skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am honestly unsure what I would use a 7500sqft house for. Not even including the garden/land.

Our (me plus wife and kid) previous apartment was 900sqft, and our house is now 800sqft, and while a bit tight, this works pretty well for our family.

I like the aesthetics of big homes, but practically, I just don’t need all that space. We spend pretty much 80% of the time in the same 250sqft (living).

I would love me a garage/workspace though.
UK law is that a folding knife under 3" is generally legal to carry in public. Anything else requires a "good reason", which can be problematic if the cop/judge doesn't see things your way. A court ruling some time ago decided that a folding knife with a locking mechanism is actually a fixed blade and therefore not generally legal to carry.

Traditional Swiss Army Knives are non-locking and most of them are under 3". Most modern multitools do have locking blades and would run afoul of the aforementioned court ruling. I'm not sure if being under 18 changes things, but it very well might given the UK has such a hostile attitude toward teenagers that it popularized the use of a low-grade sonic weapon to discourage their presence in public spaces (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito).
The Chinese Communist Party has been imprisoning, torturing, and murdering journalists, researchers, artists, authors. The Chinese Communist Party is running concentration camps.

Yes, it is completely unreasonable to think that there might be something to learn from the Chinese Communist Party's policies of censorship and social control.
If that is copyright infringement then so is Google Chrome.

Outline is a browser in a browser.

If it were accessing unauthorised content in a shady way I would say they have a leg to stand on, but serving up content to Google different from what it serves to the user is already borderline illegal for a variety of reasons. (It's a misrepresentation) I don't think anyone is wanting to go down that road.

Remember with the law intent is usually what matters most.

The technical stance that outline is serving up content that the user requests from another site is by design not redistribution.

The funny part is that the argument that allows this is the same stupid argument that permits copyright to exist in a world where everytime you open or read a file you are technically copying it.
I think the FSF philosophy has proved remarkably prescient. For a long time I didn't really get it and it seemed excessively rigid and unrealistic. So many of the dangers that I now see in the path of technology were anticipated in the founding principles and four freedoms however. I've definitely come round if not yet a card carrying convert.
Because this is disallowed by CORS/single origin policy
"Tech" corporations have successfully conned a large portion of the population into believing that clicking a thumbs up icon under a photo of someone's breakfast or mindlessly scrolling through useless reposted memes qualifies as "staying in touch".

Even when people do venture out, it often seems to be for the sole purpose of collecting carefully planned and staged selfies that they feel will gain them more thumbs up clicks.

It's a sad situation, and I feel bad for the kids who are growing up in a world where this shit has a death grip on all of their peers.
Ensuring Go interface satisfaction at compile-time
> and less interested in school.

Though my profession is probably owed to the unsanctioned time I spent online in my youth (especially time away from school), and I luckily never had access to enough unearned money to buy a fast enough computer to play video games, never really played video games much, and still don't now that I have threadrippers, hundreds of gigs of ram, and top tier GPUs sitting around everywhere.

Some parents see the issues with video games as extending to access to computers as a whole, and I think that could have its own social cost.

If I were raising a kid right now, I'd probably have them on a feature phone, and a PC which stops short of playing modern games; but I think a lot of people would struggle with hypocrisy if they did that, since they own gaming hardware and play video games themselves, and my own mother is rather attached to her smartphone.
Yes, except they haven't because I've done exactly this in a lambda with no issues.
I cycle too and don't own a car, but I live in a lucky spot grandfathered in before the rent rose. I'm all for more transit options if they actually exist. You can't reduce car usage without allowing access to alternatives.
Tell that to my DirecTV satellite tv.
There are definitely rights which are artificial and not natural, for example the right to be free from prosecution without a trial jury. The right to vote is kind of in there too.

I think it's more accurate to say that rights (in the original setting) are a list of things that the law cannot prohibit you.
I mean, this way I don't learn anything. I'm sure there are people who would have written it differently, and I'd love to see how.
Not just for solo founders!

I remember after leaving a full-time job for the company we started in 2005 being really freaked out by the idea that I didn't really ever have vacations or sick days or any kind of paid time off, since it was all coming out of my pocket. It was a freaky feeling.

We'd have weekly partner calls, and we'd get to the part where we'd run through the pipeline and cash flow situation, and I'd hold the phone away from my face so I wouldn't hear any of it, which did not overly endear me to my partners.

Also: to this day, neither Jeremy nor Dave can call me on the phone without me having a small panic attack (a post-traumatic reaction to several business dramas we had); it's almost exactly the feeling you get when a family member calls at 1AM. Jeremy I understand, because we still work together, but Dave called me a few months ago, and I freaked right the fuck out.

Yeah this seems like the big important entrepreneurial essay someone needs to write. It's a much bigger deal than most of the advice you get about starting a company.
Some people guess right and never have any regrets. Some people guess right, and then life happens.

And yes, some people guess wrong.

But that article thinks everyone guesses wrong.
Honest question, isn't this same big data technical effort supporting the round up of Uighurs[1]?

I get that the main story is about a debtor and credit, but the concept of stratification based on surveilence-data is word-for-word 1984.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-...
How does this picture change if you include China and Russia?
Upside for automobile makers and oil and gas companies, the ones who matter in America.
I explicitly did not insinuate astroturfing. What are you smoking?
I don’t know if it’s proper accounting but there’s no way the marginal cost of producing drugs is high enough to cost as much in marketing costs as they do.

> Between 1996 and 2000, they accounted for slightly more than half of the total promotional dollars spent by industry [22]. Although there is controversy about how best to tally the amount of money the pharmaceutical industry spends on free samples, a recent analysis of 2004 figures sets the retail value of samples at approximately 16 billion US dollars [23]. The retail value of free samples has risen steadily, doubling between 1999 and 2003 [24] (Figure 1).

Chimonas S, Kassirer JP (2009) No More Free Drug Samples? PLoS Med 6(5): e1000074. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000074

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
Call me a radical but I don't understand why we put people in jail and just leave them there to rot. Empathy, it seems is our deterrent. I for one am a proponent for the death sentence or medical human testing as an alternative. We would of course make sure to do this to inmates who are incapable of changing or adapting behavior to conform, and also only to those who we are 100% committed crimes. We can give them all the resource in the world so they can find their place in society and "fit" in. However, if they don't, then can help greater society by being subjects to human testing for medication or other alternatives, and if not, they get the death sentence. Not only can this speed up our progress in achieving our medical goals, such as, cure for cancer and the likes. But it can save the government some money which they can use for other things like education.
Sadly, it's not online that I know of. Here are pictures of the text:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5sa0m8l9u6211y4/2019-03-26%2019.21...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dwbh9i7a4dcx84g/2019-03-26%2019.22...

The book [https://www.amazon.com/Garners-Modern-English-Usage-Garner/d...] is worth owning.
I don't know what it's like to be you, but IPOs and being a billionaire are well outside my sphere of experience.
What you are talking about is to exploit the mass parallelism of GPU, but I suspect that there are huge differences between each of the calculation/evaluation, which is not a good pattern for GPU threads. As GPU threads work together in bundles, or warp, the cost on sync'ing each thread may be high.

But still, worth a try if you have one, and don't forget SHOW HN once you have luck ;)
I know Munkres is the go-to standard for topology, but I think that Essential Topology by Martin D. Crossley is a better book. It's only 200 pages, packed full of great examples, and covers all the (as the title says) essential topics in undergrad topology (topological spaces, continuity, connectivity, compactness, Hausdorff property, homeomorphisms, homotopy, Euler number, homotopy groups, simplicial homology, etc.)
> Marginal improvements are actually a huge deal and make for a lot of improvement.

The problem is that these decisions are made on a marketability basis (hence, a plethora of impotence treatments for rich old men) rather than a public health basis.

> If they don’t pay then either the pace of drug R&D will fall or some other mechanism will need to be found to pay for it.

When you hear about it, the concept of public funding is gonna blow your mind.
Here is a brief guide to reading patents:

* Ignore the title, it will only confuse you.

* Ignore the abstract, it will only confuse you.

* Ignore the figures, it will only confuse you.

* Ignore the description, it doesn't matter.

* Jump straight to the claims (the only thing left in the patent). This is literally the only thing that matters in the entire document.

* Ignore most of the claims--anything that says "the thing of claim N". You can't violate those without violating other parts of the patent, by definition. The Google patent view helpfully puts these in lighter gray.

* You can also generally go straight only to the first claim, because the other claims end up being subtly-reworded variations of the first claim.

* This claim is, in short, "A thing comprising A, B, and C." You have to have all of A, B, and C to violate the patent. If you have just A and B and no C, you don't violate it. If you have A, B, and something that is similar to C but you used a relay where C says to use a transistor, you don't violate it.
A real CDN is hard. I wager that basically any CDN will outperform a homegrown CDN.

Maintaining low latency connections with all the networks in the world is no easy task.

LinkedIn has what I think some good CDN blog posts
https://engineering.linkedin.com/performance/how-linkedin-us...
https://engineering.linkedin.com/network-performance/tcp-ove...
Yeah exactly. But also, even if you don’t want to, you need to.
This is worth a look. Some of the old A+ stuff is as well. I'm told by reliable sources that an awful lot of Art's code looked like this over the years; even the more recent K7 stuff. Art's gonna do his thing. Opinions differ as to whether or not it is a generally good idea, but you can't argue with the results, and at this point I find stuff like the J source code to be fairly readable, even if it is really different from what most people are used to. Basically, you're just expressing C as APL primitives. If you understand APL primitives, it's not so bad.

If you want to see APL expressed as C primitives, something like Nial is pretty good:
https://github.com/danlm/QNial7
Curiosity, and wondering if I'd stumble upon something useful (to me or to someone I know), and wondering if 'make money' eclipses 'social-good'. But also apprehension, about misuse cases.
I dunno, I believe pretty strongly that it is a good thing for software businesses to be able to prosper. If that's not an ideology, I'm not sure how it is distinct from one. I don't think it's a careless choice; I've thought about it and actively concluded that I believe businesses are generally a good thing (note: not always, but generally). Maybe it is a calculated choice because one of the reasons I'm in favor of businesses is that they are how I employ myself and earn a living. But that's not the only reason; I may work in the public sector one day, but in all likelihood I will still believe that businesses are generally a good thing. It's just a belief that I hold. Is that an ideology? I don't know, but it seems like it might be.
> Turning that notion on its head, Pinephone could be one to watch.

Maybe. Except that for me (and I know I'm not alone) the second most important part of my pocket computer after web searching is the camera, and they're unlikely to have anything great in there.

> Allwinner

Hah. The repeat GPL violator?
If you don't have 3 transistors wired in a way that accomplishes that, you don't violate the patent. (Actually, at least 2 transistors, the other two independent claims cover cases where you replace the third transistor with something else). You don't violate a patent by violating a loose summary of the patent, you have to specifically violate the claims in full.
I remembered this thread and came back to say the same about my Samsung Chromebook Plus. The screen scrolls the same too.
> serving up content to Google different from what it serves to the user is already borderline illegal for a variety of reasons

This is called spoofing. Google doesn’t like it because it makes for a bad user experience, but it is certainly not illegal (or even borderline).

I think the legal argument you’re trying to make died with the Aereo supreme court decision. The ”outline is a browser in a browser” statement is cute but it doesn’t pass the duck test.
The “for the public good” part is what’s missing in that setup
Could be. I've had emails from other services which were clearly fishing for me to respond to an account registration that was "accidentally" sent to my email address, probably hoping that I'd take on the account or see what the service was and create my own.
If people who guess wrongly bemoan it loudly, while those who guess correctly enjoy it quietly, then all we will hear is regret even if most people get it right.

I think this goes doubly so online, where the loudest voices dominate.
Inkstone editor and OP here. This IS China's social credit system. Lists of discredited people, often published by Chinese courts, are the primary mechanism by which punishment is meted out.
Legal rights are things that society decides you're entitled to. Natural rights are basically theological in origin. Violating them transgresses the natural law regardless of what society decides (or even whether society exists, I guess).

It seems you're only considering legal rights, possibly because natural rights are difficult to justify from a secular perspective.
The official line is:- https://www.police.uk/crime-prevention-advice/possession-of-...

However, interpretation of what threatening is varies and for some people say walking a dog, the sight of a knife of any form would be a call to the police - however legal or not. This and the internet has demonstrated time and time again, that whatever is said or done - their will always be some who will take offence.

Take a look at - https://www.knifefree.co.uk/ which is linked upon that page. Can see what type of message they are putting out regarding knives, do recommend doing that quiz. Also interesting is the boss button on the right (quick exit from site onto google).

But then the UK is very London centric in how laws and rules get driven and more so - enforced. Compared to Canada, in which you have more wilderness, the social culture is more at ease and as such the law/system - less reactionary. Equally you have whole area's in which people don't lock their doors. Unheard of in today's times in the UK alas (though I'm sure there are small hamlets of hope). Though was common in the past, even in London.
I spent a huge amount of time playing around with a demo of SSEYO Koan Pro which Eno used to make Generative Music 1 [1] and which evolved over time into Wotja by Intermorphic [2]. It's about time I tried Wotja out!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music

[2] https://intermorphic.com/wotja/
They also censor or at least filter out content they are not comfortable sharing on their iTunes movie platform. I’m not sure how appropriate the word censor is here in this context. They are a private company that can choose which content they release in which area, or at all, especially to adapt to local customs or laws. Similar to how you can get rice and a chicken leg at McDonalds in Indonesia, but can’t in America.
A properly executed Boy Scout program[1] should give adolescents a lot of unstructured time and leave them with the sense that they spent a weekend hanging out with their friends having fun. It's only at the Cub Scout level where it's appropriate for adults to be planning and leading a highly structured weekend of activities. When I take my troop camping, even if there's a fixed plan for an activity during the day (eg. if we've hired a whitewater rafting outfitter for the day), by 4 or 5PM on Saturday we're back in camp and the scouts' time is their own from then until mid-morning Sunday when they need to be packed up and ready for the drive home. They're still loosely supervised by adults, but there's no adult telling them when to start cooking dinner or when to go to bed.

[1] The program is officially no longer known as Boy Scouts in the US, now that it's starting to go co-ed.
Dropbox's 12-Year Evolution
Sounds like the leatherman I had as a teenager would be illegal then; that's pretty nuts. The most dangerous thing I ever did with it was take apart a microwave oven, and that didn't even involve the blade.
This is good stuff. Thanks for sharing. I will consider reading this book.
I was just taking the argument to its logically absurd conclusion. Of course, copyright law is more complicated than that.
From title to deprecation in 1 comment, that was fast.
How did this come about? At some point you realized you were listening to mostly Autechre, and made a conscious decision to cut everything else out? (I’m listening to LP5 now, somehow it has always been my favorite)
The US wants to send astronauts to the moon’s south pole in 2024
Thanks for the input on kops. There's a lot of functionality in kops - e.g. we can manage CNI providers, etcd etc. In some places this manifests as more code, but my gut is that if you add up all the code you're relying on it turns out to be a wash. And you can definitely use kops from CI, driving it from yaml files that are checked in to git - that seems to be a great configuration particularly for people managing large numbers of clusters.

The long-term strategy is to get most of the kops functionality upstreamed into standalone community projects - and we're making progress with etcdadm, addon-operators, cluster-api etc. Then it will be easy to write your own tooling if you don't like some of the kops decisions, but still benefit from the community investment in e.g. etcd management etc. kops itself becomes a thinner shim around those shared common pieces. A lot of the decisions that are now generally agreed (e.g. dynamically attaching etcd volumes) weren't as well accepted when we started off, so it was harder to get them going as community efforts!

We do have support for "phases" in kops which should allow you to use a provided VPC, but to be honest it's still not as easy as the rest of kops is. We also have a few PRs in-flight that to allow you to specify an alternative to an IGW e.g. a VPN, but it's hard to reach consensus (but I guess we should based on your input!). The big trade-off here is that once you start allowing arbitrary configuration, you lose the ability to validate things, and so for some fraction of people there are going to be mistakes. That works great for small community projects, it is really great if your business model is paid support, but for a large community project it really can be problematic. I don't think we've got the balance totally correct in kops, but that's the trade-off we wrestle with.
Ask HN: Do you travel regularly? Would you be interested in a Skype alternative?
I travel a lot and find Skype frustrating because it has rules for recharges based on which country you are currently in / where you created your account. I also often forget my Skype password. The result is when I need to make an international call, Skype, not that cheap, is also not easy.

I've been considering building something atop Twilio to solve my own problem, and putting the business viability aside, I'm wondering if any esteemed hackeroos could see themselves using like a "Web Payphone" where you can make international calls through your browser, after inserting some credit.

I'm thinking we could either do it once off, like make a hold on the credit, then after the call, charge for the actual amount ( say you insert 5 dollars, your call costs 1 dollar, we charge you for 1 dollar, and the 5 dollar hold comes off ). Or we could do regular PaYG. Also, if your call length is going to exceed 5 dollars, we warn on your side and cut it if it goes over (like a regular payphone of olde).

Apart from the retro tech fetishism of making a web based "payphone" (I remember them from youth), every time I need to dial international and I'm in a country, I wish I had an easy way to do it.

But I saw no one has made this, so I guess maybe it's not such a great idea. Still, it would help me. I've been thinking about it for a while and could probably build it.

I should add that this would not be for "Staying in touch with your friends"™ it would be for "utility" calls, like calling your bank when you're overseas. Not that you couldn't call any number you like, but with Whatsapp et al why would you want to pay to do so?
>This is why the GPLv2 doesn't only require the source code itself. You have to be able to effectively make use of that software freedom.

GPLv3 is intended to be better at this than GPLv2, specifically the anti-tivoization bits: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.en.html
Because you have to give them money if you want to read it.
I don't think that's a fair statement of the FSF's position.

From the horse's mouth:

> Early drafts of GPLv3 allowed licensors to add an Affero-like requirement to publish source in section 7. However, some companies that develop and rely upon free software consider this requirement to be too burdensome. They want to avoid code with this requirement, and expressed concern about the administrative costs of checking code for this additional requirement. By publishing the GNU Affero GPLv3 as a separate license, with provisions in it and GPLv3 to allow code under these licenses to link to each other, we accomplish all of our original goals while making it easier to determine which code has the source publication requirement.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SeparateAffero

The "administrative burden" is not academic, by the way. Where I work we spend a lot of time and money checking that we are compliant with every license pulled in directly or indirectly into our products.
Our real estate agent summed it up: A Dream Home is any property my client buys as long as I make money.
Sounds like a statement which can describe far more than a choice of house. Careers, lovers, whether to have children, etc. And even if you guessed right, things can change.