skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* The whole setup including all APs and switches draws about 220 watts idle. Power is pretty cheap in Seattle. Washington State (as of April 2018) has the cheapest electricity in the United States, at $0.0974/kWh.

https://www.electricitylocal.com/states/washington/quincy/

The average residential electricity rate in Quincy is 4.85¢/kWh.[1]

4.85 << 9.74
I'm not sure what your point was in posting this. A few points:

First off, Reddit isn't news media, it's social media

Second, "the top ten" is a collection of links from other sites that rise or fall based on their popularity with the readers, not writers.

Third, almost all of these headlines (which, bu subreddit rules, must match the article headline), state a fact.
I get dozens of them a day.

I've never bought anything from one, but I assume that if they didn't still work, I'd stop getting them.
Not sure if I communicated what I meant. I think if I was going to set up something using a headless CMS, I would integrate it with a project like React Static. When a user publishes something in the CMS, it would trigger a build of the generator that would result in putting some files out in S3 or something equivalent.

That way if you see a traffic spike or a DDoS attack, it's directed only towards static files on S3 and you can let Amazon take care of it. I don't want to be too critical of how people have things set up because I'm sure they have their reasons, but that said I don't think a page request on your site should map directly to an API request to the CMS.
I have a strong hunch that urban sprawl, free parking loving Americans would never go for this.
"This is part of being an intellectual: I can insult your point all day. That's perfectly fine. Taking that personally -- not good form."

Not at all.
You can criticize any point all day and if someone takes that personal it is indeed not a good form. But "insulting" a point gives the impression (at least to me, and apparently to others) of insulting the person behind it, as you cannot insult a point, only a person. Quite the opposite of "beeing an intellectual".
That's literally what the author of the article describes.

From a practical point of view I think it's silly to do such a thing for a residential situation, but I can appreciate using it as a learning experience for building systems like this.
Cool set up, but why?
(gif -https://media.giphy.com/media/1M9fmo1WAFVK0/giphy.gif :)
then you're not building your redundant systems properly.

Web, Power, Internet, Network, Military systems at scale use reliable redundancy and work w/ very little downtime.
"Fairly nice" compared to what?

PHP is easy to get started with, but it's amazingly baroque in terms of language design. It's the ultimate in "outsider art" becoming mainstream.
You've nailed the political calculus of it. Setting the stage for an ecosystem is the work of decades, and little of it pays off politically until things are successful. Bringing in BigCo pays off in an electoral cycle or two.
> There are plenty of ways to deploy it that generate a return for society as a whole

And this is the absolute crux of the problem! The continental divide between the right to own your own property vs the use of government force to redistribute wealth.

Seems like this one central problem/divide is the root of 90% of political and economic problems and the reason for our two-party system.

I'm not taking a side. It seems like it's a natural consequence of self-preservation and instinct for those with fortunes to not give them away. And it's the nature of government to be inefficient and ever-growing. This seems like the absolute core of the problem with capitalism.
The system is to blame. It ulimately is the public's responsibility. The voters can't change the system without leaders within their ranks forming special interest groups that help elect politicians who will push forward this cause above all other causes.

It's no wonder that the entire concept of a modern democracy is a shame. You never really had control as a voter.

I like to think of it as going out to eat. In a modern democracy you get a choice of ketchup or mustard. Some may choose not to pick (not vote) or some may be able to even get a third choice like hot pepper added at one location.

During pre-election everyone is shouting back why ketchup is better than mustard. News anchors going on and on about how important you making a choice because your life will be better or worse with or without mustard. Money that could be better spent goes into advertising that blankets the air putting down ketchup by carefully leaking a photoshopped ketchup bottle at a murder scene.

No one asks why are we eating a hotdog in the first place.
Protonmail is great. It has all features necessary but at the same time it's not creepy at all - like Gmail is.

Apart from that, in fact I have this long-term project to self-host all my stuff. So far I managed to do this only for my calendar (using Apple's CalDav server). E-Mail is my next goal but even if I have it running, I'll start transitioning slowly. After all I think it's not that much maintanance effort once it's setup as long as it's managed through Ansible or Docker.
I’ve seen overengineered and undermaintained HA systems result in much lower uptimes than a simple system with multiple SPOFs. I’ve seen well built and maintained HA systems fail under “rare” edge cases.

I’ve also seen well built and maintained HA systems work exactly as desired.

As a general rule, the cost of building and operating a reliable HA solution is not 2x, but at least 10x. If the system being protected is not worth that, you’ll very likely find the MTTR acronym far easier to catch than the rather more slippery HA.
Politicians are the ones responsible for reaching the compromise between citizens (and businesses are just a collection of citizens). If you do not like the compromises reached, you should work harder to convince the politicians to change their mind. Attacking the citizens you disagree with gets nothing accomplished. That is how we got into this crazy polarized political climate in which a solid third of this country thinks a different third are either fascists or Marxists.

The politicians are ultimately accountable to their constituents. The people of Walla Walla likely have different opinions on sales tax than the people of Redmond. If the politicians don't represent those opinions then they should be voted out. If they do represent those opinions, it is simply a numbers game from there. If your side loses, that is just how democracy works. That applies to every level of government from the local up through the federal. It applies to individuals the same way it applies to businesses.
2 things.

1: even a private blockchain significantly helps with trust. If someone attempted to double spend, such an attack would be immediately obvious to everyone. At which point you send in the lawyers. That's valuable.

Blockchain Purists will disagree. But the point is that it is easy to make untrusted transactions with people, if attempted attacks are merely illuminated, and you know who the attack is coming from.

And 2: even if we assume everyone is "trusted", financial settlement is a very outdated system. Mistakes are easy to make when people are looking though filing cabinets to figure out who owns what.

My definition of a "Blockchain" is merely a shared database where people sign transactions with their private keys.

The mere act of everyone signing everything with private keys, and store in a shared data as is valuable in and of itself.
I'm very curious to see how this plays out. Obviously, the reason for banning the extension is that it prevents Google from tracking our clicks (I'm surprised it took them so long!) But they can't clearly spell out the reason as it would make them look bad, so they just used some template and try to sweep it under the carpet. Now that it's on HN it's no longer so easy to ignore, so I'm really curious to see what happens next.
Sure it does. Write out the example with both orders of assignments (convert it to single assignments only) and run it both ways.
It sounds like the article is asserting that tax breaks result in decreased public services per capita, but most of the people interviewed were priced out from a housing perspective.

Also, while touching, it is not clear that a few anecdotes is evidence of a town going downhill due to tax cuts; finding 4-5 people to talk about how great or how miserable things are is always possible no matter in which direction ground conditions have actually changed.
That's the US system, which is not everywhere and has been degraded heavily since the founding fathers of the US put it in place. Additionally moving from state to state was not a task most people could just do whenever they disagreed with the laws
Technical Interview Questions and Answers
No. It won't. We'll just get used to it. Face identification was solved decades ago. Since then, it has just been a rat race between "what about this occlusion or this one?" Train a Neural Net to do Paint to Skin replacement, or Adobe's context aware brush to remove overly gel'd hair (the cvdazzle linke).

Beards and 2010 Justin Bieber hair cuts halted face recognition 10 years ago. How do I know, because I had to manually label 10,000 frames with 200+ points because the "automatic landmarking tool" didn't put everything in the right spot.

Biometric security is, and always will be, a rat race. Once faces are handled / ruled out, they've move to the iris (30ft/10m iris extract was possible 10 years ago). After the iris (cause everyone will wear Black Mirror contacts or something), they'll move to gait analysis. My thesis was on identifying people based on the facial movements.

The point is, at some point, they're not going to "make it illegal" because it'd be improbable for everyone to adopt this cyberpunk fashion. Plus, their are enough other ways to identify someone as someone than the face that most future systems will likely be a combination of all of them using some level of confidence.
Another good option is posting your story on HN: if it gets to the front page, you have good chances of solving your problem.
And you can't live without a Facebook account?
Facebook Algorithm Flags,Removes Declaration of Independence Text as Hate Speech
This is why a lot of research focuses on the Faces in the Wild dataset [1]

[1] http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/
Was just explaining the meaning of “higher-order” within the context of this library. But thanks, now I have a clearer picture of what to include in the main README file and notebooks with tutorials, so to avoid misleading.
> yet living standards are relatively low for a wealthy country.

> Most wealthy countries look superior to the US

And yet more people choose to immigrate there than anywhere else in the world: https://businessinsider.com/top-15-countries-migrants-2017-1...

> Who says that this has a negative impact?

Cultural conflict theorists. Undeniably it's a good thing, I agree, but there is an argument for how linguistic/ethnic/religious heterogeneity can create economic friction.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Bypassing Web-Application Firewalls by Abusing SSL/TLS
Isn't that extension going straight against Google's ability to track what users are clicking on, i.e. against their core business? Maybe the warning wording is cumbersome or opaque, but what would the author expect? Company not protecting their turf? The only surprising thing is that they did it in this unimaginative hidden fashion, not fitting their friendly progressive image.
Try wiping Firefox's app data. Sounds like a corrupt profile to me.
In many jurisdictions a referendum is required to spend that type of money. That is one of the reasons that a sibling thread is discussing the Chargers move from San Diego to Los Angeles. A vote was required in San Diego and the Chargers knew it would not go in their way. You are free to lobby your own local government to make a similar requirement for a referendum.
Once more into the breach deer friends..

Again and again we are supposed to rally, infinite protest against rows and rows of copyright reform - this is a dead alley. No protest culture or NGO has ever sustained a movement as long as the market interests undermining the allmende and democracy.

The right to time wise inject laws similar in intention into the governing process- must be limited. Once a proposal has been voted for or against, it must be stable for 4 or 8 years. Stable being only open to more precise definition, but not intent inversion or redefinition.
na everyone uses mate now
Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with OpenBSD 6.2 or newer
Ometria.com | London UK | FULL-TIME ONSITE | Several roles: Backend Python, Frontend Javascript, Data science, QA, VP engineering

Ometria's mission is to help retailers communicate with their customers in a more personalised way.

We have a modern microservices based system and we use modern tools like docker and Kubernetes on AWS. We process a lot of data and store it in Postgres and Redshift. Increasingly we are using serverless technologies like AWS Lambda. We also are experimenting with Go for some services, so if thats an interest thats a plus.

Backed by top VC funds and successful entrepreneurs, and working alongside over a hundred of the fastest growing retailers, we are now looking for a more developers to join our small but growing engineering team.

We are hiring for:

- Backend python developers

- Frontend javascript developers (Ampersand JS, but considering moving to React)

- Data Scientist / ML engineer (Python stack)

- VP engineering

- QA engineer

https://www.ometria.com/careers/ (Not all jobs are on that page yet, feel free to contact me personally at "al <at> ometria.com")
> You ship an experiment that’s +10% in your conversion funnel. Then your revenue/installs/whatever goes up by +10% right? Wrong :( Turns out usually it goes up a little bit, or maybe not at all.

Never mind "The difference between high- and low-intent users", this could be explained in terms of regression-toward-the-mean, a phenomenon mention in neither the article, nor the discussion here.

Have 1000 students do an IQ test. Pick the top 20 students. Have them do another IQ test next week. Their mean score second time round will almost certainly be lower than their mean score first time round. The reason they made the top 20 the first time round was a combination of having a high true IQ, and being lucky on the day. Second time round, they aren't 'defined to be lucky', as it were.

It's the reason movie sequels tend to be worse than the original. The reason the sequel was made was that the original movie was far more successful than the average movie, on account of both unusually skillful creators, and unusually good luck. Second time round, you can't count on the luck component again.
Not sure I understand your logic. We moved from a free for all to a significantly restricted regime for personal data. There is, for the first time, a continent-wide recognition of the social value of privacy. This was achieved despite gargantuan efforts to quench it by the affected interests.

And this is a bad result because it doesn't go to the politically impossible extreme? It's a foot in the door, we have a fighting chance for an universal right to privacy. That's the only way to restrict governments and the only way to get that is to convince the general public that it'a a right worth fighting for. The GDPR is a massive step in that direction.
Odd. My memory of that book is that premature commercialization of science was presented as evil, not science itself. I admit not re-reading it since being a teenager.
I will work for the first tech executive who takes all of this data and uses it as evidence to crush the open office BS once and for all. I remember when Jensen Huang started pitching this folderol as "the office of the future-ture-ture-ture-tire..." back in 2009 during one of his NVIDIA quarterly revival meetings. It was a dumb idea then and nothing has changed about in the intervening 9 years except that he was indeed right that it was "the office of the future-ture-ture-ture-tire..."

Die Open Office Die...
It's almost as if the poster of this item had also noticed this page from yesterday around the same time:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17449927
Divide and conquer then?
It's a desirable emergent property. AFAIK, no one knows of another way to achieve it other than by this kind of LR/momentum policy, so informally I think it's OK to use the term "superconvergence" (or "SuperC" for short) for the policy itself. "1 cycle" refers to having a "single cycle" over all epochs, as opposed to multiple cycles, for example as in SGDR.

PS. Here's a good walkthrough of the training policy by a coauthor of the blogpost, with link to a sample notebook: https://sgugger.github.io/the-1cycle-policy.html
Alfréd Rényi
I worked at a place that hosted the servers in-house. They even built a special little air-conditioned room and put a generator on the roof. I never knew all the details but there was dual everything, 2 lines coming in, stuff to switch between them, nothing could possibly go wrong... until the day it did. Turns out someone has plugged all the machines into a single extension cable, and the fuse popped.
I felt like The Information was published when the author got tired of revising halfway through. It started very well but the quality seemed to slide as it progressed. It certainly wasn't the low quality meandering pop-sci book you'll find so often, but I found it lacking in different ways. You might also like Dark Hero of the Information Age
To restate the obvious: I don't need to look at anything to adjust the temperature. My arm knows where the knob is. But with touchscreens, there's no tactile feedback. They'd need almost full VR for that. Or maybe we could have touchscreens that grew "knobs" and stuff, to provide tactile feedback. Maybe use an electrical field to thicken areas of an LCD screen.
There are myriad factors which affect the success of a company -- they're not reducible only to tax incentives and size of workforce.

Big metro areas tend to have very expensive workforces, and plenty of companies intentionally set up shop outside of them in order to gain a competitive advantage through cheaper labor, services, rent, etc.

No more tax incentives aren't going to cause metro areas to die. It just means companies won't be able to shop around for an artifically low price. They'll still wind up somewhere that isn't SF, but it won't be at the cost of local schools and pensions.
The last point you mentioned is why I stopped visiting Ars. I can even live with the articles themselves being slanted, but the comments section seemed even more heavily slanted.
Thanks! We are in Toronto.
Gentics Mesh can also be used with GraphQL and REST (e.g. for File Uploads). GraphQL is (imho) no silver bullet.

https://getmesh.io
Russ, which positions can be remote. On your site I did not find any remote ones.
Because a higher price typically indicates that the property’s utility has increased. Think about what a waste an empty plot of land or a large single family house would represent in Lower Manhattan. It is good to punish speculation that hinders actual use

In other words, “investing” in property by purchasing it but not putting it to use is an unproductive investment
What's wrong with running a negative balance sheet? Companies do it all the time. If the ship sinks, you file bankruptcy, wash your hands and try again.
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but time might
Use of Tags/Labels on mobile/web is something that's keeping me on Gmail, or I'd be willing to look elsewhere.

An example of how GTD is possible through tags and labels: http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-t...
If I receive an email from someone I don't know, I assume it's not just spam but a scam and delete it without opening it. However, you might still have success with a more gullible or less paranoid audience -- particularly if your product is not intended for techies.

Mass emails are cheap, so a 0.1% open rate is enough to float your business if you live off ramen & clip coupons.
It's interesting that makeup does a great job of fooling people (that's a big part of why it exists) yet such a poor job of fooling machines. It shows/reminds that machines do not see the world the wy people do.
> None of this is rocket science and it's probably fairly easy to get started, but it'll be hard to beat the security and reliability of a professionally managed service.

Depends what kind of security, availability is a part of it. When you forget your password (or it gets hacked and someone changes it), you can just re-deploy the whole thing. On Gmail you might be screwed. On self-deploy backups seem mandatory, which mail user backs up his or her E-Mails?

As far as I have heard, if SPF, DKIM etc etc is properly configured, blocking won't happen. I don't have this running yet but this is my next project. Probably I'll go with postfix, there are bizillion plugins for exactly these things and the configuration will be automated with Ansible. So once it's up and running, I expect this to be pretty much care-free.
If you have to wear that much makeup, might as well wear a mask.
Why Udemy is bad [YouTube]
Molecular oxygen in comet's atmosphere not created on its surface
It doesn't have to be "build everything from source", they have installs based on different stages. You can even do a binary only install if you wish. And it is rolling, so it does fit in with Arch and Void in that sense.
I hope I'm not the only person who reads this and really, really dislikes this.

If Python's gonna have breaking syntax, why not work on bringing it more in line with other modern languages that don't require special breakout syntax for expressions and rely more on functional features?

Are we still maintaining that lambdas are hard but suggesting expression-scoped variables are easy?
I also have redundant WAN at my house, slightly less sophisticated. Comcast (primary) and U-Verse (backup) on separate modems (wired only, no WiFi). When an outage incident occurs, and it gets escalated, I received a page (iMessage from family member, "Dad, the WiFi is down!"). If I'm away from the NOC/DC, I call the DC remote hands support line (call onsite family member), and have them perform a hard cutover ("go to back of the device with the antenna thingies, disconnect the BLUE cable and plug in the YELLOW cable").

I do have a UPS on the modems and main access point.. but after reading this post, I may invest in diesel generator and a 5,000 gallon subterranean tank.
I don't know those percentages, but I suspect they are optimistic.

I think it comes down to knowing yourself and your risk profile. Good on ya for taking the swing!
What about The Golden Ass?
If there's one thing I've learned from reading about a lot of conspiracy theories for fun, it's that circumstantial evidence can seem right when presented in the right way, even if it's completely wrong.

I think everyone should take a look at the Wikipedia article for theories of who actually wrote the works penned to name "Shakespeare" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_questio...) and scroll down to the "Alternative Candidates" section. When you read one, the circumstantial evidence looks perfect. Then you read another candidate and you say "gee that sounds really valid too...". Obviously they can't both be right, but each one presents circumstantial evidence that seems to connect perfectly.

After you've red the alternative candidates, read the "Case for Shakespeare's authorship", which is the case that it really was Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon that wrote the plays. There's some hard evidence (though not enough to be 100% conclusive, it's probably 90% conclusive, and enough convince most scholars) that makes the rest of the theories seem totally unfounded.

I went on a bit of a rant here, but hopefully my point comes across, that circumstantial evidence is really quite far from real hard evidence. Unless some guy comes forward with those bills with the correct serial numbers or someone finds a body, it's going to remain an unsolved mystery.