skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why that would be wrong?

you are confusing country of residency with country where you earn your income.

if a millionaire lives in Belize, earns his money by having his money invested in Belize and pay whatever taxes Belize require, that law will give zero tax to the usa. it will just force that millionaire to give up citizenship.

now if he makes his money in the usa, then your point is invalid as you clearly don't understand the issue. also this is exactly what corporations do already and this law won't change a thing.
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Scaling twitter is fucking overrated if you look at the work engineers at WhatsApp did. There's a reason why a whatsapp engineer is worth 100 more than the average twitter engineer.

The twitter tears are flowing in this thread
I doubt you could get more than a watt out of a AAA anyway.
Did you read his followup email? He said they called but he did not pick up.

Whenever you have a large layoff, it is fairly standard to lock accounts immediately.
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The GUI has gotten a refresh in recent Windows 10 builds:

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/09/22/microsoft-improves-environm...
Is this allowed or is this allowed by Airbnb and will this host be subsequently removed?

I would imagine the answer to the first question is, well yes of course it is allowed. They own (or have some right) to the property they are lending so they can decide on any number of arbitrary factors whether or not to lend to a particular borrower.

Is it against Airbnb's rules and policies? Actually, from everything I can find, no. This is absolutely fine. You can, as a lender, make any number of "house rules" in a "house manual" as long as you state your rules upfront. Maybe this lender feels that married couples take better care of the house in question. Or maybe they have religious beliefs about unmarried couples. Or maybe they just hate people who are dating. As long as the rules are stipulated up front and not in a rude way, it seems just fine according to the rules.

Now, will this help them lend their place? Hard to say. The market will drive that entirely. But as for "allowed" the answer seems to be a clear, yes.
This is starting to look like reddit...
I believe the host is given a lot of discretion when it comes to bookings. Our recent host was very nice but required a lot of hoops before she would confirm the reservation. This was not in Norway but she was Norwegian.
InBev-Miller merger will produce 1/3 of world's beer
"The next step... is to merge the different components by using basic computers and have software turn it into servers, storage devices or routers as needed."

This statement is rather enticing because I have been executing this exact process for years using one of the free, open source kernel/userland options available for download. The "OS" is kept small and runs entirely in RAM. Works well enough for my purposes.

It is also interesting to juxtapose this statement against the usual negative comments on HN anytime the discussion turns to building home routers using "basic computers".

But maybe the meaning of "basic computers" by the journalist here is not what I think it is.
No, that's just the CPU µcode. IME/AMT are part of the BIOS/EFI images, which is a whopping 16 MiB for my current motherboard.
This could just be round 1.
I always figured landmines, and ammo are considered chemical weapons
I just finished "The Forever Peace", a book in-part about with the economic implications of nanotech. Using nano-forges, machines that take raw materials like carbon as input and can turn them in to diamonds, America is able to gain an extremely huge foothold.

I found it extremely interesting, and finished it in 2 days.
If those offend, you should try reading any financial research articles that delve into details or PR wire announcements. ;)
I'd suggest creating a templated buffer class that manages data uploads/downloads and exposes the appropriate pointer on the appropriate device. And from an algorithmic standpoint, don't pingpong large buffers of data between the CPU and GPU. I've been following this practice for 7 years now and it seems to work well. Ergo I really don't need unified memory and I'm pretty happy with the world of NUMA. Sadly, I suspect I'm an outlier.

For I think the real pain point is that GPU programming requires the ability to parallelize seemingly serial algorithms in a strongly-typed language in an age where 90+% of the engineers I know do all their coding in single-threaded, weakly-typed Python/R/Ruby/Javascript so they never get the opportunity to develop the relevant mindset to do so. As an aside, to hit close to floating point SOL on a CPU in SSE/AVX often requires a mindset similar to GPU programming (but sssshhhhh... don't tell the "recompile and run" peeps about that because it doesn't fit their comforting narrative).

And it's not a problem for me personally as a former C and assembler videogame and embedded system developer but it is a huge problem to find such talent these days because Python/R/Ruby/Javascript.

All IMO of course.
Taking a step back: what you're trying to accomplish is code generation -- a program that generates code. From that perspective, why would you choose to write that program using the C preprocessor, when there are so many other nice languages around?
Got it now. I agree.
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No, running on XXXXX Cloud. :(

We currently look into it. Thank's for the mirrored page.
OK, maybe that was a bad example, but it also wasn't the point. If you do a connectome mapping for one particular purpose, the ability to analyze that mapping data for many other (perhaps more insidious) purpose seems like a real problem.

A better example than the kid example I pulled straight from the article: If someone gets their connectome mapped to help select treatment for some kind of mental disorder, it may also be possible to measure if that person is prone to violence etc. All kinds of conclusions can be drawn from the same data set, limited only by the research that has been done to that point.
Jack Dorsey’s jargon-free firing memo, edited to remove the jargon
I'll just assume those two started in the 7 hours since I posted that comment. ;)
Still makes no sense. The heat/power requirements to burn off hair are ridiculous and dangerous to use. Look at those overpowered laser pointers that can barely pop a balloon. These devices can blind a person easily. Hair is much, much tougher and would require magnitudes more power.

>Morgan Gustavsson

Dunno, but people cash out all the time. Race car drivers endorsing crappy mass produced cars, etc. I'm especially critical of anyone nearing or at retirement age. There's a "give no fucks, give me easy money" attitude that kicks in around then, as well as worrying about taking care of those you love after you pass. Not to mention, these people being way past their prime and perhaps trying to chase old glories via questionable methods.

>why go to Kickstarter to bring it to market?

Lets assume the tech isn't all snake-oil. Maybe investors know things that Joe Blow Internet Geek doesn't. Concerns about safety, power usage, lawsuits, regulations, etc. This seems like a nice way to side-step informed investing and push all the high risk liabilities onto random schmucks.

Or its a "semi-scam." I watched the video of the prototype and its clear that its just cutting using a hot wire, which seems to be heated up via some kind of light source, perhaps a laser. Sure its a "laser" cut, but not exactly what people are expecting.
That seems a little unfair to Twitter - he's a remote worker, so they couldn't have the Bobs meet with him in a conference room. He does report "a side effect of WFH. HR can't wait for you to come in. Granted they also called but that went to voice mail."
> It's fractionally slower, true, because of the serialization hit (string to binary).

And with JSON columns you have to serialize on accesses, which is a lot slower in the read-mostly tests.
The entire world except Russia knew Russia is responsible but when you are the second guy with the most nukes, you get away with impunity.

Just the idea of having one or others thinking you have more than one nuke is enough to allow others to look the other way and let you do whatever gay shit that you do
If its still fine, why did you buy the logitech?
What do programmers think about 27inch iMac (2013)? I do not like it at all. The screen is too glossy (reflecting not just the overhead lights but more like a mirror). The screen is shaped like square rather than rectangle. This forces you to move your eyes/neck in all directions. And it has old noisy hard drives rather than SSDs.

I have removed the imac outer mirror screen to reduce glare [1] and am always resizing windows. Now I mostly use imac as external monitor for macbook, in target display mode. However, TDM is too fragile to use. For example, you need to login to your account in iMac before you can send the key signal via ssh from your laptop, otherwise the signal is ignored [2,3].

I can rant more about imac. For example, my imac speakers do not work. Apparently, some time when I removed my head phone, the imac sensors got stuck into believing that headphones are still plugged in [4].

With so many issues, I cannot believe that iMac is a labor of love, as the article suggests.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSF84EoQBvk

[2] https://superuser.com/questions/540799/sending-key-via-ssh-o...

[3] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5211301

[4] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3694502
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Ancient flamewar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Wales
Volkswagen is pegging its fate to a major bet on electric cars
The FBI doesn't give a rat's ass if you're downloading illegal IP.
They're jargon as well as buzzwords. They mean things, but they're unnecessary.

"Roadmap" -> plan, strategy

"Structural change" -> internal reorganizing, lay-offs

"Nimbler" -> fewer employees, which we hope will make us become more agile

"Streamlined" -> ambiguous and essentially meaningless by itself

"Impactful" -> revenue- and/or growth-generating, maybe "important"
@SocialJumpstart got a sneak peak of the new Crowdcast and was quite the fan.
I received a parking ticket in Oakland for parking in a 2-hour for less than 15 minutes, leaving, and then returning 3 hours later. I had evidence that I was not at the location in between. The parking department didn't care, because their claim wasn't that I couldn't prove I had left, but rather that even what I claimed was illegal.

My online appeal was denied, my written appeal was denied, and my administrative hearing was denied. I paid an $83 fine and a $25 fee to file an appeal in court. Three months exactly after the supposed violation, a county judge dismissed my ticket. The city returned my $108.

The judge said there was literally nothing I could do to prevent the same situation in the future (ie, there is no feedback loop), but that I would prevail in court again.

This situation affects me regularly because I don't own a car, so I rent one hourly, drive to my residence, pick up my wife, go grocery shopping, return to my residence, and then eventually return the car. The Oakland parking department continues to believe that my actions are illegal.
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It gets even crazier - check out the RT coverage from 2014 claiming it was the result of the Ukranians trying to shoot down Putin's plane and hitting the wrong jet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN5rPdxugHY

It sounds like something that you'd read in the Onion except they seem to be passing it off as actual news.
That is of course assuming that you like being offended.
Of course, those aren't the _only_ two good answers to the question but, remember, they're trying to make a distinction between 17-year-olds. They're not looking for a particularly perspective, but for some instinct to go deeper than gut feel.

I'm sure they'd be impressed with someone who thought about it from a philosophical perspective, talking about ethics etc., as long as there was some structure/foundation to the answer. My interview was with two people (at the same time), one specialising in philosophy and the other in economics.

Regarding the questions being specialised, I don't expect this is generally the case. At the time of my interview, I was studying Economics, Maths and Further Maths. So, the questions were challenging whilst still being within reach, given only things I had already studied at school. (e.g. in Economics I'd been introduced to supply and demand curves; in maths I'd been introduced to calculus; answering the question was simply a matter of seeing the link and putting the two together.)
Let's be honest (and no offense to anyone who got fired), but twitter probably had some dead weight to shed. Sadly, I'm sure some quality engineers got the ax too. Way of the world.
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Does nobody remember the rebels declaring the airspace off-limits to all aircraft backed-up by the promise to shoot any offending aircraft down?

Many are quick to say the rebels should have known the difference between a military transport and a civilian plane - but shortly before the shootdown, the Ukraine military had been flying similar airplanes as troop transports - and with the unlikeliness of the airline being able to hear and respond to the rebels on radio (listening on different frequencies), it's easy to see how the sequence of events led to the downing of the airline.

We also should remember the rebel leader's announcement on twitter that they had just shot down a military transport - only to redact the comment immediately following the news stories that began to run.

In the end, this is an unfortunate tragedy -- but what sane airline knowingly flies over a self-declared war zone?

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pro-russian-ukrainian-rebel-lead...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/108...
> PostgreSQL performed very well

Despite the fact that you crippled it by not using jsonb columns.
What a name right? Sounds like some weird kind of European ball game.
My son just joined the boy scouts (or Tiger Cubs or whatever it's called when they're in the 1st grade). I need to review this for... uhmm.. research purposes.
Desiring to wear the halo of the physical sciences, the social sciences have chosen poorly suited methods. Unfortunately, great contributions to the epistemology of social sciences have been ignored from Menger's "Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences" [1] in 1883 through Mises and Rothbard. Human action is highly resistant to empiricism.

[1] https://mises.org/library/investigations-method-social-scien...
Check out 'Moonwalking with Einstein - The Art&Science of Remebering'. It's a really cool book and could help you a lot.

Try to associate something to a name, a story that person told you, where you met the person, what the person was wearing, etc. - makes it easier to remember the name.
Twitter is still a "startup"?
This is simply brilliant.

(Ranking algorithm baked into a stored procedure notwithstanding. [ducks])
Startup world? This is a public company with thousands of employees who can get rid of 336 of them. It's pretty far from the startup world. This is the corporate world, and it happens to companies with long histories when their environment changes.
This is a hard one to figure out, gladwell is also at a loss. It's not like postal worker violent outburst which seems to have been mostly an organizational issue, addressed and corrected, for the most part.

This is also not tied to guns, here Ladue was making explosives from everyday items, and guns were more contributor than central.

It's a strange cultural thing, not really greater culture but subculture with perhaps greater culture associations. I can't even say it's like something else, because there isn't something like this phenomenon, except maybe Isis, but even there there is active leadership leding impressionable youngsters into a violent morass. Here it's guys in prison who provide the model.
Exactly. For security reasons, you have no other option, even if it's rude.
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You're thinking of engineers. Those make up ~45% of the workforce. Some of my friends affected by this don't have recruiters queuing for them.
I was kind of shocked how good PostgesSQL did.

I still think PostgresSQL and MariaDB are a better tool for most jobs considered big data.
Clinton email box ran Microsoft Remote Desktop, had open ports
If there already was a wavelength that targets all hair colour, they would use it already with other hair removal treatments, you'd think.
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Now that this is possible, is there anything that Flash is actually necessary for?
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Usually when you use a citation, it's supposed to provide substantive evidence. Not just reiterating your opinion[1].

[1] This is a fact.
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Yea as someone with a PhD in Materials Science, I'd say nanotech rules everything around me. :D
Did you check the screenshot? Access was removed at 5:24AM, but the voicemail wasn't until 7:22AM.
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That's interesting to hear! I took the udacity CUDA course a few years ago, and at that time they were very keen on memory access coalescing, and if a warp had two control paths they were executed sequentially.

As such I didn't think I could figure out how to make use of it for my applications (merging sorted lists of integers, dijkstra's algorithm etc) as typically you're branching and jumping around memory all over the place.

Can you suggest anywhere I can learn about these advances that mean the same rules don't apply?
That sounds interesting. Might be a decent stab at real-time programming and concurrency as it would need most of that.

"All threads started"

In many languages, the threads kind of sleep unless activated explicitly. Do you mean just the activated threads started or did you choose to have them all run at once for some reason?

"shared variables can only be written to by one thread, but read by all"

Good idea. BeOS also had read-many, write-one in form of benaphores: semaphores that only locked for writing. Strategy made it really fast.

"the sequence in which IO is effected is also deterministic"

What do you mean by that?

"compiles to C++"

The compile to C++ was my trick, too, since I knew I couldn't out-code GCC team. Although I wrote mine to avoid using C++ while being compatible lol...

"I guess I should submit it to HN sometime..."

You should. Either that or a forum where people discuss various language tradeoffs.
Plus side: would definitely fit in a tweet.
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Being the guy with the most nukes lets you get away with similar things. Nobody was brought to justice here, either. Two commanders did receive medals for their tour there, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
Depends what is the host and the guest, Virtual box works pretty well on most hosts but the guest quality for Windows hosts is still questionably although it has generally improved.

If you need 3D acceleration especially with Windows guests then it's pretty much VMware for either Mac, Windows or Linux or Parallels for Mac.

Performance wise VMware is still quite faster than VirtualBox in most cases and if you need to run a fairly complicated virtual network than VMware is pretty much your only the way to go.

When it comes to a Windows host if you have the pro version of Windows you get HyperV which as long as you don't need a complicated network is actually better than VMware workstation in many aspects, it's linux support is lacking but if you only run popular distro's like Ubuntu you should be fine.

HyperV is much better in terms of performance in edge cases, and it also more gentle when it comes to power consumption so it won't kill your laptop's battery as much as VMware workstation.
A hazing ritual forced Chinese female flight attendants into overhead bins
Figuring out "exactly what the law tells you to do" is the tricky part. The law merely prescribes the step-by-step instructions for each form. It will not explain the emergent behavior that you'll need to know to optimize your way through the system. It will not advise you ahead of time to do things like spend no more than 30 days in the US to qualify as a foreign resident. You wouldn't even know that's a relevant question to ask unless informed by a suitable expert.

This sort of thing is the financial engineering that patio11 is talking about. It's not cheating, it's doing what the system is meant to let you do, if only you understood the best paths through the system.

I have a similar situation on a smaller scale. I live in one US state and work in another. I file income tax for both, and there's a form that takes my tax liability to my state of work and backs it out of my liability to my state of residence. I wouldn't have known that form existed and would have just assumed I had to pay full tax to both states, if not for TurboTax directing me to that form.

The law will direct you how to mechanically comply, but it won't direct you against complying in ways hurtful to yourself.
Is there a difference between purpose and profit?
Bellingcat's reporting takes for granted that a BUK was used based on a good amount of evidence there there were BUKs in the area and there was a missile fired from the ground. They didn't and couldn't prove that it was what hit and downed MH17, they didn't have access to the physical evidence and flight recorder.

They seem to have done a lot of good work trying to track the launcher down and analysing the evidence that was available to them, though I haven't been following their reporting. Without the physical evidence being analyzed the link between the BUK and the plane was strong but not confirmed.
Yo,

336 people out. We'll compensate.

J.
He does have a patent from the mid 90's (which is when I think IPL was created?) that seems to be pertinent: https://www.google.com/patents/US5320618

I dunno, this whole thing is weird. Generally I have to defer to people saying that the system isn't using enough energy to burn hairs, but unless the guy in question has had some sort of mental break or something, I don't get why he'd be involved with it if it was a straight fraud.
Why so hostile? Personally, I assume this is just an instance of them not being PostgeSQL experts. So, before jumping to conclusions (namely that they deliberatly skewed their test, despite being very open in the way they described the setup), I'll instead wait and see -- perhaps they'll explain why they used json instead of jsonb, or perhaps (better!) they can updat the test to also include jsonb.
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Totally disagree. I have no stigma about therapy and would tell almost anybody that I've done it. It's not a Big Deal.

The problem is that i've found therapy to be of little practical value, and its rituals often absurd. My hope is that as much good science as possible is introduced to this shadowy freudian realm.
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Agreed. Based off my six years there: vinegar hill.
as someone who just finished a doctorate on nanotech and is looking for a job in nanotech, this is incredibly disheartening
Bellingcat was untrustworthy pseudoscience.