skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That post is stating that the way out society functions around the concept of data is incorrect.

You're right in that some works do require significant budgets to complete. Is there absolutely no other possible way that such works could get funded without an individual person buying only one individual copy of that work to post-hoc fund it in aggregate?

"No! Nothing but this system could ever possibly work. It's pointless to even speculate on anything else existing."

I don't think that's your position, but you sure couch it in those terms. You sure ended that dialog in those terms. Did you mean to?

I'd like to see real discussion around this topic, but before it even gets off the ground, the mere existence of such systems are assumed impossible and the seed of such a conversation is accused of what you accused the grandparent. I want to entertain the notion.
Why would the 2DFT be a good model of natural images?
The major issue is the revenue stream to the creator was removed. Someone (facebook and/or the page) was profiting directly or indirectly from the work, and not the author. That's copyright infringement and theft. The removal of the attribution is insult added to injury, but far less immediately important.

I sometimes wonder if the tech startup crowd really believes "eyeballs," "exposure," and "active users" are inherently valuable. Maybe if you're shopping around to investors or patrons. Not if you're the other 99% of the population. For them, exposure is just a chance to grow the modest revenue stream they already have, or nothing at all. MAYBE you could get lucky and parlay it into a book deal or something, but probably not.
If you're okay with OAuth providers then https://github.com/markbates/goth gives you the capability to handle more than just Google accounts.

Otherwise, you're right in that there doesn't exist a 'de facto' auth package for Go like Devise in the Rails world. Part of this is because you can't rely on stuff like ActiveRecord, ActionController, etc. to do some of the heavy lifting for you (Go being just a language, not a framework on its own).

FWIW, I'm partway through writing a concise cookie- (and optionally Redis-) backed store that effectively asks you to provide a `User` type that can satisfy `GetID() string` and `IsAdmin() bool` methods. The middleware/lib does most of the work once you call `mypkg.SetUser(yourusertype)` in your login handler.

This obviously doesn't cover features such as password reset emails, user registration, etc because you either have to make a ton of assumptions about your users' design/implementation, keep things limited, or fall into the trap of "provide options for every possible use case".

PS: Ping me via email if you want some guidance. Happy to share some code snippets and/or input as I've been down the roll-my-own path a couple of times already.
> The only true benefit I can think of is reducing heap fragmentation

Unless something has changed recently in the literature, concurrent data structures, especially lock free ones are super difficult to get right without garbage collection. Further, lock free structures are one of the most straight forward paths to large non-contended concurrent in memory data sets becoming the norm rather than the exception.

I'm am by no means an expert on this topic so its entirely possible the state of the art has changed on this, but that is the obvious case I thought of when asking the question about missing something.
Affordable immigration services that doesn't suck. For example, let's say I am a guy from an Asian or African country. I input all my basic data (nationality, age, qualifications, experience etc), it should analyze and tell me the best countries to look into.

This is a very hard thing to do, but extremely valuable. You can charge a flat fee of 50$ or something like that for a basic search (or even make it free), then do lead generation for lawyers. Bonus would be, compare and contrast various countries. For example country A and country B - compare and tell me the best choice for me. Take into account family situations and other stuff (can the spouse work? can you do freelancing/start a business, or are you tied to an employer? what are the waiting times?) etc etc.
Someone bought the "hackers" narrative.
Facebook messenger protocol implementation for Pidgin, Libpurple
The suggestions was the it could be in YouTube's interest to create a team that sends out DMCA notices on the behalf of their top contributors.

This would give YouTube a unique feature that would keep their content producers hosting content on their platform.

However, the mechanics would be somewhat tricky. I'd guess it would work something like the following: submit a URL for a Facebook post/Wordpress post, that prompted YouTube to ContentID against your existing videos, and if it found a match, it put your flagged violation in a queue for human verification, and subsequent automated DMCA takedown gets sent to the hoster, along with a report of if the content is still available. Of course, that becomes open to the sort of abuse mentioned elsewhere in the thread.

FaceBook certainly have a team responding to DMCA requests. They are just slow.

Ideally, someone like YouTube licenses their technology, and opens up their contentID DB to the licensee for consumption... But again, I can see many avenues for abuse by licensee's (for example, automated "content capture" of content not currently in the DB), that would need good policies to help prevent.
“Hong Kong is not China” illustrations cause controversy online
Unlikely? Maybe, but is it more likely that some entity that could attack such important infrastructure would attempt to steal something, or just destroy?

The only way I could see this could make you money is if you hedged against the markets and wanted to take everything down to benefit you, and that is superman villain level stuff.
what is wrong with IDEs like pycharm/intellij?
Would you leave a stable corporate job to be first employee of a small company?
Off-topic: I would love to see a content-analysis of front-page HN submissions that identifies non-tech/programming-related, animal-focused submissions...and then does a summary count to find the most popular animal. I'm guessing cats are the Hacker News animal of choice...but it might be honeybees.

(Note: not that there's anything wrong with this. I would most definitely read a HN-like site for just honeybees and cats)
Hacker News is responsively designed, but it doesn't set a viewport
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/history_of_innovati...

> There is an important footnote regarding Salk’s statement that “there is no patent.” Prior to Murrow’s interview with Salk, lawyers for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis did look into the possibility of patenting the vaccine, according to documents that Jane Smith uncovered during her dive into the organization’s archives. The attorneys concluded that the vaccine didn’t meet the novelty requirements for a patent, and the application would fail. This legal analysis is sometimes used to suggest that Salk was being somewhat dishonest—there was no patent only because he and the foundation couldn’t get one. That’s unfair. Before deciding to forgo a patent application, the organization had already committed to give the formulation and production processes for the vaccine to several pharmaceutical companies for free. No one knows why the lawyers considered a patent application, but it seems likely that they would only have used it to prevent companies from making unlicensed, low-quality versions of the vaccine. There is no indication that the foundation intended to profit from a patent on the polio vaccine.

> The decision not to patent the vaccine made perfect economic sense under the circumstances. “The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was a nonprofit, centralized research and development operation,” says Robert Cook-Deegan, who studies intellectual property and genomics at Duke University. “They didn’t need an incentive structure.”
Why fear a complicated cloud? I tried DO. It was cute, then I kept using AWS. DO is very simple, for simple things. But where do I get my GPU optimized Droplet, or one with 10GB internet connection and 244GB of ram to computer that graph problem with 3B edges? DO's only got relatively small, simple instances.

Further, DO is MORE expensive than AWS. What you say? Well right now I can grab a spot request for a box with 8 cores and 30GB ram for $0.066/hr or $48/mo compared to $160/mo on DO. That's ~1/4 the cost. Also, most "AWS Sucks" benchmarks are naive at best, failing to use the local disk, rather than the NAS, and this only requires 3 bash lines to mount.
A client came to me about 10 years ago and wanted me to build an app that let individuals collect money from a group. (In their case for wedding gifts). I told them they were crazy because it would get taken over by fraudsters trying to cash out on stolen credit cards and PayPal accounts.

Another lesson for me I guess for being overly cautious instead of coming up with solutions. I'm glad to see people have figured out how to make these things work. Of course at the time you had to legally offer your right arm and your first born to get a merchant account.
Its C++ and not C#?
This sounds a lot like Wonolo. And also similar to the traditional temp agencies like Manpower.

How is BlueCrew different than these incumbents?
Perhaps Hanlon's razor applies here: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Idea for device to monitor energy efficiency
Ask HN: Extreme office computer setups?
So plenty of people have insane setups (6 monitors, eccentric recliners, aesthetically extravagant PC cooling, etc) in their home office, but I've yet to see someone whose setup really stands out in an office of more than 10 people.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Did it introduce any inter-office frictions? (Disgust, one-upsmanship, etc?)
Should I pitch my B2C startup idea to company solving same problem in B2B?
I (along with another friend) have been working on a startup idea since the last semester. My business idea is primarily focussed at B2C. I pitched my idea to a VC a few months back and he was more interested in evolving the idea from a B2B perspective.

I researched more about the market and got myself an intern offer at a mid-sized company which has a product for the same idea but from a B2B perspective. I chose to join the company as an intern among other internship options, so that I could learn more about the challenges to develop the idea from a B2B perspective and how things should fall in order. (I didn't join the company to steal their IP or anything like that. I joined to get an inside view of what challenges I would face when I start mine and how I can proactively handle them)

Now, I am starting to realize that evolving my idea from a B2C perspective to a B2B perspective would require major re-architecturing and a lot of technical work which will easily span months. This has made me realize that it would be better to combine my B2C perspective with the current infrastructure at the company to build another product that the company could make money of.

My questions are:
1. What happens if I pitch my idea to the CEO of the mid-size company I am interning for? I'm sure the company would be happy to incorporate it and start work on it.

2. What will happen if the CEO likes the idea and the company decides to start work on it? What will I get?

3. What should I get? Money? If yes, how much? If not money, may be a position of team-leader/ team-manager when work on the idea starts?

Note:-
1. I am planning to join the company as a full-time position, once I finish my last semester in college.
2. I hold the IP for the idea and I mentioned the idea in the NDA for the company when I joined, to avoid any issues in the future, as I was initially planning to finish up the idea when I go back to college.
All due respect, but if that's really what you believe then why contribute at all? One liner comments with loaded terms serve only to start flame wars which just result in everyone solidifying their existing opinions and being less open minded in the future.
I hadn't heard the new definitions of either term. Maybe I'm not drinking enough Kool Aid these days haha.
Love you guys!! :)
It's totally possible to do at smaller scale; I've known of some micro co-ops of just one or two houses that have been quite successful. The smaller scale minimizes certain kinds of headaches..
yes.

edit: depends on the company.
Sure, strong credentials can still be leaked due to a simple phishing email to the right person.

There is no such thing as an unhackable system, only more and less difficult to hack systems.
PHP7 a Sneak Peak
Newer isn't necessarily better with SuperMemo algorithms. They introduced tremendous complexity without strong evidence of increased effectiveness, last I looked into it - it seems to create more corner cases to manage, if anything.

I'd be interested in materials I may be missing.
If you have $200000+ you can try for an E2 investor visa.
I don't think anybody ever said a young white male software engineer will have a hard time fitting in Silicon Valley.
Really enjoyed the article. Wonder if she sold the Pizza app to Dominos or something. Code it in their stack for easy integration, pitch common use case, and boom. Who knows.

On the overall thing, I've always suspected these were more a giant party than anything useful. The reason is that good things usually take time and quality thought to put together. Sleep can work wonders, too. Wish I was in Nashville for this event as it would've been fun talking to the Startup Bus crowd.
Tangentially related at best...anybody here succeed doing PXE with virtualbox's tftp and openbsd? I get an unhelpful error msg.
Says a lot about your program. It was a topic of huge importance when I was studying CS (1985-1989ish).
Show HN: Ruby method interceptors
I'd put money on it being an abuse of YouTube's Content ID.

It's a common YouTube scam - find a video with a lot of views that's rising quickly, download it and reupload it to your own account and submit it to Content ID. YouTube will automatically scan its library for copies of "your" video, and gives you the option to either take the copies down, or monetise them via ads.

Because of the DMCA's stupid counter notification process, it takes YouTube two weeks before they'll release the copyright claim, by which time the video is no longer viral and the original content creator has missed out on the bulk of the video's revenue.

The thing is, YouTube isn't really to blame for all of this, it's the idiotic way the DMCA is written and applied. As a service provider, YouTube is obliged to immediately respond to DMCA claims, regardless of how spurious a claim might be, or risk losing its protection under the DMCA's safe harbour provisions.

If the person against whom the DMCA takedown was lodged wants to challenge its validity, they have to send a counter notice, which starts a two week timer. If the person who submitted the takedown doesn't start actual legal action by the end of that two week period, YouTube is allowed to reinstate the content... at which point the DMCA troll can submit another takedown request, starting the whole Kafkaesque process again.
Raising awareness of relevant products/services in a space with very few products/services is a good thing, I reckon. I don't think it matters that he's from Heroku or what his role there is, as long as the comment is relevant. Heroku is one of the closest competitors to App Engine. This is relevant, as both relate to Go support. It's also not as though he went through every comment thread here mentioning it; it was just one comment.

I think you'd be right if he did it in some kind of obnoxious way, but he didn't.
A list of all (493) YC startups that are hiring
A simple system can solve complicated things. When Rich Hickey talks about simple, he is referring to tight coupling, "death by specificity" and hard to understand concurrency. Having a system that does multiple things, isn't necessarily a complicated system. A Mars landing, which in itself is a difficult (though not necessarily complex) problem, can be solved by a simple system. An example of this is Unix. A simple system that does complicated things.
How to find your Raspberry Pi's IP address on a network
source: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/618527207552487424
How to organise internationalization without losing your translation_not_found
Series of the actual images: http://www.funbombclub.com/%E3%80%8A%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E4%B8...
This once happened to me. I'd been up for a few days clubbing and then everything changed so slowly as too seem to stop. It was excruciatingly boring. I could examine the entire scene in as much detail as I cared then there was nothing new to see, and all I could do was wait, and wait, for the next time quanta for something new. Thankfully it didn't last long (in clock time anyway).
> It is possible that the outages weren't unrelated but also weren't malicious. For example, all three companies use the same vendor who's services failed.

That is my operating theory based on some throwaway "insider" in the NYSE thread who claimed (without supporting evidence) that "multiple US citizens in multiple US cities" worked together to fix the internal IT issue involving the NYSE issue. Cisco? Or network provider?

Perhaps there was a 0day discovered that affected UAL (or someone else) and the prioritization favored the airline and financial industries first. Hence the secrecy to let them get things in order before the larger market is informed.

Or, it could simply be that two industries that rely heavily on public trust around their network security have a standard operating procedure to pull the plug more readily when they get caught off guard with some kind of 0day or mundane attack. There was someone on here the other day talking about how banks never publicize small losses due to attack against them for similar PR reasons. But other systems are too big to fail.
For the sake of argument let's assume credentials are not hackable. My question: is the site itself hackable?
WoNoLo is a great company, but it's a 1099 model.
It is difficult to justify how a low complexity worker can be a contractor. To be a contractor you need to have done a personal investment, cannot be trained and cannot be working on a shift.
This exposes both the customer and the employee to a high level of risks. The employee does not have the needed insurance coverage. The customer is at risk of worker's misclassification, fines and costly claims.
Compared to a traditional staffing agency, we have lower costs of operations.
We showed our product to a quite a few people that worked ad ManPower and told us that we are faster, provide a better interface/experience. I hope they are right :)
[video]The Bitcoin Blockchain Explained
Let's get real here. This post is the perfect example of what's wrong in the world. Startups for the sake of startups. A solution solution looking for a problem. Newsflash kids, that's not how things work.

There are so many problems out there, it's difficult to believe they're not obvious to you all. If you're one of those that just can't see, I recommend you stay away from starting things. I'd rather the world not be introduced to yet another disaster.

See the ideas from comments above? They're PERFECT examples of the worst possible thing humanity could build next. That echo chamber is unreal.
Biggest Neural Network Ever Pushes AI Deep Learning
This is electoral votes per county, which is close to being population-weighted. What you'll find is that it's more moderate than the land-value cartogram, especially on the West Coast and Florida. Land values trend similarly to population densities, but actually exceed them.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/countycart...
Mr. Robot Is the Best Hacking Show Yet—But It's Not Perfect
Google’s Ad System Has Become Too Big to Control
Would there be any reason why the content creator couldn't sue Facebook and/or Zoo RIAA style using the same copyright laws? Unlike music sharing, this situation probably does have a specific, tangible amount of revenue losses to the videographer.
Have you considered, you know, to stop the stealth mode bullshit?

I mean, really?
> at that point we lose control over what gets printed and then maybe there are concerns

You have never had control. Perhaps instead you are more worried about our biological weaknesses; there are many! People die all the time from various diseases and even aging. I suggest fixing this before you outlaw DNA manipulation. All of life is a manipulation of DNA in one way or another, and is in fact essential to the maintenance of life... But vulnerabilities should be patched, not swept under the carpet.
Listening again in context you're 100% right! Disregard my previous comment.
We're talking past each other - it's kind of funny, actually. My comment was a sincere apology and not a complaint at all. Obviously that wasn't clear, so thanks for your considerate response.
This is the one HN post that I agree with above all others. I also thought I was in a small majority holding this view. I recall being told 15 years ago that I was "a dinosaur" for being skeptical about GC. I'm now a black-belt JVM GC tuner but that has only served to confirm my feelings about GC. You're exchanging the solution of some albeit tricky problems for the acquisition new much worse problems (pauses, inability to reason about memory usage).
You cant compare AppEngine with DO or Heroku with AWS.
Yes, AppEngine is costlier than DO 5-10X is comparing cost of computation power. You pay the price for not having to deal with DevOps, scalability and some cool API/services.
Currently many people writes to a new file and `rename` into the old one to achieve the first kind of guarantee.
Land value in general goes up with population density.
It's definitely true. But does it lead to money? We developers think it's logical that it should lead to money, but does it?
I wonder how Tilt, the company, feels about that...
You're comparing libraries here. There are libraries in Java which are not over-engineered. That being said, even if all Java libraries were over-engineered, it would not make you correct. Correctly crafted abstractions makes you more productive.
Florida is much more likely to have "exiles" from more expensive regions of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard living there, driving up prices. You'll have wildly varying prices not that far apart in Florida.
Ok, thanks.

I've long believed free is inevitably part of the future of the industry and largely agree with you about the technical argument.

And a funny anecdote, spam ad blogs had copies of my linked articles within minutes of posting that comment.
So what Facebook needs to implement is an ultra simple content claiming mechanism.

Offending video:
My Video (can include youtube/vimeo/other link):

No, not automatically scalable. Facebook started this, they're gonna have to staff up to handle the problems associated with it.

I see Facebook has only recently started allowing people to monetize their uploads, so the primary benefit the "freebooters" got was traffic to their site. Maybe Facebook should take a page from porn and link-skim an equivalent number of page views from the freebooter to the victim. Talk about restitution!

(incidentally, I've found Facebook far more responsive than Twitter. Imagine what happens when the big T gets into the video game in a big way)
- User: I usually just skip this service and use OAuth + Login management library

- Email: I remember it works with gmail; you can overwrite the "reply-to" header.

- Image Upload: seems to work fine by uploading to blobstore or GCS. Image serving is superb with images.get_serving_url!
I didn't say it was bad, just not particularly useful in proportion to the other effects.
The focus of this article is baffling. Lots of temporary staffing agencies, perhaps the majority in certain states, classify their workers as employees.
You know your website will suck just as much as all the others that exist right now right?

Cool, now find something else.