skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a personal 15" Macbook Pro and two external monitors hooked up to it whenever I'm home, and nice things about it are that it is powerful and portable enough to serve both as my main home computer and occasional work computer whenever I'm out of home. I also have a fairly high-end Windows 10 desktop computer which I use only for gaming. I agree with your friend's argument, it fits with my lifestyle. For me, I examined my lifestyle, and then decided on the type of computer that I should get.
But why stop there? Let's have no property rights and let the Mexicans stay in your bedroom.
Its way, way more complex then that. Please see my answer above. Square's competition is stripe and paypal...

And all the new "mobile" payment platforms coming out. Companies you mentioned are HUGE and some are subsidiaries of larger banks.
that's crazy! what happens if we go into a recession and the top 1% aren't making enough money to pay 30% of the tax bill...
Because that's a completely unrelated concept.
And as an amusing tidbit, here is the actual value in hex:

FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF C90FDAA2 2168C234 C4C6628B 80DC1CD1
29024E08 8A67CC74 020BBEA6 3B139B22 514A0879 8E3404DD
EF9519B3 CD3A431B 302B0A6D F25F1437 4FE1356D 6D51C245
E485B576 625E7EC6 F44C42E9 A637ED6B 0BFF5CB6 F406B7ED
EE386BFB 5A899FA5 AE9F2411 7C4B1FE6 49286651 ECE45B3D
C2007CB8 A163BF05 98DA4836 1C55D39A 69163FA8 FD24CF5F
83655D23 DCA3AD96 1C62F356 208552BB 9ED52907 7096966D
670C354E 4ABC9804 F1746C08 CA18217C 32905E46 2E36CE3B
E39E772C 180E8603 9B2783A2 EC07A28F B5C55DF0 6F4C52C9
DE2BCBF6 95581718 3995497C EA956AE5 15D22618 98FA0510
15728E5A 8AACAA68 FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF

Source: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3526#section-3
Perhaps this could be down to response times too, they might crawl much quicker if given static HTML very quickly?

What were the page render times for the two types of page?
> (a link will suffice)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_up_my_sleeve_number
I believe parts are a scam and parts are good
The pathology diagnostics field is ripe for disruption with easy access and visible pricing and even if they do this well they will probably disrupt the big players. In terms of new technology I very much doubt they have anything substantial.
> > So my friends and I riding motocycles through the mountains on a sunny afternoon are reckless endangerment?
> If you're breaking the law then yes, you're reckless, period. If not, then enjoy it all you want.

The speed limit (and various other laws) are very much all or nothing. Riddle me this, which of the following is safer to do on the same road with a speed limit of 50:

a) Driving a brand new porche with brand new tyres on a sunny day, doing 55

b) Driving a car from the 70s with tyres that are almost worn out (but still in the legal range), at night, in heavy rain, doing 48

now consider that a) is illegal and b) is legal.

Breaking a law should not be a binary decision, making it a 0/1 choice makes the world worse for everyone, because to be completely safe, the restriction has to account for the worst case and that means that the vast majority will be artificially limited and feel like the law is needlessly overreaching. This is not a good situation to be in.
How often is this put to the test? How do you automatically record configuration changes like the occasional "apt-get" to bring in something you're missing?
Well there goes democracy.
There is a case for open borders, in a perfect world. On the other hand, the destination country does not get any equity in the source country, as deferment. Immigrants take up resources (housing, educational, etc.) and send money out (remittances).

Let's say you're running a great country with a great economy, Singapore. And, suddenly in a gesture of humanity, you open borders, and you have 5 million people stream in, maybe ten. How good is Singapore going to be as a destination with that kind of migratory assault on resources, infrastructure, culture, economy etc? Do they get dividends on the source country which squandered its opportunities (say Indonesia with vast natural resources).

And what's the incentive for the people/gov't in the other countries to shape up? Remember, at the turn of the 20th century[1], lots of poor countries were on par with now developed nations and many developed and rich nations were backwaters (Norway, Sweden) and many powerhouses were very agricultural (the US, Japan, China, Russia) and kind of backward.

I think one could just as well make a case for, wait for it, the great bogey-concept, imperialism.

Why not have Singapore control Indonesia, bring in expertise, a culture of success, government and eradicate corruption gov't malfeasance and bring prosperity to Indonesia, for example?

I mean, what's the difference between Indonesians going to Singapore to become like Singaporeans and adopt some of their culture, versus Singapore having dominion over Indonesia and instilling some of their culture, success, economic prowess, etch, thus becoming a bit Singaporean?

[1]http://ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-pr...

graphs show disparity in the 2 - 3x in the early 20th cent.
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Still the same thing. Group of people "owning" one jurisdiction/sovereign has right to decide, under what conditions they will allow or not allow people from other jurisdictions/sovereigns enter or not. Otherwise, you can move people as you wish and change outcome of any election or referendum by moving the "right" people. Democracy is dead then.

I agree with original poster, freedom to ignore borders is a fake, purposeful invented "human right".
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As a matter of fact, they do. Unlike Java IDEs, Smalltalk dev tools are implemented via reflection on the running program. Between information available from the runtime data structures in the program and the fact that Smalltalk uses single dispatch polymorphism, static type declarations aren't necessary for correct automatic refactorings.

This will be my last post in this thread.
Anyone else find it ironic that the site has a twitter, facebook, g+, diaspora share bar hovering on the right hand side?
How's that?

It's related, just different in scope.
Yeah, this isn't really that scary as long as you know how to spot phishing scams. Am disappoint.
You're right, except that every "middle box" has both endpoint s and clients. HTTPS, FTP, SSH, IRC, all sorts of databases, caches, queue servers, task runners, announce servers, everything. DH is used any time you're leaving your box.
Political borders are an extension of private borders. If the citizens of Metropolis get together and decide that the citizens of Gotham are no longer welcome within their city limits, is that a private border they're defending, or a public one? If it's a public border, then what distinguishes the collective decision of all citizens of Metropolis from an individual decision by a single citizen of Metropolis? If it's a private border, then what distinguishes the border of Metropolis from the border of the United States of America?
> more companies are getting rid of data center operations in favor of services like AWS.

That's not really outsourcing. That's shifting from capital expenses to operating expenses which has tax and cash flow advantages.
Strong borders came with the welfare state to avoid a tragedy of the commons.

Remove various fundamental benefits such as public school, medical care, welfare, transit, subsidized X and the millions of other benefits created in the past 120 years and open borders are not as big of a deal anymore. You just need to hop on a boat and arrive at ellis island, like the ancestors of many americans today.

There are also parallels with city zoning laws. Go buy a house and find out how many restrictions and regulations there are on the parcel of land that you have purchased. And also see how much resistance you will get from the local politically active populace if you dare try to change things. Such as creating density. NIMBYism almost seems like a instinctual human reflex.

In other places where there isn't a welfare state and so on, it's usually straight up racism and ethnic nationalism.
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1. Even pretty cheap desktops can be packed loads of memory, and can run a lot of virtual machines.

2. You can easily swap out/upgrade components.

3. If you are running the system nearly 24 hours a day, a desktop might cope much better than a mid range lap top (regarding life of the components). So use the laptop only while you are traveling or for a demo. When you are home, use the cheap but powerful desktop with loads of memory and easily replaceable components.

Cons are that Desktops consumes a lot more power and generate a lot of heat. and that might be good or bad depending on your climate.
I'm struggling to find a good balanced framework approach to AWS Lambda. I have a dozen of small lambda functions running, but I manage each one individually using just plain CLI commands or a simple Makefile. Sharing code is a pain.
I can only find simple Makefile-like (grunt?) approaches which seems to be too simple, or "monster"-like approach like JAWS that do a gazillion things at the same time (seriously, have you tried the hello world of JAWS? The amount of things it creates on your AWS account is scary to say the least).

What I need is something where I can have a bigger project, export some services/api via handlers, and then some text file where I can "draw" my framework, connecting handlers to API gateway, input sources, etc.
Yes, why even consider a historical narrative when God...
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My husband told me that his customers show up as suggested friends on Facebook. We always thought it had something to do with Whatsapp and Facebook. Now I guess it's just because he uses the Facebook app on his work phone. Crazy stuff!
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Watch This Self-Steering Tesla Model S Drive Itself (And Us) Down the Highway
I was helping a friend design a microfluidic device for platelet characterisation, and the first thing he told me was that only a vein was suitable for drawing blood for platelets. He had to take a phlebotomy course just for the blood for testing prototypes.
> The state authorizing religious ministers of scores of denominations to officiate marriages in addition to justices of the peace is not, in any sense, an "establishment of religion."

Let's consider that a state (nation-state or US state) might
recognize 0, 1, or N religions.

There are many nation-states with 1 or N state-recognized religions,
as you point out, but a US state that recognizes any number of
religions other than 0 is effectively, in many senses, establishing
that set of religions, and excluding any others.

Officiating at weddings is a very light-weight form of recognition
compared to tax exemptions, or to religious requirements to hold public office.

My preference for the US would be to keep government out of religion,
and religion out of government, keeping that number at 0.
As a website commenter I'm not sure I should predict anything. To explain a bit more my previous message, as complex as going to the moon was, it seems a problem scientists knew how to define. One vehicle, 2 planets, the system is describable.

Traffic with lots of agents potentially interacting with every other agent, hence my chaos analogy, lots and lots of variable, ... is blurry.

There's successful research to describe multi agents collision avoidance but I've never seen it used on the field yet.

ps: reminds me airplanes vs car accident rates. Even if flying is inherently complex in itself, there's almost no traffic and almost no obstacle in air. Nobody would crash a car alone in the desert.
Well actually, looking at the things my parents and parents in law did on their home networks, their Smart TVs and so on, having this in a understandable form for the lay person is really good.

To understand, that your door opener, your TV and other things can be "hacked" is important. The information to use different passwords for every service is important.

We as people in the know have to help our elders and peers to see how easy it is to use a pwd-mgr and have a little bit more basic security.

If nothing more, this piece goes a step in the right direction.
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Cons are that Desktops... Not to mention that desktops create a lot more noise pollution in your room unless you have liquid cooling system.
Which areas are cheaper to rent: freehold or leasehold?
Mercedes has had this for at least a couple years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXB82PfNucg
Yet another reminder, among so many over the last couple of years.
> This is the same kind of bullshit I see in academia, where a new technology is promised to replace an old technology that works fine, but now they have a 9 billion dollar valuation!

I am not sure it is bullshit, maybe it's just competition?

Over time, companies within an industry become complacent, cut costs, and decrease quality of service. Somebody (a young idealist perhaps?) comes along and says, hey, we can do better! And because she believes in free markets, it must be that old technology (and indeed newer technology may have marginal benefit) is the culprit, not human greed or laziness or other deadly sin. So she goes, touts, implements and there is some success. However, then the giants will wake up to the threat. They will magically find the way to be more effective, as they always could have been, and they may even grudgingly implement some parts of new technology. And so the margin for the disruptor quickly disappears, and things will return back to the normal state of affairs, where companies can lazily collect fat paychecks for doing the necessary minimum. It's actually win-win for everybody, customers get a small technology/process upgrade, and she is now in the club!

The only minor problem is that this economic model is far from being optimal, but no one really worries about that except academic economists, since no one really knows how to attain the optimal model in the human society anyway.
The media is picking it up now:
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article39163671.ht...
Url changed from http://phys.org/news/2015-10-mathematicians-magic-key-ramanu..., which copies this without linking to it.
IIRC asymmetric decryption is time consuming, so it is used as the initial step to send/receive the symetric DH key. All additional encryption/decryption is symetric.
they have NOT stopped
Your comment is solid but it "feels" jaded. The credit card fee "pie" is HUGE. There is room for square and many other alternatives.

As you've said, there is a middle man of the middle man who manages the middle man. That's not Square's bread and butter. They're going after the low hanging fruit: small businesses, food trucks, flee market sellers, etc.

They can't compete in the POS world but they can get theirs.

However, you are foreshadowing something else, in my opinion: Square is the small fish nipping at the large pie while the big fish are swimming away from Sharks. If Square attempts to grow too quickly or expand too fast, they'll get swallowed up. They won't be bought, just forced out of business.

I think they can have value, but in 10 years - slow and steady.
The company in question did let the dev team build the product. However, said company's tech leadership has been in a state of constant flux and apparently the management du jour no longer wanted what their predecessors wanted.

(Note: I used to work for this same company in this very dev team, although I left long before this happened and Adel was among the few left from those days.)
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Yes, that none of these systems will ever actually work is the point ;)
That's definitely a UI weakness, which we were not aware of.
At this point Facebook has enough data and capability to tell you not just who you're dating right now but who you're likely to date in the future, based on preferences and who you're likely to meet. They may not be doing it yet but I'd assume it's at least been considered by them.
I've seen and judged more resume's then I can count. My advise; list what you're good at, don't list what you've only little expertise in.

Some companies prefer polyglots over 1 language specialist, but others prefer someone that focussed on exactly the language (and version and frameworks) they use as well.

In general; you can't be good at 25 things. For me its a red flag if you list every technology you've briefly touched or read about as skill.

If you're interested in more than just iOS, find a place where they for instance value server-side programming skills. If they purely and only want to see iOS, odds are you'll end up in a job with very narrow responsibilities and focus. Which is okay if you just want iOS and nothing else. But perhaps not in your case.
(1) You're saying use standardized fully-vetted methods.

(2) Parent is asking for something just slightly different enough that it escapes dragnets and automated attacks.

There is no question that (1) is much better than (2).

But in special circumstances, one could do both (1) and (2) in cascade operation (i.e., do one first, then the other). If the code for (1) and (2) run as separate processes with independently chosen keys, seeds, parameters, etc., then it doesn't matter how awful (2) is. It might help, it might not help, but it won't make the security worse than using (1) alone.

The obvious downsides are slowness, code complexity, non-standard API/interface, code maintenance headaches, and false sense of extra security (but not worse security).
Although I agree it's a cool way of rolling out features it's more like buying a phone with 4G capabilities but it not being rolled out until a software update; It's always been possible in the cars they just got the federal approvement now.
Facebook paid £4,327 in corporation taxes. Uber's scale allows them to do tax optimization so I believe they will pay a similar amount of taxes. The government obviously still gets it's money from income taxes on the employees but if you don't have employees the only thing that remains is VAT which is likely to be lower than incometax+vat.
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Question to Dyson: "Are climate models getting better? You wrote how they have the most awful fudges, and they only really impress people who don't know about them."

"I would say the opposite. What has happened in the past 10 years is that the discrepancies between what's observed and what's predicted have become much stronger. It's clear now the models are wrong, but it wasn't so clear 10 years ago. I can't say if they'll always be wrong, but the observations are improving and so the models are becoming more verifiable."

"It's now difficult for scientists to have frank and honest input into public debates. Prof Brian Cox, who is the public face of physics in the UK thanks to the BBC, has said he has no obligation to listen to "deniers," or to any other views other than the orthodoxy. That's a problem, but still I find that I have things to say and people do listen to me, and people have no particular complaints."

Further illustration: http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/10/14/top-french-weathe....

"France's top weatherman, Philippe Verdier has been suspended from work for publishing a book about climate change which suggests that the IPCC might be just a tad unreliable and more than a little politicised."
Not necessarily so. I use a big case (Fractal Design R series), with 4 * 140mm fan. The case has thick noise insulation, and the big fans turn (always) very slowly (500rpm, just above stalling) so it's completely inaudible.

A lot better that the tiny fan of a laptop that drives everyone around crazy as soon as you move the mouse :-)
Do what you like most. In both technologies you can have a great career (if you're good). In the end, doing what you like is most important.
$862m? Isn't that little bit less than what Samsung paid to Apple?

I tell ya, this tech news stuff is sometimes more entertaining than infotainment on TV.
Working with a visually disabled colleague recently iI'm becoming all to painfully aware of how much this is the exception. For Web, apps, OS, devices, and more.
Humans often come up with an explanation for why they did something that's simple, consistent and also completely untrue. They sometimes even believe their own explanations. We may run into the same problem with an AI here - it may be, purposefully or not, providing us with untrue explanations.
For me, it's simply because it's been incredibly easy to swap out broken parts as they come and go. I don't have extreme performance needs with my main machine, and various spare computer parts always find their way into my life, so it's been very cheap to maintain from the beginning, and I don't have worries about running it into the ground.

Laptops and other portables are harder in this regard, especially regarding batteries and intense usage. Other then that, I really don't see how adding keyboard/mouse/screens couldn't do the same thing though really. In fact my plan is to masquerade a laptop as my main desktop computer to save space and use less electricity. It will have no other purpose then to be my "desktop" as I have another laptop better suited for portability and battery life. Built-in power backup for my main rig is a plus though!
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It should be said that there is no such thing as consensus among Jews or rabbinical scholars regarding the interpretation and understanding of Talmudic Law. To say "Jews do or don't do X, Y, or Z" is an inherently flawed statement. What is true is that only a small fraction of American Jews keep strictly kosher (e.g. most do not have two dishwashers). Some dietary restrictions are often given more consideration than others. For example, many Jews would refuse pork or shrimp altogether, but wouldn't necessarily wait 5 hours after some chicken to have a slice of cheesecake or a scoop of ice cream. There is always variation from person to person. "Kosher style" is what I encounter most.
Thanks for that tip!
> For nearly every mistake that human drivers make, a good way to prevent it is to slow down.

This is an important point, one where the comparison to aircraft doesn't work. Aircraft and the Apollo missions couldn't have a failsafe that just says "I think something is wrong, come to a gentle stop".
Mobile now covers a wide range of scales.
Well there are no "real" rights. The pragmatic understanding is that rights are labels that groups agree to use to indicate that something is "very important, the exceptions must be spectacularly well justified". You don't have to agree with the label.

For your private property example, consider UK freedom to roam and statutory right of access laws. It is sometimes called "right to roam". UN and EU have freedom of movement rights, but they do not grant crossing borders other than your own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement
Except the article makes no claims about why Jews avoid pigs, other than a few minor observations such as:

- Israelites came to consider pork avoidance a central element of their identity.

- Scriptural dietary rules grew more significant with time.

- God expresses his fury at a few people who have eaten “swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things.”

- even in the face of death, a Jew must refuse pork in order to remain true to his people.

The reasons listed in the first section of the article are referring to other ancient near eastern cultures, whose reason for avoiding eating pork products certainly wasn't due to Levitical laws.

In the latter section an emphasis is made on the fact that avoid pigs became more of an issue in the post-exilic period when the Jews found themselves ruled by cultures that did eat pig meat, and the point of difference was more apparent.

So, I'm really not sure which part of the article you think is "not entirely true". I can't vouch for the overall accuracy of it, but its representation of Jewish culture and history seems reasonable accurate to me.