skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, did they generate keys they liked and then tried to use them immediately, hoping nobody had generated the same key in the meantime, or did they generate only keys they would like and "registered" them all but kept just one? If so, what happens to allocated but unused keys? What I'm trying to figure out is:

1. race condition?

2. waste of key space?
Yes. Usually when I build an application I'd use a single database. While I don't think in the end it would matter for PostgreSQL or CouchDB, two databases is a bit much. Just curious as why they use two databases that can accomplish the same task (from what I can tell from my limited digging into the project).
From those same charts, unemployed part-time not by choice is rising since Oct '15. U6 is constant in that period as well.
Now either the grocery store or the consumer who uses the plastic bags have to pay for the pollution they cause.

Except this pollution isn't really caused (the example being given over and over are bags blowing in the wind) if people dispose of them properly.

That is no longer covering an externality, that is punishing the many for the careless actions of the few, something that is always immoral all of the time in my mind.

Fine the litterbug companies and litterbug people, leave everyone else the hell alone.
When Cervantes was captured by pirates
That's depressing added information to the headline. I was hoping that it was actual empathy, rather than shared background.
IE 6 was released with Windows XP in 2001 and IE 7 didn't come out until the end of 2006.
it's not getting hits because it's not a surprise. we all knew.
I must now assume that any comment on this page of the 'so what?' or 'everyone does it' variety or any downplaying whatsoever is in fact a paid shill. That includes any disagreements with this statement :)
That was great, thanks for sharing. Never thought I would see Baby Buster playing Ub.
Where did you get this number ? I've skimmed the article and couldn't find it. It seemed a little strange they didn't didn't do direct comparisons between genders to me as well.

I couldn't shake the feeling this was to be part of a larger narrative.
Every comment that starts with "curious" seem to be spam on HN. Is this always the same guy or a bot? Almost every HN topic contains one of these "curious" comments...
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Why I Hate Template Markets
Would you describe vandalism as a "market failure"? How about shoplifting? If not, why are they a different problem from littering?

If there is a problem with plastic bag litter, it is the fault of the litterers, which is a subset of all users of plastic bags. Shifting what should be the liability of the polluters onto the entire population of plastic bag users doesn't right any wrong--in my view the wrong is even greater.
If it's that compelling, you ought to publish it.

I'm sensitive to your viewpoint, but it's one thing to argue that state and federal institutions ought to take the lead on solving homelessness and quite another to suggest that the city ought to contribute nothing to the solution.
Hi! We are the developers of blur-admin that got trending on github and we wanted to share our story with the community.
And for those interested, here's the Packer build configuration I used to build the box: https://github.com/geerlingguy/packer-ubuntu-1604

All my boxes are available on http://files.midwesternmac.com/
Having lived in Kenya for 2 years, I really don't like these arguments. I'm sure the bank has many pieces of modern equipment (cars, air conditioners, etc...). Good IT equipment really isn't that expensive comparatively and we all need to be on the same page about the value delivered by proper gear.

WHO has a list of essential medicines for all countries. Maybe we should have a list of essential technologies for all organizations.

http://www.who.int/medicines/publications/essentialmedicines...
I was never depressed when I was poor, only when I was pulling in lots of money and spending all week at the office.
That just means food production is a problem we need to solve in order to prevent people dying. It doesn't mean the death itself is a good thing.

And if food consumption truly became limiting, would you prefer a society that kills people at a certain age, or one that limits the birth rate?
Is there a guide for setting this up internally (within a local network)?
That construction is still quite expensive and must look hideous. Sounds like a typical well-meaning regulation that's made without considering the consequences.
They do. At least, my latest position involved submitting my employment data for the past seven years to a firm that conducted background checks. Again, this was for a position that was several layers removed from any kind of direct access to customer data or financial data.
It is a 1 minute question, to be honest. Even FizzBuzz requires more thinking.
Facinating. More interesting reading seems to be available here: https://www.patrolx.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/309591980...
At some point we've moved into the point of diminishing returns and pointlessness. Carrying on a full conversation might be one thing - barking the words "acknowledge alert" or similar at your phone probably doesn't cause a measurable or significant distraction.
They are being paid to "correct" them by the person who has a vested interest in how the "corrections" portray the facts, linguistically. Let's toss out a hypothetical example:

Fact: Hillary Clinton is being investigated regarding her use of a private email server.

Fact via "Correction": Republicans have instigated an investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server for political gain.

See what I'm alluding to? If not, then okay, but I don't think I can get much more granular.
You make it sound like Apple can easily move out of China. Think again. Apple's profits are largely due to the cheap labor market (just like many other companies)
This is far too small of a sample size to draw widespread conclusions from, but it was really interesting how their weekly grocery bills between these 4 men scale logarithmically in contrast to their income. The guy on food stamps spends $130-140 a week, the guy making $53,000 a year spends $100-125, while the guy making $250,000 spends $200.
The serious problem of emulating x86/x86-64 is that it has a strong memory model, while most other platforms (ARM, PowerPC, Itanium, Alpha) have a weak memory model. Only SPARC (SPARC TSO) and zSeries have a similarly strong memory model as x86/x86-64.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Memory_ordering&o... for details.
Good point. Still sounds like the commenter expected it before the guaranteed date, but maybe Amazon just screwed it up that badly.
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The issue is that mfg of cpus at scale is very costly, and short of a large scale, the per-unit cost to cover tooling is higher... lower margins, less profit, higher cost to the customers. Per-Unit cost, and relative throughput is why Intel rules the roost for the most part, even in server.

I've looked at some of the costs of ARM servers, and they're way more expensive than they should be (compared to the cost going into phones)... I would think that may eventually become competitive... though Intel has a bit of room to lower pricing and still make money to compete.
It's not like they do due diligence on any of the medication, supplements, or medical devices they sell, so why would you expect it for medical tests?
>You claim that a reversible algorithm takes zero time.

No, you misread my comment. Reversible computing can take almost no energy.
KYC laws are not strictly followed in the Philippines, in fact people accused of laundering the money in the Philippines have routinely cited bank secrecy laws when questioned.
nice, you can even require other files in JS - although it would be nice to be able to customize the file names - but still very useful for the kind of thing I would normally use a gist for.

Edit: I do wish it had a more recent version of node though (currently v0.12.7)
> Ever since there started being discounts for Prime-only members I knew it was the beginning of the end of my using Amazon.

For me the opposite happened: i'm now shopping more at amazon than before because I decided to subscribe to prime again. Here (Austria) prime now delivers in one or two days even to the most remote regions which previously was something they did not really do. I also get instant video, amazon music and a bunch of other stuff thrown in for free and the returns are amazing.

The value I get out of it is very much worth it. I don't see any other online store catching up with this service any time soon.
> Recall that Doom is a multi-level first person shooter that ships with an advanced 3D rendering engine and multiple levels, each comprised of maps, sprites and sound effects.

Doom isn't in true 3D, its an advanced raycasting engine. The levels are all 2D, there are no polygons, you can't look up and down. Doom has been ported to a TI Calculator. Lets maintain some perspective here.
My family immigrated to the US from Russia back in 1998. We were below poverty-level poor. It was a real, tough struggle to stay afloat, but I never remembered the sense of dread, desperation or depression. You were just too busy surviving. 18 years later and we have cars, houses, bank accounts, 401(k)s, IRAs, stocks and etc and I've never seen my family more miserable than I do now. I really had no idea what depression even was until we came here and I started struggling with it and finally went to a therapist after I couldn't take it any more. Sometimes when you don't have much you appreciate what you actually have and that's more than enough to live for.
If the only thing you have on the CDN is libraries, it's faster to have your site host them even if it's on the other side of the world. When HTTP2 file push is widely supported, it becomes even more in favor of hosting locally, as you can start sending your libraries right after you are done sending the initial page without waiting for the browser to request them.

If you are using a CDN for images/video, then yes, you would have savings from using a CDN since your users will have to nail up a connection to your CDN anyways.

Then again a fair number of the users for the site I'm currently working on have high latency connections (800ms+), so it might be distorting my view somewhat.
“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.” --Woody Allen

Some small parts of a person can be transmitted to the outside world, but this leaves out the vast, rich internal world each mind carries with it. If I picture a loved one dying, I feel pretty concerned with the part where they don't keep being alive, keep pursuing their goals and having rich experiences and exploring and loving and being loved and creating and etc. How does this compare with your thoughts?

This may be painful to think about in detail. But I think it is actually important to think about anyway, because there are actual important decisions we have to make (whether to do research in to life extension, whether to sign up for cryonics, etc.), and we seem to be making the wrong decisions when we don't have everything in view; including the most painful parts, which happen to be the most important!

I'm also pretty confused why people bring up supposed benefits of society; to be frank, it sounds to me like people are suggesting "we should kill (let die) all the old and sick people to free up floor space" or "we should kill (let die) all the old and sick people so we don't have to spend any time dealing with their backwards ideas".
Something that would be more effective is if Google began factoring page load speeds in their rankings just like they did for mobile optimization.
It's pretty notorious that science fairs are a venue for "achievement laundering", particularly when you see how many winners are professor's kids, upper upper middle class or otherwise privileged.

The U.S. is starting to get as bad as Heian Japan -- where the obsession of aristocrats on maintaining their privilege meant making a mockery of the Confucian institutions they imported from China.
Science fair paperwork pretty much parallels university level lab research paperwork. Anything biological requires an assessment of the level of lab required, it requires that the lab be correctly supervised, etc, etc. The old days where a kid could do about anything are long gone. Certainly some attention to safety is appropriate. But the article is correct in that no kid could deal with the mountain of paperwork required all by themselves. And the penalty for missing a piece of the paperwork is severe -- no entry for you.

In fact, it has given rise to a cottage industry of science fair mentors-for-hire. If you can find a highly enough motivated high school teacher to manage the paperwork, and can find a lab that has the correct rating for whatever you are doing, then great for you. Otherwise, there are a few places that can provide lab space and a mentor at an hourly fee, not to mention experience in getting the mountain of paperwork correct. It is good to have money to rub on the problem -- I'm sure a lot of kids get left behind because of that.

My daughter did an electronics project -- and the paperwork was still daunting, even though we could check "N/A" to all the biohazzard management sections, lab-has-eyewash, mentor qualified to handle animal tissues, etc. We still had to submit schematics and test plan material -- which is OK I guess because it is probably worthwhile to see if the project involves a direct connection to 220V AC mains before things get out of hand.

In the end though, one of the biggest problems with science fairs is getting enough qualified judges. The kids pour countless hours into the project, and hope for a 5-10 minute visit from 4 judges. If you are lucky, the judge might actually have a clue about your area of science or technology. Then the judging team tries to figure out some winners. One of the best ways anyone here on HN could help is to volunteer an afternoon per year to be a judge. Fairs are always short of qualified judges. Heck, they are short of judges that can fog a mirror. The best thing you can do for these kids is give them your time to encourage them and hopefully nudge the system towards a rational result.
As noted above, corners are utilized for storing large items that don't otherwise fit comfortably on the counter.

In my own kitchen, the corner is used to store a mid-size toaster over. There is still plenty of room in front of the oven to butter toast or other smaller cooking tasks.

Take away the corner and my toaster is now moved to a straight piece of counter, where is takes all of the depth when open, and with no room in front to butter my toast.

This is a simple case of putting the needs of the few ahead of the many. I'm all for accessible public spaces, but why should my home be required to be built in such a way that it is less useful to me?
Yeah, I have no idea and I also suspect that very few new patents by either company are directly related to x86. Intel is still one of the most prolific patent recipients though, so one might have to dig through them to see. I suspect they are mostly related to fab design and lithography, though.
Nothing has changed. The singular goal of Servo is to make a great browser engine. There are lots of things that can be done with a great browser engine. Let's talk about what we can do with a great browser engine once it exists.

The reason why you can't find an answer as to whether Servo will replace Gecko is, in fact, that there is no answer to that right now. Any sort of wild speculation as to whether Servo is going to replace Gecko is extremely premature at this point.
For a company that calls itself "The Everything Store", becoming the "Everything except if we think we can squeeze you for more money" is going to push people into the waiting arms of Walmart and Jet and Google Shopping intermediary.

Costco charges everyone $50/year. If Amazon wants to do that, just drop the non-Prime offering entirely, give everyone a 1 year free trial, and stop the nonsense games.
It seems odd to me that "Bob" hasn't been outed. It almost makes me suspect that someone isn't sure how much of "Bob's" role as portrayed in TFA is true and how much is a frame-job by an untouchable hacker [EDIT:] or wishful thinking by a frustrated executive.
This also implies that atheists are more likely to commit suicide. Is there evidence to support that?
Thanks for the comment your suggestion would be an excellent PR. I don't want to quite rival the documentation for async itself, but give a few essential patterns. I think I will definitely mention parallel.

The main point was to share some initial examples with some contacts and colleagues who may have no idea about async processing at all.
About social media - all I really use Facebook for, primarily, is to stay lightly connected to "friends at a distance" for fear of losing them and not being able to find them again. Something that a contact book could easily solve, as long as you verify the contact methods were still valid from time to time. At least for me, the novelty of sharing/comparing of social details has long worn off.

Not sure the cost of being data-mined is worth the value in the end.

And that makes me wonder... how many people out there feel like an object to be used, mined and sold or sold to, rather than valued as a human being, or find their struggle to be recognized, powerful, wealthy, whatever too overpowering?

The book "Bowling Alone" [1] is an interesting take on much of this from around the year 2000. In theory, social media must have helped with the problems outlined in that book. And yet, I wonder, has the real solution been hijacked by commercialism? Maybe. And what would that book say if written today?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone
Can you pinpoint what it is about US culture that creates the sense of dread and depression for you and your family?
Nice! That's really considerate of you. I'm sure your candidates appreciate the extra time and I bet the Monday conversations are of higher quality, too.
"it's Apple that needs China's market".

I always hear this, but given the experience of most american companies in china, it seems little stretched.
Terrible title. I was wondering in what use case Facebook makes sense as an alternative to Tor
good -- i need a safe space.
Not as big a problem with Teslas, apparently. The battery is trivial to replace, and they hold their resale value well enough so far.
Completely agree. I was an original Prime member when it first came out which was before price increases, add on items, restrictions and bullshit. After learning about how they treat their workers as well as them adding sales tax on to things that were previously untaxed (state law). I look elsewhere for a lot of things and if I can't find something other than on Amazon I buy from the 3rd party retailer. Paying for the shipping is still cheaper adding shit I don't need/want to meet the $35 threshold and faster.
Even more ironic, the lower incomes are actually paying fewer to no taxes
> Instead we will go back to the age of "durable" / "longer lasting goods".

I think it's more likely that, goods will become more flimsy, cheaply made, and disposable. If true progress no longer provides motivation to buy new things, manufacturers will invent new ones.
Amazon UK had prime exclusive content for a while already. Some baby products for sure.
The plastic bag ban was one of a handful of regulations that made a HUGE difference to the health of the bay's ecosystem. Paper will at least disintegrate over time in the bay's water. Plastic does not.

You should really look at the effect and reasoning of some of these regulations rather than handwaving them away as 'bad government regulation'
The real issue with democracy is that people (me included) care far more about whether a research vessel is christened Boaty McBoatface than they do about almost anything else.
Can you find even one example of an entry-level programmer governing a city, let alone enough data to generalize about "most"?
It also gives a perfectly rational insight as to the origins of Walt Disney's iron-fist grip on Intellectual Property in the United States. It's enlightening. I still hate what the real-world implications are and the challenge to reform (thanks a lot, Sonny), but at least I can understand his motivation.
Does anybody want or use this? Does it share all of your tabs? How do you control what it shares? It seems like a privacy time bomb waiting to happen.
Are you getting fully sequenced before you die, so if there are discoveries later, your kids will have a database of you to compare against?

Apparently the cost finally dropped below $1kUSD this year
Some other reading on the topic for those who are interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_moriendi
"The Art of Dying"
Totally agree with this. India is not an exception here though. In europe, we have the problem that all the main software is owned in US companies and much of the data resides there. Given US companies desire to mine user data at will, this is very much frowned upon. But sadly, there is no competition (whatever there was has already been killed).

The US companies (slack being perfect example) have the typical approach of:
1. Take capital and give out free stuff
2. Be everywhere
3. Now either show ads and mine user data and build user profiles. Alternately, they shutdown. All this churn causes a tremendous amount of loss in the local economy.
there are non public ip addresses and the tor team spends quite some time fighting the big firewall in various ways.

talk from the 23c3 about tor and china:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6A7jLpL3Rs
Scripted Virtual-Machine Creation
These can be tricky as they tend to encourage pigeon-holing of ourselves into certain personality archetypes in our mind. I skipped the test altogether, and read through the analyses to help recalibrate my own vision of myself, and to formulate any short term correctional habits I need to impose on myself. A very healthy thing to do, if done correctly.
They did not arrest him for what he said on twitter. They arrested him because he confronted a woman in the street to racially harass her.

Twitter is just how they found out about it.
Yeah, Patreon has been fantastic for a lot of publishers with loyal fans. Aside from the people who donate $1, where a lot of that gets lost in transaction fees, most of the money goes right to the publishers.

There are two reasons I dislike donating:

1) publishers need to "beg" for money in every episode.

2) listeners are forced to have a charitable mindset and consciously/subconsciously assess if the publisher needs money (ie: no ads --> publisher can't feed kids --> donate)
>The purpose of plastic bag taxes isn't to "price-in" an externality;

Maybe, maybe not; I was responding to a poster who was justifying it on that basis.

>More generally, the language of economics ("pricing-in externalities") doesn't make sense when discussing irreversible damage to the environment:

>When you can't repair the damage, the idea of "pricing-in" externalities is just confused thinking. (You can't buy a new planet...

Well, you can repair the damage from plastic bags.

>2. For any consumer behavior that causes irrevesable damage to the environment, the cost is at once too large to quanify

If your model contains infinities, it's automatically unhelpful; that takes you into Pascal's Wager territory. If the damage is infinitely bad, then it it would justify draconian measures against even trivial risks of too many plastic bags. But however bad they are, they're not infinitely bad. Such a model would justify arbitrarily high bag fees, not some piddling ten cents with the hope of changing long-term consumer behavior.
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