jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was most nervous about including "Focus on the right things" since it's such a wishy-washy idea. But I think it's core and comes from two camps that I really admire, Steve Blank with Customer Development and 37signals with Getting Real.
You're thinking of VT-x.
I'm using github pages to host a website of mine, and I need another. Can anyone recommend a cheap/reliable simple html/css/js website host? No need for wordpress installation, Rails, etc.
But this is a response header, so server shoud respond and that is the goal of attack.
Browser doesn't send any request headers saying that site is opened in the iframe.
Agreed. The most important thing about an office or workspace, for me, is that there are minimal interruptions. Quiet is best, maybe punctuated by music through my headphones or a bout of pair programming with a colleague.
Well, it is. You can't claim it grows in any specific way, because it does not grow (at least at the Local Group).

You can not claim that exponential growth on space travel tech isn't enough to get intergalactic travel. Any non-declining rate of progress will get us there eventually. (Whatever "exponential growth" means on this context, for computation it's very well defined. Also, whatever realist is on non-declining rate of progress, the rate for computation is clearly increasing.)
You and washadjeffmad both make very important points. Thank you!
Again the trend seems to be mixed plan. Open plan offices with private areas.

In which case you can not argue that there is significant money/effort involved. It's either the cost of headphones and the effort of walking tens of metres. Developers are going to need better arguments than that to convince HR/Management that this is not a trend worth doing.
I've personally played around with it, but I was not able to tell if the augmentation was the result of placebo or tcDCS. We have two Neuroscience PhDs that are advisors for our company and after talking more with them about my self experimentation I decided it was something I shouldn't be so cavalier about. tcDCS has measurable effects on plasticity among other things and plasticity is not always a good thing. They suggested mindfulness meditation as a much safer and well tested 'Brainhack'.
You have two identical products, with the same price, next to each other on the same shelf. The box is damaged for one of them - it's the natural choice to choose the one that's not damaged in any way.

Now, if the damaged one is a little bit cheaper, you'll probably have a greater chance of accepting the product with cosmetic damage over the more expensive, "perfect" product.
> and engineers who learn on the clock "in secret" by making decisions that are best for them rather than best for the company

Yes, and possibly not even consciously. Without that constant reminder of the pitfalls and learning curve of new technology, it's easy to convince yourself it's all upsides, or at the least undervalue the downsides.
> Dropbox has the distinction of being the only cloud service--and perhaps the only startup--ever to compete simultaneously against Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Tencent.

If you're wondering who Tencent is, you're not alone:

http://www.thestreet.com/story/13095109/1/how-tencent-up-140...

They sold games on feature phones, then smartphones, then made WeChat, which is IM, I think, and massive in China. They also have a payment service, and the short version is, they're a competitor to Alibaba.
Anyone else find this scheme completely atrocious?

1. Relying on a home computer on the critical path for data backup and persistence for a business

2. Relying on a high latency, low quality networking path between the slave db and the 'home mac' rather than a more reliable link between two machines in a datacenter.

3. A poor persistence model for long lived backups

4. No easy way to programatically recover old backups

What's even more disturbing is that this isn't a new problem. Its not like we don't know how to backup databases. This solution seems very poorly though out.
Weak. TSA isn't citing a poll about it's pat-down searches, which is what caused the recent uproar. The CBS poll has an overwhelming majority of respondents --- 83% of Republicans, 81% of Dems --- in favor of using +full body+ [em. orig.] digital x-ray machines.

(They'd have gotten I think a lower rate if they had worded it more aggressively --- "Some airports are now using imaging machines that allow TSA agents to electronically see through clothing" or the like.)

The problem we have is not that the TSA is lying; it's that people aren't well-educated about what these machines are actually doing. It's counterproductive to whine about numbers that the TSA is right to be citing; all you'd be doing is further obscuring the real issue.
>With a government job, some of their salary would go to a politically-potent union that constantly lobbies for raises.

That sounds like a separate unrelated issue. Hand each worker a check for $1,666 each month they work, and leave it up to them how to spend it. It would (obviously) be untaxed...
While were not a "traditional" SaaS type of startup we've managed to turn bandsonabudget.com into a full time gig for myself, my partner, a full time employee, and a number of part timers. I supplement income w client development work and consulting but have been gradually phasing that out of the equation as we've grown... We have yet to take any funding and completely bootstrapped the company ourselves...
living off your startup: it has revenue, it's being used to cover all it's own costs, including paying you some money which you are then using for food, shelter, utilities, etc.

startup living off you: it's costs are being paid out of an account that you personally funded. it is not in the black yet.

you/startup living off investors: it's costs (including possibly paying you a "salary" of some kind) come out of an account which was funded by investors -- other people's money, not from you and not from customers
I'm not entirely sure what the UK is doing differently. I didn't even notice that it "wasn't there" until I got back. It was only after I returned that I realized the difference.

I know that in Toronto, I sometimes get the feeling that the streets are paved with the homeless.

Maybe it was the Socioeconomic status of the area I was living in, but it just seems so much more prevalent here.

The UK does however seem to have 'council housing' projects that I think act as a buffer for many. The jobless and those on very low income, can obtain housing from the local council (municipal government). Essentially the risk of becoming completely homeless was very low.

The only reference to their housing program I could find quickly was an article about why landlord shouldn't take DSS tennants
http://www.propertyinvestmentproject.co.uk/blog/reasons-why-...

But essentially it's a program where the municipality pays the rent directly.

I think the level of social assistance must cover quite a bit of the difference.

I really must add the caveat that I didn't study the problem while I was in the UK and am certain that there must be some homelessness there somewhere - but - it really isn't anything like what's in Toronto (and Ottawa that I've seen).
Well, proponents from a libertarianish direction hope that it would be a way to structure a social safety net with minimal economic distortion. Instead of a whole bunch of programs (food stamps, welfare, medicare, employment insurance, etc.), just have one transfer of cash money. But if all those people become government employees, that hardly reduces economic distortion, because now you have a giant state workforce. Some libertarian-leaning folks, like Hayek, also think that people would be able to better self-direct their labor than the government could, e.g. by using the minimum payment to bootstrap small businesses.
ZFS has been one of the biggest selling points for Solaris over the last 5 years. There are a huge number of places that use Solaris only for ZFS support. For example, the SmugMug people have written about it a number of times.
The Unions are only part of the problem.
You want to fire the shitty teachers, right?
I'm all for that.
Unfortunately, this is only a PARTIAL solution.
You also need to be able to fire the shitty administrators (see below).
AND you need to be able to "fire" the shitty students (troublemakers).

The school administrations are often composed of transient "revolving door" bureaucrats whose only goal is to pad their resumes with bullet-points of dubious changes that they implemented.
* Administrators will frequently alter programs ("we do physics in 11th grade? Well we're doing it in 9th grade now!") simply to demonstrate that they've made a difference.
* They will place weak students in classes where they don't belong just to maintain the appearance that they are serving a useful function ("Sure X failed biology and he'll be lucky to get into community college, but I'm recommending that he take chemistry b/c it looks good on his transcript").
* They will protect troublesome students to the detriment of other students ("You can't keep X out of class all the time. You're just going to have to learn to control him")

Students and Parents are as much of the problem as the teachers and the administration: There is often a pervasive attitude of entitlement without any effort amongst the students and their parents. Troublesome students are allowed to ruin the learning environment for everyone else. In an ideal world, you could kick those students out of class (or school), but in reality you can't (see ADMINISTRATION).

Amusing--but not uncommon--anecdote: My cousin is a high-school teacher who had a student who continuously disrupted one of her classes. She finally phoned the student's mother to tell her about her son's attitude problem. The mother responded with:

"Look...I don't call you to complain when he misbehaves at home. So, don't call me up because he's misbehaving on YOUR time."

That's not the union's fault, is it?
Hey Guys,
I'm Vid Luther, the founder of Zippy Kid, any engineers etc that have any specific questions/comments I'll try to answer them here.
I usually add two targets for my my projects: 'help' and 'showconfig'. 'make help' explains which targets to use and/or how to combine them. 'make showconfig' shows all the important what the important internal vars and common vars (CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc) are and their values.
I wonder if a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 might trigger the same response from the immune system.

With mRNA, vaccines could be much easier to create and could have an interesting side effects.
What are you trying to say? More regulations for Facebook and Google?

??
The First Amendment doesn't guarantee a successful platform. Not if you use someone else's. Not if you build your own.

Nor does the First Amendment guarantee that exercising your freedom of speech will work out well for you. Circulation, reaction, lack of an overbearing editor---none of these are entitlements under our laws.
I keep seeing the same "fire in theater" and "paradox of tolerance" comments as if some organization just released the flying monkeys. WTH.
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So they still want to defund the police. I don't think even the next administration would agree with demand #6.

[0] https://twitter.com/Blklivesmatter/status/134773793490928845...
Chased congress out their chambers while they were preparing to certify the next president. Murdered a police officer in the process.

Your definition of a low bar different than mine.
His time is up on Jan 20th but since early November and with each passing day, his influence has grown weaker and his power has been waning. It's not a 100-to-0 thing.

Two weeks before the end of the term is just about as late as you can take such an action, short of taking it after the 21st (which twitter was rumored to be waiting for).

> what does it mean when the tech companies have put a gag on their own sitting leader?

I can ban my country's president from my own software platform if the mood strikes me. The reason twitter is different is because of the massive audience. What does it mean, indeed. I'm kinda looking forward to the republican reaction to this, maybe suddenly they'll care about the fact that media companies have insane amounts of power in the US.
I think the previous poster was referring to executive order 6102 (April 5, 1933), which seized gold within the United States, and criminalized the possession of the specie.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
I think you hit the nail on the head. I've been following the Nim forum and the IRC channel for a while and, while I fully agree with dom96 about Rumpf not being the only developer, still find the difference with communities like Julia (which I closely follow as well) sometimes staggering. The hypothesis that the lack of success of Nim is due to its not being supported by some organisation like Google or Mozilla does not explain why Julia has many more contributors and its development proceedes at a much quicker pace. AFAIK there is no such organisation behind Julia's development.

I've seen more than one time discussions on the Nim forum die of a sudden death after Araq just joined and said something against the idea being discussed. I've never seen something like in the Julia mailing list. Like wbhart, I think this happens mainly because there isn't just one core developer.
That is partly true but in reality the manufacturers don't seem to consider you their customer. They look at the carrier more so than the end-user as their customer. The only way to get their handset used by an end-user is to deal with the carriers so the problem starts there.
I appreciate the tone and substance of the article, but...

"College is where we form our ideas about what is going to be acceptable in the 'real world'."

No, actually, college is where you gain the illusion that you know what the real world is like...And then reality whacks you in the head sharply upon graduation.
Right but for people new to iOS dev is this really the best way? Instead of giving a caveat why not give a solution that will work in all situations?
I am amazed how such a small team can use $650k of funding in just 6-7 months. Can anyone comment?

Though I would love to see a detailed postmortem post on this.
It is because everybody receives "neighbor" in Farmville, with the name CityVille that links to the new game. FV uses a lot of tricks to share players between the games. For example special vehicle if you play both Mafia Wars and FV.
So is it the “randomness” of terrorism that causes us to overweight the risk?

It seems like we’re just really bad at thinking clearly about low probability / high severity risks
This was the case with generics, but it’s mostly not true with Kirkland anyhow. Costco doesn’t “Manufacture” anything, but they have third parties who manufacture and package products to specs. Likewise, Trader Joe’s and a few other companies with private label product. Sometimes that third party sells their own branded products, but often they just make product for other brands.
Having just done two video interviews of about an hour's length each, I found them far more tiring than a normal interview of the same length.
It takes days to a week to clear a Bitcoin transaction unless you want to pay a much higher fee than you would for a small or medium sized ACH. And that’s with still very few Bitcoin transactions (single digit transactions per second). If everyone started trying to use base Bitcoin, transaction fees would skyrocket but transaction rate would remain just 7/second.
>has it ever been not socially acceptable to shave your head...?

Yes, if you took the Nazarite oath (think Samson in the Bible).
> Great power wars in the modern era will...

We have no clue what will happen... best ideas are pure speculation.

IMO, it's very likely that any conflict would be limited to a conflict area like how they did in the Falklands war.

Even if there is no formal agreement, both sides might want to limit a conflict zone.
Note that this is just the VAE component as used to help training and generating images, it will not let you create crazy images with natural language as used in the blog post (https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/).

More specifically from that link:

> [...] the image is represented using 1024 tokens with a vocabulary size of 8192.

> The images are preprocessed to 256x256 resolution during training. Similar to VQVAE, each image is compressed to a 32x32 grid of discrete latent codes using a discrete VAE1 that we pretrained using a continuous relaxation.

OpenAI also provides the encoder and decoder models and their weights.

However, with the decoder model, it's now possible to say train a text-encoding model to link up to that decoder (training on say an annotated image dataset) to get something close to the DALL-E demo OpenAI posted. Or something even better!
And yet their engagement teams are remarkably ignorant of how enterprise works. Even after weeks of conversations I still hear a voice in my head saying 'oh you sweet summer child'.
I don't know who made the decision. It certainly wasn't me. But I only had a year of experience, and I had been laid off for three months, and I didn't realize the impact the language choice would have.

This was on a medical instrument, so maybe people thought of it as a "safe" language - one that couldn't buffer overflow and corrupt memory. But doing an embedded system with memory-mapped I/O in a Pascal without the Turbo extensions... yeah, that was a less than ideal choice.
> Shodan has existed for years and does practically the same thing (enumerates services, etc), but to a far greater extent.

Good point. But it's not laser-focused on a single thing and making that thing as easy as possible (I can just click on an image and be connected to the server!)

> How?

For some hosts it will be impossible. For others, it may be obvious or at least feasible; the company's name may be in the FQDN, the server may give a name in the VNC response that could be used, and if you're feeling grey-hat you could poke around and see what it does and who may own it.

> The argument that a site like this should not exist because someone may exploit it just doesn't hold up

I didn't say it shouldn't exist - just that some minimum form of self-censorship is the ethical course of action.

> Someone will do it...

Of course. But not everyone will make it this easy and accessible.

And I can appreciate the spirit in which this is done, if the "Hail Eris!" text on the page didn't make it obvious :) Being able to flag stuff is the concession, assuming it really does remove it from rotation.
What a misleading comparison: http://i.imgur.com/aWqxk2U.png

"95% chance you'll make the right decision" vs "30% chance you'll make the wrong decision", emphasis mine.
Sorry but it was Visual Basic that brought GC to the masses.
Using a blatantly linkbait title on a serious article is not recommended.
Another unknown language, in which I program, is Pliant www.fullpliant.org
Not one single company in the financial sector in the UK wants their kit anywhere near the US or in any datacentres with US ownership any more simply because of the PATRIOT act and PRISM etc.

It's odd because it seems that the British government and the USA have a sharing agreement (from what I understand of the PRISM story, which I don't follow a lot, I admit) which doesn't make it any safer to move hosting from the US to the UK.

Also, we happen to have many customers in the finance industry, including in the UK, and I never heard a single one of them telling me they're moving their servers from the US because of politics (or any other reason for that matter).

It would even be impossible for most of them as they have office in NYC and need to have IT there.

Would you want all your mortgage, insurance and credit scoring data in the hands of a foreign government who religiously ignore data protection laws?

Actually I'm more worried about credit companies and banks who also ignore the laws and share this data. I think it's a bigger problem.
Apply as a volunteer for those experiments you are also just a mechanism, no?
The story is false, and the BSI (Federal Office for Information Security) has declined the rumours and explicitly does NOT warn of Windows 8:
https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2...

it was just a story made up by a german site (zeit.de)
The article says that Tumblr is still considered a separate entity and it comes at #38
I posed this same question and the best answer (for a UK citizen) was to write to my MP. I did that and got a canned response back that addressed none of my points. I agree that it seems futile. I'm vehemently opposed to censorship but am powerless to stop it as an individual. It seems like it's already a done deal. We're not just talking about stopping something in its tracks, but rolling it back in the other direction. The amount of inertia required to do that is completely overwhelming.
Another famous one: http://www.samurai-incubate.asia/english/
Humans are animals too, and we empathize with them, so there has to be a line somewhere. You either don't empathize with anyone, or you empathize with everyone.

We currently believe that it's worth sacrificing mice to make people's lives better, but we would do that, we're people. Hopefully, in the future, no living being will have to suffer for any reason.

> Canidae in nature have no problem with killing or inflicting suffering btw.

If you want to be held to the standards of dogs, nobody will stop you. I'd like to think I know better.
Wow. The more we learn about Uber, the more it sounds like its just another cab company...but with fewer scruples or restrictions. At least the cab companies are regulated and have to hold adequate insurance policies.