skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets assume when you're saying "cpu" when you mean "core" and your typical server class machine has 24 of those. A 1000 "cpus" is 41 machines, if they each donate 32GB to the cause[1] that is 1.3TB worth of data which is only a few microseconds away from any core.

I'm not sure why anyone would build a server with less than 96GB on it these days, so its not at all unreasonable. Now your service provider my jerk you around but you can run two racks of machines (48 machines) in a data center with specs like that for about $25K/month (including dual gigabit network pipes to your favorite IP transit provider) So it isn't even all that huge of an investment.

[1] Consider your typical 'memcached' type service where data is named as a function of IP and offset.
Don't lecture me.
Home movies used a positive process, but TV and cinema would typically be shot using a negative process. Kodak has discontinued all of their reversal films except one (and it's black & white).
If you treat people inconsistently, you open yourself up to tremendous political problems within an organization. _Particularly_ when it comes to hiring, or performance evaluation, or firing.

I think these mythical candidates who have an impressive body of work are probably going to be more thoughtful about a company they join up with than you'd naturally give them credit for. We pitch the heck out of our org, explain why we think it's awesome, and what people can do if they join up. If we can't get someone to see enough value to put time into deciding if it's right for them, I'm not sure they'd ever work out for us.
@cmikec it wasn't just split tests on the messaging. if you signed up last week you ONLY got texts telling you to sign up to a payment plan. If you sign up today then it offers you the paid version OR the free version
‘Making a Murderer’ Left Out Crucial Facts, Prosecutor Says
Neither of them are free, magic+ is hourly with minimum commitments and magic is pay per request, with free consultation before you get a quote.
Should political actions be anonymous? Judicial rulings? Why not anonymize everything we take part in?
I watched the analog-to-digital-to-analog trend happen in professional audio (I was going to school for audio as ProTools was beginning to be a thing, we worked on analog tape machines...but the year after I finished my degree, they brought in digital ADAT machines for the small labs, and eventually went digital in the 24 track room, as well). It's amusing how superstitious people can be, especially in industries that are mostly subjective but happen to bump up against a lot of technology. Audio, photography, video, and now film have all been through this.

The final product will be delivered digitally for 99.9% of consumers. Why fight it? Why spend so much money, time, and effort, to work with inferior media? I dunno. I worked on analog tape machines (I was even a hold out, for a while, having a 1" 16 track machine, as big as a mini fridge, in my house for several years after digital multitracks were the smart choice), but there really is no good argument for it today.

There was a brief window where the best digital equipment was inferior to the very best analog equipment, but it didn't last long. Maybe five years. We may still be in that window for film when comparing 70mm film to the best digital equipment...but, on the low end? Hell no. This janky little camera from Kodak will be a joke compared to digital equipment in the same price range. And, the film/processing costs will be outrageous comparatively speaking, limiting ones options when shooting to a significant degree.

In short: This is just hipster bullshit. Just like analog audio is hipster bullshit.
Well if you're going that road you create an LLC that contracts with the 503(c) that provides a service. But once you start creating shell companies to hide the source and destination of funds it starts to smell like money laundering and that generates more interest than its worth.
if its between trusted parties... why not just use git. I dont understand where the innovation is. they seem to have remove the one truly unique feature of bitcoin but continue to call it a blockchain.
A few thoughts and questions

1. This is fascinating to watch

2. How is Magic going to compete with Facebook M and www.GoButler.com? Butler does all the things Magic does but for free. And Facebook M is being rolled out to more and more people.

3. Is there space for a premium concierge assistant that gives even better service than Butler or M can do? What prevents Butler or M from simply rolling out a premium $25/hour service and undercutting Magic if this segment proves valuable.

4. Isn't the real money in massive scale. Will Magic simply be a small concierge shop for the very wealthy and will we all use Facebook M for most tasks in the future?
A new Japanese magazine about construction workers
1) ah, security by obscurity
2) ah, security by credentials

completely the opposite approaches to bitcoin itself.
I support strict gun control as well. I believe we should re-open the NFA registry (closed in 1986 for basically no reason at all), and add most or all handguns to it and probably semi-automatic rifles as well. The NFA proved very effective at reducing (eliminating, actually) murders committed with automatic weapons on the registry, and there is every reason to think it would enjoy the same considerable success at reducing gun violence with handguns and semi-automatic rifles. The SCOTUS has ruled already that such a registry is constitutional and I agree.

However, doing this would also re-open the production and importation of new automatic weapons for civilian use, and so is a non-starter for the gun-control crowd - in spite of the fact that that legal regime actually worked very well for around 50 years. Instead, it appears we will stick to the same ineffective bullshit we've been doing for the past twenty years, restricting ownership based on meaningless distinctions like magazine capacity, forward pistol grips, etc. etc., which accomplish little else than to piss off gun owners (which I suspect, for much of the gun control crowd, is considered a feature rather than a bug).
so, basically git
This is weird to me. It may not be pushing the bar forward on AI or NLP, but it uses one of the most commonly used interpersonal communications technologies today to put a human experience in front of a seemingly boundless personal assistant.

Look, it may not be Tesla, but there are a couple of unicorns that seem tech savvy now, that weren't so much for the first little while. AirBnB comes to mind - their analytics now are probably amazing, but they started as a website with a database. Doesn't make them any less of a technology company.

Leveraging technology to break down barriers (immediate, constant, on-demand availability and scalability of a personal assistant) is a technology solution to a problem.
It's ironic how most of the "yeah me too" posts end up being AWS related.
As would getting rid of open floor plan workspaces, or, even better, working from home.

How long until people figure out that business folks really sincerely do not care about productivity? If it would require them to alter their traditional ideas of what the workplace should be like (derived from labor-intensive manufacturing in the first part of the 20th century), the psychological cost is one they are not willing or able to incur.
They were expecting to do $60m in 2014 - http://www.sramanamitra.com/2014/07/11/bootstrapping-a-web-h....

I know we left them 4 years ago because how they implement bandwidth caps on private IPs, which a few years later another company also had the same problem with and nicely wrote it up on their blog: https://docraptor.com/blog/gone-in-60-seconds-how-we-moved-f...

Linode's attempt to keep us (spending $5k a month at the time, but we've grown substantially with AWS now. Linode were at $22m in 2011, so we'd have been 0.3% of their total revenue): "We will certainly be sorry to see you go."

That may just be because they were fed up of us after we opened 27 support tickets about the same networking issue over the course of 11 months though.
That's an unusual take on a trade magazine.
> Garbage cans are hard to find too and everyone just carries their trash with them.

I was told this is a relic of the sarin gas attacks in the Tokyo subway.
I wrote a parenscript wrapper for it.

[edit]
No time tonight to make it pretty and publish it, but here it is[1]. Usage is identical to my parenscriptx[2] (a React tool I wrote that I based this off of).

1: https://gist.github.com/jasom/4ab84354fda405a8f67a

2: https://github.com/jasom/parenscriptx
Can you share a sample test?
That's the thing with languages. Laura means penis in Hindi (or the tip of it), and it's kind of a proper word, not just a slang. Randi means prostitute, another proper word. These are the names people must have chosen for their children at some point.

So people usually just pick a name that is not a slang or offensive or heavily inappropriate in the languages, cultures known to them.
Sure; I don't see a way to contact you in your profile. There is an email address in my profile.
> so I don't understand how he can think we're still creating wealth.

Science??? Every major scientific invention has literally created wealth. Period.
I'm typically skeptical of conclusions like that, to be honest. If we look at the gun deaths graph, many of the highest rates are in much whiter, much more rural states, and the south is very well-represented.

I'll probably draw criticism from what I'm about to say, but perhaps part of this is due to cultural differences in what constitutes murder between different states. An obvious example would be the case of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. I would classify that as a murder, but I don't think it would be counted as such in this data.

I think about these things a lot, as a minority who grew up in the most urban part of the country. It's very common for statistics to be misleading in what actually goes on in these areas for a number of reasons. I'm not saying that there is no such thing as a dangerous area with high murder rates, just that it's not always as simple as looking at some numbers.

I should also point out that while many high-crime areas have a high minority population, I would consider most of them rural or suburban. Milwaukee and Detroit for example, are not exactly "urban" cities.
Main-line lefty here: I'm immensely frustrating to me to read articles that point out that there's no solid research on guns & gun violence when--to the best of my knowledge--congress has been blocking funding for this research for quite some time.
"Good Bayesian" in that context just means being an able user of Bayesian statistics, not necessarily holding any particular philosophical belief about what they mean.
My thoughts on Rust in 2016
Yup. Keep perspective. Money quote: "Raising money doesn’t equal success"

Of course, funding certainly won't hurt your competitor.
Appreciate you asking, and great advise - I am :-) actually, when I was younger my parents sought help early for me, and through some of the best specialists in the field. Then for a decade and a half I went it along, and whilst I did ok, overall I think I struggled so I'm getting professional medical help, as well as seeing a professional life coach experienced in helping people with ADHD.

It's been good overall!
This kept me thinking... nowadays you'd describe IRC as Realtime Twitter.
The screenshot says "free to chat," which Magic is.
So you know, on my Linux box there is a massive performance difference between Firefox (very sluggish) and Chromium (perfectly fluid).

Looks super fun, hope you open source it soon!
Not to defend these loopholes, but if you allow me to proselytize a bit... Why bother with those fancy tricks with your modest income when you can get tax-free gains anyway?

OK, I exaggerate a little, but you can probably open a tax-free savings/investment account (Roth IRA (US), TFSA (CA), NISA (UK)). These usually have enough contribution room to meet your savings goals (you'll probably exceed them, but you can put those savings somewhere else, like a pension account or tax-deferred account). You can put a low-cost (< 1% of assets, per year) fund in them that owns every publicly traded company in your country/planet[0]. Now you're investing rather than getting around taxes, but your interest, dividends, and capital gains are now tax free.

0 - Vanguard's total-market ETFs, for example
A "well regulated" militia. Many people do want strict gun control but there is presumably a fairly equal and opposite amount that do not. I think perhaps there could be some kind of universal federal background check at least required at a minimum.
Oculus Kickstarter Backers (From 2012) Will Receive a Free Consumer Rift Unit
It's not a lot more precise than randomly guessing.

Check this album out:
http://imgur.com/a/1a1tn

Seems racist and sexist towards men.
You don't need "social awareness" to explain any of your observations:

1) Low income inequality / strong welfare system
2) This is actually a counter example. Nothing more socially offensive than second hand smoke.
3) Trash cans disappeared from the streets of Tokyo shortly after the sarin gas subway attack by Aum Shinrikyo in 1995, and they've never reappeared.
THE PATHANKOT PARADOX – EffingEarth
Mindstorms makes them a healthy profit.
Last I heard, compromising Bitcoin exchanges for lulz and mad profit. Allegedly.

So if the rumor is true, he wasn't technically lying.
Somewhat related: Today, I noticed that the vast majority of the articles on my news feed are "X liked/commented on Y's post" where Y is someone I don't know and the post isn't very good. I hope this is only a temporary change, but I installed a Chrome extension to filter these out <_<
Very good, but it's funny how on the "why IPVanish" page he links to, the first reason given for using a VPN is, to watch Netflix from any location! Oh the horror of limited localised Netflix content. We must protect ourselves. (Really it is awful, I use a VPN for that purpose too). But the point is, it doesn't seem popular to hide metadata from ISPs with VPNs. Will it ever be popular? I'm not so sure. For good or bad, I'm suggesting most people don't care that their IPs are recorded. Email content is not seen, nor what I type into this comment form.

Also, when I send an email to my friend "laserpants@something.com", sure the data captures the send-to email address. But the data doesn't know who laserpants actually is, nor does the email content get saved. I'm not saying laserpants can't be found if the law decides to investigate, but I doubt it's a matter of pressing a button to bring up the real name of laserpants. Especially if laserpants uses different email addresses and a shared internet.
Yes, because the mechanisms which create inequality are the same which allow for poverty.

Targeting poverty alone ignores the root causes, and thus never solves the problem.

You can see this in Africa and third world countries everywhere. Poverty has been reduced by access to capital and markets, investment, education, etc... Not by charity.
Fascinating. I like that they were open about their strategy and the results. Targeting works!
One more, speed. When in a corporation you have the options of "work with IT" or "AWS", AWS may make sense. Additional cost, sure, but when you need changes you can just make them. You don't have to file a ticket and wait a week.

(And as a note, it is likely to be an easier battle to get AWS permission in a stodgy corporation, than it will be to increase the pace of IT)
If you hire someone and they are a talented, hardworking, likable teammate, the other employees will not care what the interview process was.

If you hire someone and they are a poor worker and a pain in the ass, you should get rid of them regardless of the interview process.

I think you're letting the tail wag the dog here.
Yep. I write simulation and data analysis software for a large company. My names appeared on ~5 papers simply because of the fact that I wrote the software used for the research.
Sure, but who cares? There's an entire field of statistics called "Bayesian statistics", who do actual math and statistics and don't give a damn about novelty T-shirts.
Yes, I have had this feeling too. So many likes about people I've never heard of. Seriously degrades the quality.
Yeah, free to chat, not free if you want to actually use the service.

It's the same as getting a quote from any other professional service (lawyers, doctors, etc.) which is generally free.
Well my observation, and granted it is limited, is that when I crossed the HS -> College threshold Ham Radio was a 'thing' and then building "microcomputers" was a thing, that lasted until the mid-80s when it started getting killed off. Then in the 90's and the '00s it seemed like the HS -> College age kids were investing all their disposable income into gaming computer rigs with wild liquid cooling and what not.

It wasn't until the time that suddenly you could make a useful computer gizmo again for high school accessible cash flow with Arduino, PIC, and things like BASIC Stamps did you start seeing a return to less commercial construction and more hobbyist type construction. That tools like GCC became widely useful on small machines and cast off computers became reasonable Linux machines that it once again became apparent that people were building things for fun.

Between 1984 and 2006 I participated in the Homebrew Robotics club, and in the 90's and early 2000's it was very very difficult to get people to come and build their own robot, but once things like Arduinos and converted R/C servos got to be more mainstream more and more people started building their own robots. Today with RasPi and BeagleBones etc there are lots of robots in the club and many members have several.

So for me at least it isn't a narrative so much as it is an observation that the 16 - 24 demographic went back to creating things with less structured "kits" and more variety.
WTF would one deploy such thing in the cloud?
Anyone with an appropriate machine such as a (very expensive) DMLS or a (much less expensive) CNC can make gun parts. The price will continue to drop and the materials and designs will continue to improve. Are the places where defending yourself and others with effective tools is criminalized going to mandate DRM'ed machines? Will the criminals (conveniently equated with hackers) follow the law?
I still like real wood... It's never "perfect" the processing can never be as precise as metal, plastic or other composite materials can get. For that matter, I like glass, which oddly will often show some material imperfections, such as in a table top.

As for books, I simply learn better from the physical book... every time I try e-books I wind up in a blur.. can sometimes happen with very long online articles too. There's no context or position to it all.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather never again have to lug around an 80# monitor, or use a typewriter again... for that matter, I don't much see the point of film over digital capture.

All of that said, there's something to like about natural flaws.
This used to wig me out a bit. We have people we turn down thank us for having a decent hiring process ... and I think what we have is a good philosophy with an imperfect implementation.

But it's actually really hard to do what we're doing. It's not hard in the "can I get a rocket to land itself?" sense, it's more of a grind and commitment problem. It's hard to spend the time developing a new position in a way that works with our process (2-3 weeks of work, minimum), it's tiring to keep up with people who apply, it's painful to fight for rigorous hiring criteria. I can see why places just go with the default.
Why Urbit Matters
Hm. This might be why I was getting severe lag while playing. I'm on a relatively laggy connection (from Brazil), so every move had a noticeable delay. I'd suggest doing client-side prediction, even in the online mode.

Yep, that was it. Just tried offline mode and it's super snappy.
Well, if I've gotta present credentials, then I'm a nisei, so I think I have some legitimacy. Not as much as someone living in Japan, but...some.

If we're using words like 'ad hominem', 'name-calling' and 'unfounded' please note that you labelled my roots "xenophobic, racist, and bigoted" with nothing more than an appeal to authority.

Clearly, you were not arguing seriously and neither was I, but now that you've called me out let's add some substance.

The reddit link others have posted provides some context, though is obviously not a primary source. Here's link that might be somewhat more detailed: http://www.gregoryclark.net/page14/page14.html

The link speaks for itself.
If nothing else, it's a stylistic choice. Choosing how a film should look, the colours and tonality etc, is a creative process and has aesthetic and therefore subjective goals. You can't really say which one is 'better', only that they're different.
I'm not litigating whether Mindstorms is a good product. For that matter, I like Adafruit a lot too. But for it to work at a big-box retail chain, it has to be a product suitable for a big-box retail chain.
Unfortunately the term "open source" as used by many people is not necessarily synonymous with the official OSI definition available here.
The OSI definition is for most intents and purposes equivalent/compatible/similar to the FSF definition of "free (as in freedom) software" available here https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

For an official example of the use of the term "open source" to mean "you can read the source but are not allowed to do anything else with it" see the 2007 announcements about QNX. OSI explicitly declared there is no (OSI) open sourcing in what QNX did at the time. https://opensource.org/node/195

For an example of people using the term to mean only "you can read the source" look no further than the discussions related to the recent leaking of Amiga 3.1 source code where people were debating if an effort can be made to convince the copyright owners to "open source" the code:
"Correct me if i'm wrong, but open source doesn't have to equal FOSS. I'd be inclined to agree with you if it were FOSS, but just being open source could provide 'assistance' to Cloanto who can incorporate peoples ideas/fixes but still retain the right to sell it when others don't. Managed well, could it actually be beneficial to Cloanto and the broader Amiga community?"
"You are correct. FOSS and Open Source are not the same. Permissive licensing doesn't have to be attached to the opened source."
"This is true, but nobody suggested it should be FOSS, me included.
Open sourcing of any kind just isn't going to happen without some sort of miracle."

Unfortunately the term "free software" is a terribly ambiguous one (and Richard Stallman and the FSF are to blame here since they knew about the homonimity of the word "free" beforehand)
And even more unfortunately "open source" has for a long time become ambiguous. You can not rely on "open source" meaning "OSI open source" to everyone you talk to.
And members of both organisations and their supporters spend a lot of time fighting about the meaning of each others terms.
So we are stuck with the horrible term "FLOSS", an abbreviation of "Free & Libre & Open Source Software" to roughly define what we actually want to talk about: both copyleft ( https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ ) and copyfree/permissive ( http://copyfree.org/standard ) licensed software (and in some cases also public domain).
It's funny seeing half the commenters here saying "surely no one could afford that" and the other half saying "surely any middle class person could use this to splurge on a $200+ gift for a friend on occasion". It's as if people aren't aware of the wealth gap.