skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been messing about with a toy search engine for a long time, and starting to tie it into my Pinboard bookmarks (6,000 and counting!), and the most irritating part of the whole thing for a while has been extracting useful text from modern websites.

I'd considered using a headless browser setup but I never got 'round to it.

If you structured this as a paid service where I could make some number of requests for some amount of money and get back basically what you've got now in monochrome mode, I'd probably sign up pretty quick.

This is sort of relevant to some other recent HN discussions around the trouble with large-scale crawling and the trouble with so much of it being restricted to Google now, so I don't think I'm the only one.
Is your LastPass data really safe in the encrypted online vault?
On the note of nitro craft beers, more often than not I find that nitro tap beers are a gimmick and that the beer would be better served be being conventionally carbonated.

It's the same story with cask ales. Some styles really don't work well on a handpull.
Re: financial support, have you seen Nadia Eghbal's Lemonade Stand for a whole set of ideas:

A handy guide to financial support for open source.

https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand
Two assumptions about "live well": we want to be on track for homeownership, and we'll go for median rent rather than scraping the bottom of the market.

$6000 income

($731) 401k contribution of 15% discounted by 50% total marginal tax rate

($2083) savings towards a goal of $150,000 in six years for a down-payment

($3200) rent on a median 1-bedroom apartment

------

-$14

How'd I do?
I just want to point out that you are free to use your own, more complete or faster instruction emulator with WHP. We exposed an API for the one we use in Hyper-V to make WHP easier to use out of the box, but it has no special advantages or hooks into our hypervisor.

I’m curious what you mean about no guest debugging support. Also curious about the other shortcomings so that we can prioritize appropriately. We have only just shipped our first version.

On API divergence, it’s an interesting point. MacOS, Windows, HAXM, and KVM all have slightly different philosophies about what a hypervisor should do. Maybe over time we can work toward more convergence.
My current point of concern is that I can go out and sit all evening without a mosquito bite. That was unheard of even 30 years ago when I was a kid. You'd be lucky if you didn't have one for every minute you spent outside. I think the insects are dying, and it's frightening.

Second item would be watching the bison migrate on the plains. Literally horizon to horizon, a hundred thousand individuals or more in a group. More than ten bison for every person alive on the continent. Same with the passenger pigeons - the sky would go dark from dawn to dusk with the movement of 6 billion birds.
Does it really? Firefox when run in headless mode does not require X.
Yeah, that's my point. It seems rather improbable.
Remember kids, if you do drugs then you'll end up like Matt Foley: eating a steady diet of government cheese while you're livin' in a van down by the river.
I was at JTV during this time. We were basically churning. There was certainly a significant cohort of regular viewers, but much of our traffic owed to spikes of viewers who would come for specific content, then bounce. They didn't care about us, so long as we had the thing they wanted to see.

We spent a lot of time debating whether or not this was just the nature of "live" content (e.g. live television derives most of its value from sports and real-time events, and they defend these verticals viciously). I have no special information on Twitch, but from the outside, it is a qualitatively different audience. There's a level of commitment that just wasn't there for JTV.

The lesson is burned into my mind, because there are a lot of ways for a startup to generate deceptive "traction", and if you're not careful you can fool even yourself. You have to be brutally honest about how committed your users are, and what their actual value is. It's an easy way to become a zombie startup -- trundling along, nursing a "big" audience of users who require a lot of care and attention, but don't really care about your product in return. These kinds of audiences are worse than worthless, because they waste your time.
From the linked table, 2018 marginal tax rates are for single:

24%	$82,501 to $157,500

32%	$157,501 to $200,000

35%	$200,001 to $500,000

I.e. 8% to 13%, not 5%.
What made you go back into academia? Based on this snapshot of your life, it felt like academia at its best gave you an outlet to explore the things you were really interested in, but at its worst, had a ton of obvious drawbacks. Even in this book, it seems a lot of the best experiences stemmed from or started outside of the program (MSR) and the Ph.D, while providing support and enabling these things to happen in the first place, was no longer an active contributor in.

I know you had mentioned you could write a whole book on this, so I'm sure there's a lot to the story.
I was wondering about this. If everything goes through an already installed browser, then what is the advantage that browsh has over a minimalistic fork of Firefox with e.g., lower bandwith features?
> was the way Slashdot referenced guest comments

It still is.
> Going into downtown office buildings (no staff in the lobby), up and into an office, and wandering around looking for someone to ask where to find the person you're looking for (instead of presenting government-issued papers to be photographed by a security guard in the lobby in order to attend a meetup).

I truly cannot tell which is supposed to describe the past, and which the present. Both seem common today in Seattle, depending on the building.
Quite often it would not be usecases, but externalities. That is, trading the quality and efficiency of your product for some benefits in selling or developing.

Software, for better or worse, is a social enterprise, so you can get away with dumping a lot on your users before they pack up and look for alternatives.
Offscreen Magazine – The Human Side of Technology
Word choice and phrasing can vary to give a similar sense of pacing when reading.
Yeah, that's going to skip under load and won't stay aligned.

Might be usable as an electric assist drivetrain and it was sealed up.
Microsoft announces Surface Go
It does help that when you are one of the first to latch on to a trending research area, there is relatively little in the way of competition for attention, funding and publishing priority. Also, in such scenarios domain specific standards and expectations have yet to be set and thus are not something that your research will be held to, at least not until the field begins to mature. In fact your research may form the basis for some of those conventions. This does not necessarily mean that the research was particularly noteworthy, thorough, or inherently outstanding.
Have you priced houses in the Bay Area suburbs? $2 million is practically the price of admission for a 3 bedroom.
I'm guessing it would be one of the professional sports leagues.
International Money
If the term Credential Stuffing is new to anyone, we’ve done a deep dive into what it is and the tools that are used here: https://breachinsider.com/blog/2017/credential-stuffing-how-...

We saw this pretty regularly at my old job, with attacks almost daily. They range from ‘script kiddie’ who just use the default tool settings and do it all from one IP making it easy to spot, to persistent attackers who would play cat and mouse with our live defences. They’d switch IPs using huge proxy lists found online every few minutes, as well as learn our alerting thresholds and attempt to fly just under the radar. For some reason though, they always seems to user UserAgents that were ancient, or weren’t real, allowing us to identify attack traffic compared to our normal user activity.
Why should I believe that the statistic does include foxconn workers? I'm asking this sincerely.
Many employment agreements have 'non-solicitation' clauses that you might breach by recruiting from your employer. You should definitely ask a lawyer.
The problem is scale. Indians use 10kg of plastic per person per year, so 13M tons per year. If India were to pave 10 thousand km of roads per year with this tar/plastic combinations (completely unrealistic), it would use up only 10 thousand tons of plastic, or a meager 0.8% of all plastic consumed in India.
I think this is the other point that's so often missed/ignored in the "big data" discussion: there's a middle ground between everything-fits-in-memory and must-be-distributed.

The Adam Drake article alludes to it only in the last sentence by mentioning traditional relational databases as an alternative.

For workloads that are relatively I/O-heavy and CPU-light, it's very hard to beat local SSDs (or even HDDs in enough quantity) attached to a single [1] node, if the competition is distributed storage attached by ethernet. It only takes a couple 600MB/s SSDs to saturate a 10GE. A server with 48 lanes of PCIe 3 slots could take the I/O of 78 of them.

100Gb/s networks are getting close. For upwards of $1k per server (NIC and switch port) one can bring that ratio closer to 4:1 from 39:1. I'd expect this is the attractive route for anyone with CPU needs that can't be met by a 4-socket server.

[1] Yes, there can be more than one node with copies for redundancy, as has been complained about elsewhere in the sub-thread, or even scalability
Can you run torque through two 90° angle changes for less than 3% losses?
Many of these internships are research-oriented, so they're not really the same as normal undergrad/software development internships.
Sure, you don't need it to be running but you need x, gtk, and glib installed.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1372998
Riff is Rock Band for VR without the plastic guitars and drums
Seeing as images are so pixelated as to be near-indistiguishable, I think it would be nice for browsh to have a status line where it shows accessibility metadata (e.g. alt="" attributes) of whatever element is currently in focus.

It might also be nice to have a mode where images are just replaced by filled boxes that are more visually distinguished from the surrounding content.
Ooh, now make the same argument for Valero and all the externalities that come with the petrol market!
Does IIIm mean 111m or 3m (roman number)?
The parent company of MoviePass Helios and Matheson around October of last year was trading at highs of $30. Myself and a friend were exuberant saying it was a great short. Should have taken the short position... $HMNY is now trading at 18 cents a share. See the chart https://yhoo.it/2N30F0B
For this to actually give a bandwidth advantage I think the browser would have to be running on a server somewhere... so the browser has become the server.
Do what? Order things with paper money or are you talking about some VISA/MC-backed debit/credit card? Where do you sign up for a USD-based bank account in Venezuela? How do you pass KYC checks? You got a family member or friend who lives in the States you can trust to escrow that for you?

Shipping Fedex/DHL in Venezuela isn't nearly as reliable as shipping in the United States. Nor is it cheap.

Energy and gas are super cheap in Venezuela (38 cents a gallon). I'm not sure where you're going with your argument there.

You can hold crypto as a hedge against the Bolivares, convert to fiat as needed, just like any other fungible asset.
I find the gasworld article hard to read in comparison to the atlantic one. Three paragraphs in, and it still doesn't say anything, it just jumps from one subject to another without touching the main issue.
> But more to the point, blockchains are useful now

For about 1/20 of the applications they are suggested for, best I can tell.
Sure. If you can set aside lanes for busses to do ~120+ MPH from Davis to SF, then by all means, go for it.
If the housing market is so overpriced you should short it - CME has futures.

But my main point is that it seems unfair (for lack of a better word) to force someone to have to sell their home because it’s paper value has increased.
The worst voice is built into chrome for desktop. Other Mac browsers use the system voice, which is [by default] reasonable.
The Problem Is What They Know
Full Stack GoLang Tutorial with PostgreSQL
The problem is the limited api for windows universal apps. This is a nice price point but I doubt its going to be as capable as the ipad 2018 or chromebooks on low end hardware because windows desktop apps struggle with less than a core i5 behind them.
Location: Karachi, Pakistan.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Depends

Technologies: Python and PHP Mostly.

- Python for Data/Web Scraping, Automation, Data Analysis. and Web apps.
- PHP Laravel for web apps.

Résumé/CV: http://adnansiddiqi.me/projects/

Email: kadnan(at)gmail(dot)com

I am not actively looking right now but would not mind hearing interesting and challenging projects/ideas.

I am always in learning mode. In the past few weeks, I learned and share about technologies on my blog. For instance:

- Getting started with Kafka in Python (https://goo.gl/nYUbdd)

- Elasticsearch and Python (https://goo.gl/PtfFHE)

- Create your own custom crypto token and use in existing business use cases - (https://goo.gl/rMVUWm)
What reporting sexual harassment taught me
MBS is very smart and he has shown an appreciation for precedant in his nudging forward of social reform. I guarantee that he plans to cement his name in history by implementing another very large reform -- the transition of his countries economy from soley oil to no oil at all (in time). His goal is to create a kind of scandanavia of the middle East (economically, not culturally). I know this because I know that he knows that oil is as good as dead -- the transition to renewable energy is so far underway as to be undeniable. The interests of all the biggest economies except Russia align firmly with this transition. There is simply no future in oil and he knows it. The only move that would be characteristic of MBS and the country as a whole would be to rise to the challenge of this transition while maintaining the prosperity and prestige that they currently enjoy. And all of the above leaves little doubt about what they will try to do.

I should clarify. He will try to make SA a source of innovation, investment and so on like the United States, Germany, Sweden, Norway, estonia, and other such countries -- robust, diverse economies that are driven primarily by the high levels of education and training observed by their populations.
I fully understand that which is exactly why i wrote "and again, i'm talking about myself here, not about everyone". That doesn't mean i like it though.
XNOR Neural Engine: Hardware Accelerator IP for 21.6 FJ/op Binary NN Inference
Which of the ARM downloads work on android?
> Early employees probably need this too. If you really want smart talent (and you should, you really need it), you should stop trying to screw them.

More so than founders, since those employees, in general, have no say in what happens to the common stock, such as dilution into worthlessness.

It doesn't have to be (and probably shouldn't be) all-or-nothing, since the point would be to align incentives in both the ideal/IPO situation and the less than ideal M&A situation.
They mean that what Apple pays to Foxconn reduces Apple's profit, but does not reduce Apple's revenue. Profit accounts for the cost of subcontracting.
> I'm not really talking about how large of a selection either platform has, either. I don't think they should even directly compete.

I don't think you can avoid the quantity argument, especially if you're going to hold up The Wire and The Sopranos, two shows that wrapped years before Netflix even got into the content game. Yes Netflix doesn't have any original content I've seen as good as The Wire or The Sopranos but they pair their many A- and B+ shows with the best of AMC (Breaking Bad, Mad Men) and British TV (Black Mirror, Peaky Blinders, UK Office), along with most of FX and Showtime's catalog and a large number of current and classic standouts (Twin Peaks, Fawlty Towers, Arrested Development, Cheers, etc.). If you want to watch high quality TV, there's a good argument that Netflix is absolutely where it's at. And if you're also interested in any kind of genre/non-highbrow TV, Netflix absolutely swamps HBO in pretty much every category.
> E.g. lobsters were once so plentiful that native americans used them as fertilizer[0]

I call total BS. Taking edible food, carting it and then plowing it into fields for edible food in 6 months time. Sounds like fantasy.

Fish Fertilizer: A Native North American Practice?

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/188/4183/26
DOI: 10.1126/science.188.4183.26
I've read the first few chapters and really liked it.

I'm going to wait till you finish the publication and purchase a hard copy.
I enjoy preserving books I enjoy in a physical medium and it'll sit nicely next to your game programming gems on my shelf.
My problem is that with the keyboard and the pen you end up with a laptop that is far from the advertisement price. You go smoothly from 399$ to 599$. The keyboard is a minimum...
There's probably a dozen of these that could get rebuilt in Haxe and OpenFL without much effort.
Damn. Even Youtube works. Never thought I'd be watching movies over SSH.
Google Play Store: Gemini Calendar Application Recreates 90s Psion Calendar
Both Augur [0] and MakerDAO [1] have centralized points of failure that would allow the owners of the contracts that define the tokens to halt transfers, withdraw funds, or in the case of MakerDAO, mint tokens out of thin air.

[0] https://etherscan.io/address/0x9f8f72aa9304c8b593d555f12ef65... (Line 453)
[1] https://github.com/AugurProject/augur-core/search?q=onlyInBa...
Password algorithms, aka deterministic password managers, are usually pretty strong, specifically as strong as the master password(s) you use. Meaning that it’s usually easier to guess the mp than to reverse the algorithm.

Personally, I have different mp for different “security domains” (google/fb, banks, other socials, ...), and I’m using just a sha256 plus encoding — a trade off between requiring a stronger mp, and being able to easily remember everything, including the algorithm.

I wrote more about it here: https://hackernoon.com/mempa-a-modern-deterministic-password...
Following your notation, consider our new price will be $x+y', where y' is the mining price difference.

You are right my claim that y'<y is slightly weak (was based on "gap is not negligible" assumption, see below).

"gap is not negligible" - means if y' gets near to y, then y will get even higher and there will be always a market gap, which I think you disagree with.

Based on your suggestion, on extreme scenario I would soften my claim to y'=<y, without us making profit. :)
Altria Group is categorized as "consumer staples."

If you've ever seen the Altria headquarters in Richmond... well, it's unusually intimidating for a consumer staples company -- https://www.google.com/maps/@37.6002824,-77.5147176,3a,75y,3...

Altria is the tobacco industry.
While I'm not as familiar with these issues, GP did at least attempt to cite sources. Can you cite sources which prove or suggest the contrary?

In particular, I'm interesting in this claim:

> "Cultures that had no issue breastfeeding started treating it as brutish"
How did you use a debugger on Arduino? I've been using Serial.print("WTF") more than I'd admit.
Web 3.0 and usher of the modern internet
Thanks for that pointer. I had no idea that what I was doing was in any way noteworthy. It just seemed kinda obvious.
To clarify, I'm arguing that the metric is: (Net Earnings of Apple) / (Number of Apple Employees). What I'm saying is that the net earnings of Apple by definition subtracts out the money paid to Foxconn to build Apple's products.

I'm not arguing that the number includes the Foxconn employees in the denominator, and it shouldn't, because the numerator (Apple's net earnings) doesn't include money paid to Foxconn (as that's a cost of goods sold for Apple).
Just temporary. Nature did not need to invent cloud computing to perform massive computation. The speed and data involved in computation going on in a cell or an ants brain show us how far we can still go on desktop.
The breakthroughs will come.

In the meantime (unless you are dealing with video) most text and image datasets out there that avg Joe needs can easily be stored/processed entirely locally thanks to cheap terabyte drives/multicore chips these days. People just haven't realized there isn't that much useable textual data OR that local computing doesn't require all the overhead of handling millions of requests a second. This is Google problem not an avg Joe problem that is being solved with cloud compute.
Is there any limitation for remote applicants, e.g. timezone?
I worked at a Boy Scout summer camp, Camp Thunderbird, summers of 1977 - 1979. The camp got government cheese, and peanuts, and chipped beef.

The cheese was actually pretty good, the peanuts were of uniform, decent quality, and the chipped beef could be made into tuna salad, as long as you didn't tell the people you were cooking for that it wasn't really tuna. They actually complimented me for getting rid of the fishy flavor.
What do you distrust?

Do you believe he's lying about the existence of certain breaches? Returning false results for whether a password is compromised? Be specific: what untrustworthy things do you suspect him of?
Select an effective CSR consulting firm from a list of CSR Consultants in India?
That's a good point. It's really hard to give a clear cutoff because there is quite a bit that you can potentially do on a single machine now. But there are disadvantages to doing your processing on a single really big machine even when you can find a way to handle it. If you have inconsistent workloads, a single machine may be harder to schedule to be close to fully allocated, and if it goes down, then your workflow is dead, possibly until you take some sort of manual action, whereas a cluster of machines is already built to be resilient to individual node failures. It all depends on the use case, which makes it really tough to give hard and fast rules.
You are comparing one company Google against all the energy companies. You should say it differently. What if Google disappeared vs Exxon disappeared.
To be fair, mosquitoes are the target of a fairly narrow, focused attack.

That said, bees seem to be dwindling, so you have a point.
So, honest question: Why are invasive species like the gigantic asian carp so reviled, when they seem to be quite successful animals, thriving in an otherwise unforgiving environment?

I get that invasive species can stress their environment until it collapses and ruins even their own capacity to thrive or even survive, but sometimes I get the sense that asian carp are denegrated because they annoy humans by jumping out and slamming into people on boats. Are asian carp really a threat to their surroundings, or simply inconvenient from a human perspective?
It would be far more useful to see the upper percentiles of latency than an average, and to see the tests run over a sustained period of time.

As usual, the interesting information comes not during regular operation, but during incidents, where it is not uncommon for the latency to spike _massively_.
extinct and unGoogleable Christmas Tree Birds

Wait a second, what are "Christmas Tree Birds"?
Good advice. The steps were kind of tedious to read. Maybe just trim it to steps 6-11, which still tests HTML/CSS knowledge.

- make a 10x10 grid of circles, center it in the page horizontally and vertically

- alternate the colors of the circle

- have them switch direction

- animate, etc.
What sort of monthly spend?
They are an ecological destroyer and they don’t taste good
Amazon Antitrust Critic Joins FTC as Agency Sets Sights on Tech
So? That's a result of city planning that could have happened in the US as well.