skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was part of the BeatThatQuote.com acquisition back in 2011. We built Google Compare UK and then the team eventually moved onto to building the US comparison products also. Great to see this progressing forward.
So, how much different is this than Vultr's[0] offering?

[0]https://www.vultr.com/pricing/dedicatedcloud/
I've seen big global companies spend months without being able to bill and/or collect money because of SAP problems. SAP is basically a cover a%$ for terrible decision makers, i.e., a marketing play. No?
The site I run displays photos of office interior design and the ads are relevant in that they are photos of products related to office interior design (chairs, desks, lounge furniture...)

One interesting case was a recent ad for a new phone booth product for offices which is generally relevant to my readers, but also specifically relevant because of the current huge desire for private and quiet space in modern open office environments. That ad has performed much, much higher than average.

Regarding the movies thing, no I haven't purchased any products from the sponsoring companies, but I am glad that they paid for me to attend the event in the same way I would be glad if my friend paid for me to attend an event.
Yeah I've been in one. Not in the U.S.

It wasn't like Fred Willard playing with himself. The people there were civil, still, it was surreal. .
There are at least 40+ cases on it.

Now: do those cases form some coherent set of rules?
No.
But there is actually a lot of law on it ;)
This pretty much sums up much of tech Kickstarters: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7b4tlilbswA
It got the slow label from all the years BEFORE 2012.....
We monitor the health of the host; take a look at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/dedicated... to learn more.
Their example dedicated host adds up to $2'226 per month - had a quick calc on the retail HW cost for a machine like this - should not be more than $6.5k with 2 * E5-2670 v3 12 cores.

What I understand so far - it is physically bundling a fixed amount of virtual machines to a physical host - in the example "dedicated host" 22 * m4.large.

Bundling your virtual machine to one or a series of physical hosts / on the same network segment is a service you can have from quite a few hosting providers (if you ask).

If you opt for a solution like this, it is also most likely that you will run an enterprise scale solution and you will do so for quite some time - at least 6 months upwards.

Keeping that in mind together with a lifetime of at least 2 years for such HW, you will be paying 8 times the HW cost for a 2y lifetime for a management layer (storage / connectivity you pay per GB with EC2).

I guess everybody will have to see how this fits into their business model for non volatile / predictable resource demand or a set of when physical iron might be a better choice (colo or rent).
I agree with you and that's a nice rebuttal. I use XCode daily since I code in Swift for an iOS project. Great tool. However, I really wouldn't trade so much away just to stay in the same IDE and I certainly wouldn't construct a plan to do so. All the people down-voting me are just Swift fanatics who probably haven't touched the language all that deep. Good language, love the replacement for Objective-C, and you could argue GCD makes Akka unnecessary (though I wouldn't go that far), but again not fit for web development in my humble opinion..
XCode (for ObjC) is very commendable for no longer crashing every 5 minutes, other than that its pretty crappy compared to other IDEs created by multi-billion dollar companies (even some open source IDEs are better)

When working in swift it's as if someone rewrote the thing in Java. As obnoxious as eclipse can be, it at least code completes in a reasonable time.
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As others have so aptly pointed out, externalities are the huge fly in your ointment. Rather than keep prattling on about externalities, I want to direct your attention to a practical example, environmental mercury contamination. [1] As a civilization, we knew from over 200 years ago that various mercury compounds were bad news bears in sufficiently-high quantities and/or cumulative exposures.

Industrial utilization of mercury is incredibly useful, adequate remediation and recovery expensive, and venting mercury-laden industrial waste into the atmosphere so easy and innocuous-looking, combined to land us in a modern situation any 16-18th century fisherman would find utterly absurd and fantastical. Lots and lots of people paid over many decades and centuries to have their needs satisfied with the help of mercury-laced compounds and mercury itself, to dump (and continue to dump to this day) their cumulative externality upon us, despite extremely early knowledge about cumulative effects, so that we go about our day-to-day in a real, live sci-fi world where some fish have so much bioaccumulated mercury that we have to ration our consumption of them.

There is an enormous amount of economic activity in the world today that works solely from finding and monetizing externalities. I expect this only gets worse in the future.

[1] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/272563841_Mercury_in...
Well we need to take into account a transitional program. We can't eliminate SS instantly, it has to be done over generational time as part of a transition program. The SS program would taper off over time as it's slowly replaced by UBI.

I envision a system like this:

Person A has just graduated from high school and has never worked right when the UBI program goes into effect. He never pays into SS and receives only UBI for life and will never be eligible to collect SS.

Person B has worked under the existing system for n years and has paid into SS a significant amount. He stops paying into SS now and begins receiving UBI as well. When he reaches retirement age, he collects either SS or UBI, whichever is greater, based on the points he earned from paying payroll taxes.

Person C is a current typical retiree. He continues to collect SS, as it pays better than UBI since he paid so much into it from his payroll taxes.

This UBI system would pay out less benefits than someone with maxed out SS benefits gets today, but we wouldn't have the payroll tax anymore. Instead, the UBI program would be funded through income tax.

This would cost significantly more than today's wealth redistribution programs even added together (setting aside Medicare/Medicaid which are kind of a separate issue), so it would certainly require higher taxes to support it.
I think as long as this is made clear, it's a great idea -- onboarding a new dev is a rare opportunity to get dedicated but fresh eyes on your internal processes.
That's not exactly a point for slack, since internal slack nets don't exist. I call this "downtime as a service": you get all of the satisfaction an interrupted work day without any of the annoyance of being able to fix it yourself.
> If your definition of subjective is "decided by humans", then yes.

Presumably it means something more like "different (rational, honest, omnipotent) respondents might produce different answers."
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Manual overrides cause more problems than they solve, and probably we should get rid of them in future self-driving cars:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/07/29/427467598/episo...
>Ironically enough considering your rather petty criticism,

A lot of your response seems to be emotionally laden. Bad form.

>Redux

I've been reading about Redux, and as soon as another app project comes along for me to try it out, I'm planning to give it a try.

As I've said more than once in this thread, to a large degree my own opinion is still forming on this topic. React does things that feel to me like "bad code smells," but it's possible that I need to adapt to the New Way of Thinking.

>And this is the essence of why React has won over the likes of Angular, Ember, and Backbone. Developers have always been able to build great applications, even in the frameworks that come before React. But React and Flux-like architectures allows developers to manage complexity significantly better than in other frameworks that come before it.

I've been writing software -- mostly games -- since I had to use assembly language for everything. Having a language (Java!) or framework (in this case React) explicitly protect me from myself almost always ends up slowing me down and slowing down the resulting app (yes, even React [1]).

Despite this I'm probably going to give React a real try at some point, even if it's in a toy project. I've been coding for 35 years, and it doesn't take me long to get the flavor of a new technology and its limitations when I finally stick my teeth in. It's all about finding the time...

[1] https://aerotwist.com/blog/react-plus-performance-equals-wha...
For a stark depiction of how Taiwan’s technology industry has been ravaged by the rise of the smartphone and the fall of the desktop computer, look at Asia’s stock market.

Stopped reading there.

These are public companies. You have access to better information than that.. like the companies revenue and earnings that would tell us the real effect this trend has had on these companies.

If you're too lazy to look up the actual numbers.. them I'm too lazy to read your article.
> Well, except that it simply can not be social recommendation. Math is too big, and interesting results too sparse for that.

I think that almost anyone pre-Amazon would have said that an Amazon-style recommendation engine was impossible. (I pick Amazon as the one with which I'm most familiar, but substitute your favourite.) Amazon groups me with people who read similar books, and can only do so after it knows a bit about what books I read; why couldn't an engine group me with other people who share my mathematical interests, perhaps determined by mining my publication record (or just by asking me), and recommend on that 'social' basis?
The meaning of 'tick' here is special, since we're talking about Node. It's not a measure of time, it's an iteration of Node's event loop. Because Node is single-threaded, everything that happens in a single tick (i.e, one run of the event loop) is in the same execution context/stack/call tree/whatever you want to call it. So we generally call this "synchronous", although technically you could be holding onto the tick forever, firing off a bunch of nonblocking IO in there and doing your own polling/event management.

Of course, that would be silly, since Node manages an event loop for you. So your nonblocking IO would instead push events onto the queue, and let Node move on to the next tick. If something happens in a different tick, it gets its own clean slate of an execution context, and we call this "async", since the function that triggered it is no longer running.
I wonder if they eventually would have run afoul of gambling laws.
Higher relative to getting a dedicated server from a different provider.
The Sony recorder had a way to activate the mechanisms electronically, so small step to hook up the optical gate of the tape counter to an interrupt pin and the buttons to output bits. That way you could address the tape roughly by the block (toggle the 'play' or 'record' button bit when the counter hit a certain point).

This was the deck:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sony+tc+fx+410

The storage capacity was horrible, but it did work after a fashion.

I just checked out the wikipedia entry on the DECtape, yes, that was pretty much it, only much much slower and not as nicely integrated.
Oh... today I learn.
The better choice is not a new webserver program with a different, possibly better, configuration language, it's HTTP server libraries that can be used from actual programming languages to do whatever you want. Many languages ship with really good libraries these days.
I have a Dell M3800 that was purchased in March and has this cert. I am not well versed in this area. What do I do? Can I just delete it from the "Certificates" snap-in in MMC? (And should I?)
There are some cyclic elements, but there's also a lot more to it. New fabrics are developed, new blends, old fabrics are used to construct new garments, new colors, and new combinations of all of the above things.

Sometimes it's exploring old fashions with modern techniques for making things. Textile and garment-construction technology have changed a lot in the past couple hundred years.
I wonder what that external competition would look like? More charter/private schools with vouchers?
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I just tried it, it works pretty well. You can also ask it to relaunch the activity.
No, but if you need a dedicated server in addition to other EC2 hosts it will certainly be faster to be in a AWS data center.
Internet+Business+Kits+-+IBK+Review
>slow change of zoning laws, which are decided at a very low level and rather hard to overturn.

Which is to say that they're decided by the residents of an area who may not want delivery trucks to be clogging up the streets. This article had a number of innovative architectural designs but you can't just stick a workspace with employees in a residential area, especially if there's manufacturing involved.

Home/condo design for information workers working from home is a different matter. Although I'm not sure how much more complicated that is than having a good office space. There are pretty good solutions in most cities if the issue is having an occasional meeting.
Here’s a sizable list of words like that: http://english.stackexchange.com/q/1431/1506
Not to mention several of the companies on that "worst performers" list are not at all desktop focused. HTC? Mediatek? These are very much mobile-focused companies. They just happen to be mobile-focused companies that are doing very badly for other reasons. What a lazy article.
Usually in math we talk about a statement being "independent", which means that it is compatible with the axioms for it to be true as well as false.

If p=np were indeed independent, we could make it an axiom. Then we could do a complete search for a polynomial algorithm for 3sat, and we would be guaranteed to succeed.

Since computing is somewhat a model of the physical world, something like this would surprise me. It seems like computing being modeled on the physical world, the model must contain the answer to the question. But who knows.
yep, imgtec has been trying to make MIPS happen for a while, presumably as a hedge against ARM. Not that MIPS is bad or anything (the bunny in Super Mario 64 was named MIPS after the CPU in the N64!) but there's no particular reason to choose MIPS if all you're doing is some tiny control loop or measuring some sensor every so often.
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Starship Troopers, the movie, wasn't intended as a satire of the book, it was intended as a satire of fascism. The original screenplay was percieved by some involved to have some similarities to Starship Troopers, the book, so the film rights were picked up and some cosmetic changes to the script made. I think that is a pretty shallow and uninteresting satire of what it targets, and that it further suffers from being tied into the book -- which Veerhoeven admits that he read very little of -- which gets it viewed as simply a hostile reaction to the book or an even weaker satire of the book (compared to how it is as a satire of its actual target.)
Recurrent Neural Networks for Set-To-Set Learning
Which is really annoying if you actually want to import a different CA (like CAcert.org).
You have to consider it a SPOF. Put nothing on the same dedicated host that you cannot fail at the same time. Though in AWS speak, generally you treat an availability zone as a SPOF... so dedicated host is of course a SPOF...
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Best Online Survey Tools of 2015: a comparative review
It won't be there for a while. It should be on http://tools.android.com/recent soon (it should have been already, but I guess they were waiting for the conference to start before putting it there).
Animal Crossing uses QR codes for sharing player created designs (clothes, paths, flags, etc.)
What if the license of the software you want to run is 100k per physical host? Then being able to run 2 or 4 instances on the same physical host makes the $2226 cost pretty insignificant.
You'll definitely find specialists in python but they'll also be experts in specific frameworks or packages like Django/Pylons/Pyramid etc. I'd say the same thing goes for ruby...if you're a ruby expert it's almost explicit that you'll at least have an intermediate knowledge of rails.
Joy pressing the button.
I don't know, most people I know use XCode only for drag and drop quick UI stuff and for actual development they use AppCode (also supports Swift 2).
If you have promises OR you have coroutines, your life is good. Either way, you don't have to choose between writing fragile sequential code and writing error-prone synchronization logic.

If you don't have either, then you'll probably end up re-implementing one or the other eventually anyway.
This article is a shitty stub. That said, I hate door dash as a business and it is undoubtedly not worth $1B. Leaving aside a proper DCF analysis, lets make this simplistic as hell:

$1B = 1000 million.

It would take >8 years to pay this money back if they made $1million in revenue a day at a 33% profit margin.
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Marc Andreessen isn't suggesting Oracle doesn't have p/m fit, only the OP is.
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Kennedy's deadline: "by the end of the decade" was crucial. It became "the president's deadline" and everyone rallied to fulfil it.

A human Mars mission now is comparatively less difficult than the challenge that Apollo faced, with far superior technology, knowledge and funding. NASA has become a constituency-driven project rather than mission-driven. Mind you, it's doing great stuff still with the robotic exploration program, but undertaking a deep-space human mission involves the kind of determination a bureaucracy on autopilot is just not capable of.

NASA is also more than anything a creature of the President and could respond to such a challenge once more, given the chance.
Please consider the last stanza of JFK's Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, you may not have heard the whole thing before (emphasis mine):

> We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win.

Isn't that the whole point? The main reason we want to go to Mars in the first place is because it's really, really difficult. Humans like doing things that seem impossible because when we prove that they are possible, our capabilities expand. That's what evolution has programmed us for. We need to do more shit. You can't just say "we know we can go to Mars but it's too expensive and dangerous", because until you demonstrate you really can, that actually means "we can't go to Mars".
So basically a Belgian edition of "Die Macher" (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1/die-macher).

Though if one were in the mood for a more morbidly entertaining political game, a re-theme of Republic of Rome may be in order. It's also a game of up to six factions trying to be the most powerful at game end...but there's also a crisis every turn that if ignored can cause everyone to lose! You just need to replace "Hannibal at the gates" with some EU 2015 equivalent, and maybe have the "senator (+ legions) in my faction declares himself emperor" action be replaced with "Flemings/Walloons declare independence".
I think Vasco De Gama and Magellan would completely agree with you, especially on the issues like "comms takes a while" or "social issues involved with sending people in a small can into space for several months". Though it was much easy back then i guess - for example they could just flog or hang an offender. On the other side they didn't have 3D printers which could just print all your habitats out of sand and sunshine.
Everyone I've asked about how they initially pronounced nginx said "enjinx". Maybe 4 people total, all native english speakers.
They sort of do, they sort of don't. And it doesn't matter at all. Product market fit is a concept used to describe startups. Specifically, I take it to mean when a startup has managed to engage/sell to a small, rapidly-expanding group of very passionate users/customers. It doesn't apply to huge enterprise companies at scale. Everybody has heard of Oracle. Nobody has heard of <foo> startup.

Not everything can be analyzed with the same types of analysis. It is a complete mistake to try to analyze startups like you analyze large companies, and vice versa.
Microservices from Scratch Using Docker, Swarm, Compose, Consul, Etc.
It sounds like the risk wasn't quantified correctly in the first place. Being a highly-skilled tech worker, working for a well-funded startup should have nearly no impact on the probability of you being able to pay your mortgage. Even if the thing collapses, you can have another job within a week. If the whole industry collapses in a dotcom bust style, established companies will be heavily impacted as well.
If you run your own, hardly. If theres a netsplit, it just means you'll have to wait a second until you're connected again.

But really, if you run your own IRC server in your own internal network, there will be no netsplits.
Solar-powered cell towers bring off-grid energy to remote communities
If it is a new interface for WordPress, then why does it need Node?

Thanks for filing the issue. I will reply there.
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> Which is perfectly acceptable.

It's perfectly legal, which is a different thing. The entire premise of this article is that it isn't "perfectly acceptable", and causes serious practical problems.

> Red Hat and SUSE apply similar restrictions, hence why CentOS is a thing...

CentOS goes further than trademark law requires, and the nature of their project means they need to rebuild everything anyway.

While I don't know anything about SUSE's trademark policy, Red Hat has a far less restrictive one.
JVM- and Android-targeted Kotlin were built in simultaneously, whereas Android-targeted Groovy was added on last year as an afterthought, so the QA aspects of each will likely be very different. Also, the full-time developer working on Groovy's Android codebase was retrenched last year, whereas Jetbrains is still supporting Kotlin's Android codebase.
CERN+IS+STUCK,+IS+IT+2015+16+-+YouTube
Star Wars is officially coming to Virtual Reality
> It would take >8 years to pay this money back if they made $1million in revenue a day at a 33% profit margin.

Are those numbers actually coming from anywhere in the real world?