skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're federal agents within the Postal Service.

Legally, you can't mail any "obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article, matter, thing, device, or substance"
To be fair, Bitcoin is also unique within the crypto currency world, just like gold is unique within the elements.

Nothing will ever change the fact that Bitcoin was first, it has first-mover advantage over other implementations. You could also argue it currently has the most investment, both in monitory terms and development effort.
The notation is indeed a bit non-standard (we would generally use intersections nowadays), but it's not completely ad hoc. If you think of P_n as the indicator function of the polygon (i.e. P_n(x) = 1 if x is in the polygon and 0 otherwise), then it makes sense. (There is still a little bit of sloppiness from using P_n to denote the area of a polygon as well as the polygon itself.)
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So, instead of tackling and solving performance issues with a known resource (your server hardware), the situation is improved by "solving" performance issues/concerns by dumping them on an unknown resource (your users' hardware)? That sounds like an awfully foolish argument and approach to me.
> The researchers, led by Raj Chetty, a professor of economics at Stanford University, analyzed more than 1.4 billion federal tax returns, as well as mortality data from the Social Security Administration, from the years 2001 to 2014. In that period, the life expectancy of the richest five per cent of Americans increased by roughly three years. For the poorest five per cent, there was no increase.

I find it hard to believe that over a period of 13 years a particular group of Americans lived three years longer on average because they could afford more and better healthcare. That's a very significant jump, and to me it seems more likely to be explained by differences in the composition of the top 5 percent. Did it become more white, more educated, more urban, etc.?

Can anyone who read the original paper comment on whether that was explored at all?
Yes - I think this is a US-centric article.
lvs strikes a chord with me as well. I'm also an academic (well, staff in implementation of MS Cloud technologies at a 150k user university). Coming from a very liberal campus has exposed me to a great deal of people, from Anarcho-capitalists to Communists, and everything in between.

I get the idea that simply "doing work to make money" doesn't change the world in meaningful ways. I think of it akin to the idea of "Rent" or lock-in. Both of those ways can be used, and quite effectively, to extract more money. Yet neither of those can be used to further science, arts, technology, engineering, philosophy, or other more academic pursuits directly. Making a new DRM technology to retard sharing of media isn't innovative: it's built on a broken premise that will turn into a time and money sink for all those whom are involved.

Now, money can be used to fund those areas. YC is doing just that with the UBI research (linked elsewhere in this thread). But the money can also be stockpiled, sent in investments, or other non humanity-furthering ways.

But, I think the crux of his argument is that this 'gravitational' force of money sucks innovative peoples, scientists, and similar into what amounts to a tar pit. There's only a limited amount of these types of people, and the claim is SV and similar cultures around the world is sucking the air out from more pressing pursuits.

Now, the bad side: Academia is also just as poisonous... Just in not the ways SV is. Instead, at least in the US, I'm sure you know of the repercussions students have, are, and will go through for the loan crisis. My own job, as with most around me, are paid nearly all by exorbitant student loans. And it's a cyclical money-suck.

Faculty also deal with nasty issues. Three of my friends are PhDs in various STEM areas. All 3 of them are adjunct faculty. In other words, cheaply paid contract labor. This is similar to the Uber-ification of teaching staff.

I'm a relative outsider to that of business and that of academia (being IT staff). I see the value of both, and also its poisons. The more I think on it, it seems the underlying issue is money. Or better yet, it's the idea that one has to "grow or perish". The idea is the same in both spheres.
Connecting two existing personal accounts is something we've considered, but we've found that this doesn't necessarily help saving from a user perspective. The majority of our users love that they now have an account that is out of sight and out of mind. We haven't ruled out other options, but the current setup has been pretty well received by our current our user base.
Yes, it often takes years for new terminology to catch on and sometimes it doesn't. If a whole generation grows up seeing it in textbooks, and hearing it in the classroom I have no doubt that it will catch on eventually. Most people don't talk BCE outside of a classroom anyways.
One of our primary goals with ACS is to make sure we offered versatility with the platform. We wanted to support both a choice of orchestrators (DCOS and Swarm) and wanted to expose these open source solutions directly, enabling cross-cloud mobility.

Disclosure: I work for Microsoft on Azure.
Then you're an idiot.
> Obviously, we can't confirm this story. We asked Microsoft for comment on if they have people on their payroll using Reddit.

Very compelling.
This is a trickier case than it might seem. Titles that don't explain everything are often a good thing on HN; it's good for readers to have to slow down and work a little. But in this case "The island where nothing makes sense" fits the linkbait pattern too closely for that argument to win. So yes, we've changed the title.
Which also raises the question why do these websites not offer versions of their website that at least function enough without all the JS sugarcoating. I miss the early web with simpler designs.

Edit: Fixed poor wording.
Ah. Gotcha. E.g. - a newsletter doesn't need to be an "app".
I presume you mean 100 MB (or just plain 100 MBytes) - so, 53 megabits/second. So a little better, but nowhere near 1 gigabit (which I presume you have, it's so cheap here - not that it seems to be useful for anything other than great speedtest results)
This might not be the right question, but:

Did you test using S4CMD with many threads as opposed to S3CMD?
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This post quotes from Infinite Jest (1996) which was talking about videophones in general, not FaceTime in specific.
Could it be any other OTP in context? That was right after mentioning Phoenix, wasn't it?
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Famous counterexample to this is the stuff about crisis leadership from a few years ago:

http://www.salon.com/2011/08/02/first_rate_madness_interview...

This guy's thesis is that in tough times, mental illness is associated with leadership effectiveness. His examples are Lincoln and WT sherman. (the stats argument here ends up being pretty weak).

Bottom line -- it's really hard to grade heuristics unless you have enough knowledge to restrict the situations which may occur in the future (and if you do, it's no longer a heuristic).
Agree completely. I found Margin of safety much more practically applicable than Graham's books and much more enjoyable read.
It wouldn't have hurt to keep the Restart button, just like RISCOS. The problem was the message, not the button.

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/startupshutdown/shu...
Just found this on hackernews now. Pull requests are very welcome. I don't personally have a lot of time to actually code stuff, as I'm busy with contracts, but if you post on our irc someone might be interested in digging into your code base and pulling out the useful bits.
Does it seriously take a week to get a snowball? You'd think with all the logistics Amazon owns...
No, I was thinking of me sending things to a bank as well. Like supporting documentation for a loan application which must be received by close of business on this date or the loan will fall through - it may not need to be an original document, but it is in my interest to have third party confirmation that it was received before the deadline.
I think that's quite the over-exaggeration. While I agree with you in principle, it's a far more nuanced problem.

But I will say this: we will have a crisis on our hands in places like Bangladesh. Investing in ways to remedy this will benefit us all.
I dislike how it changes behavior from release to release, for example foo-1.2, id that foo 1.2 or foo -1.2? Default dpends on release of natsort with new routines to restore previous behavior.
Plus, there's a pretty easy way to do a realtime graph without javascript. You just embed it in an iframe; the iframe page needs a meta refresh tag for every few seconds.

Or abuse GIFs:

https://github.com/jbochi/gifstreaming
Cool tip! Thank you.
It will not. We're still very early, and definitely not feature complete with minecraft. We're still working on some very fundamental things.

Do do that, you first have to write code for pulling levers, which will first require some digging around with how pycraft handles textures to make it more generic.

Check back in a few months.
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Yeah those messages are hilarious. I got a pathetic new wrinkle on that the other day:

It looks like someone tried to log into your account on April XX at X:XXxm using an unknown device. Your account is safe; we just wanted to make sure it was you who tried to log in from somewhere new.

If you don't think this was you, please log into Facebook so we can walk you through a few steps to keep your account safe.

Haha nice try Zuck!
Hi Kamilash! You need to have an agent installed on each physical node where kubernetes is running in the cluster. Let me know if you have any other questions!
Does the HoloLens work outdoors at all, or is it restricted to very dim lighting?
From shopping to naked selfies: how 'empowerment' lost its meaning
It's almost purely a function of CPU usage especially if you have an SSD.

I don't think the mac power usage thing takes into account GPU usage but for that you'd probably want to download something third party to check the watt usage itself.
In my experience, companies are not that great at recognizing and rewarding achievement. So unfortunately, I'll stick to my cynical interpretation.
Also, we're talking about dozens or even hundred of people moving on from Amazon here...
If you're in any kind of a music/art type of scene, invites become completely useless as well. I originally joined FB just to promote my music and organize my contacts in the industry. Now I get 50-100 invites per week to events on continents I've never even visited.
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I remember seeing that hand-written warning taped onto IBM PCs.
I always thought the original version of that page (it looks like it hasn't changed much) sounded very Jobsian. "If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps" in particular sounds like him.
Great video. Was really hoping the baby would get up and do something when you clicked on it.

Only partially joking. There was a mental pause where I stopped to think whether something was going to occur. Testament to the overall quality of the AR.
As someone who writes complicated apps with Flask from time to time, I like the approach of using JS merely to request a resource, rendered by the server, and replaced wholesale on the DOM.
This is 5 years before Leather Goddess of Phobos.
EFF Sues for Court Orders Requiring Tech Cos to Decrypt Users’ Communications
Frankly I feel physically sick every time I read one of those articles. I believe it is within our power to stop or at least significantly diminish this trend, but everyone prefers to think about themselves and f*ck the neighbours.
"I'll know it when I see it" really will get you through at least a decade or two. It's not like the doors are going to open and twenty million people are going to emigrate to the asteroid belt overnight.
Compared to the original. We'll revisit that when we have something that offers any genuine advantages.

A lot of people have been doing pull requests for unit-tests, documentation, and continuous integration. So I'm not too worried.

We're setting up a policy for requests, but that policy is living in code.
The charges are claimed to be related to defaults. As such the problem isn't that the apps can't be replaced (by the tiny fraction of users who understand and are capable of doing so), it's that the vast majority of users stick with the pre-installed defaults and google controls those.
Doesn't sound like it solves my main objections to dynamic typing:

1. No compile-time type checking.

2. No autocomplete / intellisense in IDEs (you can try but it's never very good).
Not sure just how seriously this is meant to be taken, but the Echo doesn't monitor anything until you say "Alexa" (and recognition of that is handled in the hardware, locally - if you're worried about devices with net access and microphones, you'll need to keep your phone turned off at home, too). It's fair to assume that once you are interacting with it Amazon mines at least some data, however.
A lot of his points say to offload to services such as a database or queue. It makes sense that if all you are doing in your Clojure application is some simple business logic then you won't need the more sophisticated tools for concurrency and shared state, but if you were trying to write those services in the first place, or if you need higher performance so that sending everything over a socket to a database isn't realistic, then you may need them.
Teenager Is Accused of Live-Streaming a Friend’s Rape on Periscope
Case Study: I'm a designer, and I've built a game for the Apple Watch
I did buy and use it. I know other people who bought and used it. Of course the subsequent iterations were better, but the first gen was not unusable.
MacBook has always had only one RAM option and came with it: 8gb. No 4gb or 16gb ever. The article is incorrect: they made an orthogonal change to MacBook Air (13" only) in making 8GB standard (which used to be an option).
Yeah it's a fibre optic light that spins in a spiral pattern to scan out an image, kind of like a circular CRT.

At least that's what some of their patents describe.
Also a long article about them here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526056.
I think the most important thing about this kind of advice is not to generalize it. For some people it works and for some people it doesn't work. There is no self-help advice that works for everybody.

Also: The advice given is not complete. The people who have success with this do the things the article describes, but they also do some important things the article doesn't describe.
I just sent a picture postcard to a friend for $2.

This was a really nice speedy flow.

For some reason I expect the sms interface to be more human and cheeky. I guess it's the weird AI chat bot trend.
Also important tools like PuTTY.
3 Business Building Lessons from a Fundraising Guru
I recently read that AdWords charges much less if your site is already at the top of the organic search results, or something similar that.
Hack a Teddy Bear to Say Anything: Bringing Teddy Ruxpin Back
Force Netflix into HD mode
Oh wow, I didn't realize that he also did "The Egg". I also recommend reading this!
I'm a 1099-consultant and whenever a payment comes in, I just update a spreadsheet and transfer the amount to a separate savings account. It's not that big of a pain really, just takes a couple of minutes, but it would be nice to automate this with your service.

The only reason I'm hesitant to switch is because you're offering this for free. How do I know you're still going to be in business in a year from now? In other words, what is your business model?
That’s indeed a good thing. With audiobooks – maybe rented from the local library? – and public TV we could have quality voice recognition tools.

Hopefully also ones in German, French, etc. Currently only English is well supported by the non-cloud ones, which is quite annoying.
Alternately, when people overuse words like please they lose all meaning.
It's too much effort & management. This is why Snapchat and similar things are taking off.
I don't know how true this is, but it's something I've found true for myself... I've read (or heard) that your sleep cycle is 90 minutes down to deep sleep and back, so it's best to get up after some multiple of 90 minutes because that's when you'll have cycled back to the lightest sleep.

So typically I either get 6 hours or 7.5 hours of sleep a night, though if I ended up getting 3 or 4.5 one night I'll sometimes try to get 9 the next night. If I can't get at least 3 hours of sleep, I just stay up.

So it's possible the problem with 8 hours is that you're trying to wake up in the middle of a cycle and thus the sluggishness. Or maybe I'm just spreading pseudo-science.
They haven't put cameras in my bathroom yet, so that's one way. Seriously, China is a fairly free society outside of public and media institutions, even more free in the west since police coverage is overall much less (so lots of law breaking in the open; e.g. prostitution, jay walking, driving like a dork).
>but the Echo doesn't monitor anything until you say "Alexa"

then how does it know when you say Alexa?
I'm no denier, but take care not to conflate climate with weather.
China Intensifies Its Domestic Surveillance Program
OK. The vast majority of English speakers refer to it in those terms in almost every context. Is that better?
Nope, atoms are based on simple CAS (Compare And Swap) operation that replaces the reference value. They are pretty much a sugar around AtomicReference in Java (in case of JVM implementation of course).

It is pretty much as like this

1. Dereference a variable and keep the old reference.
2. Create a new modified variable.
3. Use CAS on old reference and new variable
to update the reference to point to the new vairable.
In case of failure (some other thread made the update before) go to 1.

But the version of SMT implemented in Closure is very similar to the CAS, just now you can apply it to the multiple variables i.e. it is multi variable CAS.

It has the same drawbacks and advantages as atomic references: your code does not depend on lock taking order (as they are managed by the transaction manager) and you avoid dead locks as the locks are taken in the same order before applying the update, but now two different threads can start the transaction to update the same variable, but only one of them can finish as the first one and the other one should be cancelled and repeated.

In principle you can get away with a simple atomic reference (that is much faster) when the set of the updated variables is always the same - you make a pair of them and update them together.
This seems like something that is easy for me to do myself. I deposit a check in my bank account and either manually or automatically move some percentage of the money to a separate savings account. I guess I don't see what value this adds?
Hmm well I guess we'll have to wait and see (patents can describe anything they want).
Cannot upvote this enough. This link should be the only answer to this entire thread...
Looks like only certain parts have been updated. The Certificates/Provisioning section seems to be the same, login page remains the same, iTunes Connect remains the same (which admittedly received a facelift last year).
The killer feature for developers is just proper desktop support. Another killer feature for security- and privacy-conscious people is that the clients are open source. People also seem to like the stickers, but they're not my thing.

Anyway, people in my vicinity usually get their healthy dose of paranoia through me so sooner or later, they typically end up installing Telegram. It's not perfect, I have a wishlist, but it's a far cry better from Whatsapp privacy-wise and client-wise (and sticker-wise if that's your thing).

Sometimes it takes a little pushing and inflicting logic (why should I install technically inferior Whatsapp for you, but you not technically superior Telegram for me?), but most people get around to it. Those who don't, I usually just end up losing contact with -- and so far I have no regrets about losing contact with anyone.

> Do you do event invites with it?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean with "event" invites, but whenever a group needs making (e.g. for project groups), I create it in Telegram and invite everyone that already has it. Sometimes there are one or two people who still need to install it, sometimes grudgingly, but if they have at least a few friends on it, they usually don't go back to Whatsapp anymore afterwards. (They don't switch exclusively, but they'll use both.)
I never really considered this an issue. I've been self-employed since 2012 and kept a spreadsheet that calculated the quarterly payments I need to make, so I just sent that amount into a 1% APY savings account every time I got paid.

More recently, I took on a regular W2 job, and I've updated the spreadsheet so that it accounts for both W2 income (and any withholdings from that) as well as 1099 profit/losses (as I enter business expenses as well).

It was all pretty easy to set up and I just update it whenever tax brackets and standard deductions change (usually an annual thing).
We're still pretty close to foglemans "minecraft in 500 lines of python" which was optimized for minimal lines.

There are already some people talking about Cython for some of the fundamental graphics stuff.

Basically, this is just a base so that people can see what they're working towards.
Along with Ocean Acidification Increasing at Unprecentated rates, Top the US aid recipients all practice torture, wiki leaks on the trans-pacific partnership ignored by corporate media, corporate Internet provides threaten net neutrality, bankers back on Wall Street despite major crimes, FBI dismisses murder plot against Occupy Wallstreet as NSA and big business crack down on Wall Street, US media hypocracy in covering Ukraine crisis, world health organization suppresses report on Iraqi cancers and birth defects, wealthy donors and corporations set think tank adgendas, Pentagon awash in money despite serious audit problems, lawsuit challenges nuclear power industry immunity from liability in nuclear accidents, and--accumulating evidence of ongoing wireless technology causing health hazards.

I sometimes think journalists know what's being censored, but figure it's complicated, hasen't been proven, the average reader has too much to worry about just trying to keep a roof over their heads? In other words, "Let's just stick our heads in the sand, and hope for the best?"

I didn't jot these censored topics off the top of my noggin. There's a pretty good book called Censored 2015.

I wasen't going to read it, but it's not fluff. Some of the research was done by College of Marin students. A college I went to, and was a better than my state, and UC school.

(I don't think it censorship. I think it's more like denial, and journalist that are hanging on to their jobs, hoping they won't be fired for low readership, or page counts, but what do I know?)
Ive read Intelligent Investor twice - and there is a chapter midway through the annotated version which basically says that if you arent willing to put in the time finding value shares then stick with passive investing in low cost funds.

I also read Buffetts share letter and he frequently touts how well passive investing would do, even with respect to Berkshire Hathaway

Im purely passive now based mostly on bogleheads
> but provides little semantic value over compare-and-set! on an atom

Can you compare and set on multiple atoms at the same time? If not, how do you make updates atomic without using either STM, a global lock, or re-implementing STM yourself with an incremental locking and rollback system.
Always IP over Avian Carriers:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

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Sneakernets

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet