skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a cool project! This is very fun to play with in conjunction with the ETOPS (extended twin-engine operations) settings on the Great Circle Mapper. http://www.gcmap.com

Among other things it drives home how remote the waters MH370 disappeared in are.
They might have a Signature deposit offering, where the 3 comes fully loaded in return for you fronting most of the vehicle cost upfront. This hasn't been announced yet to my knowledge, but was done for both the S and the X.

Sidenote: If you can't afford a $5K deposit for a vehicle, you probably shouldn't be buying a vehicle new.
" potentially have your entire screen taken over with alerts offering to clean out the viruses found on you computer, the smart consumer is going to take option A every time."

The only time I've seen this is when I've gone to shady websites (porn, filesharing, etc). Legitimate websites don't want to piss off their user base and don't have ads like this.

"The problem is that much of the times ads are disruptive, annoying, and potentially harmful"

Do you have statistics to back this up? We seem to need scientific evidence in every other case, but with things like this, you can pull it out of thin air.

There are a small percentage of ads that are disruptive, but the majority are not. It sounds to me like Sysadmins need to start doing their job.

"The advertising industry, and those that employ it, need to aggressively move against bad practices, or the consumers will continue to do it for them."

The consumers will only get punished. Ads are on their way out. What's becoming more popular? Paywalls, ads disguised as movies/videos/actual content.

Think of things like Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz. This is the direct result of consumers creating a culture of avoiding ads.

How about if all of the major Internet providers decide to cut off anyone trying to use Bittorrent because of a small percentage of people abusing it for illegal content??

This is the equivalent of adblocker: punishing all businesses for the actions of a few. Funny how the same people that are against this behavior has no problem using it when it is in their favor.

More bullshit hypocrisy.
Yes, but still. The essence of a tax is its involuntary nature. The mafia's numbers racket was a tax, or would be but for the mafia's lack of legitimacy (if you consider being a legitimate government a precondition for levying a tax). You played or someone broke your legs or burned down your house. Last time I checked, no state is doing anything like that. There are many things wrong with state-run lotteries, but they're not a tax. If you don't like the way the lottery is priced, don't play. Your kneecaps won't know the difference.
The authors are very vocal against dynamic linking.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/

Modern applications use dynamic linking most of the time, because despite the possible headache with versions, it offers a much more flexible architecture.
A tax is by definition a compulsory contribution. The lottery is optional. Thus it's not a tax.
> Do you mean the U.S or the whole world

Both: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/world-...
Based on Elon's response... it's silence, there is nothing here.
I would caution against calling it depression, which is a set of symptoms classified as a disease and really can only be evaluated by a professional.

However, I recently went through a period of anhedonia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhedonia), which may be what OP is experiencing.

Things that I found that worked: exercise for pleasure (riding my bike!). Connecting with people (one-on-one -- i'd always been part of a big group before). Learning new things, new challenges. Yoga.

A book that helped me a lot was Frankl's "A man's search for meaning". I realized that I had a bit of fight club nihilism in me because I never chose my purpose in life, and so was just sitting on the metaphorical treadmill of existentialistic wallowing.
Are you interested in buying products from disingenuous people? There's more to a purchase than the price.
Lottery tax doesn't go to education. Just like donations to your school for X does not go to X.
I have a hard time believing that, considering Tesla has only existed for 12 years, and is already producing 50K vehicles a year that are rated as the best car ever built.
STATE lottery is a tax, an inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax. There is nothing wrong with lotery as such.
Consumption taxes are voluntary. You don't have to pay alcohol duty, or tobacco duty, or fuel duty. You can just refrain from consuming alcohol, tobacco or fuel.

In fact, a decent accountant will show you most taxes are voluntary...
Yes, yes I do. All of the examples I gave come from actual experience. You also added absolutely nothing to the discussion.
I read books on my tablet when I do cardio at the gym to square the circle between learning what I need for work and keeping in shape.
Regarding DDoS protection, if you scroll down on the Scaleway pricing page, there's an addon "Premium bandwidth with full DDoS protection" for €0.02/GB.
Focus on what you're expected to deliver (e.g. some working software) and how you're expected to deliver it (e.g. being nice to colleagues, writing design docs, ...).

If you don't know what's expected of you, that's something you could discuss with your manager.

If you're doing what is expected of you (and being nice to colleagues etc.) or, ideally, exceeding those expectations, then you will probably enjoy your job more, and feel less pressure to conform to specific work hours.

Of course, different companies and teams/managers have different cultures. Also, in some countries you're expected to stay later than your manager. She, in turn, is expected to stay later than her manager.
Yep no one will come and break down your door and point guns at you if you don't play the lottery. (Unlike actual taxes.) At least not yet ...
Hi there, blog author here!

This blog post is not a full description of CockroachDB's transaction strategy. If you're interested, you can find a complete rundown of our strategy here: (https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...). However, that is a very terse document: this blog post was an attempt to expand on one of the basic ideas behind our design. My goal to clearly explain how we approach atomicity, without broaching the complicated topic of Isolation.

That said, I will attempt to address some of the pain points you raised:

* Cockroach does use a full MVCC system; writes are "append-only" and we keep the full history of values for each key. Keys can be queried at a timestamp, and every write explicitly specifies a timestamp as well (each transaction is assigned a timestamp, all writes will use the same timestamp). With this system, each transaction operates on a snapshot of the database.

* Our strategy for overlapping transactions is straightforward: if two concurrent transactions have a conflict, one of them will be aborted and retried. Write intents (in combination with another component, the "read timestamp cache") are used by conflicting transactions to discover each other. Once discovered, the decision of which in-progress transaction gets aborted is deterministic - each transaction is assigned a random integer "priority", and the transaction with the highest priority always wins the conflict (unless one of the transactions has already committed).

* Every read does need to check the switch if the key being read has a write intent; reads of plain values (with no in-progress transaction) do not need to check a switch.

* Yes, aborted transactions can write intents to the database in our current system. However, the second "write" (consolidation) happens asynchronously, and is not required for the transaction to function correctly. It should only be noticed if the key is accessed again by another transaction before it is consolidated. For committed transactions, I don't believe this is a particularly high price to pay.

A system that doesn't write aborted transactions to disk would be considerably more complex; I think it would involve two commit phases (I. The transaction has been "committed" in memory, and can no longer be aborted by other transactions II. The transaction must successfully commit all changes to disk in an atomic fashion). You likely could get some additional performance (if disk latency is a sufficient bottleneck), but it would be hard won in terms of complexity.
You are correct. People seem to assume the two parties signing a contract have the same amount of power. This is far from true.
The models are written in R and trained on spiked samples of beer - we add a known chemical contaminant to the beer, review the product, and train the models.

Depending on the style of beer, we sometimes use our clients products, sometimes representative a representative beer from the style of interest. Depending on the flaw, sometimes the models are global (style independent) and sometimes there's a model per style.

We do some marketing in trade publications such as New Brewer and Roast magazine (for coffee). We also attend trade shows.

Any marketing ideas?
> Google's head of their self-driving vehicle team has committed to general availability of their self-driving cars in 4 years

Yes, but I said "self-driving cars will be a majority" in 15 to 20 years. The internet was invented in 1983, made available to the public in 1990 and took over 10 to 15 years later, even today there's a good proportion of the population that do not use it.
This is a side project I've been working on for a couple years (when not playing video games :P). I hope you'll give it a try, and I would appreciate your feedbacks. Thanks!
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I find these two statements so contradictory and fundamental that I don't know which statement to believe:

There is a reason to save growth for last. While growth is quite important, and even thought we are in a market where growth is in particularly high demand, growth all by itself can be misleading. Here is the problem. Growth that can never translate into long-term positive cash flow will have a negative impact on a DCF model, not a positive one. This is known as “profitless prosperity.” - Bill Gurley

If you want to understand startups, understand growth. Growth drives everything in this world. Growth is why startups usually work on technology—because ideas for fast growing companies are so rare that the best way to find new ones is to discover those recently made viable by change, and technology is the best source of rapid change. Growth is why it's a rational choice economically for so many founders to try starting a startup: growth makes the successful companies so valuable that the expected value is high even though the risk is too. Growth is why VCs want to invest in startups: not just because the returns are high but also because generating returns from capital gains is easier to manage than generating returns from dividends. - pg [0]

P.S. - Dang can you add the (2011) tag?

[0] - http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
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This looks great! precisely what I needed.

If I want collision-detection in 2D, are there other alternative algorithms? Is this the most efficient method? (for objects with finite sizes)
The tax is so extreme that it actually inspires illegal bookmaking operations -- doing a pick-3 with a 20-30% cut instead of the 50% the state takes is as good a way as any to raise capital for your criminal enterprise.

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/72481

Market-rate gambling with a 2-10% cut to the house would be impractical to undercut in this fashion.
One of the section headings puts it correctly:

"It’s not a tax on the stupid. It’s a tax on addicts, and their families."

That, I think, is the most fair categorization. But you already see such taxes (for example, in the inflated medical insurance premiums for smokers). So it's not particularly different from existing "addiction premiums".
I never blocked ads (like AdSense) until the proliferation of popups, unstoppable videos and such crap. I'm blocking everything since then and the site has to be really important for me to disable blocking. This is an arms race you have no chance of winning. If I don't like your blocker I just disable that script in my browser or null out its reference or whatever since it is __my__ browser after all and you have no control over it. AdBlock is the answer for the useless shitstorm of obtrusive ads and while we have them it is here to stay. I bet there will be a FuckAdBlockFucker tomorrow or even sooner.
Your question sparked my curiosity. I did a little digging and came across these two pages that may benefit you:

http://www.chinalawblog.com/2013/01/service-companies-in-chi...

http://abovethelaw.com/2015/03/want-to-get-paid-by-a-china-c...

Based on these articles it does seem that is the case. To be extra sure, you may want to speak with your bank directly to find out, or even get the name of the bank of your client and contact them directly (get their contact info off the Internet and not from your client to avoid getting a fake contact).

I would be curious to know the answer myself.
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Some states aren't even paying the winners anymore.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/31/illinois-lottery-winners-rece...
Hey Howard, thanks for the feedback. That's a good point that I hadn't really run into (probably depends on personal debugging style). I still think keeping error handlers small is worth it, but I will mention that tradeoff.
> You can make the same argument against minimum wage, or any other abusive contracts (payday/predatory loans).

The people who make the argument against labor laws like the ones at issue with Uber often do make the same argument against minimum wage laws, or other laws restricting "abusive" contracts.
There's definitely a handful of airports in Antarctica. Are they not "official"?
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Absolutely beautiful UI. Well done.

You should also consider a flag for simple JSON output as well, without loading indicators.
Excellent reply. The argument that animal protein production is more inefficient than directly eating the plant matter fed to the animal ignores the symbiotic relationship between plants and animals. Our extreme dependence on oil-based energy has tricked us into thinking that agriculture is sustainable without the use of animals. Of course, modern CAFOs are horribly wasteful as well, but that doesn't mean the plant/animal symbiosis isn't vital to the whole process.

All very nicely illustrated by your work.
Amazon doesn't mention Google or Percolator either.
If tomorrow the government decides only it can sell gasoline, and it does so with a 35% margin, that's strictly more restrictive than an excise tax.
And what's Googles record on hardware like ?

Apple has hired everyone under the sun to work on their rumoured car project and they already have decades of experience in global supply chain management. That is what I would be expecting from Google today if they were planning on shipping a car in 4 years.

Far more likely they will license their software to Tesla. Which would be one of the only car companies interested since everyone has had autonomous systems project in place for many years.
Allowing a criminal to live in your house puts the whole family at risk. What if he does something that prompts the police to SWAT him, and by extension you? And then there is asset forfeiture; people have lost their homes because their adult child that lived with them got busted with drugs.

If I had a family member that was up to that kind of shit, I might help them pay rent in a home of their own, but they would not be staying in my home.
Which illustrates the original point: that scenario -- generous severances when the company is going out of business -- is incredibly rare. A much more likely scenario is your options become worthless and you're laid off. If you can leave a bad environment, I recommend leaving ASAP instead of letting the golden handcuffs keep you -- unless the golden handcuffs promise a huge return, and there's little or no doubt about getting that return.
I think he is talking about some semantic routing layer above http where you ask for content without querying a specific source/endpoint in the same way that dhcp looks for an ip address. I call it the neuroweb and I have made some satisfying experiments in this field; the only barrier I can see has to do with performance/scalability since we have schemaless data structures + realtime queries, which can easily bottleneck without some kind of efficient specialized index.
The future is hard to predict. It depends on two things:

* Regulations

* Manufacturing capacity

The world auto fleet is replaced pretty slowly. Perhaps its turned over quicker for every self-driving car released onto the roads. If I recall correctly, for every Zipcar shared car in a neighborhood, ~20 cars are no longer kept by owners in the area. Self-driving vehicles could have the same effect, limited to only how fast they can be built and shipped on rail to their final operational region.

Regulations. These are important. Self-driving cars will kill less people than human drivers. Full stop. If you incentivize people to use self-driving cars (insurance rates skyrocket for human drivers), you'll push people to automated vehicles faster. Less deaths, less capital outlay for humanity as a whole for buying cars, lots of efficiency all around.

If you want to make a gentleman's Long Bet [1] on it, I'd be down for that (token amount donated to the winner's charity of choice).

[1] http://longbets.org/
Nobody will break down your door if you don't pay other taxes either. You don't need to earn income, buy food, or live in a home. You're free to be homeless, jobless, and starving.

If you don't like that, you're welcome to protest and vote for candidates that provide hope for change. That's the system and it's here to protect all of us.
> its like injecting nicotine instead of smoking cigarettes.

They're halfway there already with "vaping". Tobacco requires a lot of land and labor to grow and process; "vapor juice" can be made by third-rate chemistry labs in China for half the cost.

Eventually they'll do away with lottery tickets too, and instead the clerk will just tell you that you lost. Which is reminiscent of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe5rZFCiLsA.
You're right, and that statement was poorly worded. If you check my project, I use plain char, which is signed on most platforms. The benefit of using unsigned char for binary data is the same, but the compiler warnings won't help on certain platforms.
No one will come and break down your door and point guns at you if you don't smoke cigarettes or purchase alcohol.
Demand for cars is still huge during rush hours. Lots of cars sit idle during low demand times, but that capacity is still needed to meet high demand times.

The problem isn't getting people into the same car. The bigger problem is getting people into the same car at the same time. Sure, self-driving cars can work with each other in ways human drivers can't to minimize congestion, but until you start removing cars from the road, it will still be an issue.
By "do well" I don't mean grow. As you point out, the air travel industry can grow and grow without actually doing well. Seats on planes are a commodity item, the barrier to entry into the airline business is simply cash, and there's always someone ready to cut their prices right to the bone (and beyond) and in doing so shred any profit you might have hoped to pull in.

sure, often growth is a good sign, but I'm looking for a sector that will jack up the profits. If that's through growth, great. UK house builders, for example, have a reputation of not growing as fast as they could because they want to hold up the ridiculous prices. Many (not all, of course) companies are actually quite bad at growing, especially if their core business is mature and saturated; I avoid companies that always take their profits and, instead of giving them to me, blow them on ill-considered attempts to expand beyond their ability.

Sure, I miss some (and some of the ever-expanding behemoths are a perpetual mystery to me; I avoid companies whose ever-increasing stock prices are based on the hope of a shiny far-future), but on the whole it's working out. As far as I'm concerned, the default place for profits is in my pocket (and then in other companies). On average, it seems that I can invest it better in other companies than the company can reinvest it in itself.
The only purpose of ads is to forcefully track, distract, and exploit people's privacy for financial gain. The surest way to bring about new ethical business models is to destroy the existing ones.
Do you have a reference for that commitment?
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This is a bit of a ludicrous example. Fuel is certainly more necessary than a lottery ticket, and to at least some portion of the population, alcohol and tobacco are as well.
You didn't say what the work hours are so we can't tell you if they're normal. Right?
"Abstractly considered, the hanging of the gamblers at Vicksburg, was of but little consequence. They constitute a portion of population, that is worse than useless in any community; and their death, if no pernicious example be set by it, is never matter of reasonable regret with any one. If they were annually swept, from the stage of existence, by the plague or small pox, honest men would, perhaps, be much profited, by the operation."
According to Google's latest monthly report [1]:

Miles driven since start of project in 2009
“Autonomous mode” means the software is driving the vehicle, and test drivers are not touching the manual
controls. “Manual mode” means the test drivers are driving the car.

* Autonomous mode: 1,158,818 miles

* Manual mode: 877,477 miles

* We’re currently averaging ~10,000 autonomous miles per week on public streets

(my note: over a million miles without an accident caused by software)

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/...

Don't let their track record on consumer hardware fool you. Apple makes nice phones and laptops, while Google has built an entire simulation of where their vehicles drive, continually updates that data with vehicles in the field, and runs their self driving algorithms against those world simulations. This ain't no Apple Maps.
No. Everyone is seeing photoshop renderings and thinking it's the Model 3. Tesla is supposed to unveil the vehicle next March (but we need to convert from Elon time to human). I'm anxious.

edit: I'm guess that within this community it's quite possible someone has seen at least early company renderings.
There is a compulsory tax on alcohol but its consumption is voluntary. That's like saying an income tax is voluntary because you can choose to not have any income.