skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did you calculate the 5% dilution figure? I didn't see where in the article that they mentioned what percentage of the company the would give for that 3.5 billion. Different sourc?
In case you haven't seen it, some attic developers forked and started https://github.com/borgbackup/borg
In the weaving sheds and cotton mills of Lancashire, workers developed an exaggerated form of speech and gesture called mee-mawing to facilitate lip-reading.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=f6fQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37&lpg...
I doubt it would take 30 years. More like 3-5. But when your competitor has the cash infusion, you better have it too.
Hahaha. You are so right. Majority of people have negative net worths. They owe more than they own.
Why not https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa?
They were most likely FAXed in, and the paper was misaligned when it was sent from the FBI office to Yahoo!.
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He does have to buy the right litigation though. Thiel can't just sue the NYT out of existence because he gets it into his head to do so. He'd need to find a meritorious suit.
Ask HN: How do you provide your Python dependencies in production in 2016?
I have some python code that I want to use in production. The code depends on a few scientific packages and I want to add more (especially I'm going to use numba). Now I use virtualenv + pip + ansible role to install required system dependencies, but I've started to look to anaconda.

I'm in doubt about anaconda because it seems to be oriented more for development than for production usage. Does anybody use conda in production and is it good for it? What alternatives to it and virtualenv+pip are worth considering except docker?
> WTF

I don't understand your indignation. Is it that obvious to you the Valley can solve ALL human problems?
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London's Subway Wastes $7m on iPads
Just how many things is CoreOS trying to do? Last I counted, they want to

a) Build a distributed OS

b) Build a distributed scheduler (Fleet)

c) Build a distributed key value system (etcd)

d) Build a new container engine (Rocket)

e) Build a network fabric (Flannel)

f) Now embark on building a brand new distributed storage system.

Holy cow that's some goal list. Sounds like something my kids would make up for their Christmas wish list.

I really don't get how their board and investors let them get away with such a childish imagination.

Each one of those is a company effort on its own.
Does something like this actually cost them a huge amount in sales or do people know enough about the internet today to just come back in a few hours and try again? I know that personally, if I'm buying from Amazon, I would just come back later and try again.
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Oh, I so wish that were true.

Heck, back in the day I caught someone (thankfully not at the place I worked) running a game (some FPS) server on their exchange server box. Running Steam is well within the realm of possibilities.
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Update - bought and cancelled that one as it's specs didn't seem sensitive enough - not quite sure - says to 0.05ppm which is still quite high. Now checking out http://www.alphasense.com/index.php/products/nitrogen-dioxid...
Look at it for the novelty, and buy it for the reviews.
Interesting. From upstate NY I'm pretty sure I didn't ever see anything about matrices in algebra. We did use vectors and dot products but not matrices, though it was 15 years ago so I could be mistaken.
Someone probably will get fired.

Last quarter amazon earned $20.58bn from product sales.

So 4 hours of that is $38,000,000.
Harley Davidson has an e-motorcycle in development. I've ridden a prototype, they are quite fun. No word on when it's available for sale though.
I'd be really interested in seeing a breakdown of locations, if possible. Naturally, most of these positions would be in California (from what I saw yesterday skimming through the thread), I was surprised to see there were fewer than 10 positions in either Denver or Boulder yesterday.
The closest is VoxForge:

http://voxforge.org/
But it is the name of repo :P
Why does Blizzard need an exception while the rest of us have to deal with it as is? Exceptions to rules mean the rules are broken.
I would hope not. I've broken things at big companies before and, mostly, everyone just wants it to work again. Mistakes happen sometimes.
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Interesting. I think this is a very valid point.

Eventually governments will get wise to the fact that this is not magic. Just a new way to dial up a ride.

Governments didn't allow individuals to install a radio into their private car & drive around making rides. Why should they allow the same just because you have a smartphone?
Is it back up now because I just searched from Croatia and it worked fine ?
This is bad UX advice - period.
Considering case studies like "300 million dollar button" [1], they are likely losing insane amounts of money.

[1] https://articles.uie.com/three_hund_million_button/
Patent: Mobile sales tracking system
Used to?
I was just thinking about this the other day and the subjective statement was "powerful".
Looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology_optimization
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The Talent Code is fantastic! I would add Deep Work by Cal Newton to such a list as well.
Even if so, I'd rather move beyond the Ad hominem.
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If you want to fix the bottlenecks check out seastar framework in c++.
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Show HN: Automagic billable time tracking generated using open-source plugins
Have you tried EQCSS(http://elementqueries.com/) ?

The concepts looks good, bu I haven't seen anyone recommending it .
It's surprisingly easy to find some way that the law was broken... it's quite complex.
You're right. You would think that insane housing prices would at least include a bit of soundproofing here and there.
> I have to question the design of Urbit why you chose to go with 2^32 addressing space?

They haven't. They went with base 256, for easier recognition of 32-bit (and 16-bit, and 8-bit) numbers. You can get a 2^128 identity or a 2^32 identity (or others.)

The fact that 64-bit numbers (like ~novfes-lodzod-sibfes-talzod) in Urbit's base 256 are twice as long as 32-bit numbers (~sibfes-talzod) which are twice as long as 16-bit numbers (~dalryp) and down to 8-bit numbers, which are the most memorable and highly coveted (disclosure: you're looking at a comment written by ~del, aka Hex number 0x25) is something between a feature of Urbit's networking stack, and an unavoidable consequence of doing math and dividing things up between persons that are remote from each other, therefore each needing addresses to be identifiable.

Identities that are made of 128-bit numbers are free, and essentially unlimited. They are basically public key hashes and the risk of a collision is sufficiently low that there is no need for them to be generated by a single authority and centrally assigned. (Note that this does not necessarily scale to the population of the earth and beyond as a solution to addressing graph nodes and efficiently routing traffic between them.) Identities that are made of shorter numbers are limited in number and assigned hierarchically; even if there are a boat-load of 64-bit numbers, it's not half as many, it's ½^64 times as many. Certainly there are more 64-bit numbers than humans on Earth today, or for the foreseeable future.

Whether you consider this to be more problem or solution will probably depend a lot on which side of the spam-wars you find yourself on. Currently there is no Urbit software or infrastructure that I am aware of that algorithmically discriminates against one kind of numbers or another.

You won't expect one authority to differentiate each of 8-billion humans and make sure that each one is granted a separate identity (but not more than one), will you? How about 256 such leaders? Still seems far-fetched, doesn't it... especially given the difficulty of coordinating 256 separate leaders. 65536 very smart individuals probably also cannot be expected to coordinate the identities of the rest of the humans in the world. It would be gargantuan undertaking just handling it when some of these leader-folks have forgotten or lost their passwords (and potentially disastrous for the 0.0015% of the world's population under their charge.)

64 bits of hierarchical ID space is enough for every 32-bit identity (planet) to individually dole out as many 64-bit numbers (moons) as there were 32-bit numbers to begin with. Urbit takes advantage of this roughly to make scaling the network's identity framework to rather immense proportions, happen at least a bit more naturally.

If your 32-bit leader gives a lot of 64-bit IDs to people that turn out to be spammers, you run the risk of being lumped in with those spammers by algorithmic processes. Imagine such a process that tries to discriminate against spammers and keep them from spamming everyone who is known on the whole network, at any scale. It's not a simple proposition, at all!
Is that a problem with AWS? I thought people accept paying a premium because they don't have to deal with these issues anymore. If bandwidth is relatively expensive less people are going to abuse it, etc...
Exactly. The story and "news" surrounding this incident still exists without publication of the stolen video. Coverage without the video does not deliver as many clicks so they rolled the dice with that one and have so far lost.
iTimeTrack is a completely automatic time tracking tool. This means it generates billable time entries while you do your work. No need to open until its time to submit or double check the generated entries.

How does it know which project you are working on you ask...

- so we use the editor plugins forked from WakaTime to send heartbeats of how long you have worked in a file

- itimetrack.com assigns that heartbeat to 15 minute increment and assigns that increment to the project you spent most time on (during those 15 minutes)

- iTimeTrack knows which file belongs to which project, by rules you create that links a directory (and anything below it) to a project.

I would love your to hear your feedback... does the whole thing make sense? website suggestions (https://itimetrack.com)? does pricing makes sense? which editor plugins are needed?

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Eli
I think it comes down to how you define "a huge amount in sales". Let's optimistically say they lose 1% of sales over a 4 hour period although it could certainly be much higher. Is 1% of Amazon's sales a huge amount for them? Not in the short term. Is that absolute amount a huge amount for me, personally, or most of the other companies in the world? It sure is.
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I thought that each network will stop giving you rides if you don't take them & you are in the area without a fare.
I noticed this while I was up very late working but it only was an issue for some items. For instance when I searched for Item1 and Item2 it failed but Item3 just kept working. Not sure how they have search divided up but found that interesting.

Would love to see something come out about how it affected their users.
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Yes, Gawker deserved to lose that case.

However, the Thiel involvement produced a vindictive and revenge-based strategy to try the case in such a way that Gawker couldn't use their insurance to pay the damages.

So I don't think anybody's arguing that Gawker shouldn't have lost that case. But it's clear the motive here wasn't just punishment, it was to put Gawker out of business.

And I used to hate Gawker because of all this Valleywag nonsense they did, but they have a lot of good sites today.
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I highly doubt search equates to all of their sales during a period. That would seem odd and would indicate no one uses their navigation at all.
Once robo cars are here, it'll be game over. Google wins.
It's very likely that this was an intentional leak to send a message to other media outlets that they should think twice before attacking billionaires.

Nothing to stop the Koch brothers from doing this.
To move them offsite presumably.
On the other hand, Amazon continued to improve operating margins and expand offerings which led them to profitability. Every indication is that Uber is selling rides cheaper than they cost - and the things they can do to reduce cost also disincentivize their drivers.

Secondarily, Amazon was public for years - which means they were required to become profitable. Uber doesn't yet have that pressure in place- and a new round of cash delays that requirement even further.
Neural Net training on movie Blade Runner for autoencoding video frames
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Someone really should make a Giger alien mod of that, paint it back with clear resin wet look gloss on top and a xenomorph head over the headlight. It would look amazing.
> 'The key notion here is that "time is a good idea" -- we want
> it, and we want to deal with it in safe and reasonable ways -
> - and most if not all of those ways can be purely functional
> transitions between sequences of stable world-line states.'

...and it is a nice way to make games:

[1] 'How to Design Worlds: Imaginative Programming in DrScheme' http://world.cs.brown.edu 2008, Felleisen, Findler, Fisler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi
[2] https://www.realmofracket.com/games.html
[3] https://docs.racket-lang.org/teachpack/2htdpuniverse.html
[4] http://www.1k3c.com
> She drives about 25 hours a week. In one week in May, she earned $604 for 28 hours of work, she said — a slightly better-than-average week. Uber took $160 for the car directly out of her paycheck, leaving her with $444.

So, for 28 hours of work, the driver got a car (with maintenance covered) and a ~$16/hour salary on top. Without the car payment, it's a $21/hour salary. That's apparently a near-average week.

I seem to have missed something, because it looks to me like Uber leant her a car that enabled her to do a job that pays better than even the most ambitious minimum wage initiatives. It's pricy, but so were all of her other options with "terrible" credit. Where's the evil here?
> hmm -- no mention here of the rising cost of silence. It is very expensive to purchase 8 hours of quiet in a major city.

Not really expensive if you are only considering sleep.

http://www.howardleight.com/earplugs/laser-lite

I buy them by the 200 count for about $30, works out to $0.15 per pair. I started using these for motorcycling years ago then woodwork and blacksmithing or any time I use loud machines. For sleeping I use them a couple of times before throwing them away, for other activities they're single use.

I also run a fan in my bedroom and have a cheap ($20) white-noise generator for use with a baby that I can use when traveling.
Depends on the city and the building materials used.

After moving to Germany, I was blown away by the property prices (relative to comparable buildings internationally) and the building materials.

This is a typical German door, with a bevel:
http://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AIA/UploadedImag...

Typically these have a matching rubber seal, which dramatically reduces noise and draughts:
https://www.modern-doors.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/...

Additionally the apartment walls are like a bunker, which means you don't hear traffic, trains or your neighbours even if you live in a city centre.
Somewhat unrelated, I've been trying VS Code this week as people here kept suggesting it. For my most common use case (quick edits) it's horrendously slow and unusable.

So while I'd love to like Vivaldi, I still don't see the future everyone else seems to see. These applications are just way too slow.
So, do you also disagree when the ACLU backs a lawsuit? Or, say, when the EFF does?
What's the alternative, users wait for some porting house to finally get around to releasing an update to be compatible? Oh, you don't have it in your contract to do that work, and the parent company isn't keen to pay you to do it, sorry users.

Maybe your update is now a paid update, so people can either pony up, or not upgrade, or abandon your software. Hello CS6. Was your latest update $10k? *major enterprise developer thanks you for the multi million dollar windfall your OS update gave them by forcing all their deploys to pay for a compatibility update, caused by "you".

Being a major platform developer is full of hard decisions balancing user experience and security, performance and future looking direction. It's not a problem most developers have to concern themselves with in your average app.
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The same here.

The way I use G+ is mostly as a source of more in-depth information compared to the breaking news nature of Twitter.

I also have a G+ Collection for posting high quality online articles, essentially my personal version of longreads.com.
They were responding to the comment where "9AM EST" was explicitly used. I don't understand the value of your comment as it doesn't serve to clarify - I think most if not all readers would understand the reference.
The state of VPNs in 2016
Actually running just:

torusctl init
torusctl -C $ETCD_IP:2379 init
./torusd --etcd 127.0.0.1:2379 --peer-address http://127.0.0.1:40000 --data-dir /tmp/torus1 --size 20GiB

to have a near production ready system is way easier than setting up glusterfs (even as a demo) and ceph. A distributed system doesn't need to be complicated.
I have no idea, why are you asking me?
I seem to recall reading an article or post previously about how they don't lose nearly as much as most people expect for this very reason. They would see a dip in sales when it was down, but it was more or less made up with a slight sales spike when it came back up. If I can find the article I'll be sure to share.
I am sure one or the other million made its way into her bank account over the last few years so I wouldn't be too concerned.
I have a friend that worked in Amazon for a while. He told me that after outages are repaired, there is a spike in sales but that it is never enough to cover the loses. The revenue does just disappear.
Another Gawker victim issues a Good vs Evil argument to justify disproportional attack on unwanted (by the victims) speech. Not surprising.

To me, part of the problem with some of these new Gilded billionaires is this (apparent) principle of the "Good vs Evil" argument. Google used it as company mission. It sounds... immature. It sounds irrational. It sounds like something out of comic books. Maybe Thiel thinks he's bruce wayne who needs to act in the shadows to "do good".
Also, Amazon is established enough, and has few enough comparable competitors, that anyone whose search breaks is liable to just try again tomorrow.

Still, some people who do go somewhere else, or are less likely to try Amazon in the future. I'd be surprised if this wasn't at least a multi-million dollar mistake.
No one ever said it would.

There's a term for this (I forget it now), but what this person is doing is setting up an easy target to be torn down by creating a ridiculous opinion no one has. Then the author can be seen as the victor; it's really dishonest, and it should make everyone question the veracity of the whole article.
well, thank you too :)
Actually new subprime auto loans install a device that allows the lender to disable and locate the car remotely (obviously not while in use). So repossession is a lot easier (and presumably less sloppy) compared to the alternative and is part of the reason subprime auto rates have fell over the years. Lenders don't want to repossess as they are in the business of charging interest, not in selling pre-owned cars. They only repossess at last resort. Going after missed payments is also very expensive, especially given the small amounts.
They do use AWS.
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I read that as "searched FOR Croatia" and thought, "Man, they really do sell everything these days..."
It kind of rubs me wrong that Uber is defended with such vigor in so many different ways and situations. It's really a rather vile company started by rather vile people who now went begging to the muslims and their oil money just to keep it afloat.

Uber is kind of like a classic latin american revolutionary guerrilla force in both their claimed cause, yet ever increasingly frequent diversion from its ostensible values while still enjoying a rather fervent support by fanatics who project externalities onto the group and who's capacity for ignorance and rationalization seems to flow from an endless well.

I can assure you, as alluring as it seems due to Uber's brazen expressions, Uber is the last company you want dominating the consolidated means of transportation that will come from an autonomous vehicle evolution. They have no morals and zero concern with the impact of their actions or policies and they will not give any more concerns towards the millions of Uber drivers they currently are exploiting any more than they had zero concern for the Taxi drivers they were screwing and doing so by breaking laws.
Thanks for the detailed reply! I've been interested in the echo and wanted to get into it for a while so I'll definitely dig into flask-ask and try to get up and running with it.
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