skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is $1,500 much better?
I don't understand this logic. Since all these dangerous things are legal, let's add one more to the list?
I'm glad you were finally able to realize the distinction between sentient and non-sentient life. Nice talking with you!
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Let me get this straight, OVH – which is known for bad support – provides the same service for free that AWS provides at 49$/month?

That’s surprising.
I was largely using Racket as a common enough Scheme that I have installed my computer. I wanted an example from another functional language but in an older classical style (I was shooting for the Little Schemer here). I'm quite familiar with Racket's match, somewhere around my blog I even have a "proof" of sorts of using Racket's match to do the famous Haskell quicksort in just as few lines of code.

If you really want an ugly rendition I could try and replicate one of the awful JavaScript versions of "map" that uses a for loop, but I thought that might obscure the comparison of operations too much, and the semantics wouldn't be equivalent (linked lists vs. JS arrays).
My ex and I went to Britain 20 years ago (honeymoon trip) Beforehand everyone warned us how bad going though customs was going to be. But we for some deranged reason flew into Glasgow. Got off the flight, walked down to the customs counter (singular) and the agent looked at our passports, smiled, stamped them and that was that. Reminded me of flying into John Wayne International before they wrecked it. The difference in cognitive load between John Wayne and LAX was night and day.
That's basically where cigarettes are in the US. Their use is discouraged, there's an age restriction on sales, they are heavily taxed, people are educated about the dangers of smoking them and there are nuisance restrictions on public use in many cities.

Beyond that, people are free to do as they please with a reasonable expectation that it's an informed decision.

I think a lot of what we're seeing in the US is simple "new market" factor more than anything else. The assumption is that it will settle down at some point once there's a reasonably established marketplace.
Sorry it was a flippant guess, which frankly I still stand behind as likely to be correct, but if unclear it was a guess.
I know people who do a lot of crazy routings to stay with their preferred carriers. As you suggest, it's not necessarily about spending more money but taking a less direct route. Personally, I won't do it for shorter trips; I spend too much time in planes as it is. But there are a couple more distant destinations where I could fly non-stop but usually will take my regular carrier with a stop instead.
One problem with rewriting libc in a safer language is that interfaces will still be memory unsafe. No matter how many times you rewrite 'gets' it will still be broken, str* will still be problematic, the heap can be still trivially corrupted by the application, etc.

As long as the public interfaces are still unsafe, it doesn't seem to me that there is significant latitude to qualitatively improve the security of a libc implementation.
The point isn't to be a "fair" comparison, but rather to compare the number of explicit operations involved. I'd note that your Haskell example there is largely equivalent to the Scheme one.
I feel like https://www.ingress.com/ wins on the creative use of "real live massive multiplayer"

You'd be surprised how many players are doing that game everywhere from the Middle east to the Midwest US
did the easily exited type bit strike a feeling or why the downvote? I mean, it can't be given to an unsuspecting control group. That would probably feel moderately icky and the desire to rest.
Die Linke is seen by some as some sort of pariah in the German political landscape, due to its legacy and roots in the SED from which they never really distanced themselves in a very clear form. It's a bit of a touchy topic and the expansion to west Germany swept up a lot of nutcases, some of them in the more extremist spectrum. The topic gets even more confused since they're fairly well rooted in Eastern Germany where they are basically a left wing form of the SPD while they never managed to achieve that success in the West.
This really varies. On numerous occasions, I've gone to the rental place, taken one look at the machine, and then immediately left said rental place. Once, I had to wait for the dude to take the brand-new backpack leaf blower out of the box and pour in the first bottle of oil. I had no problem waiting that time. It's always a good idea to have the dude start the motor before you load up.

Harbor Freight is great for hand tools you'll use occasionally, or power tools you'll use rarely. There's a reason people who use those tools for a living shop elsewhere.
I'm sure there will be no accidents with the local police.
Cool idea but there's no way this is going to be finished along their timeline and budget.

The CEO's resume doesn't make me think he has the experience to get this done https://it.linkedin.com/in/francescoferrazzino

Engineering and manufacturing are pretty tricky and hard. And building a fun augmented reality game like that is hard. You need a lot of very experienced people with the needed skill sets to successfully complete a project this ambitious.
This reminds me of the books 'Daemon' and 'FreedomTM' by Daniel Suarez. Entertaining reads for those interested in what such a karma system might look like when installed as a ubiquitous feature of society.
>> It sounds so bizarre that a sitting Canadian government would suggest such a thing

I, and many others who didn't vote Conservative, still supported their efforts to enforce a ban on such a regressive mode of dress during citizenship ceremonies. I don't think it's bizarre at all to address these sorts of things at a federal level. Citizenship is important and people who refuse to show their faces don't deserve it. I'm sorry if this doesn't match your ideal of an "inclusive" society or whatever.
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I agree - navigating Quickbooks or a bank website is not that hard if one uses them on a daily basis.
Actually, it is

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-de...
I don't agree that AWS and Azure are actually competitively priced with Compute Engine anymore. Following our price cut last May and our custom VM shapes, we're often 40% cheaper:

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2016/01/Happy-New-Ye...

that's a massive lead (and it's sadly not commonly known). So I agree with you, we need to do better in the perception war, but Compute Engine is hands down the leader in cloud pricing.

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine (and care a lot about our prices).
BB guns while sledding was fun. Do watch the barbwire fence at the bottom of the hill, though.
Why would we care what most Americans think? At various points in history, most Americans supported wars against tribal natives, slavery, the interment of citizens with Japanese ancestry, laws against mixed-race marriage and homosexual marriage, to name a few horrible ideas.
Helicopter drops might not be far away
As long as you're covering all the commonplace disasters, better include how to manage their consumer credit, how to not fall in love with a train wreck of a person, and how to behave around cops.
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I would be interested to get some more technical info. OK so you use GC, but how? What products do you use, how do you build your scalable infrastructure so anywhere in the world I can have all the music in the world? I love reading those type of posts from Netflix and was hoping to find something similar here
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No, I cannot. But so what? Are you saying it is harmless? I don't care if it is merely less dangerous than alcohol.
3.67% of the most popular websites block Tor (because of Akamai and CloudFlare)
With just a few "minor" issues with safety

History shows that nuclear power is very safe as long as you don't build the plants in tsunami-prone seismic zones, operate them for decades beyond their intended service life, or allow a bunch of unhinged Russians to play "Hold my vodka and watch this" in the control room.

...and waste.

We've also learned that disposal of radioactive waste isn't a problem as long as you mix it with carbon-combustion products and spew it into the air, like coal plants do. Out of sight, out of mind appears to be the optimal way to deal with deadly pollution.
> "you don't own stuff; the stuff owns you"

Reminds me of the George Carlin bit on "stuff". Brilliant commentary on the American way, as always:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
"Artificial intelligence has surpassed human intelligence, the IoT connects the whole world to the Net. Humanity created “Ethereus,” a super-cloud computer, able to re-design itself..."

I, for one, welcome our new buzzword-compliant overlords!
No longer true. It's all GCE now last I heard.
Elliptic curves are going to be rendered redundant with the introduction of quantum computing via shor's algorithm.

25519 is already trusted and fast, and in all likelihood will probably last until we need to shift from this type of cryptography.

Seems as though this is pretty futile and doesn't need to exist.
The legality of adult use makes these substances more readily available to children, so their health effects on children are relevant.
My last trip to London, single person at customs, about 40 people in line ahead of me, took almost an hour to get through. I've always found MUC/FRA/ZRH to be way more efficient.

Upcoming trip to Dublin, I opted for going via Frankfurt instead of Heathrow. Silly, yes, but experiences and preferences play into planning.
Thanks! Yeah I mean I made it and copyrighted it, but outside of that want people to download it for free and feel free to share. It's just what I do for fun, so I'm not really worried about monetization or anything...
"If the assailants had been required by OfferUp to provide even the most basic of legitimate personal information then things may have turned out differently."

The writer's conclusion that OfferUp should be doing background checks on every seller doesn't seem scalable at all.

That said, the AirBNB model (authentication with social media, use of real name in listing) would be a big step toward user safety over Craigslist.
The US until 1992 classified cryptography as a munition, so they are not completely dissimilar. But many things are munitions as well.

Your argument is that cypto and guns should be viewed as equivalent because they are 'technology that, in the hands of a law-abiding person, can be used for legitimate purposes, including protecting oneself from aggression'.

That's a very broad category, isn't it? It would include anything which was ever used as an improvised weapon against aggressors. For example, the Provisional IRA "were widely perceived within the nationalist community as being defenders of Irish nationalist and Roman Catholic people against aggression." (Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_A... ).

The IRA used ANFO bombs extensively across two decades. ANFO of course also has many legitimate purposes

Under your definition, ANFO possession and use should be as unrestricted as gun or crypto possession and use, yes?

If not, why not?

If so, what other currently restricted items fall in this category?
Generators are likely not to be available right before a storm hits. Ownership is really the only model that works for items that are needed at exactly the same time, by everyone who would ever need them.
United probably spends a good deal of money on SEO to prevent United from matching Untied. I've worked for a company that spent a great deal of marketing time/energy to hide a similar type of search result on a news article and its comments section.
A C header is not needed at runtime, it is purely a way to easily describe the symbols in a library that exist in a (somewhat) type-safe way. It's the lingua franca for describing libraries, and tooling (such as Rust's bindgen, or Python's cffi) can consume them to do the setup/create the information necessary to call functions from other languages. This is much nicer than manually trying to transcribe the Rust (or whatever) signatures into your application.

> header files are a Rust-to-C++ issue only

Or... C? (And of course other languages too, as just discussed.)
This is written by substack, who is among the most prolific (if not the most prolific) contributors to npm. Node.js has benefitted from the power of standard packaging. It is really incredible how easy it is to work in that ecosystem. Provided a solid mechanism for packaging and dependency description the same pattern should be possible in C++ as well. I look forward to that day. Things will really take off when it costs almost nothing to leverage someone else's work in a controlled way.
Good point I was at work so I couldn't get to the login email and find out what that gives/changes.
my sister's experience was pre-legalization. (Please don't be snarky.)

Your experience seems to be unique in this thread, in that you say things got substantially worse as a result of legalization. I'm just trying to make sense of it in light of everything else I know of -- my own experience and those of my family and friends and others commenting here.

I notice a slight change in the type of funk in the air near the Purina plant, but no change in the general public. The complaint that "some stoner in my apartment is making it hard to breathe" is an old one. Did your complex have a sudden influx of stoners? Did they come from out of state because of legalization? Is there something particular about your complex that makes it attractive to people who are coming for the weed? Is there something particular about my neighborhood that makes it unattractive to people who are coming for the weed? I just don't know how to build a pattern with your experience as one data point and all these other experiences as the rest of the data.
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Has anyone seen stats published on how big of an infrastructure Spotify runs?

Or how it compares to Netflix, which runs on AWS?
This is potentially enormously sensitive data that'd be very valuable to competitors etc. I'd want to see a much more extensive privacy policy than the current state of https://www.swayfinance.com/privacy, particularly as it's a free service in need of an eventual business model.
Invoking psychological egoism here is really using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. I don't think that she necessarily made the post for narrowly self-interested reasons. Even if you hold to it as a dogma that all acts are ultimately in some sense self-directed, I'm sure you're still capable of making the distinction between intentions that are entirely cynical and self-serving and those which are genuinely directed towards helping others or exposing the truth (even if these ends are ultimately "selfish" too).

>At least her digital begging seems to be working out, but certainly this wont convince the CEO to pay these entry level folks San Francisco living wages.

If enough people start complaining, things change. There's a whole lot of history of this happening with regard to working conditions.
But is the A20 gate being properly emulated? :) I know a verification engineer who left AMD because he was tired of dealing with the ancient testbench which checked the ancient hardware.

The browser should run in the hypervisor and provide a real hardware virtual machine. Provide both ARM and x86, one is emulated and one is real.
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It's a quantity. However, the aspect ratio of US Letter paper, 8.5/11 is a ratio. If you used a copier to reduce a US Letter page by 50%, it would still have the same aspect ratio.
Yes, if we were able to consistently measure different values of α over space and/or time it would be significant and help to strengthen the anthropic principle as it could be applied here.

There are a couple challenges to these measurements, though. Sean Carrol presents a theoretical challenge in his blog post "The Fine Structure Constant is Probably Constant"[1]. Chad Orzel has a more observational critique of the results in "Why I’m Skeptical About the Changing Fine-Structure Constant" [2].

To be fair, these critiques are from 2010 and Webb, et al. has published several papers since these critiques were made. I haven't seen updated debate or discussion over Webb, et al's findings. Still, I would think we have some potential evidence that the constant may vary, but I don't think this evidence is near conclusive yet.

[1] http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/10/18/the-fine...

[2] http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2010/09/14/httpksjtracker...
The societal damage caused by guns is 3-orders of magnitude greater than the damage caused by crypto. This says nothing about the benefits, which I'd argue are much greater still.

A couple of hundred years ago the second amendment was a critical and important component of America, because it allowed the people to protect themselves against the government. That threat of direct violence is now much less, but in it's place the government now threatens our freedom by threatening our privacy. And this is a very real threat. And damage that this would do is far far greater in an information society. Huxly's 1984 wasn't a book about physical combat fought with guns it was a war fought with information.
What university did you go to?

My university didn't touch on hardware until the second half of second year, and that was only one paper (strictly speaking, a computer engineering paper).
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Interesting — What would you suggest using for comics though?
Also, I tend to move around while my desk stays still, so from my desks point of view I am not aging as fast.
It's not a prerequisite for success. It's a prerequisite for raising an insane VC round.

Plenty of profitable businesses take a different path and don't try to be a Thielian monopoly. That's fine, it's not invalid as a business. But that's not what VCs are interested in investing in.

The extremely high startu failure rate means they need enormous returns on the very few investments in their portfolio that actually work. Such huge returns imply a Thielian monopoly business.
Exactly! Thanks dangrossman
Yes. I believe the intention is to have the knowledge graph appear on the right hand side.
Here in the UK, I see people smoking 'out and about' fairly often. Not every day, by any means, but enough for it not to be a total 'shock'. This is an advantage (one of many) of legalisation, IMO; when something is legal, it can be much more easily controlled because people actually respect the legislation. Here, anything goes so long as you can get away with it.
The battle of Lipany is listed twice. So is the battle of Kolín. So is battle on the Marchfield.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lipany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kolín
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_on_the_Marchfeld
> A cheap, clean source of energy would change everything.

Like nuclear fission? Or how about solar?

Anyhow, while I think the intentions are good, my experience in 3rd world countries has me convinced that all the charity in the world won't help.

In general, the problem in 3rd world countries isn't education, or sanitation, or lack of capital, or mosquito nets, etc...

The problem is corruption and safety. I've seen it in my wife's country - savings rates are generally high, there's lots of labour, a ton of entrepreneurial spirit and the barrier to entry is more or less zero. The problem is, the second you start any sort of enterprise, someone will rob you. Police will demand bribes. Politicians will demand bribes. If you don't give in, they'll send their criminal friends after you. Even if you do give in, they may anyway. Bandits will come rob you in the night, and if you're unlucky enough to be there at the time, they'll shoot you. If you're lucky, they just take some cash. There's literally zero incentive to do anything, lest you get robbed and/or killed. That's reality. You want to fix the 3rd world, you need to start with law and order. Nothing can happen until people feel safe, and feel like doing something will actually improve their life.

After that, it's infrastructure. Power, roads, emergency services, bridges, etc... Infrastructure enables travel, it enables businesses, lights, and so on. When you have infrastructure you can bring your products to market. And so on (most people know the economic benefits of infrastructure).

In my experience, families in the third world often have the equivalent of thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars saved. Witness how much money Syrians and Afghans pay to get smuggled into Europe. They won't invest that because they don't feel safe, but they have no qualms giving a smuggler thousands of dollars.

So much charity is just a band-aid, or worse, gets siphoned off to corrupt entities. You fix corruption and safety issues, and the third world is the new first world. But no, we give charity with one hand, and with the other are propping up horrible dictators, overthrowing democracies for choosing the wrong ideology, and encouraging corruption and oligarchy. Given what's happened in the world since I've been old enough to follow the news, I'm more convinced than ever that the developed world simply wants to keep the third world as dependent colonies.

tl;dr - long rant, something something corruption.
There's very little data on the Mongols unfortunately, especially since they were nomadic and moved so much, one dot in the middle of Mongolia just says "Mongol Battles".

But the data for much of their conquests doesn't exist.
Yep!

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041215-00/?p=...
Bear in mind that this advice is for companies in YC that are trying to raise a VC round.

The failure rate in tech startups is so high that VCs are mostly only interested in investing in the potential to have an outsized Thielian-monopoly return, so that the very few winners in their portfolio can cover the many losses.

It doesn't mean that this is the only way to run a successful business or that other ways are invalid or unprofitable. It just means if you want Silicon Valley VC, this is what that particular group of investors is looking for.
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I was mildly annoyed that I had to spend an afternoon "migrating" my app from the M/S datastore, even though I never used it in the first place.
Context does matter though. If you're talking about startups in Silicon Valley, it's completely correct to exclude normal small business and focus on technology-based startups aka "tech startups". They really are very different kinds of businesses.

The problem may be that that "tech startup" is too verbose and lame sounding.
Fails on sites that prevent clickjacking with X-Frame-Options header set to DENY/SAMEORIGIN.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/X-Frame-Op...
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The open-access version of the full paper has been made available by the Internet Society: https://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/blogs-me...
I'm not sure it's so much about social status as shared "war stories" and experiences.
This is self-correcting. If overall revenue decreases due to the change, they will remove it.
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If someone has questions that are hard to answer without having the machine in front of them to point things out, sure, I or they will pull up a chair, and we'll both take a look at it.

But all day pair programming would drive me crazy.
That's about the only real value. But then what? Do they run the two entities separately? Or merge Google's offering with Spotify and risk pissing customers off who are loyal to the Spotify brand and app?
Technically, yes, Lowry is not Denver proper. Nitpicking aside, there is no practical difference.

I should have been clearer and said "leave the metro area".