skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would prefer the hidden costs of using a service to vanish and for those costs to be replaced with explicit costs. I don't delude myself in thinking the majority hold my view on this though. I personally prefer $1/mo to Free* any day, but would only really do so without the explicit tracking involved.

Sadly, subscription models are the way to mass adoption. People are lazy and want to make one explicit payment to some centralized authority that then grants them a theoretically unlimited, but practically and economically limited, selection. It's the retail store all over again, just on the web. Spotify, Netflix, Steam replaces craigslist.

I see the perfect world being a super thin middle-man client(s) that exposes a protocol that the content producer/seller implements. Want to buy a song, a game, a movie, article? Use a client to access and pay for it then receive it. Still want a middleman to handle refunds, advice, suggestions, support? Go find a car salesman, Amazon or flattr thick client that'll add their markup for added convenience. I think this would shift the current problem away from "getting into Steam for a reasonable price" to "making a good game".

There are abuse, censorship, maintainability, legal, adoption, discovery concerns, but I said perfect world. I'm just afraid for a future where DRM/EME and Webassembly obfuscation make it impossible to get quality content on the web when everyone flocks to these gatekeepers for everything. Cable companies 2.0.
Wait a minute, that makes no sense. Where will this 100$ come from? This just sounds like a way to make politicians richer out of the pocket of the average joe.
Have you ever lived out west?

It's literally how it was done. Go west, steal some land from whatever non-white people are there. Have many babies and bootstrap civilization on the empty land.

yummyfajita's is missing that this isn't possible now because we're out of land to steal, and the state gets pissy about building a log cabin in national forest service land.
Well that's silly. All managers do not feel that way, and the salary sure isn't higher in many cases unless you're nearing the top of the organization.

Being a manager is simply a different job function.
The Licensed Taxi Driver Association (black cabs) are also doing their damnedest stop TfL building decent, safe cycle paths across the city.

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/black-cab-dr...
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Whoa! That sounds really cool so I looked it up. It's called "Pumped-storage hydroelectricity"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
I believe we use Objective-C, but if you're a quick learner you should apply anyway.
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The way in which this site keeps bringing up a layer to get me to sign up for something everytime I go away from reading what is an interesting article is infuriating.
If the company's value increases by 4% over the year, and it pays out one of those four percentage points as a dividend and reinvests the other three, you get the scenario you're talking about. (And it doesn't matter how much of that 4% is revenue minus cost of sales and how much is, say, increase in value of its holdings in another company or real estate.) But if the economy grew by 3% and the company's value increased by 4%, your company is doing better than the economy as a whole, and it's because someone else is doing worse. In the US over the last 40 years, a very significant "someone else" here has been the employees — as they have lost bargaining power, they have gotten worse bargains.

It seems like maybe you're saying that the revenues, and therefore the profits, don't count here because they're not part of economic growth, but just part of the ongoing economic activity. But what determines the P/E ratio, which is to say the return on capital (as a reciprocal), across the market? What keeps investors from bidding the market cap of the company up from ten times earnings to a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand times earnings? It's the availability of other investments that they expect to grow in value at a higher (risk-adjusted) rate. If you can get a 16% annual return on your investment by buying solar panels instead of stocks, then the guy who does that will have 16% more money to invest in more solar panels every year, until either he bids the price of solar panels up (due to limited manufacturing capacity) or he bids the price of electricity down (due to limited transmission grids or electrical demand). The first of those is already happening; the second one should start happening in about 2024, earlier in some areas.

Now, you could argue that there's a difference between this solar panel maniac guy spending 16% of his capital base in solar panels every year, accumulating more and more solar panels and selling the electricity from them to buy more, and GDP growth, because the solar panel maniac is accumulating a stock, while what the GDP measures is a flow.

But note that by the hypothesis that the maniac is investing to get some relatively inflexible percentage return on his investment, he receives a flow of earnings that is proportional to that investment. And that flow is part of the GDP.
I think the difference is they're supposed to mark-to-market to handle inflows and outflows from their accounts. Other financial firms (say Morgan Stanley or Barclays) provide price targets as a service to investors. (Whether or not they're accurate, or providing any real value with the "Service" is another story)
Yeah this seems more like something that Angular should be doing, rather than the end user. If you're in a production environment Angular should enable this for you.
The official Angular docs describe it thusly:

You may want to disable this in production
for a significant performance boost

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/provider/$compileProvider

I'm inclined to believe the engineers who wrote the docs on this.
I'll just leave this here

http://asfarley.github.io/bashactors/
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That MBP has physical 227 DPI. What's yours? (If it is 2560x1440 at 24", it has only 122 DPI).
Your argument is circular: it was advertised as X so it is X.

I described why it was advertised that way and it is operated to resemble that, but that is not in fact how it operates.

In fact I do think it is ludicrous that the US government will pay me SS money when I get old, even through I certainly won't need it. But I am glad they will do so because people have a screwed up model of how things work, so if they have to pay a bunch of people who don't need it in order to make sure those who do need it get their money, well, it's worth the cost. But what a waste. How much better not pay Bill Gates an SS payment and give it to someone else who needs it more?

You should be more outraged that a huge chunk of your taxes is wasted on beating up random people in other countries rather than fixing the bridges or giving it to people who are suffering. You should be more outraged that you are told that ISIS is some sort of existential threat to the republic, which is of course absolute nonsense.

How about the fact that the US created and underwrites all the "conforming" mortgages (i.e. essentially all of them outside a few pockets like the Bay Area and Manhattan). Another program from the 1930s that is taken for granted today with a cover myth a private mortgage market.

Look, I'm no flat-earther, gold-standarder, or conspiracy theory loony. I am hugely in favor of SS payments, welfare, Obamacare, FDA, etc etc -- in fact I think they should be stronger. But if you read history and some of the original debates and documents from the Roosevelt administration it is clear they are good medicine wrapped in a sugar coating of fakery in propaganda in order to get them implemented.
I wonder how all these lost lakes impacted the regional climate
See steego's reply. Just because something is a moral issue doesn't mean that it can't ever be overridden by some other concern.
Interesting, the actual model might really be worth 50$.
Is that because you want to verify the algorithms, because you want to make sure it isn't spying on your work or copying it, because you want to contribute, or for something else?
Then how does God exist? To me, the argument that a creator makes more sense than naturally occurring existence simply displaces the issue. God is then the unexplained, naturally occurring existence.
the state will literally show up with police and guns if I went out into the mountains and lived off the land

Why? Is it someone else's land that you're trespassing on, using up their resources, hunting their animals, etc?

Shall all of us who don't feel fulfilled do the same thing as you propose? When you hurt yourself and get an infection, are you going to crawl back out of the woods and expect there to still be other people to care for you, supply your antibiotic, and yes, clean your bedpan while you recover? What right to you have to expect the bedpan cleaner to serve you?

unless I want to starve I must work.

Who do you expect to plant, harvest, and distribute the food you want to eat?

When you want something from someone - food, medicine, etc. - you're going to have to offer something in return, else why should they provide it? For almost all of us, our labor is the product we can offer in trade. Only by all of us making this tradeoff does society survive.
People might be surprised how commonly used ImageMagick is. This could have a real world impact on a number of projects and services.
I've been using GraphicsMagick for a while now. Is that also affected or is it just waiting to be checked for the same bugs?
For those interested, below is the lecture of Krause on that topic, discussing the results in more detail.

http://eccmidlive.org/#resources/ancient-pathogen-genomics-w...

A big challenge is how to translate the genetic relatedness of plague strains spreading across Europe during successive pandemics to the actual location of its historic reservoirs. Location of the infected humans does not necessarily tell you much about the origin of that outbreak, especially with so much plague being moved by about ship.

There is a lively discussion about these papers on twitter, between a few of us spanning history, microbiology and computational biology, if you want to hear about these things earlier.

https://twitter.com/BorisVSchmid/status/726792491257724928
I think there's often a way to use understand what motivates the "trouble-maker" (I dislike that label here) and use it effectively that doesn't take a lot of effort, just getting to know the person and letting them get to know your position.

I actually have a post about this: http://blog.alexrohde.com/archives/473
2 observations...

1) I recall being in an investors meeting in 2007 where the downward trend was pushed as a good thing. (If you're a shareholder, you want to keep the $)

2) The last time it went back towards the workers was during the recession. This tells me that it's more of a story of corporate profit growth than how much people are able to capture. (Corporate profits have more volatility than compensation)
Have you checked out something like LiquiBase or Flyway? They offer a good improvement over the ad hoc solution.

http://www.liquibase.org/

https://flywaydb.org/
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The point isn't that it is 100% universal for all places. The point is that it is true for most places.
> When storing a kWh costs $0.10, and there's also adaptive pricing to match supply and demand better, these problems will melt away.

If the math and assumptions in this article are correct, then that's exactly the (wholesale) price point Tesla is aiming for with the Powerwall:

http://cleantechnica.com/2015/05/09/tesla-powerwall-powerblo...

There are a couple other (not yet released) energy storage solutions mentioned there that might get the cost down even lower - Eos Aurora and Imergy Flow Battery
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You aren't the only one to make those mistakes; I've explained where you went wrong in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11623817 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11623377.
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No PoC, but ImageMagick commit history might lead to some clues https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commits/master

edit: PoC here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11624056 though I haven't ran it myself.
The author clearly states that this is only an alternative option if you are not willing to use a password manager.

Which means it is no alternative at all. I'm a professional security consultant. If a client were to ask me to list the alternatives to using a password manager, I would say "Being hacked".

They would ask what else? I would say "That's it, that's the list".

Bad security advice is as bad as no security advice.

Having amateurs provide well-intentioned, well-stated, well-described, terrible, terrible ideas, ideas articulated well enough that they seem plausibly good, and having them being supported by people who ought to know better does the entire industry a disservice.

What would I tell my Mom? "I'm sorry, I really am, I know it's hard to use, but it really is the best alternative, the only really secure alternative, unless you want to keep a book of really strong passwords locked in your desk and only ever use your computer there."

Which, for average users and average use cases, is no alternative at all.
I've purchased several of these 1440p Crossover monitors and they're pretty good. It is worth paying the ~$20 more for the variants listed as "pixel perfect" (If you're buying from one of the handful of reputable sellers).

I also have a Yamakasi M280PU which is a 27", 4K panel.
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Slowly they are being eradicated. People in the East Bay are going apeshit over FEMA's plans to knock down ~10,000 eucalyptus in order to restore native vegetation and prevent a(nother) disastrous fire in the Oakland hills. On the other hand they seem to be very popular in Napa and along the 101 as windbreaks. Maybe we'll never get rid of them.
I would rather work for someone that lays out the problem to be solved, documents the constraints, and unleashes smart people.

I have been in the position where the VP of IT wants to have his cake and eat it too: VP salary while micromanaging variable names that the dev team uses so that he can relive his salad days as a tech lead.
I think this is true too, but it depends on how efficiently the utility company runs their business, and how much profit margin they are allowed to extract.

Utility companies aren't competing directly with each other for the lowest price, so in practice there could be a lot of places where, while less efficient, it's cheaper for home owners to have their own means of power production.
Just sign a message using the pubkey in the genesis block and I'll admit it. No questions asked.

Just like Charlie Lee did for Litecoin here: https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/status/727157971428331520 (he did it to show just how easy and provable it is)

Anything less and I have to question it or call bullshit. Current state is complete bullshit.

Moving coin from early blocks is not nearly as good. Bitcoin was publicized early on a few mailing lists so it'd be entirely possible he's just an early user trying to game himself up as the creator. Statistical evidence combined with moving early coin could be semi-convincing, but still not as simple and absolute as a single signature using the pubkey in the genesis block. Proving this is dead easy and that signature is the on/off bit for me.
My money is scenario 3: There never was a Satoshi. BC is a product of a state actor.
I never new that these had a name; when I was an MIT student we simply referred to them as "nerd paths".
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Off-topic but given how many programs link against OpenSSL and that in some scenarios statically linked binaries are preferable, I've been wondering if there's a Linux distro that works like OCaml's opam, namely rebuilding everything that depends on something that just got updated. Is there such a distro?
Any time. It's only a very small amount; more on the way.
I have been looking at their mark up/downs for past few months. And I am suspicious. It seems random. It's not like they have financials sent in by the companies every month. So in an effort to fit startup investing into the mutual fund world, they have to fit square peg in round hole and put finger in mouth and stick it up in the air to guesstimate. Even the lead VCs (the guys who understand the biz) don't mark it up/down every month, much less the portfolio manager sitting 3000 miles away behind a desk in a suit and tie and doesn't know a SAN from a NAS
Just as a suggestions for the balance there, why not set a price ratio between the two? It would be a little odd to have a CPU that's 20% the cost of the GPU, so why not target something above that point?
> Being a manager at a large power company for 30 years is both an advantage and a disadvantage.

He is definitely biased against solar, but is acutely aware of the costs it presents to traditional power generation and definitely well qualified to comment on them.
> The labour market is not going away with BI. It will just become more free.

Of interesting note in this domain, BI is often advocated as an alternative to minimum wage (such that in a mature BI system, there would be no minimum wage, though in some models there'd be a transitional period as the BI ramped up and the minimum wage wound down, at least in real if not nominal terms.)

So, while BI removes economic duress that forces people to take low-wage jobs, that also allows it to remove regulatory barriers which, while they exist to prevent abusive profiteering from economic duress, also have a side-effect of preventing generally mutually-beneficial arrangements that happen to have low wages (but where the low-wage earner might benefit from experience that increases future potential, etc.)
I'd be interested in how significant the actual performance hit is - I see no measurements.

There are plenty of times you'd want to enable various debug features, even in production, even if it means leaving them always on. The only real question is if the tradeoffs are worth it - the performance hit, if any, and the security implications, if any, versus the productivity gains.
So, we get it. Complicated file and network formats, handled in C code leads to these types of security issues.

We are told that Rust will save us. Glib answer - if it was going to, it already would have (and this is from someone already writing Rust code).

I hope it will lead to a change on two fronts:

1. Simpler formats for file representation and data interchange. When someone tries to add an extra bitfield option, say no. When they keep trying, get a wooden stick with "no" written on it. Part of the disease of modern computing is bloated specs.

2. Restrictive not permissive code bases. Exit and bail out early. Tell the user "file corrupted". Push back.
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> Umm yeah, that's exactly what they gave to the mice.

Yes, without any opportunity to get involved in anything more than that.

"Here, live in this box forever, you get all the food pellets and water you want, but you can never leave and don't get anything entertaining to do" would drive any animal insane. Take a look at animals behaving pathologically in boring zoo enclosures, for example.

A study actually analogous to basic income would have, for example, unlimited generic mouse food and a comfortable home environment, but also have a large exterior environment available to explore, wheels and toys, and a steady supply of puzzles/mazes/etc fitted with tastier treats that the mice could engage with or avoid as they wish.
There definitely is some tooling available to help - Redgate, many ORMs - but I agree that it's somewhat lacking.

I think the bigger problem is cultural - many programmers either don't really understand databases/data modelling or they don't care about it. After all, you don't really have to worry about it when you're just starting out - almost any schema will work. That is, right up until you have to modify it. By the time it becomes an issue, the culture has crystallised and changing the database is too risky.

For some reason, a lot of companies are largely unwilling to spend money on good database management/migration tools - even if they're paying a stack of cash for SQL Server.
I should have added that this is for enterprise use, and the main use case is providing secrets to services when provisioning new hosts / containers or updating said secrets.

Your comment sounds to me as something that would work well for personal use, as a password manager replacement.
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Oh, this is scary. Drupal and Wordpress rely on Imagemagik. The amounts to a huge amount of the internet as a whole.
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I use sqitch, which is kind of like a specialized git for database schemas, and it has been pretty awesome so far. It includes dependency management, selective deployment of updates to the schema, testing before deployment with rollbacks on failure, etc. Work your way through the tutorial and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how many problems it solves.
It seems like this would settle it for most people. When people saw the claim "this is signed with Satoshi's key", they didn't say "that's not enough", they said "bullshit".

Moving the coin and giving an unambiguous explanation of his so-far confusing 'reveal' would do it for me.
A Twitter engineer mentioned this in a lightning talk in the AngularJS SF meetup a little more than a year ago - he mentioned that he found speed gains of about 33% with that one line.

It's a great tool to have in your belt for optimizing angular apps, most people working with angular are not aware of this unfortunately.
In the earliest days, I was doing everything required to make sure everyone else could focus on research: recruiting, operations, spinning up the cluster, taking out the garbage; really whatever needed to be done.

There's a surprising amount of traditional engineering work needed to make AI systems happen. Over the past month or two, I've focused largely on launching OpenAI Gym: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/726099677716713472.

That being said, I'm planning on working on a research project next. As Ilya likes to say, deep learning is a shallow field — it's actually relatively easy to pick up and start making contributions.
A lot of it is simply that Rust has an equivalent amount of runtime to C and C++, so you don't have two runtimes fighting with each other. For example, when Rust had green threads, interop was much worse, due to needing to switch to a C stack, as well as the actual initialization of the runtime itself. Without it, it's as straightforward as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11622257
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I'm not sure what that has to do with age of responsibility? The statistical facts are there to show that people under the age of 25 have generally impaired judgement compared with those over. (Among other things that's why you can't rent cars until 25.)
Angular 2 forces you to opt in to debug mode, as opposed to the Angular 1 mechanism of opting out.
This is true, because the job of the appraiser is to estimate market value. If buyers will not pay a premium, they have no resale value. But in my experience buying a home in SFBA with solar, and getting it appraised for refi, it counted both times. (In the cost approach it was valued at $20k in 2013 and $10k this year)