released initial versions of a package to convert Indian money to correct comma formatting and words. Lakhs and crores are unintuitive and non-standard, this makes them easy to work with.

https://github.com/sudhirj/paisa.js
https://github.com/sudhirj/paisa.rb
I do the same! An TL;DR at the beginning of the thread would be super useful though. Especially when it's a WSJ article behind a paywall.
It would be a good argument if this "innovation" actually had any value for the users, but it does not. I'll take a static webpage any day over some shit full of Javascript.
I don't understand why you bring in the military budget.

I could do the same with welfare, as it greatly outnumbers military spending even though its no where in our constitution or bill of rights to offer such.

Remove your personal issue and think about this rationally please.
The jobless rates are actually very inaccurate. This article was written May 24 by Larry Summers and another Harvard Economist:

A Rescue Plan for a Jobs Crisis in the Heartland

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/opinion/heartland-wage-su...

"More alarming, America faces a historic crisis of male joblessness in what we call the Eastern Heartland, a band of states that runs from Louisiana north through to Ohio and Michigan."

A reason for jobs shortages (e.g., truckers) is because firms are not offering high enough wages.
We had the same problem even in person to be fair: one of the guy didn't speak english properly, we had a lot of troubles understanding him. And he also talked a lot, which made things worse (listen to a lot of things you don't understand).
In the end, communication must be great, no matter what.
A review of Yasha Levine’s “Surveillance Valley”
Premium economy is still pretty dense, though a lot better than coach. The reason I flew BA for my last PDX-HYD visit was because BA has prem econ and Emirates doesn't. Otherwise I think I'd stick with Emirates. Nice to see them adding the option.
Viagra was originally developed as a treatment for baldness, but they pivoted when the test subject reported getting erections.
To be clear, I haven't downvoted aphextron, but I disagree with them. Here is my objection:

> The basic necessities of life have risen to perfectly match your income

No, the basic quality of life has risen to perfectly match your income. Houses are more expensive compared to decades ago, but they have nice things like indoor plumbing, electricity, and fire retardant walls; all of which would have been a luxury if you go back long enough. Medical costs have ballooned, but so has the quality of care, life expectancy, and medical technology; so many incurable diseases of generations ago are now easily cured, e.g. Hepatitis C.

There is an argument to be made that we should be able to afford all these things for less, that the price has risen above the rate of its utility, that we have reached the point of diminishing returns for basic necessities, and I agree with that to some extent.

There is also another argument (a libertarian one) that says government has illegalized poverty by raising the floor on the quality of goods and services. For example, if you want to build a 1920-style home (with asbestos-laced walls, without plumbing and electricity, without smoke or CO detectors, etc.) at 1920-level prices, you cannot legally do that due to regulations. The minimum quality set by government regulations have made everything more expensive and one should not be forced to abide by these quality rules if they want to break them knowingly and of free will. There was an story about a (Mexican?) car which was priced at 5000$ new. But it would not pass safety regulations in the US. In that country, you would have a choice to buy a safe car and pay the higher price for it, buy an unsafe car and pay a much lower price, or don't buy a car. In the US, you lose one of these choices and you are more severely affected if you are poor. I see the point in this argument, but I don't agree with it. I like raising minimum standards to match the level the society can afford as it gets more prosperous.

But in either case, let's not pretend we are paying more for getting the same or lower utility. We are living longer and better lives compared to generations past. If we are going to debate about prices across generations, we should also take quality and utility into account. Otherwise the comparison would be meaningless.
The 5th get X1 Carbon works fine though!
> leaving me with no means of working out how they did what they dun

I guess it doubles as a DRM mechanism preventing competitors from easily copying it. ;)
This is a huge problem with phone interfaces in general. There's a big push to make them "clean" by removing obvious widgets and basically hoping the user guesses correctly that they need a horizontal half screen swipe to bring up the search bar or tap and hold on an item to bring up options. You're basically just jabbing at the thing until it does what you want. Eventually people figure out various developer's favorite tricks and try them first and it isn't quite so bad, but for new users smartphone interfaces can be quite daunting.

Seriously, watch someone on a new iPhone and it's just painful.

Oh, I created this contact for fun, now how do I delete it. Tap it? Nope. Tap and hold? Nope. Double tap? Nope. Is there a menu somewhere? Nope. Maybe I slide it over? Nope, that brings me back to the previous page. Maybe I pinch? Nope. Guess I'll pull up the help, oh there isn't any. Off to Google then. Oh, I have to slide it over from the middle, not from the edge.
Well thats a clickbait title... its nowhere near 10 lines
Common sense theme here: focus on a small group of people and delight them. If they're having the same problem, chances are others are as well. Be authentic, work smart, and deliver value based on what people are telling you.
Users loved AOL and Compuserve too. Doesn't mean it was good for the web as a whole, and ultimately users were better served having an open web.
Always having to wear a hat is worse than just being able to have hair (if that's going to be an option). Hats are limiting fashion-wise and not appropriate or possible in many situations. The beach is particularly problematic, for instance.
on this situation right now: spend time on toilet, coffee or HN, try to keep my head down until clocking out.
ZMQ is not a 'neutral carrier' and can't interoperate with things not implementing the protocol. It's great for the intended use case, but it's not a general purpose replacement for the Berkely Sockets API.
Non pay walled version: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21458094
Your tagline on dating sites should be "I want to dip my bald head in oil and rub it all over your body"

Seinfeld fans will recognize the quote.
Any chance to reduce fuel consumption is a win.
I understand that those exist, and fill the same role. My point was with these scooters, and rent a bikes, they get dumped on a city seemingly over night and the volume is vastly different than car2go.
Literally use anything you want. The secret is that it doesn't matter that much. Some options:

* node.js

* python with django/flask

* perl

* php (please don't)

* C# with asp.net

* Java

* lisp

* d with vibe.d

* Rust

* C with bchs[1] (please don't)

* ruby with rails

* Write your own framework in one of the tiny languages that doesn't have one; it'll become the de facto standard for that language, and all of the users of that language will thank you for increasing its potential market share.

Point is, it really doesn't matter. What matters is you pick something, anything, look up a tutorial, and then start making your webapp. Don't like it? Pick another one! Don't like that one? Do it again! Language/framework doesn't matter that much, as long as you know it well.

1: https://learnbchs.org/
Crypto seems to be doing a fine job of that on it's own, by ACTUAL association with the underworld/fruadsters/exit scammers.
Not as much as the top of your head, though. And regardless, even if your face burns, at least your head won't. The more sunburn you get across a larger percentage of your body, the worse it is. Getting less sunburn is always better than getting more sunburn.
> some people would like to trade their right to run a hotel out of their house in exchange for a legally enforced expectation that their neighbors won't either.

This! And: most of us thought we already had laws to that effect.

Also, even for the best-behaved guests I would not want to have regular AirBNB-ing in my building. There are young children and old people living here, and they deserve some presumption of safety, not just quiet.

(I do stay in AirBNBs myself sometimes, and I'm a very low-impact guest, but I recognize my opinion is a bit contradictory because of that.)
Act in love, no matter how you feel.

That takes emotional energy and strength. You have to find that somewhere other than out of that relationship.
Depression fucks with your interpretation of reality, the distortion seems impossible to 1) not be true, 2) restored.

It's indeed possible to get near normal, but it's very hard to convey to someone in such pains.

Rationality also goes out of the window when emotion storms strike. Even though I knew that the previous day I was alright, if the next I go down, it's not always enough to help me go through the bad times.

ps: also give pills a chance, they might not work, but it might lessen your load tremendously and avoid further damage.
TBH, I would say the ratio of code published to papers published for DeepMind is pretty small. They have generated a lot of non reproducible results.
Even when there is causation, you still don't which is the cause and effect, or if both are effects of hidden common cause.
Where's the outcry over cars littering the city?
Yes, and I've heard that it can be surprisingly difficult to anonymize yourself properly.
It compiles and runs fine with g++, but when I try Microsoft's cl.exe version 19.00 I get messages such as

xneural.cpp(22): error C2398: Element '1': conversion from 'double' to 'float' requires a narrowing conversion

referring to the code

vector<float> X {
5.1, 3.5, 1.4, 0.2,
4.9, 3.0, 1.4, 0.2,
6.2, 3.4, 5.4, 2.3,
5.9, 3.0, 5.1, 1.8
};

If I replace <float> with <double> the code compiles and runs with cl.exe.
Statistics show that such a danger is very tiny compared to the benefit of seeking the aid of law enforcement for every race, even if you don't filter out cases where the officer was purposefully antagonized. Social media and 24/7 news is incentivized to publicize negative outliers. Similar to fear around radical terrorism - there is a pattern, but statistically it's not an issue worth altering your lifestyle around.

The discussion is largely rooted in anecdata and can be interpreted multiple ways due to the relatively low number of lethal events:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/why-a...
Note that a lot of the time, the point of those interfaces isn't to direct your call, so much as it is to collect information ahead-of-time, and transcribe it with voice-recognition, so that when you do begin speaking to a representative, they already have your question in front of them on the screen.
And your brain is wholly enclosed in a sphere anyway, which itself is part in your body, so you kind of spend your whole life encased in a tube with no way out! Thus, rationally proving that claustrophobia is a myth and anyone claiming to suffer from it is no more credible than a flat-earther!

yes this is sarcasm
Unfortunately it seems that many people cannot distinguish between the programming model of sockets and the protocols that programming model exposes.

From what I can tell, Network.framework is a different API still talking TCP, UDP and so forth underneath.
Amortized over the full usership, each scooter-user is using far less than one-scooters-worth-of-sidewalk.
You are part of the problem - you're making it seem like some evil doctors tie you down. The reality is if you bring yourself to a hospital you just request to leave and . Doctors have the ability to petition the courts to keep you there. It goes to a US Court, not some evil medical doctor's back office.

http://www.disabilityrightsohio.org/when-person-wants-releas...

Even if you're forced to go a mental facility by family/friends/other, it must be legally addressed within 72 hours, and a physician must see you within 48.

http://www.lcnewschronicle.com/opinion/columns/4390185-judge...
The other advantage of that is that leaving a tiny bit of stubble rather than shaving razor-smooth will help prevent ingrown hairs.
This Chomsky vote comes to mind: “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....” .
Everything I’ve heard from academics is that the terms that come with funding from Microsoft are much better and more flexible for the academic than the terms that come with funding from Google, and there is certainly a great deal more funding available to academics from Microsoft than Google.

That said, given that my point was about the absurdity in difference in responses to Microsoft’s actions and Google’s actions, I’m particularly amused(?) that here we are, in a page about Google applying for patents that would cover a tremendous amount of essential CS research, and the primary thrust of your points here seems to be “Dude! Google’s Awesome! They’re so supportive of research!” which is pretty much exactly the response I was trying to highlight. Don’t be evil was a wonderful way to start their branding. It doesn’t matter that’s not the company they are anymore, it’s still how people think of them.
IANAJS developer but why is that yarn.lock file so long?
Yeah. It's now relegated to the history books.