skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ILPIP look promising. I'll try it, thanks!

Speed test though... hm... 22Mbit/s is not exactly unrestricted, plus not sure how long is the burst that "speedtest-cli" makes. In my experience A0's uplink is burstable (but unusably slow when recovering from a burst), with long-term average being bang-on 5Mbps.

I do of course see exactly one "my" private IP in traceroute, but I'm not talking about that. I meant there are microsoft's private IPs (#12-#15) and dropped packets (#16 and on).

And of course, "platform doesn't forward ICMPs" is an annoyance in itself - i can't even ping my own VM.

# target IP anonymized, but still have enough granularity to reproduce the traceroute
traceroute to xxxxx.cloudapp.net (191.235.128.128), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 0.093 ms 0.117 ms 0.063 ms
2 193.47.232.12 (193.47.232.12) 0.785 ms 0.785 ms 0.776 ms
3 microsoft.mix-it.net (217.29.66.112) 1.219 ms 1.233 ms 1.225 ms
4 xe-0-1-1-0.fra-96cbe-1a.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.42.12) 8.700 ms 8.902 ms 8.430 ms
5 * * *
6 * * *
7 104.44.9.142 (104.44.9.142) 42.112 ms 39.194 ms 38.987 ms
8 * * *
9 be-6-0.ibr01.dub30.network.microsoft.com (104.44.4.142) 39.738 ms 38.266 ms 38.929 ms
10 * * *
11 ae2-0.db3-96c-3b.ntwk.msn.net (204.152.141.81) 36.986 ms 36.984 ms 36.925 ms
12 25.149.64.247 (25.149.64.247) 36.951 ms 36.775 ms 37.152 ms
13 10.10.132.81 (10.10.132.81) 36.917 ms 37.477 ms 37.287 ms
14 10.60.31.77 (10.60.31.77) 37.317 ms 37.699 ms 37.899 ms
15 10.60.31.69 (10.60.31.69) 37.653 ms 37.326 ms 37.441 ms
16 * * *
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P.S. #12 - lol!
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> It's just not really worth it when you can also buy mattresses from IKEA or various online retailers which don't engage in those tactics.

IKEA manufactures wherever possible for the lowest price. The difference is that IKEA employs quality control measures.
What are you on about? We're talking about Guantanamo being closed and its prisoners placed elsewhere, not released en masse.

And as to what the prisoners did or didn't do after release - we don't incarcerate people based on what they may do in the future.
Url changed from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/03/os2_returns_arca_noa..., which points to this.
Is there an accessible description of the API? i.e., what's driving the "code generation process"? Is that open and something I could use to generate a client for <insert my favorite language here>?
When buying something online, I make a habit of reading a couple of the negative reviews. Sometimes they're, "I meant to buy a toaster, and misclicked on this television instead. Makes poor toast. 2/5." But sometimes they're more like, "It worked great for two years, and then became sentient and strangled my pet fish. 2/5" Rating distributions only tell you part of the story.
That's brilliant. Unit pricing would be a great sort option.
Very exciting.
My favorite observation from that data: people who write Haskell on OS X are more likely to hate things.

I know it's not really a solid principle, but I think it's funny regardless.
Nice. Always happy to see projects like this.

Any chance of a Linux build?
It's been stable for a long time before this jump, and over much of its history. Yeah it is disruptive!

It's very easy to use as a currency since it's the only way you can send value instantly around the globe with almost no cost and without any regulatory issues.
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There is. It's called fat binaries. Ryan C. Gordon was working on an ELF extension for it, but ended up quitting due to getting shit on by kernel hackers and common users alike.
A simple POST based API? What is this blasphemy?
The underlying code is designed to be cross platform, but I decided to focus on windows first. Linux has been frequently requested though so I'll likely focus on that next.
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Well, if they've got large existing Java codebases, I suspect the chance of the enterprise crowd investing in any new language is roughly zero.
Perhaps they mean synthetic genes from the major market players. It's definitely not 10% of all DNA synthesis. For example, oligos produced on microarrays alone can produce this much DNA on a single chip. I'm assuming they mean assembled, sequence verified DNA. For that, I'm not sure where they are getting their numbers.
I would think it's probably sponsored in that they want their customers who buy cables for their pixel and Google stuff from Amazon to have a good experience and actually get working stuff.
To be clear, Lightning does request transactions on-blockchain to open a channel and to close a channel. The magic is what happens in between those two events. As such, it is not a gateway to infinite scalability, but it does offer the potential to greatly amplify the number of transactions on the network and having them consolidate down into occasional on-blockchain settlements.
> England maintained the tug-of-war and eventually won it

I think its a mistake to view "rule of law" having a "won" state. Like an Empire (another thing Rome and Britain have in common), rule of law is something you have -- as long as you can manage to actively maintain it. When you fail, its gone, and not easy to get back. And even the best efforts toward maintaining it don't have a 100% guarantee, so, over an infinite time horizon, gambler's ruin is a real concern.

Rome had rule of law, until it didn't. England has rule of law, until it doesn't.

England isn't the first to have had it, and England hasn't achieved some state where it is automatically self-maintaining and no longer a matter of concern.

> I don't see why that's so difficult to grasp.

Its not difficult to grasp, its just wrong.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10506093.
We don't even have to stay at this level, we could drill down further. How England's system of law differed from Rome's, how their economic system differed and what effects that all had on their politics and the ambitions of would-be tyrants. You both seem to just want to look at the politics. England's common law provided a grassroots bulwark against tyranny, tyrants like to implement legal codes but that ability was limited, constraining important powers like tax collection. Their innovations concerning contracts and charters and financial instruments forced their kings along certain lines. They simply had a more well-developed civic infrastructure that allowed it to heal when damaged whereas Rome's crumbled.

All of these things are connected, they all contribute to rule of law.
blablabla, everything is fine, blablabla. blabla terror blablabla...

i wonder if this guy ever questions the stuff he is told and puts some critical thinking to sunshine. Guess from what he wrote: no.
One problem I have with Amazon reviews is this type :

"Just got the product, arrived really quick. It worked when I tried it a minute ago, 5 stars."
Thanks for all the examples where Microsoft pulled a Trojan. I totally agree. If Win32 embraces the Linux kernel calls to make Docker work without virtualization, is there a possible Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish plan? Or are businesses smart enough to avoid a repeat of ActiveX?

Microsoft made a pact with Sun back in the day where they would support Java. If memory serves, Microsoft supported a Java that only worked on Win32 using J/Direct calls that natively supported Win32 instead of being OS independent like most Java apps.
Yes, also it's been fifty years, so I'm sure tech has advanced. I didn't say I wouldn't consider it, just that skepticism is warranted, due to frequent lying about risk.
Amazon Linux is not based on Ubuntu.

(And I edited my comment since the wording was unclear... sorry if that caused confusion)
Moment of irony when I realized my new Nexus is the only Android device I own, that I cannot develop apps on. Short of sending apk's over wifi to sideload. (Because of the USB)

Looking forward to laptops with USB C connectors.
Thanks!

What do you want regarding font? I'll make it happen for you. Would you like an option to set the font-size for when you are logged in? Or is there someway we could be doing our CSS differently so that zooming-in on our site meets your needs?
This comment breaks the HN guidelines. Everyone posting here needs to be civil, regardless of how wrong or unfair someone else's comment may be.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
> in 2013, 4.5% of CS graduates from the top 25 schools were African-American, and 6.5% were Hispanic/Latino.

That's a problem. Hiring corps not only need to screen more applicants in order to find more applicants above their quality bar, but they also need to engage the community to get more kids interested in their fields and encouraged through school.

It's the long view, the generation long kind. Public corp cost accounting idiotry will not support investment like that, so it's up to the private corps.
> If/when I evaluate software for a solution as part of my job, I wouldnt dream of publishing my findings and referencing my employer - but I like what Benson has done.

I think that's the whole point - for Google to chime in on cable quality so that customers know what to buy for their Google devices.

I'm guessing that Google saw that a large percentage of their customer support issues were caused by poor cable quality, and that most of their customers bought their cable from Amazon.

This seems like a way for Google to pre-empt that customer support cost by making sure their customers are buying cables that they know are good.

Most of the time other companies hand-wave their way around this problem by offering 1st-party cables (usually at a fairly high price).
I like this post, but we should contextualize it properly, and look at where it doesn't work. Things have developed over the past forty years which don't allow the "start small, stay small" to always be a possibility: the increase in winner-take-all markets and the Superstar effect. We see it everywhere when it comes to today's job markets, and we also see it (and potentially worry about it being the case, and this is critical) in industries themselves. This latter belief means that if you decide to start something, you may need to consider whether you should bother at all if you aren't going to go big.

Is Uber in a winner take all market? If so, they have no choice but to operate the way they do: http://www.vox.com/2014/12/4/7336433/uber-worth-

We see it in regular job markets more generally (where we call it job polarization): http://economics.mit.edu/files/5554

We see it in "art, sports and culture" markets (where we call it the Superstar effect): http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/business/winners-take-all-...

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/09/win...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/business/26excerpt.html

We see it in newspapers:

http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2010/09/10/198480/technolo...

We see it in attention more generally (which has second order effects, like everyone
use just one or a handful of large platforms(!) and where we call it variations of "winning in the Attention Economy"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy

So the choice is sometimes (perhaps even often today) not between "get big" or "stay small/medium", but get big (where big may represent firm size, level of knowledge/skill, fame, or a number of other attributes depending on the area) or "get (almost) nothing." When the distribution of customers/eyeballs/rewards are as lopsided as they are in many areas, the only choice IS "get big or go home."

More:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2011/12/how_...

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/09/win...

http://prospect.org/article/talent-and-winner-take-all-socie...

I don't knock dhh, and this is one of those posts I actually want to agree with, but it doesn't neatly comport with extant realities. I think even this advice, just like the advice to "get big" needs to be taken very carefully. All of these roads entail risk (obviously), but the choice of big versus small isn't as simple as implied.
> Not quite bulletproof, but not bad (and I was lucky I didn't damage the phone instead).

This is one reason why I don't mind if the cables aren't that difficult to break. I'd rather the cable break than my devices.
Retirement options in the US:

* 401(k) or similar. These are usually tax advantaged (no tax up front, but taxed on payout; taxed up front, but no tax on earnings at payout). Usually very limited investment options (bonds, domestic markets, international markets). Which investment options depends on who your employer selects as the manager for the 401(k). Typically funded entirely by your own money, may get some matching (3-10% of your annual salary). Capped at various amounts (401k is capped at $18k/year right now) depending on the particular one.

* IRAs. Similar tax advantages to 401(k), many more investment options (essentially any bank/investment account can be used so the full market is at your disposal). Capped at $5500/year right now, entirely your own funds, your employer is uninvolved.

* Social Security - outside state employees and maybe some federal employee, everyone is supposed to be paying into this as a payroll tax (6% from you, matched by your employer). You can start collecting at 62 with penalties, 67 (?) for full amount.

* Pensions - very few companies offer these anymore, really only the big ones and often the result of union actions. In theory, a lifetime guaranteed income starting either on retirement or at a certain age. Usually a percentage of your annual income (or high 3-year average or similar) based on number of years of service. FERS (the federal pension) works by giving 1% per year of service of your high 3-year average. Collectible at 58 with at least 5 years of service and a penalty, 62 (?) with no penalty. Graduated penalty between those two ages. If you hit 20 or 30 years of service it changes when you can collect and what penalties apply.

In theory, corporate pensions encourage employees to stick with it for the longhaul. But at the rate employees get screwed, it's not the most compelling thing anymore.

With regard to your specific question. Some people seem to get scared that private retirement accounts will suddenly be taken by the federal government or have much higher taxes/penalties applied. This seems incredibly unlikely to me, and would require the US federal government to be in severe fiscal distress. It would devastate several generations of workers, and completely remove any trust in the US dollar and government by most people. It would be a moronic move, though not entirely impossible. There is some precedence (see [1]). But given the reaction, I can't imagine them repeating that.

It makes sense to discount the future value of Social Security and corporate pensions when planning for retirement. But 401(k) (and similar) and IRAs are unlikely to be touched, IMHO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
I'm curious, could you give a concrete example of a thing that a CoC has improved without simultaneously causing implicit pressure on people to remain silent about bad ideas in a project?

"Civility" is, IMO, the least important thing in a project. Firstly because it can't be objectively defined, since some people find being told things like "no", "this is a terrible idea", etc to be uncivil, secondly because it means that people stop calling stuff crap that is actual crap.

I also think it's silliness. If someone is an utterly disagreeable jerk, they should be ignored, or perhaps approached privately about their behavior, and then ignored if they don't knock it off. I don't see the need for a rigid, legalistic framework that can be abused as a cudgel against dissenters.

This on the other hand sounds like less about "conduct" and more about dividing the lists into topically based groups, something that has zero abuse potential and is probably always a good idea.
Not really. you are talking about an attack.

You'll need 100%, because if a single miner decided to include the transaction, then it is in!
Thank you! It's been a combination of 2 things: 1) building tools that make it easier for our hospital partners to scale with us more efficiently, thereby increasing their capacity to send us more patients, and 2) product/marketing.

If you're interested in the growth side of Watsi, we opened up a bunch of our data to Segment earlier this year, and they put out this post about the growth learnings they gathered: https://segment.com/blog/what-we-learned-from-watsis-data/

We also talked with First Round a few months ago about how we use email marketing to grow donations: http://firstround.com/review/what-startups-can-learn-from-wa...

Hopefully we'll be able to share more learnings in the next couple of months!
Yes, this is a giant NO NO at most big companies.
Primary and secondary teachers typically need different certifications so they're not very interchangeable.
I don't understand. Sure, the name idea wasn't perfect but the VP had good intentions. Is this really that upsetting?
The cuts are VERY rarely anything harmful by themselves, that'd be a pretty shitty business move.
Yes: http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2015/04/an-evaluation-a...
I have never heard of this company before. Thank you for the comment.
That's the standard failure mode for a lot of the monoprice micro-USB cables, it's annoying as hell.
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I bought a real piece of garbage battery charger as a result of one of that NLee guy's detailed reviews. Super unimpressed.
Here's a similar analysis for phone chargers:

http://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-ap...
If they want to frame you they don't need hidden iframes and stuff. They can just manufacture it. Because it's all secret/confidential, someone who has a friend or pays someone inside can incriminate someone and make his life a hell.

We were warned of PIDE in school for a good reason (PIDE was the Portuguese Stasi). People will abuse it.
2% is definitely not accurate, consuming that would be a very unpleasant experience.
I have no trouble remembering which is which, as "sensitivity" is used in a way quite similar to its everyday use.
If a product meets your needs, is a fair price, and seems to be working fine after 30 days, you would not give it 5 stars?

And then along comes the cable which, when I plug it in, causes a religious miracle to occur. How do I rate that one? Five stars is already taken. (Or maybe it should be two stars. I want to get my work done without being distracted by a prominent religious figure appearing next to my desk.)

To put it another way, when I purchase something I expect that it will work fine after 30 days and that it meets my needs. That doesn't warrant five stars. That's three stars: does what I expected, doesn't suck but doesn't stand out from the rest all that much. If it were half the price of cables of equal quality, then I'd give it five stars. But IMO the product has to be outstanding in some way to warrant five stars, otherwise why have a rating system at all?

OTOH, Amazon doesn't help with this. Click on "critical reviews" on Amazon, and three star reviews are listed. That's just broken. Three stars is middle of the road, not outstanding in anyway but not deficient, either.

So, no, given your parameters, I would not rate the item five stars. I realize the rest of the world doesn't agree with me, and I'm loathe to participate in such a skewed system (everyone gets a trophy). My concession is I'll give four stars to something I'd normally give three stars, just so it doesn't show up in the "critical review" section, broken as that might be.
i like Anker (good bang for buck) but they are not above fail: I have a 5 port USB charger and the middle port stopped working (thankfully the others still work, so I have a 4 port charger now)

I bought a bunch of their external battery packs (aprox 15 of them) and none of those have failed)
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I agree, or actually I assume that the disagreement is only about words. I would not call it new physics, if, for example, we have to couple quantum fields to GR in a not straightforward way, so in the case were we already know all the parts but not the specific combination of the parts. I would only call it new physics if we have to rewrite basic textbooks.
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Mostly watching TV: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/atus.pdf
He's hired to look at "USB cables and adapters for compatibility with Pixel and Nexus devices." So the popular guess is yes he was told to.

Sound alike the whole reason is to make their device owners able to make better choices.
Short answer: get your own wallet (software/paper/hardware) and transfer BTC from Coinbase to that address.
another really common thing is people rating the shipping instead of the product in their negative reviews
It's my understanding that the entire spec is engineered this way intentionally: The wear items are on the cable rather than the device.
> And as to what the prisoners did or didn't do after release - we don't incarcerate people based on what they may do in the future.

We emphatically do incarcerate people based on what they may do in the future; that's the focus of the incapacitation theory of punishment [1].

We even do so solely based on what they may do in the future, that's pretty much the main support given by members of Congress for the repeated blocking of the closure of Guantanamo.

What I think you mean to say is we should not incarcerate people based solely on what they may do in the future, though, again, that's a point that is obviously not accepted as an undebatable moral axiom, again, by reference to the overt justifications given by members of Congress for blocking the closure of Guantanamo.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incapacitation_(penology)
The Barnes and Noble cafes aren't actually Starbucks; they serve Starbucks products (probably for historical reasons) but they have products Starbucks doesn't have, and they don't accept Starbucks gift cards.
Sure! I generally take on Ruby on Rails work, sometimes with a Stripe-specific or email-specific bent. I have two major clients. One is a large Rails app where I do general maintenance and feature development two days a week. The other is as a part-time CTO for another consultant and his businesses, probably 2-3 days a month on average. They both pay me on a regular monthly retainer.

Over the year I've also taken on Django and PHP projects as they come up, but going forward I'll probably stick with Rails.

I actually wrote a book about how to handle the business side of freelancing, but that's not super relevant to what the OP is asking. Here's the link if you're interested anyway: https://www.petekeen.net/handle-your-business
While true, that does not offer the same protection as an FDIC-style insurance program (and restricts the storing entity's ability to compete and perform by preventing them from investing that $100m, so the market will tend ceteris parabus to punish companies that take such a step in good times with relatively-slower growth, acting as a disincentivizing counter-weight to offering insurance). In contrast, the FDIC has unlimited borrowing capacity with the US government; worst-case scenario, the Treasury can basically start printing money and the FDIC can hand it out to people with savings in failed banks.

Many see this capacity of the US Treasury to fabricate money from nowhere as the very sort of flaw that BTC's coin-generation process is intended to avoid, but that protection does not come without a price.
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Hi Diarmuid, I've applied through your website a while ago. I actually live really close to your office in Berlin. ;) Let me know if you want to have a chat.

Cheers,

Paulo
State job. It is 401(k). Not TSP.