skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Until recently, we kept copies of repository data using off-the-shelf, disk-layer replication technologies—namely, RAID and DRBD. We organized our file servers in pairs. Each active file server had a dedicated, online spare connected by a cross-over cable.

With all the ink spilled about creative distributed architectures, it's really humbling to see how far they grew with an architecture that simple.
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I’ve noticed that when browsing the web without ad blockers, you are constantly spammed for such dialogs, and ads that vibrate your phone, etc. Quite annoying.
Sooner than you think, self-replicating probes will expand this nervous system into the infinite expanse, and in our simulations, many iterations of ourselves will know much about the universe, but why.
Oh no. You have state tax, federal tax, FICA. Some places might also have a city tax as well(New York City), then you have sales tax. Then there all the other nickle and dime soft taxes that you are dinged with. The US pays insane taxes. This is a good resource if you are curious:

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/taxes/how-much-do-americans-...
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(Disclaimer: I work on these features on Chrome)

We're exploring that. It's not 100% clear either way, but I personally hope we can do it.

Feel free to star this issue if you want to keep track of progress: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=516147
You make it sound like the Edmonds people were like "holy shit, we're freaked out by a sound, replace the drive unit." But what actually happened is they heard a sound, took it to an authorized maintainer, and the maintainer was like, "Oh, you need a new drive unit."

What does it have to do to count as not preemptive? Burst into flames at 70mph?
same here, I tried with both gpg2 and gpg

PS: the problem was that I had multiple keys locally... but weirdly, now that I managed to upload my correct one, my commits are still seen as unsigned
Invest it or save it and avoid debt. You will thank yourself later. If it makes sense to, consider buying a primary residence, but don't spend too much on a car, or eating out, or anything like that. Make sure you have some nice toys and are generally not wanting, but also make sure to max out your 401k and then some.
My main concern would be the signature sitting somewhere for someone to grab and apply to documents. In theory they can do that from a pdf too but it's much simpler if they have the original vector of the signature.

I can't say I've had issues with preview signatures for a while - I have a signature and initials captured and they pretty much just work.

It would be nice to be able to suggest something to people without that option though (eg Windows using clients) - any chance you'd open source it to allow self-hosting?
many websites, apps, bots conceptually share the same goal: to let users interact with a database. they represent different ways to read and write company data, and as such have different strengths and weaknesses. websites, for instance, are terrific for discovery/browsing activities while chat bots could be terrific for transactional activities (e.g., amazon, cancel my last order).

today, the problem with bots is that natural language AI is extremely difficult, so many criticisms hold true: websites and apps are better than bots for most tasks. today.

but that is similar to someone in 1994 saying that online shopping was worse than offline shopping. yes, it was. but technology improved to where online shopping -- for many cases, but not all -- became better than offline shopping.

the real question: if you believe AI will evolve to where chatting with a company bot is indistinguishable from chatting with the company's top human employee/representative -- e.g., imagine the equivalent of jeff bezos personally handling your amazon queries and transactions -- would a bot become the more natural interface for many activities?
The mayors office or some development chief said it would take 100K units to make a dent. That was late 2014 I think.

We all know those would be luxury units, but it would add 20K below-market, so there's that.

As always, I stand ready to let them bring a bulldozer to their favorite Mission block as long as I can bring one to Palo Alto and Atherton.

For some reason, people just see that as a cray-cray demand...
Combine this with people who have varying thresholds for "understanding the content" and you have a context where it's quite possible that somebody who is actually quite competent doesn't feel that way because their threshold for "I get it" involves asking lots of seemingly obvious but not actually obvious questions.

When you put this kind of person in a climate where they feel like they are representing a group in front of others, then you have a recipe for somebody who has a lot of promise, but the environment suppresses learning. That's bad.

On the matter of whether this person feels like they are representing a group, it's important to distinguish whether this person "should" or "actually does" feel that they are representing a group. Women should not feel that they are, but we know that some do as a direct result of someone else generalizing them to represent women as a group. We know it happens. Maybe not by the people reading this comment, but we know it happens.

So this all combines into a situation where somebody saying "hey, asking questions is a good thing, stop worrying about making yourself look dumb" is necessary and helpful.
"Show HN" posts are wonderful -- But throwing all the tracking parameters on the URL gives it a pretty strong marketing vibe.
I prefer to hope that they intend to maintain some semblance of quality.
I am open to being convinced that you have new insights, but the reduced residue sets idea is not a magic bullet. If it was a magic bullet we would be having a different conversation.

Basically I am encouraging you to discuss this in a way or in a context in which people will engage more readily with your ideas, either to accept or reject them. HN is not full of number theorists.

Edit: This is a case where textual communication is really inadequate to determine the seriousness and, dare I say it, credibility of an interlocutor.
This is about an interesting topic. Unfortunately it is written in the style in which you score points by making tenuous allusions, adding quotations from the right people, and inserting questions that have only the echo of meaning.

I quote at random:

"This King Phillip’s War, which made us, is now close to three and a half centuries into the past. Yet what remains, and has not ended? The exorcist cannot caste out demons until he knows their names, so now, in our continuing American season of violence, it is required of us to identify these creatures so that we may balm the traumas they have inflicted. As Slotkin wrote, “A people unaware of its myths is likely to continue living by them.”..."
It would be nice if we could get Windows internally to use paths like / for the C drive and then use /mnt/d for the D drives, and use Bash as the default shell instead of cmd.exe. I suspect it will take some time, but if they do so, it would make Windows a first-class POSIX development setup.

I can only imagine the difficulty of something like this, given all the legacy code and backward compatibility issues. Perhaps intelligently rollback to C:\ style paths when apps use backslashes. For Program Files, they might as well continue using /Program Files/ since it's not all too different from /opt.
FYI, raising the minimum wage is not an unprecedented event. We have data that shows how it correlates with unemployment:

https://aneconomicsense.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/minimum-...
It's relatively straightforward to build something like this using JGit - I blogged about how I did it a while ago: http://blog.justinsb.com/blog/2013/12/14/cloudata-day-8/
oops I didn't realise someone else chimed in.

Re your original post, the 'damned' and 'what are you talking about' and not reading my post charitably (that I was lying rather than just reading the site description) seemed rude. Thank you for apologising.
The difference in competitive salary for me between SF and PDX (where I live) is ~$70k.

Which you have to pay yearly, not as a one-time discounted cost. In fact even down at the very, very low-end of tech-related jobs (~$50k in PDX) the difference between SF and PDX is ~$18k.

There is literally no shape of tech-oriented business you could operate where having to spend only $15k per employee when they're onboarded isn't a net financial benefit compared to having to pay SF-area competitive salaries for the same positions.
One interesting thing to watch will be the resale value of the Bolts.

If you haven't looked lately, look up the price of a 2014 Volt with up to 40,000 miles on it. You can get one for around $15,000 USD. If after 2 years you can get a Bolt for ~half MSRP, like you can a Volt, I'm not sure how I can resist a deal like that.
Just set up a few symlinks

ln -s /mnt/c/Users /home
ln -s '/mnt/c/Program Files' /opt
...
Your math is off by a factor of the profit margin, unfortunately.

209k is revenue. Profit per employee is that times profit margin, which is around 7k. 6 times that $1750 figure is well above profit.

Or just take the 2 million employees they have, multiply by 8 thousand, and get 16 billion, more than their profit.
I wonder about the long-term domain value-deterioration as the site hosted there becomes (or reveals itself to be) a native advertising platform.
I don't know why I'm getting downvoted! Don't you want to hear WHY people paying those rents or you want to believe everybody paying those rents are just plain stupid?!

Markets are smart!
It is one of those behaviors where we think it is cool to do it, but uncool to admit you are doing it. In a lot of human interactions, there are things that are fully accepted and cool to do, but if you try to point it out (or if you can't naturally do it and poorly attempt to emulate it), it becomes very uncool if not downright creepy.
I've got two hobby projects on the go.

I'm building a steam power plant simulator for students and trainees that won't cost upwards of $100K for a site license. It also has a plant builder interface, which lets anyone place and connect equipment, piping, instrumentation, and controls. Then, they can run the plant like a real operator would from a control room.

When I was at school for power/stationary engineering, we all wished we could use something like the school's simulator at home. So, maybe I'll get to fill that niche. (And, nothing out there has a do-it-yourself plant builder!)

I have mostly-complete prototypes done for the builder interface and numerical simulator. I like that it keeps the theory that I learned at school nice and fresh.

Also, I bought a gas turbine engine on eBay, and I'm working with a friend to get it running. We got an oil system hooked up yesterday, and we spun it up with the starter motor and a car battery. Lots of fun!
Cache headers are set to expire after 10 minutes at GitHub pages.

Which is a bit too restrictive on js, images or css files.

It would be nice if these cache headers could be set to a larger period (1 year, or something similar). I'm not certain if any engineering hurdles or dangers exist in doing so, and I'm not implying this is something that can easily be done - since obviously GitHub didn't do it for their Pages.
There's a big green "Order Now" button about 1/3 of the way down the page.
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The M4 is basically an M3 - they've been around that price range for quite a while. What else can you obtain with similar performance numbers and fit and finish for "way less money spent"?
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Ugh, the thought of scouring through commits with messages like "fixed", "oops", "done" is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
What I read is a LACK of thought process, when you can't squash and justify your changes susinctly
I hate most implementations of those more than fixed bars, I regularly scroll slightly too far when I take a second longer to read a line than I was expecting and need to scroll back to see what I missed; then out of nowhere a massive header pops down and covers both what I was trying to read and the next 3 lines so I have to scroll back even further and any flow state is completely interrupted.

Safari on iPhone is one of the few implementations that actually works well, playing round with it a bit now it looks like it has quite a few heuristics to determine when to expand again. I guess most people don't care enough to actually spend the time adding more than just "show on drag down".
> Again, you can either build to meet demand or expect higher prices. Those are the options.

Or enact preferential laws, or use vandalism in order to drive demand down, or make newcomers feel unsafe or unwelcome.

Those alternatives are not entirely rational, nor necessarily effective- but they are human nature, and not that rare.
Yeah, it looks like there is a switch granting photo access to siri on the 6s. This doesn't show up on my iPhone6 with 9.3.1.
Have they published a copy of the video of the autonomous car trained with unsupervised learning from the keynote anywhere?

I'd love to show it to my father.
It's pretty strange to go from casually dismissing Tesla's 280-mile range as being too short in your last post, to calling the Volt's 40-mile range "a big deal changer" here.

It's only in 100% electric mode the "vast, vast majority of the time" if you hardly drive at all. A 40-mile range is positively anemic, not even enough for my average commute. That's much closer to the Prius' 20-mile range than it is to the Nissan Leaf's 80-mile range, which in turn is drastically shorter than the Tesla Model S's 280-mile range.
OpenCL runs on Nvidia GPUs, so you could do an apples to apples comparison on this system.
this is wrong. No mainstream deep learning library uses openCL, and the non-mainstream ones that do are much much slower. I remember reading up to 10x slower, but I can't seem to find the reference right now.
this is wrong. No deep mainstream deep learning library uses opencl, and the non mainstream ones are much much slower. I remember reading up to 10x slower, but I can't seem to find the reverence right now
The problem is that no one[1] uses OpenCL because the performance isn't there. There is little sign of that changing, too.
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>Streaming is inherently rewind-unfriendly

HOW?!?!?

>streaming is inherently risky in the sense of random pauses, buffering, dynamic drops in resolution.

Netflix works great for me. I've bought streaming packages for European soccer, also streamed Olympics and World Cup, so I don't know what you're talking about. It was great.

But OK, maybe you're like that guy who still has a landline because in emergencies landlines are more likely to work than a cell phone -no problem, I don't judge. For vast majority of users with residential connectivity, streaming is perfect.
They're in very different product domains, so trademark doesn't apply.

See: http://nissan.com/
Poe's law at work.

If you're serious, you don't. They operate in different domains and it doesn't make sense for kid.de to sue kik the chat company.

Trademarks do make sense (most of the time), and the application that the chat company tried to apply it to with the NPM packages was proper. Reviewing the emails (posted by the offended programmer) they even came off as pretty generous. They wanted a name, a name they'd had for a while, for a project they were releasing to the NPM platform. As others said, part of the problem is NPMs naming scheme. It doesn't allow (by convention or implementation) for sensible naming like with libraries in other languages (com.kik.bot.authentication, com.kik.bot.blah).

If you're generally opposed to trademark then I suppose you would want them to sue just to make a mess of things and eventually cause countries to get rid of it. But that's exactly why trademark law covers this issue already. Apple (computers) and Apple (music) were in different domains, consequently no problem. Once Apple (computers) got into music (via iTunes), Apple (music) had a case against them. It's also a bit more nuanced, down to locality as well.
iOS is not completely open source, so how do you know that Apple isn't scraping your screen or the iOS keyboard isn't sending your characters?

Also, Apple's push messaging subsystem gets a copy of (most) of the message too so Apple could be doing evil things there too!

OH NOES!
I would say that copyright does indeed cover graffiti, it just not likely for the original artist to sue you for selling copies of their artwork because they also possibly illegally damaged private property. Some of the Banksy stuff brings up interesting discussions around that idea.

The lobbying part I can understand, and agree, but I'm lost on your surveillance state thing.

All those creative people with all their creativity is covered by copyright as soon as they get done being creative. In the US at least. But whether they make money from their copyrighted creativity, that's a different problem. Copyright doesn't help me make money but it helps me prevent you from making money off my work.
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Happened to me with http. Once you successfully connect to the https endpoint, HTTP Strict Transport Security kicks in and you no-longer see it. just fyi.
Pure silliness. Wild mushrooms aren't for culinary daredevils, that's about the most extreme mischaracterization imaginable.

It is very, very easy to avoid being poisoned by wild mushrooms. There are many mushrooms that are very difficult to be confused with poisonous varieties, so you concentrate on those. You learn what you need to learn, you go out with people who are experienced, you make use of the resources available (which are significant), and you don't act dumb. Comparing a mushroom you found to a picture in a book and asking yourself whether it sort of looks similar? Is that how mushroom identification works? No, it really isn't. If that's the level you're at, then don't eat that mushroom. But it turns out, if you follow the guidelines, learn from people who are knowledgeable, and play it safe, mushroom hunting can be an incredibly fun and rewarding experience. Most of the difficult to identify wild fungi are random "little brown mushrooms" or such-like that are not particularly good to eat regardless, so not only is the risk lower with sticking to easily identified varieties, the reward is higher as well.

To categorize those who do it as thrill seekers or daredevils is to completely misperceive what's going on, pretty much in its entirety. There might be some folks out there who fit that characterization, but they are not the majority.
At my workplace we tried signed hg commits for a little over a year.

Perhaps it was the relative inexperience of our team, coming from our subversion background, or it might be that we didn't adopt the best tools out there, but it was a lot of work for largely hypothetical benefits.

We had a system involving a third-party extension to hg, and an agent that was supposed to work on Windows, Mac and OS X - but it never seemed 100% reliable on any of those platforms. We were also inexperienced enough that if, say, someone committed something while their signing was set up wrong we weren't able to figure out how to retroactively sign the commits. We also used x509 certificates issued by a central corporate IT team that issued them manually, and expired the certificates annually without automatically issuing replacements.

I'm sure some of these issues were with our team/organisation rather than the tools themselves, but when the opportunity arose to switch to gitlab with no commit signing required whatsoever, we switched immediately.
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To me, $129k isn't surprising since it is only going to be bought by researchers with big budgets. Small-timers will still build 3x GTX980 systems for under $5k.

3.2 KILOwatts sounded insane to me, but I suppose you'll have your own server rack to put it in if you can afford to buy one of these.
It was the changes in Go 1.6 which made HTTP/2 testing work with Vegeta out of the box. https://github.com/bbc/notes-on-perf-testing/blob/master/ch/...
Or he blackmailed his old buds... just saying :D
In what part of town did you find a 2br for $1,150?
Political party names can be fun. In both Norway and Denmark there are liberalist right-wing parties called "Venstre", which literally means "left" (as in left-wing). Because they were, relatively speaking, left-wing 130 years ago.
Hard to think of any other individual who has made as large an impact on the global economy in the 21st century, in addition to opening up the playing field for women. Kudos.
Here's some scientific validation of your gut feeling: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Rounds/publicatio...
In the article, PayPal it's often mentioned that PayPal is generally disliked.

As an international customer, I prefer PayPal over giving them my credit card details. When entering my CC, there is a big risk that my data gets stolen (is the data truly securely transmitted, stored, and processed?). I know I can request a refund that any time with my bank but that is a big hassle. I have to write them a physical letter, and wait for a couple of days. During that period, my CC is blocked and I they will likely issue me a new credit card (which costs 10€). When paying with PayPal, I can report a fraud online or call them and they have been really quickly in responding (I have once not gotten a product and they were very quick in issuing a refund). Also, I feel way more comfortable using PayPal because I can see that the site I'm entering my information to is actually PayPal, and I have two factor authentication.
Before I didn't have a CC, PayPal was the best solution because they would just withdraw the money from my bank account and they merchant would get their money immediately.

I can understand why PayPal is not a good choice for sellers (I've heard stories where PayPal blocked merchant accounts for a few months without giving them their money they had on PayPal, and refusing any new transactions). So, can you explain to me why PayPal is a bad/unpopular choice as a customer.
C Class AMGs start around $80k.
Wow, the bedazzled laptop.
Give it time, you'll manage to think of something.
Definitely this, it's ridiculous how early stuff closes around here and how early people go out. Moving from Mexico it was a big shock.
Good for her! A sabbatical sounds great. And she's definitely earned it.
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> This idea is alive and well in Canada (a more conservative culture generally); their tech scene hasn't exactly exploded as a result.

That is far down the list of reasons why Canada's tech scene is weak.

More conservative generally?
30mbit up, not 20. Yes, it very much looks like pure product differentiation.
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This must be specific to the games, because they do tend to be buggy on their own.

With non-gaming software the situation is completely different. When a cracked version craps out the prevailing sentiment is always that it was a bad crack. Always.
The current great helmsman^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpresident of China, "Uncle Xi", as the locals like to call him, has a very draconian reputation. His family have been implicated in the files. Last night at dinner I floated the idea of spray painting his image with the Chinese word for Panama about town. Everyone choked on their dinner.
Thanks for all the work thus far, isn't a day goes by where I don't use a YC company's service.

hope there's plenty quality time in this sabbatical!
Would you mind trying the AMD compiler?
http://gpuopen.com/compute-product/hip-convert-cuda-to-porta...
I'd be interested in seeing a benchmark between some original cuda code and the opencl output of this compiler on the same gpu.