skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I compose music on a Gameboy and a Commodore 64. You don't have to tell me. But...well, this is just spending unnecessarily large amounts of money for mediocre output.

I feel like there's a difference between working with limited means as a tool for creativity, and something like this.

But, I guess, more importantly: I hate the delusion, under which so many people operate, that analog provides higher quality than digital. If your argument is that this is a great idea because it kinda sucks and working with kinda sucky equipment makes you feel more creative, then I can't argue (again, I enjoy writing music on a Gameboy, which is truly sucky), but the moment you make the argument that it looks/sounds better than modern digital equipment is the moment I dismiss the opinion as hopeless superstition.
Better social services? Suicide, mental health and poverty all go together I think. If you want to improve suicide rates I would probably start there, though I'm no expert so I could be wrong.
One you missed is airspy:
http://airspy.com/

$199, 1.8GHz, 20Msps or 10Msps I/Q, 12b resolution

rx only
"I believe we should re-open the NFA registry"

There has been essentially zero gun crime committed with legally-owned and possessed NFA weapons.
>I don't want to provide those who would do Evil any safety or quarter. I also want to give people a powerful shield to protect themselves against judgement and persecution from the public and sometimes the law.

I agree, but it's nearly impossible to have the best of both worlds.
The latest news update shows the China market (where it is now already Wednesday, a new trading day) down some more, and the global geopolitical news for China is not good, with north Korea claiming the test of an H bomb. The signs of market weakness from economic weakness and political risk appear to be genuine.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-idUSKBN0UK0...
Because Operator is Dave Morin's "one of a kind, custom, bespoke" app he had built for his PA...

http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/46539276780/...
WebGL is terribly different across browsers. I run a small game company and we write our games in Unity3D. Exporting them for the web is an exercise in self-flagellation. Starting with Chrome, browsers are killing plugin support of any kind before a viable alternative is ready - and WebGL is certainly not ready. We still support the Unity plugin on Firefox, but can't do a WebGL fallback yet because the tech just isn't there yet.

(Yes, Unity's WebGL exporter is also in the mix, but browser rendering and support for the exported game is still wildly different across browsers.)
If that was indeed a fusion weapon, then North Korea may have just handed the presidency to Trump.
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That is precisely why the Constitution includes a specific means to change it. If that's what is deemed necessary, then there's a process to accomplish it.

Sidestepping the Constitution, or ignoring its enumerated rights and restrictions, however, is unacceptable, and should not be tolerated by We the People.
Good for North Korea!

It's important that there be Mutually Assured Destruction between North Korea the imperialist US-backed South Korea.

We have nuclear weapons. Who are we to say that North Korea shouldn't have them? That just wouldn't be fair.
I thought the only reason why China supported NK was because they don't want to clean up after a fallen regime and deal with the stream of refugees. Giving NK a H-bomb would not help with that goal, it'd increase instability if anything.

I don't know much about geopolitics so I could be very wrong.
I think it speaks to the whole PG inequality essay. This is clearly a catalyst for a more natural equilibrium. It seems to me the main service provided by Magic+ is liberating money from those who have more than they know what to do with.
With that kind of volume, you should go straight to a big bank - like Chase Paymentech or First Data - and getting interchange plus rates. Then you can plug your merchant account into whatever gateway you want that has the best API docs, such as Authorize.net or Braintree (I don't think Stripe supports bringing your own merchant account). Curious why you went with an ISO? Risk-related - TPPA maybe? True that ISO's are usually willing to take on more risk than the big guys.
Here's a nice solution in search of a problem.

An old boss of mine used to say something similar: "That's a cure for no known disease".
so... I completely agree that shared secret authentication is a bad idea, and I use public key authentication wherever I can (password auth is disabled for ssh on every server I control; I do everything with ssh public keys.)

However, I've yet to set a public key authentication scheme that users would find acceptable for web applications. Do you really expect all users to setup x.509 auth in the browser?

What is your public key solution to authenticate the web-applications that customers demand?
It's not like storage or network bandwidth are sitting still pricewise. Especially on the SSD front. What was a reasonable price 2 or 3 years ago for some amount of SSD would be considerably overpriced today.
Polaroid instant film is awesome and is not like Super 8 at all (except they're both old). There is nothing digital that works as well as Polaroid (or Fuji) instant film. No, carrying around a digital printer doesn't work as well, yet. Integrate the digital printer into the camera so that you don't notice the printer at all, then it will moot the instant film. This Super 8 thing just seems crazy. It's conspicuously added inconvenience where instant film is just the opposite, an instant photo.
"We haven't had a mass shooting since as far as I can recall"

Well, no, but there weren't many before Hobart, either. But do take a look at your other crimes' rates since the confiscations, especially home invasion.
The first and third dissents are dumb. Basically the attack is that, because the glyphs used to represent the character look the same but are actually different code-points they have potential to be abused.

But there's no reason why this would only be limited to Unicode. Any other encoding system that keeps a cyrillic alphabet in a separate code range from the latin one would have this problem. And it's much less efficient for your text chomping program that reads cyrillic to check all of a character range except for the 2-3 that also have existing latin characters that look the same as the cyrillic ones.

And I really don't understand why "I Entity Unicode" is even a valid complaint. Or what it's even complaining about If your font doesn't have a glyph that matches your character, it's not going to show up no matter which encoding scheme you use.

Unicode got alot of buy-in from publishers as it met all of their needs. The tech companies followed suit, eventually, which is a heck of alot better than the dark ages when each computer company had their own custom platform for these encodings in the U.S. alone. And then there's individual solutions to the problem overseas where the wheel was reinvented for each language there.
People who say we shouldn't start over with something new because everything else sucked more than what we have now are defeatists.

I like apache just as much as the next guy, but I moved to the apache2 codebase. the rewrite turned out to be better with time.

Let's assume that whatever replaces capitalism will have similar characteristics.
I'm really curious what you think evil is since you keep capitalizing and speaking of it as some spiritual essence that can be eradicated.

You have not established the slightest bit of an operational definition, and resort to pathologizing neutral transmission channels as hosts of "Evil". This is a complete non-starter and not worthwhile to deliberate. "Evil uses Tor" is as useful as "Evil uses paper".
Kind of like Moments but horizontal instead and right on the main feed.
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Art, music, dance, much of the spoken language, for example. Or do you mean completely devoid of outside influence? I think that's probably hard to find anywhere in the world today.

My main point is that there's a significant difference between a civilization adopting parts of other cultures, as opposed to other civilizations suddenly forcing it upon you through conquest.

The original thread I responded to seemed to argue that Japan had no history (read: civilization) before the adoption of kanji.
And barrels aren't generally restricted, tracked, or serialized.
Hey look Ma! A physicist who also happens to be a social sciences expert! /s

Ultracrepidarianism: When a source is quoted outside their expertise, as if expertise in one field extended to another.

I'm no expert on logical fallacies but Edge.org smells like it's chock full of bullshit artists.

See Also:

- a zoologist who is also an expert on religion

- an astrophysicist who is also an expert on evolution

- a linguist who is also an expert on capitalism
Lumping Stemcentrx in with the others is extremely ill reasoned imo. The most basic of google searches show some pretty impressive stuff being done there.

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/302/302ra136
http://www.esmo.org/Conferences/Past-Conferences/European-Ca...

While the second link is only phase 1, those are some impressive numbers.

Finally, their clinical trials page (http://stemcentrx.com/clinical-trials.html) shows two Pfizer collaborations, pretty sure Pfizer has a pretty good pulse on these things.
okay, this is the same attitude I am met with when I say this statement.

There seems to be a either full optimistic response or a pessimistic response. I am not saying abandon smartphones all ye who want privacy, I am saying that for those who aren't addicted to smartphones and want privacy they use non smart phones.

In a world where a private company owns public security cameras, yeah you should stay indoors because they track you every hour of every day, they built a machine to spy on you and they'll devour you.

Doing something is subject to realizing if the +ve aspects outweigh the -ve aspects, in a world where Google owns android/chrome/search/gmail/nest/adsense {insert million products here}

In this digital world these companies know more about us from analytic than we ourselves know, but that doesn't mean being pessimistic to anyone who suggests a particular use case for maintaining privacy.
If I understand this correctly:

1.) The Yuan and Chinese stocks dipped severely.

2.) The Chinese Central bank put up $20bn to compensate.

If my understanding is correct, this could be good for the Chinese economy? It reduces the value of Yuan to the ROW (rest of the world), thereby decreasing the cost of Chinese goods and increasing exports to the ROW.

I'd like to caveat with my knowledge of the Chinese economy and how it operates is probably well outdated.

Last I knew, it's growth was very export driven and thus dependent on foreign markets. It was also very strongly influenced by the Chinese government.

It may now be the case now that it has enough inertia from those days to grow (and hit financial targets) by simply bringing up its own population (economically). Thus this is a real risk in the Chinese economy and I am an ignorant ass.

Would anyone mind illuminating the situation for me with with some data, please?

I'm happy to have been way off the mark and an ignorant ass. Learning is cool.
Why the concern only about gun homicide? Does suicide get somehow worse when done with a gun as opposed to stepping in front of an Amtrak train?
It only takes 226 bits of entropy if all shuffles should be equally likely. If one shuffle has probability sufficiently close to 1, and the rest are equally likely, you could make do with less than a bit of entropy.
Try to work against the stigma of people who seek mental health care.

It's a great way to risk your job, isolate yourself from friends/family who find out you've been seeking help, further depression, become addicted to antidepressants, or financially ruin yourself. Sometimes all of the above.

Far too many stories of people who sought help and ended up losing their jobs, being placed on 51/50 holds, or worse.

I found out the hard way. If I ever regress, I'll never call the suicide hotline again. I wasn't yet set on acting upon it but called to have someone to talk to. Fucked myself for 2 years and for most of those 2 years my thoughts of suicide and level of depression were multitudes worse than before I had called.
How ISIS is developing driver-free vehicles for bomb attacks in the West
It does kinda help to be, you know, an island.
I wonder how much those countries profit from NK. A typical pattern with undeveloped countries is they give up resources cheaply in exchange for high tech.
Yes, the CPU cost is only a fraction, however, the costs of the rest of server (ie. storage and memory) also is dropping precipitously, and has for decades. The cost of networking equipment and any network transit should be factored into the cost of network egress (which starts at healthy $0.09/GB).

The capex on software is negligible, because the cost of duplication is effectively zero. AWS can scale to whatever size they want (as long as their software is architected correctly, of course), and not have to spend more cash.

That said, I'm not faulting AWS for charging what they charge. They have a remarkable service. It's just hard to stomach a post bragging about dropping the price by 5% when they're effectively printing money.
is it just me or i hear indian accent when i read this web site?

PS you guys flagged a recent post with Obama's gun control executive action, but leave this one on??
> UPS rate calculator for overnight cross country shipping of a 7lb package is $285, not "about $100".

I used FedEx overnight for a 5lb package, which came to less than $100.

> a couple of hundred for a meal that's not "cornershop Chinese"

I'd assumed a meal for 2-4 people at most, thus roughly $50-100.

> the time for the service

Given foreknowledge of the services needed to put together such a request, that should take a small fraction of an hour; 15-30 minutes, so $25-$50.

Put all of that together, plus the chilled packaging, and $300-400 seems like a reasonable estimate. Both of us made many assumptions based on lack of data.
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I have trouble believing that this is actually true. I say this as a customer who spends a half million a month with AWS (and that spending is rapidly increasing).

There are some growth incentives (eg, prepay $3MM for next year, get 6% off all services), and there are some tiered savings (e.g. 5% off on more than $500k of RIs in a single region), but I've never seen a plausible, verifiable incident of people successfully negotiating AWS rates downward.

Do you have any evidence of this at all?
AFAIK it is not a fairly equal and opposite amount that do not. Per the WP citing a recent CBS/NYT poll, it appears as if >=90% of the country is in favor of stricter gun control than we currently have, at least as far as background checks are concerned.
Note the "if they developed". I don't think they tested an H-bomb.
"Most likely they have numerous times and buried the results as it would not aline well with their agenda."

That's fatuous and shows your bias.

For one simple reason: if so, the pro-gun lobbies with deep pockets would be screaming the same findings from the rooftops.
It's not about things sounding/looking better, but about them sounding/looking different.
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c mount?
i mean "c mount"!!!!!
yes!
NK having an H-bomb makes it far less likely for other countries to try and destablize NK. Additionally, if they start to get destbalized, then having a bomb makes it far more likely that countries like the US would support the regime (because, as much as we do not like the idea of NK having a nuclear weapon, it is still preferable to all of the groups that will take control of it after NK falls)
I enabled two factor on my Linode account recently and saw this worrying copy:

> If you lose your token and get locked out of the Linode Manager, email support@linode.com to regain access to your account.

> Should you need us to disable your Two-Factor Authentication, the following information is required:

> An image of the front and back of the payment card on file, which clearly shows both the last 6 digits and owner of the card.
> An image of the front and back of the matching government-issued photo ID.

There doesn't seem to be a way to say "I have my big boy pants on, don't let anyone in under any circumstances". This is the first 2FA setup I've seen that still allows bypass by contacting support.

EDIT: I also find it odd that you have to manually generate a scratch code, and they don't automatically generate it for you. Again, all of the other 2FA setups I've gone through have done this.
>We might as well ditch technology altogether

Why? Does your public transport track your trips? do they sell your data to Uber/lyft so lyft/uber bombards you with save x% on your next trip?

>travel in bullock carts instead of airplanes

Why? are all airline companies owned by one entity which also owns a host of other companies which can abuse your data from one service for their advantage?

>If tech has a problem, then solve it rather than throwing that tech away

No, what I said was people who want real privacy and who aren't addicted to smartphones use a non smart phone

this doesn't mean we fear the end of world like George Orwell.
Anyone who could not only criticize but also resist straight up killing for the opportunity to work with the only and only grayfox is an anomaly. Either you are incredibly unaware, or on the next level of talented to not recognize this. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume the latter, in which case, stop posting on HN, and start writing books. People need to hear your wisdom.
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Me. I'll say it.

Any regime which systemstically implements slave labor, mass starvation, and utter lack of human rights should not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.

We do not want mutually assured destruction, especially with a nation controlled by a non-rational actor. The principle won't operate.

Unfortunately, it is now too late. North Korea has a fusion bomb. Once second closer on the doomsday clock.
There has been a lot of debate over the second amendment to the constitution as it relates to gun ownership. Some say it clearly defines an individual's right to own firearms while other say it clearly refers to the rights of state militias to posses guns.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Miller
Many would trade their privacy for what they think is safety.
Amazon AWS is 10 times bigger than the next 14 competitors combined. [0] Amazon's unused network capacity is likely far larger than any other single provider's total available capacity, possibly with the exception of Azure.

If it's expensive for Amazon to have multiple Tbps of unused capacity, imagine how expensive it is for any other provider. To match the absolute spare bandwidth of Amazon having only 1/10 extra network capacity, another cloud provider might need to have keep its network utilization at only 5%. Maintaining a network capable of serving over 20x your current utilization "just in case of DDoS" is bloody expensive.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/nobody-gets-fired-for-buying-...
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Funnily enough, there's definitely a correlation between the political ideologies that are heavily against firearm regulation and those who think that we spend too much, already on mental health and poverty.

And then they throw their arms up and say "what more could we do?!?"
There's a certain 'I'm bored. Bring me Tina Fey' kind of tone to it that seems, oh, maybe just a little bit entitled and self centered.
So you just post like buttons and people click them or share them?
The obvious market and proving ground for a working "smart gun" is law enforcement (gun always on person when on duty, purchase decisions are by public agencies, etc.)

So, when we see a couple of years of deployment of such a technology with major police forces, we can see if they work and are reliable.
I would go further and say "nobody should have a nuclear weapon". We only have the one planet.

Can we hurry up and create strong AI already, before someone gets everyone killed?

EDIT: Somehow I didn't expect that offhand ha-ha-only-serious comment to kick off a massive discussion about the capabilities of AI. Fun, but not my intention.
>If they get to 20% volume/weight/price of a gas tank I would predict a switch is going to happen very very fast.

What exactly are you saying here? Do you mean that battery would be 20% the volume or weight or price of a gas tank (extremely unlikely) or that it would be 20% in unit of volume per weight per price (i don't even know what that is) or in the later part you seem to imply 20% capacity (which unlike 20% weight,price,volume, would be a disadvantage).

it's very confusing
Does anyone know how the spot instance prices react to these reductions? For C4 and M4 I hardly ever use a normal instance.
Bernie Sanders calls for the break up of US's big banks
Shouldn't they work on getting electricity first?

http://cdn.citylab.com/media/img/citylab/legacy/2012/12/18/n...
He's not going to hire Magic+ for 40 hours per week. Many services are $100/hr or more, they're just rarely billed out that way, because people have this reaction. If you have a moderate amount of disposable income, you can afford to have simple requests filled by Magic+ for $15-$30 (10-20 minutes of personal assistant time) several times a month.

The viability of the product for a solid middle class user really just depends on if Magic+ can fill the type of requests that you'd want to offload in a time-efficient manner or not. Some people in this thread say they're hyper-efficient and specially trained to do so, so it may be worth a try.
How is that gonna help?
"This affects all of us. We must care." is not an effective way of convincing someone.

I personally do not care about privacy. I see no reason why I should.

It's just my opinion. I know other people do but please don't generalize.