skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most trials don't have juries. Think small-claims court, divorce court, etc. That's the default—the judge, judging. Jury-trials are a special case, there for when where no judge could be impartial enough, but they're still implemented in terms of a judge sitting there and then delegating some, but not all, of their responsibilities to the jurors.
Outliers make for poor descriptors, but still; probably less than that between Bill Gates and the lowest paid American.

It would be more interesting to see the differences between two typical families in the 10% and 90% of income.
I recommend others doing on call so I don't have to. I'm not an ops person, though I probably wouldn't mind some of the job, and hate being on call. I did it for a year at my current workplace (as a dev). All the problems I was capable of fixing I automated away, and got really annoyed that others didn't do the same for their areas of expertise. In hindsight, we probably should have had separate rosters for separate areas to encourage ownership, but we were a very small team (6 or so).
Will your own hardware have the same reliability as google?
The study you cite conflates happiness and unhappiness.

More money can buy less unhappiness to a _very_ large limit, much larger than $75K in the US. Most simply, any serious medical treatment you have to go through will quickly blow past the $75k number.

And of course even in this study the magic number is very much location-dependent, which makes it even harder to craft policy around it....
There's no free speech on hackernews. People get moderated all the time! If hackernews can moderate its comments, then can't a conference moderate its speakers?
What's the point of Bluetooth? I'd think part of the appeal of a product like this would be its simplicity.
Nice design & +1 for the groundwork. How will you protect your hard work from someone who just wants to scrape and clone it ?

There's also botpages.com discussed 3 days ago here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11456651
The Americana acts are keeping a pseudo honky-tonk tradition alive, somewhat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6LsnxaAcgE

"The society that supported it died out."

I'm slowly trying to get some Ernest Tubb and Ray Price on the setlist of the band I'm in but it's a hard sell. These are guys in their forties.

Edit: schpellings
>And what would you expect the outer universe to be like? A structureless random mess without rules that could be described by mathematics? How would you make a simulation in such an environment?

This actually brings up an interesting question. Can we formulate mathematically consistent laws for a universe which would allow for significantly more efficient algorithms?
RAM is 1600MHz DDR3. I do have an SSD, but as the memory usage of the program was ~32MB, so I doubt it would have an effect haha
I'm not seeing why not. Your data center could go down for a myriad of reasons (ISP goes down, HDs, tripping on power cable, etc). If that happens you're pretty much screwed. You could compensate by having multiple data centers with different infrastructure providers. If you do, you're probably spending more than the few K you referenced in your post.

Yes, it's bad that apparently all of the regions failed. Google will hear about it. People will get in trouble. But a screw up at this level is rare. If you use cloud, or even a VPS provider like Linode, you get auto-fail over and someone that is contractually obligated to deal with failures.
Switching from ECS to GKE (Google Container Engine) currently. Both seem overcomplex for the simpler cases of deploying apps (and provide a lot of flexibility in return), but I have found the performance of GKE (e.g. time for configuration changes to be applied, new containers booted, etc) to be vastly superior. The networking is also much better, GKE has overlay networking so your containers can talk to each other and the outside world pretty smoothly.

GKE has good commandline tools but the web interface is even more limited than ECS's is - I assume at some point they'll integrate the Kubernetes webui into the GCP console.

GKE is still pretty immature though, more so than I realized when I started working with it. The deployments API (which is a huge improvement) has only just landed, and the integration with load balancing and SSL etc is still very green. ECS is also pretty immature though.
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Who (and where) is this experimenter? What if he (and his world) is also simulated?

What is real?
Netflix runs on AWS.
It's fairly well known that netflix runs primarily on AWS.

So probably no.
Sounds exactly like the premise to this South Park episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Advertising
meditation not done correctly and without guidance would mostly result in no progress.
You should try meeting Om Swami [0] to check for yourself the man who has attained spiritual adeptness with meditation – he'd be in Canada next month.

0: omswami.com
In the 1960s you had Countrypolitan. It's not like something similar hasn't happened before.

It always comes back. Besides, WSM stands for "We Shield Millions", the motto of the New York based insurance company that started all that.
A while ago someone posted a great article about Japanese zoning laws. Those make so much more sense: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
Panoramio has a lot of nice photos but just by using it you can tell that it's outdated and not being actively developed. We want to do more than that: local live streams, videos (drone, vines, etc.) as well as VR with 360° photos and videos.

Our goal is to help you get a feel for any place as it currently is and see what's happening there right now, for example weekly local markets, festivals, annual events, etc. Thus the focus is on live and recent visual content that will stop being displayed after a certain time (possibly 1 month).

A cool thing we can potentially do with this is time travel. You'll be able to see what was happening at any place at any given time on Lucal with a timeline slider.
Depending how far down the ladder you go, some ideas take longer than that.

For example, geometric algebra, invented by Hermann Grassmann more than 150 years ago, is the biggest “new” idea in mathematical modeling of geometry, and it’ll probably take another 50 years more to percolate down throughout math education and physics and engineering practice.
All I have done is suggest that the parent comment's argument was shallow and ultimately unhelpful. The intention was to illicit some in depth discussion, hence my questions and my views added afterwards.

All you have done in both your comments is slight the platform and slight myself, adding nothing.

I believe I understand his argument; It would be a waste to spend life chasing immortality, as you would waste the only life you had in search of more of it, thus getting to truly enjoy neither.

But I am still glad there are people chasing it, as it means we get to enjoy more life than if they were not.

The parent comment's sentiment only really makes sense if you yourself are chasing more life, and even then only if you are destined to fail. The last 50 years alone should show us that more quality life is an extremely reasonable goal. Adding nearly 20 years to the average life expectancy, from 60 to 80 for males in Australia for example.
> I feel like for most of us that is just not worth the effort.

I feel like the exact opposite.

What exactly is going to happen when your page doesn't load?

If you're Google or Amazon, the user will try again.

Otherwise the user is going to hit the back button.
One of my prized posessions

http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/Elite.jpg

I wish I knew it was going to be prized before I didn't take care of it !
... flash a "boot from SD card filesystem" firmware in the factory?
Taxi+Lineup+is+the+latest+startup+to+enter+the+same+day+delivery+space
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I will continue to blame MADD, although other distractions probably account for a loss of interest in live music.

We've always homogenized music culture.
And yet, the 'intolerance' that you're so intolerant of goes without citation, without explanation, without discussion. Strikes me as blatant McCarthyism.

Perhaps my account is anonymous because the comment should stand on its own? The discussion surrounding this issue shouldn't require personal reputation. The facts should be sufficient.
We're not discussing social media. We're discussing whether to extend the graces of polite society to people with abhorrent views.

Extending the graces of polite society is one kind of tolerance. Another lesson of history is that peace and harmony is found through commerce. One of the closes friendships in the house when I was an undergrad was between a gay man and a woman who started out rabidly homophobic. They became best friends because they watched soap operas together. Had he behaved as you advocate and shunned her for what she thought, then she would never have become his best friend and she would never have realized the unfounded errors of her upbringing.

Yes, people who have done bad things should be punished. Going around punishing people for stuff they've said is simply intolerant. A society that enacts a regime like this through social means is not virtuous because it has tolerant and protective laws. It would be no better than a society that has granted racial minorities equal status on paper, but continues to oppress them through other means. (Yes, I am talking about the US.) One of the key messages of Gandhi and MLK is that your moral and philosophical consistency is vital, lest you unwittingly become yet another oppressor.

OK to not tolerate those whose unimpeded actions would to destroy your tolerant society.

Being tolerant in just the letter of the law but highly intolerant "in spirit" will destroy a tolerant society. It is happening right now. As with many things, it is harder to see at the top of the socioeconomic ladder and much easier to see at the bottom.
Not sure that you'd want to plant a bunch of European trees to replace native Australian forests.
Google is self-hosted, but they might not use the same hardware GCE uses.
Going forward they're very well situated. The economic power of sub-saharan Africa could very well eclipse Europe if it has a chance to develop.

And that's why you have the vast majority of your money invested there, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0C4_88ub_M&t=72m45s

http://i.imgur.com/BO5YwQl.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuNYOwKlDIE
A lot of Google's own services predate these public offerings. So my guess is even if they're on the same or similar technologies, they may be separate systems.
I'm totally impressed with gcloud. Slick, smooth interface. Cheap pricing. The fact the UI spits out API examples for doing what you're doing is really cool. And it's oh-so-fast. (From what I can tell, gcloud's SSD is 10x faster or 1/10th the cost of AWS.)

And this is coming from a guy that really dislikes Google overall. I was working on a project that might qualify for Azure's BizSpark Plus (they give you like $5K a month in credit), and I'd prefer to pay for gcloud than get Azure for free
Has Amazon.com ever been affected by a AWS outage?

edit: at least it's impacted some of their ancillary services before http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/20/aws_database_outage/
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Single-car house, whatever I get I'm going to have to use for all purposes in my life.
I don't get it. They made transformers like that for about 80 years in America, but if a Chinese person does it, it's crazy and dangerous? It looked like she was doing a pretty good job.
False equivalence. Google isn't a conference.

That said, you should know as well as I do that some people have indeed decided to stop using Google services based on their political behavior and viewpoints and actions ... or silence and inactions.
Original article: http://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol201648

Link to higher-res image: http://www.nature.com/article-assets/npg/nmicrobiol/2016/nmi...
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In Dart and Angular 2. I have to take a look at Dart again. I thought it was going to be left to wither and die, but with Flutter and now this, I have to go back and take another look. The tooling was fun, and they are developing or have developed a 'strong mode' for stronger typing.
Google is already doing this for a while now. Instead of Ads they get feedback about products and services.

Why ask about Ads when you really want to know consumer's thoughts on products??

They decided to make this distinct (at-least from user's perspective) from AdWords/AdSense, which is an awesome idea. And you get play store credits for answers!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

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Most people and customers are tolerant of 15 minutes downtime here and there once or twice a year. Sure, there will be loudmouths who claim to be losing thousands of dollars in sales or business, but they're usually lying and/or not customers you want to have. They'll probably leave to save $1 per month with another vendor.

It sucks but the days of "ZOMG EBAY/MICROSOFT/YAHOO DOWN!!11!" on the cover/top of slashdot and CNET are gone. Hell, slashdot and CNET are basically gone.
Seconded--I can tell the ECS documentation is trying to help, but the foreign task/service/cluster model + crude console UI keeps telling me to let my workload ride on EC2 and maybe come back later.
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There are no 'lies' or 'truths' in this. It's all emotions, and they aren't meaningful at all. Meditation may have positive effects such as increased conscientiousness or ability to focus. But while certainly good, it doesn't have any of the meaning people like to ascribe to it.

Drugs aren't actually that different, except they're more dangerous because the effects of meditation are limited by the available time and exhaustion.

Also, I can't recommend experimenting with LSD. mdma and possibly ketamine highly enough. It got me out of a 10-year spiral of depression and at least the first two are self-limiting to a degree where the temtation to take it too often is low. Just stay away from cocaine (&derivatives) and all opiates.
For me, the larger issue is searching! E.g., compare the search results for "Go sequel" and "golang sequel".

Golang is far more searchable than the ultra-vague "go". Even if humans can figure out the context, a search engine indexing it cannot.
Cheers Andy, feedback like that makes the hard work preparing the talk worth it. Sorry to hear your adventure failed, just keep at it.
That's theVerge offices, not Ford's. Though good eye recognizing the eMate.
You are missing the point.

Yarvin was disinvited because his political beliefs are threatening (and yes, several people used the word "threatened").

Therefore, communists should also be disinvited if anyone feels threatened.

Yes or no?

I mentioned nothing about "the state", by the way. Clearly Lambaconf is a private organization that can invite (or disinvite) anyone it wants.

I am asking why "feeling threatened" by Yarvin (who, as near as I can figure out --- there's no way I'm going to plow through all that turgid prose) is a political party of one, and who (again, as far as I know) has never actually harmed anyone, is a valid reason for disinvitation while feeling threatened by communists (who most assuredly have actually murdered millions of people) is not.

Do you have an answer to that or not?

I strongly suspect that you do not.
This story has everything, from the awesome pic of the scientist Dr. Friend at the top, to the missing consent forms meaning they can't contact the 13 people they identified.

“Instead of looking at people with disease, you need to look at people who should have gotten sick,” said Friend.

"They looked at 874 genes for completely penetrant mutations, meaning anyone who has them will invariably develop the disease." Then they found 13 who never developed symptoms. So I guess the theory is, if you could isolate and identify why, you could perhaps synthesize a perfect treatment. Could you, in theory, use CRISPR to actually program in the enhancement and defeat the disease? Would there be ages where this would be particularly effective, i.e. would you ever treat an embryo this way? The possibilities really are amazing and terrifying.
"[Thomas Pfeiffer] acknowledged that the GNOME project has gained some credibility after the controversial 3.0 release by "constantly providing great releases." But, he said, one of the things that makes it easy to produce those great releases is that the GNOME developers don't really have to care about anything outside of the GNOME world."

While I would agree that every new GNOME release since 3.0 has been better than the last, the "not caring about anything outside of GNOME" part is very concerning to me. I have the impression that GNOME 2.X was a "big tent" consisting of both core GNOME applications and GTK applications that used their infrastructure, but that GNOME 3 is all about "GNOME apps" which often are less stable or have less features than their predecessors.

As a non-enterprise user, it has been disappointing to see GNOME invest more resources into immature apps like GNOME Music, GNOME Photos, and GNOME Web instead of trying to ensure that standard Linux applications without GNOME branding (like Rhythmbox or Banshee, Shotwell, or Chromium) are first-class citizens in their desktop environment.
The original goal of meditation isn't to solve mental problems (though it helps when you really have them) but rather to realize that you're not this body, mind, thoughts etc we often associate our selves with.

Yoga sutras starts with:
The goal of Yoga is to regulate the modifications (tendencies) of mind,
So the seer rests in its true nature.

The true nature of our consciousness (the seer) is existence-knowledge-bliss.

With meditation (which is 7th limb of yoga) practitioner increasingly progresses to realize his true nature eventually. It requires constant long effort and perseverance and right guidance.
> The reason people tend to pay less attention to arguments by hypocrites is that arguments are often about tradeoffs that cannot be scientifically computed or discovered purely through rational debate,

Wow, you've just chosen to discard rationality right at the beginning? I guess that's one way to go about it but I sure don't feel like I need to say much to prove that assuming hypocrites are wrong is irrational.

> actions speak louder than words.

This is a great rule of thumb when applied to judging a person's character, but completely irrelevant to evaluating the correctness of an argument.

> If someone is arguing for tradeoff A, and relying on moral/emotional/somewhat vague arguments for it, whilst simultaneously their actions suggest they actually prefer tradeoff B, then that suggests their proposed weighting of the tradeoffs is actually wrong and thus that their words are not worth very much.

Sure, moral/emotional/somewhat vague arguments are poor arguments. Actions still have nothing to do with it.

> In this case, the Guardian loves to argue that tax avoidance is wrong, using arguments that are vague and emotional at their core (e.g. fairness),

So attack their arguments. If their arguments are invalid they can be proven invalid without attacking The Guardian. The Guardian's hypocrisy remains irrelevant to this conversation.

> Given that actions speak louder than words, that suggests that their proposed tradeoff is perhaps not the right one.

No, it doesn't suggest anything of the sort. Even if we could consider the Guardian to be a single entity--which is isn't: as another poster pointed out, the writing staff are not the same people as the finance department--but even if we could consider the Guardian to be a single entity that was condemning behaviors while engaging in them, that would only prove that The Guardian is kind of an asshole. It doesn't prove that they're wrong.
It's my hunch that they fixed "curating DNS by hand" with service discovery in another method. If you're just using DNS to name internal servers, big whoop. Unless you're using those DNS names for service discovery. Then you've got a big problem. But putting those things in a DB doesn't magically solve it.

It sounds like they went to another method for service discovery, then created DNS entries from a DB either dynamically by registering in a zone or just a regular trigger pulled on DB update. Either way, it sounds like they moved the scary stuff to another level/service in the stack.

Also, linters exist for DNS and can be automated even with manual edits. Jenkins + gerrit makes easy work for this.
One more: How is relying on a random Python library from OpenStack better than relying on a UNIX command line tool that's used by 100x as many people?
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I bought an Anker 5 port USB charger and one of the port died after just 1 month of infrequent use. Their products are very well polished but their QC is bad as you can find so many similar reviews in Amazon. They refused to replace my unit as it was sold by: Amazon Export Sales LLC, according to them which is not official reseller.
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Honestly all of his talks are this good. He's really an incredible speaker, and it seems like he mostly speaks from an outline, not a script.
> Ecstasy is pretty stupid as far as mind-drugs go. You experience intense happiness, pleasure, indeed ecstasy for no reason.

There's a reason why MDMA has had such a long history of use in psychotherapy, and it's not just because other psychedelics were taken off the table in 1971. When used in the right context, it can be a very useful tool for introspection and processing difficult emotions.

http://www.maps.org/research/mdma
Network costs. Bandwidth costs is where the cloud stops making sense. Even Netflix hypes up their cloud use, but they don't serve videos from there.
Sounds like they should pull Safari too :-). It is seriously challenging for any App that depends on user generated content to stay within that particular rule if they user is out seeking cheap thrills.
I haven't been back there in many years now, and tried to give the benefit of the doubt ;-)
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It would have been nice for them to spend more than 10 seconds (literally) evaluating our demo. Also, YC specifically requires you to have a password-less login so most types of authentication system will have to be retooled or deliberately broken for them. Just my 2c
Ask HN: What's it like working at a cannabis tech startup company?
So what is the work culture like at a cannabis company?

Does much get done? Do people roll in late still half baked?

Or is it the ordinary super motivated, go hard startup culture?
Am I being unclear here? I don't believe in free speech.

No, I think you're being perfectly clear.

I, and many others, find your disbelief in free speech threatening (frankly, this attitude scares the hell out of me).

That would make it okay for us to prevent you from speaking in public or holding gainful employment? Yes? No? If not, why not?
If Spotify wanted to be really sneaky, some amount of downtime might be good for them financially.

The bulk of their revenue comes from customers who subscribe on a per-month basis, while they pay out royalties on a per-song-played basis. This outage is reducing the amount they have to pay, and if the outage-elasticity-of-demand is low enough they could (hypothetically) come out ahead!