skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to criticize when you've never worked on the kind of infrastructure that Gluster has. Yeah, for a project I'm doing all by myself it would take all of five minutes to update the web page with that sort of information. Hey look, that's exactly how it happened when this was part of a project I was doing myself.

http://pl.atyp.us/hekafs.org/

Now, on a huge project with the website and docs with separate owners subject to their own detailed standards and review processes, it's not that easy. Even as one of the Gluster project architects, it would take me more than a few minutes to make even a trivial change, and that would be time taken away from other tasks for which my personal expertise is even more necessary. Yes, it's a problem - one shared to varying degrees by most projects of this scale. Here's the fantastically informative website for the Linux kernel.

https://www.kernel.org/

They don't have links to specific features on the front page, either. Good luck finding the docs about XFS project quota, starting from there. Would it be responsible for me to claim it doesn't exist, based only on what I can get by clicking around on kernel.org? I could come up with similar examples for many features on Apache or Mozilla or OpenStack projects as well. The fact is that technical debt exists for documentation as well as for code, and keeping it all coherent becomes exponentially more difficult as the project grows.

But none of that has anything to do with the original point. What's the point of complaining about Gluster here? How could you possibly believe that's helpful, unless you believe people should be grateful for every moment of your attention? This story is about Infinit. Let's keep the focus on them, and their claims, and whether those claims are accurate.
Unused, speculative, investments.

As I understand it, it's not really speculative, but rather is a way around China's currency controls. It's allegedly quite difficult, if you're Chinese, to convert holdings into USD or other currencies and get that money out of the country, and investing in foreign real estate is apparently a popular way to work around that
Come to Chattanooga. We have municipal fiber, cheap housing and no income tax. Our state government is so conservative businesses can get away with pretty much anything, and our city government is so liberal there are funds and grants for just about everything. As long as you can get over the occasional rebel flag bumper sticker, it's the promise land.
Every piece of real estate that sells/rents is affordable to someone.
You are correct there are already laws and systems in place. E.g. here is an interesting paper in New England Journal of Medicine using California data. Note: Not published by me but someone who I work with.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1311485
Afraid of HN deteriorating.
Let me guess; you are one of those new people and are resentful that people you are freeloading and mooching off of are resentful that you are destroying the community and society they built over time.

Its the same thing in Austin, even though Austin has really be fully deconstructed at this point and it is nothing like the nice place it once was. It's become ever more exclusive, ever more restricted, ever more douchy and pretentious, ever more expensive, ever more packed with people that are trampling everything.

What's actually disgusting is people like you who are incapable of understanding why people would rightfully be resentful about freeloaders and moochers trampling and disrespecting things they created and have a bond to. It's easy being a freeloader and moocher, but it really does undercut any incentive to create anything.

I suspect that in the future we will see examples of restrictive legislation or policies that will rightfully penalize newcomers and mooching types that started swarming to the next version of Austin due to the internet brigading effect.
> SF has a million dollars in its annual budget...

A million? If only. Try $241M

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-record...
>empty Chinese investment properties

It's like this all over North America. Not just the west coast.

I lived in a chinese-built condominium in Toronto a few years ago, and the rumor was that 50% or more of the building's units were owned by absentee landlords.

Which made sense, because almost the entire building was seemingly vacant.

Hardly any lights on at night. No furniture on most of the balconies. Never had to wait for an elevator (at 30+ floors, that is strange). Always ample visitor parking spots when there was only 15 of them shared between ~300 units. And I knew most of the neighbors on my floor, would see them come and go regularly, but there were always a few apartments that just never made any noise.
2nd time in less than 12 months.
probably, we are going to see a surge in telegram downloads/usage today.
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If you need unsafe code to implement the garbage collector and other core system facilities, then “selectively” disabling safety doesn't really mean much, does it?

Also, determining whether code is safe to run requires proof, not trust. Since when are system administrators particularly skilled at coming up with proofs?
What's interesting is that, given enough practice, one could convincingly mimic Satoshi's writing style as some ancillary (unimpeachable tech proof aside) evidence of validity. It seems Wright hasn't even gone that far.
With self-driving cars on the horizon [hopefully!?], this will hopefully become false. [ie everywhere that currently has shitty mass transit will get a system with no single point of failure which is hopefully cheap]

Who knows, though?
Ctrl+Alt+Delete

"Abort, retry or fail?"
I'm definitely not a "markets fix all the world's problems" kind of guy. Far from it. But in this case I think it's a big part of the answer, and I'm not alone in that thinking either. This book was particularly good, although a bit high level: http://amzn.to/1rOgoq3 - and it's also noteworthy because the author, like myself, is somewhat left of center in terms of US politics.
> homes do not depreciate very much as a result of people living in them.

I get what you are saying, but this part above isn't a "natural order of things". For example, homes in Japan are expensive (perhaps representing an even larger fraction of lifetime earnings than in the Statse) yet they depreciate like they are cars.
This is about code, not libraries. Vendoring the code means copying it into your own repo... that way you're guaranteed that everyone who builds your project is building the exact same code, and if one of the third party repos disappears, your project doesn't all of a sudden fail to compile.
Taxing vacant real estate is another tool used in some countries and cities. One way of doing it is via an imputed rental income: if a property is not owner-occupied, then the owners are deemed to be earning a rental income (either market rate, or if rent-controlled, then whatever the set rate is), regardless of whether they actually bother to rent it out or not. That increases the cost of sitting on empty housing.

(Though the real motivation for an imputed-rental-income law is usually to combat tax fraud: people who're renting out apartments under the table and not reporting the income. It just has the secondary effect of making it more expensive to sit on vacant real estate.)
The link you provided is not evidence, just an anecdote. It's not that I don't "like it"; it's absolutely not an indicator of anything real. At best it's an indication that all compilers have some startup overhead, some more or less than others. Based on JVM startup time alone, I could "prove" that Java was the slowest language in the world.

The burden is on you to provide evidence, since it is your claim. Likewise, benchmarks to support the claim that OCaml's compiler is faster.

I develop in Go daily, and nothing I've seen indicates that Go is anywhere close to approaching C++ in compilation slowness. (I have also worked extensively with C++.)
Soft reload takes care of that for you, sockets aren't dropped.

If you restart, however, everything's dropped.
Not on an iPhone.
This isn't the same, the document in question relates to the QPU ISA. The VPU ISA hasn't been officially documented but there were many projects that involved reverse engineering it. The VC4 ISA is documented here:

https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv

The VPU is basically a general purpose RISC processor with some fancy vector instructions on top. In fact, most of the firmware that runs on it is written in C.
The final slap in the face is that the investment is guarded from rising property taxes by Prop 13.
I admit this comment might be insensitive and will probably ruffle the feathers of many but I was purely thinking from the point of view of economic impact and who drive(s) the innovation engine here. VCs, People who made it in tech, hungry (for success) people who want to make it in tech, and senior product and engineering people who can build solid products (not charlatans or imposters) have no reason to leave SV. They are all doing well money wise except probably hungry ones who are motivated to make a lot of impact or money or both.

I am interested to hear what other people have to say about this.
> Map-reduce is naturally built into the language

I hear this often about both array and functional languages but I think this kind of slogan leads to a misunderstanding of the MapReduce framework (and what's special about it).

In a functional or array language, map and reduce have the following signatures:

map : key list -> (key -> value) -> value list

reduce : value list -> (value, value -> value) -> value

These are strictly less powerful than the functions used in MapReduce:

read : block -> (input_key, input_value) list
map : (input_key, input_value) -> (output_key, output_value) list
reduce : (output_key, (output_value list)) -> (output_value, output_value -> output_value) -> (output_key, output_value)

Combining this API with a (1) a distributed file system which lets you co-locate computation with data across many computers and (2) a parallel partitioning algorithm enables petabyte-scale computation. It's qualitatively different than in-memory array processing.
Thanks to technology, the supply of land is not really the constraint on housing supply in most of San Francisco, and especially not in most of the Bay Area.
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>by making up things about Austin so that people don't rush there like they did San Francisco.

No this is exactly what I thought OP meant and is just a softer way of telling people to not move somewhere.
Thanks! There's many. Here's a couple: liberal economic language gets the cold war wrong. Our policies are often at their best when we start by doubting inherited commitments to either markets or states. Mixed economies have long been the default. And Hannah Arendt got something right: the cold war is not so much about a clash of competing ideologies as it is the rise of parties that privatize social (network) power. Etc.
This is a very insightful comment.

It's also important to understand the reason you can't have both, in the US, is political. Infrastructure spending in the US is currently below depreciation (http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/03/10/spending-on-our-cru...) so we aren't building mass transit at a rate that meets growing demand. Rich, mobile people buy up property in cities and along transit lines. If we invested in transit we could make a lot of underused housing useful.
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) could be extremely effective for weight loss.

Dexcom has a CGM system that hooks up to your phone/watch, but is only available with prescription (and is extremely expensive without coverage), so this is effectively only available if you already have severe health problems.

Some former Dexcom employees founded a startup some time ago to do CGM for preventative healthcare, but I haven't heard anything of where it went.
http://mobihealthnews.com/32601/dexcom-alums-develop-blood-s...

There are probably others.

To me these sorts of subcutaneous CGM systems seem more convenient for users than other initiatives (e.g, the contact lens projects). The sensor stays embedded for a week at a time, you can sleep with it in, and you get measurements every 5 minutes or so.
They do. Or, at least they did. But, their capabilities have been improving rapidly for a couple decades now. To the point that shader compilers are integrating recent C++ features and some degrees of straight-up C++ support. You won't be able to magically run classic, single-threaded programs fast. But, you can start using advanced features you already know from CPU programming to write programs for the GPU.
Superstrong Labs (NYC) is hiring customers. You can be anywhere in the world.

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Superstrong Labs: http://superstronglabs.com
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An existing proficient typer claims he was able to double his speed without keys being labeled.
Yes...

You are clean right. But for now, we have worked:

1) login (get auth credentials)

2) get contact list

3) find vcard of the given user

4) do relay connect for it

5) send or recv message from it

Its buggy for some reasons, but its worked.

However, yes, its not released an its not public, to not ruin my work until release date.
Thanks for the link, I'll take a look.
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There's still opportunity here (in terms of good experience and good salary) but it's not guaranteed. There are also plenty of startups will try to convince you work for $100k/year plus a lottery ticket (equivalent to $54k in Austin, $57k in Georgia). That would give me pause.

While a lot of companies will try to lowball you, others will pay well if you apply some pressure. There was recently a post here by a guy who learned to programming at a coding bootcamp and soon after got an offer for $210k+ total compensation. At that level (depending on how liquid that offer is) you won't really be suffering nor living lavishly.
Not at all. Companies have a need for all kinds of services unrelated to their main purpose. Technology is just another service. In many cases it is important for them to have software departments, but that has been true for a long time. For example, banks have for more than 30 years relied on technology departments to do business. For all this, banking hasn't become part of the tech industry, and never will because this is not their purpose.
I have been following him since before I would guess most of the HN readers were even born. (late 70's). This idea that he is "stupid" just because he doesn't speak the "king's english" really shows more about the intelligentsia and quasi intelligentsia (and the media and other politicians) that are making those comments than it does about Trump. You can disagree with what he says or with his ideas but one thing is for sure he is not stupid even if what comes out of his mouth may sound "stupid". [1]

[1] In other words who is the fool at the table.
> what do you think are the most common reasons for forfeiting US citizenship? I suspect it's tax-evasion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_American
What sorts of interns are you guys looking for? I can not seem to find it on the website.
Unlike in N. America, in Brazil a lot of businesses depend on WhatsApp. You can talk with your doctor, call a plumber, claim insurance.
On billboards no one puts a website address or an email, just phone number and WhatsUp.
That's an economy cripling move and it's shocking how one judge can do it.
1. I had a video technical interview and it went well.

2. The interviewer said I would make a great fit and tried to introduce me to the CTO.

3. I introduced myself to the CTO and received no response.

4. I contacted the interviewer a week later. He apologized and tried to contact the CTO again.

5. I contacted the interviewer another week later. He apologized and tried to contact the CTO again.

6. I contacted the interviewer another week later and he said something along the lines of "We filled the position, sorry we are unprofessional."
Well, its just another example why the eSC = human argumentation is BS. A human is a fully developed nervous system, not some cells. Given some vectors, we could create iPS from pretty much any body cell and then probably a human from that (if we had a sufficient bioreactor). You can also let them divide, seperate them and now you have 2 - (some big number) humans. Cells or organs are no humans.
People that think that cells are the same as a grown human may have a ethical problem here, but honestly, thats their problem.
Probably a ridiculous thought experiment, but I know folks have done similar things before, what if she cut off her thumb and disposed of it in such a way that it was irretrievable? Or something less permanent like dipping her thumb in acid to destroy the fingerprint surface - which would take weeks to heal. Would would the court do then?

It sounds to me like fingerprint authentication is not something a criminal should use if they don't want to get caught. Apparently a passcode is protected under the Fifth Amendment but not a fingerprint. [1]

But it's ridiculous really. All that a criminal needs to do is restart their phone to prevent their fingerprint from being used. And there are good reasons for doing so other than to escape incrimination! And that can be done from the lock screen... Imagine the criminal held down the power off button for three seconds then swiped, is that a crime? Perhaps that falls under spoliation of evidence, but then again how is not giving a passcode not considered spoliation?

Apple should require a user configurable timeout for requiring of a passcode. I'm sure it normally takes more than two hours to interview and charge someone.

1. http://www.macrumors.com/2014/10/31/fingerprints-not-protect...
Yeah, something like that might work too, although it can be kind of invasive in the sense that now you need to check if people are living in a place. In Italy, that meant that the police send someone around for a look inside the house where you say you recently moved to. In theory, at least - they don't always.
CHO storage in muscles and mostly kidney only amounts to about 2000kcal worth of energy. So there is a very high turnover and already over a week it's averaged out to the point where it doesn't really matter if what you eat is carbs or fat.

So for healthy, non-diabetic people it really doesn't matter.

(With the obligatory addendum that going all "low-carbs" or "keto" is a very, very bad idea if you expect to do any exercise at all)
Thank you for the links!
"Why not just put this on indiegogo or kickstarter"

I just dont sure, which is will ok with this kind of projects...
My understanding is that the "testimony" would be in the text of the password: compelling someone to reveal the password could be self-incriminating if _the password itself_ led them to additional evidence (e.g. a password of "I hid the revolver in the Conservatory"). [1]

I can't think of a case involving a fingerprint where there's a similar risk since the fingerprint is arbitrary data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Hubbell#Summa...
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What most people outside of Brazil don't realize is that WhatsApp is almost universally used by Brazillians to communicate about EVERYTHING, even your doctor [0][1]. My wife is Brazillian and uses it to communicate with her family in Brazil every day. This will have disastrous consequences for Brazilians domestically and internationally. This policy is being put in place by unelected judges and cartel of monopolistic telcos - all at the expense of the people.

[0]http://www.cityam.com/230372/digital-health-wearables-and-ap...
[1]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-brazilians-use...
I bet it's to some extent an emotional thing, if you're an experienced C++ programmer. "Argh, yet again the stupid borrow checker is complaining about something I wrote that would have would work fine in C++ [which I'm used to]! Now I have to rewrite it for no reason." It feels suffocating. Most of the time, it's because the code pattern you tried to use is safe but fundamentally not expressible in Rust's type system (often due to simultaneous mutability), and you need to switch to a different one - which is annoying, but gets less common as you get more Rust experience, and hey, even if the borrow checker feels limiting, it's the state of the art: nobody has done better, you're living in the future. Occasionally it's because your code is actually wrong and would crash in C++, and that really makes you appreciate Rust. But sometimes, quite often in fact, it's something entirely local to one block of code that the stupid thing should be able to determine is safe, but can't, because it's stupid. And that's when you flip the table. That's when you question your decision to use Rust. It's like dealing with buggy software: far more annoying if the thing you're trying to do is supposed to work but broken, than if it just isn't supported. It's not the future, just a profusely bleeding edge.

Non-lexical lifetimes solve only a subset of that last category, but a significant subset.
DMCA is not main problem, for now.
F35 vs. any MiG fielded currently by Russian airforce would be a rape in the sky. SU-34 however might be able to escape.

There's also currently no missile for S-300/400 SAM capable to intercept F35, although there's a hectic R&D effort in that direction.
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