skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole idea of getting rich in the US is true if and only if, you think of earning in the US and going back to India. From the perspective of starting a life altogether from a scratch in the US, its a uphill, may be a 'unfair' battle to even start with. Because you will spend more than two decades just to 'settle down' with a house and family, this if you start at an average age of 25-30. You will be 50 to just settle in. In India, your peers would be contemplating retirement(or would have retired) post wrapping the remaining responsibilities by that time. And you would just be starting in the US. And this is just the beginning, after all this, life isn't rosy after all. You still have to worry about health care expenses, your kids will likely not get good college education and end up working $30-$40K a month. Or worse graduate out with a college debt which will take a good part of their remaining lives to pay. Your own retirement will be expensive, you will staring at health care expenses of old age, you will have mortgage to pay and without any social circle, network or family like in India. You will be more lonely, more in need of money, more isolated than ever. And don't expect your kids to reciprocate all those good old Indian values to you then.

But that is the choice everyone has to make. If you are ready to put in that kind of struggle in the US. Any similar amount of struggle in India will put you a lot farther than you would ever reach in the US.

This is my humble evaluation of Indian life in US. Scary, but true for almost every one I met there.

>>I have been here for 13 years now. No body talks about it, but you will feel lonely here. If you are one of "us" introverted types, who will keep to themselves, buddy, I have news for you. It is going to be very harsh. That loneliness will affect the way you think. Also, I haven't lit a Diwali cracker in all these years. You got to think about that.

Haven't suffered for 13 years like you do. But have worked for short periods of time in the US. I can attest to this. And I understand what you are going through.

>>Instead, if you want to learn things, there ain't a place like US anywhere. Concepts, things, ideas that seem unreachable are routinely done by people here.

Seriously? If you have to come to a new country to learn or else you can't then coming to US will barely help you. You should learn and do new things where ever you are.
To recap the ways DNSSEC sucks for users:

* The server/nameserver must have DNSSEC configured properly
(CloudFlare have solved this for their customers)

* Your client's DNS resolving server must support DNSSEC properly
(which they might not, depends on the user's network)

* Your client's stub resolver must verify all DNSSEC records
(most do not currently)

If any of the above fail, you will not have any indication whatsoever and you will be using regular DNS.

The only time that a user will ever know if DNSSEC is working (for them) is if the server/nameserver are configured correctly, your client's dns resolver supports DNSSEC, your client's stub resolver verifies requests, and then the user tries to look up a known-invalid domain and it gives them a resolving error. Otherwise, they will never know if DNSSEC is in use.

Oh, and you can still MITM the data connection between the client and server even if DNSSEC works.
I believe it, but what other way is there to measure?
Not sure what you're on about... but women spend the same or more on video games depending on the market as men [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]. There are so many free apps for making electronic music now, as well as tutorials, kits, schematics, discussion lists, workshops, vids on yt, it's out of control.

[ 1 ] http://www.themarysue.com/women-gamers-spend-equal-on-games/

[ 2 ] http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/141/videoga...

[ 3 ] http://www.businessinsider.com/women-and-mobile-games-2014-8
The purpose of information, however, is money. Which adds more data to this: if you're in early 1990s former USSR and you want to steal a great deal of money, there were far less brutal ways to do so... Here's how one fellow made $10bn (no home invasions and soldering irons required...): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMM_(Ponzi_scheme_company)
>You can buy a house on a H1-B, you just need a credit history which you may not have if you have not been living in the US for very long. I know of several people on H1-Bs who have bought property with a mortgage.

That's quite risky because if you get laid off or fired you have to leave the country immediately. H-1B is modern day slavery.
Yes, agree, if you don't support multi-user, lots of businesses will probably work round it with a shared password rather than pay the difference.
Woah, you're right. That must have happened recently.

Amazon does offer a store card with 5% cashback. I've received targeted offers for it. Possibly you can research it and get yourself into the target group.

Chase Freedom is a 5% cashback rotating-categories card and it includes Amazon in the current quarter. That combined with a Sapphire Preferred is a lucrative way to earn chase reward points that are best used on travel purchases.

Discover also has an online shopping category. Both the Discover and the Freedom have no AF so I would consider getting both of them. Discover used to be better before they changed ShopDiscover. It was like a private FatWallet that often had the highest payouts.

Finally, the Amex Blue Cash offers 3% cashback on a variety of department stores. This is a great card to have for the 6% grocery discount and the department store rebate is a bonus.

Goodluck, and sorry I advertised a card offer that's no longer available.
But that's kind of the point, right? If it's an essential for you, then you should pay for the non-basic plan. The one man band doesn't care about it, so they're happy to have the lesser plan without it.
That's why you outsource them to the cheapest bidder. You have plausible deniability (I do care about quality, it's just those bad apples that deceived me as much as you), but in truth you were aware from the very beginning that they would not be able to cope with the whole package.
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good point - they are facing a similar problem.

in some ways, android has it worse, because they have to deal with hardware vendors and carriers
I really love these, and I desperately wanted to be a Backblaze customer, but I was put off by the abysmal desktop software :(

Storage execution seems top-notch. End-user software deserves some love.
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My company has spent weeks agonizing over price changes and different features for different subscription levels (including a free level). We run all kinds of numbers and projections but at the end of the day you don't always know for sure until you flip the switch. You can do all kinds of surveys and talk to your customers. But you just don't know exactly how may people are going downgrade, upgrade, sign up, or even care about your changes.

The author was certainly a victim of their own success, as their conversion rates are pretty good. They just need to find limitations for the free account that doesn't consumer more resources than they can support.
While it's arguably easier to learn vocabulary as an adult, it's certainly easier to learn an accent as a youngster.

If someone is even able to communicate in a second language, they've likely already put in a whole lot of time and effort to get to that point. Yet there are a lot of armchair quarterbacks in the world (especially unilingual people, I suspect) who are happy to trivialize the efforts of immigrants who haven't reached fluency.

It makes little sense to assume there are just a bunch of lazy foreigners in the world there who enjoy punishing themselves. Learning a second language, as an adult, takes time. Learning to speak without any accent whatsoever, once the learner is middle-aged is probably impossible, aside from a savant here and there.
Not too bad, thanks. Doesn't have mouse-base drag and drop, unfortunately, and seems not to animate deleted children?

I also like react-grid-layout's support for bin-packing lots of different cell sizes ("masonry"-style). This one seems to require fixed widths and heights.
That is rather unlikely.
I don't know why but upfront-card-capture (by which I'm guessing you mean must enter CC number to try and cancel later) is almost always an instant NO for me. It feels scammy like a porn site.

I'm not trying to be cheap. I just have no reason to believe you aren't going to try to grab a few dollars from me hoping I'll forget to cancel. And while you might have a liberal refund policy many companies don't so the risk I feel includes previous scams. On top of which, from experience, many companies make you jump through incredible hoops to cancel and there's no way for me to know if your company is one of those.

And, if I was an employee of some company. The odds of me feeling comfortable using a company credit card to trial or even having access to one seems low.
I agree that WW2 era occupations were fairly nebulously-defined. However, the "US never honors its promises when it comes to withdrawal" is a gross mischaracterisation.

The U.S. military base system on Okinawa is a part of a bilateral agreement with the Japanese government. Although unpopular with Okinawans, multiple successive Tokyo governments have approved expansions to the original bases, including one this year. [1]

To my knowledge the only forcibly-held U.S. base is the one in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21674839-okinawa-takes-go...
Interesting question, but (like a lot of political articles) perhaps a bit too general in scope for HN.
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Skill shortages 'despite' low wages doesn't make sense. "Even though we don't pay them much, people aren't flocking to do it!"
It's wonderful what you guys are doing. Thank you for open sourcing your work.
Yes, that is the question the article endeavors to examine.
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Except it didn't contain the damage, at least according to the documentary The Big Fix. Instead of having a highly visible oil slick, the dispersant (Corexit) spread it out. It also had the effect of making the oil more bioavailable and therefore damaging to wildlife and humans. Lots of gulf coast folks are showing symptoms of being affected by the oil, the Corexit, or both.

I'd love to hear people who live in the affected area chime in, as I don't have any corroborating evidence beyond what's offered by the documentary, but it suggests that the use of a dispersant created a much bigger public health problem than it solved.
Travis Brown has written up some great articles on advanced Scala topics and this one does not disappoint. Well done and worth the read.

Some may find the Shapeless feature overview[1] a good read as well. And for people interested in history, I found Mr. Sabin's announcement of Shapeless[2] to be both interesting and valuable for its links related to higher-kinded programming topics.

I also found "learning Scalaz"[3] a very good read, with the page discussing Isomorphisms[4] relevant to Mr. Brown's article.

1 - https://github.com/milessabin/shapeless/wiki/Feature-overvie...

2 - http://milessabin.com/blog/2011/12/19/shapeless-preview/

3 - http://eed3si9n.com/learning-scalaz/

4 - http://eed3si9n.com/learning-scalaz/Isomorphisms.html
> You merely state that it's just not state of the art, and to come work at dropbox.

That's about all I can do. However...

> This is what I mean by being disingenuous.

I'm don't think disingenuous is what I'm being. Maybe I'm not being as forthcoming as you'd like. Maybe my comment wasn't useful without details I'm not providing. But I'm not lying or misrepresenting anything.

So let me try to be helpful without using proprietary information. Using information people have unearthed in this thread, we can do some math to prove I'm not completely bonkers:

96 unit chassis * 10T SMR = 960T, which is in the > 5x the density in 4U

SMR $/GB is quite good if you work with the right vendor and make the right tradeoffs.

If you could manage that 960T with the same compute resources, you'd save a lot on compute, since that's currently a ~30% of their cost.

With custom enclosures and hardware, you can do more still. You can have deep relationships with vendors and have them customize firmware for your particular use case. You can take their discards that didn't quite meet spec. You can buy crazy cheap stock with high failure rates b/c your distributed system is insanely good at repairs. You get access to stuff that's not being sold yet.

However, let me state again--this would take a lot of work. You need to mold your software around your hardware profile with very small tolerances. You might need to move some I/O stuff in-kernel, and/or move the IP stack out of kernel. You might need to reinforce your DC's raised floors to handle the weight (spoiler: you definitely do unless you planned for these types of machines ahead of time). You need great operations, and really thorough hardware quals b/c your failure domain is huge. Network traffic will go through the roof if a box fails, since you're repairing so much data.

Dozens of people on a handfuls of teams will spend time attacking this problem from different angles.

So, again--I don't necessarily think Backblaze did anything wrong here. Doing all this might be a crazy idea for them and not worth it. My statement was: it's not state of the art in terms of $/GB or density.

But for some shops, they spend so much on storage they can afford invest really, really deeply on optimizing storage cost. That's where the state of the art is.
I'd imagine one of the problems with that is most researchers must sell the rights to their research to journal publishers.
"Honestly, this thing makes me despair for the future of humanity."

That's because you haven't read the article.

This is from The Spectator, which is known as a rather swivel-eyed-right-wing magazine at the best of times in the UK.

What this is actually about is a student union not wanting to give a platform to a guy who went to fight with the Kurds against IS. Whether you agree with his actions or not, the reality is that people doing this are in a legal grey area (in the UK at least), and I can't really fault a university (or at least its student union) wanting to encourage members of its student body to go and get killed in a conflict they quite possibly don't fully understand. They might feel a teensy bit responsible if they did.

Dumbest Spectator article in a while, which is saying a lot.
That's the situation I was talking about, yes. It's much cheaper to go into the datacenter once a month to replace failed data disks than to have to go in to promptly replace any system disk HDD that fails, in order to not have 60 idle disks.
Ok, FTA:

> Tracy Smith lives two houses down from one of Martin’s rentals, a short walk to the popular Rainey Street restaurants and bars. She says she’d rather see kids in the backyard of Martin’s property than guys playing beer pong

Sorry, lady. You don't get to decide what happens in other people's backyards. I don't consider busybodies who want to enact housing discrimination based on age and marital status as having a valid concern we should support with legislation.

Another comment below complains about tourists being drunk and noisy and making groceries more expensive. I live in DC. Every year tourists descend on us like locusts. They clog up the public transportation, they don't know how to drive in traffic circles, and they're generally in the way and obnoxious. Still, that's part of the price you pay for living somewhere with lots of interesting things that people want to come see. There are plenty of boring, cheap places with no tourists or other short-term visitors.

> And then a next one comes.

Yes, and in an all probability, they won't be a jerk. Most people are normal, reasonable human beings.

> It does, because short-term guests have no incentive to care about the quality of life in that neighbourhood.

But the hotel has every incentive to care about the quality of life in the neighborhood. They also have far more resources compared to the average homeowner to influence the local government to e.g. increase police patrols or provide better street sweeping or whatever.

Zoning areas by use type has created its own enormous set of problems, from ever-increasing traffic, pollution from forcing people drive everywhere they need to go, increased water usage to support ornamental lawns, poor storm water management, tremendous infrastructure investments necessary to support low-density suburban areas where the property taxes can never repay the investment, and on, and on.

These are real externalities that are far more serious and damaging than "maybe a noisy person will be next door for a couple nights". So, people's decision that they don't want "such an establishment" in their area, ultimately creates its own set of costs that the rest of us have to bear.
TLDR: don't do side projects. Unless you have an unlimited reserve of time and energy.
>It's up to the user to decide whether a machine is usable for their needs or not, not Apple.

Well yes, but it is also a business decision. Further supporting an old machine with a changing toolchain means additional costs for development, testing and troubleshooting. Those are costs that Apple has to bear.

I won't contest your point that 3-4 years is too early, just saying that there's more to supporting old hardware than just including the same drivers as in the last release.
> if Native Americans are only now begining to complain about their rights being taken away

That wasn't really the point of my argument, which was hypothetical, and to match the situation in Israel would mean that Native Americans would have always had a somewhat similar stance as the theoretical one presented. I'm not trying to mix current Native American sentiment into the discussion.

> A more apt comparison...

That depends on your goal. Mine was to provide a hypothetical but somewhat equivalent situation to possibly put your statement in a new perspective.

> That might actually be an interesting argument.

It probably is, but I'm inadequately educated on the topic currently to make any useful arguments in any direction on that. :/
Don't forget The Oatmeal readers! [0]

There's a billion and one things one could mention about Tesla. Sadly, only the tiny universe of people who dislike Edison (and see him as a businessman, not an inventor) are aware of Tesla's contributions.

[0] http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
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Is Apple even maintaining these versions? I don't believe POODLE was patched for 10.7, which was already a year ago (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-yosemite-patch,news-19799....). That would suggest 10.8 is on the way out too, if not already.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect third parties to support versions which the platform owner has deprecated.
Are you aware that there are companies which "take money" from Indians to sponsor them H1B, bring them to USA, run fake payrolls while this chap works at local restaurant as a bus boy for below minimum wage ?
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The Chrome team doesn't want to support multiple distinct Linux binaries, so they drop older platforms once library versions skew enough to cause this. (This page claims it's libstdc++: http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/ .) I think the Chrome binaries are built on Debianish systems so it's always a small miracle that the RPMs work anywhere.

(Why only support one binary? There's already a disproportionate work_required/users_served ratio for Linux vs the non-Linux platforms even with a single binary, and multiple binaries would mean multiple nonmatching stacks in crash-catching and a more elaborate testing matrix. You can find Chromium builds of the equivalent code that are built with the appropriate toolchain for your platform anyway.)

Disclaimer: I worked on Linux Chrome many years ago, all of the above is just guessing based on what was true back then.
I highly recommend Weka, http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/. I used it for river flow forecasting (published a paper) and it was very good. We ran about 100 different models, various neural nets, SVM, logistic regression, multilinear regression, etc.

I spent about a month trying different tools and liked the understandability of Weka. Scikit-learn calls out to C for the heavy lifting, which is great but it's not exactly easy to read and understand the code.
I totally get this, but Apple made a conscious decision to not support 32bit machines. While it does suck to be caught on that border, they've done a tremendous job of supporting machines from that era that are 64 bit capable.

I don't think anyone should fault them for making that hard decision.
I agree with using the language convention within the language but not onto the web.

Ex. The GitHub repo for a (multiword) Python package foo_bar is generally foo-bar. Maybe this is just a convention we follow.

A list of top Python packages for example:

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=language%3Apython...

Edit: It would be interesting to compare data for how repo and slug naming convention varies by language.
Yes, GPU support has high priority but we are still investigating what library/tools we want to go with, since the current options in Rust are not that great. Maybe we'll use Arrayfire, maybe we'll use CUDA/cuDNN (would require writing Rust binding) or maybe something else.
I never understood the "bookmarking" feature that was favoriting. Hearts/likes/kudos are pretty universally accepted as a way of showing support without having to engage with a comment/response. This was long overdo IMO.
> I keep hearing people talk about government inefficiency as though it were actual government employees who were failing. But it's usually like this: a failure of the bidding process and of accountability, where a large corporation (it's always one of the same few) collects money for a job and doesn't do it.

"The bidding process and accountability" is a function performed by actual government employees, so its failure is a failure of actual government employees, even if that failure is visible through the failure of a government contractor.

A big problem is that government often does not have staff that understand enough about IT projects to effectively execute them, so it hires other people to do them: but the same skills that they lack that motivate outsourcing means they also don't understand IT projects well enough to do any of (1) effectively specify what it is that the contractor is supposed to do to allow contractors to bid properly, (2) effectively evaluate potential contractors, or (3) effectively oversee the contractor once one is selected.
Eliminating rent control wouldn't do much to lower rents given the relatively small numbers of units. They should definitely end it going forward, though.

Getting rid of rent stabilization, which is roughly half of all rental units in NYC IIRC, would have a huge effect, both positive and negative.

My prediction is that after a few years of adjustment following its end, the average paid rent would be about the same but the average advertised rent would be much lower.

All renters would equally feel the misery of rising rents, so I'd expect the political landscape would be very different with regards to feelings towards building more housing.
All of the above. Do the best you can at network security, and try to get better. Do the best you can at application security, and try to get better. Do the best you can at kernel security, and try to get better. And do the best you can at intrusion detection, and try to get better.