skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the government invested all that money in small to middle sized local companies instead the province would be so much more prosperous.

How exactly is anyone helped by money taking a round trip through the government rather than the same thing happening through free markets? You've made the cycle slower, you've made the recipients dependent on government bureaucratic decisions (who are not well-incentivized to decide well), and have reduced incentives for efficiency. And you've gained nothing.

Don't get me wrong. Government has important roles to play in our economy and society. We need government to create basic infrastructure, create regulations encouraging public goods, provide a stable system of law, and so on. But unless you are serving some legitimate purpose, channeling daily economic activity through the government is a net loss compared to doing the same through private enterprise.

Quebec being full of people who believe that the economy should go through the government seems to be its second largest economic mistake, and one it is still making on a large scale. People like you complain about the predictable results of this mistake, but don't see that it is a mistake.

Quebec's largest mistake was, of course, Bill 101. That made your province so hostile to anglophones that 1/3 of them "voluntarily emmigrated" within a few years. (The ones I know are inclined to dispute how voluntary that emmigration was...) They took with them the headquarters of many major companies, the associated jobs, and the general economic activity that would have come from those professionals spending locally. This is why, for example, The Bank of Montreal is now headquartered in Toronto.

There is a collective blind spot in Quebec to the true cost of this for your society. Major companies need to have a stream of professionals moving to their headquarters from elsewhere because that is how you move up in the hierarchy. If you have made professionals unwilling to move to Quebec (for instance by forcing their children to receive education in a language they don't speak), companies have to choose between moving headquarters or losing their most valued employees to competitors.

It proved to be cheaper to move headquarters. And they did. Quebec's economy has never recovered from this. (Though you did adjust your ethnic ratio by enough that you nearly managed to get a 50% vote to secede in the 90s...)
>wondering whether I should turn around and buy property as an investment

Why would you do this? There's been nothing but talk about a housing bubble, especially in Vancouver and Toronto. This seems like the worst possible time to buy property there, especially if you take any debt to do it.
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Rust works well on Windows. You can find details about platform support here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/installing-rust.html#platform...
I love how disingenuous people often use the term "rational." Like anyone who disagrees must be some irrational loon and there's no room for debate here. Its sad that even on HN, such namecalling is convincing to many with the upvote button.

Anytime I see commentary that include words "rational," "logical," or the term "man of science" I know I'm at least dealing with someone reductionist, pedantic, and usually extremist or marginalized.
Business was created prior to 2013 and apart from a few tweaks here & there, it's pretty much on auto-pilot.
The most popular identity programs in the early days will have no backup or centralized backup. As more people establish identities, decentralized backups will be more feasible.

As the ecosystem iterates on identity programs, we'll converge on secure, reliable, decentralized backups.
I worked on BowieNet in around 2000. He was really very involved in the site and content. The biggest draw was the members-only concert.

Regarding the content. There was another company that did the design work, a bunch of it in flash; but also in HTML for the message boards and stuff that we integrated into our PHP forum that had all the actual messages stored in MySQL. I'm not sure what would have happened to any of that when VillageWorld (the company that did the backend at least initially) went bust in 2004; or if it was migrated away or shut down before that.

The live chats were either IRC with a Java web client or we also had an NPH script that we could of used, but I don't remember which ended up being "real" at this point. There were definitely some that were organized and others that were not.
Me too, 5.2 phew
I've always interpreted "darknet" to mean the content itself, rather than Tor. That would make the parent comment's question entirely reasonable, without saying anything about the usefulness of Tor.
And here I was getting excited about newest rumors on Python 4 features...
"The solution for drought in Africa is to give them more water."

I can't remember where I first heard this, but it made the point very clearly.
One interesting aspect of the article.. for HN crowd.

>Now, scientists have inaugurated a major new effort. Off the West Coast, they have wired up a highly active ridge with hundreds of sensors and cameras, as well as cables that flash the readings to shore. The ocean observatory is to operate for at least a quarter century, replacing sporadic glimpses with continuous scrutiny. This month, the surge of data is hitting the Internet.
I went with Google Cloud, and my 1 to 10 user infrastructure is the same as 1million+ users:

1) Use Load Balancer + Autoscaler for all service layers. This effectively makes each layer a cloud of on-demand microservices.

2) Use Cloud Datastore: (NoSql) Maybe I lucked out that I don't have complex relational data to store, but Cloud Datastore abstracts out the entire DB layer, so I don't have to worry about scaling/reliability ever.

... aside from random devops stuff, that's pretty much it. The key point is to "cloudify" each layer of the infrastructure.
Can you explain the problem that you have that something like a stripped down SoundCloud would solve?

What are your thoughts on bandcamp?
A lot of comments in this thread are voicing concerns over the marketed cost/performance benefits of AWS and the reliability of their services in the case of region failure e.g. the API services goes down.

But are there benefits to using Amazon's more high-level services such as SQS and SNS which, supposedly, replicate their configuration state and data across multiple regions, in terms of reliability?

For instance, on a per-instance basis AWS might be more expensive than a bare-metal provider, and there's nothing to stop you running your own RabbitMQ instance. But SQS messages are replicated across three regions, so if you were building an equivalent service you'd need three instances in different regions and a reliable distributed message queue.

So does that additional complexity/cost make SQS at all worthwhile? Or does it come down to the fact that, while your own hand-rolled service would require more management, your potential message throughput at a given cost would be much higher than with SQS?
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Maybe you are talking about a different lock box?

JSTOR doesn't claim that its documents are public-domain:

Our licenses from publishers are non-exclusive, meaning that the publishers are free to license their content to others to digitize or make it available in any way they might wish. [0]

Not only were many of the papers in JSTOR funded by the public, but JSTOR itself claims to be funded through by the public through universities:

We do this with funds provided by thousands of libraries and institutions, all of whom are our partners in disseminating access around the globe. [0]

[0] http://about.jstor.org/10things
I've been using Duo Security to add 2FA on SSH and other services on my SmartOS instances. It's really easy and the price is pretty low compared to the amount of work it would take to manage the keys and manual implementations.

In theory I could worry about Duo going down, but I also rely on other critical cloud services and do have other ways to access an instance in an emergency (and Duo supports fallbacks).

Simplicity can be deceiving. In this case I think leaving security to the pros is worth the tradeoff. I've previously relied on cloud services for secure user management and wasn't let down.
Just trying to understand the context better. What does your startup do in real estate? What is the revenue model? What is the affiliate revenue that you are able to generate?
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Oh...well...I wouldn't be looking for a technical co-founder if I already built the product.
The choice of the encoder has huge impact on the results - e.g. hardware H.264 encoders in phones will hardly produce anything watcheable at 5Mbit@720p while x264 produces watchable output at 2Mbit at same resolution.

Same goes for those other encoders - they vary hugely in quality and used CPU at same bitrate and resolution.
> Come to think of it, backdoors are fundamentally "security by obscurity". Or insecurity through obscurity, depending on your POV.

This one is. But they aren't always.

For example, if a manufacturer put in a support/recovery backdoor, documented it, and utilised a secret that only the end user and manufacturer should know (e.g. something on the physical label), then that would be a backdoor while not relying on any obscurity for its security (or no more than a password does).

The biggest difference between a "good" backdoor and a "bad" one is if it is documented. If the manufacturer is too scared to document it then it likely sucks and they know it.
>You purchased a 5 year old Vista machine in 2012?//

New motherboards with the geforce7025/nforce630a chipset are currently on sale even now. Not that it's pertinent to whether MS made false statements but my elderly father purchased the machine and it seems paid for the OS as a line item, it was not an upgrade but a non-OEM install at the full price advertised by MS. None of that is pertinent really.

>> [pbhjpbhj] What do you call false statements made to increase sales if not fraud?

> [Someone1234] Microsoft made none

The upgrade now nag screen said the machine was "unable to run" Windows 10. That is categorically false.

The presence of the 'but never mind you can buy a new computer from us with this link' on the nag screen suggests a motive which I'm inclined to agree with.

If they don't know whether a particular hardware arrangement works or not then they shouldn't state twice that it doesn't, they should say "your hardware may not work" or "your hardware is unsupported" or "we don't consider your hardware to work well enough" or something else that is actually true.

The motive isn't a fact but the lie is.
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>> Just ask the Python and Perl teams.

> Python and Perl were not backwards compatible with anything when they were released.

I think the implication is that the teams will tell you that the upgrades to Python 3 and Perl 6 were problematic because they didn't offer backwards compatibility. If so, it's a bit silly, because the point of those upgrades was to advance the languages beyond would could be done with backwards compatible iteration. Asking the teams would probably yield a bunch of people that were adamant that the decision was sound, and it needed to be done, but there were missteps in execution. Asking the communities would likely yield a more polarized set of opinions.

That said, IMO using either of these items as examples to bolster an argument is almost always a mistake, since their own discussions are so large and polarizing, they rarely ever make make a point more clear.
VP10 is in active development, though I don't know how far along it is.
Good luck trying to compile firefox / google chrome on X11 in OS X nowadays. Most of the software you'll really want isn't even there.
Can I see please some examples of those JS-powered CSS components in the wild?
Since we're already seeing acceleration for VPx, it's likely chips will start implementing it some time after it's ready.
Yes indeed; I have bugs open to get those added to all our public-facing Persona docs.
Anyone writing OSes -- even most Unix-like OS flavors have plenty of C++.
Usually when it's hard to tell that's because it applies to both. The differences between the two are really not that large.
"Rust is a young language and I would be pleasantly surprised to see code written today still compile in five years."

I'm myself willing to accept the promise of code stability, so I think you're looking at slightly the wrong problem. While I'd expect current code to continue to compile, I also expect what is regarded as good Rust now won't be in five years. That's not a bad thing, but it also means that hopping on the Rust bandwagon might be premature.

The worst case? How about Haskell, where new language features make old code look worse even as it still works? Or C++, with it's accelerating rate of style changes?
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> Where Foo is some mutable class

Ah, there's your problem :)
I don't really understand authy: does it not keep your 2FA tokens in "the cloud" behind a password? Therefore, does this not make them equivalent to a password, and negate the whole point of 2FA?
Sadly all the tiling window managers i've tried suck on multi monitors though. When i switched to 3 monitors i gave up on tiling wm (for once with 3 monitors i had A LOT more space).
Money is a necessary but not sufficient solution.
I don't live in the USA so I don't know, but it seems likely that the requirement for that classification probably came from the government. The bank isn't spontaneously going to reclassify your account for no reason.

A personal account could be used to launder money, so if personal accounts are exempt, that's obviously what money launderers will use. If you're going to look for suspicious account activity, you can't go by the "static type" of the account but by "how it quacks", so to speak.
I have the exact same issue, and my Apple Care just expired a couple months ago. Does anyone know if I am still eligible for a replacement?
Yep, that'd work - it does make the query considerably longer than the 5 character code though. Like I said, very lazy search.
yes, that's why I qualified it and gave the numbers so it gives a kind of measure of the relative power if these things.

~5000 dell nodes = 1,000,000 vms = 200 per node

1 mainframe = 8000 vms per mainframe

so 1 mainframe approx. 40 dell nodes
This seems like an unreasonable amount of time to dedicate to an uncertainty.
According to another comment[1], to achieve 50% savings, encoding time needs to be 10x to 20x longer. I suspect that in the race to be the first group to release, they use faster settings at the expense of artifacting.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10888898
Yep, that change broke CrashPlan's JNI module that handles inotify on Linux because they were checking only the minor version number.

I had to write a shared library to override the call and inject that into the CrashPlan process so it'd be happy. Fun times.
Oil and gas, conservative but also headed by (Harper) a pretty much far right religious attitude which pushed climate change denial and also anti-science in general.
It's interesting that a synonym for "legacy maintenance kind of projects" is "successful".
Most people didn't have to deal with it on a daily basis, and hardly anyone had threats that were deemed credible enough to actually happen.

Sorry, but it's not all ridiculous, overblown stupidity anymore. Some of these people seem stupid enough to actually follow through on their threats.
Do either of those talk about Django and scalability/duplication? The two biggest problems I've run into looking for other resources are:

1. Versions -- a lot of printed materials are just old by the time they come out.

2. None of them talk about large-scale projects, only smaller-scale personal blogs etc. as a first project. Or, put another way, many of the resources I find target beginners instead of intermediate/advanced learners.
11m+ isn't scale. 111m+ is scale.
>> Trusting by default and requiring evidence to distrust is a poor way to protect your privacy.

Which is pretty much the default for anything you use on your computer.

- You ever install a software program?

- You ever click on a link in your email?

- You ever go to a site that contains malware that installs itself covertly on your PC?

- You ever open a JPG file?

- Use a cloud service?

- Save your pictures to Flickr?

- Ever use social media of any kind?

- Use any Google product or service?

- Use any Microsoft product or service.

The world is FILLED with UNVERIFIABLE information, the fact that people seem to put so much mistrust in a VPN provider when there's thousands of other ways and means to get to your data is well. . .absurd. Talking like you suddenly need some high level of verification that a VPN doesn't log your information when there's literally thousands of other ways to get at that information is completely myopic.

Just like your example with TOR, which recently has been shown to be not only insecure, but readily hackable, yet you seem to trust that far more blindly.

https://theintercept.com/2015/07/16/hackingteam-attacked-tor...

https://pando.com/2014/12/26/if-you-still-trust-tor-to-keep-...

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/09/09/not-even-tor-is-safe...

If you're concerned about having "verifiable information" to protect you, you're living in a dreamland.
The usual implication is that the mafia boss will themselves create the harm that they are protecting you from if you don't pay.
That seems a good assessment. I suspect that there may be a bit of hindsight bias about Brooklyn, given that we know today that (parts of) it did gentrify and quite rapidly. But your point about transportation links--and, heck, a bridge you can walk over--is well taken.
I am working on robots and C++ is my best choice so far, especially when using ROS or just embedded things.
Maybe backdoor was a bad way to describe it? Maybe it's used as a customer-initiated support channel for when the customer wants the vendor to access the device.
Asynchronous JavaScript in 1995
Care to explain the downvote?
The tax rate can also be passed down to your heirs upon your death. It also covers commercial buildings. What was originally sold as "don't tax grandma out" is obviously a power move to create a land holding elite.

I'm a property owner, but I don't really like the system. I also don't like how mismanaged the property taxes here are, but that's another thread.
It took a few years of working on it evenings & weekends while I had a 9-5. During that time I always thought of my salary as VC money.
I don't agree with everything Milo spouts - but I don't dislike the guy, if only for his honesty (wears his biases openly on his sleeve) and doesn't-give-a-shit attitude.

If he broke their TOS he should be banned. Verification is saying "This person is the person they claim to be." Removing the verification is stupid and petty. Milo didn't stop being Milo.
i'm not sure that i can find a fuck to give frankly...
The argument for semver is obviously "you should be able to tell if there are breaking changes between two versions from the version numbers", not "I like semver". You may or may not be persuaded by it, but that's the point of it.
Important flagged CSS declarations trump those inline style ones anytime of the day. Also, limiting the options available to your end users without solid and good reasons is not a sound strategy as it may prove inconvenient for them and endanger the product's image.
Why does MSFT gets away with this. This is so evil. MSFT appearently spends a lot of money on paid commenters and lobbyism in general. Thanks god that XBoxOne, WinPhone are real flops - most aren't that stupid, for end users MSFT & Win are a burned brand names.
`authy-ssh` is much more advanced, but costs if you want over 3 authentications per day: https://www.authy.com/product/pricing/
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The hardest part is creating the comfortable, Rust-ish interface. Actually interacting with C code is trivial.
You would think raw "feedthrough" would be literally the easiest scheme to support.
You already know it: the way you do this is with a homoiconic language. I don't know of any "formalisms" of homoiconic languages, but there's always Scheme. I don't know why this idea is relevant though. If where you're going with this is "you can write code to take in a monad instance as an input syntax tree and verify it satisfies the laws", then I assure you that's impossible in the general case.
The FCC letter signed by facebook said

1. “The open architecture of the Internet creates an innovation-without-permission ecosystem. Consumers (and consumers alone) decide the winners and losers on the open Internet.”

2. The brief also describes the dangers of a “walled garden” with a “pre-selected lineup.”

3. “Such an outcome would undo much of the progress of the last two decades. Consumers would lose the ability to choose freely among competitive services and sources of information. It would also significantly decrease the rewards edge providers could realize from innovating, further decreasing consumer choice.”

4. It would also significantly decrease the rewards edge providers could realize from innovating, further decreasing consumer choice.”

Free Basics contradict all these .
Just call - there is a good chance that they will help you out, even if you have to bitch and moan for a little bit.
Something like http://rollupjs.org which statically analyzes your ES6 dependency graph and creates a bundle with only the parts you need. The author included an image that rips at ES6 syntax, including the new import statements. A tool like Rollup couldn't work with dynamic exports like `module.exports = foobar`.
> As soon as that certificate is published, everyone sees it immediately.

PGP key servers can refuse to relay your revocation. Blockchains are censorship-resistant. They also let you define your own authentication, revocation and backup logic.

PGP identities are keys. Blockchain identities are programs.
Quite a let down article.
You have me guessing you want a bound method where self is implicitly supplied. Sure, there's no sugar for that.
Actually it doesn't if you are using the lessons and checklists etc. It only applies if you want to use the feature that allows you to input your location and then pull updated physical security country data feeds from the UN and Centre for Disease Control.
That may be, but it's still a backdoor by definition. There are better ways to allow a vendor to access a device, and a hardcoded password that nobody else knows about is not exactly a "front door".
It's worse in London. I seen a rant on Medium [1] about the lack of affordable talent in London and I could only think of some of the low ball offers I received which would leave me worse off than staying in the North West.

I actually get paid more here in Toronto than I could hope to get in London.

My only option for the US is H1B but I'm willing to stick around for a while and I'll consider my options when I'm Canadian.

[1] - https://medium.com/@benjilanyado/an-open-letter-to-ed-vaizey...
3D visualization of technology news
Shouldn't the title rather be "How the patent system threatens 3D printing" ?
Not trying to troll, but I can see the idea of organs grown in pigs not going down particularly well with the members of at least 2 world religions.
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