skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually started using amplemarket 4 months ago. We are a small team based in San Francisco and we wanted to ramp up our outbound sales without having to hire a lot of people. Amplemarket is working really well so far and each of us has its own virtual sales assistant now. I was able to double the number of weekly calls with potential customers since we started using amplemarket. The main pro is that I really don't have to worry about the initial part of the sales funnel: from the first touch point to the first call. Since they have my target customer profile, they do lead generation for me, answer any potential questions the prospects might have and finally calls just magically pop up in my calendar.
> Curious how much burden this makes for providers though

If those providers document their APIs using the Swagger format, there are tools that will automatically generate SDKs in tons of popular languages. The burden is nearly zero.
How does FreeBSD stack up?
Lack of query plan locking. I've had the query heuristics go bad and queries that used to take under 5 ms balloon to several seconds. It would be nice to be able to lock query plans that deliver satisfactory performance for very high volume queries.

It's a great db though, with very few bugs, high quality code, responsive devs, and relatively cheap support plans (like maybe $25k/year to get 24x7 support? I don't remember the numbers exactly) available from enterprisedb.com who have a bunch of core devs. In my one experience they knew their stuff.
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Especially one that doesn't rely on any cloud services.
If you're interested in setting up something similar on AWS, you could take a look at Stout [1].

[1] http://stout.is
Cynically, because it was a small-town judge from Hogan's home town who resented NYC-based Gawker. This Politico article spells much of it out:

http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/03/jury-awards-hulk...
Last time I flew into the US (from Sweden) for another week of work meetings with the team in the Bay area something almost like this happened to me. I wasn't deported though, just sent off to secondary interrogation and was scared and delayed for an extra hour because of nothing.

The reason? I was asked by the clerk when I last flew out of the US. Being quite groggy from a very long trip, having made made, many other international trips since that date in January, I was not able to quickly enough answer him in a "confident" manner. I was not allowed to use my phone to actually look up the date.

At almost every step until the absolute last minutes, when I actually got to talk to someone, explain my situation, show my business card etc, I was met with passive aggressive hostility.

My passport was taken away with my by some random uniformed person who just walked away with into some other room. I had no trust in this obviously incompetent system, so I worried about actually getting the passport back. Everything just seemed incredibly... stupid and arbitrary.

If it's just a matter of keeping these mouth breeders occupied it would be a lot more transparent and less disruprupting if you'd just ask an entry fee to your magic kingdom, to pay for the upkeep of these people.
> What about that video of Mitt Romney at a private campaign event, where he said some horrible stuff about poor people?

For the record, he didn't say anything horrible about poor people. What he said was:

> There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That's an entitlement. The government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. And I mean the president starts off with 48, 49... he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. So he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. … My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to do is convince the 5–10% in the center that are independents, that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon in some cases emotion, whether they like the guy or not.

He simply stated the facts: there's nothing he can do to win over a certain fraction of the electorate without compromising his principles; thus there's no point focusing on it; thus he needs to spend his time as a candidate focusing on those who he can win over without compromising his principles.
> You don't have to chose between productivity and safety so much anymore.

Exactly. If I had to sum up Rust's philosophy in one sentence, this would basically be it. (Add "and performance" after "safety" too.) :)
You can be tracked from page to page using your fingerprint, optionally with server-side checking of referrers and URL parameters.
There a gas station chain around me that accepts Apple Pay at the pump. I'll go out of my way a little to go to one of those when I can.
15 years ago, I met a videographer who told me a story about a job he was involved in in filming some internal meeting of the Libertarian Party in America. I realize it's hearsay, and I have no way to verify my statement, but I also have no reason to disbelieve him, given what I know of of human nature and his character in general (as much as I knew him).

Basically, his story was the upper leadership were caught on tape making comments about how the rank and file of Libertarians were essentially manipulated fools to prevent them from disrupting the power of the Republican Party. That is the gist of his story, as best I can remember. I have some sympathy for libertarian principles, and conservative ones, and liberal ones, so I am not an ideologue. This incident is entirely possible, given what I understand of human nature and how society/politics actually operates.

I agree with Gawker being repugnant etc; the story seems essentially salacious and its fundamental purpose was to drive website traffic. Are sex scandals that important, in the big picture? Only when they involve national security or other such public interest issues - e.g. General David Petraeus and his carelessness. Where is the line where exposing hypocrisy is in the public interest versus the essential rights of a person?
It only displays the data, does not save any changes.
It's standard practice for out of court settlements to be in full and final settlement and require confidentiality.
And here's[0] a fork that adds support for some optional parameters:

- data-documentation-text: Optional text for the suffix link, defaults to 'more...'

- data-documentation-link: Optional link address, defaults to '#'

- data-open-documentation-active-window: Optional attribute, if specified opens the link in current tab/window.

- data-position: (left, top, right, bottom), where to place the text with respect to the element, defaults to 'bottom'

[0] https://github.com/pegasuspect/chardin.js
In the same category as Ubuntu. There are some things you can do and market your product as an "embedded" device, if it truly is so, but that is a bit tricky. And of course, can get exceptions, that's tricky too, and doesn't scale.
I am totally biased, but I think my book is a good introduction to math fundamentals (high school) and calculus: https://minireference.com/

preview: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide_v5_previ...

As an added bonus, the book also covers mechanics (Physics 101), which is really important to understand to build up you general modelling skills. (Physics is all about coming up with math models to describe reality.)
laughing all the way to the literal bank on this one

I would almost give you a pass for saying "most" if not for noticing that my patent cites other "actual financial innovations" that financial institutions filed as patents and got approved, popular opinion on the internet lives in a separate reality than any framework this country functions on
This. With smaller amounts of data it's not even a big deal. Just pull everything into python or R and subset in there.
Skeleton is am amazing boilerplate, but it has a couple flaws that Wing aims to fix.

Skeleton isn't updated anymore, Wing is updated constantly.

Buttons don't have subtle animations.

Browser support.

Variety of buttons

Many more also, but most are small details. The grid is easy enough to understand, and the whole thing is only _4kb minified.
Yes, so much this! I went to Wisconsin recently to visit relatives, they had a really nice house but in the rural location. They were always going over the data limit (30GB cap through satellite) and it was an awful experience overall. With all the same problems, trying to install ad-block and figure out how to minimize data drainage from auto updates. At that point I just never realized that there are places in US that might have these problems still. Everything is geared towards unlimited high speed cable connection.
then he should file his own lawsuit. he has no standing to sue over the hogan case
I wouldn't be too quick to say it's too expensive.

My set up is not dissimilar to your own. I'm comfortable working on the command line, using s3cmd to sync the site, modifying bucket policies, etc. Once you know those things - or if you enjoy learning them - it's all pretty trivial, but if you don't... well don't underestimate the hassle for someone who doesn't know this stuff. I'd think it a waste to pay $13/mo for what I'm happy to throw in an S3 bucket, but that's 3 venti lattes for someone not to have to deal with any of it. It's not the file storage they're charging for.
All adversarial cases heavily depend on the quality of legal council. Law is not some deterministic mechanism where you insert the facts in one end, pull a lever, and it spits out a judgement in the other.

If you'd like an alternative, you could consider inquisitorial law - but barring a revolution, that will be a pipe dream.
The 2nd Circuit Appeals Court stayed the order:

Gawker appealed the injunction, and Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal issued an immediate stay, which prevented the injunction from going into effect. Eight months later, the appeals court issued a scathing opinion that overturned Campbell’s order on the grounds that the video was newsworthy and Gawker's publication of it was protected by the First Amendment.

Armed with the appeals court decision, Gawker went back to Campbell and asked her to dismiss the case, since the appeals court had just ruled that publishing the video was protected by the First Amendment. Campbell refused.

http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/03/jury-awards-hulk...
The benefits of advanced static and dynamic analysis tools for C shine through on questions of semantic correctness (look at Coverity, Frama-C and PVS Studio), not memory safety (though they do reason about memory safety). You can achieve perfect memory safety (no false negatives and arbitrarily few false positives if you write appropriate abstractions around unsafe) with comparatively simple static analysis built into your compiler... but only if your language is designed to permit it.

In C, perfect static analysis for memory safety is impractical, and dynamic analysis is time-consuming and cannot preclude false negatives. We should work on porting tools which heuristically warn about semantic correctness concerns from operating on C to checking Rust programs, and this is probably necessary in order for some C or C++ programmers/projects to switch, but it doesn't pertain to the question of how much mental overhead there is to writing memory-safe code in either language.
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In the DC the name of the game is power. I think corruption is not the right word. More like court scheming.
I don't consider ESR to be an expert in anything except promoting himself.
People have watched more than 800M hours of esports on Twitch since August
Not sure how that's relevant for this discussion.
"Taking the US as an example: there's a "tourism" visa, and there's a "business", which includes attending conferences. "

No one will check you visa at the conference. So, while not lying about it, there is no reason to be open about it either since you will never get "caught".
Are Riot employees required to play LoL? Are they identified as Riot employees in-game and expected to be ambassadors for the company?
So this means we're splitting the iPhone SKUs into AT&T and Verizon again? It's much nicer knowing one phone will work on all carriers. :/
Thanks for pointing out the community aspect - they're welcoming, pragmatic and don't foeget, the documentation and examples are rather good.

Rust is what it took C++ 20 years to become, except anew and reimagined.

It's ready and usable, today.
This is something that should be done as well by the guys doing D.

Even if they can succeed by going after the C++ gurus as well.
I think this highly depends on what you mean by self-taught. Probably a majority of good mathematicians are "self-taught" in the sense that they learned most of the things they know from reading books or thinking on their own rather than taking classes. What you won't see commonly is someone who has a day job but becomes really good at mathematics on the side. This is probably because of the sheer amount of training it takes to become what is considered "professional-level" in math. It takes quite a bit of background before you can even hope to do something that hasn't been done before. The same is not true for programming.
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My girlfriend had that experience with her high school friend group. Nearly all of them went to the same college for Computer Science but she chose Electrical Engineering to study computer hardware. They poked fun of her major and talked down to her for not learning to program until her second semester in college. It wasn't as "cool" as CS to them. She still gets the occasional derogatory remark when she sees them because they chose jobs in SV after college but she went to graduate school.
Your example makes your point very well. You are totally right.
I mean, if you're doing a static site you can also use github pages with a simple push command. Is there some difference between surge and doing this that I'm not seeing?
Aw, thanks bro, we're living in 1984 here but don't mind us! We're busy trying to decide whether the burgeoning police state will continue to get worse within the EU or whether we'd be better off to have a cheeky Brexit and risk the Tories going full nazi meltdown later. 'May you live in interesting times' indeed. Did you miss the bit about banging her up, infringing her rights, stealing her phone, raising his voice tut-tut, generally threatening and abusing her? All still illegal in the UK, well until DC says otherwise with a bit of late night emergency secret selectively applied retrospective legislation. And the secret trick? What do you think she was telling them? How about 'No comment'. You won't find this on uk.gov probably, you won't find anything of much utility, being a propaganda site, how certain people would like the law to be rather than how it really is, for now.

'Sorry ma'am you cannot have that visa, you'll have to get temporary visitor visa instead - please note you can't work, enjoy your HOLIDAY'. A civilised country wouldn't even need to interview her. They're not fit to control anything bigger than a cloakroom.
Yes, it was tautological on purpose. Maybe I failed to communicate what I wanted, but basically I was trying to say that I've seen most people equate luck to something akin to a deity's intervention, i.e. luck is something that an external force thrusts upon you because destiny or whatever.

You say that "luck is when the variables that you cannot control for work out in your favor", and I kind of agree with that, except that I have doubts if they are really variables you can't control that are part of this "good luck" term.

e.g. Let's say I do great in my career because of "good luck". What amount of that luck is actually because I grew up in a family that gave me support, self-esteem, social skills, study skill, etc, even though many of those variable can't be controlled by you?

My point is (not really disagreeing much with you) that luck can be actually just a way of describing all those variables that we don't know even exist or that we don't know how to model/explain, even though they are actually stuff that CAN be influenced by you or your family, friends, etc. Kind of how we describe dark matter or dark energy, where it's actually just a placeholder term for saying "we don't really know".

So again, I do agree with you in that you could describe good luck as the set of those factors that helped you out and I guess also bad luck as those that work against you, and in that sense I also think that it's not really paiting the full picture, but unless you try to model these hidden variables, I guess it's as best a prediction as you can make to say that you need to avoid those 4 mistakes + "good luck".

You actually got me thinking a lot on this...it's an interesting topic for me I guess.
You'll need a shared host first. surge automatically gives you that.
Can someone explain why Rust doesn't have an ABI? I understand that its a still a newish language but hasn't it been around long enough to want to define one? Is the idea that it won't have one just like C doesn't have one and you will have a few like how C has stdcall, cdecl and fastcall?
Were they on a work visa with a defined ending date?

Probably seen as not a threat like immigration.

But I bet overstaying a visa ends very badly there.
That was inartfully worded. Respectable journalism organizations don't invade people's privacy in a way that would lose a lawsuit. Woodward and Bernstein were on Nixon's enemies list, but they weren't convicted of a crime or found liable for damages in any court.

If you're going to cross that line, you'd better do so carefully. At the very least don't antagonize someone who can rightfully sue you into oblivion.
> The tape of Hogan had racist comments on it, which are arguably in the public interest

Absolute nonsense. So if, let's say, Jennifer Lawrence had a tattoo on her butt that said something derogatory, suddenly leaking her nude photos is ok? I mean, she is a public figure and kids look up to her! What she does in the privacy of her home is absolutely public information, because of this. If they -really- only were doing it for the public's benefit they would have just had that snippet, with the audio; but they didn't, they published the full tape.

> That's because, with Thiel's involvement, the case became about something else: a personal vendetta.

Do you think Hogan suing or anyone else suing for this type of thing is -not- a vendetta? Hogan was already wealthy, he didn't need Gawker's cash. He did it to take them down. Are we to not allow him to sue because that's technically a "vendetta?"

I mean, Gawker did a similar thing to Thiel by outing him to the public. That case would never hold up; so instead of going down that path he waited in the wings; I don't see how this is different than something like a class action where outside money is funding a suit.

People need to get the idea out of their head that "outside money" is inherently bad. The ACLU, FIRE, and tons of civil liberty organizations are "outside money." Be careful what you wish for.
Even still, it's $650k out of Mother Jones's pocket. Unless you're Buzzfeed or a TV network, that's more than any media organisation can easily swallow.

Plus Gawker's case was specifically structured to avoid an insurance payout. A blueprint for others in the future.
Thoughts 9 months after switching to Vim for .NET
+1 -- I use Stout all the time. I don't have to rely on anyone's uptime except AWS's. Stout's just a "shortcut" for using AWS infrastructure that I have full control of.

With Surge, I'd have to trust some startup's build tool not to fail at a vital time.
I was just demonstrating that there was a consistent interpretation of the quote from the article.
Looks neat, and we might give you guys a try. I'm wondering about a couple of things that weren't super-obvious to me from the website and video alone:

* does it work with a web-app? I saw curl examples, so probably it does, but what about those reinforcements?

* speaking of which - apart from two simple popups on the video, is there a "library" of cool reinforcements to use?

* not trying to underestimate the science behind this, and just playing devil's advocate here - did you test the actual difference between your algorithm and a semi-random/ultra-basic reinforcement trigger? (something along the lines of `if reinforcements_today < 3 && rand() > 0.7 then reinforce()`)
It's not that simple. You can be a smart guy but a helpless sore loser, be one of those toxic players and be ashamed of yourself if someone would have you read your chat logs after the fact.

Those real time games are very immersive, and players can easily let their ugly true self out if they aren't careful. And that's why Riot is interested in their potential employees' chat logs.
I enjoy the irony of using an anecdote to imply something meaningful about a car's safety in the same article that decries the use of an anecdote to imply something meaningful about a car's quality.

In total, a good response from Tesla.
This is quite clear - in pretty much all first world countries, coming in to do some task and get paid for it is a huge red flag, it's "an immigrant asking for permit to work" for which the official process is slow and designed to deny most cases, and the main job of immigration officers essentially is trying to catch people who do the same on the standard "just come visit us" tourist visa.

The thing is, these laws are not meant to apply to "you", and the enforcement officers understand that - these laws are designed for people from lower-income countries seeking prolonged employment, i.e., economic migration; not first-world travelers that happen to earn some money while on the trip - the immigration officers entire reason of existence is to detect and prevent the former, while the latter doesn't matter, so they understand all the factors but since it's hard to draw an exact line, these laws do apply to e.g. conference speakers as well, and if you explicitly disclose to them that yes, you intend to do some paid job during your trip, then they pretty much have to deport you, and it's much harder for them to turn a blind eye and follow just the intent/goal of that law.
The readers they use for Oyster card, and the specifics of Oyster Card's requirements for the NFC transceiver are probably quite different from VISA/MC. The US has many transit systems that use contactless too. Off the top of my head, from years ago: Atlanta, D.C., New York, Las Vegas, and that was in '06.
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The ACLU is only public about it because part of their mission is to raise awareness. They have PR blitzes to publicize new cases they are taking on.
That's...an interesting take. The character they're talking about didn't appear in the first book. She was introduced later in the series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_%28Ender%27s_Game%29
Anybody want to set up a group buy for Jezebel? I want to shape what women think about to be more in line with my image of reality.

partially kidding