skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seriously, at least cover MSP

Seriously? That's only what, 60 a month to cover it? Do you guys at least get vision and dental?

Here in Seattle they give you benefits (I only used dental, it was fine for normal treatment) and an orca card (transit pass).
Voctomix: full-HD software live-video mixer
This sounds really interesting. Do you have a paper or more details?
My guess is also they could not fathom how incompetent the government they voted for would turn out to be
Lot of guesswork in the text. I'll add my own.

The fall in this statistic looks quite similar to the fall in crime. Both are reckless shortsighted behavior, and I'd bet there is a common cause.
Well, of course. Other humans are fallible and crash their cars all the time, but I'm a good driver and would never crash, so I don't want a self-driving car.
Good point. Porn for lots of boys, and celibacy for lots of girls. But hey, maybe they'll just grow out of it. My generation eventually grew out of promiscuity. Or maybe "aged out" is more accurate ;) HIV was a huge bring-down, too :(
> Why does this rationale not apply to its cloud business

Radically different margins. AWS is running on a 23.5% operating income margin. Retail doesn't come close to that. Operating margins on their traditional North America business are 3.5%, and 1.3% internationally. Retail has to do almost seven times the sales of AWS to match the operating income.

The cash cow they have in AWS, is supporting the outsized valuation in their stock. Once investors realized what they had in AWS, by revealing how it was doing, the stock soared to a new level of high valuation. You can go back to December 2014 as see when this happened, the stock had been stagnant for a while, then doubled in one year following the reveal of how AWS was performing. AWS will pay for a lot of patience with shareholders.
Vanhawks (YC W15) founder's experience with global logistics and manufacturing
Venezuela is highly polarized so it's very difficult to get a fair and balanced outlook of what's happening there. But it's impossible to deny the evidence of stubbornly incompetent and corrupt management of public finances.

Printing unlimited money, supporting cuban dictatorship with oil billions, digging deeper in social division and looting public treasure... you can believe in whatever society model you want, but persistence in error to the point of leading the country to misery is irresponsible.
People go nuts over Facebook selling, again, $1/month per subscriber. Their entire income is 50% of Apple's profit. People go nuts over Amazon finally profiting 500M in a quarter which is 1/20th of Apple. If Facebook got $1/month for every living person on earth they still wouldn't get close to Apple's non-hardware income ($10B). Maybe Carl can go irritate them for a while.
All the Asian tigers suppressed the value of their currencies by loading up on US treasuries.

Venezuela instead tried to fix the value of its currency at a far too high level.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair
"Socialism" is rarely actual socialism. There are usually good intentions in the beginning, but then "some animals become more equal than others".
I've updated parent post with links. The G+ and Reddit set contain suggestions on actual mechanism, though I'm open on that.
i would be careful with using RT as a source of information. Its pretty much a Russian government propaganda organ
Didn't freakonomics write about the reverse relationship? Contraceptives helped reduce unwanted pregnancies... unwanted pregnancies turn in to unwanted babies/children that eventually have a higher probability of turning into criminals.
Price controls are fairly widely spread, actually. Some examples that come to mind immediately: taxis in most countries, fees of medical doctors, lawyers, and some other professionals (e.g. real estate agents) in Germany and probably many other countries.

Prices must be set somehow, and there are many markets where setting them via regulation is a good thing. Taxis are a perfect example: since they're often used by travellers who are unfamiliar with a city, having a clear system determining the price is beneficial.

I think it's important to keep those examples of (mostly) beneficial price controls in mind, since obviously the examples where price controls fail spectacularly are more salient, and hence there may be a misleading bias in how price controls are perceived.
That's quite a straw man, bud.
Honestly, GCC and the GPL are probably the largest contributions of all time to software development. Although GCC has waned in popularity of late, at the time it truly is what sparked the "Open Source" and "Free Software" movements.

Without those, I couldn't imagine the world progressing as fast as it did. Especially, without someone like Stallman behind it, almost completely devoid of social understanding, he was able to stand up to virtually unlimited pressure and keep to his values.

I agree some people on HN don't respect him, or just generally dislike him. They claim he hurt GCC or Emacs, and to an extent he did through the GPL and/or his lack of technical guidance. However, without him, they wouldn't have existed at all. GCC is still pretty competitive, and at one point was the most competitive free compiler - which is why both movements gained so much momentum.

RMS' fervent defense of freedom has been both his greatest asset, and his greatest weakness. I find it hard to criticize the man who literally dedicated (and in a sense sacrificed) his life to ensure humanity doesn't have to pay for every single piece of software.

Hell, would we still have to pay for web browsers?
That sweet smell of disruption
I was agreeing with you and trying to provide a complimentary example :) It's hard to grow when you're hindered by the long forgotten past.
Speaking honestly, the idea is at the level of early experiments. I can get the basic stereo-imaging and motor inputs/outputs within a month. Next would be work on getting feedback system from the environment/surrounding objects including the spectator interactions. This would take another month or a bit more. Finally another month (and more) would consist of experiments on embedding neural nets and scaling the training process. If to move quickly 3 months is enough to build a basis.
When I was a teen (10 years ago) a friend of mine was a drug dealer. He dealt morning-after pills to girls who couldn't get them normally.
Try puzzles and dragons. It makes all of its money in IAP but so far I've felt no urge to purchase. Game is largely based on skill as far as I can tell. I'm sure there is a lot of grinding to get through at certain points, but I've been playing regularly for a couple of weeks and haven't run into it on the regular dungeons.
I think another exception would be when price controls are used only to stop monopoly rent. (or part of the same exception, depending on what you mean by "price of the object")
None of the other oil states have collapsed nearly as hard, so so this is far from a normal reaction to lower export revenue.

Venezuela was uniquely mismanaged even with high oil prices, but the billions raining from the sky covered up things enough to keep things on a regular third world level.
I am 34 in the US and didn't learn how to apply condoms until I was an adult, and I learned it from pornography.
From what I understand, the source often contains other files/scripts that are invoked by the Dockerfile, so that would be one example of potentially missing visibility.
Chavez was more like the poison pill or the neck around the rope. The next question is how did Venezuela drove itself to a point where people elected him?

They had a lot of money from oil, almost no taxes (or no taxes at all??), and still had a larger poverty rate that similar but oil-less countries of South America (that still had its own issues such as corruption, terrorism and drugs)
Parenthood provides virtually no economic benefit in modern industrial society. More so now, with mobility and weakening of family ties. Children cost a lot, and they probably won't help when you're old. So why bother?
Allowing AWS to print money, resulted in adding nearly $150 billion to Amazon's market capitalization.

Investors have placed an immense value on AWS in the last year plus, since it was revealed how much operating income it was spitting off.

Bezos had been looking for a higher level cash machine (AWS has seven times the margins of retail) for a long, long time that he could utilize to step up to another level of financial capabilities and competition. Something that might sustain his ability to fight with Google and Apple. Fire Phone was meant to be that for example, which is why they attempted to charge premium prices; they thought they could slice off some iPhone type profit out of it.
I got it as standard user several hours ago.
Posturing with a side of blustering. There is no amount of money for which I would work for this guy. (Getting the fuck out of the way.)
Is Elastic Beanstalk not an option? It doesn't replace hosts on redeploy so you wouldn't end up cycling through unnecessary instance.
Besides which, life expectancy is an averaged value, not a guarantee. He could get hit by a bus at 40 for all we know. Given how much Facebook is worth, it makes plenty of sense to plan for where the voting power goes.
I'm surprised no one has brought up lead - childhood lead exposure leads to more rash behavior, and the drop in teen pregnancy starts roughly when the first children who were born after the removal of lead from gasoline and paint started would have become teenagers.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/02/unleaded-gasol...
If I were gonna bet on it.. the first explanation I would gravitate towards would be that these teens might have been the children of single teenage mothers/fathers themselves.. and lived through the hardship of that situation first hand.
Venezuela has free, fair, open elections. Why shift blame?

You are blaming the victims. They have seen the error and they're trying to correct it.

In the last elections for parlament, government party crashed and burned. They're trying to apply a constitutional procedure to revoke Maduro that's being sabotaged by executive power.
Are you in any way refuting the fact that this is what the legal record records Microsoft executives as having said? In many ways? Against many specific competing or even complementary products?

You're quite adept at dragging goalposts, but the point remains they've moved, and you're not defending the original point. I'll interpret that as your having conceded it.

Thank you.
Recent advances in conversational speech recognition
This post links to a different page. It shows three big boxes: One for iOS, watchOS, tvOS and MacOS X. One for Android. And a third one which provides a forms package providing native UI on iOS, Android and Windows. Which just received huge updates AND went open source.

There is a language: C#. There are bindings to native toolkits. There's yet another imperfect Forms package. And there's a slightly wonky IDE. I'm not sure what you're expecting but I think the "lossy abstraction" here is mostly your expectations. I also think you are applying your narrow experience (which obviously was not a great one) and trying to amplify it by using unsubstantiated statements like "most teams" and "few wins."
True, but even if the build is automated, you won't necessarily have access to the full source.
So red is an important color to take note of. Blue indicates nothing but normal weather.

The only reason you need to mention the color of the sky is when it's not sky-colored. Unless the sky is red or grey or black or green, you could just call it "sky".
It doesn't defeat the point. You can still do development on it just fine.
I'm surprised that you are grayed out (downvoted), as you are the only comment that brings some information about why Chavez appeared.

The current narrative is to blame Venezuela's fuck up on the left, but for me it was the fault of the entire political elite through the 20-30 years that preceded Chavez (and I'm anything but leftist btw)
2M issues later, iOS serial reading app gets a major update
Or I feel like anything surrounding Linked Data, Semantic Web, RDF, RDFa, microformats, etc.
Actually, it's something you worry about now if you don't want people to starve.
Why I refuse to feel sorry for torrenting Game of Thrones
I gave him my email address. That site amuses me, and I have high hopes of receiving additional amusement via email in the future.
That answer isn't very clear to me, but thanks for pulling the relevant bits.
Tell that to Google and DJI that use them in their own products.

They arent just for NN, they are general purpose image processing chips with NNs as one option.
Verbling is hiring a senior-level growth person
>micropayments. I disagree strongly, see Nick Szabo, Clay Shirky, and Hal Varian as to why not.

So my initial reaction to their arguments was that none of their complaints matter as long as it's cheap enough. The fact that my water is metered doesn't make me anxious about usage, because it's too cheap to care.

But of course, that's because water is fungible. I have no fear that the water company is going to start sending me expensive mineral water while I'm in the shower to run up my bill.

But the exact same forces that lead sites to ridiculous extremes of obnoxious advertising, are likely to push up their micro-costs high enough that people can't ignore them, and most likely stop visiting.

The only way I can see it ever working is if there were some way to regulate the costs to avoid this. But I'm not sure there's any way to do that for something so non-fungible.
I'm really starting to think a startup that solves Jira's UI/UX problems would work.
Girls look at porn. Times have changed man.
It seems like amazon is using an "all in" strategy which seems to be working out pretty well. They first focused on porting the entire amazon retail website onto AWS which I believe they completed in 2011. They also went "all in" with the service oriented architecture for AWS. Both of these have paid off quite handsomely.

Granted, that hasn't always paid off (we all know how the fire phone turned out), but the wins have definitely made up for the losses.
If we go to Boston, and we find that the people in the North all have nice clean homes, and the people in the South live in a dump, then that's a valid distinction because the difference existed before we went to Boston.

If you look at socialist countries throughout history, and classify them into "nice moderate progressives" and "plain old dictatorships" on the basis of outcomes, then that's not a valid distinction: it's just retroactively repainting the lines on the ideological landscape to fit your views.

An ex post facto difference is none at all.
The other takeaway would be that Musk, unlike all those other billionaires, is working on things that are in the public interest. He generally wasn't the instigator for the govt subsidies, but his interests of "make money while making the world a better place" are pretty well aligned with the governments interests of "spend money in the USA while making the world a better place".
US Gov't is not SpaceX' only customer.

http://www.spacex.com/missions
It is also illegal to bid contracts below cost when the customer is the DoD.
Thanks for the reply :) I'll have to play around with BigQuery and see for myself!

> BigQuery is faster than anything else I've seen.
> Why switch to what everyone else is using then?

This really depends on how much faster. For a marginal drop in performance, many would think it's worthwhile to stick with an established format. That said, I'm willing to believe the performance delta for BigQuery is worth it :)
I think the whole point is to qualify the quantity not the other way around.
Always fun to watch people try and justify breaking the law. "I wanted to pay!" Okay. But they didn't want to sell it to you. It sucks, yes, but it's their content to do with as they please.
I observed downtime(s) on Pinboard (frustrating when you can’t save a bookmark). It was a while ago and I stopped using it soon after.
Fully programmable.

http://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc26/...
Perhaps you should have licensed your comment under CC BY. However, note that it would not be GPL compatible.
But how does one goes aboit looking at those? When you look at the top charts of Steam, the only true competitor to App store and Play store, you will mostly find games that are not trying to leech the user.

Of course the founder of Arcade games should remember that most arcade games were designed to take the maximum number of quarters from the users. There is nothing wron with designing around market conditions.
It's the same exact thing they used Toys R Us and Target for, when launching their partner shops originally. With Amazon's extremely frugal nature and thin margins, they'll always look for ways they can get someone else to pay for their learning mistakes.
> you can expect any game that runs to at least run well enough for a decent experience

not really. Even ignoring that decent at this point should be minimum 1080p60. A great many games don't even try for that, and they still experience stutter.

Still I'm going to go home and play WiiU. Although I am upset at Nintendo for messing up the WiiU so badly. Basically a generation with no new Zelda. >:( It doesn't count when it's getting released for the NX at the same time.

I don't want to buy a new console.
Yeah I know that. Obviously, it wouldn't own itself. That doesn't make any sense. A small pool of insider investors, the management, would ultimately own it.
Agreed and understood.

I meant delayed in the sense that if a patch is available, and fixes anything other than a trivial problem, it should be released as soon as is practicable (appreciating that there may be dependencies they wish to synchronise with, or in this case, trying to mitigate the obvious risks associated with the immediate definition of the exploit). Obviously I'm not limiting myself to gitlab patches here.

Appreciate the heads-up - especially for people with an unfortunate combination of highly exposed systems and inconvenient timezones. : )
Transit pass is partially covered as of last year in Vancouver. Unless something's changed, you might want to double check on the benefits for Vancouver. If I recall correctly you get approximately 80 dollars give or take.
What's wrong with Zuck running the company? He's grown it into a big business, he's steered through many challenges. He may not have always gotten it right, but this headline makes it sound like he needs to go... Why?
> Microsoft Corporation and its affiliates ("Microsoft") promise not to assert any .NET Patents against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing, or distributing Covered Code, as part of [...] any compliant implementation in software of (a) all of the required parts of the mandatory provisions of Standard ECMA-335 [...] and (b) if implemented, any additional functionality in Microsoft's .NET Framework
Because he's a fatty!
No, it would be owned by a small pool of insiders.
There's a bit of No True Scotsman in these sorts of defenses of socialism in the context of places like Venezuela...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
I mean, they still exist. They may have sold off their phone division, but as long as Cisco and Netgear are still tech companies, Nokia is still a tech company.
Tobacco?
I wonder how many people here read/looked at the interview. Icahn said he was interested in buying Apple again, but thinks there are market risks and that the Chinese government seems keen on interfering with American tech companies. He said that he has faith in Apple as a company, just not the stock at its current level in this environment.

All very sensible reasons to get out of a position if you think it may be dead money for a few years. He made millions/billions from his position (he did the same in Netflix and sold that entire position.) Icahn is no dummy. Those calling "activist" investors as all Gordon Gekko types, looking to gut companies, are living in fantasy. In his interview Icahn actually calls out CEOs for running companies into the ground and using golden parachutes.
A while back I saw some study said that said women who grow up with a TV in the house have on average, 1 less child than their mother. And this was holding even as we go into the 3rd generation of kids with TVs at home.
The Internet, and especially mobile Internet, are like TV * 5. So maybe this is right.
maybe HN could auto-correct...
I work for a publisher. I appreciate quality content. This is a rehashed press release, I shouldn't be expected to pay for it.
For what it's worth, here is the actual chart with blood lead levels:

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-10/documents...

IIRC the working draft of that report had a more detailed chart, but I don't see it in the final version for whatever reason.
The PC isn’t dead, we just don’t know what it means anymore
http://i.imgur.com/kEML9P9.jpg

Looks like a mess on my Retina Macbook.
Well, but what do you think they did after they named their price? I'd guess they hired a bunch of people, and their expenses came up to match what they could charge.
It's funny that you quote Thatcher as she did exactly what Chavez did with the UK's North Sea oil money. She spent the cash in our own economy (via tax cuts) which sent inflation and the pound through the roof.

The Norwegians got it right. If you discover oil create a sovereign wealth fund and invest the revenues outside your own economy. [1]

[1] - http://www.spectator.co.uk/2008/04/why-hasnt-britain-got-a-s...
> Where am I going wrong?

In short, infinities are complicated and intuition doesn't work well.

In slightly longer, you're talking about the difference of the rate of growth of two functions rather than actually about the cardinalities of the sets.

We define two sets as having the same cardinality when we can create a bijection between them. We can list the primes in order from smallest to largest and number them with the natural numbers. So we'll have 2 match up with 0, 3 with 1, 5 with 2, 7 with 3, etc. Every single prime number will correspond with a natural number AND every single natural number will correspond with a prime number, no exceptions. So they must be the same size. They are also the same size as the integers and the rational numbers but the set of real numbers is a bigger infinity.
Now that you mention it, isn't it crazy that manufacturing a single F-35 costs more than an entire satellite launch including support services?
I find the problem with Slashdot the fact that they've updated their styling to be in line with what was popular in 2006, with a commenting system from 1995. I can't read their comments any better than I can read mailing lists; they're both horrible, horrible ways of displaying conversations. In my opinion, their commenting system has been broken since I started reading the site back when CmdrTaco was still unmarried.
Problem with monopolies is that they lag behind on innovation.
I think you underestimate the extent to which pregnancy was always considered an Unthinkably Bad Thing by teens. And also overestimate the extent to which teens are rational.
>You are blaming the victims.

I'm blaming the victims who welcomed their executioners.

>They have seen the error and they're trying to correct it.

A drunk driver might swerve before impacting a semi. What of it?
"You're conflating obesity with teen birth... why exactly?"

Maybe they were taking the line "still make rational decisions regarding their bodies" out of context. (Overeating is no more rational than risking unwanted pregnancy.) I'm neither agreeing nor defending, just looking for a connection.
By variation, do you mean a clone. If so, that's not what I mean, I mean that the site is open source, community is able to make pull requests, and it's a community driven resource, that driven by content, code and community, not an singular interface.
Twitter doesn't want to be a 'Social Networking' app anymore