skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't foolish, though I will agree that a very shallow analysis will make these processes seem that way.

In a perfect world, minority-owned and woman-owned businesses would never have faced any discrimination at all. In a perfect world, everyone would have competed on an even playing field since the beginning of government buying. That is not this world.

And the real-world consequence of those decades of discrimination is that minority communities had another barrier placed in front of their ability to build wealth in their communities--not the only one, of course, but still a real one and one that's definitely done lasting damage to those minority communities.

After all this time, and all that damage done, saying "well, we won't discriminate now but you still need to somehow catch up from decades of discrimination, and we won't do anything to undo the damage we did," if you think that's appropriate, then that's fine, you can think that. But it's only foolish if you don't really think at all about the history of the situation and the accumulated effects of that long history of discrimination.

You'd even be in good company if you wanted to take that shallow view--a lot of people I talk to don't seem to want to acknowledge that racism ever existed, or if it did it isn't a problem now, or if it is a problem then someone else should do something about it, and on and on and on.

(And, you know, all these aspirational targets, like spending 20% of our dollars on minority-owned firms, they're not hard-and-fast rules. If there are no qualified minority firms, then the work still goes to a white-owned firm, and after decades of discriminatory procurement practices there aren't necessarily a lot of minority-owned firms with the capacity to manage government contracting projects, so it's not like white folks are suffering in any way in the government procurement space.)
Although it's nice to hear that you would be ok with the reciprocal in this case, you can't make that decision for everyone. Personally, if I sold consumer desktop software, I'd be disappointed in people who chose to pirate.

Buying movies and music electronically now is far easier than it has ever been. I don't think that's really a valid excuse, but even still, you'd be blaming the industry for a crime you're committing against it. How is that just?
Why don't you think it would have helped? That's the exact situations these systems are designed for...
Love the use of literate programming here. It's a great fit for teaching tough concepts
I couldn't disagree more. Hand-tuned stored procedures are always more performant (and sometimes even more SQL injection resistant) than anything spit out by ORMs.

It's more minor / maybe just me, but I also like the fact that I can replace logic in a stored procedure without having to push out a whole new software build unless I change the inputs or outputs.
>That feature alone could reduce total crashes by 10% [1]

Well, ofcourse. I am talking about ppl become less safety conscious because these features give them (false) sense of security.

eg: Anti-Tsunami walls killed more people than they saved during great japanese tsunami because they gave people false sense of security and ppl didn't take evacuation warnings seriously assuming walls would take care of it. And ofcourse studies proved that having Tsunami walls is safer than no walls.
They come in handy on those 5-10hr road trips. you don't realize how tiring driving can be until you're driving one for that long.
Nonsense. If that were true, why am I not also torrenting ebooks, music and video games? Those are all things that I used to torrent, but stopped torrenting when the official delivery mechanisms got good enough for my use cases.
This is just a product of bad design

Perhaps, rather, a product of an infelicitous programming language? You don't have to worry about extra function arguments in javascript.

It seems common in C, python, and similarly arity-concerned languages to just accept a pointer to a struct (dict, etc.) when coding a callback for an API like this. That way the callback can examine as much or as little of the struct as it wants, and much less needs to change in future when the callback needs more.
I don't think this is any ole foreign ownership laws. There's a national security interest among other things.
A few thousand very-pissed-off people here and a few thousand very-pissed-off people there...

s/people/early adopters/
I bet a lot of the cost is the plastic, as the design I've seen from pictures would require fairly expensive molds as they would have to have moving parts (I wouldn't be surprised if the molds were $500k for just the body). Complex molds also need more time on the machine so the price per part goes up. Also, do to the size, there are fewer places with machines that big so the manufacturer has more leverage to get a higher rate.

They could have also specified the wrong class of molding to make the coolers as they could have hired the wrong engineer to design it for them. They could have specified traditional injection molding rather than blow molding or other techniques more suitable for large cheap plastic objects. Injection molding machines that can do small parts (dozen cm square at most) are very common, and time on them is cheap ($10k for mold + <$0.25/part). Large Machines (1m, also with a large draw) are rare, and the per-part price alone can make the $180 product impossible, as they would need the outer shell and the inner liner made on a large machine. I would not be surprised if they were charged $100 for the two pieces after yield was factored in. Also, the molds probably would take 6 months to make, which pretty much is the timeline they promised the units. Making 2 large pieces of steel have a even, thin gap with moving parts is non-trivial and expensive.

A good comparison for how much they would have to charge would be how much 2 knock-off pelican cases the size of a cooler would cost (hint: more than $180).
Lambda has a number of use cases, if you need something to be running for more that 5 minutes with lots of disk space, you're probably better off running on EC2 (or docker containers via ECS), it's designed for short lived, stateless computations.
Ok, but it's not the buy-back that increases the per-share value for the selling investor, it's the fact that the company has generated positive Free Cash Flow that it is free to invest.
I don't know if I would describe VMs as heavy. But to the extent that they are heavy, it's because they are an application and OS running on virtualized (i.e. partially or fully emulated) hardware rather than physical hardware.

[Edit: Removed rest of comment to limit negativity. Thank you for responding to clarify.]
Anecdotally this is absolutely something women take into account when evaluating places to work.

The solution isn't to hide the problem but it does mean that the later you try to fix your diversity problems the harder they will be to fix. As for how to actually solve that problem, you might try looking at what others (especially women) have written on the subject already:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/HOWTO_recruit_and_retain_...
http://www.hiremorewomenintech.com/
Yes, and it will have standard safety features like automatic braking that use that hardware. But what does that have to do with whether or not the Model 3 design is based around fully autonomous driving?
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I'm seeing at least an article or two per day like this now: Scary FUD-filled headline suggesting that we are stupid to pursue EVs because they're not completely benign, while the body of the article itself eventually acknowledges that in almost every respect they're a helluva lot more benign than ICEs today, and will likely become even more advantageous in the future. There's only one science problem remaining for EVs: Better batteries. All the rest are relatively straightforward engineering problems, and a big chunk of those already have scaled-out solutions (e.g. Tesla's superchargers).
TLDR: You don't mind stored-procedures if the database schema is in source control like it should be?
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>New Zealand is far from perfect, but from my observations there, engagement with Māori is miles better than anything here.

There appear to be are more Maori per capita than American natives (according to Wikipedia about 14.6 percent in the latter case and less than 2 percent in the former - I'm assuming these numbers are true but in general it's probably correct if they aren't) so that's not surprising.
I agree that LEON is overlooked in the MCU market.

Wrapping up one or multiple of the RISC-V cores in GRLIB is something I think would benefit both Gaisler and the RISC-V community and something I have thought of doing myself if I had the time!
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I don't think this scales to systems with more than, say, 50 tables. In an ERP system with dozens of thousands of tables and views, and which supports adding new functionality to a running application server, you can't assume that the database schema will remain fixed throughout the lifetime of the application server process.
Shared culture is what society is.

My argument is there is no need for any of this - it is a legal error.

Simply legislate a compulsory license, media and device taxes already exist. Distribution agencies - already in place for radio and libraries.

The correct test for disruptive technology is substantial non-infringing use.

This war on fans is as unnecessary and ineffective as the drug war - calling it "bucaneering" doesn't make sharing immoral or dumb law effective.

Criminalising what everyone is doing and feels is natural and right is a fail - this is a vice law.

Sharing isn't evil.

Sharing the things you love, knowledge, song, jokes, tales is as old as time and what makes us human.
I agree that if these things were by default constantly exfiltrating, say, webcam data, someone would have noticed. But their use is likely much more insidious.

Any keyboard event generates some kind of interrupt on x86, right ? Suppose this "ME" happens to record the last 64k keystrokes into a rolling buffer. Furthermore, suppose there is a very, very particular sequence of instructions that can be sent to retrieve this rolling buffer ? Boom. No more encryption (at least none that requires typing a key in from the kb).

Oh, you use binary keys ? Cool, intel has special x86 instructions for doing AES. I'm sure they wouldn't do anything like copy the, oh...KEYS, into the hypothetical rolling buffer, would they ? No, that would be "dishonest", and we all know everyone who makes computer hardware and software would never think of doing something so egregiously deceitful, don't we ?
You can do that with Lambda as well. The API Gateway is an abstraction in front of that giving you more control then connecting to Lambda directly.
Those are pretty neat. Didn't know about the Apple many-core. Far as OpenFirmware, I think it should be mandatory along the lines of something like First Sale doctrine. If we bought a device, we should be able to control its use by law. We can't do that with software due to copyright. That implies an open, mandatory firmware available that lets us load our own software in.
i've worked in cyprus briefly, before it joined the EU, while it was still a tax heaven. i do have some friends, business associates and clients in malta, gibraltar, isle of man as well as plenty of caribbean isles. caymans included as well as some other caribbean isles. traveled quite a bit to various isles. used to live in croatian island korchula, both as a child and an adult. as a curiosity, one of my best friends used to work in papua new guinea as a cargo pilot

work-wise it will be very chilled. don't expect US/UK/israel standards. don't be surprised if everything and everyone is so mediocre. if you're lucky, you might end up working on some cool niche specific stuff and gain expertize within that niche. usually it's gambling, adult entertainment, finances. some companies develop shady stuff like adware, what could be also interesting, from technical / professional perspective

speaking of life on an island. if you're into water sports or just love the beaches, you're set. lots of fun guaranteed. otherwise, living on an island could get boring after novelty fades away

though taxes might be lower or in caymans no taxes at all, COL is usually pretty high. everything has to be brought from somewhere else and transportation is not free, obviously. due to limited space, limited supply and high demand, housing could be pretty expensive and scarce

is it worth a go? absolutely! maybe you might end up liking it and stay there long term. a good friend, a fellow programmer, actually one of core MySQL developers, who was MySQL employee #3 and sticked around through both rounds of acquisition still happily lives in cyprus and wouldn't change it for the world

definitely an interesting life experience. could be professionally and monetary rewarding, as well. if you're entrepreneurial, more power to you! extraordinary places attract extraordinary people (for both, good and bad), so your network will become bigger and more diverse

give it a go and don't look back! such an opportunity doesn't arise on a daily basis. grab it!
They're recently added a route between Seattle and Raleigh/Durham (NC).

http://www.rdu.com/press-release/alaska-airlines-to-launch-s...
Speed (acceleration). Current Model S 0-6 times are from 5.2s to 2.8s, depending on trim. The Model 3 is “under six seconds” and maybe “substantially faster”: it could overlap the slower current Model S trims.

Range. Current Model S ranges are from 240m to 270m, depending on trim. Model 3: 215m.

Cargo volume. The Model S has 31.6 ft^3. The Model 3 looks much smaller.

Free lifetime use of superchargers? I haven't seen this speculated, but I'll be surprised if the Model 3 includes unlimited supercharger use; I suspect paid use of the network will be a new Tesla revenue stream.

On the other hand, smaller makes for easier parking and maneuvering, in addition to the cost savings. And I expect the Model 3 to have more and better sensors, in support of better autonomous driving, than the current Model S can support.

All said, IMO the major advantage of the existing Model S is that it exists today. Owners are paying a huge premium to get semi-autonomous driving a couple of years ahead of schedule. “The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.” – William Gibson
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Apparently not. There's a pretty fascinating story about Etak, who made a dead reckoning-based car navigation in the mid 1980's: http://www.fastcompany.com/3047828/who-needs-gps-the-forgott...
My first thought as well :/
Let's be honest: what percentage of people use this type of video streaming to watch content they have rights to watch and what percentage are using it watch content they don't have rights to watch?

My best guess is that a larger portion of people used Popcorn Time to watch copyrighted materials than people used their knives to injure or kill someone.

I agree that the tools isn't illegal but I think it's fair to be honest about it's most likely purpose.
I figured that the truly innovative aspect here was the pricing model. Other similar services expect your "containers" to run 24/7. Lambda runs your container for as long as the request takes, and only charges you for that. It's like what Heroku was originally trying to do with its Aspen Ruby stack, plugging everyone's apps as handlers into Passenger and only (quickly) spinning them up when they get requests.

You've been able to do the same thing forever by just writing everything as (non-F/non-WS)CGI scripts, or as isolated PHP servlets. But nobody ever charged for those by tracking CPU time, rather than just imposing a monthly fee + caps.
Related: http://www.iflscience.com/technology/artificial-gills-underw...

And yes, indegogo, but its basically the same platform as kickstarter.
> eg: Anti-Tsunami walls killed more people than they saved during great japanese tsunami [..] And ofcourse studies proved that having Tsunami walls is safer than no walls.

Huh? So walls killed more people than they saved but studies showed that they are safer with the walls..?

I googled this, cannot find any information that the anti-Tsunami walls caused more people to be killed.
> I don't know how it's done either, and I've heard about them a few times. It seems somewhat unlikely that there is a remote code execution vulnerability being exploited only by adverts that hasn't been urgently fixed by the browsers.

Flash. And there are a lot of unpatched browsers out there. Between the two, there are lots of users vulnerable to malvertising.

An ad blocker doesn't address the whole of the vulnerability space, but it is a significant mitigation.
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Probably mining Bitcoin, while you wait ;)
G's habit of killing services doesn't explain the extent of AWS's dominance. There must be some way that AWS is actually superior for popular uses.
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The intent is that it's a fairly complete catalog of the ecosystem. The "Ecosystem" page in the Redux docs is fairly short and considered a "staff picks" list. The "Awesome Redux" repo is a hodge-podge of links with only partial descriptions. I'd collected a lot of bookmarks in my own research, and found myself wanting to have some categorized lists on hand when trying to answer people's questions.

If you've got specific suggestions or improvements, PRs are definitely welcome.
Ask HN: Realistic yet entertaining fiction books about hacking?
I recently read Millenium Series Book 4, The Girl in the spider's web, and found that Lagercrantz' depiction of the hacking Lisbeth Salander was pretty realistic and good. I read quite a few thrillers that came nowhere close. They either did not talk about social engineering or did not describe the tools used at all or simply were factually wrong. Of course mainstream fiction cannot go too deep but I think there are better and worse examples of describing hacking.

I wondered which other books you could advice to read?
It could be quite accessible by someone like the IT and e-mail administrator.
the addon decentraleyes is looking to improve the situation

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/decentraleyes...
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so is snubbing it and not copying the worst insult?
Or maybe Silicon Valley is a fiscally incompetent echo chamber, because, well, they don't tend to worry much about money until it's too late.
It sounds almost unbelievable, but it could happen. I mean, Apple, unlike every other computer company, has successfully transitioned processor architecture twice before (68k to PowerPC, PowerPC to Intel). They could pull the same tricks they pulled for PPC to have a smooth transition: x86 emulation on ARM, “Universal” (fat) binaries, and making it easy for developers to port their apps.
Yeah no shit right? Clinton whos been in politics for 30-40 years can't even get her judgment right about basic security protocols for work.
Look below the nose for the radiator hole on the Model 3. If you look carefully at the placement of radiators in modern cars, you can see that most of the actual airflow placement is below the "bumper" (depending on the vehicle).

Modern bumpers are actually integrated fascias. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascia_(car)
I personally hate stored procedures...

Ah yes, SQL injection will be with us for many years yet.
If you need something to be running for more than 5 minutes, you could also (just theoretically) split your work, load it up into SQS, then have your Lambda functions consume it, map-reduce style.
Lambda for node devs at the moment is terrible, the version of node is now 13 months old and with the pace of node development it sucks AWS can't keep up even to major versions :( right now I can't use lambda .
After the Dropcam fiasco, I wondered if there would be a market for secure smart devices with an open API. To me, it's an obvious benefit and one that I would buy (whereas I won't buy the cloud-based devices of this sort), but I suspect the ease of use of something like Dropcam trumps all of the other considerations. I even considered doing a Kickstarter to build something in that space; the technical side, both hardware and software, is actually very, very, simple these days. I mean, a thermostat is a temperature sensor, a clock, and some switches; the kind of thing electronics nerds put together when first learning. The smallest Arduino could more than handle the task (for the prototype, and a dedicated device could be manufactured in quantity very cheaply). Controlling switches and sensors in software is also very simple. Making a beautiful UI (which I think is a big part of the appeal of Nest, Dropcam, and the like) is more challenging, for me, but perhaps there's a UI/UX designer out there who has similar inclinations.

I never thought I'd want to be in the home automation business, or the web cam business, but this kind of thing is just so offensive to me, that whenever I think about it, I want to do something.
Would something like the Rails database migration systems work for this (aka a DSL for describing common db transformation tasks with tooling to put you at the right version, rollbacks,etc.)
Traditionally (before the 90s) stock index growth was driven by retirement investment, which is driven by demographics (more workers or richer workers). Recently, most dollars added to public exchanges come from corporate buybacks (companies seeking to go private).

The only disadvantage to private investment is liquidity. Otherwise, it's way better to be non-public (less hostile takeovers, less activist investors, less regulations, less mandatory transparency, less managing for 1Q instead of 5Y).

This feels like more evidence for a tipping point between capital and labor.
I used to cycle quite a bit in the summer - a habit I need to get back into. In the winter, there's many feet of snow on the ground, the bike paths are buried, and the roads involved aren't in very good shape when the weather is good - I suspect I would die. :P Also, it would suck trying to stop my bike from rusting away.
Sorry for the delay in my response! I just put an email in my profile - didn't realize it wasn't showing up.

Ah. I still see brief remnants of attitudes that consider 'computation' to be somehow opposite to design, and am simply grateful that I don't have to take part in that discussion anymore.
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