skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people buying Facebook ads know if they work. You can track customers through every click to the sale. You can experiment with $10 if you want. Try it.

I built a large print-on-demand apparel marketplace. Most of the sellers were driving traffic with facebook ads. It worked great. Unfortunately (for the sellers) so many people jumped into the game that they bid up the ad rates. Now Facebook makes most of the money in the tshirt business... but you can't say the system doesn't work.
oh well, a few hundred of the working answers I posted on stackoverflow will stop working. Not sure how I can fix them
Would you be interested in some articles about his? A lot of our infrastructure bases trust around self-signed CA chains and mutual TLS authentication in different configurations, mostly involving elastic stacks, vault, nomad, consul - and we're migrating a lot of the cert handling to be fully automated. We're also extending this to a number of our java applications as well.

I might be able to shed some light on there, as this topic isn't actually that hard. It just requires some very careful thinking.
The satire might be inspired by a very real lib 'Callbag" from the creator of Cycle.js https://github.com/staltz/callbag-basics
Oh, I totally agree it's an empty threat, but many workers don't know that.

It's kind of fucked up though that putting something obviously unenforceable in a hiring contract isn't being punished. Either the worker ignores it, knowing there's nothing the company can do, or they take it seriously and are afraid to quit to go to a competitor. It's pretty much no lose for the company though.
> I don't believe the situation you outline is the case in reality. Dollars are not, in a sense, "debt" to the Fed.

But they are. The origin of fiat currency is exactly that. Historically, dollars were backed by something (gold, assets) held by central banks from citizen deposits.

But today, they are backed by nothing. Fiat dollars are simply loans taken by US govt and private citizens.

While that does keep the economic engine running, it's all running on debt. Debt by citizen 1 creates money. Citizen 2 sells them corn to get that money. Citizen 2 takes that money and more debt to buy a tractor from citizen 1. Then time comes to repay money and one of them defaults. Central bank seizes assets of the defaulter for not returning the money they printed out of thin air in the first place.

That system is great if there was some base backing so that savers are not disproportionaly affected. But todays massive boom busts take down the whole world except the 1%.

I mean, why should a newborn baby pay more taxes for the debt of Citizen 1 (US govt)?
The real villain here is Orrin Hatch (R-Utah): http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-hatch-...

Strangely enough, his Wikipedia article doesn't mention his championship of the natural health industry, the word "supplement" doesn't show up even once. It must be that even his supporters find the "Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994", which he sponsored, too blatantly in favour of the industry and too damaging to public health.
"Could Google be compelled to send a update to a user's phone that allowed a government agency remote access?"

I think most of us know the answer is yes.
See also: why many people don't go to the doctor.
>> this is one of those things that the market should decide.

The market can only decide when consumers are fully informed of the charges before they purchase the ticket. If Expedia modifies their web site to ask if you have baggage and adds baggage fees to the displayed total then consumers are fully informed.
Yeah this was mind blowing when I first moved to the US.

The idea that someone can cost you money without your consent is insane. I vaguely recall incoming calls also costing money when I first came here - and I got a lot as the previous owner of the number clearly hadn’t been paying bills...
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It would be nice to be able to sit in aisle seats again without having my arm ripped off by the drink cart...
>They've pretty much demonstrated that people make decisions based on the cheapest base fare.

Nope. For example the business sector market doesn't necessarily look for cheapest fares. For that market (which is quite big) there are other considerations, like minimizing layovers, in-flight comfort, lounge access, priority boarding, etc.
They save a ton of money on labor. It's easy for sales to cover salaries if you have no employees to pay.
> Soyuz is a proven reliable spacecraft, it’s not a shitbox.

I was going to say... It might not be flashy and shiny and new but what else is really important when you are doing space travel? Personally I'd rather have the indestructable, boxy, non-aerodynamic 1995 Jeep Cherokee and its inline V6 engine than some brand new "2.4L Tigershark® MultiAir® 2 I4 Engine with Electronic Stop/Start (ESS) Technology".

All of those adjectives / descriptors after the "2.4L" look and sound nice but beside looking fancy is there any merit to them being added? Most people in and around the Jeep car scene / motor heads / people with decent car knowledge KNOW that Jeep's Inline V6 was nearly indestructible. They lasted forever when properly maintained (regular oil changes, fluid changes, and tune ups) and could take loads of abuse. Most other things in and on the car would wear out and/or burn out (things like electronics) before the engine and transmission would even become an issue at all.

That said, in 2018, there are lots of reasons a 1995 Jeep Cherokee isn't the ideal car. Namely gas mileage, lack of aerodynamics, weight and weight distribution (materials and generally being overweight), and so on. Even knowing all of that I'm sure if paying for gas wasn't a major issue lots of people who had Jeep Cherokees in the past would love to have a properly running one again for one simple reason:

Reliability and dependability. What else really matters? I'd definitely trade in the offset in cost at purchase time for a gas guzzler if the cost winds up the same or the scale even tilts toward the Jeep if you consider all of the upkeep and maintenance costs included, after purchase, for another vehicle.

The Soyuz, if nothing else, is extremely reliable. If I were an astronaut that's the main thing I'd be worried about and if I had any say it'd be the one thing I absolutely required -- for obvious reasons.
I looked at the paper (too Fast I could say bullshit), the techniques consist of retrieving from a question a list of differently phrased same question thus, if the existing QA answer system fail with one, it can retry with other phrasing of the same request. Also they may combine answers from subquestions to the global visible answer, but this must have many issues.

Nothing directly reward reformulations. But the global answer can be rewarded by user feedback. Yes this indirection still seems like an issue.

What I would do instead of this strategy would be to cluster extremely similar/other formulations of the same question by different users and then store for each frequent common question a list of reformulations (user generated). Of course the list would be based on the profile of the user.

I do not answer How similarity/identicality of user formulations would be determined by I have a couple of heuristics in mind.
I don't think anyone was suggesting actually vaping on the plane next to other people - I'm pretty sure that was never cool with flight attendants and/or other passengers.

The question is: if I am not allowed to bring (potentially expensive and/or hard-to-find) e-cigs on board, what do I do when I land? Can I put them in checked luggage? Do I have to throw them out if I forget they're on me? Too bad?

I don't have any answers but I personally use an e-cig to keep me from going back to the real thing (real cigarettes that is).
... what makes you think e-cigarettes are harmless?
A response to the OOP part of this: https://www.gamedev.net/blogs/entry/2265481-oop-is-dead-long...

I have no preference here, just posting it as an interesting further reading.
Interesting. I might give this a shot. Do you know if CFFI stuff works -- so that I could use eg. cl-opengl or cl-sdl2 -- if you somehow statically link stuff together? That's what I do w/ LuaJIT for example. Or maybe LispWorks has its own OpenGL bindings, not sure.
I see the same thing. Wonder if anyone was informed that actually had been affected.
As we just saw with Google and Google+.
Thankfully, it's pretty easy to find the GitHub page for the linked source with a bit of URL surgery.
I miss Japan for it's food. Always made sure to grab an Ekiben when my Shinkansen journey went over lunch. Never disappointed.
Sorry for the late response. Yeah I mostly played w/ it in 2015 but I think Pharo was the most modern option then and there were good resources like "Updated Pharo by Example" (a free book).
We've heard of quite a few Webflow users that have converted components built in Webflow to React/Vue/Angular components. We've explored it a bit internally but need to get more user feedback on how broadly this would appeal to product designers and developers, and specifically what workflows they're looking to augment or replace. Stay tuned!
Can screen time replace the warmth of a hug? Prisons make a big push on devices
“Transpiling is a code smell” - what is the thinking behind this statement?
To be "fair", their latest revision of the paper includes some figures from a 4 year out of date version of CRAM, which is an improvement on the 10 year old outdated format they used initially. ;-)

Disclaimer, that's my blog and I'm the primary author of the newer version of CRAM.
You've been breaking the guidelines a lot, but we'd like to hear what you have to say that isn't a flippant and vacuous dismissal, so could you please read start following them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hacking audio processing neural networks
“Surely?” Well, we can always hope. Beware of the interpretation “he” might want you to have.
I think we're going to hit economic recession sooner than we think simply because the US govt needs to borrow so much money to keep itself running.

I have an idea. How about the politicians who voted for this deficit be on the hook for deficits and have to liquidate their own assets to pay for the deficit first. Come to other citizens later.
>Can Apple afford to spend more per product?

Yeah, Apple has sucked almost all the profit of the Smartphone sector for a long time.

It is just one thing: volume. Their volume is so great and prices so high that they get almost all the profit. Their volume also gives them terrible negotiation power with suppliers, they get the best there it is(like electronics), for cheap. The rest of the companies just fight for the spoils.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/04/17/apple-grabs-86-of...

Samsung while being the best in the competition, but is is very far from Apple.
As someone who has used Firefox almost exclusively since 2004 (ok, there was a year or two of Opera in there...) and as the sort of power user who continues to doggedly consume RSS to this day... yeah, I've never used Live Bookmarks. I remember seeing them in my bookmarks bar on fresh Firefox installs back in the day. The interface just wasn't amenable to my use patterns, and Google Reader was (these days I'm on Feedly).
While I prefer full articles, preview feeds are still useful, because I can follow many sites this way. I don't want to manually poll each of those sites on my own to see if they've posted anything new.
I'm sorry, but your complaint makes as much sense as telling a coach that it would be easier to get people into fitness if they weren't made to do pushups because pushups are unpleasant.

There is no way to acquire complex concepts without acquiring a language that can state those concepts. This takes work and discipline. It requires training. And if you're going to train someone anyways, it would be monumental idiocy to allow them to be trained in a way that won't let them communicate with others.

If someone refuses to go through the training, the result is that, like you, they can't learn to be good at math. Just like you won't become physically fit without a certain amount of work.

Now the training can be made more interesting. There are ways to improve it. But asking for no training, and instead just have people observe it as a weird thing from the outside? That will no more build the mental pathways that let you do math than watching people weight lift will make you stronger.
Working in Manhattan, I am lucky to have access to a Sunrise Mart that sell bentos and other Japanese comfort foods. It's my go to lunch spot when I'm in a rush and want something cheap and healthy.

There's also a growing UK/Japanese chain called Wasabi Sushi & Bento that has locations in both Penn Station and WTC Oculus.
Exascale computers might be too complicated to use
I buy whey protein at the grocery store, and I'm comfortable doing so because it makes no promises other than being something I can use to get some easy calories and protein. But places like GNC have lots more than just protein and creatine under "Muscle builders", "Performance Formulas", "Cleansing & Detox" and "Appetite Control". I consider those to be the same market as a bunch of the stuff on this list.
Philly Proud
I recently heard about a short story by a French author about a map making-obsessed country who covered their whole country with a 1:1 scale map. For years I've had the idea for an indie game about trying make it from one side of the USA to the other with a crappy car and little money - basically a modern-day reimagining of Oregon Trail. However a challenge would be rendering interesting buildings and cities. So something I thought about is what if the game also uses the idea of the whole country having a 1:1 street atlas map draped over everything? You could give hints of there being buildings and other interesting things peeking through rips in the map, while most of the modeling / graphics is really just open street map data textured over a height map.
the fastest time-resolution that is generated is in a niche field, attophysics, where they can get a pulse in the low hundred attosecond range, 10 ^ -16 or so.

the signal is extremely weak, the conventional 'shortest-pulse' is around 5 femtoseconds.
Clickbait?
I think it's the security incident that happened couple of weeks ago and they have more details now?
This law is a bunch of generally-good regulations that address various sorts of minor dysfunctions affecting air travel lately. What really annoys me is how it's pitched on inc.com.

Let's look at the inc.com headline, which I quote in full: "President Trump Just Signed a Law That Radically Changes Life for Airline Passengers, Flight Attendants, and Airlines (Almost Nobody Even Noticed) In the middle of the Supreme Court fight, the White House held a Friday afternoon signing ceremony for this new, 1,200-page law"

For God's sake, this spin is ridiculous. This wasn't some radical part of Trump's agenda. There's no evidence that the law's signing was intended to deceive the public. The regulations themselves are decent tweaks to existing practice that are consistent with common sense. You'd get a very different impression reading the headline.

Granted, I never paid much attention to inc.com before, but I think I'll find a way to pay even less attention to it now.
Fully agree. We're really seeing two divergent trends.

Fees for everything for the price-sensitive masses.

And, for business travelers with status (who are at a minimum less price sensitive and typically don't pay most of the base level fees anyway), somewhat better seating as a perk, much better seating for upgrades/upsells, a premium class of airline clubs among the base level (e.g. United's Polaris Clubs), etc.

And, as you say, I don't really have a problem with all this because it makes flying much more affordable for those that find the most bargain economy ticket a big expense. While I might personally enjoy it more, you don't really want a world where lie-flat seats are required on all 5+ hour flights.
Parent implied you can't bring them on board at all (checked or hand).

Also, I was making a more general point. I see e-cig bans everywhere I go, both in my country and abroad.
In the US the general public, engineers who discover and are tasked with preventing these attacks, and to a large extent the companies that are attacked are faced with a perverse set of incentives at the moment. Notifying federal authorities is often the best/only recourse. This results in a long waiting period where they determine the geo political or national interest in these attacks and they may make recommendations on how to best navigate and mitigate the impact but there is 0 incentive to make the fact that an attack occurred public knowledge.

How would you propose we shine a light on what bad actors, companies and individuals who are attacked, and even our own federal law enforcement would rather keep secret? How do we give law enforcement the ability to trace these attacks to their proper source during an ongoing investigation, but keep them accountable?
PeerTube stable 1.0.0
This is the third request I've gotten for DTLS. Where are you weirdos coming from? :)
To diagram it out:

a = ability
l = luck
p = performance

a l
\ /
\ /
v
p

Each (ability and luck) has a contributing factor. Your ability is more likely to be consistent (within some stretch of time). Your luck is less consistent. So if you average a 7 minute mile, and you somehow run it in 6, unless your fundamental ability has changed it was luck (weather, mental state, wear on your shoes) that pushed you so far outside your norm, and you should anticipate returning to your average in the future.
There are a few things related to TP2, aka Convergence Property 2 (CP2), that needs to be unpacked here.

Do your system always need to preserve TP2/CP2 to converge correctly? Contrary to what many folks and papers will claim, answer is categorically no.

There are two general approaches to arrive this desired outcome: (1) avoiding it or (2) preserving it. Let's look at the basics of what you need for each:

(1) Avoiding it - this can be done with a centralized server, as well as in a fully distributed, decentralized, peer-to-peer context. So I'm in agreement with josephg in that a central server will avoid TP2/CP2, but I'd like to amend that with a decentralized avoidance strategy is available and just as easy to adopt. To back this up, this paper [1] looks at TP2/CP2-avoidance systematically in representative protocols and algorithms: JUPITER, NICE, Google Wave, COT, TIBOT/TIBOT2. TIBOT/TIBOT2 are two fully decentralized algorithms/protocols that avoids TP2/CP2.

In addition, [1] also answers the more interesting question of why these systems were able to avoid TP2/CP2, by giving the general conditions for TP2/CP2-avoidance. You can apply the conditions to design a new protocol or algorithm that avoids TP2/CP2.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/u4mhm4ol4qq24uz/TPDS2412938-POT.pd...

(2) Preserving it - By TP2/CP2 preservation, it usually refers to the task of writing transformation functions (e.g. between insert and delete, or delete and delete) that satisfies the aforementioned condition. This is a solved problem for String-wise operations, from 2016 [2]:

- You can take these String-wise transformation functions and use them with many of the existing OT algorithms in fully-decentralized context and satisfy all TP1 and TP2.

- The transformation functions are free of Tombstones (or its variants) or other schemes (DAG etc) to ensure TP2.

Happy to say more about it if someone has an interest.

[2] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2998181.2998252.

You can implement correct and performant OT with both a centralized server or with a fully decentralized topology, using TP2/CP2-avoidance and/or with TP2/CP-preservation. I've built multiple production systems with all the varieties. I generally do prefer OT with TP2/CP2-avoidance on a server, but it's not because OT can't avoid TP2/CP2 without a server or preserve TP2/CP2, it is that there is not much real-world evidence showing clear benefits moving a collaborative editing system to decentralized topology, esp when most of the CRDT-based p2p proposals in papers that I've come across involves a server one way or another.

TP2/CP2 in OT is often stood up as a straw-man so folks can throw stones against its correctness, it is really a solved problem. The unfortunately outcome is that you see a ton of papers adopting this strategy to get published and overtime the conversation becomes really convoluted.

We discuss these ideas and try to dispel many of these confusions in detail in the arxiv manuscript. A good starting point would be Section 4.1.3: OT Solutions to the CP2 Issue and the FT Puzzle
I don't think an economic conservative accepting social security while being against it is a contradiction, any more than an economic liberal using schemes to pay the lowest taxes possible while being in favor of higher taxes.

It seems a little ridiculous for a economic conservative to refuse to accept social security despite being forced to pay into it their whole life. Just as much for an economic liberal to pay the highest taxes possible and give all of their extra income to the Government too.

I think optimizing your current situation given what the rules of your society currently actually are doesn't preclude you from advocating for a different set of rules.
> but for really involved systems with time-to-market pressures the framework is too limiting

It was specifically designed and developed for involved systems.
15 years is a long time to pull “modest” amounts of money, fees, self-deals to keep himself net-whole, while pushing all the risk and loss to the hedge fund outside investors.
Everyone was cartoonish, even the good guys. It was like a small army of glimmering MD PhD's with perfect physiques vs. the lazy bums.

It's a work of fantasy, why does anyone point to it and say "This is what I base my beliefs on."? That would be like using LotR as your moral compass. Except with worse plot holes like gross misrepresentations of how small mountain village economies could possibly function.
I assume this is also heavily influenced by the recent Qualcomm court case where Apple was hit with infringing on one of their power management patents.
Testing for tainting with pharmaceuticals is no doubt going to find it mostly in weight loss and sex pills. Heavy metals you'll find in the herbs. Proteins would probably be more contaminated with animal/food related issues like in canning.

The general problem is that whatever you look at you are likely to find a type of contamination that isn't being checked for with the same level of oversight as the food industry or the pharmaceutical industry.
Only if you’re very spiritual.
They don't contain any of the substances that are harmful in analog cigarettes. They're essentially nicotine + stage smoke.
Why not make it possible for anyone to train it instead of you having to do engineering? Is that the profit model? If so, totally valid, but I'm wondering if I'm understanding this right.
As somebody who's written papers for scientific conferences and journals, I can tell you that this just isn't going to work. I'm not a designer and making a LaTeX-generated PDF with few frills look decent is enough work already. Generating HTML and having to verify that it looks good on every major browser whether it's a mobile or desktop device is just completely out of the question.

Seriously, think about it -- plenty of "professional" webpages with full time designers and UX engineers look like shit on mobile or Firefox or whatever (as you'll know if you've ever read reddit/HN comments). Imagine what a shitshow HTML papers from academics who are desperately doing whatever they can to get a readable version of their paper formatted during the 20 minutes before the deadline would be.
Is this going to be world-wide or US-only? The former will probably mean a lot of legal hassle, but it would be nice to be able to participate from elsewhere in the world...