skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Studios will simply negotiate exclusive rights I guess. You, and no one else, get to make Star Wars games for the next decade. Quality will probably go to shit as a result, but who cares about that?
I appreciate what you are saying here, but IMHO it's a relationship problem, not a housing one. Just as you would have gladly lived away from your parents, I gladly lived with mine (and did so in college).
From the article (emphasis mine):

> [pg_dump ...] The main disadvantage of this method is that it will not provide high reliability.

Pretty sure the author means "availability" not "reliabilitiy". pg_dump is completely reliable, arguably more so than ANY other backup mechanism as it creates logical machine independent backups.

Best intro tip regarding pg_dump: use -Fc (custom format)
Hmm...

I exercised some of my shares in a startup I was part of, solely for the sake of becoming a "stockholder" rather than just an options holder.

I felt good about being a stockholder. I did not get any enhanced access to information about the company (for several reasons, among them that they were pretty open anyhow and I didn't ask).

Company later closed down. Investors with classes of shares that were guaranteed more than 1x return on their investment took all the value and common stockholders got nothing. So, obviously, I lost money by exercising my options.

So I suppose I got "feeling good about being a stockholder" for the cost of what I paid for the options. And honestly, looking back on it I'm comfortable with that. I wish the company had succeeded, but I'm glad I was part of it even if it didn't, and what it cost me was not more than I could afford.
Dropout helps with convergence/optimization, sure. The existence of a global minimum says nothing about the time required to reach it. Important to note that dropout isn't as common anymore; it's not a huge win.
It's plenty comfortable on my kindle touch - it doesnt do fullscreen redraws, so generally if youre comfortable with a tiny bit of typing lag it's fine.
Uhhh. Have you ever worked for an ISP in any capacity? Personally worked with fiber or microwave transport systems?

That list of stuff looks like something a person would copy+paste on a resume.

Not trying to dissuade you, but your initial question is really vague. Exactly what are you trying to accomplish and where?
I have some of the same concerns you do, but remember that the common complaint about Apple is that they "Don't come up with anything original, they just copy everybody else."

Their MO is that they bake other people's half-baked product ideas, and then make a killing on them while naysayers sit around scratching their heads trying to figure out why everybody else is acting crazy.

Whether Cook and Ive can do that I think remains to be seen. But just because they're producing a 'Me Too' product doesn't mean the party is over.

For me, I'll have my answer when version 3 of the apple watch comes out. If it's a flop, we're in big trouble. If it sells like crazy, then I'll know they still have it, or at least some of it.

If in the meantime they manage to pull off haptic touch screen interfaces or a curved phone, then I'll have my answer early.
This has been resubmitted many time in the last hour. The one with more points/discussion is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766621 (52 points, 1 hour ago, 19 comments)
It doesn't set any broader precedent at all. Tycoons have been supporting or destroying news and media companies for more than a century, based on whim or bias or any number of reasons. There is absolutely nothing new or precedent setting about what Thiel is doing.

A billionaire taking down Gawker is no worse than the (formerly) billion dollar Gawker Media corporation taking down Terry Bollea. It's all ugly, and it's all meaningless in broader terms - other than potentially setting a positive precedent that companies like Gawker aren't allowed to violate a person's privacy the way they did.
That's because this is a time of historically low interest rates. If rates were 12%, like they were when I got out of school, you'd definitely notice.
That value is pegged to the value of Ethereum, whose market cap right now is $1B. If $150M worth of Ether were dumped on the market, the price would likely plummet.
Okasaki's Functional Data Structures book, as an example?
Worksnaps Help Desk System
Yes. If only they'd offer that on consumer-sized routers.

Surprisingly often, you find QNX running some important piece of infrastructure which doesn't get much attention because it isn't breaking very often.
I agree that the broader play is worrying, but "Billionaire finances lawsuit of another victim of assholes who tried to out him as gay" makes it very hard for me to be upset at the instance.

The generalisation of this instance scares the fuck out of me nonetheless.
This has been resubmitted many time in the last hour. The one with more points/discussion is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766621 (52 points, 1 hour ago, 19 comments) (it was submitted later, but was luckier)
What exactly is the broader precedent here? That media outlets shouldn't collaborate with sexual predators for profit?

If Gawker is allowed to do this then why shouldn't they be allowed to pay for a similar tape? Hell, if it's fair game they should be able to pay in advance. They could even have sexual predators on retainer :)
Thats interesting. I wanted alerts as my primary reason for getting a wrist device.

I agree the garmin was very sharp but mine for whatever reason lost bluetooth connection constantly.

The pebble on the other hand has been great for notifications.

I really wished the garmin had been better about that. YMMV.
Is this the groundbreaking journalism that involved publishing a private sex tape?

I'm confused. Do I need to know the political opinions of people having their privacy invaded, or can I safely assume leaking private photos and videos is okay when it's a man, but the most heinous thing ever when it's a woman?
Every fucking word counts [a rant]
Bigger pockets than Gawker Media? Gawker was very easily able to afford its own defense - it's the damages they couldn't afford.

Can you explain how the bigger pockets dictated the Bollea outcome? It looked like the just outcome to me.
Well in the US it doesn't matter where you came from or what you believe, the uniting factor is our work. This makes us believe that if you want a higher standard of living, you have to work for it, and if you are destitute, you deserve it. It has inspired many rags-to-riches lives and the caused hardship and suffering for many more.
Indeed. A textbook-size color Kindle would be glorious.

The only reason I prefer paper books is because ebooks, in my opinion, are unusable for technical material and documentation. Diagrams, equations, big tables, are a no-go today (that is, unless you buy an iPad Pro and read PDFs, but then you have the screen glare issue).
It's all about profit for the builder in relationship to municipalities and their zoning codes. Municipalities that were mostly formed around the time of the suburban building boom instituted very strict zoning and regulations around density, subdividing properties, adding in-law units etc.

Fast forward to today and in all but a few very progressive communities, the fear of changing these zoning laws negatively impacting property value has essentially frozen them in time. So in a lot of suburban areas you couldn't build separate living units on one single family lot, even if you wanted to. Or at least it would be quite costly.

For instance my brother-in-law is a planner in a suburban California city, discussed this once with him... apparently in his city you need to add 2 additional parking spaces for every extra housing unit added to your property. Want to make an in-law unit for grandma? 2 parking spots please. Don't have room for an extra driveway? No permit.

Basically unless new construction was zoned to be a higher-density area, for apartments or townhomes etc, for a developer it doesn't make much sense to build with extra units in mind. Especially if the builder has to put up a fight for permits or spend that much more money to meet code. In that case, it's more profitable to just be building condos.
> If that were true there wouldnt be any rich people voting for Democrats, which isn't the case.

I don't know about that. You can be completely self-interested, wealthy, and still vote liberal/progressive Democrat if you think the alternative is a Reign of Terror or Red October. Or, to dial it back a bit from that, if you think progressive policies will grow the economy of the nation in the long term (and, by extension, your own wealth) as opposed to looting it.
Toyota and Uber Reach Investment, Lease Partnership
based on your questions, I recommend you hire a professional to implement your project. As for money, how can you ask that question if the goals, location and scope of your project have not been defined?

"I want to build a WISP covering an entire multi-county area in Montana with 200Mbps+ last mile services"

or

"I want to build a single point to point link with $95 ubnt radios 3km to service an island"

totally different things.
If robots are worth it to replace $15/h workers in fast food stores, then they would've been worth it to replace $8/h workers 5 years from now (or less).
The DAO had $150m worth of ETH exchanged for DAO tokens "invested" in it.

I say "invested" because there is no actual investment with "The DAO". "Investors" are free to withdraw their funding back at any point before a proposal voting takes place. This is basically a risk-free proposition - "invest" your funding now to join on the buzz train, and take your money back at any point if you don't like the proposals being proposed. A majority vote within "The DAO" cannot actually vote for an investment with the entire funding available for "The DAO".

Technically speaking, until after some proposal wins a majority vote, no money actually changes hands... the investors are still in full control of their money and should still be considered the owners of it - not "The DAO".

For this reason, I think that calling this "the biggest crowd-funding ever" is incredibly misleading. There is no commitment and no risk, unlike how crowdfunding usually works.
> I can't see how even a government can survive a majority attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering_in_the_United_S...
It is pretty disturbing. We were lobbied pretty heavily to evaluate it and did some field tests as a result.

You can do some wacky shit with it. There is one mode where you can configure it to delete certain directories or files to screw around with a thief. That can be tweaked to delete files that the system needs. Those modes are persistent, and even after reformatting or replacing the boot media, the agent will reinstall and retrieve its policy file.

If you use it with Intel AMT, it can also brick the device permanently. (http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/product-brief/mobile-co...)

Everyone who tested the product had two questions: "Who is buying this?" and "How do I get this dormant code off my devices?"

Laptops aren't cheap, but they aren't expensive enough as an asset to care that much about recovery. And there are arguably better ways to safeguard data assets.
To me "bad programmers can write bad code in any language" is a snarky critique on favoring laws over conventions. There is this hope that given strong laws (safeguards), collaborating with unreasonable people is easier. Then the discussion devolves into the use of dangerous features versus the need to work with unreasonable people.

In my view, the discussion should be about comfort. At what abstraction levels will we work? If you put in a lot of safeguards, you can work comfortably at a certain level. But if you want to move out of this band, be it to write some low-level glue-code, or some higher abstractions, you find the safeguards to be a barrier. If those safeguards are conventions, you can agree to break them, if they are laws, you must subvert them or not work at those levels.

I prefer conventions as much as I prefer working with reasonable people. And sometimes turning conventions into law has few downsides, like with the private keyword.
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First-Time Homebuyer Credit. They stopped it after 2010 I believe
Everyone is 100% allowed to and encouraged to change their mind, but it's no surprise that this is penned by Fred not Brian given Brian's quite firm stance on non-btc digital currencies ~ a year ago. I felt it was out of line at the time, although his comment (which mostly mentioned Ripple and altcoins) has turned out technically to be true, the idea that innovation in digital currencies was "done" and Bitcoin needed to be the focus was pretty crazy.

Ethereum is exciting - my dad, a lawyer who doesn't know you can use the internet at our house, is excited about it. It makes sense how you would use it. I hope it continues up and to the right!
From a moral standpoint, I think they were wrong to do what they did. But, from a legal standpoint, many lawyers will tell you the ruling was a pretty terrible one.

And when you look at the size of the judgement against Gawker ($140M) it's a bit of a stretch to say that justice was done.
I'm not sure if you're being obtuse here, but the broader precedent is exactly what I outlined in my original post: that a billionaire can anonymously attack a media organisation he doesn't like.

Like I said, you can look at the specifics, like the sexual nature of this particular case, and make a judgement based on that, but I'm personally very wary of doing so. Especially when it involves sex, which is not an area any of us are particularly rational with.
Does that bring performance or cost savings? What is the motivation and calculus for making that transition?
That's more than enough for me. I get home from coding and I want to work on my novel, but LCDs are killing my eyes.
You might enjoy this paper if you haven't already read it. http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401

Jump to the experiments section to get an overview of what it can do.
Goldman Sachs disagrees. See link above.
And yet, through all of this, it's still easier and takes less time for them to violate our privacy rights than it is for private citizens gather similar data about elected officials and information regarded as "public".

I've been trying to get Chicago's mayor's office's phone records for a while now. 1.5 years, 4 FOIAs to two different city departments, state's attorney FOIA request for review, redactions left and right, a fight for AG anonymity, and a lawsuit later, I got a list of phone numbers and created [0].

The amount of pushback and bad interpretation of FOIA that prevented me, or anyone else, in getting that data was shameful. And after all of that, the judge didn't give me the FOIA suit payout since the city eventually "complied".

It's no wonder nobody actually tries to make positive change - it's just so damn hard.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hgG79eIr8MbkjYrCvcTR...

edit: cleaned up a wee. Also, that link's for the whole office suite, not just the room the mayor calls his office. Please don't try to come to any direct conclusions.
The Void interprets Existence as damage and
Given that the article was about a competing blockchain technology, the blockchain itself seemed like the main foundation to start with.
Keep in mind that your average 10 year old native English speaker also sucks at English. Sit them down in front of the TV and have them explain what was said on the news. Generally, they can't do it because their English is actually not good enough to understand.

Learners of a second language are often at a disadvantage because they expect adult level proficiency in a short period of time. They often forgo focussing on fluency in order to chase that proficiency. In the end they fail at both.

Some of the most unfortunate myths that persist about language learning really hurt. For example, if you ask the average person how many words of vocabulary they need to be "fluent", they often pick numbers like 2000. But that's the level of vocabulary for a 2 or 3 year old. Adult level proficiency requires upwards of 20,000 word families.

Basically, what I'm trying to get at is that English skills of people in their early twenties are guaranteed to suck unless they are using English almost as much as their native language. It takes native people 10-20 years to get a good level of proficiency. What we can hope to do is to refocus education on fluency rather than proficiency so that at least people can converse freely in a small area. Then over time they will gradually accumulate proficiency in other areas.

This opinion is unfortunately not widely shared in the teaching profession at large :-(
gawker put tesla on a death watch. they exploited their struggle and heartbreak, their endeavour to make the world a better place, for clicks. they hosted a video of hulk hogan having sex on their website despite him not wanting them to. maybe people dont realize just how fucked up that is because people tend to dehumanize celebrities. these are not journalists. these people are fucking scum. good riddance. the fact that a billionaire funded hogans case doesnt bother me at all. it reminds me more of bill gates funding malaria research than anything. another parasite wiped out for the betterment of humanity.

all the people saying this is creepy because its a billionaire shutting down journalism -- dont make me laugh. these werent journalists. and they sealed their own doom by doing things that were not only mean and cruel but super illegal. they did this to themselves. hogan was going to win that case no matter what.

i would have donated to his case given the opportunity.
It sounds like you should shut it down as it drags you down more than it motivates you. Sometimes you just have to move on! Much has also happend with bash and windows since 2009, but you should keep your users email and let them know about your new adventures, this way you already have people that know you can deliver! :)

Maybe it would motivate you to develop this in the public? Like having all issues and pullrequests open?

Also your website does not mention your names at all, which makes it very non-personal. If you show the people behind, users can often relatet more on a personal level and know that is a small but healthy side project.
try http://electricobjects.com/ , matte (non glossy) displays built for displaying art in the home
Internet to be lowercase in New York Times and Associated Press
> Bigger pockets than Gawker Media?

Er, yes. Billionaire Peter Thiel has considerably bigger pockets than Gawker Media.

But that's not really my point, I was talking in general terms. The court system is not reliable enough that it will always find the right outcome no matter what.
I do agree with some points you make.

Some relevant documentaries for anyone interested:

http://www.informativevine.com/2016/04/the-untouchables-2013...

https://archive.org/details/cpb20120505a

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/were_not_broke

http://www.pbs.org/video/1302794657/
30,000 iops is less then single crappy consumer grade SSD
6TB is fairly low limit
largest instance has 244Gb RAM
So improved performance, running larger instances, lower cost
GLONASS on most devices that speak both is enabled only when GPS signal quality is poor enough, and it just uses it to improve the accuracy of your position.

It uses more battery life, but in a lot of cases it's the difference between accurate positioning and not.

So, yeah, I'd try doing same day runs on clear days, with GLONASS on and off, and compare drain rate.
I always thought the problem with bulldozer was that marketing considered a module to be 2 cores, while someone in engineering meant for a module to compete with a single Intel core. If you go by the later definition, Bulldozer kicked Intels ass in multithreaded performance and can still compete. It makes sense because they touted a different variant of hyperthreading they claimed was better. The problem of course is that makes for a huge expensive core and only half as many per chip for marketing purposes. It also had shit for single thread performance either way. But I've always felt this difference of interpretation for the architecture was a big part of the failure.
You're pretty optimistic. I was going to guess more like 90% never pay out.

And for a good rest of the other 10%, you'd have been better off investing in something else.
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That's a really good point. Perhaps the Achilles heel of mass democracy is that it is easily manipulated in a capitalist economy where our interactions with the world can be exclusively private.

Think about it: we can spend our lives at home, work, and the grocery store. Except they deliver. And so do restaurants. And so does Amazon, so that's everything. Can't deliver love but you can download and swipe, good luck.

When do we interact with government? For the most part, when we: pay taxes; get a ticket; go to the DMV. Some of us even vote.

Then again Australians have to vote and they get proportional voting so their desires scale with support, and it all seems to work out rather well.
"Let's just consider symmetric ciphers for a moment. Because everyone wants them to be as fast as possible, BoringSSL currently contains 27 thousand lines of Perl scripts (taken from OpenSSL, who wrote them all) that generate assembly code just in order to implement AES-GCM."

Yikes. Is that... the state of the art of compiled/machine code AES-GCM implementations? I guess I'll look to NaCl for an AEAD construct...
Julia set fractals used to design a 17 foot tall sculpture for Burning Man
That's why I've dragged on implementing certain more advanced crypto in ZeroTier. Right now it's boring DJB hipster crypto with no state and I like it like that. Not much bug surface area.
Check out our crowdfunding page at the link above and ask us questions here. :)
Encryption is done in drive hardware, so copying the drive is possible via hardware attacks but would be a pretty involved lab operation. Would definitely take longer and require more sophistication than many in-practice crypto exploits.
Read the root comment in this chain
"there are people out there who understand it and are willing to fund"

These groups may only slightly overlap.
>It's debatable. I was in my 20's in the 80's. I was able to buy a 3br/2ba, 1500sq ft. house when I was 26. I had my school loans paid off a couple of years after I graduated - that's not happening for 20-somethings now.

No, it's really not debatable the world is richer than in the 80s. Much of that wealth has been accumulating outside the US, though, particularly in India and China.

With interest rates as low as they are you could definitely get into a 1500 sq ft. house by age 26 today. You just can't do it in the places many 26 year olds want to live.
I'd suspect Dropbox is worse than a fly - it's a direct competitor to iCloud. So, double no.
Conversational Banking, from branches to bots
Yes. This is possible. You are completely correct.

Of course, this is in fact true for all values of $TOOL in "Given $TOOL, a bad thing may happen".
Fewer Americans Choose to Move to New Pastures
Wow, I wouldn't. We are on the cusp of a major paradigm shift. Some of the smartest people in the world are tackling small edges of an impressive graph of capabilities. As more and more of these edges are solved, general purpose computing inches ever closer to our grasp.

If I were a betting man, I'd put my money on 10 years or less.
The drive controller does not allow you to read the encrypted form of the data out. This kind of drive-encryption is the same as the common ATA lock command (implemented in your BIOS and the drive controller), but the drive controller actually encrypts the data as well as just refusing to work without being unlocked first.