skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto. I work for an ISP as well and, while I know ISP's don't get a lot of love (especially from the more tech-savvy customers), I feel better knowing that least I'm helping to Do The Right Thing(TM).

The company I work for is pretty small as far as ISPs go (our customer base numbers in the four digits) so our headcount is pretty small too. While it sucks sometimes, I am personally in charge of exactly how our network is ran and have complete freedom to do whatever I want however I want (so long as it doesn't significantly affect the bottom line, of course). I try to run things the way I want my ISP to (I live outside our service area so I don't have our service but I do have blazing fast FTTH so that makes up for it.)

I (we) don't block anything although sometimes it would make my job a lot easier... nor do I even bother forwarding to the customer all those requests I got from "Echelon" (on behalf of HBO) complaining about people torrenting Game of Thrones. Although, on a side note, I stopped receiving them after I started enforcing FCrDNS on our incoming mail gateways. :-)
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In other news, soap (alcohol too!) kills cancer cells by lysing their cell membranes.
German is a most excellent language, but HN is an English-language site, so please don't post non-English articles to HN.
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matrix.org is pretty good. Theoretically a well configured XMPP server would do.
For what it's worth, "tcptraceroute" is a great tool to help diagnose these kinds of things.
Would you happen to have some code online I can look at which use this technique ?
I first saw Casey Muratori from https://handmadehero.org/ use an approach like this and used the same approach in a small project of mine. It worked well and was simple enough to implement.
The NemCV story
In my macro economics studies we absolutely included involuntary unemployment in models, this in itself broken into different forms like frictional vs structural unemployment. Similar inclusions for debt and pricing. As for crisis, then what are macro economic stress tests? Economists can be a overly theoretical in places, they have to be in a world of unlimited and often irrational variables, but this is a bit simplistic.

I have quite admired the way Yanis has handled his brief position in Greece. He's clearly an intelligent big picture thinker that was out to serve his peoples interests. This quote seems out of context to my expectations of his usually we'll considered statements. I wonder if there is some loss or context or other soundbite missing here.
If you hold out on refactoring to UI Router until 1.0 is released, I'm pretty confident at this point that I can promise you a smooth upgrade path well into the future. (Come to think of it, I'm still pretty confident even if you start now on 0.2.x).
No, it's still going to flop. The kind of people that think VR is a good idea also thought Ouya is a good idea, so yah, it's doomed.

Didn't personal injury lawsuit concerns kill VR back in the 90's?

And then there's the limited field-of-view..
Unfortunately, AG Bethge has not (and most likely will not) released the original code, so this is very nice to have! The results from karpathy's implementation definitely feel a little "off" but it is very good nonetheless. Also see: Kai Sheng Tai's implementation - https://github.com/kaishengtai/neuralart

It seems like the original implementation still has a few undocumented tricks up its sleeve for improving accuracy that have yet to be figured out.
It's been years since I had Internet service from AT&T -- thank $deity! -- but the block on 25/TCP outgoing (on my account) was removed very quickly after I made my request.
Sorry, I'm not a person to whom this question was addressed. But in our company we had 3 developers coming from PHP and Python world. They learned basics in 1-2 days and started to commit in production repository. Then in 1-3 weeks they learned it much deeper. But in our case it was easier because we already had high traffic and there were a lot of production examples to learn.
This is so funny, thank you.
69% of people using YouTube leave when faced with an interstitial.

Different statistic.
The clever financial marketeers who crashed the economy
Chiara Vigo: The last woman who makes sea silk
Is this not essentially the same tech as the antenna-mice from yesterday? Just a longer wavelength for a bigger sack of mostly water?
From my perspective, CMake has pretty much become the standard build system for C/C++ projects that need to be compiled on more than one platform. That was not the case a few years ago, but I'm seeing it more and more often. Maybe people realized that while it's not perfect and has some weird behaviors, it's the most practical tool to do the job right now.
Why would a self-described 'erratic marxist' even be concerned about contradicting Keynesian economics?
I was always interested in both Physics and Economics and did studies in both disciplines.

As a physicist, the models that I encountered in economic theory always left me quite disappointed. The main reason for this was that -like the article says- most of the models used in Economics are based on abstract reasoning about "ideal" markets and actors (or more recently on game-theoretic ideas) instead of experimental data. One reason for this is of course that when many of those models were developed (in the 50s or earlier) there simply was no reliable (micro-)data available that one could develop a theory against. Another big problem that kept Economics from taking a more experimental stance towards model generation is of course that until recently it was very hard or outright impossible to conduct large-scale experiments, which are the main instrument to validate (or better, not falsify) a given theory in other disciplines such as Physics or Biology.

That said, the recent computerization of all aspects of business and the creation of virtual economies -like Eve Online, World of Warcraft- and "transparent" markets -like Bitcoin- should provide ample data to develop "real" models of economic behavior against, and I think that many researchers actually already make use of this data.

The theories that will result from this will probably be more like those developed in statistical mechanics though -i.e. making statements about the aggregate behavior of the system- rather than those developed e.g. in electrodynamics, where we usually can predict the behavior of even a single particle. Would love -and be at bit scared- to be proved wrong about this of course :)
I happened to go through to my first result at the site with a dash in a year or two, it no longer does that. I wonder if they got penalised for doing it.
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I feel like I need some arguments and examples pertaining to this specific article to swallow your objection.
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Was this "WASP venom" typo intentional?
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A handful of games developers I know that have used Oculus Rift complained of sickness after 20 minutes or so. Apparently it's better with recent revisions of the hardware, but to put it in perspective the prior revision had one chap needing to lie down in a dark room he felt so awful!
When UI Router 1.0(beta/stable) will be released?
It may flop in the mass market, but as one who has had 18 hour goggle sessions in elite, there is a market, it may just be more niche for the time being than vr firms are betting on.

So - I don't think it will ultimately flop, but it may be a slower start than the hype hopes for.
Just to be clear, I'm defending Amazon over an accusation that they've cut corners from an install that was up in 2007 or earlier. Now we could have focused on xen guests shitting the bed for no apparent reason or flakey switch port but we decided to focus on storage.

OK so I'm not proclaiming to be an expert but as someone working in the area in 2007, buying something off the shelf like it aint no thing, you're getting something like a netapp with a limit of 512 iscsi inititatiors, or a Sun amber road where your only form of automation is an ssh consol with a big warning stating it's unsupported.

From memory, there was no such thing as setting quotas on the amount of IOPs an iSCSI inititatior can do, in fact, I'm fairly sure IOPs quotas just didn't exist period, as the vendors weren't really up-to-speed with this new selling vm's thing. So basically, we're suggesting that it's a good idea to just buy a SAN to run an indetermined amount of vm's that are going to do an indetermined amount of IOPs.

OK, cool, you're now indebted to storage vendors selling you new shelvs at £80,000 a pop for those extra IOPs you so deperately need. Now to be fair, Amazon could probably afford it, but your VMs would still be a lot more expensive and would probably have still been totally disposible when your switch port decides to blip traffic to the SAN or as previously stated, Xen shits the bed.

None of these things might be a problem today, I don't know, I'm more a consumer than a producer of clouds these days, but I'd suggests these criticisms are bullshit. They come from some obviously smart people, but bullshit none-the-less.
the scheduling process is terrible -- excel sheets, manual paper schedules, etc

Excel and paper might be terrible to you, but you're a tech minded entreprenuer so what it feels like to you is essentially irrelevant. The person who needs to think Excel and paper are terrible is your customer. The two important things are: Do Excel and paper have a fundamental disadvantage compared to a SaaS solution that people would be willing to pay for, and would people be willing to pay $<price> in order to get that advantage? It's definitely possible that the answer to those questions is a resounding 'YES!' to you, but you need to ask people who would pay for your product those questions rather than believing you already know the answer. Research your market.

As for competing on price, I wouldn't. You competitors will just discount their products if you take any significant market share. They've picked a price they believe people will pay, really there's (probably) nothing stopping them charging $1/month.

(Note: My startup competed with Excel. What we built was definitely better than Excel for the problem we were tackling. But ultimately most of our potential customers thought the pain was quite trivial (despite losing $thousands on projects due to it) so no one bought in. Excel was good enough and effectively free because everyone already has it. $20/month is a heck of a lot more than $0/month.)
It seems that all Skylake CPUs suitable for new MacBook Pros won't ship until early 2016. I was hoping for a new MBP this fall, but it seems that my old MacBook Air has to do it's job a little longer.
I have Prime and the Amazon Instant Video app on a Roku 3. I rented one movie on it right after I got it (about two years ago) and haven't used it since then, but my girlfriend uses it once or twice a week and hasn't ever complained about it.
id love it if i can do this in only private chat lol
Brazil: Auction delivers over 800MW at 8 cents/kWh
I think invoking Monsanto falls under Godwin's.
Basemark to underpin OSVR open standards ecosystem for VR
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>If this is just a competition over how fucked up you can get per liquid volume, then pure grain alcohol beats everything else anyway.

i'd beg to differ. The "fucked up" is a multidimensional value. For example, if we add the "how hard the tomorrow's hangover is going to be" dimension, than infusing vodka with beer wins over pure alcohol, at least in my college-time experience. It beats only bootleg "cogniac" we drunk once which seems to had been produced infusing cheapest technical alcohol with something of dark brown color and smell. People also mentioned that the winner would be infusing low quality alcohol or moonshine with insecticide - fortunately never tried. Yea, how creative one can get with those infusions :)
> Note the contradiction: "no involuntary unemployment and, indeed, no money" followed by "real wages fell by 40% but employment dropped".

That contradiction quickly dissolves once you see that he first he talks about macroeconomics as taught in the university ("no involuntary unemployment and, indeed, no money") and then about microeconomics ("real wages fell by 40% but employment dropped").
In actual real-world user tests, I've found that 95-95% of people say "Holy OMFG this is one of the coolest things I have EVER SEEN!!!1"

There are "always a few" who shrug their shoulders and say "so what is the use-case for this anyway?"
If you read the article, they explictly rule out the "poisson sequence of life-ending events" model of mortality. If this model was true, a 120-year-old living in the age of vaccines, antibiotics, and organ transplants should have as much chance of living to 130 as a 20-year old has of living to 30. They don't.
I had similar views, until I did some contract work for distributed systems platform.
I have written a demo app that connects to twitter stream api and pushes data to elasticsearch instance running on Apache Mesos. One thing that struck me was separation of concerns principle, starting containers on a cluster with Marathon and Mesos is such a breeze. No complex deployments or package management, everything is isolated from each other very neatly and thoughtfully. Of course, the complexity is by orders of magnitudes higher and this tech comes with its own bundle of "joy", like maintenance difficulties and monitoring issues, but what new tech doesn't?
How UI Became a Thing at Docker
Was meant to be a response to something in here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10156265 ?
Many shortcuts that we normally get away with when looking at 3D on a screen become really jarring in VR. The following article lists a few interesting ones that are often forgotten, such as shading:

http://qz.com/192874/is-the-oculus-rift-designed-to-be-sexis...

Ignore the clickbaity title, the article has good info.
It's a step in the right direction, but I personally don't think the tech is there yet - just look at the millions that go into creating 3d games for a 2d surface, how does that scale to 360deg of motion?

Additionally, you have M$ marketing campaign which does videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0PsyuA (even though it's AR, the point still stands that VR/AR are being marketed as more than they actually are).
>The latter statement only contradicts Keynesian economics

Uh, no, it contradicts neoclassical economics. Keynesian economics views unemployment as a deficit of aggregate demand and most CERTAINLY does not pretend that it doesn't exist.

>But although in one sentence he seems to think the Greek experience contradicts Keynesian economics

A quick skim suggests he doesn't contradict Keynesian economists.

Probably he contradicts new keynesian economics somewhere, but then again, New Keynesian is an abortion that would have Keynes turning in his grave.
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I love watching smart people argue, so I love economics. Economics is a great source for jokes. "Economics is astrology for people who know calculus", "How many economists does it take to reach a conclusion?", and so on.

As much as I like picking on economists and watching them bicker, there's actually a method to the madness. (Except for the shills, I'm looking at you, Krugman[1]). When done correctly, economics becomes kind of a cross between a courtroom and a bullshitting session. People present various theories and sets of measurements. Lots of discussion around instrumentation and epistemology takes place. At the end of the day, the discussion wraps up to be something like "Given that most of us agree that these kinds of initial conditions mostly lead to these kinds of results, do most of us think that these kinds of initial conditions currently exist?" (Note that the "most of us" can very well be different sets of folks)

Oddly enough, it turns out that this kind of discussion has lots of real-world value.

Machine learning and deep learning especially has a pretty cool new role here, but it will never take of this dynamic ongoing discssion.

So no, economics doesn't have a math problem. It doesn't work like that. Perhaps a better way of putting is this: people who expect the world to be deterministic have a problem with economics. That situation is unlikely to change.

[1] I pick on Krugman because his shtick is already knowing the answer, no matter what the question is. He also likes showing us his Nobel. Somebody said once that every Krugman column should begin with "Damn fools!" In this way, this isn't economics; as far as I can tell it's personal aggrandizement using economics as a prop. A huge ego is a terrible thing to waste. But damn, it sure is entertaining!

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But using that motivation, then they should block other ports as well if they suspect that IP address is infected.
if by evolve you mean secrete VEGF to stimulate vascularization and thereby bring food from more sources, sure
I created a quick 1-question survey about procrastination and I'd be super happy if you participate.

I can share the results later here if anyone is interested!

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I was expecting an empty page with a huge "don't" in it. But instead there was interview excerpts from Go developers and a ambiguous list of "best practices".It would be more meaningful if this was backed with some actual practices with some code examples.

I just don't see what people think others would understand by teleologic statements like: "write Go the way it wants to be written"
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In addition to the suggestions already given to contact Google / Apple / Microsoft / servers / payment processors etc., here are a couple more tips:

First, many lawyers will be willing to enter into fee arrangements e.g. based on success or with deferred payments. It is worth getting the right lawyer as slightly greater expensive short term may save you a ton more money long term.

Second, preparing a cease and desist letter should not be too timely and therefore costly (particularly if you do the background of getting details of the breaching party and provide clear evidence of the breach etc). It will not require you to take further action if they ignore it (the letter should be sent without prejudice to your rights) but you should consider that if you don't follow-through, they may be emboldened.

Good luck!
Would be interested to see how much people would be ready to pay!
I certainly cannot compete on features, and saying that I'll compete on "design"/"ease-of-use" is trivial; it's the execution that's hard. I could target only restaurants, and customize my entire software for it to serve it better, but there are already solutions out there doing it to appeal more to the restaurateurs.

In other words, I don't know what my competitive advantage will be should I decide to enter this market, yet I know this market pretty well based on my first-hand experiences.