skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To be fair even if it literally is 100% reflective of reality that doesn't mean it lacks unjust feedback loops.

if you're worried about feedback loops, maybe don't lend based on any criteria other than the best possible estimate of ability to pay the loan back.

if you loan somebody money for a house that they can't pay back, they're going to 1) end up with even worse credit and 2) lose the house, which they made other emotional and financial investments in.
It's pretty incredible that the state government is going to send retirees a notice that tells them to install the "voatz" app on their phone. Might as well call it xXxl33t v0+exXx. It doesn't look like an official government anything.
Would be nice if Python was available in the cloud function environment.
> certain restrictions on it (like transfer restrictions)

This is under appreciated outside executive levels. Start-ups are staying private longer. Most companies allow employees to sell their private shares (subject e.g. to a right of first refusal). Some, however, insert language requiring board approval for transfers. These shares trade at a steep discount, if they trade at all, and generally serve to give preferred stockholders a first crack at the exits.
That’s actually not true. Even if the volatility were that extreme, you could easily mitigate it.

At this point you are just saying anything that comes to mind and is negative without putting in thought.
The continued existence of the emacs ipython notebook
> uses connection tracking at the load balancer to know where to send packets for established flows

Kind of, from katran post:

> Each L4LB also stores the backend choice for each 5-tuple as a lookup table to avoid duplicate computation of the hash on future packets. This state is a pure optimization and is not necessary for correctness

> ..

> Katran uses an extended version of the Maglev hash to select the backend server
This basically looks like an open source Maglev [1]. Awesome!

[1] - https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
https://github.com/github/glb-director
> ... simplifications ... that "tracking is tracking" do far more damage than good.

Point taken. I do not post-edit my posts for content, but I completely agree that LO's tracking is almost certainly at the benign end of the scale. It was a bad formulation on my part

On the other two points, though, your post reaffirmed my position. The way I understood it is you want to track (benignly, within the site only) users to generate funding, advocacy, onboarding, etc. This collecting user data to influence their behavior is, to me, starting down a slippery slope. That slippery slope has Facebook-like mind manipulation at the end of it; it is very far, but once you start in that direction it is very hard to stop.

Well structured and useful website indeed helps greatly. But one should be able to get there, or 90% there, using only anonymous information. This is just my opinion (I do take a harder line on privacy than most users). Cheers!
I would like if when people did this they automatically had it compile the library with -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections. This would make my life way easier, and if anyone is reading this, please add these flags. Combined with stripping the executable afterwards you can make things way smaller for embedded systems.
I don't have any problem with just searching strings such as "coffee shop [city name]", etc.
How I learned ES6: I have a 1 hour commute each way. When I was learning ES6, I spent roughly half my commute creating Anki cards and half my commute studying those cards.

I created cards by going through this excellent free online book (I skipped chapters I wasn't interested in): http://exploringjs.com/es6/index.html

The process of creating cards: (A) read a paragraph. (B) make flashcards for everything new introduced in that paragraph. (C) goto A.

As for B, I would take great pains to make the cards as terse as possible while still drilling the concepts. Over-verbose examples should be rewritten more tersely (and tested in the browser to make sure you didn't screw up).

For example, from the first paragraph of Section 4.1 I might make this card, among others:

(Front) Evaluate:

var x = 0;

function f(){ if(false) {var x;} return x; }

f()

(Back of card) undefined

(Notice how I distilled the much-more-verbose examples from that paragraph down to a core that illustrates the key point.)

If you're serious about this, it'll take a lot of time. I used it to crash-learn basic kdb in about 1 month, but that required spending ~4 hours/day that whole time. Making cards is a skill in itself, you'll get better at it over time (a lot of my early cards are way too verbose and sometimes I'll rewrite them now that I've gotten better at making terse cards)
Ads? That's not the driving tech in video. Porn is.
It depends on what stage, but yeah it's risky.
I've just started writing documentation for my project in MkDocs like last week. So far, it's pretty good.

But I had to switch off the search functionality because it was causing a slowdown when displaying the page (you couldn't even scroll?).

Also I would appreciate if they made changing the theme easier - currently there is only a minified bootstrap css which is a PITA to modify.
The sentence before that quote:

> We are progressively evolving the original App Engine APIs to make them accessible across all GCP platforms.

So I think they're planning a solution for you.
So, AdBlock++?
Likely true, but I would point out that there are significant advantages to having a 2BR if you work from home at all. I use the smaller BR at my place as the bedroom and the larger one as my office, and it's fantastic.
I had to disable Privacy Badger to get the other charts to show up. Disabling uBlock Origin didn't help (or hurt).
Author here. No, not at all. Well not the first two problems. The extra chrome is just when google is hosting it, and the blank pages only occurred in testing from the CDN.
> While there is still innovation, there aren't dramatic changes happening as often in the past two decades. There are many popular songs today that could have been popular in 00's and vice versa.

> Some rap seems to still be innovating, but rock, pop, and a lot of electronic music seems to be stuck in a rut.

Now that everything is available on-demand via streaming services, new music is competing not just with a glut of contemporary works, but with the ever-increasing body of prior works.

Why try something new when you can listen to your old favorites at any time? Unless the new thing sounds a lot like the thing you already really like.
this is a realllllly good idea.
From the article:

>GLB Director does not replace services like haproxy and nginx, but rather is a layer in front of these services (or any TCP service) that allows them to scale across multiple physical machines without requiring each machine to have unique IP addresses.
Inequality in the context of this interview means wealth distribution. It does not refer to racial equality, as I interpret your reference to affirmative action. "...We Got More Inequality" refers to the ease with which people can borrow money from a bank. New regulations make it more expensive for banks to loan money to people with relatively less capital. So those with less capital have less access to credit. This includes people who are capable of paying off the loans. And those with more capital have easier access to credit, simply because it is less expensive for the bank. So now it is easier for the wealthy to grow their wealth and the result is a less even wealth distribution.
I thought best practice for HAproxy was to run two HAProxy's in parallel with VRRP or DNS load balancing?

Does that not achieve the same outcome? I've used HAProxy for layer 4 in the past without any issue this way.
No the question was whether or not national sovereignty justifies criminal behavior. You made the ludicrous point that China's national sovereignty gives them the right to commit human rights abuses, and I merely pointed out that your same logic would justify whatever unethical trade arrangement we decide on.
github repo: https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation/
Larry Ellison anuncia nuevos servicios de procesamiento autónomos
That might be a valid criticism against e.g. Bitcoin with a 30 minute confirmation time, but if you send your friend $10 worth of Nano they'll have $10 worth of Nano by the time they receive it, ignoring whatever they decide do with it.
Toward Wave-Based Sound Synthesis for Computer Animation
> no contact@ email

Every Play Store app has a contact email in the listing.
Wear polarized sunglasses.

Light reflecting off of a windshield tends to polarize. If your glasses are 90° offset, you shouldn't see much.
This is a mantra repeated by everyone who is not business of making loans.

There's enormous competition for people with capabilities of repaying a loan but no thin credit files/scores. Those are credit scores between 575 and 650. There are government programs that target these people administered via Freddie, Fannie and FHA for automatic underwriting. Those are done? No matter, USDA(!) would guarantee loans in rural areas! Banks themselves do manual underwriting for people who barely qualify or on a cusp of qualifying at prime + rates. Those were not the subprime loan customers.

Subprime loans were originated with the same rationality as the loans covering Buy Here, Pay Here car loans: they were originated with a total knowledge that the buyer will fail to make payments and will be foreclosed on - no matter! Buyer would make payments for first 6-7 months, default, get foreclosed on and the house would be sold to someone else for higher amount than the defaulted loan. Housing was an appreciating asset when these loans worked fine on depreciating assets ( cars ).

Structural inequality or not, people who have shitty jobs and shitty financial position typically make shitty financial decisions over the long term. 30 year mortgage is a very long term financial play.
> including things like Google Wave

awkward for me. i really liked Wave.
It is. They recently announced the betas for Python 3.7 and Node 8 in Cloud Functions.
I would say that he "took money" from a tip jar, rather than "stole" from a tip jar, since by his account there was no intent to take what was not his.

"One of the most despicable crimes one can commit."? I do not respect persons who steal tips, but on a scale of criminality, it strikes me as a long way from the top of the despicability index.
> The ones on their mobile devices who click AMP links by and large seem to love them.

Really? The main comment I've heard about it (when people mention it at all) is that it messes up the URL. I doubt most people notice anything changed.
Have they built the chip, or is this another simulation?
There's no coordinated campaign that I know of. The negative reaction that I personally have to AMP is that Google started pushing it as the solution to a problem that they helped create. It's just an attempt to lock publishers into Google's ecosystem.

If Google really cared about fixing the root of the problem, they would put the AMP icon next to sites that are already small and already load fast, and rank them higher, rather than creating a new platform.
Huh? This is a story where Aaronson (accidentally) stole someone's tips but was nonetheless not arrested due to the employees' reluctance to press charges. These same employees also graciously refused to accept the $40 he offered them as some sort of recompense.

But yeah, the cops were a little rude to him I guess...
That would depend on if you had a basket of stocks representative of the whole market and rebalanced your portfolio throughout a downturn (not common at all). Companies can and do go bankrupt. Historically, the same has been true of Bitcoin, where it always recovers to a new base.
except that it doesn't apply to the something larger the way he's trying to apply it
Pardon my naivete, but Google validates whether a site is AMP-eligible by validating it conforms to its requirements, right? Can the Google bot that crawls the site not perform this same validation? I mean they can bait and switch the title of the page, the content, etc too but we don't require a Google proxy to make sure they don't. Can anyone else build a proxy that gives the same AMP guarantees and gets the same ranking benefits? More than a promise to the user, AMP is a promise to everyone where the bits are coming from.

Google is going to get in trouble stewarding their gateway into the internet in this fashion with these rules. Rules about slow page load times can be seen as universal. Rules about using a Google proxy however are just begging for political intervention. As someone with a small business, I'm upset that these companies, under the guise of helping users, are giving reasons for these liberal governments to act. It negatively affects me when these inevitable regulations come down because companies like Google can't remain provider-neutral. Arg!

> We need an HTML Lite as a mode in the browser that winnows down the enormous featureset of HTML. Not for all content, but for that content where text is king.

I concur here and have been thinking about this recently especially in the context of web browsing in the terminal. But it has to be driven by user adoption, not rules written on the walls of a few companies' gardens.

In the meantime, I would ask that the search engine not give preference to their proxy over anyone else's but instead define the guidelines that we can all reasonably meet.
AMP is actually the main reason I switched from Google to DDG on my phone; for some reason, when I switched from an Android phone to an iPhone, I started getting AMP results, and switching search engines was the only way to disable AMP.
It's not, not even close. It's 2H typically, with very high variance.
The Very Model of a Modern-Age Millennial
Crypto gets stolen all the time and once it's gone you have no recourse. It also gets seized. And of course you can also just lose it which is realllly hard to do with land.
It's great that you guys are receptive to these issues but I can't help but wonder if, instead of solving this with what is clearly unpopular technology, we all would have been better off if Google had encouraged better practices?

If, as the article implies, Google will give me the same rankings if I do things to get the same performance as an AMP page then I would rather do that.
If the connection tracking state is really not required I don't understand how Katran works. How does it deal with the set of live backends changing? Using Maglev hashing gives you "minimal disruption", not no disruption.
Maybe roll back to an old browser?
Not only is the content great on that site, the performance of it is absolutely spectacular. It's amazing how much people will jump to new fangled solutions when this site is a great example of what a well tuned Rails app can pull off from a UX perspective.
"We run on a Rails backend with mostly vanilla JavaScript on the front end, and some Preact sprinkled in. One of our goals is to move to mostly Preact for our front end."

(what I consider the most interesting part)
Twitter reveals its moral rot by letting Infowars’ Alex Jones keep his account
He had precisely the interaction you describe, though with a non-manager smoothie bar employee. Things escalated when, somehow not understanding what he had been told, he simply walked away.
I've been a crypto investor started in 2013. I narrowly avoided MtGox by withdrawing my Bitcoins from it right when the rumors about withdrawal issues started.

If you have the efficient frontier model in mind, then you should know you shouldn't put too much money into it because the volatility of it is insane. My small early bets in Bitcoin and Ethereum worked out because the volatility turned out to work in my favor. But if they did go to zero it wouldn't have mattered much anyway. There're still other non-crypto stuff (e.g. tech stocks, ETFs) I invest into.

There're known ways to make risky investments work in a portfolio in the finance world - or else VCs wouldn't exist, coz nobody would give money to a VC to begin with. It's also a fact that most in the general public don't know about it. As a result, many public investors would see a Bitcoin as the same as a share in Google or Facebook - something to put money in. While in fact the attitude you take for each of these should be very different.

This would actually quickly lead to questions like how to protect public investors. Sure when Bitcoin drops or a startup fails everyone would be angry and people's instinct is to ban it, or at least make it available only to sophisticated investors. But then when things go well people would complain that only the VCs and hedge funds have access to the best investment options. I think the solution to this all is really investor education (modern portfolio theory isn't super complicated math) and better transparency. The latter can be done with better regulations of exchanges and ICO issuers. But the former has a long way to go.
Dijkstra's in Disguise
> as an example off the top of my head: using a faster, instrumented, and iterative approach to policy design, as startups are encouraged to do. or, cultivate new methods for finding better, more effective policies quickly (like design sprints, for example).

the resulting regulatory uncertainty would probably be worse than bad regulations.
> The HUD would then adjust which display elements are shown on the windscreen.

Yeah, it wouldn't add to the already stressful situation if you suddenly couldn't find whatever you were looking for, not at all.

These dynamic adaptations to the GUI has always resulted in the worst UI ever. Consistency is paramount.
This is an awesome alternative to scraping your own bank transactions. I'm considering using this technique to automatically add rows to my personal GnuCash MySQL database.
Some projects are hard to divide up donations.

Does it split evenly to anyone who wrote code? What about people who only review and merge PRs?

What about if someone was unavailable for a month or two—do they still get a cut for current donations?

I help maintain marked.js.org and we currently don’t accept donations because of these questions.
If you're really good, you can charge $50/hr for private dance lessons. Subtract the cost of the dance studio, and it's not much. If you're at the top, you might get a gig for a couple years at the ballet. Might.
Every era is the modern era, until it isn't anymore.

Are you claiming that people could spend decades counting the average movement of the moon around the earth, accurate to the fraction of a second, thousands of years ago, but couldn't understand long term health effects until just recently?
What would the equivalent house have cost you?
That is not a solution.
I tried to create multiple accounts (from the same IP mind you) about 3 months ago and many of them required me to verify a phone before registering or got flagged shortly after as potential spam, which was accurate.

I was curious how easy it was and for me it wasn't super simple especially the phone verification step.
«In the stock market with diversified investments, even if the market crashes, historically you would have always recovered and then some within not very many years so long as you didn't do the stupid thing and panic and sell during the crash in an attempt to time the market.»

Same with Bitcoin. There is no difference between the all-time SP500 chart and the all-time BTC price chart. In both cases, historically anyone who holds long enough ("within not very many years") eventually makes money:

• https://dividendtotalreturn.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/C...

• http://bitcoin.zorinaq.com/price/

I'm not saying people should dump their savings into BTC, just that your argument isn't a good argument to defend the SP500. An SP500 index fund is great for other reasons, namely: it has a great track record and you can't really go wrong with investing in ~500 of the biggest American companies.
It's shocking how much of that gets eaten up by investment fees when you're only investing a small amount of money.

It's also amazing how small investment fees can become.
KreditBee -
Sorry, to clarify (and I may be wrong). I'm talking about situations where the tram acts contrary to traffic signs.

Per my (translated) reading of the law[1] (article 15, subsection 1 & 2) trams only take priority over the "priority to the right" rule, but not other posted traffic signs.

So for example [2] is an intersection where I've often seen the tram go past a yield sign and cut off traffic on the left.

1. http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0004825/2018-07-01

2. https://goo.gl/RHVfpi
ContentMart shutting down
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Limited Edition Will Include a GameCube Controller
Also note that CARP, VRRP, HSRP, and GLBP are all layer 3 load balancing protocols (that rely on layer 2 magic to work) whereas this is a layer 4 load balancer. Meaning I can connect to a single IP and a single port (80) and get consistently and equitably load balanced to exactly one server (of many) at another IP address.
I used to live pretty near Detroit, and, honestly, most of those things don't ring true to me. As far as housing goes, if you work in Detroit, you can easily live in between Detroit and Ann Arbor and get a much better deal on housing. Speaking of Ann Arbor, why not just live there, if proximity to the university is important? And I'm not sure how you can count the Lions as a "major sports team." ;) (kidding on that one.)

I can't really comment much on the current culture and food scene in Detroit, but I don't recall it being all that great when I was there.

The weather must be significantly different now than when I was there. Michigan was hot and extremely humid in the summers (which makes sense for a state that literally has 11,000 lakes, not to mention the Great Lakes), and the winters bitter cold and snowy for the most part.
Not the GP, but this blog post is basically the only thing I know about Aaronson, and I had exactly the same reaction. The core of the problem here to me sounds like it was Aaronson's, perhaps isolated, inability to respectfully interact with the smoothie bar workers.
Correct. The term 'Body Shop' came about in India in the late 1990s when Middle-men Indian staffing companies with shell LLCs in US would advertise and hire Y2K programmers from India.

I think they were called 'Body Shops' because they would literally hire 'bodies' in India, apply for their H1Bs and get approval (back in Bill Clinton days it was very fast and easy), bring them over and shop these bodies out to American clients. In some sense, you could say this was 'Programmer Trafficking'

It's not the 'Body Shop' in the American sense, which is an Auto repair shop lol.
What You Found in 3M Russian Troll Tweets
They don't show ads yet. Once operating systems started integrating ads, I became increasingly cynical.

Ads are the current end game for anything with access to user eyeballs. Just give it a few years, until whatever devision needs some way to squeeze a little more juice out of their revenue projections
>How would the share size impact the SEC's decision in this regard?

Critical to the SEC's decision is investor access to the products, so that less knowledgeable investors are protected from unsound investments.

A higher share price restricts access to wealthier investors, the type that meet the SEC’s requirements for accredited investors.

That is just one difference between this ETF and the Winklevoss one, you were unaware of it (and the implications) but still regarded VanEck as not "special," further highlighting how pointless generic "Bitcoin = bad" comments are on threads about specific topics.
Yeah. Let’s just blow the entire months budget on a single day of consulting. And I’m sure one day is all they would need to understand the workflow requirements of the team, implement and configure it and test it. That seems reasonable.
Where can I find more information on Cloud Scheduler & Tasks? Having a hard time googling it :) and the links go to a sign up form.