skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not more efficient if the other person is just rambling at you.

As someone who's a good listener and doesn't like to interrupt people, this is a great reason to have digital communication. I can ignore your blathering. If we're doing an IRL 1:1 I'm going to slowly get more frustrated at your run-on thoughts.

If anyone has any tips for how to convey "Yes, I got the message, move on to the next thing you were going to say or stop talking." firmly & diplomatically, I'd love to hear it. It's been a lifelong struggle.
I'm against deleting old posts. You only have to look through some threads on Reddit to see how disrupting it can be to delete random posts in a comment thread.

Deleting accounts would be ok, if it leaves the comment trail intact.
> "criticizing someone for taking a stupid action that a reasonable person could assume would end badly".

Its her fault she got raped, she wore a SHORT SKIRT.

Edit: fuck you.
A big downside too is incorrect usage of ML, where a more mechanistic model would be more useful. Many recent systems biology research is full of papers that look as ridiculous as someone trying to discover Newton Laws of Motion with an SVM.

Hopefully things like probabilistic programming bridge the gap between ML and classical models.
The solution is somewhere in the qemu or kvm world but qemu deals with real hardware. I'm looking for something simpler than a real machine.

Ideally, qemu could run a virtual cpu just made for asm.js or wasm. The virtual hardware is accessed thru the Module functions. We could have a peek() and a poke() like in the old days to read the ports :-)

I remember your first posts about emscripten and the first script in Python. The gap to fill is similar to "write a backend for LLVM" as you did (not enough, of course).

There is also the x86 emulator from copy.sh (http://copy.sh/v86/).

The general direction is "support blobs in the browser".

About implementing new Web API, I think the process is not so slow but it relies on non-technical things (like strategy for the companies) so low level would speed up that.
What I find so amazing is that the SEP isn't for the faint of heart---it is rigorous and challenging to a fault, and rarely ever holds the reader's hand. Amazing it has had so much success, really.
Maybe this (great!) project could be renamed to the Javascript Amazon Web Application Stack and abbreviated to JAWAS... I'm sure there will be no trademark problems with that AT ALL!
I sort of agree, but to say that they can't do anything besides query if certainly false if they have the credentials that I, myself, use to log in and perform transactions.

It's kinda like when Dropbox said they couldn't access user's files even though they technically could.
What's the difference between discontinuing it and dropping it? If it's officially dropped, does that prevent a later prosecutor from restarting it?

In the US you'd need a declaratory judgment to deal with the threat of "legal action at some later point". But I think that's a civil law concept -- I have no idea how that would go in criminal law.
It's paid by the government over there, not the company. Not sure about different places in Europe, but it's also not paid at 100% (at least in Canada)
Working at a SV company that recently instituted an unlimited vacation policy, I can't agree more.

This is probably an indication of other issues, but half of the team didn't realize there was a new policy, one team lead thought the guidance was "generally, this means about 3 weeks", the manager thought "generally, this means about 2 weeks", the actual policy states "generally, this means about 4 weeks".

It apparently simplifies things from a financial standpoint - not having PTO on the books, etc. but I'm of the opinion that it's a very anti-employee policy.

Edit: I very much agree with the "unlimited with a minimum" concept mentioned in the sibling comment. Without something like this, it's hard to see the policy as a real perk.
Nowhere did I say it was a task put against you or that something is owed to parents. This is a perk being offered by the company, just like free lunches or monthly team outings.

It's a very attractive perk for couples looking to have a family and will like engender loyalty within that cohort.
Some really exciting updates in here. It seems that while Git is popular for open source projects (thanks to GitHub), Mercurial is popular for internal repos and companies. That's personally how I use it.
#19 Godly Dream
So, are you suggesting we should eliminate or limit 1st amendment rights in cases where the parties involved in defamation wouldn't have the money to cover the defamed's losses?

If the film is popular (and therefore does more damage), the filmmaker will probably have the means to adequately compensate the farmer. If it isn't popular, it probably won't do much damage to the farmer.

Limiting free speech isn't a good solution.
exratione, please consider posting a github link of your approach.
Jason Lemkin does a pretty good job here:

http://www.saastr.com/on-paying-your-mentors-and-advisors-th...

You're probably thinking, as you're accustomed, about your time in units of billable hours. You may want to reframe that in terms like those Lemkin describes. If introductions are not really your currency, an actionable breakthrough communicated might be. Or a fundraising / sales deck you review & provide detailed feedback on.
By central Canada, do you mean Ontario? I've lived in Manitoba for decades and I don't know anyone who pronounces "bag" that way.
> a particularly egregious appropriation of a keyword for a totally different use

Which seems to be an often case in C++, class and class/typename comes to my mind. Also, old auto use was removed to the new set of meaning right?
60 Second Game Challenge
That's just mean.
That's not a catch. This is unlimited maternity and paternity leave. If you don't have a new child it's not maternity and paternity leave anymore, it's just leave.
What's the problem? One is lowercase and the other clearly upper case.

Much like in vim: "f" searches _forward_ while "F" searches _backwards_. Perfectly valid. I see no implementation hurdles here.
> Status codes now all use the official IANA names as per RFC7231, e.g. http.STATUS_CODES[414] now returns 'URI Too Long' rather than 'Request-URI Too Large'

Nice. Using the names (from a reversed copy of http.STATUS_CODES) can make a code using non-common HTTP codes a lot more readable.
In a ten-player game, (a) stealing one utilon from everyone else and getting 20 for yourself is one kind of selfish tradeoff; and (b) stealing one utilon from everyone else and getting 5 for yourself is another kind of selfish tradeoff; and (c) giving one utilon to everyone else while gaining 10 for yourself is also a kind of selfishness.

Cheating is (b), driving is (a). (You seem to be arguing that driving is (b) - I disagree, but it's beside the point.) Capitalism mostly tries to encourage (c). We put some selfishness to work, yes; but we harness the selfishness of Henry Ford, and we punish the selfishness of Bernie Madoff.
One thing that struck me as odd from the data: bookings are growing just below customers, on the same scale, which seems inconsistent with only ~30+% of customers riding only once per month. The only obvious way I can think of for that to happen is if there are many customers who ride less than once a month, which would actually make sense; I use Uber a few times a year, when I travel, but I don't use it locally. So, it seems like the "Domestic Customers by Monthly Rides" graph needs to have a "0" included in it (and then a second graph without it if that squashes the rest of the graph).
Are you trying to suggest that Idaho is part of the "south"? Or are you suggesting that Idaho is sufficiently-far north for southerners to be equivalent to Alaska?
Well, that's where the "intentionally" part comes into play. People who voted for the campaign finance limits or the ACA, were not seeking to limit speech. Not every law that is eventually found to violate the first amendment right to free speech intended to do so. But laws like in the OP are specifically designed to silence speech. Any way, it was a half joking outrage at the state of our union, not a real proposal :)
"Interestingly, highly engaged riders (those averaging 12 or more rides per month) spend less per ride than infrequent riders"

Thinking about my own Lyft use here, I became a frequent user after discovering that Lyft Line was a great and cheap way to get to work if I was running late. So one could hypothesize that people become heavy users because Uber allows them to take a frequent trip affordably.
Here's a problem with cloud economics. People don't compare apples. Essentially, I am not short $10 but I could use some time back in my week.

Getting bogged down in managing servers, or a fleet of instances, or the devops stack to automate a fleet of instances; it's all a time sink with either an actual cost or at the very least an opportunity cost, orders of magnitude beyond that $10/month.

This is especially true for organisations where provisioning an instance requires an epic chain of approvals "because it's a server". Unfortunate but all too common.

Of course if you were planning to become (or already are) a competent devopsy admin then provisioning instances is not necessarily a waste of your time. For everyone else, platform-as-a-service such as Lambda can be an huge win. Sure, there's still a tipping point but it's much greater when time, rather than simply price, is considered.

On the other hand, and contrary to the Amazon-is-scalping-me gripes I hear on HN all too frequently, my experience has consistently been that AWS want you to minimise costs due to design. Every well-run business knows the long-term virtuous cycle of satisfied & continuing customers far outweighs a short-term revenue grab.

ObDisclosure: I am a former AWS architecture manager but do not speak on behalf of my ex-employer.
I find the biggest advantage of text is for record keeping. People always think their memory is better than it really is, and I love being able to avoid he said she saids by pointing to an email. Especially in business.
Microsoft Xbox Chatpad versus the Obvious. Chatpad Wins
We changed the title from "People Ride Uber More Than You Think" to get rid of the linkbait "you". Happy to change it again if anyone suggests something better.
Wi-Fi and LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum Bands
"the actual policy states "generally, this means about 4 weeks"

Sounds like they should just make it 20 days.
Dad of six week old. Laughs hollowly at the OP.
Using the same public key on two sites is like using the same username - something that you would do only if you want your identity linked between those sites. It's also a much stronger proof of identity than having the same username, because that's what they were designed for.
To expand on this further, my primary objective is to be able to develop without regard for backing services for which I have a proper abstraction layer (e.g., ORM). In my opinion, it is a mistake to think you can mirror production in a local env, because, no matter what, there will be at least one difference that catches you off guard, not to mention the cost of maintaining a golden setup and teaching debs how to use it (even with the advent of Docker, etc.). If you decouple your application from its backing services by design, you will save many man months down the road.
I think it does. Github is an open system, whereas if you host your own Git server you can ensure that only trusted people have commit access to it.
Yep. I live in Victoria but grew up in Ontario.

I get people asking me if I'm from Seattle all the time, I guess because I sound 'murrican.
Can you share exactly why? If it is because auto as returning type, the header wouldn't be of much of a help would it?

I find it easier to read now, specially when using iterators on for loops.
I'm looking forward it becomes v1.0. Gogs requires less system resources than GitLab.
For 2 years experience as a .NET dev if you're earning <50K you're either living in the boondocks/working remotely.

The rate I indicated was for contract work rather than full-time employment, however.

This sounds like your first job, your first job always sucks. If you're not learning anything new, or getting bored I'd suggest dusting your CV and putting yourself out there.
This entire article is a bunch of "controversy"-raising bullshit for the sake of writing something about "ineffable Japan."

This is like asking whether people like to say "US" or "USA" or "U.S." or "U.S.A." or "the U.S." or "the U.S.A." and asking if the government plans to legislate something to make people say the same thing.

Edit: For their comparison of company names, imagine someone trying to write an article on the basis that "US Airways" and "American Airlines" use different names for one entity.

> Either way, one thing is certain. The name of this country is simply two or three pictograms that legally could be verbally interpreted any way you want, be it Nihon, Nippon, Jippon, Japan, Hinomoto, Yamato, Wa, or Zipangu.

This is bullshit. It's two kanji (which are closer to being ideograms than pictograms in that they're not actual depictions of something) that are read one of two ways. 日本 cannot be read "Jippon" by any stretch of the imagination. "Yamato" and "Wa" are completely different kanji.
I like this approach. I'm all about removing server requirements!

For now, I favor the traditional REST API layer because REST APIs are well understood. They also may require less effort to access via IOT devices and expose publicly for other developers to hack with.

Overall, I'm interested in the best. If you have thoughts on how to incorporate this approach into JAWS for optimal effect, I'm definitely paying attention.

As far as JAWS goes, the next step is to be able to define your API in JSON via Swagger, and then import it into AWS API Gateway to instantly create/update your API. This should dramatically reduce development time and make it much easier for everyone building their JAWS REST API :)
What kind of company need more than 16M IPs for private adressing?
I'm not sure that a linguist would paint all of canada with one brush. Any linguist worth being called such should at least recognize a couple english-french divides.
It is worth noting that Windows also maintains an internal version that is only visible through the `winver` command (the NT version).

Windows XP: 5.1
Windows Vista: 6.0
Windows 7: 6.1
Windows 8: 6.2
Windows 8.1: 6.3
Windows 10: 10.0 <-- New!

Interestingly, they also bumped the internal version to 10.0 in Windows 10. It was actually 6.4 in the early preview releases, but soon became 10.0. I find it intriguing considering Microsoft's conservative notion on backward compatibility, but even Microsoft seems to have finally reached the point of refreshing a version number.
I agree.

Though, where I work we have unlimited vacation and there definitely seems to be peer encouragement to take _more_ vacation, not less.
People still use Mercurial?
The ultimate litmus test for any ML system is whether it impacts the bottom line of a company and the best and most direct place to prove this is in the financial markets with a hedge fund for example.
A company with more than 16M cable modems, for one thing.
Agreed. I'm not sure if similar "unlimited" policies typically give a "generally this means" kind of statement, but it seems to nullify the point of such a policy right off the bat.
I'm a vegan (ergo completely opposed to your industry), but I get where you're coming from. It's your livelihood, and it's probably been your family's lively hood.

Here's the thing though, the vast majority of where the US gets it's milk from is less of a farm nowadays and more of a factory, that's why milk production efficiency has shot up in the past 100 years --because we started treated these animals more and more like objects using practices such as "rape racks" to keep cows constantly pregnant and producing peak amounts of milk.

We also bred them to produce so much milk their bodies are basically spent after 4 years (20% of their natural life span), and we kill them. We could quibble over minor differences in the numbers and terms but that's not my point, I'm pretty sure you can agree those are common practices on farms where the majority of US citizens get their milk. Capitalism has gotten right up in this farming eked every ounce of efficiency out of these animals so there's no space for any compassion.

There's so much broken there, and I don't want you and your friends jobless, I want you on better jobs not based on exploiting poor animals. Hell, we give billions of dollars in subsidies to dairy farmers, that money should be spent helping transition. That's just my take, I'm sure you get exposed to a lot of the vocal minority vegans, the vegans I know don't hate the people, just the system.
Vow of poverty?
"Aboot" never existed in the east either. It's more like "a boat" but that's too subtle for caricature.
Seeing as this is his/her first job, it'll likely be a 50%ish pay bump.
I've seen places that have that minimum be mandatory. As in, if you haven't taken a vacation by a certain time, they will insist, even go so far as restricting access until the vacation is over.

The great thing about a mandatory minimum (never thought I'd be saying those words), is that it doesn't allow someone to over work themselves into a frenzy, making everyone else look lazy, while simultaneously burning themselves out.
I withdraw my suggestion.
>for particularly wealthy players, merchants would always sell for more and buy for less

Well that's obnoxious. Better throw your money on the floor so merchants don't screw you?

Or does your reputation precede you as a super-powerful warrior that's really gullible? Most games have you get better at making deals over time, not worse.
I agree with you, except for this part:

> The truly lazy people like yourself and remain in some sort of segmented Internet I suppose.

That last sentence doesn't add anything to the conversation. Your comment wouldn't lose anything by removing that.

Also, this one:

> they'll have to use their brains and learn something new

could have been simply written as follows, again without losing anything:

> they'll have to learn something new
What happens when you throw a camera into a black hole?
Ask HN: What's the longest you've worked on a side project, without finishing?
This guy's been working on his for 9 years. I doubt that's the longest though. What's your record? (Mine's 2 years and counting)

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/3fftyw/why_side_projects_die_and_an_idea_to_finish_more/ctoc4bh
the moment your Dockerfile has apt-get update and apt-get install is the moment your docker images stop being reproducible unless you take extreme measures like mirroring all deb repos you have in your sources.list.

disclaimer: happy docker user here.
Depends on the class. History tends to have a lot of lectures. Science classes, math and English I don't recall as many (this was about 10 years ago). Also varies by teacher and I would assume school.
That would be inefficient because you'd need to allocate extra stack, process datastructures, context switching, etc.
Yeah, that's exactly the kind of "anything that I think harms the country is Treason" logic that the Constitutional definition of Treason was put into place to negate, the trend of defining new and creative forms of "treason" having been familiar to the founders.

Treason's not a hammer to beat your political opponents over the head with. Electoral accountability and separation of powers between the branches is the control on unconstitutional laws, not Treason prosecutions.

And, on a more practical level, if you don't have the federal executive and the judiciary on your side, your new federal "Treason" definition does you no good against politicians pushing laws that would violate the first amendment. But if you have the federal executive and judiciary on your side, all the laws violating the first amendment in the world that can be passed aren't going to have any effect. So, aside from its unconstitutionality and undesirability on a theoretical level, there are in practice no situations where your law would both (a) be needed, and (b) have any effect.
You need a root password for that one.
What does that even mean?
Not necessarily. The "public" in "public key" is not an announcement of intended global availability, but rather role in contrast to "private key". There are many reasons people or systems might want to keep "public keys" obscured or pseudonymous.

Still, many probably don't mind the public disclosure of Github account public keys.

But, the more serious issue here goes beyond that. In an unexpected and likely unintended way, one's Github identity is revealed to a third party, along with your origin IP and quite possibly other SSH keys used with other systems.

It's that set of mappings – IP <-> Github identity <-> other identities – that violates expectations.
Hmmm, I'll look into this. Either way, I'm sure Amazon is aware that RDS in Lambdas is a good thing, and they will continue to make this and their other tools easier.

We'll get there!
IBM Locks Up Cloud Processes with Patents
http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/tls/charter/
Nice work on the project! Big fan of the graphics also :)

Reminds me of Divshot [0], a heroku-like service for hosting static sites. It's great that you can roll your own site, and don't need a middleman to host for you.

[0] https://divshot.com/
In IPv6, everyones gateway can be FE80::1 if you enjoy entering everything by hand.
Hit the local library for audiobook CDs. I agree its old-fashioned, but my 2012 Honda Civic has a CD player and the Menlo Park library had some great collection of tech/business audiobook CDs. I began experimenting with playing them on the drive to work and am pretty happy with the results.
I have a lot of relatives in the Midwestern U.S. (specifically Minnesota), and you encounter that pronunciation in that region. I have no idea if it spills over into Manitoba or Ontario, but if it does, the location seems right for it.
The Bitcoins would need to be of greater value then keeping longterm access to your servers
The power they wield is not that big, although the games arguably aren't great at conveying that. A witcher is a glorified rat catcher and is treated accordingly by the society.
> And the pricing of the rare items (e.g. the relics) makes them seem completely irrelevant. You'll get a cutscene before getting a quest reward talking about how you're getting an amazing sword that has been in the family for centuries etc. And then it's slightly worse than what you already have, and the only use is to sell this legendary weapon for a price that'll allow you to buy 10 loaves of bread.

That's a serious story/gameplay disconnect. People often talk about "too good to use" issues, where they get amazing items but never want to use them. This seems like the reverse problem, where for story purposes they're priceless but for gameplay purposes they're useless.

I can think of a mechanic that would solve that problem, and I'm wondering if there's any obvious reason it wouldn't work:

1) "Legendary" equipment/artifacts mostly can't be sold (because there's no market for it). Avert the trope of the shopkeepers that will buy and sell anything, and instead assume the world isn't oriented around catering to adventurers. If you start out with some basic equipment, you can skip the idea of shops selling any equipment at all, and always make the acquisition of such items story-based.

2) Don't have fixed stats for every piece of equipment. Instead, have the stats for any given "legendary" reward always be slightly better than what you have, with strengths and weaknesses based on the nature of the item. So the more quests you do, the better equipment you have. (And as a bonus, you mess with all the people who would normally document the stats of every item in the game.) And no matter what, a quest reward always matters.