skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tread carefully. If you’re going to do this, read your current employment agreement carefully especially the parts about Intellectual Property. Every medium-to-large company I have worked at has asserted ownership of everything I build, at work or away from work, using my own equipment, on my own time—it doesn't matter. If your employer can imagne a conflict of interest (for example could what you are working on potentially compete with a current or future business of your employer’s?), you’re screwed. I’ve had to end involvement with open source projects and home hobby projects because of the IP threats in my employment agreements. Feel free to take the risk yourself, personally I don’t feel like fighting a room full of corporate lawyers.

EDIT: jobsandjobs, sorry to have derailed your good Ask HN question but I thought this was an important and often-overlooked pitfall that people should be aware of.
Though it "sounds bad", this is a wonderfully practical approach. Why waste a lot of time with this BS?
I find it funny that it's also the previous generations' middle class' 401(k)s and pensions that need the investment returns provided by cheap chinese labor and lax environmental rules, while at the same time ruining the future for their descendants.
Facebook didn't want to die. Large and growing networks are a threat to FB. Buying up Instagram and WhatsApp was probably less expensive than building competitors and out-competing the upstarts.

The prospect of ad revenue is a bonus.
After a bit of research it looks like it would be replacing Portland cement which is made with limestone, clay, and gypsum. Which makes me wonder how cost competitive this will be, since those materials are very cheap.
Brownie points for choosing VHDL. :)

Nice article.
Might be easier to combine a day job with freelancing rather than having a startup.
> Last time I tried Vivaldi (over a year ago), the browser shortcuts were taking precedence over website shortcuts. I noticed this in Google Sheets and others. I hope that's fixed now

I feel that's how it should be.

OS > Browser > Browser Extension > Website

Using some sites(JIRA in particular) in Firefox is painful as they just capture every keypress/combo regardless of whether they need it or not. Yes, it's lazy on the website devs part but that is why I think they should be last in line.
I remember that they false advertised it on App Stores as "WhatsApp - Free SMS".
Model parallelism is also useful in situation where your model (and/or your inputs) is so large that even with batch_size=1 it does not fit in GPU memory (especially if you're still using 1080Ti). However other techniques might help here (e.g. gradient checkpointing, or dropping parts of your graph to INT8).
Most people would argue that you already do have a contract with people that requires they do not steal from you.
Bootstrapped https://artcall.org and trying to gain traction on https://ezzl.art while employed full time elsewhere.
Cloudflare offers unmetered bandwidth, so this should remove any bandwidth costs completely.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172656-D...
The Sorry State of TLS Security in Enterprise Interception Appliances [pdf]
I used to have Reddit whitelisted until they started showing subreddit-targeted ads in other subs. I follow a bunch of cryptocurrency subs and the ads there are… well… as you expect.
Show HN: No More Google, privacy-friendly alternatives to Google products
"Proof of work" means the total number of hashing functions, from the point of divergence forward, used in signing the blocks.

Consensus doesn't work like you're implying. If it did, I could spin up a peer on N+1 AWS servers, where N is the current number of peers on the network, and now my version has the majority of peers supporting it.

The whole idea behind proof of work is that it's impossible to fake. The version that took the most net computing power to generate is by definition authoritative. This means that the only way to make a malicious version of a chain is to actually, genuinely do more total work than the legitimate actors collectively did. The other side of this coin, though, is that it explicitly allows me to generate a malicious version of the chain by actually, genuinely doing more total work than the legitimate actors collectively did.
That won't work if your company goes through due diligence or ends up getting a licenses review from Oracle. You'll have to settle up then and it won't be cheap.

The Oracle license police live for situations like this.

p.s., If it's just personal use you are within the terms of the license.
Even if homophobes are just as present, blue states have a more accommodating legal framework to prosecute them.

LGBT persons are not a protected class at the federal level: look at a map of states that include it as a protected class, and nearly all the states that don't include it are red. http://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/non_discrimination_laws
I think that's a very good point. Also, the vast majority of Android users doesn't mind the tight integration with Google in the first place and among the minority that does, there are only very few people with the technical expertise to change anything about it. So most people end up surrendering themselves to Google because 1) they don't see any other option and 2) it's also the most convenient "solution".
We’ve All Been Busy – Google Glass Enterprise Edition
The included dashboard with the pi-hole is incredibly easy to use, so I just have it bookmarked on all our browsers in case someone in my family needs to pause it or whitelist/blacklist a site. We barely ever have to touch it though, mostly just to update the blocklists occasionally.
"supports ergonomic asynchronous computation"... because you wouldn't want any of your computations getting carpal tunnel or anything.
You just brought me back memories of EuroPC computers. :)
> Sure those places are “liberal” unless a working class person is also a gay man who is afraid of being beaten to death in the streets.

As a gay man from Idaho I’d love it if you could chill out with the hyperbole.
Put it in your contract before you get employed. If starting a company while employed, reach out to your employer saying you're building company X which does Y as a side project and you need a document stating no IP ownership.
General political comments like this, even if they're meant to be insightful, have a completely predictable effect of sparking political flamewars. Since this is completely predictable and this isn't a political flamewar site, please don't.
Doom was real time ray traced.
I'd be interested to hear other perspectives on this, but I think p2p computing in general got skipped over when the cloud became a thing. DHTs have had steady use in the p2p world though, including with BitTorrent.

DHTs are not without their problems. I know some other projects in our space decided it wasn't tenable to solve the Sybil attack and so they created a peer-routing system that bootstraps off of a blockchain. As brad0 pointed out, there have also been performance issues in some deployments. We're going to iterate on the security and performance and see how it goes.
Anti-gun violence site crashes iOS for 10 seconds creating a non-opt-out PSA
> My liberal friends in San Francisco hold the opposite mindset, they want everyone housed, working or otherwise, even if it's done in their own neighborhood.

That may be true for your friends, but the revealed preference of SF residents as a whole does not agree.
Starting a professional blog [1] in English. In some months it got 5-6K readers (now not so many). I started getting interesting professional contacts as well as qualified job inquiries. I never looked for a job since then.

[1] https://bi-review.blogspot.com
Wait, does this mean it's now possible to get completely free egress from B2 to all of the other providers listed? (and also the public internet via cloudflare?)

That would massively reduce potential B2 costs...
GHC Plugins for Haskell
I got the impression from other articles that there was a bit of a constant process inputting data, formatting, reformatting and etc to get Watson to digest it for any given problem. Not necessarily a game breaking flaw, but it certainly meant that you would not use Watson for any .... issue that you already could solve with what I'll call "medium" effort. It had to be a really big issue, really big payoff before all that time made sense.
So why doesn’t someone do that — or create a centralized Walmart database of food transactions hosted by IBM, like in a MySQL store with a CRUD front end. There I just saved everyone millions and tons of energy.
The article hasn't been published for a whole day and the link to the announcement (the first link) is already broken.
Can anyone provide it? Thanks
> ...unfavorable trade agreement wich allowed for assymetrical tariffs, etc.

Assymmetrical tariffs are more favorable than symmetrical tariffs, something practically every economist agrees on. Also, why insist on exporting more valuable goods to China, when China remains perfectly content with green pieces of paper instead?
Yes, you'd just run all of the images through jpeg-recompress (from the GitHub repo linked above). They're already doing something like this to dither, so it's just a question of swapping out which command to run.

Incidentally, even where PNG is appropriate (images with crisp edges, such as text and icons) you can frequently get a large size savings by applying zopflipng, which uses an alternative GZIP compression algorithm to get a higher-efficiency compression, at the cost of greater CPU use for encoding.[1]

[1]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/zopfli-optimization-literally-...
Sure you will be get hired while building a company.
My Pi-hole with updated block lists (blocking trackers as well as ads) sits at around 87.7% requests blocked

Where in THE hell are you going on the Internet? Wait, don't answer that. I only wonder because we sit at around 20-30% at our house (which is still ridiculous). But approaching 90%? Maybe I need to crank the blocklists up a notch, but I can't imagine even surfing porn sites all day that I could get anywhere near that percentage of blocked requests. But, man, I enjoy a challenge...
Nice to see an open-source project like this, but where can we find the repository / source?
This is not unique to Amazon. It's standard practice at most non-union places for training materials to emphasize the dangers of unionization and to inform management how to identify and deal with threats effectively.

If only companies were this diligent about preventing workplace harassment.
Ya, in China the saying goes "trick me once, shame on me."
Google is trying to cover its creepy Chinese search engine tracks
Workers follow the jobs. Where do you think all the L1s, H1Bs, O1s, TNs, and the people from other US cities come from?

About 50% of the people I meet moved here from somewhere else. It's easy to recruit people with "Come work for us. We can't give you more money, but we can offer more purchasing power, which is better. The homes within a 15 minute drive of the office--even at rush hour--are less than $1500/month."

For their story-heavy games, it seems like Telltale might have done okay with a location near the Georgia film industry, especially with the Walking Dead television show operating out of Riverwood Studios in Senoia, south of Atlanta.
I hadn't heard of Overnet, so here is a wiki for others like me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overnet

That said, it seems like "what makes it better" is that it hasn't received a take-down because this isn't attempting to be a solution for copyright circumvention ;)
A rehabilitation of message-passing concurrency
Is it necessary to be based on the prefix, or can it be implemented by pattern, for instance, every even byte is zero, or the 4 bytes after the first 3 bytes must be all 7s, etc?

Is it simply brute-forcing hashes, looking for matching patterns that are not yet known?
Global standards have improved since the 1800s. Lots of countries condemn things they once practiced. Slavery, genocide, pollution, and colonialism are all things that most prominent countries have participated in to some extent but now rightly condemn. This is the basic recipe for progress and it's a good thing.
The point was not about the elimination of gas, although thanks for mentioning that. The point was to have examples of how the gut effect the mood. Because the article talks about nervous system in the gut.
You're right, the cost of living in Copenhagen is very high. Rent is among the European top 10 and food quality/price is abysmal. Then again, Berlin is a little anomalous in how cheap it is, don't you think?
Sorry, it's more like a facebook wall... There's only been one post, hence the one image (but I just added a text message) :) Yes, you place a bid, and the highest bid is picked every minute. Your post goes onto the front page, and the rest get pushed down. However, the very top is reserved for the highest bid that hour, so if you bid $2, and everyone else bids $1 over the course of an hour, your bid will stay featured at the top. All winning bids will always be viewable by simply scrolling down.
And when you bid, your card is only charged if you win. So right now pretty much every bid would win, but if thousands of people are bidding, only the highest bid will win (and be charged) every minute. Hopefully that makes more sense?
I really like this. I have a pretty big legacy site with one section full of user-contributed (HTML/images) tutorials written over a period of 20 years (yes, the site has been up over 20 years) and it'd be nice to just copy/paste them into something like google docs, tweak them a bit to make all the styles match, and then republish them.

Your site says the project is open source, but I can't find any link. Will you share a link to the source?
Auctus launching soon: An investment platform made for the digital age
How to Exercise the Power You Didn’t Ask For
I've been running this for two years at home and at work and it's a God-send.

I live the ability to block SM on my networks. FB can get to be such a distraction with employees.
The FBI seems to disagree.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2016/tables/table-11

https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2016/tables/table-12

Note that the tables seem to differentiate between

The state with the most hate crimes was California, at 931. California's population is 40 million. Next up is New York, at 595 incidents over 20 million citizens. Pretty close per person to California. (.000023 vs .000029, someone check my math).

Next up... Ohio, 442 incidents to 10 million citizens. .000044. Michigan, 399 to 10 million. Kentucky, oh Kentucky, 206 to 4.4 million.
I'm sorry but I am from Oklahoma and you are incorrect. Gay people are regularly beaten, threatened, have their houses burned, and are even murdered. It has been less than a year since drive-by shootings at LGBT organizations in both Tulsa and Oklahoma City.

"In March, the Tulsa headquarters of Oklahomans for Equality was the victim of a similar incident. Security camera video caught a white truck drive by and fire more than a dozen times at the center early in the morning on March 6."
It looks like good fun, but I'll be honest I find the name very insulting.

I've had a wordpress website for 8 years. Is this going to work in 8 years? 6 months?
Maybe I wasn’t vert clear. They have the recording and sending functionality built in as main attraction. And they’re made to send that data because that’s their purpose. My phone is not supposed to do that so if I discover it does the intentions are clear.

And now slightly tangential, my phone will never accidentally hear the hot word, start recording, send the recording. It can’t accidentally misunderstand my pronunciation and do whatever the hotword squatter wanted to do.

It’s easier to abuse the one core functionality of a device than one that’s an afterthought and can be more easily disabled or stands out when it’s used. That’s because the legitimate and abusive behaviors almost perfectly overlap from a user point of view in a digital assistant.

Imagine being spied through an always on live streaming camera and being spied through camera that’s off most times. You may notice it powers on and sends data it shouldn’t.
I've hired 100+ engineers in my career. The ones with side projects are the best engineers. That said, sure I've had to fire some who don't perform.
I fundamentally believe we have the right to transform content that comes to our devices.

The idea that we have a moral duty to sit passively and absorb “experiences” in their intended form... I just don’t see how that works long term. It will just mean we get abused more and more and we have to take it.

No, if you want my business you have to find a way into my consciousness that is compatible with the way I arrange information around me. That’s always been the deal. You can put a free circular in my mailbox and I am free to toss it without looking.
No employer I have ever worked for would even consider modifying this language in their agreement. They are going to have a standard boilerplate and if you try to negotiate or modify it they will tell you “sign it unmodified or GTFO.” Ask me how I know :-)
I am not that Dan Collins. And as for an example - credit card transactions. I am sure somebody else can provide more color but it is my understanding that there are 6 or 7 intermediaries that each credit card transaction travels through - each taking their fraction of a penny and delivering questionable value - all to eventually have that transaction finally settle 2-3 DAYS later. On a blockchain that can happen in as little as 10 minutes and nobody else is involved (other than the miners in the case of a PoW consensus-backed blockchain like Bitcoin).

But more importantly, blockchain might provide a way to get around the information asymmetry problem that dominates financial value exchange. Blockchain is better in the idea that the entity trying to transact exposes all their cards on the blockchain - if they want to extract value from a transaction it will not simply be because they "know more than you". Power to the people.
Pretty common question to ask from hiring managers.
It shows passion. Passion is a way better predictor of your work quality and commitment than asking ICPC whiteboard questions.
Its more like just by simply doing business in China the victim should have been aware of the danger. There is no negative karma for doing scams, cheating, or stealing IP, only for being scammed, cheated, or having IP stolen.

It isn't really victim blaming, more like your business partner comes back to you and says "Why did you let me cheat you? This is all your fault."
https://adfreetime.com does this, as well as proxying location checking (like MLB's video streaming).
Finding mode in TXR Lisp:

This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 197.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
1> [group-by identity '(1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 4)]
#H(() (1 (1 1 1 1)) (2 (2 2)) (3 (3 3 3 3 3 3)) (4 (4)))
2> [find-max *1]
(4 4)
3> [find-max *1 : len]
(3 3 3 3 3 3 3)
4> (car *3)
3

All together:

5> (car [find-max [group-by identity '(1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 4)] : len])
3

Build an anon function out of these steps using opip macro:

6> (opip (group-by identity) (find-max @1 : len) car)
#<intrinsic fun: 0 param + variadic>

Invoke it on the sequence:

7> [*6 '(1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4)]
3
Is the code available for this ? This has been out from bellard's site for some time.
Enjoyed watching the idea-to-launch process on Twitter and Twitch. Nice work, Pat!
It's also pretty close to the Baysian approach. The difference being that in the Baysian approach one is "permitted" to revise the hypothesis as new data is acquired.
Perhaps, then, SF is not as liberal as people assume?
Solving accessibility (and simplicity) to blogging and freedom of speech, and in just 24 hours; this is awesome to say the least. I look forward to the words and wisdom that people will share with us through the platform.
>Is there any advantage in using Hadoop for such a use case?

Longer coffee breaks.
Basically they follow similar ideas to NixOS, but using Scheme instead of a custom script language.
My last two companies have modified their language.
If a site I use regularly has an annoying cookie warning, I just use uBlock Origin's element picker to hide it. I wonder how narrow the set of users are who care enough to block cookies but can't easily disable the warning.
Very cool! I'm guessing that this relies on Google not breaking, disabling or rate-limiting their Docs API, correct?
That's nice, and you can get a 1,000,000 tps on the shelf POWER8 server if you wish (on simple select-only requests, after tuning and patching the PostgreSQL core by a couple of the best PostgreSQL hackers in the world - yes, using carefully crafted assembler, no less https://akorotkov.github.io/blog/2016/05/09/scalability-towa...).

That wouldn't make that server competitor neither for IBM Parallel Sysplex, nor even for Oracle Exadata.
I don't recall the specifics. Their organization was what I'd call a mid-sized organization so it wasn't small. They were under the impression they could get it on demand from other providers, but IBM did not do that.... but they already chose IBM so there they were.

It is entirely possible they asked for something(s) weird.
actually, their pricing is 2.5% +10c for custom in person payments (Reader SDK) https://squareup.com/us/en/developers/reader-sdk
While it's definitely a lot of work, the author of the sibling post is right: Getting rid of Google services is fairly easy. The issue is rather that you might still want them in some cases. Then, it's often not so much a security issue but a rather a matter of getting them to work with your restricted setup.
I've been using this for a couple of weeks, and it works really (surprisingly!) well. Would have loved better examples to get started, but all I had to do was replace the connection string.
Counter anecdata: Many employers are happily willing to provide such carve-outs for ownership of side projects done at home on the employee’s own time and equipment.
Regardless of if theres a equivalence there or not, he's right that Texas and Georgia are in the unusual position of both having a ton of jobs and very reasonable housing market.

Granted SF is space constrained, but there is no excuse for other parts of Cali to be so expensive.
Is it that hard to see how a proprietary always-on home assistant is more invasive to privacy than a personal mobile device, which is not supposed to be listening to anything without an explicit permission?
Service records for the life of the car.

Vehicle purchasing/financing paperwork.

Inspection tracking.
Really? That's pretty handy actually. A long time ago I ran an experiment where I kept my dotfiles remotely and union mounted them to the right places. The real issue was getting it set up on temporary usage boxes and managing the differences.

While not as fun, this is why I built my own ErgoDox. So I can have my own personalized layout/layers and never have to worry about trying to configure the system. Just plug and go.
> Both Chrome and Firefox are excellent browsers, and are developed in the open for all to see.

I still think you're misunderstanding. The problem is that Google as an organization has the incentive to pull shady shit. It may be noticed, but watching Reddit/HN to see if your browser, which should protect you/be trustworthy, is pulling shady stuff, or whether you may've missed a story of it doing so is still exhausting and keeps you wondering.
It's also essentially game theory; the first defectors (those entering the Chinese market) will seize most of the reward.
Oculus Quest ships in the spring for $399
Had an awesome experience with german Amazon support - he was very friendly and helpful, sent an e-mail afterwards where he explained how the problem occured in more detail and got in touch with their tech team, which fixed the problem in few hours and then send me a handwritten e-mail (not automated) apologizing for the problem.
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