skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They may also take a while to have the same level of software support, since their API isn't compatible with the S3 API. I know of at least one online backup software provider that works with multiple storage backends but which when asked did not intend to support B2 (since Backblaze is technically a competitor).
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Because they power down cold racks. It's called Glacier for a reason.
"but I also don't have tendonitis"

How about carpal tunnels? :)
Or better yet, Lua!
If you can do a good job predicting monkey visual cortex responses with a linear combination of units from a convolutional neural network, that implies that the network and the monkey compute similar nonlinear functions of visual inputs. If that's not evidence for similar representations, I'm curious what you think would be.

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/35/12127/F3.expansion.ht... also shows that confusion patterns are similar for convolutional neural networks, humans, and monkeys, but not low-level visual models.
> Members of this global elite had an average wealth of $2.7 million per adult in 2014.

I know plenty of people in their 60s who simply busted their asses at middle-class jobs while saving their pennies who are members of this "global elite."
This is exactly why I don't install 3rd-party apps on my primary phone unless they request nothing more than absolutely necessary (e.g. Lampa as a flashlight).

I have a second (backup) phone that I put anything that can't be done via browser (e.g. Lyft and such), but it has nothing on it in terms of contacts or data.

I'm baffled that 98% of people seem to care nothing about privacy risks.
I can't help but think the author would benefit from some of the philosophy of James Hague (a game programmer):

http://prog21.dadgum.com/

Don't focus too much on technology, disconnected from what people (including you) might want to actually use. Otherwise you will not get the real inspirations -- even purely technical inspirations -- that come from something that you intend to use.
"the natural form of most free marketplaces and systems"

i like how you add that as if it were indisputably a good thing. lol.
Speaking of design critique, are young people able to read articles with hilarious animated gifs in them? Because I literally cannot; a pity because the first section seemed promising.
I wonder if any MMO has tried using specialized hardware accelerators like ASIC or FPGA boards for acceleration of e.g. voxel based physics?

If anything, it's easier to justify running exotic hardware on a server, where its cost will amortize among thousands of players, than it is to expect users to install it on the client. And the game industry has tried physics accelerators for clients (PhysX).
> rents -> you need capital in the first place to secure rents, so it means that somebody has produced some work in the first place to get it.

think he may have meant to refer to rent-seeking in general and not specifically property rentals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

either way, your response indicates that you seem to be missing the point...
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I’m sure there’s been Mac games written in Objective-C, but there are certainly no cross-platform games written in it because vital bits of Objective-C aren’t actually part of Objective-C; instead, they’re part of the Foundation framework in OS X and iOS. You can compile Objective-C on whatever platform you like through GCC but you’re going to have to write your own memory management, allocation, etc among other things in order to do so. That said, you might be able to write a cross-platform game through open source Foundation/AppKit implementations like GNUStep and Cocotron, but keep in mind that they implement a version of Foundation that’s several versions behind now.

The next closest thing is probably Swift alongside Apple’s FOSS reimplementation of Foundation for Swift, though I don’t know how well Swift works for development with OpenGL and such.
That's nonsense.
And all of the poor of the USA is relatively wealthy to the population of the rest of the world too.

Still as far as 60 year olds go, that is actually pretty good. There are many 60 year olds who did not pinch pennies or did and had some medical disaster wipe their savings.
I am picturing the following use case:

1) Buys music CD.
2) Rips CD to own computer. Shares with own devices [via personal cloud] for continued listening.
3) Destroys original CD.
4) Continues to listen to music which has been paid for; not sharing files with anybody else.

I for one fail to see the problem here. But then again, I'm probably not the brightest bulb in the pack either.
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Ask HN: UX courses for engineers?
Hi HN, I'm a software engineer who works on the web in San Francisco. I happen to work on a team that's very design oriented and I have the opportunity to take some design-related courses. Although I don't see myself transitioning to any sort of pure UX-oriented role, I personally think it's important to keep UX in mind when writing code.

Do you know of any courses or resources I can take advantage of to be more UX-conscious?
I like how the entire thing explodes when it hits the deck. Finally, a machine that lives up to its movie/videogame version in terms of explodingness.
I have recently started using myrddin (compiler here https://github.com/oridb/mc ) as a c replacement.

It is still changing fast but I think it could be great for writing games in the future.
You need a server for holepunching/STUN via IPv4, but not for IPv6 since each client has a unique IP instead of being behind the router's address.
I think I understand the difficulties you identify...maybe I should have done a better job expanding upon, or explaining, what I'm advocating, which is simply the idea of "continuous improvement"...

In short, I'm in favor of involving those most closely related (those in direct contact, those in the actual environment) to what is perceived as a "problem" in devising a solution, or solutions...versus having an outside entity recommending improvements that might, or might not, improve outcomes...

Improvement is often hard, and when it comes it comes in increments...sometimes those increments are incredibly small, but even marginal improvements contribute to the success of the whole...even without "metrics" I think most teachers know, or sense, the difference in student outcomes their approaches have led to...

I'll bet (although reaching a consensus is difficult, especially across academic disciplines) that each teacher, at the end of a course, has in mind some way that their efforts could have been at least marginally more productive and could quickly answer the question, "What should I do differently next time?" ...

The best teachers do this automatically...and it makes all the difference...
I wouldn't consider that so much strong arming but someone trying to retain a customer using either uninformed or false information.
"literally"?
Paul Graham doesn't like to be wrong
Would accelerometers also be usable in a similar way? Presumably magnetometers wouldn't be quite as sensitive to such vibrations.
http://phildawes.net/blog/2015/06/17/rust-stacktrace/
Read this a few weeks ago. Really useful advice.
Right. The last ultra-performance-oriented work I did (in C) I'd have loved affine types and a borrow checker. Used right, these kinds of tools not only don't get in the way (as you note) but prove tremendously useful when you need to refactor.
You can have C++ exceptions with a stack trace; you just need to read the relevant debug information. (e.g. DWARF-2 frames). There are libc specific functions that do this for you. see https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Backtrace...

Some ffis do this to present C++ stack traces to their host languages.

If variables/frames are optimized out, then yes, you can't display their contents. But anyone that has used gdb already knows this...
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Nice tech!
>Error: No WebRTC support: Not a supported browser

Funny, Fx44 does support WebRTC
Ah yes, this is the classic go-to place for machine learning data sets. I implemented my first ML models using these files, especially the famous iris data set[1] which is a good one for beginners. It was so exciting to see my first multi-layer perceptron working (and to compare its results to the simple perceptron or decision tree, etc, on the same data).

[1]: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Iris
Food safety is definitely the most important thing for a kitchen. It doesn't matter it serves food to children or adults.

Pardon my English if I didn't make myself clear. When I say "undesirable" cuts, it doesn't mean they are bad. For example, in local fresh fish markets, there are expensive fish fillets. There are also many big chunks of fish meats that were cut from from filleting. They are as fresh as the fish fillets. Instead of being priced for like $15 per pound for fish fillets, they cost like $3 per pounds. To make fish cakes, they are as good as the fish fillets.

The same goes for beef, port, lamb, etc. Also, the tougher the meat, the cheaper they are, like pork shoulders, beef chucks, etc. It requires more time, more patience, and different skills to cook them than steaks. Actually, I feel children like richly flavored meat stews, no matter it is Italian/French/Mexican/Chinese etc. much more than grilled steaks/chops.

I would go further to say buying from locally grown meat/fish/veg/fruits. Establish good relationship with local farmers/butchers. Mention the food are for children who are growing. One may most probably get healthier foods than from wholesalers.
That's ugly. I can see trying to entice the customer with discounts etc. to keep them going hoping they let it go on for longer, but the shenanigans about billing cycles, etc. is really not good.
I'm guessing Adobe doesn't officially condone this behavior, but they should see to it that this behavior is swiftly defeated by policy so no one in customer retention does this and also continues to work for them.
It's not unreadable, but is designed to make it difficult to realize that typical usage might result in very significant costs.

'Use Amazon Glacier, it costs about a cent!' is the essential pitch.
> ...crappy admins and developers just gift root access to exploits.

Crappy admins shouldn't be administering critical systems and crappy developers should be writing neither security-critical code, nor code that runs as root.

> ...stopping non root users from listening on low ports probably causes more security issues than it solves...

Requiring root privs to bind to low ports prevents the following attack:

* Attacker knows of a way to crash $SERVICE

* Attacker has a non-root shell on $MACHINE, which runs an instance of $SERVICE

* Attacker crashes $SERVICE and stands up his own malicious instance

The ability to prevent an attacker from turning a service crash bug + an unprivved shell into a malicious instance of that service is a good property to have. The only way it could get better is if you could dictate that only processes with a given set of UIDs or GIDs could bind to a given interface and port.

I'm not willing to give up that property in order to make an incompetent sysadmin or developer slightly less likely to run an exploit as root.
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strong-arm:
. using or characterized by force or violence.

This is clearly a sales representative trying to retain a customer.

Since today is the billing date, the monthly billing
has already been started and it is not possible to stop it.

That sounds fair, albeit far from ideal. I mean, the last\first day of a billing period is always a point of contention between the customer and the provider — it was good of Adobe to relinquish the contract instead of persisting. Then again, would've been bad-will to do so anyway.
Yes, the constant movement in the middle of text I'm trying to read is a huge distraction. It should only play once, or maybe when I mouse over it.

Does Chrome have an extension to control looping gifs? Back in the day, I was able to configure my browser that looping gifs would play only once. I'd love something like that.
Exercise-Related Transient Abdominal Pain (ETAP or 'stitch')
And what of their loses? VCs don't make just returns - they make loses as well.

"Person X doesn't deserve their amount" does not equal "taking away person X's return would help reduce poverty".
Sigh, so to get the real price on CC you have to pretend you're cancelling? Same as with mobile phones?
I would not call this "strong arming" just a sales consultant trained to try and keep a customer from leaving. This not something unique to Adobe, it happens when you try cancelling a phone plan, when you try switching utility providers and plenty of other things. The fact the customer was available to resolve the situation without subsequent follow-ups to me indicates that Adobe did nothing out of the ordinary here.

And with all due respect, the customer decided to end their plan on the same day the billing period renews which clearly confused the sales consultant and made it harder to cancel the plan. Why leave it to the last minute when you could have done it the day before, week before anytime prior to the renewal date? I am an Adobe Creative Cloud customer and even I am aware of how their billing works.
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>One thing I haven't seen mentioned is the fact that markets are created, not discovered.

Probably because most capitalists don't believe this?

>nor did the property rights regarding their shares.

Debatable. Most capitalists would say that property rights naturally exist and that "shares" are simply an agreed upon way of dividing property rights over a complexity of assets and agreements (i.e. a business).

>Taxing large profits is no more "unnatural" than protecting the right to these profits in the first place.

True. Obviously a laissez-faire capitalists would say they're both unnatural- as they would say most, if not all, concepts created via legislative action are also "unnatural." Of course, people don't typically expend effort fighting "unnatural" injustice that benefits them- especially when money is on the line, and even more so state protected stock holder money.

>A business acting unethically but legally is most rectifiably a problem with the law,

Since when is it the legislature's job to enforce morality?
Just like Comcast does it.
Why not Rust for example? If I'd be making an engine, I'd tried that.
There was once an hourly air shuttle between Islip and DC. You just walked onto the plane and bought your tickets.
Well, it depends. I have an Ikea shelf that is roughly 7' x 7'. If I'd glued the dowels, it probably would be sturdier, but it would also still be stuck in my living room from two apartments back. Without glue, it holds together well enough, and still comes apart when I need it to.
As much as Ikea served me well for a period of my life (with some pieces continuing to do so), I wonder what has prevented designers of different styles from copying Ikea's model, which clearly works and scales. I know it isn't that easy, but I feel like there's a gap in the market between say...Ikea, and what I typically consider "mid to high end" Crate & Barrel/West Elm/Pottery Barn/Ethan Allen.

Ikea gets a lot of things right, but if you don't like their aesthetic, you're pretty much out of luck finding something of similar quality for that price point.
Adobe sucks, stop using them for stuff.
Focusing on the words seems to work for me.
> Me: Can you connect me with your supervisor?

> ...

> Chaitra: I am canceling it now

So, "Can you connect me with your supervisor?" are the magic words?
"I thought there would be more than one person answering the phone.
I can't believe there is just the one lady."

How could there be only one person with this responsibility? Seems like a pretty vulnerable area for failure which could result in severe repercussions.
Never had performance issues with the Docker device-mapper graph driver on Fedora 23. No tweaking was necessary. I imagine CentOS is similar although it may not use the latest and greatest features.

There is not enough information in this blog post to say exactly what the problem is, but switching distros may be overkill here.
Several things that jumped out at me, in no particular order:

1. The site was extremely slow for me. Not sure if you are getting a lot of hits from this post or what, but it was so slow I almost navigated away.

2. Lose the mailing list pop-up that appears as soon as the page loads. I don't know what you do yet, and nothing personal but I don't know you or what you do, so I most likely am not going to give you my email address.

3. Tell me more on the homepage. If I had not dug into the site more, it would appear that all I am doing is ordering coffee and a portion of the proceeds go to cause of my choosing. It is not clear it is a subscription service.

4. On the Cause pages (except for the Human one), it says coming soon at the top. So where is my money going in the meantime for the others. Tell me more about how my money gets to these causes.

5. Nothing major or critical, but spend a couple dollars and get a better logo.

6. I would research how you can make the purchase tax-deductible. Maybe not now, but down the road. You may run into some people that are turned off completely by not having a tax deduction.

7. Tell the user more about the coffee. Why is it special or different? Why should they order your over my Starbucks subscription or Craft Coffee subscription?

8. Get some testimonials from people about the quality of the coffee. Also get some testimonials from the causes that are being donated to and link to the cause.
Good point! Though I am quite good at resting my hands and haven't developed RSI over the last fifteen years or so. I would still place a heavy bet that workplace injuries are more common amongst labor-heavy jobs ;)
What do they do with it then? The only way they could hold money and it not have a positive impact is if it's sitting in cash.

If they invest it or hell, even put it in a savings account, the money is having a positive impact on the economy. If they buy a ridiculous $50M yacht? That money flows to the company that built it.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "money" the wealthy have most of their wealth tied up in ill liquid assets like property, would you call owning property hoarding? Cash is almost always invested, either directly or indirectly through deposits.
IF the lady ordering the pizza is responsible for answering the calls that come in, what do the other people do and why couldn't they order the pizza instead? This story just makes no sense to me.
Yes! I am not one who misuses "literally", nor am I one who chooses to be a pedant over every choice of words in order to willfully miss the point of any discussion. I literally could not read the article because my eye kept being dragged back to the gifs.
The problem with making MMOs is that they're massive projects that are difficult for large teams of seasoned developers with large budgets to complete and succeed with.

Just how much fun is someone going to have trying to tackle one of these things as their first game? It's a guaranteed setup for failure, for being overwhelmed by the scope of your project, for not knowing how to even begin to tackle the problem, for - well, mostly a lot of frustration and not a lot of fun.

I see it happen over and over again. People join gamedev communities, ask how to make an MMO, and then get fustrated, leave, and never return when nobody has a tutorial on "how to make an MMO from scratch with no previous experience required in 21 days".

Kids, go have fun. Make things. Accomplish things. Dream big - but start small and work your way up to those big things. You'll get to your goal quicker anyways - more feedback from more projects - successful or not - means you learn faster.
I disagree. Much of rhetoric is about framing--choosing what to present, and how. An essay can be wrong because of what it omits or wrongly emphasizes.

Everyone is quoting pg's passage "So you could for example have no poverty and perfect social mobility, and still have great economic inequality." That's true, in the abstract--but it's so far from the reality of US society today that it makes the whole essay tone deaf: "let them eat cake." pg could have written an essay saying "poverty and poor social mobility are the real scourges, here's how we could fix them." Instead he wrote a defense of inequality, and wonders why there's blowback.

pg has a bit of a blind spot about this "quote a specific passage" business. idlewords wrote a brutal evisceration of "Hackers and Painters" called "Dabblers and Blowhards": http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm And here is pg, 8 years ago, demanding someone point out which specific passage was refuted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=238325
I just scrolled the window to hide the images. But I agree, it's a bad idea.
Sadly, there's still the "small file gotcha":

> Standard - IA has a minimum object size of 128KB. Smaller objects will be charged for 128KB of storage.

Rounding up all small files to 128 KB can be a huge deal. I for example use Nearline to directly "rsync" my NAS box for offsite backup (yeah I know, I should use something that turns it into a real archive or something, but I'm lazy and Synology has this built in). If those hundreds of thousands of (often) small files were rounded up, S3-IA would easily be more expensive than S3/GCS.

Disclaimer: I work at Google on Compute Engine and am a happy Nearline customer myself.
ISDS (investor-state dispute settlement) provisions attempt to make up for the fact that the judicial system in some countries might not be available to work out disagreements between a corporation and a government. The corporation might not have standing, or the courts might not be independent enough to provide a fair hearing.

Companies won't invest unless they have a way to work out disagreements. Nations want foreign investment, so they are willing to provide an alternate way to work out disagreements--and that alternate way is ISDS.
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This is such a silly thing. Who really believes Cook. While Apple denied it, they gave access to their systems to the government. It was in Snowdens documents.
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1% is just tugging at heart strings, marketing.

If you further divide that 1% you'll find it like you suggest is much worse than that. 0.001% seems more likely.
Yes and no. Facebook had tried mobile and failed, and there was clear fear it could not cross the chasm from desktop web to mobile web/app.

Instagram was 'born' mobile, and Facebook was very motivated to ingest their thinking/culture/skills.
Ask HN: Your Programming Language Wish List
What do you want from your programming languages and tools that you don't have now?

What innovations would make your programming substantially better?

What upcoming language features/libraries/semantics/syntax are you excited about?
The kind of argument the OP is trying to make makes no sense to me, the only reason I see for us to "trust the market/system" is because it promises the most efficient allocation of resources, fairest compensation for value provided and opportunity and development for all. If it fails, it fails. I don't see how obcene inequality and all the problems of human misery that comes with it(which goes from insecurity to violence to even wars) isn't an instance of economics failling its own proposition(I will admit it does like 1% of it, tho).

The most efficient society would be one where money and resources goes where it's needed and that it would create virtuous cycles(e.g.: take people out of misery -> they become economic agents -> everyone's work serves needs of someone else -> development -> world GDP increases -> humankind is able to do more things -> society gets star-wars-like capabilities -> more people more happy)