skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I flew internationally, I brought a 2015 macbook pro retina with a hard drive full of videos. I only ended up getting 4 of the advertised 9 hours run time running VLC with the brightness turned all the way down. Luckily, there were power outlets hidden under the seats. I don't understand why power outlets aren't the number 1 selling point for airlines that have them.
But what about ECS? Lambda? Role Based Authentication? EBS snapshots?
>But I have many feelings, not all of them charitable, about those who scream that undocumented immigrants are not law-abiding. I challenge these screamers to fill out the same paperwork I’ve had to fill out for the past few years and experience the same anxieties and fears I’ve felt. I’m sure they would wilt under the pressure

With all due respect, the author's case is unique. The screamers are not talking about people like the author.
Also, a perfectly legal immigrant from India/China goes to ivy league schools, does the same amount of paperwork and waits for the same time, all the while paying taxes like a citizen. You don't hear anybody helping their case.
The purpose of technology is to make things easier for people, not harder. I personally haven't had problems with this and am fine using your strategy, but I still think Facebook is smart for trying to tackle an issue that clearly a lot of people have.

We can get into the debate of whether or not technology is making us worse as people (which I completely disagree with), but that's a rabbit hole. Also, I don't think technology is causing the problems you're talking about. Safe space issues, I think, are happening for two reasons:

1) This generation is very aware of inequalities between different groups of people, and wants it to stop

2) This generation was raised by parents who were too controlling of their environments
Imagine the commenter is a reactionary, pretending to not be offensive.
Economically, that's irrelevant. What we want is for capital to flow towards people with good ideas on how to invest it. It's not incredibly important whether this happens by:

One: Apple making a ton of cash, and investing it in a great idea their CTO had.

Two: Apple making a ton of cash, returning it to investors, who invest it in a great idea some startup's CTO had.

Three: Apple making a ton of cash, investing the cash in the markets, borrowing a ton of cash on the markets, and investing that cash in a great idea their CTO had.

Four: Apple making a ton of cash, investing the cash in the markets, borrowing a ton of cash on the markets, returning it to investors, who invest it in a great idea some startup's CTO had.
If you don't want a machine ID to segment the counters:

What if you use a PRNG to initially seed an incremental counter? I don't really see how that would that be weaker than using a PRNG for each value? Is it just that the obfuscated period and pattern of a PRNG makes it "feel" less likely to collide?
For the record I'm a professional Java programmer and while Amazon's library works great, it often feels like the 'enterprise Java' people try to make up to mock enterprise Java.
There is one I see advertised regularly, one of the side effects is "suicidal thoughts, or actions", can you believe that, OR ACTIONS. It's one thing when a pill causes my body to fail and I die, it's quite another to have a pill put me in a state of mind where I kill myself.

Also I have seen recently the words, "these are not all the side effects, see our website for a complete list".

It's unbelievable what it has come to.
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When I read the first line of this, I thought it was a brilliant idea. As I read each following line, it got more and more stupid until I hit the price at $99. Seems like a really clunky solution that could potentially ruin your devices.
A deflect-not-deny statement.
I think your teacher was riffing on a well known quote, often attributed to Oscar Wilde: “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”

Or the common variation: “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.”

So it may be that your teacher was just messing with you.
You have an interesting perspective on the life of the child of an illegal immigrant. Let's just say that we don't share that perspective and I wonder what your solution would be. Here where I live we have had a few cases of minors that were kicked out by our IND (the immigration and naturalization services) and believe me they don't have a spot in my heart.

I'm writing this as the father of a child that was born in a country that declared him an illegal, even though the service was very much aware they manufactured this out of whole cloth. It took a year and a vast sum of money to get this situation corrected, but in the meantime he and his mother were deported. At least 'the system' works, I was able to sue the Queen and won, but it did leave a lasting scar on our family.

This subject is still - 20+ years after the fact - very much an open wound to me and I always wonder what kind of person it would take to punish a child for the act of either one or both of their parents, even if it were true (which it was not).

I think you just showed me a little bit of an answer for that question and for that I'm grateful even though I absolutely despise your position.
I think the Bay Area is a bit of an outlier in that its close to the Central Valley where a lot of America's produce originates. I used to shop at a place called India Cash and Carry when I lived near Mt. View--also unusually good/cheap produce compared with other states. If you've been in California for a long time, you might not realize that your experience is better than a lot of other places.
Thanks for the reply. I'm using about 250W of 5050 led ribbon to decorate my house for the holidays. The strips I've purchased look like they will blend into my crown moulding seamlessly. I think I will try and use an arduino to rig them up to slowly work their way to full brightness 15 minutes before my morning alarm. Something tells me I will wake up before the alarm goes off...
The tax load should be fairly similar. The big difference is that the shareholder can choose when they pay the taxes on the gain that comes from the buyback (because they recognize it when they sell shares).
Then we have a tragedy of the commons, where Pfizer and Lilly (the makers of Viagra and Cialis respectively) will wait for the other to create generic ED ads that they will both benefit from.
I don't remember him saying his mother doesn't have the condition and how do you know he was admited under racial quotas?
atomic bombs the most humane option? ...
Could you elaborate on that?
You're right, and they do acknowledge this to some degree in section 5 ("Threats to Validity"). The projects they monitored were unaware of having been so, therefore the authors would have had no way to observe much nuance. They could only what was publicly visible.
Apache accepts anything that companies donate. (They say they don't, but it's hard to find anything they've rejected.)
Actually that's standard management training: don't criticize people in front of everyone. Talk to them offline, and it's less likely to result in a big fight.

Maybe it can be misused, but it still seems like a good idea.
I was in no way comparing genuine strife of those in third world countries to the hilariously mundane social interaction issues of first world citizens.

Not being able to stand to see your ex on Facebook? That is exactly what I would call a First World Problem.
Upon reading the text of the treaty, I thought it was clearly a violation. But reading http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/2015/11/18/u-s-space-min... shows that there is a debate with opinions split on whether it violates.

My belief remains that if you set up mining on an asteroid, you've appropriated it "...by means of use or occupation...". And this the USA has agreed to not do, nor to let its nationals do.
GKE is miles ahead of ECS, and being based on Kubernetes is huge. We don't really have an equivalent to Lambda (yet?) but classic App Engine isn't actually too far off 'technology-wise' (pay per use, containerized, instant start).

Our lack of IAM is beyond painful. We're sorry. We're fixing it.

PD has had snapshots since Day 1; they're differential, fast and we even encourage people to use them for super-fast "rsync"!
This strikes me as an equivalent formulation of the argument rather than a flipped version.
Beautiful, isn't it? Although I don't regret that things have gotten smaller and more efficient, there's something wonderful about being able to take in the whole PCB layout in a glance - and have it be actually nice-looking as well!
>"In the 1870s Victorian health was challenged by cheap sugar and the first generation of mass-processed high-salt and high-sugar foods. This dragged urban health and life expectancy to a nadir around 1900 — a date that consequently provides a highly misleading baseline. (The trend was even reflected in people’s height. The minimum height for infantry was lowered from 5ft 6in to 5ft 3in, then later to 5ft, in just two decades.)"

High salt and high sugar led to a shrinking height. Could this be applied to how the average height is rising in the US?
Couldn't agree with you more! I am amazed at the precision of modern controllers considering how complex they are. The fact I can pick up any Dual Shock or Xbox 360 controller and it feel just like every other one is pretty mind blowing. Sure over time they develop their own little habits but out of the box they are almost clones (with the exception of ones that should have failed QA but somehow shipped).
Absolutely. A big pet peeve of mine is a mushy D-pad and the lack of mechanical separation of each direction on the D-pad. The OEM SNES D-pad and Playstation Dual Shock D-pads get this right; the standard XBox/360 gamepad completely miffed this, making playing throwback/retro 2D games that used the D-pad for control a total drag.
That seems motre expensive than Italy! Here 1lg of tomatoes ranges from less than 1 euro/kg in the summer in the south to 3 out of season.
Homes and communities are so intertwined with personal life and family that people forget it's also a huge investment / market.

So we allow all sorts of behavior towards homes that we wouldn't let happen in other markets. NIMBY and zoning laws are a form of collusion.

Also since the housing boom people have viewed high home prices as a good thing.
Reuters Issues a Worldwide Ban on RAW Format
Tech founder here, email in profile, let's chat :)
Full points to Amazon for not treating client SDK's like some sort of third class afterthought. And double points for not just palming off client SDK responsibility to "the open source community".

A cloud feature does not exist unless it is supported by the SDK that you program with.
Yup!

DNS rebinding attacks are useful for things like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_rebinding
Wired Review: Samsung Gear VR – “Check Back Tomorrow to Read Our Review.”
Nice to see inside the SNES controller. I've had the same two for some 25 years or so and they work (as far as I can tell) as well as they did out of the box. The console too, though it's missing a big chunk off the chassis in the back.
> Overall there’s too much information that can’t really get stuffed into 140 characters which is quite a sham

You could have a "verbose" mode (e.g. put -v at the end of the tweet) which abbreviates everything to one or two characters and omits the best review phrase.
> The minimum height for infantry was lowered from 5ft 6in to 5ft 3in, then later to 5ft, in just two decades.

I suspect this has way more to do with WWI than cheap sugar.
To ECC or Not to ECC
If anyone is interested, I blogged about how to deploy Techblog to Heroku.

https://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/post/deploy-moya-tech-...
It's surprising the big search engines don't already do something this simple. Maybe a browser plugin could perform this analysis on blocks of text and append a small div at the upper right/left showing the score for each block. Perhaps it could even use things like misspellings and grammar errors as indicators of poor quality control.
You are not non-existent, you are just taking another path where some things are "easier"(from locals perspective, it's usually easier to get a spot at a good school) to achieve they are actually much harder to hold because you are out of the safety net. Other things are incredibly laborious and some things are effectively out of your reach.

From techie perspective, think of it as dirty and quick hack. You are basically quick fix at the system, you don't conform to predefined interfaces and you do not fell in any of the object categories but you still can interact with other objects. Because you don't go from all the checks, some things are easier to you and you can run faster but at the same time you are out of any error checking mechanism. If you fail, you fail dirty and you can't recover.

So when you are an illegal in a country, you usually have access to some things like education and healthcare(sometimes easier than the locals) but you may have incredibly hard time to open a bank account and anything that depends on you having a bank account(the things that are easy and hard depend on the country). It all depends on what paperwork is needed, sometimes you hack your way to obtain certain paperwork(I know a guy who is taking the metro for free, so he would be fined and they will send him a mail with the fine and he will use that mail as proof of address to open a bank account).

Being illegal in a country is very interesting beast. Some people, like the person with the most upvoted comment make it look lşke it's a privilege but it's not. Do you fancy to be an illegal? Burn your documents and pretend that you are somebody else.
Facebook’s Messenger Head Pulls Back the Curtain on “M”
They do use your likes to tailor content, which someone explored (with hilarious effects) by liking literally everything in his feed for 48 hours: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/i-liked-everything-i-saw-on-fac...
How many generations do you feel it takes before the sins of the parents are forgiven? Should grand-children of illegal immigrants be kicked out? Great-grandchildren?

Did your great-great-grandparents ask the Native population of the United States for permission to enter or do you happen to be a member of one of the original tribes?
> Really my "coding" skills have helped me in other areas opening my eyes in new ways to automating my skill set.

That is a good point. People who can program even a little bit have a pretty big advantage over people who can't. In knowledge worker jobs (and in our day to day lives, such as hobbies or DIY), there are plenty of tasks that could be done much easier and better if you know some programming.

> Where the Bloomberg article most failed is stating that they "cannot" learn to code.

Point taken.
I thoroughly enjoy driving due to the fact that I know I can't do anything productive on my phone or computer. It's one of the few times I can relax myself and enjoy the experience...something that is dwindling on airplanes as the WIFI technology gets better and better.
That can't tell you if the range is crappy, or if it cuts out often.
But that's just it - how "obvious" something is is completely subjective. I was baffled that the other person took me seriously because it seemed obviously ridiculous to me. After a while I just accepted that I can't be sarcastic with people I don't know well enough if I care about getting my point across.
Wow, this is so messed up, he admits to masterbating after setting fire to random people's houses. It's like this onion story: http://www.theonion.com/video/crime-reporter-finds-way-of-li...
>The US treasury can't and won't ever run out of dollars.

Again, the point is that dynamic is unrelated to the definition of the public sector. I understand the on-the-ground reality; I was objecting to your characterizing of it as "by definition".

>There has to be wiggle room somewhere if it's a private sector obligation. Pension are invested and future payouts are based upon certain assumptions about those investments holding. A lot of perfectly reasonable assumptions pre-2008 suddenly went out of the window afterwards.

Right, but there's a big difference between "our reasonable RoR estimates were a little off and we unexpectedly needed to add a little more this year" vs "we never funded it to begin with and expected to earn the income to fund this later".

Funding it now makes the promise honest; "we'll find the money later" isn't, and it's wrong for GM or the USPS to do this. For the US government, the promises need to go right into the federal debt, which the 75-year prefund obligation would accomplish.

>I've never heard any ostensibly pro worker advocate say this.

You did, when you advocated the USPS handle its pensions that way, not having to prefund them (modulo time/RoR discount).
The civil rights movement, in which people wished to, eg, not be lynched vs mean words on the internet. Below you compare similar mean words to actual terrorists fresh from murdering hundreds of people in Russia and France, not to mention random civilians stuck inside their territory. Good analogies.
Wow... she was really rude on that audio clip. I understand she was a bit freaked out but she was rude while the cops were being very calm with her. She just keeps talking in circles, interrupting them, asking the same questions over again but ignoring the responses. Oh and the clapping. I can totally picture this scene.
It occurs to me that you might be touching on the difference between "earn respect" and "earn freedom from disrespect".

Also, the need to distinguish what different respects mean. There is respect as a person, versus respect as a knowledgeable kernel developer.

(They are not always easy to separate. If someone keeps pushing their bad development ideas even though they have been thoroughly debunked, just because of their ego, I think my respect for them as a person will drop somewhat not only as a developer.)

Still, the default toward some new person should be: basic respect as a person, neutral as a developer. I think that this is the case in the OSS project model; but then where it breaks down is that if the latter respect tanks, then the former does also. I.e. you're a good person if you're a good hacker (in particular one with mostly the same opinions as me), otherwise you're non grata scum.
HP is a company in decline, yes. But:

1) The money doesn't just go away. It ends up being spent or invested somewhere else. HP's loss is someone else's gain.

2) What's the alternative? HP is struggling to adapt to a changing world. They didn't stop making mainframes because they got bored with it.

The options aren't "successful HP vs failed HP", it's more like "HP definitely wasting the money vs HP giving it back so investors can find someone who might not waste the money".

Consider Microsoft: They made (are still making!) an enormous amount of cash from their "legacy" desktop OS and apps business. And they have burned (and are still burning) an enormous amount of cash utterly failing to succeed at search, gaming hardware, mobile devices, cloud computing, and probably ten other industries I can't recall. At one point I believe MS was losing $2B/year just on Bing, and what do they have to show for it? Even if they eventually "win" one of these gambles and end up dominating the market for tablets (or whatever), will they come out ahead on balance?
I don't have a burden of proof because I have nothing to prove, I'm not making a claim one way or another.

The person I was commenting to, however, IS making a claim. Maybe your burden of proof applies to him?
https://www.aclu.org/what-censorship
You're right, and I think it's hilarious. Some folks seem so ready to jump to a hyper-judgmental space that everything's a sign of a generational decline. And they get so, so, SO edgy when others tell them to calm down or chill out. Hey, maybe they need a safe space of their own!
We have these ads for the same reason that bright sugary breakfast cereal is placed on the lower shelves in the grocery store. Children pester their parents for the cereal, and people pester their doctors for Viagra. But the children/people have to know about the product before the pestering can happen.
I'm mixed on how this story is told/editorialized. I think the militarization of the police issue is a serious problem and that police treating POC worse is also a serious issue. The reason I'm mixed on this is because I'm a 6'5" caucasian male and have also stared down the barrel of an unsafetied M16 and had unsafetied handgun (I don't recall if it was a revolver or took a clip) pointed point blank at my temple when two police officers pulled up behind me in Rio de Janeiro because I was running at 10pm at night in street clothes in the neighborhood of Gávea.

Cops in Brazil operate in much the same way as US police officers do (assume violence in defense, be prepared to shoot), but they've been operating that way for far longer. It's been a serious problem there (probably since the GV dictatorship) and has been a growing problem in the US as service men return from war zones and police the same way at home that they did when at war.

I don't have statistics here, but my impression from the news is that cops excessively single out POC in routine police work (traffic stops, stopping pedestrians, etc.) and that the excessive militarization of police actions affects everyone, not just POC. This story seems to be more an issue of the problem with militarization of police action more than a POC issue up until the misunderstanding was cleared up. Once the misunderstanding was identified it seems like a story that is about both how POC are treated unfairly and how cops always protect their own even when they are wrong.

What's very frustrating is how everyone (cops and neighbor) acted after it was clear that there was misunderstanding, that degree of force was unnecessary and that the cops failed to take corrective action and protected themselves and were generally uncooperative.

+1 for the comment about how body cameras are needed.
Fancy being illegal immigrant to enjoy the "privilege"? Burn your documents and pretend that you are the illegal immigrant you want to be.

That comment is incredibly shallow, it revolves around "they break our rules :(" without actually considering the circumstances and questioning the rules.

This is a shameful comment for a website called hacker news. Please go write your opinions on respecttheauthority-news something.
Because free-speech opposition to free speech is somehow anti-free-speech? I always love these kinds of complaints about "censorship": "I don't have freedom of speech because people can complain about what I say!"
Also I've found the network load balancer to be amazingly better than ELBs.
"Prior to the integration of in-flight Wi-Fi, most airline passengers passed their time at 30,000 feet completely disconnected from the world below them — but these days, that’s a highly uncommon occurrence."

Am I missing something here? 99% of the flights I take don't offer Wi-Fi, and in most cases not even power outlets. And those that do have Wi-Fi seem to be charging 30% of my monthly internet bill to provide it for a mere few hours. Like, no thanks.
It should be auto-update but with the option to disable updates. So only technical people will turn that off.
Emirates' largest planes have universal AC outlets on most seatbacks, as well as USB. They also have WiFi: no charge for 10 MB and $1 for 600 MB. All of that in economy class.